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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE or LORDS, THURSDAY, APRIL 18. An account was presented of the receipts and . Aisbursetnents of the Liverpool-dock and light 'hou,:e from December 24,1820, to December 24, 1812 On the motion of- the Earl of LAUDERDALE, 1 ariuus fina►►,cial accounts, relative to the amount of the public aebt, price and value of the public at different periods, were ordered to be !::id before tho House. On the same Noble Earl's motion, an account was q..) ordered of the number of enclosure ?sillpassed by Parliament from the Session 1799 Li; Id 1800 to the Session 1821 inclusive. The Earl of I.4tmaicit. gave notice, that on Monday next he would move - the commitment of Doyle's Divorce Bill. The Innkeepers' Rates Bill was read a second time.—Adjourned to Monday. HOUSE OF COMMONS. The House • balloted - fur a - C4n - I , .mittee upon the West Looe .Election Petition; and the gallery was not opened until half 'past tour. Nr. CALVERT presented a Petition from certain inhabit ants of the parish of St. Southwark, against the Bill for repairing London Bridge. After a few words from Mr. 11. SuMNER, Sir W. DE CUES.. '2WaNY, - and Sir W. Cu Rtis, the Petition was ordered to lie on t'se table. Mr. N. CALVERT presented a Petition to the same effect fiorn the parish of St. Olave's, Southwark.—Ordered to lie on the table. • - Mr. DYSON brought up the list of the Members appointed -to r form the Committee for trying the merits of the Petition for the borough of West Looe. The following are the names of the Committee, who were sworn accordingly W. Russell, Esq., W. Stewart (of Armagh), Esq., Right Hon. W. C. Plunkett, M. G. Prendergast, Esq., F. W. Grant, .E.sq., Right Hon. F. J. Robinson, J. B. Wildman, Esq., E. B. Portman, Esq., Ron, W. Gordon, J. Bastard, Esq., Robert Downie, Esq., K. Douglas, Esq., J. Pitt, Esq., H. aernal,Esq., and D. Gilbert, Esq. i LONDON BRIDGE. Sir W. CURT,IS moved the postponement of the London Bridge 'Water Works Bill to Friday se'nnight. The second reading of the Scotch Juries Bill was postponed to the 29th instant. Upon the motion of Mr. Lusiir NG T ON, the further con sideration of the Report of the Receivers-General Bill was post poned to Wednesday next. PUBLIC ACCOUNTS. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER rose to move . for a Committee to examine into the hest means of keeping the Public Accounts, in pursuance of the notice which he had given. The tone of voice in which the Right Hon. Gentle man • spoke rendered it - impossible to collect Ins observations in the gallery. We understood him generally to • state that.the accounts were at present made up under the provisions of seve ral Acts of Parliament, which might be altered with advantage. He wished that the accounts should be simplified and brought into a more mercantile shape ; that a statement should be laid before Parliament, skewing the annual income and expenditure, with a view of the debt, in one short abstract. The Right I - lon. Gentleman moved for the appointment of a Select Com mittee to consider the best mode of simplifying the Annual Accounts laid before the Houses of Lords and Commons, rela ..tive to the National Expenditure and National Debt, and to :the Trade and Navigation of the United Kingdom. Mr. MABERLY did not rise to object to the motion, but .to express his happiness at finding that the Right Hon. Gen , - tieman was at last alive to the fallacy of the system upon which the Public Accounts had been hitherto kept. He thought they were indebted to the balance sheet laid before the House last year, for the present motion ; and if the accounts were kept upon that principle, the change would be a very advantageous one to the public. It would enable Country Gentlemen to see at once the state of the public income and expenditure, which they were now prevented from doing by the difficulty and the trouble of investigating financial papers. The CHANCELLOR Of the EXCUEQUER and Mr. MAUER "I" explained. Sir H. PARNELL did not'obkct to the motion ; he only , complained that it did not go tar enough. They ought not merely to simplify the Annual Accounts laid before Parlia ment, but a simplification of the whole system upon which Public Accounts were kept was necessary. Mr. P. MOORE said that the first public account had been given to the House in they ear 1797, and that was a mere skeleton of an account, which the Finance Committee recom mended to be filled up and