The National Register.
London, England, 1816-06-02 00:00:00

FIIIDAV, MAY 31.

The Deputy Caber of the Black Rod summoncd the Home
to attend in the Haase of Peers, to hear the Royal Assent
given. by commission to sundry public aud private Bills.—
[See Lords.j •
A new writ was ordered for St. Michael's, Cornwall, in the
room of Lord Binning ; he having vacated his seat by accept-
ing the office of a Conansissioner for managing the Affairs of
India.
PAVEMENT OF THE METROPOLIS.

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Mr. M. A. Tavtain brought in his Bill for the better regu-
lation of the means for keeping the Paving of the Metropolis
in repair; containing clauses particularly directed to procure
the more speedy repairing defective pavement, Sc.
Bill read a first time ; and
Mr. M. A.Textoo moved, that it be read a second time on
Thursday next. He tool: occasion to state, that this Bill was
the remit of the Report male by a Committee of that Hones
abort three months ago; amid in the Bill every recommendation
of the Report was complied with. It had taken sonic time to
prepare, on account of the immense number of elegises which
it was found necessary to prepare, in order to meet all passible
ease,. The report having been in the possession of all the
parishes for three months, time enough had been allovied fur
its consideration ; and be was happy to be oble to state, that
it met the full approbation of all the parishes, about 70 in
number, with the exception of two or three. He did cot wish
tile Bill to be printed till it cattle out of the Committee ; as
then the clauses would be perfected, blanks filled up, &c.;
and in such form the several parishes would be enabled to per-
ceive more correctly toad distinctly how far the measure would
affect them. He wished the Bill to pass this session; and
therefore be would not throw in its way 'unnecessary delay;
and as he WAS Out aware of any effectual opposition that could
be urged to it, by not printing the Bill now, the time occupied
far reprinting such alterations and additions as might be amide
in the Committee would be. saved. lie proposed that it should
be rtad a second time on Thursday, committed on Friday, re-
port brought up immediately, and in such tbrni ordered to be
printed, that it might Le kuown to al who would be uliected
by it. •
General TnonNTON highly approved of the Bill, es it was a
measure that was much wanted; hat he thought it would be
justice to the parties to print the Bill now.
Mr. M. A. Tay too was obliged to the gallant General for
his approbation of the Bal ; but be remained of opinion that it
would be incurring mittecesAsary expense iu pr.otiog to ac-
rtuotsce im the proposition at the present motto at. The Bill
wasJsi , and the expenses Mired) jammed this session for
printing nao,t be peen:, large th.w ); and lw eel taiuli d. stied
a advimide that the Bill should as vine a more colni:kte amid
romprelwnsilole, fm-nt peeyiolifiy to twine ptiutetL—.Bill order
ti be read a second tame on Thursday next.
ALIEN BILL.

Lord CASTEL:RI:MiII Mos Veil th:tt the debate an me t1:11
Exuding el the .U4;11 Bill bt +tsunll J.

Nvx.'r.

Lord MILTON proposed a Haw', to esetnpt thus'. f...1).i1e allow;
from the operation of this Bill who might be marries tto natu-
ral bons subjects. ( sr.)
Lord CO2LEtttsSOH imil no wish to present foreigti Ladies
from residing amongst us. The Government hail on particular
hostility to the Ladies of other countries, (a laugh); but he
Coold not altogether approve of the clause.
Lord FoLartrine said, these remarks formed an exemplifi-
eation oldie mimic of the Noble Lord's condom. He resisted
every thing that tended to afford relief to those who might be
unmerited victims of this most impolitic ntemnre. The Noble
Lord must have the whole of the Bill; pooer must be mill-
riiited, ton ontt ()Med. Almses guider the former Acts, which
Showed the necessity of protecting Manses, had been pointed
out over and over •agaitt ; persons had been sent out of the
country by misiake ; papers had been seized, for which then.
si as no power in the Act; all had been developed ; none of
these glaringly nnjmt instances had been attempted to be jus-
tified ; unit yet nothing was to be enacted to prevent, if possible,
the recurrence of such monstrous injustice. The policy of the
Rill wits bad. This county had heeu looked upon as lite cham-
pion of Protestantism, the defender of the persecuted and op-
pressed, the protector of the tights and liberties of all Europe.
But the times were changed.—The Inquisition was reesta-
blished ; the Pope was restored ; and the Bourbons forced
npou France, the unvarying and inveterate enemies of every
thing in the shape of liberty. This Bill was legislating for
France, whiclae disapproved ; and he should still oppose the
whole measure as impolitic, unjust, and uncalled tor by the
State of the country.
Sir S. limint.Ll also supported the clause, as called fur by
the abuses of former Alien Acts.

