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Printed for Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, New Burlington street. NATIONAL LIBRARY. This day was published, complete in One Vol. small Svo., neatly bound, with Portrait, & c. , price 6 5. , L ORD BYRON'S CONVERSATIONS WITH CAPTAIN MEDWIN. Forming the Fourteenth Volume of THE NATIONAL LIBRARY. - - Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, New Burlington , Street. This day was published, in 2 vols. post Bvo. price 215., JOURNAL of a NOBLEMAN: Com prising an Account of his TRAVELS in POLAND, TURKEY, WALLACHIA, TRANSYLVANIA, and HUNGARY ; together with an Account of his RESI DENCE at VIENNA during the CONGRESS, and Anecdotes of the Distinguished Personages there assembled. " From his rank and fortune the author possessed every faci lity for obtaining access to the first circles in every place he visited; and he must be allowed to have used his advantages well. Considered as the progresses of a man of fashion, visiting and conversing with the people of fashion of other lands, these volumes are extremely entertaining, and will be certain of obtain ing the attention of a large class of readers."—Globe. Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, New Burlington street. WR. GRAYSON respectfully informs • the Nobility, and the Public in general, that the time is now arrived for PLANTING his GIANT ASPARAGUS, of the same superior quality, in size and flavour, as that produced for the Horticultural Society the last three years ; the first in 1829, for which a silver medal was granted ; also another in 1830, for which ano ther honour has been granted by the same society. The Plants are put up in Packets, with the Society's Medal impressed on wax : aone are genuine without it. May be had, by remitting money-orders (letters post-paid), of Messrs. Warner and Seaman, Cornhill ; James Butler, Covent-Garden; or of W. R. Grayson, the grower, Mortlake, Surrey, price ss. per hundred. In each Packet there will be a particular how to prepare the ground, and bow to plant them ; also an engraving of the Medal, and the different honours that have been granted. PREMISES IN REGENT-STREET, Eminently calculated for a first-rate Establishment, con sidered one of the best situations in the Street, with large Circular Shop Front, commanding nearly the whole carriage-sweep of the Quadrant, being No. 115, corner of that great thoroughfare, Vigo street, leading to Piccadilly, the Burlington-arcade, and Bond-street, With Immediate Possession. TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, By Mr. REID, Son-in-Law and Successor to the late Mr. JOHN RO BINS, (Of Warwick House, Regent-street,) At Garraway's Coffee-house, 'Change-alley, Cornhill, on 310 ND A v, the 12th of March, 1832, at Twelve o'clock, AValuable LEASEHOLD ESTATE, comprising a substantial built Residence, erected on a handsome elevation, and fitted up in a superior man ner, most desirably situate, No. 115, Regent-street. The House contains commodious and airy bed-chambers, clo sets, and water-closet ; two elegant drawing-rooms on the principal floor, ground floor, a spacious shop with extensive double frontage peculiarly adapted for a silversmith, che mist and druggist, or any business requiring display, and where light and space are essential. The basement containing convenient offices and exten sive vaults, for depositing dry goods, with a communica tion to the shop. The Premises are supplied with water to the upper story, conveniently planned, and fit for immediate recep tion ; the situation undeniable for business, being one of the leading thoroughfares to the most fashionable places of resort. To be viewed by tickets, or by applying on the Pre mises, where particulars may be had; at Garraway's Coffee-house ; and of Mr. Reid, No. 170, Regent-street. (No. 12,318.) LONDON MARKETS. PRICE OF BREAD. The highest price of Bread in the Metropolis is 10!< i cl. for the lb. Loaf. There are others who sell from ;A i d. to lid. b~loo that price. PRICE OF SEEDS.—March 5. . _ New English Red Clover Seed (per Cwt.) —s. 50s. fine —s. 80s. Old Ditto Ditto----....-----..----. —s. —s. fine —s. New Foreign Ditto 50s. 66s fine ....B. 90s. Old Ditto —s. —s. fine —s. —s. New White Clover 50s. 80s. fine —s. 90s. Old Ditto Ditto. —s. —s. fine —E. —s. New Trefoil --s. 10s. fine 4Ss. 50s. 31d Ditto — —s. fine —s —s. Rib Grass —s. 355. fine —s. 48s. English Carraway Seed —s. —s. 58s. fine Ws. Foreign Ditto Coriander . —s. —s. fine 235. 28s. St. Foin (per Quarter).............. —s. —s. fine —s. 703. Rye Grass _ —s. —s. new 20s. Pacey Ditto Linseed, for feeding -s. 40s. fine —s. 465. Ditto, for crushing 36s. 40s. --6. fine —s. Canary Seed, New —s. 70s. 72s fine —s. 'itte Old —s. —a. —s. fine —s. White Mustard Seed---(per —s. 7s. Bs. fine Brown Ditto —s. 10s. 17s. fine Turnip Seeds, Rounds —s. —s. Bs. fine 19.5: Green and Red Ditto —a. —s. Bs. tine Ws. Tares, Old. . —s. ss. 6d. fine 6s. Ditto New —a. —s. fine —s. —s. Rape Seed, English, fine (per Last) 23/. 271. ....... Foreign 201. 241. THE HUMBLE PETITION OF THE WIDOW DE WILDE anti FIVE FATHERLESS DAUGHTERS. TO the NOBILITY and Others, the MEM BERS of the ROYAL ACADEMY and other ARTISTS, the LADIES of the THEATRES-ROYAL aid other THEATRES. SHOWETII,—That your Petitioner and Daughters have just been left in a deplorable state of poverty and misery by the recent death of their husband and father Mr. Sa muel De Wilde, so well known for so many years as a suc cessful portrait painter, and more particularly as a fortu nate delineator of dramatic features and situations, having chiefly contributed towards forming the late Mr. Harris's gall er y of histrionic celebrity, and the portraits for Bell's British Theatre; but from having been for many years rendered incapable of following his profession, he dragged on a life of dependence upon the benevolent bounty of a small annuity from the Artists' Fund and a few private friends, with the assistance from two sons, who can ill afford the dutiful contributions towards the maintenance of their parents and sisters. Therefore the kind and be nevolent assistance of those individuals feeling disposed to wards alleviating their distress, will be most thankfully and gratefully received. It is wished, from whatever sum may be received, to purchase an annuity upon the joint lives of the mother and daughters ; and they have the permission to state, that Augustus Thesiger, Esq., of Stanmer Villa, Wey bridge, has kindly consented to act as trustee to see it car ried into effect ; and that subscriptions will be received by Messrs. Coutts and Co., Strand ; Sir John Paul, Strand, near Temple-bar; and Messrs. Robarts and Curtis, Lom bard-street. Augustus Thesiger, Esq., Weybridge £lo 0 Misses Antiriders 5 0 IMPORTANT CAUTION. " THE RECUMBENT CHAIR is the in genious invention of W. DAWS, 17, Margaret street, Cavendish-square. The recommendations of it, in many Scientific Works, induced many unprincipled Up holsterers to sell an imitation of it, which, we find, does not afford the same extent of comfort to invalids, or as an or dinary Resting Chair as the original. We, therefore, ad vise the obtaining of it of Wm. Daws."