The Sun. — London, England, 1832-04-14 00:00:00

.?~ ,~ 'C•-• ! 4i. • ' , . - ••• EXPRESS EDITION. , : A. It LIAM .1E - IN T. HOUSE OF LORDS, Coutinuedfrom the Fourth Page. (Lord LYNDHURST'S Speech continued from our fourth page.) of Commons. This was visionary and impracticable. Make the House of Commons independent, and immediately afterwards there was an end to the other branches of the .Legislature. Never in any age, nor in a country had such w I I a form ever xisted. Experiments bad been made, but failed. The Noble Lord who spoke in last night's debate, as to the representative body, had asked, how could this be con sidered as a representative Government ? The answer was that in the sense in which he considered it, it never was a Representative Government, that it was only a Representative Government in the sense in which it now stood. I do not, my Lords, enter into that part of the Bill which relates to the i extensive disfranchisement, because, my Lords, that 1 is not the main objection I have to urge against it. --(Hear, hear.) The objection I have to urge against it and which always has been one of great weight in my mind, that if the Bill pass into a law, the composition of the House of Commons would be such as to rendes it impos sible that the House of Commons could continue. —(Hear, hear, hear.) My Noble and Learned Friend, nay Lords, has taken a proper view of this case, I shall direct your attention to one or two of the points in the present Bill. There were to be sixty-four Metnbera given to the great towns, and they are to be returned by a constituency which is provided by th e . Bill. Now it apppears to me, my Lords, impossible that any person who has lived in the world, and who has looked at all into the manners and habits of the time, could not see that this would lead to the greatest democracy in the House of of Commons From whom are the sixty-four Members to be taken ? From the conservative class. The consequence, therefore would be the taking of 120 Members from the conserva tive side to that of the extreme democracy. What will be the effect of such an infusion of democracy in the House of Commons ? The Right Reverend Prelate, Who had spoken with much eloquence on a former night, had pointed out the necessity of their measures as connected with Ireland and also with Scotland. The three were distinct parte, but joined together as respected the present measures. With respect to Ireland, two thirds of the representation would be returned by the Ca tholics. And I ask whether any one so retired by the Catholics would not add to the extreme democratic influence of the House of Commons ? a--(Hear, hear, hear.) If such a House was tolerated, it would be impossible for the crown to sustain itself against it, even by the sword, as the House of Com /none would have the power of disbanding the army. As a Proof thist, I beg of you to look at what took place in the time of Cromwell, the man to whom Europe bowed, who had acquired the mastery of the seas, who reduced Ireland t o subjection—that man found the House of Commons 0 ° unmanageable for him.---(Loud Cheering.)— It might be said that their Lordships, by rejecting this Bill, would be brought into collision with the House of Com 40ne. He denied it h owever; it was altogether irrational. T he House of Lords was as independent in its legislation as '°v House of Commo n s. Th e same a uth o rity which th e ' 4 onmons had to pass that Bill and send it to that House 1 second time, they had to reject. it. This Bill was not a 1 . 1 61 41 measure. The organs of the movement party, both i ° and out of Parliament declared it should not be final. 'le would say that if this Bill passed through this stage n r " , , be knew enough of that House to be certain of the result. Nothing could be vented from its becoin 'lll in all its efficiency a part of the law of the land. el° ,°ketl to this consummation with the utmost appre - h-eub ft end alarm, not for his own sake, for he had but little at issue in' the contest, but on account of t he inter es t l in the country, and the 1 ~._be . felt P r eservation of its institutions on which its greatest happiness chiefly depended. The die was not Yet cast —the destinies of the country were in their hands— they had power to avert a calamity. He conjured them to lay aside all temporising policy which on a subject of f this kind was destructive, and by their vote against its going into Committee, to avert the danger that me 12aeed th e C ons tit ut i on an d lib ert i es o f t h e counntry . — • The Noble and Learned Lord Reck:two amidst loud cheers Sod loud and general cries of Question ! Earl GREY th en rose an d sa id , my L or d s, un d er t he circumstances of this late hour, it is with the greatest reluetsnce that I presume again to press my 'elf upon y our L or d s hip s ' notice. Indeed, my Lords, ho wever anxious I might to be take notice of many tili ng' that have passed in the debates on these nights, ti tY strength fails me, and I (Lord that I am un equal to the task. But, my s, it is irnpos- Possible for me to remain entirely silent, itt 'd not to do justice as far as I am able to the dvfe tt _v which the Government has pursued, and to do °d myself against the suspicions and impute- L ord , .oast upon me, and endeavour to assure your not be attended first of all, that the success of this Bill will Lord: attended with the consequences which many Noble if the have so confidently a s s er t e d ; an d nex t, th a t „,. Y could h ave b el i eve d i t likely to produce these i l l rn u encee that it n eve r w o uld hav e b een sanct i one d 1 7 fe h e is , A.lajests 'el Ministers. The first point to which w h i "! necessary to address myself, is the charge b `. , I a thought bad been successfully repelled I M Y Noble a n d L earne d F rien d on t h e W oo l sac k ; but which has been ag a in advanced with so m e a d - dwibtinonal stat ements by the Noble and Learned Lord niled s pok e last that the agitation which had pre the subject of Parliamentary Reform il,i.ss,h„ollry°_::o be ascribed to the misconduct of Government. a 7 -,',°- td I have before stated to you, that when at I kiin._':_tance from town and contemplating, God in: powerlnothing . less than the idea of coming to tfor that melt Seelng the progress which the desire saw on my s a u r r ri e w ars th m at aking in the country—when I many persons who had for mtbeertliyundiffteedreidu in opinion as to the expediency of Reform Reform, I did feel that it opinion of the expediency of d it could no longer be delayed, and I declared it on the p fi n rs b t lin ay w o na fth s e session o t in Oct. I h B3o. b. The feeling of the the present state of the House on o g f Commonsont