The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-05-07 00:00:00

reeding --...„---................------...._ lentil Pitegirta seconded the motion- ris h o f trilreP e Ple ho n 4 : ".."1 "meme......1.......... m ... m . i u motions, 0b... TekoPle by member after calling upon the house to do its duty to he le n ' etlab P. Tuestaots said, that after the fl to his resolution, concluded with moving will, with .little delay as possible, make the hon. uteimhei b,ad introduced h-sob we ° f oi e} , 'at thr s i to find Isis allegations resting introduce 5'15 31 / (1 ' 1111 00; 11 d 44 el teratr ad brought forward the gravest c harge , Fai . his .., . 0 ,,,, on sa l es _, n in the seve • (a cause laagh t l li , e ta p e p e a rs y: in nobles, proportionba ne t t s a , vet efo,n e arno kat r o e f at Landown ers l find no person on whom to fix them: ever nine";, - ,,c" oth er g 4 t aucti on as shallil acts imposing duties on stamps say that, so far from the influence ojr n the Dover election, he had actual y,, ha d u ho. athok ut i their p ro 1 than ' nd-a' llta, trades 11 tiles duties, prone (subject to those d • ne connected with government k e-- -a n ip-estoan„ - as i • duties), as great eldorn heard a finer specimen member that 70.1 a ll the l a d , manufactu s paid by the fuudholders, annui had been furnished by the hon. g fewer noble sc on eases thustrious elasserers, farmers, mechanics, and the •J. GRAHAM said that he wished to of treed M ee the e rich to sof the kingdom, and as shall cause ct, in vindication of the character of a he s taF t y r. 5,,P00r,,, pay the said duties in the same propor tby t • • pig Oe a • 'let r e • i piled_ which an imputation had been cast .1e ,. ) thin ~.j oi do; sio 1 member for Dover. He could not 1 ,il e wr ong 'iver. For thellhere appeared :..... member had brought his case before til l of l a i . s pe Agai eri ginalmot• • s it related to the Post-office. The cou r3 " , an d the ,0,., nst i t . ion f ev.4un •M • • •• . in, and by act of Parliament any °if ice able ° general in particular, were rendered inc ea of all a ttiftr i4 g the g 4" th e gaper st the amendment —2'24 ng his Majesty after being once c ennoble duke iirh; ee „ o intended motion a conversation was going on re- T i ference in election matters. I ,_. e a es. er LO M. An ii manufactures. Wimp for a select com e Post-office was most anxious to iR aS , , , n riVi e t h 4. rd A LI wood , actures. In reply to some remarks ad not shown any want of respect to, t o u t l iee wlite_ Lie ll;ag diffeltlonp said that he e, nor forgotten the duties of the high. e , ed in "r;,,hokse. differ opinions, had selected gentlemen enter ar, hear.) The noble duke had proG.e a anea a ttg o; alr ktrw s soas to represent fully the feelings of remarkable caution. On the first et i . c . ren ce ll! he e,id NA. 8 ee D said it ante of office a decided instance of inter4art, on tur iLtaitate the nam would be convenient if the noble lord government candidate occurred in Car t. ! i f a was , l a yi nt . w as Ilot 4 Put it to th s. Ificer connected with the Post-office , ' s hea r.) tri e at, ,a tuh to the e noble lord whether, if this commit fact was known, discharged. (Ilearb )0 ~fie e o ite , a t h an „ whale (" oh?"), could any thing be it" a%v L'ato trade the committee ate election the noble duke sent to eae t . 0 l e t .re he ; th th e att ae and en __ he was about to move for, to sin, and to each packet-station an r ya , a ttae ri k t _a er atm ention o f the ',amerce and shipping ? He wished to .lament, pointing out the penalty as 0010 ht , td Y. entry to know house to this fact, that it was important rference. (Hear, hear.) An as if ~s en t air 4)4.141, what were to be the objects of the in as the Pr:. candidate at t y AA, IIORp seen that some such charge adi da a r t, tw s o f t he said that it had id against him by a disappointed ea .. qr. f la t ist , Il eh hi. h e hn use that cted Sir F. Freeling to write a letter W r i v atelY 9 ry kl alitt: ; ell - friend a committee should be appointed. ackets at that place, "advising him 1)_, 0 „, del 4 ter so _ e s i nhm , . ,(Mr. Baring) objected to the• scope of t la 1 u uho 1 r 3., he must • • irence on the part of officers iu the eni1"01,00no, ,note It , i 2l. /fused for remind him that he was the sub ualified to take any part in elections . ler (a l ~ Let a fer. such a committee on these very fed and treated in the most serious io.al a prer,: a , ilitte e o words from A suggesting that "he would robablv 110 , var .) : 01 1... t suppl y. Ir. Young, the house went into a otity this to the proper parties" (11 0 1 a ietle r tio ns ,1.1. 1 ,,, , An „ its he had in his possession the copy ° airee ~, , reat ,-,in - e ESTIMATES. ' that the s es, M N. ,lea r .moving the estimates for the land forces for Hart on the Ist of May, stating d also bole era ahe h "ftaPitula •ived had been carefully attended to; a" ts , the ' c b< detaattni, y h is ri _ ht , ted the statements which had been from five captains of post-office pael` e ' been 05t 4 . 1 st , I lesex ...e , that it 8:.. hon. predecessor (Sir J. Hobhouse,) a d bee e tiall aee .-, te o . N% as the intention lover, denying that any influence h . te de s , o oce _ ,%e some reductions. of the hon. member for l in order to influence fheir votes at the 'l b , gen he r iaeli beiasiorted by The addition to the forces honourable gentleman had aprealed to ~ a n _ 7,a,rforn required for state of Ireland and the Colonies, se ;he also made withp.l hear, hearlilat toy , Thee 1- cr, the the former and about the same house would agree him in thinkiliF„,„ ° fall of , a t4,, res 1.64 hon. additional number being about 6,000 r time had been wasted in the considerartoredio 1 4 4 1 1, 0 ta n ( lut on _ .....