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those classes, he wished to call their Lordships' atten-
tion to it. The petition stated that three men, named
Roberts, Jones, and Howell, were at present under sen-
tence of death in Warwick gaol, having at the late
Assizes been capitally convicted of destroying pro-
perty at Birmingham they had been committed
for riot and afterwards had been capitally in-
dicted—this circumstance had induced many per-
sons from coming forward, and among others,
the master of the prisoners, who would have come for-
ward to give them a character, had they known they
were to be capitally indicted. He did not complain of
this, it was what was frequently done, as after a person
hid been convicted for riot, it might be afterwards disco-
vered that there was evidence to support a capital charge.
The petitioners also complained that the learned Jucig;
in charging the Grand Jury stated that they belonged to
an Agragrian Association, the object of which
was to deprive others of the property, and to
divide it among themselves, and that they were
convicted under sne of those barbarous enactments
which had escaped the notice of the Legislature.
The petitioner also stated that the same Government
that had encouraged meetings had, and by a perverted
course of reasoning, instituted prosecutionsagainst persons
for attending lawful assemblies, and called the attention of
Vieir Lordships to the fact that two of the pr.
saners were
undefended by counsel, and that the King of the French
had recently extended the royal pardon to Barbes,
who was convicted of high treason. The petition after
repudiating the charge, that Chartists had any desire to
plunder property, destroy life, and invade the Constitu-
tion, praying the House to present an address to the
Crown, imploring Her Majesty to extend her Royal
pardon to three unfortunate prisoners.
SALE OF SPIRITS (IBELAND) BILL.

The House then resolved itself into a Committee on
this Bill.
On the motion of the Earl of WICKLOW, the 9th
Clause was struck out.

The other clauses were then agreed to, the House
resumed, and the Report was ordered to be received on
Thursday.

Tile Assaults Ireland Bill went through Committee.
A claim having, on the suggestion of the Earl of
GLENGALL, been struck out which prohibited Jus-
tices of the Peace from deciding on cases of assault
when questions of disputed right to land were involved.
METROPOLIS POLICE COURTS BILL.
Lord DUNCANNON moved the further conside-
ration of the Report on this Bill.
Lord BROUGHAM moved, as an amendment, that
the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th clauses be omitted,—tie Bid
going to propose at this late period of the Session, an
entirely new organization of the police of the metropo-
litan districts.

Lord LYNDURST—And to give the Secretary
of State the power of charging the country with
27,000/. additional expense.
Lord DUNCANNON admitted' that, but said the
amendment would prevent any improvement in the Me-
tropolitan police system.
Lord BROUGHAM—UntiI early next Session,
when the Government should consider the question
deliberately.—(Hear, hear.)
(LEFT SITTING.)

THE LONDON GAZETTE.

(THIS EVENING.)

DOWNING-STREET, AUGUST 12.

•
The Queen has been graciously pleased to nominate and
appoint Lieutenant-General Sir John Keane, Knight Com-
mander of the Most Honourable Military Order of the Bath, to
be a Knight Grand CrOss of the said Order.

DECLARATION OF INSOLVENCY.
JOSEPH WARTNABY, merchant, Adam's-court, Old
Broad-street, City.

BANKRUPTS.

JOHN T REACHER BOWDEN, woollen draper, Addle-
street, City, to surrender, August 24, at eleven, and Sept. 24,
at half-past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore,
B.lsinghall-street, official assignee ; Jones and Son, Sise-lane,
Bucklersbury.

JANE WILSON and ELIEZER CHATER WILSON,
printers, Skinner-street, City, August 24, at half-past twelve,
and Sept. 24, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Turquand,
Copthall-buildings, official assignee; Birt, Southampton-street,
Fitzroy-square.
JAMES MAXINIILIAN CORNWALL, surgeon, Stub-
bington, Southampton, Aug. 27, at two, and Sept. 24, at
twelve, in Fareham. Clement and Newman, Southampton ;
Hicks and Braikenridge, Holborn, London.
JOHN WAKEHAM EDWARDS, druggist, Kingsbridge,
Devonshire, Aug. 23 and Sept. 24, at eleven, in Plymouth.
Haley, Kingsbridge ; Fox, Finsbury-circus, London.
RICHARD BRIGHT, chymist and druggist Holborn-bars,
Aug. 22, at half-past eleven, and Sept. 24, at twelve, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Cannon, Finsbury-square, official assig-
nee; Cook and Sanders, New-inn.

