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=~ )IF r-um. 4* I ' 4 = PARLIAMENTARY INTELLIGENCE.. HOUSE OF COMMONS THIS DAY, • . . • • ORDERS OF THE DAY. County Treneder of Land Bill Second Dome Lows BSI—TAbd Reading. Dolonial Interosans, BM—Further Consideration el Report. Jades Bin—Further Consideration of Report. Small Debts (Scotland) Bill—Further Consideration of Report. Data Recovery (Scotland) BBL—Farther Ctiosideretion of /te r Camda Company Bill—Seeped Reading. Van Diornen's land Company Bill—Second Reading. Roman Catholic Relief Bill—Committee. Land Tax Amearnents Bill—Committee. `Sapsy port Pirates Haalkfoney BilL—Committee. Settlement of the Poor Bill—Committee. East India Judges Bill—Further Consideration of Report. Spirit Duties Acts—Report thereupon. Supply —Report . Supply—Comm ittee. Dissenters' Marriages Bill—Further Consideration of Report. Eleatic Franchise (Ireland) Bill - Second Reading. • Bankrupt Laws Amendment Bill—Third Reading. Arrests for Debt Bill—Further Consideration of Report. Jurnrs (Scotland) Bill—Report. Cutlery Trade Bill—Second Reading. rankers (Ireland) Bill—Committee. lisarren's Wages Bill—Third Reading. Ways and Means—Committee. Customs Laws Repeal BM—Second Reading. Customs Management Bill—Second ftesding. ' Chancery Court (Ireland) BM.. .Sewed Reading. Navigation I#ll,ll Bill—Second Readirg. Exchequer Court (Ireland) Bill—Second Reading. Customs Regulation 13111--Second Reading. Smuggling Prevention Bill—Second Reading. • ()rands Warehousing Bill—Second g. Ire of 3hm Trade Bill—Second ing. Exchequer Bills (Public Works) Acts—Onninittee thereupon. Zju. PrElO5. DnURF-LANE THEATRE. nth gremlin. MON DAP. April U. will be perfengsed VIRGIN MIS. rilantua. Mr. Matronly: Marius Dentinal. Mr. Terry; MMus, Mr. Viallaek. Virginia. Illra.W.Weit. ".... After which. HARI.ROUtAT AND THE TALKING PIRD. THE SINGING TREES, AID GOLDEN WATERS. Harlequin, Mr. Howell; Pantaloon, Mr. T. Blanebard; Clown, Hr. Kirby. Columbine. 11Ies Barnett. To-morrow, The Fa'l of Algiers, and Abon Haman. • COVENT-G.4nDEN THEATRE. ■l' MY MANI , n► M. X Tata Evening, MONtIAY. Aor.l 25. will be performed DER ERE►S('HQTZ: Or. THE Pt ACK HUNTSMAN OF BOHEMIA. °peeler, Mr. Raker; Conrad. Mr. Egerton: Caspar. Mr. Hebnett: *Ream. Mr. reannan: the Mick Huntsman of Bohemia. Mr. Evans; iftrttia. Miss Paton; Lena. Illss Love. After o Web. CHARLES THE SECOND. pap Charles'. Mr. C. KemMe: Lord Rochester, Mr. Janes; Captain Copp. Mr. Fawcett. Mary, Miss 11. 'tree. To-mortow,, A Woman Veva. Vext, and The Poachers. HAYM.4RICET THEATRE. Thus Evening. MOND %Y. Vnril svij Iw p.rformed rlir Ml , 1211 V WIVE, OF WINDSOR. . . _ Sir John Falstaff, Sir. Donlon Master S!ender, Mr. J. Russell; Juetiee Shallow, Mr. Younger; Ford, Mr. Irvin.; Sir high Evans. Mr. Williams; Fenton. Mr. Melrose; Dr. Caine. Mr. W. West. Mrs. Fort. Maim,' ; MN. Ps ;c, Mrs. T. Hill ; Anne Page, Miss George; Mrs. Quickly, Mrs. C. Jones. An,— whC:h. IN rrtmt:F. Tom, Mr. J. Itu.sell ; Ellen. %Inflame Vestrii. To eonelude with _ _ SIMP,iON CO. M Simpson, Mr. S. Bennet: Mr. Aromley, Mr.lilninx. Mrs. Simpson, Mrs. Glove- • Mn.Bromley. M Davison • • . TI-morrow, The Hyjvcrite, the ngniciiii!e surprisc, and Torn Thumb. ENGLISH OPERA HOUSE. MR. M.XTIIEWS AT HOME. This Evening. MONDAY. Apr 25. sled on Thursday and Saturday. MR. MATHEWS' M ENIORAN M4OOO. et Peculiarities, Chanteters, and Manners, collected during his various Trips. Some—o Memoranda In Confol ,, m"—" NUght Coact"—•• Rubbles." a ecwitef Song—•• Selling Match"—•• Old and New Times"—•' Public OfDeo, BOiretreet." PAW? 111.—. t Monnonlyl ,cue. to be called THE (rv.% V INs DANCER. Doors nuen M Speen : the Performance to commence at Eight. Carina.—The new Entertainment will not he printed • and all 71 • Ike praossins to contain any parts of It are gross Impositions and frauds on the The BRITISit Patss commenced publishing on Saturday morr. iug at five o'clock. LONDON. MONDAY. Aran 25, 1,25. We have received the Paris Papers of Friday. Thc Law of Indemnity was adopted by the Chamber of Peers on the preceding day, by a majority of 169 votes against 63. It was, however, previously modified by a very important amendment proposed by the Committee. This amendment was an additional article, consisting of two parts, in the fol lowing terms : Ist. The first article of the law of the sth of December ICI4, shall continue to be in full and complete effect. 2:1 Consequently, none of the provisions of the preceding law can in any case prejudice the rights acquired before the publication of the Co-‘titsoional Charter, and secured by the said article both to the state and to individual•, or give rise to any proceedings against then.. On this article there. was much discussion. The first part was adopted unanimously. On the second there was a division. The majority in its favour was 124 against 99. tiamany of the Peers are men of the Revolution, that it was to have been expected they would not agree to the indem -n:ty without tacking to it a guarantee for the possessions t'ley hat! obtained previously to the Restoration. We shall nee bow this amendment will be received by the Charnbcr of Deputies, in which the emigrant majority seemed to fa vour the law only as a preparatory step to the resumption of their estate-. The intilerant ellarfi:e lately given to the clergy of his thocese by the 'atainal•de Cnor, Archbishop of Rotten, c,:sitinues to engross the attention of the French public. It is, indeed,'incrtdible that Fitch a document can have been is tied at this pf clod of general knowledge and liberality. A part of these instructions is written in Latin, in