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I HE PRINCIPAL • OFFICERS and - 'COMMISSIONERS cf his MAJESTY'S NAVY do hereby give notice, that on THURSDAY, the lit of March next,. at Twelve o'clock at Noon, Captain WAR REN, C.B. will put up to SALE in hi■ Maje_ty's Dock Yard at Woolwich, several Lots of OLD STORES, consisting of Junk, Paper. Stuff, Shakings, Hammocks and Canvas in Rags, Iron Casks, Ballast, Old Iron, &c. Sze. &c., all lying in the ,aid Yard. Persons wishing to view the Lots must apply to Cap tain Warren for Notes of Admission for that purpo►e. Catalogues and Conditions of Sale way be had here and at she. Yard. G. SMITH. No. 12 306 ONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 21, 1832. PRICE 7D. OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, FEB. 8, 1832. THE PRINCIPAL. OFFICERS of his A- MAJESTY'S 2RDNANCE do hereby give Notice, that they are ,ready to DISPOSE OF, to such Persons - as may be willing to Tender tor the same, a quan tity of BRASS and IRQN ORDNANCE, and other METALS, in Store at the Tower of London, and in the Royal Arsenal at Woolwich, consisting. of Brass and Iron Ordnance, Cast Iron Shot and • Sheik/ Wrought and Bushel Iron, Copper, Steel, Lead, Brass Boxes, Old Brass, and Mixed Metabk; the whole.of,whieb have been divided into Lots, and may be viewed .upon application to the Principal Storekeeper at. the ;Tower, and to the Ord nance Storek•eper at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, on any day previous to the day fixed for the delivefy of the Tenders. A Catalogue of the several Lots may be ob tained by Persons willing to,become Purchasers, on appli cation at the Secretary's Office in where the Tenders for the whole, or any ninnher of the said Lots, are to be delivered on or before TUESDAY, the.2oth March next. By Order of the Board, R. RYHAM, Secretary. Nearly ready, in One Va. 'beautifully embellished with a Portrait and Twelve Plates, price 255. hound, TUE OIRES DE HORTENSE, -LTA DUCHESSE DE ST. LEU, EX-REINE DE HOLLANDE. Suivis des Romances, composees et mises en Musique par Elle-meme. A Translation of this Work is also in preparation. Printed for Colburn and Bentley, New Burlington street. REASONS FOR A LEGISLATIVE MEASURE, (Similar to that lately proposed by Sir J. C. Hobliuse), TO LIMIT AND REGULATE THE HOURS DURING WHICH YOUNG PERSONS MAY BE EMPLOYED TO LABOUR IN FLAX SPINNING MILLS THROUGH. OUT SCOTLAND. bodies and souls of those employed in it with excessive labour. Launceston', praying for 'the limitation of the hours of !abour of children in -firanufactorie.. BREACH OF PRIVILEGE. Mr. G. DAWSON rose for the purpose of complain ing of as gross a breach of privilege as ever had taken place in that House, and one that ought to be remedied. It would •be'in the recollection of the House that, in the debate. which took place on Friday night, he took an objection to the violation of the rule of that House •in proposing a vote of money after twelve o'clock. The Hon. Member for Middlesex spoke on that occasion, and in the report of what took place, published in the Times Newspaper, the speech of th a t H incurable On the let of March will be published, price 25., No. I of the _ _ BRITISH M AGAZINE, and MONTHLY REGISTER of R4igious and Ec elesiaitical Information, Paritrbi4l History. Documents re specting the State of the Poor; Progress of Education, !cc. Published byJohn Turrill, 250, Regent-street, London; where communications for the Editor (post-paid), Books for Review, and Advertisements are requested to be for warded. UNITED GENERAL GAS - UGH,' COMPANY. • THE DIRECTORS of this COMPANY hereby give notice, that the HALF YEARLY GENERAL COURT of PROPRIETORS, under the CHARTER of INCORPORATION, will be held at the Office, No. 14, King's - Aiuis-yard, Coleman -street, on TUESDAY, the 6th of March next. The Chair will he !ak , n at One o'clock precisely. Arms•yard, Feb. 20, 1832. Orders received by all Booksellers, Newsmen, and Post Masters in the United Kingdom. HISTORY OF .REFORM. This day was published. in Two Vol.. Byo. 18s., MAJOR CARTWRIGHTS LIFE and CORRESPONDENCE " At the present moment, when the public attention is rivet. ted upon the great and.urgent measure of Reform, the published ' L fe and Correspondence' of, etnau.so deeply and patriotically devoted to the cause, and so intimately connected with its history and growth as Major:Caseating assuauss- a character uf addi. tionel value and importance. "Therstoree of political information and political anecdote conveyed in this stock "can be little ima gined by those who have not perused it. They are such as give it claims to general regard at this momentous period, without reference even to the interesting personal details which it em braces."—Globe. Henry C..burn and Richird Bentley, New Burlington street. TO THE MERCANTILE WORLD. This day was published, in Two Vols Sy., Edition, with Map and 25 PI ars, I/ I la. 6d. A N ACCOUNT of SIAM and COCHIN A CHINA : being the Journal of a Residence in those inter. sting and little known Countries, exhibiting a Complete View of their Present State. • THECLERGY, MEMBERS cif! the. UNIVERSITIES, COUNTRY.GENTLEMEN, and every well-wither- to the sacred lustiturians of the Country, will be glad -to hear that a Perindic4l,,itifTerin-. from any at present inexistence, and entitled the'BRITISH MAGAZINE, and Monthly Register of R ligions and Ec clesiasticai Information, Parochial History, and Dneuments respecting the State of the Poor, and Progress of Education, will appear on the 14 an xt Mouth. Such work will be a g-rat tbsiderarum, as it will mir ice an infinite variety of subj-ets highly interesting and v iluahle, Among many others, the state of the Church and Clergy, Etnigration, Religious and Benevo'ent Soci-ties, Records of the Manners, Peelings. and Bnhitir of Students, Seholats, &c. ; together With ParocialliFory, Annals of Antiquity, Scientific and General