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VOL. XV.—No. 761.]

MMERCIAL ADVERTISER.

LADY HUNTINGDON'S BOUNTY.—The circumstance of
her having forbidden the publication of her papers, and her
retired mode of life for even her charities were principally
distributed through,the medium of her chaplains, were the
causes that baffled the curiosity of those who felt desirous
of discovering the motives which could tempt a woman, to
resign the allurements of station, and to devote upwards of
a hundred thousand
youuds during her life for the extension
of peculiar religious opinions, without any view towards that
personal distinction which has been too often a leading in-
ducement with the founders of new sects.—Countess of Min.
tingdon's Life and Times, 2 vols. (Fourth Thousand.)

[PRICE FIVEPENC E.

mptrial 13aritaintnt.

HOUSE OF LORDS.—MONDAY.
Many petitions were presented +an the subject of the Corn-
laws,
and against the Municipal Corporations (Ireland) Bill.
The latter petitions led to some interesting conversation, in
which the Marquis of Londonderry took part, enumerating,
among other matters, the number of defeats in the Lords and
Commons to which the Ministers had been exposed.
The Marquis of NORMANBY entered into explanations re-
garding the temperance processions in Ireland, and said that,
though lie could not object to- the motives and sentiments of
the parties, he did consider " as unwise'? the assembling of
such large numbers of people. •
The Loan CHANCELLOR moved the second reading of the
Printed Papers' Bill. The measure,she said, left the ques-
tion of privilege entirely untouched, and merely applied a re-
medy to inconveniences which had been found to result from
the law •as laid clown by the Court of Queen's Bench. The
question, he said, was not whether they did or did not pos-
sess the right, hut whether it was or was not expedient that
some mode should be prescribed by which this object could
be attained, that the right should be put in operation.
Therefore, any one who contended for privilege in the highest
sense would not find the bill at all interfere with what he was
anxious to establish. Thosemho contended that the privi-
lege did not exist, would find that the bill only proposed a
legal mode of enforcing that which it was declared ought not
to be enforced by ordinary•means.
Lord DENMAN observed that it was most desirable that
the present state of things on the subject should be put an
end to ; and it was quite impossible for anything to have
been brought forward in a more conciliatory tone than had
been exhibited by his noble and teamed friend. The noble
and learned lord proceeded to ranove, as he said, the mis-
conceptions which had generally prevailed in consequence of
the discussions of the, last four months, and rescue persons
who had only done their duty from undeserved censure.
Lord MELBOURNE expressed satisfaction at learning that
no oppa-ition was to be given to the bill, and endeavoured
by a variety of reasons to show the necessity of it.
The Duke of WELLINGTON observed, that the principal
merit of the bill was that it threw no censure on the Court
of Queen's Bench. His grace allowed the necessity of the
measure ; and attributed to the sale of the reports of the
commons what had taken place.

After some observations from Lord Wynford,- Viscount
Gage, the Marquis of Bute, and the Lord Chancellor in
reply, the bill was read a second time, and the committee
was fixed for Friday.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—MoNnAv.
There were presented many petitions on various subjects,
-one of which was by Mr. T. DUNCOMBE, regarding theatri-
cal performances in Passion-week. It was ordered to be
printed with the votes, Mr. Duncombe giving notice that he
should submit a motion on the subject on Thursday.
Mr. HUTT stated that after the Easter recess he should
move for leave to bring in a bill to enable parties to grind
foreign corn in bond.

SLANEY gave notice that on Thursday he should
move for leave to bring in a bill to amend the laws relating
to loan societies.