improved. This recominenda ' -tion was acted upon in the following year, but never had been since. It was necessary - , likewise, that the accounts , should be in the hands of Members in sufficient time for them to be of use. He thought they might always be made up by the 31st of January. Mr. LUSHINGTON was of .opinion that it would be highly inexpedient not to confine the instructions for the Committee to the annual accounts laid before Parliament. If they did not • do so, there could be no report in the present Session, and a year would be lost in consequence. With regard to time, there was no doubt but that the proposed alteration would expedite the making out of the accounts, and they would consequently be before the House at an earlier period. Mr. ELI.ICE confessed he could not see all the good that JAMS expected from this motion by some of his Hon. Friends. As to confining the attention of the Committee to this one class of accounts, he saw no reason for such a course in the argu • ment offered by the Hon. Secretary of the Treasury, because - - the Committee could, like the Committee upon*Foreign Trade, report to the House, from time to time, upon the different subjects which came under its consideration. There were va rious branches of the public accounts which equally required investigaion. There was what was called-the Sinking Fund, which only kept up useless establishments for paying money out of one hand into the other. He understood from what had fallen from the Noble Marquis opposite, that it was intended to do away with the system of allowing the Sinking Fund to :accumulate by compound interest. He thought it would be .better to apply it to the extinction of debt at once, and not to keep up useless clerks at the various establishments, as he knew they now did, at a very large and unnecessary expence.— .There was another point upon which the Committee ought to .make an inquiry, namely, the valuations upon the exports and imports of this country. lie hoped that the Right Hon. Gen .tleman would give at least a general assurance that the Corn- Jnittee should be revived to go into the greater inquiries con nected with the subject. Mr. J. MARTIN expressed a hope, that if it was found .that the Session was too advanced for the Committee to termi nate its labours, provision would be made to renew its sittings early in the next Session. , • 'Sir J. NEWPORT trusted that the Committee would enter fully into the consideration of the distinct branches of the Pub lic Accounts, take up the investigation seriatim, and report from time to time. - The•CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER objected to the course of investigation as proposed by the Hon. Baronet.— 'it would subject to the consideration of the Committee matters which belonged to his Majesty's• Government. Mr. GRENFELL hoped that it would he open to the Com mittee to take the question of-the Sinking Fund into considera •tiOn. When the Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer had intimated his intention of proposing this Committee, he Grenfehl) had suggested the necessity of getting rid of the whole of the machinery of that fund, so far as it went to a pre tended fund of 17,000001., wheredS the actual Sinking Fund did not exceed 3,900,0001. Ile trusted, therefore, that there would be no objection.to let that subjcct undergo the considera tion of the proposed Committee: The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, that he had before stated that he had no objection to new-model the law, but he never contemplated the new-modelling of the fund itself. Mr. GRENFELL could not consider it a new-modelling of ,the to expunge a machinery which assumed to exist that 1 which did not exist, and to keep to the precise amount of what 1 was really available as a Sinking Fund—(Hear, hear !) The Committee was then appointed at the nomination of the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER; and on the motion of Mr. ELLICE, the name of Mi. J. Martin was added thereto. . . . The Seditious Meetings Amendment Bill was read a second time.—Ordered to be committed this day - fortnight, and the de ' -bate to be taken on the Report. The Report of the Irish MalrDuties Repeal Bill, after a -short conversation; between .Mr. Spring Rice, the Chancellor - of the Exchequer, and Sir John. Newport, relative to the al lowances to-Last, Distillers (Which as we understood from .the low tone in which the Right Honourable the Chancel .lor of the Exchequer spoke, amounted .to a penny per quart), was brought vp, And the further consideration fixed for Wed , -nesday- next. • . Mr. , BERNAL gave notice.of a motion ,for to-morrow, re ..lative to a Return, of •the Fees, received by British Consul 'Generals. • , The other Orders. of the Dili were then disposed of ;,After :which alehouse adjourned. tOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. PARTS, APRIL 15.