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7 7. his anent to introducing a sygtern door laws into Ireland. , He was not for going futher than giving relief to those who were unable to work. Sir JOHN BRYDGES supported the introduction of a modification of the English poor laws into Ireland. After a few words from Mr. O'CONNELL and , Mr. D. W. HARVEY, in explanation, the petition was ordered to he printed. IRISH YEOMANRY. Mr." O'CONNELL presented another petition from cer tain persons in Belfast, complaining of the affair at New townbarry, and praying for the disbanding of the yeomanry. Sir ROBERT BATESON denied that the imputa. tions which the petition threw on the yeomanry of Ireland were correct. They were much better thought of in Ul ster than in the south of Ireland, where the conduct of the Government, in throwing itself into the arms of the yeomanry, and then deserting them, had excited a feeling of great disgust. The Ministers would be compelled to alter their measures. The Hon. Baronet also complained of Ministers not attending in their places at an earlier hour. He hoped that the yeomanry would be preserved. He hoped, too, that the Government would not basely aban don and give up the laws and the liberties of Ireland, in sa crificing the yeomanry. Mr. RUTHVEN denied that the yeomanry were consi dered so useful. He did not think Government should be charged with basely abandoning its duty, by taking the arms away from the yeomanry. The Government did not need the exclusive support of that body. It was hard, that whenever the yeomanry were named in that House a debate should arise. There was not an uproar or dis turbance in Ireland in which the yeomanry were not con cerned. He denied that the yeomanry had been called out by the Government. The petitioners were persons of great respectability. Mr. CRAMPTON could assure the House that the Go vernment of Ireland would not be induced by any party to continue the Irish yeomanry one moment longer than was necessary for the interest of Ireland, or disband them as long as their services were useful. Mr. O'CONNELL denied that there was any superio rity in the north of Ireland over the south. It was true a large military force was kept in the south of Ireland for the convenience of embarkation. He was sure that if the Government meant to disband the yeomanry when it was necessary for the interest of Ireland, they would do it im mediately. After a few words in explanation from Sir R. BATESON, the petition was laid upon the table, and ordered to be printed. REPEAL OF THE UNION. Mr. O'CONNELL presented three petitions from Long ford and other places, for the repeal of the Union, which were laid on the table, and ordered to he printed. Mr. O'CONNELL g ave notice that he would to-mor row move to postpone his motion for a call of the House . . till Wednesday week. Sir R.VYVYAN gave notice that he would to-morrow move, as an amendment on the motion of the Hon. Mein her, that the call be dismissed altogether. PEMBROKESHIRE. Mr. G. ROBINSON—A Member having moved on Saturday for a new writ for the county of Pembroke, he would oppose the motion. He thought the writ ought to be suspended for one week. The Report of the Commit tee of the House condemned the conduct of the returning officer, and the House ought to have time to read over the evidence, and form an opinion whether the misconduct of the High Sheriff and the returning officer did not deserve a more serious notice. He ought to be called on, perhaps, to give the House sonic explanation of his conduct. The interest of the freeholders was involved in the inquiry, as well as the honour of the High Sheriff. The Honourable Member concluded by moving that the issue of the writ fur Pembroke be suspended for one week. Mr. JONES said, that it was unprecedented that a writ should be suspended on account of the conduct of the High Sheriff. The High Sheriff might appoint another return ing officer. He did not mean, however, to oppose the motion, because he knew the High Sheriff to be a man of honour, and to court inquiry. - Lord ALTHORP said, that to take the report of the Committee into consideration was different from suspend ing the writ. It would be a most extraordinary course to suspend the writ, because the returning officer had done wrong. He opposed the motion, as inflicting an act of injustice on the freeholders. After a conversation between Mr. R. Gordon, Mr. H. Ross, Mr. Hodges, Mr. Hunt, Sir C. Wetherell, Mr. J. Campbell, Mr. O'Connell, and the Attorney-General, Mr. ROBINSON briefly replied, and the House divided For the motion 24 120 Against it 2O Majority The writ therefore issues forthwith. IRISH REFORM BILL. In answer to a question from Lord CASTLEREAGH, Lord ALTHORP stated, that it was not intended to move the second reading of the Irish Reform Bill until the Scotch Reform Bill Lad gone through the Committee. SCOTCH REFORM BILL. A MENIIIFIL, whose tame we could not learn, gave notice, that on the motion for going into a Committee on the Scotch Reform Bill, he would move that it he an in struction to the Committee to provide that every Univer sity of Scotland should return a Member to Parliament. LUNATICS BILL. Mr. R. GORDON moved the Order of the Day for considering the Lords' amendments to this Bill. The Hon. Member took that opportunity of expre,sing his ob jection to several of the amendments, particularly that of vesting the appointment of Commis sioners under the Bill in the Lord Chancellor, instead of the Home Secretary as heretofore. The ATTORNEY -GENERAL defended the amend ments. He contended that the Lord Chancellor having by law the chief s uperinteudance of lunatics, the appoint ment of the Commissioners was very properly vested in him. Sir R. PEEL thought the alteration effected by the House of Lords wholly unnecessary. Lie considered that the office of appointing Commissioners more properly be longed to the Secretary of State than to the Lord Chan cellor. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL expressed his approva' of the amendments of the Lords. Lord G. SOMERSET desited to see continued the system which had worked well for the last three years, and declared that he would take the sense of the House on the material parts of the Lords' amendments. Mr. HUME thought that the jurisdiction ought to he vested in the Secretary of State for the Home Department, rather than the Lord Chancellor, whose time was already sufficiently occupied, without being further devoted to the consideration of police regulations. Mr. LAMB was of opinion that the jurisdiction could not be vested in better hands than those of the Lord Chan cellor, who, by the law of Chancery, possessed a sort of general superintendence over lunatics. Sir C. WE'I'HERELL objected to the amendments made by the Lords, and particularly to that which placed the jurisdiction relative to the appointment of Commis sioners in the hands of the Lord Chancellor. The House then divided upon the amendment which gave the jurisdiction above-mentioned to the Lord Chan cellor. The numbers were— For the amendment Against it t;tl Majority --11 Mr. H. GORDON said, that after the rejection of the amendment, it would be better to reject ull the Lords amendments iu the same clause. Several other amendments were then put and negatived. On the amendment being put, enacting that the Com missioners should be a worn not to disclose any circum stances with which they might become acquainted, in con sequence of their official, unless required to do so by legal authority, it was opposed by Mr. GORDON and Mr. PROTIIERor. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL expressed himself favourable to it. The amendment was then negatived. Several other amendments were also negatived. On the motion of Mr. R. GORDON, managers were then appointed to conduct a conference with the House of Lords on the subject of the rejected amendments. COMMITTEE OF SUPPLY. On the Order of the Day being rev] for the Ho use resolving itself into a Committee to consider further of a supply to be granted to his iII jesty, Mr. H. GRATTAN said that before time House went into Committee, be wished to make a statement which appeared to him to concern their privileges. Seine time since a petition bad been presented to that House against the grant to Maytmoth College. certain signatures to which were alleged to be faiae. lie Lad been written to from Dublin on the subject ; and the writer stated that he could find no su ch persons in the list of t ra d ers, h ankers, bar risters, or solicitors, as George and Th omas Howell, whos e nam e s were affixed to the petition. Application h a d b een made by the writer to Mr. Thomas Magee, who stated that so far from having_ to sign an y thing to do with the p etition, he had actually refused ir,.....(Hear , hear.) The peti tion bad been presented by the Hon. Member for Oxford, who stated that he had received it from some clerble gyman that , who resided near Kingston. It was very' clesira the Hon. Member should commu nicate with th e individual who sent the petition, and that he should state the result to the House. He could not say that this was a breach of their privileges, because there might be in existence a Corp and Theron !!owell, although they were not the persons meant to be indicated by the petition. Sir 11. INGLIS said be had received the petition by post. He had no reason to doubt at the time the truth and accuracy of the signatures ; but be would not make him- self responsible for them. Mr. HUME observed, that such practices ought to be checked. In vindication of the Bishop, his Majesty's Mi nisters ought to bring the matter before the House. Mr. O'CONNELL said, he was acquainted with George Howell and Thomas Howell, one of whom resided here, mid the other in Ireland. He did not think the signature of George Howell bore much resemblance to his band-writing. The character of the Archdeacon ought not to be left in this manner before the House. Sir H. INGLIS explained. MAYNOOTII COLLEGE. On the question being again put, Mr. PERCEVAL said, that although it was his wish that the vote for Maynooth College should be entirely done away, he was precluded from taking any step in the Com mittee for that object, except by putting a direct negative upon the grant. As so much of the year, however, had pissed away, and as the faith of Government had been pledged, he was not disposed to propose that the grant should be now refused, and he would therefore propose a resolution for the future. He maintained that for a Protestant Parliament to vote money fir the support of a college established to uphold a sys tem of falsehood and corruption—(" Hear, hear," from Mr. O'Connell and others)—of the word of God, was 1 a great departure from the duty they owed to God. He would ask Protestant Members of that House why they separated from the Roman Catholic church, if they did not think it a system of falsehood and corruption of the word of God. He might be told that he was precluded from this line of argument since the passing of the Roman Catholic Relief Act; but that Act had not been passed with that animus ; and his Right Hon. Friend (Sir R. Peel), who had been the prime supporter of that measure, had dis tinctly stated, that in granting relief to the Catholics, he was not to be understood as adopting the expediency of taking the Catholic priesthood into the pay of Govern ment, and uniting the Catholic religion to the State. He was fully borne out in this view of the subject by the oaths, on condition of taking which Catholics were even still admitted into this Protestant assembly, and which showed they came in under certain Protestant engagements, with a view of satisfying the fears and doubts of Protestants. Fur what purpose were these oaths retained, if the animus of the Roman Catholic Relief Bill was to throw down all the barriers of the Protestant religion ? He ob jected to the grant as a matter of conscience, and of duty towards God. Infidelity, Ile feared, was on the increase. He believed that the doctrine of holding the scale equal be tween God and Satan on all occasions was gaining ground in that House. He was as certain of this as of any thing, —that liberalism in religion was infidelity at bottom; that they both came front the same root, and led to the same consequences ; and he lamented to see in that House, the scales held up before the world, equal between God and Satan, on all occasions. Whilst Ministers were taking away the grant to the Kildare street schools, they were continuing that to Maynooth College; and it is difficult to satisfy the Protestants of Ireland of the propriety and jus tice of this proceeding. He pressed his objection to the olant, on the grounds he had state d, and he should move ' that " It is the °pillion of this House that it is not expedi ent to continue the annual grant to the College of Maynooth after the present year." An Ilos.r. MEstnEn (said to be Mr. YOUNG) in second ing the motion observed, that he was an advocate of the Protestant ascendancy, not, as the phrase was commonly understood, as the shibboleth of a party, but the ascen dancy of the Protestant religion, derived from the only pure source—in our hearts and minds. He deemed it his bounden duty to the cause of God and man to resist the _ _ . continuance of this grant. Mr. STANLEY observed that it was impossible to trex with levity a subject of such importance as that which had been introduced by the Hon. Member, and introduced by him in so solemn a manner. It was difficult, however, to grapple with the Hon. Member on a question which he had not put upon the footing of reason or argument, but upon a sense of conscience and duty towards God. But he (Mr. Stanley) could not look at the question as a religious but only as a political question.—(Hear, hear.) 11 by consenting to this grant be could imagine that he promoted the ascendancy of the Roman Catholic religion, or impaired the interests of the Protestant faith, lie would vote for the motion of the Honourable Member, and ac knowledge it was not consistent with the duty of that House to sanction this vote. But that was not the light in which he could consent to look at the grant, which had been voted for years past, and by greater men than now advocated it in that House. It was no way csnnected with the Catholic question, nor had ever been considered to lie so. So long ago as 1795 the Legislature had sanctioned this grant, not as a religious grant; and from that time it had been undisputedly and uninterrupt edly complied with. It it was only on the score of autho rity the House ought not to condemn, as unworthy of a Christian Legislature, a grant which had been introduced by Mr. Pitt, which had the full concurrence of Mr. Fox, and which hail been supported by all the weight of the authority of Mr. Grattan.—(Hear ) These were the three great names under the authority of which the grant wan first introduced in 1795, and it had been continued by every succeeding Government, not excepting that of which the Hon. Member formed a part, and not on religious, but on political grounds.—(Hear.) Nor was the grant without special grounds of justification. During the last war Bo naparte offered an education to the Irish Catholics in France; but this was r. jeered by the Roman Catholic Priests, who forbade their youth to exchange the education they obtained at Maynooth for the better education they could have got at Paris ; and, therefore, on a principle of gratitude, we owed something to the Roman Catholic clergy.— (Hear, hear.) Did the Hon. Member think that it they refused this grant there would be one Catholic less edu cated, or cne Protestant added.—(Hear.) The danger of refusing the grant was tenfold greater than voting it. If it was only for the interests of the Protestant religion, it would be politic to support this grant. The Right lion. Gentleman then read some extracts from the report of the Commissioners, showing the advantages of the education at Maynooth College. The education at the college was dear, and so far from its tending to introduce the lower classea, it was calculated for the highest class of pupils. Upon the grounds that the vote was not in relation to re ligion, but simply founded upon political justice, he be lieved that no man could do more to destroy the Protestant church in Ireland than by refusing his assent to this grant. Sir J. NEWPORT supported the grant, and contended that the claim upon England was one of justice and of right. Sir R. INGLIS thought that the question was open to discussion, and ought to be taken up de note. Mr. T. LEFROY objected to the grant in every respect. Lord MANDEVILLE conceived that the grant would be destructive of the Protestant interests in Ireland. Mr. CRESSET PELIIAM thought the grant ought not to be continued. Sir 11. BATESON wished that his Majesty's Ministers had followed in the footsteps of their predecessors. The college of Maynooth was founded in illiberality. Colonel SIBTHORPE felt it his duty to oppose every grant which was exclusive of the interests of that religion which, as a Protestant, be was bound to support. He should therefore oppose the motion. The House then divided— For the original motion Against it 47 Majority against the amendment lOl On our re-admission to the gallery we found the House in Committee, and Mr. O'CONNELL deprecating the language applied to the Catholic religion by the Hon. Member for Tiverton. That lion. Member had taken it upon Idol to pronounce the Catholic worship to be false and damnable. Was a fallible human creature thus to assume the attributes of infallibility,—a worm judge of the doom of a fellow worm, and presume to set up its own interpretation of the Scrip tures as the word of God !—(Loud cries of " hear.") With respect to the grant then before the Committee, he did not accept it as a boon to the Catholics. They were willing to support their own Clergy like the people of Scot land, if relieved from the burden of an Established Church, in whose tenets they did not believe. Mr. PERCEVAL did not think that any thing he had said justified the Hon. Member's animadversions. He had only said, that taking God's word as a standard, the doctrines of Popery were frauds and corruptions of the pure worship of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Captain GORDON agreed with the Hon. Member (Mr. Perceval), and felt that he should be guilty of a sm against the interests of true religion, if he did n ot oppose a grant which went to maintain an establ.shment in which the dogmas of Pope Pius IV. were taught,—which dogmas, embodied in the popular works sent forth under the sanction of Dr. Doyle to the Catholic iaiety, represented all Pro med it to . t ( e i s „ tanta to be heretics. He opposed the grant, because he Mr. O'CONOR Church and in State. he injurious to the Constitution both in State.