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HOUSE OF COMMONS, SATURDAY. MAY 23.

The House was summoned to the Housc of Peers to bear
the Royal Assent given to Al public and private Bills—
(for which see the Lords' Report.)
On the return of the SFEAk us, the following Bills were
read the third time soil ',asses, :—The Duke 01 An-
nuity, the Irish Graiiil Juiy Picsesiiinceit•, Ilic Slave Trade
Acts A wisdom, t, the roreoe, ties s Sump:ling, the St... Hash
Distilleries, tlie Win kinries Wages, and the Watch mid Ward

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The •nder-meutiuued Bill• were reported:—The Irish
Frvrr hospital, the Luttrry, the Militia Pry, the Irish As-
sessed Taxes, and the Irish Bank Resit icti .... Pius.
Salome! Debt C missionera, and the Tobacco Im-
portation Bills, were read a second time, and rutnutitted fur
Motiany.
The House went in►o Committees on the cottoning Bills:
The Madder Duties, the Si!la Bromtics, hie London Coils,
hie Irish Excise l.ici•nw+, the Vinegar Duties, auil the Irish
Commercial Exchripter Bills Bills.
The Report of the Committee on the Art of the 57th of
the King, relative 10 the Ditties on Salt, wits breeeill
The Resolution for reduciiig the Duty on lick Salt, used
for the purposes of uericulturi, Boni 101. to W. per tun, was
agreed to, and a Bill ordered ace°
Mr. F.' RC/131%60N ved for leave to brine in a Bill for
the better regulation of Navy Prize homy. By the Act, as
it «ow stood, there was a Court esialilishect a loch bad the
can• of investigaliug prize cues fir Cieenoich Iluspitsl,
and the expeuses were defrayed out of a fund raised by a
per centsge on prize-inunry ; this prr cruller bid of late
out loco found auheti•at, soil this Hill WAS intended to to.
crease the allowing e —Lcire was given, the Bill one
lirmizht to, acid a first lime, mud ordered to be read a
armed time on Monday.
Mr. ARHUIHNUT oterrd that a Committee should be sip-
pointed to itoprire into the repairs iticet.aary to he dune to
Lynie R eis Ilub rite, rod to report.. thereon to the House.

-The icreeJ iu, awl it Committee appointed.
I.IIOIIINTONI bowled Ise 111 11111 tu regulate the
Rale idiot...ad by Ibikess eroding snore alma tees macs stibtance
fr the metsopoliss.
Tat. Bill ,„‘„ ~ad a th.t, sad ordered to be read a second
time oil M.stlay.
Oa tieing isle sip the ftepoit of the Committee of Supply.
Mr. Cm.atiter repeated hiss objection* to the grant of
15,0001. for the porelovie of `round at H low, as •u ()t-
-elt:bun c..e..11). Ile cuuld nu: but tunsidar it

Mr. E. S. COOPER. said, it was w:th regret that
he felt it Ins duty to snake sonar obveivations upon
the Bill, previous toils being read the third tune,
older to lay the foundation fur offering a dative is,
the House by way of rider, which should go to the
exempting the counties of Sligo moil Lemon Iron,
the operation of the Bill. He said lie would us,y
touch upon (Moor objection'', though out unim-
portant, and the first that presented itself w tin.
utter improbability that Magistrates would he 'moot
VlllO WOlllll travel over the country at tun inclement
season, when the ground was covered with snow,
for no practical KO ; but, MI the contrary, to In:
made fools of, as they had hall no real power given
to them whatever by the Bill. but every thin;; they
did at their SPllllillllll was liahle to be overliasiled,
and negatived by the Grand Jury. Cite next ob-
jection that offered itself was tins : Psesesniiteisto
were in the li. at invtance to be taken into conviler-
anion by the (;lasist Jury, at the Spring A•>.::••
afterwards they were to go before another Quilt-
.ter Setsions to be accounted for, which of
course could ni,t ice until July, soul at these
Quarter tit many Luuntits, took Mdse.-
before the Summer ,%,pazes, it was evisircl. I hat
iu thut case there could be no accotantin4 al!i-
dvvits passed at Summer Avvizes. A gino, ti.e
',resentments which were to be Lrot.4lit
the Growl Jury ut the Sommer Avviz. s, weir,
accoriliug to the MI, to he lakes tutu coca •
deratimi at u Quarter Seistoto ttfitrett to Euatr.
It NO happtactl, that to massy cauto•-• -
Quarter Se•sious occiirred before the
czes„ so that in those cave" the Q.1.1' ter
I.olllHry and next to Easter womb! Ilwe
the Spring und SIII ttttt er prtveloslielit-
deratisin previous to the Spring A•-iz.
would be glad to hear how, io tio•
kioisis whether the saint parts of th roa
twice applied cur. The int xt Ober' vow).
liissiorlf obliged to make, NW. its page ti
is rose:eel, th.st 110 Neat-Om-sit 06.,11 It
the Gratin Jury or Court.,./vr bit purr,

