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I objects connected with it, and feeling somewhat exhausted and t ail, as he might naturally be expected to feel, he should not , s punk the House on the present occasion at any considerable w ore especially as a %lanai had just been given by a n li on . •; jr °,,"b ee opposite, who had been so long watching, or rather elects. ag over this question--a signal that he was not to delay chi House w ay long portion of time. From the deep interest he had tarn • nay thing connected with the grand question of Catholic Emanci too, and from the pan he bad considered it his duty—his painful e —to take last Tuesday, when he delivered his opinion contrary to diat of many of his lion. Friends, when he felt he owed u in ; , o nce to his own consistency to say a few words in explanation of i s e grounds on which he had upon that °cession voted, he had nit that there was no difficulty m the way of comprehending t he question relative to the forty shilling freeholders, and that was coupossed by no obscurity. The Catholic question 0 , a quesuon that had been often considered —one, the „ fo ricty of which, upon reasonable principles, hail been de l:Aid upon long ago, and was familiar to all. But as long as his I o pulence served him, from the time that Mr. Fox first brought that question forward, 20 years ago, to the present moment, he hal never head it discussed without sonic allusion to the propriety of ying It with the proposal of some provision for the Roman r s r,„TrClergy ; admitted, it was true, by many, and denied by others, but still showing its relation to the grand question. He f ished that the House had gone through all the stages of this r od question, without suffering others to cross their path ; but as Jose Gibers had been brought forward, he felt himself called s ou to give his opinion as to their merits, finding that the mit d the House had been made up not to consider them separatel,. pie present principle appeared to him so clear, that lie was per- Nay prepared to give has vote in support of it. lie felt he nitght kallowed to say that io consequence of the way in which the Res°. lawn now before the House was worded, no Honourable Meet. m could object to give his vote in favour of It, on the grounds that t he sum requisite for the payment of the Catholic Clergy ought not as be paid by the Protestants of this country. Such an argument fors.W the olniectioa of the Honourable Member (Mr. Creevey) wko had spoken last ; but the Br solution prescribed no particular sooner is which this sum was to be raised ; it did not in the least degree paint out hew it was to be obtained; it merely recommended a general principle, that the State ought to make some provision fur the Catholic Unrgy, stud if any one thought that the sum pro- NW , by the Noble Lord (F. L. Gower) for such provision was too l a rge, that person was at perfect liberty to propose that it be di. win -heel. The Resolution did not necessarily bind the House to ;liege:toting of any sp-cide sum, and therefore, however any Ho norable Member might object to the sum pro'posed, he might ell consistently give Isis vote for the principle. Nor did the Raaltitioll state how inch rlugs was to be procured ; and It was merefrre competent to any Member to point out the way to which it ought to be dune, and to do so after having voted for the principle. With respect to Ino.bcr objection that might be made against the measure, ana which led to the consideration of &subject of considerable importance—a subject which, when the proposition was nest n ale, hail created in his mind very great alarm, alarm which was wooded upon the evidence of the Roman Catholic Bishops before k e Committee, andly that of some of the lay nen who were examined—test it might place any additional influence and power in the hands of the Crown. He would observe, that all alarm upon this most Important point had ceased, for in the Resolution there was nothing to dread in the least that any slit measure was contempicted, or that any such results were to be apprehended. Ile desired to be distinctly understood, and he es sure he spoke the sentiments of a large majority of Members es-his side of the House, that if he acquiesced in this measure he dd it with the perfect understanding that it was to lead to 'no anconstinuional and dangerous augmentation of the power of the Executive, which was already too large—too large in England. either in the Church or estate, or in the alliance of Churth and hate, and too large in Inland, where the State had greater means of corruption, and where tne Ecclesiastic was nit of all proportion large—where there was already an alarming augmentation of power, mod where there was an overgrown Government with an over grown Hierarchy. He considers! that any direct noroinatlon, w any Veto that would put the Roman Catholic Priest under tie power of the Crown, would be to increase the evils of which he complained ; and if any such step were contemplated by 114 Resolution, he should be the first to hold up his hued against it; but such was not the case, nothing of the kind wu repotted iv the Resolution. He would now say a few words sato the argument that other Secta would be entitled to those advan- Oars equally with the Catholics. lie did riot think that those who Ju gecl ror such an extension were borne out in their argnments, either y sound reason or consistency. The Presbyterians had been already admitted