Star.
London, England, 1826-05-26 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS.

HOUSE OF LORDS, illov 25.
It was resolved in a Committee of Privileges, that the Lards
Caimans and ALDiosovan had made out their claims to vote at
the election of Representative Peers for Ireland. By the Aet of
the Union with Ireland hie Majesty is allowed to create only one
Irish Peer for every three that are extinct. The Hesse last year
came to a resolution that the Roscommon Peerage was extinct,
sad that being the third, Sir Benjamin Bloomfield was created
Lord Bloomfield; but Thera now appear two claimants for the
Roscommon Peerage, if either of them succeeds it will be attended
with a violation of one of the Articles of the Union.
It was resolved, that there did not appear suMelent grounds in
the Dr Lisle Peerage to advise bib Majesty to accede to the Peti-
tion of the claimant.
Lord REDESDALE, In adverting to the Annandale Peerage
claim, said that some active Attorney should be appointed by the
Mouse to examine into the right of claimants—it often happened,
that tides were given to claimants to the prejudice of persons who
had a superior right—.4ll for want of proper investigation. As the
claim In question was fcunded on being des ended from a younger
branch of the family, it was meet that the claimant should satisfy
their Lordships that the elder branches of the family were extinct.
It was, therefore, resolved, that the farther consideration of
this claim be adjourned till next Sessions, and that the Petitioner
be requested to inform the House, whether the issue of James,
first Lord Johnstone, and of Henrietta, old), daughter of the Mar-
quis of Annandale, and great grandmother to the elainiant,be extinct.
The Earl of LIMERICK perfectly concurred with the Noble
Lord as to the appointment of seine person to investigate claims.
It was more particularly wanted in Ireland to put a stop to the
absurd pretensions of spme.persons who had no right whatsoiver.
The LORD CHANCELLOR said that he was placed in a
disagreeable situation on the death of a Peer; application was al-
ways made to him to issue a writ to his successor; in such cases
be found it necessary to ask very delicate questions, such as, whe-
ther his parents had been married? was he born in wedlock? ke.
Though this was his duty, yet the claimant in general felt offended.
The Committee then adjourned, and the Bishop of Sr. DAVID
read prayers.
lux elks v. eau,.

The LORD CHANCELLOIt, in giving judgment In this ease,
said that it was au appeal irons a Decree of the Court of Bugle-
quer Chamber in Ireland. The qutstiun entirely turned on Flse
construction of an Act pisitd in the seventh year of the reign of
Henry VII. commonly called Poyning's Act, whereby" It was
muted that no person should be capable of being elected a Bur-

First—Became, from the accounts laid before Par-
liament of wheat, floor, &c. exported by Great Britain
within the last five years, it exceeded the quantity im-
ported, and during such period the people wh,11.7
subsisted on wheat the growth of the British dominions,
purchased at a price which has not hitherto produced
any pressnre.on the general consumer.
Secondly—Because it is reasonable to expect that
the remunerating price obtained by the grower of
British corn during the last two years has induced a
greater cultivation ; and because no tircumstances have
appeared to show that the consequent increase in the
produce oF corn by the Biitish grower will not present
.t proportionate supply to meet the demands of an
increasing population.
Thirdly—. Because the hitroduCtion of Foreign wheat into the
market, will disappoint the fair expectations of the British grower,
and hence tend to discourage the cultivation of the British soil.
Fourthly—Because it isa dangerous experiment and example of
unequal taxation. It is just to tax a whole community fur the re-
lief of one distressed class; but unjust to tax one class for the relief
of another class, Etc. _ _

Fifthly—Because this Bill is introduced after repeat.
ed and recent pledges from the Ministers, that they had
no intention to bring in any measures this Session• to
affect or disturb the Corn Laws, &c. and because it is
not the result of deliberative wisdom, but of hurried
alarm, bearing the characters of a premiums upon out-
rage rather than that of a bonus to distress.
((Signed) ELLENBOROUGH, NIONTPORT,
LAUDERDALE, SHERBORNE,
NEWCASTLE, NORTEIWICK.

