The Sun. — London, England, 1828-11-06 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE LONDON JOURNALS• Saint Bexley mean s i s , th at t h e Ki ng o f -Pros . . • - • sia, who is a very worthy . - man, 'and -iota . Dr. Southey pours out about sixty pages of rabid gines himself to. have a better taste in reli matter in the last number of. the Quarterly" ;review, gious decorations than his predecessors, thinks the the business of which is to inoculafe ParlitilllePt Evangelical - Service too simple, and has a sort of With the notion" of how much more reaataireble - it hankering for a hierarchy. His Protestant subject: \sea be to dissolve the whole 'frame of the Pri- on the contrary, are by no means enamoured of the tish Empire, than to admit the King's Cohen, seh- splendour of a hierarchy, whichavould be destructive jects into the enjoyment of its privileges. The Poet to religion, in their opinion ; and they urge, more- Lenreet has on this question some terse and epigram_ Over that Bishops cannot be manufactured in an age matical conceits. Ile looks upon the religion of the where the aid of M. Rothschild is necessary. In a Catholics; in no better light than as a scheme for en- recent Geiman publication, written with great vigour, abling the priesthood to domineer over the whole it is observed, with reference to these inclinations of community : and . he ascribes to the laity of all tanks his Prus.ian Majesty— ' Presbyterianism, which is and een dirioes just as much political wisdom, and the Republic of Priests, may accidentally be pro no more, as will lead them to forward, to their own ductive of good ; hut an Aristocracy of Priests, detriment and degradation, this worthy pre ject of most necessarily be productive of evil, and only the priests. The Poet Laureat, having settled so of evil. Neither a Protestant Prince nor a Protes comfortable a theory, down from that chamber of tent People, nor any thing which is related to tir he the mental slop-shop in which artists in his line are longs to Protestantism, can expect aught from the most frequently indebted, is at no loss for materials restoration of such an Aristocracy but an existence wherewith to mould and decorate his work. As we in fetters, or destrirctieh. In its completion and find ship•builders soak planks in boiling water to a , cendancy it would be for the religious relations of make them susceptible of the required curvature, so met. whet a Venetian Universal Republic would be may a Court poet distor tto the uses of one fundamen- for their political relations, and be interesting only tal prejudice, history, philosophy, truth, and fiction, to the Priesthood. A High Church, like that of b, steeping them in a cauldron of sour sack. The England, obtains friends in other countries, who, Laurent Rector seems a learned casuist in the lersi- however, are perfectly indifferent to airy thing be tress of taking oaths and breaking them. He con- yond the satisfaction of seeing its decorated digni strues some of those whirl, Catholics swear, and taries in their anti-chambers and around the altars. which he admits that they observe conscientiously, Fortunately, however, for us, the age of loans can in such a way as proves, to his own satisfaction, that hardly be the age of Prelates. For, as Presbyte there are others which they will he ready both to take rianism is nothing without faith, a High Church is and violate, thus inferring their perjury from a de- nothing without money. A rich superinte n d en t, f or monstration of their truth. He assumes for Catholics that matter, might well pass for a Bishop ; but, or, the the intentions which they most earnestly disavow— other hand, a poor Bishop, whatever name he receive. imputes to their knavery a series of designs, whi c h, will always remain a superintendent." This is the - if real, would be evidences not of knavery, bur of unsatisfactory state alluded to by Saint Bexley, who folly, hears testimony to their power, for no end but merely means that the peace of Prussia is owing to to exasperate their hostility, and colours with - a just the absence of the fuel for religious fervour, namely, and glowing pencil the confusion, the distraction, the money. Shew us, he would say, a rich hierarchy sufferings, the !lagers, the impotence of law, the like that of Ireland living in peace and charity with omnipotence of disaffection, which have grown from a poor unpensioned church, and then we may admit no other stock but obstinate misgovernment, that he that it will no longer be necessary to keep Ireland may found on them an argument against any change in a constant state of anarchy, which threatens the of system. If the Catholic Church was once power- safety of the whole empire, and impov er i s h es th e ful, and the people - prostrate, it was because the nation. The interest of the nation is with him sub sidiary to the int erest o f c h urc h men. S o muc h f or learning necessary for the management of temporal affairs was in most rases confined to the clergy. Saint Bexley. We alluded the other day to a bolder When they were the only lights of a - blind and operator, D r . S out h ey, w h o, i n an art i c l e i n T h e tin , Quarterl : y Review, does not hesitate to pl ace th e lettered comgruitity, the .priests . of course were ascendant over it, and turned their superiority to disturbed state of Ireland to the account of the their own profit. As education became more ge- Aristocracy, and to recommend Poor Laws as a neral, the laity overtooketnd Outstripped the clergy, sedative. Dr. Southey, however, has other spe and gained the Yantage-ground of them. Th e wor ld cdics besid e s thos e t o be taken into the stoesrch. is too forward to be again their slave.