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degree .
*premed in leaving out this particular Act, which
disagreed essentially with the occasion which h.d
rendered 'Bill (she Expiring Laws Hilt)

etunise the!: would rertalltly have ,been deliberated
oa, and some remedies w,•111.1 have applied. Tin.,
he emteeived, could now oily be done by a new
Peebailment. The present system was one which
had 1110 W been in force for some years, sad those
unfortunate persons who had been confined fur
debt had enjoyed every advantage belonging to it.
It did not appear to him likely to conduce any
thing towards public credit to suspend these be-
. :befits so suddenly ; and indeed though the pre-
sent state of the law was certainly defective, mid in
twiny respects exceptionable, he was not sure but that
the late one was much more so. The capability a-1-
lowed to the creditor to continue the period of im-
prisonment for • debt, uo matter under what cir-
cumstances contracted, or front what cause arose
trte inability of the creditor to pay. was • circuin-
titmice of itself sufficient t• make the House suspi-
c ous of the propriety of those laws. This had nude
:t necessary in times past to release by diff-rent Aers
a considerable number of debtors at one time, with-
out any examination of their capes, such as now took
place. This had proved exceedingly inconvenient,
arid hence the necessity of the new laws. To sus-
pend the Act. even for the few weeks during the
dissolution and re-assembling of use Parliament,
could only have a harsh and injurious effect, and
weld by no means benefit the interests of credi-
tors. lle therefore opposed the motion.
Sir R. Wltsou isms sorry to differ from hie No-
ble Friend. especially as he had been a Member of
the Committee appointed to consider the lusolvent
Debtors' Bill. But it certainly would be wrong
:,red inconvenient to suspend that Bill so suddenly.
For his own part, he bad not heard such numerous
and urgent complaints made again,. the Act by
the trading part of the community. The impri-
soned debtors ought certainly not to be placed in a
worse wondstion than they would base been other-
vise, on account of the demise of the Crown. The
I,rtnciple of the Bill had been admitted as correco;
In as great a degree at least as its defects wee.: ob-
i ectionable.
The Segmaita was about to quit the Chair, when
Mr. Dcwm II *Weed to know how the provision.

cf the Annual Indemnity Bill were to.he made
lorod wall the parties who were entitled to claim its
►.eai.fits ? Those who were hand to undergo par-
txular. qualifications on or before the 11th of March
last would sc.rcely be covered by the Expiring
Laos Bill, which was to commence its operation
to the 2411 i of March.
Lord CASTLE/MACH apprehended that the Bill
its progress would place *II such persons as had
Leen alluded to by the Honourable and Learned
Lisatlemen on a secure footing until the resembling
sf the new ['Ailment, when their cases could be
immediately token into consideration.
?.Jr. DENMAN thought be could convince the
Noble Lord immediately. There was a ease now
pending in a northern Court, wherein one of the
parties concerned had omitted to qualify himself is
a particular way reqnired by law. The trial would
gram likely mane on in the third or fourth day er
We intuit% Assizes. This person would not be
covered by the Bill in progress.
Lord CASTLIMEACII admitted that such ants
ought to be provided fur. It would be inconvenient,
ki,wever, to stop the progress of the present Dill on
tort recuurit. If the Hon. and Learned Gentle-
man thought 6t to bring in a short Bill for the
purpose, Ins Lordship thought that there could be
objection to allow it to pass through all its stages
16 the same day.
The House then resolved itself into the Commit-
tee, through which the Bill passed.
The Report was brought up and read with its
amendments, and ordered to be read the third time
as sore as engrossed.
hind A. liatitLToN brought up a Petition from
the Goildri and Borough of Stirling, the Peti.
twiner* riling to be allowed to elect their Borough
Officers ri.orig themselves.
The CisArcELLoR of the EICIISQUIMI moved
the third reading of the Expiring Laws Bill, which
was reed die third time, sad parsed.
Lord PALMERSTON moved the third reading of
tiie Mutiny Bill, which was accordingly read the
third time, ■nd passed.
IRISH ELECTIONS BILL. _

Sir H. Paasts.t. moved the Order of the Day
for the third reading of the Irish Election Polls
&H.
• Lord CASTLEItEAMI understood that the Bill
contsioed some very important regulations. He con!
/eased that he knee, nothing of the Bill from his
observation; he could not support it from his
hnooledge of its contents, as he hod not had time
to eitanisise it. He understood, however, that it
was a desirable point with the people of Ireland
that the Bill should pass; sod, therefore, though be
ovoid not give it the support of his judgment, he
should not interpose to prevent it from passing.
- Sir H. PARNILL thought that it was very desire.
ble to pus it before the elections commenced in

island.
Mr. C. floicwintion eederstood from his Hon.
Friend, that great point bed bees taken with the
to prevent its oper.iting to the disadvantage
of soy sprats of Cotes or soffrages. He knew
soothing of the Bill himself. He depended, how..
eves. most confidingly. in the averment of the
Km. Baronet. that every thing had been done by
hint In prevent it in every case from injuring the
right of voting. la its first formation. he was
•were that the right of voting would have been
injured and contracted. and mach mischief done
to st.generally by the Bill. There was no duty
more incumbent on the House Mae to prevent
the elective franchise from sustaining any in.
jury. eepecially on the approach of a general elec.
'ion, fie trusted entirely is his Hon. Friend's de-
. Imam, that no species of vote wiwild be inj @red
by be Bill. And with this confidence. however
kiddies he might otherwise bare Mt af say attempt
te alter the laws for regulating the affairs of elec.

