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LONDON, TH URSDA ir EVENING, AUG UST 14, 1834

EAST INDIA HOUSE, Ace. 13, 1834.
THE COURT of DIRECTORS of the EAST
INDIA COMPANY do hereby give notice,
That a GENERAL COURT of the said Company will be
held at their House in Leadenhall-street, on WEDNESDAY next,
the 20th instant, from Eleven o'clock in the Forenoon until Six in
the Evening, for the purpose of taking a Ballot, in pursuance of the
following Requisition, viz. :
" We, the undersigned Proprietors, qualified according to law,
" being of opinion that the following question proposed as an alter-
" native to the Plan of Compensation submitted by the Court of
" Directors, ought not to pass withouf affording to the Proprietors
" at large an opportunity of voting upon it, do demand that the
" decision upon the said question be taken by the Ballot.
"H. St. George Tucker, "W. Stanley Clarke,
" Russel Ellice, " W. Astell,
" N. B. Edmonstone, " John Morris,
" J. Thornhill, " John Lock,
" J. D. Alexander, " Robert Campbell,
" W. Young, " H. Alexander,
" R. Jenkins, " John G. Ravenshaw,
thn
Shank,
Cotton, " 11. Lindsay,
" Charles Mills,
" W. B. Bayley.
" August 13, 1834."
The question alluded to in the foregoing Requisition, anJ upon
which the Ballot is tobe taken, is as follows, viz.:—
" Ist. That, in the opinion of this Court, it was the intention
of the East India Company, evinced by the terms of the compromise
which they entered into with his Majesty's Government, andwhich
has been confirmed by Parliament, that the Maritime Officers oi
the Company who bad served or were serving in ships owned or
chartered by the said Company, and had not abandoned the service,
should be justly and liberally compensated, in consequence of the
interest of such Officers being affected by the entire discontinuance
of the East India Company's trade. That such compensation was
one of the express conditions of relinquishing the said trade, and
that section 7 in the Act of the 3d and 4th of William IV., chapter
85, was altered and modified to admit the claims of the said Officers
to compensation. That it would be inconsistent, therefore, with
the honour and character of the East India Company, contrary to
the spirit and intention of the Act of Parliament, and at variance
with the moral and equitable rights of the Maritime Officers, if a
just and liberal compensation were not awarded to them for being
sudden 'y and entirely deprived of the advantages which they derive
from the Company's service.
" 2dly. That this Court, having taken into consideration the
" claims of the Maritime Officers to that compensation which has
" been solemnly and legally recognised and provided for, deem the
" following Scale of Pensions and Gratuities to be no more than
" adequate to the just expectations of the claimants
:
PENSIONS.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT,

