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duties, has put it out of the power of these foreign. err ,to , pay- for rflritish manufactures in the'only coin which is abundant with them, viz., their seve• rsl rawrproductions. W e refer with great pleasure to the equally,sound and ingenious observations of Lord King on this part of this subject. We really cannot go over Lord Wynford's " case for inquiry.." It was an far a strong one, as it proved beyond die. pate that his Lordship should have inquired,further into at least one of the topics ott which be spoke, before he ventured to address the House of Lords, or to expcise himself to public animadversion. Lord Stanhope did what he could (and his power in such mutters is not inconsiderable) to keep the noble mover in countennice, but all the knowledge and ability of the House, except their own and the Eat! of Eldon's, was against them. The motion was withdrawn.---'liner. Mr. Hodges last night presented petitions front Wrotham and other places in Kent, praying " for a change of the Ti7he System, and for Reform in Parliament, He concurred in their prayer, and he believed that if the new Miniqry redeemed their pledges on the subject of Reform and Retrenele , ment, there would be comparatively little difficulty in putting on cud to the outrage* which had tnihep pity disgraced that county. Had the change taken place some months sooner, those outrages never would have. occurred.—(tear.)" Nothing has, we believe, contributed.so much to the demoralization of this southern counties as the existence of tithes ; and it is astonishing how a tax so oppressive in its operetion should have been so lung suffered. There are at the present moment several districts in which the tenth of the gross produce actually absorbs all the surplus after defraying the charges of cultiva tion, l ea ving nothing for ; rent, From this cause many estates have been theown on the owners, who have the mortification of seeing, the titheholder dr. rite a large income from lands which yield him noihitig. In some of the clay lands, for instance,' the produce, though great, can only be obtained by an enormous expenditure for labour, In a Ben son like the last, the tenth of the produce may often in such lands considerately exceed the surplus, and thus not merely absorb the rent„ but encroach en the capital of the cultivator. 'Hence the tempta tion to throw the charges of cultivation on the tithe owner, by making the labourers paupers and defroy. ing wages out of the Fates. It seems strange that the mode of paying an establishment appointed for the avowed purpose of improv:ng the morals of a people should be the very means by which the mo rels of the people are destroyed, Yet so it is throughout England, The mode of paying the Clergy must be changed, or moat assuredly the Church will not long continue to exist. There must be a permanent commutation—not a commutation front time to time—and then owners and occupiers of land may expend money in cultivation without ap prehension of others sharing in preditce obtained from their outlay alone. We know, too, that in many in ounces the distress might have been materially re lieved, but for the itiflueuce of tidies. There are few perishes in which there are not pieces of Model little video to the owner, from which men without employment might obtain crops equal at least to the value of their labour; but when schemes of this kind have been attempted, the Clergyman ( p us we know, in several instances), by putting in his shirts 'for a tenth, has instantly caused them to be abandoned, the tenth in such cases is an enor mous rent. So well known is the determination of ownets and occupiers of land to have a per esomit arrangement with regard to tithes, that advowsons, at present, are absolutely on. merketable. The support of an Established Church In a suitable manner is what no one feels disposed *t present to oppose; but this object ought not ne ettsocrily to produce distress and dernoraligation. With suspect to lay-imptopriators, they must be desk with on the principle Affair compensation. The interests of individuals in possession of livings must also be respueted. But with respect to the Church it self as, like rill otiti.r corporationt,its'exist enee depends on the good-will of the StateitheState may also deter mine the mode in which it shall be supported. It is clear that in Ireland the question approaches ra pidly to an issue; and that in this country the ° po te nt and occupiers of Laud are looking antdouely forward for relief from the oppressiveness of the tithe , systetifurning Chronicle. The speech of Lord Althorp,on Thursday night, onrooting for a Comm itteo to inquire into the fa. 'sties of Offices held during the Pleasure of the Crown, from its candour and frankness, cannot fail to produce the hest effects, at a time of excitement like the present. The English Minister, who pro cads in this plain and straightforward manner will never fail to obtain the suffrage of an intelligent public:— " The principle of economy (sail his Lordahip) they (the Ministers) were determined to carry into effect was Olio—that wherever the mere patronage of the Government wee concerned there should be no limit to the reductions ; but when the wants of the public service required efficient cfficera, then their economy should be only a secondary emmbleration, carried as far as it can be in accordance with the principles of the Government, but never permitted to interfere with that which they conceived to be demanded for the proper conduct of the public business feel it my duty, at the Isms time, to warn those who are looking with anxiety to their effect, that they roust not expect any extensive relief from anything which ran be taken from the salaries of the Government officers. Aluch as such a measure may be desired by the advocates for economy, I think it right to say that it will produce bet a very small diminution in the amount of the taxation with which they are burthesied ; but smell as may be the relief, it will produce that which is of much more im portance in the present state of the public mind—it will give glit W am tli,“ ea, th e people-411w, hear)—and con vines them that economy is with the present Govern ment no idle profession, but that they ate determined to make the necessary retrenchment of eapenditute, and dis. play the sincerity of their intentions by beginning with their awn emoluments." 