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~4 1414g4 k .ks it - 4, - --;,,- -, - . ----JO ~ •?r , _____. ~,_:. ~ ‘,..,4) ~;.. (4 :----0 7 . 7 70.5i. 7 .4 0,\ , , , ,,0 , 7 „,,, , 46 77 ,....."---. • S U • z.f; i; 7 71tilf-.0 ‘ ,,,, ,• N . . .3.:,.... ..•:. ------ ) r , . 1 /' / . a 9 ,I) aZi N I -1-1 , ‘-/-- ti N. ROYAL HOSPITAL, CHELSEA, APRIL 9, 1822. THE LORDS COMMISSIONERS for the 1 AFFAIRS of this HOSPITAL do hereby give Notice, that they are ready to treat with such Persons as may be willing to CONTRACT for SUPPLYING the HOSPITAL with COALS for the current year, consisting in the whole, or part of the following descriptions, viz. : Killingsworth, Helburn Main, Heaton Main, Bewicks, Bell's and Russel's Wallsends--about Five Hundred and Twenty Chaldrons, more or less. Those Persons who may be inclined to furnish the said Coals, to be delivered at the Hospital and the Officers' Apartments and Offices therein, are desired to send their Proposals in Writing, at • per Chaldron, including all ex- Pences, on or before THURSDAY, the 25th.instant, (marking on the cover " Tender for Coals)" to the Secretary's Office, where further Particulars may be known, or of the Steward of the said Hospital. OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, Ist of APRIL, 1822. TO BE DISPOSED OF, The DEPOT and PREMISES, belonging to.t his Department, situated within a Quarter of a Mile of the Town of Derby, ALL those Substantia.: Well-built BRICK BUILDINGS and PREMISES, known its the ORD NANCE ARMOURY, with Trussed Barn Roof, Slated, and lined the under side of the Rafters ; and contains two excel lent s t or i e s, 97 feet long and 30 feet wide in the clear; the ground story 17 feet high, the upper story 15 feet (a little Wore or less,) with lobbies at each end of both stories, and Rood light, well adapted for a Manufactory or any other par •ll,ose requiring light and roomy premises. Together with FOUR well-built BRICK DWELLING-HOUSES, consisting ni Ground and one-pair Stories, and large light Closets ; good Yards, with Privies and Sheds; two Magazines; Guard house, 1/ith attached Offices, Sheds, and Work-shops at each end ; a rump, with a Well of good , Water, and Drains. The a 'hole Premises well enclosed with a Brick-wall, and with Car tiage-entrance and bates front the Road. The extent of the Ordnance Land consists of one Acre and one Rood, the centre of which is covered by the Armoury, Magazines, and other Buildings contiguous; the remainder of the Ground is cultivated as Gardens. Also to be disposed of, all the Fittings-up of the Armoury and Accoutrement-room, and other articles ; Fittings-up of the Smith's Shop and Furbishing-room, and other materials. Plans of the Premises may be seen by application at the Secretary's Office, in Pall-Mall, London, between the hours of 1 0 and 4 o'clock. The Premises may be viewed by applying to Mr. , S. D. meare, at the Depot, of whom particulars may be had. Such Persons as may be willing to make Tenders for the P urchase of this Dep6t and Premises are to send their Pro tosals to the Secretary to the Board of Ordnance, Pall-Mall, 44 10c10n, on or before the Ist day of May next, sealed and 1 11 dursed, " Proposals for the Purchase of the Depotat 4-Perhy." tr . BISH has already Shared and Sold TWENTY-THREE Capitals in the present Lottery. ALL MUST BE DRAWN LAST AND ONLY DAY, NEXT TUESDAY, THE /3d OF APRIL. BlSH,.of,the'OLD STATE LOTTERY • OFFICES, 4, Cornhill, and 9, Charing Cross, Lon calls the attention of his best Friends, the Public, to the present Rich State of the Wheel, which contains TWO PRIZES OF X 20,000 ! And 20 Other Capitals of k 1,000, ,500, &C. &c. All of which must be drawn on Tuesday, the 23c1 Instant, when the Lottery will entirely finish. Tickets and Shares, Warranted Undrawn, are on Sale at ..nISI-I' s Of fi ces i n L ondon, and by his Agents i n the Country. -I 'ery Ticket—Every Share—Every Capital—and every other' Prize must he drawn NEXT TUESDAY. BRAMAH'S PATENT PORTABLE PENS. A SPURIOUS Imitation of these PENS has= , ing- recently. been introduced for Puhlic Sale, J. BRAMAH and SONS, 124, PICCADILLY, the Manufac turereand Proprietors of the Invention, acquaint its nume rous Patrons and the Public, that in future every Box or Packet of their Genuine Pens will be stamped with a fac si- MMile of - the Signature of the Inventor " JOSEPH GRA AR. by Which mean s t h e C ounterfeit will be easily (Hi: 4uve red--January 24, 1822. " Air OCK NORWICH UNION SO CIETY."—" To the EDITOR."--Sin, Mr. SAMUEL BIGNOLD having issued advertisements all over the country, stating that the proceedings in Chancery which I and other members of the Norwich Union Society have insti tuted against him, was the act " of four obscure individuals, who were not members, and who were the tools of the Ex-Secre tary ; and who were put out of Court," I owe it to my own character to call on Mr. Samuel Bignold to prove the truth of his assertions. I declare them to be all false. "As to obscurity, I own I am not so notorious as Mr. Samuel Bignold, nor do I wish to be so'. I have never -- and destroyed a great and opulent Society, and enriched my- - self by the spoils ; but still I am-a member of the Norwich Union Society, as I paid for the renewal of my policy last Mid summer, and the year is opt yet out. So far f'rom being a tool of the Ex-Secretary ' as Mr. Samuel Bignold sarcastically calls his father, I voted for his removal