order, 'We suppose, to conceal it from the multitude. It relates to the sins, the absolution of which the Cardinal reserves to himself or his Vicar-General. Among these sins he Enumerates the crimes of heresy and ! Cncler the fir:t he includes every kind of support and countenance git en to ;:eretiez ana sch ismatics, and the unauthorised peru ell ztha I,...eping of heretical books and others prohibited by t'te lIstoi:11 Church. Under magic he comprises all sorts of d viratiLms. poisonings, and other exercises of the black art. It is in •pirit and in this language that the last crated Card&al of Rome issues his orders to the clergy of 11 . s t',ecese•, run.: kingdom on the Conti n pit of Eurcp , . Tire lt,fe.tnce from his proceedings is irre : e. ter the Chureli to which be belongs is not (lithe,: in its ext.:trines, or its professors do not think proper, in ether coantlies where they have less power, to arow all the doetriacs th , y bold. The French Govern ment. it appeals, is alarmcd at these extravagmit ant rtiona of the ecclesiastical authority. It is stated, that as sson as the law teliecti:.g the renter shall have passel the Cham ben, the ehargo of the Archbishop of Rouen will be laid bef.re the Cot:::cil of State. Prince NlL•rri o::ICH lilt Paris on Thursday moriing, with his son, for Milait. The accounts from Spain are so confused and contradic tory that we can give no credence to Coen). One letter etatcs that UGARTE left Madrid on the 9th, with instruc tions to attend the Congress at Milan ; another letter re presents that he was still in Madrid on the 11th, and that he had lost the KING . 6 favour only in appearance. The t.irioti: party are certainly gaining ground. The blood thirity b:;•ot, Father Clete, the General of the Cordeliers, l•a•: been r.ealltet from exile, and the wretched victims of pe ,, secutiou are bunted down in every direction. The French no longe r 'uteri( re to save them. The destitution of the Royal Treasury has fuggested a new expedient to foe Spar.:ah Cave:rtreat. !t Cornm!ts:en is 'appointed to iii ~e- _~-_ ~.._ reduce the pay of all civil ftmetiesseist, as N M Iplsollllllol " more in harmony" with the means of the Stets. •• PRIWC/I FUNDS.—Patais, APRIL 21—ns, per CAENL j t at lalf. 90c., dosed at dim Bank Sack. Naples (Certif. Takesset) 4111. 7k. Recta d'EsPolso. Spanish Loan, 1233., 571. Exchange an Looks 'eL-Ona maw* W Sic. ; thee months, 24E lik.—Coors 44.440;th4a5, Alrif !O. Yesterday we rewire d t Flammeisetue, and other Brazilian papers to the 3d ult. inclusive. They are filled only with the accounts of the Esteelois severity towards the subdued revolters of Pernambuco. We very much doubt the wisdom of the sanguinary course pursued by the Imperial Government. The South Americans have not yet seen the blood of their fellow-citizens shed in this manner by their own Governments. All the delibe rate acts 'of vengeance which have stained their soil have been the deeds of the European Authorities wham they have rejected, and for that reason, perhaps, as much as aay other, I)on Pzoao should not forget that he is him self not an American, and that the prejudices against him, arising from his connexion with the Royal Houses of the Old World, may revive in sufficient strength to drive him from his newly-founded throne, should he provoke mischievous comparisons between his sway and the milder rule of the republican states in his vicinity. There is a great mistake in considering tba revolters of Pernambuco as rebels, aeawd lug to our estimation of that term in the long settled and lawfully established Governtnents of Europe. The Emperor of Basztx holds his crown Only by an act of the same character with that which watt unsuccessfully attempted at Pernambuco. The Portuguese Government might with propriety put him and his adherents to death, but Don Panao can show no title but superior force to justify his unmeasured severity towards the inhabitants of the northern provinces who resisted the impesition of his self-made authority. The news from Greece, = - 1 will be found in another column, extracted from the Etoile of Saturday, is such as the heroic character of that noble people induced us to expect. The invasion of the Mores by the Egyptians, at Modem, has aroused the unconquerable spirit of the nation. Thirty-six thousand volunteers have answered the call of the Government; and the Egyptians, repulsed in every effort they have made to advance from their position, remain on the spot where they landed. The President CONDURIOTT!‘ had marched in the direction of Motion, but the siege of Patras had not been abandoned. The fleets and annies on both sides were in motion, and some blow decisive of the campaign will probably be soon struck. The Greeks are confident of success, and firmly united. A Gazette Extraordinary was published yesterday, con taining a series of very important despatches from Sir ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL, the Commander of the expe dition against the Burn - .:se. These vain and haughty barbarians have sustained a complete and decisive over throw. At the beginning of December the Burmese Com mander, MAMA BeNDOOLA, advanced with a force of nearly 60,000 men, a numerous artillery, and a body of cavalry, and attacked the British position in front of Rangoon. After several days' fighting he was defeated with the loss of 5,000 men, 240 pieces of ordnance, and a great quantity of military stores. On the 15th the enemy, about 2.5,000 in number, returned, with the view of re trieving his disgrace. but Sir A. CAMPBELL marched out, and carried by assanit the stockade in which