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LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 27, 1833.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, JUNE 26.

The SPEAKER. resumsd the Chair at ten minutes pas
five o'clock.

Sir J. MAXWELL presented a petition from the inha-
bitants of Paisley, against the Scotch Burgh Police Bill.
The Earl of LINCOLN presented a petition from the
inhabitants of East Retford, against the Jews' Emancipa-
!ion Bill.

ROMAN CATHOLIC MARRIAGES (IRELAND

BILL.

Mr. Sergeant PERRIN moved the second reading of
the Bill for the removal of the penalty to which Catholic
priests are subjected for marrying Catholics and Pro-
testants.

Colonel PERCEVAL had no objection to the removal
of the excessive penalty to which Catholic priests weri-
subjected in such cases, but he was not for doine away
with all checks. He should be glad to put Catholic mar-
riages on the same footing with those of other Dissenters.
Mr. O'CONNELL said it was not wished to put
Catholic marriages on a different footing from those of
Dissenters, but as the law at present stood, as soon as a
Dissenting Chapel was built the person recognised as the
offic:ating clergyman was allowed to marry persons of
whatever denomination they might be. If it were found
that there were any checks on Dissenters in the perform.
ance of marriages, he would not object to the same checks
bring laid upon Catholics. All that was wished was, not
that the Catholics should be put on the same footing with
the Established Church, hut that they should be placed
on the same forting with Dissenters.

Mr. LITTLETON hoped, as the principle of the Bill
was not obi,cted to, that the House would allow it to be
read a second time.

Mr. SHAW thought it would be objectionable to do
away with every check. He did not wish that the pu-
nishment for such an offence should be excessive, but it
should not be done away altogether. The present Bill
did away with the offence altogether, which he thought
objectionable, and be did not think the House should he
call-d to legislate upon it without sufficient notice, which
had not been given in the present instance.
Mr. STANLEY said that the objection brought might
be very well founded, but it did not apply to the prin-
ciple of the present Bill. All that was wished fur by tie
present Bill was, that the excessive penalty attached to
the evil—if (Nil it might be—of Catholic clergymen per-
forming the ceremony of marriage between Protestants
and Catholics should be removed. Whether any other
checks upon such marriages in Ireland ought to be intro-
duced was too extensive a question to be discussed at
that time ; but it was one well deserving the attention
of that House. By allowing the second reading of this Bill,
however, the House only pledged itself to do away with the
present excessive penalties, and to place marriages by
Catholic clergymen on the same footing with those of
Dissenters. If it were considered desirable that cheeks
should be laid on, they might be considered in Com-
mittee.

Mr. O'CONNELL begged to be allowed to put the
House in possession of the penalties to which a Catholic
clergyman was, at present, subject in such a case. By
one statute a clergyman might be executed if he married
a Catholic and Protestant ; and, by a subsequent statute,
he might be fined 5001. for the same offence ; so that a
Catholic clergyman in Ireland might be hanged first and
fined afterwards.—(A laugh.) The Hon. Member con-
cluded by some strong animadversions on the couple-
beggars of the north of Ireland, who were ready at all
times to perform the marriage ceremony for a bottle of
whisky.
The order of the day was then read for the second
reading of the Roman Catholic Marriages Bill.

Sergeant PERRIN supported the Bill, strongly objur-
gating the Penal Acts at present in force against Roman
Catholic clergymen marrying a Catholic and reputed
Protestant. Such enactments were a reproach to the
Statute book.

The question being put,
Sir R. INGLIS opposed the Bill, and said, that with
the exception of one notorious character in Longford, no
instance bad occurred of any indictment under these enact-
ments.

The SOLICITOR-GENERAL supported the second
reading of the Bill. The enactments were a disgrace to
the Statute-book, and ought to be repealed as soon as
possible ; nor was he by any means disposed to substitute
any other enactments, not thinking the case was at all
one worthy of punishment.

An HOZC- 51iMBER said that the whole of the marriage
laws required revision, and to be put as speedily as possible
on an intelligible footing.

