E. Com B. J. Norris, Man- P. G. Clenning, Peters, Regency place, Surrey, baker Stockport, chemist and druggist C. Ambler, Preston, innkeeper J. Watts, Cheltenham, painter fort, Hosier lane, London, coffin furniture manufacturer 'T. Dallman, Old Bond street, tailor chester, warehouseman road, cheesemonger slopseller bone, draper Brunet, of the Quadrant, Regent street, wine merchant J. Crowther and J. Helliwell, Bower in Chadderton, LanR. Calver, Nor cashire, woollen cord manufacturers A. Haviside, Bucklersbury, linen manuwich, miller J. Q. Hamil. facturer S. Davis, Gloucester, builder ton, late of Little George street, Minories, cotton merchant S. Still, now or late of Bond street, Lambeth, lighterman and factor E. Gedge, Lower Thames street, fishmonger T. K. Clay, Coleman street, London, warehouseman and W. Jenner, of Bloomsbury place, Middlecloth factor sex, victualler J. Mites, of High Holborn, victualler M. Hyams, Regent street, Westminster, lapidary and jeweller. J. R. Wal. J. Pomares, late of Tuesday, Feb 7. W. Tyrell, late of East Ilsley, Berks, A. U. Meredith, Portsmouth, tailor Hastings, draper W. L. Bryan, Peterborough court, Fleet street, and St. John's square, Middlesex, printer J. Boultbee, Wisbech O. Joves, Liverpool, St. Peter's, Isle of Ely, merchaat 1. Jarvis, Hungerford street, Strand, linen draper J. Perry, Nottingwine cooper and cooper in general J. Kier ham, lace munufacturer and commission agent and T. Travis, Manchester, machine makers and copart ners T. Stroud, Union street, Bath, linen draper w. J. Boothroyd, F. Berresford, Heaton Norris, roller maker hat merchant and hatter S. Bramwell, Guilford street, W. Widgen, J. Stinton, J. Burrows, J. F. Littlewood, J. F. W. Wittich, Southwark, leather hat manufacturer W. Porter the younJ. Bird and W. Bird, E. Bend, Walling S Saturday, Feb. 18. J. O. Whitehall, Nottingham, T. Gale, Bradford, Wilts, clothier plumber and glazier J. Berry, Hans place, Middlesex, wine merchant Hart, Bradford, Wilts, clothier street, Middlesex, coach builder grocer M. Ward, Warren 1. Hart, Norwich, A. S. and J. Sharp, Birkenshaw Bottoms, J. Taylor, Gomersal, W. Cross, Birmingham, dealer in cotton spinners Yorkshire, W. Spooner, mercer W Yorkshire, banker Norris, Lancashire, currier G. J. Sprang, of the Borough road, Surrey, victualler S. T. Williamson, South- T. J. Wharton, Manchester, J. Riant, Gracechurch factor W. Sage, jun. Bristol, grocer T. G. Blofeld, Middle row, Hol Wardour street, linen draper lane, merchant т. J. R. Wroots R. Slack, Bigh Holborn, Saturday, Feb. 11. J. H Leach, Leeds, printer, book- commission merchants Holymoorside, Derbyshire, T. Watson, W. tallow chandler SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. J. Johnston, woollen draper, Edinburgh Brothers, and Co. merchants, Leith T. Gibbs, Bristol, innholder E. Cordingley, Chelten- Dinsdale, silk brokers ners street, Co. booksellers, Edinburgh Fife Sibbald, A. Constable and T. Colquhoun, printer, in Elie, A. Black and J. Adam sen. and Co. W. Walker, fish curer, tanner, &c. in A. Stevenson, kelp merchant Co. merchants, Glasgow J. Murdoch, och, yarn A Knox, glazier, Edinburgh merchant and clothier. Dundee FOW merchant, J. Smith, W. Coupar, manufac- R. Galbraith. manufacturer in Gles. H. M'Clymont, cloth merchant, Ayr Stewart, merchaut, &c. Glasgow merchant, Leith A. J. C. Tweedic, A. Taylor, merchant, Glasgow Goold, distiller, Wilsontown Adelphi, diamond R. Boucher, George chant W. F. How, South Sea Chambers, mer merchant and C. Paul Blandford Meus. Blandford insurance broker D. L. Burlett, New street, Middlesex, cabinet maker street, Bishopsgate, merchant 0. Luff. Bristol, timber W. Plunkett and J. Batkin. Old street road, factor ti. Adam aud Finlay, disA. Landals, builA. tillers at Loggieside, Kirkintulloch J. Taylor, grocer, Gallowgate der, Edinburgh merchant, Leith F. Whayman, Amelia Middlesex, timber merchants Tuesday, Feb. 14. T. Shepherd and J. Haworth, Bury, Deuchar and Zeigler, cloth R. Watson, builder, Edinburgh Craig, merchant, Aberdeen J. grain J. Gunneth, builder and brickmaker, W. Rose, merchant, Glasgow Smith, merchant, Stirling P. M'Intyre, shoemaker, &c. Glasgow R. Bouchez, George mer w. J. Boyd and Co. manufac D. Kirk, cattle dealer and farmer, J. and W. Cieland, joiners, &c. Glasgow, R. Armstrong, J. Jardine, tailor and J. Howie, silk warehouseman, Edin A. Thompson Lancashire, machine makers street, Adelphi, diamond merchant street, Finsbury square, printer Strand, jeweller and silversmith J. Haddon, Castle clothier, Glasgow J. Cording, of the C.T. Heath. Seymour place, Euston square, Middlesex, engraver jun. brass founder, Edinburgh POLITICAL