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once happily styled it), in the same way as
Mother Cole was converted and endowed with
" a gift for prayer" by her frequent spiritual
interviews with Dr. Squintum.

German. Papers have been received, but they
contain wathing worth extracting.

We siae that Lord ALTHORP announced his
intention last night to persevere in pressing for-
ward the Bank Charter Bill, and that its discus-
sion was only delayed till the Abolition of Slavery
Bill 'gas disposed of. In the meantime, the trier-
chan is of London have got up against the Bill a
petition whose only fault is, that it does not go
far enough. We perceive from our advertising
columns that this petition is to lie for signature
till Friday at the British Coffee-house, Cock-
spur-street ; at the City of London Tavern ;
and at the King's Head, Poultry. All who
wish to see banking put, in some degree, upon
a sound foo4,ing, will attend at one of those
places and express their wish.

Mr. F4WART, last night, brought forward a
rrotion of great importance. It was a resolu-
tion calling upon the House to express its opi-
nio.a of the justice and propriety of admitting
s'Jgar and coffee, the produce of free labour,from
the East Indies, at the same duties as are paid
by the same articles coming from the West
Indies. Lord ALTHORP moved the previous
question upon the motion; and Mr. EWART,
" relying upon the practice as well as the pro-
fessions of the Government, declined pressing it
to a division." As there would not be time to
pass any law this session carrying the resolution
into effect, we are inclined to agree, that moving
the previous question was the best tnode of dis-
posing of the subject, but we cannot at all agree
in the validity of the reasons given by Lord
ALTHORP for not legislating upon the matter
till we see what will be the effect of the Slavery
Abolition Bill.
" In former times," said his Lordship, " when this
question had been brought under the consideration of the
House, the case stood in a very different situation from
that in which it was now placed. At those periods the
sugar of the West Indies very much exceeded in quantity
the consumption of this country, and he therefore always
thought that the proprietors of the West Indian colonies
were more apprehensive than they need have been at the
admission of foreign sugar. The price of their sugar in
this country depended on the price which sugar bore on
the Continent, and therefore they had no effectual mono-
poly in this country. The case had now, however,
assumed a very different appearance. In consequence of
the operation of the Slavery Abolition Bill, there might be
a great falling off in the production of sugar:"

With all submission to his Lordship, he does

not do away with the necesity for doing jus-
tice to the East Indians, but merely shows that
some of the reasons in support of it are changed,
and that the new ones are stronger than the old.
Heretofore, says his Lordship, the opposition of
the West Indians has been the result of blinded
selfishness; they could not have been hurt by the
measure, they were not benefitted by the mono-
poly, the public was not hurt by it, but it would
have been well to have opened the trade to East

Indians on an equal footing, for the sake of the
principle. One would think that when
circumstances are about to arise which will
make the monopoly of the West Indians
highly prejudicial to the public, which will ren-
der the question one of a practical nature, as
well as one of principle, which will make justice
to the East Indians a benefit to the country, one
would think, we say, all these circumstances, so
many additional reasons for at once legislating
upon the principle of equalization. We could
understand the planter saying, " We have been
growing more sugar than has been wanted by
the country, and our competition has kept the
price down ; but now you have emancipated the
negroes, they will not work so much as
they have done, sugar will be scarcer, and
besides the 20,000,0001. we have received as the
full value of' the slaves, whose labour we are
still to have for seven years, we now hope to
have a swinging profit out of you on oar sugar."
We could understand this, we repeat, in the
mouth of a planter, but we cannot understand
it in the mouth of a Minister of the Crown,
and that particular Minister, too, who will be
most embarrassed by the quantity of sugar
produced and imported, falling off one half or one
third which, in the first instance, it is not un•
likely to do. Such an event may give the
planters high prices, but will make a woeful hole
in the four millions of sugar duties. Instead of
delay in legislation, we contend that the change
which the Slavery Abolition Bill may produce,
imperatively calls upon the CHANCELLOR of
the EXCHEQUER to prepare with all convenient
speed, so as to be carried the first thing
next session, a Bill for admitting sugar from
the East Indies, being the produce of free la-
bour, at the same rate of duty as that from the
West. Otherwise, one of three consequences
must occur,—That the field negroes must, for
the next seven years, work as hard as ever, and
as much against their will as ever, from having
no wages ; that the amount of sugar pro-
duced in the West Indies must fall off, and
consequently the revenue derived from it ; or
that, to prevent the reduction of the revenue,
sugar must be admitted from South America,—
a pretty result of all our sacrifices and exertions.