Mr. SHAW opposed the Bill, and observed that it was
difficult to know bow to deal with his Majesty's Ministers;
for one day they said one thing, and another day another.
—(A laugh.) Last sesssion they had opposed with all
their might a precisely similar Bill to the present, intro-
duced by the Hon. Member for Dublin (Mr. Ruthven),
and the consequence was that it bad been withdrawn..—
(No, no, from Mr. Ruthven.)
Mr. STANLEY denied that Government had ever op.
posed the principle of the Bill. The Bill alluded to (Mr.
Ruthven's) had been withdrawn in consequence of some
objection to its details. He (Mr. Stanley) perfectly agreed
that the marriage laws, not only of Ireland, but of Eog_
land—(Hear, hear)—required immediate and effectual
revision ; for in most points they were disgraceful to the
country, and he thought the best place to begin at would
be the scandalous enactments in question.
Mr. RUTH VEN said the opposition to his motion last
session had not proceeded from the Government, but from
the bigotry and factious spirit of the Protestant ascendancy
party of Ireland, which bad gone nigh to wither up the
country, but which, he hoped, was now fast dwindling
away.

Colonel PERCEVAL said, whatever censure he might
incur from the Hon. Member, for which he cared very
little, he should persevere in the course he had adopted,
not frotn motives of bigotry, but on principle ; and there.
fore he should not consent to the second reading of this
Bill, at least as it at present stood.
Mr. O'CONNELL supported the Bill, and thought it
a very unhappy thing that any Member, particularly from
Ireland, should be found to countenance such a disgraceful
set of penal enactments. The Hon. and Learned Member
observed that he knew no less than three most respectable
members of the Catholic Church who had been obliged to
leave their flocks for several years, for marrying couples,
though at the time they married them they believed both
parties to be Catholics.
The Bill was then read a second time, with but one
voice dissentient, and ordered to be committed that day
se'nnighC.
Colonel EVANS asked a questio❑ relative to the
bad state of some walks in Kensington Gardens, or
St. James's Park (we did not understand exactly which,
from the extreme low tone in which the Gallant Colonel
spoke).

_
Lord DUNCANNON was also very inaudible. We
understood him to so. that there were some alterations to
be made, which should be carried into effect as soon as
possible.

that is many of the Royal Burghs of Scotland the Ma-
cistrates have large power, both civil and criminal ; and
it was felt that it would be very injudicious to consign
into the hands of the people the power of electing those
whose office it was to keep wrong-doers in order. • It
would be hazardous in the extreme to run the risk of
men being placed in the magistracy by inflaming the po•
pular passions. On this single ground he should resist
the amendment.
Mr. HUME thought that it was formerly an argument
of the Learned Lord that the best way to strengthen the
power of the magistrates was to gain for them the support
of the people; and he asked if any better were known of
accomplishing that than the method of allowing the people
to choose those who were to govern them?
Mr. J. STEWART thought it,was not safe to make th•
road to the magistracy to lead through the gratification of
the popular sentiments. The magistrates should be above,
not dependent on, the vox populi.
Mr. R. FERGUSON thought the Bill, on the whole, a
pod measure ; and, as there was a Commission to be ap-
pointed, be should support the Bill as it stood. He cer-
tainly wished that the Bill, which would do a great deal of
good, should he as speedily passed as possible ; and when
passed, the Commissioners might inquire into the best
means of improving it.
Mr. BANNERMAN recommended the Hon. Member
for Greenock to withdraw his amendment.

Sir J. HAY thought it was the duty of that House to
make the Bill as complete as possible. The issuing a Com-
mission to inquire would be a good argument against the
Bill altogether ; but it ought not to prevent them from
making it perfect.

The Committee then divided on the amendment, when
there appeared—

For the Amendment
Against it
Majority

--19

On our re-admis,ion, we found

Sir JOHN HAY moving an amendment, which had for
its object the reductio❑ of the franchise from 101. to 54
housvholders (as we understood) in boroughs whose popu-
lation was less than 20,000. He c,,ntended that in small

boroughs, unless this plan were adopted, there would be
no constituency ; or, at least, a constituency so small,
as to be open to serious objections.
Air. JOHN MAXWELL seconded the motion.

