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actited to take a large sum such as ;hat involved in the question before the House from the pockets of the people. Mr, STANLEY said that the Hon. Member who had last addressed the House, though he had affected to throw out time amount of the pectin ary consideration, yet almost the beginning and middle, and certainly the end of his speech, referred to the amount which was to be taken from the proleets of the people. When the Hon. M. mber talked of scattering the money of the people, let it be remembered that the engagements under which the sum now before the House was sought, and even that for Greece, which was not before the House, and the negotiations foe which were not vet concluded, were entered into by those by whom the Hon. Member (Mr. Baring) was then surrounded— (He r, hear)—and at the time of their being so made, were as solemnly objected to by the Noble Earl now at the head of his Majesty's Government, but who now felt himself in that situation in which he was bound, by con siderationa of national honour, to follow up anti complete engagem-nts into which his predecessors had lettered.— (Clitets from the Mi n i ster i a l s i de. ) Th e Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Baring) had denied that he had taken a share in this discussion from any party motives. He (Mr. Stanley) did not suspect the Hon. Member of any such motives ; but if he could for a moment suspect him of entertaining any party motives on this occasion, he might refer to his speech in January last. On that occasion the questicn was not a pecuniary one, but though then considered as a constitutional question, the Hon. Gentleman, as if gifted with the spirit of prophecy of the future views v,hich were to be taken of the subject, did not make the distinction be tween the pecuniary and the constitutional question. The Hon Member on that occasion told the House, that if they once admitted the pecuniary claim, the further doubt or discussion of it would be to degrade or debase the House ? —No, bet a conclusion which involved both, anti some thing more,—that it would us ike out a case after which it would become unsafe for any of the Powers of Europe to negoci tte with ti—(Cheers)—and the Hon. Gentleman therefore cautioned the Hole, to consider well before they came to a decision on that point. The HOUS , , however, did decide on it ; and, after two other deciaions to time same etr,ct, the Hon. Gentleman now advised the House to turn round on Russia, anti to take that course which, according to his own statement, would render it unsafe foe any of the Powers of Europe to neenciate with us.— 1 Hear, then the Hon. Member said that a doubt was felt at that tiale, anti the case was refined to the law-officers, who first gave an opinion against die pa, merit. It was so; but on looking over the documents connected with the treaty of 1815, they changed their opinion, and stated that. which all who had well consi tiered ti.e question must admit, as far as a nation could be bound by the spirit of any treaty, we were bound to make good our enantopment to Ros-ia. It_ was perfectly trite, and no wan could doubt, that by the hare letter of the treaty of 1815, the a' p ration of Belgium from Hadar:it would telease his country from its obligation to pay that which it ha gu•ranteed ; but then the object at t°e t• racy, and the ne.,:oci st , on , connected with it, would show, beyond any dow , t, that in lion-oar and equity, :ms be tw. en natio', and nation, our obligation to p ty still continued after the severance of the two countries; reference biting also I ad t , the eh rutosthnces untie, which tt at s everance took place. The Mon Meihber (11r. Baring) had a-ked for 'tie other di cusuenrs on which the d•cision of the law officers was made. His Noble Fin nil (Lord Althorp) had &read% said th ht there was no secret treaty, that there were no doeuments which could eni.ble the House to form any other opitoon than 'might he come to from th.,se a'ready before the [louse. They (Mini.:e s) r-steel , apron theta doctiosews— upon that general knowlie!ge of she subject which was in time possession of every Member and which w,s now waiter of Isi.tory. The lion. Memb-r had a.keil whether Ilia Hon. wit! Leant d Fii- ni, the At torn -y-General, woold pledge his 0 onour, that the docu • menta submitted to him were sufficient to make a case to josiify the payment ? The answer he (Mi. Stanley) made watt, that there were no other documents but those before the House. But he would ask a question in his turn. He would ask any Hen. Gentleum to oppasite, whether, upon his word of honour, he would, upon the papers before the Houte, deny that the money onzlit to he paid?—(Hear, hear.) If Hon. M onbers would not go that length, then be would ask, why was the qu-scion put as a pecuniary one, or what was the object of talking aloPst so moot , being taken at this time froin the pockets of the people? I was sai I that this was a mixed argument—that snore ar guments were drawn from the treaty of 1815, and some from the late treaty. It was so. To clear up any doubt on the wording of the firmer treaty, the latter was entered into, and on that Ministers felt it necessary to come to the House. Good God ! could any man who looked at the great struggle of 1815,—that struggle in which Eriglan and her whole resources were involved,—that struggle in which all Europe ultimately joined,—that glorious struggle which terminated in the overthrow of a power that threatened the destruction of every vestige of freedom in the civilized world;—would any man tell hi:it - that it was carried on for the purpose of tnnexing a few provinces to Holland ?—( Hear, lie r.) Would any Oman tell him that its object was not to quench the ambition of France, whose energies were dir coed by such a conqueror as the world never saw before,—a conqueror who threatened the saFety of every state throughout the civilized globe?— (Hear, hear.) Would any man tell hitm that the wject of that vital struggl- was merely the attaching of the N -therr lands to Holland ?—(Hear, heat.) What were the term of the treaty? That the payment should cease when Bel giutn was separated from Holland. But what species of se verance was meant ? Evidently a severance contrary to the will of Russia and of England Looking to the preamble of the treaty, and looking to the declaration of Lord Cris • tlereagb in Parliament, who said, that even in the case of those countries being severed, still the payment should be made to Russia, it was clear that such was the mean ing of the contracting parties. Lord Liverpool al-n expressed the same opinion, in a long anti I ihourcd statement. He Old not !oak, be said, to a mere narrow view of the question ; but, cot:side:log what Russia had suffered,—consieering the exhaustion of her finances considering the destruction of Moscow—he would appeal, not to the strict justice of Engla,d, but to her high minded liberality, to act with a beneficent feeling towards Russia.—(Hear, hear.) It was not on account of colonies which this country held by the rigne of conquest that such a stipulation was entered into.—(Hear, hear.) No; it was in consequence of the strenuous exertions made by Russia at a period of extremity anti danger, when this country was threatened with war and invasion. England was then rescued (as Lord Liverpool said) by these exer tions, from a knowledge, except an historical knowledge, of war, and London, perhaps, from pillage. It was on these grounds that Lord Liverpool supported a treaty which the present Government V. ere so much blamed fur upholding. Yes, they were denounced as a money-scatter ing Government because they adhered to the spirit of that treaty.