‘ , , g g a entleman concluded by moving the lusted in election squabbles. He "" lent ac te foi eat l) ,,th cl e f e leeedim, •tit is the opinion of this committee, the principle upon which the governoesatt 0 cgo ' t . h ' r itajbi r . a Y the t, £3,168,216 I4s. Id. be granted to his rfere for the purpose of influencing r o e cl; .' 1 : - of the an the Irelaenharge of his Majesty's land forces in all that they exacted was, that the iuna, che ets•i a , h. (le io „ . , regi men , ,d, and on service abroad, with the ex ild not be turned against themselves. t i sa tisfie r ic h isi li c f rz ally . Ls in the territorial possessions of the East it J. R. REID expressed himself perfe c t ha t Aft l'it ts e tati on e bserved , lunation made by the right hon. b 0 00 . e „ ev e v,,, , h io ti ot ~... that ministers were bound to take into it hon. baronet lad stated he could not b_" at the ' " t r ii (lth e • l ex to pel zy the services which the public establish 1t had exercised any undue iLiflllen Cu . 5 A: II()O se rtSe o i r , but the capability of the country to i for Dover. of his ~,r „ rke r lo w f „,_ such establishments. He would submit beha" t (leg' '22 cs ear s 'r we could • ,ord LENNOX begged to say . , on sil o 1 ' -,0 00 ' l n 1821 bring down the army to the scale ve, that he never had interfered in the :tion for Dover. (Hear, hear.) a nd S r ' irreld ispliber o r, 69,000; and in 1824, 73,000. Taking Ster a few words from Mr. M. Php s a adtk,," of I he ~ a men, rank and file, in the years 1822, motion was negatived without a diyisicin•sto k i . r (if , bo efv s, ra - w n l dit amounted to 61,900, whereas the 'lie report of the committee upon t he of„ 0 to. I ,a 16,00 0 k and file, this year was 78,500—an in ing been brought up, ace ller„ t o bo o hit, /his vi . men on the average of the three years Ir. RICE said that the noble lord the Chan be reS"o s ‘;'. 11 acc ount as exclusive of officers - when the were e acts aP . i '- 2 605 e av er the augmentation' y quer intended to move that these t h a t nt s j ,(xin A jo era ge ex ,_ amounted to nearly amittee to-morrow, in order to propose, t i s etse n ro e x . '"011 ti l l ilow i t Pense of pay in the three years quoted 6d. be placed on the insertion of adsl o i ti allY r C e d e adi a " item ,amounted to £3,168,000, au increase of .to•re er I atone, o excess leis, instead of the fluctuating duty 01. '' ell h Justify 822,- financial statement. ~e t , i he tif . 1823 and 18 0 4 What .• dtu 0 1 at' wit v this • , - •circumstances lord e to , ea • is mere 4r. RICE, in the absence of the noble ,th ~,e • att h. 117 the people increase of ex ens: ? Was it prudent, Exchequer, then postponed till to-morr% . to i. v ia l e sc , o r 03 th ea were groaning under the weight of appointment of the committees to ingll' i , Pt' s , att Of f l our fo u gthentation justified by the state of the iculture, and of trade and manufacturesi,snosea l oe at th, rela nd ,_r!ign relations? He denied that it was. rhe other orders of the clay were then "i r ~ hf eeria t i, re %n e s r , he had been assured, and believed, Ise adjourned at half-past 2 o'clock. 0 L ~ he t o yop, ,_ lessred to than it was at present; the con- FR IDAY. to lve„ • o !rier i d the dirt 4 settled; and it was unnecessary a fter of P . 'ttild asked hits in South America. If his rhe Speaker took the chair shortly daii ee , be , o ich time there was a tolerably full attended a t ',oil i de ot a l (' Y th at !.° Point oftou specific items for reduction, rhe Deputy Clerk of the Crown atteneutoo 01 the t it Ithe tit oilll instead 44,000 troops for England, ended the return for the county of the s q., j a il ,v i h e lonld l ?,lber ,! . ,.' f Y rn slifficient. In the colonies too we had ostituting the name of Martin J. 131akc , ea u na . " l o ;pe , d e ex , e unfair that was necessary. He was aware Maclachlan, Esq., who had been declar , orc ps _ ai n i , to l , s , tei t ai„. h - to ask ministers to make a reduction on )n the motion of Sir G. S K [MITI!, tillivierer' :tit he ' lap se ‘ Ye of the year, seeing; that a considerable ef the London and Birmingham railway h"' t ii3 1 .4 ex, es ellould ue fore reduction 4 could be carried into se, and agreed to. , 91 0 . , It, 3of PruPOSC to strike off six months' pay of the 11 01 ' tlie ' tat ' T h then a rhe house was occupied in receivingp et ' at for c hs e 40 _ is r _ . bove the average scale of the years en Mr. Blake took the oaths and his se te S tbe I ,s,le.nad e ',. °ll . Id amount to a reductiou a £279,441 on town of Galway ; and the Speaker vac a i r ''',r_ eo , p6 I . ',_ ( -onsideration, which would be diminished t _l44il ed r• Id. to £2,888,771 14s. ld. The hon. ' him," II "Y moving b e , Aa ntis . .g an amendment to this effect. „ 4 u rf or ,airvhi,.. like said tat it would be quite preposter atnt.4lloldi„lg like the reduction proposed by the hon. lio- all ` se x- A reductionof 19 000 ref e sit ati reason that ie ~re nee on i n __ , he was sure the committee would For th e 'aPporting the vote of his right hou. friend ro t ,"ittte amendment .k e th en , a 4 ,8 , :ine „ divided, and the numbers were— ' tit "`nt -70 - . . 