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ronet, and observed, that as to the objection about the bu siness being done under the presidency of another person besides the Speaker, he did not think it ought to have any weight, considering the importance of the questions of supply discussed when the Chairman of Committees was in the chair. Sir T. FREMANTLE wished the House rather to adopt his plan of meeting at three o'clock, and devoting from that time till half-past five to the • consideration of private business and petitions. The plan of meeting at twelve o'clock would be most inconvenient. Hon. Mem bers would then have no opportuntty of considering and answering the letters which they received upon public business. —(Hear, hear.) The House would, besides, suffer from the want of the presence of the Ministers ; for though the Noble Lord opposite said he would attend at one o'clock. that would not be sufficient, for the Noble Lord, to whose courtesy and attention all the House were much indebted, could not possibly undertake to answer questions put with respect to other branches of the Go vernment. He objected, too, to the plan, because it would male the House sit while Committees up stairs were sit ting. Now those Committees were often composed of the most important Members of the House, who would not like to be absent, and who yet could not be in two places at once. If a division came on, they must hasten from the Committee rooms to divide on a question of which they had not heard a word, or else they would be liable to the supposition of having been absent from their duty. Mr. LITTLETON objected to the plan of having peti tions presented when the Chairman of the Committees was in the Chair ; for he feared that there would be neither such an attendance, nor such if any one but the Speaker himself presided, though he was anxious to say, that during the twenty years' experience which be (Mr. Litt'.eton) had ad in that House, be had never seen any one who bad discharged the duties of his office with more attention, courtesy, or ability, than the Hon. Member for Rochester. He was in favour of the plan of meeting at twelve and continuing till three, and then adjourning to five, at which hour public business should peremptorily begin. Mr. GOULBURN thought that the inconvenience which they were now endeavouring to remedy was chiefly occasioned by a want of discretion in Hon. Members in extending their remarks beyond what was necessary for the purpose of explaining their object.— (Hear, hear.) He feared that by giving an increase of time, they would but increase the tendency of Members to indulge in that habit.—(Hear, hear.) In his opinion, sitting from Ito S for private business, would not remedy the grievance which was found to exist when the House sat from 3 to 4 ; at last it would be driven to re-adopt the system of ballot. It seemed important to have a continuous sitting, and that Committees should meet at some period of the day when the House was not sitting. Mr. HUME was much disposed to try the experiment recommended by the Noble Lord. A long continuous sittirg was of course objectionable, and the break pro posed would be convenient. If business commenced at 11 in the ctiy, he thought that it ought to terminate at 11 at night. He thought that business would sever be properly conducted, until private matters were disposed of else where, so that the House could devote its whole attention to the public afftirs of the country. Mr WARBURTON concurred with the Hon. Member for Middlesex, and recommended that the quorum should be reduced from 40 Members to 20. Lord SANDON was also in favour of sitting early in the day, but suggested that the Speaker should come into the llou-e at a quarter before 1, and remain until 1, and if then a quorum was not present, adjourn till 5 o'clock. Mr. BUCKINGHAM proposed that the House should meet at two o'clock—that private business should con tinue until four—that public petitions should be presented until six, and that general questions should be discussed from six until twelve o'clock, but no new subject com menced after eleven o'clock. To regulate debates, he pro. posed as rules—that no Member should speak that had not previously put down his name on a list—that no Member should be allowed to speak for more than twenty minutes, excepting in bringing forward a measure or mo tion, and then for thirty minutes, both for his speech and reply. On petitions, no Member ought to be allowed to speak on any petition for more than ten minutes, and to order or in explanation for only five minutes. Sir M. W. RIDLEY 'agreed that much would be gained if Members would compress their sp eches, but it seemed to him impossible to fix any stated hour for ad jeurnment. He apprehended, that if the House sat from 12 t., 3, much of what was said would not appear in the newspapers. Ile did not anticipate any great advantage from the plan, hut it seemed the dutyof the House to try it. Mr. WYNN was of opinion that the Speaker should take the Chair at 1 o'clock, and that the House should not then be counted. The length of debates was owing partly to the increased anxiety of the public to know what passed in the House, and the corresponding anxiety of Members to make speeches for the satisfaction of their constituents. The modern practice of frequently adjourn ing debates had contributed to the same end, and it would be expedient for the House to discourage the practice. A .great deal of time was wasted upon petitions, when mea sures were debated instead of facts only being stated. On the whole, he was wiling to try the experiment, although the plan was not unobjectionable. Lord MORPETH expressed a hope that the proposed arrangement of his Noble Friend would have the effect of keeping apart from each other the discussion of subjects that were not naturally connected, and that they would pot have upon petitions a series of observations upon mat ters totally distinct. He hoped the House would agree to the motion then before them, and give the plan of his Noble Friend a fair trial. Mr. O'CONNELL could not thus permit the petitions of the people to he, as it were, thrown into a refuse corner for that, in effect, would be the operation of the Noble Lord's plan; it was, in fact, a way rather of getting rid of the petitions than of discussing them. Another objec tion to the proposed alteration arose, in his opinion, from this—that it was now proposed that twenty Members tdanuld constitute a House. In his opinion, forty were too few a number to form a quorum of a body so nume- OW , as the House of Commons; and he was sure there WWI no one who took the trouble to reflect for a mo ment on the subject, who would not agree with him that even a hundred would not be too large a quorum, consti toted as the House now was ; for the time had passed Away when the House was made up of the nominees of borough owners, who only took care to be present at those i lieisions in which their nominors were interested. The people now had considerable influence in that House and accordingly there had been since the assembling of the re formed Parliament a very full and constant attendance, and he felt quite assured, that if a hundred were made to constitute the quorum, it would be an alteration attended with no inconvenience, and calculated to produce very ad vantageous results. It had been said that the habits of society had materially changed of late years, and that those habits greatly interfered with the change in question ; he admitted that there had been a very great change in the habits of society ; but on the other hand he was pre pared to assert that the change did by no means require that they should run counter to everything like reason and common sense—indeed it was his opinion that the change in the habits of society were rather favourable than otherwise to the rational practice of doing business by for the change referred to mainly consisted in circumstance of the dinner hour becoming gradually later itod later till it was now approaching towards o'oloek, Now if the business were conducted in the day time, the boor of dinner would not be at all interfered with, Let them at once come to real business hours, and no longer encroach upon those which ought to be devoted to repose and relaxation. He found, upon a reference to the Journals. that in the year 1614, the House was in the habit of meeting so early as seven o'clock in the morning, and that if a House were not constitutes by eight o'clock, it would adjourn to the following day, and after twelve o'clock no new business could be entered upon. He found, too, that all Members not pre sent at eight o'clock, were liable to a fine of one shilling, and that those who absented themselves for the whole day, should pay a fine of five shillings, and that the Ser geant-at-Arms should gather in the money.