The Sun.
London, England, 1834-02-25 00:00:00

CITY TOLLS•

Mr. Scales said thatbe saw by an Act-of Henry tilt
6th the ci•y was granted twopence for every load of
foreign merchandize entering the city after having eon*
from beyond the seas. It was originally so levied. It
was levied at Aldgate, where he first commenced business,
and it was levied improperly, as it was levied on every
description of property going out of and coming into tee
City, unless the cart were a freeman's. The Ea.!: India
Company refused to pay the City toll for their goodde
They disputed the point, and had tt.e right granted their;
The COMMISSIONEKS said that on Tuesday they ttetieict
consider the subjects of the watch and police, and, as tlitit'
labours were drawing to a close, they hoped that any per.
son who bad information to offer would come for ward,—
Adjourned.

The Earl. of Durham, this winter, caused
2,000 tons of coals to be distributed amongst the pour of
Sunderland, Bisbopwearmnuth, and neiebtiourhood. We
should have had great pleasure in recording that this noblEf
instance of b•nevolence had been followed by the other
coal-owners.—Sunderland Herald.

The venerable Admiral Sir Sidney Smith,
who for several years has resided at Paris has arrived front
Fiance on a visit to his relatives, Mr. and Mrs. Vernon
Smith, in Saville-street.

Some surprise has been expressed that the
Governorship of Portsmouth has not yet been filled up.
Among other causes of this delay we have heard what ap-
pears to be a very natural solution, namely, that the office
entails on its holder an expenditure fully commensurate
with the amount of his salary. This circumstance gives
some colour to the report that Sir Thomas 11PMahon,
and other officers to whom that post of honour had been
offered, begged leave most respectfully to decline
Sunday Paper.

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The Chesterfield Banking Company have
taken a house in Rotherham, and purpose commencing a
branch bank in that town very early in March. This step.
has been taken in consequence of a requisition presented
to the Directors from the shareholders and customers in
that neighbourhood.—Derby Reporter.

The Rev. William Giffard, appointed to the
living of Imogeesha, when Dr. Austin resigned the union
of Middleton, has been hooted and insulled on his way to
attend his Sunday ministrations ; and his assailants have
been heard to declare, that as soon as a new church is
built in the parish, tbey will pull it down, and bury him
self and his family in the ruins ! Mr. Giffard has ex-
pressed his intention of• resigning.—lrish Paper.

The Bishop of Worcester has determined on
reviving in the deaneries within his Lordship's jurisdic-
tion, in Worcestershire and Warwickshire, the ancient
office of Rural Dean, which has been discontinued in the
diocese for nearly a century ; and we are happy to find that
so proper a person, in all respects, as the Right Hon. and
Rev. Lord Aston has been the first of the beneficed clergy
to accept, from the hands of the Bishop, the appointment of
so honourable and important an office.—Northampton
Free Press.

The widow of the late Rev. A. Eveleigh,
curate of Aylesford, residing at Nile•terrace, Roches:er,
while busy lately at her toilet, accidentally set fire to her
cap, by which she was so severely injured that her life has
fallen a sacrifice. She was 79 years of age.— Greenwich
Gazette.

THE DISSENTERS.—Each congregation in
the town is about to forward petitions to the legis-
lature, praying for relief from their grievances. They
ask, Ist—For relief from church rates and all eccle-
siastical dues; 2d—To be allowed to marry; 3d
For a general registration of births and deaths; 4'h—For
permission to bury in the public parochial cemeteries ; sth
admission to the Universities.— Sherborne Journal.

BRIDPORT.—The Lay Declaration in the
town has met with considerable success in its circulation,
and has extended to the neighbourhood, as each parish
was desirous of having a sheet to show their own strength
and attachment to the Church of England.—Dorset
County Chronicle.
Meetings are now holding in various parts of
the county, for the purpose of petitioning against the malt
tax ; there can be little doubt that they will be universal.
—Northampton Free Press.

On Thursday a public dinner was given to
Edward Baines, Esq., in the large room at the Commercial
Buildings, Leeds, on the occasion of his election to repre-
sent this borough in Parliament. The dinner-room and
the approaches to it were tastefully decorated with laurel.
Notwithstanding the shortness of the notice for the pre-
paration of this festivity, everything was got up in the
most handsome style, and the arrangements made by the
Stewards secured the comfort of the company, which
consisted of nearly two hundred gentlemen. James G.
Marshall, Esq., brother to J. Marshall, jun., Esq., M.P.,
was in the chair. George Itiwson, H. H. Stansfeld, and
Matthew Gaunt, Esqts., officiated as Vice-Chairmen.
Five o'clock was the hour appointed for the dinner, pre-
vious to which a great number of gentlemen had assem-
bled in the drawing-room, who received the newly elected
Member with the most hearty cheers. An excellent body
of glee singers added much to the pleasure of the meeting.
—Leeds Mercury.
LADY BLESSINGTON'S JOURNAL OF HER
CONVERSATIONS WITH LORD 13VRON.TiliS work con-
tinues to excite great interest. The following apology for
the publication, though not in the least called for, is pre-
fixed to the volume:—" The deep and general interest
with which every detail connected with Lord Byron has
ben received by the public, induc d the writer to publish
her Conversations with him. She was for a long time
undecided as to adopting this measure, fearful that, by the
invidious, it might be considered as a breach of cerifi lence;
but as Boswell's and Mrs. Piozzi's disclosures, relative to
Dr. Johnson, were never viewed in this light, and as
Lord Byron never gave or implied, the slightest injunction•
to secrecy, she hopes that she may equally escape such an
imputation."
DEATH OF MR. MELROSE.—Mr. Melrose,
the favourite tenor singer of the London and Dublin
Theatres, expired at his lodgings, on Aston's-quay, on
Sunday morning. He performed the character of Count
Belling on Thursday, in Abbey-street, and sang beiuti •
fully. No symptom of illness was perceptible on that
evening, nor did he feel indisposed till the following morn-
ing, when he complained of illness in his throat, and it
was discovered that quinsy was rapidly advancing. Not-
withstanding prompt medical assistance he died early on
Sonday morning, leaving a wife and young family.—
Dublin Evening Post.
OPPRESSION.—We very much regret to
witness the illiberal and dangerous proceedings of some of
the church party since their defeat. _Several clergymen
hive called on Dissenters with whom they had accounts
and settled them, saying that, "after this, they should
not think of dealing with Dissenters." Other expressions
have been used by them which we forbear to repeat. One
tradesinan answered thus one of those preachers of the
religion of peace, charity, and love, "You, Sir, claim tl e
right of thinking as you please ; I am but a tradesman,
Sir, but I claim for myself the same privilege." Is this
the toleration of which we heard so much at the meeting?
—Sherborne Journal.
We are happy to hear a very satisfactory ac-
count of the Earl of Egr.mont's health. The statement
copied from the Portsmouth Herald into the Wition
papers is, therefore, of course, erroneous; p:64bly it
refers to the relapse from which we last week hal the
gratification of announcing his Loidshipid re( overy.--.
Brighton Paper.