238 Ile Speaker resumed the chair at 5 o'clor•—, o f Mr. O'CONNELL said, that as the reP r ' 0 10', :en before the Carrickfergus election c° to lai, ,rated, he should feel it his imperative (WY,. bor° : to use a bill for the disfranchisement of thaie or", carnittee were decidedly of opinion that t h l os ir e 'iii issue to the present class of voters. Asasc i oi ; t bring the question distinctly before then''„f• tbe ,• May, and as the term of the suspene "forthe'oisi• pare on the 13th, he should move that it ° e 80 ° ' til the Ist of June. He did not anticipate , 11 : " .s arrangeunt. a it for Lord ALT boar said, that from the rell.;, Ivo 5 1f4 d upon the table, it was quite clear that t vier to t , o . 10 in question ought to be suspended jo ° o f 01;0 • further information. The term, however, ve t . t, v l ght not, in his opinion, to be protracted 1 ° 11 5 , 1 e Ar r o ssary ; and he therefore would suggest th 3 'o,o „;tl , fixed, instead of the Ist of June, Oa to luld prev an allow the hon. and learned ge m an d a th ious. . r. O'CONNELL agreed to this suggest i oc. f 141 4 dered to be further suspended till the 2 211 1i n tletlic. Mr. O'CONNELL asked the right hon. va s e Treasury Why the Irish population tetht"thel I owed for were not vet printed. He thou° bs tra', o oo , en made out much earlier, since the 3 ,00 esented last session only required Car"' trpose. ba'd Mr. S. RICE said that he believed much 61 ' 1 % 01 ed in correcting the returns, but that theY eci tie I luring very shorttl - . • coD s .fof; Mr. Alderman '1 HOMPSON stated, that ~°„et,ao,ol' timation he had received from the noble tO lairs, to the effect that his severe indispos,l4oo sible for him to enter upon the dry •-he tl t 0 ,. 4e h'tiaai Maj oritv • ' s e kotio n the n was than agreed to. Nt t qlo n eesnmed, and the report was ordered to be ° hi gh tlitl N , 4 Y. , el ll,, Put e hi t moved that a select committee be . appo s i ta nt 14 418" t tie a ri „,""c Pay and emoluments of general and rear-- he p ancrinto the emoluments of vice and rear 4 -1 4 in '''tterals and colonels of marines, with the . view it, Pp ll blie \V hat sa ving might be effected without detriment cfk4ewtr,rice•--Agreed to. ki e ,; the t,"°l3 moved for returns of the names of the re "llh rote of stock on the Bank books, holding to 4, 4 :it ty to 410,00 0 , and upwards. His object was to enable I ll, ,t411 ' 3 11 1 ` )It i. a judgment on the motives that might have -ar>> Inembers in certain recent votes.—(" Oh, oh !" h e 41 Qti ' lll Wks • the li tld th I!lthdrawn at the suggestion of LriAlthorP, 1 1 4 , 4 1 .: 1)1 .. ‘ al e 4 , t t l e t a lvas in i q f ui . s t i s to u r d i v a p i ti a un c . haracter that acted case couiu Just },‘ conversation on the inexpLdiency . o . f L u o . rd D t - 4o ti ? ',6,,rward his motion for committees of Ing Leeed• h k 4 o'clock) when the house was exhausted, Iry r teti l- g 8 could not , be expected to go before st rt 1 -t8 they merited, "11 l ose to move the appointment of 110 61 ."? impost hich stood for that evening, relative to tit' . ' 4 :e 4el6 rd ' C WIRY—AGRICULTURAL AND COMMERCIAL. essels, he was compelled to postpone it. fica w l"l ktlNlkriait k id tnett0pte.30,6i,44.,1444,tee„,,. that in rising to move the appointment Mr. HustE for the same reason, nes veto the recent proceedings at Constautl...,,ort4,it ~e 4llp i ,',%istt or ` e "..!nquire separately into the state, Ist, of ihject of his motion to be of so mucls t i r " - A l ciP/ 7)ti,`,.:e3 % '., t itte :!:, s and 2d, into the state of the commer- Dped he should have the opportunity of in he r:N J. I !y . f.„ h i,! tof the country, said that it would iy next. ber that t ir e P l iq a et; e tal ;' , llri h ,. : 4" l to enter into any . arguments to justify k t e , ti11q.,,i,), extras forward his motion he yielded to the Lord ALTHORP assured the hon. mer°,,, A s sie retary for Foreign Affairs was so very 4" to e t tN y il ., te rt r 4s i!'s, i i ,7_ s,ed to laid h i that house (hear, hear) seek for five minutes consecutively. t he 11,300 hoti,„'o4l:4`alin`°.O° cries of " Hear,") not,..he was bound ' Colonel DAviEs postponed a 'notion (~. 0 ' 13 tr 4V this lead i t uly very sanguine expectations himself 'e could not learn) he had fixed for to-da:forcit,d4 ?lia i a ilibi was has any material benefit.—(llear, hear.) t e,,,,_ e p,., _e tlee g at all instituted would so far be advan se indisposition of the noble SecretarY f° 1. . 14 , he ag c., ` l 4 l's th iek r i b e i u Own opinion, he still thought that the Mr. Heath said that ou a previous evei t 4 . l t Vei e tl re e ll ,e tl N't:lie......Al the expectations of that house, and ttention of the house to the filling 11 P 0 " almiraltv Court. lie had now to expresS ... Of t_ gi he Qo ' be B Ods, \u eared) He divided his committee o pinie . ; tEI by, siti oti tlld a _ll 4e ,. a yi that the division of labour would ce would not be filled up until the een taken with regard to the proper sala i p t is,o that „ef `,tici t ,` i at. ` - _t results. The only difference of opinion ad-ascertained, from returns made to tee„. 2 0 0 1 ;0 0 est,i,l4slthe.'