The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-05-24 00:00:00

1 -".-...- -, _, rr ie ithe king. Th iss ; , ZT r wIlie l: the a un Meeting- was called a n d h e ld . aleaning proclamation was issued, t e ll who called himself " Secretary of Stn fo rm. Winge otrl o ie ne g tr o : o e d jti p rn e y o o p iti l atedo ,t assembleh at such such e was i i i l h° hot met in defiance of the proclamai were called in to disperse them, and in t °no. They were , l ee of t heir duty one constable was murder others were severely wounded. ti n te o r t efo ca re ll , ed a u y p er o y n • si t m o i lithe the Meeting was an illegal one or not, --1 fl e , eille n who was killed struck the first blow 'et the police acted in an unwarrantable ( - or wh ether the secretary's proclamati ; 41) the day befor e or the day after the n °thi ng of all this had they to do. Th( cam e le upon to enquire how the man vi e 1 ,,. by his death. .1 ti:e.elad-tenpenny statesmen, however, w i J :lfee inquest, took a very different view of t jea themselves into a court of assize, 1 et gatives of judge and jury, laid down Gra iditiatfe:ret othemselves, Giles's qLuaottiend ea d of being unlearned butchers, tail( .0,,...._ withth e a a s u t i t o u r c i i t i i i ,144r8, they had all been doorkeepers at tl i ,4,,ersitY. For conceit and ignorance a rCt4ceeds any other of the same class a e cottatry ; but conceited, vtd.they notoriously are, we could hard lyfil-tP°sBible to bring together in the samf pragmatical, i " 1114 ter of the globe, so many downright ''teas eleallY e evidence that th ~.. established by the . er % lardered with a dagger. It is prove ci rti 411e't, knives, and other sharp instri isk4edit° the meetin g by these reformers. 4t4tecC3latiott was, therefore, deliberate an I 'N the assassi n was seen to inflict the Y, tb a ll s t h b e dead man stretched out before t fth e '' ad not bee n th e stup i dest animals I tiPid , t e h art h, or worse than stupid, or wicked th at tit Would have returned a verdict irlietle deceased met his death from a bl aseti e p ci b y some. person known or unknow: I N i itY.l:ould have discharged their duty hoi 4 liaei the law and another jury to say w t Nto r ° l r h ad not been committed, and whet]: % tit 11(3 t 1 1(1 or should not be hanged. ho e • ll i t ri ' however, with finding a verdict of 'take rille " , " they also find that the Gover u , Proper precautions" and that the cc - fk as " ferocious, brutal, and unprovok 4 D . ,'" d ear people ! as Leigh Hunt used I i fiee(4lrne, we dare say, is very much o of i 54 for entertaining so very excelle. 1,43 Majesty's Government. But le th 'l° 2 l Part of their verdict is that when the 21 to the execration and vengear f - i e kbble of London are now told by a 4 : 14 to murder a policeman is no cri .. li b fi st ahle to the heart is justifiable retal ijete d bv a staff and that to kill and —4lele, the guardians of the public I „, of their duty, is a kind of public ;`4lg, which ouaht to be sanctioned I , ‘ ll the first sessi b on of the reformed 1 LONDON GAZETTE.—TvEsnAy, MAY 21. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. Joseph Hawkins, Old Quebec-street, Orford-street, victualler. BANKRUPTS. John Foster, Liverpool, printer, June 3, July 2, at the Clarendon Rooms, Liverpool. Solicitors, Mr. Clementson, Liverpool ; and Mr. Addison, Veralam-buildings, Gray's inn. John Haggar, late of Brighton-place, Brixton-road, oilman. William 11iliburd, Egliam, Surrey, saddler. Solomon Almosnino, Bevis Marks, dealer In feathers. Edward William Bishop, Bermondsey-street. victualler. Jean Baptiste Amedea Joubert , Regent-street, upholsterer. Alexander Lee, Surrey-street , Strand , music-seller. John Monkhouse; Bapigge-wells Tavern, St. Pancras, victualler. Moss llaim Bottibol, Soho-square, ostrich-feather-Manufacturer. John William Gibbins, Hereford, perfumer. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. P. M'Ardell, G. Raney, and W. Steel, Liverpool, shipwrights.-- J. Dempsey, J. Pickard, and R. Benbow, Liverpool, as far as regards J. Pickard.—J, Bridden, W. Bridden, jun., J. Briddon, and H. Brid don, Liverpool, soap-boilers, as far as regards J. Briddon, of Liver pool.—J. Wood and S. Bedford, Birmingham, coal-merchants.—c, Race and C. Beardahall, Pendleton, Lancashire, builders.—J. Shave, J. Taylor, an d W. Dawes, Penchurch-street , solicitors.—W. A. Coombe and J. Wright, Tokenhouse-yard, solicitors.—R. Holden and W. Stansfield, Rawtenstall, Lancashire, corn-millers.—J. Williams and S. C. Price, Stratford-upon-Avon, chemists.—J. Ilolden and J. Holt, Bacilli, Lancashire, cotton-mannfacturers.—G. Ashton and J. Mackirdy, 11Ianchester, commission-agents,--L. - GOodwin and C. Schofield, Manchester, fustian - shearers. — E. J. Sy lves ter , R. Walker, and W. Cannon, Furnivars Inn, Canterbury, and Cambridge, solicitors.—R. Littlefield and G. Poole, Portsca, carpenters.—W. Jolla and E. Banks, Beaufort-wharf, 'Strand, lime-merchants. c‘ive e public • o g re:i:O 'e r, pries weilirildtodisthe tender - d to be respectedvand lost I o det cl :r w an n e ri : w em as pi n re ot , , r 1 _ power to the government. They would thus escape being or me civu list ; specuying WICH 1..,... ..-._ . try. 'i nose were nor true menus ot tneir country vino uepreciateu mixed up with any ppearance of political feeling, which wouldor denied the relief afforded, and who told the that the tween two and three hundred volumes belonging to Mr. Mason and ler, 3, C ann on, Furnivars inn, uanteroury, ann uambridee, • by each individual, the period of the grant, the public grounds, represent their interest truly, leitorii.-It. Littlefield and G. Poole, Portsca, carp en t ers ....._w • J. brou ht quiry, g . in a verdict that - " " - ' - ' i t Is iti - 5.• ,• o t tt, %II ) , be likely to excite jealously in the minds of their brethren. House of Commons did not • people and bookseller, in whose employ Attree has for some time been, with s°l or other consideration, as far as praCticable, on account of Jolla and E. Banks, Beaufort-sharc Strand, lime-merchants. names and marks carefully erased, an immense number of Colonel Woon defended the conduct of the Board of First which they had been granted; distinguishing those who are that such being the case, they had no cause to repose hiiiie orDIVIDEN DS. tide" to murder a police constable ! Tag . 1: 1 , 'p i ; I : l 7d . er Fruits. The whole of the first fruits last year amounted to widows or orphans of deceased public servants, and such as are confidence in the Parliament or the government. He thOu ht plates, cut from ltees's Enclvcopndia, from. Stackhouse's His- June 12, 3, Lloyd, Liverpool, iinendraper.-.Tune 12, S. 11. Ryland current runs in these words : aN I 'I ) Ir 1 L 40,000, and that board had expended E 22,000, or more than tory of the Bible, from two fine volumes of Scripture Illustra- in the receipt of any salary, profits, fees, and emoluments, from ll imPartial per Sons must admit that - looking to what had been and J. Knight, II r eleydown, lightermen.-June 13, D. Parr -, Far- that amount, in a most beneficial. manner. He thought that any_ - public source.lions, from three hundred volumes of the Universal Magazin e, ringdon-street, gl.' ° ln s setith.--June 13, W. Gates, Marine-parade ° , m ßriib- "We find a verdict of just.inable 'homicide on t li Avir . "tical. • ma of already a- done, the people had every r ' easonable ground for hopeae 'l v they ouAt, in this instance, to avail themselves of the assist- Mr. FIUME. seconded the motion.o sixty of which hundreds n pages have been cut, with a ton, out f • ins and confidence; and further, that His Majesty's ministers be- •'l'l int i Vince of the board of First Fruits. All the machinery was Lord ALTIIORP had no objection to that part of the motionof other such property to a. large amount. The loss ironmonger. -June 13, W. Leahy. Great Guildford-street, South- , that no riot act was read, nor any proclamation uo las d m ,. . I not t 3 li , wtVeri , C 0 the vortex ready, and might be immediately put in motion. which referred to the pensions on the consolidated fund, but limited in the amount of relief that could be afforded, had Quantity incurred from this wanton act cannot' well be estimated, and mark, millwright.---June 13, 3. Hooke, Great Alie-etreet, G o od ma n's. people to disPerse ; that the government di( telds, flour-dealer.-June 13, G. Ball, Wpod , :street, artilicial-floWer agile lb I ',' ,hatt 1 tub halo • X of reform,- a, Lord Aurnortp then moved, " That after the words 4 L or d objected to its being extended to the pensione on the civil list. made a most judicious selection of the taxation to be remitted. the extent will probable only be ascertained at a distant period, per precautions to prevent the meeting from ~, 0- .ne r .,„ In favour of the and feather manufacturer.--.lnne 1,1, W. Fisk; 'Gate-street, Lia.eoln's ' t. - .-as; e Whigs a Primate' the words . Lord Archbishop of Dublin' be added." The hon. member seemed to think that it mattered nothing to (Hear.) as every now and then some valuable work is found to be d e _ In n -fi e ld s , coal -june 12, J. Lunn and J. Walton, *neve `that the conduct - of the police was ferocious, brutal' at ' 9.4 tl Amendment agreed to. the public whether the pension was on the consolidated fund or Colonelsaidthatthe h 'I the h EVANS - • fie of its illustrations; for Attree is suspected of having been castle-upon-Tyne, ship,and insurance-hrokt•rs.-June 13; S. Hartley y ked b h o . oos e Thts cc/ ire'''. of cite ^.O corge. t • i had ^ll ded • the S his t to for Cambridge, c. u in course ( argumen yt e people ; and we, moreover, , „,„/ E , ~ it..n ions vsu Clause 2, as amended, Ives ordered to stand part of the bill. on the civil list, as the public paid equally for both, (hear,) in the habit of sending away boxes filled with property, which and W ' 1 . m •lartley, Tadcaster, Yorkshire, .brewere.-June 12, 31. Evans, o e C b't t.lll. ' of • • J PPorted hi The 3d ause was agreed to without discussion. and therefore included, or rather mixed them both up in his the condition of the pan . •sh of St. James Westminster, and by , ' ' there is reason to believe was stolen, and every inquiry be -mn will ythusloyne, Monmouthshire, coal-mercheet.