- .Spain and The Catholics are to he restored to the benefit of Portugal, which still belongsto another century, con- the penal laws, and to be liberated from them tain even now the elements. of a power which, ere only when they see meet to become Protestants ten years, will destroy the dominion of their church. "Does, then, (he says), the consistent Protestant In any part of the British empire---unless. the cou rse look forward to no time at which the State may of society be arrestedOr , tUrtied toriale,asein Ireland, safely disregard religious differences, and admit the by a paradoxical and fratltie*.p,. oliey- e ---ani subjection Roman Catholiee to an equal share of political of the lay interests - to. those of „a ,Popish hierarchy power with their fellow-subjects? Not while the Roman Catholics rem a in wh a t they are , w hil e t h e i r is 89 impossible as to priests of Ephesus or Bab e l. creed binds them to their Cartons, and their Canons There is yet one point in the diatribe of this Lan reate muse which May be worth a brief considers- hind them to a pe r s ec uti ng s pi r it, ari d i nstruct t h em that faith is not to be kept w i t h heretics. Not lion. We are told, that to emancipate the Catho lio7s would 'be an absurdity, because they have while the Clergy swear obedience to the See of grievances, frOm. quarters not political, w hi ch Rome. Not while the Church of Rome claims to itself the attribute of infallibility, and procl a i ms th a t dressed. The, landlords. are said to be the real ought at". all events to be -previously re salvation is exclusively confined t o th ose w h o are o f tyrants of The, peasantry—not the established its fold ; for upon these tenets intolerance and per ciergy,—not the legislature. We bears willing evi- secution are consequent, and become strict dirties dance to FO much snub as appears to us to be con- —the only duties which that Church - has never tainted in the above proposition of Dr. Southey. We failed to perform. The single security that might /lc). riosethink that the. established clergy :afford - in ge- afford a pretext for admitting them into the Legisla neral any .well-founded. subject of complaint to the ture would be that which might be offered by a people. ,It, appears to .us that their situation has General Council, which should revoke certain doe heretofore been most invidious, and to thernselves trines as formally and authentically as they were de most cree l. They were forced to collect their -in- creed at Trent, at Constance, and in the Lateran.— comes through ungracious instruments, and they did Opinions of Catholic Universities are worth as little now as they were when they' were obtained for the not minister to the peasantry that species . of. . good, - 'yr recompence for which, according to all theory, use of the Irish in rebellion two- centuries ago. An the tribute of tithe had been.appointed. - But the authentic disclaimer of whatever is unchristian or 'Tithe Commutation Bill has, We tire assured wrought pernicious is necessary- e -decreed by a Council, and Wanders in the relation.between.ltbe 'Protestant confirmed by the Pope. Meantime we know that clergy and • the ,parishioi nis ,,- ;• ,iN ata l,, A , i„ ux ,b ee „ what, has been so fiercely - demanded can be withheld, _ brought into operation in a thousand - -parishes, or and need never be conceded till th ere b e such a change in the claimants as may r ende r it no l onger more, out of 1,600. There is no -longer,' where- it operates, any contact between the Protestant clergy- necessary to distrust them. The Irish dema g ogue s mein and the Catholic peasant. The landlords are have carried their system of intimidation t oo f ar ; securities to the clergy for the tithe:, it is paid by they have awakened and roused the spirit w hi c h it aliens on their own pasture-lands as well as on the was their purpose to trample down and to destroy. corn ciopa (which was riot the. cas e b e for e ), and to That wholesome exercise of authority which has that extent taken off the shOuldera of the tenant. been too long delayed may yet be used with excel s . 'What remains is charged by the landlord to the te- lent effect. But with whatever remedies a dangerous • madman is treated, the beginning must be to se c u re : nani - as so much rent, and with his gent the latter pays it. The tithe, therefore, where the new law him in a strait waistcoat. Let no more treasonable operate=, is nothing more than a fixed rent-charge harangues be suffered to pass with impunity; no fur issuing from the land for a term of years, at the ex- ther treasonable preparations; and l e t the Forte e pirenon of which a fresh bargain is made te ween shilling F r eeh o ld ers b e disfranchised." . This is a „ the clergyman and the part h. Under the err- very pretty exemplification of the propo s iti on w hi c h c u ms tanc es, the Protestant patron - : i „1„.., ge t,. used to lie stated so re p eate dly at th e M ee ti ngs o f the Reli g i ou s S oc i et i es i n t h e M etropo li s —" L et with .regard to the peasantry, into .a country gen , 4. the Catholics em a ncip a t e th emse l ves f rom t h e i r .str denten, and is, gene;al'y speaking, the best country , perstitiorr, and we will emancipate them." In that gentleman of his neighbourhood—the best edu-• . sated, most moral, and most humane. • With clever book, attributed to the Bishop of Limerick, " Captain Rock D e tected," we find it l a id down regard to the mass of Irish landlords, they are " represented every where—and we firmly believe but that the state of the Roman Catholics is briefly this—a people increasing rapidly in numbers, and too truly represented—as a nuisance to the lower orders, and a disgrace to their own. Their impro- daily sinking into greater wretchedness, and yet pot!. vidence and ostentation produce the natural effect sensing an energy and a freshness of feeling, in which of, the Ines:, hideous rapacity in the enormous rents their minds are strongly contrasted with the mono which they wring from the miserable peasant. The tony of their miserable lives; the old gentry—those who could warn them against improper courses, an d distance Which their station pisses between them . e keep up in their minds a salutary belief that th e i r selves and the multitude, is not tilled up by a middle sufferings were capable of increase—dropping off, an d - Floes as in England, to, tread upon their heels, anti a new class of gentry appearing, one by on e , i n dif gt.D.P4se. the, squires, mital. their manners. Hence ferent parts of the country, Mho, although th e y artNiare e eind cou.tempt. for the wretched people etmfieeine i;aggravate _the sense of their shocking tray not entertain as yet any design hostile to the Go pecuniary pecuniary e'sasnense- hatred, in the Protestant gen- verument, are, nevertheless, possessed by sentiments e l e m . an towarrfa olunmitigable hatred towards the nation which they are :t l, ;r-atholic inferior who murmurs a t 'keen, slmw,l j - tsel-c Ingihe form of magisterial tv- perhaps instructed to believe by - such cruel and frau easing ; and tne : pt_cii,..R. I, , i - - , . 