—(A laugh.) The first day on which candles were lighted in that House was an ominous day for England—it was the day on which the King assailed the privileges of that Houie and the liberties of the people, by his violent conduct within those walls, when he assumed the chair in that House. But to return to the matter before them. It was hie opinion that the business of the House might every day be concluded by . eight o'clo c k, if t h ey assem bl e d at t en i n th e mo rning. Dinner and its concomitants were but bad stimulants for an effective discharg e o f P ar li amen t ar y d u ti es , though they might have the effect of stimulating Hon. Members to continue the debate longer than was consistent with the health of Members, or the true interests of the consti tuent body. He again would press upon the attention of the House, that they were the only deliberative body in the world aalio transacted business at night. H e was aware that it would not do to sit t en hours in every day, but three days under that arrangement would be quite sufficient in each week for the real business of the country. It was his opinion that the whole matter should be referred to a Committee. Mr. EWART advocated a return to the good old habits of our ancestors, and do business when beads were cool and clear. An Hon. MEMBER observed that any change in the hours of doing business would deprive them of the pre- sence and assistance of lawyers, merchants, and other men of hasines'. Mr. ROBINSON thought that the Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means might preside over the business of presenting petitions, and the Speaker over the private and the public business. Lord ALTHORP agreed with those who thought that twenty Members were sufficient to form a quorum ; at the time time, that if, after the House were once formed, any Member noticed that forty Members were not present, such circumstance ought to be attended with the usual re.ult; and he also agreed that it would be very conve nient if the Speaker should, at 5 o'clock, take the Chair without counting the House. Mr. ROBINSON further observed, that they could not expect that the whole day should be devoted to the busi ness of Parliament, seeing that the House was not made up solely of men of fortune and leisure. Sir R. H. INGLIS thought the plan impracticable. Mr. COBBETT said that any one might very plainly see that there existed a strong disposition in the persons by whom this was proposed, so obstruct the right of peti tioning.—(Cries of " No, no, no.") All had agreed that things could not go on as they were; the Church wa giving way, and the Parliament was giving way, and it was idle to talk of adhering to old abuses merely because they were old ; nothing could go on as it had been going on. The number of petitions had greatly increased of late years ; even within a short time they had risen from eight hundred to three thousand per annum, though the people were not half as fond of petitioning as they ought to be. Exemplary as they were in all things, they were peculiarly so in their patience. The Hon. Member then adverted to his intention of to-morrow giving notice that the House be called over on Friday. He condemned very strongly the project of a Committee for classifying petitions, and determining what parts of them should be printed—it was just a plan for putting an end to the right of petition ; and the people would have to hank the Whigs for that in addition to the other benefits of a similar kind. The right of petitioning was one which he would not allow any party to interfere with so long as he had a seat in that House ; the more especially, as so large a portion of the people still remained unrepre sented; he, therefore, was resolved to divide the House if nobody else did. Lord ALTHORP defended the proposed plan for re ferring to a Committee the business of classifying the peti tions, and determining which should and which should not be printed, or whether any or what parts of petitions be printed. Great expense had in every past year been in curred for the printing of petitions, when multitudes of them were not only on the same subjects, but actually in the same language. If the plan of the Hon. Member for Dublin were adopted, it was one which personally to him (Lord Althoip) could not prove very convenient, for he had three days in the week and every evening to devote to official business ; he should, in consequence of the change, feel himself in a situa►ion much better than at present ; but he greatly doubted whether such a change would prove convenient to the House, or promotive of the despatch of business ; and he also doubteil that during de bates in the day-time they could command such a full attendance of Members in the House ; though they might be in attendance within the buildings adjacent, they would spend the whole of the morning up stairs writing their letters. Notwithstanding all the objections which had been urged, he did feel it to be his duty t.) press the reso lutions modified in the way he had mentioned. It was quite clear that some alteration must be made, and they had better try this plan as an experiment. Mr. WARBURTON suggested that in any case when there was not a quorum at 12 o'clock, it should not pre vent their doing business at five, should a sufficient nurn• her of Members attend at that hour. The House then divided, when there appeared— For Lord Althorp's Motion 133 Against it Majority I2S The three other resolutions proposed by the Noble Lord were then agreed to. On the resolution " That if at a quarter-past twelve, there were not twenty Members present, the House should adjourn until five o'clock ; and that, at a quarter-past five, the House should be counted ; when, if twenty Members were not present, the House should be adjourned until 12 o'clock next day, unless it were a Saturday," Sir T. FREMANTLE proposed that the number of Mrmbers should be extended to forty. Lord ALTHORP adhered to the proposition he had in the course of the debate adopted, of 20 Members. Mr. C. W. WYNN said be was of the opinion of the Hon. Baronet (Sir T. Fremantle). A division then took place on Sir T.Fremantle's amend ment : For Lord klthorp's proposition 9B Against it Majority —6l A Select Committee was then proposed, to which all petitions should be referred, and on which should devolve the task of classifying the same; which Committee should have the direction of the printing of such petitions, either in part or in whole.