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The %MAKER 'tetra that the 'motion before the
Howie was. whether Mr. C. Dundas should b.-.
member of the Committee. lion. Members would
judge for themselves how far it was proper to agi-
tate different questions, which did not refer to the
nnallinatiou of • particular Member on the Coin•
in i Hear.)
After a few words from Mr. CA LCRAFT,
The SPRAILER observed. that he was anxious net
to be miatioderstood in what had fallen from him
before. !ie wished to say. and he now said in terms,
that any HARI. Gentleman who objected or approved
of the a particular Mend'sr on the
CO is; o ter, would in expres•iiig his optuion cone
fine himself to the fitness or unfitness of that lode.
vidaal to perform the duty.
Mr. Bonus said, that no one could he better
qualified its every respect to serve 011 the Commit.
tee than Mr. C. Dundas. and he blsoultl have oat
difficulty in voting for his appnintment.
Mr. SPOONER conceived that los Hon. Friend,
the Member for Taunton tMr. A. Baring) hail nut
intended to apply his observations on the Commit-
tee to any particular Member, but to its whole
renew ution.—(4 laugh.)—And lie certuttily en.
tertaitistl a tuning objection to it, because in lunk•
roc over it lie Mil eat observe the names of the
Members enameled with the representation of the
great susitufacturtng counties, Warwickshire, Star-
for4teltire, nor, he believed, Lancashire.—(//ear./
—lf any good at all was to result from that Com-
mittee, it could only be by the public being per-
suaded that the subject was referred to those indi-
viduals who would give it a calm, fair, and full in-
quiry.- Now, lie poked, whether the omission of
the Members referred to, would be likely to con-
vey hat impression to the country or to the !louse ?
lii order to *rule the question wfiether the manu-
facturing interests could bear higher prices imposed
on the first necessary of life, sonit"Gentlemen
iu—
timately connected with the manufacturing dis-
tucts be included in the list. He thin&
out this hint. and trusted it would be acted on. til
Mr. MAXWELL said that he should not do jus-
tice to the Member for Surrey. did lie not declare,
that one elfin at least had been made by him to
include a Representative of • manufacturing
county in the Committee, because lie had ex-
pressed a wish to place himself (Mr. Maxwell) on it;
but conceiving that there were many Gentlemen in
the House much better adapted to the duty than
hiniself, hr bed requested that hie name might not
be turreted. IVith respect to the conastutoon of
the Committee, he did venture to say, that if
there was any one class of men whose interests were
at variance with Omit: of the rest of the community.
it was the manufacturers and ship-owners. But lie
should he glad to see the names of the Members
for Taunton and Portarlingtoo in the hat.
The question was then carried in the affirmative.
The question was Oleo put ou thee name of Mr.
Bright.
Mr. H. SUMNER said, that it was a proof of the
impartial feelings by which he had been miaowed
in selecting the Committee, that though lie bail
understood the Hon. Member whose name had been
called had voted stigmatise him last night, yet not
having beets acquainted with Inns. but knowing
that he represented the city of Bristol, and hav-
ing heard of his talents. he had made choice of hi in
for a Member of the Committee.—lt was true that
there were no Representatives, of manufacturing
counties on Ilse Committee. but it contained the
names, of Members of the three groat commercial
towns, London, Liverpool, and Bristol. namely, the
Lord Mayor, the Right Hon. G., Canning, and
Mr. Bright. He understood that the Lord Mayor
considered the business of the Committee as in
sonic degree inconsiatent with the important du-
ties of his office. and in that case lie had 110 oh-
to the substitution of another name. He
had formed his het with the very best intentiotts,
selecting a majority of those who merely believed
that the distresses of the ogritiltutists were such as
ought so be inquired 11110.—Illear.1
Mr. Bemire stated (as we understood, the cons
lesion is the bodj of the !louse being considerable)
that whit bed fallen Irmo the 11011. Gelitlemmi
(Mr. Sumner) lead produced such a change in Isis
sentiments. that lie should no longer decline acting
on the Committee.

