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/ 7 , ~' .~ I '" j ' : - f l clot , _4 tip jo :\;l 1 P _,...„ 1 Nusissa 6256. NEW THEATRE R . o ° Tb., DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING, SATURDAY, December 21 . big Malaity's Servants wilt perform (td time), a new Opera # three sob, called A TALE OF OTHER TIMES ; • Or, WHICH IS THE BRIDE? Sightliness!, 11 r. Braham ; Zamirski, Mr. Cooper; Carol. stein, Dlr. Tarrr; Jemmicrow , Mr. J. B arnes ; Herman, Ma dams Yestris; W. Pbetioras. Mrs. Austin; Owens, Mrs. W. West; Bestris, Mrs. Harlow° ; Jutta, Miss Posey. " After which the Faroe of TH K LIA IL Young Wilding, Mr. Ell iston. To conclude with (9th time), a new 'three, called OLD AND YOUNG. Mr. Wilton, Mr. Terry ; Charles Mowbray, Mr. Merc e r; Peter, Mr. Knight. Peggy, Mrs. Greer ; Matilda Mowbray, a Child (aseemieg the Characters of Master tilectiir Muwbray, Master Umbblin Mowbray, and Master Foppington Mow bray), Mies Clara Fisher. Doses, 7t. • Belosol Price, m. ss. ed.; Second Pries, es —L'emer Salary, as. Second Prier, ts.—Uppor Gallery, Is. ; Second Price, sd. Places for the Bowes to be taken of Mr. Spriag, at the Ilex-Dice, in the *Anode, from Ten till Four. sphere Family dimes may be engaged, and a Private Bo: had nightly ; afro Cif Mr. Ilookbain, of Boed-street. On Monday, Othello—The Halt of the Carman--and Old' On ir ga l tsday, George Ilarnwell—after which Hirst time), a sew Pantomime, called Oog and Magog, or Harlequin An tiquary. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. THIS EVENING, SATURDAY, December 21, will be acted (Loth time) a new Opera, called MAID MARIAN: OR, THE HUNTRESS OF AMLINOFORD. Blatant I. King of England, Mr. T. P. Cooke; Prince Jon, Mr. Egerton; Baron Fitzw der, Mr. W. Ferree ; abed Fitzooth, Mr. Abbott; Friar Michael; Mr. C. Kent. No ; Friar Peter, Mr. Keeley ; W. Oamwell, Mr. Pearlman ; Little Jobs, Mr. Heat; Much the Miller, Mr. Fyne; Allan u'Dale, Mr. J. bases; Page, Master Longhurst. lAdy Matilda Fitzwater, Mom M. Tree; Alice Gunnell, Miss BeaubMit. Alter whiO the revived Petit Comedy of THE LONDON HERMIT. Old Pranks, Mr. Bartley ; Young Pranks, Mr. Jones ; Tully, Mr. Connor; Toby Thatch, Mr. Meadows; Natty Maggs, Mr. Keeley ; Whimsey, Mr. Fawcett ; Barleycorn, Mr. Evans. Kitty Barleycorn, Miss Beaumont; Mrs. Maggs, Mrs. Davenport. - - - Boxes, is.; Second Price, as. 6d.—Pit, aa. 6d.; Second Price, ts.—Lower Galle ry , . Is. ; Second Price, la.—Upper Gallery, ts. ; kkooed P rice, 6d. On Moeda , Romeo and Juliet—and The Forty Thieves. On y, Douglu--aficr which, the new Grand and Comic Pantomime. called Harlequin and the Ogress, or The Sleeping Beauty of the Wood. The Tragedy of the Earl of Rues is in rehearsal, and will speedily be performed : The Karl of Easel, Mr. Maeready ; Ilauelpo lillimbeth, Miss Lacy ; Rutland, Miss F. H. Kelly. ADELPHI THEATRE. STRAND. rrllis EVENING, SATURDAY, December 21, i and MONDAY, Dec. sz, will be presented the cele brated Oat and Out Classic, Comic, Operatic, Didactic,. Moralistic, Aristopbanic, Lecalic, Analytic, Terpsioborio, raaoreasic, Camera Obsearatie Extravaganza Burletta of Fun, Frolic, Fssbioa, and Flash, in Tbree Acts, called TOM AND JERRY; OR, LIFE IN LONDON. Coriolhian Toa, Mr. Wrench; Jerry Hawthorn, Mr. John Meere !pile, Mr. Wilkinson ; Jemmy Green, Mr. Brown ; Hon. Dick Trigs, Mr. &mbar Vire Maw: r ota. Mr : t e rta d rritat erte ?Ifillt i l t I l r! Daly ; Cribb , Mr. Lae; Jack ( Con stable Mu), lir. Clow.; Gills Wahl" Mr. Paste ; Disstyolb, Mr. Walboura. Pried Dwiteews, Mr. St. Albin and Miss Simpson. Alrmaa Sal, IMi„Sanders. Kite, Mrs. Baker ; site, Mrs. Waylett ; Jane, Miss Ham- Eacrsley ; airs. Tartar, Mrs. Daly ; Mrs. Davis, Mrs. Bryan. In Act 111. a Fao Simile °ram Tread Mill. After which a new Comic Barletta, in One Act, called THE CUPBOARD AND THE CABINET. Sir Burleiglt Protocol, Mr. Daly; Lord Ardenteourt, Mr. Buekingkam ; •Vineeot Ardenteourt, Mr. Elliott; Mr. Mul lins (Steuart( to Sir Burleigb). Mr. Salter; Peter Grill, Mr. Osiberry ; Jacob, Mr. Sanders; Arabella,. MISS 8. Pitt. Boles ' 2 45.; Pit, as. ; Oallery, Is. Doors opened at Si:, and Performance to conseenee at a Quarter beton: Seven. - As notirisly now splendid Comic Pantomime, which has hems long in preparation, sill be produced on Thursday, December sa. ALBION FIRE AND LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, New Bridge-street, Blearriars, EMPOWERED EY ACT OF PARLIAMENT. CAPITAL-0111 MILLION. INSURANCES falling due at Christmas will expire, sinless rceowell within Allem days from that period. The Company's Rates and Conditions are of the most rea sonable description:—no Charge is made for Fire Polistes when the Preen el exceeds ss.:—no Admission rise is charg ed on Life Insurance:—a liberal Commission is allowed to Policiturs, and others, who affect Life loseranees; and every facility is afforded by which the Interest and Convenience of the Public nay be promoted. WARNER PIIIPPS, Secretary. BRUSSELS CARPETING, No. 160. Piccadilly. two doors west from St. James's-street-11M Proprietor baring several thousand yards on hand of tie last Spring pat terns, which he is sow uttering for Sale, from 46. led. toss. 3d. warranted the best Ave-frame Brussels ; Scotch Carpeting, 4.4ths wide, from ts. 4d.; Kidderminster ditto, from is. 9d. ; e.4tM Druggets, front as. ed. to Is. ed.; with every other I seat of Carpeting equally low. Best seasoned Fluor-cloth, from Is. ad. toss. 3d.