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bread would be cheaper, but if this plan of Reform
were carried, the Corn Bill would be perpetuated for aver.
A Reformad. Parliament would not vote away the public
money at 2 o'clock in the morning, when only 20 members
were present. The Hon.: Member then repented his
charges against Mr. O'Connell having trafficked with the
Marquis of Anglesea for a seat. His authority was Mr.
Benett.— ( Hear.)
Mr. HUME did not believe there were two hundred
thousand people in the kingdom but what were favourable
ro Reform,

Colonel BAILEY was decidedly favourable to the mea-
sure. A great deal had been said in that House respect-
ing the state of the elective franchise in the counties of
Scotland. He begged to say, he had a vote in one of
the countie., founded not in a right of his property,
which he himself owned, but in what—he did not know
how exactly to describe it—in virtue of superiority—a
right over the lands of others; while in another county,
where he had landed property, be had no share whatever
in the elective franchise.—(Hear.)
General GASCOYNE deprecated strongly the vacil-
lating character shown by the Nob!e Eo.ul who bad
brought in the Bill, and woulp take the opportunity to
ask what method his Majasty's Ministers intended to
pursue. To go into Committee immediately was posi.
tively impossible, without some previous examination into
the nature of which the House had heard so much, but
understood so little. Was that house to be called upon
to immediately decide the question, without an opportu-
nity for due deliberation, after the alterations had been
explained.

LordJOHN RUSSELL could only say that on Monday
he should make the statements that he had previously
promised, with regard to any alterations proposed by his
Majesty's Ministerf in the Bill; and when the Hou,e had
heard his statements, it might be better enabled to decide
what course should thereafter be pursued.—(Hear, hear )
Mr. FANE said when he considered the principle of the
Bill great suspicious were unavoidably excited in his mind.
The principle of the Bill was traffic in the suffrage of the
people of England—to sell one man to buy another, to sell
one country to buy two—to induce &titian,' and Ireland
nationally to support the Bill, by adding to their represen-
tations by subtraction from the reps esentatives of England.
lie considered that alternative a natiodal insult to the
United Kingdom.

(LEFT SITTING.)

HOUSE OF LORDS.

The Loan CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Wool-
sack, at Five o'clock.
Sir ALEXANDER GRANT and other Members of the
House of Commons brought up the Indemnity Bill, and
several private bills.
_ _

Mr. Wancle, from the Commissioners for building
churches. presented papers.

The Earl of MAISIESBURY moved for returns of
the number of lire, sus granted under the New Beer Bill,
and the quantity of malt on which the duty had been paid.
The LORD CHANCELLOR thought there could be
no objection to the motion of the Noble Lind, and
acknowledged that many evils arose in differrnt
pdrts of the country, in consequence of e e operaticn
of this Bill, he considered them only cf a local nature,
but thought that the short discussion which had taken
place would shew those parts of the country where
the grievances existed, that a watchful eye was placed
over their conduct, and would lead to the entire abolition
o' the abuse coniplaine,i of.

(LEFT SPEAKING.)

THE MARKETS.

COAL MARE
Adair's 21s. Od
Beaurnnnt 23 0
Bentham Main 21 6
Dean's Printr05e«.......... 23 0
24 6
Killingworth 26 0
Newburn 24 6
Ord's Redhugh --,. 22 0
Pontop Windsor..—.., 22 0
Shipcote , 22 0
l'autieht 24 3
23 3
Willington
Wylain 24 0
Walls End Bell and Co. 26 9
Ditto Bell ItoL•son & Co. 26 0
Walls End Bewicke& (70. 29 3
Walls End Boundary 24 0
Ditto Burraton 26 0
Walls ETA Ca11ert0n....,.. 21 6
Walls End Carr and Co. 21, 6
',hips at market, 153—Ship)

ET.—April 13
Walls End Gosforth...... 29s Od.
i)itto Clarke and C 0... 21
Di to Cranilineton....... 23 0
Walls End Hilda -- 25 0
Ditto reshipped,.,,....,. 21 0
Walls End Newinareti— '26 6
Ilitto Northumberland 26 3
Ditto 0
Ditto Perkins and Co..— .25 9
Walls End Russell's.... 29 0
Walls End Main --. 20 6
Walls End 1 2$
Walla End Stewart's 31 0
Ditto Russell's Lyon's.. 28 6
Ditto South Durham— 23 6
Cowpen .-25 0
Hartley ••••••••.........e.or 26 6
Llangennech Coal ..... 35 0
Wall's End Elgin 24 0
TantieldTrader '23 9
Callerton small ---. 17 0
',old. 304—Untold, 122%.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

G UILDHALL.