LIMERICK,
SECOND PROTEST.
Against the second reading of the Corn Importation Dili.
Dissentients—
For the above Reasons (those set forth in the first protest), and,.
Because this Bill delegates to the Ministers of the
Crown a power which the Constitution places in the
hands of Parliament; and because the Bill gives to a
few individuals an arbitrary influence over the property
and prosperity of agriculture, and over the price of the
food of the people.
Because all great public measures, however tempo-
rary in their legal construction, are not so in their poli-
tical effect; and because this measure has a partial
tendency to introduce into the corn trade violent flue•
tuitions of price, consequent on the uncertainty that
will be occasioned by it, and to create a necessity for its
continuance that does not exist for its adoption.
Because, the proposed measure is not asked on the
ground of an existing difficulty, but of a future possi-
bility and uncertainty ; and, because it affords the pre-
cedent for giving to Ministers a discretionary power Of
suspending the Habeas Corpus Act, or any other law
esseatial to the liberty of the subjec►.
And, because, all the encroachments of arbitrary
power have been effected under the semblance of pro-
ceedings and measures proposed for the public benefit,
an!l thus have often been carried with the acquiescence
of a deluded people; but it is the duty of those who see
the really injurious character of the measure, to protect
the srue interests of the community and constitution, &c.
(Sired) ELLEN BOROUG H, MONTFORT
LIMERICK, SHERBORNE.
NEWCASTLE,
THIRD PROTEST.

Against the beeond reading of both Bills, particularly the Cora
Importation BM.
The reasons of this Protest are set forth at immense length,. suf-
ficient to occupy a dozen pages of an octavo pamphlet.
The Protest commences with urging the necessity of
not bowing or giving way to prejudices or the clamour
of the moment—noticing the wild speculations of 1825,
and remarking that at such period of difficulty the Mi-
nisters attempted to do that which-in times of tranquil•
lity they had in vain endeavoured—namely, the sup-
pression of one pound notes and the introduction of
gold in their stead. ,It also dwells on the heavy az to
which land in particular is subjected, as compared with
some branches of manufactures, at a time, too, of what
the Protest says is absurdly called free trade—mention-
ing especially the state of the silk trade in contrast. The
tax on land, it states, amounts to 571. per cent. on the
rent—namely
Land Tat .

410 0 0

Tithe and Poor's Rate . 33 0 0
County Rate, Prosecution for Riots, Ste. 14 0 0

Total . j 7 0 0
The Silk Trade, it mentions, has a protection of 30 per
cent. but amounting in tealtty to 4 percent. while the
12s. duty on coin imported was only equal to 20 per
cent. protection—thereby showing, that if the Ministers
act on their own principle of protection, us extended to
the Silk Trade, there would be a much higher rate of
protecting duty for the corn growers. It next takes an
extensive review of the several Corn Laws from Charles
IL to 1765; and from that period to 1812, pointing out
the advantages that had resulted from the former, and
the disadvantages that have resulted from the regula•
tions of the latter period, It also praises generally the
Corn Laws of 1815. and contends that they have been
beneficiA in enabling the country to rely on its own re-
, sources for the supply of corn it complains, that in
this instance, as in the case of the one pound notes, the
Ministers are availing themselves of a time of alarm, to
(carry particular measures—and it concludes with de-

