The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-06-25 00:00:00

rrillE EARL OF DERBY'S RENTS, for his LIVER POOL• ESTATE; will be received at SHAPLES'S, the Golden Lion Inn, id Dale-street, o s tirimy next, the 28th day of June instant, between the hour en and Three o'clock; when applications for the renewal of eases, or for any other purpose respecting his Lordship's Estates, may be made. Tenants are requested to bring their last receipts. Enouranre "Notitto. THE MANCHESTER ASSURANCE COMPANY, - VOR ASSURANCE against FIRE, and on LIVES, and . _l2 SURVIVORSHIPS, PURCHASE of ANNUITIES, REVERSIONS, &C. Btc. OFFICE. 3a3, KING-STROT, MANCHESTER. CAPITAL—TWO MILLION - . —Established March, 1824. FIRE DEPARTMENT.—The Assured are entitled . to one third of the Profits, without any liability on their part to the losses. Parties intending to continue their Policies, falling due at MIDSUMMER, must renew them within fifteen days of that time, or they will become void. LIFE DEPARTMENT.—The Assured are entitled to two thirds of the Profits, without any liability on their part to the losses. The Premiums charged are lower than those of the majority of other Offices. _ . . The business of the Life Department is kept quite distinct from that of Fire, and its accumulations are not liable to make good any losses arising therefrom. The Rates of Premium, and all other particulars, may be obtained, on application to any of the Company's Agents, or to JOSEPH MORTON, Secretary. N.B.—Agents have already been appointed in most of the principal towns in the kingdom; but applicationsror Agencies in places where appointments have not yet been made, are re quested to be addressed to the Secretary, RICHARD DAWSON, Agent, Exchange-alley, Liverpool. IMPERIAL FIRE OFFICE. THOSE Persons whose Annual Policies were renewable on the 21th instant, are respectfully • ormed that, for their own security, they should be rene within fifteen days after that date. LAWSON nd CLARKE, Agents. High-street, Liverpool, June, 1833. Annual Policies renewable as follows, namely,-21th June, 29th September, 25th December, :sth March. LONDON UNION ASSURANCE, ESTABLISHED A.D. 1714. PERSONS, whose FIRE PREMIUMS are payable at MIDSUMMER, are hereby respectfully informed, that, for their own security, the same should be paid within 15 days from the 24th instant. In the Life Department of this long-established Office the Premiums for Short Periods are low 3 ptian in most others, and for the whole of Life at very equit rates. In this last the Assured participate in Profits, witho the least tisk of being liable to make good Losses, as may be the case in Mutual Insurance Companies, possessing little or no capital; whereas the Union has ample Funds invested in Government Securities to meet every demand; and as a large septennial Bonus (as is expected) will be declared in 1831, the Directors confidently anticipate that the public will perceive it to be their interest to insure (and also to benefit from the Bonus iu 1831) in a Com pany, combining solid security _with handsome Profits. June, 1833. HENRY HAMER, Agent, Atherton's-buildings, Dale-street. NORWICH UNION FIRE INSURANCE SOCIETY. CAPITAL, I.:500,000. THE Public are respectfully reminded, that all Insurances renewable in the Liverpool Agency on the 24th June, must be paid at the Office, Exchange-street West, on or before the 9th day of July next, or the Sfrity will cease to be liable for the sums insured. FARMING STOCK continues to be insured as heretofore, namely, without the average clause, or prohibitin g the use of Thrashing Machines. R. L. MILLER, Surveyor of the Northern District. Treasurers, SAIL. HOPE, Esq. and Co. Bankers. 1 2*. The Society's Engine for the PUBLIC USE OF THE TOWN AND NEIGHBOURHOOD is stationed in Seel-street, opposite the Saw-mill. PHCENIX FIRE OFFICE, ESTABLISHED 1782. THE Board of Directors of this Office do hereby give notice, that Renewal Receipts for Policies falling due at Midsummer are now in the hands of the several Agents. 'IV The Agents for this Compa for the County of Lan caster, are Mr. GEORGE GREEN, Liverpool, MAvilliam Tate, Manchester, Messrs. T. and J. CROOK, Ditto, Mr. Henry Sharpies, Ormskirk, Mr. Thos. LANGTON, Ditto, Messrs. J. T. and T. B. Jackson, Mr. Thos. Hill, Ashton and Stay- Prescot, ley-bridge, Mr. Richard Newsharn, Jun., Mr. Wm. Townley, Blackburn, P reston, Mr. John Mawdsley, Bolton, Mr. James Woods, Rochdale, Mr. Benj. Townson, Burnley, Mr. Stephen Tyson, Ulverston, Mr. Benj. Crompton, Bury, Mr. Edward Bolton, Warrington, M essrs . Swainson, Gregson, and Mr. James Bancks, Wigan. Man, Lancaster, ATLAS ASSURANCE COMPANY. LIFE DEPARTMENT. PERSONS Assured for the w h o l e term of Life i n Great Britain or Ireland respectively, will have an addition made to their Policies every seventh year, Bran equivalent reduction will be made in the future payments Premium, at the option of the Assured. The following Table shews the total Additions made to Life Policies for £lOOO, effected in London, or through an Agent in Great Britain, which had been in force for the Fourteen years ending at Christmas, 1830. ~.6 Age at Amount added X Sum Annual commence- payable at the 6 assured. Premium. ment. Party ' s death. A... _ .. _ .... ____ ..._ ..... ... _ ......... -.5 el £ lOOO 10 1000 2 £2140 15 10 20 £230 Po 1000 26 14 2 25 236 30 241 P o 10(Y) 1000 2 33 19 918 2 4 35 256 ; 1000 38 19 2 40 45 30 278 4 ..!). 1000 45 6 8 50 340 - 8 1000 53 3 4 55 382 P . ' 1000 63 13 4 60 i 449 Equivalent Reductions have been made in the future pay ments of Premium, where the parties assured have desired to liave the amount of surplus Premiums so applied. The next valuation will be made at Christmas, 1837, and Policies effected before that date will participate in proportion to the time they may th en h ave been in force. The Company purchase their Policies at an equitable value. FIRE DEPARTMENT. In addition to the benefit of the late Reduction in the Rates of Premiums, this Company offers to Assurers the advantage of an allowance for the Lou of Rent of Buildings rendered un tenantable by Fire. Policies falling due at Midsummer should be renewed within fifteen days from that period. The Company's Rates and Proposals may be had at the Office in London, o r o f any of the Agents in the Country, who a re authorized to report on the aKvarance of Lives proposed for Assurance. HENRY DE BOROUGH, Secretary. Cheapside, London, June, 1833. The Agents for this Company are, Liverpool Mr. MATTHEW WOTHERSPOON, 16, Goree-piazzas. Ditto..... Messrs. SWAINSON and HORNBY, 4, Dale-street. Appleby .................... E. Allinson. Ashton-under-Line ................ T. Finney. Blackburn ........................R. Wilding. Bolton. C Briggs. Burnley and Todmorden.. ........... T. E. Hamerton. B ur y ............................ Richard Lomax. Chorley .......................... J. Latham. Clitheroe ......................... W. L. Oddey. Lancaster ........................Thomas Albright. Macclesfield. .... R. Turner. Manchester. ....................... C. and R. Hervey. Oldham ........................... John Duncroft. Preston ........................... William Lancaster. Rochdale. ......................... James Hartley. St. Helen's ...................... Speakman. Stockport.. W. Downall. Ulverstone W. Postlethwaite. Warrington. Thomas Leigh. J Hilton, Wigan. Mr. MATTHEW WOTHERSPOON respectfully informs his Friends and the Public that he has been appointed one of the Agents to the above Office, for the Town and Neighbour hood of Liverpool, and is fully empowered to effect Assurances against Fire, and to receive proposals of Assurance on Lives, and on Survivorships. Mr. Wotherspoon invites his Friends to an inquiry into tae principles on which this Office transacts its business, as set forth in the above advertisement, and which are more fully ex plained in the Company's Proposals, to be had of hi m on appli cation. IRELAND. An amusing hoax was played off on several officers in this garrison, last week, who received cards for an evening party, purporting to come from the residence of a lady at the fashion able end of the town. Hard to say, if to say, the eclaircisse *tent at the mansion was more annoying to the lady hostess than the gallant gentry on whom the ruse was played.—Limerick Chronicle. Many of the chief constables in this county are already on the move for London to solicit the patronage of their political friends for promotion as stipendiary magistrates in the West India islands, where a s t rong s t a ff of this description will be formed, under the new system proposed by Government for regulating the colonies.—Dublin Warder. HORRIBLE CIRCUMSTUNCE.—John O'Neill, a barber, residing in Mill-street, Newry, had been influence, addicted to whiskey drinking, and under its baneful excited too by some deadly passion, he, a few nights back, deliberately proceeded to murder his wife, by means of pouring a quantity of aqua fortis into her ears and mouth, when asleep ! After the commission of this crime, his wretched victim still lingering, and, though as yet unable to speak distinctly, intimating her knowledge of his guilt, and determination to bring him to justice, he attempted suicide on the morning of Saturday, by cutting his throat in the most determined and desperate manner with a razor.— He was discovered, about six o'clock, by his daughter, who gave immediate alarm. Surgeon Morri son succeeded in staunching the blood, and sowing up the frightful gash, several arteries having been cut through, and th e windpipe nearly severed. The miserable man was removed to the Hospital, were he now re mains under the care of Surgeon Morrison, but in such a state as to leave the hope of recovery extremely doubtful.. His wife is not expected to survive.