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CONTENTS:-
I. Discontents of the Working Classes.—ll. An Introduction
to the Philosophy of Consciousness. Part 2.—111. The World
we Live in. No. 16.—1 V. Sketches of Modern Greece.—V.
New Scheme for Maintaining the Poor. Poor Law Sonnets.—
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Cabinet Gossip of a New Reign.—Vlll. The Latin Anthology.
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On the authority of what authentic or unauthentic Scripture
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the Son, and of the Holy Ghost ?" The thing is, beyond all
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We cannot but remark the very singular conduct of the
Journals of our patriots at this moment ; if it is announced
that all is settled, that Kin, William acknowledges the inde-
pendence of Belgium, " How happy," say they, " we shall
at length be relieved from this provisional state, which has
lasted too long, to the great vexation of the obstinate
Orangists." If it is affirmed that nothing is less cer-
tain than a definitive arrangement, and that the Belgian
Government itself refuses to agree to it ; "so much the
better," cry they again, " we shall remain in possession of the
advantages which the status quo gives us, to the great dissatis.
faction of Holland, which the status quo ruins." This, it
must he owned, is a strange inconsistency ; our revolutionists
applaud equally the pro and the con peace, and own a defini-
tive arrangement of the provisional situation. Pray, gentle..
men, tell us once for all which of the two you prefer ?—.Jour-
nal du Commerce d'Anvers.
BRUSSELS, MARCH 28.—The average prices of corn in the
week ending 24th March were—wheat 16f. 55c., rye 11 f. 08c.
per hectolitre. Import duties 37f. 50c., and 21f. 50c. per
1,000 kilogrammes.

In the Chamber of Representatives the project of law, re-
lating to the import duty on foreign spirituous liquors, was
agreed to unanimously by the 57 members present.
Letters from Berlin, dated 09d March. —We can state,
from an authentic source, that a person who left this city yes-
terday takes to Dr. Bunsen his recall from the post of Minister
Plenipotentiary to tho Papal Government. M. Von Buell,
Secretary of Legation, will act as Charge d'Affaires till the
arrival of a new Ambassador. Though no official notice has
been published respecting the person intended for that post, it
is well known who is to fill it.

The accounts from Vienna of the 18th, 19th, and 20th of
March, and from Pesth of the 17th, contain additional and
melancholy details of the dreadful effects of the inundation of
the Danube, which had risen on the 16th to the unprecedented
height of thirty feet above the usual level. It is supposed
that not fewer than two hundred persons have perished ; many
more lives would probably have been lost but for the provi-
dential circumstance that two large steam-boats were on the
spot, which were employed for three days and nights in con-
ve)ing people, cattle, and goods to Ofen. The damage done
to Pesth alone amounts to many millions, and will be felt by
the whole empire. Not only is the injury to the premises
immense, but the loss of merchandise is probably greater,
for it being the annual great fair, the riches of all Hun-
gary were, as it were, collected in Pesth. No particulars
have yet been received from the country, but the devasta-
tion must have been dreadful there also.
GOTTINGEN, March 21.—From the Cassel Allyemeine Zetuny.
Our Academic Senate being summoned to elect a now Deputy,
has now found a second Deputy in the person of M. Pape, of
Hanover. There are various opinions here respecting the
necessity of the urgency of this election ; sonic persons look
on it as an unnecessary compliance on the part of the Univer-
sity ; and others as a judicious, seasonable, and laudable atten-
tion to the demands of a Government which has at all times
shown a paternal care for the University. Two of our Pro-
fessors, Maklenbruck and Langenbeck have celebrated the
close of their lectures by balls, at both of which, especially the
first, the party spirit prevailing here had ample oaortunity to
dispky itself.
GOTTINGEN, MARCH 15. —The list of the lectures is now
published, under the title of Index Scholarum, and confirms
the melancholy truth that none of the vacant Professorships,
and not even those that have become so by death, base been
filled up. The lectures are now, for the most part concluded.
BELGIAN 1U NDS a ussELs, MA RCII
Actual Debt, *i per Cent.
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent. lOl%
Loan of Thirty Millions 9414
Loan of City, 1332., 4 per Cent 9S
Society of Commerce, per Cent 167
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent l4l
National Society
—Brussels Papers, March 28.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, MARCU IS.
Five per Cents. Metalliques
Four per Cents.
Three per Cents.
Bank Shares