in 1818; but what I have since found out, I am inclined to think I was, with others, the Son's dupe—not the Father's tool. The Ex-Secretary was brought into odium, as much as any thing, by Mr. Samuel Bignold's scribbling, by catchpenny statements which were proved to be false as fast as they came out; and by scurrilous and personal attacks on the respectable Managers of other Offices. The old Gentleman was made a scape-goat of, and his dutiful Son slipt into his shoes ; but the Father never dirtied them a hundredth part so much in twenty years' service as the Son has done in three years. " Now, as Mr. Bignold, jun. prefers writing in the News.. papers to answering our pending bill in Chancery, I call on him to answer the following questions in this Paper, and if he can, without evasion i—lst, Whether the Society he is now ad vertising-under the name of the Norwich Union, is not, to' all intents and purposes,' a new Society on a principle fundamen tally different to the Norwich Union, and conducted by a diffe rent set of Directors ? 2dly, Whether the whole power and con trol of the funds are not lodged exclusively in him and his said. Directors and Shareholders ? 3dly, Whether the said Direc tors are not the Directors of the Old Norwich Office, formerly the rival of the Union ? 4thly, Who were the Directors of the Norwich Union at the time of transferring its effects to the Di rectors of the Norwich Office? sthly, Why did he not, as was his bounden diity, call a general meeting of the members, to elect new Directors, or to take such other steps as they might think necessary for their interest and security, if the old Di rectors were unwilling to act with him in carrying on the So ciety any further ? 6thly, Whether the advertisements, bills, pamphlets, marks, engines, agencies, and other expences, by which the Society was brought to its great extent of sixty thou sand members, have not cost our Society considerably more than one hundred thousand pounds—or what other sum ? 7thly, Whether such amount has been paid by the Share holders to our account as a consideration for transferring the effects and Members of the Norwich,Union to them—or what other sum ? Bthly, Whether any, and what separate consi deration was paid to Mr. Bignold for effecting the above revo lution secretly, in addition to the emolumints of his new ap pointment as Secretary—and what those emoluments are ? Jthly, What are the names and residences of the Shareholders in the new Company, of what Shares does each hold, and what have they each actually paid for them ? 10thlY, Upon What principle of common honesty does he defend the 'clandestinely breaking up our Society, unknown to the Trustees and 51em bers generally, and converting their property to his oern use, when just before the time of breaking up - he advertised the So ciety to be most flourishing, and in the advertisements he is now circulating, signed by the Directors of his new office, he acknowledges " the concefn might have lasted longer. " 1 1 thly, Upon what principle of common honesty does he ad vertise under our name, and quote the great increase of in surances made, and the returns and claims paid by our Society for many years back, as, things done by his new Company, whith has not returned a sixpence ; a'display of which is as in sulting to us Members of the destroyed Society as it is false and tricking on the public ? I.2thly, If he and his party of Shareholders have a nght to overturn our Society without our consent or knowledge, and put two fifths'of the profits, into their own pockets, what is to prevent their taking the remain ing three fifths, or their breaking up or selling the Life Office as well as the Fire Office, whenever Mr. Bignold can get any thing by it ? Lastly, I ask Mr. Samuel Bignold to produce, if he can, a breach of trust of equal magnitude and barefaced impudence, done by any other person. And unless Mr. Samuel Bignold does give good answers to all these questions, without shuffling, 1 do say that the Patrons and Trustees of our Society neglect their duty to the Public, if they suffer him to continue advertising their Names as Parties to the New Tricking Com pany. And if our Members at large, who have been sold like a herd of swine in Smithfield; submit to be driven to any mar ket Mr. Samuel 13ignold may make of them, they deierve no l et he ten cts L of NUMBER 9205.1 NAVY -OFFICE, APRIL 8, 1822. [ln not Ilis nen W e or, hat, the to be link tual Tests 'or a , ned ,eral : and and dis- from duds ppse the they care nor hitik ioft nber Let prin. Mr. , has dery :ts of I one ;ELL. Ml of Hest :ondly •We . quite of iquare, Edge •stree4 -bone, regory 'renew Ley- Fidler, °nwell• abella, Daffiy slice of Sg;{- VICTUALLING-OFFICE, April 4, 1 822 . THE COMMISSIONERS for VICTUAL LING His MAJESI'Y'S NAVYdo hereby gtve No lice, That on Friday, the 26th Instant, they will be ready to receive 7'enders in writing (sealed up), and treat for thF &tppl y of what FRESH BEEF may he required for the use Majesty's Ships and Vessels at the places under-men honed, front the date against each etpressed,.till the 31s1De ember next; ri:.:— I'enzance Newcastle and Tintnouth Haven 7th June Guernsey and Jersey Greenock 7th `'arnPheltr --- 15th .spbel ton enlwa Belfast, Carrickfergus, Larne Harbour, and. Newry Haven Stranraer and Loch Ryan ... • 23d -----. Le ith, Leith Roads , and th e Firth of •13 Edinburgh 7. 