Star. — London, England, 1824-03-30 00:00:00

;,- Mr. etiilTEiScomphined that the inter'''s of the agriculturists * *ere not attended to in the measures proposed with respect to wool. Lord 'A I LTON expressed himself sati.fied with the conduct of tilinisters on this bead. It appeared to him that they consulted the interests both of the manufacturers and the agriculturists. Sir E. K NATC HHU LL said, that the alteration from Id. to 2d. had been made a few nights back, when there were very few Gen tlemen in -the noose. The duty of tad. a pound on the long wool would amount in effect to a complete prohibition. After a few words from Mr. 5 - U - 01121AV and Mt. 13R1314T, the was'read and ordered to be printed. Mr. HUSKISSON presented similar Petitions from the Coun ties of Northumiserland and Durham.—Ordered to be printed. Mr. HUSKISSON presented a Petition from the Manufacturers, of Manchester, against the Combination Laws. Sianllar Petitions were presented front the Brassfounders of the City of London, and front Halifax.—lteferred to the Committee on Artisans. ' - Mr. M. GRANT presented a Petition from the Wool-growers of Sutherland relative to the Wool Duties. Order: d to be printed. Mr. TAY LOR presented a Petition front the Tanners of Dur ham against the Hides acid Skins Bill. Ordered to lie on the table. A similar Petition was presented from South Shields. Petitions were presented from the following places against Sla very in the West Indies: Sunderland, Seaford, Thorn, in York. shire, Lanark, and Uphington.—Ordered to be e rinted. Mr. LA 3IIITON pie notice that he would, soon after the re cess, present a Petition front Mr. Buckingham, complaining of the Infringement of the Liberty of the Press in the East Indies. On the motion of Mr. Crewels, a return wal ordered of •the 'quantity of Grain, Flour, &c. etc. imported and expiated for the List five years. • Sir R. SHAW presented a Petition from an indivi leaf named Jeremiah- Naughton, against the repeal of 11. e Union Drties. —Or dered to lie on the table. Sir E. N ATCH BULL presented two Petitions front the parish of Sr. Paul, Deptford, one praying for the repeal of the Cori Duties, ind the other for the repeal of the Window Tax.— Ordered to be printed. The SherilTs of London were introduced below the bar, and pre sented a Petition from the Lord- Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons of the City of London, in Common Council, praying to be heard, by Counsel against the Bilknow pending for the construction of a C.jnal from the Rivet Lea to the Regents Canal.'— Referred to the Committee on the said Bill. Mr. F. BUXTON presented a Petition from Chichester, pray ing for the abolition of Negro Slavery. Mr. S. 'WORTLEY presented a Petition front Saddleworth, in the County of York, praying that measures might be taken for ameliorating the condition of the Slave population in the Co lollies, in order to prepare them for the enjoyment s of their freedom whenever the period fur their emancipation should arrive.—Or dered to he printed. Mr. MA BERLY presented a Petition from the Borough of Abingdon, praying for the repeal of the Assessed Taxes; also a Petition from the sante place, praying fur the abolition of Negro Slavery.—Ordered to be printed. Mr. MAHER LY gave notice, that on Tuesday, the Bth of April, he would bring forward his motion for the repeal of the As sessed Taxes. Mr. MA BERLY presented a Petition from the Trustees of the County of Tipperary, against the reduction of the Linen Bounties.' Mr. S. RICE presented a similar Petition front certain Linen Manufacturers of the County of Cork. Sir R. FERGUSON said, the continuation of the Bounties at present would only call forth the establishment of new manufac tories, which in their turn would pray for their further continuance; amid thus there would be a constant succession of new interests re. pairing the same protection. Mr. C. HUTCHINSON, though he agreed with the Chancellor of the Exchequer ip the peineipie of his resolutions, recommended the Right Honourable Gentleman to pause before be carried them into excecution ; as he knew that considerable alarm was felt on the subject among the manufacturers in Ireland at present, and a delay of two years could not materially affect the plans of the Right Honourable Gentleman. Sir J. NEWPORT supported the Petition, which was ordered to be printed. Mr. S. RICE presented a Petition front Ross Caibery, to the same effect.—Ordered to lie on the table. Mr. CU ItTEIS presented a Petition front the Licensed Victual lers of Brighthelinstone, against the Duty on Excise Licenses. Lord BELGRAVE presented a Petition _from Chester, against the Duty on Coals. Mr. KENNEDY presented a Petition front Ayrshire, praying for the Abolition of Slavery in the West Indies.