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LONDON,
TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 25, 1834.

Two of the most important Bills connected
with the notoriously defective state of the repre-
sentation will be debated on their respective
merits, and read a second time to-morrow even-
ing, in the House of Commons. The reiormed
Parliament will now be brought to the test—as
to how far it is sufficiently purified to extinguish
the base and corrupt practices of our city and
borough elections. The ballot has been hitherto
rejected, on the ground that it would not re-
medy the evils of the system. We are assured,
and have always asserted, that it would extir-
pate bribery and illegal practices in a large con-
stituency ; but it is for the House of Commons
now to administer other antidotes to the
notorious corruption which prevailed at the
last general election.
There are palpably two modes of effecting a
cure of the gross evils of the existing system ;
first, by the extinction of the rotten franchise ;
secondly, by the infusion of a more sound body
into the present limited constituencies. Both
these practical remedies are about to be applied
in the instances of Liverpool and Warwick.
In the former town the Reform Act added the
ten-pound householders to the old body of free-
men. The first draft of the English Bill
wisely contained a clause extinguishing the right
of the freemen in the cities and boroughs to
vote at elections of Members of Parliament ;
but the Tories artfully contrived to expunge the
clause, that, by perpetuating the lower class of
voters with open voting, they might retain the
means of corrupting, bribing, and treating a por-
tion of the constituency. The effect of this cunning
device has been signally manifested at Liverpool,
Bristol, and Norwich, where the venal freemen
and old burgesses swamped the ten pound
householders and returned Conservatives not
honestly representing the real political opinions
of those towns. In Liverpool the base bribery
of these wretched and depraved electors has
" out Heroded Herod ;' and the Reports of
various Committees have recommended their
entire disfranchisement. Doubtless many inge:
'lions arguments will be used by Sir ROBERT
PEEL, Sir JAMES SCARLETT, et id omne
genus, to excuse the corruptionists and pervert
the evidence against them ; but no real Reformer
can oppose their disfranchisement. The other
case, that of the borough of Warwick, die-
plays the most infamous and various election
corruption on the records of Parliament. We
have received an abstract of the evidence of
the voluminous reports on the disputed re-
turn for that borough ; it is unanswerable, and
're cannot anticipate any opposition, but a little
indecent objection, to the union of Leamington
with Warwick. The addition of 800 ten-pound
householders, fresh electors of Leamington, to
the constituency of Warwick, will secure the
purity and freedom of Warwick, and rescue its
representation from the claws of its " patron"
the Earl of WARWICK; and we do not doubt
that the result of Mr. PETER'S motion, of an
address to the Crown, to dismiss his Lordship
from the Lord Lieutenancy of Warwickshire,
will signally punish the real offender, and operate
as a salutary warning to the Boroughmongerine
Peers who illegally and unconstitutionally meddle
with the electoral rights of the People.

The principle on which relief should be ad-
ministered to the indigent, as laid down by the
Poor LHw Commissioners, and which, in fact,
ought to form the groundwork of every system
of poor laws—is, that the condition of the
pauper shall in no case be so eligible as that of

the independent labourer. If exceptions be
made to this rule, it ought to be only in cases
of a peculiar nature, such as sudden disease or
sudden loss of fortune, when the unfortunate ob-
jects of relief could not, by any possible
means provide against the emergency. Discre-
tionary powers, of course, must be given to the
superintending officers to meet such cases, but
the general rule ought never to be lost sight of,
and the lower classes ought always to be kept in
mind, that idleness, improvidence, and prodiga-
lity, though punishable by no law, are crimes of
great magnitude, and never can pass with im-
punity. That mawkish sensibility which would
prevent able bodied men from being sent to
a workhouse, because the practice is degrading,
hardly deserves notice. Every state of pauperism
is degrading. It is fitting and proper that it
should be so, else the idle and the profligate
would trust only ter the labour of others, and
devour that subsistence which should be set
apart for the helpless and unfortunate. As the
workhouse system has, therefore, been found
efficient in some districts, and as it has been found
by experience in the United States that the labour
of persons in confinement can be made nearly
to meet their expenses, the mere question of
feeling can form no grounds for rejecting a plan
whose chief object is to abolish a system that has
not only degraded the English peasantry below
that of any other country, but entailed on the
community an expense equal to the fourth of
the national debt, or nearly as much in some
years as suffices for the maintenance of the army
and navy. Violent diseases require violent reme-
dies, and if a violent remedy be not applied
in this case, the cure is hopeless. As it is pre•
mature, however, to go into details on the mea-
sure till it is brought before Parliament in a
tangible shape, we shall confine ourselves to one
o6servation on the proposed abolition of the
bastardy law. These laws have, no doubt, in-
flicted great injustice, and encouraged peijury
and other crimes, but the remedy which the
Commissioners would recommend appears even
worse than the disease. The oath of a worthless
woman ought not to be admitted as a sufficient
plea for affiliation—in many cases the oath of
the man would be preferable, and the choice
should be left to the discretion of the magistrate,
but to remove all responsibility on his part and
throw the support of the child on the mother
appears so absurd, that we would charitably sup-
pose we had mistaken the meaning of the Com-
missioners but for their concluding remark :
" But the woman may bring an action for breach
of promise of marriage, or her parents sue for
the loss of her services." A helpless woman
without a penny in the world bringing an action!
This is worse than mockery. The certain con-
sequence of such a law would be the increase of
child-murder.

The French papers of Sunday speak of the
return of the Lyons workmen to their duties,
which has taken place at a very seasonable
moment, for it seems that on Friday evening
last a struggle took place in the neighbouring
manufacturing town of St. Etienne, between
the Republicans and the civil authorities. Go-
vernment had, however, taken effectual means
to repress the disturbance. Private letters,
dated Paris, Sunday afternoon, allude to
some tumults which were likely to take place
in the capital on that day. The utmost
precautions had been taken by the civil powers
to preserve good order, and up to the period
when the estafette left Paris no disturbance of

any sort had taken place. The Chamber of
Deputies had rejected certain petitions which
had been presented for the repeal of the law of
banishment against the BONAPARTE family ;
but. had given some sort of indirect sanction to
a petition which prayed that his remains might
be demanded of the British Government and

brought to France for sepulture. No news of
toy importance had reached Paris from Madrid.
The period for the convocation of the Cortes
(lid not seem to be yet definitively Fettled ; till

this constitutional authority be fully recog-
nised, there can be no hope of permanent quiet
for Spain, for it is the peg on which hang the
destinies of the country.