7 - The manner in which his Lordship disposed of a valuable piece of patronage on his entering office, may be taken as an earnest of the sincerity of lila declarations. The Chaocellars of the Exchequer have at their disposal, a situation, .the ditties of which are nominal, but of which an income uriscs from fee* to the extent of about one thousand pounds a year. On inquiry into the circumstances, instead of imitating the Dutitlas and Bathurst se/wole, by creating an income for come relation at the public expense, he instantly determined that the Alec thould be attached to another with real duties, and that the fees should thenceforward he paid into the public purse. So little impel-tante did hit Lordship *asset* to what . he conceived an honest discharge of hie duty, that the: ,circumstance was not even men. tioned' by him to any one oat of the depertment ov er which he presides, and it Only transpired accidentally. —Morning Chronicle. It may be, unfair to charge all the distresses created during the last forty years to the late Ad ministration, who, in strict justice, are only revolt. tilde for their proportionate share. On the presen. tation of a petition, last night from Shorediteli, it Was stated by Lord Radnor, that " The inhabitants were natured to the lowest state of demoralisation, by the reeldessness occasioned by eat; eute clistrase." " The was a rendition," lie i0f , 11.11, " dist sought to have received the Attention of the Noble Duke cud his colleagues; but they had diaregar.led it, like the distretoes of odor parts of the kingdom, and the coven sibility of Ministers was but a wool--a mere farce—if they were riot punishable fur such neglect. If they were ignorant of the fed, ,their ignorance was cuipahle ; if they were nut, ignorant of it,. their spethy was criminal." 'lbis is, WIMP. Fanshieg matters too far. There must eetteitily be, hi a country like England, partial distress, from the failure of a crop in a particular district, from the ebb of emptayment in a particular manufacture, front the migration of tritunifiretures, fee. In some of the towns of scc x and Suffolk, for instance, there has hem great distrese from the full« i l l off of the larswltett of industry pursued in them ter forty or fifty yeara past. But the Duke of Yelp liven want ea far wrong in the other extreme 41 lb had nothing to do (he cMI) with the pariab ref Shoretlitth ; and were its sitoatioo twenty times worse ihsu the N o bl e L o rd had thsierihed it, as he bad nothing to do with the parish officers, he could not be answerable. I . . . . Ministers had, by law, no right to inter ere with matters of parish detail, which belonged only to the overseers of the poor." 1 As the kingdom is an aggregate of parishes, all Ministers may be considered parish details, and thus Ministers may rid themselves of the duty of watch ng over the welfare of the country, by refusing to ook into the details of it. Ministers cannot relieVe all distress, because Ministers cannot convert a but imam into a good one. But . where ' tilstress mi. 'tinges in vicious legislation, it is the duty of Minis ters to reek to improve their legislation. If, for in. Itance i the parishes of the south ofEngland are involved n distress from a redundancy of lebourers caused by a Vicious administration of the Poor Laws through a lonnivance between Magistrates and farmers, it was he duty of Ministers to procure either an alteration 4f the law, or an alteration of the condition of the slligistracy, so as to remedy, through laW, evils ivhich law had created. For what do we appoint and pay Ministers but to watch over the safety oftlic Country, to protect us frotn external violence, and from Suffering from the invasions of each other ? If such be the state of the law, that in one half of England th.. labourer has no propeity in his labour, the Magistrate compelling the unmarried matt, or the man with no children,..to pay for the children of the married, this is a violation of justice perpetrated under the law, anti it is the duty of the Administration to seek to put an end to this violence. The Duke of Wel lington seems to think that the business of Ministers is to look on, like the gods of Epicurus, while Magis 7 tintes and farmers are robbing labourers, and labourers are robbing farmers and Magistrates in their . tui n, allowing free scope to each evil. The Duke con founds two things perfectly distinct--the liberty of individuals to pursue what they themselves deem the course most Jikely to promote their own advan tage without invadin g the liberty of others, and the liberty to exercise injustice and to involve others in ruin and misery. The former liberty ought to be respected by an Administration ; the latter it is its business to check. Why do men live in society but for the protection of perseu and property ? An Ad ntinistration ought not to sit with their arms folded and witness injubtice, exclaiming, it is the hu6iness of the Nlagistrates to controul it. It is their busi ness to see that each part of the social machine has a healthy play. 'Whether they could have cured the evil is another question; there cart be no ques tion, however, as to the duty of a Ministry to seek to cure an evil the moment they perceive it. We most say, that we by no means understand what in common life is called putting the best foot foremost. The conduct of other Ministers may not have been reconcilable with higher notions of duty ; the lan guage of no Minister ever betrayed that he enter tained a lower notion. Lord King observed, with reference to his Grace: That it might be, and no doubt was, very true that reductimis in the expenditure had been previously made; hot he felt satisfied that no reductions in the taxes was intended, had nut the Noble Duke and his friends been driven to them. They were like other people, who above all things loved what is called a large margin ; had the Noble Duke been able to keep that large margin, it was very doubtful whether what were termed the deplorable events of lust July would have been merely looked at by the Noble Duke. The proceedings in France had been lamented as a woeful exa►nple ; and had the British Mi nistry possessed funds, they would have endeavoured to prevent its being set to the rest of the world." The language of his Grace fairly warrants this inference what are we to expect from a man whose moral sense is so vitiated as to condemn, as a bad example, the heroic conduct of a people hazarding their lives to secure for themselves and their de scendants all that renders life valuable—their rights and liberties, which .tt tyrant was seeking to destroy ? Of %% bat may not such a man be capible? It does not follow that an individual always acts on his principles; the dread of the gallows may deter a man from carrying his principles interence; but, nevertheless, when you hear a man justifying rob bery, you may infer that where the opportunity occurs ho would not be overscrupulous with regard to his neighbour's property. In like manner, when a Minister considers the application of force to put down a Constitution meritorious, and the resent►ng of that force a bad example, you are, warra►nted in inferring, that if a safer occasion offered he would not hesitate to apply force in a simil►r case at house. Prom such a man we have obtained is happy rid dance.