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tern that would be efficient for the maintenance of disci pline. That, he believe'', they would find it impossible to do. When he was Commander-in-Chief in Ireland, be recollected a Gallant Officer who endeavoured to keep up the discipline of his regiment without having recourse t , ) corporal punishment. He (Sir George Murry) removed that r.giment to Dublin, in order that it should be under his own eye, and he did not in any way discourage the mode adopted by its Gallant Commander. Well, what was the consequence of excluding corporal punishment ? Why, the consequence was, that the discipline of "that regiment became deteriorated to such a degree, that it was by far the worst disciplined regiment in the garrison of Dublin. The individual who had tried the experiment wrote a letter to the commanding officer of the garrison, declaring the complete failure of his ex pectation to maintain the discipline of the regiment with out corporal punisment. That gallant officer was himself obliged to go back to the old system, and, as might be ex pected, corporal punishment was carried to a much greater extent in it than in other regiments.—(Hear.) The il lustrious Prince who bad so long superintended, and with the utmost benefit, the affairs of the army, was anxious to get rid of corporal punishment. But, in its place, a variety of harassing and vexatious minor punishments were introduced, that did not improve the army. Same individuals wished to assimilate our practice to the prac tice which prevailed in foreign armies. But it would not answer. What punishments did we see inflicted abroad ? Why, men were imprisoned and kept to:work:in fortresses, for two, three, or four years, having cannon-bullets at tached to their legs. This would be wholly inapplicable to a British army. Others were privately tortured. This might not he so revolting to the feelings as flogging ; but in his opinion it was much better to punish in public than to torture in private. It was indeed a new thing to call for such returns as these ; and he did not think that it was for the advantage of the public or of the army, that that House should become a Court of revision to which the proceeding." of Courts-martial were to be referred.—(Hear, bear.) It was, therefore, with some regret that he heard the Right. Hon. Baronet grant these returns.—(Hear.) Mr. HUME thought the Right Hon. Baronet deserved the thanks of the country for the course which he had taken on this occasion. The system of flogging should be abolished. Lord INGESTRIE agreed entirely in the observations of the Gallant Officer, and, in his opinion, they applied equally well to the navy. The moment the power of punishing on board ship was abolished, from that mo men► they might count the downfall of the British navy. The motion of Sir J. HOBHOUSE was then agreed to. REPORT.—SUPPLY. Mr. S. RICE moved the Order of the Day for bring ing up the report of the Committee of Supply. After a short conversation between Sir R H. Inglis, Mr. S. Rice, and Colonel Percival, it was agreed, on the suggestion of ➢lr. Stanley, that the vote for Maynooth Col'ege should stand over for discussion on a future day. The report was then brought up and agreed to. IRISH TITHES. Mr. STANLEY moved the Order of the Day for the House going into Committee on the Tithes Composition (Ireland) Bill. Mr. RUTHVEN took that opportunity to protest against the proceedings which had been adopted by the Irish Government for the purpose of putting down anti tithe meetings in Ireland. He complained that a delusion had been practised on the Irish people, who, when told of " an extinction of tithes," took the words in their literal meaning, and he concluded by moving an amendment, " That the Order of the Day should be postponed till that day six months." After a few words from Sir JOHN BRYBGES against the amendment, Mr. RUTHVEN consented to withdraw it. The Order of the Day was then read, and on the motion that the Speaker do leave the Chair, Mr. SHER, said, he rose to move an instruction to the Committee to recite in the preamble of the Bill, that the tithe composition should he extended, with a view to the levying of first fruits according to their real value, and to such future appropriation to the purposes of religion, edu cation, atd charity, as, after making a due provision for the maintenance of the Church, should to Parliament seem proper. This motion embraced two objects. The pre amble already stated that the view of the Bill was to eft'. ct a commutation. This view was stated in the Bill. The Government aught not to stop there ; they had them selves declared that they intended to relieve the people from the church rate, by levying the first fruits to their full extent,—that it was their object to ascertain the full amount of tithes through Ireland, in order to tax the chore!;—the Committee had reported that the people ought to be relieyed in this particular ; wherefor.., then, was it not set forth in the per amble ?—(llear, hear.) — These declarations by the Minister were not sufficient. They should he embodied in the Bill, and the Legislature should give an errnest of their determination to rescue the Irish nation from au imposition the most odious in the ; annals of ecclesiastical taxation—the building of the tern pies which are dedicated to a religion with which they they have no concern.—(Hear, hear.) This proposition was not unreasonable ; it was in accordance with the pledges given by the Ministry. The introduction of this undertaking in the Bill would mitigate its bad effect., and neirralize to a certain extent its bad and baneful qualities. As to the Bill itself, he should revert for a moment to its history. It was neessary to go bark to the King's spaech. In that speech it was stated that the just causes of complaint against tithes should be removed, and in ternal concord should be promoted. In pursuance of this recommendation, a Committee was appointed. He should pass over all the unfortunate incidents connected with its function. They reported that measures of coer cion should be adopted. The Chancellor of the Exche quer declared that he never should assent to measures of coercion, unless they were to be followed by measures of relief. What are the zimasures of relief? Here they are. A receiver is to be sent on our estates in default r f payment, a new remedy is to be given to the church, its powers are to be trebled, and its ascendancy to be raised into more secure and complete nomination. It is almost an tiff• nce to common reason to designate such a proceeding as the means of conferring concord on Ireland, and removing " the just complaints of the people."