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No. 15,434.

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a total repeal of the Corn-laws, from Stockport,
Manchester, Salford, Eccles, and Several other places.
Mr. BROTHERTON presented 38 petitions for
the total repeal of the Corn-laws,'from the inhabitants
of Leigh, containing. 1,635 signatures ; Lowton, 532 ;
Golborne, 282 ; and 35 petitions from various trades
in Manchester ; also a petition from Mr. William
Bevey, of Church, in the parish of Whalley, praying
to be informed why he, as a calico-printer, should pay
window tax, whereas, if he were a farmer, he would
be exempt from such tax ?
Sit GEORGE LARPENT presented a petition
from some place in Derbyshire, praying for a total
and immediate repeal of the Corn-laws.
Mr. MORRIS presented a petition from Llanelly,
praying for a repeal of the Corn-laws.
Mr. S. CRAWFORD presented the following pe-
titions :—From the 'merchants, manufacturers, and
other inhabitants of the boorough of Rochdale. These
petitioners state that they consider the proposition of
her Majesty's Government, as nothing less than a de-
liberate insult to the British people, especially as a
series of resolutions has been submitted to your. Ho-
nourable House by the Vice-President of the Board
of Trade, which, if carried, will have the effect of
throwing open Canada and the West Indies to the
manufactures of foreign countries. They state far-
ther that the staple trade of Rochdale consists of flan-
nels—formerly about one-third of the flannels went
to the United States—but, in the year 1828,
were virtually excluded by the duties imposed
under a tariff passed by the United States, avowedly
in retaliation for our Corn-law duties ; that in con-
sequence the flannel trade is not a twentieth of its
former amount ; that since the loss of the American
trade, Canada has taken a greater quantity of flannel
than any other foreign country. Petitioners would
rejoice that the propositions alluded to should pass, if
accompanied with the abolition of Corn-laws and all
other monopolies ; but otherwise that they would
be injurious and unjust. Petitioners pray that
whatever regulations be adopted in reference to our
colonies, corresponding changes may be made in the
sugar and timber duties, and that the Corn and Pro-
vision-laws may be immediately and totally abolished.
One petitiOn of the members of the 'congregation of
Mount Gilead Chapel and Smithy Nook, parish of
Rochdale ; five petitions from inhabitants of Spot-
land, Smallbridge, Littleborough, Wardle, and Birtle,
in the parish and vicinity of Rochdale ; also six pe-
titions from workers in Mr. Rawstron's factory, Mr.
Brigg's hat shop, Rhodes' mill, Broadly Cotton Mill,
Mr. Scholfield's weaving shop and Townhouse mills
in same parish. These petitions all pray for the total
and immediate repeal of the Corn and Provision-laws ;
and the petitions now presented are signed in the
whole by 3,025 names.
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N,5,,,,, 0:: •.olutit,em paginanostra sapit."
',l. qrsl:4l,ettitar rge relates toRTI A L. _
tillllF4bulOncl I. °rnMentary on the Indi cretions that cause the
cilt ,dc,• , 141, 1' which the nature, symptoms, and baneful effects
to i.leat 04,n0Perance Libert, n'ism, atc. are fully developed ;
i;ich 1,-,B,,elvations 'on Sexual Debility and Mental Irrita-
, 2 Uoird a Series of Cases.
~?ip - a d CO., Consulting Surgeons, London.
, hi 4ibtls e " Nathra heath
,Ilsr,:- raven ("edit, si qui s cognoverit uti " CLaumart.
1t5;14.14,41ar,"„P all the fund of bliss supplies,
Stk 441:APirication marks the wise."
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IhtkitiVo ''' a most extensive practice, each section explained
jilq'taliA!,/ A
1 itw,t Lp 1,,,,, a
, Non-aledie.al Analysis of some Complaint
,ehbet,tterlered"ei es, as Leucorrhcea, Nervous Irritation, &c. in
"t e4' sine. h cnne important admonitions on the peculiar eebi.
Oiliierilit°!l' circumstances, sympathies, and formation. The
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191).i1y oi,.,,views taT! book was not one of the common stamp.