to a sintlhir advantage, and it was said that you have firell them only 13.00(/. a•year, to which sum, however, he begged to add B,oooi. more, making altogether a suet of 21.0001. annu ally. Now, if it were considered that the number of the Presby terian Clergy was so much less than !hat of the Roman Catholic Clergy, the one being but 21) and the otioer 2,000, it would be found that the prepared sum would pay the Catholic Clergy some what less in proportion than the Presbyterian Clergy were pa d Is consistency then, lie was cot bound to extend the pros:don, nor vas he, in sound reamoninc, bound so to do. because the Roman Catholic population amount to Onween six and seven millions, and ' du Dissenters to net more t tint 500,000. But if we had six mil lions of Dissenters in this country, then he would say that it would be expedient to make some provision for their clergy, and he would propose so to do in the very same mode and on the very same ground she would now propose a maintenance for thellomanCatholie clergy is soon as this provision was made they would have fulfilled their duty, sad ads till _then. We were not by this measure called upon to sappreft cowry - little sett that might spring up. If sec+ were tin cue, they would soon a:e the followers of Joanna Southcote, who, perhaps, amounted to a dozen, come and ask to have their mi tows provided for. This was not the case with Deland; it was not for a small sect, but for the provision of the Clergy of by far the roster body of the people. Itolote he concluded, he must protest, thathecould not imagine any thing tnore dangerous to the great Cacho loQuestion than to admit that they were granting the provision as a tenuity for the Protestant interest. He must deny its being intended ' as a security to the Protestant interest. He held it in the highest de pee perilous to grant it with such an understanding ; for, if it was gyen as a security, it wi td I seem to admit that there was a danger of • hich he denied the existence. If once it was admitted, they would in consistency be obliged to raise the security, if it should prose insufficient to meet the danger. This idea of risk he had always held in contempt ; it was in the mouths of those who de nied his principle, and said that danger did exist, to propose a mea sure of this sort, that their fears might be allayed ; but they had no reed o' greater security than would be afforded by granting Ca tholic Emancipation. This would give us the hearts of the Irish People, and be the means of establishing our dominion on the only stare foundation on w: ich dominion could be secured.—(lieu, hear.) _ _ Mi. PLUNKETT would trouble the House with very few ob orations in its pre rut eitattated state. Ile should not think of hat all were it not for the br pittance of what he had to say. In a Meat deal of what had fallen from the honourable Member who tad jest sat down, he most entirely and perfectly concurred ; moat particulaely in his last °Nervation. Ile also agreed that it was rot dealing fairly to talk of the present measure as a security, which would thus be used as an argumet t against the great Catholic mew. wire. lie begged to address himself to that great body of the 31m.bers of that H•u.e who had telt themselves under the necessity V opposing the measure of Catholic Emancipation. He begged them to attend. The Hon. Memte • for Aberdeen (Mr. Hume), hod talked of the injustice of these Irish Catholics being without T '' . g lo l l4 instruction. One o f the gr e at advantages of this mea n e w, 0, that by is adoption the danger that was talked of as re_ suiting from this circumstance was a .mpletely taken away. If the Roman Catholic roe, with some appeirance of justice, complained K hsvirg to pay tithes, &c. to support a clergy front which she l'erited no benefit. It could be answered him, if this measure was adopted, that his c'ergy was paid out of funds raised upon the Pro.. tenants, and that he could not therefore hare grmind for comphint. lie therifore thought that the present sum proposed to be paid out wouli render those on whom it was to be bestowed, instead of enemies, the bu::ress and protection of the Established Church. ,/ilrongres were then o r d e red t o w ithd raw , an d the H ou se di v id e d, when the appeared— Per the Resolutien Against it Malisg a majority in favour of the Resolution to enabled 43 the Crown to provide for the Catholic Clergy of . Mr. HERRIES gave notice, that Mr. Huskiason would on Miriday nest move his Resolutions relative to bonded tern. The other Orders of she Day were then disposed of, and the Rouse adjourned at Ow o'clock. - 205 - 162 PRICES of FOREIGN Asstrian Bonds (10 Gw pert lit.) 996 19rstinso Bonds 814 Lino Acct. 