—Aewry Telegraph. EIIIGRATION FROM THE NORTH,—Forty ships have sailed from our port this season for America, with the respective number of passengers on board; from which it will be seen, that emigration has been fully as active • this as in former sea ions. Among the ernigrQuis were a good many farmers, who, at one time at least, were in comfortable circumstances, and also a few gentlemen possessed of considerable property. It is remarkable, that the great periodical emigrations from this district which take place have had. no perceptible influence— indeed, we are sure, they have had none whatever, on rents or wages. New tenants rapidly fill up the vacancies caused by emigration ; and they continue; or, at least, they make an effort, to pay the old, rents b,y living more miserably than their pre decessors could well submit to. This deterictratioki of the qua lity of the' tenantry - cannot fail eventuully to produce most bitter fruits. I° tal 74l ships, 12,98 7 tons register, 6,504 passen gers. There only remains in pert the brig. Ann, for Philader phia, and ships Forth and ilwrett a for St John, N. 8., to sail in the ensuing 4eeic, which vessefs, it is expected, will have nearly their complement.—Derry Journal. The General Steam Navigation Company's packet the Earl of Liverpool, from Ostend, arrived off the Cu.totn-huuse, Lon don, at three o'clock r.rn., June 19. Emperial Vartiatnent. HOUSE OF LORDS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19, EAST INDIA QUESTION. Lord ELLENBOIIOUGII wished to know whether the noble earl (Grey) had any objection to answer the question which he had asked a few days ago, relating to the production of the cor respondence between the East India Company and the Board of Control, with respect to the constitution of the local govern ments in India. Earl GREY said that there was no correspondence between the Company and the Board of Control on that question, and there fore uo such correspondence could be laid before the house. AGRICULTURAL LABOURERS' EMPLOYMENT BILL. The Duke of RICHMOND moved the order of the day for the house resolving itself into a committee on this Lord WYNFORD wished that the noble duke would postpone the committee to a future day, as he had been led to expect that it would not come on till Thursday. The Duke of RICHMOND said that he had no objection to allow the discussion to stand over to a future day, but he hoped their lordships would allow the bill to go into committee in order that he might move some amendments, after which the bill would be printed, and the discussion might be taken at a future stage. After some conversation, the house went into a committee on the bill, when the Duke of RICHMOND moved his amendments, pro forma, and it was agreed after some short discussion that on the house resuming the bill should be referred to a select com mittee. The Duke of RICHMOND presented a petition from a dissent ing congregation in —(we did not hear the place,) against slavery. _ . . . The noble Duke also presented a petition from the inhabi tants of Epping, in favour of the labour-rate bill.—Referred to the committee.—Adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS, WEDNESDAY JUNE 19. SECOND SITTING. The SPEAKER resumed the chair at 10 minutes past five. Lord BELFAST presented a petition from burgesses of Car rickfergus, praying to be heard by counsel at the bar against the bill for the disfranchisement of that borough before the second reading. The noble lord moved that the petition ers be heard accordingly.—Agreed to. He also gave notice of a motion for to-morrow for the postponement of the second reading of the bill. GENERAL REGISTER BILL. Lord ALTHORP rose to request hon. members whose motions had precedence on the paper to give way, in order that the com mittee on the Irish Church 'temporalities Bill might be re sumed. Mr. W. BROUGHAM, the second reading of whose General Register Bill stood first among the orders of the day, expressed his readiness to give way if it should appear to be the wish of the house. At the same time he thought it would be better that so important a measure should be at once decided on, or post poned altogether, for if it were not now proceeded with, there would be no hope of carrying the bill through during the pre sent session. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said that the simple question be fore the house was, whether the bill should be now read a se cond time; and as he had looked with some anxiety as to what would be the result of a reformed Parliament, he regarded with some solicitude the present question. Indeed, he should be much mortified if the reformed Parliament should declare itself against and reject a measure which experience had proved to be beneficial all over the world; or, in other words, to reject that which had been tried and found beneficial to the public in terests in Scotland, Ireland, France, and the colonies. With out entering into the details of the bill, he would come at once to the objections which had been suggested. It had been said its provisions were not sufficiently known, and that, therefore, it ought to pass to another session. That was not the just way to get rid of the subject. No further delay could be necessary ; the bill had already been brought forward in three sessions of Parliament; it had been most extensively circulated amongst the magistrates at quarter sessions; it had been openly dis cussed at public meetings convened for the purpose in various parts of the country; its merits and demeres had been fully discussed ; petitions had been sent up and presented to the le gislature against it, and the house was now as fully competent to judge of it as by possibility it could be in another session.— He therefore would entreat his hon. and learned friend not to abandon at the present stage this bill, which he (the Solicitor General) hoped, before the present session closed, would receive the assent of that House, of the House of Peers, and of his Ma jesty. Mr. CAYLEY said, that he should vote against the bill; and in giving his opposition to the measure, it was gratifying to him to know that he was acting in compliance with the general wishes of his constituents. Lord SANDON approved generally of the principle of regis tration, but he would prefer district registration to metropoli tan registration, and in the hope that the bill might be altered in committee in such a manner as would enable him to give his assent to it, he should vote for the second reading. (Ques tion, question.) The house then divided:— For the bill 69 Against it S 2 Majority —l3 On ourre-admission to the gallery we found Mr. PaymE on his legs, moving fora committee on the Separatists' Affirmation Bill. Mr. Hatcorda thought that before the house conceded to the Separatists' privileges which were not enjoyed by his Majesty's subjects in general, it ought to know something of who and what they were. Upon looking at the bill, he could not see that any parliamentary ground was laid for dispensing with the taking of oaths in the case of the people called Separatists. Mr. GovLis URN thought that the house ought to be in pos session of better information respecting the people calling them selves Separatists before the bill was passed. He had looked into the most recent works describing the religious sects in this country, and he could find nothing about, them. If the house showed a disposition to grant privileges such as that proposed by the bill to all persons who said they entertained scruples to take oaths, it would tend to encourage unnecessary dissent from the established church. Mr. PHYME said the bill contained a clause which enacted, that if any person should falsely pretend in a court of justice that he was a separatist in order to avoid taking an oath, he should be liable to the penalties of perjury. The house then resolved itself into a committee. The several clauses of the bill were agreed to. A desultory conversation occurred as to the sufficiency of the terms of the affirmation proposed, and an amendment was sug gested by Mr. C. Fergusson, which was subsequently with drawn. The house then resumed.—Report to-morrow. At the request of Lord Althorp, several hon. members con sented to postpone orders which stood on the list, that the Irish Church Temporalities Bill might be proceeded in, as the noble lord expressed the anxiety of the Government to carry it through with the least possible delay. Mr. R. STEUART, and other Scotch members, hoped that the Lord Advocate would not give way on this occasion without receiving a distinct pledge from the noble Chancellor of the Exchequer that a day next week should be devoted to a full and fair discussion of the Future Entails Bill, and other mea sures connected with Scotland, which had now been some time before the house, in which the people of that country took a deep interest. 