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g : I,oiyl)o,N J 0 V ItNA L.S. DAILY .f 4 Extracts from the Morriinr , Papers,lll4 87,1855. • • . • [BRITISH PRESS.] - Lord-.Rolland last night moved the serppd . readirg..of the Bill. for abolishing the laws ,i of and foifeitnre attaint of blood. - Some part 'of the : Noble Lord's speech was meant to apply to another subject, and might, we think, therefore, as 'well have been spared. The principal argu ment an which his Lordship relied, was the in justice of inflicting upon the guilty any punish ment which in its consequences may affect the innocent., It is impOssible to resist an appeal to our humanity in favour of the unfortunate chil dren and cottttection3 of those who fall by judg.. tent of law. Our feelings are even sometimes touched by the sufferings and remorse of the cri minal himself. But it would not, therefore, he wile or just to abate the exaction of the dreadful penalty. It is impossible to punish any man to any extent, hoWever trifling, without doing some injury to his relatives, especially his children. — If they losse nothing, they have his infamy fasten ed upon them. In the case of high treason there is less disgrace ; and it is consequently necessary the punishment should be more extensive, in or der to be equally e ffi cacious. The single quest ion is, whether 'the law of forfeiture has not a direct tendency to deter men of rank and property from engaging in schemes Subversive of the public wel fare. If it has that tendency, there can be no doubt of the Wisdom and justice of continuing its operation. Children reap the benefit of the talents and virtues of their fathers, and it is un avoidable that they should share the evil effects resulting from vice and crime. Nor ought it to be-otherwise. No motive is stronger with men of character and eminence than the love of their offspring. No law can bind them to good beha viour so completely as that which threatens their children with beggary, if they disturb the pub lic tranquillity. The Lord Chancellor was of opinion that the law of forfeiture might be with draVvn frOm the crimes of petty treason and mur der. The - laws • respecting the corruption of blood•seem to be quite defenceless. Lord Hol land's.rnotion was lost by a majority or three.— We wish his Lordship Would- follow the advice of Lord Redesdale, and bring in a Bill for re pealing that part of the existing law which no body wishes to have continued. An animated end important debate took place last night in the House of Commons, on the motion of Mr. Spring Rice, for the production of the official dispatches of the Marquis Wellesley respecting the state of Ireland. All the principal speakers in the House took part in the discussion, which was prolonged to a late hour. The motion was finally with drawn. We shall revert to the subject at our leisure. ' [THE TIMES.] By his Majesty's ship Pyramus, letters were received yesterday from Mexico of the 20th 'of Defarch, and from Ilavannah of the 26th of April. Tbose: from Mexico are not so recent as some previously received, but they are more explicit e.Kt the state of public affairs, and are, on the whole, highly satisfactory. Much of the specie concealed or buried during the Revolution was gradually coming into circulation, now that con fidence had been restored by the establishment of the federal system. It is ,ascertained also, that during the preceding twelve months there had been coined,' in the Mint of Mexico alone, 7,600,000 of r dollars: from the other provinces no return bad been made, but the quantity coin ed there was considerable. These cnuses com bined had produced a great comparative Rhond a-ace of money, which had had a most remark able effect in restoring the equilibrium of the eichinge, to the great advantage of the Govern ment,whose bills on England had previously -been drawn on very injurious terms. The rate of the exchange bad altered, within a few weeks, from 60 to 48, giving a benefit of 20 per cent. in favour of bills drawn on England. The report of operations in 'the mining districts was favourble : some of the associations were selling large quantities. of ore weekly at the mouth of the mines, for which immediate payment was made by those persons who undertook the process of smelting it, and of conveying it afterwards to the mint to be coined. The process .of smelting was, h4Wever, to be carried on by the associations themselves, as soon as the 'requisite establish ments could be formed. The population of the raining districts, whose previous - state of suffering can only be comprehended by imagining the situation in which Yorkshire would be placed by the sudden cessation of the. manufacture of wool lens, were again full of life and activity. All the accounts. received at the capital from the pro vinces evinced them to be tranquil, and disposed to cement the great union which had been form ed.