the Burmese were entrenched. The gallantry of the troops, British and native, was above all praise.. In the last action, thirteen hunditxl of the British infantry stormed an entrenchment, defended by twenty thousand of the Burmese. By private letters we learn that the army on the Sylhet frontier was advancing into the enemy's territory. The utmost confidence was felt in the fidelity and zeal of the Sepoys. We regret to add, that Sir ALEXANDER CAMPBELL, the Commander-in-Chief at Madras, had died of . the apo plectic attack he had sometime previously suffered. There appears to be no truth in the story of the King of AVA'S death. Amcng the returns lately made to Parliament, there is one of great interest relative to the imports and exports of the United Kingdom. By this document it appears that the official value of the imports of Great Britain and Ire land, during the year ending the Sth of January Mt, was 40,412,3001. I ls. and that during the year ending the Sth of January 1825, the imports amounted to 41,7'29,483/. 17s. 9d. being an increase of 1,317,195/. 6s. 9d. in the I value of the imports during the last year.. The official value of the exports of Great Britain and Ireland was IGs. 11d. of which British and Irish produce and manufactures were estimated at $6,286,2911. 123. 6d. and foreign and colonial merchandise at 9,918,3721. 4s. ad. Dming the year ending the Sth of January 1823, the officiAl value of the exports was 63425,2721. 7s. 641. of which British and Irish produce and manufactures were rated at 51,715,606/. 17s. Sd. and foreign and colonial merchandise at 11,503,665/. 93. 10.1. The total in creased value of the exports of the United Kingdom, during the last year, was, therefore, 6,990,6081. 10s. 7d. By this great increase, British and Irish produce and manufacteres benefited to the amount of 5,132,313/. .7s. 2d.; and Foreign and Colonial merchandise shared to the extent of' 1,3::8,2931. .Ss. 3d. In round numbers the increase of the imports may be stated at one million and a quarter, anti the inert are of the exports at seven ; millions. No statement can render more palpably apparent the wonderful career of prosperity on which we have entered, and arc proceeding with such amazing and unexampied rapidity. The increased value of our exports last year amounts to an tight* part of the whole value of our exports during thy preceding year. The return for the last year does not enable us to compare the details so as to pint out the countries with which the increase has been tnest considerable. The Inspector-General states, at the foot of the return, that " the proportional value of the trade carried on with each country during the year ended Sth January, 1525, cannel at present be stated, as it is ascertained by applying the official rates individually to the numerous articles of import and export, of which the trade may in each case consist ; an operation of such extent and labour as unavoidably to occupy a period of several months after the termination of the year." We trust that when foreign Governments observe how the free principles of trade on which we have founded our commercial system have operated to our advantage, and how they are carrying us forward with still increasing suc cess, they will, for their own sakes, adopt them, and thus give to the skill, ent;:rprize, and capital ofourc•untrymen, a wider scope and a yet more liberal reward. But if they will persevere in their narrow and selfish schemes of mis taken policy, we have prospects favourable enough before us in spite of them. In the growth of our own colonies, and the rising world across the Atlantic, we have frail re source% every day unfolding themselves. We must con tinue to thrive with the general improv •ment of the world. The majority of handy-seven in favour of the Catholic Bill in the House of Commons, gees not appear to have at THE. J RITISI PRESS. all removed the general foreboding, that it will fail in the Upper House. Our opinion is, that it will be lost there by a considerable majority. There are no doubt many in tikat House,that neither cherishing their opinions with stub -lairnness, nor departing from them with levity, feel that in watching over the welfare of their country, as connected with the Protestant Establishment, they cannot concur in giving any inlet to those whom they conscientiously con ceive to be hs enernieg. Inisuch an opposition there may be much virtue ; certainly there is great courage ; but the policy of producing any thing like a lasting alienation in the majority of our fellow-subjects in the sister kingdom, is, we think, a matter that deserves to be well weighed. A great and overruling necessity may Indeed excuse it, but we ought to be quite sure that such necessity ex ists ; for it is a policy so full of danger, that that which makes it unavoidable can alone justify it. We believe Mr. PEEL to be sincere in the strong stand he has always made against the removal of the Catholic disabilities; he delivered his opinions on the second reading of the Bill with great temper mid moderation. In topics connected with theology this is no light praise : he had recourse to none of the ordinary resources of political sophistry ; he left his arguments to make their own way, combined, as they of course would be, with the nature, the circumstances, and the situation of affairs. No gift an be so truly valuable to a Statesman as f aeeu h t , understanding by it that union of strong judgment sound prudence, which, carrying his mind thrones a train of causes snd consequences, enables him to ward off distant evil by measures of effective precaution ; but unless under the guidance of wisdom, and that too of the very highest order, this prospective policy may be productive of mischief and misery incalculable. Mr. Pan., in our opinion, carried the principle to an es trcme. " The Ron. Member for Plympton" (Mr. Norris), says he, " has said, that we should not use a teles cope to view the clouds, while we overlooked the danger at our feet. I agree in that sentiment; but I maintain the necessity of regarding prospective dangers; and, Sir, should we even see the cloud ' no bigger than a man's hand, we are bound, if we act upon the principles of sound policy and necessary caution, to provide against the coming storm, ere it has overshadowed the firmament, and burst upon our beads." Now, although it may be prudent' in the common concerns of life, to prepare for the worst, yet, in matters of government, to inflict positive evi in order to guard against possible danger, is alike contrary , to all the maxims of utility and to all the rules of justice. According to this policy, a libellous pamphlet would justify a Censorship on the Press—every symptom of public dis- 1 content with the measures of Government would warrant I an increase of the standing army. There is no end of taking security against contingencies; such a policy would break up the best Constitution that ever was organized, if it came to be acted upon practically and with effect. It is enough, in matters of legislation, to remedy existing evils, and to contend with them as they arise. We must ascertain the utility of laws before we enact them. A grave Statesman must not rest his reasoning upon a metaphor : there is no analogy between the cloud in the horizon and a political storm. In the former case it may be well that the pilot should reef his sails; he can again spread out all his canvas when the weather clears: but when we have to deal with the gnat principles of justice and freedom, and their application to the realities of life, all this sort of imagery and comparison is out of place; it only tends to lead us astray. Looking to matter-of-fact, we would ask, in the forcale and emphatic language of Mr. CANNING, in his speech of the same evening, "Is it, or is it not, a grievous circumstance that the State • should be deprived of the full use of many millions of its subjects? Is it, or is it not, to be lamented that the Crown should be limited in the choice of its subjects? Is it, or is it not to be deplored that so many of those subjects should bear about them the badge of degradation, which, while it . poisons the enjoyment of society, extinguishes all their emulation and all their hopes, by forbidding them to aspire after the reward of just and honourable distinction ?" We can really find no answer to this in any thing that we can gather, either from the truths of political science, or from the philosophy of human life. We consider the Protestant Monarchy of Great Britain as rooted in the hearts and affections of the people. We consider our Church Establishment as being powerful from the same influence, and permanent from the same cause. If we did conceive the fundamental principle of 1 attachment and obedience to both to be well fixed; if we thought there was any thing to fear from admitting the Catholics, as a body, to the substantial enjoyment of all the blessings and benefit of the British Constitution, we should certainly be among the foremost in resisting their . claims. But we are now it no danger of an ecclesiastical commission, or of a suspending power. Those :days are gone by. We are arrived at another and a very different period. Undoubtedly, at the period we are speaking of, when the Catholics held principles so repugnant to the public safety, it was the duty of those to whom the public interests were entrusted, to provide, with the utmost pre caution, against even their possible introduction to power ; it became their duty . to exclude all those from authority who were the open and avowed enemies of the Protestant faith. The condition of the times, and the magnitude of the danger to be guarded against, justified the severity of such exclusion. Without it the nation could never have accomplished the glorious work of its deliverance from the sway of the Catholic priesthood, and the impious tyranny of the Papal power. It is true that the progress of free inquiry, and the principles of Christian truth, have at length brought the enlightened and thinking few to the convic tion, that men can only he reclaimed from wrong opinions of any kind by reason and sound argument—that persecu tion makes no man wiser—that there is nothing in the at mosphere of a prison that can either generate truth or ex tinguish error—and that it is only in the open air and on the fair field of rational discussion that we can contend successfully for the faith ;—but these convictions—accord ant as they are with all the sentiments of .nature and humanity, and with all the teachings of Christian truth, — these convictions—rapidly as they are making their way— do not as yet make up the creed of the multitude. In the mean time we must, in candour, allow much for the pre judices which still exist in the minds of many, and which sets them in array against any measure which tends to in vest with public authority that great hotly of religionists which they have been brought up from their childhood to consider with terror and alarm—who have never turned over any page of Catholic history, but they have found it stained with the blood of I'rotestant martyrs—who, casting back their minds to the period when the Catholic religion of England was the reigning