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HOUSE OF COMMONS.

FOlTtlt gene entire, that he w•sald bring fowls.' dme
Irish Swipe on %Vcdoetola.. oat.
Mr. Met.t.t tit ror•enteit ap. tition (rum the pe.olta of
Highgair, secant ihn 81{Inate. trek-way pat. Ottkred
to be refers e.i to a Cumtu:ttae.

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The Vauxhall IJrid;,oa Rill wet read a third time, sad
pitied. •
Mr. Johnson, from the office of the Chief Secretary for
Ireland,.p!wented an arcumit of the 'orders imam' by the
Limn /Weed: from the year tam; which Man erderid to
lie items the table.
Thu se.% rat orders whi..ll were dropped yestintey, were
appointed fee to.onorrun.
11r. Demetrios g.ire notice, that lie.woulell move that
arkprematnecals ta thu Baal jerks is frelaud should he
laid berate
CiiIIVNIM said, he wiahr.l toils/mint the. second read-
ingot* his bill foe as early a they an poasikle ; the importance
edit reing snch as to require rape-Bd.*,
'After a few words from Wr. Pereeiril, Mr. lohnson Sir
F. Lluniett, Sir T. Tarttis% Mr. Pi,aseioaby; sad Sri (11;trtipe
Barren, it Was agreed that the ~cued r..ailipx should lake
Sere to-morrow, sad that it 'holed be anifPrietced that it
would lie cuimunted on Erni iy molt ; at wileotime the
debit., is to taito places.
kfr. Doc •inii(l, that an opiu ion havingalarie abroad
• that he to brought forararn its motion orepectiug; the third
&pint at the faididation tlr. Lick, he toiikiliat war-
teeny tutlectarc that it we. not the r•tor
Mr. Ferree a M:. Pick, in wafeti be
declared that that. part of Ihe ch..rite Nought by Mr. Ma.
docks, acceaneg Levet Cuatirrerich ut lisoin,; induced Idol to
revigu kis az..al, in rose of 44 not seppoi ties a census mots-
lion. was onfteraeliot.
Mr. %Vti1.1106,/1 I) tr.ewired who wae•new the Seen Lary of
tali Ruird of Controst, ea be contrived it to he inromiiatebee
stth the ogler of Chief &creme!, foe feet 'ed.
Mr. DI: 1Y As.state4. that a it. w r 'l4StiCa was making
o%* for as Iptionriment rt. ILI?' I tPN r.
Afro.aii tile. Si.• ::.iser Bill, the Land Tea
Redemption Bill, passed throuch Cowniittei., and the Re-
port ordered to lie remind to-au:true.
Tii.l Ballot reveratir; the Sigh Cutut ef Admiralty, wM

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read a ',rand time, sad the mart. Mrdered 4111,114110111
to-morrow.
The Seeman's Warn Bilk ens ma/ a second time, aid e&
dered to be committed to-morrow •
The Customs Consolidation Bill sal kik DistillessrW
passed through a Committee,and theailkuot was .
be received to-morrow. • Igad •••
Mr. M. EitzGra•to pee ea:4~Oald move
'on Wednesday next, fur leave to iker to amend
the Grand Jury Law* of Ireland. •• •a tl
The Irish Post Roads Bill passed througli ju Committee.
The AtteaNYY-Gitivre•t. gave notice that be would
*lug fonrard his proposition fur revising Mr. Pitt's Bill for.
regulating Public Meetings, to-morrow.
The House resolved itself into a Committee of Ways and
Mamie sad the clause reaper-tin Lotteries passed. The
Chsandlor of the Exchequer ih &reed filling up the blauks
sill to-morrow' that an Hon Member who aitecided to op.
Dine it, might hare an uppuitainty fur dcliver'ng his iris
Coasts.
The Excise Holiday Abolition Bill was read egret time,
to be read x second tiros to-morrow.
The Osamu Duty Bill was ordered to be committal sea
Friday Lest.
The Dublin 'Peeing nail Coal Trade Bills were read •
first time, and ordered for a second readit.g towoorruw.
Mr. Ms.Lt.ssa brou.Lt up the Report of the Committee
s the UM for oicurponitiaz the Gas Light Company, which
u As order. d to be read a thii 3 time to-morrow.
lshe House resolved itself into a Coloinittee on the Sorry
• Sewers Bill, hut proceetlisix to divide neon the question
whether Council should be refl.:4 in, it was found that they
wanted the mintier to ciristitute a House, and they Ad.