—Motion carried. _ _ Mr. LITTLETON objected to the number of persons appointed on the Committee, and thought five or six would be sufficient. There could be no individual objection to the persons appointed on the Committee. Lord ALTHORP then moved that the House should meet on Wednesday next, at 12 o'clock, pursuant to the resolution formerly agreed to. Lord ALTHORP then rose and said that some diffi culty had been felt, occasionally, to determine which party should go into the lobby during a division. The general rule was, that the minority should go out ; but it was occasionally difficult to ascertain which was the minority. He (Lord Althorp) proposed, that whichever party was declared by the Speaker to be in the minority, or which should call for a division, should go into the lobby. Mr. WYNN had no objection to the proposal made by the Noble Lord ; but he thought, as it was contrary to the rules of the House to make any such motion without notice, it might be expedient to postpone the motion. Lord ALTHORP bad no wish to press the motion on the House at present, if it was thought desirable to post pone it. The motion, after a few words from Mr. WYNN and Sir R. Nous, was agreed to. An HON. MEMBER (name unknown) complained that places which were taken by Members in the morning were not kept, if the Member did not happen to he present at prayers, without regarding whether he was engaged on a Committee or on any other public business. Lord ALTHORP then moved, that in future all orders of the day fixed for Mondays or Fridays, should tie taken into consideration before any other motions in the order book. Mr. WYNN asked if the Noble Lord meant that in a case of emergency a Member would not be allowed to m k ke a motion ? He (Mr. Wynn) had known instances in which that privilege was of the utmost importance, and where the effect of the motion would be lost if it could not be brought forward till after notice had been given. Lord ALTHORP did not for a moment conceive that Members should give up the right of making motions without notice, in an emergency. The notice of motion was merely a matter of courtesy, and it should always be left to Members to consider whether it was important to bring forward a motion without observing the usual cour tesy. The motion was then agreed to. The Committee of Supp'y was then postponed till Friday. ECCLESIASTICAL REVENUE. Mr. HARVEY postponed his motion for a return from the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the ecclesias tical revenue, to ascertain the locality and description of each separate property, charged with any fee-farm rent, pension, stipend, rent, and other payments reserved by leases (other than rack-rents), and redeemed land -tax; specifying the probable number of acres and annual value thereof, the tenure, the amount of the fixed payment, of whatever description, to which it is subject, whether the leases renewable, upon the survivor of life or years, and the customary terms of renewal, till the Bth of March. He considered it a motion of great importance, and was determined to take the sense of the House upon it. Dr. LUSHINGTON said it was utterly impossible to obtain returns of all the different parts of the Hon. Mem ber's motion, without very great trouble and expense. To show the Hon. Member how difficult it would be, he would mention for one thing that 12,000 circular letters would have to be addressed and sent to different parts of the country. Mr. HARVEY thought the greatest objection brought by the Hon. and Learned Member opposite, to his motion was, that twelve thousand circular letters must be ad dressed. But he (Mr. H.) thought the motion of such importance, that let the trouble be what it might, he was determined to take the sense of the House upon it. Mr. WARBURTON (in the absence of Mr. Hume) moved for a return of Promotions in the Navy since the date of the last return ; also, returns in detail of the esta blizhment of the Royal Marines. WARWICK ELECTION. Three petitions were then presented against the return made of a Member to serve in Parliament for the town of Warwick, when it was resolved, that the Committee on the Warwick Election should be balloted for on the 7th of May. The House adjourned at ten o'clock. DIVISION ON MILITARY AND NAVAL SINECURES. We published what we received as a correct list of the Mino rity on Mr. Hume's motion on the 14th inst. ; but regret to state that we cannot give the following list of the Majority on that motion as equally correct, because many Members went away within a few minutes before the House was cleared for a division and we formerly stated that it is to be regretted that some official means is not adopted to insure correct lists of every division that takes place in the House of Commons, to enable the constituents to know what the votes of their Representatives have been. The great, and we fear in many cases, the only check that can be had on the conduct of many of the Members of the House of Commons, will be the exhibition of their votes on all those questions where the sense of the House is called for. We hope some means will be adopted for our own sakes also, that we may not publish incorrect lists, and be afterwards called upon my Members, as we often are, to correct them. For the present we annex the best list of the Majority that we can obtain on that important motion ; and as we think those who were ab. sent and neglected their duty are almost as culpable as those who voted against the motion, we annex also a list of the ab sentees, which we are informed is pretty accurate. But we shall be happy and ready to correct any mistake that may be pointed out to us by any of the Members whose names have been errone ously entered on either list. LIST OF THE MAJORITY OF TWO HUNDEED AND THIRTY-FOUR (TELLERS INCLUDED), WHO VOTED WITH THE MINISTERS TO UPHOLD NAVAL AND MILITARY SINECURES. ENGLAND Adams, E. H.—Carmarthensh Althorp, Viscount—South Nor thamptonshire Ashley, Lord—Dorsetshire Bainbridge, E. T.—Taunton Baring, H. B.—Marlborough Baring, W. B.—Winchester Baring, F. T.—Portsmouth Beaumont, T. W.—South Nor thumberland Benett, J.—South Wiltshire Bentinck, Ld. G.—King's Lynn Bernal, R.—Rochester Blackstone, W. S.—Wallingford Blake, Sir F.—Berwick Briscoe, J. I.—East Surrey Brocklehurst, J.—Macclesfield Brougham, W. —Southwark Bruce, Lord E.—Marlborough Bulteel, J. C.—South Devon Burdett, Sir F.—Westminster Burrell, Sir C.—Shoreham Byng, Geo.—Middlesex Calcraft, J. H.—Wareham Campbell, Sir J.—Dudley Carter, J. B.—Portsmouth Cavendish, C. C.—East Sussex Cavendish, Lord—North Der byshire Cavendish, H. F. C.—Derby Cayley, Sir G.—Scarborough Chapman, A.—Whitby Chaytor, Sir W.—Sunderland Clive, Edward B.—Hereford Codrington, Sir E.—Devonport Crawley, S.—Bedford Dare, R. W. H.—South Essex Darlington, Earl of—South Shropshire Denison, J. E.—South Notting hamshire Denison, W. J.—West Surrey: Dillwyn, L W.—Glamorgansh. Donkin, Sir R. S.—Berwick Duncannon, Va.—Nottingham Dundas, J. W.—Greenwich Eastnor, Viscount—Reigate Ebrington Visc.—North Devon Egerton,'k. T.—NorthCheshire Ellice, E.—Coventry Fazakerley, J. N.—Peterboro' Ferguson, Sir R.—Nottingham Fitzroy, Lord C.—Bury St. Ed. Foley, J. H. H.—Droitwich Folkes, Sir W.—Norfolk Forester, G. C. W.—Wenlock Fox, Col. C. R.—Tavistock Frankland, Sir R.—Thirsk Gaskell, J. M.—Wenlock Gladstone,W.E.-Newark-upon- Trent Glynne, Sir S. R.—Flint Gordon, R.—Cricklade Goulburn, H.—Cambridge Uni versity Graham, Sir J.—East Cumber land Greville, Sir C. J.—Warwick Grey, C.—Chipping-Wycombe Grownow, Capt.—Stafford Grosvenor, Lord R.—Chester Halford, Henry—South Leices tershire Handley, Wm. F.—Newark upon-Trent Hanmer, Sir J.—Shrewsbury Hardinge, Sir H.—Launceston Henniker, Lord—East Suffolk Herbert, Hon. S.—South Wilts Hobhouse, Sir J.—Westminster Horne, Sir W. —Marylebone Hotham, Lord—Leominster Howick, Visc.—North North umberland Hudson, T.—Evesham Hyett, W. H.—Stroud Ingham, R.—South Shields James, W.—Carlisle Keppel, Hon. G.—East Norfolk Labouchere, Henry—Taunton Lambton, H.-North Durham Lamont, J. C.—Wells Langton, Wm. Gore—East So mersetshire Lefevre, C. S.—North Hants' Lefevre, J. G. S.—Peterstield Lemon, Sir C.—West Cornwall Lennard, T. B.—Alaldon Leonard, Sir T.—South Essex Lennox, Lord A.—Chichester Lennox, Lord J.—West Sussex Littleton, E. J.—South Stafford shire Lumley, Lord—North Notting hamshire Lushington, Dr.—Tower Haml. Lygon, Hon. Colonel H.—West Worcestershire Maherly, W. L.—Chatham Macaulay, T. B.—Leeds Mahon, Visc.—Hertford Marshall, J.—Leeds Martin, J.—Tewkesbury Methuen, P —North Wiltshire Meynell, Capt. H.—Lisburne, Mildmay, P. St. J.—Winchester Mills, J.—Rochester Molyneux, Lord—South Lanca shire Morpeth, La—West Yorkshire Mostyn, E. M. L —Flintshire Nicholl, J —Cardiff Noel, Sir G. N.—Rutlandshire North, F.—Hastings Palmer, R—Berkshire Palmerston, Lord—South Hants Parker, J.—Sheffield Patten, J. W.—North Lancash. Pechell, Sir S. J. B.—Windsor Pelham, Hon. C. E. W.—Lin-, colnshire, parts of Lindsey Pendarves, E. W. W.—West Cornwall Pepys, C. C.—Malton Peter, W.—Bodmin Metre, Hon. E. R.—York Phillips, Sir R.—Haverfordwest Philips, Sir G.—South Warwick- shire Pinney, W.—Lyme Regis Poulter, J. S. —Shaftesbury Price, Sir R.—Herefordshire Pugh, D.—Montgomery Rice, Rt. Hn. T. S.—Cambridge Richards, J.—Knaresborough Rick ford, W.—Aylesbury Rider, T.—West Kent Robarts, A. W.—Maidstone Hooper, J. B. —Huntingdonshire Russell, Lord John—South De- vonshire Russell, Lord—Tavistock Sandon, Lord—Liverpool Sanford, E. A.