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London, England, 1824-06-05 00:00:00

TRANSPOR CATION OF OFFENDERS BILL.

Mr. Secretary PM, moved that the th der of the Day should
he read, for the House to resolve itself into a Committee on the
Transportation of Offenders Bill.—Tbe Order having been read,
Mr. Secretary PEEL rose to explain the objects of
the Bill. By the old law, officers were appointed by
G.,vernment from the different counties to contract with
the owners of vessels for the conveyance of the convicts
who might be sentenced to transportation; but by the
present Bill, one person was enabled to enter into a
contract with the owners of such vessels going out to
New South Wale:, thereby considerable expense would
be saved ; for instead of fifty-two separate contracts,
only one would be required. In the course of the last
Session, it would be recollected, that an Act passed,
• enabling Government either to send convicts on board the
Hulks, to new South Wale:, or to other Colonies. In
consequence of this law, three hundred convicts were
sent to Berrouda,aod as far as a lodgment could at pre-
sent be formed on the utility of the measure, it pro-
mised to he very satisfactory. As he had observed on
a former evening, transportation was a very unequal
punishment, and he had the satisfaction of informing
the House, that arrangements were made in New south
Wales to make the glaciation: of punishment coincide,
as well as human means could devise, with the crime
committed by the convict.
Mr. SCAJILE FT objected to the principle, which
gave to the Executive Government the power of dispos-
ing of the convicts in the way it thought proper. He con•
ceived that after die sentence of the law was passed,there
ought not to exist a discretionary power in any quarter
to alter the degree of punishment.
Mr. Secretary PEEL said, in point of fact, there was
no alteration a the sentence intended by the present
Bill. It had always been left to the Government to de-
termine the place where convicts were to be sent.
The Bill before the House introduced no new power
whatever. Local arrangements had been made in New
South Wales, to make a distinction between individuals
sent there. This was a thing very much wanted. Was
it right to allow a person like Conolly, who had been
recently convicted of a most serious charge of man-
slaughter, to be treated in the same manner as those
who had committed lighter offences ? It would be a
very severe punishment to some who were transported,
if they were obliged to be treated as common convicts.
The Bill, the Right Honourable Gentleman contended,
gave no new powers to the Crown.
Mr. WILMOT-HORTON wished to offer a few ob-
servations to the House. The point was this. New re-
gulations were suggested, by which the convict who
should be sent to New South Wales would be subject
to more coercion. There had been a temptation to com-
mit crime almost from the treatment which convicts
experienced in the Colonies heretofore. The severity
, of ttansportation would be increased by the present

measure, and convicts, instead of being kept in the
neighbourhood of large towns, where they might asso-
ciate together, would be scattered over the country.
This he conceived would be a considerable punishment
for persons who had been accustomed to society. In
addition to this, the worst convicts would be subjected
to other privations. He was anxious that the public
might be made acquainted with this arrangement, as it
might deter some from committing crime.
After a short discussion, in which Mr. \VAR's, Mr. Gars, Mr.
Alderman Woon, Lord STANLEY, and Mr. Secretary Pest• took a
par', the House resolved itself into a Committee on the Bill.
The house having resumed, the Report of the Committee was
ordered to be brought up to-morrow (this day).

NEW CHURCHES.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved
the Order of the Day that the Report of the Committee
on the New Churches Bill be brought up.
Colonel I)AVIES objected to it.
LEYCESTER opposed the Bill. The people
did not want Churches ; they wished to have pastors
and preachers. They asked for bread and you gave
them a stone.