—Dr. Reece's Me dical Annual, 1831. WM. DAWS respectfully states that no other principle does, or can, admit of half its variation or number of steady position', comfort, simplicity, strength, or elegance, and he will present one to any respectable person chewing the contrary• The same Chair may be had portable, also with wheels, b y w hi c h a person can move themselves in a room, garden, or lawn. —May be had on hire. FOR COUGHS, ASTHMAS, SHORTNESS OF BREATH, &v. WALTER'S ANISEED PILLS.-It is generally acknowledged that these Pills are the most efficacious for the cure of the above distressing com plaints, as they neither affect the head, nor confine the bowels, which is an objection to most Cough Medicines. The following is one of the numerous testimonials : Ssa,—Justice demands me to send you a few lines, to inform you that " Walter's Aniseed Pill:" is the best medicine I ever had. My cough, which was so bad that I had not power to speak plain, atter taking a few doses I fx—id relief, and I am now per fectly recovered. Should any person be desirous to know, I will give every satis action. I remain, Sir, your's, R. BOKE. Qk.be-lane, Mile-end, March 2, 1821. Sold by J. A. Sharwood, 55, Bishopsgate-street-with out, in Boxes, at Is. I Ad., and three in one for 2s. 9d., and by appointment by Barclay and Sons, Farringdon street ; C. Butler and Co., 4, Cheapside ; Chandler and Co., 76, Oxford .street ; Hendehourck, 326, Holborn ; Pink, High-street, Borough ; Chappel, 98, Royal Ex. change; Nix, Royal Exchange ; Prout, 226, Strand ; snd by most Medicine Venders in town and country. Be sure to ask for " Walter's Aniseed Pills." A brighter array of illustrious names than those included in the new work by the authoress of " The Diary of an Ennuyte" ("Memoirs of Female Sove reigns") cannot well be iinagintd. The great Eastern Con queress Semiramis---Cleopatra, whose character is associ ated in our minds with all the interest that poetry, ro mances, and the arts could invest it—the far-famed Zeno- Liar Queen of Palmyra—Joanna of Sicily, whose eventful life has given rise to a tragedy by La Harpe, and affords materials worthy the study of a Shakspeare—the lovely and unfortunate Mary Stewart—the ambitious and tyran nical Christina of Sweden—the successor of King Wil liam, commonly called 44 Good Queen Anne"—the accom plished and high-minded Mari r-Theresa—and, lastly, Ca therine 11., whose political crimes have consigned her to universal execration ; but who, nevertheless, possessed many good and great qualities : such are the subjects of Mrs. Jameson's amusing volumes. It is unnecessary to say t h a t her present work is penned in that graceful and fas cinating style which marks her for one of the first female Writers of the age. WHITECHAPEL HAY MARKET.—March 3. Hay Od. to &Id. Od. I Clover—. 655. Od. to LIN. Od. Od. to 385. Od. PRICES OF HOPS.—March 5. Kent Pocket! Sussex Ditto Essex Ditto- 44 15s. - 64- W. to 81. Os. 41. 10s. 51. ss. to 51. 14s. 41. 10s. 51. 15.. to 61. 15s. Farnham Ditto, Fine.... 9l. Os. 121. Os. to 0/ N. Ot. Os. • 71. Os. to 91. Os. 41. Os. 5/. 10s. to 61. 10s. 41. 4s. 4/, 15s. to 51. - Os. 3/. 158. 51. Os. to 51.-12 s. Susesx Ditto Essex Ditto.. PRICE OF OIL. Rape Oil, brown 351. O. ............. Refined ........f37 0 Linseed Oil Linseed Oil Cake at the Mill, per th0u5and...,.......... 12 0 Rape Cake, per ton 6 0 _ PRICES 0 Per lb. d. to d. Butts, English 16 2l Ditto, Foreign 14 18 Dressing 13 151 Ditto l6 18 Ditto, light Crop Hides, light 12 13 Ditto --.-4 , 0 to 451 b. 13j 15 Ditto _ l5 lei LEATHER. Per lb. d. to d. English Horse Hides,. 12 15 Spanish Ditto .............. 14 16 Per dozen. Calf Skins— 3t; to •I,olb. 15 23 Ditto ....... 50 to 701 b. 17 21 Ditto .......... 70 to 801 b. Small Seals, Greenland 181 19 Large ditto— * 12 15 Kidneys Scotch Reds PRICE OF POTATOES.—March 5. 2/. 54. to 3/. Os. per ton. 01. Os. to 3/. 105. ditto. 21. 15s. to 31. Os. ditto. RAW HIDES. Per Stone. 8. d, to s. d. Per Stone. s. d. to s. d. Best Heifers & Steers 2 6 210 Ordinary 1 S 110 Middlings ° 0 2 4 Market Ca1f................ 6 0 each. Polled SHEEP SKINS. . 4s. Od. to 6s. Od. I Downs 2s. 6d. to 4s. Od. Shearlings.........— Os. Od. to Os. Bd. PRICE OF RAW FAT, per stone of 81b. Price of Tallow (as stated by the Tallow Melters),—.......`2s. 9d. PRICE OF TALLOW Town Tallow 495. Od. Yellow 445. Od White 44s. Od. Soap Ditto 4123. tid. Melted Stuff . 375. Od. Ditto 245. Od. , SOAP, &c. per 1121 b. Yellow Soap --60 s. Od. Mottled.- 6Ss. Od. 725. Od. Graves 16s. Od. Good Graves . ss. Od. COAL MAR Per Ton. A&lair's wrwreer...........w0 18s. od. Beaumont . 17 0 Hehhurn Main —2O 6 Holywell-, l9 6 Kenton West IS 6 Killingworth 19 6 Pontop Windsor.... l6 0 St. Lawrence Main.,,... is 6 lantield Townley l7 0 West Hartley 19 0 Willington 2O 0 Wylam- l7 9 Walls End Bell & Co.-. 20 6 Ditto Bell,ltobson,&Co. 18 6 Ditto Bewicke and Co. 21 6 Walls End Boundary.. 18 3 Wall. End Callerton 16 6 Walls End Carr and Co. 18 3 Ditto Clarke and C 0.... 19 0 Walls End Gosforth ... 21 9 Walls End Heaton...-. 20 6 Walls End Hilda 20 0 The market was well attend( :ET.—March 5. Per Ton. Walls End Hotspur.... 20s. 6d. Walls End Jollid'e— 17 0 Ditto Killingworth 20 6 Walls End Newmarch— 20 0 Ditto Northumberland 19 6 Ditto Peareth l7 0 Ditto Perkins and Co..— 20 0 Walls End 20 9 Walls End Walker.-- 21 0 Morton Main —.......... 16 0 Walls End Hetton 24 0 Walls End Lyons...—. 21 6 Walls End Lambtou— 23 6 Walls End Stewart's 24 0 W. E. Russell's Helton 24 0 Walls End Adelaide.... 21 6 Cewpen , 19 0 Walls End Elgin l9 Hartley 2l 0 Silkstone Holmes.-- 17 0 South Hetton Seam..... 17 0 'FantleldTrader '2o 6 Ships arrived, 28. I to-day, with a fair demand. EMIGRATION.—At the village of Keyston, Hunts, which comprises only 200 inhabitants, several of the most able agricultural labourers, consisting with their families of thirty individuals, are removing to embark for America.— Nottingham Review. The tide of emigration from this neighbour hood to the United States has set in very powerfully. Fifteen families, most of them in independent circumstances, will set off in a few days, in one body. The fteight from Liverpool is 21. per head, exclusive of provisions. —Nottingham Review. GREAT TAKE OF FISH.-011 Thursday evening last fourteen hundred fresh water fish, of the species called skellies, were taken in one draught, in the river Eden, near Grinsdale.