The Sun. — London, England, 1833-04-23 00:00:00

tht artion g one class in that pl ace b e rea dil y a d m i tte d, at The same !lin e that no man could more deeply regret the e th an hi mself. He only contended attlirtto ;Ito exaeuersted statements of the Hon. Gentlemen. and all:: thoueht it his duty to do, at whatever risk, in the thisof his constituents, the house, anti the country, for Kinzie rea-on---that he was convinced it was het er hadthat the triit', should b e known. reareoefi that he not the st teiiient of the amount of the Manchester that P r..rates with I • •' II w hen he heard it asserted the l'urstiPris o ' f im the e ; P o t p c t i ll ' ar Y ie n of that place were upon wh,l:arish book:. How that was possible in a town th " recollected, the rates were only 4s. in th e r''"ndi he could not conceive. When he turned to h id a ! m ulit of poor rates for the county of Lancaster, andefling Liverpool and many large manuf otturing towns, :ti„ ) , ( the returns as followed, he had not the „',,,t"t hesitation in giving a direct contradiction "ie statement that few-fifths of the in . abitants Th • e ll 'ncheste r were charged on the pour-rates ' 33„ or rates of L ancas hi re amounted, in 1814 ~... to 290 4 ,, 91 . ; in 1818 to 372.000/. ; and in 1831 to a; in n a diminution of 30 per cent, in the popu Alton nincreased t'lZ'rdt"eeh the h 1 • had meanwhile by fro m of 3 00.000 sou's. He held in his hand a letter l ad a gentleman residing in Manchester, who had for. tvi i h" l , him a return of the wages of labour as compared I,„„t"e Price of provisions, with which, however, he -4, not troubl e the House. The writer stated that his se e ,„ greßaint showed that since 1813 there had been a pro „ ye improvement in the condition of the people: in epri,"(isqluenee inventions facilitating and inereasime . th .r e thiti u r eTi°o of yarn, and owing to the employment i of e 'erly en ' o th ' People were better fed and clothed t htt their employment was never more regular; ar,m~avrTs t)ry. wd out of th e question, of course, the hand-loom ges w ere rmod, and the state of trade saii-fde a e f le now came to the town last upon his list, which 11 N4 "‘T refer re d to on a former occasion by an Hon. 44 6 " rt ° PPesit e . w h o represented it ; and whence that tt,, t rt"s ;- " n ati bad draw n so many statements of extratirdinary thet he (Mr. Thomson), had he not before his 1 1 1, Z the evidence of the Parl am-ntary writ by which the t ,;1111ernber Was returned, should almost have been lfeetverpted to doubt whether the Hon. Gentleman had h a 't his foot within the place.--( Hear, and a laugh.) ti, d a d been foiest died in his intended statements as to Al"de been of Pauperism in Birmingham by the Hon. of 4.ther f "r Walsall! but he should refer to the condition tie ' ,; ) " O f t he canal property of the place, as tolerably fa toil: e r e e of the amount of the activity of industry. The . i n Is e ' the old Birmingham canal in 1826 were 88,0901., or -32 th eY amounted to 105,000/. The tolls of the resales eester „ canal were 20,000/. in 1826 ; in 1832 they m atn qt 4700/. That was tolerable evidence that trade nits e ° the decline in Birmingham. In 1826, time l e f the were 1 0251. ; in 1832 they er e 30 0 town , 93 /. ; neith er did this appear to him evidence tn n o f f e;pi, ,ng p r osperity, or of that complete annihila to h repoii.which was talked of.—(Hear.) NI hat was t e Well had reeeived from a gen:letnan of Birmingham t tatel l s e L ah fiell to form an opinion en the subject? He f elt •( 'at, from an experience of more than 50 years, he 4 , l ' t ified in saying that he never saw the artisans of It a ce bette r f e d , cloth-d, and housed than at present; f t jaVeeted th e town itself he perceived every symptem ur 'Prrwerrient; th e property o f t h e p l ace, an d with in tee h reil 'a of b, increased in value twenty-five per Pat oeh i thin th e l ast fif teen years; the increase cf ' the r e „ lal , expenditure w as trifling compered with dse,, pepulati on • ; almost all transactions were con edf to Pin m oney terms, the canals had a larger amour l 'efor e n'' L a "ge Passin g t h roug h t h em t h an h a d b een ever ' a Pe o - „'wo, and all th e p u bli c i nst it utions were well 't5,•,,,,'1.---(Hear.) Th ese f ar t s did no b ear ou t t e , - ;:i ) ts of the Hon. Member Let him (Mr. Thomson) f t ,,, op 'iirther, an d s t a t e th e i ncrease d consumption of o f lif att toles which mi g h t now b e ca lled th e necessaries t c ompared with th e i ncrease i n th e p opu l a t ion . lo ut' great ar ti c l es w hi c h entere d largely into taf''est i mption of the post--tobacco, sugar, tea, and thst""and he s h ou ld go b ac k to t h e year 1814, because 14nPeri0d had b een re f erre d to b y t h e Member tor White y. cotistitetine one of the halcyon days of our profs -34:,..*hen taxes were high and the people thriving. n 1 83 2 :", consumption of tobacco wa- 15,000.0001 b. ; in 3 1 I, had increased to 20,00,000ib., an augmentation . of tar' n hilst the population only showed an in -1832 1 83 4 o f 24 percent during the interval from 1814 that P 2 4 1 . , o r l, ligar, even including all that was used at t in the distilleri, s, the consumption in 1814 was et i l'9 '7ooolbs. ;in 1832 it amounted to 3,655,00ti1b.— f %sit: o". "' •s °i 83 per cent. to he set against an increase l i .l i " eent. P'pulation. The tea consumed in 18 5„,14 19,224,0001 h. ; in 1832 it increased t '31,548 0000), ii "D fiher"'" of 65 per cent. st ill aga i ns . populti hitte 24 per cent, increase. The coffee con•umed in eael,p`',^lY arneunted to 6,324,000ib. ; but in 1832 it t,tir -ct2,952.000i1). showing an increase of 183 per t th, ;, ' a eatnst an increase of twenty fur per cent. i on Tolatio n.—(Cheeling.) He took these at titres ' ' r e le e , t he Member for Oldham say what he plased, 17e"• 'R;,7,ltd their increased consumption an evidence of that th 4 m g prosp er i t y the people. H. maintained led "tit ernent showed that the people as a mass en el gteater n u • tnacoin torts over the of life th an us • um The rie n lin man added little or nothing to his t." 'NI of the necessaries and converts of life, on . ac t;tttvl,- o en h th r e educt..4l p f r l it i .e at t t e y r h .a ic .. h y :hey might be attained, a iII and employment was poor,to ge Wttla Ot " ri g the e f m it was then that those articles reach a vas; circle of persons who be hlt, ""t u . thiril to con,urr e them, and . would any man "tt oat this was not evidence of the increased coins i l'o;i'otue humbler classes? (Hear, heir.) He woub 4 ict 4e tte or two more material articles of consumption t o 'tlo e separ ate d from the preceding, because they Nely e?tporten, but an increase in which showed , O„ pi ' employment but probably an augmen ts, , h 11 , °'"e consumption. He referred to cotton, sheep, i i t 4 :l , tor t ' e - i s ilk. In 1820, 152,0001 b. of cotton wool were oo 4 11 • h ; 14 1 832 the imports amounted to 259,000,0 1.4 t Ler "se of 70 n r cent In 1820 the censurnp e„:ll4ess-,,iheePs' Wool w . it e s 9,778,0001 h. ,• 1832 it hail ti qt' t ° 27 666 000 lb an augmentation of 183 per th . ,: . , th aPa ' he ' had better not quote the article of tq tur,,4"uties having been so changed of late years. If is h e il ia t ° the health of the people, what did we find No s e a • • " i n the rate of t alit y w . a !' • A striking diminu 4 1 ,ta s , a 'thin the his. 50 yeirs. In 17 . 