The Sun. — London, England, 1827-03-08 00:00:00

THE CORI*4 LAWS. We insert the following letter of our correspondent, who claims at our hands an opportunity to express his sen timents, and as such we request our readers will receive them. TO THE 'EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR—Not having the honour at present of a seat in either Horse of Parliament, I claim, through the medium of your widely circulating Journal, an opportunity to express my sentiments on the 'momentous question of.the Corn Laws, and hope they will be received with the attention to which they are entitled. You, Sir, have expressed your approbation of the plan brought forward by Mr. Canning, and, I regret to say, such is the prevalence of error, that a great majority of the public, and amongst them very many of the Agriculturists, entertain similar opinions ; but when you have read this letter, which will put the matter in its true light, I have no doubt you will be convinced of the fallacy of the measures proposed, and, with your usual candour, acknow ledge it. I intend to argue the question on such true logical principles, that no one shall be able to refute what I advance. _ . Land, Sir, is, and ought to be, considered as every thing, and before any thing; do we not live on it and the produce of it? Neat, drink, lodging, clothing, all emanate from the land, though they undergo some change in the hands of the manufac turer and artisan ; in short, we have nothing but what proceeds from the land, unless, indeed, it be a little fish, from the hollow• indented on its surface as receptacles for salt water. There is a wise maxim in law - Cujus est solurn, ejus est usque ad ecelum, which means that even the birds of the air that fly over the land belong 'to the landed interest, and I hope to live and see the day when not only rooks and pigeons, but robins and tom-tits, shall receive due protection from the Game Laws. As every thing proceeds from the land, ergo, the Landed Interest is and must he everything. The Landed Interest are, in fact " the Nation," and to make a homely simile, the Landed Interest form, as it were, the sound part ..f a goodly cheese, the rest of society being m..-ely the mites or the rind. _ _ Much nonsense has been talked about free trade, importation, protecting duties, food for the poor, the manufacturing interest, circulating medium, high and low prices, fluctuations from 38s. to 1125., and a ♦ast number of topics equally senseless ; the whole of which might be received and got rid of by a very simple enact ment, which I shall presently propose, and which I hope will be attended to with the deference it ought. I lay it down, Sir, as an indisputable axiom, that Britons ought to eat none but corn of British growth—no foreigner ought terbe allowed to introduce a single grain into the British Market, which the landed interest have a natural and prescriptive right to enjoy wholly and exclusively to themselves—it were better to submit to any privation, even starvation itself, than admit a single quarter of foreign growth ; this, Sir, would at once get rid of all the idle extrinsic questions of free trade importation, protecting duties, &c. I now come to high prices, which are synonymous with prosperity,—the landed interest then get high rents, are enabled to live and spend like gentlemen, and thereby find employment and food for the underling classes of society. Turn to the season of low prices, and what a sad reverse presents itself - look on this picture— Now look on that A quarters loaf for &shilling is an enormous evil, bet if a period should ever arrive when it may be bought for sixpence, the landed interest, that is the Nation, must be for ever undone. As it is evident the persons who write and talk on the circu lating medium, do not very dearly understand themselves, it can not be matter of surprise, if they are not understood by one of the landed interest—in the hope of rendering the subject some what intelligible, I will simply enquire, whether a shilling—a visible and tangible shilling, is not always a shilling ; let the circulating medium gentry answer me that, and then— Now, Sir, with respect to the fluctuation of prices, that may he got rid of, with indeed all other difficulties, by one simple en actment. Let it be enacted that Wheat shall never be sold under 112 s. per quarter (120 s. would be better), then we get rid of the evil of fluctuation ; the landed interest (who, I have before shown, are the nation) will be protected, if not to the extent to which they are entitled to protection, at least to such a moderate degree, as will enable them to live as the lords of the soil ought to live, and thereby regenerate the prosperity which existed when corn was at that price, and which will unquestionably return when it again rises to that leeel, but never till then. If the poor cannot live they must receive relief from the poor-rates ; no part of this burthen, however, ought to be borne by the landed inte r eat. If the poor-rates should prove too burthensome or deficient, em,gration may be resorted to—an expensive resource, lam wil ling to allow, but that is no matter, provided one thing be attended to, namely, that no part of the expense be borne by the landed interest. Let the landed interest rouse and bestir themselves for the good of the nation (that is, themselves), let every one who has privilege of speech in Parliament, and hie lungs well inflated, make himself heard ; and, if any descendant of old Stentor should be among them, let him stand forward as their leader ; the im pending evils may then be averted, and the treason that has stalked forth against 'the majesty of the landed interest be put down. If. I were at present in Parliament I would make a speech that should be heard from St. Stephen's to Holyrood and the Lizard, and settle the matter at once. This letter, however, I have little doubt, will answer the same purpose ; in which ease le bon temps reriendra. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, AGRARIUS. CHARACTER AND MANNERS OF THE SOUTH SEA ISLANDERS. The Rev. Mr. Knott, who has been for upwards of SO years a i Missionary in the South Sea Islands, last week, at one of the Anniversary Missionary Meetings, gave an interesting description of the manners and habits of the nativea of those islands. The following are some of the particulars as related by him : Until within the last few years the character and manners of these people were barbarous in the extreme. Wars were very prevalent amongst them, and the custom of human sacrifices pre vailed to a great extent, two-thirds of the population being annu ally destroyed in infancy fur offerings to their idol Deities. In describing the manner in which Christianity bad been established in the islands, Mr. Knott related the following particulars : After the Missionaries had been settled in the islands several years, and made every effort with a view to Christianize the natives, the King at length determined to ascertain whether the religion which he and his people had so long believed in was true or false, This be (lid by endeavouring to call forth the power of their idol De it y in the following manner :—He ordered a fish, called the turtle (which ha those parts was considered to be a sacred fish, and was offered to the Deities in their idol temples), to be brought to bins, and gave orders that it should be dressed near his dwelling, and distri buted to the people in order to see whether by applying it to a purpose diffe• nit from the supposed sacred one to which it had been usually dedicated, the wrath of the Deity would not be dis played in the bad effects which would result to the persons par taking of the fish. The turtle was accordingly dressed and eaten by the people, but no bad effects had followed. Similar experi ments were - subsequently made and with similar results, and the King being then satisfied that the god whom he and his people had worshipped was possessed of no power, at length ordered that idol worship should be abolished ; and the people from that time had embraced Christianity as taught by the Missionaries in the Islands ; and the whole of the idol images were subsequently de stroyed. The Rev. Gentleman said he should have brought one of the images with him to Englanfl, but that there was not now a single one to he found. Mr. Knott is about to return to the South sea Islands to resume his Missionary labours, and to pass the remainder of his days there. ROBBERY AT STEVENAGE, HERTS.—The fol lowing particulars of a daring robbery at Stevenage have been communicated to us on the best authority :—Mrs. Titmuss, an old lady eighty years of age, and her daughter, Mrs. Read, living in a house by themselves, were alarmed on Tuesday morning at one o'clock, by two men entering the room, disguised in smock frocks, their faces either blackened or masked, but which, in their fright, they could not distinguish. The; entered the house by making an aperture in the wall under the kitchen window, which is at the back part of the premises, in a farm-yard. They broke open a bureau in the kitchen, from which they took a 51. note, five sovereigns, some silver, and five shillings in halfpence. They, then forced the stair-foot door, which noise awoke Mrs. Titmuss and her daughter, and, before they could leave the bed, burst open the room-door, desired them to be silent, that they were neigh bours' children, and did not wish to harm them ! it was money they wanted. One of the men then drew the curtain (as the bed was op posite the drawers) broke open the top drawer, and took from it thirty sovereigns, six ten-pound notes, three sovereigns and a half in a green purse, and a pocket-book containing various papers, whispered to each other they had sufficient booty, and made a hasty retreat, going through the wall the way they had effected their entrance. Mrs. Read alarmed the neighbours as soon as possible ; and though every search was immediately made, the ;vbbers eih e i e d their itecape....,Ersex avoid. DEBATE ON THE CATHOLIC QUESTION. [The following extracts were alluded to in the course of the debate.] Mr. Plunkett read the following extract of Mr. Burke's Letter to Sir Hercules Langrishe : " I voted last Session, if a particular vote could be distinguish ed, in unanimity, for an establishment of the Church of England conjointly' with the establishment which was made some years before, by Act of Parliament, of the Roman Catholic, in the French conquered country of Canada. At the time of making this English ecclesiastical establishment, we did not think it ne cessary for its safety to destroy the former Gallican Church settle ment. In our first Act, we settled a Government altogether mo narcliical, or nearly so. In that system the Canadian Catholics were far from being deprived of the advantages or distinctions of any kind which they enjoyed under their former Monarchy. It is true that some people, and amongst them one eminent Divine, predicted at that time, that by this step we should lose our domi nions in America. He foretold that the Pope would send his in dulgences thither; that the Canadians would fall in with France ; would declare independence, and draw or force our Colonies into the same design. The independence happened according to his preci'ctions, but in directly the reverse order. All our English Protestant countries revolted. They joined themselves to France, and it so happened that Popish Canada was the only place which preserved its fidelity—the only place in which France got no foot ing—the only peopled country which now remains to Great Bri tain. Vain are all the prognostics