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ISADRAg, Ott. 29, 1808.
Eatmet of a letter front 'f riucomallee, dated the
!nth of December, 11110 C---" The Europe, Lord
Castlereagh, and Lord Keith, arrived this morning,
having en board His 31ajesty's 836 regiment."
BOMBAY. DEC. 14.183.3.
Aboat five o'clock. on Saturday evening, a fire
broke oat in Dongatee ; for souse time
wore a very formidable aspect and threat:lied the
destruction of most of the homes in that very po-
pulous part of the island. Oa the alarin rest have
the Fort, the •second battalion of His Majesty's
36th regiment, under the immediate corm:tad of
Lieutenant-Colunel Keating, marched to the piece.
The houses most likely to communicate the flame
were immediately demolished, and the fire got
under before it spread to any considerable extent.
This happy termination, however, was not effected
without, some accidents ; and the casualties iu the
id battalion of the 56th•ausoutited to one man
killed and 34 wounded, some of them severely. A
number of explosions took place dliting dm con-
tinuance of the lire, to which most of these acci-
dents are to be attributed; and particularly the
loss of the puor fellow just mentioned, wlio was
blown into a taw's, where he perished.
A detachment of the first battalion of His Ma-
jesty's S6tb re'givannt arrived front Coolabahs, tint-
irithstaoding the distance, in suffieitin time to cons
tribute to the general safety ; and a party at the
crew of His Majesty's ship Comgallis„ under the
commend of Captain Montague, was conspicu-
ously uses]. Indeed the personal exertions of
Colonel Keatjag, Captain Montague, and all the
officers who were present, was such as might be ex-
- peilild from the zeal and intrepidity. which is
so truly chataeteristie of either sootier.
On the whole we have not heard that there has
Wm any considerable loss of property, nor are
ifiere any suspicions entertained of .h.tire being-
more than accidental.
CALCUTtA, Sic. 3.
His Excellency Vice-Admiral Sir Edward Pei-
kw, Bart. leaves Calcutta to-morrow, in the Pilot
schooner, which- conveyed his Excellency .froti
Saugor, to join the flag ship tiring there ; Capt;
Pelle* and his Lady occompanylog :the Vice.Ad-
mind.
During the time his Excelleticy has been ia Cal-
cutta, the VioL,Atiatirant gag has been hoisted on
board one of His 31ujoky's aleitops of war, lying off
the Esplauade.
The ship Hunter, Cliptain Robson, about to sail
from hence to New South Wales, has take's on hoard
300 head of cattle, besides other cargo or that set-
tlement.

The trig Hibernia. Captain Mimi:des, Irft Cal-
eutta au Tuesday last. bou.id also to Port Jackson.
from whence, we understandodie will proceed to the
Feejie Islauds, for the porpos:• of procorinE., a cergo
of !modal-wood, which artfele, it appear., affords a
very handsome return at China.
Captain A. Forrest. lately returned to Caleotta
in tlbe Dadwas of lurk, from New South Wales
and the Feeym Islands, proceeded its the Hibernia.
CALCUTTA, DEC. 10. ma.
CIVIL APPOINTMENTS.

Mr. W. Loch, Register of the Zitlah Court at Shalistiud.
Mr. W. Carcroft, Regieti r of the Provincial cow! of Ap-
peal sod Court of Circuit for the Sirloins of Scoareo.
Mr. S. S. Gerehser, Reveler of the City Coast at Pots..

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We have the pleasure to announce the safe ar-
rival at Kedgeree, on Thursday, of the shiß Lord
.11inro, Captain William Greig, from a seeding
voyage to the Eastward, last from 'Penang, whence
she waded on the 16th
The onderraelitioned passenger,' have ar-
rived here by the Lord . It. Drain-
-11104141, of the Bombay Establishment , Forties
and D. 11•Culloch, Esqrs.
It is worthy of reasint, that the Lord Mingo, not
having been heard of beret within the period pre-
scribed by the laws of insurance, was, with her ear.
go, abandoned by the owners to the Underwriters,
who. actually paid the amount of the respective po-
licies some tame ago.
We understand this is n rear UIICOMM, n case,
of which indeed W4' iliac nut beard any precedent; '
and it appears to be an intricate question, as to
• which party the ship and cargo lION legally belong..

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By the foregoing opplailinity, we feern, that the
=Copt. Ferguson. sod the Sulintony, Capt.
.sailtsd from China sin the gth of Oct.; they
aisperiencedi severe gale of wind, Deaf the Par-
' cellars,. • •
The Sidititony reatained six days at Malacca,
and arrived at Penang on the evening of the 15th
of November. At the date of the departure of the
Miato, from Penang, (viz. on the lOth November)
nothing had been evard of the Biting since her
parting company from the Sailswony, in the gale us
above noticed. Some uppreheinsions are conse-
quently entertained for the safety of the Raring ;
we understand she is a very rich ship, and insurc-I
in most of the Insurance Oakes in Calcutta to a
great amount.

