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CARMINA CANTABRIGIENSIA:

(No. I.)

STANZAS
WRIf TVS ON WALKING civEn TUE FIELD OF BATTLh AT
HASTINGS, JULY 13, 1610.

Lo ! where, in purple pomp array'd,
'he Westering sun retires,
While .sculpturvd° cliff and wood-rob'd glade
Bathe in his,kindling fires !
Still on the distant waves he plays,
And o'er their flickering summits strays,
In tints of ever-varying hue ;
Or,. glancing from the broad white sail,
Each moment, flings a crimson trail
Athwart the glittering blue.

Who, now that hears the shepherd's Oat
Its peaceful carol pour,
Could deem the clarion's brazen throat
Had here presum'd to roar ?
Deem that yon sun, whose calm decline,
Like virtuous eld, the tranquil sign
Of coming happiness appears,
Could Death's bnght panoply illume ;
exult on War's ensanguin'd plume,
And paint his dancing spears ?

Yet not a flow'ret blossoms here
By patriot blood undew'd ;
And Knight and Soldier; Prince and Peer,
Have mann'd this solitude;
Each sunbeam on the hill that sleeps,
Each teardrop bright that Evening weeps,
Falls on some hero's sainted grave ;
No billow wakes this blest retreat,
But murmurs o'er its pebbly feet
A requiem to the brave 1:

Fair is the scene—but not too fair •
The scene for war can bloom,
If Freedom swell her death-note there,
" To Victory or the Tomb !"
Nor lovelier, in Eurotas' tide, .
She stemm'd the flood's advancing pride,
Or curb d, unveird, the fiery steed,
Than, arm'd, in proud Thessalia's fight,
She rush'd to conquest and to night,
And quell'd th' insulting Mede !

Mourn not, my Country ! 'twas thy doom
By tyrant's steel to fall,
Nor envy, for the freeman's tomb, '
The despot's joyless hall :
Living, his suffering people's dread,
Their children curse his Empire dead
And ev'n sepulchral dust deny, ,
While Nature decks the glowing scene,
And flings her robe of liveliest green
Where England's heroes lie !

JOANENSIS.
The cliffs about Hastings have the effect of being sculptured
with a chisel.

PARLIAMENTARY REFORM.

THE. MORPETH PETITION.
A Petition of the Free Brothers of the Borough of Morpeth,
in the. County of Northumberland, was presented to the House
of Commons on the 22d instant, setting forth, That the ancient
and prescriptive Borough of Morpeth at present consists of
Freemen, who alone enjoy the privilege of returning Members
to Parliament, although the Free Brothers or Free Burgesses,
who are upwards of 300 in number, are possessed of the right of
common and everyotherprivilege belonging to the said Borough,
with the solitary exception of the one above-mentioned ; that the
Petitioners, the free Brothers of the said Borough, consist of the '
sons of Freemen, who at the age of fourteen years have been ad-
mitted by the right of patrimony into the Trade or Company to
which their fathers belonged, and of such persons as have served
a legal apprenticeship, either to a Freeman or Free Brother ;
that there are seven Trades or Companies in the Borough of
Morpeth, out of which the Freemen are chosen in some Compa-
nies by election, in others by ballot, and when such as are elected
are all of full age, they are then sworn as Freemen by the Steward
of the Manor Court of the Right Honourable the Earl of Car-
lisle ; the number of Freemen elected by the several Trades or
Companies are as follow, viz. : Free
Freemen. Brothers. - Freemen.
The Tanners, which consist of 4 I 6 6
Merchant Tailors - 30 25 4
Fullers and Dyers - 36 14 3
Blacksmiths - 25 46 3
Weavers - 30 19 3
Cordwainers • - 17 100 3
Butchers 14 106 2

