Star.
London, England, 1826-03-08 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

Mr. Tosetuas, from. the Treasury, presented an Account of the
Average Prices of Sugars in Ireland.
Alderman WOOD moved for a Return of all the Penalties
under the 13th Geo. 111. the Amount of such Penalties, by
whom received, and to what use they', had been appropriated. Ord.
Mr. NEWMAN presented a Petition from the town of Exeter,
signed by upwards of twelve hundred of its inhabitants, praying
for a repeal of the House and IVindow Tax.—Ord. to be printed.
Sir R. FERG USSON presented a Petition from the Provost
and Magistrates of the Burgh of Dundee against the Tay Salmon
Fishery Bill.—Referred to the Committee of the Bill.
Mr. CROKER brought up a Bill for regulating the service
of the Royal Marine Land Forces, whilst on sbore.—Read a first
time, and ordered for a second reading to morrow, and in the
interim to be printed.
The Report of the Fisheries Act was read a first time.
Mr. LOCKHART presented a Petition from an individual of
the name of Edward Ward, who had been confined in prison as
a vagabond. This individual's case, he contended, was a very
bard one ; he was by trade a sand carrier, and had been appre-
hended under the Act 50 of Geo. 111. which authorized a Magis-
trate to levy a fine of ten pounds upon every one found hawking
without a licence. There was, however, a clause to this Act, and
he thought this individual came particularly under its protection.
This clauae went to authorise any person who manufactured
wooden wares, Sec. himself, to sal them without a licence. The
Petitioner was, as he had before stated, a sand carrier, he pro
cured this sand front a pit In the neighbourhood, from whence he
dug it, and It might, therefore, be fairly said this he manufac-
tured it himself. Upon his exposing it for sale, he was seised and
fined ten pounds, which he could not pay, and ae was accordingly
cast into prison as a vagabond.
The Petition •was brought ar and laid on the table.
Mr. R. MARTIN brought in a Bill to amend the Act for the
Return and Election of Members of Patfiament in Ireland.—
Read a first time, and a second reading appointed on the ilQth April.
Mr. S. RICE moved that his motion of yesterday should be
-discharged, and moved bliss ell its theta return of in the Pru-
lesory Net.. and Post Bills of 51. and under, Issued by die
Bank of Ireland during the last six yeast, should be laid before the
House. •Theword Post-818 was omitted by the Hon. Member
In his modem yesterdiy,—Ordered.
Mr. J SMITH presented a Petition from the Magistrates and
Town Council of the Borough of Ayr, in Scotland, against any alter-
ation in the Currency of that Coant:ty.--Ordered to 6e printed.
A Petition Was presented from the Royal Burgh of Ayr against
extending the CurrencT,Bill" to Scotland; Which, after some ob-
servations front Lord A. Hamilton, gr. Abercrombie, Sir Alex.
Hope, Mr. Calcr*ft, and Mr. Hume, was ordered to be printed.
• Mr. HUME presented two Petlilom one from the Magistrates
and Town Council of the City of Brecon, and the other from the
Borough of Arbroath praying the House not to interfere in the
present Banking System of Scotland, and also praying that the
11. notes should not be withdrawn from the circulation of the
kingdoib. The Hon. Member heartily concurred in the prayer
of the petitioners, and hoped the house would not interfere with
the system.—Ordered to be printed.
Sir W. I N GEL BY presented Petitions from Hardcastk, and
two other places, against Slavery.—Ordered to be printed.
Mr. S. WORTLEY presented a Petition from the principal
inhabitants of the town of Bradford, in Yorkshire, against Slavery.
The Hon. Member also presented Petitions from the village of ,
Shipley and Grainge, in the vicinity of Bradford, to the same effect.
The Petitions were ordered to be printed.
'Petitions were presented from two towns in Aberdeenshire, by
Mr. HUME, praying for the gradual abolition of Slavery in
the Colonies.

Mr. W. SMITH presented a Petition from the Protestant Di's,
senters residing in the viciuity of the Cities of London and West-
tninster, praying for a gradual Abolition of Slavery.—Laid on the
table and ordered to be printed.

EDUCATION IN IRELAND.

