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f : • b 41 •' - , ... , - • # • - "N `?..)N v P.4.IILIAMENTARY INTELLIGENCE. 'HOUSE OF LORDS, WZDIIESDAT, MAT 18. EQUITABLE LOAN BILL. On the motion of the Earl of LAUDERDALE. the order of the day for tie second reading of the Equitable loran Bill, was die. charged for this day, and fixed for Friday, the 27th instant; on which day it was ordered that the Lords be summoned. The Noble Lord then moved, that a list of the original Shareholders of the Company be laid before their Lordships, stating at the same tithe had heard the number of shares amounted now to only 50 1 1.11 though they had been originally 40,0281. CORN LAWS. The Earl of LAUDERDALE then presented a petition from some parishes in Berkshire, praying that there may be no altera tion in the Corn Lrws. A great many private Bills were brought up from the Commons, by Mr. Bac:min x and other Members. UNITARIAN MARRIAGE ACT. The Marquis of LANSDOWN gave notice, that he would move the second reading of the Unitarian Maniage Act, on Friday se'nnight. EQUITABLE LOAN COMPANY. The Earl of LAUDERD.I LE presented petitions against the Equitable Loan Bill, from several Merchants and Traders of the city of Worcester. The Noble Lord, in presenting a petition against the Fluitable Loan Bill, from several inmates of White eroas.atree prom, observed, that a petition had been lately pre- Dental, u from persons similarly situated in favour of the Bill ; but that, on examining the list of names, he found that very few of those mentioned bad been prisoners at the time. His Lordship then Presented petitions agaihst the Bill, from the Inhabitants and leaders of the city of Leicester ; from the borough of New Sarum. in Wiltshire; from the Inhabitants of Wolverhampton, in St.sf. totdshire; from certain Inhabitants of the parish of St. Luke's. Chelsea; from certain Traders and Inhabitenta of Dartford, in Kent; from certain Inhabitants of St. Pancras. Middlesex; and from the Pawnbrokers of the town of Leeds, in Yorkshire, praying that the Act of the 6th of (leo. I. commonly called the Bubble Act, be put id force against the Equitable anti other Joint-Stock Companies—These petitions were laid on the table. QUARANTINE LAWS. A person from the Privy Council 011 ice, brought up an account of all the cottons and cloths brought into this country from Alex andria during this year. CUSTOMS. Mr. Tomlines, from the Treasury, presented some papers, rela tive to the Custom House Duties. On the motion of the Earl of SHAFTESBURY, several private Bills were read a first and second Uwe. Adjourned at Six o'Clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS, wEDNESUAT, MAY 18. Mr. I.ITTI.ETON was desirous of addressing a few words on the subject of the practice of Committees on private business. The particular subject to which he wished to tall the attention of the House wax, that the day appointed for proceeding on the Welsh Iron and Coal Company had been postponed for a month. A second postponement had taken place, much to the inconve oienee of th• parties concerned. He now moved that the order for li that Committee hr rescinded. Lord MILTON seconded the motion. 'Fite SPEAKER thought the practice adverted to entailed much Inconvenience on the public; it was also derogatory from the dig nity of the House. He would call upon the House to mark their disapprobation of this conduct by rescinding the order. Sir J. WROTTESLEY returned thanks to the Speaker for what had fallen frun him. Ile begged to observe, that no Mem her connected with the mining districts had been appointed on the wriniitter. lie would suggest, that persons soliciting a private Bill ought to enter into rerogniunces for payment of the expenses, it it should turn out they had no reasonable ground for soliciting the Bill, they ought to defray the expenses attendant on it. Ile booed the fate of the IVelsh Iron anti Coal Company would warn the public against being dupes to similar speculations. Mr. JONES thought the House ought, by some regulation, to pas ide against the recurrence of similar inconvenience. Mr. AI. A. TAYLOR sugges:ed the subjecting of the parties to costs, as a correction of the abuse. Mr. S. NVORTLEY did not know a case of more gross and wanton abuse and neglect than the present. The parties interested in opposing the Bill had not received the slightest notice of the postponement. lie concurred in the expediency of some correction of the evil. Alr. HU3IE suggested as a remedy of the evil the throwing open the Committees • the subjecting them to the notice of the press, if these proceedings were reported, would make the public acquainted with the character of the parties, The order for the meeting of the Committee was then ilia charged. Tne Glasgow Statute Bill was then read a third time and passed. Mr. 1)OWNIE presented a petition from Dundee against the Dundee Imprisonment Bill. Mr. S. 11 111 THREAD presented a petition from All Saints, Poplar, in favour of the Colliers Docks Bill. str W. GUISE presented a petition from persons concerned in the salmon fishery on the river Sexern, praying for the better regu lation of the fisheries on that river. Ale. DOWNIE presented a petition from the merchants of Stirling, praying for relief respecting the regulations which affect bondeti corn. Air. S. RICE brought up the Report of the Committee which liad been appointed to take into considervion the subject of local fixation in the city of Dublin.