The Sun. — London, England, 1829-03-17 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE LONDON JOURNALS. We insert a letter from Lord Winchilsea to Mr. Coleridge, the Secretary of the proposed college (King's College), by which his Lordship withdraws his pecuniary, and every other, support from that institution: the cause, of course, the dereliction of principle which he imputes to the Noble Duke who is at the head of the establishment, and the clergy who have consented to cease from the persecution of Popery. Why estalilish a second College, is the ironical argument, when you have one already to your taste, in which Soc►nianism may be inculca ted, and Popery . defended ? This is petulance— it is net honest reasoning. The disappointment, however, on the part of his Lordship, with respect to King's College, cannot be great, "as he felt rather doubtful at the first respecting the sin cerity of the motives which had actuated some of the prime movers in the undertaking, when he considered that the noble Duke at the head of his Majesty's Government had been induced to assume a new character, and to step forward himself, as the public advocate of religion and morality !" This, if there is no error in the press, is something worse than petulant ; for we dare say that the noble Duke now at the head of his Majesty's Government thinks that he has just as good a right " to come forward as the advocate of religion and morality," as Lord Winchilsea. My Lord Winchilsea, why— being, we believe, a worthy man—have you not adopted Burke's maxim, " of pitching your politics low at first, that they might last the longer ?" No man can have his own way entirely upon 'public questions; and if, on the first cross or jostle, you are to run off the course in a pet, you will never reach the goal victoriously, with any measure of public utility, so long as you live. Be assured that there are among those who are now disposed to relax the disqualifying statutes against the Catho lics, men who would as willingly shed their blood, and no one doubts your courage, whatever may be thought of your judgment, in support of the Pro testant faith, as yourself. Do you think that there are - not many persons also of as enlightened an un derstanding.as that which you may possess, who be lieve that Protestantism, so far from being injured, will be promoted by the measure now in progress ? Why, then, are you to. conclude that all those are lukewarm or indifferent members of the Church of England, who differ- from you upon this question, and would rest the security of their church upon the superior purity and rationality of its doctrines ? yck, began politic 4 bet yesterday, a high Tory; and naw you are a Reformer ! Is there any change in the Lemke of Wellington or Mr. Peel so sudden and so violent as this ? What will you be in the end, do you think, if this is your first transmigration ? Times. All other chances haying failed the Brunswickers, they are now in the agony - cbf giving birth to their final manoeuvre: With the Bill of Catholic Relief they despair of effectually meddling: the majority of 188 left them in utter stupefaction, and it was only yesterday that the leaders bethought themselves of trying what scope !for mischief might remain to them in the yet but incidentally debated Bill, for regulating- the elective franchise. We can inform the gentlemen, that they may meet in: Pall-mall, with their Marquis in the chair, seven days per week, and seven hours per diem; but that it will avail their political maehinatior►s not so much as the value of that pair of old shoes, in which a certain veteran malcontent tramps' down from Hyde-Park-corner to Buckingham-house, to edify the greener bigots with his subtilties. The question for their discussion has been this : " Had we not better join those of the Whig party who are pledged to vote against the Disfranchise merit Bill, taking our chance for whatever embar rassment we Can thus inflict upon tl►e Ministry, and for whatever obstacle we can thus interpose to the success of the principal measure - ?" That question has been seriously mooted by the monopolists, and we can tell them what will be the result of their op position to the Disfranchisement Bill. Why, that they will be its only opponents. Yes, even such of the holiest and constitutional sticklers for the ab- street inviolability of vested rights as would in other circumstances deem it of importance to stand out vigorously • for the present possessors of the freehold, will be terrified at the awful effect which might folloW from a strong numerical opposi tion to any portion of the great plan of Ministe riar policy, and will either manfully declare their willingness to sacrifice' the minor to the more tran scendent object, and vote for both Bills, or be silent or the least palatable of the two, and neither support it nor - oppose it. For ourselves, we shall frankly repeat, that if the Disfranchisement Bill were brought in alone, and in its existing form,-.--viz. as a measure for taking away from any body of our fellow-subjects a right which they already possess, and which multi tudes of them have already exercised,—we should be inclined on principle to hesitate before we pronounc ed our acquiescence. But we are at the same time bound to add, that our reluctance would be founded upon general reasoning only ;-Ist, upon the consti tutional irregularity of touching any Englishman's freehold ; 2d, upon the danger of such an act being recurred to as a precedent, and perhaps extended in its appiication. So far as real substantial good or evil can be regarded as derivable from this disfranchise ment law to the freedom of election, to the consequent independence of Parliament, and finally to the lower classes of the Irish themselves, we have no doubt whatever that the good must infinitely overbalance every possible disadvantage. To talk of any thing like free choice being exerted by the miserable Irish paupers who, under the name of freeholders, are dragged or driVen to the hustings, and polled by priest, or demagogue, or landlord, as pigs are counted off by the score, would argue the most profound and entire ignorance of the constituent body of Ire land, as created by the law.of 1793. The electors under that law were made, in perfect accordance with the spirit of thoSe who framed it,—made as tools for working out the purposes of the political monopolist in each county of the island. The design was not to disperse power, to favour the growth of moderate proprietors, or of an efficacious balance throughout the country; it was not to institute a yeomanry, but a mendicancy throughout Ireland;—to aggrandize the great, to depress the feeble, to