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BANKRUPTS.

John Fowler, High Haider), Kent, victualler, to sur•
render May 13, at one, 22, at twelve, and June 23. al
ten, at the Court of Commissioners. Jordan, Lincoln's.
Inn-fields.

Hugh M'Culluch, Watling-street, warehouseman, May
22, 29, and June 13, at eleven, at the Court of Commie-
sinners. Richardson, Shield, and Francis, Poultry.

Lewis Williams, East-road, Hoxton, victualler, May
22, at one, 29, at two, and 23, at one, at the Court of
Commissioners. Vandercom and Cowyn, Bush-lane,
Cmnon-street.

Payment of Debts and of real Estates, and the Illu.
sore Appointment Bill.
Sir LEXANDER GRANT brought up the Clerk
of the Pleas Bill (Ireland) and the West India
Dock Company Bill.
Lord DACRE moved the third reading of the
Covent-garden Vestry Improvement Bill, which,
together with several others, were read a third time.
Lord SKELMERSDALE presented a petition
signed by upwards of 8,000 inhabitants of Great And
Little Bolton, praying their Lordships to prevent
the payment of wages, otherwise than in money.

RENEWAL OF THE EAST INDIA COMPANY'S

The Marquis of LANSDOWNE rose, agreeably
to his motion, to present a petition from the respee- '
table inhabitants of Manchester, praying their Lord-
ships to take into consideration the expediency
of opening the trade to the East. Indies,
and the expediency of imposing such limita-
tions as that opening would require upon the pre-
sent charter of the East India Company when it
came to be renewed. If their Lordships wished to
discharge their duties as Legislators, they would
not fail to familiarise themselves with the important
considerations that arose out of the present petition.
It propounded a series of most important questions,
upon which their Lordships must form definitive
opinions in the course of a few years. It often hap-
pened that their Lordships were under the necessity
of forming opinions upon matters either upon prin-
ciples of government or of commerce. In the present
case they might be called to do so with respect to
distinct interests arid countries, which could not be
brought under consideration but by industry on
their part. He hoped their Lordships would not
shrink from the great, if not insuperable, difficulties
of the present question. He did not mean by
what he had just said to call on the Noble
Duke at the head of his Majesty's Government

for any declaration by which to regulate the opinion
of their Lordships on the present question ; he not
only did not do so, but he hoped they did not form
any thing like a rash opinion. The documentary evi-
dence alone could enable any one to form a judgment
satisfactory to themselves. Their Lordships by this
measure would have to determine the commercial pro-
sperity of England ; they might have to determine on
that which might affect the Constitution; they would
have to determine on the lot of 60 or 70 millions of
people, whose interests had become connected with
theirs. All that he now asked was, to hear from the
Noble Duke opposite, not what was his opinion, but
what was the course of Parliamentary inquiry he
wag prepared to recommend ? He was sure his
Majesty's Government must be as anxious as he
was to enable their Lordships to come to a final
decision. It had been usual in great questions
of this sort to institute a Committee, for the
purpose of bringing before their Lordships
all the knowledge and details possible. But whether
it was the intention of Government that such a
Committee should be formed or not, he was sure it
was their wish to suggest as convenient a form as
possible, for bringing the matter before their Lord-
ships. He should not allow the session to close
without moving for such documentary evidence as
he might consider important. That evidence
might be prepared during the recess, and their Lord.
ships would be enabled to come to the consideration
of this important subject next year, when all the
materials were before them. That motion he should
make at a convenient period. All that he asked in
the mean time was, assurances, which he had not
the least doubt would be given, that ample

CHARTER.