— (Aloud la t u b g a l t i . the) was calculated of the Gallant Officer who had just sat down excite, rather than to appease, the religious animositiest eulated !o Ireland. The House of Commons ought not tbeth in e arena of polemical contention, but the fountain from which peace should he diffused in 3 thousand streams throughou. the whole country. To withhold the grant to this College, • 1 would be as unjust as it would be impolitic. Mr. T. LEFROY opposed the grant, because the State ought not to encourage conflicting religions. Mr. E. PETRE regretted the introduction of theolo gical discussions into that House. All that they had to de with religion in that House was to do their duty to their country, to exercise charity to all mankind, and to do justice to all the interests in the country. He should sup port the grant, because the refusal of it would alienate the affections of the people of Ireland. Mr. BURGE deprecated religious discussions like that which had taken place on this subject, as being likely to disturb and destroy those feelings of charity and forbear ance which the common religion of all inculcated.-- (Hear, hear.) He was not therefore opposed to this grant on religious grounds ; but he would oppose it because that he found that his Majesty's Government were not disposed equally to protect and encourage Protestant establishments in Ireland. Lord EBRINGTON said that he was as conscientious a Protestant as any man in that House; but that he did not thing it that was any part of the religion of a conscientious Protestant to abuse and vilify the faith of any other sect of his fellow Christians.—( Hear, hear.) He did not think that the adoption of such a course as that was at all calculated to prove a man's attachment to the Protestant religion. He should support the grant. Mr. WY SE said that the question was not whether Ireland should be Catholic or not, but whether the Irish Catholics should get a good education or a bad one. He defended the Catholic clergy against the charges which had been preferred against them, and especially against the charge of their being opposed to the education of the people. As one proof of the contrary being the fact, he stated that very lately a college had been founded in the county which he represented (Tipperary) sufficient for the accommodation of three hundred students ; that admission to it was open equally to Protestants and Catholics, and that all the expenses of its erection had been defrayed from the funds of the Catholic clergy of the diocese. Mr. H. GRATTAN said that the true way to secure the British connexion, and to keep the Catholics of Ireland attached to this country, was to educate them at home. It was most extraordinary to behold men like the Hon. Member for Dundalk and others, who bad lived so long in the world and who had learned so little, venting at that time of day the threadbare calumnies, the oft-refuted libels, and disregarded and exploded cant which had been sa often employed against the pious and exemplary Catholic clergy of Ireland, amongst whom the Protestant esta blished clergy might find many examples worthy of their imitation. Mr. A. JOHNSTONE said he was opposed to the grant, because he thought that the evils of Ireland were not so much attributable to misgovernment as to the de testable faith which prevailed there.—(Cries of " 011 !") The Presbyterian people of Scotland should not be taxed fur a support of a religion which they believed to be ido latrous. The Roman Catholic Members around him were tolerated in that House, and the conduct of some of them gave him reason to mistrust them laugh.) Ile should oppose the grant. Mr. HOWARD slid, that be was one of those who voted for the grant of 21,0001. for the maintenance of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, and that the Hon. Member who spoke last did not hear from him or from any person professi❑g his religion, any abusive attacks on the faith of the Presbyterians.—( Hear, hear.) If the Catholics of Ireland were not taxed for the support of a Church to which they did not belong, they would not ask for such a grant as this. Sir It. MUSGRAVE defended the Catholic Clergy from . the imputations which had been cast upon them, and said that they were in fact the preservers of the peace in Ireland, and that he should give his cordial support to the grant. The resolution was then agreed to, and the House re sumed.—Report ordered to be received on Wednesday. After which, on the motion of Lord Aurnour, the Churches' Building Act Amendment Bill was passed through a Committee. The House resumed, and the report was ordered to be received on Friday. SCOTCH REFORM BILL. On the question that the House go into a Committee on this Bill, Lord A LTHORP stated, that it was intended that the number for Scotland should he fifty ; that Peebles and Selkirk should each return a Member; that Dumbarton and Bute should each return a Member ; that the eastern district of Fifeshire boroughs should return a Member, with the addition of Cupar and St. Andrew's ; that Perth should return a Member, and that Peterstown should be added to the Aberdeen boroughs. He hoped that would give satis faction to the Scotch Members. Mr. KENNEDY and Mr. C. BRUCE expressed their satis faction at this arrangement. After a few words from Sir C. FORBES, the House went into a Committee, some blanks were filled up, and the Chairman reported progress, and obtained leave to sit again on Friday. The other Orders of the Day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned at a Quarter to Three o'clock. DREADFUL HURRICANE at BARBADOES, We gave ye4terday a brief account of the destruc tion to life and property at Barbadoes, by one of the most dreadful hurricanes ever experienced in the West Indies, on the 11th of last month. From accounts received at Lloyd's, we learn that the fol. lowing vessels had been driven on shore, where they remained when the accounts left the island : BARKs—lrlataz and Arethusa. BRIGS-Exchange, Quebec, Decagon, Mary, Kezia, Alliance, Antoinette, Horatio Nelson, and Eliza. BRIGANTINE-Samuel Hinds. SCHOONERS...