RICHARD FLACK, victualler, Lambeth-street Aug. 22,
Sept. 54, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore,
Basinginill-street, official assignee ; G. and C. Pollock, Par-
liament-street.

JAMES BOYD, Welbeck-street, St. Marylebone, iron-
monger, to surrender August 22 and Sept. 24, at one, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Canon, Finsbury-square, Official as-
signee ; Birt, Southampton-street, Fitzroy-square.
RICHARD BLUNDELL, Hooton, Chester, corn-dealer,
August 26 and Sept. 24, at one, at the Clarendon Rooms,
Liverpool. Chester, Staple-inn Walker, Chester.
WILLIAM PHILLIPS, marine stores dealer, Liverpool,
August 24, and Sept. 24, at eleven, at the Clarendon-rooms,
Liverpool. Kirk, Symond's-inn, London; Yates, Clarendon-
buildings, Liverpool.
WILLIAM KIRBY, ale merchant, Liverpool, August 24,
and Sept. 24, at one, at the Clarendon-rooms, Liverpool.
Chester, Staple-inn, London ; Cort, Liverpool.
CHARLES ALCOCK, case manufacturer, Sheffield, Aug.
20 and Sept. 24, at twelve, at the Town-hall, Sheffield.
Brookfield, Raymond- buildings, ; Grays;ion, London; Rayner
and Thompson, Sheffield. •
ROBERT LEAKS, dyer, Prestwich Clough, near Man-
chester, Sept. 3 and 24, at twelve, at the Commissioners'-
room!, Manchester. Johnson, Son, and Weathtrall, Temple,
London ; Hitchcock, Manchester.
WILLIAM HENRY HAIGH, flour factor, Wakefield,
August 12, at eleven, at the Court House, Wakefield, and
September 24, at twelve, at the Court House, Leeds. Taylor
and Westmorland, Wakefield; Scott and Bennett, Licoln's
Inn-fields.
THOMAS HASTINGS, innkeeper, Bradford, August 24,
at eleven, at the George Inn, Huddersfield, and September 24,
at eleven, at the Court House Leeds. Whitehead and Robin-
son, Huddersfield ; Clarke and Aledealf, Lincoln's Inn-fields.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.

J. Teaverner and C. White, ship and furnishing ironmon-
gers, St. George's East, Middlesex—T. Ashburner and T.
Priestley, spirit merchants, Liverpool—W. W. Snetl and T.
W. Snell, merchants, Exeter—J. A. Windsor and N. Peace,
fancy paper and message card manufacturers, Vineyard Walk,
Coppice-row, Clerkenwell—J. Broadbent, sen., S. L. Broad-
bent, C. S. Broadbent, and L. Roberts, silk-manufacturers,
and warehousemen, Manchester (as far as regards L. Roberts)
—J. and W. Lintott, grocers, Horsham, Sussex—R. Watkins
and E. B. Puttock, brewers, Arundel, Sussex—G. Lawes and
F. Thompson, tailors, Warminster, Wilts—G. Lodge and R.
Lamb, bacon-factors, Leeds—T. Evansand D. Beynon, joinors,
Liverpool—J. Turner and N. Kershaw, worsted-manufacturers,
Midgley, Halifax—W. Day and T. Smith, grocers, High Holborn
P., J., J., and H. Frith, opticians, Sheffield—T. and J. Foster,
worsted-manufacturers, Horbury, Yorkshire—C.. Bradbury,
J. Fletcher, and J. Moss, corn-merchants, Manchester—
J. and J. Williams, drapers, Pontypool, Monmouthshire—
R. Dunn and J. Ramshaw, carpet manufacturers, Barnard
Castle—J. Reyner and J. \Tickers, hatters, Hoyland, York-
shire-1.. May and S. Abrahams. grocers, High-street, South-
wark—T. Bowlby and A. G. Rahu, merchants, Sunderland—
B. Paradise and T. Sheppard, stationers, Watling-street, City—
J. and J. Turberville, sen. and jun., stone-blue-manufacturers,
Liverpool—G. Ripley and T. Williamson, engineers, Warring-
ton, Lancashire—R. and M. Elliott, cabinet-makers, New-
castle-upon- Tync.