ki,,t,ialistre os, tput bY the authors of the source and origin
td,,,,tl.cs ~,_eo their
_,a. 'stressing effects of certain depraved habits,
t,',,,tiop:volins .I'o' Mtrito the character of experienced and judl-
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CO U RT-MARTIAL ON CAPT.
NICOLAS.
(CONCLUSION.)
PORTSMOUTH, SATURDAY.—AIthough the onl witnesses
called by Captain Nicolas were Lieutenant G. A. Leary, First
Lieutenant of the Vindictive; Mr. Kingsworth, Pilot; and
Commander Sheringham, the proceedings of the Court-martial
did not close until between eight and nine o'clock.
The last witness called was Commander Sheringham, who
proved that between eight and nine o'clock, on the morning of
the 26th, it was slack water, and that a ship two miles E. by
N. of the Nab Light, with a W.N. W. course, would reach St.
Helen's roads in safety, and that she must be at least four
miles E. by N. of the Nab Light, before a W.N.W. course
could carry ber into danger.
At the termination of Commander Sheringham's examina-
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" Pirrsuant to an order from the Right. Honourable the
Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, dated the 14th day
of February inst., and directed to the President, and setting
forth that the several statements transmitted to their Lord-
ships relative to her Majesty's ship Vindictive having
grounded on the Dean Shoal, on the forenoon of the 26th of
January, 11342, had appeared to their Lordships on some
points inconclusive and unsatisfactory, and they, therefore,
deemed it right that all the circumstances attending the said
disaster should be investigated by a Court-martial ; and di-
recting the President to assemble a Court-martial to inves-
tigate the circumstance under which her Majesty's said ship
Vindictive
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Nicolas, C. 8., the officers and ship's company of her
Majesty's said ship Vindictive for their conduct on that
occasion ; the Court proceeded to investigate the circum-
stances under which her Majesty's said ship Vindictive
grounded on the Dean Shoal on the forenoon of the 26th of
January, 1842, and to try the said Captain John Toup Nicolas,
C. 8., the officers, and ship's company of her Majesty's said
ship Vindictive, for their conduct on that occasion accordingly;
and having so inquired into and investigated such circumstances,
and having maturely weighed and considered the whole, the
Court cannot decide with precision on the causes which led to
the disaster—they appear to have rested mainly on some error
in the supposed position of the ship when at anchor off the Nab
on the morning of the 26th of January last, and in the conrse
intended to be made good whilst under way ; but it is not
proved by evidence that there was any material error or deiia-
non in the compasses. Takirig; therefore, all the Circum-
stances into consideration, the Court is of opinion that Captain
Nicolas was justified in the attempt to move her Majesty's ship
Vindictive from the exposed anchorage she was supposed to
hold near the Nab light; and Captain Nicolas having so deter-
mined, the Court considers that he put the ship under sufficient
and manageable sail for doing so; and that when the buoy of
the Dean was made and the Vindictive's danger discovered, the
measures most expedient were adopted by him to prevent her
falling on the shoal under the circumstances she was placed in
then demanded. That when she was aground and striking, as
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had no complaint to prefer against any of his officers or ship's
company, with the exception of two men, who have been
already sufficiently punished ; but as, on the contrary, he has
commended their zeal and great exertions, the Court cloth
hereby acquit the said officers and ship's company of her Ma-
jesty's ship Vindictive of blame on the occasion referred to,
and they are hereby so acquitted accordingly."
The sentence was listened to with great attention by all
present, and there was a, slight indication of applause at its
termination.