EVENTS. APRIL 1, 1826. GREAT BRITAIN. House of Lords. On the 17th of February, Lord Liverpool moved the second reading of the bill to amend the 49th of George III. relative to the Bank Charter, and for limiting the exclusive privileges of the Bank to sixty-five miles round the metropolis. The bill, after some debate, was read without a division. On the 20th, a number of petitions and various papers were laid on the table. Lord King commented on what he conceived the vacillating conduct of ministers. On the 21st and 22d, the proceedings were of little public interest, and the same on the 24th. The Exchequer Bills' bill was brought up, and various petitions were presented against the Corn Laws and Negro Slavery. On the 27th, there were twenty-two petitions against Negro Slavery, and the committee's report on the Bank Charter bill was brought up, and on the 28th read a third time and passed.--March 1st.-The royal assent was given to several bills, and sundry petitions relative to the Corn Laws and to Negro Slavery presented. No business was before the House on the 2d. On the 3d, Mr. Canning and several members brought up a message from the Commons relative to Negro Slavery, and numerous petitions were presented against the same. On the 6th, twenty petitions were presented against slavery, and on the 7th, after the presentation of an equal number, the order of the day for agreeing to the resolutions of the Commons on this subject in 1823, was read, and the same resolutions were adopted. On the 8th, there was a desultory debate on the presentation of a petition from Wellingborough against slavery, in which Earl Bathurst stated that he intended to lay on the table copies of reports and correspondence respecting it. The Small Notes Bill was brought up and read a first time. On the 9th, Lord Darnley presented a petition from Drogheda, praying for the restoration of Catholic rights. On the 10th and 13th, nothing took place in the House of any great moment. On the 14th, Earl Grosvenor presented a petition from Saddleworth for a revision of the Corn Laws. Lord Liverpool moved the second reading of the Promissory Notes, Bill. During the debate, an amendment of the Earl of Carnarvon, that the bill be read that day six months, was negatived, and the bill April 1826, VOL. XVII. NO. LXIV. read. On the 15th, the House was occupied in receiving petitions against Slavery and against any alteration in the Scotch currency. - The Army and Marine Mutiny Bills, the Bank Advances, and several private Bills were brought up from the Commons, and read a first time. The Promissory Notes Bill went through a Committee. On the 16th, the Promissory Notes Bill was passed, and a petition was received from the Chamber of Commerce in Manchester against the Usury Laws. On the 17th, Lord Liverpool moved for a Committee to consider the propriety of suppressing Promissory Notes in Scotland and Ireland under the value of 51. After considerable discussion the motion was agreed to. On the 20th, the Small Tithe Bill was brought up from the Commons, and several petitions against the Scotch Small Note Bill and Negro Slavery were presented. House of Commons. [Continued debate of the 13th February. *) Mr. Canning could assure the House that in what he might say he had no intention of disparaging the country bankers, when he censured the currency. He thought the present moment favourable for the resolutions; condemned the attack made upon the bullion committee, and the warning the House received, how it quitted the solid rock of paper money, and trusted itself to the tumultuous and fluctuating seas of metallic currency! The Hon. Secretary then took a review of the Bank transactions with Government, and concluded by supporting the motion. After an amendment of Mr. H. Gurney had been negatived, by a majority of 59 to 7, the report was brought up. On the 14th, petitions against Colonial Slavery, French Silk importation, and praying the suppression of Small Notes, were presented. Mr. Denman obtained a message to the Lords, to request the attendance of Lord Middleton as a witness in Kenrick's case. A short debate took place on the Bank Charter and Promissory Note Bill, in which Mr. H. Gurney moved that the words "Bank of England Notes" be left out. The report was agreed to, Mr. H. Gurney withdrawing his amendment. On the 15th, Mr. Sergeant Onslow brought in his bill to repeal the Usury Laws. Various sums for the • See Historical Register, p. 92. T public service were voted, and also 10,000,000 of Exchequer Bills. On the 16th, Sir J. Newport called the attention of the House to the levying church-rates in Ireland; but, on Mr. Plunket's representing that a measure then in course would remedy the evil, he withdrew his motion. Mr. S. Rice made a motion for a return of Irish Tolls, which he afterwards withdrew. On the 17th, Mr. Denman brought on the question of the private conduct of Kenrick, the Welsh judge. Mr. Lamb moved "that the House should proceed no further in the affair." The amendment was lost by a majority of 81 to 42, and several witnesses were examined. The House next went into a Committee of Supply. 