FOREIGN lATELLIGENCL

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sore end more imthosalellide ►deli, es
',tries merchant. mid ►e declare
Ives wholly favourable to it. The •I,Uat,
already waited on Prince aletteruien. end
Ministers and great Officers of State; they
shortly to be admitted to as audience of the
iperor. and to express to kis Majesty the request
he would be pleased. conformably to the
of the Austrian merchants and menurecter-
declare to the Congress iu favour of • ge-

system of commerce in Germany. upon which
they design to present to the Congress a circum-
stantial memorial upon the subject. It is said these
very beneficial measures appear tbitteutl.ht n very•
Islet opposition, sod that NMI ttc staffs in Eng-
lish
manulecteres4 tut the age►t: of the German
Zianurseturers Mfg taitl to be now resolved to prove
to the Congress, and in the face of all the Sove-
reigns of the Continent, that 'commercial system
can never be effectual in the whole Continent
against England, es long es the German markets
are open without restriction to English good.. In
general this subject excites, in the highest degree,
the attention of ■ll the Members of the Congress,
and it c. be doubted that the results will be
very advemageous to the distressed 'lasses of mane-
fact uras.

BERLIN, FEBRUARY 5.
Several changes are spoken of as likely to be
made in the organisation of the government of se-
veral parts of the kingdom, according to which
tight of the Governments will be abolished, and
all the Chief Presidents are to act as such. The
governments to be abolished are those of Berlin,
Dantzig, Coslin, Reicheubsch,
Cleves, Erfurt, mod Meestburg. The Presidents be-
ing men versed in business, will probably be Mem-
bers of the Council of State. The districts of the
provincial Counsellors will be organised throughout
the whole ki.igdom by the Ist of June next. The
local adaiiiiibtrarioi will be confided to them, and
in this manlier a beginning will be made for laying
the foundation of our Constitution. If in other
places they have begun the construction of the
edifice with the roof, we shall begin with the foun-
dation. Our Constitution will certainly not be
modelled as hlr..Groerres would have it, on the
principles of the middle ages; nor *ill it lie imi-
tated from one of the seven French Constitutions,
which never had any complete existence, except
upon Raper; nor from that of England (which is
hewn in stone) ; nor front those of the other Ger-
man States ; and least of all. from that of North
America, but it will be • national Prussian Consti-
tution.—ln the mouth of January the cold has been
variable here. It was the most severe on the 17th,
viz. at 19k. it wss seldom less khan 12. but we
had some days of thaw, and one morning the ther-
mometer was for a few hours 6. above freezing. It
is said that it St. Petersburgh the cold was Si. and
that 170 sentinels were frozen to death, or partly
injured by the frost, in one night.—(Allgerneirse
Zietuag, February 10.1

NURIIIIII2IO, /11111UARY 12.

The distressing situation of the agriculturists
deserves the attention of all reflecting persons.
The public securities, funds, notes, and the like,
may experience a great rise, and many indulge
flattering dreams of seeing the prosperity of the
State founded by tfiis circumstance. But while
those papers rise, the landed property is more end
more depreciated, and there is but little money to
be found in the country. Every where we hear it
repeated, the number of labourers and servants
must be diminished, and the live stock reduced,
for the low prices of corn, and the scarcity of
money, make these measures absolutely necessary.
But does not the evil become by this means still
more desperate, and is not agriculture threatened
with total ruin! And what will be the consequence
if the main source of all support ■nd all gain is
dried up ? Should not this lean our chief attention
to agriculture, and make us endeavour speedily to
find means to afford it protection, security, and
new life, now in the time of its distress, arising
strangely enough from a too great supply of corn ?
This is indisputably one of the most difficult
problems of our times, and one of which the
solution is the meet orgeut.--(Nereasberg Corres-
pondent, February lg.)

PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE.

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They write from Louvain, chit • most extraor-
dinary, a most atrocious pauteeding has filled the
people of that city with indignation and dismay.
Mr. Trappe,. a very respectable inhabitant of the
place, has been arrested, guarded by two gens-
dilemma. who never suffered him out of their sight
during 48 hours, and finelly sent out of the king-
dom of the Netherlands, accompanied by • similar
escort, all without' any accusation, any form of
process, any legal preteato and at the moment he
is seeking redrew for au outrageous violence cow-,
witted ou his dwelling.

It will be remembered, that in the mouth of
September last, Mr. Trappe*, relying on the 419th
article of the Loi tondeasented, which provides
that the inhabitants of Belgium shall not be ob-
liged to receive soldiers to be quartered on them,
except in extraordinary sod unforeseen cases, hod
declared to the Burgomaster and the Aldermen his
intention of refusing to 'alp whatever soldiers
should be sent to him. Notwithetaading this, oa
the 19th of September, a soldier time with a

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doubt defective, cud it WM ?emir •lyso in the amnia his support. the Au+
general manner in which its provisions were carried Sir 11. Paftuel.t. declared bile anxiety to protect themvel
solo execution. At the acme time he could not the right of voting from receiving any injury to be have
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but think that there would be a degree of harshness a 4 great as could possibly be felt by any Member
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'prompt in leaving out this particular Act, which of the Flowe.
dimmed essentially with the occasion which had A new clause wits brought in, and added by way hope sh
rendered the prer.ist.Bill (the Expiring Lars Bill) of eider.—The Bill was then read • third time and Enler,
veressery. Ile wished the subject of the Insolvent passed. , that hi
Debtors' laws to receive the smste deliberation as Lord PA Liaterrom jro wgll t up accounts of all tne
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if there had been no demise of the Crown. money received and 'mid on account of the Half.'
if it Kid not been for the melancholy event of that pay Establishment. . Cr.?ere to
sly.nise they would certainly live .been deliberated The House adjourned at Half-pant Five o'clock. neral /3