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Mr. TAITE 'presented a petition from Mullingar,
praying for an alteration in the laws relating to
Presbyterian mixed marriages.
Sir R. FERGUSSON presented a petition from
Derry to the same effect.
Mr. YOUNG presented a petition from Cavan to
the same effect.

Mr. MURRAY presented a petition from Tyrone
with a similar prayer.
Colonel CONOLLY presented a petition with a
similar prayer from the county of Donegal.
CORN-LAWS.

Mr. G.DUNCAN presented apetition from Long-
ford in Perth, and a place in Dundee, praying for a
total and immediate repeal of the Corn-laws.
Mr. RICARDO presented petitions from the Pot-
teries, praying for the total and immediate repeal of
the Corn-laws.
Mr. T. M. GIBSON presented petitions from
Reading, praying the House to reject the proposition
relative to Corn, which had been made by her Ma-
jesty's Ministers, for the abolition of all class legisla-
tion, and for Universal Suffrage; also 17 petitions
from various parts of Derbyshire, Middlesex, Shrop-
shire, and 50 others from various places in England
and the metropolis, praying for the total and imme-
diate repeal of the Corn-laws.
Mr. G.WOOD presented petitions fTom Leicester,
with 1,126 signatures; and others from places in the
counties of York and Kent, with the same prayer.
Mr. SCOTT presented petitions from Walsall,
signed by 3,520 inhabitants of that borough, against
the plan proposed by Ministers for amending the Corn-
laws.

Dr. BOWRING presented seventeen petitions
from Mitcham and elsewhere, praying for the imme-
diate and total repeal of the Corn-laws.
Mr. STANSFIELD presented petitions from the
borough of Vipon, denouncing the plan proposad by
Ministeri for altering the Corn-laws, and praying for
their total and immediate repeal.
Mr. T. BUNCOMBE presented a petition, agreed
to at a public meeting in Northampton, praying for a
repeal of the existing Poor-laws. Also a petition,
signed by 502 female inhabitants of Northampton, to
the same effect. Also a petition, signed by 712
of the inhabitants of Lismahago, Lanarkshire, pray-
ing for a total repeal •of the Corn-laws ;
also praying for a large extension of the suf-
rage. The Honourable Member also presented a
petition from Samuel Gordon, Esq., of Dublin, for
whom he had presented a petition on a former occa-
sion, respecting the Court of Chancery in Ireland.
The petitioner stated that an attachment had issued
against him in the Court of Chancery in Ireland, and
he complained that a certain officer of that Court had
forged a petition to the Court in the name of the
present petitioner, on the 15th of November,
tB4l. The :pttitioner stp,ted that he 2 was ready
to prove this: eharo to House; add' prayed Ithat
the House would order a return to be • made of such
Petition in order to ascertain whether it was sigried
or not.

The President of the. Court ( Sir EDWARD Ownii) then
rose, and with evident emotion addressed Captain Nicolas as
follows:—" Captain Nicolas, the most pleasing part of my
duty still remains to be performed, and, believe me, I do it
with the warmest satisfaction—it is that of returning you your
sword. May you live many years, by which your country may
gain the advantage of its services, and obtain, if possible, aug-
mented honour for the wearer !"

The Court then dissolved, and its members warmly congra-
tulated Captain Nicolas on the highly honourable issue of the
proceedings.
Captain Nicolas was assisted in his defence by P. T. Oake,
Esq. His brother, Sir Harris Nicolas, was also present each
day throughout the investigation.

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1771. was an eminent solicitor in Bristol. He married Anne,
daughter of Swymmer, Esq., merchant, of Bristol. The
most remarkable circumstance attending that nobleman's site-
cession to the title was, that at one period there were no less
than thirteen individuals living, either of whom would have
taken the title before him. He survived them all, and thus ob-
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inoed the
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supply
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et

Mr. SMITH presented a petition from the Corpo-
ration of Norwich, for a total repeal of the Corn-laws.

Mr. BLAIR presented a petition against the pro-
position, of her Majesty's Government, and praying
for a total and immediate repeal of the Corn-laws.
Mr. COBDEN presented twenty-two petitions
from Sheffield, and other places, to the same effect.
Mr. HINDLEY presented a petition numerously
signed from Leeds, praying for a total and immediate
repeal of the Corn-laws, and assuring the House that
they would not cease from agitation until their
prayer ' was granted ; also a petition from
Morsley, to the same effect, also soliciting that the
right of voting for Members of Parliament should be
conferred upon every male citizen of twenty-one
years of age.

-Mr. JARVIS and Mr. JOHNSTONE presented a large
number of petitions, praying also for a repeal of the
Corn-laws.

