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echo had been, hilt officO and out of it, nto.:it de votcd in his eagernes, tool niost distinguished . 11/ his splendid and powerful el opt. -net tl.to of that great cause, sitouldririsatifity ironted—there luing,•.; t„Lehtfty, or disability implied. ;A \ - 9in if penalty or disability could he implied, which sney lawyer must deny, yet there 15 not any kind of tic ilitity for any such itnplieation—not the least. x i call upon you to observe there distinctions and diffe ences'lntween the 22d article of the Scotch Union, and --' the lith article of the Irish Union. enemies of the British const First—The Scotch article refeired to, and recited by titheind dates, the 30th Charles 11., "ithri Ist And Maly. The Irish Union article does not refer to, or recite any of them. Second—The Scotch article trre-:ted the oaths to he taken at the time mentioned in those Statutes. The Irish article does not say one word to re. , ,illate or to limit the time. Third—The Scotch article directed the oaths to be taken in the manner contained in the acts to which it expressly refers. The Irish article does not say one wind of the manner of taking- the oaths. Fourth--The Scotch article de ilared that the oaths :should be taken upon the penalties mentioned in the sta tutes which it recited. • The Irish article is totally silent as to penalties. Fifth—The Scotch article declared that the oath~ sh ou ld be taken upon the disabilities mentiomal in the statutes which it recited. The Irish article is totally silent as to With these marked and most important. differences, is it possible that any person who will take the trouble to con sider the subject, should arrive at this preposterous conclu sion—" That the Scotch article and Irish article enact and mean the same thing?" , And if that cannot he said, the question is at once decided in my favour. It is indeed as clear as the sun at noon-day, that the watute law, since the Irish Union, stands thus There is a statutory direction to every Member of the House of Commons to take the oaths, hut there is no time limited tOr taking them ; there is no place appointed for taking; them in ; there is no tribunal appointed to administer them ; there is no penalty tir not taking them j there is ' no disability incurred by refusing to take them. As there is no time limited by the statute law for tithing the oaths, the House of Commons, if it were to require tile to take them before I could sit or vote, would be guilty of a mani&sst injustice to me, and of an usurpation of iTislative functions. It would make the vote of the House equivalent to an Act of Parliament. As there is no place or manner of taking the oaths pre scribed by the statute, the House of Commons would b e in volved in a similar double guilt, if it were to dictate the manner of taking these oaths; beside.s it could not, with out the most gross violation of the constitution, command me to take the oaths before the House itself. The House has no power to tender or administer these or any ether oaths. judgment of Catholic emancipation. It seems clear that i was nn this account he purposely omitted to enact any pains, penalties, disabilities, or intleiturcs for omitting to take the obnoxious oaths. But the other two objectionn to - the exercise by the House of Commons of nit adverse en ntnary decision in my case, are still mote irresistible. The statute inflicts no penalty ; the House of Commons cannot possibly create one. The statute inflicts no disability ; the House of Commons eaunot possibly create a disability. not anticipate that my rights will be trampled on lay the House of Commons, but, without intending offence, I may be permitted to say, that if they shall he so, then the rights nut only of the people, but of the House of Lords, will be equally trampled upon ; and it is not all these rights alone, but the prerogatives of the King will he equally trodden under foot. Because, should Ibe ex cluded by a vote of the House of Cemmons, then, in my in stance, the House of Commons will have usurped Legis lative authority, and by its simple vote will have enacted penalties and disabilities of the most grievous nature. I am of course bound not to anticipate any such result, and to entertain the confident expectation, that as the Legislature has not enacted any penalty or disability fur a refusal to take the oaths, so no one branch'of that Lcgisls tttre will assume the functions that belong exclusively to the entire, and create, by its vote, a disability of the most Important nature. It may, however, be alleged, that as the statute directs the oaths to be taken, it is a misdemeanour and indictable., on ouch, to neglect taking them. To which I reply, that even if it were so, that is no reason why I should be ex cluded from sitting and voting in the House of Commons. But, in truth, no indictment could be sustained against tne, because, in the first place, the time for taking the oaths hot being defined or limited by the statute, I have all the time I continue a member to take the, oath before any in dictment could be preferred. I must have ceased to be a member before any indictment can be framed, and even then the annual indemnity act would protect me. But, in the second place, no particular manner of taking the path" is pointed out by the Irish Union statute; and if the indictment were for not taking the oaths within the House of Commons, the indictment would be liable to a demurrer, and could never be sustained in point of law. On the contrary, so far from any Member of the House of Commons being indictable, since the Irish Union, for not taking the oaths at the table in the House, it may, perhaps, he said, that the officer who administers these oaths is not quite free from legal responsibility for doing so without any legal authority. This, then, is the short history of the law respecting these oaths. None of these oaths were, or could have been, taken in the House of Commons until the 30th of Charles IL From that period, until the Scotch Union any Member of the English House of Commons who refused or neglected to take these oaths, incurred, by a positive Sta tute, a disability to sit or vote in the English Legislature. From the Scotch to the Irish