—Morning Chroniek. The determination of Ministers to submit, their own saluri.o to a Select Committee of the House of Commons, with a view to reduction, shows that they are resolved to begin the promised work of retrenchment and coonomy at the right end. '1 he late Administration tiepin exactly at the opposite end, and slopped there. They contented themselves with cattily; down the sulfides of. bard-oorking clerks, who were in general not overpaid, while they l e f t oitiouched the splendid revenues which the idle and pampered children of patronage drew from the politic purse. This was a one.eyed economy which looked with microscopic glance to small matteis s irut was blind to great profusioti. Who can wonder that'the public were disguated when they saw the herd earned pittance of industrious men reduced, while iftose who scarcely lent more then their names to pnblia offices i ond whose mode of attending upon the Ouainess of their departments showed that they considered themselves more for ornament than use, %eta Allowed to pocket the undiminished amount of their extravagant salaries ? Thus industry was taxed to support indolencis—and the acqiiirements and ex perience requisite for the public service in various departments of the State were obliged to submit to efnefa sacrifices, that luxurious Incompetency might continuo to revel in its unearned riches undisturbed 1 It does not require any rea soning to prove that that Reform was but u delusion and a mockery, which applied its prun ing-knife only to the entail twigs, but left the broad branches of prodigal expenditure untouched, We hail, therefore, with pleasure another era when, so far as politieal connection or family influence from being a, hindrance to retrenchment, which renders official extravagance the inviolable right of a particular class, that gielsters set the example of an impartial and equitable redoption of the public sularieu, by sub mitting their own to the first instance to the revis (don of a Parliamentary Committee. This is the very thing we asked the Duke of Wellington and Sir Itubett Peel to propose last Session, eta a proof of the sincerity of their pledges of financial Reform; het we asked it, in behlit of the public, and as a useful example to others, in vain, Vtrealthy us those ' late Ministers use, they . would not consent to the tfetintiti,ll of their sa l a ries by a single (Vatting, and ' now we find it asserted in PurliaMeot, that so re ;tartness were they of the repeated pledgee of cco twiny which they had given from time to time, that they 'actually added tour new pensions to the bur- demi of the country after their resignation bud been tendered and accepted, and while they held the Heels of offiep merely ad interim, durmg the ; formation of u new CiPVgrnment. We believe it will be found, however, that awl) appointments have oat the force of law, and certainly Parliament will be remiss in its duty, if it does not inquire, into those cases, end do what the Constitution nod pUbliti duty requires. c)f all men, Sir Roert Peel was ballad to propose such 4 reduction of b hit; own salary as the present Ministers have determined on; for, having raised it considerably in value by Alm necessary operation of his Currency fill, the country bad an equitable claim on him ter the diffe rence.. Though a reduction of the Ministerial sty laries :will not censibly relieve the burdens of the State, it e ill have great morel effect in gaining for the Administration the confidence of the public; arid it will, besides, operate powerfully es an example :upon all who live luxuriously on the taxes of the .people. What great sineeurist will venture to Lrvii the public odium, in spite of tech an ex ample, rather than make a voluntary sacrifice of a portion or the gains for which he has given no labour in exchange. We allude, of course, to entecurists who have patent offices, or are otherwise secured by a freehold tenure of the public spoils for, where their salaries are dependent on the pleasure of the Crwtt, we expect to see them [ without ceremony „abolished. It is ridiculous to 'hear Mr. Dawson, Mr. Oonlhnrri, and other un (hitching advocates and participatora in the extra t'agance of the late Povernurei apologias ants Supporters of Bathurst and Dundas jobs—and the unblushing admirers of the godly craving of Dr. rhillpotts for, holding , the living of Stanhope :in eononendam—now stating in their places in Portia , - : inent what reductions they intended to make in [ Various departments, and which reductions we never [ heard of until they were turned out of office— Credat Judatus I—Morning Herold. It will be seen from the proceedings in the House of Commons last night, that the procession of the Trades, the other day, to wait upon his Majesty, is a. sore u subject with the Ex-Mimsters in that quer ter, as with those in the Lords. The new Ministers were again taxed to reply to t:teir objurgatory obser• %Potions; but the reply was triumphant—the Trades did nothing more titan the Universities, and the Ve nerable Assembly of Divines of the Church of Sem land, have repeatedly done, and, cOnsepiently, al though their conduct was an ,infraction of the law, it Was one only in degree! The maxim of" Odi pro lamin: vague et areeo," will not, in fact, go down in these days ►with any class or any set of men, but the Ex-Ministers; and the latter, if they be wise, I:ad better not bring too frequently to the reeollec tirm of the public the memorable 9;h of•Yovember, now not less famous than the sth of the same month was wont to Etc.