Infiiiik4ation.. The Edititr;it is understand, is an eminent Divine, and Member of the Canbiidge . University. READING SAUC JCOCKS and SONSI,Ihe Proprietors of • the celebrated REAff^ : 'SAUCE, beg most respectfully to caution thelies, and the - Public, against the daily frauds, atiii.tMpositions practised by many London and Coinatiy tairnen, whO are offering for sale their own spUrious composititms as Reading Sauce. None are genuine lout those which have the corks sealed with the i mpress i on, " J. Cocks, Reading." And also, these words, on orange coloured label., "Reading Sauce, for Fish, enriching Gravies; prepared and sold, whole. sale and retail, by J. Cocks, ReiAtfing." It is presumed that no Sauce 'eier Met with such ger*• sal approbation and extensive sale. It is patronised and recommended by most families in the kingdom, and re. Wird in London by 260 of the most respectable Oilmen and Fiala ' Sauce Venders ; also by one or more iri every City, Market-town, and Watering -place in the kingdom; most of whom sell • - .1. COCKS and SONS' GENUINE and SUPERIOR ESSENCE OF ANCHOVIES, Made with prime Gorg •na F , 314, rich as possible. Ti e above S aces are particularly recommended to Sea_ faring Gentlemen, a• they are warranted to retain their superior qualitiel:twenty years in any climate. BALSAMIC PILLS, a certain Cure for Gonorrhea, Gltets, and other Diseases of the Urinary Pillows. These Pills hiving been tmployed in upwards of 1,800 cases in private practice within three years prior to being advertised, and in many thousand eases since, and in no one -instance known to fail, are strongly recommended as the only safe and efficacious re ,medy in pr, sent use in all stages of those disorders, and entirely obviating the necessity of having recourse to those disgusting, nauseous, and in many cases highly injurious medicines, as Cubebs and Capivi ; the dangerous results of the latter in the inflammatory stages are too well known to need any comment. Prepared only at No. 115, Holborn-hill ; and sold Wholesale by Edwards, 67. St. Paul's Church-yard ; Messrs. Barclay and Sons, 95, Far. ingdon-street ; Butler, .4, Cheapside ; Sutton and Co., 10, Bow Church-yard ; and Retail by Stradling, Gate of the Royal Exchange ; Sanger, 150, Oxford-street ; Norton and Lowe, 47, Blackfriars-road ; and by all respectable Patent Medicine venders in Town and Country, at 2s. 9d., 4s. 6d., and Bs. 6d. each Box. Druggists and Patent Medic ne Venders in the country can be supplied through the medium of their agents in town. N.B. Be particular to Ethic. for Wray's Balsamic Pills, prepared only by M. 0. Wray, Chemist and Druggist, 118. Holborn hill. " Non est vivere sed valere vita."—Martial. " Life is only lif e w h en b lest w i th health. " THE finest System of Ethics is to confine within due bounds, and thus to regulate the Pa, sions ; unrestrained, and insubordinate, they impetuously destroy those barriers which Religion and Morality have made sacred ; to curb hut not annihilate them, appears the 'mon of prudence, best calculated to limit their efferves cence. Every disorganization of the human frame requires great medical knowledge to remedy, and the public wel fare is promoted when professional men (disregarding the suggestions of the envious and interested) devote their studies to the treatment of those complaints generated by imprudence, and the ebullition of the passions at an un guarded moment. " The strength of a nation consists in the health of the people ;" but, it is melancholy to reflect on the daily sacrifice to the ignorance of unfeeling empy ricism, and to counteract, as far as possible, its further ravages, we offer to suffering humanity the result of our own experienc e in the various diseases of Debility. The unwary victim of solitary vice (early acquired at school, he'ore reason has asserted her right over the mind), wilt. in contemphtin c his powerless state, become suaceptilre of enlivening sensations, in knowing that the most com plicated state of exhaustion may be roused into manly energy. Intense study.—immoderate anxiety—lung resi dence in tropical COmes, and m iny other causes, will fre quently derange the Nervous System ; in such cases we can hold out an assur ance of re animation, by a treatment which has lung answered the sanguine hopes of Patients of both sexes. That bane to human happiness, SYPHYLIS can now be treated fearlessly, the improved state of Medical Sci ence having divested its antidote of those distressing pro- Perlias that so long rendered its exhibition uncertain and banhaing. Some peculiarities incidental to the softer sett have not escaped our attention ; in which mildness, combined with efficacy, has superseded the means usually adopted. In fine, our system is unique, peculiarly ener getic, and eminently successful. Educated in . London, schooled in our professional at tainments by its splendid medical characters, And having Ben 41)14' , personally , to compare with admiration the British Surgical practice with the Continental, our }.re matured tti superiorit (in a branch we have selected) are "natured t,s. " I ltatient Y •e, which is evinced by the daily ap ptications we receive even flout distant countries. Dftily attriatlenee is ' g iven for personal consultation : and lmett.iestnt from the country are immediately answered ; these whi c h e " t ain a remittance for Advice and Medicines, distant can be forwarded to any part of the world, however C°BB and CO., M.R.C., Surgeons, . i 'shed ',user Just pun. ' • N° 1 I El ie-str-et, Fleet street, London. of LIPE, (Twentieth Edition)-1. The 'EC'S Diee ft . l a laniiliar commentary on Debility and Nervous Disease. ---2 . Th.. SYPHILIST, treating of Venereal Fernalv sts-:* HYGEIANA, addressed exclusively to the Alsy ht i 7 2, Graf '4(l a t 23 Paternoster.row, London ; Porter, U 'll•st ' 9, Cahnn. rest, Dublin • 86. Trongate, ' l l . .e t p . 4 ' Wrightson, Biliningbain ; Duffield, 14. 