e s' j h ec a t d become . so untenable, that Reform must be had in order to avert those evils which a continued perseverenc e in denying it would unquestionably n till I declared thi s my opinion to the Administration e i then in existen ce , and which h e had no in tention whatever to subvert, and 4 advised them to adopt that measure of reform, which, if too long delayed, would be forced on them to a much greater extent. That this was the state of the public mind there could be no doubt, from the speech which had been addressed to him by a Noble Lord at the time, demanding what were the principles and professions upon which the Adminis tration were to act. Among those, one was a provision to be allowed to introduce a Reform in Parliament, and the Noble Earl then called upon us for the introduction u ol ur a measure w hi c h was equa ll y necessary for w safety, and for th e sa f ety o f our country. thet own the impression on the Noble Earl's mind at that time. toes it not prove that there had been produced an effect on Public opinion, that there was a general opinion, in short, in favour of the measure which existed before Ministers came in to power, and in conse quenceof which t h ey were in that Noble Lord ' s op i nion lled on . iTeheen ohtloe bring i n f or t h e i r own sa f ety an d t h e i r eountr Y; l s safety, to propose some measure without delay. Earl p rocee d e d to say, t h at i t h a d solute) n n iversally ac k now l e d ge d , that i t was ab for,. Y ' l li e e e e d a i a d ary to bring in some plan of Re volution, aria not mean to assert that the French re i give an addit, subsequent revolution of Belgium did not I feelin g for Reform excitement to men's minds ; but the 1830, for ev rna was strong in this country before July, Manchester UnniealgY in that year the Birmingham and case, mini.tersons had been formed. Such being the act i ng upon e to the best of their ability, and they had in the best means of information which B in end, their power, brought in the present the p eopi av , Zr7g so to frame ' it as to satisfy the wishes of o f the country. Immediately the sam e time, preserve the institutions was receive d put upon its promulgation the Bill completely put tab satisfaction by the country, and injurious s aa , ure4 n end to those extravagant and pual Parliantenta°f . R eform,—Universal Suffrage, An t tithes of tii,3 lif,in n hg d icie N s ' s o f t .,ei by Ballot, which at all the meaasre ww, sues had always opposed. So far shown that in In , and lie trusted be had piste?' were justified it forward his Msjesty's ben.d with tha t self Mi sorry that this discussion ha nd not theeen event.ndcte freedom from Personality ' of which he was e had him , followed. Indeed the greater "P" that it w o uld be consisted of attacks upon dihart of the debate had been attacked f or the inconsisteern:; Peers, some had In the matt er , an d others ,for s theof their conduct anu travagance of t h e i r v i ews, wnd ex ome he believe ildness a d him - - . .a ----- 2.-- t __. . • // ,‘„ C - 17 • • . . ~ .b , ...... „:,.e...„,„ . ~,.., ~ ~ 6 • . •.•,, -- : • . . .. ,:- L . t .., • ......,• •,,, , 2-,...„70, ' - .„....•,.„ ~,,,e;.)wial,''',•,',,,,:e- 0 1. 4.4 ' 4 , 14, -- - , a -3 .. 1 % ; ,,, ,i , : .-4 2 -7- ---.0, ._ 44 . ~,,,,t- ~ - 1. :',„,‘ w'i,._:,....-, - -• ~,:s,), ,„ 4 - . ._....--. .., .. , . - NI , . „.., „..,,,,,...... P' • '''' -,-, ~c , -,V A ; t•-: -,..•• ',' •, - ~ 44, , ,, .-....,:_k5, ,9 _ ~,,,• i i- - , - 1..... i .1 •, , . a 14• I i, , A , b ,„ '''', i...____. • ' .---''\ -* s • _ __. (No. 12,3.52.) self to be done, with having been led to promote thi• measure from false feelings of consistency and from ambitious ♦iews, the meaning of which be did not veil well understand. Indeed, the Noble and Learned Lord who spoke last though he disclaimed at the moment, strongly insinuated something of the kind. He stated that although he acquitted him (Earl Grey) of ambitious views, yet that if he had been a Minister, and desired to msk.• it impossible for any one to succeed him in office, he could not have advised a better plat, for retaining power than bringing forward this mea sure. A Right Reverend Prelate had insinuated some. thing of the same kind. He would tell that Right Rev. Prelate that he had a life to appeal to, and hoped that even of those of his countrymen who did not know him, but who bad been at the trouble to observe the course of a person so insignificant as himself, would ac quit him of the charge ; he had a stake in the coun try, be had a posterity to whom he must wish to convey all his honours and estates. Would it net be madness thus willingly to incur a danger which he could avoid, and which would render him secure, the existence of one branch of the Legislature? With respect to the insi nuation of the Right Reverend Prelate with regard to ambition, he would tell that Right Reverend Prelate that the pulses of ambition might beat as strongly in sleeves of lawn as under the habit of a layman. He must say that a speech more unbecoming the situation of that Right Reverend Prelate, he had never followed.— The Right Rev. Prelate, like several others, had en deavoured to sound an alarm that the Church was in danger. —(Hear, and cheers.) The House had also heard from him a subject which he little expected to be broached on this occasion. He alluded to the Corona tion Oath. He repudiated the charge which the Right Rev. Prelate had brought against him. The Bill now before their Lordships, so far from being of a revo lutionary tendency was founded on the acknowledged practice of the Constitution. The 101. qualification depended upon the House, and nit on him. If altered in the Committee, it would be for him to consider whe- ther he would go on with the Bill or not,—but undoubedly it was in the power of the House to say whether that clause should stand or not. His Noble and Learned Friend, in order to give this measure an odious character, stated that the Members that would be returned under the Bill, would net be Members but dele gates, and instances the ease of Sir R. Wilson, who was turned out of the Borough, and Alder. Thompson censured. Fault had been found by the Learned Lord about that word " delegate ;" but he would ask were there no delegates but those sent from popular places? What were those Mem bers who were sent from nomination boroughs, were they not delegates in the strongest and truest sense of the word ? Delegates sent to represent the interests of those who sent them. Was he not liable to be dismissed, and censured as well as the others. The Noble Earl after alluding to a variety of topics connected with the details of the Bill, concluded by a re`erence to the state of public opinion, the danger he apprehended if the Bill was a second time rejected which would arise from a complete alianation from the House in respect and affection. It was on this that he hid been induced to bring in and support the mea sure which, he trusted, would be speedily settled to the satisfaction of the people. As to the exertion of the Royal Prerogative, he most certainly looked upon it as a last resource, but it was one also of which he would constitutionally avail himself in an ex tremity to fulfil the lawful wishes of the people. He trusted that the result of the Committee would be a Reform that would he fully satisfactory to the people. The Noble Earl sat down amidst loud and general cheering, which lasted a few moments. The House then divided, when there appeared— Present l2B Non Contents. Proxies . 