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24Tetn lublicationo. GAGE'S TRIGONOMETRICAL PLAN OP THE TOWN • AND PORT OF LIVERPOOL. Especially Postreniscd by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, and .Dedieistectiby permission, to the Worshipful the Mayor and Common Council. 111 HE unrivalled satisfaction which the abovenamed work has given to the Subscribers, and the very high encomiums which have been passed upon this undertaking by the most competent judges, renders it unnecessary on the part of the Projector to enter into a detail of the great peculiarities of this work, lie Therefore most respectfully submits to the public the Yellowing select Testimonials from the high and distinguished authority of the Right Hon. Lord Brougham and Vaux, Olinthus Gregory, LL.D., F.R.A.S., Professor of Mathematics in the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich, and Captain Henry Mangles Denham, R.N., and Marine. Surveyor to e port of Liverpool:— " Mr. Gage's Survey, especially the full one . inches to a mile, is the finest thing I ever saw."—LORD c ouGuast. " I had opportunities of inspecting varto • portions of Mr. Gage's Plan of the Town, Port, and Vicizi,s f Liverpool, during its progress, and have now the pleasure ~.'•xamining it since its completion. Both as an interesting an' valuable result of the application of scientific principles, and as a beautiful work of art, it may be unhesitatingly characterized as altogether unique. Mr. Gaga will, doubtless, be amply rewarded by the public for this extraordinary specimen of his talents, accuracy, and per severance. " OLINTHUS dIIEGOItY. " Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, April 6, 1836." " Marine Surveyor's Qfce, April 28, 1836. "Dear Sir,—l have examined your beautiful Plan of Liver pool, sent for my inspection, and am truly happy in the oppor tunity you have thus afforded me of contributing my humble but earnest weed of praise and admiration of the work. " I most sincerely congratulate you on arriving at this splendid result of Trigonometrical precision, and on pourtraying upon so commensurate a scale, the elaborate detail of this growing town It is, indeed, a most elegant and comprehensive specimen of local topography, Wishing you continued success, I am, dear s ir, yours truly, " H. M. DENHAM. " Mr. M. A. Gage." Published by the Projector, at his Office, No. 17, Slater street, where the Plan may be obtained in the several styles of Mounting, at the following prices, namely : Mounted on Mahogany Rollers, Full Coloured, Varnished, &C_ £3los. Elegantly Bound for the Library, in a book form, Gilt and Lettered, £3 10s. Mounted on Linen, Full Coloured, and in a Neat Case, £3. TO THE FRIENDS AND PROMOTERS OF SCRIPTURAL EDUCATION. Under - the Illustrious and Distinguished Patronage of their Royal Highnesses the Paches.s of Kent and Princess Victoria, and a long list of the Nobility, Clergy, ( amounting to about *.%510 Subscribers.) APICTORIAL, GEOGRAPHICAL, CURE ‘OLOGI CAL, and HISTORICAL CHART, by R. IMPRISS, Delineating the Rise and Progress °I the Eva elical or Chris tian Dispensation, to the Ascension of our Lo • Arranged, by permission, accoraing to the " HARMONI. VANGELICA," of the Rev. EDWAiin GRESWELL, 8.D., con.. ruing 170 Vignettes, an 4 about 600 References; engraved in very bold style, by I. C. ZEITTER. Size 63 inches by 36, mounted on canvass and roller, price £2 12s. 6d. unvarnished ; 6s. extra if varnished. The SAME, (Reduced Scale,) having a complete Historical Table in the Margins, with about 600 References to the Gos pels; all our Lord's Journeys exhibited; every event localized, and '25 Vignettes, from Designs by the Old Masters; engraved in bold Outline by I. C. ZerrrEe. Size 36 inches by 29 inches. Price, with the Key included, on Black Rollers, £1 Is., ditto, varnished, £1 3s. 6d., or in a neat Portable Case, £1 2s. 6d. LITERARY NOTICES. " I believe your arrangements are perfectly in accordance with the principles of my Harmony. " It is unavoidable in a scheme like that of your Chart, that it appears at first sight crowded and perplexed by the multitude of its details; followed up, however, by the aid of the Key, it becomes simple and distinct; and I have no doubt, when once studied and understood, will be thought to have realized your proposed object, as well as anything of the kind that could have been attempted." - Frcnn the Rev. Edward Creswell, BD. &c. c. " We strongly recommend it to families and schools, and also for lecture-rooms."-Christian Observer for Dec. 1832. "The whole is admirably calculated to impress on the mind of the Biblical Student, and especially of young persons, a precise and correct idea of the personal history of our Lord."-Chris tian Guardian, Feb. 1833. " The most valuable assistance that ancient or modern times have ever produced."-Christian Advocate, Feb. 11, 1833. "We must confess we never formed any adequate conception of the force of the declaration, that our Lord went about doing good,' till we traced his journeyings on this Map."-Protestant Journal for August, 1833. " This Chart is really not only very beautiful, but very useful. There is nothing more difficult than to keep before one's mind the order of our Lord's journeys, and their direction. This Chart brings each journey before the eye, and nothing can more effectually fix things in the mind. And when to great beauty of execution, one feels that he can safely add the praise of high accuracy, as far as learning, like Mr. Greswell's, can insure it, nothing more need be said on the merit of the work." -British Mag. Feb. 1834. " It would be unjust not to spare one line for mentioning the splendidly elaborated Chart of Mr. Mimpriss, a work of vast, and, we hope, of well repaid toil."-Theoloyical Review for April 1834. It forms a most valuable auxiliary in the lecture-room, and a useful asssistant in the study of divinity."-Rey. 77so s . H ar t well Horne's Introduction, Vol. 11, p. 356. " To biblical students it is an invaluable treasure." New Connexion, Jan. 1834. "We regard the whole series as eminently useful."-Christian Remembrancer, July, 1834. "To the adult student it will throw much light on his path, and greatly aid his gospel,discoveries."-Sunday School Teach er's Magazine, July, 1834. " Is one of the most remarkable works of the kind that the age has produced, and we most sincerely wish the author ade quate encouragement."-Wesleyan Methodist's Mag. Nov. 1834. " We regard each of these publications as a valuable addition to our stock of educational works, and as peculiarly valuable, not only to families and schools, but to clergymen engaged in cathecatical instruction."-Record, Feb. 2, 1835. " We have never seen the attempt made in combination with so many useful objects, or executed with any thing like the gra phical beauty of the present work."-Congregational Magazine, Feb. 1831. "'This work, splendid, elaborate, and beautiful in a high de gree, we are happy to hear has been patronized considerably by ministers and other members of our denomination.-Baptist Mag.. Oct. 1831. We strongly recommend it to families and seminaries. No minister of the gospel should be without it."-Herald of Peace, Oct. 1834. R. Mimparss begs leave gratefully to acknowledge the pa tronage of the undermentioned Clergy, &c. in Liverpool :- Barker, Rev. F.. Edge-hill Fry, Joseph, Esq. Bowstead, Rev. T. S. Greenall,l'eter,Esq ,St. Helens Campbell, Rev. Augustus Hughes, Miss, Seaforth Dalton, Rev. Win., late of St. Haigh, Thomas, Esq. Jude's Harrison, Miss, Woodside Hillcoat, Rev. 11. B. W., D.D. Harrison, Daniel, Esq. Jones, Rev. Jno., St. Andrew's Harrison, Isaac, Esq. Kelly, Rev. John Jones, Win., Esq. Knox, Rev. Andw., Birkenhead Jones, Silencer, Esq. Prince, Rev. J. C. Jones, Mrs. Hugh Ralph, Rev. Dr. Institution of the Deaf and Rawson, Rev. W., Seaforth Dumb Wilson, Rev. R. M. Knowles, John, Esq. Bickersteth, R., Esq. Low, Miss, Seaforth Benson, Miss Margaret, (two Laird, Wm., Esq. copies) Mallaby, Joseph, Esq, Blackburn, Thos., Esq. Ogilvie, Mrs., Seatield Bourne, Timothy, Esq. ['richer, Edward, Esq. Cooper, T. 0., Esq. filcher, John W. G. Colley, Miss Pim, Joseph, Esq. Corrie, Mrs. Pritchard, R. W., Esq. Cordy, Mrs. Rathbone, Mrs. Wm. Crosfield, John, Esq. Robinson, Mrs. Crosfield, Wm., Esq. Richards, C. W., Esq. Cropper, James, Esq. Smith, Miss, Fulwood Cropper, John, Jun., Esq. Sherlock, L., Esq ' A.B. Cropper, Edward, Esq., (two ‘'oelker, Charles, Esq : copies) Waterhouse, Roger, Esq,. Cox, G. L., Esq. Waterhouse, Octavius, Esq. Dobbs, A. A., Esq. Waterhouse, Mrs. R. Davenport, Miss Wilson, Mrs., Heath Bank Dale, -, Esq. Yates, R. V., Esq. R. MIMPRISS is happy in being permitted to add the following testimonials, selected from a very numerous list :- INDIVIDUAL TESTIMONIALS. Blunt, Rev. Henry, Rector of Upper Chelsea, Dec. 31, 1834. -" I feel much pleasure in adding my testimony to that of others in recommendation of the Pictorial Chart of the Gospels, which I have found both attractive and instructive to young persons." Browne, Rev. J., LL.B., Trinity Church, Cheltenham, Dec. 2, 1833.