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the responsibility of the act of burning the Caroline, with 
Jbrahim to Alexandria. All the ie ae from Syria were 
s of 
he > had been ees Hes | spend would be given Up 5 ; 
unanimous in describing the excesses and crueltie: 
which Ibrahim had been guilty before his departure from 
miascus. w governor, Hadschi Ali Pacha; ap 
pointed by the Porte, had arrived at Damascus on t 
: ad been receive a m. The 
iniabitants throughout Syria had aap ogo their joy 
aving been ae to the dominion of t e al an 
Turxey.—By the last advices th 
tinople had been pf under quarantine regulation in 
consequence of some suspicious cases of plague in the 
lil P 
Bosphorus. he return of Halil Pacha, brot Se tae 
of the Sultan, was — as likely to lead soon to the 
fall of Reschid Pacha’ od ae .—The advices received from 
Syria were of an unfav rable nature. _ An insurrection 
foan th 
and cruelties of the Sultan’s troops, partic ularly the Al- 
banian mercenaries, whose excesses, it seems, ha 
t.— T i 
orn. m psaca.— Fro 
accounts we also learn that a fourth da aagt ter had Weeti 
born to the Sultan, ‘sid that pel — and festivi- 
ties seen iled in honour of ed 
ae Wier Tee 1E8.—The val of the West India 
mail had brou ught recent jntealgeiiee from these islands. 
Things remained in much the same unsatisfactory condi- 
al aica. ‘or the m ; OC- 
fallen, whic ch gave better hopes s for the | coming cro 
th 
ind of 
Brake pene denied the ce vara seh eh. cams Court of Session, in 
such 
(Ireland) Bill was passed, after the “adoption oy an amendment 
tl had he 
it! 
ieageet tof heir enone § and moral sie cation, but stated that 
much of the value of that care would be lost if sufficient attention 
phase ot pail th ith.— His hip 
the agh Improv 
The object of the bili was to A i pi corporate peulies the power 
n Trini 
Menara were steadily ettling to work, but were asking 
high 
saved: the number of dwellitrgs destroyed is vatibully 
ettated from 400 to 800. They were built chiefly of wood. 
VANNAR.— mnah papers state that an English 
But the tenor 
a acific character. The telations 
of thd Be atte ‘sth with 4 Britain —— en brought | ef 
uiidet the GbadidEratiots of enate on the ist t instant, 
y 
en 
papers ved, co 
taint Bao? little 1 Preference to the qteetoe of the, ‘felations 
the speech 
charged from the consideration of the resolution which 
had be en Te ferred to that commi ittee, * _“* requesting the 
second reading of the 
East tndia Rum Bill. big? jet ae ies aero the tenour of the 
ualise est 
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that he feared the pres 
tended as the forerunner of fature legislation, by Mie eae _ 
Brazil su; 
m 
hursd 
pike ‘ets { “irejand) fa Peanut ge and some péivate bills, were 
4 by from the Com The Consolidated Fund Bill 
The 
he woud move for a copy of the cinta Meg at the last assizes 
‘ounty, with je onchier art relatin, 
with the public interest, any colvespeaatte which ma may 
have taken place between the Government — that vd 
f 
rr 
‘f 
essential points of a conventio nm based on nrutually recog- 
principles 
Monday.— After the get petitions, 
some questions as to the order of public business for the al 
he 
woth, “Tf it were the — desire of both parties; as he be- 
lieved it was, to arrive at an amicable perkins the ne 
gotiation must _soon be successfully terminated. His 
, rn 
from tt the pr 
Their lordships wer into 
vumstan: the fals 
‘oor: ; 
s roceeded with on Friday and y en Mr. 
an r-law commissioners; were 
to be the House. 
