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MR. JAMES'S NEW NOVEL.
On Thursday, March 99th, in 3 vols.
E It ()BEE R.
By the Author of " The Gipsy,"
" One in a Thousand," " Attila," " Mary of Burgundy," John
Marston Hall, a Novel," &c, &c.
London : Longman, Orme, and Co.

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WITH WHICH
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INCORPORATED.

LONDON:
SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 17, 1838.

Every day brings to light some additional slovenly in-
consistency in our Legislation ; and every day's experience
teaches us more and more to mock at those who wish to
delude the public by asserting that the law is the perfection
of human reason. The new fact was brought before the
House of Commons last light by Lord JOHN RUSSELL,
'who explained that the law had made no provision for Com-
mittees of the Housa of Commons striking names off the
registries of electors in Ireland, whileithasmade such apro-
vision as to English electors ; but the House of Commons
being ignorantof the law, actually passed a resolution in 1835
for Committees to exercise the same power over Irish as
over English electors. The House of Commons, in
passing that resolution, usurped a power, so far as
Ireland is concerned, which the law did not give it,
and has in several instances dared to deprive large
bodies of the electors of their franchises and rights.
There can be no doubt that it has usurped a power that does
not belong to it, and has disfranchised electors with whom
it had no right to meddle. In the case of Cork, a Com-
mittee decided that 700 electors for that city should be
struck-off the registry, and the SPEAKER accordingly issued
his warrant to strike them off. They were accordingly
struck off by the Clerk of the Peace, but the Assistant
Barrister ordered their names to be restored, and two
hundred and sixty-three of them actually voted at the
last election. A complaint has been made to the
House of the assistant-barrister having set at defiance the
SPEAKER'S warrant, which he called waste paper, but he
has been allowed to defy it. In fact the law was on his
side, and the House and the SPEAKER were ignorant of the
law. They perhaps meant no evil when they passed their
resolution, usurped a power which did belong to them, and
disfranchised the people ; but the law concerning contro-
verted dections is such a hodge-podge, such a tangled
skein of contradictory and conflicting decisions, that
neither the legislators themselves, nor those who ad-
minister the law, nor those who make it the study
of their lives, can tell what it is. We cannot, however, be
surprised at such being the state of the election laws ; for
the same characteristics are common to all our laws, and
they are not all made like those for deciding controverted
elections by heated and zealous partizans, who pass resolu-
tions and come to decisions, which have the force of laws,
in order to secure a momentary victory, and give a
triumph to some one faction.
The difficulty in which the resolution of 1835 plunged
Election Committees, and the defeat to which it exposed
the SPEAKER'S warrants, induced Lord Jorts RUSSELL last
night, to move that the resolution be rescinded. The
motion was opposed by Sir EDWARD STIGDEN in an ela-
borate speech, but not successfuily, as stated in the Times.
The Right Hon. Gentleman argued that the election laws
of Ireland' and England were the same ; that the House
of Commons had the power in England before the Reform
Act, which was doubted by Lord JOHN RUSSELL, as to
Ireland, and therefore the House had it now as to Ireland.
But there was no registry in England beforethe Reform Act,
while there was a quasi registry in Ireland, and the decisions
of Electisn Committees in England could not possibly
apply to a totally different series of circumstances in Ireland.
The Reform Act for England expressly gives the power to
Committees to strike electors off the registers, then for the
first time created ; but the Reform Act for Ireland gives
no such power to Committees, and it is doubtful whether
the Reform Act for Scotland confers it. A subsidiary and
important question arises ; if the Committee cannot strike
off voters from the registry, can it open the registry ? If