-June 15, C. Frost, hope that take v- DI 4 , • the government will, in future, flit tr 't it his c-are•,r. Scut olt Yc , (s, orkshire, dealer and chapman.-June 17,. T. Kaye, 80l- f . ton • On the 4th clause being proposed, motion: but it did matter to the public, inasmuch as the former doing so had chosen the p - ariqh which of all others was most fa- _ i i made to discover their destination. He is fully committed, andbons to prevent the recurrence of such disgrace hy, . . , end painf. I vourable to his argurnent. Ile (Colonel Evans) begged to o , ton-le-Moors, Lancashire, banker.-June 15, J. Bailey ; Stockport, , . , I as it is to • Mr. CHAPMAN asked what was the meaning f o the words were completely under the control of Parliament, while the ci-will take his trial at the ensuing sessions for r bb• h• 0 ing is em- Cheshire, cotton-seinner.-June 13 R. Haeeraves IVTanenester sad- in this metropolis," t ie 1 t 4 t , it is fain "ehina. " other emoluments," which occurred in the clansandwished e, - the attention of the house and of government the to the parish Of St. John. With respect to the argument•of tbe hon. gentle- ployer. It is uncertain. froin the peculiar circumstances of the filer.-June 13, J . . - Jackson and S. 'Jones, Chester, linen -drapers.- ' , -drapers.- , riq 0 4 "itt /y , at conolatory to to ascertain precisely the amount of the salaries to be allowed? narch, could only properly come under the cognizance of Par- case, whether the Committee of the Mechanics' Institution have Jun'. 13, W. Tilsley and W. Jones, Newtown, Montgomeryshire, The occasion which gave rise to the , o tt= , f ocu n ow t . ~ - observe th man that if these taxes were repealed the landlord would in- hankers.-June 15, J. Attwood, Wicheomh, GlouCestershire, vie- . tittle lip' i far rno epents win of his f Lord A tiruoßP said that it was intended to leave th e sa l ar i e s to liament at the commencement of a new reign. He was free to theof •ose .1 tin About a year since the same indi power pi C 1 g. meeting of the rabble of London, the cons , n. re bitter ei for fk crease the rent of his tenant, he would, however, fiyst observe, .lusher.-June 13, T. Howar,d, Burnley, Lancashire, tailor. be fixed at the option of the Lord-Lieutenant. H e was not admit the principle that no person should receive any pension d lobtained number of plates from Akermann under false - vi lia a Chß rtticATtq, Sze. (rem' r ' - 'rer leiny tl;an he eve dett and Wm. Brougham . , and the (rem lardlo . Tt le - , Broun.h ae r vco, prepared to explain the meaning of the phrase ~ o th er einolu- not merited by past or present services (hear, hear); but he did h ' . ould occur it would not that even if any instance of t e kind sli , . pretences, and, from the facts which have since come out, there T. Tidswell and T. Thorpe, Cheadle,' Cheshire, calico--orin4 , -F, - justify the house in legislating . upon such grounds; but with 0, , re • w_ l, and Lord John d ' ments;" however, he had no doubt that every attenti on wou ld not, therefore, admit that the Crown should not possess the • can (.. b• no doubt but that. he is an experienced sw• dl H• J Harris, PII te T Ghb 11' it l '' 'l-1..' ' in er, ,e is . mouth,y pa n r.- .ts,is op sate-street, s tp- mirers of Lord John Russell, for the decNr s a gath ' a nut i,e paid to economy, especially as the whole matter would • come power of placing such persons as it deemed fit on the pension he iarislies in uestion the bon entleman had respect to t. I q , . g a young man of prepossessing appearance, and has very excel- owner.-S. Stevens, Bnerley-hill, Staffordshire; builder.-M, Nathan, t he e , 1 3; ,_. ei ing of the tinl- - , , said that there was no distress. Skinner's-place, Sis-•-lane, wholesale oleo er -R Ferguson,Old t ~ ~ n , . establishing a national convention, after .0 0 ..oi r , 1 adani c -rs at Net before Parliament. list. Undoubtedly that exercise of the prerogative should be lent natural talents, which, for his situation of life, he has wellve l .in liouiay last lir. Got:Lai:RN observed, that the House of Commons might defined and limited, and within the control of e legislature ; The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said that it was with the deepest cultivated. He is a native of Brighton. Broad-street, commission-erne-G. W. Watson, Charles-street, -St. James's, nailliner.-.T. Pnng, Bradford, Wiltshire, grocer. prated French fashion—to nverturn the t , fro , on whi, ._..... thoorndethite . , Emperial roan it. HOUSE OF LORDS.—MoSDAY, MAY 20. The Earl of WINCUILSEA and the Earl of SEFTON presented petitions from Sandwich and Manchester against the 19th sec tion of the local jurisdiction bill. LordLYNDURRST presented a similar petition from Norwich, and Earl BriowNLow one of like nature from Boston. The Duke of RUTLAND presented a petition from Chichester agfirnst the general registry bill. The Earl of HADDCNGTON presented a petition from certain medical practitioners educatedat the Scotch universities, against the prohibitory provisions, as regarded them, of the apotheca ries act. Petitions praying for the immediate abolition of slavery were presented by Lord SUFFIELD, Lord BEXLEY , the Earl of SUF FOLK, Lord. LYTTELTON, and the Marquis of BUTE. DUTCH EMBARGO. The Duke of WELLINGTON presented a petition from the merchants and shipowners of Newcastle, complaining of the continuance of the Dutch embargo. The noble duke said, that as he understood the dispute with Holland was likely to be arranged, he would abstain from doing more than express his hope that this state of things would soon be brought to a termi nation. The Earl of ABERDEEN supported the prayer of the petition. Earl GREY expressed himself pleased that the noble duke had abstained from entering into any discussion upon this oc casion. If the time should ever arrive when it would be neces sary for him to do so, he would be prepared to defend the con duct of government with respect to the transaction referred to by the petitioners. For the present, he would only say that it was with great reluctance government hail resorted to coercive measures against Holland, and nothing but a sense of what was One to the interests of this country could have induced them to do so. He felt as strongly as the noble duke or the petitioners themselves the disadvantages which resulted from the longer continuance of the present state of things ; and the embargo having been imposed with a view to objects of great importance to this country and to Europe generally, he, for one, would be most happy when, consistenq with those objects, it should be possible to discontinue the coercive measures. THE SABBATH. The Bishop of LICHFIELD presented a petition, praying the house to adopt measures for the better observance of the Sab bath. The Bishop of LoNnox adverted to the defeat of Sir A. Ag n v's bill in the other house, and said that it would be a subject " the throwing out of that bill should prevent the adTataon of some measure of amelioration on the important sub ect-to which it referred. He-therefore hoped that sonic mem ber of that or of the other house would bring in a bill so simple in its object, and moderate in its provisions, that it would have a chance of passing, and thus relieve the legislature of this Christian country from the imputation of having cast aside a subject deeply affecting the interests of the people of this coon try in a religious, moral, and even political point of view. The rev. bench had been urged to bring forward some proposition on the subject, but there were objections to their undertaking the responsibility. if they were to bring forward a measure Which *would have the slightest chance of passing through Parliament, it would not by any means come up to the notion which he and his brethren entertained of the manner in which the Lord's-day ought to be oblerved. People would bike advantage of thisand esa.y "Here is the bishops' standard ; we need not go further than this." The Marquis of SALISBURY presented a petition from Salis bury. praying the house to adopt measures for ameliorating the condition of children employed in factories. Lord Barham, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Marquis of Westminster, and the Marquis of Sligo, presented petitions for the abolition of negro slavery. The Bishop of LINCOLN presented a petition in favour of the better observance of the Sabbath.—Adjourned. TUESDAY. • Lord DuNDAs presenteda petitionagainst the 19th section of the Local Jurisdiction Bill, but the place from whence it came was not heard in the gallery. Lord LYNDHURST presented similar petitions from West Bromwich, Hales Owen, Tipton, and other places. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL, and other members of the Com mons, brought up the Police Offices (London) Bill, the Fines and Recoveries t3ill, the Limitations of Actions' Bill, the In heritance Bill, with other Bills, all of which were read a first time. St Avrn Y. Petitions praying the abolition of negro slavery were pre sented by the Marquis of Westminster, Lord Suffield, Oh in number,) and the Bishop of Bath and Wells. The Archbishop of CAN:TIMBER; on presenting a petition from the minister and elders of the presbytery of Dumblaine, praying that in any measures which might be taken with re spect to the Irish church, care should be had that the interests of the protestant church should be regarded, expressed his en tire concurrence in the prayer of the petition. Lord BExLEY presented a petition praying the adoption of some measure to secure a better observance of the Sabbath. The Earl of STRADBROKE presented similar petitions from Woodbridge, and other places in Suffolk. Lord WYNFORD presented a petition from the inhabitants of Barton-upon-Humber, against the 19th clause of the local jurisdiction bill. On the motion of the Earl of SnArrcstsuny, the house ad journed at half-past five o'clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—MoNnAy, MAY 20. The Speaker took the chair at a quarter past 12, and the house was occupied in the reception of petitions until 3 o'clock, when the Speaker left the chair. The house resumed at 5 o'clock. Sir R. HERON brought up the report of the committee on the Carlow county election petition. The report declared Messrs. Blaekney ana Wallace to be duly elected; and the petition against their return neither frivolous nor vexatious. On the motion of Sir J. Wrottesley, a new writ was issued for the county of Stafford, in the room of Mr. Littleton, who has accepted the office of Chief Secretary for Ireland. A new writ was issued for Stroud in the room of Mr. Ricardo, who has accepted the Chiltern Hundreds. Mr. Ili ME gave notice, that he should on the 30th instant, move the appointment of a committee of inquiry into the frau dulent allegations of a petition which he had presented from Stroud, which allegations he found were an imposition on him self and the house. Lord ALTHORP stated, in answer to a question of the Mar quis of Chandos, that ministers were determined to proceed with the measure relative to the slaves and West Indian colonies during the present session. The SoLlciroa-GENERAr. in answer to a question of Mr. Hume, said that he expected, in a few days, to submit a mea sure for amending the law of arrest for debt to the considera tion of the house; the bill to he founded on the recommenda tion of the common law commissioners. Lord ASHLEY postponed the second reading of the Factory Regulation Bill till the 17th of June. He would not give way to any other motion on that evening,—he would not compliment away in mere forms of courtesy the lives and interests of 50,000 unfortunate children. (Cheers.) By that time the time allotted for the commissioners to make their report would have more than expired. The order of the day was then read for the house resolving itself into a committee on the _ _ _ CHURCH TEMPORALITIES (IRELAND) B ILL. Mr. GILLON, pursuant to notice, rose to move as an amend ment, that it be an instruction to the committee that th e tem poralities of the church of Ireland be resumed by the legislature, to be by it applied to purposes of general utility after the demise of the present incumbents. The hon. member, in support of his motion, contended that Ireland never would, and never ought to be content till it was entirely relieved from the mon strous burden of the church establishment. It was most unjust in pirinciple, and most indefensible as a question of political ex pediency, to compel the Catholics and Protestant Dissenters of Ireland to pay for the support of a church of another class of re ligiccelists. (Hear, hear.) Mr. C. RIPPON seconded the amendment. The present bill was a fraud upon the common sense of the nation, and was a fla grant instance of the departure of ministers from those professions of reform of which they were so lavish on their accession to office. The present church establishment was a monstrous usurpa tion of the rights of the people—an outrage upon common sense—a mockery of every principle of justice. The welfare of the many was the end of all government; a national esta blishment should promote the interests and he in harmony with the feelings of the majority of the nation : but who was auda cious enough to assert that the church of England promoted the interest, or was in harmony with the feelings, of the people at large? Ministers must know all this very well, but were afraid to vex the aristocracy by an effectual measure of church reform. But the people would no longer be deluded; they knew and felt that the church establishment was but part of the system of making the people pad- for the support of the younger branches of the aristocracy. Such was the undeniable fact. This country was aristocracy ridden. All their laws tgnded to prop up and swell out the aristocracy at the expcne of the people at large. Such were their laws, and stilt more their 'ass - of primogeniture ; and such was the object of their mon strous church establiShment. What right had the church of tigland to assume to itself any superiority over any other form Of Christianity? It certainly had no warrant from Scripture; quite the contrary; nor from prescription: in fact, it had no authority, sate that of an act of Parliament. Lord - A ',Tomas did not feel it necessary to enter into an .ela borate defence of the "church of Ergland against the vehement attack of the hon..member who had just addressed the house. (Hear.) The hon. gentleman assumed that everything he dis approved of must be detrimental to the public ;"but the hon member was not all out a pope, and therefore not infallible. ("Hear," and a laugh.) Colonel EvANs was convinced that the present bill would not Satisfy- the people of England, not to say of Ireland. He would vote for the amendment. Mr. FINN spoke to the same effect. Mr. SINCLAIR was confident that the Dissenters of Scotland entertained very different feelings towards the church of Eng land from those alleged by the lion. member (Mr. Rippon) op poszte. After a few worth from Mr. ROEBUCK, in support of the amendment, the house divided : For Mr. Gillon's amendment Against it 126 Majority llO On our readmission to the gallery, we found the house in committee, and. Sir R. INGLIS objecting to the lay constitution of the corn tnissioners appointed under the 24 clause. It not only gave them a majority, but a preponderating influence over the eccle siastical commissioners._ _ _ _ Lord ALTHORP defended the clause against the objections of the right hon. baronet, and said that to obviate some of them he proposed to alter the 7th clause, so that no act should be va lid under the seal of the commissioners unless one of the eccle siastical commissioners should he a consenting party thereto. Lord S.s DON recommended that the archbishops and bishops should select delegates to act as representatives of their own body in the capacity of commissioners, instead of giving that power to the government. They would thus escape being mixed up with any appearance of political feeling, which would be likely to excite jealously in the minds of their brethren. Colonel WOOD defended the conduct of the Board of First Fruits. The whole of the first fruits last year amounted to £40,000, and that board had expended i.:22,000, or more than be very economical with respect to the money of the public, but he feared when it had to deal with the money of the bishops it would exercise no economy at all. (A laugh.) He thought it would have been better if the amount of salaries had been fixed by the clause. - Lord .ALTHone, in order to remove any difficulty that might be supposed to exist, was willing to strike out the words "other emoluments." Words struck out, and clause, as amended, agreed to. Clauses 3 to 9, inclusive, haying been agreed to, Mr. GouLBIJRN suggested, on the 10th clause being proposed, that it would be better to let the commission, which was to be appointed by the Crown, report to the King in council. He thought that if the commission were to make its reports to Par liament, the proceeding might have the appearance of an in terference with the royal prerogative, which had better be avoided. Lord ALTHORP said that the reports would be laid before the Lord-Lieutenant, who represented the Crown, and then they would be presented to Parliammt. In his opinion, the adoption of that course obviated_the right honourable gentle man's objection. After some desultory conversation, the 10th, 11th, and 12th clauses were agreed to. Ou the 14th clause being proposed to stand part of the bill, Lord ALTHoRp was understood to state that he had an alter ation to propose, as to the ratio at which the per centage upon the value of the living should commence,—namely, £2OO, in stead of £3OO, as had been before stated. The alte.ratiou was oposec by Mr. Shaw, Sir R. Bateson, Sir R. Inglis, and Mr. Goulburn. After some observations from Lord Althorp and Mr. Shaw, the clause was agreed to. Clause 13 was also agreed to, after a desultory conversation and some verbal amendments proposed by Mr. Shaw. Clauses 16, 17, and 18 were also agreed to. Clause 19 was agreedto with verbal amendments, after which, upon the motion of Sir S. Whalley, the house resumed, and the chAirinan reported progre'ss. The Rating of Tenements Bill was read a second time. The Fines and Recoveries Bill was read a third time and passed. The Limitation of Actions Bill was read a third time and passed. The Inheritance Bill was read a third time and passed. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL then moved the third readiag of the Dower Bill. Mr. BLiNIIRE objected to this bill, and moved, as an amend ment, that it be read a third time that day three months. The SoLicilToß-GENERAL opposed this amendment. The gallery was then, cleared for a division, but none took place, and the original motion was ultiMately agreed to, with a verbal amendment. The Curtesy Bill was read a third time and passed. On the motion for the third reading of the London Police offices Bill, it was proposed that the bill should be recommitted for the purpose of amending it. This was agreed to. In the committee Mr. PEAsE moved a clause prohibiting bearbaiting, cockfighting, Sec., within live miles of London. Mr. G. Lama said that he believed that cockfightingand such amusements (if, indeed, amusements they could be called) en couraged vice and the congregation of persons of low cha racter. He had no objection to the amendment. After a short discussion the committee divided, when there appeared : For the amendment 24 Against it . Majority in favour of it The house then resumed. The amendments and the bill were ;hen read a third time and passed. The house then adjourned at three o'clock. TUESDAY. The gallery was not opened for the admission of strangers till a quarter past 5 o'clock, in consequence of the balloting ior committees upon the Montgomery and Dover elections being appointed for to-day. Mr. W. GLADSTONE presented a petition from the inhabi tants of Edinburgh and its vicinity, against negro slavery. Sir W. INGILBY presented a petition from Gainsborough, complaining of abuses in that corporation.