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London, England, 1832-02-01 00:00:00

ATKINSON'S CAMPHOR SOAP.

JAMES and EDWARD ATKINSON
respectfully solicit the attention of the Public to the
above article; they will not presume to point out the
anta-contagious qualities of Camphor, but they fearlessly
Challenge a comparison with any article sold under the
name of Camphor Soap ; indeed, many have nothing of
Camphor but the name, but this may at once be known
by its fragrance and appearance. It is perhaps the most
Powerful preparation of Camphor that can be formed in a
fixed state. It is a most excellent Soap for wathing, being
very mild, correcting all hardness and redness of the skin
arising from labour or inclement weather, and its sooth-
ing properties for chapped hands are too well known to
need repetition. It readily dissolves in water, communi-
cating to it a flavour equal to what is usually sold as Spirits
of Camphor, and its aroma immediately fills the atmosphere
of the largest apartment.—Price Is. the square..
N.B. Prepared also in Shaving Cakes, various sizes.
Also ATKINSON'S CONCENTRATED ESSENCE
of CAMPHOR, the strongest preparation of Camphor that
can be made in a liquid state. A few drops added to
Lavender Water, Eau de Cologne, or any other article,
tnakes what is known as Camphorated Lavender, &c.
Also ATKINSON'S CAMPHOR PASTE, particu -
'llly adapted to a cold season for preventing the hands
Caapping and immediately allaying the pain.
Prepared and sold by James and Edward Atkinson, Per-
fumers,
24, Old Bond-street, corner of Burlington-gardens,
Oterooved from 44, Gerrard-street, and 36, New Bond-
e,,treet), and sold by their appointment by Truefit, 20,
',l,intram, 7, and Fox, 32, Burlington-arcade; Woodman,
Ins Piccadilly ; Mason, 38, Haymarket ; Fox, 70, Taylor,
t 92. and Wilson, 277, Strand ; Mattrass, 85, Fleet-street ;
rad) 9, Crawford-street; Baker, 24, New-street ;
viallte, 126, Firth, 45, and Balls, 131, Oxford-street;
B.
a. 62, Holborn ; Johnston, 68, Cornhill ; Colley, 28,
Pegate-street ; Marquis, 72, Coleman-street ; and by
"e or more Perfumers in most principal Towns.

n LAIR'S PILLS.—The most excruciating
GOUT and RHEUMATIC GOUT immediately
RELIEVED. and CURED in a few days by these in-
comparable PILLS, which require neither confinement
nor any particular regimen during their use, and are so
innocent in their nature that the most delicate constitution
may take them without apprehension. For lumbago,
pains in the head and face, and all descriptions of rheuma-
tism, the effects are equally certain. The following testi-
monial is selected from several which have been for-
warded to the proprietor of the extraordinary cures per-
formed by this medicine :
" To Mr. Prout, 226, Strand.
Sin,—For ten years past I have suffered very severely from
gout, each year increasing in the frequency of the attack and in-
tensity of suffering. My legs and hands became useless, ren-
dering me incapable of attending tO my affairs. In this situa-
tion 1 was recommended by a lady, last December, to try Blair's
Pills, which I lost no time in doing, and happy am Ito inform
you that a few doses gave me essential relief, and less than two
boxes completely freed me from this dreadful disease. The
winter is now past, I have had no relapse, and find my bodily
health infinitely better. You are at liberty to make use of this
Fetter as you may think proper, for the benefit of others similarly
afflicted, and to the proprietor, to whom I feel so much indebted.
•' I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
" Norwood, Surrey, April 11, 1831. " ROBERT HILL."
Sold by Mr. Prout, 226, Strand, price 2s. 9d. per
Box. Country Venders can obtain them from their Agents
in London.

ANNUAL RECEIPTS OF MISSIONARY,
BIBLE, EDUCATION, AND TRACT SOCIETIES.

We present our readers with the following tabular state-
ment of the various Religious and Philanthropic Institu-
tions which are known to he in active operation through-
out the whole world, from which they will ascertain, at
one glance, got only what are the various objects of Chris-
tian benevolence, but also the extent to which these ob-
jects are annually supported by their respective p itrons.
Years. Income.
ANTI-SLAVERY. X. s. d.
African Institution 1828-29 4BO 0 0
American Colonization 1830-31 5980 5 9
Anti-Slavery 1830-31...... 2846 8 11
Ladies' Negro Children Education 1830-31 268 6 11
Ladies' Negro2s' Friend 1830-31 340 10 11
Slave Conversion 1830
BIBLE.
. .

American lB3O-31 28696 5 6
British and Foreign 1830-31 95424 2 3
Edinburgh 1830-31 3736 17 4
French Protestant 1830-31 1822 19 2
Hibernian 1827-28 6457 6 4
Trinitarian 1831
EDUCATION.
American lB3O-31 9lOl 6 2
American Sunday School 1830-31 17482 17 5
American Episcopal 1829-30 2436 1 6
American Methodist 1829-30 2593 16 0
Baptist 1830-31 12719 16 11
aa.ptist(General) 1830-31- 958 8 2
Church., 1830-31 47840 10 6
French Protestant lB3O-31 983 14 2
German Evangelical 1830
Gospel Propagation 1830
London lB3O-31 41487 9 3
Scottish lB3O-31 7487 4 4
United Brethren 1830
Wesleyan 1833
SEAMEN AND SOLDIERS.
American Seamen's Friend 1829-30 935 19 0
Merchant Seamen's Bible 1830-31 824 8 8
Naval and Military Bible 18303' 3220 0 3
Port of London Seamen's 1830-31 783 7 10
Sailors' Home 1829
TRACT AND BOOK.
American Tract lB3O-31 9657 11 3
British and Foreign School 1830-31 3222 18 7
French Elementary Instruction 1829-30 2091 11 8
Irish Education . 1829
Irish Sunday School. 1830-31 3330 3 3
Ladies' Hibernian Female School ... ...... 1829
National 1830-31 lBB3 19 5
Newfoundland and British North Ame-
rican School. 1830-31 1673 8 3
Sunday School lB3O-31 479 17 6
Sunday School Union 1830-31 7061 8 3
JEWS.
Friends of Hebrew Nation lB3O-31 1719 10 7
London lB3O-31 14193 18 8
MISSIONARY.
. -

....... .... -.
1829-30 18679 7 2
American Board _,
American Baptist 1829-30 3613 14 6
Church of England Tract 1830-31 436 17 3
French and Spanish Translation 1829-30 969 0 8
French Protestant lB3O-31 Bl5 0 10
Irish Tract and Book 1830-31 3475 14 1
Prayer Book and Homily 1830-31 2127 6 11
Religious Tract 1830-31 26672 7 5
MISCELLANEOUS.
-. . .. - . .

