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PARLIAMENTARY INTELLIGENCE. r •BOOM OF LORI*, Tozsims, ♦*aß. If. Creessi• wept bawl, sod witnesses eawnined at the Bar of the Eons* oil:: wand reading of Barker's 'Divorce Bill. N. Aim the cestroiesiooets of Richmond Bridge, ;in imical cash aseeeot for thuttiT 1824. ANTI-€ 4141410 PETITICNS. ..rrilj:it uv.spipool, presttd a petition from the Pro- I eure- - of the of Glasgow, and another from the Mo of Glasgow, net the claims of the Catholics. i p liestlituto of MO THOSE tpreserted a similar P etition from the iebibitauts Of Alit tiarbab a (1111• 4 1 PW. iIIabORI}CHANOELLOR r yeacnted s petition to the same eifecgibmmthe homegit of Reeding, signed by 1090 pc:tome and *ludas from the Inhabitants of Tome,, , in the county of D evon.i Tt.e Mtge and Lemma Lord observed, that those petitions. as well tos 4,11 /Oen he had bad the bottom to present to their Lordships, ti.etbiesi teaejved by him through the post. Ile had not taken any L.eta.stb *eve deem, bat if he had taken any othrr than a mare passive part I'W could have covered the table with them. Lord. AZIeCHESTER presented petitions to the tame effect from the inhabitants of the borough of Colchester, ` and from the it:habitants of East Duneington, in the county of Ems. Ttt Eart of ENNISKILLEN presented a pstition to the same eff::!, from theinimbitants of Fernattnagh. 'I Le EtrLof SOMERS presented a similar petition to the same elfl.et from the inhabitants of Hereford. The Nobla Lord ob s,reeei that although be did Dot agree in the sentiments of the pe ti:'onet, he hid conceived it his duty to present their petition, ns he would do any petition that was so properly wended, and so re %plc:ably ,igneel. His Lordship then presented a petition to the m.-nerfh:ot. final Kington, in the county of Hereford. .Aimilar newtons ;Me invented-- ry. Lord C:2II.I3ERMURE from Nutsford.,lo Lancashire. `JYD-IslEV,frOMßecienlrsro, in Kent. A. the Earl of AHD:BOON, from th. Freeholders of Wheat lay. raid also f7nut two other parishes in the county of Oxford. iwr lard BEXLEY. from the Minister and Congregation of the Ephcoral Chapel in Queen -square, NVesuninster. ely the Bishop of BATH and WELLS, from the Amlideaccu a. d Cle of the Arebdeacemy of Winchester and another from VII % ill:Criers/7i r i-resa i ' -71. .h. te onserv Ach ea, dame rtat " h uf e ha S J urre in T his hater at ethic potation teethe same effect, but as the petition laid charge+ , to the Roman Catholics which he did not be li eve, and escrowed feelings with which be did not accord, be would decline the Pre kruing of it. Sim:W. petitions were then presented Lnrd KENT ON, from Sudbury, and another from a parish in Chubb?. f•-• the Earl of SHAFTESBURY, from the 31inister, Church es and Parishioners, of the parish of St. Nicholas, in the e-unty of Dorset. the Duke of NEWCASTLE. from Mansfield. the Earl of HAREN'OOD, from the district of Saddle w's.:, in Yorkshire; another from the Mayor. Aldermen , and C /nation Council, of the borough of Leeds ; and another from the toin end wish of Halifax, in the county of York, signed by nine t+. rosind person*. Df the Bishop of CHESTER, from the Dean and Clergy of th• J , :anery of Cloyness. is tlie diocese of Chester—and By the - Bishop of lATCHFIELD, from titockden, in the county of Stifford and another from the Minister an d Churcb wmleas of a parish in the county of Warwick. The petitions were severally laid en the table. COUNTER PETITIONS. The Earl of LIMERICK presented a petition in favour of Rowan Catholic Emancipstioo. from the Sheriff's, Gentry, Free holders; and Inhabitants of the county of Mayo.—Laid on the =hie. Earl DARNLEY presented a petition to the same effect from t!.e Ichabitants of the town and neighbourhood of Chatham, in the county of Kent. The Noble Lord observed, in reply to the ob ',ovation of the Noble and beamed Lord, that he " could have leadel the table with petitione agaicst the Catholics ;" that he was sure every Noble lewd would agree with him in considering that the *Are .could be done with respect to any subject whatever. He was rare also that those petitions could net be deemed expressive VI UV: nublie opinion, as., with the exception of that presented by -; Noble Friend (the LA of Limerick), there was rota siugls en: en the suhject from a meeting convened by the Sheriffs of any sc.4ey.—Laid - on the table. Le:sl K !NG presented a similar petition from Newark. The N Duke opposite (the Dike of Nee:castle) had, a few evenings ago, presented a petition from the same town against the Roman 4X:holies ; he (hard King) felt it necessary to infirm their Lard shine how that petition had been got up. Children had been taken o sign it as if they had been taken to a writing school ; and the Methodist preachers had influenced the women, who had info greed their husbands, who had in torn taken their infants to sign petition. Same of thole who had signed it had thought they were st, , ming a petition against the Corn Laws. The petition he I.ord King) had to present was signed by 150 or 160 persons,_ anti fir rem eztability might, at all everts:vie with that of the Noble 11;11..!. He (Lord King) was not surprised that the matter should t.te beet taken up by the high church party it was all in the w s of trade ; but he was somewhat surprised that the Dissenters, erlio Lee by toleration, should have done so. The Duke of NEWCASTLE said that be had not in any way sanuenerd the minds of the petitioners ; and as to the Methodist Paean., tie bad nevcr hod anything to do with them, and never wiehsel to have. Lad on the table. CORN LAWS. The Earl of HAREWirOD presented a petition from the town of Bradford, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, praying fora reel riun of the Corn Laws; sad another from the Borough of Leeds.— laahl on the table. SMALL DEBTS. _ The Earl of HAREWOOD presented a petition from the Mer chants, Bankvs, and Tradesmen of the City of York, praying the Muse. to enact Laws for the more effectual Recovery of Small Dabs ; another to the same effect from the Town of Dewsbury, in Ytnkshire ; and another from Sheffitld.—Laid on the table. The Earl of HAREWOOD presented a petition from the Cut !art of Sheffield, praying tor a continuance of the Tat upon Dap. on the table. QUARANTINE LAWS. Earl DARNLEY said, he would not trouble their Lordships ...kit many observations on the subject he had now to bring before their motice, as he only meant to move for the production of docu tnents, which be did not conceive there would be any objection to grar.t. He would merely state that a Committee of the House of (...o'r.reons had been appointed to inquire into the circumstances cooneced with foreign trade. They had made their Report, and had recommended a relaxation of the restrictions that had so long tretetr7d this country from infectious disorders. Upon this Re port, I. had undersMod, the Ooverement had already acted, with respect to the vessels that, during the present year, bad arrived from A'eti'le•is. Ile believed that formerly 40 days were allotted for ciacartine to those vessels that had a full bill of health, and 21 for hat a clean bill. The 40 days had now been reduced to r.ritt en those that had a clean bill of health no term of qua r:.