0 be paid for by Bills payable,, without interest, sixty days afer date. The Conditions of the Contracts may be seen at this Office, by applying. to the Postmasters at Guernsey and Jersey, and to the Collectors of His Majesty s s Csistoms at each of t he Other places. No regard will be had to ahg Tender in which the Price Mall not be inserted in words at -length, or that shall not be delivered to the Board before One o'Clock on the said Friday, the 26th Instant, nor unless the Person who 'flakes t he Tender, or some Person on his behalf, attends, to an swer when called for. Each Tender Must also• be accompanied by a Letter signed 4 V two responsible Persons, engaging to become bound with the Party tendering, in the Penal Sum of 5001. for the due Performance of each of the Contracts. SCHOOL of NAVAL ARCHITECTURE at PORTS MOUTH DOCK-YARD. T HE PRINCIPAL OFFICERS and COM MISSIONERS of His MAJESTY'S NAVY hereby give Notice, That an EXAMINATION of CANDIDATES for the ADMISSION of EIGHT STUDENTS into the above INSTITUTION will take place in His MAJESTY'S DOCK -YARD, at Portsmouth, on the 7th day of August text, and that such persons as may be desirous of becoming Candidates for admission, are required to send notice of their intention to the Commissioners of His Majesty's Navy, on or before. the Ist day of that month. The Candidates must be at least Fifteen, and not more than Seventeen years of age. InformatiOn may be obtained on ap plication at the Navy Office, or at the Office of the Com Mi ssioner of any of His Majesty's Yards, of the nature of the Qualifications required of the Candidates, the Documents they a re to produce on the day of Examination, and other Parti. ctilars. THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 1822.. PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS, APRIL 17. Mr. MAYNARD, (from the Southwark Court of Requests) presented a Return pUrsuant to an order of the House.- , —Ordered to lie on the table. The second reading of the Marriage Amendment Bill , was postponed from Friday next to Friday th e 25th instant. Mr. W. DUNDASPresented a Petition from the Candle makers at Edinburgh, praying for relief from the whole or ' I a part of the present duty on candles.—Ordered to lie on the table. Lord STANLEY postponed the second reading of the War rant of Attorneys' Bill till Monday next. Sir F. OMMANNEY presented a Petition. from Samuel- , Brown, Captain in the Royal Mxy, praying permission to bring in a Petition for a Bill to erect a flying pier at Brighton. —Referred to a Committee. • Mr. P. MOORE presented a Petition-from the Commis sioners of Sewers against the Bill for Paving and Lighting Camden Town.—Ordered to lie on the table. SCOTCH BURGHS. . Lord A. HAMILTON presented a Petition from 'certain in dividuals belonging to the Corporation of Bakers, in the Royal 'Burgh of Perth, on the subject of the Bill for Regulating Scotch Burghs, and praying the House to take their situation into its consideration.—Ordered to be printed. Mr. KENNEDY presented a Petition on the same subject from the Conveners of Trades in the Burgh of Ayr.—Ordered to be printed. WINDOW TAX IN IRELAND. Mr. SHAW presented Petitions from the, Parishes of Saint Andrew and Saint Nicholas Without, in Dublin, stating it to be their opinion that the proposed Repeal df the Malt Duty treuld afford little relief in that part of the; United King dom, and suggesting instead of the abandonment of the Malt Duty, a repeal of the Window Tax.—Ordered to lie on the table. WELSH JUDICATURE. ➢lr. ALLAN gave notice that on Thursday, May 16, he would move to refer to a Committee the last Report on the sub ject of Welsh Judicature. _ VORKSHIRE ELECTIONS. Mr. C. W. WYNN' postponed the second reading of the Yorkshire Election Polls Bill, till the 9th inst: -- IRISH CIVIL LIST. Mr. HUME wished to know whether the Returns in detail relating to the Irish Civil List were ready to be laid before the House. The Marquis of,LONDONDERRY hoped it would be in his powez to answer that question to-morrow or very shortly, but at present he 'was riot Ina situation to do so. BILL TO AMEND THE LAWS . RELATIVE TO • CERTAIN CASES OF FELONY v Mr. BENNET, in moving for leave to bring in a Bill to amend the Law respecting Accessories before the Fact in cer tain Felonies, observed, that it might seem to call for an apo logy that he had taken on himself to make a proposition which might seem to come more properly from a Member of the pro fession of the Law. He had not, however, brought forward his motion without consulting Gentlemen of professional expe rience, and the evil h e p ro p ose d to reme dy was so o b v i ous t h at he had little hesitation in proposing his Bill, In cases of mur der and arson accessaries before the fact could be punished as principals ; but in cases of other felonies, as burglaries, these accessaries could only be prosecuted for misdemeanour, so that the persons who had altogether planned and contrived a rob bery might escape with a trifling punishment, and in those in stances in which the actual perpetrators of the crime could not be brought to justice without any punishment at all. Cases were 'thus constantly arising in which the greatest criminals were suffered to escape. • A. jeweller had recently been robbed of property to the value of 2,0001. sterling; an apprentice giv ing information to the robbers, and affording them the m ean s of perpetrating thetr crime .;.but two of the robbers escaped, and the third; liavivieffirned-King , s evidence, this apprentice was set loose 00.3.heo.ivoild. with merely a lecture from the Judge, who expressed his regret that theramas no law to punish him. He proposed in all such cases to give the Court the power of sentencing the accessary before the fact to transportation.