—Ordered to lie on the table. On the motion of Colonel DAVIILS. certain Returns relative to the amotint of British and.lrish spirits, 1101116 e year 1821 to the present year, together with the quantity seized by the Preventive Service, the expense attendant thereon, and other details, were or. dered to be laid on the table forthwith. COAL DUTIES. Mr. CQURTENAY presented a Petition from Exeter against the Coil Duties. The Petition, he said, was numerously signed. The tax pressed most severely and unequally. He hoped his Right Honourable Friend (the. Chancellor of the Exchequer - ) would take the subject into consideration. Mr. H. G. BENNET. censured the duties in question as partial and oppressive in their operation. He in stanced :Is one of the evils produced by them, that al though the County of Devon contained the finest vein of limestone ir, the kingdom, yet owing to the in crease of the cost in consequence of the heavy duties on' the importathn of the coals, which they were obliged to procure by sea, the proprietors were disabled from availing themselves of the natural riches and resources of their lands. Lord MILTON said, it was precisely on those grounds on which some of his llotiourAble Friends stood up against the tax, that he doubted whether it was one of those which it was politic fur the general interests of. the country to remove in the first instance, and therefore it was that he was opposed to the proposition of the Right llonourahlethe Chancellor of the Exchequer, re specting the reduction of the coal duties pa);able in the Port of London ; for he apprehended that if it was wished to afford the country in general a relief fro'm taxation, they ought to apply themselves first of all to the reduc tion of such taxes as weighed equally on the whole of the country. This tax, he admitted with his Honour able Vriends, was a partial tax, and for that reason it ought not to be taken off, as that would be a partial be nefit to a particular portion of the community. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said the Honourable Member for Shrewsbury, and some of the other Gentlemen who had spoken on this subject, appeared to have much misunderstood the grounds on which he bad proposed the Resolutions agreed to in the Committee for the seduction of part of the duties pay able on coals imported into the Port of London. In the first place, he had never contended that the duty was mot one which was very unequal in its operation, and pressed more particularly upon particular ports; but he thought,that as it was a tax that had existed for tipwards of a century; and continued the same in amount, that ' .he WES bound to consider the interests which had grown up under its presstue in different parts of the country; and therefore, although it might perhaps be desirable to repeal it, yet that it ought not to be repealed all at urge, but that it would be desirable to give the prefer s. ce to various other taxes which pressed more gene rally von the country, and therefore it was that he had purposed to effect the reduction of 1,000,0001. in the mariner .heirad done, in preference to removiog the tax at once. At else same time; looking at the very great irry.lorlarkty,ofth,e duties imposed cm coals imported into' the Putt of Lundy:, ilstyoild those which were carried by w to °pier parts of the country, he had thought he . 4 0 ,11 d act rightly in recommending the removal of that irregiejality tot although i t h a d b e co supported on the supposition of the greater ability of the inhabitants of the • mete polis to pay taaes than that of the inhabitants of git,her p.stXs tit the eramtry, yet that was a principle on ir',ich it ri asimpussiuk to act with fairness .ind propriety. Sir M. W. IUDLEN, on LIU part of the ecral.owireri ot - the North t complaitted of the manner iu which the , .. ` a; , • reduction in the Port of Londoptwas to Ile effeced which would leave 6s. per chatdmn payalde on coal imported by iiee,'while only Is. per ton was payable on inland coal ; whereas the dntles heretofore had been 9s. 4d. per chaldron on the former, and 15..6,1„ per ton on the latter. 