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gitt Britt! Oh 43reo. I'IffATRE ROTA!., DRURY—LAVE. This L'eaWr MONDAY, Feb. 28, will Ae performed KlllO RICHARD THE THIRD. 'Duke of Mester, Mr. Kean; Earl of R. chmond, Mr. Ngllea. LW , ' Anne. Wes Smithson. After wS,ch, HARLEQUIN AND THE TALKIE(' BIRD, THE KINGINO TREES, AND GOLDEN WATERS. Nagletpaln, Mr. Howell; Pantaloon, Mr. T. Blanchard; Clown, Mr. Kirby. Columbine. Miss Barnett. ThallsorroW, Der Fralsehuta, The Roagignol, and My Uncle Gabriel. THEATRE R(1:Y Al„ COVENT—GARDEN. TWA Evening. MONDAY. Fob. *5. will he performed A WOMAN NEVER YEET: Or, THE WIDOW OF CORER ILL. 'Netarrthe girth. Mr. Baker ; Foster, Er. Bennett Stephen Foster, .C. Kemble FosW, Jun. Mr. Cooper : Walter Brown. Mr. Ella ' Ines t Slr Iledfray Speedwell, Mr. Henley ; Master Innocent LamlialOn. Mr. Keeley; Clown, Mr. Blanchard. Agnes Welated (ths Widow of Conshillo. Ski Chester: Mrs. Foster, Miss Lacy; Jane, Miss lenge. lisa Let V. the Lard Mayors Show, as It passed through Cheapslde In the year 1444. After wb'ch a now Melo.Drarna, called FATHER AND SON; Or THE ROCK OF LA CI4ARBONNIERE. no ENneoal °hamsters by Meagre. Bennett, Cooper, r. P. Cooke, and rariti • Mandan's* Yining, Lori, and Davenport. 704110ft0iI. r e Belle's stratagem. THEJTRR ROYAL, ENGLISH OPERA HOUSE, STRAND, Opposite Waterloo Bridge. LECTURE ON ASTRONOMY OSIENA of the HEAVENS and of the EARTH. TWA =VI by Idr. BARTLEY, on the WEDNESDAYS and FRI DAYS during LENT. Wlll, illeasstrualy Weaned by large Stoves In various for Families to be had on moderate Terms at tlift be opened at half-past Six, and begin at Seven. Ali ROOMS, AND CATEATON-STREET, • CITY. PHILOSOPHY. • 4 reirsetfully announces his usual cOCRSZ of PHILOSOPHY and the original EIDOURANION First Lecture of the Course to be delivered on :Iv Loth 5, at One, In the'Argyle Rooms. and to eontintse Saturdays; and the first on the Eldouranton, at Seven, on - DAY NEXT, March 2, at the Peule Held, Cateaton marask • „ add to continue Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, at tbgel i t ie hnin Particulars In Bins. st Thirteen transferable Tickets, One Guinea; Sine* Lee tans" DOW &Crown. TO CORRESPONDENTS. PRICES 'W BRITISH [MOCKS ON SATURDA Y. Dank Stock 29111 1 India Stock Ilkif 4 Ditto Acct. Ditto Bonds,/ pm 3 per Cent. Red. t 9:1 1 11 4 !Anil. Ann. 23 6-16 / tree Cent. COOS. t' $OllOl HOG Steck 106 t Acct. 941 134 Ell s Billo.ld• 1,000/. per Cent. Ditto,:) 4d. 1.0001.62 SD 61 pm per Cent. Red. 14111 1_ Dine , 6004. 60 62 pm s+4 per Cent. 1061 198 - Ditto, Small 83 83 el pen PISICES OF FOIIEI4JN IiTOCKS ON SATUR DA V. Asueriaa Bondage& j . Mealca s n a ß 4 lBlll 44 1 1 SestMia4 Bonds 811 . Ditto Acct. 1 Dltt•Scrip 16161 pre IN ' t° 0 2 11 ii $1 Pa' Ditto Scrip (1826) 31 pop . , BIM Acde,llo Cess Buenos Ayres Bonds 91 1g 1 ' .051}1111111160111.12 1 11 2 Chilian Bonds 8819} 81. ff/dpoixtee. Colombian Bond; 92 9 . ,notevian IMAM Ditto A ect. 92 Peetngueseasesdslll OR 1 Ditto Bonds (4824)911 1 411' Ditto Acct. 1 90} 4 Prussian Bonds • Danish Bonds 102 NI Ditto Bonds (1892) NW i_ French Renter 1141. Mc. 1116 f. Russian Bonds um) wil 86 104 f. sc. 74 4 e, Exchan 7 ge 29f. 10c. Spanish tons. 24/ 1 1 4 1 1 1 cheek Bonds 57} 0 4 D,Ws Scrip (1621 ) 1011 11 4 Ditto Acct. 2414: 24 *k Apra o Acct. 91 1 1 pre Ditto Cons. (Ma) 191 Ditto Acct. 94 PRICES OF SHARES ON SATURDAY. ASSITRANCL COMPANIES. ass LIGHT AND . CONS COD. A liianco Brit. and Frit. at 20 rattans. Ditto 3larine 111 1 1 Continental 9} Protector 11 1 Provincial Portable tatairs. ILION NAILWATS. Anglo-Mexicali ISd 196 London and Northern lj 1 Anglo•Chihan 161 16 Manchester and Liverpo‘.l Arigna Iron and Cial misCEELANEOUS. Solsoos Australian 28 /9 Brafriltan 21 291 British Iron Company 95 10 Chilian 21 21,1 _ Canada Catimpany 99 40 Colombian 40 391 Oen. Steam Navigation 10 Oen. Mining Association 16 1 Gold Coast Association 71 4 I Hibernian 95 1 Great Westminster Dan Pasco Peruritm 43 401 Metro. Alderney Dairy 11 real del Monte Metro Fish Company 21 1 Rio de la Plata 30 31 New Com Exchange ti Titilporahua 239 . Pearl Fishery (Yellow) IR 21 United Mexican 119 1471 Ditto (White) 16 Ditto New 124 34 pm Pro,. Bark of Ircland 91 10 Weigh Iron and Coal 14 8 I Patent Bricks 85 74 Mr. Ds„mraY's Letter is unavoidably deferred till to-morrow. The Barrzsit-Passi co.mteneed publishing oo Saturday morn ing at seven o'clock. LONDON, MONDAY. Filet/Any 28, 1825. Tim debates in the French Chamber of Deputies on the indemnity to the emigrants, were continued on Wednesday and Tinnyley. Seventeen distinct amendments have been moved, and they are now separately under consideration. One of them went to change wholly the very nature of the project; it proposed to indemnify the actual possessors, and restore the estates at once to the former proprietors. This amendment, we arc glad to observe, was rejected by the unanimous voice of the Chamber. The next that was diactisscd proposes to include the emigrant fundholders. These r.ifFerers certainly appear to be quite as well entitled to indemnity as the lap. tholders ; yet we dare say their dsims witl be disregarded. By the Etoile it seems that the coronation of CHakLES X. is fixed positively for the !Nth of May. The trial of the murderer Papavoine divides the atten tier of the Parisians with the tedious debates of the Chambers._ It is confirmed, that thelate Portuguese Minister, Conde • ited lbassador at Paris. PAz.tx r. it, will not be appoint _ Ambass.— iFrom the Ztoik of Saturday.l PAWL, FEL 25. The Echo da Midi. on the credit of' some letters front Paris, and atter It several Journals of the capital, have announced that the coronation is deferred till July, this a mistake. We can state posi tively that the august cetemony will take place irrevocably on the 2110 of May next. Yesterday the French Academy proceeded to the nomination et a anlieiber in the room of the Count de Fernand, and elected 1111. CodeieDelaviene. Out of n votes, M. C. Delavigne balk on the fleet ballot-26 and the Marquis de Valorl-1. 