— Leave given to bring in the Bill. Mr. BENNET said there was another motion of which. he had intended to have fortified himself with many cases, for leave to bring in a Bill to amend the law respecting the crime of ManslauOter, but in conversation sin ce h e had come into the House, the necessity for a severer punish ment in aggravated cases of this crime seemed so ge neral, that he should make few observations. Nothing could be more obvious than the great shades of differ ence between the lowest degree of criminality by which death could be occasioned, and that which bordered on the crime of murder. Yet, in any of these cases, the highest punishment that could be inflicted was twelve months imprisonment. A case had recently occurred, in which a man had been thrown out of the window of a house of ill fame, and had died, after languishing some time in the greatest agony, yet the highest punishment that could be inflicted in this case was twelve months imprisonment. Be thought the Court in such cases should have the power of sentencing to so much as fourteen years transportation. He moved for leave to bring in his Bill. Mr. W YNN agreed entirely with the Hon. Gentleman, that there was no part of the law so defective as that relating to Manslaughter. He should only mention, that the causing of death by a mere accidental blow in a scuffle, and the deMerate killing of an officer, who might be executing a warrant in which there was an illegularity, was just the same offence in the eye of the law, and. the Judge would be obliged to inflict just the same punishment, with the exception of branding, which no one would wish to see resorted to, if there were any other mode of marking the sense of a crime. AGRICULTURAL REPORT. _ _ The Marquis of LONDONDERRY said, when he had given notice of a motion on, the Report made by the Committee appointed to inquire info the existing Agricultural Distress, it was by no means his intention to interfere in any way with the motion of which notice had been given by the Right Hon. Baronet opposite. That he might not do so he would now put off his motion till the Friday following ; but as the great importance of the subject made it desirable to avoid unneces sary delay, he wished it to be understood as peremptorily fixed for that day. In answer to a auestion or remark from Mr. Fulmars, the Noble Marquis stated Friday week to he the latest period to which he proposed to defer bringing the subject forward._. The motion was r.ccordingly fixed for Friday, 26th inst. RECOVERY OF SMALL 'DEBTS. Lord BELGRAVE presented• a Petition from. certain Land dords in the City of Chester, expressing their satisfaction at finding that a Bill had been lirought in to facilitate the re covery of small debts under 151., and praying • that the ....ame may pass into a law.--Ordered to lie on the table. JAMES STALEY, 52, St._John-street, Clerkenwell. " P.S. Under Mr. Bignold, jtin.'s management, we never got more than 26 per cent. returns, dividing the whole of the profit's. In his New Company, his Directors are to have sala ries, and his , Shareholders two-fifths of the profits. His In surers must judge what the fraction left for them is likely to be ? Probably not JO per cent. for any time." Court of Chancery, January 14, 1822. " Mr. Hart, Counsel for the Directors.—The simple facts of the case were these, that the Norwich Union Society, instead of being in a flourishing condition, was reduced to a state of great distress, involving the Directors in considerable peril, as they were primarily liable on policies, and would have to seek contribution from the members at large ; that several heavy losses, and some unfortunate differences with some of, their ot ficers, had induced the Directors to determine their responsibi lities, by refusing to continue the policies." " The Lord Chancellor—l do not say that this record may not be so amended as to bring all parties properly before me, but I feel that is very difficult to do so with 60,000 partners. I cannot hold that societies may re-model and alter their associa tions, so as to change their original constitutions, but I do not sit here to try offences." This Day was published, in evo. price Ss. ON PROTECTION to AGRICULTURE. By DAVID RICARDO, Esq. M.P. Printed for John Murray, Albeniarle-street. LAWON, A SECOND VOLUME. This Day was published, price 7s. THE ~SECOND - VOLUME of LACON, being the Completion of the Work. Also, the TWELFTH EDITION of the First Volume. Sold by Messrs. Longman & Co. and all other Booksellers. N. B.—As Lacon has gone through many Editions in Ame.. rica, any Agent inclined to treat for the Second Volume may be consulted with, on application to the Author's Publisher. This Day was published, In Three Volumes, Bro. price 11. 