Sir J. NEWPORT in introducing the motion of
which he had given notice, after a few prefatory obser-
vations, called the attention of the House to the Report
of 1812, of the Commissioners of Education in Ireland,
as far es it related to the School at Middleton. The
Report stated, that School to have been endowed with
2,ooo'acres of land, which the trustees had let upon
leases renewable for ever at a rent of 2001. per annum,
the value of the land being now at least 2,0001. per
annum. The Report further stated the manner in which
the 2001. per annum was at that time appropriated,
viz. 1004 to the Master, 401. to an Usher, And to four
exhibi;ions to Trinity of 101. per annum each, 40/. He
would read part of a letter from a relative of hisJ
which had rectmtly called his attention to the subject of,
this school. The letter stated that the writer had re-,
cently passed through the own of Middleton, and
ha..l naturally gone to visit the school in which he
had himself been educated. It expressed his great
surprise in finding the fine old building, in which
he remembered eighty four boarders to have been
accommodated, now without roof, and in • ruins.—
The master had been residing for the last ten years in
Dublin, where he received not only his own salary, but
.the whole fund of 1601. per annum, and did,not educate
any body. Toe o: ly part of the. schoJl•house which
remained tenantable was now occupied by a sergrantof
po!ice. If the ancient foundations were thus suffered to
go to decay, whilst at the same time applications were
;continually made to that House, to supply funds for the
purposes of education in Leland, it was obvious that no
satisfactory progress could ever be made. He had
visited the spot, and the situation was in every respect
,most suitable for a seminary of education. Two out of
the four present trustees were the Bishop of Cork and
the S nrereign of Middleton. It was monstrous that
two thousand acres of land, in the best Fait of the
county of Cork, and not more than ten Wes from the
city, should be let for 2001. a year. And it. was still
more so that this 300 f. a year should be so misapplied. He boord
whenever the Illuse should be called wpon for grants of money fur

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He concluded by moving far " An Account of the application of all
dou4l6dile systemfurtherance
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frustrateolfawnitii tivhuoc suo
nl band what they did with the other.
sums of money, granted during the last Session, for the furtberanca
Education in Ireland."
Mr. GOLILHUHN was not able to state at that rno.
ment the ultimate determination of Government on the
subject of education in Ireland. It must.necetisrily be
influenced by the reports which the commissioners
might make, and the plans they might recommend.—
'As far as the Irish Government had vet had the plans
of the commissioners before ito, it had not been back-
ward in carrying them into effect. 0-dens had been
given to refuse all admissions into the charered schools
which had fallen under the reprehension of the com-
missioners. Ott this head the House would observe
that there was a considerable reduction in the estimates
of this year, and he trusted that this reduction would
gradually increase in each succeeding year. With re
gard to the school at Modd!eton, it was never under his
cognizance. He was aware that at the time the com-
missioners of education made their report, that school
did not receive their approbation; but as it was Grind to
be under the direction of private trustees and special
governors, they considered it not to fall within the
scope of their jurisdiction. With regard to the decay
into which the school had fallen, he had to observe that
the sum necessary to repair it wis 2,00)1. Now, the
surplus of the revenue of the school was 10?. a year;
and how was it possible that an advance of 2,0001. out of the Con.
solidated Fund could be made upon the security of such a sum
The school was a private foundation, the master was appointed by
the governors, the power of visiting it was in the governors, and
they alone were responsible for any slerelicdon M duty committed
by the officers whom they appointed.
Mr. S. RlCEsupported the motion.
Mr. F. LEWIS assured the House that the reports
of the Commissioners of Education would all be presented by the
time appointed, with the exception of the report on the College
of Alaynootb, which would be postponed for a year. Great, but
he trusted not insuperable, difficulties opposed themselves to the
plans which the Commissioners had hitherto recommeuded.
Mr. PLUNKETT said. that the Board ot Commis-
sioners thought the school of Middleton to be without their juris-
diction, as it was a private foundation, having governors of its
own. He had known one master of the school, who was a gentle-
man of great ability, and under his direction the soh 01, he under-
stood, was in a very flourishing condition.
Mr. PEEL said, he thought that if the school did not
fall within the purview nt the Act which had been men.
tioned, the powers of that Act ought to be extended,
and the institution placed on the same footing as similar
ones in England. It was obviously not the intention of
the founder that, with a stipend of 1501. a ) ear, there
should be no scholars; and it was equally clear, that if
the cause of there being no scholars was the insufficiency
of the school house, that another ought to be built.
There could be no question but that it abuses 'hf one
sort or another should be proved to exist, they ought to
be remedied; and this might be done either by an extension of the
Act of 1813, or by an inquiry into the subject by the Commis-
sioners who had been appointed to examine the Belfast and May-
nooth schools.

