Star.
London, England, 1828-07-26 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

The SPEAKER was stimmtmed to the House of Peers to hear
the Royal Assent given by Commission to several public and pri.
date Bills; be returned to the House of Commons in a few minutes,
and acquainted the House that the Royal Assent had beau given
by Commission to several Bills.—(See Lords).
Mr. Twat's. from the Treasury, brought up certain Returns
relative to the expense attending the Peuryn Diatranchischient
MlL—Ordered to be laid on the table.
Mr. C. GRANT presented a Petition from a Congregation of
Independents at Manchester, against the Pilgrim Outv.—Ordered
fo be printed.
Mr. C. 6 RANT moved for Returns of the quantity of Silk im-
ported to and exported from this Country for the last five years.—
Ordered.
On the motion of Mr. C. PAUL area. several Amendments adopted
by the House of Lords were agreed to, and ordered to be carried
back to their Lordship...
Mr. WILLI.% NI SMITH presented. Petitions from Rochfort
(Essex). limn Fenny Strattord (Bucks), and another place, pray
tpg the Abolition of Negro Slavery.
Sir J. MACINTOSH presented a similar Petition from Chat
ford. and observed, that unless the British Government took up
the question more decidedly before the next Session, some spy-
alfic measures would then be proposed by his Learned Fricani (Mr.
Eroughans).
Sir G. MURRAY said, he considered the Government fully
Vell to carry into effect the Itesolioions of 1823. Humanity,
ig' ce and wisdom called for their tolftinteut on terms sasiafactory
the West India Planters, and the negroes themselves.
Mr. F. BUXTON was glad to bear the few ob.ervatiom made
by the Right Hon. Geinkman; they were so satisfactory to him,
that on the present occasion be would say no more.
Mr. W. HORTON, in the present mote of the Session, and from
other motives which he would not state. begged leave to withdraw
his motion, which stood for this day, upon the subject of the blave

Trade.
fdr Sergeant ONSLIIW thought the Government was bound
to fulfil the pledges given to the council in 1823.
Mr. Secretary PEEL said that he and his Noble Friend hada-
. Ways held that these Itesoltitions were fully binding on his Ma-
wsty's Government, and never held any other opinion. If the
kndsts themselves would undertake the good work. they
effectually succeed, and such was the aigivice given to them by his
Nettle Colkague in the other Hutt's%
Mr. FA Z A KERLEY presented a similat Petition front the town
of Caine.
Mr. F. BUXTON presented a similar Petition from the town
at Bouthamptim.
Mr. W. HORTON presented a similar Petition from New-
castle.

Dr. LUSHINGTON presented a similar Petition from Tregony.
Mr. OTW AY CAVE presented a similar Petition from Let.
timid'. He would as soon expect Grecian liberty from the
Turkish Divan, or tree institutions from Dun Miguel, or Catholic
Itmancipation from the present Government, as the abolition of
olaverliPteim the West India Planters.
Jlr. Li ERN A L said drat such observations would injure rather
than advance the interests of the novae& Be wished to know if
IM *servals:pus Dude by 84 Lsler Woodford bad been comma-

Mc net% to Coverstment ? aid if sly witthva th.te would he oto.
Objection r.• lay troqm Trvfore the Ilou- ?
Mr. 11. Twisi eaiJ, he did not Snow if any such consrunica-
demo haat been officially received. If they had, he would carefully
1,.„k them over ; and,. if there was gl objection. he would pro-
duce them for the inspection of the Honourable Member and that

of the (louse.
le
motives,
were then severally ordered to he printed.
r
presented a Patition from a persun of the name
o yniY tiria
,tainfC;cliester, complaining that the Magistrates bad
r es: II
hr tat iriG ENa
license to sell Iloitie-hrewed Iker, from impreper
and praying redress.-11rJered to be printed.
Lord NUG ENT gave notice. that early in next Session. he
would move for leave to bring in a Hill to pregient Anomie. acting
AO 3lagisirates in Counties or Cities. •
• Mr. Secretary PEEL brought up mums relative to the Ame-
rican T.irift—Ordered ro At printed.
Mr W A BURTON moved for an Account of the Quantity
of Wood imported into these Kingdoms during the year lBtl7.
Dr. LUSH! N G TON save notice for next Session to consider
the Duties of the Lard Chancellor, to diminish some of them, and