—Carlisle Journal. HANDSOME PRESENT TO THE PACIIA or Eov PT. —The present Paella is a personage of very liberal mind, and has sent several men of promising talent to different places in Europe, where they may acquire the languages, and be initiated in the improvements, of the respective countries. A young Persian, of good family, lately residing at Florence at the Paella's expense, was taken by Mr. H--, an English gentleman, to a rout given by Mrs. B—, whose three daugh ters, from their extreme loveliness, excited a great sensation. The Persian's noble features and magnificent costume did not fail to attract the admiration of these young ladies, whose eye appeared to beam with additional lustre when directed towards the stranger. On the following morning the Persian paid Mr. H-- an unusually early visit, requesting him to go at once to Mrs. B—, and make a proposal for him. " I do not ob ject," said Mr. H--, " although it is not customary to make a proposal in so precipitate a manner ; but, pray, for which daughter am I to propose ?" " For all three," was the reply. " I will give a thousand pounds for each of them, and shall send them, by the very first opportunity, as a present to the Pacha ; he is a great admirer of tall fine women, as they are rarely met with among us, and will, without doubt, duly appre ciate my handsome present." We could wish that this anec dote, for the veracity of which we can vouch, would induce our fair countrywomen to be a little more guarded in their be haviour abroad.—The Town. One accusation was early made, and to the last by some maintained, against Mrs. Siddons—that of parsi mony. It is of little moment now to discuss the justice of this charge; but it was at least prudent, if she shared any portion of those friendly fears that were expressed as to the permanency of her attractions, that she should husband carefully for her family the means she was then enabled to command ; and it is just possible that what began in prudence continued from habit. At the period we are describing, she was publicly accused "of lingering behind the rest of the congregation, in the gallery of St. Martin's Church, to avoid a present of benevolence to the Westminster Dispensary." Lingering behind! An odd way this of managing such an affair. Would it not have been much better to go out first, along with the bulk of the congregation? By such a contrivance, a person who really wished to save half. a-crown, might stand a fair chance of doing so without ob. nervation ; but to be the last, to linger till the churchwarden's plate was full, and till the holder of the plate had nothing to do but to note the charitable deeds of the straggling few that brought up the rear, was surely the only way to invite observa tion, and to render as conspicuous as possible the solitary meanness. Such clumsy detraction, however, did her rising greatness provoke; and, in all probability, the more general imputation of covetousness was fastened upon her, not so much from any real evidence of a sordid disposition, as from the laudable contrast which her prudence and frugality presented to the proverbial prodigality of the profession to which she be longed.—Annual Biography and Obituary for 1832. TACTICS OF PETERBOROUGH.-" He SCIlt at once," says the doctor, " twenty spies forward into the country from St. Mattheo, knowing the route the enemy must take; appointing them the places from whence, and the time when, they should bring in to the General the pretended intel ligence. It were too tedious to relate all the several pretences and directions, though my Lord has them all in writing. Th e spies, upon the second day's march of the enemy, were very successful, and obliged the army to a march in the night. The Spaniards employed by my Lord informed the Conde de las Torres of a considerable force that was upon his left, and some what before him ; which, as they told him, certainly designed to take some passes which might prevent his entering upon the plains which lead to Valencia : and that there were English troops among them. This the Spanish General thinking im possible, the spy offered to give any two or three officers he pleased to appoint the satisfaction of seeing what he affirmed. Upon this, two officers in the country habit went along with him to a place, where, pretending to alight and refresh them. selves, they were seized by ten English dragoons that were posted there on purpose, and had marched in the mountains all night with the spies. The Spaniards thus surprised and seized, the spy pretended the guard was drunk ; and the officers, seeing a couple of dragoons lying along in that condition, slipped into the stable, and took three of the dragoons' horses, with their accoutrements. This was enough to confirm the intelligence, and to gain credit to the spy; officers of this country never failing to magnify their dangers and escapes."---,filiktry Com manders, Vol. 11. Lardncr's Cyclopedia. CANDLES. Pill CE OF The price of Store Candles, in t Candles, per doz. 7s. Pd. to Ss. Od. :he retail shops, is as follows : . I Moulds, per dozen.—...9s. 6d. Kent LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 4, 1832. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, M.4ReH 5. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE presented two petition s from parishes in the county of Louth, for the abolition of tithes in Ireland. The Noble Marquis stated that, on Thursday next, he would move certain resolutions con firmatory of the first report of the tithe committee. A Noble Lord had a motion for that night, but be hoped that did not press so much but that it might be postponed till the following evening. Viscount STRANGFORD, under the circumstances stated by the Noble Marquis, had no c,bjection to postpone his motion on the Glove Trade till Friday. The Earl of SHREWSBURY presented several peti tions from places in Ireland against the tithe system. Lord KENYON in moving that the House do go into Committee on the Agricultural Labourers' Bill stated that he did not think it necessary to trouble their Lordships with a long statement in explanation of the principles of this Bill, as it had been long before their notice, and he was not aware that there would be any opposition to it. The Bill was really what the preamble stated it to be, an Act for the better employment of the agricultural poor. Viscount MELBOURNE did not intend to offer any opposition to the Bill. It certainly did interfere a little with property ; the power which it gave for enclosing lands interfered with the rights of the lord of the manor as it at present stood, but as he saw the Noble and Learned Lord opposite (Eldon) had given the Bill his attention, he of course was satisfied. The Bill then went through a Committee, when a few verbal amendments were introduced. The Report was ordered to be received to-morrow. Lord LONDONDERRY said, in rising to put the questions to the Noble Earl (Grey) of which he had given notice, he hoped to be answered with the courtesy usually shown in that House. It had long been the practice in that House for Noble