—AllgemeineZeitung, March 22.
HAAIBURG BORSEN HALLE, MARCH Ti.
nil's. Money.
Austrian Metariques, 5 per cent.
Ditt., ditto 3 per cent.
Ditto ditto 2,1 per cent
_

Ditto Bank Shares —
1438 1437
-&nglo-Russian Loan loi 11'8%
Paper Inscription, 6 per cent
Russian 5 per cents. Metal.
Russian Inscription, Hope and Co., 3d and 4th
Series
Ditto, Certificates
eortuguese Regency Bonds, 5 per cent 29
Ditto, 3 per cent. l9 .
Dutch '2.i per Cents.
Ditto 5 per Cents —
Polish Bonds, 3 per cents.
New Tickets l6l 161
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per cents ' 7211 72
Norwegian Loan of 1834, 4 per cents
Spanish, in piastres, 3 per Cents —
Cortes Loan, 5 per Cent
Greek 4 per cents. 1233, guaranteed by France
EXCHANGES ON LONDON.
HAMBURG, MA RCII '27 —l3 1,14 ; two months, 13 94. „,
ST. PETERSBURGII, MARCH I6.—Three months, 10 31 —D•/.
BERLIN, SIARCII ta—Three months, 6. 26.
—Hamburg Papers, March 27.
PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BERLIN, MAncii 24.
Bills. Money.
St. Schuld. Sch. 4 per cent 102% 102'4
Prussian English Loan, 1830, 4 per cent 1034 102%
Exchange on London, three months 620
—Prussian State Gazette. March 25.

Yesterday morning, between eight and nine o'clock,
a child between eleven and twelve years of age, named
Emma Birch, the daughter of respectable parents, living at
No. 4, Baynton-buildings, New-road, St. Pancras, set her
clothes on fire while standing before the fireplace, and she was
burnt in so dreadful a manner that she survived only about
twenty minutes.

Mr. WOOD stated, that although this was the fact, the sum
nad not been reckoned twice over in the amount of subscriptions.
Witness went on to state that there were several other sub-
scriptions in the same predicament ; there are 1,021 addi-
tional shares subscribed for since last year.
Air. JOY contended that, although he did not at all attribute
an intention to deceive, he really thought deception had been
practised on the face of these subscription lists.
Examined by an Hon. Member of the Committee :-28,5001.
appeared twice over in the printed subscription lists : if these
sums were expunged, there would still remain a surplus over
the amount of deposit legally required.

Examination continued by Mr. Joy.—Witness repeats that
these doubly-entered subscriptions were not reckoned twice :
this fact would appear in the subscription list of last year.
Witness holds a copy of the subscription contract in his hand;
but the original would be requisite for proofs before the Com-
mittee.
Mr. JON applied to the Committee for the original con-
tract to be produced before the Committee. It should be
produced immediately (say to-morrow), and not deferred until
th., close of the proceedings of the Committee.
Mr. Wood objected to Mr. Joy's application, on the ground
that the House had directed that all enquiries relative to sub-
scription contracts should be referred to the Committee on
Standing Orders ; and that the original and copy in question
had been proved bfore that Committee to be copies of each
other.
11r. Joy contended for the production of the contract, in
order to compare it with that of last year, before this Committee.
The room was here cleared, when the CHAIRMAN announced
that the Committee conceived themselves precluded by the
Standing Orders, from requiring the production of the sub-
scription contract.
Examination of witness was resumed by Mr. Joy, relative
to" the subscriptions of particular individuals, and the variations
in their descriptions, Sze. Mistakes, Nlr. Joy remarked, had
evidently taken place in many of these, and the object of Mr.
Joy was to prove a multiplication of them, so as to affect the
validity of the subscription contract ; which he contended
must. from its inaccuracies, mislead the Committee.
The witness then put in and read a circular letter of his
own, and another of Mr. Dunlop, printed on the same
sheet, relative to a public meeting at Glasgow, whereat the
Lord Provost presided, and in which certain resolutions for
the furtherance of the Railway were forwarded to those to
whom these letters were written.
Cross-examined by Mr. Wood—In the subscription contract
of last year no sums of subscription were doubly reckoned.
Reexamined by Mr. Joy—Believes everything correct in
the subscription lists; and that they are the same as last year.
Re-cross-examined—The meeting at Glasgow to which the
circular letters put in referred, was a very large meeting, pre-
sided over by the Lord Provost. The resolutions of that meet-
ing were signed by about severity firms, or houses of business.
Believes that number to include the greater part of the respec-
table houses of business in that city. By the word " respectable"
(in answer to an Hon. Member) witness means the leading or
richer houses. No persanel allusion was intended towards
the
eneral respectability of the traders of Glasgow.
‘Pter another discussion as to what parts of the evidence of
the Report of last year should be read, the Committee ad-
journed until to-morrow at eleven o'clock.