it cannot strike off electors, there seems no use in that ;
but it may still disallow any votes for any particular election.
Sir EDWARD SUGDEN contended, at great length, that the
House had the power, by virtue of its inherent jurisdiction,
over elections ; so that, according to this truly little-
minded captious lawyer, whatever usurpation the House
of Commons chooses to make in matters of el?ction, be-
comes, by the usurpation, ipso facto, legal, just, and right.
The House of Commons, however, decided against the
Right Hon. Gentlem:tn. There was an inconvenience
in rescinding the resolution of 1835 altogether, as pro-
posed by Lord Jolts RUSSELL, which is quite just
as to England, but doubtful as to Scotland, and positively
wrong as to Ireland. The original resolution, and Sir
EDWARD SUGDEN'S amendment, to adjourn the debate for
two months, were therefore both withdrawn, and the
House contented itself with suspending the resolution so far
as it applies to Ireland and Scotland. We copy the decision
from the votes of the House where it is thus given, "Ordered,
that the execution of the said resolution in so far as it
applies to Scotland and Ireland be suspended until the Ist
of June next." It is the more necessary to notice the de-
cision because it is omitted in the reports of the Morning
Papers, and because the Times expresses a little exultation
at the presumed success of Sir EDWARD SUGDEN. In fact
Sir EDWARD'S sophistry failed to convince the House, and
Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S suggestion was adopted.

His Excellency the GOVERNOR of BARBADOES, in a Ales-
sage to the House of Assembly of that Island, dated the
16th of January, declares the slaves there to be sufficiently
enlightened to obtain unrestricted freedom, and recom-
mends an immediate abolition of the apprenticeship system.
This is indeed joyful intelligence.

According to the report which we gave in our Second
Edition of last night, the Coal Committee has concluded its
examination of witnesses, and in a few days the prohibition
moved by the coal owners of the publication of the evidence
will cease to exist. We shall then lay before our readers
some of the most appalling facts which were ever dragged
into light—facts which, in all probability, would have re-
mained unknown, had we not, day by day, denounced this
monster monopoly to the indignation of its victims. We
understand that evidence was yesterday given—First, of the
artificial increase in the price of coals by means of the
monopoly to the extent of six shillings and four pence per
ton, which on two million six hundred and twenty-seven
thousand tons, (the consumption of the metropolis and
neighbourhood last year) causes an annual tax of 831,812/.,
—nearly one million of money ! Secondly, evidence was
given of the existence of one of the moss horrible systems of
plunder and brutality springing out of this monopoly that
ever were known—three poor men, coal-whippers, deposed
that until within the last few months the whole of their
body were under the entire control of certain villainous
publicans (whose conduct we are convinced will be viewed
with indignation by the respectable members of that large
and influential body)—these publicans had an arrangement
with the Captains of the colliers to provide gangs of coal-
whippers to unload their vessels, and having this power, it
was proved that they employed only such as would spend
out of their hard earnings fully one-third in such poisonous

compounds as they forced upon them ; they were expected
to drink in the morning before they went to their work,
their implements being withheld for hours that they might
do so ; they were compelled to drink at night before one
farthing of money was doled out for their wretched fa-
milies, who, half fed and half clothed, were pining
at home for the husband and the father that came
not—or, if at all, drunk and unable to give them
either bread or joy ; in addition to this they had to pay
for liquors which they never drank, but which were taken
by the Captains whom the publicans were ever ready to
treat, at those miserable coal-whippers' expence. If any
ventured to repine at this, to be goaded by his affections
and the agonies of those most dear to him, and escape to
his family with some of his earnings, be was first to be
" planked," i. e. carried about the district on a plank, and
tortured in every possible way short of death ; after
which he was to be driven from employment, and left to
beg, steal, or starve. A humane gentleman hearing of
this, established an office for the employment of whippers,
without 'subjecting them to this horrible system ; but
scarcely a single Captain could he get to employ those
men he had " emancipated." He went to the North, and
stated the case to a large meeting of the Captains, but
they treated his benevolent propositions with scorn, and
himself with rudeness. He then offered to unload
their vessels at a reduction of one-fifth in the price—a
penny per ton instead of a penny-farthing ; to this some of
them listened. The money was weighed against the bribes
of the publicans, and now a considerable number go to the

