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SPLENDID JEWELS, MASSIVE PLATE, SUPERIOR

WATCHES, &c.
MESSRS. DEBENHAM and STOR R
will SELL BY AUCTION at their Rooms, King-
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SOLUTION OF COPAIBA, are those advised by the most preen-
The different ingredients contained in FRANKS'S SPECIFIC.
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SIR BENJA MIN BRODIE, Bart , F.R.S.
JOSEPH HENRY GREEN, Esq. F.R.S. -
BRANSBY B. COOPER, Esq. F.R.S.
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GONORRHEA, GLEETS, all URETHRAL DISCHARGES,
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others forwarded to Mr. Franks.
From Joseph Henry Green, Esq,, F.R.S., one of the Council of the
Royal College of Surgeons, Surgeon to St. Thomas's Hospital, and
Professor of Surgery in King's College, London.
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.!,e_eitio.rer on Anato(mSi
" 45, Lincoln's-Inn-fields, April 15, 1835."
yg.nescdc). "JOSEPH HENRY GREEN.
From Bransby Cooper, F.sq one of the Council of the Royal
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" New-street, Aprilig
sue k Bransby Cooper presents his compliments to Mr. Geo. Franks,
has great pleasure in bearing testimony to the efficacy of his So.
Mimi of Copaiba in Gonorrhoea, for which disease Mr. Cooper has
From Alexander Tweed; 183 Esq"
prescribed the Solution ten or twelvecases with perfect success.
Hospital •i,
:met, Lincoln's Inn-fields.
Surgeon to the Metropolitan Free
"MY DR" Sias i Carehave notes of six cases, in which I have admi.
nistered your preparation—
than according to the ordinary all of which the seas b
these cases of which I haa.vBebteeake
asCopaiba, for the cure a Gonorrhoea, in
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mitigating urgent symptoms of Gonorrhoea, relieving
the scalding in making water that 1
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it with of exhibition than on ON; re.
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EXTRAORDINARY INVITATION.—." Mr. Rich.
Shackell very kindly invites those persons who have already taken
a part of his turnips from a field, known by the name of Townsend
Field, to attend on the said premises between the hours of ten and
twelve o'clock this day, when he will be there for the purpose of
delivering the remaining part. Only the persons who lu.ve taken
the others will be expected." The above was published by the crier
through the village of Sampford Peverell, on the 21st of January.—
Western Times.
The inquiries into the mal-praetices at the Hotel
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Voirie, are going on with great rigour.
.The chiefs of each of
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Grande Voirie, and M. Solet, a clerk in the same office, both of
whom are in arrest, have been repeatedly examined. Marshal
Gerard,
who. Lieiit.-Colonel, oft the list of
the •Sfiff,'in which he held the post of sub-lutendant.
the ie as Commandant of the National Guard ofraris, has struck
name
o f Is 4,

