The Sun. — London, England, 1829-02-18 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE LONDON JOURNALS. The epeoefr of the Duke of Wellington, in reply to Lord Colchester, on Monday night,ought to be read and considered much by the tuckers and trim mers of both Houses. It will serve them as a kind of diwtor dubilanlizon at the present crisis. They will observe—and shape their conduct accord ingly—with what confidence his Grace anticipates the issue of his proceedings on the present question. " His Nlejesty'e Ministers," said he, " will be re spretaible for the complete execution of the measure" (Elie rereOval of the disabilities), " after it lies been wl,pted by this and the other house of Parliament and•altallfiirm a !illion of the law qf the land ! ! i" Gentlemen shufflers, there is no room for hesitating here, so you had better determine at once. With what ease and assurance he speaks of things that are to be, as if they were already ! " Action— action," said the greatest of orators, " is the soul of anttorv." It is the first, second, and third essen tial • and here we have action with a vengeance ! Not the sawing of hands and arms, and the easy agitation of the head, but deeds that outrun words in rapidity, and are at hand be fore they can be described. This, we say, is the best kind of action in a ministerisl orator. " After the measure had beet' adopted by this and the other House, said lorries a portion of the law of the land," his Grace Nv i 1 1 look to the execution of it. The Duke likewise - says, in his frank, soldierly manner, that he is not a bit afraid of the turbulent part of the Irish Catholic population : he does not regard them a bettor', except for their own sakes, and that of humanity : but though his measures are not prompted by fear, they are founded upon' a calm assurance that it is better now to settle the question at once. It is argued by the opposers of the question, that Nv e submit only to fear,—that we are acting under a dire and uncontrollable ne ceesity ; and if the Catholics can frighten us into concession now, what may they not do after wards ? The Duke's remarks supply an answer to this argument. It is true that the Catholics were turbulent enough recently, and the future supplied just room for apprehension. But we will put it to general recollection, whether it has not always been said that the real difficulty would come, should the defection of Ireland take place when we were plunged in a dangerous war, — when enemies of great power and resources menaced aa, and the condict was of doubtful issue. Now, therefore, when we are assailed by no such dangers, it is true that we grant the boon, or impart the right to importunate demands, but there never was a time at which we were more in a capacity to resist them than at present; and the Duke states that the period at which the measure is introduced shows suffi cient!y that its introduction does not spring from fear on our part ; " for (says his Grace) there never was a time during the last twenty yeers, in which, looking to the circumstances and relations of this country, there was a more total absence of all cause tor fear than the present." Let it always, there fore, lie recollected, that it is at a period of full peace, ease, and tranquillity,—at a period when it has al ways been allowed that we were most free from ab solute danger from Ireland, that the King of Eng land has recommended the consideration of this question to his Parliament, and when, we trust, it will be brought to a happy cotiehenon.— T . ones. The presentation of petitions in both Houses affords daily opportunities for the manifestation of great zeal for the Protestant religion, and the da, livery of exaggerated states units respecting the extent of hostility in the country to - the concession of the Catholic Claims. The Earl of Falmouth re turned last night to the subject of the county of Cornwall. According to his Lordship, the return .of Mr. Pendarves for the county, who is friendly to concession, is no criterion of the state of opinion in the county regarding concession, as many of the names to the petitions he had then the honour to present were the names of persons who had sup ported Mr. Pendarves. We refer our readers to two fetters; in another column, on the state of opinion in Cornwall, It certainly does seem odd, that if the hostility to Concession is so marked as the Noble Lord alleges, hw should have aban doned his attempt to call a County Meeting.— We have no doubt that if the people of England were polled on this question, the opponents of Efenn eipation would be found no inconsiderable number. But we have as little doubt that the number of the advocates of concession is also very great, and in eludes, moreover, nearly all that constitutes the moral strength ola nation. We do not know that in other countries of Europe the common people are better informed than they are in Eimgland; but as appeals are never made to them, their ignorance is not brought prominently forward. Hew England may rank as compared with other countries, we are without accurate means of knowing. This, how ever, we know, that, except in great towns and the populous districts of which they form the centres, the common people of England are singularly ill in formed. They read little, and that little is very unprofitable. That in agricultural districts, where the people know next to nothing of the changes which time has wrought in the ways of tbitiking on re ligious matters, and where the accounts of Smith field and St. Bartholomew are the freahest incidents with which their reading has furnished them, numbers may be easily persuaded to subscribe such petitions as those presented by the Earl of Falmouth, can suf.