Christian Instruction lB3O-31...... 1252 7 6
Christian Knowledge lB3O-31....., 6N131 5 3
Continental 1830-31...... 1970 13 8
District Visiting lB3O-31 456 12 7
French Society of Christian Morals 1829-30...... 437 14 2
Hibernian (London) 1830-31 7330 9 2
Irish Society of London 1830-31 l9lB 19 11
Irish Society of Dublin 1829-30 3687 6 1
Peace lB3O-31 577 9 6
Reformation lB3O-31 2938 5 7

—Christian Advocate.

Total. ..... .......i 619,645 3 2

At the rising of the Court of King's Bench
yesterday, the ATToRNFT.GENERAL gave notice that on the
first day of next term he would move for criminal infor-
mations against certain Papers, which had inserted a most
scandalous and wicked libel on the character of the Duchess
of RICIIMOND. The Learned Gentleman said his notice
was grounded upon an affidavit made by the Noble Duke,
in which he swore that the whole of the paragraph was
false, and that no ground existed for it, as no persons
lived upon such good terms as the Noble coeple.
A very curious and interesting feature in the
lately published "Memoirs of Madame Junot (Duchess of
Abrantes)" consists of the animated details given by that
lady of the state of female society in France during the
Revolution, when social 'as well as political order received
so severe a blow. Guided by the authoress, we penetrate
to the very centre of private life during that troubled pe-
riod, and see, for the first time, what was the effect of
faction on the lives of the gentler part of the creation in
the most refined circles. The anecdotes illustrative of this
will not easily be forgotten.

Such is the taste for gaudy ornaments even
among the lower class of females in Spain, that it is not
unusual to see numerous rings gracing the fingers of a
common beggar.

Died at Liverpool, aged 102, Mr. HUGH
EvANs, tailor. He was a native of Anglesea, North
Wales, and came over to Liverpool to make mourning at
the death of GEORGE 11., having been engaged for that
purpose. He worked at his business till within the last
seven years, and retained his sight and hearing until the
hour of his dissolution.

We understand that frauds on the Revenue
by the illicit distillation of spirits, and the illegal manu-
facture of soap, paper scaleboard, and other articles sub-
ject to duty, notwithstanding the exertions and renewed
vigilance of the Excise department, and the officers con-
nected therewith, have of late been carried on to a great
extent, and the offiical returns are consequently very much
reduced in amount.

Captain FRANKLAND'S " Narrative of his
Visit to the Courts of Russia and Sweden," has now issued
from the press. The facilities which this officer enjoyed
of mixing with the first society at St. Petersburgh,
Moscow, and Stockholm, afforded him an opportunity of
describing the manners of high life in these great northern
capitals which seldom falls to the lot of the traveller. The
volumes present the most modern picture of the manners,
customs, amusements, and existing condition of the colossal
nation, which extends from the banks of the Elbe to those
of the Indus. The author's remarks on the present mili-
tary power and resources of Russia and Sweden, of the
former in particular, impart an additional value to his
amusing narrative.

Mr. BERNAL, and others frqm the Commons, brought
up.the Embezzletnent Bill, and the'Corporate Funds Bill ;
which, on the motion of the Eail of SuArrEsnuav, were
severally read a first time, and ordered to be printed.
The Earl of KINNOUL presented a petition from
certain freeholders, Magistrates, and Commissioners of
Supply of the county of Perth, against the Remorm Bill.
The Office of Works Consolidation Bill was read a third
time and passed.
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE presented rettlt of
outrages in Ireland as ordered, which were referred to the
Irish Tithe Committee.

Their Lordships then adjourned the House till Thurs-
day, in consequence of there being no business before the
House for to-morrow.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, JANUARY 31.
At Four o'clock the SPEAKER took his sear.
_Mr. Aldermen WOOD brought in a Bill to alter and
'arnetuNbe Acts passed for the improvement of the ap-
proaches to London-bridge, which was read a first time.
Mr. FAZA KERLY presentetl a petition from the
owners of real property in the ough of Peterborough,
against the General Registry B:11.
Sir R. VYVYAN, in consequence of the unavoidable
absence of the Noble Secretary for Foreign Affairs, post-
poned his motion relating to Holland and Belgium ; and
as he understood from that Noble Lord that the ratification
of the treaty would take place this day, and be laid before
the House on Thursday, he would bring his motion
forward on that 'lay.
Lord KILLEEN presented a petition from the county
of Meath, praying that in the Reform Bill provision might
be made to give an additional number of Members beyond
those at present proposed.

Mr. CYCONIsiEIa supported the prayer of the petition
upon three grounds—first, that the Irish Reform Bill did
not give that country a sufficient number of Members;
secondly, that it did not increase the constituency beyond
200 or 300; and, thirdly, 'that the Bill did not propose
to alter the present harsh and unjust system of registra-
tion. The people of Ireland were desirous of being placed
upon the same footing as those in England, with less than
which they would not be content.

Lord KILLEEN moved for returns of the superannna-
tions granted to police constables in Ireland.
Mr. J. C. DUNDAS presented a petition from the
owners of real property in Richmond (Yorkshire) against
the General Registry Bill.
Mr. SANDFORD presented a similar petition from a
parish in Somersetshire ; and also one from the glove
makers of Yeovil, complaining of the stagnation in their
trade, arising from the immense importations of French
gloves.
_ _

Mr. GORE LANGTON, as representative for the
county of Somerset, supported the prayer of the petition,
and contended that the introduction of French gloves
ought to be wholly prohibited. lie wished persons would
give the preference to English manufactured goods, in-
stead of resorting to goods of foreign manufacture.
Sir H. WILLIAMSON presented a petition from the
county of Durham against the General Registry Bill,
signed by 1,920 owners of real property; also similar
petitions from Darlington, Stainsthrop, Gainsbotough,
Pomfret, and other places.
Mr. D. W. HARVEY presented a petition from cer-
tain persons in the city of London, praying for an altera-
tion in the new Bankrupt Act. The Hon. Member then
moved for various returns, which, in consequence of the
low tone they were read in, were inaudible in the gallery.
We however understood them to be returns of all the
property that had come to the Crown in consequence of
the intestacy of persons, and how disposed of, since the
year 1800.