Mr. B. COOPER was sarplised at the language
which had been used on the opposite side. One would
have thought that the grant was to build brothels in-
stead of Churches. For himself he considered that the
half million could not be more profitably expended.
Mr. HUME repeated his conviction that the propos.ed
grant was a profligate abuse of the public money. He
was not aware what right the House possessed to levy
money which was not appropriated to the concerns of
the community. The tax bore most unequally, and
therefore, to use the language of the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, any such tax was unjust. It was not mo-
t•ey that could promote religion and morality in the
country ; for the richer the Clergy were the less useful
they would be. Lao kat the parties who administer re-
ligious rites will) the gi eate.t zeal. It is those who ate
connected w ith the parishioners, and who are underpaid
fn- their services. The revenues of the Established
Church amounted to 2;10,000,0001. sterling; and having
these enormous iesourcei it was unjust to call on the
Dissenters, who exceeded five millions in number, to
conti ihute to the erection of new Churches. But it wits
'wither the million grant nor the present grant that
could promote religion ; all they could do was to ex-
tend the influence of the Crown, and to create a servile
Pt iestliood—( Mar).
In t e?ly to a question from Mr. Htmoos GURNEY,
The CIIANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said,
that money was given to the parish under the restric-
tions imrot•ed by the Million Act; and a discretion was
left with the Commissioners whether the money was to
be lent or given.
Sir J. X kwronsr said, it seemed to him extremely
inconsistent that money shrinkd be given for the erection.
of Churches i i Eigland, where the great bulk of the
population was Piotestant, while in Ireland, where the
population was ChiaY Catholic, the money was only
lent by Parliament, and was repaid by parochial rates.
Mr. V. vazucitALD defended the grant. His
Right Hon. Et iend had said that the money advanced
for a similar purpose in Ireland was lent by way of loan,
whereas the money about to be ►oted was in the way of
I gift. The money aJvanced by way of loan in Ireland
is as only in parishes in which no church had previously
been in existence.

Mr. I'iIIGIAPS opposed the Bill, and said k ap-
pea:ed to him disgraceful to us that our Catholic fel-
low-countrymen should be suffered to remain in their
resent :ituation. and that the conduct of France, with

cvspect to religious liberty, should be *Wowed to form
such a proud contrast to this country.
Mr. MONCK opposed the cared little for
the Bill itself, but he regietted the position the Church
occupied in the'opinion of the people-. It was with ex-
treme regret he observed that the Churches already
built were not half tilled. In addition to the plan in
view, he would recommend that a fund should be esta•
blished for the support of additional Citrates, and that
thi, sum should be tdken from the income of the Clergy,
which had been so considerably augmented of late
years. But while he held this doctrine, 10 disclaimed
any intention of interfering with the funds of the Church.
No Honourable Member of that House felt mote op-
posed to interference with Church property-than him-
self. He had never concurred in any proposition of the
kind, and never would, as long as we should continue
to have a Church E)tabltshmenr. He h.,ped she Bill
would be postponed to next Ses,ion—Mcstion

Sir I. COFFIN.--I say, Sir, let us go 00 and have the ,:hurches.
The House then divided, wheu there wei e
Por the Amendment
Against it

Majority
The Report was then brought up and rgreed to, and the Bill was
ordered to be read a third time on Thursday next.
The County Jails Bill was read a third rime, and passed.
True Report of the Cue‘ra-nut 1101 was brought up and agreed to,
and the Bill was ordered to be read a third rinse to.rno: row.

The Newfoundlami Judicature Hill was e•sinalitted, and the Re-
port ordered to be brought up tu-morrow.
The House resolved itself iu:u a Cmumirtee mi the Combination
Laws Repeal Bil!. The several clauses were agreed to.
The House resumed—the Report was agreed to, and the Bill was
Ordered to be read a third time to-morrow.

The House went into a Committee on the Slaughtering of Horses

Mr. WYNN ar.d Mr. ROLTRT SIIITH thought it was ridiculous to
suppose that every keeper of a slaughter-house could keep an ac-
count of every teed he gave a horse before he slaughtered. him, as
be was required to do by the Bill.
Mr. MART I N defended the 13tH. Tie said is was the custom
with slaughterhouse-keepers to keep horses ten days without food.
lie went to one of their places, at Whitechapel, where he saw a
number of horses keeping till it was convenient to slaughter them ;
but without a a:oriel to eat ; and was told that some of them had
been in the same state ten days; one of the fellows said to him that
horses did very well for ten days without food. He could not but
send foe some trusses of hay fur the poor animals, which, when the
fellows saw, one of them went to trample the hay, to prevent the
horses having it, unless he got money to drink ; and, said the lion.
Gentleman, I was actually obliged to compound with him, and give
him money to prevent his destroying the hay. But I had my re-
venge, for I wrote hint two or three hundred letters, telling him
when he'd get dead horses, where there were none to be had—
(Great laughter).
The Bill was agreed to.--The House resumed, and the Report
was ordered to be brought up on Wednesday.
Tate other Orders of the Day were then disposed of, and the
House adjourned at a Cinarter to Eleven o'Clock.