30,000 seamen, including 9000 marines, were voted for 1826, with 835,9371. for dockyards and other naval services. The Small Notes Bill was read a second time. On the 20th, the House went into a committee on the bill. An amendment by Mr. Grenfell was negatived, and the report brought up. On the 21st, Mr. Martin obtained leave to amend the Cattle Act, so as to prevent bull-baiting. The motion of Mr. Denman for the removal of Kenrick, the Welsh judge, was lost. On the 22d, Mr. Wynn obtained leave for bringing in a bill for the better regulating Juries in India. The South American Treaties Bill was read a second time. On the 23d, a petition was presented from the merchants of London soliciting aid. Some discussion took place on the presentation of two petitions from the Silk Trade in Coventry, on which Mr. Huskisson commented with great force and at some length in a speech of clear and dispassionate argument. The debate was resumed on the 24th, Mr. Ellice having made a motion for delay in carrying into effect the law for the introduction of French Silks, which motion was lost by a majority of 82 out of 122, On the 27th, no less than twenty-seven petitions against Negro Slavery were presented. The House went into a Committee on the Small Notes Bill. On the 28th, Mr. Wilson, who was to have made a motion requiring Government to issue Exchequer Bills to relieve the commercial distress, postponed it, in consequence of the Bank having come forward with 3,000,000 for that purpose.-March 1st, notices of several motions were given, and petitions poured in against the Slave Trade. On the 2d, petitions were presented against the Slave Trade from Oxford, Brighton, and Edinburgh. Mr. Denman moved a resolution that the House was convinced of the necessity of a reform in the administration of criminal law in Jamaica. Mr. W. Horton moved an amendment, that it was not safe to impeach the sentences of the authorities there, which was carried by a majority of 103 to 63. On the 3d, the House went into a committee on the army estimates, and several sums were voted; Mr. Hume dividing the House upon them. On the 6th, a petition was presented against the Corn Laws, and army and ordnance estimates voted. On the 7th, further estimates were brought up, and notice of several new motions given. On the 8th, Mr. Huskisson brought in a bill to facilitate the Bank's making issues of money upon goods; and the House went into a committee of supply. On the 9th, Mr. Peel moved for leave to bring in a bill for consolidating and amending the law relating to Larceny and Stealing, &c. by an enactment of thirty-two pages, doing away with ninety-two acts now on the statute-book. The speech of the Hon. Gentleman was most luminous, and met cheers from all sides of the House. - March 10th, the House went into a committee of supply : 420,000l. was granted for extraordinary expenses of the army on foreign stations. The Mutiny Bill was considered, and Mr. Hume moved a clause putting an end to flogging in the army, which was lost by a majority of 52 out of 99. On the 13th, the House went into a committee of supply. The Chancellor of the Exchequer stated that the estimated revenue for 1823 had been 52,200,000l.; for 1824 and 1825, 51,265,000l. and 51,975,000г. while the actual receipt had been 156,830,000l. being an excess of 1,390,000l. over the estimates. He said that since 1816, twenty-four millions of taxes had been reduced, and the revenue was still 52,000,000l. The public debt had been reduced eighteen or nineteen millions in the last three years, and 521,000l. had been saved in collecting the revenue since 1818. The revenue for the present year was 57,043,0001. and the expenditure 56,328,4211. leaving a surplus in the midst of the late untoward events of 714,5791. This sum he proposed to apply to a lapse in an act of parliament, by which a shilling of the duty on tobacco lapsed in July last, leaving a loss of 420,0001. This shilling of duty he did not think of again collecting, and thus the tobacco duty would remain three instead of four shillings per pound. The balance of this overplus he proposed to retain to meet any deficiency that might arise from late