Mr. SPRING RICE did not object to the motion of
the Hon. Member, but he wished to forewarn the House
of what the expense attendant upon such a motion would
most unquestionably be. It would take the Solicitor
to the Treasury, and his three clerks, upwards
of six months in making out the returns, during which
time all other proceedings would be put a stop to in
that office. If the House should choose to grant the
papers, he would not dispute its right to do so, but he
must then have his estimates in that department increased.
He had no objection whatever to a statement being laid
before the House of what the expence of furnishing
the returns would be, but he thought that it was not
advisable to accede to the motion of the Hon. Member till
that fact was known.

Mr. D. W. HARVEY had no hesitation in saying,
unless there was something behind, that the expense of
these returns would not exceed forty or fifty shillings.
Mr. HUME thought the motion was one of great im-
portance, and ought to bi acceded to. If no account had
been given on the subject for the last thirty years, the
House was imperiously called upon to have the accounts.
He had no objection whatever to allow time if any ar-
rangement was necessary.

Mr. S. RICE did not refuse the production of the ac-
counts, but his only object in stating what he had done, was
if possible to save expense. If the Hon. Member was willing
to take the account for seven years instead of thirty, no-
thing would be more easy than furnishing it. He would
net throw any dtfliculty in the way of getting informa-
tion, but he wished the House not to throw any unneces-
sary expence upon the country.

Mr. HUME wished to know whether the Secretary of
the Treasury annually returned an account upon this
subject ?

Mr. SPRING RICE could not positively state whe-
ther that bad been done for the last thirty years, but be
believed from the regularity of that department that it
had. At any rate an abstract of the account might be
easily obtained.

Mr. HUAIE was quite sure that that would satisfy the
House.

Mr. D. W. HARVEY had no objection to make the
return from 1823.

The SPEAKER here stated, that the Hon. Member
was not in order, for, in fact, there was no motion
before the House. The order alluded to by him having
been made in July last, and the present object of the Hon.
Member being to have that order put in force forthwith.
Mr. D. W. HARVEY then said he would with-
draw the motion for to-day, and bring it before the
House to-morrow in an amended form. The Hon. Member
then presented a petition from an individual (whose name
we could not bear), stating that the sunk island estate in
Yorkshire was worth 10,0001. per annum. It was let at the
present moment for 2,5001., and the petitioner prayed
that it might not be let in future without a public sale.

BREACH OF PRIVILEGE.
The SPEAKER then called upon Colonel Davies, when
Mr. PERCEVAL rose.—He did so for the purpose of
calling the attention of the House to a breach of its pri-
vileges. It would be in the recollection of the House,
that on Thursday last, previous to his moving an ad-
dress to his Majesty for a general fast, he enforced
the standing orders of the House, for the exclusion
of strangers, but very much to his surprise, on the suc-
ceeding morning some of the public newspapers had a re-
port of the proceedings of the House during that
exclusion—such being the case, he had felt himself impera-
tively called upon to bring the subject before its attention.
To exclude strangers from the House upon certain occa-
sions was a highly valuable privilege which they had re-
ceived from their ancestors, and which it was their duty
to band down to posterity ; and if through negligence
that privilege was grossly invaded, or if allowed to fall into
disuse, although they themselves might not reap its present
inconveniences, yet posterity would, and the blame attach
to that House. The duty of preserving this privilege, and of
defending it when infringed on, rested on their shoulders,
and the mere calling the attention of the House to this
fact in general was almost sufficient of itself to furnish
a ground for the motion be should submit. He begged
leave to observe that the individual who chose to infringe
on the privileges of the House, without the intervention of
the usual authorised channels in which, with some degree of
accuracy,
they were banded to the public, was answer-
able to the House for all the misrepresentations and
inaccuracies which he sent forth to the public. The
report of the speech which he had made on a late occasion,
while it just
gave so much of what he said as to prove
that it was given by an individual who was pre-
sent and heard the debate, was yet such as no
intelligent man could read without seeing that it
bad been decidedly drawn up with the intention of throw-
ing the speech into ridicule.—(Hear.) He charged that
reporter, who ever furnished "it, with direct falsehood,

which he would make good, and likewise with the general
intention of throwing the whale speech into ridicule, as
well as of perverting what he actually did state. In
the very earliest part of that debate it was
plainly said that " he would not allow the
public to know the blasphemies that might be spoken in
answer to that speech ; that the blasphemers, if any, in ,
that House might not be able to give publicity
to their blasphemies." Now this was just as untrue
as anything that a man having a peg to hang his conscience
upon, could give utterance to. He stated it would ill
become him, after the patient attention shown to him
on a former occasion, to imagine that any blasphemy
would be uttered in answer to his speech. He exercised
merely the privilege of excluding strangers for this purpov.
To show the animus in which the report had been drawn
up, he would give another instance with a view to the
motion he was about to make. He was made to say the t
he had spoken with great earnestness, "in his usual
`ray, when he was urr'er an influence." There
was no individual who herd that phrase that could at all
doubt the mind of the penon who chose to publish such a
statement. All he stated was, that if he had spoken
with considerable excitement, it was with eagerness and
kvarmth, but without being carded away by pas ton. But
he would come to the passage which was of the greatest
importance, and he would undertake to say that no man
who heard his speech, who knew him and his principles,
could have sent forth such a statement. He was made

to say this, " Let the Kings and Priests be expelled,
and all such mummery be averted, unless the House
would listen to his voice, for a fast and humiliation." He
would say that a grosser perversion and rnisrepreser.tation
it was utterly impossible to commit. He had read these
passages to show the errors to which individuals subjected
themselves, if they chose, in contravention of the orders
of the House, to give forth reports of what passed in
closed doors. He would move that the printer of this
Paper be ordered to attend at the bar of the
House, (Mr. Perceval holding in his hand a copy of the
Times newspaper of the 27th instant). He was aware
that the report had appeared in three Morning Papers—in
the Tinzas and Chronicle in the regular form of reporting,
and also in the Herald, in a less ostentatious and irregular
form. He thought it, however, advisable to select one,
and to move that the printer of the Times, John Joseph
Lawson, attend on Thursday next at the bar of the House.
—( Hear.) Mr. Perceval then moved that the speech be
read, and the Clerk of the House read the introductory
paragraph.
Mr. CRESSET PELHAM seconded the motion.
Mr. HUME rose and said, Sir, there can be no doubt,

