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Tilt KING'S PRINTS&
Mr. IlUdiß said had a motion to make, of which he had given
notice, that the House had nothing to feat from a longapeech, as be had
lost his voice. (The Honourable Gentleman was very hoarse, and this
announcement, and the voice in which it was made, produced a general
laugh. in which the ilonourable Gentleman joined, and concluded by
sow,- observations which we could not catch.)
fhe Honourable Gentleman presented a petition from Messrs. John,
Robert, and Charles Childs, of which the following is a copy :
•"fo the Honourable the Commons of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, in Parliament assembled,
" The humble Petition of John Childs, Robert Childs, and
Charles Chit.* of Bungay, in Suffolk, Printers and Copartners.
Sheweth,
" That by virtue of certain Letters Patent the sole duller of
panting Statutes, Acts of Parliament, Proclamations,
Bibles, Testaments, the Books of Common Prayer, oil all Books
authorized to be used in Churches, has been for many Teats confined
to the Patentees in such Patents named.
" That your Petitioners have examined such of the Public Accounts
as chew the prices paid by the Government to the Patentees for Acts
of Parliament
• That your petitioners do not find that any returns have been made
of the prices paid by his Majesty's Government m the patentees for
bibles. testaments, and prayer books. But as your petitiers know
the price at whit), they are charged, when purchased hyonthe trade
from the patentee, they are enabled to state, and your petitioners do
respectfully
securities for accuracy, dispatch, and certainty, the bibles, testaments,
and prayer books, might and ought to be supplied to the public at
prices 25 per cent. lower than the prices whieh are charged by the
patentees.
" That Acts of Parliament might, and ought to be, supplied to the
public 33 per cent. cheaper than they have been so charged.
" That having detected a system of charge so excessive in mattets
which are necessarily subject to the scrutiny of the Printers, your
Petitioners submit that it is not unreasonable to infer that, at the least,
similar overcharges have been made by the Patentees, in framing their
accounts of work, in which numbers are not detailed, and rate is not
specified.
* That as evidence to your Honourable House that your Petitioners
are not stating these facts without ample means of information on the
subject, your Petitioners state, that in addition to their long and exten-
sive business-experience as the Proprietors and Conductors of a large
Printing Establishment. they have themselves been employed to
Stetcotype the Plates from which Testaments were printed by the
Irish Patentee.
That your Petitioners have heard and believe, that a patent is now
about to be granted to certain persons, creating anew and extending the
same monopoly for a further long period of time.
" That your Petitioners conceive themselves and the public greatly
aggrieved by such monopoly.
Your Petitioners theretore humbly pray that a Committee may be
appointed to enquire into the propriety of renewing the said Patent, and
that the renewal thereof may be withheld until such Committee shall
report thereon.
" For self, and Robert Childs and Charles Childs, my partners,
(A true Copy.) "JOHN CHILDS."
The petition having been read,
Mr: HUME moved that a Select Committee be appointed to inquire
into the nature and extent of the patents enjoyed by the King's Printers
in England, Scotland, and Ireland: the authority by which they are
held, and how far the public interests are promoted by them.
Lord NUGENT said that an inquiry had already been instituted
by order of the Noble Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the subject to
which that petition referred would form a portion of attention of the
committee employed on the inquiry. He had no doubt but the result
of the inquiry would be that considerable reductions would take place,
and the report would furnish the hon. gent. with some valuable infor-
mation on the subject.
Sir R. INGLIS said a few words.
Mr. GOULBURN spoke in support of the continuance of the
patent.
Mr. HUME proposed that on the committee there should be a mein-
ber for Oxford, a member for Cambridge, two members for Scotland,
and one member for Ireland.
A committee was appointed.
SCOTCH HANISUPT LAWS.
The new LORD ADVOCATE of SCOTLAND gave notice of a
motion for to-morrow (this day) to continue the existing bankrupt laws
in Scotland.
Lord ALTHORP mid that he was under the necessity of post.
potting his motion relating to Windsor Castle and Buckingham
house. The day for which he named the postponement did not reach
the gallery.
SIMIAN CANAL.
The Noble Lord then moved for a select committee, to enquire into,
and to report upon, the papers relative to the Rideau Canal. The noble
lord enumerated the several estimates, which confined the expenditure
to 400,0001 but that it afterwards increased to 693,4001. and then
to 943,0001. Under these circumstances, he thought it necessary to
submit it to the house, to see what was to be done, now that the expen- I
diture had exceeded the original estimate by 672,0001. and that more
money was still required to complete it. The noble lord had some
hopes that the authorities of Canada would be willing to come forward,
to maim the mother country ; but he considered the question to be, whe-
ther or DOI it would be better to sacrifice what had been already ex-
pended, rather than to lay oaten) more?