0 tut Irish landlord is sour' dulent means subverted the dignity Gf their country, piete. If it 1-) P 4s '",.._'sv. ` l .itt.r:etnetly there is for such the present state of the and extinguished the splendour of their Church." things, we answer, tnat in;rub? with such a people, so cireomstanced, we fear hest Bare ought to Jaw there isllo,rpmedy — that the. t, emancipation, to allay Dr. Southey wilt find it no easy matter to commence be the general one--to tvi the strait waistcoat system. Human nature is hu.. the .predominant• fever throughout the sy ste m.- man nature in Ireland, as every where else. In After which, the m ore specific and i aet.ve re me di es France, Germany, and other enlightened countries, will have room to wor k ; anti c a these, see are ties we find the liberality of the Laity forcine the Priest cidedly of opinion that the most immediate ought hood to greater liberality in turn. With the very to be, since it would he of all others the must effec. mime creed, the Roman Catholics of those countries tual, the establishm ent o f the p oor laws throughout- !Mier - toto ccelo from the Roman Catholics of Ire and with the limitations, land. And why ?, B e cause an unnateral union is Ireland, on the pr i n ci p le, which characterized their original introduction here. no,t e P d roduced, by exclusive laws, between the edu- Until this coercion upon the Irish landlord be adrni- t In Irenid,the ignorant, the liberal arid the bigot. nistered, he never will have an interest in the, well-las an gat.present, liberality would he suspected then only will it be' approximation wo to apostasy. In France, on the being of his tenant . ; for u g It other hand, the d apostacy is not a term of odium, home to his senses, OW, let the tenant be ever ao but the bein • • ' rat his feeling, . g priestiedden is. We can make the poor, the law will find for him—wl Irish what weplease.A t present we make all hos and for the most part unprincieled, landlord (we are file to us, ende . draw forth- expressions of religious almost tempted to name some of the worst of them) , zeal from those who would natural) be indifferent. has heretofore withheld from hjm—a sefficienci/ (..)/ —Morning Ch ' 1 mine e. fond and raiment from the produee of the estate.— The Halifax papers which 21mes. .were received yester day ince the receipt - atinoi Lord Bexley never loses sight of Finance in his Evangelism ; and it is curious to observe this great lest Comm;ttee of the House of Commons on the Saint, in his late Address, have one eye regularly Civil Government of Canada, and remark , •.tI iat, fixed on Tithes,: whil e tire other is on the Bible.-:. "if . tiered upon, it will effect a complete. charge i-ii, mode of preying that those-. who profess the the Government of Canadte.)—that ..." it may be C'stholic r eli g i onsshouldhe-excluded frcm the privi- . called. the declaration of the British •Parliament -as leg, s of the , Commotio n is s very short and simple. to coloniol rights , and almost a declarati on of colonial In all countrie s of- the- •Continteit where the inhubi; independence," an d that the recommendation ". that tants are partly Protestants, partly C at h o li cs , there persons holding official situations should not.ei t i n is the best uriderstandin tg getween t h em , an d t h e the Council, tends to weaken the hands of the. Go ,State places both on t,,ksame footing. This is very vernment." That the Report alluded to in th es e true, admits his Lordship; but religio n is not on a remarks is calculated to effect a complete cha nge in properfooting in arty of these countries, and conse- the government of Canada, if acted on, is certainly fluently they cauno t b e u rged as an example to Eng. as likely as it is desirable ; and that it will, erelong, hard, .where alone religion is on a proper footing.— lead to other changes in al our North American In Prussia, for example, Catholics and Protesta n t s possessions is what we centitfently hope. No colo live in the utmost harmony; but, observes Saintnies haveliltherto, with the exception of New South Bexley, " the state of religion in that country is Wales and Van Dieman's Land, been more gressly understood to be any thing but satisfactory,. not- mismanaged than those of this country; iron on the withstanding the very laudable- endeavours of the co l on i es o f any country has so much of the mo ney King to introdu ce a b et t er state o r things." ' We of the mother country been so uselessly expended. are not to understand from this that the Cleri The treasury of an industrious -people has been of Prussia do riot possess ten times more lessen- ; drained for their improvement; -but so shamefully ing than the Clergy of the Church of England,. I have i ts • g if ts b een i ntercepte d an d m i sapp li e d, t h a t or that the people of Prussia are ig ne rant anti , !!'e colonies have derived little or any benefit ftern turbulent, or that the various sects are deficient them. The aristocrat!) , have looked upon them as a its Christian charity towards each other, What 1 sort of hospitals for the reception of spendthrift son's, and importunate dependents ; and the different Go. vernments of this country been glad to secure its support at the expense of appointments most pernicious to the colOnies, but of the effects of which they heard but seldom, and not loadly. The magnitude of the evils to. which such a mischievous system was not only calculated to give rise,' het ' hich it actually produced, has at length w or k e d its own cure. In t h e R e port to which - w e h ave alluded, th e - g ri evances of the past system are fear lessly commented upon, and remedies recommended, which, if they do not operate a complete change in the Canadas, will, at all events, greatly allay the prevailing discontent, and destroy the source of many of the evils complained of. A Report, in fact, more fraught. with sound principles, or charac terized by more judicious remarks, has seldom, if indeed ever, come into our hands ; and the Legislattire will be sadly to blame, if, in the course of the next Session of Parliament, a series of measures be riot introduced with the view of carry ings its recommendations into effect. The most im portant points touched upon by the Committee, are the clergy lands—the civil ' , gilts of the population, and the causes generally which have produced so much discontent in Canada, and so greatly retarded its improvement. With regard to the one-seventh of all the land in Canada, which was injudiciously set a part, under the name of Clergy Reserves, for the support of a Protestant Clergy, the Committee unhesitatingly recommend their permanent alien ation, subject to a fixed moderate reserved rent. The