The last official accounts from Madrid state,
that considerable uncertainty still prevailed as to
the course which the Spanish Cabinet would be
likely to adopt towards Portugal. In propor-
tion
as the successes of the Pedroites increased,
the rage of the Carlists had also increased, and
the Church party had exerted itself vigorously in
support of the Miguelite interest. At one
time it was supposed that the efforts of this party
had been successful, for orders were sent oil to
the commanders of the Spanish troops in Estre-
madura to hold themselves in readiness for a
march towards Elvas ; but at another council
influence of M. ZEA prevailed, and it was re-
solved to make no hostile demonstration for
the present in favour of MIGUEL, but merely
to establish a cordon of observation. M. ZEA
is said to have had great difficulty in inducing
the KING, and some of his colleagues in the
cabinet, to adopt this moderate course, be de-
claring the presence of the Duke of PAL-
INIELLA with the expedition from Oporto, was
a guarantee against the establishment of a
Government in Portugal, which would jus-
tify ally apprehension on the part of
the Spanish Ministry, the Duke having gained
the ascendancy over the Ultra-Liberals in the
Cabinet of Don PEDRO ; and assures them that
the British and French Governments had pro-
mised to exert their influence towards the for-
mation of such a Government by the Pedroites
as would prevent the possibility of
at-
tempt at commotion among the Spanish
Liberals, under an expectation of receiving
support from Portugal. These arguments
had, it appears, prevented an immediate act
of intervention by the Spanish Cabinet in fa-

your of MIGUEL; but at the date of the last
despatches there were still doubts in the minds
of the British and French representatives as to
what might follow. On the whole, however, we
are inclined to Hieve that the Cabinet of
Madrid will lean tc moderation.

" Emancipate .he Jews, indeed !" said a
Noble Lord last night, on the presentation of a petition—
" I wish to God the Jews would emancipate some of us."
HORRID MUtDER.—We have received the
following letter from Dublin, dated Monday, three
o'clock :—" The w iole city has just been thrown into a
ferment by a most dreadful occurrence. Mr. NATHA •
NIEL SNEYD, wine-merchant, a gentleman extensively
known and reelected, was shot while walking in West-
moreland-street A. respectable looking middle aged man
fired at him a ham of pistols; both balls passed through
his head, and he unfortunate gentleman fell dead. No
cause can be in.igned. The assassin gave his name as
MASON, and is now undergoing examination. He is sup-
posed to be insure." Mr. SNEYD was a most estimable
man, both in its public and private character. He was
for many years one of the representatives of the county of
Cavan in the House of Commons, and was connected with
several of the nincipal families in that part of the country.
—Morning ilerald.

There i: one point connected with India at
once interestiag to every one whose lot has been cast for a
time in Ash, as well as the many thousands who are
connected with them at home, all of whom will feel
grateful to Sir ROBERT hoards for bringing forward the
important subject of steam navigation. The proposed
lines of intercourse by Egypt and the Euphrates have both
been carefully Examined by Captain CHESNEY, and that o'
the Red Sea (of Ire) by Captain HEAD, who urges this
route with mich force and energy. The reports of Captain
CHESNEY, bawever, make it almost a balanced question as
to the separate advantages of each, and if this be so,
Ministers have a simple task; for if it be difficult to say
which is the preferable one, both may be tried experimen-
tally, and that one continued permanently which proves
on experierce to be the cheapest and best. We already
have a lire _of packets monthly to Malta, and it can-
not, theriore, when so much is done, be a very
serious ex ense to continue that line on to Kander-
den or Eqpt, and then to have a small river steamer
on the E.phrates or Nile, the rest of the distance
to be conpleted by one of the Indian steamers ;—in
which war it is said that a few thousand pounds would
suffice fo an actual experiment for twelve months by
either of hew ; and, were the expense greater, the coon.

try ghoul( afford it, to accomplish so great a matter as
this intecourse would involve, not only to the public,
but privee individuals. We cannot learn that there are
any serial* objections either to the Euphrates or the Red
Sea; bu if there be such in the one, there will be the
resource of the other ; and if we do not like either *f
them, way not run the Malta line of packets onwards by
Constaninople to Trebisond, and thence by land to the
Tigris atd the Euphrates, or through Persia? for we ac-
tually bole three routes, each of which would give us a
commmication in from 37 to 47 days.
Mr O'CONNELL.—Mr. O'CONNELL, after
his lateQuizotic and abortive attempt to reform the par-
liamenary debates of the Times, may justly cry out with
Hermit,
"Tpe Times are out ofjoint,7oh, cursed spite,

That ever I was born to set them right."