01 e iiihur g h ; tenhnni L od "! Hrown and Reid, E. ist.. l ; Weller, Chet- Cambridg e ; i r, Biir ton ; Wood, Huntingdon ; Hut, k Ipswich; Ilob op, Leeel4; cr"wman, Exeter ; Dec . manche _ to ; Plat t nose and Son, Livt.rpool; .gich ; Haldo ts l 'lld, Sheffield ; Bacon Cu., Nor sod Dowdit,,,a" Lowndes, and Sla.tert O a a n tad;Brodie II ' 41i b n Windsor ; and of all' B o okst_ m ... p 4 tary ; .step, ric e th. cb. The amiable Quakeress, who has been for a length of time sojourning at Paris, and mingling in the society of LA rArErrE and his party, where her great talents were highly valued, is returned to her domicile in Nor wich, where she has resumed her charitable pursuits, by administering substantial comfort to the distressed poor Morning Paper.—Plie lady here alluded to is Abs. Om.] THE NEW NOVEL, BY THE AUTHOR OF " PELHAM. " -Eircass ARAM, it is well known, was a most extriordinary being,—a murderer, yet a man of deep learning, profound philosophy, and high genius. The defence which he delivered on his trial was one of the most astonishing efforts of ingenuity and eloquence ever listened to at the bar of a criminal Court. To display such a man against the agonies of remorse—in his schemes of con- ' cealmenr, and his self.c:toniroul in society—in the progress of a love-suit, and in the conversational display of his book-learned skill, afforded the finest opportuniti-s for ex hibiting the workings of the human heart under novel, and, indeed fearful circumstances. Mr. Botwcts has admirably succeeded in his task, and his EUGENIC ARAm is a charac ter that the I,hilomopher may study with advanta g e. SUICIDE.--An inquest was held on Wed nesday week, at Birmingham, on the body of a female nailed OSBORNE, who drowned herself on the Monday night preceding, in the river Rea, between Derit. nd bridge and the Floodgates. It appeared in evidence that the deceased, who was a married woman, had recently left her husband, a shoemaker, resid.ng at Windsor, in com pany with a young man, with whom she proceeded to Birmingham, and finding that he was about to desert her, she, in a fit of despair, took that mode of putting a period to her existeto.e ; the Jury returned a verdict accordingly. Coventry Herald. HORRID WHITEFOOT OUTRAGE.—.On the ni4ht of Saturday week, a party of Whiteteet forced their way into the house of a man named JAMPS MANNIN, and demanded arms, which he refused to give up. They then dragged him Irian his bed to the fire, on which they held vim, to torture him into a confession of where the arms were ; and, on his persisting in saying he hail none, they treated his daughter in the same horrid manner, with no better success. The ruffs Ins then beat the unfortunate people, and departed, a ter perpetrating an act which dis.. graces their country and places themselves on a level with the first miscreant invaders of America. Five persons, charged with the diabolical crime, have been fully coin mitted. —Kilkenny Journal. THE LATE WAR.—The com bi ned pers-mal narratives of the Etrl of MUNSTER. Captain Comm and Lieutenant Moona, which have lately been presented to the public under the designation of " Memoirs of the late War," add a new and welcome companion work to the various interesting records of Biitisli heroism in the 19111 century. In the Noble Earl's portion of this intetesting publication, the brilliant sketch of the B tale of Talavera, and the clear exposition of the general operation of the cam .aign in which he took so distinguished a part, furnish the best claims to attention ; while the gallant Captain's Narrative, embracing nearly the whole of the Peninsul r conflicts, is rich ill those episodes of individua advt mute and actiievenaent which lend to the inilitary page all the excitement of romance, and which hartnon ite peculiarly well with the wild and picturesque scenes of a country like Spain. A table is annexed (applicable •to Dundee, as at September 1831), showing the number of ' males and females under and above eighteen years of age, employed at the Dundee flax-spin tiing-mills,-and their hours of labour per day, the number of both sexes under eighteen being 1073. Of these, the majority are under fourteen ; a considerable number are under twelve ; some are under nine ; and a few betwixt six and seven years of age are admitted, and compelled to labour along with the rest. At some of the mills, the children labour thirteen hours twenty minutes per day, or 79/ hours per week, exclusive of the time allowed for meals, which, in some instances, is one hour per day ; and in others, it is curtailed to fifty minutes, although frequently the distances betwixt, the mills and the homes of the children are consi— derable. None labour for a shorter period than hours per day, or 742 per week. This takes place in Dwidee, where the operatives .have benefit from occasional competition fOr labour amongst the masters. But, in mills situated in solitary or thinly-peopled parts of the countrN, the hours of labour sometimes extend to 142 and 15 hours per day, which, when the hour or 50 minutes for meals, and the time spent in going to and returning from work, and in other unavoidable avocations, are deducted, will not leave more than betwixt six and seven hours for sleep. The table shows the .stated hours of labour at the Dundee mill. But, if time be lost by the stoppage of the machinery, or from any of the various causes which are constantly re curring to occasion this, the time has to be made up ; so that the children are frequently made to labour for a number of hours in succession greater than any indicated in the table,—it being customary in some of the mills to keep them working till within a quarter to twelve o'clock of on Saturday night ! Frequently, too, during the period occupied in repairing or adjusting the machinery, the children are locked up either in the flats of the mills, or within the walls of the establishment ; and