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champare as a testimony 'at rejoic►ng at the departure
of the French troops: ,
The enthusiasm of these madmen is said to go to such
lengths as even to preach a crusade to blockade St. Seba-
stian and Pampeluna, and they do not desp tir of taking
those two places by assault. Such barstings excite a
smile of pity. -
When the executioner of Valladolid had a Constitu-
tionalist to execute, he took the office on himself to have
.the 'pleasure of tormenting him. Last week he was
found in his bed with his head severed from his body.

FRENCH AND ENGLISH FINANCES.

. The following is a comparative view of the Revenue,l
Expenditure, and Commerce of France and England
since the year 1819 t
The English Finances in the year 1819 'exhibits an annual charge,
For unredeemed Funded Debt, of ' . X 30,012,032
The year 1824, of . . . . 27 233* 670
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Decrease 2,778,362
The former year gave, for interest paid or remaining
due on the Unfunded Debt . . . 2,815,098
The latter year , i • • • 860,000

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Decrease . . .
For the year 1819 the exoenbe of the Army, Zan;
and Ordnance was . a .
For 1825 it is estimated at ' . . .

i,953,098

17,705,150
15,271,518

Decrease . . 2,459,02
And adding together these three sums, viz. X 2,778,362,41,855,098,
and X 2,430,832, we have a total reduction of £7,164,092. •
Meanwhile the income has improved in a similar manner. •
That of the year 1819 was . . . 56,040,108

53,143,305

Apparent surplus
Deduct balance of Revenue of the year 1818

2,896,803
2,257,935

Real surplus . • • 638,868
Which last sum, however, would be wholly absorbed
by the interest of the Unfunded 11:13t, which became
due in the course of the year beyond what is charged.
The Income and Expenditure i f 1824 can only be
fairly compared with those of 1819, by excluding the
arrangement of the Halt-pay Annuities, and then the
account will stand_thus :
Income
Expenditure

£54,745,403
49,990,801

Surplus . £4,752,202
Thus there is a positive improvement of Income
'over expenditure (exclusive of the Half-pay atrAnge-
ment) to the amount of nearly Five M llions
And fin Ally, by means of diminished expenditure on
the one hand, and improved income on the other, the
British Government has been enabled to remit taxes,
since 1820, equal to above ten millions per annum ! •
Nor should we omit to state, that the official value
of our Expotts and Impor.s,
For 1819, was
For 1824,

X 74,162,105
104,954,757

Increase £30,792,658
Comments on such results 45 these are superfluous;
let us, then, in the nest place, see *hat our neighbours,
the French, have been about in the same time.
The &ages is( the ordinary expenses of France,
For the tear 1819 £34,449,554
.1820 • 34,965,146
1821 . 35,258,304
1844 . $8,045,818 •
1825 • 39,903,538

But in the year 1828 there is a further charge of
8,310,7231. for the extraordinaries of the war in Spain :
here, therefore, is an increase in the ordinary current
expenditure of 5,543,9841. while the Budgets shew
an improvement in the Reienue, from 1818 to
1824, inclusive, of only 3,112,2201. In the face of
these facts it will not appear surprising, that the annual
charge for the unredeemed debt, which, on the Ist of
January, 1820, was 6,400,0001. should be on the Ist
January, 1825, 6,440,0001.. with an outstanding float-
ing debt of which it would be difficult to form a cor-
rect estimate.

Reduction of taxes has been necessarily incompatible
with such an augmentation of the public expenditure,
and the late discussions in the Chambers have proved
that future relief in this way can only spring from the
progressive improvement of the revenue. The charge
for the Indemnity to the Emigrants will balatce the re-
duction of.the Renter.
The value of the Exports and Imports of Frame is estimated
Annually, it . . X 34,000,000
Of her soil and industry, at . X 259,952,400
Of which there is consumed at home 259,046,40
Making a total of . X 5111,995,800

Measured by this power of production _and con-
sutivtion, the foreign trade of France, in her admirable
geographical position, appears perfectly insignificant,
and can only be the result of false notions on political
economy, in a people so distinguished by natural
intelligence.

. PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS.
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HOUSE OF LORDS, 11141 r 4.

