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London, England, 1824-05-04 00:00:00

TILE LATE MR. SMITH, THE MISSIONARY.

Mr. BROUGHAM 'gave notice, that on the 27th of this
month he would 'submit a niotion on the subject of the proceed-
ings at Demerara, against the late Mr. Smith, the Missionary',
Sir It. VAUGHAN presented a petition from the Clergy, of
the Archdeaconry of Bangor, against any alteration in the law
with respect to marriages celebrated in this country by Roman
Catholic Priests.
Petitions were presented against the County Courts Bill,
from the High Sheriff of the County Palatine of
.Chester, by
Mr. DAVENPORT; against the New Beer Duties Bill, from
the. Licensed Victuallers and Common Brewers of Nantwich,
11f Mr. DAVENPORT; against the Salt Duties, from the Salt
Manufacturers of Chester, by Mr. DAVENPORT.
Mr. CUR WEN presented five petitions from several parts
of Cumberland, against the Salt Duties ; also a petition from
the tanners and curriers of Workington, against the Leather
Duties.
Sir R. FERGUSSON presented a petition from the Guild of
merchants of Dundee, fur the repeal or amendment of the Sal.
mon Fisheries Bill.
Mr. SYKES presented a petition fruit Kingston-upon-Hull,
in favour of the County Courts Bill.
Mr. H. DRUMMOND presented a petition front the con-
veyancers of Stirling, against the Duty on Licenees to act as
Notaries Public.
Mr. SMITH presented a petition from the fish-carers in the
district of Drogheda, praying that the Bounties on the Curing
of Fish might not be,taken off.
Sir J. NEWPORT presented a petition from the inhabitants
of the parish of St. Patrick, in the county of Kilkenny, praying
that clauses might be introduced into the Tithe Composition
Bill, enacting that assessors might be appointed before harvest-
time, every year in each parish by the parish vestry, to assess
the value of the tithe, and also that the inhabitants might be
protected in their ancient practice of paying tithe in kind.
The lion. Member presented a Petition trom Tramore, prov-
ing for the abolition of Negro Slavery, which was ordered to be
printed.
He also availed himself of this op!ortunity to give notice,
that he should to-morrow present a Petition on a subject ma-
terially-affecting the education of the poor in Ireland. It wits
from the Lord Bishop, and Clergy and Laity, of Ross, com-
plaining that the diocesan.achool had been taken away from
them. -He gave this intimation,. in order that Gentlemen who
were disposed: to speak on. this subject might then do so.
HIDES' REGULATION DILI,.

Petitions, praying for the repeal of the existing regulations
relating to hides and skins, were presented by :Ur. It. HILL,
from the Butchers of Whitchurch ,• by Mr. J. NVILDIAms,
from the Butchers of Lincoln ;- by Mr. LINDSAY, from the
Fleshers of St. Andrew's ; and by Mr. Ilu.stE, from , the
Butchers of the Canongate, Edinburgh. Tbe Hon. Member
said, the latter petition stated that the existing laws, so far
from preventing injury to hides, acted as a tax on the con-
sumers of leather ; for the inspectors were Usually paid by the
score of hides without ever looking at them. To vote against
the repeal of those laws was, therefore, to vote for the conti-
nuance of the tax on leather.
Alr. HUAIE presented also :another Petition from the But-
chers of St. Alarylebone and St. Giles in favour of the repeal;
but praying, at the same time, that the Acts of the 43d and the
48th of the late King might also be repealed ; because, by
those Acts, the latter of which was confined to the metropolis, •
fines were imposed on the petitioners which it was not intended
to remove by the Bill now before the House. The Hon. Gen-
tleman entered into a statement of the average annual amount
paid in fines and feet' to the inspectors, the effects of which
were to increase the price of leather.
Mr. HOBHOUSE presented two Petitions to the same effect
from the Butchers of Clare and Newport-markets.
