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IMPERIAL. PARLIAMENT

HOUSE OF COMMONS, May 20.
The SPEAKER took the Chair at the usual hour.
On the seats appropriated to Members of the other
House, we observed the Earl of Belfast, Lords Ellen-
borough, Wharncliffe, Lyndhurst, Abinger, Hatherton,
and several other Peers, evidently in waiting for the ex-
pected Ministerial announcement.
The Sheriffs of London and Middlesex presented a
petition from the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Corpora-
tion of the city of London, against the graduated sliding-
duty on foreign corn and other provisions, and praying
instead therof a fixed duty.
On the motion of Mr. NEELD, the Church of Eng-
land Life and Fire Assurance Trust and Annuity Com-
pany's Bill was read a third time and passed.
Mr. H. BERKELEY presented a petition from the
brass-founders and cotton-spinners of the city of Bristol,
and from certain inhabitants of St. Mary's Radcliffe, ex-
pressing their gratitude to her Majesty's Ministers for
their intention to abolish the Corn-laws, and praying the
House speedily to abolish those laws, as being unconstitu-
tional
and unjust.
Mr. JAMES presented three petitions from Cumber-
land, and one from Scotland, against the present Corn-
laws.

Sir M. WOOD presented a petition from a ward of the
City of London, expressing thanks to her Majesty's Mi-
nisters for striking at the root of monopoly, and praying
the House to adopt the measures of which notice had
been given, for substituting a fixed instead of a graduating
duty on corn; also a petition from the Trustees of Lin-
coln's Inn-fields, praying that the new courts of law
might not be erected there.
Mr. BROTIfERTON presented several petitions from
places in Lancashire, signed in all by 16,000 persons,
against the Corn-laws ; and a petition from a place in
Lancashire in favour of the commercial policy of the
Government.
Mr. HUGHES presented a petition from a place in
Carnarvon, praying for Church Extension.
Mr. SHEPHARD presented petitions (we could not
learn from what places), against the present Corn-laws,
which the petitioners considered opposed to the Word of
God and the laws of nations.—(Hear, hear, on the Mi-
nisterial benches.)
Sir C. KNIGHTLEY presented a petition from Dun-
church against the proposed commercial charges, which
the petitioners considered the most desperate measures
ever introduced by a Government.—(Hear, hear, on the
Opposition benches.)
Mr. WYSE presented a petition signed by several
Peers, Roman Catholic Bishops, Magistrates, and others,
in Ireland, praying for the early establishment of pro-
vincial Colleges in that country, with a view to the for-
mation of a General Irish University.
Mr. P. HOWARD presented a petition from the
Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council of Carlisle, in
Council assembled, in favour of the plans of the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer, and especially that which
related to the importation of foreign corn ; also apetition
from the Roman Catholic Pastor and Congregation of
Carlisle to the same effect.
Mr. LITTON presented a petition from Dublin
against lay patronage in the Church of Scotland.
Mr. G REENE presented a petition from a place in Lan-
cashire against the proposed alteration in the duty on
foreign timber.
Mr. THORNELY presented a petition from Ham-
lingworth, in Cheshire, in favour of the commer-
cial measures of.the Government ; and a petition from
Alarylebone, in favour of an alteration in the Corn-laws.

Air. WILBRAHAM presented a petition from a place
(the name of which we could not learn), signed by
46,000 inhabitants of all classes, praying for the total
and immediate repeal of the Poor-laws.
Mr. CLAY presented a petition from Shoreditch in
favour of the commercial measures of the Government.

Mr. BAINES presented several petitions to the same
effect from places in Yorkshire.

Mr. SCI-10LEFIELD presented a petition from Bir-
mingham in favour of a property tax.
Mr. GOULBURN presented a petition from Cam-
bridge, praying for Church Extension.
Mr. COLQUHOUN presented eighty-six petitions from
Wesleyans against any further grant to the College of
May-nooth.
Mr. HUME presented petitions from a farmer and
land-agent in Suffolk, praying for the repeal of the
Corn-laws. Also nine similar petitions from Bucking-
hamshire. Also a similar petition from 183 leaseholders
of Faversham. Also fifteen similar petitions form York-
shire.

Sir G. GREY presented a similar petition from North-
ampton.

Sir. T. BUNCOMBE gave notice that, on Tuesday
next, he should move that an humble Address be pre-
sented to her Majesty, praying her Majesty to dis-
charge all persons from prison who are confined for poli-
tical offence.

Mr. WOOI)HOUSE gave notice that he should move
for sundry returns relative,to the price of corn in Great
Britain, the only one we were able to hear the Hon.
Member mention, was a return of the average price of
wheat in Great Britain in each year from 1792 to 1804.
THE LATE DIVISION.