!iierit,..",l,vas that which might arise from the v of the 3udge of the Admiralty was in IV, a oo t, 4 1 4 th e lit h e o,lq i ,ig,lne inquiry into the shipping interest !hat salary was afterwards increased to tic dia_ lo l4 ,tikeiti,'Pprelto the manufacturing and commercial wised to its present amount, 1:2,500, easec lis a o In ui tly ~,t „ o ,,,e,nded that all who took an enlightened ,al iliiee tie tits:i ,:thtittr, _ : 4 t otcei f tioo rysiet. (,:it T i io.af t j o ttia mhl w ee a fe r oa gs r ll a Gor n lrv t caui a nhl tgau l c e ro p em a Lo r ifn io a r t tt e di ti ee i jenuouqnheuiniatrf Russell, Lord Lnd that the business of the court had ille b r „ re o°al,o.llireitilettl'iltieo"tn agree with him, that the subjects were mount of salary; on the contrary, theYL.tic`isttieof acts other, and he, therefore, thought t ° eduction. Lord ALTHORP replied, that the duties hoer i ,p' \,rl/). 4 , 1, ' Ir, .ertaiuly light during the time of peae ° ' *e ver , b ,b l ,4l4 4 . ' ~ 14 4.. ?r t y . ,-, Edward Ellice, Sir R ichard Vyvyan, Leavy in time of war. The question, P i , , ~, w, sto ,W . i f, 4 15 . l ßelie, Sir John Sebright, Mr. Alexan onsideration of government, and it w ou en `be - 1. 0 - i , , ILL . vO tr `,folle ) ,: Q .::n, Sir J. Dalrymple, Mr. A. Caylev,` lute to submit some measure to the house ° n or !!, A I W. Vciw kirt r„., C. Lemon, Mr. R. Clive, Mr. Kl. Mr. J. JEavis wished, as there was ,_a,:i, - t e t itoe!, ';_lc,,j. t er hit aio 2‘-natchbull, Mr. Sanford, Mr. J. Bul n the Court of Exchequer, to know wii` u or of i4 a ll. wilal, s tf, Mr. Bennett, Mr. Alildmay, Lord ion of government to fill that vacaneY fed t0 ..1 ,1V . he,Oik er :• b eti Liv,?. Heathcote, Mr. M. Atwood, Lord All about to be brought in it was ilite n es ceila 4" Natte). Sir J. Murray, Mr. Childers, Sir William Folkes, he judgeships. If the business of the et i ,.. "olal e Atilt Illiitee Murray, Mr. Robarts and Mr. Stanley sy 14 judges, why should the country b' re Olt, la est . w as a 0 1:41 th I °ll 1 PPointed without observation. sense of 15 ? _ ot as„ ot p. , Ri_ ee l) , . tda t 1 , Lord ALTHORP replied that he Was P i t he ii 4 ut eres , s diti ou _,. select committee be appointed to in otKiisnrsirnteheride: Fancy having occurred in the judgeshiP ° , et oe eti tt2+ll,, vs t , of our commercial, manufacturing, and quer. (A laugh.) 0 t he P t ijrec) fl ' s °on h o , On the order of the 4ay being read for the o wl At i th e e pt aetiea lr that this committee would be coin s. committee of supply. # oil t ici , .kit e ri ' l lo . °llLtry y acquainted with the commerce aud l a in. ~ia tie 04 I,p . • Mr. COBBETT rose to make a Co raP gla d Pr vet e his sa id that, working classes of England, Scotland, hthe y Alio ill t e:,. ii t i ll4 ie _ e gri cul ,_ r as he had put some manufacturing of the great partiaity a taxation, of wil ic fo r sta ° 0104. t ,, ,, goti r ti lal. mie L s i t h al committee he thought it but just They complained) of the various duties th e p°Y o ist' ~ ill,. (iiirieu, ~ould not be composed of exclusively which were laid upon them, and frora, the poi' a. 441 y ou c a ,. ) The committee was to report from greater part of which the richer portion 04 4 4t0 C-; , c _,s ontended that ' , of the . Shipping interest rendered it abso- J ~ ~ y ~► \ \ .~~_ THE LIVERPO lutely necessary (that it should be the subject of a specific inquiry. Lord ALTHORP thought it but fair that the proposed com mittee should have a fair, trial before it was pronounced that its functions were incompatible with an efficient inquiry into the shipping interest. Mr. RIMIVEN complained that but two Irish Members were on the agricultural committee, though its inquiries included Ireland. A select committee was then appointed, and the following named as members :—Lord Althorp, Mr. P. Thomson, Mr. Goulburn, Mr. R. Baring, Sir H. Parnell, Mr. G. Wood, Lord Lowther, Mr. J. Oswald,.Mr. Morrison, Mr. Grote, Mr. Abercromby, Mr. Estcourt, Mr. Herries, Mr. T. Attw•ood, Mr. Lyall, Mr. Davenport, Mr. Ewart, Mr. O'Connell, Mr. Ban nerman, Mr. J. Parker, Mr. G. F. Young, Mr. Fielden, Mr. J. Marshall, Mr. Warburton, Mr. E. Tennant, Mr. Pelham, Mr. V. Smith, Mr. E. Lambton, Mr. R. Briggs, Mr. A. Smith, Mr. E. L. Bulwer, Mr. Christmas, Mr. A. Chapman, Mr. Heyett, and Mr. Alderman Thompson. The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the house adjourned at half-past two o'clock. THE LONDON PRESS. (FROM THE AGE.) We told the " rascal rabblement," -when they were bawling for Reform, that it would do no good to them — we told them that the promises and pledges of those who, from the hustings, wooed their most unsavory voices, could not, or would not, be kept—but, as usual, we said all this in vain. What are they the better for it, that Jos. Alexander no longer returns two members for Old Sarum, or little Monson manufactures no senators out of Gatton ? What boroughmongering, corrupt, rotten, " Den of Thieves"—what bad house that ever kept bad hours, played such a trick as has been played by this Mirror of Parliaments with respect to the Malt Tax ? What legislative assembly ever voted on a Friday a re mission of taxation, and reimposed it on the following Tuesday ? None that we ever heard of. Talk of breach of faith indeed! What faith was kept with those who speculated in malt on the credit of the House of Com mons? Will Lord Althorp offer any compensation to those who have lost thousands upon thousands, under the belief that the old custom of Parliament in money bills—in all bills, in fact—would be adhered to —or, to come somewhat closer to the noble and candid Chancel for of the Exchequer, under the impression that when Lord Althorp said he would not disturb the vote, although he disapproved of it, Lord Althorp