—(Hear, hear.) But gentlemen said, .‘ This question does not depend on the statements of those who made the treaty; no, tee must be guided by documents, and by documents alone." Why it was quite evident from those documents, that the great object of the treaty was to afford a suitable return to Russia for the heavy ex pense incurred by that power in recovering those provinces from the enemy. Holland hail a distinct interest in their re cuvery—.England had a distinct interest in their recovery. And who was the enemy there designated? There could be no enemy hut France.—(Hear, hear.) If this were not an, wby expend 20,0001. on the erection of frontier fortresses to protect those provinces against the incursion 9f France? —(Hear, hear.) What nag 'the language 'of Earl Grey on that occasi on ? That language h e w as p rou d t o goote, because it fully sustained the policy whist, the Govern ment was now acting on. That. Nim'mle Earl 'Moe fortresses are of no use. France, when she pleases, Can take possesaion of them, for they cannot he pr perly gar risoned by Holland or by Belgium. Why, then (he con tinued) ~o you riot band over Belgium tosome realty penoerit Rover, teat ran secure that country from * foreign invasion ?" And what had now been done? Surely it was better to secure the guarantee of five great Pow rs against the invasion of Belgium, which this treaty ilia secure, than, for that put pus,-, to force a Monarch on an unwilling people, and to xaenti moluty fur the erec tion o fort:, saes which could not be maintained. e Hoo. Gentleman, to tv , ose uotents he was molt replying, was a eteat prophet.— (A ',ugh ) A year and a halt ago he prophesied, mat it would he next to imposaa Ve, it the preset Ministers proceeded in the course w ipe ) they had adopted, that t he peace of Europe could be oreserved for one y-ar. Nearly two years had elap-eel, and the peace of Europe remained unbroken —(Hear, hear.) The Hon. Gentleman, in the like spirit of pro pbecy, bad declared that the French fleet, when once moored in the Tagus, would not remove from Portugal, and that the Fetich army, when once marched into Bei giumn, would remain there. But, for the spirit of pro ; hecy, the French fl.et did leave the Team:, and tom- French army did retire from Belgium !—( He ar, t e ,r. ) With what did the Hon. Gentleman now find lau , t? 1-1 , c inured the Government because they inlet feted to settle the differences bete een two contending Powers, w/o:Jo quarrel, ii n tt amittably settled, was likely to engender war all over the Continent —( Hear, hear.) He contended that the barrier for resses of 1815 could nut prevent the occu pation of Belgium, looking to the national antipathies which existed on the part of Belgium towards the do minion of Holland. What, then, was the intention o his Majesty's pret , ent Ministers ? Why, it was to effee tbat—the independence of Belgium—which their p:e. dtcessors had attempted to do. Let not, then, lie flit non the present Gevernment the odium of severi,iz Holland from Belgium. They would have gladly cemented the union between the two countries, but They fund that the separation was already determined on ; and all that re m tined for them to do was, to look to the terms on which th.t separation was to be carried into effect. Russia having fulfilled her engagements to the letter, were they now to say to that power, " We will not grant you this 1,500,000 L, instrumental as you have been in preserving the pe ice of Europ- ? " Were they to he censured, if they endeavoured to keep up the good faith of the country, which, God forbid ! should ever in their hands he tar nished or broken ?---( Hear, hear.) " Why," it was alsed, " should you enter into new engagements? " The aesNer was obvious. Those who advised this course were of opinion that if doubt existed, Russia should, through the au limit} , of Parliament, receive that security which she Iy (Its! rved.—(Hear, hear.) But then it was said, " Would you subsidize an enemy ? " In this case, we lee! Only to look to one point—was that enemy an enemy to Belgium ? This country would not be freed fiotn her engagement, unless Russia showed herself hostile to our policy with respect to Belgium. In the first in stence, the policy of this country was union between Hui leiol and Belgium. Sultsegnently circumstances rendered icpiration necessary. In neither case had Russia dis seeted trom our policy, and therefore she had a right to coil for the fulfilment of our eugacement. It was, how ever, odd, that if the situation of Holland was changed, Lc:gland was no longer bound by the contract. He de d this; and then came the question—were the views of If Aland the same as those of England ? They manifestly a ere not. Holland was a ixious . for an extension of her t. Ft itorv, hut that was nut the wish or desire of England. II r object was to secure the independence of Belgium ag Cnst the ambition of France, anti thereby to prevent a neral war throughout Europe.—(Hear, hear.) The H. Gentleman had said that he did not wish to embar rass Ministera—th it he had no desire of appealing through that House to the hust:ngs ; yet the whole tenour of his speech had evidently a tendency to both the one and the other. Sir G. MURRAY declared his intention of voting for th e amendment. In the documents laid before that House, there was no reas whatever to be found which ought to induce them to continue those payments to Russia.— (I lear, hear.) He might be wrong, but he knew that in re thing that declaration, he was not violating the bottom of a g-nrleman, neither was he offering his sentiments for e:ectioneering purposes, for he knew not the opinion of any one of his constituents on this subject.—(Hear, hear.) Gentl-men opposite had aroused those who thought ith him of inconsistency, but the inconsistency was to be found on the part of Government. They were told in J intriry last by the Attorney General, that he and his fi ;ends had founded their op•nions upon certain documems tt hich were net f atlicemine, but to-night they were in farmed by the Noble Lord (Althorp) that his opinion was founded upon no such documents. It had been said that this was the fourth debate upon precisely the same subject. 'Teis, however, was not a cerrect statement. Teeee debates grew out of diff rent potiit,, although connected with that subject. As to the assertion that the present state of teiegs grew out of the policy of the last Government, lie sh old tee prepared to show, if that question came on for iseussion, that the present ministers were fir more answer alee tear it than their predecessers. He ridiculed the idea et the hazier now affected to be set up aeaitist the ambi tion of Fs sore. Here was a mill state, retninifine him -omnethimmg of a rajelishi e in India ; the army it pneseeeed, ,ind which "as to he a check to the ambition of France, was officerid by Frenchmen, just as the armies f Indian adults were officered by Enelishmsn.—(Flear, hear.) 17 was expressly said in this treaty, that cur obligations were to be a• an end when the Low Countries were se vered from Holland. That was the letter of the treaty. iiet gentlemen opposite told them that they were to Ink to the spirit, and net to the letter, of the obligation. iiiiweeer, would ask, where was the plea that the letter end spirit of the treaty did not agree? He would main tain, 'hat the spirit was to be found in these documents which Ministers refused to give ibein. The Right Hon. Gentleman opposite had argued that the spirit was to be discover e d in speeches to which he gave an in'erpretation never imagined by the Ministers who delivered them. The treaty expressly stipulated that these payments should h e made only so long as the Netherlands belonged t,m the !liaise of Orange.