Mack and Corberand, it is answered, "that their treatment was per- real cause that Messrs. Lecesne and Escoffery were so barbarously and fectly just, because they both prevaricated, and only disclosed such facts illegally banished to St. Domingo. as they considered were already known," &c. &c. Now let us look back What we have said of the Free People of Colour, we repeat, that they to the 12th July, 1824, and in the columns of the same paper, most pro- are a highly oppressed and persecuted class of his Majesty's subjects, bably by the same hand, the following paragraph appears :-" For our who, by the law of England, and the law of Nature, are as independent own part, we are confident that our Executive have stronger grounds to as any of their tyrannical oppressors. How is it, we ask, that these free defend the propriety and justice of their conduct, than the evidence of men, the Descendants of Britons, a most useful and indispensable part Jean Baptiste Corberand, whose evidence, we maintain, is wholly un-of the West Indian community, should be deprived of their privileges worthy of credit. We put it (not to the Rev. Colin Donaldson), but to of citizens, and established as a degraded caste, and held up to contempt Messrs. Kirkland and Stamp, two of the ablest Magistrates of St. George's, and hatred by the vilest of the vile outcasts of England, who seek in the whether they can deny that Corberand was ready to swear to any thing West Indies a precarious existence ? which could tend in his opinion to raise his own consequence? We have heard him with our own ears, at several examinations, and have seen him (with our own eyes) in a Court of Justice, detail before a Jury absurdities, impossibilities, and inconsistencies, In his cross-examination in the Court-house, at the trial of a Slave named Chance, he so repeatedly contradicted himself, that the Jury did not believe his evidence, and acquitted the prisoner of every part of the charge Corberand was called to substantiate. We do not impeach Corberand's testimony on the opinion of very inconsistent, and perhaps we may say, very silly Reverend Gentleman; but we appeal to his own cross-examination, and the verdict of a Jury composed of respectable inhabitants of this city. Besides, were Corberand's evidence to be believed, it would be no exculpation of the illegal act charged against our Executive, inasmuch as the deportation complained of (that of Messrs, Lecesne and Escoffery), and the evidence which induced it, were long prior to the exhibition of this second edition of Titus Oates." What, we ask, are we to think of a writer who afterwards contradicts the evidence of his own senses, and not only states what those fellows have sworn to be true, but that, in reference to Messrs. Lecesne and Escoffery, it must be admitted, that they were participators in the plot " We consider it quite unnecessary to draw a comparison between the language and arguments used at different periods in the same Journal: indeed the ambiguity and contradictions are so evident, that we should consider such a paper unworthy the slightest notice, had we not a few words to say en passant to the Editor and out of his own mouth will we condemn him-Can he deny that the following extracts from his paper are correctly quoted ? and if correct, how can he account for his gross "We are requested to state, that Corberand has lately been confined in a cell for two causes:-First, for having effected his escape on a former occasion; and, secondly, because he has manifested strong symp toms of insanity. The debtors insisted on his removal from that part of the jail appropriated for them, as he made at night the most hideous yellings; sometimes roaring out, that he saw the fire which was going to burn him; at other times, that he was sure he would be hanged (an impression which it is impossible to dispel). He also requested the Sheriff's Officer to fetch him a Parson, that he might tell him that all he (Corberand) had said was nothing but lies."-July 27, 1824. inconsistency?——— In his paper of the 8th April, 1825, he says: "The truth of the charge against Boyer is proved by the apprehension of the Haytian spy Baptiste, who was taken by the Maroons in one of the parishes which was to have commenced the revolt, and under the circumstances detailed by Corberand." All which circumstances, it appears from the former statement, this said Corberand acknowledged to be lies! The wanton and unfounded attack, which this tool of the Slave Owners makes against the President of Hayti, is on a par with his other state ments; whatever General Boyer might have contemplated towards the French Colonies, his natural enemies, it is pretty evident he could have no interest in causing an insurrection in those of Great Britain. It has manifestly been his peculiar study to remain on the best terms with this country, Lecesne and Escoffery are represented to have been in this imaginary plot of President Boyer's; but the plot" must first be proved to have existed, and some probable cause should be adduced for its contrivance. It is also asserted, that all communication between Hayti and Jamaica is interdicted by an Act of Parliament. This we believe to be unfounded, because a free correspondence is established. Witness the ships that arrive from and sail for that country, almost every week. That there was a local interdiction on the part of the Government of Jamaica, we believe to be a fact; but we know it was rendered a dead letter, and was allowed by the first Merchants and Magistrates of the Island, who were themselves indeed in the habit of carrying on a commercial intercourse with that colony. That Lecesne and Escoffery participated in the advantages of such a mercantile intercourse, they have not denied ; but on every occasion their goods were insured by the most respectable merchants in Jamaica, many of whom were Magistrates, The same degree of credit is due to the assertion, "that those two individuals, in common with others, as their Chiefs, assembled and drew up a revolutionary report on the state of the Free Coloured Population," Unfortunately for the pseudo-loyalty, zeal, and anxiety of this tool