47 - 175 Present........ 126 Contents Proxies 5B - 184 MAJORITY FOR THE NINE. SECOND READING.. SUN-OFFICE, SATURDAY MORNING, SEVEN O'CLOCK. THE MARKETS. SOUTHALL MARKET.—ApriI H. In this day's market, which exhibited an average time of year supply, and was not very numerously attended by buyers, parti cularly from London, the trade was very dull throughout, at the following prices per stone of Sib. to sink the offals : Beet 2s. 10d. to 3s. 10d Veal . 48. Od. to ss. 2d. Mutton 110 4 10 Pork 310 410 The foregoing quotations are Veal and Pork 2d. per stone lower than on this day se•nnight ; p r i ces o th e rwise stationary. Beasts, 151; Sheep, 3,594 ; Calves, 45 ; Pigs, 50. A considerable part of the supply left the market unsold. LEWES MARKET.—ApriI 10. Beet--.......... 38.0 d. to 3s. 10d. Veal 1 ...................... Mutton ....--.. 3 10 4 10 P0rk.,,,.,,.,..,.... A moderate supply, and a sluggish trade. 4s Od to 4s. Bd. 00 4 0 RUMFORD MAX. e. d. tog. d. s. d. s. d. Beef ° 8 3 8 Veal Mutton 3 4 4 8 Pork 3 8 4 8 Suckling Calves from 14s. to 3Vs ; Quarter old Pigsl2s to 183. each. Supply rather limited, and trade dull. .KET.-April 11 COUNTRY CORN MARKEI's DUI(ING THE WEEK. Wheat. Barley. tats. beans. Per Quarter. s. to s. js,tos.l c to s. I. to L Abingdon---. 62 81 31 43 22 30 38 -- Andover ----. 73 80 37 41 -- 23 -- 44 Bh7mingharn----.. 56 66 40 44 24 32 -- 52 Bridport - 54 Cirencester—. 50 62 26 38 21 26 36 41 Faringdon 54 86 36 40 26 3t -- 46 Guildford . 4B 74 23 32 26 35 43 Henley 54 83 j3O 35 28 30 40 Hereford , 84 92 44 48 52 Highworth 62 80 32 42 28 34 -- 58 Maidenhead s tournouth-----.. 56 61 39 -- Reading ........—..... 65 90 31 47 21 27 34 4C Salisbury 44 62 32 37 21 27 36 54 Southampton 54 58 33 40 28 32 -- 46 Stroud 64 38 22 32 -- 48 fewketibury ---... 65 74 78 f 30 37 42 30 38 -- 44 Uxbridge 48 74 37 40 23 33 -- 46 Wantage.. 5B 80 27 43 21 30 34 42 Warminster.- 45 64 30 43 20 28 34 46 Windsor ---*.. 59 —_ 21 22 -- 52 Worcester , 65 66 !44 51 31 34 -- 50 LEEDS CORN MARKET Wheat, Norfolk and Suffolk, 601 b. - York. and Lincoln. 60Ib. Barley, Norfolk and Suflblk - Yorkshire and Lincolnshire - Grinding Beans 63lb. Oats, I'otatoe -Melding, For. 12. d. to= Enl Shelling Rapeseed, English, led. to 241 Foreir .-April 10. 555. to aSS. 531. to Md. 4 325. to 355. 345. to 363. 21s. to 235. 34e. to 41s. 235. to 286. n ig. 11 d. to 13‘1. per at . ~ 31s. to 325. per load. 1. —l. to —/. per last. LEWES MAR KET.—April 10. White Wheat (per quarter)—...X3 4 0 to £C3 3 0 Red ditto —. 2 10 0 3 2 0 Barley— ---.. 1 0 0 1 9 0 .... 1 1 0 1 2 0 115 0 117 0 12 0 0 per thousand , New Oil Cakl HULL MARKET-April 10. Wheat, Old -s. 6s. 58s New -s. M 564. - Foreign -s. 50s. 545. ln bond... -s. -s. -5. Oats, Poland -51. 208. 228 Old -s -s. 245. - Small or Feed.... -s. 16s. 20; -6 --g. -2. - Foreign -5. 168. 18. Barley, Norf. & Suf -0 --s. -s. Line. & V old -s. 36s 38s. - Foreign .....6. - 6. -6. Beans 30s. 325. 344. Foreign ..... .... -s. 365. 38s. Pease, White -s. 38s. 4us. Grey Taros 4os. 445. -8. Foreign -8. 30s. 38s. Itapeseed, in b0nd......n0ne. ARKET._... ------ April 10. Per lu. Beef d. to d. 6 7 Mutton Veal Pork Lamb 7 8 to 3/. 15s. lid. per ton 0 0 LONDON, SATURDAY MORNING, A APRIL 14, 1832. THE KING'S LEVEE. His Majesty held a Levee at two o'clock yesterday afternoon at the Palace at St. James's. William Woods, Esq., was presented to the King by Vis count Goderich, one of his Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, on being appointed Officer of Arms attendant on the Knights Commanders and Companions of the Bath, when his Majesty was pleased to confer the honour of Knighthood upon him. Monsieur Lavalette w•as presented to his Majesty at the Entree Levee by Prince Talleyrand, the French Ambassador. The King gave audiences to— Earl Grey, the Duke of Devonshire, the Marquess of Lans downe, Viscount Granville, the Earl of Albemarle, Lord Hill, Viscount Althorp, Viscount Palmerston, and Viscount Mel bourne. At the Entree Levee there were present— The Netherlands and French Ambassadors ; the Wirtem berg, Bavarian, Prussian, Spanish, Mexican, Belgian, Saxon, Lucca, and Brazilian Ministers ; the Danish and Swedish Charge d'Affaires ; the Baron de Wessenburg, the Austrian Minister on a Special Mission ; the Baron Zuylen de Nyevelt, the Minister on a Special Mission from the Court of the Nether. lands ; Count Orloff, the Russian Minister on a Special Mis sion ; Count Michel Woronzow ; the Archbishop of York; the Bishop of Worcester, Clerk of the Closet; the Lord Chancellor, the Lord President, the Lord Privy Seal, the First Lord of the Treasury; the Secretaries of State for the Home, Foreign, and Colonial Departments; the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the First Lord of the Admiralty, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, the Secretary of State for Ireland, the Lord Cham. berlain, the Master of the Horse, the Lord Steward, the Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen Pensioners, the Captain of the Yeomen Guard ; Lord Hill, Gold Stick in Waiting ; the Master-General of the Ordnance, the Judge-Advocate-General, the Comptroller of the Household, the Master of the Cere monies, the Paymaster of the Forces, the Solicitor-General. Lord Byron and Sir Robert Otway were the Lord and Groom in Waiting. Among the general company were— DUKES—Gordon, Richmond. Marquis of Downshire. EA RLS--Winchilsea, Roden, Sheffield, Plymouth. V ISCOUNTS--Combermere, Falkland, Sidmouth, Gran ville, Ferrard. LORDS—F. Fitsclarence, Templemore, Dudley Stuart, John Thynne, Marcus Hill, Erskine. BISHOPS—Exeter, Llandatf: Right Hon. Robert Grant. SlRS—Edward Thornton, G.C.8., Robert Kennedy, Charles Dec Voeux, Bart., George Barlow, 11. Williamson, Sandford Graham. Baron Linsingen. DEANS—Lincoln, Carlisle. Rey. Dr. Vignoles, Rev. W. Canning. MESSIEURS—AyImer Bourke Lambert, Thomas Shep pard, Rae Wilson, Whitshed, George