Star. — London, England, 1830-03-26 00:00:00

the Ceespittee, and because it would take from the government the duty of prodattases without responsibility. Lord P4LH=STON mid that he should support the modes, but withest billidlog le enema by his vote any approbation of a property Mr T. THOMPSON, in seply, contended that his case had not been met by any arguments which ought to induce the house to reject the motion. The House then divith.d, when there appeared— For the motion Against it 167 31ajwity against the motion —B9 The other orders ofthe day were then imposed of, and thebouse at:juurned at a Quarter to Three o'Cloek. HOUSE OF LORDS—Tuts DAY. Appeals to be heard at tcn o'clock. Willis-v. Sir G. A. Robinson, appeal, part heard—to be further he il . e Marquis°. WTinieath v. the Marquis of Salisbury, appeal— to be beard. Muskett's Divorce Rill—to be considered in C'ommittee. HOUSE OF COMMONS—Tins D.T. ORDERS OF THE DAY. Supply—Cianmittee thereon. Ways and Means—ditto. Four per Cent. Annuities--C and 17. Ecclesiastical Leases in Ireland Bill- to be referred to a Com mitter. on the 31 Geo. IV. c. 9 NOTICES OF MOTIONS. Sir George Clerk—to move the Navy E in a Committee of Supply. Sir R. Heron—to move, in a Committee of Supply, on the Navy r..timAtem. to omit the pensions of the lion. R. Dundee and the Hon. W. 11. ltathum. AI FAIR OF TERCEIRA-LORD HOLLAND'S PROTEST. PROTEST against not agreeing to Lord Somerhill's (Clanri earde) motion, on Tuesday, 31arch 23, respecting the affair at Terceira. DISSENTIENT- Because the forcible detention or interruption of the subjects of a a belligerent state upon the high seas, or within the legitimate juris diction of either of the belligerents, by a neutral, constitutes a direct breach of neutrality, and is an obvious violation of the law °imams. And such an act of aggression, illegal and unjust, at all times, against a people with whom the interfering power is not actually at war, assumed in this instants a yet more obvious and ungenerous aspect, inasmuch as it was exercised against the unarmed subjects of a defenceless and friendly Sovereign, whose elevation and :right to the crown of Portugal had been earnestly recommended, and openly recognised by his Majesty, and whose actual residence in Great Britain, bespeaking confidence in the friendship and protec. titm of the King, entitled both her and bet subjects to fa vour and countenance, even if 'consideration of policy pre cluded eW his Majesty's government from enforcing her just pretentions by amis. (Signed) VASSALL HOLLAND. The following Peers afterwards signed this Protest : Somerhill, Melbourne, Carlisle, Seaford, Granville, Ring, William Frederick Caldtorpe, Radnor, Caernarvon, Cowper. March 23. THE EVENING STAR. LON DON . FRIDAY, ] PRICE OF STOCKS Bank Stock abut MARCH 26. AT TWO O'CLOCK. Do.M. JuL& Jan.l9l 1-11 4 per Cent. Red. shut India Bonds 80 1 3 per Ct. Cons. 9211 1 South Sea Stock 1051 51 per Ct. 1818, shut $ per Cent. 1751, 921 31 per Ct. Red. shut £lOOO Exch.Bills.7ll II 4 per Cent. 1021 1 1 £5OO Ditto 78 9 4 per Ct. 1826, shut £lOO and £2OO Do. 79 80 Long Ann. shut Bank for Acct. 219 Do. 30 Years, shut Cons. for Ace. 921 1 FOREIGN FUNDS, TWO O'CLOCK. Brasil Bds, spr Ct. 71 701 Mez.Bds. s pa Ct. 29 Ditto Acct. Do Account 29 Chilian Bds. 6 pr Ct. 264 Do. 100, 281 1 Wont. Bch. 6 per Ct. Do.B. 1825, 6 p Ct. Ditto Ace. 19i Dn. Ace, 1111 Do. Bds. 1824, Perwr. ➢ds. 6 pr 0.191 Do. Ace. 291 21 Do, Ace. 20 D nbilt Mt. 3 p. Ct. 751 Sp.Bds. S perCt.l4l Greet Bonds, 5 p Ct. Do. Ace. 141 Do.B. 1825. 40 Fr. R. 5 p Ct. 107 f. Do. Ace. 391 401 Irsebange, 25f. 70c. BRITISH AN I/ FOREIGN SHARES, TWit (rm.' Ft% . •Naas. ?AID. /SR IMAM. Brazilian Company 20 S Brasilia.. Imp. (las. .C 5 pm.) 3S 20 Do. National 25 10 Bolivar 2S 10 $1 e 79 TO CORRESPONDENTS. " Tar LAST APPEAL," is unavoidably deferred till tomorros Despatches were this morning received at the Colonial Office, in Downing-street, from Lieutenant-General the Honourable F. C. Potreo); frr, Governor of Malta, dated the 7th of March, from General Sir G. Dow, Lieutenant Governor of Gibraltar, the 16th March, and front Cadiz, dated the 18th March. Despatches were likewise received this day at the Colonial Office from Lieut. General DARLING, Governor of New South Wales, dated the 7th of Nov. and from Lieutenant Colonel ARTHUR, Lieutenant Governor of