80 the atkimiquti° 1 in 40, in 1831 it was as 1 in 58, showing of 36 p:r cent. in the rate of mortality. He that was not al so an ev id ence t h a t th e con r, "s rt: . M a h e Peopl e h a d improved ? In adducing these t ta PI ,Y to th was more particul a rly a dd ress i ng hi mse lf i n g ich h at part of the Hon. Gentleman's speech in be2tated that the power of consumption of the O o 4 a °nly increased 11 per cent., while the popula atetl;illeereased 30 per cent. The documents he had ri ! es a ," ° wed the case to be very different. God knew' fte:'etted as much as any man that there should be ' l to ' 4 4 1 th and the rath,r as he feared it was st e Country' th e °° of affairs, to which we must submit p t rin e' l ame tim e be would be the first to advocate the l 'k%‘ - 'e that it was the bounden duty of Parliament in to 1 1 14i tY' re oltdy for that distress, anti that, vheneyer to be 4'tit4PPeat d likely to point out a remedy, it ought e To any inqu ry which seemed to hold out a 4 i of utility he would be the first to assent ; but he 1 ,,,k4t,,,the present peoposition because he considered . it_ t 4 s ' l4 its consequences—not because lie was deaf p et ' t k j . iY l. 4 distress—not because he would H not diminish ti '' .Pats t re it to th e u t mos t extent possible. . w '(,lt o „ t . o contend, and h e h o p e d to be able to show, th e t i . „ la t the co mm itt ee f or w hi c h t h e Hon. Member iU la hoe;" i eh l be fellowed •by such ruinous consequences to c O , l e Y fith'g class es as had never been infli c t e d in this or etl, 4t riss c "untry. The history of this and . of other i ' kit . 44. 1z °4 1(1 show that, however a depreciation of t i t o 'ir l i ol k 'g h t he beneficial to the debtor who wished to Ite t - t i ,glit ht." lawful obligation,—ho a ever advantageous i ° ' , l l l 4 . 1 the shopkeeper who sought to get rid b his 4, f g t ' h 4 , ,t ep a er r• - -, it would be most injurious to the la ou 'les, '"Ve classes of the community. He c .e ou t k e l tle, chasm th e w , t classes were favourabl sl Pre e i • " 1 ' of some go attota. H e bad an opportunity tio -It hat -'tarlee with the feelings of those classes, and, , 'to t , araii ne s all that he had beard from some curre a n l c i , o,t;elaset4i4fought to impress their notions tin others, and the d - --(i.', 4 4,,,,„e0in g i n ,h e peopl e , he was certain that . s e . `te '"y • if not adverse, to it. to ight 11°n• ere inu ..erent, ',AN;; I "I4 • A " : 4 Gentleman here took a view uf the s td ' t t l l n t iorls in the currency from 1527 to 1770, Preej,,, ar0o4::" that in all those cases distress was e eets u „ .°° Oce„. the workin 4 classes, for that the . de roe iri'les „11°°eil rise in the money value of the t th, o ,e "!' I without p ro d uc i ng a corres p on d ing , ato ee of g,to o f 4 l abour.) Mr. A. Smith, in speaking ov „. 'as the , a , ••s, re " Lb depreciation said—" The vrincipal -• • th o, minutataurers and labouiers 'oieh hy btr 'ld not seem sensible of and it was tia r i e °lil atoriaus---the debieement of the coin, t ' l 4 li t Pur e h 5 heyaridhose the same quantify of the net:es tate, a soda' no thin g to those who bad every thing Poo.d. 'gut oetit gto sell but their labour ." The very th . w " t iltl a v k i e lo g 0 h ... pp yto the depreciation now pi o- i spee:t as nee of lv • period from 1770 to 1816, they th e Arthur ng, a gentleman who had t4,ars ,r ,, , t , !) , to the Agricul ural Society, three 'Tages pi t ta y guinea into the prices of provisions and vutar. • . c " r dtng to his statement, it ap- 1 i Igeared that the wages of labour to agricultural labourers was le. 3.1. per day, or 7s. 61. per week, in the dire years endine 1770 ; but that the price of labour, waen depreciation was at It, atone, was ahoit 13s. 6.1. per w ee k hu• what in the mean time had be n the increase , in the prier of the necessaries of life? Some of them h d increased to 200 some to 300. and some to 400 per cent. Thus while wages bad risen only eb tut 100 per c-nt., the must common necessaries• of lit. had increased from 300 to 400 tier cent. The poor rates, which, in 1783, 1784, ofd 1785, hail 'wen li,t!• more than 2,000,0001. had, in 1815 increased 5,724.600/. being an incerase of 150 per cent. He now came to a periost of the erearest appr ec i a ti on , which was so much eorwleinned by the Honourable Member for Whitehaven. On this they-had the most conclusive evidence. They bad the tables of the prices of provisions and the rate of wages to mechanic,: in Greenwich Hospital, and they had the admi rable statistical tallies of Dr. Foreland, of GI ,SZOw. Dr. Freeland sated that in Glasgow, bet ween'lBl3 and 1815, the wages of mechanics were frein 2s. 6-1. to 3s. 9a. per flay, that of weavers from Is. 6d. to Is. 91. per day. In 1830 the wages of m,-chanics had not fallen, hut that of weavers had fallen (and this could be traced to other causes) to 11d, In the latter there was a fall of from 15 to 20 per cent. ; in the former no reduction ; but what had been the price of flesh and A tut.? There had been from 1813 to 1830 a fall of 77 and of 133 per cent. Brick layers in 1790 were paid 2s. 4d. per day ; in 1812, ss. sd. ; aria in 1830, 4s. 2.1. Thus since 1812 these had been a fail of only 10 per cent. on wages, while in tee setne tune there hail been a fall of 33 per cent. on provi sion,. These facts tame important to show that the wages of labour never rose in proportion to the money price of commodities, and more—what was most important to the working classes to know—that they at least would not gain by this plan of depreciation of the currency_ny the sa s tein of confiscation and public robtiery These were the words applied by the lion. Member (Mr. M. Attwood) to the Act of 1819, words which he (Mr. P. Tuarnson) would not admit to . apply to that Act, but which, if the Hon. Member did admit, he must also admit to result from his own proposition. He must admit, that who ever might have the shame of the measure, the working people, so far from deriving any benefit from it, would have incalculable misery entailed upon them. The doctrine now maintained by the Hon. Member was, that if once an inconvertible paper currency were established, we should never return to cash payments. That, be was sure, was a doctrine which would not find in my advocates in that House. He was glad, however, that it had been brought before Parliament, that it might be set at rest. It was said that the landed proprietors must suffer if this plan were not adopted, and that, of course, they must benefit by it ; but how ? Could lie be lieve that any man of honour would seek relief by paying olf all his fixed- engagemen's in a depreciated currency ? Would their rents be better paid in that currencey than in any other? But supposing their rents were raised, end that all other things were raised in proportion, could they purchase more of the enjoyments of life, than they could command at present? They could receive relief in no way but that which he believed every man of honour would spurn. Then, as to the manufacturers and shopkeepers how would it benefit them ? It would benefit them to the extent of their stock oe hand, and no more. That might ae to the extent of 5, or 10, or 20 per cent., or whatever might be the amount of the depreciation. Toat would be the work of a single day. When the next day be came to purchase, he would find that his condition wouol not be improved. Then, was there any other party who could derive a benefit from it but the deotor ; and why should the debtor be more an object of symp.kthy than the creditor ? The creditor it was generally who had amassed capital, and who had contributed to the increase of the notional wealth, while the debtor might have spent the money which he did not make. Why should a duff-rent