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LITERATURE AND THE DRAMA. WYSIrS CATHOLIC ASSOCIATION : C.eiluaN. ;.. Mr. Wise tells us in his introduction, that the His tory of the Catholic Association may be divided into five distinct epochs : " I. The period of its original formation in 1756, or rather 1760. 11. The period of its revival, in 1790. 111. The period of its re-establishment in 1809, under the former name of Committee. IV. The continuation of the same body in 1813, under the name of Boards and V, and finally, the period of its restora- tion, under its old designation, in 1823." From each of these periods we shall, at opportunities, present our readers with extracts : that which we shall supply to-day, referring to . times immediately antecedent, will impart a preliminary elucidation 'and interest to the whole. The book opens with some remarks on the Treaty of Limerick, which—under the pretext of con firming—the historian says was basely eluded by a Bill, misnamed " A Bill for the confirmation of the Articles of the Treaty of Limerick." The TREATY, itself, he describes as having for its main object the security of the capitulating party : it confirmed existing property, and was the charter equally of Protestant and Catholic. During the first four years of the reign of King WI L- I f IA )4 who administered the government in his own sense with great lenity and judgment, a flash of pros perity illuminated the commerce and agriculture of Ireland: 233,106 acres were restored from confisca tion ; 74,722 outlawries were reversed; the value of land rose; a sturdy yeomanry began to spread itself over the country, and even the cottier class exhibited the amelioration. But it was a flash, only to precede the darkness. The beneficent intentions of the Sovereign were fristrated or perverted into tyrannous engines, by those who were entrusted with their execution : Protes tant monopoly, and Protestant party-spirit, breathed like a blight upon the royal graces, and intercepted them in their passage to the people ; and the venality and vin dictiveness of Irish Parliaments did the rest. The histo rian shall now speak for himself : p_ ,. To the commercial jealousy, then, of England, and to the base desertion, for the purpose of personal revenge of the Protestant party in Ireland. of all the grand interests of their common country, may be traced the first seeds of that desolating code. which pro. diced a larger and more permanent share of injury to the country, than all the ravage of the wars of 1641, or the recent struggle be tween James and William. Pasturage gradually superseded agri culture, (1) the population baits proportion to the resources of the soil ; manufactures had perished, and there was no reservoir to receive the surplus of the people : idleness produced famine, and famine insurrection, and insurrection extermination ; and thus, through a series of the. same vicious follies and criminal experi ments, the country gradually retrograded, and at last sunk. Ire. land fell from her station in Europe, and Protestantism and monopoly alone flourished. The subsequent period of the reign of Queen Anne. under. the profligate Viceroyalty of the Earl of Wharton, &0.. was prin cipally filled up in adding new links to the ail -embracing penal chain, and moulding into a still more atrocious perfection the anti-social code, which bad been comparatively mild under the reign of William. The barbarisleg non-education laws were ren dered the more precise (u) ; the Gavel Act of Queen Anne was sharpened into more execrable efficiency; every legal evasion sug gested by the commiseration and humanity of the Protestant was attempted to be cut dr; and to give it- a still more sweeping ex tension, it was rendered by a clause of peculiar malignity, retro. active. Bat the ingenuity of the persecutor was principally cur deed in attempting the extermination of the Catholic priesthood. Partly by fraud, partly by violence, first by registering, and then :by forcing on the registered the oaths of abjuration, and Meeting their refusal with an accumulation of pains and pen alties unknown in the code of any civilised nation, they nearly succeeded in emir -pacing all species of religious as well as literary instruction from the island.. The profession of informers was declared " an honourable mace" by a resolution of the House of Commons; blood.money for the capture of Priests was unsparingly lavished; the whole country was debauched and demoralised by the very bodies, to whom chiefly was intrusted the guardianship of public morality. It was in vain that Sir Stephen Rice. in support of the petition of Lard Kingsland. again attempted to interpose his powerful elo quence between his Catholic countrymen and these atrocious enactments. But the last consummation was now perfected. The land was reduced to a wane, yet fear and discord still reigned; solitude was everywhere, but peke was not yet established. Emi crftions became numerous and frequent ; all who could fly, lied. left behind a government in prey •to every vice, and a country the .victim of every wrong. The facility of acquiring property by the violation of the natural duties of social life, was too powerful a temptation : dishonesty, treachery, and extrava gance prevailed. The rewards of conformity cast at large the seeds of mutual distrust in the hearts of child and of parent.