that by the rules of this House, publishing the debates of this
House is a breach of its privileges, and I have humbly en-
deavoured, again and again, to have that law repealed.
My opinion is that the law in that respect ought not to be
what it is ; but as the law now exists, and as it undoubt-
edly has for a long time been, every newspaper report of our
proceedings here is in contravention of the rules of this
House. I therefore apprehend the Hon. Member know-
ing that, does not on this occasion mean to complain of the
reporting of the debates generally, but simply of this par-
ticular report of this particular speech of his own.—(Hear. )
If that be so, then a question arises how far this report
is correct, and secondly, who is answerable for it if
it is not correct ? Now, Sir, I can have no hesi-
tation in stating that when I found I could not carry
the question against excluding strangers when that
speech was delivered, I aid every thing in my power to
note down every sentence the Hon. Member spoke, and
having so done, I also have no hesitation in declaring that
on getting outside to the door, I gave my notes to a gen-
tleman whom I met with outside, to do with them just
what he pleased.—(Loud cheers.) I was not aware that
he was the reporter of the Times. He was connected
I believe with another paper that has not been mentioned,
hot if he had been the reporter of the Times, lam sure
I would have given him my notes just as readily as
I glye them to the gentleman to whom.. I delivered
them.—(Hear, hear.) I have not read over the whole

that appears in the report now complained of, but what
I have read of it ig, in my opinion, quite correct. There
are some long comments to the report, which I did not
give, but other Hon. Members may have given them, and
between all the gifts the report and the comments may
have been made up.—(Cheers and much laughter.) Now,
Sir, though it is against the rules of this House that re-
ports of the debates here should be made, yet it remains for
me to learn that I, a Member of this House, am not en-
tirely and perfectly at liberty to take notes of what may
be said that I think proper, and again that I am not at
liberty to do with those notes just what I please.—(Loud
cheers and laughter.) I can only tell the Honourable
Member below me, that if he clears the gallery again to-
morrow, I shall de all I can in furthering what
I conceive to be nothing but justice, right, and truth.—
(Hear, hear, hear.) I have heard of no errors being in
this report, except from the Hon. Member himself.—
( Hear, hear, hear.) I have observed that some Hon.
Members of the House have addressed the Papers stating
that the report is correct. Other Members, if they took
the trouble of listening to the speech, I am sure will also
be able now to state that it is strictly correct. Undoubt-
edly I must admit, that when a gentleman speaks
for an hour and a half, and another gentleman who is
riot accustomed to reporting, attempts to note down every
sentence, it is very likely that he may omit part of some
sentences, or not write down the exact phrases. But, Sir,
I will conclude, by saying, that I meant to give a faithful
report. I am sorry it is:net considered even by the Hen. Gen-
tleman himself to be a faithful.report. This I will promise the
Hon. Member, that if be should on another occasion avail
himself of the privileges of the House, perhaps practice
may make me perfect.—(Loud laughter.) I shall endea-
vour to be more accurate on that occasion—(Hear, hear)
—and do my utmost to give the best report of it I can.—
(Hear, hear.) Sir, it only comes to this, which I have
over and over again advocated, that instead of leaving the
reports of this House to be reported by unauthorised re-
porters, we should have persons regularly appointed, whose
duty it would be officially to give the reports, and until
that is done it is utterly impossible to suppose we can
have a better system of reporting than we have. It
is wonderful to see with what accuracy reports are made.
In debates of importance I have myself followed the
reports, passage after passage, and have found, as far as
my own recollection would go, scarcely a single error.—
(Hear, hear.) I can only assure the Hon. Member I
was not desirous of giving any improper gloss whatever
to hie speech, or using any improper phrase, and I am
sorry that he has not had a more accurate and a more able
reporter, but the cause rests entirely with himself, namely,
that of having cleared the gallery, and removed the more
accurate reporters than myself.—(Hear, hear.) I did the
beet I could. lie might have had better—he being himself
to blame for not having had a better.---(Great cheering.)
The SPEAKER said that of all the extraordinary de •
clamations which he had ever heard made in that House
—the most extraordinary was that which had just been
made by the Hon. Member for Middlesex—(Hear)—not
in the nature of a confession, but an open avowal; be-
cause the Honourable Member stated that it was not a
breach of privilege for him to furnish the public
with reports of the debates of that House.—(Hear,
hear.) He the Speaker must, however, state that it
was a breach of privilege for any Hon. Member to furnish
the public with even his own speech.—(Loud cries
of " Hear, hear.") Honestly believing that the Hon Mem-
ber mi.conceived what were the privileges of the House,
the very step taken by the Hon. Member was a breach
of privilege. With the accuracy of the Hon. Member's
statement the House had nothing to do. The breach
of privilege was, in publishing the debates, and he
need not remind the House how futile that privilege would
be if Members themselves were allowed to furnish the
public with the debates. Himself, or the Hon. Member for
Middlesex, must be greatly in error, if he (Mr. Hume)
believed that he was authorised to publish speeches made
in that House, or he (the Speaker) in declaring it to be a
breach of privilege.—(Loud cries of "Hear, hear.")
Lord ALTHORP said, there was no person in that
House who would not most heartily concur that the
publishing of the debates of the House was a breach
of privilege, whether by any Hon. Member or by any
other person. He was, therefore greatly surprised
to hear the avowal of the Hon. Member for Mid-
dlesex. If the Hon. Member who brought forward
the motion chose to enforce it, he did not see how the
House could refuse it, but he put it to the Hon. Member
whether the privileges of the House would be benefitted by
it ? Hon. Members would recollect on referring back to the
history of the country, that the debates of that House
were published during the last century, but tinder fictitious
names, to avoid a breach of privilege. Printers of newspapers
did their best to gain all the intelligence of what passed

