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HOUSE OF COMMONS.

Sir R. INGLIS presented a petition from Pristol,
praying for some legislative enactment to suppress the
practice of bull-baiting. He hoped that in the interval
which would ,portly arrive, his Majesty's Government
would turn their attention to this subject as well as to ano-
ther, which was in some some degree connected with it,
and which had been once before brought forward by a
late Right Hon. Gentlemen (Sir James Macintosh),
namely, the removal of slaughter-houses from populous
places.

Mr. LAWLEY presented a petition from Rugby, in
Warwickshire, praying for the reduction of postage be-
tween that place and Dunchurch.

Colonel dLENIENTS presented a petition from a parish
in the county of Leitrim against the Government plan of
education in Ireland.

Lord MORPETH presented a petition from a town-
ship in the parish of Bradford for an amendment of the
laws relating to the observance of the Lord's Day, the
suppression of beer shops, and for the diminution of the
malt duty.

Sir R. INGLIS supported the prayer of the petition,
and hoped that Government were now convinced from the
experiment of two years, and the ournerous petitions
upon the subject, that it would be prudent to abolish the
act allowing the free sale of beer.

Mr. VETENION moved fora copy of the letter of Vice-
Admiral Sir Edward Codrington to the Secretary of the
Admiralty of the 6,11 October, 1827, together with ex-
tracts from the log-book of his Majesty's ship Asia of the
2d of October, 1827, relative to the affair of Patras, and
the quantity of gunpowder and shot expended on that oc-
casion.
To a question by an Horr. ME➢tBER,

Mr. VERNON slid the object of his motion was to clear
up some misunderstanding upon the subject of the affairs
at Patras.

The SOLICITOR-GENERAL presented two petitions
from certain tradesmen in London, praying for some legis-
lative enactment to compel a better observance of the
Lord's day.
Mr. J. BARING presented a petition from Messrs.
Watts and Sons, of Halifax, and their workmen, against
the Labour in Factories Regulation Bill.
Mr. STANLEY presented two petitions from the Synod
of Ulster and the Town Council of the Royal Burgh of
Kinghorn, in favour of the Government plan of education
in Ireland.

Mr. Alderman WOOD presented a petition from a
parish in Cork, against tithes.

Mr. SPENCE brought in a Bill to diminish the ex-
pense and delays in Chancery, which was read a first, and
ordered to be read a second time that day fortnight.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL presented a petition
from a person, residing near Nottingham, named Hoppin,
praying that taxes on industry, and the payment of tithes
in kind, might be done away with.
LITERARY PROPERTY.

On the motion of Mr. SPRING RICE, the Report
on the Aberdeen University purchase, of right to printed
books, was brought up; the resolution read and agreed
to ; and Lord Althorp and Mr. Spring Rice were re-
quested to bring in the Bill.
The Report on the Bill of Exchange Bill was received
and agreed to.

The Army Half-pay Bill, the Audit of Account.) (Ire-
land) Bill, and the Excise Accounts (Scotland) Bill, se-
verally went through Committee, and the Reports were
ordered to be read to-morrow.

Colonel EVANS, on giving notice for the 7th of
August for the purpose of bringing before the House the
inconvenience arising from the period stipulated for the
payment of rates, stated that as the Bill at present stood,
from 50,000 to 100,000 voters would be disfranchised at
the next election.

Mr. HUME presented a petition from Kensington,
complaining of the powers given under the Act to the
Commi.sioners of Sewers. These Commissioners were
not at liberty to make any new sewers; but when any
private person made one, they had the power of taking it
out of his bands, and keeping it up by a tax levied on
every house—the consequence was now that, in all the
outskirts of the metropolis, you see whole ranges of build-
ings without the least sewerage. The petitioners
prayed that the laws as respected this subject
might he revised, and that the Commissioners should
not have the power of taxing the people and have uncon-
trolled power over the money they received. He would
propose that the whole of the three districts he consolida-
ted in one, and two efficient officers should be appointed,
when be thought the metropolis would be better served at
half of the present expense.
—Mr. WASON said the subject was peculiarly deserving
the attention of Government, and it was impossible that
Ministers could be inattentive to it, as the late Govern-
ment had a plan which they intended to have brought
forward.
On the motion of Mr. SPRING RICE, a clause was
added to the Coal Trade (Ireland) Bill, relative to com-
pensation to the coal meters and inspectors of Dublin, and
the Bill was then passed.
MESSAGE FROM THE LORDS.
A message from the Lords announced, their Lordships
had agreed to the Irish Reform Bill.