— Hypocrisy and dissimulation were applauded and recompensed by the laws themselves. A nursery for young tyrants was formed in the very bosom of the Legislature; habitual own lion and habitual subserviency degraded and debased the upper classes. The lower, without rights, without lend (3), with scarcely a home, with nothing which truly gives country to man, basely crept over their native sal, defrauded of its blessings, " the patient victims of its wrongs, the insensible spec tators of its ruin ," - and left behind them, between the cradle and the grave, no other trace of their existence than the memorial of calamities under which they bent, and of crimes which were assi duously taught them by their governors (4). The reign of George I. could add little to these inflictions. Human cruelty seemed exhausted. The peculiar circumstances -Which threw him into the hands of the Whigs, rendered still more permanent and unrelenting the two-fold policy of his predecessor. Hatred to Popery—hatred to Ireland—the first confounded with slavery, the second with every thing hostile to the supremacy of Mostata, were the guiding maxims of his Cabinet and Parliament. The one worked for the other; and the English Monarch, for getting he was also King of Irela nd, played kingdom against king elan, and party against party, reigning over factions, and rejoicing over victories, each of which, by a just and wise Monarch, ought to hue been lamented as a national defeat. • All the forma tyrannies were now found consolidated inn, one. The'records of this reign present the same indefatigable pumas. ciao of the Catholic clergy, the same injuries and insults haps/ without measure on the ancient aristocrat' , of the country, Bathos anxiety to furnish new additions to the exterminating codeitheeuese legalised violations of the rights of the subject, the same unapations of Irish righte, which so disgracefully characterise the admioistra— tire and parliaments of the preceding. But alder' George the First, what was originally experiment became system ; and the machinery, wherever it was found defective, by the pervesse vi gilance.of the legislature, was gradually improved into the most atrocious perfection. The; Protestant had achieved the work for which be was employed ; and it was now time that " the broken tool" should in its due season be cast away. The. Irish-Protestant Constitution in Church and State was fully established: the Pro testant lad reaped and toiled ; but the harvest was not for. the 'thiamin, bit the Englishman. The poisoned chalice was re turned-to his own lips. - Ile bad succeeded. In barbarisiog, in des mitralisalt. in impoverishing, the Catholic; but when be canne l. • (1) Loa immediately fell, 'after this BO " for . prwrwsdagtbe /row* of Popery," lo per cent. The prompt Imaiwipadie 80. it is to he'lsoped, will work a contrary mind& • (t) The Irish were taught in Munster the- Greek and Latin languages, mathematics, history, geography, and other sciences. The existing law was not sufficient to eradicate civilisation. It eras enacted, that every Popish schoolmaster, tutor, or usher, should be subject to the same penalties as the Catholic Clergy, and SOL was offered for their conviction. In such lawi, and nor in the want of well-bound Bibles, we *hall find the secret of Irish barbarism. (s) Land—land—land—wai the beginning, the middle, the end of all this. Fear against fear (says an Italian politician) itch* pro moter and continuer of all revolutions. (4) What Lord Chesterfield said later, was equally - applicable to Al. period. "AU the causes that ever destroyed any country, conspire in this paint to ruin Ireland. Premature luxury outstrips• •your riches, which in other countries it only Accompanies : sr total .ffistegard to the poblic interest both in the gaserwed . and geornpro— a profligate and shameless avowil of private interest—a Wand .corruption both of morals and madners. All this is mbre thin sr . warm to subveri any Cosuitution LA the worid,"..4ssesimltswp, Iffaria, v. UL p. Sri.- • . • .• • . • • inspect the works of his own bands, he found that be must continue to dwell in the midst of the ruin and desolation, and lint the bar barism, and vice. and poverty, which he had so madly created, for ever raging around him. He had succeeded in excluding the Ca tholic from all power, sod for a moment held triumphant and exclusive possession of the conquest ; but be was merely a lOCUIPS teneou for a more powerful conqueror.