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The share of Profit arising from the same will he 1001. per annnm for each 1,0001. Security will be given for the amount against any loss by way of mortgage. Letters postpaid, with real name and address, for A. 8., 39 , Cornhill, as none hut principals will be treated with. AT a numerous and very respectable MEET ING of GENTLEMEN, convened by public adver tisement to receive and take into consideration the Report of a Provisional Committee, relative to the propriety of forming and establishing a Company, under the title of " The British American Land Company," held at the London Tavern, the sth February, 1832, G. R. ROBINSON, Esq., M.P. in the Chair ; Nathaniel Gould, E•q., the Ch tirman of the Provisional Committee, presented the Report, which being read, It was resolved unanimously, That the report be re ceived and adopted. That it is expedient to establi•l a Company, under the name and title of " The British American Land Com pany," with a capital of 500,000/., to be raised by shares of 50/. each. That the following Gentlemen be appointed a Commit tee to carry into effect the above object, with liberty to add to their number, and that it be referred to them to draw up a prospectus to he presented to the Shareholders, _ . -•-• • G. R. Robinson, Esq. M.P. Alexander Gillespie, Esq. P. M. Stewart, Esq. M.P. Henry Bliss, Esq. Gm. Sinclair, Esq. M.P. John Shuter, Esq. E. S. Ruthven, Esq. M.P. James Wilson, Esq. Nathaniel Gould, Esq. James Dowie, Esq. That John Galt, E.q., be Honorary Secretary to the same. That applications for Shares be addressed to the Com mittee, at their temporary office, 1, Freeman's-court, Cornhill. . . (Signed) G. R. ROBINSON, Chairman. Resolved unanimously, That the thanks of this Meeting be Liven to the Chairman, for his candid and able conduct in the chair. CHARLES BISCHOFF, Sec. pro tem. AT a Meeting of the GENERAL BOARD of MANAGEMENT of the Company for making a RAILWAY between LONDON and BIRMINGHAM, composed of Deputations from the respective LONDON and BIRMINGHAM BOARDS, which was held at No. 69, Gambill, on January 31, 1832, ISAAC SOLLY, Esq. in the Chair, It was ordered that the following Circular be published : The Directors of the Company for making a Railway between London and Birmingham, on the eve of applying to Parliament for the Bill, deem it right to give a general view of their plans, and of the prospects of the Subscribers to the undertaking. The necessary preliminary measures had been taken for presenting a Bill for a Railway, of four Lines of Rails, in the Session of 1831, when several important considerations decided the Directors to defer this proceeding. Detailed and accurate information has, in the mean time, been obtained on matters which the Directors were desirous of further investigating. A greater width of country lying between the Metropolis and Birmingham has been examined ; accurate returns have been procured of the traffic existing in the intermediate district ; and the question of the comparative advantages, for the purposes of the Company, of a Railway of four Lines, or of two Lines, maturely weighed. A Line of Railway has been laid down, 112/ miles long, in the same general directiwn as the former Line, but differ ing from it in several important particulars. Strong opposition was manifested to the plan of last year by several considerable land-owners, in consequence of the Line encroaching upon the privacy of their residences. The Line now pasties clear of all parks and private grounds. The excrvations and embankments are reduced, although a base of two feet is allowed to one foot of height in every embankment on the Line. On the Liverpool and Mut chester Railway the proportions are, one foot and a half only of base to one foot perpendicular. The planes have a smaller inclination than on the former Line, and the weights, therefore, which the engines can draw, will be in proportion greater. Birmingham being chnsiderably higher than London, and the intervening ground much broken, it was obviously impracticable to lsy down the Line on a level ; but it is so arranged that the inclination of the Railway will in no case exceed sixteen feet in any one mile, or about the tenth part of an inch in a yard. The occasional use of tunnels forms another variation in the present plan. They may, according to the decided opi nion of the engineers, be traversed by locomotive engines, without the least inconvenience to passengers. Of these tunnels there are ten ; one at Primrose Hill, half a mile long, one near Watford, a mile long, and one near Kilaby, seventy-eight miles from London, a mile and a quarter long. The others are each less than a quarter of a mile in length, with the exception of one which is a third of a mile long. They will be twenty-five feet in height, well lighted, and ought rather to be called galleries than tunnels. Two Lines of Rails, with turns-out at convenient dis tances, are ascertained to he sufficient for any probable ex tent of traffic. The space between the two Lines of Rails will be six feet : the width of the Railway on the embankments twenty-eight feet, and in the excavations thirty feet : an additional width of two feet being allowed in the latter ease for drainage. The estimated expence of the undertaking has been greatly reduced: -- For excavations, embankments, and tunnels, the amount £ now is 1,098,000 Masonry, Including bridges, and walling In depots Rails, &c 316,33'8 Ballasting and fencing 205,920 £1,954,9CA Teti per cent. thereon for contingencies, including en gineering, surveying, Parliamentary conveyancing and other law charges 105,496 Laad and compensation 250,000 Total estimated expellee £2,400,456 The estimate of income, founded on actual returns of the present traffic by Roads and Canals, is— For passengers by coaches, posting, &c £331,272 Goods by cans, stage waggons, and market carts 112,500 -Goods by fly boats Total estimated gross inc0me.......