—(Hear, hear ) Nothing could be clearer than that declaration. Ii further stated, that in proportion as any part of the Netherlands should he withdrawn from the King of Holland, the payments should be reduced in the same ratio. He therefore argued, teat as th e whole of the Netherlands had been withdrawn (rem Helfand, so should the whole of these payments be withdrawn from Russia. It had been said that this was a party question, brought forward in order to displace Mini sters from their present situations; but who, he would ask, would like to succeed them ? Who, for instance, would wish to succeed the Right Hon. Gentleman op pesite in his administration of the affairs of Ireland ? (Vocifeious cheers from the Opposition ) Who would like to inliow the foooreps of that Right Hon. Gentleman in enifeivourine to settle the important and momentous question of tithes? The expression of the Right Hon. G , ntleman, " extinction of tithes," hail been literally ful filled in that unfortunate country; and surely, looking at the stare of our relations with the continent—looking at the sate of Ireland, and looking at the state of our finances, no one could be possibly considered ambitious of assuming the reins of Government in the room of the pre sent Minister,..—(Cheers from the Opposition.) Mr. STANLEY thought it scarcely necessary for him to reply to that statement of the Right Hon. Baronet with respect to the declaration that tithes were to be ex tinguished. That statement he had over and over again refuted—(No)—re'uted to the satisfaction of the 'Tense (No, and hear.) He should not have trispass.d again on their attention but for the allusions of the Right Hon. Baronet to that part of the empire with which he was more particu'arly connected. The Right Hon. Baronet had spoken of the state of Ireland. He would tell that Right Hon. Baronet—and he defied him to gainsay it— that Ireland was in an infinitely better state than when he came into office.—(Cheers, and laughter from the Oppo sition.) Aye, he repeated that it was in every respect in a more peaceable and prosperous state than when the pre sent Ministry took on themselves the Governtnent.—(Ve hement and continued cheering front the Opposition.) He said it, and the Right Hon. Gentleman who had been at the head of affairs in that country (Sir H. Hardinge) was present to hear it—that there was less danger to be apprehended from the people of Ireland at the present moment than when the Government of that country was handed over to him. At that time the Bank of Ireland was fortified—(No, no)—the towns were garrisoned, the fortresses were provisioned, and even the troops stationed on the coast had their instructions with re spect to the places on which they were to fail back in the event of commotion. —(Cheers.) He did not say that .he Right Hon. Baronet (Herdinge) bad not done his duty as a good guerrillr and a skilful soldier for the pre servation of the public peace ; but he maintained that the state of Ireland was such, that the Government must have been glad'of the opportunity to give it up to their oppo• newts.—(Cheers from the Ministerialists—abswered by cheers from the Opposition.) He would not enter into the other qugetions touched on by the• Right Hon. Barmier, for tley . did not •helong to his department; but this he might say, that the Navy never had been in. a more ef fective state than at present, although the expenses hail tweet reduced upwards of a million in eighteen. months; and as to the Colonies. he apprehended, from the papers left in the Colonial Office, that treasures were in content templetioo by the termer Government not very oifferent from those attempted by their. successors.—(Cheers.) The Government need not be taunted by the Right Hun. Baronet with the present state of public affairs, for he ap prehended that if the Right Hon. Baronet's parer were to succ&d.thein now, they would succeed to infinitely less difficulty and embarrassment in every department than the Right H n. Birenet and his rile agues had left to them. whether they looked to the policy pursued at home of abroad—to Ireland or the Colonies—to trade or to finance. Cheers.) Sir GEORGE MURRAY defied the Right Hon. Gentleman to inept out any document left in the Colonial effice during the time he was at the head of the depart merit which either sanctioned anything like the dis erim.nating scale of duties, or proposed to impose on the Colonists ausurd end impracticable regulations on the eub• jest of the quattity of razors, and awes, and hats, to be seven to the n games.—(Cheers.) • Sir HENRY HARDINGE (being loudly cared on) 'aid, he could take on himself to say, that the state o Ireland new could bear no comparison with the state if 1 830.—(Cheers from tee Opposition.) He had lid. tae S rer e t a ry s hi p o f I re l an d on l y t h ree mont h s , an d . experien ce t h erefore was s h ort ; b ut when the Rigel Hoe. Gentleman referred to the military preparations, be could tell him that, after the event-s which had take , place in Paris and in Brussels, he felt it his duty to take every pi ecaution for the preservation of the tranquillity' of the country.—(Hear, hear.) He defied the Right Hon. Gentleman, however, to point out a single instance, fey the three or the six months preceding, of such meeting. being allowed to take place as those they had lately hearu of.—(Cheers.) The policy he pursued in that country Dad been adopted and followed up by the Noble Lord then at the head of the• Government of Ireland, and if the state of Ireland was now so much worse, it was because the Government had encouraged turbulent Ineetio4s, and agitation both in England and Ireland its order to assist them in carrying the Reform Question.— (Hear, hear.) He stated it without hesitation, that more blood had been shed (brin.. the last eighteen months of misgovernment in England and Ireland, than during the fifteen years of the government of the other party. When they found 50 or 60.000 men allowed to assemble, until very lately, for illegal purposes, it was impossible not to see that the state of Ireland was much worse than it had ever been before.—(Cheers.) It was not his flute that the House had been troubled with these explanations. —(Hear.) With respect to the qu,stion of the loan, he could only say, that as the Government had not declared tine papers they refused to give contained any thing, the knowledge of which would lie prejudicial to the public service, he should certainly, on the ground of neeess,ry information being withheld, vote for the mo•ion of the 11-mher for Rochester.—(Cheers. ) The SOLICITOR GENERAL denied ]raving spoken of the document in what he said formerly on this questi en ; and, if his Hon. Colleague 111,1 done so, he could only say that all who heard him admitted his speech to he a triumphant answer to the charge brought against the Government.