Mr. LITTON presented a petition from a Pres-
byterian congregation in the county of Londonderry,
praying the Government to make its' proposed mea-
sure for legalising mixed marriages by Presbyterian
clergymen, prospective as well as retrospective.
Colonel ACTON presented a petition from a con-
gregation in the County of Wicklow to the same effect.
Mr. EWART presented a petition from the inha-
bitants of Wigan, praying for an immediate repeal of
all laws which uphold a monopoly of the provision
trade ; also petitions from landholders and farmers
in Dumfries and Roxburgshire, to the same effect.
An Hort. MEMBER presented two petitions from
Selkirk and another place, in Scotland, against the
Corn-laws.

Mr. VILLIERS presented five petitions from va-
rious places in Scotland to the same effect.

MR. ELTON'S CASE.

Captain BERKELEY said that it would appear,
from the notice paper, that he had given notice
of a motion with regard to the case of
Mni Elton ; but he begged to say that he had
not given notice of his intention to move for any
papers, but merely that it was his intention to put
certain questions to the Hon. and Gallant Admiral
opposite, with respect to that case, and for fear of
accident or mistake, he would beg leave
to read the questions he intended to put.
The first question he had to ask was, whether the
release of Mr. Elton had arisen from any dissatisfac-
tion on the part of the Board of Admiralty at
the proceedings, or at the sentence of the
Court-Martial, or whether it was a mere act
of clemency, which the Board had 'an undoubted
right to exercise? The second question he
would ask was, whether or not it had proceeded from
any dissatisfaction at the conduct pursued by Captain
Williams, the prosecutor F
Sir G. COCICBURN said he would endeavour to
give a satisfactory answer to both the questions. In
answer to the first question which the Hon. Mem-
ber had put to him, he could assert that a more
honourable or more able assembly could not have
formed the Court-martial—(Bear, hear)—and
that the Admiralty had not the slightest doubt
that they had full reason for the whole proceedings,
and for th3ir sentence. The next question the Right
Hon. Me nber had put to him, the question with re-
gard to Lieutenant Williams, he was equally ready to'
answer, on the part of the Admiralty, that it
was impossible that any officer could stand
higher in the estimation of the Admiralty,
than Oat officer did ; in addition to which
he begged to state that he had received a letter from the

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Admiral commanding on that station, speaking of that
officer in.the highest possible terms. With regard to the
question whether it was an act of Clemency on the
part of the Adiniralty to release the unfortunate person
to whom the question referred, he wished to say that
the Admiralty finding this officer had gone through
considerable confinement, they considered that after
he had been imprisoned in the Marshalsea the discipline
of the service had been fully justified and satisfied,
and they therefore did not think it right to continue
him any longer in imprisonment It was therefore
an act of clemency, but one which they felt fully justi-
fied in performing, when they ordered the release of
the prisoner.
Captain BERKELEY said the answer was quite
satisfactory to his mind, and he trusted that it would
be so to the country.—(Hear.)
Mr. JERVIS said he wanted to know by what
law it was that any officer of her Majesty's Navy was
imprisoned after having been dismissed the service ?
Sir GEORGE COCKBURN said that the ques-
tion was rather an abrupt and extraordinary one to put
to him, callingupon him, as it did, to expound the law.
The only answer he could give to it was, that the im-
prisonment was part and parcel of the sentence, he
presumed ; and therefore, though, the officer was dis-
missed from the service, he apprehended that it was
perfectly legal.
Mr. WALLACE presented a petition from a
parish in the county of Berwick, which was altogether
an agricultural county, praying for the total repeal
of the Corn-laws. The petition was signed by 10
farmers, 77 farm-servants, and 30 others, all engaged
in agriculture. The Hon. Gentleman presented also
a petition from the Congregation of the United
Sessional Church in the town of Greenock, signed by
females as well as males, also expressing their hopes
that the Corn-laws would be totally abolished.
Mr. M. PHILLIPS presented 40 petitions from
persons employed in the various branches of trade and
manufactures in the county of Lancaster.
Mr. EWART, seeing the Attorney-General in his
place, wished to ask whether it was the intention of
her Majesty's Government to introduce any measure for
altering that anomaly in the law of England by which a
compensation was given to persons injured upon a
railway, but none to the relatives of persons killed ?
He also wished to ask whether it was the intention of
Government to propose an alteration in the law of
deodand ?
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL could only an-
swer, that at present he was not aware of any such
intention.
Lord PALMERSTON presented a great number
of petitions from places in Devonshire, Worcester-
shire, Shropshire, and Staffordshire for the total re-
peal of the Corn-laws.
Mr. F. BARING presented several petitions to
the same effect, but the designations of the petitioners
were not heard in the gallery.
Sir WM. SOMERVILLE presented similar peti-
tions from places in the county of Meath.
Mr. RIGBY WASON moved for returns relating
to the appointment of Revising Barristers.—Ordered.
Mr. MUNTZ gave notice that on the 24th instant
he would move that neither strangers nor reporters be
required to leave the House without a special motion.
Mr. MURPHY postponed till to-morrow the mo-
tion of which he had given notice for this day, respect-
ing the arrest and detention of British subjects in
central America.
THE SLAVE-TRADE. REFUSAL OF
FRANCE TO RATIFY THE TREATY.