£671,1172 Of goods which are also conveyed by canals, the esti mate of income does not include pig and bar iron, and other metals in a rude form, coals, salt, timber, deals, bricks, tiles, slates, flints, stone, lime, grain, bay, straw, and manure. Neither does it include cattle, sheep, and Pies; nor is any thing assumed for an increase of pas sengers, of goods, or of provisions of all descriptions. With respect to the outgoings, the Directors consider that taking the expenses of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, as stated in the published reports, for the basis of their calculation, a deduction of one-half (rem the amount of the gross receipts will be a sufficient allowance. The number of 1001. Shares subscribed for amounts to upwards of 19,000, and upon them a payment of Five Pounds each has been made. The outlay for surveying, engineering, law, canvassing the owners and occupiers of the Line, Parliamentary and other unavoidable expenses (including every outstanding claim on the Company), up to this period, is less than one-third of the deposits, and of the remainder, 52,0001. is invested in Exchequer Bills. With this view before them of the favourable position of the undertaking, the Directors are of opinion that they should not have consulted the interests of the Subscribers, had they not decided on presenting the Bill to Parliament. They believe the moment to be propitious, and that the benefits of a work, of which manual labour forms so very large a proportion of the cost, will not, in the present con dition of the labouring classes, be viewed with indifference by any who are interested in the tranquillity and welfare of the country. The Directors cannot conclude this Report without inviting the attention of the Subscribers to the prospects of advantage which the establishment of this Railway holds out. The great objects are— First —The opening new and distant sources of supply of provisions to the Metropolis. Second —Easy, cheap, and expeditious travelling. Third —The rapid and economical interchange of the treat articles of consumption, and of commerce both in ternal and external—and Lastly —Th e connexion by Railways between London and Liverpool_a new Company being formed for a Rail t°aY between Liverpool and Birmingham, which with the Manchester and Liverpool Road now in operation, and the London and Birmingham Road, will connect London 1 ,1 Railways with the rich pastures of the centre of Eng land, and the great manufacturing districts; and through the Port of Liverpool afford a most expeditious communi eation with Ireland. When this nndertaking is completed, there can be little doubt that branches from the chief towns and districts, On each side of the main Line, will be formed, to the diffusion the benefits above stated throughout the kingdom, and to the especial advantage of the Proprietors of this Corn- Pany, by whose main road alone the communication with the Metropolis must be maintained. By order of the Board, RICHARD CREED, Z Secretaries of the C. R. MOORSOM, S respective Boards. London, Jan. 31, 1832. No. 12.297. OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, FEB. 3, 1832. TIIE PRINCIPAL OFFICERS of his MAJESTY'S ORDNANCE do hereby give Notice, that they will SELL by PUBLIC AUCTION at the Tower, on Tit uasnmr, the 16th inst. at Eleven o'clock in the Forenoon precisely, Sundry Lots of OLD STORES, consisting of Brimstone, Sulphur Vivum, Harms, Hides, Cuttings of Hides, Cuttings of Leather, Leather Car touches, Sand Bag., Saltpetre B igs, Scaling Ladders, Tool., Standing Vices, Horse Shoe Nails, Staves and Heads of Powder Barrel., Musquet Stocks, Old Cured Paper, Flannel Cartridge., Flannel Cuttings, Painted Covers, Old Wheel., Hand Barrows, Bunting, Bellows, Sealing Wax, Fire Wood, Park Picketts, a Boat, Old Junk, and a variety of other articles ; the whole of which may he viewed at the Tower, and at the Royal Arsenal, Wool wich, at expressed in the Catalogues, during the week pre vious to the Sale, from Ten o'clock till Four, upon appli cation to the Ordnance Storekeepers at those places; where Catalogues of the Lots, and Conditions of the Sale, will be delivered to those persona who may apply for the same. By Order of the Board, R. RYHANI, Secretary. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. CAMBRIDGE, FEB. 9.—At a congregation on Wednes day last the following Degrees were conferred : DOCTOR IN DIVINITY. Rev. W. Howson, of St. John's College, Chancellor of St. David's, and Vicar of Swansea, (Comp.) BACHALOR IN DIVINITY. Rev. J. B. Smith, Christ's College, and Head Master of Horn castle Grammar School, (Comp.) HONORARY MASTER OP ♦RTS . Sir Jacob Henry Preston, Trinity College, eon of late Sir Thomas Preston. MASTERS OF ARTS. FAlward Pote Neale, Trinity College. William Henry Stringer, Christ's College. George Dunnage, Downing College, (Comp ) BACHELORS OF ARTS. George William Rush, Trinity College. Richard Courtney, Trinity College, (Comp.) . . . At the above congregation William Hallows Miller, Esq. M.A. Fellow of St. John's College, was appointed Pro fessor of Mineralogy. On Saturday last the Rev. Thomas Jarrett, M.A. Fellow of Catharine Hill, and Professor of Arabic in this Uni versity, was instituted to the rectory of Trunch, in Nor folk, on the presentation of the Master and Fellows of that society. The Right Hon. the Earl of Cansperdown has been pleased to appoint the Rev. Edward Wilton, M.A. formerly of Queerea College, one of his Lordship's domestic Chaplains. THE MARKETS-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. The arrivals of most kinds of Grain this week are consider able, with a large quantity of Flour. The Wheat trade is excessively heavy, and hardly maintains Monday's terms. Barley, Beans, and Pease remain as last reported. Oats find buyers very slowly, and are considered again rather cheaper. Flour unaltered. ARRIVALS. Wheat. Barley. Oats. I Flour. English Irish 3,853 415 26,160 Foreign SMITHFIELD MARKET This day's supply of Beasts was tolerably good; of Sheep, Calves, and Porkers, rather limited. The trade was very dull throughout, with Veal and prime Mutton at an advance of 3d., Beef at a depression of from 2d. to 4d. per stone, with Perk, at barely Monday's prices. Milch Cows were rather numerous and dull of sale at their last Friday's currency, ass useful short horns, with her small calf, producing from 21/. to 231. PRICES PER STONE OF SLIM TO SINK THE OFTALS. a. d. tog. d. Inferior Beasts 2 2 2 4 Second quality ditto 210 3 31 Prime larger Oxen 3 3 81 Prime Scots, &c 3lO 4 0 Inferior Sheep 2 8 2 10' Second quality ditto 3 2 3 8 Coarse-woolledditto 310 4 8 SluthdownWethers 5 0 5 2 SUPPLY, AS PER CI.I Beasts. ISheep and Lambe 472 2,630 s. rt. to s. n. ' Large Lambs Prime small ditto 0 0 0 0 Large coarse Calves 4 0 4 4 Prime small ditto 5 0 5 8 ' Large Hogs Small Porkers 4 6 5 0 Suckling Calves 12s to 40*.eaa. Quarter old Pigs I'2s to 186. each. RK's STATESIKNT. 6.1 Calves. Pigs. I 138 lOO NEWOATE AND LEADENHALL MARKETS. At per stone, by the Carcass. s. d. to s. d. s. d.tos. Keet, inferior 222 4 I Mutton, inferior... 262 10 - middling 2 6 210 - middling.. 3 2 3 - prime large 3 0 3 2 - prime 3lO 4 4 -- prime small... 3 2 3 6 Pork, large 3s 4 0 Veal -small 4 8 5 0 SOU l'H ALL MARKE E.—Feb. S. This day's supply was moderately good throughout. As the market was thinly attended by buyers, especially from London, the trade with all but the very primest and mo t sizeable, conse quently most selling stock, was very dull, at the following prices per stone of 81b. to sink the oflals : Beef 3s. Od. to 4s. 2d, 4s. 2d. to ss. sd. Mutton 3 10 5 0 "Pork —.