16s. in boards, AVIEW of the HISTORY, LITERA: TUBE, and MYTHOLOGY of the HINDOOS : eluding a Minute Description of their Manners and Customs, and Translations from their principal Works. By WILLIAM WARD, of Serampore. A New Edition, arranged ,according to the order of the original Work printed at Serampore: London: Pointed for Kingsbury, Parbury, and Allen, Leadenhall-street. The Tenth Report of the Commissioners of Inquiry on Courts of Justice in Ireland has been printed. It embraces the Equity side- of the Court pf Exchequer, of which it details the du ties of the several Officers, and their salaries and fees, with great minuteness, points out several defects, and suggests improvements. The Report, which is of great length, comprising, with the evidence, 362 folio pag es , commences with the office of Chief Remerrancer in the Court of Exchequer, held by patent since 1797 by the Marquis WELLESLEY. The reversion of this office was further granted by patent, in 1808, to RICHARD WELLESLEY, Esq. for his life. The office is a sinecure, its duties being delegated to a Deputy appointed by the Patentee—the sa lary, 691. lls. 2d.; the gross amount of fees 4,532/. 10s. ld. ; disbursements, 788/. 10s. id. ; net income, 3,8131. lls. 2d. Deputy Chief Re membrancer—salary, none ; gross amount of fees, 3,7401.; disbursements, 5501.; net income, 3,1901. AGRICULTURAL DISTRESS. Sir T. LETHBRIDGE presented a Petition from North Curry, in the County of Somerset, complaining of the Agricul tural Distress ; expressing the dissatisfaction of the Petitioners at the Report of the Agriculturil Committee, and praying for an inquiry as to the expence at which Agricultural Produce can be imported, and that at which it can be grown here, which they conceived would lead the House to the conclusion that higher protecting duties should be laid, not merely on corn, but on all other produce of land imported. They stated also, that great part of their distress had been occasioned by the change in the currency, the want of currency having been in their dis trict apparent. He (Sir T. L.) had heard the distress of the country attributed to over-production, but it was not to the production in this country, or to the importations from Ire land, which might be considered the same thing, but to the importation from foreign' parts of all sorts of produce, that the excess of the supply beyond the demand was to be attributed. He (Sir Thomas Lethbridge) agreed -with the Petitioners, that -it was pot grain only, but all sorts of pro duce, that should be taken into account. The Petitioners - had made a calculation, which he had not had time to exanfine, by which they stated it appeared that a 'difference of Is. per bushel was equal to the whole rent of the kingdom, as they took the average rent of the arable land to be 205., and to produce, on the average, 20 bushels per acre. He mentioned this to shew the degree of attention which the Petitioners and persons in that part of the country paid to this subject. He moved that the Petition be printed. • Mr: G. PHILLIPS observed, that the petitioners having taken the rent of the kingdom 'tit Is. per bushel, and the tithes and rates being equal, according 'to the calculations they had had, half the rent, 6d. per bushel was the whole amount of charge for tithes and rates, and the whole amount of protecting duty the farmer would on this ground be entitled to. The Petition was laid on the table, and, ordered to be printed. WINDOW TAX IN IRELAND. Sir J. NEWPORT presenteda Petition against the Window Tax, - from Waterford. ' If both the Window Tax and the Salt Tax were repealed in Ireland, there would be only a remission of 2d or 30,0001. more taxes thin Ireland had been &dared to be entitled to. • LICENSING SYSTEM. Mr. TIERNEY said, he had a Petition to present from several Landholders of the neighbourhood of Maidenhead, in Berkshire, complaining of Agricultural Distress, and attribut ing that distre s s in p ar t t o t h e want o f a market for barley, occasioned by the monopoly of the public houses in the hands of Brewers. In fact, the Petitioners entertained the suspicion that the brewers' beer was not made of malt at all—(A laugh.).--He did not mention this as a subject of ridicule, for the Petitioners, he was - enabled to state from his inquiries of Gentlemen of that neighbourhood, were per sons of the highest respectability, and strictly entitled to the at tention of that House. The Petitioners complained that licenses were now granted, not to the man, but to the particular sign or house, and that these houses becoming the property_ of the brewers, a monop o ly, w hi c h i t was impossible to break through, was established in the sale of beer. If, as the Petitioners re commended, the licences were granted to proper men who could transfer them to any houses they chose to reside in, a free com petition would take place in the sale of beer, which must bene fit not only the consumer, but the grower of barley. He re commended the Petition to serious attention. Mr. WYNN said, that the alteration proposed was inconve nient in this respect--that the Magistrates now exerted a dis cretion, not only as to the person's keeping ale-houses,' but as to the places where they be kept. Mr. P. GRENFELL gave no opinion on the subject, of the Petition, but remarked that the Right Honourable Gentleman (Mr. Wynn) mistook the 'object of the Petitioners, which was not in any way to limit the discretion of the Magistrates, but to pray that the licenses should be granted to the individuals, who should be allowed to sell alein any house they..might choose. Mr. WYNN said, perhaps it might be practicable to make . grants of licenses to the persons, not to the houses, merely re straining the individuals to certain districts or villages named. The object of the present system was, that there should not be too many ale houses in the same place. Mr. D. GILBERT concurred in the prayer of the Petition. Sir R. 