Mr. LUSH INGTON, in reply to the two Hon. Members,
said that the Act of the 48th of Ge0..111. was a local Act, and
he could not, consistently with the forma of the House, now
make that alteration which was prayed by the petitions. With-
out pledging himself on the subject, he was ready to say that
he should be perfectly willing, at a more fitting opportunity, to
consider the validity of die suggestions raised by them,
Petitions in.favour of the bill were presented by Mr.. Beau-
mont, from the butchers of North. Shields; by Sir AL.W.
Ridley, from Newcastle-upon-Tyne; by Alderman Wood, from
Aldgate and Ni'llitechapel; by Mr. Bernal, from Stroud, Ro-
chester, and Chatham, and from St. George's Bloomsbury ;
by Mr. Curteis, from Brighton ; and by Mr. Lushington, from
Canterbury,.—all of which were ordered to lie on the table, and
to be printed. . . , • •
-I,RENCII SQUADRON OFF THE BRAZILS.
Sir JAMES AI ACK IN TOSIL in rising to.present apetition,
took the opportunity which this purpose afforded hits of putting
a question to the Right Hon. the Secretary of He was
induced to do so from the rumours which were. prevalent. of a
French naval force having appeared of the coast of the Brazils.
Thoge rumours had spread to a considerable extent; and as he
(Sir .1. Mackintosh) had reason to know, as well from public
sources as from private information which had reached him,
they had exercised a great influence over all the commercial
classes of this coantry, by the apprehensions to which Oleg
had given birth, it was in the sincere hope that the answer of
the Right Hon. Gentleman would remove Thotte apprehensions,
that he begged now' to ask him, whether his Majesty's Govern-
ment had reason to believe that.a French squadron had actually
arrived off the Brazilian
.coast? And if they had, whether an
explanation had been demanded anti received.by the Govern-
ment as to the muse of the appearance of that force;
.and
further, whether the reply which had been
.received Was au&
as to confirm. or to remove the alarni which had been occasion-
ed.hy the appearance of the squadron ?
.Mr. CANNING hatl.nti objection to reply, as far as he was
able to the Atiestions of the Hon. Member. .•It was.true•that, a
feW French ships arriving from different destinations had reach,
ed, the port of the Brazils together. The rumours whieli had
r got abroad In consequence of this circumstance originated, he
believed, in the statement. of some of the• French officers that
they expected mote ships to join them in that port. He (Mr.
Canning) had already demanded and received stich, an explana-
tion as the French Ambassador resident there ytit.s. enabled to
give ; and from that explanation he had every reason to helieve
• that the statement Of the officers, and the rumours which it had
occasioned, were.altogether false.. Ile..had also demanded
ab
explanation from the French Government, and he had no doubt
that the lapse of a few days would enable him still mOrOiatii-
factOrilY to contradict the report which had occasioned so much
alarm.
Sir J. MACKINTOSH then presented to petitions, One twin
the butchers of Knaresborough, in favour or the Hides' Regu-
lation Bill, and one from theTannera against it. • tiAmi
Petitions against the Bill wete presented bY Mr. rs
from the Tanners of Whitchurch ; by Sir M. W. ItzDtgx,

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• • -1".. S. RICE resented it petition frsiin•_t e
Cohnnerce of Limerick, against the 'prirvisiorts'Of: the ezipti4,,
Law -relating. to The 6rinding of Binidid COrh, whit h waa:
ordered to be rithed.
After a few wordaTiorn Sir*/ 141tivfaitf,it 3i. RII7I,EY •
poitticionetrine notice of a MOliiiri.tir the
Revision had ConiOlidation Ortite Stitutel,-fihinlhe 27th
to the ISt of June.
Mr. MARRYATT Presented a petition frOm Richinohd; 'in
YOrkithire, against Ifie Her Diities Bill.. , .
Lord *MILTON presented petitions. from certain indiTidiiat
in the'county of York -t from the;tqurneymen Taylors of'Briia-
tbril, in that coutlfy;: and Troni several thousinds of
itrbabr-
tants of Leeds, against the Combination Laws.— to 'a',
Committee.

