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LONDON,
TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 23, 1833.

In the House of Lords last night, the Irish
Church Bill was proceeded with as far as the
twentieth clause, when the Duke of WELLING-
TON proposed one or two alterations, which, as
they did not involve the principle of the Bill,
were acceded to by Earl GREY. Some other
amendments put forth by certain Tory Lords
were rejected for the same reason. At present,
appearances are in favour of the passing of the
Bill, though there is no speculating with cer-
tainty on the event ; for the clause respecting the
reduction of bishoprics has yet to he canvassed
and decided on. Of course, Lord GREY will
make a stand here ; and as the Duke of WEL-
LINGTON, and, indeed, the major part of the
Tory Peers, are known to be strongly averse to
this clause, we may naturally anticipate a warm
and vehement struggle. But we trust the opposition
will have the good sense to give way. Judging
from the improved spirit that characterized the
debate of last night (especially from the candid
admission of Lord WHARNCLIFFE),
should
think such an issue far from impossible. If their
Lordships are bent on crippling the Bill, so that
on its return it must inevitably be rejected by the

Commons, it would have been far safer—so far as
their own political influence with the people is
concerned, that they should have rejected it on
the second reading. Then their rejection would
at least have bad the merit of being bold, manly,
and straight forward, now it will wear all the
appearance of cowardice and petty trickery.

The days of the boroughmongers are at length
numbered, and we shall soon see the base repre-
sentative system of this country really reformed.
We publish this day the Special Report of the
Select Committee, appointed (subsequently to the
trial of the Warwick Election petitions, which
terminated with the unseating of Sir CHARLES
GREVILLE) to investigate and probe the cor-
rupt practices in the elections of the borough of
Warwick. The Reformed Parliament has ho-
nestly discharged its duty, in the detection and
punishment of the delinquent constituencies and
their criminal " Noble Patrons." Stafford is
to be blotted out from our representation, and
be as Babylon—" no more." Carrickfergus will
perish under the harpoon of Mr. O'CoNNELL.
Hertford is " suspended," and its " Noble'
boroughmonger's nominees are returned to the
Opera and Carlton Club. The corruption of
Liverpool is passing through the filter of the
Reformed House of Commons. But all the
iniquities or punishment of these abominable
sinks of electioneering iniquity cannot compare
with the signal detection and condemnation
of the borough of Warwick, as held up to the
view of the nation in the report of the Warwick
Select Committee. The Times truly observes
in its nervous style, that the report " is a manly
document, and worthy of the best men of a
British Parliament." We confess we had our
misgivings, that the curtain would be let down
over the Nobleman who was behind the scenes
in these shameful acts ; but the Members of the
Committee have faithfully discharged their public
trust. The following is the honourable list of
names balloted on the Warwick Committee, and
the constituencies theyrepresent)—

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1. SIR RONALD FERGUSON (Chairman) NOTTINGHAM.
2. Viscourrr MotTrimix SOUTH LANCASHIRE.
3. LORD A. M. C. HILL NEWRY.
4. HON. C. LANGDALE BEVERLEY.
5. HON. J. J. KNOX DUNGANNON.
6. SIR J. H. DALRYMPLE EDINBURGH.
7. T. K. STAVELEY RIPON.

B.W. T. EGERTON CI7EBIIIIIE.

9. E. C. LISTER
10. C. T. TOWER
11. THOMAS BISH

BRADFORD.
HARWICH.
LEOMINSTER

The Report may be divided into three heads-
1. An exposure of the illegal transactions and
the corrupt malpractices of individual electors ;
2. The remedy for existing evils in the annexa-
tion of Leamington Priors to the borough of
Warwick ; 3. The recommendation of the Com-
mittee to the Legislature of a revision of the defec-
tive Statute Law, which, under pretence ofpunish-
ing bribery and treating, really legalizes and
fosters election corruption. In this case the
public cannot fail to see the domineering and
covetous character of the Tory Aristocracy.
Not content with castles, magnificent domains,
primogeniture estates, and the doubtful privileges
of hereditary legislators, they must needs rob
the British people of their inheritances, and
pack a Reformed House of Commons. Nothing
will satiate their cormorant appetite for political
power—no revolutions in ancient or modern
times will open their dim and short-sighted
eyes. The case of Warwick, however, and
the subsequent proceedings in the House
of Commons, which must follow such a report,
will afford Tory Boroughmongers one other
solemn warning. It is impossible that the
Commons of Great Britain and Ireland can
allow the violation of their privileges with im-
punity. An address to the Crown, it is re-
ported, will be moved, to dismiss the Earl of
VVAltwicx from the offices of Lord-Lieutenant
of the county of Warwick, and Recorder of the
Borough. Can it be permitted that a public
servant, who has thus allowed his agents and
dependants to violate the freedom and purity of
election, shall retain the chief municipal office
of a country town, or the important trust of con-
trolling the Lieutenancy and Magistracy of the
populous county of Warwick ? Lord WARWICK
will be well advised to retire from his municipal
duties, and so avoid the unpleasant discussions
which must ensue from the consideration of
this report ; and those Peers—temporal or
spiritual—who shall be inclined to op-
pose a Bill, sent by the Commons to the
House of Lords, for the extension of the
boundary of the borough of Warwick to
Leamington, will think maturely before they
make an exhibition of their secret favour of elec-
tion corruption. The Warwick case is also a
curious expose of the shameful abuses of corpo-
rations. We find the chief officers of the War-
wick Corporation the ring-leaders and principal
delinquents in the most i.bominable transactions ;
and these gentry, with the bribers, infinitely
worse than the poor electors seduced by their
bribes, will doubtless be delivered over to the
special attention of his Majesty's Attorney-
General. Indeed, many important results must
follow a report unprecedented in the records of
Parliament, as we shall take future occasion to
show. We look %hit great interest to the ter-
mination of the Liverpool inquiry, which will
close the election inquiries of a session of Par-
liament memorable for its campaign against
venality and Noble Borough mongers.