— 4 0 5 0 The foregoing quotations are Veal and primest Mutton 2d. per stone higher than on this day se'nnight ; prices otherwise sta tionary. Some, but not a great proportion, of the supply left the market unsold. HAILSII AM 111.kliKE7'.—Feb. 8 Beef 3c. 4(1. to 4s. Od. ss. Pd. to ss. ed. I Mutton,-..... 4 4 5 2 Pork -3 8 4 0 Supply of Beasts good, of Sheep, Calvet, and Pigs, limited. Tta,,e dull throughout. ARUNDEL MARKET.—Feb. 7. Beef as. Od. to 4s. Od. Veal*. 4s. Bd. to ss. 4d. I Mutton - 4 0 5 0 4' 0 4 4 A moderately good supply, and a sluggish trade. CHICHESTER i 1 ARK ET.—Feb. S. Beef ---2 s. 101. to 4, ad. 4s, 4d. to ss. id. Mutton —3 10 410 I 3 8 4 4 In Lean Stock but little was doing. Supply good, and trade dull It KET.—Feb. 1. RUMFORD MA a. d. to s. d. s. d. s. d Beef 3 0 4 0 1 Veal Mutton 3 6 4 8 Pork .. . 1 8 4 8 Suckling Calves from 14s. to 345. ; Quarter old Pigs Ple.to 18s. each. Supply moderate, and trade dull. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING 7111: WEEK W heat. Barley. Oats. Per Quarter. Blandfortt Brigg Cambridge Chant Huntingdon—.. Long Sutton— Louth .. Lynn,-.. Newark Nottingham Peterborough —. Plymouth kefn fn a te o r r *.. Uppingharn S. to s. 62 51 58 56 64 58 67 46 62 52 56 48 62 52 62 60 64 50 62 58 65 65 70 52 60 52 62 S. S. 30 35 30 3A 28 39 C. to s. 16 22 1 Beans. 28 33 36 34 41 36 40 34 38 30 34 - 43 36 38 30 38 a. to a. 43 31 3.5 18 22 16 22 16 22 18 23 16 24 17 27 22 26 15 24 26 92 - 22 28 16 24 20 23 34 37 29 33 30 40 30 34 30 34 33 42 37 45 28 34 - 43 41 43 30 38 30 34 PREMATURE INTERMENT.--In cholera, muscular movements or spasms continue often for seven home, after death has to all appearance taken place—a fact corroborated by all who have written on or witnessed the disease ; and there cannot be a question that a patient, while under the influence of " the indiscriminate use of " opium, may remain for twelve or eighteen hours without a symptom or evidence of life. We aver that we have un questionable authority for stating, that, in a neighbouring infected village, a boy whom they were carrying along the streets in his coffin to his " nether bourne," kicked the lid ; that a wife was laid in her coffin, and the lid about to be nailed down, when her husband interfered, and threatened with death the first who should attempt to do so. Both of these individuals are still living. We may mention fur ther, that in a town not very far distant, a husband whose wife had apparently died of cholera insisted on having the coffin examined, when, to the horror of the beholders, the corpse was found lying on its face.— " We do nothing extenuate, or set down aught in ma lice." And in further evidence of the danger of pre mature interment, we may state the following fact, which occurred a few years ago in this city, and which many in dividuals will remember. A beautiful young lady wan seized with a sudden illness in the evening, and carried home in a swoon ; but before medical aid could be pro cured, life appeared to be extinct. Every endeavour, however, to restore suspended animation was resorted to ; among others, veins in various parts of the body were opened, but the blood refused to now; the body was then laid out on a table, to all appearance a corpse, and the afflicted family, after giving vent to the most poignant and unavailing anguish, retired to rest, leaving the body locked up alone in the apartment. The lancet wounds alas ! had either been neglected to be sufficiently bandaged, or such a ceremony had been altogether dispensed with as unneces sary. During the night, the system, which had only been suspended, rallied, and life had returned sufficiently to enable this unfortunate victim to roll from the table to the floor, which was found next morning deluged in the life blood of the hapless girl, which bad welled forth from the wounds inflicted to preserve it.—New North Briton. LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 10, 1832 SEUON..) E ;11.110N. SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock. 1M 1 9 RIAL PA RLIAMEM OF THIS EVENING. HOUSE OF LORDS. Mr. Preston, from the India House, presented papers relative to pensions. The E,rl of FINGAL presented petitions from tl,e parishes of Dunsale and Killeen, in the county of Meath, in favour of Reform. Alb() one front the Roman Cttliolics of a parish in the county of Louth, against the tithe sys tetn.—Referred to the Tithe Committee. The Sacramental Test (Ireland) Bill and the Contempt in Equity Bill were read a second time, and ordered to be committed on Monday. The Earl of WICKLOW, seeing the Lord Chancellor for Ireland in his place, gave him notice, that on Monday he would put some questions to him relative to the Irish Magistracy. Lord PLUNKETT was obliged to his Noble Friend f. r giving him an opportunity of preparing himself. Adjourned to Monday. per tribunal. Enquiries before Grand Juries were secret, therefore, he could not say that the Manchester Grand Jury did not act accordiag to their oaths ; but unquestionably the innocent blood shed in I SI9 cried aloud for investigation, and so long as he had the power of speaking he would demand it. Manchester demanded it, the country re quired it, and justice could not he satisfied without it. Air. HUNT very much regretted what had fallen from the Noble Lord. At all events he would do the peti tioners the justice of admitting that it was not him who had raked up the ashes of that day. The truth was they had been raked up by a correspondence which had taken place between the Noble Lord himself and Mr. Hulton. That correspondence was published by all the Newspapers, therefore it was no secret. The Noble Lord had said, on this occasion, he was the person who had formerly moved for an inquiry into all the circumstances that took place in the year 1819. He was on that occasion met by state ments that some persons were about to undergo trial in consequence of being supposed to he implicated in the circumstances. and that others might he prejudiced by it. No such statements could meet him now. And there was no reason why justice should not be had even at this period. True it was that it wasl 2 years since the circumstances took place, but Governor Wall was tried and executed 20 years arter he had committed the offence. Here fifteen persons had been killed—as he would say until an enquiry had taken place—coolly and deliberately murdered.