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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS, JULY 19.
IRISH REFORM BILL.
The Irish Rsform Bill was brought up from the Com.
mons by Mr. CRAMPTON and others, and read a first time,
and ordered to be printed.
Lord MELBOUENE moved that the Bill be read a se-
cond time on Monday next.
The Duke of Cumberland, Lord Glengall, Lord Ken-
yon, and Lord Wynford objected to the second reading
at so early a day, as several Irish Peers could not have no
lice in sufficient time, and as the Bid could hardly he
printed by Mondsy.
Earl GREY, the Marquis of LANSDOWNF., and Lord
MELBOURNE contended, that the time was sufficient for
every requisite notice ; and that the Bill might be circula-
ted' by Monday, or that otherwise the second reading
inightebe then postponed.
Thelresult was that the Lords were ordered to be sum-
moned fur'the second reading on Monday.
The Mengel Wurzel Distillation Bill was read a third
time and passed.
BRITISH AND FRENCH TONNAGE DUTIES.
Lord STRANGFORD, seeing the Noble President of
the Board of Trade in his place, was desirous to make
some observations on the arrangement which bad been
made with the French Government on the subject of the
reciprocal tonnage duties, and to obtain some information
from the Noble Lord respecting that arrangement. He was
glad that the arrangement had been at length effected,
although the progress towards its conclusion had been so
very tardy. Still he believed that the British shipowners
would feel extremely obliged to the Noble Lord for the
arrangement, although it was not altogether satisfactory.
The reduction in the duties payable by British vessels in
the French ports was not so great as we were entitled to ;
and then it was worthy of consideration, that owing to
the delay which had taken place in coming to a final ar-
rangement. British vessels had to pay 200,0001. in the
ports of France more than they would have done if the
arrangements had been promptly concluded. The French
in our ports paid only 7d. or Bd. per ton, which was only
about one half of what we paid in the French ports, and
this too with a treaty cf reciprocity staring us in the face.
He admitted that the reduction of the duties payable by
British vessels in French ports to Is. 3d. per ton was a
very great advantage, and yet the payment by us of 50 per
cent, more than the French paid was rather too much.
The French, too, had a great advantage from our light-
houses on the coast ; and this was a benefit which British
ships bad not on the French coast. He was not, how-
ever, disposed to quarrel with the arrangement, if we
had value for our money. But from Ushant, on the
French coast, to another point, 120 miles distant, there
were no lights on the French coast, and the navigation,
therefore, was there extremely dangerous, and a great
many British ships had been consequently wrecked. He
had a letter from a gentleman who had resided for a short
time at Morlaix, and he said that during that time 13
British ships had been wrecked on that coast. The
French paid fur nothing of which they had not had the
lull advantage, while our payments were a pure tax.—
The arrangement, however, was, on the whole, a great
benefit to British shipping ; but he wished for some ex-
planation from the Noble Lord as to the particulars which
he had mentioned, and in which it did not appear that the
British had a reciprocal or equal advantage.
Lord AUCKLAND was willing to give the Noble
Lord all the information in his power. There was no
tardiness whatever on the part of France in concluding
the arrangement, and the delay had arisen only from un-
avoidahle obstacles. The French Government had
tbrouehout met him with perfect frankness, and appa-
rently with every eisposition to make an arrangement on
terms of reciprocity-. Tee delay had been occasioned by
the necessity which existed of procuring information
from various Consuls and other persons, and by some
other causes. Tee principle upon which they had pro-
ceeded in making the arrangement was, that the duti- s
payable by British vessels in the Frence ports should be
reduced to ate equality with the duties payahle by French
vessels in the British ports; but the difficulty was to
settle the precise amount of payments which, all things
considered, would constitute that equality. Certainly tire
British did not pay filty per cent. more than the French.
The payments were placed as nearly as possible on the
footing of equality. The charges in all the French ports
were uniformly 3s. led, per ton, while in every one of