—PaUcros of Brussels sent to any part of tow. or want ry. Just pulaibbed, is teas. (ass Pages) price 711. with it Plate,' *signed sad alogrased ky ()sores Criakaliaak, GERMAN POPULAR STORIES, translated from she Ender awe liattsmarehen" of Messrs. Grimm. 'With a Preface and Notes, by the Translators. " They have been the revivers of drowsy ago at midnight; *SS aid run Wive, with such tales, chimed - Matias till the , cock crew in the worming; Roche/ors sod Maids have com passed the Christens ere-block till the curfew bell rang' candle nut; the old Shepherd and the young Plough-bny, isfter their day's labour, have csrrulkd oat the same to crake them merry with ; and who but they have made lung nights item short, and heavy toils easy."—Preface. Also, price Is. C. BALDWYN'I CLASSED CATALOGUE of SECOND-, HAND ROOKS for tits, coalition' a good miscellaneous Selection of Works in Poetry, the Drama, History, Divinity, Topography, Law, Medicine, Greek aad Lain Classics, Froach, Newpite-street ONLY ONL DAY TO DRAW. AAAZARD sad Co. beg to inform their Friends and the Feline that FIFTY-TWO CAPITAL*, as under, resisanis the Wlter/, the whole of which Waal lm Drawn in Ono Del, Tic ou MONDAY NEXT, December V 2, when the Lot tery ends, and when every Prism and every Ticket swam be de cided. The following are the Capitals in the Wheel: 1 of tdOOM 1. 1 s;000 1,000 si : HAZARD sad Co. have Shared sad Sold in the resent Lot tery, at their Moos, Royal Eseitaitipt Gate; 00, Cornl.ill and M k Oxford-strait, End of ft/gent-street ; Eleven Capital Prises, via -9,166 .0000 15,60.1 IMO 677 • CM SOO 9,910 2OO 7,716 _ .... ... .... 100 141 a me I 141.1 NI 14,01 HAZARD sad Cs, to prey's...a' Friends who ihtend lo sickening o p,* on or twfure daborrloy Ere% wane at au early bur (NINE o 'appointment, recommend their in the present Rich Wheel to ite tfie Thawing will eel inch) ou Monday Morning. CORPORATION OF DUBLIN. [From the Dublin Morning PM.) THE CORPORATION. A Post Assembly was yeste.day held at the City Assembly House, pursuant to requisition addressed to the Lord Mayor, for the purpose of preparing an address to his Excellency the Lord Liettteuant, and to express the abhorrence which the Corporation felt at the atrocious outrage which occurred at the Theatre on Saturday evening. A half-past two o'clock the Sheriffs took the chair. Mr. J. B. Fitzimons opened the business of the day by mov ing that the Lord Mayor and Board of Aldermen be requested to agree with the Commons in namiug a Committee to prepare an Address to } h e Marquis Wellesley, pursuant to the requisition. Mr. Tudor seconded this resolution. Mr. Willis moved, as an amendment, that the requisition be sent for, and that the names affixed to It be read. This motion met with much opposition. Mr. Willis said, that his name was to the requisition, and that he was proud of it. Mr. J. H. Moore said, that although his RUM was signed to the requisition to the Lord Mayor on call this Post Assem bly, yet he =mid not consent to the Dames being read. es it would establish a bad precedent in the House. He (Mr. .) felt most snitimat, howeenr, Owe was bat NO epics I weeding= House on thastebiest of the vast at that'll!". that of =qualified indignation and a klb congratulating hinmelf that he did not whim= disgraceful an occurrence, as be was not at the Theatre on tarday night. Mr. Willis's motion being seconded, was then put from chair. Moore,' The " Ayes" and " Noes" were both so loud that it was difficult to decide which had the inejority. It was then put a second time, when the Chairman decided in favour of the Noes. Mr. Williams said, that be rose to move that a Petition to Parliament should be—fliers Mr. Williams was assailed with loud hisses, and the clamour was so violent that it was impos sible to hear what his motion was.] Mr. Williams-1 would ask, how the Police could be ex pected to do their duty whilst they are under the control of a partial Magistrate ?