General GMICOYKII expressed his opinion that
the objection lay against the whole Committee,
•ppointed in the way it had been, and not against
individuals; and therefore he rose to inure, that its
appoiatment should he by halloo, joist...ad of 'mini-
nation. —( Cries of !"J—Gentlemen might
try •• No!" but lie was resolved to press the motion,
and take the arose of the House on it by a division.
If the nomination were left to the Member fur Sur-
rey, however ft* it might be dune, the ',Moho'
outside if doors would be, that it was a close C
• and to proceed by ballot would be the
roily means of ocaloving that prejioslicr. He we,
convinced that the feeliosgt of the ;:uhlie should be
consulted more than the House was disposed to
admit. %Vriters un huhticrl economy generally
agreed that its legislatiog public heeling should be
a guide as well as resins's. He should certainty
move, that the Committee be sopponoted by bal.ot.
The Amendment toot having been seconolrd—
Sir M. W. RIDLEY twirl, happily iio individual
in the House h..d thought proper so second the
Amendment.— (Hear .) lie certainly regretted the
decision come to last i.ight, but he trusted that the
alarm which load been expressed in a high courier
would soon subside, in consequence of the prudent
and moderate manner on which the affair would be
followed up.—(lfcar, hear.)—From the statements
made by the Honourable Member for Surrey,
and as Members for London, Liverpool. and
Bristol were Colllpfibrd in the Coin unite, he
thought the mattulacturing interest• had little to
object on the score of partiality in the composition
of it.—(//ear, bear.)—He apprehended that Gen-
tlemen 111 the House were the cause, though the
iimoceot cause, of olds m through the coun-
try. When the tocsin of alarm was sounded bv
the Members fur Taunton. l'ortarlingtooi, sod
Yl'arelsem, will it to be wonifereri ut that people of
lower education and sense would full tutu that feel-
ing?. Had he been in the House last night. which
he was not slots' the House divided, he should have
voted against the motion; but lie could not help
tegretting that the effect or the language used by
Hun. Members in that House. war to recite feel-
ings of division and discord between the dolietent
chasms and interests of the cosunturoity.
Mr. CALCCAFT and Mr. RICARDO irverally dia.

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claimed any intention of exciting alarm by what
they had said.
Mr. BARING said, that in the beginning of LI
observations the night befine, he had expresvly dr.
precated the exciting of any alarm; but he n
state his belief, that tf they went into the (;vomit.
tee on the grounds and with the objects stated Lv
the Hon. Member for Surrey, riot only would alarm
be excited, but that there would be solid ground
fur it, and that be would pull the tocsin of elm,
with all his might. He hoped the whole country
mould take the alarm; bat he trusted that no Gm,
tlesnan could suppose that he tliouglit ail gee,
could be effected by disorderly or toMnllll..ll, ea:.
duct. What he meant was taut the country oust,[
to feel that in the decisin of this questom in
greatest interests were at stake. To quoit the kr:.
garage of Mr. Burke—" The alarm hell at .o.d.
aright might disturb your repose, but it w.,,i ore.
'rot you from being murdered in your btu.-
• Sir M. %V. RIDLEY explained.
Mr. Bitouumiu affirmed that his Hon. Eire,;
(.Ir. Baring) in deprecating alarm, soil thriatei..
t.ig to sound the tocsin of olefin. had beets loco',
siseent with himself.
Mr. BARING explained.
The 'question was then carried, and the Comae.
ere completed by the addiiiiiii of the fi•lloniii;
T. Aclsred, Mr. John Payne, %Ir.
Ilaiikes; Mr. Brougham, Mr. John Bruen, M.
Nlr. Coke, Mr. Gooch, Ms. F. Leal,, and
the Lord Mayans
Instead of the list name Mr. H. Scsrmart pro.
posed that that of Mr. T. Vl'ilsoa should be iuiro-
duced.

Mr. WILSON (*Woe undrivorml) declined rimier.
taking th•etlety. wad the Lord Miiyer'd same re-
mained. ~ •,

Mr. lii.nOtkutfON lansenteil all !spelt a 4 any mill
1 1.
the dte.yettimetitriu winch hail men cunt to the lire-
cedar% staklit. lie Irk ili.tu.lte perfectly cootistela
4:10144he ott:istettairo be had offerer] to the ;mown,
,4111115k411troad out *rillty of titaarffiee Ist filed, to ..,,..
draw t tt di if Viva utirrovt.tc
group ilia. way wily
Irbiorlig conducted Oil • at pl/011 it cuuld 64,1 to
..• tpterail or practical rviult. lie 111.11 stinv,l—
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That it he au instrurtion to the Catontinee to amuse
their inquiries to the touJe of &see. mating, calcalath.g,
returning the averages in the 'wave maritinte cousitos, u,,.
der the provisions of the f sating Coru 11.4*11; and wh.ther
in those operations any frauds were practical in violation ~;
the prima ttttt s of those tars; slid to report their upiniou and
observations Sties cuu to the House.

