Star.
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the House having resumed, the
ed on Monday.

DF UNION.
wished to put a question
'riend, on a subject of con-
ely, tile repeal or continua-
h were about to expife, as
was provided they should
conclusion? Those Duties
,h produce imported into
tat if it was intended to do
it must be done in the pre-
!d that he knew his Right
on upon it ; but he thought
cation of the Public in Ire-
arable Friend should have
that opinion in his place.
the EXCHEQUER fully
lonourable Friend in think-
sportance. It had engaged
tion of the Treasury ; but
tad been thought necessary
as were not completed, all
to say was, that whatever
.ermination of Government
er continuation of the Du-
eir present existence by law,
ler that continuation should
,•hether the Duties should be
t? were questions the period
not an ived.

.D wished to put another
;onourable Friend. When
the close of the last Session,'
•een introduced by his Right
regulating the distilleries of
; but were not pressed to a
nce, he believed, of some
hi to his Honourable Friend's
the mean while the Revenue
erable defalcation ; and per-
large capitals in distillation,
What he wished to know
-e of the measures that his
I intended to propose to Par-
: Honourable Friend could
it would be extremely irn-
large, as well as to the par-

.he subject was of the utmost
, that whatever might be the
lament and the Legislature
they would be of a perma-
le Lord referred to some pro-
m-house in Dublin, and said,
tot, he could not tell, but he
iidered to be very vexatious.
adverting to the intimation
fore by the Right Honourable
F.xchequer, of the intention of
se to Parliament, to continue,
ne, Duties, which, according
Union, were about to expire,
er such a continuation could
manifest infringement of the
He was at a loss to conceive
id be prolonged without a vio
of the Union, and he should
)inion of the Crown Lawyers

)R of the EXCHEQUER, in
)lc Baronet, said, that this was
lad heard any doubt expressed
interference of Parliament on
lways appeared to him, that at
twenty years provided for in
Jnion, the continuation of the
a question which might, with
instice, be brought under the
hament. With respect to the
;this Right Honourable Friend,
tadily admitted that it involved
it impgrfance, both to the Pub-
beAvas at that moment not
,nswir, than by referring to the
teasurewhich had been brought
be last Session. He was making
in such information as might
mend measures calculated effec-
existing evils.
observed, that as the period to
in the Articles of the Union ex-
)int of expiring, he trusted that
vould thenceforward be made as
he convenience of the Members
L considerable part of the Irish
transacted at home, so that that
le troubled with the proceedings
d that that useless piece of page-
mtenancy of Ireland, might be

rAftGunioTrs.
e ished to know whether the corn-►
to be paid to the late inhabitants '
1g their native town, had• been ac-
, and whether it was intended to
chief to those unfortunate persons?
LE:l(i El answered, that the money
red ; hut whether it had yet been
,t those for whom it was intended,
vely say ; but he supposed it had.
wished to know whether his Ma-
ad in their contemplation any in-
further support or relief to the
understood that 4,000 of them
at distress, in the districts adjoin-
labitations.
REAGH said, his Majesty's Go-
ious to afford them every relief and
ower ; but he could not say that
any specific measure.

ixerncos PRILVINTION SILL.
,REACH moved the Order' of the
:o a Committee on the Bill for the
of Seditious Meetings
f wished the Noble Lord would ex-
of the alterations which it was his
duce into the Bill in the Committee;
Ily whether or not one of those al-
make it temporary in its character?
ZREAGH replied, that he must de-
explanation on the subject at the
, as that would lead to a debate,
's were desirous to avoid. In the
blanks would be filled up, and he
explanation Until Monday, when it
t the Bill 'Weld be recommitted.

