Star.
London, England, 1830-02-27 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS, FEB. 26.

At four o'clock there being 100 members present, the house pro-
ceeded to ballot foe a committee to try the merits of a petition, com.
plaioing of the undue election of Mr. Berard Callaghan, for the
City of Cork. The members of the committee soon after came to
the table and were sworn as follow :

Sir W. Scott Mr. J. B. Bradshaw
Mr. W. Russell Mr. J. H. North
Mr. John Marshall 111 r. Thomas Aleock
Mr. James Locke Mr. Thomas Baring
Sir W. Pringle Mr. John M'Leod
Sir G. Murray
Mr. Alderman WOOD mop• for a return of all soap made, and
alt soap exported, in the year 1029 ; and an account of the gallons
of foreign wine that paid duty last year ; and an account of the num.
ber of bushels of malt and beer made ; and the number of gallons of
spirits made, and of gallons of spirits imported, for the last year ;
and the quantity of coffee imported for the last three yarn.—Or.
dered.

Mr. EGERTON presented a petition from Congleton against the
prar.'::c of paying wages in goods.
Mr. J. WOOD presented a petition from a number of young
men brought up to the profession of attorneys, praying for an act to
indemnify them against non-compliance with the law as it stood be.
fore the repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts, which, had not
that bill passed, the Annual act of indemnity would relieve them
from.

The SOLICITOR-GENERAL expressed his opinion that the
petitioners should be relieved.
JOHN WOOD presented a petition, signed by 7,000
cotton weavers of Preston, complaining of distress, and praying for
a duty on the export of cotton twist. He had informed the peti-
tioners that he could not support their petition, as he believed the
effect of granting it would be to ruin the cotton trade of this coun.
try. He believed that the great cause of their affliction was the
corn laws, and if the corn monopoly was abolished, manufacturing
distress would be effectually relieved.
The Marquis of BLANDFORD presented a petition from
Woodstock, praying the house to enforce every system of economy
and retrenchment in every department of the state • also a petition
from the parish of St. Paul, Manchester, praying Sat the currency
might not be altered.—Ordered to be printed.
Mr. CHAPLIN presented a petition from Lincolnshire, praying
for a reduction of taxation and a repeal of the malt and beer duties.
Cul. SI LITHORP supported the petition, and said that retrench.
inent must take place in the salaries of the great officers of state.
Lord F. L. GOWER presented a petition from the Catholic
Bishops of Ireland, praying for an impartial system of national
education.

Sir W. HEATHCOTE presented petitions from six parishes
in Hampshire, complaining of agricultural distress. The distress,
he said, was not confined to agriculture, hilt pervaded all classes.
Sir ROWLAND HILL presented a petition from Shropshire,
praying for reduction of duties and the repeal of the duty on malt
and beer. _

Mr. HARVEY said he Ead brought forward resolutions last
session, which proved that malt liquor came to the poor man taxed
one hundred per cent.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER gave notice, that
or, Tuesday next he woula mote for a Committee to take into con-
sideration the present state of the licensing system, and the practi-
cability of admitting a free trade in beer.
Mr. THOMPSON presented a petition from a parish near Do.
ver, praying for a reform in Parliament and election by ballot.
Mr. MARSHALL presented a petition from the Ni at Riding of
Yorkshire against the monopoly of the East India Company.
Mr. FERGUSON moved for returns of the number of causes en-
rolled at the Quarter Sessions of Scotland, and the manner of their
termination, from the year 1826 to 1829 inclusive ; and the number
of days and hours the Courts sat in that time.—Ordered.
Mr. PROTHEROR moved for a return of the number of works
printed under the direction of the Record Commission, and the ex-
pense.—Ordered.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL presented a petition from Carmarthen.
shire on the subject of the Welsh Judicature, and a similar petition
from the town of Carmarthen.
Mr. O'CONNELL moved for a return of the Excise duty re-
ceived on leather in Ireland, in the years 1827, 1828, and 1829;
and a statement of the number and nature of the oaths required
from the manufacturers and the excise Meas.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, the oaths
were all stated In the Acts of Perliaatett, and need net be returned.
Mt. O'CONNELL said, there were so many oaths. that scarcely
any coneelentious wan could continue in the trade. He wished to

diminish or abolish those oaths, for which purpose he wished to
have an official return of their number and nature.