Van Diemen's Land, dated the 2d December. We are not so unreasonable as to look for consistency, or so intractable a qualification as stability, in the Times: but we must acknowledge that " the Thunderer" has the faculty of astounding us more by the sudden ness of his political transitions, than by all the acute , reasoning and profundity of thought and knowledge, which he is so capable of displaying. Not many days since—nay, only on Tuesday last—it pleased the " awful leader" to put forth some very in _ genious speculations upon the probabilities which pre sented themselves to his fancy in favour of the present ministry of France, and to enter into a pleasing con templation of " the fortunate accidents" which might occur in the next four months, to justify the perilous course which they had advised Curtn LEi X. to pursue, and—what was of infinitely more con sequence to POLIO zi AC and his adherents,—secure them in the possession of place and power. We were then told that " in the course of five months, the expedition against Algiers might sail and succeed ;—some of the I Deputies might be gained over by the bribe of power and the propects of office ; • hostile ardour might cool, and faction commit follies to disgust others; and public o.)i Mon might change, or be conciliated by some partial shanges in the cabinet " T 9 each and all of these very sagacious suggestions, as our readers will recollect, we ventured to oppose probabilities of a very opposite tendency ; and it gratifies us to find that our hints have not been lost upon our gut rricontemporary, but bare given a more ra tesuperantent .to his " waking dreams."—To. 4 day, he denounces the prorogation of the Chambers as " an act of vengeance inflicted on the country, with no ostensible object but to obstruct the discussion and adoption of useful and beneficial proposals;"—and then. as usual, pauses to enquire into the probable result of such an act. For the hypothesis which he now puts forth, he js evidently indebted to the friendly remon strance of the STAR,—and yet, he has neither the gratitude, nor the common decency to make a suitable acknowledgment.—Remembering his reveries of Tuesday, we own we were amazed by the altered tone of the fol lowing __ Passaic* : If the parties are irreconcilable in March, is it likely that their hostility and suspicion will mellow into friendship and confidence before September, when the majority are repulsed from the palace with a kind of insult, and sent into the provinces to brood over their wrongs with their sympatizing or exasperated constituents? After the defeat of the Duke of Ricitmox n's motion in the House of Lords, for the appointment of " a Select Committee to inquire into the internal state of the coun try, the condition of the working classes, and the effects of taxation upon productive industry ;"—of Mr. EDWARD DAV RN PORT'S proposition " that the petitions com- plaining of distress in various classes of the community be referred to a Committee of the whole House, with a view to inquire into, and report upon, the causes of that distress, and the remedy thereof :" in short, after the defeat of every measure that has been either sugursted or formally proposed in the present Session, having for its , object the relief of the country, and the amelioration of the condition of the people ; we were fully prepared for the rejection of Mr. Pow LETT Tnomrsoles motion for " the appointment of a Select Committee to inquire into the expediency of making a revision of the taxes, so that the means of paying the sums voted by the House, and all other charges for the public service, may be provided with as little injury as practicable to the industry and improvement of the country."