—Ordered to be printed. Sir R. FERIA-SON presented a petition from certain bleachers and linen mannfacturers in the county of Fife, praying for an amendment of the regulations relating to the salmon fisheries of the rivers with which they are connected. CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. Sir N. COLTHURST. seeing in his place his [lon. Friend the Under Secretary for the Colonial Department, wished to ask hint whether the Commissioners sent out to the Cape of Good Hope had amide arc Report on time case or )Ir.SVin. Parker? Mr. W. HORTON replied in the negative. Mr. BROUGHAM inquired if the Commissit any Hemet ? Mr. W. HORTON answered that they had not, but that letters had been received from them. Mr. BROUGHAM wished to know how many pages those let ters consisted of, fur a letter of SW pages or of 100 pages might well be considered a Report? Mr. W. HORTON made no further reply. Mr. HUAIE presented a petition front Thomas Riley Perry * a prisoner in Newgate, who was confined on a conviction for bias .phemy, complaining of excessive punishment, being sentenced to an imprisonment of three years. The petitioner prayed for release from further imprisonment.--Ordered to lie on the table. Mr DENMAN presented a petition frdin the journeymen shoe makers of Westminster, against any alterations in the Combination LAWS. Mr. S. RICE presented a petition from Strathbane, against any alterations in the Butter Laws of Irrland. ROMAN CATHOLICS. had made BROUGILkfiI p resented petitionicrom the Roman Ca- Uralic inhabionts of the parish of Aghadoe, praying—a very rat awsable request, be thought—that they might not be required to build a church fur the Rev. Mr. firierson, the Protestant Minister 01 the parish, the proportion of Roman Catholics to Protestants being three hundred to one ; and they `limiter prayed, that wherever there was so great a disproportion—a reasonable request he thought also—they might not be called upon to build churches for the ministers of a different establishment. As this was a petition from Roman Catholics, he could not forbear from adverting to an event wnich had occurred snee they last met. To that event he was now etrhtled to advert, and he felt regret at the deep disappointment aquas would follow the rejection of the Bill for the relief of the Homan Catholics, which had been repeatedly sent up front this House to the House of Lords. Ile trusted that, em the present Session pried over, sonic palliation, if not remedy, would be admi nistered to heal the wounds of Ireland. That Bill which the House of Lords rejected came recommended by the aspirations of six mil. lions of Roman Catholics, loyal in propo lion to their number, and eeseeful in proportion to their oppression : how long they would continue loyal and peacetul, let the House of Lords answer to itself. (Ch-ors.) This House, at least, had done its duty. (Loud cheers.) The question could not rest where it was, whilst Ireland waslreland. Situated as she was, this question could not rear, until the House of Lords, and the King concurring with this House. should render to that canary an act of tardy, though of equal justice. (Hear, hear.) . ...The Kill, ht had said, came recommended by the aspirations or as mil.ions of loyal and peaceable men ; it CAUlCalsorecommended 'fiy the greatest and wisest men who had ever adorned this country or Ireland. It had been supported by Burke, 'Windham, Ro- Whitbread, and names greater even than these--by Fox and Grattan. y had nursed it, and left after them unions and able advocates of this great measure of justice, expediency., and right. i: was supported by great lawyers—lawyers not only high in their O*o estimation, but what was more important, high in the esti mation of the Lord Chancellor. Mr. Plunkett was a great lawyer —re was an eloquent man—we knew sad felt that lie WWI; he was able—the Lard Chancellor knew and felt that be was ; either he thought him so. or he (the Lord Chancellor) must be the meanest man to the world, differing in opinion with him, ashedid, upon this most impossant measure, to continue Idol in his present office of Attorney-General. This was the authority upon which the Bill was supported ; and before it was too late, he hoped that the Le gpaiature would unite in yielding to that authority, and pass the measure. Sir T. LETHBRIDGE wished to make a few observations en what had fallen from the Hon. and Learned Gentleman. He en tirely differed from him in the sentiments which he expressed in reference to the late decision of the Upper /louse of Pailiament. He confessed that that decision had made upon him a very oppecite impreseion from what it appeared to have produced upon the mind of the Hon. and Learned Gentleman. Fur his part, lie felt confi dant that the vote to which the House of Lords had that morning nave would give general satisfaction throughout the empire. "(Cheers from the Opposition benches.) Disappointment doubters would be fet by the Roman Catholics, but he trusted that their I svatty and good sense would keep them front any improistr mani iestatiomi of their discontent, and certainly it would requite all the good sense. good feeling, and moderation, which be admitted they po+sessod, to preserve them from the influence of the straw ItIFULIieS witi,h the Hon- and Learned Member for%l'inclielsea had then thou ght prope r in adminiver. Ile regretted that the absence e his Rigid Bon. Friend ( Mr. l'eA) (tad made It necessary mat Mtn to trouble Ilse House with any observations of his upon the oaten, bur as be had risen he would observe, that he seldom had. heard a speech which indicated more deliberation than that which had then been delivered by the Hon. and Learned Member ; it was quite a prepared speech. (A laugh.) The petition he took for granted had been kept by him for a long time, waiting for the present occasion. He then adverted to the strictures pronounced on the decision of the House of Lords, and appealed to the House, whether it was good taste in the Hon. Member to animadvert upon the decision of the other House. or generous in him to attack an absent person (the Lord Chancellor), whom he was continually is