-tier.. was demanded. lie should therefore more. in the first p as for a return of the number of vessels entered from the port • Alexandria, and laden with cotton, during the past year; air! al.so for atopy of the Order in Council relative to quarantine. The Larl of LIVERPOOL said, he did not rise to oppose the restior er the Noble Earl ; but he believed the measure to which be allu&A, as a new regulation, was introduced for the purpose of t"..:Axintr the. yStern, because it was recommended by those who Mal ha d the best means of amertainir.g as to its necessity. The ficure would have an opportunity of considering the subject, when Lt.! Bill in progress through the other House came regularly before &ea Lvdahips. Lout HOLLAND said. that if there were any abuse, in the qe4rantine laws, they ought undoubtedly to be corrected. He h . nm.d, hoverer, as the question was one of imporumm, that ti; sr Lordships would give it due consideration.—Ordered. - Er. Pascoe ()relief', and several Members from the Commons. bleu/flit up the Metropolitan Police Magistrates' Bill ; a BiU to permit the. Revel Exchange Company to Instal Money an Rem oter., ; and two other private Bills. A djeurned. HOUSE OF COMMONS, TUESDAR APRIL 19. TEES RAILWAY. •S;r B. HARVEY preser,ted a petition from Sbeernesa,in favour of the Tees B-...way, and also from Harwich and Southend.— .ferred to th.:Comniatec oa the Bill. Me. LASC!•LLES also presented several patitious in favour of Ws Bill. By Mr. HUBERT, from the parishes of St. Botolph and St. Mary Arches, Bristol ; and also from the county of Rutl and. By Sir J. G. COTTERELIe from Kiegton acd Hereford. By Mr. BASTARD, from Tomees, Sidmouth, Great Tortiag ton, Brixton Biddeford, and other towns in Devonshire . By Mr. H . DAVIS, limn the Clergy and different paiishee of BriiteL Upon the presentation of the latter petitions, LEYCESTL' *. begged to make a few observations. He thought the whole of the petitioners who had sent up the petitions at present on their table to be in profound ignorance; and indeed be himulf, before he bail read the Report of the Irish Committee, was no better. He conceived that that trumpery of Popish mira cles were among the Catholic articles of faith; but he bad now learnt, that they were not obliged, to believe them unless they chose. (Laughter.) lie had conceived them to be idolaters, bett now thought that a mo't absurd opinion. He had always uncial. stood that the CAOlOlll.l' wished to aggrandize and enrich their Chinvh, but he had foetid that they aimed at poverty, more suit. able to the secerdotal cheracter. (Ile o ' hear.) These had been errors of his own, but they bad been dispelled by the inquiries .of the Irish Committee. Mr. BRIGHT thought that the Hon. Gentleman had exposed himself, by his speech, to a much graver charge than that of igno rance. It was not from reports picked up in that House that his (Mr. Bright's) constituents had gatitend the character of the Ca. tholic religion. They had read the history of their country and of others, and hod thereon come to the resolution, that where/el the Catholic religion had prerailed, it had been most des tructive. gHear. He (Mr. Btight) was • sincere friend to civil and r esent low l i berty . (Hear, hear.) It seemed to him that the present times had forgot the history of the past; but he would ask, was the Revolution Protestant or Catholic? To whom did they owe their civil and iengious rights, if not to the reformers? The petitioners might be accused of intolerance, but their wisdom was founded in experier.e full tOey now sought to repress that religion which was springing up, in onler that it might not endanger the blessing. which they at present enjoyed. intolerance was talked of, but he was sure that it was shown in this House, for when any petitions came up on this subject, they were severely criticised and exa mined. het them look back a few years, and remember the speech of Sir Samuel Romilly, and they would see how be eh*. renamed the perseentione in the south of Frames then. If the Hon. tenetkutansfio had just sat down bad looked into history, instead of the esparto reports of the Committal. he would not hare made the speech be had done that eventug. He (Mr. Bright) Aid net wish to stir up religious strife (hear, and laughter), but he thought himself called upon, by the duty he owed his mostituents, to empress his opinion that the character of the Roman Catholic religion remained unchanged, and his constituents merely stood to defend the rights and privileges derived from their ancestors. After a few wards from Lori NUGENT, Mr. H. DAVIS presented others from other parishes of Bristol. A similar petition was presmted from the city of Gloucester. Mr. DOGIIERTY presented a petition from the Protestants of New Roes, in Ireland, in faeour of Roman Catholic Claims.— Ordered to be printed. Mr. CRAWLEY presented' a petition from Hunningtoo, against Catholic Claims. Mr. FLEMING presented a petition from the Clergy and Arch. deacoary of Winchester, peering that uo further concessions be made to the Roman Catholic Mr. A. SMITH rose to present a petition from the parishes of Portsmouth and Portant, aping the Claims of the Roman Ca tholics. Mr. CARTER denied that the petition in question spoke the sentiments of the inhabitants of those parishes, and read a resolu tion weed at a public misting there, expressing sentiments of quite an opposite nature. Mr. A. SMITH replied. Mr. CA R'l'Elt made a fey further observations, when the peti tion was brought up, and °tiered to be printed. The same Honourable Mcnber then presented two other peti tions to the same effect, from the Protestant Dissenters and the retail denten, of Bangor. Sir J. IN ICHOLL presented a similar petition from the Mayor, Recorder, and Capital Burgesses of the borough of Tiverton. Mr. It. HILL presented two petitions from the county of Salop, to the same effect. Similar potions were presented from Kirkton, from the Clergy of the Deanery of North and South Rolland, in the county of Lin coln, and front the Protestant Disinters and Wesleyan Methodists of the Parish of Seaforth. Sir G. CHETWYND rose to eresent three petitions against further concessions to the Roman Catholics, front the following places :—tlte llorntigh of Stafford. the Borough of Burton-on .l'rent, and from Litchfield, in Stefintlehire. In the prayer of these petitions he folly concurred. He vas glad to find that the people ie. re roused to a just opposition to these demands. The measure of pensioning the Roman Catholic Priesthood be censured in strong terms. Lord N 1.76 N T said that the name of a Roman Catholic Priest had been used to procure signatares to this petition (from Litch. field), though without effect, foe the parties who bed been thus ap plied to refuted. A boy of fifteen, had said that he, himself, had put three names te it. Sir G. CH ET W YND replied, that the petition was the result of a public meeting held in the county hall. Mr. Secretary PEEL said, that although the boy had put those tames, and very imp ro perly put them, yet he thought this should not be allowed to d iminish any of the weight which ought to be attached to it, for the petition was signed by, and spoke the sertiments of. a great milority of the -inhabitants of that place. Mr. LITTLETON said, that every gentleman of fortune In the county had signed the petition. Mr. CCRTEIS presented two petitions from Lewes to the same effect. Sir J. ASHLEY, a petition from the Vicar, Mayor, and other inhabitants of IVoetton Bassett. Mr. DICKENSON, a petition from the county of Somerset, from Danny, and from Franc. These petitions were severally ordered to be printed. Sir T. LETHBRIDGE presented a petition from the !Dhabi tants of Devizes, against the Roman Catholic asims.