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matter, I leave to the Freeholders of Kent to judge ; but we already know that in the elections of Ireland the Y.'riests have begun to exercise a most tremendous power. They have already in two counties defied the influence of property, and returned Members avowedly their mere creatures, and we are threatened that they will d o t o i n e ll the e ountets in Ireland, That they have th e power of doing so, reeholders i s ifevery their in fluency over the Forty-shilling i. where equally great, appears from a documentprinted by the House of Commons in 1815, and which I believe to be the latest that has appeared. In this paper the Freeholders who had been registered in • Ireland for some years before were divided into '• three classes--o f fiftypounds a y ear , twenty p oun d s , and forty shillings. Of this lust class the number returned was 177,000, while the aggregate of the two remaining classes amounted to no mere than 23,00 0 (8). Those who have contended for the admissio n of 1131111111 Catholics to Parliament, have always represented the number likely to be re- - turned as too inconsiderable to be of any import ance; but how grossly they have deceived them selres, this document, combined with recent events, too plainly proves. We are, however, told that the Roman Catholic Laity, when once admitted to all political privile ws, would throw off their bondage to the Cletty, and only consider themselves as members of the State. I cannot, however, discover any instance in which they hare shown a smutty resolution to do so; nor can I conceive it possible, while they remain members of a religion, the very substance and es.. sence of which consists in unlimited obedience to the Church. An able and indeel pathetic esltleess has been largely circulated am,: you or: behalf of the British Roman Catholics, signed by some of the most il lnstrious and ancient names among our Nobility, liot I roust confess, that the effect of this address on my mind was greatly weakened, when I observed that the British Catholic Association afterwards re turned its thanks to the 40s. freeholders Di Water ford, for obeying the dictates of their Nests, in op position to the wishes of their landlords ; nod that, more lately, ose of the mest. ancient of that body of Nobility, ° had just published a letter highly com mending the 4.05. freeholders of Clare, for driving out a Protestant gentleman (though one of the ablest advocate of the Roman Catholic cause), from the representation of the county, for the purpose of re turning a Roman Catholic demagogue; though they had every reason to believe that he could not legally take his seat; an thus attempting, either by inti- • midation or chicane (and I care not which it is), to establish a claim which has been steadily njected by the Legislature. One of - the most common reproaches tirg-,j agn i tt , t the opponents of the Roman Cathol.'w claims" is, that we are now the only intolerant and persecuting na tion remaining, and this sarcasm is repeated till some at least of those who use it must be supposed to believe it. They forget that in Spain and Portugal no Protestant is allowed to live, except ,a very limited toleration to foreigners—that in the new States of Spanish America, though admitting the thest revolutionary systems of Government, the prin ciple of religions toleration has been uniformly re jected ; arid, that even the right of sepulture was, not long since, refused to British Officer,; that in Piedmont the Protestants are confined to a four narrow mountain valleys, beyond which they are not allowed to possess property or exercise professions; that in other parts of Italy, they are only tolerated by connivance ; and that in these and ail 'other Roman Catholic countries without ekteption, the use of the Bible is denied to the Laity by the Ecclesiastical, and in most by the Civil Authorities. It is indeed extraordinary hour little even among the Ecclesiastical Students at the College of May moth, and the Jesuit Seminary at Clongowes (re specting which there is some evidence :in the Report so often referred to), the Bible appears to he known' ; and it is notorious, that the Priests take away, under pain of excomumnication, even the Roman 'Cathelic Version of the New Testament, if given to the Laity. There remain the instances, so much relied upon, of Prussia, France, and Holland, where, it is said, that all citizens enjoy equal rights; and toleration, philanthropy, and concord, universally prevail. The Government of Prussia is so different from our own, as having no Legislative Assembly, that no analogy can be drawn between them ; but the state of Reli gion in that country is understood to be any tiling bat satisfactory, notwithstanding the very laudable endeavours of the present King to introduce a better state of things. In France the Roman Catholic Church had re ceived such a shock, from the events of the Revolu tion, that its power could not - possibly be restored, and a principle of toleration unavoidably took place, notwithstanding the strenuous efforts of the late Pope, who, at great personal risk, opposed. Bon aparte's endeavours to introduce religious freedom. But the state of France is so fur from being one of religious peace and union, that it is easy to see the symptoms of a great religious struggle in that country, which tnay end in some tremendous convulsion. It appears also from the Maynooth Report, that ttic .cutiments of the Roman Catholic Church in France, even before the Revolution, are considered in Ireland as much too liberal. In the kingdom of the Netherlanda, the analogy with our Government completely fails. Ours is a Protestant Government, formed by the union of two Protestant Kingdoms, having an established Pro testant Church in Ireland as well as in Great Britain, but Containing a great number of Roman Catholics and other Dissenters. The Kingdom of the Neaterlands, on the parts, i n one of which con trary,the is an union of two Protestant, and in the other the' d tan thref a e nCatholic, is