-It is affirmed that Mr. Forster, the British Minister at Copenhagen,whose speedy departure from that capital we have already announced, is charged with an important mission, which it should seem would be followed by great innqvations in the English policy. The mission of M. de Tatischeff, at Vienna, appears to have had an equally decisive effect on the policy of the Austrian Cabinet. These divers circumstances seem to announce the speedy termination of all the diplomatic uncertainties which have agitated Europe for this year past. The Journal of St. Sebastian states the arrival of General Berton on the frontiers ; he had not entered the town, but five of his officers had land ed on the coast, and entered the city, where they had been well received. To-day, at four o'clock, the English Journal The Morning Chronicle was seized in all the pub lic Places of this city. Number 12 of this li beral journal contains, it is said, a revolutionary song in French, addressed to the soldiers who formed the Cordon of Health at the foot of the Pyrenees. It is to be presumed that the French Ambassador at London has maintained on this occasion the honour of his Government in a man ner worthy of his noble character. It was rumoured yesterday that the numbers of the Austrian Observer had been for some days stopped at the Post Office. This news is alto gether untrue. , That of the sth April, which we received this day, makes no mention of the nego ciations ; it confines itself to giving extracts from the English Courier, Sittings of the German Diet, and fragments of French Journals. AUGSBURG, APRIL 11.-It is affirmed that, in an extraordinary Council of State held at, Vienna, to which the Russian Ambassador, Count Go lowkin, and M. de Tatischeff were invited, it was resolved that fresh attempts should be made at Constantinople, to know whether the Porte persists in its resolution to reject the Ultimatum of the Emperor Alexander. It is added that these steps will be taken simultaneously in the name of all the Christian Powers who have Mi nisters and Diplomatic Agents accredited to the Porte. Yet it is feared that this last attempt to preserve peace will not have the success desired, or that even if the Porte should be seriously dis posed to change its system, there would be a great catastrophe at Constantinople, of which the great men of the empire would be the victims. BRUSSELS, APRIL 15.—The official Journal contains the following article :—" We learn that on the 3d of this month an extraordinary courier set out from the Hague for Rome, and that his departure, and the stay of his Excellency the Director-General of the affairs of the Catholic worship for some weeks in that town, make it imagined and hoped that a Concordat will be shortly concluded between the two Courts : the erection of several new Bishoprics in the king dom is even spoken of." Our accounts from the frontiers of France say that the Marquis of umilhac ,continues to in spect all the garrisons of the fortresses in his di vision. He has every where found reason to praise the discipline and good spirit that distin guish the troops. We are informed that emis saries have endeavoured by criminal manoeuvres to excite a fermentation among some regiments, but they have completely failed. There never was shewn such strict vigilance along the whole northern frontier with respect to strangers who pass that way.. Captain Masker, coming from Cette, on board the brig La Fidelit e, was - stopped on the North Sea by a pirate, who, took away his water, his liquors, and the best part of the effects of the captain and the pilot. -The Chevalier Deboussies, Governor of the Province, has issued a proclamation, dated. Mons, addressed to the Burgomasters and Mayors, ex horting them to pay the greatest attention to strangers, lest any ill-designins , persons should enter and try to excite disorders, especially by announcing extraordinary events or troubles pre tended to exist among our neighbours. The Austrian Observer to the 6th of April in ch'sive, is still wholly silent with respect to Greece and Turkey, and the negociations at Vienna. SP