of the Slave-owners, we have seen the report he alludes to, which was laid before the British Ministers as far back as September 1823, who saw nothing revolutionary in it. The fact is, that the Free People of Colour assembled for the purpose of petitioning the Legislature for a redress of grievances; a right which in this country is held unalienable, but which in Jamaica, it appears, is not so, as the attempt to avail themselves of its exercise, has inflicted on the suffering class gagging bills, sedition ws, and additional hardships, and which, we are satisfied, was the The Slave-owners' Tool alluded to, has the folly to say, that "the Free People of Colour have received emancipation in the first instance from the white inhabitants." This assertion, to use a choice expression, is " as false as hell," for in the charter granted to the first settlers of Jamaica by Charles II., the following passage will be found, and it is far too plain to be misunderstood :-" And we do further publish and declare, that all children of any of our natural born subjects of England, to be born in Jamaica, shall, from their respective births, be reputed to be and shall be free denizens of England." Now, as there is no distinos tion of complexion, or illegitimacy-(for it was not to be supposed that every adventurer would have taken a wife with him)-it follows of course (except the local authorities of Jamaica can put aside the Royal Charter-a thing which we suspect is not in their power), the People of Colour, including every gradation, descended from Englishmen, are to all intents and purposes denisens of England, and entitled to the rights, privileges, and immunities of British subjects. For our parts, we cannot help thinking it a mark of fatuity in the Governments of the different Islands, to continue such an unconstitutional and oppressive system, against more than one hundred thousand individuals, whose physical importance alone should be matter of the greatest consideration: and, we repeat our former advice, that the different Legislatures would take an early opportunity of granting, as a matter of favour, those ime munities which the People of Colour might insist on as a matter of right, But the Tool in question accuses us of commenting on the conduct of Mr. Hector Mitchell, a Magistrate, whose proceedings on many recent occasions place his name on a level with those of the informers Mack requited according to his deserts. It is curious to observe how our and Corberand, and whose services, we asserted, were certainly not paper of the 7th June 1824, he says: We were in hopes that Mr. Jamaica Scribe, in his usual way, takes both sides of this affai? In his Alderman Mitchell, would, after his laborious investigation, at last havé proved that he was not proceeding to such painful extremities against the greatest portion of the aliens in this city, without some good cause s and brought the ringleaders to condign punishment. What does he? we were in hopes that he would have proved the depth of the conspiracy Alf the foreigners trading in this city for eight months kept in constant alarm; many leave the country; constables are eternally polluting their houses; and what is the end of all this uproar? The green-bag at length opens, and the cat (we should say the kitten) is let out,—an old drunken brute, with scarce a glimmering of intellect, is put on his trial for rebellious conspiracy, and acquitted! If Alderman Mitchell stop here, we can only say, Parturiunt montes et nacitur ridiculus mus! A pretty mouse this immense mountain of Mr. Mitchell has brought forth, This old negro upset the Constitution! A kid kill a lion!" Now it should be recollected, that these observations were made immediately after the negro Chance was acquitted on the testimony of the King's evidence Corberand, the fellow who succeeded, by the same kind of testimony, in hanging the Slaves in St. George's, in conjunction with his equally credible colleague, Charles Mack !This affair of Chance's trial, we believe, was the last exploit of the immaculate Mr. Hector Mitchell. We know not what weighty reason the writer who comments upon us had for changing his opinion of this worthy; but in his paper of the 8th April 1825, a period of ten months after, during which time Mr. Mitchell has not had an opportunity of further distinguishing himself, he states as follows: "The Colony is indebted, then, to the zeal of the individual who first discovered the conspiracy, and therefore prevented its explosion in the manner projected. It matters not that Mr. Mitchell has alienated the good will of some of his brother Magistrates by manners which may be considered overbearing-it is not the less true, that the Colony owes it to his exertions, that this undoubted plot was detected, and the Colony preserved from the effects of the most dangerous conspiracy which ever existed in it!!!" How this writer has been induced to change his opinion since his exclamation about the mountain in labour, we know not, nor care. We are satisfied in exhibiting both sides of the question, and leave the public to draw their own conclusion. In the article in the Examiner of the 13th February, we made not the slightest allusion to Slave Emancipation. We dwelt particularly on the cruelties exercised upon the unhappy Slaves of St. George's: we commented on the absurdity of " rumoured" insurrection; we lamented the dissolute and degraded state of men in the situation of Magistrates; and we spoke of the tyranny and injustice with which the Free People of Colour were treated (nor will the selling of indulgencies to a few of the most submissive amongst them, who gain for some hundreds of pounde shadow, not a substance, make us change our opinion of the evil) but we said not a word of the Slave Trade, although the abject Took in question (how dreadful!) has thought proper to designate us as Demoto, Radicals, and Revolutionists! But we have no hesitation in making a CLERICAL FREAKS IN THE WEST. d ́ be, to see a | has in these entertaining volumes supplied us with many lively and known what our opinions are. Happy, indeed, we should revolution take place in the horrid, inhuman, unjust, and