the Established Religion • i or terms than that they shoul d uni te upon any he than those of religious e q ualit y : and Concordat was, wit% much difficulty, obtained from the Pope, regulating the religious condition of the Roman Catholics. By this Concordat, the nomination of the Roman Catholic Bishops %vas virtually placed in the hands of the King, though they were to receive investi ture from the Pope. The King accordingly proceeded to nominate seven Bishops to the vacant Sees; but of the seven, the Pope confirmed only the Bishop of Namur, and the oilier Sees still remain vacant. We may judge .i - rcon this example, of the probability of a Concordat ;or Ireland producing general union and tranqmilitY; even if it could be obtained on satisfactory terms, but w e know that the Irish Prelates in 1525 de clared, before the Committees of both Houses of Parliament, their resolution to submit to any per secution rather than admit the interference of the Government in their Ecclesiastical appointments. I cannot, therefore, augur favourably of the con tinuance of religious concord either in France or the Netherlands, though I sincerely desire it may pre ail ; tint only. because, as a map and a Chr i st i an, i t i s v my duty to Irish for the peace of other nations, but because any serious convulsion taking place in either of those countries, could not fail to endanger our own. At soy rate these examples are much ton recent, and the .experience we can yet have of the settlement of those Governments too short, tonfford-any safe pre cement fur ant alteration of one own. Another as sertion often made, and most assiduously insisted upon of late, is, that the people of England are become favourable, or at least not hostile to the Roman Catholic Claims, and that it is now only a contemptible remnant of bigots %rho oppose them. These bigots, however, comprise a considerable majority of the House of Peers, about an equality in the House of Commons, and a vast majority of the loyal, honest, intelligent, and independent com monalty and yeomanry of England. Of this, the Meeting on Penenden Heath was a striking illustra tion—bur, as I wish to prove every thing from Roman Catholic authorities, or those of their advo cates, I shall cite one of the ablest and most con stant of those advocates—the very mouth-piece and (8) Journals of the House of Commons, Vol. 70, P. I OS. manifesto of ithetaliqb—namely, the Edinburgh " The friervis of the Catholics hare, indeed, too long kept out ,f aisht the real difficulty which istipeatitlhe gremt of all measure* for their relieT, - - - " There hut been Irieertitis iii•‘:tetanre —perhaPs a na tural tintrillinglyeetito S.O'roach this subject. .Yet, .kise of the uttrtteet i'mstot.tance that it should tut t lragS tie fully taderetood. -The difficulty, We betieNte, iit,iter with the Kin ttrit with the Caltinetz;: - .4feit'Ni• with the Commons ror with the Lords. it is with the people of England ; and not with the c`orrupt, not with the servile, not with the rude and reeducated, not with the dissolute and turbulent, hut with the great body of the middling orders;--of those telva live in comfort and have reeeived some instructiom Of the higher classes, the decided majoeity is, beyond all dispute, with the Catholics. The lowerchstes care nothing at shout the question. It is svanng those whose influence is generally exerted for thy most salutary purposes—among those from whom liberal Statesmen have, in general, re ceived the stenngest support—among those *ho feel the deepest eetestation of oppression and tnrruption, that erre ueotet opinions on this subject tAe most frequent." It then proceeds to instruct the friends of the Ca tholics how to 'convert the people of England, and concludes with thus addressing them : " Zut of this they may be fully assurtA that, tvhfl the 1 general feeling of the nation retweittskinchanged, a MinTa!:,ry which shotdstake its etistence on the eitU3 of their claims, would ruin itself without heee l fttiVT, them." (9). I shall only advert to da 't'hore statement of the Advocates for Emantipation. We are told that the bigots who o7pose them are growing ultl, and fast wearing ;Int, and that the rising generation ate uni yetut'lly favourable to the cause, utttt Mr. O'Con nell has amused himself and his hearers by caleulat- 1 ing in how many years *no opponents of Catholic Eniancipatinn would be left. If it L' so, why not let us the in peace ? Surely it is worth while to wait a few years to obtain, with the general con currence and ailroobation of the people of England, a change which could not now be eirected without exciting the greatest disgust and e.pprehension in the minds of a 711 St proportion of theta. But if it be otherwise, and if, as I IcOpe and trust, our sons shall continue to be, 'at their fathers and our fathers have been, the Staunch supporters and as serters of Protestant Ascendancy, depend upon it all ufforts to shake that glorious cause will (WI; and Penenden Heath will be again ill future times what it has so lately been—the seem of the triutiiph of the Protestant cause. I beg leave to tonclude by re minding you of the excellent advice of our Noble Lord Lieutenant ) that whatever degree of irritation may have been excited by circumstances preceding or accompanying the 'Meeting of yesterday might be forgotten, as soon as we left the Heath, and that the Men a Kent would only resnember each other as fteiglibotti's anti friends. T sincerely trust it will be my .happiness to meet every " one of my Brother Freeholders, of whatever party, with whom society or business stay bring me into intercourse, on those terms only, and I have the honour to be, gentlemen, with the sincerest respect, Your faithful thd obedient Servant, Foots-Cu:y-0m ; Oct. 25, 1828. BEXLEY. (9) fEliiillfurgh Review, No. 91. JunelB27.—P. 253. KENT MEETING.---.SHELL'S SPEECH. TO IJ EDITOR or. THE SUN. SIR,—A very silly clamour has been raised respecting Mr. 