—Laid on the table. Sir E. LLOYD presented a petition from certain persons in the county of Lincoln, against further concession to the Roman Cubit. lies.—Laid on the table. Mr. JOHNSON presented a petition from John Newton, of Lincoln, against the oath introduced into the Bill for the Belief of the Roman Catholics now before the House. Petitioner complained that the oath in question required from the Roman Catholics an abjuration of principles and practices which they already abhorred. and therefore that it was equally unnecessary and degrading, and insulting in its nature.—The petition was read, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Alderman THO3I PSON presented three petitions, one from the clergy and inhabitants of St. Mary, Somerset; another from the parish of St. Slaty, Mountthorne; and a third from the Baptist congregation of Walworth, against the Catholic Bill.— Laid on the table. Lord TAVISTOCK presented a petition from the Archdeacon arid Clergy of the Archteaconry of Bedford, in the diocese of Lincoln, against further concessions to the Roman Catholics.— t Laid on the tatle. S. 11. HA RDINGE presented a petition from Darlington, Dur ham, agairst the Catholic Bill.—Ordered to be printed. Sir G. SH !FIN ER presented a potion from the Wesleyan Me. fluidics of Brighton ; a second from the Name class of Disseuters in Lewis; and a third from the inhabitants of Lewis, against the Cathode claims.—Ordered to lie on the table. Lord BR CDENELL presented a petition from the Churchwar. dens and inhabitants of the parish of St. Nicholas, in the town of Gloucester, against further concessions to the Roman Catholics.— Laid on the table. Sir R. HERON presented a petition from the inhabitants of Peterborough, in favour of the Catholic claims ; also a similar peti tion from Newark-on. Trent to the same effect. Mr. BROIiGHA3I rose to lay before the House some purlieu lars which he was enabled to communicate respecting the petition from Grantham against the Roman Catholic Claims, which had been pdpented on a former evening. What he would say, he would be abler to say under the authority of a statement which had been communicated to him, and which he had no reason to doubt. The district of Grantham contained, as he understood. a population amounting to ten thousand persons, and out of this population, she number did the House think had attended the meeting at which the petition in question had been adopted ? lie would tell them shortly ; but first he would observe, that this public meet. taxrappeared to have been constituted and attended somewhat the andel of Scotch public meetings. It consisted of nine and twenty individuals; and it must be acknowledged that nine and twenty individuals constituted rather a small per tentage la a population of 10,000. The petit;on was not much better off than the meeting ; it was signed by exactly 439 persons altogether —on 204 of these be had no remark to make whatsoever. With regard to the remainder, fifteen were clergymen, and be was not dispersed to make any remark on them either. However, there were, lie was given to understand, lien individuals connected with this petition, who were the exact reverse of clergymen, inasmuch as they were not even in a situation to claim the benefit of clergy at I all. (Hear, and a laugh.) These profound politicians and enlight ened petitioners were above the vulgar prejudices and ordinary ac complisliments, they carried their minds back to a happy sort of primeval state; and however they may have acquired the rudi ments and principles of their political knowledge, perhaps through the medium of speeches, they had never 'studied eery hard for their ieformatien, for they were incapable of reading. (Laughter.) Tiny could not rend, and they could not write, 1 but they could sign their names to the foot of an Anti• Catholic petition by means of a cross. (A laugh.) That was at least the short way of don e e things, and they showed their love cf concise ness and their hatred of the Catholic religion by one anti the name art. Of the remaining petitioners, lie was given to understand, four were convicts. (Hear.) He begged pardon of the House aid he also begged rotten of two mesa innocent and reputable individuals, for oo reconsideration lie fund only two of them were conviere anti the other two were merely keepers of brothels. (Hear and laioehter.) These respectable persons, the brothel-he: st . eters, Celt such horror of the rivalry of t he Scarlet Lady of Babylon to lough) dint they rushed with eis greatest impatience to sign the petition. ( H ter.) Ot the remainder of the petitioners he had not much to my ' • ten of them, if report 'make true, were ninth to be pitied, for they were in the habit of receiving parochial relief. (Cheers and laueliter.) At this period of the speed', the Honourable and Learned Gen tleman experienced an Interruption from the Member fur Gran tham (Sir M. Choltneley), whom, we understood, to question the correctness of some part of the statement. Mr. Brougham ant down, and after the confusion consequent upon the interruption h subsided, he again rose, amid loud calls upon him front all puts of the House, and proceeded to say— ata could only state, and had only stated thy fasts is coesequeec: of and relying on information he had received from • person whom he thought nut likely to deceive him. lie was not Immured with the names of the 198 petitioners, who, being unable to sign their own names, except by the symbol of the !TOSS, had procured other paeans to perform that service for them. Not knowing their names, he could not favour the House with them, but Honournble Mem bers would all understand what was meant by nuirksnien. (A laugh.) With regard to the whet individuals he had given the statement in his place as a Member of Parliament. on the authority of repre sentations made to lihn. If the Honourable Baronet (Sir M. Cholmeley) was acquainted with any of these four individuals (a laugh)—he (Mr. B.) named no names—he might be more com p:tent to state something satisfactory on the subject; if the Hon. Baronet (lid so, he (Mr. B.) would be satisfied ; however, all he appeared at present to be able to tender was a kind of negative evi dence on the point. There was another part of the subject involved in the signatures of the ten paupers. He had now accounted for considerably more than one-half of the signatures attached to the petition. The whole number., of surmlbers did not amount to b per cent. on the populatiao of the district from which the peti tion came, and that was a poor per cottage . enough. He had only farther to express his regret that the peutnm had not been read when presented to the House. Be was very sorry for this, because there was no doubt but it must be an exquisite morsel, and pre. vented a delightful specimen of their style of petitioning. The Honourable Member was cheered throttgbout, and sat down amid loud laughter. Sir M. CHOLhIELEY could as the Hon. and 'seamed Gentleman (51r. Brougham) he knew nothing about the four indi. viduals alluded to. It was with some degree of indignation he found himself connected in the idea of the Honourable Gentleman with such characters. He repeated be knew nothing of brothel keepers, and had never been in a house of that description in the whole course of his life.