Brussels papers to the 24th inst. have been
received. It will be seen by the following ex-
tracts that energetic measures are to be adopted
with respect to the late outrage committed" by
the Prusso-llutch Governor of Luxemburg.
The Brussels correspondent of a Morning Paper
says that—

" General Dumoulin is a Dutchman by birth, though in the
E.ervice of Prussia, and commanding the garrison of Luxem-
burg, in the name of the Germanic Diet. He has a brother, of
the same rank as his own. in the Dutch army. There is no
doubt of both being stanch friends of the King of Holland, and
devoted to his system of policy. It is therefore possible that his
military governor may have overstepped the limits of his orders,
and that on a strong remonstrance from England and France,
he may be reprimanded and removed. This might perhaps
satisfy the offended feelings of Belgium. But should he be
supported, thanked, and encouraged in further aggression,
what will France and England do ? Events will answer this
question. In the mean time it is most desirable that this coun-
try should see its own situation throughout the affair, and be
convinced that the insult and the injury suffered by M. Hanno
are not mere), offered to Belgium, but virtually to France and
England, the guardian of her rights, and, as she fully expects
to find them, the protectors of her honour. It is understood
that M. Van de Weyer will set out for London to-morrow,
bearing with him the matured and positive decision of this
Government "

BRUSSELS, FEB, 22.—The Minister of War has just ordered
the commanders of corps of the army to suspend, till further
orders, the leave of absence granted daily to the officers and
soldiers.—Liberal. .

We are assured that the sth and 10th Regiments of the
Line are going to set out for the province of Luxemburg, under
the command of General Naas. It is also said that 12 or
15,000 men, now absent on temporary furloughs, are going
to be recalled to their corps.
We give these accounts without answering for their correct.
ness ; however, we may say, as we have it from an officer of
the regiment, that the Ist Regiment of the Line in garrison
at Charleroi has received orders to proceed to Luxemburg.
One battalion of that regiment is already at Arlon.—lnde-
pendant.

Notwithstanding the accounts given this morning by the
Emancipation and the Independant, of movements of traops
towards Luxemburgh, which have been or are going to be
ordered, we think we can affirm that no measure beyond that
we mentioned yesteaday has been ordered by the Government.
Foreign diplomacy has already acted, and people begin to
congratulate themselves openly on the two days of calm in the
Chamber that have succeeded the storms in the beginning of
the week.

The discussion of the report of M. Merode, if indeed there
should be any discussion, is expected with firmness by the
Government. The foreign envoys have already acquainted it
with the conversions that they have made in the Senate and
in the Chamber, and the liberty of M. Hanno will in a few
days terminate the drama in a very simple manner, according
to the opinion of Messrs. de Latour Maubourg and Robert
Adair.

The Journal of Luxemburg, which our readers know is
composed and published in the federal fortress, under the in-
fluence of the Grand Ducal Commission of Government, ex-
presses itself as follows on the first debates in our Chambers,
respecting the affairs of Luxemburg : .

" Such subtleties are not to be refuted. The public read

' them, laughs, and pities a poor nation, on whom persons of this
stamp have imposed their authority.
`' In all this the consequence is what we have to consider,
and this is, that within the line to which the radius of the
fortress reaches, and soon, doubtless, within the more ex-
tended territory covered by the great radius (that is
to say a circle, the radius of which is two leagues instead of
one, the Belgian agents will no longer perform any operation
for the raising of the militia, and will abstain from wasting the
forests belonging to the domain ; and the motive which leads
to this result is on the one hand the dignity and security of the
fortress, and on the other the inalienable rights of the Govern-
ment of the King Grand Duke to the property of the state.
The Belgian Ministers feel the impossibility of forgetting the
respect which they owe to the Confederation, which enjoins
them to observe these two points. The men of energy do not
feel this necessity. They say aloud, If M. Rogicr, minister
of the interior, wishes to obtain speedy satisfaction, advise
him to appoint M. Huart commissary of the district of Luxemberg.
Perhaps this rigid commissary may obtain the object which
M. Nothomb points out as that of his Government, and the in-
habitants of the villages within the circle will be able to con-
tract marriages, pay for licences, get passports,' &c. As if a
certificate of having performed military service had even been
required to deliver a license—as if the burgomasters did not
celebrate marriages without requiring the certificates, when it
is physically impossible to produce them! What can we add
to these fine things ? None but the Prussian Senate could pre..
serve its gaity, amidst these follies of the Carnival.
" We have placed all these fine things before our readers
that they may judge of the pleasantries to which the Belgian
Senate is exposed abroad by the culpable weakness of the Go-
vernment of the country since the defection of the National
Congress.—Courrier Beige, Feb. 23.
The Chamber of Representatives continued yesterday (21st)
the discussion on the budget of the Interior.—Brussels Papers,
Feb. 23.

NAPOLI, DEC. 14.—Tranquillity and order have been conso-
lidated in an extraordinary manner within these nine months.
Respect and confidence in the Government daily increase.
Rear-Admiral Count Dandolo arrived at Napoli on the 10th.
—Osserv. Triest.

VIENNA, FED. 14.—Five per Cent. Metalliques, 97 7_16;
Four per Cent , 87 IA ; Bank Shares, 1,235 4-s.—Allgemeine
Zeitung, Feb. 19.
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It appears probable that the Secretaryship to
Lloyd's will be sharply contested, for we hear
there are no less than eleven candidates, amongst
whom is Mr. John Penny, a gentleman of
literary attainments, whose productions have
been often before the public. We believe he
has some powerful friends amongst the sub-
scribers, and should he be elected, we think the
gentlemen of Lloyd's will have good reason to be
satisfied with their choice.

PERIA RLIAMENrI
THIS DAY, TUESDAY, FEB. 25.

HOUSE OF COMMO VS.

The SPEAKER took the chair at a few minutes past twelve.
Mr. Woodthorpe brought up a return of the number of
coaches and cabs plying in the metropolis.
➢lr. WILLIAMS brought up a report of the committee on
the Dorchester paving and lighting petition, and obtained
leave to bridg in a bill.