" New Office" for their men. Another startling fact was
elicited on this subjeet : the Lord Mayor had been written
to six or seven times, and waited upon as often by this
gentleman, to interfere for the prevention of this most
detestable and inhuman practice ; but no, the Lord Mayor
and Court of Aldermen stirred not—the applicant, instead
of receiving encouragement and protection (for he was
repeatedly assaulted by the villains, or the victims of the
villains, of this system), he was, as he declared, " dis-
couraged," and told they could do nothing ! Yes, " nothing ri
The Lord Mayor and Aldermen could do nothing to save
fathers from unwilling pollution, and children from com-
pelled starvation !—Nothing to clear the Thames, of which
they were Conservators, of the hundreds of vessels whish
the monopolists kept rotting in the river, to the hindrance
of the navigation, for the purpose of taxing the citizens
nearly a million per annum ! Nothing—oh, no—they could
not spare time to make bye-laws and regulations which the,
Legislature called upon them, expected, and empowered
them to make, for the benefit of those who had rashly
and blindly given them their golden chains and cis,i,; digni-
ties ! They had no time for any of those things ; but the
third great fact came out, that they had time, and were
most alive and most alert with every Railway Company
who came before Parliament to get illegal clauses for
usurped powers of taxation (not in their Charter) to be in-
serted; or, if not, let the Company look to its Bill—let
them reflect on the ruinous expences of a protracted oppo-
sition—let them consider the Parliamentary influence of the
great Corporation of London. No marvel these conside-
rations prevailed—no marvel that any small modicum of
public spirit these Joint Stock Companies possessed gave
way before such implied threats—no marvel they consented
that their own Acts of Parliament should be made the in-
struments of taxing the people for the benefit of the Cor-
poration funds—no marvel that East, West, North, and
South, for sixteen miles round London, not a coal shall
come in without swelling the principal money, of which
sum Sir WILLIAM CURTIS, or others, get the manage-
ment and the interest ! Talk of the " march of intellect"
indeed, with these monstrous abuses undetected and un-
touched in this great and enlightened city of London, un-
der the very noses of the " Patriots" of the Common
Council, and unblushingly defended by the " Liberal"
Members of large constituencies, to whom we shall have a
few more words to say anon.

Our Correspondent at Liverpool has just forwarded to
us a copy of a Treaty of Peace concluded between Chili
and Peru, on November 17, 1837 ; but it has reached us
too late for insertion in our columns of this day. He
states it to have been communicated to the respectable
House of TATLEITRE and Co. by their agent at Arequipa.
The documents will be handed to the Morning, Chronicle,
as requested.

Among the numerous improvements now in progress in I
the metropolis, we know of few more worthy of encou-
ragement than that contemplated by the Company for the
erection of Club Chambers ; provided the plan they have
laid down be fairly and extensively carried out. At pre-
sent country gentlemen, and Members of Parliament, whose
stay in London is limited to a few months in the year,
have the greatest difficulty in finding lodgings in the vi-
cinity of the Clubs at an expense commensurate with a
limited income. Houses are not to be had ; and even if
they were, the terms for which they must be taken, and the
expenses attendant upon house-keeping, would render them
wholly unsuitable for the accommodation of the class of
persons who form the most numerous frequenters of
Clubs. Chambers on the plan proposed by the Company
would combine all the essential requisites for a temporary
and bachelor-like residence in the metropolis—viz., re-
spectability, privacy, freedom of companionship and move-
ment, security and economy. But wherefore limit such
chambers to the accommodation of the frequenters of
Clubs ? Has it not occurred to the Company engaged in
this project that.no speculation would be more profitable
than to erect suites of chambers for the accommodation of
small families, after_the plan of the flats, or floors, so com-
mon in Glasgow, Paisley, and the principal towns
in the west of Scotland There is a highly nume-
rous, but most respectable class of persons in
London; consisting of clerks, artists, literary men, and
retired naval and military officers, whose means will net
allow them to take houses, and to whom it is most incon-
venient to spend their lives in lodgings, exposed to the
caprices and the over-reachings of lodging-house keepers.
These persons would be hut too happy to avail themselves
of the accommodation of Chambers subject to such regu-
lations as would ensure the respectability of several in-
mates. We trust this suggestion will not be thrown away
upon any Company anxious to combine a regard to the
convenience of a most deserving &ass of citizens, with a
laudable zeal to promote the pecuniary interests of its
members.