„(Loud laughter.) He thought it irregular and unneceviary to ref& to a petition presented on a former day, and already disposed of. He thought it as grand a petition as poi sable. (A laugh.) Ile felt rather warm on the subject, he admitted, but he was incapable of presenting a petition got up in the manner stated by the Honourable Member for Wincbelsea (Mr. Smug bans). or which was unworthy of presentation. He was too warm at the present moment to give an opinion on the subject of Catholic Relief, and would, thereto-on reserve the expression of his senti ments for a future opportunity. Iced NUGENT had been given to understand that there were 198 of the petitioners who were )harked illiterate, and unable to s4n their names in any other way than had been stated by the lion. Member for Winchelsea (Mr. Brougham). Mr. PEEL thought it rather hasty in the Hon. and Learned Gentleman to make the statement he had done with regard to such a large proportion of the petitioners, without referring to the petition itself. lie (Mr. Peel) was exceedingly surprised at such a statement ; sod being desirous of ascertaining what degree of credit was to be attached to it, he had sent for the petition ; and on examining it he found there was only one cross in the whole yeti ' tion, instead of 198, as had been stated. After an observation from Lord NlMlrrer, Sir R. Heston, and the lion. E. Cuss, the petitions were read, and ordered to be printed. Mr. MABERLEY resented a petition from the Mayor, Bur. gems, and Corporation of Abingdon, against the Catholic Claims. —Ordered to be printed. Mr. T. 'WILSON pprreesseeonted a petition from the parishioners of St. Matthew, Bethnal-green, against the Catholic Bill.—Laid on the table. Sir E. RNATCHBULL presented a petition from the town of Ashford, in Kent, against the Catholic Cleims ; also a similar petition from Sandhurst, to the same .iffectn—Laid on the table. Mr. L. FOSTER presented a petition from the town of Dun dalk, in favnur of the Bill for relienng the Roman Catholics. Lord NUGENT. said, that, who reference to die petition from Grantham, he wished to state, that he found he had been misin formed ; he accordingly wished to retract what had been said at his side of the House on the subject of the petition. Mr. BROUGHA3I said be took blame to himself for not ex amining the petition. Ile had intended looking at the names about which such an extraordinary communication was made, with a view to ascertain whether it was signed as represented. For the future, whenever a communication came from the same gentleman, whom he always found scrupulous to • degree in observing the truth, particularly as to Catholic affairs, with which he was in timately connected—whenever, he repeated, he received a communi. I cation from that gentleman, he would be most happy to act on his oath only, *with, however, a small grain of allowance—that of ex amining the evidence. (Heat, and a laugh.) This allowance he would make for the gentleman's zeal. Since the discussion he had gone through the . petition, and was bound to say, that the state meat was almost in every particular incorrect. To be sure there were In one part of the petition fourteen names signed, aphareetty by the same person. In another part twelve were in the same hand ' writing; in other parts there were live or six bearing the same similitude-nit' all, about thirty or forty were in the same hand. It was also worthy of remark, that some of those describedas illiter ate wrote excellent hands; their writing was as good as the average penmanship of the other names. (Hear, and laugh.) The petition was ordered to be printed. Mr. IsITTLEDALE presented a petition from the town of Vest Bromming, in the county of Stafford, against the Catholic Claims. The Ilonouaable Member also presented one from certain Catholics and Protestants in the town and neighbourhood of Staf ford, in favour of the Catholic Claims. Sir H. PARNELL presented a eimilar petition fromtheQueen's County. An Honoarable Member, whose name we did not learn, said, that granting Emancipation would be meeting the wishes of the Protestants, and doing justice to the Catholics. The ?entices were ordered to be printed. Mr. Secretary PEEL said he had a number of petitions to pre sent against the Catholic Claims. There was one of which he wished to *Rya few words. It was from the Ministers and Elders of the Synod of Glasgow ; it was signed by the Rev. Mr. nPFarlanc, the Moderator, not as an indivithial, but as the representative of the Ministers and Elders of that town, The lieverend Gentleman ac companied the petition with a request that it be presented as from the Corporation whose head he was, and not as from him individu ally. For his (Mr. Peel's) part, he was just as anxious to watch over the Church of Scotland as that of England. He entertained no wish to compromise the dignity of one more than the other, but yet he felt a doubt as to the propriety of presenting this petition as ' from the body. The letter lie received referred to a petition pre. ' anted in 1813, signed by one on behalf of the body, as a precedent for the present petition. lie believed it was the practice of the House, where the seal of a corporate hotly was affixed to a petition, to receive it as coming from the body whose sell it bore. The pe tition, in the present instance, had no seal, and lance these circum stances be would be glad to hear what was the Speaker's opinion on the subject. The SPEAKER said, the law of Parliament was to receive pe titions as front corporate bodies, on observing their known seals affixed to them. The uniforin practice was to hare the seal speak for them ; at the same time he was not prepared to say, that peti tions ought not to be received because they were not authenticated by seals. In the ptesent instance, he thought the safer way would be to act on the precedent, and receive the petition as from a cor porate body, not having a seal. Mr. C. WYNN said a few words. Mr. J. P. GRANT said, that many corporations in Scotland, such as the Universities, had awls; there were also many which had not ; among the latter were all the Ecclesiastical Bodies ; their usual practice is to authenticate any document they adopt by the sinmature of the Moderator. hlr. Secretary PEEL, then presented the petition, and also si milar petitions from the following persons and places :—The Pro testant Dissenters of Cranbrook, in Kent; the Congregation of Fore-street Chapel ; the Congregation of Rev. Joseph Chamber. lain ; from Shoulham ; from Trowbridge ; from a town in Wilt shire ; from the Congregation of Brook-street-yard; from Crown street, Soho; from the Protestant Dissenters of Illampfonl -street. Manchester-square; from the Congregation of the late William Huntingdon; from the Churchwardens and others of Batterley, in Devonshire; from Tomes,; the Protestant Dissenters of the Adelrhi Chapel. St. Martina-in-the-Fields ; the Borough of Reading, in Berkshire; St. John's, Ilampstead, in Middlesex; liatford, in Hertford; from Clerkenwell ; and Protestant Dissen ters of Union-street Chapel, Surrey. Mr. W. SMITH did not rise to object to the right of persons to petition; his object was to disabuse the Howie of a notion that yesterdly prevailed, namely, a