the British ports the amount of duties varied, as they
were dependent on the Charters of each of the Cor-
porations. An average, therefore, had been taken of the
duties payable by French vessels at the ports of London,
Liverpool, Dover, and the other ports where French ves-
sels had been in the habit of entering frir the last four years,
and that average was the rule adopted. The duties pay-
able by vessels from Cherbourg to Portsmouth varied con-
sid, rably from those payable by vessels from Cherbourg
to Liverpool, and it had become absolutely necessary to
strike an average. The result was, that French vessels
were to pay 10d. per ton ; but it was remarked, on the
part of the French, that the French charged by one mea-
sure and that we charged by another ; and that, in order
to produce the proper equality, it was necessary that Bri-
tish vessels should pay Is. 3d. per ton. To this we de-
murred, and the arrangement as to this payment was only
provisional, and the French Government was ready to
alter it, if we could make out that the payment was too
much. But from the calculations that he had made, and
the information he had collected, he was rather disposed
to think that the French calculation was correct. With
regard to light-houses on the French coast, French com-
merce was concerned on that point as much as the British,
and we had no right to make any demands in that respect.
No complaint fir want of lights had, however, reached
him, otherwise they would have been attended to.
Lord STRANGFORD proposed to move for an account
of British vessels wrecked on the part of the French coast
alluded to, within a given period, with a view to a subse-
quent motion on the subject ; but no question was put on
the motion.
The Lunacy Bill was reported, and ordered for a third
reading on Monday.
Lord SUFFIELD presented a petition from the in-
habitants of a town in Derbyshire, praying for the ex-
tinction of Cslonial Slavery.
ANATOMY BILL.
Lord MINTO moved the third reading of the Anatomy
Bill.
Lord WYNFORD opposed the motion. The Bill was
altogether so objectionable that he had despaired from the
beginning of its being amended so as to render it fit for
passing into a law. He had been ready to propose a plan
which would be free from objection, and which he un-
derstood from a high medical authority would completely
answer the purpose. Ueder the present Bill, servants
might sell the bodies of their masters, landlords the
bodies of their lodgers, and people in the poor-houses and
wor k-houses might dispose of the bodies of persons dying
there as they pleased. He would move, as an amendment,
that the Bill be read a third time this day six months, in-
stead of now.
Lord TEYNHAM opposed the Bill. It was an outrage
on the feelings of the people, and would give rise to a
trading in bodies. People would buy theirs from the work-
houses and other places, and sell them again at a profit,
so that this dealing in dead bodies would become regular
traffic if the Bill were to pass.
Lord MINTO—It appeared from the evidence taken
before the Committee of the House of Commons that the
anatotnists were already principally supplied out of the
poor-houses, and this Bill went to give them a protection
which they had not before. It had also been proved that
it was common to break into the houses of the poor and
take the dead bodies from them, and one policeman bad
stated that he had seized from 50 to 100 bodies that had
been taken in this manner. It was necessary that the
Anatomical Schools should be supplied, and this was as
unohjectionable a method as any.
The Earl of HAREWOOD opposed the Bill on the
ground that it legalised the giving up the dead bodies of
the poor for dissection—that this wee disguised under the
term exarnine2tion—and that the burial service was most
indecently slurred over. He had no objection to the sup-
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The House then divided on the question, that the Bill
be now read a third time—
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On our return into the House, we round the LORD
CHANCELLOR proposing several verbal amendments,
which were rrereed to.
Lord W YNFORD expressed his wish to omit that pat t
of the Bill by which it was provided that persons con-
victed of murder should not he dissected. He contended,
that it was well known that the fear of dissection ope-
rated powerfully to deter from the commission of sangui-
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of murderers from dissection, by the persuasion that their

being subjected to dissection threw an odium on the prac-
-ice itself, which was highly injurious.
After some conversation, we understood that Lord MINT()
omitted the whole of the clause which Lord WYNFORD,
wished to amend ; and that, on the motion of Earl GREY,
t clause was agreed to, providing that persons convicted
of murder should he sentenced to be buried under the
g,illows on which they were executed, or in the precincts
of the prison in which they had bee❑ confined, or hung
in chains, according to the discretion of the Court.
The Bill was then passed ; and the House adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, JuLr 19.
Thirty Members only being present at Four o'clock, the
House stands adjourned until to•morrow (Friday.)

OXFORD ASSIZES, JULY 19.

The business at Abingdon was brought to a close yes-
terday. Collins, the man who threw the stones at the
King at Ascot Heath Races, has been removed to Reading,
where he will remain until the cenclusion of the assizes at
Gloucester, about the middle of next month. The Judges
will proceed from thence to Abingdon or Reading, to try
him. It is now generally understood that he will be tried
under the last statute relating to high treason, viz. that of
the 36th Geo. 111. chap. 7, which is more directly appli-
cable to the offence with which he stands charged.

The Judges, Mr. Justice BOSANQUET and Mr. Baron
GURNEY, on their arrival from Abingdon yesterday, pro-
ceeded with the usual formalities to open the Commission
in this city.
This morning they proceeded, accompanied by Michael
Henry B!ount, Esq. High Sheriff, to attend divine ser-
vice, after which the proceedings in the two Courts com-
mence.

The calendar contains a list of twenty-two persons, one
of whom is committed for an attempted rape, and another
for an offence even more disgusting. There is a long list
of cases for trial at Nisi Prius.

There was no trill of public interest in either of the
Courts during the day.

Lord MINT° goes out as our Ambassador
to Berlin ; the Hon. HENRY Fox as Secretary of Lega-
tion to Turin ; and Lord NUGENT is certainly to be the
new Commissioner of the lonian Isles. The whole of
these appointments will give the greatest satisfaction to
the public, it being of the utmost importance that the
existing Government of England should be represented in
foreign Courts by men not only of gereral ability and ex-
perience, but well known for their attachment to freedom,
and possessing the confidence of the British public.

The assurance of some people is really asto-
nishing. On a motion of Mr. DAWSON the House was
occupied on Wednesday for more than an hour on a discus-
sion about a wooden bridge over the Foyle. Mr. DAwsoN
argued the question as if his only object was the good of
the counties of Tyrom2 arc! Londonderry, and seemed not
at all aware, till Lord ALTITORP told him, that it was
merely an electioneering job. Was this to he put down as
innocent simplicity, or as a proof that all hopes of Harwich
are gone ?

We are happy to learn that the arrangements
respecting the acceleration of the mail are now completed,
and that the long expected alteration will take place on
the Ist of August, when the mail will arrive in Glasgow
at about a quarter past one o'clock. The present mail
will continue to bring forward all the other Enelish mails.
The light mail will lrive Glasgow at twelve o'clock for
Carlisle, and overtake there the present mail, which will
leave Glasgow, as at present, at half- past seven in the
morning.—Scots Times.

The receipts of the Paris theatres in the
month of June were—Porte St. Martin, 57,740fr0. ;
Academie Royal de Musique, 36,5601 r. ; Vaudeville,
36,249 fr. ; Theatre Franc..i4. 26.2401 r. ; Fdlais Royal,
23,743 fr. ; Gymnase, 19,88 tfr. ; Varietes, 19,750 fr. ;
G tite, 16,302 fr ; Ambign, 13,030 fr. ; Folies Drama-
tiques, 7,895 r. ; Pantheon, 5,9731 r. Total, 365,424
francs, about 14,5001. Cabinet de Lecture.

The following declaration is in course of sig-
nature among those inhabitants who united themselves
ith the Political Union on the resignation of Earl GREY
arid his colleagues in May last:—" We, the undersigned
inhabitants of the town and neighbourhood of Birming-
ham, who joined the Birmingham Political Union on the
10th and subsequent days of May, for the purpose of pro-
moting the further union, order, and determination of all
classes in support of the common cause of Parliamentary
Reform, believing that the object for which we joined it
has been fully accomplished, by the great measure to
which we pledged our support having become the law of
the land, do now deem it our duty to withdraw from the
Birmingham Political Union from this date." [To be
dated from the day of the Royal Assent being given ti the
Irish and Scotch Reform Bill..]—Birmingham Gazette.