-" I feel much pleasure in adding my testimony to that of others,,in favour of Mr. Mimpriss's interesting and instructive Chart." Close, Rev. F., A.M., Cheltenham, December 2, 1833.-" I beg to add my testimony in favour of the above happily con ceived and well executed plan of scriptural instruction." Crawley, Rev. Edmund .L, Trinity Church, Bath, January 28, 183-1.-" I consider the Pictorial Ch art o f the Gospels a very valuable work, as an aid in commun i cat i ng scripture knowledge to young persons." Dale, Rev. Thomas, St. Bride's, Fleet -street.-" I entirely concur in the sentiments of my respected friends, Messrs. Fesson and Sheppard, as to the utility and excellence of Mr. Mimpriss's Chart. Dalton, Rev. Wm., Wolverhampton, August 25, 1835.-" I have had in my possession M r . Mimpriss ' slarge edition of the Pictorial Chart of the Gospels, and have found it both useful and interestinr , in studying the Harmony. I feel confident that the small editions now published will be an auxiliary to the same studies, and therefore deserving of support." theshall Scriptures, and to facilitate the clear knowledge of a supremely important portion of the Divine Records." Geneste, Rev. M., West Cowes, Isle of Wight, February 22, 1833.-" It gives me pleasure to express my entire satisfaction with vnur beautifully executed and most instructive Chart, which . ' have watched with much interest from its commence ment; and I trust it will meet with that patronage of the public Which it so well deserves." Kershaw, Rev. G. W., A.M., St. Nicholas, Worcester.-" feel great pleasure in recommending Mr. Mimpriss's work as highly interesting and instructive." Melville. Rev. Henry, M.A., Dec. 17, 18.34.-" So far as I have had opportunity of examining Mr. Mimpriss's Chart, I quite concur with what is expressed by other clergymen." Pearson, Rey. John, Church Missionary College, Islington. -"It is my opinion that Mr. Mimpriss's Pictorial Chart is calculated to, be highly useful and interesting in the perusal of the Gospels." Shirley, Rev, W, A. Shirley Vicarage, Derbyshire, Nov. 4, 1833.-.1 I must willingly add rile testimony to that f others, in recommending Mr. Mimpriss's Chart as a very useful and interesting work." Sibthorp, Bev. R. W„ Ryde, Isle of Wight.-" I think it 111 ! , be useful to many, especially to young persons ; and that at ealeabgeli to fix in their minds the leading parts of the gospel history, Ths Second Part, now advertised, I think is I likely to he even more useful than the former, the History , of the Acts being less generally known than that of the Gospels." S sem tow m f t, iwßevta,.Hugh, S a lf or d, D ec . 1835.-" 1 have been pos e time of Mr. Mimpriss's Chart, and esteem it highly, as attractive fur the 'Willis, Rev. . VI, young, and indeed useful to all." very much approve of his. Lecturer of Walcot , Bath.-" I Gospel History, Mimpriss ' s Pictorial Chart of the and think it well deserving of the patronage of the public." Wilson, Rev. W., D.D., Southampto n , December, 1835.-" I c an, from knowledge, testify th at von have sparedno pains or expense in making your Chart and Harmony worthy of public both eminently useful in promoting patronage, and I consider scriptural instrnction." To be had of Mr. DAVENPORT, Ranelagh-street; and Mr. Gil A PEL, Church-street, Liverpool. '—Meth, 24Tetu Publicationo; LATE REV. DAVID M`NICOLL. Just publiThed. ANINISTERIAL FIDELITY AND JOY IN-DEATH. 1.11. A Sertnon.preached in Pitt-street Chapel,/On Monday Evening, June 13, 1836 on occasion of the Dvath of the Rev. D. M'Nicoll. By JANIES DIXON. Printed and Sold by R. Dickinson, 67, POST -lane, and also T. Kaye, D. Marples and Co., A. C. Bitynes, J. Arnold, and J. Davenport, Liverpool; and may be procured from any respect able Bookseller. 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Edwards, 12. Ave Maria-lane, and sold by all Booksellers and Dealers in Periodicals in town and country. Public Zobito. BANK OF AUSTRALASIA. / (INCORPORAMD BY ROYAL CHART ripHE Court of Directors of this Corpo ra ti o d o hereby give IL Notice, that they will grant Bills at Tlijttty Days' sight, or Letters of Credit, on their Colonial Establiiihments, at Sydney, in New South Wales, and at Hobart Town and Launceston, in Van Diemen's Land. The Directors will also receive applica tions for the negociation of Bills on the Australasian Colonies, and they will send out Bills to their Establishments for collection. Applications may be made at Liverpool to Messrs. Nicol., DUCKWORTH, and Co., Agents to the Corporation, at their Office, Cook-street, Castle-street. Bank of Australasia, 18, Aldermanbury, London, 22d July, 1836. MARY PORT AND CARLISLE RAILWAY. CAPITAL, £200,000, IN SHARES OF £5O EACH. Deposit, £2 per Share. ENGINEER,•GEORGE STEPHENSON, Esq. IT is proposed by the pres e nt lin e ( ex t en din g a b ou t twenty eight miles) to unite the flourishing Totin of Carlisle with the seaport Town of Maryport, and to form with the Railway now in progress between Newcastle and Carlisle, a direct, safe, and speedy communication across the Island, uniting the Ger man Ocean with the Irish Sea. The proposed Line has been carefully surveyed under the direction of Mr. Stephenson, who has made a most favourable report of the capabilities of the country, and the advantages to be derived from the proposed Railway. Applications for Shares addressed to the Committee, and for Prospectuses, to be made to Mr. TYSON, Solicitor, Maryport ; Mr. LAWSON, Solicitor, Wigton; Messrs. SwART and SIMP SON, 13, Birchin-lane, Lombard-street; Mr. Jos. THOMPSON, 7, Old Change; Mr. E. H. BROWN, Share Broker, 12, Angel court, Throgmorton-street, and at the Office of Messrs. AD LINGTON, GREGORY, FAULKNER, and FOLLETT, Solicitors, Bedford-row, London ; Mr,, ANDREW M'EwAN, Accountant, 75, Miller-street, Glasgow; Mr. THEOBALD EusifELL, Share Broker, Belfast ; Mr. JONATHAN DREWRY, Share Broker, Newcastle; Messrs. PEET and HOBSON, Share Brokers, Man chester, and to THOMAS HAMPSON, Share Broker, 13, Chapel-street, Liverpool. AT a GENERAL MEETING of the SUBSCRIBERS t o the GLASGOW and FALKIRK JUNCTION RAIL WAY, held in the TONTINE HOTEL, Glasgow, on the I ' July 1836, at two o'clock, P.M., Lieutenant-Colonel KINNAIRD in the air, It was moved, seconded, and unanimously res ed,- Ist. That the Meeting approve of, and concu 7 tion of the English Subscribers contained i Eighteenth June last, recommending and au to be made by an eminent Engineer, with on the following points. 1. On the most Improved Line of the Junction Railway tha, can be formed between the Union Canal, or Falkirk, and the Garnkirk Railway, as part of a thorough Line to Edinburgh. 2. On the capability of the Garnkirk Railway, after receiving any improvement that can be made on its Line, its terminus, or in procuring a connexion with the Broomielavr, along with the Junction Railway, in forming part of the best thorough Line to Edinburgh. 3. On the capability of the Union Canal or neighbouring dis tricts for conversion into part of the best thorough Railway, in connexion with either or both of the other Railways. Or, 4. Whether any better thorough Line than the above, or than that adopted by the Edinburgh and Glasgow Company, exists between the two Cities ? 2. That the subscribers to the Glasgow and Falkirk Junction Railway shall be h e ld t o concur i n th e extens i on o f t h e or i g i na l objects of the Company, unless they notify their di , :sent and withdrawal to the Agents in GlasgoW, Messrs. Campbell and 'l'ennents, within Three Weeks front this Date.. 3. That a Committee be appointed for carrying these objects into effect, with full power to take all measures for the interests of the Company. 4th That these Resolutions be published in the Newspapers, and intimated by Circulars to the Subscribers. An, the Resolu 'their Minute o .torizing a Survey e view of reporting THE LONDON JOINT STOCK BANK. Capital £3,000,000, in 60 MOO Shares of I:50 each. DIRECTORS. Sir Felix Booth, Bart. John M`Taggart, Esq., M.P. William Miller Christy, Es q . Si r Francis Pal.raye. William Curling, Esq. Thomas Phillpo r its Esq. John Peter Dart hez, J un., Esq. Jas. Marmaduke iossiter, Esq. George Holgate Foster, Esq. Joshua S c h o l e fi e ld, Esq., 'M.P. Wm. Ormsby Gore, Eq., M.P. G eorge Scholetield Esq. W. Hughes Hughes, Esq. M.P. William Sh a dholt,'Esq. John ChristopherLochner,Esq. Thomas Stooks, Esq. WilliaM Mitcalfe, Esq. George Taylor,EstV Ambrose Moore, Esq. W. Venables, Es Alderman, With power to add to their n um b , I ' OR the purpose of enabling the Inhabit er' o f the Metro politan Districts to participate more ex nsively than they can at present in the advantages ()Lived by he new system of Banking, by means of Joint Stock Estab hments, (the princi plesg of which are proved to be in every . pect as appli ca bl e t o the Metropolis as they are to Prov.m cia owns, where privat e Banking Establishments are rapidly merging in Joint Stock Banks,) it has been resolved, after deliberate consideration, to form a Joint Stock Banking Company, to be called " THE LONDON JOINT STOCK BANK," with a Capital of £3.000,000, divided into 60,000 Shares of £5O each. The Company will