—a jackaU for the lion,--an Irish steward for an English master; and the time soon came round when he was obliged to render up reluctantly. but immediately, even this oppressive trust. The exclusive system was turned against him : he had made the executive entirely Proiedard j the Whip it George I. made it almost entirely English. His victory paved ' the way for another far easier and far more important. Popery fell, but Ireland fell with it. tom this day until 1782 Ireland was a nitre grovelling colony. regulated by the avarice or fears et a stranger (5). The panic of 1115 the stassequent contest on Wood's patent, the extreme wretchedness, verging to absolute famine in 1725, and the succeeding years. tended only to render still more intolerable Use position of the Catholics. George 11. ascended the throne. and. thel Catholics for a moment indulged the hope of a relaxation. But their very congratulations were contemptuously consigned to obli vion (6) : they were almost forgetters in the nation : they were voted by both Houses scarcely to exist. Their last remaining privilege was surreptitiously wrested from them. The Catholic freeholder was disfranchised before the Catholic could be apprised that such a Bill was even before the liaise (7). The very converts from Catholicity, who did not attest the sincerity of the change by an ultra seal in profession and persecution, were. like the drummer at the triangle, subjected often to pena lties little less than those which they were expected to inflict upon others. Charter school. were founded, by the pious and cruel Booker, "nut of concern for the salvation of these poor creatures, who are our fellow sub jects, and to try all possible means to bring them and theirs over to a knowledge of the true religion."--( May 5, 1750). Bills for registering the Popish Clergy, for annulling all marriages, &c. between Catholics and Protestants, &c. &c. were passed. Yet was net Ireland bettered, but the malady grew chronic, and desperate ; cure was considered impossible ; a whole nation was deemed irreclaimable. The desolating famine of 1740, one of the most terrible in the memory of man, carrying off 400,000 persons, the fifth or sixth within twenty years, was another blessing of this tem:halve legislation. Drains to absentees, the old restrictions un the woollen trade, embargoes on provides, tied want of specie, milaMmd the distress • nor was the persecution of man corrected by the awful visitations of Ilaovioarice. The first symptoms of returning plenty were oily stimulants to new excess. The Procla- Station for the suppression of monastic institutions in 1744 was the eliqueL A general disarming of the Catbolks took plate ; the sanctity eigoinestic retreat was violated in search of Priests ; chapels were =public service and private devotion were suspended; terror els all sides ; and a persecution unequalled by any of the preesdleg spread to the most remote parts of the kingdom. The Scotch rebellion of 1745 still further increased the alarm and cruelty of the ascendancy ; trampled as the Catholic was to the very earth, shorn of every element of power, deprived of even the hope or the yearning after self-redress, the natural apprehensions arising out of a guilty conscience, attributed to him intentions which were never verified by deeds, and saw, in the just sense of the injuries which bad been inflicted, the probability of a merited and universal retaliation. Measures of extreme rigour were adopted, measures of extreme atrocity were proposed. A massacre similar to that of 1641 is said to have been agitated in the Privy Council (8). Let its hope, for the honour of our common Chris tianity, that such things, even in Ireland, are impossible. Ti. result indicated Catholicloyalty, or rather it proved Catholic depression. Their whole nature was emasculated; no yoke, how. ever heavy, was DOW to be resisted : the rods were changed into whips 'of scorpions; and they bent their bodies in apathy or resignation to the stroke. The doubtful and insidious policy of Lied Chesterfield affected to heal these wounds. It was the entire end of his Administration to carry the " saunter in modo," the " farther in re, " into his cruelties. He differed from his prede cessors in one thing only—he enforced the sanguinary statute with a lode. His Machiavellian genius was applied with earnest name' the task ; but the Dew laws which he recommended were nmeeessary. The evil bad reached its maturity ; there was nothing to add : the Catholic bad in mind and body become em phatically the Helot. The Protestant ascendancy bad no rival ; and its vigour and powers seemed assured to it for ever. In one band it held strength, and in the other length of days. But, the seeds of death were in is heart. Injustice is not destined to be eternaL (5) Primate Boulter, the English manager for twenty years, gives very ample details of this system. (Cotrapoadence passim). It is true, indeed, that the open avowal and determined aisertion of English supremacy in this reign, connected with other transitory circumstances. of the times, such u Wood's halfpence and Swift's Letters, roused a sort of galvanic effort In this dead maw, and evinced