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Dedicated to the night Hon. Lord Brougham and Vaux. James Fras.r, 215, Regent -street. hie opinion they would run the risk of braing a great irtion of the improvement in the revenue if they now .:Qincloned it, The experiment they were about to make va% altogether a moat hazardoui one, and deaerved perioue .4nalderation. Mr. RICE contended that the drawback had been ori finally granted for a particular tiorpoa...n ,m•dy, as in ex- periment for putting down illicit distillation in Ireland, end he believed it was generally understood at the time hat the system would not he perm +rent. It had been ndeed frequently altered and dealt with accordin4 to the ircumstancot of the period. It had been said that the •Iteration now proposed would ag iin Rive encouragement to illicit distillation, and injure the general q nality of the stints ; but the Government, on inquiry. w.s satisfied it could do neither; and although they were charged with 'laying yielded to Irish clamour on this occasion, he thotiukt it would he found they had done impartial justice to all partily. Mr. GOULBURN agreed with the lion. Gentleman, -hat the question was and should he divested of all par y , orteiderations. The drawback had been, as it wit said, introduced fur the purpose of putting do In illicit distil lation, and although that object was achiev.d, he thou: at it should not be withdrawn hastily, or without due consi teration. He feared much indeed that the withh o ldi ng the drawback would renew all those un'ortunate scenes which were attendant on the practice of illicit distilla tion in Ireland, and he should therefore cert,inly vote for the Hon. Member's amendment, if he pressed it to 3 division. Just pulditned, price 6s. 6d. No. XXXVII. of the GARDENER'S MAGAZINE, and RE GISTER of RURAL and DOMESTIC IM PROVEMENT. (No. 12.:340.) LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, MARCII :31, 1832. (PRICE 7D THE PRESS IN GERMANY. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. Conducted by J. C. LOUDON, _V.L S. H.S. &e. PriCt! 8.. Bd. No. (k V. of the MGASANE of NATURAL HISTORY; and JOUR NAL of ZOOLOGY. MINERALOGY, GEOLOGY, and METEOROLOGY. Conducted by the same. London : Longmtn, Rees, Ortre. Brown, and Co. HOUSE OF LORDS, MAACH 30. •ive charge, and the clergy from that odium whie was but too frequently pass ..d upon them. Amon •te sttl.seribers were to be faund some of the mo. re•pectable men of the North of Belfast. The Hon Member would not take up the time of the House further. lie present subject having been so recently before it, am he having already stated his views upon the question. El concurred entirely widi the prayer of the petition. 'lli, honourable MENtar.a also presented a sitnil it petition. rom a parish in the county of Dublin ; also a similar pe tition from a p Irish in Mayo, which complained of th. -ortrageous.cooduct of the Rev. Mr. Story in the collection of his tithes. altered ? Merely because the great Irish distillers, ieeting with some of the Scotch distillers, who ui been injured by the drawback, had brought irward the most unfounded charges against the scotch distillers in general. A Committee was appoint! d inquire into the eiarges, and before that Committee not 're ease of fraud could be proved against the distillers. The Gimmissioners of Excise on each side were likewise directed -o make a report, and they had reported that it would , e extremely dangerous to interfere with the drawback. s it would be likely to encourage revenue smuggling. Ind be very detrimeutal to the revenue. In de fiance of all this, however, his Majesty's Government vere about to interfere with the system which had been so .eneflcial, and so much approved of. He (Mr. Roes) •itherto had been one of the steady supporters of his Ma jesty's Ministers, but the turn they had taken in this affair had entirely shaken his confidence in them.—(Hear, hear.) fie thought they were about to trifle in the most wanton manner, with the property of those who had embarked their• ooperty in - -the Scotch distilleries. In coming to a ieeiaion, he earnestly intreated the House to recollect what h e had said respecting the former state of Scotland, its C.,ndition undi r the present system, and what would be the .suit of interfering with that system ; and he trusted the Members of the House would not allow the interests of S'eotlantl to be destroyed by his Majesty's Ministers. Tree hund,red anti thipty-fottr iiist,ilt.rs in Scotland would hetitterly ruined by this measure, it it were to pass into a I iw. At present they bar-ly beat the smugglers, and f 6,1. a gallon were now to be impose I on their spirits,• Hof additional duty, it would drive them nut of the marker Together. Under tis impression he ot6 •cted to th and begeed to move that it be committed this cliy six months. Mr. BERNAL, Alderman Wool), Viscount SANnoti, ar..d others, brought up sev.ral private Bills. Mr. Seaton, trom the Patent-office, brought up return• relative to the offices hell by the Hon. Scott, son of Earl Eldon. Lord KING presented a petition from a place in Cork against tithes, and one front a Council of a Political Union in favour of the Reform I3ill. Lord WHARNCLIFFE said that. he wished to pro pose to the Noble Eat (Grey) that the second reading of the R-form Bill be po-aponed till Monday se'nnight. Captain GORDON was intimately acquainted with - the Rev. Gentleman who had been so calumniously attacked by the petitioners. The charge, he had no hesitation in stating, was totally without foundation, and he treated it as a most foul ca'innny. Mr. LEFRQY bore testimony to the unimpeachable character of Mr. Story. Aft.a. some observations from Mr. RUTHVEN it , explana tion, Mr. GRATTAN, Mr. HUME, and Mr. LEFROY, the prition was ordered to lie on the table. RUTHVEN cave notice that in consequence of what had been stated he should move on Tuesday next 1 0 4 , a copy of all the correspondence that had passed I) . tween the Lord Chancellor and the Lord Lieutenant vity,,v...