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London, England, 1831-08-16 00:00:00

"3E51 ACT" AiLIINDMENT BILL,

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PRICE SEVENPENCE.

Lad Melbourne his prepared a measure to amend the
setekeensplaisted of "-Ben Binand It k to be beenglk
forward to-aight la the Hen* of Lords. The Mu* ilk
he ladles fronarea. It is sodded "An Act to amend eit
Act puma* the first year of his present Majesty's nip,
Withal*, " As Act to permit the pied the of Best sad
Cider by remit iilloglareL" In dwiLektpliolaiinfee fbe
Act to be wheaded, and state% MOW " And
whereas the mad melted Aler retakes k* "
then proceed* to onset that no demo to teudfdlit he gear
ted to any wastable or other peace.ollow.
That in Nei of say daised penes Wag elselall wawa.
Ms, datum, sr hodhosingh, ea predpsilk et Ids
astodly tomb; ea Ilk' hasilmes.k
ilriZinegerfreat servile the alike.
That deems be not waded to any person who shall oust
be the reel resident onopke et the hews, and mime* la
respect thereat fist ds mambo tithe peer-sates, or whitaball
tout have paii the ewes due, or who shall ha* received pp
roe** reifeL
That no poem be received as a surety who is not himself
gaatilind to be licensed ; and, to case of a safety masks to
Moar Alai, a new surety be provided, or the license to he
Persons applying to be licensed to produce a certifies**
Mm the overseer of the poor, and la samelerimalial phrea
Ise the COMM of taxis, of their being assemed, and
having paid their rates.
That constables with warrant be empowered at all times
to eater the basses of pewees licensed to retail beer or cider.
That it shalt be lawful to say 'sodas of tbe Pews, en
ounipliint en lath that thus is riedag or disturbance k wash
hawse, or that pardons are kink* or remaining thee& at
dawn or hours when seek heat is by law prohibited* to he
op*, to Issue his ur that erainutt, Wiesomadlog any con.
stable or ether peraiiiker if the Oka Maki, kfle ssi
house; and every seteli• 011111 Ale alit Sidi palSl4.ge
hereby empowered and requited to remove ad pit sot 111
persons who shall be (Wind in any such bolos amesesed 'k
any riot .or dismantle*. or drinking or remina tberola at
times or hours when such house is by law glind se*
open g sad army person who shall meanie or mist or oh-
street any esnetable at peace-Aker In the execution of
duty shall forfeit sad pay .a sum not exceeding 141 g and
say constable or pews-crakes so assaulted, resisted, or*oh.
erased, may, immediately arrest and detain the party se
ellesidkg, and many him What one or more Justice or
Jade* of the peace, kr..
That there be • remit
enal on not admiuiug a reusable Of
Ili and mot exceeding 101.
That no wine or spirits be kept in places entered for keep.
lac or retailing beer or eider.
'flat Awn of the lecke be impetrate* On eater bosses
Rowed to retail beer and eider.
That Weald persons **win didelAti- at las
hours. we elf forfeit 40e ; hat that Mem be
forfeited lath adjudged to be so by a hid" izeeptlleast
Isedilling sureties sad dung bosh Mild. •
parcels may sell beer am effeteding lid per gnaw,
sou be dank ea the premises, as they were *bend* do'
hiss rho pommia, of I Wei. IV. e. 64. and a (lee. ;I. s.
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TILE WINE DUrlt., DILL.
Resolutions proposed by Mr. Robinson, oo 31onday, the
13th of August, on the Second Reading of the Wine
Dude. Eill.
I.—That it appears. by Official Ststemenee, that the Ex-
pect of British and Colonial enevelmodlie and of British
Manufactures from the United Kingdom to Portaged and
lege Paprodtheiss, with a Populatint of about Two Mil.
VMS Ni a half, hove anmanted to the mm of INIS dal.
Add mho, dining the past five yews, ludepeadendy of
repeits deem pas 11It during that yodel hive the
blood of Newfoundland, averaging t 6*311,r semen t
theloWbafama Rump] and her dells the
U ist levies exceeded aweigh,
MAW erimia. •
lik-7104 t is beesesisd gees, he &sits of mint
chess d delisted iodised. onmesties with Pee-
took en dins -thsivelyh blab
Wig !beat neves as One, thereby
esseallailli, IMpeeks of
Allir
of he id
Ibighd.11181:12
peemeting the intentile et Mich enanmier mai lirdielbe.,
tore, mid the eimpliymnet et the Weft pipeletio•
estiaty. ' •
S. Them Soh jet==f. yeirs, the experts
el Mika mid et-Bridal ems-
factures tottnee, with a popliedso et shoot SO mellow
he net erateeded 4,semex saki or MA* per
annum, the Imports Irma that ki sesseemid
derisittime to 11,151,1901. or pm einem ;
sod aetwithetamling them inmentis bah greedy
messed dee late ashildem at &my ran Pies& wil"
the amens to new heft maierbilly Elinhitheds
E. 7 lift this limited asnimerso with Patimo Is sided on
hilheedentely h Iteidi and BM& tremels, le tam
=taboo hoes es tun .* it hem et fin
adllbliii a emarkalfteeMeast saki this et
lirrest. the megidade of our experts to Pailigelos sew
pored "hi hems, bereft
mot mahly to disibniendectigionthe
M the exhumer atom IS le hams of Orem
=allow the stipplyd her markets so British
sal Weedy WWI hi limited extent of oar en.
=imecie mg be iodine.. M but discouragement of
piedese moonaiderost by high peeteedeg dohs
la tams eldomeeds capita
seed hammy, to the eulogise
of Bridle melpfdma
11.--Thmellme, that It le Wieldy lemesillet •
make any alteration in the Main Oohs mew pipit& by
law en wines hipeeted hem Psi eel Rim* he per.
' cremel remove only t be unshed by an equal.
of dm we all finks ) diewhy boonedlng
lora eta ewe, sod valuable mast form erapine •ties
and anossibiteres. illeabdelsing our meal hasneme, end is.
oohing Übe Sok et trandarlag our rasashing Numbs be
Nevrileireamil to rival nations, withint a remeneide
that feed* caeassioss to Pram will be peadoodoe etadp
corrimpoodhg hands to ser emanceme, as long as that go.
vseensimt, oftwithataadieg the liberal example ws have
befen shows, coodases to maimain her resent Nylons et
oometercial policy. .
mmummimmigmenen
SPOUT Or THIS DAY'S JOURNALS.
TIIIRS.—If the people of noshed be ere to them.
selves, we meet that they will Ea mar the .chew bill to
be cuing's* le he sore by this demo he the &whim et
essindia. If eething eh* MI alik theme mom be Fortier
immings arasy wheat wen ought to mss, be.
ewes hem b a dhoti meow tombs a saw Inierest.edverse
to then sad to the nades...che Insect et the " money pa.
troas,"fire more tenible thasethemingle petrons,wldeis the
bill has derseyei. Alareselkiludo Nene hoed.
out the smut conodes dished might le meek end
swats manfally against eh whew he its utter demands.
The gentry of moil lbramisv and the intelligent yeo.manry, Mil lit so bet peal** so reined by the memoir,
that we cannot contain our assoolhasent at their seeming
secarky Ni repose. Par .1111hig se Tory, on such It
raZwe care not simile Sahli* Sir Frarela
a sentleman as many accoisti mote eatiabblit.
pay. however, be eo salads as to ion to hive the retina
tar one-half of !Leicestershire in his own hands. While
ths Duke' of
.)Etedand nominates for the other. Mr. Lk-
dotes, a mast respectable person, may regard • his seat
hi Statikplaliire as less liab4 to disturbance, and mole
in the mum of a situation fee life, with but hilt •rat
Stathrtlakire to phew, than with that great comity
divided; and al theugh it is said that them two ath.
uterian arkrag the meet ettenuous the am.
dame, Its de am bloke their lam. if it be
holosailownese. if It be doweleight shallow.
nese—we only home hat bed Aliso" and Na conceives
shield tam gime ear to their @sheathing. By the way, as
amend la he Weer of a corrot• of ours, Neetbansp.
teeddre itself oppugn is be so --taaced, that if Lord
Skimp tied Lewd Milton had had their attention somewhat
mom vigileady turned to the sunning which uncharitable
observers might possibly (although, we acknowledge with
pleasure, MOIL falsely) form with regard to their modem
oo the lends*, we are of violas that these two jest and
principled noblemen' would have paused for a mimeo
before they had committed themselves to a division ef a
county, where it is known that the Spawns been* dead.
sate stir dee moiety, sod that the Fitswaiss lamest
ovehrbehes the other. We beg to be medentood as in 6o
sans countestandog the remotest losimaties *pint the In.
tqpity or self-denial of either of the above noble
TM minter is one ter their own delicacy to duel with, and
I. their hash we leave it.
POST.—The darling Bill," strange to say, has Mad.
dewily lost all credit smog' than who ham hitherto been Its
most furious supporters. It is no longer the great measure
imperatively danamled by the enlightened spirit of the
age; It is no longer a measure of Reform at all; it is a
grew delusion; the clause enacting the divides of cotes.
des Is pronounced by the leading Ministerial and Radical
Jonles! to be seither more nor less than " abominable,"
and "a stvidiladion of the entire principle of,
the Sill I" It is almost superfluous to remark, that this
was a 4:auspicious feature in the OISSAU'e has the isoonalt
of its latroduction. What becomes thee of the heat
clamour for " the Bill, the whole Bill, and nothing bin
Bill"—that eternally.tepeated watchword of the
Party ? no people, it now appears, will have -•iby th
but the Bill;'' but the question is, how an it be fired from
this county partitioning loose, suddenly discovered to he es
very obnosious ? The trial has already bete made in the
House of Commons; the amendment was opposed Mi.
nista' and rejected by a majority of UM; the whole
of the Bill is therefore irrevocably eitultided. It
indeed been suggested that the clause should be
by its rescuers on bring(ng up the report; but this
lotion is evideody facile. Even could Ministers be
so far to stultify their own prufeesions, and resin
ridiculous, ma to propose an &Modernness oldie=
which they declared during die debut to be an eimmial pat
of the bill, they certainly would not be able to penal upeis
their adherents, who weed with them on this •ocessies,
to follow than in so despicable a course. The de.
satins of the clause by the ministers would be,' la.
the fool of the country, a palpable, unblushing, Ni
bale* deeenctien of principle for the sole purpose' et
ressinlhg themsehes in elks. No person surely as. bellies
ihm lid, injukyt compliam eabeershmt as it as
shoran MeV mead ohms to be dragged through
the dirt as sokdie ions personal and pasty *jam 41( SA ln-
srammespeidahtlimidoinalm•asiest
the
chatacN° itathse
cis Hbatotessidor combillditajliam halo' ng Mos' .1115111Milwhe protests- to have accurate meow
es lac Ai seams that have thus fat hen &mead +in Of 'pryiteg into such waste s, it is now asserted that
laths ossearditerare new inseparable hoot the bills ergo the tords not throte out the Reform Bill, but
thot.irldsh, lathe 6811 ivies, oh*. a" 1441°Ibt wiii conbiderably alter it ; said that their aheratioast
haseeipimaiStia &pee for the emanation of t
oes b
confined to schedule will be ac gletssultilsiotilar pepmfrating Maumee to principally qb_
• .steal iu.by the LothlliOne. The division of maws
.rapid' of dis =Will that " 001thdalde it is Muck Vie etiongly opporml is the lards,
Pita- ife.
cmidocimakss covieolo.e
moan" is occivailats,l satheactwirist oth.l"l""air
uspithatim though cakulated in its effects to incenses the local
tableau to darn kid damp, fled" their stags suss innuence of the aristocracy.