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4 ...it 14,114 •
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ICE SEVEN-PENCE.
le allowed* piece of groom! m
Uwee.'t Scsubbe, or an Wimbi. non •
I divide the House, bat hi. optutod
stied II:s former argument. iu sup*
id, lit nai•ot be well Icemen lei ever?
e over Wambh,don Commun. that
tiled for an• exerri3e ;room! 'Ur ;
hole. and bogs. The saute ()hire- •
rmwtaud Scrubs, 'there a tr,Rt covet
ended and Ito beet a &sive.' I.ettni
inslnw was not 'MI.(11413(11, br did
the purpose near the tortr.,o h.
then agreed to, 13 were the other
in a Bell for the [Etter irre.ery r.
.triptlity of Walt-t.—l:eat,i a fist,
secouol time.
!nnitnittee of Ways and Beaus was st
io. • r.
tRENTkENTS.—(Ia F;I.ANI`.)
I.D moved the order of the day
nf the Irish Crawl Jury l'rew
wet exteriorly desirous* duet
•
;it tit the tient-lit ce
laud nut be etulaiigered lay foe-
id we near the rail of the Fitt*,
lilt *WI to avoi•l ilisetissiali, if
ii were of opitlion that that
lined by postpooing
i.
lir should 111.: 01,3 c et In It.
NE wi•heti that the third trail..
fur lOW hoot., O. he knew that
at
now in the Ilouse, anal vrir
tir ignition on the kill, would
wag very
.txtresurtheinry that It
taring the Grated Ilia law,
.
g
the future itasprotemettt of
,ipite, should lie m attepto to 1
et Saturday evening.—(/fear, /1
ling the lion. Meitebres pro,.
L help saying, it looked like a
;e of the ab.eure of .11siithess.
• that it would lee inure pro-
alterations. in the eztiting
I the next Session of
LD declared that nothing was
wont than to take any Avail-
al evading dist:man) ; but thy
n. Getitleman fora litiklAtir-.
quite unreusamaltle. Ile hint
reading this day. out to Omit,
L'ould scarcely have aisticiputrd.
very
,suggestion: thrown out,
improvement prop, sea, but
tong hid been regularly fixed
giving paused through every toe-
y opposition.
IVNE, in wishing to sespeodr
t Sessiou, would he *miry to
vat all eitemy to reforming the
- all he wieytrol was. to Its sr
last—a well-considered, welt.
l—such as it would toot bu
ptsal in a burry the lust/mit the
aid commence.—(bcor.)
LD said, it was Ivir,l th.ot his
ased us being ill-considered.
etre' no less 01511 thrte tittles—
cedeiiird.
erved, that if the Bill had been
it was within a vert short time,
I front the necessity or goi,,,g•
:bet occurred in the first too
tied in saying so, brean-e
been made in each reltri•it.— L .
to attention paid in il'e
t lit raw none or it. Tiir ultuitt
Jury law in Ireland was &mut
Bill under coiesideratieni, with.
been give et of ..iyivg
ass he hail chosen to setei:eid lo-
ving to gentlemt ii in office. Sro
tinatsoil. He had walchrel this
•
load never been able to raid, it
•
fully state Isis objections to is.
a said, it was with rri,ret that
e make some °boo vati upois
Lts being read the third tient:, iu
iidatioii for olfriiiig a clause to
rider, which should gee to the
sties of Sligo wed Unison front
Bill. He said he would tooy
objections, though lint wino-
et that presented ilaril aside the
list Magistiates would be lieue.el
•r the country at int inclement
round was covered Until
.1• lon_ on lb.. 1...1.V la ile•