—(Hear, hear.) Ile believed he had been sent into Parlia ment, to agitate this question more than for any thing else. Having been an eye-witness to the bloody scene, his constituents supposed he would never cease to bring the question forward. He had given notice of a motion for the 23d of this month, for the appointment of * Select Committee to enquire into the circumstances, but he would much rather that Government would take the subject into their hands and appoint the Committee. lie was quite sure that the people of Manchester never could suppose a Reformed House of Parliament could take place, unless these transactions were investigated. And those who were for the investigation he trusted would continue to be f ,r it. Mr. HUNIE thought the question most important. As far as he could understand the Noble Lord opposite. time was to put an end to the necessity for enquiry Now, could it possibly be contended that the lapse of time was to put an end to the necessity of inquir ing into wholes de murder? The Noble Lord would allow him to say that he (the Noble Lord), as well as many others, at the time the unhappy occurrences took place, considered that the deaths approximated neare' to murder than any thing else that could be thought of. Nay, it had been alleged over and over again that murder was committed, and justice never had beet satisfied. The only mode whereby justice could be a itis fied, or the public mind composed, was by having an in quiry, which inquiry he hop .d would, ere long, take place. It was a monstrous proceeding to say, that after such a deed had been committed, they were to be shut out fron, inquiry u p on a po i nt o f t i me . He joined in the feel ings of the Hon. Member for Preston, on reading th, correspondence which had been alluded to, and which seemed to afford a triumph to the other party. Me hoped the Noble Lord would not refuse to institute an en quiry. Justice at the present time could be fairly done, and he wished the public to know that in case of murder no period of time should interpose as an obstacle to th e furtherance of justice. If the Noble Lord would weigh the consequences of a refusal, and advantages of an inquiry, he (Mr. flume) was snre that he would not refuse what was asked. He, for one, would be gratified to hear of the parties corning out of the investigation perfectly free, but he was csnfident that in a case where fift• en people had beeh killed, the public expected that investigation. Lord MILTON regretted that this question bad again became the subject of discussion in that House. He for one could not see any thing inconsistent in the course which the Noble Lord (Althorp) had intimated he should take by not acceding to the request for an inquiry. A long course of time interposed difficulties in the way of that inquiry, and the House might be justified in giving such weight to those difficulties as to induce them to say that it was not necessary now to in stitute an inquiry. He thought that some consideration was certainly due to the feelings of those who perhaps had relations who fell on that occasion. Still it was perfectly consistent to say, that an inquiry at the present period was not advisable. —The petition was then read, and ordered to lie on the table. Lord ALTHORP presented a petition from the Mem bers of a friendly society at the Isle of Wight praying for an alteration in the law relative to friendly societies; which was read, and ordered to be printed. Sir G. CLERK moved for certain returns of the re ceipt and expenditure on account of the Navy, between the let of January and the 31st of December, 1831. Ordered. Lord ALTHORP then moved the order of the day for the House r, solving itself into a Committee of the Reform of Parliament (England) Bill. Mr. DUNCOMBE wished before the House went into Committee, to advert to a petition which he had given notice of his intention to present from the county of Hert ford, relative to the means that had been used to obtain signatures to an Anti-Reform address which was lately presented to the King at Brighton. The time for pre senting that petition to-night was now passed, but he wished to be allowed to make known to the House the grievances complained of by the petitioners. If it had been merely a petition in favour of the Re form Bill, he should not hate felt it his duty to have given any notice upon the subject. The petitioners complained of the insulting address which had been carried to the King at Brighton a few days ago, by two Noble individuals. They spoke of the threats, bribes, and douceurs, which had been given to induce per sons to sign it. They stated that last year they addressed this House and the King in favour of the Reform Bill ; that in January last, a petition addressed to the King was handed round the county of Hertford for signatures— that it was put in the hands of Mr. Andrew, an attorney, for that purpose, and that since that period they had learnt for the first time that its object was to condemn the Reform Bill, and to thank his Majesty for not having exercised his prerogative by the creation of new Peers. The Hon. Member then read part of the petition, which complained of the petitioners' names having been forged to the address. Such then, observed the Honourable Member, was the petition. The address to his Majesty began with the usual form of an Anti- Reform Petition. It was from the Nobility, Clergy, and Gentry of the county of Hertford. It began by caling the Bill a Revolutionary measure—(Cheers) — decried Political Unions, all of which the petitioners ob jected to. And it proceeds with, we take leave therefore to express our humble thanks to your Majesty, that your Majesty has firmly withheld your prerogative in not crea dtiensgtroynienwg, by Peers for the uncon s tit u ti ona l purpose as °a: eindependent of Lords, do b of carrying t h e measure o f R e f orm t h rough the House u unusual branch thereby nch of e x et rhesLegislature, of s t andha a l t preroga tive, rerutterlyog House _ toinvde,erthwch w at hi happyehavebalanceso long flourished.—(Cheers. of powerinrthed._ heCo(ncis Constitution under Flourished indeed, Sir, observed the Hon. Member— (Cheers)_a pretty expense had this country incurred in consequence of it, and well might the petitioners be indignant at finding their names attached to such a document, which was a gross insult to the prerogative of the Crown. Did the ( w L . j o te u tni do Without tt persons who . got up that petition mean to say that the King was . to withhold his prerogative in the creation of Peers at chee rs th w e a a time when the whole country was calling for it— from the Opposition benches)—or did they mean to say by their loud cheers, that it would b . e an unconstitutional exercise of that prerogative exercise ws p inof thatfor force, prerogativefor tle c t o h u e n h t r a y p ' p s welfare.happiness snd welfare of the country was at stake. The people required a speedy exercise of that prerogative, and it must be sooner or late r exerc i se d . For his part he should attach m o reimportance to the opinions laid down by such men as Locke,than those which had been disseminated by such men as Lord Salisbury and Lord Ellenborough. They told the people that the Crown had the power of doing no wrong, but the object of its existence was to prevent its being done. If any rule or authority was wanted as a precedent for the exercise of the King's prerogative in the creation of a sufficient number of Peers to carry the Reform Bill, the same course was pursued in the reign of Queen Anne.