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London, England, 1833-08-21 00:00:00

FUNDS.

We have further accounts this morning from Oporto and
Lisbon, by the Sparrow cutter, which has brought mails.
They confirm the information received yesterday of the siege
of Oporto being raised. The private letters do not add any
further particulars than what is already published in the Morn-
ing Journals ; but they differ in point to the retreat of Gen.
Bourmont—some of them state to Vollenga, while others say
towards Lisbon, on which city he is supposed to be going
to make an attack.

Accounts at Lloyd's state that the ports not in possession of
Donna Maria, on the coast of Portugal, are in a perfect state
of blockade. St. Übes was in her possession.
Consols opened at the prices they left off yesterday, 88i 89.
At present they are 88i sellers, with little or nothing doing.
hALF-PAST ONE.

A private letter from Lisbon of the Bth inst., brings ac.
counts that Molellos' troops to the number of 2,000 have gone
over to Donna Maria, and arrived at Lisbon. In the hasty
retreat of Bourmont, he left behind him 30,0001. of Don
Miguel's loan, the bills have arrived in London by the packet.
Extract of a letter from Lisbon, ith inst. :—" The affairs of
Donna Maria are going on exceedingly well, all persons arc
taking up arms, every day great numbers of deserters are here,
we have already upwards of 2,000. It is stated that the
cause of Bourmont's hasty retreat was owing to the deserters
in his army.

Consols may be quoted at SS; ; for the Account, with little
or nothing doing ; Portuguese Scrip tn ;1 pm. ; the call of 10
per cent. on the above loan takes place day ; Brazil Stock has
also lowered owing to accounts from Rio, of a proposal before
the House to raise 4,000 troops.
The accounts from Bahia, of the 25th June, state that things
were still in an unsettled state. Exchange from Rio 38j.
THREE O'CLOCK.
Consols for the Account, 88i ;.

Two steam-packets for the conveyance of the
daily mail from Calais to Dover are now in the course of
construction at Cherbourg. The Government has also
just bought two steamers of the Company who have under.
taken the coasting trade between Bordeaux, Brest, and
I ravre. —French Papers.

A numerous and respectable meeting of the
inhabitants was held at Portsmouth on Friday, for the pur-
pose of taking into consideration the subject of municipal
reform. The meeting had been called by a requisition signed
by 73 inhabitants of the borough , Messr. KIRK-
PATRICK, PRING, C. WORSLEY, A. CLARKE, WAYELL,
E. WILKINs, Gourd), EXTOL, &c.,
severally addressed
the meeting, and resolutions condemnatory of the prin-
ciple of self-election, and expressing satisfaction with
the report of the Committee and appointment of a Corn-
mission by the House of Commons, were adopted. A
Committee was also appointed to report to the Commis-
sioners the grievances complained of under the present
municipal institutions.

INIPERIALPARLIAMENT

THIS DAY, WEDNESDAY, AUG. 21.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