the habit of assailing. Mr. S. R ICE rose to correct the lion. Baronet's statement as to the petition. That petition he had handed to his lion. and Learned Friend within five or ten minutes of the time at which he rose to present it, and he would then leave the House to judge of the tle dree of attention due to the other statements and inferences of the !Lon. But., when they saw on what a slender foundation this rested. He could not sit down without thanking the Hon. Bart. for the handsome terms in which he spoke of the people of Ireland ; they deserved no less ; but he could not help noticing the exttaor dinary inconsistency of his thus thinking so favourably of the Irish. and at the same time holding the opinions which be did respecting the Catholic Question. They were loyal and yet were not to be trusted—they were peaceable and yet not to be relied on. If what the lion. Bart. had said were good for any thing, it went to this, that they should be placed on a footing of perfect equality with their Protestant fellow-subjects. It had been said that they were not at liberty to take any notice of what passed in the other House of Parliament; but lie entirely dissented from that doctrine. Had they not the votes of that oilier !louse? sad could they not thence learn the nature of its proceedings, and if the censures passed upon the decision of that House had been even still severer, it would have been no more than justice and fair retaliation, for nothing could have been more bitterly personal than the animadversions of certain Members of the Upper House upon these of the Lower. His Hon. and Learned Friend, with theierful eloquence so pecu liarly his own, had cautioned the Leg islature against pressing huipan nature too far. As to his own i ndividual sentiments on the occasion, he would say that all his strongest feelings were most closely connected with Ireland ; still he wished that he could (con. sistently with duties he felt bound to perform) bid adieu for ever to that country, and eraae Irwin his memory the recollection of its wrongs. If such were his feelings as a Protestant, what.must be the emotions of the Roman Catholics at this present crisis ? To break off for ever all connection would be, he declared, a great relief to his mind—were it not that he had duties to perform front which he would not shrink. This sentiment was not peculiar to himself ;he knew that he shared i; with many others ; and he had no difficulty in saying that the consequences of it would be, that these who were capable of administering the laws in that country, and filling the place of country gentle men, would quit it altogether, and leave the Government without the means of ever advancing the interests or promoting the prosperity of Ireland. A Member, whose name we could not learn, made a few observa tions, after which the petition was brought up. Mr. BROUGHAM then said that the Honourable Member for Samersetshire (Sir 'l'. Lethbridge) had been sufficiently answered by his Honourable Friend the Member for Limerick (Mr. S. Rice) in all that related to their right to notice the proceedings of the other House. The Members of the House of Commons had as much right to animadvert upon what took place in the Lords, as they could possibly have to censure the proceedings of the Com mon', more csmaially when it was sanctioned by Peers high in dignity, and by one too who, from his particular office, ought to be the last to commit himself as the patron of irregularity. They should not be so squeamish about permitting reflections of this kind to be made, when it was recollected that the Commons as a House had been treated most cavalierly. It had been, forsooth. alleged that he had no right to call .n question, as it was termed, the proceedings of the other House. Now, so far front assenting to that doctrine, he maintained that it was his privilege to canvass every thing done by the other branch of the Legislature, as well as by the Ministers of tie Crown. As to its being objected to him that he wailed the absent, he would reply, that among the sins of omission of which he might be convicted, that of letting slip an opportunity of telling his opinion of the Peers to their faces fully, frankly, and decidedly, was what lie never could with truth be accused of. What he thought of them he always told them fairly ; and as they thought hint honest and sincere in the expression of his sentiments, and as they perhaps felt the justice of what he said, they were kind enough to listen with patience. lie had never said half as much in their absence as he had often declared openly in their presence. He had been charged with attacking the Lord Chancellor. Ile would not say whether he attacked him or not, but he would claim the right to censure any Minister, or any Peer. lie did it in that House, because that was his proper place for do;ng it. The Honourable Baronet must now be aware that he had fallen into the grossest blunder in objecting to a notice of the conduct of an absent member of administration; really it was impossible for absurdity to go further. Surely it was impossible for him (Mr. Brougham) to have discharged his duty in any other manner. It was in the Lower House alone that he could du it, fur the alleged object of his censure was in the Upper Hnuse, and he (dlr. Brougham) was not. If lie had declined on that occasion to cen sure the absent, he himself would have been absent front his duty. Mr. Secretary PEEL did not hear one entire sentence of the speech of the' Honourable and Learned Gentleman to which the Honourable Baronet had alluded, but front what had been dropped respecting it, he cpncluded that it must have contained something to interfere with the good humour that seemed to pervade his latter observations. Upon the whole, he could not say that he was sorry