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Toe question harts% been put.
Mr. WODEHOUSE expressed his opinion that the
present tuudeufdtarting the averages was subject to
great •Intsati and that great improvenient• might
be made tn. the law rut the purpose of ciao...nog
them, soil utieckisig that Irigii,f4l.ltem of .:111'.•
Idiog. Winch prevailed the mimeo ;Woos iii the
corn trade. The only Act to whichf; the Magiss
trate' could have recourse for directions ea the
subject was the 3151 Geo. I 11. and the• law eutter
it ass involved in considerable atnbigudy. Wiled
received iuformatiou from respectahle quianders of
the existence of fraud in the adnitrostratiots or tic
Corn Laws. The averages were sometimes struck
very unfairly. At the purl of Lynn. to Norfolk.
on the 7th of Noventher. ISIS. two 1,11.4,4;1 a
wheat strived room Nlotd, nr Denbighshire. arid
one thousaud quarters from another place ; atisl
striking the average price, the tau hu•iteli weighed
Si much as the thousand quarters.. Nobody could
mountain that this was a fair mode of cilculatism.--
(Hear, hear.)
Mr. BY l • at
RUELL Said, it was the plain - of
his Al.jtsty's fritter away to nuttsing
the itutjutries sod objects of the Committee.
tunes were such, tnat it was hest to speak out, and
the fact was, the taxes could not be 1)..tt1, unless the
toices of agricultural produce were kept up. He
theta moved the follow:itg amendment, to leave out
all the word* of the motor' after the word CoM-
'Mitre, in order to introduce the following :
" Whether the pres,iit 'node of taking the aver-
ages ascertains the actual market priers of grain
throughout the united kingdom whether ."7
better method could be adopted to carry iota
effect the iittesstion of the Legislature."
Mr. S. WoitTLEY contended that die
turtsts *ere nut suffering near so much ths:res as
other classes. Had he beret preseut whet' the &-
vision took place the night hefure lie would have
opposed the loolsOil fur ally Committee. lk,;,tw he
should support the motion of the President of the
Board of Trade.

A Member, with whose name we were onac.
quansted, yaiil, that lie Pltuultl br very i;hal to pro.
cure *..rite suboitrite for the preariit Coin 13:11.
But without some protection lam; would be eri.e.
rally thrown out of cultivation, and the ft...M(11011 be
such as to produce corona ))))) .ly nigh pricey, starve-
twit. and a surplus of pupultniou. The price
of wheat was now, taking ludo cominleratiou the
price of labour, double what it 'mid hero six year,'
ogo. Ile had no rtraire to greeter prunctioo iliatt
had Leen intended by the Leg ...haute in the
year 1815; but he hoped the Cum:loiter would
litgilaw a due attention tu all the Pentium and their
allugstions.
Mr. Nlottcß. said, tli;:t the grea!rst evil of the
Coro Law was, that it caused the greuttA tlicpro.
portimi between the reivard of labour hail the price
of the treces.aries of life, and the euovequeirce was,
that a great body of the people were reduced to toe
dreadful alternative of 'derivation la pauperism.—
I-le wee Motile to a Committee, became lie twine-
hetaled that if it was attended with any practical
tooth it would be the rei-1.14 of the priced.
Earl Tmsput was g 1.31 tl.At the Comouttee 104
hero granted, but lie hoped that its inquiries would
be conducted with calmness and impartiality. lie
should certaiely oppme uny measure for siffiostg the
price of bread at the txperioe of the lower orders.—
This 'l.a 114118 time to tamper with the frelisigituf the
14117"ilLMheumbhell:pidrevsoled
vote for the original
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pus
rttailution to vote
for the rrsirictive proposition of the Right nom
President or the Board of Trade. the considered
the protection granted in 1815 to be nece aaaa y,
but he could not see any further remedy fur the di..
tireeee of ogricelturtsta except a remisslon of rents,
when the coutiacts between the ownerssial occupier,
permitted it. lie agreed in the abstract principles
laid down by the Metnber for l'ortarlingtuti (Mr.
Ricardo), but he brlitved that they could Dot be
strictly pushed into practice, and that they bbould
be looked even es the beacon to be kept is view is
our necessary
_aberrations from them. The recur--

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rence to them, though desirable, must Le slow and
cautious. Ile should support the original restricted
proposition, looking on its object ministerially to
carry into effect the intention of the Legislature iu
IEIS.
Mr. DANKEO mid, that the Hon. Member (Mr.
It'iknot) bail taken a great deal on himself in
cooling to the conclusion, that there was but one
mode of relieving the distresses of the agriculturists,
or calming their feelings, if nothing more beneficial
than the letter could he done. For himself, he
hoped that by going into the Committee something
might be devised for the relief of the agriculturist
without injury to any other class. He recollected
that in 101. when a number of gentlemeu had •
wetter's at iverpool, the principal question agitated
was the mode of striking the overages. It was sows
grated that an improvement in the existing anode
would be advantageous, none, however, could then be
devised, and Ilk old continued on the same slovenly
footissg,and on a sort of understanding that the errors
comasitted in ear part of Zealand might correct
these which took place io another. The averages
were never fairly pst is the Gazette. He lamented