'Sheil's speech at the Kent Meet ing, and one or two soi-disant " respectable" Papers have repudiated it with a solemn affec tation of purity that is really diverting. You are charged with having originated a practice which, I believe to be vs old as the custom of reporting itself. Will these correct and immaculate gen tlemen pretend to affirm that their Parliamentary Reports contain neither more nor less than the actual words. uttered by the respective speakers? -Is it not notprious that in five cases out of. six, ' the tenor of, the observations is alone preserved, and that the language in which they are given is the reporter's own ? In this case the sin (if sin there be in rendering obscurity intelligible) is much the treater, inasmuch as it sets forth many a man as a correct and easy orator, who is probably a hammering blockhead. These very apt and clever gentlemen sneer at Mr. Shell for going to the meeting with a speech ready-made. Are these persons ignorant that the greatest orators in Parliament, upon import ant occasions, commit what they intend to say to paper previously ? If this be necessary in a solemn and deliberate assembly, how much more so does it become amidst a motley and tumultu ous assemblage upon a-heath ! These gentlemen would wish to insinuate that Mr. Shell is not an extemporaneous speaker, had they been fortunate enough to have been close to him, they would have heard many impromptu _sarcasms and most pithy antitheses. If the very eloquent and argumentative composition which has been pub lished was not wholly spoken, I can only say that on every account it ought to have been; the disgrace of suppression lies with the Brunswick mob and not with Mr. Sheil. Because they chose to act like bi utes, and drown that gentle man's voice by bellowing vociferations, does it follow that his unanswerable arguments were to remain unpublished ? Were the attacks and ac cusations levelled against him and his Catholic brethren to remain unrefuted, because a congre gation of " long ear'd clod-hoppers" did not choose to be proved in the wrong? Was the bane to g o for t h without the antidote ? In that case would not the Brunswickers have as ' Slimed the triumph of having overawed the Ca. tholie Association ? The su ccess w hi c h t h ey now c l a i m i s b ut a sorry on e , and I verily believe that they are more indebted for it to the irr.gular and unfair con duct of the Sheriff, than to any real numerical superiority. Of this, as a man of Kent, lam very sure, that had one half the pains been taken in marshalling forces on th e lib era l s id e as were evinced on the other, the Brunswickers and their • proposals would have been scouted, maiwre the leudAl display of a Win c h e l sea or a Knat.'"elibuil. The talented and high-pri nc i p l e d Edi tor o f opportu n ity o f the Kent .Ik7aht (who has ever y judgin ' g ) asserts most unequivocally, that the Liberal o learn that a counter-p e titi on i s i n c ourse of signatur e, and that ev er y e ff ort will be made to shew most il z7; t y t • had a decided majority, and I am Parliament the true feeli ng of th e County of Kent. It would appear, Mr. I li .•:c.tor, that your superior industry and activity has aroused the jealousy of the old-faAioned jog-trot portion of the public Ak edthemselves from and that they hare xci•, ~ ,• n . . i from their usual slumbering inanity to snarl . and show their teeth. Heed not these dogs in the manger. Persevere in your meritorions, course. Their hostility will be your best recom mendation and advettisement. I am, I\lr. Editor, Your obedient Servant, M. If. P.S. Nothing is so easy as to call names. Let, not Mr. Sh e il be as hamed of the title of. " Agitator - -when wrongs exist, an " Agitator" is a Benefactor. The Neapolitan Minister transacted business yesterday, it the' office of the Seel etary of State for Foreign Affairs, with the Earl of ABERDEEN. PUBLIC DINNER TO RICHARD SHEIL, ESQ. MR. SHEIL has accepted an Invitation TO DINE with the FRIENDS of CIVIL and RELIGIOUS LIBERTY, given to him as a mark of re spect for his general and able support of that great rause, but above all, to show to the Irish people that the liberal Protestants of this Metropolis disapprove those unjust and impolitic Laws which exclude a mighty portion of the people from a full and fair participation in all civil rights on account of their religious opinions. The DINNER will take place at the LONDON TA VERN, on MONDAY next, the 3d of NOVICSIBICR. W. SMITH, Esq., M.P., in the Chair. Tickets, price 201. each, to he had of the Stewards, awl at the bar of the tavern. No ticket will be issue! after 111 o'clock on Monday. FOREIGN iNft,LJ.IGENCE ' • .FREINiC i ft (From the .tifessiis/Cr Cnambres of Oct. SO.) , Yang, OC:'. 2t).—A letter from Minorca, of the . 11th Ott, 3kss :—" It has been reported for some days, that symptoms of contagion had appeared in the village of Lie tor. This news had already s pread alarm In tht 11'601- 1)1)11rin g districts. The Boards uf riealtlOMM'ediately seta a physi c i an t o i nce st*ste the eahses nrokl , he pltOess of the di sease) but t h e t•esult •61 . his •otiServtt a -els, that the elisorders With which several byhattitentS r,f Lietor were affected, s's , as 'owing to the excessive beat and deleterious extelati‘lns, hut that they were not by any meiiirs 'Of a iaW. ta;; - ious nature. A Russian squadron'coming the west, passed Gibraltar 'on the 'SelAeirther. 