ROMANTIC ADVENTURE.—We can guarantee the
authenticity of the following strikingly romantic event :—A
distinguished Nobleman of Florence, whose wife was living at
Pisa, having learnt that the latter approached the period of
her accouchentent, set out for Pisa, escorted by two dragoons.
The latter quitter[ him at Pisa, and resuming the road to Flo-
rence, were overtaken with a violent storm. For some hours
they pursued their journey through a perfect hurricane ; but
the rain fell so fast, and the night became so dark, that they
found it necessary to seek shelter for the night at a solitary
form-house, which they perceived at a little distance from the
main road. They found there three persons, a husband, wife,
and their son, who hospitably received them, and offered them
the use of their hay-loft, in which to pass the night. After
partaking of a common repast, oaa of the dragoons imme-
diat fell ulyh
asleep, and slept soundly. His companion threw
himself on the straw dressed as he was, but his sleep was so
oppressive that he got up in order to go out and breathe
the fresh air. In descending the staircase in order to pass
through the ground-floor passage to the door, he heard a
great clamour of voices, and approaching cautiously nearer,
perceived through the interior door, the corpses of the hus-
band, wife, and son, who had hospitably received him and his
companion, and twelve banditti, armed with sabres and pistols,
seated round a table. The dragoon hastily returned to the
hay-loft, and awaking his companion, informed him of what
be had seen. Having assured themselves that there was no
egress but through the passage and door which led into the
room where the brigands were assembled, the two dragoons
th-ternained on attacking them. Loading their muskets they
fired suddenly into the midst of them and killed four. Then
protitting by the atonishment and confusion which this unex-
pected attack occasioned, they rushed upon them, and with
their sabres killed four others. The report of the fire-arms,
and the shouts and groans of the combatants, alarmed the in-
habitants of a little neighbouring village, and several country-
men having hurried to the scene, assisted the dragoons in
capturing the four surviving brigands. They were instantly
conveyed to the prison of Pisa, to await their trial.— Con-
stitutionnel. _

A GOOD EXCUSE.—Some years ago the Isle of
Sho.sp-
v y was considered as but one parish, and, being thinly in-
hlhited, and the clergyman's salary not very large, he visited
them but once a month. This they complained of ; when the
Divine sent them word that if they would add ten pounds a
year to his benefice, he would come once a fortnight. The
farmers held a meeting to consider the proposition, when it wai
unanimously agreed to return for answer—" That if he would
abate them ten pounds a year in their tithes, they would excuse
him coming at all."—Dover Chronicle.