Sir ROBERT PEEL brought up and laid on the
table certain papers, communicated by the command
of her Majesty. The Right Honourable Baronet
said, in the Gracious Speech delivered by her Ma-
jesty from the Throne, her Majesty announced to the
House that as soon as the ratifications of the treaty
signed by the Plenipotentiaries of Austria, Prussia,
Russia, and France, for the suppression of the
Slave-trade, should have been exchanged, her
3lajesty would communicate that treaty to
the House. die now laid that treaty on the
the table of the House, as signed by the contracting
powers, the ratifications of the treaty having been
exchanged between England and Russia, Austria and
Prussia. Ile regretted that he could not also announce
to the House, that the ratification of the Treaty with
France had also been exchanged. The protocols were
so framed, that France could, if she thought fit, still
enter into the treaty ; and he could not but express a
confident hope, not founded on any assurance he had
received from the Government of France, that the rati-
fication of the treaty :by that Power was only sus-
pended, and not terminated.—(Hear, hear.) lie did
hope that the same motives that had induced France
to join with the other Powers in a treaty for
securing the interests of humanity, would still
induce her to g.ive her cordial support to carry it into
effect. The Treaties with France of 1831 and 1833
of course remained undiminished in force, but he hoped
that a long interval would not elapse before France
would lend the high moral sanction of her name, to
the efforts of the other great Powers for the sup-
pression of so detestable a traffic.
Lord PALMERSTON begged to express his own
satisfaction at seeing these papers laid on the table of
the House, and also at the wish expressed by her
Majesty's Government. Not being acquainted with
what had passed, he added his humble hope that the wish
expressed by the Right Hon. Baronet might be
realised, and that a speedy ratification of the treaty
might be effected. He could not but add to what
had fallen from the Right Honourable Baronet,
that, according to what he understood as having.
taken place, it was the usual practice of Govern-
ments, that the only grounds that could properly be
assigned by a Sovereign for refusing to ratify a treaty
concluded by a plenipotentiar3:, were first, that the
Plenipotentiary had entered into negotiations, and
concluded a treaty without being authorised
by his Government in doing so, or else if the Plenipo-
tentiary had entered into the treaty by the authority
of his Sovereign, that he had exceeded or violated
his instructions.—(Hear.) Now he apprehended that
neither of these objections could be felt by the French
Government on the present occasion. The original
negotiations were entered into not by England to-
wards France, but by England and France towards the
other three powers ; the draft of the treaty
was equally proposed by the French as by
the English Government. The negotiations, there-
fore, were not undertaken unknown to the
French Government, but with its sanction and appro-
val, and he trusted she would yet give her sanction to a
treaty so much to her honour and to Gen. Sebastiani, her
Ambassador, by whom the negotiation was conducted.
He apprehended then that the first objection did not
apply in this case ; nor did he think, so far as he could
judge, that the second objection ought to weigh with
France ; because he found that this treaty was
Aimed by the present representative of France at
this Court, in consequence of special instruc-
tions sent to him for that purpose, or in
consequence of the authority given to him
before he left Paris to conclude the Treaty. There-
fore, it appearing to him that no reason, consistent
with the practice of Governments, could be assigned
by the Government of France for refusing the ratifica-
tion of a treaty which was concluded by its
own directions and with its sanction, he entirely
shared in the hope, and he might say in the confi-
dence of the Right Hon. Baronet, that no considera-

tions of a local character, or even that no
desire, if any such desire were entertained,
of strengthening a Government, or a Ministry, would
induce the Sovereign of the French nation to with-
hold his ratification from a treaty which he (Lord
Palmerston) must say would do infinite honour to all
the parties engaged in it.—(Cheers.)
ME CORN AND PROVISION-LAWS.
_