Nicholas Weeks, London-street, Fenchurch-street, mer-
chant, May 19, at ten, 26, at nine, and June 23, at ten,
at the Court of Commissioners. Swain, Stevens, Maple,
Pearse, Hurst, and Stevens, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry.
Benjamin Mathews, Hoopertsquare, Goodman's-fields,
victualler, May 22, at eleven, June 5, arid 23, at ten, at
the curt of Commissioners. Matanle, Pancras lane,
London.
James Wright, Manchester, bookseller, May 25, 27,
and June 23, at two, at the York Hotel, Manchester.
Taylor and Son, Manchester ; Ellis, and Co. Chancery-
lane, London.
Thomas Talbot Harington, Cornhill, merchant, May
19, 28, and June 23, at eleven, at the Court of Commis-
sioners. Bourdillon, Bread street, Cheapside.
Richard Mitton, Storth inaLinthwaite, York, cloth-
merchant, June 10, 11, and 23, at nine, at the White Horse
Inn, Huddersfield. Walker, Lincoln's-inn-fields; Peace,
Hudderafield.
Robert Gribble, Barnstaple, Devonshire, linen-draper,
May 22, 23, and Juno 23, at one, at the White Lion Inn,
Broad-street, Bristol. Jenkins and Abbott, New Inn,
London ; Clarke and Son, Bristol.
Richard Edwards, Newport, Shropshire, grocer, May
22, 23, at ten, and June 23, at two, at the Commercial
Rooms, Bristol. Poole, Greenfield, and Ganalen, Gray's-
Inn-square ; Livetts, Bristol.
ktichard Coster, Staining-lane, Cheapside, merchant,
May i, , gfi, at twelve, and June 23, at eleven, at the Court
of Commissiokeye. Ruslibury, Carthusian-street, Char-
terhouse-square.
Chivies Hewett. Sidmouthi pevon, tardener, June 12,
0, and 23, at eleven, at: the Had .Moon lnn, Exeter.
Lys, 'foore-court, Chancery-lane ; Steven,
William Sheppard, Purton, Wiltshire, linen drafter,
May 22, 23, and June as, at twelve, at the White Lion i
Inn, Bristol. Clarke and son, Bristol ; Jenkins and Ab-
bott, New Inn, London.
Mary Teague, Redruth, widow, May 20, lune V, and
23, at tea, at Pearce's Hotel, Truro. Adlington, Gre-
gory, and Fa4.1./e4er, Bedford-row, London r;
Edwards,
Simmons, and Paul, Truro.
John Taylor, Manchester, general dealer, June 1,2,
and 23, at eleven, at the York Manchester. Milne
*and Parry, Temple, London ; Ainsworth, Crossley, and
Ludlow, Manchester.
Anne Peowre, Manchester, milliner, May 25, 26, and
June 23, at ten, at the Star Inn, Manchester. Hurd and
Johnson, Temple, London ; Jj/anchester.
John Henry Jutting, Crescent, Claplogi-Paraamon, com-
miusion-anerchant, May 26, June 5, and 2el, at tw.cla,p, at
the Court of Commissioners. Hutchinson and Stnetorb
Crown-court, Threalneedle-street.
John Alder Bradley, 114,1 me, Lancashire, surgeon, June
fa, 6, and 23, at nine, at the White Bear Inn, Manchester.
Clarke, Richards, and Metcalf, Lincoln's Inn, London ;
Higginbottorn, Ashton-under-Line.
John Finlaysan, eheltenham, Gloucestershire, music-
eel er, May 15, 29. at the Nam inn, Gloucester, and June
23, at the Royal Hotel, ,Cheltenhom, At eleven. King,
Sergaant'is-inn, London ; Croad, Cheltenham.
John Walton, sen., Leeds, Yorkshire, cloth-dresser,
May 18. at tea, June 20, 23, at elevets, at the ,Court-
House Leeds, Wilson, Southampton-street, Illoornsburb
London ; Coup!and and Shaw, Leeds,

time and opportunity should be allowed for the
consideration of a question of such importance.
The Noble Marquis requested that the petition
might be read at length, stating that it embraced the
whole commercial feelings of Manchester, and he
had reason to believe the feelings of all large towns.
Lord ELLENBOROUGH could assure the

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

Noble Marquis that his Majesty's Government felt
the extreme importance of this question. He
could assure him also that the Government,
from the day on which he had the honour
to be a Member of it. He had never had the sub-
ject out of view, nor had it ever been absent from his
mind. He had taken means of obtaining the fullest
knowledge which would be laid before their Lordships
at the proper period. It was his wish that their
Lordships should have the fullest information, and
he could assure the Noble Marquis that his Ma-
jesty's Government by no means wished their
Lordships to pass any measure without having
the bearings of it weighed in every point of
view. But he was not prepared at the present mo-
ment to state what course his Majesty's Govern-
ment might think proper hereafter to advise the

adoption of.
Lord CALTHORPE presented a petition from
from the members of the Chamber of Commerce
and Manufacturers of Birmingham, to the same
effect. The feelings of the manufacturers and
mercantile people throughout this great empire
were alive on this subject, and the most intense
solicitude existed that the Legislature should take
the question under consideration, for the purpose of
reforming the system.
The Duke of RICHMOND presented a petition
from the County of Suffolk, praying for protection►
to the British Wool Growers against the importa-
tion of foreign wool.
Lord DARNLEY postponed his motion till
Monday.
The LORD CHANCELLOR then rose to
move the second reading of the Bill he had intro-
duced on a former night for facilitating the admini-
stration of justice in our Courts of Law. I►► doing
so, the Noble Lot d entered into details at great length
of the present vexatious system of the Court
of Chancery, in which there were no less than
40 millions of money locked up, to abide the event
of suits hereafter to be disposed of.
(We observed Sir James Scarlett, Sir Charles
Wetherell, Mr, Sergeant Bosanquet. Mr. Sergeant
Cross, Mr. Sugden, Mr. Bickersteth, and many
others of the long robe below the throne, for the
purpose of hearing this oracle of the law, as well as
numbers of Attorneys and Barristers below the Bar.