Mr. Miller, the assistant-overseer of St. Se-
pulchre's, attended yesterday before Sir PETER
LAURIE, to answer the complaint of Mary Curtis, a
decent-looking young woman, for refusing to re-
lieve her.
Mr. Miller produced her husband, a shoemaker,
in Hosier-lane, to explain why he suffered her to be
chargeable.
The husband said his objection was, that she had
been guilty of adultery.
Sir PETER LAURIE inviting him to give some ac-
count of the matter,
The husband stated that their acquaintance began
with her ordering some boots and shoes at his shop.
They were married about twenty months ago, and
her friends in Cambridgeshire invited him to spend
a few days with them. He sent his wife down
first, and when he followed it happened that his fel-
low-travellers in the coach, some of them Collegians,
were acquainted with the family he was about to
visit, and the conversation turned upon the young
woman he had married, which fact, however, he did
not disclose to the narrators. As the coach-wheels
went round, he heard things which made his ears
tingle, but he smothered his feelings, was very
kindly treated by his wife's relatives, and brought
her back to London. By diligence, he discovered
that a gentleman, in Paternoster-row, corresponded
with his wife by addressing letters to one of his
lodgers, and putting a private mark on the direc-
tion ; and upon making this discovery known, his
lodger and his Ivife immediately left him. lie was
satisfied he should establish the adultery.
Sir PETER LAURIE begged him to be cool ; he
seemed to be violently excited, and he thought he
was labouring under a delusion. He knew the
gentleman alluded to, and he believed him to be too
good and too prudent to be guilty of any improper
conduct. He was one of the last men he should sus-
pect of so offending, and he ought to punish him
(Curtis) for this defamation.
Curtis replied it was no defamation, for the facts
would be established in a few days.

The wife said, the charge of adultery was quite
unfounded. She became acquainted with Mr. -
by living, when a girl, with a relation who kept an
inn in the country, to which he sometimes resorted

in the shooting season. Some time after her mar-
riage her husband used her ill, and she took the
liberty of soliciting Mr. —'s advice, and had an
interview with him at a friend's—a Mrs. May's, in
bride-lane; but Mrs. May was present the whole of
the time, and she did not go to the door with him,
and this was the onlyoccasion on which she had seen
him since her marriage. She denied that she had
absconded from her husband. They parted by con-
sent at Michaelmas, and from that time till Lady-
day she lived in respectable service at Westminster,
but becoming ill she required assistance from her
husband. He had refused to receive her, and she was
therefore compelled to throw herself on the parish.
The husband asked her if Mr. --- did wit

also visit her at Barkwell, and give her a new Pair
of silk stockings, and fit on a pair of new garters.
‘rhich so affected her that she fell backwards.—The
,wife said, indignantly, nothing of the kind had oc-
curred.

The husband said that appearances were occa-
sionally deceitful. There was his wife, for instance.
She was a most pious woman of the Methodist con-
nexion, and constant in her attendance at all the
prayer-meetings and love feasts of the society.
PETER'S impression still was that he was !nis-
i
tak en. -

The husband said he should be satisfied if such
should be the opinion a the twelve honest men
before whom the case would be brought.--to go to
'worth scarcely as many pence as Mr. pos:
Ises4ed thousands, would not have ventured
law with him, except upon clear grounds, and he
would rather rot in gaol than give his wife a button-
(top. His object in commencing tbe'aetion was not
to get damages, but to get rid of a
Sir PRTEg LAURIE said he had no idea of com-
elling him to receive her. All he was asked to do
was to reimburse the parish any reasonable sums it