The Sun.
London, England, 1835-05-20 00:00:00

EAST INDIA.

The Eliza, from the Mauritius, has arrived at Gravesend;
sailed from the Mauritius, Feb. 6, 1835. _ ._

The London, from Bengal, has arrived at Liverpool; sailed
from Calcutta, Jan. 15, 1835.
The Lady Raffles, from Bombay, has arrived in the Downs;
sailed from Bombay, Jan. 27, 1835, Sable Bay, March 12.
The Singapore, from Singapore, has arrived in the Downs;
sailed from Singapore, Jan. 10, 1836.
The Favorite, from Algoa Bay, has arrived in the Downs.
The Anthony, from the Mauritius, has arrived at Gravesend;
sailed from the Mauritius, Jan. 16, 1835, St. Helena, Feb. 20.
The Malvina, from the Mauritius, has arrived in the River ;
sailed from the Mauritius, Jan. 13, 1835, Table Bay, Feb. 22.
The Elphinstone, from Bengal, has arrived in the Downs;
sailed from Bengal, January 1835 ; Sagour, Jan. 8. ; Madras,
Jan. 29 ; Saint Helena, March 17.
The Wellington, from Madras, has arrived off Portsmouth ;
sailed from Madras, Feb. 7; Table Bay, March 21 ; St. Helena,
April 2; and Ascension, April 7.
ARRIVALS AT BOMBAY.—The Otterspool, Jan. 23, from
Liverpool ; his Majesty's steamer Rose, from Portsmouth, 26th.
DEPARTURE.—The Wm. Nicol, Jan. 25, for Greenock.

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ARRIVALS AT MADRAS.—The Yehanger, Jan. 10, from
Chittagoney : the Lady Uvra, 15th, from Portsmouth ; the
Edmond Castle, 16th, from Port Louis ; the Elphinstone,
17th, from Calcutta ; the Ganges, 25th, from —6--.

LONDON,
WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 20, 1835.

Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S speech, on his nomina-

tion, is every way worthy of him. He promises,
it will be seen, a full and prompt Corporation Re-
form ; and lashes the tergiversation of the Tories
on this subject, in an apt, sarcastic spirit. They could
not, he avers, have ever properly reformed our muni-
cipal institutions, without striking at the foundation of
their own political influence, which of course no man
in his senses would accuse them of being likely to do.
In their hands the question must ever have been un •
settled ; and so thought,thejlouse of Commons, when

From all that we learn from the French capital,
we are inclined to think that the trial of the prisoners
is about to take a new turn. The KING, it is whis-
pered, begins to feel that lenient measures must be
adopted, and he is preparing to evince this change in
his counsels in the case of those prisoners who shall
quietly submit to the jurisdiction of the New Court of
the Luxemburg. Not blood, but the legal right to shed
it, will now sate the royal thirst for vengeance. His
MAJESTY would be bountiful ; and all he wants
to enable him to be so, is the power to present
some two or three hundred of his subjects
with lives and curtailed liberties—or in other
words, in the present disturbed state of France, if his
pride be satisfied, he is disposed to sacrifice his perso-
nal hatred to the preservation of his crown, and the
tranquillity of the kingdom. Thus we suppose the
whole affair will end in this way :—the twenty-three
prisoners now on their trial will be found guilty, and
the KING will mitigate the punishment to a few months'
imprisonment. The refractory among the accused will
be sentenced to different periods of incarceration for
contempt of court, and afterwards be tried individually,
and banished the country—the individuality of their
trials serving to allay the ferment in the public mind.
Certain we are that henceforth no unnecessary display
of severity will be made, unless the KING can safely
calculate upon impunity of action in the Government.
All depends upon the public out of doors. If danger
is apprehended, the KING will conciliate ; if none
be feared, he will not relax one jot of the rigour of the
predetermined punishment of the leaders among the
accused. But there will be no more triumphal pro-
cessions—no gratuitous insults offered to men upon
whom no sentence ha h^en pr.ced.
Some excitement has prevailed in Paris, occasioned
by riots in the Porte St Martin, on the nights of

Notwithstanding the positive assertions to the con-
, trary, of the Conservatives, Lord J. RUSSELL has
been returned Member for Stroud. What will the
squad say to this ? Will they adduce it as another
proof of re-action ; or modestly acknowledge that they
have been mistaken in their calculations ? Let them
say what else they will ; there is one thing they cannot
say--namely, that they have not striven their utmost
to prevent his Lordship's return. First they selected
Mr. MILDMAY, then Mr. RICARDO, as an oppo-
nent ; but finding that neither had the slightest pros.
pect of success, they gave up the contest in sheer
despair ; and, by so doing, have paid a far higher
compliment to the electors of Stroud, than they did
to those of South Devonshire.