an inclination to resist the successful e*Croocbment of the ruling power. Brit the man had to deal with a child. England had to menace the ghost of Popery, and the resistance, as of old, instantly subsided. So much for the courage and patriotism of these Church and State defenders I (6) L;;TTliel:cliiilitiOiliers waited on the Lord Lieutenant with an Address, and begged it should be transmitted to his bla jetty. It was net even modeled. (7) The attention of the Catholics was eluded by the beading of the /341. It was called A Hill for regulating," &c. franchisement in aU times was a hard word. It received the royal assent before they could even protest against it: some date this spoliation in 171 S; others in 1727. • (8) O'Cooor, p. Of. A sew Melodrama, produced last evening at the English Opera again attracted us to that home, though surfeited with the balder dash althea* terrific trifles. The duty we owe the public, and the interest we take in that rising theatre, disposed us thankfully to • dt down to the aeries the indelatipble manager of it so anxiously and so liberally presents us with. After an overture, composed takhfully in the rake of as horrible and mystbrious, the curtain ruse to the representation of the piece they have entitled the Wit. ,maraud which was misted in with ail the favourite effect of wooden thunder and rode VW** The _setwillig kw:idiots we lased we hadoded, the 1111111.1 kwebellerds oennation imperfect, wad the descant a knot Mita& to INA ante how or any how, weighting eve bieirsel Mit down at Noscalkkick, in the tailed spiral( the and-bus yet with ail this, the drama aillarded a seeps for acting, which was ousted to the best profit by every actor in the piece ; and while we smiled at the crassness of the Action, our attention was kept with intense emotion fixed on'the badness of the same. The acting of Vuuso, in the old man; we amen to be a model of scenic art—the helplessness of age. The drakes' of affection bursting through the whelming feelings of remorse, the despondesey of dispair, and the wotkings of terror, were &aimed with a truth by that gentleman, that has risen him to no small place in our estimation. With the exception of a little over-sang in the sane where he first receives the eat of I his murdered felted, be was without a fault : so bombast, no bellow. ins. to winding oldie limbs, and unnatural convulsions of the face, i disgraced his taste, and disgusted our understanding, as too many of ' i his comrades, with sack an opportunity, undoubtedly would ham done. Had this geoffestan been successfully enjoying the quackery of 1 a nanovide acting la tide part woad have overflowed the theatre for sasses to come. Mies Naar seconded him well (for that is the word) in the natural and effective manner in which she per sonated hiss s ter c and, their united efforts, in some passages,, awoke spa we had ceased to experience for a lung time.. Peasno t we were happy to find, had the humanity to spate his author and us, by refraining fens his wed terrible rolling of the letter R.. and strain* his poor voice and muscles like a maniac at full moon. If this geodentan tumid only, as the French significantly say, pot' a linkmen in his wise, be would lad his account in our in • creasing favour and Indulgence. Kaska and Mrs. Keeiv's busi ness in she plot Is seedy an episode. The smart trait and repartig it net • tie " fore" of our ntelo.dramatist•Jos anise could have eispplied him with fresher materials than those he employe to resemble Wit. Sams looked the old English forest marauder to the vay.life—he has an art of dressing a character that does the highest bower to his judgment; he sever appears but he satisfies as with his look, and it would be well that others; • holding a higher rank in the drama, would take a lemon from hies in. tide panic:au. And sow that we are upon this again, we have to ems— pampa the directorial the stage—if the arrangement oT costume is his province, ea the strict keeping preserved in this respect by the whole dramatis permed of the piece. , With the saga exception of Miss Yars.iv, all were dressed true to oidEaglielt times ; no tinsel aid feather polled us with the stage as they in general do. • Thls drama woad have been excellent stuff for an operatic coat. poser to have rapidly worked upset, but the musician has con tented himself by merely letrodecing some fugitive morsels—two of which were prettpeueset—namft, the air of Miss Kait.e, when cornicing her keheri—ma ter plaintive little thing in as style of a Fimidt eumenee, Peng by Mrs. Kase. • We clock& by weak* a eumaction that this melt-drama, The Wilms—in @paid kadawasand faults as a piece, and llama's alkalies raining Obese vril isentinee to create much attractive ntered with the ruble. ICNOLittli .OPERA HOUSE. ricill A COZIESPOUDYNT. Last night a Melo-dratna wee predated. calkd The Witness." Henderson and Eton, two old friends, bus an accidental soared on heard a ainnaling vend; $ blow front Moo phials a are& or thiamin:est a heel• canoes the