Mr. WM. MILES brought up the report of the committee
on the Bridgewater and Taunton canal.
Mr. B. CARTER brought up the report of the committee on
the Limerick water-works' petition, and obtained leave to
bring in a bill.

Lord ROBERT MANNERS brought up the report of the
committee on an insurance company's petition, the name of
which we could not hear. The same hon. member brought in
a bill to enable the Leicester Navigation Company to make a
railway near Swannington.
Mr. E. BULWER brought In a bill to enable the corpora-
tion of the city of Lichfield to make a turnpike road towards
Chester.

Mr. ENVART moved the second reading of the Ocean In-
surance Company. Bill.

The bill was accordingly read a second time, and ordered to
be committed.

The same HON. MEMBER presented a petition, very nume-
rously signed, in favour of the Liverpool Small Tenements Bill,
then before the house.

Lord G. SOMERSET presented a petition for leave to make
a railroad from London to Reading, and from thence to Bath
and Bristol.

Mr. G. W. WOOD moved the second reading of the North
Wigan Railway Bill.

The bill was accordingly read a second time, and ordered to
be committed.

Lord SANDON presented a petition against the Liverpool
Oil Gas Company's Bill. The Noble Lord also presented a
petition praying that the petitioners might be heard by counsel
against the bill.
Mr. FITZSIMON moved the second reading of the Dublin
and Kingston Railway Bill.

Mr. SHEIL presented a petition, very numerously signed,
indeed by some thousands, of the inhabitants of the town of
Thurles, in the county of Tipperary, praying for the total abo.
lition of tithes and the repeal of the union. The hon. mem-
ber said that the petition stated that the majority of the members
of that house were ignorant of the interests of Ireland.--(l(ear,
and cries of" Order.") It also stated that the repeal of the
union was as much required by Ireland as the Reform Bill was
by England, and that the majority of the English members
were as indifferent to the interests of Ireland as the members
of the boroughs formerly were to the interests of their con-
stituents.

The SPEAKER said the Hon. Member must be aware that
he could not present a petition so worded.

Mr. SHEIL said the petition merely stated that the English
members were not acquainted with the interests of Ireland.

The SPEAKER said that it appeared the wording of the pe-
tition was, that the majority of English members were indif-
ferent to the interests of Ireland.—(Cries of " Read, read.")

Mr. SHEIL said, as his object was not to delay the time of
the house by any discussion, he should read the petition. The
hon. member then proceeded to read the petition at length.
The petitioners complained of the grievances inflicted by the
tithe system, that it had brought odium upon the church esta-
blishment in Ireland, and that the Tithe Bill of last session
was likely to increase that odium, and bring about some fright-
ful crisis. That without the total abolition of tithes all hope
of peace or prosperity for Ireland was in vain. The petitioners
contended, that from the various and important duties the
English members had to discharge relative to the local con-
cerns and the colonies of that country, they could not find
time, even if they were acquainted with its local wants, to at-
tend to the interests of Ireland. They, therefore, prayed fur
a repeal of the legislative union. The hon. member said that,
perhaps, he had expressed himself in stronger language than
he was warranted by the wording of the petition.—(Laughter.)
He moved that the petition be brought up.
Mr. FINCH said that it was a bold assertion to say that the
affairs of Ireland were neglected, whilst there were one hundred
Irish members in that house. Those hon. gentlemen must
want either the power or the will to attend to the affairs of that
country. He did not believe that the accusation was well
founded, for nothing could be more uncharitable than to say
that hon. gentlemen of such talent wanted power; and it would
be equally uncharitable to suppose that they wanted will.
When the house considered that there were reports from Ire-
land upon agriculture, manufactures, population, the criminal
jurisprudence, and when there were two debates a week
upon Irish affairs, that one half of the English Members had
visited that country, and that they had 100 Irish members
to give them all the information they could require, it was
rather a bold assertion to say that they were utterly unac-
quainted with Irish interests; and he was bound to say, in
justice to the hon. members for Ireland, as well as the other
members of the house, that, in hit opinion, the charge was
without the slightest foundation —(Hear, hear.)
Mr. O'CONNELL said that there was a great deal of poetry
in the imaginings of the hon. gendeman wl.o had just sat down.
He had forgotten that even the Argus of the land had been
put to sleep by coercion bills, and that there was a melancholy
about Ireland sufficient to make the most watchful doze. The
hon. member said that that there were one hundred Irish
members in that house to give them all possible information ;
but the honourable member should recollect that those 100
were not the representatives of the same opinions and senti-
ments. Some of them were the representatives of that party
which had inflicted all the mischief on Ireland, who had been
the upholders of a ruinous domination in that country, and
whom alone the government indulged in a share of the spoil, in
order to make them faithful to that oppressive species of con-
nection that subsisted between the two countries. But what
information were Irish members to give that house? What
were they here for, but to hear every measure that would give
peace or prosperity to Ireland opposed, and successfully op-
posed; to listen to coercion bills, and when they brought any mea-
sure to have either a hollow support, or what he would infinitely
prefer, the direct and manly opposition of the government. After
all, were they to tell their tales 7—To become the schoolmasters
of the house 7 They had in this country a press which was
the organ of the public opinion—but it was very different in
Ireland. But the hon. member (Mr. Finch) admitted they
were ignorant of the affairs of Ireland, and that they wanted
one hundred schoolmasters to teach them.—(A laugh.) Yes,
and two hundred would not be too many. It would be dis-
paraging to English members to suppose that they were
not willing to do good to Ireland.—(Hear.)
He would,
at least, assert it for some, although it was not
necessary to do so for all. But this willingness was quite use-
less if they were in want of information, or rather if they were
misinformed upon the state and wants of Ireland, as he believed
to be the case with an immense majority of the English mem-
bers, and of some of the Scotch members of that house ; they
were in want of information, or rather they had a negative
quantity of misinformation to operate upon them. It was on
this account that the people of Ireland universally demanded
a domestic legislature. That domestic legislature had been
taken away by the grossest artifices, and the greatest
crimes that had ever been perpetrated by one nation
upon another. Even in the history of the Spaniards of North
America there was not to be found such instances of profligacy,
nor was there to be found in the account of any people such
instances of the vilest corruption, or where such oceans of
blood had been shed, as had been perpetrated to deprive Ireland