sort of general persuasion that the Protestant Dissenters were hostile to the Bill now before the House. On looking over an alphabetical list of all the Dissenting Cungre gations, it turned out that only five or six petitioned against the measure. He held in his hand a regular list of all tbe.congrega dons that can be regularly called Dissenters, namely, Presbyterians, Independents, and Barra% The number ofeongregations amount ed to minty-44x, and out of these only five or six expressed their hostility. There were others who had done so, hut these did not properly belong to the Dissenters. The Dissenters were by many confounded with the Wesleyan Methodists, and others who diffesed from the Church of England; and to this circumstance the mistake was attributable. lie was anxious to exhibit to the House the misconception that pre vailed. The Dissenters, as a body, had not opposed the present Bill; as individuals they might have done. This, however, he was convinced of, that not one in one thousand expensed an opinion on the subject. He believed their wish was to leave the matter en tirely to the window of Parliament. It was a question on which they abstained from interfering, from a feeling of delicacy. They knew that there were many points of difference es well as resen.blance between them and the Catholics, and therefore were they parti cularly anxious to leave it entirely to the wisdom of the beghla. tore. For his ova part, .it would grieve hint much if the Dig writers. as a body, were enemies to religious toleration, and to evil linerty, in its widest extent. (Cries of " Hear, hear .") Still further would it be a subject of regret to hint if they thoiteht any man's religion should be an obstacle to the enjoyment of civil office. Theim we.. - the grand political that they ehoold do unto others as they wished to be ,tone by. Tame was no one thing they loved more than political libeety, sled they mete at ell times reedy to concede it to others. Mr. S. RILE said, that a report had gone abroad, founded on the testiionny of an individeal before the Committee on the State of Ireland, that the Presnyieriens of the North of Ireenul were hostile to the Cal:mile Claims. Ile had that (ley received a communica tion from the ministers and elders of the county et Down. stating, that so 'fur from their being heetile to the Lill, that if they teem called en 'o express au opinion on the subject, it would be decidedly favourable to the Catholic Claims. This paper sal signed by 139 Dissenters of Ulster. They called on the Home to abolish all civil disquanficstions ; they declared their most ooqualitied dis claimer of the semis:mem; imputed to them, and expressed their astonishment that any one individual could veuture •o come forward as their organ. There were many names of the tlrst respretabnity signed no the pap:: scot Cne of the aiirne4 was that of the present High Sheriff of the county of Down. It was a circum• stance worthy of renserk, that a gritleman of so high a rank as that individual rot only wished not to exclude the Catholics from die possession of their just rights, but that he should come forward to bear testimony of the growing feeling of the Protestants towards them. ffiuch conduct was worthy of the Fresh) teriana of the North of Ireland. 'lnc several petitions were ordered to be printctl. Sir F. 1117:1DE'17 presented a petition from Falmouth, in Cornwall, in M. our of the Catholic Claims. The Hon. Baronet presented a similar one from Lewes, in Sussex.—The petitions were ordered to Le printed. Mr. SCAR LETT said, he rose to present a petition in favour of the Bill for Catholic Emancipation, which, though not so nu mercusly signed as some which had been that night laid before the House, yet he would venture to assert, contained as great. if not a greater mass of intelligence in its numbers, than any one petition which had ever teen brought under their notice. It was signed by a very small number,only 183 persons, but he would say, that there was not, either in or out of that house, any other set of men of equal number rho were, from their integrity, their einenity, their knowledge, or their extensive acquaintance with public affairs', bet ter qualified to give an opinion upon this question, uninfluenced by any private or political motives. It was a petition from 183 Sergeants and Bounders of England, and as it was not worded at any great length, he would take the liberty of reading it to the House. The Honourable and Learned Gentleman then read the petition, which stated shortly that the undersigned Sergeants and Barristers. sincerely attached to the laws and constitution of the country, were of opinion that it would mainly conduce to the pros perity of the empire, if the rights and privileges they enjoyed under that Constitution were extended to their Catholic countrymen, and they therefore prayed that the civil disabilities under which the Roman Catholics laboured might he forthwith removed. Al though thin petition was signed by 183 gentlemen of the descrip tion he had mentioned, he begged to say that it by no means coin prised theopinions of the Bar of England upon this important dura tion. He could speak from his own knowledge of a great many indi victuals, who, although they entirely concurred in the sentiments of the petitioners upon this subject, yet from an aversion to give an appearance of the Bar petitioning as a body, had declined to affix their signaturts upon the present occasion. If the petition which be had the honour of presenting was worthy of the greatest attation, from the intelligence, property, and character of those who had signed it, it was no less remarkable from the pare, up right, and disinterested motives which those petitioners displayed in it ; for if there was any one body of men more than another whose interest, honours, dignities, and emoluments, would be affected by admitting the Catholics to participate in the rights and privileges of the Constitution, he would maintain that that body was the Bar of England. (Loud cries of "Hear, hear. hear.") Another thirg he would allude to while upon this subject ; he meant the circumstance of which the House must be fully ap- prised, that the profession of principles, such as were contained in the petition of to-night, has not been the high road to preferment in this country. (Hear, hear, hear.) It was not necessary to allude more particularly to the causes of that exclusion ; he would content himself, therefore, with saying. that the best way to arrive at both dignity and emolument. would be to become an apostate to the principles which these gentlemen avowed. He would ask. then, did not these gentlemen who had the courage to put them selves forward on this occasion, deserve all the attention shirt must be due to their integrity, knowledge, anti character? (Hear, hear.) He could not conclude without expressing how much he felt himself honoured in being selected to present this petition, which, notwithstanding the rank, character, and wealth, repre sented in its signatures, did not, he begged to assure them, con tain the name of a single Member of that House. He must, before are sat down, allude to one point more, and he was the more anxious to do so, because he had heard the contrary was asserted ; that at no period had the Bat of England contained a greater por tion of zeal, ability, and integrity, than at the present moment- This ha would maintain, although he had heard it was said in high clearers that the Bar was at present deficient in talent.