-4 , ,-.Ary of Mayo in referene.... to the alleflt against certain magistrates, and particularly against Mr. Story. Mr. S RICE moved that the dropped orders of Thurs day should he dispos•d of, as it was desirable, as soon as possible, to get into Committee on the Tithe question. The Equity Pr ,, cess (Ireland) Bill, the Nisi Prius Court (Duiihri) Rill, and the Sentence of Death Bill, were thew dispose , i 'f. Mr. SPRING RICE brought up the r•port of supply. would be a great convenience to many Noble Lords, for the G ,, ner.ll Quarter Sessions were on that time through out the c , ,untry . _ Earl GREY was anxious that no unnecessary delay should tike place with regard to the Bill, but in conse quence of what the Noble Lord had said with regard to the Quarter Sessions, he would make no objection to the cord reading ring postponed till Monday, and as it w as only three days, that time might be made up by shortening the interval between the second resting and he Committee. Mr. ROBERTSON observed, that the amount of duty on malt had increased to a great extent since the adoption if the drawback system, and he was afraid that the change would he disadvantageous to the revenue. In Arewlemhir., 'he amount paid for duty on malt had been only 5 0001. a year, and now it was upwards of 100,0001. I a El,rin .• ire no duty had been paid formerly, tol now it annul .ted to 80,000/ a year, while the numb r of distilleries in Scot ! Ind hail increased from 37'to 225 la=t year, and were at present, lie helm rly double that Dumber KNOWLEDGE POR THE PEOPLE. Elegantly printed, Is. each, KNOWLEDGE FOR THE PEOPLE: Or, THE PLAIN WHY AND BECAUSE. • By JOHN TINIBS. Edit , ir of I.acon'c.,"&c. Part I.—Domestic Science. (Second Edition.) 2,4, 8, 9 —Zoology. 3 . — Origins and Anti qu iti es. (S econ d Editi on .) 5, 12.--Popular Chemistry. S.—Stotts and l'astimes. 7. Mechanics. In.— 1 its and Manufactures. 11.— Curious Cu torn. 13, 14.—Hotany. Or in Three Volumes, 12s. in cloth. Part 15 . —Mineralogy and Geology, on May 1. Published by S. Low, 42, Lamb's CAirnsuit-street. The M irquis of LONDONDERRY was extrem-ly surprised et the compliance shown by the Noble Eal, he considered it rather 'extraordinary, as the Noble E rrl Lad always said, that upon rh. ..e.rly settlement of :this quc-.tion the p ace of the nation depended. Surely Ise was aware of the Quarter Sessions at the time he fixed the second reading. It had ben put on the footing of convenience, but was the convenience of either the Noble Earl or the Noble Baron, to b. , consi dered a , the expense of all tho-e Nohle Lords who were in town, and those who were hurrying up from the coun try, for discussion of this measure? He hal not hid soy communication with any of the Noble Linde on his side of the House, bus he must oppose the postponement of the seco , d reading. T e Duke of WELLINGTON sail he of course had no ~ b j-ction to tho 2,1 reaaing being postponed •ill Monday. but it the Bill ever passed the second reading, he would oppose with all his mi. ht 4ny attempt to hurry the Bull into Comnotte. Mr. CUMAIMING BRUCE said he would support ?h e wriji t 4up off- -the Governmenti. is he as satimfi-d that the change w,. - c 7 lii not he prejtebeial to the interests connected wivh 'the trail. of distillation. Mr. CALLAWIAN maid he had p•tid great attention t, the evident- given hefor- the C.rnmittee whie- sat I,v.r Ser.ion, and he was satisfi d there had been e rear ev:ts , on ~f the malt duty in S•otkrul. The majority of t• e re -reta'.le distillers in Seothind wi.bed Int- the total 46,11. THE CRITIC, a. 'MONTHLY MAGA ZINE, No. 1., p ublished Yesterday, for APRIL, 2s. 6d. rion of t!.e ilrawb4 , lc The malt do.y in S. ot!.hd would hive hen gre..tly inerea-ed f.ot to- th , ki drit,hark. TIE COLONIAL AUDIT BILL, Contents :—Boyd's History of Literature—Poetry— Sk, tches and Remarks on the French Revolution of 1789; its causes—The Betrothed—An Interview and Conversa tion with Lady Alorgan—The Condentmd Crimind— tbe False Lights—On Government. and the Present State of the Country—lreland—The West Indies— Cholera—Tht Dranta, &r.—Review , —Ntoore's Lite of Byton—Miss Kemble's Tragedy—My Old Portfolio— Political Events. Funds, &e. &c. Published by Messrs. Simpkin and Marshall, Stationers'- hall -court, London ; and to be had of all Booksellers. Mr. SPRING RICE requested of toe cAirtesy of the House thit he midi , be allowed to move the third reading of the Audit Bili out of the order of the paper. The sulij-ct was of importance, a nd it pressed upon the plans anal intentions of Government. The perm , snin being granted, Mr. SPICING RICE moved the third reading of the Bill. Mr. HUME beg Led the Right Hon. Gentleman would postpone the Bill if it were only fir one day. There was one clause in the 811 to which he flt very strong objections. He a luded to the clause which granted retiring pensions to the officers of the Coloni I Audit office. This establishment was abolished for be ing inefficient. and he did not see that the pensions should he granted, though he was aware they were to be paid nut of the Colonial Funds. The House was well aware of the objections which he entertained upon the gni:). ject of colonid pensi ns, and that he had moved for returns ten or eleven times without obtaining any information that was satisfactio y Mr S. RICE really hoped that the Hon. Member for middleses would not press his ohj , ction. The colonial audit service bad been inefficient, and it was most desirable for the public service that the Bill should pass, as it was the wish of his Majesty's Government that the New Bill should be in operation from the sth of April. The clause to which the Hon. G ntlemnn had objected did not relate to colonial pensions in general, but only to retiring pensions of members of the establishment of the Colonial Audit Board. He assured the Hon. Member that the pensions would not be renewed, and that imm , diately they were se aled under the Bill, he would lay a list of them on the table of the House. Mr. F. 11A.14ING contended. that as it 4 , 01 id, WWI open ry mpocie-• of f.alld, and that the :fraxltack had no eff , •et in prt•ventitig Sir G. MURRAY ttet.critied r!., wate of tto , linthlanda .d . Srotland hef)re the in•roduce.on of thr 1 re.etv -y•tt•tn, having 1 - t-ett as ift•pr ~ n .I 'a.; th.tt ; and tnaint lined I) at theplesrrit pr , p•osition caleu ate.l Earl GREY had given into the request of the Noble Lord, not for his own convenience or that of any one per son. He hail dune so generally, and f , r the con venience of a nuttier of their Lordships who were in attendance o❑ their duty