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London, England, 1841-05-25 00:00:00

COPYHOLD TENURES BILL.

Mr. J. STEWART moved that the Report on the
Copyhold Tenures Bill be brought up.
Sir EDWARD SUGDEN opposed the reception of
the Report, on the ground of want of notice. He wished
to discuss the Bill clause by clause.
Mr. AGLIONBY said the Bill had been frequently be-
fore the House, and hoped the Right Hon. Gentleman
would let it pass the present stage, and defer his obser-
tions to the third reading.

Sir E. SUGDEIV contended that the Bill was not pro-
perly understood, and therefore he should wish to have
it discussed. He did not object to the principle of com-
mutation, but he did to the compulsory powers given by
the Bill to the majority of copyholders of binding the
minority. He objected to the commutation being taken
as a corn rent, and he should certainly divide the House
upon it. The provisions relating to mines and minerals
required great consideration. The whole Bill required
a discussion in Committee, at which he hoped the legal
Members of the House would be present.
The Report was then brought up. On the motion that
the Bill be re-committed,
Mr. J. STEWART denied that there had been even
any desire to smuggle the Bill through the House. Its
promoters had always courted discussion, but found
that the opposition to it was concentrated in the
person of the Right Honourable Gentleman, and
that therefore during his absence there could be
no discussion. How was it if the tenants objected to the
Bill, that no petitions had ever been presented against
it ? On the contrary, there had been petitions to be in-
cluded in its provisions. The Bill was no more compul-
sory than any enclosure Bill. The corn rent had been
considered on the whole as the fairest for all parties. If
the clause relatint, to mines were the only objection of
the Right Hon. Gentleman, he was willing to give up
that clause for the sake of getting the Bill passed.
Mr. DARBY said he had before objected to the Bill.
He thought the Hon. Gentleman was mistaken in sup-
posing that tenants would consider the Bill as beneficial
to them. He would be happy to see the Bill passed in a
modified form. _ _

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Mr. G. HOPE thought the disadvantages of the pre-
sent state of the law were such, that persons who were
most averse to the change would be glad to see the pro-
posed alteration carried into effect.
Mr. AGLIONBY said that, in his opinion, this Bill
was one of the greatest boons that had ever been granted
to tenants. He hoped the House would consent to let
the Bill pass through its present stage.
Sir E. SUGDEN then withdrew his motion.
On clause 8 being proposed,
Sir E. SUGDEN proposed the omission of the clause.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL supported the clause.
Mr. WAKLEY said that if the Right Hon. and
Learned Gentleman divided the House, he would divide
with him. He thought it was unjust that the public
should be called upon to pay the expense of the commu-
tations, as they would have to do if the clause were
suffered to pass.
Mr. HOPE said the compulsion was the same upon a
minority of lords as upon a minority of tenants.
After a few words from Mr. BRISCOE,

Mr. STEWART said the expenses would be paid by
the parties, and not by the public, as stated by the Hon.
Gentleman. _ _ _ _ .

Mr. HUME said this was a buying up of grievances,
and that he thought they would be bought up cheaply.
The House was about to divide, when,
Sir EDWARD SUGDEN said he would postpone his
opprAition to the third reading.
The Report was then agreed to, and the Bill ordered
to be engrossed and read a third time on Thursday.
The Report on the Court Houses (Ireland) Bill was
received.

The Report on the Turnpike Roads Bill was brought
up, and theßill ordered to be read a third time on Friday.
On the motion of the Hon. F. MAULE, the Boroughs
Improvement Bill, and the Buildings Regulation Bill,
sent down from the Lords, passed through Committee,
on the understanding that if any Hon. Member should
desire to discuss any of the clauses, the Bills should be
re-committed.
DRAINAGE OF TOWNS' BILL.

On the motion for the second reading of the Drainage
of Towns' Bill,

The SPEAkER, said it was his duty to inform the
House that this Bill gave the Commissioners of Sewers
a power to levy taxes ; and that, therefore, it ought not
to have originated in the other House.
. Mr. F. MAULE then moved that the Bill should be
read a second time that day three months, and said he
would, in the mean time, move for leave to bring in
another Bill.
ARMS (IRELAND) BILL.
Mr. PIGOIt moved the consideration of the Lords'
amendments on this Bill.
Mr. HUME said he considered the Bill a stigma on
the people of Ireland that ought not to be continued.
The amendments were then agreed to, and the Bill
passed.
MILITIA.