'his preference given to the inland coal over the sea coal was, he contended, misch;e7ous and unjust; and he should therefore take an early o p portunity of troubling the House with 3 motion on the subject. Mr. LITTLETON said the subject touched upon by the Honourable Baronet was one that much affected the interests of his constituents, and whenever it came before the House fur discussion he should feel it his duty to give his support to the Resolutions of the Chan cellor of the Exchequer. Even if the whole of the duty on inland coal were taken off; such was the expense of tr import by canal navigation, that there would not be tire remotest danger of its being brought in competition , ' with sea borne coal in the Port of London. Mr. HUME thought the best way of settling the dis pute between the rival interests of the sea and irrland coals, would be to repeal the duties on both altogether, wl,ich, he contended, might be done by the Chancellor of the Exchequer giving up his Sinking Fund of five millions, which he only kept up for the purpose of bring ing in three per cent. Stock at 95, fur the support of the monied interest, which had no need of such assistance. Sir JOHN NEWPORT objected 0 the principle of his Noble Friend's argument, which went to nothing more than saying, that if a tax were once imposed, and acqvieseed in by those on whom it fell, and it should afterwards be found most clearlyto operate in a partial and oppre s sive manner towards that particular branch of the community, it ought not to be repealed, but that the injustice must be suffered to remain until the whole of the taxes that were paid in equal portions by the whole community should have been first repealed. Mr. MABERLY rose to defend the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who, he said, was most unfairly treated by Gentlemen who supported his, Resolutions in favour of the Sinking Fund, when he proposed them, and after wards came down with Petitions, which they supported with stronger language than was used on his side of the House, attacking the very means by which he was ena. bled to keep up that Fund. The I.ILINCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, he should have no objection if the Honourable Baronet (Sir M. W. Ridley) would fix Thursday next for the pur pose et the Resolutions on the subject of the Coal Duties being reconsidered in a Committee of the whole House. Mr. Alderman WOOD thought the reduction of the Duties in the port of London no more than the inhabit ants of the metropolis were entitled to. Sir M. W. RIDLEY disclaimed, on the part of the coal-owners of the North, any wish:tdacquire any advan tage over the inland coal owners: all they desired was to be kept on the same relative footing as formerly. He then gave notice that he would on Thursday next move for a Committee of the whole House on the subject of these Duties.—The Petition was ordered to be printed. BURIALS IN lIIRLANP BILL.' On the Order of the day for' the second reading of this Bill being read, Mr. PLUNKETT rose to address the House. The Right Honourable Gentleman said, that under the pre sent circumstances of the public business, and particu larly with reference to that part of it which related to the supplies, he should not have thought it, his duty to bring forward the measure to which he was about to call their attention, if he had not flattered himself, from all he had beard and all he had been able to learn, that -no material objection would be made to the Bill, such as would be likely to lead to a protracted discussion.— The House was already aware of the nature of the Bill. It went to provide for a defect in the law which de prived persons dissenting from the Established Religion Of being interred in the Protestant church-yards, ac cording to the ceremonies of their respective persuasions. While everybody must acknowledge the importance of the subject as regarded the Dissenters, it could not at the same time be denied, that it was one of great deli cacy, as far as the feelings and prejudices of those who were attached to the Established Church were con cerned, He entered, however, upon the subject without alarm, because he felt confident that the measure he had to propose was of such a nature as would procure for the Dissenters all the privileges which they claimed, without affording to the friends of the Established Church any reasonable ground for apprehension.