- prise no one. But the best test of the value of these petitions is, that the signatures to them are always most numerous in the places most conspicuous for ignorance. In the great cities the No-Popery people are scouted. Look at the ridiculous meeting the other day at the Crown and Anchor. The West of England may be called its Beotia, and at:cot:Jingly it will be found that the No-Popery people are Lucia abundant there. The North of England, on the other hand, having the largest towns population, will bare the fewest signatures. The most strenuous advocate of popular Governments will allow that the people will often mistake their interests. Heritte, it' the United States of North America, we find the most erroneous notions respecting commel cid affairs have been successful in the most popular Legis lates.e in the world. All that the friends of good government have ever maintained on this subject is, that the affairs of a community are less exposed to soismanagement, when the only danger is erroneous judgment, than when to the chance of erroneous judgment, is added an interest to misgovern. Of all subjects, that on which the people are least likely to judge correctly is the one now agitat ;tag the country. But time men who now appeal raa the people, and who boast of the popular suffrage, are distinguished for their opposition to all reforms by which the suffrage of the people may be more extensively obtained. When the people call for the reform of the most glaring abuses— :subjects respecting which there can be no difference of opinion with disinterested individuals—those men who are now appealing to the people tun a i deaf ear to them. A common tradesman may be eery imperfectly acquainted with history, and there fore unable to detect the misrepresentations of his Parson respecting the Catholics, while he may he able to make a tolerably judicious choice of the man who, front abilities and character, is best qualified to be sn able and upright representative. But the demand of a voice for him here would be branded by tits Earl of Falmouth, the Duke of Newcastle, and the whole host of opponents of concession, as amounting to little short of treason. In Dr. Has eel's Statistical Almanac for 1829, the number of States in Europe is stated at 57. Of these, there are no fewer than 39 in which the inhabitants are partly Catholics, partly Protestants. Excluding the British Islands, the number of Catholics is 1 10,965,466; and the number of , Protestants 32,215,43 8 . In many of these States the Pro testants form a small minority. Yet no where =silo we hear of any complaints, on the part of , _Protestants, of oppression. With the single ex ,..,„a:eption of the disturbances at Nis mes, where ' the two sects espoused different political sides, at the period of the Restoration of the Bour bons, we do not believe there has been an instance of religious persecution on. the Continent for the last 80 or 90 years. The very idea of reli gious persecution has become obsolete on the Con tinent. And yet day after day we are edified 1) the recital of events long gone by, as if they Into been only enacted yesterday. This is as absurd ss if the Catholics of the Continent were to be per petually holding op the persecutions in Scotland be fore the Revolution, to make the people Episco palians, as an incontrovertible proof of the persecut ing character of the Church of England. There is not a single Protestant Sect, with the exception of the Independents and Unitarians, which has not adopted the Catholic principle with respect to Heresy. The Pope excommunicated Luther, Luthei excommunicated Calvin, and Calvin burnt Servetus as he would have burnt Luther if he had been able to do so. In almost all the Protestant confessions, to tolerate error, is accounted a heinous sin. To the honour of the Catholics, it must be admitted that they set the first example of relia - ious toleration in Europe. When a Prince went over to the Pro testant tteligior, he considered himself entitled to force his subjects to reform then:selves—that is, either to embrace the religion of the Prince or to quit his territory. The Emperor Maximilian, so early as 1568 and 1569, so far deviated from the prevailing intolerance of that day, that he publicly conceded to the Nobles and Eques trian order in his hereditary dominions, that they mud the persons on their estates might enjoy the exercise of their religion freely and openly in their houses, and on their lands, in such a manner, how ever, that " they and their ministers, preachers, church officers, and persons having the cure of souls, should not hold up to contempt and ridicule the old Catholic religion, and those who professed it, whether of high or low degree, nor attack them with abusive epithets, nor persecute any one spiri tually or temporally on their estates on account of religion, nor levy money from them, except in the ordinary course of law," &c. The Catholic Go vernments appear to no disadvantage when com pared with Protestant Governments of that age; and in this respect justice is seldom done them. Earl Grey made an excellent speech in answer to some allusions of Lord Falmouth to a former speech of his Lordship :—" He admitted that he thought the other House of Parliament might be improved, and that a reform in it to a certain extent was ne cessary ; yet he never had thought that it was not, even as now constituted, naturally influenced by the opinions of the people; and thinking so, he thought its votes on this question might be taken as a re presentation of the opinions of the country. He did not suppose their Lordships to be influenced in the same degree as the other branch of the Legislature ; and the Noble Lord had quoted the majority of 1812, which was one, and the ma jority the last time the question was brought forward, which was 45, against the question ; and the Noble Lord had adverted to the introduction into their Lordships' House of some new Peers, favourably disposed to the Catholics, and had drawn the in fereuce that the cause was now less favourably re ceived by their Lordships than formerly. The Noble Lord had forgotten, apparently, that between 1627 and 1807 nearly sixty new Peers had been created, most of whom were unfavourable to the Catholics ; and if this increase were taken into consideration, it would appear that the opposition to the Catho lics