effect of reserving a seventh out of each fresh allotment of land, fur the use of the Clergy, has been most pernicious to Canada, while it has, in no one respect, benefitted those whom it was intended to serve. Nearly 500,000 acres have been set apart in this way ; and as from their nature they are not only scattered over the whole of the districts already granted, but form a sort of barrier between each allotment, their effect in retarding improvement may be easily guessed at. Neither can they be leased or sold to any parties advantageously, unless those whose property they bound; for, as stated by the Committee, out of 930/. per annum,--the sum total of nominal rent receivable for upwards of 75,000 acres,—the actual receipt has only am-muted to 501. With regard to the enjoy ment of civil rights, the opinions of the Committee are as liberal as their adoption must prove beneficial : " The Committee (says the Report) cannot too strongly express their opinion, that the Canadians of Mena extrac tion should in no degree be disturbed in the peaceful enjoy, merit of their religion, laws, and privileges, as secured to them by the British Acts of Parliament; and so far from requiring them to hold lands on the British tenure, they think that when the lands in the Seigneuries are fully oc cupied, if the descendants of the original settlers shall still retain their preference to the tenure of Fief et Seigneurie, they see no objection to ether portions of unoccupied lands in that Province being granted to them on that tenure, pre vided that such lands are apart from, and not intermixed with, the Townships." And again, speaking of the Constitution of King's College in Upper Canada, which requires the Pro fessors to be members of the Church of England, and to sign and subscribe the Thirty-nine Articles, the Committee state it as their opinion, " That great benefit would accrue to the province by changing the'constitution of this body. They think that two Theological Professors should be established, one of the Church of England and another of the Church of Scotland (whose lectures the respective candidates for holy orders should he required to attend), but that with respect to the President, Professors, and all others con nected with the• College, no religious test whatever should be required. That in the selection of Professors no rule should be followed, and no other object sought than the nomination of the most learned and discreet persons ; and that (with exception of the Theological Professors) they should be required to sign a declaration, that, as fur as it was necessary for them to advert in their lectures to reli gious subjects, they would, distinctly recognize the truth of the Christian Revelation, but would abstain altogether from inculcating particular doctrines." With regard to the discontents which /tare pre vailed in the Canadas, and the causes which have retarded their improvement, the .Committee state it as their deliberate opinion, that they have arisen, in . the first place,' from the system of laws and consti tutions established in these colonies;" but much more to " the manner in which the existing system has been carried into effect;" and they record their complete conviction, That neither the suggestions they have presumed to make, nor any other improvements in the laws And consti tutions of the Canadas, will be attended with the desired . effect, unless an impartia , conciliatory and constitutional system of Government be observed .in these loyal and im portant Coloeies.' It was fOr this reason, no doubt, that the Com .mittee recommend what it appears will prove very unpalatable in the Colonies—we mean the exclusion of all aim( persons from any share in the represen tation of the Colonies. These parties undoubtedly communicate a temporary strength to the local government, but it is at the expense of the content of the country, and the sooner, therefore, that a change takes place, and the influence of the local government rests on its real merits, and not on the corrupt support of its instruments, the better.— Morning Advertiser. • When the scheme for establishing the London University was first made known, a great outcry was raised at its not comprising any provision for the religious education of the pupils. For this ela . mour, however, we confess that we saw no sufficient ground, not that we al e indifferent to the importance of instilling religious: principles in youth, but be cause the plan being in the nature of a day-school, where the children were to remain domestieared with their patent A, and under their care probably six teen hours of the four-and-twenty, and on the t„-,ab bath-day wholly, it seemed to us that their religious instruction might be safely left to their natural guar dians, while it opened the doors of the proposed College as a place of general instruction to the chil dren of rrsons cf all religious denominations.— There \vete those, however, who thought at the time, and not without reason, teat thiq apparent ab sence of religion was rather used as a cloak for the introthiction of peculiar tenets, and those in hostility to the Established Church, than as a liberal opt ning I of the portals of science to persons of all per• suasions. This now seems to be avowedly the case, not merely by the appointment of more than one Dissenting Minister to offices in the establishment, but from a public announcement addressed to pa rents, that two " Protestant Dissenting Ministers" are about, " with the sanction and approbation Of the Council," to lecture as such —not, it is true, within the walls of the, University, but in its " im ' mediate neighbourhood." We qaarrel not with this in the abstract ; on the contrary, we recognize in its fullest sense the right of Dissenters of all deno minations to inculcate their principle: fairy in what ever way they please; but we do charge the Coun cil of the University distinctly with disingenuous ness, and a departure from their own avowed neutra lity in religious opinions, in thus permitting it to Jae curer, contrary to their own avowal, a professed means of inculcating the peculiar doctrines of some particular sects. 