— Having said thu,s much, it was necessary he should ac count for the subject having been taken out of the hands of his Right Honourable Friend (Sir John New port); with whom it had originated, and who would have conducted it, as he did all measures having for their object the good of Ireland, with so much good sense and.ability. It was, however, thought proper by the Noble Lord who was at the head of the Government to nhich he (Mr. Plunkett) had the honour to belong, that the measure should be brought forward by a 'per son, attached to that Government, in order to prove to the people that Noble Person's anxious solicitude for the success of the measure, as well as to ensure to jt a greater probability of success, by making it a Govern ment measure, instead of being . brought forward by any private individual. Many circumstances had oc curred that prevented . an earlier discussion of the sub ject. He believed there would be an unanimous opinion as to the repeal of the Act of William 111. Many bu rial-grounds had been attached to monasteries, and had been resorted to as burial-grounds, both by Catholics and Protestants, without any feelings of an acrimonious na ture. It was extraordinary, that -by the Act of the 9th of William, such burials should have been pro hibited. He belleied the object was to prevent any claim to those places.' But the law had been, in a great degree, a dead letter, and was a deformity on the Sta tute. The Noble Lord at the head of the Irish Go vernment (the Marquis Wellesley) had paid peculiar at tendon to the subject. The main object was to secure the burial of Dissenters without any offence to the mem bers of the Established Church. The church-yard was the freehold of the Rector, and by the law of the country he was bound to superintend all the burials in his church-yard. He was also bound to read the service of the Church of Ireland, and it alone.— Should the Act be rigidly enforced, it would amount to an exclusion of a great body from interment; of the Catholics certainly, and probably of a great part of the Dissenters. He thought it was clear that'every one hid a right to burial i n his own church, and there was no law to exclude the Catholic from interment in a Pro testant cemetery. By an Act of the late King, most of the penalties imposed upon the Catholics had been re moved, and the Catholic Priest could not be indicted for solemnizing a burial in a Protestant church-yard. The Act of 1795 had removed all doubts on the subject, and no penalty whatever could attach to . the Catholic Priest, though he celebrated a burial in the most Hublic manner. Notwithstanding the elements of discord, ft om .;...AlMar di* state of the law, such had been the good nature ol the people, that there had been no collision among them. The usual practice had' been to bury the Ca tholic without any di s play of the peculiar rites of the ' Catholic Faith. lie was happy to state the fact, as it proved that religious differences were not of that nit akieasable nature that had been commonly supposed. —As long as that was the case, it was unnecessary to have tecoutse to prospective regulations. But within the last year, giounds of dissention had arisen, and con tradictory statements had been made. He believed, whenever these had occurred, they had arisen from a sense of duty. The Government could not, from the state of the existing law, interpose with effect ; and a new enactment had become indispensably necessary. By the present state of the law, if carried into effect, the 'great bogy of the Catholics in Ireland would be excluded from the tombs of - their forefathers, and the dearest feel ings of human nature—feelings common to all mankind, in eVery age, would be violated. The lion: Gentleman said, cne remedy was to have sepaiate places of inter ment, butaliat he must deprecate, as tending to fix a perpetual bar, ier between the Protestant and the Catholic. The second was, to give the Catholic an absolute. tight, under certain limitations. By the present Bill, the Pro testant Clergyman was to have the power to grant the permission of burial. The Protestant Clergyman was not bound to admit to burial a Protestant, and could not be legally punished for a refusal, much less was he bound to perform the burial of a Catholic. By the pre sent Bill, every Dissenter was entitled to burial in a Protestant church-yard. If the Clergyman refused, he was bound to state the. reason to the Ordinary, snd he to the Lord' Lieutenant. The duty was in fact madc mandatory upon the Protestant Clergyman: cases , might arise, in which the permission might be capii ciously refused, of might petulantly be abused. But it would be time enough to deal with such cases when they should actually arise. Neither did the Bill aff o rd any well-founded cause of alarm to the members of the Esta blished Church, but rather relieved them from an irk some duty. They were new enabled to do that by law, which in almost every case they had been in the habit of doing without law.