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SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 25, 1826.

EAST INDIA HOUSE, Nov. 24, 1826.
'THE COURT of DIRECTORS of the UNIT-
ED COMPANY of MERCHANTS of ENGLAND
TRADING to the EAST INDIES, do hereby give Notice.
That a SPECIAL GENERAL COURT of the said COM-
PANY will be held at their - ficitute in Leadenhall-street, on
WEDNESDAY, the 13th Dunne') next, at Eleven o'Clock in
the forenoon, for the purpose of laying before the Proprietors
PAPERS received from INDIA respecting the late WAR with
AVA, and the Operations against DHURTPORE, and Resolu-
tions of Thanks adopted by the Court of Directors.

The abovetnentioned Papers will be open for the inspection o
the Proprietors at this House from Wednesday next.
JOSEPH DART, Secretary.,

QINTALES'S WARRANTED PENS, of va
riot's degrees of hardness and shade, marked as follows:-
1111 very hard, for Etching, &c.
H hard, for note hand.'
fine and hard, for Ladies' letter hand.
Ikl medium, ok. general writing.
5 soft, fine- nih:
's.;s very ,16r heading Ledgers, &c.
6B soft, with broad nibs, for Lawyers, &c.
Sold only at 138, Aldersgate-street, London.
N.B. Stationery and Account Books supplied cheaper than at
most houses in London.

CHEAP WINTER CLOTHING for CHA.
RITIES.—Stout Knit Shetland Stockings of all sizes,
7s. 6d., 98. and 12s. 6d. per dozen ; Lambs' Wool and Worsted,
I le. to 14e. ; Thick White and Spotted Knit Jersey Underwaist-
coats, 265., 295., 325. ; Worsted ditto, 205., 28e. ; Flannel ditto
and Drawers, 30e., 34s ; Great Coats, 10s. 6d., 12e. and
•64. each; Grey Cloaks, 43. 6d. to 95.; Flannel and Linsey
Woolsey Petticoats, 2s. 811., 35., 3s. 4d. ; strong Linen and
Calico Shirts and Chemises, 40., 40. 6d., 55.; Blankets, se.,
6s. 6d., 7s. 3d., Se. 9d. per pair; Bed Rugs, 21. 2d. to 4s. ;
Welch Flannel; 61d., Bd., 10d., 11d. and Is. per yard; Sheet-
ings, 10d., llid. ; Calico, 64., 7d., 84. ; Linen, I Id., 11 ;
Blue Print, 74., Bd. and 9d. ; Yarn Gloves and Mittens, Welch
Wigs, Kilmarnock Caps, Cravats, &c. &c.

JOHN STEAR and CO. respectfully inform the Nobility and
Gentry, that the above form part of a very large Stock of Goods,
suitable for Charitable Donations, a list of which, priced for the
present season, may be had on application at their Hosiery and
and Outfitting Warehouse, 84, Oxford-street, nearly opposite the
Pantheon.—Wash Leather Waistcoats, Drawers, and Socks; Vi-
gonia under-cluthing for Ladies and Gentlemen, of peculiar soft-
neon ; and an extensive general assortment of Hosiery, Gloves,
fashionable Cravats, Ready-made Linen, fine Welch and Patent
Flannels, Dressing Gowns, &c. &r. at unusually low prices.
Orders from the Country, with a remittance or reference, re-
gularly forwarded.—Gentlemen's Cloth Opera Cloaks, Three
Guineas each.

From the LONDON GAZETTE of FRIDAY, Nov. 24,

War-Office Nov. 23, 1826.
HOSPITAL STAPY.—TO be Deputy Ipspectors of Hospitals,..
Brevet Deputy Inspector of ilospitals Joseph Skey, M.D.
Brevet Deputy Inspector of Hospitals George Denecke, M.D.
Brevet Deputy Inspector of Hospitals John Augustus Knipe.

Commissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of

Nottingham.
Royal Sherwood Foresters, or. Nottinghamshire Regiment 01
Militia--Robert Thomas Hewitt, Gent. to be Ensign.
Southern Regiment of Nottinghamshire Yeomanry Cavalry_
Thomas Webb Edge, Esq. to be Captain, vice Henry Willough-
by, promoted ; Robert Borges., Esq. to be Captain, vice Lord
Viscount Newark, promoted; William Marshall, Gent. to be
Lieutenant.

DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVENCY.
W. Bailey, Belper, Derbyshire, haberdasher.
J. L. Shepherd and IL Ricker, Southampton, linen-drapers.

one, at the Angel Inn, Bath. Attorniei, Mr. Jones, Crosby-
iquare ; and.Hdlings, Bath.

A. W. Larmouth, Exmouth-street, Spa-fields, linen-draper,
Nov. 28, at one, Dec. 8, at two, and Jan. 5, at one, at the
Court of Commissioners. Attorney., Spurr, Copthall-buildings.
J. Dillon, Herefonl, brazier, Dec. 7,8, and Jan. 5, at eleven,
at the Greyhound Inn, Hereford. Attornies, Pateshall, Hereford ;
and Church, Great James-street, Bedford-row.

W. Roebuck, Huddersfield, cloth dresser, Dec. 16, 18, and
Jan. 5, at eleven, at the Offiee of Mr. Allison, Huddersfield. At-
tornies, Allison, Huddersfield; and Walker, Lincoln's inn-fields.
A. Russell, March, Cambridgeshire, grocer, Dec. 13, at six,
14, at ten, and Jan. 5, at eleven, at the Crown Inn, St. Ives.
Attornies, Day, tSt. Ives ; and Long and Co. Holborn-court,
Gray's Inn.

J. Musgrave, Bramley, Yorkshire, cloth manufacturer, Dec. 15,
16, and Jim. 5, at eleven, at the Court House, Leeds. Attornics,
Kenyon, Leeds; and Smithson, Old Jewry.
G. Hooper, Eldon-street, Finsbuty, Shoreditch, builder, Dec.
1,8, and Jan. 5, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners. At-
torney, Mr. Hutchison, Crown-court, Threadneedle-street.

C Cope, Birmingham, syno-mernbant, Dee. 7,8, and Tan. 5,
at one, at he Royal lintel, Hinging. ham. Attornies, Me.ara. flour-
(Minn and Hewitt, Brad-street, Chtapaide ; and Simewt, Bir-
mingham.

J. Sibson, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, draper, Dec. 14, 15, at eleven,
and Jan. 5, at one, at the Crown and Thistle Inn, Newcastle-up-
on-Tyne. Attornies, Dunn, Princes-stmt, Bank; and Wilson,
Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

been given to the defendant, although Mr. Sherwood was not bound
to have done so.

The LORD CRANCELLOR recollected , the injunction granted
to Mr. Stevens before • the recess, and he much doubted, whe-
ther, knowing all these facts, he should have allowed it. It
now appeared that Mr. Stevens and Mr. Ebbs had halved
the profits, and he thought, be could not refuse the present in-
junction.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Nov. 24.
TIM ZINC U. WIIITEHZAD.•
Mr. CAMPBELL. moved for a rule, calling► on the defendant to
show cause why a criminal information should not be filed against
him. He (Mr. Campbell) made this application on the behalf of
the Rev. Henry Campbell, a Magistrate of the county of Glou-
cester, at whose instance he yesterday obtained a rule for a crimi
nal information against the Editor and Proprietor. of the Chiles:-
ham Journal ; and the present complaint arose out of the trans-
actions which had been represented in that paper to have taken
place.—Rule granted.