Burrard, M.P., Dehany, W. J. Hamilton, P. Campbell Scarlett, Augustus Smith, Thomas P. Courtenay, W. Stuart, James Barnett, Birch, Throgmorton, Keith Douglas. ADMIRALS—Sir Henry Blackwood, Sir James Whitshed, Sir Robert Otway, Sir E. Codrington, Sir Thomas Foley, Brace, Sir Thomas Hardy, Sir Thomas Williams, Sir Harry Neale, Bart., Lord A. Beauclerk, Sir P. Durham, Sir E. Thorn brough. GENERALS—HaII, Moore, Sir Henry Fane, Mawby, Pigot, Peachy, Sir W. Oswald, Sir W. H. Clinton. COLONELS—Sir Charles Thornton, Macdougall, Sir John Kenward Shaw, Potter Macqueen, Lempriere, E. Currey, Bowater, Story, Hanmer, Lygon, Finch, C. 8., Sir John Burke, Shawe, Rice, Jones, Gibbs, Sir John T. Jones. M AJORS—Macarthur, Tynte, Burney, Jones, Mackworth, Sir Francis Head. CAPTAINS—Hodgson, R.N., Phibbs, Last, S. R. Jarvis, Frederick Irby, KN., Sir J. Broke Pechell, R.N., Henry Vyner, Sir John Louis, R.N., A. Shippard, R.N.. Cates, Williamson, Arthur Hamilton, Chinchase. COMMANDERS—Ramsay, Crosier, Booth, George Evans, Maitland, Smart. LIEUTENANTS--George Cremie, G. Courtenay, A. An. dereon, J. D. Blythe, E. Brace, A. Mackenzie, Hodgson. ENSIGNS—Hon. Charles Stuart, G. C. M. Wilson. The following Address was presented to the King by the Earl of WinchiLsea "TO THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY. " SIRIG—We, the undersigned, your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, inhabitants of the city of Canterbury and its vicinity, most humbly approach your Majesty to express our joy and thankfulness that God has been pleased to bless the labours of several Societies in Ireland formed to afford instruc tion to our fellow-subjects. In the midst of the powerful and unceasing opposition of the Roman Catholic Priesthood, edu cation and the knowledge of the Scriptures have been progres sively advancing in the Island, until we have reason to believe that near half a million of scholars are receiving the benefit of instruction in the word of God. " We therefore feel it to be our duty, with all humility, to lay at the foot of the Throne the expression of our grief that Parliament should, in spite of such manifest good, have with drawn its aid from one of the most efficient of those Societies upon the unprotestant objection that the reading of the Holy Scriptures without note or comment is obnoxious to the Roman Catholic Church; and that your Majesty, under mistaken ad vice, should have been persuaded to issue a Commission for Education in Ireland, a prominent feature of which is directly at variance with one of the first principles of the Reformed Re ligion, for the maintenance of which your Majesty's ancestor's were placed on the British Throne. " We, therefore, most humbly but most earnestly implore your Majesty that you will be graciously pleased to revoke the Commission, which, as Protestants, we deem to inflict an im proper restraint on religious liberty; and as Christians we be lieve to be directly opposed to the Divine Will, and to the present and future welfare of your Majesty's subjects. . . _ " And your Majesty's dutiful subjects will, as in duty bound, ever pray," &c. The Earl of Roden presented a petition from Cork against the Reform BilL Viscount Sidmouth presented an address from the city of Exeter and its suburbs againt the new system of national educa tion in Ireland. The following were presented to the King The Rev. Dr. Vignoles, by the Marquis Wellesley. Mr. Aylmer Bourke Lambert, by the Duke of Sussex. The Dean of Lincoln, on going abroad. Col. Sir J. K. Shaw, Bart., on succeeding to his Baronetage. Mr. Rae Wilson, on going abroad. Lieutenant-Colonel Potter Macqueen, by Lord Palmerston. Captain Hodgson, R.N., by the Dean of Carlisle. Captain Phibbs, by the Marquis of Londonderry. Commander Ramsay, on his promotion, by Sir J. Graham. Captain Last, on his return from the Mauritius. Lieutenant St. George Cromie, by Sir Herbert Taylor. Captain Henry N'yner, by the Earl of Erroll. Major-General Moore, on his promotion, by Lord Hill. Lieutenant-General Hall, on his removal to the Colonelcy of the 70th Regiment. Colonel Lempriere, by Major_General Lord Fitzroy Somerset. Capt. A. Hamilton, on return to India, by Mr. C. Russell, M.P. Mr. Thomas Shippard, by Lord Stourton. Lieutenant-Colonel Macdougall, on Ma departure for Canada. Lieut. J. D. Blythe, on promotion, by Lieut .Gen. Callender. Lieutenant A. Mackenzie, by the Right Hon. Charles Grant. Second Lieutenant G. H. Courtenay, on his appointment. . . . Lieut. A, Anderson, by Major-General Sir J. Cockburn, Bart. Major Mackworth, on his appointment, by General Lord Hill Ensign G. C. M. Wilson, on appointment, by Lieutenant. General Callender. His Majesty held a Privy Council after the Levee, at which a petition was presented to the King in Council from the Earl of Dundonald, praying to be reinstated in his honours. The Hon. William Bathurst attended as Clerk of the Council. ASSIZE MEMORANDA.-LITERARY CHA RACTER.— At the assize,' at Wisbeach, last week, during the trial of the worse than brutal affair at Tid St. Giles, a witness (Samuel Eglington) being called upon to speak to the precise day, said he knew it, because he afterwards looked over Moore's Almanack,—for nothing, however, particular, and he could not tell why.—The Judge, appearing to doubt his capacity to read, ordered an Almanack to be placed in his hand, and directed him to read its title. It was not, he said, like his own ; how ever, upon examination, he deliberately, and with due em phasis pronounced it to be " The Englishman's Alma nack." " Quite correct," said his Lordship; " now read me any passage from the inside that may meet your eye."—The witness turned over the leaves, and at length read clearly and slowly from the remarks upon the weather,—` A great deal of snow in Jan-u-a-ry pro-mi-ses a for-tile year. A great deal of rain " " That will do very well," quoth the Judge.— (Laughter.) " Now, Sir," said Mr. Flanagan, the Counsel for the prisoners, "you may go down, after such an ordeal your character for literature is established for ever !" Another witness in the same cause (Thomas Button) knew that the of fence took place on the 12th of February, because he went to church on that morning. [The day of the month was an nounced, of course, by the clergyman, in giving out the psalms.] —Stamford News. ON DlT.