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THE RERDENERS CHRONICLE. 
[May 7%, 
mered, or Swedish iron, 17 x oer pig metal, 88 
1 dollar 60c. per 
cheat week bring“ no intelligence 
mpo ‘Sir Charles Bagot has, by proclamation, 
farther pror jeaend Parlia omg tl the 10th May, and then 
nna —s for a nm ee usiness. 
NDIE vivo MERICA.— We have 
osetia pee naar to the 5t arch. Thepr ——— 
of the crop are represented as ‘fourbls; but thos 
of coffee are less so. The planters have been seriously 
interrupted in their operations by kes amon 
ne for higher wages. British shi aa sae arrive d 
at Kingston from New Granada, 
—Advices have been rom Buenos ! S est = 
9th eu meg nth . a severe battle in the interior 
e and the Buenos Ayreans, 
betw e Vid 
which ie thee in favour of the former. 
Parliament. 
HOUSE OF LORDS. 
Monday.—Afte presentation of petitions, Lord DENMAN 
withdrew his m m for the second reading of the Baptists’ 
Soe Bil, ‘hat he — have time to frame a measure 
ch Jud whine aeeyrre the members of other re- 
e ecti 
m on of m roceeded to pas 
in review all the legislation of the last eight years on the subject 
mpeg: rapt —— i 
of frauds a — we oe ters upon the 
system under which the committees w mt cons’ pence 
—a bs tt 
a hes cai according = ‘which the judges of each co 
were of absolute. necessity m bs 
ide. He ed 
The might probably 
be sent up rg the rar! House which woutel render the inform. 
ation sought by the and learned Lord necessary to that 
House; ~ in that case ce hoped he would renew his motion. 
ount CANTERBURY explained the principles on which the 
of Commons would probably act in the case of such an 
being mad it. He concurred in the propri 
til the inf i 
quired as a and when pecess for this 
pace Sout it would be i pesed ro raed 
eras committe, and 
Ly age peed 
sh by 
ioe acu: siened among the Presie me’ of the the. sorte Mae 
of the Nation: posed of 100 delegate a = Mr. 
body was composed gt Sie 
at Birmingham. a tek “ sami at the 
bstanee € same as that presented in 
uncombe, was then read by the clerk. 
bh wed ide in reply to ons from ven 
pony yo ee that the oomeanig ys had been read a firs 
and it now stood fe i the and he ipienied 
that ny thou be committed on Mo eae 
y conflicti 
@ Bill was re ain psig pina ia oni hope that it would be 
povaan ry with _mgernaniy 4 a the recess he Ecclesiastical 
Courts Bill was prepar so was thought pire it should be 
in troduce ced in the e other 
children" in ciltieies Lord Baovewan hoe rou skh fo 
+ wager for the regulation of Election mittees, and proposed 
the appointment of a committee of either House to take evidence 
on the subject. After a Socneanies somewhat personal 
character, between, ey me or of cecas y an pie the Marquis of 
Londonderry, appointment of Magistrates, the House 
rward his 
HOUSE OF proce ridge 
Saturday.—The House met at 20 *clock, 
y Mr. r, 
msider a motion 
made on Friday night b i 
harge of Mr. Mabson 
to point cae he had tak 
: a contempt 
specified tithe warrant, Mr. sched as ha want th that 
w 
ject, all being of opinion ae as th waliaity th : 
Speaker’s a doubital, disobe e to which he “g ad bere pm. 
charged. The 
quent uae: ‘dunt the the ines attend 
on Monday, were then carried with 
I ae cow out a division andthe course 
which Ayoeret eg map og ween Bir Fern signe 
na 
aad to order oY the Chair. ij mie: being 
Yy — eading Election Committee 
sitting members, Charles Russell, Esq., and Vicount 
been duly — 
The Lor 
rf 
reported that the 
count Chelsea, had 
se to the Severn Navigation Bill were 
agreed to. wale ‘the Bill passed. The St. Philip’s 
Bill, and the Gosport Pier Bill, were read athird ti Nei Ro 
The Stourbridge Roads Bill was read a second oun me foe is 
to be “committed. 
unrolled 
een the luxury of t ch and the poy: erty — orki 
classes; of the age restrictions on ~ the 
Police, andthe standing army. It calledin question t the necessity 
| and 
ped an Established Church, the e hese enses 0: s of a Royal family, and 
mplained of the general mon cm of property. But the prin- 
of the petition a on the Saeeens state of a 
“9 snbje 
cipal subject o and to this the eae or oa asked for 
especially addressed, viz: lot, versal suffrage, ann nal 
parliaments, stipendiary Members of Patliament, a division of the 
country into bi electoral districts, Prec = repeal of the union 
with Ireland. The petition having been read at length, Mr. 
Duncombe ey that he should ten the petition under the c ‘on- 
f th 
sideration 0: ouse on Tuesday, and moved that.it be printed 
with the votes, which was orde: eg 
The SPEAKER informed as House that the Larerag! against the 
return ndoned 
th co. 