'I he house then went into a committee on the IRISH CHURCH TEMPORALITIES BILL Clauses 90, 91, B,:c. to 99 were agreed to, with merely verbal amendments. Clauses 100 to 108 were agreed to, with the exception of clause 107, which was deferred. Clauses 109, 110, and 111, were postponed. Clauses 112 to 117 were agreed to. An amendment to the latter, proposed by Colonel RV ood, was withdrawn. The 118th clause (giving the right of appointment to those possessed of the patronage) was postponed. The house then resumed, and the Chairman reported progress and obtained leave to sit again on Friday. The Dwelling-house Robbery Bill (talcing away the punish ment of death from the crime of breaking into houses in the day-time) was read a third time and passed. The Parochial Rates Exemption Bill was then committed. The bill went through the committee. Report on Thursday. The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the house adjourned at two o'clock. HOUSE OF LOB DS, THURSDAY, Jura 20. The Woollen Trade Act Repeal Bill and several private bills were brought up from the Commons. WEST INDIA QUESTION. Mr. STANLEY, and' other members from the Commons, ap peared at - the bar, andinformed their lordships that the Commons desired a conference, on a subject of high importance to the prosperity of his Majesty's colonial possessions. A conference was ord e r e d forthwith. The managers on the part of their lordships were the Lord Privy Seal, the Duke of Richmond, the Earl of Gosford, the Earl of Wicklow, the Bishop of London, Lord Suffield, and Lord Lyttleton. On the return of the managers, The Earl of .RreoN (Lord Privy Seal) informed their lord ships that they had met the managers on the art of the Commons, who had communicated to them the resolutions agreed to by that house, to which their lordships' concurrence was desired. QLAKERS' AND MORAVIANS' AFFIRMATION BILL. The Duke of RICHMOND moved the second reading of the above bill. The Bishop of L ON DON did not mean to make any observa tions upon the bill then before their lordships; but he wished to offer a few observations on the subject of oaths in general as they were administered in this country. It was a matter of very great importance both in a religious and a moral point of view, and he was extremely sorry that. the attention of the legislature had not been more directly called to it: A bill had been - brought in about two years ago by the Lord President of the Council, which in some degree lessened the evil to which he was advert ing. He thanked - the noble lord for that measure, because any mea sure which tend e d t o di m i n i sh the taking of a'great number of oaths was a public benefit. He could assure their lordships that there was a strong feeling on this subject amongst the religious part of the community in this count r y. Il e did not thinl that he was going too far when h e sa id , that there was no country in the world in which this most so l emn and sacred ob ligation was administered with less gravity, with less impressive ness,'with less decorousness of manner, than it was in this country. The effect of the system had been well and truly described by Dr. Paley, who observed that " the obscure and elliptical form, together with the levity and frequency with which oaths are administered, have brought about a general inadvertency to the obligation of them." Dr. Paley alluded esp ec i a ll y to " t h e customs, and to the qualifications of petty officers; in both these cases a man could not proceed " without taking h a lf- a -d ozen oaths ;" and he contended that they ought to abstain from calling into requisition the sacred ~ sanction of an oa th, except on the most important occasions.. There were tw o species of oaths—assertory oaths and promissory oaths. Assertory oaths were necessary for the discovery and punishment of offences; whilst promissory oaths were not only not necessary, but w ere , 1 in truth, productive of the worst effects. o this subject Dr. Paley had called the attention of the public more than 40 years ago. The bill brought in by the noble marquess to whom'be had before alluded had done away with the necessity for taking 10,000 oatliii,in a year, b u t s till much of the evil remained. The .municipal oaths ought to be r ev i se d ; nine-tenths of them might, he was of Opinion simple, be done a wa y w ith, a nd a declaration introduced in their place. Thin very serious, question had been pressed on the attention of the British people long before the time of Dr. Paley. It had been for c ibly taken up by one of the most virtuous, learned, and eloquent men that ever adorned the Protestant church,—he alluc'ed to Bishop Jeremy 'Taylor. It was a subject well worthy of i grave consider a ti on, an d in the next session of Parliament, t his life were so long 'Spared, he would call the attention of the house to'it, tulles's' it were taken up by someqloble lord more competent than he'va'itn under take the task. The consideration of this, subject ought, in opinion, to be intrusted to a select committee, or AO a loyal commission. He ifiould here refer to atotlier class of oaths, which 'appeared t 0 him to be liable to great objection,—he ad vertedlo the Oaths taken in universities and schools. lie felt that to administer an oath to- a young man, not of full age, except in caSe.s.where truth was judicially sought, was very ob jectionable,' Certoinly, 'promissory oaths should not be exacted from thern.; ,- .114 now publicly expressed a hope that, as this subject had been taken up in one of their universities. at would as soon as possible be entertained by the legislature, who ought to inquire how far it was consistent with sound religion and right principles to enforce on young men, not of uge, an obli gation for the observance of duties the performance of which mieht be exacted by easier means. (Hear, hear.) The LORD CHANCELLOR said he only spoke the sense of those persons who had turned their attention to this subject, when he expressed his opinion that a thorough revision -of the present system ought to take place. Far from thinking that the ques tion should be intrusted to other hands, he felt that it could not be taken up by any individual more capable of doing justice to it than the right rev. prelate himself. (Hear, hear.) There was another description of oaths which, in his opinion, ought to be discouraged: he meant voluntary oaths or affidavits. A penalty should be inflicted for administering such oaths, or a penalty should be levied on the individual taking them, if it ap peared that he had been guilty of false swearing. As the law at present stood it did not meet those cases. The Marquis of LONDONDERRY made an observation which did not reach the gallery, but it called up The Duke of RICLISIOND, who said that the noble marquis had on this, as on other occasions, acted as a skirmisher. If he thought proper to attack him, he was ready at all times and in all places to answer the noble marquis with the same perfect good humour which he felt at that moment. He would, how ever, say that if the noble marquis at the head of his troop of hussars had behaved so irregularly as he had done on this oc casion, he would not have obtained so much honour and dis tinction as he had done. (Hear, hear.) The Marquis of LONDONDERRY said he was no skirmisher, but he would make observations on the proceedings of the noble duke whenever he thought fit, although he was a cabinet minis ter. The noble duke appeared to have placed himself at the head of the party to whose sentiments he (the Marquis of Lon donderry) was opposed, and therefore he could not hope to es cape animadversion. The Duke of HICLIMOND.—It is very true that I am a cabinet minister; and I should not be at all surprised if the noble mar quis wishes for my place. (Laughter.) The bill was then read a second time. LISIITATION OF ACTIONS' BILL, The house resolved itself into a committee on the above bill. Lord Lyndhurst and Lord Wynford, after some conversa tion, proposed certain amendments. The house then resumed, and the bill was ordered to be re committed on Monday next.—Adjourned. _ HOUSE OF COMMONS, THURSDAY, JUNE 20. - • - • The Speaker took the chair at a quarter past 12 o'clock. Mr. KYLE presented a petition from the medical practitioners of Macclesfield, against any alteration in the Apothecaries' Act. Colonel EVANS presented a petition from the inhabitant householders and other persons of the parish of St. Ann, West minster, for the repeal of the house and window taxes. See ing a member of his Majesty's government present, he would state his conviction that if the house did not immediately pass a measure for the repeal of these obnoxious taxes, which fell so heavily on the great mass of the industrious inhabitants of the metropolis, the want of confidence, and the breach be tween the people and their representatives, would become as great as it was now supposed to be between two branches of the legislature. The petition, he believed, represented the sen timents not only of the parish•from which it came, but of the whole population of Loudon. He had the highest authority for saying the assessed taxes were most obnoxious, the noble lord opposite having himself voted for the repeal of them when out of office. Lord ALTHORP said he had voted against them, but not ad vocated a lepea.:. Colonel EVANS found the name of the noble lord in several lists. Lord ALTHORP.—I believe not. Colonel EVANS proceeded to say that the taxes always would be obnoxious while the industrious part of the metropolis groaned under the opprekoion of their inequality. (Hear.) After the presentation nf some other petitions, the Speaker vacated the chair at three O'clock. The Speaker resumed the chair at a quarter past five. ➢lr. GIL Lox postponed his moticn on the inexpediency of permitting the possession of ecclesiastical office to entitle any person to sit in Parliament, from that evening till the 11th of .July. Mr. HE4THCOTE moved for returns of the number of commit ments for horse-stealing and sheep-stealing in England and Wales during the last year. Colonel EVANS moved for returns relative to the assessment of houses to the inhabited house duty in the year 1833, including 100 of the highest rated private houses, 100 of the highest rated houses of business in the metropolis, and similar returns for the country. Mr. i3E-rnEt.t. moved for papers connected with the banking question, including the memorial of the country bankers to the Duke of Wellington, May 9, 1828, and the memorial of the same body to Lord Grey, June 18, 1832. Lord SANDON asked the noble lord if the case of the publi cans had been taken into consideration, and whether it was the intention of government to class them under the head of shop keepers. Lord ALTHORP said the subject was now under the consider.. ation of his Majesty's ministers, but they had hitherto come to no decision. It was intended to afford them relief, but it was found to be a most difficult matter to arrange. Mr. COOPER said he was of Tory principles, and he could as sure the hon. and gallant member for Westminster that no alarm need be apprehended of the Tories taking office under a pledge to reduce taxation in a way injurious to the public reve nue. (A laugh.) Mr. O'CONNELL gave notice of his intention to move for leave to bring a bring in a bill for the better regulation of the corporation of Dublin. The hon. and learned gentleman moved for returns of all taxes remitted in Ireland since the Ist of January, 1814_,. of the sums received on account of such tax es for periods of five years _previous to their remission ; of tax es partially , repealed since 1814, and of their subsequent produce in periods of three years; also for like teturns with respect to England. Mr. HUME moved for.returns of the number of places of bu rial attached to each parish within the bills of mo r t a lity, prepa ratory to a measure for removing interments from the metro polis. He also moved for leave to bring in a bill to amend the act of George 111., for the erection of diurches.