Mr. FOX MAULE brought in a Bill to suspend, till
the Ist day of August 1842, the making of lists, and the
ballots and enrolments for the Militia of the United
Kingdom, which was read a first time, and ordered to be
read a second time to-morrow.

The ATTORNEY-GENERAL brought in a Bill to
compensate the Clerk of the Peace in the County Pala-
tine of Lancaster, for his loss by the Incorporation of
the Borough of Manchester, which was read a first time,
and ordered to be read a second time on Thursday.
The other Orders of the Day were then disposed of,
and the House adjourned at Half-past Ten o'Clock.

particular, GERMAN AND ENGLISH COMMERCE.
Most of the German papers are hostile to the commercial
treaty between Great Britain and the Sta'es of the German
Customs' Union, which has been signed, but not ratified. They
expect few advantages to be derived to the latter from the con-
vention, and the Augsburg Gazette in
discus-
sing the subject at some length, andular, after
saying that
England is not sincere in her wishes for mutual !commer-
cial freedom, makes the following observations :--" Germany
has no interest in making concessions to England,
and it would be inopportune for the Customs' Union to
conclude a treaty of commerce with any country before
the Union is rendered complete by the accession of all those
German States which border on the North Sea, and by the ac-
cessions, easily afterwards to be obtained, of Holland and Den-
mark, before, indeed, it shall have obtained the command of
all its natural outlets of rivers, ports, and straits, and also
created a navy. Then only will be the time for speaking out,
and speaking with firmness; for, between this and then, ideas
will be ripened, and the l,orizon cleared. All that might now
be done would be fatal to the future, and the career of Ger-
many towards its full grandeur and power would be stopped."
EMIGRATION.—Thirty vessels have sailed from
this port up to the 15th of this month, and in them have
sailed 4,662 Emigrants, for the United States and New South
Wales. This number is exclusive of all those conveyed weekly
by the steamers to sail from some English Port. It is little
short of disgrace to our Government and Institutions, that the
very best and most useful class of our population are thus
forced to seek in exile, and in less favoured lands, the fruits of
honest labour and a secure home for themselves and their fa-
milies.—Cork Southern Reporter.
GENERAL ELECTION.--A meeting of the
General Committee cf Dissenters was held at Edinburgh on
Friday, for the purpose of watching over the interests of that
body, case of an election for the city; and, after a short
discussion, ti up members, by acclamation, came to the conclu-
sion of supporting Zjr. Hume, the Member for Kilkenny.
A petition from the jtigg of Gretna for a total
-4 immediate repeal of ti3e ecrnrlawst was signed by
"duals.duals. Amonst them were as farmers, some
g
407 incti , -'tits to the amount of 5001. or 00/. a
of whom pay " the tenants of the Earl of Mans-
year. The whole of . the petition.—Carlisle
field, with one exception, s,„
Journal.

PORTUGAL.
THE PRESIDENT.
We have received letters and papers from Lisbon, to the 17th
inst. inclusive, which arrived at Falmouth, by the regular
steamer, with the Peninsula mails. The following letter will
,he *read with unusual interest, as it contains intelligence which
may, perhaps, relate to the long-missing President.•
LISBON, MAY 17, 4 r.3l.—The following is a transcript
from the minutes of the log-book of the Portuguese ship Conde
de Palma, Captain Sabine Antonio de Cabo Almeida, which
arrived at this port from Rio de Janeiro in sixty days on the 6th
inst. A general hope is entertained here that the vessel in
question must be the long-missing steam-packet President.
Captain Almeida, however, not being aware on his arrivalthat
this ship was overdue, did not mention the circumstance until
some days after the departure of the last mail for England. It
is to be regretted that he did not communicate with the steamer
to place her identity beyond a doubt.
"On the 22d of April, at 3 p.m., being in lat. 29d. in.
18s. north, long. 40d. 28m. west of Greenwich, wind at east,
saw, at about five or six miles a-head, a vessel whose rig we
could net well make out, steering the same course, N. N. E.
The same wind continued throughout the night, with fine
weather, but rather a rough sea. Early on the morning of
the 23d the same vessel was about six miles on the larboard
quarter, when we could well perceive her to be a large steamer
under all sail, and making no use of her steam power. At
noon, lat. by observation 31d. 24m. 365., long. by chrono-
meter 40d. 20m., she was fast falling to leeward; at 4 p.m.
she was scarcely perceptible oa the horizon - soon after the
wind shifted to E.N.E., N.E., N. N.W., N., W.N. W., and
W.. and blew strong with an agitated sea ; this continued
until the 3d of May, when the weather became finer, and the
wind veered from W. to W.S.W. and S.W., which brought us
to the Tagus on the 6th inst.
" N.B. The steamer had three masts; did not show her
colours, or make any signal; nor did we show any. She was
going on easily with all her sails set, making no use of her
machinery, and was using every endeavour to beat to wind-
ward, but was making much lee way : the funnel was painted
white, and we have a confused idea that the vessel was painted
with a white streak."