TRADE.—In the manufacturing towns and villages
in Ayrshire, trade is at length gradually reviving. Although
the tributary streams of trade in the provinces, receive checks
simultaneously with the great marts of commerce, they do not
rally so soon, remaining dried up till the vigour infused at the
fountain heads slowly spreads along their channels. The ma-
nufacturing population, however, are again in a fair way of re-
covering, and we earnestly hope their prosperity may be early
re-established, and remain permanent. Amongst the agricul-
tural labourers, more recently, there has also been much dis-
tresf, which has been borne with patience and modesty, well
meriting the philanthropic endeavours of those benevolent bo-
dies who have, in frequent instances, contributed much to its
alleviation.—Ayr Advertiser.
THE- WEATHER IN SCOTLAND.—(From the
Dumfries Courier.)—Advanced as the season now is, the last
was in some respects as rigorous a week as the worst of its
predecessors ; and anxious as we were to announce approaching
renovation we begin to fear that one of the most lingering
winters on record will chill the lap of April at least, should it
even leave unscathed, as we still fondly trust it will, her dewy
sister May, and thus insure a plentiful crop of fruit. Wednes-
day last was a bitter day. The guard of the London mail
gave a frightful account of the fresh-fallen snows that covered
Shap- Fell, and adjoining heights ; and Skiddaw, Saddleback,
and Viellvelen indexed sufficiently, by the deepened livery they
again wore, the state of matters farther inland. On the Scotch
side it was much the same. On Thursday the London and
Edinburgh mails arrived late—the first an hour and a half,
and the second more than two hours, behind the proper time.
From these facts we infer that the roads are again partially
blockaded in the South and North-East. On Friday morning
when day-light dawned, it was observed that the hills had re-
ceived a fresh covering of snow. On Saturday Queensberry
was whiter than ever ; and though matters has amended some-
what since, it is obvious we arc not yet done with winter and
the calamities it brings in its train. Up to the present time
(Tuesday morning) the hills are still white with snow, and
though the different mails and coaches arrive and depart pretty
regularly, the guards and drivers give a sad account of the
state of the roads—east, west, south, and north.
CHURCH DISCIPLINE.—A SCENE.—The follow-
ing rather ludicrous occurrence took place the other Sabbath
in the parish church of Airth. A parishioner, whose conduct
had not for some time previous been marked with the strictest
propriety applied to the minister for baptism to his child.
This the Rev. Gentleman, after some hesitation, agreed to
grant, acquainting the applicant, at the same time, that his
behaviour hardly warranted him in doing so. The man ac-
cordingly brought forward his child to church on the following
Sunday, when, on presenting,; himself at the foot of the pulpit,
and preparing to take the child in his arms, he was ordered by
the minister to take his stand in front of the pulpit, as he
found it his duty, previous to his administering the ordinance,
to admonish and reprimand him, on account of the irregular
life he had for some time past been leading. Instead, how-
ever, of complying with the minister's desire, he took up his
hat and walked out of the'church, declaring, as some say, he
would rather be -- than submit to such treatment.

There has been recently discovered in the neigh-
bourhood of Valenciennes a subterranean road, beginning at
Tamars, and supposed to take a direction towards Bavai. It
is of the most solid Roman construction ; the descent to it is
by from 35 to 40 steps, still entire, and te entrance is about
five feet wide. A great number of medals of the Emperors
(in good preservation) were found near the spOt not long ago.
HEROISM OF A CLERGYMAN.—SeveraI persons
worthy of credit have authenticated to us the following event,
which has just occurred at the village of Peyrolles (Bouche
de Rhone). Two men in shabby apparel presented them-
selves one evening at the house of the Cure requesting shelter
for the night, under the plea that one of them was so over-
whelmed with fatigue that he could not walk any farther.
The Cure readily complied with their request, and assigned
them a sleeping apartment. His maid servant shortly after
passing the door of the room perceived a brace of pistols
lying on the table, and observed that the two travellers, one of
whom bad thrown himself on the bed, were consulting to-
gether in a low voice. Inferring their intentions were cri-
minal, she immediately proceeded to impart it to her master,
who, in consequence barricadoed himself in his chamber,
and recommended the servant to do the same. Shortly after.
he heard one of his suspicious 'guests trying the lock of his
room door, and finding it fast, he knocked, saying his
comrade was suddenly taken ill, and requesting the Cure
to come and assist in restoring him. The Cure told him to
go into the kitchen, where he would find and might prepare
all the materials he might require. The man thus baffled,
fired his pistol through the door, but the ball luckily missed the
Cure, who was out of the line of its direction. The two as-
sassins then forced the door, and found the Cure prepared to
receive them, and provided with a double barrelled gun. The
first discharge hit the first assailant in the breast, and laid him
dead on the spot. The other was rushing upon him, and re-
ceived the contents of the other barrel, which took similar
effect, and, falling upon the body of his companion, he expired
shortly after. The consequence of this result is, that the Cure
of Peyrolles hos been compelled to appeal to 1113 superior, the
Archbishop of Malines, in order to be freed from the interdic-
tion which every Catholic priest incurs for the fact of taking
human life, even in self-defence.—National.