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Mr. Sheriff: Kilian, Mr. Pitswllltem. Linda, bilis Oraa don t Rose, Wise Paw iv. After which, LOON HASSAN. TIN g•Uph, Mr. Redford; Abon Hawn. Mr. Horn; Zabel's, Mr. Marley. Zillion, Miss Graddon. On Monday, The Cabinet, with Abon Hassan. COVENT-GARDEN TIIRATRP. TWA Evening, SATURDAY'. April 30, will be performed A ROLAND FOR AN OLIVER. Sir Mack Chase, Mr. Fawcetts Alfred Highdyer, Mr. Jones; Thrtese, lir. Rayner. Maria Darlf aeon, Miss Fuute. After which, C LA 111. The Date Vivaldi. Mr. T. P. Cooke; Raisin°, Mr. rawsett. Clarl, Muss M. Tree; Vespina, Miss Lora To conclude with SECOND. King Charles, Mr. C. Kemble; Lord Roeh Mr. Jones; Captain Coln , . Mr. Fawcett. Mtn', Miss M. Tree. Ni On Monday, Orestes In Argo*, with 'Harlequin and the Dragon of HAYMARKET THEATRE. This Ironing, SATURD kV. April 30. will be performed FOR ITNE'S FROLIC. Robin Rough.head, Mr. Wilkinson. After AS'illet LOVE IN A VILLAGE. Justice Woodcock, Mr. Dowton ; Young Meadows, Mr. Melrose; Hawthorn, Mr. Pyne. Itowtts, Miss George.. To conclude with YOUTH. LOVE, AND FOLLY. Baron de Driaucourt. Mr. Williams: Louis de Limn!, Mr. Melrose; Florimoad. Mr. Yining; Antunie, Mr. Wilklusou, Arbutette, Mrs Hutobyi Etona„Mrs. T. Hill." roi On ly. Illeud ay. The Merry Wives of Windsor, with Youth, Lore, and ENGLISH OPERA HOUSE. MR. MATHEttS AT HOME. We Evening. SATURDAY, A pill 30. and on Monday and Thursday. MR. 11.ATHEWS' MEMORAN HUM-Book of Pesulltalties, Characters, and Manners, collected during his varknui Tripe. gowns—. Memoranda In Confusion - -.. Night Coatth"—.. Bubbles," a sapitat Song—. Sailing Match"—" Old and New Tirrws*—.. Public Whet, How-street." PART —A tionopolTiogue, to he called THE CROWN INw DANGER. Owen open at Sevent the Performance to corn manse at Eight. Celrrion.—The new Entertainment will not be printed; and all =professing to contain any parte of it era gross Impositions and on the TO CORRESPONDENTS. The second ►etter of 'lndex respecting the West India Company is unavoidably postponed till Monday. - - The Raetidee Passe commenced publishing yesterday morniag at half-past five o'clock. LONDON, SATURDAY, Arai!. SO, ISIS. The Paris Papers of Wednesday bring the continuation of the adjourned debate on the law respecting the public accounts of 14323. M. DE MONTMARTS endeavoured to ex cuse the contracts made with QIVILARD, by showing that the success of the invasion depended rpon the advance of tho army, and at the opening or the campaign there was a deficiency of horses for the transport service. Under these circumstances, the zeal of the Duke DE BaLies s, then Minister of War, induced him to forru the disadvantageous contracts now the subject of complaint. The Ministry would afterwards gladly have quashed them, but as that was impossible, M. JOINVILLE was sent to moderate their evil consequences as mu'h as possible. M. Di:not:au, in voting for the law, proposed that the consideration of the sum of 5i,239,639f. paid to COUVRARD, should stand over until the issue of the judicial proceedings were known. M. Canasta PERRIER was surprised that the Committee should have commented upon the contracts with OuvasaD, and remained silent upon the other extra expenses, as, for instance, those of the Minister of War. An inquiry alone could throw light upon the subject. If the Ministers re fused inquiry, a moral accusation would rest eternally upon them. M. nc Col:emirs said that the war was not made against Spain, but against the Revolution, and therefore it was impossible to act as when the enemy's country was ob liged to pay the expenses of the compaign. It had been said that the Minister of War had suffered his functions t, be usurped by another; but this was to bring a heavy and unjust accusation against him. The debate would pro bably continue for several days longer. On Monday the Keeper of the Seals communicated to the Upper Chamber the letters patent of eleven new Peers. The Mornings announces their names to be— Dussa—The Duke de Discus, the Duke de BriTICSA. AIARQUISSES—The Marquis de Rouge, and the Count de Lally 'ollendal. _ Co r aTs—Count de Tracy, Count Bruneteau de St. Suzanne. V tsc o x s—% ocount llorel de Vindb. BARONS—Count Ruts, Count de Kergolay, Viscount Dubou ebage, Viscount Dode de la Brunelle. It appears that the defection of the Greek General ODYSIIII:i is almost beyond doubt. The majority of his troops, however, had abandoned the traitor, and there was reason to hope, that, aided by the force sent against him by the Government, he will speedily be brought to justice. The discovery of an apostate like this only serves to illus trate the immoveable fidelity of the great body of the Greek soldiery to the sacred cause of their country. • The Etude of Thursday states that the French mer cbantmtn, respecting which the correspondence passed be tween Captain DCPOTET and General Pa Ez, has been restored to the French squadron by which Puerto Cabello was threatened with blockade. We suppose there must have been some irregularity in the capture of this vessel, as we base too high an opinion of the spirit of the Colombian authorities to believe that they would suffer themselves to be bullied out of a lawful prize, especially when they had recently manifested so much technical nicety relative to the terms in which the Commissions of the British Consuls were expressed. By the quotations from the Cour, Authentivre of Wed nesday, it will be observed that the Spanish Bonds rose on the Paris Stock Exchange I; per cent. in the course of that Bert. At the close of the market on Tuesday they were lbt ; on Wednesday, 19i. [From the Conititutionnei of Wednesday.] PARIS, AFRO. 28. A letter worthy of credit, received from the Peloponnessus, an nounces, that she same General Odysseus, who, two years ago. 