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PARTARSHIPS DISSOL‘ED.

A. Gordon and P. Wilwn, Edinburgh, draper, and
lialierdashets----Samuel Lowe and Samuel Hunt, Salford;
Lancashire, merchanta—Lazarus. Solomon and Cohen
Spiers, 'Plymorith, 'watch rirakers—Villiain Stewart, Ed-
ward Rubinson; and Elizabeth Jewson, lliypool, Yorkshire,
soap -makern—Elizabeth and Francis Radford, Marichet•ter,
viitiaikre--Richard Charles Midlett and .Leivis Nicholas
Choveaux, Old Kent-road, auctioneers--James and Wm.
Bayley, Manchester and London Vale, calico-printers—
Easter Maynard, West Monktun, and Samuel Chapman,
Taunton, Somersetshire, millers—George Matthew
_Hoare,
Win. Everest, and Frederick Woodbridge, Lower East',
Smithfield, co mina brewers-Charles Stott and, James
Eatkheuse, Manchester, fustiau-manufacturers.William
tomes, Abraham Rose,'and John Bradbury, Manchester,
cAlico-printers--James and-John Nuttall, Bury, cabinet-.
makers—Samuel James Parnell and Horatio Parnell,
Kingston-upon-Thames, auctioneers—Joint Orrell, Rob4frt.
Orval!, and Thomas Mason, 8041,013-under'lane,`' cottoTz
avinnisa • John Orrell and Robert Orrell, Stockport,,,m
and cotton-manufacturers—William Beckett and Tits.
Ryder, Sutton, Yorkshire) iwed-inerelirrits..77l,, Moot house
and Geo. Thomas Staibenson, LOndon,,ftock-brokers—
Tenjamin Willoughby and 'Frederick 111atithett, Biktning-
haw, iron-fouriders--LoniS Lambert, 'Poland-street; amid
:.James Leo, Bury-street; Si. Mary Axe, paper-inanufae-
turers-John Gadsden and. JoSeph Sash, "Watert'ord, gene-
ral' provision inert:ha-Ws-IAM ' Thotnian and Thomas
Thorman, LawrenaPottlitney-hill,',wholeSale-tea-dealersL-
:Sharp Callender and Georgelquelde,,Stinth-
burgh, cloth and silk-inerchmits.-!L•

ROYAL DISPENSARY ; FOR -111
01 THE EAR; DEAN-STIMET,,SEPTIO:SQ

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'Mt: lapwing is an Account of Number.
AdMitted; Cured, and Relieved, from 1f.318 to .

EASES

of Patieuts
1828.:,....

Yeas, • j Admitted. Cured. Relieved.
________
1318 ., • I 142 141 109
1919
182 f
4821 , 1;04, ; 219 • 201
1822 • • - '2729 • • 280 230
1823 - • 236 ' 216
1824 4 • 733 SI 1 • ' 223
1825
7826 1 860- 173 205
1807,, 4 876. 490 244
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Tolet ' 6839 2867 1993

MEETINGS fatlF,
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,DiTons.

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COU NINA' 1)IA111/.-1'nmay, I'LL 4'4
p,mici, W., Fainolanr, WrOckviardint —Swan inn, x‘2o.
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i,iddre, J. affil Co., ( ar.di/V—Cconmurcial.roonis, Brutol 1
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Chambers, G., BjaclibUrn—Hotel, Blackburn 6
(3arfortb, 'l'., Clc!ckheaion—SmsiOn.s,houst; Wakefield ll
linkbes E. .14,elpoql—Clareudon, Liverpoaly. l2
3onc.i. L., Lit erpool—Clarendon, Liverpool
Lomax, J., Hoghttai--Hotel, Blackburn ... 1:1
Mac Vicar and Tait, Liverpool—George, Liverppol' ‘ • 4
Thoinber and l3ilsborougli, Pickup-bank—Hotel, Blaak-

1,
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barn
I as, J., kludderbtield—Whitehead and Co., Iludderstiehl 11
Williams,
.T., Northwicii—Crown,. broil hwieli • • 11
Willoughby, 'l., Partney—George; Spilt by....: . : ....... ........ .:1