THE SPEAKER.
Lord ALTHORP said the address to his Majesty agreed
to last night, praying that his Majesty would be pleased to
confer on the Right Hon. Charles Manners Sutton some
signal mark of his Royal favour for his services during the
six Parliaments he had filled the office of Speaker, was
presented to his Majesty this day, and his Majesty had
commanded him to say, that he would comply with the
request of the House, but as he ctuld not do so without
the assistance of Parliament, he recommended them to
adopt such rnea, urea as were necessary for that purpose.
The Noble Lord having laid his report on the table, moved
that to-morrow the House resolve itself into a Com-
mittee to take the King's most gracious reply into con-
sideration_Agreed to.
Mr. STANLEY moved the Irish Reform Bill, with
the Lords amendments thereon, be taken into considera-
tion to-morrow, and that they be printed—Agreed to.
On the motion of Mr. S. RICE, the Exchequer Bills
Bill and the Sugar Duties Bill were read a second time
and Ordered to be committed to-morrow ; and the Consoli-
dated Bill was read a second time and ordered to be com-
mited on Friday.
Lord ALTHORP put it to an Honourable Member
opposite (1%1 r. Sadler) whether, at the present ad-
vanced period of the Session, and at a time when
so many Members were absent, he thought it ad-
visable to bring forward the resolutions respecting the

(PRICE 7D.)

la' or of children in factories, of which he had given notice
for this evening. As the resolutions could have no effect
as law, and would only be a declaration of opinion, it
would be hardly right to endeavour to obtain that opinion
when so many Members of the Committee that had sat on
the same subject were absent.
Mr. SADLER said the subject was of very great im-
[yea ince, and deeply regretted the scanty attendance of
Members. If it had been a question by which money was
to he taken from the pockets of the people, or if
it were a great party question, no doubt there
would he a full attendance of Members ; but it
was one in which only the poor operatives
amounting to hundreds of thousands of operatives were
ecnecrned, very few Members took any interest in it.
Un 'er the circumstances, however, stated by the Noble
Lord, he would consent to withdraw his motion ; and as
he had given notice of a motion to bring in a Bill on the
subject, and as that motion depended on the success of his
resolutions, he would withdraw that also.
Sir F. BURDETT brought forward his motion relative
to the state of the.sewers of the metropolis. The present
system, by which a variety of local Boards were entrusted
with the management of the sewers in districts, was ex-
tremely defective. It was important to the health of the
community that system should he wholly abolished, and
all the sewers be placed under one Board of Management.
In several parts of the town there were no sewers at all
though large sums were levied for the purpose. He be-
lieved the revenues for that purpose exceeded 200,000/.
which, according to the opinion of scientific men was quite
sufficient properly to drain London. The Hon. Baronet
then referred to a letter which he had received from one
of his constituents who possessed property on the Vaux-
hall-road, where the state of the sewers had become such
a nuisance as considerably to deteriorate that property,
and on applying to the Commissioners no notice was iaken
of it. The Hon. Member concluded by moving, that the
House should direct Mr. Taltord to make enquiries and re-
port on the present state of the drainage of London, and
also to point out if any better plan could be adopted.
Lord ALTHORP admitted that the subject was one of
great importance, and one in which enquiry ought to have
taken place; but he thought it would be better that that en-
quiry should proceed from the Government than from tl e
House. He thought, however, that arrangements should
be made with the local authorities, in order to throw as
little expense as possible on the public.
Mr. WARBURTON thought there should not only be
surveyors appointed by the Government in order to survey
and report upon the whole system, hut that Government
should afro appoint a Commission to inquire into the
present state of the sewerage in the metropolis.
Mr. HUME said, if the whole system had been
under one Board, even since 1800, the whole of the
Metropolis would have been properly supplied with
sewers at one third of the expense incurred since that
time. He hoped the Noble Lord would include in the
commission the whole of the laws relating to that subject.
Mr. WARRE said that Mr. Tetford's survey bad been
mentioneoned, and he wished to know if it would be
laid before the House this Session.
Mr. SPRING RICE was afraid it could not
be prepared in time. Government were anxious to
have it made public as soon as possible, and would
bring it before the House at the earlist opportunity.
Mr. C. PELHAM concurred in the plan proposed by
the Hen. Baronet.