raise superiority into absolute supremacy, to lift a local oligarch into a despot, and to crush the whole race of middle gentlemen who could swer act but through troublesome and ill-disciplined combinations, against a force in its nature united, and moved by the will of perhaps a single chieftain. The consequence has been noto rious to all the world. The Irish peasant, with a vote, was generally more miserable than he who had none. His nominal freehold was little more than a cottier's tenement, of no defined value in any market where property could have been estimated at. an intelligible price, but determined at the hustings, where alone it was ever in quired into, according to the difficulty which the wretched occupant might be induced by his land lord to swear would attend his efforts to provide himself with another dwelling, if ejected from this for contumacy or any , other transgression. Such " freeholders," therefore, were of all serfs du; meanest. Their numbers, which occasioned their own misery, consituted their landlord's strength. They were multiplied by the head landlord, who had his estate in perpetuity; they were. multiplied, with an audacious contempt of legal principle, by the middle man, who himself had only a lease fur years. They were thus propagated like vermin, in constitutional filth, and swarmed in all kinds of de gradation. No act for the abolishing of such a sys tem can be looked at as a real wound to liberty, or as an evil to those poor creatures who were in treth its victims. The Irish labourers will, after the Isis, franchisement:Pill has passed, be my longer partisans, but in their natural station—peasants. In the mean time, the men of moderate substance will rise in estimation with the great. The former 101. free holder was of no more value than the forty-shilling pauper,—nay, of less, because he was less tractable. fie will henceforth decide the fate of empties and as the greater portion of the better inhabitants of towns are in Ireland possessed of land yielding 101. freeholds, the independent spirit and instructed opinions of the town popula tion will go for much more than formerly in the choice of Irish representatives ; while those who become candidates must seek to influence the elec tive body by means and qualities more demonstra tive of their fitness for legislation than the super ficial measurements of bog or mountain which they have hitherto produced as materials of freehold strength, and parcelled off for dens of slavery and destitution, affording equal examples of the indefinite divisibility of matter, and of the infinite multiplica tion of mankind. If, as we have said before, it could be effected without forfeiting the support of many respectable Tory friends of Government, we should like to see the disfranchising power of this Bill confined to future cases, because it is at all times painful to see a great principle in the. slightest instance disregarded. Much, however, as such a scruple may be entitled to respect, it must and ought to yield to the practical necessity of up holding Ministers in this their effort for the religious peace and happiness of the empire. No mortal work can be entirely without blemish ; but this great measure, with all its adjuncts, we can say from our hearts, appears to us to come nearer to perfec tion than any other political achievement of the last 140 years. The Catholic body, we have ground for believing, do not differ with us in sentiment; and, what is still better, every enlightened Protestant hails this great work as the commencement of an era of national tranquillity, strength, and glory.— A strange mode of proceeding has been adopted in both Houses, but more particularly in the House of Lords, during the present Session. Constant references are made to the .opinions of the Sove reign, as distinguished from those expressed by Mi nisters. For this practice the public are indebted to Lord Eldon, who, on the first day of the Session, began those appeals to the King which he has con tinued ever since, with a view to effect on the country, in order that such effect might again re-act on the King. Last night Lord Kenyou went so fey as to say that Ministers had deceived the King with respect to ,the nature of the measure now agitating the country. The Noble Lord was called to order; but the Duke of Wellington said. " The Noble Lord asks whether the measure has been ex plained to his Majesty. I answer, that it has been explained ; and I would deserve the severest censure of your Lordships and the nation, if I had brought down such a measure to Parliament, with out having explained it to his Majesty. Does the Noble Lord imagine that his Majesty would give his confidence to any man who would venture to lay a measure of such importance, or any measure before Parliament, withoet explaining it to him ? The notion that lie would suffer trey servant se to act, is little less than an insult to his Majesty." This was a very proper rebuke. It will be seen from the speech of Mr. Doherty, on presenting the petition from the Irish Bar, that a considerable majority even of the Protestant , Barristers practis ing in Ireland have petitioned in favour of Conces sion—that none have petitioned against it, and that more Barristers would have petitioned bad not they been afraid lest an expression of their opinions might be thought unsuited to the offices which they filled, in which the utmost impartiality was expected from them.—Aforning Chronicle. As a specimen of the way in which party zeal and prejudice blind the judgment, and involve men in the most striking inconsistencies, we may men tion that the chosen organ of Toryism, while it op poses the Catholic question almost on the sole ground of the danger to which its adoption will expose the Church Establishment, actuall y itself propoees a " divi,ion of th e overgrown See of Winchester," merely from a groundless dislike it entertains towards the present possessor of it; who is as superior, we will venture to say, in piety and real usefulness, to his two predecessors, as light is to darkness. But the Bishop of 'Winchester, it seems, likes to have resident incumbents—he likes to have Curates well paid ; in short, he likes the Clergy to be what they ought to be ; and that is Isufficient to insure him the abuse of all those (not many we hope) who are not ste—Morning Herald. If any ever doubted that a great mind had only to apply itself to the study of a particular. art or science, in order to excel in it as much as in that in which it had previously given proofs of greatness, we think they will be convinced of their error by the •conversation which took place last night be tween the Duke of Wellington