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INSOLVENTS "APPLYING 'l'o LIE DISiCHARGED,
cCUNTRY..-- the Ceurt-tiottse, Wa4beld, fsbruary
- • a Ten o'clock. • - :'% t. N..
Lead= Jonathan, Leeds, joiner• ..,tycr,i
4rptir7on
Claytorth, Henry, Idle, sliopkeepct _
Trionsley, Wtn., Tockwith, YOrkshire, tailor 'R) I
Branch, Richard, Rotherham, plumber ,s)rs,fr,ger)
Simpson,_Ww,_ Bradford, ::hopkeeper
Winn, Witt. 'Heck/trendy/Ike, tailor' Ye%
iSutcliffe,
John, Stansbeld, attorney • •

There are at present living, in the pariah of
Lesinaliagow, three women.whstie ages art a:, follows
:,86;.93; 92—total, '2Bl- What ift use.A. remarkable it,
that they were all born in the above parish, within one mile
and ate at present li%ing within the _;sine each other,
tanc; and apparently in good health. Glasgow (Aron:
THE MARGRAVINE OF ANSPACH----Oti
Sunday, the 13th of 'Jamu departed this life, at her
house in Naples, her Serene Highness ELIZABETH, 'Mat-
gravine of As:steer', and Princess B ERKaLLY, of the Holy
Ban Empire. She was daughter of AuGusros, Earl Al
BERXELLT, born on the 17th day of December, MO, and'
married, first,
,vILLIA3I Earl Cc ay
present Earl, EN, grandfather of the
by she had several children ; she mar-
ried, 'ec°rldlY, at Lisbon, his gerene Highness Atexanene
A tlGlThrtrs, Mareravine of ANSpACH whom
She survived, butby whom she had us issue. Her illness vate-;
oat, and her decay entirely exempt from suffering-. Her
remains wine interred, according to the desire she had' el-
__
Prt"ed ' In the English Protfttant burial-ground at Naples,
sand were attended to the grave by her son, the lion. R.
icztrE, ciLevEN, his Gratte • the Duke of Rut:xi:scum'
the Members 0( his .1.1“.11 A N IC .31
11..1 Eal 1 S
f‘l'iierssinoenpanheW),
dcopsulate, the Minister Plenipotentiary of hip
of AUSTRIA, and a 100 g traiu of dis-
Maje.sty the Emperor.
tinguished personages, both English and Neapolitan, who
were anSious to pay. this last tribute' of ti~spect
to her me-
mory. The unostentatious munificence of her mode of
livings and the entployment she had so long afforded to tin:
• merous poor, have caused her loss to be deeply felt by
many. The disposition of her property, we Understand,
to be as follows :—With the exception of proy---0n fur her
servants, and some trifling bequests, the whole of her pro.
perty in England is left to her third son, the Hon. R. K.
CRAVEN, with a reversion in the landed estate in Berk-
shire, to her nephew, Sir Geo. BERKELEY, Bart: K. C. 13.
Her house and property in Naples,, together with her.villa,
situated on the Strada Nuova, the ground of which wa'‘
given to her by the late King of NarLis, and the villa
Strom, at Rome, are likewise secured to her third son.

PARLIAMENt

1-101./St, OF 'LORDS, FEsituaav 19

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The House met to-day in Commission at: four
o'cloCk, the Commissioners being the &irl of
Shaftesbury, the L'ord Chancellor; and Lord tl-
leuborough, when the Royal Assent was given to
the Exc.heriner Bilis 12 (millions) Bill; acid to the
Appropriation Bills (12 millions).
The House met again at tive o'clock.

Earl FITZWILLIAM presented a. petition from
certain Protestant Dissenters of Thorne, in- York-
;shire, praying for the repeal of the Testand Corpora-
tion Acts.