—We are almost dis heartened by the apathy and indifference with which every appeal to the consideration of Government, and to the sympathy of Parliament, on behalf of a suffering people, and an impoverished country, is thus put to si lence ; but we cannot suffer such an occasion as the present to pass, without protesting against the arrogant assumption of Ministers, who, unmoved by the supplica tions of their fellow-subjects, and either insensible to the appalling calamities of the nation, or inca pable of averting or alleviating those calamities, would deter the yet uncorrupted Representatives of the people from the conscientious discharge of their delegated duties, by petulant and overbearing reproofs—by implied menaces—by invidious taunts—by the jesuitical affecta tion of an unfelt compassion,—and by jealous and un founded pretensions to the exclusive exercise of all the functions of the Legislature. It has long been the policy of the leading Members of the present Administration to resist—as long as resistance was available—every at tempt at the reduction of the public expenditure, or of the weight of that burthen which now presses so fear fully upon the energies of the State ; but when driver by the determined perseverance of their opponents to such an extremity as menaced the safety of their posi tion, or rendered their hold of power precarious, they have, with consummate tact, outmanoeuvred their as- sailants, and converted an unavoidable defeat into the show of a patriotic concession. We shall not now pause to enumerate the instances by which this assertion is warranted ; but content ourselves with evidencing the fact, by referring to the debate which terminated in the repeal of the Test Act ; and we now allude to the expe dient, or compromise, which was then, its a last resource, adopted by Mr. PEEL, to save the Ministry from the con sequences of a hostile majority,—not in the vain expecta tion of now exciting in such a government, a sense of its own interests, or of what is due to the necessities of the peo ple—but in the hope of stimulating the Independent Mem bers of the House of Commons to " one struggle more" in the good cause.—The Cll A/MELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, although compelled to " concur fully in a great part of what fell from the Honourable Gentleman (Mr. Pow- LETT Tilos( rsoN)," yet, " felt it an imperative duty to' resist his motion." And what was the motive by which the CHANCELLOR was actuated ? Why, forsooth, " the inquiry now proposed was the business of the Govern ment, and not of a Committee." The " business of a Go vernment," indeed !—of a Government that will not sub mit to any Parliamentary investigation—that will not listen to any proposal for an inquiry into " the state of the country, the condition or the working classes, and the effect of taxation upon productive industry," in the Upper House, lest it should be construed into an dxpression of " want of confidence in Abo-. inten tions of that Government ;"—nor consent to the ap pointment of a Committee of the Lower House to " receive the petitions of the people—inquire into the causes of their distress—or report upon its remedy," because the adoption of such a measure " would be the means of exciting hopes that could not be gratified :" of a Government that claims credit with the country for the prospective reduction of one class of taxes, whilst it adds to the immediate pressure of taxation by the instan taneous imposition of additional duties :—of a Govern ment, that to-day issues its mandate for the reduction of the interest payable to the PUBLIC CREDITOR, and to morrow comes down to Parliament, and insists upon the supreme and exclusive right of controlling and regulating the system of taxation, because " taxes which were imposed in a necessitous moment, and which would perhaps have been refused in ordinary times, were not only imposed for, but mortgaged to, THE PUBLIC CREDITOR, to pay the interest of his debt!—and it was their imperative duty not to diminish the value of dmiliterest, or endanger the national credit 11"—Such iirilbs tannage of the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHUITZR, in less than eight and forty hours after he had issued a proposition, by which the " twine of the interest" was " diminished," and " the national credit" was " endan gered." --- But while Me.Govsevaw than labours to protect the " peculiar privileges" of the Government from " un hallowed encroachment ;" his colleague, Mr. H Ere R I 1/1, imprudently makes out the very case which Mr.Tuour sox sought to establish : fur he no doubt very thought lessly and inconsiderately admitted, that "if his MA JESTY'S Ministers had been remiss, and heedless to ad vance the interests of the country, it would be the duty of the House of Commons to step forward, and take the matter into their own hands." The voice of the country proclaims,—and even if that were silent, the impoverished resources of the State