Counsel were fully beard in " Aitcheson v. the Magistrates of
Glasgow."
Counsel were heard, in part, in " Lord Glammis v. Sir J. D.
Peel, Bert."
The further hearintof the Bargany cause will be continued to-
morrow (Thursday), at ten o'clock, when Mr. Roesarrint, for the
appellant. and Mr. Moncitevr, for the respondent, Sir Hew Dal-
rymple Hamilton, Bart. will address their Lordships.
Mr. Tomas, from the Treasury, presented Accounts of the
`Transit Trade of the Port of London.—Laid on the table.
Mr. nags, from the East India Docks, presented an Account
of the Number of Ships lit those Docks.—Laid on the table.
Mr. Hines presented certain Returns from the Directors of the
)Meltable loan Company, which were laid on the table, and on
the notion of Lord Daces, were ordered to be printed.
Lord DACRE gave notice, that on Monday next he should
move the second reading of the Equitable Loan Company's NIL
Earl ROSSLYN presented a Petition from the Wharfingers of
St.Olaves and other Parishes, againit the St. Catherine Dock Bill.
laid on the table.
The. Bishop of BATH and WELLS presented, with peculiar
'interest, a Petition against the Catholic Claims from the Clergy of
she Diocese of Carlisle, with which he hod been acquainted for a
long series of years.—Llid on the table.
, Similar Petitions were then presented—By the Duke of Nor-
easy .a, from she Inhabitants of the Town of Yarm ; by the
Bishop of ST. Davies, from several Parishes in the Counties of
Meth and Radnor, and from the Town and Borough of Hever-
ford west.-=Laid on the table.
KENYON presented
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••' • " •-rPftiltrt3EYEN PTA. C?. • .

FrOUSE OF COMMONS.

The Minutes At ihridence takes ham* the Conmdttue es du
County Courts Bill were laid on the table. • •
Lord A IGTHOEP said he should move to postpone the idelbile*
consideration of this Bill until Tuesday nett.
General GASCOINR made some remark's on theinforriiidity.
of the Noble Lord's motion. • ..
The SPEAKER said the gallant Offi-fir had snisundenstood^alle
matter entirely, The Noble Lord bad proceeded Seep properly in -*
moving the Order of the Day. •
General GASCOYN E said that his objection was simply against
-the interruption of Petitions by the motion for the Order of the-Day.
The SPEAKER observed, that it was merely an understanding
for the cenvenience of Members, that the earlier part of each even-
ing should be devoted to Petitions, but whenever the case required,
that practice might he departed from.
Lord A LT UMW explained.
Mr. LITTLETON said that the course pursued by the Noble
Lord had been previously pursued by the Secretary for. the Home
Department.
Mr. CA LCRA FT said th.ft the present Conversation was most
asorderly—(Hear). The Honourable Gentleman continued, by
-observing that every Member had a right, on any emergency, to
make a motion, without regard to the number of Petitions to be
presented. The Noble Lord never thought that ally conversation
would arise. It was inip-ortant, however. that it siseu'd be settled
at what time precisely the public business wail to commence.
The SPEAKER admitted that much inconvenience had arisen
from the quantity of private business lx:fore the House during the
Session. He himself was ready to attend at any earlier hpur fgr
the purpose of getting through the hu,inesa of the !louse.
Mr. BROUGHAM suggested that one clear day in each week
might be appropriated to private business. This would save a great
deal of expense to the suitors. He thought Saturday might be de-
voted to that purpose.—The Bill was then ordered to be re-cons.
mitted until Tuesday nett, and the Report to be received on Mondat.
Sir M. W. RIDLEY presented a Petition front the Stamen of
Hull, prowsting against the charges made against them, an,l praying
that their Petition might be referred to the Committee, and that
they might be heard in their defence.
Mr. SYKES supported the payer of the 'Petition, and spoke In
favour of the general good conduct of the Petitioners.—Ordered to
be referred to the Committee.