- - -
but although a number of Free Brothers of mature age are al-
ways ready to become candidates for the Freedom ot the Bo-
rough, yet it frequently happens, from motives perhaps not the
most pure, that the sons of Freemen are put in nomination and
elected by the Trades or Companies to which they may belong
when they have merely attained 14 or 15 years of age, and as the
' Steward of the Manor Court will not permit them to be sworn
and admitted as Freemen until the whole of the said 24 above
enumerated have attained their respective ages of 21 years ; by
such means the number of Freemen are greatly limited, whilst
the facility to bribery and corruption is rendered more easy, and
the Petitioners are for a number of years deprived of the enjoy-
ment of their just and lawful privileges, and, in many instances,
through life ; that it appears by the 'returns of the different
Trades or Companies in the said Borough• that there arc at pre-
sent only 14 Freemen belonging to the Trade or Company of
Skinners, Glovers, and Butchers, while the same Trade or Com-
pany contains 106 Free Brothers, of whom by far the greatest
part have undergone a long servitude of eight years, through
the hope of obtaining and enjoying the rights and privileges of a
Freeman ; that in the Trade or Company of Cordwainers the
inequality, in point of numbers, between the Freemen, who are
in the full enjoyment of their rights
and privileges, and the Peti-
tioners is nearly as great, there being only 17 Freemen, while
the same Trade or Company, at this present time, comprises
100 Free Brothers ; that the Petitioners consider it as absurd as
unjust, that after having undergone a long servitude of eight
years, the chance of their ever enjoying the rights and privileges
of a Freerean,should depend upon the uncertainty of an election
by ballot, or the still more serious alternative of incurring the
great and unavoidable expellee which generally attends a con-
tested Election in the Trade or Company to which they belong ;
that by extending the Elective Franchise to the Petitioners the
number of voters would be increased from 196 to upwards of
500, by which means it would render it wholly impossible for
any one or two opulent families to influence the voters of the
said Borough, which the Petitioners blush to acknowledge is too
frequently the case ; that the Petitioners having with great plea-
sure witnessed the nutherons Petitions which have from every
part of the United Kingdom beten presented to the House, pray-
ing for a inaderate and constitutional Reform in the Representa-
tion of this Kingdom, and feeling confident in the beneficial re-
sults which would be derived therefrom by the United Kingdom
in general, and by the Borough of , Morpeth in particular, most
earnestly and respectfully beg leave to submit to the House the propriety of extending the Elective Franchise to the Petitioners, I
regulated in such manner as to the wisdom of the House shall
seem meet.

We are happy to say that the Duke of York
is so much recovered from • his cold and hoarse-
ness as to be able to leave York House yester-
day, and proceed to hi 4 office to transact mili-
tary business as Commander in Chief.
ENGLISH OAK.—The use of Oak has been
lately revived for the purpose of furniture ; and
among the fashionable and expensive luxuries of
the present day, has become not only the rival
of some of the beautiful woods of distant coun-
tries, but, in point of expence at least, has ac-
quired a high character. To establish this fact,
it is only necessary te mention, that a set of
dining-tables, made of English oak, by a Lon-
don cabinet-maker, brought the enormous sum of
600 L-sterling.
The High Sheriff of Sussex has appointed Mr.
MANI., of Storrington, his Under Sheriff.
Sir GEORGE CREWE, High Sheriff of Derby,
has called on the Nobility and Gentry of that
county to do away the practice of having Assize
Balls, considering that a most improper time for
pleasure and amusement. Sir 'GEORGE proposes
the KING'S Birth-day and Autumn Sessions as
more proper periods,

PARLIAMtN".