and Lord Kenyon. A speech more fraught with all the real characteris tics of eloquence—and of eloquence of the highest kind—never was uttered in the House of Lords than that which was spoken by the Duke of Wel lington. The Noble Duke goes at once to the point in debate—he uses no circumlocutions; but feeling all the strength of his own position, and pet ceiving the weak points of his antagonist, pushes against him with irresistible force, and overthrows him be fore he is aware that he has been fairly attacked. Such was the case with Lord Kenyon last night. His Lordship came to the House loaded with peti tions, and primed with rhetorical effusions on the Coronation Oath, and the Constitution of 1688— dreaming of conquest, and only waiting to get his eye on the Premier in order to put his forces to the rout, -or shut him up in an entrenched camp, from which he could neither escape, or defend himself with any show of success. But what was the . result ? We refer our readers to the pro ceedings of the House of Lords; and if these do not satisfy them that the country has now to boast of a Prime Minister as eloquent in debate as he is firm of purpose, and as skilled in the science of governing as he has proved himself to be in the science of war, we know not what will. We shall not, in fact, wrangle on this subject with those who tray choose to differ from us. The most gratifying part, however, of the Duke of Wellington's speech, is that in which he gives such unqualified contradiction to the fabricated re ports of the King having been duped into the measure of Emancipation, and of the Bill now be fore the Honse of Commons never having been submitted to him. The Duke of Wellington emphatically declared that it had been submitted and approved ; and employing almost the same language which he did a few days ego, when the subject was first broached, put it to the House in what situation he, a servant of his Majesty, and his Majesty himself, would be placed, had there not existed, on the one part, the most conscientious con viceon of the necessity of the measure, and on the other, a determination to carry it into etiect. Thus vanish all the surmises, rumours and reports, which have lately been afloat on this subject. The King and his Ministers are agreed on the measure ; and it only remains, in consequence, for the Legislature to decide upon it.—Morning Advertiser. It is rumoured that Sir M. Lopez, Bart. is to be called to the Haut of Peers, by the title of Baron Ro borough.—Piymouth Herald, THE LAWS OF HONOUR.—A duel was lately fought r..t Strasbourg between two ladies, one French and the other German, on a quarrel about a young miniature painter. The combAtan4 net, pistol in hand, and each attended by a female second. The CZerman was furious, and insisteZl on fighting muzzle to muzzle ; but the French woman, regulating I,er conduct by the advice of her sectu4, stood out for twenty-five panes. They fired together, and missed, The German then insisted on their approaching, and firing until ,either fell. The seconds, howewer ; now interposed, and, declaring that the laws of honour . were now satisfied, took away the pistolg, and the affair ended ; but without any apology. The fair Frenchwoman, before leaving the ground, handsomely professed herself not actuate,d by any pers/441 hostility ; "she had thought it due to her honour to take a al - wt with the German, but, now that . the affair was at an end, thO lady was welcome to the miniature painter, whom she had fo,Aidden her presence that very morning." The German was a Baroness, and the Frenchwoman the wife of a General of Division.— ' Weekly Revitu,. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. Yesterday several Jews appeared before the LORD MAYOR. to answer the charge of having resisted the autho rity of his Lordship, by continuing to sell old clothes in Cutler-street, in violation of Mr. M. A. Taylor's Act. The East India Company's warehouses being in the neighbourhood, the conduct of the Jews, who are to be seen there in droves, has been a great obstruction to the labours of those who are employed at the warehouses.__ Although many fines have been inflicted, the nuisance continues unabated. The Lora) MAYOR asked Forrester the officer, who is constantly occupied in watching, giving notice to, and summoning defendants, how it was that, notwithstanding the numberless examples which had been made, the prac tice was persevered in. Forrester said that the Jews, after being fined, re turned to Cutler-street, and went round with hats in their bands to collect money to pay the expences, and in some instances they obtained three times as much as the ex pences amounted to. Of course, they made a jest of the threats used against them, and carried on as great a traffic as ever. The Lonn MAYOR said that the fine he had hitherto in flicted was ss. upon each of those who were convicted.— He should double it upon this occasion, and upon any future complaint he should increase the penalty, until it reached the full extent of the Act. The Jews pleaded hard for mercy, and vowed most so lemnly that they would never show themselves again in the city of London, if his Lordship would only indulge them for once; but they could get no diminution of the fine. The Loan MAYOR told them that the only alternative was 14 days' imprisonment. Soon after they were locked up, they sent in the whole amount and were discharged. It was ascertained after they had departed, that each of them had offered to give as much money to the officer as had been paid upon the decision of the Lord Mayor, if he would consent to overlook their offence. It is the practice of those dealers in old clothes to pretend, when they are in the hands of the Magistrates, that they have large numbers of children. They are, it seems, able to procure the loan of half a dozen or a dozen little boys and Dirk, who are taught to call any man pointed out to them "father," and who would swear, if necessary, to 20 new parents in a day: A respectable tradesman, who resides in Winchester street, Broad-street, was charged before the LORD MAYOR, by an officer, under the following circumstances:-- The officer stated, that on Sunday morning, at half-past one o'clock, he heard the voices of two men in such loud conversation as to disturb the neighbourhood. Witness found the defendant and another person talking together, and desired them civilly to " move on." The defendant in a very outrageous manner refused to stir; and after having heaped gross epithets upon the witness, was taken into custody, and lodged in the watch-house as a prevention to any further disturbance of the neighbourhood. The defendant gave a different