campaign has now drawn to its dom. we may i• :vitt w a
parting word upon the subject, whites I. certainly a num
idol:obit one in all its bearings. And Snit, we must say
that we can discover no great cause for triumph on the pelt
of the Dutch King, if we connect his nsiii cry exploits with
the ea) equivocal manner, to my the least of it, in which'
it is now evident that he mole a match upon all the dipio.
outlets. Tne Despatch we poblimed yesterday put us
possession of the vindication of the Dutch King by hie
own Minister, who contend that the phrase r` *yens
amilikaires" was a distinct and stailleket settee of the term.
nation of Meningitides; or, in other mode, that it wart tan.
i=ut rsaying, that at ;melt on hem, an such a day,
Idefraty lurid put en end to tbg armistice by wry..
be ire andatimed into the territory of Belgium. New, out
dime weeds hr e loch ass hinernetien, or, if they cm, will
jeretiplegisietl that It
wirielin so beterpnitelion, le
Asmitlitheraire. to Mime r bleed waste
btandel to be
illisdhlitert II thinly the amides of *aware important cermet
NNW Ike doe albemesmatit and pleb .peaking before the
hatchery begins Hut the language Is this instance was
Withes say, Moutpled with the feet of an existing negotiation,
are the est a newly-arrived Minister to .suet In that
megaliths° for peace, It was unintelligible in the arum in
which it now appears that the Dutch King and bin Minister
vista have it understood. Net one of the Ministen of the
Omfatter, an eadereteed is. They 'opposed it to have sp.
plied to stems or '• niasaurte adopted (rely In dr hteaisr of
Holland ;" b abort, to any thing rather than to thememetp-
don of hostilitim And will might they Doppia or When
the spirit et the Dosed/aim was pesos, and whoa the very
mime for which they were assesabled me to amthishieete
with a 'rely-appointed Shorteri ler the fortberameetthat
object. We are aware that tars I. a class of paddler
to whom such a proceeding will appear to be • sassmegisee
of diplomatic ambigsky, and who, without soy hod been
but the hue of biome, width is bad enough. VII be ile-.
lighted an see I•lood.bed steal, as it were, into a poremMss
in the midst of a pacific document. Bet this school is
going out fast, as manly knowledge advances; and it is
steely worth while to purchase the contempt of whole
world for the applause of an insigndieint and explriag lac. ion.
Our attention wee drawn to this . Intim chicly by 'lndio(
that the utilitasy swoon of the Du eh Ides woo bailed with
a shout of triumph by the anti.reforta rem ; and we think
it of importance that they should take the triumph subject
to its fair abatements, end, abyss all, to Memphis march of
diplomacy by which he essizmourement wee disdnprithei.
HERALD.—We have received a later front a mime
Cdt relative to the case of Arabes, who was ousels*
week at Clishmthed for oft* and whose
pill we czpoomed doubts. with sue bop for.
dm and Mete marching loWey before the mottees of Ito
law was Pried into dust though lbw of tbaa who
attended to the particulars of the evaitoc,: wire • eadelkd
with the verdict, Lord Alelbounse, whose mind amen so
constituted as to be with great diarlty. at any time,
brought se doubt of the infallible judgment of any ho.
was tribunal whose ern ence; under ell di. feetnalitise of
lads esweigne a fellow-creature to the scaffold, vies so
well oestrioced of the prisoner's guilt, that he thought no
farther tawdry segaisate, said an *be law took its caret.
New that,the men bee suffered all that homes power can
Joliet for aeal or poppoaed pilt—now rhie lie is guru be.
Site a tribunal that, aka judge tie jests of ntaithiods tam
that no discursive el tbetnemere hteaue bee .e*
fumes es his denso—we do nut *flak it ttetrampy mule
OUTOOMIIIpOIIIIIIOI4 With° &teased she evidence fur the pos.
Mutton, which he hue coll.med from M. own ob.eivation of
all that passed at the trial; but we catroot but espies. our
concurrence is the conclusion which be has drasra—muneey„
that the accused was found guilty upon 'Valence whim.,
taken in the abstract, would justify little mugs than sus.
picion, but which, explained by its collateral*, did away, in
a great measure, with the 'topic:on that would otherwise
attach. The het is, the man had Lonna red a larceny its a
destination's; and his anxiety to COUCAiii be proofs of otis
crinic caused him to act in such a mamas we to make him
fill under the easpiciusa uf' hoeing a guilty wormtwo with
the other. It is true, either of those crime% is privreheb/s
with death by our law, which is inure pod. is to capital pia.
'Mbomou, beyond all comps:ism% than shy tom kamwer so
the civilised world But it, was 1/4). tar Lreiny tut
Jennings was executed, but fur arson. The theft
which be committed h is not how use m Fames to
punish wish death, unions 801116 atrocious per wart
violence be cominiued, although the bauguireity Ler
remina tiorepealed. The stolen property foitud un
sorer was stated to have been ut the value of Ybi. At u.s
late Assists fur Bedford two nuns were usutic.ed
burglary in the dwelling-house and shop of a a it ermrith,
by which they swept away property to the amtarta ut GAIL
They were experienced thieves—they had come doom no..
Leaden with mine others for the purpose— they hats nude
tbeir miry into the boom, and managed the pout as well
on details, of the robbery in the moat expert aid acoottitic
manner," showing a high degree ot •• protosiimud Mill' in
this he of depredation; and yet their are was nut
considered to be se aggravated a we a. t. male i. props
to shed their blood, and the actuante of death was emu.
muted to transpsnatioi for life. Now let us 'oppose
there bad beta no other cher.* pat Jenkins,* but
the robbery in the direlliog-bount, the rattle tiuvern.
meet that Mowed meaty to the Bedford burglars would
surely not have withheld it tram him. He amid not con.
sequently have beau Imaged ix be crime of which he sews
guilty, and be was therefore hanged foe a cruise of which
we believe him to have been wholly innocent. The no.
manure Inabe . which have occurred, in termer turd in
modem times, of the fallibility of butuari judgmer.t in de.
feminism ems which involve die 'audios of We otratandss
and the fatal aeon with which the practice of our criminal •
jostles has been stained, ltducrd at, some time ago, to rut.
poes Mayo diminish she charms, at Last, of nick Wreperable
mistekesoberethould bea Court of Criminal Revision, to w nich
all persona convicted of capitol taint**, on circuit or in town,
should have their cum referred fur ultimate deciaion, et
right, on simply demanding an appeal Such a court would
.spersede the anomalous asset irrespoosible, and tequi.itas
rial tribunal which the Secretary et State holds at hurlkll
sure, end in which be decides upou human lite or
without any knowu or certain rules. A Coon of Criminal
nevi...tun (leaving points of law mall to the Sheen Judie.),
under a competent and r authority, and with a re.
auk: procedure, appears slant mere requisite wheat we recollect
that the Secretary fur die Home Depertmeot is a Ca.
Met iniater, i.volved in political we., and seldom
or never trained to that needs, of the intellect r hich
would qualify bins for an elks essentially judicitd....
Did not Lord Melbourne decline to interfere in the caw of
*Kwine, who was
and
hanged for arms at Cheluudeni Letwin
ter, though strong, ,to many, convincing proofs of mow
mace were tendered Was UM Dyke rashly tad about
the ',Awe time on Prime* Heath 1 Wee it not with the
greatest difficulty that, the other day, Lord Melbourue was
pereladed to respite LeeritiLewie and Rickard Lewis, the
Merthyr flown, although how, it appetite. grievous I. jtaullt*
tsaniki have been perpetrated by their execution—the homy,
as we stared at the dose, having meal the life of a peace.
officer. and the innocence of the letter being uspparted by
-ong pratife of a mistake as to his identity ? Who can,
doubt the necessity of a regular Conn et ermine;

Arpeal P.