—The letters from flavannah neither contain news, nor any indications of that separation from Spain, which catastrophe has been mentioned by the French Papers as having actually arrived. • [NEW TINTES.I :An Aggregate Meeting of Roman Catholics was held on Monday in Dublin, which postponed kiTdeliberhtions till the Bth of June, by which *Tie the Catholic Deputation is expected to re ti ti' horn London. Ainpngst the desultory con. iirstition'Of the day, hOsiever, one suggestion toitsilirewti out which may 'lead to material con. sertisenVi. Mr. Shiel proposed that every Ca. titolic Priest in Ireland should furnish a census of the: Catholic and Protestant population in his parish. is perfectly disgraceful to the Statesmen of all parties that some such step bas not been .taken long ago. It is. a mon. sivOtts absurdity that the Empire should year after year be -convulsed by disputes about the Catholics, and yet nobody can tell their num a,. Million As to the relative proportion which they bear to the Protest, ants - the tags is still worse. One Honourable M'etriber stands up - in his place in Parliament, altd asserts that they are twelve to one ; another says' they are not two to one. It is really difficult. to conceive troir a British Legislature, in . an' age t_ll:,present ) can be so totally destithe of accurate information on a matter of serious inte rest to the country. .Look at the end-less esti mates and calculations with which the table-8 of Parliament are loaded every Session. We can tell to a thread how much flax is spun,4r cotton woven, in the course of the year. We can calcu plate,to a pinch of snuff the consumption of to bacco : but when we ask whether his Majesty's Roman Catholic subjects in Ireland are five mil lions or six, nobody can answer. IVe repeat, this is a disgrace to the statistical information of the age. [MORNING HERALD.] A Message was delivered -to both Houses, last night, from his Majesty, intimating t . O, Parliament that Alexandrina Victoria (born May 24, 1819), daughter of the Duchess of Kent, and George Frederick Alexander Charles Ernest Angustus (born May V, 1819), son. of the. Duke of Cumberland, had arrived at ages when it was requisite that Provision. should be made for their due maintenance and education ; and there fore submitting the same to the consideration of Parliament, with the view that the required arrangements may be made. Both Houses will take the Message into consideration to-day.— Robert Poer French Pilkington was brought to the bar of the House of Commons, in custody of the - Serjeant at Arms, on the motion of Mr. Secretary Feel. The Speaker then informed Robert Poer French Pilkington, that the House had declared him to have committed a breach of its Privileges; and that he was brought to the bar to state ally thing he might have to urge in extenuation or ex planation of his conduct. He spoke in so low a tone, that he was very imperfectly heard in the gallery.—He repeated, however, that he was the sole contriver of the petition, that he was con scious of the wrong he had done, and that he threw himself on the leniency of the House in consequence of. ,the severe indisposition under which he now laboured. Mr.• Secretary ,Peel (after the prisoner had withdrawn) said he thought, that under all the circumstances, the House would be disposed to pursue a mild course—only to adopt some proceed ing with the view of marking the sense of the House respecting so reprehensible a transaction, calculated as it was to destroy all confidence in petitions. Sir J. Newport acquiesced in the hu ' inanity of such a course, remarking that the of ' fender (who, it was stated, belongs to a Pro testant family), promptly and explicitly confess ed to the Committee :that he was the.sole con triver of: the forgery—thus removing at a critical period suspicion from a large class of the people. It was eventually agreed, that, on Monday, it should be moved that Robert Poer French PO kington be discharged, on payment of his fees ; and that in the mean time he remain in custody of the Sergeant at Arms, in the prison - rooms be longing to the House, and which are situated over Mr. Bellamy's Coffee-house. [MORNING CHRONICLE.] A" warm discussion took place last night on Mr. Spring Rice's Motion, for the production the dispatches of the Marquis of Wellesley, in which he