—(Hear, hear.) The question really to be considered was, if the House would agree to the treaty made by Government or no? The course of Govern ment, in the late arrangement, had been foumled upon the spirit of the treaty of ISIS. At that time Russia was entitled to compensation, and, decidedly, that empire should not be deprived of the payments then conceded, in consequence of the separation which had taken place be tween Holland and Belgium, inasmuch as that separation was made with the full consent of England, and acceded to by Russia at the eat nest representation of England. Mr. BARING, in explanation, complained that no an swer had been given by the G-ntlemen opposite to his question. All he wanted to know was, what was the in formation on which the Law Officers had given their opinions ? The SOLICITOR-GENERAL stated the opinion he had given was founded on the treaty itself, and no other information. Sir R. INGLIS expressed himself opposed to the policy pursued by Government un this question. He did not re g , rd it as a question of money. It was, in his mind, whe ther they were or were not haunt] by the treaty of 1815, to continue this payment to Russia. He entirely disap proved of the line of c•on , luct which bad lie-n pursued towards the King of Halland ; his ancestors deserved well of all lovers of religious and poli;ical freedom, and he was himself a Monarch of exemplary character. Condemning. however, as he did, the c , nduct pursued by the Adminis tration, he would not vote against it on the present occasion. Air HUNT had looked upon this matter from the first as a job.—(Lauglcer and cheers.) H.., for one, was nut thspusf d as others to sacrifice the public money for a fanciful maintenance of the national taiat. He was ma, however, inciined to embarrass Gov , •rnment, and o ou'd nut, accordingly, vote againq it, but he would not v,te for Government. If he did, he felt he would be re ducing himself to the rank of a party man—(elieer,)— whi c h he never would do.—(Hear, and laughter.) He r,• 011 !(] r o t vote against his ju'grnent. An HON. 111 EMBER—A la Hume.—(Cheers and lamhter.) Mr. HUNT—No, I will never vote against my con si,ienee—(CLeers and litighter)—:is the Hon. Member for Middlesex has done.—(Cheers.) I do not mean to v-te for Government. I will not vote against them. I shall leave the House without voting at all. Mr. HUAIE, in explanation, said he had acted con sistently in having toll his re 'son for voting against his Opinion. He wished other Members would he as con sistent. Mr. HUNT never would vote against his conscience and say so.—(A I :ugh. ) S r It. PEEL said that he bad very little to say on this subject. —(Hear.) He would not enter into any to pics of a private and domestic nature, but would din et his observations to a point of public viry. What was th case with rt..!7ard to this question of Holland and Russia? It was true th tt we still retained the colonies we had taken from Holland ; and that England was, therefore, in some sort, under an obligation to compensate Holland, be would not positively deny. If, therefore, he were now called on to give a decided vote whether the money should be paid to Russia or Holland, he should certainly feel some difliculty in making up his mind on the subject. H e would indeed admit, that there might be a doubtful claim of honour on this country, in consequence of the Conven tion of 1S 15 ; so that, in fact, the question was one of mixed considerations ; but, if it was, why did the Govern ment press them to a decisive vote, before all those mixed etinsiderations were clearly settled and explained ? ' He denied that the interference of the late Government on this question was a proof that they anticipated a sepa ration roust take place between Holland and Belgium. Throughout their whole conduct they showed they anti cipated no such thing. Why had not the Government yet called on Parliament to ratify the treaty relating to Greece? For this reason—that they intended first to put tin the table of the House all the documents connected with that treaty. Why had they not taken the same course with regard to this convention ? By the confession of the Ministers themselves, the negnciations wore not finally completed ; and he asserted, that by Parliat»en tory precedent, they cool I not call for this vote till those proceedings were completed. The Right Hon. Gentle man than went into a statement of the points in which the negnciations were not completed. Russia had ratified the treaty with reserves. The Ministry had laid the treaty on the table of the House, hut did not explain what those reserves were, ELT whether they had since. been re moved. Affairs were now arrived at that crisis when the lapse of only a fortnight would decide whether Europ e was to be involved in war or to rem iin in possessio n of the blessings of peat •. If this country were about to interfere hostilely, the House ought to have information laid before it to satisfy it that it ought to interfere. Let the House remember the siege of Haarlem, and 1-t it re flect how much might be done by a small lint a united and a gallant people. He called upon Ministers tither to af ford further information, or to postpone the present vote until the arrangements were completed. The responsibi lity would rest with the House ; but he (Sir Robert Peel) protested against the unfairness and injustice of the pro ceeding. Lord PALMERSTON adverted first to what had been said regarding Greece, and contended that the present Mi nisters had only acted upon an engagement entered into by their predecessors. He then justified tte appointment of Prince Otbo of Bavaria, as Sovereign of Greece, and insisted that the papers already laid upon the table amply justified the course taken by this Government with refe rence to the Greek loan. In making the recent arrange. meats between Holland and Belgium, Ministers had pur sued British objects ; and if Holland had lost Belgium by her own misgovernment, she could have no right to de mand hack part of the price she had paid for it. He as sured the Right Hon. Baronet that there were no reserves as regarded the separation of Belgium. He (Lord Pal merston) did not mean to say that either the last or the present Government were the authors of the separation be tween Belgium and Holland : they found that s e par a ti on existing, and it was clear that hostile measures could never produce a lasting reconciliation. In fact, the separati on was best calculated to carry; into effect the great'principles of. European peace and security. He (Lord P.) would venture to state his prophecy in opposition to thst of th e Hon. Member for Thetford, viz. that the present esta blishment and constitution of Belgium would he found in the long tun an arrangement more effectual for its object than the settlement attempted in 1815. His Lordship then proceeded to argue, that the Articles for the naviga ion of certain waters of Holland were not less advan tageous to Holland than to Belgium. If it should not be his lot to continue to conduct the negoei ttions on this sub ject, he should always look hack with great satisficion :it the part he had t ken in a matter t h s t was undoubtedly one of great diffieul y. It was w e ll k nown t h at when his lmminent cy d prevent Ministersiwniasrte. Foray, ar and a half at leastrs enteied up on o ff ice t h ere was i that event had been averted ; and he felt persuaded that It the various po.nts of their conduct, with ref-rence to ur toreign relations, were known to the country at large. they would experience general approbation. With re spect to the proposed ainendmenr, he hoped the Com ,iiittee would not be indueed to believe that it was merely a motion fur delay. The plain and obviou s proposition on .aid h they were called upon to pronounce, was, whether he future paymtaits in question were to be sanctioned or negatived by Parliament? The Committee 'then divided—... For the Amendment ........................... 112 Against it ............................... ....... 191 Majority for Ministers ............ 