HOUSE OF LORIJS, Filn. g 6.
A Report was pr'esented from the Comrnis-
sioners of New ShOretam Harbotik--Ordered to
lie upon the Table:
The Masters in Chancery in attendance (Messrs.
Stratford and Harvey), brought up from the
House of Comrnbns, in answer to a message from,
the Lords, a copy of the Report of the Commit-
tee on Foreign Trade.—Ordered to be printed,
and referred to the Committee :an Foreign Trade.
PetitionS
.Were presented by the Duke of
144Torthumberland from North and South Shields,
Newcastle, and Hartlepool, against any altera-
tion in the Timber Duties,; by the -Earl of
LIMERICK from the Gentry, Clergy, Freeholders,
Freemen, and other Inhabitants of the City and
Liberties of Limerick, complaining of distress,'
and of the obstructions thrown in the way of the'
admission of Irish Spirits into the British market.;
by Lord KING, from 'Guilford, for the Restora-
tion of the Queen to the Liturgy and other rights;
arid by the Earl GREY, from Stockton-apon-Tees,
for a revision of the Criminal Lawsi and against
the frequency of the punishment of death.--.or.
dered to 116 upon the Table..
NAPLES, &c. •
The Marquess of LANsnciwii, in consequence
of the indisposition ;of the Earl ,of Liverpool,
which rendered:the Noble :Earl unable to attend
in his place; -postponed his motion respecting
Naples, &c. from • to-morrow:, till Friday next.
His Lordship observed, that had the Noble- Earl
been in his place,.he had intended to have asked
.a
,question respecting the . Declaration supposed
to have been issued by Austria respecting Naples.
It was, now, however, unnecessary, as he un-
derstood from the Noble Earl that no Decla-
ration issued by Austria had been received
in any authentic shape by Government, though
his Majesty's Ministers were in possession of the
substance of a Declaration intended to be issued
by that power. He was aware that until the
Declaration had been received. by Government
in I.n authentic form, it could not regularly be
laid before Parliament; but he trusted there.
would be no objection as soon as it was received.
to lay it upon the Table of the House, and to
have it printed.
The Order for summoning the Lords for to-
morrow was discharged, and renewed for Friday:
LAW OF TREASON—IRELAND.
Lord HOLLAND, pursuant to notice, presented
a Bill for extending to Ireland certain provisions
of an Act of William the Third, relative to Trials
for Treason. His Lordship observed, that great
part of the provisions of the Act alluded to,
which were undoubtedly wholesome, wise, and
humane, had already been extended to Ireland.
by Acts of the Irish Parliament. There re-
mained, however, two provisions which had not
been so extended, namely, one requiring an act
of Treason to be proved by two credible wit-
nesses, and another enacting that a prosecution
for Treason must take place within three years_
after the commission of the act of Treason. The.,
latter provision rested entirely upon this act, it
never having, been before-a part of the law of
England. With regard to the former enactment,
the history of it was more coMplicated-;
by an
Act of Edward the Sixth, it was declared that
every act of Treason must be proved by two com-
petent witnesses, but by an Act of Philip and
Mary all the Acts respecting Treason were re-
pealed, and it was enacted that that offence
should be tried according to the common law.—
The question then arose, whether, under the com-
mon law, it was necessary for an act of treason
to be proved by two witnesses, and it subse-
quently appeared, that all the Judges, with the
exception of Lord Coke, were of opinion that
two witnesses were not required. This question,
however, was set at rest in 1695, so far as regard-
ed England, by the Act alluded to of William
III.; and it having been decided by the Judges
of Ireland that the common law did not require
two witnesses to prove an act of treason, he was
anxious to assimilate the law upon this subject in
Ireland to the law of England. lie therefore
wished his Bill to be now read a first time, and
after the prints were on the table, which would
probably be to-morrow, he should take an op-
portunity, if no objection was intimated in the
mean time, of moving the second reading either
on Friday or Monday.
The Earl of LIMERICK expressed his thanks to
the Noble Lord for thus assimilating the laws
of England and Ireland, being convinced that no-
thing could tend more to civilise arid harmonise
the feelings of the people of Ireland than assi-
milating thir laws as much as possible to those o
England.

The Bill was read a first time, and ordered to
be printed.—Adjourned till to-morrow (this day.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

The House met at about four o'clock, and was
engaged a considerable time in iransacting busi-
ness relating to Private Bills.
VARIOUS PETITIONS.

Mr. DICKINSON presented a Petition from certain Inha.
Jitants of Wells, in Somers2tshire, praying for an Amendmen
of the Penal Code.

Sir T. LETHBRIDGE presented a Petition from the Land-
holders of the same County, praying for a relief of the distress
generally sufnred by the Agricultural Interest. The Peti-
tioners stated, that without such relief they would be compelled
to witlidwa,w their capital from the County.
Sir C. COLE presented a Petition from Neath, in Mon-
mouthshire, condemning the proceedings against her Ma-
jesty by Ministers, and praying for an Inquiry into their
conduct. The Honourable Member stated, that he felt him-
self bound in candour to inform the Petitioners he could not sup-
port their Petition, though he felt it his duty to present it.
Sir EDWARD KNATCHBULL presented two Petitions
from certain Landholders of the County of Kent, praying that
the House would take into consideration the present Agricultu-
ral Distress.