provide for their due execution by other authorhy.
Dlr. HUME presented a Petition from a person of the name of
Yates, praying that the particulars which were Laid before the
House a few evenings • since in his case might be referred to the
Commis.ioners for Inquiry into the state of the Law.--dUrdered

to he laid on the table. - -
Mt. HUME called the attention of the House to the state of
the law as tb imprisonment for debt. Nothing could he more
unjust, and he hoped sonic remedy would be applied to it early in
the next Session. The imprisonment for small debts by the Cott.-
nti.sionert of the Court of Requests. etteeded all belief. For a
d •bt of 4s. 6d. imprisonment was awarded fur twenty days, and for
larger sums up to U. for one hundred days. This was an intolerable
cruelty, and should be put an end t« a: speedily es possible. In
fact, the witsole system requited immediate alteration, The powets
granted to tae Court if Requests were toe great, and a general
measure of improvement *honk! be brought in as soon as possible.
The Hon. Member concluded by moving for a Return of all Courts
1 in Great Britaiu and Ireland, havidg the power• of inflicting im•
prisannieWt tor debt for mains undrt-St. ind the taperfses attending
any prison allowances made•to those conbned for the Testy 11126
and i 827.--The motion wag f grrO to. , ~ , ••, • • .._

NES4AGIIL mom Tfla Loans. r• •
••
A Message from the. Lorcisimsmonted-their T.Oetistikpe agree-
ment to the Sugar Bill; the-Welland Canal. Slit the Pilotage Bill,
and other Bills, without any amendment. ,
Sir J.. 6 RAIIAM pirsented a 'Petitionfrom V. Blake. of
the County of Galway, praying that. a nest Writ should' be lamed
for the County of Galway, in. thelplaceof Mr. Daly, promoted to,
th•• title of Lortibunsandle.—Ordered to be laid on the table.
Sir J. 6RAII A NI moved for an Account of the Expenditure
attending the Pentyn Disfranchisement Bill, diitinguishing the
•
Expenses of those for and against the Bill. Ordered.
Mr. ATTWOOD moved, that a Copy of the Order in Council
of the 3d May, 1826, relative to the Tonnage Duty, should be laid
before the House. The Hon. blembeecomplained that the Red-
' procity System had been violated by the French Government,
and observed, that in justice to ourselves we should not allow its
continuance.
Mr. C. GRANT said, that the Reciprocity System was a large
and comprehensive subject, and at present he would not discuss it.
' But he denied that the French Government had Violated the letter
of the Treaty binding them to act on the Reciprocity System.
The motion was then agreed to. •
Mr. It. GRANT presented Petitions from several individuals,
stating that they had claims on the French Government. and pray.
ing that the pledge held out by Lord CaStlereagh, ih 1819, in ease•
of having a surplus fund, would be realized in their cases He
hoped the case of the Petitioners would in no degree be prejudiced
by the course he felt it his duty to adopt.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER could assort the
Hon.-Member that no prejudice would attend the claims of Oat
Petirioners until they were fully discusved.
The Petition w is ordered to be laid on the table.
Sir J. GRAHAM presented a similar Petition from Messrs.
Grant and Cowie, as agents for several claimants of the Island of
the Mauritius and lonian Islands —Laid on the table.
Mr. W. O'BRIEN presented a Petition from the Grand Jury
of the County of Clare, against the additional duty on glars.—Or-
tiered to be printed.
Sir G. Al UR H AY brought rep copies of the Correspondence on
Commercial Affairs with the United States of America; also re-
lIIIMSNIS to Criminal and Civil. Justice in the West Indies.—Or-,
tiered to he printed. •
Mr. EYLER gave notice, that in the course of neat Session lasi
would move an Address, praying for copies of the Tariff of Frans*
in the years 1824 and 1828; and also tor copies of anrcotrespon-
dentience, with the French Government relative to the existini
scale of commercial duties between the two countries.
, Mt. TENNISON gave notice 'bathe would, in the nest
Ses-
sion of Parliament, move for leave to bring lira Bill to disfranchise
East Honied, and transfer the franchise to Birmingham.
Lord NUGENT presented a Petition frcm the Maltstris
Newport, Papa, praying a revision of the laws relative to Mill.
—Ordered to be printed.
The House adjourned at Six O'CLoes until Monday nat.
. .

PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. •
A Parliamentary Paper, recently printed, reepecting
our commercial intercourse with the East Indies, shows the
growth and importance of our Asiatic trade. It appears that in
the year ending Januaty 5. 1824, there- entered inwards at the
several ports of Great Britain, from the East Indies, 89 ships, the
tonnage of which was 49,7.711; and there cleared outwards to the
East Indies, 102 ships, the tonnage of which was 50,018: and
in the year ending January 5, 1828, 140 ships, tit 61,270 tuns,
entered inwards; and 176 ships, of 75:890 tuns, cleared outwards.
Also, in the bye years prec..ding January 5, 1825, the declared
Inc of the estrous from this country (as well by the East India
Company as by private traelers)- to the East Indies, together with
China, taken severally, was, E 4,228,948, X 4,076,718. X 5,918.071,
14.465,885, and X5,2U1.599. The principal Increase was an the
article of British manufactured cottons. bluing the same period,
the aggregate valuers( the several articles imported into this country
from the last Indies and China was 1.0,457,170. X 105733,892,
X 10,554,417, X 10,688,859, and .C 10,662,759; and in the five
years severally there was re-exported .X 2,599,905, .C 3,006,703,
15,235,636, £2,892.446, and X 2,454.802. The principal increase
took place in the article of cinnamon : in the year ending sthi .ot
January. 1824, 899.5J5 lb. were imported, and in the LK.
1,267,445 lb.—of this, in 1824, 418,8551 b. was reexported, and
last year 339,6821 b. Of c..tree, 4,114,2891 h. in 1824, and
5,872,581 lb. in 1828 ; in the former year, 2,129,1111 h. was re-
exported, and in the latter 4,655,104 lh. Of cotton wool, in 1024,
14,829,117 lb. and in 1828, 21.564.804 lb.—uf this 6,}44,0161b.
.was re-exported in the year ending January sth, 1824, and
15,856,4151 b. in the year ending-January 5, 1828. Of pepper,
5,955.526 lb in 1824, and .2,067,718 Its, last year; in the firmer?'
year 5,229,32716. and last, year 4,089 311 lb. was re exported.
Of bandanors, Btc. in the former year, 162.11`3 pieces. and in the
latter, *224,996 pieces; of these were re exported 13f,568 and
117,718 pieces. Of sugar, in the fnimer fear, 219,550 cwt. and
in the latter 579,867 cwt. 'Of tea, Wale former year, 29,046,5851 h.
and iit'the latter 39,746,141 lb. 4.X 'some. articles there.hos.been.a
diminution; for instance, of indigo (which varies. a, as well known,
greatly according to the nature of the season) the quantity im-
ported in the year ending January 5, 1824, was 6 .553,351'fb. and
in the /err ending January 6, 1828, •5,405 212 lir. Of raw and
waste silk from the East Indies, •1,226 640 ib. in the year. ending
January 5, 1824, and 1,042,340 lb. in the year ending-January 5.
1828. Of China raw silk, in the former year, 392,747 lb. aild4ast
year 208,2871 b.

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POOR LAWS.
The following is an • a ract trom the R port of the
Select Committee on .that part
.of, the Poor. Laws re-
-I.:ting to the employment or relief of able-bodied per-
sons from rhe Poor Rye:
" Your Committee do not undervalue the practical
difficulty r f the course they lecommend, but, having
considered carefully the whole subject, they beg to de-
clare that they have embodied their opinion in the fol-
lowing manner, as dazing the principle upon which
they think some improvement may be bounded :
" That it shoo d be declared unlawful for any Over-
seer or other officer c f any parish to make or pay to
any labourer or person engaged or employed in any
work any allowance or relief whatever, nn account of
her.i-lf, or his or her family, in addition is the
wages or emolument' earned from such work or em-
ployment.
" That this restriction should not apply. first, to pre-
vent parochial relief or allowance in cases of temporary
illness of such laboorer or person, or any part of his or
her family; 2J, nor to prevent parochial relief or al-
lowance,heing given to any. widcm, or Wile deserted by
her husband, lett with a family, which she is by, her or
their labour unable to support; Sd, nor to prevent
parochial 'chef or allowance to those who, through old
age or any infirmity, are unable by their labour Wholly
Ito maintain themselves and their families ; 411,, nor to
prever t parochial allowance to any labourer or person

