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be extensively spreading over those countries, in
every part of the Continent, where necessity
has first caused its adoption." We perceive every-
where traces of an earliest disposition, on the part of
Governments and individuals, to promote the gene-
ral welfare, and to mitigate as far as possible the
evils incident to humanity. We see no Irish Aris-
tocracy scourging their poor peasants, stimulating
them to increase their numbers one day and the next
speculating on the cheapest means of destroying
them by millions--no Government of Oligarchs,
looking tamely on while projects are in agitation for
driving the people by hundreds of thousands to the
highways to perish of want. Ireland is the only
country in which it is barefacedly avowed that the
Lords of the Soil are exempted from all obligations
to the body of the people. Mr. Jacob bears his tes-
timony to the superiority of the English labourers
to those of the countries through which he passed.
" As far as my individual observation goes," he says,
" I am disposed to think, certainly not with much
confidence, that our labourers perform nearly one-
third more work, and perform it better, than is done
in any of the several continental countries I have
visited, excepting, however, the Netherlands, where
the work is admirably performed, and whence our
best practical farmers have much to learn." There
can be little question, that the people of this country
enjoy a degree of wealth and prosperity yet unknown
elsewhere. When we say this we except always Ire-
land, the condition of which is without a parallel.
" Our labourers (says Mr. Jacob) are not compelled to
subsist on the lowest kind of food. Even the most in-
digent, those who are supported by the local Poor-
rates in their own dwellings, such as are placed in
poor-houses, work-houses, hospitals, and other re-
ceptacles for indigence, are not like those in similar
circumstances in poorer countries, compelled to live
exclusively on potatoes. All of them are fed with
corn of some description, and in the South of the
Island almost wholly with wheat. Those a little
above absolute want of, or whose feelings forbid
them to apply for parochial aid, may sometimes suffer
more than those who receive it; but this class com-
prises a very small proportion of the whole in-
habitants of Great Britain, and it is among them
that the greater use of potatoes has been chiefly
extended." We could easily show (but our limits
will not allow us at present) that there is no
couutry in Europe in which the means of com-
fortable subsistence have increased at so rapid a
rate, compared with the increase in the numbers of
the people, as England. According to the compara-
tive Tables drawn up by Baron Von Malchus, late
Finance Minister of Wir:emburg, England possesses
one-fourth part of all the sheep of Europe. Gregory
King made our sheep and lambs, in the beginning
of last century, twelve millions. We have now
more than forty millions The increase of our black
cattle has been nearly in the same proportion. The
wheat which he calculates at 14 millions of bushels,
Mr. Jacob calculates at about 14 millions of quarters
that is, there are eight times as much wheat con-
sumed in England as was consumed little more than
a century ago. We owe much, no doubt, to our
situation—much to our climate, which is by far the
best of Europe, both in point of salubrity and for the
production of food—but we must owe also much to
our local regulations, whatever defects there may
occasionally be in their administration.—Morizing
Chronicle.

PARLIA MENTARY PROCEEDINGS.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
NOTICES GIVEN YESTERDAY.
Friday, April 25.
_ .

Lord Viscount Morpeth—Petition from the. Parishioners
of the Union of St. Mary's, New Ross, in the county
of Wexford, referring to proceedings in the Consis-
torial Court of Fearns.
Thursday, May 1.
_ _ _

The Lord Advocate—Rill to amend the haws relating to
the building, enlarging, or repairing of Gaols in Scot-
land, and for regulating the mode of alimenting
persons therein confined.
Monday, May 5.
Mr. Burrell —Resolutions on the Wool Trade, with a view
to some further protection to the Home Growers.
Tuesday, May 6..
1. Sir John Newport—Consideration of State of Admiralty

Court, Ireland.
2. Sir John New•pot to limit and restrain the grant-
ing Dispensations or Faculties for holding pluralities of
Livings in Ireland ; and for confining the power of
uniting parishes therein to the Lord Lieutenant and
Council.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

LIVERPOOL.