—(Lord hisses.) Mr. Behnett—The Police did do their duty. Mr. Williams—Then 1 am to understand, Mr. Sheriff, that you will not bear me. Net. many voices sidelined that Mr. William's motion was out of order, and could not be entertained. The question was then put oe Mr. Fitzsimons's motion, which was carried. resolution was than sent up to the Board for their coo- A similar Resolution came down from the Board of Alder men. A Committee was then appointed, and au Address pre pared, which was adopted by the Corporation. A message then came down from the Board of Aldermen, re questing the concurrence of the Commons in a Resolution of thanks to Edward Johnston, Esq., Privaitk Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant, for his spirited and intrepid conduct at the Theatre on Saturday night, when the outrage was offered to his Excellency. This was opposed by many persons, on the ground that it did not come within the Requisition. Mr. J. B. Ferzatrows moved. as an Amendment, that the name of Alderman Barley, sad the other Police Magistrates, should go coupled with the name of Mr. Johnston, in the Re solution ; Alderman Dailey was a loyal Magistrate, and thoagh the rebels might growl out a hiss at him, they were afraid to do so openly. Mr. Harrannsn.—Let the names go together ; they are all alike. Mr. WILLIS said, that a Member had got up to move a Petition to Parliament, and that he was not allowed to pro ceed, because his Resolution did not come within the Requi sition. Sherif Tnoarm-d-If this motion is entertained, I fear that Mr. WRllais's modes fee a Petition to Parliament must be received. sr.•Wrz.asars,—>lfr.sheriff did t h e Police do men than their dotyt--(inkisits and efemense.) After much noisy discussion on the eabjeet, the Post Amiably broke up without coming to any resolution ou the subject, and without the question having been put; Mr. Fitzsimons previously baring declared that he would bring the Resolution 'forward on the ensuing Quarter Assembly. We understand that Mr. Williams's Amendment, which be was prevented from reading, was, " that a Petition to Parlia ment should be prepared, praying than an Act might be passed early in the ensuing Session, to suppress all Orange, Ribbdh, and other illegal Societies." THE ARAI Y. GENERAL COURT MARTIAL At a General Court Martial, held on the loth of Jnlv, last at the Court Mouse, Spanish Town, Jamaica, Lieutenant Joseph Millward, of the Saint Calberini 's regiment of unti -1 tin, was arraigned on the following charge, preferred against him by Colonel Jackson, belonging to the same regiment, viz. " For having at different reeled* abestried himself from mutiny ditty." The Court was composed of the fulkwing officers :—Lien tenant.Colonel Lewis (President) ; Meier Hewett ; Captains Williams, Mammas, Page, French, Horse, Packer, Vidal, Barriffe, Hassey, Potlfir,and Scutt. On the names of the members being called over by the Judge Advokate— Lkntsmant Millman' objected to Mirky Hewitt. The Court requested that be would state his reasons, when he tie. ,sired that the Hon. President would put the following ques tion tp Major Hewitt, viz. " Whether or no he, Major Hewitt, bad in any manner been an adviser of Colonel Jack soo's in the _proceedings now brought forward imagist him?" To which Major Hewitt refused giving an answer. The Court was then cleared, and on its being reopened, it was stated by the President, that its members were unani mously of opinion that the question was improper. Lieutenant Mills ard not appearing in regimentals, spoke piked for an doing, staling, that having been superseded, and a junior officer promoted over him, he did not consider him self any longer attached to the St. Catherine's regiment of Militia; that he had not his regimentals, for he bad sent them into the couutry, considering that he had no further use for them. This wan admitted by the Court, on the grounds of his re gimentals not being near al hand. The Prisoner then submitted, that having been superseded he was no longer amenable to the Court, and was therefore not liable to ho tried under the charge now preferred against him; Not the Court being of a different opinion, proceeded to try him under the charge then exhibited against him. The on!y eases. that was called was Captain Grosser, to whose Company Lieutenant Millward was attached, and hav• ing bees sworn, fully proved the obscure of the Prisoner from the regiment at different periods. Lieutenant Millward was now put on his defence. He de sired that Colonel Jackson might ho sworn, which having been done, the Mowing question was put to him, viz. "Colonel Jackson, are all the communications which you have received relating to the promotions of Lieutenant Mill ward to the company, vacant oa the resignation of Caplaia Lynch, inserted in the regimental order book?" The Court objected to this. The Prisoner then requested that the regimental orders