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no Audi Adoldeas,,on ;lb bilktaintanorill leak assehia4naam4pkom.and genet:on se- I trig and dap I
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Acair, according. to therfaviateinds, ha '‘
prerlpi welyn lied ORA dfilpOntd `4,
itate MonerthZ titteiringalise their ,• ' • $ •
to fielllrite They CM. The
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dmcription wok rime dirredar last In the wane
of InunlA, on which acisrafort rest 'Om were r•tertain A
'for the army of r!.e rri,Jed King of the nisei sta e ht t
luckily his Illajeaty, wider the mean of a tbetacknent I f •
' irmeera. Mind the country, and reached lifalive• Mihorit
any personal Yet under all flame gratifying recur.
renem—whilst so triumphantly borne on in the arms of vie.
,tory—such is the genermity of the nature of the injured
Sovereign, that he magnanimously CO! cents to withdraw his
faithful army, upon condition of the French troops aim) re.
tiring, in order to Rave Europe front the terrific conaeqiienees
naturally attendant upon a general state of warfare, whicn
would otherwise be the Inevitable result of the unjust col-
lision occasioned by the *whines and perfidy of the .ne t
and English cabinets. A casaition of !mediates has taken
place, and by regular convention Belgium It to be evacuated
alike by the armies of Holland and of trance. Il
HEIiA LH.— The anti-rrftsnn perm seem to beta rat.
twee wish the King of Holland 884 his victories. As rile
cementer, hAa 1.•••• 111101.1• A i"

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(it"i ERTA T. PARLIAM ENT.
HOURS OF LOttDS, Avows 15.
The Earl of Setarreeitraw, in the absence of the Lord
Chancellor. took his seat open the Woolsack as Deputy
Speaker. shortly before Ave o'clock.
The Bill for the repeal of the dudes on coal, cotton' tiles.
slates, &e, and several private bills, were brought up by Mr.
R. Gordon and others, from the House of Ceramons.
The LORD CUAIICILLOR entered at five o'clock, and
took his seat upon the Woolsack.
TUN wrw pima RILL.
Thc Duke of W PLLINGTON presented two petitions.
both from pieces in Gloucester, in favour of the New Beer
Bill.— Todd on t),e table.
The Ri.hop of LONDON at the came time presented a
nt.!tinn, •Igned by 9ti clergymen of the Criversity of Ox-
ford, minting on, the immoral effects of the new beer bill
upt:m the labouring eleesett. and praying that it might be
opeetlity repealed. The Right Reverend Prelate said that
A ron,rooolt-qion which he had received from the Potteries
of S•t-ffordshire. described the bill to have had the moot
pt r !emus effects upon the working classes there. The bane
ful enrsequences which it had entailed upon the labouring
poor, were 'itch, that the clergyman and inhabitants of one
of .he car!shtts in the Potteries had. at a public meeting,
re. •Ived unanimously to petithm Parliament, recommending
that the prices of licences to sell beer ought to be raised ; that
rn licence should be granted to any one who did not produce
the most satitaketory testimonials m to his moral conduct.
and that in all Pew beer shops, the game of skittles should
be prohibited.— Laid on the table.
TIIE LABOURING POOR.

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Lord KENTON introduced a bill for improving the con-
dition of agricultural labourers.
Head a lint time. and ordered to be printcd.
THE TITHE SYSTEM.

Lord WY NFORD paid that he had also a bill to intro.
duce to their lordships, the ohirst of which was to improve
egriculture. His hill was haul for the purpose of extend-
ing the tithe commutation system to those parishes which
would not be affected by the measure which had been
brought forward a short time since by a right rev. prelnte
epitaph,. the Archbishop of Canterbury. Tne noble lord
en reed into a !arid explanatioo of the laws relating to tithes,
and the manner in which the construction of the existing
91tA,s!SS upon the subjects had been narrowed by Courts of
law. A principal object of his bill was to encourage the
general cultivation of land, but more particularly by
*rade hto.handey, by limiting the tithe to that at
which It now stood, and without reference to any improve-
ments that might he made after the passing of the Act; so
that the tithe should not keep pace with those irtirmvements.
This measure, he observed, would greatly facilitate the
r.llotting small plots of land to the labouring poor for culti-
, vatiim by spade husbandry.which be was convinced, from the
experiments he had tried upon his own comparatively small
property, would go a greater lenFth in ameliorating the con.
I m of the agricultural poor than any other means the
could he tlevind. The noble lord having Introduced the
bill, moved that it be read a finis time.
• lined TEYN H A NI said that the noble and learned lord's
ill should have his moat cordial support, and would, he
trusted, meet with the general approval of their lordships :
for of all the measures which had been introduced to their
nodes, this, in his judgment, was the most capable of effect-
' ing that which they all desired, an amelioration of the condi.
• non of the labouring poor.
The bill was then read a first time, but no day was fixed
for the second reading.
• lIIPkOVENVNT IV ?HZ LAWS.
Lord TENTRIIDEN introduced several hills for amend.
in. the laws, both In this country and in Ireland, but from
the very low tune of voice to which the noble and learned I
• 10-d addressed the house, it was impossible to ascertain their
ti Its.
Lord rLUNKETT approved of the object which the
the noble and learned lord had in view, and assured
• the house that he would give to the measure his most
earneat attention.
The bill% were then severally read a first time.

ME CHI? WCH EITILDI/80 ACT AMENDMENT TILL.
On the motion of the Btshop of LONDON, the Church
ullaing Act Amehdment DM was read a third time, and
paged.
THE TILT area ACT AMENTNEZET TILL

Lord MELBOURNE moved the second reading of the
New Beer Act Amendment Bill, and in doing so, observed
' that it was intended to insert a clause in it empowering police
• officers to enter /sew beer shops after hours, without belt g
armed with the authnrity of a warrant from a magistrate to
jurify them in doing so.
The Duke of WELLINGTON referred to the complain.,
which were made against the new beer act in all parts of the
country, and suggested to the noble lord whether It would
not be advisable to Insert In the bill a clause, compelling
new beer shops to shut up at four o'clock In e afternoon
during the winter, and six in the summer.
The LORD CHANCELLOR observed that be felt the
weight of the suggestion of the noble duke; considerable
thflieulty might arise from adopting that suggestion. The
limitation of hours would give a preference to other houses,
srd would in fact he undoing that which had but just been
done. The Act had not as yet had a fair trial, and they
ought therefore to consider well before they took a step that
would operate as a repeal of it.
• Lord T ENTE R DEN said that it was highly expedient
that there should he some limitation to the hours of keep-
ing open. If 0.5 were to fix seven in wmter, and eight in
summer, the evil wnuid. he thought be removed.
Lord MELBOURNE observed that it was nut the hours,

but the reduction in the price of beer, which had caused the
complaints. By an existing Act, beer shops were obliged
to be closed at ten o'clock at night.
The Bishop of LONDON, after mentioning an instance
where a young man had sustained considerable moral injury
from frequeming at late hours a new bee: shop, observed
that that places, by bring kept open no Sundays, ewfully
increased immorality upon that day. It was his intention
to present a petition, praying that they might be closed on
the Lord's Div.
Lod WY NFORD suggested the introduction of a clause,
empowering police officers and constables to enter. not only
in cases of riot and disturbance, but during the hours of their
bring kept open. order the sanctionof a magistrate's warrant,
•.:d afterwards without any such sanction.
Lord \I ELBOUR NE °hewed that the clause in the hill
empowered the olticers to enter of their own accord.
Lord TEN TElt DEN doubted that the clause as it stood
conferred any such power.
lam d 31 ELBOU NNE said that if such were the ease, he
v•tild have no possible objection to amend the clauses so as
in meet rite suggt. titian of the noble and learned I.lnl (Wyn.
d) The noble lord then alluded to what had fallen frm
the right rev. prelate (the Bishop of London), and asked
' what limitation of the hours be would wish to be made with
regard to Sundays.
The Bi•hup of LONDON said that he should like new
beer shops to be shut up all da) on Sundays, except so tar
as would be actually necessary fur supplying the poor with
the drink they might require at their meals. Keeping pub-
lic-houses open on the Sabbath Day was intended as an ac-
commodation to travellers, but there could be no such access
.icy with respect to new beer shops.
After some further observations front Lord kIRL-
BOU RN E in reply, the bill was read a second time, and
ordered to be committed on Thursday.
Lord TENTER DEN moved for a return of the number
of persons confined in the King's Bench, the Fleet, al d
Whirecrosssatreet prisons for debt, the amount of the debts
for which they were detained, and the length of time they
remained in prison ; together with the number of petitions
bled, and tt• persons discharged under the lusedvent Act,
during the year MO.—Ordered.
The Fad pf SH A FTESBURY presented a petition from
• pariah in Kent, against the beer bill.
The house then adjourned.
HOUSE OF COMMONS.
Mr. HUME presented a petition from the tile makers of
London, praying that the duty on tiles might be taken off,
in ,he same way as it had been taken off slates.
After a few observations front Mr. Hamm', Mr.
Comerritas, Mr. S. RICE, the petit on was brought up,
read, and laid on the table.
Mr. HU3I It presented a petition from Uxbridge, tom-
s laining of the inland tax upon coals. The hon. member
said that he had also a petition from Cupar, Perth, Leslie,
sod Edinburgh, complaining of the delay of the Reform
in its passage through the house. There were some
Inning expressions in these petitions, and he felt it to be his
duty so alter them. He had- made these alterations with the
approbation of some of the petitioners, but not alt. Four
of dime petitions attributed motives to hon. members In
opposing the bill In question. He should not present
tier let.
Mr. ROBINSON rose to order.
The SPEAKER said that the boo. member (Mr. HOMO
had drawn the cant line, and bad given himself trouble
upon a point that it would be well If other huo. members
would observe. With respect to masurm, he would just

say that any petition is wideb erasures were made with the,
consent of the pasties, that stir it was i groper pedttim.
He, however, doubted math the propriety of members taking
upon themselves to make endures pedtions.
Mr. HUME having stated tbs contents of aU the pd.
dens, declined Winging up any bat thiu from Edinburgh.
Mr. ROBINSON alluded to the inconvenience at mem.
hers stating the contents of objectionable petitions, well
knowing that these petitions eonld no! be received.
After an observation from Mr. Hunt, the petition was
brought up and read.
Mr. HUME prevent d a petition from two Individuals,
preying for an alteration in the coach teem, and that the
trade may be left open. The hon. member alto presented
a petition Hem the coal-measure makers, praying for rt.
muneration in ease the London coal bill be brought into
operation. The hon. member presented another petition
from certain persons meeting at the Risunda in the Black.
friars.road, complaining of the tax noon knowledge. The
petition was one of great publih importaoce, and deserted
the marked attention of that House. Owing to the six acts
the rich only were enabled to obtain knowledge. What was
the result of the present restrictive laws? SiII that persons,
in despite of the laws, send. Owls the most offensive publi.
cations, as they deprecated the possession of property.
Mr. HUNT committed In the prayer of the petition. but
did not think th;:t the publication in question went further
than this—that they deprecated franchise arising out of pro.
Mr. O'CONNELL supported the prayer of the petitlont
and said that the hon. member for Middlesex was quite righ
in slaying that the publication alluded to would attack pro-
perty, and the mischief was, that persons of a right mind
could not meet the views of the propagating of the publica-
tions in question, and undeceive the public. Ile thought
that the laws adverted to by the petitioners, which were
passed for the purpose of putting down Mr. Cobbett, ought
to be repealed.
Colonel TORE ENS was also In favour of the repeal of
the laws in questioe.
Mr. HUNT denied, that the laws in question were meant
solely to put down Mr. stbhttt ; there were other works
published of the same nature by Mr. Wooller and a Mr.
bherwln, and that Mr. Cobbetr, instead of rising the price
of his pamphlet, left the country.
Mr. O'CONNELL, in support of his statement, adverted'
to the debates upon the Six Acts.
After an observation from Mr. HUNT, the petition was
bought up, read, and ordered to lie on the table.