troubles in the commercial world. After going into several other matters, in a most clear and candid manner, and with great effect on the House, the Right Hon. Gentleman proposed the vote of annual duties, &c. Mr. Hume contented himself with protesting against the speech. Mr. Baring heard it with great satisfaction. Various small sums were now moved by Mr. Herries, and voted. On the 14th, petitions were presented against Negro Slavery, and from Scotland against interfering with Small Notes. Mr. W. Horton moved "That a Select Committee be appointed to enquire into the expediency of encouraging emigration to Canada." Returns respecting the poor laws were ordered similar to those of 1823, which shewed that the sums levied on land ..L.4,602,252 were On dwelling-houses, hospitals, and cottages.... On buildings for trade, and those not for agricultural purposes On manorial profits, fines, &c. 1,762,050 247,389 90,908 £.6,703,499 The bill to prevent bribery at elections was read a second time; the Mutiny and Marine Mutiny Bills were passed. On the 15th, Sir C. Long brought up the report of the Chelsea and Kilmainham Bills, which was ordered to be received; and several documents were moved for. On the 16th, numerous petitions against Negro Slavery were presented; and a select committee appointed to enquire into the Small Note currency of Ireland and Scotland. On the 17th, after some minor business, the House went into a committee of supply. Sums for foreign embassies were voted, after some discussion, and also the miscellaneous estimates for the colonies. On the 20th, the Irish miscellaneous estimates were voted. On that of 100,050l. for the Kildare-street Society being put, Mr. Rice moved a resolution, that no attempts should be made to interfere with any peculiar tenets or distinct religion. On an explanation from ministers, Mr. Rice withdrew his resolution. The House was afterwards 139 divided by Mr. Hume and Sir J. Newport on different items, which were ultimately voted. On the 21st, the Lord Advocate moved for a committee to enquire into the state of prisons in Ireland. Sir J. Newport moved a resolution for the purpose of remedying abuses relative to the First Fruits in Ireland. The notion was lost by a majority of 27. Mr. Hume moved for a copy of the evidence taken before the committee appointed at Trinidad to enquire into the state of the free Africans located in that island. The motion was ultimately withdrawn. Mr. Arbuthnot brought in a bill for the improvement of Charing Cross. On the 22d, a petition was presented relative to patents of invention, praying an equal degree of security to that given by the law of copyright. The report on the Welsh Coal and Iron Company Bill was brought up. Mr. Littleton moved that it be read that day six months; which was carried. The House, in a committee of supply, voted numerous items in the Irish estimates; and the Chancellor of the Exchequer obtained 9000l. for the purchase of three pictures by Poussin, A. Caracci, and Titian, for the National Gallery; and 287,000/. was granted for the disembodied militia for the year. The Silk Bill, limiting the importation of silk to the port of London for two years only, was committed pro forma. The House then adjourned over the Easter recess. The King has been attacked with a fit of illness, so severe as to compel the issue of bulletins for several days. His Majesty is now in a state of convalescence, most happily for the nation, which could not contemplate a different event, at such a moment as the present, but as a calamity of more than ordinary weight. THE COLONIES. We have seen papers from Hobart Town, Van Diemen's Land, which forcibly show the miserable way in which the internal policy of some of our colonies is regulated. A Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur, the governor, and his Attorney-General, have been following the bright example set them at the Cape, by Lord Somerset, and have been making war on the press. The printer of the "Hobart Town Gazette," which the governor seems anxious to suppress, has been found guilty generally of libel. The list of the special jury is amusing in a colony where there are men to be found in civil life equal to any that sat upon the occasion. A full-pay major, two captains, a lieutenant, an ensign, a cornet, and a half-pay major, tried a citizen for libel on the government of a lieutenant-colonel! There were eleven counts, of which six were abandoned. The matter charged as libellous would not have been thought so in the mother country. The governor appears to be very unpopular. A Supplement to the London Gazette has been published, containing despatches