'roe ing Lucian Murat IS still in the dungeons of Meridiem thee is wen reason to suppose that this a ff air will be protracted Senor di months. flaxen FUNDII.—FARIII, FE8.24.-5 per Cents. 104 f. 7k.s Batik Ikea, 199$f. 75c. • Rente de Naples, Falconnet Cm-di es, fief 46c.; Rente d'Espagne, IC i ; Royal Spanish nes see—Exchan g e on London, 1 month, 24f.; 3 montilit p a lioe.:—Cows dfrahentapse, Feb. 26. The Bruise's Papers of Saturday arrived last night. The only intelligence they contain is, that on Tuesday the Fint Chamber of the States General again debated the project of law relative to the French coin in the kingdom. gone Members protested against the renewal of the debate : toPy also declared that they would not vote on the law, which they considered u having been rejected in the sitting of the 13th of January last, when the votes were equal. The PRISIDINT endeavoured to convince them that the proceeding was perfectly constitutional. After a short debate, the project was adopted. Twenty-one voted for it, eight against it, and fire refrained froth voting. From the German Papers we received yesterday the ful lowing are the only extracts of any importance : STYLI'', FEB. 7. According to accounts from Belgrade, Prince Mildsch has en tirely pat down the insurrection at once, and restored tranquillity. Ones of the leaders of the insurrection, Aloloia Poporich, was made prisoner and immediately beheaded ; his brother fell in an action, zn which the peasants threw down their arms and fled in all direc tions. Among the Imsoners was a priest, who was also executed. Prince 111ilmch leenia to have taken has MCWHIM very judiciously. —,Atigemeke Zeitiong, Feb. 20. FHANNFORT, FEB. 19. The last letters from Paris announce tiiittiiiin - iiit . Francehss wipointoti a Committee to draw Lp a s:etement of the debts of the Trer.eb Prines in Foreign cousin:es which ►ro yet unpaid. This t;onaroittee, in obedience to his his;esty's orders, and in conformity 11 the wish of the Ncble Peers, Al infsters of his Household, are employed, without interruption, in drawing up them estimates. that a sufficient vote of :redo for the payment nay be submitted to the Chambers during the present Session.—Journal e:c FronAfort, 2). On the Catholic Meeting at the Freemasons' Tavern oil Saturday, we have only a single observation to make. inhesitatingly :contradicted when he I Yr. e.wNnte was unhesits, 104 THE BRITD • • t 1 - .T. said that there was a large mass of inert opposition to the Catholic claims, aad that the conduct of the Association woe calculated to rouse the indifferent to hostility. If any doubt masted as to the correctness of the Right Honourable Secretary's ISlCtiiol3, it must now be removed. All the attraction resulting from the well-known eloquence of the r speakers, and the peculiar novelty of the occasion, felled in ollestriog together f.:l numerous an assemblage as we havvi' no collected in the same Hall at the anniversary meetings `'dicey charitable societies. No proof can be more posi tive that the Association has dons injury to the cause it professed to support. The apprehensions of the moneyed capitalist, arising from Loan ELDON'S menaced introduction of his Jot NT STOCK COItrANY BILL, appears to have subsided. It seems to be i very generally believed, that his Lordship, finding, on more mature consideration, that be is likely to encounter 'Stirs 'arguments than he is prepared to answer, and more alipllation than he should be able to overcome, will either ~Bits Bill altogether, or so pare it down from its `llll‘llllllilients as te reader it a thing of very harmless 11P001106 There may be other causes which make it millet of prudence in the'Learned Lord not to follow up bis proclamation ; but with these we have no concern. In polities, there are more truths lie hidden at the bottom of the well, thau-it would be advisable to pump up, even supposing we could bring them to the surface. The various Companies .bat have been recently este- Wished, End-which appear a be on the increase, have bees fearfully described by souse as introducing a destructive.' system of asenopoiy--a system ruinous to all small eap4, who mutt soon find it impossible to bear up again* such wealthy and overwhelming combinations. It hawk here,as it happens on many other subjects, that thaw* just enough of truth in the general principle to mislaid ue 'as to its particular application. That monopoly, abstract edly considered, is bad, there is no doubt. But a mono poll. may arise out of an infinite variety of causes; and whether it is wise a politic to remove those calms is a question which must be governed by the examination of those MISES In each particular case. For instance: sup pose the Crown were to grant a charter to five or six in dividuals, forming them into a Company, and investing than with an exclusive privilege' to trade in Iron, and prohibiting all other persons, under severe penalties, from dealing in this article, and all manufacturers from sup plyrng then,selves from any other than the said chartered company: the iniquity of such a charter is manifest; and the fruitful source of fraud and extortion, which it would necessarily become, is equally clear; but the remedy for all the evils arising out of such a monopoly would be the repeal of the charter. But suppose a monopoly, as perni cious in its effect, or very nearly so, to arise from a very dif ferent cause; viz. an abundance of capitnl:—or without cir cuitously supposing the cue, let us look to it as it actually and at this moment exists. The trade in Iron is engrossed by about five houses—not unjustly we admit, nor in any way unfairly—but solely from poor adventurers being deterred by the circumstances of its requiring so large a capital, and the great risk incurred in the purchase of . mining ground—in short, from the immense demand of capital, and from the dangers that waylay that capital before it can be successfully, or even safely, embarked. It is clear that the monopoly thus becomes almost