Mr. FIELDEN said he was somewhat in doubt if he
had any right to a seat in that House, but it would be
in the recollection of Hon. Members, that, yesterday
morning, after the resolution of the Noble Lord
had been put to the House, he had proposed an ad-
journment of the debate ; that motion had been
seconded by the Hon. Member for Finsbury. and since
he had come to the House that evening he had been told
that the Hon.. Member for Ashburton, who was in the
gallery at the time, had also seconded it. Now that
motion ought to have been entertained. He had been
asked by his Honourable Friend, the Member for
Kilkenny, to withdraw his motion, on the under-
standing that at some future time he should have
an opportunity of stating his opinions on the subject.
What he complained of was that his motion for adjourn-
ing the debate had been disposed of without his consent.—
(A laugh.) The Speaker had never asked him if he
would take the sense of the House.—(A laugh.) He
had not put it to the House if they would divide on it.
He thought he had a right to complain. It was -
a question affecting the privilege of his consti-
tuents.—(Cheers and much laughter.) He thought it
probable that the House might have rejected his motion,
but he complained of its having been rejected without
a division. His Hoe. Friend the Member for Kilkenny,
could bear testimony that he had been, asked to with-
draw his motion, on the understanding that he
should have an opportunity given him on some
future occasion of speaking on the subject of
the previous debate, and he had risen to speak when
the Noble Lord, the Secretary for the Colonies, had pro-
posed
his amendment. "During the course of the pre-
vious debate," said the Hon. Member, " I was not per-
mitted to speak, not having obtained your Heye,
Sir."—(Roars of laughter, occasioned by the peculiar
aspiration, which the Hon Member thought it right to
prefix to the word eye.—The Honourable Gentle-
man continued.) He had risen more than a
dozen times during the debate to make known his
sentiments, but had not been able to do so. He
did not complain of that. He knew how difficult
it was for the Speaker to see every Member
who rose. But yesterday morning, between three and four
o'clock, he had risen to move the adjournment, as he
wished to enter into explanations as to the reasons which
would influence him in giving his vote. He had been asked to
proceed with his speech, but he refused to do so, and at that
hour of the morning it could hardly have been expected.
He wanted to know why his motion for the adjournment
was rejected—why it was not put from the Chair—and a
division taken on the question of adjournment. Before
he said anything more, he hoped to have an answer to
that question.
The SPEAKER felt that he could give the best
answer to the question of the Hon. Member, and he
_

could state, that if the motion had been seconded, ho
should certainly have put it from the chair. After
the Honourable Member had put the question, he (the
Speaker) asked who seconded the motion, and te paused
two or three seconds for an answer.—(Loud cries of
" Hear, hear.") No Hon. Member in his view seconded

it, and he had then proceeded to read the question to
the House. As he was reading the question he saw the
Hon, Member for Finsbury rise, but lie did not pnclor:
stand him to say a single word, or to second the motion.
Ile appealed to Hon. Members near him if he was in
error, and they concurred with him that the Hon. Mem-
ber had not addressed the House. He concluded, there-

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OM bhp motion wa* 11c.4 §Kohdfdi PA he (iPP=
tainly did not see the Honourable Member in the gal-
lery ; he had only heard that since the adjournment,
and was not aware of it at the time. If he had been
aware of it, of course it would have been his duty to put

the question.—(Loud cheers,)
Mr, WAJCLEY could easily understand that the
Speaker was in doubt and difficulty as to what was
passing in the House. There was certainly noise and con-
fusion in his (Mr. Welders) part of the House, as
well as near the Chair, He recollected the Speaker
asking who seconded it, and he (Mr. Wakley) had risen
from his seat, and said, " I do, Sir"—(Cries of " Oh,"
and " Order")—but he could easily believe that tile
Speaker did not hear him, for there was considerable
noise in his part of the House, and several Hon. Mem-
bers cried " Don't second it."
Sir li. H, INGLIS saw the Hon. Member for Pim-
bury rise, but did net hear him say a filllgh? word,
Mr, FIELDEN rose, but was received with loud cries
of "chair, and spoke.")
The SPEAKER had omitted to state why the qtptlon
was not put, when the Hon, Member rose a &act:it'd time.
The Hon. Member did not rise until after the voices had
been given in the negative, and it could not then, ac-
cording to the WOW of the House, be put. He would
also state that when he observed no Hon, 111 ember to rise
and second the motion, he had said in the hearing
of
:vveral-Hon, Members near him, " There is no se-
conder."—(Hear, hear)
Mr. FIELDEN, not having had an opportunity
of speaking during the debate, would send the
speech he intended to make—(Roars of laughter from all
parts of the House)--to the newspapers.—(Renewed
laughter.) 40 1!) M74410:1 tell them memo, that what
he sent he -had written hefore,(Great laughter)—
and if Honourable Members would write before-
hand what they intended to speak, they would save
a great deal of the time of the House,--(Cheering
and laughter,) That Would
enable Hon, Members
to 931 *tat 71.0 The AtibiPot,