Mr. HUM E presented a petition from Balton, praying for
the liberation of the Rev. Robert Taylor, and complaining
of the yowers exercised by the Society for the Suppression
of Vice, in putting a stop to the freedom a discussion re-
specting religion. The majority of the members of this
Society (said Mr. Hume) were ministers of the Church,
1 end were missionaries, whose purpose was, in order to ad-
vance the Christian religion, to ridicule that of the heathens.
Were those persons, then, to attack a man who only Fee-
tired a similar course towards the Christian religion ?
Upon the words of hireling informers, who noted the words
used by Mr. Taylor at • private meeting, he was found
guilty, and incarcerated in a gaol, where he is treated
like a common felon, and with most tyrannical oppression,
both mentally and corporally. If Mr. Taylor made use of
his powers to ridiule religion in public It would be very
different, but he only did so at a private asgembly, where no
one was asked to go but these wishing to hear opinions hoes
tile to the Christian religion. This unfortunate gentlemen
I was, in point of fact, *loomed to perpetual imprisonment,
for. at the end o f two years, he was not to express any differ-
ence of opinion from those who opposed his views of religion.
His (Mr. Hume's) complaint was against the system, not
against individuals. If the object of this system was to
crush infidelity, he could assure the base that it would have
a contrary .effect.
Mr. J. WOOD supported the prayer of the petition, and
complained of the powers vested in the Association for the
Suppression of Vice. He thought that a prosecution for
religion was downright tyranny.
Mr. R. TREVOR said that Mr. Taylor had not been
found guilty of a mere difference of opinion ; but because he
had taken every means to publish his offensive views. It was
said that Mr. Taylor, as a gentleman and a man of education,
had been hardly treated. lie thought that Mr. Taylor's
being a man of education, was an additional argument against
him, end he therefore deserved severe treatment.

Captain GORDON (Member for Dundalk) said that
the Society for the Suppression of Vice had reared a bar-
rier against tiv tide of blasphemy constantly pouring out
in this country. The public was under deep obligations
to this Society. He denied that Missionaries were obliged
to ridicule the religion of others to advance their own*
(Mr. Hume: u They do.") He also contended that the
place where Mr. Taylor held forth was a public place.
where any one could enter for a shilling. He complained
of the charac•ers of persons being attacked by the honour.
able Member for Middlesex. it was not a hired spy, but
a gentleman named Stevens, who gave evidence against
Mr. Taylor.

Mr. O'CONNELL complained that, although the In.
quisideo of Spain had been done away with, yet the hon.
member foe Dundalk, and the hon. member for Durham
(Mr. EL Trevor), were anxious to revive it in the British
dominions. He contended that it was a blasphemous inter-
ference to oppose power to principle. He also contended
that -he interference of the Society for the Suppression of
Vice wasnot only blasphemous, but unconsdnstionaL (Hear.)

. .
Mr. DEN ISON thought that prosecutions for any offence
against religion ought to be brought forward by his bon.
friend the Attorney-GeneraL The hon. member then said
that Mr. Taylor was only subject to the rules of the prison;
if these rules were too severe, let them be altered.

Mt. BRISCOE was favourable to a freedom of religious
opinion, and therefore supported that part of the prayer of
the petition. But he contended that the exhibition of Mr.
Taylor at the Rotunda was repugnant to the feelings of
Christianity. and this it was that caused the sentence in
question to be passed upon him. lie certainly was of
opinion that the treatment of Mr. Taylor was too severe,
but still it was imposible, under the existing rules of the
gaol, that he could be treated otherwise.
A Hon. Member said that the persecution never put down
opinion ; and what was the offence complained of ? It was
an t•ffence against the Almighty, but it would appear it was
not an offence against the Archbishop of Canterbury; and
for this offence a gentleman was to be punished with two
years' imprisonment.
Mr. HUNT said that the Society for the Suppression of
Vice was a foul conspiracy. He contended that the magis.
rates of surrey had surpassed the law, by making Mr.
Taylor's imprisonment solitary. No such sentence bad been
passed upon Mr. Taylor by the court.
Mr. BRISCOE denied that Mr. Taylor was in close con.
&lenient by the wish of the Surrey magistrates, but at his
own wish.

Captain GORDON denied that he wished to introduce
the Irgaisition into this country. He was a friend to the
liberty of conscience.
Auer an observation from Mr. Denison, Mr. O'Connell,
and Mr. Hunt,
Mr. H UME, in reply, said, that he would call the Bench
of Magistrates of Surrey the Inquisitor-Generals' Bench of
England. (Hear, hear.)
The conversation here dropped.
Mr. J. BROWN said, that, seeing the right honourable
gentleman (Mr. Stanley) in his place, he wished to ask if he
had received any information respecting the outrages that had
taken 1-Lice in Galway, which appeared in a particular news-
paper. His accounts from Galway corroborated these state.
mentor. It was necessary that some vigorous measures should
be adopted ; the time had arrived when those measures
ought to be adopted. It these disturbances continued in
Galway, they would go into Mayo.
Mr. STANLEY was sure tkat the questions were put in
a friendly manner. He regretted to say that there were die.
tries in the county of Galway that were in a considerably
disturbed state. There must however, be a stronger case
than that now made out, before the Government adopted
unusually strong measures. (Hear.) The Government had
sent soldkre, and appointed stipendiary Magistrates, and
every thing possible was done to pat down the disturbances
in Galway. He wield not be expected to give any opinion
upon the conduct of the Galway petition.
The petition was then read, and ordered to lie on the table.
Upon the motion that the order of the day respecting the
Lord Lieutenants' (Ireland) bill be read,
Lord ALTHORP, in reply to Mr. Robinson said that
be would bring on ate Wine Duties' WU on Monday next.
Mr. LEFROY asked if is was the intention of the bon.
member, the chairman of tne Dublin Election Committee,
(Mr. R. Gordon) to adopt any measures respecting the mat.
ten that came out in the evidence upon that committers ?
Mr. GORDON said he certainly intended to bring for-
ward tesointions on the subject on Tuesday next.
Captain GORDON asked if the government intended to
any measures respecting the speakers at the late Wu-
;:ole areeting ?
bIr.STA N LEY said that the government bad not thought
t expedient to lake any notice of the subject.

Tait Loll° LlTlPTfigeNete (tetLAND) PILL.
Open the motion that the House go into Committee upon
this Bill, •
Mr. O'CONNELL rose to rnove that the bill be aim-
mltted that day six months. He costeuded that the bib in
question would throw too much power into the hands of
whatever administration was in power. For upwards of 20
yams, while Lord Manners was Clancy Hoe of Ireland,
smelly a Catholic was appointed to the magistracy. During
the Chancellorship of Sir A. Hart, no permit was
to the magistracy of a particular party bias. A ble
majority of the magistracy were partisans, except in the
count of
MarquisW of w
Waterford,
tordbe
andf thatim a was
minor. The boaou
attributable to therabpret
sent
baronet' the member for Waterford (Sir R. Digestive) had
petitioned twice for the commission of the sod was
refused. He thought the office of depnty lieutenant.e
would
be used for election purposes. He would take the counties
throes hour Ireland; and with the exception of Bilden, there
would rot be found materials to carry this bill tete erect
He might be told that the King's Bench had influence over
the magistracy, but he would say that it was a mockery.
)ven in this country, within the last ten years, there were
thirty applications for criminsl Informations, but not one
of them was granted; and when such a circumstance took
place in Rnglard, what was to be expected in Ireland ?
(Hear, hear, hear) He considered that there was •
great portion of despotism between the msgistracy and the
poor in this country, and it was much greater in Ireland,
where the magistrates exulted in the convictions. (Hew.)
Ceder the New Jury Bill, an additional power would be
granted to the magistrates. who would be authorized to select
juries, and he thought it injudicious to take the authority
from the Lord Chancellor, end transfer it to the Lord Lieu-
tenant. He believed in his heart that the l iii would increase
party feeling and heart-burnings. He had no political am.
bitten. but to stet the good of his country. He moved that
the bill be read that day six months.
Mr. :TANTEY said that he gave the hon. and learned
Member rent credit for the very temperate observations he
made In opposition to the Bill. He assured the House that
if he bell, red that the Bill would tend to increase party
feeling in Ir land, be would be the last man who would
sown it. He believed the Bill was one that the
Government of Ireland long required, to add weight to, its
authority, and to increase responsibility. It was a measure
that was rendered necessary to link responsible authority to
the Government. The principle of the Bid worked well
in this country, and he was at a Inas to know why it would
not prove equally beneficial in Ireland. He admitted that
there were many instances in the Magistracy of Ire-
land where gross abuse had taken place ; but this Bill
would enable the Government to place a proper and tespon.
sible sutLority over the magistrates in counties. He did not
intend to remove any responsibility from the Lord Chancellor,
but to appoint • proper officer, to whom the Lord Chancellor
could refer as to the character of the candidate, and not to be
Obliged to have recourse to private information, which was
the bane of Ireland. He thought that the hon. and learned
member had passed a severe censure upon the counties, when
he stated that there would be a difficulty in obtaining re-
spectable persons to fill the office of Lord Lieutenant. He
believed there would be found persons of great respectability
to discharge the office. He believed that it would tend to In-
duce men of respectability to reside In Ireland. The object
of the bill was to create a responsible officer, and one on
whom the Lord Chancellor could depend upon for informa-
tion. He trusted that the bill would answer all the beneficial
purposes anticipated from it.
Mr. JEPHSON objected to the bill, as it was likely to
give undue power in elections, and lead to partlmmihip.
He, however, would give the bill a fair triaL
Mr. RUTHVEN said that he did not think the bill cal.
cul tted to prove any great advantage to the country. He
thought thepowerto be assigned to the Lord Lieutenant was
too great. He was afraid that the Lord Lieutenant would
be invested with too much influence ; yet, be believed that
no great injury could arise from the transfer of the power
from governors of counties. He trusted that Government
would adopt means to prevent a repetition of those offences
that took place through the yeomanry, and place them under
regulations that would check their power and opportunities
to inflict injury upon the people.
Mr. D. BRON NE called the hen. member to order;
they were discussing • measure of great importance to Ire-
land, and he thought it unwise to discuss the question of
the yeanonry.
Air. ItUTHVEN continued; and said that he was not
out of order. He had a right to refer to the state of the y.o.
Enemy. He trusted that those persons who would be ap-
pointed under thq,• bill would keep themselves free from
corrupt *cling and wises.
Mr. D. BROWNI2 said that he would support the bill,
but he did not look upon it as one of unmixed good. (Hear,
bear.) He thought the advantages would exceed the dis-
advantages. He approved of the bill, bemuse it was an
effort to assimilate the laws, and would had to the abolition
of the office of Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.