' MONDAY, APRIL 21.—High water, 47 minutes, past
3 o'clock.—Wind N.E.—Arrived, the Princess Louisa
Augusta, Nelssen, from Copenhagen, with flour, hides, &c.;
James Holmes, Kneale, from Isle of Man, with flour; Eliza,
Fell, from Isle of Man, with flour ; Watson, Frost, from
hull, with turpentine, &c. ; Liffey, Hendersorr, from Wa-
terford, with sundries ; Manchester, Penn (steamer), from
Dublin, with sundries ; Corsair, Goodwin (steamer), from
Belfast, with sundries ; City of Londonderry, Keay
(steamer), from L,,ndonderry, with sundries ; William
Huskisson, Lindsay, (steamer), from Glasgow, with sun-
dries ; Solway, Wylie (steamer), from Glasgow, with
sundries ; Thetis, Townley (steamer), from Dublin, with
the mail.
Telegraph Office, Monday.
Seacombe, Sunday, 20th.—Passed Holyhead, inward-
bound, No. 344, Jessey, British brig, at twelve o'clock.--
Wind E., blowing fresh. A pilot-boat off Point Lynas.
Monday, April 21.
Wind at Holyhead this day, East, blowing fresh.—No-
thing to report off Holyhead or off Point Lynas. The ves.
self that sailed yesterday were far to the westward of the
Floating Light at 7 p.m.

MEETINGS OF CREDITORS.
COUNTRY I)TARY.—Fuiosy, Aeam P. 5.
Barnard, W., Lincoln—White Hart, Boston lO
Brooks, J., Wolverhampton—Royal hotel, Birmingham
Butt, E., Ledbury—Feathers, Ledbury
Crowther, J.,Warrington—Star, Manchester
Cutler, J., irrninghani—Royal hotel, Birmingham 1
Elliot, K, Carlisle—Lion and Lamb, Carlisle ll
Foster, J., Knaresbrough—Court-house, Leeds 1
Whitaker, J., Loughborough—King's Head, Loughboro' ll
Francis and Co. Whitchurch—iteal Lion, N'Vhitchurch 4
Greatbatch and to., Oxford—Swan, Hanley 2
Horsfall, D., Manchester—White's, Manchester 2
Jones, IL, Ledbury—Feathers, Ledbury
Lunn and Co., Newcastle-on-Tyne—George, Newcastle-
upon-Tyne
Mitchell, J., Midgeley, Halifax—Ottice of Messrs. Alex-
ander, Halifax
Robson, N., Hanky—Swan, Hanley l'2
Soulby, M., Swinetleet—Commercial inn, Goole

INSOLVENTS APPLYING TO BE DISCHARGED,
Petitions to be heard at Portugal street, Lincolu's-inn-fields,
April t? 7, at Nine.
Jewitt, Francis, Long-acre, whitesmith
Phillips, John, Camberwell, painter
Poole, Clement, White-cross-street, warehouseman
Taylor, David, Barnard's-inn, attorney
Thompson, Richard, Darlington, cattle-dealer
Singer, Samuel, Kensington, agent
Shackle, John, Chatteris, shopkeeper
Wackett, Henry, Hackney-fields, dealer
Watts Thomas, Stratford, cabinet maker
Ward, Thomas, Tottenham-court-road, painter
Wilson, George, Clerkenwell, mould-maker
April tiB, at Nine.
Barker, John, Britannia street, milkman
Brittan, Henry, Bath, surgeon
Carden, William, Kingsdown, clerk
Carman, Robert, Westminster, sawyer
Chandler, John, Chelsea, painter
Foster, William, Dockhead, green-grocer
Holloway, Wm., Marylebone, shopman
Knowles, Isaac, Horseleydon, merchant
Lambert, George, Spa-fields, jeweller
Mackway, George, Stepney, carver
Purvis, James, Shadwell, shoemaker
Seviour, Rphert, \Yapping, grocer
Wadeley, John, Vauxhall, plasterer
Smith, William, Rotherhalie, labourer
Snow, Robert, Leeds, innkeeper

On Monday, the Earl of WA RWICK, and ofl
Tuesday, the cotuitess, accompanied by Lord MoNsoN and
Lady CAROLiI4 A.';III.V.V CQOpER, left the Castle for the
Noble Lord's residence in London.— Warwick -Advertiser.

On Thursday, THOMAS Nl‘CuLLocif, howl-
man, Kirkintilloch, was found dead, with his throat cut,
in his own house, by some neighbours who had occasion to
enter his dwelling, about 11 o'clock, forenoon. The hor-
rid deed had beep perpetrated in his bed, where a razor and
a large quantity of blood were found. In attempting to
rise out of bed he had fallen on the floor, where he was
found lying. It is supposed that he was under tie in,
fluence of liquor when he committed the rash act.— Glas-
gow Paper.

In the course of the appeals at Worcester ses-
sion 4, an Irish witness gave the following specimen of Hi-
bernian climax. " I sivned the book myself, and u•as pre-
sent at the signing