for having been absent at the time the Honourable and Learned Gentleman spoke, for he should have felt extremely unwilling to be placed under the necessity of saying any thing that would have the Area of aggravating the disappointment naturally felt by the Roman Catholics, or of making a..y allusion to the triumph of that cause in which he felt so much interest. Ile would now only add, that if any of those with whom he was associated in the government of the country, or to whom he was bound by obliga tion or by friendship, had been assailed, he most assuredly would have felt it his duty to vindicate such friend, but as be had not heard the speech of the Honourable and Learned Gentleman, it was impossible for him to reply. Mr. BROUGHAM briefly explained. After a few words fronrSir J. NEWPORT, the petition was ordered to lie on the Table. Mr. BROUGH AM postponed his notice relative to the inde pendence of Judges, but to what day was not precisely under stood. Mr. DENMAN rose to express his regret that he had not been present the preceding evening when the subject of tithes in the City of London was under the consideration of the House. lie then wished to say that his opinion on the subject remained un changed. IRISH MANUFACTORY BILL. Mr. G. DAWSON presented a petition from the inhabitants of Londonderry. in Ireland, in favour of the Bill for the establishment and encouragement of manufactures in Ireland.—Laid on the CEYLON—SIR JAMES CAMPBELL. Mr. HUME moved that an humble address be presented to his Majesty, praying that he would be graciously please.l to order to be laid on the table of the I louse, a copy of the proclamation issued by Sir James Campbell, Governor of Ceylon, on the 10th of Jan. 1824, for the purpose of removing all doubts on the subject of ar resting persons on the island. Also, copies of the judgment of the Supreme Court of Colombo, of the lath January, in the case of John Daniel Bossier, and of the correspondence upon that subject that passed between the local Government and the Colonial Office in En land. Mr. - W. HORTON said it was not his intention to oppose the production of the papers required. He merely wished to observe that the individual in question, had been detained as a deserter under the proclamation of the Governor, and the operation of mar tial law. _ _ After an observation from Mr. TR ANT, end Mr. HUME, The motion was agreed in. COURCII RATES (IRELAND) BILL. Sir J. NEWPORT moved the second reading of the Irish ChJrch Rates Bill. . . _ . Mr. DAB SON thought cone of the provisions in the Bill might admit of amendment in Committee, but was not disposed to offer any objection to the principle of the measure. The Bill was then read a second time, and ordered to be com mitted to-morrow (this day). The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned to THURSDAY (this day.) HOUSE OF COMMON*, THIS DAY. NOTICE OF MOTION. Mr. Brougham—Motion for the better securing the practical in dependence of the Judges. ORDERS OF THE DAY. Salmon Fishery Bill—Further Consideration of Report. Cruel Treatment of Cattle Bill—Second Reading. Land-tax Assessments Bill—Further Consideration of Report. Judicature (Scotland) Bill—Further Consideration of Report. Leasing Making (Scotland) Bill—Committee. Aliment of Prisoners (Scotland) Bill—Committee. County Courts Bill—Third Reading. County-rates Mortgage 11111—Third Reading. Lunatic Trustees Bill—Second Reading. PRICES OF BRITISH Bank Stock 220 3 per Get. Red. 09} k S per Cent. Con.. 90 99j 90 a Ditto Acct. B* 90a 891, 90 a 34 per Cent. 97 34 per Cent. Red. STA k New per Cent. Hut 104 j ITOCKS YESTERDA Y. 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Premium Par Share. ♦ngio-Mexican £lO9 20 70 Anglo-Chilian Brazilian lOO 0 9 • Cornwall and Devonshire 3O 3 14 dis General Mining Association Hibernian lO • 11 • Pasco Peruvian l9O 0 10 94 10 Potosi, La Paz, and Peruvian 39 6 4 1 i United Mexican 4O 20 18 Ditto New 4O 10 19 Welch Iron and Coal 2O lO 14 Etc WittOlt. Vrefso• DRURY-LANE THE This Evening, THURS 01Y. May 19, will be performed F ‘L'. 4 TUS. The Principal Vharneters by Messrs-Wallas*. Terry, Harley, Knight, Browse, Archer, Bedford , and Penley; Mesdames L Paton, btapliene. and Povey. After which, MY UNCLE C; AIM iF.L. Caber! Omniutn, Mr. Gattle; Scrip, Mr. Bedford; Tom Tacit, Mr. Knight; Jack Head), hc. Mr. Harley. Eliza. Was Povey ; Mrs. T., Mrs. Urger. To-morrow, William Tell, and Grand• Papa. COVEN r-G A UDE AV 7'H EATIM This Evening, THURSDAY, May IS. will be performed DER FruosctluTz. Caap►r, Mr. Bennett: i% tthelm, Mr. Dearman: Killian, Mr. Keeley. Bertha, Miss Paton ; Lena, Miss Love. After which, A RoLAND FOR AN OLIVER. Sir Mark Chase, Mr. Vita eett ; Alfred H Wafter, Mr. Jones; Fixture, Mr. Rayner. Marla Darlington, Miss Foote. To-morrow, Entry Man in his Humour, and Clarl. HAY.IfARKE7' THEATRE.. This Evening, THURSDAY. May 1110. will be performed THE ROID TO RUIN. Old Dornton, Mr. newton; Harry Dorrton, Mr. Tining; G Adfinch, Mr. J. Rumen. Sophia, Vise P. Cl:over. After which. AMOROSO. Amoroso, Mr. W. Meet; alolltdrati, Mn. C. Jones. To conclude with TEX ELL Count Tricia', Mr. Vining; Wolf. Mr. Cooke; Conrad, Mr. Wil liams: Isidore, Mr. W. West; Bras de Fcr, Mr..l. Russell. Christine, Miss P. Glover. To-morrow, The Merry Wives of Windsor. The Lady and the Devil, and Youth, Love, and Folly. ENGLISH OPERA HOUSE. In consequence of some extensive alters:lons to be effected in the Stage and Orchestra of the theatre. preparatory to the commence ment of the Summer Season of the English Opera, the Public are respectfully apprized that this is the Last Week but Three they will find MR. MATHEWS AT HOME. This Evening. THURSDAY, May - lll„,and on Saturday, ki 11. MATIIF.WS' MEMORANDUM-Sook of Pecullikities, Characters, and ‘lanners,colleeted during his various Trips. Songs—. Memoranda in Coufnsion"—. Night Coach"—" hubbies," a capital Song—" Sailing Match"—•• Old and New Tiums*—" Publis OCkee, Bow-street." Pas? 111.