impolitic spirited observations, the fruit of much travelling experience in practices of the West India Slave-owners, and their hired agents. We America and the East and West Indies. His publication, however, are anxious to prove to our countrymen the folly of permitting a few is not in the form of a journal or narrative, but conveys in lively hundred individuals to hold in chains, and under the lash of a cart-whip, & million of their fellow-creatures, whom God has formed on a level separate sketches the local and social peculiarities of the different with themselves. We are convinced that such a system is contrary to places he has visited, and the various curious forms of existence which the well-being of society; and that it must tend to demoralise and de- it has been his lot to encounter. Among these, his portraiture of "Life in India" is peculiar impressive. Himself in the service of the base, all those connected with it. We are, in fine, satisfied, that it would be more to the advantage of England were the West India Islands Company, his opportunities were great, and his skill being proporan at the bottom of the sea, than that the British nation should con- tionate, many curious, and, to most people, very original particulars tinue to be dishonoured by the selfish and barbarous acts of a handful of of the usual modes of wearing away existence in that our nondescript her degenerate sons. empire are afforded. Bearing all the marks of a true, it is anything but a seductive picture, and coupled with a shrewd paper on the general fruit of Indian and other fortune-hunting, may be very serviceable in correcting the views of many a sanguine and visionary expectant of unattainable objects. A sketch of the Havannah is also particularly striking; and the temperate yet undeniable observations of Mr. Howison on the effects of Negro Slavery, are equally honourable to his head and to his heart. Debasing and debased, it renders the Havannah, in particular, a most disgusting picture. An essay on Boarding-houses, which includes our own country, is very arch and amusing; and upon the whole, we do not often meet with a couple of volumes displaying less pretence, and containing more amusement, than these ad libitum sketches, which exhibit Mr. Howison as a quick observer, a lively and intelligent writer, and as a person possessed of a portion of travelling experience, which is the lot but of few at best, and of a still smaller number who can describe and collect from a life of adventure, matter which, while he who runs may read, is pregnant, Q. with observations that he who ponders may profit by. A Correspondent writes as follows: The Rev. Wm. Tremenheere, Vicar of Madrar, near Penzance, in Cornwall, a short time ago purchased a small quantity of furze of a farmer of his parish, who sent his daughter, a fine rose-cheeked girl, about 18 or 19 years of age, to receive the money for it. When she came to the Divine's house, she was in formed that the Vicar desired she might be shewn into the parlour, as he wanted to speak to her. As soon as she entered the room, the Vicar, being moved as well by the flesh as by the spirit, rose from his seat and went to the door, as if to satisfy himself that it was fastened-and then, advancing towards the farmer's daughter, told her she was a pretty look ing girl, and that he must have a kiss before she went away! She expressed surprise at the Reverend's conduct, and hoped he would take no such liberties with her; but the Vicar, without further ceremony, put his arm round her neck, when the young woman made an effort to get aways and, in order to extricate herself, caught hold of the Reverend Preacher against "sinful lusts of the flesh," &c. and after giving him what is called" a Cornish hug" (which is similar to a "cross-buttock" amongst prize-fighters), actually threw him violently on his back on the floor, and then walked away, leaving the amorous Vicar to recover from his sudden surprise as he could. Jacob wrestling with his angel was nothing to this scene-which, it is suggested, would make a very pretty print by Cruikshank. This same Vicar is frequently in the habit of annoying the girls. A few weeks ago he got into a dancing-room at a pot-house in the village, where he resides, and which is attended only by persons of the lowest description. At those dances the room is crowded almost to suffocation. The company drink and smoke till they can scarcely see each other. The gallant Vicar made himself obnoxious to the rest of this accomplished society, by teazing the wenches, pulling their petticoats, &c. At length the young men (tinners and others), who were profecting the girls, got tired of this Reverend "fun," hustled the Divine out of the room, and then shoved him over the stairs. The valiant Vicar, however, attempted to regain admission; but the com- The Vicar made At another time, when the wine was placed upon the communion table for the sacrament, this Reverend Gentleman went into the church before the service began, and took away the sacramental wine, and placed some sour wine of his own there in its stead, unperceived, as he thought, by any one. He was observed, however, and Mr. John Argall, a farmer of the parish, who was the churchwarden, charged him with it. The Vicar owned he had done so, and said, that the wine he took away was too good for the sacrament, and that the wine he put there in its stead was quite good enough for the purpose. Mr. Argall did intend to lay the circumstance before the Bishop; but it is thought he must have been prevailed upon by the brothers of the Vicar, one an attorney, and the other formerly master of a vessel, with both of whom Argall was intimate, not to expose the Vicar's tricks." THEATRICAL EXAMINER. KING'S-THEATRE. MADAME PASTA, after a very successful career for about twelve nights, Al While upon musical subjects, we cannot help making a remark on the extraordinary juvenile talent now developing itself in London. Besides young LISZT, whose surprising powers in extempore playing seem to augur great things for his future fame, we have Master MINASI, whose talents on the flute are spoken of very highly, and Mademoiselle