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value of ten pournta,,, there is no attempt whatever at se eari ty. however, is bat a half measure. —(Cheers. ) 111jith that . tingir-exceptiorr, And with the exception that Ciitholietiare nut eligible fit Oar office of Lord Lieutenant at "(eland, find `Levrt Ghatteellor or Keeper of the Great Seatof,Englattd, t, iWin fact a measure of untpia unetnitlit`i '.Emancipation..--•-(Cheers.)—To ineastite - efthat sort I cur never esscrit.—(Cheers.) Mr. HART DAVlSopposeil the Bill generally, hut if it must pass, he approved of the disfranchisement of the forty-shilling freeholders. r. B. COOPER thought the cement of the Church, and , f the people, ought to be obtained on the question in volvin.7. the abrogation of the fundamental constitutional' larva of the country. Mr. C. PELHAM proposed the following as an amend- Silent, if the forms of the House would admit it—" That this House returns its humble thanks to his Majesty for that part of his most gracious Speech which refers to the unman Catholics,--that removing the safeguards of the Con.titutinn hay repealing the Acts of the 30th of Charles artA tq King William, would he to endanger the just vp‘eete:itative of his Majesty, and to invade the fnntlaittental kifshts of tic people." 'le gneatinn Ireitig Loudly cancel lbt on all sides. Jr.* PEEL ruse to reply. Although much of the ilis covslim on the prefinition I had last night the honour to introduce has had a personal reference to myself, I should mot have availed myself of a reply merely on that entasidera ion. The interests involved in this question are so im portant and so complicated, that any topic of individual soncei n must become a matter of comparative ihsignifi c.nce_ Of all that applies to myself there is but one point I need notice, and during the remainder of these discus eirttVf, this is positively the last occasion on which I will ad vert to any point that is merely personal. Having ex plained all the reasons for the change in the course I for merly adopted, and the circumstances which placed me in the situation of having to prOliose this question as a Minis ter of the Crown, if that explanation be not satisfactory I cannot help I have nothing to add, and I cannot con sent again to divert the attention of the House from mat tees of natelb higher and public concern. But one question was ;Int by the Noble Member for Anglesea (Lord Ue toiAge), to which I wish to give an answer. He com plains of my change, and of the course I have pursued ; tint, if I mistake not, that Noble Lord will find in his own family honourable Vtamples of a similar alteration of opinion, Lord UXBRIDGE rose with some haste, and askel tl e Hight Hon. Gentleman whether he ref. rred to the recent eondttet of his father ? if so, he most strongly objected to iinth an allusion. lie a debt, I say at once let us pay 20s. in the pound. If we pay 15s. in the pound, the question will remain opeß until we have paid the whole. But it will be because we have paid 20s. in the pound we shall lie able to resist the extottion of a single farthing more. Another objection is, that this measure is unaccompanied by securities—at least, by adequate securities. What are the securities in the mea sure? Art We to settle the Catholic Question, or are ws not? If we are not to settle it on any terms, of course there is a fatal and prep minary objection to this proceeding. If it be admitted that it is right to settle it, and if some securities would give satisfaction, a!: least I.t us hear what those secu rities are=(Haar.)—lf I had proposed the incorporation of the Roman Catholic religion with the State—if I had proposed to give a qualified establishment, or to impose on the Crown the responsibility of appointing Catholic Digni taries, and entering into a spiritual intercom se with the See of Rome, 1 have much doubt whether I should not have been told, that so fat from giving any security, I was pro posing what was incOntisteet with the Coronation oath, and ineontiatent with the maintenance of the Established Chinch. I have much doubt whether the proposal of se curities of that nature would not have been viewed by people of this country with greater jealousy than the pro posal to consider the Roman Catholic religion on the foot • ing of dissent. When I look, as I have been occupied in looking at the petitions of Irish Protestants, I find in them the most extraordinary coincidence. I have examined them from all parts of the country, and they demand una voce three particular securities. The terms in which these securities are demanded are exactly similar, and whether I read the petitions from Cork, Armagh, Lei trim, Fermanagh, Wicklow, from the Bishop and Clergy of Dromotta fltin Wexford, and Athlone, I find them, in this respect, all alike. A fact so similar as almost to lead to the conclusion that the demand for these securities was suggested to the petitioners by the same common bead, and that they originated in the same common swarm —( Hear, hear. )—There are only three securities pointed out : —l. To suppress the Catholic As-ociation-2. To correct the evils of the Elective Franchise-3. To abolish the Order of Jesuits. Now the Bill I propose to introduce will effect all these objecte; so that it conforms precisely with what is required by the Protestants of Irelnad.—(Hear, hear.)—ll these securities be necessary, and if the neces sity of them be so urgent as it is described in the peti tions, let me ask this question :—Would the Protestants of Ireland have had a chance of getting these three securities, unless his Majesty's Speech had recommended concession ? Look at the division of last year, and look at the division of this night, from which the temper of the House may be Judged, and I will ask any man whether it would have been possible to have procured any one of these three secu rities, which, by the almost unanimous voice of the Pro testants of Ireland, are deemed essential for their safety in the present condition of their country, sinless his Majesty's Speech had recommended the consideration of the claims. I must say, that notwithstanding so much of this debate has turned upon the observations I made last night, I have not had an answer to the question I put, " What do you propose to do under the present circumstances?"