-4 Monopolviogue to be called THE CROWN INx...OtNGEH. Doors open at Seven: the Pert..numr.reto c..mmence at light. THE APW,Efhw CON. lIFCDIATILPArROPIACR OW !111.8 b w.. 060 a -- The fonowlng SELECTIoft of MUSIC will be performed by Mr. PUHKIS on the APOLLONICON, a Cirand Musical Instrument. invented and constructed by Messrs. Flight and Robson, Organ Builders, 101, St. Martin's-lane:— BART I. Overture, Tambora I H Immel 'ls el darene Olorartl—Waltz (Mozart), with Variations (Purkisl—Air, Thro' the forest, thy,' the meadows,' Der Freischutz (Weber)—Ql•ertiniento, and Selections from Don Giovanni (Purkisl. PART IL . . - Ororture, Der Freitebutz (Weher)—Mr. Cherry ripe' (C. E. Horn) —GlPlertilee welsh)—.fir, ' If a youth Would meet a maiden' (Weber) —Storm Concert.. (Stleb,ll). • N.B. Mr. Markle's Performances will )c continued every Saturday during the Servant. The Mechanical Powers of C:ti epollonleon are exhibited Daily, from One till Four (c-xcept during the OLIO of Mr. Purele's attendance), performing Beethoven's celebrated Overture to Prometheus, Mozart's Overture to Zauberdote, and Haydn% Grand Military Movement from his Twelfth symphony, in the execution of which it has been hun.eured with the sanction of the mat eminent mechanical and musical men of the age, and is aliowed to possess a grandeur and variety of effect, with a precision and s delicacy of expression, impo rter to any other hunt ttttt ent in Europe. '('be Mush, arranged for and set on the Cylinders by Mr. Flight, Jun. The BiIiTISIIPaEss commenced publishing yesterday morning at ten o'clock. LONDON, THURSDAY, M•r 19, 1825. As we had predicted the failure of the Catholic Bill in the House of Lords, we can hardly be supposed either to be much surprised at such a result, or to be unacquainted with the causes which were likely to lead to its rejection. That it will strengthen the feeling of public discontent in Ireland we have no doubt ; there are enough persons active and on the alert there, a:, elsewhere, to keep alive a spirit of civil commotion, whenever any new fuel can be brought to feed the flame., We lament deeply, and have always lamented, the disabilities to which the Cathelics are subjected; but we do so because we think they are sufficiently loyal, and sufficiently enlightened, to make it both impolitic and unjust to exclude them from those, places of trust and profit under the State, to which the ta lent, and rank, and wealth, of such at least as possess these qualifications, fairly and in reason entitle them. And it is because we believe them to be thus loyal and en lightened, that we feel convinced the objects of their ho nourable ambition being for a still further time withheld, will not make them forget, on that account, their duty as good subjects, or forfeit that charactef which has begot so much confidence in their loyalty, and brought so much countenance to their cause. T he present conduct of the Catholic priesthood, in a neighbouring nation,was certainly ill calculated, at this crisis, to remove that alarm, which, whether well or ill grounded, prevails but too generally throughout the kingdom, and which necessarily occasions strong apprehensions as to the clangor of increasing a power which they not only feel to be capable of perversion, but which, as far as they are capable of seeing its supremacy in actual exercise, is calculates! to excite a degree of terror, which makes the zealous friends of the Establishment re gard it as imperative upon them rather to strengthen the outworks than to remove the barriers. We cannot be persuaded to enlist ourselves under the standard of those alarmists ; but our knowledge of human nature in duces us to make allowance for the fears, without distrust ing the sincerity, of those who believe that the Protestant Establishment would be endangered by any important con cessions to an antagonist and hostile Church; and that although the professions of the Catholic Priesthood may he tolerant while they are weak, their conduct might not be conformable to those principles if th..y were strong— that they might be inclined to exercise their supposed prerogative, as the Ministers of Heaven, to extirpate he resy, as in times of old, and to drive the ungodly, after their own manner, into the fold of the faithful. But we look to the Catholics of Ireland, not as Catholics, but as citizens of a free State, and born to the blessings of a free Constitution. We look to rank, and station, and office, as to those prizes which every Government has more or less for distribution, and which ought to be distributed to those who are qualified for the discharge of all the functions they require, and all the duties they impose, and this without regard to what religious opinions they may hold ; because it is of the essence of all real liberty, that conscience should be unfettered, and the mind be', , always free. It is for this freedom that our forefathers have valiantly fought; and though we are no doubt justified in shutting the door of the State against those who would disturb its peace, it does not follow that we are warranted in refusing those rights, the perversion of which we might punisb—or in withholding those claims,the abuse of which it is amply in our power to provide against. if we were impotent to effect our own security against danger, the case would be different ; but this we consider as an I object of no very difficult attainment. We are at present worked up to the summit of our fear; we should only have to work ourselves up to the summit of our valour. As to the rest, there is no danger that we should unlock the doors of preferment to the Catholics too quickly ; and while we abstain, as we are likely enough to Jo, from a too lavish liberality, there is little risk that we shall con- I cede too much, either for the secu r ity o f th e Ch urc h or the safety of the State. 