enriplried by the palish utficeis wholly on deems ,t
such parish.
". That any charge of money paid by overseers, is
contravention of the foregoing restrictions, should be
deemed' unfounded,' and that Magistirues stiourd have
power to mike out and disallow such sums so charged
Limn the overseers' accounts, at ttreir examination of
their books at the East-sr Petty Sessions, it: each year,
under .50 Geo. 111. C. 49.
" It is the opinion of your Committee (winch, how-
ever, they express with the diffidence that ought to at-
tend on the discussion of so difficult a subject) that, were
such regulatisms to he acted upon, a gradual improve-
ment would take place in the condition of the poorer
classes, in the districts alluded to, aid that a rise in
wage. would there be the consequence.
64 Your Committee, howesser, cannot remain con-
tented with barely recommending such air alteration in
the law and practice on this subject, without t.acing
out shortly what they believe would be its probable
consequences, and considering some of those objections,
which would at fir-t be made to it.
"Under the proposed law no healthy ahleabodied man
in employment would have any allowance for his
children; the effect of which would be, that, in the first
instance, several of those with large f rmili.ss might pro
bahly come upon the parish altogether, instead of being.
pattially supported from it as at present ; but these
being* taken out cf the market for labour, the wages of
ell the rest would rise until they reached that point
which it would answer to the flimsies sto pay—at chit
point it is evident that all the single men, and all those
with small'families, 'would be first employed, in cone
•stant work and at secure wages ; and in addition to
these, such of the men•with large families as were the
best workmen, or whom. as trusty men, the emphiyers.
wished to retain. The rest of those who had very large
families would remain as workmen erupliifed by the
parish (their children employed And maintained by the
parish obit), tell they were enabled, either by their own
efforts, or their children being grown up, to betake
themselves to the ordinary work of the neighbourhood;
as all the workmen, both single and married, who re-
mained independent •of parish assistance, would see
that by accepting it they must become parish work-
men, and controulled by overseers, they wi uid,
set
is probable, use the utmost exertions of their Indus-
'try and care, to avoid being obliged to have re-
course to tich an expedient. In the. effort (if they
were deserving) they would be aided by the assistance
and sympathy rif their employers, who Would be spiry
to lose a faithful and meritorious workman. Without
any such assistance, however, these men would be moth
aided in their struggles to keep their independence, by
the rises in wages which would have taken place; as it
appears to your Committee, that in many places the
plan of paying part of the wages from the rates has de-
pressed the natural ra eof wages. The employer pre-
tended not to be in want of a workman ; and knowing
that, under the practice which prevailed, such workman
wr old (with the parish allowance) take whatever was
offered him, kept back the demand till the rate of wages
fell Li his own terms. Such a practice is clearly liable
its this way to the most gross abuses, and the employers,
where it prevails, have a strong temptation to pay a
great part of their men's wages out of the pockets of
the rate payers. It will be seen by the evidence of the
Rev. Joseph Bosworth, that in Buckinghamshire the
wages even of married men with a family were thus
depressed imone parish to 4s. per week. In manufac-
turing.districts., such an abuse might equally depress
.the real 'rate of wagei, which would be compounded of
what was paid by the employer and what was received
from the pariah. On this point your Commute recom-
mend a perusal of the important evidence of the Rev.
J. M. Turner, taken before the Emigration Committee,
and given in the Appendix to their Third Report. •
In case the 'iecommendatiort of your Committee
►irras acted upon, they beg to state that the number c f
labourers thrown on parish employment would, in their
ropinion, be much smeller than is &lien sue posed; be-
'tease, under the allowance system, few care to exert
themselves diligently to seek fresh chani.els of employ-
•me t. It would, .however, be necessary for overseers,
in t',e first instance, to provide beforehand parochial
employment (by contract or otherwise) at whatever loss,
and to adliele steadily to the plan of exacting a full
measure of real work from all applicants, in which case
it is probable that the numbers would soon diminish.
Considerable difficulty would perhaps attend the com-
mencement of the suggested alteration, but it seems
worth while to make seine temporary sacrifices for the
sake of retOrniiis to a better system of relief. Hitherto
your Committee have been looking only at the imme-
diate effect cf the peptised law, which would be to
give to the poor the advantage of the whole real
demind for their servtce.., and would directly improve
t•ie situati n r f those men who did not depend on-
the parish, by giving to every man his pay according
to the work performed by him. In looking, however,
Ito the ultirnsite effect of such a law, your Committee
!cannot but anticipate the best permanent results to the
poor. it will be evident that, under this law, as a
single man will be well paid and will off, so will he
'see the natural consequence r f an improvident mar-
riage distinctly brought before him, in the different
condition of tire parish workman, which he can compare
with his own. It, thesetore, he is at all regartifltl of
his own comfort, or that of her whom he wishes to
make his wife (who must share his fat-, whatever it be),
be will west for marriage till he his sufficient„with the
wages he can earn, tr. maintain a family. Should the'
independent workman be thus induced to delay his
marriage for, a shout time, the supply of labour being
ehencew letile• slower, wages would gradually rise to
the amount sufficient to support a family in coca it,
and in such Case the poor-late will tall as the wages
rise. Your Committee do not venture to anticipate that
such results would in all cases follow from the altera-'
iron they recommend, but they incline to think that, on
a general view of its consequences, considerable and
permanent improvement might be expected.
" One objection will probably be made to the di&
culty of furnishing parish employment to the additional'
numbers who will be forced upon it.. Your Committee
cannot but think that exaggerated fears are entertained
upop this bead, as, under the proposed law, they con-
ceive better wages will be paid than before, and as the
total cost of the working classes as paid by wages and
poor rates, the poor rate must in the whole be eventually
diminished by the change; in addition to which advan-
tage will be the improved tone and spit it of the work-
men resting on their own efforts, and aided alone in
illness, infirmity, or old age.
" Your Committee have, however, great pleasure in
being able to return, in support of their reasoning, to
practical examples of the benefit derived from the re-!
gulatioris they recommend ; these have been found
highly advantageous in the populous parishes of Lives
pool and Bethnal-green, where they have been strictly
adhered to, and the consequences.are detailed in the evi-
dence of Mr. Hale and Mr. Ellis, annexed to this Report.
61 With regard to its practicability in country pa.'
riches, your Committee can 'state, that it is, aid has
always been acted upon la the North of England, where