--- What are the complaints of the people? The enormous opulence of an establishment belonging to a minority de signated as miserable by the Hon. Member for Harwich. in a speech which a few nights ago astonished the House by the evidences of miraculous conversion which it dis played. Is that complaint just? He (Mr. Sheil) thought so, and was convinced that internal concord never would be produced until the abuses of the establishment were corrected. He therefore called on Government to em body in the preamble a declaration that this evil should be removed He was the more induced to do so by the SU.. cretary for Ireland having declared that he never would consent to a different appropriation of church property. It was idle for the Secretary for Ireland to say that he only spoke as an individual. He could not—he had no right to speak as an individual. The Minister could not eistaersede Mr. Stanley, nor Mr. Stanley supersede the Minseter, according to their reciprocal convenience,—his identity could not he split,—he was one and indivisible, a n d his announcements on the Irish church must be re garded as official, and his principles must be held to afford the rule by which Ireland was to be governed. As there fore he set up for the champion of the establishment, — as its " preux chevalier,"—as he was the Bayard of the Protestant religion, it became incumbent on those who differed from him, to avail themselves of every opportu nity to assail his doctrines, and to resist his legislation. Were there a hope that he would change,—that he would abandon his erroneous opinions, and that events could make a convert of him, there were then reason not to press him, and to abide, perhaps, until next Session ; but when not the least chance existed that he should recede from his sinister fidelity to the Irish establish ment, bow idle the suggestion that we should tarry and wait the Ministerial convenience. From one Minister he (Mr. Sheil) should pass to another. The Noble Paymaster of the Forces had declared, a few nights ago, that he entirely dissented from the Irish Secretary. Many of the Cabinet entertained the same difference of opinion. The Lord Chancellor and ten Members of the Government, or Gentlemen attached to it, bad voted with the Member for Middlesex when he moved an inquiry, with a view to its reduction, of the wealth of the Irish Church.—(Hear, hear.) But amidst these differences of sentiment, was Ireland to be sacrificed? and lest there should be a quarrel in the Cabinet, were all its Members to immolate the country and their own dignity to the per tinacious prejudices of the Irish Secretary ? He (Mr. Sheil) called on the Paymaster of the Forces to come forward ro vindicate himself, and not to put Ireland off with an intimation that we should wait for a new Parlia ment. It we are to wait for a new Parliament, where fore not leave this very Bill to it? and if you are to legis late on this Bill, why not introduce to it a Parliamentary declaration, that the crying grievances of Ireland are to be redressed ?—(Hear, hear.) On the abstract question of _ chill Rroyerty, he should say little ; it was ~..ftut net-siss "Mt resort to abstract speculations —to ..,, I )4 l ,cis.tirip 00 ebeffecn corporate and personal rights, f 7 i"}"till'lla . l.h tilt lkd down by into of the first *ltttlane4 .. v.e;ltiiitt..Chul roperty belonged to the state. , Ile, l l l tald - ntg r 4:l4ac the history of this country, and "../. • k Li t ly - nu . 'tis irl (*sin which the sate had not only ( \ -5,,,tr ... 1 i ,P14q) ed the ecclesiastical revenues. He 1 3 illi „*1 ',. r - juatt o er sß e many proofs afforded by the ex .-Z.114°4f fl'ui i ....., nations, that personal property would n it be endangered by an interference with the estates of the Church. He would content himself with referring to an act of Parliament in his band—the Bill for the es►tablishment of an University at Durham out of the estates of the Dean and Chapter.—(Cheer'.) What was this but an interference with Church property, and a diversion of it from the purposes to which it was now devoted?—(Hear, furor.) Would any man contend that the institution of professorships of mathematics, and of chemistry, and na tural philosophy, and of Latin, and Greek, and of the Oriental languaees, was an appropriation to the purposes of the established religion ?—(Cheers.) It was idle to say the Dean and Chapter consented. They could not con rent. They have but life estates. They have no right, according to churchmen, to rob their successors. They can but make leases for 21 years —(Hear, bear.) The routes vested in them are the property of the great cor poration of the Church of Engl ind. Yet here we have an Act of Parliament authorizing the sale of their estates, to build colleges, and establish a profane and purely temporal institution. What said pious Protestants touch in, this most important measure? He had before him Lerd Henley's pamphlet, complaining of this pro ceeding as a violation of the rights of the Church. ( Here Mr. Sheil read a passage from Lord Henley's tract. )—Here thee is a triumphant precedent,—here is a case distinctly in point, which is far more valu- We than any ratiocination,—here is a decision of the Leeislature, in which all parties concurred, which must shut the mouth of any Minister, and strike him dumb, win maintains the sacred intangibility of corporate pro perty ; and mark the conclusion ; if in a country where the religion of the State is the religion of the people,— where the wealth of the clergy is not in such gross die proportion wi h their duties, you have cut off a part of the opulence of the church, good God ! will you hold that w•. ere there are 9,000,000 of one religion, and 700,000 of another, you are not to lay a sacri;iginus finger on an institution, which may be regarded as the greatest moral monster that was ever yet set up in the name of the chris tiait religion ?—(Mock cheers from the Opposition.) Yes, he should repeat the phrase. He was no enemy of the establishment, if its true purpose and intent were pursued, and its abuses were corrected, and if it were reduced to mire simple and apostolic dimensions ; but he should not hesitate to denounce it in its present condition as a mass of insufferable anomalies—a heap of disproportions—a mere ant nster, out of all shape and symmetry and adaptation, either to the state of the country, or the true interests of religion. It was of its opulence that the people of Ire'and complained , and until it was cut down, and that with an ursparing hand, there could be no hope of tranquillity in Iceland. What was the state of the country? If it was fer midable when the King's speech was pronounced, it had become terrific; and to what expedient did Government resort ? They gorged their gaols with the leaders of public assemblies. But would these proceedings allay or miti gate the feeling which pervaded those assemblies, and t y which millions of men were swayed, and taught to fee 1 with the unity of a single man ? If the proces si n at Birmingham had been dispersed, and its banners levelled to the earth, and its leaders flung into gaols, would the call for Reform have been suppressed ? (Cheers.) As idle it was to hope that strong measures of the Executive would in Ireland supersede the necessity of wise and salutary legislation. They had reformed the Parliament ; and in reforming the Parliament, the Whigs had charged the Tories with their fatal delays. " Had you," they said, " availed yourselves of the opportunity given by East Retford—had you availed yourselves of Huskis son's admonition, how much evil might have been averted ! what a cloud charged with peril might have passed away !" And now we address to them the very same admooi tion—we call on them—we entreat them—we inrp'ore—we supplicate them—to apply measures of prompt—of immedi ate reform to the Irish church.