'That the loss of the Catholic Rill in the notice of Lards will beget any turbulent feelings in the mass of the Irish population we do not at all believe. That the peasantry are poor, and wretched, and destitute, is true ; but their condition is no: to be ascribed to the absence of any benefit they would derive from what is termed Catholic Emanci pation. Itrliat is wanted in Ireland is capital; there wants wherewithal to set in motion the looms of the artificer, the ploughs of the husbandman, and the labour of the peasantry : supply this, and Industry will spring up, and quiet, and contentment, and prosperity, will follow in her train., At present the great body of the Irish population suffer oppression of a deeper and very different kind from any that is brought upon them by exclusion from political office, and by any other causes from which any Catholic Relief Rill could deliver them. You may give them Catholic Emancipation, but will that give the labourer employment ?—will it give the peasantry bread? The system in Ireland is radically bad ; it is pregnant with turbulence, and faction, and crime. Much, very much, has been dune by Lord WELLESLEY more for the real and permanent good of Ireland was never accomplished by any man that ever yet presided over her Councils ; but the s.eds of evil are deeply sown, and to destroy them is not in the election of any Lord Lieutenant, be he who he may. To bring Ireland to that state of wealth and in dustry to which she is capable of arriving, would give full employment to the wisdom of the wisest Statesman ; but in the present state of things we doubt if, with the very best intentions, the means are within their reach. The fault is in the foundation. ' The Paris Papers of Nlenday coutain!no news of im portance. We have in atiother column extracted the most interesting articles. CITY, WEDNESDAY EVENING. Very considerable interest was excited this morning in the City, to learn the effect that the decision of the House of Lords on the Catholic Question would have on the Funds. By some the most glormy apprehensions were entertained; but they vanished into thin air, and the Money Markets were all exceedingly firm. Con sols for Money and the Account bore precisely the same prices. They opened at 90, afterwards declined to 894. and closed after a day of extensive business, at 904 ; the Market at the time present ing a steady appearance that indicated improvement. In the Foreign Market, although the transactions were limited, the prices were buoyant. Spanish Bonds, which have maintained themselves very well throughout the last severe depression, fully supported themselves this morning. Those of 1821 were at 231 and the New were at 1114 19. Greek Scrip was lighter by per cent., and there were many buyers in the Market; it was 64 6; the Bonds were 51. South American Securities may be included in the general improvement. Colombian Bonds were at IN, and Mexican 24 discount ; Brazilian Scrip was at 1 pr em i um ; an d Danish ditto at 3 ±4 discount. The business in the Share Market was confined to the three Companies that have for several days absorbed all the attention of jobbers, viz.—The Pasco-Peruvian, the new l'otosi, and the Cie. neral Mining Company ; the first were done at 94 10. the second at 44, and the last at 9 ; but the business was not exten►ive iu any of them. The sales of Coffee and Sugar in Mincing_lane, this morning, fully bear out the expectation that prices will not decline. The Duke of York and the Duchess of Gloucester visited the King yesterday. Yesterday the Duchess of Gloucester dined with the Princess Augusta. Prince Leopold and the Duchess of Kent honoured the Italian Opera-house with their presence on Tuesday evening. Mr. Secretary Canning transacted business yesterday, at the Foreign Office, Downing-street. From the Gazette of Tuesday it appears, that the Draw ing-room, which was to be held on Monday next, is fur ther postponed till Thursday, the 9th of June. The alarm which has prevailed among the holders of Greek Scrip, respecting the reported successes of the Turk ish forces in the Morea, induced some of the principal of them to address a letter to the Greek Deputies, to which an answer was immediately returned to the following effect : That the Deputies had none but the most favourable intelli gence from Greece, and that the public were deceived by per sons who made a business of fabrication. They stated also that the Medina was at Navarino on the Mt April, that she had given official intelligence at Corfu, that in •n engage ment which had taken place near the town the Turks had lost 500 men, and that besides 2,000 men in garrison in the town, the Greek army, 10,000 men strong, was at the time of her sailing within view of the enemy. A private letter from St. Thomas's states that the dis astrous fire which took place lately in that island was caused 14 a negress, who placed a lighted candle in a cask, as a superstitious means of bringing the curse of Heaven on the individuals who had stolen some clucks from her. She was soon afterwards sent out of the house, and forgot the light. The Ladv Combcrmcre, Capt. Foster, arrived at Liver pool, on SaiurtlAy, from Cape Coast, whence she sailed on the 6th March last, at which time that place and the Gold Coast were in tranquillity. The European troops con tinued sickly. His Majesty's ship Esk arrived in Cape Coast-road a few days prior to the departure of the Lady Combermere. It was reported that General Turner had arrived at Sierra Leone. Ilia presence was mach wished for at Cape Coast. Extract of a letter, dated Maranham, April