taken from ideas and passions, which survive the state of things which gave rise to them. When, last year we gave a popular representation to this same Canada, by the choice of the landholders, and an aristocratic representation, at the choice of the Crown, neither was the choice of the Crown, nor the election of the landholders, limited by a consideration of religion. We had no dread for the Protestant Church, which we settled there, because we permitted the French Catholics, in the utmost latitude of the description, to he free subjects. They are good subjects, I have no doubt ; but I will not allow that any French Canadian Catholics are better men or better citizens than the Irish of the same communion. Passing :.ta the extremity of the West to the extremity almost of the East, I have been many years (now entering into the twelfth) employee. in supporting the rights, privileges, laws, and immunities, of a very remote people. I have not, as yet, been able to finish my task. I have struggled through much discouragement and much opposition, much oblo quy, much calumny, for a people with whom I have no tie but the common bond of mankind. In this I have not been left alone. We did not fly from our undertaking because the people are Ma hommedans or Pagans, and that the great majority of the Christians amongst them are Papists. Some gentlemen in Ireland, I dare say,have good reasons for what they may do, which do not occur to me.— I do not presume to condemn them ; but, thinking and acting as I have done towards these remote nations, I should not know how to show my face, here or in Ireland, if I should say that all the Pagans, all the Mussulmen, and even all the Papists (since they must form the highest stage in the climax of evil), are worthy of a liberal and honourable condition, except those of one of the de scriptions, which forms the majority of the inhabitants of the country in which you and I were born: If such are the Catholics of Ireland—ill natured and unjust people, from our own data, may be inclined not to think better of the Protestants of a soil which is supposed to infuse into its sects a kind of venom un known in other places." The following is the extract from the letter of J. K. L. (Dr. Doyle) to Lord Farnham, to which Mr. Plunkett alluded, and to which other Members se frequently referred:—" I think the Church Establishment must fall sooner or later ; its merits in Ireland are too well known ; it has been brought to the light, and its works being such as do not bear the light, it will, it must suffer loss as soon as an impartial judgment can be passed upon it; clamour, bigotry, enthusiasm, and a spirit of selfish ness, constitute its present chief support. It derives no aid from reason, justice, or public utility. Its old connection with the Crown, and that wise aversion to experimental innovation, which characterises every wise Government, unite to defend it ; but if the passions of the people were calmed, some man with the spirit and power of Burke, who arranged that chaos the civil list,' and purified without injuring them, the revenues and pre rogatives of the Crown itself—some such man would arise, and free the nation from the reproach of the Irish Temporal Esta blishment ; he would relieve religion from an incubus, and the land and the country, with its proprietors and cultivators, from an intolerable pressure. The concession of the Catholic claims would hasten this desirable result, not by any revolutionary move ment, as your Lordship seems to apprehend, but by removing an immense barrier, which the agitation of those claims now opposes to the progress of reason and justice, and by uniting all classes of Irishmen in labouring to renovate their country, and to restore her, divided and almost lifeless as she is, to a state of health and vigour. Can your Lordship, laying your hand on your breast, appeal to your conscience or honour, and then say that the Irish Church Establishment requires no reform. It is impos• sible that you could, my Lord, because it is monstrous to think of an annual income, amounting to several millions sterling, being appropriated, in such a country as Ireland, to the mainte nance of the pastors of less than one-thirtieth part of the popu lation, laying aside all notice of the laws by which this revenue is protected and collected, their partial nature, the mode of ad ministering them, and the character of the agents by whom they are executed. The English people are as yet but imperfectly ac quainted of the nature or viciousness of this Establishment. We in Ireland have been accustomed to view, from our infancy ; and when men gaze for a considerable time at the most hideous monster, they can view it with diminished horror ; but a man of reflection, living in Ireland, and coolly observing the workings of the Church Establishment, would seek for some likeness to it only among the Priests of Juggernaut, who sacrifice the poor, naked, human victims to their impure and detestable The following is the opinion of the Attorney and Soli citor General in reference to Mr. Canning, respecting a correspondence with the Pope :- 4 , Sir, we have had the honour of receiving from Mr. Planta, a letter directed to his Majesty's Law Officers, stating that hii Holiness the Pope, had forwarded a communication to hie Majesty, announcing his elevation to the Papal Throne, and that this communication has been accompanied by a compli mentary latter from Cardinal Goasalvi, to his Majesty's Prin cipal Secretary for Foreign Affairs; and, further, a question hav ing arisen in that Right Hon. Gentleman's mind, whether, in the event of his noticing or replying to this communication, he would be, in the opinion of his Majesty's Law Officers, accord ing to the existing law of the land, liable to a premunire ; we are of opinion, that under the Act of sth Elizabeth, chap. 1. sec. 12. any one allowing or admitting the jurisdiction of the See of Rome in this realm, is subject, for the first offence, to a premunire ; and as, in the present case, the Pope claims to exer cise authority over the Roman Catholic March in these coun tries, we are of opinion an answer to the letters referred to migh* he interpreted as a sanction of these claims to authority, and, con• aelu •ntly, that the party so communicating might render him• selt liable to the penalty of premunire. (Signed) " R. GIFFORD. " J. S. COPLEY." - - DARING ROBBERY.