PRICE sd,

THE SUGAR DUTIES.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER—Sir, I
give notice that, on Monday next, I will move that the
Horse shall resolve itself into a Conimittee of Ways and
Means, with a view to move the • usual annual Sugar
Duties therein.—(Cheers.)
Lord JOIN RUSSELL rose amidst the utmost
silence, and said "Sir, I move that this House, at its
rising, do adjourn till Monday next."
The House which was crowded, and the Members of
the other House, who had congregated under the gallery,
seemed lost in astonishment for a few moments, and then
burst out into loud cheers on one side, and laughter on
the other.
The Earl of DARLINGTON said, that after what had
just taken place, he was relieved from all suspense as to
the intentions of the Noble Lord, notwithstanding the
division against him the other evening • and he (the Earl
of Darlington) might be allowed to add, with a tenacity
unparalleled—(Loud Opposition cheers)—after the deci-
sion which the House of Commons had so unequivocally-
delivered against him.(Cries of " Hear," and " Order.")
He might, however, be allowed to ask the Noble Lord on
what day he intended to bring forward the debate on the
Corn-laws.—(Hear, hear.)
Lord J. RUSSELL—On Friday, the 4th of Jane.—
(" Hear, hear," from the Ministerial benches.)
Colonel Sibthorpe, Mr. E. Tennent, and Captain Pol-
hill, here rose almost simultaneously to address the House.
The SPEAKER, however, said that as there was then
no question before them, they should proceed with the
motions for the day.
NAVAL COMMISSION.
Lord GEORGE LENNOX, in bringing forward the
motion of which he had given notice, for a Committee of
the whole House to take into consideration so much of the
Report of the Naval and Military Commission as relates
to the recommendation relative to the Royal Marines, said
that he meant to address the House but for a very short
time. The Commission to which his motion referred
had sat for two years, at the close of which period
they furnished their Report. It was not for him
(Lord George Lennox), to impugn, nor did lie
mean to impugn the Report of that Commission.—
(Hear.) But what he complained of was, that the
recommendations of the Commissioners respecting the
officers of the Army, Navy, and Ordnance, had
been attended to, and carried out by the heads
of these several departments, whereas that which
related to the marines had been neglected. As we un-
derstood the Noble Lord, who was all but inaudi-
ble from the great noise that prevailed in the House,
the Commissioners recommended that the marines
should have a larger number of field-officers, and
a more rapid promotion. This (as we un-
derstood) had not in effect been attended to.
He hoped that the marine officers would soon be put
upon an equal footing with the officers of the Navy, and
that the day was not far distant when a marine officer
would even act as a Lord of the Admiralty.—(Hear.)
He trusted that he should be allowed to say a word as
to the honours and rewards of marine officers. He be-
lieved no one would say the Marine officers had not done
their duty to their Queen and their country, but he be-
lieved that the same quantity of justice had not been
granted to them as to the officers of the . Navy.
.He hoped earnestly the House woud agree with him in
the motion he was about to make. When he had
moved for a Committee, he was told that he ought
to have moved an address to the Crown, and when he
moved an address to the Crown, he was told he ought
to have moved for a Committee.—(Hear, hear.) Under
these circumstances, he did not know what to do. He re-
gretted that the Noble Lord the Secretary for Foreign Af-
fairs was not in his place, for no one knew better than the
Noble Lord the value of the Marine corps. He now
begged leave to move for a Committee of the whole
House, to take into consideration so much of the Report
of the Naval and Military Commission as relates ,to the
recommendations relative to the Royal Marines.
Sir H. VIVIAN said he could assure the House, and
he felt sure he need not assure the Marine officers, that
the Government were . disposed to do every thing in
their ,power for the benefit of that distinguished corps.
It was impossible, however, that the same system could
in all cases be pursued towards the officers of the Ord-
nance and the officers of the Marine, as the
duties of each were so different. He firmly
believed that the Military and Naval Commission
had conducted its proceedings with an anxious desire to
do justice to all parties.
Sir A. DALRYMPLE said that he had for-
merly voted for an address to the Queen
for the appointment of ' the Naval and Mili-
tary Commission; but as he believed that Commission
had fairly discharged its duties, he could not vote for
bringing the subject again under • the consideration of
the 'House.

Admiral ADAM said that the matters to which
the motion of the Noble Lord referred, were of such
a nature that it would be attended with great incon-
venience to investigate them. The Commission itself,
with regard to retirements, had recommended that
they should not be filled 'up, unless the Admiralty
should see it necessary, and he did not think it right
to place men in the full enjoyment of health upon
retirements that others might be appointed in their place.
Lord INGESTRIE would give a decided negative to
the motion, at the same time that he entertained the
highest feeling of respect for the corps whose cause
the Noble Lord opposite (Lord George Lennox) had un-
dertaken.

Captain BOLDERO said it was a most just matter
of complaint that whilst the recommendations of
the Commissioners had been carried into effect in every
other department of the service, the important corps in
question (the Marines) had been uniformly neglected.
Mr. C. WOOD said that all the recommendations of
the Commission had been faithfully fulfilled. The pro-
motion given by the Lords of the Admiralty to the offi-
cers
of marines, in proportion to their number, was un-
exampled
in any other part of the service.
Mr. HUME said that he had voted for the appoint-
ment of the Commision, under the impression that the
Marine corps had been neglected ; but this was a diffe-
rent case from that which he contemplated, and if it went
to a division he should vote against the motion. He
thought the Marine officers under Commodore Napier
had not been fairly treated, and he hoped the Govern-
ment would take their case into consideration.

Lord A. LENNOX said he hoped his Noble Relative
would not press the motion to a division. He trusted
that what had been stated would induce the Lords of the
Admiralty to adopt a different course with regard to these
officers.

Captain PECHELL was ready to support the Noble
Lord in any motion which would benefit the corps of
Royal Marines. He would, however, recommend him
to withdraw the present motion, in. the hope that what
had been said would influence the treatment of that body.
Lord G. LENNOX said, owing to the small attend-
ance in the House, and being convinced that he would
not be so successful as on a former occasion, he would
withdraw the motion.
The motion was then withdrawn.
On the motion of Lord J. RUSSELL, the Order of
the Day for the Committee on Ways and Means was
read for the purpose of being postponed till Monday.