CZITIORARI.
Mr. Donn moved fur a rule to show cause why a writ of cer-
tiorari should not be issued to remove into this Court an indict-
ment which had been foUnd at the Sessions against a Peer of the
realm, and another person, for a misdcanour : they were anxious
that their case, which was one of great importance, should be de-
cided by a special jury. The Learned CounseL did not mention
the names of the parties.—Rule granted:

HIGH COURT OF DELEGATES, Sznuz:ANT's UN.

FRIDAY, Nov. 24.

LADY BRISCO V. tun WASTZLL mac°, BART., AND SIR WASTELL

DRISCO, BART. V. LAbT BIUSCO.

This was originally a suit, instituted ht January, 1814, by
Lady Brisco against her husband, by reason of cruelty and adul-
tery. During the pendency of this suit, for sometime, in the
Cousistory Court of London, Sir Wastell laid a' cross suit against
his Lady, by pleading her adultery in bar. Upon these two
issues the cause has travelled on for nearly thirteen years in the
inferior jurisdictions, diversified by appeals to the Condelegates,
and to the High Court, from grievances arising out of proceedings
in the principal cause, and the Court's allotment of alimony.
The High Commission on this occasion, was filled by Lord
Chief Justice Best, Mr. Baron Garrow, Mr. Baron Hullock, Mr.
Justice Burroughs, Mr. Justice Littledale, Mr. Justice Gaselee,
and by the following Advocates—Drs. Gosling, Dodson, Mey-
rick, Jesse Addams, Lee, &e. They assembled at about seven
o'clock, and the Court was crowded to excess.
Counsel for Sir Waste!! Briscri—Dr. Pnit.tastoaz and Mr.
BROUGHAM; for Lady Brisco—Dr. JENNE'', Dr. PICRARDE,
And Mr. KNIGHT.
Dr. PIiiLLIMORE, after briefly stating the nature of this case,
and the proceedings which have been beard in it, said, that up to
the last decision, in April, 1825, all the costs had been paid by
Sir Wastell Brier() ; but subsequently to that period, other costa,
preparatory to this appeal, had been incurred on the part of Lady
Brisco, which had been taxed at the suers of 2111. 18s. 2d. In
July, 1825, Sir Waste!l was pronounced ith contempt for non-
payment of alimony ; had purged that contempt, and subse-
quently had allowed the allotment for which he was liable to run
in arrears. But he'now prayed to be heard against the taxed
costs in question, which he objected to pay, and moved that it
might be referred to the Registrar in the Court below, for his re-
consideration.

Lord Chief Justice BItST asked whether any ground was stated
in the husbaad's prayer, why those taxed costs were not paid, in
part or in the whole?
Dr. PHILLIMORE begged their Lordships to understand, that,
up to the period of the last decision, all the costs then incurred
were paid by Sir Wastell.
Mr. Baron litaLocx—Do you mean, Dr. Philmont, to resist
the biU of taxed costs altogether?
1)r. PIII LLI StO R CertainlyE— not, my Lords.
Dr. Jim?: sit—Then I submit my Learned Friend 1111114 assur-
edly state some specific objection to it.
Dr. Lair, one of the Judges' delegate., here prayed their Lord-
ships to order all the bills of costs in this matter to he produced
and laid upon their table, for the benefit of the Judges.
Their Lordships did not attend to this suggestion, and,
Dr. Primmatoas repeated his motion, to have the taxed costs
in question referred, for revision, to the registrar. That was the
first proposition which the Learned Counsel mean to submit. Ile
understood it was to be opposed, on the plea that Sir Wartell
Brisco had not attended, though manished, the taxation of costs ;',
but their Lordships would certainly not exclude him from the
benefit of their interference on that account. The second proposi-
tion would regard the invocation of papers into this cause and
Court, (rpm the registry of the Court below.
Dr. .11/241,1AR begged his Learned Friend would allow the former
of these priapositions, as comprising the business immediately be-
fore the Court to be settled in the first place.
Mr. BROUGHAM, on the same aide, understood the question of
costs to stand thus :-.-Sir Wastell did not, as he certainly ought to
have done, attend the taxation of those which were now in titles:
tion. A monition was issued, warning him to the payment of
those costs ; he had not paid them ; and their Lordship. were
now asked to pronounce him to be in contempt, in consequence.
But, from all the analogies which the practice of the Court below
suggested to his (Mr. Brougham's) mind, it appeared to hint that
Sir Wastell was qualified to have hia prayer for a reference and
revision granted.

Dr. ClE—Pray, Sir, do you know how much the total costs
of this proceeding have amounted M?
Mr. BROUGRAM—Upou my word, I cannot answer the Learn-
ed Gentleman, having had no opportunity cif examining the bills.
—(A laugh.)—But I know they have been exceedingly heavy.
Dr. Lax—But cannot you say how much—within 1001. ?

Mr. Baoucruam—(With surprisc)—Not even within 1001.
Dr. Laz—Sir, you can tell, perhaps, within 6001. ?
Mr. Banuouast—No, not within 600/. 4 I really have nol
seen the bills.

The Cooler—And I dare say, if you bad, Mr. Brougham, you
would not have read them..._(A laugh.)
Dr. Lex insisted upon the expediency and benefit of laying the
papers, he spoke of (the bills of costs), before the Judges.
The Lord Chief Justice Besx—Really, Dr. Lee, I think you
had better allow the Counsel to proceed.
Mr. BROUOItAIt then entered into an exposition of the nature
of Sir W. Brisco's objection to the taxed casts. He was ad-
vised that much more money had been dispended by Lady
Brisco, on her legal defence, than was at all rteessary to the pur.
poses of that defence. Thum it appeared that his Learned Friend
(Dr. Arnold), who was originally Counsel:for Lady Brine°, had,
pending the suit in the SpirituaVCourts,-retired from them, as an
Advocate ; and, subsequently, another Honourable and Learned
Friend of his (Dr. Lushington) had retired from the cause, in
which he had antecedently been of Counsel for Sir W. Brisco.
Thus fir the cases were strictly parallel, as to the number of
Counsel retained. Lady Brisco, however, had chosen to retain
more than the other side, although she knew, that, generally
speaking, the husband must be liable to all the costs of the pro-
ceedings, and although one of the Counsel, on his part, had
retired. For this unnecessary expense, it was humbly conceived,
that Lady Briseo ought to be herself liable; and that so much of
the costs should be deducted from her allowance of alimony, as
was equal to this excess.
Dr. LKIC again addresaed their Lordships, about the bill of
costs, which he said, were forthcoming at their order.
The LORD Cuter Jus-rtce directed the Court to be cleared and
strangereand Counsel were excluded for some time. At their
re-admission, after some observations from the CoritliarnitoishdfeeltritlfhseelyirrnLinvelidnontee:
lirisco,
Their Laminar*, rescinding the conclusion of the cause, re-
jected the act on petition, praying, that the bill of taxed costs
pouncedn llttebpe
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sovb back ktfeoirtio
BriscoLtha e Registrar,yßiuri
scoeonttehmeanpn
contempt, by
prayed
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payment.
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of contempt a
a hgas aliainst the hus
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band, by reason of his non.paywe of
alearmony.

'Their Lordships pronounced accordingly.
Dr. Putt.ustoatt and Mr. Baougataat were then heard in sup-
port of the invocation of certain papers out of the Registry of the
Consistory Court of London, containing a record of the sentence
of that Court in a cause promoted against Lady Brim), by reason
of adultery.