--OR Saturday evening, about nine o'clock, the cottage of Christopher Ockendon, .earth stopper and gamekeeper to Lord Petre, near Norsey Wccd, was entered and plundered by five men. About the time mentioned, Ocken don hearing a knock at his door, opened it, when two men entered, and one of them said, " What, you are smoking, are you?" Three other fellows also -ntered, and one of them presenting a pistol, de manded his money, saying, they were all " broke down" and must have some. Ockendon, alarmed, said he only had a few shillings, which he placed upon a table, and they were imme diately taken up by the thieves, who also tor.l his watch out of his fob, and on Susan Chinnery, his house-keeper, attempting to go out, one of the ruffians pointed the pistol at her, and threatened her life if she dared to stir. They proceeded to bind Ockendon's hands with a cord, but he resis,ed their efforts, and they then tried to gag him with a handkerchief, and threatened to blow his brains out if he made any noise ; whilst two of their gang went up stairs with a candle, and broke open a hutch, from which they took a 10/. Bank of England note, a guinea and a half from a tin box, and a silver watch, leaving a sovereign which was wrapped up in a piece of paper. They then went into the housekeeper's room and took a pair of nearly new jean shoes and about ss. in silver. After threatening Ockendon and his housekeeper that if they stirred within one hour of their departure, they would murder them, the thieves quitted the house, f locking the door outside. Ockendon, immediately after they were gone, went out of his hack door and gave the alarm, and a number of persons coming to his assistance, an active pursuit was immediately com menced by Mr. W. Ralph, Mr. Curtis, of Billericay, and others, hut their exertions to overtake the villains were baffled by the darkness of the night. A horse, cart, and a set of harness were stolen from Mr. Gotta, which the villians made use of on the pre sent occasion. Two of the men were tall, and dressed in light coloured great-coats. They have since been traced as far as Dunton.—Essex Herald. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS.—MARCH 7. The Earl of Clancarty was introduced and took the oath and his seat as a Viscount of the United Kingdom, under the title of Viscount Clancarty. CATHOLICS. The Archbishop of CANTERBURY presented a petition from the Protestants of Ardagh, praying their Lordships not to grant any further concessions to the Catholics. Similar petitions were presented by Lord Rolle from a parish in Devonshire ; by the Bishop of London, from a parish in Ox fordshire ; by the Bishop of Exeter, from Newton-Fellowes, in Devon, and a second from a parish in Devon ; by Lord Erskine from Milton, Kent. Earl KINGSTON presented several petitions from the Catholic Inhabitants of several Parishes in the Counties of Tipperary and Cork, praying to be removed from the Disabilities under which they labour. The Earl FITZWILLIAM presented two similar petitions from Newtoun-Barry, and another place in the county of Wexford. CORN LAWS. Lord SUFFIELD presented a petition from a Hundred in Norfolk, praying for Protection, but expressing them selves not adverse to an Alteration of the Corn Laws. Earl STANHOPE presented three petitions from three Hundreds in Derbyshire against any alteration in the Corn Laws. The Noble Earl supported the prayer of the petitions, and stated, that the petitioners could not grow wheat in their fer tile districts under a remunerating price of 645. per quarter, and that a larger sum would be necessary in less fertile districts. The Noble Earl condemned the Resolutions proposed in another place, and appealed to the Noble Baron near him (Lord King), whe ther the petitioners from whom he had presented so many petitions would be satisfied with them ? He was sure that the agricul turists would not be satisfied. He thought the measure founded un those Resolutions would excite horror and indignation through out the country. Lord KING, as he had been appealed to by the Noble Earl, would say that the persons mentioned by the Noble Earl were not satisfied, and lie hoped, and was sure never would be satisfied till complete justice was done them. Earl STANHOPE made an observation in reply, which was nut heard below the Bar. Lord TEYNHAM presented petitions from a Hundred in Norfolk, and in Oxford, and petitions from places in Kent, not to make any alterations in the Corn Laws. Lord KING presented a petition from the Burgh of Forms, praying for an alteration of the Corn Laws, and a simi lar petition from the Corporatiom of Tailors in Glasgow. REVENUES OF THE CHURCH. Lord KING rose to present a petition from a person of whom their Lordships had all heard—Mr. Cobbett ; and the petition prayed that their Lordships would give to his Roman Ca tholic fellow-subjects, the same rights and privileges as were en joyed by the Protestants. The petition also contained another prayer, which was, that the indigent poor might be paid out of the tithes and revenues of the Church, as they were in the time of our Roman Catholic ancestors, and that thus the odious name of paupers might not be known in the kingdom. The petitioner stated, that the revenues of the Church were given for this pur pose. He, Lord King, was not aware if this were the case, but if it were, it was not right that the Clergy of Ireland should not contribute at all to the support of the poor. In England, the re venues of the Church were assessed to the Poor Rates, but if there were no Poor Rates in Ireland, the Protestant Church there enjoyed the whole of the Revenues of the Church, without contributing one farthing to the support of the poor. Their Lordships, he was sure, would be glad to hear the sentiments of such a man as Mr. Cobbett, and he should therefore move that the petition be read at length. It was afterwards ordered to be laid on the Table.— Adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS, MARcm 7. The Speaker took the Chair at four o'clock. Mr. MAURICE FITZGERALD gave notice of his intention to move, as soon as possible after the Easter holidays, that the House do take into its consideration the best means of car rying into effect those principles under which the Union between Great Britain and Ireland was accomplished. Some routine business, of no public interest, was then disposed of, and the House adjourned at a Quarter after Five. PROVINCIAL PARLIAMENT,UPPER CANADA, QUEBEC, JAN. 23, 1827. On the 28d January, His Excellency the Governor-in-Chief, came down in state to the Legislative Chamber, when his Excel lency was pleased to open the Third Session of the Twelfth Pro vincial Parliament with the following speech : _ _ Gentlemen of the Legislative Council, Gentlemen of the Assembly, I bays again the honour, as his Majesty's Representative, to meet you for the dispatch of public business in this Session of the Provincial Parliament, I regret to say, that the distress which has preyed so generally and so heavily upon the manufacturing districts and trade of England, has also been severely felt in our com mercial affairs, it is the natural and unavoidable consequences of our intimate connexion with those interests of the Mother Country. N o twithstanding this, the resort of shipping here this last Summer has not diminished materially, and the Revenue nearly equals that of the year preceding. If we have felt the shock of alverse circumstances, I trust we may now indulge in the pleasing prospects held out in his Majesty's Speech at the opening of the present Session of the Imperial Parliament, of a progressive re turn to the wonted activity of commerce and industry in the United Kingdom. The unusual drought of the last Summer, and the fires which spread in the woods, gave cause of much appre hension, and were, indeed, destructive in many parts of the pro vince. lam happy, however, to find that, though the season did not prove favourable to the grain crop, yet that there is a general abundance of the necessaries of life. I still, therefore, may con gratulate you on the peaceful happiness which the Province enjoys under the blessings of Divine Providence. Gentlemen of the Assembly, I have directed the accounts of the revenue and the expenditure in the past year to be laid before you, and also an estimate of the Supply I am to require for the public service, in obedience to in structions I have recently received from his Majesty's Secretary of State. Gentlemen of the Legislative Council, and Gentlemen of the Assembly, I must recal your attention to those measures of public interest which I have before recommended to you, and which were left un finished in the last Session. Quiet and peaceable as this Province is, yet the population increases so rapidly, and society extends so widely, that I feel every year the necessity more urgent for an extensive and active system of police to keep pace with that progress. Amidst the changes which are thus operating in the state of the Province, I lament to say that none appears more striking than the increase of crime ; to whatever cause it may be 'ascribed, it is in itself a fact which calls for measures specially and speedily ap plicable to the evil. The Grand Juries in some of the districts have made their pre sentments in language so forcible that I shall lay those documents before you, to show the various and serious difficulties to be re moved. lam myself convinced, and I would earnestly press it upon your consideration, that the time is arrived for the establish ment in every county of those authorities necessary to enable the Executive Government to watch over and promote the local in terests in each. Other matters of importance will be communi cated to you by message, in order that I may explain them more distinctly than this occasion allows. Be assured of my best and unwearied exertions in that station in which his Majesty has been graciously pleased to place me in this province, and that it will always be one of the chief objects of my e ndeavours to concur with you in whatever may tend to the public advantage. During the week immense shoals of Conger eels have been driven on the coast between Dungenosand this port : . many of them were quite dead, and the rest were SO frozen and torpid a state as to allow themselves to be taken with a spear or a boat-hook ; by which means large numbers were secured among the rocks near Shakespeare's Cliff. They were brought into town f or sa le. Some of th e m measured eight feet, an d wei ghed upwards of 60 pounds. -- Cinque Ports Herald. The skeleton of a very curious and rare anim a l has been landed here, this week, from the Diadem transport, which has Veengreat number of persons, as the rema i ns o f a ie description, which we subj o i n, to be a Dugong. I t was shot by Lieut. Emer y , y hi a ch appears, from Mr. Slight's rrna td which near the Island of Momb as s, and died shortly afterwards. When seen, the body of the animal was raised considerably above the surface of the water, and, from the near appearance of that part of it to the human form, was then judged to be a mermaid. It was i n c ompany with two others, and they were all wading th e i r way by means of what the spectators called their arms. All the com pany ate some of the flesh, which he describes as being very savoury. He was unable to preserve the skin ; but the hones are saved en tire. is lather more tlia4 sft. 10n4.