—West Somer. setshire Sc;rleii,Sir J.—Norwich Scott, Sir E.D.—Lichfield Sheppard, T.—Frome Skipwith, Sir G.—Warwicksh. Smith, R. V.—Northampton Smith, Hon. R. J.—Chipping. Wycombe Spankie, Mr. Serg.—Finsbury Spencer, Captain—Midhurst Stanley, E.—West Cumberland Stanley, Hon. E. G. S.—North Lancashire Stanley, E. J.—North Cheshire Staunton, Sir G.—South Hants Stewart, John—Lymington Stormont, Lord—Norwich Strickland, G.—West Yorkshire Taylor, Right Hon. M. A.— Sudbury _ _ . Thompson, P. B.—East York. shire 'Thomson, Hon. C. P.—Man• chester Todd, J. Ruddell—Honiton Tracy, C. H.—Tewkesbury Trevor, Hon. G. R.—Caermar. thenshire Troubridge, Sir E.T.—Sandwich Tyrell, C.—West Suffolk Vivian, J. H.—Swansea Vyvyan, Sir R. R.—Bristol Walter, J.—Berkshire Wason, R.—lpswich Waterpark, Lord—South Der byshire Wedgewood, J.—Stoke Weyland, R.—Oxfordshire Wiiitbred, W.H.—Bedford Whitmore, W. W.—Wolver. hampton Wilbraham G.—South Cheshire Williams, W. A.—Monmouth shire Williamson, Sir H.—North Dur. ham Willoughby, Sir H. P.—New. castle-under.Lyne Wood, T.—Brecknockshire Wood, C.—Halitax Wrottesley, Sir J.—South Staf. fordshire 'Yorke, C. P.—Cambridgeshire Young, G,F.—rypFmouth AB SE, ENGLAND. Andover, Visc.—Malmesbury Anson, Sir G.—Lichfield Anson, Hon. G.—Gt.Yarmouth Apsley, Lord—Cirencester Ashley, H.—Dorchester Astley.SirJacob—WestNorfolk Atherley, A.—Southampton Attwood, I%L—Whitehaven Baillie, J. E.—Bristol Bankes, W. J.—Uorsetshire Baring, F.—Thetford Baring, A.—North Essex Barnard, E. G.—Greenwich Barnett, C. J.—Maidstone Barrington, G.—Sunderland Bell, M.—South Northumberld. Berkeley, M. F.—Gloucester Berkeley, C. F —Cheltenham Bethel!, IL—East Yorkshire Bewes, T.—Plymouth Biddulph, R. M.—Denbighshire Biddulph, R.—Hereford Bish, .I'.—Leominster Blamire, W.—East Cumberland Blandtord, Marquis of—Wood. _ . stock Blunt Sir C.—Lewes Boss, J. G.—tiorthallerton Brigstock, W. P.—East Somer- sasibire Brougham, J.—Kendal Brudekell, Lord—North Nor- thamptCmshire Bulkelcy, Sir lt.W.—Anglesea Buller, J. W.—Exeter Burton, Henry—Beverley Buxton, T. F.—Weymouth Byng, Sir John—Wareham Calley, T.—Cricklade Calvert, N.—Hertfordshire Cartwright, W. R.—South Nor thamptonshire . _ Chando's, Marquis of—Bucks Chaplin, T.—Stamford Chetwynd, Capt. W.—Stafford Chichester, J. P. B.—Barnstaple Childers, J. W.—Cambridgesh. Clayton, Col.—Marlow Clive, Viscount--Ludlow Clive, R. H.—South Shropshire Cockerell, Sir C.—Evesham Collier, J.—Plymouth Cookes, T. H.—East Worces- tershire Cornish, J.—Totness Cotes, J.—North Shropshire Cripps, Joseph—Cirencester Crompton, J. S.—Ripon Curter, E. B.—Rye Dashwood, G. H.—Bucks Davenport, J.—Stoke-on-Trent i Dick, Quintin—Maldon Duffield, T.—Abingdon Dugdale, W. S.—North War wickshire Duncombe, Hon. W.—North — Vorkshiie Dundas, Sir R. L.—Richmond Dundas, J. C.—Richmond Estcourt, T. G. B.—Oxford Un. Faithful, George—Brighton Fenton, L.—Huddersfield Finch, G.—Stamford Fitzroy, Lord J.—Thetford Fitzwilliam, C. W.—Malton Fl ee twood, P. H.—Preston Foley, E. T.—refordshire Foley, T. H.- -West Worcester shire Fordwich, Lord—Canterbury Forster, C. S.—'Walsall Fort, J.—Clitheroe Fox, Sackville L—Helleston Fremantle, Sir T.—Buckingham Gore, M.—Devizes Grant, Right Hon.R.—Finsbury Greene, T.—Lancashire Grey, Sir G.—Devonport Grimston, Visc.—Hertfordshire Grosvenor, Earl—Cheshire SCOTLAND Abercromby, Right Hon. J.— Edinburgh Adam, C.—Clackmannanshire Agnew, Sir A.—Wigtonshire Baillie, Col. J.—lnverness, &c. Bannerman, A.—Aberdeen Callender, J. H.—Argyllshire Colquhoun, J. C.—Dumbarton. shire Dalmeny, Lord—lnverkeithing Elliot, Hon. G.—Roxburghshire Ferguson, R.—Dysart, &c. Ferguson,• G.—Banffshire Fleming, Hon. C.—Stirlingsh. Hay, A. L —Elgin, &c. Jeffrey, Rt. Hon. F.—Edinburgh Johnston, A.—St. Andrews Johnstone, J. J. H.—Dumfries shire Kennedy, T. F.—Ayr, &C. Loch, J.—Wick, &c. Mackenzie, J. A:S.—Ross-shire Macleod, R.—Sutherlandshire Maxwell, Sir J.—Paisley Murray, J. A.—Leith Ormege, Earl of—Perthshire Ross, H.—Montrose, &c. Sharpe, General—Dumfries, &c. Sinclair, G.—Caithness-shire Stewart, R.—Haddington, &c. Stewart, Sir M. S.—Renfrewsh, Stewart, E.—Wigton, &c. IRELAND. _ Acheson, Lord—Ca of Armagh Belfast, Earl of—Antrim Co, Browne, D.—Mayo Browne, J.—May o Carew, R. S.—Wexford County Chapman, M. L.—Westmeath Conolly, E. M.—Donegal Coote, Sir C.—Queen's Co. Corry, Hon. H. L.—Tyrone Co. Dobbin, L.—Armagh Dobbs, C. R. —Carrickfergus Gladstone, T.—Portarlington Hill, Lord Arthur—Down Co. Hill, Lord M.—Newry Jones, T.—Londonderry Co. Keane, Sir R.—Waterford Co. O'Callaghan, C.—Tipperary O'Reilly, W.—Dundalk Oxmantown, Lord—King's Co. Perceval, Colonel—Sligo Co. Shaw, F.—Dublin University Stewart, Sir H.—Tyrone Co. Talbot, J.—Athlone Young, J.—Cavan Co. TELLERS. Rice, T. S.—Cambridge IWocid, C.—Halifax - T.-237 . Guise, Sir 8.W.--East Glouces. tershire Halse, James—St. Ives Handley, Benjamin—Boston Handley, Henry—Lincolnshire parts of Kesteven Hanmer, H.—Aylesbury Harcourt, G. G --Oxfordshire Hardy, J.--Bard ford Heathcote, Sir G.—Rutlandsh. Heathcote, G. J.—Lincolnshire Heathcoat, J.—Tiverton Heneage, G. F.—Lincoln Heron, Sir R. —Peterborough Herries, J. C.—Harwich Hill, Sir R.—North Shropshire Hornby, E. G.—Warrington Hoskins, K.—Herefordshire Houldsworth, T.—North Not tinghamshire Howard,.F. G.—Morpeth Howard, P. H.—Carlisle Hoy, J. B.—Southampton Hurst, R. H.—Horsham Ingestrie, Visc.—Hertford Inglis, Sir R. H.—Oxford Uni versity Jermyn, Earl—Bury, Suffolk Jerningham, H. V.—Pontefract Johnstone, Sir J. V. B.—Scar- borough Johnstone, Sir F.—Weymouth Kemp, T. IL—Lewes Kennedy, James—Tiverton Kerrison, Sir E.—Eye Kerry, arl of—Caine Knatchbull, Sir K —East Kent Langston, J. H.—Oxford Lee, J. L.—Wells Leech, J.—West Surrey Lennard, Sir T.—South Essex Lewis, T. F.—Radnorshire Lincoln, Earl of—South Notts Lister, E. Cunliffe—Bradford Lloyd, J. H.—Stockport Locke, W.—Devizes Lopez, Sir R. F.—Westbury Lowther, Viscount—WestCum berland Lowther, Col.—Westmoreland Maddocks, J.—Denbigh Mandeville, Vise.—Hunting donshire Mangles, J.—Guildford Manners, Lord R.—North Lei cestershire Marjoribanks, S.—Hythe Marryatt, J.—Sandwich Maxfield, W.—Grimsby Miller, Wm. H.—Newcastle under-Lyme Moreton, A. H.—West Glou cestershire Moreton, H. G. F.—East Glou cestershire Morrison, J.—lpswich Neale, Sir H.—Lymington Neeld, J.—Chippenham Newark, Visc.—East Retford Norreys, Lord—Oxfordshire Ossulston, Lord—North North- timberland Owen, H.—Pembroke Owen, Sir J. B.—Pembrokesh. Paget, Sir C.—Caernarvon Paget, F.—Beaumaris Palmer, C. F.—Reading Parker, Sir H.—West Suffolk Parrott, J.—Totness Pease, Joseph—South Durham Peel, Sir R.—Tamworth Peel, Col. J.—Huntingdon Penruddocke, J. H.—Wilton Pigot, R.—Bridgewater Pollock, F.—Huntingdon Ponsonby, Hon. W. F. S.— Dorsetifiire Portman, E. B.—Marylebone Powell, Colonel—Cardiganshire Poyntz, W. S.—Ashburton Pryce, R,--Radnor Pryse, P.—Cardigan Ramsbottorn, J.—Windsor Reid, Sir J. I't.—Dover Rolfe, R. 51.—Penrhyn Ross, C.—Northampton Rotch, B.—Knaresborough Rumbold, C. Ed.—Great Yu,. mouth Russell, Lord C. J. F.—Bedford shire Russell, W. C.—East Worces shire Russell, C.—Reading Ryle, J.—Macclesfield Sanderson, R.—Colchester Scholefield, J.—Birmingham Scott, J. W.—North Hampshire Scale, J. H.—Dartmouth Sebright, Sir J. S.—Hertfordsh. l Slaney, R. A.—Shrewsbury Smith, J. A.—Chichester Smith, J.—Buckinghamshire Smith, I'. A.—Carnarvonshire Somerset, Lord G. C. It—Mon- mouthihire Stanley, H. T.—Preston Staveley, T. K.—Ripon Stewart, P. M.—Lancaster Stonor, T.—Oxford Stuart, Lord D. C.—Arundel Stuart, W.—Bedfordshire Surrey, Earl of—West Sussex Talbot, C. R. M.—Glamorgan. shire 'Talbot, W. H. F.—Chippenham Talmash, A. G.—Grantham Tapps, G. W.—Christchurch Tayleur, W.—Bridgewater Torrens, R.—Bolton Tower, C. T.—Harwich Townshend, Ld. C.—Tamworth Tullamore, Lord—Penryn Tynte, C. K. K.—Bridgewater Tynte, C. J. K.—West Somer. setshire Sir J. T.—North Essex Vaughan, Sir R.—Merionethsh Vernon, G. H.—East RettOrd Villiers, Viscount—Honiton Vivian, Sir R. H.—Truro Wall, C. B.—Guildford Walsh, Sir J. B.—Sudbury Ward, H. G.—St. Albans Warre, J. A.—Hastings Watkins, J. L. V.—Brecon Watson, IL—Canterbury Welby, G. E.—Grantham Whitmore, T. C.—Bridgenorth Wigney, 1. N.—Brighton Williams, R.—Dorchester Williams, T. P.—Marlow Wilmot, Sir E. E.