The Bill for the abolition of Colonial Sla-
very was last night read a second time. No
division has yet taken place on any very
important principle, either in the discus-
sion of the resolutions or that of the Bill, but
symptoms were last night exhibited of an
intention, on the part of several Members, to
divide the House on the third reading, unless
some material alteration was made in the Bill in
Committee. Mr. BUXTON said that he should
take the sense of the Committee upon the
apprenticeship clause, and should also move that
no part of the 20,000,000/. should be paid till
the emancipation of the negroes was completed.
Lord Howicx intimated that if the Bill were
not altered in the first particular, he should
oppose the third reading, and Mr. BARING
gave a similar intimation with respect to the
second, so that there cannot be a doubt
a breeze, if not a storm, will spring up
at the next stage of the Bill. Sir ROBERT
PEEL endeavoured, by anticipation, to prevent
any out-break on the part of the more earnest
Abolitionists, by representing it as imperative
upon the House to pass the Bill in its present
form, because the resolutions upon which it was
founded had been already sent out to the West
Indies. Now, we cannot at all admit that,
because the two Houses of Parliament have
agreed to certain principles on which to legislate;
they are, therefore, bound down as to the de-
tails by which these principles are to be worked,
out. We have agreed to pay a certain sum as

compensation to the planters, but we have a right
to take care that we get our money's worth for
the money. The planters having been direct
parties to the continuous crime of plundering
the negroes of their property in their own labour,
of selling men like cattle, it is not too much to
suppose that they will not boggle at the compa-
ratively venial offence of robbing the public,
an ancient practice involving little disgrace,
if done on a large scale. To talk of giving
the West Indians twenty millions and trust-
ing to them effectually to set the slave free,
or even properly prepare him for freedom at the
end of the apprenticeship, is mere absurdity.
They have not yielded to the periodical " burn-
ings, massacres, and rapes," which have deso-
lated their homes, and sullied their honour ; nor
will they yield to the payment of a sum they
declare not to be near the value of their
sacrifices, if they can get the money, and still
maintain their power over the unhappy blacks.
This country has repeatedly called upon them
to prepare the slaves for freedom ; they have
as repeatedly refused to do so ; and now,
forsooth, the unprepared state of the slaves
is alleged by Sir ROBERT PEEL and others
as the reason for continuing the power of the
masters. Suppose the masters still refuse to
prepare their slaves for freedom, the argument
against emancipation will be just as good
at the end of twelve years as it is
now. In order, then, to deprive the planter
of a direct interest in wrong doing, or rather
give him an interest the other way, Mr. Bux-
Tores amendment ought to be agreed to.
In the course of the debate Mr. HumE fell
into a curious :mistake, which does not appear
to haie been noticed. He said that he " feared
the 20,000,0001. would be but a small portion
of the money to be paid to the planters. He
very much distrusted the effects of free labour,and
he believed that the supply of sugar would be re-
duced, and prices would rise ; and he wished to
know whether Government would withdraw the
monopoly. If sugar were to rise only ss. a
cwt. it would make a tax equivalent to 1,000,000/.
a year on the people of this country ; and as he
believed that it would rise at least 205., he an-
ticipated a burden of 4,000,0001. on the people
of England, in addition to the 20,000,000/.
which they were to pay in the first instance."
The mistake in the calculation consists in sup-
posing the increased price would be paid upon
the same amount of sugar as is now con-
sumed, whereas the very cause of the increase of
price is assumed to be a diminution in the supply
of sugar. But, although Mr. HumE is mistaken
in supposing that an additional million or
four millions will be taken from the people of
this country, there can be no doubt of the
justice and propriety of admitting sugar from
all our possessions upon precisely the same
terms. The West Indians may be assured that
this is not a point which will be lost sight of.