meant what he said ? But is this to go on ? Are all the monetary affairs of the empire to be left perpetually in this state of chaotic blundering? No—reply the ministerialists, we are but in a state of transition. Give us the Malt Tax and the Assessed Taxes this year, and we shall give you the In come Tax next year. We do not doubt but that we shall come to a tax on property (we hope not upon income, in spite of all Sir Robert Peel's logic, and the absurdly extreme cases on which it is founded)—but with what face will the whigs impose it? They tore it away from Vansittart, denouncing it with every term of infamy and opprobrium, at a time when the country was far, far better able to endure it than at present—and how can they come forward now ,with a proposal to renew it? Why, just as they did before. When the Income Tax imposed by Pitt was six per cent., nothing _ould be more hideous. Well, when the whigs came into power for a short time, they raised it to ten per cent. They are quite as ready to do the same this moment. A tax is in quisitorial because it is tory—admirable for all purposes of government when it is Whig. Imposts are oppressive and founded on the falsest principles when they are tory —indispensible to the well-doing of the state when they are whig. Is not this pitiful trifling ? If Althorp does what Goulburn did, how is the country b benefitted by the change ? The ministerial papers are becoming very haughty in their denunciations of Parliament. No tory among us all, not even the Age itself, was ever so despotic, as the Morning' Chronicle. A change has come over the spirit of our dream, and he who votes for the remission of taxes is declared as great a villain as the same authority used to declare those who voted for their imposition. All who venture to say now what the Morning Chronicle had been saying for years—all who repeat the advice of Lord Fitzwilliain, given only last year, are abused as traitors to the state. Our old tory vocabulary is ran sacked for epithets of abuse. The " disaffected" are duly held up to indignation—the " levellers," the " fac tious," the "seditious,"—all come in for their due share of scorn. We could scarcely suppress a horse-laugh, when we found, in the last Edinburgh Review, the peo ple rated for their " ignorant impatience of taxation" — the very phrase which drew down so much indignation on poor Lord Castlereagh. Even the Globe, cool and cucumber-like as it generally is, has of late grown hot and peppery. Last night it contained the following:— - - - _ " A determination no longer to pay the assessed taxes, we perceive, has been delivered ore rotondo, and in the midst of much noisy applause, by Mr. Wakley. Notwithstanding, how ever, the loftiness of the example, we question whether it will be very widely followed, or that, strongly supported as ministers are by a Parliament openly and popularly chosen, they will allow tumultuous and illegal proceedings to induce them to change their course—proceedings, by the way, which, if suc cessful, would render government a Joke, and representation a farce." Well, and did not this same Globe panegyrize Lord Milton and Mr. W. Brougham, when they, just as nois ily and with mouths as rotund, recommended the self same thing that Wakely has done ? But if this be allowed now, Government, we are told, will become a joke and a farce. Will become ? Why how could it be a greater joke, or a more absurd farce, than it has been during the week. The joke, we admit, is cracked, and the farce paid for at our expense ; but though that is not very amusing to us, they are not the less a joke and a farce for all that. The anger. of the Globe explodes thus : "We feel quite satisfied that no at once large and respectable portion of the community will countenance a line of conduct which, however favourable to the sinister views of those whose prospective harvest is derived from social disorder and confu sion alone, must be destructive to the best interests of all the rest of the community." _ _ _ So the whigs find out now that the views of those to whom they are indebted for their seats, point only to so cial disorder and confusion, and will, if successful, be de structive to the best interests of the community. Good Globe, you might have found that years ago in the Age. We said, and we spoke from accurate knowledge, that the political unions were of the deepest danger to all that was valuable in the country, and that they should be sup pressed at once, in their very birth. Did the ministers take our advice ? Not they--on the contrary they fos tered and flattered them. Loud was the approbation of the ministerial prints when a threat of bringing up a hun dred thousand men to Hampstead Heath was uttered in Birmingham. This threat was real treason, but it met with unanimous applause from the whigs. Now, the Birmingham men declare that they will pay no assessed, taxes, and for this passive resistance they are denounced by the same whigs as traitors. Pshaw ! It is quite plain that such a Government cannot go on without producing ruin and revolution. Tax after tax will be'surrendered to clamour, and the fundholder will soon find his claims treated as inimical to the interests of the country. Where, indeed, can the fund for paying him, and doing the ordinary business of the nation, come from, except from a sort of confiscation of property ? To this complexion have we been brought by the reformers. Bitterly