amsbatante le pitch ireer. is augght by the hoe of the towhee : Moe le allilleeet to have been eflmd, sad his aotagesistidsd for the waft ant awydeted fee want of evident& He adapts the eon of tween whom and his daughter Catherine, Miss Kitty. en at tachment is formed. The piece commences with the return of young Elton. Psalms, from his studies abroad ; and his first ap pearance in an old mariner's suit of his father's. causes Henderson to consider him as the apparitional his deceased father. Ow retiring to bed, young Elton is alarmed by a similar apparition. which de. tails his ewe murder, and prohibits his son's marriage with Cube• rine. A deer stealer being apprehended, and brought before Hen derma, threatens young Elton with disclosing certain ill deeds com mitted by his guardian and adopted father, and these threats obtain an order, by Henderson, for his liberation. To heighten the interest, Henderson confesses the supposed murder to his daughter. The officers of justice arrived—be is secreted at first, but even tually taken, cried, and whilst his daughter is exulting in the absence of all legal prolate. Old Elton (The Witness) appears--is again considered as the ghost of himself by Henderson, but relieves all parties by proclaiming his actual corporeal existence, and (for tunately Lori Lawsnown's Act had not yet been passed, extend ing Lord ELLcusousouou's cutting, with intent, to attempting to drown) consequent innacence of Henderson. The author has drawn largely upon the former belief in ghosts and dreams. The Magistrate records all that passes between young Ecru/4 and his serial visitant, as legal evidence of the facts de posed ; but the acting of Mr. J. VIIIIMia and Miss KELLY was very forcible. particularly the scenes of the confession of Hender son, and his capture, when her stterdesolation of heart was mani fested in tones which vibrated upon the sensibility of the auditors, and seemed too true to nature to base been wholly taught by ima gination. This acting saved the piece. The painful impression left by the Melo-drama was quite effaced by the clever French farce of "Military Tactics." The parts formerly played by Traits' and hard passiburegui, by BASTLET and Warmer; but Miss Cause was an admirable representative of the French coquette—no ac tress on the stage could dress, look. or act that ogernais character so well ; and the little Air of " Au Clair de la Lune mon aml Par rot," was delightfully sung by her and her lover, as a duet. ROSSINISME IN PARIS. An elegant compliment, quite in the French style, has been paid to Rossnii ' on the brilliant success which has attended his last production, Guillaume Tell. It is described as follows in a Paris Journal: " Friday evening an immense crowd assembled on the Boulevard des Varieles, before Itussiri'■ residence, in consequence of a report that the instrumental and vocal performers of the Opera intended to serenade this great master of modern music. At midnight, ac cordingly. the singers and musicians ascended a terrace in frost of the horse, and the impatient murmurs of the crowd were imtan taneougy succeeded by the most profound silence. The orchestra first executed a invite movement from the overture to Gillostaerell, which was beard with enthusiastic applause, and vehemently en cored (recleaning es gratisis aria). This was followed by a beautiful Tyrolese air from the same Opera, with which the stulitary were greatly delighted. Another piece and a chorus from the Omit Ors (without accompaniment) were afterwards sung in excellent style by the most distinguished singers. The beauty of the evening, the enchanting music executed cat snare, and the religious attention of the multitude, conspired to give peculiar charms to this feast of genius It was also a farewell, as M. Rossini quits Paris tu • few days. and visits his afar canary, where be will remain tee months. He carries with him a manuscript by M. Scribe, on which he will exercise his talents. His Majesty has conferred a new testimony of favour on M. Rossini. by electing him a Cheva lier of the Legion of Humor. He has also been pleased to allow the new Opera to be dedicated to him." COURT CIRCULAR. Yesterday was the anniversary of his MAJESTY'S natal day, when the Kim completed his sixty-seventh year. Meat of the Members of the Royal Family. including the Duke and Duchess of CLARIINCIt, the Duke and Decheu of Coxasaimst, the Princess AROMA. the Duchess of Gumless's:a, Prince kw' rem, together with the Duke of Wattle:atom, theßarl of Assis tant. and a select party. arrived at the Royal Lodge in the course of the day, for the purpose of congratulating his biaresrr on the happy event. The whole of the above Royal and distinguished party remained to dine with the Kano. The Duchess of CUMBERLAND entertained a select party to dinner en Monday, at her residence in the King's Palace. St. James's. Yesterday being the day appointed for the Royal Duchess to be presented to the Kum at the Royal Lodge in Wind sor Park. her Royal Highness, accompanied by the Duke and Prince Groans, left town shortly before three o'clock yesterday afternoon, in a carriage and four, for Windsor, followed by the suite of the Duke and Duchess, In which were the Countess of Scunrrassams, Miss Coons, Colonel Peru, and the Rev. Mr.' max (Chaplain to Prince Gnome), in two carriages and four...