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PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS.

MOUSE OF COMMONS.
NOTICES OF MOTION FOR, TWO DAT.
George Dawson—Bill for removing doubts, and to
authorize Barristers at Law to act in any Court or
Jurisdiction in the United Kingdom as Solicitors of
his Majesty in any proceeding or matter relating to
auY branch of his Revenue without being or having
been admitted in any Court as an Attorney or So-
licitor.
2. Colonel Davies—To refer the Cities and Boroughs Polls
Bill to a Select Committee.
3* Mr. Spring Rice—Bill for amendment of the Law re=
lating to Testators and Executors.
ORDERS OF THE DAY FOR THIS DAY.
l•
2. Cities and Roroughs Polls Bill—Committee.
74: Ways and Means—Committee.
Stamps on Cards and Dice Acts—Committee there-

upon.
5• Stamp Duties Bill—Third reading.

NOTICES GIVEN YESTERDAY.

1. Lord Thursday, May 1.
Nogent—Bill for the registration of Voters in
Cities and Bo
ill rouhs.
Mr. Hume--B to regulate the taking of the POll by
Ballot at Elections for Members of Parliament for
G"nties Cities, Cinque Ports, Boroughs, and
Towns.

Tuesday, May 13.
Lord Viscount Morpeth—Address for making some pro-
vision far the family of the late Mr. Canning.

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LONDON,
WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 2, MS.

We received, this morning, the ilagenzeine
Zeitung of the 26th ult., which contains a flaming
article from Constantinople, dated the 25th February.
It furnishes nothing positively new, but reiterates
the note of preparation making in Constantinople
and its environs to resist any hostile attempt either
l'Y sea or land. Meantime the persecution against
the Armenians goes on with unabated severity.
Tie reason assigned for this brutality is, to re-
duce the number of Christians in the capital,
because their rapid increase had somewhat tended
to A
-ttuanger the public safety. Every exertion
which
the Government could make was re-
sorted
to, in order to render the fortifications and
aboured
!defences as impregnable as possible. Workmen
in the arsenals day and night to equip
vessels destined for the Hellespont, while French
"4' American officers trained bodies of men in-
tended either for military or naval purposes, as ne-
cessitY required. It is said that American officers
had
eh i endeavoured to close the Dardanelles by.
a-es, but had failed. They, however, constructed
floating batteries, to act in the bend of the passage,
moored to men-of-war. In short, nothing was left
"done which skill could suggest or enthusiasm ac-
complish. A hatti-scheriff of the 23d Feb. summoned
the Whole population of Constantinople to arm, that
they might be ready at a moment's notice to repel
the attack of the Infidels. If the appearance of
Teat preparations can give assurance of safety,
"tell this ought; but we suspect when the day of
trial comes that the Turks will be found wauting.
They may
have fleets in the Hellespont, and an
Coed populace supported by Asiatic Barbarians at
nstantinople ;—they may have an army- at
t,A.drianople, and fortified encampments on the
'1°1416 of the Danube—and all these may
be inspired by the fervour of religious zeal,
directed by the impetuous ferocity of the SULTAN,
'lnd trusting to the blessing of the Prophet, but
thty will vanish as smoke before the wind at the onset
c'.f their equally fierce and more energetic Northern
rivals, who only await the signal to begin the attack
'here thousands will fall, but where tens of thousands
will rush on to victory and revenger—