REGISTRATIONf ACT.
Mr. T. DUNCOMBE said, as he understood that the
resolutiOns founded upon the petition to which he in-
intended to call the attention of the House would bo
,agreed to, he would simply move " That, under the pro-
visions of the Act for amending the Representation of
the People of England and Wales, it is incumbent on
the Clerk of the Peace of every County to write er print
the Register of Eiwtca‘s annually, and to furnish copies
of the same at the most reasonable price. That the
omission hitherto to print the Register of Electors for
the County of Hertford, awl to, furnish copies at a rea-
sonable price, has Wen productive of great inconve-
nience, And is fin infringement on the rights of the Elec-
tors of the said County in the exercise of their fran-
chise to return Members to Parliament. That a copy of
the Register of Eleotars for the County of Hertford, for
the year 1840, ending 1841, be forthwith laid before this
House."

The motion was agreed to,
ANATOMY ACT.
Mr. M`LEAN rtlnVed hr returns of the number of in-
vectors appointed under 2 and 3 Will. 4, c. 75, com-
monly called " The Anatomy Act," and the district
under their separate inspootiou, Of the amount of
salary paid to each itANOtt-kri
and allowance for travel-
ling expenses, iil ouchyear from 1836 to the 31st clay of
IlwPmilep 1840. Of the number of visits made by each
inspector to the several schools of anatomy within his
district ; specifying the name of the school, and date of
each visit, from 1544 to 1840, inclusive. Of all subjects
sent tg the several colleges and hospitals, and schools of
IPll4tAnly, specifying the number to each, and the date
thereof. Of each inspector's Report to the Home-office,
of all contraventions of the Anatomy Act by teachers or
students, from the year 1833 to 1840, inclusive ; and
also (if any), what proceedings have been taken thereon.
After a short discussion au the returns except the third
were granted.
Mr. *LEAN said he should take another opportunity
Of moving for the third set of returns, and also for the
appointment of a Committee to take the subject into
consideration.

Lord J. RUSSELL hoped the Hon. and Learned
Member would :lot adopt any course that would prevent
the Anatotny Act from being carried into effect.
Mr ivf'LEAN said if it was shown to him that the
A.ct was working well, he should not trouble the House
further upon the subject.
The subject then dropped.
On the motion of Mr. HINDLEY, a return was
ordered of the names of the barristers who were
appointed, •for the first time last year, by the Judges,
to revise the list of voters in England, and of the standing
at the bar of each such barrister at the date of his ap-

pointment.
Mr. BEAMISH obtained leave to bring in a Bill to
provide for the payment of debts, charges, and incuni-
brances affecting houses of industry and workhouses, and
of advances made, conformably with previous usage, for
the lawful purposes of such houses of industry and work-
houses, in certain cases in Ireland, which was read a first

time.
On the motion of Lord J. RUSSELL, the further con-
sideration of the Report on the Poor-law Amendment
Bill was postponed till Monday next.
The Mad-houses (Scotland) Bill, the Charitable. Trusts'
Bill, and the Victoria Park Bill, went through a Com_

Mr:- Ft TZSTEPHEN FRENCH proposed the follow-
ing clause :—" And be it further enacted, that it shall be
lawful for the guardians of every parish or union in Eng-
land and Ireland, and the overseers of every parish or
union in which relief for the poor shall not be adminis-
tered-by.guardians, and they are hereby. directed tq em-
ploy any legally qualified medical practitioner orpracti-
tioners for the vaccination of persons resident in such
parishes or unions respectively; and to appoint.and pay
such reasonable annual stipend or remuneration for the
same as to the said guardians or overseers shall seem fit,
and to defray the same out of any rates or monies. hich
may come into their hands respectively for the relief of
the poor, anything in any other Act contained to the
contrary notwithstandine

Mr. FOX MAULE objected to the clause, ifild after
a few words from Mr. WARBURTON. -the eltur&e was
withdrawn, and the Bill went through a Committee. •
On the motion of Mr. LAW HODGES, the Paro-
chial-Assessments Bill was read a second time.

r•the Copyhold and Customary 'femme Bill was re-
coinmi tted.

After the insertion of a elath;c: extending the Bill to
Ireland, the Report was ordered to be brought up on
Monday next.

The Court Houses (Ireland) Bill passed through Com-
mittee.

On the motion of Mr. B. WOOD, the Turnpike Roads
Bill went through Committee, and the Repert was or-
dered to be received on Monday.

. -
The other Orders of the Day were then disposed of,
and the House Adjourned at a Quarter before Nina
o'Clock till Monday.

THE GERMAN LEAGUE.