The Finance Committee formed to consider the best means
to meet the yearly deficit is drawing up a report to be presented
to the ensling Cortes, in which it is proposed to levy a tax of
20 per cent. on the Civil List, and an additional duty on the
consumption of wine, as well as to demand city dues on eat-
ables in all villages without the city gates. A report is very
prevalent that the Baron de Lagos is to be appointed President
of the Portuguese Finance Committee in London, with a salary
of 1,000/. sterling per annum.
No advantageous offers having been made for the purchase
of the new Exchequer-bills, it is probable that the same will
be negotiated for by the Confiance Company ; they will never-
theless depend upon the direction of the Lisbon Bank, who
are also large shareholders in this firm.
Letters from Braganza and Braga state that the desertions
from the 3d Cacadores at the former, and Bth Infantry at the
latter place, have been so numerous of late, that these bat-
talions have been confined to their quarters ; some have since
given themselves up, and confessed that they had been influ-
enced to desert by money. No less than seven assassinations,
together with several robberies, have been perpetrated at and
near Braga within the past month.
The districts of San Martino and Caldas da Rainha have
become so infested with bands of highwaymen, principally
composed of deserting recruits, as to render travelling in those
parts very dangerous.
The late Treasury, situate in the Praca de Dom Pedro,
which was burnt in July, 1836, is to be converted into a na-
tional theatre. . . .

The line-of-battle ship which has been on the stocks the past
18 years, and now nearly ready for launching, is, at the re-
quest of her Majesty the Queen, to be called tte Vasco da Gama
instead of the Cidade de Lisboa, as was at first intended.
The decree exonerating from his duties the Baron de Mon-
corvo, the Portuguese Envoy at London, as Secretary of State
for Foreign Affairs, and confirming M. Rodrigo da Fonseca
Magalhaes in the portefeuille pro teinpore, was published in
the Diario do Governo of Tuesday last.
I subjoin the conditions of an Association for a new loan to
Government of 660 contos de reis (152,000/. sterling), said to
be raised to pay the dividend of the foreign loan, conducted
under the managing partners of the tobacco contract. This
transaction was effected by a decree of the Bth of May, not
published in the Diario do Governo, and the conditions en-
tered into on the same day.
Exchange upon London at 30 days' sight, 53i pence per
milrie, and little or no paper.
The following are conditions for forming an association to
lend to Government 660 contos de reis, 520 of which to be in
cash, and 140 in titulos of the State debt posterior to July,
1633:-
1. The loan to be effected with the clauses and obligations
expressed in the conditions registered in the public Treasury on
the Bth of the current month, and approved of by a decree of
the same date. .

2. the circulation of this negotiation to be intrusted to
MM. Jose Dias Leite Sampaio and Manoel Jose de Freitag
Guimaraes, who will sign all acts inherent to the same assigned
circulation, signing "Jose Dias Leite Sampaio and C 0.," and
" Manoel Jose de Freitas Guimaraes and Co."

3. The social fund to be 550 contos de reis, and each mem-
ber will have in the negotiation an isterest correspondent to
the part of this fund for which he subscribes in the present
conditions.

4. Each shareholder to deliver in cash, by the 21st of the
current month, 20 per cent. of the amount for which he sub-
scribes, and shall deliver successively whatever sums may be
required of him, until the amount of his subscription, being
allowed a previous notice of three days.
5. Each shareholder may deliver from this forward, besides
the 20 per cent., what he may find convenient, as far as the
amount for which he subscribes.
6. All the sums delivered by the members will immediately
upon their being received, be entitled to an interest of 34 per
cent. per month, which ought to be realised in silver money.