Mr. BLAKENEYWeIievei that the bill would be at-
tended with advantages to Ireland. Any system would be
better than the present, which was pregnant with evil He
trusted that government would be able to find respectable
persons to discharge the important duties of Lord Lieute-
nants. He regretted eh state, that in the county of Carlow
persons bad been appointed to the magistracy who were unfit
tor the situation. He would support the bidL
Mr. J. GRATTAN said, that if the right honourable
gentleman (Mr. Stanley) considered that the Iced Lieute-
nants could preserve the peace of the counties, be was very
much mistaken, because the magistrates were thepersons who
were accountable for the quiet and peace of the counties.
Mr. S. RICE said that every person recommended to the
Committee on the State of Ireland the appointment of
Lords Lieutenants in Ireland. This bill would render great
and important service to that country. It would prevent the
Lord Chancellor from being obliged to depend upon private
information, and create a responsible °them He knew of
instances of persons being recommended to the Lord Chan-
cellor, and when they were appointed, the gentleman who
bad recommended them disavowed the parties. He con-
sidered that the bill would do away a bad system, and would
substitute a sound and constitutional one, that would render
great service to the country. The assimilation of the laws
and practice of the two countries was one of its best com-
mendatioos. The recommendations of Committees would
be taken up by Government and carried into effect.
Dlr. LEADER looked upon the bill as one pregnant with
mischief. He believed that the measure would enable the
thirty-two Lord Lieutet.ants to monopolise the patronage of
the country, which was already distributed among the ma-
gistracy of Ireland. Those measures would fall wide of the
mark, unlem ciie guvernment would ameliorate the condition
of the measure.

Mr. CR A3l PTO N said that no single power was given by
the bill to the lord lieutenants that was not possessed by the
governornors cf counties at present. There was no responsi-
ble person at present, and that evil would be remedied by
this bill, in the appointment of lord lieutenants. I: would
be of great advamage to Ireland, that gentlemen of high rank
should be anointed to those stations. It was mt essential
that the person appointed should be a nobkman. No such
think was comemplateekbp.she bill.
Mr. LEFROY. Jun. advocated the measure.
Lord AlallOßP thought the bill would prove con-
ducive to ti e peace and welfare of Ireland. He believed
that the ussintils;lon of the Imre between the two rano-
tries would prove highly beneficiaL The Lord Lieu.
tenants would not have the power to appoint, but to re-
commend persons to till the office of magistrates. It was
so in this country, and the practice worked well. One
of the great evils in Ireland was, the want of effect of
public opinion. This bill would create a responsible
power, amenable to the laws and public opinion. He
thought that the of would operate as an encouragement
to persons to reside on their estates, to qualify them to fill
those "Ices. He trusted that the measure would prove ser-
viceable to Ireland. The government had no other motive
in recommending it.
Sir M. W. RIDLEY had no doubt that this measure
would contribute to encourage the residence of men of pro.
petty in Irel..nd, and he was satisfied that it would be at-
tended with beneficial effects.
Colonel O'Gft ADY approved of the measure geasrally,
bat there were some of its details which he whited to see
altered trom their present state.
Mr. PAGET, seeing the number of. elergram Who were
in the commission of the peace id this pan of the country,
could nut but regret that she appointment of magistrates was
placed in different hands front those in which they were now
pieMr.ced.
CALLAGHAN supported the bill. One good
diet of it would be, that the recommendations to the office
al justice of the peace would be taken out of inespousible
hands, and placed in persons who would be responsible for
the consequences of recommending unlit persons.
Mr. HUNT was astonished to see that the first act which
the government was to peas foe Ireland was ate which was a
nuisance in England. He was 'edified that nine.teotbe of
the people were dissatisfied with the mode in which aegis.
notes were appointed. As was said by the member fee
Kerry, it was absurd, it was a gross farce, to apply to the

Irish

Court of giap's uds for redrew for oppression from a
usegistrma. fee there is no losessee of redreva having bees
by dna won. As a reform was to take place fn
C likaldsn. it was to be bayed that a reform would
aim take plias la the maglstraey.
1124 ELL replied. He would not divkle the
boom b dds stay of the bill. but he should on the third

reedit&
The Neese then went into a Committee.
Mr. SHBIL objected to that part of the Bill which vested
the Lord Lieutenant of the county with the right of ap-
pointing the militia officers.
Mr. S. NICE conceived that it would be absurd if the
Lord Lieutenant, who was to be entrusted with the ap-
pointment of Magistrates, was set fit to be entrusted with
the appointment of militia dime.
After some observations bp Mr. (kamptee, Lord Ebring.
ton Mr. 1). Browne, Lea XiDm, Mr. Sinclair, Ur.
Onittas. and Mr. Lefroy,
Mr. O'CONNELL renewed his 'Weeder es the bill in
general. In doing so, he eomplalud of a penes awed
Leary. who had been found guilty at the Chemoksise which
sat to try the Doneraik compirators, having bees areesperted,
contrary to the recommendation of the Judge.
The several clauses of the hill were then agreed to, the
Chairman reported progress, and the house resumed.
Mr. STAID LEY having moved the recommitment of the
Beard of Works (Leland) Bill.
Mr. HUME objected to the appointment of Commission.
yrs with salaries, as proposed in the bill, when we had so
many Commissioners already under pay who could perform
the business.

S. RICE denied that the propored commissioner
would cause any additional expense to the country ; of that
be would satisfy his hon. friend when the Irish estimates
came before the house.

Mr. S. DAWSON supported the bill.
Losd ALTHORP admitted that a grant would be more
beneficial to Ireland = but in the present state of the country,
the Government could not ask for such a grant.
Mr. LEADER entered into a statement of the condition
of Ireland, observing that, unless employment was procured
for the poor, It was in vain to expect tranquillity in that
country.
Sir J. BURKE was saislitd that, after a few years, when
the effects of the sum now advanced shall be known, the
government will be more liberal in its advances.
Mr. S. RICE thonght that it was idle to discuss that re-
specting which they were all agreed.
The house then resolved itself into a committee.

SIT. A. DAWSON was satisfied that England could not
lay out her money to more advantage than in improving Ire-
land, and relieving that country from the consequences of
absenteeism.

Mr. O'CONNELL said, that the distress prevailing in
Connaught had not been in the slightest degree exaggerated.
He, however, did not in principle agree in the propriety of
vesting a sum of 600,0001. in Government, to lend to whom
they pleased ; neither did he think such a system of political
economy would be productive of any good. For his part,
instead of a loan, he would ask for a gent, if be thought
he could get one. He, however, wished to facilitate the bill.
Mr. STANLEY felt convinced, that the money would be
advantageously laid out in Ireland; but, however opposed
he was to lending money in this way, yet he could not see
how it could have been possible to come down to ask foe
so large a sum. It was true that a great portion of this
money would be lent to Grand Juries ; but he hoped that
the alteration about to take place in the Grand Jury Laws
would obviate all difficulty or apprehensionof misapplication.
Mr. ROBINSON wished to see the pressure caused by
absenteeism removed, by making their property subject to
the support of the Irish poor. lie did not wish to offer any
opposition to the bill, but be still protested against each
grants on principle.
M,r. & RICE thought the conversation irregular..
Mr. BLAB EN EY with some warmth defended the
right of Inland to assistance, and said that there were in
that country 400,0001. lying idle in the county treasuries.
He objected to English Members standing up in that house
to protest against measures interded for the relief of
Ireland.

Mr. ROBINSON, in explanation, said that his object
and that of the hon. gentleman's was the same. He more
than the hon. member did not wish Ireland to depend upon
mere charity. He wished that some general mamma for
her benefit should be adopted.
Mr. HUME said that the hon. gentleman would, be sup-
reed, wish to see Ireland on the same footing with Scotland.
That was all that was wished by those who were opposed in
principle to such grants as these. He objected to the grant,
although he would have no objection to have 1,000,0001. or
even a larger sum granted by way of loan to Ireland. upon
the same tams that public money was granted either to this
country, or to Scotland, which would prevent the possibility
of jobbing or partiality.
Mr. S. RICE observed that the arguments of the hon.
member was wholly inapplicable, and that the was
proposed to pass through the Treasury, because the -
sury was under the supervision of that house.
Mr. R. GORDON fully concurred in all that had fallen
from the hon. member for Middelesex.

Mr. A. DAWSON was willing that Ireland should be
treated like Scotland. One million had been granted for the
Caledonian canal, and usefully employed. He wish to
have a similar grant made for Inland Navigation in Ireland.
Mr. HUNK said that the hon. member was not correct.
He (Mr. Hume) would be at the pains to asertain the sums
granted to Scotland, and the sums wasted in Ireland by job-
bing.
Sir G. CLERK said that, knowing the Caledosiau eanal,
he was bound to declare that it was a most lawless expense.
The grant was made for the employment of Highlanders,
but the hon. member for Louth would perhaps be surprised
to bear that the %thole work was com ted, not by High-
leaden, but by the hon. member for uth's own country.
men. (Laughter.) He objected to the grant, on the ground
that it would be applied to ensure patronage.
Air. WA RBURTON was also opposed to the grant.
Mr. GRATTAN supported It, observing that such grants
were substitutes for poor laws in Ireland. They were the
only means of providing the Irish poor with employment.
Mr. WYSE supported the bill, but he thought it did not
go far enough. It would not, however, affect the introduc-
tion of poor laws into Ireland.
Mr. SADLER said if it was intended by this NJ to pre-
vent the introduction of poor laws into Ireland, it would be
futile.