Mr. TIERNEY repeated that it was very desira-
ble that Honourable Gentlemen should be satisfied as
to the nature of the alterations intended to be made
in the Bill by the Noble Lord, and more especially
with respect to the particular point he had men-
tioned. He had no idea how such an explanation as
that which he required from the Noble Lord could
possibly lead to a debate, as he trusted that the lapse
of 24 hours had put the Noble Lord into a better tem-
per, and had diminished his wrath against the People.
Lord CASTLEREAGH denied that he had ever
felt or expressed any wrath against the People. He
moved that the Speaker should leave the Chair.
Mr. M. A. TAYLOR conceived, that at the close
of the proceeding§ that morning, there was an un-
derstanding that the Noble Lord would, on the pre-
sent question, give the House a general outline of
the alterations which he intended to make in the Bill
—(A cry of " No, tio,"f from the Treasury Bench).—
Ile had Certainly so understood ; and such a proceed-
ing would certainly' be very advisable. Not only
himself, but many other Honourable Gentlemen were
very solicitous to know the extent and nature of the
alterations, which the Noble Lord intended to intro-
duce into the measure.
Mr. TIERNEY gave notice, that in the Commit-
tee on Monday, he would move that the Bill should
not be permanent.
Mr. LANIBTON rose, not for the purpose of dis-
cussing the question before them, but because he felt
bound to state to the House and the Country, in con-
sequence of a statement made by a Noble Earl in
another place, that there were 14,000 or 15,000 men
on the banks of the Wear and, the Tyne, ready for
rebellion. Without in any way accusing those from,
whom the Noble Earl received his information, of
whom he (Mr. Lambton) had no knowledge, or sup-
posing, for a moment, that the Noble Earl made the
statement in any other than the most temperate man-
ner, yet, esiding, as he did, in that neighbourhood; em-
ploying many of the inferior classes of the population,
as he did ; and representing the County of Durham,
as he did, he felt himself imperatively called upon to
declare, that, from all the observation which he had
been enabled personally to make, and from all the
information which he had derived from his agents,
there did not appear the slightest reason to believe
that the assertion was founded in truth. He was
bound to state this, as it might otherwise be sup-
posed that his silence implied a concurrence in the
accuracy of the Noble Lord's declaration. He wished
also to state, with reference to the assertion cited in
the debate of last night, that 700 men, with con-
cealed arms, proceeded from a village, three miles
from Newcastle, to the Meeting near that town on
the 11 th of October, that he entirely agreed with
the Honourable Member for Northumberland in say-
ing, that, from all the information which he had
been able to procure on the subject, not one of the
individuals alluded to was armed. Before he left that
part of the country, he took all 'the means in his
power to obtain information on the subject of the
supposed secret manufacture of arms. It had been
stated to him by the foreman of a large iron manu-
factory in the neighbourhood, that he considered it
impossible that any arms could be secretly manufac-
tured by the workmen there employed; for that the
raw material was weighed out to them in the first in-
stance, and the manufactured article weighed when
completed. It was impossible, therefore, that they
could use any of the iron belonging to their em-
ployers, and, in his opinion, they were too poor to
purchase iron. He sincerely believed, therefore, that
from the stigma of being engaged in any such atro-
cious pi actice as that imputed to them, the population
of his neighbourhood was entirely free. Goo forbid
that he should say the Noble Earl did not implicitly
believe the statement which he had made ; but he
had probably received his information from persons
not entitled to credit. It had been suggested to hirti
by some of his Honourable Friends, that he ought
to name the Noble Earl. It was the Earl of Strath-
more. Although the inferior classes in his neigh-
bourhood were firmly and enthusiastically attached
to the cause of Reform, he was persuaded they en
tertained no hostility towards the Constitution and
the Government.
Sir M. W. RIDLEY begged to be allowed to men::
tion a few facts, illusttative of the real character of
the Meeting which had been held in the neighbour-
hood of Newcastle. He was peculiarly anxious to
do this, from the general impression, that many of
the persons attending the Meeting at Newcastle, on
the 11th of October, were inhabitants of Newcastle
itself. He had been particularly requested by the
inhabitants of that town to state, that there was
scarcely a single person present at.the Meeting who
was really an inhabitant householder of Newcastle.,
The Meeting was held on the Town Moor, being the
only place thereabouts sufficiently large for the pur-
pose. The great number assembled, owing to the
neighbourhood being unaccustomed to such assemblies,
excited considerable alarm. Regardingns the assertion
that there were 30,000 or 40,000 pe present, he
took upon him to state, from the information of an in-
dividual who was present, and saw the Radicals march-
ing in a body into the town, that they did not exceed
7000 in number. N‘ hen they leached the Moor, and
saw the Assembly, and the kind of persons who were
likely to take the lead in it, the greater part of them,
turi-..d off, and went away, dispersing very peaceably.
On the best information and inquiry, he was per-
suaded that there were no persons with arms present.
He also wished to state, with reference to the other
subject me,utioned by the Mayor of Newcastle in his,
letter to Loid Sidmouth, namely, the turbulent con,
duct of the k.nelmen, that it had uo connection what-
ever with the disaffection which was supposed to exist
in that part of the country. It happened, about the
period of the Meeting, that there was an unfortunate
disagreement between the keelmen and the ship-
owners. He had little doubt that the Meeting was I
fixed by the leaders for the llth of October, in the]
hope that they would be joined by the unemployed)
,keelmen. it was highly creditable to the keelmen,l
that those who did attend the Meeting were influ-
enced only by curiosity, and took no part in the pro-
ceedings. He had that morning received a letter
from the Secretary of a Society, calling. itself the So-
ciety of Political Protestants in that neighbourhood,
a part of which he thought himself bound in justice
to read. It could scarcely be necessary for him to ob •
serve, that he believed the principles of such a Society
were most mischievous, and that he was determined
to do all that he could to put such principles down ;
but as the letter to which he had alluded disavowed