hi.:-'*thought,-by the mode
'mafite the ef-
ligence
aif4nodotehdeirinhathviisngeasoeb,tadinidednotthe,
fence against the privileges of the House afty; greater, In
both cases there would be a clear breach of the privileges of
the House. He put it to the Hon. Gentleman opposite,
whether he thought it worth his while to persevere in his
motion, awl hoped the Hon. Member would reconsider it.
Col. DAVIES thought that a breach of privilege had
been committed by the Hon. Member for Middlesex,
instead of the printer of the Times, for that Hon. Mem-
ber was the person who published the debate, by giving
it to a person outside the House, which person
inserted it in the newspaper.—(Hear.) If the printer
of the Times were guilty, every printer of a
newspaper would be guilty, and ought also to he called
to the Bar on Thursday ; but he asked what would the
Hon. Member gain by his motion ? The common sense and
the common feeling of the public, and the common sense and
the common feeling of that House, were opposed to this
privilege. He hoped, therefore, the Hon. Gentleman
(Mr. Perceval), having done his duty in bringing forward
the subject, would not persist in his motion.
Mr. C. PELHAM declared that it was for the honour
and character of that House that the Hon. Member (Mr.
Percevel) bad brought forward his motion, and be (Mr.
Pelham) should be ashamed if he did not assist in forward..
ing it. Coupled with this motion a question had arisen re-
specting the exercise of the privileges of the House, and
the Noble Lord (Althorp) opposite had told them that the
debates were published in the middle of the last century:
He (Mr. Pelham) could inform the House, that they were
published in the century previous, and when Lord Staf-
ford was brought to the scaffold.
Mr. O'CONNELL said nothing was so distinctly e
breach of privilege as publishing what took place in that
House ; but, strange to say, there was nothing more distinct
from each other than the privilege and the practice of it.
The privilege was that nothing should be published, but the
practice was to publish as much as possible.—(Laughter.)
In this case, however, it appeared that the practice
was broken, for the Honourable Member (Mr. Percevel)
delivered a long speech, whereas, but a short one wag
published.—(Laughter.) If this priVilege were rigidly
enforced to-morrow, there was not a hamlet within the
country but would loudly cry out against it. The
privilege declared that no stranger should be in the House,
and yet every Member could give an order to admit
one, se different was the practice from the privilege.
They had already heard religious dissertations in that
House, and perhaps they might go on until they
were occupied in religious controversies, and by and bye,
theological subjects would be frequently discussed—some of
them not unlikely in the unknown tongue.—(A laugh.)
If the discussion of religious subjects was encouraged,
there was no saying to what length of wild extravagance
they might go. If the breach of the privilege was ever
good, it was good on these occasions—it was good to let
in the light of public opinion on such discussions. There
was no doubt of the' Hon. Gentleman's sincerity, end of
the purity of his motives ; but for that reason he 0,0014
wish the Hon. Gentleman not to persevere in his motion:
He (Mr. O'Connell) admitted that the reported speech
was not a good speech—not so good as that which
he had the honour of listening to for an hour and a half—
(A laugh)—from the Hon. Member; but he thought it
was correct in substance. He hoped the Hon. Gentle-
man would abandon this motion; if not, after what had
passed, be (Mr. O'Connell) should think himself justi•
fled in moving the previous question.
Lord MILTON believed that the publication of debate
in all ordinary times, was au much calculated to gratify
public curiosity, that in such times the House might well
connive at it. But that which the Hon. and Learned
Member who had just sat down seemed to suppose of 80
little importance, was in fact not unimportant, either to
that House or to the liberties of the people. The repre,
sentatives of the people in that House should speak with-
out fear or affection ; but he would suggest to tie Hon.
and Learned Member whether their doing so was all times
consistent with the publication of their debates ? For the
purpose of securing the freedom of their debates, he thought
it was right that they should still continue to exorcise the
right of denying to strangers admission to that House, and
of thus preventing the publication of their debates—

Ne quid i'espubliCa detriment' caperet.
For that reason, he thought that the mere notice of
strangers being in that House should be sufficient to call
on the Speaker to exclude them, not from any jealousy of
public opinion, but with a view to protect themselves in
other respects. Above all, it was important, that if they
excludgd strangers, with a view to preventing the publi-
cation of their debates, those debates should not be given
to the Papers by Members of that House. He thought it
was for the advantage of the people themselves, that when
a Member of Parliament was speaking under such cirs
cumstances he should not think that another was listening to
him for the purpose of reporting his speech. It was as
desirab'e sometimes that their speeches should not go into
palaces--(Hear)—as int, towns; and it was as against
the Crown that he was desirous of supporting the privilege.
Mr. O'CONNELL asked whether some steps were not
necessary to ascertain the correctness or incorrectness o f
the report before this motion could be agreed to ?
The SPEAKER said that the breach of privilege was
complete on the pub ication. The correctness or incor-
rectness of the report made no difference.
Mr. ROBINSON and Mr. WARBURTON rose to.,
gethur. There was a loud call for the latter, but he gave
way, and Mr. Robinson addressed the House. He ob-
served that the question was whether the Hon. Member
had made out a sufficient ground for that House to exercise
its powers. The complaint of the Hon. Member seemed
to him to be not so much that the speech was published
as that it was incorrect. That appeared to him an extra-
ordinary ground. The Hon. Member complained of the
incorrectness of the report, when he himself had occa-
sioned that incorrectness by the coarse which he had taken.

If the House went into a division, he should vote against
the motion.

Mr. WARBURTON could not allow his Hon. Friend,
the Member for Middlesex, exclusively to bear the blame of
this transaction; for he bad taken notes of the Hon. Gen-
tleman's speech, and had endeavoured to take them most
accurately. If they were not accurate, he could only say
that he had used his utmost effc,rts to make them so. He
had sent his notes to a reporter.—.(Hear, hear.) He was
aware that the publication of what passed in that House
was a breach of privilege; but he was not aware that it
was more exclusively a breach of privilege if the report
was furnished by a Member, than if giver, in those re-
ports which the House of Commons constantly connived at.
As to what had fallen from the Noble Lord opposite
(Milton), as to a Member giving the report, and thus
placing himself in opposition to the resolution of that
House to exclude strangers, and thus prevent the publica-
tion of the debates, he begged to say, that no Member had
an opportunity of gainsaying any Member who might
choose to tell the Speaker that strangers were present.
His opinion was, that under those circumstances, the dis-
cretion of Members in publishing the report was wisely ex-
ercised.