The motion was agreed to; as was a similar motion respecting
the n:anufacturc of paper in Ireland.
Mr. O'CONNELL moved for a return of the names of jurors
who served on inquests for the valuation of property taken for
making wide streets in Dublin during the last ten years. He said
the jurors received a guinea each, and the same twelve were always
appointed.
Mr. RUSSELL presented a petition from Durham for the repeal
of the malt and beer tax.

Mr. DUNCOMBE presentod a petition from Doncaster for the
repeal of the malt and beer duties.

T. HUME moved for a return of all post towns in Great Britain
where an additional charge beyond the Sized rate of postage was
made for the delivery of letters.—Onlertd.
3lr. HUME moved for a rep= of the ocelot duties in the last
year, under each head, and the expense of collecting the same ; and
similar returns of the customs duties, and the land and assessed
Ix:ea.—Ordered.

Mr. HUME said, if government did not bring forward a motion
for the reduction of expense in the collection of duties, he should
bring forward such a motion.
Sir R. VYVYAN gave notice that on Friday next he should
move that the house be called, being the day on which an hon.
member (Mr. E. Davenport) had given notice of a motion for taking
the distress of the country into consideration.
Mr. PALMER presented a petition from the inhabitants of the
Surrey side of the metropolis, complaining of the quality of the
water with which they are supplied by public Companies.
Mr. A. CANIPBgLL presented a petition from Glasgow for a
reduction of the duties on sugar and rum.
Sir CHARLES BURRELL presented a petition from Sussex,
complaining of distress, and praying for a repeal of the malt tax.
Mr. PEEL presented a petition from From, for the cultivation
of waste lands.

Mr. D. W. HARVEY gave notice of a motion on the Crown
Lands for the 3d of March.

PRIVILEGE OP THE HOUSE.
Mr. LITTLETON said, it was painful to him to have to bring
under the consideration of the house, a question that could be un-
pleasant to any member of the house. He had already presented a
petition from Mr. Ayrc Lee, a solicitor of B:rmingham, stating
that he had received a letter signed R. J. Sydney, stating that he
had entered into partnership with Mr. D. W. Harvey, M.P. for
transacting private bill business in parliament. It struck him that
it was very extraordinary that a member of that house should
undertake for profit to engage in the private business of par.
liament. The honourable gentleman here desired the clerk to
read a resolution of the house, passed in 1695, on the subject
of offers of money to members of that house. The resolution
was read : it stated that the offer of money to any member of
that house, for the purpose of influencing his conduct on any
Bill before that House, was a high crime and misdemeanour. The
Hon. Member proceeded to say that the lion. Member fur Colches.
ter had attempted to justify his conduct on the grour.d that other so-
licitors who were in l'arliament had done the same thing. He (Mr.
L.), however, was unable to find one single instance in which a so-
licitor had thus acted with the cognizance of the House of Com-
mons, that it had not visited him with its displeasure, if not
with severe punishment for the offence. He could not believe
that either Air. Smith or Sir James Graham had ever acted as
solicitors to Bills in that House, after they had become amongst
the number of its Members; nor did he believe that the At.
torney or Solicitor-General ever received any recompence for
any business which he had done in that House. The honour.
able member for Colchester had said, that no member haring
an interest in any bill, should sit on the committee of that bill.
He believed there would be some difficulty in carrying this into ex-
ecution, as regarded county members: but he well remembered,
that in 1825-26, when so many bills respecting companies were
under consideration. a select committee was appointed, which was
not backward in expressing its disgust at the manner in which
members sat and voted upon bills in which they were directly and
personally interested. He would now ask the house, if it was
right that any honourable member should, either by himself or his
partner, act as solicitor in support of private bills in that house.
He could find no instance where the house had ever recognized
the principle, and he believed this was the first instance in which •
solicitor had ever milted the question. The house had refused to
allow barristers, being members, to act before committees, and
they at one time even prohibited them from acting at the bar of the
other house. It was a curious fact in support of this assertion,
that at the Queen's trial the hon. member for Knaresborough
(Mr. Brougham), and the be-. member for Nottingham (Mr.
Denman), had both been obliged to obtain permission, which it
was some days before they could obtain, so jealous was the house
of its privileges. The lion. member then submitted a resolution to
the house, to the effect that it was contrary to law, and to the
usages of the house, that any of its members should receive pecu-
niary reward for transacting any business relating to private bills in
the house.