which a discussion took place a few evenings ago, namely, the
contest now carrying on in Spain. On the occasion to which
he referred he understood the Noble Viscount to declare that
it was not the intention of his Majesty's Government to inter-
fere on behalf of either of the belligerents in that country ; but,
if he were rightly informed, a demonstration had been made on
the part of the Government of Great Britain which was alto-
gether inconsistent with either the literal interpretation or the
spirit of that declaration. He had heard that a British officer,
Colonel Cradock, was now at the head-quarters of the army of
General Rodil, but whether that officer was there as an accre-
dited military commissioner on the part of the Government of
country he, of course, could not undertake to say. He trusted,
however, that he was not, and for this reason, that if
the Government of Great Britain had placed one of the officers
of their army in such a position, it would- go the length of de-
monstrating beyond all manner of doubt a disposition on the
part of England to interfere in favour of one of the bellige-
rents, namely on behalf of the Queen. Their Lordships
must recollect that the officer to whom he alluded was em-
ployed in the trenches during the siege of Antwerp, but in
that case they all knew it was the intention of this Govern-
ment to act in support of Belgium. He noticed the informa-
tion which had reached him on this subject merely to point
out to the Noble Viscount the effect which placing a British
officer in such a position must have; and he would only add,
that if the demonstration were not real, it certainly wore that
appearance, and was contrary to the statement which the
Noble Viscount had made. He had no doubt, however, that
the Noble Viscount would explain to their Lordships whe-
ther the fact was so or not, and under this impression he
Should advert to another topic which seemed to him to call for
inquiry. He now begged leave to call the attention of the
Noble Viscount to the affairs of Portugal, and to ask him if
the Government of this country had received any information
respecting, if they were cognizant of, the confiscations and
spoliations which were now going on at Lisbon, on the part of
the Government of Don Pedro, against the property of the
parties who opposed him in the late contest for the Crown of
that kingdom. By the Treaty which had been entered into a
general amnesty was guaranteed, not only to the people of
Portugal, but to all other persons ; and he contended that the
Government of this country was bound to see that the whole of
the stipulations contained in that Treaty were properly and fully
carried into effect. He therefore hoped that no time would be
lost by his Majesty's Ministers in taking some steps for the relief
of the parties thus oppressed,and to show them the extent to which
the proceedings he described had been carried he had only to say
that he held in his, hand list of twelve British ships, worthy
100,0001., which had been confiscated by the new Board esta-
blished by Don Pedro at Lisbon in the place of the Admiralty
Court, which, with other old tribunals, had been abolished.
An appeal lay from the decision of the Admiralty Court, but
from this new Board there was no appeal, and therefore those
merchants who had thus unjustly, as he contended, been de-
prived of their property, were left without redress. He hoped,
however, that the subject would be inquired into by the Noble
Viscount, and that his Majesty's Ministers would see that jus-
tice was done to the injured parties. For his part, he could
not conceive that any Board should have the power of confis-
cating property tq, such an amount as 100,000/. without the
owners having the right of appealing to some other tribunal.
Viscount MELBOURNE denied that he said on the occa-
sion referred to by the Noble Marquis that it was the intention
of his Majesty's Government not to interfere in the contest now

HOUSE OF LORDS, August 13.
The House met at half-past three o'clock.
ROYAL COMMISSION.
The Royal Assent was given by Commission to the Exche-
quer Bills Bill, the Assessed Taxes Composition Bill, the
Newspapers Postage Bill, the Almanack Stamps Repeal Bill,
the Excise Revenue Management Bill, the Pensions (Civil
Offices) Act Amendment Bill, the Capital Punishments Bill,
the Militia Ballots Suspension Bill, the Militia Bill, the
Newspapers (Ireland) Bill, the Arms Importation (Ireland)
Bill, the Fever Hospitals (Ireland) Bill, the Valuation of
Lands (Ireland) Bill, the House of Commons Offices Bill,
the Land Tax Acts Amendment Bill, the County Rates Bill,
the Spring Quarter Sessions Bill, the Justices of the Peace
(Scilly) Bill, the Insolvent Debtors (Ireland) Bill, the Mer-
chant Seamen's Widows' Bill, the)Weights and Measures Bill,
the Court of Chancery (Ireland) Bill, the County Bridges
(Ireland) Bill, the Norfolk Island Bill, the Roads Act (Ire-
land) Bill, the Lancaster Court of Common Pleas Bill, the
Dean Forest Bill, the Menai and Conway Bridges Bill, the
Mumbles Lighthouse Bill, the Bayswater Sewer Bill, the
Bermondsey (Waterside) Improvement Bill, the Durham and
Sunderland Railway Bill, the City of London School Bill
Brady's Estate Bill, and Howell's Divorce Bill. ,
The Commissioners were the LORD CHANCELLOR, the Earl
of MULORAVE, and the Earl of SHAFTESBURY.
JUDGMENTS.
The LORD CHANCELLOR gave judgment in the Ap-
peals-L.
The Attorney-General v. Brazen Nose College, and the
Attorney-General v. Hungerford,
In both cases affirming the decisions of the Court below.
CONFERENCES WITH THE COMMONS.
Their Lordships held a conference with the Commons in
the Painted Chamber on the amended clauses of the Poor
Law Bill.
On their Lordshipsereturn, the Duke of CUMBERLAND an-
nounced that the Co coons bad agreed to most of the amended
clauses, but disagreed. with others ; but which we could not
hear.