- He should move that the Bill be read a second time. —The Bill was read a second time, and committed for to-morrow. On the motion that the House should resolve itself into a Com mittee of Supply, Mr. W. 11 'WA NIS begged to put a questiol to the Right honourable Home Secretary, with respect to a MS. lately flisco irered, and said to be the undoubted- work of Milton. He under stood there was no question whatever as to the genuineness of the work ; that it was in the hand-writing partly of Phillips, Milton's nephew, and bore otherwise suilleirne marks of 9tiebenticity ; and he was desirous, therefore, of knowing how it had been disposed of, and whether it was to be printed? Mr. Secretary PEEL said, that the MS. in question had been found among sonic State Papers. It was a theological work, de Dei etilil4, treating o( the truths of the Christian religion, and no doubt, as far as evidence could go, authentic. now the MS: had come into the situation where it had been discovered, it Was impos sible to pleas; but It had been submitted to the King, who imme diately said " A work of Milton's must be made public." (Loud and continued cheers.) Accordingly, it was placed in competent beads, and would shortly be printed, under the auspices of his Majesty. In answer to a question from Mr. Hume, Mr. WYNN stated that Bencoolen had been ceded by the British Government to the Dutch, who )n return had given up Syncapore, but the interest of the nation had been attended to in the transfer. The House went into the Comnftitzee of Supply. BRITISH MUSEUM. 5e4,547 being asked for the British Museum for the year 1824 Mr. BENNET rose to make a general complaint of the state of the Museum, and of the manner in which it was managed. He had read with much attention an aiticle which some time since appeared in The Edinburgh Review upon the subject ; and upon examination he found the statements contain.:d in that article substan tially true. If he was not entirely mistaken—and he had taken some painCto inform himself—the whole depart ment of natural history in the Museum was in the most disgraceful state imaginable. The Herbarium was to tally destroyed. The bit ds, beasts, and insects were en tirely gone. In short, the vaults of the British Museum were like the vaults of a common church or chapel— they contained only the dead and buried, and there was no resurrection from them. The Hon. Gentleman then proceeded to state particular instances in which the col lection formerly held by the Museum had become pidated. The insects, which belonged to Sir •Hans Sloane's collection, had dwindled from 5,000 to about SOO. This was not the effects of t i me ; insects would last, preserved, for .more than 50 years. Again, in the de partment of animals,u distinguished traveller some years since had presented his whole most valuable accumula tion to the Museum 3 on going some time after to took at the specimens, he had been informed that they were no longer in existence. The want of room was no ex cuse to the trustees for having allowed this destruction oi property to go on ; they could have come to Parliament for funds, and it was their duty to have done so.— The Honourable Member then canvassed the manner in which the collection of Sir Joseph Banks had been neg lected by the Museum ; and quoted a statement from the article to which he had before alluded in the Edin burgh Review, from which it appeared that some of the properties left by Sir Joseph Banks to the Museum, had been given away by its of f icers, unexamined, to.the Col lege of Surgeons ; that those properties had been ex changed by the Members of the College of Surgeons, for certain other articles (which they wanted) out of Bullock's Museum ; and that, finally, upon the breaking 'up of Bullock's Museum, the same specimens, being destined to-change hands again, had been purchased by the trustees of the British Museum, who had in the first instance given them away ; and that, at an expense of not less than several hundred pounds. Nothing was more necessary, to prevent the recurrence of such mis management, than an entire change in the system of making-trustees. He objected to making trustees ex qfficiu—trustees of straw—trustees merely for the sake of their names. The Lord Chancellor was a trustee, and had never been in the Museum, he (Mr. Bennet) under stood, but once; and then only because some matter of form compelled him to go. Now, such trustees were quite useless: men of activity were wanted. It was really disgraceful to the country, the state of our Bri tish Museum, when compared with the condition of si milar Institutions on the Continent. Sir C. LONG wished the Honourable Member for Shrewsbury had made inquiry before he gave credit to the Edinburgh Review; he would then have found that many of its statements were utterly devoid of foundation, and the rest generally so exaggerated as to be quite undeserving of any credit. As Sir Hans Sloane had been dead seventy years, and much of his colleCtion had teen accumulating for fifty years before, it was nut surprising that some of the articles in it should have dis.ipeared ; but • every specimen left by Sir Hans Sloane (11 not the ideuticarinsect) was in the Museum; and the total number of insects there at present exceeded 70,000. Wry few wcre tar:nevi to' public view, because the VOA de Atoyed their c..lonr. 