An inquest was held by Mr. Shebbear, on the 21st
instant, at Cove, in Yatcly, on Henry Sanger, a young man
about 22, who had been employed on the railway, and having
had several quarrels with a man named Chandler, they agreed
to fight it out on Monday. After a contest for three quarters
of an hour, Chandler struck deceased a blow or, the head which
knocked him down, and he was carried off senseless. The
fight took place at Frimley, but no one would take in the de-
ceased, and he was carried to a house at Cove, where he and
his wife lodged, when the occupiers of the house also refused
him entrance, although his wife was there, and it was not till
sin the afternoon he was taken into his lodging. A surgeon
was called in about 11 at night, who bled him twice, but with-
out relief, and he continued insensible until his death next
morning. The jury returned a verdict of " Manslaughter
against Chandler. "—Reading Mercury.
Tuesday morning, shortly after eight o'clock, the
stupendous arch thrown across the Black Ditch at New-cross,
being part of the intended Croydon Railway, fell in with a
tremendous crash. Most providentially the workmen, upwards
of one hundred, had gone to breakfast a few minutes before, or
the loss of life might have been very great. The piles gave
way, and the arch instantly fell in ; the surprise of the work-
men, on their return, may be easily imagined.
On Sunday morning the inhabitants of Old Quebec-
street were thrown into a state of alarm by the attempts whic/t
were made by a lodger of No. 13, to commit some bodily in.
jury upon the inmates of that house. From an early hour
something strange had been observed both in her appearance
and manners, and at twelve o'clock lunacy developr,d itself in
all its horrors. From that hour, having secured the doors,
she paraded the passage, armed with a poker, attempting to
strike every one who came within her reach. Upon two police-
m..!n obtaining admission she ran into the dining-room and
commenced breaking the windows, but having ben deprived
conveyed to a private recep•
of her weapon she was speedily
tacle for lunatics.

We take the following from the Courricr Francais:
It is said that the Duke de Nemourc will go to London
on the occasion of the coronation of Queen Victoria. Many
other Princes will also be assembled in London, and among
others the Archduke Albert, eldest son of the Archduke
Charles." The same journal says—" 'We are assured that
Prine Esterhazy has appropriated from his private purse a
sum of a million of florins to defray the expense of his appear-
ance at the coronation of the Queen of England."

Mr. O'CONNLL had a personal interest in this Bill, and
that was to arrive as speedily as
intended
from Liverpool._
( Laughter.) By this Bill it was to take a shorter
way, and there would be a saving of about an hour. As to
the objection about the navigation of the Mersey, that was a
great reason why the Bill should go into Committee, where
that and all other objections could be remedied.—(Hear.)
Mr. HAWES said, the operation of this Bill would, be to
stop the navigation of the Mersey to a considerable. extent.
If a bridge were built across the river, it would stop vessels of
from 200 to 300 tons burthen, to the amount of Upwards of
60,000 tons a year. fie doubted if there would be any saving
of time.
Mr. M. PHILIPS thought to have 'heard some other
argument from the Honourable and Learavd Member
for Dublin than that which he had given to the
House. He bad given him credit for an qnxiety to
put forward the interests of the public rather than his own
personal convenience and comfort, in his communications.
between that capital and Dublin. The bridge would seriously
impede the navigation and the river, and would seriously injure
if not destroy the Irish coasting trade, as vessels could not. find
their way up the river to the town of Warrington, He
regretted exceedingly to be obliged to take a hr,stile at-
titude against the Bill itself, for he would d.O its pro-
moters the justice to say that there was now'nere a more
public spirited body. It had been stated ',..hat four miles
:Wove the point where they were about to establish this bridge,
another bridge already existed. That bridge impeded the
navigation to a certain extent, and if lie (Mr. Philips) had
had the honour of a seat in the }louse at that time, he
would certainly have opposed it. He objected to the Bill.
going into Committee because there was no person to oppose
it—they were seeking to protect posterity, and the interests
that would hereafter arise, as well as those which already ex-
isted. If any person looked at the enormous increase which
had taken place in the manufacturing- districts in Lan-
cashire, and would carry back their recollection to fifty years
past, they would see that he (Mr. P.) was not seeking to pro-
tect interests which were not likely to arise. On these
grounds he would decidedly oppose tine Bill.
Sir H. VERNEY hoped those who were prepared to op-
pose the Bill would refer to the Vian, and they would find that
there were canals on each side of the river by which all mer-
chandise was carried, and they bad been made because the river
was so very shallow that no traffic could be carried on upon it.
Ile hoped the House would net be led away by any specious
arguments regarding the importance of the Mersey, and oppose
a Bill of so much importance to the whole of the country.
The bridge was to be 22 feet in height, so That the vessels
could easily pass under it by lowering their masts.—( Hear,
hear.) He found that during the last year, only six vessels
would have been put to any inconvenience by the bridge.
We trusted, therefore, the House would send the Bill into
Committee.