Head-quarters, Camp, before BhurtpOre, Dee. 28, 1825.
To the Right Hon. Lord Amherst, Governor General, ate. Sm.
MY LORD-4 have the honour to acquaint your Lord-
ship, that since my dispatch of the 23d inst. the works
against the town of Bhartpore have proceeded as regu-
larly as I could have expected, and with very little op-
position from the enemy, except on the night of the
24th, when the working parties were a good deal an-
noyed by the enemy's matchlock men.
On the morning of the 24th, a battery of eight 18
pounders in front of Ku ddu m Kundee, and one 6 mortar,
which in. the course of the day was increa+ed to 15, in
front of Buldeo Singh's garden, was opened, and this
morning the advanced battery, between these positions,
as shewn in the sketch sent to your Lordship, was com-
pleted with five 18 pounders, and five 24 pounders, at
a distance from the north east angle of about 250 yards,
by means of which the defences on the east face of the
work, as far as thelarge projecting bastion, have been
in a great measure destroyed.
The approach from Buldeo Singh's garden towards the north
face of the town will be commenced this night. •
I beg to inclose a return of casualties to the 24th iost.
inclusive. I fear that I Shall be for some time deprived
of the very efficient services of Captain. Smith, of the
Engineers, who has unfortunately received a severe
contusion on the left shoulder, from a spent shot from
a jingal.
I likewise transmit, for jour Lordship's information,
a copy of my second letter to Doorjunt Sal, with his
reply, by which your Lordship will perceive that my
endeavours to save the unfortunate women and children
have failed. Several Ryots, with their families, have,
however, escaped from the town.
I have the honour to be, my Lord, your Lordship's most obe.
dient humble servant, COMBERMERE.
General Return of Casualties in the army before Bhurtpore, from
the 23d to the 25th of December, 1825, inclusive.
Camp, December 26.
Horse Artillery—Wounded; 2 men.
4th Regiment Light Cavalry—Killed, 1 Sepoy.
Skinner's Horse—Killed, 1 Sepoy.
Foot Artillery—Killed, I Sepoy; wounded, 1 Sepoy.
Sappers and Miners, and Engineers—Killed, 1 Sepoy; wounded,
.1 Captaia, 2 Welts, and 13 Sepoys.
Pioneers-..KMed, 2 Sepoys; wounded, 1 Serjeant, 1 Nakk, and
11 Sepoys.
His Majesty's 14th Foot—Wounded.l Private.
6th Reg t. Native Infantry—Killed, 1 Sepoy; wounded, 2 Sepoys.
21st Regiment Native Infantry—Wounded, 3 Sepoys. •
23d Rep. Native Infautry—Woundcd, 1 Havildar and 4 Sepoys.
55th Regt.Nadvelnfantry—Killed, l &ply; wounded, 2 Sepoys.
60th Regiment Native Infantry—Wounded, 1 Ensign.
Names of the Officers wounded—Captain Smith. Engineers;
and Ensigns Gells.
W. L. WATSON, Adjutant-General of the Army.
Head.quaz ter., Camp, before lihunpore, Dec. 29, 1825.
To the Right Hon. Lord Amherst, Governor General, &c.
LORD---I have the honour to acquaint your Lord-
ship, that the Engineers were emploLed horn the night
of the 26th instant (the date of my labt dispatch) until
the morning of the 28th, in forming the approach to,
and constructing a battery bearing on, the north face of
the north east angle of the town, at a distance of about
250 yards from the walls; and en the same afternoon
the battery was armed with four 18 pounders and eight
24 pounders. Last night, a second parallel, connect-
ing the two advanced batteries, was commenced, and is
now completed.
The next work intended is to run a trench to the southward, and
construct a battery, bearing on the curtain to the southward of the
large northern bastion.
I beg to acquaint your Lorchhip, that on the evening
of the 26th, a small party of the enemy's horse elected
their escape from the west of the town. An attempt
having been again made by about 200 horsemen, on the
night of the 27th, they were attacked by our picquets,
and nearly ill either killed or taken prisoners. 1 regret
to observe, that three Officers were wounded on this
occasion, though,otheriise our loss was trivial.
Enclosed I transmit, fur your lordship's information, Brigadier
General Sleigh's report of the stilt.-1 have the honour to be, Sic:
COMEERMERE.

To Lleur.-Celeuel Watson, Adjettanttier;rai-----
Camp Murewara, December 88.
Stn—For the informatiOn of his Excellency the Com-
mander in Chief, I have the honour to report, that about
220 of the enemy's horse left the Futtel Fund between
eight and nine o'clock last night ; a. d after feeling the
picquets on Arrah road, fell back under the walls of the
roil until eleven o'clock, when they endeavoured to
force their way by the Kontnbeer toad, and between the
villages of Murwarra and Bussie. They were obliged
to retire in the direction of the fort, with the loss of SO
or 40 men killed, 15 wounded, and 107 prisoners. Ten
or twelve succeeded in forcing their way through a part
of the camp.
I regret to add, Capt. Chambers, commanding the oth Light Ca.
vary, with Capt. Palmer and Lkut. Brooke, have bee, wounded ;
Captain Palmer severely, by sabre cuts on the arm and kg:
I have the honour to be, Sir, your most obedient humble witrant,
J. W. SL IC IG IL Brigadier General iiimmandift the Cavalry.
P. B.—Accentp.mying is a statement of the casualties.
Published by command of the Right Hon. the deveinei. Gene-
ral In Council.
GEORGE SWINTON, Secretary to the Governase nt.