THE PREss.—A deputy once said to Louis
" Sire, it would he desirable to purchase some
of the pipers which have large circulations—such as the
Constitutionet and the Courier Francais ; and to render
them Royalists. A few millions so expended would he
well laid out !" Louts XVIII. was no fool, and he re-
plied to the Deputy, who told me the anecdote, " Very
well, Monsieur D—, but can you purchase the readers as
well as the journils?"— O. P. Q. in the Morning Chron.

THE POPE AND THE PRETENDER.—Speak-
ing of the Catholics in the hall of the Four Courts,
KELLER seemed to insinuate that NORCOTT was favour-
able to their emancipation. " What !" said NoucoTT,
with a great show of pomposity—" what! Pray, KELLER,
do you see any thing that smacks of the Pope about me ?"
" I don't know," replied KELLER, " but, at all events,
there is a great deal of the Pretender, and I always un-
derstood them to travel in company."—Sir Jonah Bar-
rington's Sketches.

Mr. COOPERS New Novel, " The Heiden-
mauer, or the Benedictines," and " Captain Skinner's
Excursions in India," which have been delayed by un-
avoidable circumstances, are published this day by MessrF.
COLBURN and BENTLEY, New Burlington-street, and
may be had of all Booksellers in Town and Country. The
following have also appeared within the last few days :

FORTUNE-HUNTING, a Tale of Modern Life. By
the Author of " First Love." 3 vols.
11.

DRAMATIC STORIES. 3 vols.
111.

PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE of a WOMAN o:
FASHION. 2 vols.

POETRY.--Poetry does all, and more, for
man than wine has ever been said to do. It is the best
and the noblest of drams. It brightens his countenance
and makes glad his heart. It gives him wings, and lifts
him out of the dirt ; and leads him into the green valleys ;
and carries hint up to high places, and shows him at his
feet the earth and all its glories. The man read HOMER as
HOMER ought to be read, who said, that every body after-
wards looked to him to be a foot higher. What could
EURIPEDES mean, by complaining that poetry and
music (a part, and the humblest part of it) were only
used of old to make festivity more festive ? 'What nurse
makes half so smooth the bed of sickness ? 'What moralist
can so lay, as with a charm, the storm of human passions?
Or what companionship can better relieve the cares, and
throw a purer grace and dignity over the retirement of
the statesman and the hero ?—Einburgh Review.
ALL FOR LOVE AND A LITTLE FOR THE
BOTTLE.---We find the following in a Poughkeepsie
paper, under the quaint title of " Romance of Real Life."
On Friday, April 26, 1832, D. FULTON, one of the Co-
roners of this county, was called to view the bodies of
ELIzanELH BIRD and ABRAHAM VANDYCK, found
drowned in Brown's Pond, town of Clinton. 'They were
tied together around the waist, and from previous declara-
tions no doubt remained but that they had deliberately
made away with themselves. They were seen going to
the pond on the Wednesday preceding, she quite intoxi-
cated, and it was supposed he not much better. They
had divested themselves of their upper garments, which
were carefully deposited near the lake, together with a
bottle containing the remains of a pint of rum, which they
had purchased that morning, perhaps not an hour before
they took their fatal plunge. Both were habitually in-
temperate —New York Paper.
SPANISH PRIDE.—One of the first mea-
sures of VENDOME was to display, and at the same time
to confirm, the good disposition of the grandees, by in-
ducing them to sign a pubic declaration of their allegi-
ance to PHILIP ; and a little incident, which occurred 'on
this occasion, is far too characteristic of the old Spahho.
pride to be passed over. When the grandees signed this
declaration, ria,st of them added to their names the words
noble as the king," VENDO3IE, seeing the necessity 01
conciliation, bore this with patience for some time ; but
when one of them, besides these words, wrote down '' and
a little more," he could no longer restrain his anger.
" Heavens !" he exclaimed, " dare you call in question
the nobility of the House of BOURBON—the most ancient
in Europe ?" " True," replied the Spaniard, " but re-
member, my Lord Duke, that atter all, King PHILIP tio
Filth is a Fr, nehman, and that I am a Castilian !"--Lord
M
ahon's History of the War of the Succession in
Spain.