—North War wickshire Windham, W. H.—E. Norfolk Winnington, Sir T.—Bewdley Wood, G. W.—S. Lancashire Wyndham, W.—New Sarum Wynn, Sir W. W.—Denbigh-I shire Wynn, Right Hon. C. W. MontgomeryshireW.— Yelverton, Hon. W. H.—Car marthen SCOTLAND. Arbuthnot, Gen.—Kincardine- shire Balfour, I—Haddingtonshire Dalrymple, Sir J. H.—Edin . . buigh - shire Ewing, James—Glasgow Fergusson, R. C.—Kirkeud. bright (Gordon, Capt. W.—Aberdeen- shire Grant, F. W.—Elginshire and Nairnshire Hallyburton, D. G.—Fortarsh. Hay, Sir J.—Peebles-shire Hope, Hon. Sir A.—Linlith gowsh ire Marjoribanks, C.—Berwickshire Maxwell, J.—Lanarkshire Stuart, C.—Buteshire Traill, G.—Orkneyshire IRELAND. Archdall, Gen. M.—Fermanagh Bateson, Sir R.—Londonderry Beresford, Sir J. P.—Coleraine Blackney, W.—Co. of Carlow Blaney, Hon. C.—Monaghan Barnard, W. S.—Bandon Callaghan, D.—Cork City Castlereagh, Visc.—Down Chichester, Sir A.—Belfast Christmas, W.—Waterford Clements, Col.—Leitrim Co. Cole, Lord—Fermanagh Cole, Hon. Arthur—Enniskillen Cooper, E. J.—Sligo Co. Daly, James—Galway Co. Don, O'Connor—Roscom. Co. Fitzgibbon, R.—Limerick Co. Ferguson, Sir R—Londonderry Galway, J. M.—Waterford Co. Howard, R.—Wicklow Co. Knox, Col.—Dungannon Lamb, Hon. G.—Dungarvott I Lambert, H.—Wexford Co. Lefroy, Dr.—Dublin University Macnamara, W. N.—Clare Co. Macnamara, T.—Ennis Martin, T.—Galway Co. Maxwell, H.—Cavan Mullins, F. W.—Kerry Co. O'Grady, S.—Limerick Co. O'Neill, Hn. Gen.—Antrim Co. Perrin, Louis—Monaghan Ronayne, D.—Clonmell Stawell, Colonel—Kinsale Talbot, J. H.—New Ross Talbot, J.—Athlone Tennant, J E.—Belfast Verner, Col. W.--Armagh Co. Walker, C. A.—Wexford White, S.—Leitrim Co. White, Luke—Longford ABSTRACT OF DIVISION ON FEBRUARY 14, ON MR. HUME'S MOTION AGAINST NAVAL AND MILITARY SINECURES. PRESENT—FOR MR. lIUME'S MOTION (TELLERS INCLUDED.) England 95 Scotland 9 140 Ireland PRESENT—AGAINST. England lB2 Scotland 29t231 Ireland' ABSENT, England 2`M Scotland 141278 Ireland 652 Speaker 1 3 Unrepresented, London - Northamptonshire Total Number of the House 658 HOUSE OF COMMONS.-FUTURE PRO- CEEDING S. FROM THE VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. IsIERCuRII, 20 DIE FEBRUARII, 1833. SITTING OF THE HOUSE. Motion made, and Question put—" That this House do meet every day, except Saturday, or such day as shall be ap pointed for Election Petitions being taken into considera tion, at twelve o'clock at noon, for Private Business and Petitions, and do continue to sit until three o'clock, unless the Business be sooner disposed of."—The House divided — Ayes 133, Noes 5. Resolved, That when such Business has been disposed of, if before three o'clock, or three o'clock precisely, notwithstand ing there may be Business under discussion, Mr. Speaker do leave the Chair without putting any Question. That Business thus interrupted be taken up again on the next sitting day, as an adjourned Debate, in preference to other Business of the same kind. That Mr. Speaker do resume the Chair at five o'clock. Motion made, and Question proposed," That if a House be not formed before a quarter past twelve o'clock, for the sit ting between twelve and three, Mr. Speaker do then take the Chair, and count the House, and if twenty Members be not present, do adjourn the House till five o'clock ; and in like manner when the House is to meet at five o'clock, pursuant to adjournment, if the House be not formed be fore a quarter past five o'clock, Mr. Speaker do then take the Chair, and count the House, and if forty Members be not then present, do adjourn the House till twelve o'clock the next day, unless such day be Saturday, in which case Mr. Speaker do adjourn the House to Monday at tweve o'clock :"—Amendment proposed, to leave out " twenty," and insert " forty," instead thereof:—Question put, " That ' twenty' stand part of the Question :"—The House divided; Ayes 98, Noes 37 :—Main Question put, and agreed to. Resolved, That when Mr. Speaker resumes the Chair at five o'clock, or a House is formed a five o'clock, pursuant to ad. journment, the House will immediately proceed to the Business of the day set down in the Order Book. That Committees have power to sit from ten o'clock in the forenoon until five o'clock in the afternoon, and have leave to sit during the sitting of the House. That this House do meet on Wednesday next at twelve o'clock, pursuant to the said Resolutions. That a Select Committee be appointed at the commencement of each Session, to which shall be referred all Petitions pre sented to the House, with the exception of such as com plain of undue Returns, or relate to Private Bills ; and that such Committee do classify the same, and prepare Abstracts of the same in such form and manner as shall appear to them best suited to convey to the House all requisite infor mation respecting their contents, and do report the same from time to time to the House ; and that such Reports do in all cases set forth the number of signatures to each Petition. And that such Committee have power to direct the printing in extenso of such Petitions, or of such parts of Petitions as shall appear to require it. That the following be Members of the Committee:—Sir Robert Peel, Mr. Hume, Mr. O'Connell, Sir Edward Knatch bull, Colonel Davies, Mr. Littleton, Mr. James Oswald, Mr. Clay, Mr. George William Wood, Slr Robert Inglis, Sir Richard Vyvyan.—Five to be the quorum. Prayers,—Sessional Order relative thereto, read, and discharged. Ordered, That the Sergeant-at-Arms attending this House do, from time to time, when the House is going to Prayers, give notice thereof to all Committees, and also at five o'clock, when the Speaker has taken the Chair; and that all proceedings of Committees, after such second notice be de clared to be null and void. Orders and Notices—Resolved, " That in this present Session of Parliament, all Orders of the Day set down in the Order Book for Mondays and Fridays, shall be disposed of before the House will proceed upon any Motions of which Notices shall be entered in the Older Book." ELECTION PETITIONS. FROM THE VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. MERCURIT, 20 DIE FEBRUARII, 1833. Several Petitions complaining of undue Elections and Returns being offered to be presented, the names of the places to which the said Petitions related (being all of them Petitions of the last class) were put into the glass at the Table, and drawn by the Clerk in the following order : Galway Town Election,—Petition of Timothy Murray, Francis Kenney, and others, Electors, complaining of that Election [Appx., No. 39] :—To be taken into consideration upon Tuesday, the 23d day of April next, at the same time that the Petition of Martin Joseph Blake, Esquire, is ordered to be taken into consideration; and Mr. Speaker to issue his Warrants for persons papers and records. Londonderry City Election,—Petition of Andrew Alexander Watt, Frederick Hamilton, and others, Voters, complain ing of that Election [Appx., No. 40] :—To be taken into consideration upon Thursday, the 21st day of March next, at the same time that the Petition of Andrew A. Watt, and others, Electors, is ordered to be taken into consideration ; and Mr. Speaker to issue his Warrants for persons papers and records. Londonderry City Election,--Petition of Peter Collins, John Collins, and others, Electors, complaining of that Election [Appx., No. 41] :—.To be taken into consideration upon Thursday, the 21st day of March next, at the same time that the Petition of Andrew A. Watt, and others, Electors, is ordered to be taken into consideration ; and Mr. Speaker to issue his Warrants for persons papers and records. Harwich Borough Election, Petition of John Disney, Esquire, complaining of that Election [Appx., No. 42] : To be taken into consideration upon Thursday, the 25th day of April next, at three of the clock in the afternoon ; and Mr. Speaker to issue his Warrants for persons papers and records. Harwich Borough Election,—Petition of Charles Rabett Whin field, and John Pattrick, Voters, complaining of that election [Apex. No. 43] :—To be taken into consideration upon Thursday the 25th day of April next, at the same time that the Petition of John Disney, Esquire, is ordered to be taken into consideration ; and Mr. Speaker to issue his Warrants for persons