Also a conference on Me County Justices Bill.
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE announced that the Commons
objected to some of the amended clauses to that Bill, but agreed
to the others.
Also a conference was requested to the County Coroners'
Bill, to which the Marquis of LANSDOWNE said the Commons
had not agreed.
The Bill to amend the Law of Customs, the Starch Duties
Repeal Bill, the Spirits License (Ireland) Bill, and several
other Bills were read a third time and passed.
The LORD CHANCELLOR would take that opportu-
nity of expressing his regret and disappointment at the refusal
of the Commons to agree to some of the clauses in two of
those Bills, the Poor Laws Bill and the Justices of Peace Bill
At first he would refer to the latter Bill. First then he would
express his utter surprise that such an impossibility should be
expected as that the Justices at every trial should take down
every tittle of the evidence. That would be impossible for the
Justices to do of themselves ; in fact it would be necessary to
have short-hand writers. Much as he respected the authority
of the House of Commons, yet he certainly would not agree
with the Commons in restoring the two clauses, because
those clauses gave a Justice the power to alter and amend
and annul, at his own mere option, every single Act of Par-
liament passed deliberately by the King, Lords, and Com-
mons.—( Hear, hear.) The Bill said that the penalty, whe-
ther of fine or imprisonment, was to be so and so for such and
such an offence. It fixed the amount and limit of the punish-
ment in each case ; but the proposed clauses gave the power,
right or wrong, to the magistrates to alter the penalty. One
evil consequence of that would be, that the magistrates would
acquire a disregard for all law, and feel an utter indifference
as to what penalty they affixed. He had no doubt that a second
Bill would pass next session, but in the mean time much evil
might be done by adopting these clauses. Though he had
great respect for the magistrates, he would not nive them such
unconstitutional power; and indeed he doubted whether the
magistrates themselves would feel comfortable with such
power. His Lordship then moved that the amendments be
read that day six mouths.
Lord WHARNCLIFFE supported the motion, on the
ground that it would be impossible for the magistrates to do
what was required by the first clause, and improper to entrust
them with the discretion given by the second.
Lord W YNF ORD also supported the motion. The Court
of King's Bench did not enjoy the power now professed to be
given by the magistrate 3.
The motion was agreed to, and the Bill consequently lost.
POOR LAW BILL.

" For such Commanders and Officers as have been ten years and
" upwards in the (7ompany's service, reckoning from the time they
" first entered the service to the termination of their last voyage.—
" Commanders
" Chief Mate l6O
" Second Mate l4O
" Surgeon
" Third Mate lOO
" Purser lOO
" Fourth Mate
" Assistant-Surgeon 7O
" Fifth and Sixth Mates
" Midshipmen
" Boatswains, Gunners, and Carpenters 25

" Widows one half of their husbands' pensions, during widow
" hood. Children the usual proportion.
" GRATUITIES
" For such Officers as have not been ten years in the Company's
" employ, to be computed according to their rank and time of ser-
" vice, in proportion to the value of the pension granted to those
" who have served ten years. That the compensation be given to
" all Commanders and Officers who have been in actual employ in
" the service within the period of five years antecedent to the 28th
" August, 1833. That it be optional with the Company, in lieu
" of pensions, to pay to the Commanders and Officers the value of
" the same in money, and that the scale now proposed be submitted
" for confirmation to the Board of Control.
" 3dly. That, in addition to the foregoing scale of compensa-
" tions to the Maritime Officers of the Company, this Court
" recommends that the Commanders and Officers of those ships
" whose contracts with the Company are unexpired, be reasonably
" compensated for the non-performance of the remaining voyages.
" And that :t be recommended to the Court of Directors to make
" such additional allowance as may be deemed reasonable to the
" Commanders and Officers of their own ships, and to any other
" Commanders and Officers who may be considered specially en-
" titled thereto, and to submit the same to this Court."
Printed copies of the papers, containing the plan of compensation
proposed by the Court of Directors, may be had upon application at
this House.