—Morning Advertiser. PARLIAMENTARY REFORM. (From the Glasgow Chronicle of Monday.) o-day, at two o'clock, agreeably to preViOus re gisidtion, a meeting of the Alerchunts House was held in the Town Hall, the Lord DUO of Guild in the Chair, supported by the late Dean of Guild, the Lord Provost, and,,the Merchant Baillies. There was a very full, attendance of members. The Lortri DEAN of GUILD said, the meeting had been called in consequence of a numerously respect- able signed requisition, for the purpose of cons:der ing the question of Parliamentary Reform. The requisition having been read by Mr. DOUGLAS, the clerk of the House. Mr. OSWALD, of Shieldhall, said a set of resolu tions, prepared by a Committee of the requisitionists, had been put into his hands to submit to the meet ing. He regretted the task had not devolved on abler hands, particularly as it was usual that such resolutions were introduced by a speech. It so hap pened, however, that the cause of Reform did • not now so much. require the support of speeches, and he could not but congratulate the House on the great progress which the cause had made over the empire, and very lately in our own city —(Cheers.) —He congratulated the meeting on the auspicious change which had taken place - in his Majesty's Councils—(Cheers)—and he hoped under• the pre sent administration that they would obtain such a Reform in the House of Commons, as would tend to the tranquillity and prosperity of the country, and the happiness of every individual of the community. Mr. Oswald then read the resolu tions seriatim, and concluded by proposing the adoption of the first. ROBERT THOMSON, Esq, of Camphill, seconded the motion, which was ca► tied with great applause. COLIN DUNLOP, Esq. of Tol!cross, said that while all were unanimous that the long standing abuses in the House of Commons should be reformed, it was superfluous to enter into minor details. The House of Commons was 'mown as having become too powerful, swallowing up and overthrowing the pd., vileges of the people, and overwhelming to the dust the power of the Crown. That House was longer chosen by the free open suffrages of the people; but was elected by great families, and was governed in all their enactments by what only would be productive of advantage to their nominees. It was therefore their object to get rid of that un constitutional influence ; and as the resolution he was about to propose was based on that principle, he should submit for the approval of the meeting the second resolution. Mr. HUGH TENNANT seconded the motion, which was curried amid great applause. Mr. FuLLArtrroN congratulated the meeting on the high, noble, and independent circumstances under which they met. The time was, when had they thus met, or the Lord Dean of Guild presided over such a meeting, it would have been accom panied with immediate danger to their lives and liberties, and they might have been dispersed with military force, and brunaed as traitors, and conducted to a dungeon, or sent to spend the remainder of their days on a far distant shore. Happily those days were gone' by, amid it would depend on them selves if they would ever return.---(Applause.) Political lig:it and liberty was spreading everywhere. He might dilute on the happiness, peuce, and fellow love which was beginning to dawn on the world; but he would turn to the business of the day. They were collected adopt measures to improve the great Cuuncil of the nation, which pretended to re• present them, but' which did not do so. He wan happy the time was at hand when they would see the science, literature, wealth, and respectability of Glasgow represented by one or more of her but gesses7.(Appleuse)—and when they would not have to go a 'Squire, however polite, to request his at tention to their interests. It was asserted this was not the time to meet in public discussion; but if ever there Will a time to do so it was the present. They had a King who was a patriot and ftiend of his country, nay more, he was a Reformer.--( Applanse.) They turd u Ministry more able and independent than was ever congregated around the Throne. He concluded by proposing the resolution. Mr. Joni; STRANG seconded the motion. Mr. ALEXANDER JOHNSTON said the resolution he was about to propose referred to the inequality of representation; and they could not have a better example than their own burgh. It was contrary to common sense that Rutherglen should have en equal weight with this city in the scale of repre sentation--a city unequalled in point of wealth and intelligenee, and little surpassed in paint of popula tion in the empire. It was opposed to every view of justice or common sense. He then moved the fourth resolution, which was seconded by Mr. We. mid unanimously adopted. Mr. ROIUIRT STEIVART in moving the next Yew lotion, said, that the resolution which be bad to pro. pose, described the representation of the country as bad in the extreme; but that of Scotland was pre. eminently bud, It had been .stated by a gentl eman in a high puller, that Scotland did not ask for a Reform; but when that gentleman spoke, it must have been ironically; if not, he was aiding the very cause which he wished to thwart or overturn. His statement had produced such a burst of public feel ing as would show what the people of Scotland felt upon the question. His 111 ,, ,jeatY'a Ministers te e m pledged to do much; he hoped they would redeem their pledges, but he did Hot hesitate to say that much more depended upon the people themselves. Mr. W 1,4 7. Nl., D pr ilCu th N o7g c l o rt nsetl t c h d e 11 11 )e la iii g b i Q str tl tt l : . es deserved credit for the resolution* they hod come to; and he therefore suggested another word for "Junto."