79 The anuaunceinent was rec e iv e ,' with loud cheers. Th e .riginal Reso!ution was then agreed to, and the louse having resumed, the Report Was ordered to be re ,eived this thy. The other Orders of the Day were then disposed o'; and at half. past two o'clock the flotoe adjourned. HOUSE OF LORDS, JULY 20. MESSAGE FROM THE COMMONS. Several Priv gte Bills were brought up from the Com mons, and read a first time. LONDON POLICE BILL. The City of London Police Regulation Bill Was read a s(cond time, and committed for Monday next. On the motion of the Duke of RICHMOND the Re wetly against the Hundred Bill was rea I a third tune and psied. REFORM OF PARLIAMENT (IRELAND) BILL. The Doke of CUMBERLAND asked whether the Noble Earl would not postpone the second reading of the Irish Reform Bill beyond Monday next, urging the ab ,ence of Ir'sh Peers, and their expectation that the Bill would not so coon have come into their Lordships' house. Earl GREY begged to decline, as he had last night, eomplying with the Noble Duke's request. The printed copies of the Bill would be on the table this evening, or to-morrow morning at farthest. The Earl of LIMERICK urged the postponement of t;ie second readim on the same grounds as the Noble Duke. L"ril GOSFORD said he was convinced that the delay o s I , rtnight or three weeks would not bring an increase f Irish Peers to t-:wr. The Duke of IVELLDTGTON thought the sect): relffing oug ,, t to be postponed. Earl GREY could not help thinking that any postpone ment of the second reading would only lead to unnecessary delay, which it Wes most important at the present time should not take place. If the second leading pissed on M,nday next, he hoped it would not be considered as hurrying the Bill trio much, if the Committee were fixed for Thursday next. As they must all be familiar with the Bill, he did nut think any Noble Lord would have to com plain of baste. Lord WYNFORD said, that althouoi the Bill had been upon their table, as it had not been printed, they had had no opportunity of considering it. Earl GREY—The Commons have printed it. Lord WYNFORD said, he had enough to do to read their Lordships' papers. lle should under all the circum stances think himself justified in moving that the second reading 91 the Irish Reform Bill he taken on Thursday next. The questl , n having been put, Earl GREY rm,ved as an amendment that the Bill he read a second time on Monday. Ili, House divided, when there appeared— For the Amendment Against it 1: Majority for Ministers BRIBERY AT ELECTIONS BILL. Lord WY NFORD moved the order of the day for the second reading of this Bill. The Learned Lund would not have persevered in bringing forward the present mea sure, but that Lord John Russel, in the House of Coot - moos, was understood to withdraw his promised Bid on the same subject till next session. Without some such measure, the Reform Bill would not only be incomplete, but actually productive of much corruption. The LORD CHANCELLOR thought it %you'd be better to leave this very important subject to the other House of Parliament. He was aware that his Noble and Le !rued Friend also wished a Bill to originate in the Commons, and that he hail brought forward the present nr!asure under the impression that the Ministerial Bill which was introduced into that House hail been dropped. lie (the Lord Chancellor) hail mule inquiry, and learned that the Bill was not dropped. It hal been read a second time, and its commitment on Tues lay was only prevented by the acc,dent of the House being counted out. It was still the intention of the authors of the Bill to press it ; he trusted it would pass, and receive the concurrence of the Legslature previously to the termination of the Session. He thought with the Noble Lad that there existed, if possible, greater reasons than ever to make the laws against bribery effective. Lord WYNFORD would not press the Bill after what had fdllen from the Noble and Learned Lord on the wool •aek ; hut trusted there ,ould he n objection to allowing it to be r..ad a secon.l timeprofornaa. The Bill was read a second time s and the House ad. j aimed till Monday. The Members of the Conservative Club, No. 2, Cirlton Terr ice, have (according to a correspondent) received notice from the Commissioners of Woods and Forests to quit forthwith. It appears, from the leases granted to those residing on Carlton Terrace, that no house is to be converted into a clubhouse. The clique are extreme y dissatisfied with the determination of the Commissioners; especially as they have been unable to ?rovide tl - Rinselves with a suitable residence in which to hold their secret meetings. It has b , en proposed by some of the party to dissolve the club entirely ; and we under stand meetings to that effect have been held—the result has, however, not transpired. Sir DANIEL KEYTE SANDFORD, Professor of Greek in Glesgow University, has offered himself a can didate for the representation of Glasgow. REPRESENTATION OF YORK AND YORK SHIRE.-Turyi•m is nearly extinct in Yorkshire. For the City, Mr. DUNDAS, one of the present Members, and die Hon. E. PETRE, the unsuccessful candidate at the etectim in 1830, have declared their determination to offer themselves again. The Tories, it is said, cannot induce any one to come forward in their interests—neither is there a Tory candidate for any of the ridings nor any of the new boroughs, with the exception of Whitby and Leeds. COUNTY ELECTION. The Tories are making great efforts: they are retaining every attorney that will accept their fees. Meanwhile, what are the R~ fortner's doing ? Mr. SANDFORD is not at work ; he has no agents—no canvassers._lt should be remembered that the eleirors who give him their votes, have a right to re quire that those votes should be protected, and not utterly wasted, from a deficiency of activity and spirit on the part of him to whom they are given.—Slierborne Chronicle. PEMNIEKIN.—Does the reader know what Pemmekin is? Should he not he so far informed, wt will tell him, that Peattnekin is a name given to the previously innominate ma-s formed for the nourishment of the sailors who went under Captain PARRY'S command to the North Pole—a concentration of the nutritious quallies of meat, so powerful, that 50 pounds of beef make about a square inch of much of it scraped as will lie on a shilling, will feed a fellow six feet high and four feet broad for 22 hours; its great merit is of course its portability ; and its utility must be evident to the most inveterately prejudiced . - landsman, when he comes to consider that Jack can carry a quarter of a bullock in his tobacco-box, and slow away half a devn hams and a fillet of veal in the fob of his trows,rs. —Liverpool Courier. A CAT 0' ONE TAlL.—Carding the tithe proctors (who certainly were the genuine tyrants of Ire hind) was occasionally resorted to by the white boys, and was performed in the following •nanner. The tithe proctor was generally waked out of his first sleep by his door being smashed in ; and the boys in white shirts de sired him " never to fear," as they only intended to card him this bout for taking a quarter instead of a tenth from every poor man in the parish. They then turned him on his face upon the bed; and taking a lively ram cat out of a bag which they brought with them, they set the cat between the proctor's shoulders. The beast, being nearly as much terrified as the proctor, wouhi en deavour to get off; but being held fast by the tail, he in trenched every claw deep in the proctor's back, in order to keep up a firm resistance to the white boys. The more the tail was pulled back, the more the ram cat tried to go forward; at length, when he had, as be conceived, made his possession quite secure, main force convinced him to the contrary, and that if he . kept his hold he must lose his tail. So, he was dragged backward to the proctor's loins, grappling at every pull, and bringing away, here and there, strips of the proctor's skin, to prove the pertinacity of his defence. When the ram cat hail got dawn to the loins, be was once more placed at the shoulders, and again carded the proctor (toties quoties) according to his sentence.