-4lantf Telegraph. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FRENCH PAPERS. (From the Etoile of Tuesday.) COIKSTANTINorLs, Fsß. 8.---(From a Private Letter.)---The Greeks no longer doubt thc. arrival of Lord Cochrane. A Mr. Hesketh, already known as a Philhellene, and who takes the title of Aid-de-Camp to his Lordship, landed at Milo on the 11th of January. MADRID, FEB. 22.—We have now the certainty that the troops of the Marquess of Chaves are all in the Spanish territory. This time we can affirm, that our Government has seriously given orders to disarm them, which has been done on several points. The sick and the wounded have been sent to Valladolid, and the remainder, sent at first to Santiago and Ciudad Rodrigo, will be afterwards distributed in the other places more distant from the frontiers. There is still a small body of the troops of the insur gents under the command of Telles Jordao, who are now insulated. It was reported here yesterday evening, that the English had had a pretty warm action with them. Abundant rains have succeeded the severe cold ; the mortality continues to an alarming degree. —Memorial Bordelais. Manain, FEB. 22.—(Private Correspondence.)—The same men who affirmed that Portugal had been completely evacuated by the Royalists, now agree that the latter have concentrated their forces in the province of Tras-os-Montes ; according to them Gen. Silveira had arrived at Valladolid, but they now ad mit that he is at Chaves at the head of a considerable body of troops. Certain documents have been received here, which tend greatly to calm the alarms which the friends of legitimacy felt throughout Europe. Tha Royalists have, in fact, effected their retreat into the province of Tras-ossMontee, but this is owing to the approach of the English. The Minho is an open country, favourable to the regular troops, and particularly to the cavalry and artillery. To deprive the English of this sort of ad vantage, or at least to render it of little use, the Royalist Gene rals have retired on the frontiers of Tras-os-Montes, all the forts and entrances of which they guard, and hold in their possession. These facts are admitted by the Lisbon Gazettes, which say, that the Royalists in arms are very numerous. The same journals state that General Angeja complained of the Spanish Governor of Tuy, for having received, without disarming them, a small body of the Royalist troops. General Eguia must give satisfaction on this subject, for he is at present at a short distance from the frontiers, with a large force. A regiment of provincial militia has left Zamora to proceed into Gallicia. The Spanish troops that are to assemble on the frontiers of Portugal are estimated at 50,000 men. (From the Constitutionnel.) MAnain, FEB. 22.---(Private Correspondence.)—The Go vernment seemed willing to keep its promise by disarming the Portuguese rebels who enter our territory and sending them back, but soon discovered that such disarming could only affect about one hundred men, while the entry of others on different points was permitted by the Spanish troops, who also suffered those that had entered to go in small divisions to the south of the province of Tras-os-Montes, and join the troops of Telles Jordao. We must, however, acknowledge that our Government have ceased to expect any thing from the insurgents; they have turned all their attention to the Cabinet of Vienna, which they hope to be able to bring to second their views, not only by preventing Don Miguel from embarking for Brazil, but even by sending this Prince out of Spain. In the mean time preparations for war are pressed on with great ardour and surprising activity. It is true, that inde pendently of the extraordinary contributions, there arrive to us very large sums from a foreign country, which sums come gene rally from the ports of France by way of Bayonne, Bilboa, and Santander. By letters from Vittoria and Iru3, announcing the receipt of arms and equipments, we learn that we shall shortly be in a eat.* to oppose the Government of Don Pedro. All the officers in active service are recalled to their regiments, and orders are given to the Inspectors-General of all the armies, to replace such officers as are absent on foreig❑ commissions by those who had an unlimited leave of absence. It is rumoured that the public func tionaries, under 50 years of age, will be compelled to enrol them. selves in the volunteer corps, which would add a third to the nu merical force of these regiments. Valencia, Commander of the Royalist volunteers of Madrid, has been arrested for having said that his troops could not be reckoned upon. ( Extract of a Private Letter.) A great deal has been said within the last four days respecting the affairs of Portugal. Seve ral English regiments have, it is reported, had an engagement with the Portuguese Royalists, and defeated them ; but the Aid de-Camp of Gen. Clinton was killed in the action. A report prevails in the Salons that there is to be a change of Ministry immediately, and that an order has been sent to Paris to the Duke San Carlos to come immediately to Madrid, to as sume the Portfolio of Foreign Affairs. A splendid banquet has been given, on this account, to the Ministers, by Don Manuel Fernandez Varela, Apostolic Commissary-General of the three pontifical graces cruzada, subsidio, - and excusado. The illus trious Abbe concladed the banquet, which was on an unusually grand scale, by taking