communicated his opinion with regard to the measures necessary for the tranquilliza tion of Ireland. Mr. Spring Rice introduced , his motion by a speech calculated to produce a power ful impression on all but the most prejudiced minds. He was evidently deeply impressed with the danger of the position in which the Empire has been placed by the recent decision of the House of Lords. As he very justly Ob. . . served, the expectation which the Catholics had been taught to entertain, were calculated to add greatly to the irritation they must feel on account of the result. Without charging the Administra tion with downright fraud, he alluded pointedly to the very suspicious contrast between the tone of the opponents of the claims in the outset, and afterwards when the matter was brought to a close—a contrast which it seems difficult to ac- count for on any other principle than an intention to deceive the Catholics "There was not (he said) an individual connected' with the Catholic Party—there was not a Protestant who wished well to Ireland, that did not entertain what ap peared to be a reasonable expectation, that the condition of the Catholics would be better at the close of the Session than it had been at its commencement. Nor were these hopes dithinished by the tone which had been taken by the opponents of the Bill in that House. For, although they contended against the measure on principle, yet their tone was so mild and concili atory, as to disarm the Catholics of resentment, and to excite in their breasts a feeling of regret that talents were not exerted on their side of the question, which, had they been successful in de feating the Bill, would not have accompanied that defeat with insult, but would have given a grace and a dignity even to the refusal ofjustice." AII the Jesuits are not on the side of the Pope. The Hon. Member stated a circumstance which shews, in a striking manner, the meanness of the arts to which the No Popery Gentlemen do not disdain to have recourse. " He would mention, he said, one fact which he conceived to evince a more than ordi nary degree of depravity. An individual, for merly tried for sedition—a man named Benbow, had published the Speech delivered by an Illus trious Person in another place. To this Speech, this man Benbow had subjoined matter of the most inflammatory description,'Calculated to pro duce the most violent irritation throughout Ire land. lie knew Positively, that a person in office, a Member of the House, of Peers, had taken care to' dissemiate all over Ireland, this Speech of the Duke of York, with the com ment of Mr. Beribow." The Honourable Mem ber gave an amusing history of the immi nent perils to which the country was ex posed in the course of the last century from the plague, and the Jews, as well as from Po pery. Some Parliamentary sages, who succeeded in exciting so formidable a clamour, as to frighten the Legislature into *a repeal of the Jew Bill, conceived' that we should be stripped of our li berties by standing army of Jew's. The Church never was in such danger. The Jews were coming " for the keys of the Church doors." It affords us some consolation to. think that though the•dis position of the interested parties is base enough to take advantage of rny prejudice, yet, except in the towns of the agricultural districts, those Beotias of Britain, the clamour, o► the attempt to excite a clamour, has been a complete failure. [MORNING POST.] Although we do not intend to again agitate the Catholic Question till occasion de►nands us so to do, we cannot avoid observing what has tran spired in Ireland, since the rejection of the Ca tholic Bill dissolved the hypocritical seal which the " Deputation" and the " Prelates" placed on the mouths of the Irish Papists. It thus appears that the " wings" of Emancipation, or as Mr. Hunt calls them, the " clogs," were highly disapproved of by the " Six Millions ;" and that in keeping silence while the Catho lic Bill was pending relative to its appen dages, nothing more was meant than to play off a piece of Popish deceit and Jesuitry upon the Legislature. Now we certainly do not wonder that, as 'Catholics, the mass of the Irish Population should be averse to the Disfranchisement of Forty-shilling Free holders ; for that measure, we are convinced, would weaken the Catholic and strengthen the Protestant power in Ireland'. We shall not, however, enlarge upoir this view of the subject now. .What we wish to call attention to is the conduct of the " Deputation," and the " Pre lates," and the " Radicals" of the House of Com, mons, with respect to this particular Bill. No matter