-Ark and Perseverance. MA I L -BOATS —Montagu and Barbadoes. The Heroine escaped with only loss of rigging ; the schooner James lost mast. It is said that St. Vincent's has suffered equally with Barbadoes. In addition to the information we received yester day, it is stated that not fewer than three thousand lives were lost. The following extract from the Barbadoes Globe, of the 15th of August, conveys a mournful picture of this awful and destructive visitation : " Through the merciful forbearance of an all powerful Deity, we are enabled to resume the publi cation of our Paper by issuing a half-sheet to-day. That we printed none on Thursday, is owing to the awful calamity which, on the morning of that day, laid the whole country in a confused mass of ruins. Our lire havin g been spared, and our of fi ce but partially damaged, the duty of telling the tale of affliction, however, harrowing to our feelings, must be performed ; but to convey to the distant reader a correct idea of the scene of devastation before us is a task impossible to be accomplished. Wherever we turn our eye, the desolation and misery presented to the view bid defiance to the power of language to pourtray them in adequate terms. Barbadoes wa never in such a condition since the year 1783. The hurricane of that time might have exceeded in dura tion, but not in violence, the one of Thursday last ; the damage suffered is perhaps equal in extent—the number of lives lost is at present incalculable. " The appearance of Wednesday evening was indicative of unsettled weather, and many persons prognosticated that there would be a gale before the morning, but few anticipated a visitation so dread ful. The wind was at times rather high, and about ten o'clock there was a shower of rain, which was succeeded by a calm. After this, a dense mass of clouds gathered over the horizon, and remained for some time suspended in gloom. At twelve, they burst in a severe squall, which was followed by a heavy lain. At this period there was a smart breeze from N.E., and the ‘Nind began to increase. In two hours it blew a tremendous gale, but mode rated for a short time, when it suddenly became more violent, and was a perfect hurricane at three o'clock. Now the work of destruction commenced. From this hour until five it raged with unparalleled violence, whilst the lightning would at intervals cast a momentary but horrid glare on the mangled objects around. The houses were either levelled with the earth or unroofed; the largest trees torn from their roots, or broken as reeds. Numerous individuals were buried under the ruins, or exposed without a shelter to the pelting of the storm, and threatened with instant death at each successive blast that hurled the shattered fragments in eve ry direction. The majestic cocoa-nut-tree would be tossed to and fro as a withe, then snapped off with an appalling crash, or driven from the earth with terrific force. The wind had now veered to E., back to N. and to NAV.; again it shifted, and blew fiercely from E., veered to S.E., and about six o'clock burst from S. `l'. with renewed violence, twoompanied by torrents of rain. Once more the hurricane raged, but there wfts little standing to en-` counter its fury. For two hours the wind and rain continued thus; and it is easier to conceive than to describe the sufferings of those unfortunate beings who were all this time destitute of even the slightest shelter to screen them from the contending elements. The bodily and mental torture of those who were in health must have been excruciating; but what must that have been of delicate females who had been lingering on a bed of sickness—and many of these there were—some in the open fields, separated from their relatives and friends, and in a state of nu dity ? Helpless infants, too, were in like manner torn from the arms of their distracted parents. " When the light of day dawned through the dreadful gloom of the subsiding tempest, the devas tation of the country exhibited a heart-rending pic ture. The dreadful howling of the winds, and the crashing of the falling ruins having ceased, the shrieks of the affrighted, and the groans of the wounded and dying, broke in mournful sounds and pitiable accents on the ears of the less un fortunate survivors. Those who had sufficient strength remaining, commenced a sorrowful search for the respective members of their families, — some of whose lifeless bodies were disinterred from the ruins to be transferred to another grave, whilst mangled forms of others were dragged forth, fright ful from their bruises, and making the hearts of their sympathising relatives bleed with anguish. The fields which the day before presented so luxuriant an appearance were completely changed into a de sert—neither canes, corn, nor provisions, with a few inconsiderable exceptions, having been left in the ground. The houses as well as windmills were thrown down, parts of them conveyed to an asto nishing distance, and costly furniture destroyed or materially injured. Oistins, Hole -town, Speight's town, and Bridgetown, have all suffered equally, there not being a single house in the island standing uninjured. A few certainly are only partially da maged, but many which at first sight appear to have escaped, are found, on closer examination, to be in a condition that would be imminently dangerous either in heavy rains or strong winds. The barracks and hospital at Si.. Ann's have suffered in common with other buildings, and we understand more than forty of his Majesty's troops lost their lives, besides many women and children ; the number of wounded is mmense. " On a future occasion we may give a detailed account of the numerous deaths that have occurred, and of the almost innumerable dangerous wounds in flicted; but as we cannot do so at present with any degree of