be condit:on I the peasantry i. util• !rainy. allouer
be 'he be t. Wherever adopted p and et tevrfril in el,
where, it has ben found hem tici4l, ti) I. the difficid.r
of fiuch a task is very great where these ahu rs prev,it
in a neighbouring purists; which would be obviated by
a general law on the subject.
Should it be deemed expedient to f ilow the re.
commendation of your Committee, they beg to state,
that the success of such a measure would depend iA
many cases on the adoption of a well-regulated system)
of woikhouse industry, where a full measure of labntif
may be constantly exacted, proportioned to the ability
cf each individual, and where such proper testoctions
may be observed as experience proves to be necessary.
Ample powers are given under the present law for this
pin pose. Your Committee can u fer to the good effects
such a system in the parish of Leckhamstead, Bucks,
rt tied in the evidence tf Mr. J. Bricks. ell.

4"fhe ultimate success of any such elteraton of the
law as contemplated by your Committee, would depend
also upon the degrge of inteliigence and forethought
among the poor themselves ; and, on this account, the
general diffusion of such an education as may assist and
promote the development of those qualities, will be I f
the utmost consequence, and may be considered as the
most valuable and permanent belie& that can be con.
kried.
The Committee on Labourers' Wages in 1824 lent
close attention to this part of the subject, nor can your
Committee do better than borrow their Words ; after
stating that in the northern parts of England these prac.
tices do not prevail, and that the was:vs are time good,
they proceed to say—' In Suffolk, Susses, Bedfordshire,
Buckinghamshire, Dorsetshire, and Wiltshire, the plat,
of paying wages' out of the poo -rate has been Carried
to the greatest extent; Norfolk, Himtingdunshite, and
Devonshire, are also afflicted by it,' &c.
ur Committee do not find reason to believe that
any material improvement has taken place in the cow..
ties alluded to in this respect ; and in parts of K. sit,
Herefordshire, Hants, Surrey, Essex, Cambridge, bless
diesel, Berk', aiseOxfordshire, the same system has
been acted upon."
The tensed, proposed is, to declare it unlawful for Overseen to
jive allowance or relief to any person employed id any work, emer,
1. All labourers in cases of temporary illness of themselves or
families,
2. Widows, or wives deserted by their husbands, and left with
families which they are unable to support.