—(Hear.) —Much might be said—my Hon. Friend (the Member for Dublin) may give us an able disquisition on what passed in 1688, hut depend upon it that is not sufficient in the present eondition of the world. Something most lie done, and what that something should be is a question to which I have had no answer. It is not an answer to tell me, " form a united government, and resist the claims." Some practical step must ,be taken, and what step shall that be? The only attempt at an answer has been " dis solve the Pas liament, leaving the Association existing, and the elective franchise without change.—(Much cheering.) Where are the Ministers who would advise a dissolution ? (Cheering from all sides.)—Shall we leave the existing causes of agitation to operate in a tenfold degree, by in timating that notwithstanding all the hopes escited by a neutral Government and a divided Parliament, an ex tinguisher is to be put upon every chance of evesstual emancipation ? Thus you add to the excitement ; and, in my opinion, you must leave the Association in pos session of its present power. I say in my opinion, because all the Law Officers of the Crown have stated that the Common Law is inadequate, and we find that the practical Statute of 1825 was insuffi sient. Thus cir!.unistanced, I maintain that no majo rity you can gst among the English Members will avail. Front Ireland you may have 100 Members, all des voted to Emancipation ; and with these against you, it mothd be impossible to conduct the local Government of Ireland. Whatever majority you may possess in Great Britain, it is not fire the public interest that every subsist ing tie between landlord an tenant in Ireland should be dissolved, and that the illegitimate and dangerous influ ence of the Prie,thooil should be established. If you had 90, or even 80 Irish Representatives, returned on the Roman Catholic interest, and on the interest of the Roman Catholic Association, formed as a compact body, and acting upon a uniform plan, determined to embarras the Government by their nightly attendance, or other wise, to act in opposition to any measures suggested, I know you might carry those measures; but I say again, that no Government so circumstanced, could con duct the local administration of Ireland. The whole of the constituent body, and the whole of the represen tative body of that country, would be united in resist ance. I asked the question yesterday, and I ask again to day, when you recommend measures of coercion, to put down the great and dangerous power now exerted by the Roman Catholics, how do you propose to conduct the civil Government of Ireland in those three provinces in which the proportion of population is 4,250,000 Catholics to 7.'i9,000 Protestants? In every system of Government there must be nice gradations and nice dependencies, by which the affairs of the country are conducted ; and in what way are these to lie observed ? You must either re sort to the army of England, or to the constabulary force of Ireland, for the purpose of carrying on the machinery of Government. Suppose you were to endeavour to in crease the military force..--1 tell you that you cannot apply a greater force than is now engaged in the Go vernment of Ireland. I state this as a fact, that in the course of the last summer, five-sixths of the Infantry force of the United Kingdom were employes in conducting the Government of Ireland—(Cheering.)—It has been en gaged, not in suppressing violence with whsch the State was threatened, but chiefly for the purpose of interposing between hostile parties, who in many situations were threatening each other. I say further, that you cannot calculate on what may be the consequences of beginning by a declaration that you will resist all further concession—it would produce a most violent re-action ; anti you would he gradually driven to this alternative, that, instead of rest, ing the civil and social pyramid on its base, you must re verse it, and place it on its apex. Unwilling as I am, with my Hon. Friends, to repeal those laws which give an exclusive character of Protestantism to the Legislature, I believe that the Roman Catholics have created a power by the increase of numbers—the advance of education, which we have year after promoted, which cannot now be effectually resisted. Their numbers, wealth, and educa tion, are backed, besides, by their majority of a Pro testant Parliament repeatedly deciding in their favour, while the Protestant mind is disunited. There is then, in my judgment, less danger in incorporating the Catholics with the State than in excluding, and I am satisfied that you will thereby rather diminish than increase their politi cal influence. Ido not say that the present condition of affairs in Ireland is the act of ;his year, of the last year, of the list two or three years, or of any particular Go vernment; but I maintain that, item the course of events, and above all front the eloquence employed in their behalf, and from this overwhelming fact, that four Houses of Com mons have determined in their favour—there is a spirit of union and compact among the Catholics, which, in my view, we cannot dissolve, but by permitting political in fluence to operate upon them as it does upon others, thus destroying the existing bond of connection. Let it be re membered, also, that it is a bond not merely uniting the Catholics—there is an alliance between every difference of religious opinion—between superstition and scepticism, and I believe that alliance will be dissolved as soon as these grievances shall cease to press on the Roman Catho lics. But Ido not believe that we could devise any laws, supposing the Roman Catholics to be supported by a power ful party in Parliament, and a large constituent body out of Parliament, that would lie sufficiently coercive—to use the words of an Hon. Friend—to check and controul the volatile and delusive spirit with which we should have to deal. In conclusion, I only repeat that I have heard no answer to my question, " What other course could be pur• sued but that which I recommend ?"—(continued cheering.) The Bari of UXBRIDGE explained. The Gallery was then cleared fora division. The num bers were— For the Resolution 348 Against it Mr. PEEL—What I have stated, I intended to men tion with perfect respect ; and if I am wrong, I beg the Noble Lord's pardon. I thought I rzeollerted that the brother of the Noble Lord, in a rnahnev which did him the highest credit, last Sessieny avowed a similar change of opinion. I thought he said, that having been in Ire land, he had seen vsaaton for that change—(blear, hear). — and I only wished to notice it to his honour ; but if I am wrong, I can only say that lam sorry for it. No Noble Loot laid asked why, in 1827, I did not think the source which-I took in 1828, and why I did not consent in 1827 to assist Mr. Canning either in carrying on his Govern ment, or the atljuetment of the Catholic Question? To that question I reply, that between 1827 and 1828, there was this material difference—in 1827, at the time when Mr. Ginn* made that propssal to me, the question hail been discussed in the House of Commons of the new Parliament, and I had been in a majority ; in 1828 I was a minority, and in 1828 I took the ci urse I bed eaeen in 1825. 