Similar Petitions on the same subject were presented_by
Lord GRANVILLE SOMERSET, from Monmouth ; by Mr.
LAMB, fromßoyston and Broad water, in Hertfordshire (pray-
ing also for Parliamentary Reform) ; by Mr. RICE, from Li-
merick ; and by Sir T. AcLAND, from Devonshire.—All the
foregoing Petitions were read, and ordered to lie on the table and
to be printed.
Mr. W. WILLIAMS presented a Petition from certain In,.
habitants of London, against the London Bridge Bill.—Ordered
to lie on the table, and be printed.
Mr. ANSON presented a Petition from certain Shipowners of
Yarmouth, in Norfolk, praying that no alteration might be
made in thy existing laws respecting Foreign Trade. The
Honourable Member said, that it was not his intention to enter
into an examination of the general policy of those laws ; but -
he considered that the benefits held out by those who proposed ,
what was called a free trade, to be-very doubtful and precarious.
Mr. MARRYATT presented a similar Petition from the

Ship Nynex% of E.Ondon. The PetiLxiers stated, at Sam:,
length, the distress to which they would ,be reduced by an alto-
ration of, the present law.
Mr. GREI BENNETT said, that.the Petitions came from
intert sted persons. He thought their prayer was inconsistent
with the soundest principles Of political economy.
Sir M. W. RIDLEY -conceived that the -Petitioners' had an
kl
undoubted right to come to that conceived,
state their case. He
was not prepared to gilce an cipinion on 'the subject until it
had undergone a full dischssion in the committee above stairs.
The Ship Owners were a class of th'd highest respectability ;
and their preSent PetitiOni were offered in order to save them-
selves from total ruin.
After a few words frdm Mr. ANSON, the Petition was or-
dered to lie on the table, and be printed...
Mr. S. WORTLEY'present a Petition from the Inhabi-
tants of Whitby, in Yorkshire, praying an amendment of the
Criminal Law.—Ordered to lie on the table and be printed.
Mr. ELLISON presented a Petition from the Ship Owners of
Newcastle, praying against any alteration of the Laws relating
to Foreign l'rade.
Sir M. W. RIDLEY spoke shortly in support Of-the Pe-
tition.
Mr. BENNETT said, that there never was any .measure
adopted for the general good, which did not in some way inter.. • fere with the interests of individuals.
,Some years ago, the
City of London petitioned against Turnpike Roads—(A laugh),
but the City of London was not attended to, and as the. House
hr.d turned its back upon the City Of London fdr the purpose of
advancing the general good, so he trusted the
,House would
turn its back upon the Petitioners.
Mr. T. WILSON conceived it ii:ould more proper to wait for
the Report of the. Committee above stairs, before forming any
opinion upon the Laws alluded to.
Mr. JORDAN presented a petition, similar to the last, from
the Merchants of Aberdeen.
Both petitions were ordered to lie on the table and-be printed.
A Message from the Lords was delivered at the Bar request-
ing the House would send their Lordships a copy of ;the Report
of the Foreign Trade Committee, and of the Evidence adduced
before it.—Ordered.
Mr. T. WILSON presented a petition from the Ship-Owners
,of Liindon, against the Hull Poor-Rates Bill. The petitioners
staled that they were alarmed at the principle of the Bill.—Or-
dered to lie on the table and to be printed. -
'The LORD ADVOCATE brought in a Bill for regulating
the practice of the Court-of * Session in Scotland. The Bill was
read a first time ; and on the Speaker putting the question that
the Bill hould be read a second time on Thursday se'nnight,
Mr. CREEVEY objected to the motion on the ground that
there was not sufficient time for Honourable Members to consi-