Mt. WARBURTON remarked, that his Majesty's government had
been rather unfortunate in their canal speculations. Ile instanced the
Caledonian Canal se one, aod he believed there was another in Sussex,
both of which had been completed at a vast expense, and from which no
remuneration was derived : and he thought that this Rideau Canal
would turn out much such a sort of speculation. It had been begun
without the consent of parliament. When Mr. Canning was on the
ministerial benches, he (Air. Warburton) had, along with a friend on
his left (Mr. Hume) refused to sanction a grant for that purpose and
they then thought by the statement, that the expenditure would exceed
the estimate. 'M speculation bad evidently failed already. He thought
it impolitic to cut canals in places where the trade was not worth having.
It would no doubt be a great advantage to the colony,but it would be
no benefit to the mother country. All the trade that passed through
that canal must be forced, and could not consequently be profitable.
The money was much wanted at home, and he would let the colony it-
self undertake the work. They could borrow the money ; but do not
let us in times of distress like these, expend 500,0001. in that way:
and even that will perhaps be:only one-third of what will ultimately be
required.
Sir J. NEWPORT said, that no dependence could be placed on the
representations from Canada. He thought it would be much better to
stop short, and to consider the money already laid out as thrown away.
He agreed with the last member, that the work ought to be left to the
colony to complete if they chose.
bk. LABOUCHRRE said, that he had supported the grant on its
on presentation, and he was willing to take the responsibility he
lad thereby incurred, as he considered it to have been granted on honest
sad fair ground.. If we meant to retain British America, he hoped that
the House would pause before they came to a hasty conclusion. The
canal, as a communication, would be the means of saving a great sum of
money incase of a war, if we meant to defend America. He was pleas-
ed that the noble lord was about to submit the subject to a select com-
mittee • and he also entertained the same opinion with the Noble
Lord, tint it ought to be suggested to the Colony to assist the mo-
ther country.
Mr. SPRING RICE deprecated the practice of expending money
on public works, which was not sanctioned by Parliament. He hoped
that the Committee would look into this. Ministers were thus com-
pelled to seek money for work that was commenced without the know-
ledge of Parliament. Going into a Committee of Supply was, under
these circumstances, a mere farce; a speech might be made, but in tact,
the present Ministers for the time were thus made the responsible agents
fur the money so expended. He did not mean to bring forward thesis a
done against the late Chancellor of the Exchequer, who, no doubt, at
the time had acted with perfect candour when he proposed the additional
and subsequeht grants.
Mr. GIOULBU RN said, that the case was exactly as the hon. mem-
ber had stated it. He (Mr. Goulburn) dido know the extent of the
expenditure when he had asked fur be grantt; nor did he know, when
he moved for the supply, that the expenditure had so far exceeded the
estimate. But he considered it a reasonable demand. If we are to ex-
pect allegiance from our colonies. we must now and then expend money
for their benefit. He had no doubt that the authorities of Canada, with
their wonted liberality, would come forward and assist.
Sir ROBERT PEEL spoke in support of the utility of the canal.
Lord ALTHORP numb a few observations, and the Committee was
appointed,
Mr. WARBURTON was opposed to granting any more money
for that purpose. He did not wish it to be understood that be was
opposed to-laying out money where it could be shown that advantages
were to be:derived by this country from the outlay ; but he considered
that our laying out money to establish an empire on that vast Continent
paid only tend to weaken the mother country.
• Mr. LABOUCH ERE said a few worde in explanation.
Mr. H. TWISS said it was impossible for a statesman to take
a view of the colonies as a statement or question of pounds, shil-
lings, and pence. He wished, that instead of making the policy that
had been adopted for some time past the subject of a side-wind attack,
the question should be regularly met by an inquiry into the whole sys-
tem of the colonipl management. He would 'remark, that although
our colonies 'had been expensive, we had derives great advantage from
them. In case of war we had been enabled to use their coasts, instead of
fighting our battles on the shores of our own home. The Hon. Gent.
hod saM. ant he (Mr. T.) believed that such too was the opinion of Hon.
Member for Middleaes, that the sooner we declared Canada inde-
4sendent the better, but be would ask how long would those HOOK
Gentlemen guarantee that Canada would remain independent. And
shot would be the consequence if it fell into the hands of the United
States, who were carrying on a war of commerce with this country.
lie deprecated all this kind of incidental discussion, and he hoped
that the question would be brought forward in a tangible shape.