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Lord BROUGHAM said, of all modes of raising a
revenue a duty on necessaries of life was the
very worst. They had no mode of calculating
the revenue; and in case 'of exigency they
could not tell whether it would be -possible to raise the
revenue or not. Another obvious Ohjeetion struck every
one as soon as a duty was- mentioned for tile purpose of
raising a revenue. for instance, in ordei:- to raise a
million and a quarter revenue, by imposing a
fixed duty, it would raise the price of all other
kinds of grain, as well as of that imported; and thus
they would draw eight or ten millions from the consumer,
while only one million and a quarter would go into the
Exchequer. A duty on consumable commodities was in
fact a poll-tax, and was exceedingly to be repudiated, as
all paid alike according to their means ; in fact the poor
paid more to it than the rich, as the amount of -their
means spent in food formed a larger proportion
of their expenditure. He perceived by the Votes of the
other House of. Parliament that a great numbei of
places had been added to those where the
averages had been usually taken. He begged
to ask the Noble Lord opposite whether the places so
proposed to be added were places in which. the price
of wheat had generally been loWer than in the
places where the averages had been hitherto taken ?
The Earl of RIPON had no objection to answer the
question of the Noble and Learned Lord. The principle
that had induced them to add a number of towns to
those that now made returns, was in order to prevent
the possibility of any essential fraud, and not with
the view of lowering the averages. If 'they
had had any such object in view, they would have been
committing a fraud. They bad taken such large market
towns as would be most likely to give a fairer view cf the
average price of the country, and diminish the chance
of fraud.--(Hear, hear, hear.) If his Noble and
Learned Friend would only look at the towns
they had selected, he would find that although they had
given towns in agricultural districts, they had also given
towns in the manufacturing and maritime districts. The
principle they had acted upon was not for the purpose
of diminishing the averages, but to give a fairer view of
the quantity sold, and therefore diminish the chance of
fraud.
Lord BROUGHAM did not for a moment impute to
the Noble Lord, or his colleagues, the intention of doing
any thing improper; but he was afraid that the averages
might be affected by the proposition they had made.
The Earl of RIPON said that such could not be the
case, and the averages were struck by putting the quan-
tity together, then adding up the money, and substract-
ing one from the other ; no effect would be produced
upon the averages, except from the larger markets.
The Earl of RADNOR had no doubt that these
towns had not been selected with any improper motive,
but he had as little doubt that the result would be to
lower the averages:, which would be a disadvantage to the
people. There was no doubt it might have a tendency to
prevent fraud, but he (Earl Radnor) very much doubted
whether that tendency would do any good to the public.
He believed that that tendency to fraud, however much

they might repudiate fraudulent transactions in them-
selves, had been a benefit to the people, because it had
been the means of introducing a greater quantity
of corn into this country. lie believed that the present
plan would be more stringent, for he believed that the
proposed sliding scale would possess all the objections of.
the sliding scale under the present system, and that in
a very great degree. He also believed that it would
equally open a door to fraud. lie could not under-
stand-why the Government had introduced this
They expected no good from it ; they did not expect
than it would be any relief to the country. He
(the Earl of Radnor) believed that the farmers would
be better off without any prOfettlOn.—(Hear, hear.)
The whole principle•he contended for was ada-14t.c.,1 by
the Government in last Septombor, or about that time,
in the course of the correspondence between Mr. Henry
Gunter, the Board of Customs, and the Board of Trade,
on the subject of the reduction of the duty on preserved
turtle, which was admitted duty free, the s4rog e 4 live
turtle.

The Earl of ;RlPON—There is a duty on live turtle.
---(Hear, and laughter.)
The arl of RADNOR—He had lately seen in the
newspapers, and he believed there was no doubt of the
fact, that the Government had distributed certain Ord-
nance stores among the distress d weavers of Spitalfields
I *
for their relief. Now he (t arl of Radnor) could
not approve of charity of tat kind. He did not
think that stores should be thus gratuitously distributed
for which the people had paid in taxes,
Besides, if such
relief were to be afforded to the weavers of Spitalfields,
why, it might be asked, should it not also be extended to
the distressed operatives of Manchester, Birmingham,
Paisley, and other places? Fop his part he believed that
the practice was unjustifiable in principle. He had heard
of a memorial lately addressed to the Oevernment from
Paisley, praying that the provisions lying in store in
f
Liverpool and other places might be admitted duty free,
the use of the poor of that town ; and he was sorry
to say that it appeared the request could not be
acceded to. It was his intention to inevi; be,
fore the House separated, for certain returns
connected with the use made of the Ordnance stores,
and with the Paisley memorial, when he would again re-
fer to thope subjects. He wished to take that opportunity
of stating, that he considered the new measure would
in effect be more stringent than the . present.
Corn-law Bill, inasmuch as it would tend to raise the aye-
-rages, and thereby to exclude a good deal of foreign corn
which now came into the country.
The Earl of RIPON said that the Noble Earl had
been very jocose about a matter which he must have
thought of great importance—namely, the free impor-
tation of turtle. Now he (the Earl of Ripon) hap-
pened not to be very intimately acquainted
with that xery important matter. The inqniry
about which the Noble Earl joked so much was
a necessary one, inasmuch as it had not been before
determined what duty preserved turtle should pay,
Such questions were not uncommon, About five
years ago the same Mr, Gunter imported a large cargo
of ice from Norway, and the whole Customs
were in commotion as to what denomination it should
come under, and then what duty it should pay. . The
question was referred to the Treasury, and by it to
the Board of Trade, who decided that ice was goods,—
(Laughter.)