—Sir Jonah Barrtngton's Sketches. PLAGUE IN FORMER TIMES.--The Rev. Dr. RUDGE, in a Late sermon on the cholera tnoibui., gives the following historical narrative of the ravages o' the pestilence in former times In 1349, it raged in England to such a frightful extent, as that scarcely 1. tenth part of the population of the country, of all classes, were lett alive. The churches and churchyards were in. sufficient to contain the dead ; and in the metropolis it wag found necessary to consecrate a large spot in % ,, st inithfield as a burying ground, upon which house's are now erected, arid wriiclteXtended even over a part of the ate on which the New Post-office has been built. During its prevalence, 50,000 persons were here inter red. In tl;e , eign of the Einiteror VESI.AsIAN 10,000 daily f e l. victims to it in Rime alone; and this awful sacrifice of oilman lives contrnuerl for several days. In the year 1345, the pestilence was so general throughout t . ,e Christian world, that it destroyed more than one-half on those whom the infection had seized. At Constantinople, lit the reign of JUsTiNtAti, 50,000 died daily. Tn. African plague was no less destructive in its march. Commencing at Carthage, it swept off in its course, in Numidia alone, 80,000; on the tea-coast of Africa, 4 00,000, together with 30,000 soldiers at Utica. In th , itrie of PETRARCII, such was its destructiveness in It tly hat, cut of every t , olisand, not ten persons survived. It, London, at the great pl-igu; about a century arid a halt since the present period, it has been estimated that mon than 100,000 persons pe.ished in the city and its en virons. The disconsolate metropolis was nearly deserted ay its inhabitants; trade entirely ceased; the Courts of law were closed ; and no pictorial representation can 4ive the faintest idea of the actual state and real misery to which the devoted city was then doomed."—See Dr Fudge's Sermon. FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE, WAR-OFFICE, JULY 20. -2d Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Captain C. Paget, from half-pay of the Regiment, to be Captain, vice Curtis, deceased, July 20. 3d Regiment of Foot—Assistant-Surgeon A. Wood, M. I). from the 7-3 th Foot, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Francis Browne, who retires upon half-pay 26th Foot, July 20. 4th Foot—Captain P. Dolisle, from half-pay ilith Foot, to be Ciptain, vice Henry P. Hill, appointed Paymaster Bth Foot, July ‘2.0. Sth Foot—Captain A. P. Hill, from the 4th Foot, to be Pay master, vice Cox, deceased, July 20. 9th Foot—S. Brownrigg, Gent, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Ogilvie, who retires, July 2.0. 16th Font—Ensign C. J. Carter to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice O'Neill, appointed to the 49111 Foot. G. H. Wallace, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Carter, July 20. 9th Foot—Lieut. J. O'Neill, from the 16th Foot, to be Lieu. tenant, vice Faders, who retires, July 20. 42d Foot—Ensign J. M Fergusson to be Lieutenant, by pur chase, vice Douglas,. who retires. Serjeant-maior Wheat ley to he Adjutant, with the rank of Ensign, vice Macfarlane, who resigns the Adjutantcy only, July 20. 68th Foot—Staff.Assistant.Surgeon J. Fitzgerald, M.D. to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Williams, promoted, July 30. 78th Foot—Statf-Assistant-Surgeon W. Robertson to be As sistant-Surgeon, vice Wood, appointed to the 3d Font, July 20. 81st Foot—Capt. J. Ward, front half-pay unattached, to be Captain, vice D. Duval, who exchanges, receiving the diffe rence, July 20. Ist 'West . India Regiment—W. M. Mids., Gent. to be Ensign tiy purchase, vice Robinson, who retires, July 20. GARRISONS.—Lieut.-Gen. Sir John Byng, G.C.B. to be Go. vernor of Londonderry and Culmore, vice General Hart, de. ceased, July 17.. _ 110S1'1TAL STAFF.—Assistant-Surgeon J. Forrest, M D. from half-pay Bth West India Regiment, vice Fogarty, promoted in the 21d Foot, July 9; Assistant-Surgeon F. Hopkins M.D. from half-pay 2d Life G uar d s; A ss i s t an t-S urgeon M. 1,. huigan, from half-pay 57th Foot, July 11 ; Assistant-Surgeon C. Foote, from half-pay 26th Foot, vice Robertson, appointed to the 78th Foot, July 20. Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Sussex. C. S. Dickins, jun. Esq to be Deputy Lieutenant, July IS. Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of the County al Salop. Shropshire Militia. E. L. Gatacre, E. F. Acton, W. Davenport, and J. E. Graham, Esqs. to be Captains; F. Marston, J. M. K. Chadwick, T. Hard wick, and T. Matthews, Gents. to be Lieutenants ; C. Fraser, T. Boyce, and J. M. Fraser, Gents. to be Ensigns, July 12. North Salopian Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry. Cornet J. Shirley to be Adjutant, with the rank of Captain ; R. Masefield, Gent. to be Lieutenant, vice Warren, promoted, July 6. ST. JAMES'S-PALACE, JULY 13. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland has been pleased to appoint Mr. George Cooper, of Brentford, to be sur. geon to his Royal Highness. ST. JA M ES's-PA LACE, JULY 17. The King was this day pleased to confer the honour of Knight hood upon Charles Marshall, Esq. ClnefJusticc of the Supreme Court in the island of Ceylon. FOREIGN OFFICE, JULY IR The King has been graciously pleased to approve of M. Durant St. Andre, as Consul-General in London for his Majesty the King ()Utile French. The King has also been graciously pleased to approve of Mr. William Maury as Vice-Consul at Liverpool for his Majesty the King of the French. Tice King has also been graciously pleased to appiore of Mr. John Mitchell, as Consul at Leith for his Majesty the King of the Belgians. The king has alai) been graciously pleased to approve of Mr. Johnston, as Consul at Liverpool for his Majesty the King of the Belgians. The King has also been graciously pleased to approve of Mr. Giovanni Monticelli, as Consul-General at Malta for his Ma. jesty the King of the Two Sici!ics. FOREIGN-0/ 7 1 - 'IOE, JULY 18. The King has been graciously pleased to appoint Gilbert Earl of Mint°, to be his Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of Prussia. WHITEHALL, JUNE 18. The Lord Chancellor has appointed John Matthews, of Oxford, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chan• cery. BANKRUPTCY ENLARGED. THOMAS MORRIS, Westbromwich, Staffordshire,iron roller maker, from July 27 to Aug. 17, at eleven, at Whistou's Cross Inn, S slop. BANKRUPTS. SAMUEL MASON, Aintree, Liverpool, innkeeper, to sur render Aug. 3,4, and 31, at two, at the Star Inn, Manchester. Makinson and S .nders, Tenn le, London ; Hadfield, Manclieste JOHN FA LLOWS, Northfield, Worcestershire, builder, July 31 and Aug 31, at twelve, at the White Horse Inn, BT. mingham. Norton and Chaplin, Gray's Inn-square, London; Spurrier, Birmingham. WILLIAM SLADE, Mortimer-Market, Tottenham.court road, c. ach-smith, July 26, at eleven, and Aug. 31, at ten, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Roberts, Milman-street, Bedford-row. JOHN THOMAS PERKINS and WILLIAM PE ;iKINS, Monmouth-Street, Soho, pattern-card-manufacturers, July 26, at twelve, and Atm. 31, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy.— Arden, Clifford's Inv-passage, Fleet-street. NATHANIEL CRATER, Milbank, colour-manufacturer, July 30, at three, and August 31, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Sweet and Carr, Basinghall-street ; Clark, official assignee, St. Swithin's-lane. JOHN and JAMES FORRESTER, New.cut, Lambeth, grounds and harm merchants, August 3 and 31, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Bowden, Lambeth-road; Lackingtou, official assignee, Basinghall-street. JOHN DIAMOND, St. Paul's Ch urch yard, tobacconist, Aug. 3 and 31, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Lloyd, Crown. court, Cheapside ; Graham, official assignee, Copthall-buildings. EDMOND BIRD, \Vest-street, West Smithfield, licensed victualler, July 31, at half-past two, and August 31, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Smith, Charter-house-square; Cannon, official assignee, Lothbury. t.:I3IKUN 0 MANLEY. Chowbent, Lancashire, machine maker, Aug. 8, at three, and3l, at one, at the Commercial Inn, Bolton. Chilton and Son, Chancery-lane, London ; liultwi, Bolton. WILLIAM HART GADEN, Liverpool, merchant, Aug. 6 and 31, at two, at the Clarendon Rooms, Liverpool. Vincent, King's Bench-walk, Temple, London ; Fletcher, Bartley and Roberts, Liverpool. WILLIAM DAVIS, Launceston, Cornwall, common-carrier, Aug. 7 and 31, at twelve, at the White Hart Inn, Okehampton. Rogers, Manchester-buildings, Westminster; Hawkes, Oke ham I )to n. THOMAS BIRD, Liverpool, cotton-broker, Aug. 6 and 31, at twelve, at the Clarendon Rooms, Liverpool. Miller and Peel, Liverpool ; Taylor, Roscoe, and Turner, King's Bench-walk, TemjAe,.l.olidon. JOHN RIDSDA LE, Springfield, Yorkshire, stufflmerchant, Aug 2 and 31, at eleven, at the Court House, WaketicA. Herring and Baxter, Lincoln's lnn-fields, London ; Foljarahe and Dixon, Wakefield. ROBERT NATHANIEL EDWARDS, Manchester, Tic. tualler, Aug. 3,4, and 34 at nine, at the Palace Inn, Manchest r. Johnson and NVeatherall, Temple, London; Wood and Collier, Manchester. DIV] DENDS. T. King, Frederick's place, Kennington-lane, merchant„kug. 10, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy—W. Powell, Chelteii. hani,coachmaker, Aug. 25, at the Lamb Inn, Cheltenham—W. Wheeler, Cheltenham, whitesmith, Aug. 13, at eleven, at the King's llcad Inn, Gloucester—W. Bodman and J. Carwardine, Bristol, soap-manufacturers, Aug. 11. at ten, at the Commercial Rooms, Bristol—J. Potter and W. Maude, Chorlton.row, Lan. cashire, calico-printers, Aug. 1, at two, at the Palace Inn, Man chester—J. Coupland, Liverpool, factor, Aug. i, at twelve, at the Clarendon-buildings, Liverpool—T. W. Stansfield, H. Briggs, and H. and H. Stansfeld, Leeds, merchants, Aug. 11, at ten, at the Sessions House, Leeds. CERTIFICATES, A UOUST 10. H. C. Curlewis, Hanover-street, Hanover-square, tailor—J. Swetten ham , \V,rksworth, Derbyshire, scrivener—T. Wari ton, Guildford-street, wine-broker—G. F. Fuller, jun. Ramsgate, grocer—M. Woodward, Rugeley, Staffordshire, mercer—W. Gregory, Nottingham, commission-agent. PARTNERSHIPS DILSOLVED. J. Kelly and J. Mason, Cambridge, tea-dealers—W. Young and T. Renwick, St. Maro.at-Hill, oil-merchants—J. Bailey and Co., Aberystruth, Monmouthshire, general retail salesmen—T. M. Knight and Co., Hammersmith, lunatic asylum kee•yers, as far as regards W. Treadwell—W. Edden and Co., Leadenhall street, tea-dealers, as far as regards W. Edden—R. Coulson and R. Nelmes, Whiskin-street, Clerkenwell, engravers —R. Groom and J. Smith, Welch Pool, Montgomeryshire, plumbers—J. Stubbs and W. Partridge, Bridge-street, Lambeth, linen-drapers —K Jones and P. J. Phillips, Wells-row, Islington, plumbers— R. Ward and T. Dobb, Dronfield, Derbyshire, manufacturing chemists—R. Withnell and T. lotton, Brindle, Lancashire, millstone-makers—W. Downe, sen., and E. Ellis, High Holborn, I.lumbers—R. and J. Bradshaw, Liverpool, flour-dealers—E. Rhodes and I'. D. Clayton, Preston, timber-merchants. COUNTER MARCH OF INTELLECTt-DR ring the recent scientific Congress at Oxford, Mr. FA RADAY was exhibiting privately to a few friends his ex periment of obtaining the electric spark from the magnet. While this was proceeding, the head of one of the col leges (Dr. T.) entered, and inquired what was going en. He was told that the Professor of the Royal Institution was demonstrating a proof of his late very important dis covery, the nature of which was• explained to the Re verend Doctor. " I anssorry to hear of it," said the very sapient Rector; " I am exceedingly sorry to hear of it; it will only put new arms into Me hands of infidels." Should the report of the contemplated mar riage of the beautiful Miss Szaacnarr and Lord KIN NAIRD (Baron ROSSIE in the English Peerspe) prove authentic, it is expected that the Mai quis of HERTFORD viii give his young charge a fortune of 200,000/. His Lordship was appointed, guardian to this young lady and !ter sisters by the late gsllant Vice. Admiral Sir Riciaa. RD JOHN STA ACHAN, Bart., on whose dissolution witho u t nale heirs, some )ears ago, the title (a Baronetcy of Nova Scotia) became extinct. It has been rumoured hat a Prince of the Royal Family of Naples was a suitor for the hand of Miss (111ATILDA) STRACHAN during her residence in Italy. D a H r n I E , yN, hasY ( I .l A u iSreT: fresho N I Author of e the publicationof his present story. The scene is laid in Engl and, at one of the most inter e sting periods of our history , namel y , the eign of the first CHARLES—a period wh en men's minds were strangely Unsettled, and when the opponent factioos if R;undheads and Cavaliers threatened to involve the caumry in all the horrors of civil war. The reader wh o relights in variety of adventure, and constant change o f -Gene, will follow with interest the fortunes o f it Young C a valier." The e vents that befal him on joining hi s .eginnent—his attachment for Lady EMILY LANGLEY, the etrothed of his brother —his skirmish with a party • 1 Caomwzr.r.'s troops—and the stirring scents in the French metropolis, in which he is a principal actor —c on _ i.itute only a few of the leading features of the present • which is destined, if we are not mistaken, .Gory, to br coif :v en a greater favourite than its predece' SMlrti from the Lune pen. EDIBLE ROCKS.—Near the Ural Mountains in Siberia, a substance called "rock meal"—powdere• ,ypstun— is found, which th e nat i ves mix with their weld, and eat. The Tartars likewise eat the lithomarg , , Jr rock-marrow ; and use rock-butter as a remedy b., certain disorders. THE CARTWRIGHT ANNIVERSARY. Yesterday a number of respectable gentlemen. personal friends of the late Major Cartwright, and n. hers, supporte , .s of his political principles, assem bled at White Conduit House tavern, to celebrate the anniversary of the erection of the statue to the rremory of that staunch advocate of Reform in Bur loti-creseent, by a dinner; Joseph Hume, *Esq.. M.P., in the Chair. &silks the Chairman, we observed that there were present, as conspicuous Reformers, Colonel Evans, Sir John Scott Lilly, Dr. Bowring, , and several ether persons of note, and about 200 sat down to dinner. The CHAIRMAN, in proposing the first toast, aid tt'at it was me which involved the dearest interests of the nation, as it embraced the rights of the peo ple to ligislate for themselves. They had now learned that all laws ought to be made for the bene fit of the people, and that political honesty was the essence of good government. It was necessary at the same time that, for the safe enjoyment of pro perty in a country like this, men of character and re spectability should be the representatives of that property in Parliament.