Dr.:JR-mita vas proceeding with his argument, in oPrmiti'n
to thin peayero when he was *topped by. - The Court; who declared that they would tuakeiheir decree in
that matter, as won is Sir Wastell had purged bit CentWlPts

HOUSE OF LORDS, FXIDAY, Nov. U.

The Duke of Lemma and the Bishop of EXXUR were sworn.
Lord REDESDALE presented a petition ,from
Michael James Robert Dilkin, who claims the title of Earl of Ros-
common, praying. that His Majesty's Attorney-General *r Ire-
land should be summoned to attend on the 4th of December next,
to receive the orders of the House relative to the petitioner's
claim.

The Earl of SHAFTESBURY presented the third
Report of the Commissionerit of Education.
The standing orders were read pro forma, and eentirrneAl.
The LORD CHANCELLOR observed, that with
respect to the orders relaties to the hearing of causes, as it requir-
the peers to attend in rotation, and as they were not all yet swore,
he should move to suspend the order which directs that two peera
shall be present, until after the recess. In the mean time be would
propose, that after Tuesday next the house should proceed to hear
the appeal causes in the manner in which they were went to be
beard before the late regulation was adopted. After Tuesday
next the Home would be prepared to hett.r such came* as the par-
ties were ready to bring forward.
The LORD CHANCELLOR was desired tt•
present a petition from the inhabitants and househokient of WoeteFe.
in Kent, the prayer of which was, that their Lordships would, irs
their wisdom, he pleased to uphold unchanged the Proteatant.
Establishment of the British Constitution. The petition was per-
fectly respectful to the House, but he should make no observa-
tions on the subject, as it was more consistent with parliamentary
usage, to present petitions without making speeches than with
them. A petition was an addreas of the petitioners to the House,
and not of the individual who presented it.
Lord KING said, the first petition which he had
to present to the House was nut in favour of the Corn Laws, but
against Catholic Emancipation. It was the petition of a Reverend
Gentleman ,in a pariah in -Devouehiee, asset 'nehent. Thelloesi
might be surprised that he presented dile petition : the fact less,
he had recommended the Reverend Gentleman to hand it over to
his diocesan for presentation, which however he deelined. The
petitioner was a very worthy gentleman, but a great centroverei-
-4144 as he understood. The reason.. why he gave the petition to
him perhaps was, that next to the Bishops he thought him the
greatest disputant, though all their Lordships knew be was a.
very quiet gentleman. The reverend framer of the petition had
been very earnest to get signatures. Out of 27 signatures,
were by persons who could not write, bet bad signed by their
crosses—so great wets the eagerness to obtain signaturo. But he
could not help thinking that the great controversialist would lure
better employed himself in teaching the people to ,write, than to
make crosses at the bottom of a petition. He did not refuse to
present this petition, nor did he think the Mimic ought to retima to
receive it, though there was a great want of truth:and charity in it,
much more than the Roman Catholics were accused of. As he
said, however, this character did not afford sufficient reason for
rejecting this petition, as the want of truth and ,charity was not
peculiar to it, and indeed because that want was not greeter in it
than in many other petitions.
The Bishop of EXETER said, that the petition
which the Noble Lord had just presented, did not, come from the
Rev. Gentleman who had transmitted it to him, but from the
parish. For his part, he did nut, like the Noble - Lord, hold the
loWer orders in such contempt as to wish to deprive them of the
right of petitioning when they could not write. With respect to
what had been stated of the Rev. Gentlemen alluded to being a
controversialist, be could say nothing, but he knew him to be a
very worthy and able man.
Lord KING, in explanation, said, that the Rev.
Gentleman was the author of the petition. He had not stated that
the, Rev. Gentleman was the only petitioner.
Lord KING afterwards said that he had a great
many petitions against the Corn Laws to present from-
Manchester, and other places, hut he intended .to make some ob..
servations on them, and as be did not see any of-the very declared
enemies of cheap corn then in the House, he should not presint
them until another opportunity.--Adjourned.

HOUSE, OF COMMONS, Path AY.
The SPEAKER, on taking the chair, informed
the House that he luid waited on his Majesty With the Address ;
to which his Majesty had been pleased to return the following
gracious answer :
" Gentlemen of the house of Commons, I thank you for your
loyal and dutiful address, and rely with confidence on your affec-
tionate support. You may depend upon my continued exertions
to uphold the honour and the interests of the eotmtry,.to culti-
vate the blessings of pears abroad, and to promote the wel&re of
all Chtlialta of the people at tnne."
Mr. WM. SMITH moved that the Committee for
inquiring whether the standing orders hare been complied with
he revived 2—Agreed to.
Mr. NICHOLSON CALVERT moved that a
select committee be appointed, to which should be referred all
petitions having for their object to dispense with any of the stand-
ing orders.—Agreed to.
Mr. DAWSON presented a petition from the
Borough of Athlone, complaining of the manner of collecting tolls
in Ireland. The Hon. Member presented a petition from Roo-
(unmet), praying that the laws relating to corporations in Ireland
should he assimilated to those in England. Both of the petitions
were ordered to be panted.
Mr. DAWSON gave notice, that he would move
on Tuesday next for certain returns relative to the Borough of
Athlone.

Mr. F. BUXTON moved for an address, praying
that His Majesty would he pleased to grant a copy of the me-
morial presented by Mr. L. Cook to Lord Charles Somerset; re-
specting the prize slaves at the Cape of Good Hope, and relative
to the manner in which Mr. Blair had been in the habit of Ills-
posing of prize slaves there.

The Wm. Gentleman moved also for. returns respecting the
number of Government slaves, specifying their age and sex, who
had been captured at the conquest of the island of Mauritius, their
number at the present time, and the reasons for their decrease, if
any; for copies of the orders respecting the punishment of slaves
by their masters, specifying by whom those orders were made,
and which of them bad been registered ; for the amount of penal-
ties which bad been received under the abolition acts,, and the
orders in council; and for an account of the expences- which, had
been incurred respecting the treaty with the chiefs of Madagiater ;•
all of which were ordered. '