in the country. He 'mi. extremely anxious that there should be no unne cessary delay in the consideration of this measure, and as the Bill had been so lung before the public, he could see no reason why the time could not be made up by shortening the period between the second reading and the Committee. When the proper time came he would propose that such should be the case, and if auy Noble Lord objected to this, the question could then be discussed and disposed of. The Earl of MALMESBURY said he could have so wish to disappoint the Noble Lord, but in his opinion., it was the duty of Noble Lords to attend to their business in that House in preference to that which they might have to perform at the Quarter Sessions. Though the Bill had been a long time before the public, yet it was necessary for their Lorships to have time to consider all the de tails of the Bill before they were called upon to dis cuss hem in Committee. to revive that trate. The eviti,nce upon , he .übj.-et all ~ nre aga.no the pre.ent Mr Aliernian WOOD sail th,it it tr,a evident there traud ; fur that in St .t.laLti atiymilt o' draw..aek On the Ist of April, pric e 2s. No. 11. of THE BRITISH MAGAZINE, of Religious and Eccleiastical Information, Pa rochial History, Documents respecting the State of the Pe °r) Progress of Education, &c. b,ngreater than th4t_ut malt kith 'wide and Nnporteil. The wh••he of the drawback aught t be t.,kett off. Lord GEORGE BEN riscK denied h. t t th e :+ ta w.. h:tek was gteuter than the du y levied ; and main rained that the pre.ent sys.rtn Lad been eluc tive of the greate-t benefits To tike •ff the ONTENTS.—Original Papers. The Home Missionary Society. 4 . Parish Churches.—No. t. Remains of Alderington Church, T ' ea r Brighton, with an Engraving from a D raw i ng by C op l ey Fielding, Esq. Os Combinations to Resist Tithes. 7. The Order of the Burial of the Dead—continued' Consistencies observable in Gospel History. 4. Spherical Sounding Board ; with an Engraving. 7 . Roman Catholic Abuse of Tithes. S • Matthew Thorndike. Impor ant Docu men t s respect i ng t h e Church of England and her Revenues. Editorial C o rrespondence.—Sacred Poetry—Notices of the Oiclen Time— Review s-- Re' ,orts of Meetings—lmportant Tria V'ent s of the Month—University and Clerical Intelligence— d, Cambridge, and Scotland, &c. &c.—New Patents— Gard eners' Calend r Meteorological Journal—St a t e o f th e Futid,--London Markets, and List of Bankrupts, &c. John Torrid, 250, Regent -street, Londnn ; Parker, b cf°l " l ; Gr ant, Ca 4 ; Stalks Brothers, brgh ; Wakeman, Orders received by all Booksellers and Newsmen. drawback would he equivalent to ao incr. , aae (41 five and a half per cent. on the whole tdzation of Scuthori, The House then eUvided : For the Amendment Against it 74 Majority - 3 On our return t the gallery, we found the House in c Committee on the Bill. The several clauses having been gone throug...h and the Wanks filled up, the House resumed and the ttep..rt was ordered to be received tomorrow. The Report on the Cholera Prevention (Scotland) Bill wa% brought up, the amendments aereed to, and the 13111 Lord WH ARNCLIFFE said, that upon the discussion on the Bill, if the Noble Marquis (Londonderry) impugned his motives upon this poi nt. be would be ready to answer him. The Marquis of LONDONDERRY had only one ob servation to make in regard to what had fallen from the Noble Baron!' He would hold himself at liberty, upon the discussion of the Bill, to comment upon the explanation made by the Noble Lord, as well as upon chat made by a Noble Earl upon a former evening. Lord WHAEINCLIFFE then moved that the Order be discharged, and that the Second Reading of the Bill be fixed tor Monday (se'nnight.) The motion was put and agreed to neni. „ . ordered to be read a third time on Monday next. TITHES (IRELAND.) The Howe then resolved itmel ioto a Committee an the 11,"ohiti-ns proposed for an alteration in the tithe /poem in Ireland!. Mr. HUNIE objected to the plan of his M ijesty'o Go. vernmenr, that it would have the t-ff ct mixi •g up toe authority of his Majesty with the fempor glides of the Church. It was extraordinary. and well calcul it-d to de- prive Government of the confidence of the people, that they should with one hand offer a boon and with the other Do. pos. , a penality. The feeling against tithes in Ireland was univeisal, and he believed it was little less strtm e in Erie:. Vnaysunt STRANGFORD gave notice that on Tuesday next he should move for the return of certain duties called South Sea Duties. land. In his opinion, Government should in the first plaCe have intro.luced a Bill for the extinction of tithes, and, having tried what conciliation would du, then applied thetnedves to the measures necessary for tip collet ion of the arrears. He was sure there was not a Member in o. a t (louse, and esFecially there was not an Irieh Member who would not willingly strengthen the hands of the executive with any increased authority that might be necessary for carrying the exiatine laws Into effect. Lord KING presented a petition from Leicester, in favour of the ministeri ii plan of education in Ireland. A NoaLe Lonn presented a petition from Essex, in favour of Parii ,inentary Reform. Lord BEXLEY presented a petition from Rochester, Chatham, and Stroud, against the new system of education in Ireland. The Bishop of EXETER presented a petition from Exeter to the Nam- r ffrct. Lord CLONCURRY presented a petition from two pa rishes in Queen's county, against the tithe system. Lord RODEN presented a petition from a parish in Essex, against the new system of education in Ireland. Also one fr,im a parish in Cork, to the same effect. Lord TENTERDEN brought in his Bills relative to the limitation of the time within which presentations might be estahlished.—The Bills were severally read a third time and ordered to be print'd. The Bills on the table were forwarded a stage, and the House adjourned to Hall-past Three to-morrow. ARMY AND NAVY. THE UNITED SERVICE JOURNAL, and NAVAL and MILITARY MAGAZINE for APRIL, 1832, will contain— Considerations for Manning the Navy for futur!War— T wn D r y s at St. Helena , by an O ffi cer—The British Ca valry in the Peninsula, (continued)—Sebastian Cabot—. On the Mari ime Population of the British Empire, No. 3 --Memoirs of the services of Admiral of the Fleet, Wil horn Price Williams Freeman—of the late Admiral Sir Richard Bickerton, Barr. K.C.B. and K.C.