Star.
London, England, 1828-02-28 00:00:00

MALT ACT AND YALTSTIRS.

On the motion of Mr. LITTLETON a Return was ordered ofl
the names and residences of all the Maltsters who had been con-
victed in penalties between 1814 and 1827, distinguishing the
offences upon which the convictions had taken place, the amount bf
the penalties, and the places in which the convictions bad been
made.
Petitions were presented, praying for a repeal of the Malt Act,
from the Maksters of the following places:—By Mr. Cnertin,
from a place in Lincolnshire ; from Henley-tmon.Thames; by Mr.
FAZA zzzzzz from Biddeford; by Mr. Winn:oat, front Bridg-
north, Wellington' b and another place • by Mr. P. Cosies=, from
Shrewsbury; by Lord Cutts, from Ludlow, in Shropshire; by
Mr. &ANSI', front Chelmsford ; by the Marquis of WOlteriTllll,
from Monmouthshire; by Mr. PINDARVIS, front Bodmin, in
Cornwall; by Sir T. Accent), from Plymouth; by Mr. DUNDAN,
from Richmond, in Yorkshire; by 'Mr. C. F. Pete. tan. from New-
bury; and by Mr. Hoene., from Bishop's Castle.
The Petitions were severally ordered to be printed.
Mr. P. CORBETT took that opportunity of calling
the attention of the Chancellor of the Exchequer to the subject.—
The Maltsters had beets subject to great inconvenience by the Act
of last Sessions, and they felt desirous that it shoold be repealed, or
so far altered as it ought to be in justice to their interests. The
regulations also which bad been issued from the Treasury were nut
by any means free from objection.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said,
he should avail himself of the opportunity afforded by the presenta-
tion of a Petition to enter fully into so important a subject. Ile
had already &elm d it to be his intention to bring the subject fully
before the House as soon as possible after Easter ; and, in the mean,
time, be should content himself with assuring the Houle, that he
was ready and anxious to give his best attention to all the informa-
tion and suggestions be might receive. The object simply and
really was, to raise the Revenue required in the way which would
be the least but theneoene to those front whom it was to be collected.
With respect to the regulations issued from the Treasury, they were
issued as a matter of experiment, and he did not see that there
could be any objection to their continuing in force until the time
proposed for the discussion of the question, as by then it would be
seen whether they were really beneficial or not.
After a desultory conversation, in which Sir M. W. Rutter, Mr.
SLAiiiir, Sir J. Nsweoasr, Mr. C. Ileacter, 3lr. F. PALMER, and
Mr. Pointers participated, the subject dropped.
On the motion of Mr. Lniutoo, a Return was ordered of the
Number of Licences taken out by Country Bankers dining the
years 1824, 1825. 1826, and 1827, distinguishing those who cars ied
on business in more than one place.
The lion. it. KING presented Petitions front the Roman Ca-
tholic Inhabitants of 23 Parishes in Roscommon in favour of the
Itoman Catholic Claims.
Mr. 11. CLARK presented a similar Petition from a Parish in
Xi kenny.
I.ord lIINGH A 31 presented four similar Petitions.
Sir J. LOWTHER presented a Petition front Whitehaven,
praying for a Repeal of the Receipt Duties Act.
Lord W. POWLETT presented a similar Petition from Sun-
derland.
BIG T. DUN DAS presented a similar Petition from the Do.
rough of Richmond.
The Petitions were ordered to be printed.
Mr. SLANEY postponed his notice of motion respecting the
Poor Laws, from to-morrow to Thursday. March 13.
On the motion of Sir J. NEWPORT, certain returns were
ordered respecting the Admiralty Court of Ireland.
On the maim: of Dr. PHI LLI MORE, various returns were
ordered respecting the Ecclesiastical Courts in England and
Wales.
On the motion of Mr. HUME, a Return was ordered of all the
Ports admitted to the right of bonding goods, together with the
amount of the tooege entered in each.
Os the motion of Mr. HUME, an Account was ordered of the
expenditumot the 153.000/. voted in 11111 for the maintenance of
the Volunteer Carpi.
The same Honourable !MEMBER moved for a variety of Re-
turns respecting the Volunteers and the Militia, which gave rise
to a desultory conversation respecting the expense and trouble
attendant on their production, but they were ultimately agreed to.
Sir JAMES GRAIIA3I moved for a Rewrite( the Number of
Persons employed in Public Affairs and in Public Departments,
together with their Falaries, in the year 1797; also for a Return
of the Increase which bad taken place in the number of persons
so Employed, said in their Salaries, between the years 1797 and
1819.
Mr. DA. W SoN said, that the Returns were already before the
House. They. were made annually. The Clerks of the Treasury
were already employed front morning till night preparing state-
ments for the Finance Committee, and it would really be impossiMe
for them to get through the work it that House should,at the tenni
moment, requite a multitude of intricate Returns. •
Sir JAM ES GB AnAM persisted in his motion, and after a
short conygroation, in which Mr. Secretary Hussman and Mr.
liens took part. it was agreed to.
Mr. Dewsms presented an Account of the Army Extraordinaries,
which was ordered to be printed.