accuracy, we abstain from inserting those that have come to our knowledge. The scenes of horror in the churches baffle all description. There the dead and dying have been borne from different places—there the bruised have been taken from sur gical assistance. The bodies of all the killed, how ever, have not yet been recovered from the heaps of stone under which they were crushed; and as putre faction has already taken place, we are threatened with the addition calamity of a deadly pestilence. God, in his infinite goodness, avert further hot tors from our devoted isle! Threatened, as we are, with famine and disease, we can only rely on his bountiful Providence to outstretch his heavenly arm for our timely rescue. Without a plentiful supply of articles of food, the inhabitants will perish of hunger,—without Divine interposition, their dire fate must be consummated by contagion from the effluvia arising from the putrid carcasses of men and beasts which lie on the face of the earth 1 " The churches and chapels throughout the island have suffered each to a greater or less extent. The sacred edifice in St. James's was injured less titan any other. The Cathedral and St. Mary's were de prived of the greater part of their roofs, the organ of the latter was blown to atoms ; St. Paul's and St. Matthew's were nearly totally destroyed. Go vernment-house was unroofed, and otherwise injured, and his Excellency the Governor obliged to take re fuge in the cellar. King's-house, the girl.' school, and the common gaol, were seriously damaged, the boys' school was partially injured, and the Custom house was blown down. But to particularise would be a preposterous attempt, when every house and all parts of the island, have, in some respect or other, shared in the general destruction. " The schooner Elizabeth sailed hence for Deme rara on Wednesday afternoon. She fortunately weathered the storm, and returned here, when she was employed by his Excellency the Governor to proceed, we understand, to that colony with de spatches, in the hope of falling in with a homeward bound vessel ; but failing in that, they would be im mediately forwarded to England by his Excellency Sir Benjamin D'Urban, Governor-General of British Guiana. " The schooner Agnes, which arr'ved on Friday morning from Trinidad, has also been employed in the service of Government. She sailed last night, but her destination is not exactly known. " The merchants of this town, although sufferers themselves to a considerable extent, have spurned the opportunity of demanding an increase in the price of provisions. Care should be taken to prevent any unfeeling huckster from profiting unfairly by this berality. " his Excellency the Governor called a meeting of the Hon. Board of Council for to-day. We have not been informed of the result of their deliberations. " It will be seen that H. D. de Wald, Esq. has generously come forward for the assistance of the poor and destitute, with a spontaneous offer of 10 barrels of flour; and as the vesiry have made an appeal to the public, we trust there are many others who will lose no time in contributing to the relief of their wretched fellow -beings." " The Barbadoes Mercury of the IGth says, — We ate sorry to state that the island of Sr. Vincent has not escaped the late hurricane. An arrival from thence announces that considerable injury has been done both to the island and shipping.' " A letter received from Dominica last night, in forms us that the effect of the late gale was felt in that island, but no lives lost, nor any very serious injury sustained. The town of Roseau was, how ever, almost inundated by the breaking in of the sea. " The schooner Perseverance returned from Guadeloupe this morning. The gale was felt in that island also, and some trifling damage done." FRENCH PAPERS. (From the Quotidienne of Saturday, Sept. fa.) " PARIS, SErr. 23.---The conferences between sevarcl members of the diplomatic body of the Government recom menced on Wednesday last. " This morning an extraordinary courier brought to M. Appony despatches from his Government. Yesterday a Secretary of the French Legation at Brussels brought despatches to the Government, and an extraordinary courier from Berlin brought despatches for the Prussian Ambassador. His Majesty the King of Bavaria has ordered prayers in all the churches, to implore Heaven to avert the t he se k v i e n r g a ( l li p il r n o . motions have been made cho , l , e l r t a m is o a r ffi bu rm s e fr d oin tha t in the Third Regiment of Light Infantry, as a recompense for its conduct in the Palais Royal on Monday evening.— Two additional commissaries of police have been appointed. A paper, without the signature of either the author or printer, has been seized ; it contains an appeal to arms, addressed to the patriots of July. This morning commis saries of police searched several houses which had been informed against as containing fire-arms. " The last accounts from Neufchatel are of the 17th. Negotiations had been opened, and a commission appointed by the, Council of State had had a conference with the chiefs of the insurrection. The basis already agreed upon are, a general amaesty, the disbanding of the tso opposite corps, and the convocation of the primary assemblies to deliberate on the emancipation of the canton. The nego tiations are delayed by one clause demanded by the country party—that is, the occupation of the fort of Neufchatel by 400 men, till the primary assemblies shall have deliberated. The standard of the country party is read, with a federal cross, and the arrow of William Tell." From the Messagcr des Chambres, dated Sept. 25 ) ;‘ PARIS, SEPT. 24.