Little or no change ha, tcak°eNusT Atsplacei here. The perse-
neoree, rem
cittion of the Armenians is still the order of the day, and
the united Armenian clergy have already left the city.—
Alost of them have embarked in the most distressed circum-
stances for Venice. Many of them who wished to emi-
rate for Russia, and were not allowed to go by sea, were
sbliged to take way by Bucharest. Though the execu-
tion of these deplorable measures is enforced with great
rigour, and Pera and Galata seem to he almost depopu-
lated, tke Porte still affirms that it is merely as a precau-
tionary measure, reducing the Christian population
of the capital within certain limits, that it has is-
sued the firman to the Armenian patriarch, which
mast strictly enjoins all Catholic Armenians to leave their
present residence without delay. This firman declares,
that all Rayas are forbidden to dwell in the capital with-
out an express permission from the Sultan ; and that if
they have been allowed to increase in Pera, Galata, and
Sentari, the increase has exceeded all due limits, and such
au abase can no longer be tolerated without endangering
the public tranquillity. The military preparations are
prosecuted with great diligence, and many thousand hands
are employed day and night in the Arsenal, in the equip-
ment of the men-of-war destined for the Hellespont.
The Capitan Pacha will go in a few days to the
Dardanelles, whither many
troops have already been
sent, who are trained partly for the land and partly for
the sea service, under the direction of American and
French officers. The Government directs its chief atten-
tion to the defence of the Dardanelles, and spares nothing
to make this natnrally strong point impregnable. Several
attempts which these American engineers had made to
close the Dardanelles by chains had indeed failed, but it is
intended to place at a spot, where the channel makes a
bend, a kind of floating battery, to be fastened to four
ships lying at anchor. The castles are also strengthened
by n!'"? out-works on the land side, and the coasts
provided
, with new batteries, to make a land-
ImPossible. Tapir Pacha is to have the
chief command in the Dardanelles, and that part of the
Turkish fleet which escaped from the battle of Navel-in,
and has hitherto cruised off Mitvlene, has already arrived
in the Dardanelles. Great armaments are also making on
the landeide; the Seraskier Hussein Paella is to go in the
course of the month to Adrianople, to take the chief com-
mand of the regular troops, and the militia assembled there.
All the artisans that are wanted in an army are pressed,
and the Schismatic Armenians, em loved chiefly
tio as bakers,
smiths, &e.
A Hatti Sheriff of 23d pl
Feb. summons the whole
popnlan of
Constantinople and the environs, to arm
against th„ infidels,
so as to be ready to combat..isa at the first,
gual- A considerable corps of troops • Iso assembling
near Erzerin, too ppose any attempt that might be mane
by the Rus,ja
n army
in Persia against the Asiatic
Provinces.
Some Austrian vessel` have obtained firmans for the
ißnlaycakinSfeoar;abfiultrnthe SWedilh Charge d'Affaires has applied
by treaty to give
an for his flag, though the Porte is bound
it.

The French --
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Pa
„r any importancep fre rs of Sund-ay o the East, later than what we
contain no news
have already received
At a late hour this afternoon we received by ex-
press, the Gazette de France, dated yesterday. It
brings down news from Constantinople one day
imer,—but then the rage of the SULTAN had only
increased at the progress which the Greeks
arc
making under the Count
CAPo DISTRIA,
It was :reported at Frankfort, on the 26th ult.)

that the Russians had crossed the Pruth. France
and Prussia were considered as favourable to a war
in the East. While Austria and England were the
reverse.

The report of an Ambassador from Algiers proves
to have been unfounded :

The Austrian Observer says that on the 10th February
affairs were in the same state at Scio. The frigate Hellas,
commanded by Aliaulis, had appeared off that island.
Our Correspondent writes from Frankfort, 26th Dlarch,
as follows :—" There is just now a report that a courier
has announced to a commercial house the passage of the
Pruth by the Russians.
Letters from Vienna state that a grand movement is
marked in the military cantonments, and that it is certain
that the Austrian Government are going to throw an im-
posing force into the Turkish frontiers.
There is a great excitement in Servia ; it is said that
Austria will enter this province, should the Russians pass
the Pruth.

Great activity is observed in the public offices, and it is
chiefly with the English Ambassador that Prince Met-
ternich has had the most frequent conferences. This cir-
cumstance renders it probable that there is a question of
energetic opposition on the part of England and Austria
towards Russia. It is supposed at Vienna that France
and Prussia are firmly attached to the interest of Russia.
Major General M. Durrien, is named President of the
Electoral Collage of the Department of the Corse, for the
Session, which will open on the 2Sth.
A great many Journals have announced the arrival of an
agent frem Algiers at Marseilles. We have been told to-
day that this news is false.
POLAND.—CRACOW, MARCH 16.—We learn from
Warsaw, that the Grand Duke Constantine will set
out in a few days for Lub►lin, where the Officers of his
Staff are already assembled. It is added, that the greatest
part of the Guards now at St. Petersburgh, have received
orders to set out for Bessarabia. General Diebitsch, it
seems, is named Quarter-Masters General of the Army
of Bessarabia, and General Witgenstein, Commander-in-
Chief. The Grand Duke himself commands the reserve.
TURKEY. —.-CONSTANTINOTLE, FEB. 25.—The Aus-
trian Observer announces, that the persecutions against
the Catholic Armenians continue ; permission, however,
has been granted them to take up their abode in the envi-
rons of the capital : their property too at Pera and Galata
has been sold, but at a price so low, that they have
sustained a great loss.