O❑ the admission of strangers to the Gallery at twenty
minutes past twelve o'clock, we found about forty mem-
bers in the House.
On the motion of Lord ALTHORP, the Consolidation
Fund Bill was read a second time; and to be committed
to morrow.
Mr. CHARLES WOOD brought up the report on the
Chancery Offices Bill. Amendments read a second time.
Bill and amendments to be read a third time to-morrow.
The Order of the Day having been read on the Chan-
cery Officers Regulation Bill, the report was brought up
by Mr. CHARLES Noon, and read and ordered to be en-
groased. Bill to be read a third time tomorrow.
The Order of the Day was then read upon the motion
of Lord ALTHORP, on the Bank Notes (Stamp Duty's)
Composition Bill, which was• then read a third time and
p issed.
Mr. C. WOOD brought up the Report on the Land
'Fix Commissioners Names Bill ; amendments read a
e. cond time. Bill and amendments to be read a third
time to-morrow.
Mr. LITTLETON moved the Order of the Day on the
Trial of Offences (Ireland) Bill.
Mr. O'CONNELL said lie was exceedingly sorry to
find that the Government persevered in carrying this Bill.
There was no necessity whatever for it ; and he denied
that any case had been made out to warrant such an enact-
ment. There was nothing in the present state of Ireland
to call for the infliction of this additional injury. Ireland
never was in a more tranquil state than at present, and he
would show to what that tranquility was owing. For the
last year and a half the utmost tyranny had been exercised
in the collection of tithes, and an additional means for
the collection had been formed by an Act of the last ses-
sion, by which not only the goods, but the person, were
made liable, and the house of the peasant could no longer
be considered as his castle, for it was at all times liable
to be broken open.—(Hear, hear.) The army, the
police, and the magistracy, had been called our, and
the result had been that the sum of 60,0001. had been ad-
vanced by the country, and 12,000/. had been levied at
an expense of 25,0001., that was for legal costs alone, for
exclusive of that there was to be added the cost of the
military, and that in the county of Kerry alone had
amounted to full 3,000/. By thus adding the legal and
military expenses, he was warranted in saying that there
were probably 60,0001. expenses, to go with the 60,0001.
advanced, for the purpose of obtaining the payment of
12,0001. in tithes. Under such circumstances as this the
Ministers had been able to carry their Coercion Bill in
that House with acclamations. But now they had given
up the collection of tithes, and had poured in troops in ad-
dition to the police, and had thus succeeded in tran-
quillizing Ireland. Why, then, in such aet ate of things,
should it put in the power of an Attorney-General to re-
move the venue to a Court in which the people
would have no confidence? Where, he would ask, wag
there an instance in which the Jury had not done their duty?
No such thing was known as a jury refusing to do their
duty. Even in the Whiteboy cases the utmost alacrity
bad been shown by jurymen to convict, and more convic-
tions in such cases had taken place than the Government
had thought it necessary to follow with punishment. In
one instance a verdict had been obtained upon the unsup-
ported testimony of a King's evidence, who acknowledged
that he was a Whiteboy, and that he should wade
through the blood of even women and children to effect
his purpose, and that he only had a conscience as far as
an oath was concerned. It had been attributed by the
newspapers to the Right Hon. the Solicitor-General that
he had given an opinion of the power of the Court of
King's Bench to change the venue, but he (Nlr. O'Con-
nell) suppposed it must have been in error.
The SOLICITOR•GENERAL avowed that he had
said so—it was his opinion, and it was confirmed by a
declaration of the Judges which he himself had heard.
Mr. O'CONNELL said, if that were the case, then,
the Bill before the House was unnecessary. Why,
even it there were any necessity, should two Judges have
the power of doing that in Ireland which it required the
presence of four to do in England? He bad, however,
looked into the law, and it was not as laid down by the
Hon. and Learned Gentleman. The Right Hon. the
Secretary for the Colonies (said Mr. O'Connell) seems
to doubt my reading of the law, but I know the law on
the subject much better than the Right Hon. Gentleman.
The Hon. Member then went on to say that he utterly
denied the position laid down ; for if the law were so, he
would again ask where was the necessity of such a
statute? Ministers had began the session by bringing in
one Coercive Bill for Ireland, and they seemed determined
on ending it with another. The only excuse for the Bill
was, that it was wanted for the North of Ireland ; but
how had the Ministers succeeded, then, with their previ-
ous enactments? They had passed an Anti-procession
Bill, but the Orangemen had laughed at it, and put it at
defiance. They would never succeed in the North of
Ireland as long as they left the Orange Magistrates in
power there.—(Hear, hear.) Winked at by those
Magistrates, the Orange processions were continued with
impunity. One had taken place without any interference
in the town of Belfast, in the midst of the magistracy
and police. At Crotehill a different scene had taken
place. A❑ Orange procession had been held there, and
a conflict took place between the Orangemen and the
Catholics; and it had been distinctly sworn to, that one
of the police had furnished arms to the Orangemen. A
difficulty had arisen in the identification of the police-
man, but there was not the slightest doubt as to the fact.
Not a single man ought to remain twenty-four hours in
that situation if they did not find out who the policeman
was. He admitted that in Cavan there had been a most
improper acquittal of an Orangeman by an Orange Jury.
No one could doubt that the sheriff for the last two
years had been of the most conservative character. The
Judge bad declared that acquittal exceedingly wrong, but
whatever was the good that would result from the Bill,
it would have the effect of removing the assizes to the
next county, it was true, but how much better• off would
Fermanagh, Dublin, and other counties be, particularly
when it was remembered that the Attorney-General was of
Orange principles? Notwithstanding the Act of Edward 111.
the Crown nominated all juries. The Orange system in
Ireland was an exotic that required the hot-bed of Govern.
ment patronage, and if the Government frowned upon it,
there would be little or no positive danger to be appre-
hended from it. On the whole he felt it to be his
duty to protest against the Bill ; he trusted, however, that
Ministers would postpone it to the next sessions. No
inconvenience could result from that, as no assizes would
take place between this and the next session. The post.
ponement of this measure would give an earnest to Ireland
that the same justice was
,intended to be dealt out to it
as to England and Scotland. The Hon. Member con-
cluded by moving that the Bill be read a third time that
day three months.