'ut tered an arniy of twenty.tive thousand Turks to pass into the Morea, and thus exposed to great risk the independence of his country, has just given occasion to most serious suspicions of his fidelity ; he has declared himself in open rebellion against the Go verommt, which has. lost to time in sending troops against him. The rebellion of Odysseus will be suppressed with the greater facility, as the major part of his troops have declared against him in favour of the Government. ..... This insurrection does not appear to be connected with any party formed In the interior. Having been formerly the satellite of • Pacha, it is supposed that he feels lots aversion than all the other Cheeks from a re-union with the Turks, and, if he is Lot soon stopped by the Clretks, the Turks will do justice ott him, as they did on Alt Pacha. [From the Bloik, dated Thursday.] PARIS, APRIL 27. We learn from Calais that Lieutenant Vaux, Master of the Horse to his Excellency the Duke of Northumberland, Ambas sador Extraordinary from his Britannic Majesty to the Court of France, landed there on the 211, gbh eighteen of his Grace's ser vants and thirty-one horses. They were to set out the next day fur Paris. _ Ihe Urania, a French merchant vessel, which was captured last year by a Colombian privateer, and c o nd uc t e d to Porto Cabello, has been restored to the Ircnch squadron otE the latter port, and con ductal to Martinique. From thence she sailed on the 6th of March for the Havannah, whither she was originally bound, under the escort of the armed brig be Curieux. The works of the Canal de l'Ourcq, wh . ch proceeded but slowly during the winter, are now tarrying on with great activity. A Proterati parish near Cologne recently offcred to a contiguous THE • BRITISH PRESS. Catholic pariah the use of their church, whilst the temple of the Catholics is building. The latter readily accepted of it I and thus at this moment is presented the singular spectacle of the Catholic and Protestant *mitt) being celebrated in the same structure. FRENCH iv WDS.—Pasts. Arat t. 27.—Five per Ccnts. opened at 102 f. 20c.. dosed' at 1021.13 c. Bank Stock., 2,160 f. Rents de N_a_plea, $O(. 60e. Rente d'Espagne. 12j. Royal Spanish Loan, 16=, Rrersogs on London—One month. 24f. 93c.; three months, 24f. 60c.—Cusrs Abthentique, April 27. In the House of Common' last night, Mr. S. WoRTLIT'II Bill for amending the Game Laws was read a third time and passed. We have stated our objections to several of the clauses, which we fear will, in a great measure, defeat the good effects that would result from carrying into com plete exectition the salutary principle on which the Bill is founded. These errors of detail, however, may be easily amended,, and al we hold it to be exceedingly deirable to have the principle of the Bill sanctioned by Parliament, via. that of rendering game saleable, as venison now is, we would rather that the present measure should pass than that the law should remain in its present state. The num bers on the third reading were—for the Bill, 94 ; against it, 69. Lord F. L. GOWCA afterwards brought forward his Re solution respecting a provision for the Roman Catholic Clergy of Ireland. The Noble Lord, in referring to the opinions of the illustrious dead, quoted the great authorities of PITT, CASTLEREAGH, and bopiv-ALLII, in support of this measure. The opinions of Mr. LEALII Foss ea, in 1812, were also cited, though that HonoUrable Member afterwards explained that his approbation of a provision for the Ronan Catholic Clergy depended on a regulation of the appointment of their Bishops, to which the Rothan Catholics had since refused their consent. The advantages expected to be derived by the Noble Lord from the provi sion are the improvement it would produce in the Roman Catholic priesthood, by giving them an interest in common with the State, the melioration of the condition of the peasantry, and as a collateral but not less important cir cumstance, the security that would be afforded to the Pro testant establishment. Ile deprecated any objections that might be made to the proposed allowance, on the score of a wretched and mistaken notion of economy. The task of arranging the details of the plan was simplified by re curring to the precedent of the Presbyterian clergy in Ireland. A direct salary was first paid to them in the reign of JAMES I. The arrangement now subsist ing was that concluded in 1803 by Lord Carcas es AGH. According to the principle of that plan, Lord F. L. Gowan would divide the parish priests and curates into three classes, and the following was the provision for them and the dignitaries of the Roman Catholic Church which the Noble Lord recommended : ♦ Int Alt EACH. Archbishops . - . £l5OO 22 Bishops . . . . . 1000 26 Deans - . . 300 200 of the First Class of Parish Prints 200 SOO Second Class . . . 120 1000 Third Class - . . 60 The whole sum required annually would not exceed 431,000/. The Noble Mover concluded with observing that the measure was one that would bind the Roman Catholic clergy more closely to the State, and whatever the charge was to the revenue, it would be amply repaid by the diminution of the military force now necessarily main tained in Ireland. Colonel B•aw ELI. seconded the motion. Ile supported the provision, not as connected with the re moval of the disabilities of the Roman Catholics, but on its own merits, because it would render the power and influence of the Roman Catholic clergy serviceable to the State. The principal speakers in opposition to the motion were 3.sr. Secretary Pun and Mr. GOULRCILN. On the other side, Mr. W. IVTNN, Mr. PI CNICETT, and Mr. BROUGHAM, addressed the House. The latter Gentleman was principally anxious that no fresh influence should be given to the Crown, by sharing in the appointment of the Roman Catholic clergy. Being satisfied on that