DELPHINE DE SCHAWROTH, who is but eleven years old, and already displays on the piano-forte most brilliant execution, combined with taste that render her equal to the performance of the most difficult compositions of the modern school. Nor must we forget those extraordinary boys, the Masters SCHULZE, who are only nine and eleven years of age, and seem made up of intelligence and musical genius. Thus have we, in early youth, many performers who are fast treading on the heels of the first professors, and have gone far beyond what many have toiled in vain all their lives to accomplish. It would seem that steam-engines and rail-roads have not been with out corresponding improvements in mind, that leave us quite at a loss to know to what these mighty strides of power will lead X. FINE ARTS. HISTORICAL PAINTING. from the anti-historical spirit of the nation and the distance of Newman- MR. EDITOR, The market value of an Artist's works is liable to rise and fall with the hot and cold humours of Fashion, in every country where there is no permanent public patronage to form a public style, and where the cultivation of the public style is too limited to form a public taste for history painting: the steady and liberal conjunction of the two former is as necessary for the production of a public taste as the union of the sexes is for the continuation of the human race. The following quotation will illustrate this important axiom :-"Sir JOSHUA REYNOLDS was, on very many accounts, one of the most memorable men of his time. He was the first Englishman who added the praise of the elegant arts to the other glories of his country. In taste, in grace, in facility, in happy invention, and in the richness and harmony of colouring, he was equal to the great masters of the renowned ages. In portrait he went beyond them; for he communicated to that description of the Art, in which English Artists are the most engaged, a variety, a fancy, and a dignity, derived from the higher branches, which even those who professed them in a superior manner did not always preserve when they delineated individual nature." MALONE has stated that the preceding extract was written on the 23d of February, 1792, by EDMUND BURKE, “not many hours after" the decease of the distinguished Master to whose powers it bears so ample and splendid a testimony. The passage and all contemporary authorities prove, that the well-earned fame of REYNOLDS was then as high as it is now, and we might have supposed that the works of that great and popular Painter would have risen in value immediately after his death, when their number was incapable of increase. But, I repeat it, where the Arts are subject to the caprices of Fashion, the works of the most eminent masters are exposed to frequent variations in price. An examination of the marked catalogue of REYNOLDS's pictures, sold by GREENWOOD only about four years after BURKE's eloquent praise, furnishes a full answer to the argument of pounds, shillings, and pence. The auction took place on the 14th, 15th, and 16th of April, 1796, and there were one hundred and ninety-nine fancy subjects, studies, sketches, and portraits, brought to the hammer on the three days of sale. Of this number, 14 were copies, after his portraits, by his assistants: two of the fancy subjects, Winter and Innocence, were unfinished (see catalogue), and eight were sketches. The amount of the seventy pictures sold on the first day, was 3841. 11s.; of the 62 sold on the second day, was 5557. 16s. ; and of the 67 sold on the third day, when BURKE and the other executors mustered in the Auction Room, was 34601. 13s. 6d., being 44011. 6d. for the whole 199 paintings. After this falling off in the prices of those precious examples of British genius, the works of the most popular Artist that ever practised in this country, who will ever venture to place any reliance upon fashionable prices either in or out of an Auction Room? I am persuaded that those pictures were intrinsically, altogether, well worth six times the sum which they produced under the hammer. One enchanting picture, Hope nursing Love, sold on the third day, has, perhaps, never been surpassed in grace, fine feeling, elegance of fancy, harmony of colouring, and loveliness of character, by any ancient or modern master. That exquisite specimen and many others, were worth ten times, and some of them worth twenty times, more than what they sold for. I feel myself warranted in this estimate by their excellence; by a comparison with the merits and value of celebrated pictures by the great old masters; and by a reference to the prices paid for the works of REYNOLD at the sale of the Marchioness of Thomond's collection, a few Since my last letter, the Artist who advanced the argument of pounds, years ago where a single picture, that of Charity, was knocked down by shillings and pence, as a criterion of public taste and professional merit, Mr. Christie to Lord Normanton for 15751. being 6341. 13s. more than was has, with much candour and manliness, acknowledged his error; and I produced by the whole 132, of his pictures sold on the two first days of think, after his explanation, it was a pardonable mistake in a very young The Auction in 1796. At the sale of the Marchioness of Thomond's man, although it was so likely to prove injurious to a public and private pictures, Two Shepherds of the Nativity, by REYNOLDS, sold for 4301. 10s.; interest. He is aware that I have no personal concern whatever in the Peasant Girl and Children for 4201.; 4 Shepherd Boy and Dog for 6301.; issue. The success of an advocate is a source of congratulation; but I a St. John for 1831. 15s.; Faith for 4201.; Hope for 6821. 10s.; Tem- took up this plea with a painful conviction that the exclusion of paintings perance for 6301.; Justice for 11551.; Fortitude for 7351. and Prudence from public buildings, an evil, the growth of centuries, had produced a for 3671. 10s. The eleven pictures, just mentioned, belonging to the "foregone conclusion." A cautious follower of fortunate issues, ambitious Nativity, sold for 7,2291. 5s.; being 2,8281. 