A state of anxiety, though public order has not been
mach disturbed, still continues. The Foreign Ministers
have not yet suspended their preparations for departure,
for they apprehend that the news from Capo d'lstrias has
made an unpleasant impression on the Sultan, who
is less than ever inclined to be moderate. The news
from Egypt has increased his ill-humour, and defiance to-
wards the Allies. The Pacha has announced that the Con-
suls of the European Powers have demanded from him the
liberation of all the Greek slaves who had been transported
from the Morea to Alexandria, and they have declared to him
that unless it were granted, his son Ibrahim Paella would be
compelled immediately to evacuate the Morea. Since the ar-
rival of this despatch, the Sultan's exasperation has become
such, that no person dare speak to him about the conciliatory
propositions of the Allies. They attribute the cruel
persecution of the Armenians to an obstinate idea of
the Sultan that the siege of Constantinople is at hand; and.,
that he ought to diminish as much as possible the number
of the Christians.

The armaments continue night and day, and three ships
of war set sail this morning for the Dardanelles.
The article then proceeds to detail the destruction of part,
and the capitulation of the rest of the pirates; as also the
loss of the Cambrian, with which we were previously ac-
quainted.
CANDIA, FRB. 2.—On the 27th of January, the English
frigate Isis, and the French corvette the Pomona, appeared
off Carabusa, and approached within gun-shot. •. The
rocks were covered with people. Under the tbrt were 13
Greek vessels, one Austrian and one lonian, that the pirates
had captured. A Gieek shallop went towards the Isis, with
rhoin the crew of the sloop spoke, and intreated the Com-
mander to do nothing against the Greek vessels, as they were
on tke point of taking troops on board, to be disembarked
on the island of Candia. Captain Staines replied to
the Deputies that he would oppose any expedition froni
Carabusa, until they delivered up the Chiefs of the Pirates,
as well as on the other vessels, and until the forts were
evacuated by the garrison. The next day there came
another deputation, charged with a letter to the French
and English Commanders, entreating them to leave the
principal ships and forts in the hands of the Greeks, who
would deliver up the little fort on the coast. They declared
to the deputies that they could not accept such a proposi-
tion, because they ought not to act with people who tbr
two years had made Carabusa the resort of pirates; that
they ought to make satisfaction for so many victims of their
Piracy, and that people who had never respected the rights
of others ; should not pretend to them for themselves.

It will be perceived that Lord MORPETH has
given notice that in the event of his not hearing that
Government intend to introduce some motion to
the sane effect, he should move, on the 13th of May,
that an address be presented to the Throne for a
provision for the family of the late Mr. CANNING."
Far be it from us to advocate a profuse expendi-
ture of the public rhoney, but there are cases in
which economy becomes vice, and liberality is a
mere act of common justice. Such we conceive to
be the case when eminent individuals have offered to
their country those splendid talents which in any
profession would have secured affluence for them-
selves and their descendants. All the world know
that little, if any thing, can be saved out of
the salary of a Cabinet Minister—and it is
not prudent in a nation to scare talent from its ser-
vice, by refusing to provide for those whom their
natural protector was obliged to overlook whilst en-
gaged in that bright career, which conferred such
incalculable blessings on the empire at large. Let
us redeem ourselves at least :from the sweeping
charge of the satirist, that—
" Nations slowly wise, and meanly just,
" To buried merit raise the tardy bust."

We do rejoice to see that Mr. PEEL has ex-
pressed decided hostility to the introduction of the
Poor Laws into Ireland. Is not that country wretched
enough already, without the addition of a system
which, if not checked, will inevitably turn the fertile
lands of England, into an uncultivated waste—for who
will till what is common property? We should infinitely
rather hear that the plague had broke out in Ireland,
than that the Poor Laws were introduced, to con-
summate her misery. We may revert to this subject
to-morrow.