this period is not counted to them as one of labour. Any dispute about odd time is generally decided against the children, on the plea that ten minutes or a quarter of an hour is little or nothing to them individually, but a good deal to their masters. No legislative measure can be effectual for the protection of the children, unless it provide strictly against the abuses and evasions incident to the practice of making up time. Several objections and answers here follow. As to " free lab(ur," it is denied that the labour of children at spinning-mills can in any rational sense be termed free. They have no choice in the matter, and are generally incapable of judging for themselves. The principle con tended for by the objectors is correct enough as respects persons of mature years ; though, even in regard to such persons, the Legislature has properly interfered to regulate so far the terms on which they shall not be allowed to labour. The case of colliers may be instanced. The common law of the land repudiates bargains made by men of mature years for the sale of their labour during their lives, which are justly con• strued as imposing a condition tantamount to slavery. Much more, then, may the Legisla lature interfere to prevent children from being doomed to excessive toil. But the principle of interference in such cases has been so often re- cognized and acted upon by the Legislature, that it is now useless to argue the question. OBJECTION.—If the hours of labour be re, stricted—if the flax• spinners are prevented, by legislative enactments, from keeping their mills going for such periods of time as they can agree upon with their work-people, and as the state of the trade or the stipulations of their contracts with their customers may render necessary--th e British flax-spinners will be beaten out of th e market by foreign competition : the capital em ployed in the trade will partly flow to other countries, where it will be less burdened with taxation and monopolies (such as that of the corn laws), and where the sale and purchase of labour is not restricted by legislative enactments. The operatives, then, instead of having to com plain of being overwrought, will be left to com parative idleness and starvation. ANSWER.—This objection is so far, if not completely, met by what the flax-spinners them selves say as to the proportion which must exist betwixt the quantity of labour and the amount of wages. They have the power, and, for their own preservation, they must exercise it, of keep ing down the wages so that the cost of produc tion shall not disable them from competing in the foreign market,—shall not be so great that they cannot sell their goods at prices which will leave them at least the ordinary trading profit on their capital. Monopolies are great evils: the corn mo nopoly, in particular, falls with dreadful effect on the working classes and their em ployers,—more especially on the former. But, although such evils as these may afford good reasons for abandoning a trade altogether, they can never afford a goo'l reason for ener vating and degrading the working classes,—the rising generation of them in particular,—by means of excessive labour ; for such evils cannot be effectually met or removed by such means. Great Britain, notwithstanding her enormous taxation and pestiferous monopolies, his hitherto been enabled to sustain herself against foreign competition, by the advantages of her geogra phical position, the abundance and usefuiness of her natural productions, especially minerals, her inventions in machinery, the skill and energy of her workmen, and the abundance of capital to keep them in employment. If these advantages by themselves are not sufficient to sustain any trade, a sure proof will dna.; be afforded that the trade is not suited to this country, and that it ought to be abandoned, and the energies of those engaged in it, so long as they are unimpaired, turned into some other channel. By their labouring excessively at low wages, the trade may be sustained for a time, but its ultimate ruin will be certain ; and the evils inseparable from th e ruin or abandomnent of any extensive trade will be found to be seriously aggravated by the attempt to sustain it by wearing out the But it may be asked, should not the exces sive labour be continued till the taxation be lightened, and the monopolies swept away by which the necessity for it is in a great measure created_? To wait for relief from such a source would afford but a dreary prospect to the present generation of operatives. Besides, the rising generation want protection not only against the practices which an overstocked market, small profits, and the necessities of competition have introduced, but also against similar practices of which a brisk demand and good profits are equally productive,.and of which, in any state of the trade, they will continue to be productive, so long as,-grasping avarice is unchecked, as at pre sent, either by' enlightened philanthropy or by legislative enactments. Although it is held to be cle* if all that stands betwixt the t ra d e o f G ritain and destruction -be an excess of labour on the part of the . ontratiies, that trade must perish, after national degradation has been superinduced by the effort so to sustain it, yet it is not meant to be stated or inferred that the trade in flax is in this precarious state. Even at present, the natural and acquired advantages of Great Britain are such, that she may, it is thought, compete with all the world in that trade, without excessive labour on the part of those employed in .it. This can scarcely be doubted, when it is re collected that the only consequence worth no ticing of a rational restriction of the hours of labour would fall upon the operatives in the shape of a reduction (a temporary one, it is thought) of wages ; that the operatives are will ing to submit to this reduction, whatever it may be ; but that, in truth, the reduction would to a great extent be merely nominal, owing to the op portunities which increased leisure would give for attending to avocations which must at pre sent be neglected, or for attending to which the operatives must pay others out of their wages. In conclusion, those who have a voice or in fluence in the Legislature, are earnestly entreated to consider the advantages which the objectors have over the overatives in the way of pleading their case. Sir J. C. Hobhouse's Bill was de feated last session of Parliament chiefly in conse quence of the ex-parte and erroneous statements which the deputation of the masters had an op portunity of impressing on Members, whilst the operatives had no opportunity of meeting them. But it is hoped that the measure will not be again rejected,—unless at least after a Committee of Parliament shall have fairly ascertained the true state of the facts, and unless these facts shall bear out the statements of the objectors in every important particular. • Dundee, Jan. 17, 1832. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, FEBRUARY 20. The House met to-day at Half-past Tnree o'clock, when the Loan CHANCELLOR, the Marquis of LANS DOWNE, and the Earl of SHA FTESBURY sat as his M ijesty's Commissioners. The House of Commons having been -tummoned, the Royal A.-t-ent was given to the Chtilera Prevention Bill for England, the Cholera Prevention Bill for Scotland, the Exchequer Bills Bill, anti ten private Bills. Viscount LORTON presented a petition from Pori arlsogton against the new syrem of education in lrel Lcnd TEYNIIAM postponed hiv motion relating to the consumption of hemp anis flux in the navy yards till this day week. The Noble Lind then presented a petition from Dundalk against the tithe system in Ireland. He was of opinion th it a new system of paying the clergy was essen tially necessary, and hoped that in the measure about to be intro 'need, his Majesty's Government would be c ireful not to irritate the people, tiy using arms in the collection of this tax; it would only drive the people into rebellion. The Earl of FINGAL presented a petition from the county (if Westmeath in favour id' 11-form. The Node Lord said this petition was agre d upon at a full meeting at a hich the High Sheriff presided. He then present, d one from he town of Navan to the same effect ; one from the same town against the tithe system ; and another from Trim, to the same t-ffect. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE laid on the table re turns of the resident and non-resident clergy in Ireland, as ordered by the House. He regretted they were very imperfect, which was in consequent.• of the terms of the order not having been complied with. The Noble Mar quis presented a petition against the tithe system in Ireland. Lord KENYON moved that their Lordships should go into Committee on tne Agricultural L .bourerb' Bill on Thursd ; which was agreed to, after a few words from the Earl of SHAFTESSURY.-Adjourned. ROUSE OF COMMONS, FEBRUARY 20. The SFEAKER took his beat at a Quarter before Four o'clock. Sir G. SKIPWITH brought in the London and Birming ham Railway Bill, which was read a first time, and ordered to be read a Neeend time on Wednesday. MESSAGE FROM THE LORDS. The Deputy Usher of the Black Rod appeared at the table of the HOLM., and summoned the House to the bar of the House of Lords to hear the Royal As,ent given by Commission to several Bills. The SPEAKER accordingly proceeded thither, attended by several Members; and, on his return, read a list of the Balm to which the Royal assent had been given. For which see the Lords' report. • Sir M. W. RID EY presented a petition (we could not hear from whom) in favour of the Sunderland and Shields Railway Bill. OUR LADYE'S CHAPEL. Sir T. FREMANTLE said he had been instructed, in the absenc e of an Hon. Friend of his, to present a peti tion from Southwark relating to a subject which hail ex. cited a great deal of public interest, he alluded to the an. dent chapel adjoining the church of St. Saviour's. The question had arisen in consequence of the inhabitants of Southwark iin , giving that the London-bridge Approaches Bill, now before the House, would authorize the Cur porition of London to build upon the vacant space in front of t het ch ape l , and thereby exclude the public from a of and the object of the petitioners was to have a clause introduced into the Bill to prevent that from being done. The inhabitants, much to their credit, instead of pulling down that beautiful specimen of architecture, had resolved to repair it, and there had heady ben a subscrip tion of 1,5001 towards enabling them to do so; but it that should be acc“mplished, their main object would be drfeated if the Corporation were allowed to ibterc.pt the ti public vi ew of it, by building houses between it an the approach to the bridge. The Corporation had consented to grant a frontag e of 70 feet, but that space would be wholly inadequate for the purpose, and the space Of 130 feet would be required ; the d ffer enc.. was io i tse l f too trdling to jus ify th e Co , porat.on in refusing to grant i t. The Hun, Baronet referred to St. Nlartin's an d S t. Bride's churches, both of which edified, the of the T reasury 13.. ar d ) h been throw n Open t., the public view. He Called on the power of either sanctioning or refusing any part of th , Pl ins proposed to be eircted by ::::oettp,ffoeseett,haenird a mu ut , :o y irit t y ie in ti t i hi ,r s ig eae. Tie Corporation had th , porter of raising 1 200,0001 to early their plane I 11 sum which 130 feet of land would cost could nut be any object. Mr. Alit -Talon WAITEDIAN said a few words which the C w or h p o or i a j il d ni were wholly inaudible in the gallery. The petitio n was then read, and ordered to be referred to the Committee on the Bil.. Sir JOHN MALCOL3I presented a petition from Member had been not only