Sir F. BURDETT fully concurred in the suggestions
thrown out by the Hon. Member for Middlesex. He
would withdraw hie motion, and leave the subject entirrly
in the hands of Government.

The motion was accordingly withdrawn.
(Lan SITTING.)

FilE LONDON GAZETTE

THIS EVENING.

ST. JAMES'S-PALACE, July 25, 1832.
This day, by command of his Majesty, Rear-Admiral Sir Mi-
ch,el Seymour, Bart., Knight Commander of the Most Ho-
nourable Military Order of the Bath. was introduced into the
Royal Presence, preceded by Sir William Woods (the Officer of
Arms attendant upon the Knights Commanders), bearing upon
a crimson velvet cushion the star appropriated to the second
class of the Order, with which the Sovereign was graciously
pleased to invest Sir Michael Seymour, who, having had the
honour to kiss his Majesty's hand, withdrew.

ST. JAMES'S-PALACE, JUDY 25.
The King has been pleased, by letters pateni under the great
seal of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, to nominate, consti.
tute, and appoint Sir Agustus W. Clifford. Knt. C.B. Captain in
the Royal Nary, Gentleman Usher Daily Waiter, to beGentle.
man Usher to the Black Rod.

DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVENCY.

MICHAEL AGATE, Market-square, Horsham, Sussex,
grocer.

JOSEPH PLATTS, Hamilton-terrace, Maida-hill, Maryle-
bone, builder.
BANKRUPTCIES SUPERSEDED.

JOHN CLARK, Godalming, Surrey, linen-draper.
HENRY 3 EFFERIES, King-street, Clerkenwell, brewer.
BANKRUPTS. _ _

JOHN BLISS, Ch Leh ester-place, G ray's- I nn.lane-road,
baker, to surrender, August 13, at eleven, and Sept. 11, at three,
at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, Old Jewry, London,
official assignee; Binns, Essex-street, Strand.
HEN RY J A MES N ORRIS and GEORGE TY AS, Bury-place,
Bloomsbury, Middlesex, wine-merchants, August 9, at ten, and
Sept. 11, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, Old
Jewry, London, official assignee; Templer and Shearman,
Great Tower-street.