carrying on in Spain. He had made no such statement,
neither had he said anything to that effect ; on the contrary,
he had left the matter entirely open. He, however, had no
objection to say that Colonel Cradock was at the head-quarters
of General Rodil's army, because whatever related to the
affairs of Spain at the present moment was of so much im-
portance that it was indispensably necessary, not only for this
Government, but for the other Governments of Europe gene-
rally, to have full knowledge of all that occurred in that
country. With respect .0 the confiscation and spoliation which
the Noble Marquis said had taken place at Lisbon, he was
wholly uninformed. He had not heard of any transactions of
the kind, and although he did not wish to say that the Noble
Marquis's information was unfounded, he must be allowed to
doubt the accuracy of his statement that the amnesty guaran-
teed by the Treaty had been violated by the Portuguese Go-
vernment. It was undoubtedly the duty of this Government
to see that that amnesty was carried into full effect, and with
reference to the confiscation of the ships which the Noble
Marquis said had taken place, all he could now say was, that
proper inquiry should be made on the subject.
The Marquis of LONDONDERRY said it was not only
his impression, but the understanding of other Noble Lords,
that the Noble Viscount did the other night make the decla-
ration which he had attributed to him. The liable Viscount
might find it convenient now to back out of Mformer state-
ment, but he (the Marquis of L9ndonderry) must repeat that,
according to his recollection, and the impression which re-
mained on the minds of other Noble Lords, the Noble Vis-
count had stated distinctly that it was not the intention of the
Government of this country to inferfere in the contest now go-
ing forward in Spain, and chat the treaty bound them to no such
interference. The Government of this country were, however,
interfering in that contest ; for were not our vessels actually
cruising along the Spanish coast to assist, if there should be a
necessity for it, one of the belligerent parties against the other ?
This, he thought, was most unfair, and he would say to the
Noble Viscount, "If you mean to support the cause of the
Queen, why not candidly and openly avow your intention at
once ?" The conduct of the Government in this country rela-
tive to the contest that took place in Portugal was base, and
all he hoped was, that a similar course might not be pursued in
the present instance. The effect of it would be to encourage
the supporters of the Queen to persevere in the struggle, in
order that they might be deserted, perhaps, at the eleventh hour :
and, as he could not think such policy either wise or just on
the part of any State, he certainly should take an opportunity,
early next session, to bring the matter again under their Lord-
ships' notice.

PETER AUBER,

Secretary.

Just ready, in 2 vols. post Bvo. ,
R A N C E
F SOCIAL, LITERARY, and POLITICAL.
By HENRY L. BULWER, Esq., M.P.
Richard Bentley, 8, New Burlington-street.
Agents for Scotland, Messrs. Bell and Bradfute, Edinburgh
for. Ireland, Mr. John Cumming, Dublin.