1 beg to refer the Noble Lord t o the &bete in 1827, and he will find that I did state the course I had pursued in 1825 precisely as I molted it last night. I quote my wools from the usual record.— " I waited on my Noble Friend, then at the head of the Government, and told him, that personally it was painful ter me to disconnect myself from those whom 1 esteemed and respected ; but that having been left in a minor ity in that branch of the Legislature of which I was a Illerlitter, I anxiously desired to be relieved froth my situation. The reply of my Noble Fiiend was, that my retirement would Oeterrnine his own, and I finally censented to remain in office,—my Noble Friend declining that lie deemed it of the highest importance that the Secretary of Stale for the reeparttnent should possess opinions as much as pr,- sibla in accordance with those of the Prime Minister.— Me represented to me the difficulty he should experience in filling up the situation, and, in short, that my retirement must determine his own. 1 was thus induced to waive my wish for retirement, and to remain until a new Parliament hail pronounced an opinion upon theareatques tion which interests and agitates Ireland." In 1827, there fore, t he House of Commons decided with me in favour of re sistance to the Claims, and in 1828 the same House took a eifierent course ; I was left in a minority, and I determined no Linger to remain responsible for the conduct of the affairs of Ireland. The Noble Lord will find, that Mr. Canning did full justice to my motives. During the 'sbole course of the discussion my Right Ilon. Friend ad mitted, that it was impossible fur me to joinhim, and he used these expressions in the course of his speech :—" To begin with the more agreeable part of my task, the speech of my Right Hon. Friend (Mr. Peel), who has in one or two instances appealed to my testimony for the confirma tion of so:ne parts of his narrative of his own conduct, I confirm them in the fullest degree. I can bear testimony, that throughout the discussions that have taken place since Parliament adjourned, 1 have kept up with my Right li on . Ni eto ' the most constant intercourse—that through out I hava found in lint the same candour and sincerity, the expreesion of the same just feelings, and the uniform exhibition of the same high principle to which he has laid claim in the speech which he has this night delivered.— I the House, that they much mistake the position in which I have the honour to stand, who believe that po sition to be one of gratified ambition or of unalloyed satis faction. From the beginning of these discussions I fore saw—both of us foresaw—that they must terminate in our mutual separation. Would to God that separation may be but for a time ! Had the question been merely between my Right Hon. Friend anti myself, and lead it been to he decided by his retirement or by mine, I do most solemnly declare it should have been decided by the latter." I retain my opinion still, that it would not have been for the advantage of the King's service, and I believe also, that that was Mr. Canning's opinion—that he should have been here at the head of the Government advocating a settlement of the question, and that I should likewise have been here, Secretary for the Home Department, opposed to him, and backed by a majority of four. In 1828, when I proposed to retire, leaving been in a minority, I said, " The time is now come, the new House of Commons having decided in favour of the claims, and the House of Lords being opposed to concession, when an attempt must be made to settle the question, and to that attempt I will lend myself." With reference to entirely another matter, I find a passage in a speech by Lord Liverpool, which contains his Lordship's opinion, as to the probability of forming a united Govern ment. Lord Liverpool stood justly high in the estimation of the country; he had conducted its affairs for a longer period than any Prime Minister, during the last century. His memory is now held in respect, and the people had confidence in his opinion, at that ()fan experienced and ho nourable Statesman, and be thought that no Govern:ru nt could he formed, at th et time prepared to offer a united and unqualified resistance.—(The Right Hon. Gentleman here read a passage from the speech of Lord Liverpool, to the tenor he had stated.)—l believe Lord Liverpool himself declared, that to any Government formed on the prin ciples of exclusion, he would not be a party. Therefore, when the Noble Lord and others speak of the facility with which a Protestant Government might have been formed, they must dispute and deny the authority of Lord Liver pool. My lion. Friend who spoke from the upper bench and several more, have deprecated any precipitate proceed ing upon this Bill. Now, apart from any considerations connected with discussions for the last sixteen years, on the principle and details of the measure, I ask whether, with respect to this single isolated proceeding, I can be fairly charged with undue baste? The King's Speech, I appre hend, on opening the Session, afforded a sufficient indica tion that the adjustment of the Catholic claims was contena plated ; but on the first day I was asked by the Hon. Mem ber for Dorset, what was the general principle of the in tended measure ? 