BUTISH MUSEUM.—According to the
statutis and rules as altered (included in the returns
move! for by Mr. HAWES, and lately printed by order of
the Louse of Commons), it appears that the Museum is to
be closed to the public in September only instead of
Augut and September as formerly, but it is to be regretted
that fhe Christmas, Easter, and Whitsun weeks are still
preserved as vacations. Persons wishing to see the
methls or prints must give one day's notice of their inten •
tion. Those who apply for admission to the reading
room must produce a recommendation satisfactory to a
trustee, or an officer of the hou.e. Books, deeds, or
charttrs, may be taken out of the Museum to be produced
in evidence. No officer, or attendant, is allowed to take
any fee, or gratuity from any visiter of the Museum.
Every officer to have a vacation of thirty days between
She let of August and 81st of October, and may have a
longer absence if the trustees see fit. The ordinary
business of the Museum to be managed by a standing
committee of fifteen, three of whom are to mike a
quorum. A list of donations to be printed every year,
and a copy transmitted to each person, whose name shall
be recorded as a donor. The Museum not to be opened
on Tuesdays or Thursdays; those days being reserved by
the trustees for the admission of persons eminent for their
rank, learning, &c. _ _

It may be interesting to the legal profession
to knew, that the anomaly which has hitherto existed in
the writs in personal actions in the county of Middlesex,
being issued by a different officer from that issuing them
in all other counties and cities, is about to be done away
with, a Bill being in progress through Parliament to put
the signing, sealing, and issuing of writs of summons, &c.
in Middlesex upon the same footing as in other counties.
As it may not be generally known, and toll-
gate keepers may not improbably leave people to find it
out, the knowledge of the annexed may be a public con.
venience :—The second clause of the 2d and 3,1 of WH.-
Lux IV. c. 74, being an Act to explain certain provisions
in Local Acts of Parliament relating to double toll on

turnpikes, recites that any waggon on which a penalty for
overweight has been levied, shall, on receipt of a ticket to
that effect, be exempted from any further penalty for
overweight on that day, and on the same trust, provided
there be no alteration of the loading of such waggon.

About ten days since, in raising a large block
of stone, weighing several tons, from a quarry on Combe
Down, a living toad with only three legs (wit mutilated,
but evidently so formed) was found on the block beneath,
forty feet below the surface. In the raised block was found
a small cavity, just equal to the bulk of the toad. The
animal was almost of the colour of the freestone, and is
still alive, and in the possession of Mr. LANKESHEEK, the
quarryman.—Bath Gazette.
EXTRAORDINARY EXPEDITION IN CALICO
PRINTING. —A merchant of Manchester wanted 1,500
pieces of printed calico, of a particular description, printed
in three colours, to send off the next day to America; not
finding them at any of the warehouses, he went to Ilarpur-
hey to Mr. LOCKETT'S, who had nothing printed of the
kind wanted. This was at 5 in the evening, and it was
necessary to have the goods in M inchester the next day
before 1, to go by the railroad to Liverpool. Mr. ALSOP,
who is at the head of Mr. LOCKETT'S establishment, said
he was willing to undertake the order at his own risk.
lle did so ; the pieces were printed in three colours, dried,
glazed, packed, and sent off to Manchester by 12 o'clock ;
they reached Liverpool at three, were put on board, and
the vessel sailed at five, just 24 hours after the order was

given.
GoooLptirN.—We are requested to state

that the New Edition of this Work will certainly be pub-

fished by Mr. BENTLEY on Wednesday next, when it
may be obtained of all respectable booksellers in the
Untied Kingdom. Agents :for Scotland, Messrs. Bell and
Bradfute, Edinburgh, for Ireland, Mr. John Cumming,
Dublin.