Dispatches received at this Presidency on Satur-
day night last, from China, via Penang, forwarded
from the latter place by one of His Majesty's ships
of war, who brought the dispatches to the Sand
Heads, from whence they were conveyed to Ked-
geree, by one of the Pilot vessels, state the arrival
at China of a British detachment from Madras,
and of the troops haring lauded at Macao ou the
27th.Septcutber, and that they had met with a fa-
vourable remount from die Portuguese.
Other advices,torwarded by the Suliniony, we are
informed, mention, that the Chinese had laid an
embargo on all vessels lying at China, by affixing
their chops ; and had interdicted all communica-
tion beta een the ships and the shore.
The Baring and Su/lawny were allowed to de-
part by special license.

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His Majesty's. ship Lion, with her convoy, passed
Macao, all well, on the 28th of September.
According to the last accounts front China, the
unininal price of opium was 900 donut.s per chest.;
t.lassparke(glutted, and nn

The Arab ehipi Fazy tato/ray and Fy:el Cur-
rent, from hence, had arrived at Pealing.
A ship and brig, inward bound, were in bight
from Kedgeree, standing up the River, when the
report from thence was dispatched oil Thursday, at
4 p.w.

The brig above-mentioned is supposed to be the
Britiosaia; as we learn by the 41/intu, that She had
sailed from Penang for Calcum'.
His Msjebty's ship Cuiluden, baring on board
his Excellency Vice-Admiral Sir Edward Mew,
Bart. quitted Pilut's Water, on the evening of the
6th current.

The ship Europa, end brigs Nets Eutlearoor
sad Hibernia, for the eastiiard, quitted their pilots
at the same time.

The Geurgiese peetet. Capt. Leigh. is now at
Culprit, writing tined orders.
liming the last week. the Are) ships Shaw Al•
lam, Fold 800 ra, and Etthelbarry left Calcutta on
their return to the Red Sea.

The Ilonourahle Company's ships William Pitt,
Lady ✓nee Diondas, Inglis, and Cdtato, re-
main at &Lugo,. •
The Tiede! Carreen, Shato " Slid &Halal
Savoy, at Kedgeree.
Captain Greig, Commander of the Lord Minto,
arrived in town this inorisin4, and upon the autho-
rity of information obtained front that Geniiy new,
we are now enabled to correct a part of the account%
given in our Paper of this morning, respecting the
Baring and the Milineony.
It appears that the Saliniony did net lose any of
her masts, or sustain any material damage during
the gale, but that the Baring lost her main-top-
mast, and was last seen by oho Stilinexty to leeward
of the Parcellar-hills—a situation, wi,ich, we under-
atand, it not considered dangerous.
Ou the evening, on which the Minto left Penang,
the signal Wab made for n large ship going in from
the Southward, and which was supposed to he the
Baring.

The Suliming was expected to sail (corn Penang
for this port, on the 213th ult.

The Bort arrived at Chine under convo) of Flis
Ilmje-17'i ship the Lien, consiatv.l of nine India-
men, and 1.5 mu dry skips.

CEYLON, DIM 14.
On Thursday last, Wm. Cake, Esq. His 'Ma-
jesty's Advocate Fiscal was, by his Excellency's
command, sworn is a Member et' His Majesty's
Council is this ishuid. The usual salute was fired
on the occasion.

The Honourable Company's shins Lord Castle-
orogh, Lord Keith, nail Europe, with the 39th Re-
giment on board, from the Cape of Good I lope,
have hero to the south-east of this io.land for the hut
week, Meting up against contrary winds, but owing
to :he prevalence of the 'moth. west winds, they have
not yet born able to reach this port.

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went of the 640th reginwet. Oa Friday last, four
went into Fort Royal—two of ta.se endenionred
to escape, bnt were cut off by the Claire frigate
and .Enaton armed ship. There have been altoge-
ther, since the inland was captured, iihnut taeufy
vessels taken.

" DARBADOES, APRIL 7.

" Arrived Ills Majesty's ship Brazen, in ,20 (lays
from 3lndeira. ut which iland .he called to get
intelligence of the Ruchfort squadron.—She WHY
becalmed off the Wand, and could not join the
Catsor and fleet for the West Indies, with which
she sailed from Portsmouth on the 341 March."