AI N. MADRID, APRIL 2,—We have received from America many printed documents and private letters, which give an idea of the state of that country. Ambitious men resolved, at all events, to proclaim Independence, without considering whether they had all the necessary elements to' constitute,a nation. Many well disposed persons were led astray by vain theories, and by the flat tering prospects held out by those who placed themselvesat the head of the Revolution. Others, not satisfied with the new system established by the Spanish Constitution, lent themselves to aid, to a certain point, the plans of those who pro claimed Jndependence, thinking they could stop when they pleased, and thus recover the usurpa tions and privileges of which they were deprived by the new laws promulgated in the Peninsula. These causes have concurred to effect the Revo lution in the different parts of America, but espe cially in Mexico. Now that the promoters of those disturbances have attained their first object —that they have set in motion all the passions, each endeavours to advance his own pretensions, to realise his hopes, to gratify his resentments, and to effect his plans, by destroying the party opposed to him. Such is the state of the kingdom of Mexico. APRIL 3.—An express has been received to day, from Pampeluna which brings extremely agreeable information, and fully confutes the fatal predictions and the audacious and gratuit ous inculpations which attempted to raise a doubt of the patriotism of the people of Parnpeluna. The Decree of the Cortes for the disarming of the national voluntary militia had been carried into.effect by the prudent conduct of the Politi cal Chief, and the other Authorities, with the . . reatest order, and without any opposition what ever. The inquiry into the disturbances of the 19th is proceeding, with activity. PORTUGAL. LISBON, MARcil 29. TIKE PROVISIONAL JUNTA OF GOVERNMENT AT PERNAMBUCO. Therl having been laid before the King a Note of Mr. E. Ward, Charge d'Affaires of his Britannic .Majesty in this Court, of the Ist instant, accompanied by a letter of the Consul- General of the same nation at Brazil, of the 28th February last, relating to the revision of the tariff of Customs in that kingdom, for the valuation of the British manufactures, and the order of the Sovereign Congress in this respect ' • his Ma jesty orders, by the Secretary of State for the Affairs of Finance, that the Provisional Junta of the Province of Pernambuco shall immediately issue the necessary orders to the Director of the Customs, and other competent authorities, to proceed with out loss of time to the reform of the said tariff, conformably to the 15th article of the treaty of commerce, concluded between this crown and his Britannic Majesty, and to remit the result through the Secretary of the same department to be presented to the Sovereign Congress. Given at the Palace of Queluz, this 11th of March, 1822. JOSE IGNACIO DA COSTA. A similar order has been addressed to the Provisional Juntas of the provinces of Rio de Janeiro, M aranhnm, Para, Paraiba, St. Paulo, Ceara, Rio Grande de S. Pedro do Sul, Santa Ca thania, and Alagoas. Besides the above circular to the Junta of Brazil, another has been addressed to them, reprobating the arbitrary proceed indgs which have been complained of 'by the British Govern ment, of exacting, besides the regular duties on British manu factures, an additional and arbitrary sum to cover the increase of the duty which may arise from the new or future tariff—a practice hilly lamentable, and contrary to the treaties happily subsistingetween the two nations. The following is a Decree issued by the Cortes for the regulation of trade between Portugal and Brazil : " f l. The commerce between the kingdoms of Portugal, Bra zils and Algarves, shall be considered as of provinces of the same continent. _ _ " 2. Vessels of national construction and Portuguese pro perty shall be allowed to carry on trade from port to port in all the Portuguese possessions. All vessels of foreign construction, king Portuguese property at the time of the publication of the present decree, are considered as of Portuguese construction. " 3. The produce of the agriculture and industry of Portu gal, Brazils, and Algarves, exported from one port to another, shall be exempted from all duty outwards, and only pay one per cent. on total value as fees. Wine, however, Shall besides pay one per cent: ; and also the duties mortgaged for the liqui dation of the National