that any thing ihould have been .441 to e lei te

alarm is the country. There was no rational
ground for apprehension. The present proieetioli
was illusory through the defects in its machinery.
lie should go into the Committee, not thinking
tart its ingots les should be limited in the manner
proposed by his Right lion. Friend, but with' a
determination of not raising the priee of corn.
Lord CASTLEREAGH apprehended that if the
attention of the House were called to the immediate
object of deliberation and discussion, and Hon.
Members applied themselves intim point on which
the question hinged, there would be a better chance
of their coovincing one another, and arriving at
some practical conclusion. He did not coosider that
the question on which the House had now to decide
had beau brought into issue last bight. He was
always disposed to bow to what seemed to be the
feelings of the House, ind. more particularly ars iu
she present inatance, considering the quarter from
which the motion and the Petitions on which, it
was founded had come, for be was free to declare
that there was no class in the country which be
looked on v.itls greater respect and deference.
lie thought it was the duty of the House to look to
thr probable results of the inquiry, and certainty
not to diorgard the complaints of distress, if • ra-
tional Lope could he entertained that a remedy was
appl;cable. From what he could collect from the
speech of his Hon. Friend (h. Hollllle Sum.
bre, it or► nut is his view tit emend the standard of
inuatetioss, hut he looked within the Corn Lows
Oleander. for the remedies which he songht for.
• If she agriculturalists thought the price of tina. maa
• asilkseset pruteciien, he shoield be quite wiNing
to agree to the amendment of the Hew Member for
Sussex. He could positively allltinv that the Act
of Isis was trussed on :a perk of seeing known to
the country mid to the House ; and ,st was esti.
mated at the time, that if the averages were takers
au the whole country, it would make a" dd.
ference of E.r. re es. per quarter of wheat, and
air. ass a point perfectly well known at the time.
He really thought, looking at the lute period of the

Session., that if the isiquiry were confined to the
*studs committed under the existing law, it was
as touch as could reasumitily be expected to
he got through. As the ports were now shut, and
had hero fur some time, the agriculturalists had
actually been iu possessiou of a complete monopoly
for the last eighteen mouths ; he mug consider,
therefore, that no moment could be worse chosen
them the'present for agitating the question. Ile
was friendly to the Act passed in 1815, and he
serily believed that had it parsed one year sooner
much calamity and distress would have heels
saved to tlw country.—(( ries of*. :Hear, hear.")—
But when titer measure passed, it was on a ease of
actual distress made out, and "e were now to be
railed un to argue it, nut on the insufficiency of
the Rill itself, but on the speculative grouud of
future mischief to be appreliewled. The argu-
ments of the lion. Meniner for Norfolk, who had
shied the existence of frauds, was more to the
pond of the restricted instruction of his Right
. .

Ham F,i.od the President of the Board of Trade,
thus to the more extended one of the Hun.
Member fur Suuex. He thought the line which
Parliaineot ought to adopt, should be intelligible
to the public, and that the meartire should be one
of regolatimi and oat of alteration—a distinction
wheel, would be observed, and would not fall to
carry the along with them; but any altera-
tion of the 111 inciple be most deprecate as a needless
agitation of public &shag, cud if a Committee
were gone him, and at dm end of two months they
should have a Report from it, recommending a
change in she Can Law, be should consider it as the

greatest calamity, eves) to the agricultural interest.
He hoped the Home would aot suffer their rniods
to he Ird away from the distinct purpose of the Act
of 1115. *his* was to afford a protectiou founded
on the average of the maritime districts, and no. on
the gener■l average. He thought the working of
the law had beets advantageous in steadying the
price and placing the country in n situation so ',DUO
desired. of prodding for its own sustenance. The
Noble Lord concluded with exprilisisig his inten-
tion of voting for the propositioa of the Right Hun.
President of the Board of Trade.

Mr. llotata Summeaallowed that the agrie.ul.

lure, manufactures, and counneice, forititel to-
' gether the structure of our national greatness ; but
he contended that agriculture wit% at the base, land
goy disorder there would iocewirily derange :I.e
wlk..le labile. He was not to he deterred ft
41..i1ig 1111 duty by the inew.ce• of the Noble
Lord, IN by the tocsin of alarm winch had hero,
sounded from the other side of the Honve. Ile