—(Cheers.) The abuses of your boroughs were not worse. The cry from Ireland for re fiirm of that Church is as strong as that which appalled you into concession of Parliamentary Reform. Wait till the new Parliament—wait for eight months. If you wait f r Parliament, will events wait for you ? What will be fall at the next election ? What shall those who are dis posed to be the friends of Government tell the people? What will they be able to say in their deence, when this Bill is brought forward, and we are asked whether an Irish Parliament would ever have passed a Bill like this? For God's sake ! awaken to a sense of your and oar con dition, and of the perils that environ you, and threaten such calamity to the entire empire. Thete is yet time— the precious opportunity has not passed—su ize it—it is ir revocable, and if permitted to go by, it will be for ever. Mr. Sheil concluded by moving the instruction to the Committee, to recite in the preamble that the composition was to be extended, with a view to levying the first-fruits according to their real value, and the appropri ution of tithes to such purposes of religion, education, and charity, as to Parliament, after making a due provision for the Established Church, should seem proper. . . Mr. WALLACE seconded the amendment. The mea sure now before the House was not that which bad been promised by the Right Hon. Gentleman opposite. He (Mr. Wallace) felt that he should not act as an honest man, either to the House or those constituents whom he had the honour to represent, if he did not give expres-i n to the opinion deeply impressed upon his mind, that this measure proposed by the Right Honourable Secretary for Ireland was a mere fallacy, and a fraud upon the feel ings, the wishes, and the expectations of the people of Ire land. The measure was itself fraught with injustice, and must prove mischievous. It was unjust in its principles, .nd would not have the effect of producing any beneficial result, either to the clergy, the landholder, or the people of that country. The people of Ireland did not merely complain of the manner in which tithes were exacted, but they complained still more of the whole tithe system. The grievance of that system was one which pressed heavily upon the Roman Catholic population of Ireland, yet, in the face of the know ledge of that fact, it had been avoided by the Right Hon. Gentleman opposite to put upon the Committee of this Houses single Roman Catholic gentleman. The Committee, though formed as it had been of those who were friendly to tithes and the Church establishment, had been compelled most distinctly to state that no measure short of a complete ex tinction of tithes would be advantageous either to the in terests of the country or to the interests of the Church it self. Indeed, he felt satisfied that nothing short of that would either be satisfactory to the feelings of the people of Ireland, or safe to the Church of that country. He looked upon the ministerial plan relative to tithes as a mockery. He denied that tithes were a charge on land ; they were a charge on property. The land itself was not liable to tithe unless it was productive, and the landowner could not be charged with tithe till he became an oc cupier and producer. A law to render the landlord liable to tithes was unjust in principle. It was ac tually robbing the fist landlord to charge him with tithes, which were the debt of the occupying tenant. He hoped, if the Bill became law, that it would be so modified as to distribute the liability with respect to tithes over other classes, and not leave them chargeable upon those who were worst able to bear the burden. He contended that the Bill would be inoperative, that it would not benefit the clergy as was expected. How could the clergyman discover the landlord actually liable in the event of a collusive assignment? Supposing the landlord to be unwilling to pay tithe, the clergyman might be put to great trouble and expense, and after all would probably t o unable to collect his tithes. The operation of the Bill would be to aggravate the distress of the clergy, and to create a new and more formidable combination against tithes between landlords and tenants. The Act •which the Right Honourable Gentleman was now giving to the Irish clergy as their salvation was a mere mockery.-- Why, at the expiration of the Session, was an Act such as this, which was but the fraction of the general plan, and which must end in disappointment to all—why was it to he forced on, as it were, at the point of the bayonet ? H e must here say, that he had never expected the extinction of tithes, without the substitution of another fund for the support of the Church, which fund should be equal in amount, but of easier collection. This was what the true friends of the Church would desire, and he had no doubt that a plan for the collection of such a fund in the shape of a land-tax or otherwise, might readily be devised. He wished Ministers would seize the present opportunity to revise the Church, abolish tithes, and satisfy the people, and in doing so he felt satisfied they might provide an adequate and well-secured fund for the support of the clergy. Under all the circumstances of the case, he did trust that the present measure would not be persisted in. He called on the Right Hon. Secretary to postpone it till a future Session. Mr. STANLEY said, that the Hon. and Learned Gen tleman opposite seemed to have had but one object throughout his speech, and that was to charge the Govern• ment with having promised a relief which they never in tended to give. He 'Mr. Stanley) asserted, that an exa mination of all that had taken place would show that this charge was utterly unfounded. The Hon. and Learned Member bad asserted, that neither by this nor by the other measures would the Government