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Continental 9 Provincial Portable 21 3 IRON RAILWAY. London and Northern If mIscELLAXEO Au.tralian 24 British Iron Company 7i Canada Company 30 29 Gen. Steam Navigation 104 Gold Coast Association Si Great Westminster Dairy It Metro Fish Company 14 Pearl Fishery (Yellow) 174 19 Ditto (White) 16 Pruv. Bank of Ireland 9 Patent Bricks 31 4 Ilia de la Platn 32 31 'l;alpusahua 235 United Alexican 142' 150 Welch Iron and CoalGi the Nrittiat refs. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Thls Evenlna. MONDAY. Feb. 21. will be performed KING RICHARD THE Timm. Duke of GleCter, Mr. Kean: Earl of Riehn,ond, Mr. Wallack. Lady Anne, Mllll Smithson. After wh:rh. HARLEQUIN AND TOE TALKIND MP. THE SINGING, TREES. AND GOLDEN WATERS. Harlequin, Pantaloon. Mr. T. Blanchard; Clown. Mr. Kirby. COumbitze, Mies Barnett. ro morrow, The Fall of Algiers, The Rossignol, and Old and twang. THEATRF ROYAL. COMNT-GARDEN. ThIS Evenlnc, YOND %T. February SI. will be performed DER FREISCHCTZ Or, THE BLACK HUNTSMAN OF BOHEMIA. Ottoear. Mr. Baker: Counid, Mr. Egerton; Laspar. Mr. Bennett: Wilhelm, Mr. rearman the Meek Huntsman of Bohemia, Mr. Evans. Bertha, Mies Paton: Lena, MigLere. AOr HARLEQUIN AND THE DR %CON OF WANTLEY ; Or, MORE OF MORE HALL. Harlequin, Mr. Eller: Pantaloon. Mr. Barnes: Clown, Mr. J. S. Orl inaldl. Columbine. Miss Ramer. Tu-morrow, The Belle's Stratagem. with The Miller and his Men. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARD4,N. ORATORIOS. On WEDNESDAY NEXT, lebi Way' will be performed for the First Part, a SELECTION from the CREATION. composed by Dr. Haydn. Between the First and Second Parts Mr. Mori will lby desire) repeat Mayseder's Concerto un the milli. The REQUIEM of MO. ZART will form the Second Part. Betts een the Second and Third ! Parts a Concerto on the Violoncello, by kir. Powell ; and the Third ern*: consist of a GRAND SELECTION of MODERN MIMIC. Principal Vocal Performers—Miss Paton. Madame MIM IC. Mtge Lot r. Miss Graddon, Mrs. Bedford. Mrs. Tennant, Master Lotighura, aiM Miss M. Tree. Mr. Braham, Mr. Saplo, Mr. Pearninn, Mr. Bod f...rd, Mr. Tinney. Mr. Robinson, and Mr. Bellamy. Le Oder of the Band, Mr. Mori. Conductor at toe Organ and Piano. forte. Mr. S. It coiley. The Choruses, under the direction of Mr. Wat aun. will be numerous and complete, assisted by the Voting Gentle men of his kla t iesty's Chapel Royal and St. Paling Cathedral. The whole ender the superintendence of Mr. Hawes. Books of the Performance to be had In the Theatre, price 10.1. Places to be taken at the Box-office, Hart.etreet. ;Sours open at Half.past Six, and the Performance will commence at Seven o'Clock. N.B.—The Dramatic Free List does not estend to the Oratorios. - THEATRE ROYAL, ENGLISH' OPERA HOUSE, STRAND. Oa WEDNESDAY NEXT. February 23. LECTURE ON ASTRONOMY And the PHENOMENA of the HEAVENS and of the EARTH, Tit be delivered by Mr. BARTLEY, on the M EDNESDAYS and FRI. DAYS during LENT. The Theatre will be constantly warmed by large Stoves be various parts of the Douse. Pickets of A clangs; on for Families to be had on m ;citrate Terms at tbt ft.a.-oebee.—Doors to be opened at half-past Ste, and begin at Seven. TMe Barris/I Pa ass commenced publishing on Saturday morttlog at a quarter past seven o'clock. LONDON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1825. Since our last publication we have in due course received the Paris Papers of Thursday and Friday. The latter are filled almost exclusively with the discussion of the project of the emigrant indemnity, which was opened on Thurs day. The strong sentiments, general among the people of France on this subject, have been as warmly expressed as they are felt. The first speech, that of M. Lasses' DE POMPIEREE, was remarkable for the unrestrained indig nation with which the Speaker condemned the proceedings of the emigrants, and the boldness with which lie described the true foundation of the existing order of things in that country. Sweeping confiscations have necessarily accom panied all great and permanent changes in the political history of nations. They have been always resorted to as a measure at once to crush and destroy the subdued party, and upon its ruin to raise up and establish a new Juteregt, essentially dependent, for all that gives it eminence, wpm a new systsm. If the object of the present French Government be to subvert all the institutions of the Revo volution, they act rightly in denying that the revolutionary authorities could law fully deprive the old proprietors of their estates. In that case, the present possessors arc, as they have indeed been publicly stigmatized, only " robbers," or at beet the enjoyera of the fruits of the robbery of others.