The LORD CHANCELLOR said that the Commons
had also refused their assent to their Lordships' amendments
in the County Coroners' Bill, but as the result of that matter
was not yet before the House, he should now refer to the
amendments in the Poor Law Bill. It had been determined in
their Lordships' House to amend that Bill, by leaving out cer-
tain clauses. His proposition with respect to this Bill would
not be same as in the last case, because, although he disa-
greed from the Commons, he should be most unwilling that
upon that account so important a Bill should be lost. It was
clear that the clause the Commons proposed to maintain, giv-
ing the ministers of dissenting sects a right to enter the work-
houses in order to administer religious assistance to the fol-
lowers of their particular sect, was entirely superfluous ; and,
but for the great respect which he entertained for the House
of Commons, he should say it was absurd that this clause should
be left in. For why were they to suppose that there was rea-
son to bind down the discretion of the overseers, and, above all,
of the Commissioners, whom they were about to entrust with
large powers in this one case, when they did not think it neces-
sary to bind them down in others ? He should be inclined
to reprehend, in the severest manner, any master of a
workhouse who wished to preclude a sectarian Minister from
having access to his follower in the workhouse; and he
could not conceive why this was the only case in which they
should suspect the overseers of folly or harshness. In fact,
overseers were less likely to err upon this delicate point
of religious instruction, than upon any other. There was
another clause that the Commons wished to retain, that
was also unnecessary. Now on this subject their Lordships
had one of three courses to pursue. The first wa4 to reject
the amendments of the Commons—a course which, for the
reason he had already stated, he should not propose to be pur-
sued; the second was, to have a free conference with the
Commons, and have the matter argued and discussed to-mor-
row morning ; and the third was, to receive the amendments
of the Commons, but to enter a protest against them. He
should feel inclined to adopt the last course, and to withdraw
his objections to the clauses, but to give notice at the same
time that on the first day of next Session he should move for
leave to bring in a Bill to supply the deficiency, for deficiency
there wag in the clause respecting the admission of Dissenters
to workhouses, for as it was now framed it would not describe
those to Whom it was, intended to apply. He knew from the
legal advisers of those who .had framed the c ause that they
aho introduced it would gain nothing by it, for the Metho-
dists, for whose benefit it was no doubt spe.gally intended,
were not included in it as it now stood ; and, indeed, as others
appeared to be named when they were not, they might perhaps
be actually excluded.
The Bishop of LONDON said there had been no intention
whatever to place any restrictions on the admission of Dissen-
ting teachers when this clause was omitted; but he felt with
the Noble and Learned Lord that there was no necessity for
the clause, as there never would be any difficulty about their
admission.

TO THE MASTERS ENGAGED IN THE SEVERAL
BRANCHES OF THE BUILDING BUSINESS IN THE
METROPOLIS.

THE Committee appointed at the Meeting on the
Bth June last, have the satisfaction to state that the greatest
unanimity prevails among the Trade generally, with respect to the
Resolutions passed at that Meeting ; and for the purpose of affording
any information that may be desired, the Committee will meet at
the London Coffee-house every evening of this and the ensuing
week, from Seven till Nine o'clock.

The Duke of WELLINGTON said that the observations
of his Noble Friend clearly showed how important it was for
the Government to declare their intentions on this subject.
Unless the Noble Viscount did, so he was likely to be led into
a situation of considerable embarrassment, for he ought to know
that it was not usual for a Government to send an officer to the
head-quarters of a foreign army without it being understood
that they meant to take part with the power to whom that
army belonged.-
Here the conversation dropped.
Their Lordships adjourned at a Quarter to Seven o'clock
until Half-past Two-morrow (this day).

HOUSE OF COMMONS, August 13.
The SPEAKER resumed the Chair shortly before four o'clock.
A message from the Lords summoned the House to hear the
the Royal assent given by Commission to certain Acts (for
which see Lords' Report. )
Another message from the Lords requested a conference re-
specting the amendment in the County Coroners' Bill insisted
on by the Lords.
Mr. WARBURTON brought up the Report of the Com-
mittee on National Education, whtch was ordered to be printed.
Mr. H. HUGHES presented a petitien from St. Pancras
in favour of the Established Church.

CONFERENCE WITH THE LORDS.
The SPEAKER then vacated the Chair, and the Members ap-
pointed to the conference with the Lords on the County Coro-
ners' Amendment Bill, went to the House of Peers.
On their return it was reported that the Lords persisted in
the amendments they had made, and assigned their reasons for
so doing._
___ _