-s,(Hear, and cries of "junco," junto.") Mr. STEWART said that the word junto was not his bat was the resolution when put into his betide. poii)d see no possible Mr. 13E14, observud Out he objection to the use of the ward "ittolos," it was used quite in a general sense, and Iss i t was a odpitat word be thought it should remairn—(ll, laugh and applantse.) Mr. WM. Ewtrio said the Magistrates of Glas gow were es much junto as any other M ag ist r acy. Mr. OstYALP said the word Junto, thou di not originally u word of reproach, had b eeomo so, nod he seconded Mr. Dunlop, that the words should he " corporate bodies." Mr. ROBERT M‘GAVIN would agree to that sug gestion when the Msg;strateo were elected b y the eltigens. The DEAN of Gum) believed it 'would be a tatter of indifference whether Were* retained oe qot. It was a matter of moonshine. The original resolution way then carried. = Mr. GILMOUR, in moving the sixth resolution, said they were only following the municipal authorities who deserved their approval and support. Mr. C. J. TENNANT seconded the motion. Mr. THOMAS ATKINSON, in moving the seventh resolution, said from a resolution given to me to propose, within these few minutes, and from the division of honourable l a bour, which I have seen male to-day, I rejoice that the custom " more honoured in the breach than the observance," which had too long obtained, in this city, of entrusting the whole body of resolutions to be proposed for the adoption of a public meeting to the charge of one individual, however excellent, and then gravely Settling to then), and with a silence edifying as absurd, is for ever done away with. Who, five years ago, could have anticipated such a meeting it' and what is the change which has produced it . ? It is this, and let the lesion be listened to elsewhere, jt is the most impressive the schoolmaster can go abroad with. 7 -to the resistance which in morals as in matter, gives new elasticity and greater force to that which might insensibly penetrate and permeate; what, if repelled, it will else undermine and overthrow ! But it is now the part of Reformers, to be conservators also. Ours is now by right the venerable phraseology of what was once esteemed an exclusive loyalty. We are met to "strengthen the hands of Government"—to " support the - Executive"--and to " countenance his Majesty's Ministers"—(Cheers and laughter)—and the reso lution in my hand is in accordance with this our new poaition.—(Here - the speaker read the resolution.) I rejo i ce to have lived to see this take place, and to see it in Glasgow. I augur from it that that change which the sense of mankind from time to time de mands in institutions, and which we call Reform, will in other countries, as in this, anticipate the sometimes needful, but always terrible remedy of Revolution.—(Cheers.) Mr. BUCHANAN seconded the motion. Mr. JAS. PERSTON wished to move an amendment, but he previously wished the sense of the meeting taken as to whether the ballot Ivas a bad or u good thing. tie did not mean Glasgow or Dumbarton ballot, but such a mode of secret ballot as would secure the independence of the voters. 'Mr. FULLARTON said the proposition was not within the bounds of the requisition. Let them confine themselves to Reform ; and wait till they reeeive the details from Government, and then they could deliberate upon the subject. Mr. DUNLOP coincided that ,nothing could be more calculated to sow disunion than discussion ac present upon any particular mode of Reform. He was confident vote by ballot would ultimately pre. veil ; but at present there was no occasion for di vision on the subject. Mr. ATKINSON said the present amendment was not in g,ood taste after the point had been rejected in the Committee. Mr. •PERSTON shortly replied and pressed his motion, but it was not seconded. The original motion wet then carried, Mr. LEADBETTER proposed the eighth resolution, which way seconded by Mr. MATHEW PEARCE, and carried amid great applause. Mr. HUGH MontusoN moved the ninth resolu tion, which was curried by ucclatnution. Mr. STRANa then read the draught of the petition, which wee approved of. Mr. CHARLES HUTCHISON moved the thanks of the House to the Dean of Guild, for his prompti tude in calling the meeting, and for his admirable conduct in the chair, which was carried by sedum -1111113011. The DEAN of GUILD having retained thank., the meeting broke up. LORD WINCHILSEA'S BILL. The Bill just introduced into the House of Lords by the Earl of Winchilsea, is entitled " An Act to provide for the better employment of labourers in husbandry, by enabling his Majesty's Justices of the Peace to order a distinct rate to be made on their behalf (to be called the Labour Rate), witt► allow ances to such occupiers of land as shall find them em ploy ment." The preamble sets forth, that " whereas, to the greet injury of a parish, whilst many occupiers of land may be found who are employing their full pro portion of labourers belonging to the parish in which their land 'is situated, whereby such labourers have avoided becoming chargeable to the said parish, other occupiers of la►►d and tenements, with equal ability, have refused - as to do; and whereas it is expedient that encouragement . should be given to such land holders as are willing to employ their full proportion of labourers, to the end that such persons may not he subjected-to ihe additional but den of contributing to the maintenance of those labourers whom other landholders ht the. parish ought to' employ ; be it en acted," &c. There are then clatisesproviding that pariah officers deliver annually to the Justices acting for the di vision lists of labourer's in husbandry dependent on the employment given by the landholders, and Justices to order asse►sments to be made for the maintenance of those unemployed. That the Justices, after inspection of these re turns, shall have power to allow weekly assessments to the amount specified in the lust clause, (the same to be applied to the support of those men, being labourers in husbandry, belonging to the parish, whose need of relief shall arise solely from the land holders in the parish refusing them employment,) in such proportion us they, the Justices, shall direct, and not to any other purpose whatever. That the parish officers shall deduct from the amount which each person, shall be charged with in any labour-rate made by virtue of this Act, for every lithourer in husbandry (being a parishioner) em ployed by him, that stun which such a labourer, ac cording to his class, is entitled to. That no payment to any individual labourer out of any rates granted by virtue of this Act, shall ex ceed the wages to which he is entitled, according to the class to which he belongs; which rate of wages shall be fixed and determined at. a meeting of the Justices held at their petty sessions in each month, for the' month ensuing; but in all cases where on account of bodily infirmity the earnings of the labourer are not sufficient for the maintenance of his family, and un additional allowance shall be thought requisite by the Justices, such allowance shell be made out of the general assessments for the relief of the poor. No deduction to be made for less than a week. Proportion of assessment may be collected. Acconnt of deductions claimed to be given in. Accounts to be