of a domestic legislature. The people of Ireland called with
one voice for a domestic legislature, and he hoped that the
house would respectfully listen to their call.
Mr. FINN quoted some instances of the increase of the Ro-
man Catholic population, and the decrease of the Protestant, in
some parishes in Ireland ; also the non-residence of incumbents,
though the people were severely mulcted for their support. He
thought that the new bill for the compulsory payment of tithes
tended to increase the original injustice and grievance of
that exaction.—(Hear, hear.) The established church of
Ireland was hastening to its dissolution every day, in con-
sequence of the measures which the English government
were introducing to prop it up.
Mr. LITTLETON considered it strange that honourable
gentlemen should mix up two such questions as repeal of the
union and tithes. Perhaps the former was not sufficiently at-
tractive, and therefore the popular topic of tithes was introduced.
Whatever petitions were presented, or had been, or were to be,
the subject of tithes is brought in to excite a discussion.—
(Hear, hear.) He (Mr. L.) had his own opinion on the subject,
but he did not consider the present period applicable to its dis-
cussion. Regarding the increased assessment alluded to by the
hon. member for Kilkenny, such cases as he complained of
would be found to be comprised under an ecclesiastical
union ; and though the petitioners set forward their complaints
of the increase, they never set forward the grounds, nor gave
the reasons for that increase, although they were well known to
them. He (i%lr. L) would not enter into the discussion now;
but in a few days, on the second reading of the tithe bill, he
pledged himself to show many cases in which the increases
complained of were justifiable.
Mr. FERGUS O'CONNOR considered it quite natural that
the subjects of repeal and tithes should be united, as the latter
grievance arose from the union between England and Ire-
land. The general complaint against Irish members was, that
they were only making declarations without entering into de-
tails, and yet when those details are entered into, fault
was found with them for so doing. The present was the fitting
period for detailing all the particulars connected with the
grievances of tithes in Ireland, as the bill introducei by the
right hon. secretary would be brought on in a few days for the
secund reading. He (Mr. O'Connor) implored the right lion.
secretary not to stain his immediate private character with
that nefarious bill. No person had a higher respect than he
(Mr. O'Connor) had for that right hon. gentleman's character,
and that respect induced him to suggest the reconsideration of
that bill before it be urged seriously on the adoption of the
legislature. Had the 147th clause of the Irish Church Bill,
which was introduced last session not been withdrawn
there would not havebeen halfas much to do as there was now on
that subject. Let government lay a tax of three millions on the
luxuries of life in Ireland, or on whisky, or on something else;
but let them take that three millions from off the people which
was collected now by the tithe extortions. Twenty millions
were given to the negroes—let something be given to Ireland.
The Protestant gentry in Ireland weie the most vigorous oppo-
nents the tithes had.—(Cries of " No, no.") Yes, it was the
case; they made common cause with the poor people since the
introduction of the composition bill in 18:24 ; and the chief de-
faulters at present were Protestants. Even in his (Mr. O'Con
nell's) parish the Duke of Devonshire himself was a defaulter.
The outcryagainst tithes was not partial or confined to any class.
The injustice of thernwa s felt by all, and the complaint against
them was as general.
Mr. R. C. FERGUSON said that though he did not mean
to commit himself to any part of the Bill to be brought in by
wstrenuously
b support.
t . a
It n
h d
been saatidb land-tax—that the Right Hon. Secretary for Ireland, he would say that in his
opinion the most convenient form of collecting tithe funds was
notoo
would
dy a
most composition
but p
y the principle
hon.he
and learned Member for Dublin, that nearly all the English
Members and part of the Scotch were ignorant upon Irish
ad
affairs—now he would say for the whole of the Members of
x—
that house not Irish, that no subjects whatever received more
attention, or took up more of the time of the house than those
connected with Ireland. Although Members might differ in
opinion with the hon, and learned Gentleman, that was no
good ground for saying that therefore they were inattentive to
Irish affairs—it was quite possible to obtain in Ireland in-
formation of a very difft rent nature from that which that hon.
Gent. gave them. He remembered an instance in point that took
place upon the Coercion Bill, The member for a county, in very
flowing language, stated that it was in a state of the greatest
tranquillity—while the Lord Lieutenant of the same county,
who was resident upon the spot, stated it to be very much dis-
turbed, and in a state of almost complete anarchy: He might
charge upon the Irish members, that they were ignorant of
Scotch affairs, and unfit to legislate upon them ; but as he
knew their persevering nature, he knew he could not ; then
why should the other members be so often told that they were
both ignorant of, and inattentive to, those affairs they were
called to legislate upon ? The house, in his opinion, had in
general shown great attention to, and a complete knowledge
of, the state of Ireland. Even upon the Coercion Bill,
they had done so, far in his opinion some such act as the old
Insurrection Act, was then absolutely necessary. He had ap-
proved of the bill in almost all its clauses, but that which
established courtsmartial.—(Hear, hear.) For himself he would
say, that he had never given a vote upon any occasion what-
ever, without having very maturely inquired into the circum-
s'ances of the case, and given it his best attention—(hear)—
and he would continue to act in the same way,

➢lr. J. BROWNE considered the proposition of the hon. and
learri,i member for Dublin, on a former night, a most impro-
per one. To take two thirds of the tithes away, would be
something like a national robbery—(cheers)—for those two
thirds belonged to the poor of Ireland. He approved of the
principle of the proposed tithe bill, as he thought, the making
it to be collected as a land tax, would put an end to such hor-
rible scenes as had lately been transacted in Ireland.

The petition was then laid on the table.
Mr. SHEIL then presented another petition containing the
same prayers from another parish in Tipperary. He would not
attempt to answer any of the speeches that had been made, and
would only remark, in answer to the complaint of hon. gen-
tlemen, that Irish affairs took up too much time in that house,
that they were specially called upon to do so by the King's
speech. He would take that opportunity of asking a question
of the right hon. Secretary for Ireland. The question he would
ask was, whether he, in the first instance, had called the atten-
tion of the Stamp-office to the Act of Parliament which ren-
dered a person convicted of sedition incapable of again receiv.
ing stamps; or whether the communication came to him from
the Stamp-office ? also, whether the information came to him as
Mr. Littleton, or as Secretary for Ireland ?