—(Cheers from the Opposition.) Peers were then created by the Queen on the advice of Lord Oxford. It was true that be (Mr. Duncombe) might be told that Lord Oxford was impeacbed—(Hear)—but long did that impeachment last ? Why it terminated in PRICI3 7D. the same manner as all impeachments did which wen• founded in enmity, to the honour and acquittal 0' the accused..—(Loud cheers ) That measure pro duced the Peerage Bill, which was opposed by Sir R. Walpole, on the ground that it would give to the House 0' too much power, and woul- 1 , in f act, be the means of governing the country by a lordly aristocracy. His Majesty's Ministers, however, had no fears of impeach ment to apprehend from giving advice to his Majesty ti, create a sufficient number of Peers to carry the Reforn. Bill. But they had much to fear if they did not give that advice. Theligrtford address stated,that there was no pressine necessity for such a creation ; he (Mr. D.) denied it in Colo, and his assertion, he thought, was as good as that of the Hertford address. He denied that his Majesty had hesitated to create new Peers, and he would boldly assert that his Majesty had furnished full power to his Ministers to give effect to the carrying of the Reform Bill, if it was necessary. Ministers, there !ore, having that power, if they did not exercise it, hut allowed the Bill to be mutilated and crippled in another place, they must take the consequences of that non-exercise upon th-ir own heads.—(Loud cheers.) The culpability and responsibility of his Majesty's Mini. eters would be great indeed, if they did not advise the ex ercise of the Royal prerogative to create Peers fur the purpose of securing the national wishes. The signatures which had been appended to this peti tion, completely overturned the importance which had elsewhere been attached to the Anti-Reform address to his Majesty at Brighton on a late occasion. The petition completely destroyed the validity of the ad dress, because it impugned its veracity. The petition con tained allegations that he was ready to prove at the bar of the House, if it were considered at all necessary. (Hear.) And therefore, notwithstanding the address hail been carried down to Brighton, and laid at the foot of the throne with all conceivable pomp and dignity by two Noble Lords—the one for the purpose of presenting, and the lathe, for the purpose of expanding its absurd doctrines, yet he di• not think that he would have done justice to the House, that no attempt to delude a Monarch and the public had been so gross, by misrepresenting and mis-stating th• feelings of the county of Hertford—a county than whicb, none were more loyal in their attachment to hie Majesty, or had more advocates for Reform, more enlightened or sincere. An HON. MEMBER, whose name we could not learn wan anxious to state to the House the real facts of this case. He could not see upon what grounds the Hon. Gen tleimm had considered it his duty to fasten imputations, unjust an • and uncalled for, both on Lord Salisbury and Mr. An .crews. He had resorted indeed, during the whole of hi , speech, to the jargon of Reformers, which had s. often been heard in that House, hut he n'a very much mistaken if he expected Honourahh Members would be prevented from uttering their sentiments either by intimidation or abuse. In ord., to exculpate the character of the Noble Lord he wouli read a letter which he had received from the respectable solicitor Mr. Andrews, who had been referre. to, and for the purpose of chewing that the allegations i. this petition were groundless, and false in reference to th. signatures of the address. The Hon. Member then read a letter in which the following passage occurred in allusion to hie having obtained signatures upon false representations : " Mr. Scares is a particular friend and excellent client at mine. I called on him with the address, and with ti joke, I asked if he would wish the assessedt axes to h. taken off?—( Hear, and laughter.) I asked him to sign. the parchment which I held in my hand ; lie was about tr do it, but I told him that it did not concern the assessed taxes. He said he did not care what it re (erred to, that he would sign any thing, and parti cularly if it was to hang my Lords."—(Grea, laughter.) The Hon. Member also read a quotation from a letter from Mr. Sears to the same purport, and concluded by observing, that when person■ cou'd first sign the address, then write a letter, and afterwads sign the petition, it proved that the opinions they had formed of the necessity for the passing of the R. form Bit', had not been founded in conviction, and would soon there fore be oblitered. (LEFT SITTING.) rim LONDON GAZETTE THIS EVENING. WAR-OFFICE, Fee. 40, 1832. Bth Regiment of Light Dragoons—Lieut. Sir W. L. Young, Bart., to be Adjutant, vice Shewell, who resigns the Adjutancy only, Feb. 10, 1832. 16th Light Dragoons—Brevet Colonel T. W. Brotherton, from the half-pay, to be Lieut.-Colonel, repaying the difference be tween the lull-pay of Infantry and Cavalry, Feb. 10. Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards—Lieut. and Capt. W. H. Cornwall to be Capt. and Lieut.-Col., by purchse, vice Peters, who retires ; Ensign and Lieut. J. Forbes to be Lieut. ane Cap., by purchase, vice Cornwall ; Hon. F. W. C. Villiers to be En- ' sign and Dicut., by purchase, vice Forbes ; Capt. C. W. Horton to be Adjutant, vice Cornwall, Feb. 40. 4th Foot—Capt. R. M. Westmacott, from 98th Regiment, to be Captain, vice Mahon, who exchanges, Feb. 10. 13th Foot—Capt. J. M. Maitland, from the half.pav of the 52d Regiment, to be Captain, vice R. Hare, who exchanges, receiv. ing the difference, Feb. 10. 20th Foot—Capt. W. T. R. Smith from the half-pay, to be Captain. vice M. A. Stanley, who exchanges, receiving the diffe rence, Feb. 10. 32d Foot—Lieut. G. Browne to be Captain, without purchase, vice Reoch, deceased; Ensign J. Dillon to be Lieutenant, vice Browne; Gent. Cadet W. Case, from the Royal Military College to be Ensign, vice Dillon, Feb. 10. . 48th Foot—Lieut. J. Watson, from half-pay of the 2.1 Garri son Battalion, to be Lieutenant, vice Egar, appointed to the Bth Regiment, Feb. 10. 57th Foot.—F. H. Jackson, Gent, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Blythe, promoted in the Ist West India Regiment. Feb. 10. 65th Foot—Lieut. H Elton, from the half-pay of the 22c1 Light Dragoons, to be Lieutenant, ♦ice W. Tucker, who ex changes, Feb. 10. 76th Foot—Hon. T. Murray to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Bruce, promoted, Feb. 10. 