ORANGE Lonues.—The following Resolution was
agreed to by the Grand Orange Lodge of Dublin, on
the 21st May:
" Resolved—That in consequence of the evils which have arisen
from the erroneous views which many persons have taken of the
motives and conduct of the Orangemen of Ireland ; and of the
intention and tea of processions which have usually taken
place on the 12th of in memory of the glorious revolution,
the Grand Orange Lodge feel anxious to evince publicly their de-
sire to promote tranquillity, and to take front the ill-disposed every
excuse for their misconduct, rind are willing to restrain even their
own most earnest wishes fee the public avowal of that attachment
to our glorious Constitution, which is the hie-blood of the Associ-
ation, hereby resolve, s That no public procession of the Orange
Association shall be made on the 12th in July next.' And that
our Grand Secretary be instructed to co.usilutticate toss Resolution
to the several Grand Natters for the idol tuattuti of all concerned:

THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

SATURDAY, JUNE 3,182• x.
THE FUNDS.

STOCK nxcii A N G F., TWELVP. O'CLOCK.

Consols opened this morning at 95, but the moment it was knon•n
that the French Ministry had lost the Project on the Rentes, the
Market was very heavy, and Consols went down to 94, rose again
to 946, I, at which price they how remain for the Account : a go, d
deal of business has been done.

The French Itentes on the 5d June were, for money, Iry.r.4:c
and for the end of the mouth 104 f. •25c. Spanish 18, 1)41, 96,

Private letters state, that after 'Change the L r
oes tell t a.O
cent. in consequence of the rejection of the financial measure.

FOREIGN FUNDS.

There is but little doing this morning in the Foreign 31arlitt.4-
Current Price 4: New Spanish 141 to 13, Old ‘29i to 1,
954, Alexicati lcnp 9i, Austrian 951, Fr:itch 15:, Gre„k 10,
New Prussian 99, Old 98, Alliance ;harps 14 to ~
906 to 91.

There is a repert that the Emperor of RVSSIA liaSbecn poiscr(J,
but it is not credited.

L'IiICU OF STOCKS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock 2371,4 236%
3 per Cent. Ileduced 93''t; 93 1/2
3 per Cent. Cons. Tut-31 per Cents. 101
4 per Cents. Assented 1001/2 a/s 7/
4 per Cents. New shut —I. per Cents. Old 100%
Bank Long Anns. 221/4—lndia Bonds 73
I.l:.(.l:equer Dill, (CI NO) 32 28 26
Do. Small 31 26 28—Do. (12500) 28 26 23
Con:ols for Acct. 95%. 541,4 34 94.4 Ye.•

This forenoon we received the Mimi'cur of Thursday,
with the Pilate and Etoile of yesterday, by Expres.
The Hoile, in a Second lijition, states that the finance
measure, for reducing the French renter, has been finally
lost by a majority of 15. There were sevtral amend.
mutts proposed, and as many disi,iotis took place, the
Ministers opposing them all; but when the final scru-
tiny came they were in a mitten ity, and the law was
rejtcted ; in consequence of vt !rich, according to private
setters, the "elites fell two per cent. It was rei,ortc,i
that the Minister of Finance, M.VILLELE, would re,igr,
but many were of opinion that he would ptcserve his
station.

The Moniker of Thur►d:y, together with a Supp'..-
mem, ate filled with the discussions in the (umber et
Peers, on the Finance Project; and in the Deputies, r,ii
the Law for Recruiting the Army, which was ajopted
on Tuesday, by a majority of 248 to 70. In the ciEcial
part, the Afoniteor gives a Decree, ordering some lICW
regulations in the Legion of Honour.

There has been a destructive fire in the Commune
of Martigny, in the Department of the Vosges, by which
eveuteen houses have been burnt down, and twenty-
four families deprived of homes. The Prefect im-
mediately opened a subscription for their relief, to
which the Duke of A NGOULEME gave 1,000 francs, and
the Duchess 500.