produced to a vestry, and verified before the Justices._ That no rate shall be collected by virtue of this Act, ttnless demand for lsbour shall be made by those belonging to the parish. General enactments to continue, unless contra• dieted hereby. _ this Act shall be in force in such places only where a proportion of at least three,fourths of the whole number of families belonging thereto shall be Islt the(pri n cipally rate te, tie employed, ` recovered under this Act shall be levied in the sa:ne manner us the rates levied under the general ossessroonta for the relief of the Door. That this Act shall continue anti be in force for tlr d during the perbad of two years fiom and after t h e , psa , ing thereof, and froM thtnee to the end of the then next Session of Parliament (unless sooner repealed.) Provided always, and be it f urt h er enacted, that Act cont aine d s h a ll b e deemed or onstrued to exitmd to Scotl a nd or I re l and. nothing in this A. Noble :i enjoying a large hereditary 1 4 sial to ha ve g i ven great um b rage to the Lain Leirren At of his county, by leuving it au the eve of the late commotion, when hit preeence woe the more newt. y. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. LONDON MARKETS. (From the London New Price Current of yesterday.) Suaait.—The great fall in the prices of Sugar has at. irected the attention of the buyers, who have come freely forward to purchase ; about 4,500 hhda. Itrui tre. have lken sold during the week ; the good Sugura are rather ii,t higher prices, but the inferior qualities, Trinidad and "titer descriptions, have been disposed of at a very low pure..—By public sale this day, 1,62 lihdr. Barbadoes, 98 1 a h t hdi full 7 holes, 42 prices,the Slirt.l'i u lt. ; ia Lucia t iia Sugary higher the whole than last ;Faille sale..—ln the Refined Market there has been a re -14, Sewed disposition to purchase for forward delivery ; the prices are in consequence more firm.—At the close of the day there has been rather more business dune in the ship. ping dracriptions of Lumps ; one Refiner is reported to have bought rather largely, although it has not transpired ria yet that any contracts for forward delivery have been t ride, and the sales of crashed thi s wee k a pp ear t o b e ver y mite('; in the Grocery descripti o n s ther e h as 10,,eu more ing, but pricei are without alteration. I L EAST , INDIA SUGAR.—By public sale early in the week 1 700 bags Mauritius Sugars, partly withdrawn and partly sold at previous market prices, 2,697 bags Manilla, al few lots 19s. 6d. a 215., r ema ind er w ithd rawn . Si am sold at former rates, low brown 14%, dry white goods 2 1 45. 6d. By public sale this day 572 hags Mauritius, 87 bags Bengal, 100 bags Siam Sugar; the Mauritius sold at ftlll prices, a small part taken in ; the Bengal, Brazil, and S!ilin all withdrawn or taken in. CoFFma.—The quantity of Batavia Coffee brought fur • ward this week was 8,613 bags, the whole of fair quality, 'And sold with briskness 335. a 345. for the hest; a large p reel of good ordinary even St. Domingo was taken in at 85.. Brazil at the same price. The British Plantation . 4at full market prices. There were no public sales t ii forenoon. It is reported some private contracts of 8 .Domingo and Brazil have been made at 335. ' Rust, BRANDY, AND flott.msns.—The demand for Rion this week has been g e ner a l an d ext e n s i ve , b u t th e dOrriand appears exclusively directed to the Leeward de sctiptione ; about 1,000 puncheons have changed hands, about 200 for export; the remainder chiefly on !pecula tion ; the prices are td. to Id. per gallon higher ; proofs can scarcely be purchased at Is. Bd. In Brandy there are my sales reported. The late arrival of Geneva, about 60 ptMs. held for about 2s. Bd. HEMP, FLAX, AND TaLLow.—The Tallow Market continuer firmly advancing, principally on account of Oeulations to a great extent far the fall ; the sellers have tid Tallow to deliver, and the buyers being supported by the extensive operation's 'rif Otte of our first capitalists, who haVe such command of money that they freely take all ;w -eedy that offer. The speculation is, however, founded on a short supply. In Flax and Hemp there is no material altrration. Price of Tallow this evening at five o'clock, 455. TKA.—The gond Congons sold 2d. under last sale.— C,nnpany's Souchouga sold at 4s. 3d. a 41. 7d. ; as there were but few, they sold high. Twankays at 2s. 2kd. up to 2s. Sid., and are 2d. per lb. under last sale. Hysuns at 4s. Id, a 51. 7d., and ure 3d, per lb. dearer. Private Trade Teas of various descriptions are selling at fair rates. Corrox.—There is no alteration. The purchases for the week are 520 Surat ord. 40. fine 64d. ; 270 Spanish, good fair, bid. By public sale this day 3,600 bags Surat Cotton, mostly of good quality and of the new crtip ; the attendance of buyers was not numerous, it being generally presumed the importets would hal the good Cotton for full rates, which proved to be correet ; about 2,500 of that quality were consequently bought in at bid. a 5/4. ; for the inferior kinds there was a good deal of competition, and about 800 bales ord. to mid. sold at 414. a ; 300 bales good f a i r t o fi ne at bid. a 6d. PRICES OF HOPS.--Dec. 10, 8/ Os. 91. Os. to 141 14s. ---. 71 151. Rt. to 84 15a. Os. 91. 0,1.16101. Os. 0!. Os, 161. Os.toWl. Os. Seconds 01. Os. 91. Os to 151, Os. . 31. Os. 8/. 86 to 111. Os. W. Os. 01. Os to 01. Os. . 71. Os. 71.105. t. s si. O s . Old Duty ou last year's growth announced to be £88,047 8 114. Fatalism Ditto, F Kent Bags« Essex Ditto Sussexbiiir; PRICE OF OIL. Rape 011, brown Or. Relined ~.134 0 Linseed Oil 34 0 11 0 0 0 Linseed Oil Cake at the Mill, per tliousand Rape Cake, per ton WHITECHAPEL HAY DIAIIKET.—Doc. 9. H.ty 36. Od. to 800. Od. Mover 50.. 04. to 100 s. 04. Od. to 32g. Ott. CE OF POTATOFA—Doe. 10. 41. Od. to OL Or. per ton. RAW 1111)E8. Per Stone. e, d . to s. d. Per Stone. d. to ..d. fleit Heifers & Steert3 0 3 Si Ordinary, 110 2 4 210 ?darket . 6 6 each. SHEEP Long Wools— 2‘. 01. to Ss. 00. 1 SKINS. Short W 0015.... Is. &t. to Ss. OJ. PRICES OF Per lb. To cf.. Hutt5........40 to 501 b...... 16 22 Uitt0«.......410 to 801 b... 17 23 Droning 17 19 Fiho Coach Utiles 14 16 Crop hides, :15 to 401 b. 13 141 to 451 b. 15 16 # auto LEATHER. Per lb, d. to d. Tanned Horse Hides.. 13 17 Spanish Ditto 18 24 Per dozen. Call Skins... 30 to Itlb. ►5 18 Ditto to 70lb. 90 23 Ditto 70 to 811th. IS 90 &Ala, Greenland 21 21i PRICE OF ItAW PAT, per stone of 8113.