'M. do Xtlia's . terns has just written, in the name of his Illikiesty the King of Spain, a letter to the Governor of Ilibraltur, in which he announce., that it being his Ma jesty's intention to afford all possible rvfuge tb the tunate inhabitants who ere alilicted with the:Contiil.'Onf pliers at the dispnal of his .Eiceefleirey 16,00' 4 5 loads o corn, or p e'q'ual imiatity o flour. The MeX47:l'n i Ccircral Feyveron, with a cargo vabied at i 00,',utt piastres, has been captured by a Spanish privateer, on its way to Lima. The )elessaycr Contains the Russian Bulletin of the 11th of October, announcing the fall of Varna. An article from Toulon, of the 3d October, Ali officer in the navy, c . otliing poet froin L'Oriebt, that sev e n English ships of the line Were deterred off' that port, t t,trtit f or the k nytb. Tta tfewa induces us to think that England is reinflet 'Mg her squadron in the Mediter . ranea*. Ail the discussions with Brazil are terminated by an additional article to the Treaty of 1826. The sense of the 21st Article of that Treaty, concerning the respective rights of Belligerents and Neutrals, is fixed in a mantle'• conformable to the principle which the Preach Onverhinent has always defended: A Conveneorn signed on the same day, the 21st of Angt±i - , deter Mines the indemnities to be granted to tie iiropritiors of vessels which have been seized and coliaeMneri in the river Plate. The 1-'hare du Nance curtains the following news, by way of postscript " Faux O'CLOCK, A }TER. EXCHANGE Hones.—They write from Bahia, on the I:3th'of September, that two fri gates —an English and a French one—arrived there with the news that the Plenipotentiaries had left Rio with the peace Signed. The same news is given at London, and we are Informed that the Emperor of Brazil is determined on directing his whole attention to Don Miguel. " Two transports of the third convoy for the Mores hive, it is said, been taken by the Barbary cruisers." FRENCH FUNDS, PALLS, OCT. 29.—Rentes, Five per Cents. 105 f. 20c. ; Three per Cents., 7M. 15e. FOA.EIGN FUNDS.--Neapolitan Rent's, '79f. 25c. ; Rentes d'Espagne, 7 ; Royal Spanish Loan, 79i- ; Hay tian Loan, 625 f. bOt.—Exchange on London—one month, 25f. 2bc. ; threw tnonths, 25f. 15c.—Coura Authentique. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS all: neck 3 pet Cent. Red. 3 pet Cent. Cons. :4!,; per Cent. Ditto Red. I per Cent. 1033 9y Ditto, 11 , 26 IO3 Y iN link I. Ann. India Steck Ditto Bends BB 87 pm. PRICES OF FORICIGN FUNDS Austrian Bonds Brazilian Bonds! Buenos Ayres Bonds Chihat) Bonds colombian Bonds Ditto, 1824.1 H j 4 Danish Greek Bonds Ditto, 1825 177 U 6 uat itnala Mexican Bonds Ditto, 1825 34% VKICHS OF SHARES TOII Brazilian Imp. Min. Co. (iss. at V. General Mining Association Hibernian Mining Co. Real del Monte Mining Co. United Mex. Min. Co. (iss. at 2/ Arrived. Due. O America... O Brazil 0 Buenos Ayve 1 Dubl n 0 O nattier., 0 0 Prance 0 O Gottenburgh 0 O Guernserdc•lereey 0 DAY AT 0141 E O'CLOCK. South Ica Stock 01(1 Annuities New ........ ...... Ex. I3illr , £I,IXIO 2d. 75 76 pm. Ditto 500 2d. 75 76 pm. Ditto Small ...... Od. 75 76 pm. Ditto C*nimercial Bank for Account. India for Account Cons. for Acct THIS PAS AT OICE O'CLOCK. Neapolitan — Peruvian Bonds Portuguese Bonds — Prussian, Old Ditto, New — RU831311 93 ki l II Spanish, Ifni 114 -:---:. j s•z3 — French Itentes, :.) p. c. —f —c. 1 ----- Exchange —f. —c. 3 per cent. —f. —c. Exchange DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share. pm.) £2O 62 1 5 £9 ' 4OO 180 190 183 pm.) : 38 17 NGF. YESTERDAY. COURSE or EXCILA A msterdam C.F 12 2 Ditto, at sight...." . ..... 12 0 Rotterdam 'i U 12 2 Antwerp 12 2 Hamburg)) iL .M.R. 13 12 1 Altona qr l4 Paris, 3 daye siett 4, 40 Ditto 9 U 23 60 .• Bordaaux l5 65, Beth II Frankfort on Maine, Ex M. 151 Petersburgh, ruble, 3Us lO 0 Vienna, effeciive fl. 2 M lO 0 Tritste do 10 0 Mad rid :3l il Cadiz. S 6 Filboa iiareelat,a '35 , ,, I &mile 'l6 iA Gibralt. r Leghorn 4E4% Genoa 25 40 Venice 4'7J,4 Malta Saplts Palermo per oz. 120 Lisbon Oporto 46% it.o Janeiro ......... hia 31 Buenos Avres Dublin, 2i days' sight Cork BULLION, PER OZ. .2. s. d. Portugal Gold, coin... 0 0 0 Foreign Gold, in bars 3 17 lai New Doubloons '3 15 0 •ew Dollar, ,Silver, bars, standard 0 0 0 Arrived. Due. O Hambursh 0 O Holland O Jamaica O Leeward Island's 0 O Lisbon 0 O Malta 0 O Mexico ....... 1 Waterford 0 HIGH WXTEK, AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning ...41 minutes after 9. I Erening....lo minutes after 10. -mot• 1_11) ,c , " 7 • 1.3 LONDON. SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 1, 1828. The " victorious Brunswickers" last night celebrated their triumph over Justice at Maid stone, where a second edition of their forcible arguments at Penenden Heath was given on the occasion, and, as a matter of course, loudly cheered. Their orgies were the more jovial as the feast of " reason" became drowned in the bowl of intolerance. • Lord WIN . CHELSEA out- Heroded himself, till " the Chair" was nearly overwhelmed with his eloquence. Thousands, he said, had advocated his principles, and at another opportunity thousands more, who had kept back, would boldly enlist under their ban ners. From this it is plain that his Lordship did not offer a sufficient price for the new re cruits before the 24th. The rest of the meeting, including Sir EDWARD KNATCHBULL, did their best to keep the Chairman in countenance — all rosy-red and full of wine. Extracts from the French papers will bu found in another column—but they do, not possess any particular interest. By an arrival from Bengal, to the cud of May, t he outward-bound vessels, which had been looked for with some anxiety, had begun to make their appearance. It appears the passages from Eng land had been unusually protracted.. The Sin gapore Chronicle states that the Treasury was shut to the receipt of Peruvian dollars, and this seems rather curious, as the silver is equally fine with the Spanish dollar, and this refusal is no the case at Bengal. In considering the Kent Meeting, and the a, terials of Which it ivas .osiiipOse'd, no one, we tin be much surprised at the result. If the country .had been 'polled for the Men who were most 'unfit to appreciate the iinportaiA toleration, we would have I'o4 collected such a mass of ignorance, prejudice, and strait-forward blundering honesty. The Kentish Yeomen present a fair specimen of those qualities which tke <t e kec i Usiomed to re :• tt b6ginne under . the general designation of John 13u11. A fat, full-fed Kentish farmer, who firmly believes that one Englishman is a match for two Frenchmen ; that the country is on the high road to ruin, when gold is going 'out or it ; and tello as a tilattel• of course, hates the Papists, May for all this be a most estimable person, and may