After a few words from Sir J. Newroat and Mr. Goutattax,
the motion was agreed us.
IMPRISONMENT POE CONTEMPT OP CURT.
Mr. HUME said, that his object in rising was to
move for a return of those persons who had been con-
fined in the Fleet or other prisons for contempt in the
Court of Chancery. The House would recollect, chat
on the 11th of July, 1820, he had moved for a simelar
=turn, from which it appeared that thirty-two unfor-
tunate beings had been confined in the Fleet prison
from periods of from ten months to thirtl-.wo years—
(Hear)—it appeared further, that most of those persons
were in a state of poverty, and unist./. -hfroac
copy of the bill, for the not answering of which they
were in contempt. It was impossible for any man to
say what a bill in Chancery might contain ; but he
would now proceed to facts: On the 12th of Jaouiry.
1818, Mr. Dawson ; and on the Ist of May, 1819, Eli-
zabeth, fiis wife, were sent to the I,l:et for contempt;
they had been in prison now eight years, and neither
of them knew, u yet, why they were sent there.
There were others also who had been confined on va;ue
allegations, but all of them were iginrant in what man-
ner they had been guilty of a contempt of Court. lle
wished that the Right Hon. anuleman opposite (Mr.
Peel) would give his attenti n to that part of the ad-
ministration of our laws, as he was convi ced, if he
would, stitch grievances would very speedily beremed ed.
He (Mr. Hume) had taken the trouble to send a person
to the Fleet, to inquire what had become of the thirty,
two perstans who had been bonfined there up to the lltli
July, 1820; but the warden declined to furl ish t':e man
with any information. There was one person, Anna
Barber, who had been committed in the ytar 1789
(hear)—fOr rebellion, as it was called, far the terms
were as absurd as Ve rules of the Court seemed to
be oppressive—this rebellion then, consisted in not
paying into Court a sum of 4601. and far which refusal
she had suffered neatly forty years' imprisonment.—r
Another hardship was, that the insolvent debtors' act,
which, while it might relieve parties in contempt for
not paying money, did not relieve them from the
costs accruing in c curt; so that, in fact, the act, as
it stood, furnished little or no relief to parties in Con,
tempt. Another case was that of George Pigot, who
had been imprisoned since the }ear 1890. He wai
committed on an attachnient for not putting in an an'.
sorer to an amended bill, of which ht had un the mean,
of obtaining a copy, owing to his extreme poverty.
He had been informed, that in two instances the Lord
Chancellor had paid the expenses of parties who had
been committed for contempt, and bad thus rescued
them from prison. After a few further observations,
in which he stated his wishes that the Attorney-General Would"
come forward with some measure embracing the object he had in
view, the Hon. Member concluded, by moving for a return of those
persons who were confined in the Fleet Prison for contempt, os
the 11th of July, 1820, and bow many of them had since beta Os-
posed of; and also of all who had been confined since the 11th 01
July,lB2o, up to the present time.
The ATTORNEY GENERAL said, to the produc-
tion of the accounts moved fpr by the Hon. Member,
he would have no objectioh ; but he could not but
express his surprise, on heating the Hon. Member attack'
the whole system of the Court of Chancery. As to
the case of persons being confined for the non-payment of
money, by the Court of Chancery, he could nn state
[that there were not any regulations in the Bill for the
'relief of insolvents, but he thought that the spirit of
the act at least extended to the liberation of persona
confined for costs. As for the propriety of confining
persons for contempt, and other offences, against the
Court, he believed that no individual in the country,
and much less any Member of the House, would deny
' it. What other remedy had the Court than compulsion,
by imprisonment, to oblige a man, refuting to pot in ".
his answer to a B 11, to obey its orders ? That curs
individual suffering or hit dships might arise, he dki not. ~
doubt, but he still chiubted more the truth or thew.
allegations of the Hon. Member, and that chose persons,
whose imprisonment he had related, had been ignorane
of the causes of their confinement. There was no act

done in the court hf Chancery against in individual, of
which he had not fair and due notice, and it was
solely because he refissed to obey the orders of the
Court, that he wai subjected to imprisonment.—
As to the payment of Costs, ought hot persons, guilty of
injustice, and who were Condeinned, to pay the costs, be
imprisoned until they made restitution; by the payment
of them ? He had, by the favour of one of his Hon.
Friends, been enabled, since he rose, to obtain the Act
for the relief of the insolvent debtots, passed in 1812,
and he had then before Lim the clause in which insol-
vents confined for costs, due on proceedings in any of
the Courts, were entitled to their discharge in the same
-manner as other insolvents. The House had, in the
arguments on that head of the Hon. Member for Aber-
deen, an example of the accuracy of his statement, and
onyht to know how to place confidence in them. Not-
withstanding the great efforts of the Hon. Member, he
thought that all the proceedings in the Court of
Chancery were established alma general principles, the soundness
of which no man could deny, and he would defy the utmost inge-
nuity of any individual, hoWtver acute he' might be, to effect in
them a partial improvement.
Mr. LOCKHART said, he did not expect that any
one would deny the justice of imprisonment where the
p irties refused to answer when the rights and interests
cf others required that they should do so.. He disap-
p:oved of that provision in the Ir.solvent Act, by which
persons confined fur contempt were enabled to escape, when they
had spent the money which belonged, perhaps, to infants, orphans,
or fewer: covert. He objected to the general propositions of the
lion. Member for Aberdeen, in respect to the Courts of Equity.
Mr. HUM E complained in very warm terms of being
" assailed by ignorance," when the Honourable and
1.-arned Gentleman himself had shewn himself ignorant
f the law until the Act was placed in his hands by the
Right Hon. the President of the Board of Trade. He
was not bound to know the law, but the Right Hon.
Gentlemen were. The Attorney-General ought to have
the law at his fingers' ends, and not be-obliged to look
fa- it in books and Acts of Parli•iment. lie contended
that no one could understand the proeeedings of the
Court of Chancery. He once read fifty or sixty folios
of such proceedings, and asked somebody what it all
meant ? " 0:1.° was the answer," turn to the last folio,
and there you'll find the meaning of it all in three lines"
—(A laugh). When a poor person, for example, was '
called upon to come andanswer John Doe—(a langh)—
how could he be blamed if he should happen to disre-
gard the summons? He Legged pardon for having
trespassed so long, but having been accused by the Honourable and
Learned Gentleman of ignorance, be was anxious in return to ex-
pose the mystification of the profession to which the Honourable
and Learned Gentleman belonged.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said, "I will tell the
Hon. Gentleman the difference between his case and,