Mr. LITTLETON said that the Hon. Gentleman, like
all those who took part against the measure, were anxious
to have it understood that they meant, by the people of
Ireland, those who were obnoxious to the law. The Hon.
Gentleman had stated that there was no case made out
for the Bill ; now, he would ask the House, if after the
testimony that had been given before the House on the
Coercion Bill, whether it was not clearly proved that that
was the case. It was there clearly shown that prosecutors
and witnesses had been deterred from doing their duty.
He admitted the statements of the Hon. Meml er, that on
introducing the measure, no reference had been made to
the state of the northern counties ; but the conduct
of the jurors in those counties referred to by the Bill,
abundantly testified the necessity of the measure. If the
jurors in those parts acted as partially as the jurors in
other parts did, it would be the duty of the Crown to
apply for a change of the venue. With reference to thf,
right of the Attorney-General to challenge, it would be
some answer to the statements of the Hon. Member, to
say that this was only a temporary law. He sincerely
hoped the jury law would be so altered, as to divest it of
all interest that was partial and oppressive. He believed
that the jury system now to be introduced would be pro-
ductive of the beat effects.
Mr. O'REILLY protested against the statement of the
Right Hon. Gentleman that those who opposed the Bill
were anxious to have it understood that they meant by
the people of Ireland those wbo infringed the law. He
had supported the motion of the Hon. Member for Dublin.
Mr. SINCLAIR believed that the machinations of the
Popish Priests bad been exercised to overthrow the Pro-
testant and Established Church of Ireland.
Mr. O'CONNELL protested against such a statement,
and could only ascribe it to the Honourable Member's
ignorance of the subject. He believed that the Protestant
Church in Ireland was endangered from its own Members.
Mr. O'DWYER concurred in the statement of the
Hon. Member fur Dublin.
The House then divided, when there appeared—
Fori the amendment
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Boarittyhird time and passed.6l
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JURIES (IRELAND) BILL.
On the motion of Mr. LITTLETON, the Howe went
into Committee On the Juries (Ireland) Bill.
Several of the first clauses were agreed to without oh.
servation, but in consequence of the Hon. Chairman (Mr.

Bernal) not mentioning the nu►nbers of them it was im
possible to ascertain them. . .

On arriving at that clause in which there was a pro-
viso empowering sheriffs to insert the name, business, or
residence of any person duly qualified who had been
omitted from the list made out by the magistrates at
quarter sessions,
Mr. WALLACE opposed it on the ground that it gave
a discretionary power to Sheriffs which was liable to great
;ibuse.

Mr. O'CONNELL also opposed the proviso. He said
that seven years ae.o, from the abuses which prevailed in
Sheriff's offices in England, with respect to Juries, the
law was alterei, and this clause would give the Sheriffs
powers which were continually liable to be abused. It
was of no use giving the power to Magistrates of Quarter
Sessions of ascertaining the qualification of Jurors, if the
Sheriff was to he allowed to revise the list and insert
whom he pleased, as he might do by this proviso.
Mr. Sergeant PERRIN thought the proviso uncalled
for, but he could not see that it was worth discussing, as
the subsequent clauses sufficiently provided against abuse.
Mr. O'CONNELL and Mr. WALLACE having repeated
their objections,
Mr. LITTLETON said, he had had repeated com-
munications upon this subject with Irish gentlemen, and
had heard so many objections to the proviso, that he felt
disinclined to press its adoption on the House ; he would,
therefore, consent to its being expunged.—(Loud cries of
" Hear " from the Irish Members.)

The proviso was then expunged, and the clause, as
ittnt-nd-d, was agreed to.
Several other clauses were agreed to without obser-
vation.

(We shall give the conclusion in a Second Edition.)