Mr. LITTLETON said of course he could have no diffi-
culty in answering the question of the hon. member; but
he must say the question was put to him in a very
irregular manner. Such questions as were of a public nature
were only asked at five o'clock when Members generally were
in their places. There was another irregularity also ; he
had already answered the very same question. However, he
had no hesitation in saying that he had never received any
communication on the subject from the Stamp-office. The
notice of it came to him in a private letter—(Hear)—a private
letter, though from an official person, in which it was asked—

" Are you aware of the existence of such and such a clause in a
certain act of parliament, and of its application to the case of Mr.
Barrett 2" He looked into the act, and found that the clause
was imperative ; he, therefore, desired his private secretary to
extract that part of the letter, which he sent over to Mr. Woulfe
without comment, leaving the case entirely in his hands.
Mr. O'CONNELL said he would only ask one more ques-
tion, as to whether Mr. Woulfe took the opinion of any law
officer of the Crown?

Mr. LITTLETON said he had not the slightest objection to
lay the entire correspondence, official or otherwise (and a good
deal had taken place) upon the subject, before the house.
Mr. O'CONNELL would not again trouble the house, but
that he wished to show how much mistaken the right hon.
gentleman was as to a certain fact. The right hon. gentle-
man had stated that the petitions for the repeal of the
union were obtained by combining them with petitions against
tithes. He had that morning received a letter from Mr. Cloo-
ney, which he had destroyed but a few minutes previously, and
which completely refuted such an assertion. The letter stated
that the Roman Catholic clergyman of a parish in Kilkenny
had expressed himself anxious to confine the petitions from his
parish to the subject of repeal— (Hear)----and that he considered
the question of tithes as one of little importance when compared
with that of repeaL
Mr. LITTLETON said the exception proved the rule.
Mr. FINN said that the same feeling had manifested itself in
the county which he had the honour to represent.
Mr. ROEBUCK put a question to the right hon. Secretary
for Ireland, the purport of which we could not catch.
Mr. WILLIAM MILES presented a petition from the mem-
bers of the Established Church in the parish of Whitestapen, in
the county of Somerset, praying that no alteration in the tithe
system, which might be injurious to the Established Church,
should be made. The hon. member presented a petition from
another parish in the same county to the same effect.
Mr. ADAMS presented a petition from a parish in the county
of Carmarthen, praying for an alteration in the tithe system.

Mr. FERGUS O'CONNOR presented a petition from the
fishermen of Four-mile-water, county of Cork, complaining of
the bounty having been withdrawn from the Irish fisheries.
The lion. member also presented a petition from the inhabitants
of Newmarket, in the county of Cork, the contents of which,
although only a few lines, were so completely in accordance
with the views of the hon. member for Mayo, opposite, that he
would take the liberty of reading it. The petitioners stated
that the pastors of the church ought to depend for support upon
the laity—that the exorbitant revenues of the church ought to
be resumed by the nation—that the law which compelled the
disposed
of e
shouldto pay
be tithestaken
esoh
into
od
the be abolished—andhands
softhe state,
lau
of for the common good of the realm. The hon. member ob-
served that he perfe-Aly concurred in the prayer of the petition
that
to church
b thee
He thought that tithes should be abolished altogether,
and that a portion of the church property should be
set apart for the support of the poor, the advance-
ment of education, and other national purposes. He
was an enemy to spoliation, but he did not wish to see any
measure introduced by which the tithes would go into the
pockets of the landlords. He begged to call the special atten-
tion of the right hon. Secretary for Ireland to this short but
pithy petition.
Mr. LITTLETON said he did not rise for the purpose of
discussing the question now, but in order to offer one remark
upon the pithy observation of the hon. member for Cork. The
hon. member stated that he was no friend to spoliation, but
that he was for preserving property, and for making the land
clean by taking away tithes, and he had suggested that a land-
tax be laid on and applied to general purposes. He (Mr. L.)
thought that if the tithes were taken off land now paying that
tax, and placed upon land which was not then subject to tithes,
it would be an act of the most gross and flagrant Injustice.—
(Hear, hear.) He thought that the land then subject to tithes

must discharge itself of that obligation, and such was the ob.
ject of the bill which he had the honour to introduce a few
nights previously, and he trusted wouid receive the
sanction of that house
Mr. F. O'CONNOR explained. The right hon. gentleman
had misunderstood the tendency of his observations—his object
was not to place a tax upon land which had hitherto been ex-
empt from the payment of tithes. He conceived that those
clergymen who were now receiving 1,0001. per annum, in con-
sequence of the reduction which had taken place in all arti-
cles of produce, should submit to a corresponding re-
duction in the amount of their livings.—(Hear, hear, hear.)
Those who were at present in the enjoyment of 4001. per an-

num were as rich as the persons who formerly possessed 1,0001.
per annum. He would never advocate any proposition which
would have for its object the spoliation of any portion of the
Protestant clergy.
Mr. FINN said that the tithe agistment law had operated
very oppressively in some instances. He knew a gentleman
who took land which paid no tithe at the time, and since the
passing of the tithe agistment act he had been obliged to pay
531. per annum.
Mr. FINCH said that he could not suffer the discussion to
close without remarking that a position laid down by an hon.
member near him was rather illogical, namely, that taking
away the tithes would not injure any party. Now in his (Mr.
Finch's) view, the church was a party, and a very considerable
party, and if tithes were taken from the church, he should like
to hear what plea the landlords would have to prevent their
rent from being taken away in a like manner. Tithes, having
been given to the church, and confirmed to its possession by
acts of parliament, were as much the property of the church
as any other species of property belonged to any hon.
gentleman in that house. The Irish landlords would do

well to look to this, if they suffered the church
to be spoiled of its property, they would soon find the hand of
spoliation turned against themselves. He hoped that the time
was not distant when provision should be made for the Irish
poor; some measure similar in principle to the English system
of poor laws, but amended in its practical effects. He feared
that the day was not distant when, in consequence of the trans
mutation of tithes, the landlord would be robbed of the only
plea by which he could call upon Parliament to protect his
property.

Mr. RUTHVEN said, that not only he, but others better
capable of forming a just opinion upon the subject, believed

that the commutation of tithes had made what was bad before a
great deal worse. Those parishes which had shown the
strongest opposition to the payment of tithes were the only
p'aces in which the bill would have a beneficial effect. They
were assessed at a smaller rate; whereas, those which had sub-
mitted, were tyrannized over and oppressed. In the north of
Ireland, amongst the Presbyterians, there was a strong oppo-
sition to the present church establishment.—(Hear, hear )
He had himself presented several petitions from that body
against it. They complained that in one parish (Ardfin) lands
had been lately assessed which had never before paid tithes. One
of the commissioners sent there was an old hearth money
collector—a person of a very low description in Ireland—who
being remonstrated with, said he would writeto the government
for instructions. The government returned a civil answer,
but this commissioner had the opinion of the law officers of the
crown, and acted upon it, taking upon himself the responsibility
of assessing land which had never before paid tithes. There
was another parish in the county of 'Antrim which had for-
merly never paid more than 3001., but was now compelled to
pay 7001. In some other parishes near Ardfin, and in several
parishes in the county of Down, the expenses of the commis-
sion had amounted to more than the annnal amount for tithe.
The petition was then ordered to lie on the table.
Mr. F. O'CONNOR, in explanation, said that the lion.
member (Mr. Finch, we believe) was wrong in supposing that
his (Mr. O'Connor's) arguments had a tendency to spoliation.
He would not take up the time of the house, but as this was
the first time they had got the Secretary for Ireland present—
Mr. LITTLETON said he was not asked to attend before.