regretted that the task hail not hillen into abler
hands, but lie felt it was his duty to persevere
iucon-
tending for a Committee, with effective powers, and
hri should therefore vote fur tile propositiou of the
Ahreitser fur Sussex.
Mr. CA LCRAFT read au extract from tite Jour-
nals of the `:7th February, 1815, which specified
the averages on which the prier* of were
la be calculated, " in the manner now required by
kg's" which, be thought, made it sufficiently ob.
violas what was the bane of the Act of 1815.—
He put it to the House, whether the proposition of
the Hon. Member for SIIII4tX was 110 t • direct ap-
peal to the House to institute a Committee for
higher protective duty. If the question bra been
for tequiry eraly, he would have voted for it ; but

lie was not for raising the protecting price, which
was the Oa of the prevent proposition►. He regre►.
tell the iircesibity he felt under of separating from
those with whom he usually acted, and remarked
nil the incon►istency of his Hoes. and Learned
Friend, who on the occasion of a Petition, being
presented from Birmingham a few nights ago,
thought that on the subject of that Petition au
inquiry. should take place, and that the proper
medium of relief was the Eseoltive Government,
and not a Committee of that House. Although
he agreed they ought not to turn a deaf ear to theme
Pentium', yet it must be impossible for them not to
consider the mode in which those Petitions had been
obtained, and he was sat►shed that there was a very
large proportion of the agriculturalists who consider.
ed the prerent ee It most improper lime for stirring iii
the business. fie concluded by observing, that as
II choice of evils Its should adopt the proposition of
the Right lion. Genileman, which he cou.idered
would do no good, in preference to that of the Hon.
Member for Sussex, which he thought might do
much harm.

Mr. PHILLIPS said • few words, but the cries of
" Question !.' reoffered him quite inaudible.
Mr. BROUGHAM called upon the House to con.
eider the singular circumstances in which thee
were placed by the conduct of his Majesty's
Ministers, A mee,urc is forward,
long previous notice having been given, and after
o lengthened debate at three or four o'clock in the
mur 00000 g, it was considered ripe for a theism°. By
the result of that division, lie considered the House
were bound to inquire—but inquire into what ? on
something different front the agricultural petitions.
He hail looked at the whole of the Petitions,
delivered down to the 26ili May, and though lin-
merows and daft: rent reniediee were staled, tne one
thing omitted was the question of averages to which
it was now proposed o Inuit the inquiry. The
Noble Lord (Castlereagh) had said, he was stir.
prised that he was beat—(.4 levgll—Wes he sure
laird because having tn•ide an unreasonable pro-
pootttota to the House. without Mil argument to sup.
port it, he was therefore beat ? lf he had known
ne would not have given the hint to Gesideraeu,
upon which hint they went away, and in that way
only could the Noble Lord account for having been
heat, forgetting that some of those who wrist away
might have voted with the majority. The Hon.
Member for Bristol had expreased his surprise at
the mode in which Committees were chose,, in that
House ; but he hoped the additional lesson which
the Noble Lord had given him, would not hr for.
gotten to the how hour of his lire.—(4
Whet was the situation they were now in ? A mea-
sure had parsed by is great majority, but the magi-
cian waved his wand, commouly called n whip, sod
down trouped a molly group—learned judges—
(.4 lattelt)—whin had not heard a syllable of
the argument*, to reverse, by their tote of
that night, the decision of the House an ma-
turely settled on the previous evening. He con-
tended that the question was •irtually settled,
as it was by an accident only that this debate
mow hail taken place ; fur had not a gallant Gene-
ral opposed the withdrawing of the previous goes-
the proposition now to be submitted to them
would have been last slight negatived in form, as,
lie contended. it was in substance. He concluded
by deprecating the attempt of Mitsisters tutus to get
vial of the vote of list night by a sort of tricks or
tide.tvind proceeding. •
Mr. F. Hootosun thought the speech of lite
Learned Gentletunii exhibited the most extraordi-
nary instance of defective memory which he hail
ever witnessed, fur he had on lest night expressed
his regret that the forms of the House did not sllow
him to pot thst very amendment.—(" /to, PIO," from
Broughana.)--He cettaissly hail a distinct
recollection that die Hotionrable wad Leattied
Gentleman had said the question ought to
be narrowed, and he now complains of trick and
contrivance, because the mode of narrowing the
question adopted by that side of the Muse was (hr.
lerent from that which the Hun. and Learned Gen-
tleman would have adopted.—(Hear, bear.)—
lie hoped the House would flu hum the justice to
believe that he wits utterly incapable of desitiog to
obtain a siiiiider advantage by any artificial process
whatever ; but lie would contend the question had
not been yet tried, and it was to give the House
full opportunity for that purpose that lie adopted
the present course.

Mr.. BROUGHAM rose, hut sat down again amid
cries of " ..Spoke. spoke."
Mr. BARING spoke vu (tram
The SPitaltak decided. that Mr. Brougham was
in order.