114 answer was " I will go as far as to state that the measure will embrace the general removal of disabi lities, although there will, of course, he some exceptions and other arrangements." That intimation was given on the .sth of February, and we are now at the 6th of March, without having taken any definite step. That simple state of facts negatives the possibility elf any charge of previpi tation. Another observation in the way of objection has be e n ina d e —namely', that the measure I shall have the honour to propose gives complete Emancipation, as it is called, to the Roman Catholics. It does so. The basis on which we proceed is that which I have explained last night—namely, equality of civil rights—and the more I Majority for the Resolution . ota think on the subject, the more lam satisfied, that if we The announcement of the numbers was received with once make up our minds to abandon the present system of general cheering. exclusion, there is no intermediate point at which we can While the Majority were waiting en the lobby, Mr. Se ' safely and consistently stop, short of the abolition of civil die- cretary PEEL r equested the Members not to go away, as he unctions, and the restoration of political power. Some may intended to move the Resolution fur bringing in the Bill onsider that what we bestow is a free gift, which we have a in the Committee. r ,be to withhold, b u t w hi c h we gran t o n the principle of ex- On our re-admission into the GAlery, we found the pediency. .0; j in think it the payment of a debt which we House in Committee. a e e notatttattnete retaining. If it be a free gift, we have I m r . PEEL, a mid the confusion that prevailed, was un abetractolly tie rrilitle withhold it, but can we safely do deretood to say, that it was his intention to bring in his so, ur is it a graciuto mods of granting the Watt'? it 11111-on, Monday, as he wished to push the Bill forward. With the leave of the House, the Report would be taken into consideration on Monday, with the u nderstanding that otr that day leave should be given to bring in the Bill. The House then resumed, and the Report was ordered to be received on Monday. ADJOURNMENT OF THE HOUSE. Mr. G. DAWSON moved that the House, on its ris'ng, should adjourn till Alonday.—Agreed to. The other Orders of the Day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned at Five Minutes to Three o'Clock. SPIRIT OF THE LONDON JOURNALS. Mr. Peel's motion for going into a committee was this morning carried by a triumphant majority of one hundred and eighty-eight Members, there being 348 for the proposition—l6o against it; being an abso lute majority by 38 of the whole 658 Members. In the Committee a resolution, expressing that it is de finable to repeal the .laws imposing civil disabilities o►► Roman Catholics, with such exceptions as may be deemed necesary for security to a Protestant State, was carried without a division. The report of the Committee will be brought up on Monday; and the Bill will then be introduced and read a first time without opposition. The second reading is fixed for the Monday following.—Tiines. A meeting appears to have been held at the Thatched-house Tavern in the course of yesterday, which 'was attended, says the Evening Paper, by some of those Irish gentlemen who are now in town for the purpose of taking measures for opposing, - by every effort in their power, the extension of the elective franchise from 40s. to 101. Judging by the names reported, the meeting must have looked not very unlike a comm;ttee of the late Caiholic Asso ciation. With the declared object of their _as sembling, however, we have no right to quarrel. There are many persons who wish that the Relief Bill could have been introduced and passed through Parliament, free from any connexion with an attempt to disturb the elective franchise: there are many others of opinion that it would have been sufficient to le gislate against the abuses of the 40s. franchise, with out an entire abolition of it. For ourselves, we are not at all inclined to raise a controversy upon this appendage to the general measure of emancipation. he scope and character of that proposed measure exhibit, upon the whole, such skill and excellence, that it would grieve us to see its passage through the House of Commons arrested, or its triumph em barrassed, by a partial opposition to one of its (+loses, a dispute respecting which could be of ad vantage to none but the Brunswickers, and might risk the immediate safety of the great cause itself. tlr. O'Connell, who was deeply indebted to the forty-shilling freeholders, or fictitious freeholders, — of whom hundreds are to be found in every Irish county,—for his success in Clare, and who pledged himself to resist their disfran chisement by means which were, perhaps, ex cuseable if resorted to its a figure of rhetoric only, feels it no doubt a point of honour to make the best defence for them that lie is able. A meetieg and petition will, nevertheless, be all that he can effect upon that point ; and they will suffice to satisfy his old associates that the Learned Gentleman has been at his post. There strikes 1;s to be some diffi culty in believing that Ministers could have yen . tured to give so largely without requiring some thing in return. It is not accurate to allege, as has been done by an Evening - Paper, that the ground for disfranchising the forty-shilling freeholders was the " independence" wherewith they exercised their privilege : the reason explicitly declared by Mr. Peel was the reverse of any thing like their indepen denee—it was their " subserviency" to the priests. We certainly must admit that a limitation of the franchise will tend to increase the real independence of the constituent body, and so to withdraw them from the unworthy aseendany, not only of priests, but of landlords, or any others by whom a corrupt influence might be exerted. Hud the first grant of tho elective franchise in 1793 raised the standard of qualification to 1 01. or 201., much benefit might since have accrued to Ireland from the original adop tion of such a principle. But we have a repugnance to woturd existing rights, and are disposed to think that little harm could have flowed from making the present Act prospective—that is to say, turning its prohibitory powers against the creation of future 40s. electors, but leaving every plan who now enjoys a freehold to exercise it lawfully, until disfranchised by accident or time. Notwithstanding these remarks, which arc thrown out with diffidence and perfect calmness, we beg to add, that no con sideration could induce us to employ them, or to act upon them, as grounds of serious objection to a measure which, taken in its full extent, we look upon as the greatest, the wisest, and happiest, that has ever, since the dethronement of James 11., been proposed to the Parliament and people of this country—as one, moreover, the defeat of which would plunge the British Empire into a state of desperate and bloody anarchy, to be ended, accord ing to every human prospect, by nothing short of its political dissolution.—lbid. We must again urge, by every thing that is sa- 1 cred, the departure of a certain person. The mis chief which he might have done creates an appre hension of the mischief which he may do. It is true, he must be checked by disclosures; but then what a scene for the British nation !