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are now so much felt there would have taken | spirit of sectarian exclusion; the feelings of place, evils of which Government is the the Roman Catholics are outraged, the most parent, and which are now made the reason fatal habits of ascendency are revived, and our for taking away all semblance of liberty from tribunals are degraded into a factious and exthe Irish people." (Loud cheers from the asperating instrumentality, to carry a verdict Irish members). Let us see how far this at any cost of principle, at any hazard of result, position answers to our present calamities and (Cheers). He (Mr. Sheil) would defy contra our crimes. How is the Government consti-diction on this head. He asserted that the tuted? There is not one Irishman in the Crown had set aside 36 Catholics, and im Cabinet of Ireland. The Lord Lieutenant, pannelled three juries, with 12 Protestants the Under-Secretary, the Private Secretary, in one, and 11 Protestants in each of the other the Commander of the Forces, the Adjutant two (loud cries of hear); and who did this? General, and, above all, the Cabinet Minister The Crown. The law-officers confessed it. who plays so inferior a part to Lord Anglesea, They claimed all the merit as their own. Is are English. In this House there is not a this supportable? Is this to be endured? Is single native of Ireland, who represents an this consistent with the principles professed Irish county or borough, who has any concern by Lord Brougham, when he presented a pe with the affairs of his country. You have not tition of the Irish Catholics, detailing enormione single link between the Irish represent- ties of this sort, and when he denounced these atives of Ireland and yourselves. The late detestable practices? And can you wonder Member for Limerick represents Cambridge; that Ireland is in this frightful condition? the noble Lord, the late Member for Kil- And will you repress the consequences of your kenny, represents Northampton. It may be fatal misrule with your offensive, insulting, said that the Member for Dungarvon (Mr. and tyrannical legislation? But you have Lamb) is in office. Ireland has not the ho- measures of relief. What relief? (Loud cheers) nour of his birth. By the way, the hon. Gent. Of what kind? The church is the question. on the hustings, remanded by the patriotic Has the Irish Secretary given way? Has he fishermen who returned him, declared that renounced his principles? How do he and the though he would not make the repeal pledge, noble Lord (the paymaster of the forces) sethis mind was open to conviction, and he would tle these matters between them? The one give the subject every consideration. It is to be exclaims, "I will never allow church property presumed that the King's speech has con- to be touched!" The other virtually voted vinced him, and he will now consider his en- for its confiscation in 1824. Well, how do gagement fulfilled; and after mature official these Siamese youths now comport themselves meditation, he will vote for the extinction of together? Look at them, it is in truth a plea all future debate, having arrived at a con- sant picture (loud laughter)-there they stand clusion from which all the logicians at Dun- on their four legs, as the Member for Leeds garvon can never move him. But, to revert has it (rare quadrupeds in the zoology of office), to more important matter, and putting all bound together not by the vile ligature of questions of office aside, and waiving all cir office, but fastened in their amiable fraternity cumstances which remind us of our provincial by noble love of that country to whose benefit dependence, who is the Secretary of Ireland? they so much contribute by their affectionate A man who was examined before a committee coalition. But how will they settle the great of this House, and declared that he knew point of former difference? The Member for nothing of Ireland. (Hear, hear). He is to be the Tower Hamlets indulged in a natural cucharged with ignorance, and ignorance is riosity on this subject. He asked, "When almost an offence. He is blind, and is to lead, we see the penalties, tell us, for God's sake, or rather drag, Ireland on the edge of the gulf. what is to be the relief-what will you do What sort of defence of himself did he yester- for Ireland?”. "Wait," is the answer: and day make? Did he tell us why out of 26 will Englishmen tarry for the redress of griev stipendiary magistrates named by this Go- ances which they confess, and precipitate the vernment, not one Catholic was appointed? infliction of punishment for the madness which (Hear, hear). Did he tell us why the Govern- they have themselves excited? He had done ment gave no hint to the Irish judges (not à —yet, one word more: the speech deprecates la Saurin to Lord Norbury), but a useful civil war, at its onset, in Portugal. Englishmen! inuendo, not to outrage the Irish Catholics by do not confine your sympathies to your allies. frustrating Catholic emancipation? But he We are your countrymen; our blood is as presays he cannot influence the judges. What!cious as any which can be shed upon a distant when two chief judges are of his own nomination. (Cheers). But wherefore did he pack the juries at the late Clonmel Assizes? Has he answered that? How stand the facts? A jury bill is promised. The Chancellor of the Exchequer pledges himself to it. He cannot carry it; and then, in opposition to the principles of that bill, in violation of a solemn pledge, the juries who try the tithe combinators are picked and chosen in the worst