11 the University is to become a mere Dissenters' College, let it be so expressed. We know • the wealth, the power, and numbers of that body, well enough to be convinced that they arc quite capable, if united, to maintain such an institution for thetnselves. But what we say is, do not let us have a seminary of education erected, and for a time carried nn, under false colours. Do not let parents of the Establisked Church be called upon first to subscribe, and then send their children to it as a place where their religious faith would not be interfered with, and then find them exposed to all the dangers of that schism and spirit of pro 7eiYfistn whi c h cannot, if it would, be separated irom the aeal which accompanies the peculiar tenets we allud e to wherever they are to be found. No one can live in the world and not observe the mean:, the often unfair means, which are used to make converts of all that can be caught in any manner to stray from the fold in which they have been born and brought up— e ff orts which are, we fear, too often not a litle promoted by the lukewarmness and Ivorldly-mmtlednese of those whose duty it is to counteract them, But be this the ease or not, those who undertake to establish plains of education should, above all things, have truth for their motto —and not say one thing, while they mean or Ito another.—Morning Herald. The claim of the Papists to an equal share of po litical power with Protestants, is in substance and effect, although not in words, a claim to the supe riority over Protestants in political influence and political privileges. The Papists, until they obtain the ascendancy in the State, must ever remain a distinct, united, and indivisible party, cemented to gether be the profession of en exclusive, intolerant, and bigotted religion, and by the obedience to which they are bound, as Papists, to one common authority,--to an authority alien, and of necessity hostile, to the British Government. They never can blend indiscriminately with the existing politi cal parties in the country, but must perpetually keep themselves aloof from all, unless, when they can barter their support for the acquiescence of the party upon which they bestow it, in some new en croachment of Papal power. This is the position which Papists must (weepy, and this is the ob ject to which they must be aievoted in Parlia ment, if they should ever be found there.— It is evident, then, that if the Administration of the day should be an honest Administration, deter mined to preserve what still might remain of the Constitution, all the Papists in Parliament would be SO many certain, and constant voters on the side of Opposition. If, on the other hand, the influential Members of the Administration should either be Papists ( whieh of er the claims now put forth are conceded is by no means an improbable supposition), or men so regardless of the Constitution as to be willing to sacrifice it to any temporary conve nience, all the Papists in Parliament to a man will be the steady and zealous ,supporters of Admi nistration. The Protestants in Parliament will, on the other hand, remain as they now are, di vided into hostile and conflicting parties, all of which will be under a perpetual temptation to hu mour the inclinations and further the objects of the Papists, inasmuch as the balance of power will he in the hands of the latter. We ask if it be pos sible, in such circumstances, that England should ever have an Administration zealous and determined in the maintenance of the Constitution ? The young aspirant to political distinction, manifesting such a disposition, betraying so indiscreet a forgetfulness of the Constitution and temper of the House of Commons, would be deemed a wild and sanguine enthusiast; every party would be reluctant or afraid to receive anti foster him; he would in evitably be blighted in the bud ; the House of Commons would become a hot-bed of political aspirants, each anxious to outrun the other in conferring upon the Papists some new increase of power. If by a miracle a staunch Con atittitional Protestant should at any time attain to that degree of Parliamentary importance which is an indispensible qualifcatien for a leading Minister of the Crown, and should be appointed to office, how small would be the chance of his maintaining him self in power At best, only a part of the Protes tants in Parliament would support him. A consi derable number of the Protestant Members, and all the Popish Members, without an exception, would unite to form an opposition phalanx, against which no Minister could hope to contend. in all circum stances, and at all times, a Popish Minister, or aspirant, would have an advantage over a Protestant one. The former would find united in his support many of the Protestants, and the whole body of Papists, while he wo u ld b e o pp ose d on l y b y P one division of the Protestants. • The latter would be supported only by a portion of the Protestants, while he would find united in opposition to hini many of the Protestants, and all the Papists. Can any man doubt that with these advantages constantly (spa rating in favour of Popery, the Legislature would speedily acquire a decided bias towards the full re-establishment of Popery as the religion to be maintained in alliance with the State ? Can any man doubt that civil war and revolution would en sue ? Something analogous to what would be the state of parties in Parliament, after the admission of Roman Catholics, exists at the present moment in Ireland in respect to county elections. A Pro testant landlord and a Popish landlord, in an Irish county, are the types of what a Protestant Minister and a Popish Minister would be, if Papists were adinitted to i. , ecome members of the Legislature. The Protestant ,landlord loses all influence over that portion of his tenantry which consists of Papists, while the Popish landlord retains his influence over the whole of his tenantry, whether consisting of Papists or of Protestants, and adds to it an influence over the Popish tenantry of his Protestant neigh bour. If a Protestant and Popish landlord are to be found in the same neighbourhood, having each the same number of tenants, half the tenants of each being Protestants and the other half Papists, the Popish landlord, in the event of a contested elec tion for the county, will be enabled to lead to the poll th ee voters for every one that his Protestant neighbour will have the power to command. This is the actual state of Ireland. The state of Parlia ment, in the event of rivalry between a Protestant and Popish Statesman, cannot fail, after the admis anon of Papists to the Legislature, to be the exact counterpart to the present state of Ireland. Mr. Shell, in one of his recent harangues, boasted of what the Papists would do in Ireland at the next general election. They will, he informs us, nomi nate the representative's