JOHN WATERS, ARTHUR JONES, and DAVID JONES,
Carmarthen, Aug. 24, and Sept. 11, at ten, at the Ivy Bush
Hotel, Carmarthen. Vaughan and Bevan, Brecon; Crowder
.and Maynard, Mansion house Place, Londe n.
SAMUEL GREEN, Leeds, builder, August 22, 23, and Sept.
11, at eleven, at the Court-house, Leeds. Battve Fisher, and
Sudlow, Chancery-lane, London ; Hargreaves, Leeds.
NICHOLAS TEMPERLEY, Westgate, Northumberland,
ship-ownar, August 15, and Sept. 11, at eleven, at the Peacock
Inn, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Burn, Great Carter-lane, Doctors'-
Commons, London; Bownas, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
GEORGE BEAVER, Belgrave. street South, Middlesex,
carpenter, Aug. '7, at three, and Sept. 11, at twelve, at the Court
of Bankruptcy. Eaton, New Inn, Strand.
CHARLES RICHARD CARTER, t'heapside, carpet-ware-
houseman, Aug. 8, at twelve, and Sept. 11, at eleven, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Dangerfield, Lincoln's Inn-field's.
GRIFFITH JONES, Carnarvon, merchant, Aug. 3, at eleven,
instead of Aug. 2, as inserted by mistake in the Gazette. Byrne,
Cook's-court, Lincoln's Inn-fields, London ; Horne, Denbigh.
WALTER LOGAN, Upper Baker. street, Marylebone, mer-
chant, Aug. 14, at half-past twelve, and Sept. 11, at one, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Hertslet, Norfolk-street, Strand ; Whit-
more, Hustin-friars, official assignee.
JAMES NEWINGTON, Lewes, Sussex, wine-merchant,
Aug. 10, and Sept. 11, at ten, at the Court ofßankruptcy. Groom,
official assignee, Abchurch-lane ; Coombe and Wright, Token-
house-yard.
THO +IAS RUDD, Laura-place, Clapton, tea-dealer, Aug. 10
and Sept. 11, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards,
Old Jewry, official assignee ; Allen, Gylby, and Allen, Carlisle-
street, Soho.
WILLIAM LEE, Arundel-street, Strand, broker, Aug. 8, at
one, and Sept. 11, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Burn,
Morton, and Vaux, Raymond.buildings, Gray's-Inn ; Turquand,
Tokenhouse-yard, the Official Assignee
THOMAS SANDYS, Bell-court, Brook's-market, booksel-
ler, August 7, at ten, and Sept. 11, at one, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Gibson, Basinghall-street, official assignee; Garry,
youth-square, Gray's Inn.
WILLIAM BOYLE, Newdate-street, paper-hanger, Aug. 8
and Sept. 11, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Bousfield,
Chatham-place, Blackfriars ; Cannan, Lothbury, official assignee.
WILLIAM MATTHEWS, City-road, timber-merchant,
Aug. 10, at one, and Sept. 11, at twelve, at the Court of Bank.
ruptcy. Lowe. Lothbury, official assignee; Turnly, Iron-
monger-lane, Cheapside.
WILLIAM JAMES ADAMS, East India Chambers, Leaden-
hall-street, scrivener, Aug. 8, at ten, and Sept. 11, at one, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, Abchurch-lane, official assignee;
Murphy, Castle-alley, Royal Exchange.
CHARLES FREDERICK wooLcurr, Tunbridge, Kent,
Aug. 7, at two, and Sept. 11, at eleven, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Abbott, King's Arms-yard, Coleman-street, official as-
signee; Bousfield, Chatham-place, Blackfriars.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, JuLr 30.

Lord KILLEEN would take that opportunity of giving
his Learned Friend (Drr. Crampton) an opportunity of
explaining some expressions which were attributed to him
on a late discussion, when a petition was presented with
regard to the dispersion of the meeting at Nobber.
Mr. LITTLETON would take that °ppm tunity of ad-
verting to what had passed early in the Session, with
reference to having laid before the House annually some
volume stating the returns of imports and exports. His
Right Hon. Friend (Mr. P. Thomson) had turned his at-
tention seriously to this subject, and had given the House
hopes of laying such a document before it. He wished to
know whether it was his intention to propose such a
document, and at what period next Session he thought be
should be able to lay it before the House.

Mr. CRAMPTON said, in consequence of the way in
which the question was put by his Noble Friend, he felt
hi nself bound to answer it. It was certainly difficult for
any person to recollect the exact words he may have user
on an occasion that was unexpected. He could not, hp
was perfectly sure, of his own knowledge have said any-
thing of the meeting at Nobber. It was stated by zt
Learned Member of the House that that meeting was
perfectly legal one ; he be!ieved what he had said was.
•hat it was certainly premature to give such an opinion,

Mr. LEFROY, jun., presented a petition from a parish
in Ireland, against the grant to the College of Maynooth.
Mr. Alderman WOOD roan to complain of the conduct
of one of the Hon. Members of that House. He had
brought in a Bill, which on several occasions he bad put
06 on account of the Ministry. On a late occrsioa be left
the House at half-put one o'clock, when that Bid stood
in the paper, and in his absence the Hon. Member for
Glasgow got up and moved that it should be read a seeped
time that day six months. He believed it was an unpre-
cedented proceeding.
Mr. DIXON said he bad given the Hon. Alderman
notice of his intention of dividing the House on the Bill
(the Steam Navigation), yet be bad persisted in going
away. His conduct he believed to have been perfectly
regular.

