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y zem. He thought it wns for the S.:, eaker to decide whether it was a questiwof privilege, and if he should decide it wus not, lie had a iightto bring it forward at,the present moment. The SPEAKER addressed the House, but was quite in, in the.:ll.eportee3 Gallery. Mr. RiJIIIN sto N said he should certainly bring the qucs ticn forward on :Mouilav next. An Hon. MEimEa, whose' name was unknown in the gallery,- nsented a petition relatingto the working of the Reform Act reference ,to, 101. householders and joint-tenants, praying for inquiry theneinto, which was referred to the Committee for Election purposes. Mr. H. WILSON presented two petitions from parishes in Sunik, i tcavour of the better observance of the Sabbath. • INDIA COMPENSATION. Mr. CAkiWTHERS. presented a petition from certain o' leers of the,,Eat India Company's servieo, relative to the Compensation Bill. The prayer of the petition was that the House should .not alter the resolution as to compensation which bail passed the Court of Directors and the Cc,urt of Pro prietors. Whatever the House might do to reward officers exempted from that resolution, the petitioners prayed the 11 , use not to touch that award. Mr. ROBINSON said the petitions which he_ had the ho n'.ur of presenting did not propose to disturb other officers. The petitions in that case merely prayed for redress of their 0%..n grievances: ECCLESIASTICAL COURTS BILL. Mr. HUTT presented a petition from the Solicitors of Hull, praying that no alteration may be made in the system of ret!istration, as contemplated by the Ecclesiastical Courts Nil. Laid on the table. GRANT TO THE CLERGY OF IRLAND. Sir H. HARDINGE had made enquiries respecting the re:urns moved for by the Hon. Member for Southwark re spectinn• the distribution of the million lent to the Clergy of Ireland; he had made calculations Ly which it appeared that the bole of the returns could not be made at an expense of less than 2000/. He hoped, therefore, there would be Lo objection to the discharge of the order for the return. Mr. D. W. HA RVE Y.—The returns had been ordered by that House, and he saw no reason why they should not be illade. It was important that the House and the country should know how this million bad been distributed, and to Nvhom.—( Hear, hear.) Mr. LITTLETON: did not think that the expense would Le so great as the Right Hon. Bart. had calculated. Sir H. HARDINGE said that the Government had not the slightest objection to the returns. The only objection to them vas the extreme expense that would attend them being laid on the table of the House. The subject then dropped. DROGHEDA ELECTION. The CHAIRMAN of the Drogheda Election appeared at the bar, and informed the House that in consequence of the ab sence of Sir Roger Gresley the Committee sat for an hour, and then adjourned. Lord HOTHAM (the Chairman) said, that as the Corn. mittee had received no information of the cause of the absence of the Hon. Member, or the least intimation that he would be absent, they had been put to serious inconvenience. He trusted the House would give the Hon. Member, who was absent, an opportunity of accounting for that absence. ( Here Sir S. Gresley entered the House amidst great laughter. The Hon. Member walked very deliberately up to the table, and bowed to the Chair, apparently unconscious that he had caused the laughter of the House. Upon the Hon. Member taking his seat by Sir H. Hardinge, the Right Hon. Baronet intimated to him what had taken place.) Sir R. GRESLEY most humbly apologized to the House for his absence from the . Committee, but the truth was, he did not leave the House till nearly half-past four this morning,and the heat was so oppressive—(Great laughter)—and he was in a such a state of perspiration when he left it—(lncreased laughter)—that it brought on a severe shivering fit—(Re viewed laughter)—the effect of which totally incapacitated him from attending any Committee.—( Laughter.) Sir R. PEEL—Great inconvenience must arise from the loss of time and delay which the non-attendance of Ho nourable Members at Meetings of Committees cannot fail to occasion.—( Hear.) On the present occasion the question was whether they should receive the excuse of his Hon. Friend at once without further notice, or whether they should direct him to attend at the next meeting of the Committee. They would also have to consider whether or not, if they adopted the first of those two courses, they would be laying down an improper precedent. It was quite clear that no public inconvenience would arise from dispensing with the strict and literal mean ing of the law—the rule went upon the assumption that the Member was not present. The SPEAKER stated, as we understood, that he believed it would be quite incompetent for a Member who had been charged with absence from a Committee, if present in the House, to make his excuse himself personally ; as if he were absent from illness, he conveyed that excuse through the medium of his Physician. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said it appeared to him the case which had actually occurred was not provided for, be cause by the rule it was assumed that the Member was contuma ciously absent, and did not present himself without being sum rnoned.!He conceived that the Hon. Gentleman coming in without any order having been made out, the House could not deal with it as if Ile had been in the custody of the Serjeant-at-arms. Lr. LUSHINGTON apprehended that in construing the meaning of the Act, they must endeavour to find out what was its original intent, and not any studied meaning it might bear. He agreed with the Hon. Bart. that it was competent for the House to receive the excuse of the Hon. Gentleman, provided the excuse was a proper one. The Act specified that it was so, provided he made his appearance at the next sitting of the House, and pleaded his excuse verified upon oath. ' • He was of opinion that the excuse of the Right Hon. Gent might be rec,:ived, but must be made upon oath. Sir R. PEEL quoted two cases in which the excuse for the absence of lion. Members had been received. These two precedents he thought were sufficient to enable the House to decide the present case. Mr. GO ULBURN contended that the previsions of the Act were that no Member could absent himself without leave of the House, or without an excuse allowed by the House. Mr. HUME thought the declaration of the Hon. Member would be quite sufficient without requirir,g him to take au oath. On the Motion of an Hon. Member„ the Minutes of the House were referred to, and it appeared, that in the case of Lord Viscount Cole having absented himself from a Corn naittee, he had tendered an excuse, and had verified the same upon oath.---( Heat.) The ATTORNEY-GENERAL agreed in the view of the case taken by the Hon. Member for Middlesex. He thought the declaration of an Hon. Member was equivalent to his oath. After a few words from Sir R. PEEL and Lord JOHN Ros :SELL, who said the Act was imperative, Sir R. GRESLEY was sworn to the truth of his state ment. He trusted that the House would excuse him on the ground of his being a young Member.—(Cheers.) IRISH CHURCH ESTABLISHMENT. Lord JOHN RUSSELL having moved the order of the day for a Committee of the whole House on the Izish. Church, Sir ROBERT PEEL rose and said that he should riot throw the slightest objection in the way of the motion of the Noble Lord—( Heal-, hear, hear)—but the exigencies of the State rendered a it necessary that the Navy Estimates and the Mutiny Act should come under the earliest consideration of the House, and therefore he proposed last night that the debate should be adjourned till Monday, that the public service might not be put to inconvenience. if the debate :•hould go over till Monday, he should suggest that at fi ve o'clock the Mutiny Act s h ou ld be pr o p o sed, and he thought 7he House would see the importance of agreeing with that proposition. The House then resolved itself into Committee. Mr. FINCH then rose, and immediately the Members from both sides of the House made a rush to the door. Such was the number that got to the passage leading to the door of the llouse, that five minutes elapsed before anything- approachino to order was restored. In the interval the Chairman frequently called upon the Sergeant-at-Arms, and desired gentlemen to take their plaers. All was unavailabbs!, and it was not until ).ot more than forty members were left in the House, that the lon. Methbcr was able to proceed. Mr. F. then proceeded— " :'e understood him to charaetcr;ze the Noble Lord's resolu tion as one of the most extraordinary and repugnant to com mon sense that had ever been proposed within the walls of that liouse. The Hon. Gentleman thon went into the history of i he Irish Church for the last 700 years, and connected it with the history of this country up to the period of the last thirty five years., Ile asserted that 10,000 Irish Protestants had migrated. within the last twenty-live years unable to endure The state of things that agitation had produced in that country. He said that the lion. Member for Dublin indulged in sneers about the nerve necessary for a clergyman in that distracted eauntry. He could tell him that it was a fit subject to call forth tire nerve and determination of any man. He then related the effects of one of the feremoSt of the agrarian disturbers be . oming a convert to Protestantism. In spite of every caution in the open day he had had his house pulled down, and had been compelled to leave the country. It was said that the present measure was calculated to conciliate. Ile referred to the career of conciliation - pursued by Earl Grey, and inquired if its effocts had not been directly the reverse of those antici pated ? The Tithe Bill when passed the Hon. and Learned .dember for Dublin had declared, nay promised, should put vat end to bloodshed, at least for that, year. Shortly after wards the Administration was dissolved. The Hon. and Learned Member then published a letter to the people of Ire land, expressing his, strong dissatisfaction of that Bill ; and, instead of its proving a panacea, as he said, for Ireltunl's woes, it was like casting among her population a hundred firebranciw. The Hon. Gentleman then went on to deprecate tire opinion '.fiat the appropriation of a surplus could prove any remedy to such manifold evils. He considered that in the annals of the world so simple a scheme was never imagined, and that re.) man worthy the name of a statesman could ever have brought forward so wild a project.—( Hear e lrear.) Instead Sit conciliation being its effect, it would rouse a spirit of dis cord and civil strife from one end of Ireland to the other. If he sacred character of the Church property. were to be in fringed on under the idea of appropriating an imaginary sur plus, there would be no safety for any description of property whatever. He would have Honourable Gentlemen pause before they committed the act involved in the resolution of the Noble Lord. ,Put even if they should be deaf to the 'yarning or blind to the consequences, he could not conceive that there was any chance of the resolution being effective for the yurposes intended by it, as he was firmly convinced that the' ether branch or the Legislature would never cons en t t o t h e spoliation of the Church of her property. He, in common Ivith the country, had heard with gratitude the declaration of Vole Right HO, Baronet the Secretary. for Ireland, that it 'mu sot his inlintion to throw the shield of protection over any abuses which might exist ht tire Irish Church Establishment, and that the present Government were prepared to abolish pluralities and sinecures, as well as to distribute more equally its revere Viz. Was not that declaration sufficient to satisfy all. teasouabl k en ? The whole proceeding of the Hon. Members cpposite, regarded the Irish Church, was a solemn mockery. His Majesty's present Ministers had never intrigued for office : it had never entered into their minds to do so.—( Hoar, bear. ) He Mr. F.) should oppose the resolution, becatise he be lieved that it went to endanger the existence cf the, Pro testant Church in these kingdoms. His Majesty's _Ministers under these circumstances, should boldly appeal to the people. Cheers.) He anticipated from the people of England such an expression of sentiment as would soon reduce the ma jority against Lie Majesty's Ministers.—( Hear, hear.) He did not entertain such 'a b e d opinion of the people of England as to believe that they vn:ultl, in the event of a ,second appeal to them, sanction a s : ;otiation of the Church.—(Hear.) He was ! satisfied that they were fully able to appreciate the motives which would dictate it. The Right Hon. Baronet ( Sir Ro bert Pcel) intended to carry out the instituti ms of the country as far as they were susceptible of improvement, and the Right Hon. Baronet was also making a manly stand in defence of the prerogative of the Crown, and he was doing this not for his own private gain or advantage, but for the benefit of his coun try. Whatever might happen, that Right Hon. Baronet would have consecrated to him one of the proudest pages in the history of his country. Having trespassed upon the atten tion of the House so long, he would now cheerfully resign his place to Hon. Members more capable of filling it. Mr. A. JOHNSTON said that he did not think justice had been done to the Protestants of Ireland by lion. Members on the Opposition side of the House. If du; Irish Church were properly regulated it would prove itself to be strong and efficient, and its Clergymen were good and zealous Christians. lie considered that before they came to any conclusion as to the appropriation cf the revenues of that Church they should have more extensive means of information concerning it. With respect to those funds he saw the greatest discrepancy existing between the statements of Hon. Members on both sides of the House, and he thought that when the country considered that discrepancy, they would be very much asto nished at the vote come to last night. It was, therefore, im proper to legislate respecting these funds when such monstrous discrepancies were urged as to their amount and existence. For his own part he thought that Missionary Clergympn should go about Ireland preaching the Gospel in the native language of the people of that country, since there were three .millions of people in Ireland who could not receive instruction except through their own language.—(Cries of Oh," from the Opposition.) He would ask Hon. Members whether because the institution of the Church in Ireland were abused they ought to be totally destroyed? He thought that they ought to be rendered more efficient, and that would net be done by the means proposed on that side of the House, which went to strip them of their revenues. He regretted, however, that the resolution of the Noble:Lord had been met by a direct negative on the part of the Right Hon.. Baronet the Paymaster of the Forces, because they would make the country think that the present Ministry intended no Reform of the abuses of the Church. He did not think the resolution properly framed, for it might be so managed as to leave little doubt of the intentions of those who supported it. By the articles of the Union, it was stipulated tliai the Protestant re ligion should be maintained in Ireland. He did not think that it should be kept up with its present abuses ; but in salutary reforms he would go as far as any man. Nothing could be more ridiculous than to be legislating about a surplus when it was alleged on both sides that no surplus could arise for fifty years to come. If there were any it might be applied to purposes of education ; but not to such a system as :hat introduced by the Noble Lord the Member for Lancashire, since he was sure that the returns would prove that that system was not so good as it was thought to be.—( Hear.) He did not like the side wind by which Hon. Members wished to get rid of the present Administration. If they had no confidence in them, let them bring forward some substantive and constitu tional motion, and h would be ready to declare that he had no confidence in the present Administration. He agreed with those_ observations that had been made on the other side of the House, that the Opposition were a mere rope of sand, and that that would soon be seen. Let them look to that Opposition, and they would see among them a large party who had opposed the late Administration, and who were the chief means of depriving it of power. He had not voted either for or against the present resolution, but he partly agreed with it, though he did not approve of the conclusion to which it would lead. Colonel CONOLL Y regretted that he had not been able to speak previously in the debate ; but, coming from a Pro testant county in Ireland, and having heard the acrimonious assertions against the Protestants of that country, he felt himself bound to deny the greater part of those as sertions, and to refute them generally. The Protestants of Ireland had much reason to complain of what had been spoken of them by Honourable Members opposite during the course of the last four nights debate. By them the Church had been vilified, its revenues overrated, and the people of Ireland excited to notions of spoliation. It was for such an object that the resolution of the Noble Lord was brought for ward. His intention in rising was to strip the resolution of its false colouring, and to represent it in the iniquitous and si nister garb in which it was really clothed. The pretended motion was for the advantage of the education of the people of Ireland, but it really had its source in the most gross and iniquitous deception that had ever been palmed on the people of Ireland.—( Hear, hear.) It was a motion of an interested and insidious body—( Hear, hear, hear)—brought forward to combine certain persons in that House in a most miser able coalition. It was brought forward to drive a dagger into the breast of the present Administration—though that was not avowed, and though its supporters dared not openly admit it.—(Cheers.) Everything disgraceful and dishonour able to the human heart had been resorted to to deceive Honourable Members, and to make them think that - it was the interest of the people of Ireland they wished to promote, while in reality the promoters of the motion had nothing but their own sordid interests in view. When this was pro perly represented to the British nation, they Would despise men who could listen to and become the dupes of such a de ception. But the people of his county should not be deceived if they had a particle of - ...l2,2rztancling, as long as he had a voice to raise in or out of that House. E ve.y thing unfair had been resorted to, to gild this most insidious question. It was said that Ireland wanted justice. But the people of Ireland would not be deceived by statesmen, who, in order to promote their own objects, covered them .with the flimsy garb of affection towards the people of that country. To prove that affection, they' went back to the times of tlonry VIII., raked up old grievances and abuses, and affected the deepest sympathy for their fellow-countrymen. What were theze pretended governors of Ireland going to do? They were going to reject the real remedy for the people of Ire land, and substitute in its stead measures that would bring them into power, and lay prostrate the law in Ireland: The real evil connected with the Irish Church was the tithe system, and from the management, or rather mismanage ment, of that, arose the grievances complained of. He believed, however, that the Tithe Bill introduced by the present Government would tend in a, great measure to do away with the abuses of the tithe system. ( Hear.) Why did Hon. - Members place obstacles in the way of this Bill? No doubt it was their extreme love for Ireland which induced them to perpetuate the evil against which they had so often inveighed, and to withhold the remedy for it, while . . they adopted another course with the same show of sensibility for the Irish people as before. This reckless determination of some .Hon. Members to withhold the real remedy convinced him, if indeed he wanted 'grounds for such conviction; that the evils of L eland were the only wares with which they could trade. Ireland wonted education. Such language was pre posterous, coming from a party which had invariably resisted the diffusion of moral and religious education. —(Loud cheers.) Ho was one who had for thirty years exerted himself to promote scriptural education through out his own country. Hon. Members might deride him. He would only say let them exert themselves as stre nuously and successfully as he had in the cause of education. —( Cheers.) The good he had so effected was not by pre datory incursions on the public purse—!: A laugh from the Op position)—but by defraying the. expenses out of his own pocket. He was more than compensated by knowing .that hii exer tions had in many cases been attended with the happiest results ; and he wished that others had adopted a similar course, instead of kec ping up that system of ignorance and and- error by which the demagogues agitators had obtained in Ireland such dangerous influence. But now these Gentle. men stood forward and called for education, and such was thei. love for their country that they could not wait for a surplus, but must anticipate it by at least seventy years. A system of education of which all sects and denomirc4tious were to partake the benefit was now proposed by men who had heretofOre re sisted every attempt to enligke:l aid rescue the people from their pitiable state of ignorance. But it. was a mere pretence, a miserable subterfuge. A man must have been but a short time in Ireland, and a still shorter time in the House of Com mons, who could not see through this despicable gloss of as sumed philanthropy and patriotism. It showed that Hon. Members, in order t•a attain their ends, had been compelled to throw off the incumbrances both of common truth and common sense. Facts, figures, and indisputable calculations had all been thrown overboard, and the principle of appropriating the alleged million of Church property was put forth as the great influencing principle. Why was a million constantly stated as the amount of the Irish Church revenues, instead of the actual wn, 450,0001. ?—( Hear, hear.) It was to excite the cupidity, and produce that very clamour which some Hon. Members would have it believed they desired to suppress.— (Loud cheers.) With the love of order and peace on their lips Hon. Members put forward this proposition with the full knowledge that its effect would be to excite still greater cla mour, still greater violence, and still greater disagreement than already prevailed in Ireland. With this knowledge, and for ti ; jr own purposes, they bring up the Eatablished Church as a perma;;Qpt object of spoliation, and an endless source of profit. It was tr.; that some Hon. Members chose to specu late en the probable increase of the Protestant Establishment under this modern system of plunder; bu t t for himself he must admit that he thought it very unlikely that the protestant Es tablishment would be extended or even maintained while the line of demarkation was drawn in such fearful colours before the door of the Protestant voter, and while the most awful denunciations were levelled against any man who presumed to differ in the slightest degree from one who was the greatest despot in the British dominions, the Hon. and Learned Member for the city of Dublin-40h, oh, from the Opposition.) Ile would repeat the words—the greatest despot in the British dominions.--( Oh, oh; from the Oppo sttiQn.) If murder was not despotism, then he was ignorant of its nature. Mr. ROEBUCK—I must call the gallant Colonel to or der. He accuse's the lion. and Learned Member for Dublin of murder.—( A laugh.) Colonel C ONO LL Y—Was there no instigation to murder ? Mr. ROEBUCK—I must again rise to order. Now the Gallant Colonel charges thz Hon. and Learned Member with having instigate . d persons to commit rau - .7.der, Mr, BERNAL said he hoped the Gallant Colonel Ivould not think it necessary to continue that tone. Colonel C 0 NOLLY said ho should bow to the suggestion from the Chair. He only hoped that the consequences of , these instigations had been as unreal as his. assertion was eon shit Tod to cheering.) If any man presumed to adept an indepsndent line of action in Irelani it was notorious to ;vha.:h dangers ki exposed himself. When he keew this, wl ai could he think of the pretence of good or _7er and regard for the Church by which Hon. Gentlemen profes3ed to 1 e ac cur ted? These lofty :n-sertions, however, were but covers of the in-.idious purposes of Hon. Gentlemen. Their policy was to do tinat by a s. mater course which they dared not ed'hct in a manly and straight-forward manner. Their conduct had been desig nated factious, and certainly it had every ingredient ef faction but one, arid that was courage.—( Cheers and counter cheers.) Their scandalous inspositions they_ had garnished with a show of phi lanthrophy and i.ublic principle, and this sorry deceit, this barefaced eelusion, had entrapped 330 Members of the House of Commons.—( Loud cheers.) Of the whole course which had been adopted towards the Established Church he and his countrymen - had ample cause to complain. For a sinister pur pose its Ministers had been vilified, its revenues exaggerated, and the adherents to its creed contumeliously treated. The proctedings of the. Protestants in reference to the Catholic body had been most grossly misrepresented, although . it was known and always admitted that in no - part of the country were the Roman Catholics received with greater friendship and cor diality that bytheProtestants in the north of Ireland. —( Cheers.) Were he to go over the mistatements of Hon. Gentlemen on the other side he should trespass too long on the time of the House. But he must remark upon the strange inconsistency of the Hon. Gentlemen who in the last Session declared their determination to discountenance all attempts to sever the couriection between England and Ireland, leaguing with men who were pledged to effect the repeal of the Union, and coalescing with them in carrying a mea sure that must irretrievably . diLeaken the bond by which the two countries were united:slWhe conduct of Hon. Mem bers in taking a step which more than any other would lead to the repeal of the Union was to him inconceivable. In sup porting the Church of Ireland they supported the Protestant inhabitants of Ireland, arid would Hon. Members say that the Protestants needed not support? Was it unknown to them that from the weakness of the securities against murder and outrage, numbers had been compelled to seek safety in a fo reign - land ?—( Hear.) To his own knowledge one thousand unfortunate men had departed from the shores of their native country. Some of them he entreated to remain, and what was the answer ? " Can we walk the road in safety?"— ( Hear, hear.) Hon. Members said that the Protestant Church must be limited .to the population ; but judging from Fast events he thought that the people would not be allowed to remain in the bounds of the Church. The encouragement whieh would be given by - the success of this measure to the enemies of good order was fearful to contemplate. It would be a temptation to still further plunder, an aggravation of party violence, an incitement to disturb, and a complete bar to do mestic tranquillity. Besides these circumstances he must give his unqualified opposition to a measure which would be attended with the most disastrous' results to this unfortu nate country, and which was now employed by Honourable Gentlemen as the flimsy covering of a sinister political ob ject.—( Cheers. ) Mr. S. CRAWFORD (who was very indistinctly heard) briefly addressed the House. ' He approved of the reduction of the Church revenues, and hoped that the measure would only be the forerunner of reforms not less necessary or impor tant. The extinction of tithes, and some remedy for the evils of absenteeism were among the first of those reforms. Averse as be was to the separation of Ireland from England, yet in the endeavour to effect it lie should feel bound to concur, un less ample justice was speedily accorded to Ireland. Colonel VERNER, after a few words in opposition to the motion, which were utterly inaudible in the Gallery, said he had put a question to the Noble Lord ( Lord J. Russell) some time back, to which he had yet received no answer. He begged now again to ask him, whether it was intended that a Church endowed hereafter by a private person would be liable to the operation of any measure that might be founded on his reso tion 1 Lord J. RUSSELL declined at present going into any de tails. He had, however, no objection now to say that such en dowments as those mentioned by the Hon. Member were not to come within the operation of the plan. Sir R. BATE SON did not intend to have addressed the House were it not for the allusion made to the county of Down meeting. He had been a resident of that county all his life", and notwithstanding the taunts that were threwn out the other night by the Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Littleton) he was quite ready to identify himself with that meeting, and with those who attended. A more constitu tional or a more decorous meeting was never held. It was called together by the county because they had no confidence in the Government of the Right Hon. Gentleman.—( Hear) —because the Protestants had not fair play, because they saw that whatever the Member for Dublin pleased to dictate to that Government was the law.—( Cheers.) There never was a Government more unpopular. " The Protestants of the North had not fair play, not common fair play. That meeting consisted of all that was most respectable an opulent in the county, and it septuated without the least disorder. Not a single drunken man left it.—(Laughter from the Opposition benches.) He was not to be put down by sneers or taunts. Every Nobleman in the county but two attended the meeting. Not more than 800 signatures could be procured to the counter petition, though hawked about to all the alehouses in the couniy. Mr. LITTLETON said the speech of the Hon. Gentle man consisted more of noise and declamation than argument. He should recollect that assertion was not proof. He said the general opinion throughout the north of Ireland was that even handed justice could not be obtained from the late Govern ment. Why, then, did he not last Session bring forward some specific charge ? He invited—be challenged—him to do so now. He begged to wit the Hon. Membr whether he was one of four or five Magistrates who signed a requisition, ting the Orange lodges of that country to come forward in aid of the objects for which that meeting was assembled ? Sir R. BATE SON—I never heard of that requisition, .and lam not an Orangeman. Perhaps the charges which the Right Hon. Gentleman challenged might yet be brought.— (Cheers.) The Pight Hon. Gentleman was the last person who should have alluded to . - 2,17.'...ech in the sneering manner he did. Mr. Wvsr, and Lord CASTLESIAGH rose at the same time. Lord CASTLE REAGH did not think it becoming in the Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Littleton) to taunt as he did a Member of that Honse, telling him that his speech was made up of declamation. The taunt might come better from an other quarter than it did from the Right Hon. Gentleman. Notwithstr.nding, all the efforts of the Member for Dundalk to get up a counter petition to that agreed to by the county of Down meeting, he was able to procure in the whole of ten parishes no more than 4,500 signatures. The landlords of that county, in many instances, took upon themselves to pay the tithes, and when this had been done no grievance was felt. It was said the meeting was an Orange meeting, but did the Ofangemen appear there with a display of insulting supe riority ? Did they use taunts, or violence, or threats ? The feelings of a great county were expressed there, but there were no threats, there was no violence. A s an I r i s h man w h o loved his country, who had a large prospective stake in it, and none at all here, he regretted that the present question had been made the vehicle of party feeling. 'their proceedings upon this question were watched by the Protestants of the north, and would not, he feared, produce feelings of attachment to England. He was sorry that the Noble Lord (Lord J. Rus sell), himself a Protestant, came forward as the organ of the Catholic party in that House, and commenced the attack upon the Church.—( Hear.) What was now passing proved to him hew wrong they were when they consented to Catholic Emancipation.—( Cheers.) They were told it would quiet the country.—(A laugh from the Opposition.) Was it not so ? ( Cheers.) Were they not told so ? Was it for this the Pro- testant gentry of Down were solicited to assist their Catholic countrymen hi furtherance of that measure? He cared not what party might be in power ; the good, the peace, and pros perity of his country, thus endangered, were far de arer t o hi m than their paltry resolutions—( Cheers.) They would do no good. They would displease the Catholics because they did not go far enough, and the Protestants because they went too far. He feared nothing would content the former but the total demolition of the Protestant Church in Ireland. Let this be once done, and they would inevitably endanger the Church of England also. He was now ready to raise the cry of " No Popery," because he saw that for the interests of party they were Pursuing a course destructive alike of the Irish and eventually of the 'English Chureh—( Cheers.) Mr. CI?, AWFORD explained. Mr. WYSE believed the Noble Lord who had last spoken . _understood but little the real sentiments of the country, unless in the north of Ireland, the cry of " No Popery " was entirely extiect.—(Hear.) He denied that the powers or Privileges granted to the Roman Catholics by the Emancipation Bill were ever intended to be exercised for the subversion of Church or State.—(Hear, hear.) This assertion was not to b e put down by-sneer or sarcaem, but by argument. If the Catholic Relief Bill was intended to preclude the Members of that House who'belonged to that persuasion from joining in the discussions, it would be as well to dis'rinchise them at once. They did not stand there as partisans, but as the honest representatives of their constituents. The situation of Ire land at this moment was such, that unquestionably education was the most likely means of raising that coultry from the de gradation in which she had for so many ages been sunk. By the Act of Henry the Eighth, the Irish Clergy of that time were bound to provide for the education of the people, by the establishment of parochial schools. The Reformation of Ire land was nothing but a transfer of property from one religion to another, and forcing upon the people a religion with which the people were at war. It was the religion of an oligarchy, and not of the people. It was not religion at all; it was not Pro testantism—it was Churchism. He had always supported in Ireland the principle of providing sufficiently for the Pro testant Clergy and for the spiritual wants of that part of the population professing that religion, but he could never agree to the principle that larger funds should be applic d to wards those objects than old possibly be required. If Ca tholic Emancipation bad not worked out all that was expected from it, the reason was because that measure had Lean too long - delayed. However much be (Mr. Wyse) values] that measure, he did not as a measure of state-policy consider it at rill com parable with a plan - of general education. Mr. SHAW was not disposed to differ much from the Hon. Gentleman opposite, that, if there were a surples of Chur c h property in Ireland, it might be beneficially applied to the purposes of education, provided that education was under Pro- • testant guidance. But his Right Hon. Friend (Sir R. Peel) seeing that this was not the object of the resolution, had acted in that manly straightforward course that had ever dis tinguished him,—(Loud cheers.) Perhaps he (Mr. Shaw) might be charged with inconsistency. The Notil e Lord had quoted, on a former occasion, a speech which he (Mr. Shaw) had been represented to have made, and had stated that the speech had been quoted in the other House of Parliament. Now all he could say was that he had never seen any report of that speech, and when he heard of it for the first time took Decision to - deify it at the time to the I , Hon. Member for I,Vaterford.—( Hear.) He utterly denied that the present system of education in Ireland, as established by the late' Government, was at all successful, or likely to be The Hon. and Learned Member for Dublin had in his eorresponclence, as well as in his speeches, betrayed what were his ultimate objects. In one of his letters he said that the Whig Ministers had aerced to give up two fifths of the Irish tithes; hut that Lord Grev's beeutiCul Order had put them on again ; " hut," added the Ron. Member, " neat year we Shall •be abe to do awav with the tithes entirely." This, then. was the object of the Hon. and Learned Memi;er. The Hon. and Learned Gentleman on another occasion, had said that " as I cannot buy the Clergy we must 'fight them." The Noble Lord the Member for Devonshire who had moved the resolu tion had said, "do but pas:'7, this resolution and I will take away from the Irish the charm of a repeal of the Union." On the other hand, the Hon. and Learned Member for Dub lin had said that he only wanted to extinguish tithes, and then he would call on the people of Ireland never to forget the ne cessity of an independent Legislature.—( Hear.) Here, then, the House had the avowed object, the declered spirit, of the Hon. and Learned Member. The Noble Lord had said that a majority must preside in an Established Church, but the question was, whether this was to be the majority of the whole empire or of only Ireland. Mr. Grattan had said that of the po pulation of the two islands five to one were Protestants, and that therefore Protestant ascendancy would he established even by the emancipation of the Catholics ; and he accordingly, not - withstanding his advocacy of the Catholic cause, supported the principle of a Protestant Established Church. If the majority of Ireland were alone to be taken, why not, by a parity of reasoning, dismember the whole empire, and give to districts and counties —to Lancashire, for instance--the Church of th e ma j or it y ? I t h a d b e e n said that all the evils that. Ireland laboured under, were to be attributed to tithes. This he would totally deny. The whole history of Ireland proved the reverse. He denied that tithes had been the ground of the disturbances in Ireland, though they had often been made the pretext. Even up to 1826, there was a com mandment amongst the Catholics enjoining the payment of tithes; and ill every catechism 'the - re was an injunction to the same effect. Tithes, therefore, had been made the pretext of outrage, and the Protestant clergy were driven to seek that peace and protection in foreign countries which they could not find at borne. Of the lower orders, within the last few years, more than 150,000 of the Protestant population of Ireland had been driven to emigrate from Ireland.—( Hear, hear.) These were the very flower of the Irish population. There were a body of men who held up the light of truth amidst the surrounding darkness.—(Oh, oh I from the Op position, and cheers from the Ministerial benches.) As resi dent men of property, as country gentlemen, as kind neigh bours, as dispensers of charity, as examples of forbearance and of the amenities of life, these men were exemplary ; and yet the present measure would remove them, and with them the Peotestant clergy, and thus stop the civilization which they diffused, and -which the proposers of the present resolu tion said that they wished to introduce--( Hear)—amidst the great waste of ignorance and barbarism.—( Hear, hear.) The question before the Committee was not a question of degree. It was a specific question. It resolved itself simply into this, was there to be in• Ireland a Protestant Established Church or not ?—( Hear, hear.) He admitted, and Ireland would feel, the power of Parliament to make the change now proposed, but he totally denied the right. If the House dismembered the Protestant Established Church he warned it that the dis memberment of the United Kingdom would be a necessary consequence.—( Hear, hear, hear.) He would despise himself if he - could raise the cry that the Church was in danger for any party - purposes, but he should despise himself still more if, out ,of fear of such an accusation, he should hesitate to say that he felt that the Church was in danger, great anti imminent dan ger.—( Cheers.) He implored the people of England to pro tect the people of Ireland from the consequences ; and he would call upon them to remember what their forefathers of old had suffered to establish the reformed faith of the Gospel—the faith for which their ancestors had bled and suffered. a The Hon. Mernber sat down amidst loud cheers. Mr. RICHARDS moved, that.after the words of the reso lution, "the religious and moral education of the people with out distinction of religious persuasion," there be added these few words, " and to no other secular purpose whatever." • He would not divide the Committee, but lie asked the amendment of the Noble Lord, the Member for Devonshire as a favour, in order to satisfy the religious scruples of himself and of others who had supported him on the previous evening. tord J. RUSSELL thought the amendment altogether superfluous. Dr. BO WRING contended that England was the last country in Europe that had adopted the principles of reform ing the Church. In Holland the Clergy did not receive from the people more than one-twentieth of what was exacted from the Irish by the Established Church. France in its State provision for Catholics, Protestants, and Jews, exacted only one-twelfth, and in fact in the principle now before the Committee, England had been preceded by even Portugal and Spain. • - Lord SAND ON had heard nothing that could instruct him Low the Irish people were to be reconciled to tithes by the carrying of the resolution before the Committee. He was willing to admit that the State had the power to deal with the revenues of the Church; but lie at the same time thought that such a right ought not to be exercised save in an extreme case. From the period of the Reformation down to the pre sent time the people bad been accustomed to regard the pro perty of the Church as sacred; but if that property were now to be devoted to other than ecclesiastical purposes, was it likely that the right of any species of property would • be long respected.—(Load cries of " Hear, hear, liezne") . This lie believed was the first time that an attempt had been made to bring the rights of property into discredit, for that would be the inevitable result of the course they were now taking,. The Noble Lord even if he took a sum of 200,0001. for effecting object a th m e onath ie clergyw•hich he had in view, would h a v e th em b e li eve that ther e wou ld remain nearly 600,000/. to be dist r ib u t e d of the Establishment ; but his (Lord San don's) Right Hon. Friend or, the other hand asserted that this could not be the case, inasmuch as those revenues did not exceed 459,000/. Here was a dilemma in which the Noble Lord was placed, and how had he escaped from it ?—( Hear. ) The fact, however, was, that the Noble Lord, and those who jrt'S'.l this resolution were dealing with a mere supposi tion ; they were, sad: t, providing for the appropriation of a surplus which had no existence but in th e•en imagination. —( Hear.) As the principle contained in this resolution ens not only new but such as had never before been thought of, he. without expressing any opinion as to the power of Parliament to interfere with the revenues of the Church, felt no hesitation whatever in giving it his most decided opposition.--( Hear, hear, and cries of " Divide, divide.") Mr. BR OTHE RTON observed that it was now past twelve o'clock, and therefore moved that the Chairman should report progress, and ask leave to sit again.—( Cries of " Divide," and " Adjourn, adjourn.") Mr. BE RNAL having pitt the qUestion of adjournment, Mr. El AWES said that the Noble Lord had brought a serious charge against those who sat on that (the Opposition) side of the House. He said they meant to secularize the pro perty of the Church, which had been held sacred from the period of the Reforniation down to the present time. But was the Noble Lord justified in advancing such a charge with the evidence furnished by the perpetuity Fund, which was ori ginally Church property, before his eyes ? He (Mr. Hawes) was, however, prepared to contend that - Church property was the property of the State, and that Parliament bad a right to deal with that property in any way it plectsed. If there was a surplus beyond what was necessary for the maintenance of the . Church, could it be pretended, for a single moment, that Par liament had not a right to apply that excess to useful purposes ? When this resolution was adopted it would then be time enough fo ascertain whether a surplus existed or not.--n( Renewed cries • of " Adjourn, adjourn," and "Divide, divid e .") Lord SANDON an d Mr. llnwEe mutually explained. The House then divided on Mr. BROTHERTON'S motion for reporting progress. The numbers were— 140 178 Majority , During the exclusion of strangers, Colonel SIBTHORP moved (as we understood) that the Chairman should vacate the Chair, but without reporting pro gress; and, On our return to the Gallery, we found Sir R. PEEL addressing the Committee—An immediate decision may, I admit, be approved of by a majority of those now present; but I must put it to the House whether it is not due- to-the constituencies of the Hon. Members who still wish to speak to allcw them an opportunity of obtaining a hearing? —(Hear.) I have no doubt tint it is the anxious, desire of many of the constituent bodies throughout the country that their representatives should express their sentiments on this important occasion, and I can answer that it is the wish of an Hon. Friend of mine, who is not now in his place, to have an opportunity of delivering his opiniolas before this debate closes. As far as I am personally concerned I could wish that the pro ceedings on this resolution shoUld terminate to-night, but, impression that th ey e tl e eir sentim en t s . seeing that there are not now present more than half esp ethciealnlyumas ber cf Members who voted last night , I think it would not be v., quite oatnl lyd f o a bf i e t; omc:Nl,lemadvee.atnog gone ipl d ep e oa c r i %tl s t i ai ttyl i n n od t fe h rd e e i t r chl ea a r b i s n e g n —( Hear, hear.) Conside..ing„ however, that this debate has lasted five nights I must acknowledge—and in this •I think the Haase will agree with me—that we have heard quite enough upon the subject—( Hear, and a laugh)—but still, as it is de sirable that we should, if possible, attach confidence to our de cision, I think it only right that every one who may wish to speak should be allowed a fair hearing.—(Hear.) I do not mean by this to. express any opinion but merely to offer my advice; and, although lam free to admit that it would be more convenient to come to a decision at once, I still think upon the whole we will best consult the general wish by - allowing all parties RUSSELL was ready to admit that th ey oug h t to ha who wished to speak before they c ame t o a de cision.rstill he must say that a majority 6138 was, in hi s mind, of the course which he had taken o f go i ng i nto a Committee on his resolution that evening. N o d ou b t a great number of Members were absent; but it was Ms belief hear d everyfbea juci decisive play.—( Hear, hoar.) - one Lord that they had either made up their minds not to vote on the present occasion or paired off. Having said thus much he would only add that ho had no objection to agree to the ad journment of the debate, in order to afford any Gentleman who might yet wish to speak a hearing—(Hear) —but then it should be .understood that it was to be resumed on Monday evening. Mr. BORTIINVICK moved that the House should ad journ. Lord J. RUSSELL thought that the Hon Member for Evesham's motion was not quite regular, pending the motion of the Hon. and Gallant Member for Lincoln. He did not mean to object to the adjournment of the debate, and there fore he hoped the Hon.. and Gallant Member for Lincoln would not persist in the course which he had taken.—( Cries of" Divide, divide.") Mr. BORTHWICK, on the part of the junior Members of rorthe - maion. Against ;t the House, contended that an opportunity should be afforded to them to express their sentiments before any vote was come to. He knew several Hon. Members who had left the House under the impression that the debate was to he adjourned. Colonel SIBTHORP expressed his determination to per sist in his motion.—(Renewed cries of Divide, divide.) Mr. S. RICE observed that the proposition of the Hon. and Gallant Member for Lincoln was intended to take the House by surprise, for if his motion. were agreed to, the sub ject would be altogether closed.-4 Hear.) Colonel SIBTHORP denied the right of the Right Hen. Gentleman the Member for Cambridge to put any such construction on his motion. • Mr. BERNAL decided that in point of form the Hon. Member for Lincolnshire was perfectly correct. That ques tion must be decided one way or the other before .any fresh proposition could be made. Mr. RICE had merely called the attention of the House to the fact. If the Chairman were now to leave the Chair in consequence of the lion. and Gallant Member's motion, their proceedings would be at an end.—(Cries of Adjourn, adjourn, Divide, divide.) Mr. O'DW YE R did not think the House was bound to wait the leisure of Hon. Members, and ht. , . wished to know from the Right Hon. Baronet the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether there was any precedent for the course now pursued. The truth was, that the majority of last night gave dissatis faction to some Hon. Members, and hence it was that they desired delay, in order to consider what they were next to do. Sir R. PEEL—I shall leave the question to the candour of the Hon. and Learned Gentleman hirnseif.—( Hear, hear.) He calls upon me to produce an instance of an adjournment having taken place after a debate had been protracted for four nights ?—(No, nd.) Mr. O'DWYER—After an ascertained majority had_ de cided the question. Sir R. PEEL--Well, their, after a majority hnd decided the question. I will furnish the Hon. Gentleman with the precedent lie requires. He, no doubt, remembers that last year a debate took place on the question of the repeal of the Union. ,--( Hear, hear, and laughter.) On that occasion the minority could muster only 43 members, and, as well as I am able to recollect, the majority was about 400. Notwithstand ing, however, that great disparity in point of numbers, it having been stated, after a protracted discussion, that some Hon. Gentlemen composing that small minority were desirous to express their sentiments on the question at issue, the ma jority yielded to their wishes, notwithstanding the question was virtually carried.—( Cheers.) Now_ our minority being infinitely larger, I am.surc the Hon. and Learned Gentleman, in common candour, ought to accede to the wishes expressed by.this side of the House.—( Hear, hear.) Mr. O'DWYER—The Right Hon. Baronet is quite cor rect in stating that such a concession was made by the mino rity on the occasion in question ; but after the majority was obtained, I would ask the Right Hon. Baronet, was there a renewal of the debate? Lord J. RUSSELL generally found, after discussions of this nature, that both sides of the House were willing to settle the point at issue in an amicable manner, and in that spirit he suggested that the present debate should be renewed again on Monday next, when the Hon. and. Gallant Member for Lin coln would have the opportunity he desired of addressing the House. Sir R. PEEL—I can assure the Noble Lord that I have no wish to protract this discussion, and the House will remem ber that at the commencement of the evening I expressed a wish that we should close the debate to-night.—( Hear.) In deed, as far as I am personally concerned, I had no desire that it should be protracted beyond to-night; and although I believe that great inconvenience will result from postponing the supplies on Monday ; yet, as the Noble Lord has made his proposition, in a spirit of candour and fairness, I think we ought to meet him with the same good feeling, and therefore I consent that the debate shall be adjourned to Monday, but I hope it will be on the understanding, that it is to be resumed at an early hour, in order that it may be brought to a close on that night.—( Hear.) Mr. WALKER hoped that the public would be given to understand that the debate was adjourned at_the instance cf the gentlemen on the Government side of the Hmise. - Sir R. PEEL—If it be desirable that the public should be made acquainted with our proceedings in this matter, I think it right they should be informed that the motion for adjourn ment originated with one of the Gentlemen on the Opposition benches.--( Cheers and laughter.) The CHAIRMAN then reported progress, and asked leave to sit again on Monday next. The House resumed, and the Orders of the day having been disposed of, the House adjourned at One o'clock. FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE. [This Gazette contai n s an O r d er i n C ounc il suspen di ng t h e calling out of the militia in Great Britain for the purpose of train ing in the present year.] DOWNING-STREET, APRIL 1, 1835. The King has been pleased to appoint the Right Hon. the Earl Amherst to be Captain-General and Governor-in Chief of the pro vinces of Upper and Lower Canada. The King has also been pleased to appoint the Earl Amherst to be his Majesty's High Commissioner for the investigation and re dress of all grievances affecting his Majesty's subjects in Lower Canada, in what relates to the administration of th e government o f the said province ; and The King has been pleased to appoint Thomas Frederick .Elliot, Esq., to be Secretary to Earl Amherst, in his capacity of High Commissioner in the province of Lower Canada. WAR-OFFICE, MA non 20, 1835. His Majesty has been graciously pleased to permit the 23d Regi ment, or Royal Welsh Fusileers, to continue to bear on its second colour the following devices, as authorised by the Royal Warrants, dated July 1, 1751, and Dec. 19, 1768, viz.:—ln the centre of the colour the device of the Prince of Wales ; viz., three feathers issu ing out of the Prin6e's coronet, and the motto, " Ich dien. lathe second and third corners of the colour the ancient badges of the Regiment, viz., the rising sun and the red dragon. And in the fourth corner the white horse, with the motto, " Nee aspera terrent." His Majesty has also been pleased to permit the Regiment to bear the word " Corunna," in commemoration of the services of its late Second Battalion at the battle of Corunna, on the 16th January, ISO 9, in addition to the other badges and distinctions heretofore granted to this Regiment. WAR-OFFICE, APRIL 3. Ist ItegimciA i Life-f:'^—Cornet and Sub-Li eu t. R. Brooke to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vie:: tireF, ; Hon. 0. buncombe to be Cornet and Sub-Lieutenant, by pur chase, vice Brooke, April 3d, 18:15. sth Regiment of Dragoon Guards—J. I. Blackburne, Gent., to be Cornet by purchase, vice Blackwood promoted, April 3, 1835. Bth Regiment of Light Dragoons—Cornet E. Mostyn to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Vivian, who retires ' • C. Smythe, Gent. to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Mostyn, April 3. 9th Regiment of Foot—Lieut. A. C. Chichester to be Captain, by purchase, vice Vyner, who retires ; Ensign A. Borte n , t o b e Ligutenant;by purcbrse, vice Chichester ; -S. A. F. C ary , G ent., tole Ensign, by purchase, vice Burton, April 3. 14th Foot—Ensign R. S. Grady to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Wilder, who retires; E. P. Mackie, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Grady, April 3. 24th Foot—Surgeon J Shortt, M.D., from the 79th Regiment of Foot, to be Surgeon, vice William Byrtt, who retires upon half pay, April 3. 426 Foot—Ensign and Adjutant J. Wheatley, to have the rank of Lieutenant, April 3. 43:1 Foot—Lieut. G. Talbot, to be Captain, by purchase, vice Heneage, who retires ; Ensign W. D. Oxend en t o b e Li eutenant, by purchase, vice Talbot, April 3 ; Ensign and Adjutant G. Priest ley to have the rank of Lieutenant, April 4 ; Hon. T. G. Chol moadeley to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Oxenden, April 3. 51st Foot—Lieut. S. N. Fisher to be Captain, by purchase, vice Hawley, who retires ; Ensign G. H. J. Leigh t o b e Li eute n ant, by purchase, vice Fisher; 51. F. A. C. Ker, - Gent., to be En sign, by purchase, vice Leigh, April 3. • - 56th hoot—Staff-Assistant-Surgeon W. Dawson, M.D., to be Surgeon, vice H. W. Markham, who retires upon half Tay, April 3. 611 Foot—Ensign A. M'Leod to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Shearman, whose . promotion has not taken place, March, 13. 71st Foot—Ensign R. F. Hunter, from the 76th Regiment of Foot, to be Ensign, vice Grant, who exchanges, April 3. 76th Foot—Ensign B. Grant, from the 71st Regiment of Foot, to be Ensign, vice Hunter, who exchanges, April 3. 79th Foot—Assistant-Surgeon J. Lorimer, M.D., from the 24th Regiment of Foot, to be Surgeon, vice Shoat, appointed to the 24th Regiment of Foot, April- 3. 82d FOot.—Assistani-Siiro. b eon J. D. 'Grant, from the 95th Ee giment of Foot, to be •Assistant. Surgeon, vice Shanks, promoted 'in the 55th Regiment of Foot, April 3. 84th Foot—Major E. Nicholl to be Lieutenant-Colonel, with out purchase, vice Keyt, deceased ; Captain J. W. Bernard to be Major, vice Nicholl, Jan. 17. Captain Hon. H. Cole, from the half-pay of the Ist West India Regiment, to be Captain, vice C. Nyesley, who exchanges, receiving the difference; Captain G. Porter, L'om the half-pay of the 61st Regiment of Foot, to be Cap tain, vice Bernard, April 3. CROWN OFFICE, Aram 2, 1833. MEAIBERS RETURNED TO SERVE IN THIS PRESENT PARLIAMENT. COUNTY Or NOT TING DAM NORTH).—Henry Gaily Knight, Esq., in the room of the Hon. John Savile Lumley, commonly called Viscount Lumley, now Earl of Scarborough. BANKRUPTCIES SUPERSEDED. - • JOHN HOLDEN, cotton-spinner, Bacup, Lancashire. JAMES HARWOOD, cotton-cloth manufacturer, Over Dar win, Lancashire. BANKRUPTS. DANIEL BYAS, upholsterer, Oxford-street, April 14, at three, and May 15, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Belcher, official assignee ; Parker, Fish-street-hill. JOHN GALE MADDOX, druggist, Bristol, April 14, at twelve, and May 15, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Brooks and Cooper, John-street, Bedford-row ; Goldsmid, official assignee. WILLIAM FOX, victualler, Croydon, Surrey, April 14, at eleven, and May 15, at twelve, at. the Court of Bankruptcy. Shep pard and Co., Cloak-line, London ; Johnson, official assignee. . RICHARD NICHOLS, bookseller, Wrlefield, Yorkshire, April 15, at one, and May 15, at eleven, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. Adlington and Co., Bedford-row ; Gohlsmid, official assignee. - _ - CHARLES C 0 WDE R 0 Y, grocer, Mansionhouso - street , Ken nington, Surrey, April 19, at two, and May 15, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Gibson, Basinghall-street, official assignee ; Broughton and Briggs, Falcon-square. • BENJAMIN BOARDMAN, tailor, Norwich, April 18, and May 15, at eleven, at the office of Messrs. Bignold, Pulley, and Ma.we, Norwich. Bignold, Pulley, and Mawe, Bridge-street, London, and St. Stephen's Norwich. JOHN HILL, teazle-dealer, Yorkshire; April 27, and May 15; at eleven, at the Court-house, Leeds, Yorkshire. Strang ways and Walker, Barnard's-inn, London ; awl Blackburn, Albion-street, Leeds. ' JOHN SEYMOUR SMITH and JOHN GOUNN BIRD, merchants, Lancaster, April 24, and May 15, at twelve, at the Commissioners'-rooms, Manchester. Abbott and Arney, Char lotte-street, Bedford-square, London ; and Heslop, St. James's square, Manchester. JOHN ROOTH, corn-factor, Shirland, Derbyshire, April 15, and May 15, at eleven, at the Red Li on I nn , B e lp er , Derbyshire. Smithson and Dunn, cuthampton-h u ddi ngs , London ; and J. and R. C. Hutchinson, Chesterfield, Derbyshire. WILLIAM ROBSON, printer, George-street, Mansion-House, April 13, at ten, and May 15, at twelve, at the Court of Bank' ruptey. Sharp, Ely-place, Holborn; Graham, Copthall-buildings official assignee. JOHN IifALLETT, grocer, East-street, Walworth, April 16, at twelve, and. May 15, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Elkins and Son, Newman-street, Oxford-street, and Lackington, Basinghall-street. JOHN TAYLER, merchant, Coleman-street, April 14, and May 15, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom„Ab chureh-lanc official assignee ; - Lloyd, C rown - cour t, Ch eaps ide. THOMAS SMITH, Jun., chemist, East Grinstead, Sussex, April 14, and May 15, at t we l ve , a t the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, Abchurch-lane, official assignee; Doughcy, Horsleydown lane, Southwark. JAMES THOMAS, wharkinger, Coles'-n-barf, Horseleydown , April 11, and May 15, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Barker and Bridge, Mark-lane, London; 'Whitmore, Basinghall street, official assignee. DIVIDENDS. S. Nix, wine -merchant, Queen-street, Cheapside, April 14, at half-past one, at the Cou r t o f Bankruptcy—W. Austin, iron monger, Woolwich, April 24, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy —R. Thomtson and 1. D. Mildred, merchants, Sun-court, Corn hill, April 2r, at one, at the Court of I3ankruptcy—W. B. Stuart, tailor, Mount-street, Grosvenor- square, April 29, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy--C. Powell, linen-draper, Birmingham, April 24, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy—J. 11. Davey, coach wheelwright, Parker-street, Drury-lane, April .24, at half past eleven, at the Court of Bariiiruptcy—J. B. Brown, E. It Danson, and C. Duncan, merch an t s , N ew B roa d- s t reet, April 27, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy—J. Glover, watchmaker, May's-buildings, St. Martins'-lane, April 27, at eleven, at the Court of 13ankruptcy—J. Willis, merchant, Puduing-lane, April 24, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy—T. Stanley, manufacturer , Leeds, April 27, at eleven, at the Court-house, Leeds—R. Smal ppage, tailor, Leeds, Apil 23, at one, at the Court-house, Leeds-- Tiley, - dealer, Bath,. April 23, at twelve, at the Three Cups Inn, Bath—W. Oliver, chemist, Easington-lane Durham, May 6, at one, at the Half Moon Inn, New Elvet, Durham—T. M. Wright, linen-draper, Bodinin, ornwall, April '27, at one, at the Commercial-rooms, Bristol--T. Holdsworth, Armley, Yorkshire, April 28, at one—J. Taylor and S. Taylor, merchants, Castleton Moor, Lancashire, April 28, at ten, at the Commissioners-rooms , Manchester. CERTIFICATES--Apait 24. J. T. Rigbye, coal- merchant, Tarlton, Laticashire.—S. Knight, ironmonger, Lower 13elgrave-place, Pimlico—H. W. King, attorney, Bristol—A. MiNamara, plumber, Houndsditch- - J. Ebers, bookseller, Old Bond-street—D. Mackinnon, wine-mer chant, Fitzroy-street—W.. Waters, ironmonger, Bristol—J. Mud dell, hosier, New-street, Covent-garden—W. Leader, coachmaker, Wells-street, Oxford-street. _ PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. R. Parker and W. Tiley, attorneys, Axbridge, Somersetshire— J. and W. Rutland, coachmakers, Nottingham—J. and W. 