Sir J. GRAHAM, seeing Sir W. Molesworth in his place,
wished to ask him a question. That hon. member bad a mo-
tion on the paper which stood first for to-day. He by no
means undervalued the importance of that motion, but con-
sidering the length of time the papers relative to China had
been laid on the table, and as it might be the wish of the
house to express an opinion upon them before the adjourn-
ment, perhaps the hon. member would allow the motion re-
garding China to take precedence. _

Sir W. MOLESWORTH answered that he was rather reluc-
tant to yield precedence, as the motion relative to the aboli-
tion of transportation to the Australian provinces was one of
very great consequence; but as many hon. members, he be-
lieved, were anxious to express their opinions upon the mo-
tion of the hon. baronet, he would not oppose himself to the
wish of the house. He trusted that the house would in re-
turn, reward him witlia patient hearing as soon after Easter
as possible.
LORD J. RUSSELL gave notice that on Wednesday week
he should move the adjournment of the house to that day
fortnight. _ _

General JOHNSTON asked the Secretary for the Colonial
department whether there was any likelihood of the papers
moved for relative to the new poor law, being laid on the ta-
ble before the noble lord brought in his new poor law bill?
Those returns were very material, and he thought informa-
tion ought to be in the hands of the house at the time the
bill was presented. He should move that those returns be
made forthwith, unless the noble lord gave him a satisfactory
answer.

Lord J. RUSSELL answered that he did not know the ex-
act nature of the returns. but be had no doubt they were in
the course of preparation. There were many clerks em-
ployed at that moment in preparing the various returns that
had been ordered ; but if those returns were to be ordered,
great additional expense would be incurred. •
Mr. HUME said that only extracts were wanted, which
would not occupy a single clerk but for a short time. Seeing
Lord Palmerston in his place, he asked when the papers re-
lating to the 'commercial treaty with Turkey would be ready ?
Lord PALMERSTON answered that he would make in-
quiry.

Mr. EMERSON TENNENT gave notice that after Easter he
should call attention to the delay which had taken place in
the settlement of the British claims on the Government of
the Brasils arising out of the revolution at Para.
Lord J. RUSSELL informed the house, that since he had
been asked the questiorkby an hon. member, he had received
a despatch from the Governor-General of Canada respecting
the monastery of San Sulpice at Montreal. It was a subject
on which a good deal of discussion had taken place ever
since 1826. The question was not settled when Lord
Gosford was in Canada, and at that time the commis-
sioners came to an opinion that, whatever the law might do
in equity, the crown ought not to dispute the general
claim of the ecclesiastical corporation. Lord Seaton pro-
posed an ordinance on the subject when in Canada, in accord-
ance with the views of all persons in Canada holding land
under the ecclesiastical corporation ; that ordinance became
inoperative, and Mr. Poulett Thomson was now going to pro-
pose a similar ordinance, coupling it with certain propositions
contained in the report made by the hon. member for Lis-
keard when in Canada. If the ordinance were to be objected
to, he knew not upon what grounds, except it was, Ist, on
the ground that the Roman Catholics ought not to be placed
in the same situation as other parties ; or, 2dlx, that they
had been treated with partiality. The noble lord concluded
by laying on the table a copy of the despatch.
Lord .1. RUSSELL afterwards moved the second reading of
the ecclesiastical duties and revenues bill.
Sir R. INGLis opposed its principle, and said he should
take the sense of the house on it.
After extended discussion, in which many opposition mem-
bers expressed themselvesfavourable to the plan of going
into committee to see whether they could not make the bill
more perfect, the house divided, and the numbers were—For
the second reading 87; against it, 11—majority 76. -
The other orders of the day, Lord Seaton's annuity bill,
&c., were afterwards proceeded with.

HOUSE OF LORDS.—TUESDAY.
Many petitions were presented against revision of the
corn-laws.

The Marquis of LONDONDERRY presented a petition from
Londonderry against the municipal corporations (Ireland)
bill, and observed that noble lords opposite had been deceived
by their radical friends, when told the corporation of London-
derry was in favour of this bill.