'WILSON said it would be desirable that no licenses should be granted to houses in the occupation of brewers. . Mr. BENNET said the subject was one of great difficulty, and he lilwed Gentlemen would not tao hastily run away with a particular suggestion. If, for instance ' they determined to take away the licenses f r o m a ll t h e housesbelonging to brewers, a million sterlidg'of property would be endangered by that de cision--( Hear !)—He was, however, more and more convinced of the necessity of revising the system of licensing, and he should take the opportunity of bringing in again the , Bill 'which had passed that House in a former year,. but which, from the late ness of the Session, or some other cause, had been lost in another place. Mr. BROUGHAM said, his Hon. Friend intended again to bring forward his Bill, for the opinion that the licensing system required amendment WaS not confined to persons not in the Magistracy, but was entertained by many Acting Magistrates themselves.—(Hear!)—Not only was the power of licensing abused, as was notorious to every one, for local and party pur poses, but the mistakes in judgment were much more frequent, andinuch more mischievous, than the comparatiirely rare in stances of corruption. The Magistrates were too - prone,froiri good motives, no doubt, to restrain the number of alehouses, and thus especially when the houses came into the hands of brewers ; but in some degree, whether they did or no, to create S species of monopoly, the immediate and necessary tendency of which was to force a bad commodity on the public, and to encourage the worst species of drunkenness, by making the people drink, instead of good ale, pernicious spirits. The Petition was ordered to be printed. CATHOLIC PEERS. I Mr. Secretary PEEL presented a Petition from the Synod of Glasgow and Ayr, against the Bill, of which notice had been given, for the Admission of Catholic Peers into Parliament; and he now gave notice, that the sense of the House would be taken on the first proposition, whether a motion for going into a Committee, or for leave to bring in a Bill, by which it might be attempted to introduce that measure to the .House ? Mr. TIERNEY thought, it was rather premature to offer Petitions against a measure which was not yet before the (louse, and consequently of which the public could have had no oppor-. tunity of judging upon which to found their opposition. Mr. PEEL complained that when a -Petition originated on his (the Treasury) side of the House l the Honourable Mem bers showed wonderful acuteness in finding opposition to it.— The present Petition came from those to whom the casein ques tion was quite notorious ; it was couched in respectful language ; and therefore.he was aware of no objection that could be made to it. Mr. HUME denied the charge, contending that it was more applicable to the Ministerial side of the House. He thought it strange that such a petition should come froth Scotland, the Members of which church were theoretically under the same disqualifications as the Catholics.' Sir T. LETHBRIDGE was. glad, that such a petition had been presented ; and he was astonished that as soon as the mo tion had been announced, the whole country had not petitioned against it. If the proposed motion were to be carried, the whole of the Cathohc question would be carried by a side wind. The petition was ordered to lie on the table, and to be printed ➢IARRIAGE=ACT. Mr. BROUGHAM presented a Petition from the Unitarian Dissenters of Kendal, praying for the leaving out in the Mar riage Ceremony of such words as were contrary to . their belief. On this, which would be placing them merely in the same situ ation as the Jews and the Quakers, he hoped there could be only one opinion among liberal men. _ Mr. BA NKES remarked, that_the same objection had been made against this petition as against that from the Synbd of Glasgow and Ayr. Mr. BROUGHAM thought the lecture which the Honour able Member had. read him misapplied. The Petition was brought up, read, laid on the table, and ordered to be printed; as was a similar one from the same de nomination of persons in and about , Sheffield, presented by Mr. W.Smith. Mr. W. SMITH, in rising to move for leave to bring in a Bill for altering the Marriage Act as applicable to the Unita rian Dissenters, assured the House that he had founded his notice upon the numerous Petitions which had been presented on the subject. He would, in the first place, state the grievance of which the Dissenters complained. It was that they were bound to have their marriage ceremonies performed in the Churches, and by the repeating of the ritual. This hardship was but of modern introduction. It was founded on an Act of 26 Geo. 11. • This Act placed the. Dissenters in a state of un necessary hardship. •He could prove that marriage was a civil ceremony. It was held to be so by the civil, and even by the canon law. Now to decree that every marriage should be so lemnized in the church, and according to the ritual, implied that it was considered not wholly in the light of a civil con tract. He and his fellow Petitioners were anxious to stand pure and unarraigned ; they did not wish to interfere with others, but to be allowed