Debt, which shall be discounted from the duties the said wines may have to pay in the ports where they are consumed. _ _ _ . " 4. Gold and silver in bars, and national coin, going from one Portuguese possession to another, shall be free of duties. " 5. As soon as possible, a perfect equality shall be esta blished in the united kingdom, as well as uniformity in the na tional coin. " 6. An equal system of weights and measures shall also be established as soon as possible. " 7. The importation of sugar, tobacco, cotton, coffee, cocoa, and rum, intended for consumption, and not being the growth of the Brazils, is prohibited is Portugal and Algaise. " 8. Other articles, being the produce of the Brazils, and im ported in the said ports for consumption, shall continue to pay the present duties ; and those not being the growth of the Bra zils may be admitted on payment of double duties. " 9. In the Brazils the entry for consumption of wine, vine gar, brandy, and salt, not being the produce of Portugal, and Algarve and Islands, is prohibited. " 10. Other articles being the produce of Portugal Algarve, and Islands, entered in the said ports of Brazil, shall pay the existing duties. " 11. Articles, being the produce of the industry of Portugal and Algarve, shall be'admitted into the ports of Brazils for con sumption, free of duties. " 12.. Articles being the produce of the industry of Brazils shall be admitted into Portugal and Algarve, free of duties. " 13.. All foreign articles shall continue to be admitted into Brazils on payment of the same Odes as in Portugal, and those not admitted into Portugal shall pay 30 per cent. ad valorem. " 14. The tariffs which are to tlx the duties of consumption shall be equal, as well in Portugal as Brazils, for all articles being the produce of foreign industry." MR. CANNING. LIVERPOOL, APRIL 17.—Yesterday, pursuant to public advertisement, the friends of Mr. CAN NI.NO met at the King's Arms,, in Castle-street, to take into consideration and determine on the Propriety of inviting our distinguished Representative to a public dinner, previous to his departure for India. About one hundred Gentlemen, of the highest respectability, were present. Shortly after two o'clock; JOHN BOLTON, Esq. moved, that Henry Blundell Hollinshead, Esq. be called to the Chair. Mr. HOLLINSHEAD took the Chair, amid the plaudits of the meeting, and opened the business 'of the day by stating,. that, since the appointment of Mr. Canning to the 'Government of British India had been publicly announced,; , veal of his friends, considering the able, indefatigable, and upright man ner in which he had discharged 'the mist reposed in him as Representative of this Borough. in Parliament, had conceived it to be their duty to convene a meeting, for the purpose of taking into consideration the best means of expressing their gratitude to him for his services, and the regret which his con stituents feel at the prospect of being deprived of them. The Chairman then _said, that having thus briefly stated the object of the meeting, he should be happy to hear the suggestions of any Gentleman on the subject. JOHN BOLTON Esq. then observed, thathe held in his hand some propositions, which he took the liberty of submitting to the meeting for their consideration. JOHN A. CASE, Esq. read the Resolutions proposed by Mr. Bolton. They stated, in substance, that the meeting viewed the appointment of Mr. Canning to the Governor-Generalship of Bengal with mingled feelings of pleasure and regret. The meeting congratulate the kingdom on his acceptance of that high and distinguished station ; but they . express their regret, that .or l those talents which have so long inviated the councils of the nation, and which have been so indefatigably exerted for the interests of Liverpool, during the period it has been represented by Mr. Canning, must for a time be withdrawn from the coun try. They state, that the meeting, reviewing the history of the last ten years, find them filled with acts of Mr. Canning's which claim their highest approbation, and call for their most cordial thanks ; and, considering that those thanks may be most respectfully offered by a personal interview, they request the Chairman to solicit the honour of his company to a public din ner, previous to the suspension of a connexion which has been, during that long period, mutually gratifying. The Resolutions were adopted unanimously. The Chairman -was requested to transmit them to Mr. Canning, and, upon re ceiving his answer -to the invitation, - to convene another meeting. The thanks of the company were then-voted to the Chairman, for his able conduct in the chair, and the meeting separated. As Mr. Bolton will set off for London in the course of this day, he will have the honour of being the bearer of the invita tion to Mr. Canning.