—Leave given. Mr. STANLEY reported, that in pursuance of the resolution of the house, he had gone to the Lords, and desired a confer ence upon the subject of the Commons' resolutions on colonial slavery, and that the Lords had agreed to the said conference. On the motion of Mr. Stanley, a committee was appointed to manage the conference on the part of the Commons. The Committee rcpaiicd to the House of Lords, and on their return Mr. Stanley reported that they had met the Lords' ma nagers in the Painted Chamber, and communicated the Coin-• mous' resolutions, and prayed their lordships' concurrence in in the same. Colonel DAVIES gave notice for to-morrow of a bill for the summary trial of charges of larceny in certain cases. Mr. CHAPMAN moved for a copy of the correspondence be tween Gerald Dease, Esq., Lord-Lieutenant of the county of Westmeath, and Sir Will►am Gossett, relative to the levying, with the assistance of the police and military, certain tithes, which only became flue on the Ist of May, last, and also as to the costs charged on that occasion; also for other correspond ence on the like subject. DUBLIN AND KINGSTOWN SHIP CAIkAL. Mr. O'CONNELL, in moving, pursuant to his notice, that "a select committee be appointed to inquire into the expediency and practicability of constructing a ship canal between the city of Dublin and the Asylum Harbour at Kingstown, and the works connected therewith, as also to, examine into the receipts and disbursements of the Corporation for preserving and im proving the port of Dublin, and whether any portion of the revenue of the said Corporation could, without detriment to the public interests, be made applicable to the constructoin of the said canal," said, in reference to the Kingstown Railway Ex tension Bill, that his opinion was now altered with regard to that bill. He had, within the last few days, seen documents that had induced him to alter that opinion, and if accident bad not prevented those documents from being laid before the com mittee, he was sure the committee would have come to a differ ent decision from that which they did; namely, against the bill. The documents in question established the perfect ho nesty and sincerity of the parties connected with that bill. The motion was then put and agreed to, and the select com mittee appointed• PAROCHIAL RATES' EXEMPTION BILL. Mr. WILKS brought up the report on this bill, which was agreed to, and the bill was ordered to be read a third time on Monday The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the houie adjourned at six o'clock. HOUSE OF . LORDS, FRIDAY, JUNE 21. The Marquis of ar took the 'oaths and subscrihed the Par liamentary rules. _ The Bishop of LICHFIELD and COVENTRY presented 11 pe titions against colonial slavery. FOREIGN POLICY. The Earl of ABERDEEN said he felt it necessary to make a few observations on a subject to which he had before called the attention of the house. Their lordships would recollect, that some time ago, in consequence of an assertion made elsewhere, on high authority, that the French Government had entered into no engagement whatever with respect to . Algiers, he had moved for certain papers, with a view to explain the nature of the situation in which France stood with respect to Algiers. These papers, at least a great part of them, were now on their lordships' table. On them he would say nothing further, ex cept that he was quite content to leave their contents, as bear ing on the case which he had brought before the house, to that principle of interpretation which would be adopted by men of sense, honour, and integrity. It had been boasted that Algiers probably would prove a source of riches as abundant to France as the East Indies were to England. No doubt this was a greatly exaggerated opinion, but still the possession of Algiers by France was a subject of very serious consideration, and ought to command the attention of his Majesty's ministers. For his own part, if so humble an individual as himself could render any assistance, be was ready to co-operate with his Majesty's ministers in doing that which the honour and dignity of the country required. He should conclude all be had to say on the present occasion by expressing a hope (reserving to himself, however, the liberty of returning to this subject at a future time, if necessary,) that the noble earl would be anxious, at a proper period, to make a full communication to that house, and to the public of the policy which ministers had pu rsue d, and that he would be desirous to prove that that honour and those interests with which they had been entrusted had rot suffered injury in their hands during the progress of those transa c ti o n s . Earl GREY observed, that as the noble lord did not mean to make any motion on this subject, and as he had not offered any observations to the house with reference to it, it was only necessary for him to say a very few words. He believed that what the noble earl immediately referred to was what recently occurred in the French Chamber of Deputies; but he had to state that his Majesty's ministers had not yet received any in formation of an official or formal nature on the subject; their lordships, therefore, would not think it necessary that he should enter into any discussion on that point; indeed, on a question of this kind, resting as the subject did at present, it would be impossible for him, under existing circumstances, to enter upon its discussion without serious inconvenience. His Majesty's ministers had endea7oured, according to their views on the sub ject, to support as far as they possibly could the honour and dignity of the country ; and whenever the time came for mak ing a communication on the subject (for which time the noble earl very properly reserved himself), he trusted ministers would be able to show that they had not forgotten the honour or in terest of the country. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, HUSH TITHES. The Earl of Widimovv, before he proceeded with the motion of which he had given notice, wished that the resolution of the House of Commons of the 18th inst., on the subject of Irish tithes, should be read. The clerk was proceeding to read it, w h en Earl GREY objected to such a course of proceeding, as the resolution was not regularly and formally before the house, but was only on their lordships' table by favour. The Earl of `NICK Low said he wished the resolution to be read in order to avoid explaining to their lordships at length its na ture and object. He might be told that he was introducing it prematurely because the subject was not yet before the house, and that the discussion should he deferred until the matter came up in the shape of a bill or resolution to their lordships. He was prepared to admit the justice of that proposition on general principles, but'it was by no means applicable to all. There were cases in which it was not only expedient, but very desirable, that their lotdihips should have an opportunity of discussing subjects that originated elsewhere, in the hope. when it was known in the other House of Parliament through the ordinary channels of communication, that theirlordships held certain opinions on such subjects, that the measures would be modified and altered so as to afford them better chance of being carried in their lordships' house. In order to bring the question as clearly as he could before their lordships, he called on them to consider the situation in which they were placed with respect to this important subject. Their lordships would recollect, that at the commencement of the last session of Parliament this subject was considered by his Ma jesty's ministers of such vast importance, that it was made men tion of in his Majesty's speech from the throne, and in such a manner, too, that every one thought ministers were prepared with some measure relative to it.. But his Majesty's ministers were not governed by such vulgar prejudices. They were not prepared with any such measure; but they proposed, in both Hopes of Parliament, a select committee to investigate the subject, to examine witnesses, and to report thereon. These committees immediately assembled, and commenced operations with activity, diligence, and ability; and each committee made two reports to their respective houses. As to the first of these reports made to their lordships last February be should say nothing. He had animadverted on it at the time, chiefly on account of a most objectionable term which it contained—a term which had created much evil and caused much'bloodshed; but the s,econd report to their lordships, which was made in June last, contained much valuable information, and he greatly ap proved of it. Ile should take the liberty of reading one short extract (the only one lie meant to read) from the report of the committee of the House of Commons, which had been commu nicated to their lordships' house. The reports of the two com mittees were very similar, but he preferred that of the House of Commons, because it was most explicit. It said, "The