Mr. JAMES GORDON agreed with the Speaker about
the law of privilege. The circumstances here inoked not
unlike a confederacy against the introduction of topics of
the utmost importance. He meant religious discussions,
which were of importance to them as the representatives of
religious people. What the Hon. and Learned Memher
for Kerry had stated was not a reason to exclude religious
discussions, but it might be a reason to exclude those
who would produce religious controversies.—(oh ! and
laughter.) There had been no danger of these contro-
versies until the lax opinions of the present (lay had shaken
the Constitution, which had before stood upon a Protestant
basis.—(oh, oh, oh.) He should consistently express his
opinions—he should have the courage to speak or to walk
out of the House.—(Hear, bear.) The charge against the
unknown tongues ought not to come from a quarter where
there had been long usages of the unknown tongues.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL said that the importance of
the present motion had been much sunk by the declara-
tions of the Hon. Members opposite.—(Hear.) He there-
fore trusted it would not be pressed. It was undoubtedly
the custom of the House to connive at the publication of
the reports of the debates, and great benefit was thereby
derived by the country; but he also thought that it was
very advantageous that it should be within the privilege of
any Member to exclude any strangers, and confine the
debates to the walls of the House.—(Hear, hear.) He
trusted that his Hon. Friend, the Member for Middlesex,
would see the matter in this light, and that after what had
fallen from the Speaker, there would be an understanding
that the seine coui se would not be pursued again; on which
he hoped that the present proceeding would be allowed to
fall to the ground.—(Hear, hear.)

Sir R. PEEL laboured under the disadvantages of not
having heard the whole discussion, but he believed that
the motion was to call a printer to the bar. He felt that
there would be a great difficulty in acceding to this mo-
tion, as he was sure his Hon. Friend (Mr. Perceval) new
must, after the admission made by the Hon. Members,
that the report in question had been sent by them to the
Press. At any time to call a printer, a mere subordinate
instrument, to the bar, was a matter of difficulty, but that
sweluvesd,outhbalyt itnhcereparsiencleiwpablenagietntwsa s i
n a v breachw and fby
pr
privilege
th el
emg
were Members of the House, who, whether well advised
avowed,
ed
or not, had dime what was complained of. Surely, how-
ever, if it was the opinion of the Speaker that it was a
breach of privilege to make this publication, the Member
for Middlesex would not hesitate to say that he would out