have all the plain honesty and frankness of the English character. But is he the person to weigh accurately the delicate crisis of a nation's fate? Is it a mind like his which soars above the gross prejudices of his time ? which casts off the trammels in which it has been bred ; and ranging with comprehensive sagacity over the whole history of human extracts wis dom from the follies and crimes of past ages ? Are we to expect political reason and sound phi losophy from the breeders of cattle ? We might just as well expect from an axe the. qualities of a razor. The great folly, or rather the art and the policy of these Brunswick Leaders was to submit such questions to such a decision. It was necessary, we admit, for their purposes in the trial of the case, to:pack such a jury. They sheaved, that in which it must be confessed they never fail, consummate address and skill in their proceeding; and they have got every thing settled to their mind, as far as the Kentish farmers are concerned. But that this should in any degree compromise the general opinion of the country ;" 'that this enlightened nation, so famed for science, for philosophy, and love of freedom, should surrender its reason to a mob of English farmers—that we should fol low in the wake of fat contented ignorance, in place of leading and guiding it, will not be contended. The question still stands on the same ground as ever—intolerance and oppression are not rendered one whit more agreeable since the Kent Meeting agreed to the petition against the Catholics. And then the speeches, how im measurably stupid ! Lord WINCHELSEA was united in the bonds of priVate friendship and confidence with many Catholics, and yet these men, who were fit for the delicate relations of private confidence, he considers unworthy of confidence in a public station. Where is it pos sible to find folly like this ? In what school of extravagance can it be matched. The Catholics are some times described, and this character is indeed implied in the exclusive laws, as little better than wild beasts, which it would be quite unsafe to let loose ; yet they are admitted to be unexceptionable in all the relations of private life. Can there, we ask, be a better ground of public confidence than private worth ?—ls it likely that lie who is the model of domestic virtue will betray all public ties ?—Such doctrines, so monstrous, and yet so absurd, would, if they are acted upon, relax all social relations. But they are got up as a mere shallow, hypocritical pre text, by those who, we are convinced, have at bottom no fear of the Catholics. The great good of the Meeting was the publication of SUEICS speech, which was eloquent, argumen tative, and unanswerable. The Anti-Catholics may rail at Mr. SHELL as an agitator, &c., but, unless they can answer or deny the plain facts which he stated in his speech, they do but lose their wind. Lord WINCHELSEA should repair his wits before he attends another Anti-Catholic Meeting. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE 0' CLOCK. In the absence of foreign snails this morning, and it being a holiday at the Bank, the business of the English market has been completely devoid of interest. Consols opened at 86-1 bvth for money and account, and this price is nominal, for up to the present hour scarce an operation has taken place,:or any other quotation been given ; the market is but thinly attended, many of the members having made it a holiday. India Bonds are 87 8 ; Exchequer Bills, 75 6 pm. The Foreign Funds partake of the languour which exists in the English market, and the prices of the various secu rities remain the same as yesterday. Below are the quo tations. lit Every thing in Shares is miserably dull ; in Real Del Monte the dicount has increased to 2:30 220 ; Anglo Mexi can, 72/ 70 die. Three per Cent. Consols, 861 ; Ditto, for Account, 1461 ; India Bonds, 87 8 pm.; Exchequer Rills, 75 6 pm. Foitsic N.—Brazilian, 64 4 ; Buenos Ayres, 4.5 9 ; 261 7 e ; 184- ; Dani 4), 61-N ; elreel, 17 18 ; Mexican, Five per Cent.. 251 61 ; Ditto, Ai x per Cent., 34 ; Peruvian, 1(4 174 ; Portuguese, 54 6 ; Russian, 93 ; Spanish, 111. Mtues.—Aught Mexican, 721, 70 die. ; Brazilian, 38 40 pm. ; Bolanos, 140 160 pm. ; Gilnmbian, 71' 64. ; Real Del, Monte, 230 210 die. ; Tlalpuxahua, 25 30 pee share; United Mexieee, 2I } 201 die. ; National Brazilian, 41 Pm. TWO O'CL•O7. Conols for Account, 861 TORJEN 0' CL 0 CciL Conss co Account, nominally, $6l There is a very pleasing Collection of Thea trical Dresses and Prorrtiem on view at Boatus's—stated to belong in part to a well known Amateur. Among these are St vend fae-similes of Mr. KTAN's; a n d also the ward robe of a gentleman lately retire) from Covent-garden Theatre. A new c o i nage o f crown -pieces is in great forwardness at the Mint, and will shortly be issued. The anmber directed to be sti tick in the first instance is one million of Pieces, of the value of 5250,000/. sterling. They are intended principally for the country, as nn aid to, the circulation, when the smell notes come to be withdrawn. Ilie New coinage will not differ in weight from the crowns already in use. Some difficulty may attend the introduc of the new coins into the country circulation, if it be true that the Bank Directois refuse though their branches to assist in the diffusion. There is also some activity at the Mint, we understand, in the coinage of sovereigns. LAW INTELLIOENCS IRIS DAY.) COURT OF IP Ti c k , a a.vkrrYT.P,':' , r 3 , coivy :VARTII: WHITEHEAD. RourELCapplied on this matter to have an early day appointed for hearing a petition in bankruptcy. The nature of it was to have a solicitor's hill of costs referre4 for taxation. The bill IVIIB that of the solicitor under the commission before the appointment ,of the assiiiiees.. The ur g ency o f th e case was in the solicitor's attoropeing to etinitc2 the payment of his costs.