—. Dec. 10. Price of Tallow (es stated by the Tallow Melters) PRICE OF TALLOW. SO Town 7l'aillow 48s, Od. Yellow 435, 04. White Od. Snap Ditto 425. Od. Melted I)itto Od. Al', sm. per 1121b.—De c . 10 . Yeilow Od. 6f4. Od. 72.. 04. Graves 14. t. Od Goal 04. PRICE OF CANIILES. The price of Store Candles. In the retail shops, is as follows : Candles, per dos. 7s. Od. to Bs. Od. Moulds, per dusen doni. MAR ()onto') 311 'rantleld Lea • 31 0 Walls End Gosfurth-- 39 0 Ditto [RUE ll's 38 0 Ships at market, 6.—.4319 1 .g , -rDer la - • Walls End Russell's..,, Ms. Ditto walks 38 0 Russell's &Be l's suudl .8 0 4 sold, 3% —Unsold. 2%. N AtAIIK, COUNTRY CO Wheat. Per Quarter. A libitum MOW I I' •••I Basingatuke Oath 65 72 66 72 40 72 54 72 60 68 64 72 70 75 66 70 00 ed 53 60 72 74 56 ce 50 72 iJridgewater Chesterfield Derby Devlin Doiu GlottceAter....«,~ Hungerford !tome)/ Shaftesbury Sheptun Mallet . Sherborne.,—.—.. 4$ : 7 - 4 . 48 84 AU E 4 68 64 4M 76 CO 66 R. (1. e. d. 10 0 11 7 YeOVII •••••• Per Bushel. Shrewgbury Conwrita.—.Wheat, per 761 b. ss. 9d. to lid. Ud. j Oats, 491 b. 3 Nsdrrwicit.—Wheat, per 751 qrtd. 6s. N. to tic Bd.; Oats, SI TBB DURING IHE WEEK. Barley. oats. Beam. 40 44 29 30 30 42 ' 20 31 80 40 30 44 44 40 30 42 30 44 35 39 24 32 38 40 30 40 44 23 30 31 37 21 92 20 25 22 92 22 241 24 29 24 22 29 23 20 31 21 25 20 24 24 92 01 28 21 33 40 42, 34 45 40 &4 08 36 36 40 40 50 42 50 34 48 45 47 4U 45 as ;6 99 43 10 Ki t 3 27 92 50 $7 28 32 3 34 91 4 0 0 4 r. d. s. d. 50 04; 21 20 19 23 21 30 20 26 s d. s. d. 60 72 52 42 80 38 46 38 48 32 44 s. d. s. d od n 0 . 9s. N. to 10s. Oil., liar ley, 38 (eta )s .0,1. to 3s. 4d. ilb. 11s. ltd, tolls. ed. ; Batley, 38 4s. bd. to 4s. LEEDS CONN MA It Geo. 7. We have had a fair supply of, Wheat and Barley to this day's market. hut small of other articles, Fine Wheat is 2s. to 3s, per quarter higher, bu t lr Is. to 21. lows Barley has made last week', price (cher sorts were er. GoOd Oats WV rather dearer , Shelling and h ar d B eans are Is. higher. Rape. seed 11. to 21. per last lower. Wheat. Norfolk and Suffblk, ..... 475. to 735. --- York. and Lincoln. 1101 b. Barley, Norfolk and Sutlblk Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Grinding Beans (131b.... ..•.........».a.. 945. to sai. Oats, 'Potato° --.—Mealtng, Foreign Ind. to 11(1....1. 4 41g1ir1i 19y,d. to 14,1. pert. Shelling 24c. to 394. per load. Rapeseed, English, M. to 281 Foreign, —4. to —/. per last. . - LI VERPOOL CORN Wien AN 0 E.-4)ec. 7. A continuance of easterly winds having deprived us of our usual supplies, there has been very little business transact e d, a t nearly last week's prices. WHOAS'. English, , Vhite, per 7011). Red --...—.. Scotch, Welch, and Manx ... ........ Irish, White 9 0 9 4 ---- R e d 96 9 6 Foreign 0 8 11 0 Mu, English, Welsh,•and Scotch, 1 per 451 b 3 6 a 9 Irish ~. 3 3 3 7 --- Foreign .... . ... ... .......... . . ..,,..... , ... 3 6 3 9 Beam - , English, Mailing, per Imp. qua;ter. , .. 45 0 47 0 --.... Scotch and Irish, Per 906 1. ~........ 6 2 5 4 --..... Feeding , 4 6 410 Beans, English, per Imperial quarter 44 3 46 0 —........ Irish, &C. ---..-- Foreign Passe, English, per Imperial quarter 66 0 1W 0 --... Foreign Fi.outt, English, per 28011). ... 54 0 55 0 ---- Irian . . 62 0 64 0 Gamest, English and Irish, per 24111bs 32 0 33 0 lismars Coax, per 4401 b. live. per Imperial quarter sem 30 0 40 0 Maur, per Imperial quarter IMPORT or GRAIN for the Week ending Dec. 6. Wheat.rs, Oats, Harley I . Flour. lOatroest Ot. ip o li. Foreign, Brls.llrish i atc. Scks. Leads. 626 ...1.1. 106 694 51. A R M Kt . .—Lleo. 8 This day's supply of Beasts was rat lier gr ea t, of Sheep, C a l ves, arid iterkigs, rather 14044 The trade with prime stock was sotoewhat brisk, with that 14 middling and inferior quality very dull, therbilowitig privet per stone of 81b. to sink the inlets Beer f,ts. tide to 44. Ud V Od. to ss. 11, Mutton 3 0 4lt 1 Pork 310 410 Ito foregoing quotations are Veal ail. per stone higher than 011 this day stentlight i prices otherwise stationary. 'firm/lel 'EN Sheep, 2,750 ;'Calves, 451 Pigs, tn A considerable number or inferior blieep and Beasts left the market unsold, " ST. LAWROCE SURVEY. (From the Athenaunt. ) It is. not generally known, that the magnetic variation in the River St. Lawrence is very errone ously stated in our charts. This circumstance, added to the great inaccuracy of the charts them selves, and the severity of the climate, has been , the cause of the numerous shipwrecks which have occurred there. That the variation is wrongly given may be easily accounted for, by having been handed down from the original observations of Major Holland about 60 years ago; faith , fully preserved by his follower Des Races; and as rigorously maintained by modern chart makers. Unfortunately, as Columbus first found out, magnetic variation, as its name is of a fickle nature, and quietly follows its own secret and mysterious laws. - Since. Major Holland's survey, it has undergone a change of about half a point, and at Quebec now 184 deb: at Bic Island 174 deg., at Cupe Chat 21 deg, at' the Bay of Seven Islands 234 deg., add at the *eat of Anticosti 24. deg. westerly. The sudden and rapid change in it also between Quebec and An tiroiti, in a distance of 350 miles, is another source of mischief to our traders, who, heedleter of its im portance, are mostly untrequainted with its ext ent. When overtaken by bad weather and they lose si g ht of the land, a wrong course is in consequen c e ado p ted, which proves fatal, to their %hips. T here is no chart of the river St. Lawrence that can be o f seal service to its navigation, a nd, in conseq uence, the annual loss of property icgrent, and not unffe" quently that of lives also. .To remedy this evil,, which was gaining importance , Commander W. ll . Hayfield, R.N., was directed by his present Iktsjesty, when Loi d High Admiral, to make a careful survey of this river, which should answer all the purpoes of navigation throughout its extensive reefs tur d channels. This survey has since Then been pc- Oeding, and a plan of the harbour of Quebec made by Commander Bayfield has been published. His charts of the river are looked for with much anxiety by the Provincial Government of Quebec a , who are only waiting for their appear ance to pal law for regulating the examination of p ilots forlre river, touching their necessary qualification: The erection of three dew light-houses in different part of the river has been already or dered, st th e sug gestion of Commander Bayfiekl, whi dully contribute to the safety of It s navi g ation. ch will mate- POLICE INTELLIGENCE. 