— He was old now, but he remembered when he first went to the liar that hs members could not enter into any comparison with those of the present day ; indeed, there were not in the whole list more than two individuals learned out of their profession, while now there was hardly a member who could not boast of en extent and varivy of attainments equal to those who were then considered the most distinguished in rank. Repeating that this petition had claims to their attention as high, if not higher. than any which had been submitted to their attention, he would move for leave to bring it up. Mr. BROUGHAM did not think he would do his duty to those who were so intimately connected with the due administration of justice in this country, if he did not give his humble teatintpny to all that had been stated so forcibly and so truly by his Honourable Friend the Member for Peterborough. With respect to what had been said by that Honourable Gentleman, on the subject of sign ing the petition, he could state that it had not been got up by any concerted proceeding among the members of the Bar, but that it had been produced by a few individuals, and afterwards adopted by those whose signatures were now affixed to it—men who were entitled to attention, as much from their rank and stand ing as from their merit and integrity. No Members of that House, however. had signed it. No Catholics had signed it— it was the petition solely of a most respectable portion of the English Bar. But he would beg leave to say , that the House would form a very inadequate estimate of the opinion enter tained by that Bar upon the subject of the Catholic Claims, if they conceived that all who were favourable to that ause lead signed this petition. On the Northern Circuit, there eisere 90 or 160 Baristens, of whom not mon than 10 Sr 50 had affixed their names, while,to his personal knowledge, there were St os 3i more who had expressed their entire concurrence in the views of those petitioners, their only objection to sign being, as had been expressed by his Honourable and Learned frierd, scruples upon the subject of the Bar. seeming to combine together as a body. So t sat, out of the whole body of 100 Baristers going the Northern Circuit, not above half a dozen, certainly not 12,were opposed to the Catholic Claims ; and he believed the same observation woule. hold good of all the other Circuits. It was worthy of remark, how great a change had taken place io t'ae opinions of the liar, with regard to this question since it was find brought befcre that House. About 20 years alto, that is, in the year 1005, whin 31r. Fox first intro duced the subject, seconded by 31r. Grattan, the observation would have been just, that, perhaps, not more than 10 or 12,0 n a circuit, would have been inclined to listen to any concession, while now they saw the great majority of the most enlightened and the best educated, earnestly imploring that House to grant to their Roman Catholic countrymen the rights which had been withheld frost theta, not more than 6 in the 100, the mere 20th part, holding up their hands against that just and neceessary mea sure. (Hear, hear.) The petition was then brought up and laid upon the table. The Earl of BECTIVE presented a petition from the county of Meath, in favour cf the Catholic Claims. The Noble Lord said the petition was signed by 10,009 persons. Mr. DENNIS BROWNE was proceeding to say a few word .s in support of the prayer of the petitioners , when 31r. DO3IINICIC BROWNE interrupted the Honourable Gentleman, by suggesting that he was supporting the wrong peti tion. (Loud iau/lter.) The floeourab e Gentleman, Mr. Dennis Brown, then sat down, amidst erica of "i t lear, hear." Mr. I)O3ITNICK BROWNE then presented a petition from the Sheriff's, Clergy. and Freeholders of the county of Mayo, in favour of the Catholic Claims. The Ilonourable Gentleman stated that this petition had been agreed to at a very large county meet ing, not got up in private, like some others upon the opposite side of the question, which he had seen lately laid before that House. Ile wished to say from his experience, he could confirm the state ' ment of the Honourable Member for the Queen's County (Sir H. Parnell) that the great bulk of the Protestants of Ireland were now favourable to Catholic emancipation, and that those who still con tinued opposed to that measure were content to leave it to the wisdom of the Legislature, without any further interference. (Hear, hear.) Mr. DENNIS BROWNE supported the prayer of the peti:ion, and expressed his hope that the time was now arrived for putting ' an end to all religious and political distinctions. The petition wan then brought up, laid upon the table, and or dered to he printed. Lord NUGEN f then rose and said, that he moved for leave to bring up the petition of the Roman Catholics of Great Britain. That hotly, consider. ble in number, elevated in station, elem. plary in character, aid deeply aggrieved in being shut out from an equal participation in the Constitutional rights of their fellow subjects, now approached that House with renewed and sanguine hopes of their being speeddy restmed to freedom. With hopes, founded as well upon the progress their cause had already made, as upon the hands in which in which it 'Sad been placed—the hands of the man (Sir Francis Burdett) in his conception of all others the best qualified to advocate the freedom of his fellow creatures, they feel that a cruse of justice, freedom, and liberality, in his hands must, from the sincerity, energy, and power, with which i: would be advocated. overpower all opposition. lVhatever might be the result of the discussion this year—and he mentioned this year, because he agreed with an Hon. Friend, that the opposi tion to this question was now reduced, on the part of its oppo nents, to a mere calculation of whether ore or two years shall be the duration cf the evening life of cruel oppression and hazard ous injustice ;--he must repeat, that whether this year was to be the last, or whether bigotry and intolerance was to linger on for another, still that emirent person (Sir Francis) was entitled to the gratitude of the Roman Catholics, for having advanced that cause in the opinion of the people, by the exemplary temperance with which he introduced it to the notice of the House; and by the talent and judgment which had enabled him to raise the popular sentiments nearer to his own. The petition was signed by 32,000 persons; hut he did rot mention that because he attached any im portance to there being a few names, more or less, out of the 200.000 ( 'athoi ics of Englend.or because he t hop ght that a want of a few names more or less, would detract from the moral and )ethnical Injuitice of refusing their prayer ; nor did he advert to the illustrious names who had signed the petition. others ise than to show that, under all the circumstances which heed been brought forward to influence them—under all the oppositien of the Protestants, these petinoneis had not been deterred from coining forward to do their duty, in edvocating what they conceived to be the rights of themselves and their at tiering rotuttrymen. The Noble land here alluded to the connection between the lrish and Itratlish Catholics. nod made some