— But is it prudent in this way to revive f.elings that were rapidly passing away ? Is it wise to call up the fears of a whole people, in order to indemnify a few individuals, who list something more than the rest of the nation in the general wreck of the public welfare ? M. LiZARDIese, in defending the principle of the indemnity, thought it part of his duty, as a member of the Commission, to panegyrist the Spani:h army of the Faith. This was, to be sure, a bright exemplification of the happy conse quences resulting from the triumph of legitimacy ! What then, is it judged fitting to avow that Cirsatis X. would rather, like Fi IDINAXD VII., reign by the aid of foreign bayonets, despised by all Europe, over a miserable set of subjects that hate him, than be the ruler of a free and flourishing people, with institutions which belong to thou as myth of right as the crown he wears? _ We fear that the course (.lIARLLS X. is pursuing, tends too directly to bring into operation all the elements of hos tility and confusion. With the single excqtion of the removal of the censorship from the press, all the measures of Government have been singularly adapted to excite public distrust and alarm. The object of those who im mediately surround him, and exclusively posses: his con fidence, is evidently to carry the kingdom back to the pre cise point at which it was before the Revolution. The act of justice he has ordered to be performed upon CIL v asap is creditable to him, but it proves nothing as to his THE BRITISH PRESS. ulterior political designs. We gather much more in that respect from his studious omission of all notice of the Constitutional Charter, S;JICC he has ascended the throne. The law of sacrilege was under discussion in the Cham ber of Peers on Wednesday and Thursday. The Moniteur of Friday, with a supplement of one sheet, is filled with the debates. An amendment was moved by the Count vs LA BOUADONNAY A, to restrict the definition of sacrilege to an actual profanation of the sacred vessels or consecrated wafers, but it was not supported. Another amendment, moved by the Marquis DE LALLY, for changing the punishment of sacrilege to hard labour fir life, or a term of years, was rejected by a majority of HO votes, against 101. The Keeper of the Seals consented, in the KlNo's name, to substitute the penalty of death merely, after the offender has begged pardon, on his knees, before the church gates, instead of the penalty of parricide. [From the Etoile, dated Saturday.l Pants, FEB. 18. The Archbishop of Paris and the Bishop of Ilermopolis were not pre,ent at the debate in„the Chamber of Peers on the law of sacrilege. The Bishop of Ilermopolis is confined to his bed by indispo sition. The Attorney-Gcneral, in the Royal Tribunal of Paris, presented yesterday morning to the tieneral Assembly of that Court a requi sition for the bringing in of the preliminary proceedings (rinetrue limo) in the cause relative to the contracts for the army in Spain. The Court decided accordingly. Al. Dehaussy, Counsellor of the Court, and Al. Vuillefroy, Senior of the Counsellors•Auditors, were appointed Commissioners for the preliminary proceedings. Ouvrard was interrogated yesterday at St. Pelagic, by M. Briere de Lig,ny. It is not true that M. de Jainville has been arrested, as a Journal to-day affirms. Count Lenoir Laroche, Peer of France, died yesterday at the age of 75 years. The celebrated Madame Krudener died on Christmas-day at Karasubassr. in the Crimea. alter a very painful illness, which she bore with truly Christian resignation. FRENCH FE sr Da.—Pasts, FED. 18.—Five per Centa.opened at 10-ir. Sc. ; closed at IfiSt. ; Bank Stock, 1,990 f.; Rente de Naples, Certif. Falconneta, 881. 30c.; Itente d'Espagne, 181; Royal Spanish L0an,1823. 58 ; Exchange on London—one month,2sf.sc. ; three ditto, 241. 904.--Courr Authebifigre, Feb. 18. The German Papers, received yesterday, confirm the previous intelligence that the Egyptian expedition has re tired into the harbour of Suds, and that the troops have been landed in Candia, where IBRAHIM Pacua intends to pass the winter. A detachment has been sent to the relief of Coron, from which circumstance an unfounded inference is drawn, that the internal dissensions among the Greeks are not entirely suppressed. We know, by the flight of the revolted Chiefs to the lonian Islands, that tranquillity must hare been completely restored. Attempts are making, for sinister purposes, to represent the Greek cause as not wear ing that aspect of final success which it did some time ago ; but, in truth, it never looked so well nor presented a more favourable augury of good fortune. The only defect that could have endangered the independence of th is heroic people is removed. The authority of the General Government is firmly established, and faction is destroyed to its very roots. What then have they to dread ? The declining Turkish power, which they have beaten in four successive campaigns, without any of the advantages they now possess, except the unconquerable resolution to die or be free? The foul apostate who calumniates them, with the Turkish bowstring round his neck, atSm yrna, endeavours to console his infuriated paymasters by railing against this brave Christian nation, because they will not basely submit themselves to be exter minated by the desolator' of Scio and Ipsara. The viru lence of his abuse is the best criterion of their strength. They answer him not but by deeds. They are pressing the blockade of Petra', and, in all probability, before the fifth campaign can open, if the divided and exhausted Divan can make another effort, the whole Peninsula will be cleared of the barbarians who have polluted it for the last four cen turies. By way of diversion, a rebellion is expected in Ser via, where the rapacity of the Turks is goading the wretched inhabitants to insurrection. It is curious to remark with what a sudden fit of forget fulness all the services rendered by the Marquis W 11.1.12- to the best interests of Ireland have passed out of the memory of Mr. O'Cosx Lt. and the rest of the Catholic Leaderi. The anxiety which the Noble Marquis had evinced from the first to direct his administration of Ireland by the dictates of impartial justice, restored to the Catholic mind that confidence which it had long ceased to feel, and