—Referred to the committee on corporations. Mr. G. YOUNG, having been called on by the Speaker, said he was unwilli ng to occupy the attention of - the house unneces sarily; but he considered the motion which stood on the pave r of ttiat night, respecting the shipping interest, of so much im portance that he could not forego his right to bring it forward, unless he received a distinct intimation from the- Vice-President of the Board of Trade that he would endeavour to bring this question under the consideration of the committee on trade and manufactures at an early period, so that a report might be presented to the house during the present session. (Hear, h ear.) Mr. P. TriomsoN assured the hon. gentleman that it was his anxious desire that the question of the shipping interest should form an early part of the committee's inquiry, and he had very little doubt, from the course adoptedby the committee, that such would be the case. After a few more words, Mr. G. Young declined proceeding with the motion of which he had given notice on this subject. BANK CHARTER. Lord Aurtionr• gave notice, that he would submit the ques tion of the Bank charter to the consideration of the house on Friday se'nnight. CIVIL IST PENSIONS. Mr. D. W. HARVEY, in rising to submit a motion to the house on the subject of the pensions paid out of the civil list, said that his object was to put this question distinctly to the house whether any portion of the public money was to be received by any persons of either sex, for which some known and adequate service had not been rendered. (Hear, hear.) He did not mean to attack either military or naval sinecures, for he knew that if he did he should have all the heroes in that house rising up against him, (laughter,) and asking whether the house was prepared to sacrifice, on mercenary grounds, men who had risked their lives in defence of their country, and who were associated with the brightest periods of our history. His motion, therefore, would be confined solely to the pensions on the civil list; but he trusted that the hon. member for Mid dlesex would not suffer the first session of the reformed Parlia ment (whose commencement, he could not avoid saying, had been most gloomy and disheartening) to pass over without moving an inquiry into the nature and extent of all our pay ments, whether consisting of half-pay, retired pensions, super annuations, or of any of the various and ingenious contrivances by which the people of this country were defrauded of their mo ney. The noble lord opposite, and his colleagues, had honour ably consented to a deduction of 10 per cent. from their sala ries, and he (Mr. Harvey) would venture to say that if the same deduction was made from the pensions on the civil list, and from all the payments which came under the head of " half pa v," "superannuations," and "sinecures," a more than suf ficient sum would be realized to meet the loss occasioned by the repeal of the assessed taxes. He held in his hand a statement of the annual expenditure of the United Kingdom, in salaries, pensions, sinecures, half-pay, superannuations, compensations, and a llowances • and he believed that the only reason why it had been allowed to go on was, that the country was totallyig norant of its amount. The annual sum paid under those various and confused heads exceeded £9,000,000 sterling; and the fol lowing was a detailed account of the expenditure : Salaries of 22,912 persons employed in the public offices.... £2,778,907 Retired full-pay, half-pay, superannuations, pensions, and allowances in the army ................................ 2,939,652 Retired full -p . ay, half-pay, superannuations, pension', and allowances to the navy .................................. 1,583,797 Retired full-pr-ti, half-pa serannuations, pensions, and allowances in the ordnance........ 374,987 S uperannuated allowances in the civil departments of Go- verinne s eTT. ... ...... . .. . . . . . 478,957 Pensions .... Pensions in the nature of compensations for the loss of of fices in En7,land 12,020 Pensions iu Ireland, c hiefly in consequence of the union 89,245 Annusl v a l ue of sinecure offices Commissioners of inquiry £9,457,985 He was ready to admit that government had gone to a consi derable extent in reducing the amount of this expenditure; but allowing for all they had done in that way, he might with safety state that the payments exceeded upwards of £8,000,000. Previous to Mr. Burke's celebrated speech, which gave birth to the -22 d Geo. 111., the Crown had no other restraint on its liberality than the sense of shame. That statute restricted the power of the Crown to grant pensions within certain limits. Since that period several attempts had been made to get at the motives for which these pensions were granted, but they had always been resisted on the ground that the civil list was a sa cred fund, set apart for the purpose of enabling the monarch to relieve those unfortunate individuals who might merit his grace and co mmiseration. The authors of those unsuccessful motions consoled themselves with the hope, that when a new monarch ascended the throne, these things would come under revision of the house. Such was th e state of things when the noble lord opposite opened the civil list. The noble lord's predecessor had proposed that the entire amount of the civil list, English, Sc 4144 ,000. The noble lord's plan extendedandlrish, th esum shouldto be (moo n £75,000 being placed on the civil list, and the remainder being transferred to the con solidated fund, so that the latter payments, as they fell in, might come under the control of the house. The government was strong in that house —strong, not in the sup port, but in the fears, of. that house; yet a sentiment was spreading throughout the country which no lover of it could contemplate without apprehension, (hear, hear,) -and if the government continued to pursue the course they had hitherto followed with regard to the finances of the country, the reform of that house, from which they all expected so mach benefit, would turn out to be one of the greatest evils that could befal the country. As long as that house was constituted as it had heretofore been, the - people always looked to reform as the means of securing good government; but if that expectation should now be disappointed, to what must they look ? They must look to themselves; and the events which had taken place in that great metropolis, within the last week, plainly de monstrated that they were determined to look to themselves. (Bear.) If the people found that reform disappointed them, they must look to that for which those who disappointed their just expectations must be res p onsibl e , revolution in the in stitutions of the country. (Hear.) He did not hesitate to say that no one measure had been brought forward by the government since the opening of the p resent Parliam ent which in any way corresponded with the expectations,—not of giddy and extrava gant bodies of men, but of the sober and rational reformers of the country; he meant the middle classes. Ministers had for rtplaonmdi applau se pl w au hi s c e h Of the public. when out of for forfeited the confidenc e of the national refo rmers of England, obffiy c tu e, rn • h i a n a g e t a h rn eir ed ba t c h •k e s m on th a e ll su th p o p s o e They had made the term Whig a by-word, and had shown that the worst species of Tory was aN in place. H a d a motion like the present been brought forward. when the Whigs were in their old opposition places, what declamation they would hear about the crying injustice of taxing the people for the support of state paupers and unmerit ed pensionaries. As it was, he trusted the noble Chancellor of the Exchequer would give some intelligible reason for continuing a system of paving some of the offshoots of the aristocracy, who had never r e nder e d the public any service in return. (near.) The ho . nourable gen tleman concluded with moving for a return of all persons on the English, Irish, and Scotch pension lists heretofore paid out of the civil list; specifying with each name the sum received by each individual, the period of the grant , t h e publ ic g rounds, or other consideration, a s far as prarticable, on account of which they had been granted; distinguishing those who are widows or o rphans of deceased public servants, and such as are in the receipt of any salary, profits, fees, and emoluments, from Til E LIVERPOOL STANDARD. and, so far as Mr. Burke's bill went to attain that limit and that control, he agreed with the hon. member in approving of it. The house was aware that till the passing of Mr. Burke's bill there was no limit t> the power of the Crown to grant pen sions on the civil list, and that that bill limited the power to £140,000, not £150,000, as the hon. member had stated. It was not necessary for him to trace the history of the pension and civil lists from the time Of' Mr. Burke to his accession tar office • all that he had to answer for was the conduct of the pre sent administration.i When the subject was on a former occa sion before the house, he had contended that he conceived the Crown had' a right to the - power of granting pensions on the civil list, under certain circumstances, the question being what should be the limit to that exercise. On the inaturest conside , ration he had made up his mind that the sum to be thus placed 1 at the disposal of the Crown should be reduced one-half of that fixed_ by Mr. Burke's bill, and accordingly lie reduced it to £75,000, the present amount; and that £70,000 included Scot ' land and Ireland. He suspected that if the motion was limited to the pensions on the consolidated fund, he should not object to it; but as the civil list was a bargain between the Sovereign and the Parliament for his reign, he could not permit the same inquisition being made into it. As to the charges brought by the hon. gentleman against ministers, he would then attempt no reply, further than to observe, that he was confident that ere a few weeks were over, and that all the measures of ministers, for this session, were before the house, the country would be of a very different