Dlr. BATLEY said, that Sir James Graham had never been
engaged professionally while in Parliament. He had declined
business as soon as he became a member of that house.
Mr. D.W. HARVEY said, that if he had the slightest impres.
sion that what he had done was contrary to law, or indeed if he sup.'
posed that the time of the house, valuable as It was, would have been
for one moment occupied by the circumstance, it would have been
sufficient to have deterred him from foiming the connection he had
done. The hon. member for Stafford (Mr. Littleton) had placed an
ungenerous construction upon what he had said, for he never
meant to impute any blame to Sir James Graham; he only stated
of him that which he had heard generally spoken of. He could not
believe, until he heard to the contrary, that when bills were sub.
!flitted to the law officers of the crown, their opinions were given
gratis, or that their valuable time was thus occupied for nothing
He would not do more than allude to the Queen's trial, for even
there, if so informed, he would be willing to believe that the law
officers of the crown had given their services gratuitously. The ques-
tion, however, came at last to this—was the resolution supported by
the precedents of the house ? He was willing to admit that the com-
mittees of that house could not be too pure in their motives, as well
as in their actions, but he would ask if a solicitor was to be
excluded from receiving the paltry reward of 6s. ad. or
13s. ad. or 11. ls. which was the largest fee they were en-
titled to receive, while a man who had thousandleatsleernding
on a bill was allowed to sit and vote upon it as he p ? He
should, for his own part, wish to have it declared, that no person
having a direct interest in a private bill should be permitted to vote
in committee upon that bill. He could solemnly declare to the
lhouse (perhaps the honourable member for Stafford could declare
the same) that he had never in his life gone, and never hereafter
would go, into a committee upon any bill about which he had even
half a farthing's worth of interest. What a solicitor received he could
not call a reward, it was only payment for services performed. and it
could scarcely be supposed that he could by that become influenced
in his parliamentary conduct. If private interest was the question,
he took it for granted that no East India Director was or would
be placed on the committee upstairs for inquiring into the pro.
priety of renewing the Company's charter. It could scarcely be
said that such a person would have no interest in the decision the
committee would come to—still less could it be said that he would
receive no award for supporting a particular side of the question,
for he was directly interested in keeping up the ponderous and ex-
tensive patronage belonging to the directorship. He perceived the
Chancellor of the Exchequer had a motion for a day next week, re-1
lative to an improvement in the licensing system ; but If this sub.'
limated purity was to be maintained in committees, be trusted the
right hos. gent. would place no brewer on that committee, lest they
should put his belted honour In jeopardy. He thought the house, by
interfering as they proposed were stretching forth a power which they
had no right to exercise ; they would be dissolving partnerships,
and other private arrangements, with which they ought not to inter-
fere. He admitted that if the usage was so obvious that his solici-
tor could be unacquainted with it, then he should take all the con.
sequences ; but for his own part be denied that it was the law, as
he also denied that it was the custom, of parliament. He held in
his hand a circular, signed Hertford, Cornwallis, Willoughby de
Brook, with other influential names also, against the London and
Birmingham canal company, which they conceived to be injurious
to their interests. Now suppose it should happen that the Marquis
of Hertford should have a member in the house—(laughter); and
suppose he should tell that hon. member to support a private bill con.
teary to the opinion and conscience of that member, would not
such member be directly influenced in the passing of such bill ? The
Duke of Devonshire had a receiver or steward who sat in that house
who did not, to be sure, receive his money by guineas, but then he
(Mr. Harvey) would much prefer receiving it by 6,0001. at a time.
Supposing the duke to say to his receiver, there is a bill I wish you
to support through the committee. I am interested in it. I know
you do not approve of the bill, but no matter, you must not only
go and support the bill in the committee, but you must go
speak for me at Brookes'. As the resolution affected only
he must proton against it as personal, and would, therefore, propose
an am matt, which by embracing every member of the house,
would also include himself. The hon. gentleman then moved an
amendment, to the effect that no member personally interested fu
any private bill should vote on the committee upon such hill.
Mr. HUMS seconded the amendment, which was similar to one
he had on a formes occasion ineffectually brought froward himself.
Mr. BROUGMA ill contended, that if this 'wadies were to be
permitted, it would be giving solicitors in that house as unfair ad.
vantage over those 1114111bUi of the profession who were not in par.
liament. Barristers being members were not allowed to hold a brief
befbre a committee, nor even at an election t and be Wigs& felt so
strongly upon the delicacy of the matter, that when, after being for
three years a member of that house, he ceased to be such for the
three following years, he still refrained from peaedslag before com.
mittees at the house, solely because ha thought he would have
,been taking so unfair advantage of the mambas of his profession,