point, he would not oppose the measure, because he considered that, under existing circumstances, it was highly desirable that all minor differences of opinion should be conceded for the sake of promoting unanimity on the general question of Roman Catholic Relief. It is understood that, with the game view, Mr. Baocattass intends to abstain from any further oppo. sition to the Bill for regulating the Elective Franchise in Ireland. The arguments of Mr. Secretary Part against the proposed provision for the Roman Catholic Clergy, were heard with great attention by the House, and it must be admitted possess considerable force. He remarked in the outset that the question of providing for the Roman Catholic Priesthood was a question perfectly different from the removal of the disabilities under which the Roman Catholics generally laboured. The concession of their claims was essentially distinct from the question whether the State should foster and propagate a system of doctrine and discipline which the members of the Established Church conceived to be erroneous, and which they solemnly abjured and protested against. The Right Honourable Gentleman could not understand, therefore, how these two questions had become connected together. " Why," he asked, " was it necessary to discuss the intended provision for the Roman Catholic Clergy at this moment ?" Why not wait till the whole question of Emanci pation, as it was called, was completely and finally settled ? All other countries had refused temporalities to the Roman Catholic] Clergy, unless the interference of the Governments was allowed in the appointment of the Bishops. But in this case 450,0001. were to be expended annually from the public purse, without any interference on the part of the Crown. The Roman Catholic Clergy of Ireland were to be rendered absolutely independent of all control, though they were to be sup ported at the public expense ! He denied the applicability of the precedent of the Presbyterians. They admitted all the doctrines of the Church of England, and differed from it only in discipline. After making a grant. to the Roman Catholic Clergy, how could Parliament with propriety re fuse one to the Protestant Dissenters? To give this kind of qualified establishment of the Roman Catholic Church was, besides, a direct contravention of the principle of the Revolution in 1688. The Right Hon. Secrets ry objected also that the House was called upon without sufficient informa tion to precipitate a question which would inevitably excite very great jealousy with regard to the leading measure of re lief wi,h which it was unwisely and unnecessarily connected. We have thuslaid before our readers the principal arguments on each side of this question. We confess that our own opinion is favourable to the measure, as necessary to the settlement and tranquillization of Ireland. We feel, as strongly as Mr. Peet., the objections he urges to grant supplies for the propagation of the Roman Catholic religion; but as five sevenths of the people of Ireland belong to that religion , and cannot, at least by any sudden violence, be con verted from it, we ought, in common prudence, to endea vour to attach their Clergy to the State by some ties of permanent interest. They are now the enemies of the State: we would endeavour to render them its friends. This is the single point of view in which we consider the question. On the division last night, the Resolution wu coiled by a majority of 43; the numbers being—in its favour 40i, againat it 162. Mr. Secretary CANNING was ab3ent the whole evening from indisposition. • CITY, FHTDAT EVIENTWO. Vallitill rumours have been circulated on the Stock Exchange thia morning, all of which have tended to depress the Funds; or at least those who wished for •a• fall have trumpeted them about as Hosea that must produce a decline in prices. One of the rumours is, that an armistice had been agreed upon between the Greeks and Turks, and that a final arrangement of their differences was to be attempted through the mediation of Austria and Russia, under the guarantee of England; another was, that Mr. Hoskisson's opinion regarding the Corn Laws would lead to a depression; by withdrawing a large quantity of capital out of the country in payment for foreign corn a third report was, thaf Mr. Canning bad tendered his resignation, in consequence of the little chance that now appeared to remain of carrying the Catholic Question, and the convulsion that he antici. pated in Ireland if that measure were not carried. Consols fur the Account were at 991 11, and for Money at 911 921. This was settling-day in the Foreign Market, and there was bu little business done beyond the immediate transactions connected with that circumstance. Spanish Bonds maintained themselves firmly ct.yesterdsy's quotation, although wooknow that a temporary decline vas anticipated with reference to the settling to-day. The Old were at 21 I. and the New at 19. Greek Scrip was lf f, and the Bonds 511. South American Securities still get wane ; but we incline to the belief that their retrogression was principally owing to this morning's'f:ettlement. Colombian Bonds were Of 89, and 31exlcan Scrip Ito diacount. Brazilian Scrip waiimpinid; it was If t Danish ditto was 2 2i discount. • • The business In the Share Market was trindpilly et;nened to those of the Foust Company, They were done at 5 premium. • Every thing was extremely dull in Mincing-lane, and the prices of coffee