obsereatiOns upon the. distingoished penoss examined before the Co:online?, but from the continued noise is the body of the House we were unable to catch their precise meaning; indeed from I this circumstance, and the NobleLoru's habit of dropping his voice at the conclusion of a sentence, we wen obliged to conjecture the tenor di Many of his observations. Tee Right Honourable Seers. tary for the Home Department had said he wadi rest his opposi tior. to the Catholic claims upon the terms of the treaty of Lime rick: Ha (Lord Nugent) hoped to hear the Honourable Member fir Westrrieteterreltly to the Right Honourable Secretary upon that subject. He would rest his support of that treaty upon the terms of the 9th of King William, the very preamble of whicis supports the terms of that treaty in every particular. and until the terms of the treaty be forgotten, they must stand before Ireland as unprincipled oppressors, gill discussing and still deny ing to fulfil their obligations. Ile would not so far insult the Il lustrious petitioeus on this occasion, as to attempt any vindication of their conduct against the impotent calumnies by which thew opponents nought to silence their coniplaiuts. Their unimpeach able fidelity and loyalty, through years and centuries of persecution and obloquy, was a triumphant answer to all accusations. The despair of the English Catholics. and the existence of the Catholic Aesociation,which had been lately suppressed, might be dated hour the same time, because they were produced by the same cause— the refusal of that House to admit the English Catholics to the privileges enjoyed by the Catholics of Ireland. But although they now united with complete reciprocity, they had no other Sestet tbao to give religious freedom and perfect toleration to all persuasions, even to the utmost extent, to those who had ungraciously and un generously petitioned against them. They pray only to be relieved from oaths which border on idolatry, and which are at variance with common sense and our own religion. They pray to be relieved from the oaths against transubstantiation, an article of our creed, which it should be recollected Elisabeth would not allow to be questioned. and for denying which Henry V 111. dragged several persons to the stake. They pray for relief from those relics of barbarous times. and belonging to a different state of society. It had been charged against these noble persons that there was ground of alarm in giving them political power, from their subservience to the Pope. Let them look, he would say, through English history, in titres when Popery was more powerful than at present. Let them look at the statutes of Mor n and rremunire, enacted solely to op pose the Papal influence, and then say what danger is to be apprehended. Let them look through all the statutes. and say if the ancestors of these noble persons have not re- Fisted with their utmost power all attempts of the Pope to interfere in any manner with our laws and constitution.— He was desirous before he sat down, of adding one word with ea apect to the Jesuits, the revival of which order seemed to have ex cited a considerable degree of anxiety in the minds of some He had, in the course of this Session, for the first time heard attributed to that body that they were friendly to arbitrary power. As to the apprehension that had been raised from the restoration of that order. he believed that the Pope had not sanctioned or per mitted the re-establishment of, that ordee in this country. But though he had done so it would not beetitt him a ground of objec tion. but he would say to all those who weft jealous of the power of the priesthooi, or who dreaded their influence—dissolve the in fluence cf the priesthood by the concession of political power to the people. (Hear, hear.) To effect so desirable an object, they should pus the Bill of that night. There was a prevailizainiou l now that it should pass, and a few years after it bad and after they had contemplated all the advantages that would flow from it. they would look back with regret on the past cruelties they had practieed, and on the opportunities of passing this mea sure which they had deferred. Every man who now heard him must be aware that the present system should come to a acinse. (Hear.) Nor was there a man who heard hint, who, had he it in his power to do so, would re-enact the laws w hich it was now sought to re peal. (hear.) In the consideration of this question it was Im portant that they should bear in mind the pledges which had been given to the Roman Catholics on this question. Hector Duigeoan, himself a Roman Catholic, though he subsequently abandoned that faith, in 1797 wrote to the following effect on the then projected measure of a union :—" That if by such a measure the people of both countries became one, the preponde ranee of Protestants would be so great that no further necessity would exist for imposing restraints on the Roman Catholics." Not -1 withstanding that declaration, when he subsequently became a Member of the Imperial Parliament, he evinced the most marked ' hostility against the concession of political power to his Roman 1 catholic countrymen. A pledge of relief was communicated by Mr. Pitt to Lord Cornwallis in 181)1, and through him to Lord Fingall argil tc the Catholics generally. He hoped they would take this pledge into consideration that evening; they could not now ex -1 pcet that the Roman Cethelic religion would be extinguished; the hope of its dying a natural death must now-be at an end, and, by resistance to this measure, they were only accumulating motives to induce the Roman Catholics to adhere to their faith. The longer they delayed the measure the greater would be the difficulty of Car rying it, and the greater the difficulty the more absolute the neces sity of speedily adjusting it. The time was peculiarly favourable: that which he demanded as a right would be received by those for whom it was intended as a favour and a boon. If the present laws against the Roman Catholics affected but one individual in the coentry, lie would plead fur their repeal ; but when they affected six millions of his fellow-subjecue lie the more earnestly besought the House to do themselves and the country an inestimable benefit by doing justice to the petitioners. Mr. J. SMITH was desirous of offering an observation on this petition, merely with a view of calling the attention of the House to the character of the body which they prescribed. lie had known many of them and watched their general conduct ; and he could safely say that there was no class of society (with the excep tion perhaps of the Quakers, than which perhaps there was no more useful members of the community more remarkable for their probity, their industry, and their worth.) They were not found to swell the list of bankeupte, bat were found engaged in pursuits of successful industry. If called upon hr eou'd prove this shwa tion but he believed it would be generally admitted, and therefore he deemed it must unjust that such a Claes of persons should be shut our from the enjoy. :nem of civil rights. Mr. ROBERTSON said that his sentiments towards the Irish Roman Catholics had already been frequently expressed, and were generally known. He still entertained the same sentiments towards them. But he looked toward , . the Roman Catholics of this country with quite a different