The LORD ADVOCATE opposed the amendment. on
the ground that the same question had been already, in
effect, lost in the last Parliament. It was most desirable
that they should have one uniform system; and the conse-
quence of agreeing to this amendment would be, that the
51. householder would claim the same privllege in voting
for Members of Parliament, and their demand would be
irresistible.

Mr. OSWALD and Mr. A. Jourrszows supported the
motion.
Sir ALEXANDER HOPE could not agree to it. They
mutt make a stand somewhere.
Mr. ABERCROMBIE observed that the great feature
of the Bill was, that it would give a death-blow to the
system of self-election in the Scotch Burgh Magistracy,
and he was sure that it would meet with the entire con-
currense of the people of Scotland. He considered 101.
to be a sufficiently low qualification, and should support
the Bill. It was, in his opinion, a point of great import.
ance that the same qualification should be adopted in the
electio❑ of Magistrates as in the election of Representatives
to Parliament. The change would operate, in a great
moral effect, on the great body of the people.
Mr. MACLEOD made a few observations which were
not heard.
Mr. WALLACE said he thought the 5/. qualification
was sufficiently high for the smaller burghs. It was as
high,iall things considered, in these burghs as 151. or 20/.
would be in Glasgow or Edinburgh.
Sir JOHN HAY said it certainly was his intention to
divide the House.

Mr. JOHN MURRAY said he was not disposed to run
the risk of losing the Bill entirely for the chance of ob-
taining a better. He should therefore vote against the
amendment.
Sir JOHN HAY said he did not contemplate the loss of
the Bill when he proposed hid amendment.
Mr. J. MURRAY explained.
L'rd ERNEST BRUCE said he would support the
meascire of the Learned Lord. He (Lord Bruce) had cer-
tainly bee❑ connected with the old system of the Scotch
burghs, and be had thought it his duty to defend their
interests in the last Parliament. He had then an oppor-
tunity of seeing how vicious the system was.—( Hear.)
Mr. HUME said he was happy to hear these observations
of the Noble Lord, recollecting the sentiments which he
expressed in the last Parliament. He took his remarks as
a confession of the evils of the system. He (Mr. Hume)
should vote for the 5/. qualification, because he thought
the broader the basis of election was, the more stable the
system would be.
Lord E. BRUCE and Mr. ABERCROMBIE explained.
An HON. MEMBER observed that he saw no reason why
a varying system of qualification should not be adopted
according to the size and opulence of the burghs.
Mr. KENNEDY thought that it was of the utmost
consequence to maintain the identity of the qualification
for voting in the election for Representatives in Parlia-
ment amid that in the election of municipal officers. He
considered the 101. franchise sufficiently low in both cases.
The gallery was then cleared for a division--
For the Amendment
Against it 54
Majority 1
On our re-admission to the gallery, we found

Mr. GILLON stating that he had received communi-
cations from almost every place in Scotland, complaining
of the extensive disfranchisement which the measure
would occasion. He proposed an amendment to give the
right of voting for the municipal officers to all the burgesses
Mr. HUME supported his Hun. Friend's proposition.
Were not the burgesses of Scotland equal in respectability
to the freemen of England ? And did the House recol-
lect the successful opposition made to the disfranchisement
of the freemen of Newcastle and other places? Why
should the one class of persons be entitled to a privilege
which was to be denied to the other? The burgesses of
Scotland were a most respectable class of persons ; and if
they were to be excluded from the enjoyment of the fran-
chise, it would be a gross injustice to them, and would be
in all respects a measure of bad policy.
The LORD ADVOCATE said that the burgesses were
not to be excluded, they were only not to be admitted.
The burgesses of the present, were not like those of a
former period. The change, owing to the facility with
which they now became burgesses, was such as to justify
❑ot their exclusion from, but their non-admission to, the
privilege of voting for municipal officers. In a great
number of the burghs, the burgesses exceeded the 101.
voters in number ; in some they were as many again, and
in a few three or four times as many ; so that by admit-
ting them, the principle of limiting the privilege to 101.
voters would be destroyed.
Mr. C. BRUCE was invare of the facility with which
burgesses might be admitted, and therefore recommended
his Hon. Friend tc limit his amendment to such burgesses
as were already so ; otherwise he foresaw that it might be
made the ineans of the grossest abuse. If his Hon.
Friend would so modify his amendment, he (Mr. Bruce)
wooki certainly vote for it.
Mr. JERVIS recommended the Hon. Member for
Lanark to take the advice of the Hon. Gentleman who
bad just spoken. He considered the measure under con-
sideration as highly unjust and impolitic. The complaint
was, that the people of Scotland had no confidence in
their magistrates, because they were self-elected. The
present measure would increase the evil. He opposed it
also as a precedent, which might be applied to England ;
for; it it was contended that it was good for Scotland, it
might justly be contended that it was good for England.
Mr, GILLON said that, in compliance with the re-
commendatio❑ of those around him, he was willing to
confine the right of admission to burgesses at present in
existence.