After a few words from Mr. Sam and Mr. COVIITZNAT,
The Bill was then read paragraph by paragraph.
Mr. HUME complained that the bill created a Board in
Ireland which was unnecessary.
Mr. STANLEY said that the Board in question would
have a very great increase of duty under this Bill.
After a conversation seven of the clauses were agreed to.
The CHantatair then repotted progress, and obtained
*aye to sit again.
Upon the motion of Lord ALTHORP, the Scotch and
rich Reform Bills were postpseed until Friday sennight.
The other Orders of the Dq were that disposed s 4 and
the House adjourned at Two cielack.

FOREIGN INTALLIGENCE.

SPIRIT OF THE i—Alra—AN JOURNALS.
L'Avenir, Paris Paper, says—They have just
banged in England a child of fourteen years of
age—guilty of having assassinated another child of
nine years of age. In Ireland, they have just con-
demned to death a man and his wife for assassina-
tion, upon the sole deposition of their grand-daugh-
ter, aged nine years ! It appears to us from these
facts, that there are other reforms required in
England besides that of the Parliament.
The Stenographe says, this evening, that the
despatches arrived at the Ministry of Foreign Af-
fairs confirm the note of the Moniteur, and it adds
that dispositions are taken for the return of our
troops. That would be by far too hasty ; the Bel-
gians will bays the right to laugh at our expedition.
Sines the King of Holland has rendered our expe-
dition necessary, it is necessary that it should bear
its fruits ; it ii necessary that it should resolve in
favour of the Belgians all the territorial questions
still undecided; that it should assure them the pos-
session of Limbourg, of Zealand, Flanders, and of
Luxembourg, without other indemnity than the
cannon shots which it would require to attain that
object.
Le Journal des Debats says that the main argu-
ment of those who maintain that war is inevitable,
rests on the argument that liberty and despotism
are incompatible with each other, and citaest,lisne.
fore be co-existent. This is logically true, but

practically false. The opposite principles. if they
fought with 100,000 men on each side for a ee
nary together, would not annihilate each other.
The opposition and contrast of the two principlee
are inherent in the creation of the World, and t
attempt to destroy despotism by universal liher:
or liberty by univereal despotism, would be attack
the creation itself. An old story affords -
an illu
nation of this : a dog had been gifted be
%
animal
fairy with the power of catching every -
which he pursued ; a hare had been gifted by an°
ther fairy equally powerful with the privilege (:(
never being caught. One day the gifted dog be,..ait
to chase the gifted hare. Which privilege would
predominate ? After running a long time they gee
tired, and agreed to go quietly along side be side.
Every story has its moral. Liberty and despotism
have long been chasing each other, but neither has
caught its prey. What, then, must they do now )
Go side by side, like the dog and the hare, and.
bear patiently with each other, since the destinies
of the world so ordain it. •
La Gazette de France, after arguing that neither
of the two parties of the mouve,nent and resistance
can restore the prosperity of the country, but that
there is a course which, if adopted, would secure
universal happiness, says, " The situation of France
may be clearly illustrated by an image. Travellers
find themselves in a different route, but if they ad.
trance they must cross a marsh merely to arrive st
a precipice. We meat stop, say some ; look at this
marsh and precipice. But, say the others, if we
stop we perish from hunger, and have no where to
lay our head. Look on your right, says a third,
there is another road which leads to a friendly
town."
La Quotidienne says, that as London is the
centre and principle of action of the French Cabi-
net, it is not in the speeches of M. Perier, or M.
niers, but in the conversations which take place
in the English House of Commons, that the es.
planation and developement of the policy of the
Palais Royal must be sought for. It will there be
sun, that every point of national honour and dig.
nity has been sacrificed by France to England,
and that the latter, in return, only repays the ea-
crifice by the most bitter contempt.
Le National, in alluding to the remark made by
the Minister of Foreign. Affairs, that Napoleon, at
the head of three hundred thonsand men, dared not
provoke a continental war, in order to re-establish
Poland, argues that the cue is misrepresented.—
The policy of Napoleon was to increase and fortify,
at the expense of Prussia and Austria, the king.
dome of Westphalia' Bavaria, Wirtemberg, and
Saxony, which formed in the centre of Germany
the powerful Confederation of the Rhine. For this
purpose he had deprived both Austria and Prussia of
a great deal of territory on their western frontiers;
but as it was his policy to destroy these powers en-
tirely, he could not at the same time despoil them
of their eastern possessions. The more, therefore, be
took from them to strengthen the kingdom of
Italy and the Confederation of the Rhine, the
more he was compelled to leave them on the other
side. Had he, for instance, reunited Dannick
and the mouths of the Vistula with the Grand
Duchy of Warsaw, he would have reduced Prussia
to the rank of a third-rate power, and could hum
depended on its support in his designs against
Russia ; and if he had deprived Austria of
Gallia', he must have abandoned his arehdaal
bride. It was not, therefore, want of you
that prevented Napoleon interfering in behalf
of Poland. The Congress of Vienna might,
and ought to have restored the kingdom of
Poland ; but at that Congress, Austria, Prussia,
and Russia, dividing their booty like a party of
drunken soldiers, aggrandised themselves at the
expense of France and Poland. This should now
be repaired. "We do not," it continues, " ask
for the gigantic Poland which Napoleon intended
to create after his Russian campaign, had it bees
successful ; but, as a measure both of justice and
of policy, we call for the re-establishment of Po-
land as it existed at the time of the partition in
1772. The existence of such a nation, comprising
Lithuania, Volbynia, Gallicia, and the Duchy of
Posen is the only thing which can put an end to
the tendency of Prussia and Austria to a prepon-
derance in the West."
PARIS, AUG. 13.—The friends of the minister
are to-day " beside themselves—quite beside them-
selves ;" for they announce " that the King of
Holland has given orders to the Prince of Orange
to retire from Belgium." I ask, what then ? Will
Belgium have Limbourg, Luxembourg, Man-
nicht, Venloo, and the left hank of the Scheldt?
We must wait and see.
The declaration which the Prussian Cabinet has
just made to the Minister of France residing
Berlin, merits the attention of diplomatists. II
Will fix the indecision of the people ; Prussia there
bas declared that in the question between Poland
and Russia she is not neuter—that she has never
been, that the Polish agents to foreigners had alone
endeavoured to establish that fact; that Prussia
desires that the Russians should triumph; that she
employs all the means in her power to contribute to
it ; that she believes herself entirely in the right
to pus to the Russian army ammunition of all
kinds, provisions, &c. and that the situation
an which she is found is inactivity ; bet 'sever
neutrality ; that she has considered the
Poles but as subjects revolted against their
sovereign, a sovereign, the good and faithful ally
of the King of Prussia; that if Poland reconquen
her independence, she will retake the Grand Duchy
of Posen, Them and Dantsick ; besides that it
will be a Gollollllllll4llt in which the sovereignty of
the people will pciavail,—a principle dangerous for
all the neighbouring governments ; that in fact, it
is possible that in tan years there will be no longer
in Europe a single Government which will not be
based upon the sovereignty of the people ; but that
it is not for kings to facilitate this change. Such
is the manner which that government acts which
is reputed so moderate, so wise, so forewarned.

FRANCS,
As our Readers would not thank us for filling
our columns with debates in the French Chambers,
we shall to-day prefer to give them a commentary
en the speech of Sebastiani, by the spirited
Paris Coerespeadent of the Morning Chronicle.
Tbe
Maw et Bliestipe Madre (Y. Horace Sebastian)
ddineesi bisasebr et a speech set badly conceived sr as-
amok lag the eine he bad to stadia's; and the
system be bal opium'. He declared that the Revolution
bad set bees nabs agalast the treaties et 1816, although he
called 'bole maths 6osseus. if these imam, wad the
water, had been tan by us, we should rile have had age.
ma war; bat, by adepthe this, we meletelosd peso.
Tide maimidides et pose was, Oa the °plebe at Y. Sow'
I *douse wastigajessilleatioe* beta& eulogy ea the whole
system et dm pin of 'knew. He arose isessol