as his parliamentary connection could not have failed to procure
him business which otherwise be might rot have had. Upon the
occasion of the queen's trial, he had not sought fur the permission
of the house to plead the cause of her majesty, for he was rather glad
that the rules of the house prevented his doing so. Lord Cas-
tlereagh was anxious, however, to have the assistance of the At.
torney and Solicitor-General in the House of Lori's, and it was his
lordship that applied to have the restriction removed. He begged to
say, also, that even in that case he and his hon. and learned friend
(Mr. Denman,) who to the great loss of that house, and of the
country also, was no longer one of its members. had acted as mem-
bers of parliament throughout the business, and had more than
once refused to follow the desire of their client. They had re-
ceived nothing from the Queen in the shape of emolument, for they
were paid by the public. He did not mean by this to impute any
want of generosity to her Majesty, for the very day after they had
succeeded in defeating that measure, she had directed him (Mr.
Brougham) to bestow the balance in her banker's hands, amounting
to 7,000/. between himself and his colleagues.—(Hear, hear, hear.)
This was out of the question, and they were paid, not by her Ma.
jesty, but by the public. He begged to say, that he had once heard
Sir J. Graham challenged with practising as a Solicitor to private
Bills while he was a Diember, and he never saw greater indignation
than he displayed in repelling the imputation.
Sir C. AVETHP.RELL denied that law officers of the crown
ever received any remuneration for their support of bills in that house.
Mr. BARING said, that Sir J. Graham gave up his professional
practice altogether on becoming a member of that house. His
resignation as solicitor to the East India Company might be found
upon their books.
Mr. HOBHOUSE recommended the lion. Member for Col.
cheater to withdraw his amendment, and bring it forward hereafter
as a substantive motion, when he pledged himself to sup.
port it. He was a member last session of a Committee,
upon which there was a controverted point, upon which
very large sums of money depended. Out of delicacy he would
not name the members on this committee, but they eon.
sisted altogether of only five. One of them, who ass in
the Chair was largely interested in the decision, as were also two
()them The remaining two were disinterested, he being himself one
of those two, and he remonstrated upon attempting to proceed. He
was immediately told that he was as much interested as they were,
for he was interested that his constituents in Vi'estminster should
know that he did his duty (hear, hear,) while they had only a sum
of money depending (a laugh.) They proceeded, and, as might be
expected, he was out-voted (hear, hear.) Another instance occurred
last session worthy of remark. Au influential person asked him to
take the chair at a committee, which he consented to, not being at
the time aware what was his motive, or that he had any motive ;
beet he afterwards discovered that he was interested, not to the extent
of thousands, but of tens of thousands, in the result (hear, hear.) He
would vote for the original motion ; but he trusted, after that was
disposed of, that the honourable member for Colchester would bring
forward his proposition.
Sir M. RIDLEY recommended, that the hon. member for
Colchester should withdraw his amendment.
The SOLICITOR GENERAL said, he never read any thing
more objectionable than the circular in question, for it appeared by
it that a member of that house was making use of his privilege, in
order openly to canvass for business in his Ir:erosion.
Mr. C.W.WYNN said, the resolution had kis sanction ; it was
founded on common sense and justice. He did not see how it could
be resisted. He hoped that the amendment would not be pressed.
Mr. PEEL said he should vote for the original resolution for
three reasons : first, because the practice was contrary to the uni-
form practice of Parliament for members to engage, for pecuniary
profits, in the management of bills in that house ; secondly, because
members who engaged in such agency, rendered correct practice iu.
compatible with duty ; and thirdly, that members who so practised,
had an undue advantage over other members of the profession in
their privilege of franking.
Mr. D. W. HARVEY replied. He had sanctioned the sending
out of the letter, thinking that he was justified in the course he
pursued. As the sense of the house, however, was against him, not
another Gazette would appear without an annuncation of the dis.
solution of his partnership. The franking privilege applied muck
more strongly to bankers than it could to him. It was said to be
worth MR. a year to them; and there wu one banking-house had
four partners members of parliament, so that the advantage to them
was 3,0001. a year from the franking privilege alone. He withdrew
his amendment. The original motion was carried nem. con.
Mr. D. W. HARVEY then moved a resolution, that no member
who was directly interested in a bill, was intitled to sit on a corn.
mittee on said bill.