persevere in such a toani•se, and when that was done, his to move for a Selecttomenitiee to inquire into the present
Hon. Friend oft. Perceval) could not but withdraw his distressed state of the glove trade. A few facts would
motion. As to what had fallen from the Hon. Member satisfy the House that such an inquiry wss necessary, and
for Bridpnrt with respect to a comparative breach of pri- that something must be done to prevent the British glove-
"eges if there were a breach he did not see how such a , manufacturer from being driven out of even the home,
nice distinction could be drawn. market. There were 120 master glove-mantracturers in
Sir C. 'WETHERELL could not consent that a printer Worcester, whose averaee produce was hitherto 100
'should be called to the bar when Members of the House had dozen per week. At ;wettst such was the diminution of
acknowledged the fault he was accused of. the demand; that not one-third of that amount was manu-
Mr. HUNT had no cause to complain of either the factored ; in other words, 30001. of weekla. wages *as
Hon. Member for Middlesex or the Hon. Member for taken nut of the circulation of Worcester, ana the work-
Bridport, for he (Mr. Hunt) had never been better re- men who were in the liabit of receiving those wages were
ported than on the occasion complained of. Bet he should thrown for existers's nn the poor-rates. In 1825 the
aims say that if the gallery hod been (leered night after week'} payttelars out of the poor-rates was 141., the as-
night, during the Reform Bill, and reporters excluded, se Ailment being 2s. 6d, in the pound ;at present the weekly
the public would have hews much better informed of what payments wire 40/., and the assessment 4s. Cl.. u that is,
p used than they bad been.—(Loud laughter.) lie con- the poor-rates since 1825 have nearly trebled. The Gal-
warred in all that had been said on both 'echo of the House, lant Colonel then entered into a :statement in order to show
and the Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Perceval) might as well that at present thete *ere hut 113 families in full employ-
move to have the types and printing-press brought to the merit it the oleve trade in Worcester; 465 partially em-
bar as the printer, upon this occasion. preyed, some of whom did not earn more than 2s. 6d. per
Mr. HUME had no hesitation in saying, that he had week ; while there Isere 420, including 1,748 children,
risen before to admit that he
1.;a5 the agent., car an agent, totally out of employment. Now this distress wan not at
in. communicating to the -public what bid pa's-eel the other all compensated by the benefit derived by the public from
night when strangers, were excluded, and having made that the changes in the rate of duty on PI ench gloves, intro_
avowal, to leave ,c to the Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Perceral) duced by Mr. Hushisson and the present Lord Goderich.
whether he twould then proceed with his motion against It was said, for example, by these Ministers, that the ten-
the PrinAer. The Speaker had laid down the law, with -dency of the reduced duties would he to put an end to the
respect to which he (Mr. Hume) should feet is his duty, smuggling of French gloves, besides inducing the French
at an early day, to take the opinion of the House ; for if to take our manufactures in return for our admitting theirs
he were to he prevented from tahinft a note of what out- freely into our market. But the facts showed, as he
cursed in the House, it would bet impossible for him or for 'voul,l undertake to /move before the Committee, that the
any other Member of the House so to regulate his conduct practice of smuggling hail actually increased, wl ile the
as to be free from a htnach of privilee,e, and at the same French hale declined to act on what was called the reci-
time to do his duty by his constituents. If any Member' procity system of commerce. In 1825, for example, ihke
of the House wished that the proceedings of the Hon-e imports from France into this country amounted`wto
should be kept secret, he was not that Member, her could 1,110,000/. ; while the mimes (exclusive of our colonial
he give his assent to the correctness of the principle upon pr. duce) of British manufactures amounted to 211,000/.
which the present privilege was founded. Howe", In 1830 tie imports bad increased to 3,050,000/., while
consistently with the present rules of the House, I e felt the exports cols had inereasu dto 448,000/ ,—a fact con-
that he was bound to anwornmodate himself to tie m, and riusive as to the value of our reciprocity intercuurse with
as the law was as the, Speaker had laid it down, he mew. France. Then, as a question of mwas revenue, these
onform to it.—.-Hear, hear.) changes of duty hod operated prejudicially. The duty,
Mr. WARBURTON still considered it no greater which now produced hut 20,000/.annually on foreign skins,
breach et' privilege for a Member to furnish a report of formerly averaged 63 000/. per annum. He was free to
what passed in the House, than fer a reporter to do so quoit that he was himself friendly to free trade principles
Undoubtedly, if the Hon. Member had made a particular in the abstract, but he would contend that the heavy tiles
Motion for the exchteion of strangers, and haul stated his en the industry of this country rendered a protecting duty
reasons for doing so, he would have considered it more against the competition of less taxed nations, a mottr of
culpable in a Member to report what passed. He believed justice and necessity. It should besides he recollected, that
that it had been, and was, a common practice for Mem. gloves were a luxury, and not a necessary of life, so that
hers to report speeches delivered in the House. When he the argument founded on the general advantage (if purchas-
was a young man, he remembered reading a speech made lug articles where they could be obtained cheapest did not
by Earl Moira at the breaking out of the war, during the apply to gloves as to articles necessary to existence. Then,
Pitt Administration. The speech was delivered whilst owing to the distressed and crowded condition of every ,
strangers were excluded, and must therefore have been other branch of national industry, the unemployed glover
furnished to the public press by a Member. In conclusion csulel not transfer his exertions to other channels of pro.
he begged to observe, that if it was to he understood to .'uctive labour, an excess of production, as compared with.
,
be a breach of honour to report what pained in the House d. mand, being the general complaint of ell our tnanufac-
whilst arrangers were excluded, he would subscribe to the tures. The Gallant Colonel concluded with moving for a
rule laid down by the Chair.—(Hear, hear.) Select Committee, to inquire into the distressed state of the
Mr. PERCEVAL said, that after the avowal made he glove trade.
the two Hon. Members, he felt bound to concur with the Mr. ROBINSON seconded the motion.
generally expressed opinion of the House, and to withdraw Mr. P. THOMSON felt himself compelled to dissent
his motion. He felt thankful to the Noble Member for from it. The Gallant Colonel bad failed to show that
Northampton, and to the Noble Paymaster of the Forces, there existed any connection between the distressed condi-
for the clearne-s with which they had stated the value of Eton of his constituents and the cause he assigned for them,
the privileges of the House for preserving the freedom of namely, the importation of French gloves at a low rate of
debate, thereby showing that it was the dots of the Houss tail'}'; and he (Mr. P. Thomson) would undertake to
to the best of their power to preserve them entire. He show that there was no such connection, and that the
would not reply to what had fallen from the Learned Memn- die ress was owing to very different causes. The Gallant
ber for Kerry, expressed in the, to him, very well-known Colonel said he was friendly to free. wale doetrinesnin ge-
tongue of sneer and irony. He claimed no peculiar and neral, hut would make an exception ;n favour of his awn-
special mission to speak in that House on any subject, but stituents. This reminded him or an observation of Mr.
merely the common right which every Member had to liushisson, "that almost every Hon, Member or manu-
speak on matters of common concern- --(Hear. ) lie f %tourer was an advocate for free trade in every commodity
wished it to be understood that be would proceed against or mantifmtuue excu pt that in which he had an individual
all parties who might hereafter, with full notice before moterest, so that be was very willing to avail himself of the
their eyes, presume to violate the privileges of the House. :cts of others, performed with um view to the general ad.
The motion was then withdrawn. yantag,e, but very unwilling to promote that advantage by
RIOTERS AT NOTTINGHAM. persowal sacrifice."—(Hear, hear.) The Gallant Colonel
Sir F. BURDETT press rated a petition signed ht contended that smuggling had not been checked by the
17,000 inhabitants of Nottingham, praying that the reduction of duties on foreign gloves, but most ihogically
House would address his Majesty to extend his mercy to deduced h:s inference from the smuggling carried on in
the men sentenced to death at the late special commission foreign silk. It would not be difficult to show that glovee
at Nottingham. The Hon. Baronet merely observed that were an article ill adapted fur smuggling,—that, in fact, it
the petition came ton late to he of any service. was the importer's interest, even as a question of pence,
Mr. HUNT said, that in all protmability the fate of the to pay the duty instead of the premium on the risk of
persons to whom the petition referred was already de- smuggling the article; and that as a consequence not
tided. He wished Ministers had relented on this occa- more than 100 dozen of gloves are smuggled annually
eion. He put it to them whether blood enough had not into this country.—(Oh ! oh ! and a laugh from she
been spilt already. Was it necessary to take the lives of Opposition.) The distress, in fact, of which the Gallant
these poor deluded wretches, who had been worked up to Colonel complained, was by no means attributable to le-
commit acts of violence and desperation by the atrocious vislative enactments, and least of all to the reduction of