> fourth —- ce 
nections 
the Land.tax Co mmissioners, aan, he neues ve ald not be 
intrusted with = — t of the commissioners for the 
urpose of this ath d all desire to interpose 
casion of the 
efe ende d ge arrangement, and observed that if the 
office of Commissioners Land-tax required alteration, such 
alteration was i with reference to other matters e well as 
income-tax ; but that an atteratitia so general ¢ not 
mporary enactment like the presen = 
the bill asse 
2ard Mr. Roxnucs er ys shou 
— 
fitly be made in a tem 
d without 
ach'm 
by og plan ari 
they would often be gic rat to pay eve 
strictly liable for. 
more than they were 
rR. PEEL doubted whether, if he took sucha course with 
su he might not be = med an ogres to the delu- 
ac intended by the parties thus swelling their returns. 
roceeded without ‘discussion upon any ror its provi isions, 
gulatin 
~ 
n 
or 
a 
842, 
such dividend or share shall accrue half-yearly 
y pay the tax on such an amount of the dividend or share 
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i 
osed the bore ane 
pla e orship.”’ Chancellor as me Ex- 
chequer BY omised epconaidar the principle of this suggestion. 
ce then mo oved a clause exempting | the alividends of 
po ex t resident in her Majesty’s d cie: 
edna whisk he thought it bi 
The whole annual amount ource was 
mgt about 10,000/. a-year. Mr. Pitt had not Fthoearkt it aot 
mpt fundholders, because, having a right t ay 
be them personally, he had a right also t to take their qntipart 
where he could find it ; _ hoaede helpoad ee that he had Lees Fight 
sident in the 
i 
inions, did not think himself 3 es fined. n taxin ae it enaed 
property, after the pledge given by Parliament that the funds 
should not _ the — t of g concluded by 
beseeching the Hou an to the side of faith 
that — foreigners aes re unrepresented and helpless in the British 
Par 
Mr. Goutnunn said, that if he conceived the matter ad imply a 
breach of faith, he would not rise to — it. Hee sidered, 
tish funds, they obi 
po ropert 
T. LABO a against bere: octrine . of Gove 
tin this ceatter, es horse they Se conaidat Pasig opi 
bas. He read the names of Bove Bes on ecatinoe of Li 
a be soso toa — praying for this e sonia , and he 
alladed to the danger that the ted _— ate ht follow outa 
wn fellow-subjects pos- 
estion was small, and 
that if it had been very large, bbe worth taking at 
ris om bes mite oer =! but. "he thonght che baneege faith by n 
mpro “Whatever other pro the forei goer 
i oo ; Beer should his Toisied property be 
d the argument against ee 
fa nied property at all; bat if it beer = be touched at all, ther 
was nothing in any statut e to prote 0) 
th tish subject. The funds 
tothe common benefit. _ pea es mig st as ask a 
exemption for his ay pig e the r s whic. 
induced Mr. Pitt — xempt foreigners during the 
» were site m: te yrdéenal rather than of ju ; thas 
tho: 
rp sehir sg state of the pect has ware 
saw no Thkatn ‘for exempting the foreigner rather 
than the British —— —Mr. Masterman briefly objectedto the 
= T. BARING sc ry 
ites > ete "Ss amendmen’ 
— it, 203; jan 163, 
he CHAIRMA AN eestor "reported progress, the House ba re- 
jitaaty and other orders of the day ge ons ogg 
Woop presented the report of th e Penryn 
‘that Capt. Dmatens, 
o 
OD pri 
to) ittee, 
tting Member, had gs: Pree elected, 
rds’ ndments of the Ormsby Enclosure Bill were 
= committe of conference was a) appointed , on 
Sir R. Peew in pine re : “ques stion from Mr. Hum 
Capt. Elliot is consul to Texas, bat at present in this bar Cons may ee 
receiving salary, his departure being delayed until he shall have 
com pin ay rtain pent: r to ons i 
Kon r. Hume gave Agere that he should submit, on 
éay, “rhether — cone under present circ 
person to 
Sir R. Past, i. ree to a question from — Fre nch, expressed 
py — = Lop geen of Po in conformity 
with its _ sathes speedily provide me the payment of 
those claims of British oe which had been established by the 
mixed commissio 
a. Wuniebecns — rose, in pursuance of notice, to call the 
an ear 
umstances, is a proper 
attention of per = eto the ‘* National Petition,” presented b 
him on the ne ay. He quoted precede occa n favour a 
bch cds oft fe pe petitioners 2 be heard at the bar e House 
apport ie allegatio contelinudt in: the pattie ve a 
rege of the history o: Radical opinions, a he cionkiared ta to 
de snd ds with what was called “‘ Chartism” in the present 
? 