shore! save, save us in the name of justice, of humanity, and of the obligations which you once conferred upon us, by wise and timely redress of our insupportable grievances, from a war which will be worse than civil, and to which the hoarded wrongs of centuries, and the rancours of religious hatred will lend their infernal and horrible contribution. (Cheers).

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17. February.

Mr. HUME spoke at considerable length, Mr. COBBETT for an hour and a quarter, and then followed Sir ROBERT PEEL in a speech of two hours' length. There is not time for more than this slight mention of the speeches. The

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SANDERS, E., Worcester, builder.
wine-merchant.
TARRANT, S., Regent-st.,
TIDSWELL, T., and T. Thorp, Cheadle,
Cheshire, calico-printers.

TUESDAY, FEB. 5, 1833.

merchant.

INSOLVENT.

BANKRUPTCIES SUPERSEDED.

House again adjourned, as many more RICHMOND, C., John-street, Adelphi, coalgentlemen showed a desire to speak upon this question. An attempt was made to come to a division; but no division took place, except on the motion whether there should be the adjournment, which being carried in the affirmative, Mr. O'CONNELL was prepared to move again, and then the House consented to adjourn.

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LEE, W., Arundel-street, Strand, commis-
sion-agent.
POWER, R.J.W., Havant, Hants, fellmonger.
SHAW, J., Great St. Helen's, general dealer.

BANKRUPTS.

ALDERSON, R., Crawford-st., Marybonne, linen-draper.

CHANNING, J., North Petherton, Somersetshire, victualler.

CLAYTON, W., Cheapside, carpet-warehouse

man.

CONSTANTINE, S., Sheffield, cutler.
EARLL, W., Birmingham, victualler.
FREEMAN, J. jun., Drayton, Somersetshire,

tinman.
FURNESS, M., Great Longstone, Derbyshire,
cheese-factor.

LANCE, W., Lewisham, victualler.
PARNELL, T., Manchester, laceman.
WOOD,J., Austonley, Yorkshire, cloth-manuf.

SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.

FERGUSON, D., and A. Fairlie, Milncroit,
Glasgow, calico-printers.
KIRKWOOD, J. & J. jun., Glasgow, builders.

LONDON MARKETS.

MARK-LANE, CORN-EXCHANGE, Feb. 4.The supplies up to this morning's market from Kent were again large, but from Essex and Suffolk moderate. These fresh arrivals, however, added to the parcels left over from Friday, exhibited a tolerably full show on the stands. The weather has affected the condition of the wheats, and the samples generally were not so even in quality as latterly. The market was thinly attended, and the trade throughout ruled very dull and inactive; and although there were one or two buyers from the North, yet little inclination was evinced by them or the town millers to purchase. Good dry wheats moved slowly off hand, at a decline of 1s. per qr., and all secondary and damp lots were full 2s. per qr. lower, and at

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this decline only a limited clearance was effected. Old wheats were extremely dull, and nominally unaltered in value. In bonded nothing doing.

The arrivals of barley being large, the trade was still further depressed. Bright malting qualities maintained their former currencies, but all other descriptious were Is. cheaper.

The extensive importation of oats, particularly Irish, since Friday, has rendered the trade excessively heavy, and no progress could be made towards a clearance, unless by submitting to a decline of 6d. per qr. on Friday's, or Is. on Monday's rates.

In malt little or no business transpiring. Old beans were without alteration, but new ticks were purchased at 30s., making a reduction of is. per qr. on the terms of this day week, and the trade very languid.

The beasts, which were, in common with other parts of the supply, of fair average qua lity, consisted of about equal numbers of shorthorns, Devons, Herefords, Welch runts, and Scots, or Norfolk home-breds, for the most part oxen and steers, chiefly from Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, and Norfolk; with a few from Essex, Suffolk, and Cambridgeshire, and our western and midland districts; with about 50 Sussex beasts, say 200 Town's end cows, a few Staffords, &c., from sundry quarters.