Mr. BARING considered many of our Welds of the greatest
importance to us. on account of their situations. The West In-
dian colonies and Canada were of that desaiption t but be would'
give up our colony in the lonisa Isles as union, and as a mere waste
of money. He would be happy to tee that this was one item et
raving which the Noble Chancellor of the
out. when be brought up his Bedsit. The canal had done much
good, for It had given employment to four thousand persons,
who bad left this country for want of employment, and bad ena-
bled them to settle there in different places. But he had, never.
limit:sin always been spinet laying out this money. He was ti
ther afraid that the money was already expended, and that we were not
now to have a committee to inquire whether or not the money sheen he
granted, but that it would only be to direct the payment of it. He
thought it a gnat dereliction of duty that such sums should be ineunal
without the sanction of Parliament. He was astonished how it cam,
that the authorities abroad should expend such sums, without being
duly authorised ; and how such oedema could be sent ikon home withod
the knowledge sod coOnimant of Parliament.
Sir 0. MURRAY admitted that if the extent of th expenditure had
been foreseen, Government, probably, would not have e undertaken the
works in question. There was. however, some excuse for the difference
in the estimates; they wete taken under peculiar circumstances, in a
country of large extent, covered in many parts with forests and swamps,
and in which it was exceedingly difftetdt to arrive at an estimate ap-
proaching to truth. With respect to the expediency of continuing the
works, certainly the expenditure required was still very great ; but
considering the vast importance of the works, both in a military and
commercial point of view, and the large increase of population they
would cause in those parts, he was of opinion that they should not be
abandoned.
Mr. MABERLY said that the expenditure had been carried on bg
the late government, without ever dealing with that house. The sub.
jea bad been presented to it only in an abstract manner. This wu
Imam for the house never in future to involve itself in such expenses
for our colonies, placed as they were at so great 'distance, Was the
whole of the circumstances were laid before it.
Mr. GUEST said that the Member for Callington had alluded to the
number of settlers employed in consequence of the works ; be (Mr.
Guest) thought that this large sum, about a million, would have been
spent to as much advantage in employing the labourers at home.
Lord ALTHORP said that the system followed in the present case
was certainly one which ought not to be adopted in future.
Mr. HUNT was of opiate* that no colony should be kept unless
able towpport heath While the people were suffering under such
severe privations it was dreadful that their mosey should be thus taken
out of their pockets, and sent over to support a system of patronage
In the colonies. It was a ridiculous scheme to send over a number of
Irish labourers, and to export the people's money to support them
abroad; it would be much more humane to support them at home,
and more judicious to expend the money in draining the bogs in Ire-
land, or some other national improvement. (Hear, hear.) What
was the object of our continual expenses in Canada Patronage, pa-
tronage, patronage ! Had not the Canadians offered to suport their
own establishment? With respect to the present expenditure, the
Noble Lord admitted that he knew not how the scheme had been
carried en. He (Mr. Hunt) asked why so much money had been
expended; bow had the orders for the money been obtained? How
could they meet their constituents if they allowed the Treasury to ad-
vance such enormous sums without knowing why ?
Mr. H. TWISS explained.
The motion was then agreed to.
Mn HUNT rose to move fora return of a copy of the regulations in
his Majesty's gaol at Fishaton, in the county of Wilts, stating whether
the practice has been for criminal prisoners to see their attorneys in pri-
mate or not, and whether a paper of the cause of ---. Lush, drawn up
by the prisoner, was or was not in the hands of the gaoler. The house
would recollect the statement he had made on a former evening. That
statement had been met with an expression of doubt, as to its correct-
ness. Now be would never make a statement to that house without be-
ing able to prove its truth. (Hear.) If the returns were not granted, he
should go down to Salsbury, and have the affidavits of all the attor-
neys there, that by the regulations of the gaol an accused person could
not see his confidential adviser, except in the presence of the gaoler or a
turnkey. It was fit that such practice should be revealed. He should
make one observation more.—lt was the opinion out of doors that hon.
members heard the complaints of the peoph with coolness and neglect.
((tries of " No.") Statements, enough to make tears flow, were there
passed over with indifference.
allowed petitions of
oar read
were
=; they were not even obe explained or read. AU he
was, that the people should know how their affairs were treated
in that house.
WARBURTON, in seconding the motion, observed, that the
number of the petitions were such, Ng on such various subjects, that If
they were to hear a long address on each, it would be impossible to get
I through the business before them.
Mr. G. LAMB said investigations had been made into the regula-
tions of the Wiltshire gaol, sad into the ease of bush in particular. One
of the letters he had received in consequence was from a noble lord
(Lord Radsoc)—certainly no enemy to freedom, and one in whom the
bon. member would himself place confidence. It was certain that by
the regulations of the gaol, no paperr from the prisooers wits 'Bowed to
go out, without being examined by the gaoler. Lush's attorney did
come for instructioos, and It was true that the gaoler's clerk accompa.
pied him. All, however, that took place, was this :—Lush delivered.,
his attorney his confession, drawn up. The gaoler's clerk said that
it must be submitted to the gaoler. He carried it to the gaoler, who
threw his eye over it to see whether it was a bona /Us confession, and
it was returned in a very few minutes. The paper was never produced
it the trial ; he had a letter from the attorney for the prosecution that
nett communication of it had been made to him. Indeed, he (Ma
Lamb) believed the gaoler to have had no positive knowledge of the
contents. With respect to the other point, it had been perhaps 'dared
from one of the regulations approved of by the magistrates. that the
legal advisers should communicate with the prisoners in the mom
a third prison. The practice, if it existed, was wrong, and he Iris i•
sinus that it should go out to the pelt, that the prisoners had aright
to confer with their legal advisers in private. (Hear, bear.)