of the vth nirJune, relating to Lieutenant Millward, might be read. To this the Court also objected. The Prisoner then briefly addressed the Court, and said that the charge of his being absent from muster having been proved easiest him, and as the Honourable Court had ob octed to his giving in evidence the order of the Ooverniw , by which he was superseded, and on which his defence was entirely grounded, he could say nothing further, but that his absence from muster was not from any dereliction of duty, , that CoL Jackson knew this, and that be acted solely unfair' the impression on his mind, that, having been superseded, be had not any further duty to perform in the regiment ; and, under such circumstances, be trusted such abseoce from mus ter was cleanable, and, as such, ho threw himself on the mercy of the Court. The Court vras now ordered to be closed, and on Its being agent opened, The Pa/1•1111SUT read the following sentence to the pri sow :—" Lieutenant Joseph M illw aril, the charge wbkh has been preferred spied you by Col. Jnekson, before this Court, have been full proved, but en consideration of your haring thrown yourself on its mercy, its members are silliest to ac cept that as a siifficient reason for sentencing you only to be admonished, in the hope that, by not imposing a heavy lino, you will in future profit by the v:limey Acti) you. Cam dined on Wednesday with a few friends at Stockwell. During the evening he was remarking that his horn was a very superior one, but vicious.— On his return to town he was thrown from his seat, and in bis fall received a severe contusion ou his htud. IDECEMBFA 21, 1822 IRE! AN D. -- , ./11011•11 The late scandalous nee of riot and outrage ex hibited in the Theatre of Kilo, sufficiently demon strates the extent to wfards , yeligious bigotry and political intolerance are carried by our Hibernian neighbours; and were any thing wanting to prove the urgent necessity that exists for a thorough change in the mode of administering the affairs of Ireland, it would be . found in the disgraceful occurrence to which we allude. He must, however, be a very superficial observer of the working of tweets who would separate effect from its cause ; said, confining his atten tion to the perpetrators of an outrage, overlook the via a Servo by which they are impelled. We hold the principles and practices of the Orange faction, as we do those of all other factions, in the detestation which they so justly deservei but, at the same time, we eta . fled mach, in thollio sed history of the Intland; to ir not to es imp' - flagitious excesses into which they have recently been betrayed. When we reflect upon times that are gone by—(times which it were devoutly to be wished we could blot from our recollection for ever)--when we re member that there was a period of Ireland's history wherein the very faction of which we now so loudly complain was organized, cherished, and encouraged by the Government itself :—that there was a time when the life and liberty and property of every man were left to the mercy of this faction, and at its disposal,—when every Orange ruffian was a sovereign, and every bayonet a sceptre ;—when we reflect, we say, upon these times (and they are still green in memory), we cannot wonder that men, intoxicated with the recollection of such absolute power as the Orangemen of Ireland once possessed, should make a desperate, though dying, struggle to retain it ? In the conduct of these infuriated zealots we see much to deplore and condemn, but nothing that should surprise us. It isnot in human nature tamely to relinquish an advantage without an equivalent in some shape or other, and we hesitate not to pronounce that man a miserable reasoner indeed, who, possessing any knowledge of Irish history, would expect a peace able surrender of those extravagant powers and privileges which the Orangemen had formerly exer cised without restraint, and which they had been led to believe they should continue, uninteraptedly, to enjoy. They are now, we trust, likely to be undeceived, and to be taught, at last, the whole some lesson, that the laws of this country are made alike for the benefit of all. We have every thing to hope from the intellectual vigour and statesman-like sieves of the Memnon, Nobleness now plume et dm helm. The Marquis WELLESLEY undoubtedly has it in his power to do much for Ireland, and we wil lingly receive the sweeping and decisive measures lately adopted for the reformation of the magisuacy, as an earnest of the sincerity of his intentions with respect to the future. There are, however, many things essential to the peace and prosperity of Ireland which his Lordship cannot effect. For these the re medies are in other hands. Whether they will be applied or not is