papers and records. Bristol City Election,—Petition of Richard Ash, Richard Bligh, and Harman Visger, Electors, complaining of that Election [Appx. No. 44] :—To be taken into consideration upon Thursday the 25th day of April next, at ten minutes after three of the clock in the afternoon ; and Mr. Speaker to issue his Warrants for persons papers and records. Carmarthen and Llanelly Boroughs Election,—Petition of James Hughes and John Lawrance, Electors, complaining of that Election [Appx. No. 45.]:—To be taken into considera tion upon Thursday the 25th day of April next, at half an hour after three of the clock in the afternoon ; and Mr. Speaker to issue his Warrants for persons papers and records. Linlithgow County Election,—petition of James Joseph Hope Vere, Esquire, complaining of that Election [Appx. No. 46] : To be taken into consideration upon Tuesday the 30th day of April next, at three of the clock in the afternoon; and Mr. Speaker to issue his Warrants for persons papers and records. New Sarum City Election,—Petition of the Honourable Duncan Pleydell Bouverie, complaining of that Election [Appx. No. 47] :—To be taken into consideration upon Tuesday the 30th day of April next, at a quarter of an hour after three of the clock in the afternoon ; and Mr. Speaker to issue his Warrants for persons papers and records. Stirling Burghs Election, Petition of James Johnston, Esquire, complaining of that Election [Appx. No. 48] :—To be taken into consideration upon Tuesday the 30th day of April next, at half an hour after three of the clock in the afternoon ; and Mr. Speaker to issue his Warrants for per sons papers and records. Northumberland (Southern Division) Election,—Petition of Robert W. Brandling, and others, Electors, complaining of that Election [Appendix, No. 49] :—To be taken into consi deration upon Thursday the 28th day of March next, at the same time that the petition of Ralph Park Philipson, Esq., is ordered to be taken into consideration ; and Mr. Speaker to issue his Warrants for persons, papers, and records. B ury Saint Edmund's Borough Election,—Petition of Francis King Eagle, complaining of that Election [Appendix, No. 50] :—To be taken into consideration upon Thursday the 2AI day of May next, at three of the clock in the afternoon ; and Mr. Speaker to issue his Warrants for persons papers and records. Norfolk County (Eastern Division) Election,—Petition of John Harper and Charles S. Gilman, Electors, complaining of that Election [Appendix, No. 51] :—To be taken into conside ration upon Thursday the 2d day of May next, at ten minutes after three of the clock in the afternoon; and Mr. Speaker to issue his Warrants for persons papers and records. Lincoln City Eldction,—Petition of Charles Delaet Waldo Sib thorp, Esq., complaining of that Election [Appendix, No. 52] :—To be taken into consideration upon Thursday the 2d day of May next, at half an hour after three of the clock in the afternoon ; and Mr. Speaker to issue his Warrants for persons papers and records. Barnstaple Borough Election,—Petition of George Hervey, Esq., complaining of that Election [Appendix, No. 53] : To be taken into consideration upon Tuesday the 7th day of May next, at three of the clock in the afternoon ; and Mr. Speaker to issue his Warrants for persons papers and records. Barnstaple Borough Election,—Petition of Elles Lee Sanders, and James Colley March, Electors, complaing of that Elec tion [Appendix, No. 54] :—To be taken into consideration upon Tuesday the 7th day of May next, at the same time that the Petition of George Hervey, Esq., is ordered to be taken into consideration; and Mr. Speaker to issue his War rants for persons papers and records. Barnstable Borough Election,—Petition of Cadwallader Ed wards Palmer, complaining of that Election [Appendix No. 55] :—To be taken into consideration upon Tuesday, the 7th day of May next, at the same time that the Petition of George Hervey, Esq., is ordered to be taken into consi deration; and Mr. Speaker to issue his Warrants for per sons papers and records. 'Coleraine Borough Election,—Mr. Speaker acquainted the House that he had received a Declaration in writing, sub scribed by Sir J. P. Beresford, Baronet, who is returned a Burgess to serve in this present Parliament for the Borough of Coleraine, that he the said John Poo Beresford did not intend to defend his Return for the said Borough. And the said Declaration being delivered In at the Table, was read, and is as followeth ; viz. " I, Sir John Poo Beresford, the Sitting Member elected and returned to serve in thispresent Parliament for the Borough of Coleraine, do hereby declare and notify to your Honourable House, that it is not my intention to defend my Election or Return against the Petition of William Taylor Copeland, which was presented to your Honourable House on the 7th day of December last. And I do hereby acknowledge this to be my declaration, subscribed by me, and delivered at the Table of your Honourable House, pursuant to the provisions of an Act passed in the ninth year of the reign of his late Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled, An Act to consolidate and amend the Laws relating to the Trial of Controverted Elections or Return s of Members to serve in Parliament.' " As witness my hand, this twentieth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three. " J. P. BERESFORD " Coleraine Borough Election—Act (9 Geo. 4, c. 22, s. 11) read— Order for considering the Petition of William Taylor Cope land, Esq., complaining of that Election and Return, on Tuesday, the 26th day of this instant February, read, and discharged.—Petition to be taken into consideration upon Tuesday, the 7th day of May next, at half an hour after three of the clock in the afternoon. Warwick Borough Election,—Petition of William Tibbits, George Birch, and Henry Smyth, Electors, complaining of that Election [Appendix, No. 56] :—To be taken into con sideration upon Tuesday the 7th day of May next, at half an hour after three of the clock in the afternoon ; and Mr. Speaker to issue his Warrants for persons papers and records. Warwick Borough Election—Petition of George Cattell Green way and Henry Robbins, Electors, complaining of that Elec tion [Appendix, No. 57]:—To be taken into consideration upon Tuesday, the 7th day of May next, at the same time ' that the Petition of William Tibbitts, George Birch, and Henry Smyth, is ordered to be taken into consideration ; and that Mr. Speaker do issue his Warrants for persons • papers and records. Warwick Borough Election—A Petition of William Collins and John Enoch, Electors, complaining of that Election [Appendix, No. 58] :—To be taken into consideration upon • Tuesday, the 7th day of May next, at the same time that the Petition of William Tibbits, George Birch, and Henry Smyth, Electors, is to be taken into consideration ; and Mr. Speaker to issue his Warrants for persons papers and • records. OLD BAILEY, FEB. 20. The whole of the trials having been disposed of (the Court having continued its sittings six days), the Recorder, after a short adjournment, proceeded to the New Court to pass . . THE SENTENCES.—FOR DEATH. —George Coney (for the bur glary in Bartlett's_buildings), Richard Smith (for feloniously inciting the said George Coney), John Sinnett, John Williams, Henry Herrick, Henry Ancio, William Nicholls, Frederick Sampson, Edward Still, alias Richards, Samuel Bennett, Charles Bennett, Charles Clark, James Allen, and John Smallman— all for house-breaking ; and John Turfey and Samuel Harding, for highway robbery. The Learned Judge held out no hopes to Richard Smith, and impressively addressed the other unhappy prisoners. To BE TRANSPORTED FOR Lim—Robert Spencer, John Lang shaw, Mary Lee, John Brown, John Gandy, John Atchkin, Sophia Cooper, William Wilks, Sarah Gear, and William Bradbury. FOR FOURTEEN YEARS.—Michael Leary, James Butterworth Thomas Clements, Thomas Pearson, Henry Kirby, John Ro bertson, James Watkins, Timothy Lane, John Brown, Henry Diaper, Ann Clark, Elizabeth Pritchard, James Crouch, James Rust, Thomas Young, Joseph Clarke, Robert Taylor, John Smith, Henry Johnson, George Elson, Henry Bowdry, William Morley, William Lockley, and John Lewis. FOR SEVEN YEARS.