5. The old and infirm.
4. PCTVIOII employed wholly on account of the parish.

- THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

SATURDAY, JULY 26, 1828.

STOCK EXCHANGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

Commis opened this morning at 116 toe, and went up to eel
buyers, and at present may be quoted at $6l to # for the Acsouut.
Within these few minutes two hundred thousand Consols have
been thrown on the market at 116 e for Tuesday, whirl causes the
market to be heavy. _ _ _ _

The insurrection in Spain is considered of little COMftletOet in
the City, as k is expected that Fasomsam will soon march a force
against them, whisk they will not be able to resist.
CITY, HALF-PAST ONE O'CLOCK.

Consols bate been Suctoating during the morning between $6
and 863, and at present may be quoted 86i to ) for the Attain',
and the savae for Money. Some heavy sales were made in the
early part of the morning, since which several purchases have boa
made by the Chancery, and a Banker at the West-end, which aunt
the market to remain steady. _ _ .

Is the Foreign Market there is a stagnation of bnsinetto4buo
are tot quite so good as yesaerdai.
PRICK OR STOCKS A T FOUR O'CLOCK..
Bank Stock 2101 India Bonds 111 119
3 per Cent. Bed. 861 /1 South Sea Stock
3 per Ct. Cons. 864 1 Old Annskies
36 per Cent. New Ditto
34 per Cent. Red. 944 51 3 per Cent. 1751
4 per Ct. New, 1014 14 Xtooo Esckeq. Bills 73 s S
4 per Cent. 1826, 1041 £5OO. Ditto 73 2 3
Long Attn. 194 13-16 I £lO9 4nd £2OO Ditto 73 2 3
India Stock 245 Consols for Acct. 86j 01
PORRION FUNDS. TWO It'Cl.tit K
Brazilian 8d5..5 pet. 62 1te5.1141825,6p Ct. 39;
DeAcct42 Do. Ace 3964 1
•woolidast Bond., 6 per Ct. 204 Pottog.l3tis.spC. 554
D0.80nd5,1824, 24 Do Acct. 94 34
Do Acet. 24 Ru55.1k11.1822,5 per CL94j 44
Dodd% Ms. 3 pCt. 62 Spanish lids Sp Ct. 101 11
.;reek 134:n14,41695, spCt.l7i II Span. Ms. 1823, 5p.C. 7j
BRITISH AND FOREIGN SOARES, TWO OCLUI.I4
IPH•Illt. PAID.
300 290 230
35 20 73
.50 45
400 .120 40
40 38 204

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We have never professed ourselves admirers of the
pamphlet plibli.hed- by Lord GRENVILLE on the st.hject
of the Siriltirit4saiid s it is a production which, both is
its matter and its style, appears to us to bear tl e sip&
tures of a mind—though once penetrating and vigr
tons—now sympathising with a frame debilitated by
years. It ttrttst strike the most inattentive reader,
that his Lordship sets out with engaging to est2'
blish certain principles, or positions—and that these
he subsequently assumes, but does not attempt 1"
demonstrate. HAMILTON treats the subject with
masterly band. Knowing how prevalent are the
errors and misconceptions respecting Mr. Pirr's Sisk'
ing Fund, we were much gratified to hear the sstir
factory explanation given by Lord Baxtsy in the Howe
of Lords on Thursday evening. His Lordship dente4
in the most unqualified terms, that Mr. PITT ever had
it in contemplation, or that it ever formed part 01
his
plan, to establish a Sinking Fund, or to raise a coons'
bution for its support, by borrowing money. It Ist
maxim of HAMILTON'S, the soundness of which caned
be rationally controverted, that while the only tell
Sinking Fund is a surplus Revenue, it may be ev
pedient not only to raise taxes adequate to the ie•
terest of loans, but also for liquidating aen"111
a certain portion of the principal. And he 'Oil
that, in order to accomplish this object, if fragahlf
be used in expenditure, and exertions made in rai'icg
taxes, which would not, otherwise have been 1113J6
the effects of a Sinking Fund may
be of the grealet
importance. Need we add, that, during the late war'
these effects, as Lord BEXLEY stated, were triumpha°6l
and beneficially exhibited.