SHERIFF COURT, PAISLEY.—RAPID
MINISTRATION OF JUSTICE,—On 10th June last, a process
for debt was sent to the Sheriff Substitute, on summons,
defences, and replies. On the following day it came out
with the usual interlocutor, required by act of sederunt,
ordaining parties to say whether they held their statements
of fact as full and final. Parties having closed the record,
the case was again sent to the Sheriff on the 17th. On the
18th it was returned with a decision, on the 24th sent to
avisandum on a reclaiming petition for the defender ; on
the day after returned with an order on pursuer to answer;
on Ist July sent to the Judge on petition and answers; re-
turned on 2d with an adherence. An appeal was taken to
the Sheriff Depute. On the 30th the Sheriff Depute con-
firmed Sheriff Campbell's sentences, and on the 6th inst.
the pursuer's expenses were decerned for. Thus in less
than two months, this litigated case, notwithstanding the
petition first, and then the appeal, has been finally decided
by both sheriff's, The process was five times before the
Sheriff Substitute, and always returned with an interlocu-
tor or decision on the following days. It may be proper
to add, that the pursuer who gained the case was a domes-
tic servant. Procurators, Mr. Jack for the pursuer,
Mr. Caldwell for the defender.—Paisley Advertiser.
[We are happy to learn from so competent an authority,
that Mr. Barr's labours have been so successful in expe-
diting the administration of justice in the Sheriff's Court.
To the exertions of this gentleman the inhabitants of
Reafrewshire arc indebted for the adjudication of cases in
tao months, which otherwise would have been allowed to
slumber for as many sears.]
INCENDIARY FIRES.—About two o'clock on
Tuesday, a rick of saintfoin, on the farm of Mr. Thomas
Dean, at Huttons, in the parish of Hambleden, was dis-
covered to be on fire, and, although every assistance was
afforded, we regret to add, was consumed. A little after nine
on Wednesday morning, a hay rick, on the same premises,
was fired at the bottom, but from cutting away some portion
the greater part was preserved ; the fires of the two pre-
ceding days, we lament to add, were but the prelude to the
third, and more awful conflagration, which broke out in one
of the stables adjoining the dwelling-house, between one
and lava on Thursday, and terminated in destroying nearly
every vestige of property on the premises. Mr. Dean was
at Healey Maiket when intelligence first came, from which
town the engines of the Sun and Royal Exchange Fire
o.fices were quickly dispatched and afforded, with the
Marlow engine, the most beneficial aid in preserving the
greater portion of the dwelling-house. The fire, aided by
a strong breeze blowing at the time, consumed three barns
full of wheat, and destroyed barley (threshed and un-
threshed), oats, and peas, four stables, granary, and every
hovel, shed, pig-stye, as well as the wash-house, scullery,
and part of the dwelling-house, together with a large wheat
rick and one of hay; the only
.live stock destroyed was a
pig. The farming stock was insured in the Norwich Fire
Office, and, strange to relate, the agent had arrived about
tea minutes to settle the compensation of the fire onTuesday,
and was talking to Mrs. Dean in the parlour, when the
servant girl came in stating the stables were on fire. The
farm buildings and
house the property of Chas. Scott
Murray, Esq., were insured in the Sun. Several of the
servants have been privately examined, but nothing has yet
transpired likely to lead to a detection of the perpetrators.
A reward of 501. has been °flared by the Hambleden As-
sociation for the discovery of the incendiaries.—Reading
Mercury.