'The Jourmal des Dcbets•of Wednesday contains an
article, dated Zante, May 1, which, if tine, is of the
utmost moment to the deliverance of Greece. It exhi-
bits at the same time, in a singular manner, the clumsy
atrocity of the Turkish Government. It may be ob-
served, that, for some time, Greece was menaced with
a tremendous expedition to be commanded by the Vice-
roy of EGYPT. The command was declined by Maitu.
MED ALt, who caused it to be accepted by his son. But
the Poi to was much more intent upon the ruin of the
Viceroy than on the subjugation of the Greeks, and the
expedition was a mere pretence todestioy him.

At a moment when 1000 foot, 2000 horse, 100
pieces of cannon, and 3000 camels, were about to pa
ceed doss n the Nile, a file broke out in the arsenal el.
spread telt itie desolation, and all the abovemen-
tiOned part of the expedition—men, horses, cannon, and
cznieli, with the exception of a few guns, were de-
stio)ed. Masseuses) was thunderstruck at this explo-
sion, and had difficulty in saving his life. The chief
author of the conspiracy was named IBRARIM BEY,
formerly a Mameluke. He proceeded upon Cairo, and
was supposed to have occupied it.
The Viceroy, however, it was thought would regain
his ascendancy, and declare himself wholly indepen-
dent of the Porte. Thus has terminated, if the article
we allude to may be relied on, the last resource of the
Turks against the Greeks. Some doubts may be enter-
tained of the correctness of the account, which evidently
favours the Greeks in other parts. _ _ _

A private letter from Paris says—gg The Prince Don
Miguel is expected daily at Brest, and already the
Ultras are making preparations to give him a splendid
reception at Paris. He, however, will not be counte►
nanced in the same way at Court, where it is intended
to carefully avoid (at least publicly) any reference to
political matters, and regard him only as an illustrious
traveller."

The Lisbon Mail which arrived this morning, has
brought the intermediate Gazettes, from the 17th to
the 20th ult. The expedition to Brazil, preparations for
which we first announced, has not, as some of our cotem-
porat ies asserted, been abandoned ; on the contrary,
the Gazette of the 18th contains an advertisement
from the Navy Office, inviting the owners of ships who
ate willing:to employ them as transports, for the con-
veyance of troops in the expedition now fitting out, to
send a statement of the particulars, terms, &c. to the
Navy Office.
The advertisement states, that offers have been made
by foreigners which will be preferred, if they shall be
found more advantageous to the ttea,ury than those ct
the pel-sont; now cahed upon.
The Gazette, of the 19th ultimo, contains a
letter tiatz..l the 14. tit, from MANUEL PAMPLONA CAN'
SEIKO ILtscEL, Governor of Oporto, to the Marquii
PALmzu,A, in which he states, that he received on ow

it2th, the news of his MaissTY Irkving gone on board
theWINDSOR CASTLE, but took care to hinder it from
becoming public, lest it should be supposed that some
violence had been offered to his MAJZSITV, which might
have produced disturbance. 44 I took measures,"
says he, "that none should receive before myself, the
news which the mail would bring on the 13th, in order
to prevent the consequences. In the midst of hope and
fear this happy day arrived ; at five in.the morning I re.
eeived his MAJESTY'S Decree, the Proclamation, and the
notice, which your Excellency ordered to be published."
The General then states that he called together the
Bishop, the Magistrates, and the Commanders of the
Corps; orders were issued for the troops to assemble in
the principal square, where the official documents above
zentioned were read to the troops, and an immense
vowd of the inhabitants, by all of whom the good
rxws was received with an enthusiasm and transport
Lot to be described. The city was generally and spon-
vi„eotrily illuminated. Expresses were immediately
di,patchea to all parts of the Province, and to the Ge-
tarals in Minh() and Tras os Montes.
A letter from Viscount PESQUEIR A, Governor of
Minho, dated the 13th, informs the Marquis de PA L-
SIt.I.LA that he has published the orders sent by his
I:,,cellency, dated the 10th ; that the Province is per-
fectly tranquil; and the troops and their Officers, always
faithful to his MAJESTY, protest that they recognise
no other authority.
The Gazette of the 21st of May contains an account
of the tejoi6ngs at Odorto on the KING'S birth-day.