Louis to put ques tions to the Government upon subjects such as those to which he was going to allude, and he believed no one had availed himself of it more than the Noble Earl, when he was upon that (the Opposition) side of the House. He hoped that the feelings of ill temper which were raised on a former evening were now laid aside, and would not be brought forward again, but that the Noble Lord would answer him with that courtesy which he usually showed in that House. The questions that he was about to ask related to heavy allegations which were brought against the conduct of Lord Ponsonby while in Belgium, as Minister for this country—they were put forward by a General in the Belgian service, and were published in the news papers with the name of the party bringing forward the charges attached, so that there was no conceal ment. Lord Ponsonby was charged, while in that country, with inciting a large party to insurrection in favour of the House of Nassau—he himself being one of the principals and when that conspiracy was nearly brought to a conclusion, the Noble Lord was charged with having abandoned that party, and de serted those who, but for his suggestions, would never have been concerned in it. These were grave charges to ba brought against any man acting as a Minister of this country, and were calculated to injure the interests of this country by giving a bad character to its diplomacy. He called upon the Noble Lord, if in the House, to stand up in his place and deny . these allegation•, if possible : and if the Noble Lord was not present, he hoped hie relative (the Noble Earl opposite) would give him reason to believe that the charges were without founda tion. lie trusted that the Noble Earl, with his usual courtesy, would answer these questions to the satisfaction of the House. He had no ether wish than to set the cha racter of our diplomatists right with the country. Lord PONSONBY rose for the purpose of most posi tively contradicting the statements alluded to by the Noble Marquis.—(Cheers.) He would not at the present mo ment enter into any explanation of the conduct he had pursued, as he did not consider the Noble Marquis as his judge.—( Hear, hear.) He stood before their Lordships upon his character, and had it not been for the Noble Marquis bringing the subject before the House, he should have scorned any notice of such a question. He called on the Noble Illatquis to bring forward those documents on which he founded his assertions, and he should have no difficulty in answering for the conduct he had pursued. The statement alluded to by the Noble Marquis was as foul a calumny as the mind of man could invent.—(Laud cheers.) The Marquis of LONDONDERRY could assure the Noble Lord that he felt extremely happy in having been the means of calling on him in that House to proclaim to the country and Belgium, that the scandalous al legations promulgated were totally without foundation, He should sit down satisfied with having done a great service to the character of the diplomacy of the country. Earl GREY thought that 110 man could have had even a suspicion that the Noble Lord had been guilty of the acts attributed to him ; and Ise was sorry that the Noble Marquis should have thought it necessary to call for a formal contradiction of them in that House.— The accusations were devoid of truth.—(Loud cheers.) The Noble Lord had uniformly acted according to in structions, and in a manner to entitle himself to the approbation of the Government and the country at large. How the Noble Marquis could have brought himself to believe that the Noble Lord could so far degrade himself as to be a party to an insurrection he could not conceive ; such a character was as remote from the Noble Lord as the suspicion of it, he (Earl Grey) should have thought, would have been from the mind of every man who heard the statement. With respect to the state ment of the Noble Marquis, of his declining to answer questions, he had only stated that he should do so, in order to avoid giving opportunities of entering into discussions. The Noble Marquis had charged him with having taken ad vantage of putting questions for the purpose of raising discus sions, he could assure the Noble Marquis he had never done so. If questions were:put he should not hesitate to answer ; but he hoped the irregular manner in which advantage was taken of those questions for the purpose of making de clarations against the Government, would not be perse vered in. He was happy that his noble relative had satisfied the Noble Marquis of the propriety of his conduct, and he was sure that every person who had heard the statetnent must feel equal pleasure. The Archbishop of CANTERBURY moved the second reading of the Pluralities Bill. Lord ELDON suggested the propriety of postponing :he second reading till Thursday next, in order to afford :be House a further opportunity of learning the merits of Bill. Lord KING would take that opportunity of saying a few words upon the subject. Though he felt confident that the Bill did not go far enough, yet he should not object to its being read a second time, in the hope that it would receive material alterations in the committee. There were persons in the country who called themselves moderate Reformers, and when they pro posed any measure of Reform it was sure to be the minimum--so with the present Bill, which, in his opi nion, was one of the most unsatisfactory measures ever brought forward in that House. Pluralities were only to be justified where the livings were so small as not to be sufficient for the support of the minister, and the allowing of one individual to hold two rich bene fices savoured ton much of trading in Church patronage. —(Cheers.) The Catholic Church with all its faults did not allow of such proceedings, and he thought that all those who wished well to the Established Church, espe cially at a time when it was a doubt whether the reli gion of the Established Church was that of the majority of the kingdom, would do well to consider whether or not a more effective Bill should be introduced. After a few observations from Lord ELLENsoitoucx, the second reading of the Bill was postponed till Friday.— Adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS, MARCH 5. Mr. CLIVE reported that the Committee on the Dor. setshire election petition had met en Saturday, and ad journed and met again to-day, and were again obliged to adjourn, in consequence of the absence of the Lord Advo cate and the Hon. H. Smith (two of the Committee) from illness. O❑ the motion of the HoN. MEMBER, Sir Charles Bell, a medical gentleman, was called to the bar, and examined as to the state of the Lord Advocate ; he stated that the Lord Advocate was exceedingly unwell, and that in consequence he had been prevented from attending his duty on the Committee. From present appearances, he (Sir Charles Bell) would not advise the Lord Advocate to attend even to-morrow, if it were an ordinary occasion. A discussion then took place as to the period during which the Lord Advocate should be excused attendance. Mr. LITTLETON assured the Houseihaiil;eillness of the Lord Advocate was particularly observable, and nothing was more calculated to bring on a return of it thin attending to a long and laborious inquiry. He therefore suggested that the Learned Lord should be excused from further attendance on the Committee. Sir THOMAS FREMANTLE reminded the House that the parties would be put to very considerable expense by any protracted or indefinite adjournment. Mr. WILKS thought that before the House agreed to the suggestion of the Hon. Member (Mr. Littleton) they ought to have more specific evidence of a medical gentle man before them. The SPEAKER thought it would be better to recall Sir Charles Bell, and ask whether it was probable that the Lord Advocate could attend to-morrow. The House having agreed to it, Sir C. Bell was brought again to the bar, and he said he thought that the Lore! Advocate might possibly be able to attend to-morrow, but he could not say whether the Learned Lord would be able to give his continual attendance. Mr. Seaton, a medical man, was then introduced, and he deposed to the illness of the Hon. Mr. Smith, but ex pressed an opinion that he would be able to attend to morrow. . After a few further observations, the attendance of the Lord Advocate and Mr. Smith was excused for this day. Lord MORPETH presented a petition from the agent for a Bill for making a road from Doncaster to Selby, stating that the Bill bad not been brought in in consequence of a misunderstanding on his part of the standing orders of the House, and praying for leave to bring in the Bill. The Noble Lord trusted the House would grant the prayer of the petition, as the speedy making of the road was ex tremely important. The House had granted him a si milar indulgence, under like circumstances, with respect to the Bill for forming a new road between London and Edinburgh. Mr. STRICKLAND supported the prayer of the peti tion, and trusted the House would grant the relief prayed. Sir T. FRENIANTLE, as a Member of the Commit tee on the standing orders, bad no objection to the granting of the prayer of the petition.—The petition was ordered to be read ; And, on the motion of Lord MoaraTtr, leave was given to bring in the Bill. _ _ LEFROY presented a petition against the new plan of education in Ireland. The Hon. Member con curred entirely with the prayer of the petition, but would not at the present moment enter into the discussion of the question. - Lord ACHESON, on being called on by the Speaker, rose for the purpose of presenting a petition, when Mr. GRATTAN rose to call the Noble Lord to order. Some mistake had arisen, as the Noble Lord had not put his name on the list before he did in the morning. Ac cording to the ballot his name stood seventh, and the Noble Lord's eleventh, on the Speaker's list. The SPEAKER observed that the Hon. Member was under a total misapprehension of the facts of the case. The Noble Lord was in perfect order. Lord COLE presented a petition from a parish in Longford, against the New System of Education in Ireland. Mr. WILI3RAHAM presented a petition from Mac clesfield, signed by 17,000 persons, against the Factories Bill. The Hon. Member also presented petitions from several other places on the same subject, and stated that although he was opposed to some of the details of the Bill, yet he was willing that it should go to a second reading. Sir E. HAYES presented a petition from the Distil. lers of Donegal, respecting the malt duties drawback. SCRIPTURAL - EDUCATION IN IRELAND. Sir JOHN BRYDGES presented a petition against the proposed changes in the Irish education. He cordially concurred in the prayer of the petition. Sir R. BATESON was sorry that some measures had been apparently concocted for the purpose of frustrating the wishes of the people, and preventing this subject of Irish scriptural education being fairly brought under the consideration of that House. There was no subject in his estimation which was so highly important and interest ing as the subject which this petition referred to. Thealmost unanimous wishes of the Protestants in the province of Ulster,and indeed generally throughoutlreland, were opposed to the new system of education proposed by his Majesty's Government. The subject had created a general feeling throughout all Ireland, and there was now a petition in the possession of an Hon. Gentleman—of which the House ' had heard so often, but which he was afraid would not be presented—from the Synod of Ulster, which spoke the sentiments of the great mass of Protestants in the north of Ireland. The seceding ministers of Ireland, as well as all their congregations, had petitioned the House against the proposed alterations, and their petitions were entitled not only to the attention of his Majesty's Government, but also of that House. He implored Gentlemen, before they went too far, to consider well what they were about, and not irritate the whole Protestant popul ition of Ire land by persevering in a project which, although good, perhaps, in their review of the theory, would never practically succeed. In the north of Ireland the Protestants objected to the new scheme because they could not have the Word of God given to their children without note or comment; and the Roman Catholics only objected to the Kildare-street Society because the Scriptures were read there without comment. Was it politic or wise of his Majesty's Ministers to change their opinion with regard to that system of education merely to couciliate a class of his Majesty's Irish subjects, although superior in numerical force, by no means the principal and important class in that community ? Were the Protestants' wishes en. tirely to be overlooked and disregarded? It had been said that the opposition to the proposed changes had been got up on political, party, and factious motives. He took that opportunity, however, of flatly and moat un• equivocally denying that; and he hada petition from a con gregation in the north of Ireland, representing themselves Reformers, entirely disavowing all party motives, and de claring that they will neither support the present nor any other Administration which would force such a system as the present, against the almost unanimous wishes of the Protestant part of the community. There was not the slightest ground for the allegation that their opposition had been suggested by factious motives. The Synod of Ulster was a body least of all likely to be so influenced and actuated. It was composed of the most respectable, moral, intelligent, and influential perons in the north of Ireland, and the members of their con gregations who had signed this petition against the , proposed change were little short of half a