must all among them who have anything to lose, deplore the part which they took ; but they shall have small compassion from us. We told them from the very beginning how it would be. L STANDARD. (FROM THE CARLISLE PATRIOT.) Although we have already adverted to the inconstant and inconsistent conduct of Sir James Graham, in refer ence to, the question of public distress, his vote of Tues day night against any further reduction of taxation places it in a light so peculiarly scandalous, as to call . for separate and particular notice. In 1830, at a pub lic meeting of his constituents, the right hon. baronet declared his deliberate conviction, that one of two courses was imperatively called for,—" either the taxation must be reduced to the altered value of the money, or the money must be placed on a level with the taxation." Those, we believe, were Sir James's very words. , Well, —in one little week, Sir James has had an opportunity of supporting both those measures; and—both has he re jected! Call ye this " enlightened and patriotic," Free holders of Cumberland? No, no—we cannot think ye so deluded now, whatever ye may have been. But of this we are sure, that whatever ye, in your partiality may wish to call it, truth and justice cry out against it, as an exhibition of as glaring political knavery as is to be found in the annals of humbug. (FROM THE DUBLIN WARDER.) CHURCH REFORM.—Whig legislation, if it shall not succeed in alienating the Protestant loyalty of Ireland, will go far to establish O'Connell's charge, that the inter ests of Ireland are uniformly sacrificed to those of England, and that the same measure of justice is not held out to the people of both islands. In the conversation which took place on Lord Althorp's proposition for the commutation of tithes in England, the principle of liberality towards clergymen, as gentlemen of education, was conceded even by Mr.i Hume, and both he and Sir Robert Peel ex pressed a hope, that the average of income would not be takenat a sum less than £3OO a year. To Sir Robert Peel the justice must be clone, that he expressed a hope, that when the tax on the Irish Protestant clergy should come under consideration, it should not affect a benefice of a lower value than £3OO per annum. But, why tax the Irish Established Church at all ? If the thing be just in Ireland, it would be equally so in England ; and, if unjust in England, it would not be less so in Ireland. Is it not, then, monstrous that such a measure should have ever been contemplated towards the Irish branch of the Established Church ? We know that Lord Althorn has received statements from (Efferent clergymen in Ireland, respecting the exclusive tax measure and its oppressive and impoverishing operation, which, as a man of truth and justice, lie could not offer a word of argument in op position to. We will remind him of one transmitted to him from the diocess of Meath, by a clergyman having a large family, and his benefice, by composition, value be tween five and six hundred pounds—this statement in no part hypothetical, but founded on absolute facts, proved to his lordship that, between the proposed Whig spoliation and the deductions to which the living is already subject, this gentleman, with a.numerous family to educate, (but we cannot say otherwise to provide for,) would be re duced more than one half in his income ! What other class of society is subjected to such cruel and unequal im position ? And, good and just Heaven ! why should the clergy of the Irish Established Church—men so distin guished beyond all other resident gentry, to speak gene rally, for their charity and utility—why, we ask, should they be the selected objects of such revolting injustice and persecution ? The interrogatory is unanswerable, except by the wicked and condemnatory admission, that it is done to root Protestantism out of Ireland, and et courage the growth and domination of Popery. LONDON LAW COURTS. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, APRIL 27. (London Sittings, before Mr. Justice GASELEE and a Common Jury.) DE BEGNIS V. ARMIsTEAD. This was an action brought by Signor de Begnis, the opera-singer, against Mr. Armistead, the proprietor of the Amphitheatre at Liverpool, to recover £167, the amount of a bill of exchange accepted by the latter in payment of a balance of account, originating in the fol lowing circumstances :—ln the autumn of 1831, the parties entered into an agreement to bring out Italian operas, and dancing, for a few weeks at the defendant's theatre at Liverpool. By the terms of this agreement, the defendant bound himself to furnish the lights, scenery, orchestra, and efficient corps de ballet, and dresses for the dancers; and the plaintiff contracted to provide the opera-singers, and also their dresses. It was further stipulated that the parties were to divide the receipts on each night equally between them, and they were each to have one clear benefit night. This agree ment was acted upon, but the speculation turned out a losing one. The parties also tried their luck at Man chester for one night, whither they proceeded "bag and baggage" along the rail-road; but there also the per formance was not very profitable. On the winding up of the account between the parties, a balance of £167 ap peared to be due to the plaintiff, for which he ultimately obtained the bill in question. Some negotiation was also entered into on the subject of