(LEFT SITTING.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

A considerablp number of persons had assembled
this afternoon in the neighbourhood of the House,
it being generally reported that Mr. O'Connell
would attempt to take his seat ; but, evidently much
to the disappointment of the curious, the Hon.
Gentleman did not make his appearance.
Several private Bills were read a third time and

passed.
Mr. Alderman WOOD moved the third reading
of the Bi;.1 for Improving the Approaches to the
New London Bridge,—p.ead a third time and passed.

Mr. GRATTAN moved for • return of the
number of Houses of Industry in Ireland, and the
SUMS eypended therein for the maintenance of the
poor since the veer ),sp.
Petitions were presented from several places in
Scotland, against the Scotch Gaol Rill, The peti-
tioners prayed that the Bill might not pass into a
law.

THIS EVENING.

17102US;;-; OF LORDS.

Mr. BANKES, Col. SIBTDORVE, Mr. BLACKBURN,
Sir EpwARD LLOYD, and Mr. DAVENPORT, hroueht
up seyeral private Bills.
Mr. SuGpyzi brought up the Infant Property
fill, a Bill for amending the laws relating to the
Transfer of Estates, a Bill for facilitating the

tition from Carlisle, and another from a place the
name of which we did not hear.
Sir EDWARD KNATCHBULL presented a
Petition from the Hundred of Tenterden, in Kent,
against that clause of the Bill, for regulating the
subject. of Anatomy, which directed that the un-
elaimed bodies of paupers dying in workhouses
should be given for dissection.

LIVERPOOL PETITION.
Mr. HUSKISSON said he rose for the purpose
of presenting a petition of paramount importance, of
which he had given notice yesterday, although he
did not anticipate any debate upon it, as the motion
of the Hon. Member for Bridgenorth on this mo-
mentous subject stood for Thursday night, yet
he would not feel gratified in not shortly stating the
grounds upon which the petiaioners ventured to
address the House. It would be recollected in the
year 1813 the East India Company's Charter was
renewed, when a long inquiry took place; that in-
quiry was instituted in consequence of the number
of petitioners that were at that time presented,
praying ft:r a free participation in the trade to Bri-
tish India. The result of that enquiry it was not
necessary for him now to state. Men of the
greatest eminence and intelligence were examined
OR the subject, amongst whom were Mr. C. Grant
and Sir Thomas Monroe. It certainly was the
opinion of these eminent characters, that the free
intercourse with India would not increase the
trade, the natives of that country leading such
a simple mode of life, that there was no probe
hility of extending commerce amongst them.
He believed, however, that every person must allow
that the opinions contained in this petition were
those of persons best acquainted with the commerce
of Great Britain. The trade was partly thrown
open under many obstacles and many difficul-
ties to persons who know nothing of the country.
commerce might be partly said to have been thrown
epen on the Ist of April, 1814. Now the country
had had the experience of about fifteen years. If
he supposed that fifteen years, even in the life of an
individual, would not leave him in a period of in-
fancy ; but when it related to the commerce of
two great parts of the globe, he could not but
consider it any thing short of a sufficient experience
He would not go into the details which had already
been stated to the House by other Hon. Members,
but he thought it necessary to say, that in the year
1814, when the trade was first thro Am open, the
whole export of this country to India, amounted to
only one hundred and sixty thousand put in the
last year the export amounted to 5,800,0001.
Another complaint of the petitioners was, the mono-
poly of the trade to China by the East India Com-
pany. He thought it s;ngular indeed that all
foreign countries should have the privilege of
trading to the English ports there, and carrying
carrying back their return cargoes of British pro-
duce to China direct, whilst the English merchants
were debarred from doing so. He kuew that in the
course of last year no less than eleven American
ships had entered the port of Liverpool, and
had taken out cargoes which they were at liberty to
carry to any part of the world. It appeared the
more strange that the Company should persist
in keeping tip the prohibition in respect to
British merchants, when others were exempt
from such restrictions, and he was also led
to think that the monopoly was a serious injury to
trade in general. These were the principal grounds
upon which the petitioners called for redress, and he
apprehended that he had said enough to show the
House that the subject was worthy of the fullest
consideration. Indeed, independently of its
great importance as a commercial question, he
thought :that he might put it even upon higher
ground. He considered that we held that country
by conquest, and in proportion as we stimulated the
exertions of that people, so were we bound to en-
deavour to raise them in the scale of moral worth.

(LErr sirriwo.)

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

WORSHIP-STREET.