of every Irish county. For once a Popish demagogue spoke the lan guage of truth and common sense. _We have no &tm that, if the elective franchise in Ireland remains as it is, the prediction of Mr. Shell will be realised. After the next general election, unquesti onably, unless the forty-shilling freeholders should be previously disfranchised, the Popish Priests of Ireland will have i stronger and more devoted body of Representatives in the British Parliament than any other single class of the King's subjects. Such a body of Representatives, devoted to one sole pur pose—the advancement of Popery--may, by ex changing votes, and other similar intrigues, ac complish it. With such a body in Parliament nothing could be safe; no interest of the community—no doc trine or practice of the Constitution, but would be sub ject to attack; every thing would in turn be the subject of compromise and of speculation. To obviate mis chief se obvious, and danger so terrible, we shall be told that nothing more is necessary than to eman cipate the Roman Catholics, (or rather to yield to their demand of political power). We say that this would but make the danger and mischief still greater, and that the only way to avert them is so to change the mode of election in Ireland as to afford the Empire an effectual and permanent gua rantee that the Members sent from Ireland to the House of Commons shall be the Representatives of the property of Ireland.—Norttiv Pool. A few days since the workmen employed in deepening the Exeter canal discovered, embedded in the mud, a gold watch, a silver tankard, and some silver spoons, the latter bearing the crest of Lord Cour.TEriay. Thu mechanism of the watch was entirely corroded and useless, and the whole of the articles had evidently been buried in the soil a great number of years.— Western Luminary. THE NEW WELSH JUDGE.—We believe we were incorrect in stating i❑ our last that the newly ap pointed Welsh Judge, Mr. Gouustrarr, was in the rootn of Mr. Justice UEYWOOD, who died on the Carmarthen circuit, instead of in the room of Mr. BALGUT, who has resigned. Be this as i► may, it is certain be is very young at the bar; and is, if we mistake not, the identical Mr. Gotu.suatr, who was some years ago an officer in the Blues, and received the judgment of the Court of King's Bench as the author of a libellous satire, entitled " The Blewiad." The mystery of this appointment will be de veloped, when it is known that Mr. GOULBURN is a brother of the present Chancellor of the Exchequer It has been alledged in palliation or justification of this ap pointment, that it has been stipulated that Mr. GOUL BURN is not to receive any remuneration if the Welsh jurisdiction should speedily be abolished. This may be bo ; but the excuse is only important with respect to the time qf his appointment, and leaves untouched the question of its propriety' at any time, and under any circumstances. Chester Courant. NEW LONDON-BRIDGE. Yesterday morning an adjourned Court of COM. pensation was held at the Town-hall, Southwark, before the Lord Mayor, Aldermen Am:ley, J. J. Smith, Wood, C. Smith, and the Recorder, to de cide upon the claims of Mr. John Bailey, furnishing ironmonger and smith, for the lease mid goodwill of the premises No. 308, on the-left side of the High - - street, Borough, required for the approaches to New London-bridge. Mr. Woodthorpe having put in the claim made, being for both interests, 1,875/., Mr. BOLLAND, in the absence of the Common- Sergeant, opened the case on the part of the City, and called Mr. George Smith, surveyor to the Mer cers' Company, whose estimate for the lease, 391 years to come was, at .5 per cent., antl . l7 years' purchase, on the•elear rent of 80/. per annum, 250/. Mr. Kay, architect for the Post-office, precisely similar. Mr. Charles Wharton, clerk to Mr. Hog gart, auctioneer, 12 years' purchase, 2001. Mr. PLATT, for the claimant, dwelt at consider able length on the right of his client to most ample remuneration. To prove his statement the Learned .Gentleman called Mr. Newman, surveyor to the Commissioners of Sewers. Total estimate, 5621.; Mr. Guilt, stir veyor,.s32/. On the score of the goodwill, the receipts and ex penditures of the last three years was submitted, and the average annual clear profit proved to be 8111. Witnesses being heard on the point, and Mr. BOLLAND having replied, the Jury retired, and after half an hour's consultation, returned—For the lease, 460/. ; goodwill, including fixtures, expenses of re moval, &c., 9521. 6s. 6d.; in all, 1,4121. 6s. 6d. WESTMINSTER COURT LEET. A Court Leet for the City and Liberty of West minster was yesterday holden at the Guildhall, _ for the purpose of swearing in parish constables, and confirming fines inflicted by the annoyance jug for light weights, &c. The Court met at twelve o'clock, when Mr. WILLIAMS, senior burgess ; took the chair in the absence of Edward Robson, Esq., deputy to the High Steward, Lord Viscount Sidmouth. Mr. Robson, the clerk of the Court, said that amongst the names of persons summoned to be sworn in to serve - the office of parish constable, the first upon the list was that of Joseph Sadler Thomas, print-seller, of York-street, Covent-garden. This person, he believed, had served the office of con stable is the parish of Coventiarden for the year preceding. If that were the rase, Mr. Thomas was ineligible to serve again for the space of seven years, according to the provisions of an Act of Parliament. Mr. Thomas —I appear het eby virtue of a precept directed to me from this Court, to take upon me the office of constable. lam willing to serve the office, arid I come recommended by the churchwardens and the respectable portion of the inhabitants of St. Nu!, Covent-garden. Mr. Robson—You cannot serve the office of con stable in your own right for two succeding years, ac cording to the provisions of the 25th of George 111., chap. 29., see. 7. . Mr. Plttuirs, the solicitor, who appeared on be half of Mr. Thomas, said he considered that the Act of Parliament in question did not apply to the present case. Mr. Robson—This Court cannot, by possibility, have any other object in view than that of adhering to the law. The words of the clause are these,— " Provided always, that no person who bath served the (Alice of constable shall be presented again to the sameoflice by a Court Leet, until after the expira tion of seven years from the tune of his last serving." The words " shall be presented" pointed out to the Court the precise line it was to adopt, and left it no other choice than to reject any person offering him self as a constable under such circumstances. The CHAlRMAN—Certainly ; we have no discre tionary power. Mr. Thomas—l shall presently have occasion to address a few words to the Court upon the subject. For the present I of course bow to its decision. The COURT then proceeded to despatch other mutters connected with the local business of West minster, until Mr. Ward was called upon to be Sworn in to serve the office of constable in the parish of St. Paul, Covent-garden, for the year ensuing. Mr. Thomas then stepped forward, and said, that Mr. Ward being unwilling to serve, he (Mr. Thomas) was willing to act in his place. Mr. Corder, the vestry-clerk of St. Paul's, Covent-garden, then addressed the Court on behalf of Mr. Thomas. Mr. Robson.