Accounts from Curagoa state that a French frigate
arrived there on the 7th February from Laguayra, the
officers of which report that Commodore LABORDE,
with a fleet of nine sail, wns at anchor off Cape
Corda, and has about two millions of dollars on
board ; it was expected he would attack the latter
place in a few days. The Governor CANSELLA, of
Curagoa, had been appointed Commander-in-Chief
of the Dutch Colonies, and would embark in a
frigate for Surinam.

Sir WILLIAM KNIGnTON lauded yesterday
at Diver, from the Continent—but from what place, or
whither he was bound, remained a mystery.
Mr. CIIADS, our Minister Plenipoitedntiary at
Dresden, arrived yesterday at Dover, as also-
friar Messenger, with despatches for Prince ESTER. lin
AZV.
So great was the urgency of the despatches
sent off by Prince LiEvEN, for St. Petersburgh, on Sun-
day, that the courier crossed the Channel in an open boat.
BANK OF ENGLAND.—The ballot for Di-
rectors for the Bank of England commenced this morning.
There is no opposition to the House list.

SUDBURY.—Last eight, in the
House
of
Commons, a new writ wa.Q ordered to be issued for Sud-
bury, in the room of JOHN WILES, Esq., jun. who has
accepted of the Chiltern Hundreds.

SUDBURY ELECTION.-,--Mr. M'LEOD, the
new candidate for the Representation of Sudbury, has
already commenced his canvas of the electors. Report says
that he ha 4 been to a considerable extent successful. The
electors are, however, reserving themselves, as they antici-
pate the announcement of another candidate.

Mr. CROKER transacted business yesterday,
at the Foreign Office, Downing-street.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY,

FROM LLOYD'S.

DEAL, Aran, I.—Wind N.E. by E.—Passed from
London, the Buton, Banter, for Halifax ; Colombia,
Delano, for New York ; William, Thompson, for Charle-
ston ; and Breadalbane, Hutchin, fur Faro.
PORTSMOUTH, AFML I.—Wind E.—Off the Start, the
Princess Royal transport, from Antigua.
FALMOUTH, MA RCu 31.--Wind S.E. to E.--The
Irvy, from Charleston, has commenced discharging her
cargo.

DUBLIN, Mum' SO.—Arrived the Amelia, Fry, from
Smyrna; and Elizabeth, Winter, from London.
HASTINGS, APRIL I.—Arrived off Port, the Augusta,
M'Fil, from St. Domingo.

SHOREHAM, Aram I.—Two large fir pumps, painted
green, apparently belonging to a foreign vessel recently
lost, have been picked up about twelve miles from the
Galloper, and a great deal of wreck was seen at the same
time.

NORTH SHIELDS, Miami( 31.—The Martha, Batty,
from Wisbeach, which was on the rocks near the Spanish
Battery, was got off yesterday, and brought into the Harbour
in a very damaged state.

THE FUNDS-(THIS DAY).

CITY, TwsLrff o'CLocir.

Some extensive business has been doing this morning in
the English Funds, and by what is termed good sellers.
Consols opened at 844 were shortly after 841, buyers,
for this, and 4 for next time, when a report got into circu-
lation of the arrival of the French Funds, by express, 4 per
cent. lower, which had the effect of reducing them to 84 4,
which is the present price, but their general appearance is
not good ; the Commissioners gave 84i. India Bonds
continue to rise, being 94 5 ; Exchequer Bills, 60 1 pm.
The Foreign Funds are nearly in a complete calm, with
little or no business doing, except in Russian, which de-
declined from 874 8 to 87i, sellers, occasioned by heavy
sales made by parties at the West end of the Town. Danish
are 594 604 ; Brazilian, 59 ; Mexican Bonds, 324 4;
and Portuguese, 624 3.
In Shares Brazilian Mines keep improving, and are
53 4 pm. ; nothing worth notice in the other speculations.
Three per Cent. Consols, 844 ; Ditto, for May, 844,
buyers; India Bonds, 94 5 pm.; Exchequer Bills, 60 1 pm.
FORElGN.—Brazilian, 59 1, ; Buenos Ayres, 32 3;
Chilian, 25 64; Colombian, 221 3 ; Danish, 594 60 ;
Greek, 164 174 ; Mexican, Five per Cent., 24 5 ; Ditto,
Six per Cent., 324 4; Peruvian, 23 4; Portuguese,
62 4 3 ; Russian, 874 8 ; Spanish, 114 124.
TWO O'CLOCK.
. .