CHARACTERISTICS OF GOETHE.-" We
can scarcely find the means of expressing, except in lan
page which may be deemed the diction of indiscriminat-
ing flattery, our admiration of the truly extraordinary
manner in which she (Mrs. AUSTIN) has rendered all their
various contents—metaphysical reasonings, poetical decla-
mations, and social dialogue—into correct, nervous, and
vernacular English. Most of our readers will remember the
interest which was excited by the appearance of the "Ger-
man Prince's" travels in England, and how obstinately, not-
withstanding all the assertions of critics and booksellers, and
the strongest internal evidence of authenticity, many people
persisted in believing the work to have been manufactured
at home, merely because the language did not offer the
slightest traces of transfusion from a foreign original.
The volumes before us evince the same elegance of ex-
[cession, the same felicitous rendering of each original
phrase by its English counterpart, at once with accuracy
and freedom, employed on a far more difficult suutject.
" • 1. Mrs. AUSTIN has presented us, in these three
volumes, with a variety of materials for judging of the
character of GOETHE, both as a man and an author."—
Edinburgh Review, July.
EFFECTS OF BAD MEMORY IN A CLER-
GYMAN.—On Thursday, July the 18th, the clergyman
of Upton Bishop, in this county, was engaged to be in at-
tendance at six o'clock, to perform the funeral rites over
a child that was to be interred, who had died on the pre-
vious Monday. Accordingly, the corpse was in the
churchyard at the hour appointed ; but, to the great
grief and mortification of the parents and others in attend-
ance, to, the number of twelve, after remaining till nearly
nine o'clock, no clergyman arrived. The clerk was then
solicited to allow the corpse to remain in the church
until the following day, which he positively refused. The
corpse was therefore carried back, to the distance of 12
mile', by young females,
The only excuse through the village of Crowhill.
given by the clergyman was, that it had
entirely slipped his memory, and hoped the corpse would
be brought the following day.

1M PERIALPARLIAMENT
THIS DAY. rRIDAY, AUGUST 2.