—(Liverpool Courier.) EDINBURGH, APRIL 15. CONVENTION OF ROYAL BURGHS. Art extraordinary meeting of the Convention was held on Thursday in te Council Chamber, for the purpose of considering the Bill lately brought into Parliament by the Lord Advocate, for regulating the mode of accounting for the common good and revenues of the Royal Burghs of Scotland, as altered by the Parliamentary Committee. The Lord Provost of Edinburgh was called to the Chair, when the Meeting pro ceeded to discuss the different clauses, and hav ing disposed of the first three, on which they suggested various important alterations, and which occupied them till five o'clock, they ad journed till Friday. The Convention accordingly met, on Friday, when the remaining clauses were discussed. The clause, as to exhibiting accounts for charities under the sole management of Town Councils, was agreed to, and the one requiring residence was expunged. A clause was proposed to be added to the bill for establishing guildries in burghs where there are none, but it was negatived by a considerable majority after a long debate. A motion was also made, for inserting a clause, that the burgesses should not be liable for debts contracted by the Magistrates, but it was lost on a division. A Committee was then appointed to carry the re solutions of the Convention into effect. The meeting then dissolved. rrnE SUN. _ _ • SOLEM DICERE FALSUM 4UDEAT ? LONDON, FBfDAY, APRIL 19, 1822, We have received the Paris Papers of Tues day, from which we give extracts in a preceding column. Nothing further of a decisive character appears respecting the question between Turkey and Russia ; but it is stated in an article from Augsburg of the 11th, that the RUsAan Ambas sador, Count GOLOWKIN, and M. de TATIS CHEFF, were present at an Extraordinary Coun cil of State held at Vienna, in which it was resolved that fresh attempts should be made at Constantinople, in the name of all the Christian Powers, to know whether the Porte persists in her resolution of rejecting the Ul timatum of th 9 Emperor ALEXANDEK. Little hope. of success, observes the article, is expected from this last attempt to preserve peace, and " even if the Porte should be seriously dis posed to change. her system, there would be a great catastrophe at Constantinople, of which the great men of the empire would be the victims." We fully conmir in opinion with the writer of the Augsburg article, that this last attempt is not kely to be attended with the desired success. The Note of the Reis-Effendi, rejecting the conditions proposed by Russia, is couched in such decided terms and lofty language that it might, we think, have convinced the most sceptical that the final resolution of the Porte was taken, and that she would not enter into fresh negociations ; but it is so evidently the interest of the Euro pean Powers to avoid a war, that we have no doubt every effort will be made by them to pre serve peace.—With this object in view, the joint Note of the Ambassadors of England and Austria at Constantinople was transmit ted to the Divan, o❑ the 10th of March, ac companied by another from the French Ambas sador, re-urging every argument they had before advanced to induce the Porte to accept the Ultimatum. The reception of this Note seems to have raised fresh hopes of peace, though at the departure of the last courier from Constan tinople no answer had been returned. We are at a loss to know why the simple reception oS the Note in question should have inspired such hopes ; for it is scarcely to be imagined that he arguments which failed to convince the Porte of the expediency of preserving peace, previously to the , rejection of the Ultimatum, should now produce that effect.