After a few words from General Sharpe, Mr. Banner..
man, Mr. Oswdld, Mr. Lloyd, and others, the Committee
divided, when there appeared—
Yor the Original Motion lO2
For the Amendment
Majority —44
One re-entering the gallery, we found
Mr. R. CUMMING BRUCE moving an amendment,
the object of which he described to be, that in the burghs
those who had votes for the Magistracy should have the
right of voting in the election of burgesses.
The LORD ADVOCATE said he should oppose the
amendment—first, because it was in substance almost the
same as the last ; and next, because it had the effect of
recognising ski periorities.
Mr. COLQUHOUN we understood to support the
amendment.

(PRICE 713.)

After a few words from Mr. EwING and Mr. Cu3l-
- BRUCE, who said he would not withdraw his
amendment, the Committee divided, when there appeared—
Against the Amendment l3l
In its favour l7

Majority
After several verbal amendments,the clause was agreed to.
Several other clauses were then agreed to.
When the Committee arrived at clause C,
General SHARPE proposed an amendment, to pro-
vide that all voters, like burgesses, be eligible to the ma-
gistracy. He bad been desired by the magistrates of one
of the burghs he represented, to press this amendment to a
division.

The LORD ADVOCATE opposed the amendment,
and a division immediately took place—
For the amendment
Against it 75
Majority l5
Mr. MAXWELL moved that the borough of Fortrose,
with a population of 1,800 souls, be omitted from the list
of burghs in the Bill.

The LORD ADVOCATE opposed the motion, on the
ground that the number of voters was so few. It was ne-
gatived without a division.

The several other clauses and the preamble were then
gone through ; the House resumed; the report was re-
ceived, and ordered to be taken into further consideration
on Monday next.
The House then resolved itself into a Committee on the
Burgh Magistrates Bill.
The several other clauses having been considered,
The report was received, and ordered to be taken into
further consideration on Monday next.
The Scotch Burgh Police Bill then passed through a
Committee, and wds ordered to be taken into further con-
sideration on Monday next.
JEWS' DISABILITIES BILL.
Mr. R. GRANT moved that the order of the day be
read for the House to resolve it.elf into a Committee on
the Jewish Disabilities Bill.

Sir ROBERT INGLIS objected to going into a Com-
mittee at that late hour (one o'clock), because this was
one of the most important questions that ever came before
the House.—(Cries of "Go on.") He would take the
sense of the House upon the subject.
Mr. R. GRANT would be sorry to take any step which
would be inconvenient to any Member in the House. He
hoped, however, that the Hon. Baronet would recollect
the time which had elapsed since the Bill was introduced,
the great degree of expectation out of doors on the subject,
and the circumstance that they had had two debates upo❑
the principle of the Bill already. If there was any Bill
in which the details were in unison with the principle, it
was this, in which there was only one clause.
Sir CHARLES BURRELL then moved, as an amend-
ment, " That the House do now adjourn."
The gallery was cleared for a division, when there ap-
peared—

For the adjournment 22
Against it
Majority 95

On our return to the gallery, we found
Sir R. INGLIS in possession of the House. He pro-
tested against the whole principle of the Bill. He con-
tended that this was a question whether this country was
to remain a Christian country or not. If the present Biil
passed into a law, it would no longer be a Christian
country. He moved that the Bill be taken into further
consideration that day six months.
Sir C. BURRELL seconded the motion.