Mr. AsuttitsT presented a Petition* against the Corn Laws
from the Agriculturalists of Whitney, in the county of Word.—
Ordered to lie on fete table.
General GASCOY NE presemed several Petitions respecting the
Comhinatioranws, from the Sawyers, the Shipwrights, thy Joiners,
the Blockmakers; thl Coopers, and the Ropers, of Liverpool.
Sir M. W. RIDLEY hoped that no opinion would be formed
with respect to the conduct of the Committee until the evidence
was laid before the House.
Mr. SYKES nude a similar remark.
General G A SCOYNE moved that the Petitions be' referred to
the Committee.—Ordered. 4 •
Mr. RICE TREVOR presented a Petition from the County of
Carmarthen, against any alteration in the Corn laws.
Sir J. OWEN presented a Petition from the Town of Pem-
broke, against the Catholic Clainis.
Mr. G RATTAN preserved a Petition from an individual lithe
county of Wicklow, against the Elective Franchi-e Bill.
Sir T. LETHBRIDGE presented a Pention from Langton
(Somerset), against the Catholic Claims. And another Petition .
from Bath, in favour of the Cruelty to Animals' Bill.—All ordered
to be printed.
Lord NUGENT presented a Petition •frout Leighton-Buzzard,
comalaining of *lbe arbitrary manner in which a publican in that
town bad been deprived of his license, and praying that the licens-
ing Laws might be inquired into. The Noble turd condenined
the arbitrary manner in sa4leh these laws were often administered.
filr. MONCK bore testimony to the evils of the mode in which
li s
itwere granted and withheld.
. mars inquired whether Government meant to renew the
Lieg Act, whisk would shortly expire t •
Mr. Secretary PEEL was not prepared to answer the question,-
An a few days he should be.—Ordered to be printed.
Mr. DENMAN presented a Petiticn from the opera-
tive Mechanics of Walsall, * against the Combination
Laws. The Learned Gentleman was of opinion that
the common law was sullicknt to put dozen any com-
bination amongst workmen,. without enacting any new
statutes. It was advisable, however, that MEMbers should keep
their minds free from prejudice, in order to come fairly to the .dk-
cussion of the question. Ile objected to the ekes,' fa the HM„
giving a summary power of conviction to Magistrates, wiieteaikall
acts of violence ought to be left to the ordinary tribunate.
Mr. HU.4E agreed that the summary clause was
unnecessary. It was not one of his proposition, but
was done by the other Members of the Committee. An unfounded
outcry bad arisen against the law of last Session. That`law was
neither hasty nor erode, and it did not repeal any laws which pu-
nished acts of violence or illegal combination. It merely telievtd
peaceable meetings from punishment.
Mr. Secretary PEEL wished rhat no premature dis-
cussion should take place. He doubted whether the
common law punished combinations of workmen against
their masters. That doubt ought to be cleared up. The second
clause of the Act was very obscure, and might be connoted as
authorising all sorts of combination, abd amounted to an obsolete
repeal of all other Statutes, and the common law aloe The de-
claration of the Learned entleman was important, and the doubt
sinsild be settled. He thought that the precipitate veal of thirty-
lire Acts of Parliament was a very grave proceeding.
Mr. SCA RLETT said that if he had been in the House when
IM Bill passed, he should have opposed the Clause. The common
I law was quite sufficient to punish any illegal combination. The
common law had been repealed by the recent law, and the. matter
should be taken IBM consideration.
Mr. BARING thought the repeal had been productive of great
mischief. The evil was infinitely aggravated, and the country was
threatened with great dangers. He did not know whether k would
be sufficient to re-enact all the old Statutes, but something ought.to
be done, and that speedily.
Mr. it GURNEY expressed his desire that more attention
should be paid to the subject.
Mr. J. WILLIAMS said, that if all the obje'c ions he
bad heard were well founded, they would only prove that all le-
gislation was in vain. lie did not believe that any nicrease of
combination had taken place since the repeal. The law as altered
left the power of punishing just as it stood beftire. He thought
that the constant recurrence to a Magistrate, instead of waiting
to apply in coolzr moments to the remedy by indictment., was a
great evil.
Mr. SYKES Spoke In favour of the cautious ani: diligent veer -
duct of the Committee. Whatever of precipitation there bad barns
was ascribable to the House and not to the Committee.
Mr. Secretary PEEL said, that of all the Committees
this appeared to be the most sensitive. He never dragged
the C immittee with precipitation, but he charged the
House with rashneis In passing some of the clauses in the Mil. He
could not but reprobate those clauses which anovniewut ausherksd
cotubinations—(Hear, hear). . .
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Sir J. NEWPORT said, that all freedom of trade
would be destroyed if wcrkmen were al'.owed to Com-
bine together. Thena might be many evils arisingfit.m
the combination, although there should be no violence.
Those evils ought to .be corrected, un.lt the pubilit.l,..
(crests required it. No number of men should be allowed to fix a
rate of wages in any branch of Manufactures. It would ruin rho
manufacturer, and would also rain tbernseie!s...
Mr. Donnie, Mr. Seaways. and 31r. Huns explained. •
Mr. Secretary PEEL said, that the combinations were
of a very serious character. He received every ;no
hours the most impoitanc tommunicvions on thelub-
jol'eetthe. The Honourable
utohneoxubraibkbleedt Gentleman
hemost rraunurd sotheao
arif
totilPievirtitreits
elides and conduct. ,
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Mr. KENNEDY made a tingle remark. •
, was tied - Committee.
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