• • Matliiia of LONDON-DERRY presented a
petititiOn Gin the Reiman Catholics of the town of
Londonderry, in favotir of the Catholic Claims; In
presenting this petition, it was.not his' 'intention to
occupy their Lordships' time in making any observe-
%dons, because he believed the time would come when
it would be there material for him to do so. `..Bet he
could not help saying it was with surprise he heard
the question put to the Noble and Illustrious. Duke
at the head of his Majesty's Governt'fient, a short
time ago, whethei he ifitetnied to bring forward any
measures for the relief of' the Roman Catholics
in 'lreland, by those very Noble Loids who' had
than-selves sat on the Ministerial side of ' the
House for nine ' months, without ever venturing
to, propose any measure for such a peirpose. They
then vowed it was not the season to iiitroduce*ich
meastices,, although they. ivere• clothed in . the
outward and visible signs of all such power.
He , could not but think it 'a little bard
on hisillustirous Friend, that Nvithin ten days after
he had taken charge of the British Government
such a question should have been put tei him,
as could only tend to excite the Roman Catholics in
irefatid, who, God Ithows, wanted no 'excitement.
He lamented the pass 'to which things had conic
in Ireland, and he hoped that Some legislative enact-
ment would prevent the continuation of, the acts of
din Association in that country, which were ex-
tremely detrimental tb, the cause of the Roman Ca-
tholics. Their Lordships all knew that the Catholic
': rent %yea collected in Ireland, and last week 'the
amount of that rent was 6001. That money could
not be applied to any good purpose, and the Catholics
greatly mistook their cause if they thought it was in
Ireland, by any act of theirS, that they could carry
their object. He should abstain from making any de-
tailedstatement until the proper period should arrive.
Lord GODERICH, who had taken his seat on
the crosa-benches, when the Earl of Shaftesbury
-moved that the House should now adjourn, rose and
addressed the House as follows :—My Lords, I feel
myself under the necessity of again troubling your
Lordships' with a very few observations upon a
matter personal to myself 'and in reference to that
subject upenavhich I took the liberty of addressing
your Lordships in the course of last week. In what I
presumed then to lay iaefore .the House, it was
my....anxious desire to avoid saying any thing
that could offend the ear or affect the character
of any man whatever. My object was to justify and
vindicate' not to complain of, nor make an attack on
others. I had no wish as hatcver to' rest my
reputation on any thing that might fall on
others, but it was my, duty to state to your
Lordships, as I_ did state, ' nothing 'but. the
.plain truth. Certainly I sheuld not, without an
absolute • necessity for it, again, trouble your
Lordships upon this subject. For whatever your
Lordships might think.with regard to the prudence
of the course I took, whatever ' you might think
with regard to my individual fitness for the situation'
in which I was placed, upon that I' should not
have thought it necessary to trouble your Lordships
With' any reniarkS; but 'i cannot 'forbear something
now, because imputations,, as, it appears to
.sic at
least,' have been cast upon me, which, if true, would
render me unfit now to appear before your Lordships
Again: for if I understand right that which has
.been
stated, is that I went to the King with
a false pretence, and that 1 had a covert design,
different from. that which 1 professed ,to entertain.
I should have thought I ' might have relivd on
what the world knew of me 'for many years past,
not to have been the subject of an imputation 'of
that kind, and I -can 'scarcely .)ring myself now
to believe that after all any •neli, imputation
has been made, but it. do -say, if it has,_there is no'
earthly • fotindatiOn for it whatevet. That which I.
went to big Majesty to state, was, the real immediate
cause that led to the precarious situation in which •
the Government stood, and that it
-did not arise frdin•
any other iuunediate cause than that; shut it is stated:
that I used the resignation of the 'Chancellor of
die EXchequer as a pretence !—Good God ! if 1
had been guilty of such a proCeeding, I should have
been the baseSt of mankind: his impossible I could'
haVe been guilty% of such a thing, I wrote to that in-
aiividual myself, in svhich letter l' told hint, in the
plainest terms, that my Right
,Hat. Friend the Secre•
tary of State did conceive it to beimpO.ssible for him
to acquiesce in the nomination- of any other in-
dividual, as the Chairman of the Committee of
Finance, than the individual who was .mentioned.
I stated to him, if the decision was against that no-:
minatien, it would immediately be followed by the
resignation of the flight Honourable the Secretary
of State, and that that would be the dissolution
of 'the' Government; " I added that his- own resig-
nation, which' he had tendered to me 'before,
would, in all .probability be attended with the same
consequence. How then, .after that, could it be
said I went to his Majesty under any false pre-
tence.? That was the view I took, and whether
right or wrong, whether accurate or inaccurate in pre-
' dietine. such a consequence, that .was the situation in
which I was placed—the feelings under which I ucted—
'and 1 . defy the ingenuity of any individual to prove
that I acted in say other way. On the next day I wrote.
-another letter—l have the letter now in my pocket, and if
I thought it necessary for the satisfaction of yourLordships'
or my own vindication, I should read, those letters. At.
ptesent.l du not consider that necessary. On the next
day 1 urged . him -to reconsider his objection—aud en--
treated hint
.in the sweetest terms not to take the course he,
said he should take. because I foresaw the consequence to
which that might lead. I further added, 1 thought we
owed it toptirselves—to the King—and to our country,
not to break up the Government without .an ab-
solute_ necessity for it ; that it was our duty to .n:eet
Parliament,_ and let it decide as it might on our conduct.
But that produced no effect on his conduct, he continued
to refer me to his original let ter,i n which he distinctly reeigned
his situation unless the nomination were changed, Well,
that being so, I should beglad to know upon what ground
it can be asserted 1 went to . the King under any false
pretence: I say the course he took was the immediate
cause of the dissolution of the Government. If he
had,Amy other reasons which influenced his conduct, I
know not ; I stop not to inquire .into the: otives of
ally . roan—l impute motives -to no man, but I do say I
was. justified in abiding, and bound ko abide, by
that which wag written and put hefoie me, and
tuft bound , to' conclude that the .:reasun which led
'him to tender his resignation was, the conviction in his
own mind, that the appointment was one which ought
ant ti, take place. But then . it ii• also zepresented-.....
your Lordships will give me 'leave; perhaps, to allude to•
those matters without impropriety, thought I cannot say how
tar they .inly' be decorate—hut it is said there existed
a design—a sort of plot.:.-a desien to hied( up . the Go-
vernment! low I should be gl:id to ask; wile entertained
that design ?, By whom was it concocted ?' As Tar as I
lcnow,
• i I
positively deity that any midi' plot ever did'eiist ;
deny that any one else did, es far as I know
and
,*al... done, act with any such design. . I 'do nut mean to
say, that circuinstauees might het have oteurred by Whiith the
Govenimeut might have 'found itself in such 'a '
situation
that it might not have met the approbation of Parliament,
and that consequently it must have been dissolived ; but 'say
that there was so such design either to 'alter the charac-'
ter of the country; or to break 'it ‘up,- enteitaihed by any 1'
one tat my knowledge, and that it is one of the mOst gratuitous
assumptions that can be made in diseussing a'subjeet of the
kind. I know not that it can be neeessary for me here to
go over any of the topics I went Over before, or to avail
myeelf of this opportunity to introduce new matter leading
to new controversies iu the different Reuses of Parlia-
ment; which I think' is the most unfortunate thing
that 'can be conceived. If what bad been represented
affected merely my character as a Minister, 'or my'fitness
for the situation which I held, I would not have
said another word, but 1 felt it apply to myself personally,:
and I could not think that I should have done justice to
my own character and honour as a gentleman, if I hid not