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'Srotiii; A.-
a.i •
taticui Imtt,
110 0.141.11.
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said. if not entered ix printed schedules. creep,
sleek es are required by taw. awe the anionnt whereof
could mot be ascertained previously to the Quarter
Stasis is. Now here, said the Hon. Gentlemen, was ■
complete and mischievous blunder. and it occurred
this : this clause was taken. as many others were,
from hi. Bill of last year, but it referred to a pros
sinus clause, which in this Bill hod been unfortu-
nately omitted. The clause was this, and appears
s.t the top of his Bill, page 7. The lion. Gentle-
man here quoted the clause, by which it appeared,
that all applications for Wanes, fees, poundage,
or other coutingencies whatsoever. were to be
lodged with the Secretary of the Greed Jury
upon a certain day, in order to their being en.
erred 'in the printed schedules. After this clause,
eke one i.►serted in this Bill, for preventing any
applicatiousfor any of the purposes aforesaid being
token into cousideration except what were entered
in the schedules, came in properly; but in this Bill
de pupates aforesaid being merely fur public
ero►ks, this n►ischief followed, from the exception no
the clause, that any public works which could not he
oscenamed as wanting repair at the time of thische.
elutes hong printed (namely, the Quarter Sessions in
January), but which subsequently may need repair,
can by this exception be presented for at the As-
• although they be lint entered in the printed
-schedules. Thus the value of the prii►ted ache-
'dales is altogether set aside. Another clause he
would allude to, was that relative to Grand Jurors
lescluenio evidence as to presentment*. To this
lie would not object so far; but the inference which
followed was most mischievous. He well knew
what the effect of having persons (who were inte-
rested in applications) present at the discussions of
Greed Juries would be—what effect a look or a
nod had on these occasions. If such was allowed,
the House might rely upon it, many more pre•
sadn►eets would pass than do now. and matty of
those improper. On the solidity of this objection
hr appealed to those present, who were in 'the
habit of attending Grand Juries. Theft were
messy other ►t►ong objections to this Bill, 'to
which be would not at present advert. As the
Act of last Sessioa was now to be repealed, he
would not Isere said a word upon it, except fur
one circumstauce, which was, that he thought the
Gentlemen who had been candidates for the si-
tuation of county surveyors, had been hardly dealt
with, in having their rejection ascribed to their nut
being qualified. What was the true and candid state
of the case ? The Government found themselves on
that occasion in possession of un Act which was
impracticable: they were. however, bound by it
to appoint civil engineers, to examine candidates
for the office of surveyor; end what was the tie.
tu►al course for these civil engineers to pursue?
most certainly to examine the Act, in order to see
the duties pointed out for these surveyors, and when
they found these duties impracticable, of course
they very properly refused to certify ? But was it
fair on this account to proclaim the surveyors to be
incompetent men ? He would instance one case:
No accounting affidavit (by that Act) could pass
without tl►e execution of the work being certified
by the surveyor; now as the law stood. tt was not
accessary. Poe were works commonly finished till
the 6th day before the Assists. Thus was the.sur-
veyor expected to traverse a county (say the county
of Cork, which is near 100 miles lon. and 70
broad), is eix days, and examine and certify all the
public works which were executed—a thing which
was impossible.
• Mr. Valley FtveneneeD directly denied that he
entertained any wish to elude discussion. If it was
the sense of the House that it would be expedient
to postpone the third reading for the present, he
would consent to adjourn it till Monday next, or►
condition that it should be then brought on at an
early hour.
Lord JOCELYN said, that feeling the force of *hat
had been said by the Member for Sligo (Mr.
Cooper) in opposition to the measure, and seeing
the errors and contradictions in it which the unite
Ho►►. Gent, had clearly pointed out, lie was dee
cidedly of opinion that something should be done to
obtain a measure more practically useful and con-
eistent.—This Bill had been taken Antrim entirely
from the same Hon. Gent letnao's Act of last year—
an Act very generally reprobated. The sentiment*
of most of the Grand Juries of Ireland had been
'Amiss to it, and he was particularly anxi.
ous that those of that body in the county
of Louth on the subject, should be ►i►ade
known to the House. The Noble Lord then quoted
the resolution of the Grand Jury of the county of
Louth, entered into at the last Summer Assizes,
crusteing the principal parts of the Act of 1817,
and il.structing their irpresentatives to oppose any
sith.r measure founded on the same principles
with it. Much reliance. the Noble Lord pro-
reviled to say, should be pieced on die formally
exert-steal opinion of such ■ body of men—men
resident ►n the county, conversant in its business,
and therefore, in the natural course of thine. best
qualified to form au opinion on a measure framed
for its manageu►eut. To puss this Bill would be
to load the counties with an Act cloddy, if not
mole el 1111 l slims than the last—and lie would ac•
curchnoly now beg leave to propose an amendment.
!fere the SPEAKER stood up to explain the ►tate
of the question, which was such as to preclude any
other amendment. an amendment fur adjournmeut
till Monday being already before the House.
Mr. V. ferzoeaseo said the treatment he ex-
perienced was unfair; and as gentle►nen lied thought
eroeer to rote► 11110 the merits of the Bill 110 M, he
• with the leave of the House, withdraw the
ii i+iiriimrut.
lite motion for withdrawing the adjournment,
ea: thee put and cerried.