Colonel TORRENS presented a Petition from
certain manufacturers and other inhabitants of.Chalford, in Glou-
cestershire, members of the Anti-bread Tax Association, No. l,
against the present Corn Laws.
Mr. S. RICE presented a Petition from the Cham-
ber of Commerce, at Limerick, praying for a repeal of tilt duty on
coals in Ireland. At the same time he gave notice of his inten-
tion of bringing this subject before the House in the course of the
present Session (unless it should be taken up by some other gen-
datum), because he thought that nothing could be more vain than
to talk of promoting the improvement of manufactures in Ireland
while a duty was imposed upon fuel.
Mr. WOI)EIIOUSE moved for returns of the
amount of poor rates received between March, I'M, and March,
1826.—. Ordered.
General GASCOYNE moved for an account of
the amount of revenue derived from the stamp duties on
distinguishing the stamps above sixpence front those below that
sum.—Ordered.
Mr. C. WYNN brought up the treaty of peace
entered into with the King of Ave.
privileges of 'Parliament
cerned the TREGONY ELECTION.
Mr. ABERCROMBY rose for the purpose of
calling the attention of the House to a question which, as it CQII-
- He moved, in the first place, that the clerk shoithl
read the entry which had been made respecting the return for the
borough of Tregony.
The clerk read the entry, which stated, that the sheriff of
Cornwall had returned the precept directed by him to the Mayor
be took to be one extreme
of Tregony, with indentures of return annexed, dated the 15tb, of
June last, specifying that Stollen I.ushington, LLD. and James
.Brougham, &ft. had beim duly
elected Members for the borough
heriff also returned, that otte indentures of of Tregony. The s otter
indentures
return, dated the 17th of-June, had been transmitted to hips; not
annexed to the precept, by which was stated, that James Adam
Gordon and James Mac Gillup, Es' qrs., were duly elected Ment-
bers for the same borough.
Mr. ABERCROMBY resumed his speech and
that he hoped to show the House that this seas not a double
return, but that, in fact, only one return had been mode, and that
what purported to be a second return was a mere nullity,. If he
did this, be submitted. that all the House would have to deiwould
be to order the entry which had just been read to be reetitled. It
was known, to all gentlemen that the ordinary course of elections
was this writ was issued from the proper Dike in Loudon to
the sheriff, who directed anti caused to be delivered precepte to the
returning officere of all the boroughs within his county. When
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iepts, it was the duty of each of the returning Offices to
annex the indenture of raurn to the precept, and to return
it to the sheriff, which the latter sent, together with the
King's writ, to the clerk of the Crown. "This was the ester.
blished • course, and it -was- one 'too thick the house could
not depart from with safety to itself or to the rights of elee
tors. On the present occasion, his course bad been aceetately
enough followed as regarded one of the indentures. The she-.
riff directed his precept to the Mayor of Tregorty, 'who had been
appointed and sworn in by virtue of a writ ,of toondamus. He
would, however, pass by. this point, because' the Sheriff was in
fact the person who had a right to select the proper returning
officer, and to him he directed his precept. The Mayor having
held the election, prepared his indenture of return, that Dr.
Lttshington. and Mr. Brougham had been duly tkoted, and
annexed this indenture to the precept of the Shealif, by whom
that, and that alone, was sent to the Crown.office. Upon this
statement alone, therefore, it appeared that a great error had
been committed, Welt it was the duty a the House to., ree*i
but the difficulty, tif, indeed, it should be thought any -Maths,
existed) arose ':roan this; that four aittys after tliO receipt of
that indenture, another return wax made tei tilts Sheriff, stating
that an dettion had been helds not under the precept directed to
the Mayrr, but under the Writ throated by the King to, the She-
riff, awd this return was made by a person who profirseed himself
to b.e the deputy of the Mayor of Tregony. It was impossible,
tirn the Sheriff, who must be expected to exercise some discretion
'and judgment on it matter like this, could consider this to be a
double return. It was clear that he never did so, that he ex-
pressly repudiated the second; for, if beta fighl ft to be a double
return, he would have annexed both tittiros to his writ, which he
had carefully avoided doing. Whalthit Sheriff had donaappeared
to have been occasioned by whal had happened in the case of Hel-
von, where the returns had teen made precisely the same as in
'this case ; that is to say, one by virtue of the Sheriff's precept,
and the other by vittue of the King's general writ. The She-
riff of that day tonsulted Sergeant Davy and Mr. Duller, Who
advised hint to take a course which was rather safe than
manly, and to send both the returns, the one annexed, and
the other not annexed, to the Clerk of The 'Crown ; thus shifta
ing the responsibility front himself 'to that officer. The Clerk
Hof the Crown then understood his duty better than that officer
"OW seemed to do, Tor he 'floated the second return as a piece
-of waste parchment, Intel threw it aside. He said the course pur-
sued by the sheeiffafras rather safe than manly, because he thought
it was the duty of all officers to take such responsibility' as fairly
upon them ; but the last thing that a sheriff could justify
ito-
ing, .wania be to introduce a new mode of making returns, be-
s iLUSet if any thing could be considered the return but that which
*vas annexed to the sherif'f's precept, it would be to open a door to
a practice of which no one could see the end. Suppose that this
Parliament, which had been called at a time when there was no
great differentce of opinion, bad been one in which questions of
great importance had been to be discussed, what would have been
more easy for any one who was disposed to play such a trick, than
to keep my of the Right Hon. Gentlemen opposite out of their
;daces until March ? Many persons would be found who, for a
mall RUM of money, would be induced to make such a return;
and the only way of avoiding such practices, was by adhering to
the known rule, viz.' that the' sheriff should annex to the writ the
return made to his own precept, and that no other should be con-
sidered as a return at all. Nothing which was now said would
touch the real merits of the return. The House could know
nothing, and he (Mr Abercromby) knew nothing of the actual
merits of this particular ease, and therefore, by acceding to the
motion which he should now have the honour to subniit, the
House would not compromise the intersts of the parties concerned
in this election. On the authority of the Grenville Act, and on
the grounds already stated, the Hon. and Learned Gentleman
then moved, " That the second return for the Borough of TN..
gony be taken off the file."

On the motion being put,
Mr. C. W. WYNN expressed his surprise that the
Hon. and Learned Gentleman should have concluded his !met
with such a motion, but for which he 'lllr. Wynn) would Ant
have felt it necessary to trouble the :l',Onso on the prosent occasion.
He owned he felt surprise at cite proposition of the Hon. and
Learned Gentlemen), sec use it was not only against law, but
against the establieleeL
use of the House.---(Hear.)-,-Whtit Was
the proposal of It& Hon. and Learned Gentleman ? « That the
second return. for the Borough of Tregony be taken off the file."
that r.itition were acceded to, he (Mr. Wynn) wished that the
Huns and Learned Gentleman *mild introduce an ear by which
°LI • retstrns should undergo a similar scrutiny.—(Hear.)—He
tifr:Wynn) had not the slightest knowledge of either of the two
Gentlemen who were interested n this re ii Ito object..
od to the motion, not front any feeling 1 either, but on
the 4round of the extreme intortvenicitoo attending the pro..
,position of tho Unnouralde ,asul Learned Gentleman, and
She mischievous precedent to which -it might give rise:—
The Honourable Gentleman bad gone into a long detail
of the merits of this partieuhr case ; but that eeielehee
could not be eeceived unless it were given at the bar of
that bungee where witnesses should undetgo a trek; examination
by competent persons. By the election lawn committees may be
appealed, to where no return was made by the Sherift In the
case of the 'Westminster election in the year 1784, the Sheriff
untde a double raven, in +consequence of which an unavoidable
delay rimmed, and Mr. Fox, one of the candidates, petitioned
against that Vent% and here was what wits stated to he no return
at all. The whole House felt so strongly the ineonvenience and
delay oompleined of, that they altewed from that time the right of
presenting petitions where to return was meek. Without hear-
ing evidence at the Bar of the House, the merits of this return
svelte' not be properly Or legally gone into. The House ought
certainly, as far as possible, to discourage double returns, because
of the two persons returned neither could act, and the place which
they both sought to represent wasliterally without a representa-
tive so lung es, the case was undecided.—.(hear, star.).--On thegrounds which he stated, the Hight lion. Gentleman objected to
the motion of the Hon. and Learned Gentleman (Mr. Aber-
cromby) ; and he implores" the House to pause, before it adopted
by its sanction a precedent of a dangerous and mischievous nature.