as secure to its possessors as if it were exercised under a shatter. They are equally in a condition to take advan tage of the wants of the manufacturers; they may be sparing of their supplies, that by the competition of pur chasers the price may be enhanced; they may resort, in fact, to all the means which ender a monopoly may be practised to command exorbitant profits. But where is the remedy in this case? There is no charter to be re pealed--here is nothing illegal that can be suppressed— here is no combination that either can or ought to be put down. In ordinary cases the remedy would be at hand. Others would withdraw their capital from a business in which it was less productively employed, and transfer it to the iron trade. But, for the reasons above adverted to, this cannot be done; the capital required is too large, and the risk of transfer too great. It is in this state of things that a JOINT STOCK COMPANY IS formed; and we ac cordingly fine a BRITISH brow COMPANY established, with a capital of two milions sterling, the whole of which, we understand, will probably be in full employment within two years. Suppose the Lord CHANCELLOR had intro duced a Bill throwing embarrassments in the way of such an establishment, by requiring, that in the first place, according to the Order of Me House of Lords—an order by the way at this moment in force--thatfour-filthr of the capital shall be paid up, without which no Joint Stock Company shall have the sanction of that House. If, we say, such a Company as this had been defeated at the out set, by the pre-requisites thrown in the way of it by the unwise and unwarrantable interference of Lord ELDON, what could have compensated to the country for the evil it would have occasioned? We select this instance to show, that a JOINT STOCK COMPANY, far in some in stances from establishing a monopoly, may be the only expedient for putting it down : that in the great com mercial concerns of this wealthy kingdom, in which a single 'aided can now employ a capital which the revenue of the .Forereign formerly could not command, Ilfono polies, as many of them exist at present, can only be counteracted by a contributive fund, commanding still greater resources, and which, by its vast reserved capital, can sustain without injury any incidental losses it may have to encounter at the outset, but which would have sink the means of any individual competitor, and involved him in irretrievable ruin. Iron—an article of indispensable necessity, and which enters largely into the consumption of every manufacture of machinery, of mechanism, and of ail the leading branches of productive labour—has risen from sis pounds per ton to seventeen ! How much the substantial prosperity of the nation is at this moment impeded by this monopoly price can scarcely enter the conception of those who are not familiar with the subject. The spirit of enterprise is every where checked—wherever the consumption of iron forms a leading expense in any new undertaking, that un dertaknig is abandoned—unexecuted orders are counter manded--projects of the greatest public utility, to which this article is essential, are standing still ; they cannot possibly be proceeded in with any hope of profit ; they must be either suspended at a great loss, or wholly given up. In many instances this article cannot be had at any price. The opening of our markets has put the spirit of specu lation every where on the alert; it has occasioned a pres sing demand for machinery, and consequently a sudden and extensive demand for iron ; and as this extraordinary demand cannot be Met by a commensurate sapid!, it is met by a rise of price. A Company can effect that which any man, singly, however opulent he might be, could not rationally attempt. They can draw forth the spirit of enterpri..r; they can furnish adequate resources to meet the conflict; and by bringing the produce of new iron mines into the market, can break up the existing monopoly, and bring down the price of the article to its natural level. The few who engross this trade have long placed all competition at a hopeless distance ; but we rejoice in the prospect that the manufacturers will be shortly relieved from the prevent unnatural state of the market, and the country from all the evils which follow in the train of it. FRENCH CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES i . After a great number of petitions had been reported, the ad. ' jourtied debate on the Indemnity Law was resumed. The PRESIDENT stated, these 17 aIDendINIONS had been rd. posed on the Stet article, fourteen of which hed been printed, the other three had only just been put into his hands. Among others, he said there wits en amendment which, in his epinion, was altogether a new law ; and he would not submit it to the Chamber for discussion without its express commands. Its purport was, to give the present proprietors of the national estates 30 millions of renter, on a capital of 1,000 trillions, as an indemnity tor the estates which they were, upon these conditions, to give up to the old proprietors. M. de COVPIONT, the mover of this amendment, said, that it was suggested to him, by the positive conviction he had that the august author of the Charts had oetin thought separated the 9th and 100 a articles, and that if he considered it politic to legalise the sale of the national estates, he would only have Bore so from a motive of public utility. lie (11. de Couptgny) was of opinion that the present Sovereign could in his turn dispossess the actual proprietors, by the previsions of the 10th article of the Charta, in consideration of a previous indemnity, with to restore the estates to the emigrants who had only be plundered of them for following the standards of legitimacy. Besides, what he proposed had no other object than to induce those who had bought estates at a low price, and had enjoyed them for thirty Tears, to otter to the emigrants a compensation for their estates. "'hat was the sole object of his propdsition. Without