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ALL LOTTERIES kWh FOR EVER WITH THIS
DBAWING. SIX PRIZES OF ,fikso.ooo, ALL IN ONE
DAY. THE PRICE OF TICKETS AND SHARES WILL
RISE AFTER TO-MORROW.

THE EVENING STAR.

FRIDAY, MAY 26, 1526.
STOCK EXCIIAXGF., TWELVE O'CLOCK.

C,onsoh opened this morning at the same price they left of yes-
terday. 791 i fur the Account. In the early part of the morning,
a good deal of business was doing. The Money Market has im-
proved. Consols are now 79g.
In the Foreign Market little is doing.
Current Prices: Old Spmish 71 •, Mexican 6t3 63, Colom-
bian new 48143, Greek Bonds IS New Scrip jI.

ONE O'CLOCK.

=ii•• Twelve o'Clock the Market has improved. Fifty Thousand
Consols have been done at 791 fur the Account, since which there
has not been much doing, but the Market still remains firm. The
'Assitiets Mesmer of the 11th as well as the Eteik of yesterday,
confirms the accounts of the amicable settlement between the Rus-
,sians and Turks, in consequence of which the French Five per
Cent. Remes have risen, and are quoted at 97f. left of 96f. 90c.
and the Three per Cents. 65f. 40c.

Comols are, op to the present thne, 791 1 for the Account, and
for Money T9l.

TWO O'CLOCK.
The Market is still looking up. Consols ;whisk were at Ose
•'Clock at 794 4, have since been done at 794 90 for the Account.

PRICE OF STOCKS AT TWO O'CLOCK.
3 per Cent. Red. 781/4 1/4 1/4
3 per Cent. Cons. 791/4 1,4 34 34 34
.3i per Cent. 857/8
Si per Cent. Red. 847/s 851/4
4 per Cent. 951/4 1/4 1% Vs
Long Ann. 18 13-16
India Stock 235 2341/4
India Bonds. 7 8
. £l,OOO Ezcheq. Bills 8 9 prem.
£5OO ditto 8 9 rem.
4.100 and £2OO ditto 8 10 prem.
C•ms. for Acct. 791/4 1/4 34 %
4 per Cent. Scrip n 1/4 prem.
4 per Cent. 1826, 93% 3/4
FOREIGN FUNDS, TWO O'CLOCK.
Colombian lidd, 6 p C. Mex. M 0611225, 63 2j 5
Do. Ws 11124,43 31 Do. Acct. 631 21 31
Acc. 43 21 Peruv. lid.. 6 p C. 31 301
Danish Rd 5,11125,3 p C 551 1 f Ditto Acct. SI
Do. Acct. 551 i j Prim. Ms. Sp C. 901
Greek Ilds 1125, 5p C Russ. Ws. 1622, 5 p 7/31
Ditto for Ace. 151 Ditto Acet. 7111 1 9
BRITISH AND FOREIGN SHARES, TWO O'CLOCK.
lIIA ILL rms.
Milo Mexican 5 pm. 100 50 321
United Mexican 40 20 19

111 arine Alliance 100
Gemeral Steam Navigation 100
l'rovincial Bank a 1,,Lt.4 100
FRENCH FUNDS. Pam, Uo 94.
Five per Cents. • . 96f. 90e.
Three per Cents. . . . 651. 40e.
Bank Swek . • 2025 f.

3 3)
10 4e
35 6

Relates de Naples . . 74f. 25c.
Eachange on London, One Month 45f. 50c.
Threo Ditto 2.7.1. 30c.

Letters were this forenoon received at the North and
South American Colice House, from India, which state
that the fort of Bhurtpore was taken by assault on the
16th of January, att..' that the treaty with the Burmese
has been ratified.
Bhurtpore had been set on fire several times, and
it is supposed all the enemy's forage had been
destroyed ; for on the morning of the 27th of De.,
ember they turn I all the cattle loose, and drove them
out of the gates. The greatest distress prevailed
amongst the inhabitants, and it is reported by the pri-
sooers which were taken on the 26th, that vast dumber:
had already been killed.