—During an interview, some days since, between an Illustrious Personage and an Ambassador for his family dominions, the Monarch is said to have addressed the diplomatic to the following effect :—" I he:r there is a great deal of correspondence going forward between your capital and Berlin, wherein that Court is strongly urged to delay the ratification of the Belgian treaty till the Refbrm Bill is thrown out ; now, write to your people that the Reform Bill will not be thrown out, that it will pass—nay, it shall pass ; and, likewise tell them this, that no Minister ever possessed a King's confidence SO entirely as Earl Grey does at this mu ment " Morswng Advtrticsa, FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, APRIL 1( DOWNING-STREET, APRIL 10. Extract from a despatch addressed by the Earl of BelmorP, Governor of Jamaica, to the Right Hon. Viscount Goderich, dated Montego Bay, Feb. 10: I have the honour to inclose the substance of thy accounts I have received since the date of my last despatch, up to the 29th ultimo, the day on which I embarked, at Port Royal, on board his Majesty's ship North Star, for Montego Bay, where I arrived in the afternoon on the Ist inst. Before I procee 4 to relate the transactions which have occurred since my arrival here, it is necessary I should afford your Lordship some information not contained in the annexed paper, which in fact is the original do cument from which the bulletins have been daily published. _ _ _ In my last despatch I informed your Lordship that Mr. Birdiell, a Baptist missionary, had ar rived from England, and that, in consequence of in foftnation which had been received, it had been thought necessary to place him in custody. His papers were examined by the Custos of the parish, and, on the 17th January, I received a despatch from Sir W. Cotton, informing me that nothing therein had been found to criminate him. By the information of different negroes, and the confession of others after condemnation, it appeared that they looked forward to his arrival as the time when they were to expect freedom, " that he was to bring their freedom out," and in the disturbed state in which this district still continued, it was thought necessary to detain him. lie was, accordingly, re moved by Commodore Farquhar from on board his Majesty's ship Blanche, to the Garland Grove, the ship in whch he sailed from England. I have also informed your Lordship that serious charges had been preferred against a Moravian minister, named Pfeiffer, and with my last despatch, I inclosed copies of letters I directed to be written to General Craw ford on this subject. I have now the honour to in close a copy of the evidence given on his trial, by which I think it must appear, that, at a moment of great excitement, the officers who composed the court-martial discharged their duty uninfluenced by prejudice. In justice, however, to Mr. Pfeifer, who was acquitted, I must also add, that the witness Sutton joined the insurgents after the trial, and has since been shot. Having received an offer from the maroons be longing to Moore Town, in the parish of Portland, and Charle , town, in the parish of St. George, to serve in this district, I ordered a detachment of one hundred and seven men, under the command of Captain Fyffe, Superintendent at Charlestown, to embark at Pert Antonio, and proceed to Falmouth, there to act under orders from Sir Willoughby Cotton, who speaks highly of their services, parti cularly in scouring the woods, a species of service for which their habits of life render them particu larly efficient. I considered it important to avail myself of their offer, not only on this account, but also that by employing them, I thereby secured their fidelity, a consideration to which I attached much importance in the critical position of affairs at that time. The information I eceived from Sir Willoughby Cotton caused me to suppose that my departure for Montego Bay might be hastened sooner than even tually it was thought expedient for me to arrive there. It became necessary, therefere, to summon a Council of War, previous to my departure from the seat of Government, to determine whether mar tial law should ccrainue in force. The Council :►s sembled on the list ult., and decided unanimously that martial law should continue in operation. On the 25th of January, certain Wesleyan Mis sionaries communicated their desire to wait on me. On receiving them, two of their members preferred complaints in written papers against some of the militia stationed at St. Ann's Bay. I immediately directed copies of these papers to he transmitted to Major-General Cox, who is also Custos of the pa rish of St. Ann, with directions that lie should in stitute an inquiry thereon. I have the honour to transmit a copy of his reply, with the several in closures to which he refers. I received a despatch from Sir W. Cotton, dated the 27th ultimo, inclosing also a letter from Mr. Barret, the Custos of Saint James, by which I learned that both Sir Willoughby and the Custos concurred in thinking, that the time had arrived when a conditional amnesty might be proclaimed, and that my appearance here might in some degree serve to heal the moral wounds this rebellion had inflicted, and expedite the period when affairs might be suffered to resume their ordinary course. On my arrival at Montego Bay I found the favourable reports I had received from Sir W. Cotton fully confirmed. With few exceptions, the negroes in the parishes of St. James and Trelawney had returned to their estates, and in some instances the managers of properties had b'gun to repair the buildings which had been destroyed on the commencement of the insurrection. The gaol, however, was crowded with prisoners, and numbers still continued to be brought in. Not one of these miserable wretches, amounting fully to five hundred, would probably escape conviction on the clearest testimony, for all were engaged in the insurrection. Enough of ex amples had been made to render indiscriminate pu nishment unnecessary, and with Sir Willoughby Cotton's full concurrence, I stopped in some measure the trials by court martial, limiting their proceed ings to cases of great enormity. On the 3d instant issued a prociamatitui, a copy of which is in closed. Your Lordship may perhaps consider the terms of the proclamation too vague and undefined, that the names of those intended to be excepted ought to have been stated, and all others admitted to a free pardon ; but until the overseers could be allowed to return to their estates, it was impossible to I . rion , who ought to be expected, and at the time of issuing the proclamation I also issued a general order, a copy of which I have the honour to in close. When returns agreeably to this order are re ceived, I shall then discriminate even among prin• Fipals, by publishing another proclamation, should it be found necessary, excepting . by name those only whose offences are of a nature wh;ch must exclude them from pardon. Although I felt unable to frame the proclamation exactly to my satisfaction, I did not on that account delay to