com mittee recommended that the following measures be adopted by Parliament with as little delay as possible. It is expedient, without loss of time, that separate bills should be introduced— first, to render the Tithe Composition Act permanent and com pulsory; second, to enable the clergy to relieve themselves; and, thirdly, for the commutation of tithes for land." When this was made known, he asked whether it was the intention of ministers to introduce those three bills in that session of Parlia ment, and the noble earl and the Lord President of the Council answered most decidedly "that it was." This occurred nearly at the end of June; and he believed that the intention of minis ters was what they had stated. One of those bills was introduced in that house, and had passed through Parliament; but only one of them, it should be observed, had passed in the last ses sion. He did not blame ministers for not doing more last ses sion. He did not expect them to do impossibilities; and, at the time, he thought it was impossible for them to carry the three bills at that late period of the session. What he blamed them for was, that during the interval between the last session and this present 21st June,—being an entire year from the time when he put the question,—not one word was said by any member of the government in either house of Parliament on the subject. It was proposed, in the other house, that the enforcement of tithes should be caused to cease altogether ; that an advance of money should be made for arrears of tithes and composition of tithes, for 1831 and 1832, and for the income of the clergy for 1833; and it was intended and proposed to pay the country for this advance by an imposition of land tax. By this plan the defaulters, those who had by fraud, by violence, by every mode of intimidation, exempted themselves from the payment of those just dues, would be effectually screened; while the pro prietor of the soil, who had always been the assister and pro tector of the clergy, and who had performed his duty, would be oppressed. If they placed the burden on the defaulters, it would be returning to the act of lust session under a new name. It would be doing that which his Majesty's ministers were least likely and least inclined to do,—it would be flying in the face of that mountain party who are opposed to all conciliation, be fore whom governnaeut were crouching and trembling, and whose mischievous measures they, in no small degree, assisted. But it was not stated by whom this advance was to be ulti mately borne—whether by the lords of the soil in possession of the land, or by the various intermediate persons standing be tween him and the immediate occupier. That was not stated, because it was a great and arduous question. The resolution was brought forward, and he supposed the bill to be founded on it would partake of the same character, in this crude, undi gested, and unformed shape, in the hope that, in going through Parliament, arliament, it would be altered and improved, and, in some way or other, rendered more passable. Ministers brought their rough blocks from the Downing-street quarry, that statues might be manufactured out of them by artists more able and skilful than themselves. The plan now proposed involved as gross a spoliation of the landowner as ever was effected by the most arbitrary government. What would be the result to the lay impropriitor, now that tithes were declared to be a nuisance which ought to be abolished? Np provision was made for the lay impropriator of tithes. He saw a noble marquis on the cross-bench, (the Marquis of Westmeath,) who, he believed, was a great owner of lay impropriations, and he certainly flat tered himself that he would vote with' those who meant to oppose the measure. This was not the case of Don Pedro ver ices Don Miguel, —no, it was a case of property versus spoliation; and he was convinced that the good - sense and justice of the noble lord would lead him to vote with him (the Earl of Wick low) on this occasion. Then, the third class of persons who would be affected by this proceeding was the clergy themselves. He defied any man who looked into the provisions of this reso lution to view it in any other light than as an insidious bribery of the church. (Hear, hear.) Ministers wished to bribe the clergy to give up that right to the soil which the church had possessed more firmly and for a longer period than noble lords had possessed their estates. He believed that the noble lords opposite had never intended to enter into a systematic attack on the rights and interests of the church; but it they had taken of fice in the government for the purpose of destroying the church, they could not have pursued more effectual means than that they had adopted. When ministers entered office he would assert and he defied contradiction, that resistance to tithes in Ireland was scarce ly perceptible. He knew that there was an unwillingness to pay tithes, just as there was an indisposition to pay rent, or to pay any species of tax; but there was no more objection to tithes than to any other impost in that country. The coercion bill was now in operation; and he approved of it, not on account of the punishment which it inflicted, but on account of the confi dence it inspired. A clause had been introduced into that bill iu the course of the discussion elsewhere, which in some degree impaired and defeated its efficacy. He blamed ministers for allowing it. They well knew who the parties were that cla moured for it. They were not the representatives of the people, but the representatives of priests and demagogues, selected from bullock-sheds, attornies' offices, and clerks' offices in the coun try. lie felt great respect for all the votes of the other house: if they declared that the malt-tax was a nuisance, and should be abolished, he respected their vote ; and if, the next day, they arced that it was not a nuisance, and ought not to be abolished, still he respected the vote of that honourable house; .in short, he respected all their votes. But he confessed that he felt no small degree of surprise when this plan was introduced to the House of Commons, that no man of landed property in Ireland (for there were in the house some men of landed property,) not withstanding the reform bill, rose and solemnly protested against it. This resolution, however, had not yet passed into a law, and he ventured to say, that even in the other house of parlia ment the measure would still be well considered and strenuously opposed before it came into their lordship? house. When it came before their lordships he should do his duty. It was a measure fraught with injustice and cruelty, and he should op pose it in every stage. His lordship concluded by moving "for a return of all sums collected by government to facilitate the payment and recovery of tithes due to the established church in Ireland." Viscount MELBOURNE said that the speech of the noble earl who had just sat down afforded in itself a convincing proof of the impolicy of entering into a discussion on a matter which was not fully betore the house. If the noble earl had waited until the sub ject had been brought forward in a defined shape, he would have avoided some of the errors into which he had fallen on this occa sion. He admitted that the measure which government had intro duced last year with respect to tithes was a fair subject of ani madversion. That measure was a transfer of the arrears of tithes to the crown, in the hope that the passive resistance, as it was called, which had been made to their collection, would not be continued when they were considered as debts to the crown. That measure had not answered the expectations which were conceived of it. Of the whole sum of £140,000 there had been only £12,600 collected, and that at an expense exceeding the amount. Under these circumstanees, and in the hope of put ting an end to the disputes so constantly recurring in the cols lection, it was thought better to introduce this measure, which, it was hoped, would have the effect of altogether puttin an end to that resistance to tithes which had always existed in - Ireland., This was to place the tithe as a tax on the land. The noble earl had given it as his opinion, and no doubt it was sincere, but he (Lord Melbourne) must deny that the present Govern ment had done any thing to increase the opposition to tithes. 14 was, he repeated, time that this question should be viewed in a statesmanlike manner. It was due to the Protestant establishment that the question should be placed on such a footing as would prevent that ill-feeling towards it which the collection of tithe had generated ; it was due to the Catholic majority of Ireland that they should be released from those vexatious proceedings, which were, in present circumstances, almost unavoidable ; and it was due to the Protestant majority of the empire to place the establish ment on a sure foundation. The situation of Ireland, with respect to the collection of tithes, was unparalleled in the history of nations. That •system had . given rise to turbu lence and disorder, which, 'for the security of the empire, it was necessary to put an end to by some means; of course, the first duty of the Government was to put down turbu lence, to restore peace, and then to legislate against the re currence of that disorder and turbulence as far as they could. They . had, as the result of that deliberation, determined upon bringing forward the measure which had been sanctioned by the adoption of the resolution proposed to the other House of *Par liament. The measures which would be consequent on the adoption of that resolution were not yet. in a state to come reedy under the consideration of their lordships; but he trusted they , Were such as would be approved of when they did come before them. At all events, he did hope that noble lords would wait until they were before them in that shape