how Mr. O'Connell, as the great or gan of the Popish Clergy and Laity, may at present attempt to explain, or contradict his assent to the political disqualification of five hun dred thousand Popish Electors, he, and the De pu tion, .and the Prelates did actually agree to such a proceeding as a condition of" Emancipation." A bargain was, on their part voluntarily, we might say spontaneously struck, that half a million of the poorest of their Constituents should be deprived of the only political right which they possess, or could possess, for and in consideration of eligibility to the higher offices and rights in the State being granted to the said Deputation, and the other' handful of rich and ambitious Papists whom they represented. We declare then explicitly and em phatically, that in the history of political jobbing and baseness, a viler or more villanous attempt to sell and sacrifice the many for the gain of the few is not on record. Will the Deputation, or any member of it, ever again dare to talk of the venality of the Irish Parliament in passing the Act of Union, when the brand of the most llagi 7 tious and unprincipled venality is still glowing on his own forehead ? " But," says Mr. O'Connell, " the measure was only conceded to please the Protestants." And is not this pleading guilty to the whole charge ? Why was it sought to please the Protestants by such means, but to obtain their assent to 44 Emancipa tion,"—that is, to the granting of eligibility to the few to attain to political honours and power ? We can assure the Catholics that the conduct we allude to has given unmixed disgust to the people of England, and, if any thing could, has added to the horror before so prevalent, of letting the lenders of a Sect capable of thus wan• tonly selling the right of their countrymen, take a share either in the framing or the administering of British Laws, on which British liberty and rights, and happiness are dependant. Upon the support which the proposition received froM the Whigs, we have only to observe, that except to those who are profetsed Reformers and Advocates for extending the Elective Franaise, there is nothing to object. But what can be thought now of the principles or the consistency of Sir Francis Burdett, Mr. llobhouse; et hog genus omne What is the public opinion at pre sent of these " men of the people"—these devoted friends of " Reform" of " Annual Parliaments and Universal Suffrage ?" Can the Radicals of Westminster any longer deny, that " all is vanity and vexation ?"—that they have been duped—that all they have heard of " principle" has not been cant hypocrisy, deception—in a word, expediency—that if poli tic in the eyes of their Representatives, the very right of " scot and lot" voting, which the said Radicals possess, and by which they have return: ed those Representatives, would by the latter be abrogated without scruple or compunction.— Verily, they are almost—though not quite equal o the " Deputation" and the " Doctors." [TUE PUBLIC LEDGER.] The Gentlemen of the*Stock Exchange, par ticularly such of them as pretend to reduce job bing to a science, have of late been woefully dis concerted ; and they have found out to tl►is cost, that there are occasions, when the most arrant bungler may be more successful in this game than the expert gambler. Lately, the knowing ones, as they are called, have been the greatest losers, for, having got into the inveterate habit of as• cribing the rise and fall of the Funds to fo reign causes alone, and seeing no sinister sign abroad, they concluded that the panic was flu artificial one, and that the depression would. have only a temporary character. They did not dream that our domestic policy could materially affect the public securities, particularly when they saw that Ministers continued to pull as cor dially together as ever, notwithstanding the mark ed difference of opinion they had expressed on the Catholic Bill. But it is this cordiality, by appearing to convict Ministers of insincerity upon this vital question, which has weakened the habitual reverence, which a portion of the Public entertained towards them ; and the lat ter, by a recoil of feeli►ng very usual i►► such cases, cannot imagine that an Administration, which has lost their confidence, can possess the same firmness, which it had previously. 