had not increased but decreased. He was re minded, too, that the majority of the Peers cry ated in 1827 was not in favour of the Catholics." What argument can be more convincing than this ? Neitlur the Lords nor the Commons can he said to represent correctly the opinions of the people; but of the two the Commons must represent them most accurately, and it is in the Commons where the advocates of concession always prevail. Lord Grey also exposed, with great force, the absurdity of those who pretend a regard for the Duke of Wellington's Govern ment, anti yet would put an end to it, without being able to replace it by any Administiation not pledged to support the Catholic Claims. "It was not possible (lie said) to find any man so bold as to undertake to conduct the Government and preserve the Constitution, if the Question was not settled." Lord Grey was followed by the Duke of Welling ton, who exposed very happily the absurdity of having the House of Commons of one opinion, the House of Lords of another, and the Government of no opinion at all. He adverted, too, to the silly argument of intimidation, which Lord Darnley after wards observed was very inconsistently urged by the Earl of Falmouth and Co., who, if they were seeking anything, were seeking to intimidate the Government. Really when one considers the men who are HOW taking the lead in opposing the Go vernment, and the wretched figure they cut, the astonishment is that they receive any countenance at all. There is not a man assiong them to whom the country would entrust the management of a parish vestry. ..,--Morning Chronicle. Though we cbould be unwilling to stop the cur rent of public benevolence, when properly directed or justly called upon, there are, on the other hand, it is quite clear, occasions when the public are called upon to subscribe to objects, with which they have either no manner of concern, or for which there are aderieete means already. Of this latter description, we cannot heh) thinking, is the subscription which is now solicited for tire repair of York Minster—the recent conflagration of which must be deplored by eery one, both as a national calamity, and one proof, e.mong too many, of the mischief which false arid enthusiastic notions in religion produce in minds to which they are hut too artfully and successfully directed. Yet, feelieg every degree of regret both at tire cause and the consequences, we feel con vinced, too, that the public at large have no more to do with the rebuilding of York Cathedral than with Covent•garden or Drury-lane playhouse. Let not our elsrical readers suppose that we mean by this any compueieon between these places : what we mean is, that, bath cases, the owners possessed the funds which would effect the object without any public aid. It is well known thet tbe revenues of the 14a0 of York are enormous, as well its those of the Desu es 4 Chapter, These, we contend, are as much the natura yeeourees to look to upon the occa sion, as those of the Dukes of Northumberland or Bedford would be, if a siiritir caiereity were to befall Alnwiek Castle or Woburn Abbey. And, if the sacrifice were thought too great to call upon the pre, sent occupants of th Cathedral revenues to sustain, where would be the him,' if t)tose of a neighbouring diocese were brought in aid, and :f the next golden Prebendary of Durham which falls vecaat zhoul d be set apart for this laudable object.— Atornim Herald. The whimsical termination of the case between the Marquis of Camden and the Earl of Belfast, at Maelborough-street, is a very striking practical illus tration of the luminous administration of the law at Police-offices. Raw was a case which, however high the rank of the titigetinsi• parties, was but a simple information under the litui,4 l ipg Act. The question turned upon the point, whether a well di viding the premises of the two Noblemen, and in which Lord Behest opened a window that over looked the premises of the Noble complainant, was a party wall or a fence wall. w;tkin the meaning of the Act of Parliament—to decide which, nf course the construction of eel-tale parts of the Act carne into consideration. To assist the judgments of the Magistrates in explaining the language of the Legis luture, two able Barristers were engaged —expe rienced builders were called in to give their evidence as to wheth;a the wall was properly designated by one name or the other, After a great deal of time had been consumed in the inquiry, and, no doubt, a great deal of money—after the lawyers had ex hnusted their arguments, anti their clients had pretty nearly expended all their patience, the Ma gistrates took time to consider their judgment. They cast up the legal points and the opinioes of the " scientific" witnesses on both sides, and at length it was announced that they had come to a decision. Big with expectation, the uttornies for both parties hastened to the police-office to receive the important judgment which was to fix for ever the " proper name" of the hitherto non-descript wall. They received a written paper, the joint production of their Worships Sir George Farrant And Mr. Conant, which turned out to be a decision that they could decide nothing ; thus leaving the parties, after all the turmoil and expense, to the de lectable alternative of remaining content with this specimen of " summary justice," or opening their purse-strings anew to try the effect of a less "sum mary" process of litigation. The decision itself is curiously worded ; it states that " the Magistrates, having examined the case, &c. are of opinion that, under all the circumstances, they could not satis factorily to themselves decide a contention of so much importance, and so materially affecting the rights of two Noble Lords, they them efore decline ;L iving judgment on the present occasion."