version of the affair. He had, he said, been engaged in conversation with a friend near his own door, at about half-past 12, when the officer in the most insolent and dictatorial manner ordered him away. Having lived in the neighbourhood for a dozen years, and never having been subjfct to such rudeness, he expostulated with the officer, who, however, seized him by the collar, knocked some books which he was carrying into the street, and although his wife was at the door wait ing for him, dragged him off to the watch-house. The constable of the night, however, refused to detain him. The officer here stated, in answer to a question from the Loan MAYOR, that the defendant was intoxicated at the time, and that he (the officer) waited most patiently for some time to ascertain whether the defendant would go quietly away. The constable of the night declared that the defendant had been never snore sober than he was on the night he was charged ; and Le (witness) would not have taken the charge at all if the officer had not insisted on it. He, however, immediately told the defendant that he was per fectly at liberty to go house, and his (witness's) conduct was approved by the deputy of the ward. Tile Loan :Mayors. said, that he could not say that the officer had exceeded his duty. The defendant was not justified in disturbing people, particularly at so late an hour, and the officer might, by a late Act of Parlia ment, tike any night-walkers into custody. His Lord ship told the defendant, however, that he was disehalged without paying of fi,es. BO %V-STREET. Yesterday Messrs. Carpue and Isaacs, Jew fruiterers and orange-merchants, in the Minorics, appeared before Sir IL BIWNIE, upon a summons, obtained against them by Captain Case, of No. 22, Great Castle-street, Rogent street, in order that they might account before the Ma gistrate for the possession of two notes of the Bank of England for 10/. each, of which Capt. C. had been robbed. It appeared that the complainant lost his pocket-book on the 3d inst., containing two promissory notes for 100/. each, and three notes of the Bank of England for 101. each. On the 6th inst. two of the notes were paid in at the Bank of England, in the name of the defendant ; upon as certain'og which, Captain Case applied for and obtained a summons to compel the defendants to give up the name of the individual who had passed them the notes. In reply to a question by Sir IL Bia ir, Captain Case said he was not at all aware how he had lost his pocket-book. lie had reason to believe, however, that it had been stolen from the breast-pocket of his regimental coat. Sir 11. BlaNlE—Have you no suspicion, Captain, against any body ? Captain Case-1 certainly cannot charge any person with robbing me. I should be sorry to do so without sufficient proof, and would much lather lose the whole of the money than charge an innocent person with the theft. The defendants accounted for the possession of the notes by stating that they had taken them from a man named Peter Cunningham, to whom they sold some fruit. Sir R. B 1 It NI E—Where is this man to be met with ? Carpue—We really cannot say where he may be met with. Sir R. BIRNIE-That is rather odd. You ought to have known more of a person from whom you took two 101. notes.—lsaacs—He had dealt with us before, Sir Richard; we know the man very well. Sir R. Bume-.--Oh ! you do? Then I tell you it is your duty to find him out. Captain Case said, that the wife of one of the defendants told him that Cunningham was gone to Cambridge, and advised him to go in pursuit of him. Sir R. BIRNIE-The defendants are dearly responsible for the notes, they having both acknowledged that they know the man from whom they took them. Carpue—We are willing to assist the complainant in the recovery of his money as far as we can. Are we at liberty to give Cunningham into custody? Sir R. 1 3 111.N1E.-Certainly you would be justified in doing so; and I tell you more, that your own characters require you to take some step of the kind. Have you ever had any dealings in Bank-notes with this Peter Cunning ham before the present transaction ?—The defendants re plied in the negative, observing that Cunningham had al ways paid them in gold and silver, prior to his paying them the two notes in question. It was finally agreed that the defendants should use all due diligence to discover Cunningham, upon which condi tion the summons was suspended. A fellow, who signs himself " Edward Hughes," and who resides somewhere in the neighbourhood of Birrning ham, has latterly been at work on an extensive scale in sending orders to London tradesmen for goods per coach, promising to remit the amount in cash without delay. This fellow has proved to be a swindler, and is supposed to he connected with some of the various gangs that are at this moment dispersed about the country. The fol lowing letter, from a tradesman in the Strand, was re ceived yesterday by Sir Richard Biruie. It describes the mode which the writer took to answer an order for goods with which Mr. Hughes had favoured him. " TO SIR RICHARD BIRNIE. " Sir,—Having noticed in the police reports of Bow street, an account of some tradesmen compl a i n i ng of their having beep swindled out of their goods, by sen di ng th e m into the country, in answer to a letter from a person call ing himself Ed. Hughes,' in the neighbourhood of Bir.- mingham, I beg to acquaint you that the same person fa voured me with a letter, by post containing an order; but having been for some years a member of the Society of ; guardians for the Protection of Trade against Sharpers and Swindler?, I was cautioned against that gentleman and his colleagues, for there are sqcral of them. Knowing that the gentleman takes no letters in thai: are pot pot paid, I sent him a parcel by the Birmingham coach of aboPt the same bulk as the one would have been had I sent the goods ilat were written for, but containing nothing excepting rubbish. I gave 114•ections to the coachman to whom I entrusted it , n ot to deliver it without payment, an order which he, no doubt, punctually follow e d. As it is useless to write to such fellows by p os t, • I think the above plan, if generally acted ups:,, would have a tenden4 to check the depredations of swindlers, who send orders to tradesmen, and live by plundering the public. c , 1 am, 61:*, your obedient Ber:ink, " March 16." 