Mr. LOCK}tAItT said, that although he was of
%Onion that the facts of the present case should he proved in evi-
dence before the House decided upon it, he could not bring him-
self to agree with the Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Wynn), in the
yam which he took of the motion befiire the House. Supposing
a cue, in which persons claiming scot and lot claimed a right
to vote for a Representative in Parliament, and Accordingly sig-
nified their claim to the Sheriff, who, however, did not annex the
warn of The person they elected to the writ ; would not those
electors remain virtually without a representative, and the Mem-
bers who were returned, if petitioned against, would not they be
excluded from sitting in Parliament?
Mr. BROUGHAM said, that the Right Hon.
Gentleman (Mr. Wynn) seemed totally to mistake the views and
opinions of his Hon. and Learned Friend (Mr. Abercromhy),
when he inferred that the object of his motion was to take from
the House a proper jurisdiction. The case of his Hon. and Lear-
ned Friend was this—A double return was made for the borough
of Tregony. The book of the clerk of the Crown, now on the
table of the House, proved that only one of the writs hail a return
annexed to it; for the indenture of return was not annexed to
the precept of the other return, and, consequently, that return
mat he a nullity.—(Hear, hear.) He (Mr. Brougham) referred
to the opinion of Mr. Pitt, who, in a case in which a mayor
neglected to sign a return, was clearly. of opinion that it should
not be referred to a eouunittee, because, upon the face of the
transaction, no nitwit had been made. in that case the return
said, "We, the mayor of so, and en," &c. and this return not.
having the signature of the returning officer, was held, to be a
nullity. But the ease of his Hon. and Learned Friend was tow
rola different from this. The House was now considering a
prima facie return. The question was this—whether or not the
present was a double return. Ile (Mr. Brougham) entreated the
House to consider the situation-In which it would place itself if a
return were to be taken which had not been annexed according to
law to the King's writ. For the expenee of a single sheet of parch-
ment he (Mr. Brougham) would undertake to peralyze the whole
House by double returns, Not only two, but 200 returns might
be,thus multiplied, All that would be necessary to effect this,
would, be to annex the double returns to the writs, and the thing
would he effected.—(Hear, hear. )---A mart had only to say,‘,l
• fef4 to make a return." ft
__e makes it, and it i$ net only bind-
ing on the sheriff, but it is also binding-on the House, according
tp the doctrine of the Bight Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Wynn),: who
said that the House was hound by those returns.—(flear, hear.)—
Thus, for -,three 200 returns, 400 Members might be uled
entitled
from Parliament, and not one of them would be his
seat in the House until the respective cases were decided. I he
sure, it might be thought elsewhere that some sucholearnatttg
operation
might he beneficially performed, and would rather he of advantage
than othotiviae.—(l-fear, hear, and laughter.)--But warm this,
he
would ark the House, the fit and rational way by which atc -
lit of
this deseriptiou should be conducted ? Was, it possible, after 'tear-
ing the law of the ease so well and so clearly laid clown by Iris
Hen. and Learned Friend, to object to the present motion?

Arfr: ntr§KISSON thought that the question a
the two return]; could not be decided without reference to en elec•
tioo committee.

Mr. BROUGHAM here made some remark, ani
a convolution in an under tone was kept up across the table foi

a few moments between ,bitte. Vita ltir. Huskisson, the substance
of which we could not collect.

Mr. 11USI1ISSON proceeded, and again obser-
ved, Oita though the second return in the case of the borough of
kits*keard was on the face of it a nullity, 'the House. co‘tia `tint get
rid of it without referring it to a Consitittee, 'and he (Mr. Hits.
lciason) though legally returned, 'kept out of his seat for some
months in conselttence of tibit decision.
Mr. ABbRetOMBY observed, that what he
had contundek Was, that this second return was a nullity, Inas--
twirdh tt was'not annexed to the King's writ, and only trans-
tniltted to the Sheriff four days after the first retntit.

Mr. C. WYNN did. not mean VI 'give a decided
opinion on the question, but ht; %ought it ought not to be deter-
mined without tttcattritTSif.
Mr. H. WISS thought that all the House could
feek% 'Was the document. If they confined thmselves strictly tn,
'the document, it was a single return.---(Heat heat)
Mr. CARTER said that the pap& it& itnnexed tti
the writ, was only sin indenture, 'not A kehrri..
Mr. D. GILBERT 4Settrea that the whole
whetlist. tbal Ater. was a rettrn'or 'not. If net A Ittlrn,
the officer :chYglit lAtit to have sent it..
Mr. 'Secretary CANNING was by no means cer-
twin what his opinion might be on mature deliberation. But if
the House voted at once for the motion, they would decide tht
question without the possibility of revision. All he asked twat
time to inform himself on the subject. It was one to Which hi!)
general principle could be made appliable. Viii WU..
tiun was, to propose that the Clerk 6f the 'C Goth eborild he called
upon to explain the rnattet ; Mit he ion* saw that that would be
considered a prejudging 'Of the question on the other side; the
argument of The Honourable and Learned Gentleman being, that
the Holise ought to decide on what was already before them.
On the whole, he conceived that the beat course would be to
adjourn the debate to another day, in order that Honourable
Members might be better prepared to come to a decision upon the
subject.
Mr. ABERCROMBIE readily btiliettima in the
Right Hon. Gentleman's ptoOttitioh.
Mr. Secretary CANNING accordingly moyed, that
the Debate should be adjourned to Wednesday, and that the Clerk
of the Crown should attend on that day.
After a few words from Mr. BROVGliAitf, Who agtt.td that
this was the best course to pinine, Mr. C aiining's motion, was
agreed to.