Mr. BROUGHAM Paid, to prove that he was cor-
rect iu coutrinhoing the 1101 t HUM the President
of the Boaad of Trade, he had written down the
words of the ainvisdniesit, which he had handed to
Ihr Aleinber fur Suarez, who had wooed it that
night.
Mr. Giprs thought the lion. and Learned Gen-
Iltinati had mated that lir wiled lut wale Itmit to
be fixed.

M►. ROBINSON, Mr. BROUGHAM, and Mr.
BURRELL, severally explained.
After some further ronversati 111 l , in which M►.
flusmssos, Mr. liaouctima, M►. B. BATHURST,
and Lord MILTON, isarticipated, the cries or
Question !" being ert:rwril, Ilse gallery was
cleared 1... r a division, when the numbers were—

Far Mr. Burrell's Amendment .... ICS
Agaiabi it
Majurily maaiasi it.... —142
Mr. Itosixsotes motion fur instructions 10 the
Coututitti•e was then earned without a diveboun.

turd PALIMIEUTON pustpuind the Arwy Esti-
mates until Friday next.
The other Orders of the Day were thee' disposed
of, and the 'louse wilj..urned rt w QuAntga-rANT
Or o'cLocK.

Yreteidsy the di.patelies for Bergol by the ship
Ludy Ifajles, and for li.oislory by the vhtp Regret,
were closed at the East House, mud delivered
to the Commondeis of thine vliii.v.
Passengers per Lally napes :
Fur fleogsl--IJesii..Colonol sad Mrs. Nothsll; Mr. A. r.
Ramey, surgeon; Mrs. Ramsay; Captain sod Mrs. Play-
fair, Lieut.-Colossi I G. 11. Fades, Captain R Marlin; Mr.
J. Stevenson, free manure; Abases Neste, Pasha, Lich emu,
Wyatt, sad C. A. sod A. Asstd..; 11.1 M•Lese,
sad Lewis, cadets; Meows Hodges; Bairiki' sod FsrW, Hut
service.
Patiengere tv'r l egf
For Illeisbay--Capsair Charles [qv, muter sitesikal;
and Mr. J. Smythe., cadet.

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LON I)ON.
THURSDAY, Juss I, ism

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER list night
related to the House of Commons the circomstances
connected with the subscription fur the Loan yes-
terday, and exulted in the bargain which he had
made fu► the public. It is, however, pretty evi-
dent from the violence of the pressure which took
place ye►terday at the Bank, and the uncommon
energy of the competition among the capitalists,
that the gentlemen of the market did not conceive
the bargain to be very unfavourable to their inte-
rests; but where the advantage actually lies it is not
for us to determine. Let it, however, be consider-
ed, that the holders of Exchequer bills receive only
241. a day, or übout 3 per cent. which iii the present
irashince they exchange for 99 iu the five per cents.
This bargain is obviously of considerable advantage
to the subscriber.; nor can we imagine that the
CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER has much cause
to exult, when it is remembered that although the
capital created is Ices by 70,0001. than the capital
reduced, the amount of interest is increased in a
greater proportion. The CHANCELLOR of the Ex-
CHEQUER sheaved very justly that by this operation
the unfunded debt of the country was so far then-
Malted, hut he cautiously abstained from answering
a question proposed by Mr. GRENFELL, whether
he did not contemplate the issue of Exchequer bills
during the year to an amount equal to the present
sobscriptiou! The scheme of nuance for the year
will he stated in a day or two.
The Committee obtained by Mr. noun SUM-
NER's motion of the preceding night, was last
night appointed. It consists principally, we had
almost said exclusively, of agricultural gentlemen ;
fur the selection of three Members for trading
communities, such as Mr. CANNING, Member for
Liverpool ; Mr. BRIGHT. Member for Bristol ; and
the Lord Mayor of LONDON, could not be consider-
ed as offering a fair security fur the commercial in-
terests. Alr. 110LAIII SUMNER, who in fact consti-
tuted the Committee, very honestly confessed that
l►e ►elected such a Committee as he was assured
would utter as little opposition as possible to the
attainment of his object.