Mr: MAXWELL STEWART said that he wished
to flit a question to the Right Hon. Baronet at the
head of the Government, of great importance to the
commercial interests of the country. ' He hoped the
Right Hon. Bart. would be as explicit in his answer
as he could, under the circumstances of the case.
In the speech from the Throne, the attention of Par-
liament was drawn to the revision of the laws affect-
ing our tradein corn, and our trade in other articles of
foreign produce. His question related to the latter part
of the sentence. The effect of the notice taken in the
Speech from the Throne of those articles still we
know had been to paralyse all the markets in the
country. It was no exaggeration to say that business
in those articles were to all intents and purposes
coMpletely at a stand-still, in consequence of the
doubts in which merchants and owners of such pro-
duce were left. He (Mr. M. Stewart) did not
presume to ask, although he was tempted to do
so, what were the articles to which the sentence
in the speech from the Throne referred, because
he should of course have understood that the plan
of the Government would not be disclosed
imperfectly or by piecemeal. But he asked—and it
was a subject of great importance to the commercial
interest—he asked the Right Honourable Baronet, to
state when he intended to divulge the whole scheme,
including those articles of foreign produce, and he
begged the Right Honourable Baronet, for the
sake of parties out of the House, who were not
versed in technical expressions not to answer him
' by saying he would introduce the subject on such a

flay of supply, but, in plain English, to name day and
date.—(Hear, hear, and laughter.)
Sir R. PEEL said, that he would first of all call the
attention of the House to the state in which the dis-
cussion on the Corn-laws now stood. Ile did not
wish, in the slightest degree, to precipitate a decision
upon the subject or to abridge the time which the
House Might think it reasonable to take before it
came to a settlement of the matter. But he trusted that
even those who were most adverse to the principles upon
which he proceeded would bear in mind the manner
in which the sense of the House had already been
marked upon the subject ; he hoped they would recol-
lect that the passing of his Act would permit corn now
in bond to be brought into consumption at a lower
rate of duty than at present. He trusted, therefore,
that there would be as much expedition as possi-
ble used in the passing of the Corn Act. He, for one,
was ready to state his views with respect to the whole
of the proposed financial and commercial policy of the
Government; but, as he stated on a former occasion,
there were considerations connected with the
public interest which would be intelligible to
those who were acquainted with the subject
which compelled him to postpone the statement until
he could make it in a Committee of Ways and Means.
That Committee would meet as soon as the Com-
mittee of Supply would pass the usual votes. It
would be of great importance and convenience if a
conclusion was come to as soon as possible on the
question of the Corn-laws.—(Hear, hear.) Of course
the corn trade was suffering with other branches of
trade, and he could only say that the earliest oppor-
tunity would be taken by the Government to bring
forward their views on the subject. If the Hon.
Gentleman had asked him with regard to particular
articles, he ;(Sir Robert Peel) would be able to resist
giving any answer, and he could not but think that
the Hon. Gentleman exercised on the whole a wise
discretion in abstaining from asking what those arti-
cles were.—(Laughter.)
POOR-LAWS.
Mr. T. DUNCOMBE said that he could not congra-
tulate the House on the very explicit answer
which the Right Hon. Baronet had just given.--
(Laughter.) However, he begged to put a question
to the Right Hon. Baronet (Sir J. Graham) on the
subject of the Poor-laws. The House would recollect
that the Poor-law Commission was to cease in July next,
and her Majesty's Government had announced their
intention of not introducing any Bill on the subject,
either for the continuance of the Poor-law, or the
Commission till after Easter. That being tthe
case, he begged to represent the incon-
venience that must arise if such a course
be persevered in. One of two things must happen.—
(Order, order.) He (Mr. Duncombe) was perfectly
in order. There was a question before the House.
He wished to point out how inconvenient and unsa-
,tisfactory to the public it must be, if the Government
persevered in the course they announced to the House.
Either the country would not have time to consider the
provisions of the New Poor-law Amendment Act, or
the course which was pursued two years ago of intro-
ducing a short Bill for its continuance, must be
dopted. He 'knew how convenient such a course
would be to many Hon. Gentlemen opposite, and even
to some of her Majesty's Government after the pledges
they-had given on the subject.—(Hear, hear.) What
he wished to know was, whether the Government
would introduce a Bill, and lay it on the table previous
to Easter, and not proceed with it till after. The country
would then have time to consider the provisions and
alterations intended to be made after the Easter recess.
He also wished to know whether the Government in-
tended to interfere with the Gilbert incorporations or
local acts?