--Ordered to stand for Monday. HAMMOND V. STEVENS. Mr. PErvs moved, on behalf of the defendant, to dis• solve an injunction that had hemgranted in this restraining thep fro:!) renlovi%it from a farm the stock. Km6wr took a preliminary ohjoction. The in junction was granted as long ago as the 28th of August, with an intimation that if the defendants wished to have it dissolved his Lordship would be prepared to hear them on any day .during the vacation. No step was taken till the 28th of last month, when notice of the present motion Wi3 given ; and the application was made on the coining in only of the answer of the wife of one of thrpale de , fendants. This aoswt.l Mr. riilgYA c'oi'iteniled was to be coolie'red rules of the Court, as an affidavit, and as such he thought himself entitled to some time to answer it, which he applied for before the further hearing was gone into. The LORD CHANCELLOR over-ruled the objection, and Mr. PKPYA proceeded ; the plaintiff and the husband of the lady had been in partnership together. The farming stock was valued, and they continued to carry it on to gether for a considerable time. The plaintiff watt after wards excluded from the occupation of the farm ; he com plained that he had been unlawfully so,- and that his money had been used in the cultivation of the farm. The case on the part of the defendant was, that the farming stock belonged to the father of the lady, and that by his will she became entitled to it for her own separate use; but it turned out that the will had not been proved till two years after the existence of the partnership between her husband and the plaintiff. The plaintiff contended that the farming business had been carried on under the eye of this lady, and that she ought to have taken the objection earlier. The injunction was to restrain the removal of the stock. Mr. SWANSTON was beard on the same side. Mr. KNIGHT appeared for the plaintiff, and submitted that he was entitled to uphold the injunction. It was sworn that the plaintiff had paid the landlord the rent of the farm ; that he had advanced money to cat ry it on; that the testator, at the time of making his will, was in insol vent circumstances. The plaintiff had been the means of keeping the defendants from a workhorse, and now, after setting themselves up in the world at his expence, they turned round upon him, stating that he was no partner, and entitled to nothing. Mr. Paevs replied. His Lonnsmr thought the plaintiff had nut made out a sufficient case to support his injunction, and ordered it to be dissolved. VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT. APPLICATION FOR AN INJUNCTION. DAVIS AND ANOTHER. V. i` rICNT AND OTHERS. This was an application ory of the drawers of a bill of exchange for 200/., to restrain the holder of it front issuing execution upon a verdict obtained by hint against the plaintiffs lire the amount of that bill. Hortnej(with whom was Air. Txxo):etated that the bill, which was the subject of the present application, originated with the Rev. Peter Fenn, an individual veils had become but too notorious. It appeared from the alle gations in the plaintiffs' bill, that Air. Fenn, who hail va rious dealings in bills with Mr. Cook, induced that gentle man to accept an accommodation bill for 2001., a blank being at the time left in the bill for the name of the drawers. The plaintiffs, Messrs. Davis and Norwood, were subsequently prevailed on to have their names in petted in the bill as drawers,. merely as a matter of accommodation to the parties, who had originally concocted the bill. This took place in December, 1827. The bill was then endorsed by Fenn, to a person named Jones—and Vincent subsequently took it up - from Jones, and oomtnenced an action, as bona fide holder of the bill, against the present plaintiffs, the drawers. He obtained a verdict for the amount, and his Honour was now asked to stay execution on that verdiet,on the ground that Vincentbad given no consideration for the bill, but that he was, in fact, act ing in collusion with Cook, the • acceptor. It appeared that the Rev. Mr. Fenn having absconded in March last, Cook prevailed on Vincent to get the bill into his hands, and the mode of his obtaining it from Jones was, in the Learned Gentleman's opinif , n, pregnant with suspicion.— He paid Jones 1651. in cash, and gave him his I 0 U for the remaining 35/. It was admitted that a large proportion of the 1651. was advanced to Vincent by the mother of Cook, the acceptor of the bill. It was also rather an important feature in the ease, that Jones in sisted on erasing his name from the back of the bill when he handed it over to Vincent. If it were a real bona fide transaction, it would obviously be the interest of Vincent to have as many names as possible on the bill, instead of which he allows an intermediate security to he struck out. Tkis occurred on the 26th of March last, the day before the bill became due. Coupling this transaction with the ;node in which money was advanced to Vincent by the. mo ther of Cook towards getting the bill from Jones, it was not going too far to conclude, that Cook was leagued with Vincent in the action against the plaintiffs in the present suit. It was admitted Cook had various paper transactions with Fenn, the matter, so far as it respected these individuals was purely one of mutual accommodation, but the plaintiffs had nothing whatever to gain by it. However, to the great surprise of the plaintiffs, they received a letter on the 2Sth of March from Vincent, stating that he was the holder of a bill of Exchange, drawn by them on John Cook, for 2001. This would be a very natural communication from Vincent, supposing that he was a bona fide holder of the bill, and had had no previous communication with the plaintiffs on the mat but His Honour would find from Vincent's own version of the transaction as detailed in his answer, that he had an interview with one of the plaintiffs on the very day before the bill become due, when at the request of the plaintiff, and for his convenience, Vincent was induced to take the bill front Jones, and hold it over until either the drawers or acceptors could find funds to take it up. .He (Mr. Horne) requested his Honour to contrast the formal letter of Vincent with his admis sion that he saw all the parties only two days Itefore. It was also most strange that if Vincent were as he repre sented himself, he should in a few days after write to the solicitor of the plaintiffs, stating that he was positively di rected by Mr. John Cook to proceed against them for the amount of the hill. Here was Vincent on one day stating that Ile was directed by Cook to sue the plaintiffs (the solicitor, of course, of Cook), and in a short: time after suing the plaintiffs as the beau fide holder of the same bill. He was, in fact, inverting the usual order of proceeding, by attack ing the drawers before the acceptors. The VICE.