—On the contrary the anxiety shewn by the Powers of Europe to prevent a war must impress the Porte with a high opinion of her strength, and has perhaps contributed to the unexpected vigour of her Councils. The greater the desire on the part of the European Cabinets' to maintain peace, the more will the Porte be disposed to raise her pre tensions ; with reason, supposing that as the whole world is desirous of avoiding war, the less cause has she to dread it. The Turks are not so ignorant as is generally imagined of the strength and finances of Foreign States ; and we are informed that they consider the present mo ment as favourable to the maintenance of their power in Europe, and that later they may not, perhaps, be able to defend it. On the other hand, Russia has gone so far that she cannot well recede, without losing her in , fluence in the East; and in proportion as she yields, so will the vacillating power of Turkey gain strength, at the very moment, too, when she appears to be gradually declining. Besides, the Emperor ALEXANDER has offered certain terms, the unconditional acceptance of whicb alone will satisfy him. Turkey has reject ed them. We have stated our reasons for be lieving that she will adhere to her resolution, and as it would be highly impolitic for the. Em peror ALEXANDER to abate his demands, an event it would be idle to expect, we are of opi nion that war is inevitable. The proceedings in the French Chamber of Deputies on Monday possess considerable inte rest. The discussion on the Budget being re sumed, the subject of the Land-tax was brought under consideration. M. LAFITTE reprobated the plan of Ministers for diminishing that tax, which he contended was not done to relieve the country, but merely as a boon for the double vote of the great proprietors, and directed against the small proprietors. Agriculture, he observed, owed its progress to the Revolution, industry had been stimulated by the Imperial Government,and nothing but credit had been produced by the Re. storation. After a few other observations, M. LA,. FITTE concluded by declaring that the days of su perstition were now gone by, and that the only se curity for thrones was the favour and confidence of the people. M. de VILLELE, the Minister of Finance, in reply denied that any boon was intended to be given to the great propri etors, and said that it was to the Restoration, which had brought with it peace and pub lic liberty, that the country was indebted for its present prosperity. M. LAFITTE then again addressed the Chamber, and made use of some' expressions which produced a scene of person alities too frequently witnessed in the Chamber during the present Session. This interruption to the debate continued some time, but after the confusion had subsided, M. M. DELALOT, DUDO,t ) and General FOY, were heard, and the Sitting then terminated. FRENCH FUNDS. April 15, Five per Cents. Spanish Papers to the 4th have arrived, bring ing the agreeable information that tranquillity had been restored. at Pampeluna. Portuguese Journals to the 29th ultimo have also arrived. Tlip British Government baying PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF COMMONS. Jovis, 18 ° die Aprilis,. 1822. GAS LlGHT—Southampton —Petition of Inhabitants - of the Town of. Southampton, against, to lie on the table ; - Bill to be read a second time this day six months. Warwick—Bill read a second time, anti committed. LIVERPOOL WATER BlLL—.Petition of Land-owners and Inhabitants of Toxteth Park, against, to lie on.the table till second reading; Bill read a second time, and committed. SALFORD HUNDRED COURT EXTENSION' DUBLIN FOUNDLING HOSPITAL CORK IMPROVEMENT Bias read a 2d time, & com mitted. CANAL—Gloucester and Berkeley RAILWAY—Sevein and Wye FENWICKE'S ESTATE ROADS—Spann Smithy, Old Stratford, Axminster, and Sun ning and Windsor—Bills read a second time, and committed. Worksop and West Retford—Report further considered, Amendments agreed to ; Bill to be engrossed. INcEosuitEs—Towersey (Bucks)—read a second time, and committed. Taunton Deane (Somerset)—Petition of Michael Dickson, of Piminster, and others, against, referred to the Committee on the Bill ; Counsel ordered. Dringhouses (York)—to be read a second time to-morrow (this day). BRIGHTON PlER—Petition for leave to present a Petition for a Bill reported, and leave given ; Petition presented, and re ferred to a Committee. DURHAM PAVING BlLL—Petition of Freemen and Inhabi tants of Durham, against ; to lie on the table. Petition of Gentlemen, Clergy, and others, of Durham; and Borough of Framwellgate, in favour ; to lie on the table. LONDON BRlDGE—Petition of Inhabitants of St. John South wark; and St. Olave, against taking down the Bridge; to • lie on the table. LITTLE-HAMPTON BRIDGE BlLL—Petition of Bailiff and Burgesses of . 