—of the late SVice -Admiral Henry Paulet, K. C. 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Packet E.t.a blishment, Home Station —The Indian and the Hunter; or, the Siege of Micford. By John Galt—German Poetry, No. 111. Burger, Gotha, Voss, Holty—The Present Balance of Parties in the State, and the Re subs of the Reform Bill—The Third and Concluding Paper from the Rev. Edward Irving on Spiritual Gaits—Gallery of Literary Characters, No. XXIII. (Alull-length Por trait of I. D'lsraeli, Esq.—The Shipping Interest, Silk Manufacture, and Globe Trode—Troilope and Paulding on America—The Duke of Newcastle's Address to all Classes and Conditions of Englishmen—The Perils of a Political Unionist. By a Member of the Jacobin Club— The Member; an Autobiography—Epistles to the Lite rati, No. Ht.—Letter of William Holmes, Esq., M.P., to Archibald Jobbry, Esq. Ex-M.P.—A Page to Corre spondents. _ Jame* Fraser, 215, Regent-strret, London ; Anderson, jun., EdinLurgh ; RlThun, Glasgow; and Grant and Bolton, Dublin. Captain Franklin's Narrative of his visit to the Courts of R uss i a and Sweden, embraces the latest accounts of those places, and includes also statements relative to the pur_ suits and manners of the fashionable classes in Stockholm, Petersburg and Moscow ; particularly as regards their soirees, musical parties, and private theatricals. The anecdotes of our countrymen in the northern capitals, particularly Lord Blom field, Lord Ileytesbury, Sir J. Wylie and others, confer an especial interest on this journal, which may be said to display the kind of life a well introduced stranger leads in those cities. DUELLING IN F RANCE.--.. THE PEN AND Twit Swoau.—ln consequence of some reflections dy the edi tor of the Tribune on Marshal Lobau, Commandant of the Pa risian National Guard, four officers on the staff of the Marshal last week paid a visit to the office of the Tribun e et Mouvement, with --to use homely language —a very bullying message. Taken unawares, the principal editor refused to meet a body of persons, but offered to give the Marshal himself personal satis faction. The affair got wind, however, and in the course of the day many hundred young men left their cards at the office of the Tribune, praying to be allowed as assistant Editors (Re d teura ; to take oft' the odds ; an d accordingly the Tribune of Thursday- intimated to the Etat Major publicly in its co lumns, that sixty-seven " editors of the Tribune" were ready t o go out with the sixty-seven officers of which the Etat Major (staff) is opposed.com Saturday produced the first of the duels resulting th challenge en niasse. The principals in this affirir were General Jacquerninot (of the Etat Major) and M. Behnonte, the editor (in chief: of the Tribune. The former w ar attended by General Gourgaud and Colonel Taunton ; the • latter by Colonel Bricqueville (a Deputy) and M. Cartel, editor of the National. After an exchange of shots, the seconds in terfered, and that particular affair at last was made up. It is by no means Certain, however, that the remaining iilxty.esix aliens of the Etat Meyer win !ix e net call out the rem a i n i ng enters of the Triitoor,sixty- The extent of the controul exercised over the German Journals could hitherto only be estimated by the foreign reader from the dull spiritless nature of their contents. Now, however, the restraint appears in a palpable shape. It is no longer a thing to he conjectured, a conclusion to be mentally drawn, in the way we have described, but presents itself without disguise to the eye, and may be measured by the hand. In fact, the pages of the German Papers now exhibit large blank spaces—those glaring proofs of the exercise of the censor's arbitrary power which once distinguished the French Papers. This has first occurred in the Allgemeine Zeitung, a paper which is remarkable for the caution with which it is conducted, which avoids giving of fence to any kind of authority, and pays due re spect to " the powers that be" of every descrip tion. The subject of the article in which the lacerations of the censorship remain obvious to occular inspection, is the new law of the press for the GrantlDochy of Baku. Like most of ther long-winded dissertations made public through the same channel, it is extremely moderate both in its language and its senti ments. Singulailv enough, it is dated from " the North Sea, March 2," but it has nothing in common with the stormy character of the quarter in whit h it purports to have originated. It is calm as if it had sprung from the Pacific, and cool as if it had been at the Pole. Our readers are, perhaps, aware that a law on the police of the press, from which touch advantage has been expected in Germany, was passed by the Legislature of Baden some months a , o. This law, which was finally promulgated on the 28th of December, came into operation on the Ist instant, but we have not yet seen any of the fruits it was to have produced. In the mean time, the Diet of the Confederation, which holds its sittings at Frankfort, was not slow to show a dread of the influence which this law may have on free discussion. That body of venerable conservatives soon passed an admo nitory resolution against the execution of Baden law, and afterwards, turning its attention to the products of the Press in the Bavarian States, fulminated on the 2d instant a decree prohibit ing the circulation of the Tribune, the West bole, and the Zeitschtvingen in Germany. This decree has been already carried into execution in the city of Frankfort, Hesse Darmstadt, and other German States. It is said, however, that the decree did not pass the Diet unanimously, and that some of the Deputies of the Constitu tional States refused to vote until they should receive instructions from their Governments. The North Sea article, to which we have al. bided above, appears in a Supplement of the Allgemeine Zeitung of the 20th, and is conti nued in another Supplement, published on the 21st. It commences by stating a report that the Government of Baden intends to vindicate its law of the press, which is consistent with the constitution of the State, .and. has been •sanc. tioned by the Representative Assembly, against the