Alf. Ilitto;DEvi raid he never seen • ITIPOSUre CCM.
ducted ,Attle greater deliberation. It bad been eon,-
toitir,l three times.

Sir J. Nrits rota supported the Bill, not as a
friend to the drool Jury ',stein, but because it
was the only result of three years, labour to hod a
remedy for the admitted abuses of that eyottiii—a
*system .trader whirh it was allowed that large
yoltions of the money levied of the pcitionitry 44
114.140"1 *err oselersly dud rxtrasagasitly expended.
Ile hail twee' surprised iu wits ei' g the, opposition
4,r ge01e,,,,, friendly to That system to flint Bill,
beeasise it W3S itarsided to trotove its defect►.
Not ',slog c.odil hr more Upshot's to the.people rf
lithos, thou rompnniug the Bill from Srs•iou tat
tseopiun, because 11w expense unde► the y•reotot
r)stcon had italtaseil w pioportton to the appro.

hellion of refarin, and aclon4 as they delayed they
kept up the stimulus to rapacity. The ohjec-
hone of the Member for Sligo were proper to he
urged in a Committee. The errors he ctnnplait►ed
of might hive been remedied there ; and it was his
duty to attend at the regular stage. The Resolu-
tions of the Grand Jury of the ca•nty of Louth
were emitted to great respect ; but he could not
forget that the Member for Louth had o►►ce asserted
in his pl.ice. that the Grand Jury system woe a
most perfect one.
Mr. DEN IS Bonwse wished to. knot► whether
the lion. Baronet (Sir J. Newport) meant to coo-
deo►u him and those Gentlemen who thought with
I on that occasion, for opposing this Bill, when
the very first act of the present Session was to re-
peal au Act precisely similar to it in its enactments.
One clause, indeed, relative to county surveyors,
laid been omitted, a clause found inconsistent
wills the other parts of the law, in order to
cover which► mistake, it was alleged that sur-
veyors could not be obtained properly quali-
fied, and a censure altogether unmerited had
been thrown on that class of men in Ireland.
roattrvey county works did not require any su-
perior -degree of skill—many men competent to it
coUltrbe easily procured. Fur iustauce, could any
one imagine drat the Gentleman who surveyed and
constructed that map of the county of Mayo,
which had 'justly received so much praise and
admiration, was nut qualiged ? But the fact was,
that the defect was not in the candidates, but
in the Bill under 'which they word to act—and
the boasted measure that was to be a blessing con•
(erred on Ireland, was on the first examination
found to be a Male, ill-digested thing, neces-
sary to be got rid of the earliest moment.--O►►e of
the greatest boon ever granted to Ireland was the
old Act, describing the functions of Grand Juries.
It bad been the source of improvement to the coun-
try ; it had produced direct roads equal to, and cross
reeds, he had no hesitation in saying, superior to any
in England ; it bad given employment to the pea-
santry, and was the germ of prosperity before Ireland
had either trade or comu►erce—yet this was the Act
now decried and exclaimed against. He did not
Mean to say the system founded on it was perfect
o° system was perfect—but so unlikely was the
'preach 'Bill to give birth to any thing epprooching
to perfection, that it comprehended within itself •
mass orcodfusion and inconsistency, not possible to
he removed, us the Ho►►. Baronet had asserted, by
the alteration of Words it► a Committee—nut trivial