Lord Cochrane is on hoard his frigate, some miles distant from the city. Very serious consequences are apprehended from the dryness of the season. The rains generally commence early in January, and hitherto we have only had a few partial showers. It is expected the cotton crop will be very small, and an almost total failure of the farina and rice." An Englishman, named Lloyd, has formed the singular idea of making war upon the bears in Sweden, Norway, and Finland. He passed the last winter in a desert part of the Swedish province of Werme!and, where, with the assist ance of a Intntamas, be destroyed tit bears. He has now passed into Norway, and proposes to terMinate his expedi tion at Petersburgli—French Paper. A preparatory Meeting was held at the Freemasons' Ta vern, on Tuesday, for the purpose of establishing a Society to investigate the right of the inhabitant houseolders of cities and boroughs to he burgesses, and in that character to return Members to Parliament; Lard Nugent in the chair. J. Williams, Esq. M.P. moved, that a Society be formed for the purpose already mentioned ; Lord Glenorchy seconded the motion, which was put, and carried unani mously. A public Meeting was appointed to be held on the Bth of June. • In the Diorama at Paris are exhibiting, views of the city of Rouen and the Abbey of Koslin. Yeaterday a Court of Directors was held at the East India House, when General Lord Combcrmere, G.C.8., and Lieutenant-General Sir George Townshend Walker, G.C.8.,t00k the usual oaths upon being appoi n ted, the former Commander-in-Chief of the Company s forces at Bengal, and Second in Council, and the latter as Commander-in- Chief and Second in Council at Fort St. George. They afterwards dined with the Directors at the City of London Tavern. Capt. Robert Locke, of the ship Duke of York, took leave of the Court previous to departing for China direct. Saturday the great steam engine was set to work on the tower that forma the principal shaft of the grand royal tunnel under the Thames. The work is going on with great rapidity. There are at present two hundred and five prisoners for trial at the next Old Bailey Sessions. ' Another ease of infanticide occurred last week ; the mother is in custody to abide the result of the Coroner's Inquest, which has been adjourned.--Tuesday's Liver pool Advertiser. THE': ROYAL. NATIONAL IN‘'TITUTICPA'. FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM WRECK. surroaTza 31 , / DONATIONS AND VOLUNTARY (ORME'. TIONI. ESTABLISKED He 1824. The Committee have presented to the public their fis 6 t Annual Report of an Institution which elevates the Eng. I ish character, exalted, as it already is, by the projection of establishments calculated to meet, and to relieve, est e _ :pity, under almost every shape it can assume. His Ma jesty, the Gracious Patron of this Institution, is knolrn to feel a most zealous interest in its support ; and we rejoice to perceive that tiro nobility, clergy, gantry, and leading commercial men in the metropolis, have contributed to wrrds it with an exemplary liberality that cannot fail eventually to number it, in time, among the most perms, vent, as well as prosperous, of our national institutions. Its objects are not yet generally known among the riatu factoring districts and inland towns, nor among the more remote parts of the sea-coast ; but Every day will contri bute to this end, and we feel assured that the more exten sively they become known, the more will its patrons nm'.- tiply, and its means of service be increased. These means. t'tough at present circumscribed, have been instrumental in producing such results, in this their first year of op e . ration u fully evince how much more misery may b e averted, and how many more lives preserved, when the funds of the Committee shall enable them to enlarge the humane sphere of their exertions. We learn from the Report, that among various suggestions that have been offered to the Committee, measures have ken proposed, I. For the prevehtion of Shipwreck. It. For preserving the Lives of shipwrecked persons. The latter is the principle on which the Institution is formed • and the means chiefly relied on for the attainment of this objco . , are—The formation 0: suitable eaablislintents of lifeboats and apparatus on the most dangerous parts of the coasts of the Visited Kingdom; and the exciting to exerti3n, in the hour of danger, sea. faring persons residing on the spot. by the certainty of relief being afforded t 3 their widows and families in the event of any welkin happening to them ; and conferring Oh them honorary or pecuniary rewards as an acknowledgment of their efforts in saving (nada vouring to save the lives of others. On an examination of the numemus plans which hare been sub. twitted to their consideration, it appears to the Committee that the best method of saving the lives of shipwrecked persons, when the vessel is driven on shore, or stranded, is by opening a continuo cation from the vessel with the shore, rather than from the shore with the vessel. A communication being once established, a boat or hawser, or other material, as circumstances may require or *emit, can easily be conveyed to her, by which means the crew may escape : and therefore the Committee consider that it would be very desirable that every vessel should hare on board the means of such communication. Some ingenious plans have been suggested to the Committee, which stein well calculated to effect that object ; and they under stand that the having on board every ship sonic such means of cent. inunication, was some years ago strongly recommended to the owners of merchant vessels, by the Elder Brethren of the Trinity House, and the Ship Owners' Society : the Committee, however, have learned with regret, that these recommendations hare not ' been anted on, or, if acted on, only to a very limited extent Of the apparatus to be used from the shore, hone have appeared preferable to life-boats, and the mortsr apparatus invented by Captain Manby : the Cornvittee therefore directed their early at tention to the ascertainment of the best principle for the construe. tion of life-boars. In the course of their inqatry' they received from distinguished Naval Officers and others who had tried boats of various descriptions, the most favourable report of a plan in vented by Mr. Plenty, of Newbury. The Committee have caused twelve boats to be built on this principle, of sizes adapted to the stations at which they are to be placed ; and three other boats, on a different plan, by Ale. Skelton, of Scarborough, for stations on that side of the coast, where his principle of construction was us. derstood, and approved. The stations at which the Committee have established, or made arrangements_ for establishing life-boats, are Dungeness Bridlington Newhaven Boston Deeps Brighton Isle of Man Teignmouth 2 stcotland Penzance 2 Ireland Bideford 1 other boat is built, the station Boulmer not yet fixed. And with the assistance imp sanction of his Majesty's Govern ment, they are enabled to place Captain 51anby's apparatus, at 111 argate Banff, North Britain Plymouth Frawerburgh. ditto Penzance Peterhead, ditto Portreath Dunbar, ditto Fishguard COW ingham, ditto Tynemouth Rhineshark, Tramore Bay Isle of Man Ferriter's Cove, near Dingle Stranraer, North Britain l'ullendiva, near Sligo At many other places similar Establishments are greatly wanted, and at those plates they accordingly propose to form them as soon as the state of their funds shall allow. The Committee have great satisf .ct ion in adding, that Derides the life-boats before-mentioned, others have been stationed by hearse lent individuals and associations not connected with this Institudor. at the following places:— Sussex - - . 1 between Beachy Bead and Hastings Hampshire - Hurst Castle Devon . Teignmouth Corn wall - Padstow District Fishguard Il'hirehaven Douglas North Shields Holy Island Sunderland 1 South Shields Redc,ar I Hartlepool Seaton 1 2 Whitby Scarborough Filey Spurn Point Yarmouth near Itougbam Cromer Hunstanton lilakeney f flollesley Bay 1 Low estoffe 4 in the Harwich 'linnet f 1 Montrose 11 Newhaven, near Leith 11 Sandy Cove - - 1 Kinsale 1 Howth The Committee have the further satiifsetion of reporting, that not less than sixty sets of Captain Illanby's apparatus, with mot. tars, die. complete, under the direction of the Coast Guard and Coast Blockade, have been established by his Majesty's Govern ment _ Pembrokeshire - Cumberland . Isle of 11 . Durham . . . Yorkahirs . . . Norfolk . . . Suffolk . . . E..ex - - Scotland . Ireland . The Committee here feel it their pleasing duty to notice, that the officers and men in those services appear on every occasion that hx4 come to their knowledge to have exerted themselves is the gallant and meritorious manner, in Raving lives from shipwre, s. The Committee have had the satisfaction of recording some • stances of manly daring in which these brave men hate succeed": in effecting their benevolent object. They have also bera most importantly serviceable in preserving property from shipwreck and plunder, and in a very particular degree have been instrumental in promoting the objects of this binevolent Institution. The Appendix to the Report contains a list of the cases in which the Institution have voted honorary or pecuniary rewards to the persona who have been instrumental /0 saving the lives of persons ahipwrecked, or in the endeavour ing to save them. The number of lives already preserved by those to whom the Committee have granted rewards, is one hundred and twenty :four, exclusive of three whvle ereive, numbers unknown. It is the great praise of Eni'lishmen, that their benevo- . lence is always sendin g f or th a stream of service to their country, in some channel or other: and in no channel cm that stream flow more usefully, than in that to which w e have been adverting, " the RO YAL. NATIOWAL INSTOITC TION for the Preservation of Life ( t om SHIPWRECK. TO THE EDITOR OF THE BRITISH PRESS. SlR—Perhaps some one of your legal readers will clix',ltte the following point, if it be posaible so to do ; but I sin :'.dined to tbiLk that our legislators have erred therein //rjhre the Statute 5, George 11. c. 30. Sect. the drporifi o " B in bankruptcy could nut be adduced in evidence, by:r ang e the depo nents hail not undergone cross.examination thereon, but be that section those depositions were, or, if lost, a 01)1 cif the record thereof was, male evidence in case of the death of the tlepocerts the primary but not sole object of that section was the bent ttt e. purchasers of bankrupts' Daisies.By the new Act, 6 ch Gone ' • c. 16, the former Act is repealed as after next August. N ow. 5 ' the new Act does not render the depisitions. or a copy of th , record thereof, evidence, except only the depositions the:noir/sin actions by the assignees, for dal!: or demand,. it follows that a (so char of landed property, under a bankruptcy, may in at:non: against other persons than the bankrupcs, and than those claws, under the bankrupts, be defeated in the event of the death s of ISe e pers3ns capable of proving the bankruptcy, notivi;hatisdinA depositions may exist, and notwithstanding they may be actually recorded. This, if so, is a most serious evil, which oug ht te be rectified immediately. 1 am, Sir, Your obedient Sereari. May 18, 1825. J.IV .11.8. A Court-martial was bekl on Friday on board the Genoa, 74, in Ilamosse, we Mir. Wm. Turner: late outset of the Harlequin, when he was adjudged to be dismissed rom his M jesty's service. Air. 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