—1 t is affirmed that a battalion of the 2d Regiment is to repair to Toulon, and there to em bark for Algiers. This reinforcement sent to the army in Africa, with the military stores lately embarked for that country, by no means intimate the intention which some journals have ascribed to the Ministry to restore that colony to the Dey of Algiers. " The Minister of Marine and Colonies has informed the Chamber of Commerce of Havre, that our relations with Hayti are not broken oil', that the French Govern ment has no desire that they should, and that our com mercial interests are under the protection of the Consul whom M. Mofilen left there when he left the island to re turn to France." PRICES OF THE STOCKS Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Red 3 per Cent. Cons 3',2 y, per Cent. shut Ditto Red shut New 3 per Cent q 9 A 7 3 per Cent Ann. 1726 - 4 'per Cent. lit 26 Bank Long Ann to expire Jan 5, 1860 shut Oct. 10, 1859 Jan. 5, 1860 Jan. 5, 1880 April 5, 1880 -- Jan. 5, 1870 MAYNOOTH COLLEGE. LIST OF THE MINORITY Who voted. for Mr. SPENCER PERCEVAL'S Amendment for Discontinuing the Grant to the Roman Catholic College of Maynooth, atter the present Year. Agnew, Sir A. Hayes, Sir E. S. Bateson, Sir It. Hodgson, J. Best, Hon. W. S. Hughes, W. H. Blair, W. Ingestrie, Viscount 13.3der0-, Captain Kearsley, J. 11. Burge, W. Lefroy, T. Clements, Lieut.-Col. Lefroy, A. Cole, Viscount Lowther, Hon. Col. Cole, Hon. A. 11. Lowther, J. 11. Conolly, Colonel Mandeville, Viscount Cooper, E. J. Maxwell, H. Corry, Hon. H. T. Mayhew, W. Cult, Q Hon. Sir E. Miller, W. H. D i c k, uintin Pelham, J. C. Dundas, R. A. I'erceval, Colonel Estcourt, T. G. B. Pringle, A. I'ox, S. L. Rickford, W. Gordon, J. E. Ryder, Hon. G. D. liaise, J. Sibthorpe, Colonel Handcock, R. Stewart, C. Stewart, Sir H. Tullamore, Lord Walsh, Sir J. Wetherell, Sir C. Wynne, J. Young, J. PAIRED OFF'. Areflall, General Grant, Sir C. Pollington, Lord Itochfort, Colonel IS:aller, M. T. Townshencl, Hn. Col TELLERM. Perceval, S. llnglis, Sir 11. COURT CIRCULAR. Prince TALLEvrtAND, — the French Ambassador; th e Russian and Austrian Ambassadors; Baron Bur.ow, th e Prussian Minister ; and Count MATuscEwyrz, on a spe cial mission from Russia, had a conference with Viicount PALMERSTON yesterday at the Foreign.offi:T. The Lords Commissioners of the Board of Trade held a meeting yesterday at the office at Whitehall. The Mar quis of LANsnowNE, ViSCUlla GODERICH, Lord HOL LAND, and Lord AUCKLAND (the President), were present. Prince TALLEYRAND, the French Ambasador, received despatches yesterday from Paris. After the receipt of the despatches his Excellency sent a communication to Earl GREY. - - Despatches were received yesterday at the C o l on i a l_ office from Sir JAMES LYON, the Governor of Barbadoes ; the Earl of BELMORE, the Governor of Jamaica ; and Sir J. SMYTII, the Governor of the Bahama Islands. NEWFOUNDLAND, SEPT. B.—Eleven fi s hi ng . vessels are lost at Labrador, with their cargoes. Etr - 41,111, LONDON, • TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 21, 1831. In presenting the Westminster petition to the House of Lords last night, the Marquis of WESTMINSTER took occasion to offer that illustrious assembly some useful hints respecting the important subject upon which they were now required to give their fiat. The Noble Marquis alluded in a very forcible manner to the feeling which pervaded the whole nation upon the subject of Reform, and strongly urged the ne cessity of their Lordships' passing the Bill. He considered, that as it was a Bill for reforming the House of Commons—a body which had declared by its own act that it should be re formed—the concurrence of the Lords ought to follow almost as a matter of course. The Noble Marquis would not say that any of his illustrious brethren had trqfficked in boroughs, but that the influence such property Ove to their possessors had been unconstitutionally exercised he had no doubt. He asked very pithily, if the House of Commons wished to reform itself, and to give the people their just influence in that assembly, what right had the Peers to interfere ? The observations made by the Earl of ELDON were such as might have been expected from him, considering the party to which he has long tacked his opinions. He called upon the Peer: to do their duty, regardless of resolutions or pe. titions ; in short to reject the Bill, although it is demanded by the unanimous voice of the Sove reign, his Ministers, and the people. We trust there is too much patriotism in the House of Lords to adopt the advice of the Noble and Learned Lord, and that however long the system of " doing what we will with our own," has pre_ vailed with them, they will now concede to the people their just rights, and adopt the maxim— " Sic utere tuo alt alienum non lcedas." We have received the Paris Papers dated yes erday, and letters of Sunday evening. The fol lowing are extracts of a letter of the latter date : " The Echo do Nord asserts that on the 13th of this month a contract was entered into at Cologne with the capitalists of that town for furnishing provisions to a Dutch army of 65,000 men. " Letters from Mete, of the 20th instant, state that troops of all descriptions are constantly passing through that town. At nine o'clock last night dragoons arrived there ; they had received orders on the same day to have their cantonment in the neighbourhood of Metz. _ " A postscript to the Dauphinois, a journal of Gre. noble, of the 20th instant, contains the following : "'TWELVE O'CLOCK, MIDNIGHT. —Tumultuous crowds, bearing flags in mourning, have just excited much disor der in our town. Their rallying cry was Poland for ever !"fo which was joined in all directions the cries of, ' Death to Perier ! Death to Sebastiani ! The tyrants of all nations to the Lanterne !' Tranquillity is now re-esta blished. To-morrow I shall send you the details of this scene.' " The Finisterre contains the following details relative to the events that have occurred lately at Brest, on ac count of the nomination of General Avisard as Comman dant- du. Race : " As soon as the deputation which had gone to con f e r with General Avisard had returned to the Mayor, and had communicated to the citizens assembled there the determi nation of the General to quit Brest, the Mayor caused the following proclamation to be immediately published and placarded : " Inhabitants of Brest !