mine. He asserted that the fact was so, and I, not being
in the habit of contradicting Gentlemen when they make
confident assertions, without having materials upon
which I can shew them to be mistaken—l said that I
could not speak as to the particular words of a compli-
cated Act. but when that Act was put into my hands,
1 was warranted in showing that the assertion of the
lion. Gentleman was wrong, and I then appealed to the
Howie, and cautioned them against believing his other
statements, until they had the means of judging whether they were
of the same c►aracter or not."
Mr. HUME explained, and the motion was agreed to.
sir. HUMP. moved for Returns of the number of Stamps pur-
chased by each Newspaper in Ireland, for each year, the last five
years, and for returns of the number of Proclamations of Govern-
latent sent to each Paper during that period.- Ordered.
Mr. FIUME then moved fur returns of the number of Prosecu-
tions under the Court of Exchequer, for the last bye years, statio;
the names and residence of the prosecuted, and the expence and
result of each prosecution.
The CH A NC EL LOR of the EXCHEQUER did not o►ject to
to the returns, but doubted if ever the Hon. Member could get
them. If he did he wished him joy of them.
Nir. HUME moved for similar returns from the Boards of Cus-
toms, Stamps and Taxes.—The motion was agreed to.
Similar returns were, on the motion of Mr. Huse, ordered
fur Scotland.

IPLIAMISSOItY NOTES BILL.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved the
third-resding of the Promissory Notes' Bill.
Lord A. HAMILTON sidd, that be should support the measure
not that it met altogether with his approval, or that be did not see
evil from a recurrence to cash payments, but because. he thought it
the least of two evils. He was sorry, however, that Government
did not seem inclined to accompany the 'measure with the more
effectual one of economy and retrenchment, 'by means of which
they could alone hope to rescue the country from its present distress.
Mr. CA LCR AFT declared it was his intention to take the sense
et the House. lie considered this to be a Bill of 'Pains and
Penalties, directed against a certain class of the community, the
hankers, In 1884 this class of men had been recogniied as highly
beneficial to the country, and were permitted to issue their notes.
nil 1833 ; but in the year 1826 those very men were accused of
being the authors of the public calamities; yet Government, by
speculative issues of their paper, had done more harm. It was the
depreciation of Government paper alone which prevented Ministers
from following the example of 1793, and issuing commercial Ex-
chequer Bills.
Sir R. HERON vindicated the bankers from the aspersions
which had been cast upon them. He believed that a severe re-
trenchment of the public expenditure would have been a more eßec-sal means of relieving the general distress than the pt opooed measure.
Mr. J. MARTIN said, that he could not agree in the principle
of the Bill.

Mr. ROBERTSON was of opinion, that the measure could not
fail to prove injurious•to the agricultural, commercial, and manu-
facturing interests of the country.
Mr. C. WILSON repressed a hope that measures would be
•Aen to render the forgery of Bank notes More difficult than it
.vas at present. •
Sir•ti. BLAKE observed, that Incise principle of the Bill had
been turned topsy-turvy for the sake of the Bank of England, be
thought the Country Bankers ought to hive a similar indulgence.
lie understood that the Chancellor Of The Exchequer meant to
extend the Bill to Scotland; but did the Right Hon. Gentleman
think that'the Scotch Bankers would comply with it? He (Sir F.
filake)'thought they would not. (A laugh.) To beure, t►ey must
if an Art of Parliament required them.
The cry of " question" now became loud, and strangfrs were
ordefed to withdraw. In their absence a division took place, at
which the numbers were as fellow via,

For the third Reading, 108 j Against it, 9 1 Majority, 99.
tile. A BERCROM BY objected to the insertion of the 10th of
October in the Bill, as the petted to which the Bink of England
might issue their 1/. and 21. notes. He would move that the words
" sth of Fehrtiat'y," should be 'substituted for the words" 10th of
October," to the Act.

The Wowing Clatt-e, by way of rider, was then read a first,
second, and third time, and catriedt—" That any draft or bill
drawn by any person on any banker or ether person, for the psy-
men: of money held by such banker or other person, for tie drawer,.
should not comp within the restrictions of the Act."
Mr. fIUM M movrd, that a clause should be introduced to com-
pel the Bank of /England and all country banters to make monthly
.turns of the amount of their issues, riistinguishing the of;
;1. and a notes.