be able to extinguish tithes. He did not know what meaning the Hon. and Learned Gentleman attached to the expression " extinction of tithes," unless he thought it was descriptive of a plan which substituted an entirely different mode of payment for the Clergy. According to the Hon. and Learned Gen. tleman's own confession, the plan would remove the burden from the occupying tenant, and would place it on the landlord. At present tithes were a tax on produce, and, therefore, a tax on industry, and so far they were a Species of Corn, Grain,Meal, and Flour. Wheat Barley Oats Rye Pease Beans Maize or Indian Corn Buck Wheat Beer or Bigg ...... Total of Corn and Grain Wheat Meal, ori Flour Barley Meal Oatmeal Rye Meal Indian Meal Total of Meal and Flour Species of Corn, Grain, Meal, and }lour. Wheat Barley , rats Rye Pease Beans Maize or Indian Corn Buck Wheat Beer or Bigg Total of Corn and Grain Wheat Meal, or Flour Barley Meal Oatmeal Nye Meal Indian Meal Total of Meal and' Flour Species of Corn, Grain, Meal, and Flour. Wheat Barley Oats Rye Pease Beans Maize or Indian Corn Buck Wheat Beer or 8igg..„...., Total of Corn and Grain Wheat Meal, oil Flour Barley Meal Oatmeal Rye Meal Indian Meal Total of Meal and Flour REFORM FESTIVAL AT BOX, WILTS. Quantities imported into thelJnited Kingdom in the Month ended July 1, 1832. Imported from Foreign Countries. Qrs. Bus. 37,384 0 3,760 1 1,846 3 752 1 5,281 2 366 6 47,390 5 Cwts. qrs. lb. 20,779 2 8 20,779 2 9 4,883 1 Cwts. qrs. lb. 159 1 21 0 0 1 159 1 al The Produce of, and Im ported from, British Posses. sinus out of Europe. Qrs. Bus.' V 5 4 406 4 Cwts. qrs. lb, 5,779 1 19 6,401 1 Cwts. qrs. lb. Total. Qrs. Bus. 37,789 4 752 1 5,281 2 366 6 6,123 1 26 6,123 1 26 47,796 1 Cwts. gm lb. 26,557 3 27 for Home Con. ingdom in the 11,284 2 Cwts. qrs. lb. 6,282 3 0 0 0 6,252 3 1 Quantities remaining in Warehouse in the United Kingdom on July 1, 1E4..12. " To Mr. Betts. " Imported from Foreign Countries. Qrs. Bus. 616,1'86 7 9.0,412 2 278,059 7 2,470 2 2;317 6 24,139 1 385 5 944,569 6 The Produce of, and Im. ported from, British Posses sions out of Europe. Qrs. Bus, 63,340 5 63,340 5 Cwts. qrs. lb. Cwts. qrs. lb. 347,312 3 12 20,110 2 9 82 2 11 56 1 26 1 3 0 1,007,900 3 Cwts. qrs. lb. 667,423 1 21 82 2 11 56 1 26 1 3 0 This truly interesting fete, which took place on Friday, the 21st instant, spontaneously originated with the tiadeamen and agriculturi-ts of this beautiful and ruin n eic village, situate about five miles distant from Bath. The morning was auspicous—early ringing and firing of bells, accompanied with repeated discharges of musketry, announced to the inhabitants that the day's rejoicing had commenced. At mid-day most of the labourers and jour. neymen mechanics, with their wives and families, and the whole of the poor parishioners, met opposite " Middle Hill Spa-house," and there were formed into 18 cornpa niea of 60 each, preceded by two of the Committee, and banners. bearing the following► mottoes :—" King and the People"—" Britons rejoice, Tyranny is subdued"—" Free dom's cause and the Rights of the People"—two Union Jacks, " May the British Lion never rise in anger or lie down in fear." The procession so formed proceeded thence, with an excellent band at its head, to a field in the village belonging to a g-ntleman of the ancient family of Pinsent, who cheerfully and heartily granted its use for what he choosed to term the " sacred purpose." There the whole precession, amounting to one thousand and upwards, were plentifully regaled with good roast beef and excellent strong beer. The scene was imposingly gratifying, and the patriotic tunes played by the band, during the dinner, tended to enliven the pleasure of thousands of spectators, among whom many females of great beauty and fashion were observed to be the grace and ornament of the assem blage. As soon as the cloth was removed, Messrs. Pin chin and Wilton, churchwardens, and other gentlemen of the parish, gave the toasts and music as follows :-- " The King" —tune, God save the King;' " Earl Grey and his Majesty's Ministers"—tune, Rule Britannia ;' " The glorious cause of Reform," &c. &c., all of which were well received, and especially the one relative to Reform, with almost deafening plaudits. Dancing commenced early, and refreshments for the ladies were profusely handed about, to which stock Mr. Bullock, wine-mer chant, sent from his extensive establishment, Bath, a large hamper of choice wines. About ten o'clock the company left the field after having given three hearty cheers for the cause of Reform. It reflects the highest credit on the Committee who managed this demonstration of popular feeling, that not a single instance of ebriety or insubordination occurred, and that every countenance ap peared to he delighted with the day's festivity! ! The staunch Reformers, Messrs. Brewers, of Rudloe, in the Caine patriotic spirit, entertained at their great stone works, in the same parish, a numerous body of their workmen with smoking-hot roasted beef, plumb pudding, and an unstinted quantity of fine old October ! TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sr a,— At the commencement of the present session ofPar liament, Mr. D. Whittle Harvey gave notice that he intruded to move the repeal of the stamp duty on the admission of freemen to the enjoyment of municipal rights in boroughs. As the Reform Bill is now become the law of the land, and the political rights of the people are secured, the free admission to the municipal rights of boroughs appears to be not only necessary to consummate their independence, but equally so to provide an efficient government in them, and to render the constituted authorities respected. We are not aware that any further steps have been taken to wards so desirable a subject by Mr. D. W. Harvey, or that the Government have any plan in contemplation to remove the inconvenience of the present system. We trust, however, that some public-spirited Member of the House of Commons will take the earliest opportunity of carrying into effect the entire subjugation of borough usurpation, by obtaining a repeal of the stamp duty on ad mission, and by extending the municipal and judicial juris diction equidistant with the electoral districts. As the unconstitutional monopoly of political power is nearly an nihilated, to check, as much as possible, the overwhelming influence of property in the hands of designing men, it is highly necessary that the close corporations, the fast-hold of corruption, should be entirely destroyed. The exist ence of any permanent public body, either avowedly, or not, for the purpose of promoting the local influence or in terest of any man, or set of men, will, in the end, be detri mental to, if not destructive of. the principle of public lib rty. Public bodies of any kind should not be encou raged, or suffered to exist, but for the general benefit of 3mo 1 the public. 