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now read a second time ;' when there appeared, for
the moti.:n 89, against it 24—Majority 65.
The Bill was afterwards ordered to be committed
to-morrow (this day.)
Dlr. L A MBTON moved that the debate on the motion for
appo:ating a Committee to enquire into the steps taken to de-
stroy the Papers relative to the Property Tax, should be resumed.
After a few slight observations from Lord CASTLEIII.AOII and
Dlr. Bswnottass, the following motion was put and agreed to :
66 That there be laid before the Howe a statement of the
measur;s taken for destroying such books and papers relative to
the Prop ny Tax, under schedule 1), as were no longer neces-
sary for the ccllection of arrears, or the hearing of appeals or
other proceedings pending."
Mr. BROUGHAM gave notice, that on Tuesday he would
submit to the House a motion r.specting the mode in which the
Property and Assessed Taxes had been collected ; and more par-
ticularly with reference to a Circular Letter from the Tax-
Office, of the Ist of December Wt.
The other Orders of the Day were then disposed of, and the
Ilouse,adjourned.

THE E EN ING STAR.

LONDON.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11, 1818.
TUE FUNDS.

PRICE OF STOCKS TIIIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK :
Reduced shut—Cons. 77j;—Cons. for Ac.

4. per Cent. shut—Navy Annuities 105 ft
India Bonds 93 pr.—Exchequer Bills 10 19 pr.

A sudden alteration occurred in the Stock Exchange this
morning. The Funds, which have been falling the last four
months, appeared to be taking a turn on Monday and yesterday
for the better, and many eminent Brokers were buying at 78
ar.d a half. This morninz, however, has produced immense sales
of money stock fer some considerable Liverpool Houses. One
Broker sold two hundred thousand for money, in addition to
supplying the Commissioners: this reduced the market to 77
3-4tib fur money, and gave a very gloomy aspect to the specu-
lator,e-Report states, that the fall is connected with information
received at Liverpool of a probable rupture between Spain and
Anutica.

The Anti-monopoly Petition was presented, last
night, to the House of Commons, by Mr. LOCKHART,
who stated the complaints of the Petitioners, and the
remedy they sought, at some length. Mr. BARCLAY,
the Brewer, made a long reply, and, of course, en-
deavoured to vindicate the Brewers.—We believe that
the Brewers are as respectable as any other set of
tradesmen ; and we believe they must be equally
anxi.)us to make as large a profit as possible. But
this is not the direct matter of which the Petitioners
complai•.n : their complaint is, that by the operation
of the present licensing systetn unfair facilities are
afforded them for exercising the passion of cupidity
in a way injurious to the public—in as much as it
shuts out the countervailing operation of that rivalry
in commerce, which compels other traders to confine
their profits within reasonable bounds.—There never
wai a more arbitrary, cruel, and unjust system than
that called the Licensing System!

The Indemnity Bill was read a second time last
night, with but very little opposition, as it was un-
cle:good that there would be a full opportunity for
di,cussiug the clauses in the Committee before the
tl.ird reading.

As the subject of Oliver's exhiLiti9n, on the first day
of the last Session of Parliament, has been coupled
with the day to which its retrospective shield ex-
tends, of which we have already taken notke, it is
proper we should mention a fact which came to our
kaowle.lge yesteriay, but at too late an hour for
oar publication. The statement was brought for-
ward in the Paper to which we alluded, in such a
manner as to convey an impression—that the Gen-
tleman on whose authority it was given, had bott'ed
up the fact till the time when it made its appearance
in print; that he himself made the communication
'to the Newspaper ; and that it was made expressly
for the purpose of exposing the atrocity of fixing the
day to which this Bill was to go back, so as to screen
Oliver the Spy, against any visitation of justice, for
his inflammatory harangue on the day alluded to.
Now the facts, so far as the Gentleman who has
been held up as the author of the statement has had
any concern with them, arc these : The Gentleman
was a member of the Corps in which Oliver was a
Scrjeant, and therefore could not be mistaken as to
the person who made the inflammatory harangue—
that person was Oliver : the Gentleman did at the
time express his surprise to Oliver himself that he
should speak in such terms to such an assemblage,
but finding that Oliver continued his speech and had
obtained an audience, he took an opportunity to slip
away and get out of the crowd as quickly as possible.
That very evening, 59 far was he from concealing
the fact, lie mentioned the circumstance in the com-
pany of several creditable tradesmen, expressing his
regret at the alarming state the country must he in.
when a man, whom he had considered as a loyal

subject when Serjcant of theWhitechapel Volunteers,
could inveigh against the Government in such an in-
flammatory strain ; and it was frequently a subject
of conversation among them.—After the disclosure
of Mr. Oliver's conduct in the country last summer,
the probability of his having been acting in a similar
capacity on the day of the opening of the last Session,
raturally became a topic of conversation among the
friends of the Gentleman alluded to, in the house
where he sometimes spends the evening, as often as
circumstances occurred to bring the name of Oliver
before the Public ; and it was an incidental conver-
sation within these few days at that house, upon a
paragraph in the Newspapers respecting Oliver, which
first made two persons, connected with the Press,
♦slip happened to be there, acquainted with the par-

titulars stated in the Times, and another respectable
Morning Paper, on Monday.
Thus it appears that the Gentleman 'who heard
Oliver's oration, had nothing whatever to do with its
appearance in the Newspapers—and less, if possible,
with the way in which it was coupled and tied in the
Times, to the day fixed for the retrospective opera-
tion of the Indemnity Bill. The Gentleman makes
no secret of what he witnessed, has often repeated it,
and will confirm it at any time—but he was not the
author of any of the paragraphs that have appeared
on the subject--these, as we have intimated, having
originated from the circumstance of this subject hap-
pening to be the public topic one evening, when
some, whose business and duty it is to collect facts
for the public, happened to be present.

The whole of the French Papers which have been
over due from Tuesday to Sunday last inclusive, ar-
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