Mr. HOBHOUSE seconded the motion, as essential to the in-
'. mations which the !louse ought so possess, since the propositions
for deposits on the part of the Bankers, and for summary process
recovering the amount of notes, had been rejected. On what
prociple could country bankers refuw to skew the extent of their
steilings in the currency-of the country, when there was rut ex-
of names or et amounts ? Had the Chancellor of the Beebe.
spier adhered to the Bill originally brought in, which was upon' a
good principle, and carried 4 through with that firmness which had
distinguished the measure proposed by the Right Hon. Presidint ot,
the Board of 'rode, whose arovincii,g add powerful speech ern-,
braced the question upon grand and general printiples without re-
yard tolitrie petty interests, he bight have totnmanded titv ac '
quiescence of the Bankers.
Mr. J. SMITH said, the effect of Milkers making depeslts to
the amount of their issues would be to stai p such a value dpon'
weir paper at would drive all gold: ut cil circulation. As to thol

Ooposition which reluired them td fortiak illohtliir or *tonal
tonna of . their hales, be was opposed to k, because a pre. *lice had
bieh eicited against the Rushee% of whkk he, foe owg,e!ogki.aot
sulikludiy complain; that prejtkiiii kg as already so ttiustrous,
that It had Wanted thesuits.of own hdpovrable and honest nien.
Tbe. CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER resisted the'
prim* motion, mot in costsequwestof any representation from the
unitary banker., but because it was upon its own meriti ripen tn.
objection, If any banking complides were established under the
Dill Which was to be read to.night a second time before the House,
or any chartered cempaniees—any companies to whom peculiar ,
privilege was to begiven—ke should hove no objection to demand
some port of account ; but. particularly at the present moment, be
was averse to putting the Treasury in possession of the private con-
cern, of individual bankers; and there were reasons why he thought
Government would he better kept without such information. At
all events, however, the clause, as it was proposed, was inoperat.ve,
because it provided no penalty in case of neglect to return a true
account; and this was the more material, u cases might be ima-
gined iii which the temptation to give an inacurate statement would
be almost irresistible.

Mr. H. GURNEY opposed the clause.
Mr. PEA RSK said, that there was nothlrg to be apprehended
from any undue issue of small potn by the Batik. Very few had
been called for ; and they were anxious to put out as few as pos-
sible, to avoid those constant forgeries, and the prosecutions con-
sequent upon them, which all their exertion was unable to prevent.
The Hon. Member farther stated, that no great quantity of notes
could be necessary ' • for that three millions of sovereigns had beets
issued from the Bank since Christmas last.
Mr. Alderman HEYG ATE wished to see an issue faf small
notes, foundecron the security, not of the Bank, but of the State
itself ; and he could conceive no objection to such an arrangement.
Mr. 'ELLICE concurred in the proposition of the Honourable
Member for Aberdeen ; but begged to ask the Right Hon. Secre-
tary opposite ( Mr. Peel) whether he bad not stated, on the first
night of the question of the issue of small notes by the Bank being
brought forward, that Government was to be responsible for its
being an issue within due discretion?
Mr. Secretary PEEL said, that his observation had not gotie
quite to the length of the construction put upon it by the Hon.
Member. He had merely said, that the first issue of the Bank In
December had been made upon the responsibility (that was, upon
the responsibility for the adoption of the measure) of Government,
end that the continued issue was to beconsidered ax a cour.e pro-
posed, not by the Bank, but by Government, for public convenience.
Mr. MONCIE said, that the Chancellor of the Exchequer called
his Hon. Friend's (Mr. Hume 's) measure nugatory, because it
specified no penalty. The only effect of that omisslan was, that the
fault would be punishable as a misdemeanor.
The house tCen divided, when the numbers were—
For the amendment, 24 I Againstit,l4s Majority, 116.
Mt. HUME argued in favour of a compulsory clause giving a
ready remedy against bankers who refused to pay their one-pound
notes in gold. He should move an amendment, embodying the
'precise terms of the clause lb the Act Of the 37th of Geo. 111. ex-
tending the period, however, from three days to ten before any levy
could be made.

Mr. J. SMITH sold, that if the Hon. Member's amendment
passed, nut a respectable banker in the country would ever issue
another one-pound note ; and those which were out already they
would get in as fast as possible.
Mr. HUDSON GURNEY opposed the amendment.
Colonel JOHNSON supported it.
The clause was negatived without a division.
The bill was then read the third time and pasted.
COMMITTSS 01 SUPPLY.