in the face of this House come forward and said,
I am incapable of going with a laLe pretence
to any one, much more so to the King, and to have
betrayed him, which I should have done, if I had been
guilty of that which appears to have been imputed to me.
Lord CARLISLE—It wtis with great surprise
and astonishment that I heafd it stated in another
place that the difference of opinion which existed
between two Right Honourable Gentlemen was
not the real cause of. the dissolution of the late Ad-
ministration. My Lords, I can assure you that I
know of no other canse,,.and that in thy hearing no
other cause was ever assigned for that dissolution.
I cenfe.SOT thyself, my Lords, perfectly i 3loraiit of any
mysterious knowledge of any secret machinery—of
any secret intrigue, which mayhave been employed
in bringing about the dissolution Of the-late Admi-
nistration: . The cause stated , by my Noble Friend
(Lord Goderich) was the real and the immediate
cause assigned for that dissolution, and I am satis-
tied that my Noble Friend was correct in -the as-
surances which he had made to his colleagues,
that that difference of opinithr was the real cause of
the dissolution, for I consider my Noble Friend to be
a man incapable ofpalming a spurious, and if a spu-
rious, a dishonourable mptive upon his colleagues.
For that, reason I thought it my, duty to say one
word in corroboration of the statement of my I\oble
Friend : as .I am now on my legs, and explanations
seem the order of the day, I trust your Lordships will
allow me to say a word for mysell. I can assure your
Lordships that I do so with great pain and reluctance, but
that pain is diminished by the document which has been,
alluded to iu the course of the discussion in this House
and elsewhere. The document I mean is the speech spoken
at Liverpool. There is no part of that speech inure accu-
rate than that which.describes me as the old and personal
friend of a Right Hon. Gent. now no mere. That friendship
began at an early period of our respective lives, and con-
tinued through various vicissitudes and political differences
steady and uninterrupted,and the remembrance of that friend-
ship I. shall cherish to the latest period of my existence.
I shill not now make any observation upon the manner or
character of the attacks by which the Right Honourable
Gentleman was assailed ;—I shall say nothing as to how
he was, whilst living, pursued by every mode which. political
rancour could suggest; but I must say, that I felt with
pain, that the grave did not afford his memory a refuge, or
the tomb a sanctuary. I own, my Lords, it was
with concern that I heard a Noble Lord opposite de-
signate my Right Honourable Friend as. a dangerous
Minister; if he was a dangerous Minister, it was a
danger not known to the people of the country who
supported him—if he was a dangerous Minister—it was a
danger unknown to .the Sovereign who protected him—if
he was a dangerous Minister, it was a danger not known to
the.fiee States on the Continent of Europe—it was a dan-
ger nut known by a great Northern Power not blessed with
free institutions—l mean Russia, whose esteem ,he held to
the latest hour
.of his existence.—(Loud cheers.) I have
been led away more than I ought, but I must say that it
Was the existence of that friendship to which 1 have
alluded, which made my Right Hon. Friend last
year look upon me as the most suitable organ of com-
munication with my Noble Friend (Marquis of Lansdowne)
whom I do not now see in his place, and which comma-
.nication led to the accession of my Noble Friend to the
Councils of his Majesty. The existence of that friendship
may.have placed me towards that • Right Hon. Gendeman
in a situation different from that of my Noble Friend,
but I shall not now enter into an explanation of what
passed at that period ; but considering how much I
.admired the upright and manly. conduct of my Noble
' Friend, and considering how much I admired the whole
tenor of his political life, I felt that 1 could not recon-
, rile it to.my private feeling,, or to my sense of, public
duty, to separate my political fate from that, of the Noble
Marquis. I therefore retired horn the Administration,
without feelings. either ,of Mortification or disappoint-
' went. I must now, my Lords, offer to the Noble Duke
at the 'head of the Administration my grateful thanks for
the conduct adopted by him towards myself. 1 ought to
apologize to your Lordshipa for having so long occupied
your attention, but I think it a duty incumbent upon a
public man not to hesitate, when occasion requires, to state
the principles which guided,- and the feelings which in -
fluenced, his ptiblic conduct.—(Cheers )