the Signor's repeat ing the experiment in the following autumn, and it was sworn by the defendant's daughter that it was only on the plaintiff's promising to bring his company down in the following October, and pay the defendant £lOO for the use of the Amphitheatre, that the latter consented to give the bill for six months. However, the plaintiff af terwards declined accepting the defendant's invitation to come to his theatre, on the around that as it was not li censed he should be exposed - to a penalty for performing in it. Upon the maturity of the bill the defendant re fused to pay it, alleging as a reason, that since the plain tiff declined to come to his theatre, on the ground that it was unlicensed, although he was aware of the fact when he performed there the first time, one of the ar ticles of agreement being that the defendant was to gua rantee him against any such penalty, he (the defendant) would avail himself of the same ground of objection, l and insist that the bill was void, because it was given for an illegal consideration,—namely, as a security for money received for performances at an unlicensed thea tre. Such was the defence set up to-day, in support of which Mr. Weiss, of Liverpool, and Miss Armistead, swore to conversations with Signor de Begnis, in which he spoke of the bill as having been given for the amount of his share of the receipts for three or four nights per formances, which the defendant had omitted to pay over. On the other hand it was contended, that although the plaintiff might not be able to recover the amount of those receipts, as the house was unlicensed, yet the bill had been given for certain advances of money made by the plaintiff on account of the. defendant, and which consi deration was perfectly legal. To prove this, Signor Ve nafra, the dancer, and Mr. Nathan, a dealer in theatri cal dresses, were called, and spoke to the plaintiff hav ing paid £l2O for dresses for the dancers, £lOO to Ve nafra himself, and £3O for defendant's expenses in Lon don, all by the desire and on account of the defendant. Several letters were put in on both sides, but they only referred to the alleged promise of the plaintiff to pay another visit to Liverpool, which they certainly fell short. of proving, although that they showed that communica tions on the subject had passed between the parties. • Mr. Justice GASELEE had no doubt that if the bill was given to secure payment of the money taken at the doors of an unlicensed theatre, it was void in law, and the plaintiff could not recover. He left it to the jury, how ever, to say whether it was given for that, or, as stated or; the part of the plaintiff; for moziies paid by the plain tiff on account of the defendant. The Jury were of the latter opinion, and returned' a verdict for the plaintiff for the amount of the bill, and 1:5 15s. 6d. interest. - DE BEGNIS V. ARMISTEAD. MAy I.—This was an action on a bill of exchange fcr £167, to which the defence set up was that the: bill was given to secure payment of a balance of account between the parties, in respect of a joint agreement to , get up opera singing and dancing, at an unlicensed theatre at Liverpool, and which therefore constituted an illegal con sideration. The cause was tried at the London Sittings, on Saturday last, and the particulars were Stated - in the Times of Monday, as related above. Mr. Sergeant LUDLOW to-day moved for a rule to show cause why the verdict should not be set aside, on the ground that it was against evidence, and also that the learned judge (Gaselee) had omitted to tell the jury that if the money advanced by the plaintiff on account of the defendant, either for dresses or otherwise, was paid in furtherance of the agreement for performances at an unli censed theatre, the profits of which were to be divided between the parties, such consideration was illegal, and the plaintiff could not recover. The learned sergeant contended that some if not all the items proved by the plaintiff's witnesses were clearly tainted with illegality: The COURT granted a rule to show cause why the ver diet should not be set aside, or why the damages should not be reduced. COURT OF KING'S BENCH—THURSDAY. ( Sittings in Banco.) REX V. HARRIS, ESQ'. The judgment of the Court was moved against the de fendant, who was absent from indisposition, he having ben convicted, at the assizes for the county of Pem broke, of having illegally and maliciously imprisoned a poor man named David iiarris. At the trial it appeared that the defendant was interested in the return of Mr.. G-reville as a representative in Parliament, and that the prosecutor voted. for. Sir• John Owen, the opposing candi date. The defendant; who was a magistrate, felt irritated' at the manner the prosecutor gave his vote; and, some short time afterwards,' When the latter was broiight befOre him on a charge. Of poaching, without giving him an op portunity to be heard, he sent him to Haverfordwest gaol, where the poor felloW was detained a month, and then set at liberty without any indictment having been preferred against him. The jury found the defendant guilty • but, on account of his indisposition, the C our t postponed • ing sentence on him from time to time. It now appeared by the affidavits that his health was not improved, and the Court, therefore, passed sentence upon him in his ab sence. Affidavits in mitigation were read ; they stated that the prosecutor was a noisy and