'With respect to t'Ae classOf Mammaha. the honourable Member was cunsidei ably mist.tken. The fact was, that it had consiste I of 1,800 animals, or polls of animals; and the parts hid been in tl , e pro, o tion of fifty to one, ThC Honourable Baronet then adverted to the collection bequeathed to the Museum by the late Sir Joseph Banks, and to meet the facts alleged by the Honourable Member for Shrewsbury, togetbet with many other statements of the same nature, which were Gibe found in that article of the Edinkirgh Review from whence the Hon. Gen tleman had derived the greatest part of his statement, he read the answers given to those assertions, upon an inquiry which he himself instituted, by Mr. Henry Ellis, a very valuable officer of the Mu seum. and Mr. Bullock, whose name was also brought into question; which answers amounted to positive denials of the substantive part of the Edinburgh Reviewer's charges against the establishment.v- Tire Hon. Gentleman wished him to say something upon Mr. Bus. chell's collection, though the lion. Gentleman had left that topic out- of his own argument. (The lion: Baronet then read a Report of the Committee of Trustees on Mr. Burchelrs collection of abet°. gical specimens from South Africa, and the directions given by Mr. Borchelt for preserving them; in which the Committee, after suit able thanks and praises to the collector for his gift, decide against vnaking the preparations required by him in the present state of their means, both as to room and money, and confine the expense of preparations to the smaller and rarer collections of Captains Ro ss and Parry, and that of the Hudson's Bay Company - , the whole charge being taken at £93. its. 61. whereat those dirccted by . Mr. Bor chelt could not be effected under £500). A fter a shon allusion to the works going on for the reception of the munificent gift of a Royal Library from the King, he concluded by declaring, that the Honourable Member had shewn no good grounds for his at tack on the Museum. Mr. H. GURNEY was happy to hear of the pew arrangement that was in contemplation as is the Museum. Mr. W. BANK ES praised the liberality‘of Mr. Salt, who had given, for a sum of about £5,000, one of the most valuable Egyptian remains in the world. Mr. Salt was not a man of any consider able private fortune, he only receiving his salary as Consul-General in Egypt. Mr. II UAIE had never disputed the propriety of cororlboting at the public expense; but he wished the Museum to be placed nodes' different management. Ile wished that personi distinguished in science should be selected as Trustees. Mr. CROK ER complained that the Catalogne of Book WM most enormous expense, as much as eight or nine guineas, and therefore was inaccessible to the poor scholar, for whose use all public libraries ought to be prepared. He, therefore, wished that the Trustees should be authorised to publish a new, and a cheaper Catalogue. He wished also, that the works of art should be sepa rated from works of science. The former ought to be plomid in the gangway of society. Mr. BA NKES said, there was another Catalogue printing,which would be more expensive than the first, it being a very handsome volume in folio. Io the last year there had been above 100,000 vi sitors; and when it was known that the new quadtangle. would be as large as flanover-square, it could not be supposed that there would not be room enough for the collection. Sir C. LONG wished the Cataoguil was cheaper. • Mr. W. SMITH said, that notwithstanding the Catalogue, he had often gone to the British Museum without findi ng t h e boo k de scribed in it, and whieh be wanted. Mr. CROKER said, that without a good Catalogue it was en tirely useless. Mr. G. BEMNET laid, there were somemost respectable Bi. shops among the Trustees • but if they polled the whole metropolis they would not receive a ;Ingle vote. Sir liumpbry Davy was a great chemist, and that was all. &r C. LONG said, that with reference to the pnrchaae of the collection from Mr. Salt, the state of the case was, that that Gen tleman bad asked fur the sarcophagus the sum of - 3,0001. The Trus tees hadoffered 2,0001. and finally offered 2,5001. with which Mr. Salt was satisfied. For his (Sir C. Long's) part, he was sorry that Mr. Salt was satisfied with that sum, as he thought he was entitkd to mere.