would attest the fact,—that his MAJESTY'S Ministers" have been remiss, and heedless to advance the interests of the country ;"—and therefore it became, on the showing of the PRESIDENT OE THE BOA RD or TRADE, "the duty of the House of Com mons to take the matter into its own hands." And so far, the very " cause" which this special pleader has " shewn against the motion," appears to us an incontro vertible argument for its success. Mr. Secretary PEEL —u if he had never been engaged in the work of Reform or innovation—opposed the appointment of a Committee, because " such a proposal had never been brought be fore the House of Commons ;" and on the still more ex traordinary plea, that " it never yet occurred to any one that the power which belonged to the Government and the House of Commons ought to be delegated to a body of twenty-one individual members of it." As if in addi tion to the iasurmountaGte obstacle which the novelty of the proposal presented to its success—the appointment of a Select Committee was likewise an unprecedented ano maly. It pleased the Right Honourable SECRETARY, to ask, " would not the character of Government be degraded by the revolution of their duty upon a Committee ?" But we would ask Mr. PEEL, whether the character of a Go vernment may not be infinitely more degraded by its own acts, than by the simple appointment of Committees from the first day of the Sessions to the last ? What was the character of the British Government but three short years ago ? What is it now ?. Ask all Europe :—seek certificates of its integrity, of its firmness, of its power, of its influ ence, and of its renown, in France, in Portugal, in Turkey, and in Greece : of its justice, of its moderation, and of its prudence, in Asia : of its humanity, of its glory, of its faith, and of its sincerity, in the Western hemisphere ; and of its undiminished ascendancy and un blemished fame, the records may be sought throughout the universe—but where shall they be found ? Our feel ings have hurried us far beyond the limits which we had purposed to devote to the consideration of Mr. THOM P. SON'S motion :—but we find many matters connected with the discussion to which that motion gave rise, which must claim our further notice. The Times still continues to vindicate his protfyi PoLtow Ac from the humiliating charge preferred against him by his multitudinous accusers—of being the mere "pup pet of WELLINGTON ;"—and we agree with " the Thun derer " in thinking all such accusations grossly absurd : —for surely to dangle a puppet even such u POLIO NA c, would require more skill and cunning than we suspect can ever fairly be attributed to the more than wonderful genius of the Duke. But there is a master-hand which dangles them both—and the influence which W ELLINGTON exerts over the French Minister, is merely that of an apter and more favoured condisciple—working in the same school, and to the same end :—it is their reciprocal duty and in terest to uphold each other. The success of W ELIA NG.• To Ws endeavours to preserve the relics of the Holy Alliance depends entirely on having an initiated brother at the bead of French affairs. It was this conviction, brought home by the obstacles which the late French Cabinet op posed to the present wretched Austro-Anglo policy, that led to the ineffective Ministry of Pouo NA C. WEL LINGTON in this intrigue was a mere go-between--a Isecret agent—not the head, but the hand. In the pre parations now making in France, with the ostensible object of an attack on Algiers, it is really curious to con template the marvellous indifference of our present staesemen. Is it because the whole armament is only a hoax—a military-police experiment, to intimidate the French nation into greater docility on questions of internal Government ! Or have we decided to permit France, like Russia, to raise the Bag of conquest MOO more at the expense of the Turban ? If the only pur pose of the expedition be to chastise the Algerian power, for the insult offered to the French flag, will not Lord Ex MOUTH'S example suffice, who effected his object so promptly by a novel bombardment, without the necessity of employing military force ? Or, if the actual prepara tions are indeed no feint, then let us ask, is it the inten tion of the Ministers of France (judging by the formid able force collecting) to