Mr. ROBINSON moved that the powers of the
Ceninittre should be limited to an inquiry into the
mode of taking and calculating the averages of
Prices of corn in the twelve maritime districts, and
to ascertain whether any frauds had been com-
mitted. This limitation would in nu respect suit
the object of the agriculturists, who therefore op-
posed it, and Mr. BURRELL moved as an amend-
ment, that the Committee should inquire whether
the present mode of taking the averages ascertains
the actual niaaet prices of grain throughout the
knigilom, or whether any better method could be
adopted to carry into effect the intention of the
Lrgieltittire. On a division the numbers were—

l'or Mr. Burrell's Amentlaseal 108
Azatiist it 2lOl
Majority against it
Mr. Roairtsom's motion was then earned with-
out u

The merits of the Agricultural Petitions have
been at length fairly submitted to the Represents.
lives of the people, and it is very evident, from the
result of the debate on l'uestlay night, or nethe►
%Wednesday morning. that a very cons;derable num.
bee are dec►dedly in favour of increasing the seve-
rity of the restrictions irupos-il upon the importation
of agricultural produce. The debate itself was ex-
tremely interesting, but it was for nothing more
remarkable than that the motion fur the appoint-
ment of a Committee should have been carried
against the declared wishes of the Ministers, and to
the manifest surprise of all parties.
For ourselves, however unailling we should be
to see any alteration in the present system of the
Corn Laws, and more especially such an alteration
as that which is suggested in the Agricultural Peti-
tions, we by no means CAN think Mr. H. SUMNIR's
motion ill-advised, or that the 150 Gentlemen who
voted in support of it were to be censured for desir-
ing that the subject should be examined. A Cutts-
mittee of Inquiry by no means of necessity implies
an alteration in the matter examined, nod if in the
House of Lords one branch of the affairs of the
nation be submitted to the scrutiny of a Committee,
we see no reason why a similar indulgence
should not be extended in the Hattie of Com-
mons to another branch of undoubtedly no less
mognitoile and importance. Nu doubt seems to
be entertained by any person that the agricultural
classes endure the severest distress ; and when Pell-
lions crowd the table of the House of Commons
complaining of extreme sufferings, and praying for
inquiry, the appointment of a Committee ought in
justice to be conceded.
In common with many enlightened economists,
we have untren why felt that the agriculturists of
the country. iu proposing any Increase in the re-
strict placed upon the importation of foreign
agricultural produce, essentially iniat3ke their own
interests, and that they evince a strangely elevated
tuition of the power of the Legislature, its conceits.
lug that any force upper's iii i i or{ so an Act of Perlis-
Meta could 'seise the price of groin beyond that
which depends upon the proportion subsisting be.
tweed consumption end produce. Undoubtedly
the most Obvious nieane of relieving the distresses of

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the agriculturists arm to raise the prices of ihe
produce, but this most certainly could never be
effected iii the existing state of affairs by an Act of
the Legislature only. In a Committee, however,
this truth, obvious to all the rest of the world,
might become known to the agriculturists them-
selves, and induce the Committee, in their desire to
relieve the distresses of the country, to investigate
the other circumstances which tended more materi-
ally to depress the agriculture of the couutry.
The prisicipil cause of the existing evil, we are
firmly is to be found in the depressed
state of our foreign trade t hut at the same titue
much good might be obtained by ascertaining wise.
titer it were possible to equalize the burden of the
poor rates, which now presses most severely out the
land ; whether some of the taxes that principally
affect land mi4lit tint be removed ; sod filially.,
whether it might not be advisable to suggest to the
great landed proprietors to submit to the exigency
of affairs, and save their teoants front nail by vo-
luntarily reducing the amount of their rents.
These ;Joints, and mossy others of a like nature,
alight be r•ry advantageously examined in s Com-
muter, and if eventually nu suggestion could be
proposed calculated to effect any beneficial result,
it. would yet afford much satisfaction to the public
to reflect that their interests had not been treated
with neglect, and that every thing had been at-
tempted for their relief which could have been pro-
posed with justice or executed with safety.

The books were opened at the Bank of Englsiid
last morning fur the purpose of receiving sub-
scriptions for the funding of Exchequer Bills to
the amount of seven millions. It was completed
in a few minutes by only ten houses. Before two
o'clock in the morning there were crowds waiting
outside of the Bank, as there was no doubt enter-
tained there would be a scramble for the funding.
About six o'clock the outer doors were opened,
when the monied men were accommodated in
a passage leading to the Secretary's office. At
ten the doors were opened, and as they entered each
received • ticket. The fortouote holders of the
first tickets were then culled in, ■nd when number
nine had stated the ■mount required, it was found
that only a hundred thousand remained. Number
ten was then called, and completed the subscrip-
tion. The others thru departed greatly disap-
pointed. It is calculated in the City that the sub-
ecriptions would have in • few hours unwonted to
twenty millions, if that sum had been required.

The presoure ill gaining admission exceeded all
devcriptioii.

The crowd and consequent heat were exressive.
Only about 200 succeeded in getting into the inner
room, and tickets to about that number were is.
sued, but at least 130 were unable to make their

wry to the hell-door where the tickets were issued.
There were nearly four hundred applicant., ai.d
only ten, as above stated, obtained any pelt of the
funding. The large folding door. leading into
the apartment of Mr. HAss, where thrown off their
hinges, and entirely destroyed.
The scrip already bears • premium of from one-
quarter to one-half per cent.
The event had little effect on the other fund.,
as the result had been previously anticipated.