issue it, because I hoped it might save some among the insurgent slaves from the destruction they were dai!y ex posed to while holding out in opposition to the laws; and I soon felt happy to learn that many had since returned to the estates to which they belonk The day following I c onst ituted a corn mission of magistrates, in whose humanity and dis cretion I placed much reliance, to inquire into the nature of the charges against the prisoners, so tha none should be brought to trial who were not ac cused of murder, or had rendered themselves con spicuous as leaders in the insurrection. The magis srrates having commenced an inquiry, many were dis charged and sent to the estates they respectively belonged to; others were sentenced to receive cor poral punishment, on whom sentence of death must inevitably have been passed, if tried either by court martial or in a civil court of law. Those whose crimes could not be passed over were left for trial. I had not Ling been in Montego Bay before I felt convinced the perioi.l had arrived when martial law might be discontinued; tranquillity had been in a great measure restored in the parish of Han over. The returns I received before leaving the seat of Government, represented the number of slaves absent from properties in Hanover a; one thOUSanei air hnntirati Snt.n Off Or trio (PRICE 7D f ion of my proclamation, this amount was reduced t little more than four hundred, the rest, with the ex ception of some killed, having returned to the estate to which they belong. It became, therefore, a matter of great importance to relieve the overseers and book-keepers of estates, all of whom are Euro peans, from militia duty, and allow them to returr to the properties under their charge, for in their ab sence the slaves felt themselves neither under pro tection nor control. By the 48th of George th, Third, cap. 4, commonly called the Party Law, the Governor is empowered to order parties of militir, on duty in time of insurrection or rebellion, and thi la w appears exactly applicable to present circum stances. With Sir W. Cotton's concurrenee,and OR the recommendation also of Mr. Barrett, the Custos of Saint James, I published a proclamation, declaring martial law to cease. At the same time I issued militia general order under the Party Law, a copy of which is enclosed with the proclamation.— Having now accomplished all that I had hoped. and more than I had expected, in so short a time after my arrival at Montego Bay, I determined to remain in this part of the country a few days longer, in order to observe how these measures could operate, and to employ my time by travelling through the disturbed part of the country, and visiting the properties which had chiefly suffered. Many per sons also appeared to doubt whether tranquillity was sufficiently restored to dispense with martial law, and I thought I could not more strongly show that the insurrection was quelled than by travelling through the part of the district which of late had been most disturbed. Ott the 6th I proceeded to Lucea, where I met the Custos and several magis trates of the parish of Hanover. The prison there was also crowded, and I directed the same course to be pursued, as I had adopted in Sr. James's. The following day I crossed by an interior road to Savanna-la-Mar, where also I met the Custos of Westmorland and other magistrates, to whom I made a similar communication. On the 9th I continued my route in New Sa vannah, the residence of Mr. Salmon, in the parish of St. Elizabeth, where I met General Robertson, commanding the militia in that district. Accom panied by General Robertson and Mr. Salmon, on the 11th, I proceeded on my return to Montego Bay ; by the western interior road, through an estate called Woodstock, to Struire, a post now oc cupied by a detachment of militia. but where the in surgents had made a stand; from thence through the estates of York and Greenwich to Hazelymph and Seven Rivers, Lord Seaford's estates of Old and New Montpellier, Anchovy Bottom, and then descending the hill, to Montego Bay. lam parti cular in describing this track, because it leads through the country which lately had been the seat of the insurrection, and from whence, looking across the Great River, I could see Cataduna, Lapland, and Ginger Hill, places, the names of which your Lordship will find frequently mentioned in my former despatches. The whole of this country pre sents one scene of devastation, the buildings on every estate being burnt down, and the greater part of the canes destroyed by cattle. On either side, but especially in the eastern direction, to a large extent, the same work of destruction has been con tinued. On all the estates, however, through which I passed, except the estate of Greenwich, I heard that the negroes had, with very few exceptions, re• turned, and were conducting themselves in as orderly a manner as could be expected. The overseer at Greenwich complained that several of those who had retnrned, had again left the estate, and that two of the slaves had killed an ox, a day or two previous, and had not since been seen. I assembled the slaves I found on this estate, directing my observa tions chiefly to the head men of the property, de siring them to explain to any now absent, that the proclamation I had issued offered a free pardon to all but principals in the insurrection; that every one must now see how vain and hopeless any attempt at insurrection must prove, and what distress and misery they had brought on themselves by the de struction they had committed ; that they were now houseless, and in a great degree their provision grounds had been destroyed, sharing the same fate as the cane-fields of their masters; that all before me had been guilty of rebellion, and thereby had ex posed themselves to suffer death, but that pardon was now offered to them provided they continued in lawful obedince, whilst those who should return to their former rebellious practices would be de prived of all benefit of forgiveness. I then caused the proclamation to be read to them, and inquired if they had any complaint to make. Silence ensued, when an old woman said they had no complaint to tell me of, but promised they would be good, and wore sorry for what they had done. On my arrival at Montego Bay, I had the morti fication to learn that a new scene of disorder had occurred during my absence. A part of the 84th regiment had occupied a chapel belonging to the Baptists, by order of Sir Willoughby Cotton, during the insurrection, and this detachment having moved to Lucea, on the same day a large mob assembled and razed it to the ground. I have the honour to inclose your Lordship a copy of a letter I this day received from the