render themselves masters of 'Algiers? And will it be politic in England to permit them, even for a season, to sit down on both banks of the Mediterranean ? France has long coveted the possession of Barbary, which might become an admirable indemnity for so many lost colonies; and yield advantages equal to all, or any, that are rendered by South America and India. And this, too, at her very door, enjoying at the same time, as she does from her convenient proximity, every facility for supplying her invading ow, and, if once fairly in possession, maintaining a colony on the coast of Africa, in spite of all Europe. We know that the project was seriously entertained by Louis XIV. and has since been frequently contem plated by his successors. BOON APA RTE was only de terred from putting such a plan into execution by the multitude of his continental conquests : but so solicitous was he for its accomplishment, that, in his visit to Spain. he despatched emissasies to ascertain the practicability of an expedition against Algiers. Since 1814, a similar undertaking has been suggested and urged by a host of French projectors, as a means of stealing a march u England, and cramping ber future commerce in the Me diterranean Seas. It therefore behoves us to watch narrowly that the attack on this barbarous Power be not followed up by lasting possession. -smismonsollamlommi Arines Laoroi*,ieft town yesterday morning, for his emasere at Ciammees." • CITY, Tw eLv It O'CLOCK. MAILS ARRIVED AND DUB THIS MORNING. _ . . A. D. 1 Dublin .. 0 1 1 Waterford " 0 O Owen. &Jersey 0 O Buenos Ayres... 0 O Brasil 0 A. a. I Franc. .0 O Flanders .. 0 O Holland O Hamburgh 1 Mediterranean •. s. O [Alban 0 O Jamaica t O Sweden 2 O Malta . Consols opened at tie same price they left off yesterday, 921 1 for the AcCount, and $2l I foe money, with little or nothing doing at present. The Foreign Market is also in a stagnant state. _ . Hobart Town Papers to the 2Deb Nov. and Sydney to the 21st Oct. have been received at the North and South American Coffee. Muse ; they are rather interesting with regard to two subjects—an andel account has been published relating to the Swan Hirer ; the other la the cam of limy Soloman. HALF-PAST ONE. The Coosol Market has condoned during the toontiag without the least interest, and Saint any attetnation has latter place, they are the sane as when they opened at 921 i foe the Account, and 996 for Money. The Ftweitra Market is in the same state, without a feature worth observation, and the prices are much the same as yesterday. DOVER, March 25. Arrived his Majesty's mail packet Crusader, Captain Lyne, from Calais, with the Honourable Mrs. Calvert and fanily, Major Mac Arthur, Lord and lady Andover and suite, Mr. Wallis, Slr. Granville, rite. 80.. who, after dining at Weght's Ship Hotel, left here for town. Lord and Lady Salaams, &e. &c. have arrived there for France; oho. Min Foote, to delight the beau monde with her inimitable performances, which draw overflowing houmea, at our Theatre. THE CHURCH COMMISSION. TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR. St n,—On Monday last, I gave a brief notice about the advice which has been offered to the New Church Commissioners. That notice may have been looked upon by your contemporaries as premature—perhaps non-official ; or rather, they know nothing of the mat ter. In that notice I intimated that it is, at this mo ment, a matter of deep study with the Commissioners whether the Diocesan Courts— whose powers I described —ought not to be regulated ; and whether the inferior ecclesiastical jurisdictions—namely, the royal peculiars, archiepiscopal, episcopal, deems', sub-decanal, prebendal and manorial—might not cease to exist altogether, with advantage to the public. When I repeat that these Diocesan Courts have the power to decide in all matterb of spiritual discipline, as well as of civil right; that they may suspend or deprive clergymen,declare marriages void, divorce parties, try the right of succession to per sonal property, and administer all other branches of civil as well as of ecclesiastical law, I believe that the same public to whom you have exposed the system, will have as little hesitation in denounc ing the entire machinery, as you have. En passant, for the information of the uninformed, you may mention that these church parties can do