$ greater blessing than peace, nor a nobler tail than to
preserve it. Compared with peace, the blessings of liberty,
education, and human dignity and happiness,
are but as sounding brass or tinkling cymbals. When I
told you this for months past In my correspondence, you
thought sometimes that I exaggerated the hideous nature of
this peace at all hasardg system ;but now you perceive I did
en such thing; for the minister has himself declared that he
preferred adopting and acting up to the letter and spirit of
the fats! Treaties of 1816, to endangering the peace of Eta-
rope 31. Sebastian! admits that the revolution of July was
recover! with little favour by Austria, Russia, Prussia, or
!vain ; und that it was net until France had bent the
knee and prayed for recognition—not until she had
pledged herself not to assist the cause of liberty in any other
partof the world, that the Emperor of Rutile would consen
to send to Paris an Ambassador, or even receive at Bt. Pe-
tershurgh the Carlist Duke of Mortemart. Instead of say-
rig to Europe, " Our Revolution is just—our wrooga are
arcient. The Treaties of 1816 must be re-modelled.
France Bill no longer consent to an Holy Alliance. France
Rill no longer allow of intervention against the cause of the
people, and in favour of despotism and legitimacy. France
does not desire war, but she demands justice for herself and
for all who have sought her protection." I say, instead of
using such language, which would have ended In the regale-
ninon of Europe, the French Government went hunting
about for the recognition of the July Revolution; Louis
Philip wrote letters of apology to the European Sovereigns;
and the despotic Monarchs of the North were thus invited
to deign to notice the French Revolution.
If we take away the verbiage and the sound, it amounts
to this: France has made a revolution, and secured liberty
a..) herself and for herself; but for herself only. If you will
leave her alone, you may all tyrannize and persecute=
will, and certainly she will not assist the cause of
in any other part of the world. K Do just as you phone with
your own subjects," most noble Potentates, only allow
France to keep Louis Philippe instead of Charles Z. and the
charm of 1890, interpreted aristocratically, instead of the
charter of 1814, interpreted literally. Why, who could be
to hard-hearted as not to listen to such conditions ? Into.
!trance, bigotry. legitimacy, and Divine right, became as.
sured, strengthened, and supported by a popular revolution,
and the " funestes " treaties of 1816 were guaranteed by the
French revolution of July, 1830 !! 1 We know the rest I
M. Sehastiani gives two reasons for adopting this system;
Ist, because it was the best system ; 9d, because the Revo-
lution, being without an army, could adopt no other. Of
the first reason I will only say to-day, that instead of being
the best. it was the worst; but of the second I must say
more. If France was, without an army, prepared to make
war, so also were Prussia, and Russia, and Austria, and
Spain. The time which France has taken to arm has been
also seized by the same Powers for the same purpose ; and If
France, in 1830,was unable to contend against these countries
unarmed, she would also be unable,in 18131, to contend against
them, now all are armed. If, then, the Declaration is good for
any thing, it amounts to this—that France must obey, and
for ever,the dictation of Russia,Prussia,snd Austria; because,
united, they would be too powerful for her. Bat M. &bes-
tier did not, and does not even yet understand what was the
real position of France in ROO. AU the people were then
for her! The millions were for her revolution 1 Kings
might have commanded in vain t We had a proof of this.
The Emperor of Russia gave orders far the preparation of a
Polish army to march against the July revolution. The
Poles learnt this? It oosed out even through the cabinet
dosed doors of the Grand Duke Constantine; and what was
the consequence I Why, rather than march lo favour of the
treaties of 1815, and against the cause of liberty, the Poles
made a revolution, and poor Nicholas was defeated.
If the King ;of Prussia had issued the same orders,
the Rhenish provinces would have revolted; and if the
Emperor of Austria had marched against France, all
Italy would have marched against Aug'''. Then, then
am the moment—then, then it was that France required
a firm, vigorous, national, independent. masculine Go-
vernment—but It was, alas ! then that Louis Philip
adopted " the dollar system," and determined to stick
" to Consols and the Ens 1"

But, says M. Sebastian', the war would have been unjust
and indefensible ! Does this aversion to the spirit of
even propagating liberty in countries not prepared foe
it by civilization and education imply an acquits-
cove in the efforts of despotism to crush the spirit of free-
dom in those countries where it is desired and beloved ? Cer-
tainly not ; and yet, when Poland broke her chains, France,
by her indifference, helped to rivet them; and when Italy
rose to assert her independence, France nmieseed la the
occupation of Parma, Modena, and Roman* by Austrian
soldiers, until despotism should be re-established, and free-
dom should be once more subjected to the yoke of an iron
legitimacy. This was not verily the spirit of propagandism
in favour of freedom, but against it.
The 31inister congratulated the Chamber on the triumphs
of liberty at Dresden, in Bavaria and Baden, in Hesse, at
Brunswick, and in Switzerland, since the revolution of July;
but he surely forgot that he should not, to be consistent
with his abhorrence of propagandism, have complimented
France oo revolutions which were the results of an event,
the benefits of which he desired to iireserve exclusively for
this country.
The following is a letter from the Duke of Or-
leans to the Colonel of the lot regiment of Hussars,
who received it at Louvain on the 10th inst.:

" Mons, Aug. 9, four in the afternoon.
" The place from which I date my letter will at once
inform you that we have celebrated the first anniversary by
entering the Belgian territory, and occupying Tourney, Ash,
Mons, Charleroi, and Namur, where our troops will arrive
to-morrow. The ardour of the regiments we have Isere
h very great. The 6th Dragoons, at half-past live o'clock
this morning, paned the first over the frontier, and was re-
ceived with shouts of ' Vire le Roll" Viva la France;'
and other demonstration of joy. From the first Belgian
village to the gates of Moos we were greeted by the most
animated acclamations; we were covered with Sowers, and
the people contended with each other who should give our
soldiers drink. The cries of Vive le Rol;' Vire sesFiler
' Vive les Francais t' were incessant ; to which we replied,
' Vire les Beiges !" Vin la Belgique r We were received
at Moos by the Civic Guard under arms, and our entrance
vas truly a triumph.
"FERDINAND D'ORLEANS.
POLAND.

WARSAW. Jul..: 29.-1 n one aft' late sittings,
the Diet resolved to send an address to France
and England, and to deliver a copy of that which
it sent in reply to the Hungarians.—ln the Grand
Council of War the day before yesterday, the
Generalissimo and the National Government drew
a faithful and complete picture of the army and
the state of the nation. The Generalissimo de-
clared that his resolution was to fight until exter-
minated; that Lithuania, Volhynia had received new
reinforcements, and that they possessed sufficient
arms to support the war. The commission of the
Chamber has declared that all inquietude on the
future was unnecessary—that the representatives
of the nation did not doubt of success. The jour-
nals of Warsaw add, that for three days all the
inhabitants have re-assumed confidence. There
was received yesterday the official news of an im-
portant advantage obtained over the Russians, by
Colonel Rozyski, near Diohyczyn. We have made
150 prisoners, amongst whom is an officer of the
Etat llajor. Various reports are spread about
General Rudiger. He has renounced, it is said,
the passing of the Vistula near Pulawy. The
Contrier of Warsaw announces even that he is
recalled to Petersburgh, to justify the affair which
he had with Gen. Jankowski.—Gasette dePrstsse.
WA RSA W JULY 27.—The object of the Rus-
sian general appears to be to advance slowly to-
wards Warsaw, to cut off all communication with
the city, and intercept the supplies sent from the
provinces for the subsistence of its inhabitants, but
to avoid, if possible, a decisive engagement.—
The head-quarters of General Skrzynecki are
4t Warsaw. The Polish army are distributed in
the neighbourhood two or three miles from the
city. Nothing is yet known of the Commander-in-
chiere intentions, Many Polish hearts beat high
for the desired rencontre.
The wilitary operations in defence of the city
are in great progress. The inhabitants of War-
saw, without distinction. of rank, sex, or age, are

THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 16.
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thug O'CLOCK, TLr• DAY.—Thermomettr, 67. Baro-
meter, 36-09. Wind R. Weather, cloudy, with rain.

It appears by our Deal Letter that Admiral
Cointixtrrox still remains in the Downs, await-
ing instructions. The fleet is prepared to sail
at an hour's notice, and some orders were ex-
pected this morning.
The speech of Marshal SOULT, received this
morning, and given in another column, indi-
cates that it is not the present intention of the
French Ministry to withdraw their troops from
Belgium. _

We regret to state that Ministers consider their
minds as so entirely engrossed by the reform b ill,
that the new stamp acts, and particularly that for
reducing the duties on newspapers and advertise-
ments, will be postponed till the next sessions. We
regard this shrinking from a positive pledge as a
gross injury to many thousands who are interested.
On the subject or tt7lll--)50 Leaseholds for seven
years in counties, we have often remarked on this
varied plan, as having a tendency to convert coun-
ties into Aristocratic Boroughs ! for a seven years
lease creates as great a dependency as an annual
tenantcy ; and an indefinite number of votes may
be thus created by great landowners. The origi-
nal clause was £5O for 21 years with certain
guards, and why alter it ? But as though this
was not danger enough, il 0 tenures, for 60 years
have been superadded, enabling landowners to
create five times as many votes as by the first
clause. Why these deviations, and to whom is it
a sop in the pan ? Freeholders will be but a secon-
dary class of voters, when these easily managed
votes have been created. The leases will be made,
but the parchments will be moat safely kept in the
iron chest of my Lord's Steward. Then, equitable
titles !—really we wonder at the supineness of the
friends of the original principles of the Bill.
The 21st or £lO clause is also altered, and the
absurd provisoes about half-yearly payments and

previous payment of rest, ars expunged ; but the
same want of prating issiing is still displayd, and
tom are to be hunt pap This is a condition such
as would suggest MO to a clerk in the Ex-
chequer ; but it is sot' the idea of a states-
man. If any sun' is to be paid be-
fore an elector cast rote, in two instances
in three, it will be paid by the candidate,
and the alteration merely eases the candidate. It
is petty and grovelling to connect the vote with
any previous payment; and it smells of the shop s
the project of a Chancellor of the Exchequer.
With reference to the division of the counties,
there may be chances for and against the inde-
pendence of the election, according to the party of
the chief proprietor ; but we equally object to the
giving of four votes to each elector. We know
enough of the remits in the city of London from
this high numerical power. Nine in ten will not
consent to lose; even one of their four votes ;a nd
hence, rather than lose any of their power, they
give one, two, or three votes to candidates of op-
posits principles, and thus the results of a City
election never represent the real wishes of
the Livery. The sums -power in counties
would neutralise every election; and we should
even prefer seeing such divisions as enabled Elm-
tors to return but one Member each, than encou-
rage the extension beyond two. The absurdity
will be made evident in Counties which are to re-
turn three Members, thereby conferring on
every Elector three votes. One or two will be
given on principle, and the other yielded to in
treaty or good nature, so as to neutralise the result.

The people of England are at this moment divi-
sible into three great parties. The Tone PARTY,
which desires to render the public resources
subservient to their aggrandizement, profit, and
power. The MINISTRRIAL or Wino PARTY,
which seeks to divide the resources with the Tories,
by allying themselves to some wishes of the
people. Then there is the LIIIERAL PARTY, the
proper party of the people, who seek reforms and
ameliorations as direct relief from burthens, im
positions, and annoyances, to which they are sub-
jected by the selfish machinations of the two great
parties first named. The Tories govern by
silencing opposition, and the Whigs by coaxing
and neutralizing opposition. The Liberals are
weak, because disunited, and not Courtly.

On Saturday the House agreed to the 13th
clause, giving one additional member to five coun-
ties. Lord Althorp then gave notice of alterations
to be proposed in the 16th and 21st clauses, copies
of which, as proposed to be altered, will be found
in another column, together with some special oh-
serrations of our own or both.

Last snail, is tLe..Poses, Lord Kenyon
brought in a bill to encourage Agricultural Indus-
try, and, if really a liberal measure, we wish
him success ; but we cannot dissemble our asto-
nishment that all measures of amelioration are al-
lowed by Ministers to be proposed by their
opponents.