Lord W YNFO RD was not so sure that a declaratory clause
might not be necessary, because he did not feel the same con-
fidence in the Commissioners that was felt by the Noble and
Learned Lord on the Woolsack. He had every confidence in
their integrity and knowledge, but not in their ability to carry
this Bill into effect in all its very numerous enactments.
The LORD CHANCELLOR said there was an objection,
in point of form to a free conference, and that was, that their
Lord-hips mulir give their reasons for their resolution from
which they could not afterwards recede, and by such means the
Bill might be ultimately lost, a consequence that he would not
by any means run the risk of incurring. The clause, however,
was unnecssary, for the Commissioners after all would have,
without it as with it, the power of giving admission to the
workhouses ; but there was the less evil in agreeing to the
clause, as, however accurately this Bill might be now framed,
he thought there would not more than four months elapse before
practice would discover some amendmenti to be necessary, and
when they were introduced this matter could be amended.
The Duke of WELLINGTON thought that, in this age
of liberalism, they ought, if possible, to exclude religious
schisms and disputations from the workhouse.
The LORD CHANCELLOR meant to protest against
the clause, and therefore did not wish to be the person to move
its adoption.
Lord WYNFORD, it was understood, moved the adoption
of the clause.
Viscount MELBOURNE regretted the necessity for this
discussion, the More so as he understood that the clause, as it
was now framed, would require amendment hereafter.
The amendments of the Commons weie agreed to.
The Bis'aop of LONDON presented a Petition very nu-
merously signed from the parish of St. Pancras, praying for
protection to the Established Church.—Ordered to lie upon
the table.
The Duke of WELLINGTON presented two petitions
from certain inhabitants of Deal, against the Cinque Ports
Pilots' Bill.—Ordered to lie upon the table.
The Report of the Committee on the Church Temporalities
(Ireland) Bill was brought up. The amendmeyts were agreed
to, and the Bill was ordered to be read a third time to-morrow.
The Report of the Committee on the Beer Act Amend-
ment Bill was also brought up and agreed to. The Bill was
ordered to be read a third time to-morrow.
The Report of the Committee on the Australian Coloniza-
tion Bill was also brought up and agreed to. The Bill was
likewise fixed for the third reading to-morrow.

Mr. CRIPPS moved that the House do not persist in its
opposition to the amendments by the Lords.
Mr. 'WARBURTON rose to move that the Lords' amend-
ments be taken into further consideration that day three
months. The Hon. Member contended that it was for the in-
terest of the public and of justice that the Coroner's should be
an open Court. There were, he confessed, many reasons,
which induced him to wish the Bill should be postponed till
the next Session.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL supported the amend-
ment proposed by the lion. Member for Bridport. He was
decidedly of opinion that the Coroner's Court was an open
one, and that the best way was to leave the subject till next
Session.

Lord G. SOMERSET was sorry to hear such a course
proposed, for it would destroy the hopes of the Coroners. He
had been greatly astonished to hear the Hon. Member for
Bridport speak lightly of the manner in which Coroners were
elected ; they were elected by the freeholders.—( Hear.)
Lord ALTHORP was understood to support the amend-
ment, but the Noble Lord spoke in so indistinct a tone that
we weYe unable to catch his observations.
After a few words from Mr. CRIPPS, the amendment was
put and agreed to.
The Bill was consequently lost.

IRISH TITHES.
Mr. GRATTAN (having been called on by the SPEAKER
to proceed with the motion of which he had given notice, on
the subject of the collection of tithes in Ireland) said that, h'av-
ing considered the danger of giving expression, in the present
agitated state of the country, to feelings which in the warmth
of debate it might be found difficult to repress, and finding that
several Irish Members whose presence he had calculated upon
were absent, and trusting moreover to the steadiness and be-
nevolent feelings of the, Noble Lord ( Althorp) for the prevention
of those evils which his motion was calculated to avoid, did he
see the possibility of carrying it, he had come to the determi-
nation, by no means, however, pledging himself at a future
period not freely to discuss the prudence of continuing a form
of legislation which by the rejection of the Jewish and Dis-
senters' Claims Bills, and of the Irish Tithe Bill, and by the
mutilation of the Coroners' Bill, the Punishment by Death
Bill, and the Bribery at Elections Bill, had been found so ma-
terially to counteract the interests and wishes of the nation—
( Hear, hear)—not pledging himself, he repeated, to abstain
from such a discussion hereafter, he had come to the determi-
nation of withdrawing the notice of motion which stood in his
name for that evening.—( Cheers.) He ownedthat he for one
would find it difficult to abstain from making comments on the
conduct of certain persons in another place ; and feeling the
impolicy, the manifest impolicy, of so doing at a time when
Ireland and the country at large stood so much in need of