—John Pickering, Frederick Pridding, William Hart, James Kirkham, Thomas James, Geo. Cooke, Sarah Peters, alias Smith, Thomas Smith, Thomas Jones, John Newcomb, Joseph Cobb, John Lawrence, Thomas Jarvis, John Coleman, William Curtis, Thomas Jones, alias Collins, Tho mas Riley, Julia C. Down, William Farr, William Passey, William Cooper, Henry Atchkin, Charles Barnett, Jeremiah T. Manly, Thomas Sutton, James Shaw, James Wilson, John Johnson, Thos. Kelly, Ann Marchmont, John Hall, Ann Clark, Elizabeth Desalion, John Mead, William Stanfield, James Burton, William Hardy, George Birt, James Brown, William Francis, Matthew Hill, William Johnson, Charles Markham, Mary Ann Sullivan, James Lee, Samuel Wallace, John Smith, George Keond, John Wild, George Turnham, George Wiggins, John Neale, Elizabeth Pedley, Maria Potts, Elizabeth Crouch, James Philip Rowland, Morgan Poole, John Venables, Eleanor Powell, Maria Hoskins, John Jamer, Job Fenson, John Payne, jun., Joseph Reeves, Daniel Boye, Fre derick Edridge, and Thomas Smith. To BE IMPRISONED ONE YEAR IN THE HOUSE OF COR RECTION, AND KEPT TO HARD LABOUR.—John Williams, James Brooke, James Johnson, William Castles, liobert Bonner, Richard Jeffivys, and Charles Winter. FOR NINE MoNTHs.—Theodocia Brown. FOR SIX MONTHS.—Samuel Langford, Louisa Toovy, Wm. Lawler, John Green, John Howard, and Wm. Lambourne. FOR THREE MONTHS.—Wm. Shotter, Henry Wright, Ed. ward Watts, Wm. Youen, Sarah Hilyer, James Pickering, Daniel Macarthy, John Sparkes, Vim. Sparkes, Wm. Morris, Peter Martin, Timothy Ryan, Thomas Perkins, Robert Wilson, John Hayhoe, and Mary Crawley. FOR Two MONTIIS.—Robert Glenn. FOR Six WEEKS.—Walter Frederick Page, James Taylor, Benjamin West, and Robert Brodie. FOR ONE MONTH.—Frederick North. Win. Perry, 14 days in Newgate. Judgment respited on Frances Stevens. The Court was then adjourned. SIEGE OF ANTWERP.—The forthcoming number (for March) of the United Service Journal will contain a full and authentic narrative of the late siege of Antwerp, giving the operations of attack and defence in exact detail. This faithful account of an event which ab sorbed the interest of all Europe, will be further illustrated by an original plan corresponding with that of General HAXO, the French chief engineer, who condu c t e d t h e at . tack of the place. Corr ect portraits of General CHASSE and Marshal GERARD, with oth er drawings, w ill accompany the plan, and an appendix will comprise the various offi cial states and documents connected with the sieg e. Pub lished for H. COLBURN, b y R. BE NTLEY, New Burling ton-street, and sold by all booksellers. EXTRAORDINARY PIG. --On Friday last was slaughtered by Mr. HUNT, at Chalford, a sow pig w hich, without the offal, weighed forty score and five pounds! This fine animal was bred by Mr. LEONARD and fed by Mr. MAURICE BUTLER, of Tetbury, and was allowed by competent judges to be the moat unique in weight and proportion ever beheld.—Bath Chronicle. ANNIVERSARY OF THE LONDON ASS' CIIANICS' INSTITUTION• l u c en, that Mast 1 Yesterday the ninth anniversary of the London _ ir tie e t t# , nics' institution was celebrated in the theatre of th e ,...,, il ltr tlin s stitution. Dr. BIRKBECK, the President, took th c " . " . i to m ans 'kr at eight o'clock. The theatre was densely filled. f i c : e t ke a ti b p Dr. BIRKBECK opened the meeting by observed, that it had been asserted by Pope that tiler 7 i, 7 0, 1 0 4 0 0 thi nt le r : not many certain truths in the world. This rb evenagges' 4O thr k ne ll thi n r uttered exactly one hundred years ago, was true, ~i r „ Jai _A t h e n regarded science at the present time, and it tneriteli„ e,,,:i vestigation. Notwithstanding the ardent and P . ,, 1 4 iar.a scon ce ertion of the human mind, he need only refer to theon; in q,,,:t1)01 an addreat; _.,,, tio a ",pat cussions on the bench, at the bar, in the pulpit' 3 o ne ! th . , t Part senate, for what examples of its truth might lr.s fon,„„ ; 'mak ) , Hoct Even on the subject of education, a subject deeeil ; P A ° r osy en' one resting to them, so little certainty had been tha t it ' 7 0 0 in the that whilst, on the one hand, it was asserted that lt o ; e d 1 , o th at l i Y O %te n continually increasing crime, on the o•her it wal t9 o P pla ; l a i ed tegra n te „, °l there regarded t b b e e e n science some advances u quantity , as lt mthuesgtrebaet admitted oitntelydparieaste,rvasativreemaantddceodrrective or i n . enc o i n a for 'I be some certain truths. But even here, be "' ro il. 1 1 )44 , a rotes to say, strong symptoms of heresy began t° ' mail. II 'Qs e Not later than the 14th of this month, a certaio 00 , or tt oth6 tgrer popular Baronet, in the Commons' H ou s P e b o Y f 'i P eal a, r .i lsiic o li s r li e ' ,: t i tt lt n : e l l s" declared that appeals to figures were always t h -e n ws° 'Lgetl te- :i If the spirit of Cocker remained cognizant of " - . t s ee' itil 'eet r ; i II a declaration ! And if it had reached the ear 4 4 :,„ c , 0' 1 11(je l doing on the earth, what must not be its sensation ILL eep b 0 Hume, how must he have been astonished at au n T e - n cler b b li , ' ( : ),,c stounding proposition! He (Dr. Birkbeck) ba n Of 4. 0, ; . fe r . made to certainty, a im nathetrinie voured to rescue the subject of educPaetriohnaPf'rottnberlei s r ts e d i::l t ri e 1 11 11 r. t i li ntt uncertainty, and two years ago he had endea..° _ t oe -- `-lAi prevail upon the members of all the Mechanical 1 0 ; 0 0 iip se4 . o '] Lions to give the results of the plan of educed.° ° no ', ~. IsiSs i s th them ; but he had received few answers to his 'Pots 4; 4 % 1 '1 Lions, and the question remained undiscovered. 1° 2 1 , 0 0 , Qttiss: t direct and personal appeal, he had besought the ....4110 , e t ,,74,1 0 -4 1 of this Institution to tell him the actual influenc e ' 0 ' l t ," 11 , w el sob ' A i .' L education within those walls, with reference to ba d rr! N I 1 tt n ai e '- well as intellect. Strange as it might seem, 11 °_,.400 1 : ii iL l tter4 P I ceived only about six replies. It did not seems 'D e c 00 ib, 4 01 f - ,,° 1 that on this question they could come to m atter n : 1 ,0 tl.; ; ltir ° ,; nee 'i s From a few members, however, he had received " to di wig th b oa t itti ni .pi and useful communications. One was from a f°°-- spite iik, te tt e 's a lady at Stoke Newington, who travelled 1 1413° 0 0 " Loa ,'%e 4 a-week, being permitted by his indulgent mistress to fort' . 4,7 Si, °I all the benefit he could from this Institution. 0 r 4 ,,' 0 011, Its ' thief beck read a letter from this person, which was el; e 00' t l e t ? isf l ' h / : well expressed, anti detailed the advantages he ba d . r roe' ' hoid t .kts - ;l't from his connection with the Institution, in the Ig n i e j e llior au,,ktili„ - : " ment of his mind, and its being diverted from 10 ° o f tb. it ` l o lc . i l r i : t and unworthy objects to those suited to the digoi t t leo as sl: 4 "'PI human character. As a domestic, he observed, ° A .' ice, 4 01:tleh so far from being deteriorated that he found his nt° P- 00 :: ti 11041 i proved. It would he strange, he continued, tb" t , s , 6 lo° ' tetl y /nea; be should become worse and more dangerous as he r ße at is ' do shier wiser. He had found that servants who wer e 7, , , , , ,, bonti.,Pl3e formed did their duty best, and that the ignar" ° :, or 40 13 01 obstinate, self willed, and implacable. The eV' ifeli a ' , ll ftt6 I monies, Dr. Birkbeck observed, were to the same e be tat s 1 and if the communications had been more natnern, a 'ff ! th te qhm en ell had no doubt they would have afforded a mass (41 1J 10 4 4 4 1 t '''' mation against which all the subtlety of logic °'°° tut ' ' 146:11 sl at unavailing. With respect to the progress mad e b ,, Y ailit i ki r . er ft tl° ° chanics' institutions, several new ones had been se ta, b°' t he - 0 at Peebles, in Scotland, Sheffield, Taunton, Vire . „,,, l 'liel lit t r:Pla rough, Beverley, and two other places. He ha d .r:,,,tera tg t iguNt o eb a letter from a person who called himself 4 , ji ,„ r o. od , , 04 , I,i u r Gardener," giving a sketch of the institution at Fee . 10' i 4.1 1 411°P t, ti °I which stated that the writer had come to Londo° 7. 0 . 