Tuesday.— oe _— 
Ti ted a petition 
ite “d 
n ro 
= i s 
I dad y had of the inhabita e inwal re 
been tnifredtirabie fee ndfessntiss p same The to the © commitee om By es the Drainage a ik 
on the other hand, ha pe improved coils dural; lind: a 
ae fain ‘th 
sio m the hi ps 
ition ffered to the e 
o thrown 
s 
Tm e “si was “thet 
poe of all correspondence 
Fri 
to all the correspondence. He had examined it with care, 
aia would now iat state the h it b 
made on his m id say 
that there were no omens of war in he: conduct of the 
British Government on the northern ocr ae in he 
should assert, with mtich confidence, that, in 
aa relative to the North-eastern Boundary, nothing had 
‘urred i seunts with the sincere and 2 anxious desire 
sich ad alwa 
—Th sae | ER 
mitted, ecaee to Mr. Hume, ‘at apo of the moneys be- 
ings’ banks used by Go Se 
by 
preserve the ijetce which now so happily subsisted be- 
tween untries, and to bring the question to a 
aoe ch prevailed, that there had been a 
dence between the hoe ae and ae Se- 
sarees public. awa respec : to i MiLeod, it 
appears that he is still imprisoned in Lockport gaol. Tt 
Was reported, however, that, as the excitement respecting 
him continued on arn and as, under the sey prem 
he could not in receiving a fair trial, it was 
poe that he in be 7 ekecel to Albany, the capital a 
the state of New York, and there be b tl | 
ating ests was known on the point at the of 
tele tas ene general belief at New York seemed to 
F aovdinae Government having taken upon itself 
comfortably.—Mr. Wakuey read a correspondence on b= 
the of the Uxbridge Union, where the guardians had refused to 
ply to the sick as ag the ose of diet prescribed for them 
t 
attendant for a supply of wine and similar articles of diet 
— musthave been onceresiett ae if they — been improper 
held, there would have been an appeal to a magistrate. The 
iaiies remedy existed ooy 
Lord Howick was sure that no board of guardians would, with- 
ut just grounds, have pte the Lg ge gecuer of a medical 
0 bi 
sedi. refuse ey articles of diet that might really be cotemney 
a pauper patient. He would not accuse the hon. Member for 
im mers of a wilft ‘al mer stdtenitit; for to say that would be un- 
entary ; but he would say that the hon. gentleman was in 
the ‘abi = leting. a locsely the statements that came in 
h not 
cer 
bed to pa 
The rarcnet then went into’ committee, and the first clause; to 
fix the period for which the Poor-law Commission is te be pro. 
lon: PI 
Mr. Eastuore doubted whether the Ho seers xe for so long 
i ears, to put out of its own hen ids the power ‘of dis- 
cussing; and, if nece matting ah end to such extra 
ers. It might; he said; be inconvenient to discuss this ques- 
tion fi > bu ight ought mot to be berger to 
c 
ment, to a the duration of the Poor-law cerry to psc 
Mr. TE hoped the House would not consent! it the 
period to rs aiorter term than five years. The very eatnaens of 
the public mind, he thought, was a reason why the House should 
m , by sanctior 
not lessen the co ition of the commissi min, 
an idea that they held their office only on an ual 
were at tii liable to oval i at there 
was not! in the missioners ; those 
'y 700 par 
‘on wiwss said that no bg -acgr nen of popularity should in- 
ace him to withhold from the present bill the support he had 
itch to the bill by which, the present system was introduced. 
He had known the workhouse under the old system, and he 
seen a good deal of union workhouses, and he must admit that 
under the old law there were workhouses that migtit be called 
gaols, and treatment that might have been called torture; but he 
denied tha tt such a deseription was applicable to the union work- 
longati ur ave > Oe eee tn that « id t ny 
pro! ion for years; did n nyt 
advocate a perpetuity of the cominission. He couse i 
— 
that the cad eat sho’ uld not last beyond five yéars. No such 
edge amen hdrawn. 
ed xpunge the 
—for the clause, 163; for expunging | it, 49. The first clause was 
yee to, and the chairman réeporte: wets ress. 
‘uesday bgt peti appointed to try the validity of the 
st; Aina ad Walsall elections. 
Lord J. ene passes that on Tuesday, the 6th April, he 
mt.| the soth April t the House, at its rising, do adjourn to Tuesday, 
ie 2 
Lord MAHow Moved @ resolution to the effect, that in the opi- 
nion of the House, the large increase in ~~ number F convicts 
permanently confined in the hulks in Great Britain, although 
sentenced to transportation, is Tn. a speech 
of nearly two hours’ duration, the neble endeavoured to 
show that Government, in determining that convicts sentenced 
to per as ana for seven years bé cotifined in the hulks, 
had violated the spirit of the law. It was found that the hulks 
did otf inspire the same salutary terror as a sentence of trans- 
Lp ape . Tt had also been found impossible, owing to the nature 
bhi 
tention had been dire¢ted. The most on ee objection, how- 
ever, to the hulks was, S thee convicts confined there experienced, 
on mm their ali ae fmsuperable difficulties, if they at- 
tempted to Tait employment. The example of _— 
red nobl 
argued that the system of transportation had been too hastily 
. He soe a the existence of abuses, but many of 
those might have be edied ; and he men ot bare in spite of 
the abuses of the spatem, = at been femmes o inconsider- 
able r gre: mber of offenders 
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vict labour, and came to the cantante, that a new ope bs might 
be formed on the north-western coast co New Holland, where the 
evils of the assignment system of New South Wales might be 
avoided. 
Lord J. admitted the force of some of the objections 
to the pétetitnent of the — — th that the difficulty of 
finding other adequate pe Of a 
resolution as Lord Mahon ropes were 
severe on the one hand, poet ‘the other, transportation hed ct 
the terrors which ponishment ought to carry with it im order to 