million. The Dissenters, the clergy of the Established Church in the diocese of Derry, and the diocese of Dublin, and the greater part of the Bishops, were unanimous in their reprobation of the system. Rather than have this system, they de clared that they would prefer having no grant at all; and they would have the charitable and religious educate the poor of their own denominations according to their own principles. He would call the attention of the Right Honourable Secretary for Ireland to the present state of that country. In what a different condition did the provinces of Ulster and Munster present themselves ? And it was all to be attributed to the superior religious education which the former possessed. No literary edu cation could ever be of advantage to the lower orders of Irishmen, ur,less it was bottomed on scriptural prin ciples. Two hundred and thirty thousand had already signed their names to the petitions; and there were, he believed, upwards of fifty petitions in tho possession of an Hon. Friend, if time could be afforded for their presentation. The Hon. Gentleman called upon Ministers, in the name of all the Protestants of Ireland, not to force this system of education on the Irish population. He assured the House that great anxiety prevailed throughout the north of Ireland, and those who had heretofore been the sup porters of Government were decidedly adverse to the system. They could think of nothing worse than a system of education which took from the parents of children the entire control over them—the entire selection of their books, and which gave to the children a mutilated sacred book. It was impossible that any man could reduce any portions of the Scriptures so as to be worthy of the Bible. Under these circumstances he could not but support the Bill which was against the s ystem. C a rlow, prayi ng f or the entire abolition of t i thes. parts of Ireland, pray i ng for the abol i t i on o f t i t h es; f or the same system o f R e f orm to be introduce d i nto I re l an d thaAStsliarri.siP• GRATTAN presented pet i t i ons f ro m vari ous p. DOYLE presented a petition from Newton, prop to be introduced into England ; and that t he ancient franchise of Galway may be continued. Sir R. BATEMAN presented a petition • • from the (PRICE ID. Presbyterian Seceding Body of Donegal, praying for a more equal distribution of the resiiuni donu:n. There was not a more respectable class in existence than the Irish Presbyterians ; and, he was authorise& to say, that none of them bad ever been known to forfeit his life to the laws of his country. Their Clergymen were educated expensively, and they conducted themselves respectably, notwithstanding they bad ()illy thirty-nine pounds (Irish) per annum. With this it was quite im possible they could be expected to maintain themselves and families in the respectable station in which they were obliged to rank. Lord ACHESON supported the petition. The petitioners were, to his knowledge, a most respectable sect, and the Pres byterian Dissenters consisted of not less than a hundred and twenty, or a hundred and thirty congregations in Ireland. Mr. HUME was sorry that any request should have been at present made on the public funds at all. If this request were granted, he saw no reason why a claim should not be made by all the seced ing bodies both in England and Scotland. He hoped if the House beard much more on the subject from petitions, that Ministers would think it right to with draw 4e grant altogether. If not, be himself would pro. bably not think it improper, 4t no distant day, to have all the Dissenters placed on an equal footing throughout the kingdom. Lord CASTLEREAGH ba.cl no „doubt that if the Hon. Member did bring forwitd su'eh a notice as that which he had just threatened, he would find those in the House who would be able to meet it. He (Lord Castle reagh) supported the prayer of the petition. Sir ROBERT BATEMAN presented a petition from the city and liberties of Londonderry against the Grand Jury system. Mr. WYSE wished to know whether it was the inten tion of his Majesty's Government to take any step towards the restrictions of the expenses attending the system ? Mr. STANLEY said that it was his intention to bring in a Bill on the subject, by which the constabu. lary expenses, at all events, would be considerably reduced ; but it was impossible fur him t• enter• into any details of what this Bill would contain, as it was at present alto gether in an unfit state to bring before the House. The petition was read and ordered to be printed. SILK TRADE. Lord GROSVENOR moved the order of the day for renewing the debate oa the motion for a Committee to in quire into the state of the B ilk trade. ____ The order of the day having been read, The NOBLE LOAD, in resuming the debate, wished to make explanations on one or two points of the state ments which he had made on a former evening, and which he found bad been misunderstood. There was one objection which he had stated to the House, of an Honourable Member (Mr. Morrison) being one of the Committee, and he was understood to have objected to that Hon. Member because he was in terested in the question. He wished here to observe that he had no personal objection whatever to that Honour able Member, hut he felt that individuals who have an inter est in the question would naturally feel a bias which was more likely to lead their minds to a consistency in their opinions, than to an impartial discu+lion of the subject. The interest to which he had alluded had not the remotest reference to any pecuniary transactions in which that or any other Member was concerned. lie had been also misunderstood in another point. He had stated that there was an establishment at Battersea, be longing to two highly respectable individuals, Messrs. Haines and Atkinson, on which 19,0001. had been spent for manufactures and machinery, and the whole of which, a few monthi ago, was disposed of for 5,0501. In the cost of that establishment he had made a trifling error ; for instead of 19,000/., it had cost not quite 18,000/. ; hut he was correct in the price for which it was sold. He had also stated that the firm had lost a sum of 40,000/., but upon inquiry he had since learnt that it was by no means so great. The Noble Lord concluded by nominating the Committee, among whom were, besides himself, Mr. P. Thompson, Sir Robert Peel, Mr. Alderman Venables, Mr. G. Lamb, Mr. H. Hughes, Mr. F. Lewis, Mr. F. Buxton, Mr. M. S. Stewart, Mr. S. Mackenzie, Mr. Sheil, &c. &c. five to be a quorum. The motion was put and agreed to. Mr. S. WORTLEY moved for certain returns relative to Parochial Assessments, which were or d ere d. . _ Sir R. PEEL wished to put a question to the Noble Lord (Althorp) by the desire of persons connected with more than one Water Company in the metropolis. It would be of great importance to those Companies, and to the public, if they could be informed when Mr. Telford's Report as to the best mode of supply ing the metropolis with water would be ready to be presented to the House, because many plans that hal been laid bef,re some of the Water Companies had been abandoned in expectation of bating that report shortly before the public. Lord ALTHORP made a reply which was wholly inaudible in the gallery. CHOLERA IN LONDON. Mr. HUME had seen in the Papers of this day an an nouncement that 16 cases of cholera had occurred in the parish in which he resided (Marylebone), a statement which was calculated to excite great alarm. He had instituted an inquiry, and he had ascer tained from the medical men that none of those cases exhibited symptoms of cholera. He wished to ask, therefore, upon what authority those statements were pub lished, for, having a Central Medical Board, he thought that no cases ought to be put in their reports but what were cases of real cholera.