114 d o , i ttld , tain a knowledge of his profession, that he becalue, l ; - ,ti o tlatittr t h her of this institution, and returning to Peebles, b` g ;rbs t ° - ' n to r i t iut place, he regretted to observe the youth there wast c sat", , , h ni h o l , atninomdwe with ah i i d l theleln3epsose,c members f ue n ima o ri t ,ye i r n asi d crime. aunfds 0 7moel ß . y us f d to i n ctki t , e, o figopeepraestryt;abocoriftl: :, ,uh Lt ;i i ti 1,,, s 10 11 :: : , fected his object of establishing an institution ,ir tit, ta ll eve only 1,800 i i n rtet h emw a n bitants. (The letter was e % i -e rio" ;N O4' " pe l s i t t ikn h eda r ,n es st p wb e ae c rt t ti t of o tqb t u b ses e m ir tino o tne w su n tspr i4 r;seed :, cei t h '° o 3 ; o4 : tup, : l l iel ikl t4;4l l 4 4 : to_itio, oD w f e r well written.) aß w pei r tr i ks t b t e e n we . kr ) prize essays were examined, they would be con'7 Fis: apt th 1 its members were not idle and not ill-infornie .11r ~-, t h ' t the evidence of these documents be could mainta in " o rle 11 41 1 4 1 4,2 01 4 opinions respecting this institution which, in bi" .. , s c or NC.' :;,', limns, he might have ventured to express on f°7,, if !,I°le bn ds";„_ u ° casinos. He should now pass at once to the 01 0 00 Y rItl i - itt '''°t t he o ld -the 1 4 i t e i t ,_ at portant and principal business of the evening-- tation of the prizes. The first was for an elabors°o4o klalN'ett "On the Nature and Application of Stem." C i i ile ...4 11. 41 1, 41 i t i v t Il s le n , sp h i a dr d e:La b b e al e re n d forwarded, nmeerr,i tmerit. whoo iHe ia sd e h v u e au r d y ji du o d n ri ec e fastre o d f t ut w h l ib i s i i c sp h r Li z p ee o s, s r 0 , se s f; ' ; i: t or r b ri ~ t i t ": . i t (t Lit idl y : . 1 iti f - it I lai r d °o , its i account of these essays. t s c i sm s g , ij Dr. LARONER said he had had the pleasure of e- oll i ii i l 1. Per ing the five essays, and he could safely say, (Nu ll I o 'o l ' t i - , 114 1 . : i5 WI, t large experience in examining manuscripts, from 11 . r 0 02 b l it eel the highest pretensions, that the very worst of P' e hle ily, r t N i tarc i l lt ceedeel the ordinary standard even in purell,. - f i co"• O „N h , la," 1. qualities. Each of them contained a clear and a.""d, or , - ,,'N 4of account of the nature of steam-engines, written W' e " f i ell lintsi that ot prising ease and facility, collecting together all i l i t e le r l k ti i 4 V 4 11 % . 3 and arranging them in clear, distinct, a nd we" - pi_ l ey i h Att b. ls e language. The ground of preference was not ‘ l° , Aro to 41tiet144 he -e the superiority of the materials as its being a v te - , 0 1 1 ) i lk \ v, i ' more clear, and written in a better literary " t Y" pen' tidtctil . 4 l w t , e a h C b t i l e e d h l n ) superior drawings. The unsuccessful candidate'hol arj n i 4 olia tm e-4 no consolation, for they had gained a prize did ' ai sir t s -itt ti t t ber; expected, in the quantity of knowledge they b 2 ° ls to t it c f,° in preparing the essays. o f . . 11 , I , la i i i ce. D wu r. i heßisanbrdaanyeKsonhemEaa escaped e iz r d. Homer's ophdrseeecsrcevrdiei discovere d pda description o t wt l n i w a r that oot ef t ra h sto e i ei a a c ne u psd t hhae) he bad c i a L ibom i t i 0 ; e g e t°, tr. , 1 1 ,1 ii i el: op 1 ;:s kit .4 :It t cs ‘‘ t. , t i p4 ' p r 4 ii n i h yi 1 et l . 1 ; w wondrous a llusion ndur so t uo o fs oshvo ip:sy secoast lf.ni steam-navigation aouv and do,v King Alcinou., in the eighth book of the odyisw ZN,:tti:te ( 1 No helm secures their course, "So shalt thou instant reach the realms as signe d ,: 1 s e L t oitab. eet No I; 4 tni C L o ik n e sc m o an intelligent, they plough the tides, That lies beneath the sun's all-seeing ray. A AY , 1 uti Ih is 4 4 t tl : : : , I" That Though clouds and darkness veil th' encumbe r : el Of ,le 'l4 h °lll,) Fearless through darkness and through clouds t " -- 4 he l l :lii . , ea t High tempests rage, high rolls the swelling 31 0 .„ ° ' ' of , kt, 4 E The seas may roll, the tempests rage in vain," l ec eo to ±ll . , ar himself, Dr BtroaAxiarE.c;fthAen. Alderson, presented the prize , p eu riz ee e e ,: f o e li , : o pi r. t ts v t:o 4 : l tpth of ‘ _ ill , r A n il o lls yp t i i bi n oa C ty t ,g. with ide : a ; i n " ' b„ - , m e F il 4 41 t rt e t II : with a neat appropriate speech. , for 0.447 0I cyst The next prize, 10/., o ff ered by Mr. Se . ' ° ; bo ur 4 4•"t1e to ; best essay " On the effects on the wages of ','" n ba r i i t . ,Na 6.i asceftained both in money and commodities. °' ;tied 1,...S ft 1 mation, increase, and decrease of capital," .'"' - - h e Ilt k 'ta D e n, to Mr. G. H. Pel!, one of the three candidates. „sir, „. Cy,i; Dr. BIRKBECK observed, that there was not 1 ":,,, Or, 1241y"lit ,-; est tendency in this essay to make labour run d ° 7 o l/0` k li 14 - G4 tal, there was a decided leaning to giving nsPi tg ; it° a - t tse - est , influence ; there was no contemplation .• l a ? )s. ila it I boa it 041,.. kit croachment on labour, nor desire that labour - , . i . . ,iliCtio: croach upon it. The author of the essay .r." - ' '7 1 7 Is; man, a financial clerk in a house of business. , r a co s liNkl , I - ' The next prize was 101 ., offered by Mr. Bing„ r ;gif p,,,'‘la ~., doe ing, for the best essay "On combinations ant. ° l by iti4:44' Yet C in h e i n at ,' le ' s fo F r b w m tich D o r n . ly ß o ir n b e b e ee ss k ay pr h u a n d uu b u e ued en off it cr eu s i tc sO bor_ r A s i l s_ ol4t, lts.', o 4 :l ll : l b g ibpnees r rte e i Tenant:thee.: interests, o pstsisaoei , w ylt vh e ofeoeu r tfni. lcunt, a n d b):lratei i hstz considerable i d:lu ) ,t n n ew s seob i tex d suirote e et r rns a taeb,i b csiosu l ,fn e ,orbsel7ul o os r bwhiw i ai g iessei i tit u .sh:s a_ ef l rfo i dc t ri y odi . itmoubebg T ee,ico h nb e etoebd " ,:e; or ob:rov , orti:4l:l l / 4441; i; ht: k thi attention to making portraits in silver with l''' o l rt s% cll slew 1, t h tools, and, portraits in relievo in wax; speciugni ,oodinveg r i r isisit:44l ::: : t e° ° 4 41 4 3 1 . for, if l 4 / 3: r i , % l l ‘ th _ l ock o w f e A r c e o wprpiez.ei t exhibi te d . i cation , 1 0 w L it , h off s e e r p e a d ra li t y e Ninlrd.i,Ji.dul‘all. il:ftoerrego°:: i „t h e f t , II society ;" awarded to Mr. Henry Price. If id 00° d t tf 4 tet % o, Iti member . i b i r eF e r e uor p f i i t z th es hee o be f a : sc i t . h e is a tpe c e h eet , iu o mr : el e u re d d urfa b w y dir A na l gw r icni T asg . se lF ee :ir s ed je . jiilh.itelhritet!si r he ltil' Mr. J. Eaisli e . c lot' c ° iect4'il l ie t 2. For ditto, executed by a member of ettliewber'oil Mould ti 11 4 ,1 drawing machinery, awarded to Mr. W. A' r e 4 c ateVilli, 4 l , il tr; t )i' ° t 3. For the best specimen of modelling 1 "A. Vti, -4 4 on t to . member of the modelling class, awarded w J)jr ; : fl en ' jte 4 : 4 4L t ht' Belling, a a w p a r r i d s e e d uf to a ll b lr o . ok J , oh e n ut ll it l ie o d rr A is, jtl 2 % Also, a prize of 1/. for the second best sPe e- lo ri lb t is _4 4 e r o , i 4 CtiC i g li O je t l'i tbi l ftl t44 o l4 it it i % ;.l the Steam-engine, for the second best dra w° ,ioito r il '„'te f or s cbinery, awarded to Mr. H. S. Barnard. . e of P, Oft6ele 1 t th t : A prize of books, offered by Professor Reu nt „,rur r i l k 43 601 4 th College, f or t , the most correct account of the '"' o " t he( iht Passing t 4 tory of any British quadruped, bird, inset , °T f r oa s f rie g A % mil, if po.sible, from its birth till its deat n ' ro re " o (iWee te t t fa r writer's p rsonal observations only ; using e %t 5 the 11 4. eti Pthe i I : l , 4tk a l ferencrs to hooks merely to illustrate, but not 8 ,,, Wol o il e I Of ' e.O materials of the paper ; " awarded to Mr. fle, nr 'h i st' # taer t , V e .: ll The animal selected by Mr. Brown for W h oa(/' pL e a 4 et : ill 4 ;7 1 tioned essay was the domestic cat, and ita l' ioo st o a i r ), ~,,i0„, to treated of with considerable humour. Air. r o p 0411 4 4 (1 i not i combmaker, and no despicable poet. A 'P r e r e ag a 'ip h ttl k ti lla 1 poetical skill was read by Dr. Birkbeck, J o, Of , , tk itti p p, 1 1 called the Mechanist's Saturday Night, cv b _ O 9 o f 10 4 4t 4t . th e •-. playfulness and humour, with much smooth" O il N I fication. . no ° PI After the presentation of the prizes was c