Custos, informing me of this dis graceful proceeding. I regret also to learn that the Baptist chapels at Falmouth, Lucea, and Savanna la-Mar, have shared the same fate. Such turbulent and disorderly conduct calls for my immediate in terference, and I ir:close your Lordship a proclama don which I shall cause to be printed and distributed to-morrow, this day being Sunday. It is certain, however, that an opinion generally prevails that the insurrection, which now happily is quelled, has been the work of the Baptists, and the houses and small settlements belonging to free people of colour, many of whom are in the militia, having shared equally in destruction with larger plantations belonging to the white inhabitants. I greatly apprehend that the mischief may not be confined to the extent I am now acquainted with. SINGULAR INDICTMENT FOR PERJURY —At the Old Bailey sessions yesterday, Thomas stene, lately in business as a hop-merchant, was indicted for perjury, in swear. ing that he was 21 years of age, in order to obtain a marriage license between himself and Miss Mary Hinnington, whom he also had sworn to be of age. The indictment was preferred by the young lady's father, an attorney, residing in Nelson.square; and it appeared that the prisoner frequently visited the young lady with the knowledge of her mother and other persons in the family, after her father had forbidden the prisoner the house and on the 30th April, 1831, he married ber by license, not for her fortune, for it was proved that she had none, but for the at tachment he bore her. The mother knew that the marriage was to take place, as did the young lady's brother. These pro ceedings were instituted, it would appear, in eonsequence of the prisoner refusing a separation ; and while the prisoner was confined in the Poultry Cornpter on another charge, his wife had been taken away by her father, who would not allow hire to know where she resided. The Jury acquitted the prisoner, to the apparent delight of a crowded Court. It was stated that the prisoner and his wife are sineerely attaohed to each other. THE Woor, TRADE.—The attention of the manufacturers and others interested in the wool trade was drawn yesterday and on Wednesday to sales of Van Diemen's Land, New South Wales, German, Odessa, and other wools. There was a pretty full attendance at the sales, and the bid_ dings were brisk. In all, above 300 bales were declared for sale. Yesterday afternoon Van Diemen's Land and Australian wools went off from Is. 3d. to lc fid. per lb. Some Odessa wools fetched from Is. tid. to ls. Bd. per lb., and the German wools from 10d. to ls. 434 d. per lb. A few bales of good New South Wales wools obtained Is. 91yd, per lb. The result of those sales is that New South Wales maintain their value, while other sorts are a shade lower. Further sales are about to take place. The arrivals of wools from Van Diemen's Land and New South Wales during the present year are expected tc be very great. The Treasurer of the County of Hants ha , resigned his office, on account of the remuneration being al together inadequate to thy trouble and reipor►aibility attached to Oats CHELTENHAM Per Bushel. 2. d. to s. d. Wheat . 6 0 8 0 Barley 4 0 5 6 Oats 4O 43 Beans Pease 5O 70 Hay Si. 10s LIVERPOOL CORN EXt7HANGE.—AprOI:7 --- Though there was rather a numerous attendance of country millers at this morning's market, the transactions generally were very limited. Had there been any disposition to press sales, lower rates would have been the consequence; such was not, however, the case. What sales were effected in either Wheat or Oats were upon the same terms as last Tuesday ; nor can we vary our quotations for Flour or Oatmeal. IVIIEAT, English, White, per 70lb. Red Scotch, Welch, and :dank Irish, White 8 4 8 5 --- Red 8 2 8 4 _-- Foreign 8 10 9 0 OATS, English, Welsh, and Scotch, per 451 b 3 0 3 3 Irish Foreign iiAkLI Y, English, Malting, per lump. quarter 3.5 0 37 0 Scotch and Irish, per 601bs. Feeding 3 10 4 (1 Beets, English, per Imperial quarter 36 0 40 0 Irish. Src. Foreign EXPRESS EDITION. S UN-OFFICE, SATURDAY MORNING, SEVEN o'CLOCK. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT HOUSE OF LORDS. The House met to-day at Half•paat Three o'idoel.— Prayers were read by the Bishop of CnlcNiiTEa. Lord Moxvirrx, Sir J. OWEN, Mr. STRICKLAND, and other Members of the House of Commons, brought up the Insolvent Debtors (Ireland) Bill, and several private Bills. The Earl of CAMPERDOWN presented a petition from a parish in Ireland, in favour of Reform. The Duke of WELLINGTON presented a petition from an individual in Ryde, against the Reform Bill. The Earl of WICKLOW presented a similar petition from a place in Essex ; also a petition from a parish in Donegal, complaining of the tithe system, and praying fat its abolition. The Earl of HAREWOOD presented a petition from A parish in the East Riding of York against the Reform Bill. Lord TEYNHAAI presented a petttiou fr.,tn the inhabi• tantsof Horsham in favour of the Factories Hill, and pray ing the House to take it most seriously into their con sideration. The Noble Lord deprecated strongly the present labour of children in factories. The Irish Nisi Prius Court (Dublin) Bill, and the Irish Exchequer Bill, were read a second time. Lord AUCKLAND postponed the second reading of the Civil Department Naval Bill till Monday. The Bishop of GLOUCESTER presented a petition rion the clergy of the diocese of Gloucester, against the new sys. tern of education in Ireland, Lord HOLLAND presenteka petition from certain Pro testant Dissenters within twelv6 miles of London, in favour of the proposed plan of education in Ireland. The Noble Lord said it certainly was not his intention to introduce any debate upon the question of the merits of the petition itself; but he thought it his (hay in the present ing of the petition to describe to their Lordships who and what the petitioners were. He admitted that they were not at all a corpora* body, and, therefore, that their petition must be rooeived only as that of the persons whose names were annexed to it. They were persons who composed a bully of men recognised by the Government since the early period of the accession of the House of Htnover, and no men were more opulent or intelligent than the dissenters of the Kingdom, and were entitled to great credit for the services they bad done to their country. Such persons were the present petitioners, and they prayed of their Lordships to Rive full and efficient effect to the pro posed plan of National Education in Ireland. He (Lord H. ) would take upon himself to say, that if there were any set of people in this country who wf re more deeply interested in the maintenance of the doctrine