his guests to the opera, where he had hired a box for them. In Spain priests, even Jesuits, go to the theatre. Count Casa Flores has obtained from his Majesty leave of ab sence for three months from his embassy at Lisbon, and will come here immediately ; his Chief Secretary, in the character of Charge d'Affaires, will in the meantime replace him. The Inspector-General of Artillery has been ordered by Go vernment to purchase, either in the national or foreign manufac tories, a great quantity of arms, enough for all the militia lately put into motion : and all the troops of the levy of 21,000, which is at present going on, are to be equipped without delay. And orders have been given to the Treasurer-General, Don Gaspard Remise, and to all the Treasurers of the provinces, not to make any payment, however urgent or sacred it may be, for any Other object than the habiliments, equipments, and pay of the troops. Conformably to a proposition of the Council of State, the King has issued a decree on the 12th of this month, which the Minister of Finance has transmitted in the form of a circular to all the In tendants of the provinces of the Kingdom, enjoining them, under pain of being deprived of their places to make up in the course of a month all the resources demanded from the Communes, for the habiliments and equipment of the Royalist volunteers. The defi ciency arising from the propios, positos, mutes, and plantios, will not be admitted by Government as an excuse. The In tendants must give an account of the execution of this measure, and of the funds they have received, in order that the Communes who lie negligent, or slow in the payment of these funds, may be punished with the utmost rigour. The Minister of Finance has issued orders for the receiving of the taxes six months in advance, for the purpose of supplying the expenses occasioned by the augmentation of the army, and the keeping up of divers corps ofobservation on the frontiers ofPortugal. (Extract of another letter.)—Silveira has at last left Valladolid, and arrived at Valencia. He himself announces the publication of a Memoir, explanatory of the causes which induced him to take part in the insurrection. It is ordered that 60,000 men shall Cover the frontiers of Por tugal, distributed in the following bead-quarters :—Valencia d'Alcantara, Benevento or Salamanca, Orense, and Tuy. If we may judge fron► what is passing at the off►ce of the Minister of War, these forces will be augmented by a corps of 'reserve propor tioned to the army itself. The muskets sent from France have already arrived, to the number of 50,000, which, however, we are assured, d oe s not form the half of what is ordered. Whether or not there be exag geration in these rumours, the fact is, that the foundation for them is quite true. All our Ministers went yesterday to the Royal residence, and only returned this morning. It seems this meeting extraordinary was for the purpose of deliberating on a late note sent by Mr. Lamb, of the contents of which we are at this m oment ignorant. THE ARMY. (From the London Gazette of Tuesday.) 60th Regiment of Foot—Field -Marshal his Royal Highness Adolphus Frederick, Duke of Cambridge, K.G. and G.C.8., to be Colonel in Chief vice his Royal Highness the Duke of York, deceased. 71st Ditto—Lieutenant John Lawson, from the 15th Foot, to vice Abraham Pilkington, who exchanges re be Lieutenant, vice Barry, who exchanges. 92d Ditto—Captain George Edward Thorold, from the half epeaiyvitnogbteheCdapizinen, cc. Rifle Brigade —Major-General Sir Thomas Sidney Beckwith, K.C.B. to be Colonel-Commandant of a Battalion, vice Lieut. General Hon. Sir William Stewa rt , G.C.B. d e ceased. HOSPITAU STAFF. - Staff - Surgeon Alexander Broadfoot to be Deputy Inspector of Hospitals. Alexander Imla To be Hospital-Assistants to the Forces —y , o Gent. ; A. West, M.D. ; J. Shiels, M.D. ; E. G. Lloyd, Gent. The under-mentioned Lieutenants, actually serving upon full pay in Regiments of the Line, whose commissions are dated in or previous to the year 1811, have accepted the Unattached Rank of C a ptain upon half-p a y, accor ding to the General Order of the 27 th D e cember last:— To be Captains of Infantry—Lieutenant Charles O'C onor Hig gins, from 56th Foot ; Lieutenant Thomas Impett, from the 53d Foot; Lieutenant George Hind Edwards, from the 80th Foot; Lieutenant Alexander Robertson, from the 33d Foot; Lieutenant .+:neas Macdonald Nichollon, from the 55th Foot. MA Arrived. Due. 0 America U 0 Brazil 0 0 Buenos Ayres 0 Donaghadee 0 1 Dublin 0 Flanders 0 1 France 0 Gottenburgh 0 Arrived. O Guernsey & Jersey 2 0 Hambargh O Holland V 0 Jamaica 0 I Leeward Islands 0 Lisbon 0 O Malta 0 2 Waterford 0 HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning 50 minutes after 10. I Evening 91 minutes after H. (O. 11 , 1 °4Y"' 111004- • LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 8, 1827. We received last night the Paris Papers of Sunday and Monday, with the Etoile dated Tuesday morning. They are still full of the discussion on the Law of the Press, which, if finally carried in its present shape will, it is expected, in a few months annihilate many of the Paris Journals. The Etoile has an article from Constantinople dated the Bth of February, principally upon the affairs of Greece, but it affords nothing of particular interest. From Madrid the intelligence conies down to the 22d ult., and assertions are again made that FERDI NAND is actually disarming some of the Portuguese Refugees who had passed over into Spain—but it would appear that this measure only extended to a few sick or wounded men ; while the large body of the rebels was allowed to re-enter Portugal without interruption. We must, therefore, still doubt as strongly as ever, the sincerity of FERDINAND, particu larly as military preparations of every