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PRIVATE BILLS.

ROUSE OF COMMONS.
Mercurii, 6. die Februarii, Isa 3.
Resolved, That this House will not receive any Petition for
Private Bills after Friday, the 92d day of this instant February.
Resolved, That no Private Bill be read the first time after
Monday, the 25th day of March next.
Resolved, That. this House will not receive any Report of
such Private Bill after Monday, the 20th day of May next.
Ordered, That the said Resolutions be printed.
J. H. LEY, Cl. Dom. Com.

In addition to the Notices of Motions given in the Re-
port of the Debate in the House of Commons were the
forowing:7

Mr. Charles Buller—Select Committee, to which all election
petitions presented during the present Session of Parliament
shall be referred.—(Deferred from Thursday, Feb. 7, till Monday,
Feb. 11)
Mr. Hume—To abolish all military sinecure appointments.—
(Deferred from Thursday, Feb. 7, till Wednesday, Feb. 13.)
Mr.' Roebuck—Select Committee, to frame means for a Na-
tional Eclueation.—(Thursday, Feb. 14.)
Mr. Thomas Attwood—Select Committee, to inquire into the
causes of the general distress existing among the industrious
classes of the United Kingdom, and into the most effectual means
of its relief.—(Monday, Feb. 18.)
Sir Francis Vincent—Bill to alter and amend the Laws respect-
ing Libel.—(Thursday, Feb. 28.) •
Mr. Richards—Bill to invest the Tithes now payable to the
Clergymen of the Established Church in Ireland in Trustees,
for the benefit of the poor resident in the respective parishes in
Ireland; Bill to rake a Tax of one shilling in the pound on all
Income 4 arising from capital in Ireland, for the payment of the
stipends due to the existing Ministers of the Establishment, and
for providing for the reduction of that Establishment, as vacan-
cies occur in the respective Bishoprics, Deaneries, Chapters,
Rectories, and other Benefices, until the whole may be provided
for out oft he Church lands, and the public be relieved from the
tax th be now Unposed.—(Thursday, March 7.)
111. r. Harvey—Select Committee to inquire into the Land Re-
venues of the Crown, under the management of the Commis-
siofiers of Woods and Forests, and to report their opinion as to
the means by which they may be rendered most available for the
public service.—(Monday, March 18 )
Colonel Davies—On the motion for the Speaker leaving the
Chair (Army Estimates) to refer the entire Military and Co-
lonial Expenditure to a Select Committee.

VICE-CHANCERY COURT-(THIS DAY.)

CRUCHLEY v. EDWARDS.

Mr. RICHARDS applied on behalf of the plaintiff; Mr.
Cruchley, of Ludgate-street, for a special injunction to restrain
the defendant from publishing in a work called the Guide to
Knowledge, a new Plan of London. The plaintiff, previous to
January, 1832, at very considerable expense, published a Map
of London, which he called Cruchley's New Map of London, in
which he therefore had the exclusive right of publication. In
January of the present year, the defendant, who is the publisher
of a weekly penny publication, called the Guide to Knowledge,
printed and published in that work an exact copy of the plain.
tiff's map, calling it the New Plan of London. The. earned
Counsel read the affidavits of several eminent engravers in sup_
(art of the motion, all of whom stated that the map published
by the defendant was an exact copy of the plaintiffs.
The VICE-CHANCELLOR immediately granted the in-
junction, ohserving, that no man who looked at the two maps
could doubt that the one published by the defendant was a copy
of the plaintiff's, with the exception of the substitution of black
for white. The Court also ordered the injunction to be im-
mediately-served on the defendant,, observing that it would be
ready to hear him at any time that he chose to come forward.

LONDON,
THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 7, 1833,

We regret to observe that last night Lord AL-,
THORP again displayed a weakness of purpose which,
however amiable it may be considered in private
life, under the name of good nature, amounts in a
statesman almost to a crime. His plan for conduct-
ing the business of the House, although, as we said
yesterday, no, so comprehensive as we could have
wished, would have been good as a stop-gap, and
was at any rate worthy of a trial. Every gentle-
man has a plan of his own ; Mr. O'CONNELL,
Sir ROBERT PEEL, and Col. DAN-lEs, all had some-

thing to say in favour of their own fancies, and of
course condemned Lord A LTHORP'S proposition.
His Lordship thereupon, with the greatest good
nature, proposes to adjourn the debate preparatory,
perhaps, to withdrawing what we are bound to sup-
pose he had upon mature consideration decided
to be a good plan. The grand objection seems
to be that a sufficient attendance of Members could
not be procured at three o'clock to receive petitions;
but we see no reason why a sufficient attendance
should not he enforced in the same way, and upon
the same principle, as a sufficient attendance of Jury-
men is enforced in the Court of King's Bench. The
Members of the House are now elected not for the
honour of the thing, not because it is fashionable,
bu• in order to do the nation's business, and what-
ever measures are necessary to be taken for that
purpose must, without flinching, be adopted. Sir
ROBERT PEEL'S objections, if worth anything,
merely go to prove that the business of the country
cannot be despatched between February and July,
as heretofore. Till the great Reforms which most
of our institutions require are effected, perhaps the
House must sit for seven or eight months of the
year; but why not acknowledge the fact at once,
and take steps accordingly ?