1,848 3 I Rye, July 23. AN ELECTOR OF RYE. IADVERTISTII FliT.l PATENT BRANDY VERSUS CHOLERA. The following are IMPORTANT FACTS, with which the public, at the present moment, ought to be fully acquainted. First,—Tliat BETTS'S " PATENT FRENCH DISTILLED BRANDY" is the only known pure Spirit in the World ! Secondly,—That while it possesses all the valuable pro- perties which characterise the finest Cognac Brandy, it is free from those acids which that spirit is known to contain, and which are now so desirable to he avoided. Thirdly, —That unlike other Spirits, the Patent Brandy will not produce nausea or head. ache; hut, on the con trary, from its essential purity will be found congenial to the most &Beate constitution, and an invaluable sub stitute to persons of bilious and ant► digestive habits. Fourthly,—That as an ordinary beverace, diluted in the proportion of six to one, (as recommended by the first Physicians), it is beyond all calculation preferable to malt and other fermentable liquors, while its moderate price brings it within the reach of nearly every class of consumers. Fifthly,—That all the faculty who are acquainted with the transcendant merits of the Patent Brandy, recommend it in preference to French Brandy for medicinal purposes. Sixthly,—That it has been analyzed by a great number of the most celebrated Chemists, whose opinions are una nimous as to its decided superiority, and from whose certificates the two following extracts are made : From JOHN THOMAS COOPER, Esq., Lecturer on Che mistry at the Medical School in Ablersgate-street— " Your Brandy is free from uncombined acid and as• " tringent matter, which exists more or less in most of " the Brandies imported from France." From JOSEPH Hums, Esq., of Long Acre, Chemist to his Majesty— " I am bound to say, and do assert it with confidence, " that for purity of spirit, this cannot be surpassed, and " that your Patent Brandy is also quite free from those " acids which, though minute in quantity, always conta " minute the Foreign Spirit." " J. T. Betts, Esq." J. T. BETTS and Co. deem it expedient to state, that their only Eqablishment is at No. 7, Smithfield-bars, (Icadin, to St. John-street,) where the Patent Brandy, either Pale or Coloured, may be had in quantities of not less than two gallons, at 18s. per imperial gallon. N.B.—A liberal discount to the trade. His MAJESTY has given the Stud-house, with the surrounding grounds, to the Earl of ALBEMARLE as a mark of his respect. This does not look as though his MAJESTY was unfavourable to the Whigs; for a more staunch supporter of Mr. Fox's politics never sat among the Peers. For two and thirty years the present Master of the Horse has never given an inconsistent vote. The next Number of the New Monthly Ma gazine, to be published the Ist of August, will contain, we understand, among various other papers of great inte rest, the continuation of Lady BLISSINGTON's journal of her conversations with Lord BYftszqr, comprising an ori ginal and very extraordinary poem by his Lordship. DRAMATIC COMMITTEE.—Mr. RAYNER, not being able to attend before the Committee, in conse quence of several provincial engagements, transmitted from Harrogate, last week, through the bands of Mr. T. DUNCOMBE, the following opinion and observations The two great houses should be called upon to produce their patents; the spirit of the conditions on which they were granted (if I am rightly informed) runs thus : " For the advancement of our morals—the refinement of taste—and the improvement of Dramatic Literature." Now, should such be the language of those grants, then will the following question necessarily obtrude itself : Has the production of " The Dog of Montargis," , " Jack the Giant Killer," 6‘ The Lions of Mysore," and 500 other pieces of a similar description, tended to " the advancement of our morals—the refinement of taste—and the improvement of our Literature ?" Should the answer to this question be in the negative, then are the patents Of any there be in existence) void, by so glaring a depar ture from the conditions of the grant ; but if their past t r ansgressions are to be overlooked, and they are reinstated in their patent rights, they ought to be bound by some restrictive law never, in future, to represent melodrame, burlesque, or pantomime, or in fact, any thing but what tends to the advancemens, &c. With regard to the con sorship of the drama, it is in my opinion highly expedient that one should exist; but, with all respect for the illus trious Duke, to whom that power is, at this time, dele gated, believing as I do both in his general liberality and i mpartiality, I cannot help thinking that such power would be better vested with a body than with any single officir of the Crown. It would, in the frailty of our nature, be safer from the influence of private trienes‘iip, or the more powerful spell charm of a petticoat. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION HOUSE. Yesterday James Lakin, a diminutive man, of pale and cadaverous aspect, was brought before Al derman Sir C. MARSHALL, charged with creat ing a disturbance in F nsbury-circus. A policeman, while on duty that morning in Fins bury-square, was informed by a tradesman of that neighbourhood that a small man was kicking up a terrible piece of work in the Circus, and frighten ing men, women, and children, who suspected that he had escaped from a madhouse, and would do some serious injury before he was captured. The policeman said upon the fact being mentioned to him, he hastened to the Circus, and saw the de. feudant in the midst of a mob of about two hundred persona; he had neither coat or shoes on; his wig was turned the wrong way, and he danced and ca pered about for all the world like a mountebank, making all sorts of wry faces, such as he (the po liceman) had never seen except in the theatre. The defendant's pranks were not confined to gesticu lation alone, bet every now and then he set up a loud and discordant noise, similar to the bray ing of an ass, and the imitation was so natural as to cause shouts of laughter from the persons by whom he was surrounded. " I made my way, (added the policeman) through the crowd as well as I could, and, going up to the defendant, I said, my friend, you are kicking up h—ll's delights here— you must not do so, for, if you do, I must be neces sitated to take you to the station-house, With that he dared me to take him, and became so obstreper ous, that at length (continued the policeman) I was necessitated to collar him, and on the way to the station he kicked, struck, and hit me, and, if I had not happened to be the better man of the two he would have demolished me, as sure as I stand here