LOrd CAMPBELL said the •ice was dissolved before
the question was solved.—(Laughter.)
The Earl of RIPON then proceeded to. censure the
manner in which the Noble Earl had alluded. to the
efforts the Government had made, on former occasions,
to relieve the distressed.

Lord BEAUMONT referred to the new mode of
taking the averages, and said he much feared the factors
would influence the new markets as they did the old.
The only way to ascertain the truth on this subject was
was too great a sacrifice for
to take it from the grower. The scale which they had
ualts3 :811 alteration was made in
thhe u d
farmerproposed
make,els w h ere

less distance they
taking the averages.
grown, the
Lord BROUGHAM thought the Noble Lord would
admit, that the nearer the averages were taken to the
would have to go to find a market; and corn was likely
to be higher in the more distant parts.
place where the corn was
The subject then dropped.
Lord BROUGHAM then presented petitions from the
west of Scotland, complaining of the price of food, and
praying for an alteration of the
Cr Corn-laws,
Messengers from the House o Commons brought up
the Loan Societies Amendment Bill, which was read a
first time.
Lord CAMPBELL presented a,
petition. irom the
Presbyterians of Belfast, praying that some remedy
might be had for the present defective state of the law
relative to Dissenters' marriages. Another object of
the petition was, that the system of registration of
births, marriages, and deaths in Ireland, as the law at
present stood, was extremely. i
defective. and inconvenient.
Many fa.nilies in Ireland ot t i tr went persuasions, were
at times anxious to ascertain their pedigrees.
A new system
• had been introduced in England which had been -attended
with very great success. At tirstiot_eneountered great preju-
' dice,and people were axerse
adual t i ore,,i ster their children under
it, but the prejudice had gr y died away. Her Royal
Highness the Princess Royal ,together with his Royal
Highness the Prince of Wales, were registered along with
the other subjects of the realm. He (Lord Campbell)
thought that all objections to the system had disappeared,
and it was now attended with great benefit to the com-
munity. Why should not the Irish people have the be-
nefits of this system as well as the other Parts of the em-
pire. The Poor-laws had been established in Ireland,
and he (Lord Campbell respectfully submitted to the
Noble Duke opposite that the system of registration
might be introduced through the district officers in Ireland.
Lord REDESDALE said that, so fad rpoi„ the system
having given satisfactioill
iii.: k _Aew that in many parts it
had 9eßgr:g4 aiSaiisfaction.
Lor CAMPBELL said that he was aware that the
system had been met with considerable prejudice, and
that indictments were issued against many persons re-

Sir GEORGE STRICKLAND presented a petition
from Saddlebourne, in Yorkshire, with the same prayer.
Lord DUNCAN presented a petition from Bath,
signed by the City Sheriff, Aldermen, and twenty-four
Town Councillors, complaining of the inefficiency of the
plan proposed by Ministers for the alteration of the Corn-
laws, and humbly praying for the avoidance of class le-
gislation.—(Hear, hear.)
Captain DUNDAS presented a petition from Green-
wich, praying for the abolition of the Corn-laws.
Mr. RAIKES CURRIE presented petitions from
Northampton with the same prayer.
Mr. FERGUSON presented similar petitions from
Banffshire.

Mr. VERNON SMITH presented petitions from
several places in Northampton, praying for a total abo-
lition of the Corn-laws, and an alteration in_the Suffrage.

Dr. BOWRING presented 61 petitions from different
places in Scotland and England, all very numerously
signed—one from Burnley, with 1,782 signatures, one
from Wortley, with 1,800 signatures, and various others
with many signatures—all praying for the entire and
immediate repeal of the Corn-laws.