FOREIGN AFFAIRS.
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tranquillity, and trusting, as he before said, to the steadiness,
humanity, and benevolence of the Noble Lord ( Althorp) he
had come to the determination that it would be better for him
not to proceed with his motion.--( Cheers.)
Major BEAUCLERK thought the House ought to know,
before they separated, what were the intentions of the Govern-
ment on the subject to uhich the motion of the Hon. Member
for Meath referred. He did not expect the Clergy of Ireland
would have wherewithal to live for the next six months, and
the House ought to know if they were likely to get the means
of supporting themselves from the Government.
Lord ALTHORP—Did the llon. Member wish to know
whether the Government would pledge themselves to bring in
a measure in the next Session of Parliament, or was he anx-
ious to ascertain whether the Government would be prepared
to grant money to the Irish Clergy, should they be unable to
collect their tithes ?
Major BEAUCLERK wished to know if the Clergy were
to get from Government wherewithal to live ; aad also whe-
ther the Bill lately rejected by the House of Lords would be
returned to them next Session by the Government ?
Lord ALTHORP thought it would be a very strange
measure for the Government to bring forward a proposition
for providing for the Irish Clergy after one to the same effect
had been so lately rejected by the House of Lords. To the
second question of the Hon. Member he must for the present
decline giving any answer.

LIGHTHOUSES—EXPENSES AT ELECTIONS.
Mr. HUME gave notice that early in the next Session, he
would call attention to the reports of the Select Committees
on the subjects of lighthouses and expenses at elections.
IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT.
Mr. BUCKINGHAM presented a petition from three pri-
soners confined in the Fleet, calling the attention of the House
to the danger they were expzsed by being confined for debt in
a prison where the cholera morbus was raging, and praying
the House not to separate without passing a measure to enable
them to procure their discharge from prison on surrendering
their property to. trustees for the benefit of their creditors.
The Hon. Member read a statement, by which it appeared
that two cases of Asiatic cholera had occurred in the Fleet,
and expressed his regret that so many prisoners should be ex-,
posed to that frightful disease by the delay of the House in`l
passing the Imprisonment for Debt Bill.
Mr. HUME supported the prayer of the petition.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL begged to remind the
House that the delay which had occurred in the passing of the
measure was in no way attributable to him. As early as pos-
sible, however, in the next Session he pledged himself it
should be brought forward.
In answer to a question of an Hon. Member as to the cause
of the respite of two persons condemned to death for the crime
of murder at the late Chester Assizes,
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL replied that the respite
was found necessary in consequence of a difficulty having oc-
curred in deciding whether it rested with the Sheriffs of the
city or county of Chester to carry into execution the sentence
on the prisoners. The difficulty was occasioned by an omis-
sion in a Bill relating to the County Palatine Courts. Before
that Bill passed the Sheriffs of the county of Chester were in
the habit of seeing the law executed on prisoners condemned
to death, but by the passing of that Bill they considered them-
selves exempted from the duty, and as the terms of the Act
did not specify by which Sheriff execution should in future be
done, it was found necessary to respite the prisoners until it
should be decided by the Law Officers of the Crown with
whom the duty rested. He could assure the Hon. Member
that no unnecessary delay should take place in the settlement
of the point.
SUPPRESSION OF DRUNKENNESS.
' Mr. BUCKINGHAM gave notice that early in the next
Session he would bring in a Bill for the more effectual sup-
pression of drunkenness.
Sir S. WHALLE Y gave notice that he should move for
leave to bring in a Bill for the abolition of hereditary legisla-
tion.—( Slight murmurs.)
The SPEAKER suggested to the Hon. Member that that
House was not competent to pass such a Bill without the au
thority of the House of Lords.
Sir S. WHALLEY said that if he could make such a mo-
tion he would move for a return of all the expenses of the
House of Peers, with whatever sum each individual received
from the public.
Mr. HUME moved for a return of the expenses incurred
in prosecuting the Brighton Guardian..—Ordered to be pro-
duced.
Mr. HAWES moved for a return of the number of forge-
ries, with the expenses of prosecuting the the criminals, within
a certain period, which was read too indistinctly from the chair
to be audible in the gallery.
Mr. BAINES wished to be informed whether it was the
intention of the Commissioners of Ecclesiastical Inquiry to
publish a more perfect report of the revenues of the Church of
England?
Dr. LUSHINGTON answered in the affirmative.
Mr. HUME wished to ask the Noble Lord (Lord Althorp)
whether it was his intention to adjourn the House in the pre-
sent week, and for what period ?
Lord ALTHORP replied that the prorogation would take
place on Friday.
Mr. HUME wished to suggest to his Majesty's Ministers
the propriety of gazetting all appointments under Government,
and more especially appointments in the Colonies.
Mr. S. RICE was in favour of the practice of gazetting
the appointments. At present only the appointments of Go-
vernors were gazetted, and the only difficulty lay in the point
at which the practice ought to stop. He believed it would
not be advantageous to gazette the inferior appointments.
Mr. G. F. YOUNG wished to know whether the Noble
Lord the Chancellor of the Exchequer would state to the
House what salaries he intended to give to the Assistant Com.
missioners under the Poor Laws Amendment Bill.
Lord ALTHORP was not prepared to give any informa
tion upon the subject.
The House adjourned at a Quarter past Seven.