—(Cheers.) The perfection of the system was, that all should join in having a good Government at as small an expense . as possible. When he spoke of expense he did not nuan to say that every man, who had any official duties to perform, from the King down.to the lowest Secretary, should not be amply paid for his ser vices; for the time and labour of any man should not be accepted without proper rt muneration; each person should, therefore, according to his means, contribute to die expense of the State, but ought not to be called upon beyond tat► necessary ex pense. lie should propose, as the first n toast, that which was most in accordance with the principles of him whose name and political principles they were .as sembled to celebrate— " The people, the only source of legitimate power." The toast was drunk with nine times nine and great applause. The CHAIRMAN next proposed the second toast " The King, we bear him the loyalty of all lovers of liberty." The toast was enthusiastically received. The third toast was proposed by Mr. REYELL—" " The great cause—good and cheap government." The CHAIRMAN next proposed—" The memory of that virtuous Reformer, John Cartwright, the able, firm, consisteut, and persevering advocate of universal suffrage, equal representation, annual Par liaments, and vote by ballot." Drunk with great but silent respect. Dr. BOWRING said that the Major was unworthy of this world, because this world was, in fact,. un worthy of him.—(Cheers.) Colonel EVANS proposed the next toast-- The freedom of nations, and may the people of the United Kingdom show by their actions that they are worthy of the emancipation they have obtained.' . ___...... The succeeding toast was proposed.. by Mr. LAW. LESS—" '1 he Press, the great source of knowledge, and may it be speedily freed from all taxes and re strictions." Mr. ROGERS, in proposing the next toast, said that by the old common law every Englishman had not only the right, but was bound to carry arms for his own defence, and that of his countiy—" The only ally England requires —arms in the hands of freemen."—(Cheers.) Sir JOHN SCOTT LILLY next proposed the health of the Chairman. The toast was drunk with great enthusiasm. The CHAIRMAN returned thanks. He should always, he said, coniinue to be what they had known him, the supporter of the right of civil and religious liberty, and of cheap and good government, cheap religion, cheap law, and cheap food for the people.—(Cheers.) In alluding to our system of Colonial Government, and its extravagance and miser management, he said than there was then in the room a gentleman, a native of Scotland, who had been for some years a teitler in Canada, and who, has now come over to this country to seek redress for, the oppression he had experienced there, and there was no part of the system with which our Govern• meat was connected that required more the.atten• lion of a reformed Parliament than the Colonial Government. Mr. 111'KENziE (the gengeman just alluded to bf the chairman) addressed the company at considers• ble length, (letailiog the system of oppression under which he had suffered in Canada, which could only be compared to the treatment that John Wilks had experienced in this country. He (Mr. M•lierde) was the proprietor and editor of a newspaper called the Canadian Times, and for the line of politics which he had felt it to be his duty to advocate in that paper, he had been, as representative for the county of York in Canada, the metropolitan county, expelled the House of Assembly. Like Was; however, who had also represented the metropolitan county here, he had been again returned; but he had been again expelled, and was at last driven Irvin his home, to seek redress from the Government of England.—(Cheers.) Mr. MAXWELL proposed the next toast—" land ! may her redemption from the fangs of tyrarinf be as complete as her struggle has been heroic." Professor LAIK SZTESMA, of the University 0 ' War,aw, returned thanks. Mr. SAVAGE proposed the next toast—" May the blood of the French patriots not have been shed io vain ;" and the succeeding toast—" The memory or the persecuted Reformers of Ragland, Ireland, and Scotland." The last toast was—" The memory of the victim ° of despotism in all countries ;" soon after drinkid which the meeting broke up. INQUEST ON TIIE BODY OF MR. WILMS% soN.—The inquest was held last night at the Sprea d Eagle, Thames-hank, Pimlico, On the body of this gen' dollen, who was murdered on the river on Tnesdai night. Tie evidence adduced against the suspected true' derers at the Thames Police office, was:repeated /mince the jury, who returned a verdict of " Wilful Murder" agaioe g BROWN and KENNEDY, as principals, and against Krriss f and FLACK, as access ries after the fact. No verdict sv 4 ° returned against Lyons. The Coroner refused to accept this verdict, and the Jury then confined their verdict 0 " Wilful Murder" against BROWN and KENNEDY. Th e ground of the Coroner's o , jection was, that there was evidence to prove that FLACK and KITLET were "prosen r and the Jury expressed their approbation of the very Oa' at the time the murder was committed. Tbe-00roue" manner in which Mr. MITCHELL, the Tna'nes prisoners, had Conducted officer, who apprehendyd the . , the cast. A most atrocious outrage was p erpetrate d ou Monday night, at Ranelagh , i n t he resilience of an elderly an d m oat respectable lady, ; named W ay, who lives i n a very s ecludid_state in au excellent house next to Pi': LETT'S the grocers ; keeps no inmate or servant in in' lonely dwelling, and is rarely visited by youn g or 01" A ' for her as carpenters. On bearing this sh e allowed them to enter the house. The 05 Three men knocked at Mrs. WAY' S , at six o'clock, • 0 '; workt t tio h ° e uB d lY oor was closed these cowardly ruffians aitaclS e r de her said Mr. Wrim, of W erburgh-street, painter, had se"' m ( r )i i i ie e y et' kn ap oc p k a them,c incautiously the old lady of eighty in the most brutal manner. The her house of all the property which is stated to be in : 8 1,1), to tr u a i tn ur p d , e e r d her, and and then tried p to lu f n o d r E: her into a w i ne bi n , near the kit c h en . Sh e screamed violently, which fortunately alarmed the villains, and tbef fled shortly afterwards. Two of them have s ince be' ll drre t ed h bu n Tim es . STA BBlNG.—Yesterday, HENRY GILg0 1 0 1: who stands charged with having stabbed CoYcHEN. sO as to endanger his life, was again boon ht up to it a ttoa' garden Office, for re-examination, when the wounded 00.0 was represented not to be yet out of danger, and the Pr!: soner was remanded for a week. The prisoner was go"; sleeted. The 'absence of Mr. SERGEANT SELLON, ‘ vll° ippiiinted yesterday for his examination, was unavoidab le ' as we are i n f orme d, o n account of th e su dd en di sso luel°' of his lady, who was suddenly seized with spasms, and car' riifd off in the course of a short interval. -- --- The author of " Highways and Byway's (Mr. GRATTAN) is, we under s t an d, a b out to produce o work similar in design to th e above, excepting that t be stories collected in his character of " walking ge ntlema?', are illustrative of the Rhi ne an d t h e Low Countries ! nom stead of France. An increased popularity (if such A , possible, in comp at ico n w i t h hi s f ormer produci ion) ie ticipated from the more attractive nature of the seen among which Mr. GRATTAN'S new tales are laid.