- Previous to her departure a great many of the Nobility and Gentry called to pay their respects to her Royal Highness, amongst whom were Prince Kostorrsev, the Spanish Minister sad Madame Dna stvers, Marquis of Cataineis, Marquis and Marchioness of Wm.- LOMAT, Lady Recants, Lord Seaser, and Lord liecoriee. The Marquis de BARBACENA arrived in town yester day morning from the Continent. The Marquis, directly after' his arrival, proceeded to the once of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, for the purpose of having an interview with the Karl of AISIDRIX. The Noble Earl not being in town, the Mar , yds after remaining some time to transact official business, pro ceeded to Cbandoe-house, the Austrian Ambassador, and had a long conference with Prince ESTRIIMAZT. The Marquis returned to the Foreign Once in the afternoon; and the Karl of Ammons l baving, in the interim, arrived in town from Tunbridge Wells, be had an interview with the Noble Earl, at the close of which the Marquis left town for the residence of the young Queen of I'ea !GOAL at Lalebam. The Prussian Minister had a conference with the Earl of AIIaDERII yesterday, at the Foreign Once. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. AtUI.S. Sir William Conway, from Kent; Lord Henniker and the Hoe. John Henniker, at Martha! Thompson's Hotel. Cavendish-strum; James Bourne, E.q. Mrs. Bourne, and Mrs. Peter Bourne, at do. Joseph Haigh, Eng. at ditto; General and Mrs. Wallace. at the Brunswick Hotel. Jermyo.street. from the Continent; Lady and Miss Duff, at the Burlington Hotel, from a tour ; Cal. Hewitt, at ditto, from ditto; W. Cartwright, Esq at Kltifham's e llotel, LOwer Brook-street, from Brighton ; Capt. Clayton. at Crawley's Hotel (lateCooles), Albemarle -street, from Sussex ; Mr. and at the British Hotel, Jermyn-street, from Clifton ; Mr. Mrs. and Miss Thompson, at ditto, from Suarez • Major and Mrs. Anderson and family,at hlivart's Hotel, Lower Brook and Davies-streetskens Cheltenham.; the Countess of Mansfield and Lady Caroline Murray, at ditto, from Richmond-bill ; Sir Geo. Talbot. Bart. at ditto, from Berke • Mr. and Mr.. Ainsley, at ditto, from the Contisent ; Wm. Chau:rim. Esq. at Fentoo's Hotel, St. James's-street, tram Berke ; E. Arbuthnot, Esq. at ditto, from Russia. DEPARTURES. Robert Sandilands, Esq. and Mrs. Sand Naiads, from Marshal Thompson's Hotel ' • Mrs. R. Redford Bulwer and Miss Below, from ditto ; the D uke de Chartres and suite, from Talke's Hotel (late Miller's) Jetmyn-street, for Brighton, 0.1 their way to Paris; Admiral Sir E. and Lady Louisa Harvey, front Clifford.areet, for their seat, Rolle-park, Essex ; Lady d' Urban, from the London Ho tel, Albenurle-street, for Racier ; Wm. Brun melt, Faq. from the St. George's Hotel, Albemarle-st. for Bath ;the Countess of Rad nor and family, from the Burlington Hotel, fur their seat, Loagfutd Castle, Wilts ; Major and Mrs. Barthukt, from ditto, for Sussex • Mrs. Townley and the Rev. Mr. Townley, from Kirkhsm ' s Hotel, Lower lbool-street. for Ssissek ; H. Dover, Esq. from ditto, for Hants; Mr. and Mrs. Ellison, from the Brunswick Hotel, Jenny's street. for Edinburgh ; S. Levy, li.s . q. from Fenton 's Hotel, St. `James's-sum, for Brighton ; Mr. and Mrs. Moore, from Brook street, for Worthing. THE CHURCH. f;= Sunday last, the Bishop i 1 r held a general at the Cathedral, when the following Gentlemen were orlmbeeil fle Holy Orders : Poleaxe —Richard Owillym, M.A. of Brasenoee College, Oo hed ; James Cooper, of St. Bees • Jacob Fitton, B.A. of Queen's College. Cambridge ; John Todd, RA. of Caine College, Cam-. bridge; Ralph Watkins Fisher, N.A. of Clare Hall, Cambridge; , William Dickson Blundell, M.A. of Brasenose College, OzfortlC Malik James Shaw, B.A. of Trinity College, Cambridge ; Clille. Lawrence, B A. of Brouwer College, Orford; John Smith Primes' man, B.A. of Qseen's College, Oxford; James Macke, B.A: of Brasenose College, Oxford ; Willis. Fullerton Walker, B.A. of Magdalen Han, Oxford ; Sharp klemeg, of St. Bea; brolamin William' Pollan; John Downs% M.A. of Magdalen Han. Oxford; Philip Henry Lee, B.A. of Brasenoss College, Oxford; Joseph Gbh+, B.A. • Francis Robert Rakes. • Deacons - I .lettathan Blackburn., B.A. of St. John's College, Cosabritke ; Thomas Bradford, B.A. of Magdalen College, Cab le*. ; Andrew Camels, B.A. of St. John's College, Cambridge; Robert Horoby. B.A. of Downing College, Cambridge; W. Met calf, of St. Bees, College ; George Leigh, B.A. of Brawn* College. Oxford ; Edward tibuttlewerth, RA. of St. Jibe's Ci Carnbridge; Joseph Simons. B.A. et St. John's College, OnoaL bridge; Thomas Harrison, B.A. of Unity College, DoMbi Dim" B.A. of Braseeriee College, • Oxford ; Woods; Woe &lowa M.A. of Brumes Colleges Word ILL*. Csrpus Pried college, Cambridge ; B.A 4 Maim Nis Cartwright, A.B. of Minsky' C asirdip. • • • . 