—for any Christian nation ! If the mischief be not done, the bankers, respectable bankers, dare not surrender the CEdipodean box ; and if they do there is another CEdipus in the next best legal evidence. What a heap, too of living, as well as documentary testi mony. That a Secretary, hitherto of untainted character, and now with a religious office attached to his name, should enter into a trusteeship with such a co-trustee ! 0 Seeula! what an Age ! Is it not shocking that honourable men should be tainted by their unavoidable intercouTse with the person alluded to, and the services to which he puts them ?—lbid. PRICES OF IRISH STOCI Bank Stock Consols, .3 per cent . BSW, Got. Stock, 314 per cent 95 Ditto, New t per Cent ' 101 Gov. Deb. 314 per cent 9SN Royal Canal Stock -- Grand Canal Stock -- City Deb. 4 per cent -- Ballast Office Deb. 4p. c - COURSE OF Excm Amsterdam C.F 12 24 Ditto, at sight 12 04 Rotterdam 9 U 12 2} Antwerp 12 24 Hamburgh M.B. 13 13 Altona 11 13f Paris, J days' sight .......25 40 Di to 2 U. 25 75 Borduaux 9 5 80 Berlin Frankfort on Maine, Ex.M 151 Petersburgh, ruble, 3 Us. 10 0 Vienna, cffemive fl. 2 M. 10 3 Trieste de 10 3 Madrid. 364 Cadiz 16 3 i Bilboa B;:rcelona 3 6 ,i Seville 364' G.braltar 4o', MA Arrived. flue. O America O Brazil • Buenos Ayres 0 1 1 habl n. 0 • Flanders O France 0 O Got tenburgh I O uernsey &Jersey 0 HUGH WATER AT LON!) , M. rning ...I0 minutes litcr 4. Arrived. Due. O Hamburgh • - 2 0 Holland O Jamaica 0 Leeward lalandn 0 Lisbon 0 O Malta O Mexico 1 Waterford IN BRIDGIK TO-Mnit Row. F.rening ...28 minutes after 4 " YI LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 7, 1829. Mr. PEEL'S reply last night, to the attacks, per sonal awl political, of those who are opposed to Emancipation, was remarkable for its spirit, its energy, and the unanswerable quality of its logic. It literally left the Brunswickers not a leg to stand on. The Right Hon. Secretary indulged in no prolix common-place—no inflated verbiage—no stale repetition of acknowleged truisms—he rose to the dignity .of his subject, came at once to the point, and threw off his arguments " quick, thick, and heavy as a thunder-shower," with an epigram matic newness that tolkl amazingly with the House. To those who, in reply to his state ment respecting the distracted condition of Ireland, recommended a military increase in that country, he observed, that in the course of the hilt Summer fire-sixths of the infantry force of the United King. dom were employed in conducting the Government of Ireland, and hinted that it was impossible that they could apply a greater force there. To the ad vocates of a dissolution of Parliament, he replied that such a dissolution would be the very height of im policy, for it would necessarily leave the Association untouched, avid the Elective Franchise unchanged. Can a stronger argument be adduced than this ? Dissolle the Parliament, Gentlemen Bainswickers, —dissolve it by all means—and you instantly secure the return of ten Irish Emancipators for every one now in the House; so true is Mr. SuEtt.'s remark, that the representation of Ireland, as the law of election at present exists, is wholly in the hands of the Catholics. But, let the law be modified so as to suit the complexion of the times, and the necessities of either party, and the re presentative interests at once revert into their old channel: the Protestant landlords resume their just influence; and even the Catholic, so far as the moral influence of his tenantry extends, is him self improved by the change. To those few who deprecated all hasty measures, Mr. PEEL'S reply was unanswerable. It was to this effect—that the an nouncement of the intention of his MAJESTY'S Mi nisters to remove Catholic disabilities had been full a month before the public; that en the sth of Fe bruary it had bccn declared from the Throne, and that Ow, on the 6th of March, the Question was but just commenced. On the subject of the concessions, as to boil/ far they should be restricted or enlarged, Mr. PEEL'S remarks were statesmanlike and comprehen- Sive, and marked by a keen and discriminating spirit of sagacity. " lf," said he," Emancipation be a boon, let itbe awarded with a geriero*ity worthy of the givers; if it be a debt, let us pay the Catholics twenty shil lings in the pound, it will prevent the extortion of another farthing," This last metaphor, so every way suited to the habits of the English nation, was, we learn, received with great applause. We have no space left to revert to Mr. PEEL'S comments on the subject of education in Ireland ; this, he said, is as one of the chief causes of Emancipation, this it was that had enabled even the Catholic pea sant to come to a full knowledge of his situation, yet this was the very measure that session, after session, the present opponents of Emancipation had been among the foremost to support. Altogether Mr. PEELS speech wa.s worthy of himself and his subject, and was followed by a majority in favour of his Resolution, of 186 over 160. Colonel Davison, Honourable A. G. Percy, and Captain \Velle•ley-, Aides-de-Camp to his Excellency the Duke of Northumberland, arrived at the Royal Hotel Kingstown, this morning.—Dublin Evening Mail of Wednesday. As an instance of the spirited exertions of the proprietors of The Sun Newspaper, who arc indefati gable in their endeavours to supply the earliest possible in formation, on all matters of moment, an express arrived in this town, yesterday, at a quarter before eleven, a. rn., bringing a third edition of that journal, published at half past twelve, the preceding night, and containing seven columns of closely printed matter, consisting of the entire of Mr. Peel's Speech, preparatory to his motion, for the House resolving itself into a Committee, to consider the laws affecting the Roman Catholics.—Brighton Heruld of this day. , It is but justice to The Sun newspaper to state, that its exertions to supply the provincial press with the latest intelligence during the Oxford Election have been extraordinary. Indeed its reports of Parliamentary proceedings to a late hour on the (lay of publication, in its second editions, miw in many cases supersede those given in our private letter. — Scotsman. TliE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND.—His Grace is expected to arrive at Kingstown by two o'clock on Friday. He means to enter Dublin in full state, and his conipages and appointments will present an appearance never witnessed in this country. His state and other car riages are now at the yard of Messrs. Long, in Mary-street, his Grace's coach-factors, and orders have been issued to have three in r e adiness, exclusive of the state coach, at air early hour on Ft iday morning. They are each to be drawn by six horses; and that in which the Duke himself will la le, is one of the must magnificent specimens of csstly and splendid workmanship that has ever been seen. Hundreds of per sons daily visit the yard of Messrs. Long, to inspect these magnificent carriages, —Dublin Evening Mud of Wednesday. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. SUN OFFICE, Ibar-PAST TsvP, At a late hour this afternoon an Express arrired from Paiis with the French Papers of Thursday; the following are extracts : (From the Constitutionnel of Thursday, March 5.) The Imperial ratification of the Polish Loan, concluded at Berlin, has arrived here from St. Petersburgh. It was announced in the above city, that two commissioners from the bank Of Rothschild bad also arrived. Colonel Scharn hirst, Adjutant of time Grand Duke Michael, will precede DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.—We regret to state that last night between 11 and 12 o'clock, a fire broke out in a straw-rick belonging to Mr. W. 'island, at Staleley his Highness-to Tulcryn, where the Prince is to put him Castle, a few miles front Tewkesbury. Before the flames self at the head of the Guards. could be extinguished several ricks of corn, &e. were de- , stroyed. It is lamentable to add, that t his fire is suspected I Lise" , FEB' 18 .—A battalion of the 16th regiment, to be the work of an ince ndiar y .— W orcester Paper. and one of tha 14th, have received orders to embark on board the vessels for Ming the expedition against Terceira. Count Admiral Rom will have the command, who went on hoard a frigate yesterday to announce to the officers that probably he may meet the two Brazilian frigates, and be hoped that the men and officers would do their duty. MonoN, FEB. morning the officers of the garrison assisted to bury an officer of the 27th regiment who was killed in a duel by one of his comrades. TOULON, FTB. 26.—Yesterday, about nine o'clock at night, there was an insurrection in the port amongst the convicts, to the number of 300, who were going to he sent to Bret on boird a corvette. The troops in the ar senal soon suppressed this mutiny by firing on the ring leaders. (From the Journal des Debuts of Thursday.) They write from Havre, 2d March, that Viscount de Canellos, nephew of the Marquis de Chaves, arrived at Havre yesterday, it is said, charged with a diplomatic mission from Don Miguel to the Court of France. The above Gentleman, say the letters from Lisbon of Feb. 17, is goingto.Brussels to sound the Dutch bankers, if they will have more confidence in Don Miguel than those of France. The French Journals contain nothing worthy of comment. The follow•irg is the state of the Funds : FRENCH FuNns.-- PARIS, MARCH 4.—Five per Cents. 110 f. 60e. 45c. 65e. 60c. ; Three per Cents., 77f. 70c. 60e. 55e. ; Naples Stock, 82f. 15c, ; Royal Spanish Loan, 79f f. ; Haytian Loan, 530 f. Exchange on London, one month (paper), 25f. 30c. (money), 25f. 25c. ; three months (paper), 25f. 1.5 e. (money), 2M. 10c.—fours Authentique. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.) FROM LLOYD'S. Di AL, MARCH N.E.—Arrived from Lon don the Miranda, for the Mauritius. PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 6.—Wind E. —Arrived the Agnes, Eaton, from St. Domingo. Sailed the Herald, Dal rymple, for Dominica. FALMOUTH, MARCH s.—Wind E.—Arrived the RtBo - Reed, from Charente. eowEs,MARC* 6.—Wind N.E.—Sailed the Agnes, Menton, for Antwerp. Rre, MARCH 6.—The Adelphi, Minday, from Cardiff to London, having been run on board of by the schooner Hastings, of Hastings, was obliged to cut from anchor and buoy, and received considerable damage in the hull. GREENOCK, MARCH 4.—The Adventure, Williams, arrived to-day from Marseilles, was run on board of on the 17th of January, in hit. 41., long. 11., and cut down nearly to the water's edge on the larboard quarter, by the Prince Eugene, from Liverpool to Naples. RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN, MARCH 3.—The main-mast of a brig, with the letters " T. F. B." marked en it, came on shore near Point of Ayr on the let inst. The Vigilant, Thorp, from Carthagena to was twice attempted to be boarded by a piratical schooner, with about 40 men on the deck, off Cape St. Antonio, on the*2sth Dec. THE FUNDS.--(THIS DAY.) CITY, TivELrE o' CLOCK. Up to the present hour there has been no life in the Consol Market ; they left off yesterday at 86-1, 87, at which price they opened this morning, and may still he I noteirthe same. The Foreign Market also is quite in- animate. Three per Cent. Consols, ; Ditto, for Account, 86} 7 ; Three per Cent. Reduced, shut ; Three and a half per Gint. Reduced, shut; Four per Cent , 1011 ; India Bonds, 47 9 pm. ; Exchequer Bills, 53 35 pin. FOKEIG 61 ; Buenos Ayres, 33 4 ; Chilian, 21 ; Colombian, 18 ; Danish, 64 ; French, 5 per Cent., 110 k 1 I ; Three per Cent., 771 8 ; Greek, . . -.- 14; Mexican, 245 ; Peruvian, 13 14.; Portuguese, 431 4; Russian, 941; Spanish, 91 i. 11I1NES.—Anelo Mexican, 775 5 dis. ; Brazilian, 34 5 pm. ; Bolanos, par; ' Colombian, 20 dis. TWO O'CLOCK. Consols have continued the whole of the morning 97, alternately buyers and sellers, with little doing ; at present may be quoted 86i 57. The Foreign 31arket is also •oid of interest. Exchequer Bills rather better, 53 55 ; Brazil, 611 ; Colombian, 18i ; Mexican, 2q; Russian, 9t 3 ; Portuguese, 4S ; Spanish, 9i 4. THREE O'CLOCK. Cons°lq for Account, 86i 87. TILE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) COVENT-GARDEN MARKET. There was a good supply at this morning's maihet, but a sluggish trade, and prices were about the satne as those ef this day sc'nnight. s.d. s.d. Potatoes (per cwt.) 36to 7 0 Cal bages (12 heads) I 6 2 6 Ditto Red ... Item Itadish(bui.dle) 2 6 4 0 tiro, o'i 2 0 3 0 Celery Rhubarb lO 1 6 Carrots 12 bunches) 5 0 '7 6 Turnips , I 6 2 6 Coleworts or Greens— 1 9 3 6 Young Onions I 9 5 0 Leek s 0 9 1 0 Broeoli Sprouts (bush )2 6 5 0 Turnip Greens Sea-kail (ptunmet) s. d. Spillage (balf-sieve) I (Ito! 6 Oni n• Apples 5 I) 17 0 Sweet Oranges (MI) :1 0 8 0 Seville' rhtto 6 0 12 0 l.em•.ns 6 0 120 Asparagus. 6 0 9 0 Itadisbe , ',band) lIl 1 0 Span Chc•nuts (peck) 5 0 10 0 rem)) ditto Spaillsb tlazlentits ' 0 10 0 French Walnuts Filberts (124).) Grapes (per lb.) HAY ➢MARKETS.