decision of the Federal Diet. The Confe deracy is viewed as a mere political association or alliance of States, forming no State of itself, and conveying no governing power to the Diet. No resolution of the Diet can acquire the force of law in any particular State until after it has been adopted by such State according to its own constitutional forms. The Confederacy has no right to interfere in the internal government of the States. The writer, however, gives it as his opinion that it would be highly advantageous for the whole of Germany were all the States to agree upon some general rule for certain things which he describes ; but of such agreement he thinks there is little hope. He says— " The Act of Confederacy directs, that the Diet shall proceed to draw up uniform regulations for the freedom of the press, and the security of authors and publishers against literary piracy, and to deliberate respecting the trade and intercourse of the several Stares.' Since then, this illustrious assembly has had many hundied sittings, and what has been done on these subjects? Almost nothing ; for in defiance of the gentle hint given by the Vienna Ire ity of 1820, only some appearance of pre parations for deliberation have been assumed. On this account, single Governments of the Confederacy have had no hesitation in regulating these matters according to their own views, without, the Diet having shown any disposi tion to oppose them, or to call them to account for so doing." Here a chasm to the extent of about 15 lines occurs. Reasoning in so quiet a manner, what can the writer have here to alarm the censor ? Perhaps he had ventured to conjecture that the regulations of the press hitherto adopted by dif ferent German States had not been interfered with, only because they were less liberal than that of Baden. Indeed, he is soon after allowed to observe that Prussia has entered into conventions with four or five States, one of which is Austria, respecting th e re p r i nt i ng o f b oo k s, an d t h at the Diet had never declared these treaties contrary to the act of confederacy. He then very simply asks why the same silence might not have been observed with respect to any other State of the Union ? But no sooner had this unlucky ques tion dropped from his pen, than some half-dozen lines are extirpated from his essay. After this second display of power, the censor had become less severe, or had found the writer more cautious, for the erasures extend only to one or two lines, or a few words, at a time. It will easily be con ceived, however, that these petty inroads on the text serve to destroy the sense, as much as the more violent mutilations. How far this plan of breaking up articles into fragments had been acted upon by the German censorship, we are not enabled to state, this instance of its applica tion to the Allgemeine Zcitung behig the only one we have yet seen.— Times. It is rumoured that Mr. Portman is to be one of the new Peers, and, at all events, it is said, he will not again be a candidate for Dorsetshire. A correspondent, who sub. scribes himself a Dorsetshire Freeholder, suggests that the libe. ral freeholders should make choice of Mr. Robert Gordon, the Member for Cricklade, who enjoys great popularity in the county.—Chronicle, THE RUSSIAN TRADE. —The Deputation of Merchants which the day before yesterday had an interview with Lord Althorp, impressed upon Ministers the necessity of an abolition of the Hemp Duty. The members of the Depu tation stated the injurious consequences which must result from the abolition of the bounty on linen, without the duty on hemp was, as had been promised, immediately done away with. Various statements were laid before Lord Althorp, to prove the great injury that was done by the duty to the ship.owners, and to thousands of the lower orders, who would be wholly de. priced of support, if the duty was now continued. Lord Al. thorp heard the representations of the Deputation, and ad. mated that the trade had strong claims to obtain the boon sought for, but the present state of the revenue, his Lordship said, would recent any branch of the revenue being lessened. It is mentioned, in order to show the little profit resulting from the spinning of hemp, followed by the poor in Dundee„,it broath, tte. at their own homes, that for Is. 10d. they spin a line that would extend over a distance of seventeen miles. ostr i ' HOUSE OF COMMONS, eßem 30. Mr. HODGES brought up the report of the Committee of certain amendments to the Gravesend Pier Bill. Mr. HEYWOOD presented a petition from a person named William Davenport, praying to be heard by himself or Counsel against the Belton and Bury Railway Bill.— Referred to the Committee. Mr. E. BALL presented a petition from the Marquis of Salisbury, praying to he heard by Counsel against a evrtain Read Bill now before the house.—R2ferred to the Com mittee. On the motion of Mr. HUME, the St. Andrews's, Hol born, Improvement Bill, and the Portman-market Bill were read a second time, and ordered to he committed. On the motion of Mr. Alderman WOOD, the amend ments to the London Bridge Approaches Bill were read a second time Mr. DUNDAS stated that he had intended to move the second reading of the Bill for renewing the patent for Morton's slip, hut he understood the Right Hon. Gentle- In in opposite (Mr. S. Rice) intended to make a satis factory proposition. The Order of the Day for the second reading of that Bill having been read, Mr. S. RICE said be had a preposition to make which appeared to him beat calculated to suit the interests of ail parties. He did not wish to refuse the second reading ; but if it appeared to be the first Bill for extending a patent that had ever passed, it would certainly be unwise to extend the period of any monopoly. It was admitted on all hands that the invention was a most ingenious one, and it was also known that similar bills to the present had passed. It teas, however, his opinion, that the House should not, without sufficient facts before them, pass a Bill to give a certain benefit to an individual at the expense of any portion of the community. H therefore wished to move that it be referred to a Select Committee, to report whether or no it was expedien► to extend the period of the patent. That mode wool.) sieve the expense of parties opposing the