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war on the station are under orders to sail at a moment’s 
the southern coast. The 
of a week ps waiting for th 
obliged to sail withou tit. 
of n mora 
e Jamaica mail, an 
© prepara 
hange bills. 
oo liabilities ater 650 st Feb d the old 
t were not after that date to be taken 
hav e n 
The porto which lasted two hours, was 
Video.—Li apers to the 16th Dec. state that Gamarra, 
opera 
but Lafuente and 
h Envoy aia caused a ion sensa- 
t the Peruvian at was se erally 
tion throughout It 
-urt these attempts were at the ieatention of 
believed t 
se 
tak en 
M In = a Dinas . “agg 
answer to an 
chancel at oO quiry by Lo 
rd Campbell, the Lor 
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EPETEETTS cs 
ion of der- 
standing which had arisen from an incorrect report of a conver- 
sation betw and the Ambassador at this Court, 
in reference to the emery by France. The conver. 
sation, he a Hrooye a confidential and f: character. 
He had never said, h pecyetied enn had no obj make to 
e establishment of the French ima but had now 
no obs eon the su . , and that it was his inten- 
to 
tion main 5 ois oF silence, any 
objection now would have mis splac ed; aha theeder rse aye 
would have been impossible ie him to ‘have Arg tp d form 
now entirely consi but it es rte fallow that 
because an objection was not expressed. : was ained. 
is Excellency the French Ambassador, munica =e what 
com 
the substance of ois cin versation to M. Gui- 
zot, had erroneously represented nos as expressing acquiescence 
posse e of her — = Africa. 
ated to 
actualiy occurred, our mbassador at Paris, 
mistake. 
Lord Munro called the attention of their Lordships to a speech 
delivered by Sir C. Napie ri n the _othe er House, which, he said 
—— 8 im for his conduct 
whi office as First Lord ‘of = Admiralty, in unduly re- 
ducing Pompe co: ore ach 
wer Eocrapes TER defende sis de toe-ol arked upon 
the obvious incon erst Ee which had 
been made in the other + stg a0 ‘this he was supported by the 
Duke of Richmond mt =e Fitzgerald ; 
tory conv tion ensued, which led to no result. 
Tuesday.—The “fone CHANCELLOR moved the appointment of 
a ecqmailitie to take into consideration the law in Ireland with 
respect to Dissenters’ marriages, with a view to remedy any de- 
fects in it. 
The Marriages (Ireland) Bill was read a second time. 
The Lorp CHAnceELLor brought meerbeie a bill to amend the 
cas luna e law at present ‘ore star 
proceedings in es of cy. As th 
jurisdiction of the permanent Com io was confin 
a circuit of twenty miles from London, and beyond that distance 
ns were em d who, from want of experience in a duty 
of considerable delicacy, frequently committed mista ich 
i tate of the lunati 
A uni- 
= vesting in 
hin town an 
o should be — not—as at seoeant 
els 
M 
ex oficio visitors of lunatics, wi 
= into their treatment, either alone or with the pre “seston visi- 
ese were the g — bill, but the details 
he reserved until it should be 
Lord Brougham and Lord Sones both expressed their ap- 
obasies of the measure. 
On the motion of Lo ose DenMAN, the Law of Evidence Improve- 
ment Bill a read a second time, and the Committee fixed for 
ay after a recess. “The princ “ioe , ea of _ 
may 
@ particul: 
eat ow. Ages ation, without being sworn ; 
Scar sacies ting as to the necessity of certain 
made on oath, be removed by an ex- 
"hore eter, Lord Brougham, Lord Wynford and 
Lord Campbell, briefly expressed themselves in favour of the gene- 
ral aa of the bill. 
Thur. alse the presentation of various petitions on the Corn 
Zz other subjects, the Marquis 0 
h the Secretary for 
had observ 
once since, been made 
He wished to ask the noble E 
th tch I ried Government? 
RDEEN fepleds ‘none whatever. 
question from the Marquis of LANSD 
Duke of WELLINGTON replied that Government did et ig shen ad 
i t 
to propose the withdrawal of the 
Ireland, and Ms t if =, alteration at all were made, it would only 
be with a view of improving the working of the system, and n 
= thas gh the Hewes rot Ireland of the benefit of it. _He ~ 
d the grant, and shoul 
certs a vy vald be none of the last p 
alteration “ry pr hart any at all, except poly as, after mature 
papi eet should’ eed calculated to rst the working of 
the syst 
Earl Staxnore moved that there be laid on the table e 
n returns of the number union orthoses? in 
r of Later admitted 
e, &c. Also 
their lordships rr the snbje 
Lord DenmAN laid on “the table a bill 4 enable Baptists, in 
a eines: ere give evidence by affirmation 
SE OF COMMON 
8. 
inary business, Sir R. 