der the Bill. After a conversation between the Lord Advocate,
Mr. J. P. Grant, and Mr. Creevey, the second reading was fixed
for Friday next, with an understanding -that a sufficient delay
should intervene previously to the Bill being committed.
Mr. LAMBTON presented two petitions ; one from Sunder-
land, and the other from Stockport, against any alteration in the
Laws relating to Foreign Trade.—Ordered to lie on the table,
and to be printed.
Mr. Sheriff WATT fi DIAN appeared at the Bar, and presented
a petition from the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Colin,
cil of London, praying to be heard by Counsel upon the London
Bridge Bill.—Ordered accordingly.
SCOTS ADMIRALTY CLERKS.
The LORD ADVOCATE moved the Order of the
Day for the ftirther consideration of the Report
on the Compensation to the Clerks of the Admi-
ralty Court of Scotland.
On the motion that the Resolution be read a
second time,. •
Mr. CREEVEY rose to move as an Amendment,
that the Bill be ,read a second time that day six
months. The Hon. Memberread the Resolution
of the CoMmittee upon whose Report the Bill
was. founded, recommending a compensation to
the officers whose places might be abolished in
consequence of that Report. It was, the Hon.
Member observed, a,contingent prospective reso-
lution; and. if he (Mr.. C.) understood the pre-
sent question, the Resolution was -the sole foun-
dation of the present Bill.—(The Lord Advocate
assented.)—The Report spoke of an officer called
the Admiral,- who received 1,2001. a year, for 30
years, and had never during that time done a sin.
gle day's work for it. The Report suggested,
and very properly, that- the Clerk should be re-
quired to do all the duty of these several offices
for 600/, a year; but it appeared that Scotland
had taken alarm at a prospect of the abolition of
a sinecure, and had as a remedy brought forward
this Bill of Compensation.—(A laugh.)—The
Report had been made upon the fullest conside-
ration; it had never been objected to by any of
these officers ; and he thought therefore that they
had no claim whatever to compensation. The
Hon. Member concluded by moving as an Amend-
ment that the Bill be read a second time that
day -six months.
The LORD ADVOCATE said, that the. sole ques-
tion to be considered was, whether, under the
circumstances, a compensation was not the equi-
table right of those officers. Indeed, he 'wished
the lion. Member had made better use of his
time than it appeared he had ; for he wished the
Hon. Member had brought himself to understand
the whole of the Report. The fact was simply
this : The proceedings of the Court in question
were all upon paper; were long, and consequent-
ly were very expensive to the suitors. This was
a grievance which had been felt some years ago.
Ten years since ail -Act had been made for short.
ening those proceedings, but Parliament then
took care to make a compensation to the several
officers. The Iion: and Learned Lord referred
to
.the Compensation Act in question. The ar-
rangements now proposed would take away those
fees altogether, which would be a great public
advantage; but as those fees were taken away
without the slightest fault being attributed to the
officers (who hold their places for life), it would,
he submitted, be contrary to every principle of
justice to takeaway their situations without rnak.
ing.tliem a compensation for the loss. -The amount
of the compensation was to be settled, as it had
been in the former case, by a, reference to the
Barons of the Exchequer.'
Mr. J. P. GRANT pointed- out a formal irregn,
larity in the amendment of his Hon. Friend (Mr
Creevey), and proposed another, the effect
_ _

which would, at a future day, bring the main
principles of the Bill under discussion.
Mr. llumE thought that those Officers were
not entitled to any compensation. , •
Lord ARCHIBALD IlmutriroN agreed, in prin-
ciple, with the last Speaker, that the Officers
were not entitled to any compensation. He
thought, too, that the Resolution to which refe-
rence had been Made was too general.
A desultory conversation followed between the
last Speaker; and Mr. G-In.ANT's Amendment was
ultimately agreed to.
On the motion of Mr. WitAnToN, it was or-
dered that the Muse should resolve itself to-mor-
row (this day) into a Committee upon the Gene-
ral inclosure

CORN AVERAGES.
Mr. ROBINSON moved that the House should
resolve into a Committee upon the several Acts
with respect to the Corn Averages.
A MEMBER under the Gallry,
.whose name
we could not learn, took occasion to ask the
Right Honourable Gentleman, the President of
the Board of Trade, whether, in consequence of
this measure, it was to be understood that the
proposition would not be agreed to

intended by an Honourable Member to bring fib&
ward for the appointment of a Committee to in•
quire into the gener all y distressed state of Agee-
cultore in the COdritry.
Mr. RdarstsoN replied; that he could hot fore-
see what might be the decision df the -House
upon the propositiOn to whieli the Honourable
Member had alluded; hilt he thought it quite
clear. that the measure which he had in flew; and
which related merely to the Mode of-taking ave. 7
rages upoa corn, could not interfere in-any de-
gree with the large and much more important
questkin of an inquiry with respeCt• to the state
of Agriculture in the Cotintry: , *
The House having resolved into the Committeei
Mr. F. It ouiNsos re e. lie bielieved• there
Was nothing in the.tnetion he *as. about-to pro-
pose which would invite general disCussion; as he
should confine himself to the point immediately
in view ; a' consideratiOn of the trickle of taking
Corn Averages. Ii e would shertly.itate the' law
upOn the presehi subject, which law had produc-
ed much intricacy and
sconfusion :—The preient
law *as contained in four Acts of Parliament, Con.:
taming together no less than 120 clauses:—The
two last of these Acts repealed; not directly; but
indireCtly, and by, inference, a part. of; the two
former Acts, bat: in terms so obscure; thatit.wa
s
a:matter of considerable difficulty- to ascertain
what the present law really was The first object
of FIN notion would .therefore be, the abolition of
all the presentlaws, and the collection intt:'one
Bill of all that it should be found desiiabits td re-;
tain Or to add.—(hear, hear; hear !)—The.ad-:
vantage of this measure would be obvious When
he stated that it q-ould compress the. law' into a
third of Its present space. The next considera-
tion would be that of the proprlety of alteration
arid addition with reference to the
present law a 3
it stood. This consideration would naturally in-
volve several points, some of great and others of
minor importance. - With a view to- the clearly
stating these pointS, he would take a curiery
view of the present Mbde of taking the averages.
The country was divided into districts, and the
returns were forwarded to and obtained f;om
each of those districts separdtely. The taking of
the first average was in towns. The amount of
averages of each town was added, and
.the total
was divided by the ntimbet" of towns. This form
ed the average of that particular district. In
like manner, the amount of the averages of each
district was added, and then divided' by the num-
ber of districts; the result of that division form-
ing, of course, the general average. The effect
and the inconvenience of the present mode was
this,—it allowed each individual town a consider-
able influence in forming the district average, for it
had been found that it was perfectly easy for an in-,
dividual.-of any town, at a small sacrifice, to oh 4
Lain a fictitious return of that town, which pro-
duced ultimately 'no inconsiderable impression
on the general average. It was quite clear that
the law was, in this respect, imperfectly execut-,
ed.- The remedy would be ascertained in detsil
in a future stage of the proceedings ; hat at pre-
sent he would observe, that it was contemplated
to abolish the system of districts, to substituta
that of counties; and to divide one by the oilier.
This, he apprehended, would either prevent -or
check the present system. He ironld here,ob-
serve, that the counties of Kent, Surrey,
-and
Essex formed no part of the districts, the-- ave-
rage for London-being considered the average.of'
those counties. • 11e Would suggest the adding,of
these three counties, for reason and principle corn-
hined•in support of the argtiment for their intro-
duction. lle thought, too, that,a more extensive
power should he given to the King in Council:to
alter the town from 'which the averages
_w_ere:tc,
be collected. By the present Law, the Kin-gin
Council had no such power without the assent ;of
the Justices for the County ; and he thought,it
but reasonable that the King in Council should
have a general discretionary power. The-con-
sideration of the inland districts would spew
that the system was more inconvenient in tlibse
districts than it was in the maritime. The next •
subject to which he would call their atten-
tion was the salaries paid to the inspectors. • At
present, the salary of an inspector was about
131. a year ; and, by the present law, the Jus-
tices of die Peace were empowered to raise that
salary ; but the increase was to fall upon the
county. He proposed to give a power to the
Justices to increase the salary to a sum not ex-
ceeding 301.; and as the present was a national
rather than a county question, he suggested that
the increase should not fall upon the county.
There were several other points which he wound
bring under the consideration of the Committee.
For instance, an indirect mode had prevailed, of
defeating the law by the practice of individuals
baying uP corn at a high rate, in order to increase
the return. The returns thus caused could not
he resisted, but they had of 'course a very al-is.
chievonss effect. He should propose a remed vfor
this inconvenience. There were several other
points of minor consideration), with which, at
present, lie should not trouble the Committee ;,
but he would just mention that he proposed thiii
'the Board of Trade should have the appointmont
of the principal officer ; as this would enable that
part of the Government to facilitate the execo-
don of the law.—As the law at present stood, the
Inspectors were not obliged' to make returns of
any- Corn,except Is hat was termed British Corn
and although the intentien of the last Act was to the Corn of England and Ireland on the same-
footing, by some Custom House technicality, the
Irish Corn was left out of the averages altogether..
09e object of the present Bill would be toremedy
that omission. It would make no difference-
in the averages, as the Irish. Corn was "ge-
nerally of better quality than the English.—
The Right honourable Gentleman 'concluded
by: declaring, his intention of going more at
length into the subject when the Bill which be
should do himself the honour of asking leave to
introduce should come before the House. He
moved, " That it is the opinion of this Commit-
tee, that it is expedient that several Acts of thh
31st, 33d, 46th, and 47th of his late Majesty's
Reign, relating to the Importation aml,Ekporta-
tion of Grain, Meal, and Flour, be repealed,
Other regulations provided in lieu thereof for the
United Kingdom."
, which it was I Mr_ C urn t