Lord M9RLEY.—As some difference of opinion • ap-
peared to exist among the Membets of the late Adminis-
tration, ae to the line of conduct which a sense of honour'
and consistency required they Should pursue, he
tritsted. their Lordships would , excuse him as one
of the longest adherents of the Right honourable
Gentleman alluded to,' for occupying their attention
fora few moments, whilst he sttated the grounds which
influenced his conduct with regard to the present Admini-
stration. Different theories had existed at different times as
to the. support which those individuals, selected by
the Crown to conduct the affairs of the Country, ought
to receive from that and the other House of Parlia-
ment. Some had maintained the doctrine that the
acts of the
.Government ought to undergo the most
,scrutinizing and severe opposition, Whilst ahem maintained
a doctrine contrary in every respect. Without entering
into those..doctrines, he thought lie might say, and in say-.
itig so he believed he spoke the general sentiments of the
country, that whether with reference to the external affairs of
the country—whether with reference to the state of our do-
mestic affairs, whether with reference to the harassed state of
the public mind, arrising out of the eveuts-of,the last
twelve meths, or with reference (if it were not improper
to advert to
_it) to the protracted anxiety, to the moral
courage, to the singleness of heart and -purpose mani-
fested in the highest quarter of the realm, there never
was a period when a settled form of government was
more . desirable than at the present period. Consider-
ing the line of policy likely to be adopted with re-
spect to the South American States, Greece, the Ronan
Catholics and the Corn Question, the. Noble Lord did not
think there was anything in the principles or probable conduct
of the present Administration, which ought to prevent him
from placing' the most implicit confidence in it. The mea-
sures too which had been adopted with respect to Portugal
were in a course of completion, and were advancing towards
coasuramation. He was sure the Noble Duke would ad-
here in every respect to the policy that induced this country
to take such a part in the affairs 'Of Portugal, and although
the Noble Duke might have as yet Withheld his opinion
upon that subject ; it must be in the recolleetion of, their
Lordships, • that in' August, 1826; he expressed the most
candid, upen, and unequivocal approbation of the expedition
to Porttigal.—( Hear, hear.)—Next -came the question of
the South American States, and with respect to those, the
Noble Duke, now at the head of his Majesty's Government,
had declared that the moment of their recognition was.
'propitious and well-selected. It was true that the Noble
Duke,' in 'allusion to Greece, said that there wits some dif-
ference between the Protocol-and the late treaty, but he also
added that the difference was one which might be reconciled.
The Noble Lord after referring to the Noble Duke's senti-
' ments on the Sallie question, said that his Grace had inti-
mated the Noble Lord would use the word " intimate,"
because the expression of the Aoble Duke would not- per-
haps warrant him its applying to •it a stronger term. - But
certainly the Noble. Duke bad intimated, that with re-
spect to the Catholic Question, lie would 'preserve
the strictest neutrality ; that the patronage of the Go-
vetuntent would be equally and impartially distributed ;
and that recantations against the Roman Catholics would
be no longer desired from members of certain learned profes-
sions, as a recommendation to the favours of the Crown. 'ln
those consisted the most valuable parts of Mr. Canning's po-
licy, it IVO" therefore evident that there would be a perfect
adherence to his principles. The friends of the Roman
Catholics, therefore, need not apprehend than any undue in-
fitience would be exerted purposely to injure their cause.—
The, Noble Lord would not enter into the considera-
tion, of how far private or personal feelings might re-
gulate public conduct, because such an inquiry was
in the present instance unnecessary, lie might grant
the duty of friends and adherents to preserve entire
and unmitigated the most ancient and inveterate aninto-
%Ay. But witheut upholding an anti-social doctrine, be
would say that feeling did not apply here ; there was not that
. •
hostility in the present case, which could, in a fair point
of view, prey cut the friends of the late Mr. Canning from
entering into a Cabinet, over :vhich the Noble Duke pre-
sided. The Noble Lord concluded by alluding to the se-
veral instances us which Mr. Canning had co-operated with
that .Noble Duke. .
The House then adiourned to Thursday.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, Few/41,y TDiar!
The House met this day at the usual hour; and
was summoned by the USlter of the Black Rod to
attend in the House of Lords, where his Majesty's
Royal Assent was given by comtuisiou to several
Bills.
The SPEAKER and several of .the- Members
withdrew, and upon their return the Speaker an-
nounced that his Majesty's Royal Assent was given
by Commission to the Transfer of Aids-Rill; and the
Exchequer Bills Bill.
Mr. SPICER-brought up the report of the He-
reditary RevenueS of Chelsea Hospital.
Mr. STOURGES brought up the returns pon-