measure be held out to on? more than toe other ? Who would accumulate property in the country, if he thought that, at the end of 50 years, when he ini e ht calculate on .enjoying the fruits of his industry, the Levis -I.ture might step in and reduce the value of his accumula tions one-half, anti that of a morbid sympathy for the poor debtor. There was much capital in the country which would always be applicable in it, but there was much :also that might be •ransferted : let the experiment Now pro posed In- once tried, and away would go a large mass of the capital which had tended so much to invigorate the industry and add to the resources of the country. Tnis was, in his opinion, the fair long-sigeted view of the ques tion. The quewion was one of depreciation or no depre ciation. The committee which the Han. Member called for once granted, that must follow (he would not say that it must necess oily follow as the result of that committee's act-). but in the minds of the public it must follow, and the effect mus be worse, trona the iact of the Hon. Mem ber leaving the extent of the oepreciation undefined. If he had sam that it would be 5, or 10, or 15 per cent., men would he prepared for the result ; but leaving it indefinite, be left them no ping to guide them. Every creditor in London would know it to-morrow, and what would be the coos.vence ? An Hun. Member had stated some time ago, that sucla was, the distress of the country, that every second or third house from Coar ing-cross to the Exchange coutained an insolvent. Suppose that to be the tact, what would the creditors ray when they found a proposition et this sant entertained and a: reed to by toe House? The creditor w,ulll go to his debtor and say, " Pay me at mince, or I shall sell all you p -saes.; and, though it 'nay be at a loss, that may be better than the Ind-finite loss which I may sustain by waiting to ob tain payment in a depreciated currency.—(He a r, hear.) I shall realm- what I can, and transfer it to a country where the principle of depreciation may not be so much in fashion."—(Hear, hear.) Wnat would be the situation of the B ink, if this Committee . were appointed? Was there a man who bad a Bank-note who would nut at once endeavour to turn it into cash, that he might as much as postible guard against the impending depreciation ? (Hear, bear.) Why, the ink would not be dried on tae papers which would give the report of their proceedings to the public, before the ceuntly would present a scene of general confusion.—(Hear, hear.) And for whom were all this confusion, and loss, and misery to be enacted ? Not for the benefit of the landed proprietors, for he had shown that it could be of benefit to them only in one way, of which no moan of honour would wish to t eke advantage: —not for the sake of the manufacturers and shopkeepers, for that the only advantage it would be to them would be in the sale of their stock in hand, which would soon be counterbalanced when t ey became purchasers—not for the advantage of the mechanics and I.buurers, for he had shown that so far from being a benefit, it would be to them a decided loss ;—not for the fundholder, fur lie would be plundered by it. The only party to whom it could be of any benefit was the debtor, for whom he con ceived that it would he absurd and grossly unjust to make such a change.—(Hear. hear.) There was only one point more on whick be would touch. It was said that this plan would cause a diminution of time pubic burdens ; but was there no other and no more legitimate way of dimi nishing those burdens? Would nut a reduction of taxation be a more direct and a more honest mode of relieving those burdens ? Arid had nothing been recently done in that way ? Upwards of 6,000,000/. had been reduced within the last four years, and relief had thus bean afforded to the people in a more upright and equitable manner than in the way suggested by the present motion, because the public creditor had not been deprived of that to which lie was fairly entitled. The Hon. Gentleman had given utterance to the oft- repeated fallacy that the creditor had gained enormously by die appreciation of money. He very much doubted the correctness of this assertion. Mr Musket had shown, as clearly as could be done by figures, that the public coeditor, instead of gaining by the appreciation of money, was, taking into consideration the loss he suffered during the depreciation, a loser to the extent of somewhere about 44,000/. a year. He, objected to the propositions of the 800. alamber, because he saw in them the complete derangement of the whole commercial and even social system of the country.—(Hear.) He be lieved that nothing but ruin and bankruptcy could follow their adoption, and the hiss o' that high name for honour and integrity which they at present possessed among the nations of Europe.—(Hear, hear.) If they could no longer bear the public burdens, or pay that which was due to the public creditor, he should say, " com pound with him, exhibit the state of your affairs, say that you are not able to pay the 28,000,000/. which he at present receives; but do not adopt that which was only a clumsy means of arriving at the same and, —which carried with it a complete disruption of all money contracts, and rendered insecure private and puolic credit—(Hear, hear) —which would reduce to beggary not only a few rich fundholders, as they were termed, but no less than 275,000 public creditors, who received dividends under 4001., and which would take the means of livelihood from the widox and the orphan." —(Hear, hear ) Let them avoid doing an act of that kina, not only because it would inflict on the country all the misery he had pointed out, but because in his con science he believed it would cause them to forfeit that which ought to be as dear to a nation as to an individual, a good name for honour and integrity.—(Hear, and cries of " Adjourn.") Oa the motion of Sir IL WILLOUGHBY, the debate was then adjourned tlll to-morrow. On the motion of Lord AIi4ORP, the House resolved into a Cointnitte , , when the resolutions relative to the re ductiuu of trixation moved by the Noble Lord on Friday last were reconsidered and agreed to. Lord G. SOMERSET wished to know when t he evidence taken before the Hertford Election Cornini , t,e would be printed. Mr. BERNAL sai I l:e had no control ov.r the pri n t in!l, hot a• the evidence wai not yet in the h Inds of Alemb , -ra, he propos , ' to no %' the suvension of :he isti iog of the writ fnr eight or ten f hys longer. Oa the mnti,n of Mr. G. LAMB, a meeet wa. appointed to inquire into the state & the pollee in the metropolis. o'er orders of the d.ty were then disposed of, 'Lod the House adjourned at halt -oast I o'clock. HOUSE OP LORDS. APRIL 22. On the E of SHAFTESBURY Viking hiS St-at on the wo-leack 4 few minute. before fives o'chtek, Mr. KENNEDY and odiers brought up the Se otch Ex chequer Bill, a Bill for making a railway from Warrinv,ton and Birmingham, and the Pilora in Ireland Bid. Toe Earl of RADNOR presented a petition from Rom ney,in Kent, for the ab dition of slavery. The Bishop of GLOUCES rEn presented several peti• !ions from Gloite,stershire, praying for the Ip.tter Misery. ante of the S obath. The Duke of GORDON presented petitions against slavery, and for the better observance of the Sibbath, from several places. Also a petition from the University of A ierdeen against the Apothecaries' Act. A NOBLE Limn presented a petition from St. James's, Westminster, for the repeal of the house and window tax. Tire Earl of RODEN presented petitions from nume rous places, for the Aolition of