65th Foot—Brevet-Major D. Mahon, from the 4th Regt. to be Captain, vice Westmacott, who exchanges, Feb. 10. '2.d West India Regiment—Lieut. J. Hodges, from the half-pay of the York Chasseurs, to be Lieutenant, vice Bell, appointed to the Royal Newfoundland Veteran Companies, Feb. Ceylon Regiment—Lieut. G. Hamilton, from the half-pay of the 53d Regiment, to be Lieutenant, vice H. Sharpin, who ex changes, Feb. 10. DECLARATION OF INSOLVENCY. FILCHER JONES, Folkstnne, Kent, cabinet-maker. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. JOHN SAUL BYRON, Boston, Lincolnshire, draper. 110 USE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took his seat at Four o'clock. Sir Jotut CAM HOBIIOUSE took the oaths and his seat for Westminster. A person appealei at the bar with returns of the number of convictions against coffee-house-keepers at the Metropolitan Police-offices. On the motion of Mr. CIiAYTOR S the Bill for con structing wet docks on the south side of the river Wear, at Sunderland, was read a first time. Mr. STRICKLAND, in consequence of the indisposi tion of Sir John Newport, postponed that Hon. Baronet's motion with respect to First Fruits, from Tuesday next to Thursday the 23d inst. The Hox. MEMBER then presented a petition from Halifax, signed by 5,000 persons, in favour of the Bill introduced by the Hon. Member for Borougbbridge for the shortening of the labour of children in factories. The Hon. Member concurred entirely with the prayer of the petition, being convinced that some interference on the part of the Legislature was loudly called for. Mr. HUNT presented a petition to the same effect from the cotton-spinners of Preston. Mr. WOOD observed that as far as be understood the wi-lies of the people of Preston, they would prefer the Bill going to a Select Committee, that further inquiry might be instituted into the subject. Mr. HUNT stated that if he understood the wishes of the electors of Preston, they were quite different to that of the Hon. Member who had just addressed the House. They wished the Bill to pass as speedily as possible. Mr. O'CONNELL concurred entirely with the prayer of the petition, but he thought if the parents of children labouring iH factories supposed that when their hours of labour were curtailed they should receive the same wages, the sooner that fallacy was removed the better. Mr. BENETT observed that all pecuniary lose would occur to the master. Mr. STRICKLAND had had various communications with the parents of children labouring in factories, and upo❑ his stating to them that they could not expect the sirne wages for their children when their hours of labour were shortened, they observed that they were ready to put up with that inconvenience, all that they wanted being protection for their children. He thought all the altera• tions required in the Bill would be much better effected by a Committee of the whole House than by a select one. Mr. SADLER said, that if the diminution of wages was the result of the Bill passing into a law, as the peti tions had contemplated it, no objection should thereby be urged against it. Mr. HOME contended that it would be most unjust to the manufacturing interests generally to decide the question upon an ex-parte petition, without referring it to a Committee up stairs. He was, therefore, very much astonished when he heard the lion. Member for Wiltshire object to farther enquiry upon the subject. Mr. ROBINSON considered the claims of humanity paramount to every other consideration, and upon that principle he should support the Bill. Mr. DIXON believed that it the Bill passed, and ex tended to Scotland, it would reduce to pauperism every young man under twenty-one. The only way to legislate safely upon this subject was dispassionately to con sider it in Committee up stairs. The petition was ordered to be printed. Mr. HUNT presented a petition from two individuals who had been incarcerated, in consequence of having met on Sunday, at Manchester, to petition for a pardon to the unfortunate men who had since been executed at Bristol and Nottingham. The peti tioners stated, that as theirs was an object of humanity, while they kept within legal bounds, they were aware of no law to prevent their meeting. Besides, as they repre sented, the Members of his Majesty's Privy Council met on Sunday to discuss political knitters, no law could pre vent them from meeting on Sunday to discuss their grievances. _ . . Lord ALTHORP said they had been taken up and committed : they would be tried in the due course of law, and if not guilty of any offence they would be acquitted. Mr. HUNT wished to know what redress they could have if acquitted, for having been dragged from their occu pations, and imprisoned for merely meeting on Sunday. THE MANCHESTER MURDERS OF 1819: Lord ALTHORP rose to present a petition. Since he had been in Parliament he had made it an invariable rule to present all petitions that were entrusted to his care for presentation, whether be agreed with their prayer or not. The petition was one in the prayer of which he could not agree. It purported to he the petition of the inhabitants of Manchester, in the county of Lancashire, but was signed only by one person of the name of Hewit, as the Chairman of that meeting. It prayed that the House would be pleased to order an inquiry to take place into the circumstances that occurred in Manchester in the month of August, 1819. It happened that he (Lord Althorp) was the person who, about the time at which those lamentable circumstances occurred, moved for a Parliamentary enquiry into them, and probably it was on that account he had been entrusted with his petition. At that time, he was ready to say, he was desirous there should have been an enquiry; but it was a very different thing at that time to say there ought to be an enquiry, and now to say there ought now to be an enquiry. It would be impossible to go into the circumstances now as they could have been gone into then ; therefore, though on the former occasion he did move for enquiry, he hoped he would not he considered inconsistent for now saying that at this time he could not consent to support such a motion. The peti tioners stated the occurrences which took place in Man chester in August, 1819 ; and they went on to say, using exceedingly strong language, but certainly not stronger than language which had been used in petitions that had been formerly received by the House—that the petitioners had heard with horror and indignation that Mr. Halton had declared, that if occasion required, he would again resort to the same sort of means that were resorted to in 1819. He (Lord Althorp) did not apprehend there was any truth in this allegation. He had not heard that any one had used any such threats.