a question which must be left to time to determine. In the mean while we shall ad vert briefly to the main causes of those discontents which have lately manifested themselves in acts of violence little short of open rebellion; and this we shall do, not so much for the purpose of discussing their several merits (for they are already sufficiently understood), as of sbewing not only that no effectual steps have hitherto been taken to ameliorate the con dition of the Irish people, but that none are even now in contemplation. The present distressed and disorganised state of that country may be said to arise, principally, from the absence of the chief proprietors of the soil, the natural guardians of the peasantry—from rack rents —from tithes—and from the religious disabilities under which three-fourths of its population labour. We shall take these in order as they occur : The immediate and necessary erect of the absence of tbe landed proprietor is—the abstraction of a certain portion of ' the wealth of a country which, being turned into foreign channels, affords no benefit to the soil that produced it; and it follows, of course, that the quantal of injury sustained by any country from such a cause, mast be in proportion to the number of its absentees. But, besides the direct injury thus inflicted, the moral habits and domestic oonsferts of a pea sentry suffer materially, and run late visible decay, when the head that should direct, and the hand that should support them, are withdrawn. Now, in both of these ways, the Irish have suffered more, perhaps, than any other people upon the face of the earth ; and though we eau not admit that these evils arc ascribable, in their fullest extent, to the Union be tween the two islands, them is no doubt that they have in creased tenfold since that measure; and therefore, whatever our own opiuions may be as to the general policy of t h e mea sure itself, or as to Wu utter impracticability antler rescind ing it, the Irish aro justly entitled to lay at our doors all the mischief,. that have resulted to their country from its adop tion, and particularly so, as it has not been attended with any one of the promised benefits. When we deprived them of their independence (and deprived them, let it be remem bered, by means of the most barefaced bribery), we were ecr tautly boned to give them something in return : and have we done so ? As to their power of sending Representatives to the English House, we conscientiously believe that, so far from being an advantage, it would be well fur them if that had been taken from them along with the rest ; and this we know to have been the opinion, too, of one of the ablest and best friends Ireland ever bad; who, in an address to some English gentle men, upon • festive occasion, alluded to the Union in those remarkable word* :—" You prevailed upon my unhappy coun try to sell her very life; and when she lay dead, instead of affording her decent riles of sepulture, yon tied her eorse to whatever remained of vital representation in your own coun try, and you have been rewarded for it accordingly—you have not been haunted by her ghost, but you have been rot ting with her carcass." The act of Union was, in truth, the death warrant of Ire land's prosperity as well as dirtily. It annihilated her is land trade ; and we are /et to learn how it served her experts. The nun-residence, however, of the nobility and gentry, is the thing Oddly felt; and to compel these ( 0 , slay at home, the bankrupt shopkeepers of the principal cities and towns, in the bitterness of their hearts, have pioposed various et pedients—amongst others, en absintee tax; bnt neither this nor any other suggestion has ever been attended to ; and we mention the (set as one instance wherein a positive, ruinous, and n o provoked injury has been inflicted by our Government, upon Ireland, without even so much as an attempt at repo ration. Beetroot, an equally inexhaustible Muntain of calamity in belied, bears a strung resemblance, and, indeed, a close af laity to the former grievance; with this difference, how. ever, that the latter is likely, in time, to effect its own cure. But as this is a question rather between landlord and tenant than between Government and People, we shall merely ob serve, for the information of such of our readers as may not bo acquainted with the meaning of the term, that rackteut is a cumpaet between a landlord and tenant, founded upon' the rapacity of the one and the necessity. of the other, and generally coding in the ruin of both ; fez the tenant, unable to defray the exorbitant rent odt of the proceeds of his crop, is compelled to draw upon his capital, and, not untie-' etteatly, in Ireland at least, to sell even the implements of husbandry to satisfy the