in which alone they could enter into a full discussion of their merits. (Hear, heat.) The Duke of WELLINGTON said, that if the noble viscount who had just sat down had entered into any satisfactory expla nation of the measures which it was the intention of govern ment to adopt on this important question, he should not have felt it necessary to offer a word in reply to what had fallen from him; but in the whole of what the noble lord had said he found ; explanation at all. He found' that the tithe due to one body of men was to be compensated by a tax on another. That, no doubt was simple proposition; but this was what his noble .friend (the Earl of Wicklow) complained of, that no explana tion was given Of how this was to lie done. By the act of the last session the clergy could not collect the tithe. If the Go vernment intended to repeal that act, the clergyman might pro ceed to collect his tithe, if he could, after all that had taken place on the subject. The noble viscount had not given any explana tion on this subject, because, in fact, he did not know what the bill stated, or what was intended to be done with respect to it. The resolution which had been submitted to the other house was, as it now stood, that a land-tax should be levied for the payment of tithe; but who was to pay it? Who, he asked, was to pay it? Was it the landlord? He would beg of noble lords to consider what would be the effect of asking the landlord in this country to pay the tithes on his land for three years. It was calculated that the average of the tithes in Ireland did not amount to more than two shillings the acre. He would ask— , and he was aware that some of the noble lords opposite pos : ssesed an immense extent of land in Ireland—what landlord of .that country was now ready to pay the tithes of three years —to pay to the amount of 6s. or 7s. per acre on his land? They saw that if they deprived the clergy of their property, they themselves would be taxed to make it good. - Their lord ships would in a few days be called upon to consider a proposi tion for giving compensation to a large class of individuals who were to be deprived of their property, and he would beg of their lordships to consider and to inipress the same thing on their neighbours, that if they deprived otheis of their property they would as an almost necessary consequence lose their own. But he was sure that the noble viscount was mistaken in the ground of his charge against some portions of the Protestant gentry. He was sure that they had too much attachment to the church and to the security of their own property to join in any measure : to deprive the clergy of theirs. Earl GREY said that •when the noble earl (Wicklow) gave notice of a motion on this subject he (Earl Grey) did not un . derstand that it was for the sake of division, but for discussion. He had asked hiMself what object the noble_earl could Have for introducing such a discussion under such circumstances, and the only answer which his ingenuity could suggest was, that it would furnish the opportunity of dealing out reproach and in vective against the government, though without any real ground on which to go. In that conjecture he was fully borne out in mar what occurred in the course of the discussion. There could, the noble earl must have been aware, be no objection to the mo tion. There could lit no difference between them as to the pro duction of the account for which he moved, yet, as if it were a motion to which the government was decidedly opposed, the noble earl had largely availed himself of the opportu nity which it gave of invective against the administration. The gross amount of arrears now due to the clergy for tithes was £103,033. A certain amount of claims had, however, been withdrawn by the clergy themselves, and the sum was thus di minished to £104,280. I'he amount of arrears for which pro clamation had been issued was £83,191. There remained, then, a sum of £20,900 odd, for which no proclamation or proceed ings had been issued. This included the account for 132 pa rishes. There had been collected altogether £12,000, at an expense (we think Earl Grey, who, at the conclusion of his speech, was almost inaudible, said) of £7767. This statement would convince their lordships how completely the act of last session had failed in its operation, and would impress upon them the necessity of considering how the distress of the clergy, arising from the non-payment of their dues, could be best re lieved, how their just rights could be best consulted, and how that object could be effected at the least detriment to the other parties connected with this great ques ti on . H e could assure the house that the members of Government had unanimously agreed to this measure, and he trusted that it when it came re gularly before their lordships, it would also meet with their unanimous consent. He trusted that no party feelings, no petty animosities, no p ersona l i n t eres t s wou ld p revent their lordships from giving to it that favourable consideration which, in his conscience, he believed it to deserve, and he implored them, if they were dissatisfied with it, either to substitute for it. some measure that was more effectual, or to join with him in making it as perfect as possible. To the motion at present before the house no objection could be offered ; and, having said that, he had no desire to trouble their lordships with any further observations at present. (Hear, hear !) After some further discussion the motion was agreed to. LOCAL COURTS BILL. On the order of the day being read that the house resolve into a committee on the above bill, Lord LYNDHURST rose, and expressed his opinion that their lordships were not in a position to proceed further with the bill at the present moment. The bill referred to certain schedules, six or seven in number, which had never been explained to their lordships; and it appeared to him to be absolutely necessary, before another step was taken, that those schedules should be printed, in order that they might have an opportunity of pro perly considering them. He thought that this, connected with the late hour of the evening, formed a sufficient reason for de ferring the committee. The LORD CHANCELLOR was quite sure that if his noble friend had attended to the nature of the schedules to which he hail alluded, he would have seen that they did not in the slightest degree interfere with the principle of the bill, to which their lord ships had already agreed, and they could not therefore oppose any obstacle to the house resolving into committee. One of them related to fees, and he believed that, according to the uni form practice of I arliament, that schedule must be originated in the House of Commons; another related to the form in which judgments in court were to be delivered; and a third laid down certain formulas of proceeding. The schedule containing them might be called a "directing schedule," as it merely suggested the propriety of observing a certain course of proceeding. He was quite aware that it would be incumbent upon him to explain the nature of those schedules in the committee, but he confi dently asserted that not one portion of the principle of the bill was involved in them—indeed, if their lordships chose to omit the words in the body of the bill referring to them, they might be wholly left out, and the principle of the bill not in the slightest degree impaired. He therefore hoped that their lordships would not postpone going into committee, since the consideration of the schedules need only be postponed until they were proposed. Lord ELLENBOROUGH thought it quite necessary that the schedule of fees should be proposed, though it might be expe dient to strike it out afterwards. He was also of opinion that an account of the salaries of the officers who would be created by the bill should be given. He had heard very alarming state ments with respect to the extent to which the public would be burdened by the enactment of this measure. He heard that the expense would not be less than £250,000 or £300,000 a-year. He thought that the expense which the measure would entail on the country ought to form a very material ingredient in their lordships' consideration. The bill was then considered in committee pro formd, and various new clauses were added. Lord WHARNCLIFFE was understood to say that he would, on the re-commitment of the bill, propose that barristers of five years' standing be eligible for judges of the local courts. The house then resumed, and the bill, as amended, was or dered to be printed.—Adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS, FRIDAY, JUNE 21. The gallery was opened at a quarter past twelve o'clock Sir W. INGILBY gave notice, that in the next session of Par liament he should move a total repeal of the duty on malt; and also, that in the course of the next session he should move a resolution declaring that it is expedient, and essential for the morality of the country, that the bishops should no longer have seats in the House of Peers. Mr. WALLACE gave notice of certain amendments to the Sheriffs' Court of Scotland Bill. Lord SANDON presented a petition from Liverpool against the General Registry Bill; also petitions from Eccleshall for the better observance of the Sabbath-day, and complaining of the low price of spirits; also a petition from 9(X) holders of small tenements in Liverpool against the Rating of Small Tenements Bill; also a petition from certain merchants at Liverpool re specting claims upon the Danish government ; and a petition from the merchants, bankers, awl traders of Liverpool, in fa vour of the Public Notaries Bill. The Speaker left the chair at a few minutes before 3 o'clock. The Speaker resumed the chair at a quarter past 5 o'clock. A message was brought from the Lords for copies of the re ports and evidence of the committees on East India affairs in 1831 and 1832.