Mr. NORTH said, if the prisoners were not allowed to do so, it
would be a violation of the constitutional law and of the law of nature.
Mr. H. TWI SS said a few words.
'NO ATTORNEY-GENERAL considered the practice complained
et highly improper.
Alderman WOOD said, that, with the exception of the IdoespeElon
Gaol, the practice occurred in almost every gaol in the klaplete. Be
spoke this warily, for he had visited the pole.
Sir C. WETHERELL denied that the practice was general, not-
withstanding the statement of the worthy alderman, the man
Qui,mores hominum multorum via et urbes. (A laugh.)
He must have picked up much incorrect information in Ms pere-
grinations.
After a few words from Lord NUGENT, Mr. WHITMOSE, Mr.
LAMB, and Mr. DICKENSON,
Mr. HUNT replied.—He objected to the Under Secretary; first, that
Lord Radnor knew nothing about the matter. Visiting Magistrates
knew nothing of the interior of a gaol. He had himself had the honour
to be in a gaol for two years—(a laugh)—and he could assure them,
that they knew nothing of what was going on. The gaol assumed
quite a new appearance at their arrival.—(A laugh.) He objected next,
that the Under Secretary must have had part of his information from the
voter himself. He had stated that the latter had the paper in his
hands for only a few minutes ; now, the fact was, that it remained with
hint for two days. However, as after what had been said that evening,
the practice would be done away with, he (Mr. Hunt) would not press
his motion.
the motion was then withdrawn.
OFFICE OF SECOIDER AT DUBLIN.
Mr. SHAW, in rising to move for returns connected with the office
of Recorder at Dublin, said he must make some observations on a
petition presented on the subject by the member for Clare---a petition
containing the most palpable falsehoods. It purported to be signed by
several untried persons confined in the gaol at Dublin, but was, more
properly, the emanation of a single individual, Joseph Andrew Mac-
donald. It complained first, that several persons had remained un.
tried and in gaol. in consequence of the absence of him ( Mr. Shaw) the
Recorder, from Dublin. The fact was, that all the prisoners bad been
tried exceptttwo. The next charge was against the chaplain of the gaol
for refusing to come to administer to the prisoner spiritual consolation
when be was at the hour of death. Now the fact was, that the pri-
soner was a roman catholic, and had confessed he had called on the pro-
testant chaplain only for the purpose of having a subject to petition
against him, and to obtain his dismissal. The hon. member went
through the other charges contained in the petition, and refuted them
seriatim. He then gave an account of the mode of sitting of the Re-
corder at Dublin, in refutation of a statement made on a former occa-
sion by Mr. O'Gorman Mahon. He said that four out of every five
weeks were wholly at his own service; and knowing that fact, his con-
stituents had solicited him to devote his time to their interests. Be
must add that his judicial duties were paramount to all other consider-
ations, o d that fact his constituents knew. What had made the hon.
member for Clare (O'Gorman Blahon)visit the humble sphere in which
he moved, he knew not, except it was that love of an imaginary
gthvance which sometimes &Meted the Irish mind; but if there were
wonted ground for ceu.plaint, the lion. member might have success-
fully travelled from north to south, and yet found his court the last
floiccomplaint, on the ground that had been urged. If a prisoner bad
been in other prisons, was he likely to be brought to trial in five days
afterwards : would he not, if he were waiting for the assizes, be more
likely to remain five months ? For the benefit of his office he had given
ncrartle privilege of practising as a barrister on the circuit. He also de-
that be was entirely independent of the Crown—of the
Lord Lieutenant, or of any Ministers ; and that he had his ahoy also
independent of die crown, or of any vote of that house. At the same
time, be was ready to meet any charge that might be preferred anulest
him, or against his office, or respecting the propriety of his boiii,t •
seat in that house. After regretting that observations malls in •slat
house on forirer occasions, b the members for Clare and 11114Messx,
had tendered it necessary for him to trespass on the house vile this Es-
fence of himself, he concluded with moving a series of papas iltastee.
the of the office of Recorder of Dublin—of the cases tried—of those

disposed of--and those loft unarmed of, at the conclusion of each
Sessioa, an.