slavery, and for the better observance of the Sabbath. Lord POLTIMORE presented petitions from Oak liampton for the abolition of slavery and the better obser vance of the Sibb ith. The Etri of ROSEBERRY preunted petitions from Haddington against church pitronage. The Marquis of SLIGO presented a ptition from Ash ford, in Hertfordshire, for the abolition of slavery. To e Doke of RICHMOND presented petitions to the s , :me eff,ct tram Sh ,, rborne and Bognor. Lord ELLENBOROUGH presented a petition from E. Fowler, an individual who bad brought actions against one of the present Members for Stafford, against the Stafford Bribery Bill. Ell t GREY presented petitions praying for the aboli tion of negro s!avery. NEGRO SLAVERY. Lord SUFFIELD stated teat he had about 50 petitions to present for the abolition of colonial slavery, but before he did so he wished to make a few observations. The House would re collect that shortly before the recess he alluded to certain rumours that were spread abroad of its being the intention of his Maj-sty's Government to &lay bringing forwent some measure for the entire and total eman cipation of the slaves. He represented to the House at the time the consternation he felt at such rumours, and he predicted that the consternation which influenced his mind, would be felt throughout the coun try. He had been a true prophet. Meetings were held in every part of Great Britain and Ireland, attended by hundreds anti thousands of persons, who appointed Deputies to come to London, and to represent to his Ma jesty's Government personally the feelings that influenced their constituency. Toose meetings were held in the most remote parts of the country, as well as in the great cities and Lawns. They were held in Dublin, Cork, Belfast, and many other places in Ireland. They were held at Glasgow, Paisley, and Edinburgh, at Gloucester, Manches ter, Leeds, and Sheffield, and, in short. lie beli-ved, in every large town in the United Kingdom. The Deputies ar rived in town, and on Friday last, the 19th of the present month, they presented to his Majesty's Government string of eesolu ions, accompanied with a memorial, and it was, as he conceived, so int, resting and so instructive a document, explaining, as it did, the feelings of the vast populous districts on this subject, that he thought it very desirable that a correct copy of it should be placed in their Lordships' hands. He therefore pro posed, if his Majesty's Government had no objection, That an humble address be presented to his Majesty, to direct that there be laid before this House a copy of the resolutions, and the memorial addressed to Earl Grey and his Majesty's Government, anti to the Secretary for the Colonial Department, on Friday, the 19th instant, bycer tain deputies from various parts of the United Kinetioni, relative to the ebolition of slavery." The Nobie Lord be lieved it to be, a most unprecedented occurrence, the send ing of deputies from various parts of the kingdom on such a subject. Now, in what way would the force of this oc currence be diminished ? Why, by a representation io the newspapers, that this deputation was—instead of being a deputation of 339 persons from different parts of Eng! and, Ireland, and Sco land—a deputation from the Anti-Slivery Society. He had no doubt that some newlavers mode that representation from inadvertence, hut that others did it to depress the value of sucti an occurrence he had as little doubt. He (the Noble Lord) could only -ay that of the individuals who waited on his Majesty's Government on Friday last there were no meinners of the Anti- Slavery Society with one single exception—he meant a Member of the House of Commons, who was solicited to introduce these persons to Mr. Stanley, the Colonial Secretary. Earl GREY said that as far as be was concerned indi vidually, he bad not the slightest objection, provided there was mare In point of form, to cilia being done. The do cument purported to be a memorial addressed to himself and the rest to tars Majesty'. Gov , rnarenr, and hr (11,1 not remetnner that anything that was not in the nature of a public paper could be called lor to he laid upon the table of that House--( Hear).—and still less did he remember that it a null be done in the way of an Address to his Majesty; that was the only difficulty he felt about rt.-- He would state, however, that the memorial was very ably drawn up, and very well deserving of attention. The per sons who brought it up were of a very respectable descrip tion, as had been stated by the Noble Earl ; and he be lieved it was signed by a great portion of his Majesty's subjects. He would leave it to the House to decide upon it, as he had personally no objection whatever to the copies of it being made. Lord ROLLE said he wished the slave every comfort, and w.s anxious to see something done by his Majesty's Government to settle the question. Lord ROSSLYN thought that the memorial ought to be considered as a private letter, and conceived that the production of the document would be inconvenient. The Marquis of LANSDO\VNE thought it might be produced as d privat, letter. Lurd ELLENBOROUGH said it was the ex-parte statement u. the Auti slavery Socie , y, awl the object was only to save that Society the expense of printing. Lord SUFFIELD denied it. L ,ref ELLENBOROUGH said if this memorial were printed by the public, a counter-memoriil must also be printed. &ill GREY had no objection to the production of the memorial, provided it could he done consistently with the forms of the House. The motion was then put and negatived. HIS Lordship had to present petirions for the total and immediate extinction of slavery from B idmin, W.ltham Abbey, Langley, in Sussex, Oxford, Aldborough, and from 50 other places. The Marquis of SALISBURY presented a petition from Spalding, in Yorkshire, in favour of the Factory Bill. Lord MELBOURNE discharged the order of the day for the second reading of the Irish Jury Bill, and fixed it for To ursday next. The DuKe of RICIINIOND moved for a return of all ecelesiawical property in Ireland —Granted. The Archbishop of DUBLIN presented petitions against the Irish Church Reform Bill, from the Clergy of Cork, Waterford, and other places. On the motion of the Most Rev. Prelate, the petition from Niter ford was read. The Marquis of CLANRICARDE said, that although the petition came from the Church, it did not appear to hint to have any prayer. STAFFORD BRIBERY BILL. The Earl of RADNOR admitted that the present measure was not accompanied, like those to which he had just referred, by a propo s ition of di s f ranc his e m en t ; out he thought that their Lordships ought not on that account . to reject it. The Bill was found e d on th e no t o ri e ty of gross and abominable bribery existing Stafford. He understood that at the last elction there were three candi dates fur the representation of that borough, and that the return of one of the successfal candidates was petitioned against on the alleg:iion of bribery. He had, however, good reason for believing that this proceeding was a mere ruse de guerre, fur the purpose of getting some portion of the defeated candidates' expenses paid. He knew that, on a former occ,sion, a gentleman who sorted for the repre sentation of Stafford with every prospect of success up to the day before the election commenced,—having received promises of support from more than two-thirds of the voters, --waa, notwithstanding, defeated by an individual not at all connected with the place. The reason of this was, that this last gentleman spent 14,0001. in the election, while the other candidate