and verbal, but strong, vital, and inseparable. He
was persuaded that one of the first acts of the next
Session would be to repeal a Bill so framed. In
the county lie had the honour to represent (Mayo)
he had never heard a gentleman but one, ap-
prove of the Act of last Session. He was ready
to admit that there were errors in the aid system—
one in particular was, that laud was 'not taxed
acreably. He was not against remedying abtises—
a solid, useful, effectual measure, would not find a
more cordial supporter than himself. The way to at-
tein such a one was, to suspend all further proceed-
ings at present, to continue the law as it stood till nett
Session, and mean time to be employed in forming
a well-digested Bill, consulting the Judges and all
other competent persons before it was introduced
into the House. He would accordingly propose as
an amendment, that the Bill be read the third time
this day six mouths.—(We believe this amendment
was afterwards withdrawn.)
Mr. T. COURTIIN AY would not agree in the posi-
tion that Irish Gentlemen solely should take a part
in the discossion of Irish affairs. The subject un-
der discsission was one that ought to be interesting
to Englishmen—it related to the mode in which
money raised of the people was expended. Be-
sides, it was not so locked up in mystery as not
to be open to the understauding of any but
throw ia 1111 l ediately concerned. The first prin-
ciple of it was intelligible to any one. It was
for the more deliberate investigation of the
anodes in which the money ►aised of the coun-
ty was proposed to be expended. It seemed
that that principle had been objected to by the
Grand Jury of the county of Louth, and lie would
grant that that was prima facie strong evidence
►gainst its utility. A certain part, however, of the
eautctinents in pursuance of the principle, had been
acted on in the county of Limerick with very be-
iselicial effects. lie alluded to the clause providing
in certain cases for the division of a Wool.. By
means of that it had been then discovered that the
Grand Jury had presented three times over for the
same work. if that had been found useful then,
it should be acted ou in other counties. These
was nothing tit it lie saw in the constitution of
Ireland to prevent that being put iu practice, or
any other part of the Bill, except the non-attend.
mice of the Magistrates at Quarter Sessions. But
he had no doubt that when they understood the ins-
p ortaot duties that by this Bill devolved on them at
those meetings, they would attend. He thought
that the clause permitting a Grand Juror to disclose
evidence given before him relative to presentments,
did not interfere with his other oath, as the latter
had relation to criminal business. He pitied the
condition of the peasantry of Ireland, if it was to
be maintained that the p iple of more deliberately
investigating preseuttnents, was one not proper to be
acted mi.

Sir F. FLOOD was the first to oppose the Act of
alt Session, because it went to impose 95 surveyors
on Ireland, at a salary of 300/. a year each—on
poor Ireland.—(A laugh.) —lt was with pleasure,
therefore, lie gave his hearty assent to the loan of
tins Bill repealing the clause to that effect, in the
List. lie gave his hearty approbation to the whole
of the present measure, because it did out subvert
the old Grand Jury system, founded on that ex.
cellent Act the 96th of George 111. but regulated
and amended ii. The duty of an Irish Grand
Juror was much more difficult and complicated
than that of an English one, because the former
had civil as well as criminal business to massage.
The seine observation applied to the Judges
respectively. %Vali the view of rendering that duty
more easy, the Bill was extremely useful, because
it enacted that the first applications for the execu•
tion of public works should be made to a Bench
of AlaAistrater, possessing a certain qualification in
Puna of property; and after their approbation oh.
applicittoni was to be matte to the Grand
Jury, who, however, were not colic/tided by the
uuuuuuu of the Magistrates at Sessions, but only
received a great eraistisoce in forming a correct
ju,lgintsit thew rhes. The Bill did nut go to sub•

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vent, but to perpetuate the uld and heneficiaiGrand
Jury system. lle felt great doubts as to the prn.
priety of the clause, providing for the accounting
of expenditure at the October Sessions, but he
thought that the clause empowering Grand:furors
to disclose evidence, did not at all touch their other
oath.
After • conversation between Mr. VEJEY
GERALD and Mr. D. B•OWNR,

Mr. E. S. C'o;sea.aid, that, for the reasons he
had already given, he begged for-leave to hung up
a cleave for exempting the counties of Slip and
Leitrim from the operation of the Act.
This clause, after a few -observations from Mr. V.
FirtoessLo, was negatived without a divisicite.
Lord JOCELYN than moved as an ameudiuent to
the original motion, that the whole of the Bill
be repealed, except the clause repealing the Act of
1817—which, after a'few words from Mr. V. Fax-
GERALD, was also negatived without a division.
The question having been put on the original
motion,
Mr. DENIS BROWNE said that the present Bill
hsd two objects in view :—the first, to give pub-
licity to all proposals for preventing money of the
country ; the second object was, to Bemire a better
mode of investigating presentments, and tic :collating
for the public money. To secure the second,
the Bill provided that proposals should be sent
into a bench of Magistrates at the Sessions in
January or nearest totaster. Theiedtity, however,
was, by the Bill, merely to examine the proposals sub-
mitted to them ; and the Grand Jury wait not at all
bound by what they might say. The Hon. Gentleman
then entered into a minute detail of the present
mode of transacting the business by the Grand
Jury—and in conclusion, contended that every pur-
pose, whether of publicity or investigation, visa
equally well attained under it, as by the proposed
Bill. It was therefore no improper tenacity in
Irish Members to cling to the old law in preference
to the measure under discussion.