By the arrival of a Jamaica Mail with Papers to the
`2oth of April, and New York Papers to the 3,1 of May,
►ve have a mass of intelligence from Col►►tnbia. The
news from Bogota is to the Bth of March, and is deci-
sive as to the fate of at least one of the Republics of
South Amelica.

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The British Commissioners who sailed fro n Ja-
maica in the Iris, reached &Teta on the 21st ult. and,
on the Sth instant, were presented to the Vice-President
SASTANDER, by the Minister of Foreign ltektions. His
EKcellency received the Commissioners in state ; he was
surrounded by all the other Members of the Executive,
and by all the Civil and Military Officers; the Minister
from the United States attended x% ith his suite. The
peech of the Vice-President, in welcome of the Com-
missioners, was much in point for an occasion so
honourable; and now we can congratulate our Readers
on the rise of Colombia to the sovereign rank of nations.
Colonel HAmit.•rov. in a most happy choice of word;,
then presented to the Vice-President, in the name of the
KrNo of ENGLAND, a splendid gold snuff box, enriched
with diamonds, stating that he had x present also for
General Boi.tvA a. The Colonel concluded by assuring

the Vice- President, that no Foreign Power on earth
:bold interfere with the political situation of Colombia.

Congiess had not met, but there wanted only the
arrival of two more members of the Senate to complete
the number prescribed by the Constitution, in oi der to
commence the sittings. Mr. HENDFRSON, the Consul
for Colombia, had not arrived at Bogota. Such is the
intelligence from Colombia, in the Jamaica Papers. A
New Yo►k Paper, of the 2.1 of May, gives, on the autho-
rity of advices from Porto Cabello, via Curacoa, the
following intelligence:
Mimi and LENO GA LLORADO (both coloured people)
being dissatisfied with BOLT VAR and the other Chiefs of
the Republic, had, in connection with a number of
others, laid a plan fur a revolt. Haying confidence in
General PAEZ, the abovementioned persons communi-
cated their designs to hint, when he informed them that
if they would state the reasons of their discontent, and
the names of the individuals concerned, he would re-
present their case to Government, and obtain redress.
A list of the leaders was handed to him, when he had
them all immediately taken up at Caraccas and sent to
Calabozo, where they were all executed, including
Thzu and G A ta.onano."—A vessel had arrived at King-
ston from Alvarado (Mexico,) having sailed from thence
on the 27th March, at which time no event had occurred
to interrupt the tranquillity of that part of Mesico.
No advices appear to have been received from the
capital. Some reports have been circulated that CAN-
TAitAc, the Spanish General, was likely to gain the
ascendancy in Peru; but they are entitled to little no-
tice, as they are found to depend solely on oral infor-
mation, and mention nothing of the situation of the two
ai mies. The last advices from Lima, at all to he de-
pended upon, ate dated the 20th of December, and it
was then stated that the campaign, owing to the situa-
tion of the Country, could not commence before the be-
ginning of March ; in which interval, on account of the
well-known attachment of CANTARAC to the Constitu-
tional cause, it may be expected, as soon as he should
hear of its overthrow in Spain, that an arrangement
lietwecn him and BOLIVAR would take place. It is
:aid that Generals CAN TA RAC and LA SER N A had called
a meeting of the principal Officers under them, when
a resolution was passed never to recognize the absolute
gmernment of Spain. Immediately after this military
ctuncil,a Colonel was dispatched to the Congress of Peru.
It is stated in a letter from Lima, of the 19th of Ja-
iy,tary, that BOLIVAR, with the approbation of Congress,
Lad dispatched the Conde DE SAN DENA with proposi-
tions to the Spanish General, in the hopes of an amica-
ble at i angcment. The Baltimore American says,--
'• the brig Torpedo, which has arrived at Baltimore,
•l days from Rio Janeiro, we learn that tl►e frigate
United States ars ived at Rio on the 10th of February,
and saiiesl on the 17th for the Pacific. Three Brazilian
ships of war sailed about the Ist of March to blockade
t:ie port of Pei nambuco. An English 80-gun ship
saled on the 10th of Nlarch for Lima ; a French fri-
gate sailed at the same time. There were in the port of

R7o an English 74, and five French frigates and sloops
of war."

Government have received Dispatches from Jamaica,
but not of so late a date as the intelligence by the Mail,
being only of the 17th of Api il, at which time the Island
was perfectly tranquil.