6g A TRADESNIAN IN TUE ii/LAND." Sir R. BIRNIE wished that the generalityl - of London tradesmen were as much on the alert, for, the protection of their property, as the writer of the above letter, who had no reason to conceal his name. FALMOUTH. (PROM A CORRESPONDENT.) The inclosed sensible paper has been published at Falmouth, to counteract the influence of some violent Anti-Catholic papers—perhaps the Edi tor of The Sun may think it worthy of being transcribed into the columns of his very ably con ducted paper. CATHOLIC EMANCIPATION. GREAT AND COMPLEX OBJECTS SHOULD BE SEEN FROM A DISTANCE, IN ORDER TO OBTAIN A JUST AND COMPILE. HENSIVE IDEA OF THEIR. CHARACTEP. AND PROPORTIONS. Let us inquire what will be the language of history re specting the Catholic Question.—lt will probably be to the following effect : The reign of George the IVth. was rendered peculiarly illustrious, by the restoration of those civil rights to the Roman Catholics which had been so long, and so unjustly withheld. The Duke of Wellington's Administration effected what had been ardently desired ;—and repeatedly attempted by the greatest Statesmen, and most distinguished Patriots of the age. The Cabinet had long been divided on this treat ques tion ; and not only so,--but the two Houses of Parliament had, year after year, come to opposite decisions upon it ; and year after year, the Parliamentary friends of the mea sure were recruited at the expence of its opponents;— whilst no instances of defection from the ranks of the former can be cited. Those who watched the course of events, and had studied the workings of the human mind, saw that the claims of six million; of people for an equality of civil rights with their countrymen, would not cease to be made till they were granted ; and that in proportion as they acquired knowledge, which all parties desired for them, would they become more impatient under these yelling restrictions.— Progressive improvement, and permanent disabilities, are perfectly incompatible terms. The very frequent discussion of the subject in Parlia ment, alternately raised and depressed their expectations; and their feelings were highly excited by the Associations of their adversaries, as well as by their own, acting and re-acting on each other in a continually increasing ratio. Not only in Ireland, but in England also, many influen tial persons countenanced, and even extolled, the soi-disant " Brunswick Clubs,' and cast boundless censures on the proceedings of the Catholic Association. Both were un doubtedly wrung, and perhaps equally unfavourable to good order and the repose of the country. The former proved by their conduct, how highly they appreciated the privileges they possessed, and yet they were indignant that the Catholics should desire a participation of them. Could they have placed themselves in the situation of the latter, they would, perhaps, have better understood their feelings ; or at least, they would have learnt that irritation was the natural effect of men being told they were not fit to be trusted with political rights, which they would be sure to abuse ; and that it was not possible to bind them by pro mises or oaths. The state of Ireland was indeed truly calamitous, when Ministers saw, that union in the Government bad become absolutely essential, in order to apply a remedy, although the effoit cost one or more of them sacrifices, equalled only by the good that was to be achieved. The Catholic disabilities were recommended to the con sideration of Parliament, early 'in 1829, in the opening speech delivered by the King's Commissioners; and the Duke of Clarence, Heir Presumptive to the Throne, em phatically declared, in the House of Lords, his conviction of the expediency and necessity of concession. Under all these circumstances, it seemed reasonable to conclude that public meu, whatever might have been their previous conduct, would have seen that further opposi• tion was useless,—and worse than useless; if the integrity and influence of the country were to be maintained : but this was not the case with many of them ;—very far other wise. Ireland might be severed, and England might be rent by faction, and rendered weak and contemptible in the view of foreign nations. At all hazards, the influence of Protestantism was to he preserved in its exclusive charac ter. The mischief they predicted, was at any rate only contingent and remote :—the evils which must have flowed from their proceedings, had they succeeded, were immi nent and certain to all the best interests of the country. Who would have taken the Helm of the State, if the exist ing AdMinistration had been broken tip? And what alternative could they then have suggested ?—The depo pulation of Catholic Ireland ?—for it - was evidently impos sible to remain stationary. A great river cannot be ar rested in its progress without swelling over its banks; and then instead of being a source of wealth and fertility to a country, it becomes an overwhelming flood, extending its d solation far and wide, until it finds out new channels to its original destination. Some of those who had most disparaged the voice of the people on other occasions, were then foremost in appealing to their fears, their passions, and their prejudices ; and numerous petitions against the measure were sent up from various parts of the empire. Many of the subscribers were taught to consider the re moval of the restrictions almost synonimoue with Catholic supremacy, and that "fire and fizygot" would follow in its train :--they were reminded of the days of bloody Queen Mary, but nothing was said of the dreadful persecutions inflicted by the Protestants at subsequent periods. What ever might have been the wisdom of our ancestors, they seemed ignorant of the now universally acknowledged truth, that persecution is not the way to make proselytes . If the maxim be admitted, that 'I ruth must prevail ove r . Error, those who threatened such consequences place themselves in an awkward dilemma with regard to Prod testantism;—unless, indeed, they imagined the Roman- Catholics to be a species of alchymists in politics and re ligion, who could change, not every thing into gold, but whatever was held most precious, into any thing they pleased. They might, however, have seen in Europe, and in America, a practical refutation of that error, where it was evident, that without such incapacities, Protestantism was gaining ground on Catholicism ; and reasonable and en lightened opinions, on ignorance and superstition.