could only spare 6,5001 ; end it was ac tually a fact that the voters in the interest of the more wealthy candidate went to the poll with bank-notes in their bats; and t aun t ed t h e i r opponents with receiving only Birmingham counterfeits, while they got teal bank nots:s —(Hear.) A petition was presented against the succe sful candidate, but upon his agreeing to pay down 3,000/. alt further investigation was stilled. This having occurred on a foimer occasion, he could not but think that something of the came sort was intended on.the present occasion. Be that as it might, after the presentation of the petition now before !he other House, two gentlemen, who 1 - 1.. d been engaged in the election, cared on Mr. re, with whom the present Bill originated, and stated that out of 526 elect , rs , vh o voted for one of the sucress ul candidat , s, 524 received brib-s of money. Those gentlemen, in corroboration of their statements, pro duced several !noney tickets which had been presented to the vote's, and he held in his hand a further ii.oof of the truth of their representation ; that w a s nothing ehe than the poll l_nol; of the votes in fa vour of the successful candidate ; and he found only two names on' of 526 to which the let era p. d. were not attaehed. conceived pi 0 that t- a t fist butt turnip, there. tl'ot'tehe 'v E beginning er el'utd t?f the book wntosiL h n'fY e found the word " pa.d" writ'en in full, and in some parts of it the sums actually p a id—sometimes 101., at others 121, were enter.d..: (Hear, hear.) This was such an abominab'e case of bri bery and corruption, that it behoved their Lord hips not to refuse dealing with i ; and he could not help thinking that they would not be acting wi-ely or with graciousne.s ',wards the 11-4u. , e of Commons if they did not assist in eradicating this evil. Ile had documents in his possession which stowed that all parties agreed upon the necessity rooting out this system of corruption, and disfranchising the borough.—(The Noble Earl here read certain resolu tions, ag , ead to by a number rf gentlemen in Stafford, admitting the prevalence of the grossest system of bribery in that borough ; and an extract from a letter written hy the Mayor, who was Returning-officer of the borough, in which it was stated that bribery had been so long prac tised in the place that it had almost assumed the character of a prescriptive right. The letter concluded by stating that the borough exhibited manifest symptoms of its politi cal death, and that the sooner it was dead and buried the better, provided the cost was not great to the chief mourners.—(Laughter.) The N,,ble Earl then moved the second reading ,f the Bill. Lord WYNFORD ohj..eted to this Bill, because it was not like firmer Bills of a similar nature founded on an inquiry previously instituted by the House of Commons. They were asked by the Bill to declare that the borough of Stafford was grossly corrupt. In his opini. , n the same character might justly be given to nine-tenths of the boroughs in England; and 11,t expected that this would be th e ca-e when the el, ctive franchise was given to that class of persons to whom votes were of no value, unless they were permitted to sell them. He always thought that the effect of the Reform Bill would be to put up to sale the repre-entation of the country, and that expectation had been confirmed by what passed at the late election. The Nohl , ! and Learned Lord concluded by moving . , that the second reading of the Bill be postponed, and proposing an amendment to the effect just mentioned. Lord ELLENBORdUGH should move, in order to allow time to maturely consider how they might prove the preamble of the Bill, that the second reading be po:tponed till to-morrow. The LORD CHANCELLOR thought that the course propoeil by the Noble Baron was well worthy the con sideration of the House. He did not altogether agree with his Noble and Learned Friend, in hiving this meter referred to a secret committee, at which no person save their Lordships and the witness under examination would be present, the witnesses would be exempt from all chance of prosecution ; for if their Lordships should he applied to, eitlnT at the instance of the prosecutor or of the Court before which the trial was to take p'ace, for the production of the evidence taken before them, and if their Lordships should consent to the pro duction of such evidence, that evidence being so produced, must necessarily lead to the conviction of• the parties who gave it. The chance was, however, small, he admitted, that the production of such evidence would either be asked for or permitted by their Lordships. He might, therefore, agree wit'i his No , de and Learned Friend that it would be a safe course to shape the investiga , ion as he had recommended. His N ,ble and Learned Friend had said that this Bill was a novelty. He admitted it to be a novelty ; but his amendment, if carried, would he quite as much of a novelty; for no such secret committee as that for which his Nehle and Learned Friend was now contend ing had ever yet been appointed by their Lordships. To satisfy themselves, therefore, and to see whether any other and better mode of condoc:ing this inv..stigation could be devised, the best course was to adopt the proposition of the Noble Baron—to suspend the second reading. for the present, and to let this matter stand over for a day or two. In common fairness to the Reform Bill, he thought that his Noble and Learned Friend ought not to have said that the recent htibery at Stkffoid had reference to that most salutary measure, as be deemed it, the last Reform Bid. The worst instanc , es of bribery ever known had taken place before the last Reform 1341 was even heard of. In jostification of that remark, lie would merely mention an incident that had occurred some years ago in this very borough of Stafford. Os one occasion its electors had marched up to the hustings with cock ides of bank-notes in their hats, thus giving an ostentatious proof of their profligacy. II- rather thought the class of electors which was most open to bribery was not of the creation of the Reform Bill, but existed before it. He alluded to the freemen who existed before the Reform Bill, and whose rights that i w na e n re ; c r i e r s y e r o v; d b themunder borough in the empire h eha d t he 101. not heard house holders—the creation of the Reform Bili—had 11:d them selves open to the charge of corruption. In conclusion, he suggested that his Noble Friend should suspend his mo ion, and his Learned Friend his amendment, for a few days, and that they should then come down to the House in a situation to perform th it duty to the country at large, to the borough of Staff .rd, and to the House of Commons, wnieh had sent up this Bill to their Lordships. The debate was then adjourned till Friday next. The House then adjourned. SUPPRESSION OF THIS TRADES POLITICAL. UNION. (From the Dublin Freeman's Journal.) BY THE LORD LIEUTENANT GENERAL AND GENERAL GOVERNOR OF IRELAND. A PROCLAMATION ANGLESEA, Whereas oy an Aot passed in the third year of his M. i j e sty's reign, intituled, " An Act for the more effectua suppression of local disturbances and d ingerous associa tions in Ireland," it is, amongst other things enacted, that it shall he lawful for the Lord Lieutenant, or other chief governor or governors of Ireland, at any time after the passing of the said Act, and from time to time, during the continuance thereof, as occasion may require, by his or their order, in writing, of which public notice shall be given, to prohibit, or suppress, the meeting of any asso