any further discussion, this amendment was rejected unanimously, with the exception of the mover, who alone voted for it. The fugstprtur then brought under consideration another amendment on the Ist Article by M. Breton. It proposed to allow an indemnity of ten 'million of Reales, fire per tent., to the old fundholders who had had their property confiscated during the con. fusion of the Revolution. The share of each ancient tundholder was in no case to exceed ten thousand francs of Rcntes. That those who bad had part of their funds restored should only have so much indemnity as would make up the ten thousand francs. • 111. BRETON made a long speech in favour of his amendment. The Chamber then adjourned to the morrow, when 31. di Ber bin was to be beard againat She iffleadment of M. Breton. of the cfirtplaN at VINCENNES. TRIAL OF LOUIS AUGUSTUS PAPAVOINE. This man, it will be in the recollection of our readers, stands charged with having murdered two children who were walking with their mother near Vincennes. On Thursday his trial came on before the Court of Assize at Paris. The curiosity of the public, which has long been excited by *mi. des in the journals, had attracted spectaup of all ranks to the Court, so that all the places open to the pdblic without tickets were filled by seven o'clock in the mottling. Some deputies arrived long before the Magistrates had taken their Ruts. The ladies filled the benches appointed for great judicial solemnities. The entrance of Papavoine caused a great sensation, which did not disconcert him. He looked at the assembly without timidity, I a ithnot arrogance, and without betraying the smallest emotion. His /oohs turned for e moment towards the bureau of the Court in which were the cnaanguined clothes of his victims. His counte ranee did net change; twelve gendarmes were placed round him. He was Messed in a black coat ; his appearance indi cate% nothing extraordinary : He is of a middle beignt, his face pale, his look firm. When he is interrogated, he speaas with extreme volubility; his voice is stammering and hurried ; his physiognomy, though not wicked, has in it something melancholy and gloomy. When the clerk read the indictment, at those passages which described the circumstances of the crime, the spectators turned towards the prisoner to see if they could discover any change in his features. but he appeared perfectly indifferent. The names of the witnesses were called over to the amount of firty.four. A table was covered with the ensinguined garments of the two innocent children, with the great coat which Papavoine had on on the 10th of October, and on which there is a patch of blood ; there was alto his hat on which was a visible mark of an umbrella, and the two table knives found at his house. The knife he bought at Vincennes, which cut off the unhappy victims heads, has not been found. The answers of the prisoner to the interrogatories of the President were all affirmative of his being deranged at the time ; that it was quite by chance he went to the wood, and that he would ail lingly redeem the lives of the children with his own blood. Ile did not pretend to account for his being sometimes deranged Ana sometimes havinglucid intervals. Ile left that to the physicians. He also denied what he, had before asserted relative to his in tention to murder the Dauphinesa. Seventeen witnesses were heard, his neighbours and old friend., who bore testimony to his tenderness and humanity in general, but especially towards children ; but that he was occasionally gloomy, restless, and irritable—shunning the society of mankind, especially women. Two uncles of the murdered children were called, but proved no material fact. Mademoiselle Malremet, 82 years of age, was called. She der posed to having met Mt children and their mother on the day in question, and of having embraced the former. She had pre viously seen a man following her, who then catne up, and asked who the children were. To which she said site did not know; and that was Lll she knew of the affair. Papavoine did not contradict any of the facts deposed to by the last witness, but persisted that he could not account for it himself, and that he couLl cot have been in his right mind. ------- - THE LATE INUNDATIONS IN THE NORTH OF EUROPE. (Front the lianiburgh Payees.) ST. PETEIIIIIOIOII, FM 5. The temporary military Governors and Committee; appointed by his Majesty after the inundation of the 19th November, have just made a general Report, and given an official account of their operations up to the 9th January ; from which it appears that 480 persons perished in the inundation, half of whom were in the environs of the capital. Of 19/17 sick only 37 died, and 1456 were perfectly restored to health. 15,495 persons received relief in pro. visions, frt.% to the value of 16,373 rubles; 1838 clothing, to the amount of ;3.897 ruble, • 1172 mechanics and manufacturers, relief in money, 105,811 rub les. On the whole 898,640 rubles had been distributed, of which 24.026 individuals received in money 702,060 rubles: 462 houses were entirely swept away or destroyed -3681 damaged, of which 2824 have been repaired. On the representation of the Minister of Finance, the Emperor has been pleased to dispense with the proprietors of the hemp damaged by the inundation from the payment of the duties of Customs. Thu quantity of this hemp belonging to Russian Mu . chant s is - - - . 264.570 poods To Foreigners - - - - - 61.386 In all - - 353,950 poods Resides the remission of these duties the owners will be allowed to export, duty free. a quantity the double of that which is da maged. On the exportation of damaged hemp, particular certi ficates shall be delivered by the Custom-house, that our productions may not suffer in the opinion of foreigners. HANOVEIt. FEB. 10. Captain Davison, Aid-de-Camp to his Royal Highness the Oovernor.General, set out yesterday for London, to take an ac count of the boundless misery caused by the inundation. IVe learn that next summer, a part of the soldiers will be em ployed to repair the dikes. &c. in those places where the greatest damage has been done. The first subscription for the sufferers already amounts to 16,100 rix dollars in gold. and 4,720 rix dollars in silver. At the head oldie list are his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge 10,000 rix dollars in gold, and the Duchess, his Con sort. 1,000 ditto. Various contributions had been made previous to the invitation issued by the Government. A letter from Embden of the 15th says.