opinion. Sir. HARVEY had no objection to separate the civil list pen sions from those on the consolidated fund, and therefore would confine his motion to the latter. The principle of which he complained was the monstrous injustice of taxing tl)e industri ous poor of England for the support_ of the idle - hangers-on of a court or a minister. (Hear.) But this would not last long. The 19th century was not the time, and England was not the place, for taxing the people for the luxurious and lascivious la ziness of an insolent aristocracy. (Hear, hear.) The noble lord and his colleagues had therefore better apply themselves in time to put their house in order. Lord ALTHORP, in declaring his readiness to consent to this motion as amended, observed that many of these pensions had seen granted many years ago, and that it would be difficult to ascertain at present the grounds on which they were granted. Mr. HUME wished to have the pensions granted on the 4% per Cent. Batbadoes duties also included in this return. Lord ALTHORP stated that he had no objection to this addi- tion to the motion. Lord J. RUSSELL, in acceding to the motion, wished it to be understood that he did not accede either to the assertions or to the arguments of the hon. and learned gentleman, which be believed to be utterly unfounded, and which, on any future oc casion that the hon. and learned gentleman chose to selgct, he would prove to be so. The motion as amended was then agreed to. Mr. BAILLIE presented several petitions from Bristol, against the house and window tax. ASSESSED TAXES. Sir. S. WHALLEY said that the petitions which had just been presented were sufficient to refute the assertion that the cry for the repeal of the house and window tax was only the cry of the metropolitan districts. `Now, he could venture to. assure the house that the cry was universal, and that the pressure of these taxes was felt, not only in every town, but in every village throdghout the country. He was glad that he had now an op portunity of bringing forward his motion for the repeal of these taxes free from admixture. with any other topic. Ile was, glad that it was not embarrassed by any connection with that odious tax, the malt-tax, or with the consideration of the neces sity of an income or a property . tax, or with the propriety of supporting the ministry in their intention to retain both tile as sessed taxes and the malt-tax, lest they should be induced to re sign their offices. He had once had every confidence in minis ters, but he was sorry to be compelled to say of late they had shown great unwillingness to relieve the people from the bur dens which pressed most heavily on them. He was not in the habit of trespassing very largely on the attention of the house; indeed, he thought that the public business was often impeded by the unnecessary length at which gentlemen delivered their sentiments. (Hear, hear.) But on this occasion, he trusted that the house would excuse him if he abandoned something of his usual brevity. The noble lord had said on a former occasion that it was a principle of sound justice that every man should contribute to the taxes in proportion to the revenue he enjoyed under the protection of the state. That was a golden legend, which he should wish to see engraven on the lintels of the doors of that house, and emblazoned in striking characters above the Speaker's chair. It had been said that Adam Smith approved of the house tax; and why? Because in his day it fell heavier on the rich than on the poor. Fountain of justice! haw different was the case now! (A laugh.) He had likewise deprecated the window tax; and why . ? Because in his day it fell heavier on the poor than on the rich. (Hear, hear.) That this tax was must un equally and unfairly imposed, might be proved by reference to a great number of cases. Look to what had recently occurred at Knowle. That splendid place had been assed at £lOO a-year. A new assessor was of opinion that it ought at least to be chargedat the rate of £125 per annum. The oecup;er appealed against the new assessment, and the commissioners decided that the old assessment of a £lOO was sufficient. (Hear, hear.) What reason did they assign for this decision ? Because the proprietor of Knowle-park had been at considerable expense in making alterations and improvements ! But who had ever heard, in London, of alterations and improvements having been adutitted as a reason for reducing the assessment? (Hear.) The right hon. member for Tamworth (Sir R. Peel) had de clared that the objectionable parts of the tax-office system had been removed. He was sorry that the right hon. baronet was not present: if he were he would undertake to show him that such was not the fact. If the Chancellor of the Exchequer could not go the whole way with him, why could he not at least take off one-half of the duty on houses rated under £100? That would afford considerable relief. But he could assure the noble lord that discontent was not in the least degree allayed by the small portion of relief which ministers expressed their intention of granting. (Hear, hear.) He was then addressing a British senate, and he would say that he was not demanding relief for any . particular body, but he was calling for the redress of a grievance which had become too heavy longer to be borne by the country. *, It was too oppressive to be endured ; and he implored the house to wipe out the foulest blot that ever disgraced the fiscal code of any civilized nation. The motion which he meant to propose was, " That it is the opinion of this house that all the taxes upon houses and windows shall cease on the sth of October, 1833." If this resolution was adopted, the Chancellor of the Exchequer would still have one-half of the financial year before him, during which he might make all neecessary arrangements; and he hoped that the hon. member for Middlesex would, in the interim, impress on the mind of the noble lord the necessity of adopting a system of the strictest and most unsparing economy. (Hear, hear.) The motion having been read, Mr. Alderman Wool) rose to second it. He was most anxious for a repeal of this most oppressive tax ; but he suggested that if the noble lord would agree to a remission of it in April next, it would answer every purpose, and be more advantageous with reference to the financial state of the country. That there was very great distress in the country could not be denied, and con siderable relief would be the result of the removal of this tax. Since the last debate on this subject he had, in his official capacity, signed 500 summonses for poor-rates, due by the occupiers of houses rated at from £4O to £45. Now, it was clear that if the parties could not pay poor-rates they could not assessed taxes. If the Chancellor of the Exchequer would lay Is. per gallon addditional duty on spirits, it would enable him at once to remove this tax ; and in doing so he was sure he would receive the support and approbation of all the temperance societies in the kingdom. Mr. S. RICE wished to call the attention of the house to what the exact proposition then before them was. The hon. member who introduced the question had stated that on a former occasion, when the repeal of the house and window tax was brought for ward, it was mixed up with the malt tax and with a proposed property tax. The hon. member, however, wished not so to treat it, but to introduce it as a distinct and separate proposi tion. What, then, did that proposition, so distinctively brought forward, amount to ? Why, the . hon. member called on them to pledge themselves in the fullest manner to remove taxes, without any equivalent being provided, to the amount of £2,500,000. (hear, hear.) This was not to be done on the instant. No, in the hope of catching a few more votes, it was to take place at a future, but not a very, distant, day. For his own part he thought it would be the best and most candid way to call for the absolute and immediate repeal of the tax. The hon. alderman had volunteered to do the duty of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and had advised that an additional duty should be laid on spirits—a measure which, he said, would be greatly applauded by the temperance societies, who, be it ob served, were endeavouring to prevent the consumption of spirits at all. (A laugh.) If the hon. alderman had proposed a duty on water, then he could have understood his reference to the temperance societies. (Hear, hear.) In that case there would have been rather more connexion between cause and conse quence. The total number of houses in Great Britain was 2,436,179; of these only 430,607 were charged with the- house tax. That did not prove the house tax to be good, but the fact of only one-seventh of the houses in the country being charge able with it evinced that it did operate with peculiar severity on the poorer classes who occupied the exempted dwellings. Then the rate of duty varied from Is. lid. to 2s. 3d. and 2s. 101 in the pound, according to the value of the house. What could be fairer than this shifting scale of assessment ? The number of houses exempt from payment of window tax was 2,468,708. — From these figures he argued, it appeared, that although it might be true that many of those on whom the tax fell expe rienced considerable pressure, yet that the pressure from this cause did not fall on th4seat mass of the community. it was not a sufficient answer to say that great multitudes of people complained of the tax; it could be shown that, in some cases at least, more complained of it than suffered by it, for he knew an instance of a petition against the house and window duties having been Signed by 2000 individuals in a town where the number of payers of those taxes did not exceed 120 ( hear," and laugh ter) ; so that the number of signatures did not correctly repre sent the number of sufferers. 'fhe hon. gentleman's motion in volved the absolute repeal of £2,500,000 of taxes. Assuming that the amount could be spared (which he denied), into whose pockets would the sum remitted fall ? Into those of the land lords after the expiration of existing leases. (Hear, hear.) — He had before him a paper which had been industriously cir culated, and was probably intended to form a sort of text-book or manual to confirm members' votes on this subject. The do cument was evidently the production of a metropolitan reformer, who took a one-sided view of the question, and declared, that as the land-tax had been partly redeemed, it would be incon venient to meddle with it, and therefore it had better be allowed to continue. He proposed to repeal tot only the house and window duties, but the whole of the establishment taxes of Eng land, including the duties on carriages horses, &c. Having got rid of taxation to the amount of 5,160,000, minus the land tax, the projector recommended the government to take a vote of credit in the house, in order to make good the engagements of the country. (" Hear," and a laugh.) He wool(' repeal the permanent taxes, on which our credit could alone rest in security, and supply the deficiency by a vote of credit. It was unnecessary to spend time in replying to and explaining the absurdity of propositions such as this. He had merely alluded to the subjett with a view to caution hon. members from receiv ing the paper as the result of absolute wisdom. (A laugh.) In conclusion, he declared that the concessions made by ministers were large and liberal, and ought to be so estimated by the coun try. Those were not true friends of their country who depreciated or denied the relief afforded, and who told the people that the House of Commons did not represent their interest truly, and that such being the case, they had no cause to repose hope or confidence in the Parliament or the government. He thought all impartial persons must admit that, looking to what had been reluctance, considering the time at wilich the proposition hal been brought forward' by his hon. colleague, that he felt bound to oppose it. That proposition was neither more nor less than that tue house should say, that from the sth of October next the house and window tax should cease. For this great reduction of the revenue, amounting to no less than 2,500,0(X), no substi tute had beeu prOposed. This impost could not be given up without a substitute,. and if that substitute was to be a property and income tax, in his judgment an injury would be inflicted upon a large portion of the community, and a..much greater evil would - be generally effected. It was under these circum stances that, with the deepest regiet, he felt bound to oppose his motion. He, however, was not ignorant of what passed within the limits of the borough he had the honour to represent, and such were his feelings, that if it were possible to do away with these taxes consistently with the exigencies of the state, no effort should be wanting on his part to attain that object. The borough of Marylebone was deeply affected by this impost.; for, indeed, there were not above 2(X) houses that were of a less an nual value than from £lO to £l2; and, therefore, if ever the time should come when the revenue of the country could afford it, these taxes should, for the sake of j ustice and humanity, be taken off. The reduction would be well worth any sacrifice that the government could make, but the present was not the period. (" Question, question.") Mr. HOME said, in reply to the allegations which he had so frequently heard, of the inability to effect reductions consistently with the maintenance of the public faith, that he believed it would be a very easy matter to retrench without producing the dreadful consequence. With regard to these taxes on houses and windows, he (Mr. Hume) thought ministers had acted with singular inconsistency. They first proposed a reduction to a certain amount; they gave up that, and then came down with another proposition for a reduction to the amount of' only one half of the former. Why, be asked, did they dole out relief to the people in that way ? Why not explain at once their inten tions? But the inconsistency of ministers was further shown in the circumstance of their being willing to take off one-half of the assessed taxes, and yet retain all the machinery of their collection. The charges on the revenue for this collection amounted to £239,000 annually. He strongly condemned the assessment of the tax on houses. He thought it was placed with unequal severity on 'the smaller houses. Besides, why should this species of property tax alone be suffered to remain while the others were removed ? He condemned it likewise for the encouragement it. afforded to a system of espionage, and of extortions under the shape of surcharges. The expense of the collection of these taxes, he repeated, ought alone to be a rea son for their entire instead of partial abolition. The real defi ciency of revenue left to be provided for was 1,100,000, and was this a sum which could not be saved,. by economizing out of £'22,000,0)3? Let the noble lord look over the retired and pen sion lists, which would afford reductions to the extent of more than 10 per cent., leaving little more than £1,000,000 to be pro vided for. Then the question was, shall the people of England have relief? Let the house only act firmly, and this million would soon be made up. If it was left to him (Mr. Hume) lie would find no difficulty. (A laugh.) He would not injure the public creditor, and he would adopt a better course than time serving expedients. There was a most confident hope through out the country of relief from this tax, and if its repeal did no thing else, it would fulfil expectations, and get rid of an expen sive establishment.. Now was the time to try his Majesty's ministers; leave them £1,000,000 minus, and see if they could not make it up as they had done before. Lord ALTHOae observed, that the hon. member for Middlesex hadconsidered that he (Loffl. Althorp) had still the same amount of surplus, although he admitted that he had lost £u09,000 by reduction of taxation. (Hear.) He said also, that there had been a deficiency of 'revenue last year, which the hon. member attributed to an increase of the establishments ; but it was oc casioned by a reduction of taxation to a larger amount than the state of the country warranted. He (Lord Althorp) objected to the motion altogether, not because he was particularly fond of this tax, nor because, if lie had the means, he was not ready to give it up ; but because he did not think it possible to provide for so large a reduction. He had, however, much rather that the tax should be reduced at once, and then we should know ! where we were, than it should be deferred to a future period, when the state of the finances was uncertain. The bon. member for Marylebone proposed the sth of October; but it might hap pen, unless the revenue improved more than could be expected, that the country might theu be placed in extreme difficulty.— He could not, therefore, agree to the proposition, considering that it might place the country in such a situation. That there were irregularities the tax which should be remedied he agreed. The hon. member for Middlesex complained of the in justice of surcharges : he (Lord Althorp) admitted it was a part of the machinery of the tax which was liable to objection, that too large a proportion of the emoluments of the surveyors arose from surcharges. He had always, in his communications with the Board of faxes, pressed upon them not to allow vexatious surcharges, nor unless there was good reason to suppose fraud. It was always very easy to argue against a tax, because a tax was at all times an evil; because it was only by comparing the evil of taxation with that of a deficient revenue that the question could be decided; the house must look at the whole, not merely at a part. Ile was ready to leave the case on the speech of his hon. friend, the Secretary of the Treasury (Mr. S. Rice), which he thought had not been answered. Sir S. WHALLEY, in his reply, denied that the tax fell upon the landlords. He recommended the right hon. member for Lambeth not to press his amendment. The gallery was then cleared, when, as we understood, the amendment was negatived without a division. The house divided on the original motion, and the numbers were : Ayes Noes Majority 149 On the motion of Mr. F. O'CoriNon, the following returns were ordered :—Of all books in which cases determined at petty sessions in the West Riding of the county of Cork are entered, setting forth the names of the magistrates who usually attend such sessions : of the number of persons committed to the prison of the county of Cork within the last 12 months for non-payment of fines imposed by magistrates at petty sessions, and that such return shall specify the date of committal, offence charged, amount of fines and extent of imprisonment awarded for non-payment thereof. PRESENTATION OF PETITIONS. Mr. F. O'CoNNoR complained of the non-attendance of ministers during the presentation of petitions at the morning sittings of the house. The other day a petition was presented, urging the house to impeach ministers, which he was anxious to have supported; but he did not think it would be manly to do so when none of the ministers were present. The noble Chancellor of the Exchequer had violated the pledge which he gave to be present at the morninc , sittings every dqy. He moved " That it is the, opinion of this house that the absence of ministers during the time allotted for the presentation of petitions is an insult to the Commons and au injustice to the people of England." Lord A LTHORP said that, in conformity with the promise which he made at the commencement of the session, he had attended the morning sitting up to Easter, when lie found himself unable to attend any longer on account of the state of his health. (Hear.) He suggested that if any hon. member had a petition to present which required the attendance of any particular minister, he would give such minister notice, and he would attend in his place on the presentation of the petition. (Hear.) After a few more observations from Lord Althorp, the mo tion was withdrawn. Mr. SHAW moved for copies of all grants or patents, or the material parts thereof, whereby the