Mr. BROCDEN appeared at the Bar with the Report of the Coln.
mittee of Supply.
Mr. HOBHOUSE said, the Noble Secretary at War had as yet
given no reason, in his speech or reply, why, in the eleventh year of
peace, so large a militAry establishment should be maintained, at
so enormous an expense. • He wished to know why so large a force
was wanted in Canada, in the Colonial possessions, in the lonian
Islands, and the West Indies? and more particularly, why so large
a force in the Household Troops and the Foot Guards, unless
it were to beep up an imposing fore* for unconstitutional and
improper purposes? It became the Home now to interfere,
and say at once it was the duty of Government to restrict the
military force within the bounds prescribed by a vote of that
House, in the year 1821 or 1822, he did not know which.—
Wu this a period for the Noble Lord to come dower and propooe
the maintenance of so large a military force, which bad augmented
so unnecessarily to the amount of (in his mode of computing it)
13,008 men. This was the state of things in 1822, but no one
could deny that the exigences of the public were more pressing and
alarming at the present moment, than they had been even when
such a reduction had hem considered necessary. As it was on
record that in the year 18t111, the Military force of this country was,
exclusive of troops serving in the East Indies, 68,088 men, and
that our present force was to be taken at 86,240 men. making an
increase of 17,152 men, be felt justified in moving as an Amend.
ment to the reception of the Report of the Committee,—.$4 That it
appears to this House, that the regular forces of 1822 -were cols
69,092, whereas the same forces for the present year amounted in
86,240; being an Increase of more than 17,000 in two years, end-
that no change hid taken place In that period to justify such an
increase; and therefore it appeared expedient to reduce the number
to, what it was in the year 1822."
Colonel JOHNSON seconded the amendment.

Lord PALMERSTON said that he did not at all rsir—ritb
the lion. Member; it was very excusable in the Hon. Member to '
take that opportunity of recording, according to annual custom,
the opinions which he entertained ; ho was net accountable far the
reasons which guided Gentlemen's votes in that Horse, but be never
gave as a reason for not reducing the army, the domestic state of
the country ; be did not ask a vote on thosetrounds ; they had tried
in compllince with public opinion the experiment of eonnonty in
this instance, and it bad failed, and they were obliged to call on the
Parliament for an increase. There were 85 Regiments of the line,
nine of which were in Great Britain, twenty-floe in Ireland, an&
fifty-One Oa foreign service ; the Depots of those Regiments in this
eountrr, essimadng each at 224 men, would make a total of 11,324 ;
there wit* besides six battalions of Foot Guards. Taking into
consideration those feces, those in transitu and those employed in
the recruiting service, and the invalids. the amount of men in this
country was no more than 22,700. After some other observations
from the Noble Lord,

The gallery wmelearei for a division, when there appeared,
for the Amendment . 34 I Against It . 196
Majority against the Amendment 79.
The Report was then agregd to.
Lord PA LMERSTON obtained leave to bring in a Bill for
the punishment of mutiny and desertion, and for the regulating the
payment of soldiers in quarters. it was afterwards brought In, read
a first time, and ordered to be read a 'second time to-morrow.
HUSKTSSON gave notice, that to-morrow he should bring
In a Bill to enable the Bank to apply the law of Merchant and Fac-
joy to any goods that may be deposited in their hands.
The reading of the Usury Bill was postponed to the 17th instant.
The other Orders of the Day were disposed of, and the House
adjourned at Twatme o'CLoci.

MINORITY of TWENTY-FOUR on Mr. HUME'S, Motion
for compelling the Coontty Bunkers to make a Return and the
Amount of their Note in Circulation.
Abertramby, Hon. J. ifeygate. Aid. Parer, T.
Althorp, Viscount Heron, Sir Robert Russell, Lard G. W.
DuneanoneVircosot Johmon, Colonel Tierney, Rt. Hon. G.
E.an,, W. Knight, Robert Warre, S. A.
Ellice, Edward Macdonald, Hon. J. Webb, G.
Guise, Sir W. Moock, T. B. W. Alderman
Graham, sir S. Newman, R. Wilson, Sir R.
Greaten, IA. Ord, W. . Wy yin, Marmaduke
Tellers--Home, J. and Nobhouse, J. C. .

MINORITY of NINE who voted against the passing of the Dill
to limit the Circulation of Small Notes.
Bennett, John Hume, Joseph rainier, C. F.
Calvert, N. Heypte, Aid. Robertson, Ater.
HerothStt Robt. Lotthart, J. S. Wood, Ald.

Tellers— Cakraft, Jobe, end Martin, John.