Sir JAMES GRAHAM spoke in a low tone of
voice, and we were not able to catch the whole
of his observations. We understood him to say
that her Majesty's Government had brought be-
fore the House measures relating to the trade in
corn of a comprehensive nature, but it was not the
intention of her Majesty's Government to introduce
any such measure as that referred to by the Honour-
able Gentleman opposite, touching the Poor-law Bill.
His Honourable riend had announced his intention of
bringing forward financial measures which her Ma-
jesty's Government intended to submit to Parliament.
He (Sir James Graham) could not imagine that the
discussion on this point would occupy much time.
The Hon. Gentleman opposite seemed to think that it
was the intention of her Majesty's Government to bring
forward some trifling measure relating to the Poor-
law before Easter, and leave the discussion of it till
after Easter. He (Sir J. Graham) begged to assure
that Hon. Gentlemen that her Majesty's Government
intended no such thing; the intention of Government
was not only to continue the Poor-law Commission for
some time, but to introduce such modifications of the
existing law as on consideration they might think
fit to submit to Parliament. The measure,
therefore, would -be full and complete. Imme-
diately after the Easter recess, he (Sir J. Graham)
should have the honour of submitting this measure
to the House ; before that time, however, he did not
think it expedioat to do so. He was not prepared,
therefore, to follow the recommendation of his Hon.
Friend, that he should lay the Bill before the House
before Easter, but immediately after the recess a full
and complete measure should be submitted, which he
(Sir J. Graham) should be prepared to defend.
Mr. DUNCOMBE said there was one question
which the Right Hon. Baronet had not answered; it
was, whether it was the intention of Government to
interfere with the Gilbert corporations.
Sir JAMES GRAHAM said he had purposely
abstained from answering that question.
Mr. DUNCOMBE observed that a similar ques-
tion had been put to the Noble Lord (J. Russell) last
session, which his Lordship had answered most ex-
plicitly.
Mr. MILNES said he wished to ask the Right
Hon-. Baronet at the. head of her Majesty's Govern-
ment a question which involved the interests of a
large body of men. He trusted that if quite conve-
nient, the Right Hon. Baronet would inform the
House what would become of a certain class called
" Corn-inspectors ?" At present they were in great
doubt and anxiety as to what would be their fate.
Sir R. PEEL said it was not quite convenient.—
(A laugh.) He had received a great number of letters
on the subject, and he had the matter at present under
his consideration. He would, on bringing in the Bill,
state his views on the subject.
FLOUR DUTIES.
Mr. HUTT wished to ask the Right Honourable
Baronet a question with regard to his proposed measure.
for the revision of the Corn-laws. It was, if it was
his intention to preserve the same relative proportion in
the rate of duty levied on foreign corn, and on foreign
flour, which was observed at present ?
Sir R. PEEL said that great inconvenience might
arise from the asking of particular questions with
respect to the details of the measure it was intended by
the Government to introduce. lie would state fully
what his intentions were regarding all those matters
on bringing in his Bill. He therefore hoped the Hon.
Gentleman would consider that he (Sir R. Peel) in-
tended not the slightest disrespect to him (Mr. Hutt)
if he dechned answering the question.

WEST INDIES.
Mr. GRANTLEY BERKELEY postponed the
motion of which he had given notice, relative to the
West Indies.