every thing connected with civil as well as with ecclesiastical law, except im prisoning a victim; for which arbitrary proceeding, an order must be issued from the Chancery Court; and upon this subject the Chancery Court an order without knowing—or at least reading—t' e merits of the case. There are certain subjects, at this hour, who have the power, as well as the inclination, to divulge certain par ticulars on this very subject. So much for my preli minary notice; and I shall now proceed to tax the com missioners with the beautiful points which their counsel sets forth:— " The mode of proceeding"—the ordo injudiciorum— guys he, "is very perfect." No doubt, in his opinion, it is so. But then let the world look upon the inquisi torial and jesuitical proceedings of the archiepiscopal Court of Canterbury. On this very head, you shall give his very words—sure as you may be of meeting with them, some two or three years hence, in some mystified Parliamentary document. " Why," says the champion of the church, " there are advocates and proc tors regularly brought up to the profession—the former not permitted to practice without taking the Degree of Doctir of Laws in one of the English Universities ; and the latter only qualified by serving a seven years' clerk ship to a doctor of certain standing, and being required, before being articled, to have made a due proficiency in the Latin Language." So says the counsel ; but the public will naturally ask, do these common qualifica tions, in the parties concerned, justify the prin ciple ? Then the counsel proceeds to inform you that "to the practice of the archiepiscopal court, the duty of all the subordinate courts ought to con form, as far as circumstances will allow." No doubt of it—the co-ordinates will stick to the independents, the in dependents will stick to the next grade ; the manorial will stick to the prebendal, and so on to the decant' and episcopal power, till yon have recourse to the arch, and then to the Court of Chancery ! Why cannot the Court of Chancery, or why cannot any court of equity, at once decide in the cases brought before this inquisition ? But there is this objection :—the pro ceedings of these Church Courts are very orderly—as for instance, says the Counsel: " A s far as they go the proceedings in the Archiepiscopal Court of Canterbury are not clogged with fictions, nor requiring to be varied with each particular object of suit. They are more ana logous, in all their parts, to proceedings in Equity, than to those at Common Law" Indeed ! An instance shall he given, by and bye,—not in this letter—of the Equity and Common Law of this very sentence. Then, says the Law writer :—" The Court itself is composed of, first, one Judge to hear and decide ; second, the registrar to record the proceedings: third, the apparitor to serve the process. The suitors are represented by their respec tive proctors"—that is, these articled gentlemen who are skilled in the Latin language—" who in the Courts have the same duties to discharge as attoenies and solicitors in the temporal Courts, while the advocates perform the functions of Council." This, alone,—this form —is the only defence for maintaining this diabolical court. More of it anon. SCRUTATOR. The Duke of WsLuNOTON, after having an audience of his JIMMY, at hb Palma at Windsor, on Wednerday,retunsed to town ahem Ilse o'clock in the afternoon, and dined with the Ca blare Minissen in the evening, at the residence ot Sir GEolltal illtranarr, in Drigrave-equare. el MN-EXCHANGE, IiAItIE•LA/12. Mascot M. The supplies this day am very large, mad Mem will scarcely resiMais Ilimaday's prices. The Increased egg* of Dinky, with sum emplia Amhara remained unsold, boa nand a reduction or foil Ys,psr grosit, with an inclination en be still lower. Oats may also be gamed at per quarter less than the last market. Other Onin remain cr needy the same. Flom has undergone no alter dos. 11111101ITAIIONS SEIM MOSMAT. Wheat. llnglish (qrs.) . IWO Barley, Foreign Foreign . 1,600 Oats. Xagileb . Irish • tad Foreign aiter. Lodi . 11450 Irish . Irish . . Flour (auks) 10,800 4.... 110 ° 910U° COALJOLCHANCIE, ISAMU SS Ships strived dudes the moody ifool---Dsrire week, 111. it Walissad Coals Od Us U Mhos sorts rik Od no Id Ships at Malts, 941 btwer : Mood tad Psbisbill by Jam Mivw , at tea• Orme 14.1. risbet-plossaisspie