The prolongation of the German League for twelve
years was signed the day before yesterday, at Berlin, by
the representatives of the ten States composing it.
As at this critical moment any thing bearing on the
working out of the great principles so opportunely adopted
by the British Ministry (and which, as respects their
influence on the welfare of the whole human race, come
next in importance to the introduction of Christianity and
the Press) will be interesting to your readers, I will give
you the substance of a conversation I have just had with
one of the representatives.
To lily question, what would be the effect upon the
League were our Ministers able to carry out their inten-
tion of substituting a liberal for a prohibitive system of
commerce ? he replied that it would put a stop at once
to the remark always made, and hitherto with justice,
that John Bull professed liberality, but practised monopoly,
and that his actions not belying his words, more confi-
dence would be created ; that a check would be given to
the constantly-progressing tide of increasing duties on
the part of the League ; that by-and-by this tide would
turn, and the duties on English goods be lowered, for
that Prussia, who has the most to say in the business, is
very anxious 'to find a vent in our market for her corn
and wool.
The German League, as is well known, has a political
as well as a commercial unity of action in view, and is
gradually and slowly, though certainly, enlarging its
circle and its influence.
Brunswick is on the point of joining, though there
are difficulties which may postpone the arrangement for
awhile, such as her frontier, which dovetails very much
into Hanover, not being easily protected against the
smuggler.
The Hanseatic Towns would next be drawn into the
vortex, and the temptation offered by the League would
be, that they should retain the same freedom of trade
within themselves which they now enjoy. The advan-
tage to the 'League would be, that, unconnected, they
would be smuggling depots ; united, they would assist
in checking contraband trade.
Holstein, Oldenburg, and Mecklenburg, would soon
follow ; and in five years, it is calculated, the union
would be complete.
It is for us now to decide wheti;r we will be enemies
or friends with them. Had the King of Hanover any
attachment to England, Ile would have it in his power
to negotiate an excellent treaty for us, by stipulating t 4
join the League, which his people wish for, on condition
of the duties -being lowered considerably on our goods.
Our past policy has not only been injurious to' our-
selves, but also to those German manufactures which
owed their existence to it, and which, as our system is
now to be changed, will be ruined. The inanuPacturers
here see this clearly, and are crying out already bitterly
in their periodical, the Gewerbe Blatt.

In artreleS Made of short wool they will stand their
ground better, but their power-loom cotton works will be
sacrificed. Less twist and more pieces will come from
Manchester, to the great advantage of our weavers, dyers,
printers, &c., whilst the poor Germans will suffer in a
corresponding degree.
Some of our people argue that the change has come
too late—that the League will not lower their duties and
take more of our goods, and, consequently, that we shall
not part with more. Granted, for argument's sake, that
the League so acted, I will just show how, if we tocik
an extra quantity of corn from them, say to tht amOnnt
of one million sterling, our goods natst go "someci,here
in payment of the same. As the duty in the League is
reckoned by weight, the finer the quality the less. the
duty, and, • consequently, ou some of the finer ports. the
cheapening; of them ' 5 or 10 per cent,, would turn the
scale and admit of their introduction. • Now, so soon as
the said quantity of corn was sihippcd, there would be a
great many bills on London for P,ale, and the.:exCliange
would fall ; that is, you might 'any' a pound for. 1k.',.-and,
of course, a piece' of goods worth: It. might be' had .for
195., which would be the same as 'lowering the priCe 5
per cent., and, be it remembered; that in 1814 the value
of the pound here was wily 15s.
A further 'edwstion in price would arise from goods
being•manitNetured cheaper in England in consequence
of the
.lower price ,of lona, and in this way an extra
quantity of our goods would find their way directly into
the League in -payment for the extra quantity of corn.
And now for t'he balance. As the pound could be
bought for 195., the German merchant would buy our
sterling and send it to London for eotli-se and sugar; which
lie would thus get 5 percent. cheaper than at Hamburgh.
With this coffee and sugar we pay the balance to the
League, and the account is settled to the satisfaction of
all parties by merely sending our goods to the Brazils in
exchange for the coffee and sugar, instead of to the
League. Thus, as I stated, goods, or home produce of
some kind, must go in payment.
Perhaps_. the old stumbling-block of our
_gold
going in. payment may be started ; but let those
who do not understand that gold, like every
other article, will find its way . to the dearest
market, and as we could not carry on our trade
without a certain quantity we must give such a price
as would bring it heel: ;—let them consider that Great
Britain is importing at the rate of 40 millions annually,
consequently 400 millions in ten years, 800 millions in.
twenty years, and so on ; and let them ask themselves
how this quantity could be paid for in any other possible
way than by home produce, seeing tnat there is now
within a trite as much gold in this counts'; as ever. .
.. The ten representatives who have lir.ll engaged at
Berlin since last September, and have itow. separated, have
not had the tariff under consiche_ation, . but- merely the
terms of union., The League'are. at, all Aimes open to
negotiation as, to duties, p."4(1 Were:, -England -to make a
proposition to Prussia slle •.-ould
..cmiimunicate with the
other States by eorreste,ndence, • 'Each State has the
power of a veto, but :erussia; has exacted written pro-
mises that in cert;':in cases that power shall not be used,
thus giving her. the opportunity of backing out if her
wishes were ;lot attended to ; and as, in a pecuniary point
of view,. sl-Ae is a loser, and the others gainers, there its no
doubt Flee can have her own way.
-Tire Americans have had their agent here, a-'lllr.
Dodfge, threatening to raise the duty on German goods
ut,fess their duty on tobacco was reduced, and he has
carried his point. He is from Virginia. .
I trust our Ministers will be up and doing, and not al-
low negotiations to .he interrupted for months, as my
friend said was once the case; because Mr. LabouChere
was gone to his country seat.
In order to ascertain the change in the consumption of
English goods within the League since its formation, I
inquired'of the first shopkeeper in Leipzic, one who,buys
'of all nations the articles most in demand, and his reply
was that formerly nineteen-twentieths of the good 17
sold were English, but that now the case was reverse
d+
being English and nineteen-twentiethsthe
manufactures of other countries. The experience o.
who
shopkeeper is a triter test than that of a morchant,
which
are the inland duty on a great proportion of goods
are aftorwards smuggled into Austria.
A MEMBER OF THE ANTAIRN:LAW"
Leipzic, May 10, 1841. I.,EA