ciation, assembly, or body of persons, in Ireland, which he or they shall deem to be dangerous to the public peace or s %fey, or inconsistent with the due administration of the I.w, and by the same, or any other order, also to prohibit every or any adjourned, renewed, or utherwi-e continued meeting of the same, or of any part thereof, under any name, pretext, shift, or device, whatsoever. And wh•reas a certain association, known by the name of The N itional Trades' Political Union," has for some time past existed, and s ill exists, in Ireland. Now we, the Lord L , eutenant General and General Governor of Ireland, deeming the said association, called " The National Trades' Political Union," to be dangerous to the pudic peace and safety, and inconsistent with the due administration of the law, do, by this our order, in writing, prohibit and suppress every meeting of the said association, and we do further, by this cur order, prohibit every, and any adjourned, renewed, or otherwise con tinued meeting of the said association, or any part thereof, under any name, pretest, shift, or device whatsoever. Given at his 11Iajsty's Castle of Dublin, the 17th day of April, 1833. By his Excellency's command, WM. GOSSET. God save the Kine. THE WEA T weather has for some !brie been e xt reme ly severe f or thi s p er i o d, and un propitious to v e g e t a ti on usua lly l oo k e d f ur i n th e month o f April. The wind coining from the north-west has pro duced a coldness in the atmosphere suitable to winter. On Friday afternoon the streets of this city were covered with hail of considerable thickness, and repeated violent squalls occurred, accompanied by heavy rains. This morning, about half-pasteight, there was one truly awful, approach ing an hurricane, but its duration was limited, and its course confined chiefly to the southern side of the city, little of it having been expetiencel on the northern, by the coaches, which shortly atter arrived from that direc tion.—Cork Chronicle of Monday. HOW TO GET MARRIED.-A young woman, named MARIA BENSON, residing at Swaffham, in this county, lately charged a waggon e r, na me d BvFotto, with being the father of a child of which she all gal alit was enciente. BY7ORD absented himself from home, and the child was sworn to him in his absence. on Friday he was taken iran custody, and an investigation then took place before the Magistrates, to whose surprise it turned out that the girl was not, nor ever had been, in the con dition she represented. On being asked her reason fur her conduct, she repli e d, w i th a s i mper, that she b a d only done it to get the young man to marry her. The Maos trate,' discharged the young man, and committed the lan guishing girl for trial oil a charge of perjury. —Gatnbr idye Press. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The House of Commons was occupied with the motion of Attwood. If the currency members of that assembly possessany talent, their extraordinary failure in debate, last night, must be ascribed to a cause for which no talent could compensate. Never, in Parliamentary history, do we remember a motion brought fee ward with so little a h;hiey, a nd supported with so slender a show of re +son. In the speech of the Hon. Mover, which occupied nearly • three hours and a half in the delivery, there was not a single areument or a statement which had not been ad varmed, explained, or refuted, a thousand times before. All that we could say of the Hon. Member w a s, th at if was not a convincing, he was a striking speaker ; and that, judging; froM his manual vehemence, he must have mad e deep impression on the table, if not on his audience.* Lord Althnrp displ eyed his acknowledged, direct, straight-forward understanding and manly sense, in de tecting the sophistry, demolishing the reasoning, and resisting the propositions of the currency party. Seeing how often the country had been before agitated by such useless discussions, and being convinced that nothing but rni,chief cou'd result from allowing any doubt to remain any longer respecting the opinion of the fir+t reformed Parliament on so momentous a question, his Lordship, not satisfied with the order of the illy, or the previous question, got rid of the original motion by introducing as a substitute the following most salutary and necessary resolution :—" That it is the opinion of this Hause that any alteration in the monetary system of this country which would have the effect of lowering the standard of value is highly inexpedient." Never was answer more triumphant than that of Lord Althorp, though none was ever more plain and unpretending. His amendment was seconded in an able speech by Mr. Grote, the city Member, and a debate of souse length ensued, which was adjourned to this day. We can not,ef course, antic•pate the precise numbers who will support the original motion, but, judging from the apparent feeling of the House, the currency minority will not be formidable. It has been suggested that the Spit eker should put the question, " Let the debtors say, Aye," and " Let the creditors say, No ;" but as we cannot suopo.e that debtors to any amount exist in the ILn. Mouse, probably there may be no division at all. W 0 defer some intended remarks on the debate till to-morrow. or the end of the discussion.— Times. • A reporter, who had some curiosity and a few minutes to spare, timed the Hon. Member's thumps upon the table, and found that the Hon. Member inflicted no less than 200 knocks in a quarter of an hour. At this rate Mr. Attwood must have struck the table no less than 3,000 times in the course of his speech. Few orators have ever before made so many hits in so short a space of time—and the ‘' poorfu" preacher, who 'clanged the inside out of six Bibles in the course of a year's preaching, was nothing to Mr. Attwood. The public will he much disappointed with Mr. M. Attwood's speech as the House evidently was. Af w touches addressed to the landlords, with whom the far mers and agricultural labourers, for .he sake of decency, were lumped, could hardly fail to be well received by the owners of land : but on the whole it was an unsuccessful effort. He succeeded in showing that the return to cash payments was productive of great injury to individuals ; but though all his arguments pointed to another deprecia tion, be did not show how the transference of property from one el iss to another would aplrl to the national pros perity.. A bank restriction (fir a depreciation supp sea a restriction) would raise the nominal value cf land, and lower the value of the mortgages on it, so that landlords would uunquestionably gain by depreciation. All who owe more than others owe to them, would gain by depreciation. But the loss woul I be ex..ctly proportion to to the gain —as one bucket went d own another would go up. The t ixes would, of course, pr ss less heavily ; hut as 500 000 fundhol lers, besides the civil servants of the stare, and our army and navy. are receivers of taxes, their loss would not be a pure and unmixed benefit to the nation. Lord Althorp at once tsruied the course recommen.led, a course of confisca tion and robbery, and he was loudly cheered fry the House. ‘• The Hon. Member (said his Lordship) would restore the Bank restriction system, so that everything on which tee contracts of the country now depend, would be afloat. He would place in the h Inds of a commercial body, the power of saying what every man in the country should be worth—be would enrich rote, hut impoverish another— he would do that which must inevitably produce a state of confusion, and what would be the effect of that