instigations of the public press? Was it proper that they duty effected in 1826. One or two facts would satisfy the
should expiate their crimes on the gallows, whilst those House the manufacture of gloves had increased instead of
who had instigated them escaped with impunity? being diminished by that reduction of duty. If they
Mr. E. DENISON did not mean to enter at any length compared imports of foreign kid skins—almost exclusively
into the subject to which the petition referred. The used in the manufacture of gloves—in the five years pre-
lion. Baronet had stated, that the petition came too late ceding the reduction, with the imports in the five years
to be of any service. He might with equal truth have since the reduction—that is, from 1820 to 1824 inclusive
said, that at whatever time it might have come before the in the former period, and from 1827 to 1831 inclusive in
House, it would have come incorrectly before them. He the latter period--they would find the imports of skins
lamented that the opinion expressed by the Attorney- to the latter five years were an increase over those of the
General, which ought to have great weight with his con- former five years, as 3,679,000 to 2,600,326. From
stituents at Nottingham, had not been attended to on this which it followed, that if the raw material increased in
occasion. He thought that the different authorities in ~mount of import, the employment founded on that raw
this country should be kept within their respective limits, material must also have increased in the same proportion.
and that no attempt should be made to connect the legis- The average quantity of gloves made out of 120 skins was
latiye with the executive power. He did not wish to oc- 18 dozen. Taking that average as the basis of their cal-
cupy the attention of the House upon these points, but as culation, they would find that 396,000 dozens of gloves
the petition which had jibe been presented, and would g, had been manufactured from foreign skins in the five for-
Jerth to the public, contained allegations which were un- uner years just referred to, which, with 203,000 dozen
true, and with which, he had, by the courtesy of the Ilon. manufactured out of British skins, would give a total of
Baronet, been made acquainted that morning, he 598,000 dozen manufactured in England in the former
begged leave to offer a very few remarks with respect to period; while in the latter five years, ending with 1831,
them. The petition alleged that such short notice was the numbers stand 552,000 dozen manufactured out of
given of the special commision, that it was impossible for fireign skins, and 240,000 dozen Ininufactured from
the prisoners to prepare their defence,—that the Magis- British skins, giving a toad manufactured in the last five
trates used threats and temptations to extort confessions years period of 79'2,000 dozen gloves. This was far from
from the prisoners, and that they did not caution them confirming the Gallant Colonel's allegations. He could
that their declarations would be used against them,—that also prove, from papers in his possession, that an In-
the Magistrates also employed threats anti temptations with crease of employment to the amount of 109,000 pairs of
the witnesses. He was informed that these allegations gloves on the average had taken place during the last
were incorrect. It was also asserted in the petition, that five years. The case of Yeovil was certainly somewhat
in the court of justice, in the presence of the Judge, foci- remarkable, and although it proved the existence of distress
brie,: were not granted to those parties who acted as inter- at the present moment, it likewise appeared that in that
mediators between the prisoners and their Counsel. He town there were only twenty-seven glove-factories when
regretted that a petition containing such allegations should the prohibition was taken off, whereas they amounted at
have been presented to the House. He was afraid that this (lay to not less than forty. The population there,
the only effect it would have would he to prevent the re- moreover, had increased at the rate of twenty seven per
turn of good will between the labouring classes and the cent. during the last ten years, according to the census of
authorities in the neighbourhood from which it proceeded. 1831, while in S mersetshire itself the average increase
An attempt had been made to induce the former to believe cone to about thirteen per cent., and that of England
that a vindictive spirit had prevailed at the late prosecu- generally was not more than 16 per cent. during the same
Lions. Nothing more incorrt et could be stated. If evi • period. The existing distress, he believed, was in a great
dente were wanting to prove the contrary, it might be degree produced by the late increase in the import of skins,
found in the address of the prisoners' Counsel at the con- a circumstance which his Hon. Friend had seemed to over-
elusion of the trials. Mr. Hilt was impressed with so look in his calculation. The Berlin gloves also had been
different an opinion from that which was attempted to be very much worn during the last year, and this, he con-
conveyed, that he addressed the Court, and said that on be- ceived, together with the other causes he had mentioned,
halt of the prisoners who had been discharged, they deeply afforded quite sufficient ground for the temporary distress
felt the lenity which had been exercised towards them. of which the Hon. Gentleman complained. The Leg!!i a-
Mr. LAMB merely rose to state that two of the per- ture had fixed the limits of protection so recently as 1825,
sons on whose behalf time petition was presented had been and he thought, on the whole, that his Hon. and Gallant
reprieved, and he hoped the House would consider that Friend had not made out a case to justify their now inter-
circumstance as a proof that a full and bona fide conside- fering to disturb the arrangement then agreed upon.
ration had taken place with respect to all the other cases. Mr. ROBINSON observed that the fact of the distress
Sir R. FERGUSON believed that the allegations of the Right Hon. Gentleman had admitted, and such a case
unfair conduct on the part of the Magistrates at Notting- having been established on behalf of the manufacturers, it
ham were unfounded. The ;Magistrates, however, hld was certainly the duty of the House to grant an inquiry.
been accused of remissness ; and it was said that if they The silk question, it should he remembered, was also in-
had attended to their duty, all the disorders which had bad volved in the same decision, and therefore it behoved them
to such disastrous consequences would have been prevented, to give the subject the greater consideration. He denied
He regretted the severity of the sentences which had been that the distress of time manufacturers was temporary, for
passed at Nottingham. He had long been of opinion that it had existed ever since 1826 to the present period. . A
the punishment of death should be inflicted in cases of mere abstract principle ought never to he weighedd apt t
murder only.
the distress of a large population, and assure ly mt they
Mr. E. DENISON said that he would not be included recognised the principle of tree trade as far as it applied
in the charge which the Gallant Officer had made against to the poor glovers, they ought to pushit still farther by
the Magistrates, for at the time the disturbances took place abolishing the Corn; Laws, an dternative which he appre-
he nous attending to his duties in Parliament. He thought hended Government were not prepared to adopt.—( Hear,
the Gallant Member ought to bring the subject forward, hear.) He certainly would not. be so uncandid as to at-
if he were in possession of information on the suluject. tribute the whole deficiency wlmehha
principles;dtaleen
place i
but he
then
Sir R. FERGUSON said that he had no iolormation, revenue to the operation of free r
trade .
except what depended on vague rumour, was of opinion that the deficiency was partly owing to the
Colonel PEEL said, as we understood, that he had adoption of the free trade system.
heard reports of the want of proper conduct on the part of Mr. ATTWOOD described the answer given by the
the Magiatratcs.
Right Hon. Gentletnan (Mr. P. Thomson) to the state-
The petition was then ordered to lie on the table. ment of the Gallant Officer, as being inconsistent with
GLOVE MANUFACTURE.
Mr. HERRIES presented a petition from certain glove- biteseenlCuargned in no wisedtorthen
appointmentivaiiing of uft'' argumentsahCtutnmittee which had
of Inquiry.
manufacturers, complaining of the importation of foreign It only showed the determination which existed in the
gloves. Right Hon. Gentleman's mind to support a particular
Lord ALTHORP rose to request the Gallant Member theory, however absurd and pernicious that theory migl t
opposite to postpone his motion for a Committee on this Ibe proved to be.—(Hear, hear.) The facts stated by the
subject, in order to allow the Reform Bill to be proceeded Gallant Officer were of such a nature, as in his opinion
with. If tl a friends of Reform did not abstoun from warrauted, and indeed called upon, the House to agree to
making motions, it would be impossible to get the measure the motion before it. The system of free trade had been
through the House. fairly tried and had failed, and, far from supposing that any
Colonel DAVIES said, that it was impossible for him of these who were its advocates would still stand forward
to comply with the Noble Lord's request. in favour of the continued application of their principles,
Mr. ROBINSON deprecated the postponement of the he had expected that they would have candidly acknow-
motion. There was a short way of avoiding all discus. ledged that, however correct their theory might be, the
sioll,—namely, by agreeing to the appointment of a Corn- event had proved that it was adopted at an inauspicious
mattes. moment.—(flear, hear.) The Hon. Member contended,
Colonel Davtzs and Mr. Alderman VENstaarts then that looking to the state of the country it war the particular
presented other petitions against the importation of foreign duty of Ministers to institute a grave inquiry into the causes
gloves. of the distress that so universally prevailed.
Colunel DAVIES rose, pursuant to notice of motion, Colonel TORRENS maid, that it the existing distress