—(Hear.) However, the petition being respectfully though strongly worded, he begged leave to be allowed to bring it up, declaring at the same time he would not move to have it printed. Mr. J. WOOD regretted he had on this occasion to differ from the Noble Lord. It had seldom been his lot to differ from him, but on this occasion he (Mr. W.) only expressed an opinion entertained by almost every one in Manchester, and by a vast body of the public, that the circumstances attending the shedding of the blood at Manchester, on the disgraceful day alluded to, had not been sifted, as they should have been. Every attempt at enquiry had been frustrated, and he had yet to learn, that it was now too late to make some sort of satis faction and atonement for the victims of that day, by having the enquiry now which should have taken place long ago. Whether the representations of the present pe tition were true or not, he did not know, but he (Mr. Wood) had seen a recent publication which in duced him to suppose that the horrors of that day might still be repeated, and he hoped that the Noble Lord would trot put his negative, and by his voice, the negative of Government upon the o bject of this petition. He was one of those who bad ever made ineffectual attempts to bring the circumstances before thept o- B ANK RUTZ'S. WILLIAM YOUATT, Nassau-street, Middlesex-hospital, druggist. THOMAS JONES, Kidderminster, druggist. JAMES POOLE, Worcester, comb-manufacturer. JOHN WARNER, Manchester, warehousemen. JOSEPH GALE, Manchester, carver. JAMES MONTAGUE, Charlotte-street, Bedford square, jeweller. DONALD GRANT, Kensington, builder. JAMES CROSHA W JE WSB U RY, Canterbury,linen-draper, THOMAS TAYLOR, ClitTord-street, Bond-street, mercer. STEPHEN H ANNUM, Oxford, carpenter. JOSEPH JACKSON, Rochester, brush-maker. WILLIAM MORGAN, GEORGE RICHARD ROACH, and GEORGE MORGAN, Liverpool-street, merchants• DAVID DANIEL DAVIS, Fitzroy-squarethoarding-house. keeper. RICHARD LONGWORTH, Upper Rawcliffe, Lancashire, rush-dealer. JOPN DAVIS, llourton-on•the_hifl, Gloucestershire, auc tioneer. NEWSPAPERS.—On the motion of Sir R. bnts, an account was on Wednesday night ordered, by the House of Commons, " of the area or number of square feet of surface of one copy of each of the Daily Newspapers printed in London during the year 1831, including sup. plementary or extra sheets; together with the amount of Stamp Duty actually paid on one copy of each Newspaper, and the rate of such payment for each 1(10 square feet of area." IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. ROUSE OF COMMONS, Fziatwzr 9. ( Continued from our Second Edition of yesterday.) INN' 17 . - •' . Ms' c" . • tention of the 4:4te lilrfo i short n arrati v e of the proceed ings with respec . .011rtitgaFfor :16 , 40, three or four years. He I,*(years. Wai!;;ltittictliat r:peni of time whim K the Noble Lord by _ t P#liiment, with the Duke of Wellington and t fl4ol;,Friend near him. It was early in 1828 t INislty, by the advice of a United Cabinet, withdrew his forces from Portugal. He (Mr. Courtenay) mentioned this to show that at that period there had been no determination on the part of Ministers to interfere in any way in the internal Government of Portugal. The troops of this country had been sent there at the instance of Mr. Can ning, to repel a foreign invasion, and when those invaders were repelled the troops were withdrawn. The connec tion of the Noble Lord opposite with the then exi-ting Government continued but a few months after that period. But it continued for some short time after Don Miguel had gone to that country, not quite until he had wound the title of absoltve King, but after he had, acconl ing to the avowals of Messrs!. Huskisson and Lamb, exhibited the roost unequivocal marks of his intention to depart from the engagements which he had made with this country. He had removed every officer supposed to he unfavourable to the Constitution. He had dissolved the Chamber without calling another, contrary to the Charter, and, according to Mr. Huskisson, had ovinred a disposition to destroy the Constitution altogether. After this the Noble Lord opposite concurred in the order went by Mr. Iluski , son, for a recta of the troops. He (Mr. C.) merely mentioned this to show the position in which affairs stood, when that fatal separation in the Government, to which he had alluded, took place.-- u p to that time, all those gentlemen who were then Members of Government lamented the elevation of Dnn Miguel, and the dethronement of Donna Maria, hut do.. termined neither to interfere with the arms of England to support the one or the other. Every thin; remained in this state for upwards of two years ; there was not any interference on the part of Donna Maria, or against the individual who had usurped her rights. Government preserved a peaceful neutrality during the whole period.—(Hear, hear.) Towards the en lof that period, however, the Government, which now sate opposite, began to move. They expressed themselves not quite content with the neutrality preserved, and the 'hen Hon. Member for Knaresborough made a motion representing Don Miguel to have been placed on the throne by the effort, of faction. At that peri,qi his Right Hon. Friend at the side of him had laid down the principles of neutrality, founding them on the same prin dplea as those pursued by Mr. Canning, not departing from, but contending for, non-interference with the affairs ,if Portugal. On that occasion the pre ,, ..nt Lord Chan •!ellor, differing from the Member fir Knareshorough, de clared himself strongly in favour of non interference. But upon that occAsion the Noble Lord opposite male the first of those celebrated speeches on foreign affairs which had no doubt contributed to place him in his present situ ation. He took a view different from that which had been taken by the Noble Lord now occupying Cu important place in the Cabinet. It was then said that al t.hough actively or by arms we could not interfere, it was our duty, and the intention of Mr. Cunning, o give to one party a moral support. An expression vhich, he would venture to say, was not juatified by any -hing which the late Mr. Canning had ever advanced to chat House, and in direct contradiction to the course ,vhich he had taken in every similar case; and most par icularly contrary to tie opinion he had given when not 'tampered by office, and when he coincided with and adopted the rules laid down by the Honourable Gentleinan.