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any arming on the part of the Reformers, he would
read a passage froM it, which was as follows :—" We
challenge our most inveterate opponents to say that
we have, in a single instance, evinced a spirit of dis:
loyalty. Our Meetings hive been open, and we
have, occasionally, had the hollow of the company',
of the Officers of the Police. Our books and papers'
are to be seen by all who choose to look at them.—
As to the accusation of our having concealed arms,
we are persuaded that his worship, the Mayor of
Newcastle, has been misinformed on that subject.—
We are not quite such fools as some persons take us
to be. We know that it is the tight of every English-
man openly to have arms and we also know, that•to
conceal arms is illegal. If, therefore, we wished to
have arms, we should buy them openly,• and hang
them up in our houses. Our object is not Revolu-
tion, but Reform." Of course, be could not pledge
himself to the truth of one word which he had read,
but he had thought that justice to the persons in
question required that he should state their own cha-
racter of themselves.
L',rd CASTLEREAGH observed, that
,whether
the 700 men who marched to Nev; castle' from a
neighbouring village .were armed or not, was imma-
terial.. What had fallen from the Honourable Ba-
ronet was perfectly sufficient to shew that there were
abundant grounds for apprehension and vigilance.—
That a Meeting of between aO,OOO and 10,000 per-
sons had asseitibled, of whom 7,000 formed a regu-
larly organized body, was a fact on which comment.
would be superfluous.
The Horl'se then resolved itself into the Committee.
The blanks in the Bill were filled up ; the House re-
sumed ; the Report was brought up, and the Bill
was ordered to be recommitted on Monday. •

NEW STAMP DUTY.
Lord CASTLEREAGH brought, in a Bill for making cer-
tain Publications subject to the same Ditties of Stamps as News-
papers, and to restrain the abuses arising from the publication
of Blasphemous and Seditious Libels.
On the motion that the Bill be read a first time,
Mr. BROUGHAM declared, that considering the Bill to in-
flict a permanent injury on one of the main pillars of our Liberty,
by abridging the freedom of the Press, he felt it his duty not
to allow the first stage of such a measure to pass without enter-
ing his decided protest against ir.
The gill was then read a first time, and ordered to be read a
second time on Thursday.—Adjourned to Monday.

CELEBRATION OF CORBETT'S RETURN
TO ENGLAND.