—" The ships sent to the islands hate just returned. The Captains say that the islands of Baltrum and Joist are almost entirely ruined; the poor inhabitants have erected tents on the downs to shelter themselves." A letter from II ulbigen, on the west coast of Slesenig, gives a frightful picture of the ravages in the night of the third in the neighbouring islands and lus grounds. Of 270 houses, only 32 were habitable; eighty petioleperished, and all the cattle. The survivors have saved neither household furniture nor effects of any kind; they have neither shelter, clothing, not provisions. The damage done to the country is beyond calculation; the great dike of ‘Vursten, which was everywhere front eighteen to twenty feet high, and at the base 105 feet thick, is in some places washed away, as if no dike had ever stood there before. EXCHANGES. H►MIQRGH, Fin. 22.—London, 38 4}; Two Months, 36 PETEISBURGH, FEB. 8 —London, Loreto, Fin. 18.—London, Three months, 6 14. BERLIN, FEB. 19.—London, Three Months, 6 244. VIENNA, FEN. 12.—London Three Alonths, 6 47. The Engli s h Money Market was rather worst st i Satur day than it was on Friday, although it was ng day. Consols for Money were done at 9311 ; and for the Account at 941 93,1. The Foreign Market was lively throughout the day, and the prices for the most part steady. The Spanish Bonds were firm at 214 ; Mexican Scrip. 1823, ; Brazilian ditto, 44, and New Greek Scrip 44. The Mining and other Shares generally maintained their prices. The Pasco Peruvian declined a good deal, being at one time as low as 33, and the Patent Briek was worse ; with these ex ceptions prices were firm. Indeed the l'ascos for some days have been in such a constant state of fluctuation, that they afford no criterion of the condition of the Share Market. Saturday Mr. Peel gave his first grand dinner party in his new house, in Privy-gardens, to meet his Royal High ness the Duke of York. Mr. Secretary Peel save a dinner to a select party yes terday: Mr. Secretary Canning - was better yesterday, and was at tended by Dr. Holland. Saturday the Chancellor of the Exchequer had a dinner party at his house in Downing-street. Lady Cochrane lies extremely ill at her house in Park street, Grosvenor-square. MAJORITY AND MINORITY OX THE CATHOLIC •SIOCIATION HILL, TRU. 2s. MAJORITY. Acland, Sir J. D. Ennismore, Viscount Peel, Right Hon. It. A'Coutt, E. H. Fane, John Peel, W. Y. Alexander. J. D. Fade, J. T. Percy, Hon. W. FL Arbuthoot,ltt. ilon.CFitsgerald,Right Hon.Phillimore, J. Archdale. M. W. V. Pitt, J. Astley, Sir J. D. Fleming, J. Pitt. W. M. Alexamisr, J. Forbes, Sir C. Plunkett. Rt.llon. W. Abercrombie, Col. Forde, H. Pollen, Sir J. BeiMe, Col. J. Freemantle, Rt lion. Powell, W. E. Baker, E. W. H. Rae, Sir W. Bankea, H. Forster, L. Heine, Jonathan Hanker, W. J. Grant, Col. Rice. Hon. G. T. Beresford, Lord G. °movie. Isaac Roberts. W. A. Bereshird. M. °union. llon. W. 'Bickford, W. Bernard, Viscount Oesseu, IV. Ramsbottorn, J. Bernard, Thos. jun. Grant, A. C. Robinson. Rt. Hon. J. Binning, Lord Grant. IL H. elegem, E. Blackburn, T. Greville, Sir C. Ross. Lii . arlcs Blair, J. Graham, Lord Rowley, Sir J. Bourne, Rt.Hon.W.Stireene. Thomas Ryder, Rt. lion. IL Bundling. C. J. Gower, lewd F. 1.. Scourfield, W. H. Brecknock, Earl Metrics, T. C. Scott, Hon. W. H. J. Brogden, J. Ilartlinge, Sir H. Seymour, Horace Brown, Right Hon.D.Hodgsoo, F. Shaw, Sir It. Brown., J. Harvey Sir E. Smith, Christopher Brownlow, C. Heber, R. Smyth, Robert Buchan n an, J. Hill. RL /lon. Sir o.Sinyth, W. Boughton. Sir W. Holmes. W. Sneyd, Nalluriel Brydges, Sir J. Hope, Sir A. Somerset, Lord E. Burgh, Sir U. flothani, Lord Staunton, Sir G. Boston, J. J. Hulse, Sir C. smart, J. Bonham, Henry Matteson, Rt. H. W.Strathaven Lord Buxton, T. F. Horton, R. W. Stopford„ Viscour.t. Butler, Hon. C. Ingi.a, Sir R. Stun, J. H. Cony, Lord Imes, S:r H. Sumner, 0. 11. Colthurst, Sir N. Inner, John Stuart, W. Chetwynd, G. Irving. John Thynne, Lord H. Calthorpe, Hon. F. o.King, Hon. H. Taylor, G. W. Calvert, J. King, Sir J. D. Tow nshend, 11 n. 11.0. Campbell, A. Knox, Hon. Thos. Townsend, Lord C. Cecil, Lord T. Lake, Win. Tremayne, J. 11. Chichester, Sir A. Lennox, Lord J. Trench, T. W. Cholmelcy, Sir M. Lethbridge, Sir T. B.Twiss, H. Cockerel!, Sir C. Lindsay, lion. H. 'Polk, C. A. Cocks, J. Lindsay, Lord Thompson, J. L. Collett, E. J. Littleton, E. J. Tindall. H. C. Cooper, R. B. Lockhard, J. J. Tram, W. 11. Coote, Sir C. H. Long, Rt. Hon. Sir C.Upton, Hon. A. J. Copley, Sir J. S. Lowther, Viscount Ure. H. Corbett. P. Lucy, George Uxbridge, Earl Cantrell, Sir J. G. Lushington, S. R. Valletort, Viscount Courtney, T. P. Luttrell, J. S. Vernon, 0. 