turbulent man when he was inebriated; that he had been three times confined in gaol, and thaewhilst there he had assaulted the gaoler. Mr. Justice LITTLEDALE, in pronouncing the judg ment, observed that there na..s Do doubt that the defend ant had imprisoned the plaintiff from pique and though it did not exactly appear to the Court what had. caused such bad feelings to arise in the defendant's breast. Such conduct, however, could not be tolerated in any one, mush less in a magistrate, who was intrusted with the administration of the laws, and whose duty it was to protect and not to oppress. This Court would always uphold the authority of magistrates, and would deal leni ently where it appeared the law was mistaken; but in this case there was no pretence that the defendant didnot know that he was acting improperly and illegally. The sentence of the Court, had the defendant been a younger man, would have been fine and imprisonment; but, in consequence of his age and infirmity, incarceration Might be the cause of his death. The sentence of the Court, therefore, was, that " He. should pay a fine 614500 to the KinA. ;" and the Court would send the ,nOtes of the trial and of the judgment to the Lord Chancellor, in or der to have the -name of the defendant erased from the Commission of the Peace. The attorney of the defendant ° immediately paid the fine. POLICE OFFICE-MARLBOROUGH-STREtT. ATTACK ON " VESTED RIGHTS."—A brace of chimney sweepers, bedizened in all the customary finery of a May day gala, were brought before Mr. Dyer, jun. charged with begging in the public streets. The policeman averred that he saw the defendants cutting sundry saltatory capers to the the primitive har mony of the soot-brush and shovel, in Regent-street, and afterwards presenting a capacious ladle to the admirers of May-day gymnastics for the purpose as he verily be lieved of compassing.an alms. The policeman further affirmed that the elder of the masqueraders thrust his mystic spoon in at a carriage window with the same unlawful design, the other defendant at the same time aiding and abetting, by perpetrating a clatter upon his shovel. The "ladle-bearer" indignantly protested ag,ainst,the present unconstitutional attack upon his "vested rights." The custom of soliciting the eleemosynary bounty from patrons of the.: , Arts" had existed time immemorial, consequently Ins rights being founded on "-prescrip tion,' was as indefeasible as any other right held upon the same sacred tenure. Moreover, be laid clai ms to certain " hereditary" immunities and honours arising from the possession of the title, dignity, and emolument. attached to the office of " Jack in the Green," and as he had paid his "footing," which was equivalent to pur chasing the fee-simple of the profits of the office, it cer tainly could be constructed into nothing less (if the pre sent charge was admitted) than an attack o n p r i va t e pro perty, unless some " compensation" was c on t em pl ate d. _ _ Mr. Dyer, jun, being of opinion that the offence im puted to the defendants did not bear the construction placed upon it by the policeman, ordered them to be dis charged forthwith. DEPARTURE OF COSTER FOR BOTANY BAY.—The Lord Mayor received an intimation that Coster had, in consequence of an order from the Secretary of State, been sent on'Satur day morning at eight o'clock from Newgate, to the ship Cum berland, at Woolwich, previously to his voyage for life. Coster, it was stated, appeared for some flays very impatient to know what was intended to be done with him, and expressed great displeasure at the suddenness of his removal. The Mayor stated that he was given to understand that he came in for very severe condemnation from Mr. Coster, who was evidently of opinion, that if Sir Peter Laurie had not been in the chair,. there would have been no committal, to say nothing of a con viction. His lordship observed that he had received letters from all parts of the country on the subject of the downfall of Coster, and he was anxious to give a general answer to his cor respondents, which was, that he should be indefatigable in his exertions to pull down the swindlers and midnight .plunderers with which London abounded. He expressed a hope that Cos ter would arrive safe at his final destination, for he was con vinced that the ingenuity . of that extraordinary depredator would be exercised in devising the means of escape. Coster's object was, his lordship said, to get off to Boulogne, where there were, as he had been informed by unquesti o n a bl e author ity, many English swindlers who would be glad to receive him amongst them. Mr. Hobler said that the French authorities never would allow such a dangerous person to remain in that country. The Lord Mayor said he was glad to hear it. Aud he could tell the French authorities that there were several swindlers in Boulogne whom he should wish-to see there. , His. lordship stated that he had learned several particulars of Cosier which the convict himself did not deny. TonAcco.—The duty on this item of luxury with the sterner, and abhorrence with the softer, sex, amounted last Near to . £3,090,270, of which Ea gland paid £2,146,142, Ireland £ti52,436, and Scotland £201,392. More than orre-fourth of the whole duty was paid by Liverpool alone, viz. £829,154, which was £13,0213 above the amount paid by the London importations on the article, iu its various shapes of tobacco, cigars, and snuff.