owners of nopropriations, or impropriate tithes in Ireland, are expressly bourld to repair the chancel or provide for the discharge of clerical duties, so far as the same can be made out. Mr. O'CoNNELL objected to the motion on account of its vagueness and its limited extent. The return ought to be more extensive, and then it would be objectionable on account of the expense which its preparation would cause. Mr. S. RICE recommended the honourable and learned mem ber to withdraw his motion, and took the liberty of cautioning the house generally against moving for returns without due consideration. The country was put to a great expense in the preparation of returns, and he could state as a fact, which came under his own observation, that one return, moved for in a previous session, cost £i,500 in the preparation, and £2,500 in the printing; yet he was not aware that this return had been consulted by any single individual. (Hear, hear.) This re turn referred to the woods and forests, and was moved for by the honourable member for Colchester. The motion was then put and negatived without a division. Mr. O'CONNELL postponed the introduction of a bill to dis franchise the borough of Carrickfergus until Friday next; and moved that the issue of the writ be suspended until that day. Agreed to. I\lr. WARBURTON presented a petition from Bristol, signed by 2,500 persons, complaining of the prevalence of gross cor ruption and bribery at the late election for Bristol. The hon. member said that the petition did not impugn the conduct of the sitting members, and after it was received he should move that the evidence taken before the election committee appointed to try the merits of the petition against the return for Bristol be printed, and laid before the house. Mr. BAILLIE said he had the honour to be one of the mem bers for Bristol, and he would venture to state that never was an election contest in a populous city conducted with less cor ruption than the late election for that place. The whole ex pense of the contest, which lasted about three months, amounted to only £9OO. Sir R. VYVYAN said the petition originated in the disap pointment of the radical party at Bristol; and, as it contained libellous and calumnious assertions against individuals, he should move that it be rejected. Lord ALTHORP thought that as many gentlemen considered the evidence to be partial, it would be as well not to print.it at present. Mr. WARBURTON bad no objection to accede to the noble lord's suggestion, and would, therefore, only move that the evidence be brought up and laid on the table. The house then divided : For the motion .... Against it Majority . On the motion of Sir R. Ferguson it was ordered that a new writ should not issue for the borough of Warwick before the 17th of June. The other orders of the day were then diaposed of, and. the house adjourned at half-past 3 o'clock. ROBBERY AND SINGULAR MUTILATION OF BooKs.—A short time since it was' discovered that many of the books belon g ing to the library of the Mechanics' Institution . of Chichester, hard been completely cut to pieces, that whole and long articles were taken out of the Metropolitan, the New IVlonthlir, the Gentle man's, and other Magazines, and that nearly all the plates were missing from Sweet's Botanic Flower Garden, a most valuable and expensive publication. As these depredations were by no means of a limited extent, it became a matter of serious moment, and a sub-committee was appointed to investigate the affair.— Suspicion fell on an individual of the name or W. H. Attree, who has delivered many interesting lectures before the Society, and his lodgings were accordingly searched, when the scene that presented'itself can scarcely be imagined, displaying 'a most wanton destruction of books. Independently . of piles of pages cut from the books of the Mechanics' Institution, there were be tween two and three hundred volumes belonging to Mr. Mason,_ bookseller, in whose employ Attree has for some time been, with names and marks carefully erased, an immense number of plates, cut from Rees's Enclycopaedia, from Stackhonse's His tory of the Bible, from two fine volumes of Scripture Illustra tions, from three hundred volumes of the_ Universal Magazine, CONTEMPORARY P,RESS. These are a few isolated assertions of the Colonial Secreta‘ry, made by hiin in his place in ParliaMent, and though mis-statements, we should not perhaps have thought it worth our While to notice them, had we not observed, that, according to the London press, they were received with cheers by the House,. and consider able stress was laid upon them by the Honourable Se cretary himself. Allowing the first to go for nothing, although we be lieve the round numbers given are very far from fact, what is the inference that any man of common sense will draw from the second assertion ? Why, that in Ve nezuela sugar estates are worked by free labour, and that the sugar and rum spoken of are the produce of free labour. Such, however, is not the case. In the whole of Venezuela there are only three estates that make sugar and rum for exportation, namely, Cambouri Grande, Chacao, and Trinidad—all of which are worked by Engli.eh capital, and by SLAVES. We can give the names of the English Lessees if need be, and can acid, from what they have frequently said, " that the moment they are unable to carry on these estates, from want of slaves, that moment . will they give them up !" Now, this shews the very reverse of what the Honourable Se cretary - for the Colonies wished to prove. He is per fectly correct in saying that sugar was never exported from that country befo th,e year 1821, nor indeed till the year 1830 ; but 1 %-t has that to do with free labour? It arises from the perfect misery of the planters of that country, who, unable themselves to work their estates, for want of capital, let them to Englishmen of skill and wealth, who will Work them only so long as they have slaves to carry on with. The exportation of ruin from Venezuela to Trinidad is rather a startling piece of in formation ; and few, we suspect, ever heard of it before, saving Mr. Stanley. But, supposing this to be the case, it is easy enough to account for it. The large and va luable estate of Cambouri Grande is situate on the coast several leagues, to the windward of La Guayra. It makes more rum than the scanty neighbourhood can consume, and as the eno ous expense of land carriage will not allow it to be sen the interior for sale, the planter, rather than have eidead stock on hand, may send it over to Trinidad, more especially as the naviga tion is performed in a very feW days, and in an open launch. Still, however, we never heard of any rum being exported to Trinidad until Mr. Stanley, from his exclusive sources of information, condescended to en lighten us upon the subject. It is also argued by the Honourable Secretary, from the fact of rum and • sugar being exported from Vene zuela, and from the great decrease of slaves, that the agriculture of the country has progressively improved. This is a sad mistake. LiA us take in review all the pro ducts of the country. With the exception of the three estates already named, there is no sugar or rum, pro perly so called, produced in that state. Their papilon and aquardiente are made in the same way to-day as they were made by their ancestors a hundred years ago. The quantity has grhtly diminished within the last twenty years partly caused, no doubt, by the "war to the knife," Aich lasted from 1814 to 1820; but likewise by the liberating system, several cane estates in the neighbourhood of Carracas, and in the wallies of Aragua, (the richest part of Venezuela) being abandoned for want i „pf slaves to work them. Carracas co a was long known as the finest in the world, and cern ded a much higher price in the great markets of Gibr r and Bordeaux than any other kind. Now, there is sea' a fanega to be met with, or it is of very inferior quality. 'The cocoa of Para produced by slaves noo - supplies its place. The same remarks apply to every estate as to indigo. Not one half is now raised of what was exported a few years ago, and that of very low quality indeed. Coffee, which may be termed the sheet anchor, remains in state quo. The emancipation. of negroes does not so affect this article, as the number of hands required to look after a coffee estate is small, when compared with the complement for sugar and rum. Land has also decreased amazingly in value. The very fine estate of Cambouri Grande was, in 1810, valued at 600,000 Spanish dollars, but we will stake our existence there is no man in Venezuela, who would, at this mo ment, pay down the sixth part of that sum for it. Mr. Stanley's last assertion, viz., that the free people of colour live in perfect harmony with the other inhabi tants, we, upon the best authority, flatly deny. Scarcely two years have elapsed since the military commandant of La Guayra, and other places, furnished the foreigners with arms, and advised them to form themselves into a patrole, the reason assigned being that the free people of colour were showing very malignant symptoms toward all whites. We are sure any man who was there at the time, and who remembers the anxiety he then felt for his person and property, will not forget it in a hurry. He will, at the same time, be able to bear testimony to the truth of every statement we have now made. We have said it is with shame we place a British statesman either in the category of positive ignorance or malignity, because the effect produced in foreign coun tries is to lower the national character. Above, we have shown how ignorant Mr. Stanley has proved himself to be upon one or two topics which he incidentally brought forward, as illustrative of his views on slave emancipa tion; and -we are reluctantly compelled, from .a mere sense of duty, to subjoin yet another. It had attracted our own attention, after a second perusal of the honour able gentleman's speech ; and, as it was so highly cha racteristic of the geographical and statistical knowledge of the Colonial Office, we meant to direct.the attention of our readers to it in