0. V. Courtney, W. Lygon, Hon. H. B. Vivian Sir R. Crippe, J. Maxwell, B. Wells, John Croker, J. W. Mocker tie, Sir J. W.Walker, Joshua Colic, J. hiagennis, Richard Wallace, Rt. lion. T. Cumming, G. Manning, Wm. Warren, C. Curteis, E. J. Mansfield, John Wellesley R. Curzon, Mon. R. Maxwell, S. W. Weatenra, Hon. 11. It. Coat, Hon. E. Maxwell, Sir W. Wetherell Sir C. Clinton F. fil ilia, Charles Wilson, W. W. C. Davis. g. If. Ai onteith, H. Wilson, T. Dawkins, H. Montgomery, J. Wodehouse, Hon. J. Dawson, G. R. Morland, Sir S. B. Wood, T. Diveti, T. Mundy, Francis Wortley, J. A. S. Doherty, J. Al undy, George Wynn, Rt. fIo.C.W. Doniville, Sir C. 111nrray, Sir G. Wynn, Sir W. W. Don, Sir A. Nightingale, Sir M. Whitmore, T. ,Douglas, John Noel, Sir Gerard Whitntore, W. IV. Douglas, W. K. It. North, S. Wigram, W. Dowdeswell, J. E. O'Grady, Standish iVodebouse. E. Downie, R. O'Neill, Hon. J. R. TELLERS. Drummond, H. Ommanney, Sir F.M.Clark, Sir 0. Dunlop, J. Onalow, Arthur Goulburn, Rt. Hn. H. East, Sir H. Paget, Hon. B. FAIRED OFF. Eastnor, Viscount Pakenharn, lion. It. Bouverie, lion. B. Egerton. W. Palmerston, Lord Bathurst, Hon. S. Elliot, Lord Paxton, \V. G. Cockburn, Sir U. Ellis, C It. Pears*, John MINORITY. Abercromby, Hon. J. Grattan, James Phillips, G. ma. Althorp. Vise. Guise, Sir W. Phillips, 0. H. jun. Becher, W. W. Hamilton, Lord A. Power, Rich. &nett, John. Heron. Sir R. Price, Robert Brougham, H. Hill, Lord A. Poynta, W. S. Browne, Dom. Hobhouse, J. C. Ramsden, J. C. Burden. Sir F. Hume, J. Robarts, A. W. Bury, Vise. if otchinsor . Hn.C.H.Robarts, O. J. Byng, G. Johnson, W. A. Robinson, Sir G. /Waive, Earl of Kingsborotigh, Lord Scarlett, J. Calcraft, J. If. Knight, Rohr. bettor', Earl of Caicraft, John Lamb, Hon. O. Smith, John Calvert, C. Lambkin, J. CI. Smith, lien. Carew, R. S. Leyeester, It. Smith, Wm. Caulfield, }lon. H. Lushington, S. Stuart, Lad J. Cavendish, Lord 0. Martin, Rich. Syker, D. Cavendish, C. C. Moberly, J. Somerville, Sir DI. Cavendish, H. Moberly, W. L. Talbot, H. W. Chaloner, It. Macdonald, J. Taylor, M. A. ' Clifton, Vier. Mackintosh, Sir J. Tierney, Rt. Hon. 0. Colborne, N. R. Mahon, Hon. S. Warre, J. A. Creevey, T. Marjoribanks, S. Webbe., Edw. 1 Cradock, S. Martin, John Whitbread, W. H. Davies, T. Milton, Vise. White, Samuel Denman, Thos. Alonck, J. B. White, Cul. Dundas, Hon. Thos. Miaore, Peter Wilson, Sir R. Ebrington, Vise. Newport, Right Hon. Wood, M. Evans, W. Sir J. Wyvill, M. Fergusson, Sir R. Normanby, Viscount TILLZIII. Fitzgerald, Itt. Hn.M.Nugent, Lord Duncannoo, Vase. French, A. O'Brien, Sir Ed. Rice, T. S. Folkestone, Vise. Ord, Wm. PAIRED OTP. Gaskell. B. Palmer, C. F. Ponsonby, Hon. F. Glenorchy, Vise. Pares, Thos. Rowley, Sir W. 1 Graham, S. Parnell, Sir H. Wilkins, Walter Saturday morning at ten o'clock the Lords of his Ma jesty's Most Honourable Privy Council held a meeting at the new temporary Council Office, in Whitehall-place, which was attended by the Judge of the Arches Court, the Lord Chief Baron, the Master of the Rolls, and Sir Henry Russell. The appeals before their Lordships were principally from the island of Guernsey; the questions under litigation were principally of a private nature, and of no public interest. Their Lordships continued their sitting till about five o'clock. It is supposed that an abscess has formed in ore of the Duke of Wellington's ears, which considerably impairs his hearing. His Grace is attended by Dr. Home and an eminent Surgeon. We regret to state, that the Marquis Wellesley has been for some time indisposed, in consequence of which the Levee and Drawing Room, announced to be held tt the Castle of Dublin, have been postponed for a few days. On Saturday after the General Meeting of the Roman Catholics, Lord Stourton gave an elegant entertainment to the Members of' the Deputation from Ireland, it his house in Wimpole-street. Yesterday Mr. Brougham gave a 'grand dinner to the Deputation, at which were present. his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, the Duke of Norfolk, the Duke of Devonshire, the Duke of Leinster, Lord Duncannon, Lord Killeen, the lion. Mr. Preston, Sir Francis Burdett, M.P. Sir henry Parnell, M.P. Sir Thomas Estnontle, Bart. M.P. Mr. Lambton, M.P. Ma. O'Connell, Mr. Shiel, &c. Mr. Stratford Canning, our Ambassador at St. Peters burgh, had an audience of the Engem and Empress mo ther on the Nth instant. An address has been presented to the Grand Duke of Baden by the Magistrates of Constance, praying him not to establish the intended representative institutions. An answer was given expressive of the Grand Duke's thanks. We have authority to state that a merchant of the highest respectability will offer himself as a candidate for the representation of this city at the next General Elec tion.-IVeree3fer Journal. Mr. Kean played Othello at Drury-lane on Saturday night to a crowded audience. Mrs. Bunn's performance of Emilia was very spirited, and elicited much applause. lIOaaN KstowLsnce.—" I never had the happiness,"' said the blind man in the Princess Palatine's dream, " to behold the light and the glories of the tii man - lent, nor can I form to myself the least idea of the transcendent beau ties I have often heard mentioned. Such is my condition; and from any situation let all presumptuous beings learn, that many very excellent and wonderful things exist which escape human knowledge." READING Hist' o ay.—Lord Chesterfield gives a good direction in reading history—viz. to read some short gene ral history of a country ; to mark the curious and interest ing periods, such as revolutions in the government, reli gion, laws, &c. then to consult the larger histories for full information as to them.—lt is well observed by Hume, that in reading history, trivial incidents, which show the man ners of the age, are often more instructive, as well as en tertaining, than the great transactions of wars and negocis tiona, which are nearly similar in all periods and in all countries of the world. It is not, perhaps, generally known that, by a recent re gulation of the service, any officer of the Marines applying to half-pay, or declining to serre,when called in upon full pay, his widow, by hie so doing, loses all claim to pension, or the children to the Compassionate Fund. BRITISH AND IRISH CATHOLIC MEETING. On Saturday. pursuant to a Requisition, a General Meeting of the British and Irish Catholics was held at the Freemasons' Tavern. to take into theit consideration the propriety of petitioning the House of Lords against the Bill for the Suppression of Illegal A,sociations in Ireland. At a few minutes before one his Grace the Duke of Norfolk was unanimously called to th e Chair. He was surrounded by Lord Smarten, Lord Killeen. the Hon. Mr. Preston, Sir Thomas Estnonde, Bart., Mr. Coke, M.P. (of Norfolk), Ale Grattan, M.P.,&c. The