given, but remarks bad been' added to it by the gentleman who had reported it, and if such things were allowed to pass without notice it would he highly derogatory - to the character of that 'louse. He (Mr. D.) had spoken to the Hon. Member for Middl. sex, who denied in toto having used the words attributed to him. The following was the paragraph that he complained of. After stating the speech of the lion. Member for Middlesex, the following passage occurred : " And did the Right Hon. Gentleman recollect the case of Sir G. Hill in his new-born seal for economy and good faith," and to that was added " hear, hear." When he (Mr. D.) first read the report, he was convinced the lion. Member for Middlesex had never used the expresaion attri buted to him, and since he had etude down to, the House be had shewn th e re p or t to severa l Members, who, one and all, were convinced that the expression had not been used, He was not one that was disposed to cavil at the way in which the reports of what took place in that House were given, but he thought, if the gentlemen who reported what took place in that House were at times guilty of omissions, they had no right to put into tie mouths of Honourable Members expressions which they had never used, and which were highly derogatory to them and the House. It was evident the party who had put the report in question into the Paper, did so for the purpose of cast ing a slur upon him for what he had done with respect to the case of Sir George Hill, and if the Hon. Member for M.ddlesex had made the assertion it was stated he had, he (Mr. D.) should have taken that opportunity of stating that Sir G. Hill had paid up the balance some time ago, and that, therefore, as far as the public were concerned, they had no right to complain of Sir G. Hill. He must complain of this as a gross breach of the privileges ,if the House. He did not wish to say anything against persons in the situation of reporters ; he had seen very little good arising from that, he therefore telt a delicacy as to the course he should pursue ; because if he should think it his duty to call the printer of the Paper to the bar of the House, for the purpose of ascertaining who the person was who furnished the report, the consequence would be of necessity that the reporter would be repri manded, and that would be an unnecessarily severe course; he should not therefore pursue that step unless the House wished him to do so for the sake of its owl dignity, but as the paragraph appeared in the speech of the Right Honourable Member for Middlesex, all the purposes he had in view would be answered by calling upon him to state whether he made the observations atleded to or not. If he stated that he did, the t ,ing would be at an end ; and if he did not, then t .e crime of attempting to deceive the public would rest upon the gentleman who bad the audacity falsely to report the proceed i or. --( Cheers. ) Mr. HUME denied having used the words complained of, or even mentioning the name of Sir G. Hill. Mr. GOULBURN had occasionally looked into the publicstiens of what took place in that House, and it there was any thing more than another that he had to complain of, it was the studied omissions which were made in the reports, and he trusted the time was not far distant when the House would be obliged to notice these omissions. A charge was founded in this way against those in office at the time. A comment was made by him in answer to thd charge, but every word of the extract ivas laid b •fore the public without a word of those observations that had been made in reply ; nor was it even mentioned that any observations had ever been made. These sins of omission would, he hop,-d, sooner or later, cause the House to vin dicate its privilege in reference to them. Mr. HORATIO ROSS presented a petition from the cotton manufacturers in Aberdeen, praying for a restric tion in the hours of infantine labour in manufactories. Mr. SADLER presented a similar petition. Mr JOHNSTONE complained, on behalf of the master manufacturers in one of the ridings in Yorkshire, that it had been represented that cruelty had been exercised by them tuwaids the children in their employment. He was prepared to show, that although this might be the case in some one individual instance, yet the children had been treate I generally with the greatest possible humanity. The Legislature, he trusted, would take care that their helpless awe should not be taken advantage of. He hid not the slightest objection to the Bill of the Hon. Member for Aldborough being fully and fairly discussed. Mr. SADLER could assure the Hon. Member for 1 ()tic-hire, that no exaggeration had been resorted to in reference to the usage of the unfortunate children who Icl.• how ed in the manufactories. He could show, on the au thority of a clergyman of the town of Huddersfield, that the most extraordinary degree of cruelty had been practised upon them, so that they were obliged to work even beyond the prriod of labour allotted to felons. Such was the state of their mind, in consequence of this protracted labour, that there was an utter impossib.lity of duly instructing them. An HoN. MEstnEu, whose name we could not learn, said that as the Hon. Member for Aldborough had stated that children had been subjected to a severity of labour exceiding that even of le'ons, he would beg leave to state that such was not the language of the petition ; and as the public mind was already sufficien ly excited upon the question, he would recommend the greatest caution of language. Mr. SADLER did not mein to deceive the Hou.e, he did nut make the statement as the precise wordy of the etitionere. Sir C. BURRELL supported the petition. The Hon. Member for Aldborough was following the steps of the most humane and benevolent individual that had ever lived (the late Sir R. Peel); it woul.l have been well for the country that the House had paid more attention to his opinions. 