before your Worship." The ALDERMAN said, that from the policeman's account of the affair, the defendant must have con ducted himself in a very riotous and disorderly man ner. The defendant was then asked what he was and from whence he had come ? In reply he said, " Please your Worship, I am a poor tailor from the west-end; I took a drop too much yesterday morn ing, and not being in the habit of drinking so early on an empty stomach, it took an effect on me." The ALDERMAN asked him what he had been drinking, and whether he had not seen men going about the streets with placards cautioning persons to beware of thinking liquors during the prevalence of the epidemic? Defendant—" Your Worship, I never drinks liquor, I had only six pints of ale, and the members of our society say that a man may drink a couple of gallons without the lest dread of the Cholera." The ALDERMAN said that it appeared that he(the de- fendant) was drunk at the time, and he must there fore pay the usual fine for the offence. The de fendant had spent all his money, and had nothing about him but his thimble and a pair of sheers, which he had no objection to leave in the hands of the officers until he paid the fine. The ALDERMAN, in discharging the defendant, cautioned him to keep ou: of the City when he got drunk. The defendant, on quitting the Justice-room, said that he must have been Tad drunk to stray all the way from the neighbourhood of Golden-square into the City. curse on the country. The object of this measure was to remove that evil. The great advantage was, that from the resent moment the increasing gain of the church was put an end to. Industry, therefore, would be left u nshackled in this respect. The Hon. and Learned Member for Louth had said that he (Mr. Stanley; agreed with him respecting the appropriation of the First Fruits. He did concur aith him in this, that it was to the building of churches the produce of the first fruits fund should in the first instance he applied—(Hear, hear)—and no person could be more anxious than he was to carry the original intention of the law into eff.ct, as soon as lie could see the means available. —(Hear.) But it was too much to call upon him to concur in a resolution pledging the House to the immediate aboli tion of church-rates and parish cess.—(Hear.) He remem bered ton well tt e use which had been made of an expres sion which he (Mr. Stanley) introduced into a resolution in the early part of the Session. He remembered the mis chievous construction which had been put upon his words respecting " the extinction of tithes"—(Cheers) —and he knew that if he now consented to pledge the House to the future abolition of church rates and parish cess, it would at once be said that they were already abolished, and the payment of them would be resisted, just as the payment of tithes was resisted.—(Cheers.) He had never said that one of the objects of the Bill was to ascertain the exact amount which a new incumbent ought to pay to the First- Fruits Fund ; but he had said that there could be no better foundation for the assessment of First-Fruits than would be afforded by such a Composition Act. But he would not ma sent, nor would a majority of that House consent, to any resolution by which the Legislature would be pledged to permit the application of church property to any other than ecclesiastical purposes. —(Hear, bear.) That there were grievances connected with the church which called for redress, and that there were abuses in it which required reform, he was ready to admit—(Hear)—but, as it was not the object of the Reform Bill to destroy the Constitution, neither was it the object of the changes now proposed to destroy the property of the Church.—(Hear.) He would oppose the extension of the preamge of the Bill by the introduction of those pledges by which the object of the Bill would be declared to be that which was not its object. Mr. MORE O'FERRALL supported the amendment, and declared his belief that neither his constituents nor Catholic landlords of Ireland were desirous to take advan tage of the embarrassments of the Government, to promote their own private interests.—(Hear.) The House then divided— Against the Amendment 79 For it Majority —6l The House then 'went into Committee upon the Bill pro forma, and the Chairman obtained leave to sit again this day (Wednesday). The other orders of the day having been disposed of, the House adjourned at Half-past Two o'clock. LIST OF THE MINORITY OF If, WHO VOTED AGAINST MR. HUME'S MOTION FOR LEAVE TO BRING IN A BILL TO EXCLUDE THE RECORDER OF DUBLIN FROM SITTING IN PARLIAMENT, Brydges, Sir J. Ferguson, Sir IL Fergusson, R. C. Forbes, Sir C. Gordon J. E. Goulburn, H. Hodgson, John Inglis, Sir B. H. Ryder, G. D. Jephson, C. D. 0. Scott, Sir E. D. Kearsley, J. H. PAIRED OFF. Peel, Sir R. Perceval, Colonel Pelham, J. C. TELLERS. Ridley, Sir N. W. Lefroy, A. Robinson, Sir G. Sugden, Sir E. B. MONTHLY REPORT OF CORN, BY ORDER OF THE COMMISSIONERS OF HIS MAJESTY S CUSTOMS. An Account showing the Quantities of Corn, Grain, Meal, and Flour, imported into the United Kingdom in the Month ended Ist July, 1832 ; the Quantities upon which Duties have been paid for Home Consumption during the same Month; and the Quantities remaining in Warehouse at the close 'thereof. 5,778 1 19 26,557 3 2 Quantities charged with Duty I sumption in the United ki Month ended July 1, IM Imported from Foreign Countnes. Qrs. Bus. 294 7 3,5.6 1 29 2 0 5 3 1 2 3 966 6 The Produce of, and Im. ported from, British Posses sions out of Europe. Qrs. Bus. 6,401 1 Total, Qrs. Bus 6,696 0 3,580 1 29 2 0 5 a 1 o 3 966 6 Total, Qrs. Bus. 6F0,127 4 20,412 2 278, , 56 7 2,470 2 2,317 6 24,139 1 385 5 1647,314 2 12 120,249 2 18 667,564 1 0 By order of the Commissioners, C. A. SCOVELL, Secretary. Custom-house, London, July 21, 1832. The Rev. J. MONSON, of Bedale, has in his possession a turkeycock, which has hatched twelve young ones, unassisted by a hen bird. There were thirteen eggs put under him, and the twelve chicks are doing well, hr attending to his brood with the display of maternal affec lion.— Tyne Mercury. Of all the fruits in this abundant season apples and pears are said to present the smallest crops, owing to the frost which in many districts struck the blossom just as the fruit was setting. CAPTAIN SKINNER'S EXCURSION IN INDIA.