— After unimportant prelimi 
PEEL, - veany toa peace by Mr. Mas N, said that it — 
i f G ——— that the modified duties on 
should come into m at the earliest papeible period Ser 
the passing of the b 
To an in oy by ir C. Napier, Mr, replied 
S! Her 
an Enel pi aaa to vaiieid ane in ‘ihe 
y e for further va msideration. At present he declined 
to say seb ale on the su 
Sir R. PegEt, in reference as notice of motion lately given by 
Mr. Sheil, said he ay ~ beat at once to say that it beg = 
intention to lay on e the despatch addressed by the 1 
wf Aberdeen to Lord re m the subject 
~eane former noble Earl] and the F rench Ambassador, respe Bg 
occupation of a by France. He was induced to =— 
ho ope | of p entin ing the inconvenience of di iscuss 
the question of 
nay 
fins the 
this Step i in the 
Chambe er of Deputies ; but if adebate were persisted i in, he aaa 
e quite prepared to take partinit. The nem eon — said he 
entirely acquitted the Count de St. Aulaire, the F mch Ambas- 
rt to his 
sador, of any intentional misrepr esen nen, in his 
Gove ernmen nt, howev exch Se regretted that i 
ing, pensar ad vrteatess 
should have taken place. 
In wer to a ques’ rom Mr. C. Wood, Sir R. Pern said 
that he ‘did not propose tol renew the committee on the currency. 
Lage Oe ect was one which, he said, could be ay. Gynetiored only 
by the executive government; but, pressed a with oth 
b ies e could give no assurance that ora nt would 
e any measure relating to it in the course of the present 
Mr. FERRAND called upon Mr. Cobden and Mr. Villiers-to Resend 
their contradictions of ee charges _made_on 4 preyious evening 
against the we - the Anti- ftv League, ip ipa respect 
ing the truck-system syste ch he eed, 
carried on in large Silay for ta the shopkeepers would rise 
Ps: maa it, but in small places, where ther: nobody to ijguen 
the manufacturers — their sorkine® n. re- 
het his undertaking, made on the former occasion, to a iat 
all his seg ree mga and st that most of on maga masters 
compelled thei r people 0 take cottages of them. He quoted 
poor 
plained of by the manufacturers was 
aarp — rar pion ee of their goods, bcp =r by the ‘Corn. laws ; 
by c challen nging members oppos site t ing t the 
a pare words from Mr. ViLtiers, who said that the te of pg 
— a committee lay, not on the manufacturers, but on the 
mber who had accused them, Mr. Ferranp sta ted that if no 
pes neh on the posta side ‘of the House should move for a 
committee, "the would himself before Easter give notice of such 
motio: 
Mr. O'Cox ‘NELL, in moving for ar 
regis istered arms in 
eturn of the persons who had 
of Down, imputed a recent murder 
gave some ns, and e pressed the regret 
of Government. ved, reser) that the offence had be- 
gun upon the Boman Catholic side. The production of the re- 
The House then went into Committee of Supply, and Sir H. 
A rought award the Ei Estimates, proposing an 
addition of 1,447 men to oted in the last estimate, 
e for 
making a total of 95, 628 pines: exclusively of the aivoien employed 
n India. He cous ned the necessity of reliefs for some regi- 
‘hanes which had for many coneenueet years been — abroad ; 
and observed shee elie was the truest econo Lord A. 
Le ht ee in resent state of our rea ations with 
A d Fra a large hould have bee 
He wished, too, that’ Paes oy encouragement should 3 ionowed 
— athe Fae Karryes <i mye oe induce good men to jo sted 
w words ; — 
sw H. Ha 
i“ n sig d that ian Malas 
had now attalions in conapleteet 5 cae vy be at an 
moment te re sent tb 4 any qearter of the globe. Some sine 
tion about the dépét i beer pros degre between Sir H. Har RDIN 
an . Russ rd Joun dttesiit 
be general satan in thas crt Mr. WILLIAMS bein ah that 
ve 
and 
greater | es cig the last. The deficiency ih cage and-a.- 
y would be Hes 
tae arge a force, and mack ald m a redue After 
some observations ftom Sir iekasie rae preenatinas esi 
between Sir C. Napier and Sir T. Trow TBRIDGE, aoa ne the 
effective state wr ae British oat during the late ratio: 
the coast of Syria, in the course of which the latter ones con- 
seater the setitien of the lorinct that our ships, even with the 
: mall rots anneal then possessed, would have been defeated 
y an , 
Sir i. we DINGK said that with respect to Mr, Williams’ “ 
Ps rvations, x pattaBons of the proposed force were cated 
r the war i: a, and roe the service abroad was so severe 
that th = reliefs — absolute — be liecrealiad and this required an : 
ap pag y rce.— ILLIAMS said, after the expla- 
ne ive oO the exigencies of the Chinese war, as would 
forbear from a dividing bien use. ae 
io oeee- 
ae ‘ie 
nd. vote Me picrmBabrey en affirmed. 