111 r. HUNT consi , lered it an act of the greatest cruelty and injustice to permit children, even it their parents were nee itous i to work IS or 14 hours a-day—that was the case in woollen as well as cotton manufactories, and there were even what the) called watchers in those mills to prevent, by ii.flicting the severest labhes, the poor children from falling in their btate of exhaustion among tt e machinery. The Certificates of all medical men proved that eight out of every ten of these ehiblren were crippled or deformed before twenty years of age, in consequence of severe and protr icted lalwur. Mr. SADLER was understood to ask what day would be convenient for appom ing the Committee to consider the butiject ? Lord ALTHORP'S reply was totally inaudible in the t,allery. REFORM BILL. Lord ALTHORP moved the Order of the Day for the House to resolve into a Cotainittee on the English Re form Bill. Mr. CROKER presented a petition from Dr. APlntyre, a very ingenious gentleman, complaining that Lieutehant Drummond's calculation had been made on an erroneous principle.—Ordered to he printed. Colonel EVANS gave notice that he would to-morrow present a petition from several medical gentlemen in London, prying for an enquiry to be instituted, whe. titer the Asiitic spasmodic cho.eri existed in London, far the purpose of dispelling the delusion that existed on the subject. Mr. ROBINSON was happy to hear that the subject had been brirught forward, and hoped it would allay the existing agitation in the city. Regard bring had to that pain ul agitation, as w.ll as to the great damage trade was suffering and iikely to suffer from the present reports re specting cholera, it was necessary that Grovernin nt should turn their attention to the subject more efficiently than had yet been done. Mr. P. THOMSON regretted as much as any wan the present restrictions that Government felt it their duty to impose on trade. But until Government were satisged that the Asiatic cholera did not exist in this metro polis, it would be impossible for them with propriety to remove thirse restrictions, it would be rrcolitcreil that when the report had reached the Continent that the cho. lera was in this country, there was every inten ion to place its commerce under quarantine. And it was only in consequence of their being persuaded, and particularly . . . . . . . ••-- .. .: - • - - - France, that the irang front diesanittntitniloa,4l, et , cholera prevailed, on its way to - tlie*diftW*44lFei to quarantine,- and the positive assuraffljiliiistV ''vettil l it did arrive in the South, should it reach this part of the king. Prim, rot n t a co he mea lne metropolis wouldwas permitted take place, t r t a h n a c t e t i h n s t 0 trading fore I n ports at all without having to undergo quarantine. Could it be proper, therefore, under the present circumstanctee to permit the trading from London to proceed, as if no cholera existed here? Many attacks had been made e n what had been done and not done, but all that had been .lone had been only following the recommendations ad dressed to Ministers when the disease was likely to approach these shores, and nothing could be more unjust than the censures passed on Government respecting the constitution of th e Board of. Health. The gentlemen composting that. Board hail no interest in proclaiming the disease existed in London if it did not. They were eminent in their profession, ml had seen cholera in all its stages in India, Russia, and Germany. The first Board of Health was not com posed of gentlemen possessing that peculiar know. ledge, and they had been supplanted by the present Board, who were conversant with the diseas , and when this Board informed Government that the disease here was identically the same as they had witnessed in foreign countries, it was impossible for Government to take upon itself the responsibility of setting at naught that statement, and merely because it was opposed to, the vague reports of certain indivi uals prohahly as learned as any of the -gentlemen who comprise the Board. Should the disease really not have reached th e metropolis, a very short time wou'd determina the point should it happily he determined in the negative, then the restrictions on trade now complained of could instantly he removed, and the alarm allayed, but if not, it would be imperative on us to submit to the inconveniences. Mr. lILTAIF. said there could be no hesitation in stating that while it was reported cholera prevailed here, the re strictions on trade ought to he continued. At the same time Government ought to know that they, had excited throughout London an alarm almost inconeervahle, .and that the greatest distrust in the Medical Board h a d horn excited. The Board ought to be composed of eentlemen holding different opinions, whereas it was now composed of the strongest contagionists. He hoped, then-litre, that as by _what the Board had done they had destroyed all confidence in them by-the public, Government would in terfere, and at least add an additional number to the Board, holding probably different opinions to .:those, now composing it The next thing, therefore, important for Government to inquire into respecting the Board wai, what number of persons were employed, and wh ,t they had lone. The House and the public should be correctly in formed of this. Mr. P. THOMSON said that Dr. Erskine, one of the most eminent members of the Board, when first placed on the Board, was a decided anti-coetagionist, but that from what he had subsequently learnt he had become a strong contagionist. Sir R PEEL considered the question for the House to he whether the red Asiatic or spasmodic cholera existed in this metropolis or not. He thought it one cc the most mischievous things possible to find that the Board of Health was busying itself in discus. sing, at this time of day, whether the disease was really contagious or not. He