CORN LAWS.
The Order of the Day for the House to resolve itself into a
Committee on the Corn Laws having been read, on the motion of
Mr. Huskisson, the Order in Council of the lit of September, for
permitting the importation of foreign corn, was referred to, the
Committee, and,the Speaker left the Chair. •
Mr. HUSKISSON said, that his Majesty's Mi-
nister. having, not only without the authority of the law, but in
direct contravention of it, whited the issuing Of the Ordet in
Council which had just been teferred to the conaideration of the
Committee, and having advised his Majesty to call Parliament to-
gether at the present unusual period of the ytar especially to .6-
tain their sanction to the Act, it now became their duty to show
the necessity under which hit Majesty's Ministers were induced to
take the step they had taken. They owed it td theinseives to
make the present proposition; they Owed uteo at a protection to
those who had been ministerial in tits execution of the order—to
those who, on the faith Of their assurances, had carried the order
into effect. The dot of the Order in Council was the lit of Sep-
tember. At that period he had no doubt that most of the Honour-
able Members whom he was addressing were resident in the coun-
try, and had opportunities of ascertaining in their respective dis-
tricts the state of the harvest. Never had there been in his recol-
lection any harvest, the cOncilireht reports respecting which from
every pan of the kingdom so fully agreed as to the character of it.
He believed that he stated what every gentlenian present would
confirm, when he said that the wheat stop, both in quantity end
quality, was at least a fair atterage. The-returns respecting barley
from mottle parts of the country were, that it was nearly an average
crop, from others that it was not so. From the best in-
formation he could collect from persons the most intelligent
on the subject, he had reason to believe that upon the
whole , the barley crop did not amount to more than two-
thirds of an average crop. The crop of oats all Statements con-
curred in declaring to be limited ; alit! that of peas and beans still
more se. Stich Was the deficiency in these last-mentioned crops,
and fin completely was it ascertained, that late in July, and in the
beginning of August, instead of the prices falling, Re was usually
the commit that peviod of the year, they rose in every market in
the kingdom. About the end of June, a tints at Which oats
ought, to be nearly at their highest, the average price was Us. I id.
In the week ending August 4th they were 275. In the week
ending August I lth they were 275. Bd. Those wore the only
two weeks which could be included in the quarterly Report. of
the averages, the return of which was 265. 6d. With this infer•
oration from all parts of the country, his Majesty's Ministers de-
termined to wait the result of the remaining weeks in August be-
fore they took any measure on the subject. For the week ending
the 18th of August, the average return was 27.. 2d. ; for the
week ending the 25th of August 295. 4d. ; and for the week
ending the Ist of Sept., 80s. So that at that period of the year,
when it vas naturally to be expected that oats would be-
come cheaper, on the contrary they gradually became higher.
After the first of September they were found to he rapidly rising.
In some parts of the country they had even exceeded 40s, in price,
and the parts to which he alluded, were those districts in which
oatmeal formed the principal rustenanee of the inhabitants. It was
to be recollected also, that the Administration had to consider that
the failure in the oat crop was not peculiar to this country. They
had received intelligence from the ports in the north of Europe,
that in several other countries there had been so great a failure in
the oat harvest, that there would probably arise a great demand
from those countries upon the northern ports for a supply. Minis-
ters had also to consider the general state of the other productions
necessary to the support of cattle during the ensuing winter. At
the time of opening the ports there had been a long continuance of
drought, which had affected the cattle in districts which depended
on the inferior descriptions of food. It had, therefore, appeared
necessary, that no opportunity should be lost to' procure a suffi-
ciency of food. Another object of more material alarm was
the accounts received front Lancashire and Ireland that those
districts were in a state of despondence and despair with re-
ference to the putatoe crop. If the drought had continued any
longer, that despondence would not have proved ill-founded.—
At the period to which he alluded, even in the richest pastures,
the cattle were actually subsisting, as in the depth of winter,
on fodder. No wan could possibly contend, that Ministers
were improperly advised to open the ports for the introduc-
tion of the greeted possible quantity of oats, peas and beans,
and all grains) barley excepted. If they had waited until ate
law opened the ports, that was to say, until the 15th of
October, the ports of the Baltic and the North of Europe would
have been closed, and this country would have been exposed to
the ensuing winter without the possibility of obtainhig any relief.
There was no Minister that would have hesitated under each eir-
cumstances to advise His Majesty to take the earliest measures to
procure the greatest iipowsible supply of the articles so deficient.
Us would beg leave to add, that had the measure which they,
had adopted been simply a removal of the prohibition, they'
would have required nothing more of Parliament than an Art
of Indemnity ; but they bad thought themselves called upon to
depart as little its possible from what they conceived to be the
spirit and intention of the Corn Laws. Instead, therefore,
of a simple cud absolute removal of the prohibition, they had
made the importation conditional on certain terms. They bad
required those, who introduced the foreign corn to enter into
engagement* to pay a certain rate of duty, according to
the future approbation of Parliament,—(Hear, hear, hear.)--
With this arrangement the parties had complied. It was,
therefore, necessary, that Parliament should express its sanc-
tion of this measure, in order to enable the Crown to put into
execution, tke bonds which the parties had given ; and he
thought it but consistent with public faith, that it should pro-
spectively continue the same duties.' The principles upon which
the Ministers of the' Crown had acted in settling these duties,
he would now explaiu. It was enacted by the Act of Parlia-
ment, that if the price of eats were above 28s. the duty was to
be two shillings permanently, and two shillings for 'the first three
months.. It, must be obvious, that the only intention for which
the additional duty of two shillings had been imposed for the first
three mouths was, to check the amount impanel, lest it should
exceed the wants of the country. If they had taken a right esti-
mate of the harvest Of the year, such a check would have been
deemed unnecessary. The whole oat crop bad hardly exceeded
one half of an average crop. Instead, therefore, of checking the
import of this species of corn, Ministers were called upon to give
entouragement to tke largest importation. On the Bth Sept.
the average price of the whole kingdom exceeded Ws. a quar-
ter; on the title August ' Ivuhaul'ex'" del 30s. 4d. in not less
w
than six dis
'etc If no foreign corn had been introduced into
the country until 15th November, the time at which it might
have bean imported by the law, it Was impossible to conceive
' that the price would net have
one on rapidly increasing, until
by the 15th November, the return would have been very
considerably above the leg 4
importation price. rrom this it
followed, that if Ministers led imposed a duty exceeding ttio
shillings, the parties would have opposed the arrangement,' anti
would have Prafelod Waiting the moo of the 15th of No-

vember, when the aggregate returns would ,haVe been above
305., which would bay enaliled to take their oats out
under a merely atieGai clutrof 4d, a quarter. About 600,000
ep.uktat had been imported since the Order ; and there were at
the present moment about 150,000 quarters on which the parties
did not choose to pay the duty of two shillings, preferring to take
the chance of taking them out on the kith of NoYektiber. Their
calculation had been disappointed; Mit the
market at the present rittpnePti lie ammo akidatioti *ould
individuals tvithlrelipecit to the next quarterly average of 15th of
V'ebtliErY. ''he return .of the 13 or 14 counties which would
constitute the average for England, gave the price considerably
above 30s. The counties in which the price did exceed 305.,
were Durham, Northumberland, LancashiretCheslAre, plotteester,
Cornwall, and several othqrsk For retit'eashire; the
.last return
was very nearlzthirty-fillt itildnge. Under thole ciituinstances
he felt quite conviiked he had made, ontgroUnd enough to justify
tfte'APeelatien of receiving the approbation of,Rarliament; both
*ith.reipect to the iMPertatlon, and to the amount of the 'duties
they had imposed. He should p`rOpeue to tntitinUe the duties
they had imposed. He propose to continue the duties at
the preeent low amount until the 15th February, when the price
was above 30s. Wheat was at 7lls, 6d. on the 15th, AugUet,
and if it had risen to 90s. on the Sal of . September, would
Ministers have been justified in deferring to the 15th November
the means of introducing a foreign should now con-
elude by Mewing. thefirSt Res'olutlint, to indemnify all those Mid
nbitted and eXectited the Cider in toiineil of the lit Sept.,
1826; for Alloiviiig the inOrtatidit bf lrbteigh ban; Mill the
secoild lteeoldtioii, for rendering legal and continuing the rate of
Import Duty imposed by the said .Orders.
Upon the Resolutions being put from the Chair,
Sir E. KNATCHBULL said, that his concur•
renee in the present resolutions was not to be considered as any
deviation from his former opinions upon the Corn Laws. He
thought the country very much indebted to the Bight llpti. Gen=
Henan Huskisson) fOr iherislitea he had advised upon
the sullied'. tie diade NS observation the more strongly, be-
isthre it had been asserted most unjustly, that those immediately
connected with the landed igtereSt had ,motiVes different from the
rest of the community. It was not uhusual with pet-stink ehgaged
in trade to remunerate thennielves flit previous losses by future
high prices; but it ought to be remembered, that the agricultu-
rists had no such opportunity. The agriculturists bad been as
depressed as any class in the kingdom, without exception, and no
good could result from exciting jealousy between them and the ma-
nufacturers. He did not think this a proper opportunity of en-
tering upon the question of the Corn Laws, and he was glad that
the Ministers bad confined themselves to -the immediate question
before the House.