TEIE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, I'l AY 20, 1835.

they resolved on their ejection from office. Speaking
of the influence of that House, his Lordship says, " of
this he was fully persuaded, that that which should be
decided, after full debate, after free and deliberate dis-
cussion by the House of Commons, fairly representing
the people—he was sure that that measure, if not in-
stantly, sooner or later, must be adopted as the law and
custom of the land." This is a sound constitu-
tional truth long recognized, but never acted upon
till the memorable triumph of the Reform Bill. It at
once acknowledges the supremacy of the House of
Commons, and by so doing, places a wholesome check
on the legislative freaks of the House of Peers. The
Tories may tell us that such a doctrine is tantamount
to an overthrow of the balance of the Constitution ;
but we tell them, that it forms the very essence of the
Constitution, as defined by their own writers. Sir
ROBERT PEEL advanced something of the same sort,
at the dinner given to him the other day at Merchant
Tailors' Hall—greatly, however, we suspect, to the
annoyance of that portion of the Tories who think,
with Lord WINCHILSEA, that the country can
never be in a flourishing condition, until the
good old times of aristocratic despotism and
high Church intolerance are revived. Lord JOHN
RUSSELL well defined, in one pungent sentence,
the difference between Reformers and Conservatives.
" The principle of the Reformers," he observed, " had
been to propose what they thought right, and to resist
what they thought wrong ; whereas the principle of the
Conservatives had been to propose, indeed, what they
thought right, but to yield to that which they thought
wrong." Those who are in the slightest degree ac-
quainted with the proceedings of the Tories during the
last ten years—how they first opposed the Test
and Corporation Acts, and then granted them ; how they
played the same game of fast-and-loose with Catholic
Emancipation ; and repeated it on the occasion of the
Reform Bill—those who have tracked the Tories
through all their slippery shiftings and wrigglings in
these matters—will feel the full force and justice of his
Lordship's definition. We congratulate the reformers
of Stroud on the honour they have acquired in having
such a man to represent them as Lord JOHN R us-
SELL. He is a Statesman in the best sense of the
term—one of those very few with whom the national
interests are superior to all personal considerations.

Lord BROUGHAM effectually answered, last night,
in the House of Lords, some of the more preposterous
attacks that have lately been made, by interested par-
ties, on the Poor Law Bill. "It had been observed,"
said his Lordship, " that the Poor Law Bill enabled
overseers to separate husband and wife. Now he was
satisfied, after having made the most minute enquiries,
that no such separation had taken place under the pro-
visions of the new Act. Whatever had taken place
was entirely independent of this Act, and had been
done under the old Act, time out of mind." The
enemies of the Poor Law Bill must be reduced to des-
perate shifts, when they are compelled to have recourse
to such clumsy calumnies as this. Why, it, has not
even the sorry virtue of plausibility to recommend it,
being grounded on a violation of one of the first and
most sacred laws of society, to which, of course,
no sane legislator would ever dream of lending
his sanction. Had the Bill in question proposed
such an absurdity as a separation between husband and
wife, is it to be supposed that it would have passed
the House of Commons, and been received with ap-
probation by the House of Lords ? Above all, would
the Bishop of London have voluntarily come forward
to support it—he whose bounden duty it is to preach
from the Pulpit and advocate in the Legislature, the
indissolubleness of the marriage tie ? If we notice
this matter at all, it is not because we think it worthy
of comment, but because it furnishes another signal
proof of the effrontery with which the Conservatives
still continue to scatter abroad their calumnies, as if
to slander and misrepresent were the first and most
imperative duties of the fraternity.

We have received the whole of the Paris papers of
Monday. They bring no intelligence of any impor-
tance. Even the proceedings instituted by the Peers
against the ninety-one individuals, whose signatures
were attached to the letter in the Tribune of the 11th
inst., have ceased to attract public attention ; as it is
now supposed that the Peers will be content with in-
flicting punishment upon the Editors of the Tribune
and the Reformateur, in whose journals it simulta-
neously appeared, and upon M. MicHEL, a lawyer of
Bourges, and M. TRELAT, a noted Republican—the
only persons who either actually signed the letter to
the prisoners, or who, at the present moment, are pre-
pared to acknowledge having signed it. That the
persons whose names were affixed to the letter were a
consenting party to its publication, no person of com-
mon understanding can doubt for an instant. To affix
the names of eighty-nine respectable advocates—two
of them Members of the Chamber of Deputies—to a
document of the existence of which they were ignorant,
or of the sentiments expressed in which they had not
cordially approved, is an act of which no person would
dare to be guilty. But the belligerents on both sides
are content that it should be a drawn battle. The
Peers see the error into which they were led by
listening to the shallow sophistry of the diplomatic-
loving Duke de MONTEBELLO, and will not press
the advocates to say more than express a single nega-
tive with relation to the signing of the' letter ; and the
Advocates seeing themselves in some sort betrayed by
their colleagues in the Chamber of Deputies, have no
objection to retire from a contest in which they might
be the immediate sufferers.

Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, which were put down
without bloodshed, by the vigilance and activity of the
police. These emuetes are reported to have originated
in political causes connected with the prisoners,
and, in short, to have exposed the sanguinary nature
of the embryo conspiracy. A morning contemporary
affects to credit this, and treats with contempt the parties
engaged in it. We hold a different opinion. We verily
believe that the public had nothing whatever to do with
these disturbances, and that the whole farce was acted
by the spies and hired tools of the Government, in order
to frighten the timid into an approval of the principle
of the trials, and the conduct of the KING on this oc-
casion. As for an insurrection, or an attempt at one,
it was no more made in Paris on the nights referred to
than it was on the same nights in the streets of Lon-
don. The plot, however, was, no doubt, very skilfully
concerted, and tolerably well managed in the execution.
The spies were not amiss in personating the canaille,
and if a few innocent persons have been laid hold of
in these bloodless frays, why, so much the better ; the
sham conspiracy will look the more like the faction-
begotten monster which the Government is pleased to
represent it.

FRENCH FUNDS —Pmus, MAY 18.
Five per Cents., 10Sf. 80c. 75c. 60c.
Four per Cents., 99f. 20c.
Three per Cents., 82f. 35c. 30c. 15c.
Bank Actions, 1,9901:—c.
Rente de Naples, 98f. 60c. 75c. 70c.
Roman Five per Cents., 101 101%.
Rente d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 50M.
Rente d'Espagne, Three per Cents., 3i IA 31.
Royal Spanish Loan. 50 Sy.
Bente Perpet. d'Espagne, Five per Cent., 50 491.4.
Belgian Loan, Five per Cents., 102.
Portuguese Loan, Five per Cents., 101.
Haytian Loan, 445 f. —c. 440 f.
EXCHANGE ON LONDON.
0,.e month, parer, 25f 40c. ; money, 25f. 40c.
Three months, :paper, 25f. 25c. ; money, 25f. 25c.
—(bars Autheittique.

BOURSE, THREE o'CLocit.—A further improvement has
taken place in the French Three per Cents., which are at this
moment at 82f. 45c. for the end of this month, and near 82f.
75c. for the end of June. The ♦arious reports from Spain in
circulation, which allude to some arrangement between the
two pretenders to the throne, have encouraged the speculators
in the Spanish securities, which are therefore somewhat in
demand.

QUARTER TO FOWL—A sudden decline of 35c. has taken
place towards the close of business. A deputy who is a great
speculator sold a good deal. Five per Cents., 108 f. 80c. ;
Three per Cents., 82f. 20c. ; Five per Cent. Spanish, 59" ;
Three per Cent. Spanish, 31 ; Cortes, 50i ; Coupons, 30 ;
Guebhards, 50a ; Differes, 21 ; New Loan, 65 ; Definitive,
644-; Passive, 18i ; Ducats, 99 70 ; Romans, 1011 ; Bel-
gians, 102 ; Miguelites, 261-, ; Dutch, 59; Haytian, 440 f. ;
Brabant Bank, 201.

The Messager and the Journal du Commerce—
Paris papers of some political character—contain im-
portant intelligence from Madrid of the 9th instant,
of the authenticity of which some doubts have been
expressed. We cannot take upon ourselves to decide
whether such doubts are well or ill founded ; and after
giving the substance of the alleged arrivals from the
Spanish capital, we shall leave our readers to form
their own judgment as to the degree of credit which
they may consider due to them.

The Paris Journals state that the REGENT, in
conjunction with the majority of the Cabinet, and in
accordance with the wishes 'of the Ambassadors of
England, France, and Portugal, has resolved instantly
to demand from the high contracting Powers the ful-
filment of the article in the Quadruple Treaty, which
guarantees the safe possession of the Spanish Crown
by the young QUEEN, to the exclusion of Don CAR-
LOS and his children ; that the quota demanded
from the several Powers shall be—the presence of a
British fleet, ready to co-operate with the Govern-
ment ; 10,000 Portuguese, to be employed as
auxiliaries ; and an army of 50,000 French troops,
to be stationed at the Pyrenees, until their active ser-
vices are required by the War Minister. Of the mem-
bers of the Cabinet, M. DE LA ROSA is the only
one said to be opposed to this scheme ; in conse-
quence of which he is to retire, and leave his post to
be assumed by TORENO. In the Chambers this pro-
ject has been well received, only five Procuradores
openly dissenting from it. The Marquis DE LAS
AMARILLAS is reported to have been appointed to
convey the resolution of the Madrid Council to the
Courts of London and Paris.

We have received Brussels and German Papers of
the latest dates. As we had surmised, the sudden
dissolution of the Belgian Chambers was a stretch of
the Royal prerogative, for the purpose of saving Mi
nisters, although several other causes have been as-
signed for this uncourteous dismissal of the Deputies.
It seems that Ministers dreaded being defeated on the
question of communal law, which would have placed
the appointment of the Magistracy in the hands of
the people, instead of leaving it to be exercised by the
Kt NG-a measure regarding which LEOPOLD is said
to entertain strott,2 personal feelings.
The Emancipation contradicts a rumour circulated
by the Gazette de France, to the effect that Belgium,
at the instigation of France, was about to send some
corps of volunteers to the assistance of the Spanish
Government.

The German Papers are destitute of all political
intelligence. In the Frankfort Papers we find a
long article relative to the prospects of the Rhenish
Provinces, which are represented in a flourishing
condition.

The Mountaineer has arrived from Jamaica bring-
icg papers to the Bth of April, confirming our account
of yesterday, that the Island was tranquil. The Ja-
maica Dispatch contains the following :—" We arc
sorry to announce the loss of his Majesty's schooner,
Jackdaw, Lieut. BARNETT, on the reef of the North
end of old Providence, on the 12th of March, four
days after the sailing of the vessel from Port Royal ;
the officers and crew were all saved."

The John Porter arrived at Liverpool on Sunday
from Halifax in fifteen days, by which letters and pa-
pers were received to the 3d inst. They do not contain
any news of interest.

We have received the Sentinelle des Pyrenees of
the 14th instant, which state that the Christinos have
abandoned Estella, and that they were followed by the
Urbanos, who had taken up arms in defence of the
QUEEN. Generals ORAA and JARREGUI are re-
ported to have been at Santesteban, which they were
engaged in fortifying, so as to resist the fire of the
Carlists. ZUMALACARREGUI occupied the valley
of Lerin with seventeen battalions and six hundred
cavalry, having by a skilful movement out-generaled
VALDEZ, who was then marching towards the Amescoas
with fifty battalions of infantry and sixteen hundred
cavalry. A later account than the above asserts that
ZUMALACARREGUI had left the valley of Lerin,
and entered the woods of the Amescoas, in which
situation his entire force was surrounded by V ALDEZ'S
troops, who thus had the insurgents at their mercy.
The results are not yet known ; probably the re-
port is in part unfounded. The French Journals
contain several letters from their Bayonne correspon-
dents on the subject of the war in the North ; but we
find nothing in them, or in the letters received here,
which refer to any recent advantage gained by VAL-
DEz over the insurgents. On the contrary, most of
them affirm that the Christinos have rather lost than
wined ground since the resignation of MINA, and
that the war can only be terminated by the timely
interference of the Great Powers who signed the
Quadruple Treaty.

We call the attention of our readers to the leading
article which we have extracted from the Bath Gazette,
to show, as our Contemporary well expresses it, that
a:oongst all the mysteries of iniquity which have been
developed by the recent inquiries into the state of

pauperism, there is one connected with medical men,
which has been brought to light in a pamphlet written
by JOHN LESLIE, a Vestryman, Governor and
Director of the Poor of the Parish of St. George,
Hanover-square, London." Comment on such a case
of misery to the poor, paid out of a fund raised for their
relicf, is superfluous ! Our Contemporary has omitted
the important part of Mr. LESLIE'S pamphlet, in the
plain and easy remedy he has proposed for such obvious
abuses, for which we must refer our readers to the
pamphlet itself.
The great and increasing interest excited by Mi.
LESLIE'S pamphlet on the Poor Laws, cannot be
better shown than by the following notice which we
extract from the Tenth Edition now on our table, in
which our readers will observe a happy combination of
Whig and Tory names of great influence in the
country. The important question of the Poor Laws
should always be so treated; it is not, and ought never
to be, a party question. We hail this announcement as
a very happy omen for the poor :
" The under-named rate-payers of the parish of St.
George, Hanover-square, thinking that the valuable informa-
tion contained in the following pages should be in the posses-
sion of every rate-payer in the parish, to show the great moral
and beneficial effects resulting from the New System by which
the Poor Rates are now administered, have resolved, at their
own expense, to print Six Thousand Copies of this Pamphlet,
and to present one to each rate-payer in the parish of St.
George, Hanover• square :
Hon. Col. Hely Hutchinson. Hon. Robert Smith, M.P.
Earl of Euston. Lord Willoughby de Eresby.
Earl of Darlington. E. J. Stanley, Esq., M.P.
Henry Gally Knight, Esq. ,M. P. Mr. Robert Addison.
G. R. Marten, Esq. Mr. J. J. Thornhill.
Thomas Wilson, Esq. Viscount Melbourne.
Charles de Coetlogan, Esq. Earl Cowper.
Mr. Giles Redmayne. Earl of Essex.
Mr. Stephen Lewis. Rt. Hon. W. Sturges Bourne.
Mr. George Stanley. Sir John Hippisley, Bart.
Mr. John Smith. Mr. George Perry.
General Gascoyne. Mr. John Gunter.
Hon. Booth Grey. S. Boddington, Esq.,
G. R. Phillips, Esq , Mr. Wright Ingle.
Earl Amherst. Mr. John Cuff.

Rt. Hon. Sir W H. Freemantle. Lt. Col. Cooke.

Earl Grey. F. Thornhill Baring, Esq., M.P.
E. W. Pendarves, Esq., M.P. Hanbury Tracy, Esq., M.P.
Viscount Ebrington, M.P. C. K. Tynte, Esq., M,P.
Robert Gordon, Esq., M.P. W. Leader, Esq., M.P.
H.Labouchere, Esq., M.P. Hon. George Byng.

Duke of Somerset.

The Earl of 'WINCH ILSEA has addressed a second
Letter to his Protestant fellow countrymen, in which,
among other equally sapient observations, he talks of
" happy and envied England," securing at the period
of the restoration of the BOURBONS, "not only her own
liberties, but proudly bestowing from the walls of Paris
liberty and freedom on every country in Europe."
What trash is this I Is Poland free ? Is Italy free ? Is
the Tyrol free ? Are the Rhenish provinces free ? Is
Finland free ? Nay, is there one single country in Europe,
whom the shackles of the Holy Alliance—rivetted at
that very period to which the Noble Earl so exultingly
alludes—have not quite as much oppressed as ever did
the arms of NAPOLEON ? What was the character
that England bore throughout the Continent during
the CAsTLEREAGH Administration ? Was she not
universally regarded as the Oppressor, rather than
as the Liberator, of Europe ? Really, if his Lord-
ship cannot write more to the purpose than this,
he had better throw his letters behind the fire. His
present epistolary specimen is as very twaddle as is to
be met with at an old maid's tea-table.

A letter signed NEMO in this day's Sun, lets in a
little light upon the evil deeds of the Corporation of
Lincoln. It might have been expected, indeed, that
when Corporators in general have acquired so much
celebrity of a certain description, those of Lincoln
would prove themselves not unworthy of the high
patronage with which it has been the good fortune of
their ancient city to be honoured.
It appears that these Gentlemen, fifteen or sixteen in
number,have formed themselves into a snug fancily party,
bound together no less by the ties of kindred than by
a unanimous resolution that none of the good things
in their gift, or within their reach, shall extend beyond
themselves. A 999 years' lease, for instance, at an
annual rent of 751.—0 f a property bringing in 7,0001.
per annum—is no had specimen of the benefit to be
derived from being related to a member of the Corpo-
ration ; nor is a preference so highly complimentary
wholly ineffectual as a retaining fee for advocating, in
a certain House, without a name, the continuance of
institutions acting so beneficially for the public interest.
Our readers will find in the subjoined extract from
the parochial accounts of Bun; ay some established
items, the expense of which Mr. CHILDS had the pre-
sumption to think ought not to be enforced upon men
who do not belong to the Establishment. Is not in-
terminable imprisonment a lenient punishment for such
contumacy ?
EXPENCES CONNECTED WITH THE SERVICE AND

INTERIOR OF THE CHURCH.
Salary of the Clerk, Mr. Adams £B 0 0
Do. of the Beadle, John Tye
Do. of the Ringers, for Chiming 2 2 0
Do. of Mrs. Adams, for sweeping the Church 2 8 0
Paid for Washing the Surplices
Paid for Bread 25., Wine 21. 14s. (for Sacra-
ments) 2 16 0
Paid for a new book of common prayer (for the
desk)
Paid for repairing the old book,
Paid for Candles 55., Coals 13s. 6d., and
Mat 2s. 6d.
Paid for washing and cleaning the Church 24s ,
Brushes and Brooms 16s. 9d.
24 1 9
EXPENSES OF THE CHURCH-YARD AND EX-
TERIOR OF THE CHURCH.
Ground-rent of the Steeple (paid to Manor
of Bungay Priory) £0 0 4
Church-yard Rent paid to the Clergyman 1 1 0
Paid W. Adams for Locking Gates ( Salary for
the year)
Ditto, ditto, for mowing Church-yard, and cut-
ting out Walks
Ditto, ditto, for Keeping Clean round the
Church, and Sweeping Leads, &c 0 7 0

3 10 4

PARLIAMENTARY SUMMARY.

In the HousE of LORDS some petitions for and against a
grant to the Scotch Church were presented. Lord
BROUGHAM corrected an erroneous impression with respect
to the new Poor Law Bill, which contains no clause autho-
rizing the separation of man and wife.
In the HOUSE of COMMONS Mr. HARVEY moved for returns
relating to the Court of Chancery and the Courts of Request.
A petition from Lincolnshire, complaining of a Clergyman's
conduct in reference to Tithes, was presented ; a commutation
was prayed for. Mr. ROEBUCK presented petitions from
Leeds and other places for the repeal of the Stamp Duties
on Newspapers. Mr. WYSE moved for leave to bring
in a Bill for the Education of the People of Ireland.
He proposed to establish a National Board of Educa-
tion in Dublin, and a Council, which Council should have
power to build schools, appoint masters, &c. His object
was to found one universal system of Education, free from
sectarianism. Mr. O'BRIEN seconded the motion. Lord
MORPETH did not wish to place any obstacle in the way of
the Bill. Mr. SHAW doubted its expediency. After a few
words from Mr. S. RlCE,—leave was given to bring in the
Bill. Mr. BUXTON brought forward an amended mo-
tion on the Slave Trade, praying that an Address be
presented to his MAJESTY, beseeching him to enter into
negociations with his Allies, for the purpose of ef-
fectually suppressing the Slave Trade on the coast of
Africa, and that it be, in future, declared Piracy ; which being
seconded by Mr. HUME, and supported by the CHANCELLOR of
the EXCHEQUER, Mr. O'CONNELL, and Mr. ROBINSON, was
agreed to by the House. Mr. DIVETT moved for a Committee
of the whole House on the Act of last Session for increasing the
Duty on Spirit Licenses. The Act, it was argued, had increased
smuggling and immorality, added nothing to the Revenue, and
was burdensome to the spirit merchants. On the suggestion of
the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, who said the matter was
under consideration, the Hon. Member withdrew, for the pre-
sent, his motion. Mr. WALLACE moved for leave to bring in
a Bill to improve the present practice in the Courts of Ses-
sion, and to introduce other reforms in the law of Scotland.
He declared his object to be to induce the Government to
bring in a measure similar to that which was brought in last
year by Lord BROUGHAM, and lost in the House of Lords.—
Leave was given. With a view to a more expeditious mode
of taking Divisions in the House, Mr. WARD called attention
to the Report of the Committee appointed to investigate the
present mode, and moved ttiat a new Lobby should •be built
behind the Speaker's chair. The motion was subsequently
withdrawn, till the opinion of the Building Committee should
be ascertained. Mr. LYNCH obtained leave to bring in a Bill
to regulate the proceedings of the Civil Bill Courts in Ire-
land. A Committee was appointed to inquire into the state
of the trade in Corn between the Channel islands and this
country.

Tl"' Moigan, ila;_; arrived Hast-
ings, from Jamaica, with E. J. Davis, Esq., and family, after
an absence of 30 years.