Bill. The second reading of the Bill was then postponed until this day week. On the motion that a Select Com mittee he appointed, Mr. MILKS said he had taken pains to ascertain what had been the practice of the House upon such occasions. and he found that since the commencement of the present century, there had been only two Bills for renewing pa tents. He expressed his approbation of the proposed ar rangement. The motion was then agreed to, and the Committee was appointed. On the motion of Mr. Alderman TliomrsoN, leave was given to bring in a Bill to amend and extend the powers granted by former Acts to the St. Catherine's Dock Com pany. On the motion of Lord SANDON, the Bill for en ibling the Manchester and Liverpool Railway Company to makr a branch railway, was read a third time and passed. Mr. CLAYTON pre'ented a petition from the inbahi tants of Hartle pool, in favour of the Hartlepool Railway. IRISH TITHES Mr. RUTHVEN presented a petition from Belfast pray ing the House fully and completely to abolish tithes in Ireland as a means of restoring the people of that country to happiness, and the clergy to that high and honourable station to which they were entitled.—(Hear, hear.) The petitioners, in praying for the repeal of all laws respecting tithes, stated that there were other means of providing for the clergy by the proper appropriation of the Church lands, and they called upon the House as Christian legit; I.tots who were earnest in their desire to promote peier, to relieve them from this most oppress-. Mr. HUME withdrew his objection. and the Bill for transferring the business of the Colonial Audit Board to the Commissioners of Accounts, was read a third time and Mr. LEADER wished to ask a question of the Solicitor General for Ireland whether an affidavit, which had been made IT the Solicitor of the Crown, impugning strongly the jury of the county of Kilkenny, had induced the Judge presiding at the trial of a person named Kennedy, to postpone his trial, and the trial of sevelatl• te''ric." Tn. a: , 111 w iiaa • him, till next assizes. The affidavit he referred to had been made by the Solicitor of the Crown, who was a complete stranger to the country, under the apprehension that thete wit, no prospect of getting a fair trial or an impartial in vestigation, in consequence of the alleged threats which had been held over witnes-es and juries. He wished to know whether the Solicitor. General far Ireland had any objections to the production of this affidavit. Sure he was that puiting tiff the trial of these men implied a heavy charge on the most respectable jury of that county, and was wholly unjust to the individuals themselves. Mr. CRAMPTON beg ed leave to state, that one of the cases alluded to was an offrnce under the White Boy Act, of the most atrocious character that had for a number of years occurred in the county of Kilkenny', and in another cse, the person was accused of murdering the policeman, who fell in the unfortunate conflict at Carrick - sougla, on the subject of tithes. The affidavit made by the Crown Solicitor, was not contradicted in any single particular by any of the prisoners, or by their counsel ; and the learned judge who presided made his rule directing that the trial should be postponed till next Assizes on the ground that a fair trial could not take place at pre sent in consequence, as the affidavit went to prove, of the existing excitement in the county on the subject of tithes. No imputa , ion had been cast by any one on the charac. ter or conduct of the Jury. But on the ground of intimidation of witnesses and Juries, on the sub ject of tithes alone, the Judge had been induced to postpone the trial. Although it was unusual to call for a copy of an affidavit made in a Crown case, yet he had no objection to its production. Mr. HUNIE put a question respecting a less of 60.0001. or 71i,0001. in some department, respecting which be wished for an explanation, but the nature of which was not heard in the gallery. _ _ . Mr. HUNT understood that four or five men had been apprehended by the police, and subsequently committed by a magistrate in this town for play ing at what was commonly called single stick." They had been found going through the broad-sword exercise with sticks with baskets at the end, and had been apprehended on a supposition that they had been training to the use of arms for the purpose of subverting the Constitution. An occurrence so extraordinary as this surely demanded an explanation from the Under Secretary of State. Mr. LAMB said that the men alluded to had been brought before a Magiet. ate—they had been committed for re-examination, and be• did not conceive this to be the time to give any explanation upon a case at present sub judice. Sir J. GRAHAM, in consequence of the absence of Lord Althorn, simply moved the Order of the Diy, that the whole House should resolve itself into a Committee pro forma o n the Nay Civil Department Bill, Sir B. AIARTIN hoped vat the Right Hon. Baronet would brin e the subj ct on on an early day next week. Sir J. GRAHAM assured the Gallant Officer that no person could h e more anxious than himself to bring for ward the subject, and that he would lose no time in doing so. SUPERANNUATIONS BILL. Mr. HUME sa i d he had postponed a motion respectii.g the Super annuat i on Bill, in the hope that Lis Majesty ' s Government would h ave b roug h t f orwar d the i r d et , rm i na - Tin, as they h a d pledged th. roselves to do be'ore thi rime, namely, to carry into effect the recommend itions of he Committee. He wished to know if the Givernmen meant to tiring the subject forward without delay or not ; if not, he should be under the necessity of bringing for ward his own motion. Sir JAMES GRALIANI said that on Monday next his Noble Friend (Lord Althorp) would be in his place, and would himself be able to give an answer to the Hon. Gen• tleinan's question. MALT DRAWBACK BILL. On the motion that the whole House should resolve itself into a Committee on the Malt Drawback Bill, Mr. HORATIO ROSS rose , an d sa id he was very unwilling to i ccupy time, but he felt it imperatively necessary for him to make a few observations on this es should feel i t to b e his bounden duty to object to t h e mea -tire, and to t h row every poss i ble impediment i n the way of u. it duty of malt sp