CONFIDENTIAL. Coll RESPONDENCE.—SAMAICA.
Mr. W. HORTON said, that seeing the Honourable
Member for Aberdeen in his place, he would rake that
opportunity of bringing a statement, in which the name
of the Honourable Member was mixtd up. under bis
attention. A Nli. Beaumont, who was a Member of.
the L gislative Body ef Jamaica, and the Editor of a
Paper in that Island, had possessed himself of a secret
and confideitial correspondence which had taken place
between, tie Dole of Manchester, Eatl Bathurst, and'
Limself (Mr. W. Horton). That correspondence Mr.
Beaumont had, in violation of every principle of honour.
published in his Paper. And it was very well known
that Mr. B. bad. boasted that be received that corres•
pondence from the Honourable Member for. Aberdeen,
with whom Mr. Beaumont said he had had a conver-
sation. The publication of the correspondence in ques-
tion had produced a very injurious effect, and created,
very unjustly, considerable discontent against his Ma-
jesty's Government—at least against that part of it
which bad the superintendence of the Colonies; and
Lis reason for the mentioning the subject was, to give
tie lion. Member for Aberdeen an opportunity of vin-
dicating himself from the assertions of Mr. Beaumont.
Mr. LID ME said, that he had never seen Mr. Beau-
mont but once, and then that Gentleman waited on him
to request that he would present to the House a P:ti-
lion from the People of Colour in Jamaica. With re-
spect to any secret correspondence that Mr. Beaumont
Lad obtoined, he (Mr. Hume) had furnished him with
none. Ue had never seen the correspondence to which
tl.e Hon. Member (Mr. Horton) alluded. and never
Lea,d that it seAs in existence until about a week ago.
• Sir T. ACLA ND moved for km to bring in a Bill for the
tinter Regulation of the Divisions of Counties.
Af era few words from Mr. PORI74AX, Lord Pawner, Mr. F.
f.V.444iza, Mr. Maas, and Mr. D. Gum; leave was given to
.brift,g* the Bill.
• 51f. HUNIE moiled, that anViddress be presented to
Jkoty, for Copies of the Acts of the Legislative Assemblies

THE EVENING STAR.

LON DON.

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In the Lords last night, the R.beck Divorce Bill was
passel In the Commons, on the presenting of a Petition by Mr.
Coaster, the Cnatcut.os of the ETCIIIOOIII said that the alterations
in the Malt Act were merely experimental, and he intended, before
Easter, to bring the whole subject before Parliament. Mr. W.
HORTON mentioned that a statement had been made in a Jamaica
Paper, that the Editor bad certain letters in his posseuion, which
had passed between the Duke of Mascots:at and Earl BAT/HIRST ;
and also that be bad a letter addressed to Mr. Holeon. The former
were said to have been received from Mr. Host. Mr. Hurts said
be had seen the Editor alluded to, in England, but never heard of
the correspondence before, and therefore could not possibly have
given it to him.

The fact alluded to during the debate on the Test
and Corporation Acts, of three Members of the Cabinet
being Presbyterians of the Church of Scotland, speaks
volumes—in showing, first, the little interest attached
at the present day to the peculiar creeds of public meal
the circumstance having not once been noticed in all
the late discussions as to the Ministry ; and, 2dly, the
liberal basis, in this respect, on which the present Ca-
binet is formed. It would indeed be strange if such a
matter should stand in the way of the services of States-
men like Lord hlsoraLs and Mr. GRANT, or of a
Nobleman, the ei presidium a dulce deems" of the Arts,
like the Earl of Artearassr.

The idea of a Congress of the European Powers on
the affairs of Greece, to which a Representative: of,
the Porte was to be invited, must now, it is to be feared,
be considered impracticable. The Turkish Manifesto
(of the genuineness of which, by the bye, there is,no
doubt,) breathes exactly that intractable spirit of deb•
once, and recklessness of results, upon which conferences
and negotiations are entirely thrown away. Thr
qaestion is not, now, whether the Treaty of London
shall be carried into effect, for on that point the de-
clarations of Government are sufficiently explicit, but
whether any, and what measures of a stronger cast shall
be adopted, and to what lengths the Allied arms shall
be advanced ? The war-cry of an impassioned, but half
civilized nation, in defence of rights of conquest, which
it hylds not the less sacred, though exercised in a man-
ner revolting to humanity, must be regarded as no
further impediment to the views of Great Britain and
her Allies, than to induce them to pause for a moment
to renew their mutual assurances of assistance, and to
advance firmly in the course marked out for them. The
Noble Duke, whose signature attests the Protocol of
ISt. Patersburgh, is not a man to be daunted by a wild
wareo hoop, or to be blinded by the sophistical advisers
of a temporising policy, at once.nnworthy of the Go-
vernment of GEARGE the Fourth, and dangerous to the
Peace of Europe.