confusion, but a great increase of the very calamity he now deplores ?" His Lordship observed, what all who remember the period of the restriction know to be the fact, that the labour ing classes are the great sufferers from depreciation. In % fact, we may say, that the far greater part of the prosperity which some other classes (eel (luting a restriction, is at the expense of the poor labourers. To the depreciation we wee the accursed system of paying able•hodied workmen out o( the poor-rates. The poor-rates increased fearfully during the period of the depreciation; and we are inclined to think with Lord Althorp. that if the paor-rates have in some cites increased since the return to cash payments, a bad admi nistration of the poor laws has something to do with pro ducing this effect, because during the depreciation of the currency, the poor. rates were regularly progressive all over England ; whereas since the return to cash payments, the increase has been in the South, and not in the North.. " How is it (said his Lordship) that while in the North tyre poor laws have been a blessing, in the South they have been an evil? And yet the momentary system is the same in both places." His Lordship concluded with moving an amendment, " That it is the opinion of the House that any alteration of the monetary system of the country which would have the effect of lowering the standard of value, wou d be highly inexpedient." The an nouncement of this amendment was received with loud cheering on all sides. Mr. Grote, who seconded the am-ndrnent, took the bull by the horns, for he questioned the first proposition of Mr. Attwood, on which al his system was founded—the existence of greater distress since than before the passing of Peel's Bill. One fact stated by lion was not to be easily me. —namely, that the average of bankruptcies of fourteen years front 1819, was 1,765 per annum ; while for the fourteen years from 1808 to ISIS it was 1,964, though the number of traders was much greater now than at the former period. Mr. Grote referred to the increased con sumption of tea, sugar, and other necessaries, in proof the well-being of the country ; though he admitted that par ticular classes were suffering severely, as there always had been in this great country partial distress and suffering. There can be no doubt that for a while depreciation give• a sort of unnatural vigour. While prices are rising every man is eager to purchase, and money can be e tsily obtained. But this vigour does not last long ; and in the mean time the people with fixed incomes and the working classes are subjected to great privations. The suffering of the labourers during periods of depreciation was shown in an able and masterly manner by Mr. l'oulett Thomson, to whose speech we can only now refer our readers, but to which we shall revert to-morrow. The debate was ad journed to this day.—Morning Chronicle. Though Lord Althorp is naturally a man of candour, he can sometimes fence with a political opponent or a poli tical question on the old Tory plan, and resort to the Tory trick of evasion when his cause is too weak for direc• argument. Take the instance of Mr. M. Attwood's motion last night. That motion was simply for inquiry, upon the undeniable ground of the existence of great and increasing distress. In the course of his reasoning Mr. Attwood explained his views of liar monetary system, ant! the effect of the ruinous measure called " Peel's Bill," upon the whole financial and commercial operations of the kingdom. His views upon those subj cis may be peculiar. they may be even erroneous, but they formed no part re his motion ; they were not even essential parts of his argument; for they might be denied, controverted, and scattered to the winds, without in the slightest degree affect ing the force of the main consideration—namely, the duo tress which prevails from one end of the country to the other, and which cannot be disputed by any man who h a s head or heart enough to understand the symptom, and workings of national or individual suffering The speech of Lord Althorp, however, was di rected to those comparatively unimportant topics in Mr. Attwood's appeal, with scarcely an allusion to the rca motion, or to the undeniable fact upon which its necessity was founded. It is far from our wish to underrate any of the arguments so powerfully inculcated by Mr. Attwood, but we cannot consider it in any other light than as an evasion of the qu e stion at issue to grapple with him a• Lord Althorp and some others of his opponents did la, night on his peculiar views of finance, omitting or slurring over that which was the paramount consideration—the actual state of the country. We repeat that the questio. is whether the state of the country be or be not such as to demand immediate inquiry, and that men, whose views are the most opposed either as to the cause or the cure o the existing evils, are equally bouud to vote for inquiry i they can only agree in thinking that s ome thi ng oug h t to be done. It is in vain to contend that the adoption of Mr. Attwood's motion would he tantamount t , the adoption of all his opinious on the monetary prevalent Saunf sufficient system. It would not pledge the House to any one of h;s cp i ire n en ci pt u a inquiry needful. ttaoio (i1ie,,,,,„ the , ot reformedfo ea thesene aHri factso ,:t,1.?. opinions upon any one subject exc.-pt that distress was of e There Commonss ponied debate. but we will not fothode such evil to the country as to anticipate the loss of the motion. It it I. an object with our representatives to be able to look thei• constituents in the face, they cannot—we c ontend (or they cannot—refuse to investigate the causes of the pre- PRICE OF CANDLES. fhe price of Store Candles, in the retail shops, is as follows l'andles,per doz. 7s. old. to 84. Od. Moulds, per dozen -9s. C 'AL MARK. Per Ton. S. d. Chester 14 4) Kist rerey Elebhurn Main Ifi 0 4olywell 17 0 Kenton West 15 6 ,oath ffolywell 13 antiel4). West Hartley 17 0 Walls End Brown's„....—. 15 6 W:411 • Ent Callerton .. 13 6 Walls End Gosforth IS 6 Walls End Heaton l7 6 Walls End Hilda 16 3 Ditto Killingworth Ditto Northumberland 17 8 Walls End Perkins &Co 16 6 Ships arrived since Per Ton. Walk End Riddell's Walls End Walker --.ls Walls End Hetton --. Walla End Ly0n5.,...,,.,,,,,, 17 W. E. Russell's Hetton_ 19 Walk End Stewart';..,,.._ 19 Walk End Gordon..._ 17 W. E South Durham.. 10 Walls End Tees --.. 19 Llangennech Coal., 20 Merthyr Silkstone Field and Co.— 15 Stone Coal Trimsaran -- 19 Stone Coal Milford Vein— 30 Walls End Elgin 15 last market.day, 20. NEWCASTLE CORN MARKET-April2o,. _ New. Old. kVite:t, Northumberland 40s 5t5....... —s —s.' Norfolk and SLIM)Ik 50s. fiOs lierwick and Scotch 18s. 53s Foreign —s. —s . Rye, Norfolk and Suffolk als. 38. Foreign :Vs. 35s Barley, Malting, Norfolk and Suffolk... 2,35. 32s Grinding and Feeding "Os. 244 . Halt, Norfolk and Suffolk .50s. Stis Beans, Small -e. .....8 s. 28s. ' Tick —s. —s. 2ss. Ws. Pease, White 15s. 3tls —s. .....A. Gray its 30s _ 6, ....11. Oats, Northumberland, Potatoc ...... ...Ills 21s --- Feed IN !Ss Foreign ....5. —s Flour, Fine (per sack) -a. ....41 THE BUDGET.