-CHANCELLOR asked whether the action at law was defended by the present plaintiffs. Mr. SUGDEN—oh yes, all the parties to the hill (Cook and Jones) were examined ; and this occurred after the defendants' answer was put in, but the plaintiffs did not venture to read it at the trial. Mr. HORNS--Does my Learned Friend think that any gentleman at the bar would advise the reading of an answer undri such circumstances. We all know how adroitly these things are drawn up; hut my Learned Friend has omitted to state that a true bill for perjury has been found against Cook for the evidence given by him at that tri a l._ Mr. fl. then read some passages from the answer of Vincent which denied altogether that he was in any manner acting in collusion with Cook, but as the Vice-Chancellor (with out even hearing the defendants' Counsel) did not think that there was sufficient -to warrant his granting the in junction, we deem it unnecessary to go more into detail. Big HoNoun refused the application, with costs. He did not think that the slightest imputation rested on the character of Vincent. KING'S BENCII. Nothing of importance took place up to the period of going to press. Mr. Secretary PEEL arrived iu town yesterday evening, from the seat of his father, Sir Itoextur Pm., at Drayton Park, Staffordshire, Mrs. P.M and family secorn _ panied the Bight Hon. Gentleman. A King's Messenger wos sent off from the Foreign-office, Downing-street 7 , a late hour ou Wednes day night, with despatches for Lord HarrEsauxv, and also for Lord COWLL'Y, our Ambastador at Vienna: THE SNYDAL MURDER.--Up to the mo ment of :our going to press, we have not learnt that the murderer has been appiehended --Doncaster Gazette. We are happy to hear that the Messrs. BELL are going on successfully in weighing the effects lost in the ilindostan Indianian, 20 years ago, off the Receivers ; they have already recovered 5,000 dollars and about 60 tons of copper ; we wish them every success, particularly Si we understand the East India Company hate requested them to appropriate to their own use all they can rescue from the deep. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-4THISOIr') .1 7 1 - 101 1 ,1 LIOYDZ, DEAL, OCT. '..l.—Arrived from London t , the rs; Hutchison, fin. Cadiz ; Claud e , M err itt, for Der n e ` m ' a rt o Eliza, Milne, for Cadiz ; Eden, Slade, for Hoseason, for ditto ; Dawson, Pearce, and Ceerer , '",..4 in! ditto ; Nev Fame, Munro, for Malta; Dorothestxnej E tc Giz e nao pectnr, Priend, for "t il e of rur I;nston ; fltetwood, Buck, for Jamaica; D u for Bronte, Harris , for Jamaica ; Taylor, Cbrsii,sti'lep Jamaica; Shepherd, Lewis, for St. Kitt's; and We'- Forzeamo, for Jamaica. Ali(lr el' DA RTMOUTII OCT.. 30.30.—Arrived the Elise, - , from flavatmait and Altarma. • W I Ilot.vimArt, OCT. Mt.—Arrived the Chile, ••—•""' Vera Cruz. Arrived the liewhitirn, Philips, at Peterhead' fit° Davis' Straits. • di Ple A ship, seipprised to be the George Canning, fro m York, or the St. G e o rge , arr i ve d o ff H o lyh ea d o n Ow" THE MARtij..;-(TIITS DAY.) COVENT-GARDEN MARKET. bnt There wai a good supply at this morning's mark e . .% 0 the trade was slug g ish, an d th e p r i ces a b out t he sa!l i od on this day se'nnight. New Oranges and Lem0n4.0.4 made their appearance, but there seemed to he be any demand for them. s.d. s.d. Potatoes (rer cwt.) 3Gto 7 Caf.bages (12 heads) 1 6 3 0 Ditto Red 2 0 4 V Cauliflowers 2 0 4 0 Horse limilish(bund,c) 1 6 3 0 Ce:ery Bre , o'i 1 6 26, Carrots .12 bmehes) 5 0 86j Tit ro Young Oni fl • 1 6 3lj COieWoits or Greens 1 6 3 0 Leeks. 1 0 13; French Beans (rn11011) I 0 2 g, b• 11P S An ne (half-sieve) Apples 3 6 0 tars 3 0 i d Lein•ns g 0 'i d English Walnuts 1 Id! Span. Che.nuts (pack) 5 " 1" French ditto :: a. S lien h Walnuts ....... 4 d 'Span eh I Wile/Ims ...; 4 •31 Otii•ins foF pleklirl) : .. English Grapes (perin.)u Filb.ris (12,b.) ......... 6 " HAY MARKETS—CA t per L'ad cf 36 Trtisset) • 0 ST. JAMES'S. 0 ,1 6 Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay £S 15 l o 1 0 Best New Meadow Hay ..,,•.,.....,,,..; • - 1.,:s 3 5 4 Fine Upland Meath*/ and Ryteass Hay's . 315 - : 6: 4 Clover Hay 3 15 ; 1 Oat atraw .£l 14 to £1 18 I Wheat Straw 1 18 A strait supply, and a steady trade, at Thursday's P"'" - , 0 SMITHFIELD. PIO ft,rse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay £9 10 to 3:n Best New Meadow Hay . 3 5 . 5" 5 Fine Upland Meadow and Rye-grass Hay 3lO 5 I CLver Ilty (urea tine)...Xs 15 ... Generally 3 15 1 . Oat Straw £l 12 to XI 16—Wheat :craw 1 lt; (p h Supply good, and tr:ale rather dull ; prices as last 't • MAGAZINE DAY. NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE. • • „,1" Mr. Sheil, one of th e mo s t versa til e an d a bl e contrl"- 114 to this Magazine, has again entered with his usual dri ll :, skill pale male into the , very heart -of the -Claus tion. . He has familiarized us is its strange squitiw 4 _ its extraordinary national peculiarities—it :4 drolleDe its effrontery, and its excitements It is altogether P o i lightful paper, a stimulating compound of sarenteto description. " Mr. Abernethy" is a sketch drawn ° 7 O l O hand of a ma s t er . W trace its truth' i n e verr t is " The Death-boat of Heligoland" is an en" - „ (fltt poem, full of wildness; and powerful imagerp- -- Annuls is a v.