MURDER AND SUICIDE.—The n
°state of great
of Bedale, Yorkshire, has been thrown intudrdaer
arid suicide,
excitement by a most melancholy
einhbourbood
which took place on Thursday
of Cleveland, at
• to the Duke
ins, in the gardens belonging
murderer, whose name
, Newton Hou,e, Leeua!ng-lane. Theto the
Duke of Cleve-
is Thomas Robinson, was gardener
tragical event occur red
land, and the place where the
last, five o'clock hi the morn-
he had ordered his
was in the greenhouse, where
the pretence of doing something
son to go, under
in it. When the youth arrived there, his inhuman
father struck him a
violent blow on the head with,
the purpose of pounding i
He then took a knife and
and called an ice-beater.
_an iron tool which he used
ulat ion. The murderer theelbett
but •
stabbed him in the ufreosdnttrafonorgf the neck; this, it would'
, he
appear, not
procured a cord, , and, tying it tight round his 'neck,
having been sufficient to accomplish his purpose, h
his design by
completedhouse (which is situate about two hundred
the • hu
ndred
yards from the green- ouse , with intentions it ati-
ah most) brutal
yards r
a 'n.. the whole of the family.
pears, of murder inn , y. He told hug
Wife hat he had done :or the lad, and he would do for
her-
too,her over the head with the fire-poker. An al
attack upon her b3E-
arms
aiti:
clii,sminenc ed
was then given by one of the family, and he went into am
adjoining room, where he took a gun, which he had pre-
viously loaded in the tuorning, and, putting the muzzle of
it to his mouth, blew out his brains, the greater part of
which stuck to the ceiling of the room. His wife continty4
striking
went.
in a state if insensibility until the followingday, and r
teat
doubts were entertained of her recovery; but on Satn-4 it
was thought that she was likely to get better. The, lad who
was murdered was eighteen years of age, and has been working
in the garden with his father. A satisfactory reason cannot
be assigned for this horrid event. The man was to leave ..hi
situation on Monday, and as he was in embarrassed circum-
stances, it is thought that that has been the cause. He was
naturally of a vicious, sullen disposition, and the fact of Ins
attempting to kill one of the workmen, about two years Egqs
appears to confirm this_ opinion. It has been frequently re_
marked by the servants aria' workmen that he would do „me_
thing very serious before he left the place. Inquests were"
held on the body on Friday, when the Jury returned the follow_
ins verdicts, "We find Thomas Robinson, the elder, Lltfilt, of
the wilful murder of his son, Thomas, being then in a state of
insanity. We further, find him guilty of shooting himself with
a gun in a state
from his pecuniaryY embarrassments,' Manchester Chronic7,t.
TOO GOOD TO BE SWALLOWED.--A r
an-
kee is making his fortune in the *valley of the Missi. • • table Dills for •,sipr by
selling purely vege . - the cure of fever -4,itel fib •
a oilier diseases. 'I he pills 4,..
an 'u Pets, soaked jo„ a sotatiaa at
liquoriee.-New .11)rk Afivertiser. •
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THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN.
U*;DER the. MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS.
THIS EVENING, MAY 21,

Will be repeated the New Comedy, in Five Acts, entitled

LONDON ASSURANCE.

Sir Harcourt Courtly, Bart., Mr. W. Farren ; Max Hark-
away, Mr.. Bartley; .Mr. Charles Courtly, Mr. Anderson ;
Mr. Adolphus Spanker, Mr. Keeley; Mr. Dazzle, Mr. C.
Mathews ; Mark Meddle, Mr. Harley ; Grace arkaway,
Madame Vestris ' • Lady Cay Spanker, Mrs. Nisbett ; Mrs.
Pert, Mrs. Htunbv.

Alter which will be repeated, the Grand Romantic Fairy Ex-

travaganza, entitled
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST.

Beauty, Madame Vestris : The Beast, Mr. W. Harrison ;
John Quill, Mr. Harley ; Dressalinda, Miss Rainforth; Mar-
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,-MTomorrow, Lesdon Assurance, with Beauty and the Beast.
Doors to evened at half-past Six—the pertormancea to
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ttoYAL SURREY THEATRE.

UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MR. DAVIDGE
AND MR. WILLIS JONES.

Triu:npha.it Career of "Claude Du Val, the Ladies' High-
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Line: tic, anA first appearance of Mr J. S. Balls in the cha-
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THIS EVENING, MAY 21,
Will he acted a Grand Rcmantic Drama, entitled

LOVE; HATRED, AND REVENGE; OR, THE CON-
QUEST OF TARANT/E. _

Characters by Messrs. H. Hughes, Hicks, Haines, Hislop,
Puckingliam, Mrs. IT. flughei, &c.
After which, an Historical and Domestic Drama, entitled
!LAUDE DV VAL, THE LADIES' HIGHWAYMAN.
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Claude Duval, Mr. J. S. Balls.
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•--
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THIS EVENING. MAY 21, AND TO-MORROW,
A New Domestic Drama, is 1 love Acts, eniitled
SINICN LEE; OR, THE MU
RDER OF FIVE-FIELDS'
C_ _ _ _

Simon Lee, Mr. E. F. bar:110 and Grace Hatherleigh,
M:ss Vincent.