—Few books of Travels have been looked forward to with so much interest as Captain SKINNER'S Narrative, which is at length published. We have here another very with lively and descriptive work on India, rep l ete throughout with admirable sketches of native scenes an d nat i ve por traits—picturesque, amusing, the author paints so well that we almost seem to be pre sent at his hurried marches , I nd ian fair s , O r i ental cere uionie s, British encampments, & c. and impressiveil i t h .Indeed e of traits with which he imp roves and embellishes these agreeable delineations. In Captain SKIN NER'S excursion to Delhi, the on c e famous metropolis of Hindost an , we be come spectators and actors, rather than readers, through the clever guidance of the writer. We do not know of so spirited an account of that celebrated Eastern city. On the whole, a more attractive production has not, for a loi g time, occupied our attention. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. FALSE CHARACTERS. —neItry Oaks, a middle aged man, was yesterday placed at the bar, charged with having endeavoured to obtain, by means of a false character, a situation in the family of the Hon. Frederick Byng. Jane Ward ; a woman respectably attired, and of ladylike appearance, was charged with having given he above-named pri.oner a false character know ingly and intentionally. _ _ This was another of those cases of the utmost im portance to the nobility and gentry, who are day af ter day being imposed upon by false characters, through which means three-fourths of the robberies in gentlemen's houses occur; the individuals having reeoutse to these abandoned means of procuring situat ions being, in nine cases out of ten, fir tle better than common thieves. Thi. case had been well planned, but through the vigilance of Ballard, an of ficer of this establishment, the fraud was brought to light. The Hon. F. Byng being in want of a servant, he looked into a newspaper and saw an advertise ment, which, from its wording, he had no doubt was worth inquiring into. He applied to the male prisoner, whose address was given, and he stated that lie had last been living with a lady named Ward, who resided in Upper George -street, and that he might go there for a character. Com plainant went to No. 13, George-street, on the Monday, and saw the female prisoner. She stated herself to be the widow of the Rev. Mr. Ward, and assigned as a reason for discharging the male priso ' ner, that in consequence of the death of her husband she was going to reside with her sister. She stated that Henry oaks had lived with herself and hus band five years. She gave him the best character for vigilance, honesty, and sobriety ; he was clean, diligent, attentive, and, in fact, the very paragon of a servant. Both the servant who opened the door and the mistress were in deep mourning (in order to give a better colour to the tale.) One thing par- Lcularly excited the Hon. Gentleman's suspicion. Just as he turned out of the street-door, after re ceiving the character, he saw a person's hat " bobbing" round the house, and he had no doubt it was the prisoner who was watching him, and feeling confident that there was something foul in the transaction, he immediately applied at this office, and the prisoners were apprehended. The prisoner was daythado inv formed r e m n t e e d r e the the e gentleman situation l that t t night,he could but on u ldnot cNcome.ters. Ballard, an active officer of this establishment, ap prehended Oaks on Monday evening at No. 13, Upper George-street. He watched the above house for some time, and at length saw the prisoner enter it. lie immediately knocked and inquired for him, and, on their replying that he was not there, the officer observed, that he knew better, and was at length taken into the room where the prisoner was. On the latter being informed that he must go to Mr. Byng, he said that he had informed that gentleman that he had declined his situation. The officer then informed him that he was in custody charged with imposing on Mr. B. He denied that he had made it§e of any imposition. He afterwards admitted the fact, but said he had been out of place six months, had a family of children, and distress had driven him to it. He further added that he had pledged every thing in his possession to pay for his character, which had cost him 21., which he had paid Mrs. Ward for it. Ballard yesterday morning appre hended Mrs. Ward. He watched her coming from her own residence, No. 4, Portland -terrace, Port land-town, and she, having been in his custody be fore, asked his advice about the best means of get ting out of the dilemma. She said she had given him thecharacter from distress ; he had a wife and family who were starving. She knew him to be a good servant. Mr. Byng inquired how the woman knew the officer ? Bollard replied that she bad been convicted about two years since for a similar offence. She was then in his custody. Mr. DYER inquired what the prisoner Oaks had to say. Oaks replied tat be bad been out of a situation for six months, and knew of nothing else but paying 21. to the female for the character. He had great difficulty in raising the money. He had lived with Colonel Reeve, of York•street. He would have had a situation with Mr. Hodges, of Devonshire. oprlalcoen,gbeuntouthgaht. the e c h h a a r d ac b t e e r e n w d a i s s c n h o a t good rged enough from his last place for getting intoxicated. Mr. DYER--Did you know anything of the Rev. Mr. Ward ? oaks.—No, 1 did riot. She never gave me a character before. Mrs. Ward, on being called on for her defence, stated that she had kept many servants in her time. She had ktiown the male prisoner four or five years. She did riot have the 2/. for her trouble, but she paid it for the use of the house where she gave the character. She did it from motives of humanity only. Mr. Tifultssy—Are you the relict of the Rev. Mr. Ward ? Prisoner—l am not. Mr. DYER observed, that it appeared to him to be a most abominable conspiracy to impose upon the public. There did occur occasionally cases where he felt reluctance in convicting; not so with this. It was a duty, and far from an unpleasant one. She could not plead ignorance of the nature of the offence. They were fined 201 each, and in default com mitted to hard labour for three months. / Mr. DYER observed that the public were much indebted to Mr. Byng. HATTON-GARDEN. In consequence of the great alarm excited in the parish of St. Andrew, Holborn, through the ra vages of the cholera, the Magistrates held a consul tation with the parochial authorities, when it was determined to prosecute those nuisances which were dangerous to the health of the inhabitants. The first information was against Mr. John Barber, bone-Loiler, of Baldwin 's-road, Baldwin's gardens. He was charged with exercising and carry ing on the trade or business of a bone.boiler. Mr. PUGH, the Solicitor to the Commissioners of Paving, stated that this was an information under the 57th Geo. 111., commonly called the Metropolis Paving Act. A notice in writing, pursuant to the Act, was snved on the defendant to abate the same. He had neglected to do so, and the Commissioners had consequently felt themselves bound to prefer this information. Mr. Daniel Coles resided in Baldwin'a-g ardens. The stench from the defendant's premises was hor rib!e. Mr. LAING.