Mr. NV. PATTEN tha.nked the lion. Baronet for some
arguments against the 13'111. The canal alluded to did not go
to the same place as the liver, and 60,000 tons of merchandise,
then carried on the river, would be inconvenienced.
lie believed the proprietors did not expect to gain one addi-
tional passenger by their present line, nor would they derive
one single sixpence of remuneration..—(Cries of " Divide.")
Lord SANDON supported the seco:id reading, but in
eonscquenoe of the loud vies of " Di‘iide, divide" during the
whole time the Noble Lord was speaking, we could not hear
one single word he said.

Mr. A. YA TE S supported t►ie Bill. He thought that no
sufficient reason had been assigned why the Bill should not
be proceeded with ; and if tb.e amendment of the Hon. Mem-
ber opposite were persevered in, it would be applying a very
clifF,rent principle to this Bill than had been observed with
respect to others.

Lord FRANCIS F.;GERTON was also in favour of the
Bill. He did not mean to say that it was ent;rely free from
objection, or that it. would not in some degree be prejudicial to
the interests of the town of Warrington ; but he thought the
general advantages which would result from the measure
would sufficiently counterbalance them.
The gallery was then cleared fur a division.
The House divided, when ti►e numbers were—
For the second reading 2so
• For the amendment..
Majority for the second ,:eading -148
The Bill was then read. a sccor.d time, and ordered to be
committed.

On the motion of Mr. Joins, the Brecon Ma-ket Bill was
read a third time atra passed.
Mr. O'C ONNUL presented forty petitions for the abo-
lition of negro apprenticeship.
Lord MORPETH presented 34 from the West Riding of
Yorkshire to the same effect.
Mr. M. PHILIPS, Mr. V. SMITH, and Lord DUNGANNON,
I resented similar petitions.
Mr. HINDLE Y presented petitions from the, Independent
Chapels of Ashton-under-Lyne, Hyde, Staley P,ridge, and Sal-
-1 ford, in favour of Sir G. Strickland's motior,.
Mr. BROTHERTON presented forty-two petitions from
various parts of Lancashire to the same e,ifect.
Similar petitions were presented by Sir G. STRICKLAND,
from Yorkshire; by Sir R. PEEL, 11-om Roscrea, in the county
of Tipperary; from the Wesleyan Methodist congregation
in the City-road ; and from tl..e borough of Stockport. The
Right Hon. Bart. stated thP't when the two last petitions were
sent to him he told the petitioners that he could give them no
pi .edge as to the part which he would take on this question, and
that they had better (intrust them to the hands of some other
Member. They had, however, declined doing so, and ho now
presented them to the 'route with this qualification; Mr.
Grcte rresented 3 petitions from London ; Mr. Gillon 8 from
various parts of Scotland ; Mr. Baines four from Leeds ; Lord
Ebrington fifteen petitions from various places in Devonshire ;
Mr. Hindlev, 26 from various places in Lancashire ; Mr. Vil-
liers 40 ; Mr. C. Buller ; Mr. Scholefield, from Birmingham ;
Lord Mahon, Mr. Hodges, Mr. S'argeant Lefroy ; Mr.
Thomas Duncombe ; twenty from places in Yorkshire ;
Sir George Grey, Lord Sandon, Mr. FiAden, Mr. W. J.
Denni.,:on, Mr. Sanford, Mr. Pea;e 10 from Durham
and by Mr. Howard from the Wesleyan Congregation of
Carlisle.
Lord STANLEY had a petition to present of a very
different character from those already presented. It repre-
sented a much larger amount of property that would be
affected by the motion of the Honourable Baronet than
any of the others. It was from the undersigned West
India planters, who depreclted the violation of a
national compact which had been entered into with them a
short time since, by abridging tb.e remainder of the appren
increasedthat si the Acti and that it would be
nc The
e thepetitioners stated
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