Full three-fifths of the sheep were new Leicesters, of the South Down and white-faced crosses, in the proportion of about two of the former to five of the latter; about one-fifth South Downs; and the remaining fifth about equal numbers of Kents, Kentish half-breds, and old Leicesters; with a few old Lincolns, Good boiling peas supported their quota-horned and polled Norfolks, horned and polled tions; hog and grey dull, and rather lower. In flour no alteration.

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Scotch and Welch sheep, horned Dorsets, &c. Beasts, 2,242; sheep. 14,630; calves, 96; pigs, 136.

MARK-LANE.-Friday, Feb. 8.

The arrivals are large. The prices are lower, notwithstanding, there is very little business doing.

Oats, Scotch Potato

Feed

Flour, per sack

28s. to 31s.

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PROVISIONS.

Bacon, Middles, new, -s. to -s. per cwt.
Sides, new...—s. to -s.

Pork, India, new.... 126s. Od. to -s.
Mess, new
...75s. Od. tos. per
Butter, Belfast ....84s. tos. per cwt.
Carlow .....80s. to 8Js.

Cork

......80s. to 82s.

Limerick ... to -s,
Waterford..76s. to 80s.
Dublin ....74s. to 76s.

Cheese, Cheshire....50s. to 70s.

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OBBETT'S MAGAZINE, a Monthly Review of Politics, History, Science, Literature, Arts, &c.&c. published I. February. The Contents of the Number for this Mouth barlare as follow:-1. Will it be Suffered to Work?-2. Portraits of the Senate.-3. La Huitaine, with Translation.-4. The "Swinish Multitude."-5. The Masque of Anarchy, Poem.-6. Review: " Journal of a Naturalist."-7. Population and Employment.-8. Patriotism; or, our Love for and Duty to our Country.-9. Lectures on Music, with Concerted Illustrations.-10. The Leading Newspaper Press.-11. The Flight of Israel; a Fraginent.-12. On the Present State of the Country, with regard to the Debt and the Taxes.-13. Banim's Novels.-14. The Dutch War.-15. Scenes in the Sister Island.-16. The Irish Monthly Magazine.-17. Going to Sea.-18 Ireland.-19. Mr. O'Connell's Letter. -20. Sonnet.-21. "Annual Parliaments, Universal Suffrage, and Vote by Ballot." 22. What Properties a Parliament Man should

Gloucester, Double..50s. to 62s.
Gloucester, Single... 46s. to 50s.
Edam
48s. to 50s.
48s. to 50s.

Gouda

.......

......

Hams, Irish........50s. to 60s.

SMITHFIELD.-Feb. 4.

This day's supply of each kind of stock was limited; but the trade was, owing to advanced prices being generally and stiffly demanded, throughout very dull; with beef at an advance, and veal at a depression, of full 2d per stone; with mutton and pork at fully Friday's quo

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VOL.79.-No. 7.] LONDON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16TH, 1833.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

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time forth, no such letter will I receive which does not come postage paid; and I take this opportunity of begging all those persons whose time is of any value to them, not to write to me on the subject of what is called politics, except they have some fact to communicate; and when that is the case, I beg them to write in a plain hand, and to let the statement be as clear and as brief as possible.