Mr. O'GORMAN MAHON lownded the motion, and said, he
had pleasure in (bag ; and its ilth gpatilisd in being able to state,
that be was mob (podia with this Wad sod manly manner in
which the Ressethe of Dublin bed vindicated bliweelE The answer was
most triumphal, sal be was glad that they had so able a Member
amiopst them in that Reuse. For the charge lee before made be had act-
ed mut Matioasly. He hod a petition from Joseph Andrew Macdonald
(a dessothoth of one of the that Ilmoilles in Wmd), and sigma by
f Ars Misr persons, camplalmin that they could not be brought to
aft to the Reemthe of Diddles absence in Loath, Moth-
log Sem of the amass might be surrepdtiess-Aut be
mold not avoid poommting the toMen.-his duty would set allow
Mo. Ho hod Whom& dos Romis that be dwell pessont the peti-
tion-baths Remit would ass stay in tan. Be sosmised to Dab-
Us,sod aloes to Name on his sods in pythons to swim dun to beer
the peddom. He thought the complaints bad act boa answered. Es-
rapt the Recorder mkt be in two places at oncolo that House and
in Dublin•-one duty or the other must be left Odom. Nor bad
Macdonald% somplaint been answered. He was called a maniac,
but how was that proved ? He knew it was the fashion to call every
body a maniac who made complaints. But was the man a maniac be.
cause be did net dress after the Recorder's fashion ? Bemuse, instead
of having a three-Odd wig, he bad neither waistcoat nor cravat ?
(Laughter.) The pow man had not 4001. a year from the C.mporadon
of Dublin, and 1,0011. a year from that House ; bat that was no proof
of his being nod. When tried, the man was sequined—then was it
an " Imaginary grievance" to have been kept twelve days in the
dungeons of Dublin Newgate, when be ought toe ve been brought
to trial at once ? The Recorder, when canvassing the office, said he
would sit three days a week In his Court ;he bad not one so; duo was
not complaint justifiable ? The Recorder talked of his constituency—
the people; his constituency was the corporation, and not the people—
that corporation that tyrannised over the poop% and with the to-
bation of that House, foe the House would not listen to complaints
splint the corporation.
Mr. WARBURTON thought it was improper that such an officer
should hold a seat in that house ; and if a bill were brought in to dis-
qualify Recorders, he would support it.
Motion agreed to. Papas ordered.
Mr. CUItTEIS withdrew his notice of modem for leave of abeam to
Mr. Lefroy.
Mr. V. STUART presented • width flea Oudekforab teoar
plaining of names to the Carrickfergus dodos =rea.haviog beenforged,
forged, and praying the house to adopt Memos t
Petition ordered to be printed.
OARS LAWS.
Lord ALTHORP gave notice that as he could act lemon a odds
lord's bill on the game laws, be should, on Tuesday next, bll ring in abi
on that subject. (Hew.)
POOR UTTLRWIXT.
Mr. BATESON moved that the report of the committee on the poor
settlement bill be taken into further consideration. He said he should
propose that the payment of 101. a year rent should entitle to settlement.
This led to an extended conversadon, when the Speaker
that the bill should be recommitted; then the clause of the :ggescollded
be more freely discussed.
Bill recommitted accordingly.
The several clauses were agreed to ; the house resumed.--Report no
ITIOI7OII.
Lord NUG OJT postponed the second reading of °the labouring pee
bill to to-morrow week.
The posmtarrer general's bill was mod a third dine and
Sir W. POLICES presented a petition from Petworth, fo7l:4l.general
fast.—(A laugh.)
Mr. HODOES presented s petition from Malin, Kent, the a repeal
of the duty on malt; and similar petitions from two parishes in Kent.
Mr. SLA NEY presented a petition from workmen near Marleheatev,
for the repot' of the duty on printed calico.
The House adjourned at Twelve o'Clock.

PANORAMA OF THE BRITISH
EMPIRE.
LEICESTER CHRONICLE.
A subscription in behalf of the Poles has been entered into in this
town, and the sum of twenty pounds has already been sent to the editor
of the Morning Chrawiek, to be by him forwarded to its dedhiation.
The following paragraphs appear in a petition from Limiter against
the Coax Laws s—
" The that and great duty of the Government, and penticularly of
the Commons House of Parliament is, to secure to the people.
supply of cheap and wholesome food, and to give free *ps to tide
industry, that they may have the ability to obtain it, He it WM
edifice can have no stability unless It rests upon this sal liseiedu.
dm. But your petitioners conceive the can laws have fresh the nip
posits of these effects. On the one hand, the working classes, daft
the led detects years, have, with sheet intervals, been deprived of
auffielikey of bread, while, on the other, the waisbouses of our ma-
indhetnems have frequently been crowded with goods, and our arti-
eons destitute of employment, when, at the sum time, had it not
been for the corn laws, these goods might without doubt have
hem exchanged for the agrisaltusal produce of other countries,
and the poor thaeby furnished wids==aent an a anelestable sab-
&Ode, to the great benefit of the mannfitetuter,
and /* other classes of society. One midst a great merit of
atomised by the corn laws, is the heavy duty which foreign states have
laid upon ear delefedures, having been esequiled to adopt an eaden.
reel come of piney in their attempts to establish deemfactories Mimed
of eulthedeg their unpins lands. It was Added by the his
dent of the United States of America. in Jultddestlon d their
that England would take their cotton wool and manufacture it into
clothing, and then send it back to them, the Americens, to wear, bat
would not take their corn unless this country was appioacb-
lag to a state of famine. If the Coen Laws were imposed so
provide the People with a sufficiency of the common mew
series of life, they have completely failed in producing that did.