The intelligence from Constantinople, contained in
the Paris Papers received last night. comes down to the
27th ult. and will be read with interest at the present
moment. The SULTAN appears to have decided on
war, at all events, alai his preparations for that purpose

are,of the most vigorous descript►on. He calls the whole
Mussulman world to arms, to contend for its European
pnssessions;.and anticipating the probable result of the
war, a cattle. is building on the Asiatic side of the
Bosphorus, surroundetiwith ramparts, to which he may
lettear, in ti,e event of Constantinople being besieged.
In :he mean time, troops are in motion in all directions
for the fronrierss and preparations are making for the
departure of the SULTAN for Adrianople. The Pacha
of EGYPT has promised to aid his Master in this ez-
t•emity with the whale disposable force which he can
command. The banishment of the Armenian Catholics
proceeded with unmitigated rigour: nearly 90,000 had
been di iven out of the suburbs of Pera and Galata ; and
their houses, w hen net confiscated to the State, were
immediately occupied by Mussulmen and soldiers.
A letter from Vienna, in the Augsburg Gazette, states
that it was believed in that Capital the Russians would
unavoidably cross the Pruth.

The Algemeine Zeitu---"wwn g ind Frankfort Papers, each
to the 22d instant, have been received this morning.
The extracts, particularly from the former Paper, are
interesting.
ATXXANDRIA, I:lectures 29.
On the 27th, in the morning, a diviston of the Egyp-
tian fleet from Navarin, under the flag of the Capitan
Bey and the Patroni Bey, appeared cff the harbour.
Towards noon there vessels were close to the shore,
being the. remains of that formidable fleet upon which,
six months ago, the hopes of the Porte were founded.
These are eight brigs, four cutters, four frigates, and
several transports. A ship of the line and two frigates,
which were seinrated from the squadron in a gale, and
respecting whose fate some apprehensions are enter-
tained, are expected. About fourteen thousand per-
sons were landed and encamped on the coast.—
Among them are slaves of both sexes, wounded soldiers,
and about four thousand troops, who have become
unfit for service, as well as the entire harem of Ibra-
him niche. It appears, therefore, that it is intended
to send from the Morea all those persons who could
not perform actual service, and that a great motive
is the scarcity of provisions. Ibrahim Paella himself
remain in the Noma. On the news that the fleet
had entered our port, all the inhabitants assembled
there, and the Viceroy him. elf inspected it. The sight
of it appeared to awaken feelings in him which some per.
sons thought they perceived on a preceding occasion, but
respecting which they would willingly deceive them-
selves. his affirmed, in short, that the Viceroy is in his
heart by no means inclined to peace, that he very deeply
feels the defeat at Navarin, and that he is,above all, ea.
tremely indignant that the Greeks are still permitted to
carry on their operations both by sea and land, without
any opposition from the Allied Powers; and that he bap
even been induced to advise the Sultan, in case thesis
excesses are not suppressed, to have recourse to the
sword, and declare war, on which he may depend on
the entire support of Egypt. All the measures taken
here indicate preparations, if not for an offensive, yet
for a defensive attitude. We have no recent accounts
of the insurrection of the Weehabites.—Algemeine
Zeituug, Feb. 21.
AUGSBURG. FE& IL
-The Algenmine Zeitung of this date contains what is
said to be a literal translation of the proclamation and
instructions, which have already been often mentioned,
and which, after the' departure of the Ambassadors,
were addressed by the Porte, on the 1&h of Dee. 1827,
to the Ayans in Europe and Asia. This document
begins with these words-14 Whoever is endowed with
some understanding knows, that as all Mussulmen
naturally hate the Infidels, the latter, on their part, ate
the enemies of the Mussulmen." These phrases, how.
ever, are so very opposite to the contents of all docu-
ments which we have hitherto received, as issued by the
Porte, that this circumstance appears to us a sufficient
ground to call in question the authenticity of this docu-
ment, or at least the fidelity of the translation.
Frankfort German Paper, Feb. 21.
LOWER BLUR. Fol. 14.
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Though there is evtry reason to believe that the
pamphlet in defence c I the Government of Brunswick,
published at Harnburgh, and chiefly directed against
Count Munster, was drawn up under the auspices of
that Government; yet the copies sent to the Duchy of
Brunswick for sale have lately been seized by order of
the Government. This measure is considered as a sure
indication of an approaching reconciliation between the
Governments of Hanover and Brunswick, especially as
the order was issued by the Duke himself while he was
•at Vienna.