halfyearly era% ings of his impede -184.1.1.411•14. This destructive system, wbiet+bq►.ptnnto.l commonly reverted to by the absentees, to .ena►le them to make • display In this country to which the legitimate pro duce of their estates, in their own, was inadequate : and lodiag this fail, as it necessarily did befond a certain point, they then had recourse to the still Moire adven turous, though lose cruel, expedieht bf railing stoney by mortgage. The consequence now is, that the te sant, after being plundered by the tax gatherers and tithe proctors (w ho get the first pluck at him), is unable to pay, not only the rackreut, but any rent it all ; while the equally in digent landlord is obliged to allow the interest of his debt to accumulate with the principal, and to leave to be deter mined by the generosity of the mortgagee how long be shall continue lord of the soil. Were the absentee landlords the only sufferers upon them amnions, we confess we should behold their dowofal with a very pious resignation to the will of heaven. Towards the unfortunate, unoffending pea santry, however, who are the especial victims of this perni cious sod unprincipled system, we have very different feel ings; and we conceive that no stronger argument could be adduced to stimulate the Oovernmeot to the adoption of some plan to check the rambling propensities of the Gran dees of Ireland, than is to be found in the present degraded and impoverished condition of her untisppy peasantry. But amongst the various ills of Ireland there is not one which so everlastingly engenders, poverty and discord as the TITUS: nor do we know of any occaiion upon which the conduct of Government towards that unhappy country ap pears to greater disadvantage than when viewed in connex ion with this subject ; for, notwithstanding the concurring testimonies of all ranks and descriptions of men, as to the imperious necessity of at least new modelling this odious impost, it is still permitted to exist, and, like an ugly witch Of night, to scare the slumbers of the country. It is not to be presumed that the Irish have profited so little by experience as not to know that the justice of a cause is any thing but an earnest of its success ;—we should rather conclude, from the disastrous issue of every appeal which they have hitherto made, for the redrese Or their manifold grievances, that they had long since abandoned all hope of a favourable consideration of any question by which they were to be exclusively benefited. Still, without incur ring the imputation of a bluader,l they might very tetiendly fall Cato the oolitic, that a matter whist; vitally aliodad the Interests of the empire at large, would meet with a better Nei and under these circumstances, indulge some hope of etroitur for &share in a common blessing: and this, we believe, was precisely their view of the Tithe qustion last Session. Perim this delusive dream, however, they were soon awakened by the principal Law Oli.•cer of the Crown, who, to the astonish ment of all but those who knew him well, come down with a declaration that it would be dangerous to meddle with the property of the Church, and consequently that the Tithes could not be touched. The manner in which this declaration was broached did not save it from the odium which It se justly deserved—the warmest admirers of the Learned Gen tleman deeming it more than sufficient to neetraliao all the merits of the speech into which it was so artfully introduced. But where, we should be glad to learn. is this great danger of meddling with the property of the Church? The visual powers of some men are wonderfully strengthened by staring at nothing. We know that optical illusions are infinite, and that the perceptive faculties of an unemployed statesman become marvellously changed when he looks through the spectacles of office ; but we do not know, nor have we ever been able to discover, what possible danger can arise from compelling the high priests or the chords ,to renounce some portion of their enormous revenues for the relief of the country. When wo re fieet with how little ceremony our Ministers have meddled with the property of the people, until the people have scarcely any property left (whether with danger or not is yet to be seen), we are utterly at a loss to account for this extraordinary fastidiousness about the property of the Cnu•ou. Wo look a little beyond the tithe when we say that the revenues of the clergy, at all timer tee great, are absolutely intolerable in a season of universal distress; and that it is little less than maddening to see a churchman, however distinguished by moral or intellectual endowments, wallowing in the enjoyment of thirty or forty thousand a year, while the surrounding poor. fur whose benefit it was origi