Paris Papers of Sunday last have arrived at out
office. The discuesion still continues on the first
article of the project of Elections, on which, indeed,
the debate upon the principle of the measure seems
to have been renewed. The Members of the left
side (the Liberal.) are very warm in their opposition
to the measure ; sod we are assured its private
accounts, that their numbers are increasing daily
within the Chamber, and their partisans in.
creasing as rapidly without, being joined by all
moderate men who think so serious a change in the
charter a dangerous experiment in the existing
temper of the French people. Interference with
the system of representation in any country ought
never be attempted warm under the control of
absolute necessity, or at • period of well-established
tranquillity. The necessity of change in the pre-
sent instance has not been clearly ►hews), and t he con-
tinuance of tranquillity in France is unfortunately
very uncertain.—An ar:icle from Leipsic mentions,
that the fair of fist town has been very favourable to
the sale of British merchandise, of winch surprisingly
large quantities were sold at very low prices. No-
thing, says the German writer, was to he sten in the
streets but 'packages from Leeds, Birmingham,
Glasgow, Manchester, and Sheffield, and nothing
heard at the tables dloie but English conversation,
which " was interrupted only by the sighs of the
Germans."
The French 5 per Cents. were 74 f. 65 c. ; Beak
Stock, 1,322 f. 50 c.

The Duke of CLARENCE visited the Duke and
I Duchess of GLOUCESTER yrsterdq.
Yesterday morning the Princess AUGUSTA loft
town for Kew. and returned iu the rwriiing and
dined with the Doke and Duchess of GLOLICMITLIL.
Yesterday Priuce LtoroLD left turns our Clare-
mont.
Dovsa, MAT 30.—This morning the Lord
Sielmotak passage-vessel, snivel] from Calais with
Mr. C•RLO FORTI, a inevsenger from her MA-
JIMMY, whom be left at Geneva; report says that
her MAJEsTY will reach St. Oiner's on Thursday
morning. The messenger set off isimedistrly with
dispatches to Loudon. The Countess de DYLAN!,
embarked this worming fur Calais, iu order to pro-
ceed to St. Omee's, to meet her MAjasTY. The
84lb regiment is embarking fur Plymouth.

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PASIIIONABLS A JERI IA Li.

The Holt. Johra Sworn Cock. rsterday at the Earl of
Hardwick?. ham is St. James's scoriae, from the Prouty,
Itygrate.
The Demo of M. Arpaph„ at Thwart's Hotel, Lower Murat-
street, from Shrewsbury.
Mrs. De.% Grosreuer, at her loom. in New Norfolk aerie',
from her oral, CharWu' Part, weer Blew Moil. I/p05..1,414re.
Hee, H H. Wearers. M.P. •isil Lail), al Ho. lij.wr jive
Counir.. of Cfrrieanies house iu Beektlry &pour, Gum aim
Seat iso
Al Ellak.'s Hotel. JeriThrel-altfti : Sir Da•i•l sod i.e,
Gould, f their seat ie Herta ; and Julia Juars, 11. F.
from a lour

pAcHio.VA I'd ICTI

The D.ke of Detvashire °cc an elegant ealeetalbowat
yesterday to the Directory of the Autient Mlooleitat4 i 1.4641
p.rty•nf tlietingoiehed permuting's, at I)eentallairl. Hollol.'

LUrri Langford entertained • party of &alma. )rater.
day. at his boom in Des behry-square.
M. a Pule Caren gave a grand hall and sapper ou T
day flPtibill‘, at ber house in New Cavrndislr•meeet. uhleh
W4l. atteuded by upwards of 200 dist ingishilmsl f
The 01{1.14CPS of Mirontinirrie has issued card.' of
lion for • grand moessibly us Tuesday, the 27th June.
The Earl of Harrington enlettai•ed a select party at din-
ner yr.t.v.lay, at his house in the Stable-yard, Si.
Earl GIVIVeIIOr gave. grand entertainment on Twirler;
at Grosvenor house, to Prince Leopold, the Doke of Graf-
ton, the Ladies Fitzroy, the Doke of !hypostatic, the Mar-
quis and Marchioness of Siair.rd, Earl Gower, the Earl au•l
Cognates of Ikeby, Lady dl. Stanley, Lord and Lady Be -
grave, Lord ■nd Lady Morpeth, Lady Mary Dooms!, •n 4
the Don. Mrs [Nigh. In the eveuirg her lAJyabrp pit •
spleudid rout : to enumerate the company would list 1.9
name ail, llse leading and distinguished fashionable, si
town.