Mr. PARNELL said, that there was a most scan-
dalous neglect of Irish business observable in that
House.—(Hear, hear,)—but as that wilt en un-
pleasant topic, he would pass it over, and pro-
ceed to the question. The Bill brought ull the
petty detail of busiuess before the House, and
left nothing to the discretion of those who
were to put it in execution—and he was sure
that in its very particularity it would be found
vexatious. It certaioly contained very great incon-
sistencies, as the Member for Sligo had explained.
The Gentleman would do more credit to his talents
by introducing a measure grounded on more ge.
neral principles. He thought that the county
works, like all public works, should be performed
by contract.
Mr. ODELL said a few words, not audible in the
gallery.
Mr. V. FITZGERALD said, that the clause for
accounting at the October Sessions, had been in-
troduced in compliance with the wishes of Gentle-
men connected with the North of Ireland, appre-
hending that otherwise persons who executed pub-
lic works might remain unpaid.
The gallery was then cleared for a division on the
original question, but it was subsequently carried
without a divisiuo.—The Bill was accordingly read
the third time, and passed.
The House then adjourned till Monday.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

PARIS PAPERS.

Faith, KAY Qt.
The King presided yesterday at a Council of
Ministers.

According to an estimate taken in the kingdom
of Naples, the state of the population presented
the following results :—ln the year 1817, the total
population amounted to 5,117,362 ; the births to
153,987 ; the marriages to 36,859 ; the deaths to
305,547. According to a comparison made with
other years, the number of births was in 1817,
50,709 less than in the preceding years, mid that of
the deaths 122,782 more than in ordinary years,
although in 1817 there prevailed in that country
neither famine nor any epidemic malady.
A furious wolf has committed frightful ravages
in the environs of Marianne (Drome). He covered
with wounds seven or eight persons who were in his
way, and tried to stop him. He at first threw hints
self on a flock of sheep, and two young girls who
kept them, and who would have been devoured but
for a brave peasant, Jean Laurie, who ran at the
furious animal, seised him, and flung him on the
earth. A second person fired at him and wounded
him. Lmarie, thinking him dead, loosened him,
when the wolf rose, rushed at him anew, bit him iu
the arms and shoulders, and tore his face. They
succeeded, however, at length in killing the wolf,
and the wounded men was conveyed, with other
sufferers, to a house of refuge.
A letter from Whin gives us the following details
respecting the criminal lately condemned to death
by the Court of that town ;
Since his condrtnuation, Vallet has confessed
that lie was one of the authors of the assassination
Kith which he was charged, and has given information
of his accomplice. He states, that two of his
aunts had just gone out of the house to give the
cows something to eat, as he and his accomplice
were entering it. Vallet pressed forward to the
chamber which his third aunt was preparing for
him, and he struck her the mortal blow, at the
moment she was opening her arms to embrace him.
This crime being perpetrated, Vallet penetrated
to the chamber where his grandmother was in bed,
and plunged a knife in her throat.
The two assassin• then proceeded to the stable,
and murdered the two remaining victims whom
their rage had to sacrifice. The accamplim•e held
one of the aunts while Vullet murdered the other.
Ile refuses to appeal from his sentence, and desires
immediate death. He evinces much repentance.
Telma has returned from Toulon to Marseilles,

THE BRITISH PRES S.

LONDON.

MONDXY, MAT 25, Ism

A Flanders Mail arrived last night with Papers
from Frankfort to the itittlt, and from Brto.sels to
the Sad instant. They excite our fears for the life
of her Royal Highness the Princess of WALES.
The following are extracts :

ROME, APRIL 26.

Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales hes danger.
Dusty ill at her country seat near Pesaro. Her affliction at
the loss of her beloved daughter had greatly impaired her
health, which has been anew severely shaken by later vexa-
tions, in respect to the bills of exchange, pretended to be
forged, payable ?gill of the property of the last Duke of
•Brunswick..elagenteine ZeiSung, lllay IS.)

1110,0111t1,11, NAT it.
Yesterday arrived here his Grice the Duke of Wellington,
Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Army in France, coming
from Cambray, he alighted at the Hotel le Belle Vue.
His Royal Highness the fluke of Cambridge and his
illustrious Consort arrived in this city Ibis tuarning. They
alighted at the Hotel d'Angleterre.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Kent arrived here on
the 19th.