Consols, after remaining nearly all the day 84k for both
Accounts, continue at the seine rate for this, and are
higher for May, with little business. India Bonds,
94 96 premium.

Consols, 84 i.

THREE 0' CL 0 CK.

LAW INTELLIGENCE-(THlii DAY.)

VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT.

JABILYN V. REYNOLDS.

When this petition was called on,
_ _ _ _ _

Mr. RUSSELL said, that he was instructed to oppose it.
You have of course (added the Learned Gentleman) read
this petition; but if your Honour has succeeded in under-
standing it, you certainly are more fortunate than I am.

The VICE-CHANCELLOR.-The prayer is quite absurd
—indeed the very first sentence contains, if I may use the
expression, fib de se, fur it asks that which the Court
could under no circumstances grant.
Mr. RUSSELL said, that this was the fourth petition of
a similar description presented by this individual, who,
because he was a pauper, thought that be had a right to
abuse the indulgence of the Court with impunity,
merely for the purpose of annoying the parties justly entitled
to the funds claimed by him, withouta shadow of pretence.
under these circumstances, the Learned Gentleman trusted
that the Court would interdict the petitioner from perse-
vering in the same course.

The VICE CHANCELLOR--It is too bad, that your cli-
ents should day after day be put to the expense of opposing
such petitions, without being able to get their costs. Let
this petition be dismissed.
A LUNATIC HOMICIDE.
HUMPHREYS V. JONES.

This was the petition, as we understood it, of the
Superintendant of the Bedlam Lunatic Asylum, pray-
ing that a sum of money, about 1661., to which a luna-
tic, named Byewater, now confined in that Asylum, was
entitled, might be applied to his maintenance.
Mr. RUSSELL, in support of the petition, stated, that in
the year 1818 Byewater had committed a murder, but was
acquitted on the ground of insanity. He was then de-
tained in the county gaol, until his Majesty's commands
respecting his future safe custody should be known. An
order was subsequently mode, directing that the lunatic
should be transferred to Bedlam Asylum, and he has
accordingly been confined in that institution up to
the present time. Until within a short period, the
lunatic's brother was in the habit of receiving the an-
nuity in question, and of regularly appropriating it to his
maintenance, but it now appeared that a Mr. capper was
the person who had the superintendance of persons confined
under such unfortunate circumstances as the lunatic, and
it therefore became necessary to present this petition.—All
parties were most anxious that the lunatic should have
every comfort consistent with his situation, and the only
question was, through whose hands the money was to be

- The VICE-CHANCELLOR was satisfied that the inten-
tions of the parties were perfectly correct, but still there
was a serious difficulty in this case, which distinguished it
from the cases of lunatics who had been confined under a
commission of lunacy issuing from that Court. Here the
individual was detained under a particular Act of Parlia-
ment,which authorised his Majesty to make an order to
that effect, and it was but lair to argue that the
same statute which provided for the imprisonment and
safe custody of the individual should also provide for his
maintenance whilst confined.

Mr. RUSSELL-But your Honour must be aware that
there are many comforts which the lanatic may require
beyond the allowances afforded him in Bedlam. For in-
stance, he is inordinately fend of tobacco, and feels most
acutely the want of that luxury at the present moment.
The VICE-CHANCELLOR felt that there could be no great
harm in making the order prayed in the petition, although
there might exist the objection to which he bad alluded.
His floNoun. disposed of about 80 cause petitions in the
course of the morning, and several others were postponed,
in consequence of the absence of Mr. Sugden, who was en-
gaged in the Rouse of Lords.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DAY.

BOW STREET.

FORGED LETTERS.-This being the day appointed for
the re-examination of Isaac Medez, on the charge of at-
tempting to extort two sovereigns from Mr. Evans, of the
Cider Cellar, in the name of Mr. Drinkwater Meadows, the
performer, his solicitor attended, and stated to Mr.
Halls, that no further evidence could be procured by the
prosecutor. Mr. Medez, he said, was ready to meet the
charge, 'when Mr. HALLS enquired why he was not pre-
sent ? The Solicitor was stammering out an excuse; and
also a violent tirade against the newspapers, when Mr.
HALLS desired him to leave the office, and ordered an
officer to fetch Mr. Medez, neck and heels, by a warrant.