stilly and chiefy designed, are thrown for support upon the emaciated bosoms of the people. Under the tithe system in Ireland, it is notorious that' every species of fraud, rubbery, and oppression, has been played with variations; the people have complained till they are breathless ; and, of late, finding complaint of no avail, they have resorted to the desperate altcruative of placing themselves is battle arra► against those laws to which they have so long appealed in vain for protection. "This is not, nor it cannot come, to good." ft would be quite a work of suptererogatioo, and inconsistent besides with the'plina whioh we proposed to oursel►es when we began this article, to enter into a history of the greet question of Clinoue EMANCIPATION. Tlits most important subject has been so often before the British public, and its merits have been so thoroughly dist:issed both in and not of Parliament, that wo conceive it won's' be impouible either to give it an additional feature, or add one hue to the 'Wi pes complesimis *lnch it has from time to tine assumed. Our own minds have been long made up upon it. We estimate it at just so mock value as Use happioese of rive millions of peo ple may be supposed to be worth ; and so powerful do we consider its bold upon justice and souud policy, that we mist deem its ultimate success indubitable before a tribunal that has so many precessions to both. Immediately after the la,t debate upon this question, it was very generally rumourml, and as generally believed, that a' Noble Lord high in office had been beard to declare, t►at the Catholic Bill should never pass the Upper House *Ann be had the honour of a scat in it. We are very far from quar relling with the declaration thus imputed to that Noble Lord, whether it be taken as an avowal of his sentiments upon the question, or of his lised determination to resist its progress, satisfied as we arc that he spoke conscientiously, and aoeord• ing to the best dictates of his judgment. All we °Untold for is, that so lung ss those who are decidedly hostile to the man cipation of their Roman Catholic fellow subjects are conti nued in those high offices of the state which give a command ing influence and a preponderating power in the Senate, It can never be supposed to be the serious intention of Govern ment to remove the yoke from the necks of our ROalltS Ca tholic brethren. NRIos 7d. FRENCH PAPERS. PARIS, RI4CERIIIIIIIB. •. Yesterday a grand diploma* dinner was gixen,by M.,14 „, Covet di Borgo, Ambassador of his Majesty the Easpeerre of BMW& The King's Ministers and the Duke of weiliattal. were present. ft is announced that changes will shortly he made in the personal organization of the Administrations and Prefectures.. Yesterday the Kisig transacted business with M. the Duke. de Dondeauville. Before mass the King received in private antiimbee the Prince de Hoheulolte. At ope o'clock his Majesty rec s eirm 4 the A Ministers Plenipotentiaries of the Foreign Powers. The Dalt of Wellington was %%WI their Excellencies. The Princes and Princesses of the Ro l al Family af t erwards received the Noble Duke and their Exc,•liencles. At three o'clock yesterday his Majesty traawsoted hasirtess with the Council of Ministers. . - M. de Chatuabriansi will Dot be here so soon uhe was ' rata- Hls departure from Veroai has been retarded a few _ Marshal Sachet has not had a private audience with the Duke d'Angoulesne ; be only paid his respects to his Royal Highness.--(Journat des Debate.) . • M. Sierri, one of the persons attached to the Spanish an busy at London, has lately come to France, on his way as a courier extraordinary from Loud n to Madrid. The shalom with which be is charged, we are assured, is of the highest Importance ; at least he tray els with such speed, that, contrary to usage, he did not enter Paris, and his Journey was only known at the Spanish Embassy by a letter communicating hist destination to M. the Duke da San-Larenzo.—(Journal de Paris.) • We have received the Madrid Journals of the 17th by an extraordinary conveyance. The Universal of the Sth con tains a transcript of the Decree of the Cortes for the transfer and tale . Of forty millions more of renter, which will be in scribed is the great book. The sale of them %seismal. Is to be forthwith effected, and, accordingly, the Minister has promptly announced that he will receive Formals from those who are disposed to give him money in exchange for these reeler. The foreign capitalists are thus invited to remit to Spain what they are inclined to Invest (d fonds perdu.). The necessities of the Spanish treasury are pressing, whirl induces a belief that this great financial operation will be promptly concluded.