4s. 6d. more than the produce to plume himself on the glory of a successful exertion, would in worldly of the entire three days' auction of that great Master's works at Green-wisdom have chosen a hopeful prospect, and have left a doubtful cause in wood's. The magnificent picture of Mrs. Siddons in the character of the the most unpatronised department of painting to its own untoward termiTragic Muse, sold at Mr. Watson Taylor's auction for 1600 guineas. nation. But I have ventured, at the risk of some professional censure and Surely the fashionable depreciation of his pictures at Greenwood's cannot ill-will, to submit these observations to the lovers of the Fine Arts, on be admitted as any fair test of the professional merits of REYNOLDS! Will public grounds alone; having an unshaken conviction, that upon the fate of any person of common sense and common candour argue that the thirty WEST's Historical Gallery depends in a great degree the national queser forty years' scarcity of purchasers for the invaluable moral paintings of tion, whether England will ever add to her other glories, the glory of HOGARTH and the admirable landscapes of GAINSBOROUGH and WILSON, rivalling the Artists of Greece and Italy. The present splendid exhior the next-to-nothing prices which they then brought, are to be gravely bitions at the Royal Academy and British Institution, show that there is adduced as tests of public taste and of the real claims of those great no country in Europe more rich in genius for effecting that great object, masters? As little right have we to consider as a test of WEST's ex- than England, if the STATE will but second the paternal wishes and fine ellence, the local situation of his historical gallery, or the fact that the taste of His Majesty, by granting, in its wisdom and liberality, an est entire 132 pictures on the two first days of auction at Greenwood's sold contribution for the support of Historical Painting and the accomplishfor 2041. 8s. less than WEST's single picture of "Bring little children ment of the Royal desire for the promotion of the Fine Arts in the British unto me," for which Mr. Hart Davis, as I have been assured, paid 1000 Empire. I have thought as much upon this subject, perhaps, as any guineas. I again must express my dissent from the argument of pounds, man of my time. With the zeal of a propagandist and the insatiate shillings, and pence, as sordid, unfair and irrelevant, unless supported by delight of a circumnavigator on a voyage of discovery, I have sounded other powerful evidence. But as a mistaken advantage has been taken of all its depths, traced the vast compass of its moral effect upon society, the local objection to WEST's Historical Gallery, and an inference injurious and ascended to its highest elevation. I now recommend the axiom with to the reputation of the late President of the Royal Academy, to his which I commenced this letter, to whoever chooses to follow me in this family interests, and to the honour of the British School, has been drawn dangerous path, where arrows are constantly flying in darkness, where ̧ the just praise conferred upon one, incurs the incurable malignity of another, and where the very atmosphere is hostile to the advocate of genius. This then is a truth which is established by the experience of ages:-Where there is no certain public patronage, there can be no true public taste, no hope of rivalling the Artists of Greece and Italy, no national glory in the cultivation of the Fine Arts, although Genius may shame the neglect under which it suffers, by glorious flashes of excellence, and although, under the gracious protection of the King and the private patronage of individuals, the domestic style may flourish for a time, and its brilliant productions prove a source of much honest pride and admiration. June 1, 1825. ALGAROTTI. jealousies had been awakened. A formidable church establishment had been founded amongst them. Shoals of missionaries had been allowed to go in among them, and their feelings had taken a posture of hostility which before they would not have experienced. Still he was of opinion that the British Government would do well to compel the Directors to interfere. It was absurd to suppose that the love of life was less in the bosom of a Hindoo woman than in any other person. The sacrifices were not voluntary. Sir HYDE EAST was convinced not only of the impolicy of this legislature interfering, but also that the sacrifices themselves were considerably increased by the repeated discussions in Parliament upon the subject. (Cries of "No, no!") Mr. W. SMITH said, that so far from being convinced that Parliament ought not to interfere, he felt satisfied that nothing effectual would be done in quashing this abominable idolatry by the local authorities, until they were denounced by law. "At Mr. PHILLIPS' sale, last week, when Lord Berwick's pictures were brought to the hammer, his most elegant Claude was knocked down to Mr. REINAGLE, at 1,1657.: the Virgin and Child, by MURILLO, at 1,8901.3 and the Continence of Scipio, by RUBENS, at 1,785., pictures which ought to adorn the walls of the National Gallery. Sir G. WARRENDER, Mr. HUME said, that the hope of effecting the extirpation of these cruel Mr. TOLCKER, Mr. BOLTON, and Mr. MARTIN, purchased some of the rites by the mere disposition of the Court of Directors, might be judged best pictures at this sale. There was an admirable copy, by ROBERTS, of by this fact-that from 1787 down to 1820, there was not even a word of PAUL VERONESE's Marriage of Cana, which did not produce half its of disapprobation expressed by the Directors to the local authorities. values through most of the pictures fetched very good prices. The Por-He was convinced that the business must be effected by that House. trait of Louis XIVth's. Mistress, Madame Lavaliere at Prayer, by GREUSE, was purchased by Lord HowDEN, at the high price of 731. It was not worth a third of that sum. UNITED PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS. terfere with the superstitions of the people. Mr. MONEY said, that it was in the power of the Government to sup- The Warehoused Corn Bill was submitted to discussion in Com-sacrifices.-The petition was then ordered to be printed. mittee. Lord MALMESBURY proposed an amendment, to omit that portion of the Bill which related to Canada. This gave rise to a short debate. Lord LIVERPOOL contended, that the agricultural interest bad nothing to apprehend from any importations of corn from Canada, for that not more that 16,000 quarters of wheat had been imported from thence during the Jast twenty years.-After some further discussion the amendment was withdrawn, on a modification, as to time, being proposed by Lord LIVERPOOL, to be substituted. Tuesday, June 7. Mr. BROUGHAM opposed the Bill, and moved, "That all the words of the original motion, after the word that' be omitted, for the purpose of inserting the following words- this House will, on this day six months, resolve itself into the said Committee."" (Hear!) Mr. COKE thought the demand of 6000l. a-year for the education of a child was preposterous; and said, that if the House voted it, it would show itself the most corrupt that ever sat. (Hear, hear!) Mr. DAVENPORT said, that the child who had been so much spoken of The Irish Joint-Stock Company Bill was read a third time and passed. did not wear a cloak long enough to hide the real object. (Hear!) He -Counsel were heard on the Equitable Loan Bill. HOUSE OF COMMONS. The second reading of the St. Olave's Tithe Bill was opposed by Dr. PHILLIMORE, Mr. Serjeant ONSLOW, Sir JOHN NICHOL, and Mr. PEEL; but it was carried by 55 to 36. Mr. CALCRAFT begged the House to recollect, that the whole business for which the parish was willing to pay 1,800/. a year was performed by one curate for 1001. (loud cries of" Hear!"); that it was the cause of rish disputes, which had kept the parishioners from attendance at the church, and that this bill would heal them all. pa Mr. HUME presented petitions from Dublin, praying that the House would not re-enact the Combination Laws. They also wished to be heard against some of the masters, who had been examined by the Committee: and they complained that 50 trades should be stigmatized for the violence inflicted by a few individuals who only belonged to four or five. HINDOO WIDOWS. could not, however, avoid complimenting those who had brought this question forward, on their skill in military tactics, when he saw them placing the infantry in the front of their battle. (Laughter.) Mr. H. SUMNER opposed the grant. He said, that if the Royal Duke for the education of his son in this country. But in that case he cerhad any reason to prevent him from returning, a grant might be made tainly would not agree to the amount now proposed. 2,000l. or 3,000l. a-year would be sufficient to have the young prince properly lodged and educated. Sir G. WARRENDER maintained that the Duke had been most unjustly aspersed, and that it was the duty of the House to accede to the proposition. Sir J. SEBRIGHT observed, that he had been informed that the Duchess of Cumberland received 3,000l. a-year from the King of Prussia. This, with the income derived from this country, appeared to him amply sufficient for the Royal Duke. It was painful to say anything that might appear disrespectful; but it was a well known fact, that a man could not Mr. HUMB presented a petition relative to the practice of the burning of go into society, of any description, without hearing remarks on the conHindoo widows in India-a practice which he deprecated as a violation of duct of that Royal Personage. However attached Gentlemen might be the principles of reason and humanity, which was not consonant with the to the Royal Family, that attachment could not excuse an absolute waste proper interpretation of the Hindoo laws, which was so revolting, that he of the public money. The Royal Duke appeared before them like an inthought it the duty of the Government to put it down, and might be abol-dividual who requested the parish, in forma pauperis, to enable him to maintain his own child. (Hear!) ished without incurring the least risk in the Indian empire. A conversation arose. Mr. BUXTON informed the House, that from the returns made in five years, there had been in Bengal alone 3,400 females burnt. The real amount, in all probability, went far beyond the official returns. Gentlemen conversant with the affairs of India had as sured him, that the real numbers would be more like 10,000 than 3,000, and this in Bengal alone. He really feared that the conduct of Government had unintentionally promoted this wickedness. To say the least, the natives were not made acquainted with the feelings of the British legislature by any declared disapprobation of the practice. The police of the Indian Government were required to attend the buruings, but they were directed not to interfere to prevent them. This was construed into a silent acquiescence of these abominations. Mr. TRANT contended that it would be highly dangerous and improper for the British Government to interfere with a violent hand in anything which concerned the religions rites of the Hindoos. Mr. WYNN said it was doubtless the duty of Government to do all in its power to do away with the practice, but he was convinced that Parliament could do nothing in it with any propriety. No general measure could be adopted which would not imply the most alarming danger. The task of suppressing the practice must be left to the discretion of the local authorities and the Board of Directors. Sir C. FORBES said, that when Lord Wellesley was in India, he might, with one stroke of his pen, had he not been restrained, have put an end to it." The case had materially altered since then. Since then religious The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, Parliament had given to the Royal Brothers of the Duke a certain annual income on account of their marriage, and in the expectation that they would have families. A like allowance was refused to the Duke of Cumberland. The Duke of Cumberland also married-he had a son, and he naturally wished to be placed ations which had been thrown out, he never had been able, for the soul in the same situation as his Royal Brothers were. Amidst all the insinuof him, to discover on what point it was that gentlemen really founded could induce the House to refuse this grant, which might not also be put their opposition. (Hear!) He could perceive no circumstance which forward as an argument for depriving the Duke of that income which he at present enjoyed. his entire confidence in the Government. The House then divided, when the numbers were-For the Amend. ment, 113; against it, 143. The House having gone into a Committee, Mr. BROUGHAM, after various pertinent remarks, moved, as an amendment, that the sum to be granted for the education of the Prince of Cumberland, should be reduced from 6,000l. to 3,000l. per annum, and that it should be paid to the King instead of to the Duke of Cumberland. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER observed, that as he had no intention to grant, by means of a side wind, an annuity to the Duke of Cumberland, it would not be inconsistent to confine the proposed grant N W IMPRISONMENT IN INDIA. DR. BRYCE, to the minority of the Prince. (Hear!) But it was impossible for him to agree that the direction of the Prince's education should be under the Mr. HUME made some judicious remarks upon the power of arbitrary control of the King instead of his father. If this were to be done, it would imprisonment exercised in India. He said he did not contend that Eurobe better not to give it at all. Hear, hear!) With regard to the pro-peans had often been imprisoned arbitrarily; but no doubt many natives, position that 3,000l. should be granted instead of 6,000, he was quite of high caste, must have suffered under circumstances of hopelessness aware how difficult it must be to demonstrate to the House that 6,000. and solitude, appalling to the minds of enlightened Englishmen. He conwere necessary for the education of the Prince (a laugh, and cries of cluded by moving for returns of all persons imprisoned in Bengal, Madras, "Hear!"), and so it must be of any other sum. and Bombay, without the institution of judicial proceedings, the time, place, and circumstances of imprisonment; the age, sex, and rank of the parties, &c. Mr. WYNN agreed that arbitrary imprisonment ought to be rarely exercised, and that it should be carefully watched. But circumstances, he said, made it impossible to do without it in India. Mr. BROUGHAM said he was surprised at the objections to the proposition of giving to the King the superintendance of the education of the Prince of Cumberland, for this was no more than the law had already given to him. He called upon the House to reflect, whether the object could not be accomplished in a manner more constitutional and safe than was now proposed, by giving the money into responsible instead of irresponsible hands-to the ministers-(for giving it to the King was to make them answerable for its application), who could not divert one shilling of it from its proper purpose. Those ministers could not devote it to the payment of the debts the Duke might owe, nor to any annuities with which he might be charged, but they would be answerable for the honest application of it to the purposes for which it was intrusted to them. Was this not a more safe, consistent, and constitutional means, than that which the Chancellor of the Exchequer asked the House to adopt, by which the money must fall into the hands of the Duke, who might do whatever he would with it? It was true, we were flush of money, we had an inconvenient abundance of wealth-much more indeed than we knew what to do with. The country was plethoric, and the House was obliged to resort to copious bleedings to keep it in health! We had now before us a golden opportunity of disposing of some of our burdensome riches, by granting a little boy, six years old, 6,000l. a-year for the payment of his education, He admitted the relief which it would be to this country to get rid of this money. He was quite alive to the importance and advantage of this measure; but still he did not wish to see it carried too far!(Much laughter.) Mr. CANNING observed that, beyond the concessions which the Govern ment had already made, it was impossible to go. His Majesty's Ministers had no right to inflict upon the Duke of Cumberland an opprobrium, which, if he could have deserved, they would have forgotten their duty to the country in bringing his name before the House. (Hear, hear!) So far as security for the due application of the money went, the House had a right to require; but to enter into the subject beyond this, would be most unjustly to stigmatize the noble person who was so intimately concerned in: it. (Cheers.) The House then divided, when the numbers were-For the amendment, 114—Against it, 152. Majority, 38—The SPEAKER being again in the Chair, Mr. BROUGHAM rose and observed, that there had never been a vote in his opinion passed, less calculated to raise the House in the estimation of the country. For it was nonsense to talk of this grant being made to the Prince of Cumberland-it was a gift directly to the Duke an allowance, not of 6,000l. annually for the education of the son, but of 5,000l. annually for the expenses of the father. This was the true state of the transaction, and the only light in which the people of England would look at it. He wished the Committee joy of its vote, and he hoped that the members would live long-that was to say, the rest of the present session and all the next-to take the benefit of it. When, at the expiration of that time, too, they returned to their constituents-he meant such of them as had any constituents (Hear, and great laughter)-he hoped that they would still further reap the fruits of their glorious triumph that evening over constitutional principle, common sense, consistency, and honest, plain, direct, and manly feeling. Mr. T. WILSON complained that the Hon. Member acted unhandsomely in throwing dirt at the Committee. If he thought that that Hon. Member, or those who sat with him, monopolized all the talent and patriotism of the House, he might perhaps feel inclined to pay attention to them; but as it was, he felt perfectly justified in the vote which he had given. Mr. BROUGHAM protested that in what he had said he had no way alluded to the Hon. Member, whom he did firmly believe to be the most wise and patriotic member of the