Mr. O'CONNOR expressed a hope that the right hon. gen-
Aeman would not require to be asked in future. The people of
Ireland had a foolish, blind confidence in the government, and
attended sentpetitions
toandt w
o thiltldhopursode,
uincethsoemheopgoeod effect.thatthe y wicoouwld be
order that his Majesty's government might know the wants of
the people, he would give notice that to-morrow on going into
the committee of supply be would move that his Majesty's go-
vernment, in not attending at the morning sittings of
the house had not kept the pledge which they made last session
to the house, and that it was due to the house and the public
that some member of his Majesty's government should attend
in the morning.

Mr. LALOR said he had three petitions to present from
the Queen's county, having the same object, namely the aboli-
tion of tithes. They complained that they were obliged to
snpport a church from which they received nothing in return,
and which had caused the shedding of so much blood in Ireland.
The condition of the people of Ireland at present was worse than
it was under an unreformed parliament. It was a complete
fallacy to suppose that Ireland could be restored to peace by the
attempt to commute tithes into land tax. The drift of the
right hon. Secretary's bill would be immediately seen by the
people of Ireland. It was immaterial to them whether
tithes be collected from them by the clergyman or
landlord ; in fact, they would prefer to have to deal
with the clergyman, for they might have some chance of
escaping; but now that a collision takes place between land-
lord and tenant, they would most undoubtedly refuse to pay
the rent, because of an odious tax being coupled with it.
(Hear, hear.) There was no part of the burden taken
off the people—the mode of collecting it had only under-
gone a change.—(Hear.) It was in his (Mr. L's) parish
that passive resistance was first offered to tithes, and in his
mind it was a misnomer to use the word passive as connected
with resistance. The worthy baron, whose conduct a few
nights ago was subjected to investigation, said that the law was
violated when passive resistance was offered to it; that he
(Mr. L.) deni€d. It was not broken, but evaded. The law
gave the people the choice of paying the tax or allowing
their goods to be taken, or their persons to be imprisoned.
They chose the latter, and he was sure cash payments for tithes
would never be made in Ireland. He was likewise anxious to
advert to one topic more. It was the allegation of the Right
Hon. Secretary for Ireland that the subjects for repeal and
tithes were artfully entwined. Now he (Mr. L.) wss sure that
if the people of Ireland got their choice, they would prefer
the repeal of the union to the abolition of tithes.

Mr. A GLIONBY did not think there was enough done for
Ireland, but certainly there was a good deal done by the re-
formed parliament. The grand jury bill, the jury bill, and the
church cess bill, were surely a great improvements.
Mr. SHEIL admitted the good effects of the church cess bill,
but there was a counterpoise to that by the withdrawal of the
147th clause during the last Session. As to the Grand Jury
Bill, there was great difference of opinion respecting it. Re.
garding the Jury Bill, hon. gentlemen should recollect the
fatal right that was reserved by the Crown for setting aside
jurors. The case of Mr. Barrett was one which forcibly showed
how destructive the prerogative enjoyed by the Crown Solicitor
is to the rights of the people.
Mr. LITTLETON deprecated the introduction of so many
topics together. Regarding the case of Mr. Barrett, this
evening that would be discussed, and he (Mr. L.) pledged him-
self to satisfy the house that the conduct of the Irish Govern-
ment was the most honourable on that occasion.
Mr. SHEIL was led into so many topics in consequence of
the panegyric pronounced by the hon. Member who spoke the
one before last.
Mr. RUTHVEN followed on Mr. Shell's side.

Major KEPPELL presented petitions from various parts of
the county of Norfolk, for th repeal of the taxes on malt and
hops.

Mr. FINN presented two petitions for the repeal of the
union, and two for the abolition of tithes. The petitioners
complained of the total abstraction of property, the destruction
of trade, and the estrangement of the landed proprietors, caused
by the union in Ireland.

ptfhwrhrao.oeMdinui
fru.tIhLIyeITTLETON said the petition contained very great com-
plaints of the manner in which the land revenves were ex-
pended, but it ought to be remembered that a great part of the
money of such land revenues had been spent in the county of
Kilkenny in making roads.
Col. BUTLER presented a petition from a Mr. Stephen
Wright, a respectable Protestant gentleman and farmer, com-
plaining of the conduct of a tithe commissioner named Captain
Collins. The gallant member said the petitioner was a man of
very great experience in the value of land and tithes ; and he had
been frequently examined before committees of that house upon
the latter subject. When a man of that kind complained upon►
such a subject, surely the house would give some attention to
it. He also presented one to the same effect from the
parish of Callingford—they complained that where they for-
merly paid only 841. for tithes, they were now raised to 1761.
They also stated that the church of Ireland was possessed of
Rpleeirotnpiletenpeoxullirg:taesidef well managed,
more
oraernfeaogrlemadne,ddtofpoSarllrpltihia.aemrtecnhittu:erticofh,
b,aentdi
relievedl
till
htehree
fore they consideredpayment
inquireda y m
en
into
it
tithes.
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.1 d.Taohnneal
They also
management
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sfatcwetdh of
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Government
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sent
possessed of.

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drafeto r7ishgeurihbsetj
rightly, he
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Mr. LITTLETON said he had to thank the gallant member
me
for a perusal
rt
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gufprprteohet
present
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thsehtiacapshtee,pt
hicittfei
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euvwpeodoel
giving him notice of his intention of presenting it that day.
in any instance allude to the causes of the increase.—(Hear,
shltteraworna.
g)s
had a correspondence in Dublin. One reason was, that as the
measure was a compulsory one, and was to govern for all future
time, every dormant title to tithemust bebrought forward, or e'se
it would be for ever lost; now it was scarcely possible but that
some of those claims would be substantiated. That was one
reason for the increase, and there were many others. As to
the next complaint, he did not know what the duty of the
Commissioner was as to entering the separate items in
his book ; therefore, upon that head he would not say more.
As to the other point, on which there might be many cases in
various parts of Ireland, an individual having a great
portion of the lands in any particular parish might find his
assessment under the Tithe Composition Act very considerably
increased; but he must complain of the neglect of his co-pa-
rishioners in absenting themselves from the select vestry, and
thereby preventing him from appealing against the assess-
tnent. The petitioner in the present case was placed in that
situation, and therefore he should not complain of the conduct
of the commissioners where the fault lay with his fellow-pa-
rishioners.