GOLILBURN prow. iited a petition Trn—rit the fra;4l:
brokers of Tfuhlin, against the Irish Joint Stack'aini Egtritgb, 7e
Loin Company. • •
Mr. Alderman WOOD presented a petition 'front ( telieie)
the Dritpers' COmpitnY, praying that • some part of the Itevenu e
of the Deanery of Londonderry may be applied towards the re-'
pair of the Cathedral Church.
Mr. S. RICE supported the petition and said that few of
those presented at the Bar. of the Honse deserved its attention'
more than those of the City Companies who hold lands in Ire-
land. To those Companies we were.indebted fur much of the
infOrMation, and for inostof the improvement which has lately
been bestowed upon Ireland. .
Mr. DAWSON bore teitimony, to the generous 'manner fa
which the London companies managed the estates belonging to
them. They had bitilt schools, churches, Roman Catholic
chapels, rind dispcnpiiries, and supported them all in the Most
liberal way. Still he was convinced that unless something was
done in time to repair the-cathedral church, it would fill dowu,
and the Protestant inhabitants be, left without a fit place .of
worship, and for this reason, ready as he , was to admit the
claims of the companies to the attention of the Houle, he
trusted to be able to show thatthe Bill against which this pets.
lion was directed wits abSolutely necessary.
Mr. Alderman WOOD presented another petition -froth the
same Company, praying to be heard by counsel against the
Bill alluded to. _

After a few words from Sir J. NtwPORT and Sir 0. HILL,
the petitions were ordered to be printed.
Mr. Alderman WOOD presented a petition from Watford,
praying for the repeal of the House and Window-tax.
On the motion of Mr. LUSH INGTON, the report on the
British Museum Bill was brought up, the amendment's agreed
to, and the third reading fixed tbr to-morrow.
Mr. GOULBURN moved the second reading .6f the Irish
Tithe Composition Pill, and proposed to postpone the disciit-
Sion until a future stage of the Bill.
Mr. GRATTAN had intended to oppOse this bill whenever
the motion for the second readingShoidd occur. It appeared to
him to be a measure full of danger to the interests of land-
ed proprietors. So far from its, being, as was expected, an
aMendment of the bill of laSt session, it was rather to be consi-
dered as an aggravation of 'all that which was peculiarly objec-
tionable in the bill of last session. The power of requiring the
production of leasei, papers;. and dOeumentit connected with
titles, was oppresSiVe in the extreme. In short, the landed in-
terest were completely sacrificed to the advantage of the Clergy,
and the measure was altogether so completely objectionable.
that hi: would certainly move for the second reeding this day-
NIX months.

Mr. DENNIS BROWNE justified the 'application of the
powers given by the conStabulary act -argainSt the complaints of
an Lion. Gentleman opposite, and assured the House that in
his own count}, the conitahles were impartially ChoSen from
among strangerS, and that their conduct had given permanent
peace to the district.
Sir J. NEWPORT recommended postponement, with a view
to a complete discussion of the merits of the bill. . .

. . . .
Lord OXMANSTON did not approve of getting rid of the
bill by the amendment now threatened. At the same time he
could not approve of the bill,as a ;measure of sufficient rdiel.
It rather appeared to him that the bill gave. the greatest advan-
tages to the Rectors, whO were likely to be the most avaricious.
Ile thought that the better way would be to go into the discus-
sion at length upon the next Stage, in order to discover how far
it might be found capable of improvement.