7 s • • : .• • S.. CELEBRATION of Is MAJESTY'S BIRTH DAY AT WINDSOR-STATUE OF GEORGE FIRST STONE LAID BY HIS MAJESTY. WINDSOR. AUGUST 12.- This being our most gra cious Maatertv's natal day. the people of Windsor have kept Ike anniversary with every demonstration of joy. The morning was ushered in with the ringing of the bells to all the churches ie Windsor. Eton, and for miles round; flags were waviug in many places, and cannon wete fi red from the ramparts. The day was distiegulsbed beyond all others of his Majesty's birth-dam iitasmisch as he bad intimated hi. Royal will and plea. sure that the first stow of the Equestrian Statue to the memory of his revered father, George the Third, should be laid by himself.— The preparations for the ceremony were completed yesterday, and the stone itself had been brought to the summit of Snow-hill—a beaatiful eminence, commanding a full and extended view of the whole country around, and situated directly in the frame Windsor Castk itself, which Is distant about two miles, directly tbrouch the Long Walk. A more eligible spot for the site of a monument could mg have been selected in the whole of " Windsor's Great Park." Not the least doubt existed but that his Majesty would grace and midst in the ceremony alluded to ; and, at an early hour, the most respectable iehabitauts were on the alert, to be present at the scene. It was rather extraordinary. however, that among " the many." the tact of bis Majesty having decided to lay the first atone of the Statue was unknown till late in the day. Fur loose time before the hour appointed by his Majesty for the ceremony, Sir Geoffry Wyatvilie and Mr. Westmacutt were on the .pot, a silver trowel peeping out of the pocket of the latter, and a mahogany mallet was headed into the inelosure ; and these being 0 symptomatic " of certain operations, the patience of the anxious spectators received a powerful aid. • 'lke stone fixed upon to form the basement of the Equestrian Statue i. a huge block of granite, weighing tour tuns. On it is engraved the following hiss ription : " GEORG [0 TF.RTIO, Pavan Orissa. • Gorgeous ilex." The block was suspended by means of pulleys over the spot destined to receive it. Precisely at two o'clock, while the crowd were gaging on the gr. paratio,n-,.an ow-rider appeared at intervals thruUhh the distant brake, and immediately " the King is coming," testmoded on all sides. . In wry short time his Majesty appeared in his well-known pony phaetoo, and was received with the most deafening shouts of ap plause. Seated beside the .Sovereign was the Marques of Cunyng ham. Au open landau followed, en which were Sir Andrew Bar nard. Lord life, Sir H. Vyvyan and Sir Willians Keppel, all clad in the Windsor uniform. His Majesty, on alighting, was re ceived by Sir Geoffty Wyatville, J. Tebbant, Esq. the Mayor of Windsor, and Mr. Westatactitt, the crowd loudly cheering. His Majesty approached the works with a tolerably firm step, leaning on the arm of the. Marquess of Cala:ham, and familiarly accost ing those of the crowd whom he knew. The whole of the preli minary arrangements being complete, the plummet was applied, and his Majesty observing the vibrations of the ball, declared it to lasinerfecdy level. Mr. Westmacott handed to his Majesty the trowel. who spread the mortar as the stone, which was lowered. and his Majesty gave the stone three strokes with the mallet. His Majesty then turned to Mr. Westmacutt, and laughing. most lgood humourediy said, " Now, Westmacott. we depend upon you 'for the remainder. By thia day twelvemonth you say it will be lishibed. I know if you say so, it will be performed." Mr.West ilhentt bowed, aed assured his Majesty that his best endeavours *Mid be exerted to fulfil the expectations indulged by his Ma jeure. His Majesty. on turning round, caught the eye of the Mayor Of Windsor, Mr. Tebbott, and said," How Wye do, Tebbott ?" To several other persons resident in Windsor, his Majesty passed the same friendly inquiry. His Majesty then glanced to the ladies around him. and bowing most gracefully to them, stepped into his phaeton amid great cheering. He bad scarcely taken his seat in it. when a very discuomlate, but pretty looking young lady, with a child in her arms, approached the vehicle, and with a trembling hand slipped in a sealed packet. Owing to the tremor of the young female. it nearly feU into the road ; but his Majesty pre vented this with his stick, took the parcel in his band, and the phaeton immediately drove off. The lady glided away amidst the 'Mond. His Majesty was dressed in a handsome blue coat, with velvet collar, white drill trousers.and Wellington boots, made vete, light, with a drab beaver hat, entirely destitute of binding round the edge. It was ornamented with a broad ribbon as a band. and worn in quite a digagee manner on one side of the bead. It