religion, shudder at the re membrance of its ambition, its bigotry, its craft, its cruelty , and its intolerance. It ought not, therefore, to surprise us if there is yet wherewithal in the spiritual ascendancy of the Pope to create distrust and jealousy, and if that jealousy and distrust should cxtcnd itself to the officiating priests of his temple. Such persons may point our atten tion to the conduct of the Catholic priesthood in France since the return of the monarchy, where the basest selfish ness is seen acting under the guidance of the grossest superstition ; their late law against sacrilege may well strike us all with abhorrence; it is clear from all their acts that they do not want the inclination to exterminate heretics by all the tortures which fire and steel can inflict ; they may point our attention to the conduct of Spain, where the high priests of the Holy Father combine all the rage of bigots with the ferocity of brute beasts. It is true that liberal and reflective men will draw no inferences from all this, unfavourable to the Catholics of Great Britain ; but it serves to account for, end in some manner to justify, the alarm which still prevails so strongly with many as to induce them conscientiously to oppose the removal of those barriers which shut out the Catholics from all direct au thority in the State. It should also serve to make the Catholics themselves more indulgent towards that unfa vourable feeling, which, if we may so express it, is still outstanding against them, and to induce them to bear with it, though it should even be found to exclude them for some time longer from those full benefits under the Con stitution to which they put in their just claims. Let them feel assured that the day is fast approaching when we shall all, with one accord, consent to do them justice ; and that their opponents will do this, not from any capricious change of sentiment, but from the thorough and mature con viction, that by conceding those claims, instead of risking the safety of the Protestant Establishment, or the indepen dence of the Protestant Empire, they will give an addi tional security to the permanence of the one, and the pros perity of the other. We would impress this earnestly on their minds, as leading to that spirit of forbearance which must afford the best evidence of their loyalty, while it cannot fail to inspire confidence in those who may have been taught to look upon them hitherto with distrust. Mr. O'Constr Lt. has already done much of late to earn the good opinion of the English public; should the fulfilment of the wishes of his Catholic brethren be yet further de layed, both he and they will, we hope, continue to culti vate that mutual harmony and good understanding which at present prevails, and this from a well-grounded assu rance, that with whatever delays and discouragements they may have had to struggle, all divisions will crc long be healed, and that their claims may be considered at present as the preamble to a Bill, the object of which is only ad journed until the parties shall have settled all the provi sional clauses, and come to an agreement on certain points in debate. The disposition to promote the best interests of the kingdom prevails equally both with the friends of Catholic Emancipation and its opponents : the only ques tion between the disinterested of both parties is, which course does the public interest require to be pursued ? Each party holds himself responsible to his country for the decision he adopts ; and when men act under an honest impulse there is no fear, although their reason may travel for a time in different directions. but that they will all ul timately arrive at the same conclusion. CITY, SATURDAY, This is a Holiday at the Stock Exchange. On 'the Royal Ex. change there is rather a numerous attendance, but scarcely any thing is doing either in British or Foreign Securities. The nearest price of Consols for the May Account is 924 ; Brazil Scrip is l/ to 2 pm. ; Danish, 2 to l dis. Scarcely any thing doing in the Shares ; 971. 10s. is offered for Anglo Mexican ; l'late Glass Shares are at 10 pm.; the Salt Shares, 2 to 24 pm. The Duke of York arrived at Audley House on Friday night from Newmarket. On Saturday the Duke of York and the Duchess of Gloucester visited the King. . . Yesterday the Duke of York and the Princess Augusta, attended Divine Service at the Chapel Royal, and heard a most ex. crllent sermon preached by the Rev. Stanier Clarke, from the 4th chapter of St. Paul'i ,e 7 n istle to the Hebrews. and 14th verse. The church service was perfo rmed by the Dean, the Sub-Dean, thece. Mr. Beckwith, an d the Rev. Mr. Webb. The Anthem, " I will love thee," was sung by Messrs. Roberts and Clark. The other Gentlemen of the choir, who sung the services, were Messrs. W. Knyvett, Evans, Nield, Molyncux, &c. Sir George Smart per aided at the organ. The Princess Augusta honoured the Exhibition of Painting in Water Colours, in Pall-mall East, with her presence on Saturday. Yesterday Prince Leopold attended Divine Service at St. Phillip's Chapel, Waterloo-place. . . . . - - . Prince Leopold honoured the Italian Opera House with his presence on Setuplay night. The Lord Chancellor had an audience of the King yes terday. A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday afternoon, at the Foreign Office, Downing-street, at two o'clocK at which the Lord Chancellor, the Earls of Harmwhy, Westmorland, and Ba thurst, 'Viscount Melville, Mr. Secretary Peel, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and others of the Cabinet Alinisters„ attended, and sat in deliberation till five