An edict has been issued by the King of the Mint stt•
LAND, expelling the Society of Ignera alias or Freres des;
Ecoks Cierellennes, and probably those who may re•
main, from weal mg the dress of their order, and teach-
►og in the country.
We ?lave already annonnced the loss of the smack
Delight, off Haskissough, on her passage from London
to Leith. It was at first reported aat•specie to the
amount of 40,000'. was on board; but the actual gown-
,ity w► is only a tenth part of that atneunt, and Consisted
,of 3,0001. in silver, destined for the B.nk of Scotland.

wttiNtSDAY, mandlite., `v•
STOCK EXCHANGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
The Funds assume a brighter appearance than for some time
paste Console °poud this morning at 7& 1 for the Account, and
at one period were done at /84. The Market appears firm sod
steady, and confidence begins to revive. Consols are now rsi i.
The Foreign Market is also improving.
Current Prices: Old Spanish 0 10, Mexican 63k, Colour.
Man new 411 /, Russian 751 76, Brazilian Bonds 54 56, Greek
Bonds 171 181, Bxchequer Bills par to it pram

ONE O'CLOCK.
Within this hoer put, an alteration has taken place in the
Market, and Consols, which were In the earlier part of the morn-
ing at 781 are now 71r 78. It is supposed that an eminent
Broker has been realising, as we have neither political nor local
information of any Interest. Consols are now 771 Sellers.

?MCI? OF STOCKS AT FOUR O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock Shut.
3 per Cent. ked. Shut.
3 per Cent. Cons. 781/2 1,4 7754
Si per Cent. 861,e,
per Cent. Red. Shut.
4 per Cent: 951/4 :54 1/4
Long Ann. Shut.
India Stock Shut.
India-• lion&. 2 dis. par.
El .000 Excheq. Nth, 1 2 pent.
£5OO ditto 1 2 prem.
Slut) and £2OO ditto 1 2 prem.
Bank for Acct 204
Cons. tor. Acct: 781/4 14 77% 781/4 77% %
• FORKtoN FUNDS, TWO O'CLOCK
Milian Bonds, 6 p Ct. 471 • Ditto Met; 631 21 21
Colombian 11.1.45 p C. 491 Pottugneqe Bonds 741
Dri.ll‘lB 1824, 461 8 71 Prusa. Ws. S p C. 8111
Do. Arc. 481 1 1 8 71 Ru 45.13.15, 1822, S p C. 751
Dank!) Bnsids,3 pC. 511 2 Ditto Acct. 751
Do. Acct. 1325, 62 Span. 2 p Ct. Cons. 101
Greek Ms, 1325, 18/ Ditto 510, 10
Ditto Acct. 121 French Renter, 5 p C. 911 f
blexicarlll4,lB2s,s pC.831 21 1 Exchange, 25f 50c
BRITISH AND FOREIGN SHARE& TWO O'CLOCK.

Anglo Chilian
Brazilian
Chilian
Real del Monte
United Mexican
Ditto New
Welch Iron & Coal

INA rAin.
100 5 1
100 10 11
100 5 2i
400 400 390
40 20
40 isk .14k
15 20 6

Last night, the question of West India Slavery was
discussed to the House of Lords, when, after an inter-
esting Debate, the tesolutions of the House of Commons
in May, 1823, were unanimously adopted. The Colo-
nists must, we think, now perceive that, however antious
the British Government mai, be to ameliorate the con-
dition of the Slaves, it affords the Local Legislatures a
good opportunity of sharing itithe merit of the mea-
sure by a ready-acquiescence in the recommendation
bf Ministers.;

In the House of Commons the Promissory Note Bill
was read a, third time. Some progresr was alm made,
in the Army Estimates; and Sir JOHN NEWPORT'S
motion .for an. Inquiry. into the Application of the sa
of money granted during the. last &shims foss the fir.'
-therance of Education in Ireland was *doses&
•
The m7ssion of the D 1-47On—,Vu

tersburgh, affords matter of conjecture and speculation
to the Pi ussian as well as the French politicians. The
Hamburg/ Correspondent contains the following article
from Berlin, dated the 25th ult. oss this subject :

" New that the Bakes( WELLINGTON has left us, our political
circles are busily discussing the object of his mission ; some affirm
they hats frequently heed a declaration that the policy of hie Go-
vernment it direeted to the preservation of peace ; and those who
take an interest in the affairs of the unfortunate Greeks, (suet
themselves with hopes that be will make proposals at St. Peters-
burgh, for putting an end to their calamities."

This forenoon we received the 1-km6Kr:A Correspon-
&xi to the lit of March, but it contains little news. An article from

St. Petersburgh of the 11th ult. states, that the Nobility of Mos-
cow having applied to the Extreme. for perrolsidon to offer their
congratulations by a special deptitation, his Hauser has replied
that he considered this as a new proof of the zeal by which that
body had always distinguished itself in its attachment is the throne.
but u His Montsse intended to ;o to Moscow in the spring, the
right of sending a special deputation was unneeessary.

The Russian Finance Committee are occupied in making active
measures for the introduction of an uniform standard of measures
of length throughout the Empire.
By an Ukase of ISth January, the Russian Merchants of all
guilds without distinction, are permitted to import the produce of
Russia and Bessarabia (wine and brandy excepted) by the Custom
Houses on the Dniester. Salt of Bessarabia may henceforward be
Imported Into the free poet of Odessa.