of the right of private judgment in matters of religion, it was the persons who had signed the present petihen ; and though they differed OR many import ant points in religious matters, they had all without solicitation come forward to advocate and support the plan of education that had been proposed by his Majesty's Ministers. He had presented this petition because he felt sure, coming from the respectable body it did, that it would have great weight in the country, and he hoped and trusted with their Lordships also. Lord RODEN said, if there was any question on which the people of Ireland had agret-d to expre►s their disapprobation, it was the present measure; and the Noble Lord must allow him to state that many of the parties who had signed the petition were Soeinians. Lord HOLLAND—The Noble Lord who had just sat down, had no doubt read the works of Socinue, and must be tware that the doctrines contained in the writings of that author differed in many important particulars from those of the Unitarians; but, however that might be, he saw not what should prevent the Unitarians from forming a just opinion of the plan of education that had now been adopted in Ireland. He preserited this petition, however, as the petition of a body of men re iveaenting many thousand Protestant Di ssen t ers o f t hi s kiagdoas. be Earl of WICKLOW said that the Noble Lord in presenting this petition, had deprecated discussion, but vet has made two speeches calculated to excite a de trate. He would not follow the example of the Noble Baron, but would merely observe, that this was the first peti ,ion that had been presented in favour of the system of education now pursued in Ireland. He begged to t ike this opportunity of stating that in the course of this Session be should move for a return of all the petitions presented to the House upon this subject, in order to show that as they were called upon to pass the Reform Bill, in order to satisfy the wishes of the people, so with equal Justice they were called upon speedily to do away with the system of education lately adopted by this Rtiveroment. The Bishop of BRISTOL begged to state that the reason why those who opposed the system of education adopted for Ireland disapproved of it was this, that it would tend to prevent the general diffiusion of the Scriptures. The Protestants did not wish to impose their particular opinions upon any set of men whatever, but merely to give all an opportunity of reading the Scriptures. He hoped that his Majesty's Ministers were not disaffected to the Protestant religion, and were willing to give every party an opportunity of referring to the Scriptures He must enter his protest against the principle which had lately gained ground, that the Civil Magistrate ought to give countenance, sanction, and protection, even to truth. The Commissioners for Education in Ireland had however set forth that no principle could be adopted for a plan of general education, which interfered with the principles of any stet whatever, as if it were intolerant to wish every individual, only to hope for the opportunity of reading the Scriptures, whilst it certainly was in tolerance on the part of the Ronaish priesthood to wish to debar any one of that opportunity. If we were ever to arrive at uniformity of opinion, it could only he by a full diffusion of a knowledge of the Scriptures. He entreated his Majesty's Ministers to do nothing to prevent that diffusion from taking place. All the Protest ants wished was, to give every one access to the Scriptures. Earl GREY—He did not want to prolong this con versation, but after what had been stated by the Right Rev. Prelate, he could not help stating that his Majesty's Mini sters were not adverse to the Protestant religion. No one, even on the Reverend Bench, could be more anxious than they were to protect the interests of that religion and diffuse scriptural knowledge. The plan of educ ttion which they had proposed for Ireland was not intended to exclude the Bible, but on the contrary provi.ion had been made for securing it. All his Msj sty's Ministers had wished in that plan, was so to construct it as not to defeat its object as niakine the plan of nation)] eduction. Lord ECLENBOROUGH said that the Noble Earl had made a speech calculated to excite discussion, notwithstanding his early deprecation of it; but he (Lord el.) would not cm - I,at account takp the inconvenient course of now aoewer ing those observation. Etrl GREY *4il that be had not made any state ment calculated to provoke any di‘cus,•:•in, but merely stated what was the object of the Government in advocating this plan. Earl GREY presented a petition from Dr. Fletcher and Dr. Bennett representing their respective cengr:gations iu favour of the Irish system of education; and a peiLion more respectfully worded, and containing more linden: ihle truths, be conceived could not be presented to the Holm Lard ELLENBOROUGH thought their Lordships f lu ituht. children this of te l t: t e e . land were receiving mo ra l an d re li g i ous elineatiou; and t must suppose (ruin the Noble Earl's representations there would be no education at all in Ireland if th ere - whereas was not a large sum of money voted in favour uf it fbryomtheG,,Gvoevrenrrnnemnet, three fourths w int ot if the Government's assistance were to be withdrawn to-morrow that education would still continued to be afforded, • and probably considerably increased. lie did not dispute the object of the Ministers to whom the Noble Earl had alluded, being desirous of not intriadi.ig upon the Protestant religion by advocating this system of education, bat the practical effect of it would undoubtedly be injurious to their religion. When this plan of education was presented to the Ilou , e of Cotnnions, t was stated by the Right Him. Secretary for 'Man, d i it under the Kildare-street Society system the benevu cot intention, of Government had been frustrated, and as, according to the calculations which had been made. hills system would withdraw 45,000 Protestant childri* from the other schools in Ireland, thereby making wry tor the education of 45,000 Catholic Citildren, a great injury would be the result to the Protestant religion. WEST INDIES. Earl GREY understoo.l that a Noble E•itl oppo l / 4 it e (Earl Harewood) had a petition which he thought of resenting to their Lordships this day on s vtry important .object—a petition relating to West Indi t a ff,i„ . I„ all ,robability, when that petition way preseuted, 4 eon.iderable time would be occupied in discusNiunt upon it ; therefore t'ie Noble Earl hoped he would wit he unwilling to post :.4ne the presentation to it until some future Earl II AREWOOD made some obsavations in an of •