cerning the Insolvent Debtor,' Court, is ordered
by the House.
Mr. RICE TREVOR brought up a report on
the Carmarthen Roads' and obtained leave to,
bring in a Bill for altering and improving the same.
Sir. G. WARRENDER brought up a report of
the Committee of the Aberdeen Harbour and
leave was giVen to bring in the Bill.
Mr. LITTLETON brought up the report of
the Committee on the Newcastle. and Leeds Road
Bill, and leave was. giver!, to bring in a Bill for
.altering and improving the same.
Mr. ASHURST moved the first reading of the
Bill for erecting -a, Market House in Gosport.—
Agreed to.; •
Mr. Alderman WOOD brought. up the report of
the Committee on the East India Dock Improve=
merit Bill, and leave was given to bring in the Bill.
Mr. PORTMAN presented a petition from Sher-.
bourne, in Dersetshire, praying for a repeal of the
Test and Corporation-Acts.
Mr. J. WILLIAMS presented a similar petition
from the Protestant Dissenters of Great Marlow..

Mr. C. DUNDAS presented similar petitions
fiOni the friends to Civil and Religious'Liberty ; and
also from the Protestant Dissenters of Newbury and
Wallingford.
Mr. MUNDAY - presented a petition fromi the
Maltsters of Derby, praying for a repeal of the Malt
Tax; be also presented petitions from several
parishes in. Derby, praying for a repeal of the Test
arid Corporation Ails.
Sir THOMAS MOSTYN presented peti cons
from places in Flintshire, praying for a repeal of the
Malt Tax. Also petitions from other parishes in
the same county for. the repeal of the Test and Cor-
poration Acts.
Mr. MOORE presented a petition praying lithat
leave be given to bring in a Bill for erecting a Cha-
pel of Ease in a parish in Dublin.
Mr. DAVENPORT presented a petition troin
Stockton, in Cheshire, praying for the repeal of : the
Test and Corporation Acts
Lord SEFTON presented a petition from`the
congregation of Protestant Dissenters of Foxlton,
in Lancashire, praying for a Repeal of the Test and
Corporation Acts. •
Mr'. SEYMOUR presented a petition from Wlool-
wood, in the county of Somerset, praying • for' the
Repeal of the Test ACts..
SiMilar petitions were presented from Chichelter,
Bury St. Edmunds, Honiton (in York), Alwortb,
South Hereford, and Markham.