i r i ts, n i ne persons out of ten i n th e High lands passing. the Before the drawback took place on In every stage of the present Bill he 3,_ lands of S cot l and were engaged . in smuggling. It was carried on a l so to a great extent in the Lowlands of Scot land, land, and the gaols of that country w e re fined by offenders ping the the l aws on that subject. • Immediately after the drawback took place, the smuggling was completely knocked on the head, and the Revenue w as incensed to a most enormous extent. Why then had this system, which had worked so well, been proposed to Mr. SINCLAIR was of opinion that the proposed Bill ought to have been called, an Act to revive arid encourage smuggling. Sure he was that if it passed, it would tie necessary to enliree all the gaols in Scotland. Mr. G. DAWSON intended to support Government on this question, and hoped they would persevere, not withst niling the oieposition of the Scotch Members. He thought the lion. Metnter (Mr. Ross; had made out as -mall a case fir opposing Government on this (location ,s the Starch distillers had made out in the Committee. He allowed that the retort of the Committee was a Loud re port—( Hear)—but he begged to call the attention of the House to the evidence given before that Committee. The memhers of it thought, in making their report, that it would "e better not to prejudice the House, but allow them to firm their own opinions from the evidence. If they :ooked through the report they would see that the ',resent system was pregnant with fraud and danger to the revenue. lie all wed that no case of distinct fraud had been proved—(Hear)—but not a single person who was examined, net even the distillers, ventured to state that the law was such as to ensure the revenue from a system of fraud. The House would recollect that the drawback was allowed on the spirits distilled from malt alone. Now the malt was allowed to he kept in a loft above the build ing, where the distillery was carried on. And while that was done, there was nothing to prevent the distillers from mixing the malt with the raw grain—(Hear, hear, hear,)—and by distillimr from that mixed article, a system of fraud was established. All the vi gilance of the Excise could not prevent that system from being carried on. It was proved that those distillers in the north of Scotland so managed their distilleries that they obtained a draw-hack as from malt alone, when it was well known that the spirits were distilled from malt and raw grain mixed. It had been said, that no Highlander would drink spirits except they were made from malt only, and yet it was proved that it was as impossible to tell the difference between spirits distilled from the mixed article, and that distilled from malt only, as between spring -water taken from different springs.—(A laugh.) The Hon. Memlar (Mr. Hos ) had stated that about 300 distilleries would be injured by the proposed measure. Now, the fact was that Government had been supplying those persons with a capital out of the public purse to enr'sle them to eery kv, their Lusiuc*s. The la•v ...oje,t was the same in Ireland as Scotland. but the Irish distillers dealt more fairly with Government than the Scotch.—(Hear, hear, and a laugh.) The Irish distillers fairly told Govern ment that there were opportunities for committing frauds of which they could avail tnemselve.s when they chose, hot mat they were so anxious to put down illicit distillation th.rt they had entered into a contract among themselves to sub mit to penalties whenever they were found mixing raw grain with malt, and claiming the duty as malt only. The consequence was, that the Scotch distillers exported their spirits to Irel end, and undrrsuld the Irish in their own markets. The Irish distillers represented their case strongly to Government, who appointed a Committee, before whom all parties were heard, and which Committee were of opinion that it was necessary to alter the law, both for the protection of the Irish distillers and of the revenue. Mr. GILLON observed, that though he had already expressed his opinion on this subject, he could not avoid again endeavouring to avert the threatened injustice to Scotland. The evidence adduced before the Committee had shown to what an extent smuggling had prevailed in Scotland previous to 1821, and that it hid now entirely ceased—in one county alone, where only 5,000 gallons had been previously brought to charge, there were now 100,000—and in the isl and of 'sling, where there had been 300 convictions, there had last year been but three ; and that at the period formerly alluded to, out of a popu lation of 17,000, every one was, more or less, concerned in smuggling. That this change, so beneficial at once to the revenue and the morals of the people was attributable as much to the drawback as to the reduction of spirit duty, a reference to the duties of both would fully illustrate. The worst consequences were to he apprehended for the agri culture of Scotland, in the Highlands, by the uncertain demand of the smuggler being substituted instead of the steady market now afforded by the licensed distiller; and in the Lowlands, by the diminished consumption of bar. ley, which had hitherto been the grain that had afforded to the farmer the moat profitable return. A number of panda now employed in making malt, and cutting and drying turf, must be thrown idle, a consequence seriously to be deprecated in tie present state of distress prevailing in every part of the country. He deprecated a change as highly unjust to a moat useful and respectable body of men, who had been induced to embark their capital in the process of malting and malt distillation, on the faith of the permanence of the present law. Above all, he utterly denied the existence of fraud in Scot land, and which rested on no proof (abates', r, and was supported only by gross calumny and interested ciamour. A reference to the Excise, the only im partial judge in this ma ter bud utterly disproved the allegation. Having now considered the Bill before the House, he declared that, did fraud ex i st, it in no way di minished the probability of its occurrence ; th it it was utterly inadequ ate to effect the end in view, and would Ave no rife t nut that of giving a bonus of sixpence for the inanutacture of an impure spirit, and