o'clock. Mr. Secretary Canning was prevented hem attending the Cabinet by confinement to his re sidence, Gloucester Lodge, with a severe attack of the gout. Another Cabinet Counsel was held yesterday afternoon at two o'clock, at the Foreign Office, at which moat of the Minis ters were present. Mr. Canning was again absent from indisposi tion. The Cabinet did not break up till near five o'clock. On Saturday morning, at eleven o'clock, a meeting of the Lords of his Majesty's Most lion. Privy Council was held at the new Council-office, iVhitehall-place, at which the Earl of Hsrrewby presided. The following Lords of the Council were also present :—Earl Bathurst, Mr. Wynn, Lord Stowell. Lord Colchester, Sir John Nicoll, Mr. Beckett, Mr. Sturges Bourne, rod Mr. Huakissoa. Their Lordships were occupied in hearing the case of Mr. Sergeant Rough v. Genital Murray till half.past two o'clock, when their Lordships adjourned. We are informal that a Member for one of the boroughs in this county, the son of a Noble Earl, was so much impressed with the cogency of the arguments urged in favour of Catholic Emancipation, particularly by 31r. Plunkett's speech, on eh , late protracted debate in the House of Commons, that he quitted the House without fulfilling his original intention of voting against those claims; and we arc not without hopes that the debate at pre sent pending will complete a conversion so auspiciously be,:un.— Leeds let curt , . The subscription for 3lr. Huskisson'a plate now amounts to I.B:Ar. The young Prince of Saxe Nfeiningen and his bride made their entry, on the 4th instant, into the city of Meintngen. They were received by thousands of their faithful and affectionate subjects with the most heartfelt demonstrations of joy. 'When arrived at the Palace the young Princess was welcomed in the most affectionate manner by the I)ucbess Dowager, and by the Duke and Duchess of Clarence. Letters from Havannab, dated the 17th tilt. state, that the Colombian privateers in a manner blockade the ports of Cuba ; scarcely a vessel escaped capture that bore the Spanish flag. The utmost tranquillity reigned throughout the island, without appre hension of its disturbance.—The crop of sugar will fall short this year, in consequence of the heavy and unusual rains that have prevailed for the last two months without intermission, and at times accompanied with hail. The roads were utterly impassable. The last Ilamhurgh I'apers state that the Committee for the regulation of the commerce between Sweden and Norway, had had several meetings, and it was conjectured that the guarding of the frontiers towards Norway, which is so extremely expensive, would be in a great measure done allay with, and that a considerable change would be made in their prohibitory system, respecting the inortation of foreign goods. Loss OF THE FRENCH BOMDSITIF GABRIELLE.—TIIC following are the details of the loss of the Gabrielle, which was ' bringing horses and other animals, sent by the Bey of Tunis to his Majesty the King of France. After the first announcement hopes were cherished that the vessel might be got up again ; but, after an inspection by the most skilful persona, the thing was judged to be impossible. The Captain of the bomb-ship found himself in a painful f , itont ion. His perseverance in following the frigate Sybille, notwithstanding the bad weather, which might have induced him to desist, exposed him to the risk f adopting, too late, the determi nation to seek a port, and at last he adopted it, only with the view of saving the animals, who were greatly distressed from tLe con tinual shaking, occasioned by the roughness of the sea. lint the event, unfortunately, did not realbe his hope, and with the exception of six camels and two ostriches, they have all perished or been rendered useless. The Bey is now occupied in iroghting another vessel, and furnishing the sante number of horses, and other animals, as were lost. The value of the presents sent to his Majesty has been estimated at 56,00011 But this amoun t will be exceeded, if, as reported, the ornaments of the saddle are in massy gold. The publication of the series of Tales entitled " To-day in Ireland," is espected with anxiety, as the knowledge and expe rience of the Author, and his descriptive powers, arc likely to throw gs, a: light upon the real state of the Sister Kingdom, in a form combining the reality of truth with the grace of fiction. FRE.VCIf PAPER.S% (From the Erik dated Saturday.l TRIESTE. APRIL 11. We received letters from Zante of the 23d March, and from the Mores of the 19th. On the 22d February Ibrahim landed 3.000 men at Motion. They were followed, on the 4th of March, by another more consi derable corps. These troops united. then attempted to surprise Nevado°, but were vigorously tepulsaL They were handled still more roughly in an attempt oe Gestural. Since this double cheek, the Egyptians have conotatsated them selves between Coma and aloston, probably to await the issue of the operations of the Turks who come from Epirus. But the Greek Government hao made an appeal to the nation; and already 36,000 men in arms have obeyed the call. The President Condutiotti, who conducts the siege (of Patras) has advanced towards Modon, but the siege is by no means aban. cloned, as was reported. It seems only . that the Greek squadron had retired at the approach of the Egyptian fleet. Some European vessels have taken advantage of it to convey provisions into Patras. The Egyptian fleet, to the number of fifty sail, is at anchor in the port of Modon, and near the island of Sapienza. The Greeks, with thirty-six sail, commanded