Mr. WHITMORE, without entering upon the
treat question to which the subject before the House bore re-
ference, could not but feel it his duty to take the present opportu-
nity to point out, what a vague law it was under which the corn
trade was regulated, when this was the third time of infringing it
in three years. They had before met to pass au Act of Indemnity
for violating this law. The year before last they had admitted
,corn in bond ; last year they pursued the same course, giving the
Government the power to admit a large quantity ; and now they
were again assembled to pass an act of justice for admitting more
grain, in opposition to the law. He put it to the House,whether
such a law should be allowed any longer to disgrace the Statute
Book. He considered it injurious to have any recrimination be-
tween the different parties interested in a measure so deeplyaffect-
ing the prosperity of the whole country.
Colonel WOOD regretted that the Hon. Member
who had just sat down had not followed the example of those who
had preceded him, by avoiding all mention of the general question
of the Corn Laws. Before the Hon. Member passed his opinions
so freely upon the Corn Laws, it behoved him to learn what those
laws really were. In a publication put forth by the lion. Mem-
ber, it was asserted that the principle of the Corn Laws, passed in
1815, was to put an end to all commercial intercourse between
Great Britain and the Continent. It was further asserted that
the trade, after passing the law, was not to be the rule, but the
exception to the rule, and that the object of the law was to screw
up prices to an unnatural elevation,. So far front the trade in
corn having been the rule before the passing of the law of 1815,
the prior law was, that when the average price was below 655., the
import duty should be 25e.....-when above, only half-a-crown.—
The Hon. Member would find, that after 1815, all corn might
be imported duty free, on being warehoused, and which could not
have been done before the passing of that Act. This sys-
tem had been introduced by Mr. George Rose, when the
Northern ports were in the hands of the enemy, in, order to
make England a gnat depot of foreign corn. The public
press bad persevered in running down the Corn Laws, and in
arguing that the object of the laws was to screw up rite%
This was false, for the object of the law was, to give England
the advantage of the market as long as she produced enough for
her own coniumption, and when she did not do so, to let her
have an ample supply ready at hand. The consequence has
been that instead of Sle. the previous price, corn for the last year
has been only at 61s. The price of bread could not be com-
plained of at present. He thought the Ministers had done right
in opening the ports to oats, and he wished that they would at
once dispose of the whole question of the Corn Laws, instead of
deferring it.
Mr. WARBURTON expressed a hope that the
intimation thrown out by the Right Honourable the Secretary of
State would be rigidly adhered to.
Colonel TPILRENS said, that the obser%%ations
which had fallen from au Honourable Baronet who had spoken
before him, induced him to say a few words upon this question.
It had been said by some Gentleman in some Assembly, no matter
where—that the manufacturers and traders were anxious to make
themselves Noblemen and Gentlemen by reducing the Nobles and
Landed Gentry of the country to the situation of beggars. For
himself, he felt that the whole intertats of the country were so
intimately connected, that one could not continue at the expence
of the other. He was willing that land should be considered as
the barometer of national opulence, but he did not wish to second
any effort which would have the effect of forcing the mercury to
an unnatural height, as it must have the effect of subjecting it to
an equally unnatural depression. If the landholders were to pur-
sue such a course, they would drive capital out of the country,
and thus they would become desolate amidst the waste which they
themselves had created. But whilst he said this he felt that it
would be unwise in the people to pull down landed property ; if
they did so, their conduct would be of a piece with the act of him
who should pull down a building though certain of perishing him-
self under the ruins. _ _

Mi.. WESTERN said a few words in a low tone.
We understood the Hon. Member to declare, that Ministers were
justified in the course they bad pursued ; and that seeing the
temper and feelidg of the House, he would not at present enter
into the general question of the Corn Laws.
After a few words from Mr. E. WODEHOUSE,
who concurred with Ministers in the course they had adopted,
Mr. CALCRAFT said he felt called upon to ex-
press his concurrence also in the course which his Majesty's Go-
vernment had thought it right to adopt ; indeed, he thought that
they could not, under the circumstances, have acted otherwise..
He was glad to perceive that they were all of one mind as to-the
necessity of allaying' the animosity which appeared to exiiit
be-
tween the different interests of the country, and, with this feeling,
he should reserve his opinions until the general question of the
Corn Laws came fairly under discussion.
After a few words from Mr. BENETT (of Wilt-
shire), and Mr. LEYCESTER, both of whom were inaudible,
Mr. Alderman WAITHMAN observed, that all
the interests of the country were inseparably connected, and that
no one branch could permanently exist at the expense of another.
He bad no fault to find with the course pursued by Ministers, hut
it was not his intention to compliment them upon it, as he con-
ceived that they had already received compliments enough to
nauseate thent.Tvi
Hear, hear.)
Mr. HU. E wished to ask a question upon a
point which it appeared did not occur to any of the Gentlemen
who hadspoken-heforebim. Every Gentleman appeared to regret
that Ministers nad thought fit to postpone that important question
—the discussion of the Corn Laws---but no one thought of in-
quiring the reason of .such postponement. If -Minister' were in '
possession of inforination which induced them to poitpone the
subject for the present, it war their duty to sayso, and thus set
the country at rest. Much had been said of the agricultural in-
terests, but no mention
.was made of the interests of the people
-(nllildiaadisapprobation, Prevented. te Hon. Mem-
her from going any farther.)
)—Nor wets' the broad and general
heimea7batttoi°ae of, the questio Th
13 - coughing,
viewaa
nt argw eh
other
symptoms of
The Resolution Was then put and carried.
On the second Resolution being put,
Mr. HUSKISSON (iii a low tone) said he was
tip:loos to explain a matter alluded to by an lion. Member in the
course of the evening, It wes true that the price of grain was at
3Os. Id. before the lit of September, _ bat on the two preceding
weeks it bail been at 28s. and 29r. This would have warranted
the laying on of a fixed duty of 28. or of imposing a heavier but
mere temporary i
-mimed; but they prelirred adopting the former
courect until 49 days after the meeting of Parliament, in order
that that Assembly
might act as seemed moskadvisshis,
- The Resolution confirming the Orders iu Council was then

agreed to; the House resumed, and the Report *a* drdeted fo be
be received on Monday next.

ADJOURNMENT OF THE HOUSE.

It was Ordered that the Houses on its risings should adjourn to
Monday it:
CHAIRMAI bF COMMITTEES OF WAYS AND MEANS:

On, tltr-..qu'festton ,piat the House should resolie itself into
iStS t~cl ass the Howse
from under the Gallery, but 'the noise in the Hofise retiderid 111$
Hon. Gentleman inaudible at ,inter Vale, . He had, he said, had
,the honour of filling the situation of Chairman of Committees.
of Wei); and Mews in that Hquse for nearly the whole of two
ParliattiEhts, all Atli* that time hi had never done anything
unworthy of the rank and station which he filled In &del as
a Gentleman or of the character and dignity of that House.--
He had, notiYithetanding, been assailed by public and private
calumny; he had ljeefi accused, most foully and falsely ac...
Csiscd, of acts froni Which disk Oeritlimaii irduld thn with in-
dignation. Souse of these he had personally febutted: As to
others, those who had the best right to judge, and were, at thd
same, time, the. Most competent judges of his conduct, had
honourably admitted. hlin..-(Cries of Hear, hear, hear.)—Not-
withstanding this; however be hail been again assailed ; but,
for the most patt, by anonymous writers, tvlsose statements he
opposed himself to, and, throisghont, he sought--he courted
the most Minute, the most public inquiry into his Conduct.—
(Hear, hear.)—That inqiiiry lie *as still desirous to have insti-
tuted ; and notwithstanding hie cdrisciousitese of hie innocence, he
should, until it was satisfactorily terminated, jefrain Miro Offering
himself as a candidate for the situation in that House which he had
hitherto filled.—(Hear, hear, hear.)—He repeated that he was
most anxious for that inquiry; and he pledged himself to the
Non. Alderman that he should most satisfactorily refute the
charges alleged against him. All that he had to say in addition
waA, that he was "not Guilty;" he bowed to the storm that
raged around hisn...but fair weather Would return, and then he
should be afforded an opportunity of vindicating his honour and
character to the satisfaction both of that House and of the country
at large. He had on many previous occasions received the indul-
gence pf the House—all that he now sought was its justice.—
(Criei of hear, hear, hear.)
Mr. Secretary CANNING was sure that there
existed but one sentiment in that House as to the statement made
by the Hon. Member, and the course which he bad pursued—a
course equally honourable to himself, and to the character and
dignity of the House of Commons, as well as satisfactory to those
whose duty it was to recommend persons to fill the situa-
tion which the Hon. Member hail for the present declined.—
(Hear, hear, hear.)—After what had fallen from the Hon. Mem-
ber, he (Mr. Canning), would not propose him for the present as
the Chairman of Committees; but when—which he did
not doubt—the Hon. Gentleman should have freed him-
self from every moral taint, then the House would, he
was sure, feel sorry to exclude hini from that office
which he had hitherto filled with such credit to, himself
and such advantage to the public business.--(Near, hear, hear.)—
He (Mr. Canning) trusted that the Worthy Alderman (Waith-
man), who had menaced the Honourable Member (not impro-
perly, certainly), would afford him the earliest and fullest oppor-
tunity of vindicating himself from the charges alleged against
him. In the meantime, be should, at a fitting opportusity, pro-
pose as their Chairman of Committees of Ways and Means, a Gen-
tleman long acquainted with the proceedings of the House; and
whe, though the situation was one of honest ambition to any
man, would feel more truly happy at vacating the Chair in favour
of the Honourable Gentleman, than in retaining it.—(Hear !)
Mr. Alderman WAITHMAN said that he felt
himself placed in a most awkward situation; he wished it, however,
to be most distinctly understood, that he was not the accuser of the
Honourable Member, nor had he preferred any charge whatever
against him. In the transaction to which he alluded, the Ho-
nourable Member declared that he was totally innocent of it, and
he (Mr. Waithman) gave him full credit for the assertion ; buthe
had seen so much of these Companies, and had heard so much
of some persons connected with them, that if the Speaker had
been so spoken of, he should object even to him, when pro-
posed to his present high and honourable office. He would
not have said a single word of the 'Honourable Member (Mr.
Brogden), if he had not seen him so peculiarly placed.—
It might, perhaps, he asked, why he should put himself forward
upon this occasion? His answer was, that having, in 1824, filled
the high and responsible office of Chief Magistrate of the City of
London, he had been repeatedly solicited to lend his name to Com-
panies and Bubbles innumerable, and be was sure that had he
done so, he might have put thousands into his pocket. He then
saw the views of the parties, and Wes determined to enter his pro-
test against their proceedings, and those eostneeted with them,
With respect to the Honourable Member (Mr. Brogden), be had
had various mercantile transactions with him, and in no instance
had any circumstance arisen which could give rise to anything
like a hostile feeling on his (Mr. W.'s) part. If the Honourable
Member alluded to should clear himself of the imputations at pre-
sent against him, no one would be more ready than himself (Mr.
W.) to vote him into that office in the House which be had hi-
therto so creditably filled.

The Speaker then left the Chair,
Sir ALEXANDER GRANT was appointed as
Chairman of Conimittees of Ways and Means. The Hon. Mem-
ber, after thanking the Right Hon. the Secretary for Foreign
Affairs, proceeded to state, that be should feel pride and pleasure
at vacating that seat, to which he had been but temporarily called,
in &your of the Hon. Member who had so long and so worthily
filled it.-7(Applause.)

A ResolUtiO; was then proposed, That a Supply he granted to
his Majesty, which, having been carried, the House resumed.
The Report was then brought up, and ordered to be received
on Monday next.

The other Orders of the Day were then disposed of, and the
House adjourned at about Twenty Minutes after Eight.

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

OXFORD, Nov. 25.—Thursday last the following De
green were conferred :

MASTERS or ARTS.

Rev. Henry Haddon Green, Worcester.
Rev.,Anthony Berwick Lechmere, Christ Church.
BACHELORS OF ARTS.

Henry Denny, Worcester.
Edward Powlett Blunt, Scholar of Corpus.
Edmund Barker Ray,
William Blundell, Brasenose.
Robert Marriott Caldecott,
John Day,
Exeter.
John Byron,
Thomas Collett, Trinity.
Henry Hodgkinson Bobart, Christ Chorelt.
Thomas Griffiths, Jesus.
William Capel, Postmaster of Merton.
William Cprling,
Morgan Davies, Wadham.
John Coulter Dowling,
William Thomas Clarke, Queen s.,
Christopher Francis Godmond,
Thomas Clarke, Pembroke.

RCCLICAIASTICAL PRXTERAtENTS.
The Rev. James Hitching., M.A. of Christ Church, has been
presented, by the Right Hon. Lord Braybrooke, to the Vicarage of
resented,
in the county of Berke, void by the decease of the Rev.
Mr. Nind.

The Rev. Charles William Hughes, Perpetual Curate of Lacey
Green Chapel, in the county of Bucks,
has been appointed Do..
mestic Chaplain to his Grace the Duke of Beaufort.

THE MARKETS.

COVENT-GARDEN M.

There was a good supply at
trade was a little renovated, but si
berts, and Grapes, were consider
night ; in prices of other things

:ARKET.--(Tni DAY.)
this morning's market, and the
till dull. Lettums, Radishes,
ably higher than on this day ten-
no alteration. •

5. d. to s,
Potatoes (per cwt.) 3 0 0 0
Cabbaxes (12 beads)... 0 8 1 6
Ditto Red
Savoys 0 9 a 1 00
Horse Radish (bundle) 2 0 ; 0
11rocoli 0 ,
Celery o 9 1
0
Turnips s 1 51
6
Cant* (12 bunches) • °6 ) o 6
Coleworts or Greens
Leeks
pelisdnisjaiettu (haltece 5h(a541175?.••• IA 24
s

d to s. d
Pears (halt.siere) 2 6 7 0
A p plea, Common 1 6 2
Ditto, ;;
Quinces
&nal! Onions
Oranges (100) ... .
Lemons ..... 0 18 0_
English Walnuts.: 1 0 I 0
SpanisliCheanuts(peck) 9 0 60„
French ditto
French Walnuts 2 6 41,
Spanish Harlenuts
Filberts (121b5.)...
Grapes 6 0 10 0

HAY MARKET
(At per Load c
ST. JA
410 5
Upland Ditto ....... . .... 10
ft e.graaa Hay ... ....... 410 610
umandsteadow flay C 1 10 to 4 10
,
jaw Meadow Hay •.... 4 5 5 $
Now Meadow
good, and trade rather 1 Agnid ; price* as on Monday.
Ea oto 4 0 Clover Hay generally £4 10 to 0 6
SMITHFIELD.
Rye-grass flay ......
....4 0 5 5 oit *raw
5 5 Do. extraordinary fine 0 0 610
1 1 10
it:Pewlvvl4:dndepal4ditOetdoriwitylia. Y... 43
15 5 0 Wheat Ditto llO 1 13
Supply moderately rad, trade; little alive, and priest as last quoted,

I.—(Tnis DAY. )
)f 3(i Trusses.)
AIES'S,
Clover Bay i4 sto 5 0
Oat Straw 1 10 l2
Wheat Ditto ll2 112