Mr. GOUI,PURN expressed his readinets to giie every
explanation which his responsibility as the Mover of this
bill might he supposed to require from him: but the proper
way to come at any such explanation would he to reject the
amendment, and let the bill go for Ward to a Comthittee,
where it might undergo improvement. He did not deny
that several of the clauses might admit of . modification—
that which required the production of papers and titles was
particularly fit for such deliberation. As to tihe question of
oaths, and the penalty of 101., he would not absolutely insist
upon that very modification of the clause : but if any others
were to be adoped, it must be suggested .by the House-when
resolved into the Committee. This might be an insufficient
remedy, as it was asserted by those who held the same langtiage
towards his Bill of last Session. With regard to the last named
Bill, he had the satisfaction to know that it bad generally ope-
rated in a satisfactory manner ; and, whateVer might be said of
it, he had at least the satisfaction of knowing, that the country
looked up to it as the only sure measure of relief—thanki to
the generous support and intelligence with which it had been
received. He justified what he had done by the triumphant
success which had folloited. As to that particular clause which
had been denominated " the trap clause," though it did by no
means deserve so odious an epithet, it was only inserted to
prevent the successor from suffering through any fraud or con-
trivance in compositions made with the preceding incumbent;
and he defied Honourable Gentlemen to produce an instance, its
90 parishes, where any inconvenience had been incurred there-
from to the payers. Ile congratulated• himself on having. so
. entirely overcome the difficulties which opposed him in the
nature and progress of the Bill; and exhorted the House icy
reject the amendment.
Sir J. NEWPORT objected to this Billini,lgraetc:caphusbeeitttewrasilana
aggravation instead of an amendment of the evils in. that of last
onion. He did not mean to object, generally, to the principle
• of amendment; but he was decidedly adverse to a Bill which,
professing to be an emendation of .'a former one, was any thing-
but whit it so. professed to be. • The only way in which, as it
appeared to bits, it was capable of receiving any amendment;
would be, as a first step,- to omit every word it at present con-
tabled, except the preamble, and to substitute, in the plage of
the clauses it now presented, others that should be really effear
tual to meet the evil eoniplained of. The Bill went I.4l.shtit.
out the landed proprietors of Ireland from any inflitence, .Uotil-
tithes that their lands were to pais.eitutedintstrg.nza:ens'it:
paratively speaking, in the vestries which were to regulate the-
spor otphoaittai °lna
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the House to consider
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w 1 • how the peastett
way of tihovt!Tg a.
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acres
were likely to be affected by the.operatiOn of suCh.A.mea-
vro as this, and how little influence the larger land,:oWners or
otii.::,tuwe9haxffetTrlidotinhpagit
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would
,
Irish gentry would have in the business, a variety: o 4 oases
• ri% ight he cited. Perhaps it would be sufficient for NM, ,IWw-
ever, to remind the /louse of the case Which, ha,d, been .pd ,a
former occasion cited by a Right Hon. Friend of bi;,--he meant
the case of a parish in Derry, where there were 2,960: pliers
of tithes, a 1
4n- the aggregate of thole tithes was UK Vrrli
one of those tithe-payers was, of the rank of a gentlitrip
and he bippened to be ilie agent for a large abisnte *Visa'.

Sieve this Bill would exclude the owner ?rem a vote in
ahe vestries to be called under it ' • or it would leave him in no
hatter situation than occupiers who had bad notice to quit the
'wade they tenanted, or of whose lease* there were only one or
two years to .run. In short, this latter clam of individuals
-• might: by their votes confirm a charge within one or two
eosins of their quitting the lands they had rented, which would
- remain a burden on those lands for the next one-and-twenty
years to come ; while the owner not in occupancy would have
no power ofopposing such an arrangement beyond the vote that
was allotted to the peasant, who wan to pay upon his acre. Ile
thought such a prevision was canting an unfair stigma upon the
Irish gentry, however unable he might be to contend that their
character was a perfectly meritorious one. It was notorious
that the parties to many of the compositions already made under
tailbill had been taken by surprise. There was one clause
that it was understood would be withdrawn—he meant that
which empowered the Commissioners to call for title-deeds,
papers, and records, to chew the amount of tithes formerly paid
en properties. But did the Right Hon. Gentleman suppose,
that by withdrawing it he escaped from the heavy responsibility
that must attach to him for ever having brought it forward 1—
{Hear o—He (Mr. S. Rice) would warmly support the amend-
ment of his Hon. Friend (Mr. Grattan.)
Mr. PEEL thought that most of the arguments of the two
last lion. Members would have been with greater propriety
offered at another stage of the bill, namely, the third reading,
er in the Committee. His Hen. Friend (Mr. Rice), if he would
allow him to call him so, had said, that in many instances,
the parties to compositions under the bill of last Session had
bean entrapped into arrangements, or had acted inadvertently.