and sugar were by no means firm. . . Letters have been received from the city of Mexico, dated the 'AI February. In one that we have seen, the following passage occurs :—" We cannot comply with your request of writing about politics, for there is really no public news to communicate. The most perfect tran quillity prevails." General Santa Antis had issued - a Proclamation to the inhabitants of Yucatan, stating that be had instituted a judicial inquiry into the rumours of a supposed design to separate the province from the Mexican Confederation. Letters from the Havannah of the 12th of March state that great alarm is felt there at the idea of an invasion by the Colombians. One of the leading merchants had pro ceeded to La: thagena on the private mission from the inde pendent party. The Governor had ordered s•.als to he placed on his property, which is to be confiscated unless he returns within a certain period. ' A letter from Puerto Cabello, of the 9th March, men tions that the blockade of that port by the French ships of war had been raised. We have received a file of the Australian, a paper newly established at Sydney, New South Vales, to the 11th No vember inclusive. The intelligence which these papers contain respecting the colony is rather important, as the Courts established in the Colony, under the new Act of Parliament, have been for the first time brought into operation. A Court of Quarter Session having been as sembled, a doubt arose whether the Magistrates should I summon jurymen to assist them, and the matter was brought before the Chief Justice of the Colony, who, being of opinion that a jury should be summoned, issued a mandamus to the Magistrates. A jury was summoned accordingly, but in the formation of it all persons who had not come free to the Colony (the convicts) were care fully excluded. The Australian condemns the policy of this exclusion, as tending to widen that division among the inhabitants which already exists. Sir Thomas Brisbane, anxious to promote the welfare and prosperity of Australia, had fitted out a party to explore the country for four or five hundred miles in the interior, to the southward and westward of Lake George. Sir Thomas had embarked with his suite on board his Majesty's colonial brig Amity, destined to visit the new Settlement at Moreton Bay. It is thought his Excellency will be absent on this tour of in spection abont three or four weeks. It is rumoured, that on the Roman Catholic Relief Bill coming up to the Lords from the Commons, a message will be read from his Majesty dissolving the Parliament, and recommending the consideration of the question early in the next Session.—Dublin Paper. On the 13th inst. the King and Queen of Naples arrived at Rome. They entered at St. John's Gate, and proceeded to the Farnese Palace. After taking some rest, their Ma i jesties proceeded to the Vatican to visit his Holiness, who received them in the most affectionate manner. A contemporary says—" By the death of Lord Glaston bury, the Hon. T. Grenville succeeds to great wealth : re port estimates the additional fortune at two hundred thousand pounds, seventy thousand of which is ready money. Yesterday the new church at Lisson-grove was conse crated by the Lord Bishop of London. A contest is expected for Great Yarmouth at the next election. FASHIONABLE I NTELLIGENCE. Lord King gave a grand dinner on Thursd a y t o t h e E ar l an d Countess of Jersey, Lord and Lady Cawdor, Lord and Lady 'Wilton, Earl Rosslyn, Lord Harvey, Count de Yale Real, Mr. Brougham, Mr. Forteseue, &c., at his house in Dover-strcet. Count Lieven gave a grand entertainment yesterday to • large party, at Asbburnham House. The Countess of Charlemont has issued cards of invitation for a rout, on the fish May, at her house in Grosvenor-place. Mrs. S. Dugilale has issued cards of invitation for a rout, on the sth May, at her house in Brook-street. The Duke of Atholl had a large party to dinner yesterday, at his house in Great George-street, %I estminstcr. The Marquis of Cholmondeley had a grand party at dinner yesterday, at his house in Piccadilly. The Bishop of Exeter entertained a large party at dinner yester day, at his house, Great George-street, Westminster. R. H. Cox, Esq. had a dinner party yesterday, at his house in Grosvenor-place. The Dowager 31archionesa of Exeter has arrived at her house in Privy-gardens, from her seat at Roehampton. The Marquis and Marchioness of Stafford and family arrived in town on Thursday. from their seat, 'Pest 11111, Surrey. The Earl and Countess Sefton, and the Ladies .51olyneux, have left town for Newmarket. _ _ Slr James Montgomery, Bart., left Gould's Hotel, Jennyn street, yesterday, fur his seat in Scotland. Lady Elphinston left the London Hotel, Albemarle-street, yes terday, for Richmond. The Duke of Norfolk gave a grand dinner on Thursday to the Mar quis and Marchioness of Stafford, Earl of Go4fort, the Earl and Countess of Surrey, the Honourable Mr. and Mts. Agar Ellis, Mr. Howard, Mr. lllatteux, &c., at his house in St. James's-square. The Marqui.t and Marchioness of Lansclown gave an elegant en. tertainment on Thursday, at Lansdown House, to a distinguished party, among whom were--the Marquis and Marchioness of Bath, Count and Countess Lieven, the Earl of Essex, Earl Clare, the Earl, Countess, and Lady Ueorgina Bathurst, Lord and Lady F. L. flower , &e. Mrs. Hope ensartained an elegant circle of Fashlonables on Thursday evening, nt her house in 51aistield-street. The Duke and Duchess of Northumberland and suite will leave town on Monday morning for Paris. The cavalcade wtll consist of 16 carriages. Arrivals at Kirkham's lintel, Lower Brook-streets—Lord and Lady Ongley, from a tour; C. Batty, Esq., front Newmarket; A. Wright. Est, from his seat in Cambridgeshire.