could not forget that one unfortunate medical gentleman in Sunderland, at the commencement of the disease there, was almost under the neces-ity of leaving the town for asserting that the spasmodic cholera had reached that place. He Sir R. Peel) did not know whether the precautions cf Government were correct or not, but he hoped that it ..vould he found that persons appointed by Government would ascertain whether the cholera was here or not, and not hesitate to express their conscientious opinions on the subject.. Lord ALTHORP hoped that the result of the cholera n London would turn out different from what it was $n Sunderland, but at all events he - hoped the Medical Board would now be allowed to proceei straight orward in their duties. He sincerely hoped that the dis ease would not eitend far, hut at present it was impossible toit ei7vueladnoyronotint,ioanndupi upon it. it was prema ture to asal whethery w Apresentnß URTON was of opinion that the Medic ii Board should he allowed to pursue their course freely. for so doing, not only would they inspire confidence in this county, but in all foreign States, and it was highly im portant that a true state of facts should he given, so that foreign Governments might possess confidence in such hills o f health as were thought necessary to be given to ves sels. He Mincer. ly hoped that his Majesty's Government would proceed in the way they had begun. Colonel EVANS said that the question was not whether the cholera bad reached this country, but whether it was cont igious or not, and if it were not, where was the neces sity for quarantine regulations? An impression had gone abroad that tie members of the Medical Board had an inte rest in this question on account of tt•e salaries which t' ev received. A short time back he had asked for the return of papers relative to a case which bad taken place in the Gnat ds, and the reply he received was, that his Majesty's Government had no papers on the subject. However, as it was customary in the army for register , to be kept by the surgeons, he thought there could be no objection to produce a copy of the register in reference to that case. INSURRECTION IN JAMAICA. Mr. BURGE said he wished to advert to certain intel ligence which had been but just received, concerning an insurrection which had taken place in Jamaica, and which had been attended with the destinctio n of an immense mass of property. H- was not going at the present time to ask the Noble Lord (H ta-ics-) aay question as to the particulars or the cause of it ; 1, 14 t it '‘ as of gr. at impormice as respected the anxious f., hog of a great number of individuals in this country, that his Maj sty's Giver= nt should state what was the condition„f t h e island according to the m os t recent i nte l l i gence. Lord HOWICK sa id t h at the latest acc .unts which had been rec e iv e d by hi s M a j esty ' s Government from Ja- Inaiea were d a t e d J anuary 6, anti that on the day on which Sir W. Cotton sent o ff hi s d espatches to Lord Belniore, the insurrection wa s i n a great measure suppressed. It was unnecessary for him at th a t moment to enter into the par ticulars of the insurr ect i on , as L ord Goderich had eiven direction that all the i n f ormat i on w hi ch Government had possessed sh• uld b e p u bli s h e d i n the papers to-morrow. Mt. IRVINE be g g e d to as k t h e Noble Lord if he had received intelligence that order bad b een comp l etely res tored ? Lord HOWICK re pli e d t h at he had not. The SPEAKER wa s a b out to put the question that the order of th e d ay b e rea d , when CROKER said that it wou ld b e i mpossible for the Noble Lord (Al t h orp ) at present to go into the schedules. —(Hear, h ear .) Th ey were made upon the cal culations draw n nu t b y Li eutenant Drutrunund's inf e r ence from the numb er o f h ouses and the quantity of taxes, and unless that info rmat i on was f ull and correct, it would he a waste of time t o i nqu i re i nto the s i tuation of boroughs. He had stated a mont h ago t h at Lieutenant D um mond, in his ca l cu l at i ng t h e amount of the assessed taxes, had in some inst ances i nc l u d e d the tdx on game cer- Ih t n t e fi i g .: h a u t t h e t n s b . ei t a nt n e d ad dt t e e,iy e , e oh n u4 l p.s u t i v le f dd r o f i o t otr y w e a , n i i m t ha a c n ac r : yu L ae . atffveoacfftthsto- H co therefore, on t h e 24 th January, in order that there gess it d tales of c er t a i n b oroughs, and without that a c count the schedules. Lord J. RUSSELL said, that the Right Hon. Gentle_ man hail correctly stated that there was *differenc e wi.h regard to some of the boroughs, as to the amount of the Game Certificate Duty being included or not in t' .e ca t:ll46bn of taxes paid by them. He hid la-en 4014 of this before, and he had therefore directed that the Commis. sioners should pursue one uniform rule; and either theme ineude, or always exclude the calculation of these duties. But when the list came to be made out, from sotte mis undeistanding, the rule was not, in every instance. ex icily observed. There was one other thin o g 'end th at was, at in smite pl a c es th e assesse d taxes ba d been discharged as to portions of those places, and yet those plarem were stilt noti ce d i n th e same way as if every part of them still p a id the assessed taXrs. However he had .epeek n to Li e ut e nant D i uniinond on the subj.ect, and he understood that these differences, though it would have been advisable to avoid them, would nut make such a difference as to effect an alteration in the situation of any of vete places in the list. He thought, the velure, that it would be of tee woe ro delay the consideration of the schedules on this accounts Mr. CROKER did not speak of the payment of minor dories, but of a great rinciple neglected, namely the tini fo,miry of the calculations. Sir C. 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