Mr. F. O'CONNOR, in supporting the prayer of the peti-
tion, contended that the observations of the right hon. secretary
had afforded additional reasons against the tithe composition
assessments, and declared, that among the claimants whose

faacEa,lni
n,
very
`Sr.mruur,s. ,
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amount
trs:dormant
assured
isstuhcompositioner epdra )were.,er
ho sfoot tuf
teshhheei
sptmtheitaetihtnt
petition,
a se, a
sntohbdeli
noble du
D udr
tie.
of Devonshire, who came forward to swell his tithes to a large
alluded to had been most liberal towards the parishioners, in
putting forward his claims ; indeed, he had consented to Mkc
rin.gF.thOe'CcoONNOß said he knew of no more furious battle
thain that fought by the Duke's a -,ents.
r, Mr. JAMES TALBOT presented a petition from Athlone,
built by
to a bridge at that place, which the petitionera ithid Wal
mit by Sir H. Sydney in the time of Queen Elisabeth, and ha
ae
tniiheeovteriser.pbeealevlno. repaired since.--(A laugh.) They prayed
dilapidatediex ioo state,
tw and thate °A vas that t
House would enfore a former Act respecting the bridge. .
Mr. LITTLETON said that the bridge of POrtURRA was in
thetaoattention of the Chairman of the Board of Works to these
Mr. °r Putting them into a state of repairta.s::
wised for
and he trusted that some plan would shortly be de-
mayor
T andl i
Ef Rtchßoo:oßH union.aoBOROUGH
Tohfoe presentedrFteh
ievpceeArbteiont
ulnpnuiligscahricfdr from
mf:it
Pallas -green, county of Limerick, for the abolition of tithes and
able names attached to each of them.
Mr. E. TENNANT presented a petition froni
an instur
oagainst the bill now before the house for the clisfracchisemrtt
of that borough, and praying to be heard by counsel agains !
iHlarelytrosiotisteaedii
ch e borough was one of the oldest in Ireland, having enicqed.l,ts
to atrhter from the time of James 1., and the greatest evil attacrite...
rien e charter was the facility of making freemen. The conme I
class of v ri
oters, He begged to give notice of the course he i
at thelast and previous election, was confined to the lowest
enOIC.ONNELL said that any Persbn who rd to pursue, that on the second reading of thG:hoertie:::cbk:irlrfesliesriPehit:tuebea
:st-d
:'
uction to the committee to regulate but not destroy the
franchise of that boroiigh.
ctohieisetivtidence of the two committees sr ould find that the grossest
and most profligate corruption prevailed in that borough, and
Oat not only the lower but the higher classes were concerned
in the bribery, which it had been proved existed to an enormous
extent.
Sir H. WILLOUGHBY admitted that there was decidedd
corruption in Carrickfergus, but he had read the evidence an
thought that that borough still enjoyed the elements of a good
great instrument by which the bribery
Mr. RUTHVEN said that the higher as well as the lowet
classes were tainted with corruption, and a clergyman was the
the land.
Mr. E. TENNANP replied, and the petition was laid on
the table.
Mr. DIVETT presented a petition from the Protestant Dis-
senters of East Budley, praying relief from certain grievanceeds,
such as the payment of church rates, ,Szc. They also PraY
had been spread through
that a system of general registration might be established.
It being three o'clock, the SPEAKER left the Chair.

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fl:eful ()Id 7 iittO
Fine Upland Meadow and Bye grass Hay 4 u .
,aver 11 a;
Oat Stray .61 10 to .E 1 12 I Wheat Straw... 112 010
SMITHFIELD.
.. £3 5 to 0 0
Coa *se heavy Lowland Meadow Hay
. 0 0 4 :
• e .-, :‘:;,....uw rayt..k,fi:loltl I vato
', ee Pidand Meadow and Rye-grass Hay ..... .... 4?, 1 lt;
-ye: liai (cur, ,ine)....E5 o... Generally .... 4 ,4' 4
0 t :straw ....t: ;12 t; £1 16 1 Wheat Straw.... 1 '

The supplies of '
colonial produce are limted, end
COLONIAL MARKETSi the doe"
mand having become more brisk, an increased business is,
from
ticipated as the week advances. The deliveries last wee}' ...,,o,
the docks were not above 2,000 hhds., all for borne con suto_Ad-e,
FOREIGN SUGARS.—These sugars continue in lioliw-
mand, and but few orders are in the market this mornieg:,,,,' line
are in
INDIA SUGARS.—Mauritius Sugars at the late ..-gari
qualities at 535. to 575. Gil. per cwt. Coloury
in rather better demand. Very bright grocery grey 'tiptiovi
were sold at 595. Gd. per cwt., and fine brown Middlingl- er•
REFINED SUGARS.—The supply being more extensive, Or
is rather more doing. sie or
I ITHE EAST INDIA SILK TRADE.—The CompallY's L
India
Bengal Raw Silks commenced yesterday morning at the of
House, and was fully attended. The declaration consists of
2,600 bales of Company's Bengal. The sale commenced Wof
whole
3,
considerable activity, but the Silks offered during the
yesterday were generally of inferior quality and went cotePatiron
tively 5 per cent. lower than last sale, but when the deleriPted,
of Silk is considered, the decline is not' so considerable as sta.:et
The finer silks went off at prices fully equal to those obtsP:rio
at the last sale. There passed the sale yesterday nearll 70,
bales, and not a single bale was withdrawn. The sale i 5 P
•
ceeding steadily ' in the same way. . Der•
areaCOFFE.—The sales continue limited; good rniddltrg vit.
bice at 88s. per cwt., and Triage at 838. to 84s• Per vcire
In East India
Coffees there is some business doing. .
Yellow Mocha has obtained 665. to 675. 6d. Per "it rettl
TIIE TEA TRADE.—The deliveries of Teas continue P,,
of pounds
large, having amounted to nearly half a million
weight last week. Prices are, however, still heavy.
Siarns are losv
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