—(At per Load of 36 Trusses.) ST. JAMES'S. Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay £2 5 to £2 10 Best New Meadow Hay 2 15 :i 0 Fine Upland Meadow and Bye-grass Hay ...... Clover Hay 3 8 5 0 Oat t'traw A great supply, and a dull trade; prices as last quoted? SMITHFIELD. Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay £2 5 to £2 15 Best New Meadow 11.1 y Fine Upland Meadow and Rye-grass Hay 3 0 4 0 Clover Hay (extra tine)...£s 5 ... Generally 3 5 4 15 Oat Straw f 1 10 to :El 15—Wheat Straw 1 15 1 19 A good supply, and a dull trade, at Thursday's prices. The Duke of Cumberland and Duke of Sussex visited the Princess • Augusta on Wednesday even ing, at her Royal Highness's residence, in the King's Palace, St. James's. The Princess Augusta visited the Duchess o Kent, and the Princess Sophia, yesterday, at their apart rents in the King's Palace, Kensington. • Earl Bathurst, the Earl of Aberdeen, and Mr. secretary Peel, bad interviews with the Duke of Wel lington yesterday at the Treasury. Monsieur Bermudez, the Spanish Minister, bad a conference with the Earl of Aberdeen, yesterday, at the office of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, in Downing-street. Mr. Secretary Peel visited the Chancellor o the Exchequer yesterday. sl'? The Solicitor-General had a long interview this morning with the Lord Chancellor, in his Lordship's private room, adjoining the Conrt of Chancery. A King's Messenger brought dispatches on Thursday night for the Earl of Aberdeen from the Right Hon. Stratford Canning ; and another mes,enger arrived at the Colonial Office the same night, with de spatches from Sir Frederick Adam, the Lord High Com missioner of the lonian Islands, and also from Sir Pulteney Malcolm, the Commander of the naval force in the Medi terranean. Despatches, in answer to these, were sent off last night from the Colonial Office. ALTERATIONS IN CIVIL NAVAL AP POINTMENTS —Commissioner Ross, from Malta to Ply_ mouth; Commissioner Briggs, from Bermuda to Malta; Commissioner Inglis, from Jamaica to Bermuda ; and Captain John Ayscough, appointed a Commissioner at Jamaica. NEWARK EL ECT ON. -- The intelligence brought by passengers who passed through Newark yes terday morning was, that the election was over, and th:t Mr. Sadler was chosen.— Times. Yesterday morning Mr. Henry Bosanquet, the youngest nephew of Mr. Sergeant Bosanquet, shot him self No. 5, Stone buildings, Lincoln's inn. Mr. Henry Bos anque t was im!y through the head, at his inghi,t el T ia e m r i n i i c s rs a , t 22 2 tl yienaressopfecagtaetion of living called to the Rir. There was a numeroti 'Meeting of the Whig Members of the House of Commons yesterday, at the house of Sir Francis Burdett. 114.1rES OF STOCKS THIS Flank Vinck. - shut 3 per Cent. Red. 3 ner cent. cen. sr;%N 3% per Cent Ditto Red I per Cent. lol%Vite Ditto, It tli Bulk I. Ann. ......... India Stuck shut Ditto Br nds 47 49 pm. PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS Austrian Bonds Br .7ilian Bonds Buenos Ayres Bonds Chilian bonds Colombian Boin:s — Ditto, Nit l B l/4 Danish Greek 41,-,nds Ditto, 1825 Guatimala Mexican Bonds ........ Ditto, 182.5 PRICES OF SHARES THU Brazilian Imp. Min. Co. (iss. at 5/. Ditto NatiCorm] .. ; ... ......... Alliance Fire arid Life Insuranc, DAV AT ONR O'CLOCR. South Sea Stick Old Annuities New Ditto Ex. Bills,.£l,lxXl Ld. rm. 55 pm. Ditto 500 2sl. 51, 55 pm. Ditto Small Ditto Commercial — pm. Bank for Account India for Account Cons. for Acct E 7,674 THIS DAT AT ONE O'CLOCK. Neapolitan Peruvian Bonds Portuguese Bonds Prussian, Old Ditto, New Ilnssian 94t Spanish, 1821 q 34 '-- 1823 French Rentes, sp. e. —f —c. Exchange —f. —c 3 per cent. --- Exchange —f. —c. DAT AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Shat e pm.) £2n 5 !e Co. 10 9 1 A 10 :s, PUBLIN, MARCH 4. St. l'atrick in•ur. (per sh.) Royal Irish Ditto N a tional Ditto , Pat rioticDitto - Hibernian Bank !Provincial Ditto Royal Irish Mine Imperial Mine Mining Co. of Ireland 'Commercial Buildings NGE . YESTERDAY. Leghorn 4 7 14 Genoa 25 .55 Venice 474 Malta 47 39% Palermo per OZ. 119 I isbon Oporto 4IN R o !Arica° Bahia 34 B.,enos Ayres 21 days' sight 1 .14 Cork 1 i 9 BULLION, PER OZ. X. F. d. Portugal Gold, coin... 0 0 0 Foreign Gold, in bars 3 17 9 New I MuhloonS 0 0 0 •ew Dollars Silver, bars, stirdard 0 0 0 ATTACK OF AN AFRICAN ARMY. After . mid-day prayers all, except the eunuchs, camel drivers, and such other servants as were of use only to prevent theft, whether mounted or on foot, marched towards the object of attack, and soon arrived before the walls of the city. I also ac companied them, and took ❑p my station close to the Gadado. The march had been the most dis orderly that can be imagined, horse and foot inter mingling in the greatest confusion, all rushing to get forward ; sometimes the followers of one chief tumbling amongst those of another, when swords were half unsheathed, but all ended in making a face, or putting on a threatening aspect. We soon arrived before Coonia, the capital of the rebels of Goobur, which was not above half a mile in dia meter, being nearly circular, and built on the bank of one of the branches of the rivers or lakes, which I have mentioned. Each chief, as he came up, took his station; which, I suppose, had previously been assigned to him. The number of fighting men brought before the town could not, I think, be less than fifty or sixty thousand, horse and foot, of which the foot amounted to more than nine-tenths. For the depth of 200 yards, all round the walls was a dense circle of men and horses. The horse kept out of bow-shot, while the foot went up as they felt courage or inclination, and kept up a straggling fire with about thirty muskets, and the shooting of arrows. In front of the Sultan, the Zegzeg troops had one French fusil : the Rano forces had forg one muskets. These fellows, whenever they fired their pieces, ran out of bow-shot to load ; all of them were slaves, not a single Fellata had a musket. The enemy kept up a sure and slow fight, seldom throwing away their arrows until they saw an op portunity of letting fly with effect. Now and then a single horse would gallop up to the ditch, and brandish his spear, the rider taking care to cover himself with his large leathern shield, and return as fast as he went, generally calling out lustily, when he got among his own party," Shields to the wall !" " You people of the Gadado or At ego," &c., " why don't you hasten to the wall ?" To which some