to worship God according to their own con sciences. Now from the way in which they were called upon by the Act of 1753 to solemnize marriage, there was no alter native left for them, but either to forego the civil right of mar riage, or to offend their own consciences. The Act in this country had been passed without precedent ; for when, in the reign • of Louis XIV. a law had been passed in France to the same, effect, the Government of France recognised none but Ca tholics ; but we, while we allowed Dissenters the free exercise of their religion by the Toleration Act, deprived them of the advantage of legalizing a civil contract, unless they did violence to their consciences. At the time when the Act was passed, the Unitarian Dissenters were few, and their exemption was of small importance ; but now that their numbers had so increased, it was natural for them to wish to be placed upon the same footing with the JeWs and Quakers, who had petitioned against the measure at the time. The Jews, it was true, were not Eng lish Dissenters (for the Church of England might with as much propriety be said to dissent from the Jews, as the Jews from, the Church of England); but the Quakers were English Dis senters in the strictest sense of the word. The object which he had in view was not, however, to exempt particular classes, but to allow of the performance, in a legal manner, without vio lence to their religious opinions. He wished himself and his fellow petitioners to have the same exemption as the Jews. In a Scottish case, discussed in 1813, in which the whole had turned upon the legality of a marriage, performed not exactly according to the rules of the Church, the Lord Chan_ PRICE SEVENPENCE. cellor had given it as his opinion that the law of marriage . ' 'was founded on the Canon Law, and that, according to it, a contract before witnesses was as valid as if performed by any Clergyman, and in any church. Matrimony really con: sisted in the agreement of the parties ; and though pro clamation of the banns, and 'even celebration in c h u r c h, might h.! very proper for . giving - publicity to it, yet still the ceremony should be such as • the parties could agree to.. It would be very absurd to bind Protestants by Popish ceremonies, or Christians by Mahomedan oaths, and it was a kindred absurdity to bind the dissenters by the letter of the church ritual. It • was a solemn mockery, and the recurrence of it should be_ prevented., The Unitarians .! were now compelled to hear at their marriage ceremonies parts of the Liturgy of the Church which they did not be lieve ; and all that he meant to propose in the measure'- of which he had given notice, was to leave out those passages . . . in the formulary of marriage which were disputed between the Petitioners and the Church of England. As he understood the Noble Lord opposite had no objection to the introductidn Of the Bill, he should not, at present, enter into the details. It was, however, to be recollected, that when the Marriage Act originally passed, the concession was made to the Jews of • marrying according to the ritual of their own law. Time was, - when, the wisdom of our ancestors , t h e intermarriage of a Jewish husband with a Christian woman, or a Christian map with a Jewish wife, consigned both to -the horrible punish ment of being burnt to death. If the antiquity of the practice was an argument in favour of the continuance of such a sys. . tern, no practice was so strongly founded in antiquity. 'file Hon. Member concluded with moving for leave to bring In a' Bill to alter certain parts of the Act of George the Second, commonly called the Marriage Act. The Marquis of LONDONDERRY stated, that though he should not oppose the introduction of the Bill; he did not pledge himself to give the measure his support. . . Mr. 11. GURNEY felt the alteration necessary, but (as was understood) recommended that 'it should be comprehended 'in the Bill before the House brought in by the Learned Gentle man (Dr. Phillimore.) After a'few'words in explanation from Mr. W. SMITH, as to his intended mode of proceeding, leave was given' to bring in the Bill.. IRISH COMMERCIAL CREDIT BILL. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved the . Order of the, Day for the House resolving its e lf into a Committee upon the above BiJl. - Mr. W. SMITH wished for some information upon the suh ject of this Bill before he consented to its passing. He had Heard that it was intended to extend the loan of the sums ad vanced by Parliament, to Bankers as well as to persons engaged in mercantile pursuits, for whose exclusive relief he understood the original Bill to have been passed. The Hon. Member also remarked upon an intention of which be had heard to extend the time at which the money was to have been repaid, and requested to be informed upon these points by the Right Hon. the Chan cellor of the Exchequer. He did not know that lie should op pose the Bill, • but he wished to have it explained.. The CHANCEI;LOR of the EXCHEQUER said, that be fore going into the Committee, it was his intention to explain the objects of 'the Bill before the House. The Right Hon. 