Union, any Member of the British House of Commons who refused or neglected to take these oaths in the House, incurred, by positive Sta tute, a disability to sit or vote in the British House of Commons. This advantage we have gained by the Union, as a mi.. scrahle consolation fin• the destitution or our national insti- tutions, and the desolation of our country. Is this solitary advantage to be taken away from us, and the Union only to he observed where it presses upon Catholic Ireland, and to he violated with impunity where it proves beneficial? The law, and the intention of the framers of the law, are both with me. It is difficult, if not impossible, to imagine that Mr. Pitt and Lord Castlereagh could have accidentally omitted in the Irish Union Act all reference to penalties or disabilities. This accident would have been still m-re strange when it is recollected that the fourth article of the Irish Union is manifestly a transcript of the greater part of the 22d artie!e of the Scotch Union. - The latter must have been before the eyes of those who drew nut the former. The inference of design and intention in the omission semis, therefore, irresistil,le. I call upon you, respectfully and earnestly, to give yolll' p !tient and deliberate attention to this subject. It requires an honest and an earnest attention from men who are net professional lawyers, to unravel the jargon of our statute law, and to get rid of the prejudices arising from preconceived opinion. I am not at all surprised that such prejudice should exist and that when first I asserted the right of a Catholic to sit and vote in Parliament, I should have been met by an al most universal disbelief. I acknowledge that I myself en • tertained similar prejudices until the events connected with the electii•n for Citre compelled me to examine deliberately the statute law in this respect, and enabled me to perceive, as others had done before me, that Mr. Pitt was perfectly sincere in the determination which he avowed, to consum mate the Irish Union by admitting the Catholics to all the benefits of the British Constitution, and that he had pre pared the articles of the Irish Union with perfect good filth to achieve our emancipation. What a multitude of turmoils, dissensi ins, crimes, and Miseries, would Ileland have escaped, and what an im mense saving of expenditure, and increase of consumption of her manufactures, would have accrued to England for the last 28 years, had Mr. Pitt been permitted to carry his plan into full execution, and to emancipate the Catholics of every rank and station, as he promised at the Union. You will have perceived that my right to sit and vote in Parliament is established by this short summary— __ First—That there is flaking in the common law to ;akc away or infringe on that right. Second—That the statutes of sth Elizabeth and 7th James, whit 11 required oaths of allegiance and supremacy to he taken in the Lord Steward's office, are, in that respect, repealed by the statute Ist William and Mary. Third—That penalties and disabilities created by the statutes :30th Charles H., and Ist William and Mary, were applicable to the English Parliament only. Fourth—That the penalties and disabilities in these statutes were expressly applied, and continued to be appli cable to the British Parliament, by the 22d article of the Union with Scotland, Fifth—That none of the penalties or disabilities in From the Irish Union to the present period no Member of the United Parliament incurs, by refusing or neglecting to take these oaths, any disability whatever; there being, since the Irish Union, no statute of force creating any dis ability on that account in any Member of Parliament. I conclude my observations on this point by again im ploring the Members of the House of Commons to bear in mind, that penal and disabling Statute are to be construed strictly—that they cannot be extended by construction or implication—that " words" cannot be added to them— that doubtful words in them are to be construed favourably —and that no affirmative words take away a vested right. I desire and expect to get the benefit of the law. I should here close this letter if I had not been informed by a gentleman of much respectability, that some influen tial persons in the House, in discussing the questions re specting my rights, had distinctly admitted, and I believe the Speaker himself was present at the tine, that my right to sit and vote was quite clear upon the Irish Union Act, and could not be disputed, if there had not been t subse quent statute on the sithject, That statute was said to be the 41st Geo. 111. cap. 52, and the section alleged to be applied to my case is the second section. I deem it to be of the easiest imaginable proof to demon strate that the 41st Geo. 111. cap. 52, does not, and cannot, affect this question. There is not one word in this statute relative to oaths ur declarations—not one word. It is expressly an Act to • carry into effect another and a different part of the fourth section of the Irish Union Act. It is in its nature a penal and disabling Act, to be construed by the rules already, perhaps, too often laid down. Tl,•e statute 41st George 111. cap. 52 does not, touch this case at all—it relates to incapacities created by certain employments and offices, rendering the party incapable of being elected if the employments or effices were held prior to the election, and creating a forfeiture of the scat if they were obtained after the election. This is so plain to any man who reads the statute dispassionately, that it would be a waste of words to dilate on it. But the matter will be put beyon,l a doubt by one simple view of the subject ; it is this—attend to it, I pray. The second section enacts, " That all persons dis a bl e d f rom , or incapable of, being elected, or sitting and voting in the Rouge o f Commons of Ireland, should be disabled from, and incapable of, being elected or sitting and voting in the Houle of Commons of the Parliament of the United these statutes were applied tn, nr continued for, the United Kingdom Parliament, by the fourth article of the Irish Union. Sixth—That neither the time nor manner of taking the oaths in the English statutes is enacted by the Irish Union statutes, or is now any portion of the law of the United Kingdom Parliament. Seventh—That the statute of the 41st of George III„ cap. 52, does not and cannot apply to the oaths and decla rations, because (amongst many other reasons) if it did so apply, it woubl now be utterly impossible for any Irish Member to avoid being disabled to sit and vote. I conclude this abstract with repeating this one intik putzble maxim of constitutional law—that to create pe nalties or di,abiliti,s there must. be a positive and express law. They cannot be created by conjecture, guess, or implication. Recollect, gentlemen, that I incur a fearful reaponsibi- lity if I take my scat under an erroneous opinion ot• right. I forfeit 500/. every day—l become an outlaw, incapable of toiltling any office of power or trust—of suing at law or in equity—of accepting any legacy or gift—of being exe cutor or administrator, or of being guardian ever. to my own children. With the numlier of malignant enemies which have been created for me by my career of honest, fearless, disinte rested, and indefatigable exertions in the sacred cause of liberty of conscienee—with such a host of enemies, I niust be deeply impres ,, ed by the conviction that I am right in point of law, else I should be mad, or worse than mad, to ►un the risk of taking my seat. If it be intended to try the question fairly, let an action be brought against me for a penalty of 500/. I will plead at once to issue either in law or in fact. The opinion of the Court of King's Bench, and, if desirable, of the House of Loris, can thus be had on the Irish Union Act; if, iode,d, a serious doubt can exist on that subject in the mine of any lawyer, who knows that, without express enact nrzut, penalties or disabilities cannot be created. 1 have been fairly and freely elected, and chosen by the trveholders of the county of Clare. No Member of the Ilcuse of Commons has, or indeed can have, a better title than I have, to insist on the validity of his election as a representative of the people. I ;Am a representative of the Irish people calling for the observance of the treaty of the Union, and the benefit of the existing law. 'there is, I know, enough of strength and of power to deprive me of the stipulations of the one, and the advan tage of the other. But the eye of the nations of Europe and of the world is on this contest. What do I contend for? - It is to free Protestant and Catholic front the burden of abominable oaths. You swear Kingdom." You will remark at the first view of this clause, that the disability and. incapacity to he elected can have - nothing to do with a disability created after due election, by a refusal to take certain oaths. This affords a clue to the right construction of the statute in that strict and limited sense . in which it must, in point of law, be construed. But I "wave every thing else to come to a single, and jou will see, conclusive point.- It is this : that the Pope has not, and o ug ht no t, t o h ave any spirituul. authority inthis country. How can you swear so? That you should swear the Pope ought not to have spiritual authority in this realm is quite consistent with your opinions. You deny the right, and you swear to the denial of the right. • But then you also deny the fact, and yet you know that the fact exists. The existence of the fart is as clear as the sun rt noon day—nay more. You make an annu grant of money to educate clergymen for the maintenance and support of that very spiritual authority which you, on your oaths, deny to exist at all. We, the Catholics, have been most falsely calumniated when a disregard to the sacred obligations of an oath has been attributed to us. Conceding, for the sake of argument, that the disability mentioned in this -section is a disability created by a ne glect to take the qualification oaths ; then this comfortable conclusion inevitably follows,—that every single member' from Ireland is disabled to sit or vote in the present Par liament. Because, before the Union, every member of the Irish House of Commons incurred a disability to speak or vote, and forfeited his teat,. unless he took the oaths in the Irish House of Commons in the presence of the lrisli• Speaker and of at leas; 40 members sitting in the Irish House of Commons. The taking the oaths alone would not do ; the taking them in the presence of the Speaker of the English or of the British House of Commons would not suffice to pre- We are, and have been, excluded from the full enjoyment of the Constitution by no other means than by our conscien tion, respect for that sacred obligation. But may Ibe per mitted to exclaim, great and good God l how inscrutable ) OW( 'f tly{' c 6 "ntrY4o. of Commons from LVre rr :;till co ns iqe,turciture of his seat. An Irish member might have taken the oaths one bun died times before all the judges and magistrates in both countries : he might have taken them one hundred times before the Speaker of the British House of Gommens, and in a full British Parliament. All was quite unavailing. Ile must have taken them in the presence of the Speaker of the Irish House of eurnmon4 in a full House : other wise he wait disabled to sit or vote. • If this section, therefore, applies to the oaths, then ever}- Irish Member most revive the It ish House of Com mons, cril up the Irish Speaker, and 40 Irish Members, and take the oaths in their presence; otherwise he is ine vitalily disabled from sitting or voting in the Parbatumt of the United Kingdom. See whit a glaring absurdity would follow from con struing the llat of George 111. to apply to the pialifica tian. If that be so, every Irish Member returned to the House of Commons since 1801, has been a stranger in the House without tight to sit or vote! ! ! I need not. dwell on this topic. It proves, beyond a posaihility of doubt, that the 41st George 111. cap. 52, cannot apply to this species of disability, and that the statute relates only to those incapacities which are personal to the intlividnaN come within their range, and render them ineligible if existing prior to election. I also wave, for the present, the objection which has tern powerfully urged to the validity of the statute of the 3d William and Mary, cap. 2, as a law binding the Irish nation. I reserve to myself the power hereafter of insist ing on that very powerful and interesting objection. I confine myself for the present, to this—that if every Irish Member who With diSailled to sit and vote in the Irish House of Commons be di-abled to sit and vote in the pre sent Pat liament, then there is not one single Irish Member capable of sitting and voting. Not one of them could sit or vote in tie Irish House, because not one of them has taken the oaths or made the declaration in a fill House of the Irish Patliament, with the Speaker in the Chair, aceording to the terms of the 3d William and Mary, cap. You must, therefore, totally disembarrass the case of the 41st George 111., cap. b 2, and take it upon the Union Act. The Union Act was one now admitted universally in Ireland to have been most pernicious to that country. It ivls intended by its framers to have been thp, harbinger religions peac e . Mr. Pitt was quite sincere in his intention of crin-' summating the measure by an equalization of civil rights to all his Majesty's subjects in Ireland. He framed the Articles of the Union candidly and sincerely with that view, nod to facilitate the future, and, as he thought, the then approaching- definitive arrangements for the final ad- COLOSSEUM. 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HAMBURGII, FEB. 3.-An event of no extraordinary importance is at present occupying the attention of the poli tical and mercantile world in St. Petersburgh, but which has as yet not been mentioned by any of the continental papers. The first paper that will venture to notice it will probably be the Allgemeine Zeitung, or, as the French call it, the Gnzette d'Angsburgh ; this paper ventures to say more than any of the other German papers, though manyhave encreased amazingly in the boldness with which they speak of the Russian government since the brilliant achievements of the lite campaign. But to the point. You must know that the St. Pe tereburgh Commercial Bank, a government establish ment, placed under the immediate influence of the Mi nister of Finance, has of Lite liMited its discounts to such an went, that the quantity of paper now taken, scarcely amounts to the third of what it formerly was. It has been also observed that since this alteration in the system. of carrying on business has taken place, the Bank shows a decided preference to native over foreign mer chants. The consequence, as you may well imagine, has been, that many merchants arc considerably embarrassed how to get their bills cashed ; and though first-rate houses .will be but little affected by it, many that have hitherto borne a very respectable character, will probably become embarrassed. Discount has already risen to from nine to ten per cent. for first-rate bills ; those of a secondary cha racter Icing unnegociable. The cause of all this, it is whispered about (for let him beware o f t h e st.retereburgh police, who should venture = - to speak it out aloud), is, that the Bank of St...,pctera-tdiffergt,parts orSt\oh a;t ; as also Tor - a naore extensive burgh has found out another way of employing'its *nd mote respectable fortifica ion of }Tango-il'ilde, a pro or in othir'words that th e R u ssian Government have been montory situated between the .Baltic and the Bay of Both- Siephensonizing it, by Applying the funds confided to them to their own immediate wants, so that the sudden liMitation of the commercial transactions of the Bank would be owing to their temporary want of capital. It is impossible to have positive proof that the Russian Government have really been guilty of so frauduhmt a pro ceeding, and the fact will therefore be stoutly denied, but here the truth of tie report is most firmly believed. The people who have deposited their money in the St. Petersburgh Bank, are not, however, the only part of the Emperor's subjects that are at present dissatisfied. The province of Finland is in a state of great ferment, and it has in consequence been thought advisable that the Em peror should visit that part of his dominions in person, in the hope that the light of his Majesty's gracious countenance mill dispel' erety cloud from the angry brows of the Fin landers. When Finland was united to Russia, certain privileges were conceded to the province, which, if loyally executed, would secure to the province many of the characters of a constitutional Government. One of these privileges is, that Fin!and shall not be called on to support, either with money or nice, any of the wars into which the mad ambi tion of her Govet nment may chance to plunge the Russian empire. Since, however, the war with Turkey has turned out so much more arduous a struggle than was at first ex pected, Gel-aliment have determinod to do their utmost to make every part of the empire bear the burthen, and Finland among the rest, which province has been ordered to furnish and maintain 20.000 men fur the next campaign. The discussion is at its height at the present moment; the meeting of a Finnish Diet is spoken of, and the Emperor, it is expected, will go to open it in person. You inserted some time ago in your paper a letter from Stockholm, in which the debate occasioned by a proposal to render public the discussions of the Order of Nobles was alluded to. The motion seems likely to be attended with a beneficial result, for the Committee appointed to consider the question have returned a favourable report, recommending that eighty places he arranged for the ac commodation of strangers, and that distinct places be set amble for the reporteni to the public press. The Order'of Peasants have already thrown open their doors to the public. Dutch Papers, of the 7th inst., received this morning, are perfectly destitute of any news to inte rest an English reader. German Papers, of the 2d February, have been received, but they contain no news. - The only thing in the French Papers, worthy of !twice is the disappearance of a Mr. C., an Ex-- change Broker, almost all whose employers are said to reside in the noble suburb, where he had even met with a young and rich wife, whose marriage portion is said to be in great danger. Among his debtors, are mentioned a Duke, a Marquis, a Vis count, and a Countess, for sums of four, six, eight, and fifteen hundred thousand franca; and among his creditors a Mr. M., for eleven hundred thousand francs, if we may believe reports. Mr. C. met with no difficulty in settling his monthly accounts, so long as he had only to pay to his employers the pro fits of his operations, but his noble friends are said to have turned a (leaf ear when they were called upon to pay the differences, and Mr. C. is reported to leave a deficit of five millions. It is affirmed, that at the close of the Exchange Mr. C. had not withdrawn himself, and'that assurances had already been given that the creditors might reckon upon 40 per cent. FRENCH Trumns.—Fire per Cents., 1091. 50c. 75c- ; Three per Cents., 761. 25c. 50c. ; Royal Bonds, 3i ; Bank Actions, 1807 f. 50c. FOREIGN Furrns.—Neapolitan Rentes, Cert. Falc.,Bof. 25c. 35c. ; Royal Spanish Loan, 773 ff. ; Interminable Spanish Annuities, 471 V. ; Haytian Loan, 4801. 490 f. New York Papers, to the 9th of January, have been received, but they are destitute of any news of importance. The wife of General JACKSON died on the 22d of December, ut Northville : so that the General's joy on his accession to the Presidency will be much damped by his domestic calamity. Dia. The formation of several additional regiments of marines, and the early convocation of a diet, are also spoken of in those letters. STOCKHOLM, JAN. 23. During the night between the 20th and 21st her Rnyal Highness the Crown Princess was happily delivered of a son, who is to be baptised by the name of Oscar. St. Pctcrsburgh Journals of the 24th January, contain some accounts from the Caucasus of the operations of General EMMANUEL, in reducing the refractory tribes in that quarter. His Iklajesty, the Emperor NICHOLAS, has ap proved a decision of the Council of die Empire, by which the silver ruble is to be valued, during the year 1829, at three rubles 60 copecs bank assignats, in levying the duties of customs,' . as well in the commerce of Europe as of Asia. Brussels Papers to the 7th inst. state that an exchange of prisoners is about to take place between the Russians and Turks. The Russians have 10,000 prisoners, while the Turks haVe only 6,000. It. is re ported that the POPE intends to visit Germany, for the recovery of his health, at the end of April, and that his physicians hare advised the waters of Carls bad or Bohemia. According to accounts from the Danube, under date of January 26, the troops in Bessarabia are already in motion, and prepared, at least part of them, to pass the Froth, and even the Danube, at the first notice, if the Turks shoritd : attempt . either to invade the Pi incipalities or toattack the Rus sians in Bulgaria, which seems to be quite out of the question. For the next two months the navigation of the Black Sea not be so safe as to ensure a supply of provisions to Varna and the other places held by the Russians, but lit may be presumed that they have provisions enough to support the garrisons till April. Should it be necessary to send reinforce ments, supplies may be sent by land, as the ground being hard frozen in January and February, will bear the heaviest burden.:. The magazines in Bes sarabia are completely stored, so that they could subsist an army of 200,000 men for eight months. THE FUNDS.--(THIS DAY.) CITY, Tirßtri? o' CLoer. Little speculation seems to be going on in the , Stock Exchange, and Consols, which opened at 874 !, remained, for the two first hours of business, without the slightest alteration, but within these few minutes the market has taken a turn for the worse, and they are now 874 4 . , loth for money and time. India Bonds are 63 5 pm. ; and Exchequer Bills, 65 6 pm. Scarcely- any business has taken place in the Foreign Funds. The intelligence of a revolution in Buenos Ayres, although not attended with any disastrous result, but in the mind of many persons may be beneficial, bringing for ward men of influence in that State, has for a moment depressed the stock from 41 to 38 40 ; Brazilian, 62! 3 ; Portuguese, 504 1 ; Peruvian Bonds seem to be going down, and are 12 14 , ; Russian, 974 8. Shares are almost a dead letter; Imperial Brazilian Mines are, however, quoted at 36 S pm. Three per Cent. Consols, 874. 4, Ditto, for Account, 87i 4 ; India Stock, 236 8 ; Bank Stock, 211 12 ; India Bonds, 63 5 pm. ; Exchequer Bills, 65 6 pm. • Iroaxfox.—Brazilian, 624 3 ; Buenos Ayres, 38 40 ; Chilian, 22 ; Colombian, 19 4 ; Danish, 614 4 ; French. Five per Cent., 1094 104; Three per Cent., 764 ; Greek, 144 154; Mexican, Five per Cent., 22 3 ; Ditto, Six per Cent., 284 9 ; Peruvian, 12 14 ; Portuguese, 504 1 ; Russian, 974 8 ; Spanish, 9 4. Alitsrs.—Auelo Mexican, 824 dto dis. ; Brazilian, 36 8 Bolanos, 60 70 pm. ; Colombian, 19 18 dis. ; Real Del Monte, 140 per share ; United Alexican, 294 84 dia. Accounts from Buenos Ayres of the sth De cember state a revolution in the Government of that Republic took place on the ht. The old Governor RIVADAVIA was reinstated in his power. The affair was managed by the troops from the Banda Oriental, and quietly effected without any bloodshed. Public opinion was in favour of the change. TW 0 O'CLOCK. Consols are 87a , 1- for money, and 87i the price for ac count, with few transactions. THREE O'CLOCK. Consols. 87i1 THE SUN NEWSPAPER EXPRESS. (From the Leeds lutelligencer Extraordinary !! !) " EXPRESS FROM LONDON. It is said that M. de MORTEMART i 3 about to set out for St. Petersburgh, and that Prince POLIGNAC will return to London in a few days. " Leeds Intelligencer Office, Friday night, Nine o'clock. " We have been enabled to accomplish an important ob ject on the present occasion—such an object as is without parallel in the history of Provincial Newspapers. We pub lish to-night the whole of the debate in both Homes of Parliament last night; and we give it as fully and as per fect as would have been in our power to do under circum stances of the greatest leisure. Our subscribers and agents, therefore, in Bradford, Halifax, Keighley, Hutiders6eld, Wake6eld, Barnsley, Dewsbury, in short in all places in this county and Lancashire, will receive, by the Post, twenty .four hours after the Houses of Parliament closed last night, every tittle of the proceedings. We need not point out the vital importance of the Intelligence, which we thus lay before the public with such extraordinary de spatch. There never has occurred an event in the memory of any livin man so worthy of exertion as the one which we exclusively have thus succeeded in diffusing ever a • large portion of the North of England. At a time when all should be anxious that the question of Catholic Emancipation should be brought before the minds of those who conscientiously are inimical to it, in the calm, temperate, and dispas sionate manner, recommended in the KING'S Speech, we know not how we can more advantageously ad vance this great end, than by recommending to the attention of our readers, a Letter, addressed to the Clergy of the United Church of England and Ire land, by the Rev. R. Q. SHANNON. To those who, like ourselves,have been in thehabit ofregretting that Divines who have entered into the field of political controversy have, for the most part, been distin guished among the disputants of the party they espoused, for an extraordinary share of passion, pre judice, and invective, it will prove extremely grati fying that an eminent example should appear in the present Reverend Author, of one zealously attempt ing to remove from the discussion of the question all that tends to irritate or intimidate--" to kindle the flame of charity and brotherly love, and to allay the spirit of turbulence and hatred among•men." Mr. SHANNON is the author of an Answer to-Dr. PumPoTTs, which was published last year, written in the same quiet unassuming manner, which we took the liberty of bringing before the notice of our readers at the time. The public has since justified our en comiums of it. And we feel convinced that, among But our merit is small and secondary. For this traordinary effort we feel toward 4 the Eilitor of The Sun Evening Paper, a degree of gratitude which language can not convey. The public, however, owe obligations to The Sun for its wonderful exertions on this occasion, which they only possess the means, and we hope the incli nation to substantially return. The third or express Edition of that Journal, which we received, moat have been dc- Ipatched from London nearly two hours after the departure of the mail. The expense thus incurred must have been prodigious; but besides, we have to consikr_the number. of reporters, priniqs, &c. &c. who were necessarily em ployed in preparing many columns-of matter for publi cation, in'ord e r th a t th .proceedings might be placed before the many gifted individuals who have laboured to bring this great question of truth and justice before a dispassionate tribunal, he will be found not the least enlightened advocate and useful coadjutor. the country almost as fast as they took place. To 7'he Sun itself, the testt!t must be most gratifying. At this distince,• nearly 200 miles, from London, the debates in both Houses of Parliament to fileir conclusion, are pub lished in full, at a quarter before,-five o'clock this after noon ! That is, nineteen hours and three quarters after the two Houses had adjourned, and \ eighteen hours and three quarters after the Express left Lo‘balon! Verily this is the ' March of Intellect."' We have received, this morning, the Hamburgh Reporter to the 3d instant inclusive, from which we make the following extracts:— HAMBURG/I, JAN. 31. The English mails from the 24 to the 24th of January (both inclusive) bare arrived here to-day, by express, from Helvoetsluys. They were brought. by Mr. Cullen, Master of tie Earl of Leicester packet. Fes. 3.—The Journal de St. Petersburgh of the 24th nit. contains the following :—" We learn from Tiflis, under the date of the 10th (31st) December, that a con voy of 350,900 tomauns of the Persian contribution haul just arrived at the porrantine of Ghcrgher, escorted by two companies of the 41st Regiment of Chasseurs." The King's Speech, delivered on the opening of Fa lia !tent, arrived yesterday, by Specia Express, at Mr. Willrner's, 25, Lord-street, at twenty minutes before five o'clucL, and was forwarded, through the politeness of Mr. Richardson, by the Dolphin, Post.offire Packet., to Dublin, that evening. The mail arrived at fifteen minutes past six, being one hour and thirtmfive minutes after Mr. Willmer's express.—Liverpool Advertiser. B 1 RTIL—On Friday, the 30th tilt., at Newn ham Paddox, in this county, the Countess of Denbigh, of • a daughter.—Leomington Courier. Boast , . tt[M LLE, FOUL O'CLOCK. BUSITICKS in the Funds has been tolerably brisk to-day, the rise in London and Amsterdam led to an improvement in English securities ; Austrian were not in dem Ind, the Courses coming less favourable from Vienna ; money con tinues abundant at 2} per cent. ; Rills on London are sought for. A nglo-Danish Loan, 3 per cent. Anglo-Russian Loan 91% Ha.nburgh-Ruseinn Loan Anglo-Prussian Loan of 10ii8 99% Austrian Rank Shares 1101. A usti inn Metall iques 11651. Excluoige upon London, at two months, 13 634 at sight.... I3S According to letters from Finland, the arrival of the Emperor of Russia, at Helsingfors, was supposed to be de fet red till the 20th of January. A degree of activity con tinued to reign in the military administration of the Pro vince. Orders had been given for the construction of a number of gun-boats, and for the erection of batteries on We mentioned repeatedly, in the course of. last year, the increase in the distillation of spirits. It now appears that the excise duties paid in Glasgow la 4 year, amounted to the unprecedented sum. of 711,930 t. Is. !lid. sterling, showing an increase over the year 1827' of 78,613/. Os. 10th. sterling.— Glasgow The mails for Hamburgh for the to the ultimo, which were forwarded through Holland, arrived in safety at Bremen on the 30th. _ The public will learn with satisfaction that the individual who was lately apprWhended in •Trailrn, charged with decoying children off the street, has been fully committed for trial at the ensuing Circuit cowl, when the merits of the mysterious proceeding will be fully developed to the public.— Glasgow Free Press. ;, . SHIPPING INTELLIGEN / CE-(THIS DAY.) FROM LLOYD' Drat, Fin. 7 and S.—Wind W:N.W..—Ariived the 'N'yoalph, Champs, from St. Michael's.. .Arriverl froth London, the Catherina, Stockforth, for Brazil-; Malvin* Norfor, for Buenos Ayres; ,Colunbine, BrOwn, for the Cape; and Hector, for the Afediterraoan. PORTSMOUTH, FEB. 7.—Wind N.E.—Arrived the Anna Christina, Waring, from Gallipoli. Sailed the Euterpe, Donkin, for Jamaica; and Southworth.transportt for Swan River. FA LMOUTH, FEB. 7.---Wind N. N.W. —Sailed the Lady Mary Prllitun packet, for the Mediterranean ; Sandwich packet, for Lisbon; and Mutine packet, for America. MARGATE, Fin. B.—Arrived the. Hope, Stroud, from 111aloga. liAIIsCATE, FEB. S.—Arrived the Revolution, Pagharn from St. Michael's; and Agenoria, Raily, from Cork. Conk►, FEE. B.—Arrived the Louisa, Smith, from Batavia; sailed the 1 J. th of October. SOUTH All ETON, FEB. S.—Arrived the Thcrnas, Nichols, from Naples; and Prince Regent, from Leghorn. PtsiZ A NCE, FEB. 6.—Arrived the De Coy, Duyts, from Batavia; and Molly, Harms, from Rio Janeiro. Arrived off the start, the St. Catharine, Nichols, from Whoa ; and Britannia, Baily, from Gijon. Arrived off Dover, the Thorne, Johnstone, from Bombay' sailed the I Ith of October. The John, Brown, from Liverpool to Newcastle, wag lost the 27th ult. on the North West Coast of Ireland. The William, Parke, from Liverpool to Jamaica, is wrecked on a reef near Barbuda. The Delight, Wise, of St. John, N. 8., drift e d on shore about the 3d inst., near Bilmullet, county of Mayo. LEICESTER CHORAL SOCIETY. On Tuesday morning last the Leicester . Choral Society under the able direction of Mr. Gardener, anther of ""'Fite Sacred Melodies," and other compositions, gave a grand selection of Sacred Musiti at St. Margaret's church, to e . numerous and respectable auditory, among whom were the county and city Members. The band was powerful and complete, and consisted of more than' 100 hundred performers. The principal airs were sung by Miss LlOyd, late pupil of the Royal Academy of Music, who has heel recently engaged at the Foundling Hospital in Londeri.--• Thii young lady's voice very much resembles Ma. Billing- . ton's, being in its tones very clear, sweet, and silvery.---• Her executiun and style are of the highest order. PI compass, her voice extewls to three octaves. In *. A n gel§ ever bright and fair" she displayed excellent - taste,. by ;the sweet and simple manner in which she treated it. The grand bravura, " Cie that Ruleth. Israel," was • given by, bet' with surprising power and spirit, splendidly. e , nztplet' ing with the gentleness and simplicity manifested in she preceding favourite air by Handel. The composition its I+Y Mr. Gardener, and it is of a magnificent description, the accompaniment being of no ordinary diffietilty, ssbich Cho orchestra executed in a manner highly creditable. Aware the choruses, perhaps, the most striking piece was,.!‘ The calm of the sea," by Beethoven, which was achnitabiy pr. formed. There were other novelties in the eharn:ses, fre, Haydn and Nlozart. In April ano th er per f ornat i oce . ,l o° take place, whiclt is likely to prove very attractive. TO THE EDITOR OF TPIE SUN. SIR,— Many thanks to you for giving such proo ß t at tention to my last letter, and I.feel very proud aOto at pealing in the same number of your paper, that contains the most glorious Speech which ever issued from the tbroneO f these kingdoms. The concessions of his Majesty's Goren!' ment to the claims of our Roman Catholic brethren, are l by a worthy B a ron e t t o b e t h e resu l t o f intimidation. ,Tl: comes with a bad grace from a Brunawieker, for *WO al.:, have sought to intimidate the Government ad ',wet-, decidedly the Brunswick Clubs. Btit allow miff Sir, in the vanity of my heart, to refer to the letter 01 " Surriensis," which appeared in your Journal- In' WI ago as the 22d of November. Speaking of the CAtholis Association and the Brunswick Clubs, Snriiettsitt g_ 1 4 4 on to say, " if 1 appreciate aright the finn, gallant, • giftr,, personage who now steers th e v esse l o f t h e S ta t e , he Iv"' declare equally to both ' non tali auxilio tempue eget; not will he be diverted from his right onward course by Off • presumptuo us di ctat i on , or s h ort . lived popularity of ea..*t faction." And thus, Sir, has one Prime Miniiter (Prime in every sense of the word, or rather the Alpha and Omega of Ministers, the first who has dared to make Catholic Emancipation a Cabinet measure, and who will give zha last finish to a question which has. SO long disturbed th e . peace both of England and Ireland) fulfilled the ptopheti c vision of Fel,. 7. SURRIENSIS. THE KING.—The Duchess of Gloucester paid a morning visit to the King this day. There ie intention at present of the King's ternoving to Londoo , We are happy to announce that his Majesty continues to enjoy excellent health. We have great pleasure in ststig that Dr. Clarke is reoevering, though slowly, from his late affliction.— Windsor Expresi. . , A Cabinet Council was held, at half--pas t three o',:lock yesterday afternoon, at the Foreign Office , Downing-street, which was attended by the Lord Man i . cellar, the Duke of Weaington, Earls Bathurat and •Aber' Been, Viscount Melville, Lord Ellenborough, Mr. Seeretal Peel, Air George Murray, the Chancellorof the Exchegtiel' Mr. Herries, and Mr. Vesey Filagerald. . The Attorney-GOeral, the Solicitor-Generah and Mr. Dogherty, tbe - Snlicitor-General for Ireland, Wer e in attendance on the Ministers during the sitting of the Council. The Ministers retnaine4 in deliberation till Ili/ o'clock. The summonses for the assembling of the Cabilie n were not issued till yesterday morning. The Martiois of Chandos had a conferenc e ( with the Duke of W e llington yesterd a y, a t th e residence his Grace in Downing-street. The Earl of Clarendon' Viscount Beresford. and ; Lord Ellenboreugh, had also ill' terviews with the Noble Duke yesterday.. A deputation of the East India Directors at' tended at the Treasury on Saturtjny, a n d h a d a long Cow k rence with the Chancellor of the Exchequer. • ` - .The Duke of Wellington paid a visit to the Earf , of Eldon on Tuesday, at his Lordship's residence id Hamilton-place. His Grace had a long conference wi th the Noble Earl. The Marquis de Barbacena arrived in town O il Saturday morning from the residence of the Young. Que of Portugal, at Laleliam. The Marquis bad a len& et ference with the E ar l o f Ab er d een at the Office of ~ t`"" Secretary of Stat e for Foreign Affairs in Downing-str"' and had also an interview with the Brazilian Minister. The Archbishop of Dublin visited the Clow cellos of the Exchequer on Saturday, at his residence Do►vning-street. Lord Ellenborough, Mr. Secretary Peel, an d Mr. Herries, had interviews with the Duke of %Hine° on Saturday, at the Treasury. The Marquis of Chaiidos visited Sir GeOrge Murray yegtelflay. The French Charge d'Affaires transacted btWH.! netts with the Earl of Aberdeen on Saturday at the Foreir Office in Downing ,itrect. The Brazilian Minister had an interview wit!' the Count d'Aglie, the Sardinian Minister, at his E4Ce r. lency's residence in Hill-street, on Sdturday. Despatches were received by his Majesty at late hour on Saturday night, at his P4lace at Wi n dsor , from the Duke of Wellington. . h , We are requested to state, that the paragrq in the Court circular respecting; the serious indisposition 01 Earl Spencer is incorrect ; his I : ;prriship has b ee n alive"' but we have great pleasure in atatfrig that he is Trite . re' covered, and at the present tinadii gisrid health. " Viscount Melbourne has becit,,confined fof enure days past by indisposition'to his residence at White' halt Sir I fenry lialford had attended the NAM' Viscountf - '' - Tile Duchess of Northumberland did ticit.,.ar rive in 41v on Friday till some hours after the Doltgt_ her bushandNE Grace having ealled on one of herfriendo in her route fsPflike leave, previous to her departure fO, l , Ireland : het'arriVal, eras further delayed, ovvi9g.t, o ne o' the wheels of the carilaits4n which the Duebess travelled' taking fire on the road. A WIXE tiAN.—Our tliJiersfieldcorrevon dent say , s,lliat, there is at previl: „ in 4)oA...street, in tha t . town,. a winertan, who pr*aiess'.to cure young women dial': are budichcq 1 with that secrets are only to be revealed ofterAturAft...4itt:ls Mercury. •' p ~. are tl y judgments—how Unsearchable are thy ways! Those who r,,proach, the ancient religion of the land with disre spect to the sacredness of oaths, do themselves,, every one of tl.em, prelates, peers, and commoners, swear that a'fact does not exist, which fact they not only beheld before their eyes in full existence, but actually contribute to preserve and maintain ! I do not intend to retaliate by any reproach, but I am entitled to ask whether any conscientious Protestant will not rejoice if I shall be able to establish this—that it is to tally unnecessary for Members of Parliament to take this oath. Whatever shall be the consequence of refusing to take this oath, I call on every conscientious Protestant to refuse to take it. In the name of that eternal God who shall judge us all, I adjure you not to trifle with the sacrAness of his holy name, and not to attest it to the denial of the existence of that spiritual authority which is daily exer cised over full one-third of all the subjects of this realm. I should fluent my life well sacrificed to prevail on any one frrin to refuse to take such an oath as that. The next oath which you take is that solemn declaration in the presence of God that there is no transubstantiation, and that the sacrifice of the mass and the invocation of the saints, as now tried iu the Church of. Howe, are impious and idolatrous ! Is there a man in Parliament who would not feel relieved if he could avoid taking this oath ? What, Sirs, to testify in the presence of God, that all the Catholics of F....rland, Scotland', Ireldnil, France, Germany,—all his Nlajesty's emancipated Catholic subjects of Hanover,—all Ow Catholics of Italy, Spain, Russia, Greece, and the Americas, arc idolaters. To swear this wholesale and in Vie lump, that we would not for the world's worth, or for the world's cruellest tortures, adore aught, save the Eternal nil Living Cod (suppose the worst, but as I deny the truth to be) may be mistaken in the spot in which we place that that Living and Eternal God, but who adore him, and hint alone, renouncing, detesting, and for ever anathematizing, any adoration of divine worship, save of itn, and of Him alone. To swear that we are idolaters!!! I will not pursue this topic, but let me, through yen, conjure every conscien Gnus Protestan t who detests calumny. and respects the sanctity of oaths, to aid in getting rid now and for ever of this species of unhallowed swearing. I have beard that to take these oaths is ..ne of the privi leges of Pailiament, and that the not taking them is a breach of Parliamentary privilege for which a member might he expelled. What a notion of privilege ! to swear what is not decorous even if it were true ! Privilege to swear what is na—but hold, I must not finish the sentence. There is one, and only one more observation, which calls for your attention. I acknowledge the spiritual authority of the Pope, with as much distinctness as I deny and ab jure any temporal or civil authority, direct or indirect, on his part. I believe with the certainty of faith in transub stantiation. I cherish in like manner the adorable sacrifice of the mass. I believe that the invocation of the blessed Mother of our Divine Redeemer, and of the other saints, as used in the Church of Rome, is a pious and very salutary practice. Well, believing all this, I have only to go to the table of the House, and, the Speaker being in the chair, or at least forty Members attending, I have only totally and distinctly to deny all this upon my oath, an , ' what follows? Why, that I shall he a foul per jarer—that of course; but this also follows—that from that moment all disability and incapacity ceases, and I sin Isoth a perjurer and a recognized Member of the llHise of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Brit tin and Ireland. If any one thing stands in my way, that one thing is a refusal to commit pet jury. Let me he punished by what has been so often called the most enlightened assembly in the world, for not committing a perjury. I have the honour to he, with all due sentiments of re spect, your most obedient servant, DANIEL O'CONNELL, ➢lember for the County of Clare, in that part of the United Kingdom called Ireland. rxicKs OF STOCCS THIS i~v;k stack 3 pet Cent. Bed. , 8%%% .1 per Cent. Con. 3 . t# per Cent. 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