- 1 his declaration of their Worships, we are told in the report, " was received with evident sur prise by both parties;" and well it might. After all their belligerent operations—their marching and counter-marching—they remain in the position which the drill-seijeant denotes by the words ---" as you were." Whether this result was pro duced by the lawyers so equally illuminating by their respective lanterns the " opposite readings . ' of the "Building Act," as to leave it impossible for the worthy Magistrates to consider one side clearer than the other, or whether they were re solved, like some judicious politicians on a memo rable occasion, " not to give a triumph to either party," it is very difficult to say : but inasmuch as they state (after saying " the question is one mate rially affecting the rights of two Noble Lords"), they therefore " decline giving judgment," it seemt to be a fair inference that if the parties had been only two simple commoners, the worthy Magistrates would not have declined to give judgment. How the circumstance of the parties being Lords should make any difference in the principle of administering justice we cannot understand—why their dignity should stand in the way of an exposition of a clause in the " Building Act," under the summary juris diction appointed for such purposes, is not easy for men of ordinary capacity to imagine, unless we are to suppose the Magistrates thought that a dispute between two Peers, relative to a party wall, ought riot to be decided by any tribunal inferior to the House of Lords.—lbid. The quibbling special pleading of Lord Holland will scarcely succeed in convincing the British people that the exclusion of Roman Catholics from political power is not an essential part of the Consti t talon, as established at the glorious Revolution. His Lordship's argument resolves itself simply into these two assumptions, that as the disqualifying statutes were passed some years before the Revolution, they cannot be considered a part of the Constitution established by this great National Act ; and that the Protestant succession to the Throne was enacted and established as a fundamental law of the British Mo narchy, in the view that it might serve as a substi tution for the disqualifying statutes, by which the subjects of the Monarchy adhering to the faith of the Church of Rome were already excluded from all power in the State. We cannot accuse Lord Holland of ignorance of the history of that period, which he has no doubt very diligently studied ; but we fear he must fall under the deeper censure of perverting it for the purposes of the moment, to an extent and with a degree of effron tery which his ardent zeal in the cause of inno vation can scarcely justify, even to his own impe tuous, fiery, but not uninstructed mind. We would ask Lord Holland if he is prepared to apply univer sally such a rule of construction to the great national Acts which embody the principles of the Revolution, as would make those Acts sub versive of any constitutional doctrine that they did not expressly recapitulate and confirm ? We would ask him if any confirmation of the Statutes of Exclusion as essential and fundamental laws of the Monarchy, however strong or unequivocal, could have added to the validity of that stronger confirmation which they derive from the fact, that the overt acts of treason to the fundamental laws of the Monarchy most insisted on by the authors of the Revolution, in jusitication of the exclusion of the Stuart family, were the repeated violations by James the Second of those very Statutes? If the laws for the exclusion of Papists from political power were not essential and fundamental laws of the British Monarchy, and if the promoters of the Revolution did riot intend to give them the strongest possible contirmOtion—the confirmation of deeals rather than of words—how can Lord Holland avoid the conclusion that the expulsion of the Stuarts prin cipally for violating those laws, and manifesting an intention to annul them, was one of the most iniquitous and absurd proceedings of which men calling them selves rational patriots were ever guilty ? Lord Hol land must perceive that his explanation of the doc trines and principles of the Revolution degrades that Act into a monstrous exhibition of folly, incon sistency, and crime. The Government established by our wise and virtuous forefathers ut the Revo lution was a coherent Government : the proposed measure withdraws from it the principle of cohesion. Our forefathers erected a sound and consistent struc ture, composed of a Protestant King, Protestant Ministers, and a Protestant Legislature. We are now about to destroy it, and erect another in its room, in which a Protestant King may for a time, and it will probably be a brief one, occupy an isolated, unprotected, unsanctioned, anomalous Throne, the only remaining spectacle of conditional dignity and of necessary faith—the only existing mark tit which the scoffs of the infidel and the bigoted malignity of the Papist can be levelled. And vet it is said that the intended change is compatilsce with the prin ciples of the Constitution as established at the Revo lution. It fuss been foretold—and the prediction to our judgment is infallible—that the admission of Papists to the high places of our Government will bring into comparissit the conflicting titles of the House of Brunswick and the House of Savoy to the British Throne. We have oftener than o;ice adverted to this danger, but never had we a perception of it so clear and distinct as when we heard the other night Lord Holland attempt to reason the apprehension away, by arguments so shallow that he must have despised himself while he gave them utterance. It would be high treason, forsooth, to consider the re presentative of that House as the King of England, even if he were a Protestant. To be sure; and so it was high treason to dispute the right of James 11. io the Crown five minutea before he embarked for the Continent ; and so it was high treason a week or two afterwards to allow his right; and so it was high treason in certain parts of this island during the years 1713 and 1745 to recognize the right of King George; and so it was high treason in Paris during the hundred days to acknowledge the tight of the Bonrhons to the throne of France ; and so it is new high treason in some districts of South America to dispute the Dictatorship of Bolivar. But in what period of civil commotion has the law of high treason been any thing but a weapon in the hand of the party that happened for the moment to be tire more powerful ? Or what is the value to the law of high treason to avert civil commo tions, unlers the natural sense of right a nd the habitual feelings and predilections of a people are in usisori with it ? The objection of the friends of the House of Brunswick to the projected in vasion of the Constitution is not that it will imme diateiy annul the law of high treason, by which that family is protected in its regal inheritance against the claims of the House of Savoy or any other intruder, for they know es well as Lord H o ll an d that it will do no such thing. Their objection is, that it tee& to dissever the habitual sympathies, the conscientious convictions, the deep and permanent sense of right of the whole people from the provisions of that law, and that whenever this disunion is accomplished, the law of High Treason is utterly destitute of efficacy or value. Who can make any tussophistiested man believe that the descendant of James the First is rightly disinherited, on account of his ancestors having shown favour to Papists and to Popery, when the Monarch actually seated upon the Throne, which by tire natural law of succession ought to have been his, is called upon by law to show favenr to Papists and to Popery ? The idea is preposterous and re volting. The law conferring political power upon the Roman Catholics ought to be entitled, " An Act to expose the succession of the House of Bruns wick to chance and accident, to defeat tLe Act of Settlement, and to open a way for the speedy re storation of the descendant of James 11. of blessed memory, to his hereditary dominions."—Morning Post. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. QUEEN-SQUARE. George Sewell, alias George Greenwood, alias George Greensell, alias Black-eyed George, and Henry Perkins, ALA Bill Pitman, were brought before MARRIOTT and WHITE, Esqrs., charged with being the principals engaged in the robbery of !stamps at the Bull and Mouth inn in the month of September last. No evidence at all inculpating Perkins being adduced he was discharged ; and Sewell, after offering a defence on the grounds of alibi, which he could nut by evidence sus tain, was fully committed. SECOND EDITION. SUN OFFICE, Seven o'Clock. IMPERIAL PA RUAMENT THIS EVENING. HOUSE OF LORDS. The LORD CHANCELLOR did not take his seat till nearly 20 minutes past eight o'clock. Mr. Crater, from the Treasury, presentad an ac count of the circulation of all the Bank of England Notes under 51. The Earl of SHAFTESBURY moved that no private Bill be brought up after Wednesday, the 25th March, and that no Judges Report be received after Wednesday, the 29th of April. The Bishop of EXETER presented a petition from an individual, praying that the House would in their proceedings upon the Roman Catholic Ques tion. Keep in mind the essential principles of the Constitution of the country. The petition, on some irregularity having been pointed out by one of the olli2ers, was withdrawn. The Archbishop of CANTERBURY presenteda petition from the Archdeuconry and Diocese of Tuarn, and another from the Bishop and Clergy of some other Diocese in Ireland, against further concessions to the Rom I,n Catholics. The Duke of RICHMOND presented a petition from the inhabitants of the city of Chichester to the same effect. Lord BEXLEY presented n petition from 9,000 inhabitants of the city of Norwich, expressing what he conceived to be a pretty fair specimen of the sentiments of the people of England on the Roman Catholic Qnestior. The petition was against con cessions. The Noble Lord presented two other petitions from parishes in the country of Norfolk to the same effect. Lord LONGFORD presented a petition from the Protestant Dissenters in King's County against the Catholic claims, praying further suppression of the Catholic Association, and to revise the laws with respect to the forty shillings freeholders. Lord MOUNTCASHEL presented a petition from the Protestant Dissenters of the city of Cork, against further concessions. This petition was signed by many thousands of individuals. The Noble Lord had had the honour of presenting last year a similar petition. He stated then that he had heard of a disposition in the part of the Roman Catholics to publish the names of all who signed petitions of this nature in order that they might be held up as objects of attention. This threat had actually been put into execution for a great many of the petitioners had been inserted into the radical newspapers of that part of the county. This threat had heen renewed on the present occasion, otherwise this petition would have been signed by a still greater number. The Protes tants dare not speak their sentiments, but the Catholics were unrestrained in every respect. The Noble Lord had just returned from Ireland, and from what he had witnessed felt perfectly satisfied, that if the &aims of the Roman Catholics were now to be granted, instead of pacifying, it would only throw them into a wester state of agi,ation. It was not the mass of the people of Ireland who were to be benelitted by the measure now proposed —it was only to satisfy a set of political swindlers, and under these circumstances he was disposed to oppose Catholic Emancipation; he should, how ever, withhold his more detailed sentiments upon the subject until tht House was fully informed of the exact nature and extent of the measure about to be proposed. ' Lord CLARE presented a petion from the Vice Chencellor, Masters, and Scholars of the Universty and City of Oxford against further concessions to the Roman eatholics. This petition was to have been presented by the Chancellor of the University, but in consequence of that Noble Lord's indisposition the petition had been sent to him (Lord C.) The Lord Chancellor did not concur with the prayer of the petition, and whenever the House came to vote upon the subject, the Noble Lord as well as himself (Lord C.) would not fail to give their votes either in person or by proxy against the prayer. The Noble Lord, however, trusted that the utmost attention and respect would be paid to the petition, coming from the very respectable quarter front which it issued. Lord BEXLEY was sure that the Noble Lord who had just sat down would have added, :if he had been aware of tl►e fact, that this petition had been agreed ro by one of the most numerous Convo aations ever held in Oxford, and by a majority of about tm ee to one. Lord CLARE observed that he had certainly not been informed of this circumstance.—Adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS. Mr. RAINSFORD brought up certain returns from the Court of Chancery. Mr. CRAFER brought up certain papers from the Treasury. Mr. FITZGIBBON presented a petition from a parish in Limerick in favour of the Catholics, and another against the Sub-letting Act, and another against the Vestry Act. Mr. HANCOCK presented two petitions from places in the county of Westmeath, against the Catholic Claims. Mr. MOORE presented fourteen petitions against the Catholic Claims, which he stated were signed by upwards of 3,000 Protestant inhabitants of one of the smallest counties in Ireland. Colonel ROCEIFORD presented a petition from Ireland, against the Catholics. w. ii. ST. PAUL presented a similar petition, signed by 5,000 persons, inhabitants of Clifton, in the county of Stafford. Lord MELTOWN enquired if the petition was signed at a public meeting, Mr. S. PAUL replied in the affirmative. Mr. 11. WHITE presented a petition from three parishes in the county Dublin in favour of the Ca tholics, and one against th e S u bl e tti ng , and one against the Vestry Acts. Mr. O'NEILL gave notice that on monday next he should move that a list should be furnished to the House of all places in Great 131:itain, from whence petitions should be presented against Catho lic Emancipation, with an account of the limber of signatures to each, and also an account of the popu lation according to the last census of the places from whence those petitions were sent. i Sir JOH BECKETT presented a petition from Ilaslemere against the Catholic Claims. " — Mr. MALCOMBE presented a petition from the Mayor and Corporation of Bo s t o n against any fur ther concessions to the R oman C at holics. The lion. Membea said, when hi s Majesty's Ministers brought forward the proposed measure , h e s hould be ready to support the prayer o f t h e pet i t i o ners. Sir CHARLES HASTINGS was convinced . . . the great body of tke people were against cencession to the Roman Catholics. Every Member of that Nouse ought to state his opinion on this momentous question, he though it would, if carried, bring the greatest misery upon the oountry. Mr. HENRY MAXWELL, presented seven petitions from parishes in Ireland against the Catho lic Claims. Mr. BANKES presented a petition from Stock land in Dorsetshire, against the Catholic Claims, and a similar one from a parish in Somersetshire. Mr. BIRCH presented a petition from the Mayor and Corporation of Nottingham, in favour of Catholic Emancipation, and another of a similar nature from a Society of Protestant Dissenter, in the same place. Mr. DAWSON brought up returns from the Courts of Request and Public Charities. Mr. T. POTTER MACQUEEN gave notice that he should on a future day bring in a Bill to re peal so much of the Act relating to the Poor Laws, as regards obtaining a settlement by means of servitude. SUPPLY. On the mrtion of Mr. DAWSON the house re solved itself into a Committee of Supply. Several customary resolutions were agreed to, after which the House resumed, and the Report was ordered to be brought up to-morrow. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT (IRELAND). The House then resolved itself into a Committee upon the Salaries to the Commissioners of Insolvent Debtors. Mr. DAW SON moved that the Salaries of the Commissioners of Insolvent Debtors' In Ireland be paid out of the Consolidated Fund of Great Britain and Irelanl. The Resolution was agreed to, the House re sumed, and the Report was ordered to be received to-morrrow. Mr. LOCKHART presented a petition from the parish of St. Mariin's, Oxford, against any further concessions to the Catholics. The House then adjourned. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. NORWICH. Feb. 14. We are hut moderately supplied with good Wheat, yet we have a large show of inferior, fur which there its little demand ; the trade is in a very depressed state, and the sales are made at a reduction of Sc. to 4s. per quarter. Malting Barley is 3s. to 4s per quarter lower,, but grind ing- parcels are ready sale at a reduction of Is. per quarter. There is scarcely any alteration in the prices of other Grain, but the market altogether wears a heavy aspect. Flour is dull at a reduction of 2s. per sack. Wheat (per qr.) s2s. 70e. Ws. Beans (per qr.)......... 9'; s. Barley Oats Ms. 265. 48a. Finer, fine (per sack) 565. Ws. LONDON MARKETS. (From the London New Price Current of Tuesday.) SUGAR.—The request for Muscovades was not so general and extensive last week as during the preceding weeks, yet the actual purchases reached 2,500 hhds. and trs. There was a heaviness about the soft and low brown descriptions, and in some instances, prices a shade lower were submitted to. All sugars 58s. and upwards fully supported the previous currency ; they are still scarce. The stock is now 3,226 h h ds. and tn.. more than in 1828; the deliveries from the warehouses are increasing—they were 3,170 hhds. and trs. last week, being 529 more than the corresponding week of 1828. The market had a languid appearance this forenoon ; the pur chases this day are estimated at 800 Mids. and trs., including the Barbadoes public sale.—ln the Refined Market there were no supplies of goods of any ex tent. The grocers purchased on a limited scale, but apparently quite sufficient to take off all the goods as they are brought to market. The pur chases of • Lumps were limited, but they were so scarce that a further advance of Is. per cwt. in the prices must be stated.—Molasses were 6d. higher. —There is no alteration in the Refined Market this afternoon ; there is rather more demand for fine goods for home consumption. FOREIGN SUGARS.—The holders do not press sales; they anticipate an early arid extensive spring demand. There were no purchases of Foreign Sugars last week. EAST INDIA SUGARS —The only transactions last week were limited parcels of the late India sale Sugars at a premium of Is. WEST INDIA MOLASSES.--Several sales of Mo. lasses are reported, ordinary at 225. 6d., good at 235.; they consist chiefly of Demerara Molasses. COFFEE.—The Coffee Market continued languid and uninteresting till Friday, when 1,338 bags Cheribon and 140 bags Brazil were brought forward at public sale; nearly the whole scent off with brisk ness at prices about Is. higher than what had been obtained early in the week, good ord. pale Cheribon 40s. 6d. a 41s. 6d. good ord. Brazil 38s. 6d. a 395. The few parcels of British Plantation Coffee still last week went off at very full prices, Jamaica fine ord. 525. a 545. good ord. coloury, but very rank, 43.. a 445. The only public sale this forenoon con sisted of 80 packs Jamaica Coffee; the qualities were triage to mid. good ord. 41s. a 435., fine fine ord. 51s. a 565.; mid. 605.; the whole sold very high.-120 bags St. Domingo 40s. taken in. Rum, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDi.—The Rum Market continues heavy ; the few sales reported are small parcels for shipping at prices equal to 2s. 3d. a 2s. 4d. for proofs ; the only other sale is a parcel of 5 over, at about 2s.—Brandy is neglected, but the prices are not lower; small lots of the second marks of new have been sold off the quay at 2s. 6d. a 2s. 7d.—Geneva is without inquiry. HEMP, FLAX, AND TALLOW.—..The demand for Tallow early in last week rather improved, and the prices were firm, but the Market is again rather heavy.—ln Flax and Hemp there is little variation. The letters from St. Putersburgh, dated 30th ofh nuarv, state large sales of Tallow. Exchange a shade under I Id. F►turr.—The new arrivals of Currants and red Smyrna Raisins appear to have an unfavourable ef fect upon the Market notwithstanding the rorluction in the prices ; the former has in one instance been sold at 865., the sales of the latter are limited at about 425. A large sale of Valentia Raisins is re ported; the other descriptions are heavy. Corros.--The unfavourable reports from Liver pool and the manufacturing districts, occasioned a heavy market for Cotton last week. -The purchases up to last n►ght ►mtclusive are trivial, they consist of 860 Surat at 3id. tt 4id; .50 Bowed at Gid.; 20 Madras at 2d. TOBACCO.—There are few sales to report on 4e count of the uncertainty as to the HOW duty. The interviews between Ministers and the Tobacco Trade have elicited no information on the subject of the new duty. SALTPETRE.—The prices have given way a a Is. since the last India House sale. latstt PRovistoNs.—ln Irish Provisions there are no alterations worth reporting. The arrivals of Butters last week are 8,b96 firkins Irish, and 10 casks Foreign. The arrivals of Bacon 3,371 bales. EAST INDIA SALE, THIS DAY.—Eighty chests Tortoiseshell, fine dark mottle 61s. a 655., good sark and red 445. Gd. a 465. 6d,, fair red 40s. Gd. a 425., more mixed and thin shell 31s. 6d. a 365., pickings 14a. a 215.; 75 Elephant Teeth, ones and twos, 241. 10s. a 261.; 15,000 bdls. Rattans, mostly soft bark Is. 4d. a 25.; 10 tons Ebony Wood I Is. 6d. a 125.; 380 slabs Tin 745. RtcE.--The only sale of any consequence 13 4 parcel of mid. white Bengal Rive ut 1 mss. SPICES.—By public sale on Friday, 453 bags Bourbon Cloves, good, 14d., bought in ; 20 casks Nutmegs, fair ungarbled, 3s. 2d. a 3s. 3d. ; 912 bags Black Pepper, 3d. and lid. fair unsilled. contiatte firm at the late improve, ment, Seed Oils continue advancing ; INDIGO.—There is no alteration in the demand or in the prices of Indigo. TURPENTlNE.—Turpentine continues to be in quired for at prices fully maintaining the late ad- TEA... in large chests have become scarce at the advance of Id. on sale cost; there is more do ing in Congous, but Twankay: and Ilysons are much neglected. The Sale of Drugs, &c. at the East India House, finished on Friday.-330 chests Camphor, good, taxed at 71. taken in 61. 18s. a 71.; 111 tubs ditto, Dutch sort, good 7!. 7a., common 71. 35.; 18 chests Gum Assafeetida, middling 475. a 525.; or dinary 20s. a 405.; 107 chests Gum Arabic, good 555. a 685., middling 505., ordinary and blocks 40s. a 425.; 55 chests Gum Animi, large BIRTHS. On the 16th inst. the lady of S. D. WORD.; ER. Of Sussex-place, Regent's-park, of a son. On thy 16th inst. in Clarence-terrace, Regeu4 l / 4 , 7 04* the lady of Charles Alarryat, Esq. of a daughteF, On the Ist inst. at I) , ilguog, Montgomposhire, the ladY of the Bev. IL M. 13unnor, of a daughter, size 11/. 55., middling el. Ma. a 10/., gtnallBos. a 81s., pickings 875.; 210 chests Gum Olibanum, fine and good 973. a 1075., ordinary. 475. a 515., siftings 35c. a 415., ditto in blocks 27.. a 365.; 20 chests Gum Gamboge, fine and good 251. a 251. ss. middling 231. a 24/..55., middling and ordinary 201. 15s. a 211., ordinary 17/. 10s. a 17/. 15s. • 205 sacks 1 chest Gum Dragon's Blo o d, ordinary Is. good in reeds 29/. is.; 255 chest Gum Sheilac, Orange, good 93e. a 94e., middling BSiku- es 925., ordinary 82s. a 875., blocks 84s. a 8.55., liver colour, good and mid. 81s.; 28 chests Borax, dusty 665. a 68s. ; 399 sacks Cubebs, pretty good, taxed at 5/. I9s. unsold; 405 sacks Nux Vomica, ss. a ss. 6d.; 134 sacks Coculus Indicus, good 355. a 375. ; 3 chests Cardemoms, Malabar, brownish 9s. Bd.; 773 duppers 36 packs Castor Oil, middling to good quality Is. sd. a Is. 6d., cloudy Is. a Is. Id.; 60 canisters Oil of Aniseed, good 6fd a 7d.; 165 sacks Galls, blue 78s. a 795., white 70s a 745.; 166 bales Safflower, middling aud good middling 61. 15e. a 71. 4s. MINING INTBLLIGI3NCE.—SaIes ut Redruth last week.—Quantity of Copper Ore sold, 3,214 tone; average produce 71. Quantity of fine Copper 234 tons 2 cwt. Amount of sale, 16,350/. 16a. Ave rage standard, 1071. 10s. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE WEEK. Wheat. Bailey. s. to s. 11. to s. 35 36 SO 24 24 31 23 82 80 37 46 34 ES 87 30 37 5.6 67 60 72 60 63 50 66 64 72 6.i 84 68 80 Per Quarter. Boston Gainsborougli Grantb.tin Grimsby liorneastle—. Lincoln Spilsby — Stamford York S. tO B. 97 - - 44 42 se 36 38 12 40 44 30 42 27 44 38 ad CANTERBURI. Fel,. 14. We had a good supply of all kinds of Grain upon our market this day, but we bad such a slow demand, that we can only state our quotations nominally, for had sales been forced they must have been made at considerable re duction in prism. Wheat, white oBs. to ;85....... 01d...—. —B. to—s. -- rod 60g. to G 5........ Old —s. to ....e. Intarley, Matting 3Se. to 425. Oata Beans 26s. to 33a. Pease 3'is. to mis. C EINTUR.•—•WiI eat, per '7.11b. 1 Is. 3d. to 115.A1.; Batley, 243 qrts 6s. 3d. to ew. 6d. ; Oats, 4.91 b. 3,. 6d. to 4s. Od. NANTWICII.—Wheitt, per 'MTh. 12s. ltd. to 12s. 6d.; Barley. 38 qrts. 6s. Yd. to 6s. 6d.; Oats. St4l). 4s. 3d. to 4s. 9d. .KETS.—Feb. 13. Wheat (bushe.) 108.01 Ils CL 4 4 —•5 Oats Y b —9 Beans 11,.tter (lb) 1 2—l b Eggs (14) U 0 —1 0 , Potatoes (peck) OlO —1 U DUBLIN MARKET NOT io 13. EXETER 11AI Beeftscore) 9s 9.. 6.1. Nutton (lb) 0 6 —0 6 Veal and I Bulb 0 0 —0 0 rk 0 6 —0 7 GeCie (eat h l Y 6 —6 0 Ducks (coup e) 0 —5 6 Fowls 3 0 —4 6 'E.—Fs. Feb. From To 1,851 Wheatoier barrel '2O stone 21) 0 30 0 383 Item— ltS stone 13 0 16 0 435 Harley. l6 stone 14 0 20 0 4,519 Oats— 14 stone 9 U 20 0 7,8714 Cwt. Flour 1) atone 6 0 30 0 471 Oatmeal 11 stone 13 0 19 0 Sold to Uakera only. 5,322 Cwt. Flour Average price of Wheat and Flour 584. 4d. per sack. Receipts or Flour, 15,a45Firsts, irons 28a. Od. to 90s. Od. Seconds awn 17s. 04 . to Yee. Od_ !isles of 1)0. 7,e751 from 6,. Odd. to It3s. Oil. M. P. 33 13 I,lli 17 3 10 10U b 14 PRICE OF BREAD. Quartern Loaf, 41b. Half-quutero, 2111. 20z.......54 GLASGOW MARKETS. (From Ow Glasgow Ilsrald of Monday.) Two cargoes of Demerara SUGARS recently im ported were brought to market this week, and there has been a considerable revival in the demand, and those parcels suitable for the scale were bought up with avidity; Middling and the better descriptions at an advance of Is. 6d.; good new Brown; Is.; lat terly old and new soft and moist Browns sold rather lower, the supply of that description being abuudant. The sales amount to 700 Mids. and tierces. Two public sales of 50 tierces Jamaica, and 10 tierces and 50 bags Demerara CoFPRE, were brought forward to-day ; only two small lots of Ordinary Ja maica were sold at 415., the other part withdrawn for want of bidders; 50 bags of Demerara were taken by the Grocers, Middling at 60s. a 705.; the tierces being ordinary and not dean, were not sold. Nothing done in PIIIENTO or GINGER. No sales made iu Rum; Jamaica 16 O.P. is held at 3s. sd. a 3s. 6d., and Leewards 2s. a 2a. Id. for proofs. The demand for COTTON still continues steady; the sales of the week amount to 1,248 packages, and prices are without alteration. The particulars are, 602 Bowed Georgia at 6/d. a 61d.; 99 Or leans at 7d. a 7141.; 10 Pernambuco at Bd.; 233 Egyptian, lid. a Bd.; 94 Demerara and Berbice, 7id.; 60 Porto Rico, Old.; 17 West India, 60.; 143 Surat, 4id. a 4id. In DYEWOODS there has been nothing done. The sales made in ASIIKS are 150 barrels of New Pot at 345. ; 60 barrels, brand 1827, at 335., and 50 barrels New Pearls at 31s. For TonAcco there has been a fair demand Rt Ode a 7d. for good and fine leaf, and Bd. a Sid, for good and fine strips. Yellow Candle TALLOW is selling steadily in mall parcels to consumers, at 425. 6d. a 435. In Fish Oils there is little doing; the partial sales made in Whale, 231.; Cod, 211.; and Pale Seal, 231. 10s. a '241. per tun old measure. The supplies of GRAIN from Ireland and the East' Coast have been very ample this week. The sales made in Wheat have been limited, at declining prices. Prime Oats have been in fair dP' mand, at lower rates; while other qualitiq Ala been quite unsaleable. The Barley 44de has Leo; in a very depressed state; and latterly, in copse , quence of the unfavourable accounts received of the English markets, the reduction in the prices of Wheat, Barley, and Oats may be stated at nearly 25., and on Oats and Pease Is. per boll. MARRIED. On the 17th inst. at St. George's, Hanover-square , Lieutenant-Ci.lonel Fremantle, Coldstream Guards, t°, Agnes, third daughter of the late David Lyon, Esq. 0 Portland-place. On the 16th inst. at Willesden Church, Mr. H. l'• Tamplin, of Brighton, ti Honuah, eide,3 daughter of Mr. Anderooq ; pf Mgpoilmry-ho;is2, Middlesex. DIED. On the 16th of October, at Bombay, Lucretia, wide/ of the late Sir Edward West, Chief Justice of Bombay' and youngest daughter of the late Sir Martin Folkca, Hillington-hall, in the county of Norfolk. On the 15th inst. at his reliqpria 1,1 /kurietta.streetl, Cayrndish-square, thp B. Abel Wainewright, LL.B. 0 ' Trinity-hall, Cambridge, On'tlie 15th Met. in the 83t1 year of his age, 4140 3 Newman, Esq. of Belmont, Dartmouth. On the 13th inst. at his residence in Surrey-square, Or' , Roger Devey, aged 75. On the 17th inst. in Bloomsbury-place., Arthur Whit'• more, Esq. aged 26. On the 14th inst. at his residence at Bognor, C19;40 _Edward Wilsonn, Esq. aged 77. On the 14th inst. at Worcester-cottage, Clifton, WII P Henry Jackson, infant son of George Watts, Esq. On the 15th inst. at her house in Alfl-ed-place, Debary, relict of Richard Debary, Esq. late of Lincoln's' On the 15th inst. Thomas 13urilon, Esq. of the Wei ware-road, eldest son of the late Sir Thomas liurdon, ° West Jesmond, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. PaINTGD and PUELISIIED by 31URDO YOUNG, at 0 / Sub/ OFFica, 112, STUA 2411, UNIDON. s. to e. 14 23 16 97 12 24 16 24 20 26 16 21 19 93 29 28