• The House divided on the clause—For it MI; against it Vt.—
Majority against it 60.
Mondry other clauses were proposed ; one by Mr. Ponsonby,
that a return of all aliens sent wit of the country be laid before
the House ten days atter its assembling; another by Mr.
Homer, that the Pill he for one year instead of two; but
they were opposed by Lord Castlereagh, and severally nega-
tived.

The Bill- wa...‘ ultimately passed, after an extended conver-
sation.

The other orders of the day, Mr. J. P. Grant's proposition
respecting Finance, and Mr. Itroutthant's proposition to remove
the Lassa prohibiting the Growth of TobJeco in this eoantry,
beisi disposed of, the Winne adjourned to Thursday next.

PROVINCIALS.

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MONTHLY AGRICt LTURAL REPORT.

The spring-sowing has been completed in the most perfect
Manner ; hot the weather, which has been se propitious to cul-
ture, has been, in an almost equal degree, untavourable to se-
getation. Nevertheless, the spring corn, as tar as it has ap-
peared, proves a most healthy and ,igorous plant ; such is re-
markably, and mast fortumitely, the case with the wheats,
which are strong. lustmant. and erect ; and the present, should
the slimmer prose warm. will,in all probability, be a great
wheat year. From the estreme lateness of the spring, awl
want of sun, well grounded apprehensions are entertained for
the fruit crop. and that we may again lie under the necessity of
being good importing customers to our continental neiehbonrs.
All vegetation ',eat present so backward, that nothiu.g remains
to be said on hops, or other spring crops. Preparations are
Waking (or the turnip enitnie.
Noefells. Oxford-hire, and several other emintieS, spriug
'Wheat has le late come mach into use as a Lent crop. A re-
porter has experieneeml some danmee to this species from
steeping the seed, and is aware of the former mistake, that
spring wheat is not liable to smut; at the same time, apparently
anapprized of the fact, that the smut of wheat possesses not
the slightest power of infection. Another reporter, of too for-
tunate experience, decrier the needless trouble of pulling and
stacking loran's, whilst both in the north and south far,greater
numbera of sheep and lambs than was apprehended have pe-
rished 'from famine and the sem ity of the 'weather. One
farmer alone, near Ntorpeth, is reported, it is to be hoped env-
neonsly, to have lost seven thousand sheep. •
s The markets, in their sadden vicissitudes, seem to have
elose:v followed the course of the weather. The late sudden
rise on mutton might be occasioned by report of the above
heavy losses. Long wool is lower in price, and less quick in
sale. Corn seems inclined to' fall with a rapidity eqnal to its
late rise. The farmer's stocks are not coon& rattle, the de-
mand for money having been so urgent; but the national stock
is ample, even eschtsise of foreign wheat in wits elinuisep which
proves to be far below coma' calculation in quantity. Whilst
the markets were so overladen with wheat for soine months
past, and time distress for cash so universal, the speculators ren-
dered an immense service to the country. Time laboure rs in
husbandry are still iu a most deplotahle state of distress, in
many, or most, parts ; and, unavoidably in the pee-scut exigence,
ace supported in a manner highly derogatory ro free born men.
Their conclact in Norfolk and Suffolk ix a foul disgrace upon
our national, and too nearly approaching a Tipperary, charac-
ter ; anal it becomes a vital question, to what errors, political
or practical, we are to attribute the deeply-seated sentiments
of vindictive discontent in the minds of ear peasantry.