transact all the various branches of busi ness legitimately belonging to Banking Concerns and to gene ral agency in the Money Market under the superintendance of a Chairman, Deputy Chairman, and Board of Directors, and the Funds of the Bank will net be invested in the purchase of Foreign Loans, or Stocks, or of Landed Property, Milling, Canal, Railroad, or other Shares, or articles of Trarle or Com merce. A General Meeting of the Company will be held at the ex piration of t we l ve calendar months 'from the period of com mencing business, and thenceforth General Meetings half yearly, when statements of the Company's affairs will be laid before the Proprietors, and Dividends declared With the view of effecting a consolidation with some London private Banking Firms, a power will be contained in the Deed of Settlement of admitting Members of such Firms into the directorship, and Shares will be reserved for the purpose of facilitating arrangements of that nature. A reserve of Shares will also be made for Country Bankers, the Directors and Pro prietors of Joint Stock Banks in the country, who may give to the Company their London agency, and for parties who may hereafter open accounts wills the Bank, or have the means of increasing its business. The Directors will cause a Deed of Settlement to be prepared in conformity with the Acts of Parliament relating to Joint Stock Banks, which will contain all proper pr ov i s i ons f or th e security of the Company, for the protection of the individual Subscribers, and for increasing or diminishing the Capital as occasion may require. When it shall be deemed expedient to apply for further powers from the Legislature, or through the medium of a Char ter. it it contemplated to make such application. The Cornpany will be considered as formed so soon as 30,000 Shares shall have been subscribed for, and business will be com menced as soon afterwards as possible. The Deposit will be £2 per Share. The Calls will be in the discretion of the Directors, not exceeding £5 per Share in any case, and three months' public notice will be given of each Call after the first. Applications for Shares to be addressed (if by letter, post paid) to the Directors, at the Office of the Solicitors, MOMS. TILSOtis, SQUANcE, and TILSON, 29, Coleman-street. Public 13otifto. THE CENTRAL BANK (V LIVERPOOL. THE FIRST GENERAL MEETING of the SHARE HOLDERS in this undertaking will be held at the Clarendon-rooms, South John-street, THIS DAY, (Tuesday,) the 26th instant, at Twelve o'clock at Noon, for a purpose of chuosing Directors. RICHARD FIN , Solicitor. Clarendon-buildings, 10th July, 1836. N.B.—lt will be necessary to produce the Scrip on entering BOROUGH OF ST. MARYLEBONE BANK, ON THE SCOTCH SYSTEM. 9, CAVENDISH-SQUARE. Directors. Hans Busk, Esq., Chairman. Sir Francis C. Knowles, Bart. The Hon. onel Leicester I Thomas H. Cookes, Esq., Stanhope. M P • • I Edward Parkins, Esq. Morton Balmanno, Esq. Thomas Serrell, Esq. Sir Gerard Noiil No fl, Bart., M.P. THE DIRECTORS of the BOROUGH of ST. MARY LEBONE BANK beg leave to announce that no further applications for Shares will be received after the 31st instant, except from parties resident in the district, or from parties at a distance, who will open Accounts with the Bank ; that all the principal Officers of the Establishment have been appiiinted; and that the Bank will Open for public business in the firs week of September next DAVID HANNAY, Manager. 9, Cavendish-square, 20th July, 1836. THE CLWYD AND LIVERPOOL NEW sTEAm- PACKET COMPANY. CANTAL,427SOO, IN £5 SHARES. Bankers.—North and South Wales Bank, Liverp..: Denbigh. Solicitors.—Messrs. Evans and William- I • nbigh. THE object of the Promoters of this Corn y, which, from I. the number of, Shares already subscribe. or, may be con sidered as established, is to ensure a permanent and certain con veyance, at all seasons, for Passengers and Goods to and from Liverpool, Rhyl, the Port of Rhvddlan, an'l all the adjacent Market Towns in North Wales. The Shares %Oil be allotted as generally as possible consistent with security to the Com pany, in order to give the Wholesale Dealer in Liverpool and the Farmer and Tradesman in Wales . an united interest, which is most desirable as regards the transmission of Goods in pnrticular. A Prospectus will be immediately published and distributed. In the meantime, applications for Shares may he made to Messrs. ROBERTS and ANDERSON, No. 2, Drury-lane, Liver pool: Mr. ROBERT JONES, Druggist, Rhyl; or Messrs. EvANs and WILLIAMS, Solicitors, Denbigh. N.B.—The Company's Steam-vessel, Eliza Price, will com mence plying on THURSDAY, the 28th instant. Denbigh, July 20, 1836. TRANSATLANTIC STEAM NAVIGATION. THE Public are informed, that the arranger nts having been for some time in progress, the estab went of an intercourse by Steam Navigation, between United. King dom and America, is now about to be brow t into operation, under the Provisions of the Act of the 6th d 7th George IV incorporating " THE AMERICAN AND COLONIAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY." Capital, £600,000 in Shares of £5O each. Under the above act the liability of Proprietors is limited so that " the Subscribers, and their several and respective heirs, " executors, administrators, and assigns shall not be -liable to " any debts or demands of the Company beyond the amount of " their several and respective Subscriptions." Arrangements have also been made to secure the advantages of co-operation with the City of Dublin Steam Navigation Com pany, and of their experience in the management and business of Steam Navigatian. A regular communication will hereafter be maintained between America and the United Kingdom, and Steam-vessels of the most improved descriptions, with engines of the largest power, will start periodically between the ports of Liverpool and New York. With respect to the probable expenditure and returns, and generally effecting the objects contemplated by an intercourse with the United States, the public may be assured that the Directors of the City of Dublin Steam-packet Company, who have associated themselves with the arrangements in progress, would not have done so except under a full conviction Of their practicability and success. It is enough to say, that the im proved state of Steam Navigation, the great extension of the intercourse in passengers between these countries and America, and the increased quantity and value of those goods on which an adequate freight would be paid; coupled with a strong de sire expressed in the manufacturing districts of England and of the European Continent, to favour an improved means of in tercourse with the United States and British America, give am ple assurance of a satisfactory return on the capital to be em ployed. A question of establishing, on the coast of Ireland, a Pac ket Station for the conveyance of Government Mails, De spatches, Troops, Stores, &c., having been considered in Par liament, the Company will also avail itself of the advantages and profit arising from such additional communication; and which would naturally attract through Manchester and Liver pool the personal intercourse between the Continents of Eu rope and America. As this Company proposes hereafter extending to other Fo reign Ports, besides those of North America, the intercourse of Steam navigation, it is intended that the class of Vessels to be constructed shall be equally available for those ports. The first Act (the Gth Geo. IV.) was obtained by an influen tial body of proprietors, among whom were many naval officers of the highest rank and experience, and with the express sanc tion of his Majesty's then Government, under a confidence of the great advantages that would result from an improved inter course with North America and our Western Colonies, by means of Steam Navigation, and which the proprietors con ceive can now best be effected in connexion with the interests of Liverpool and the manufacturing districts of Lancashire and the North of England. In the detailed Prospectus, published at the time of passing that act, those prospects and advantages were satisfactorily ex plained. Steam Navigation, however, had not then arrived at that point which would enable those enterprising individuals who originated the measure to carry out practically the great object which they, nevertheless, clearly saw would one day result from the undertaking. . . _ Steam Navigation, in fact, had not then put forth those gi gantic and commanding powers which it has since so success fully exerted. The crossing the Atlantic was expected to be accomplished most effectually and economically by the combined and alternate use of Steam Power and that of sails, as the wea ther, or other circumstances, might render expedient. With this view the first vessel contracted for under this act was fur nished with two engines of only 50 horses' power each, a power now manifestly inadequate to the undertaking, and under the present improved state of Steam Navigation deemed scarcely sufficient for crossing the Channel. It is unnecessary, there fore, further to inquire why the Company did not then effect the great objects contemplated by its spirited Projectors. Under these circumstances, and seeing that the time would arrive when the difficulties against which they were then una ble to contend would be removed, the Directors advisedly pro cured their amended Act, (the 7th Geo. IV.) providing for a temporary suspension of their operations, until they should be enabled to proceed through the improvement of that great power which was to be the mainspring of their undertaking, and which, within the last few years, has been so rapidly advanced towards perfection. The remaining original Directors on behalf ofthe Proprietors of the Company, thinkin,g the time has now arrived when their objects may successf u lly' a prosecuted, propose to bring these acts into full and activ e o p era ti on , a nd which measure the public voice appears already to sanction by an anticipation of a favourable result, and a determination to support the under taking. For the purpose, therefore, of effecting the above objects, and as it is important that no delay should take place in adopting the necessary measures, a Provisional Committee has been ar ranged, consisting of the five remaining original Directors, to gether with the following other influential and experienced Persons, with full powers to act until the present and future funds and working of the Company (under the provisions of the above-mentioned acts) shall be placed under the management of a practical and experienced body of Directors. Managing Directors have also been appointed, who will forthwith make the necessary arrangements for giving effect to this important undertaking. TIIF. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE CONSIST OF Captain Beauforth, R.N., Hydographer to the) Remaining Admiralty. I original The Right lion. Maurice Fitzgerald, }- Directors Simon M'Gillivray, Esq., I named in The Right Hon. Lord 1 albot de Malandie, I the Act of G. R. l'orter, Esq., Board of Trade, J 1825. Richard Griffith, Esq., Civil Engineer ) John David Latouche, Esq., Pierce Mahony, Esq., l v , Original Proprietors. (- Daniel O'Connell, Esq., I The Hon. Frederick Ponsonby, J Charles Wye Williams, Esq., ) i Christopher Bullin , Esq., Liverpool. ) James Ferrier, Esq., James Jameson, Esq., Richard Williams, Esq., George M'Bride, Esq., Francis Carleton, Esq., $- Dublin. I MANAGING DIRECTORS. Charles Wye Williams, James Ferrier, James Jameson, George M•Bride, and Francis Carleton. I. C. Shaw, Superintendent of the Building and Machinery Department. BANKERS. Leyland and Bullins, Liverpool. Leeds. Manchester. John David Latouche and Co., Dublin. SOLICITORS. John North, Esq., 'Change-alley, Liverpool. Messrs. P. and D. Mahony, 4, Trafalgar-square, London, and 43, Dame-street, Dublin. It is not the intention of this Company to be general Mer chants, or to interfere in any way with existing establishments in the shipping of Goods, or to import on their own account, but merely to supply the most efficient Steam-vessels impartial ly, relying upon Shippers, Importers, and Passengers for support. As the Committee propose commencing with four vessels, suited to the proposed intercourse, they intend, in the first instance, to issue Shares to the amount of but one-half the Capital authorised by the Company's Act, and not to call for more than £25 per Share until, in the progress of their business, an additional number of vessels shall be required. In issuing the remaining half of the Capital, when hereafter such shall be necessary, priority of subscription will he given to the then ex isting Proprietors, who will be entitled, , to whate ver a d vantages may attach to the issue of such shares. Instalments to be called for at intervals of not less than three months, and not exceeding £5 per Share. Applications for the unappropriated Shares (in the under mentioned form) may be made to either of the Bankers or Solicitors above-named; at the Offices of the Dublin Steam Packet Company in Liverpool, Dublin, and Belfast ; or to the Managing Directors. On the Shares being respectively a ppropriated, a deposit of £2 per Share to be paid to any of the Company's Bankers, to the credit of the Managing• Directors, who have full power to apply the same, and take such meas ores as i❑ their judgment will best carry the above objects into operation. S. P ERRY, Agent, pro tern. Liverpool, July 5, 1836. Form of Application . for the remaining unappropriated Shares. To the Provisional Committee of the American and Colonial Steam Navigation Company. Gentlemen,—l request to become a Subscriber, and agree to take such number of Shares as may be allotted to me, not ex ceeding , and to pay the Deposit of £2 per Share, agree ably to the conditions stated in the printed prospectus. I am, Gentlemen, your obedient Servant. N.B.—To be signed by the Applicant, with his Address, and he date of his Application. AN DA RD 3 1ttibiir SOUTH AUSTRALIAN COMPANY. r HE Directors ,oive Notice that Parties . desirou. f taking JShares in this Company must make Aoplir ti tbefore the Ist day of AUGUST next, on which day the List be closed. EDWARD HILL, pro tem. 21st July, 1836, 19, Bishopyate-street Within, London. LONDON AND GRAVESEND, AND LONDON AND DOVER RAILWAYS. THE Holders of Scrip in the above Compani , and all Persons interested in the KENT RAILWAY, a requested to call to exchange their Scrip, and to sign the arliementary Contract for the Kent Railway, which will lie my Otlice for Signature on INloNnav and Tuns DAY, the Ist and 2d of August only, between the hours of Eleven and Three o'clock. THOMAS HARRIS. , Exchange-street East, July 25th, 183 i. THE FOREIGN BANKING CO - ANY. (LA B.INQUE ANGLO-EMINGERE CAPITAL, ONE MILLION, 32, LOMBARD-STREET, L DON. V liE extensive and rapidly increasing in rcourse between England and Foreign Countries renders it very desirable that a general and well organized system should be adopted, by which their international pecuniary' transactions may he car ried on at any place, and at all times, with the utmost security and certainty, as well as with the least possible expense and trouble. Upon these principles, and with these views, the Foreign Banking Company has been established. Its business, which commences on the Ist August next, con sists chiefly in receiving deposits for payments to be made abroad; in granting letters of credit, or bills of exchange, pay able at any of the cities and principal commercial towns in Foreign Countries; in making payments and transacting pe cuniary business in England fur Foreign Correspondents; anl in the issue of Circular Notes of £2O and upwards, payable at any of the muneroas Agencies of the Company, where they may he presented, thus supplying travellers and others with a circulating medium of unquestionable validity and universa' application. By order of the Board, FREDERICK E. - HOIiNEMAN, Managing Director. 25th July, 18.35. Empowered by special Act of Parliament. FAMILY ENDOWMENT SOCIETY. C A PITA 1., £500,000. Office, (temporary,) 35, Great Winchester-street. TRUSTEES. Pascoe St. Leger Grenfell, Esq. Henj Porcher, Esq. Martin Tucker Smith, Esq. DIRECTORS. Henry George Ward, Esq., M.P., Chairman. George Alfred Muskett, Esq.,_ Deputy Chairman. Wm. Butterworth Bayley, Esq. Edward Lee, Esq. Bazett David Colvin, Esq. Major John Luard. John Fuller, Esq. Thos. Willis Muskett, Esq. Pascoe St. Leger Grenfell, Esq. Major George Willock AUDITORS. Riyersdale William Grenfell, Esq. William Sharman Crawford, Esq., M.P. Bankers—Sir James Esdaile and Co. Physician—Dr. Rogett, F.R.S. Surycon—Edward Cock, Esq. Solicitors—Messrs. Lacy and Bridges. THIS Society endows not only existing Children, but (unlike other Institutions) the future Children of a Marriage, re quiring (however numerous they may be) only one Premium, fixed at the time of making the Contract, and consequently its amount not depending on the number of the Children. The Society offers this additional advantage, that the entire Premiums may be made returnable. Thus parties may secure for their Children the benefits which the Society offers, or, in case those benefits should be defeated by death, they may recover back the whole of theirpaymelits. The usual Commisssion allowed to Solicitors, Agents, &c. JOHN CAZENOVE, Secretary. AGENTS. SAMUEL R. HEALEY, Bank-buildings, Liverpool. DAVID HOL'I', Ducie-place, Manchester. MILES MYRES, Solicitor, Preston. TO CARPENTERS. THE DOCK COMMITTEE will be read , ci TUESDAY; the 2d of August next, to receive TE 1. , ,RS for the CARPENTER'S WORK required in t construction of TWO SHEDS, to be erected on the Quays f the North Dock. Plans and Specifications for which may be .seen at the Dock Surveyor's Office, in Trentham-street, until the 30th instant. Dock Yard, 16th July, 1836. ST. PATRICK'S CHAPEL. TO BUILDERS. DERSONS willing to CONTRACT for the ALTERA TIONS about to be made at the Altar-end of T. PA TRICK'S CHAPEL may see the Plans and Sp &cation in the Vestries, from Ten to Four o'Clock, ever); y until Wed nesday, al August next. Sealed Tenders, addressed to the reverend Incumbents of the Chapel, and left at the Vestries, will be attended to up to that day. W. J. DON LEA, Secretary to the Finance Committee. Committee-room,llPArdles, Frederick-street, July 21, 183 G. BOOTLE BAZAAR. UNDER THE PATRONAGE OF The Honourable Lady STANLEY, The Honourable Lady ELEANOR HOPWOO,IY The Honourable Lady CHARLOTTE PENRYISN, The Honourable Lady SKELMERSDALE, Lady MOLYNEUX, The Honourable Mrs. BOOTLE WILBRAHAM, Lady BOLD HOGHTON, Mrs. HO:tNEY, Miss F. HORNBY, Mrs. Moss, Walton, And the Ladies of the Neighbourhood. ABAZAAR for the SALE of Useful and Ornamental ARTICLES will be held in the NATIONAL SCHOOL ROOM, at Bootle, on THURSDAY, the 28th, and FRIDAY, the 29th days of July instant, the proceeds of which will be applied in payment of the Debt incurred in the Erection of the said School, and for other purposes connected therewith. The Doors to be opened at Eleven o'Clock. Admittance:— The Fit st Day, 2s. 6d., the Second Day, Is. Contributions are earnestly solicited from all Friends of Reli gious Education, and it is respectfully requested, that the same may be forwarded to the Rev. J. GLADSTONE, Bootle, or to the National School-room. Contributiops will also be received at Mr. HUGHES'S the Agent to the Society for the Promotion of Christian Know ledge, in Ranelagh-street, and duly forwarded. A MILITARY BAND will be in attendance. Bootle, July 15, 1836. REV. R. M'GHEE. We extract from the London Standard of Thursday the following letter, addressed by the Rev. R. M'Ghee to the editor of that paper:— " London, Wednesday evening, July 20. " Sir,—lt is only this day, on returning from some distance to London, that I have seen the letter of the protestant associa tion and the different remarks of various Journals on the fictitious letter of the Pope, from which I read some extracts at Exeter H all. " It is the duty of a man and a christian, if he is right, to maintain his cause; and if he be wrong, to stand forward boldly to make all the reparation in his power for his error. I feel bound in the present instance to meet the case in every point, as it regards the protestant association, the protestants in general, the Roman Catholics, and myself. " The letter from the protestant association precludes the necessity of any statement from me, that not a single member of that body was aware even of the existence of that letter, much less that I intended to produce it on the platform; I need only advert to them to take the whole responsibility and blame on myself. " With respect to my fellow protestants, I confess they have just reason to complain that any document that was not ge nuine should have been mixed up with any defence of their cause. They have reason to complain that any weapons of falsehood could have been used in the defence of truth. It would ill become a man to use them, knowing them to be such, in speaking of the errors of the religion of others, as it could only prove that he had no true religion of his own. " Roman Catholics have still more reason to complain that a man professing to stand forth with real documents to bring a charge against them, should bring forward, however inadver tently, a fictitious document to cast on them an additional re proach. I grant the justice of their complaint—l , rant it to the utmost extent their most rigid severity can demand—and I go all lengths they can wish to meet them with most sincere expressions of regret that such a cause of complaint should be given them by me. " For myself I have nothing to say, but that the burden rests exclusively on my own shoulders. 1 utterly disclaim, and trust I sincerely abhor, the slightest intention of imposing a false document on protestants, or bringing it forward against Roman Catholics. Had the pamphlet been given me to examine without knowing anything of the writer, I should have seen the drift of the author in the examination of the document. As it was, a friend, who himself thought it was true, brought it to me as such, and informed me of the name, and, without examining the object of the document, I adopted it hastily on the sup posed authority of the writer. It was at twelve o'clock the night before the meeting, as I stated, he read me some passages, which I marked and read at the meeting. I pretend not to ex cuse this precipitancy. The moment I learned the truth I pub lished it. In calling it an ingenious device,' on which such weighty charges have been founded, I spoke on the supposi tion, not that it was intended as a forgery, which could really be ascribed to the Pope—in which case I should call ita wicked machistation—but as I considered it intended as a satire on the divisions and criminal neglect of protestants, in giving up the v it a l principles of truth in the Church of Rome, and which the writer did not intend should be ascribed to the Pope. " This explanation will, I trust, prove satisfactory to protes tants who may have felt themselves imposed on, or Roman Ca tholics who may think they have been wronged. " I have the honour to be, Sir, " Your obedient servant, " R. M'GREE." TllB JESUITS.—The Swabian Mercury has the following curious article on the proposed le-establishment of the Jesuits in Bavaria. Some years ago, when the present King, conform ably to the engagements made by his father in the Concordat, began to restore some monasteries, the Jesuits made some very advantageous offers with a view to the re-introduction of their order into Bavaria; but they were not attended to. But now that the Benedictines are restored the Jesuits have renewed their proposals, and offer to take on themselves all the institu tions for learning in Bavaria—viz., the Latin schools, the gym nasia, and the lyceums—gratis; and with the great riches the order has still at its command, this is no empty boast. It seems that no decision has yet been come to. The opinions of the King are said to have lately become more favourable to the order; which is said to be partly owing to the circumstance that many Bavarian noble families send their children to the schools of the Jesuits at Freiburg, in Switzerland, and that several persons now high in office received a most excellent education there. Many pious and learned persons, both lay men and priests, have for some years endeavoured to correct the generally received notions respecting the Jesuits, to clear them from the accusations which led to the abolition of the order in Bavaria, and to recommend its restoration. The people in general are in favour of the restoration of the Jesuits, and of some monastic orders at least, as an act of justice to atone for the sudden dissolution of them, and the confiscation, of church property. Many, too, think th a t the monast e ries might prove a remedy to many evils, particularly to the spread of indifference to the concerns of religion and the catholic faith. The assignment of some of the learned establishments to the monasteries, even though this were not undertaken gratis. seems advantageous, as it would lighten the expense allowed iu the budget for the purposes of learned education. Imptriat Varliairant. MOUSE OF . COMMONS.-WEDNESDAY There being, only thirty-one members of the House of Com mons in their places, at four o'clock, there was, of course, " no house." HOUSE OF COMMONS.—Tnurisna v. THE AGRICULTURAL COMMITTEE. The Earl of DARLINGTON begged to ask the noble lord op posite, who had been a member of the committee, whether, as no report was to be made, it was intended to bring forward this session, any motion on the subject, in order that a g eneral discussion might take place , and the public might be in formed of the reasons which had induced the committee-to come to the conclusion they had adopted. Lord HOWICK said, the answer to such a question should be more properly expected from his hon. friend, the chairman of the committee; but as the noble lord had addressed himself to him, he would reply to him. It was quite true that the com mittee had determined to make no report. A report had been drawn up by the chairman, the hon. member for North Hants, but the committee did not seem inclined to adopt it ; and a motion was made and carried that they should report the evi dence to the house, without a report from the committee itself. The noble lord had naturally expressed his disappointment that no report was made, but the members of the government were not answerable for that disappointment. Sir JAMES GRAHAM objected to a discussion being raised upon the mere asking of a question, and then proceeded to ob serve, that he had made a proposal— Mr. Hume interrupted the right hon. baronet to say, that if any one were allowed to go into the general merits of the ques tion, similar indulgence could not be refused to him. Sir JAMES GRAHAM resumed, saying that it would be irregu lar to deny him an opportunity of answering a statement di rected against the course of conduct which he thought it pro per to pursue during the proceedings before a select commit , tee of that house. He had merely a short statement of facts to make. He begged to state that the motion for the appointment of that committee was made by the noble lord the secretary of state. Now, he asked, bad government undertaken the ma nagement of the inquiry? On the contrary, they seemed to have avoided any connexion with it beyond a certain portion of them, being merely members of that committee. When a si milar inquiry was instituted duriug the administration of Earl Grey, a cabinet minister presided, but the committee of this sea siorshad not in its chair any member of the present government. It had been said by the noble lord opposite, that ministers were at least very constant in their attendance as members of the committee. Of the attendance at that committee, as at all others, doubtless a note was taken, and the minutes would show what Use attendance had been, and from this, of course, the share that ministers had taken in the proceedings would be ap parent. From the minutes it would appear that government had acquiesced in no report being made. It was said that he had acquiesced in there bein g n o report; what were the facts? At the close of the inquiry he came down and found that no plan was prepared—that government were fishing for a report— that they had gone to sea without a compass, ready to catch at anything that might turn up. Could it, therefore, cause sur prise, the government having declined to take the lead in their proceedings which their situations required, that, when they were unprepared with any plan, he should have taken the course which he had adopted ? Surely the undecided state of their views on the question was not to be made matter of censure to him. ("Hear, hear.") He moved that the orders of the day be then read. The Marquis of Cis ANDOS observed that the allusion made by the noble lord to him was quite correct. He seconded the mo tion that there should be no report, and he would inform the house why. The report brought forward by the chairman of the committee was of that nature that if it had gone forth to the country, it was calculated to do more injury to the farmer than any thing in the world could by possibility do. . Mr. SHAW LEFEVRE, as chairman of the committee, was prepared to contend that there was no class of persons connected with agriculture, but what lad had their interests fully con sidered. It was perfectly true, as stated by the right hon. baronet, that after the report, which he (Mr. Lefevre) drew up had been read and was to come on for discussion, a motion was made to report the evidence without observation, and it was equally true, that the noble lord, the Secretary of State for the Home Department, voted for that motion, and, as he stated, in deference to the opinion of the noble lord, the member for Buckinghamshire. The noble lord (Lord J. Russell) said that he was not prepared to support the motion of the right hon. baronet (Sir J. Graham) until he heard what the proposition was, and when he did hear it from him who so ably advocates the interest of the farmer, then he agreed in the proposition that there should be no report. He was persuaded that the noble lord said he deferred to the opinion of the noble lord the member for Buckinghamshire. No person could be more in terested than he himself was for the farmers, or could have it more at heart, but he thought the great evil was, that they did not know the real state of the case. The farmers had been taught to depend too much upon the corn laws, and upon assist-' ' ance from Parliament, when they were in a state of distress. Now he thought they ought f,:irly to be told by Parliament, that they must not look to Parliament for assistance but to their ' landlords for a reduction of their rents; and after they had been fairly reduced, then they must look to the resources enjoyed in common by all other classes of agriculturists, and which were now enjoying prosperity. Mr. Hums considered the circumstance of the committee having been composed in the ratio of three to one of agricul turists as most unjust, although he was aware it had been done at the anxious desire of honourable gentlemen on that side of the house. The evidence taken had established the fact that the agricultural labourers were in an improvieg condition; but then that improvement had taken place, not within the last two months, because for the last six mouths they had been in a better Condition than for many years past. He wished the evidence to go forth to the country, and then it would be seen whether the noble lord had made out his case, or whether he (Mr. Hume) had not made out a case against the noble lord. Mr. J. E. DENISON complained that the right hon. baronet (Sir J. Graham) had rather made the subject a vehicle for an attack on his Majesty's Government, than of explanation. He regretted that the motion that no report should be made had been adopted, because he agreed with those who considered that the not making any report would be a source of great disap pointment to those whose interests had been made the subject of injury. Sir BROKE VERB concurred in opinion with the last speaker, that the country would be greatly disappointed; at the same time he thought the right hon. baronet would not have proposed his motion if he had thought the committee could come to a just conclusion. Mr. WAX LEY said, in consequence of the statement as to the improved condition of the labourerscemployed in agriculture, he thought it ought not to go forth to them and to the public with out its being understood whether any of the labourers themselves had been examined before the committee ; and if so, from what part of the country it was that they had been selected. Lord JOHN RUSSELL was sorry he was not in the house when this discussion commenced. He felt himself, however, bound to afford such information as he could give to the house after the statement made by the right hon. baronet opposite, which he must say he considered to be extremely partial, and calculated to lead to erroneous impressions. He would call the attention of the house to the circumstance, that the noble lord the mem ber for Buckinghamshire had stated it to be his intention to move for an inquiry into the state of the agricultural interest. Now the government were of opinion, after the many complaints that had been made with respect to agricultural distress on the part of the owners of land, but more particularly of the occu piers, it would be proper to appoint a committee to inquire into the subject; at the same time, in yielding to the appointment of that committee, he did not state that any great and prominent measure of relief was likely to be pointed out; but that with respect to county . rates and poor-rates, such a committee might be enabled to point out whether the measures adopted by par liament had practically and beneficially effected the important objects to which these measures referred. In proposing that committee, he placed upon it the names, by a considerable ma jority, of those who were the representatives of agricultural comities. That object was attempted to be defeated ; but the fact was, that twenty-three or twenty-four out of thirty members composing the committee were members for agricultural coun ties, and representing therefore agricultural interests. Of that committee, so constituted, the member for Hampshire (Mr. Lefevre) was appointed chairman ; and then came the question as to what should be made matter for inquiry, and whether the committee should be confined within the limits of that of 1833. The'members of the committee sent to him for his opinion on this part of the subject, and his answer was he did not wish to fetter the committee, and that he thought a more extended in quiry than that of 1833 should take place. The committee then proceeded onward to the conclusion of their labours, and at that period, but while yet there were a sufficient number of the members of the committee still in attendance, his hon. friend the chairman proposed the draft of a report. The draft of that report was communicated to him in common with other mem bers of the committee, bUt he believed he was almost the last to receive it. A meeting of the committee was summoned to con sider the report, and at this meeting no less than 23 members attended, of whom no less a number than 18 were members for counties. At the same time, be it observed, that when he pro posed the committee, he named certain members who were re presentatives for counties, that were connected with manufac tures as well as agriculture, especially the noble lord the mem ber for North Lancashire (Lord Stanley), but who declined attending the committeee, and these 18 members, therefore, were the representatives of agricultural counties and agricultural interests. He (Lord J. Russell) came down to the committee with the understanding that: the draft of the report, which had been drawn up by the chairman, would be discussed. It was, therefore, not without great astonishment that he found the right hon. bart. (Sir J. Graham) proposed immediately to the committee that the whole report should he suppressed, that not a word of it should be taken into consideration, but that a resolution should pass to report only the evidence. He thought that rather extraordinary; but his surprise was lessened and his opinion a good deal chang ed. when the noble lord (Chandos) seconded that proposition. NOvv, certainly, he (Lord J. Russell) had expected that, if the report of his hon. friend the chairman was not adopted—and he was not prepared to press on the committee the adoption of all the statements contained in that report—yet he was very much surprised to find, if that report was not to be adopted, that those who advocated time interests of the agriculturists were not pre pared with some proposal for affording immediate relief for the agricultural distress of which they so loudly complained; he was astonished to find that it was not only proposed to suppress that report, but thus to cut off the hopes of relief for months and vears—(cheers). He was astonished to find that those to whom he had referred had no proposal to make—that they had no de finite remedy to apply— (cheers). In the opinion then come to ' by the committee he agreed most reluctantly,—both as a mem ber of the government and of the committee. In that position it was that he found himself placed, but he had been prepared to enter fully iuto the statements made in the draft of the report. He had stated that his wish was that the committee shonld ex press their opinions, first, with respect to the pour laws, and as to the operation of the new bill on that head; secondly, with respect to tithes; and, lastly, with respect to the currency; the latter being a subject which was very fully entered into 'by the committee. He had been ready to discuss these subjects in the committee, and should have endeavoured to make his opinions prevail ; but if not, he was ready to see the committee make some report stating the opinions of the majority. He had stated all these matters as fit subjects to be referred to in the report. And such having been his opinion, be stated it to the committee as an additional ground why they should hesitate in adopting the resolution of the Right Hon. Baronet, which must occasion such great disappointment in the country. He, therefore, must con tend that the government were not responsible, because the committee came to no result. His hon. friend (Mr. Hume) had said that when they, came, if they had done so, to make the re port, the evidence upon which it would have been founded would have negatived many of the statements made with respect to agricultural distress. He (Lord J. Russell) concurred in that opinion, with respect particularly to the cur rency, it having been said that one of the great remedies for agricultural distress would be, the repeal of the act of the Right Hon. Baronet the member for Tainworth on this subject. This question bad been fully entered into on various occasions—the house had come to repeated resolutions upon it. The committee, however, came to no resolution confirming the opinions which the Right Honourable Baronet and himself entertained, and he should not endeavour to raise a cry on that subject ; hut - here was a committee of twenty-five members, eighteen of whom were representatives of agricultural counties, and yet tiwy were um prerat( , d to adopt a report.—(Cheers,)' .1 u V 9,3 1826, HP said again, the government were not responsible for D 9 opinion being given ; they were ready to go into the subject, and he (Lord J. Russell) went down to the committee fully prepared for three or four days' debate on the subject of the adoption of a report. The result of the whole was, admitting, , as he must do in fairness, the existence for some years past, pal ticularly on the part of occupiers of land, of very consider ! able distress—but he hoped that distress would be diminished, ! not by a change in the currency,—not by the repeal of the malt tax,-because by no such specific measure could the agricultu rists ever be relieved. He was not one of those who bad been forward in calling himself a friend to the agricultural interest. I (Cheers.) He was not one of those who had been forward in addressing the farmers. (Cheers.) He had not been one of those who had been forward in saying that one pasts' alone in the country were the friends of the agriculturists—(cheers) ; but he would tell the house what, as a humble member of the administration, he had done. He bad been f o rwa r d in co-oper ating with a former government, in passing a bill which he thought would be productive of the best effects—namely, with respect to th e a d m i n i strat i on o f t h e poor laws. (Hear, hear.) His object in forwarding that measure had been to prevent large sums of money from being laid out improvidently, and to restore the people to that state of independence which they are fully entitled to enjoy. He also trusted he had not been in attentive to the interests of the agriculturists when he brought forward a measure with respect to the levying of tithes in kind, which was one of the most oppressive burdens that was ever borne by a people. (Cheers.) He had also endeavoured to effect some reduction in the county rates, and these things he had done because he thought they were valuable practical measures, tending to advance the interests of agriculture, and,. therefore, to promote and advance also the interests of the community at large. He would never consent to legislate with a view to one interest only; he considered it to be his duty as a member of parliament, as well at a member of the government. to look at the whole subject. He woull endeavour to throw no imputation on the character of parliament, or of one or two great parties, in reference to this subject. He was not disposed 0) take any party advantage on this question, but he did say. after having endeavoured practically to look• at these great questions —poor rates, tithes, and currency, that he tru s t e d the 'government would stand as fair with the agricultural interest as those who indulged their feelings of party by creating dis content, without having any measure ready to propose which might correct the evils complained of, or by which that discon tent so originated might be removed. (Great cheering.) Mr. ORMSBY GORE did not think, although the country would be disappointed at not receiving a report, that the public would believe that agricultural distress did not exist. He must con tend, in opposition to the opinion expressed by the hon, member for Middlesex, that there was not a tax levied in the country that did not indirectly fall on the farmer. He must be permitted to say that he thought a committee appointed to inquire into this subject would not do its duty if it did not make a report, founded on the evidence pi oduced before it. Sir. R. PEEL, as a member of the agricultural committee,. thought it necessary to say a few words on this subject. It might be in the recollection of the house that when the commit tee was originally appointed, he gr.ve that proposition rather a reluctant assent; but he did so because he knew that distress prevailed in many parts of the country ; and when gentlemen witnessed that distress and called for inquiry, there necessarily would be—apparently at least, hardship and severity in declining to do so. Such were the grounds on which lie had given his , assent to the appointment of a committee; but he well recol lected that he had foretold that disappointment would be the result. He recollected also how ably this subject had been investigated by the committee of 1833; and the conclusion to which that committee came, which was that the agriculturists must look for relief rather to their own exertions than to expect it from the legislature. He had thrown no objection in the way of the committee's inquiry into the currency, though he was persuaded that inquiry would not lead to the slightest improve ment. It must be remembered that great distress must arise from going from an inconvertible or paper currency to a con vertible currency. After a period of thirty years it was impos sible to return to a converlible currency without creating dis tress, by cramping accommodation, and by affecting the situa tions of those standing in the !elation of debtor and creditor. Having now, for a period of 14 or 15 y ears , re t urne d t o a , metallic standard, the principle could not be departed f rom , a nd he did feel that to invite inquiry on this head must rather lead. to the confirmation of former views than to shake opinions pre viously expressed. He was convinced that parliament never adopted any measure more calculated to promote the industry of , the labourer, and to reduce the price of the necessaries of life, and to render them less unfluctuating than the current measure ; since the passing of which, the condition of the labouring classes had been improving, and any attemptto undermine the present system of the currency must interfere with those whos e i n t eres t s are de penaent on their daily labour. Entertaining these feelings, I feel little or no disappointment that the committee made no report. , The noble lord opposite, in referring to the origin of the case, and to the cause of the discussions which had taken place upon it, has paid high compliments to my noble friend near me (Lord Chandos). Until now, I never heard such compliments paid . to any individual as those which have been paid to my noble friend; because it appears that my noble friend in the course of last session, having given notice of bringing the subject for ward in the present, with a view to inquiry taking place, it was actually made a portion of the King's speech' from the throne, that such inquiry should take place. What must be the in fluence of my noble friend, in the country, when, by some vague notice at the end of the last session, he could produce such re sults ? Before the noble lord (.J. Russell) came into the house to-day, it was stated why the noble lord concurred in the opinion that there should be no report, and why he acquiesced in the re -` solution of the right hon. baronet (Sir J. Graham). It was alleged to be solely in deference to the opinion expressed by the noble lord the member for Buckinghamshire—(cheers) ; such was his noble friend's influen ce . N ow h e mus t b e permitted to say that he (Sir Robert Peel) took a deeper interest in agri culture than he • did in any other separate interest whatever. And because he had arguer) that there was a delusive expecta tion of relief from the appointment of this committee, he knew' he was held up as an enemy to the agriculturists • whereas he felt the d ee p es t an d mos t s t rong l y - roote d a t tac hment to the agricultural interest; and moreover he saw the strongest moral and political reasons for maintaining that interest, which did not apply to other classes. But so satisfied was he that the hone of the agricultural interest must be in its own exertions, thit he could not allow it to relax those efforts by the imposi tion of increased duties on foreign imports, or by any such sys tem of policy. He could not consistently encourage that delu sive hope. He would look at the farmers of Scotland: he would look to them, and then he would see what was to be done by continued and unremitting exertion. With reference to the agriltuturists of this country some relief, inadequate indeed, in some instances, might be obtained; but even where it was in adequate, it would be better obtained than any to be given by parliament in many cases of distress. But let no man forget that a great and mighty revolution was going on in that state of the agricultural interest, on account of the various improve ments, mechanical and scientific, which were continually mak ing, and the competition thereby caused for lands whicl were thus rendered more fertile, but which had hitherto been looked upon as useless. Then there was steam, the application of which was making a great revolution also in the condition of agricul tural districts, bringing as it did into competition with old and exhausted soil lands which the owners have never before been able to bring into cultivation or competition from their remote distance from a market. This was the main reason why clay lands were subject to a disadvantage ; and therefore he would say that they should not attempt to interfere with the progress of human improvements. This was the main cause to which the great distress was to be assigned—and why ? Because unless a very considerable reduction of the rent on these lands were submitted to, it was impossible to make the land pay. — In reference to the observations which had fallen from the noble lord, the Secretary of State for the Home Department, his (Sir Robert Peel's recollection was not exactly the same as that of the noble lord as to the course which he (Lord John Russell) had himself taken. As far as his (S. R. Peel's) recollection carried him, the report was presented to the committee, and —he must repeat what he had often stated—the committee and the house were under very great obligations to the hon. gen tleman who was the chairman, for the perfect impartiality which he evinced throughout their proceedings, and for the courteous manner in which he, in the performance of his duty, conducted himself to every member of the committee. But if he (Sir R. Peel) recollected the facts rightly—as it seemed they were to divulge "the secrets of the prison house"—the noble lord, so far from thinking himself precluded from taking a prominent part or interfering in the report which had been drawn up by the hon. chairman, had gone through that report; he had read it, magi c i an -lik e, b ac k war d s, an d h a d dealt with all the matters of great importance from the beginning to the end of that re port. He had gone through the whole process; and having done so, he had struck out all the brains of the report (a laugh). The noble lord having taken up the report, had actually stated in detail the most satisfactory reasons why they should not agree to say any thing on the subject of the currency. He did not know what the noble lord's recollection of this circumstance, might be as he (Sir R. Peel) thought it less necessary to bear the terms of the recommendation in mind, because it was with these useful reminiscences—namely, first of all a paragraph in the king's speech, and then a resolution, a solemn resolution of that house, stating that any alteration in the monetary system of this country would be extremely dangerous to its best inter ests. They had that and other resolutions for their . guidance. Therefore, what possible use could the consideration of the question of the currency be? Then they came to the corn laws ; that was too important a subject to touch upon. Then came the reduction of duty on the malt, and a corresponding duty on fo reign corn. All these matters affected the Chancellor of the Exchequer. These, then, were the whole subjects of impor tance in the report. Upon looking at the report, he (Sir R. Peel) had said that he feared the noble lord had so sickled and .., gathered up every important resolution of' the report of the chair- • man of the committee that he had left nothing standing. •He could, however, only express his assent to the suggestion for not making a report; because upon the whole, he thought there would be less disappointment if they acted on the principle of ex cluding all these important matters, and abstained from report ing, rather than present to the house a mutilated document, hav ing reference to matters of comparatively less importance. The noble lord also recommended that the report should specify the tithe bill as a measure of great importance, and likely to give great relief to the agricultural interest, but he suggested to the noble lord that the tithe bill had not yet passed into a law (Hear, hear, and a laugh), that it was then before the House of Lords, and although he sincerely hoped that it would receive their assent. and concurrence, he thought it would be rather premature to dwell upon a measure as a great boon to the agricultural interest which had not yet become law (Cheers.) The noble lord then adverted to the progress which had been made under the new poor law in diminishing the burdens upon agriculture, but he (Sir R. Peel) did not think that it was exactly the province of the committee to enter upon the consideration of the pour law, for very little evidence had been taken upon the subject, and although that question would doubtless have formed an useful head of inquiry, yet, as the Committee did not enter upon it, if' they had ventured to say too much, and to predict great benefits from the measure, the con sequence would be, that that report, although future events might confirm the conjecture, would not be founded on ROY evidence that had been received. There was, however, a part graph in the report relating to stiff lands which had been le ft undrained, and recommending the Scotch method, of an apPir., cation of the plough an d d ra i n i ng t h e su b -so il . Th ey a ll felt on reading the report, that if they omitted every thing relatiug to the corn laws, every t hi ng a ti out t h e ma l t tax An d the cor responding duty, on foreign corn, that if a report were present ed the plough would stand in rather too bold a relief. (A laugo• Then other gentlemen said they had heard of harrows, an other mechani ca l i m p rovemen t s , - which they thought deser ved mention. He was at first, certainly, disposed in favour of Pr!. tenting a report ; but when he considered all the circumstan ce : to which h e h a d referred, and the expectations which had h e_ formed, be most willingly acquiesced in the propriety making making no report at all, and he was very sure that the if pointment which would be felt would not be so great as ,th_eeny had presented a report in which all the remedies that hat! " Be proposed for the relief of agriculture had been discussed cor rectly the proceedings before the committee, and he must had attempted, and he hoped he had succeeded, to state that as the noble lord was the original author of the Pr o . e cow . for a committee, and therefore responsible for what ut mittee bad done. (" No, no." from the ministerial benchrm or e Why, surely the noble lord, in advising the King t was ,L T D i, mend that committee in his speech from the throne, responsible for the appointment of such a committee eL ' a u; county member who had given a vague notice that 'I qui ry * would pi e'•ably be instituton the tiext session ;suand there- t„ t ii . ko, a s , t heti 16„, kl t , i 441