—lt is quite clear that Mr. Thomas cannot be sworn in as an independent constable. It would be another thing, however, if Mr. Ward, after he were sworn in, should think fit to appoint Mr. Thomas as his substitute, provided that he • (Mr. Thomas) had previously been approved of by a meeting of parishioners in vestry assembled. Mr. Corder--I can show you the vestry minute approving of Mr. Thomas's conduct while he filled the situation of constable, and recommending him to be re-appointed to the office. Mr. Robson—Let Mr. Ward be sworn in as constable. Mr. Ward being sworn accordingly, Mr. Corder said—Now Mr. Thomas offers to serve as constable in his stead. We wish to know if it be the intention of the Court to offer any further opposition. 7 Mr. Robson—Mr. Thomas mu , t be recommended and approved of by a meeting of parishioners, in vestry assembled, before he can be sworn, in as Mr. Ward's substitute. Mr. Corder—l have the vestry minute to that effeet, and can produce it in half an hour. Mr. Robson—That minute, I presume, is dated some time back. The Court can proceed only upon a minute dated subsequently to the sweitring in of Mr. Ward. Mr. Thomas must therefore wait until the holding of a vestry meeting. Mr. Thomas—Pray do not urge the matter any further on my account. The thing is quite clear; these objections all serve to show " a foregone con clusion." The matter ended here.- Letters from St. Peteriburgh state, that the new levy for the Russian army will raise it to upwards of 900,000 men, including those of the military colonies.._. Of this large force it is said that it will be in the power of the EMPEROR to march 400,000 against the Turks in the approaching campaign, without weakening the armies which it would be necessary to leave as a check upon Austria and Sweden. On Sunday, as Mr. FURY, of the eminent mercantile house of Snritt.ocK, of Abbey-street, was riding in the Park, at Dublin, his h. , rse became unmanageable, and running with great violence, dashed Mr. FURY against one of the large trees, and killed him on the spot. We have just heard of another mysterious murder in this county. In August 1927, a little boy, named Joisas ANSKLL, was found stabbed, in an osier ground, at Monks Eleigh ; but no dew could ever be gained as to the authors of his death. This morning an elder brother 'of the above boy was found in a field in the parish of /lidding, near the above-mentioned osier ground, with his throat cut. An inquest is to be holden this afternoon (Tuesday).—Bury Irtrald. On the 23d of ;,,eptenaber, soon after six o'clock in the morning, a respectable young wom an went from Ryhope into a geld near the sea-shore, and on her opening the field gate to return, she was prevented by a man dressed in a blue jacket and trousers, in consequence of which she fled to the sea-shore, and ran along it to wards Ryhope Dean; but before she had reached the latter place, she was overtaken by the same man, who ultimately threw her into the sea and left her. The girl reached her home about eight o'clock, and has since remained in such a nervous state as to be unable or unwilling to relate the par ticulars of the affair. The general opinion at Rvhope is, that the man had violated her before he threw her into the water. The monster had slept the evening previous in a coal-house at Ryhope, but has not since been heard of,—. Tune Mercury. THE - 'MARTUITS. COAL MAR. Adalea Felling 31 :0,1 Gray's Steam cal 3l 0 Heaton 35 G • HelAurn Main Ho'vwell . '0 :E12...- t liftv- 5 . ' ;rchir Walli find Neroloo4 _,, Ditto liortbn 90 Ditto Peareth 1 !!•,_1 . r . X1 41 Ditto Perkins " ate Ditto It id& 11);.,..mnr. [litta it tis sell's . ;...--:, 0 , ' 'll' !nun Way? '- 0 uanii I iurlia Fawcett Main 0 . ;15 i l t h rres 'a fim l lll l l 7 67l. E 7i n id4 d rsilEriielitifi ; " • S : l i t , y, Walls End LA9 m Walls End sta ttiissell'il-17ttel* „... :15lyth -- ..«. 7 74 , .t, i i ilartle} lilkstoneTi7ls7o 4 7.11 4 :F tone Coal ii‘1r: ..... „,,,e Walls End F lt qv =,.:, , :WO tsean C a i,,t);„: Walls End small ' z i , Durham W. E. I' o '7 ; ~ a , f . r, gold 60;(---U .- -r.: • . A 4.-, NU 17f_7_71e0 Killingworth y, 34 .9 Liddell's Maim—. 3t '0 Ord's Redhugh 30 6 Percy 29 0 'Pontop Windsor 31 0 Shipcote 3l 9 Tanfield 32 ,(1 Willington • 34 • 0 Wylain • 32 6 Walls End WV art Co. 31 9 Ditto Bell Robsou & Co. 35 3- Ditto Ilewiekeand Q.— 33 0 Ditto 33 9 Ditto Carr and Co. 32 0 Ditto Clarke and Co. » 33 6 Ditto Crantlingtori......."." 31 0 Ditto Hilda 33 0 Ditto Hotspur^. ;t3 6 !gong at market. 116—Ship CoU /ATM' t:01i rs nu If Wheat. , Oarley, Oats« .Per Quarter. Abingdon. _ _ Andover s to s. 68 84 78 - 59 S 62 76 GO S 2 4S'' 75 44 St 50 76 64 86 62 80 60 86 sfi 79 60 If Ci 80 94 52 76 65 SO• 56 76 65 84 59 79 59. 84 63 1110 69 83 s. ' to & 35 41 23 22 3 6 _, 26 E 23 P. • 24 3 22 9 ° 96 31 211 3 1 1 YR : 31 j 21 22 85 2$ Si 30 32 32 4 . 24 3 2 21 2 14 28 3 3 ~. 22 aC„, Birmingham-- nridport Cirencester Faringdon----- Guildtbrti Henley Hereford Highworth Maidenhead Oakingham Southampton -- Stroud l'ewhecbilry Uxbridge Wanvinster Worcester. C/JELTENHAM Per Bushel. e. d. to e. d. Wheat Barley Oats 4 0 5 0 Veal Beans.... ........... 4 9 6 6 Lawb.,.. Pease 5 0 8 0 Pork 34 se. to 4/. 4 MA Ax. a —/ ,-- r — . 7 . 1b. 0r : 4. to 6 '6 6 toe*" 0000000 Oa, ••••• «•••:•.. 6 4s .per , Hay .. LEWES MARKET.—No White Wheat (per quarter) £1 0 Red ditto Barley Oats, New 1 6 . _ v. 4. 0 •° 0 tO O X 4 • ° O 2 0 O 1 0 ° O 2 „of. 0 pert Pease 0 0 Oil Cake, New l3 0 .HULL MARKET.