—Ordered. • Mr. BAINBRIDGE moved for various returns relative to the amount of bank-notes and post bills issued by the Bank during the last three years. The Marquis of CHANDOS brought up the report and minutes of evidence of the committee on the Sale of Beer Bill, and ex pressed a hope that ministers would not allow, the session to pass over without the introduction of a measure to remedy the evil of the existing. system. Mr. G. LAMB feared it wits rather late in the session to do anything this year: he admitted that the evil of the existing system was apparent from the evidence taken before the com mittee, and promised that government would take the subject into consideration, with a view to the discovery of a remedy, at the earliest period possible. Mr. SLANEY thought the government bound to take the sub ject up without delay. The Marquis of CHANDOS presented petitions against the Irish Church Temporalities' Bill froni the archdeacon and clergy of the archdeaconry of Buckingham, and from the parish of St. Nicholas, Cork. . Mr. WILBRAHAM gave notice of a resolution in committee on the East India Company's charter relative to the company's monopoly of salt. Mr. H UME brought in a bill to amend the law relative to the repair of churches and chapels. Read a first time, to be read a second time on Wednesday next. Mr. STANLEY moved that the house at its rising be adjourned till Monday. Mr. FINN asked the right hon. Secretary for Ireland whether there was any truth in the rumour that Government had con sented that the money to be realized by the sale of church pro perty should should be exclusively appropriated to ecclesi astical purposes. Mr. LITTLETON suggested to the hon. member, that the pro per time to put his question would be when the clause relating to the subject should be brought forward. On the motion of Mr. STANLEY, the house resolved itself in to a committee on the CHURCH TEMPORALTIES (IRELAND) BILL. On clause 132 being read, Lord OXMANTOWN moved as an amendment the insertion of words to the effect that the commissioners to be appointed un der this act, in valuing the bishops' leases in Ireland, should act on the same practice which had been hitherto pursued by the archbishops and bishops of th'at country in granting re newals. The subsequent clauses, up to 147, were then severally put and agreed to, with a few verbal amendments, with the excep tion of clauses 136 and 138, which were struck out. On the proposal of the 147th clause, which relates to the application of moneys arising from the sale of perpetuities, Mr. STANLEY said, that the committee had now come to the consideration of the clause upon which considerable objections had been expressed, not only on the part of hon. members on the opposite side of the house, but on that of his own particular friends;—he alluded to the circumstance of the alienation of the church ploperty. He, however, did not consider the ap plication of money proposed to be made by the present bill in the light of an alienation of the property of the church. (Hear, hear.) He thought a distinction might fairly be drawn between church property and that of private individuals, the first being a species of property in posse, the latter a bone Ale property. He was, however, well aware that a strong feeling existed not only within the walls of the house against the clause in ques tion, as containing an enactment for the alienation of church property. (Hear.) This being the case, it became a question whether it would be expedient or desirable, when the conflicting nature of opinion on the subject was considered, to apply the surplus fund accruing to the credit of the commissioner to other than purposes connected with the church establishment. Now, what he proposed to do was this, to move the omission from the bill of the 147th clause altogether, and, at the same time, to strike out from the 54th clause the exception which related to the perpetuity purchase fund. This alteration, he believed, would leave the question of the surplus fund precisely where it was at present. It would be recollected, that a material alter ation had been effected in the bill since its introduction,—he meant the exemption of incumbents from the payment of tax, they having no present fund provided for them except that caused by the reduction of the sees of Derry and Waterford. Even in two years it was improbable that the fund in question could meet the objects to which it had been proposed to apply it. He earnestly entreated the house to act iu that spirit of conciliation by which alone it was possible to carry any_great measures. Mr. HUME assured ministers it was more in sorrow than in anger he beheld the picture which they, exhibited at thatmoment. (I-fear, hear.) At the time the coercion bill was under discus sion, the noble Chancellor of the Exchequer, who he was sorry was not present, pledged himself, and the right San . gentleman repeated the pledge, to stand or fall by the Church Reform. Bill. If they wished to stand before the country as men of consistency and honour, they were bound to redeem the pledge. The right hon. Secretary for the Colonies had not met the question fairly. The great principle of the bill, which obtained for it his support, and he believed also that of the great majority of the house, was that which admitted that the property of the church was public property, and might be dealt with as Parliament thought fit. — (Hear, hear.) Ministers recommended the bill upon that principle, and the noble Chancellor of the Exchequer said that at no very remote period Parliament would have £3,000,000 at its disposal. The right hon. gentleman now attempted to change his sentiments; but they were written down—the people of England knew thatthey had been expressed, and the attempt to deny them exhibited a lamentable example of want of firmness and want of ioub;ie faith. Tor several months the public, rely ing on the pledges of ministers, had been looking forward con fidently to the carrying of the bill.with the . impertant principle which chiefly recommended it to their favour, and now they shrunk from the attempt. They had abandoned their duty to their country, their duty to their King; they had forfeited their own honour; they had g i ven u p a ll in order to preserve their places. (" Hear, hear," and "No.") He trusted, however, that the majority of that house would express their sense of the manner in which they had mocked and duped them during the last four months by rejecting the bill altogether. (Hear.) After a lengthened discussion, the committee divided, when there appeared, Ayes for the clause Noes Majority in favour of ministers 132 On our return to the gallery we found the house engaged in discussing the • SEPARATISTS' AFFIRMATION BILL. Mr. PRYME moved the third reading of this bill. Sir 11, W. RIDLEY said, that if this bill were passed,. Parlia- JUNE 25, 1833. ment had better at once admit the affirmation of every man who• objected to an oath. For his art, he did not know who the Separatists were. He time that day six months. Mr. MURRAY and Mr. BRISCOE supported the bill, which web opposed by Sir R. Notts. ► The amendment not being pressed, the bill was read a third. time, and passed without a division. ARWICK, ELECT I ON. Sir R. FERGUSONI moved, pursuant to notice, for a select committee to consider the report of the committee on the Warwick election petition. Sir J. HA N NIER opposed it; and gave it as his opinion, that the allegations contained in the report of the committee w!re not borne out by the evidence. He deprecated the instit r of the proposed inquiry, merely on the ground of so few cases of bribery (a laugh), and expressed a hope that Parlia ment would not at the present late period of the session ent er into such a discussion. Mr. ErcicE. rose to sugc.est to his hon, friend (Sir R. r" ,- guson) the introduction of'an amendment into his motion "That a select committee be appointed to make further inq uir y into tli_proceedings that took place at the last election for t city of Warwick, and to consider and report what further means should be adopted to prevent bribery, treating, &c., in that bo rough." After a few words from Sir Thomas Freemantle, and from No other hon. members whose names we could not learn, the I nw tion, as amended, was put and carried. Colonel DAVIES brought in n a bill to provide for the more speedy and summary trial of ersons accused of simple larceny. It was read a first time, and ordered to be read a second time on Friday next. The other orders of the day were then disposed cf, and th e house adjourned at half-past two o'clock. **l4- LONDON POLICE. MANSION-HOUSE. Joshua Btitterworth, the foreman in the watch department?, Mr. Jones, the silversmith o f C orn hill, was b roug ht UP I°. final examination upon the charge of havi ng ro bb e d his mase r t of _Property to a very large amount. The pawnbrokers who lent their money upon the articles a!' leged to have been stolen by the prisoner, whose appearance is as respectable as that of any silversmith, appeared, and having. refused to give up the property without proof at the Old ]39' of its identity, were bound over to appear at the trial. Application was made by the friends of the prisoner to the Mayor to remand him for another examination. The Lord Mayor asked upon what pretext the applicatio n was made? The friends of the prisoner stated, that if the prisoner was rek manded for another period, the confinement in New g ate, Whic h must follow his commitment, would be less severe previously to the trial. The Lord Mayor, in the most positive terms, refused to delay the commitment of the prisoner a day longer. The momen t (his Lordship said) any very heavy crime was committed, a crY of compassion was raised. If the offence was not extraordinary , the accused person would enter his dungeon without raising the slightest sympathy; but Fauntleroys, and Thurtells, and abet; robbers and murderers, were sure to command sympathy and commiseration, and gather together crowds of advocates. The prisoner was fully committed to Newgate for trial. THAMES POLICE. INHUMAN TREATMENT OF AN APPRENTICE.