—Eng land was, in fact, the only Protestant country inwhich the Catholics were deprived of the rights and privileges of free-born citizens ;—not even excepting the sister kingdom of Hanover. It was not seen by many of the opponents of the mea sure, that the restoration of confidence and tranquillity to Ireland, would encourage capitalists to reside there, and avail themselves of those numerous advantages, with which she is so peculiarly gifted by nature ; and that the assertion so boldly advanced would be completely dis proved, that the poorer classes had only an ideal interest in a change, calculated to give them employment at home, instead of having to seek it in England. Nor was it fully perceived, how much the improvement and pacification of Ireland must necessarily augment the revenue of the king dom, and lead to the withdrawing of a large military force retained there at an enormous expense. Little did many of the anti-Catholics anticipate so rapid a change of public opinion on this subject; although they might have looked hack only a short time, when the Abo-. 'llion of the Slave Trade was for so many years strenu ously and successfully resisted, in and out of Parliament. But the pages of history abound with analogous examples, front which the Moralist, and the Christian will derive this lesson,—that the reasoning powers of the mind are often insufficient to contend with long-settled habits and opinions, especially when fortified by self-interest.—Let it be hoped that they may serve for the instruction of posterity. RESURRECTIONIST ANECDOTE.—TiIe fol lowing presents an amusing contrast to the tales of horror connected with resurrectionists, which have of late oc cupied so much of the public ear :—About a year ago some well-known body snatchers, whose emoluments had been suffering by the vigilance of the guardians of the dead, determined on counterbalancing the defect by practising on th e supposed credulity of the living—of even the Doctors themselves. For this purpose they crammed one of their own number, alive and well, into a hamper or large basket, into which he was packed like a subject, with a little straw over him. With this package they proceeded to the rooms of an eminent anatomist in Edin burgh, where they laid it down in presence of the Doctor, who, they calculated, would pay the price that might be agreed upon without very closely inspecting his purchase ; and this accomplished, they had no fear of their comrade effecting his escape. As anticipated, the bargain was al most immediately concluded, without inspection; but a suspicion having shot across the Doctor's mind, before paying over the price, he hurriedly thrust a knife down through the package into what he knew to be a fleshy part of the alleged suhject--when 10, a shriek as hideous as ever was heard in Pandemonium itself immediately verified his prediction ! " you scoundrel," said the anatomist, addressing himi;elf to the principal of the resurrectionists, " what do you mean by this ?" " Och," answered Paddy, determined to put the best face on the matter " an" what could I help it, your honour, when he tould me that he was chine deal.".—lnverness Courier, March H. NEWS PROM -THE AR-MY •TN TURKEY, OF JANUARY 23, 24, AND 25. ST. PETERSBURG FEB. 25.—Field Marshal Count Wittgenstein gives an account from the re ports of General Roth, who commands the troops in Bulgaria, of the entire success of the reconnois sances made on the 23d and 24th January, in the environs of Bazardajik and Paravady. Lieutenant- General Rudiger had sent two detachments to drive the enemy from the villages near our advanced posts, towards Shumla and Silistria. Lieutenant- Colonel Patton set out on the 23d January from Auschenti, with the Ist battalion of the 35th Regi ment of Chasseurs, and fifty cossacks, and took the road to Enikoi ; at the distance of seven wersts from that village, near Omourkloi, he was surround ed by fifteen hundred cavalry. He immediately formed his battalion in a square, repulsed the Turks, after an obstinate combat of three hours, and pur sued them with - the bayonet. The loss of the enemy, who was superior in number, was very considerable. We had only 13 killed, and 49 wounded. Lieut.- Colonel Patton, after having dispersed the Turks, returned the next day to Onschonti. On the 23d January, Colonel Bykoff, with a bat talion of the 36th Regiment of Chasseurs, and 50 Cossacks, occupied, without suffering the least loss, the village of Konioustchauk; the inhabitants made but a slight resistance; he took some prisoners, and 100 oxen. Having learned that there was a strong detachment of the enemy at Eskistche, Colonel By 7 koff returned the next day through the villages of Tehelibikioi, Karapamet, and Denikler. Another reconnoissance was made in the environs of Paravady, Major-General Kuprianoff left that town on the 24th, with the 20th and 32d Regiment of Chasseurs and 75 Cossacks, with two cannon, after passing through Kerovo and Rovno he arrived at Nino, where he took :eight prisoners and 180 oxen. The deep mud which covered the roads, and the continuance of bad weather, hindered Major- General Kuprianoff from pushing his reconnoissance any further; he returned to Paravady the following day, without having experienced any loss, the rigour of the season, sickness, and the increasing want of provisions of all kinds, greatly weaken the enemy's army.—Journal de St. Peter:burgh, Feb. 26. The same Journal and a Supplement contain the official accounts of the taking of the fortress of Kale, and of Tournoul. The occupation of this fortress, says the Bulletin, gives a point d'appui on the Da nube, and completely insures the safety of Western Wallachia. In the two fortresses 13, pair of colours and 87 cannon were taken. ST. PETERSBURGB, FEB. 28.—0 n the 2Gth Te Deum was performed in the Chapel of the Winter Palace, in the presence of their Imperial Majesties and the Court, for the capture of Tournoul. A salute of 101 guns was fired, and the city was illuminated. Letters from Tiflis announce that several of the native tribes in the neighbourhood of Anapa have solemnly engaged not to commit any hostilities during the Turkish war, and have given six hostages as se curity.—Prussian State Gazette, March 10. BORSEN HALLE, FOUR O'CLOCK.—Funds are firm. The low courses of the 3d instant, received from London this morning, via Holland, prevented the rise which would otherwise have been occasioned by the improvement in French Rentes, which stood on the 4th instant at 77f. 90c. Bills on London in demand, discount 1i per cent. Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per cent Anglo-Russian Loan 91% Ha.nburgh-Russian Loan Anglo-Prussian Loan of 1518 9914 Austrian Bank Shares 1105 Austrian Metalliques 97% Hamburgh Reporter, March 10. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S. The betting, without being very heavy, was interesting and important. The Camel colt, whose ;unexpected ap pearance in the market we noticed last week, continues advancing, and is now very firm at 11 to I. The Dec tress kept abreast of him till just at the close, when 12 to 1 was offered and not taken. Canvas, Morris Dancer, and Will-o'-the-Wisp, were all backed, and seemed in better favour. The LUPB filly retrograded in all three Stakes, owing to her h;tving recently changed hands (at the price, it is said, of 2000 guineas.) The betting closed thus :—. RIDDLES WORTH. '7 to 2 agst Mr. Batson's Luss filly (taken) 9 to 2 agst Mr. Hunter's Canvass colt 9 to 2 agat Duke of Grafton's Burman 6 to 1 agat Lord Jersey's Will-o'-the-wisp (taken) 10 to 1 agst Duke of Rutland's Brother to Moses 10 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Augusta colt 10 to 1 agat Windfall 15 to 1 agst Morel DERBY. 9 to 1 agst Lord G. Cavendish's Espagnolle c. 11 to 1 agst Lo►d Egremont's Camel 12 to 1 agst Mr. Hunter's Canvass colt 12 to 1 agst His Majesty's Electress colt 13 to 1 agst Lord Sefton's Morris Dancer (taken) 16 to 1 agst Duke of Rutland's Br. to Moses 16 to 1 agst Lord Sligo's Prince Eugene 16 to l agst Mr. Pettit's Post Obit 16 to 1 agst Mr. Batson's Luss filly 17 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's Will-o'-the-Wisp 20 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Augusta colt 25 to 1 agst Lord Mountcharles's Rupert OAKS. 6 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Green Mantle 7 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Varna 10 to I agst Air. Batson's Loss filly 11 to 1 agst Mr. Ridsdale's Clotildo 11 to 1 agst Lord Sligo's Vat CLARET STAKES. 5 to 4 on Cadland (taken). SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. LIVERPOOL. SUNDAY, MARCH 15. Wind water one minute past eight.—Arrived the Etna, Sarsfield, from Dublin ; Euphemia, Nelson, from Bal- line ; Susan, Syrnmons, Charlestown ; Eagle, Parry, Killala. Sailed—The Indian Chief, Gill, for Demerara ; Geo. Canning, —, for Elsineur ; Pomona, , for Mobile; Marcia, Stenson, for New Orleans ; Three Sis ters, Mundell, for Malta ; and Huskisson, Walker, for Africa. On Thursday last, at the Henry-street Police Office, Dublin, a -London . surgeon, supposed to have been concerned in the extensive exportation of dead bodies from Dublin to ScOfland, and ether places, was ordered to find bail, himself in 50/. and two securities in 30!. each. SIR WALTER SCOTT.—When the sun of " Waverley" became lord of the ascendant, he swallowed up all the minor luminaries in his beams. He united all excellencies. " Each change of many-coloured life he drew." All countries, all classes became tributary to him ; he was at home in the peasant's cot aad the gipsy's teat, nor less at his ease in the hall of state. When he spoke in the character of a monarch or of a gaberlunzie, he seemed equally to be speaking in his mother- tonge. He paint ed the secluded landscape with the same felicity as the turmoil of battle. Not only the old materials of love and war were at his command, but wit and learn ing, law and antiquarianism, history and legind, the mys teries of all arts and trades. In scenes of broad comedy he was a Hogarth or a Teniers; in lofty tragedy, he had the dignity of Raphael, and the energy of Salvator Rosa. And throughout all his works there is the free, manly, and unaffected style, which shows a great mind conver sant alike with books and with the world.—Liverpool Times. ENGLISHMAN'S RECEPTION OF A POPE.-- In the year 1815, during the hundred days, when Pope Pius VII. was obliged to quit his capital and fly far pro tection to Genoa, which was then in possession of the Eng-. lish, the senior of of the garrison happened to, be a Colonel (afterwards General) Lemoine, of the Royal Ar tillery. The troops were of course ordered out to receive his Holiness with due honours; and as the Pope's carriage approached, the Colonel rode up to the carriage bat in hand, to congratulate the Sovereign Pontiff on his safe ar rival. The Pope, in return for his attention, stopped his coach and put his hand out of the window to be kissed, thus paying the Colonel a compliment which Pop Pius offered exclusively to Englishmen, but which the Gallant Officer did not sufficiently understand to appreciate, and hastily putting his hat on his head, he grasped the Po e's hand, and, shaking it with a hearty English welcome, i x.. claimed, " I'm very glad to see you, old gentleman." he Pope, who was an exceedingly kind man, laughed heart"ys and seemed highly pleased with his receriKt• LONDON MARKETS.' PRICE OF BREAD. The highest price of Bread in the Metropolis is lid. fin tbt 41b. Loaf. There arc others who sell from (,d. to 130. bolos' hat price. PRICE OF SEF:DS.-March IP. New English Red Clover Seed (per Cwt.) 40s. 50s. fine 565. 645. Old Ditto -s. tine -a. New Foreign Ditto _ 505." 60s e 655. 70s. 30s. 40s. tine 50s. 650. 40a. 60s. line 70s. SOs• 60s. 711 s. tine 85s. 90 4 . 14s. 245. tine 30s. 311. -a. -a. tine -s 403. -38 s. 41s. tine -s. English Carraway Seed--..--.. -s. 41s. 465. fine -I. Foreign Ditto Woriander. -s. 17s. tine -s. 193. St. Foin (per Quarter)-- -8. -s. -s. fine --s. Rye Grass 153. 40s. new -a. -4. Pacey Ditto 40s. 50s. new -s. -s• Linseed, for feeding 3Bs. fine 40s• Ditto, for crushing --s. 41s. 425. tine Canary Seed, New Ditto Old - -a. -s. -a, tine --s. White Mustard Seed-(per Bushel).-os. 6s. 7s. 6d. tine Brown Ditto -s. Bs. 10s. tint. -s. Turnip Seeds, Rounds Green and Red Ditto --s. Us. 12s. fine -0. Tares, Old -s. 345. 40s. fine -s• Ditto New -a. --s. fine 41s. 435. Rape Seed, English, tine (per Last) 301. 32/. Foreign 271. 294, New White Clover. Old Ditto Ditt0..,,,,, New Trefoil Old Ditto Rib Grass „. PRICES OF HOPS.-3larch 16. Kent Pockets . 41. Os. 51. ss. to Sussex Ditto ..........—..... 3l. ltis. 4!. 4s. to Esssx Ditto ... 44 Os. 51. Os. to Farnham Ditto, Fine O/. Os. . 84 Us. to Secorids ............... 01. Os. 6/. lOs to 3/. 15s. 5!. Vs, to 31. 10e. 3/. its. to 4/. Os. 41. 15s. to 61 61. 41. 8. 61. Us. 91 O. 81. Os. 51. Itis. 41. Os. 51. ss. Kent Lags.,,,. Sussex Ditto Essex Ditto.. WH ITEC H A PEL HAY MARKET.—March 14. Hay 50s. Od. to 80t. Od. I ( lover Gig. Od. to loos. oa. Straw---30i. Od. to 364. Od. PRICE OF 011. Rape Oil, brown 4S/. W....—. Refined Linseed Oil --___ 20 10 11 10 5 10 Linseed Oil Cake at the Mill, per thousand Itape Cake, per ton.-- 1 1 1110 E OF POTATOES.—March 16. Marsh Champions 3l. 10s. to 3/. 15s. per ton. Kidneys Scotch Reds --.......—. 3/. ss. to 3/. 15s. ditto. Oxnobles and Shama .................. 3t. Os. to 34 3s. ditto. PRICES OF Per th. d. to d. 8utt5~.....50 to unb.... 19 20 to 661 b... 22 23 Dressing Hole= I 1 17 Fine Coach hide 5.,,,,,,, 18 20f Crop Elides, 35 to 40th. 14j 15f Ditto 45 to 50th. 154 18 Ditto.. lB 20 RAW LEATH ER. Per lb. d. to d. Tanned Horse Hides— 16 10 Swinish Ditto 2.; Per dozen. Calf Skins....3o to 4(lib. 19 21 Ditto 50 to 701 b. Y 4 90 Ditto 70 to SOlb. 22 Small Seals, Greenland 20 23' HID ES. Per Stone. s. d. to Per Stone. s. d. to s. d. (lest Heifers& Bteerb3 0 3 4 Ordinary 110 2 v Middlings 2 6 2 8 Market 7 0 each.. SHEEP SKINS. 