Noble neißlSele rose to address the meeting amidst gene ral applause. He said he would ern trouble the meeting further than to express the great pride anti happiness he felt at bei ng c alled to preside at a meeting composed. as that was, of both English sad Halt Catholics. Nothing could give hint more joy than Pilled them united, as they then were, in one bond. (Applause.) He was convinced that if they contieued firm and resolut e , they must Nue teed i! obtaining those rights which had been so long and no UN justly withheld. (Great applause.) Ile was rejoiced, too, at seeing so many of his Preteatant fellow-countrymen around him ; their ex ertions' united to those of the Catholics, could not fail in obtaining justice for his injured fellow subjects, and in adding to the stability and greatnesa of the empire at large. (Great applause.) Mr. BLOUNT read letters from the Earl of Shr ews b ur y, L o rd de Clifford, lewd Arnndel, and Mr. Francis Canning, of Oxford. expressive of their regret at not being able to attend the meeting. One of the letters, Ale Canning a, we believe, expressed strong hopes that the proceedings of that day would show, that the feelings. and Interests of the English Catholics were in unison with theme of the Irish Catholics. It also declared the strong obligation the Catholics in general were under to the Asiociation, and particularly to Mr. O'Connell, to whom it was principally owing that the ques tion of Emancipation was now made a prominent feature in domes tic policy, and that the attention of all Europe was drawn to it. The writer concluded by expressing his joy that all were now united. Lord Seer. it TON proposed the first Resolution. It was declare tory of the irdisputable right which every man had to religious liberty, and declared that the Catholics were at all times anxious to concede to others what they now asked for themselves. The Noble Lord bespoke the kind and liberal indulgence of the meeting, while lie said a few words in support of the Resolution, which he felt he: based on the great principle of liberty of conscience. He felt it must meet their support, for it touched on a chord in harmony with the wishes of the assembly—not alone of the Catholics in England aid in Ireland, but in harmony with the wishes and feel ings of every enlightened and liberal man, no matter to what country or to what religion he belonged. He felt that cn the present occasion he had before him those whom he might wifely and boldly call the virtual representatives of his Catholic fellow-subjects; and for thus assembling to promote the liberal and Christian feeling involved in the Resolution which he would propose, no man could rebuke them, no man could put them down. (Loud applause.) In advocating such a principle, he was advocating a cause dear to them all. There was one accusation against the Catholics which, in his own name, in the name of the Catholic body, and in the face of the country, he felt him self bound to repel : it was, that the Catholics in general were not sincere in their professions, and that they clothed themselves to the garb of toleration, and decorated themselves in the phi mage of liberal sentiments, for the mere purpose of covering, and at the same time prosecuting, their ambitious views, and of attaining their selfish and private ends. This accusation he would repel, not by argument, but by facts—not by assertion, but by tin dence, and by the united testimony of kingdoms and mighty empires. Europe, Protestant as well as Catholic, proclaimed the sincerity of their sentiments, and the truth of their declarations. Was it not a fact—a notorious fact, that wherever Catholics were united—that wherever liberty prevailed, Catholic as well as Protestant blood was shed in its cause ? (Cheers.) Let him not be understood ea claiming any extensive merit to the Catholics for their warmth in the cause of liberty,--all he asked was, that it should be admitted that the inspiring spark of public liberty had equal power on Catho lic and on Protestant,—that it was not the growth of this culture or of that,—and that when in Catholic as well as Protestant States the spirit of toleration was to be found flourishing, luxuriating, and spreading wide its branches and its foliage,—and that wherever it was known to exist, peace and good order, strength as well as na tional and individual prosperity, were to be found collected and sheltered beneath the security of its shade. (Loud applause.) That they would see in all kinds of government, where toleration was cherished—in the government of Austria, Prussia. and Russia, and thanks to their good Kings in Bavaria and Hanover. (Loud cheering.) They would see it too in the mixed constitutions of France and the Netherlands. They would see it in the Republican Cantors of Switzerland. And they would see it in the United States of America. Titus would they see it on this side of the Atlantic, and on the other, (cheent—they would see this liberty of conscience surrounding this island—incompassing it as an ocean. Thus stood England alone intolerant in the wide and expanded ureverse of toleration. (Applause.) In speaking of the political advantages springing from toleration—as examples were more ogent and more forcible than assertions---he would appeal to the example of the Hungarians, who, after being restored to their rights, became the firmest supporters of the imperial throne, which before they had weakened, and had actually at one time invited a Turkish army to attack the capital of the empire ; and sorely so Catholic denied that there was any one act which did more consoli date the distracted empire of Henry IT. of France titan pawing the celebrated Edict of Name ; and what sovereign ever di ce more to scatter his empire than Louis the XIV., when, declining in his energies, more, perhaps, from excises than age, he revoked that eelighteued and liberal edict (Loud applause.) To that revocation the intelligent men of all countries attributed the first leading and efficient