Mr. CRADDOCK presented a petition from the
Catholic inhabitants of Kihnurry, praying for 'un-
qualified Emancipation.
• Mr. HUME, in presenting to the House three
petitions from the Roinan Catholic Inhabitants of
Kilbride, Tetnplefort, and Killick-bride,
.praying To
be relieved from the lawS by which they are oppri-
ed, said that in one of those parishes there was nita
single individual of th eEstablishedChurch residing,and
yet the Catholic inhabitants were rated by the vestry
of which they were not eligible as members; They
had no voice in the rates or the expenditure, and
yet they were assessed for building Churches in a
parish in which there were no Protestant inhabitattts.
This was a most serious grievance, and he hoked
the House would entirely repeal that Act.
was perfectly aware of the state of irritation! in
which Ireland was at the present time, and on

Thursday he would enter more iiito detail upon c.he
subject, when presenting a petition which had been
,entrusted to him, signed by thousands of most ,re-
spectable individuals. The House of Commons
would be surprised to hear the extent of tyratiny
and oppression to which they were exposed. The
time of the House was wasted on questions of 'faith
and belief, while the material concerns of the nation
were neglected. Every evening until seven o'cloek,
.the .House was occupied in receiving Petitions from
one class-Or another of religionists praying for relief,
while the Estimates were voted away .with little oh,
nervation. The duty of a Government was to make
the people happy and contented, and-promote union
throughout the country, which .vould only be done
by removing disabilities.
Sir JOHN BRIDGES said, that much of the
time of the House might be saved, if lion. Mein-
hers would present their petitions without makihg
an harangue on the occasion.
Mr. CALCRAFT said, that he thought it a most
useful practice of Hon. Members to harangue the
House when presenting petitions, and he- thought
the speech of his lion. Friend (Mr. Hume) was, a
most excellent harangue. The public should feel
indebted to him for arresting the attention of the
House on such an important occasion.
Sir JOHN 'NEWPORT complained of the grievous
abuses which existed in Ireland, abuses which would con-
tinue until the Parliament of this country interfered.
Mr. WALLACE said, the population of Ireland lvas'in
a 'state Of ferment, and it was most important that sortie-
thing 'should he done to take off the pressure which NM
occasioned so much bitter feeling. When he heard it laid
dawn as au axiom that Hon. Gents. should present petitions
on the most important subjects in silence, be (Mr. Wit-
lace) could not avoid expressing his hope that iu season and
out of season; every Member who felt interested in the af-
fairs of Ireland, would press the claims of that country on
the attention of the House.

The Hon. MEMBER who objected to Mr. HUllle'S
language, explained.
—Lord MILTON said that if the presentation of so many
petitions was an evil, the way to remedy that evil would
be to re►iiove the groundi of it.

The petitions were then brought up and laid on the table.

TEST AND CORPORATION ACTS.

Mr. HUME said, he had now petitions to present
from ;mother -class of his Majesty's subjects, who
conceived themselves. aggrieved, though, in his opinion,
their grievances were not of so oppressive a nature as those
which the Roman Catholics suffered under. A great
grievance, however, existed, and be hoped would meet the
favourable consideration of the Right Hon. Gent. (Mr.
Peel), who stated last night that the Duke of Wellington's
government IVJS to be liberal. The Hon. Gent. conclud-
ed by presenting petitions f'ron► Ashby in Norfolk, Low ick in
Northumberland, Ousdale in Northamptonshire, and Bar-
ton Mills, in the comity of Suffolk, for the repeal of the
Test and Corporation Act•. Laid on the table.
.STAMP AND RECEIPT TAXES.