After a few words from Mr. Karts and Lord SANPON,
the subject dropped.
Mr. WILKS presented a petition in favour of the
Bribery Bill, especially of the clause to be proposed, that
each Member should take an oath that neither by him-
self or friends bad be either given or promised a bribe in
order to secure his election. He would take that oppor-
tunity of asking the Noble Lord opposite whether he ex-
pected to get through his Bill this session ?

Lord JOHN RUSSELL said, that it was certainly the
intention of his Majesty's Government to persevere in the
Bill. and to carry it through, as they deemed it of high
importance that it should be passed before tke end of the
Session.

Mr. WILKS gave notice that next session he would
mesa for leave to bring in a Bill to prevent any future
Parliament sitting longer than three years.—(Hear and
laughter.)
Mr. HODGES presented petitions from Biddle and
Tu abridge Welk, praying the House to institute an in-
quiry into the condition of the labouring poor.
Mr. BRISCOE presented a petition from the city of
York, praying' for certain alterations in the Pluralities
Bill now in the Home.
RESIGNATION OF THE SPEAKER.

As it had been intimated by circular to the Mem-
bers that the Speaker would this evening express his in-
tei.tion to resign his office, to which he was elected on the
2,1 of June 1817 (on the resignation of the present Lord
Colchester), there was a very full attendance of Members.
The Right Hon. the SPEAKER rose and addressed
the House, evidently labouriug under deep emotion, as
follows:—The state of the public business indicated that
they were now nearly at the close of the Session, and as be
knew not at what period it might terminate, he hoped
the House would not think him unreasonable in
requesting permission to present himself to them at the
present time. He had now had the honour and the pride
of being elected to that chair during six successive Perna-
inents.—(Cheers.) He had at all times been impressed
with the conviction that one of the first and molt import-
ant duties of the Speaker was to keep a strict watch on his
own conduct, and as far as he,could, to keep alive the
same watchfulness on the part of the House, to the main-
tenance of their rights, privileges, and independence—
(Cheers)—to facilitate, as far as lay in his power, the
progress of the public business—and to conduct himself
towards the House and Members individually with
the strictest impartiality.—(Cbeers.) He could most eon-
s ••ientiously say, and he hoped it would not be attributed
to him arrogantly when he said it, that he bad served the
Home with strict fidelity.—(Loud cheers ) He would
not have the temerity to place himself in contrast or corn-
['orison with many of his predecessors. But among the va-
rious duties imposed on him, laborious and difficult, he had
hen cheered and upheld by the best encouragement and
support,—the constant co-operation, confidence, and ap-
probation of the House. —(Cheers. ) He might, therefore,
hope that his conduct in the Chair had not been wholly
irofficient, for various as had been the changes in the
several Parliaments on the return of Members, he, at least,
had found no change in their uniform kindness, conside-
ration, and assistance of every kind. He ought no longer
to trespass on their attention, but conscious, as he was,
and as every man must be, of the great variety of im-
perfections under which he laboured, there was one to
which he wished particularly to allude, and if at
any time, acting under the infirmity of temper or indis-
position, he had shown, or appeared to show, any inatten-
tion or want of zeal—for incivility he hoped he never had
shown—to any Member,-he was most sincerely ashamed
of it, and heartily sorry for it —(Hear.) This he
knew well, it was not consistent with the general turn of
his nature, and he knew it was inconsistent with his duty.
He hoped the House would pardon him for taking this
opportunity of endeavouring to discharge what he felt
to be a duty of respect to the House, what
he knew to be justice towards himself. The
House, he was persuaded, would pardon him, and suffer
him before he sat down to say, that from the full-
ness of his heart he felt that he owed a debt of grati-
tude to the House, which it was impossible to express
by any command of language which he could use—a gra-
titude, the recollection of which would be deep and last-
ing, and which neither time nor circumstance could efface.
( Hear, hear.)
hue Right Hon. Gentleman sat down amidst loud and
enthusiastic cheering.
Lord ALTHORP then rose, but from the Noble Lord's
peculiar manner it was extremely difficult to bear him.
He observed that what he had heard from the Speaker lie
certainly heard with the deepest regret, because he knew
how much the House would miss the Right Hon. Gen-
tleman's services, and he was sure he spoke the sentiments
of every gentleman in the House, when he declared those
services to have been highly advantageous to the country.
He (Lord Althorp) bad had the honour of sitting in the
House during the whole period that the Right Hon. Gen-
tleman hid filled the Chair. He had been present at his
first election, and he hoped that it would be permitted to
him to say, that although he (Lord Althorp) had not
agreed with the majority on that occasion, yet subsequent
experience had proved to him, what he was happy to have
an opportunity thus publicly to state, and what he bad
often privately declared, namely, that circumstances had
ipa:.(t)evdedantlyiatintdhe ivillthioaulsebectctieurldqunaolitfiedat
ttt
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nity
of the situation.—(Hear, hear.) The situation W 49 on,
of great difficulty. The Right Hon. Gentleman bad to
maintain order, and he had bad the peculiar felicity of
being able to maintain that order with the greatest urba-
nity to every individual, and he (Lord Althorp) was sure
that the Right Hon. Gentleman had greatly facilitated
public business, and entitled himself to the gratitude
of every Member of the House. The Speaker had, dur-
ing the time he filled the Chair, been called upon for a de-
gree of exertion that no Speaker had ever undergone be-
fore; for although other Speakers might have filled the
-ituation longer, certainly no one of them had ever had
duties near so laborious to perform, and sure he was also,
that no one who had ever filled that chair had discharged
its duties more to the satisfaction of the House. He