After a few words from Mr. Richards, Mr. Maxwell,
Major Cumming Bruce, Mr. A. Johnstone, and Mr. Tooke,
the latter of whom observed that this was not so entirely
a new proposition, for there had been a similar Bill in
effect for seven years, during the rebellion of 1715, for
certain purposes, and no ill consequences experienced--
The House divided, when there appeared—
For the amendment
Against it ll7
Majority

On our re-admission to the gallery, we found
Mr. H. HUGHES moving the adjournment.
Lord PALMERSTON opposed it.
Lord STORMONT supported it, on the ground that
there were many Members absent who wished to express
their sentiments on the question.
Mr. SINCLAIR was opposed to the measure, but
would not support the adjournment.
The gallery was then cleared, but no division took place.
On our re admission,

Sir 0. MOSLEY was moving an amendment on the
first clause, to provide that no Jew should be allowed to
become a Member of either House of Parliamert.
The House divided, when there appeared—
For the Amendment 23
Against it
Majority —9s
On our re-admission, we found

Mr. A. JOHNSTONE moving an amendment, that the
whole of the proviso in the first clause should be omitted.
The House then divided, when there appeared—..
For the amendment 2O
Against it lO4
Majority
On our re-entrance to the gallery,
Mr. PLUMPTRE was moving an amendment on the
second clause, in order to nullify the measure, that the
words proposed to be left out of the oath, " On the true
faith of a Christian," be retained.
Mr. BERNAL suggested that the Hon. Member had
better move that the clause be omitted altogether.
Mr. PLUMPTRE agreed to this form of amendment.
The House dividing, there appeared—,
For the amendment l9
Against it llO
Majority -01
The rest of the clauses were then agreed to, with the
preamble ; and the report was ordered to be received
this slay.

The other orders of the day were then disposed of ; and
:he House adjourned at half•past two.

According to letters from Havre, there are
now at that port 30 whalers fitting out for fishing voy-
ages. This branch of industry was scarcely known in
France three or font years ago.

The Conservative clique have passed the last
week in great activity and bustle. Their scouts have been
upon the alert early each day ; and the meetings of the
Club, o❑ Carlton Terrace, generally at the hour of three
o'clock, have been numerously attended by the leaders of
the cabal. They are reported to have resigned their ori-
ginal ground of opposition to the Irish Church Bill, see-
ing that the great body of the people are against them.
The Drury-lane Theatrical Fund are about to
erect a handsome monument to the memory of KEAN;
b OW. is named as the sum. CHANTEY i 8 to be the artist.

A YOUNG COUPLE.—PERTH, Auo. 29,
1618.—Mr. JOHN GUTHRIE, on ane sonday efter the
efternoons sermone, mariet the master of Sanquher with
Sir ROBERT Swurris dochter, ane Inglis knycht in York-
schyre. Nather of the parties exceeded 13 zieris of age.
—Scostman.

THE AMERICAN IN LONDON.—" We never
had the gratifcatio❑ to read a book that inspired us with
more respect for the character of the writer, for his just-
ness of observatiow, his kindness of heart, his anxious de-
sire to promote cordiality betwee❑ the two great nations,
whose good understanding it was his mission to promote,
than Mr. RUSH'S ' Account of his residence at the Court
of London.' We feel confident that the extensive circu-
lation which this work will, doubtless, have, will go fat
to remove much of the vulgar prejudice which exists
among the ignorant in this country against what is sup-
posed to be the jealousy of the Americans. We have here
the honest opinions of an intelligent American gentleman
of us English people, written in a spirit of candour, which
forms at once the charm and the value of the writing."—
Courier.

ENGLISH THEATRE IN THE BRAZILS.