-s e sum required maintai: tain these 
ps oy te te i ae proposed _ cut off ae pb of pay re- 
ouseho ‘Oops 
e eecinen p yond what was received by 
Sir H. rane defended this éxtra pay on the ground of th 
peculiay chatacter of these troops, and t the breater expense of 
persevered j 
living in the metropolis.—Mr. WILLIAM 
the House, and was defeated bya ma 
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fended some sires of that gentleman’s conduct.— t. BERKELE 
gaye a sketch a - Elton’s naval life, percha yaa of hes 
tual insubordi —Capt. Rous vindic seein 
and disapproved the clemency 0 the A 
of the 
oppe Tal of th 
aes, having been agreed to, the Chairman reported 
obtained leave to sit a 
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to b ye Mere ay.—The Purves rgcheher Bille 
was read as net and ordered to _ lg b ill 
day —The Newgate ‘Gaol sieebiie) Bill y read a § 
Friday 
—The attention of the House bt called by Mr, Dis- 
try. 1 i i fo 1 
st better Sc eaaninn of our corny agency in beth me rl 
moved a resolution purporti ng that i it wou ald be 
effect a ie alee of t 
mario the m mn. 
ritten 
mhacen gents vat i their cond gency.— 
BowrIne concurred as to the necessity of a Seam but thought a 
he root of the evil to be, that men were od bey as “consuls — J 
ery : 
d consu 
othet’ in hich # n wou 
fu oper gad might a highly. qualified for 
nee t the ati owledge requisite sig th transaction — 
spenler Wherever the ; 
properly ey ‘the § saving « of one of die 
dou or but t lbs 
Brent The subject ha 
Canning and Mr. Huskisson, and | had been carefully inve 
a committee of the , but neither of t th 
now 
way hi 
the late Ministry. he Consuls, of 
one at every considerable Laat should all have di plom: 
tio: nay wx be hegre of t ee ver 
t of eee 
otis b own appoi ntments wh 
ee bore testimony to the n 
He deprecated the ebetice of Attack in 
2, 
2 oe 
body, 
tion, present or yest, through the sides et public once 
were not party m and whose efficienc nie of 
rt abroad gers "tainty copier cm on ye 
reid be at to ere oz Ne 
ne Piva’ 1 felt assured, that though his motion might not 
now be e successful, the discussion would advance his gen neral ob- 4 
—_ a 
On t che Mr. MackInNnon, mittee pers! appointed ; 
“to consider the expediency of framin e legislative enact 
ment, ab respect being paid to oe Tights of the aerey, t6 remedy 
the evils arising from the interment of bodies within the precin' 
re) a nee eee or of pl ve 
Pi 
ord r. ‘®o ai on then moved for leave to bring 
render certain marriages valid, and to alter the pat ith ae 
© certain voidable marriages, and to define i pom 
ees of affinity.” The obj ect. re the tiias Lord, in the 
tive part of his measure, was to legalise a miacrings 
— witha mab of their dese ased wife; 
uthorities, ecclesi jastical an civil, tos 
vin wears all 
c 
y in con be i of either branch ¢ 
Sir R. Inexis awn creeese the Bill. He believed 
were reasons in 9 a of the ti toe fully suffi 
on such a mea: pea te 
as ry 
tained, and it w eas, re riscal: a very improp om general rea 
that ne ak bound especially to offer the bill every OPE 
his —Mr. MiLNes expressed himself somew 
to the n arene and Mr. i 
t the d e 
pected sons ect ultimately adopted, 
on ret next.—The other orders of tie day wer 
s petitions 9 an 
rn of all pe 
e 
subject of per ce corn and flour? 
have the bill pri and place ha 
view to its Aeros discussed after the ~aeaye re 
ir R. cing d no introduction of the billy 
ay yc pefore the House 
oe ata by Mr. J. 0” ara ‘said 
he saw no means at present of ors aia. ras t oa 
in Ireland for securing bap : 
“a 
a rd J, Res the names of 
of Inquiry in oye asked why ill fraud had not been nam 
the bill cere the House, and suggested that there sho 
three instead of two Commissioners.—Th ANCELLOR 
Excurquer said pr names of the Commissi 
serted b fore the next stage of the bill and Con oe eed. 
es considera nm to the su on 0} 
SirR. Pert eat in answer to a question by re nissionsr® 
f | he intended ed immediately to refer the report of 