—We are very much indebted to the public-spirited proprietor of The Sun daily Even. ing Paper, who last night favoured us with a copy of his journal by special express, containing the speech of the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER on bringing forward the Budget. We instantly published the particulars in handbills, which were extensively circulated in the mar ket on its commencement, and throughout the town and neighb ,urhood by seven o'clock this morning. We are sorry to observe the announcement that the public had so little to expect, gave general dissatisf , ctinn. That out of an annual taxation of 46 millions, payable in a gold cur rency, Lord ALTHORP, in his bounty, proposes to relieve the admitted distresses of the country by a remission of cer tain taxes t the amount of 1,349,0001., and his Lordship is only enabled to make this reduction in the forlorn " hope" there will be an excess of income over the expenditure in the current year to cover that amount. The taxes required to be repealed, according to the demands of the people, ex pressed in their petitions and at all their public meetings, are the malt, hop, soap, house, and window duties, amounting to about ten millions. Lord ALTHORP asks them to be satisfied with the repeal of the taxes upon tiles, a small reduction upon advertisements, marine insurances, a modicum of the assessed taxes, and a proportion of capon and soap duties, to the amount of 1,349,000/. This Budget may spread satisfaction amongst the tax-eaters, the idoers, and the people of the Consolidated Pool ; but it must and will spread disappointment and dismay amongst the decaying landlords and their drooping tenantry, the industrious but half-ruined merchants, shopkeepers, and mechanics, and the already starving ag•icultural and manufacturing population. But, above all, if this is in deed the only relict from taxation the people are to obtain from a reformed Parliament, how, and where, and when ire all these parties to seek and obtain that real redress of grievances to which they are so justly entitled, and which was supposed the inevitable result of a Whig Ministry and a reformed Parliament.—Reading Mercury. THE DIS-UNITED SERVICE JOURNALS. —This is a glorious time for the great Half:paid—there are no less than four periodicals devoted peculiarly to the services ashore and afloat, besides other indirect ch innels (as the Metropolitan) for milit ry and naval communi cation. " Adventures"—" Autobiographies"—"Personal Narratives"—" Recollections" " Reminiscences"—and " Sketches" of all sorts, are in great r. quest. There is scarcely a drummer but gets his ten guineas a sheet from the magazines, or his penny-a-line from the newspapers. The very trumpeter forgets to " blow his own trumpet," fir be is writing "an article" for Mr. CoLzuxN. The Corporal' holds forth on corpora/ punishment, and the Quarter master—though not a quarter master of his sub. ject—" takes up his pen to inform us." As for the coins• mis-ioned officers, they are positively at a premium. T sir warlike blades are worked up into Perryian p Files o' newspapers take place of files of men. Hostile Columns, guiltless of blood, are arrayed in typograpeical opposit 00, and martial adversaries blow one another up in powderless Magazines. There is scarcely a man who has ever smelt gunpowder who does not now fight his battles o'er again." As for ourselves, we are as familiar with every event of the Peninsular War es with the I4st Marylebone election, and we are become no sapient in nau tical affairs, that we are retie) , to supplant Admiral Sae roams at a moment', notice—nay, if my Lord Geer should make it a personal favour, we will nut hesitate to tike the command of the combined squadrons in tee Me ,iiteraneao.—The Town. prising I H n is the m p a a j r e i s s t h y,s of s_i i eva r r i io s ni ti r n, Fse S ia u cn i ne o dr lk L c i o tii n e, there : i ; a 1 : ( 1 , 1 500 acres, and a population of 500 clergyman,au re sLietatia,:rn.ttnßoifaehptoritpb.,y. rat c:a curate eAw divine hßou s ervi ce ves ian i s a o e sa rw ly o ni p ei off.--Poor once BASTAAD, ~ just arrived from Ma ts• r tttg revers sail of the line, an ti lotty tiatispuct., in Vie Alediterranean, Falmouth Pucka. ) . t 7 /7 ...--. sent cal imitY. It is no answer to a suffering people eallitig out for relief to tell their, that lowering the value of the standard, or any other financial experiment, would be i n j u ri o us. This may be a good answer to Mr. Attwood in the Committe., but it is no answer to the people of England, standing at the doors of Parliament, not as a set of theorists a!vottating this or the other doctrine, bu 34 a b tnd of real sufferers calling for practical redress. The people ask for inquiry, and it is no answer to them to any that they shall not have a paper cu•rency. Tire adjournment of the debate looks like a struggle of life and death o n the part of Ministers. It is a struggle in which more thin the fate of Ministers is likely to be decided. W e look to it for a decision on the popularity of the House of Commons itself.--liforrting Herald. LONDON MARKETS. BREAD. The highest price of PRICE OF Bread in the Metropolis is Q. tot the Ob. Loaf. There are others who sell from Yid. to lYid. b'ttst" that price. PRICE OF SEEDS.-April New English lied Clover Seed (per Cwt.) 388. 545. fine 60s. 70s• Old Ditto Ditto____ -s. -G. fine --8. -8. --s. 50s fine 603. 661. --s. 48d. fine 6'l 40s. 565. fine 60s. fißs. -3. 455. fine -s. 604. 225. 2ls. fine 303. 358. )id Ditto - -s. -s. fine •••/• Rib Grass las. 20s. fine 223. 265. English Carraway -& -.4i. 70s. fine 744. F'-,reign Ditto -4i. 70s. fine 734. Its. fine 14f, St. Foin 465. 4e,. fine 50s. 548; Eye Grass . -s. •-sl. new 265. 40it.: Pacey Ditto 425. 48s. nett Linseed, for feeding -s. 503. fine -.1. 568. Ditto, for Canary Seed, New -s. -.s. 60s fine "itto Old --s. -s. fine White Mustard Seed -(per --43. 9s. lOs. fine -s. Brown I)itto . 20s. 245. fin few Foreign Diti Old Ditto -...... Nrew White Clove] Old Ditto Diti , lew Trefoil . turnip Seeds, Rounds —s....s. 18s. fine 20z.- Green and Red Ditto ....—.............. —s. —s. Its. tine 214: fares, Old Ditto New —s. 6s. fine tis. .9CL Rare Seed, English, tine (per Last) 241. 161. —,..... Foreign 23/. kVi, ?BACKS OF HOPS.—April 22. Kent Pockets 5l 12s. 7,10 s. to 9'. Os. SU?sex Ditto Frsex Ditto,., Ol. 0,. 0/. 0, to 0/. Os. caret ham Ditto, Fine,....... 01. Os. 121. Os. to 13/ Os. —..--- Seconds ................., 01. Os. 10/ 10s to 11 , 11 s. Kent ISags--..--- 5l 108. 71 Os to 7, 101. Sussex Ditto !-:ssex Ditto— 0/. Os O/ OR t.` 0/ OS PRICE OF OIL. ipe Oil, brown Os. Refined Linseed Oil I..nseed Oil Cako at the Mill, per thousand , iat , e Cake, per ton iii 10 5 0 rlt ICE OF PO l'ATroEN.—April 2•2 Kidneys (York) 31. 10s. to 4/. us. per ton, Scotch Iteds 21. 15s. to 31. ss. ditto. Marsh Champions 3l. 10s. to 41. Os. ditto. Oxriobles and Shaw' 21. 104 to 31. 0,. ,t,ttn. WHITECHAPEI. HAY MARKF.T.—ApriI2O. flay 504. Od. to 75i. Od. (lover 141. t.• OS. Od. •4t Od. to 2ati. ad r' It I tjES UP Per lb. d. to d. Butts, English 14-11 '22 Ditto, Foreign 14 19 Dressing Ht4es 12 15 Ditto i3 15 Ditto, light Crop Elides, light 12 12 Dato--..40 to 601 b 13 161 )t to IS 18 Lk.A Per lb. d. to a. English Horse Hides,. 12 16 Spanish Ditto le `2,2, Per dozen. Calf Skint... SO .o 4i kb. 13 Ditto ~ft.. 50 to 7111 b. Ili Ditto 70 to SOlb. 20 Small Seals, Greenland 17 L..rg- ditto....-.- 19. SHEEP SKINS. Best Polled 75. Od. to 108.01 Half-bred 5......... 6s. Od. to 7s. 6d. I Middling Polled 5 0 7 0 Downs—.....— 4 8 5 0 PRICE OF TALLOW, SOAP, Ste. per ilea,. fown 'fallow ......—............. 51s. fid. Yellow 50ap—...—...........625. (d. Yellow Russia.,,. —....... 47g. Od. Mottled .........—.........,—... 70s. ire. White 45e. 6J. White............—..................... 7.25. ird. Soap Uitto 44g. Od. Graves ----................. ltig. Ni Melted Stuff 37g. Od. Good Dregs ............-- sg. Od. 1),,t0 rroire,h ..2.1A. NI. PRICE OF RAW FAT, per stone of tilh. Price of Tallow (as stated by the Tall,v