130 WATREIIT. Yesterday, William Cutt n on, of Ryder's-court, Lek...t -t er-square, bookseller, appeared upon summon', Manoter an information laid under the Act of the 81. t of Geo. the S. for selling a printed book, not having the name of printer imerted in the title-page, or in any o ther part of the work, as required by the Act mentioned. The Act under which the information was laid Wes pasted at the time that the Corre-ponding Society Ivo existence, and was intended to aid in the suppresoion of ptapirg trea sonable, ebeeodotneakfbneldne wdasalht in: which : ht on retb seditious, hpnueaotrw t s2n a osp l o t tr d elf:x o ce el p ie t r io d u an w g a e i ro t t n ts m n ie ,o i r t k i _ s t , h a e s bo t , 4 l; of the statute. Mr. Thomas Davis stated that he went to the "liuP " i f self 1 1 O b i: n . d fo eti r i i t n . :io:lficlteebil'iu:atlivisreteodhlenbereetxhra:emadsoisetmni flerini,nl:ollPtluph:erot:iolthrailetinir,se:: nam T e he in b s: t t k ed w . richly hound, and the title was, " e ver y Feltiv"l nit"e Passions." The printed matter was of the vilest deb.:sip- Con, and there were several engraving*, well executed. WI representing scenes of a most revolting kind. At ' l4 bottom of the title page was printed the following: ' --- " Printed and publi shed b y Abdul 3lnstaphs, Co aslo tinople." The witness was asked by the tlefendsnt, wind mo tive he had for purchasing the book, awl afterwarde s laying fr o information against hi him ? Mr. Dais—Non but a • Bard for the interest of the rising hi g h time that ,uric *aer ation. I haw a flmily of my own, and I think it abominable traffic ehould be put an end to. I tell Tos fairly that I have beta endeavouring for the last melts months to detect you. Mr. Blturtrul.t. said lie could no t ex p ress in Serum ieo strong hie reprobation of the defendant's conduct, and fined him in the full penalty of 201. The defendant pleaded that ha bad a large family. sottnrTlefeat:friale.ertl4o2hlintutghs.wateteuart.ceLetotsuaennitlpabidis, and the n c defendant waa te i m ib o o r i e t4 cen . ..........._______........_........2,e5and refused to mitigate the penrslarif The theatre at Algiers will be opened tool 96, th hemomeonoo d vfoernr f an l ie s .a u te ary nwy . hiac T yhe li gr e yr e ss a ntr I ss oi n gbe i o s ie b l u e: i i l io t : Ii t i t t ,? , : e t ; i c u i n e u i l ot n r i! they my, that the Italian Opera only shall ha rept:" 0,,,c, We a r e l owed that the French manager his tectivadi.plolo:d from respectable )10011 of the country, NV b° are ciyilitS• se to rv r oe s :d is n e fioe a r i h ng them funds for this undertaking. rat , , , „f tion make* rapid progress under the Adotioist I:aliy s A u rab mn a ier d , irertors of the theatre. They are di'ir sed I° 1 General CLAUSitt. It was not expected to lee scil /.. , A tan o IMO it, tor, in compliance with their wistioi -, , . " tmy CM Imes with grating* and curtains will be ro la I ;oh to tee without being seen......reeneli Pape. a , a A G/asooto utt.roN to have his Palace in readiness for the r eceP.t o r° oil their MAJISTIItS, who are to visit Scotland earlY. l o w a.rieeiwe:iviipie° Press. abersikesselle.nuapngjtii:TeeiErkesbbiyihd entibsticegi ewril b w : b:ei 110:01:1Ao if at Hamilton Palace. By the death of the Lite l=oci iareof Ronaunoan, his Grace has an areeselon to his , 1 .„,,a great income of upward* of 8,000/. s year, deri co ."„... landed property, besides 100,000/. in ready floP e l t n t thenl i. THE EX-ROYAL FAHILY.---31)e / ......04 c:ty of the following anecdotes may be depended no it ' s in ,. odts p a o. o : S ni r at t u ctu u r_ n e n u da .s e d or ce y I ' h e I t i e : t h n el i his f n a g tvu i siste r e e t a h t e t:o: o f o i l i n e i * i n n ") : e s t u ipeo c i m uil d e e t e e : I i ) l3 :it r l e e: fit ti l : a e : j i . l A l , : t I : l l l : e t j f . i it i , l )l : t t lire "Clid 'Jimmie'. swp n heea k ut e ri tsi o e a w tr n i e l i e n h a g eE r rhne could ivgsaluiliai rea s on doinglheweaf:efrielfEunl English, i jasst:;l:olnyars,tvi:dilli iccliiiil:ll:::.o:hrit't; Paled that on e day at ta bl e t h e N ol o oked 00 01: vi ' le do 0 0 l i " s sent x 'gsc rout l 3 ° I vi sisal A i I a 11 UNITED xlptu*standawlurp latest E r,. h s rDi narratives ni dn oi SERVIC Eeida replete c' li n o this i i l 1 : B w, great lile t °ltll ni44-gpCgrinteresttjb'f°" tics 1 the n t ag a ' a n i l i d 8:: : :ti : -..r: iri ill e r i in , ' III it: 141 1 1 i t Pl 'i tt: o ll tl'el v e l : a: Y: 1 e ke ' turd nl 1 1 leading article , entitled, .‘ The last Cruise of I "''', a nion s —Th- " "."4"lileAnteCs of a Subaltern'. are f1111)1;: of phi': humour. The Doom and Last Resii-a 00 N . AtOLICON are feelingly touched upon in th -. arra' ' St. Helena;" wh il e the present portion of the , sh ips tive of the late Expedition to Cape Horn by IL .f ,'',. iti ,fl Adventure and Beagle contains its usual share t TA 00 , roundothe priuripall, poip.tawroiagentride'sissn:agottitiolatfieforitisit)lrthnteieliasliit9l::),hri.ecirri:i and humorous descriptions. Thou:articles, botrrre ll o, ri ,. diems but a small part of the varied centre ) " u f k _.....,.."7 seat:ft:_,--- - _ ~......--- BIRTII S. i of On the 6th inst. at Thurlow Hall, is the c °lli't e Suffolk, the lady of C. C. Elwell, Esq., of a son o ,ll ' i',, Oa the 10th iwit. at Hampstead, the °1 ladY 1, ) ,11,,f Humphreys , E s q ., of a son. On the 7th inst. in Upper Berksley-streets m e ' T. J. Ireland, Esq., of a daughter. Oa the 10th inst. in Hilt-street, 'qrs. 101 4 $ 10, ‘i daughter. MARRIED. .` of On the 9th init. at R eadin g , Mr. Chariot IS.ir`vt" `,- .0 , Cheapeide, to Martha, youngest daughter of the l' E. S. White, of Reading. DIED. ~„ 61) 3 On the 9th lot. at Woolwich Common, in S' year of his age, John Ord , Eut., M.D. i g liob , ( 1.. : ) the his e lOt s h sd ins y t. ear a Plaistow Green/ ' Kent ''' 1 ) 00 1 E. On the 9th inst. .1. Yolk., Es , 4 1 7 or tlAul q. Court, Gloucestershire It o io n the 10th inst. in . Bury.ktre.t. A. Sc .)tt ' s , li t ' ''; l ' the yanced age of 88, formerly of St. Aso's . lo ' Janet 14 Of 2Lthwterhini.Yarir the wife of J. W. flookr, /7'4 , a ge d :5. PittNTX.O awe , a t: 111.16.14 RD SY MUIU) O a. - :;;Faltit ya SO) )1 " ' Attu Sus °twit, 1 11, ' SYll.ll ► l 4 I), 1-.0".' j i