We understand, that an application bas been made
to the Office of Woods and Forests, for a site in Regeol
Park for King's College, London. Those, surely, irli°
presented this a plicatioi, could not have been avilue
of the incalcul inju, y they proposed to have inflicted
on a large anti reviictable buoy of itiliabit.invr and 4°

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necessary shidency to reduce the vdsac of the wit '
property in the Paik, on which not le,s than five so.
liens base been expended. A public establislimei t
of (his kind is nowhere desirable, as 11 11CighbnIll
and if the project-d College were erected in the I),iik,
the inner circle might still be the re.i.rt of cal riat.es
equestrians. and Gentlemen On toot; but we apprehend
that, crowded as it would be with gown.men, the mo-
dest female would shun their stare, and court retire-
ment. The application, we understand, has very pro-
perly been negatived.

A Lisbon Mail arrived this morning; the Gazettes
by this conveyance are of an old date, and have been
anticipated a week ago.

The Paris Papers contain, under the head Frankfort,
tome speculations on the policy of Austria with respect
to the affairs of the East of Europe, which, though they
bare the merit of ingenuity, are probably founded on

mere conjecture.
The Gazette de France and the Courrier Francais re-
assert, in the most positive terms, the assurance that the
French Ministry intended to send an army to the Morea.
They estimate it; strength at 17.000 men, and say that
the chief object was to oblige IBRAHIM PACHA to sus.
pend his ravages, and to evacuate the Peninsula.—
Subsidies to the amount of 500,000 dollars per month
are stated to have been granted by the Allied Powers to
Count Card D'ISTNIA. Two Turkish vessek 01 war
had been attacked by MIA uLts, tne GI eek Admiral, an:
forced to run aground, where they well to pieces.

Two exportations of Blit sh Bandana S 1k Handker.il
chiefs, manufactured in Spitalfields, front the throsn
silk of India, have la►ely tato' place at Dover, Jor
France, and there is no doubt many more must follow.
It has recently been discovered Chit British Baodana
wrought, from the tbrown s►lk of India, is not only a
superior fabric in point of texture, but admit, washing
without fade or discolour ; whereas those made on the
Continent, from Italian or Mediterranean thrown silk,
in imitation of India, lobe both in durability and
colour by washing.
If certain silk traders will relinquish their aim at'
wonopoly, and give the operation of the present silk
laws and free trade system a fair trial, two or three
years more, or perhaps before, may convince them, that
instead of the general silk trade being depressed, it
ilJurishes beyond the present sanguinary calculation:
and no small portion of such prosperity—arising from
our supplying the Continent of Europe with British
silk manufactures 1

The Michels of CLARINCE, accompanied by the,
Duchess of MZIPMGEN, the Princess Fame of CA &MATH, and
attended by her Suite, left her residence in /Sudsy Park, in three
carriages and four, about seven o'clock yesterday morning, for the
purpose of joining her Royal Consort, the Lora WWI Amnia.,
at Plymouth. _ __

Prince Lumina) gave t grand dinner to a numerous
party of the Nobility and Gentry yesterday, at Marlborough
Bowie, Pall-mall.
Prince ESTITRHAST gave a grand dinner to Prince•
Laarmo and a numerous Party, on Thursday, at his E e e cy s
residence, in Chandoo-street.
Mall 13nruunsr left town on Thursday evening for
Ilse residence of Lord Gatuiviu.r, at Dropaiore. His Lordship,
it was eireted, would proceed today to his seat at Cirencester,
where his Countess and family have been staying for the last two
or three weeks.' 6'