With regard to general-post letters, the number which I have received has I GAIN nothing but labour by being a not yet exceeded the fifteen which are member of Parliament. I never can allowed by the Act of Parliament; but, receive any remuneration for that la- several people have written to me bour, other than that participation in a merely for the purpose of receiving an change for the better, which it is my answer, in order that they might preobject to produce for every working serve the "frank" as a specimen of my man in the country. From the country hand-writing. I have no reason to be I will receive nothing for my labour in angry with such persons; but this afany shape whatsoever. My virtuous fair of collecting autographs, has always constituents suffered my election to cost appeared to me to be a proof that the me not one single farthing, knowing parties want to be set to work. Amongst how unjust it would be to expect that I, the sensible and zealous working people who have nothing but what has been of Scotland, a desire to have a scrap of derived from my labour, should give writing under my hand, was not only away a part of that, in addition to a excusable, but laudable; because it was considerable portion of my time, besides bottomed in the best of principles; but, a great deal of mental and bodily ex- that there should be men, or even senertion. This being the case, not a sible women, to make it a part of the farthing of money shall this seat in Par-business of their life to make a collecliament cost me. And I do beseech tion of hand-writings; even this alone those who have to write to me, upon proves that society is out of joint; and I any business whatsoever, to pay the will be bound to say, that there are in postage of their letters, if they send England, at this moment, fifty thousand them by the twopenny-post. Let them collectors of autographs, every one of recollect that one such letter a day is whom, were there no misapplication of pretty nearly the amount of the wages the public money, would be at work of an industrious weaver; or, at least, with a needle instead of a pen, or the amount of what such a weaver has would be wielding a scrubbing-brush, to live upon; that twelve such letters a or have their pretty arms and hands in day amount to eighteen pounds five the washing-tub. Therefore, to a folly shillings a year, which is as much like this, never will I give my counas is probably necessary to maintain tenance. I have never, without the my house one week out of the fifty-greatest reluctance, suffered a moment two. I need say no more to convince of my time to be taken up with the any reasonable man, that all twopenny-painting of my picture, or anything of post letters ought to come to me post-the sort. I am to be known and reage paid. My private affairs require no membered by my public writings and such letters; and therefore, from this public acts; and, if these be not suffi

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advise the publisher to take the reports as he finds them in the True Sun newspaper; and to continue to publish them the day after they ap pear in that paper, or the day after that; not to call them numbers, nor to continue the paging from one publication to another; but to do as he has done in republishing the speech of the 7. of February, making it a separate and distinct pamphlet of itself; and if, in designating me, he would be so good as to leave out the " Esquire," he will very much oblige me, that being a something, which I myself never put after my name, and which I desire never to see put after it by any body else. I have the honour to be a Member of Parliament for OLDHAM ; that honour I will endeavour to merit as long as life and health shall enable me to take a part in these great matters, I desire no other title; no other title will I have; and I shall deem it a favour if no one attempt to give me any other.

Another class of correspondents press me very much to have my speeches in Parliament published in a separate work. This, for many reasons, I shall not do. I am aware of the importance of its being done, on account of the facts which it will put upon record. I have not torn myself (almost like tearing soul from body) from my garden and my fields; I have not done this for the vain and empty purpose of figuring as speech-maker; but for the purpose of causing to be extended, very widely, those facts which the nation but partially knew, and the knowledge of which, by the whole people, I deem necessary to the restoration of the rights, liberties, and happiness of my country. To utter plain sense in plain words is all that I have ever aimed at either in speaking or writing. But, I know more than most other men relative to the causes of the degradation of my country. I have been freely chosen by a body of electors who do honour to their country; This little republication is calculated and they have chosen me for the very to do an immensity of good. I advise purpose, that I may communicate my my constituents of OLDHAM, and also knowledge to the whole country. It is, my constituents of MANCHESTER; for therefore, right that I should neglect it is I, and not POULETT THOMSON, no means of causing to be put into who really represent them after all; print that which I utter in the House; and that they will very soon find. I and this I am doing to the utmost of my would advise them to be supplied with means. The haste, necessarily be- this little publication, which they will longing to a publication of debates in a find not only very convenient for the morning paper, must produce errors present; but they will find, that they and omissions innumerable: therefore, will be able, by taking the several the best that I can do, in this case, pamphlets and putting them together is, to cause corrections to be made and according to their dates (the Six Acts omissions to be supplied for an evening having omitted to prevent us from paper; and I have chosen for that pur-dating things) they would have a nice pose the True Sun, which I am happy little volume grow together: threeto hear has a very extensive circulation. pence or four-pence for binding, at the Beyond this I myself cannot go. But end of the sessions, will enable them to I perceive that my speeches are repub-preserve a body of information, which lished, in a small and convenient book- they will have constantly at hand, and form, by a Mr. Watson, No. 33, Wind- which cannot fail to be of the greatest mill-street, Finsbury. This publication utility to them. The price of each of is an "occasional pamphlet," and these pamphlets is one penny; therefore does not come under those leave to the publishers and their correSix Acts, in virtue of which, those who spondents the terms upon which they opposed those Acts and called them ty-shall deal; and shall only add, that I rannical, have sent, I believe, about two saw the first pamphlet before I had hundred men to prison. I would ever even heard of the intention of such

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