Mr. HUME • then rose to present petitions from Brecon
for the repeal of the 2d. and 6d. Receipt Stamp tax. The
-Hon. Member also presented petitions against the Insurance
Tax, which was a tax, he thought, on prudence; and the
inventory tax, which was one of a most oppressive
character, for after an unfortunate -man's death every arti•-
cle of his clothes down to the night cap he died in, and his
old shoes, were valued, in order that they might be taxed.=
Now, it one sinecure was done away with, or a regiment
disbanded, the country would be saved from all the op-
pressions which they suffered under. those taxes..

Mr. BRIGHT thought the receipt tax scarcely less
orpie.sive than the salt tax, He was sorry to see that
the Stamp Office were more rigorous in enforcing it than
formerly, and the consequence was, that the country called
loudly for its repeal.
Mr. SYKES said the town he represented was full of
informers which the Stamp Office 'actually advertised for,
and the consequence was all conOdence in business was at
an end.

Mr. Alderman WAITHMAN said; that the rapacity of
the Government in levying the receipt tax, rendered it niost
oppressive. After a few words from Sir M. W. Ridley
and Mr. Wrburtou,
Mr. BARING said, that without offering any opinion
as to whether the tax was. ,good .bad, he thought Go-
, vernment was bound to levy itiigorously, for if it was not
levied with rigour, it woulttfall unequally. As to infor:.
niers they Were useful persons, 'and were sometimes neces-
sary to carry the law into effect.
The petitions were then laid on the table,
Mr. HUME moved for returns of the number of Ex-
chequer Bills issued within the last two-years.--Ordered.
• 3lr HUME moved for the names of the Magistrates in
Ireland to whom the Statutes were supplied within the last
10 years,
PEEL did not object to the motion, but hoped
(Peel)
of i
the. Hon. Member (Mr. Hume) would bring the expense
of printing Returns before the Finance Committee, as he
11
thought
ghep
txtleinereditumreig.ht be a great reduction in
thisl r.
branch
Mr. MABERLY suggested that such returns as were
obviously likely to be called for, should be printed before
the •commencement of the Session, and put in the hands of
Members.

Mr. PEEL observed, that there could be no objection on
the part of Government to give any documents called for,
but he must say, that it was impossible to'anticipate such
accounts as were sometimes moved for by Hon. Members.

For instance, there were five-Volumes of- papers tha
table that evenings which had been made up with treat
labour. One of those returns contained the Christian and
surnames of all persons who had filed affidavits of debt in
:•London, Middlesex, and Surrey, within the last two years.
and a half. He,could hardly _think that such minute
detail was necessary, but he was certain such returns were
made at a vast deal of expense to the public
Mr. litnup: defended the necessity of ,those returns.
They were called for with the view of forcing a subject to
which they referred on the attention of Government,-.---he
meant the law of debtor and creditor. From the returns
on the table, it appeared that not less than 70,000 .persom
- had-been arrested, in and about Loudon, in the last two
years and a half. The law expenses of these Were not less
than 500,000/. It appearltd that several attornies in Lon-
don-made a practice of buying up small bills for the
pose of suing the endorsers, and not unfrequently six or
seven, or sometimes ten, actions were brought on one bill.
One house alone had brought 500 actions for debt in that.
way in the time to which the returns referred, and Innit of
them under 201. After a few other remark from the Hon.
Member, he suggested, that to prevent the productirin of
papers already before the House, a person should be em-
ployed in the Treasury, to Whom a Member about to move
for returns should apply, in order to learn Whether they
were not already before the Honse. This would save
much labour in the public offices, and much expense to the
country.
The motion was then put, and the accounts ordered.
On a motion/11)r the production of some other papers,
the subject last mentioned was cotointted; in a conversa-
tion, in which Mr. PEEL, Mr. DIABERLY's Mr. Hume,
Col. Davies, Mr. CALCRAFT, and Lord HOVVICK took a
part,—Mr. PEEL thought the suggestion of the Hon. Mem-
ber fin. Montrost a good one; but observed, that a person
employed as he suggested, should be in the library and not
'the Treasury. Mr. AIABERLY also approved of the sug;
gestion, and observed that the keeping of an index to the
papers would be very useful. Colonel DAVIES and Lord
Flowtex complained of the multiplication of expence by
printing hundred's of petitions, most of which were in the
same Words, and all of the same tenour. Mr. CALERAFT
added, that he moved for the printing of petitions, as they
were not read now as they used to be.