by Saetouris, are at anchor oppieite, under the cannon of Navatino. In ort.er to employ the , Capitrn Pacha in the DardarePte; Admiral 31isubs has received orders to sail amends mityleoe. We may therefore expect great events, especially as the &peskier. Iteschid Pacha, is say:arcing on his side against 3lissolonghi. However this be, the letters from %ante express great confidence in the defensive preparations of the Greeks. The Egyptian expe dition in particular does not seem to inspire them with muds alarm. —Aegeburg Gazelle. Pants. APRIL 22. Young Lucien Munn, who was arrested some time ago in the Spanish territory by General O'Donnell, and confined at Algesiras, hat just been set at liberty. Ile owes his liberty to the intervention of the United States. whose Minister has engaged that he will not again appear in Spain or in the Kingdom of the Two Sieilies, and that he would immediately proceed to Philadelphia. [From the Journal des Deals.] MADRID, APRIL 11. Notwithstanding the imperative and reiterated orders. which he has received to set out for Turin, and though he has reSkitred the sums allowed him for his travelling entreaties, M. Ugarte is still at Madrid, and persons who pretend to be well informed say he will not leave it ; that he has only lost in appearance the King's good graces, who hat removed him merely in compliance with the in. stances of some Members of the Diplomatic Body ; and lastly, that he regularly corresponds with the King. flowerer, the evil is in something else than 31. Ugarte t and neither his disgrace, even if real, nor the dismissal of the Mem bers, would do more than effect a change of persons and names, for the spirit of intolerance, far from growing weak( r, will von he confirmed by the presence of Father Cyril, General of the Cor. dalliers, who has just been recalled from exile. The embarrassment of the finances had induced his Majesty to form a Junta, composed of a General Officer, a Memberof the Judicial Order, and a Chief Officer of each of the principal branches of the Administration, to present a new plan for the pay of the Civil Officers, and of State Pensioners, which shall be more it' harmony with the real revenues of the treasury. (From the Courrier Frowais.l rvai lk t f ol eittiUgarteinati Congress ort , aonuadtt that f l 7 fi T ltah i n t e ri ;em n n t ab w yn o .s. d iyt ar tio s . ago.iTn. e.Turin nn n i l se pretended is o in nt th:hysoAtani.tgp pretext ' h ie tehileslt. his w BRAZIL PAPERS. Rio Jexrirto, Fri. 1. The sword of justice begins to f a ll on th e h ea d s o f t h e tricked anarchiais who hare so long disturbed the public tranquillif2. End rendered so many families in the northern provinces unhappy. Orr the 12th December the celebrated Padre Csbeea, was executed at Pernambuco, in which province he had kindled the torch of dis cord and rebellion. The celebrated Emiliano and Rangel were to suffer the same fate in a few days. The negro Agostinho Is re. commended to his Majesty's mercy. The Military Commission at Bahia (as we hear, for there official accounts), had already ordered the execution of Major Satire who commanded the artillery on the unfortunate 25th of October Felquieras, Padre Alencar, and three of their partisans, their way hither by lard, and we learn that they are already province of Minas Circles. Lord Cochrane arrived at 31aran) and the first thing he did was, as we learn by letters, to me' infamous Bruce and his Secretary, restore all the sums of vhf had plundered and robb-A the unfortunate inhabitants of ham, under the name of contributions. Ills Excellency was .- other measures, which promised soon to establish tranqurnit that province. Fr: This being the anniversary of the birth-day of her lasperiai Highness the Princess de Paula, was Misery, d with the rejoicing usual on these occasions. There was a brilliant drawing-room Court, and his Majesty was pleased to make several pmmodons. MARCII 2 1 - 10ki vz The INario contains a very long report from L u is it. Sergeant of Engineers, who has been sent to make a gmeral .. of the province of Matto Grosso. He has particularly dir labours to the rivers, and the country nealtst their banks. sent numerous maps, plans, &c. His Majesty, by a dia. the ?id February, has ordered that the Governor of the Provit shall laird him every possible assistance in the progress of ' ' tistical and topographical labours, which are important province in particular. _ •--- , PPY• 03 started at ch of dis- tel were to Who is re. there is no joe Satire, f O ctober. ms, are on ady in the latent am. make the which they of Maran- on taking quillity in r Imperial rejoicings tg-tootn at lodons. uctit urt. val jr ▪ Ote hap t donee of a Province of Ith sta. nt to that ar Tavern. science of theory had ant 'every unine how seine. The s founded tidered the cnowledge. er subjects sin and its md, there. itch of mi. Formerly ter, but he to t r sextr n s e te . ie greatest owledge.