New the number of these instances, it must be allowed, would
be in a great measure determined by the number of appeals to
the total Lieutenant in Council. There were 90 instances in
which 'such agreements or compositions had taken place and
been confirmed ; and only five in which appeals had been
asserted to the I,ont Lieutenant in Council ; so that 5 per cent.
-was the sum total of dissatisfaction in Ireland with the opera-
tion, as .far ax it had gone, of the Bill of last Session. The
Right Hon. Gentleman then expressed his conviction that the
subject of this Bill required the most serious consideration ;
but conceiving that every alteration would be most properly
suggested in the Committee—that the Bill was in principle
most beneficial—and that it would be an unexampled thing to
neeny the second reading of a Bill which went to amend an Act
inst It was on all hands agreed -equired amendment, he should
up ,port the original motion.
tir. CAREW (as we understood) expressed a similar in-
tuition.
Aftir a few words in explanation from Lord Ox awrowar
and .fir. (]RATTAN, the amendment of the latter Gentleman
was withdrawn; the Bill was read a second time, and corn-
uotLed for Friday next.
CUSTOMS (COALS AND LINENS) BILL.
On the motion of the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUICR,
the House resolved itself into a Committee on the Coals and
Linens Bill. The Right Hon. Gentleman said his object was
'0 correct an error in the Bill, and this had made it necessary
that it should be recommitted. At present it was proposed in
•!ie Rill that the reduction of the bounty on linens should com-
mencer on the sth of July, 18'34. The date should be the sth
of January, '1825-; and he now submitted a resolution to that
adhet.
Mr. SPRING RICE said, he was not sanguine enough to
suppose he could alter the Chancellor of the Exchequer's inters_
bons as to the reduction of bounties on Irish linens ; hut he did
submit that tire extension of the period, were it only for three
or four years, would be a great boon to Ireland. The appre-
hension only, of this reduction, had already done incalculable
mischief to the linen-trade of Ireland, as regarded the poorer
clesses,who were employed in it.
Mr. 'DENNIS BROWNE complained of the extraordinary
ignorance which Ministers had displayed on the subject Of
these bounties; and expatiated on the extreme injury that
their reduction must have on those who were concerned in the
manufacture of coarse linens in Ireland—a commodity upon
which it had been most erroneously asserted by one of his Ma-
jesty'. Misisters in the other House, there was little exporta-
tion, and no drawback. The fact was, the exportation was
oonsiderable, and the drawback way drawn on every yard. The
Hon.rGestleman, after expressing surprise :it the general igno-
reene.e which prevailed upon this side of the water in respect of
'the export trade of it country that was within a stone's throw of
this island, contended that the Government had no right to in.
ttrfsre with these bounties, which had been secured to Ireland
by a charter when her woollen trade was surrendered to this
gantry.
Sir H. PARNELL asked whether the Linen Bounties had,
in point of fact, extended the Coarse Linen Trade of Ireland ?
in his opinion they had not, and he also thought that that trade
was much more likely to he injured by other circumstances than
bj the repeal of these bounties. The lush manufacturer has: in
this trade to contend against the English and Scotch trades.;
t.,e two last could Use foreign yarn in their manufacture,
led per cent. cheaper than the Irish manufacturer, owing to
'setae absurd local regulations which the Linen Board enforced,
sad which required that the yarn sold in Ireland should
he made up in a manner different from that in which the
tor- ign yarn was brought to market. The spinning yarn by
mills, both in England and Scotland, gave another advantage
over the Irish manufacturer. On the whole, he thought it
would be better to remove several real obstructions which af-
fected the manufacturer in Ireland, than to attend so much to
tfie continuance of bounties which he did not think to be of so
rounh advantage. He sly-old rather see the cotton-trade ex-
tended more generally in Ireland than any other.
. Mr. C. H. HUTCHINSON was sorry to oppose the opinion
of practical men to that of his lion. Friend who spoke last.