This forenoon we received the Etoile of yesterday by
express. It confirms the important intelligetre received
yesterday from Constantinople by our Government, that
the Ottoman Porte has acceded to the demands of Rut.
sia. The answer of the Porte was communicated to M.
Da Mum'Actor, and to the English, French, Austrian,
and Prussian AmaAssanclas, on the 4th inst. In the
conference on the sth of April, M. MINZIACKY urged
three distinct propositions, which the Emperor of Rua-
SIA bad fixed as the indispensable conditions on which
the amicable relations between Russia and the Porte
would completely be restored.
Tne first was the perfect re-establishment of the state
of things in Moldavia ant Wallachia, as they existed
previous to the insurrection of 1821, principally so far
as regards the number and organization of the Pro-
vincial Militia (Beschlis). Secondly, the liberation of
the Servian D •puties, who have been confined in the
palace of the GRAND SEIONOR, at Constantinople, since
the year 1821, ansl satisfaction to Servia. Thirdly, the
sending Plenipotentiaries to the frontiers, to settle with
the Russian Commissioners all points in dispute, and
conclude a definitive arrangement.

On the 4th iust. the Reis Effendi sent for the inter-
preter to the Russian Legation, and in presence of the
MAYA BS; or Minister of the Interior, informed him
that the Porte most willingly, and without the least
restriction, acceded to the demands of Russia, and that
an answer to that effect would be made in writing after
the fete of flairatn, which is on the 9th inst.
Oa the evening of the 4th inst. the Servian Deputies
were liberated, and Couriers were dispatched to the
P inces of Moldavia and Wallachia, ordering the re-
establishment, without loss of time, of the Beachlir, on
the same footing as they were before the insurrection.
It was also made known to the Foreign Legations that
the Sultan had appointed for his Plenipotentiaries the
late BIG LI Knot, Director of the Chancery of the Divan,
HADI EMNDI and !swum EFFENDI Members of
the Ulenias, with orders to enter into negotiations with
the Russian Plenipotentiaries, at such place as may be
fixed by the Court of Russia. The Russian Charge
d'Affaires was perfectly satisfied, not only with the tenor
of this resolution, but with the manner in which the
first communication was made, and he despatched a

Courier• to St. Petersburgh, in order to make known a
result so important for the maintenance of peace. •
The firmness of the Emperor. NICHOLAS has thus
brought to a conclusion negotiations which have conti-
nued fer nearly six years ; and as the Porte has, with
such seeming good faith, carried into effect a part of the
treaty, it is fair to give it credit for sincerity. We can-
not;however, forget, that Lord STRANOFORD received
such assurances from the Turkish Government, as m ide
him believe he had settled everything between Russia
and Turkey, though he had scarcely quitted Constanti•,
nople when every promise made to his Lordship by
the Rei3 Effendi was forgotten.
An article from Odessa of the 6th of May, states that
sixteen Tartars had arrived on the same day at Con-'I
stantinople, from the camp of IBRAHIM, with the news of
the fall of Missolonghi. The Greeks, it is said, killed
their wives and children rather than that they should

fall into the hands of the Turks.
One of the French Papers states, on the authority of letters from
Bahia, a Report, that the Emperor of BRAZIL intends to proceed to
Portugal, to convoke the Cortes there, to establish a representative
Government, and then to appoint a Regency to administer the
affairs of the kingdom, while he himself returns to Rio.

The two Peers Ovis.mtsmor and Bosnasou.s, have been acquit-
ted of all participation in the affair of Ouvrard ;—the Chamber de-
claring, after hearing the report of the Committee read, that there
*alined no grounds for proceeding against them.

Rio de Janeiro Papers to the 16th March. and Car-
thagena Papers to the Si April, have been received at
the North and South American Coffee-house: the former
contain no news. The latter states, that a magnificent
wreath, set with diamonds and pearls, which the Govern-
ment of Peru made a present to BOLIVAR, was given
by him to General Sums, who presented the same to
the Government of Columbia, and that it was deposited
in the Museum.

Letters from Madrid state that it was through the
interference of the British Ambassador that the King
of SPAIN was induced to recognize the Portuguese
Regency. Letters from Andalusia state that great mi-
sery prevails there, and that the people are perishing
daily for want of food. .