— and study t they pro- il disease it to which we to give t been any tin remedy from the imams. as e operation di esse of 'inch was rhich was rl. There tiled mad. and was rot be said d believed roperly he s man had mil yet his muscles; petted that produced the happi- iistinction confirmed ral powers mad pae- m to *hew the phy. aught the that some tate. He on topics this sub. :t them to 'mop:listed wee of the anty. in the brain. any other itary. and formation ur of con- ifortuute , when, it would, in f inssmity red at dit. the brain. in middle tge seized 1 madness doctrine, the par- ime more armth in ducal( io onvincing that the ompiately to study Its ought. the CP , - I lous, for ect health Professor opinion, red in its the tub. the mode PHRENOLOGY. On Thursday evening last, at the'rown and Anchor Ts Dr. Spurcheint delivered his seventeenth lecture on the swim Phrenology. r M opening it, he remarked, that the auditory already seen that this science embraced the study of nearly branch of knowledge. He intended that evening to exams far it might be applied to the study and practice of medicine. first position lie would assume was,' that Phrenology was fou in nature, and would, he had no doubt, in time be considers basis of carious parts of the general system of human knowl If it was allowed that man must he studied as all other at, were, it irresistibly followed that the knowledgeof the brain operate functions was the foundation of all knowledge, and, fore, Phrenology was allied and connected with every branch once. Philosophy depended, in fact, on Phrenology. F' the later science was obliged to have recourse to the former, b.. was Flail to say that the case wan row reversed. The stymie functions and powers of th e b ra i n h a d hi t h erto b een entirely elected. even by those sciences in which there was the gr necessity for the application of that kind of knowlet Medical men ought to be obliged to do their duty, ant' Phrenology, or fairly acknowledge their ignorance of what the teased to understand. Insanity was the moat dreadful which could afflict the human frame; and it was alias that tt Phrenology might be brought !with the greatest advantage it its aid to the practice of medicine. There had never yet been clear or intelligible definition of madness, or an y certa i n rem prescribed for that dreadful calamity. This merely arose from . general ignorance of its origin. In speaking ofotberdiseases. a. Illtianim at inns, it was easy to prescribe remedies. because the oneration el the disease was known. Madness was said to be a di e the mind. But he would ask, could the mind, whit} immaterial, he subject to disease? The body, whic material, might lie diseased but certainly rot the mind. were various morbid sensations, which could not be called nova. If a person thought every object he saw yellow, and yet corscious that it was a defect of his vision, he could not be as to be mad. But if he became possessed of fancies, and belie", them to be realities, then he would immediately and properly pmnounred mad. There were, however, eases in which a WIS7I a perfect consciousness that his mind was wandering, and understanding would have a perfect command over his rot this rendered it net -nary for him to be confined. It happenet. sometimes certain of our feelings became too strong. and prod' temporary insanity; and yet IV unhappy state affected the F nen of the patient gen era l' or life, as there was no dist made between this wretched and imperfect condition and coot insanity. There were some cases in which the intellectual p were elevated. Ile himself had known instances in which mat sons hall written very line music. Ue mentioned these fans se the difficully that must of necessity exist on the part of the sician in cases of insanity. The Phrenological System taugl difference between different species of madness, and also that powers might be deranged and others remain in a sound state. beeged to state that he should not in any manner touch upon which peculiarly belonged to medical men. His ideas on thi, ject were printed and well known, but he did not expect the. be acknowledged till Phrenology became more generally recogni and more firmly established. The functions of each power mind might he separately deranged. The causes of insanit his opinion, were corporeal, tom the proximate eau,. was the I Insanity was in sortie families hereditary, as well as many complaints. The contour of the countenance was hereditary. many other corporeal features; am? why should not the form of the brain ? Physicians were called in at the beginning of sumptiona and other diseases; and why were those unforti persons who were afflicted with insanity to be neglected, wit their malady had been taken in its commencement, they wool all probability, have been cured ? The different degrees of insi depended upon the age of the party. The body changed at ferent periods of a man's life, and so in Iris volition did the t Children were not observed to be Plib;ert to insanity; in u aged men it was observed to be more ft.:Tient ; but when age upon the It unian frame, all the passions lost their eners7, anti ma, was observed to be less frequent. He ;mein generalize the docent and say that all dinortlers 1010 their strength as the age o f t h e y ties advanced. All the powers of nature were at one time r active than at others. peen their frit.nddiipa had less warms them at some times than at others. He had intention , their notice these various instances, for the ramose of conyi them that all mental derangement wait corporeal, hut that proximate cause was in the brain. To become move comp! convinced of this fart, it would be reerssary attentively to anatomy and p• ysiology . It was threititt that phrenologists c when ahe was shown them, to be :Ode to say whether the ject would be inclined to insanity. Tail idea was ridiculot a physician could as easily tell whether person in pt.:feet would next day beam:eked by any I , unit-4hr malady. he Pro then pnalueednumerous other inn:trees in support of his opt that insanity was corporeal, and consequently could he cured early stages by proper treatment. Re then intimated that the jcet of his meet and concluding lecture, would he on the In which rhunclng7 might be ape lie'_ t 3 education. ) -1/ a 1 , -~ ~ II i-t.,: