The Sun. — London, England, 1835-07-13 00:00:00

__..►-~ ~•~ noderate, the week nd Oats. :re again ut having r advance reported, n. Oats :es of last P price of 355. :)75. ..375. tis. „Of's. 405. .. Ws. 426. .. 215. 253. 245. 276. —E. —S. 265. ‘.. , 93. 26s 294 31s. 25s .. 3t s. 4f s. ..:12s. 355. : 4 . !), EEK vas some- ; d to B.d• 2 2 2 4 1 6 111 0 4 3 8 310 4 0 30 a 6 38 4 0 3 o 12 0 • Pigs 330 out 500 uP e western and a• - remainder d to s d 2 2 , 6 3 0 4 3 2 2 8 U 40 3 ' day, but vas brisk in modc ig Barley Lye much y :ale at Mackay, v•gfouna , Puiske, Wind W. ►fled the lena the Sailed lie, from breezes• lied the ty's ship tberland , lth ult., cx. Bruns- ission of v on its r 15--- eeeived nd, be- It is aching r of the rds tl2B Fin with ry the Repre wn for ,ion et. r usual forma- oreign sari for y this count, lequer CORPORA - T - I.ON JOBBERY. To th e Worshi(From the Sta7;ford Mercury.) Worship the Mayor and Corporation of the City of • - "Lincoln. Mr. Mayor and Gentlemen,—As I have not the honour of being a Member of the Corporation, and, therefore, car, have no voice in your Councils, I think the most becoming and respectful way of calling your attention is through the medium of the Public Press. lam aware that some of your Members will be ready to censure the presumption of an enfranchised man who dares to call in question any of your official mea sures; but if', to use the quaint phraseology of your Civic do cuments, I am only a foreigner, I am a resident freeholder and householder, and as such have an interest as one of the commonalty in the property of the City. You have recently Published a resolution " to grant the Freehold and Inheri tance of the Properties held under you on Lease, to such of the Lessees as may be desirous of taking such grants on the following terms 44 For such properties as consist wholly or for the greater part of land, twenty-five pounds per cent. on the gross value of the freehold thereof. " For such properties as consist wholly or for the greater part of houses and buildings, twenty pounds per cent. on the gross freehold value thereof." This is a most important measure, as the property you are going to transfer from the public to the lessees is known to be of very great value ; although it would be difficult to ascertain at present what the premises would actually be worth if clear of leases. It has been stated that one per cent. on the gross value would produce a thousand pounds. That estimate I think much too high. But, if the whole property be worth sixty thousand pounds, it would form, under a fair adminis- tration, a noble fund for the improvement of this decayed old C itY• All the profit s you have hitherto derived from this estate, at least for public purposes, appear to have been from a hundred to two hundred and fifty pounds per annum, by rea son of your indulgence to the tenants. To this it may be replied, that the lessees, by building and other improvements, have raised their premises to the present value. Such un doubtedly has been in part the case, although the progress of improvement has been very slow, and much of the land is en tirely void of buildings. Whatever the equitable interests of the several lessees may be, they ought to be respected, but more cannot be granted without manifest injustice to the public. Is there then no means of recompensing their improvements short of giving them the freehold for a fourth or a fifth part of its value? Do the owners of private estates act with such extreme generosity towards their tenants ? I know that IM old practice has been followed of granting new leases, when the old ones were expiring, for very small fines and an nual rents; but this practice has always been at the will of the lessors : the tenants never in fact possessed any right in the premises beyond the existing terms of their leases : and on that condition they stand at this day.* It is alleged, as a reason for this proceeding, that the lessees have considered their property as equally valuable with freehold ; and that some of them have purchased at equal prices. Surely these persons must have been very ill-advised, or be endowed with very slender judgment, not to know the difference betwikt a lease and a freehold ! We will hope the instances of such fatuity have not been numerous ; but, at any rate, the public ought not to lose their land in consequence of these errors. And how has it happened that the lessees should now be Seized with a sudden alarm for the security of their property, so humbly and piteously set forth in th e i r memor i a l? A n d why sh ou ld t h e Corporation so hastily resolve to grant their petition ? Y ou, the lessors, and your lessees, h ave a l ways Istood in the same relative positions. Both these questions may, , b e e lieve, be readily solved by reference to what is now under with consideration of the Legislature : and whoever is acquainted sub lessees sis i t h the intimate connections and identity of interests sub between a great proportion of the lessors and the es, will have no difficulty in understanding the whole affair, competent f et your power t o a li enate this great property, I am not To confine to judge; thou g h I t hi n k i t li a bl e to b e di sputed.t i queston, it is 'ln° my observations, however, to the moral and equitable use and benefit; how tue of the evident that the property which you hold by vir 't°v 1 a mere fraction' charters was granted to you for the public for ow then can you alienate these estates for ever, pi, trust? of now stran g their value, without violating your pub trust the , The same e, too, are the terms of the proposed grants I ss , holderprice is to be pai for the urchase of the fee-simple twelve of a lease which was p executed within the last tenant whose for twenty-one or thirty-one years, as by the i ,... hose lease would expire within the present' year. 4" 1-;orporation are to receive no more in any case than 4 fourth the or a fifth part of the value of the premises, and all - rem a i n , l essees. !, , er is to be shared indiscriminately among the of dealing tri o d e ,I S Y. what reasoning is it possible to reconcile this hastily , absurd. $ S with equity ? To me it appears utterly been • erely, Gentlemen these Resolutions must have adopted. Some sinister arts ' must have been 'employ e d this strang e to gain a favourable opportunity for carrying examined. measure, before its merits were thoroughly But although you May deliberate and vote with Irl Ors of must become public. lution Letyour hall - closed, your acts p ctable members. If e ' th en, entreat you to re-consider this wasteful reso resse which has never been approved by some of your most You will in • ers. you persist in it, most certainly sad cut the everlasting censure of posterity. It will be ~_, thing to stain your names with a charge of public injus ferzintg _"_e_ ; and to leave it on record, that, instead of faithfully pre your trust, you stripped the city of its ancient inheri m ein favour of private interests. I remain, Mr. Mayor and Gentlemen, Your obedient humble Servant, Newp ort DWD. JAS. WILLS ON. , Li ncoln, 6th July E , 1835. 4 ' The necessity of adopting a different course of management, for the irliprovement of the rental, has been repeatedly debated in the Qommon Council. On one occasion, the votes were 22 for continuing the old practice, against 15. At a subsequent meeting, the numbers of opposing votes were equal, when the Mayor de clined to give a casting vote. j The Corporation i s un d erstoo d to b e governed by the Charter of Charles 1., gra n t e d i n 16 28 ; but its authority is thought to ha . ve been sup erse d e d b y t h e subsequent one granted by Charles PThat Charter was, in its turn resigned in the reign of James IL, by whom a new one was given : which, after being used for more than half a century, was found defective in some particulars es sential to it s validity, and it has not been brought forward for deserve m any yea seriousars. The doubtful circumstances attending th ese C harters consideration. t Are not the purchasers concerned in the justice of this transac "On equally with the sellers ?—A shrewd old proverb mi g h t be a ptly quoted, but at p resen t I h ave no w i s h to be facetious. THE DISSENTERS AND THE ECCLESIASTICAL COURTS. TO THE EDITO1? OF THE SUN. °lll,--The claims o f th e Di ssen t ers t o re li g i ous f ree d om are P°st noned for another year. The Leaders of the three den°. Min at i 4. ons have f or b ear i ng l y expresse d t h e i r assent to this 4arther procrastination. Bitter experience has shewn, that legislation in England travels at a rail -road pace, if it carries restrictions and imposes penalties ; b ut i f it is to relieve from heavy burthens, or re ba°ve intolerant enactments, no session is long enough to oornpass the journey. sleepy the People are . to be relieved, it is matter of slow, nay a •Ivended—if 11 co nsideration ; but if the Habeas Corpus Act is to be " Six Acts" impositions are to be enacted—if a s y s g i te i nt of Poor Laws, which had existed for centuries, but t h u. if their repeal affected any injuriously, affected only (L, e e ,aged, the blind, the lame, the impotent, and the poor—if ." : t hings are to be done, then time is found "for consi- Sh ort r ?o”—the usually long talks, the wordy nothings, are cut t h °Y an intimation from the " Leader of the. House ;" and awe omnipotence of Parliament is shewn in its power to take e 1.% rights and impose burthens—the power to secure rights 4,,,tnove restraints being, it would seem, its strange . work. the'rine postponement of the Dissenters' Emancipation until ... 4 ext Session, may, perhaps, have been necessary, cons! A e ia n . e ng the changes in the Administration consequent upon his t h stY's variable —though unuestionably wise, conflicting— vigh doubtless necessary, changes, the selection of his ad h'ers• • Yet, necessary as these changes indisputably must -ye been, aaaiug. that Ws majesty telt - on wuet-o 1 , 1 1 4 1 much as the judicious exercise of his individual preroga hi (so fellow al cld) retarded the public busine of the millions of -m e en„ it for the longer conti ",neace, even' for a session, of tho se re li c t s o f th e S tar Chem "er—the Ecclesiastical Courts. They have been reported upon Z• - they have b een reported against—although the Commis iloners upon t were th r eir f sins riends, and had ever y mo ti ve t o report ghtly hei. sßut if tl-e Courts themselves are to be tolerated another ritar' -if the right to send men to gaol when the bitter animo- Y of the Parsons of the Church of England sect think fit teoaddn_d tie " Court Ch r i s ti an " as the whipper-in of their tiyhmercies, is to be continued—surely it might become the that S Secretary of State for the Home Department to see 16 er re gaols, in addition to the privation of the personal c o , ttn ?' of good men, are not made instrumental in adding the cnns4.f solitary confinement as the means of imparting holy Yet, and working a spiritual change. supportto this is the state of things now. Pecuniary depletion N . uii of a clergy, rich to repletion, is worked out by r 'l,lles and solitary cells. tghiestrpaotweseßri.otmoo Secretary has, if he chooses to exercise it, control the gaol regulations made by the Ma- The or. they are appointed by the Ministry. indefinitaloagistrates are by law enabled to add, and they do add dosed upon hy their merciless regulations, to the sentences th ese P" the poor ; for upon them in the nature of things V n e cas tend " visitations of the Squirearchy act in ninety 'Lined h es l 't of eve r y h un d re d ; b u t th e M ag i strates are h e made Y the tAlinistry, and, like all other thins created can when 'i'vr°hY their c reator . , g for the sin of J ' 5l M Child s was i ncarcera t e d i n I psw i c h G ao l mof not resisting- the law—for being guilty of passive, QCIET Jveted to SOilt"MISSION;" he was for 17 hours out of 24 sub- I t i _ ary finement. tth'latts;eetZfeic,staly, ,c.erta.in the law was *not intended to work it s tta ..!uietion in such a case, yet is it equally certain trator, n eed Mitration wants reforming, or that the adrninis quickeniti changing- and that Home Secretaries need F indin g t° their d mi .% t _ ut es nary e '• needlessly oppressive and unjust imposition of foll • • "firi letter Lord John • taY S" ' "-- 41‘ , 1 Northampton-square, o ll f Say 21,' 1335. ; i n a d, /w t .. joi ; n osa i o id y i :m o r f l i o u r o dsh y ip . a_copy petition from str.: , t ,, , s new been ten days confined Ipswich goal upon a cou i i,; i c4 c -: t . l -Empt it; relation to a Church-rate. to resii t t ;, l l 34 sohed'for not paying the tate, but for no.. appear it Te - TheirnOtint is 17s. 6d. Parties .Prolnoting the suit had Ur po'wer t) titurnon him before the Justices, and of levying the amount at a few shillings' expense. For seventeen hours out of twenty-four he is locked up alone, and permission for his daughter to remain with him one hour later than is usual, viz., till five o'clock in the afternoon, having been conceded as a great favor : from that hour till ten o'clock the next morning she is also excluded. This treatment he receives because he is a Dissenter, for he has not resisted the rate. He, with his neighbours, Lave submitted to have their goods sold to uphold a Church with which they do not communicate, and to. support a Minister whose faith they do not hold. I am sure your Lordship, if you were called upon to answer the question, would net be able to declare that the same humility and meekness of spirit would be shown by the dominant sect if their goods were seized to support the worship of Dissenting Chapels. The application of such prison rules to such a case is, I submit, illegal. Feeling confident that your Lordship thinks with me, that the higher the station is, the more imperative the duties are which it imposes, I solicit respectfully, but confidently, from your Lordship, vour Lordship's interference, as Secretary of State for the Home Department. I ask your Lordship to write to the Lord Lieutenant or to the Sheriff, or Gaoler, not to suspend the rules of the prison, but to abstain from enforcing them in a case to which they never were intended to apply. The object of all prison regulations when they go beyond the mere detention of the person, being to correct and reform, and to deter from the commission of crime. I need not say to Your Lordship that prisor s, and prison rules, arc not intended in England at this day to be used to convert men, by dungeons and solitary confinement, to the Established Church, but to correct the morals of criminals, and deter from crime. That the Lord Lieutenant, and that English Magistrates should have allowed the application of such rules in such a case, when their application is public and notorious is, I venture to say, though ad dressing your Lordship, and feeling due respect for those iu au thority, a most heartless proceeding. I do not ask your Lordship to do more than to write to the par ties in authority, asking them why the rules are enforced in cases to which it is palpable such rules were never intended to apply ? and I ask this with confidence, because it is within the sphere of your official duties. My friend has been unjustly and cruelly treated upon a question of religion and conscience, and a bad law has been tyrannically put in force against him, notwithstanding he has peaceably submitted to the infliction and oppression which that law, it is said, permits, and the cruel practice of a Court which is ludicrously called the Court " Christian." I solicit your Lordship's interference; and I trust I shall not be deemed disrespectful in saying that I hope it may not be of an un decisive character, for such treatment is really " too bad." I have the honor to be, my Lord, Your Lordship's most obedient servant, R. BESLEY. His Lordship has not been, I have reason to know, guilty of the civility of acknowledging its receipt. Perhaps in assum ing that his Lordship had duties to perform, and was under the obligation of performing them, the letter may not have sounded upon his Lordship's car so musically as the your-petitioner will-ever-pray-sort of lachrymose application s w hi c h i s s ue f rom the cells of the wretched, v or perhaps the aristocratic Whigs not having had the honesty and firmness to cleanse th e corn. mission from the rampant Church and State sectarian parsons, dare not yet call upon them to look to their ways and be wise. Whatever may be his Lordship's motives for not acting, cer tain it is, that the Dissenters must look to themselves, and to their own energies for emancipation. If they would be religiously free, they must be politically active ; they must show the Whigs that their possession of the loaves and fishes depends upon their not trifling . with the just expectations of the people ; and convince the Tories that ram pant hostility to the voluntary principle may bring the steeples into worse jeopardy. ZENAS. DINNER TO LORD BROUGHAM AT LIVERPOOL. On Friday a meeting of influential gentlemen, merchants, and others, was held in the Public Sale Room over the Ex change, for the purpose of taking the most effectual steps to celebrate Lord Brougham's intended visit to Liverpool, in a mariner worthy of his Lordship and the occasion. LAURENCE HEYWORTII, Esq. having been called to the Chair, explained the object of the meeting. They were aware that Lord Brougham had signified his intention of visiting Liverpool on Monday, the 20th instant, in order to be present at the foundation-stone being laid of the New Mechanics' In stitution. A number of gentlemen felt, in common with him self, that the occasion should not be allowed to pass without paying that distinguished man some public compliment. The most effectual way of doing so, appeared to be that of inviting him to a public dinner. The gentlemen present would listen with attention to any suggestions which might be made con ducive to that end. JOHN EWART, Esq., proposed a resolution to the following effect :—" That this meeting, feeling highly sensible of the transcendant services which Lord Brougham has rendered to the cause of education to the people, do respectfully invite his Lordship to a public dinner on the coming occasion of his visit to Liverpool."—( Applause.) S. HOPF, Esq., seconded the resolution. He thought that men of all parties would feel disposed to unite on the coming occasion, to do honour to a man who was essentially the friend of education, and who left no means untried that were calcu lated to further that sacred purpose. The friends of education in this town were bound to act in a manner that would be gratifying to the feelings of the distinguished individual, who had done more than any other man living to promote the education of the lower orders, and raise them in the scale of civilization. Mr. BAINES inquired whether it was the intention of the gentlemen present to pay this compliment to Lord Brougham merely on the ground of his being a friend to the education of the people, and that all party politics be eschewed ? Mr. HOPE replied in the affirmative. Men of all parties must regard the Noble Lord with admiration as the active, able, and useful friend of education. They did not wish to impose any restrictions on his Lordship, or point out to him any course which he might pursue on his anticipated visit, but it was in his character, as the friend of the education of the people, that they felt it their duty to invite him. Mr. BOLTON moved—" That a Committee be appointed to carry the Resolutions into effect." A long list of names was ,here read, including a great proportion of the individuals in Liverpool, remarkable for talent, influence, and respectability. Mr. EGERTON SMITH wished to make a remark about the price of the tickets. He trusted that the price would be fixed low enough to admit the middle and lower classes. Lord Brougham was the friend of education and the lower classes of his fellow-subjects—it was to advance the one, and benefit the other, that he was about to come amongst them. Was it not, then, desirable that a proportion of that class, in whose welfare Lord Brougham was most deeply and patriotically interested, should be gratified by seeing and hearing their friend and bene factor ? Lord Brougham was a man of the people. He de lighted to meet large bodies of his more humble follow-sub jects. He was an advocate of every thing cheap. He had started a Penny Magazine, and if they were to believe the sneers of his enemies, he was in favour of a " penny church," and a "penny king." With regard to politics being entirely eschewed, he thought that might safely be left to Lord Brougham. The CHAIRMAN said that he concurred in the view of the subject taken by Mr. Smith, and it was well entitled to their attention. Mr. SMITH also 'suggested that they should form a proces sion on the morning of Lord Brougham's arrival, and meet him at the Railway, from whence he might he escorted into the town. Mr. BOLTON thought it would be desirable that the Com mittee of the Mechanics Institution should meet his Lord ship at the railway-station. From that point they could easily proceed to the site of the new building in Mount-street, and lay the foundation-stone. _ - Mr. RADCLIFF thought the present occasion a favourable one to show the Mechanics how deeply the Committee were interested in their comfort and welfare. He suggested that they should ask the Corporation for the use of the market. Mr. Ibex thought that the suggestion might be safely left to the Committee of Management. After a long desultory conversation, in which Mr. EGERTON SMITH thought, that instead of Lord Brougham delivering an address on the site of the new building, where only a few per sons near his Lordship could hear him, it would be better .Frn,ilan nar ornnny In murrth In lo_rocession to Clayton-square, where, from the window of the Bull Hotel, his Lordship could be heard by the thousands who would be in attendance. It was at length determined that this and a number of other sugges tions should be referred to the Committee of Management, whose regulations would be advertised in the newspapers and by placards on the walls throughout the town. The Unionists in the Potteries have determined not to allow women to be employed on a branch hitherto princi pally executed by women in the china trade, and to which they have generally served a regular apprenticeship. Women who have been in the habit of earning 10s. or 12s. per week will, by this arbitrary decision, be thus thrown out of employment, and the manufacturer compelled to pay an increased rate of at least 100 per cent. upon the usual price.—Birmingham Advertiser. The General Steam Navigation Company's Mail Packet, the Sir Edward Banks, from Rotterdam, arrived off the Custom- House, at four o'clock yesterday. MONEY MARKET.—The English Stock market continued heavy on Saturday evening, under the impression, which still prevails, of the approaching negotiation of the West India loan. It is not the belief, however, of the best informed persons among the moneyed interest that this loan, should it actually be raised, will produce any permanent effect in de pressing the funds. They distinguish very properly between a loan raised for such an object and a loan contracted during war, or for any foreign purpose. In this case the money will remain in the country or its dependencies, and will merely change hands. Those who advance it must necessarily dispose of some investment for that purpose, but those to whom it is paid will have investments to seek for it, so that the markets for public securities, so far as they can be influenced by ene transaction, must soon be brought back to the same level as before. That portion of the compensation money which will require to be paid in the colonies themselves will be, it is generally understood, extremely small, for very large sums must be applied ill the first instance to the redemption of mort gages of West India property held by persons residing in England, and of the remainder the remittances will probably take place in goods rather than in money, so that of the whole loan not one-twentieth part, perhaps, will leave the country. When to those considerations are added the circumstance, that three or four years, or more, will elapse before all the colonial claims are examined and adjusted, over which time the advajiec of the instalments would he spread, the opinion that the operation can make no permanent imprc s,ion injurious to Public credit would appear to be a very sa►e one.—Morning Paper. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, JULY 13, 1835. COURT CIRCULAR. Their Majesties left town at half-past eleven o'clock on Saturday morning, in a carriage and four, for the Palace at Kew. Lady Bedingfeld, Miss Hope Johnstone, Sir Henry Wheatley, Sir Andrew Barnard, Earls Howe and Denbigh, Colonel Bowater and Miss Wilson, followed in two carriages and four. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge arrived at Kew at half-past one o'clock, and lunched with the King and Qucen, returning to town in the afternoon. Their Majesties rode out in the gardens, and remained to dinner, returning at night with their suite to St. James's. Their Majesties attended divine service yesterday morning in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The musical service was Barrow's in F, Attwood's Sanctus and Commandments. The sermon was preached by the Bishop of London. Attwood's Coronation Anthem, " 0 Lord, grant the King a long life," was performed (by command of his Majesty), Sir George Smart and Mr. Attwood presiding at the organ. Their Majesties were accompanied by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince George, and the Princess Augusta of Cambridge. Viscount Ashbrook, and Sir Wathen Waller, were the Lord and Groom in Waiting on the King. The Marquis and Marchioness of Clanricarde, the Earl of Gosford, the Earl of Liverpool, and the Ladies Jenkinson, Lords Eliot and Stuart de Rothsay, were among the nobility present. The Duchess of Kent and the Princes§ Victoria, and their Royal Highnesses' Household, attended divine service yester day. The Dean of Chester. officiated. The Duchess of Saxe Weimar and family arrived at Dept ford in the Firebrand steamer from Rotterdam, at half -past two o'clock yesterday afternoon, accompanied by Lord Adol phus Fitzclarence. Her Serene Highness was received by the Earl of Denbigh and Mr. Hudson, and immediately entered One of the Royal carriages, followed by her suite in a second carriage and four. Near New Cross the Duchess was met by the Queen, and accompanied her Majesty to St. James's. The King gave audience yesterday to Lord Glenelg. His Majesty, attended by Sir Benjamin Stephenson, took an airing yesterday afternoon in a carriage in Kensington Gardens, Hyde Park, and St. James's Park. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, attended by Baroness Ahlefeldt, Miss Kerr, and Baron Knesebech, honoured the performance of La Soninainbida, at the King's Theatre, on Saturday evening, with their presence. The Duke of Cumberland arrived in town yesterday. His Royal Highness dined on Friday with the Earl of Hardwicko at Wimpole Hall, Cambridgeshire. On Saturday, his Royal Highness honoured Earl Delawarr with his company at dinner at Bourn Hall, Caxton. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge entertained a small party, including the Hanoverian Minister and Baroness D'Ompteda, Count Schulenberg, Sir William Gomm, and Colonel Bentinck, at dinner, last evening, at C am b r id ge House. A Cabinet Council was held at the Foreign Office, on Sa turday afternoon, which sat upwards of three hours. It was attended by Viscount Melbourne, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Viscount Duncannon, Lord J. Russell, Viscount Palmerston, Lord Glennlg, Mr. Spring Rice, Lord Auckland, Sir John Ilobhouse, Lord Holland, Mr. Poulett Thomson, and Viscount Howick. The Netherlands and Turkish Ministers transacted business at the Foreign Office, on Saturday. Viscount Melbourne and nearly all the members of the Cabinet dined on Saturday with the Attorney-General at his house in New-street, Spring-gardens. Lord Holland had a dinner party last evening, at Holland House, Kensington. _ The Right Hon. T. Spring Rice entertained a numerous party at dinner, on Saturday evening, in Mansfield-street. BRIGHTON. Juts 11.—The Earl of Burlington, Colonel Elwood (brother-in-law to Mr. H. B. Curteis, M.P.), Lord Stafford, and Mr. Bonham Carter, have been put into the Commission of the Peace for this county by the Duke of Richmond. The Duke of Devonshire has returned to Kemp Town. The Earl of Egremont is still sojourning here. The ceremony of opening the new Catholic Chapel took place on Thursday last. To-morrow a Pontifical high mass will be sung. The Choral Society performed an oratorio yesterday even ing, composed by a resident professor of the name of Nibbs. There is much originality in many of the solos, and the cho ruses gave general satisfaction. We learn by the General Steam Navigation Company's packet, the Mountaineer, that Viscount de Chatcaubriand has been sojourning several days at the European Hotel at Dieppe. The same vessel also brings accounts of the reception of the Count of Syracuse at Dieppe. His Royal Highness is sojourn ing at the Hotel Royal. The King of the French has deferred his journey to the Chateau d'Eu till the 12th inst. A rigid investigation has taken plac e i nto t h e c i rcumstances attending the recent fire in West Sussex, on the farm of Mr. Ide, the result of which is that Mr. Ide's bailiff, whose name is Bacon, has been fully committed for trial at the ensuing Assizes, to be held on the Ist of August. LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS FOR NEXT WEEK. Tills DAY. Marylebone Literary and Scientific Institution, half-past eight, p,rn. T ITESDA Y. Western Literary, half-past eight, p.m. SATURDAY. Royal Asiatic, two, p.m. FASHIONABLE ARRANGEMENTS for the WEEK. THIS DAY. The grand dejeune at Wimbledon-park. Mrs. Praed's concert in Portman-square. TO-310R,ROW. The Marquis of Exeter's grand fete at Burleigh-park. The Berkshire Archery Meeting, Benham-house. Mrs. C. Perkins's ball, Southend, Sydenham. WEDNESDAY. The King's Levee. The Countess of Mansfield's dejeuner, Caen Wood. THE FUNDS.-CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH Bank Stock 4,1 5.4 3 per Cent. Red 9O 3 per Cent. Cons fli% 3y., per Cent. 3% per Cent Red nBy 4 New n% per Cent ` ,7sii 4 per Cent. Assented Dissented Long Annuities to expire Jaa IMO l6 13-16 Oct. ISM Jan. 1660.......... FUNDS. India Stock Ditto Bonds 11 pm South Sea Stock Ditto Old Annuities Ditto New Annuities Ex. Bills, 10 , v/..., Ditto s')o/ 27 pm. Ditto 5U17 '27 pm. Bank Stock for Opg. "t 4 India Stock for Act. Consols for Act. `Marquis of Graham, Marchioness of Salsa and Miss Strachan, the Duchess of Cannezzarro, the Earl of Liverpool and the Ladies Jenkinson, the Countess of Harrowby, the Earl and Countess of Mansfield and the Ladies Murray, the Countess of Pembroke and the Ladies Herbert, and a long list of distin guished persons. FETE AT HOLLY LODGE.—On Saturday the Duchess of St. Albans gave another of her exquisite dijefiner fetes, at Holly Lodge, at which the guests were even more numerous than at the others during the season. The house and grounds were decorated with choice flowering plants, the balconies filled with pink hydrangeas and white lilies, the long walk and the lawn before the house had orange trees full of fruit, and round the door and the music tent were stands of splendid flowers. Three large temporary rooms were erected, hung with pink and white, the draperies wreathed with roses, and at the end large looking-glasses were placed, which doubled the gay scene. The entertainments commenced about three o'clock, by a concert, conducted by Sir G. Smart and Signor Gabussi, in which, besid es a ll th e f ore i gn " s t ars ," Grisi, - Malibran, Stockhausen, Lablache, Tamburini, Rubini, &c., her Grace brought forward English talent by engaging Mr. and Mrs. Bishop, Mr. and Mrs. Knyvett, Philips, and several others. During the intervals between the singing, the Coldstream band played in the grounds. About six o'clock the guests sat down to the usual recherche" class of refresh ments; after which they went to the hill, where the Grand Falconer exhibited a flight of hawks. Dancing then com menced in the tent and ball-room, continuing until near mid night, except during the interval occupied by the fireworks, which were splendid and of the most novel description, ending with a beautiful star of various colours, encircling the Duke's crest and cypher. All the trees throughout the grounds were hung with light green lamps, and the grass was thickly studded with them likewise, so that the appearancee from the house was most beautiful. Her Grace had the dancing terminated shortly before midnight. Sheridan Knowles has returned in high spirits (that is, in his usual spirits), from the United States. His compli mentary benefit at New York produced him more than five hundred and fifty pounds sterling. For the exclusive right of setting out tables and chairs in the gardens of the Palais Royal, at Pa r is, a ren t of 40,000 francs per annum is paid to the King, whose private property it is. The valuable ruby set round with diamonds, which was dropped by the Duchess of St. Albans at the Collosseum fete, was fortunately found by a gentleman, who sent it to her Grace on discovering to whom it belonged. More than usual preparations are making for the celebration this year of the grand doniuni at Winchester Col lege; it is fixed to take place on Thursday next. The annual meeting of scientific men in Germany will be held this year at Bonn, and will begin on the 18th of September. It will last about a week, and is expected to be numerously attended both by German and foreign savans. A society has been formed at Bonn to make arrangements for the accommodation of strangers, and to provide rooms at a mode rate charge for these who may attend the meeting. The French Geological Society assemble this year at Alezieres, in the department of Ardennes, on the borders of Belgium, im mediately before the meeting at Bonn, to which it will after wards adjourn. The meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science will be held this year at Dublin, on the 10th of August, so as to allow time for those who desire to be present both there and at Bonn. BRIBERY AT TIIE ELECTION FOR THE 80-1101:GII 1101:GII or' TRALEE.—Some time ago in this town articles in general were bearing a high price, and the defendant in this case having taken some particular fancy to a cloak, which had been exposed for sale, offered 251., of which lot. was paid on delivery, and a promise to pay up the remainder in a few days. An action was brought. The Court, how ever, dismissed it on its demerits. MR. BANINI.—We believe it is pretty generally the impression of the public, that during Sir Robert Peel's short administration, a pension was conferred on poor Banim, but we are sorry to say that the pension is yet to be bestowed. His health is somewhat improved, but he is as yet utterly helpless, with little prospect, we are grieved to say, of material amendment. —Dublin Register. - - Another member of - the Church Establishment in Ireland has run away from his creditors, to whom he owes upwards of 3,000 i.— Waterford Chronicle. On Saturday morning, at half-past one o'clock, a fire broke out in the extensive paper-mills at Iping, near Mid burst, belonging to Messrs. Pewtress, Low, and Pewtress. By the extraordinary promptness of the neighbours and friends who aided the exertions of the workmen, the larger portion of the buildings was preserved from destruction. Although a part of the premises are considerably injured, we are happy to say that the works will not be stopped. Lord Durham is expected in town this week from the Isle of Wight, to make arrangements for his departure for Constantinople and St. Petersburgh, which will take place immediately. The Barham, Captain Corry, will proceed with the Noble Earl to Constantinople, at which city his Lordship will commune with the British Ambassador, and, proceeding thence to Sebastapol, will be landed at Odessa by the Barham. His Lordship will journey through the Crimea to St. Petersburgh, and the Barham, after visiting the Per sian shores, will return through the Dardanelles. When his Lordship reaches St. Petersburgh, the Hon. John Duncan Bligh, at present Charge d'Affaires there, will return to Eng land. The Hon. Arthur Kinnaird, brother to Lord Kinnaird, and nephew to the Duke of Leinster, has been appointed the Attache to the Earl of Durham's Legation. UNITED SERVICE IVIUSEUM.—A fine specimen of the boa constrictor, measuring 19i feet in length, has been presented to this institution by Sir Robert Kerr Porter, K. 14. S. It is rumoured that the Earl of Minto is to be at the head of the Commission for inquiring into the opportuni ties of religious worship, means of religious instruction, and pastoral superintendence afforded to the people of Scotland, and into the funds available for the purpose of the Established Church of Scotland"—Morning Paper. The Fast Day in Scotland occasioned the appre hension of several sinful singing men. The Provost of Pais ley, according to the Glasgow Courier, thus addressed one of the offenders :—" Instead of being ashamed, you attempt to qualify your graceless conduct by attempting to compare your sinful meetinc , and singing, to the annoyance of the feelings of every true Christian, with what was done by the respectable company assembled in the Hope Temple Garden. Some un ruly people there might be sent by the enemy to create dis turbance.", THUNDER STORM.-011 Wednesday last, the village of Torry was visited by a thunder storm, accompanied with a tremendous fall of rain and hail. It lasted for about the best part of an hour. The rain fell in torrents, after which came the hailstones—which fell so thickly that they lay three inches deep between the potatoe furrows. All the trees and bushes within the influence of the storm were almost stript of their foliage, and much injury done to the fruit and vege tables in the gardens.—Edinburgh Courant. The action of the Returning Officers for the bo rough and hundreds of Aylesbury is not abandoned, but will be tried at the ensuing assizes. The cause is of great import. anec, as it will form the first precedent under the Reform Act, and determine whether candidates are to be at the mercy of exorbitant Returning Officers, appointed, in the present in stance, by the agent of the Duke of "Buckingham.—Bucks Gazette. DETERMINED SUICIDE.—An elderly woman com mitted suicide yesterday morning by throwing herself off Black friars-bridge into the river. She almost immediately disap peared. Several persons were dragging for the body yester. day but without success. Saturday morning, the youngest daughter of Francis Dunbar, Esq., of Baker -street, Portman-square, attempted to terminate her existence by swallowing laudanum, but by timely discovery a surgeon succeeded in extracting the whole of the poison. The young lady is about 17 years of age, and had been, for some unexplained cause, in a state of dejection for several days. A man named Henry Lilley, on Saturday, threw himself out of one of the wards at the New Westminster Hos pital, labouring under the effects of brain fever. He was taken up senseless. Wo are sorry to learn that the Sarah, —, from China, is a missing ship, and that apprehensions exist of her having fallen into the hands of pirates. Insurances were yesterday effected at Lloyd's, we understand on both ship and cargo of teas, at a premium of fifty guineas per cent. The Diamond, Garraway, with spices, chiefly nutmegs, out about one hundred days from the Cape of Good Hope, had some insurance effected upon her yesterday, at twelve guineas per cent.—Morning Paper. EFFECT OF THE RAILWAY NEAR EDINBURGH. —WC never expected to see the fine Mid-Lothian coal so cheap as it now is in Edinburgh and Leith—viz., from 7s. 6d. to Bs. 6d. per ton • and the price is not partly nominal, as it used to be b e f ore Are railway was made, when no one could be certain as to the weight he received. The railway has virtually brought the great colleries into town.—Edinburgh Weekly Journal. No fairer proof of the real feeling of the rated inha bitants of Canterbury, can be adduced than the fact, that in the late elections for guardians of the poor, the Reformers had a majority of about twenty to eight. Such would be the cer tain result in the Parliamentary elections, if the voters were ei w rer e ep r i e sreo l v e oe f fd t t u ht n heir uninfluenced oats nfl s ue ff n r c s e g d e bLikt e i n m t id ß at e i r o a n ld o . r corruption in the ex- Tle aruid appearance of the wheat in this neighbourhood is very l good, the partial showers have lately very much and barley ; still they must be very short at harvest. The seed hay is all got up in excellent condition, and in general a fair crop. Grass is very short, and many farmers have: waited for rain, having scarcely enough to cover the scythe in many situations that have had no rain for some mon th s. —Brighton Gazette. Santos de La Hera, the new Christino Chief, is the nephew of the General of the sarnb name, who sent him out to South America as a private soldier, under the command of Valdez. lie there attained the rank of Colonel. On his re turn to Spain, with the grade of Brigadier, he married, under the reign - of Ferdinand, the daughter of the then Minister of War, and was shortly sent out as Governor to Santiago de Cuba. At the death of Ferdinand he was recalled, together with General Rocafnerte, who was Captain-General of the whole island of Cuba. Under the Ministry of Valdez he was ' named by; that General Commander of the Army of Reserve assembled in Castile: His - attachment to the national cause, his activity, and his well-known personal bravery, have all acquired for him the regard of the troops, and he has been suc cessful in establishing the strictest discipline. The frequent change of Generals is an inconvenience, but much may be ex pected from Sautes do La Hera:—FreneA Paper: kOREIG'S tUNDS. Portuguese Bonds, 5 per cent. Ditto, New Ditto LO Prussian. 5 per cent. Russian Bonds, 5 per cent. loB3i Ditto, Metallic Spanish, S per cent 4B Ditto, 1.431 4 5 14 French, 5 per cent Exchange —f, —c French, 3 per cent —t. —c Dutch, '2l per cent 54% Ditto, 5 per cent .. 101 Austrian, 5 per cent Belgian, 5 per cent lOO Brailian Bonds Buenos Ayres. 6 per cant 33 Chilian, 6 per cent 46 Columbian, 6 per cent. - Ditto, 181'1 37 Danish Greek Bonds, 1825.5 per cent — Mexican, s'per cent., 1825 — Ditto, 18 - 25, 6 per rent 36M Perim an, ti per cent SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. LIVERPOOL JULY MEETING. LIVERPOOL cur, P.P. (To-monitow.) 6 to 4 agst Sir J. Bosvrell's General Chasse—taken 7 to 1 agst Mr. Johnson's Jupiter—taken 8 to 1 agst Mr. Barrow's Catherine—taken 8 to 1 agst Lord Westminster's Touchstone 9 to 1 agst Mr. Richardson's Lady Le Gros 10 to 1 agst Duke of Leeds's Zohrab 12 to 1 agst Mr. Hebden's Lustre 16 to 1 agst Mr. G. Cook's Red Rover 12 to 1 agst Mr. Heseltine's Warlaby Baylock 12 to 1 agst Mr. Reynard's Revolution 20 to '1 agst any other. DONCASTER ST. LF.GER. 6 to 4 agst Mr. Houldsworth's Turban—taken 2 to 1 agst Mr. Powlet's colt—taken The King has been pleased to appoint the following gentlemen Commissioners for receiving and determining upon the several plans which may be sent in for building the two Houses of Parliament :—C. Hanbury Tracey, Esq., M.P. ; the Hon. Edward Cust; the Hon. T. Liddell; George Vivian Esq. ; and Samuel Rogers, Esq. These appointments wil probably be notified in the Gazette on Tuesday next.—Observer. The Duke of Devonshire has returned to Kemp town, for another short sojourn. His Grace assigned the Bur lington villa, at Chiswick, to his relative the Hon. George Cavendish, M. P., and his bride, Lady Louisa (daughter of the Earl of Harewood), to pasi the honeymoon. The venerable George. Lord Lynedoch, who is in his 84th year, is confined to his residence in Stretton-street, by an accident which he met with on Friday, at the review in Hyde Park, where his Lordship was thrown from his hoTse- The Gallant Nobleman was conveyed borne in one . of the Royal carriages. The marriage of the Hon. Mr. Harbord, now Lord Suffield, had been fixed to take place on the very day succeed ing that of the death of his,late lamented father. MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.—On Saturday, the 11th of July, at All Souls' Church, in the parish of Maryle bone, the Right Hon. Lord George Paulet, Captain in the Royal Navy, third son of the Marquis of Winchester, to Georgina, daughter of Lady Wood and the late General Sir George Wood, K.C.8., of Ottershaw Park, in the county of Surrey. AUSTRIAN AMBASSAPOR TO LONDON.--VIENNA) JULY I.—lt is reported here that Baron Schonburg, our Am bassador at the Court of Wirtemburg, will take the place of Prince Esterhazy, during his temporary absence from London. —Augsburg Gazette. Major Dynely, of the Royal Horse Artillery, brother-in-law to Lord Ellenborough, has been appointed Fire-master of the Laboratory at Woolwich, vice the late Col. Sir A. Frazer. The Earl and Countess of Beauchamp gave a grand dinner on Thursday last, to the Earl and Countess of Manvers, the Earl of Westmoreland and Lady G. Fane, Mr. and Lady Emily Foley, Mr. and Lady Charlotte Egerton, Lord Rokeby, Sir George and Miss Talbot, Colonel Lygon, &c. In the evening her Ladyship's soiree musicale was at tended by a select party ; among:A the company were—the Prince and Princess Polocslca, the French and Russian Am bassadors ; the Ministers from Naples, Bavaria, Hanover; and Belgium ; the Countess Bathyany, Madame de Luttereth ; Counts Pone. di Borgo, de Poll en , d e M ore l ; B aron d e Se nig ; Monsieur de Regina, th e D u k e o f W a lli ngton , the Duke of Somerset and Ladies St. Maur, M arqu i s an d Marchioness of Salisbury, Marquis and Marchioness of Clanricarde, Mar qUit of 'Hertford,llfarehioness and-the-Ladies Hastings; the SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. Mr. John 'Wilson Croker, although ostensibly re tired from public life, and quietly enjoying his pension and sinecures, is, nevertheless, under-ground, an ac tive writer on behalf of the Tories. All the world know that he entertains forlorn hopes of the re-ap pearance of " Conservatives " on the stage of Go vernment, for any considerable period ; and that he privately ridiculed the late attempt. of Sir Robert Peel to draw the State carriage with the old team of out and-out Tories. Nevertheless, Mr. Croker has a na tural appetite for reviling and reviewing the Re formers, and would, if he could, overturn their principles and delay them in their laudable labour of rooting up corruption. Mr. Croker, in one of his " thunder and lightning " articles in the last number of The Quarterly Review, just published, on Muni cipal Reform, has out-Heroded Herod in his prophe cies of bloody revolutions and prognostications of political evil. Some malevolent spirit would seem to haunt his resting place, and to dictate these morbid effusions. Mr. Croker is the night-hag of English politics—the witch supposed to wander in the night, described by Milton in " Paradise Lost"— " Nor uglier follows the Night-hag; when, called In secret, riding through the air she comes, Lured with the smell of infant-blood, to dance With Lapland witches." We extract from the Municipal Corporation Re former, a weekly paper of great talent, temporarily published to record the debates on the important ques tion of Municipal Reform, a commentary on Mr. Cro ker's municipal effusions. Such personal exhibitions are worth a ream of argument ; the facts stated in the extract are singularly illustrative of the borough system, and prove Mr. Croker to be' eminently informed on the value of the abuses of Corporations to the Tories. We there find that Mr. Croker has been steeped in all the iniquities of the municipal system of England—that he has been a " manager'. of boroughs, and is now a cor porator in several English ;towns. The Corporation Rybrmer has " shown up" Mr. Croker in reference only to England; we will take up his political biography as respects Ireland. The " Right Honourable" Gentle man first entered Parliament in 1808, being returned at the general election in 1807 for the borough of Down patrick, in the county of Down, a town enfranchised by the Act of Union, with the privilege of returning one Member to the United Parliament. Lord De Clifford, as the owner of the greater part of the houses and adjacent property, was at that time the " Patron," and " no minated" Mr. Croker. The Corporation, unluckily for the Noble Patron, was a mere shadow, or his Lordship might have preserved his borough, which other families of growing property and influence subsequently wrested from him. Mr. Croker sate quietly for this snug seat during the years 1807, 1809, 1810, and 1811 ; but, in 1812, Mr., Hawthorn defeated him by a majority of 159 votes to 124. After this defeat we find Mr. Croker the following year returned for Ath lone, in the counties of Westmeath and Roscommon, a rotten borough, the nomination seat of the then Mr. William Handcock, the patron being in December of the same year (1812) created Viscount Castlemain Twelve self-elected burgesses " chose" their " repre• sentative," Mr. Croker, who continued Member for Athlone till 1819. Here, again, the Right Hon. ex-Secretary became conversant with the advantages of a close Corporation. Now, let us turn to the Re ports of the Irish Commissioners on the Corporations of the sister island. They are fae similies of the English self-elect bodies, but more exclusive in reli gious composition. Mr. Baldwin, the Irish barriSter, in his Report on Athlone (Appendix, Part 1., p. 127), ably describes the place of refuge of Mr.Croker. The twelve burgesses are thus enumerated : "No Roman Catholic or other Dissenter has ever been a burgess. Indeed, this body is almost confined to the family of Lord Castlemain, the ' patron' of the Corporation. The following list of the present burgesses_(lB33) justifies this ob servation : . admitted 29th June 1790 12th June 1815 9th July 1821 4th Dec. 1824 10th May 1826 4th July 1831 29th April 1794 24th June 1797 " Richard Handcock, sen. Richard Handcock, jun. . . Rev. John Gustavus Handcock Henry Robert Handcock . . George Handcock, . . . . Charles Handcock Richard Telford Richard Cuppiadge . . . The Archbishop of Tuam . 30th June 1800 Lord Ashtown . • same date. Hon. Wm. Le Poer Trench - . ... 4th August 1826 Joseph Morgan Daly . . . . ... sth August 1820 " The first six are of the immediate family of Lord Castle main; the seventh and eighth were stated to be his nephews; the ninth, tenth, and eleventh, to be connected with him by marriage; and Mr. Daly was said to be the only burgess not connected with or related to his Lordship. Of the bur gesses three only arc resident, namely, Richard Handcock, sen , Richard Handcock, jun., and Charles Handcock. Lord Castlemain is himself a burgess, as constable of the Castle." Of the Council, Mr. Baldwin says seven were resi dent and thirteen non-resident. No restriction exists as to the number of this body, and it seldom exceeds twenty ; but the Reporter says " It is remarkable that, with respect to it, we could obtain very little informa tion even from the members of the Corporation." No Roman Catholic has ever been a member of the body, and only one Protestant Dissenter at present belongs to it. The duty of the Common Council is to audit the accounts. Mr. Baldwin reports, "It did not ap pear, however, that any account was ever investigated by them, and during the sovereignty of Richard Hand cock, sen., they frequently refused to do so, and passed the accounts •on his representation." The• class of freemen of course have been made subservient to the purposes of the patron. They are elected for life and admitted by " grace especial," no inchoate right to freedom being acknowledged, and no qualification re quired. Before the Reform Acts, of 227 freemen on the books, two-thirds were non-resident:- On the 24th June, 1831, the fresh number of 165 freemen was admitted, of whom ten were under the age of 21 years, and nine only Roman Catholics. The return in 1830 having been contested against the nominee of Lord Castlemain, this copious admission of 165 persons " took place for the purpose of increasing the constituency in the interest of his Lordship's fa mily." The selection was made secundem artem. Mr. Baldwin states " that in the year 1829, 350 residents, comprising most of the respectable inhabitants, applied to be admitted free, and tendered 1/. each, with their petition to the Sovereign, but being supposed to be hostile to the Handcock family, they were all refused admission !" Of the 165 freemen admitted in the in terest of the Patron 157 were non-resident. Mr. Baldwin makes the following remarks on the ruling body :. • " 8. The management of the affairs of the borough is no minally vested in the Common Council, but in reality the en tire control of the Corporation is exercised by Lord Viscount Castlemain. The "borough" formerly belonged to the Handcock and St. George families. The present Lord Castlemain purchased from Sir Richard St. George his in terest therein, and from the period of that purchase has exer cised over it complete , dominion. " The forms of election by the Council are regularly ob served, but the elected are either the nominees of his Lord ship, or persons notoriously in his interest. " The right of electing the officers is granted by charter to the Sovereign, bailiffs, and burgesses. How it came to be exercised by the Common Council did not appear. In effect, however, there is little difference, as this body consists of the Sovereign, and bailiffs, and generally of the burgesses, toge ther with a very few of the freemen. " The power of self-election exercised by this body, pos sessing, as it in form does, the whole management of the Cor- . poration, enables its ' patron,' however extended the number of freemen may be, to maintain a perfectly close and exclusive Corporation. , " So secret are the proceedings of this self-elected and irresponsible body, that even burgesses and freemen, not members of it, are excluded from its meetings." • Now all these facts are well known to the Quarterly Reviewer, Mr, Croker. The history of the Corpora tions of Ireland down to the accession of James I. fol lows a course exactly parallel to that of the English Muncipal Government. It was the policy of that pe dantic despot which first began the direct subversion of all popular constitution in the corporate boroughs of Ireland. The distinction was, however, completed in the reign of Charles 11., when the first Irish Parliament after the Restoration gave to. that Mo narch and his Irish Privy Council (Statute 17th and 18th Charles 11., cap. 2) the power to legis, late ' for the Corporations of Ireland within a: given time ; and a few days before the expiration of` that time the celebrated " New -Rules " were: -issued, which abolished even in Dublin every relic of popular constitution,. and provided that no 'chief officer of a body corporate should execute the duty of 'his office until his election had been ratified by the Lord Lieu tenant, a rule which has remained the law tb the pre sent day: Nevertheless, A shall doubtless see Nr., Croker in a second article, next quarter, equally rabid against the Irish Corporation Commissioners. The old night-hag knows the system in both countries. The Corporation Reformer, in its curious exhibition of Mr. Croker as a corporator in Bodmin and Alde burgh, omitted to state that the Right Hon. ex-Secre tary was forced to seek an asylum in the representation of those two rotten boroughs between the years 1821 and 1828, when the Tory University of Dublin se lected him Al a Protestant champion. Since the Re form Bill, Mr. Croker has shown his sense by retiring from Parliamant ; and we should hope that he will also retire after these exposures from his avocation of a Mu nicipal Revie wer.--Morning Chronicle. When politicians, for the sake of party objects, en gage in discussions upon what is usually designated by the single name of Popery on one side, or Protes tantism on the other, there is a point beyond which no friend of religious freedom—that is to say, no con scientious and consistent Protestant—can accompany them. Many of the articles of obligation or belief, purely religious, held by Papists for instance— such as the real Presence—the worship of the Virgin —the number and nature of the miracles recorded by their Church—however we may condemn one, or all of them, as in the highest degree erroneous, according to our own understanding of what constitutes essential Christianity—are innocent of any such traceable ope ration upon the temporal state of well-being of other Christians, as would justify the Legislative Power of a Protestant people in molesting, interfering with, or any wise disturbing those who entertain such errors. True it' is that Popery has never conceded so much—true that toleration of any doctrines but its own, even the most abstract, and apparently re mote from all social influence, is held by the Popish church in abhorrence—that proselytism, even by coer cive means, is insisted on as a rigorous duty for the sake of exercising it as a substantial right—and that dissent from the doctrines of the Church of Rome, without the least ostensible reference to political inte rests or to worldly objects, has at all times and under all circumstances been reprobated by that church as a crime to be put down by ecclesiastical authority. This characteristic of Popery has been so much a portion of its whole frame, and so inseparable from its liabtual action; and the fact is at the same time so notorious, that the loud pretensions lately made by certain Re 'lrish demagogues to a respect for 44 liberty of con science," as an indirect means of furthering the power aimed at by their priests of persecuting and utterly crushing that liberty, appear to us among the examples of artful hypocrisy the most pitiful and revolting on re cord.• This, nevertheless, be it remembered, is no rule by which the actions of Protestants ought to be regulated. If infallibility be laid claim to by the Popish 'church, and a right founded thereon to direct the consciences of all mankind, we, Protestants, build our dissent from Popery on the free exercise of individual judg ment, and we must not practise the tyranny we con demn by meting out their own measure to the Papists. In so far, therefore, as what are termed Popish " su perstitions" have become, or may become, the subjects of public disputation and opprobium amongst Pro testants, let them be ever such able and learned men, for the sake of merely stirring up national hatred against their adversaries, we are not amongst the approvers of such attempts, and would cordially rejoice to see them, one and all, relinquished. Truths, the most humiliating to those who differ from us in religious opinion, it may be perfectly indefensible for Protestants to make topics of public denunciation in popular as semblies. It is not the most vulnerable branch of Popery—it is not that against which the assault can be directed with the most obvious justice, with the most irresistible appeal to the sympathies of a free and jealous nation, or with the plainest and most ample support from every principle of political justice. We have been accused, quite falsely (the falsehood of a charge being in the eyes of certain slanderers its favourite ingredient), with palpable and unblushing disregard of truth—we have been accused of holding up the religious doctrines of Popery to the general reprobation. The instances of this offence on our part have been drawn from some recent articles, wherein we noticed the abominable tendency of the professional duties prescribed to Romish priests, as illustrations of the cruel and demoralizing methods by which they are accustomed to gain a despotic power over the minds of their flocks, and to mould, - or at least bias, the fiercest wills,. in conformity to the instructions and secret designs of the confessional. It was not to the devotional point of Dens' s Theology that we ever took the trouble of inviting our Protestant and politkal readers. It was to the horrible manner of enforcing a familiarity with, and agross attention to, subjects through which no human being ought to usurp the privilege of staining,indelibly the imaginations of his fellow mortals. It is physically impossible that the inquisitor into do mestic life, after the vile fashion inculcated by books like that to which we have adverted, should not be more a' corruptor of the guiltless, than apreceptor to the un taught. 'We have heard, and we know what we affirtii to be true, that in numerous cases women have 'de clared their first teacher, even of the alphabet of vice, to be the priest who confessed them. His is indeed too frequently the serpent's part, and the tree of know ledge to which he introduces the innocent is loaded with the fruit of death. It is this dreadful power de rived from auricular confession by the menial of a church on whose fiat depends absolution or punish ment immediate and eternal, from one whose decrees go forth without control, without appeal, setting all human laws, authorities, influences, and maxims at defiance—this it is which chiefly filled the grave 'and reflecting mind of the late Lord Grenville with dismay, and determined him to regard as inadmissible and frightful, any extension of power to the Romish laity which should not be accompanied by some effective pledge or barrier against the, perversion of that power to purposes invariably held sacred by the Papal church, through her inevitable ascendancy over the spirit of her laymen. The practice of auricular confession alone, said Lord Grenville, was replete with danger to any free society. In fact, with it there can be no freedom of conscience. Things temporal, no less than things spiritual, are all within its dominion—for there is no question, however purely political or social in its nature, which priestly insolence, arrogance, and dexterity do not contrive to make, some how or other, " stuff o' the conscience," as bearing upon the interests of religion. When we add to this privilege the power of excommunication— no empty form, as with us Protestants—but a real outcasting from all the intercourse of life, and from its comforts—when we recollect, moreover, the right usurped by these confederated bashaws, •of bellowing out even from the altar the names of those among the congregation who presume to disobey their mandates upon any and every question -relating_to politics, gene ral or local, and especially when such commands have been issued in furtherance of a system of " passive resistance" to the laws—when it is in evidence, under a thousand forms, that the proclamations of the altar have been made subservient to the nonpayment of tithe, to the desertion of landlords, to the intimidation of electors by savage violence, that in short, every priest has his own parochial parody on the " Death's head and cross-bones of the agitator, and has worked it with no less skill and boldness than the great apostle of sedition himself, our English and Protestant readers may judge what sort of political game that must be which is played by persons calling themselves statesmen, and of which it is the Sole intelligible result to throw into the hands of a priesthood so constituted, so actuated, so trained to the work of virtual insurrection and subver sion, an unprecedented mass of political power. We repeat it for the hundredth time, it is not the " doc trines" of the church of Rome, for which we care one single farthing. It is the terrific church govern ment of Popery which we deprecate, that govern ment which has from time i mmemorial declared war against every other -dominion but its own on -earth, and which verifies to a tittle the boast of Archi medes and. the sarcasm of Hume—using " the other world for a lever; w hereby to move this world at its will"-the Most tremendous engine for enslaving the heart of man, and barring the progress of society, that ever yet existed. The only form of political government which can stand at all against the spirit of Popery is a military despotism, and of that there is but a precarious chance depending on the greater or less mental vigour of the Monarch pro tem. pore. Then, can it be any thing short of frenzy. to intro duce into Ireand a measure equivalent to that of corpo. 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