—dareftc de France. [From the liloalleur of Wednesday.) " On the 12th of lait November there was inserted In the Moaitear a notice relative td the adoptida In France of a sys tem of signals in mc in England, and which is designated under the Dune of a Universal Telegraphic Laireage. " His liscellenci the Minister of Marine and Colonies ad dossed, upon this subjec+, the following circular, dated Dec. 17, to the Commissioners of Marine at Dtrokirt, Haire, flt: Maio, Nantes. Horiestei, Bayonne, and Marseilles. " ' Sta—Mews. Luscombe, items of tbe Jlaseciation called Lloyd's. at Loudon, have cared to be translated into French a work entitled, Universal Telegraphic Language, or Code of Signals. " • By mans of this wofk, and of the sign's Which it con; tacos; the AO of Frame atalliaglatid way carry on, at sea, easy sod arta. eemmunications. " • Vends perided with this work, and with these sign, Slay alitiller. with greater rapidity; &Nista:me to othrain dis tress, or demand assistant* thitaselves ; they will be able to give and receive important indicators es to shoals that should be avoided, what coarses should be followed, and with respect to anchorages, the entrance of ports, fie; " ' There are various reasons which =algae to induce thn French navy to adopt a syitem already practised Is Eagleed. and which, in many clreansuinces, may tie admitted with results the most bilabial to hatianlty, to conmseree; and to naviga tion In general. " ' I have, tberefore, given orders in the the Military peer. that the Commusdas of King's ships should be somesslvely supplied with the work and the signs in question ; and I in struci yoll to intone the Chamber of Commerce of this. (Signed) " 'ldatteuts as CcsattoxT - Toxxsxaa'. •eoeiues or srAfx. BATOrti, DICZWIIIR 12. General O'Donnel continues intrenched on the River do Lombies : be expects eves . " , moment to be attacked by Gm. Torrijos. It is calculated thit OTlonnol bis already beet beaten f but I can Ramiro you, that, up to the boor at which write, no advice of this nature has reached the StaLquaetars. Bayonne Is in a state of bustle, and ovary *log isdleate a war. The park of artillery is prepared to mom at a taco sest's notice; it Is composed of 300 tumbrils full of anomaitior, and KS field-pieces. General Tirlet, inspoetor•Gfeaund of Artillery, has just arrived here. The fortifications of our town aro actively carried on, notwithstanding the bad 'Feather. MADRID, D1V11411211 4. The following is s sneeinet account of the proeeedinp of the Lencisburiaa Club on Sunday last, the Ist instant, This sitting, which was a most tumultuous one, was almo t wholly take* up in vindicating the venerable Romero A;- perste, against the calumnies of the Spectator. The first who occupied the tribune, was an individual nam d Florian, a furious revolutionist, who by his deo:ham - 1u a against the Spectator, and his hyperbolical praise of t' 0 I rtuons Romero Alposete, that Intrepid ehampioa of fiber y so infuriated his hearers, that they clamorously demanded t' number of the joareal in question, is order to bare eu out , - da-fe. The speake► had at length moth difficulty in tetra n. ing them from proceeding to excesses. Almost all the other declaimers, especially Merales ard Mejla, also advocated the cause of the Neator of the Li' e frau:. and trampled upon the Spectator. In fact, this slid* (der* witch it was rumoured that ti tactless had entered Gesdalaxara) was a violent one, and excited fears of ail explodes. The intelligence received Widows daily more fearful for the Mersa: ; the Royalist's already multiply round the cap" al: It is alarmed that' they have *treed Geodalaxara ; that La Maisel* has almost entirely revolted, and that dye Mooned of that Province are at Talavera de la Reins, commanded by Le Mance. It was also said yeeterd), that Merino bad entered Borges. The Liberate are plunged lido consternation; all they tow can do is this, to rant their vain fery, and threaten to massacre the prisoners and all " Bervilts." What especially increases the rage of the Cousaniele, is so see that "Tin-Tin " (St. Martin) has bees liberated, sod that Cortes have decided' in their Sitting of yesterthe, that the dapitulatiOn granted he Parties, at the Cass del Caen sad' 'the of the Brigadier Plazencia, at the Eseurial, will he nein , tabled in their full extent. General Quessda bas deemed it commenant with his honenr, publicly to disavow certain expressions imputed to him by the French tibereast, with the view of exciting fears as to the chances of a war with the Spanish Deseamisados. We (L'Etotle) bastes to pronsipui the merged. reply of this Defender of the Faith to t►e calumnies of our Revolutionists s—. TO THE EDITOR. Ste—l an Wonted that several permits &arm, they have .beerdMe say, that the day on with* the Ftwacb arty eLtaa LONDON, SATURDAY, t