—On the 22d ult. the tragedy of Macbeth was repre-
sented at Rio Janeiro. The place was crowded to soft....
cation. The appearance of the female part of the
audience, consisting principally of English and French
ladies, promiscuously mingled, formed a most charminc
coup trail. The parts of Macbeth and Bangui" were
sustained by Mr. YATES and Mr. NATHAN ; the part o,
Lady Macbeth was filled by Mr. THOMAS COPE, a native
of the Azores. Mr. PALMER played 4laeduff. The after-
piece was the Apprentice, and it went off well. Mr.
CAMERON was the Charlotte. Some unfortunate di—
turbance took place in consequence of a number of young
men having improperly obtruded themselves into the
gallery appropriated to the ladies ; and some very high
words took place between these individuals and the ap-
pointed guardians of the fair Be:o.—Rio Paper.

" 2. That it is the opinion of this Committee that
the annual value of the house and prenises held by
any person applying for a beer license be the standard of
qualification.

" 3. That it is the opinion of this Committee that the
justices, at the first quarter sessions after the passing of
the Act, shall draw up schedules for the parishes or town-
ships of the county, showing the rate varying between 'ii.
and 151., at which the beer-house licenses shall be
erented, subject nevertheless to such alterations within the
above limits as the justices may, at any future quarter
evasions, deem right on requisition of not less than six rate-
payers of the parish or township within which the altera-
tion is sought to he made.
" 4. That it is the opinion of this Committee that it
be obligatory, on requisition from any applicant, to give
certificate of the amount of rate at which inch applicant
is rated, and of the proportion which the rate of the said
parish or township bears to the rack-rent thereof.
" 5. That it is the opinion of this Committee that it
be requisite that any person applying for a beer license
shall produce a certificate (signed by six rated inhabitants
of the parish, none of whom shall be beer tellers, in Welch
he resides) to the good character of the applicant.
" 6. That it is the opinion of this Committee that, in
case of application for the renewal of a beer license, it
shall be requisite to produce a certificate, signed by six
rated inhabitants of the parish, to the peaceable and ree-
spectable manner in which the beer house has been con-
ducted in the past year.
" 7. That it is the opinion of this Committee that the
certificate be signed by the overseer, or assistant overseer,
as a proof that the six persons named were rated inhabitants.
" 8. That it is the opinion of this Committee that it is
expedient that some provision should be made, in conformity
with the principle of the foregoing resolutions, for grant-
ing beer licenses to houses within extra-parochial places,
not rated to the relief of the poor.
" 9. That it is the opinion of this Committee that, in-
stead of the penalties imposed by the Act 11 Geo. IV.,
and 1 Will. IV., the penalty against a beer housekeeper
for a first offence shall vary from 40s. to 101.
" 10. That it is the opinion of this Committee that, in
addition to all other penalties and liabilities imposed by the
said Act, the Magistrates in Petty Sessions shall have the
power of suspending licenses upon second conviction for a
period not exceeding two years.
" 11. That it is the opinion of this Committee that, for
the third offence, the penalty be, instead of a disqualifica-
tion for two years, a Mee disqualification fur a period not
exceeding three years, in addition to the pecuniary penal-
ties and liabilities imposed by the said Act.
" 12. That it is the opinion of this Committee that the
beer houses be closed on Sunday until half-past 12 o'clock
tat noon, provided that the keepers of licensed beer houses
may be permitted to sell beer by retail not to be drank on
the premises within the hours now permitted by law.
" 13. That it is the opinion of this Committee that
lodgers and inmates of licensed beer houses shall be ex-
empted from the above prohibition.
"14. That it is the opinion of this Committee that
the period for ke..ping open at night-beer houses may be
extended in the town and contracted in the country dis-
tricts ; that it should therefore be in the power of the
Justices of the Quarter Sessions in open Court, once in
each year, to fix the period within their district, in the
town districts not earlier than ten or later than eleven, in
the country districts not earlier than nine or later than ten.
" Your Committee cannot conclude their observations
on the important subject which was referred to them by.
the House without calling their attention to the expe-
diency of the system under which all houses are licensed
for the retail of beer and spirituous liquors being revised
in a future session of Parliament; and, without expressing
a decisive opinion on this extensive subject, the Committee
feel that very serious reasons of justice and public advan-
tage may be adduced in favour of an assimilation of all
the regulations as to hours and management to which
every description of house licensed to sell beer or spi-
rituous liquors by retail should be subjected."
The Report and Resolutions were accompanied with
the Minutes of Evidence taken before the Committee;
they also have been ordered to be printed.