allayed those bitter feelings which had so long embroiled the different counties, and kept them in a state of turbu lenc_ and insurrection. It may appear a very easy task to administer justice ; but a slight practical acquaintance with the state of parties in Ireland would soon convince every one that, in that ill-fated kingdom, the discharge of this duty is not quite so easy as it appears. The concilia tory system of the LORD LIEUTrNANT cost him 110 light labour, while the measures by which he pursued it exposed him to the cross-fire of the two factions, Catholic and Pro testant, each of which thought that ton much was done for the other party, and too little for his own. Lord Wet Les- Las, however, went fearlessly onward in the middle path, indifferent to the hostile ranks, right and left, between which he had to pass. The good effects of his perseverance soon became manifest; the Catholics felt that, after a time, their wrongs had excited real interest—that the Irish Government was availing itself of the opportunity of re dressing them, whenever such opportunity presented itself —that the Protestant monopoly of official appointments was broken in upon—that a practical attention was from time to time paid to the just claims of the Catholics, which showed the real interest taken in their welfare. The Leathers of the Association looked upward to Lord We LsEst.ty as their Liberator; they ascribed the tranquil and improved state of Ireland to the signal success obtained over the adverse spirit of the Orange faction by the unequivo cal determination manifested by the Loan Lt EI:TENANT to resist its oppressive and overwhelming ascendancy. But no sooner did the Noble Marquis oppose himself to the mischievous progress of the Catholic Association, than its leaders turned short around, and conceiving themselves strong enough to conduct their own cause, and formi dable enough to enforce their own claims, they began pub licly to deprecate what before they had so ardently praised. They claimed an allowance of total drawback for whatever they had paid in the way of tribute to his Lordship's merits. They discovered on a sudden that he deserved nothing even of commendation at their hands, for that all the benefits which Ireland had received under his Excel lenny's Government issued from themselves ; that its tran quillity was of their bestowing ; and that the debt of gra titude, which they had so promptly paid was, in fact, a payment by mistake, which they were entitled either to re cover hack, or to plead as a set-?fagainst the odium they might in future heap upon his Administration. Their spe, cites exhibit, in this respect, a curious contrast. We shall select a few extracts from those which entrust us with the secret of their consistency. At the Catholic dinner in Cork, Monday, April 19, the following toast was given : " The Marquis Wellesley. As he came not to alter, but to ad minister the laws, may they be soon rendered cos:genial w his LINEMIL AND ENLIGHTENED MIND!" " Mr. O'Cowatt.i. said, he hat a communication to make %Thick would give rut seriejaction. The Maiguia Wellesleybad deputed Mt. Illackbume to go down to Fermanagh in order to elu cidate the facts of, and to come at the truth of the late disturbances which took plane there. For this act of Me Noble Marquis the coolly :, owed him much oratifircle ! It was an act of clemency and ju , tice, and whatever may be the results of that inquiry, his Excellency vs. certainly entided.to the thanks tithe stunciation!" —ttirt oh, Wednesday, June 2, 1821.) Seven months after this, Mr. O'CoN watt., finding:the con test for dominion growing pretty strong, began to claim for the Catholic Association the merit of having tran quillized the country If not disturbed," said he, " in our proceedings for the good of the country, I know not what we may not hope from the efforts of the Association, and from air Constituttonni exertions for this beautiful country."--(Saturday, Jan. 8, 1825.) And in a speech delivered on the same day, Me. FINN affirmed that— " The Association was the means of tranq u illizing Ireland. which was chiefly attributable to Mr. O'Connell. ' While the Association was canvassing for support, and before it stood firmly on its legs, Mr. O'Co N N ELI. paid his debt of justice to the Loan LIEUTENANT openly, and without reluctance : " Certainly," nys the Orator, " ro act of any Administration has given such complete satisfaction, or has tended so mach to establish ',oldie confidence, and create respect for the laws la the minds of the Insh people, particularly the PEASANTRY, as that of Marquis WI:I.LESLEY esndinl.t down Mr. Illickburne to (Induct the Fermanagh inquiry."--tSpeech of O'Connell, Wednesday, June 9, 1534.) Many other eulogies were passed by Mr. O'CoxxLi.t. on his EICKLLSNCY'S Administration ; his eloquence revelled in the prospects that were opening to Ireland from the steady attention paid to its real and true interests, and his heart warmed not only with th. impressioa of the benefits it had rcceivt d, but the perils it had escaped. " Fortunately," said Mr. O'Connell about this period, " fortu. nately at present. Ireland has a LORD LIEUTENANT, whose own disponlion would prompt him to effect every thing 'welch and to adopt every measure of salutary import to the country ; but unhappily he undertook his Government, so fettered and so maim rled by the dominion of a portion of that faction which has so long and an lamentably misgoverned Ireland. Taking a review of the terrific and distracted state of Ireland at the period of the .