Notwithstanding the powerful attack made upon the
French Cabinet in the debate upon the Secret Service
Fund, Ministers are likely to weather the storm until the
close of the present Session. The Paris Papers of
Thursday place beyond dispute their overwhelming influ-
ence in the Chamber of Deputies. Attacked on all sides,
and by men of every shade of opinion—Royalists, _Doctri-
naires, and Republicans—ably defended neither by them-
selves nor their supporters, they nevertheless triumphed
when the question at issue carnet° a division. M. BOUDET
moved as an amendment that the originally proposed grant
of 1,500,000 francs should be reduced to 1,200,000 francs,
which was put to the vote, when there appeared :
For the Original Motion 233
For the Amendment lB4
Majority in favour of Ministers - -49
The question of the passing of the Bill was then put to
the vote, when the numbers were :

For the Bill, as proposed by Ministers 249
Against it ' 133
Majority in favour of Ministers --116
On the 3d inst. M. HUGO, and several other Deputies
of the States-General of Hanover, quitted the Chamber
in a body, after protesting against the competency of the
elected to do more than defend from violation the Consti-
tution of 1833. There remained but 38 Deputies, and
these had set the Government at defiance by voting the
continuance of the internal regulations of 1833, instead of
those of 1819. It was, therefore, reported, that the KING
would dissolve the Chambers and govern without them-
that is, if the Hanoverians be such slaves as to suffer him.
FRENCH FUNDS.-Paßts, MARCO 15.
Five per Cents., 108 f. 107 f. 95c. 106 f.
Four per Cents., 102 f.
Three per Cents. 80f. Sc. SOf.
Bank Actions, 2,655 f. 2,660 f. 2,655 f.
ftente de Naples, 1/9f. 50c.
Roman Five per Cents., 101% 102 L
Spanish Actives, 201( 21 203 f, %.
Spanish Passives, 4% %.
Belgian Loan, Fire per Cents, 104}6.
Belgian Bank, 1,500 f. 1,4921. 50c. 1,495 f.
Portuguese Loan, Three per Cents. 20%.
Dutch Two and a Half per Cents., 54i.
Haytsan Loan. 400 f.
EICHANOZ ON LONDON.
One month, paper, 25f. 55c. ; money, 25f. 52%c.
Three months, paper, 25f. 40c. ; money, 25f. 40c.
LAST PRICES.
Five per Cents. 108 f.
Three per Cents., 80f.
Bank Actions, 2655 f.
Romans, 102.
Belgian Loan, 104%.
Belgian Bank, Lout
Portuguese Three per Cents., 20.
Haytian Loan, 400 f.
Spanish Actives, 20N.
Spanish Passives, 4%%.

Madrid Journals of tl7;---"---11th instant, have been received.
Aft a long debate, the Senate negatived the admission
of Don FRANCISCO DE PAULO into that Assembly, by a
majority of two votes. The War Minister had ordered the
the evacuation of the garrisons of Lower Arragon, in con-
sequence of their constant exposure to the attacks of the
Carlists. This measure will not fail to fill the Liberals
with the most terrible apprehensions. The defeat of the
Carlist chief, TALLADA is confirmed in these Journals.

TREATY OF PEACE BETWEEN

CHILI AND PERU.

Arequipa, 24th November, 1537.
We have now the satisfaction of advising you of a peace
having been concluded between Chili and Peru. The
noble conduct of General Santa Cruz, on the occasion,
will, we hope, produce a good feeling in the former
country, which may tend to make the peace more last-
ing. At the time of the treaty, the Chili army was
entirely in the power of Santa Cruz. General Blanco's
effective force was reduced from desertion and sickness
to about 2,500 men ; his retreat to the coast was
completely cut off—his soldiers, especially the infantry,
consisting of about 2,000 men, were disheartened, ill-
disciplined, and unwilling to fight. On the other hand Santa
Cruz possessed a very strong :position, Paucarpata, one
league distant from this city, with an army of about 5,000
men in superb condition and enthusiastic in their cause. In
a few days the Chili force must have been inevitably en-
tirely destroyed, and in all probability a single man would
have not reached the ships on the coast, but we con-
sider the present treaty more beneficial to the cause
of General Santa Cruz, and the interest of the country
than many victories. We hope a peace with the " Proviecias
Arjentinas" will naturally follow, but if not a small force
into the Bolivian frontier will be sufficient to keep them in
check. General Brann is now 80 l:agues in advance of it,
but has orders to proceed no further, although he is strongly
requested by the inhabitants of Sulta to march on.

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