(Lord Althorp) felt the great kindness which the Speaker
had shown to every Aftmlo,r. The Right Hun. Gentle-
man had assisted them in all their difficulties, and instead
if standing strictly upon the forms of office, he had gone
ost of his way to give Members every assistance they re-
quired. He regretted that the Right Hon. Gentleman
was now about to go away, as be would have wished him
to till the chair in the new Parliament, as his experience
in its duties must have been productive of the highest be-
nefit. He (Lord Althorp) was sure, that in the motion
he was about to make, these would be no dissentient
voice ; sure he was that every Member of the House would
agree in a vote of thanks to the Right Hon. Grntlrmao
for his conduct, and therefore it would be unnecessary fur
him to advance any arguments in support of it. The
Noble Lord then moved—
" That the thanks of this House be given to the Right Hon.
Charles Manners Sutton, Speaker of this House, for his eminent
services in the six Parliaments during which he Lad die.

charged the duties of Speaker, with a zeal and ability alike
honourable to himself and conducive to the progress •f public
uusiness: that he be assured that this House feels the strongest
sense of the advantage which it has derived from his attach-
ment to the interests of his country—from his unwearied assi-
duity during a period of unexampled labour in this House—
from the steadiness and firmness with which he has on all oc-
casions maintained the dignity and privileges of the Commons
House of Parliament—from the attention which he has paid to
the order of our proceedings, and from the urbanity and kind-
ness which he has uniformly displayed in the discharge of his
high and important duties."

Mr. GOULBURN trusted he might be permitted to
uive the honour of seconding this motion. Hr. (Mr.
Goulburn), like the Noble Lord, had been one of those
who was present at the Right Hon. Gentleman's election,
and he like him could bear the strogest testimony to the
unvarying propriety of his conduct in the chair. I4e
:mod in one respect in a peculiar situation towards the
Right Hon. Gentleman. He had the benefit of his early
acquaintance, and on the occasion of his being electral
Chairman of that House, he was convinced that in sup-
oorting his nomination, those advantages would arise front
t that had been enumerated by the Noble Lord. lie
ould well remember, that although there had begin two
-andidates for the office, there was not, he believed, one
!I:sentient voice as lo the qualification of the individual
lected, however there might have been, with -,ume, a
reference of one candidate to the other. At that time
cone expressed a doubt as to the propriety of the
choice made by the House, except the Right Hon.
Gentleman himself. There was no task more diffica t