—The Resolution was then agreed to. Mr. GOULBURN moved a suns of 447:1. for the Society for the Suppression of Vice in Ireland.—Agreed to. He then moved a sum of 18001. fur the Society fat Educating of the Poor in Ireland. .Mr. HUME said, that though it was desirable to educate Pro testant and Catholic children in the same school, be believed it would be found impossible, as the Catholic parents would not al low their children to go to such schools. Mr. L. FOSTER was pleased to have heard the great princi ples laid down for the inquiry of the Committee, as to the Kate of public education in Ireland. Nothing could be better than edu eating the children of both sects in the same schools, and giving them a knowledge of the Scriptures, without note or comment. — He was happy that a commission was on its way to IreLvd,and he sincerely hoped it would first inquire into the conduct of the Kil dare-street Society. One half of the schoolmasters under the Society were Roman Catholics, and almost three-fourths of the children were of the same persuasion ; although not a question was asked as to the faith of either master or scholar on their reception into the Society. In 1812 there were 229 scriptural schools in Ireland,and now there were above 4,000 of them. Ireland must he soon satu rated with such schools; and in supporting the Kiklate-street Society. they were supporting all the other societies for the purposes of edu cation in Ireland. Sir J. NEWPORT had hoped that the House would have ab stained from all discussion on the question of education in isel.sad until the Commission had made its Report en this important ques tion. He implored the House not to go into discussion on this sub ject until the Commission had made its Report. Mr. C. HUTCHINSON agreed with the Right Honourable Baronet, and hoped it‘would be the object "of the Utintnissioners now going te Ireland to conciliate parents of both religions, in order that the children might be educated. Mr. NORTH could not agree to the recommendation not to dis cuss this subject. If be knew his countrymen rightly, they should be open and candid with them; far there was not a more open or candid people on the face of the earth than the Irish nation. After some further observations, the vote was agreed to; and that other grants being also agreed to, the House adjourned. THE EVEN LNG STA it. LONDON. - • . TUESDAY, MARCH SO, ISSis THE FUNDS s _ STOCK EXCHANGE., TWELVE O'CLOCK., Up to this hour there is little business doing in this Mar►et...+ Consols opened, for the Account; 95 to b, at which price they re. main steady, with scarcely any fluctuation; and for Money 94 to 95, A LF.PAST TWELVE. . • Within this half-hour. Consols are heavy, at 941 - FOREIGN FUNDS. To-morrow being Settling-day for all Foreign Securities, most parties are busy in making up their accounts, and scarcely anything doing in this 31arket. In . Alliance Shares there has been but little fluctuation this morning. Current Prices:—New Spanish Is, Om *l, Colombian 67i 611, Russin 97j Chiliar B?.i, 'Mexican Scrip 7k, Austrian 164 Greek dis. New Prussian 98j, Old 101, Portuguese 110114 ,9th to 9R, French Scrip 1G 17, Alliance Shares 17. AUSTRIAN FUNDS. VIrTNA, MAROS 17.—Mstalliques 93 Sh. 1011. PRICE OF STOCKS AT ONE O'CLOCK. .13 per Cent. Consols 95 1 / 8 94% 4 per Cts. New 107% 7 / 8 %—lndia B4s. 795. 80s. Ezthequer hills OA ,000) 545. 565, Ditto S. ull 41s. 46s.—Commercial 475. Bank for Acct. 247—India for Acct. 292 Consols for Acct. 954 94.%. . The proceedings in the House of Commons last night were rather of a literary and scientific than of a political nature, Mr. Secretary PEEL. in answer to a question of Mr. W.Wll4.lasts, stated that a work by our immor tal poet Mtvrotr, in defence of the Christian Religion, had been discovered among the State Papers, in the ' hand-writing of his nephew PHILIPS. The Right Honour able Gentleman further stated, that on Ole MS. being sliewn to the KING, his MaJzsry immediately ac-. claimed," A wo: k of MlLroN:s moo be m4depubli;:` 1 o 110 • Bei Ui 14 1 fie the tnc tet9 trul toll whl sic Mel . sao the log toll —rl qui fa." MO tha ent W* ft ssei 1061 Ed bpi Pie 1 N obl sat is ca in( ha tic an pri Or ed wt thi rat to' to feT itl thi Ai fir of • pa 141 ' N bl i• cl I r ti ' 11 1 au • "I IA el g • Li 1 l~ .._ .ice s~ ~; .. -,2M1 i',