kind continue to be made with the utmost activity. The force to be employed on the Portuguese frontier by Spain, is to be 60,000 men, having their head-quarters at oVa lencia d'Alcantara, Benevento, or Salamanca , Orense, and Tuy ; and to enable the Government to maintain this army, extraordinary mea ns are u s ing to raise t m u 7o e n y e nrepeats that large sums of mo ne y , from a Foreign Count r y, in arrive at the ports of Bayonne, Bilboa, and S a nt an d er , evry part th e o f statement the Kingdom . so frequently Th e made-- C a ti d n e s _ - from the ports of France, for the use of the Spanish Army. In the mean time the rebels are concentrating in Tras-os-Montes, and reports exist, that some skirmish ing has already taken place between them and some British regiments, in which it is said that an Aid-de- Camp of Sir W. CLINTON had been killed. Extracts of these papers are given in another column, and we subjoin the price of the Funds, which have rather declined. PARIS, STOCK EXCHANGE, MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 5,—. Five per Cents. 101 f. 50c. 45c. 40c. 35c. ; Three per Cents., 69f. 10c. 69f. ; Bank Stock, 1,987 f. 50c.; Rentes de Naples, 75f. 20c. 15c. ; Rentes d'Eepagne, 111 ; Royal Spanish Loaf, 53 H. _Exchange on London, one month, paper 25f. 300., money 25f. 30c. ; three months, paper 25f. 15e., money 25f. 150. ,The proceedings in the House of Lords were con fined last night to the receiving Petitions on the Corn and Catholic Questions, and a Petition from that very respectable person, Mister W. COBBETT, containing two prayers, first for granting to his Roman Catholic fellow-subjects the same rights and privileges as enjoyed by Protestants ; and secondly, that the in digent poor might be paid out of the tithes and re venues of the Church. That Mr. CoBBETT should prefer such a prayer as this last, will not surprise any one, nor perhaps, will many be astonished at finding Lord KING lending himself to the support of such a proposition ; but the grounds on which the NOBLE LORD moved that the Petition be read at length, w ill startle all—namely, that their Lordships would b e g l a d to hear the sentiments of such a man as Mr. COBBETT ! Erroneous as the opinions of Lord KING appear PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF LORDS. ORDER OF THE DAY FOR THIS DAY. Orahame's Divorce Bill—Second reading. NOTICE OF MOTION FOR THIS DAY. lord Lauderdale—To move for a Committee relative to the Prices of Corn In Foreign Countries, and the Prices at which Foreign Corn can be imported into this country. HOUSE OF COMMONS. NOTICES OF MOTIONS FOR THIS DAY. I. Sir John Newport—To refer the Irish Estimates to a Select Committee. 11. Mr. Henry Grattan—Report of Commissioners directed by the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland to inquire into the state of the Richmond Pe- nitentiary in Dublin. S. Mr, Synge Cooper—Bill for relief in certain cases of distresses for rent in Ireland. ORDERS OF THE DAY FOR THIS DAY. 1. Pontefract Election Petition—Ballot for Committee at three. S. Dover Election Petition—Ballot for Committee at half after three. 3. Corn Trade Acts—Committee thereupon. 4. Canada Clergy Reserves Bill—Second reading. NOTICES GIVEN YESTERDAY. Friday, March 9. I. Mr. Martin (of Galway)—Bill to amend the Acts relating to the Elec tion of Members of Galway—Bill to serve in Ireland. I Mr. Tennyson—Bill to prohibit the use of Spring Guns and Man Traps. B. Mr. Herries—Bill to repeal Act 28 Geo. 3, imposing regulations on the manufacture of Ounce Thread. Thursday, March 29. Sir Henry Parnell—Debt due by the Government to theßank—the ba lance of the public money in the hands of the Bank—and the sum paid in 1825 to the Bank for the management of the National Debt. Monday, April 2. 1. Mr. Macqueen—Law of Settlement. 2. Mr. Curteis—To fix the place of Election of Knights of the Shire for the County of Sussex at Lewes. Tuesday, May 1. Mr. Maurice FitsGerald—Motion recommending that the House of Commons shall take such course as may be best calculated to realise the policy in which the Union of Great Britain and Ireland was re commended to the Legislatures of both countries. DAN AT ONE O'CLOCK. South Sea Stock Old Annuities New Ditto Ex. Bills, £l,OOO 2d. 35 36 pm. Ditto ..„ ..... 500 2d '35 36 pm. Ditto Small Ditto Commercial pm. Bank for Account India fbr Account Cons. fur Acct. 92Mi 'NDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Neapolitan, 1924 Peruvian Bonds 34 5 Portuguese Bonds — Prussian, 5 per cent. Ditto, New — Russian, New, 5 p. c. Spanish, 1821 123 i%%% ----- 823 French Rentes, sp. c —t —c. —Exchange —f. —c. 3 per cent —f. —e. -- Exchange —t. —c. AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share. .C 8 1% 2 5 £1 8 X 1 9 Nit PRICES OF STOCKS TAI Bank Stock - 3 per Cent. Bed 3 1•.?.r Cent. Cons 52 M Yti 34 per Cent. Ditto fled. 4 per Cent. New 97 WiNi Ditto, 1826 - Bank' Long Ann. India Stock Ditto Bonds 56 pm PRICES OF FOREIGN F Austrian Bonds,'s per cent. .... Brazilian Bonds 65)4 Buenos Ayres Bonds. ChUlan Bonds, 6 per et. — Colombian Bonds Ditto, 1924 40% % 40 Danish, 3 per cent. Greek Bonds — Ditto, 1826 16N% Guatemala — Mexican Bonds Do. 1825 69 % 8% 9M PRICES OF SHARE Anglo Chilian Mining Company Bolivar Mining Company Potosi La Paz and Peruvian Asso United Mexican Mining Compan) Canada Company PRICE OF IRISH S Bank Stock 24oq Consols, 3 per cent -- Gov. Stock, 3% per cent. Ditto, New Sin 4 per Cent 98 34 Gov. Deb. 3% per cent 8.9% Royal Canal Stock - Grand Canal Stock - City Deb. 4 per cent. Ballast Office Deb. 4 per cent. - ;TOCKS, MARCH 5. St. Patrick Insur. (per share) Royal Irish Ditto S National Ditto — Patriotic Ditto — Hibernian Bank Provincial Ditto — Royal Irish Mine Imperial Mine — Mining Co. of Ireland ..... .... 2yi 2 Commercial Buildings — ILS.