'They feel at the same time, that if the tranquil lity of Ireland be placed on one scale, and the existence of the present Cabinet on the other, the balance must eventually incline in favour of the former. By the rejection of the Bill, it is generally admitted that the tranquillity of that country has been compromized in so serious a manner, that to calculate upon its continu ance for a single month, with any thing like certainty, would be downright presumption. — That the keen disappointment, which she has suffered, will be borne with fortitude on her part, we sincerely hope ; but our hopes have no other foundation but our wishes. All the pro. bahilities are unfortunately on the other side ;'and should these prevail, there is scarcely a . man in the whole Empire, who would not ascribe to the singular course that Ministers have followed up on this momentous question, any calamities which might ensue. To think they could retain their power, were the worst to happen, would' be mere drivelling; and it is evidently some presentiment of this kind, which has destroyed the confidence of the jobbers, not only in the wisdom, but in the, consistency, of the present Cabinet. FOREIGN TRADE. The following curious catalogue of the mer cantile productions of every state in Europe in the year 1430, is taken from an account, written by HALUYT, a poet, in poor rhyme, but with much good sense ; the intent of the Poem being to inculcate the absolute necessity of England's keeping the sea, and its title, " The Process of English Policy." It exhibits a brief state.of the productions and manufactures of the different states of Europe, at the period to which it relates, and affords the means of contemplating the -ex traordinary progress of commerce, as well as the altered condition of the several states in the in terval between that period and the present :-- 1. From SPAIN comes wines, figs,raisins,dates, liquorice, oil, grain, soap, wax, iron, wool, wad mol, red skins, saffron, and quicksilver ; all whith are transported to Bruges, the then cm porium of Flanders, by her haven of Slays, where are so many fair and large ships ; but then, says our poet, they must all pass between Dover and Calais. 2. From FLANDERS, -the Spanish slips lade homeward tine cloth of Ypres and of Courtary, of all colours, much fustian, and also linen cloth. Thus (says he) if we •be masters at sea, both Spain and Flanders, who depend so mutually on each other, must necessarily keep measures with us ; and if England should think fit to deny to Flanders her wool and tin, and should also pre vent the Spanish wool _.(which they work up with English wool) from getting to Flanders, the last-named small country would soon be starved. 3. PO RTUGA L is our friend; it sends much merchandizeinto England, and our people resort thither. for trade. They have wines, - - osey, wax, grain, raisins, dates, honey, Cordovant leather, hides, &c., all which are carried . in great quan tities to Flanders (which our author terms the then staple for all Christendom) and, as Portugal is counted changeable, they are in our power, whilst we are masters of the narrow seas. . _ 4. BRETAGNE supplies Flanders with salt, wines, linen, and canvas. The Britons, espe chilly those of St. Maloes (whom their Duki's, who were generally friends to England, could seldom keep under due subjection), have been great robbers, and have often done much hurt on our coasts, landing, killing, and burning' to our shame ; whereas, would we keep well the narrow seas, they durst not be our foes. 5. SCOTLAND'S commodities are wools` wool sels, and hides ; their wool is sent to Flanders to be draped, though not so good 'as the English wool, with which it is there worked up. The Scots must pass by the English coast in their way to Flanders, and may therefore be easily inter cepted. Scotland brings from Flanders small mercery (which, in those times, meant many kinds of small wares) and haberdashery wares in great quantities. Moreover, one half of the Scottish ships are generally laden home from Flanders, with cart-wheels and wheel-bafrows. • 6. The EASTERI.INOS, PRUSSIA, and GERMANY, send beer and bacon into Flanders, Ormond copper, bow-staves, steel, wax, peltry,' - pitch and tar, oak-boards, Cologne-thread, wool-cards, fus tian, canvas, and buckrim. And they bring hack from Flanders, silver plate, and wedges of silver, which come to Flanders in great quantity from Bohemia and Hungary., also woollen cloth of all colours. They also (says our author) venture greatly into the bay (of Biscay) for salt, so necessary for them. All which they could not do without our permission if we kept the narrow seas. 7. GENOA resorts to England, in her huge ships named Carricks, bringing many commodities ; as cloth of gold, silk, paper, much wood, wool (of Spain probably), oil, cotton, rack, rack, allum, and gold coin. And they bring back from us wool and tioollen cloth, made with our own wool ; they often go from England to Flan ders, where their chief staple is. So that the Genoese we have likewise in our power. 