Accounts have been received from Lisbon to
the 10th, and from Oporto to the 14th instant
inclusive, particulars of which will be found in
another column. The capture of MIGUEL'S
fleet was not known publicly in Lisbon at the
time of the packet's sailing ; the arrival of the
Gallant NAPIER would soo❑ apprise the people
of the " untoward" adventure that had befallen
MIGUEL'S fleet.
The Lisbon Gazettes contain an order from
the Department of Ecclesiastical Affairs against
the " rebels and their detestable plans for
spreading impiety and revolution," but make no
mention of the military operations either in the
North or South.

The Oporto papers contain the official ac-
counts of the asssult on the sth, which have al-
ready appeared in The Sun.
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Admiral NAPIER. has been made Viscount
of Cape St. Vincent, and will no doubt be re-
warded with an estate to support the dignity,---
indeed a Dukedom would hardly compensate
our chivalrous countryman for the consequences
of his all-important victory.
We understand that after the flag of truce,
sent by Don PEDRO to General SAN Lou-
RENCO had failed, some copies of the Oporto
Chronica, containing the account of NAPIER'S
victory, and the progress of the Constitutional
army in the south, which were left with MI-
GUEL'S army, were returned into Oporto by
rockets ! their contents not being very agree-
able to the Usurper.
The following account of the affair is amus-
ing :

OPORTO, JULY 10.—The Chronica contains Capt. Napier's
account of the capture of the Portuguese fleet.

JULY 12.—The Chronica contains a more detailed account
of the defeat of the attack made by Don Miguel's troops on the
sth July. The loss of Don Pedro's troops is stated at 21
killed and 66 wounded, and that of Don Miguel's army at
900 or 1,000 men at least, besides 40 prisoners.
The Chronica of the 10th contains a report delivered to his
Majesty Don Pedro, by his Aids.de-Camp, Simao Felix Calca c
Pina, in which he gives an account of his having gone, by his
Majesty's command, with a flag of truce to the enemy's camp,
to deliver a letter to the Conde de S. Lourenco, Comman-
der-in-Chief of the army of the rebels. After much
parleying, and sending messages backwards and for-
wards to the Conde de S. Lourenco and Don Miguel, he was
in the end dismissed with the final answer, that the Conde de
S. Lourengo had nothing to do with Don Pedro, and would not
recoive his letter, which he therefore brought back to
Oporto. He was also told that the officer who first ad-
mitted him into the camp, and signified that he was
a foreign officer who had bro':ght papers for Don Mi-
guel, or for his Excellency, And that it was only through
this misunderstanding for which the officer in question would
be punished, that he had been admitted.—Chronica Con.'
tociona4 to July 13.

It was confidently stated in the City this
morning that a treaty of alliance has been en-
tered into between Lord PALMERSTON and
the Duke de BROGLIE to recognise Queen
Donna MARIA immediately the constitutional
troops take possession of Lisbon, and that the
Ambassadors of her MAJESTY will be received
officially by both Governments.
Donna MARIA is expected in London from
Paris in the course of this week on her way to
Portugal.

Two opulent bankers of Paris and London
have contracted a loan to a considerable amount,
part of which will be directly forwarded to
Oporto, to pay up the arrears of pay due to the
troops and sailors.

Every sincere Christian will rejoice at the
third reading of the Jewish Relief Bill,
which took place in the House of Commons
last night, by a majority of 189 to 52. What
has most struck us in the course of the debates
on this Bill, and what is particularly remark-
able in that of last night is the irreverend, the
presumptuous, the almost blasphemous use made
by Honourable Members of the name of the
ALMIGHTY.

One of our greatest philosophers said that he
never uttered the name of GOD (a sensation
of awe comes over us in writing it), without
pausing for a few minutes to consider of his
div►ne attributes, and bow to its majesty with
inward humility and reverence. How diffe-
r ent is the conduct of the canters in the

House ! Words most holy are bandied about
as if they had as little meaning or served no
higher purpose than the names of the thought-
less 'beings who utters them. These are the
men, too, who oppose the acknowledgment of
the rights of Jews on religious grounds !
Shame, shame.

German Papers, of the 17th instant, state
that the Russian army would leave Constanti-
nople, after celebrating the birthday of the
EMPEROR, on the 7th July.

VIENNA, JULY 'l2.—Five per Cent. Metalliques, 95 ;
Four per Cent, 86 ; Bank Shares, I,3l.—Allgemeine
Zeitung, July 17.

We had intended to make some observations
upon a proposed motion of Mr. HALcoms's,
for leave to bring in Eeveral Bills to amend the
English Poor Laws ; but they have, to a consi-
derable extent, been forestalled by Sir JAMES
GRAHAM having last night moved for the fol-
lowing Return:—