materially assisting the monopolist, at time expenv of the small capitalist. It the prin.aple ut the drawback was a bad one, it was as bad with a drawback of eightpence as with one of fourteen pence. The only mode of preventing the possibility of fraud had been suggested by the malt-distillers of Scot land, who were as much interested as any mass of :nen in repressing squiggling, and who were anxious to refute those vile calumnies thrown out against them. The mode was to oblige raw grain distillers and brewers to store their malt, arid receive it under permit for consumption. in the same manner as malt-distillers now received it. It he was told this would create an expensive machinery. he asked whit was the use of a machinery that did not meet the end i❑ view ? He could not examine what the Ex ,•ise had got to do—various Taxes, such as the Beet and the Leather Tax, had been repealed, and their time must he but little occupied in comoquence. He was convinced the Revenue, instead of improving, would fall off—not probably fur the first six months, or even a year, but such would ultimately be the case by the revival of illicit distil lation. There was another species of smuggling, well. known and extensively carried on in Ireland—he mean ~iouggling from the worm mouth—this had been but little practised in Scotland, but the temptation to it would now lie much increased ; and there was no proper check against that species of fraud, now proposed to be established. On all grounds, therefore, both generally as to any change, from the necessarily injurious effects of that change on Scotland, and as applicable to the Bill under their consi deration, he should oppose the measure in every stage. Colonel LINDSAY said the plain question was, that they were going to impose an additional duty of sixpence on malt, That was the real question, and they were called on to decide whether it would be for the advantage of the revenue to make such a change. The revenue had, it would appear, increased to, four times it former amount since the system of drawbacks was put in operation, and Dr. LusHINGTON said that the proposed measure, so far as its principles had yet been developed to the House, was evidently a rneasute which would r• quire to Ise acted upon with the great at firmness, and at the same time with the grea'est temperance and moderation. He would not conceal from himself that a wide-spread conspiracy ex isted in Ireland, and if the measures adopted to meet the exigency thus created were not judiciously chosen and Prudently pursued, the most disasteroue consequences !night be anticipated. He thought that the Right Hon. Gentleman had, under circumstances of great delicacy and difficulty, chosen the best course that could be adopted on the question of tithes in Ireland. He agreed cordially, and from his heart, with tt•.e proposition for the extinction of tith:s; for, he unlit say, that he agreed wish those who thought that a worse system—a system more cilculared to create dissention between the tithe-payer and the clergyman—never could have been invented. He could, if this were the fitting time, state what ought to be sub stituted for this system ; but he should now content him self with sayiug, that in this country, wherever tithes wera commuted for corn rent, the commutation bad been pro. ductive of great benefit. When he recommended the ex tinction of tithes, he begged to say, at the same time, that he thought the Protestant C iureh of Irelaud ought to be fitly provided for. He was not one of those who held the opinion of property inalienably vested in the invisible body called the Church ; but he thought that the rights of present incumbents and proprietors ought to be provided for ; and, when that had been done, that Parliament would have a right to deal with the Church revenues. At the same time he must say, that he should much regret if those revenues ws.re appropriated to any other object. He viewed with regret the conduct of the Irish Alemnere on this occasi , •n ; all of whom, he thought, ought to have given their best assistance to the passing of this measure, instead of opposing it as they had done. lie hoped that, upon re-consid-ration, they would give it their su,.port ; an r that they would, beside, explain the true nature of it to their tenantry, and tell those t,-nantry that the charge was now to be taken from the peasantry to b- placed upon them. The g►eater part of the land in Irel end was in the hands of the Protestant landlords, whose property had always been charged with this burden, and who had no right to complain of the prevent proposal. lie en :reared all those It ish Members, as tt.ey value d the peace and prosperity of the etpire, and of Ireland to particular, to support the measure. Mr. WYSE admitted that the proposal of the Right lion. Genttertian woutil take away the probability of cola lision between the tithe receiver and the clergyman, and that there were some other minor advantages in it; hut there were also evils ctrinected with it, that more than balanced these advantages. He especitily objected to the o roposed coercive levying of the arrears i,f titles. He assured the Hon. Ge.itleman who spoke last, that the Irish Members had no wish in the end to oppose the Govern ment ; all they wish, d was, to attain the same end, but by different means. It was because they wished ro see the •rue principles of Christianity triumph that they wished to see the Church purified from the incumbrances of too much rictus. The Christian religion was not a religion •.f wealth, nor doi it depend on wealth for it success. It toad its origin in humbleness, and was purest when it was poorest. All he wanted was the same equality of rights tar Ireland that England now enjoyed. Mr. SHAW speed, that the c4.rgy ouht to he pro vided dry some plan which would relo-ve them rum their present distresses. At the same time he could not approve of the last resolution, the of jest of which ii , enird to be the .extinction of tithes. He considered ti.e use of t term " extinction" by the Right Hon. Secretary for Ireland most unfortunate ; it had excited some rxtravigan: expec tations in Ireland. and his speech had been pis-te.l iron some of the Roman Catholic chapel doors the Son,'ay at ter it was delivered. 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