side of the House on which he sat. (Much laughter.) Tuesday, June 7. Mr. PEEL obtained leave to bring in a bill to abolish fictitious Writs of Error. He explained that the bill would provide that every party suing out a writ of error should enter into recognizances for the payment of twice the amount of debt, or damages, already found against him; so that he would do it at his peril, and would therefore take care that he had a valid objection to the judgment. SOAP AND CANDLES. Mr. SYKES, after dwelling upon the necessity of giving further relief to the labouring poor, moved the following resolution that " it be deemed Mexpedient, early next session, or as soon as the financial situation of the Ο country shall admit, to reduce the duties upon soap and candles." The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that the House already this al session had repealed taxes to the amount of 1,500,000l. They had refused certain propositions respecting the assessed taxes, &c.; and it would be quite inconsistent for them now to turn round and consent to a reduction in articles not so properly entitled to their favourable consideration. tl P Messrs. HUME and WooD, and Lord A. HAMILTON, supported the motion, which however was negatived without a division. Sir C. FORBES said that the Rajah of Anjipore had fallen under the suspicion of the Resident Government, for no other apparent reason but that he was beloved by his subjects! His aunt, more subservient to the British authorities, was put in his place. He had been in close confinement 15 years! In that period he had remitted three memorials. He (Sir C.: Forbes) had seen the copy of one of them, and mentioned it to a director, who assured him that no such paper had reached this country. He very much regretted the little attention which was given to India affairs in Parliament. The very mention of India, it had been said by a foreigner, was enough to clear the House.-Sir Charles here hinted, that Mr. Canning, had he proceeded to India, would have carried out a law to prevent appeals from India. Mr. CANNING, with much warmth, denied the charge. He said he had expressed a wish that a law might be made to prevent appeals to the Government respecting certain loans onde to the Native Princes by contractors, the scandal of which fell upon the British Government; and he most earnestly hoped that such loans would never be repaid by the parties raising them. Mr. Canning observed, that he did not know to which of two gentlemen he was indebted, in his absence, for the attack upon bim. They were very like two gentlemen in the Spectator, who were so closely united, that they were thought to have between them only one opinion, one idea, one religion, and one hat. (Much laughter.). Sir C. FORBES said, he would venture to tell the Right Hon. Gentle man that which his friends, perhaps, would be slow in telling him that his wit was often misapplied, and did much injury to the cause he would serve. The Right Hon. Gent. might have spared his ill-tempered wishes, and the thundering tone and manner in which he expressed them. The motion was carried without opposition. Mr. HUME said he had already called the attention of Parliament to the propriety of allowing that class of natives of India, who were called half caste, to serve as Jurymen; and he now moved for various papers relative to the Indo-Britons; which were ordered ia consequence Mr, HUME then spoke of the appointment of Dr. Bryce, a Presbyterian Par son, to the office of Clerk to the Stationery Committee of the Governor in Chief. Mr. Buckingham, it seemed, having published some remarks du this gentleman's appointment, was, on that account alone, banished from ` India; and another individual for a similar offence had been imprisoned, whom it was understood that Lord Amherst had persisted for several months in keeping in confinement. Now, the Rev. Mr. Bryce was onl acknowledged writer in the John Bull in the East the John Ball of India-(a laugh)—a twin brother of the John Bull of London. The Presbytery, at least, did consider that it was not for the honour of the Scottish Church that this individual should continue a member of their body and in this office at the same time. And it seemed of great conse quence that the House should have the opportunity of considering the conduct of Mr. Adam and Lord Amherst in single acts of this kind. He moved, therefore, "for a copy of the minute of the Supreme Council of Bengal, by which the Rev. Dr. Bryce was appointed Clerk of the Stationery Committee." Mr. WYNN observed, that Dr. Bryce's appointment was disapproved of by his Majesty's Government in Englaud; and orders had been dispatched out to India to order it to be revoked. Upon a division, the numbers were-Ayes, 26; Noes, 74; Majority against the motion, 48. ABUSES IN THE COURT OF CHANCERY, Sir F. BURDETT, after some introductory remarks, moved, "That an humble address be presented, praying that his Majesty would be pleased to cause the evidence taken before the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the Court of Chancery to be laid before this House. Mr. PEEL opposed the motion. He said he could not help thinking it would have a very prejudicial effect to publish this evidence without the statement of such measures as the Commissioners might feel it expedient to recommend the adoption of. "I, for one," continued Mr. Peel, “con sider this inquiry as an extremely important one; and I utterly disclaim any view to keep back the production of the evidence. I do seriously asbe provided for the evils which I do believe to be occasioned by the presure the Hon. Baronet, that I earnestly hope some efficient remedy may sent condition of the Court of Chancery. (Hear, hear!) Without meaning, in any degree, to impute blame to anybody connected with that Court, I certainly cannot hear these very serious complaints of the dreadful delays of Chancery, without believing, as an honest man, that those delays must be effectually remedied and provided against in future." (Hear, hear!) Sir F. BURDETT said, that notwithstanding all that had been urged, he deemed it highly necessary that the evidence obtained by the Commis |