STEAM-BOAT ACCIDENT.-PRESERVATION
OF TEN PERSONS FROM DROWNING.

On Tuesday afternoon, about half-past four o'clock, a wherry
containing ten persons—six men, two women, a girl, and an
infant—while crossing the river off Wapping, was run down
by the Harlequin Margate steamer. The boat sunk, and the
ten individuals were immersed in the stream ; but, by the ac-
tivity of the watermen who put out their boats to their assis-
tance, the lives of the whole party were saved. They were
taken to the Thames Police-office in a most exhausted con-
dition. The infant appeared to be dead when brought to
the office, and it was some time before it showed signs of
life : animation was at length restored, and the child was sent
home with its mother. One young man was unfortunately cut
in the forehead by the paddle of the steamer. The accident
caused a very great sensation along shore, and a report of the
occurrence having reached the ears of Mr. Broderip, one of
the Thames Police Magistrates, he directed an immediate in-
quiry to be instituted.

Yesterday Captain James Corbin, the master of the Harle-
quin steamer, appeared before Mr. BRODERIP, to answer the
charge of running down the boat.

John Shea stated that on Tuesday afternoon he was in a
boat on the river ; he and another man were rowing ; their
object was to cross the river. They were near running foul of
a barge when the Harlequin steamer was coming up the river,
and a short distance from them. Witness saw the steamer
about three minutes before she came up with them, but could
not get out of her way without running foul of the barge.
When the steamer came up it struck the boat, and turned it
off to the starboard side, where it came in contact with the
paddle, and one of the party in the boat put his hand against
the wheel and was immediately struck by the paddle and car-
ried under. The boat was swamped, and every person in it
immersed in the river.
William Message, a Waterman, saw the steamer going up
the river, and followed it, expieting from the rapid pace at
which it was going that some ircident would occur. He kept
under the stern of the steamer, and picked some of the com-
plainants up.—Several other witnesses havng been examined,
Mr. BRODERIP ordered Captain Corbin to enter into his own
sureties in the sum of 501. to answer the charge at the sessions.