our own way ; but, as a valuable cor respondent has taken up the subject, we subjoin his re- marks in preference to our own : " After allowing nothing for eloquence,' I beg to sub mit as a standard, by which the truth of the statements and the justness of the reasoning,_ of the whole of Mr. Stanley's speech, on the West India question, may be fairly and accurately appreciated, the following passage from the harangue of the right honourable gentleman, as reported in the London papers:— _ " The Island of Demerara afforded a frightful proof of the destructive effects which the amount of labour compelled from the slaves had on the population. In that Island the quantity of sugar exported during the three periods was respectively 665,336 cwt., 662,655 cwt., and 806,120 cwts. ! ! !" &c. " Is it to the meridian of Constantinople, or Pekin, that we owe this legislator, who, as you observe in your last number, ventures to submit to Parliament a mea sure involving the lives and fortunes of millions of his fellow-subjects, and, indeed, the t'ate of Great Britain herself, as a maritime and commercial power ?' " The question may well be asked, but who can answer it, we know not. Unfortunately, the measures of our present administration appear, for ought we know to the contrary, better fitted for the inhabitants of the moon, than for those of this nether sphere. Everything they at tempt breathes ignorance, presumption, lunacy and hn practicability, and should they remain another year in office, and proceed in the same way as they have .hereto fore done, the ruin of Great Biitain will he consum mated.—Glasgow Courier. An early prorogation of Parliament is said to have been resolved on by ministers. We should not, perhaps, have paid much attention to the report, but we find that it is contradicted with considerable warmth and sensi tiveness by the ministerial prints, which we take to be the best of all proof that there is some_ foundation for it. The same papers impudently contradicted our announce ment of the tendered resignation of Mr. Macaulay a few days ago, and yesterday, we observe, they contained ex tracts from Leeds papers, with which that gentleman maintains a regular correspondence, admitting on his authority the correctness of the fact, accompanied with a ludicrous statement of the panic Gyey, people •thereon. The administration must indeed be in a crazy condition, when the impertinence , of persons of Mr. Ma caulay's calibre can produce any inconvenience to it.— Guardian and Public Ledger. ~ MAY V, 18;. THEATEI 7 .7, 110YAL, LIV.ERFO OI,.. 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Each publication of the LIVERPOOL STANDAR. fore, will be equal to one morning and one paper; and, in consequence of the universal lion which it enjoys, it presents advantages, promptness of information and for advert unequalled by any other newspaper. 'Ube Eibtrpool OtantiarD. FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 24, 10. We have received per the Hibernia, Captain which arrived yesterday, a file of New York papL er , 2d instant. The -Gazette of the Ist contains a ratb portant document relative to the tariff, eManatiogi) the Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. M'Lanc, Sabi regret is too Voluminous for this day's STANDARD', following we take from the same paper : " MATANZAS, April 13, 1833.—There has been a 67 - 0 1 of cholera here, and any quantity of alarm. There of ascertaining the number of cases or deaths per died' burials are supposed, on some days, to have reached ° o f forty in number,—a liberal per centage for a populatia a y from twelve to fifteen thousand. For the last few daY si , demic has decidedly abated its ravages, and people's 1 : 11I in a much more composed condition. " The disease has nearly disappeared from Havana ,li o i) 'fidence is completely restored there. On the Ilth deaths by cholera had dwindled down to fifteen. Thai d general of Cuba, in his dispatches to Spain, is sa i d et written that the deaths, in Havana. from cholera, be t ` f . 25th of February and the Ist of April, amounted to To ihonsand five hundred. The population of Havan) know, is variously estimated at from one hundred ao one hundred and eighty thousand souls. More than t` r of the deaths, it is agreed on all hands, were blacks. " Some of the plantations in the interior—such a 5 a of j marshy situations, or on the margins of rivers—ha° of severely, while those in more elevated positions hac e :ci a comparative immunity from the attacks of this tel l ' hence." left' New York, a few days before the li/hernia: o f been thrown into some consternation by a seriOsei tensive fires. Besides the City Hotel, several o° ol stores had been burnt. The proprietor of the O er been singularly fortunate. 'lt was only the uPP it i of his house that had been 'consumed, in the a s which was a considerable stock of wines, which sured ! We are informed that a deputation of the Wrest I , interest is to have an interview with Mr. St aple ' Colonial-office to-morrow. It is confidentlYr c that the right honourable secretary will agree , modifications in the proposed measure of erual34l eel' It appears that a preliminary treaty has - by the plenipotentiaries of Great Britain, 14‘r311 ,, Holland, and has been transmitted for ratification Dutch Majesty. Thera is, however, still s( 0e : whether the terms of convention will be ag reed t 0 king, but a few days will clear up this poi nt. treaty the English and French embargoes will be, off Dutch vessels, and the com m ercial intereoll,' tween the respectiVe countrie s will be rene we d Dutch garrison, at present pri s oners of war it'd will be sent h ome , an d th e ca rgoes and ship s will be immedi a t e ly res t o red. The armistice 4 Holland and Belgium will be continued till a cl:7 treaty of separation is concluded , till which time vigation of the Scheldt will remain free. of A coroner's kill in London, consistin K , twelve or twenty daper cockneys, whom t he daughters, we will venture to say, shed tears a t di , ing of Fauntleroy and Thurtell, have, after a te le quirt', brought in a verdict that it is "ill— eide" to murder a police constable ! ThiS pt cument runs in these words : 4 dieture b , 4l ' if laid d own by a co t er i e o f b ur tF esent atives of the swell mob, or b ; Ivntileilttles of the anc i en t fraternity of N I :: b e nat ura l enoug h . T here is al is 110-:`Y b etween the rat and the ter r i er W .een the d e b tor an d t h e d un, and bet ~,, Cr,: e : and th e thi e ft a k er . B u t th a t e,H II " crowner ' s-quest law," shout '1 do zen shopkeepers of Lond on , at t i, Ile march of intell ec t, or th e w i s d om ''' instructions of the schoolmaster. 1 teemS 110 recognised m o d e o f p un i s hi ng 011 . Y, for sure l y these jurymen of G t the tread -mill. e'43.ll3liderable time, indeed from the fo . 38 , the new police of London have VY tulPop u l ar. Th ere was a cry n , n the thieves and th e ra bbl e i n t h e ‘' Cry I , . lur pr . . • now re-echoed by the shop . oc] les ibe is ' i lg that the rogues should complain kllO,l-111,4wilese lives and property are prote „kliti,,,i o in in the clamour is inexplicablE ' InakZ v g . r ounds. The principles of the ret ' eat f . d r upon interest; and men in a tl; f 'get th e f i rst duties they owe to t aarl, 4lilie s• Wh a t wou ld L ondon be wit it ; Ctlin e rous body o f p o li ce ? I t i s b a d enc ' i glu ilt Without such a force no house woul( t st T c l . cl aY, and it w ou ld b e d angerous to i gu ar' se who h ave any k nowledge of Lot e 4 ., 4 . . , h at 11 t it is the most demoralized pin, Itcl N . even excepting Paris. There are a 4 ler its ele4 (l s -- -more black-legs and impost() ' 4 B ' t eal clerical and political —more ch I .e 5,.... 9 . 4 41 4 ,T3tlore ro gues an d vagabonds, and n tof t i ` lo ffscouri ngs of society in London I ,h4lich:,l(ing•s domi n i ons . It con t a i ns ap( 'cio n ,' a nd dep.,raved to ex cess , an d p re - c incl.l an wicked. I n suc h a place an effic day i 3 f . P . en sable. S oc i ety would not hold t! Iliiii t it w ere not o verawe d b y t h e constabu. 1 0,0 1 ' 3 " . • There are seldom fewer than fi fo r , tr "Ps in and around th e metropo li s, t her cs• is 1101 v near 5,000 strong. In addi rsti,,,i4, tliatte,_iit : ii iit-tthh,ol. jeoorsuistrhnledsioesvti taellelnvoarociari: 4 a re Parish officers and constables, pril an d 6 ' t i y al} this who amount to some 3 or 4, Nibl t i:' t his force is scarcely adequate to i re • t " Peace. The fact is, that the people II 1 :i Plac ed under su ffi cient restraint, fo tee th Present. at present. o lo f ti fe s .wer robberies and of _e th e Police and instigate the mob to mu i a cts however, an attempt is m id tevernment do their duty they will spee , ,tu,re bound to d o is to give a pension for machinations. The 1 4 of the murdered man, and distinguish worth i v e a r t 4 crime and u straw. l Ter:e d ilnt twheillaffnroatyinl o ti justice, or screen the murdE ,ad de me and convicted. As. to the of 1' in custody there is plenty of room 111 3 7 Bay, k . m "......n1e...„,____ riirie, 1; 1 . '''e poverty, makes men 1 -4 acquainted w tiy fallen" '€)ws• Mr. Thomas Attwood has, we -' • * become t„, so miserably low, or has 1 - I ` ll at he now herds and rants with Mr. Dar O 11 : 1 1 4 the cause of agitation. There can stir !'rripathy between these worthies, t il i q know that his honourable friend is just 1 I:ll.lateci to bring odium on any English qu $ 4 ls called upon to support. There way I n 1". Attwood had more congenial friends, a et. allies. When the liirming - harn uni o r cied its obj ects were laudable and consth tkAro ject ors wer e not rabid reformers as to . m ~7Y d id not court en wh o wo the alli ance o f downr i Plu uld dismemb er t h e emp i re, n der the p u b lic creditor, cloth: 'e up Ireland to the tender mercies fa natical priesthood- N- V eslab iif il il h " t ak; 4 D l ~,ghlg" , Polic e 4 ' and 1 ' Pi o,. a a ~ ,( 1 ~ th r l : of Ili ry . 0 1 g 4 lel bou i than ,' men „waif 0 the WQr s 3 , el . F al4S' P k th e p o ; r 90 1fier ?'. 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