was the general remark how well and extremely jocular his Majesty appeared to be. His Majesty then returned to the Castle. Cards were issued a month ago fora grand dinner party at the Lodge to commemorate the day. The Duke and Duchess of Cumberland, the Duke and Duchess of Clarence, Princess Augusta, the Duke of Wellington, Lord and Lady Lyndhurst, Mr. and Mrs. Peel, mad ether distinguished guests, were invited to dine with the King. Another grand dinner will be given to-morrow at Belvidere.Hoose. The usual compliment of two bottles of wine to each of the King's likusehold, " high and low," was given away this morning, and Is. also, by command of his Majesty, to each of the workmen en gaged at the works on the Castle. In the evening the town of Windsor was illuminated, and a dinner was given at the Castle Inn at which about one hundred of the most respectable in habitants of Winder and Men sat down—the Mayor in the Chair; his Majesty having presented a fat buck to the company. —After the removal of the cloth " the King" was given with the usual demonstrations of respect, and many speeches made. Throughout the whole of the day sports have been going on in Windsor. " The Bachelors of Windsor" gave an interesting fete. Among the feats of day, boys climbed soaped pules for a waist coat ; girls ran far a gown piece ; a donkey race for a new bridle ; jumping in sacks for a leg of mutton ; wrestling fur a purse of 10;. boys eating treacle and rolls fora hat, Ste. Ste. and the sports corr.' eluded with a grand display of fire works, by Southby. The day has been passed in a wormer which truly evinces the loyaky and firm attachment of the people of Windsor and its vicinity to the Sovereign atlas country. THE KING'S ANSWER TO THE WEAVER' PETITION. Last night a numerous Meeting of the unemploYcii Journeymen Silk Weavers of Spit 'Welds, and its vicinity, was held at the Crown and Anchor, Waterloo New Town, to receive his Majesty's answer to their petition, praying that he would gmcioudy afford them facilities to enable them to emigrate to the Colony now about being formed on the Swan River.—The Secretary read his Majesty's most gracious answer, which was as follows : Whitehall, August it. Saar—l have laid before the King the petition to his Majesty, which was plaudits uty hands . by a deputation of the Silk Weavcrs of SpitsHeide. His Majesty. deeply laments the distrew which prevails in that district, and regrets to bear that the sufferings of the innocent and industrious workmen have been increased, as there was reason to year there would be, by the lawlvis acts and outrages on properst that were restudy committed in Spitallklda. Mis Majesty has directed the petition to be referred to the con sideration of his confidential .erva:.ta, who have not test themaelvea warranted in advhing his Majesty to encourage the emigration of 'the weaven of Spitsifielils to any of the colonial posansions of his . Majesty byline's , peenpiary aid for that porpose.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant R. PURL. Addressel, Mr. John Jebbe, Secretary to the Silk Weavers, Spin Melds. The resale/ the letter was received with a tournra of Ilissatis-. lattice', which was suppressed by the Chairman and the Committee. Laietatts said that all their exertions hitherto had been un-. successful. They contended againu the free trate, which had re duced them to beggary ; but the necessary restrittiems to cows, tenet its effects were refused. .Thee nest sought for facilities for emigratiog, ea their last' resoarce ; but this also was hopeless ; anal it now remained fur the journeymen t.' determine un what course. world be most proper to pirsue, in order to relieve them from the depth of famine aid misery into which they bid fallen.— A Joni- Wbat to do! Why, to go& thieving.; and 11:n.whethtr they.like it or not, we will be emierants."-LSeveral other jourliej men addressed the Meeting in a very dissatisfied straih ; and donor the course of the proceedings• which were of a very procrastinated character, numerous letters were read, suggesting many speculative Oans for their relief; one was, to cut down the timber on Epping Forest, and engage the unemployed w in its cultivation ; another to apply to Government for a grant or the wage Crown lands, on certain terms, to cultivate them, which would prevent the necessity of emigration ; and a third was, to solicit the manufac turers to permit their artisans, for three Jays in the week, to devote their labours to agriculture, which would thus enable them to pro.• cure subsist/wt.—A long and angry discussioo followed, whisks merged ioto permaafides; hit se definite resoltrtioti was come to,. and the Meeting broke up as an advanced boors • ' • • h • v • The brig, the Two. Nandi, which . arrival. et Mer seillesistoracco,on th an e 24I Anaar of 4t o ugust., anvat el e w „d oe the inig 22il firi o nor f S tatt3 Hly;iofF.. town of Algiers, which' win ani s weretl 4,4,011 • The cannonade lasted two or . . thie l e hours ..••••"!%)* -e ' s •