—Have you ever seen what sort of meat or bones he boils ? Witness—Several times. It is all in a putrid state. Mr. LAING--How long has the nuisance existed ? Witness—Since Christmas. About twelve o'clock at night on the 12th ult. I was awoke from my sleep in consequence of a violent stench issuing from the defendant's premises. It caused me, and every person in my house, both young and old, to vomit, and we were obliged to leave the house for the re mainder of the night. Mr. John Bishop deposed that he was landlord of a number of houses in Baldwin's-gardens ; five of his tenants had left their houses in consequence of the nuisance, and he had received notices from four others, stating that they should quit on the same ground. The defendant said it was a conspiracy against him. He was well in health, and was never affected by any stench, and he thought it very strange that any other person should experience any inconvenience. There was an effluvia from the steam when boiling, and he was about erecting an engine to consume it, and begged to be allowed three weeks. M. LAING said he would allow no such time,and in quired whether he would consent to remove the nuisance instanter. The defendant replied that he should not be able to remove it in less time than he had stated. _ . Mr. LAING—Then you are fined 10/. Can you pay that sum ? Defendant—No; I shall appeal. Mr. LAING—Then you must give your proper no ticeP, or a distress warrant will be issued. The defendant then retired. Mr. William Cripps: pig -dealer, of Vine -street, Portpool-lane, appeared upon an information charging him with a nuisance in keeping swine. - The defendant pleaded Guilty. Mr. Pugh said the stench from this defendant's preen ses was nearly suffocating. Tue defendant said he only kept the pigs from one market-day to another. Mr. Limp convicted him in the penalty of 21., and ordered that the swine, forty in number, be for feited to the parish. The Marquis and Marchioness of STAFFORD an d , wire have quitted their magnificent residence, Staf ford House, in the Sttble-yard, for Dunrobin Castle, in the county of Sutherland, where they will he visited du ring the summer by the Earl and Countess Gowaa, Earl and Countess GROSVENOR, Lord and Lady FRANCIS La mom Gowsa, and other branches of their Noble Family. The Marchioness, who is Countess of Sutherland in her own right, possess-, the land in that county, which com p• ises an extent of about fifty-two miles in length, and fifty broad. Some parts, however, of this immense tract of country are trackless deserts, desti ute of trees, or bleak naountlins abounding with wild roes, and adding, there fore, comparatively little to her Ladyship's rent-roll. Al though the county is to be opened under the new Repre sentative system, the hereditary influence of Lord Ffwacts Gowan will, it is supposed, ensure his re-election should his Lordship solicit the suffrages of the new electors. SIR WALTER SCOTT.—A letter received from Melrose, dated on Thur-day, states " That Sir WALTER was fully better to-day, and be appears to mend ever since he got home; he bas been wheeled out before the door and into his library, and expresses himself much drli4hted with the idea of being at home."—Edinburgh Evening Post. KENSINGTON GARDENS.—A correspondent informs us that there are upwards of 90 labouring men employed daily in Kensington Gardens, under the super• intendence of Mr. SHEDDEN, ploughing and burning the turf, and preparing the ground for the lime and manure with which it is to be dressed, preparatory to its being sown with hayseed and planted with many evergreens, similar to Buckingham Gardens. Mr SHEDDEN has proposed to Government to make a sewer to take off the toul water from the neighbourhood of Bayswater, instead of emptying itselt into the ornamental water in the gar dens; the water then will be at all times pure. In opening one of the drains the workmen found a large vault under the fishing temple built by King GEORGE 11. ; it was entered by a trap-door. Extract of a letter from Constantinople.—The Greek question was definitively finished yesterday, and a messenger arrived from MEHEMED ALI of Egypt, stating that he had, since the taking of Acre and the punishing its PASHA, no other object to seek, and would willingly listen to terms of accommodation. NEDOIL EFFENDI goes off to-day—he was the old atent of MEIIEMED ALi I ere ; but at the commencement of this war disgraced.-- with full powers from the Turkish Government to effect a reconciliation. The elephant in the Zoological Gardens now takes to the water in grand style, and luxuriates in his bath to the great envy and delight of his many warm ad-. rer,. ECLIPSE.—An eclipse of the sun will take place on Friday next, between the hours of two and ball past two o'clock ; on which occasion about a tw e lf t h of the lower portion of the sun's diameter will b e ec li pse d. It will be visible in Engla nd, F rance, and oth er p ar ts of Europe, but not further n orth than a li ne d rawn f ro m Londonvien n to C onsT t ah ntinople,a d passing a li t tl e to t h e sou th of The following is a correct copy of notice to a. be seen at the en t r anc e of a wood not a hund re d m il es dis tant from Hart 6 eld , Sussex Steel Traps and Springs Guns Set in vas Woods, whosoever found St ea ling _ Wood, or Destroying G a i ns P ros i quted Cording to t h e Law." Camphor, in all its forms, is just now so much in request that many druggists are selling it at 8 0 advanced profit of 200 per cent. SIMPLE PREVENTIVES.—Strong coffee, by its warm and aromatic qualities, is calculated to give tooe and vigour to the stomach ; while for occasional cramp °, r spasms in th a t organ, strong ginger is often found an ef fectual remedy. LARGE STRAWBERRY.—On Wednesday last, a strawberry (-t Wellington) was gathered in the garden of Mr. WM. NEWSOME, of Dewsbury Bank-toer market gardener and seedsman, measuring seven inches r 0 circumference. Information was given at Bow-street office last night, of the discovery of a forgery on one of the London . banking-houses, to a considerable amount. At present would be improper to state particulars, as the police are quest of the offenders, and publicity might thwart their object. The late Mr. WILKINSON'S brother, Mr' JOHN E. WrucwsoN, an attorney, and partner of Mr* CHARLES PEARSON, was at Newark, in Nottinghamshi re : upon special business, at the time when his brother Ws' so barbarously murdered on the Thames, near London• The first intelligence he received of his melancholy fa te was by taking up a London newspaper, where he read the dreadful account, fell backwards in his chair in a eic° °° ' and on his recovery returned immediately to London.