was conside 
S-] 
eclared that, ae Fr frustration of the Reform 
™m 
 ecem He 
amounted to 
ciated throu 
000 
that agitation.’ He eheured into 
fered in some of the manufacturing 
k tow ard i 
Y parteuhce of of the eisthies ha ‘ 
towns, and enlar: arged upo 
the extent and — es the feeling now prev alent a — the 
of Chartism. Could such a 
not 
the hearing now prayed for 
two days ; but if it occupied tem it ought to Se permitte ns 
Mr. I ye ne ae i use, he 
ould not doubt either the n cerity of t the ° oa 
fonehi. At all the public meetings ‘held either the last 12 months 
the points most exciting to a great part of the audience had b 
pera which bore any reference tb Chartism. He concluded by 
ressing on thse ie House the erat tat of allowing the petitioners, a 
hearin ng.— oO : : 
e r ted to the House was well enti. 
r. FIE N advocated the motion, and 
oie House to eat rena yt petitioners had Ae say.— 
After min e observations from Sir ot Ss otte E, who, thongh he 
t forth Bc the petitioners, 
1 
ing, 
ir med all notion agi eating the petition as 
fit subject for r paiente; but the question was one of general 
policy and he could not consent to hold out a hope which he 
kne ould be unavailing. He therefore felt it his duty to resist 
the mote. 
Mr. Ma CAULAY could not conscientiously vote for the motion, 
He decl 
of what calle ** Charter,”’ “with several of w ich he 
cordially betechey and ie which he had voted gta as the: ballot, 
and the wigs = the English qualification "for —— of the 
ouse. t he was entirely opposed to univers raises 2 not 
on any = Sees of finality, but on groun nvolving the 
sanctity and security of property; and so resarditie it, he drew 
from the —. sheeit Est org ema which, if held bya large majori rity 
of the elect 
debt, se m of property. No wise govern. 
ment eae Senet to rte all that the seyope 2 a for; there 
had been for years a systematic attempt 0 
that Government woud do for the 
do— ~ sive. ny eeunsining neg has? Bi clouds, or multiply the loaves and 
fishes; wher 
varie "eer the pe oi » must ever be itself de 
cota ce on the em. 
If, concluded Mr, Macaulay, the 
abs 1 
people should ever obtai 
solute a T they would with meres —— the 
n 
would proceed, through universal spoliatio on, t Rat to re ; 
protects of ‘amelioration ending in ge an ral ruin. e had been 
many a a ¢ convulsion in the world ; but the fares: one looked 
towards such a system as that it was proposed to establish, the best 
pe: that me could see as likely to be one of its effects would be, 
tha e strong military poke de: would inevitably rise from 
out the thieelo e that in order 
i the ey flattered arrsane that 
thesi rs whilst neighbouring 
point with contempt at = wrecks of that 
their pace nal 
itutions which con- 
tained within themselves the seeds and the Scincioien of improve- 
ment; and those es ee oy she threw hig ge away, for no 
other: reason than use asked to do so by persons who told 
her un at the same whey ‘that they would use such concessions for 
K said, he would ey ao his opinions of the w 
of Sar had asked pit diy, and as a favour, , What they ‘iri bee 
be their did 
F. ape RTON against the instal 
endly to progressive and 
ry’s edu open 
e petitioners against the charge of a ing at 
public creditor. He enlarged upon the existing weyers ne cA 
nufacturing districts sed 
currence wo gf 
charter.—After some observations from Mr. WAKLEY, who com- 
mented on che’ ‘teas of the Ministerial party, and supported at 
some Mee the prey er of the ety 
Lord J he i npc ti Be the 
A 
ioe 
i: 
¢ 
d his 
petitio: n contain “tt had 
ess; but t e must deny. - Let the House 
reflect upon the consequences sat inquiring whether faith should be 
_: with the public creditor, and the property in land preserved! 
— nnouncement Bea! such a proceeding would create @ 
al alarm, would oc the departure of capital, and the 
tion of. the fu nds ay employing labour. It was cl 
the author of the “‘ National Petition” igre age the sweeping: 
d though, if t 
‘way of the National debt; an e case were fairly 
put to any given assemblage, and they saw ee ruin which would 
inflicted uch a confiscation, especially ido d 
hans uld repudiate the notion; yet it was not so cl 
ae, 
and he 
ain at once to the etitioners 
re went oe o shake: the property and petit 
ment of the — try, and that the hearing prayed f9 for 
Sir 
ayer. 
en a eye 
e pe etiti tion ‘was an {mpeachime ent of the whole 
e 
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a The 
constitution and s 
he country to be sus 1 ries ae the House in 
ther it would be fitting to spun Ds ne “g debt and repeal the 
m? And e ibe 
‘constructi 
against the h hearing, 287; for it, 49 : ago 
ttle the Govern- fl 
must be ~ 
“4 
: 
which t ed. : 
he gest gees of won doctrines would remove 
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