Another apprehension for non-payment of
ministers' stipend was to have taken place yesterday after-
noon, but the officers, somehow or other, found it neces-
sary to desist. The individual who was to have been thus
seized is a widow lady in Hanover street. Yesterday fore-
noon she was waited upon by the messengers in order to
conduct her to gaol, but she not being within at the time
they called, notice was left that they would call again at
four o'clock. The neighbours getting notice of this trans-
action quickly assembled in crowds, and expressed their
hostility to the proceedings in the usual manner. The
lady, according to notice, waited for the officers, with her
.four young children, who were to accompany her to jail,
but for the present she has been spared that necessity. The
caption, we understand, is still in the hands of the mes-
senger. Scotsman.
MURDER IN PARIS.—Two persons, named
ROBERT and BASTIEN, were tried for the murder of a
lady in Paris, in 1821, by atrangulation, and found guilty.
BASTIEN, on being taken back to prison on Thursday
night, said, " This is the consequence of not telling all.
If I had made a complete revelation I should have been
acquitted." On the way from the Court he attempted to kill
himself with a chisel, which he had contrived to secrete,
and with which he gave himself several wounds on the left
breast. This attempt was not discovered till he arrived
at the prison, when the turnkey observed some blood upon
his hands, and obtained from him an avowal. The
instrument was not found upon him, The wounds
are slight and will be easily healed. It is expected that
BASTIEN will make some impoi tant revelations, impli•
caring other persons in the murder, but he persists in
maintaining his own innocence. It appears that ROBERT
first enticed his mother•-in-law to the house of an ac-
quaintance, and afterwards induced her to go with him to
the rue Vaugiraud, under pretence of getting her guaran-
tee in borrowing a sum of money from a third person.
He first stunned her with a blow on the face, and then
strangled her. Not daring to bury her in the grave he
had prepared over night, he put her into an empty water
butt in the garden till the following night, when he com-
pleted his diabolical task, and burnt all the widow's
clothes, throwing her naked into the ground, but impru-
dently leaving her ring on her finger, which became a
principal means of identifying her remains. ROBERT has
preserved the same insensibility he displayed throughout
the trial : and, on being told that he was at liberty to ap-
peal against the sentence, be said—" Well, then, all is
not yet lost !" The two convicts have appealed to the
Court of Cassation.
On Saturday evening, about eight o'clock, the
inhabitants of Greenwich and Deptford were thrown into
the utmost consternation and alarm by a report that the
Greenwich gas house was on fire. In a very short time
some thousands of persons assembled, when it was dis-
covered that a steam-vessel belonging to the Sterna Navi-
gation Company, the Waterloo, lying opposite the Gas-
works, was on fire. It is impossible to describe the
grandeur of the scene, the heavens being illuminated for
miles round. At half past ten o'clock the vessel was
completely burnt to the water's edge. Various rumours
are aloat as to the cause of the accident, but it is not
known how the fire originated. The Waterloo was
formerly the property of Mr. BROCYLEBANg, of Green-
wich, and has lately been sold by him to the above
Company for the purpose of towing. _ _

On -Monday morning, about eleven o'clock,
while some boys were amusing themselves in the brick-
field opposite the cattle market, they found concealed
among a quantity of rubbish a bag in which something
was securely hid, and which when opened was found to
contain the body of an old woman. Such an uncommon
circumstance soon collected a great crowd of people, hut
the police had the body conveyed to the office, where
during the day she was claimed by her relatives, and by
them re-interred the same evening in the High Church
burying-ground. She was buried last Sunday in the Cal-

SUPPLY OF SALMON.—The supply of sal-
mon from Scotland and Ireland this year, of prime quality,
has been very great. The Thames salmon twenty years
ago was sometimes brought to market, and was held in
such high estimation by the epicures, that it sold for three
times as much as any other salmon, but now not a single
fish of the sort is caught in the river, as the salmon have
become scarce ever since the introduction of gasometers,
and the residue of the gas communicating with the river,
though it is probable the works in taking down old
London•bridge and erecting a new one obstructed
the salmon in their emigration to sea from the fresh
water, and their periodical return in the breeding season.
The advantage, however, of steam in causing an increased
and constant supply of provisions to the metropolis deve-
lopes itself daily; huge quantities of live cattle, &c., are
now brought constantly from Scotland in steam-boats, and
the latter, with the addition of rail roads, will, in a short
time, occasion the communications between all parts of
the kingdom to be so rapid and convenient, and the transit
of provisions and manufactured goods so quick, that the
benefit and advantages to the public must be incalculable.
There has been recently erected on thu high-
est turret of the Observatory at Greenwich an apparatus,
by which naval captains, taking their departure from the
Thames, and also the chronometer makers along its banks,
and in all parts of London within: sight of the apparatus,
may know the instant of noon, or when the sun passes
the meridian of Greenwich. This desirable knowledge
is communicated or obtained by the erection of a pole or
mast, on which slides a large ball or globe, six or eight
feet in diameter (consequently visible at a great dis-
tance), nod at the top of this pole a large cross is fixed.
W,21 the purposed intelligence is to be given, the ball is
drawn close to the crov, about ten minutes before mid-
day, and at the instant of noon (or twelve) the ball falls.
Thus, by a telegraphic signal, the instant of noon at the
British Observatory is made known to all whom it may
concern. The value of this knowledge must be evident
to those who are conversant in nautical astronomy or geo-
graphy, and are aware that the meridian of Greenwich is
the poir: from which longitudes are calculated east or west
of that place in all English scientific books and naval
charts. A somewhat similar plan has been followed for
many years at the Government Observatory at Copenhagen,
where a flag is hauled down when the sun has attained its
meridian altitude; but the use of a ball or globe of large
diameter, as now adopted at Greenwich, is far preferable,
as it will be alike visible on all sides and at all times, whe-
ther the wind blows light or strong.
POLICE INVESTIGATION IN NEW ROSS.
--This investigation terminated on Saturday last. Not-
withstanding the secrecy which was observed, we have
been given to understand that the charges have been sub-
stantiated against the police, that they have been convicted
of having acted in a grossly illegal mariner, and that a
representation to this effect has been transmitted to Go-
vernment. The country will therefore look forward with
earnestness to the decision and conduct of Government in
this case.-- IVateybrd Chronicle.
LIGHT IRON PASSAGE BOAT.—The Lan-
caster Canal Company have established a very commodious
and comfortable boat of this description between Preston
and Kendal. The distance, 57 miles, with the passage of
eight locks, and a tunnel worked by the hand, is done in
seven hours. Coaches meet the boat, bringing passengers
from and carrying them to Manchester and Liverpool.—
Glasgow Chronicle.
To INCREASE THE ODOUR OF ROSES.—
Plant a large onion by the side of a rose tree in such a
manner that it shall touch the root of the latter. The rose
which will he produced will have an odour much stronger
al (I more agreeable than such as have not been thus
treated : and the water distilled from these roses is equally
superior to that prepared by means of ordinary rose leaves.
--From Me French.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, AUGUST 20.

Mr. BUXTON moved for the production of certain
returns relative to West India Slavery.
A Message from the House of Lords informed the House
that their Lordships had agreed to the Lunacy Commis-
stun Bill, without amendments, and to the East India
Charter and Grand Juries (Ireland) Bills, with amend-
ments.
Mr. EWING moved for certain returns respecting the
number of certificates granted to bankrupts in the caurse
of last year.
Mr. W. PETER postponed his motion relative to the
Earl of Warwick till next session.
Lord ALTHORP presented a petition from certain
prisoners in the King's Bench prison, praying that the
granting of the rules of that prison might be removed
from the Marshal and placed in the hands of the Secretary
of State, or some other person, by Act of Parliament,
before the close of the present session. The petition con-
tained complaints against Mr. Jones.
Lord VALLETORT supported the prayer of the
petition. He considered some of the charges in the
petition as very serious, and hoped the Noble Lord oppo-
site would grant some inquiry into the conduct both of
the marshal and of V,e coroner.
Lord ALTHORP said the petition did not refer to
many of the subjects adverted to by the Noble Lord.
Lord DUNCANNON said it had been represented to
him that what was called the strong room was an ex-
tremely bad one, and detrimental to the health of the
prisoners. A new one had been constructed ; complaints
had been made of it, medical gentlemen had visited it,
and reported that it would be a very good one, it
a window was made to it—objections haai been
raised to !he making of a window to it, but the Noble
Lord believed one had now been made to it.
Mr. COBBETT considered it very necessary that these
things should be attended to with great vigilance. He
would remind the House of the case of Mr. Hobson—his
head had been shaved, he was stripped of his clothes, had
prison garments put on him, and was set to pick wool as a
mark of degradation. It was the duty of the House of
Commons to take notice of the illegal conduct of Mr.
Jones, and to take care that such itnpropet conduct was
not permitted to be continued.
The SOLICITOR GENERAL said, he would not
reply to the discussion respecting Hobson's case, which
was now under investigation ; but with regard to Mr.
Jones, the Marshal of the King's Bench, he (the Solicitor
General) bad known him for many years, and he knew
also that no man was more humane, or conducted himself
with more propriety than Mr. Jones bad done.
Mr. LAMB said the Secretary of State had not power
to interfere with the arrangement of the King's Bench.
That was an establishment entirely under the control of
the Judges of the King's Bench.
Mr. TOOKE presented a petition from Mr. Raynsford,
Master of the Report Office of the Court of Chancery,
and Mr. Stewart, a clerk in that Office, praying to be re-
tained in their situations, or that they might have an
adequate compensation awarded them:
Mr. SHAW presented a petition from Mrs. M. Waters,
widow of a clergyman in Ossory, stating that her husband
had held a small living, and that when he died in 1831,
there were considerable arrears of tithes due to him; she
added that she hail been obliged to dispose of every thing
to pay her husband's debts, and she was now left desti-
tute. She therefore prayed that the arrears due to her
late husband might be allowed to her.