111idhurst, against, referred to. the Committee on the Bill ; Counsel ordered. WEST LOGE ELECTlON—Committee sworn. CARNAT IC CREDIT oßS—Read a third time, and passed. SMALL DEn'Ts—Petition from Sculcoates (York), in favour of a Small Debts Bill—to lie on the table. ORSE TAX—Petition of certain persons, against; to lie on the table. . • LONDON BRIDGE WATERWORKS BlLL—Second reading de ferred till Friday 26th April. PERtic AEctitiNTs--Select Committee aPpointed, " to con sider of the best mode Of simplifying the Accounts annually laid before the Houses of Lords and Commons,' in pursuance of several Acts of Parliament respecting the Public Income and Expenditure, the National Debt, and the Trade and Navigation of the United Kingdom, and report their Obser vations thereupon to the House."—Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Tierney, Lord Viscount Palmerston, Sir John Newport, "Mr. Huskisson, Mr. Bankes, Sir Charles Long, Mr. Grenfell, Mr. Hume, Lord Viscount Lowther, Mr. Sturges Bourne, Mr. Maberly, Sir George Hill, Mr. Ricardo, Mr. Lushington, Mr. Calcraft, Mr. Alexander Cray Grant, .Mr. John Pearse, Mr. Yates Peel, Mr. Keith Douglas, Sir Thomas Baring, Mr. Thomas Courtenay, Sir George Clerk, Mr. John Martin :—Power to send for per sons, papers, and records ; Five to be the Quorum :—Acts relating to Public Accounts referred. WAREHOUSING BILL—" To make more effectual provision for permitting Goods imported to be secured in Warehouses, or other places, without payment of Duty on the first entry thereof ;' presented and read a first time 4 to be read a se cond time on Friday, 3d May ; and to be printed. WEST INDIA PRODUCE—Accounts presented,—Stigar im . ported ; Coffee imported ; Raw and Refined Sugar export ed ; Coffee exported ; Duties on Sugar imported ; Rum im ported ; exported • and amount of Duty of Customs and Ex cise on Rum paid Great Britain ; Spirits imported (order ed 22d March); to lie on the Table, and to be printed. ORDERS OF THE DAY for THIS DAY. -1. Ancient Commercial Statutes Repeal Bill—Second Reading. 2. Navigation Bill—Second Reading. 3. Importation of Goods Repeal Bill—Second Reading. 4. Slave Trade Acts Consolidation Bill—Second Reading. 5. West India and American Trade Bill—Second Reading. 6. Scotch Creditors Bill—Second Reading. 7. Scotch Commissary Courts Bill—Second Reading. 8. Royal Burghs Accounts Bill—Further Consideration of Report. 9. Bakers Regulation Bill—Second Reading. • 10. Supply—Committee 11. Ways and Means—Committee. 12. Superannuation Act Amendment Bill—Further considera tion of Report. 13. Dringhouses In - closure Bill—Second Reading. 14. Commercial Credit (Ireland) Bill—Third Reading. 15. Excise Licenses Bill—Report. 16. Flax and Cotton Bill—Report. 17. Bank of Ireland Bill—Second Reading. 18. Stamp Duties on Legacies Acts—Committee thereupon. 19. British and Irish Linens Bounty Acts—Committee there upon. 20. Scottish Malt Acts—Committee thereupon. 21. Silk Lace Duties—Committe thereupon. NOTICES OF MOTIONS for THIS DAY. 1. Sir William Cuningham Fairlle,—Bill to amend Act (10 Geo. 111. c. 51.) for the improvement of Lands held under strict Entail in Scotland. 2. Mr. Hume,—Copies of the Table of Fees charged by the several British Consuls-General and Vice-Consuls, for clearance of Ships, and other Duties ; also, for the amount collected in the Brazils under the authority of 54 Geo. 111. chap. 106. *.* For LITERARY NOTICE, see the Fourth Page. Enna'rA.—ln• the Letter of a Landholder, from our valu able Correspondent " J. S." on Wednesday last, in line 15 dele " whilst."—ln line 23, after "and all" ' read " appen dages necessarily," &e.—ln line 56, for " exclusive satis faction" read" advantage."—ln lines 85 and 86, for "fundam and solum" read " et." PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Imp. 3 per Cents India Stock India Bonds 61s. 625. South Sea Stock Old Annuities Excheq. Bills 4 5 4 pr. Cons. for Account 7Bi! Bank Stock 3 per Cent.. Red.... . 774 1 , 3 per Cent. Cons. 7 6-ii 3: . per Cent. 4 per Cent. 1 Old 942g New 3 per Cent. Navy Ann. 1023 A Bank Long Ann. 192 11.16thi PRICE OF HUSH STOCK, APRIL 16. Bank Stock 244 Grand Canal Loan, 4 p.ct. 41;1 Gov. Deb. per cent. 137 i 8 Ditto 6 per cent. 04 Stock, 3?; per ct. Gov. Deb. 4 per cent. Royal Canal Stock Gov. Deb. 5 per cent 2,1 I Wide-street Cert. 6 per ct. - - Stock, 5 per cent. ... 2g Do. Deb. with Gov. sec.— Treasury Bills, 5 per cent: Pipe Water Deb. 6 per ct. City Debentures 5 per Do. -per cent. cent. par Ballast Office Govt. Sec. Lying in Hospital 4 per ct. 5 per cent. Exchange on London, April 15, 831. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning, 24 minutes after 0. 1 Evening, 43 minutes after 12,