CITY. TWO O'CLOCK.
The City is beginning to resume its former active
and cheerful appearance ; and the general opinion is,
that the crisis of Commercial embarrassment is past.
The funds are improving, and so is trade; the bona:fide
sales in sugar and coffee being considerable; in other
articles of general consumption• there is also an in-
creased demand. In the Colonial Market, Mincing
lane, every thing is somewhat higher in price. From
the country, the accounts ate more favourable than they
have been for some time past.
It is said that the members of the Clob-houses at the
West -rod of the town ars:hears to the amount of four or five
millions, which they void on receiving early information of the
intended departfre of the Russian Ambauadur for St. Petenbutglt.

Wltintinß, MARCH 7.—His MAJESTY continues in
the sane state as he has been for wine days, still cordned to his
I apartments in the Icslim but hopes are entertained that, should
' the weather pion favourable, ht; will soca be able to resume kis
favourite tides in the Parks.
Yesterday atternoi.n, at a quarter before five o'clock,
the Duke of Yeas, as COmmander•in-Chief, held - a Levee at his
Office in the Horse Guards, which urns attended by—
The Earl of Kinpwn, the •Earl of Riessiniton, Viscount Ar.
buthnot, Lord Arthur Hill, General Lard Robes,. General Men-
crikff, Major Generals Sir Jobe Wilson, 1. Itaystardmm, Ramsay,
Sewell, Barton, and Stephenson, Sir John Buchan, Rear Admiral
Wintkwp, and alto by iboot fifty other Meets.
It to said that the baud of the 72d (liiithiand) Regi•
anent, on its way to the Established Church in Belfait, the Ant
SuidAy after it received the-otdre which-prevents k.from weir-
shipping in the Presbyterian limtplyo.Hosase (wimp Madan+.
tently,t ybyed the appropriate ak of " rhis se no my eta bow, I
kees by de &minket."

.THE ARMY.
•
• • •
Three troops belonging to the bead quart.% of the srd &stoat
Guards have been ordered td match from Dulallo to Cabir ; one
troop- to Limerick, one to Clughsen, and one to New Ross. One
troop of the 10th Hussars at -Truro, and one troop 44•Devenoe
have been ordered to join the head quarters of the regiment at
Ruler. 'The 11th Lancers have been ordered to mart* Wm*
Sri ham and Chichester to Exeter. . •
The fib Lancers, tinder the command of Colonel blonasseclare
tinder orders for Glasgow' to replace the 546 Dragoon Guards, who
have reeelted a route for York.
'The Hope, transport, on board wbida was emharked the depot of
the tit Battalion Royal &tots, on the 2d of January last, has at
length safely arrived at Cowes, and landed the troops fur Albany
Barrack.
All the Veteran Battslikas are to be disbanded oil the 24th of
March, the Ist from Gahvay, the 2d.from Londonderry, and the
remaining six companies of the id from Jersey and Guernsey.
fteieforcements to the amount of 360 men and upwards, belong-
ing to the alit, onth, and Sstk Regimental Depots from Canter.
bury and Chatham, embarked on 'Tuesday hst at Gravesend, on
board the Castle Huntley Indianian, for *dram.

tsunamis. unnsea.
The annual dinnell of the Yeomanry Officers of Scotland, was
celebrated on Wednhsday night in the Royal Hotel. Sir Aga:Am-
nia Dos, Bart. in the Chair. Admiral Aosta and Major assess.oon
Dunes". croupiers. Though the assemblage was not so mammas
as on some former occasions ,we noticed uniforms of the Royal Mid
Lothian, the Linlithgow, Haddington, Berwick, Roxburgh, Gal-
loway, Dumfries, Renfrew, Ayr, Dunibarton, Stirling, Kinross,
andiFifeshire Regiments. As guests, there were the Right Ifoo.
Loan Parma*, Lord Roses? Kluft, Colonel 111‘Lants. 17dt
Regiment, Sic.

41tRIP:ILL

Viscount Sidmonth, in Dover.street, from his seat, Richmond
Park; the Earl of 13esbarough, from his seat, Roehampton ; Sir
,C. B. Codrington, Bart. and family, at their house in Park-lane,
from their seat, Dodington Park, Gloucestershire; Colonel Tynte,
M.P. front his seat in Sontersetshire ; the Earl of Chesterfield and
Mr. Biddulph, at the Clarendon Hotel, Bond.street, from Bradley
Hall, Derbyshire.; Sir Charles Limb and Lady Montgomery, at
ditto, from their seat in Stoma ; Colonel and Lady Augusta RM.
clarence, at Fetittner Hotel, St. James's-street. from Bushy Park ;
the Rev. William Vansittart, at ditto, from Berks.; Mr. Etusfi std
Lady Cops, at Kirkam's Hotel, Lower Brook-street, from their
seat in Haim. ; Mrs, Deane and family, at ditto, from Raiser;
the Hon. Mrs. Childers and family, at Minrt's Howl. Lower
Brook-street, from Bucks.; Sir Clifford Constable and Miss Cpn•
stable; at ditto, from Yorkshire,

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