8. The VENETIANS and FLORENTINES, in their great gales, bring all sorts of spiceries and grocery wares, sweet wines, and a great variety of small wares, trifles, drugs, sugar, &r. And from us they carry home wool, cloth, tin, and our gold coins. They also deal much in usury both in England and Flanders. (This shows the balance was against us with those Italian Republics.) 9. To the BRABANT nr. rt , 3 (which we call fairs) we send English cloth ; and bring hack mercury, haberdashery, and grocery. To those marts repair the English, French, Catalans, Lombards, Genoese, Scots, Spaniards ; and the Irish also live there, and deal in great quantities of hides, &c. He also adds, the 'En glish buy more goods at those marts than all the other nations together. Wherefore (says he) let us keep the sea well, and they must be our friends. 10. BRABANT, HOLLAND, and ZEALAND, af forded little merchandise properly of their own, but madder and wood for dyers, garlick, onions, and salt-fish ; for the other rich merchandise which the English buy 'at the said marts, come in carts over land, from Burgundy, Cologne, Stc._ 1 1. IRELAND'S commodities are hides and fish, as salmon, herrings, and hake-wool, linen cloth, and skins of wild beasts. Here we may re mark the antiquity of the linen manufacture in Ireland. To keep IR ELAND in obedience to us is of great importance, and cannot be done without our being masters at sea. And the like may be said as to CAI.A Is. THE COLONIAL PRESS. The Trinidad Gazette; of the 26th of March, contains the following official notification, insert ed by order of Sir RALPH WOODFORD, the Go vernor of Trinidad : " Government-House, March 24, 1825. " Stn-1 have received the commands of his Excellency the Governor to acquaint you, that from the tenour of the language with which your paper has been lately filled, his Excellency has resolved to cancel your appointment as Government printer. Your will therefore be pleased to insert the inclosed notification in your Gazette. . . " I am, Sir, your obedient Servant, " FREDERICK HAMM ET, Acting Sec. " Mr. W. Lewer." " Governnient-House, March 24, 1825. " Ills Excellency the Governor has been pleaSed to cancel the appointment of Mr. W. Lover to be Government printer. " By command, " FREDERICK HAMMET, Acting Sec." " NOTICE.—NVe received the foregoing communications from Government-house, and prefer giving them to the public in our Gazette of this day without any observation, being as sured that we may safely trust our cause to the just and liberal feeling of the community, and promising a full and ample corn ment in our next.—EDITOR.' - - MERCANTILE SHIPPING. DEAL MAY 26.—Wind E.—Arrived and sailed for the River, the Waterlily, Nixon, and Scotia, Erskin, from Jamaica; Magnet, —, from New York ; Reward, Terry, from Sierra- Leone ; Elizabeth, Walker, from Grenada ; Ed ward transport,. from Bar badoes ; Hermes, Robertson, from Marseilles. Passed through from the River the Sappho, M`Kenzie, Oporto; Cavey,- 'Elizabeth, Ostle, St. David, Salmon, and the William Ashton,. outward-bound. The Woodford, Chapman, for India ; and. the Agnes, from St. Domingo, remains. PoitTsmouTii, MAY 26.—Wind E.—Arrived his Md-i -jesty's ship Redwing, from Chadian', for the coast of Africa.--..- Sailed the William Harris transport to the eastward ; .and his- Majesty's ship Bittern, for Plymouth. FALMOUTH, MAY 25.—Wind SM.—Arrived the Diamond,. Fawel, from Jersey. LIVERPOOL, MAY 25.—Wind calm.—Arrived the Murray,. Housten, from Montega Bay; Active, Owen, and Cornelius,. Arthur, from Pernambuco, sailed the 9th April ; Perseverance, Patson,_ from Bahia, sailed the 27th ,March ; Tagus, Kettle, from Lisbon; Francis, Parsington, anti Marquis Wellington, Gibson, from New Orleans ; Betty, Wedgewood, from Paraiba, and Belgrave, Fleming, from Jamaica. • YAR3IOUTII MAY 25.—His Majesty's ship Brisk, Capt. Hope, sent inhere this morning a smuggling tub boat, con. taining 40 half 'miters of geneva, five ditto of tobacco, and one cask of . snuff, which he took off Cromer last night. . The Eliza, Faith, from Bombay, is supposed to be arrived off the Start. The East India Company's outward-bound ship Vansittart arrived at the Cape on the 13th March ' and the Royal George, also outward-bound, was all well in lat. 22. S. long. 31. W. date nut stated. UNIVERSITY I NTELLIGENCH. CAMBRIDGE, MAY 24.—At a Congregation on Wetlnesday' last,. the following Degrees were conferred : DOCTOR IN CIVIL LAW (by Royal Mandate.)