'A. Soames, soapmakers, Wheeler-street, Spitalfields—S. and W. II- Thomas—R. and W. Turner, brewers, Clarence-street, St. Luke's —T. Hughes and T. P ug h, millers, Sutton Mills, Shropshire-- A. N. Kendall and Co., cloth dressers, Hunslet, Yorkshire, so far as regards J. Ross—W. and J. Sellers, paper manufacturers, Hazel ford Mill, Bro ug ht on , O x f or d s hi re— W . J ameson and J.Savage, soap manafacturers, Drypool, Yorkshire—W. H. Hennell and E. Roe, bootmakers, Sherrard-street, Golden-square—F. Carbutt and J. Stansfield, stuff merchants, Leeds—J. Wortham and W. Cum berland, tailors, Little Bell-alley, Coleman-street—J. D. Pountney and E. Allies, potters, Bristol—J. Barnes and J. Miller, engineers , Glasthouse-fields—J. Abbott and Co., mustard manufacturers , Liverpool, so far as regards J. Abbott--G. -B. Watts and W. Mills, glove manufacturers, London—J. Ward and J. Allen, joiners, Nottingham. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. DAVID ROBERTSON, wine -merchant, Perth, April 7, and 24, at two, at the Salutation Inn, Perth. • ANDREW WATSON, W. S., underwriter and insurance broker, Edinburgh, April 8, and 23, at two, at the Royal Exchange Coffee-house, Edinburgh. A FACT FOR THE NATURALIST. rt A short time ago the following story appeared in a Belfast paper At Montalto Glebe,, near Ballymena, in the county of Antrim, a singular circumstance lately occurred. A wild duck, partly in a domesticated state, had formed a nest 10 a shrubbery, where it was patiently employed in the busi ness of incubation, when it was assailed by a large turkey cock. A conflict ensued, which terminated in the eject ment of the web-footed combatant, on which the victor settled himself with infinite gravity on the eggs." The philosophical journalist, who is 'somewhat prolix, goes on to describe the hatching of the , eggs, and the gobble-gobble, toil and trouble, with which the matronly turkeycock attended upon the aquatic excursions of his adopted progeny. He kept a rare clatter and running to and fro upon the banks, until one fine windy afternoon, as he strutted along in his " pride of place," the whole clutch squattered away on whistling wings, leaving him the most bereaved and disconsolate of turkeycocks. Had Livy flourished in these latter times, such a pheuo" menon could not have come and gone without bearing its comment. It was a palpable parable, intended for those who hatch other men's eggs ; and Sir Robert Peel is heartily welcome to make his own of it. The wild-duck, seated on its peaceful nest, pre-figured Lord Melbourne , anxiously yet patiently cherishing the natural fruits of re form, and waiting for their maturity. The pompous in truder with crimson gills and tail outspread, who took upon himself the uncongenial office of educating wild" ducks, is clearly a bird of the Tamworth breed, whose designation it is for the reader's sagacity to interpret. As to the sequel, time and the thirtieth of March will tell a good deal. If the ducklings will suffer their wings t o be clipped, and be content to waddle on dry land, or stick in the mud at the heels of a turkeycock during the rest of their lives, why, then, a plague of all augury, say I. It is not worth an old wife's dream. But if they spread their light wings, and take a short leave. of their dry-nurse in the feather inexpressibles, long life to the Ballymena brood every day they live, and many thanks to them for their good example. ESPERANCE• Mr. Coke, of Norfolk, had a female servant (the daughter of one of his keepers), who broke dogs, walked the fences and fields, shot occasionally, and assisted her fa ther in all his duties. This intrepid woman once took a poacher, a sailor, on the marches, at least two miles from the house, trim in her sole custody. Amongst other - duties she kept the key of the church, arid one day two pa' tlemen, guests at the house, went to enjoy the view *mu the top of the steeple. Mary accompanied them • i n their frolic they attempted to kiss he r , sh e ran d own , locked the door, and departed. When the dinner hour arrived the gen tlemen were not to be found, inquiry was made, and the whole affair developed, to the no small chagrin of the gal" lasts. and the high entertainment of the rest of the party. DREADFUL DEATH OF A GENTLEMAN CADET , AT Woommn.—Yesterday afternoon a Gentleman Cadet, named Onslow, aged fifteen years, met with his death under the following melancholy circumstances :—On the return Of the cadets from dinner, they were amusing themselves by le velling that part of the parade fronting the Royal Military Academy, devoted for a cricket-ground, with a very large iron roller, when the deceased stumbled, and it passed completely over his body, which was crushed in a most frightful manner. Every possible assistance was rendered, but the vital spark had fled. The body was conveyed to the Artillery Hospital , where it awaits a Coroner's inquest. AFFAIR OF HONOUR.---A meetins_ , took place, at five o'clock on Saturday morning, below D ' ollymount,- at the 'North Bull, between Mr. J. Maccabe, of Rutland-square, and Mr. Pomroi, of Cork.. The preliminary arrangements having taken place, on the signal being given, Mr. M.'s ball struck the . pistol of Mr. P., carrying away part of the ramrod near the top ; Mr. P.'s pistol missed fire. Mr. Gyles, Mr. Pool' roi's friend, immediately came forward to de man d a s econd shot on the part of Mr. P., which being acceded to by Mr,' M., the signal being changed and ag a i n g i ven , M r . P. fire' i without effect. Mr: M. discharged his pistol i n th e a i r ,_ and having expressed himself satisfied with Mr. P., signified his intention to exchange shots with Mr. Gyles before quitting the field. This being agreed to by Mr. G., and the parties placed in their relative positions, on the word being given, Mr. G. fired without effect, Mr. M.'s ball deeply grazed the glut maximus muscle of Mr. G., happily, however, not inflicting more than a flesh wound. It appeared, on explanation, that Mr. G. was not aware that a snap or miss-fire should b° reckoned as a shot. The parties then left the ground, per fectly reconciled.—Freeman's Journal. HASTINGS.—A fishing-boat belonging to Lydd anchored one evening last week in our roads. Two men and a boy came on shore, and left two men on board, being the whole of the crew. In the morning, when they returned to the boat, they found one of the unfortunate men quite suffo cated, and the other in almost a lifeless state; he was taken on shore immediately, and the proper means being used, WC are happy to say that he recovered. It appears that the era/ had lighted a wood fire in their little 'cabin, and when thef went to bed, without extinguishing it, they shut the hatclvai, close. The consequence was, that want of ai r produce d suffocation. The poor fellow who died was named Black lock, and kept a public-house at Lydd, to which place his remains were carried the next day.—Brighten Gazette. DREADFUL MURDER.—A man killed his Wif e last night in Carlow,under the following circumstances. The mother of this woman, Mrs. Sly, was hanged for the murder of her husband, and the husband of the daughter murdered her lest she might do as her mother did—murder her husband. The awful circumstance has created a great sensation of hor ror in the town and neighbourhood of Carlow.—Dublin MaiL MIRACLES AT LucKNow.---A second Prance Hohenlohe has app eare d' a t L uc k now i n t h e person of SY3 II " . Husn Kashmee, who lately returned from a pilgrimage t ° Kerbolah with the brother of the learned highpriest of the Sheeahs, and w h o , i n consequence , res id es at Court under the most favourable a us pi ces . O n hi s i nt r o d uct i on to the RoY a, presence, the Ki ng gave or d ers to set More hEm 21 trays of shawls and 6,000 r u p ees ; b u t th e S yyu d , to use the words of our correspondent, 4 , being a perfect man, and wrapped up in abstraction from worldly affairs," excused himself from atc cepting the proffered gifts, and contented himself with recom mending his friend the Moojtcheid's brother to his Majes th ty% favour. It is said, an d b y many devoutly believed, that Dervish of Kashan h as pos i t i ve l y f oun d t h e p hilosopherl . stone the prophet h av i ng i n a d ream i n f orme d hi m that it laf o under Abraham' s bl ac k stone i n t h e K aa b a, an d especially per.: mitted him to carry i t o ff . O t h ers d ou b t t hi s, b ut affirm 9 1 by merely pla c i ng paper un d er t h e p ill ow o f hi s f or tunate lie: 3 ; for.the spa ce o f one n i g h t h e converts i t i nto gold, " Ye ll % glittering, preci ous go ld," an d as h e spen d s 5,000 rupeerupee ir month, and receives no rents, it is plain that one of di.) stot le must be near the truth.—lndia Paper. Zir br a , , , n e , ly Ntr, 411'4"kdri THI 1,, t0 C 11r. c a , . ttori rh.a,, A 0, ,e public B ATI r }' . ..,. . . . TI-LF.; SUN, LONDON, SATURBA7tr, APRIL 4, 1835. ____