-ell-writt e n rev i ew o f th ese 311- , 0 sll little trifles; fair measure of ju s ti c e i s d ea lt out oft equally. " The Roman Theatre" is long, a nd SioW (lull, but possesses information, its redeeming Prglal " Penenden H ea th" i s a j us t an d v i gorous accou nt ti ob• proceedings that took place there a week or so.iince• poi Kett has but bare justice done him in a careful entoner„-id of his evil qua li t i es . A mp l e extracts f rom this 0-0 sketch of character and incident, will be found in al e s( column. Taken altogether, thi s nu mb er o f the Monthly" may be pronounced superior to many of it° decessors. MONTHLY MAGAZINE. H of The article on Insanity" in the present nu', this grave Q ua k e r-lik e p er i o di ca l, t h oug h • not '7.00 merit in the style and qu a lity o f it s i n f orma tion, of great fault ; it generalizes too much. Now a tnedi t t4 scientific treatise, or indeed any work of a practical of ought, in nine cases out of telt to be a Treallr, particularitieu; whereas this,.:though strongly vir l/ b i g h something even eloquent, is full of general lematke W fe convey a tolerably correct notion on the subj ec t o f i nity, but give no details respecting its mod e of preiren il d or cure, sufficiently minut e t o answer arty satilf°.„et:j purpose. " A Tale of th e P yrenees " ie ten—it forms one of a series signed " lEvab," nonn . with Continental adventures, and has better and str l3 rv s i, points of interest than magazine romances in r i co with less absurd rhetorical exaggeration. fpU Report" is a practicable and servicable paper, t' of facts, drawn, as we should conceive, from „rio sonal experience. The " L e tt e r on Aff a i rs in Geo? takes up the different public topi cs - of the Il l° , in a lively, rambling, and• diverting manner; it gi o : c o pleasant stimulus to a deficient memory. We have no ° Lily for extracts, as our columns of to-day are more than ' l '7 circumscribed. LONDON MAGAZINE. , 4 The Opening of th e Lo n d on U n i vers i ty " isa fi"„01.- spirited account of the ceremon i es o b served on that in l r, I ant occasion. It s p ea k s a l so o f t h e Un i vers i ty i n the b i t that every man o f au en li g h tene d m i n d woul d desire 0 : s it spoken of. " Last day of the Year in Vienna'-' 1. 1 0 , graphic sketch of power and interest. " A Woutan;i" tory" is pretty, but sentimental,—that is to 05 7' 0 ,i; is all about a broken heart--a subject which is an s 6° ,ito nation, first, front its improbability; secondly, frog% triteness. " Drummond of Hawtbornden" has some I , e i g ll sible remarks on this old poet's stykiof versification, v i d f . rt h will go far to neutralize the 'venom of the late Mr.• o iP ° o 4 who, in his admirable edition of Ben Jenson, has tr es o the Scotch Bard s ith more than usual intemPerti Pope, however, has not thought it beneath him , to bo r . - 0, one of his mimilies about the Alps in the Zsay on.CritiO, " Alps peep o'er Alps, and hills on hills arise," foils, similar idea given at nearly equal length in one of D r _f he r mond's choicest -sonnets. As a whole the presento7v is a very ex ce ll en t one , an d j ust su ffi c i ent l y prat: ties' render it generally acceptable. BLACKWOOD'S MAGARINE. • ef We have scarcely y e t b a d tim e t o d o j us ti c e to the O- of this Magazine; but having finished one of its arty, intended manifestly to be fine, on the subject of lie' are entitled to pronounce our opinion, viz., that it i ° sufferably stupid, and proceeds on wrong c alculatio; i o The remaining articles are numerous, and we may P. take another opportunity of recurring to them. TILE EXTRACTOR. The comprehensive and leading features of this lication arc, to furnish, free from all tedicius'reduntinw the spirit of the whole of the foreign and dorneit i ,CASJ views, Magazines, Journals—in a word, the conceOnces essence of all our periodi ca l s . S uc h are th e Ch a racte°o of the Extractor, and we need scarcely add, that freill t he specimen of the First Number, now lying on our table! 0 1. Editor has strictly acted up to the spirit of his profttio Of the quality of his selections, we can speak in at highest terms of praise. Their variety also is another argument in their favour. EDWARDS' BOTANICAL REGISTER ; or, 0 1 ‘,,, j ij l ik MENTAL FLOWER GARDEN AND SOP BURY, No. IX. Coloured Plates. hid This month's number fully maintains the Iv reputation the work has acquired in the 13° o f meal World, as well as in the drawing-woo ls our nobility. Th e f o ll ow i ng s h ort extrac ts fr ° two threei n or of i of ts tchoenst s subjects will suffice to she: t . b richness e ,' " Cyrisus Movrimomus.—A very beautiful . bir d border s hr u b, r e m ar k a bl e f or th e p ro f us i on o f b r i g ht l ei cie ; ' flowers, with which its long slender branches arc ha It does not grow above two or three feet high, and. is ea s propagated by layers." ` Q CoNANTBERA CAMFANULATA.,-.-A nat i v ef higher range of the Cordilleras, where it seems to belj trout uncommon, appearing among the earliest of the ra;o flowers with which the green-sward is adorned Plw ri A s first melting of the snow. It is a hardy.greea,housePilio remaining in flower for, several we e ks, and yernarlushleri", the intense bright blueof its nodding blossoms. Itrequ i r e - 0 to be grown in light sandy loam, to b e well watered le cooling into flower, and after the .blossoming is over t! , - I.ept dry." " CALA NDIUNIA GRANDIFLORA,--This bllalitgo L 400 4 culent plant is a native of Chili. It forms.a ban e hush, covered with fair glaucous leaves, and from the no mit of its tortuous branches arise racemes of large id. rosy purpl e fl owers , open i ng i n succession for many 11 ,‘"" 0 01 Great care is required in its cultivation, not to give' i tds much water late in the summer, which proves. WA o t , speedily. It should 1)1 kept in a greephouse,. ..arcous earth, during the winter ; and in the e sumP"' may he plunged in the open border in, a warra:sel situation. It is propagated by cuttings, or by set4i" XEN't " } i dined ;:.• comp a t ,"11 'met, PPP., Et , I, E. 4 41 1 i30 y J. ', l lir ro of 4 th e , 40 of W: • Stra