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The Duke of RICHMOND. the Earl of Antal:tzars
sod the CILIIIICILLOa of the Raeurrattea, visited the Duke of WIL.
meson yesterday, at the Treasury. •
The Duke ot GORDON and Viscount GRANIFILLI
transacted business yeeterday,at the Foreign Office, Downiog-street.
The Countess ot Emits had a select card party yet-
taday evening, at her house in Hill-street, Berlteleyaquare.
Dispatche, have been received at the Foreign Office
from Mr. Bonnier. the British Mtge d'Affaires at Madrid,
which bring intelligence from that capital to the 16th tool. They
cattalo an account of comm.:aims at Legion.. near Burgos. where
parties of guerilla troops had assembled. and opposed the Govern-
Meat. A body of the Royal army was dispatched to disperse them,
when an obstinate engagement ensued, which ended in the defeat of
The Royalists.
Dispatches have been received at the Colonial (Ate
from Major-General Guar; the Governor of the Bahamas.
The total amount of the Estimate for the New Post-
Mee, including the purchase of the ground, is af528,996 105.4 d.
The expense ot all houses and apartments occupied
at the public cost. as residences, by public officers Is London and
Westminster, for the last Ave years, including the rent, furniture,
and repairs, amounted to £125.455.
The Hon. Mr. Mu-cleave entertained Lord AUH RUT
and a distinguished party to' dinner yesterday, at his house in
Harleyottreet.
The expense incurred for furniture supplied and re-
paired for the Houses of Lords and Commons, the Courts at Law
at Westminster, sod the various Public Mao, ansmusted, in the
last bye years, to the sum of .8142,356.
Both Houses ot Parliament adjourned yesterday to
)looday,when the Prorogation will take place byline! Coenamision.
Ihe Duke Gf Newcarros has lost the greater part
of his Ash from the Lake at Clamber; when the shuttle was raised
611 week to let off the water, a net was placed at the opening
Wharreept the lab, which accumulated so greatly as to break
the est, anii.d trucmoobeterentosf escared
arsons avainta. th
led e wrig
eml iles beari
rareaaietlit
enof•
to Lk for eels, pike, carp, and tench, and vast quantities
UM %ANL •
A hew days ago Lord FAHNIOROUOM and Lord
Loasnairt, accompanied, by Mr. Solana's (the Poet),
and Mr. PALORAVL, of the Tower, visited the Borough,'
and inspected St. Saviour's Church and the adjacent,
neighbourhood. The visit, it is understood, was masa'
'mold by some discussions which have taken place as
to the most eligible site for building K og's College.
HARVIST.—BarIey harvest has already commenced
la Scotland. A field of this stain was cut down in the
neighbourhood of Dunbar on Tuesday.
'the longest lawsuit, on record in England, is one
which existed between the heirs of Sir 'l'. TALBOT, Vis-
count LISLE, and those of a Lord BRRICILIY, respecting
some property near Wotton-under-Edge, in Gloucester-
'hue. It began at the end of the reign of EDWARD IV.
and was depending until the beginning of that ot
JAHLs I. when it was finally compounded, being a
}trend uj not less than 120 years.
The schools which th; late Lord GUILDFORD intro-
deiced into the lonian Islands are in a most prosperous
condition. It Corte, with 48,737 inhabitants, there
are three schools, with 239 pupils.
Paso, with 3,370 inhaMtauts, I school, wish 40 pupas.
Zone, with 40,063 inhabitants, 13 schools, with 363 pupils.
lephalonia, 49,857 inhabitants, 2 schools. with 157 pupils.
Ithaca, wins 8.200 ihn,bitants, 1 school, with 97 pupil.-
risme Mauna, 17,411 inhabitants, I school, with 75 pupils.
"I% with 8 1411 it,habitants a schools, with 722 pupils.
Twat-175,7n8 ilahantants, 29 schools, ;n4 1,733
butida) 14,i all It que4t was held at bttckjurd, b
)lr. iii•rom..cororan, on the body of the Rev. Roamer Lotman
as., bad been hwUU drowned in the 6sla.pond in his garden. 11.
Was • bachelor art Arts, and I. supposed en have died possessed o.
aba"zuenw property. A. no evidence whatever could be adduce.
ot the mean by "shah he came into the water, the Jury returns..
a %odic; " Futand Drowned."--iLtisleAs Mer;lo7.