cause of the dnwnfal of the French Monarchy. Thanks be to God ! that fine monarchy has again arisen from its ashes--and there is not one feather in its wing ruffled to prevent it from continuing its natural greatness. With these proofs of Ca tholic toleration before him, he spurned the unjust imputation that the Catholics were not sincere in the expression of liberal feeling, and that, in reality, they were the advocates of absolute govern ment. Was it not strange that the English Government neglected using liberty of conscience—that grand engine and power-loom whiclicould not fail to strengthen the country ? In that species of machinery. and in that alone, were they surpassed by foreigners. (Applause.) The English excelled in the application of the tome of steam, but used not the steam of the liberty of conscience to their fellow men—that force, which, beyond all others, could make them malleable and fusible. (Applause.) On the Irish, particularly, would it bare such influence on them, the high tem perature of whose feelings rendered them more alive than others to kind impressions and liberal treatment. (Loud applause.) The Noble Lord thanked the Meeting for the more than courtesy with which he had been heard. He would conclude by proposing the Resolution ; he was sure it would be found in unison with their own (Carlo, and with the growing feelings of his Protestant fel low subjects. (Applause.) Lord KILLEE x, in seconding it, assured the meeting of the ful l concurrence of the Catholics of Ireland in the liberality of senti ment expressed and avowed by his Noble Friend who had preceded him. The Catholics of Ireland entirely concurred in those true principles of civil and religious liberty which distinguished thee brethren in England. The Catholics of Ireland felt and justly complained of this attempt, by a new penal enactment, to add to the urjust oppression and insult of which they had been so long the objects. He deplored such an enactment in a time of profound tranquillity in Ireland—when the people bore their burdens pa tiently, and exhibited no symptoms to justify the application of fresh coercion. The Noble Lord then defended the Catholic Asso ciation, of which he was a member, and positively disclaimed, on their part, the slightest idea of their (or any of them) desiring a se paration of Ireland from Great Britain ; they disclaimed the mad. new of such a project ; and he, for one, would declare that he would never act with a single individual who could harbour it. Both countries were embarked in one common cause, and must stand or fall together. (A pplause.) The Resolution was then put, and unanimously carried. The Hon. Mr. PRTSTOW, in moving that a petition (which was read) be presented to the House of Lords, founded upon the pre cedingßesolution,took the opportunity of declaring his concurrence in the liberal anti tolerant principles which bad been expressed by bit Noble Friends who had preceded him. Sir Twos. EDNONDE, Bart., in seconding this motion, also ee l:tressed similar sentiments in behalf of the great cause of civil and religious liberty. He declared the satisfaction with which the Ca tholics of Ireland would hail the support of their English brethren in the ptomotion of a cause which ought to be comumn to both, and the consummation of which would accompany the extension of jus tice to them, with the better establishment of general security for the empire at large. The question upon the petition was then put, when Mr. O'Cow weer. Nees and was greeted with loud cheers. He commenced by requesting the would be seated—(many had stood on the hack benches when he rosel--as he feared lee should have to trespass for some time upon their patience; a de claration which, when once avowed by a speaker, was genteelly carried by him into erect. (A laugh.) To lay before the English people the bitter grievances of his countrymen, he had left his home and family—had suspended the profitable emoluments of his profession (though he would nut dwell upon his private loss)— he had made three sacrifices, to do what 7—to make an appeal to English justice—to petition, for what?—to be heard before Ott? , were condemned—to have their statements looked at before they were silenced. In England, and before her Parliameut, had he sought justice, and the Legislature had spurned his petition (hear), and this was the answer which a British House of Commons hail given to the humble petition of seven millions (for that was the amount) of Irish Catholics, who merely supplicated that they should be heard before they were puntahed—tried before they were condemned. (Hear, hear.) That petition for justice, the British House of Commons had, in the ince of Europe, spurned, and he had to return and tell seven millions of Ills oppressed countrymen, that for them the code of justice was closed—the ftn tish House of Coir.mona for them could only provide proscription. Wear. hear.) They dealt not in this sweeping and compendious rejection with the black slaves of Africa; and let them not think the people of Ireland would submit to perpetual degradation and oppression. ( ilea.) To the law they were bound to submit, and to this fresh accession to penalty they would bow their heads like obedient though injured subjeces ; but no man could expert their submission in silence--no man could tear from them the solitary indulgence of complaint against grievances still to be borne ; they would, at least, lie hoped, be allowed to clank their chains in the ears of their oppressors, and remind the authors of their wrongs of the extent of their infliction. (Hear, hear.) In coming here to vindicate the Catholic Association from the calum nies which had been heaped upon that body, he had even of eyed in their behalf to prove a negative. It was usual for the party who had a new law to enforce to justify its necessity, instead of call ing upon the party to be affected by it to show his innocence ; but the Catholics had conceded to the Government that great first pries IP