DEATH OP THE RET. ARCHDEAGOX
T110111.5021.—We announce, with deep and unaffected re-
uret, the death of the Rev. Archdeacon TnoursoN. which
took place on Wednesday night at his residence on the
Mardyke I'arade. Archdeacon Tssouraosr in early life
was the associate of the present Lord Chancellor of Ire-
land, and of the late Dr. Maass of Dublin ; and the
friendship of those distinguished individuals was calti-
•ated with mutual ardoir, till death terminated it on the
part of the latter. Hi• collegiate career was opened in
zealous and indefatieable exertions, anal closed by his
appointment to the benefice which he lately held.—Cork
Constitution.

A stall in Lincoln Cathedral is vacant by the
death of the Rev. Licssuus CHAILLU Humrazr.
SINGULAR CIRCUMSTANCE.—A correspon-
dent states that some swallows are building their nest on
the edge of a very antique looking-glass in the lodging-
room of a person at East Cottingwitb. The window of
the room is left open in the day time until their labours
are over, and at four every morning the owner of the room
re-opens it, and has much pleasure as he lies in bed, in
watching the great industry and admirable ingenuity of the
feathered builders.— York Herald.

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The giant mortar, which made so much noise
during the siege of Antwerp, burst at the camp on the
heath at Braschaet en the 18th inst. Some artillery men
were practising with it preparatory to its being exhibited
at a review, which is to take place on the 24th, by the
Kinn. It had been three times charged, first with 21,
then with 17, and afterwards with lb kilogrammes of
powder, and it was ascertained that it carried the shell to
the same distance and with the same force with the smaller
as with the greater quantity. On being fired the fourth
time, it was charged with only 9 kilogrammes of powder;
but probably being too closely rammed, it split in two,
throwing a piece of iron weighing 8,000 kilogrammes, or
nearly 6,107 English pounds, to a distance of abeve 20
feet.—Happily no one was wounded.— Golignani's es.
SUGAR REFINERIES OF LONDON.-.-A pub-
lic meeting of tradesmen, shopkeepers, and others, inte-
rested in the welfare of the Sugar Refining Trade in the
Eietern district of London, was held on Monday even..
ing, at the Court-house, Osbourne-street, Whitechapel,
G. OFFER, Esq., in the chair. The Chairman said,
that out of 200 refining houses in London, more than 100
were in the Tower Hamlets. In the latter, the sugar
refiners used to pay far labour more than 600,000/, per
anuum—now it was under 200,0001. If Brazil sugars
were allowed to be mixed with colonial sugars, this
country would be able to supply foreign markets at a
fair price. This would give employment to capital and
shipping, and the sugar would be paid for by our ma-
nufactures. If foreign sugars continued under prohibi-
tion, refining houses in all parts of the continent would
be established, and if the trade was once lost, it would
not be easy to regain it. There were ten complete sets
cf apparatus for refining house, now manufacturing in
London for one city alone on the oontinent.---(Hear,
hear.) Mr. Gounx, Mr. J. APC.estie, Mr. It. M'Cans,
Mr. Fouteiza, and others, addressed the meeting, and
it was agreed to present petitions to the Kixe and the
Parliament, setting forth the distress of the sugar re-
fining trade, aad the necessity of taking off the metric-
tive duties on Brasil and other sugars. A deputation
was also appointed to wait on Lord ALYIOIIIIr.
A crime has been lately discovered near
Chantilly, which reminds as of the feudal ages. An
inheritance having fallen to one of the noble families of
that neighbourhood, and one of the suns, whose presence
was required, not making his appearance, the father was
asked what had become of the son. As he did not give a
satisfactory account of his son's absence, suspicions' arose,
and, after some search, the young man was found in a
subterranean prison, where he had been shut up for seven
years, with an iron collar round his neck, by which he
was fastened to a post. It appears that this young mar
wished to marry a person beneath his rank, which the
parents prevented by this horrible means. No further
particulars are as yet known ost the object... Galismanis
hiustnyen