—Departures : Mr. and M iss '1 ownshend for Cheltenham. Arrivals at Batts' Ho:el:Dover-street : —Mr. Mrs. And the Al ivies Hardy, from York; Mr. and Mrs. R. Crampton, from Paris; Mr. and Mrs. Raikes ; and R. S. Keating, from Newmarket._ Departures I—Colonel and Mrs. llansell and family, for Chatham ; Lady Wilmot and family; Alajor ani Mrs. Frazer, for Hampton court; Lady and the Misses Ain/ahead; Sir Charles and Lady Mill, for Richmond. Arrivals at Al ivart's Hotel, Lower Brook-street :-0. Knight, Esq.. from Ludlow, Shropshire; John Childers, Esq. and Mrs. Childers and family, from a tour; Miss Williams, from Datchet. Departures r—bir Edward Alostyn, for lloly well, Flintahire ; the Right Hoe. Sir Charles and Lady Hagar and suite, for Brussels. Arrivals at the St. Petersburgh Hotel, Dover-street :—Lord and Lady Eliott, G. Man, Esq., Colonel Langdon, Col. Houghton, Capt. Marryatt, 12th Lancers, Capt. Goadeat, the Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Nicholson, Sir Marcus and Lady Somerville, Capt. P a t erson , the Hon. Binning, ALP., Mrs. Binning and family, W. Jack son, Esq., Mrs. Jackson, the R e v. James and Mrs. Hornby, Sir T. Esmorde, Capt. Freeman, the Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Putland, the Hon. H. and Mrs. Rawdon, Colonel Many Captain England, Captain Berkeley, General Brown, Coloucl Alacnaughten, Cap tain Richardson, Colonel Martin, Count Laveau, J. Latouche, esq., M.P. THE EA"' !El TION OF TOE ,SOCIETY OF - BRITISH ARTISTS. • (Continued from the British Puss of April 18.] 217. The Convalescent, a Family Picture.—B. R. Hat• DON. If modest merit made any part of Mr. Haertrotei cha racter, our sympathy with his total failure in every picture he has hung on the walls of this Exhibition would incline us to treat him with great indulgence • but we doubt much, could the qualities of his mind be analysed, whe ther even a single particle of any thing like diffidence could be found in its whole composition. On the contrary ; if we were to measure his abilities by his pretensions, the names of such men as WAIT and russet would hardly de. serve " honourable mention," and their works must shrink from all comparison. But we live in a republican age, when, in spite of all that a man can utter in his own praise, his merits will be forced down to their true level, and he must he content. to be rated at his real worth. With respect to the family picture before us, it would perplex any one to divine why'or wherefore it should be called " The Convalescent" . 'We have a robuit bacchanal in his dressing gown, whom no one could for a moment suppose had just escaped from his re soneseal ; to all appearance lie has not a grain of mor tality in him—no span-girth shanks—no limbs worn down by short allowance—no marks of 5 constitution that has boric up is;einst pills and prescriptions : on the contrary, his jolly appearance carries with it no likelihood of cutting out any work for the sexton for years to come ; nothing, indeed, can be more distant from dust and ashes. There is not, moreover, any symptoms—as there ought to have been—of a restored invalid—no lingering apparatus of e sick chamber —net so touch as an empty vial, er a stray label, to tell of the tepetatite huustus which bad drenched the now revived indent in the days of his visitation. There is, in feet, nothing analogous to the subject Of the picture in any pert of it. ..The lady who sits so lovingly by the side of the Convalescent—his wife, we take it for granted—and who has been fain to cocker him up with broths and jellies, and other restoratives, to replenish his vascular system—seems herself to require a warm bath acd a dose of Glauber's salts, to remove the beat and irritation of her skin ; her face—the features of which are very far from prepossessing--betrays no very great reverence for the virtues either of "temperance, soberness, or chastity ; "— in plain truth, it has in it a vul garity and tipsiness of expression that is extremely repul sive ;. so much so, that the court e o us f ema l e, w h o i s i n t h e act of handing a plate of Patagonian strawberries to the restored patient, is made to turn her head away, a want of ordinary politeness and propriety which could on no other suppoSition be justified. The thoughts of this family party seem to be all occupied with dif ferent subjects; their eyes are all directed different ways ; the Convalescent seems to make no part of their concern ; their features have no expression that betokens any sort of interest in him ; he is a corpulent figure, within the bounds of the circle, and that is all. That superstitious reverence fee the antique, that runs through all Mr. Haydon's performances, pervades the present. All his portraits in this exhibition partake of the gigantesque. It is worth his while, seriously, to inquire what can have made bun so unsuccessful; for he is wofully inferior even to himself. His conceptions are great, but he wants judg ment, and his powers of execution are inadequate; his compositions have nothing of the simplicity of nature in. them ; his imaginat'on seems engrafted with the Elgin Marbles; and he appears anxious, on every occasion, to translate them into whatever subject comes before him; but the feelings of the spectator do not go along with him : and the result is, that his pictures inspire no sympathy. We arc grown too fastidious in these times to be talked out of our love of symmetry and grace by an appeal to the authority of an antique statue. 