GOAT KILLING (IRELAND).
Lord ELIOT wished to correct an error into
which he had inadvertently fallen, in answering
a question put to him by the Hon. and Learned Mem-
ber for Liskeard, relative to the case of a man who had
been condemned to death in Ireland, for killing a goat.
He (Lord Eliot) had stated that the man had been
set at liberty. Such, however, had not been the case.
His Noble Friend at the head of the Irish Govern-
ment had made inquiries into the case, and had found
that this was not the prisoner's first offence, and
that it had been committed under very ag-
gravated circumstances, and the sentence had been
commuted to twelve months' imprisonment. He
stated this, not because the matter was important, but
because he desired that strict accuracy should be
obsezed in all his communications to that House.

Sir GEORGE CLERK presented certain papers
to the House, which were laid on the table.

POOR-LAWS.
General JACKSON wished to ask the Right Hon.
Baronet, the Secretary of State for the Home Depart-
ment, if he would state the period for which he pro-
posed to continue the Poor-law Commission.
Sir J. GRAHAM was not prepared to answer any
question with regard to the details of the proposed
measure.

PECULIAR BURDENS ON LAND.
Mr. COBDEN wished to ask the Right Ho-
nourable Baronet at the head of the Government
a question relating to a passage in his speech the other
evening, in which he said that the fact of certain
burdens pressing exclusively on the land, was a ground
for levying a tax on the food of the people, for the benefit
a particular class.--(Hear, hear.) Was the Right
Hon. Baronet prepared to lay before the House a
specification of those particular burdens.—(Cheers.)
It would be more convenient to the House—(Loud
cries of " Order, order")—the question which he
wished to put to the Right Hon. Baronet was this—
Was,he prepared to submit to the House a specifica-
tion of those burdens alleged by him to press pecu-
liarly on the landed interests?—(Cheers.)
Sir R. PEEL would find that he had involved him-
self in great controversy if he were to attempt to lay
on the table any such specification as that asked for by
the Hon. Member.—(Cheers and counter cheers.)
the landed
ande dOn referring to the writers on political economy,
he found a great difference
of
opinion*ton
ex-
isted on the subject. Adam Smith considered
tithes as a burden pressing peculiarly
interest ; Mr. M'Culloch was of the. same opinion
other writers, however, maintained a different opinion.
The Noble Lord, however, seemed to be of the same
• • as himself (Sir R. Peel), that
opinion there were
burdens pressing peculiarly on the landed interest,
and therefore he had proposed a fixed duty. It way

in fact a matter for discussion, and it was impossible
to compile any official document of the nature required
by the Hon. Gentleman, from the difference of opi-
nion as to what constituted a peculiar burden.
Mr. COBDEN begged to explain that what he
wished, was for a statement of the Right Hon. Baro- I
net's own opinion on the subject.
Sir R. PEEL thought that could best be gathered
from his speeches:.,---(Hear, hear.) It was rather un-
anal to call upon Members to lay statements of their
pinions on the table.—(Cheers and laughter.)
Mr. EIVARV asked if the Right. Honour-
able Baronet would have any objection to the
appointment of a Committee of Inquiry as to the pe-
culiar burdens on land, before proceeding with his
Corn Bill. -
Sir 11, PEEL had proposed to reduce the duty on
foreign corn from 225. to about 10s., and he hoped
the Hon. Gentleman would support his measure,
and enable him to carry it as speedily as possible.
WEL:7-iH CLERGY.
Mr. W. 0. STANLEY wished to know
if there was any intention on the part of the Go-
vernment of bringing in a Bill to regulate the
chapters and sinecure rectories in North -Wales, and.
if it was their intention to make any alteration in the
recommendation of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners
fin- the suppression,of one of the Bishoprics in North
Wales.
Sir R. PEEL believed that it had been the inten-
tion of the Noble LOrd opposite to introduce the zub-
ject to which the question rthrred in the Bill of last
year, although it was not afterwards introduced in it.
It was his own opinion that legislation on the sub-
ject would be necessary ; but there were such
multifarious subjects 'at present under consideration,
that he must postpone his own determination upon
it until the end of the Session.