It is affirmed that M. Cambsceres, and lateral other
rrench exiles, have received permission to return to France.
FRANKFORT, MAT

The Consul of the United States of North America at
Genoa has rectived the official news, that the Dey of Algiers
has prohibited his corsairs from visiting the American yes.
eels, as lung as the plague prevails in his dominion..
The son of General Arrighi, Duke of Padua, who bad been
arrested at Genoa, bas been sent to France ander an escort.
IMU6IEL.II, MAY 22.

The Duke of Wellington, who arrived yesterday evening,
Is gone this morning to inspect the fortifications of Mons
and Charleroi. His Grace is citpecttd to be back In this
City tirmutru*.

The Paris Papers of Wednesday and Thiirsday
last have arrived at our office. An article front
Berlin uotices the favourable effect produced upon
the financial affairs of Prussia; by the arrival, in
specie, of a part of the luau lately contracted in
this country. The sum already received amounts,
it is said, to a million of crowns, which raised
the value of government paper from 10 to 15
per cent.—These Papers notice the occurrence
of some serious accidents by tire. The hotel of
the interpreter to the French embassy et Constan-
tinople was burned ou the night of the 4th of
April, on winch occasion seventeen peresus attached
to the ersibanl lust their lives. An article from
Augsburg also states, that the summer resiiitoce of
the King, at Piblitz, has been totally consumed.
The conduct of the Saxon Diet is much applauded
on this occasion, in having presented the King, of
their own free will, a gift of 80,000 rix dollars, to-
wards re-building the palace.
The second process resulting from the murder of
M. FVALDES, will not be tried, it is thought, for
at least two months. With the circumstances of
this murder our readers are, no doubt, well ac-
quainted ; but horrible and revolting as they are,
they assume a more dreadful character, as every
day continues to add to the long catalogue of the
assassins. Seven or eight persons, of whom souse
are far above the lowest classes of society, have
been already twice convicted as principals in the
assassination, and now we are prepared to witness
an equal, perhaps a greater number accused of the
same c r . What must lie the tone of socioy,
the state of moral feeling, in a country where so
large • number of persons, without even the fusser-
able excuse of ignorance or poverty, could be fimnd
to conspire in the deliberate murder of a fellow
creature, with whom even some of the a ins were
united by consanguinity
This dreadful crime, at which humanity must
shudder, was, however, found by one of the thea-
trical managers of Paris, to possess such dramatic
effect as to induce isitn to exhibit it on the
stage; sod the people of that guy metropolis
flocked in crowds, for two nights, to the 17a.
eirites, to witness the representation of 11161411mA-
Mg spectacle. The Journals declare, that it was
received with a disgraceful eagerness ; hut they
hasten to throw a veil over the revolting !Ornate, Atari
add, that it was, after a second exit lotion, sup-
pressed by authority. We feel it distressing to add,

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twat dim Papers recotil *anther dreadful instance uf
murder in France. A young man, named V A t.t.s.c, is
represented as having murdered, with most unrelent-
ing ferocity, his aged grandmother, and his three
:Rims. lie has confessed his crime, and rt fusing the
chance if escape which an appeal might afford
him, prays for death as au act of mercy. Some of
thr &toils will be found among our French ex-
tract,'.

The plague is said to be extending its ravages an
I lir ena.t of A fries, and to rage with violence as well
ill 01411 and its environs as in Algiers.

The French Five per Ceuta. are 68 f. 25
Batik Actions, 1,545 f.

Government yes►terday received dispatches from
the expedition hound to the North Pole. They
are dated riff Shetland, May 3. The officers and
crews were all in excellent health and spirits, and
preparing to prosecutetheir voyage on the following
day.

The Harriet, MOoRE, arrived on Friday at
Ports th, from Calcults, bound to Loudon.
She sailed on the 6th of January, when there had
been no recent news 'received from the armies.

The Olive Br-wick, M'MILLAII, of Belfast, bound
to London, pat into Portsmouth on Friday, frotu
Jamaica, by contrary winds : left Kingston on the
26th of Febrnary. When off the Havanoah, she
was spoke by an Indepewlent privateer brig of 16
guns, from Buenos Ayres, under American co-
lours, which, however, she changed for nn English
ensign, on seriog a Spanish brig of war ; and im-
mediately gave chase to the brig, and obliged her
to seek protection under the guns of the forts.

Yesterday the LORD (.11ANCILLOR and Count
MUNSTER had audience, or the PRINCE REGENT.
Saturday the Austrian, Pru,siiin, and Hanoverian
Arnhaii,ador, had audiences of the PRINLE REGENT,
at Carlton Howie.