217. Portrait of a Gentleman—J. M. Lenin. Mr. Leigh is a young artist of sterling merit; he begins well, for while he follows the bent of his own natural talent, it has manifestly been cultivated by careful study, and his instructions have left him nothing to unlearn. We risk little in predicting his future fame from his present com mencement. The portrait before us is excellent, both le its drawing and colouring: in some particulars, however, we think it capable of amendment ; the nose is extremely well relieved, and the mouth is likewise well shaped and well placed, but the left eye requires to be mote shadewed; its position does trot permit the light to fall upon it so ' strongly • it produces, moreov e r, on t h e ot h er eye, an effect of imperfect vision. We would recommend, too, that the grey tint should he removed from the forehead ; the flesh in nature would not take this tint; if the position of any part of the head be such as to throw it into shadow, this will not change its colour; if the light be partially with drawn from any object, its colour will of course be less distinct, and if it be wholly withdrawn, the colour will ne sarily disappear, but it will not vary. We are disposed to draw attention to this fundamental truth in painting, not only from its importance, but because we observe many of our best artiste perpetually sinning against it. 236.—P0t trail r. , l* Paijssio, a native of C e ph a l on i a, an d Grand Archimandrite of Wallachia and Moldavia:— During tne horrible massacres of the Greeks which recently dia. graced Constantinople, this venerable Patriarch was dragged before tire public authorities, and doomed to an ignominious death ; but being provided with a document previously granted to him in the lonian Islands by the British Minister, he was allowed to escape, and ultimately took refuge on the hospitable shores of Britain, where his reception has been such as to reflect honour on the British pti Nation.—J. LEIGH. We have here a portrait much more favourable for the display of the artist's powers than the one we have just no ticed. The head has great expression and character, and the variety and richness of the costume contribute not a little to its impressive and picturesque effect. The dra pery is well coloured, and is touched in many parts with masterly freedom. 1 To he continued.l It is said tl:at tl e King will hold two Drawing-rooms in the course of the month of May. The Duke of York transacted military business with the King yesterday. Yesterday morning, at twelve o'clock, the Duke of York, accompanied by the Marquis of Anglesey, and a numerous staff, inspected the new Riding Ilouse and Barracks, at St. John's Wood, near the Regent's Park, lately built for the use of the riding establishment under the superintondence of LieutenanuColonel Peters, who some time since commenced the formation of a new system of equitation for our cavalry, at Pimlico, which has not only met with the Duke of York's sanction to be adopted by the cavalry, but many experienced cavalry officers have expressed their approbation of the utility of this newly-invented system. His Royal Highness approved of the construction of the The Princess Augusta honoured Covent-garden Theatre with her presence yesterday evening. Yesterday the Duchess of Gloucester and the Princess Sophia visited the Princess Augusta. The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, and the Princess Augusta, went yesterday about 1Y o'clock to Somerset House to view the Exhibition, previous to its being opened to public view. Their Royal Highnesses were received by Sir Thomas Lawrence, the President of the Royal Ace , - detny, and Mr. Howard. the Secretary, who conducted the Royal party over the different rooms set apart fo r p a i nt . ing, sculpture, &c. On Saturday last his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant gave the annual state dinner to the Lord Mayor and Cor poration of the City of Dublin. The entertainment was laid out in the Presence Chamber. His Excellency en tered the dining-room soon after seven o'clock. After the cloth was removed, the usual toasts were given, and impro priate tunes followed, by the excellent band of the Fourth Dragoon Guards. There were present The Lord Chancellor, the Lord Chief Justice, the Master of the Rolls, Lord Norbury, the Lord Chief Baron, the Soliritor•General, the Earl of Meath. the Earl of Clanricarde, the Carl of Itatiitiown, Lord Caetlecnote, the Bishop of Derry, the Bishop of Cionfert. the Provost, Archdeacon Biahopp, Mr. Gregory:, Monsieur Ro maine, General ryeri, General Young, Colonel Sir Hisgh (lough, Colonel Sandilanda, Major Sin, the Lord Maydr.Sheriff Lardrrel, Sheriff Warren, the High Sheriff of the County, the Becorler, the Cite Chaplain ; Aldermen Sir A. B. King, Sir William Sfuner, Harty, fint Ez ett a . w i'l ( eirn i ng,, , A ll r i c on her tgom M e . ! K y, " C nY ..P B . l A r, Archer, er K,' T j yri m d " a 4s ll, West, Abbot, Sir Thome' Whelan, Sir G eorge . Whiteford ; sh ar e, ma. Johnstone, Sir S. Bruce. ha G. 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