Yesterday a Public Dinner was given at the Crown
and Anchor Tavern, in the Strand, by the friends of
Mr. CORBETT, to that Gentleman, in consequence of
his return to this Country, HEsitY HUNT, Esq. in the
Chair. The tables were laid for only two hundred;
but long before the time announced for the Chair t© be
taken, the room was completely filled, and soon after
five o'clock, upwards of four hundred persons sat
down to dinner. The assemblage, upon the whole,
was certainly of a very different complexion to those
we have been accustomed to see on similar occasions,
being for the most. part composed of respectable
tradesmen. Mr. COBBETT entered the room accom-
panied by one of his sons, Mr. HUNT, Mr. \VEST,
MT. BRYANT, Mr. HADEN, Mr. TIPPER, Mr. G'ILES,
and several other persons, and was received with clap-
ping of hands, succeeded by vehement acclamations.
The cloth having been removed,
Mr. HUNT (as Chairman) begged to make a few
observations before he proceeded to put the toasts:—
He congratulated them on the numbers assembled,
though there had not been a single ticket given away,
nor one person invited except by public advertisement.
There was nia hired music, no hired singer, nor had
a single person been brought into the room except by
his own free will. He regretted that they had not
had more time for arrangement ; if they had, he ob-
served, they would net have been obliged to turn
away four or five hundred persons, as they had new
been obliged to do. They were met to celebrate the
return of their fellow-citiaen, Mr. Cobbett, to his na-
tive country, after an absence of two years--(Cheers),
and they had done themselves the highest credit in
coming forward as they had done. It was a proof of
'their enthusiasm in the good cause; for there was no',
enticement made use of, no exhibition of a man of
title, not even a solitary M.P.—but all, at least as I
fax as he knew, of " the Lower Orders !" as their I
enemies called them—( Cheers and laughter). He
congratulated them, also, that among so large an
assembly he did not see a single bottle of wine—a I
!circumstance which gave reasonable hope that they
I should not be charged with drunkenness among their
other crimes—( Laughter). He trusted they would
adhere to this temperance; and the present occasion
would prove, in the true acceptation of the words—
" the feast of reasen and the flow of soul !" He
then gave—
" Nay the wrongs of a greatly injured and suffering People
be productiire of union, courage, and perseverance" which was
drank with three times three.
About this time, Mr. WOOLER entered the room,
and was immediately introduced to Mr. CORBETT
by Mr. HUNT, who, with a good deal of ceremony,
placed their hands within each other, whilst all the
assembly stood up and cheered.
The, applause having subsided, Mr. HUNT said,
they had now seen the last sentiment realised, in part
,at least, for they had seen union!—(Cheers)—and
with such a union the Radical Reformers might defy
tile whole world—(Loud acclamation). After some
further observations, he proposed—
" The health of William Cobbett, the ardent and zealous de.
fender of our rights and liberties, by whose luminous and incom-
parable writings the public opinion of.the People of this country
bas undergone a change unparalleled in the history of the world::
This having becn drank with almost nine times nine—
Mr. CossErr ascended the table, and returned his
sincere thanks for the honour ; at the same time,
kobserved, he did not feel that he was altogether un-
, worthy of it. To judge rightly of ourselves was a,
duty we owed to others as well as ourselves, and by
under-rating his own exertions he would be paying
the company assembled a very ill compliment. He
hoped they would not flatter themselves that it was,
in his power to do much in the cause of Relorm ; tarl
he feared that at the present none of them could do'
much. It was, one consolation, however; that what
had been done could not be easily undoner and he was
glad that they considered him a successful labourer.
He did not wish to advert to his own difficulties, nor
to the rancour of his enemies ; the road' to eminence
was abrupt and rugged, and he that Could not en-
dure the labour of surmounting the rocks and diffi-
culties of the way, must-be content td remain in the
low and level way of obscurity. He felt no anger
against his calumniators, such as The Times, for in•