Bat If they were imposed to keep the supply of food unequal to the de-
mend, and consequently to enhance its price, and to produce want, dis-
tress, and misery, they have had the m&neholy effect, and justice, rea-
son, and humanity, equally and loudly call for their repeal. The corn
laws, as it respects agriculture, only involve a question of rent. Had
they produced prosperity among the fanners and agricultuial labourers,
your petitioners might have demurred pressing so urgently for their re-
; but as your petitioners can discover no benefit which these clued
have derived from them, and as they have been productive of the mai-
fold evils stated by your petitioned to the manufacturersand artisans of
the country, they humbly alma your honourable house to adopt such
measures as will ensure the speedy and ultimate repeal of the said laws.
Suffering as the people are from poverty and misery of defy kb4—
from enormous public taxation, it is impossible for the goventatestleng
to refuse to institute a most strict inquiry into all Corpuses nada, and
to order their just and appropriate application to the netedlike of the
people.—lf the exposure produced by Mr. Otway ass's
returns—lf the known and acknowledged expenditure of metseiledillaret
and Sir C. Hasting's election, with all the particulars of secret swim
money and of that enlightening correspondents! which ensued between
Mr. Otway Cave and the members of the coepencieu.—if the another-
ing of the Elective Franchise of the resident Burping by the eddies
of 2,000 Honorary non-resident Freemen„—if the member of • •
of large amount, at the disposal of the Coryolation•
which the town knows nothing—if the sufferings of 1,
committed to gaol in the space of a few years unconvicted's( allY aims
—if the increase in the charge upon the borough in a few yews fame
nothing to 4001. per annum,—if the case of Mr. Thomas 'Fielding,
though not the last, nor the least of similar occurrences, will sit
stir the town to demand a Parliamentary inquiry, nothing we can say
can have that effect.
The artisans, &a of Leicester, have sent the following memorial to'
Lord Melbourne :
"The humble Memorial of the Aaiun' sad Mechanics of Leicester,
" Shewah,—That they have long endured great privations, owing to
the want of employment, and the lowness of their wages, which at the
present time are not adequate to purchase a sufficiency of the common
necessaries of life. That the manufacturers have frequently reduced
the wages of their workmen, and at the same time given them a Dote
to the parish officers to have their wages made up out of the poor rates,
and that parishes have, in times of temporary dependsa el
trade, sent their unemployed poor to the manufacturers -el
gee work at any price, premising them to make up their
jesting' from the same source. From these asses the peer
have become pauperised to a considerable extent; a state alike in.
seuctive of their virtues and their comforts. The independence, am-
, fart, and happiness of the poor thus appear to have been lost sight of
by the manufacturers and perish officers; and often when a poor man
has been thrown out of employ, or unable to subsist on the produce of
his labour, his home has beau broken up, and himself and family sent
many miles to what is termed a " House of industry," where the poor
of from 20 to 30 perishes are immured together, and where he has been
treated as &felon and a slave, rather than as a free-ban Englishman. The
*clings of the poorman have been outraged, and his comforts trampled in
the dust. He has been condemned to labour sixteen hours tatty, soda the
fame time to be a parish pauper, and to pine in misery and want; and
It cannot be a natter of surprise that deep dissatisfaction has been the
result. Your memorialists beg to urge upon roar lordship the necessity
of a complete revision of the poor laws; of missing a bill to make it
highly penal to relied aman on damn' of his family, out of the rates,
when in health and in full employ ; for if men are to have their earnings
made up out of these rates, there is no point to which wages may not
be reduced, and the universal pauperism of 'the working elders must
be the- colisiiiiinee. Tour liiimodelsts would also-urge the ab-
solute necessity of paling a bill, empowering the magistrates of each
county to lay a rate upon all kinds of property, whether extra parochial,
or employed in trade, to relieve the poor man whim destitute of employ,'
and that dish pear wan an condition of subscribing Si. per wok, or
such less elmthiillapistrates may appoint, shall Ow Nelda to re.
lie as follows, via—a single mm s 71. a =need his wife its., and if two
children lls. per week, when out of employ. By this plan the practice

of rounds:nen would be superseded, and a resource provided for the poor
man and his family in times of temporary depression Glade, and when
thrown out of employ by the introduction of machinery."