Mr. LITTLETON said, that in such cases there was the remedy
—a petition to the house. He should move that the house do now
proceed to the Orden of the day.
Mr. O'CONNELL—The house admitted that such conduct was
improper ; and be thought that the honour of the house was inte.
rested in the adoption of the resolution.
Mr. W. SMITH said, that the resolution was useless, because it
was already the law of parliament.
Mr. CHOKER observed, that neither in the house nor in coin.
mitten, did the law of parliament allow nictubers to vote on bills in
which they were directly interested.
Mr. TRANT should support the resolution.
The gallery was then cleared for division. The numbers were
For proceeding to the orders of the day . 174
Against it

EAST RETFORD.
On our re.admission to the gallery we found 31r. TENNYSON
stating, that when the Bill on this subject reached the committee he
alt mote move an Amendment.

Mr. Alderman WAITHMAN said that he should submit a mo.
tion that the borough should be for ever disfranchised.
After a long conversation between Mr. Peel, Mr. Tennyson,
Sir John Wrottesley, Sir E. Knatchhull, and others, it was finally
determined that the house is to go into a committee on the bill on
Friday next.
On the question that the house go into a committee of supply,
Sir B. MARTIN proceeded to read several long passages from a
pamphlet lately published, on financial reform, by Sir Henry Par.
nell, and denied that the imputations contained in it against the
Navy Board were correct. The Navy Board was not opposed to the
Admiralty's plan of retrenchment. He could call to the bar of the
house all the officers of the Navy Board to prove the zeal with
which he obeyed the orders of the Admiralty. He had reason
to complain that the right honourable baronet had, in his private
character, taken advantage of public documents to throw imputa-
tions on public officers. A more unjust or ungenerous act never
was committed. But the right honourable baronet had failed in
his duty as chairman of the financial committee ; for, if he be-
lieved that he (Sir B. Martin) had obstructed the Admiralty's
plans of retrenchment, he should have sent for him and inquired
into the truth of the allegations. If the right hon. baronet had
done his own duty he never would have stigmatised his (Sir B.
Martin's) character in a nine.and-sixpenny pamphlet, which was
full of perversions of meaning and fact from beginning to end. The
right hon. baronet had drawn from his evidence conclusions di.
reedy opposite to the real signification. He must deny that the
navy board had ever manufactured sail cloth or chain cables. That,
I and every other opinion of the right hon. baronet was incorrect from
beginning to end. In conclusion, he appealed to his right hon.
friend near him for a testimony of his readiness to do his duty, and
called on the right. hon. baronet to remedy the wrong inflicted on
his character by those unfounded and injurious imputations.
Sir H. PAKNELL expressed his thanks to the honourable
member for the temper in which he made his charges, and the no-
. dee he had previously given him. In publishing the case in ques.
don he had only excerciaed his right as an English subject and a
member aparliament to discuss the conduct of public men in the
receipt of the public money. As to the allegation that the Admiralty
were obstructed by the navy board in certain plans of reduction, he
certainly had said so, and on reflection his impression was that resist-
awe to retrenchment had been made to the Admiralty's wish to di-
minish certain expenses in the navy estimates. For instance, when
Mr. Barrow was asked why certain intended reductions bad
not beets muted into effect, he answered, “ I suppose the navy
board can best answer that question." He regretted, however, that
in doing what he considered useful he should have felt it his duty
to make s.atements painful to the feelings of the hon. member, or
injurious to his reputation. He was willing to admit that it ap.
peered the honourable menthe, performed his duty faithfully and
zealously. Indeed he regretted that the objectionable paragraph
was in at all.
Sir G. COCKBURN observed, that it was the duty of the naval
board to obey the admiralty board, and whenever they had to obey
any directions from the admiralty he must say they had acted with
great asaL
Alta a few observations Awn Mr. Socretaiy
Sir B. MARTIN expressed great satisfaction at the way in which
the hon. baronet had explained, and hoped that, should the pamphlet
nub a second edition—(a laugh)—he would continue that feeling
of candour.

Mr. MABBRLY Wended the hon. member from any wish to
east =Oat aspersions, and was followed by Mr. Rusts, but their
vales wen drowned In cries of " Question !"
The Brcacsa thin left the chair.

MIXT
...X1.1.T I MATICII.