2s. Od. to 2s. 6d. I Shearlings......... Oa. 0,1 to Os. 7'k Polled 3a. 6d. to 3i. 6d. COAL IIIANK Beaumont _ , Ss. 9d. I)can's Primroie 23 0 Heaton 32 0 Hebion - n Main 31 0 Killingiiortii 30 6 Orti's Red!nigh VI 0 ET...March 16. Walls Eitd Ne.wmarch.. 31a. 3.f. Ditto Walker 32 0 Fawcett Main 26 6 INT esharn Main. , 31) Russell's Lyon's 31 0 Walls c'n4 He1t0n..,,,,,,, 33 11 Pelaw 30 0 Percy Tanfleld .33 6 Tanfleld Lea 3l 6 Townley - 30 0 ‘Vyl4tm Walls End Bewick e& Co. 33 6 Ditto 30 3 Ditto Burraton SO 3 Ditto Carr and Co. 27 0 Ditto Cramlington...... 26 6 Ditto liilda 29 6 Ditto M) Ditto Not thumberland 30 6 . Ditto Peareth 28 6 Ditto Perkins and Co. 30 0 Ditto 31 3 Ships at market, 1331--Shi Walls End Lainbton— 34 0 • 1 Walls End 31 9 Walls End Slewart's 34 0 Russell's Hetton's W. E. 33 ti 29 0 4 Hartley Gawthorp•W* 23 9 Ledgerbridge 27 6 Silkstone Field and Co. 27 Warde's Elan&ly 35 0 Walls End Elgin 33 0 :I Tantield Trader—..---. 33 0 Heatan small /3 0 Hetton small _ 2O fl Walker Small 13 6 • , Old Etherley small 19 b Walla End small 20 0 ips sold, 42—Unsold, 91%. IRISH MARKETS. Wheat, 1 Barley. Oats. Fl our , per cwt. per barrell per barrel per barrel r _ i i 20 stone. 116 stone. 14 stone. Ist. 2d. -- ---- ' s. d. as. d. s.d.-as.d. s. d. as. d. s. d. as. d. s. d.as. d. Cork 28 6-35 0 14 6-17 01 6 7-18 0 20 0-24 0-12 0-18 0 Limerick 30 0-36 0 10 6—.20 6110 4-13 0 is 0-21 0 0 0-15 a Waterford 27 0-35 0 10 0-16 01 6 6-14 0 18 0-22 0 10 0-15 0 Clonmel 30 0-36 0 17 0-19 0112 8-14 0 20 0-25 0 12 0-16 0 Carlow— 29 6-34 9 12 0-19 0113 0— 0 020 6-21 0 0 0— 0 0 ' Beef, Mutton,) Pork, I Butter. -- per lb. per lb. per cwt. Ist. 2d. 3d. 4th. 5t.6 - . ......... —.... d. ad. d. a d. s. d. as. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d Cork 5 —7 4 6 28 0-29 070 067 053 0,43 0 ,38: 9 "" Limerick... 3 —si 4 5 30 0-35 0108 0 58 051 0 44 0 37 0 Waterford 4 -- 5 5 6 29 0-34 6;80 0760600 53 0 , s 0 Clonmel 3 —4 4 , q 32 0-31 0173 065 000 058 0 50 F, - .1 Car10w......,. .4 —5l 0 0 00— 0 ni6o 050040 0 11.. v', KILKENNY MARKET, March 10.—Butter, '77s. to '788. , per cwt. ; Bacon .Pigs, 345. to 355. per ditto; Wheat 265. to 30s. per barrel ; Barley, 15§. to 16s. ; Oat's, 9s . to I Is. ; Flour, 20s. to 445. per bag . ; Beef and Mutton, 4d. to 51d. per lb. ; Potatoes, Od. to 2d. per stone ; Coals, Is 2d. per cwt. SCOTCH MARKETS. Wheat. I Barley Oats. I Beans: Oatmeal.- --...........---..... Aberdeen ..... 56 68 26 33 19 21 32 '.' 36 Berwick—. 40 44 i 22 24 16 18 24 35 38 Coldstream— 47 49 27 28 18 21 26 28 —• .-s;., Ctipar .......... 70 80 35 38 24 27 27 32 --- , Dundee --.....— 68 -- 35 --. 26 30 --• "'— Elgin .......-- 82 66 21 23 18 20 20 -- I Inverness—, 60 70 26 90 120 25 23 26 40 -- Kelso 45 50 24 26 17 20 24 .26 -- Kirkaldy—. 56 63 30 32 21 25 24 34. 33 ... Perth 60 76 23 25 16 19 24 30 --- 11.,..- The size of the measure varies throughout the country'. A GOOD JOKE.—Yesterday afternoon, Mr. Carmichael, the celebrated ventriloquist, ,occasioned a very amusing scer.e in a tavern in the New Town. Mr. Car michael, accompanied by a friend, ordered a bottle of ale, and just as the landlord was about to draw the cork, the company were astounded by a plaintive voice exclainiing. " Oh, gentlemen, help me out of the lum." Such a myste rious awl unexpected-supplication from such a place, raw el • the landlord to start and stand against. " How the d--1 _ _ did you come there ?" bawled the choleric and enraged 8 0 " . vereign of cork-drawing subjects ; to which the prisoner as promptly replied, " I cam down the wrang lum this morning—l canna gang up, and, oh dear, I canna get ": down." " Thank God fur that," rejoined the landlord, "if you had, you would have plundered the house, but you • shall not escape now." So saying, he bolted out, locked the door on the friends, and immediately returned with a brace of police officers, to capture the corpus of the sweep the moment he merged into day. As he still kept com plaining, something in the style of Sterne's starling, " I ' can't get out," two sootymen were sent to explore the chimney. This strange affair having got abroad, a number of people collected, and a very general. opinion prevailed that masons, with their hawks and hewing irons, would be ultimately requisite to achieve the liberation of the captive. While the crowd were occupied in cogitation, discussion, and wonderment, the sooty-man descended, and with a lugubrious whine, declared that the man was gene, and bad broken the can on the chimney-head when-making his escape. It was immediately concluded, the whole was • the work of an " auld sneck-drawing dog," that has been lately playing all manner of pranks ,in these kingdoms; . but it was soon made known that the whole was produced r by the power of ventriloquism, and the people departed ' laughing heartily at the proceedings Occasioned by thig strange power of delusion.—Scotsman. BIRTHS. On the 14th inst. at Brighton, Lady Harriet Gurney, of a daughter. On the 15th inst. in Judd-street, Brunswick-street, Mrs. Robert Graham Dobinson, of a son. • On the 13th inst. M r s. G eorge B an k s , of Bridge-street, Westminster, of a son. On the 13th inst. at Kelsale-•house, Suffolk, the lady of Lieutenant- Colonel Sir George Haste, of, the Royal En gineers, of a son. MARRIED. On the 16th inst. at West Ham, by the Nenerabls the Archdeacon of the diocese, Mr. George Eccles, of. Fan church -street, to Ann, eldest daughter of Mr. Richard Adams, of Plaistow. DIED. In the beginning of February, at the Palace of in Milan, after an illness of three days, Louis von Eacl►- This distinguished and elegant Composer was of an ancient and Noble German Family, and came over to England with many other persons of consideration, at the cons mencement of the French Revolution ; here he laudably availed himself of a very peculiar native talent as a com poser and teacher of music, in which profession he so emi nently excelled. At the genera! Peace of 1814 , he left this country to prosecute his claims for the recovery of the family property. His works (which are quite original) have long been considered the standard of fine expression, united with good taste. On the 15th inst. Sophia, widow of the late J. of Leadenhall-street, aged 68. On the thth inst. Thornag Postlethwaite, Esq. I,anker, Lonibard-street, in his 80th year. On the 14th inst. Miss Sophia Durehett, of Kentish town. On the 14th inst. Charles Morris, En. at his residence, in the Polygon, Southampton. Paiwrzn and PUBLISHED by AIURDO YOUNG, •at tb* Sus OwFic.a, 112, STRAND ) . LONDON.