After Which, the Romance of
ROOKWOOD; OA, THE LEGEND OF THE OLD

LIME TREE.

—..—
Dick Turpin by Miss Vincent, with the Flash Sorg of
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Progress of the Taxe: on Corn is to be found in Mr.
N'Culloch's Commercial Dictionary. His request we will
.endeavour to comply with.

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LONDON:
FIZIA, MAY 21, 1841.

THE InEIS CAST !

(From our Second E(Ztim of Last Night.)

Thank GOD ! the cause n:1 freedom and the
people still prevails, and the days of mono-
poly are numbered ! 'Up! men of EC.Tland, Scot-
land, and Ireland, and do your duty ! Prepare
to set the houses of your new represe:datives
in order, and cast those who have deceived
you and the country to the winds! Success` is
the handmaid of those only who resolve to win
her good graces; woo her, therefore, like your'
fathers of old, and assert the dignity of men. Be
no longer the slaves of monopoly at home, while
you expend your treasure, your blood, and your
glorious, but hitherto vain,
humanity in the
lope of extin,guishing slavery abroad. There
tile sugar monopolists have leagued, and still do
cabal, to defeat your noble endeavours. Taut the

rup of bitterness will return to their own.lips, if
be . now but true to yourselves.
A OISSOLUTIOIsi of Parliament is RE-
..,}-SOLVED ON, and, before that day
tomes,it is your duty to be prepared,
To be forewarned is to be fore-armed: Your
enemies know, by intuition, that the' danger is
coming, and they tremble while they believe!
A • It is yours, like honest men and prudent gene-
irals, to be prepared for what may happen.
Look then to yourselves and your country—
look to your wives and your dear children, and
:then look out for good men and true, to repre-
- • sent you in Parliament—men who will protect
your rights, assert your remaining liberties—n ien
. who will arrest the onward march of the op-
pressor, relieve the poor, and do equal justice to
ALL. Such men ought to be the representatives
of people who boast in calling themselves free.
Men of the three kingdoms ! so truly loyal to a
patriotic and beloved QUEEN ! now pro your
loyalty to her, and your duty to yourselves, by
returning at the ensuing General Erection

Gentlemen who will support the Throne, protect
the people, and do honour to themselves by
setting a brilliant example to posterity!
A DISSOLUTION IS AT HAND ! and the days
of Monopoly are numbered ! Long live the
Qtrzzx

• Great expectations were excited yesterday that the
Ministers would make some declaration in the House of
CoMmons, and great crowds of Peers, as well as Members
4-the Douse, attended tO 'hear the revelation.
Their curiosity wag, only 'whetted by its gratifienti:nt
)340g momentarily delayed, b. consequence of Mr.
FrEL DEN making a complaint of want of order on the
par/ of the SPEAKER. The lion. Member stated that his

motion to adjourn the debate on Lord J. RUSSELL'S re-
solution on Tuesday, was duly seconded, that he was
asked to withdraw it, but declined, and that the SPEAKER
ought to have put it.
The SPEAKER explained that he understood the mo-
tion was not seconded, and therefore he did not put it. Sir
R. INGLIS confirmed the SPEAKER'S view. No doubt
the confusion was very great, and Mr. FIELDEN and the
House were satisfied by the' explanztion. The Hon.
Gentleman, however, amused the House'by threatening
to print the speech which the House would not allow
him to speak.

Then came the announcement which the crowd had
assembled to hear. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
gave notice that he would on Monde:- move for a Com-
mittee of Ways and Means to grant the annual sugar
duties. We mentioned in our Evening Edition yesterday
that Ministers would probably do so, arid we assured
them that doing so would be an unerring sign that
Ministers mean to dissolve the Parliament. What steps
the Tories will take we cannot tell, but we presume that
they will not oppose the passing of the Sugar Bill, or
venture to stop the supplies.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL then, in the midst of the most
profound silence, moved that the Rouse do adjourn to
Monday, and, saying nothing more, the astonishment was
great, till it dissipated itself in laughter and cheers.
In reply to the Earl of DARLINGTON the Noble Lord
announced that he would bring forward the Corn-law
question on the 4th of June.
Lord G. LENNOX gave rise to a brief discussion, by
moving for a Committee of the whole. House, to take
into consideration so much of the Report of the Naval
and Military Commission as relates to the Marines;
but being assured by Sir H. VrvrAN that the Govern-
ment was anxious to do all in its power for that gallant
corps, and several other Honourable Members, hav-
ing spoken in praise of it, the Noble. Lord with-
drew his motion. The principal. subject of his com-
plaint was that the officers of Marines were not placed
on a level with the officers of the other services.

Some motions that are briefly mentioned in the de-
bates having been disposed of, and the Vaccination Bill
having gone through Committee, the, House adjourned
till Monday.