—William Frere, Esq. Master of Downing College, and Serjeant=at-Law. • MASTERS OF ARTS—ltev. Barr Dudding, Catharine Hall ;. Rev. Thomas Wright Whitaker, Emmanuel College. BACHELORS OF AnTs—George Darby St. Quentin, Tri nity College; John Deedes, Trinity College; John Lane ' Freer Trinity College ; Frederick Osborne, Trinity - Hull ; John Hurtiall, Emmanuel, College; Charles Butler Stevenson, Emmanuel College. • At the above 'Congregation the following Gentlemen were admitted a 4 eundem:—Rev. John Russell, D.D. Head Master of Charter House school ; Rev. William Hale Hale, M.A.. Preacher at the Charter Ifouse ; Wm. Parry Richards, M.A. At the same Congregation a Grace passed the Senate, to exempt those persons, who came into residence before the 28th May, 1822,fr0m the operation of the Grace passed on that day, respecting , the examination of the 7th and Bth classeS'before admission " ad iespondendum qucestioni." The Hon. George Allen Brodriek, son of Visiount Mialeton, is admitted of St. John's College. • The Itev. John William Butt; 111'.A. Vicar of Lakenh'eath, Suffolk, has been presented by Robert Martin, Esq, to the rectory of Southery, Norfolk. THE MARKETS. CORN EXCHANGE, Ai AY 27. There are only moderate arrivals of all sorts of Grain this week, and a middling - supply of Flour. The Bonded and Canada Corn Bill being postponed till next Tuesday, has oc casioned our millers' minds to be very unsettled, and Wheat fully maintains Monday's prices, with little doing. Barley, Beans and Pease are unaltered. Oats find buyers readily on rather better terms than Monday. Aunty ALs.—English Wheat, 3, 20—Barley, 700—Oats, 3,3oo—lrish Barley, 430—Oats, 4,3oo—qrs.—English Flour, 5,050 sacks. SMITHFIELD MARKET, MAr 27. The following is an accutate Report of the numbers and prices at Smithheld Market this morning:— . CATTLE AT MARKET.. Beasts . 302 (Sheep Calves ___ „ . To sink the Offal, p er stone of 81t). Beef 4s 4d to Ss Od I Veal 6s Od to is (ki Mutton 4s Eld to 5s 6d 1 Pork Ss 6d to G 6d Lamb 6s 6d to 7s 4d. , HAY AND STRAW, PER LOAD. • Hay Straw £1 163 to £2 Bs. COURT OF COMMON COUNClL—Yesterday the Court met for the dispatch of business. At the suggestion of the Remembrancer, the Court resolved to petition the House of Lords against so much of the St. Catherine's Docks Bill, and South London Docks Bill, now before their Lordships, as affected. the rights and privileges of the city of London. The news of the Catholic Relief Bill having been thrown out, was received in Maidstone, on WednefalFy,. b' the greater part of the inhabitants with much satisfaction. he church bells rang a ►nerty peal, and in the evening a bor.-- fire was lighted up, and a barrel of beer was broached in the market-place, and given away. The rejoicing was kept up to a late hour, and the whole went off with the utmost harmony and good humour. A considerable number of the 47th regiment (nearly all Irish) were halting in the town on their route to em bark for India. Among them ►t is probable there was a conside rable portion of Catholics, but they seemed to be not the least interested in the fate of the Catholic Bill or the rejoicings upon its defeat. It is not the lower classes of the Irish that are anxious about the subject. They who make the stir about the matter are those in the higher rank of life who would be gainers by the alteration. We do not blame them for the at- • tempt, bat if they are justified in making the demand, Pro-' testants, in our opinion, are equally justifiable in refusing tu concede it. —(Maidstone Gazette.) A lady residing in this town had in her posses•^ sion a drinking cup of King Cu RLES the Second- [t is of tortoise-shell, and within the lid is a por— rait in relief of CnAncrs, encircled with any inscription, which is now almost illegible. (Brighton Paper.) BIRTHS. On the 20th inst., at his house, Camberts ell-green, the lady of James Walsh, Esq., of a son. Yesterday, the 26th inst., in Upper Grosvenor-street, the lady of Henry Ferguson, of a son. MARRIED. On the 9th inst., at Upton, near Northampton, by the Rev: Wm. A. Taylor, rector of Litchborough, L. F. smith, Esq., second son of Gen. Smith, of Fryern.court, Hants, to Emilie, the youngest daughter of William Douglas, Esq. DIED. On Sunday morning, the 22d at her house in Upper sey- - mour-street, Miss Mary Morgan, second daughter of the late' James Morgan, Esq., of Kensington-gore. On Tuesday, the 24th inst., at Richmond, Sir John Gref Egerton, Bart., of Egerton and Oulton Park, Cheshire, in the' 60th year of his age. ninted and Publish-. r the PROPRJETORS, at the Ort'ict, No. U. , . Strand, by J. B, CAR3TAIRS.