There are two circumstances in the debate of lust
night and the night before which have struck us a•
remarkable, but strangely enough they appear to
have been both overlooked. The first it the perfect
silence of the Conservative party both on Tuesday
and last night, for we can hardly consider the few
words uttered by Sir ROBERT INGLIs as amounting
to any thing. As far as we can judge from what he
said, we should imagine that he intends to vote with
his Majesty's Ministers; but then Sir ROBERT is as
conscientious a man as ever breathed, and though
attached to his party, would not, we are persuaded,
do anything that would increase the danger in
which. the Church at present stands in Ireland.
Now we are not quite so certain of the principles of
the rest of the Conservative party, and think they
might be induced, by the prospect of defeating Mi-
nisters, to join with the Radical and O'CONNELL
patty against then►. Their interests and feelings,
however, are so much in favour of supporting the
Government on the present occasion, that nothing
but their dread silence could inspire the slightest sus-
picion of their intention's. To night, perhaps, they
will speak our.

The other circumstance to which we allude is
also one of omission; we mean the singular fact,
that although the debate has now turned upon
the ills of Ireland for two nights, no one has
alluded to what we are persuaded must be
the first measure taken effectually to remove them.
We allude to a properly regulated system of poor
laws. We stated some five or six months back,
when combating• Miss MARTINEAU'S arguments
against the introduction of the poor laws into Ire-
land, that all laws must be inoperative there till the
mass of the people were assured of a subsistence if
they obeyed them. The best laws will be dis-
regarded if those for whose benefit they are
framed are in "a state of starvation." A commu-
tation of tithes, or any other measure, is, therefore,
as the Times observes this morning, but a scratching
of the surface of the evil to be cured, unless a
poor law of some kind be at the same time

introduced. We are, as we have already on
mote than one occasion stated, opposed to
the poor laws at present in operation in England,
as we are satisfied they are producing the
most demoralizing and mischievous effects, and we
should be glad to see them gradually abolished. It
cannot be imagined, therefore, that we are in favour
of the introduction of the English system into be-
hind ; but we think a system might be framed
adapted to the peculiar circumstances of that
country, which would give measures of permanent
relief from the present hardships borne by it ;
fair play,—which would give time for the edu-
cation of the people, and teaching them the
lesso►► of depending upon their own prudence and
forethought, qualities in which we fear the Irish

We had intended to enter into an analysis of the
last nigh►'s debate, but we find that want of space
forbids. On the whole the debate was more eloquent
and argumentative, if not more animated, than that
of Tuesday. Mr. TENNYsoN proposed an amend-
ment to the address, in the propriety of which we
entirely coincide. It was to the effect that before
additional powers were given to Ministers for a coer-
cive purpose, they should employ remedial measures,
or at least accomp►ny such powers by a prompt in-
vestigation of the causes of discontent. This is
the real, the proper view of the question ; and
unless Ministers take it up in that spirit, no
additional force, however, great can long avail. It i s
worse than madness to disguise the truth. We may
win the confidence of the Irish people by manly

upright conduct, but we can never conquer their love
at the point of the sword. Ireland wants bread and
justice—not the bayonet.

There have been no arrivals this morning direct
from Portugal, but private letters have been re-
ceived from Oporto, via France, by this morning's
estafette, dated the 24th and 29th ult. A letter
of the 24th states that a sortie had been made by
Marshal SOLIGNAC, who had caused the enemy to
retreat, but that, in consequence of a wrong signal
having been made by Don PEDRO, for one of th 6
divisions to retire instead of advance, it created great
confusion, which obliged Marshal SOLIGNAC to
order his troops to fall back upon the city. In the
letters received by Don PEDRO'S agents in London,
up to the 29th, no mention is made of this sortie,
which, if there had been one, no doubt would
have been noticed. Don PEDRO was in excellent
spirits, and the troops well provisioned. Great
preparations were making by Marshal SOLIGNAC to
commence a grand attack upon the enemy, and
give them open combat. Admiral SARTORIUS was
cruising off the bar.