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. Canning held that -he non-intervention to be adopted should be absolute and inqualified, unless they were prepared to sit night and hy to impose taxes, and exert the whole power of the ;ountry for the interests of the party they had determined to support. It was not until the month of February, 1830, chat his Majesty had expressed to the House of Commons, chat he had not deemed it vet expedient to place on their ancient footing the diplomatic relations of this country with Portugal. On that occasion the Noble Lord opposite did lot speak ; but another Noble Lord, now in the House of Peers (Lord Goderich), declared that, in his opinion, the time must soon arrive when it would be necessary for this country to acknowledge what was, de facto, the Go.. iernment of Portugal ; but at the same time expressed his earnest desire (an important circumstance to be re membered) that no such recognition should take place un less it were accompanied with an amnesty to all those persons in Portugal who were suffering from their ad herence to the other side of the question. But although the Noble Lord opposite took no part in that debate, when 'he subject was shortly afterwards again brought before the House, he made another of those speeches to which he (Mr. C.) had already alluded, a speech of great ability, in which he maintained that we were bound to enforce our rights against Don Miguel, even at the risk of war. He now came to the last speech from the throne during the Administration of the Duke of Wellington. On the 2d of November, 1830, his Majesty declared that he had not yet accredited an Ambassador to the Court of Lisbon, but the Portuguese Government having consented to grant an amnesty for political offences, his Majesty thought the time was coming when his relations with Portugal might be re-established. On that occasion the Noble Earl opfret .sh : now oh r a c t eLe i t oi he head ridnam of h opposite. ne manner totally l iaje Gdi isffet different en t referring rnmthteoot Government, , e rr cent acknowledgment by this country of the King of the French, advised the recognition of Don Miguel with the , object of employing that recognition as a means of reliev ing the exiled, liberal, and incarcerated patriots of Portu gal ; and dwelt on the advantages of that principle of non interference which he recommended his Majesty's Govern ment to observe, and which principle the Noble Earl ifterwards adopted himself. The fact was, that his Ma jesty's late Government did not make an amnesty the condition of recognition. But they could not recognize the Government of Portugal, while as many persons were suffering in a cause with which originally this country was so connected. At this period the new Government was formed. The First Lord of the Treasury and the Lord Chancellor had contended for absolute non-interference. Oa the contrary, the Noble Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs had argued strongly against the existing Govern ment in Portugal, and had over and over again endea• voured to induce the House of Commons to concur in his opinions. His charge against the Noble Lord was, that acting far himself, and on his own principle, he de parted from the great principle of non-interference, and notwithstanding the disavowal of such a course on the part of his colleagues, took a course which rendered the restoration of an amicable diplomatic intercourse between Portugal and this country im practicable. In the next spee.-h from the Throne, his Majesty acknowledged that the Government of Portugal had redressed several injuries done to British subjects; but expressed his regret that he had not found it practi cable to re-establish amicable relations with that Govern ment. Of the nature of the injuries for which our Government had obtained redress, papers which had been laid on the table upon his (Mr. Courtenay's) motion, gave a description. He would make ne farther remark upon his part of the subject, than that it appeared to him that for the injuries which we had referred, we had enacted a full measure of satisfaction, and that in some cases, espe cially in that of the Captain of the Diana, we bad pressed rather too hardly on the Government of Portugal. The alleged cases of injustice were founded on the treaties with Portugal under which this country had for two centuries enjoyed peculiar privileges ; and not on the general law of nations. Before the speech to which he bad just alluded 5 had been delivered, a mush more import ant occasion in which the Government of Portugal had been called upon for redress had occurred, to which that speech had made no allusion. The French fleet had entered the Tagus, captured a number of Portu guese men-of-war, and carried them to a French port. On a question being put upon the subject in ihat House, the Noble Lord answered that it was not unu nal in war for ships which were captured to be carried oat to the port. of the Power by whose arms they were so taken. He (Mr. Courtenay) asked the Noble Lord whether the war to which he alluded was not such a war of aggression as that against which we were hound by treaty t- _:c end Portugal ? To that question the Noble Lord's answer was a challenge to bring forward a in.non upon that sub ject. It was that accidental o•nassion and answer which had plaited him (Mr. Courtenay) in the situation in which he was then placed, and co which be had no other claim, of bringing forward . discussion of so much importance. In reply to some .oservations which he had made on our connivance in the attack made by France on Portugal, it was said s:.at as we haul lately exacted redress from Por tugal f-. the injuries done to British subjects, we could no t :nterfere to prevent the French from doing the ea -.e. But that was an inconclusive argument. In tie first place, we had treaties with Portugal which justified us in our demands ; but those very treaties bound us to defend Portugal from an aggression which was contrary to the law of nations. He it ourselves. vzas not But on the 14th of May we were replaced in the same ta would not go into the several cases of injury which the French Government had alleged to have been sustained from Portugal. The first application made to the Eng lish Government by Portugal for assistance was on the 4 th of e r Nliany. that li w e e had were b with that time Portugal situation with respect to Portugal as that in which we certain n not told a t that war a t had formerly stood by treaty. It had been, over and ever PORTUGAL. Mr. COURTENAY said, that before stating what his motion was, he was desirous of having it fully un derstood what the motion was not. He was particularly anxious to have it known that he was not standing up a , an advocate of either of the disputant, for the Portuguese throne. To him Don Pedro and Don Miguel were alike. His object was not to advocate the mire of any particula dynasty or form of Government, but to take that cowl) , which he thought it was his duty to pursue, for thu nervation of peace on the principles of non-interfertmer• That was the system of practice pursued by the old Go vrrnment and avowed by the present, but whin , it appeared to him, had by the present Gover-me" been greatly departed from. _(Hear, hear.) In older to elucidate the matters h e h ad referred to, and to shm the position of th e N o bl e L ord oppos i te in particular, and to justify what he had said of him, be must requr.' the at- ;0! s r st*