—(Hear, hear. ) Mr. P. THOMSON begged to state in reply, that inspectors, who were - medical men, were appointed by the Central Board for different quarters of the town. Those inspectors reported such cases as came under their notice, and the Board of Health received them upon their authority. In that manner the cases at Marylebone were reported. He found it stated in the papers of to-day that these cases were admitted by the medical men not to be cho. lera ; and, in consequence, the Board of Health had sent fur them. He had not heard the result of the inquiry. Mr. HUME said the public ought to be satisfied on that point, because complaints had been made of the con duct of the Board of Health. Mr. P. THOMSON begged to call the attention of the House to a return which had been moved for, and which was now on the table, because he bad observed various false reports within the last few days had ;been math respecting the remuneration to the medical gentle men. Some of those reports had stated that some of the medical gentlemen received as much as twenty guineas a-day. He trusted, however, that the House and the public would inspect the returns on the table, when they would find that, so far from receiving even competent remuneration, the great proportion were paid but 7s. 6d. per day for all their labour and anxiety.--( Hear, hear.) Mr. HUNT was aware of the necessity of not exciting unnecessary alarm ; but he felt sure that many cases oc curred which were never reported. Within 200 yard of his residence a woman was taken ill on Sunday even ing week, and died on the following morning. Her hus band was taken ill that day and died on Tuesday, and in the following day the son died, besides whom, one of the per sons attending the woman's husband was taken ill and died. All these cases, he was informed by a medical gentleman, were cases of cholera, but whether of Asiatic or English he could not tell. Yesterday no less than seven corpses were carried by his house and buried in a church yard, which was only divided by a railing from the main road. He asked was it fitting, if these were cases of cholera, that they should be buried so near the highway ? Lord G. SOMERSET asked a question relative to the city of Gloucester. Mr. LITTLETON, in reply, stated that the county of Gloucester would be a nomination place. REFORM BILL (ENGLAND). On the motion of Lord J. RUSSELL the Order of the Day was read for the Adjourned Committee on the English Deform Bill. The SPEAKER having left the Chair, Mr. BERNAL, the Chairman of the Committee, was proceeding to read the clause referring to schedule 11, when Mr. A. TREVOR rose to move, pursuant to notice, that Stockton-upon-Tees should be inserted in that schedule. He contended that Stockton had as strong a claim to be represented as either Gateshead or Chelten ham. It was a town of almost daily increasing importance. Its revenue and customs amounted, in 1811, to no more than 40,000/. ; but in 1831 the amount was 46,0001., deducting the duty on sea-borne coals ; showing an increase of more than 40,000/. in twenty years. In 1811 the num ber of ships outward-bound was 1,262, and inwards 316. But in 1831, the number of ships outward-bound bad •es e eeq Cl eels la Ani eeseni tew etereen increased to *,104, aid LIP/tails to 4541.. Under thou circumstances he insisted that the claims of Stockton to be represented were equal to those of other boroughs in schedule D, and he should, therefore, take the sense of the Committee upon this motion that it be inserted in that schedule. Lord J. RUSSELL said that if Stoekton-npon-T ees were to have a Member, in consequence of its growing importance, the same claim would be set up, and with more justice, in favour of many other places. Sir C. WETHERELL was of opinion that Stockton ! was of much more importance than Brighton. Brighton was enfranchised on the assessed taxes principle ; but if the window tax should he taken off—or the powder tax (though, by-the-bye, he did not know whether any one paid that now)—their whole principle might break duten. Lord ALTHORP said that the Government had taken the principle of population and not of assessed taxes for the guide in the enfranchising clauses. He was surprised to hear the Hon. and Learned Gentleman doubt whether any body paid the powder tax, for it sounded a little as if the Hon. and Learned Gentleman was in the habit of de frauding the revenue—(A laugh).-for he (Lord Althorp) had often seen the Hon. and Learned Gentleman with some token of his powder privileges about his person. Mr. CROKER would sooner give a vote to Stockton than South Shields. The other night, when lie had al luded to the case of Toxteth Park, he received two an swers —one, that S Ilford was a separate jurisdiction from Manchester, while Toxteth Palk and Liverpool were the same ; and the oar, that Salford had expressed a desire to have the franchise; -but that a similar desire had never been expressed by Toxteth Par}. Now he begged to say that he had received a letter frl;triqpxteth Park, in which it was stated that Toxteth Park waineiAnqer the borough magistrates of Liverpool, and that as 6ing agci as May the inhabitants had forwarded a memorial to Lord Vie count Melbourne, asking for representation. He was sorry that he could not vote for the amendment of the Honourable Gentleman; but it was against his feeling, because he bad a most decided objection to the giving ano ther Member to D ur h am , w hi c h h a d already much more than its share, Mr. TREVOR, on the suggestion of Sir C. WETIIER.• ELL, consented not to divide the House on the question. Motion negatived without a division. Ashton-under-Line, Lancashire.—Agreed to. Bury, Lancashire.—Agreed to. Chatham, Kent. Mr. CROKER wished to know why Gillingham was not within the boundary of the borough of Chatham ? Lord ALTHORP said that Gillingham was a mile off. Mr. CROKER said it was not more than a furlong. After a conversation, in which the principle on which Dartmouth was disfranchised was discussed, the vote was agreed to. Mr. CROKER—The House, I beg to say, has now come unanimously to a resolution, which, last year, was rejected by a large majority. Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. Lord G. SOMERSET thought that Pittsfield ought to be added to Cheltenham. Lord J. RUSSELL 'had never before heard that any part of the town of Cheltenhatn was excluded. Mr. ESTCOURT informed the House that the hotel and assembly rooms were at Pittsfield. Sir C. WETHERELL thought it would be better to postpone Cheltenham..,..(Loud cries of " No, no !" and laughter.) Mr. CROKER presumed that the returning officer would be appointed by the Master of the Ceremonies. Vote agreed to. Dudley, Worcestershire. Mr. CROKER had many objections to this vote; but as he thought that they might be more judiciously intro duoed under the head of Staffordshire, he would post pone them until they came to the vote upon Walsall.— Vote agreed to. Frome, Somersetshire. Mr. CROKER wanted to know why the whole parish of Frame was not included within the franchise? Lord J. RUSSELL said that the parish o fFrorne was fifty or sixty miles in circumference. Frome was then agreed to; and the question having been put on Gateshead— Colonel WOOD rose, for the purpose of moving, as art amendment, that Gateshead be omitted, and that, instead thereof, Merthyr Tydvil be inserted. Though the House was very thinly attended, he would no longer delay bring ing forward th e case o f M erthyr Tydvil. It was a place which contained 674 qualified tenements—it had within its limits four large iron works, thirty-three blast fur naces; it, in fact, contained one-third of the whole of the iron manufacture of the kingdom. It was the centre of a district which contained a population of 100,000 soula, and he thought the people of that town had a right to complain when they found so many smaller places enfran chised. Even taking the assessed taxes upon the principle which governed Mr. Drummond's calculations, he should say that Merthyr was better entitled to representation than were Bury, Kidderminster, South Shields, Kendal, Whitby, and many other places that might be named. On the ground of population, too, its claims were of a high order, for even taking it within the narrowest limits that could be assigned to the town, it reckoned no fewer than 22,000 persons; and, including the adjacent hamlet, it would amount to 24,000. The people of Merthyr Tydvil put in their claim, and be thought with perfect justice, to he considered as well entitled to representation as Wol verhampton or Walsall, and he should propose that one or other of those places be left out, were he not apprehensive that suoh a proposition might be supposed to originate in a spirit of rivalry on the part of the inhabitants of the place whose claims he was urging. The iron district of Stafford had seven Members within a circle, the radius of which did not exceed thirteen miles. Gateshead was also the centre of a very large body of representation—there were belonging to its immediate vicinity, the Members for Newcastle, for North and South Shields, for Sunder land, and the county Members for Durham ; all within a circle, the radius of which did not amount to twelve miles ; while if a semicircle were drawn around Merthyr Tydvil, it would net include a single place that sent a Member to Parliament. He felt bound to add, that a petition haul been some time ago presented to the House, setting forth the feelings of the people of Merthyr Tydvil upon the sub ject, and expressing their unwillingness to be united with Cardiff, Llantrissent, and Cowbridge, and their desire rather to retain their votes for the county than to have them merged in any community of representation such as that proposed. Sir JAMES STUART, though generally a supporter of Ministers, could not refrain from saying, that on the present occasion they had been guilty of some partiality. Were he to judge of the relative importance of the places under consideration according to the principle laid down by Mr. Drummond, be would sty the number which denoted the value of Cardiff would be 5,025, or Cardiff with the two other places proposed to be included, 6,682. Now Morpeth would send two Members to Parliament, while the number which denoted its relative importance would be 4,774. On that ground, then, be would contend that Merthyr should be represented without any union with Cardiff, and would, therefore, support the amendment. Mr. HODGSON said if they deprived Gateshead of its representation, the county of Durham and the places contained therein would nut have their due share of repre sentation. The average throughout the kingdom was one Member to 26,500 inhabitants. As it now stood, it was in that county in the proportion of one to 25,000 ; but if Gateshead were left without any, the proportion would be one to 28,000. Mr. K. DOUGLAS supported the claims of Merthyr Tydvil, and contended that Gateshead was but amiserable suburb to Newcastle. Mr. JEPHSON thought there ought to be no union be tween Merthyr and any other place, and that it, as well as Gateshead, ought to be represented. Mr. RIGBY WASON adverted to his former opinions on this subject, and contended that, as there were now no Members to spare, Gateshead had not, ehher on account of population, wealth, or respectability, a c l a i m f ur a Member. i s v t e giving Member,a Memberwewhen tt s h v e hy county town of W estmore l an d , was disfran chised. Gateshead, which was only a s u b ur b o f N ewcastle. He Colonel DAL G R a Y tes A h l e P a L d E via w s as to a against knew Apple Appleby, The object of the Bill was to break down old in terests and set up new. Sir HEDWORTHI WILLIAMSON said that Gates head was very properly separated from Newcastle, because its interests had been sacrificed to that of Newcastle. He opposed the motion. Lord GRANVILLE SOMERSET said that the Mi nisters were wholly inconsistent in their principles and arguments. They defended one anomaly by another, and laid down principles in an arbitrary manner to which they asked the assent of the House as arbitrarily. In no case, except that of Merthyr Tydvil, had they refused so large a separate population as 22,000 one Member. There was no county in England so much favoured as Durham, nn less it was Cumberland, and he therefore objected to giv ing a Member to Gateshead. He claimed particularly a Member for Merthyr Tydvil, became Glamorganshire was less represented by one-third than the county of Durham. Eves if his Hon. Friend's preposition were c arr i e d, Gla morgan would not be equally represented wi t h D urham. Glamorgan also was increasing in popul at i on f aster than Durham. It was increasing at the .rate of twenty-four per cent., while Durham was only increasing at the rate of 22 by the last census. By the census of 1521,