At the lest rent audit, Mr. Edwards, steward of George Pochin, FA+
anotionced to the tenants that he was instructed to make an abatement
of 1$ per cent. upon their rents.
, More than nine hundred weavers, besides a considerable number of
poems connected with other trades, are now out of employ in Nom ich .
2U rector of a parish about nine miles south of this town, had re.
souse to a singular stratagem, a few days ago. to holuce his parishion.
lon to pay some outstanding debts contracted by former churchwarden.
which the present officers could not by law pay without consent of the
perishionera Finding that neither coaxing nor any persuasion whin
he could use, would avail with the meeting, he exclaimed—" You that
are honest men go to the right.--you that are not, go to the left !" on
which the three churchwardens went to the right, remainder, about
dozen farmers, Ike. to the left.
The Corporation of Leicester forbid any person to keep a beer-house
under an Excise License, unless he also purchases the freedom of th,
borough.
I.IIIOESTZIL, SaTtllDAT.••••lfirlifit, Iles lid; Barley, 45s lid:
g =2/41s lid; Beans, 4241 M; Peas, 395; Fine Flour, 63. to 6bs ;
Wheaten, 60s to 624: Household, 58e to 60; Quartern Loaf,
Wheaten llid; Ditto, Household, 104 d.
Looonzolouon, TIIIISIDAY.—Wheat, 85s; Barley, 48e; Oat,.
27s 6d; Beans, boa; Malt, 715, Flour, Wheaten, 645; Standard,
ditto, 62s ; Household, 60s.
MARRIED.—At Ashboum, the Rev. I T. Fletcher, A.M. of
Great Easton, to Miss Win Spencer—At Uppingham, E. Woollett,
fourth eon of Sir R. Wilmot, Esq. Bart. to Augusta Matilda, only
daughter of C. Champion, Reg —At Grantham, Mr. W. B. Hand.
cock, to Miss Ann 'amp, of Manchester.
DIED.—In Southgatmstnet, aged 72, Jane, relict of the late John
Ring, Req.—R. Chamber, Esq. of Hinckley, eminently distinguished
in the correction of distorted portions of the human frame ; andgrehe:Areat
number of wealthy patients confided to his care, contributed to
the prosperity of the neighbourhood.
SHEFFIELD MERCURY, FEB. 5.
The joameymen letter-gem printers of Sheffield have mreed upon
the following resides to Mimeo; to be forwarded to Lord Viscount
alMatithelt forifzerelawri Lee se heavily upon the Newspaper Press,
beth as regards the Stamp and Advertisement Duties, have been long
sod seriously felt as airflow burden by your petitioners ; and thata
reaped& ef the NM NSW in the humble opinion of your petitioners,
ultimo* teal It. imemlise tether than diminish, the amount of revenue
at tbess6mn.
atia laseter-preee Printers might Naturally be supposed,
Rem Wheeled them by their pesfoirsa of obtaining infur.
Malta, to be ditffirst who would feel alive to disk own interests, it is
undeniable thatio body of men have bean less lodise them ; yet, not.
withstanding chit this has boon the case,your Pennines most respectfully
state, that tbstmoNnlty awl good policy of the redeelkannr prayed for,
had been early eseeidelmi mid although the appoint @spininess of the
letter-pens prinblee Wash own and those universally
of other plates, way We led pew Hesse to infer, that a
satidasteey soqpietentio was /teen M des Maim which have obtained
fora greet risible Opus ; your Petitioners humbly and earnestly wish
it to be kininissal lapin your lisooneable House, that such indifference
Ise am in shmigwehee et tbe diarist universally felt prohibition to pee-
lings or admiliee ie , but merely from a consciousness that
the pregekey of the tae would long ere this have ap-
peared gelding to your niSSWIWNSwe, and obtained your serious at.
tender's; the ewes of Ineedal legislation.
The evils whisk your palomino& the country labour under from
sheen imposts ems hepahleth a—the Revenue is not benefitted ; many
meet deserviajand bilhastrines poems in the various trades of print.
log, type Arm, paper making, Az are deprived of employment ;
besides as pew honourable house must have observed, these imposts
check the peeves of knowledge, and diminish the means by which
public opting emerciem a Watery and efficient controul over public
men and public measures, thus closing the most powerful organ which
the people possess.
Yout peti_doners further beg leave to state, that whatever is adcu.
land to Sande or to crush the Press, hes a direct tendency to augment
and to the moral and intellectual darkness, already too pre.
valent to those islands. The press is the herald of knowledge, and the
handmaid of social order, and it is at once the duty and interest of a
free state to fester and encourage this useful instrument of mental im-
t and eivilizatiom Turbulence and disaffection have always
Crtillnheeeaosegtance of national ignorance. It is only an enlightened
population w can fully estimate the advantages of good govern.
matt, and yield, from the Impulse of reason, inimmation, and affection,
that °beams to the laws, which is exacted from the uninstructed by
the sena Moe of paniehment alone.