-012 Wed[lei; day Capt. John Wilson, the master of the ship Henrietta 0 1 Sunderland, lying off Shadwell , was charged with cruelly Henrietta, of John Preston, an apprentice. The - boy, who appeared to be suffering the most acute pain, stated that on Tuesday even ing the Captain went ashore, and came on board b e t wee n one and two o'clock, after he and the other apprentice had turned in. lie complained of one of the boats oars being . laid athwart the deck, and made him turn out of bed to put it in its proper place, which he had done before he had turned in. ne then went to sleep again, and in a few minutes the Cap tain called him, but, being asleep, he did not hear him, and the Captain came below in a great passion with a thick rope, which he had doubled, and aroused him. He had no sooner got out of bed than the Captain laid on him as hard as he was able, and, in spite of his cries for mercy, continued flogging him for upwards of ten minutes, until he was " wealed" from bead to foot. His body was so sore that he could not bear his clothes to touch it. Mr. Ballantine—Were your clothes on when he flogged you?' The boy said he bad nothing on but his shirt. Mr. Broderip said that when the lad applied for the warrant, on Wednesday evening, he never saw or heard of anything so shccking as the state of the boy's person. It was a most fero cious and entirely unprovoked assault, and he ordered the Cap tain to be taken into custody directly, wherever he could be found, and he hoped he had been locked up all night. Mr. Ballantine directed the boy to putt off his clothes and let him see the state of his person. The apprentice did as he was directed, and the appearance of his body caused an involuntary shudder from all present. His arms, shoulders, and back, presented one mass of bruises. The boy said he had received severe stripes on other parts of his person. Mr. Ballantine—What do you mean by this cruel punish ment ? The Captain, who was greatly agitated, and could not look at the boy's back without shuddering, sakd in a low tone, "I an' extremely sorry for what has happened.' Mr. Broderip—Sorry, indeed! How can sorrow atone for what you have done in flogging this poor boy for ten minutes, on his naked person ? What do you mean by being sorry ? I am sorry that the boy should have been so flogged, and that such a case should have come before me. Defendant—l was very drunk, and did not know what I did. The boy has been with me three years, and I have never flogged him before. Mr. Broderip—Look at your own dreadful work, if you have' any feeling about you, you ought to be ready to sink to the ground. Defendant—l have feeling, Sir; lam indeed sorry. Mr. Ballantiue, after a long consultation with his colleague,' said that after such complete evidence of the defendant's bru tality and want of temper, he would no more trust the boy with him again than he would his own child, and the owner of the ship must be sent for. The Magistrates could not pass a sen tence under the summary power entrusted to them sufficient to meet the offence; and if they did the penalty would not find its way into the boy's hands. If the case was sent to the Ses sions, and the boy still possessed those marks he had just dis played, the Court would, in the event of a conviction, inflict the heaviest punishment in their power to award; but no Eng. lish Jury would believe, unless they saw the thing with their own eyes, that any man could have been guilty of such cruelty; and as the defendant had power to traverse the case, and after wards to postpone it., the boy's person would probably by that time be healed ; and the case then resolving itself into a mere common assault, the defendant might escape with a slight pu nishment. Under these circumstances the Bench would, be• fore they came to a decision, allow the defendant to retire with the boy, and see what compensation he could make him. After he had done so the Magistrates would give their judgment. The parties then retired, and in a few minutes hingham, a land-officer, said the Captain had offered the boy £4. The Magistrates said that would not do; it was nut one-half enough. The Captain eventually gave the boy eight sovereigns. The parties were then brought into the office, and Mr. Bal lantine, addressing the Captain, said, " We hear that you have' been in conversation with the boy; and that being the case, we shall dispose of this under our summary jurisdiction. We' fine you ls. for the assault, besides all the costs. The boy will stop here." QUEEN-SQUARE. BYERS V. THE EARL OF LIVERPOOL.—The Earl of Liverpool appeared before Mr. Gregorie, on a summons issued against him by Byers, the informer, for not having his name and place of residence properly painted on one of his breaks, according to the late Act of Parliament. His Lordship, who appeared in person to defend the cause, pleaded nut guilty. Byers stated that there was no Christian or surname on the break. The words were " The Earl of Liverpool, Buxstead, Sussex," and that they were black letters on a yellow ground, instead of a white ground. The Earl of Liverpool—Pray did 3 ou see the break yourself ? Byers—l did, my Lord. The Earl of Liverpool—When did you see it ? Bvers—Why, my Lord, I saw the break on the 6th of. June, at Kensington Gore. The Earl of Liverpool —I believe you are fatally correct. Mr. Gregorie then fined his Lordship in the mitigated penalty of 20s. and costs, which he immediately paid, remarking that he should, for the future, endeavour to keep himself out of the grasp of Mr. Byers. Several owners of carts and cabs were fined for having they' names painted in Old English letters, commonly called German text, the same not being considered legible letters according t° the Act of Parliament. LONDON GAZ4TTE.-FRIDAY, JUNE 21. INSOLVNT. June 21.—Joseph Alexander TaylorE,George-street,llanover-square, boarding-house-keeper. BANKRUPTS. Alexander Douglas, St. Benet's-place, Graceehureh-street, met chant. William Holman. llertford, slate-merchant. James Young, Thomas Bracken, George Ballard, James Charle s Colebrooke Sutherland, and Nathaniel Alexander, Calcutta, East In dies, merchants. J(ffinVatas Simpson, otherwise John Simpson, South Sea-chambers , Threadneedle -street, and Clapham-common, perfumer. Joseph Morland, Broad-street, Ratcliffe-cross, corn-dealer. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Sewell and Bailiff, Birkenhead, Cheshire, painters.—J. and G. Bar.: eon, Thorney, Cambridgeshire, carpenters.—H. Morgan and D. D vies, Machynlleht. Montgomeryshire, flannel-maffiffacturers.—J. au° J. Riley, Sheffield and Chester, china-dealers.—Young and Tyree. Pillgwenlly, Monmouthshire, coal-shippers. ,, ,-. 11 . Pryce and Co., Leal' enhall-street, and Manchester, merchants. —Camp and Mason, Blen heim-mews, Oxford-street, eannen .— J. Kirby and W. sbillingford. Bieester-market-end, Oxfordshire, woolstaplers.—S. and S. Smith. Manchester, tailors.—T. Brown and Son, Leeds. iron-merchants.—R. Hebert. and 11. Salkeld, Bishoprm, te-street-without, svholeside-Ica ther-sellers.—S. T. Prohett and T. Ward, Derby, printers.-11, Dior' , r e.su and E. Marsden, Southwark, hop-merchants .— R. P roc t or an d J. Howell, Percival-street, Clerkenwill.—W. Shepherd, W. R o lfe, F. Smith, and J. Carter. Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, manufacturers of waterproof fabrics.—Thompson and Whitelaw, Prince's -street, Hallo' ver-rquare.--J. G. Wrench and W. Prosser, Bullow Pill, Gloucester' shire, dealers In marble.—J. and J. Williams, Houndsditch, copper' smiths. DIVIDENDS. July 15, S. Brrrwnent, Liverpool, watch-maker.—July 15, T. Wit ter, Liver . pool, joiner. —July 12, IL J. Winholt, Poultry, stationer. July 4, W. Wilmington. jun., Milborne Port, Somersetshire. manufacturer.—July 4,W. Sangster, Holland-place, Lambeth, builder. —July 4, A. and W. Coombs, Fiennett's-hill, Doctors'-commons, ear penters.,--July 15, W. Quinton, Walsall, Staffordshire, victualler. -- July 12, J. R. Beecroft, St. Alban's, Hertfordshire, July 12: R. S. Pretyinan, Resent-circus, Oxford-street, linen-draP e '• —July 12, C. Hancock, Hillingdon, near Uxbridge, brick-maker ,- " July 17, W. B. Reynolds, Birmingham, draper.—July 20, 11, Droitwich, Worcestershire, tallow-chandler.—July 13, C. Cliff, Sh e ' hat-dealer.—June 29, T. Pocock, Speen, Berkshire, sheer dealer.—July 24, W. Cutlack, Littleport, Cambridgeshire, comino - 13, W. Fenton, Belle Vile, Yorkshire, school-mast er ' —July 19, .1. Battyl, Fulbourn, Cambridgeshire, common- b re wer," July 13 , J. Lea, Braunston, Northamptonshire , coal-inerchant.--Ju i; f 13, H. Harrison, Manchester, merchant, CERTIFICATES, JULY 12. W. Dickinson, Ewer-street, Southwark, hair-manufacturer.,, Fenton, High Holborn, glass-dealer.---.J. Anderso n , H a rp-lane, 1 ,,,` censed victualler.--.T. Marston, Market-Raisen, Li nco l ns hi re , surges"' —R. J. Craneis, Mahlon, Essex, buteher..—R. Whittard, Cheltec e ham and Gloucester, hatter. Quin was proud, of making everybody in company insensibl drunk. On one occasion there was a parson in company, as he had been told, vvas more than a match for the hardics bacchanalian : Quin was, therefore, ambitious of c onquering the parson. All the comp an y were soon overcome with wi!'l,; and lay senseless on the fl oor : Q u i n was as sense l es s as 1h e 1 rest, for he had fallen a s l ee p , but still retained his seat. , he waked, he looked with triumph on his prostrate companA ° .; and. as anxious to find the parson among them. but in va in ' he therefore sump concluded, that the poor man had been take"' r and carried to bed. "But" said Quin, ‘.‘ it was a fine stun morning, and, t o my extreme mortification, I saw the Pa rs°rt, through the window, bathing his head before a putnli." : "" rar !ors Records.