from some of our officers commanding small divisions in the East Indies, detail ing their several successful operations against the enemy, and which, though not extensive, were nevertheless impor tant in their different results-alike creditable to the tact and judgment of the commanders, and discipline and valour of all who shared in those spirited and useful little enterprises. The same official paper also contains a copy of an Armistice concluded with the Burmese on the 17th of September, between Sir A. Campbell, and Mengoon, the first minister of the King of Ava: by which it is stipulated, that "hostilities do cease from the date of the armistice to the 17th of October, and that a line of demarkation shall be drawn between the two armies, commencing at Comma, on the western bank of the Irawuddy, and continuing along the road to Thongo; the respective parties engaging to prevent their troops passing the said line, and further giving assurance that all detachments shall be immediately recalled to their own side: no forward movement to be made by either army before the 18th of October." The despatches further state, that the troops continued healthy at Prome, and the sick returns were daily improving. At Rangoon, all apprehensions of an attack had subsided. FOREIGN STATES. THE French have been occupied with the proposed change in the law of property, by which it is sought to restore the old feudal system of primogeniture as Dear as it may venture to do so against the sense of the great body of people. The King and the Jesuits scem equally out of favour. A motion in the Chambers, that every deputy accepting office shall vacate his seat, until re-elected by his constituents, has been lost. Petitions pour in from all quarters against any alteration in the law of succession, and the encroachments of the church give great uneasiness to sober-minded Catholics, who think justly that matters of religion and temporal affairs should be totally unconnected, and fear the consequences of jesuitical and ecclesiastical usurpations. Insurrectionary operations broken out in Spain appear to be of a more serious nature than was at first supposed.-Letters from Barcelona give a list of soldiers shot on the 26th of February, at Valencia, belonging to the troop of Bazan, to the number of twenty-eight, amongst whom were seven Frenchmen. The aspect of Spain, generally, appears very critical, and the tyrant who governs it cannot conceal his fears of conspiracies hatching in Paris, Naples, and London, to the respective governments of which it appears he communicates his alarms! Such is the state of uncertainty in which the affairs of Spain are wrapped, and such the prevailing ignorance at home, that emigrants quietly resident in England, are asserted to be in Spain, and the spies of the government have been watching in London to ascertain the truth. The Duke of Wellington has arrived at St. Petersburgb, and been well received. The Committee of Inquiry into the events of the 26th December is actively engaged, but hitherto nothing official has been published respecting the result of its labours. Nobody has yet been condemned, but the number of arrests increase. M. Boulatoff is dead. This is the conspirator who voluntarily surrendered himself, after having remained three hours near the Emperor, with the intention of assassinating him. Obolensk is also dead. The affairs of the Greeks appear to go on prosperously rather than otherwise. Ibrahim Pacha has only the ground he stands upon, and one or two fortified places. Colocotroni has stormed Tripolizza, and marched upon Modon. The King of Portugal is dead, and the Emperor of Brazil must either accept the sovereignty, or Don Miguel will ascend the throne. The Brazilian Government has formally declared war against the Republic of Buenos Ayres. Several cruisers, under the latter flag, have captured a few vessels off the coast of Rio, and the Brazilian fleet has declared Buenos Ayres in a state of blockade. Besides the accounts received from Spain, with a list of persons put to death at Alicant, it appears, that in consequence of the arrival of despatches to the Duke de l'Infantado, a column of troops set out from the capital. The Royal Guards had not been paid for the month of February, and no intelligence had been received from Marino. It is also stated that General Monetes had a corps of observation under his command, amounting in number to three thousand men, which was extended along the coast of Valencia to Gibraltar, in order that they may watch the movements of the five vessels belonging to the expedition under Bazan, lest any further landing should take place. |