Sir H. HARDING! weredtthat a eta of 21,0111 19s. 6d. be
warted fa the sedateasseed theueilkeiryailegi he the year MO.
Mr. HUMS weed this pot. lieag eswedve in dame
She three, who thwe was IN amble* OR sway vacancy whkh
econsed in the taw, that the alumnae* to be called upon to
great a sum for the edusidea ef =NW There was a peaske
granted to the Gerawer it that sitilihimist el M. de. &day.
Sir H. HARDINGS laid, he seta answer why the rang
men as the alliarry sake MS MS pay thdr own moose.
There were these Wades et eashmte I the lira et when were
=s, who paid but SOL a.yese g the second were sone of
stabs le the army. wise paid a larger lams and the

thhd class were the sons of noblemen and gentlemen, s 1.•
paid 1801. a year. It vas thus evident that the last mainly paid f.••
the former cLuses. The hon. member might observe that the esti
mite had been reduced from 12,0001. to 7,0001. and if such redu•
thins did not please him, he did not see in what manner the Its t.
gentleman's approbation was to be secured. With regard to the r,-.--
tirement of the Lieutenant-Governor, be begged to say that officoi-
was taken from the artillery 25 years ago, and, suet an arduous set.
vice of 25 years, it was not surely too much to let hint retire c:•
8001. a year. In future such a circumstance would not occur, as i:
was settled that officers of the college were to fall back on their hal-
or full pay. as the case might be.
Colonel DAVIES observed that a".l his gallant friend bad said I-
defence of the pension was, that the governor had been comfortably
seated for the last 25 years in college instead of undergoing hard
service in almost every climate in the world.
Lord LUSTON felt it his duty to oppose the grant, and should
propose as an amendment that only half the allowance should bo
voted, and that would give the government six months to ?Muer the
establishment. Of course, he would not suffer any injury to visi•
those young men who were now there.
Mr. HUME seconded the amendment • and be would ask wiry
reason there was why those young men should not pay for their otv•
tducation ? He found that there were four horses allowed to ti:.
governor in these times of difficulty ; and four horses for the ridir.
masters for the use of boys who were never petmitted beyond it:.
boundaries of the college.
After a desultory conversation, in which many lion. vocir!srt
took a pare, the house divided, when the numbers were--
For the original vote &I
For the amendment

Majority
The CHAIRMAN then left the Chair, and the haus? resumed
The other orders of the day were then disposed of. and the bait.:
adjourned at a quarter before one o'clock.

METROPOLITAN UNION.

Mr. Hunt, Mr. Barrett, Mr. Dios Santos, and Air. W..kei.
waited upon the Lord-3layor yesterday, at eleven o'clock, by ap-
pointment, with the Requisition signed by.SOO housekeepers. re.
questing his Lordship to convene a meeting at Guildhall, to furor a
Political Union similar to that a Heft has been foamed at lii7-
mingliam.
The LORD-MAYOR received the deputation with great course-y
hut, in polite and feeling terms, declined to call the meeting at th,
Guildhall, adding that all such meetings which had been held the:r.
either for charitable purposes or otherwise, were got up under the di.
rection of the Court of Common Council; that as he had ca'led.
and presided at one important meeting at the Mansion-House
on the subject, and that, in all probability, he would be
called upon in his official capacity to preside at two other
meetings of the citizens—namely, a Court of Common Coun.
ell and a Common Hall, he hoped, therefore, that tic
deputation would not consider that, by declining to interfere further.
he was either insensible to the wants and wishes of his fellow•citi-
zens, or regardless of their rights and privileges ; that, as it war
legal fur theta to call the meeting themselves, he had no doubt they
would do so, and he wished them success in their endeavours to al.
leviatc the suffering‘ of their fellow-erratum; and, when they die
call their meeting, he hoped they would conduct the proceedings
with firmness and moderation, for nothing was obtained by clamour.
NIT. Hunt informed the Lord Mayor that therequisitionists would
certainly call the meeting, and that, to far as he was concerned. he
should follow his advice ; that his Lordship might rely upon the
proceedings being conducted with as much regularity and decorum
as they were at the late meeting at the Mansion House, where he
presided.—The deputation having thanked the Lord Mayor for his
politeness, departed, and fixed to call the meeting or. Monday. the
Bth of March, which, we understand, is tote held in the field ad-
joining White Conduit House.

RADICAL REFORM ASSOCIATION.
DANIM FRINCH, FAQ. in the Chair.

UN MONDAY EVENING NEXT, March Ist, at
eight o'Clock, in the THEATRE of the LONDON
MEC ANI CS' INSTITUTE, Sou:lmams BUILDINGS, Hot.-
Boll:: BA RS.
Subjects—Lord Jona Russat.es Motion on Reform—A Return
of the number of Persons entitled to Lord J. Russaat.'s proposed
Franchise at Birmingham.
The Public are admitted on Payment of a Radical Rest of
f Iv° PENCE towards the expense Hs.
H. ETHERINGTON, Sec.

TI 1E EVENING STAR.

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