Yam pokiness', ehonikre, deem it unnecessary to fix any specific
same to wide's, in their glans, the reductions ought to extend; humbly
and senalsody relying upon the wisdom and liberality of your Honour.
sible Reuss, to grant such relief, as after your mature deliberation, you
dull deem advisable.
As a peel of the dying away of the prejadice against diesel:don, the
Mewing document, executed on the 2d of February, 1831:
,4 In the name of God, Ameo,
, of Rotherham in the county of Yak, being
of sound oiled, memory, and understanding, do leave this as my last
wUI sod siteneent. I lean my best wishes to all my dear friends, bring
ell l poison ; but I give and be math to -----, En. of Sheffield,
Surgeon, my body to be dissected for the beoeflt of mankind."
At a meeting of the owners or proprietors of estates through which the
projected railway from Sheffield to Goole is proposed to pass, Sir Wm.
B. Cooke But. in the chair, it was resolved unanimously,—That it is
the opinion of tide meeting, that the projected railway from Sheffield to
Goalie is wholly unnecessary and uncalled for, and that it will tend most
manifestly to the injury of the valuable estates of the land-owners along
the lino. without producing a commensurate public advantage. That
this meeting is far from wishing that any undue attention should be paid
to their individual internee, but that they feel it a duty to themselves
and the community to protest against such a violation of private rights,
particularly Ames then is not the most remote shadow of a public be-
nefit of cosseriponfmcmagnitude.
M. Meongeemey at this town, has engaged. after Easter, to lecture
bare des assabses et the Hoye; Institution, on Poetry and the Poets.
At the meeting of the Council of the Sheffield Political Union, held
passim week, at the Town Hall, T. A. Ward, Esq. was unanimously
Sleeted aeal,nimo ,B. Boyle, Esq. Deputy Chairman, and Messrs. E.
Resnaley. sad T. Orme, secretaries for the ensuing year.
Theinbecribers to the thole Railway have determined that as, under
=Med deiammeseek the Bill for the Sheffield and Goole Railway
wed* net be misled in the present Session of Parliament, and that great
advantage wed& be derived from a delay until the ensuing Session, pro.
ceedings balesendiately suspended, and that the soliciton be directed to
discontinue their canvass for assents and dissents, and all other proceed-
isp as to des MB.
Warren's biocides advertisements and quotations of Lardner's Cy-
eloped'. about dB is and all the provincial papers.
Mr. Parris, the principal Artist who painted that wonderful work,
the view of Leeks and its vicinity, as seen from the top of St. Paul's,
and which is now exhibiting at the Colosseum in Regent's Park, has
presented a magnificent picture to St. George's Church in this town,
which has been placed in an appropriate situation, forming a back
ground to the Communion Tahle. This picture, which is nine feet by
eleven feet six inches within the flame, was painted by Mr. Peon
some years ago, and was in the British Institution exbibidon of 1824.
DIED.—At Rawtry, T. Le Gay Brewerton, Esq.—Near Pasistooe.
in his 38th year, H. J. S. Payne, son of W. Payne, Esq. late of Frick.
ley.—At Barnsley, Mrs. Mason, wife of Mr. Godfrey Mason.
LIMERICK. EVENING POST.
The general quarterly meeting of the Protestant Colonization Society
of Ireland, was held on Saturday, at the society's chamber, Dame-
street, John Mayne, Req. in the chair. The report of the committee
of' mnagement was read, the details of which were of a most encour•
aging nature. It appears that although one year only has expired since
the suggestion of a plan for colonizing on our wastes, the manag-
ing committee have succeeded, by untewittiog diligence and
energy, lo bringing ureter survey and partial cultivation, a Imo
of near one thousand acres in the county of Donegal, which has
been taken from Sir Edmond Hayes, Baronet, on very advantageous
terms. An order has been issued for the erection of colonists' houses.
and the Committee of `Management .1 venture to promise, that the pee.
sent year shall not pass over without exhibiting one specimen, at lent.
of the practicability of colonizing at home. A tract of 2,000 ants, it
the western part of the county Cook, has been offered the Society, (
terms that appear to be eligible, and it has been determined to have
property immediately inspected and reported upon.
On Monday evening about one hundred of the most respectable gee-
tlemen in Cork sat down to a sumptuous and well-served dinner, Oren
at the Chamber of Commerce, in honour of the Mgh.episised, patriotic.
and honest individual— iterberr Baldwin, Req. M.D. The utmost iv,
lofty and good feeling pervaded the meeting. Richard Dowden,
Esq. took the chair, Thomas Lyons, Eq. and Daniel Murphy,
acted as Vice-Presidents.

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