Lord Wynford has atoned for his errors about
Debtors, by a very wise proposition to measure
tythes of all kinds by the produce of seven years,
and to except the proportionate increase from local
improvements, or new modes of culture.

Lord Teynham complimented him, sod all Eng-
land will compliment him, for thus giving renovated
effect to the statutes of Edw. VI, which have been
nullified by the chicane of the Courts.

Lord Tenterden, whose rules of Court have
created much criticism, and whose legislation may
therefore require watchful attention, brought in
two Bills to regulate the practice of the Courts.
We hope they will gratify us, as ameliorations and
u reliefs to the public.

The Duke of Wellington presented two peti-
tions in favour of the Beer Act from Gloucester;
but the Bishop of London presented one signed by
95 Clergymen, of Staffordshire, against it.
Lord Melbourne moved the second reading of
the altered bill The Lord Chancellor thought the
system ought to be preserved. The Duke of Wel-
lington said the houses ought to be closed at 4
in winter and 6 in summer! Lord Tenterden
thought it might to be 7 in winter, and 8 or 9 in
summer! The Bishop of London said they
ought to be closed on Sundays. The bill is to be
committed on Thursday, and then we will insert a
Copy.
Mr. Hume presented a petition in the Com.
'mons, from the Tile-makers, claiming a remission
of duty as in Slates.
He also presented several petitions from Scot-
land, complaining of the delays of the Reform Bill.
Likewise a petition against Taxes on Know-
ledge, and the Six Acts, which, he said, ought at
once to be repealed, in which he was supported
with spirit by Mr. Hunt, Mr. O'Connell, and Col.
Torrens.

Likewise a petition from a poor debtor of 21. 10a.
who was imprisoned for 111. costs ; on which Mr.
Briscoe claimed attention to the whole system.
Also a very ittipottant Petition from Bolton,
signed by 12,000 persons, against the prosecution,
sentence, and treatment of the Rev. Robert Tay-
lor. He argued at great length on the subject,
and contended that the Court had abused its power.
He also arraigned the self-styled Society for Sup-
pressing Vice, which were the prosecutors. Mr.
Taylor's offence. Mr. Hume said, was the same
for which our SA • lOU a suffered. Mr. O'Connell,
Mr. J. Wood, and Mr. Paget, supported Mg.
Humes arg omen*.

Mr. Trevor and Capt. Gordon defended the pro-
:wanting association; and Mr. Denison justified
the prison treatment, and Mr. Briscoe apologized
for it. The petition was then received and ordered
to be printed.
On the motion that the Irish Lord Lieutenant's
Bill be committed, Mr. O'Connell objected, and
moved that it should be read this day six
months. Half the Magistracy, he said, con-
sisted of the Protestant Rectors and Curates
of parishes, who were not popular, and did
not desire to be so He freely admit-
ted that no just complaint could be made against
the appointments, or refusals to appoint, by the
present Administration, and he wished matters to
continue as they were : at present the Lord
Chancellor was responsible, and if the prospects
held out by the Reform Bill were realised, that
responsibility would be far from nominal. He de-
fied Ministers to point out an unexceptionable
nobleman for the office of Lord-Lieutenant in any
county in Ireland. . . . He called the measure the
Bill of the Thirty Tyrants, which would place a
Despot in every county. At present it was possi-
ble to appeal to the King—'' To fly from Village
Despots to the Throne ;"—but hereafter that
remedy, in the responsibility of the Lard Chan-
cellor of Ireland, would be at an end. In England
the dominion of the Ring's Bench over the
Magistracy was a mere mockery. In the last
ten years, thirty applications had been made to
it against Magistrates, and not a single criminal
information had been granted. Ten of those
informations were against Clerical Magistrates,
although the proportion of them in England was
much less than in Ireland. Even in England there
was a vast deal of despotism exercised by the
Magistrates over the poor, and how much more
would it be in Ireland, where Magistrates were in
hostility with their neighbours, and endeavouring
to multiply prosecutions and convictions !
Mr. Stanley defended the bill at length, and
stated that it was a favourite measure of Govern-
ment. Mr. Jephson wished it to be tried. Mr.
Ruthven expected no good effect from it. Mr. D.
Browne approved of it. Mr. Blakeney said no
thing could be worse than the present system.
Mr. Grattan, and many other members, spoke in-
decisively.

Mr. Hunt objected to the Lord Lieutenant's
powers of appointing magistrates in England, and
stated that nothing could be more unsatisfactory to
the people, who ought to choose their own sheriffs
u well u magistrates. He thought that the
means of choosing magistrates now adopted in Eng-
land would be no benefit to Ireland.

In the Committee there were objections to cer-
tain clauses, and Mr. O'Connell persevered in hie
opposition.

The Irish Public Works Bill was then discussed
at great length, but with general approbation of
its utility.
THIRTY notices of motions for altering the Re-
form Bill in certain points stand for this evening.

SPEECH OF THR FRRNCH MINISTER OF

WAR ON SATURDAY.

In the Chamber al Deputies on Saturday, after several
members had delivered their sentiments on both sides, the
Presidest said, that as several amendment, have been pro.
posed to the Chamber, be should now mention them hs suc-
cession. The most extended was that of 11. 'Ambit.

" The doubtful policy of the German Courts may compel
you to give the signal of battle. The Chamber and Depe.
ties expect from the government a project of law for deu-
DEng the numerical force of the army, in ease °eased. from
the moveable battalioos of the national guards It is is this
manner we shall secure our ledepeedeece.peace. and liberty."
On this M. Lovable rose and spokir—Oendemen, when we
assured by the ministry that Frame is menaced by 1
their orators replied to us that we want a univ=ntreare,
and that we want, one day, a war of Propogandism—
another, thrt we want to recommence the Wars of Napoleon.
This is imputing to us intentions that we do not entertain.
The Minister of War then said, I shall answer very
briefly the speech of the Honourable Member who hos just
quitted the Tribune, sokly for the purpose of tranquillising
the Chamber in respect to the observations with which the
orator has fast entertained us. I confess Ido not participate in
his fears—those fears are chimerical. The orator has spoke
to you of foreign powers whom be represents as taking a woe.
riming attitude towards France. For a long time, Gentle-
men. we have been entertained with similar apprehensions.
The Government, however, has not been alarmed by
them ; we have continued to show to France and
to Europe that we await events with confidence ;
that we are ready to fate them, whatever they
may be. What has occurred there to-day is a satisfactory
proof of this; and, I believe, that every one, on seeing
what we have done for Belgium, will tom tied
what we could have done for our own inde
had it been menaced. The nation has dem whet mea-
sures the Government had taken, to be prepared for all
danger, and he menaced the Government with the
responsibility which it assumed. We look at the res.
ponsibibty. and we accept it, with all its consequences.
Therefore, the orwor may rest perfectly tranquil, and I re.
quest the Chamber not to participate in the alarms which he
has manifested.--(General laughter.)—However, to say
something tranquillizing no this subject, I will add. tha
the D.tch army against which the French army has
marched, has just received orders from its Sove-
reign in stop its march, and to retire before our
troops. Tnis order has officially reached the King's
Government: however our troops will not return to France
on that account. Our troops will talcx convenient
positions, in order to afford us the certainty
that the Dutch troops will not return—(universal
bravos). The other powers, according to the orator,
are ready to attack us. I do not think so. The Go-
vernment has received the most formal assurances of their
pacific disposition ; therefore, in this point of view. there is
not the least cause of unessmeas or of chagrin. ( Laughter).
Let us,therefute, entertain no tear; the honourable orator has
demanded that the Government should render moveable a
certain number of battalions of the National Guard; It is
very true, that a law which was pawed in tie last Session
of the organization of the National Guard, has left the
question of inebilizetion undecided ; and it is possible
e hat the Government will present • law or. the subject--
the Government, which perfectly knows its duty, and are
determined to fulfil It, will present It at a proper time,
when they shall ,think it useful to the defence of the mea-
-1 try, its honour, its independence."

ROTAL EXCHANGE, ONE O'CLOCK.
Consols which left off yesterday at 811 f for
the account, opened at 811; since which, have
been don. at 811. At present they are 811 1 ;
little doing.
TWO O'CLOCK.
Consols are at present 811 for &be account.

THREE O'CLOCK.
Bank leak, 1981 9i 81 91. Three pa Cone Red.
811 F Three per Cent Consols, 811 31. Three - -
11alf per Cent, 1818, 903. Three and a Half per Ct
901. Three and • Half per Cent New, flin 11. Four
Cent. 1898, 814 I. Long Annuities, Jan. 1880, 17.
insides, Oct 1860 18 1646; do. Jan. 1800,
Stoat —; dn. Bo;wis, &nth Ss Stock, —. 11000
Exchequer Bills, 8 10; El6oo do. 9 10; £lOO and
do. 9 10. Ceseele for Aar. 1111 11.
FOUR O'CLOCIL—Cda 81 3 1.
On Sunday General Bact.TA RD arranged
the Prince of ORANGE the exact route of
Dutch Army in their retreat from Belgium.

DEAL, Ave. 16.
Since the arrival of the fleet under the command of Vice.
Admiral Codringeon. every warlike preparation has been
carried on at this place by the arrival of en extra quantity
of provisions and stores for the joint Naval and Victualing.
Depots. The Naval Hospital has likewise been pat into
au efficient state for the reception of invalids, upwards of
40 of which have already been received. Sir Wm. Barnet,
one of the CAmmissioners of the Victualling Board, who
has been down here some days, after completing the arrange.
meets left this seeming for town. It Is fully expected thelt
by toinermar laming Sir Edward Codtingtoo will=
ardent et a soncissive nanny. The Trinity pilo
main on shore, width, for seders.
Several vessels have jibed Sir Edward Coarkvipes
squadron since their first arrivalt—the following at present
comprise it t
Caledonia Wellesley
Prince Regent Talavera
Asia Barham
Donnegal Alfred
Revenge Stag
Caracas
Yeeneven, Ave. 16.—Arrived. the Edystese, Harri.
eon, from Archangel, with duds, and the Champion, Mill.,
frets Hasbro. with bides and bark; passed through, a
aebeener sod several other vessels, tree foreign parte; sailed,
Helen, for Rigs, and the *gnat, for Medstablet.k, in
ballast.

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