The question of a dissolution naturally occupies
public attention. The Whigs cannot now do
otherwise than dissolve. The public expects that
of them. They would disappoint their friends
and destroy their own character were they to
take any other course. They have thrown the
gauntlet to the monopolists, the monopolists have
taken it up, and the Whigs cannot run from the
lists without being for ever stigmatised as cravens.
After the announcement of last night, however,
there is no fear but they will appeal to the
people, and make them the judges of one of
the greatest questions that ever • men had to de-
cide. The period of the dissolution is not fixed,
though it cannot be far off; but a dissolution is
unalterably decreed.
The Tories object that it is unconstitutional for
a Ministry to appeal from a Parliament which
has been called under its auspices, and should it
do so they threaten it with punishment. The pub-
lic, not the Tories, will decide the propriety of the
dissolution, as well as the question of monopoly
or no monopoly, and we have a firm faith in the
justice of its decision. Circumstances dictated all
constitutions, and must now, as at first, overrule
all human laws. The course of nature is not
suspended by our artificial regulations, and they
must give way to it. The men of the present
age have not forfeited or given up their right to
judge and to act as circumstances dictate; and
they have all the powers and privileges of their
ancestors. If an act were unconstitutional, i. e.
contrary to what those ancestors did, and circum- •
stances commanded it, that act would be fully
justified. While we deny that the proposed dis-
solution is in any respect or degree unconstitu-
tional, we contend that circumstances justify it,
and that the Ministers would not be true, either
to her MAJESTY or the people, were they not to
dissolve the Parliament.

Since the present Parliament was called to-
gether an entirely new set of circumstances
have grownup, and now divide the different par-
ties. In 1837 the Corn-law agitation was un-
known. A series of somewhat abundant seasons
then gave the people, previously starved down
to the capabilities of the narrow skill and li-
mited capital of the agriculturists, plenty of
food. The high prices, the dearth of 1838 and
1839, which is the real source Of Corn-law agita-
tion, had not then come into existence. The
present Parliament was consequently elected
without any reference to the retention or the
abolition of the Corn-laws, now the corner-stone
of party policy. Is it proper that so important
a question should be settled by a Parliament
summoned without any reference to it, and,
therefore, not representing the opinions or the
interests of the contending parties on that ques-
tion, which is one of life or death to multitudes?
Again, the price of sugar only rose so inordi-
nately as to check consumption, and impede the
expected increase in the revenue, within the last
three years. That circumstance has forced. the
Ministers to propose a reduction of the discrimi-
nating duty on sugar, which keeps the supply
short, and their proposition has brought before
the public an entirely new view of the discrimi-
nating duty. It was laid on years ago, for the
commercial purpose exclusively of giving an ad-
vantage to the slave-grown sugar of our colonies
in our market. But since that time slavery has
been abolished in them, and the purely commer-
cial or fiscal duty has been clothed in the at-
tributes of pure morality. In consequence
of the people of England having purchased the
redemption of slaves in our own colonies, it has
become an incidental effect of the discriminat-
ing duty that it is supposed, not only to encourage
the consumption of sugar grown in English colo-
nies, but to discourage the growth of sugar by
slave labour.' The reduction of the discriminat
ing, duty is now- resisted, therefore, because it will
encourage the slave trade. At the time the pre-
sent Parliament was assembled, slavery, under
the attenuated form of apprenticeship, still ex-
isi.ed in our own colonies, and, consequently, the
very important question on which the Ministry has
been defeated was then totally unknown. It is
riTht, therefore, before the Ministry give up,
that it should learn what the electors think of
this novel idea of limiting the food of the people
of England, for sugar is food, in order, as is sup-
posed, to Suppress slavery and the slave trade.
We do not say much of the Timber Duties,
because they are more a question of a mere fiscal
nature, and they had been discussed in all their
present bearings, before the existing Parliament
was assembled. They are of great importance
to our shipping interests, and our manufacturers;
an alteration in them is required by the wants of
commerce, and the principles of civilization. At
the same time they du not affect so closely the
bulk of the people, nor stand on such high
g,
rounds, of moral principle as the Sugar and the
Corn-laws.

One very important, and at the &line time
novel, feature connected with these new ques-
tions, is the great principle of monopoly or no
monopoly which they involve, and which is
now, perhaps, for the first time, mooted in Par-
liament by :I.uthority. The Ministers have been
compelled to moot that question by the march of
events, including the r';.)cently discovered impos-
sibility for the industry of' !be nation to sustain
the Government, and at the sani°.time to.nourish
that large body of vampires which fu; Lively suck
its blood. The conduct of Ministers, t'lliough
dictated by circumstances, has roused the who.;
of the monopolists to unite in .one body to op-
pose them. A totally new feature is now made ap-
parent, for members of the Legislature openly
and scandalously- avow that they have used,
and Nvill use, the power of making laws
to tax the people for their own benefit.
Whoever may be at the head of the Govern-
ment ought to ask the people whether they
sanction that new constitutional principle. Shall
legislation be based on a principle of avowed
plunder ? That is so great a novelty in the his-
tory, not only of our own country, but of the
world, that any Ministry would deserve to be
impeached which should undertake the:Govern-
ment until after the I;ation, 1 avin, .been made
aware of the fact, shall have resolved to be go-
verned on this detestable principle. It is worse