HO USF OF COMMONS.
The SPEAKER took his sett about a quarter past twelve
o'clock, at sviich time about thirty Members were in the
House.
GRAND JURIES (IRELAND) BILL.
Mr. LITTLETON moved the order of the day for the
House resolving itself into a Committee on the Grand
Juries (Ireland) Bill.
Lord DUNCANNON, in a very low tone of voice, in-
timated his intention to move an amendment to some clause in
the Bill, but the nature of it was not heard.
Mr. GRATTAN, in the absence of the Hon. Member for
Waterford (Mr. Barron) moved an instruction to the Com-
mittee to the following effect :—" That so much of the 39th of
Geo. 111., cap. 17, should be repealed, as compels the Grand
Jury of the county of Waterford to build any county infirmary
they may erect in the town of Kilmac-Thomas ; also to insert
a clause in the Bill to empower the Grand Jury of the county
of Waterford to build one or more infirmaries in any part of
said county that they may think proper."
Mr. LEFROY did not intend to make any formal objection
to the House going into Committee; but he begged to remind
the Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Littleton) that on a former
division 27 Irish Members voted against proceeding with the
Bill, and only seven voted for it.—(An Hon. Member said 17
voted for it.) At all events, a great proportion of the Irish
Members of all parties concurred in wishing it to be post-
poned. He hoped that English Members would not suffer
themselves to be made the tools for forcing such a measure as
the present down the throats of the people of Ireland.
Mr. LI'FTLETON thought the Hon. and Learned Gen-
tleman had not been present at the last division.—(Mr. Lefroy
—Yes, I was.) He had thought not, from the Hon. Gentle-
man having stated that only seven Irish Members voted for
the Bill, whereas there were 17, and therefore the grounds of
the Hon. Member's objection fell from under him. The mea-
sure had now been under consideration two sessions, and he
was strongly inclined to its leading principles. If he were to
devote the recess to the further consideration of it, he should
certainly adhere to all its leading and general principles.—
(Hear, hear.) He could not consent to any postponement of
the measure.
Mr. SHAW put it to the Noble Lord (Duncannon) whether
it was not the unanimous opinion of the Committee not to
press the Bill forward this session.
Lord DUNCANNON admitted that when the Bill went
last into Committee it was not in a fit state ; but it had since
then received considerable alteration, and he believed it might
now be considered perfect. He was aware that if it was
passed it would not come into operation until the next sum-
mer assists; but then it would afford better opportunity for the
Grand Jurors and others, intrusted in carrying the Bill into
effect, to become acquainted with the manner in which the
work would have to be done.
Mr. WINNINGTON hoped the Noble Lord Would perse-
vere in completing the Bill this session.
Mr. EVANS said it would be enough to pass an Act, for the
present, to regulate the system of tenders and contracts.
After a few words from Mr. FINN, Mr. EvANs, and Mr.
LirrwroN, the House went into Committee, Mr. Bernal in
the Chair.
Clause I was agreed to, without any comment.
On reading the 2d clause,
Lord OXMANTOWN objected to that and the three fol-
lowing clauses in limine, because they did not sufficiently con-
nect taxation with representation.
Mr. Sergeant PERRIN objected to the giving rectors and
vicars the power, under the Bill, of acting as justices. He
also thought the qualifying income of the justices should be
100/., instead of 3001. per annum.
After some observations from Lord Duncannon, Mr. D.
Brown, Mr. Shaw, Mr. _Finn, and Mr. Sergeant Perrin, who
withdrew his amendment, the clause, as originally proposed, was
ordered to stand part of the Bill.
Clauses 3 and 4 were ordered to stand part of the Bill, with
some verbal amendments.
The sth clause was then put and supported by Mr. Littleton,
Sir E. Wilmott, Mr. Ruthven, and Lord Duncannon, and
opposed by Mr. Sergeant Lefroy, and Mr. Shaw. It was then
agreed to.
The clauses up to 16 were then agreed to with a few verbal,
unimportant amendments.
Clauses 17 and 18 were agreed to with some verbal amend-
stems.
On arriving at clause 19, which provided for the reception
of tenders, and entering into contracts for public works,
Mr. SHAW asked what assurance there was that the works
would bt properly done.
Lcird DUNCANNON—Securities are provided for.
Mr. SHAW said they all knew that securities were in most
instances inefficacious. It was a very bad system to be com-
pelled to receive the lowest tender, for it frequently happened
that cheap work was the worst performed. He thought a dis-
cretion should be permitted, having due regard, of course, to
the expense.
Mr. O'CONNELL said this was one of the best clauses of the
Bill; for it would do away with that system of jobbing
and favouritism which have been so long practised in Ireland.
—(Hear, hear.) This was one of the leading principles of the
Bill, for it would do away with the system by which Magi-
strates got their rents paid, by employing some particular per-
son to do a particular work. The clause provided not only
that the work should be done at the cheapest price, and that
the contracts should be open, but that parties should give
ample security that the work should be properly performed.
Mr. LEFROY suggested that there should be a discretion
not to accept the lowest tender.
Mr. LITTLETON said the great matter was to have a cor-
rect specification. The principle of competition should be
strictly acted on, and he was convinced it would be found in
England to work well.
The clause, as amended, was then agreed to.
Clauses 20, with several verbal amendments, was agreed
to, and ordered to stand part of the Bill.
Clauses 21 to 25 were then respectively agreed to.
On the reading of clause 26,
Mr. O'CONNELL suggested that its provisions should be
extended to the city of Dublin, and other Grand Juries other.
wise generally excepted from the provisions of the Act.
Mr. LITTLETON said there would be no occasion, as by
the Bill all transactions would take place in open Court.
Mr. O'CONNELL—But the Bill did not open the
courts of the city of Dublin, and other places generally except-
ed in the Bill. He wished the Bill to be left as it was to
effect the intended purposes; and only asked, with respect to
this particular clause, that its operation might be extended to
the city of Dublin, the city of Cork, the city of Londonderry,
and the town of Galway.
Lord DUNCANNON said he would offer no objection.
After some observations front Mr. SHAW, Mr. LEFROT, and
Mr. O'CONNELL, the amendment was agreed to, and the clause
as amended ordered to stand part of the Bill.
Clauses 27 up to 29 inclusive, were agreed to with a few
verbal alterations.
The House then resumed, the Chairman reported progress,
and asked leave to sit again.
The SPEAKER then left the Chair.

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