The only case brought before the sitting Magistrate
yesterday, arising out of the cutting proceedings of the
journeymen weavers, was the following :
James Clifford was placed at the bar before Mr.
BROUGHTON, a quantity of silk in his loom, the property
of Messrs. Stephen Wilson and Sons, of Clseapside, having
been destroyed on Saturday night, after the understood
cessation of hostilities.
The defendant was apprehended by Hanley and Waters
on Sunday, upon information of what had taken place.—
There were three other looms in the same workshop with
property belonging to other manufacturers, but only that
of Messrs. Wilson were destroyed, as now produced. The
whole mass of silk was cut so as to render it completely
valueless, and the reed itself was broken.
From evidence given, it appeared that the defendant had
received money in advance, and went to the warehouse on
Saturday forenoon to ask for money. He was refused an
advance of money upon the work, but the foreman lent
him ss, out of his own pocket.
From the defendant's statement, it appeared that after
he had been to the warehouse he met with different
persons, with whom he had long conversations upon
the hard times, and low prices paid upon certain works.
To some of these persons he had represented the deplor-
able condition of his family, that he had not a crust in the
house to give his children, and that when he went home
he should be obliged to sell his favourite bird. He reached
home between nine and ten at night, and at his door some
man accosted him, and said he had come about the bird.
" What bird?" asked the defendant. " Why," said the
man, you said you wanted to sell the bird." Defendant
then went up stairs, and the man followed ; but the de-
fendant was afterwards surprised to find that two men had
entered, and while his back was turned to get the bird,
the work was cut. He made an alarm in the house im-
mediately afterwards, and informed the people in the house
that the work was destroyed.
A female in the house corroborated in part tbe defend-
ant's statement.
Waters, the officer, who had been in the silk trade, ex-
plained to the magistrate the nature of the injury done to
the work. Whoever did it must have taken some time
to get at the reed, which was snapped in two, and the silk
on the roller was cut across in two places, so as to spoil
the whole. A person so near as the defendant described
should have heard the reed break.
Mr. BROUGHTON (to the defendant)—Did you not
hear what was doing? Defendant—No.
Mr. BROUGHTON—Nor hear the breaking of the reed?
Defendant--No.
Mr. BROUGHTON•-•It is the bounden duty of every man
to take as much care of the property intrusted to him by
his master as if it were his own, and if it was destroyed in
the manner you say, you should have raised your neigh-
bours and followed with hue and cry. Your story is not
to be believed. Here is a man with a family, with work
in the house, but instead of doing it, is absent all day,
telling long stories to people that he meets, and declaring
that he has aot a crust in the house for his children, al-
though he has 51. in his pocket.
Defendant—l had given 3s. to my wife.
Mr. BROUGHTON—Your defence is a failure, and if you
wish to get yourself out of a scrape, you must produce the
men who came about the bird.—The defendant said he
did not know the man.
Mr. Bitootaterox—lf your story about the bird is true,
know that rang you must.
PaPacAWF9?Ess-This is a very serious matter. Here
I Ond you the treasurer of a regularly organised system for
aupportipg these men. It was, in fact, holding opt a pre:.
Thip,s! to men to destroy their master's work. "I am
told," said he, " that 101. have been collected for a man
EAST INDIA TRADE.
Mr. W. wojTigpp,E presented a petition from whose work had been cut. Sp what a temptation is thus
held out to the men. Such a dangerous system must be
•
put a stop to."
Manchester, praying that the trade to India and Mr. Johnson said, he always understood 'the subscrip-
He faiil agreed in tions to be to help the men out of their 'distress. He
petitioners,but as this important wight be mistaken, as the magistrate confessed he himself
subject would cacao, under the consideration of the bad been. With I...spec; to the people coming about his
Cthhe in
prayer mighte
r of e h
e thrown
House, on Thursday next, he would refrain on the house, that they would do, but no disturbances took pee
present occasion fsl', making any ohserwations there. The officer isf the establishment could prove that
resented similar Mr. LITTLETON p petition there were no disorders there.
Mr. linoucierox—The taken mat of their
from the Illanyfa,cturers of the Chamber of porn-
rk, and the public peace endangered.
are
merce in the Potteries, HP hoped ample oppor-
, w°Mr. Johnson repeated,that
tunity would be given to supply ~.,carrnaept with
opap. ep to any thihg syFong:, •
the necessary information on this important subject, After some ferther conversation, i 4 which Mr. .lohoseß
and that it would be coolly and deliberately argued. ' expressed his intention of relinquishing his treasurership to
Mr. HART DAVIS presented a petition from the subscriptions in question, and not encouraging meet-
the Nerabants, Bankers, and others, of the City of iugs at his house for the purposes complained of, he was
BristOl, praying
that the House would not grant told that no further notice would be taken.
any extension of the East India Company's Charter. Mr. Garton, the chief constable, said, he had received
JAMBS GRAHAM presented a similar pp- atios that when a inttook lime a person
Irpfeetn at re p