‘faccntis IFELLEst.e.w'e arrival in this country, I aver, that if there had not been a change in the Administration in Ireland, no man possessing the feelings of h.manity, or the love of his country, amid contemplate coolly what might have been the dread re.ult!"--LO'Con nell's Speech in Liffey-street Chapel, Dublin, on Friday, July 30, 1821.1 At an annual dinner of the Blancber's Town Patriotic Society, near Dublin, there were 5,000 spectators in the field. The health of the Noble Marquis WELLESLEY Was given ; Mr. O'CoNNEt.t. rose and spoke at great length. The following is but a brief epitome:— " Mr. O'Coxx EL L WO!: an eloquent revletw of the public life of his Excellency. In India, his wise and manly conduct confirmed the British power. In Spam, he was the man who really upset the great conqueror of nations. His manly and sagacious mind clearly perceived, that noire; the feelings of the people could be enlisted in the'cattse of Govertmtnt, that that Government would inevitably fall before the power and the intellect %f Napoleon. He advised the guarantee of a free Constitution—the peep:e rallied round it, and Napoleon fell. If that Constitution was afterwards basely in. vaded—if the patriots who so bravely defended their country—who upheld the Government and cinched the invader—if those great men met with no other reward than the dungeon or the scaffold— no reproach on that head eottld revert tb Lord Wellesley ; the glory of saving nations were justly his—the shame and dishonour of violating Constitutions belonged to their Majesties of the Holy Alliance. The Government of his Excellency, in Ireland, though coerced by a powerful faction, who were hostile to the cause of the people, had yet about it the marks of a just ant : popular Admiutr (ration. There was on evident disposition on the part of his Excel- Govermnent to deal outjust ice purely and impartially. There was no hostility to liberal opinions, there was no persecution of the press. The underlings of Government were no longer perniittcci to run riot on the pcopie. His Excellency, coerced as he win, had little op portunity of showing any marks of favour and encouragement to the Injured party; but the Irish were willing to do justice to his motives. They were so long accustomed to insult and oppression that they willingly and sincerely applauded the Government, merely because it abstained front doing ill. He (Mr. O'C.) was well in clined to believe that the Marquis iVellesley was disposed to act in this country on those just, liberal, and statesmanlike views, which he carried into effect everywhere else. He, whose policy had so much improved and strengthened other countries could not be insensible to the glory of noising his own—of raising her front a state of wretchedness and ditision, to a state of prosperity and in dependence. Such watt the task which he hoped was reserved fur his Excellency. The spirit of the times, after all, was favourable to the cause of Ireland. To promote that cause—to improve her condition--and to extend her liberties, he hoped, would be yet in the power, as it was in the disposition, of an orator, a scholar. and statesman, whose talents and attainments shed au much glory upon his native country." During last year the press of Ireland was loaded, day after day, with the attestations of the Catholic leaders to the favourable change in the aspect of affairs that was pro duced by the liberal system upon which the Government of Ireland was conducted. Among a hundred samples we will select the following from Mr. Oto NN E Les speech, at the Royal Arcade, in October last : " Another ground of hope the Roman Catholic had 4 was founded on the present administration of Ireland. fie admired the noble prin. ciples and conduct of the Marquis AvrxtEst.ry, who had often used his able pen and eloquent tongue in the Catholic cause ; he would, he doubted not, hare been likewise ready to employ his sword in order to promote the cause of liberality. In the House of Commons and the House of Lords he had toted for Roman Catho- Ilea. His great talents had been nobly employed in India, in Spain, and in aid of the financial system of England. and it was their duty to assist him in carrying on the weight of Government in Ireland, by infusing into the minds of all the people of the country the spirit of confidence they felt in his councils and in his integrity. (Applause.) It was to them also no small consolation, that the office of Attorney-General was exercised by Mr. PLIINNETT, a decided advocate of the Catholic claims. The only shade cast over his Administration, came from the black spot of the Orange party." Unluckily, as Mr. O'CoNNELt. increased in popularity, his vision became inverted ; the gale of his favour suddenly veers round, the praise he had bestowed so fluently on Lord IVst.t.s5LEV, he transferred exclusively to the labours of the Catholic Tribunal ; he flings his obloquy where he had before strewed his panegyric. True it is, that the condition of Iresud is greatly improved, but the praise is now found to be due to the Catholics themselves. True it is, that peace and good order prevail, without the aid of the Insurrection Act, but the tranquillity, it seems, is the work of the CATHOLIC CHIETTAINS ; it is alone to Messrs. O'CosNs Li. and COMPANY that we are to ascribe the glory and the praise. " It would not be honest," says 311 r. O'ComwELL, in a speech of the 10th instant, " It would riot be honest if I did not proclaim aloud my conviction, that the Marquis WiLLESLEY and !qr. PLUNKETT are not friends to the Catholic cause. I ask not their friendship_l care not for it. As a Cofhale, I invite their open hostility. —(Wide the Register Of the 10th February.) IS'e have not space at present to make extracts from the various other speeches that are before us, in which Mr. O'CoNscra., Mr. SIIEIL, and other distinguished Leaders, contradict their own deliberate sentiments, and fly directly in the face of their own recorded opinions. One thing, however, is clear, that the Catholic Association was wholly uncalled for; that it was not required as an antidote to evil, or as a counteractive of oppression ; that, on the con trary, it had not, nor could have, any other effect than to embarrass the administration of the Government, and this at the very time when that Government was pursuing a mild, enlightened, and liberal course towards the Ca tholics; and that its obvious tendency was to supersede the lawful authority of the Scats, that they might-the more decisively contest with the Protestants their alleged claims to dominion. We have taken occasion to draw the attention of the public to the extraordinary course adopted by these poli tical Chiefs, this evening being appointed for the second reading of the CATHOLIC ASSOCIATION IVhen we perceive the leaders thus degenerating into mutineers, it becomes high time to guard against the infuriated zeal of their followers. The judgment given by SirJofi N NtcHOLI., on Thursday, in the Arches Court, respecting the right of holding pews, is of considerable interest at this time, when, we understand. many suits of a similar character are pending. The view taken of the question was clear, and the reasoning con clusive. The cause stow on the application of a gentle ' mcri claiming, in right of his wife, a faculty to entitle him to 0:2 exclusive possession of a certain pew in the pa rish church. It appeared, from the undisputed facts of the case, that this pew was originally granted in 1709 to the family from which the lady was descended, but, in 1820, her father sold his estate, and soon afterwards ceased altog:ther to reside in the parish. The purchaser of the estate also claimed the pew, v. kich, he contended, was at tached to the landed property. The pretensions of both theca claimants were resisted successfully. No exclu sive right could belong to the first, beams, the order of vestry granted the pew to the family, only while they con tinued to dwell in the parish ; and the lady, on marrying, had, of course, become domiciled with her husband, who resided in London. The other claimant equally failed to make good his title, because the pew was not annexed by prescription to the estate in question. On the sale of the property, and subsequent retirement of the last of the fa mily from the parish, the pew reverted to the vestry. The opposers rested their case also on another ground, of gene ral importance; and it is to this we are particularly de sirous of drawing public attention, as it gave to Sir Jonw Nieit °Lt. occasion to expound the law affecting the gene ral question of pew-holding. This principal argument against the application was, that, on account of the increase of the population of the parish, it was inexpedient to grant a faculty fur continuing to a single family, consisting of only five persons, the exclusive use of a pew, capable of accommodating from ten to fourteen. In adverting to this ground of apposition, Sir Jon a* Nis 'Lou. made the follow lag observations : • The law respecting pews was but little understood in many parts of the country, and very errontoris opinions were formed, which frequently lot to great inconvenience. Ily the general law, and of common right, all pews are for the use of the inhabitants of the parish, who are to be accommodated as conveniently as possible. The authority of seating and arranging the parishioners is com mitted to the Churchwardens, as officers of the Ordinary, and sub ject to his control; neither the Minister nor the Vestry has a right to interfere in this arrangement, unless by giving their advice to the Churchwardens in the exercise of their-discretion. The Church -1 wardens are to arrange the parishioners so as to plate them accord.' ing to their rank and station in the parish. but not to place the I higher classes beyond their real wants, to the exclusion of the loner orders, who are also entitled to suitable accommodation. Faculties were early obtained, not merely for the temporary seating of the in. habitants, but fur the granting the permanent use of certain pews ; ' some to a certain family so long as they inhabited o'certain home in the parish : this probably formed the origin of present-dye rights in common law, but the more modern form was that now prayed, viz. "to a erson and family so long as they continue to reside in the parish . " In some places, pews are exclusively held without that prescription, which was illegal, for persona not actually resid ing in a parish cannot by right hold a pew. It is generally sup posed that a person may sell or transfer a pew as he may other ru petty ; but, in point of law, if a person leave the parish, his right to the pew ceases. If the pew be annexed by prescription to a par ticular house, the owner of the house for the time being is the pes sessor of the pew, which cannot be severed from the house." The whole judgment is worthy of attentive perusal and consideration. It is difficult, after reading it, to conctii e how pretensions so extravagant and unreasonable, could have entered into the minds of any individual, as thos . 2 against which this judgment was directed. The object in erecting new churches is to increase the accommodation, especially for the lower classes of society ; but if the space given by the liberality of Parliament is to be possessed ex clusively by a few rich families, the poor will, indeed, "be necessarily driven to meeting-houses," and such other places u will receive them. In the case to which we are allud ing, the Court refused the faculty, suggesting, as sn arrange ment between the parties, that the pew should be divided into two, and that the gentleman connected with the ori ginal family by marriage, should have the choice. It is the duty of the Churchwardens to provide becoming accommo dation for all the inhabitants, according to their rank and station, but especially to take care that none are denied a right, which the meanest is as sacredly entitled to enjoy as the highest. After this decision, we cannot suppose that there will be any further litigation with regard to this question. The markers, both in foreign and English securities, were steady on Saturday.. Consols fez account and money were done at the same prices, viz. 93j, 94. There was a good deal of business doing in the Foreign market, and the bargains were rather on the advance. New Greek Scrip was better ; it reached 1 at the close of the day, and per sons seemed confident of its improving. Brazilian Scrip 1895, was done 41; Mexican ditto at ; and Spanish Bonds at 9ii. They ate still a good deal inquired after, in consequence of the continued report of a Ncw Spanish Loan. The Mining Shares were all on the advance, and a good deal of business was done in them. Saturday afternoon, at two o'clock, a Cabinet Council was held• at the Foreign Office, Downing-street, which continued sitting till a quarter past five o'clock. On Saturday morning. at ten o'clock, the Lords of his Majesty's most Honcurable Privy Council licil a meeting at the new Council Office, Whitehall-place, at which the Earl of Harrowby presided. There were also present Earl Bathurst, Lord Gifford, Lord Colchester, Lord Stowell, the Lord Chief Baron, Sir John Nichol!, Mr. Beckett, and Mr. Sturges Bourne. The Appeal which came under the consideration of their Lordships was that of Mr. Sergeant Rough against General Murray, which occupied the atten tion of their Lordships till one o'clock, when the meeting broke up, and the case was adjourned till the 98th inst. A Deputation of West India Merchants and Planters waited on his Majesty's Ministers on Thursday last, re specting the alterations proposed in the duties on Sugar, Coffee, and Rum ; a reduction of sixpence per pound, on the home consumption of Coffee,was understood to be about to be brought forward, and the question of allowing the dis tillers to use sugar or grain at their option was favourably entertained by Ministers. A long conference took place, as to the bounty on relined sugar being withdrawn or low ered, as to the reduction of the import duty on Musco vades, and as to Mauritius sugars bong used for home con sumption at the same duty as the West Indian sugars, but on these points there was no decision. A petition was presented on Friday night to the House of Commons, for cutting a Ship Canal through Central America, for the purpose of uniting the Atlantic with the Pacific Ocean ; and for mining, and other purposes, in Guatimals. A prospectus was issued on Saturday, of a new Com pany, under the name of the " Royal Staunary ; or, Bri tish Mining Association," for working mines in Cornwall, Devon, and other places. A survey is now going on for the purpose of forming a navigable tide canal, with twenty-five feet of water, for ships of the first class, from Artmlel Bay to Deptford, a distance of nearly fifty miles. The estimated expense is four millions. _ The debts already proved against Messrs. Prodgers' bank, at Ludlow, amount, it is said, to 2.'"0,000/., and the funds to meet them only to 20,0001. A Ministerial order ltas been communicated to M. Cousin, informing him that he is free in Berlin, on his parole, not to leave that city until the decision of the Central Commission of Mayence has been received.— Journal des Debate. A letter from Callao, of the 2sid of September, states that Captain Wilson, the son of Sir Robert Wilson, had been wounded in an engagement with the Royalists, but that be bad recovered. The reception given to this young officer by Bolivar was very flattering. We have received, by way of Barbadoes, some more de tails of the conspiracy at St. Thomas's. The chief, it is said, was a Lieutenant Fifer ' of the Colonial Militia. a creole, who had received his education in Scotland. lie was in custody with twenty-five others implicated in the plot; a secret committee was sitting at the date of the let ters we hare received, and from the energy displayed by the Danish Governor, all alarm respecting immediate con sequences had subsided. The conspiracy is said to have extended to all the adjacent islands.—.Erraind Paper. FRENCH CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES. SITTING OF FEBRUARY 17. The order of the day was the openihg of the discussion on the Project of Law for the indemnity of the Emigrants. 51. de Girardin wished to address the Chamber on a previous qurstlor, hut after some attempts he was obliged to desist. M. Labbey Pot pierce spoke to the following effect : O:I ennnen—the part of the Opposition, at the point it is now enlaced to by the Ministry, is to watch the steps you take in the career you are pursuing. If it (the Oppositions hoped at any time to hare been able to have warned and arrested you, that hope has this day completely vanished. Follow the fate by which you arc drawn, since it is the destiny of all parties. Our task is to expose things as they really are, and to tear 'way the veil which at ail over their object, in order to mask its true nature from us. times the greedy flatterers of the powers that he, have thrown If after the Mar,ifeato of Brunswick (Exclamation to the right)—if after the manifesto of Brunswick, repeated the orator, the emi grants, by the help of the Prassians, had triumphed in the plains of Champagne, the revolution would have 'Omitted to the law of the conqueror, as it did at Naples and Madrid. Will it submit after having conquered for thirty years (buzzing to the right), whilst all its principles, and all its eonquesta are in our laws and manners Such is the question. Toe deceased King had re solved upon it ; he felt that the conflict which hail just terminated by a great catastrophe, was neither the cause of the revolution, nor of the counter-revolution which took place at a later petaled ; that there was in fact between them neither conqueror nor con. quered. He allied himself to new France, and the Charter was the covenant of it. What was just and sufficient then, shall it not be so now ? What events, what motives can authorise the :e -ltraction from a covenant, sworn to by the nation and its Chief, from acts consecrated by time ? Your mission, Gentlemen, is to watch the interests of your constituents, by opposing the prodi gality of the Minister's; it is not to make donations, and still less is it to abuse the power a factious majority gives you, in order to take from a whole people, under the pretext of a deceitful prosperity, thelittle ease they have, and for which they are in iebted to their laborious industry . ; to take from the artisan the price of his la. boor. No Noon is ignorant that themost fatal emigration for France, which armed her against herself, and which raised foreigners against their country, began in 1791. At that time France was at peace with all the world ; the greatest tranquillity prevailed in the listener. (Loud exclamations to the right.) A decree of the Ist August hail recalled the emigrants ; a Constitution, modified in the observations of the King and sanctioned by him, soon offered to Frenchmen the hope of a temperate liberty. Passports were abolished, and all the gates were opened ; but a fatal obstinacy caused the road to C.oblentz to be pursued. It was then, according to the King's Commissary, that the emigrants rested their honour oh a strange land ; it was then that—forgetting him to whom they had soon fidelity—he,whom they were bound by interest and duty to defend—he, whose days they might in all likelihood have pre. served—in shoet,tiie head,of the monarchy—they armed against the Sovereign and the country ; (more murmurs on the right;) i t was then only—listening to their prejudices. and without regard to the proscriptions which menaced their fathers, their wives, and chil dren—without looking to the dangers they drew upon heads so dear, they called Europe to the spoil, to the division of the country which had given them birth, to the land which had nourished then,, and which, even then, furnished them with bread by means of their relations. The manifestos of Berlin and of the Duke of Brunswick had appeared, and the war was begun when the confis cation 11144 pronounced. That measure was the laws of the period ; it had been for three thousand years that of till known nations. Vi'hat people have used it oftener than the French, from the con.. quest, which was the confiscation of the sword, to the last, which was that of tt.e law ? A barbarous law, nursed by tyranny and maintained by avarice,—and, for I lore to repeat it after the Go vernment Orator, •• an odious chastisement, which strikes the con. denoted even in his posterity, and by which the State is enriched by the plunder of that which it hail taken from their fathers ; a law sit which the monarch who has been styled Greet (Louis XIV.) made a celebrated application by his edict of 1069. " Yea, gen.. tlemea," repeated the Speaker, •• never was possession mote legiti mate. (Cries of " No, no," to the right.) If the possession of a confiscated estate is illegitimate, where is the field that is free from that stain ?—Where is the land that it has not reached since the confiscation of Robert D'Artois, or even since the Con stable the Bourbon, down to our days ? What would be answered to a new possessor, who, presenting himself in the Chamb er o f Peers, or this, with a complete list of the ancient and modern con fiscations, and addressing himself to the heads of the richest and most dignilitxl families, should say to some—What was done with the lands of Coligny, of Teligny, and of the thousands of French_ teen who perished in that day of cursed memory ? To others, who err the possessors of the spoils of Conehini, of Cinq-Mars, of de Thou, and of Illarillac In whose are the estates of the fugitive Cslvinists.almose all given to flattery and favour? (Much sensation.) Here is all property called in question. To this point has an in. considerate Ministry conducted us; they revive a law suppresed since the Graccht--a law which raised the passions of Marius and Sylla, and which terminated with Tiberius and Nero;—.this it the law which you are called to examine. ((heat noise in the Assembly.) M. Agier followed in support of the project. Ile defended the emigrants. The country, he said, consisted in the King, and he had disappeared in the revolutionary tempest. The country con sisted in it. institutions and laws, and there was none but prisons and eltatiohls. France was now prosperous, and it was her duty to call the nohles who had suffered for their fidelity to share in her riches and splendor. M. hlechin opposed the project, on the ground of its pr.ta' Jay and injustice. FFranee had already paid 1,500 millions to fo reigners, 600 millions of old debts, and nearly 300 millions for the Spanish war, and note she was taxed 1,000 millions fur the most favoured class of her citizens. lie objected also to the emigrants themselves voting for the indemnity, which was to be divided ant ingot them. N. Dupille justified the conduct of the emigrants from the re proach of the preceding speaker. Their character, as emigrants, deprived them neither of loyalty nor of honour. M. de Lezardicres, a Member of the Commission, next addressed the Chamber in support of the project. I know, said lie, that the opponents of this measure have declaimed against the emigrants, charging them with having been guilty of bringing upon us a foreign invasion. These declamations are founded on the ex ploded dogma of the sovereignty of the people--a dogma which, in this Assembly at least, I need not relate. A foreign invasion is, no doubt, a calamity ; but a revolution is also a terrible scourge. IVould to God that, in 1792, the triumphant allies hail restored to Louis XVI. the sceptre which, in hold, they returned to Louis XVIII ! There was no more guilt in emigrating, in 1792, with Monsieur and the Count d'Anois, to put an end to the captivity of Louis XVI., with the assistance of the armies of Austria and Prussia, than there was, in 1823, in the Baron d' Erodes and his numerous companinna in inns allying themselves with the French army of Louis XVIII. to restore to the King of .Spain his sceptic and his liberty. (Bravo, and applause on the right.) The speaker then proceeded to examine the details of the project, of which he entirely disapproved. The mode of valuing the estates was shockingly unequal ; the sum appropriated insufficient, and division of the indemnity into five annual instalments, calculated to throw a fourth, or even a third part of the whole into the pockets of brokers and agents. The Count de Thiard spoke next against the project. After some observations on the impropriety of the emigrants voting in their own favour, he concluded with the following remarks on the political character and consequences of the project :—Befcre add ing a thousand millions to the alremly large mass of the public debt, cast your eyes outward, and see what passes around you. Two great Powers divide the world between themselves. One wishes to swallow up maritime commerce, the other astounds civilised nations with its savage masses. One has inscrined on its standards, " Civil Liberty for all Nations ;•• the other rests on the old ideas of absolute power. The struggle is about to take place, and the world hopes—(Continually increasing agitation.) Rut what do I say ? hiss sot this great struggle already be, u ? Has not England already taken its position ? Already do the efthrts of heroic and Christian Greece triumph. Ought not the acknowledg ment of the Republics of Spanish America to be considered as an aggression against the Holy Alliance, coalesced against the liberty of nations ? Spain will sooner or later follow the movement w hi c h is preparing. What is the situation of France with Portugal, with Germany, with Italy? (Murmurs.) Abandon, then, a corrupt system, which strikes at the national character and honour, as well as the most sacred rights of citizens. Already are our electoral liberties swallowed up; and, to crown the whole measure, we are thrown into the catacombs of the Revolution, there to count its victims, to disturb its ashes, and to divide new spoil. To conclude, as if it had not been enough to have paid a thousand tuitions of exaction to foreigners, we must still pay another thou. sand millions for the emigration, the innocent cause, no doubt. but still the beginning. of all our evils. (Much murmuring.) 1 vote against the project of law. At half-past five the discussion was adjourned to the follow ing day. The Ring remained in town on Saturday, and received a visit froni his Royal Sister the Princess Sophia. The Duke of York's confinement to the house is, we under stand, occasioned by a pain in one of his Royal Highness's uncles. The Royal Duke is attended by Sir Henry Hal ford and Mr. M'Gregor. Yesterday the Princess Sophia visited the Duke of York. Yesterday the Lord Chancellor had an audience of the King. It is said th 3 Duke of Northumberland has become a convert to the cause of Catholic Emancipation.—Dublin Paper. Lord Porchester has taken up his residence at Sidmouth. (hi Friday, at Asliburnham House, her Excellency the Countess Lieven was safely delivered of a son ; we are happy to add, that the amiable Countess and her infant, are both doing well. Mr. Henry resumed his Lent Performances, on Friday night last, at the Adelphi Theatre, to a very crowded audience. The celebrated Joseph Lancaster is at Caracas, engaged in teaching his system of education ; but from one of his publications, it would appear that he meets with poor suc cess. He complains of want of room, want of friends, and want of scholars, having only 50 instead of sou, which be expected.—Arnerieen Puper. .'. via. mil to I'l Orr Pv