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O NSIEUIt MALLAN and SON, Sur geon Dentists, No. 32, GREAT RUSSELL -I', BLOOMSBURY, grateful for the high and patronage which has so eminently distinguished 'iessional exertions since their arrival in the British respectfully announce to their Friends and the 14 general, that they still continue to restore DE TEETH, with their celebrated MINERAL ANEUM, so universally recommended by the of London and Paris. The operation of Filling 111 Performed in a few seconds, without the sl i g htest "elt, or pressure. They also FASTEN LOOSE in a manner singularly efficacious, and SUPPLY t•E or PARTIAL SETS of TEETH formed of the 'NCORRODIBLE 'MINERAL, or of Natural Sub , Without WIRE or other LIGATURES—guarPn t° answer every purpose for Articulating and Masti- °I RET Prof, P ..rb I .Polis, t ' of ED iopt 5 Et) coal I ty er to l of thet have it ' T et IVerk OLT rf the C es nystenl , ~ :e who!! t, , and tu'll. ry, 01 3 . and pr.' 1 a then , ,j . , the pt.' 1 theysl F, he prig , . v . on to i....'' 4. irnsa tion "g ntons o tt , -- Lyttletc " 4 THE GAZETTE OF LAST NIGHT f this C lh ec o'cloa , th e tly sprea' iv arts had 4 f lludlel t rig ' tat a aP i ',,,, nster:W e unfave' ,„ respects 't ;entlema o ' t , l ' i , , 'es that AI le t , ared, an' 'Ai e j ern, spoke of ' ' t 4 t t l ! i )e sr nothing '4l- e r 'stored. ' I this m' ' r e ' aol. EN Ate . to five() .t that too'?' l' dley and 'IIL Ton. 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S. 9 cl. sitl, ....,... z . q .t . h1.1t,l 'if, i - iddell's , .. t hs 4 0 , ussell's ,, tol At s ,9ll /alker .--, 4 .. 1. 10 Faculty are respectfully invited to witness the sue result of the Mineral Succedaneum. , One of the above firm may he consulted for a ,Period, on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays, at Clomens-street, Leamington Spa ; and Thursdays, and Saturdays, at No. 31, New-street, Bir- c ouncil Chamber, Whitehall, the nth day of Nov., 1831. he Lords of his Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council. li t his day ordered by their Lordships, that all vessels arriv.. Sunderland, Seaham, Newcastle, North and South 14,th,gether with their crews pilots, and all persons, Tes s oats having had communication therewith, be subject .',; B E'straint of quarantine, according to the provisions o f the t he sixth of George the Fourth, cap. 78. C. C. GREVILLE. C onnell Chamber, Whitehall, the 13th day of Oct., 1831. Lords of his Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council. 4 1 1 '4 day ordered by their Lordships, that all vessels arriv ;,e United Kingdom, or at the islands of Guernsey, Jer ue be the rney, s ar k, or Man, from any port or place situate Skaw and Rotterdam, inclusive, or from the Danish ( "egoUtside the Baltic, or from ports •r places on the River d i ! be, together with their erews and pilots, and persons, t4 t. pd boats having communication therewith,. subject to _atilt of quarantine, according to the provisions of the the sixth of George the Fourth, cap. 78. C. C. GREVILLE. WHITEHALL, Dec. 2. has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed e Great Seal of the United Kingom of Great Britain to erect and establish a Court of Judicature, to be 1 ; e Court of Bankruptc ;" and also to constitute and e Honourable Thomas Erskine, one of his . Majesty's L tparned ne in the law to be Chief Judge of the said oof his Majesty's Sergeants at Law ; John Court Cross,; It Majesty's Sergeants at Law, and Attorney-General for 'Palatine of Lancaster 3 and George Rose, Esq. one of '4's Counsel learned in the Law ; to be the other at the said Court; and also to constitute and appoint 41 F rederick Williams, Esq. one of his Majesty's Counsel N'n the Law; John Herman Merivale, Joshua Evans, ,:tuel Martin Barris Robert George Cecil Fane, ard Holroyd, Esqrs. ters at Law, to be Commis °l the said Court. WAR-OFFICE, DEC. 6. f,., al f-Pay of the under-mentioned Officers has been can. '' ,l l the 6th December, 1831, inclusive F. Barlow, 30th Foot ; Lieut. C. W. Wykerd, 83d tam N. Duchesnay, Canadian Voltigeurs ; Ensign C. 'nattached. by the Lord Lieutenant of the County Palatine of Lancaster. 6 3 Z00d, Esq., Oct. 25; Sir B. W. Burdett, Bart., Nov. 26, lic,ytYLieutenants. ` eq !in en t of the Duke of Lancaster's Own Militia. • Williamson, Esq. to be Captain, Nov. 25. - - by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Carnarvon. Wi • Royal Carnarvonshire Militia. 11 'arils, Esq. to be Captain, vice Nanney, appointed to the Nov. 13. l ion by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Lincoln. Royal South Lincoln Regiment of Militia. a°, „ ~• C. Taylor, to be Lieutenant, vice Brooks, resigned, WHITEHALL, DEC. I. l'ord Chancellor has appointed James West Shrewsbury, in the county of Kent, Gent., to be a Master Extra. in the High Court of Chancery. ; too, BANKRUPTCY SPERSEDED. '`-TE BAKER BILLOW U S, Poole, ironmonger. ~ g E ‘ ,9' THOMSON and BANKRUPTS. THOMAS DANIEL MlL "un-court. Cornhill, merchants, to surrender Dec. 9, at and Jan. 17, at twelve, at the Court of Commissioners. slid Hughes, Lothbury. 3, - I N PEGG, Shoreditch, linen-draper, Dec. 16, 30, at one, A‘n• 17 at twelve, at the Court of Commissioners. Burt, bet, Milk-street, Cheapside. t„,..,"• } ILEs LOVELL, St. Martin's-court, Leicester-square, 4'..erchant, Dec. 14, at ten, '22, at twelve, and Jan. 17, at Court of Commissioners. Tucker, Basinghall-street. 'aIAS R ADFORD, Ashborne-green, Derbyshire, dealer, 29 , and Jan. 17, at eleven, at the Roebuck Inn, Leek, shire. Abbott and Arney, Symond's Inn, London ; Ashborne. MEEKS and THOMAS GUMMERY, Warwick, I's, Dec. 15, at twelve, at the office of Burbury and t Warwick, 16; and Jan. 17, at twelve, at the Swan iarwick. Burbury and Lampray, Warwick ; :Myrick Red Lion-squ are , L on d on . CROSS, Burnley, Lancashire, cotton-spinner, Dec. 19, iZJan. 17, at nine, at the Palace Inn, Manchester. John- Weatheral, Temple, London ; Hitchcock, Manchester; 1 ,156 and IPConnochie, Burnley. ,t'LIAM HIGGINSON R A GG, Dudley, Worcester rt.r.er, r,Dec. 20, 21, and Jan. 17, at one, at the Clarendon ar Is't-. l verpool. Mather Liverool ; Walmsley, Keightley, Chancery-lane, , London p . Ja t iEAD, Bathwick, Somersetshire, baker, Dec. 16, 17, • at twelve, at the Angel Inn, Bath. Williams, Ve ildings;Gray's Inn, London ; Wall, Devizes, Wiltshire. c .„,, -11 , 1 •T RICHARDSON, Knaresborough, Yorkshire, f, - 0 1 'vener, Dec. 13, at six, 14, at nine, at the Crown Inn, y r °tlgh, and Jan. 17, at one, at the Golden Lion Inn, L or kshire. Walmsley, Keightley, and Parkin, Chancery )l3l,,tz'd,en ; Earnshaw and Kirby, Knaresborough. T, LOCK WOOD, Huddersfield, Yorkshire, cloth-mer- Vec• 15 at six, 16, and Jan. 17, at ten, at the Rose and tLn, 15, at Jaques, Battye, and Edwards, Cole iiv,t, London ,• Battye and Hesp, Huddersfield. .2 1 . 1 AS RICHARDSON, Howden, Yorkshire, farmer, y.six, 22 , and Jan. 17, at eleven, at the Tiger Inn, Be. vv illiarnso Gray's Inn-square, London ; Earnshaw, `iie‘olll;.,Shepherd' and Myers, Beverley. . t cr ASKEW and JOHN DEWHURST, Manchester, s o l, 4 ' ) ,rj-agents, Dec. 13, 14, and Jan. 17, at twelve, at the C r Messrs. Houghton and Broadhurst, Liverpool. Aelling 'i").4!,°,rY, and Faulkner, Bedford-row, London; Houghton ITA L :rpurst, Liverpool. si,^D A &L RICKARD, JOHN DOCKRAY, and THOMAS Leeds, machine-makers, Dec. 12, 13, and Jan. 17, at 1 1 °,' the Court-house, Leeds : Wilson, Southampton !,.srernsbury ; Payne and FAldison, Leeds. ORDINGH AM, jun., Church-street, Kensington, „ Dec.p 13, at twelve, 20, at eleven, and Jan. 17, at ten, at pi e l.. o f Commissioners. Unthank, Foster, and Unthank, th Ak f ,s, Lythgoe, Essex : street, Strand. get, PATTERSON, Garstang, Lancashire, rq,irit-mer -1414) fs - "'"c 26, 2'7 and Jan. 17, at twelve, at the office of Mr. e, l 1 r eston. *almsley, Keightley, and Parkin, Chancery- I f t'Ojj 4 i n den • Bray, Preston. 1,„ • MORE, Cornhill, merchant, Dee. 13, 23, at three, and ,Sat two at the Court of Commissioners. Burn, Finch- Irter woRRILL, Newark-upon-Trent, Nottinghamshire, 4' , 41, 20, 21, and Jan. 17, at eleven, at Gilstrap's Hotel, 11k,„, - uPon-Trent. Hodgkinson, Newark-upon-Trent; Hall " i 'leY, New Boswell-court, Carey-street, London. DIVIDENDS, t the Court, Basinghall-street, London. P. Joliiff, and W. J. Spurrier, Poole, merchants, Shure, Charter-house-street, Charter-house •, Dec. 27, at twelve-G. Miller, Watling-street, ••*, Dec. 30, at two-It. Crooks, Cornhill, tailor, Scholey, Paternoster-row, bookseller, Dec. 30, Scott and H. Bragg, Walbrook, commission-mer ), eleven-H. Smith, 11, Chcsmer, and J. Down, ster-street, merchants, Dec. 27, at eleven-M. and ird, Honduras-wharf, Bankside, timber-merchants, 'clye-J. Itastall, Kilburn, carpenter, Dec. 27, at H. S. Crane, Stratford, Essex, merchants, Dec. 30, .'aget, Great Tower-street, insurance broker, Dec. C. Fraser and G. C. P. Living, St. Helen's-place, Dec. 27, at nine-J. Nailer, Jefferies-square, mer -30, at twelve-J. Crosthwaite, Fenchurch-street, it, Dec 30, at eleven-J. Byers, Little St. Thomas Dec. 30, at eleven-W. Turner, Layton, Essex, Dec. 16, at one-P. Greaves, Chorley, Lancashire, ,cturer, Dec. 27, at ten-J. J. and A. Clark, Mar incolnshire, drapers, Jan. 6, at one-W. Bradley, Parry, and J. Baddily, Grove, Great Guildford •vark, iron -founders, I)ec. 30, at twelve-it. Fume 4ixham, Devonshire, banker, Dec. at twelve- Walsinghain.place, Lambeth, merchant, Dec. 30, Ablett, Holles-street, Wardour-street, carpenter, ten-11. Lister, North Audley-street, Grosvenor trY.a., tor, Dec. 30, at ten-J. H. Jutting, Bury-court, St. 401 1 1, .commission-merchant, Dec. 30, at twelve-J. and , p. ` l leh Holborn, carpenters, Dec. 27, at eleven-R. Wil 444...VPsgate-street Without, woollen-draper, Dec. 27, at kt • ?7, , C. and J. B. Blackley, Fenchurch-street, tea-dealers, 4Lti.e,4! ten-J. Lyney, jun., Limehouse, sail-maker, Dec. 9, • Luntley and T. Miluer, Bread-street-hill, druggists, tf;e lv, , ',at nine- Btes, Austin-friar merchant, Jan. 10, at 3 :::indow, Craig's -court, Charing-c s, ross, agent, Dec. 27, at 4 ie.-_l l . T. Sturley, Aylsham, Norfolk, linen.draper, Dec. 27, Taylor, Little Pultentreet, Golden-square, cheese sjsbu!,,')ee. 27, at eleven-. R.G.G Gunnell and W. Shearman, 41Z C " ft -s quare, Fleet-street, printers, Dec. 27, at elevenJ. 1). ": Cooper, Woodeaves, Derbyshire, cotton-spinners, ten-H. and 11. Bath, Gunn-street, Ilishopsgate, ca. 11 , 1-etFts, Dec. 27, at two-A., W. F., and It. Gibbon, Old 4rch,„'n, oers, merchants, Dec. 30, at one-J. S. Brinley, elt,,,;,',:qane, ship-broker, Dec. 27, at twelve-. 1. pe A u c h A mp, ", silversmith, Dec. 16, at two. - sale CERTI FICATES-DEc. 27. h • }t,Y, Berwick-street, Oxford-street, ems J . paMter Witenb worthy, Wells, Somersetshire, currier-J. Knight, 441 ) builder-J. Steward, Stafford, surgeon-P. Grant, Warn, b PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. , ' , .. ll allewell, Leeds, wine-merchants-S. Meads and F. Liverpool, booksellers-W. and T. Riby, Liverpool, shN'crs._ , Oldrid and R. Hyde, Boston, Linconshire, ( -'s.th,.. \ - 7, v , Davis, Bourton-on-the-Hill, and W. Lynne, Stow ., Ilt„„ °1 d, Gloucestershire, auctioneers-E. H. Davis and • W• C, : ;, 14 40, -- ' ll, Bassinghall-street, Blackwell-pall-factors-W. Stow ire pa r, b and W. Mason, Wandsworth, calico-printers-NS. t f . , 41 e a tto r , " an J .) . J..ohnson, Clicster, iron-founders-Elizabeth Pon_ • le , ' t Mary Melling Preston Lancashire, straw:hat ,uth . ettod,,---turers--W B. •1 'and C. Ea ' wson, Birmingham, iron as Shado L"ero; a rs- -R. Het: d and J. Epe .1 . Southampton, bone -I,l€f Cra ls m e p i t ' onand C. Ve n l c sh ' , Salford, Lancashire, , „ Lt te tt.,c r - T aa ttress-makers-W. and E. Speaight, Water-lane, eldest p r eet, compositors-W. Steel and F. Parry, W !keit, ( a ( " a ien-square, tailors-T. Liddel, R. Taylor, and I'. 30, of el, , s far as regards P. Peacop), Waterhouse, Aldington, ether of R 4 . --atels j re . lieo-printers-J., H., and J. M'Connel (as tar as nenslaireipo , /hr.' Maidstone, Manchester, cotton-spinners-T. Potts and FA- .ntthu_. Kent, wine-merchants-J. Boxer and E. f ir). len, 0. B edford -row. attorneys-W. H. Wright and J. John xffinivit'' 4 tetl es '9,wn-court T• dor street booksellers-F . , White and G. :tor of 1% ' a Staffordshire, mercers. I° U l4O, MOP, irt's (S 4 delaide. ,, w,..„,--••••,' r, ndell's, P. BruYeres' Alackarneth CjiTy . " . 71 -Unsold. 4° trier, At ti fate. at one. F tt °le e li n liter, 'OR O for dler, ar writer j at nd fatal 7 t k ;;;:i. S 'Acts of ti' e , re, l i ?.., N , V Ioe 3C' l the tale ' r ot: wchvai at tWs ENE'. Career/ tuse his 0 1 l 4 at P. ad guilt/ 'h i4 l t, ar t j 4e,n it ome Ca S e g o i t will be 0 . 40 1 tt t it h'4:. tailor stance of " j k u it t° 44. :ln er ', tack. I°,l arch, passed ° ,04 0 ,i i t4tt. - V' o . ; and is I 1 4 1 1 4 4 0 11.,1 1 ,,'!" tours Will 1 ) 414,, nptoms 134 4 t ,/, at • A a of the ( P; ary%xtaijotre' the #3 , a te or) L 'O`lar )i t il, t f n ); l roportwo b r 1 %, ish psga gh issue o f itir acne :e space ° o il!' ten led as two ,0 .27. L at Oat wiAeo . , lY it ray r eme° l i ration, re but . 4 , 1 , 4 11 e ,, r ,' Dec? ' characters 0 0 4Z C. - i v - squa eo P tr - Iri ige 4 tih,st-r4 Loter .ted tii`,Yh a ters, ra, sa l uld heir I , kj i lZn:r ane es nent of , r e or p t p, le "LiZ' o rt kid_ itani No. 12,242. SECON I E I wrioN. SUN OFF ICE, Seven o' Clock. MPERIAL PARLIAMENT THIS EVENING. HOUSE OF LORDS. Their Lordships met to-day at One o'clock for the pur pose of going up with the address, after which their Lard ships adjourned till to-morrow. HOUSE OF COMMONS. At Four o'clock the SPEAKER took his seat, when be !ad the usual sessional orders, which were agreed to. Mr. WARBURTON gave notice that on Thursday he would move for the production of returns, relative to the cholera rooi bus. Petitions were presented complaining of undue elec tions for the county of Dorset, for Forfar, and for the town of Drogheda. They were ordered to be taken into consideration on Monday, Dec. 26. THE YORKSHIRE PETITION. (The above petition, which was of an enormous bulk, was carried into the House by two messengers.) Lord ALTHORP said he had been entrusted with a petition from the county of York in favour of Pirliamen • tary Reform, and be felt much honoured by this mark of the confidence reposed in him by the petitioners. From the magnitude of the petition, the House must be aware of the great difficulty be would have in the ordinary mode of presenting it. There were between 140,000 and 150,000 signatures attached to it, and the petitioners prayed that in any Reform Bill which might be brought forward during the present Parliament, the House would not depart front the main principles of the Bill brought forward in the last Session, and they prayed for its speedy despatch. In presenting it to the House, the Noble Lord said he most cordially concurred in its prayer. He should be exceedingly sorry if any Bill should be presented or proposed to the House which should de part from the principles of the last Bill, and whatever improvements might be made in the detail, he hoped and trusted that when it was introduced, it would be found that Ministers bad redeemed their pledge —(Cheers.) It was not desirable that he should at present enter at greater length into the subject, and he concluded by ex pressing the satisfaction and gratification he experienced in being intrusted by such a great and important county with a petition expressive of their sentiments.—(Hear.) Lord MORPETH said it was unnecessary for him to say much relative to the petition, after what had been said by his Noble Friend. The very form and bulk of the petition were the weightiest arguments in its favour. That petition was the answer which the county of York had given to the imputation of a re-action i❑ the country. —(Cheers.) In addition to what had fallen from the Noble Lord (Althorp), he had only to say that he attendee the meeting at which the petition was adopted, and from which it was circulated throughout the county for signature, with the particular request that the name of no person whatever should be affixed to it who was not of full age, and could not write his name—the number of signatures, therefore, not only showing the great ardour for Reform, but the extended sway of the school . . master.—(Hear.) The meeting had been held on the first rejection of the Bill, and when disgraceful outrages were taking place in some other parts of the country, but no assembly of men could evince more firmness or temperance than did the freeholders of Yorkshire at that great meeting.—(Hear, hear, hear.) The number of signatures, as stated by his Noble Friend, exceeded 140,000, and they were all obtained within the narrow space of six days. There was one request of the peti tioners, in which be (Lord 11orpeth) felt strong sym pathy, although it was not very complimentary to those Gentlemen who had delivered long speeches ; it was the prayer that not only the Bill containing all the essentials of the last Bill, be introduced, but that it may be passed with the least possible delay. Although he knew that no man had a right to innterfere with the free latitude and the free discussion of Members in this House. Yet he beggod to remind the House that it was from the delay caused by those long speeches that there had resulted a great stagnation of business, a great decrease of employ ment, and much individual suffering, which was now on the increase ; much greater delay, he feared, would but augment those evils. Mr. CROKER would not have made a single observa tion on the presentation of this petition, but for the latter observation of the Noble Lord who spoke last. Toat Noble Lord attributed all the delay, and all the stagnation of business, to the long speeches which had been deli vered last Session. H, could tell the Noble Lord that he was mistaken in his facts, and mistaken also in his deduc tions. The delay in the Committee did not arise from the opponents of the Bill.—(Loud cries of " Hear" from the Opposition.) It arose in a considerable degree, and he would say also to a meritorious degree, on the part of many of the Reformers, who thought it necessary to intro duce some amendments in the Bill. During the debates, he (Mr. Croker) introduced a pronosition for which the Nuble Lord himself voted—a proposition that went to prevent a most gross act of injustice being com mitted. So it had occurred with many other errors. It was well for the Noble Lord to complain of Mem bers making long speeches, when on the very night of last session it was not the fault of the Noble Lord that he did not himself treat the House with a long speech.—(Laughter.) He (Mr. Croker) now repeated what he had said last night, and he did not mean any teproach wbeu lie said so, that it was the first agitation of the Refartn Bill that occasioned the stagnation of trade. —(Hear.) Whether or no thu Reform Bill be the cause of the stagnation, or whether it be caused by the delay, he wonld prophecy that, shonld the Bill be carried, there would not only be a greater stagnation of trade, but also a great convulsion of all the old established institutions of the country. Mr. STRICKLAND could not let the present oppor tunity pass without bearing testimony to the respectability of the meeting at which the petition was agreed to. He thought it would be the means of convincing any person who would be convinced of the fallacious notion that any re-action had taken place in the country with respect to the Reform Bill. In his opinion the greatest advantages were likely to result from that question being brought to a speedy ter mination, for when a question occupied the public mini as this had done, the sooner it was concluded the better. He had no doubt that the measure intended to be proposed by his Majesty's Ministers would go a great way in effecting the happiness and prosperity of the country. —(Hear, hear.) Mr. HUNT denied that he had ever stated there was a re- action in the minds of the people of England with re spect to Reform. What he had stated was that a re action had taken place as to his Majesty's Minister's plan of Reform. He had been to several public meetings, and should wish very much to know by how many signatures the petition from Leeds was signed. Mr. EVANS slated 22,000 persons.—(Hear, Lear.) M. HUNT would take upon himself to say that every person signing the petition wanted much more than the petition prayed for. He thought it an extremely erro neous notion to suppose that such petitions as had been presented from York were proofs that no re-action had taken place in the minds of the p eop l e w ith reference to the plan of his 'Majesty's Ministers. He had attended a meeting at Huddersfield ; and with but too ex ceptions they disapproved of the measure of Mini sters. They wished, however, for more than that measure gave them, in fact they wished for something for themselves.--(Cheers.) He did not mean to say fur a moment that the public were not in favour of Reform, and he had hoped the Honourable Gentlemen sitting on the aide of the House he did would have been the advocates of a much greater Reform than that introduced by his Majesty's Ministers—(Loud cheer ing)—and he thought he was justified in that hope by what had been stated by the Honourable Member for Tamworth, who had observed that he would • rather advocate the extended measure proposed by the Hen. Member forPresten than the one brought for : ward by Ministers. lie had no doubt that nineteen out of twenty who had signed that petition had signed it merely because it was in favour of R: form, without understanding what the plan of Reform was. The petition was the read, arid ordered to be printed. Mr. HUNT presented a petition from the inhabitants . of Palesworth, near Manchester, praying that the Rev. Robert Taylor's confinement might be mitigated. • Mr. G. VERNON presented a petition from a parish LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 7, 1831. in Nottingham in favour of the proposed plan of Reform. Lord MORPETH presented a petition from Wakefield, agreed to at a most numerous and respectable meeting, to the same effect as the cne from Yorkshire. Mr. CROKER wished to know the number of signa tures to that petition. Lord MORPETH observed, 2,700. Mr. CROKER said he thought there must be very few of the rural inhabitants left to sign when the numbers were considered that had signed the York petition, the 22,000 who had signed the Leeds one, the 2,700 frOto Wakefield and other places. Lord ALTHORP observed that the Hon. Member had forgotten that Northallerton could furnish 1,700 sig. natures. Mr. CROKER felt surprised that the new borough of Northallerten, than which there never was a greater job, the extent of which was to be seventeen miles, could not furnish more than 1,700 signatures.--(Cheers.) Lord ALTHORP observed that it was no job on the part of those who then sat on that side of the House. Mr. J. C. HOI3EIOUSE moved for certain returns re lative to the number of inhabitants householders in St. James's, Westminster. Mr. HUME presented a petition from the Western Po litical Union, praying the House to adopt measures for the diffusion of knowledge, by the removal of the many taxes that prevented its extension. He (Mr. Hume) con curred most cordially with the prayer of the petition, wishing to see all taxes removed from paper and printing, as a great means of accomplishing the object, which the petition had in view. He thought those who had kept the country in the state of ignorance in which it was would do well to consider what they had to answer for, and he trusted his Majesty's Ministers would not de lay the removal of those taxes he had referred to. Mr. R. TREVOR was satisfied that the many evils that existed in the country arose from the poorer classes of society having had an opportunity of perusing the disre putable and diabolical papers and periodicals that were in circulation. He was not hostile to the poorer classes being properly educated, but he was satisfied their condition would never be bettered by removing the tax upon newspapers and other periodical papers of that description, had a suf ficient circulation throughout the country to enable them to pay a touch larger tax than that which they did, and he knew of no better source of revenue than such a tax. Colonel TORRENS considered the salvation of the conntry essentially bound up in the diffusion of sound po litical knowledge.—(Applause.) Imperfect knowledge might lead the people to disturbance—might lead them to conceive that the rights of property were irreconcileable with the rights of the working classes; but convinced, as he was, that the rights of property perfectly secured the rights of the working classes; convinced of the soundness; of the principle of distri buting knowledge among them, he should not think he performed his duty, if he did not raise his voice in favour of the people being instructed, as by this means they would be taught the first principles of right, of Go vernment, of profits, of labour, and of profits of stock. With these impressions, he should support every proposition which might be brought forward in Parliament for the purpose of rendering knowledge cheap.—(Ap plause.) lam convinced, said the Gallant Colonel, that our only saftey in the present excitement, is perfect knowledge, knowledge is power. The people half in structed have half power ; half power may be exercised in somewhat an injudicious way; but if you give the people perfect knowledge, thereby conferring on them perfect power, they will exercise that power soundly, and for the best interests of the country at large. In ignorance you will have danger—in knowledge your will have safety ; therefore, it was of the highest import ance that the utmost diffusion of knowledge should take place.—The petition was then ordered to be drawn up. Mr. HUME in moving that the petition might be printed, desired to make a few observation in reply to what had fallen from the Hon. Member, in opposition to the taking off the taxes off publications. That Hon. Member had attributed to the Press every thing that was base and mischievous. He (Mr. Hume) wished to know whether that Hon. Gentleman desired such a state should continue to exist. The Press was in the complete possission of persons whose whole aim was to circulate that which was evil and mischievous and it was utterly impossible for any person, who had property or a character to maintain, to attempt to repel or answer the base char i ses which per sons ventured to send forth. His (Mr. Hume's) desire was, that some measure might be adopted which would enable good men to send forth a proper antidote against the poison of these dangerous publications which were so much complained of. This could only be done by the removal of all taxes from Newspapers and publics. tions of every description. A complete and indiscrimi nate publication ought to be permitted ; and he (Mr. H.) wished to ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if be had any intention to bring forward an act for the purpose of repealing duties upon publications? Mr. TREVOR. explained. Lord ALTHORP said, I must protest against questions being put to me at this period of the year, as to what I may be inclined to do with respect to the removal of taxation, because, to give satisfactory answers to such questions would be to pledge myself at a period at which I should be extremely sorry to give any pledge whatever. Sir P. BURDETT thought that if these mischievous publications were to be allowed to go on, it would be but lair to allow the opportunity to others of answering them on an equal footing—that is without being under the re striction of that heavy taxation which the respectable part of the Press was under at present. Mr. HUME moved for a return of the persons who had been convicted of selling uustamped publications, the Magistrates by whom they had been made, and the respec tive periods of imprisonments. He undei stood there were at this moment no less than twenty-nine persons under sentence of imprisonment for selling unstampcd publica tions. Colonel TORRENS had great pleasure in seconding the motion for this return. It was only by the free pro nunciation of opinions that truth could be arrived at; and if the truth were to be permitted to be promulgated with out taxation there could be no doubt that truth would prevail, without any step being necessary to be taken for the suppression of the mischievous part of the press. ADDRESS TO HIS MAJESTY. Lord CAVENDISH brought up the report on the ad dress. On the motion that it be read a second time, Mr. HOME said be wished to make a few observations before the report was agreed to, not only on what the ad dress to the speech contained, but on se at [tie speech itself was silent. He felt it necessary thus to explain, from the opinions he entertained, and which he hid before ex pressed. In the first part of the speech he entirely con curred, and he believed Ministers were entitled to the gra. titude of the country for having so soon re-assembled Par liament, in order satisfactorily to settle the Reform ques tion. Much too of the present dissatisfacion which pre vailed in many places would, no donbt, be removed by that satisfactory adjustment. There was one part, however, of the speech with which he did not agree ; he alluded to the interference of this country with regard to Belgium. Neither party la °old thank them; both hail expressed dissatisfaction, and the ostensible ob ject of preventing a general war would be attained no longer than the parties had time to prepare for a re commencement of hostilities. As well might France and the other powers interfere and dictate the separation of Ireland fronts England, as this country dictate the separation of Belgium from Holland. The British Par liament had thus committed themselves in that inter ference, and had acted on the p r i nc ipl es o f the Holy Alliance, most injurious to !all States.—(Hear, hear.) The increase in our establishments' last veer and at pre sent, was evidently necessitated by the posture of affairs in relation to Belgium. But there was no allusion in his Majeaty's speech to any contemplated reduction in this department. Why should the people, so distressed, he called upon, by meddling with other nations, to involve thenselves its renewed difficulties, and to force measures on a Government which they dad not want. The speech admitted that distress actually existed : no doubt distress had arisen from want of employmeot. but was there in the speech or in the address one word . , suggesting a remedy for it ? Could a man casting his eyes over the county, hesi tate to declare diet excessive taxation was the cause of the evil. Ile was most sincerely of opinion that the pre sent interference of this country with Belgium and Holland was inconsiderate in principle and involved no small expenditure of the character of the nation. He did expect that some attempt should have been made to relieve the people by a reduction of the establishments, and he would state that so long as Government persevered in straining by large establishments every shilling that could be wrung from the people, no expectation could be enter tained that efficient relief should be administered. He had been tblamed last year for quietly submitting to so large an increase of public establishments, but under the peculiar circumstances in which the present Govern ment had been placed by the Administration, increase of was to have been expected. He did, however, expect that after a year they would have been prepared to make some ex tensive reductions. He could not see why such establish ments should now be kept up, larger than for many years, and at so heavy an expense. The time no doubt would come, when it ould be necessary to enlarge on these subjects, but he could not allow this opportunity to pass without these observations. We objected to the interference alluded to, and to the fact, that while distress was admitted, no specific remedy had been propounded. Lord PALMERSTON could not let the observations ni ide by his Hon. Friend pass without some remark. The Hon. Gentleman had expressed disapprobation of the course 1 1 pursued by Government in interfering between Belgium and Holland, representing that Government had aban dondoned all their former principles and professions, and adopting those of the Holy Alliance, had im posed on Belgium a Government which was adverse to its wishes. He should be prepared when the pro per season presented itself, to contend that the interference which this country had exercised between Holland and Belgium, rested on principles acted on by Governments of England, in the best seasons, and best times, upon principles which, if Government was not prepared to act, they should consent to abandon the interests of England itself. He should like the Hon. Member to point out in what respect they had forced on Belgium a Government con trary to their wishes. The Belgians had chosen their own Government, their own Sovereign, and the Government of England had in no respect interfered to dictate to them, either as to the form of their Gornment, or the choice of their Sovereign. Meanwhile Holland and Belgium were mutuallp anxious to be separated. It was impossible for these countries to agree on the terms of separation, if they were left entirely to decide them by mutual communicated, and the unavoidable consequence ()fallowing them to pursue their own claims, would have involved all Europe in war. It was therefore with due regard to the interests of peace, not less than to the independence of nations, that this country bad interfered. That inter ference had saved Europe from a general war, a war of principle which might, therefore, in a short time, have involved England ; the result of our timely interference had been to place the kingdom of Holland in a better situation than she before occupied in any period of her his tory ; and to secure to Belgium that form of Government and that soverign whom the Belgians wished to have. Mr. G. DAWSON designated his Majesty's speech as the most unmeaning one he had ever heard. The chief topics of it were those relatingto Reform, and a probable change in tithes. As to Reform he would say nothing at present, but as regarded a change in the law of tithes; he thought thas from the manner in which they had been mentioned, a great alarm was created in the minds of all who were possessed of tithe proporty. Ex cepting those two subjects, every thing else had been left in confusion and doubt. The state of the country was such that it was impossible but every person could see it was becoming more dangerous and conflagrations were taking place in every part of the country, and no steps had been taken to put an end to them. The country was almost in a state of Civil War. Look at Bristol, at Nottingham, and at Derby, at which places property to an immense amount, and hundreds of lives had been destroyed, and yet Ministers seemed to have not the least notion beyond stating those facts and leaving their remedy entirely out of the ques tion. Trade was paralysed, industry at a stand, and yet nothing was stated in the speech to lead to suppose that Ministers intended to bring forward any remedy. But there was one subject which was in every body's mouth, he meant with respect to those societies which, in the speech were called combinations. The words of the speech on this subject were as vague and unsatisfactory as possible. The proclamation that had been issued, instead of suppressing those Unions by threatening to enforce the rigour of the law, was merely of that milk and wvter nature, that it seemed but as a kind of advice to persons to abstain from uniting; in fact it was vangue and undefined. The sentence in the speech relating to these unions did not state whether it was the intention of Government to propose any law to put them down, or whether there was any law in existence which they intended to put into execution. The Attorney-General seemed to have been slmnber ing at his post ever since he was appointed to it, and if he had been advised respect ing a speech he had certainly put together a vast number of words as undefined as possible. Should those Unions be persevered in it would be satisfactory to know whether Min iters intended to p ut them down, for I there seemed to be no law to affect that object. LEFT SPEAKING. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, DEC. 6. ADDRESS TO HIS MAJESTY. Concluded from our Secoud Edition of yesterday. The Earl of HARROWBY—He felt anxious not to I disturb the unanimity which it was desirable should pre vail upon the address to be presented to his Majesty in answer to his speech, and for that reason he would scarcely have thought it necessary to say any thing, had it not been for the speech of the Noble Lord who had just sat down. He did net, however, mean to offer any answer to any of the topics on which the Noble Lord had thought proper to descant. His only purpose in rising was to deprecate the entering upon any debate in the spirit which the Noble Lord's speech had displayed. The address, except in one particular which he would presently mention, met with his entire approbation throughout. Both the speech and the a ddress were prepared with much discretion and pro priety, and they contained all that he would wish to in sert, and contained nothing that he would wish to omit, except in the instance to which he alluded. He agreed was proper that their Lordships should turn their th at it attention to the subject of Reform, but that they should pledge themselves to any particular Bill, or measure of Reform to be proposed by his Majesty' s Ministers, was totally out of the question. As to the Bill, they knew nothing ; and all they could say was, that when they did know, they would consider it. But till they did know it they ought not to say one word about it. When it should he brought forward, however, he most confi dently hoped that it would be a measure which they could not only entertain in detail, but one which they could finally adopt. As to the Bill of last Session, he and many others of their Lordships felt themselves com pelled to oppose it ; and if his Majesty's Ministers would bring forward a measure of Reform in the sincere spirit of conciliation, he was confident that their Lordships would approach it in the same spirit, and bend all the powers of their minds to consider it, and to discuss it, with sincere desire to adopt it, if possible; and he hoped that, by abandoning some things, and adding others, a measure would at last be framed which their Lordships might pass, and finally set the question at rest. He would not enter at present into the discussion of the topics on which the Noble Lord who spoke last had chosen to dwell. The speech of the Nolsle Earl who bad moved the address was in a different tone, and although he did not coincide with the Noble Earl in his opinions, yet he was ready to admit that the tone and manner of the Noble Earl's speech were excellent. Having said this much, he would enter no further into the matter of these speeches, but proceed to call their Lordships' attention to that part of the address in which he could not entirely concur That part of the address to which he alluded, was that which related to the arrangement of the separatire, between the Netherlands and Belgium, and the treaty concluded with the King of the BAgians. The passag e in the speech was as follows :—" The ar rangement which I announced to yon at the close of the last Session, for the separation of the States of Holland and Belgium,has been followed by a treaty between the five Powers and the King of the Belgians, which I have di rected to be laid before you as soon as the ratifications shall have been exchanged. A similar treaty has not yei been agreed to by the Kind of the Netherlands ; but 1 trust the period is not distant when that Sovereign will see the necessity of acceding to an arrangement in which tilt Plenipotentiaries of the five Powers have unanimously con curred, and which has been framed with the most earetul , and imparti a l attent i on Co a ll t h e i n t ere sts concerned., PRICE 7D. The address, following the words of the speech, ex pressed the satisfaction of their Lordships that the ar rangements hid been followed by a treaty between the five Powers and the King of the Belgians, and it expressed their Lordships' hope, that the King of the Netherlands would see the necessity of acceding to an arrangement in which the five Powers had unani mously concurred, and whisk bad been framed with the most careful and impartial attention to all the in terests concerned. Now, he hoped that it was not the in tention of his Majesty's Ministers, that their Lordships should comment upon matters with which they were not as yet fully acquainted, and which had not been regularly brought before them; and yet there was something in the address which might be considered as having this effect, without some slight alteration in the wording of it. As to the treaty between the King of the Belgians and the five Powers, be did not know whether he ought to express satisfaction with it or not, as he at present knew nothing about it. Their Lordships could not properly express sa tisfaction with it till it had been laid regularly before them. And then, as to the hope that the King of the Nether lands, would see the necessity of acceding to an arrange- ment which had been framed with a careful and impartial attention to all the interests concerned, he knew not whether the arrangement bad been so framed or not, and therefore he could give no opinion upon it. But then the address might be so worded in the next stage, as that all might concur in it, as he was so unwilling to disturb the unani mity of their Lordships, that he would not move any altera tion at present. Having said thus much, he did not feel himself called upon to make any further observations on the address. Earl GREY—He had no objection to the alteration proposed by the Noble Earl. Certainly it was not meant to pledge Noble Lords to any opinion on anything that they had not full opportunity of considering. The Earl of ELDON—He had intended, when be came down to the House, not to say one word on the present occasion. But he felt extremely distressed at what the Noble Lord who seconded the address had said with re- .pest to the Reform Bill of last session. Their Lord ships now had nothing to de with that Bill, and there was nothing whatever in the address that pledged their Lord ships to adopt any Bill similar to the Bill of last session. But even if it should be a similar Bill, or even the same Bill, it would still be their Lordships' duty to consider it. But at present they knew nothing about the Bill to be in troduced in the present session ; and, as to the Bill of last session, that was extinct; and to make observations on that Bill was one of the most irregular proceedings that he had ever heard of. But everything which the Noble Lord had said on the subject of reference, had a reference to that Bill. He had said last session, that the passing of that Bill would have the effect of destroying that House, and - trenchingmost perniciously on the prerogative of the Crown. Perhaps he might have been wrong, but that was his opinion. But then he said, that although he could not approve of that measure of Reform, be did not mean to pledge himself against any other measure of Reform that might be adopted consistently with the interests of the Crown, of both Houses of Parliament, and of the people ; and whatever measure should be proposed, it would be their duty to consider it and make up their minds as to whe thor it ought to be rejected or received. But they had now nothing whatever to do with the Bill of last session, and their duty was, merely to give the most attentive con sideration to any measure which his Majesty's servants ►night lay before them. The Noble Lord was totally out of order, when, in seconding the address, he thought proper, in almost every thing he said, to refer to the Bill of last session. With respect to the measure of Re form to be proposed this session, it was his conscientious opinion that such a measure ought to be proposed as their Lordships might conscientiously assent to. Ile could not here help expressing his surprise, that in the course of the last three months nothing bad been said or done with re spect to a publication, called " The Black List." Was such a publication ever before suffered to pais without animadversion ? It was there stated that be himself, ever since he had a seat in that House, bad been receiving 54,000/. annually out of the taxes. He wished these black list people would tell him where he could get it. And then they said that a nephew of his—meaning a brother of his—who was now eighty-seven years of age, and whom they chose to call nephew, had 4,000/. a year out of the taxes; whereas, in reality, he had not one far thing out of the taxes. In the same manner others of their Lordships had been represented as receiving mil lions from the taxes who did not receive one farthing from them ; and yet these things were suffered to pass without animadversion. Lord DINORBEN said a few words in explanation. The Earl of ABERDEEN wished merely to make a few observations on one or two parts of his Majesty's speech, and of the address which had been moved in answer to it. In that speech his Majesty stated that, although a treaty similar to that which had been concluded between the Five Powers and the King of the Belgians had not yet been agreed to by the King of the Netherlands, he trusted the period was not distant when that Sovereign would nee the necessity of acceding to an arrangement in which the Plenipotentiaries of the Five Powers had unani mously concurred. Now he (Lord Aberdeen) must say, that he should be exceedingly surprised if the King of the Netherlands should be found disposed to accede to an ar rangement by which the free navigation of the canals of his kingdom was granted to the people of Belgium. To so unjust and unreasonable a proposition it appeared to him to be impossible to expect that the King of the Nether lands would be disposed to yield his consent. In the first place, the subject to which that article of the treaty related was not one of those subjects which properly came under the consideration of the Conference of the Five Powers. The King of the Netherlands had called en the Five Powers to arbitrate between him and the inhabi tants of his revolted provinces. By the conduct pur sued on the part of the Five Powers, however, the King of the Netherlands bad not only been reduced to the necessity of abandoning his revolted provinces, but was actually required to give permission to the inhabitants of those provinces to navigate the canals of his own proper territory ! Why, they might as well insist upon the King of the Netherlands allowing them a free passage through his palaces. The canals were the private rights of the people of the Netherlands. The course which has been pursued upon this subject had placed the King of the Ne therlands in a situation much worse than that from which the Five Powers had professed to extricate him. In his (Lord Aberdeen's) opinion, the article to which be referred was as impolitic as it was unjust. He was willing to ad• mit, that to other parts of the treaty, more especially to those which related to the arrangement of the debt, the concurrence of the King of the Netherlands might be reasonably expected. But the Five Powers had ren dered it impossible for the King of the Ne therlands to assent to the whole treaty, in consequence of the introduction of this obnoxious article ; for the proposition had raised such a strong and general feeling of indignation throughout Holland, and had united the people of that country so completely with their Sovereign in opposition to it, that he was enabled to de clare, that in resisting so unjust a measure he was sup ported by the whole body of his subjects. It was, there fore, most unwise, with a view to obtaining the accession of the King of the Netherlands to the treaty, to arm him with the unanimous support of his people in opposition to it; and never, he (Lord Aberdeen) believed, in the history of the world, had the people of any country been more unanimous on any subject than the people of Holland were at the present moment en the subject in question• How, therefore, his Majesty's Government could count on the King of the Netherlands' accession to the treaty he knew not ; but this he knew, that he should be exceedingly sur prised to hear of that accession. However, as the address did not call upon their Lordships to express any opinion with respect to the articles of that treaty, he was enabled to assent to that part of it which adverted to the sub- ject. There was another part of his Majesty's speech, and of the address which had been moved by his Noble Friend, to which he bad no objection, although he cer tainly did not understand the course which his Majesty's Government were taking upon that point. He alluded to Portugal. He would not then enter into any investigation of opportunities(tthi did not a s l u t . a o t t e T o kh f na t ot h wo e wf af r lus% ei l a aya t i t o ct n oown s pasi b iscd e et meant e enh e agi n ne. ht thisAbyt therept e rire o es u : n ,npo t tau r isdea a gc n bee d er tnoa P ti htnoierii speech The conduct of the Portuguese Government and the repeated injuries to which my subjects have beet) exposed, have prevented a renewal of my diplomatic ar rangements with that kingdom." It was undoubtedly true that British subjects had been exposed to injuries it: Portugal, but for those injuries redress had been afforded. Nor could those injuries be fairly attributed to the Govern- thing new in that information. But it now appeared that Don Pedro was posssessed of means which he did not before possess, and that in his present situation he might he induced to undertake an enterprise, the success of which every one would have formerly pronounced impos sible. For himself he (Lord Aberdeen) was perfectly ready to repeat what he bad already stated in th it House—that the Portuguese expedition was thoroughly contemptible, and that it had not the slightest chance of ultimate success. But to the declaration of that opinion he must add, that, by the aid of English men and English money—by- the purchase of ships of war and military stores, and by the enlistment of foreign troops, it was possible that a consi derable effect might be produced in Portugal ; that that country might be thrown into convulsion—and that suc cess, temporary if net permanent, might to a certain ex tent be achieved. He condemned, therefore, the whole course which had been pursued by his Majesty's Govern— ment with reference to that subject, although he would not enter into any detailed consideration of it. If, how— ever, the projected expedition were actually to take place, let it not be supposed that it would be only a question be— " ' tween the two Portuguese Princes; it would be a qu stirn between this country and Portugal. In that case, the confident hopes expressed in his Majesty's speech, that the peace of Europe might not be interrupted, ivould most undoubtedly be frustrated. Such an occurrence must lead to a general war throughout the whole Peninsula, which would be rendered a scene of struggle and bloodshed. It was utterly impossible that the Spanish Government could permit a revolutionary French faction to be dominant is Portugal. For it was universally known that the revolution contemplated was not merely the revolution of Portugal, but the revolution of the whole Peninsula. Ti , e present eias, therefore, the most critical moment for the peace of the world; and the propriety of continuing our most extraordinary relations with Portugal must, ere long, come under the consideration of Parliament. He had thought it his duty to make these observations ; but he was perfectly disposed to concur in the address. The Duke of BUCKINGHAM said that the Noble Se conder of the address justly complimented the Noble Mover of the address on the good taste which he had displayed. Unfortunately, however, the Noble Seconder did so at the expence of his own speech ; and while he complimented his Noble Friend on the good taste which he had exhi- bited, slowed the value of that good taste by abstaining from exhibiting it himself. A speech calculated, in so extraordinary a manner, to provoke debate, he (the Duke of Buckingham) had never beard. Well might the Noble Earl at the head of the Treasury use the trite exp. ession : —" Protect me against my friends, and I will protect my self against my enemies." But, however provoking the speech of the Noble Seconder, he (the Duke of Bucking ham) would not follow him in the course which he had pursued. He was fully prepared to justify the vote which he had given on the Reform Bill in the last session ; but he would not be so unparliamentary or disorderly as to an ticipate what might, at some future period, come before their Lordships, or to " hark back" to that of which they had already disposed. In the long debates which had taken place during the last session oil the subj.ct of Par liamentary Reform, he did not :remember that either the Noble Mover or the Noble Seconder of the address had fa voured their Lordships with his opinions. He regretted this. He regretted that either of the Noble Lords hail reserved the artillery of his arguments for the present occ.otion ; for it was difficult to say what impression his eloquence might not have made on their Lordships. Wbat was the fact of their Lordships' present situation? That they were assembled for a distinct object, for an object, the importance of the con►ideration of which had been held to be overwhelm ing, at a moment when that great and over whelming object had almost become one of secondary consequence. For their first step must be, not to enquire what Parlia mentary Reform, or whether any, was desirable ; but to take measures to render themselves a free, deliberative as sembly.—(Hear, hear.) Until those by whom they were menaced were put down, they were not in a state for de-. liberation. It was attempted to influence their Lordships by intimidation and threats. When they asserted that there was reaction, and that the people began to recoil- older the question, they were referred to the riots at Bris tol, and the proceedings of the Political Union at Birming ham. Those riots and those proceedings, and the inter-; ference of his Majesty's conduct with respect to them, must become a subject of their Lordships' consideration. Every word of the speech which related to Unions and other illegal combinations, he warmly applauded ; and he hoped that the opinions there so distinctly expressed would be followed up by acts, if acts should be found necessary. As to the question of Reform, he would not give any pledge respecting it until he should see what it was on which their Lordships were required to decide. H e certainly concurred in the opinion expressed in hi s Majesty's speech, that " A speedy and satisfactory settle. meta of the question became daily of more pressing im portance to the security of the State, and to the content. ment and welfare of the people ;" and lie was relit!)• to enter fully and deliberately into the consideration of the question, with a view not only to constitutional principles, out to the feelings and inclinations of the country, operated upon by the growth of commerce, by the progress of edua cation, and by the increased interest taken in political con cerns. On those grounds he approved of the address; re serving to himself his particular opinions upon the ques tion of Reform until that question should come regularly under consideration. Earl GREY said he would trespass upon their Lord. ships' attention for a few moments. Ile had never expe rienced greater satisfaction than he had felt at the general lone and at the particular expressions of the short speech which had been addressed to their Lordships by the Noble Earl who had commenced the present conversation. They certainly would have exempted that Noble Earl, if he had not before been fully exempted, from the charge of being actuated by any motive but that of the purest public spirit. It was in the highest degree satisfactory to him to hear that Noble Earl say that, with one exception (a passage easily corrected, and which it was very desirable and pro per should be so corrected), there was nothing s which tie Noble Earl wished to take away from the address, or to add to it. Under those circumstances, he (Lord Grey) felt a gratification, the greater because it was in some degree unexpected, at the prospect of an unanimous vote of the House on the present question. With re spect to the alteration—for he would rather so term it than an amendment—proposed by the Noble Earl, he (Earl Grey) thought it a most important improvement of the address, which ought to have been so framed in the first instance ; it nevor having been the intena tion of those by whom it was framed that Parliament should be pledged on a subject which was not yet ma ture for consideration. lie perfectly subscribed, therefore, to the alteration ; and if the Noble Earl had no objection he (Lord Grey) would rather that at should be incor porated into the original address, in order that that address might pass their Lordships unanimously. He also agreed ith the Noble Earl, that the present was not the time to discuss the merits of a question not yet before their Lord ships. A Noble and Learned Earl had called that intro duction irregular and disorderly, Ile did not so consider it. But he so far assented to the opinion of the Noble anti Learned Lord, that, the Reform Bill of last tension having oeen lost, and no other Bill being yet before them, their Lordships were not in a condition to examine what ought to be the particular character of such a measure; on which, therefore, he (Lord Grey) would not say anything ie.yond this—that, if it were supported by him, it must lie founded on the same principles as the measure of last session, and must be equal to that measure in efficiency. —(Hear, hear.) To that most important discussion, lie rusted, in common with the Noble Earl and the Noble Duke, that their Lordships would conic with an earnest lesire to form a deliberate and well-grounded opinion, not only butonly on on the its general political they would chara cter of the mea a some unfettered by any past decision , and a l l o wing them selves full latitude of discretion on an y future o ne; that they would come with a determin ation --and the credit which (e e ) cuiidde tca, claimed kne s ci o o n ef n subjectattllilioetuh.eiyft circumstances of th e case, as to thendhe was most ready to allow—to on the best v i ew w hi c h t h ey course which it would be most conducive to the best in crests of the State, and to the satisfaction and permanent !ranquillity of the country, to adopt.—( Hear, hear.) Sin serely did he wish that tile discussion of the evening had topped there. Nor would he be tempted by what had allen on two topics of our foreign policy from the Noble Earl—lately his Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign \Hairs—to enter at that moment upon the consideration if those topics. But he could not refrain from expressing is surprise at the somewhat hasty conelt,:ous at which :at Noble Earl nclusiona il he wouldthen was to pr a t, st. The Noble Earl could not see wh y his Majesty's Govern !lent expected that the Kin g of t he Netherlands s h o uld :hat had d a o, rri however, A r, gainst thos e es sonstrit to the treaty proposed by the Five Allied Powers.