'Gentleman then "alluded to the distress which called forth the interposition and the liberality of Parliament, and stated that when the original Bill passed, he understood it to include Bankers in the geheral description of traders, considering them to be tradc,s in mone y. I t h a d s i nce b een found necessary to take some high law opmions in Ireland upon the question, and they held that although the description of " traders" would include Bankers in England, ...et that it would not do so in Ireland. One obj ec t o f the Bill was, therefore, to remove this difficulty. It had another object, which he would state to the House. The money was originally advanced for a period not to exceed two or three years ; it was now intended that the time should be lengthened to eight years. He explained that the comparative rate of interest paid by the persons to whom this money was advanced, and that paid upon the loan by which it was raised, would prevent any additional expence being , incurred by the Government by an extension of the time of payment. They had only ta sea that the securities were good, which they had now done. For although in form they were the common commercial securities, yet the landed property . of the parties had been made responsible, and upon that condition the time had been extended to eight years. He thought that no objection could be brought against the Bill after the ,expla nations he had thus given. After a few words from Mr. W. &uric'', the Bill went through a Committee, and the Report was ordered to be receiv ed to-morrow. The Report of the Irish Bank Charter Acts was read, and the Resolutions agreed to. The Irish Mat Duties Repeal Bill, and the Countervailing Malt Duties Bills, were severally , committed, and the Reports ordered to be received to-morrow. The Report of the Stamp Dutie' Act was r'6ceived, and the several Resolutions read and agreed to. Mr. HUME expressed his intention of moving, at a more atlyanced stage of the Bill, a reduction from 30 to 20 per cent. in-the allowance to Stamp Distributors. ' The CHANCELLO of the EXCHEQUER said that the attention of Government had been turned to .this subject, anal that some advantageous alterations were contemplated. The Resolutions were agreed to, and leave was granted to bring in a Bill foUnded thereon. DISMISSAL- OF MILITARY OFFICERS. Colonel DAVIES observed, that his Hon. Friend the Mem= ber for Montrose (Mr. Hume), having signified his intention of submitting to that House a general motion relative to the Pre= rogative of the Crown to dismiss Officers of the Army without (hurt Martial, he (Col. Davies) wished to know the preciseday on which, if he persevered in his intention, he should bring for ward that question ? Mr. numE stated, that it certainly had been his intention. to have submitted a general motion on the subject of the Pre rogative, but he must confess that he should willingly give way to any Member who, froM professioual habits, was mbre con:: versant with the details of such a question. If his Honourablc and Gallant Friend wished to take up the question, he wonl4 with pleasure withdraw his general notice: - ' Colonel DAVIES said, that though he made no pretension to understand the question better than his Honourable Friend, yet under a full sense of its importance, he should feel it his duty to submit a motion on that subject. He therefore gdve notice of his intention on Tuesday, the 21st of May, to move for leave to bring in a Bill to define, and if necessary, limit the Prerogap tive of the Crown to dismiss 'Officers from the Army without a Court Martial. On the motion of Mr. HUME, the Returns that night pre, sented relative to Hawkers and Pedlars, and Private Bankers Notes, stamped for the last three years, were ordered to be printed. The further consideration of the Report on the Superannua. tion Bill was postponed till Friday next.—Adjourned. POLlCE.—Yesterday afternoon the whole of. the " Police Dismounted Horse Patrole" stationed in the en virons of London, were assembled in Privy-gardens, White:. hall, for their usual Quarterly Inspection. They all ap peared in the uniform dress of the Establishment, (usual, ly worn by them, whenever they are assembled togethsr in a be-iy,) with their truncheons, cutlasses, pistols, &c. —They were izipectcd by Mr. Hobhouse, and Mr. Haw, son, the Under Secretaries of State of the Home Office ;' Sir RICHARD BIRNIE, -the Chief Magistrate of Police, and Mr. DAY, the Conductor of the Horse Patrole Establishment; attended by.the officers of the establishment under him.' They certainly are, in their appearance, a strong, active, respectablf looking body of men—and we understand are found to be also very serviceable, from the, strict discipline under which they are kept and regulated, and from their exertions and attention to their duty. THE LATE MRS. BOND.—It will be recollected) that a good deal was said some weeks:since about the' grea t wealth of an old woman of the name of Bond, who died in ob scurity and apparent poverty. A woman who Was einployed'to lay out the corpse was examined yesterday at Bow-street, on suspicion of having taken a large sum of money, ctvritealed in ,the clothes of the deceased. She admitted that she had rikmd , three 51. notes; and nothing further appearing against her. - was discharged. ' '7,A pauper of this town, of the Methodist per suasion, lately applied to the Guardians of the Poor for relief, but being refused, he actually employed a Gentleman of die long, Robe to enforce by law-the required relief ! 'What state of pau• perism can this man's be called, who professed to too poor to find himself food, yet proved himself rich enough to employ Counsel ! ! Bury Gazette.)