His Hon. Friend asserted that the condition of the people ea-
gaged in Ireland in this particular branch of manufacture was
nut improved by the continuance of the bounties ; but those en-
genet.' in the trade entertained an opinion exactly the reverse,
ate 4 the manufacturers in the south and west of Ireland strong.
!y opposed the repeal of such bounties. There was now ready
ra,r presentation a petition from the county of Cork, signed by
ii-1,004.3 people, who asserted the advantages to he derived from
the operation of the bounties now sought to be reduced. Under
each circumstances, he earnestly put it to the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, whether he would press hie measure, which.
however right in the abstract, was deprecated in its practical
oneration by the great bodies of the people who conceived
tneireelvea affected by it. He rarticulrly pointed out to
Lis Majesty's Government the vame attached to the Coarse
Linen 'Trade of Ireland in the Report of the Parliamentary
Committee of last year, and how the ditihsion of that trade
had introduced industry and peace in those districts which
warn previously n prey to riot and insubordination.—(Cries
of " hear, hear !")—He repeated his urgent request, that
the Chancellor of the Exchequer would, tinder the present pe-
culiar situation of the coarseli nen tra le of Ireland, pause before
he acted upon a new principal, which, however good in the
pclaCipltl, was declared to be ruinous in its practical effect, by
thou who ought to be considered the best judges of their own
Local condition. The Irish woollen trade was destroyed by
Xing Witham : time linen trade was substituted upon the faith
04. the Crown : • the latter ought surely to be protected with
peColiar care._a Hear !)
Oolonel TRENCH was strongly in favour of the continu-
ance of tieese bounties, and expressed his astonishment at the
row taken of this subject by the Hon. Baronet opposite.
.'rlr. DAWSON said, that the opinion of the principal linen-
manufacturer,' of Londonderry went to show that they appre-
hended no injury to their trade from the proposed repeal of
these bounties; at the same time he knew the landed interest
entertained a different opinion upon the subject. Ile really
toLougilt the diminution oe the bounty could not have the effect
which some anticipated, upon a trade so well established. The
linon trade of Ireland was worth two millions and a half annu-
aily the bounties upon it amounted to !WOOL a year ; now
the proposed reduction of them would not exceed 9,000/. a year
(one tenths), and how could that -MUD be supposed to be so in-
;utiaus when spread over a capital of two millions and a half?
---(ilearl)—He concurred in every thing which had been said
about the value of this trade, and necessity of supporting it,
ar,4 also deprecated the observations of his honourable friend
(z;ir If. Parnell) respecting that trade, which he (Mr. Dawson)
ko;se to lie productive of such great advantages to the peasan-
try* Irtiand.
:tr. I) BROWNE and Sir H. Partternt explained.
it. HUME supported the view taken of this subject by his
Hon. Friend (Sir H. Parnell), and was of opinion that the opera-
tion of the linen bounties was much misconceived by many who
were engaged in the trade. Their apprehensions from the pro-
pond diminution would, he believed, prove in the result
unfounded.
After a few words- from Mr. Ronmsoer, th© resolution
was agreed to.
Alderman WOOD thought, that as the duty on Welch cultn
was reduced to Is. M., the Chancellor of the. Exchequer ought,
ib-justice to the public, to reduce the duty on small coal from
the rash of England.
:dr. LiUsllE said that at present one-fifth of the labour at
Newcastle WaS absolutely wasted; for the small coal, which was
one-fifth of the whole quantity raised, could nut be sent to mar-
ket on acc-aunt of the duty.
"111,. CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he was
net ye... Tared at preterit to accede to the proposition of the lion.
Alderman. He did taut deny • that the subject was worthy of
coesideration, and some representations had already been made
fakirri tepon it ; but he was not prepared to introduce it into
this Rill. He ways fearful it might expose the revenue to a dia
/a:nation ; and if lie could he. satisfied on that head, he did not '
see any other objection to the measure.
Mr. IFINE suggested that the experiment should be tried
for .one year. -
mr, Alderman WOOD admitted that there might-be some
trifling defalcation in the' Revenue, but it would be very