—Nov. 404 This Jay's market met with a vary limited' r ef wheat from the farmers, for which sa. per qqair r was demanded than dart week—the howe' t o i stO, reluctantly gave 28. to Ss. per quarter, and vhf ...a 61P, dull at the advance. Bonded'wheat is more erici, E oll- s' and fine parcels sell freely at our quotations. - - pease, either free or in bond, ar e no t in much ifr i ;ls. present, and prices may be noted (carte as hi“rif' Foreign oats are almost without enquiry; on the v:' 00 , those under lock arc good to sell at advancing P ri cre are which we refer to our quotations Barley is e !,,s .13 5 dull, and had sales been pressed, lower prices been the consequence; Norfolk barl e y w a s del l ? g e' fectually 8t 425. a 435. ; th e ma lt s t ers h a v e not Ye' rally commenced working, and appear inclined rather than to go into stock, at present prices is full as dear. Rapeseed I!, to 2/. per last higher iast quotations. 1 . Wheat; Old 809. 84.8. --- Foreign —s. 708. &1N....—. In bond , Oats, Poland ....... —s. 24e. 2tio. Old ...... Small or IBs. 21s. Foreign —s. S4s. Ws. Barley, Notf. & Sul ... —6 40s. 435. Line. & Wold . _ Foreign 4 Beans 40s. 42a. 41s. Foreign • 44- Pease, White —s. 48s. 50s. Grey • 'Fares . — s. 40s. 50s. Foreign .. 3 4 1' 01. Rapeseed. in hood none. DUMFRIES MARKETS.—Oct. 20. 4. l 'i s.d. s.d. s. OO 0 Wheat, Imp. Bush 80to S 6 Butter, lik;2l:r. ..... . ..... „ 0 _1 Barley 4 2 4 6 Eggs, dozen ............ . le , 6 4 1 ( / ) ; Oats 2 6 2 8 Beef, per 1b..... ... ..... b°3 01 Floar, 141 b...,« 2 0- 3.t Mutton , ... • ..... 9 4 oi Oatmeal 1 6 110 Veal. o 4 Potatoes, cwt. . 0 0 1 0 Quattern Loaf ...... ... f or , ' CATTLE MARNier.—The show to-day, to the A pij ti of every body, though the market in courtesy is c' f . h is ) last of the Hemptons, amounted-to 3,368 bead, whrgOi be classed as follows :—Three.year-olds and upwar",o4 two-yearlings, -983 ; highlanders, 437 ; stirks , s ooi, (liters and heifers 349; ,gows, ..24;,-..total as psi With regard to ;ales,- the common remark ou the.si "was, that tt young cattle up to 61 or il., could be-Pi t l rather easier, though' the smaller the price, yoil P• O 4 vits lei; book for your money." A n d t h e rema rk was 1. Small cattle, in some cases, did f a ll a t r ifl e , though g-„ r and two-year-olds were s till i n d eman d , a nd out of all P portion to heavy cattle. F or th e l a tt er , the market„A: hanging one, in consequence of the news from St. ; and. Wooburn. At both of - these fairs, bullocks of the s • • I Co st of 151., and upwards, scarcely brought the ortgunt pi t keep ; while inferior or rather young beeves, 'feitti% ot rat, a fair profit. The over-supply too, . the sesl ot o sidered, tended to damp the ardour of purchasers , " Ar d a good deal of business was done, and more tibia " 0 , fourths of the whole sold. For a score of two-Ye : M I :Ai graird at Twynholm, and which carri e d the premitt 6 l a cel stirks at Wigtotvn, the exposer asked 12 guinea's, s n r ad tainly a finer lot of the kind was never shown in the Du if market. Some other lots of Galloway two-ke•lrt, t y brought about 91. or 81. 10s. p er h ea d ; b u r by,"„i greater sold at from 71. 10s. t o 51 . 1 0s , ; some I n P tfl lots of Stirks sold at upwards of 61„ per hea d ',, 41. 10s. and 51. was of course a fsr commoner rid Highlanders of all ages may be stated the same $ . 9 0 , 1 week. The show of drove Cattle was, on the w_ . _,11 9 li' good one, an indeFendently of the buyers for the WV / market who usually attend the Sands, snore 00' . dealer from the South was present, all of whom tr. .4 so fair a share of business, that before four o'clock a " • ber of the dealers had their droves on the Englisk r . and by five the market Might be said to be over. , best lot in the market brought, we believe, abbot al.. next 111. 55. , and the th ird 10 guineas per head ' , that the drove beasts varied to 81. 10s. per head. ' ". HOP INTELLIGENCE. • CANTERBURY, Nov. S.—Our market contintle e i ' for middling and inferior saniples of Hops, and to e sales a reducti o n i n p r i ce must b e su b m i tte d to; bu t the best s o r t s , . o f b o th bags and pockets, the deman d 6 finites at the currency of last week. _a.. BIRTHS. Add On the 4th i ns t an t, a t W a lth ams t ow , th e la dy of Helme, jun. Esq., of a son. gO'' On the 4th instant, the lady of George Waugb , solicitor, of Great James-street, Bedford-row, of a dauglt On the 27th ult., in Henrietta..street, Cavendish - K u, the lady of Dr. Watson, of a daughter. At Cork, the lady of Captaia Barry, of Kilbolanef b q of a son. sJ At Wallington Rectory, the lady of the 'Rev. E . Cebbold, of a-daughter.. •At the Deanery House of Kilmore, the lady of the t°ll. and Rey. Henry Vesey Fitzgerald, of twin d a ughteo• On the 19th ult. at Howth Castle„ near DiibliP' l ,o Right Hon. the Marchioness of Cl anr i c a r d e , of a &tug"' MARRIED. . On the 29th ult., at Northampton, Edgcumbe.P s e Esq., of Flare, in that county, Assistant-Commissary Lieu', to Sarah Ann, youngest daughter of the late- 41 f _,. 1 4' Taylor, Esq., of Liverpool, and of the island of Dat'ar'i On sth instant, at St. George's, Camberwel l, per Joseph Jessop, of the Minories, to Sarah, eldest dOg of Mr. Joseph Huffam, of Edmonton. tbi • At Mahlon, Mr. J. H. Case, of Brockley, to ,Efi llbs youngest daughter of the late John Hance, Esq. A le On the Ist instant, at Aldridge, by the Rev. J. l ° al e ton, Charles Simpson, of Lichfield, Esq., to Catherind m-gf roves Ad,rns, eldest daughter of Thomas Adams, f' s q .i Aldridge Lodge, Staffordshire. DIED. 're of On the 27th u lt., a t K e n s i ng t on , M rs . R e id, ‘ 5.1 John Robert Reid, Esq., of Bombay, aged 45. - On the 4th i ns t an t, a t th e - residence of her eau indi4-buildings, Mrs. Eleanor Leslie, aged 68. ne On the Sd instant, at Norwood, where he had g o t i the benefit of his health, Mr. John Spurway, Orr ° Upper Stanefurd. street, Wateiloe.road, aged 52.. On the 4th instant, Mr. Loser George Dakin, 11Iar lane, Cannon-street, aged 43. On the 3d instant, the wife of John Harrison, E'-4 4 St. Alban's, aged 68. On the 3d instant, Elizabeth; eldest daughter of met Norbury, printer, Brentford. f a' On the 3d instant, at Methley-park, Yorkshire, the p, Henry Saville, only brother of the Earl of Mexbor4, aged 65. pPi On the sth instant, at Queen's Elm, of a-rapid John, son of the Rev. J. Rush, Minister of Chlrro yged 22. - 1/ 4 On the 4th instant, at Arundal, aged one month, Isms, Keith, infant daughter of the lion. and Rev. Edwa Turnonr.,' l'ExxrEn and PuBtIsHED by MURDO YOUNG; 1 14 .- sink: Orrice, 112, SIItAITD, LONDON.. . 0--c tie! 41 14 1114 nal LIIP9III 0 4 , 1 IC lie 114 i o , V. 13 Ni g h t, $$ Ile fo 44d a, "rt-ry W U* tie* , 114 lit