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stance, for he was wrong himself once, and he hoped •
to live to hear them confess their errors—(Cheers).--:-
He then commented at some length on the present .
state of Reform, and expressed his surprise that the
new term of Radicals should be applied to Reformers,
when, in fact, they held exactly the same principles .
as heretofore. As to the probability of obtaining -
Reform in Parliament, or satires the time in which -
it might'be expected, it would be preiumptuous in
him to.speak with any attempt at certainty ; but he
was of opinion, it never would come till 'those in
power should be convinced that they could no longer
carry on the funding system —( Cheers). lie had
'long-been of opinion, that Ministeri knew nothing at
all of this matter ; and he vas more convinced than
ever by reading in the Papers a speech made by
Lord Castlereagh the other night. That profound
person—V. aieshter)—had found out, it appeared, by
0
I some means or other, that there was great distress in
America, which was the cause of the distress in Eng-
land, and he'prayed the LORD that prosperity might
I return to America in the forlorn hope that she might
Iby that means reach England by some circuitous.
route!—(Laugker). No doubt the distresses of
America might have some partial effect on the coin=
inercial speculators of England; but what then, were
Englishmen to be dungeoned and gagged because a
shabby Quaker or two in America tumbles down
..
*with his paper about his ears—(Loud laughter).—
He then drew a comparison between the state of this
country and that of the United States, and asserted,
that a man might keep his coach, his horses, servants,
handsome house, and liberal table, for less than it
would cost him for taxes and poor-rates in England:
Of the current finances of the country, 'he observed,
he could judge but little at present, though he bet
!Weed there was the deficiency stated in the public
tapers; but of one thing he was quite certain, that,
be-this as it might, there would be a deficiency, And
a very great one, if they (the Reformers) persevere&
in the course they had commenced, of abstaining
from articles highly taxed. It would ill become him
to advise so enlightened an assembly, but he would
venture to recommend to them to discontinue the
use of spirits, wine, tea, coffee, and tobacco; and;
very shortly, he intended to publish some recipes
which might supply the place of most of them. He
begged them to say, whether he himself looked like
a sickly person.? and yet he assured them, since he
left England not a single drop either of wine or spi-
rits had entered his lips. He was convinced, that
hif the Reformers alone were to abstain Ink in part
1 from the articles he had mentioned for only one
year, it would compel their enemies to offer-terms
-6-(Loud cheers).—The enemies of Reform would
have it that the Reformers meant something which
they did not say ; but they would take it very hard if
their solemn assertions Were not to be believed. For
his own part, he had never in his life co-operated with
any man who meant more than he professed, and he
solemnly declared; that could he displace the Kingly
Government to-morrow, and establish a Republican
one in its stead, he would not do it. Petry tyrants
were the worst of tyrants, and they were too often to
be found in Republican • Governmentt.—Mr. Cobs
bent then made some short allusions to his mOtivis
for quitting England, expressing it as his decided
opinion; that, unless he had, he could not now have
continued to have written. He expressed his grati-
tude to America for the asylum afforded hi-m,•and
concluded by giving the following toast—
" Happiness and prosperity to the United States, and to the.
State of New York in particular," '
Mr. WOosen proposed the health of Mr. Hunt,
which was drank with three times three.
Mr. Ihnsr returned thanks, and defended himself
from the imputation of being connected with Carlile.
Ile declared he did not know him, but from the
chance alone of hayisg a cause of his own in the
King's Bench, he met him there npOn his trial, and
from humanity assisted him. He afterwards offered
to be his bail, but from no religious motive, as he
declared that he never read or even heard the works of
Toni Paine, until the trial of Carlile took place. He
had learnt at one time to detest that man, having
seen his effigy burnt, in his youth ; and he would add,
that if his mind was not made up on the subject, thd
conduct of the Deists, in not bailing Carlile, would
at once determine that point. He finally recom.
mended abstinence and early hours to`the Reformers.
Hot water and ginger had served him for a complaint
in the stomach, instead of gin !
" The health of Lord Cochrane, and success to the
South American Patriots," with other similar toasts,
were all, as usual, drank in water during the evening.
But it is only justice to state, that aspore harmonious
Meeting could not exist than this was, and every set-
son agreed to relinquish the use of exciseable articles,
such as tea, &c. for a given period. Dining dinner,
the only liquor was common table beer, with the ex'
ception of a few pots. of porter. About half past
nine o'clock the Chairman wished the Company
good night, when in less than five minutes the room
was completely empty.

A Deputation of Members of the Court of •Corn 4
mou Council waited upnn the Right Honourable the
LORD MAYOR, at the Mansion House, yesterday, with
a Requisition, very respectably signed, of which the
follosaiug is a Copy
" To the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor—We, the uri;•
dersigned Members of the Court of Common Council, request
your Lordship to convene a Court upon an early day, to consi-
der the propriey of petitioning Parlioncot against those alarm!.
ing measures now under discussion in Parliament, which may
tend to abridge the Constitutional Rights of the People, and.ta
restrain the Liberty of the Press."
• His Lordship received the Deputation with the
greatest politeness and affability, acceded with great
readiness to their liequisition, and has directed a
Court of Common Council to be summoned upon that
subject for Monday next, at twelve o'clock at noon.
A Requisition is handing about *for signature in
Southwark, for a Meeting of the Electors, respecting
the new Laws which are- the House.

It is a lamentable- fact,
Portsea have to keep seven
Toners, men, women, an!
the poorhouse, artiouati,
In Ringwood v.:ork-hou:
united ages amount to 965
Thomas Liddell, who
at the last Dover Session!
of Mrs. MAnsTEN,
! during the pleasure of his
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