eye. (Coughing and some confusion.) He would vote for the Emaecitation Bill of the Hoe. Bert but hoped some clause would be annexed to prever t Roman Cat holics from sitting in Parliament for Engeeh counties or boroughs. [The coughing of Members here became so general, that the further observations of the Hon. Member were quire inaudible.] Mr. COKE presented a peti:i n hem the Archdeacon and seventy-two Clergymen of the dioccss of Norwich. To the Ventre able Bishop who presided over this dioccas, the utmost praise was due, and most happy should it make h m (Mr. C.) were it permit ted him to congratulate hint on the sucess of that question, which he had for se many years so earner. tly &deaf ated. (Hear, hear.). He was aware that another petition fad been presentee in another place from a portion of the Clergy of Norfolk, tie favourable to the great anti necessary measure. The os: exertion was made to get up that petition ; it was the result of log prey ions prfpnration. anti much activity. Passion Week, and even Good Friday, was de voted to the procuring of signatures; the petitioners, it was to be presumed, supposing according to the proverb, "'l he better day the better deed." Tim petition which he hal now the honour to present, was only in progress for seven days ; it was calla(' forth by the exertions of those who presented a petition on the other side, and but for which there might have been no petition at all from the diocess. He was happy to take this opportuniry of expressing his concurreece in the sentiments of his Honourable Friend, the Mem ber for Norwich (Mr. W Smith), as to the liberal, tolerant, and enlightened sentiments entertained eat es question by the Linen tees of Norwich. He wont I not further trespass on the attention of the House, than by reading the prayer by which the petition con cluded, in which he meat fully a l / 4 2 - reed, " that the preservation and welfare of the Protestant religion, the stability of the Church, an d the respect and affection towa rds its Ministers, were best secured by the rectitude of their doctrines, and not by restraints on those who may differ la opinion front them." (Leith cries of " Hear, hear.") Mr. WODEIIOUSE bore testimony to the respectability of the petitioners, and fully concurred in the sentiments of his Hon. Colleague, and with those of the petitioners. Ile regretted that in some petitions which were presented against this measure the question was regarded rather as one of controversial policy than as one of great and important legislation. Ile thought the payer of the petition was highly laudable. [Here the lion. Member read the passage from the petition which lad been read by the Hon. Member who preceded him.l These sentiments were highly worthy of the petitioners, and for them he was desirous of ex pressing towards them his most grateful acknowledgments. Lord MILTON concurred with the lion. Gentleman who spoke last, in the expression of thanks to the petitioners, for the highly creditable and liberal sentiments contained in their petition. He was the more desirous of doing so, as this petition presented a gratifying contrast to many petitions from the Clergy which h a d been laid before the House. They sought far the most part to esta blish the pre-eminence of Pmtestentisin on the ground of the ex clusion of those from civil rights who differed from them. In doing so thee abandoned the high ground on which he wished to see the Protestant religion stand. (Hear, hear.) It was not front any attachment to the Roman Catholic mode of worship that he supported this Bill ; but he was, he conceived, more a Protestant, and a better friend to the interests of his religion, by opposing ex. elusion, than those were who sanctioned it. The withholding few paltry political privileges from those who professed a different mode of faith from us, was an unworthy way of maintaining a national religion, and was degrading to the character of the Chute: of England. This exclusion operated as a positive persecution, lo be held it to be the right of every subject of this country, accord ing to the constitution of it. to enjoy the protection of eq ua l l aws . The enactment of any law that withheld that protection, was at, infringement of his right, and pro tango a persecution of hint (Hear, hear.) The petition was then brought up. and ordered to be printed. CATHOI.IC EMANCIPATION BILL. Sir F. BURDETT moved the order of the day for the second reading of the Catholic Emancipation Bill. Bro A xiw a rn. soit: (f)r u omw s t a h il e i,o o pa rd lrv e u r , ooff after tthe ih ge t the all yH ouse "b r a c o mov ed, t h e ed a d f a sonic e(l . m Mr . i elutes, rose. He assured the House that it was with feelings full of the seriousness of the subject--of deep anxiety as it affected the interests of his country—and totally divested of past recollections. that he came to the consideration of this most awfully interesting and painful question. &gore he proceeded to the consideration of it, there was one sentiment which he felt which he would not dis guise, and which he believed was !centrally entertained by the House. It was this: that "eireuniscaoted sa we are in Ireland, we cannot remain." (Cheers.) The condition of that country truly disgraceful, and was fetch as to render life there truly misa or other should be dome; the ?able. It was tom anti divided by two great religious parties , which were in a state little removed from that of actual content ci fr s o i ncei t e i e l :;i t e oi s too a t fh i c e enh h h teahw o tner . canna .t he t a ti n t ,otn i t o he H n lpear , e t ar s aro. ;u : etliing ealla h ea r .)ao nwnhto pri ncipler lars'ertt to be to b relievee o i t l : s n the laws ? t that n b : t : t a r e: t d . passed e at a former period, neither can we stop where we art; let us go forward on the pi iteipk of concession. (Loud charts.). He Yee* it war the rowel feeling in Ireland that a vicar) pea. COLLIER DOCK. A . ASST 0 ' Mr. Aldrrrnac WOOD presented a petition from the owners of tort to mere:not verse's, against the Collin Dock.—Referred to the f;oranitoe on de Bill. KATIIARINF.'S DOCK. pa the motion of Mr. GRENFELL for the third reading of thiA r. CA TN PRT objxted to it ; 'but, after some slight discus :jou, it w;. s read a third time without a division, Mr. Alderman WOOD presented a petition from the pariah of Wt o :tteliapel, praying for the repeal of the A ggeSSeti Tuts. Mr. , l - .) . 9i40 8150 presented petitions iron , St. Mary, Islington, ate Lt•ite's, Old-strtto, praying for the repeal of the house sod , ft:o 1' fiTIONS IN FAVOUR OF THE CATHOLIC CLA MS. _ . . ......,. Mr: TYNTE preented — a petition in favour of the Cathol'c atiori f fmin Monnitrutliahive. 1. HONEVIii'OI/D also prevented one from Chatham. FSTITIONS AGAINST THE CATHOLIC CLAIMS. • Petiti..os were prratieetl, praying that uo further concessions trvit L! TrWie to the Roman Catliolirr., Jjj 11r. A Herman WOOL), from the inhabitant , ' of St. Mary, Wltv i., PAUL, Ikon Atibmton, and also from the Clergy of Der..y " ( MOM , . Pow the Clam and Archiloaconry of Sad er . c ri, : r:1 W;:keity. J L'ird 1:A FzTNOlt, from Hereford. ht.ll'...tEEE, from the pariah of (Arm. is Stands. • i.iON, from 8... el ßy Mr. W. E. POWELL, front the upper part of Cardigan -1 h.'. • ' r E. HARVEY, from the Clergy of 'Rises, sod also from Pear • •g. Walden and Eager. - - ~S THE BRITISH PRESS. I [