voices would call out, " Oh ! you have a good large shield to cover you !" The cry of " Shields to the wall," was constantly heard from the several chiefs to their troops, but they di,regarded the call, and neither the chiefs nor vassals moved from the spot. At length the men in quilted armour went up " per order." They certainly cut not a bad figure at a distance, as their helmets were orna mented with black and white ostrich feathers, and the sides of the helmets with pieces of tin, which glittered in the sun, their long ,quilted cloaks of gaudy colon's, reached over part of the horses' tails; and hanging over the flank. On the neck, even the horses armour was notched, or vandyked, to look like a mane ; on his forehead and over his nose, VMS a brass or tin plate, as also a semi-circular piece on each side. The rider was armed with a large spear, and he had to be assisted to mount his horse, as his quilted cloak was too heavy ; it required two men to lift him on, and there were six of them belonging to each governor, and six to the Sultan.. I at first thought the foot would take advantage of going under cover of these unwieldy machines; but no, t hey went along as fast as the poor horses could bear them, which was but a slow pace. They hail one musket in Coonia, and it did wonderful execution, for it brought down the van of the quilted men, who fell from his horse like a sack of corn thrown front a horse's back at the miller's door : but both horAc and men were hi ought off by two or three footmen. Ile had got two balls through his breast; one went through his body and both sides of the robe ; the other went through and lodged in the quilted armour opposite the shout ders.—Clappolon's Expedition. The Honourable Pownall Bastard renew, Captain R. N. Oiled son of Admiral Lord Viscount Ex mouth, vacated his seat lot Launceston, (Patton the Duke of Northumberland) 'wit% adverse to the Catholic Claims. —Plymouth Journal. Tit A D E.—Though several branches o f the weaving trade in the west of Scotland are, we are sorry to say, in a state of gi eat depression, we learn that it has nut reached the emir', weavers in Kilmarnock, who ore still fully employed, mid that the shoemakers there have received a small adviince in their wages. This we presume ;oust lie the consequence of demands from foreign coon tries.— Paisley Advertiser. liti, week two fellows entered the shop of a won who- keeps a heater's shop, near Pershore, and presenting a piece of leather, asked her to give them :i little treacle to spread over it, merely to have a little feu. " (di yes," very readily replied the good dame, '' I like a bit of fun." But, while waiting to know what WO to be done, and anticipating a good joke, the villain s clapped the supposed treacle plaster (hut which prove 4 t ° be a pitch-plaster) upon the poor old woman's month, a nd made off with some cheese and other articles.— Worcester Pope r. The following anecdote is told of the late Ad' miral Cornwallis, when captain of the Canada. lib e crew, being in arrear of pay, addressed a " round robin" to their commander, wherein they declared to a man that they would net tire a gun until they were paid. Captai, ° Cornwallis, on the receipt of the latter, " turned the hanl tip," and thus laconically addressed th em !—" Illy jade' the ship will be paid when we return into port; and 44 to your not fighting ; I only hope we may fall in with the hugest first-rate out of France, fur I'm positive the devtl, himself could not keep you from tearing her to pieces. The Jacks were so tickled with this tar like :complimen t, that they returned to their duty, perfectly satisfied wi th themselves and their captain Worcester Gazette. SWINDLERS.—Three men assuming the name of White and Co. have recently defrauded sev eral, persons of Hereford, by pretending to be flour-deale rs, Being detected in that city, they adjourned to Bromsgro ve ' where they arrived last week, and took a house, bought a counter, scales, &c. none of which were paid for ; but misgivings arising in the minds of some of the credito rs ' sonic of them got their property back. T he place hell thus " too hot to hold them," Messrs. White and Co. aou e their exit from Bromsgrove, probably to repeat their Per; formances on another stage, where the spectators are 0 ° so sharp-witted.— Worcester Paper. HORRIBLE MYsTEßY.—Within the last le' days circumstances have transpired which would go t° prove that those engaged in tke horrible traffic of burnart flesh, are not very particular as to what dreadful orio le' they will commit in order that their customers may n ot be disappointed. Some weeks since a Miss ---!' who had taken lodgings in a boarding-house in this city, chanced to become acquainted with 5 young man of very prepossessing manners, and 11 , 1 ° stated himself to be an English surgeon. In a it, days an intimacy grew up between the parties and t was shortly after announced that they were to be married. This announcement excited some surprise i n the minds of the lady's friends, for they were conscious that she had not attractions to engage so elegant and fascinating a young man as Doctor ___. The lady was not prePe" Besting in appearance, and her fortune was a very trifling on e ' The marriage, however, did take place,—the happy bride was to leave Ireland the same night, a nd ° EI her arrival in England was to write instantly tog et relations. The parties did certainly leave Do ° the day of the marriage ; but since then, now thre e , or four weeks ago, not one word has been heard 1:" the lady. To her distracted friends it has since been men' tionA th it expressions of a very suspicious nature Were head to fall from Doctor - with respect to w hat be intended to t'o with his wife. As yet nothing further CO be traced concerning him, and it is supposed that he belong' to the Burke confraternity; that the unfortunate wife I ' 6 ; been murdered by him ; and that her person has been I ° l ' d and her fin time immolated on the altar of cold-bloo ds avarice.— Dublin Morning Register. _..... BIRTH. On the 4th of March, at Voelas, Denbighshire, the la d f of C. W. G. Winne, Esq., of a daughter. MARRIED. On the sth instant, at Will tgift, Mr. George 'Sm it/ e I !a1 ter, of Connaught Terr ice, to Alice, eldest dauglite e l .I,an,s Lister , Esq. of Ous fleet Grange, in the county ° York. DIED. On the 22d of Sept. last, at Berhampore, John Lan Esq., Superintending Surgeon of th e Hon. East W l ' Company's Service. PRINTED and PUBLISHED by MURDO YOUNG, at tl6 !!ax °MON, 112, STRAND, LONDOV.