The Bishop of EXETER, fier entering into ample and in-
structive details on the subject of the clergy reserves, Canada,
moved that those questions be put to the judges.
Lord MELBOURNE resisted the motion as unnecessary.
A debate of some length ensued, in the course of which the
Duke of Wellington spoke in support of the motion. Lord
Ellenborough added, that he also had a question to put to
the judges. _

Their lordships eventually divided—for-the motion, 57 ;
against it, 40 ; majority, 17.
Their lordships then adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS—TUESDAY.
Mr. BAILLIE, the new member for Inverness-shire, took
the oaths and his seat.

Several private bills were forwarded a stage, among them
the Farmers' and General Fire and Life Assurance Company
Bill was read the second time.
Mr. ORD presented the panels for election committees on
the Totness and Cambridge petitions. The members select-
ed for the former committee were duly sworn; but the in-
disposition of one of the members (Mr. Estcourt Sotheron),
named on the latter committee, being pleaded and supported
by medical evidence, it was moved that he should be excused
from attendance. A discussion followed, and the decision of
the house was eventually deferred till Wednesday.
Mr. Fox MAULE gave notice, that on Tuesday next he
would move for leave to bring in a bill for the better regula-
tion of the trade of chimney sweeping.

THL CIIINA QUESTION.
Sir JAMES GRAHAM then proceeded to open the debate on
his motion regarding the affairs of China. In moving a reso-
lution that the rupture with China has been mainly owing to
the imprudence of ministers, and to their neglect to furnish
the superintendent at Canton with powers and instructions
calculated to provide against the evils of the opium trade,
and adapted to his new and difficult situation, the right hon.
baronet began by adverting to the magnitude of the interests
now affected. One sixth of our whole commercial revenue,
he said, depended on the maintenance of our relations with
China. It would be unwise to deceive ourselves by adopting
the vulgar notion of her weakness. She had 35,000,000 of
people, directed by one man, with one language, one code of
laws, one religion, one national feeling, a fertile and well-
watered soil, and an annual revenue of £60,000,000, unen-
cumbered by debt. Was it prudent to quarrel with Each a
people as this ? (Hear, hear.) They had an universal jealousy
of strangers, especially of the English, whose establishment
and advance in Hindostan they had viewed with some
a alarm.
had
The East India Company, while it possessed the trade'
been careful in its injunctions of forbearance to its,;vsed in the
supercar-
goes. Resolutions to the like effect had been r
1-louse of Commons by Sir John Staunton, when the trade
was thrown open. At that time two errors had been com-
mitted ; experience had since shown them
_ instruction
eto be injuriousin
ones; but they were unrecalled. One w
the king's superintendent to take up his residence thidence at Canton ;
the other, for him to treat directly with the viceroy, instead
of communicating as theretofore through the Hong merchants.
The Duke of Wellington had left in the foreign office a me-
morandum, which should have been the guide of his succes-
sor. The Auke had intended it only for his own colleagues,
but had not shrunk from the responsibility of leaving it as
his recorded opinion. On both the before-mentioned errors
this memorandum was explicit ; but to both had Lord Pal-
merston adhered. The memorandum recommended the con-
stitution of a court having criminal and admiralty jnrsdic-
tion, which the superintendent should exercise over the
king's subjects ; and it advised the employment of a stout
frigate and a smaller vessel of war to be retained withn the
reach of the officer. All these recommendations had been
neglected. Lord Strathallan had strongly counselled that
an autograph letter should be sent from the King of England
to the Emperor of China as a basis of friendly relations.
Each successive superintendent had repeated the same ad-
vice ; but nothing of the kind had been done ; and during
five years of correspondence, the only sentence bordering
upon the subject, was a passing observation upon a proposal
for a special commission to make arrangements with the
Chinese government about the opium trade, as a suggestion
upon which " government do not see their way with suffici-
ent clearness to justify them in adopting it at the present
moment." Captain Elliott soon felt the deficiency of his
powers. He had repeatedly applied for an increase of them,
and explained the circumstances of the crisis which pressed
him. The Chinese, when urging him to take any step
with respect to the English, remarked, that having orders
from his king, to repress what was evil, he of course
h.d powers by whictr tholle orders could be fulfilled, These