By the Paris Papers of Tuesday we learn that
the timely measures adopted by the police, to re-
press the late silly arid puerile outbreakings between
the Republicans and the CArlists, on the subject of
the Duchess of BERRY, have had the effect of pre-
serving the public peace and preventing many duels.
One, however, was fought on Monday, between a
writer in the Quotidienne and one of M. CAREEN
friends. Among the foremost of those who called on
M. CAREL to inquire after his health was M. DUPIN,
President of the Chamber of Deputies, and M.
LAFAYETTE. The two physicians appointed to in-
quire into the salubrity of the citadel of Blaye,
have addressed a report to the Minister of the In-
terior, in which they state that the citadel is remark-
ably healthy, and that the Duchess of BERRY re-
ceives every attention due to her situation.

It has been stated in the French Papers that an
understanding, almost amounting to a treaty, had
been come to between Great Britain, France, and
Austria, on the Belgian question, and that very
little doubt remained of the adhesion of Prussia.
We find on inquiry in an authentic quarter, that
the French Papers have mistaken the direct object
of the understanding between the three ,Cabinets
alluded to. The dispute between Turkey and
Egypt, and not the Belgian question, has been

the subject of the discussions between Great
Britain, France, and Austria, which are said to
have terminated so satisfactorily. At the present
irne, however, it is proper to observe, that although

he Austrian Cabinet expresses great disinelinatio

:o come to an open difference with that of Russia on

the Belgian question, there is a greater tendency to-
wards the Anglo-Gallic mode of viewing the ques-
tion than had been manifested hitherto, and it is
hoped, that in proportion as Austria becomes con-

vinced of the danger to herself, of allowing Russian
influence to prevail in European diplomacy, she will
see the propriety of seceding entirely from her alli-
ance with Russia.
With respect to Holland we regret to say, that
the statement of a Morning Contemporary as to the
continued obstinacy of that Power, is well founded.
It confirms all that we have said from time to time,
whilst many of our Contemporaries have deluded
themselves and the public with favourable anticipa-
tions. It seems, however, to be the opinion of
Lord PALMERSTON and M. de TALLEYRAND, that
more of the pertinacious resistance of the Dutch
is to be attributed to the Minister of KING
WILLIAM in this
.country than to the KING

himself. We know very well that in all
cases the representatives of foreign Powers are able
to give a certain tendency to negotiations beyond
the strict letter of their instructions ; but we do not
believe that, in the present instance, the Baron VON
ZUYLEN has exceeded the orders which he received
from his Sovereign. He may desire the further
agitation of the question from some personal motives
of which we ate ignorant, or from a political bias
not to be wondered at in a man who has been so
long breathing a high Tory atmosphere; or he may
really have concluded in his own mind, from the
experience which he has had of " the final and irre-
vocable" policy of the British and French Cabinets,
that nothing more is necessary than continued obsti-
nacy to avert another " final and irrevocable" pro-
tocol from Lord PALMERSTON and M. de TALLEY -
RAND, more in favour of his Master than the last
protocol. But it is not likely that the Baron Von
ZUYLEN is acting on his views rather than on those
of the Dutch Cabinet. Both are proceeding on the
old doctrine of chances, well knowing that every
hour's delay may be avourable and cannot be inju-
rious to them. In politics procrastination is fre-
quently the best weapon that the diplomatist can use.

The French Papers allude briefly to some rumours
current in Germany, of an approaching Congress
to be held most probably at Frankfort. In other
respects their contents are destitute of interest,
being for the most part made up of loose, up-hazard
rumours.

we have heard a fact stated in connection wi'h
the contest in Portugal, which, if true, proves the
danger of the prudent system, on which the Pe-
droites have been acting. We are assured that
when SARTORIUS last appeared off Lisbon, the Con►-
mandant and three other officers of one of the prin-
cipal fortresses, concluding that he intended to make
an attack, spiked all the guns of the fortross, and it
was believed that if SARTORIUS had entered the
Tagus, a similar plan would have been adopted to
assist Don PEDRO by another fortress. The Com-
mandant in question and his officers, finding that.

peasantry is now nearly as destitute as the savage
who Fells his blanket on the first sunny day of
spring, forgetful that the winter will again come.
The announcement made by Lord ALTHORP, in
answer to a'question from Mr. BUXTON, that the
Government was prepared with a plan for the eman-
cipation of the slaves, which he thought would at
the same time be safe, practicable, and satisfactory,
must rejoice the hearts of all the friends of huma-
nity. It was like a ray of light piercing through the
gloom of the evening's discussion.