A entice was posted at the Stock Exchange on
Saturday that the interest on the deposit and io-
staltnent Exchequer Bills will commence payment
this day.
On Saturday the dispatches were cloyed at the
East India House, and delivered to the Pursers 01
the following ships, viz.—General Hewitt, Captant
P. CAMERON ; Warren Hustings. Captain T. LAR-
KINS ; and Asia, Capt. T: F. BALDERSTON—rot
Bengal and Madras.
Passengers per General Hewitt—
_ _

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Fur Bengal—M C. Lindsay, writer ; Capt. E. T. Ellis ;
Mesars. H. Beecher and P. Ray, free mariners ; Mr. H Al-
ston. free merchant; Lieut. R. Ed d+; Mr. Wright,
clerk; Mr. Robert M. 'Thomas, antorney ; Mistresses Tkumrs
and Ellis; Miss Huss.
Passengers per Warren llctstings
For Bengal—Major-General Garish, nod daughter; Lieu-
tenant -Colonel Fitigersld; Mrs. and Mi.% Fitzgerald; Cap-
tains Bowyer and Slye •, Mr. O'Brien ; Messrs. Alexandre
and Archer; Maui F. H. Colebrooke; Messrs. Vanzetti,
Whaler, Toone, Fittgerald, Walter, White, and Anstruther,
cadets.
Passengers per Asia—

Fur Bengal—Hon F. J. Shore; Mews. Young and Sim-
ms'', writers; Mrs. Honey; Misses Patton and Swiulun ; Ali.
H. J. Frellerup ; Messrs. Ornery and Thomson, cadets.

The Duke of RICHMOND, who is at present in
the neighbourhood of Chichester, is about to sail,
with part of his family, to his government of Ca-.
nada.

On Wednesday afternoon Admiral Sir GEORGIC
CAMPBELL, K. C. IL arrived at Purtetnotith, nod
hoisted his flag in the ll'ochrpri, and salutt,d the
flag of Sir E. TiIDENB!tOUGH, which was fly-
ing in the Queen Clo.rlotte, Captain BRIGGa: the
salute, was retitrue,i by that ship: at ,Int-set, the
flag of Sir EDWARD THORNBROUG,. was struck.
Next morning Sir GEottoE shifted hie flag to the
Queen Charlotte, when all the ships at the port sa-
luted the flag of their new Commander-in-Chief.—
Sir Elm/tan awl Lady THOBNBROUGII art tiff
early that morning for Bath.
The Dotterel, is. Capt. J. GonE Oh sailed on
Tuesday, and the Sappho, 18, Capt. PLEMKIDGE,
eat Saturday afternoon, front Portemouth, for the
Cape and St. Helena slatlOD.
Capt. F. STANFELL takes his passage to St
Helena, to take- illy command of the Corertfror.
in the Tees, ',Ai, Capt. RENNIE, from Ph:moo:h.
On Tuesday the ltlinerra transport went out
of Portsmouth harbour, and sailed for Plymouth,
to take on board part of the 38th regiment, for the
Cape of Good Dope. The other transports des-
tined to take this regiment to the Cape have been
fitted out at Deptford.

The leer, 42, Cipt. FORRF.ST. C.B. is arrived
from the Leith station. She is for the flag
or Vice-Admiral Sir C. HAMILTON, Vail. 14 the
Newfoundland station.

Rear-Admiral Sir B. [IA r.t.owsmr., K.C.B. was
expected to arrive at Plymouth uil Saturday. iii the
Tont:ant, 80, Capt. 'l'AlLoua, from Cork. to take
the command of the crusing squadron of gustil-
ships.
The Rochefort, SO, Sir A. Dtcsisota, and the
Vengeur, 74, Captain MA:x.ounit, sailed Irons
Portsmouth on Thursday evening. to join the
squadron assembling at Plymouth ; the Promeheor.
Capt. Moortsom, will sail this day ; the Greciou,
Lieut. JewaY, sailed on Saturday evei.ing.

Rear-Adiniral Sir P. 111Ai.cotrd. K.C.D. it is
said, i 4 to relivve Sir W. J. HON:, iii the command
at Leith.
At Spithend—lxier and Carnation, fnr New-
foundland ; Grasshopper, for Ilalifax ; and //um'.
refitting.
Five vestiels from flollind and two from Boom&
arrived at l'intsmouth la►t wet k, laden with what.

The 25th regiment (or King', Own linriltrele;
will march into ililsea this day from Chat
baring been relies ed there by the 90111 retztmet:t
from Plymouth. It i 4 said they are to embark for
the East Indies., Tiie first division of the
reginsetit marched from liiista on Saturday Audi.-
tug fur Ciiielisstcr.