—General' Avisard has offi cially declared that he resigns the command bestowed on him, and that actuated by the desire of maintaining the public peace, be is preparing to quit the town. " All pretext for tumult is vanished. The Mayor of Brest feels confident that this intelligence will be suf ficient to restore tranquillity. " ' The Mayor, KERROS. " ' Mairie of Brest, Sept. 17, 1831.' " "At half-past eleven twelve or fifteen hundred persons, of all classes, assembled, uttering the cries of the evening before. The Mayor, and the Commander of the National Guard, strove in vain to pacify the meeting. All the ex pressions, conveying those ideas of moderation so much approved of by Carlists and the Juste-Mili e u, e xcited the most vehement vociferations of reprobation. It was soon reported that the General had quitted the hotel, and that his evasion bad been facilitated by the authorities, and that he was waiting outside the gates of the town for the Paris mall. The tumult instantly ceased, and the W 196 anxious to pursue the fugitive with hisses as long as pos• sibie, left the town, and went as far as th e tele g raph, which in a quarter of a league from it, to wa it for the, mail. Let it not be thought that even the most violent& the party had any wish to offer personal injury to Avisard ; we can assert their sole object was to manifest still more strongly a just and general animadversion to' wards the political min forced upon them by the Gover n : ment. When the mail reached the telegraph the ere/a stopped it, and demanded if M. Avisard was in it. T he c(inductor produced his list of travellers, and on assuring them the General was not in the carriage, continue his journey. The crowd returned, singing FY I triotic songs, and having formed a white banner, on wh' i c , they inscribed the names of the Ministers (the name of . "'" de Rigny b-ing at the head of all), they stopped upon the Champs de Bastille, where amidst general and spirited a clamations they burnt the ministerial banner, amidst Cril, of Dawn with the Ministers !—they are traitors' Tranquillity is re-established, but Government cannot p os ' sibly employ any longer such men." (From the Gazette de France of yesterday.) the Letters from Vienna state that the intelligence 0 1 ,,: e fill of Warsaw had created a great sensation there. a"; was suffered to Counsellor of War, Lieut.-Field-Marshal General CO' de Clam had set out for Berlin. (From Les Temps.) BERLIN, SEPT. 17.—The cholera during the 'l it fifteen days has atticked 373 persons, of whom 21S bale f died. It continues to spread its ravaces in the Duch,' °, Posen and in Old Prussia. It is stated :that it 0 1- the Russian vessel of war which carried the chol era int ° the fortress of Siiebourg, in Finland, from whence " spread to Helsingfors and Abo. We have received this morning the Allgemeine Zeitung to the 20th instant, and the Austrian Observer to the 15th, from which the fol-lossing are extracts VIENNA, SEPT. 15.—Since yesterday the cholera has began to spread rapidly here ; this evening the number °f victims already amounts to hundreds, among whom matlY persons of the higher classes are mentioned. His Majesty'A nevertheless, honoured the theatre with Lis presence , on to-day, so far as is known, had no farther measures taken for his own safety. The arrangements that bare been long in preparation against this calamity now to pro in ve highly useful, though they could not be folk' carried effect, in consequence of the unexpected suddenness bat th which the disorder has attacked us. It is probable our tb theatres will not be opened after to-day. A t Pres burg, from twenty to thirty persons daily die of the chod lera, and it is said to have re-appeared in Hamburg a° some other places. News has been received here from the Russia° hei.d quarters, that the Polish army has also now tendered submission, and awaits in the vicinity of Pink, Wh it/le :I it has retired, the decision of its fate from the clem ency the Emperor. VIENNA, SEPT. 14.—The Austrian Observer o f t !'" day confirms the new s o f the taking of Warsaw. It however, asserted on good authority, that the Polish et% has also submitted to the Emperor Nicholas. Sotne friet? of the Poles here, as s e rt, however, (which seems rather °li probable) that the army will join to it the garris ,°' rs ° t Modlin and Zamosc, march to Volhynia, and at the 0 , 10 proceed thence through Moldavia to Turkey, and `eel lot protection of the Porte. That the Polish a gents pf to Constantinople really contemplated the possibility ; leading the Polish army to Turkey, in case all other of escape should f a il, appears from conversations vrhi'fy they held with various influential persons there. body here is, in the meantime, of opinion that tb Emperor of Russia will show the grea t es t c lemency t° t ; vanquished, and give the strictest orders to treat the. with forbearance. People are also convinced that thetile forms, ,i g np d se o , r m oarn o d f A iPtehxoalatanngddre great landt I care e t be n v gl the charter given it bY $ 1 burgh in the choice of the persons to b en e by e a u tc : Sis u t s t.i te tPudtes9'9. the government of the country. BERLIN, SEPT. 15.—General Baron Von Knese"-ii;e Adjutant-General to the King, set out yesterd a y to tb the command of the troops lately under Fieldegats,:n ' Gneisenau. He is the senior of Generals Von Zet°e, and Von Roder, and has probably been chosen on that. 3„ count, as he never commanded troops either i n IS Ve ISIS, or otherwise, but was on the General Staff. f did not expect so quick a termination of the affairs " Poland, and it is probable that our troops will elfi.inge their cantonments; thi s is p ar tly e ff ec ted by the 1 `1. 4 ordinance, renewing the milit ar y cor d ons i n the inte rl ",: Now that Warsaw has fallen, it is likely that Pr u t ti 4 will use more decided language with respect to v - o i gium ; and there is a report that the Secretary it Sate, M. Ancillon, who is the author of this Oeb system, requires that Prussian troops, instead of Frier)., ; shall enter Belgium, but at all events, if the Be4l-90f refuse immediately to accede to the recent protocols it the Great Powers. As a confirmation of this idea' to is remarked that orders were given a few days a qbe it keep under their colours the men, usually sent to till hoint.e at Michaelmas, that is to say, for three tnonths%,; 'he new recruits have been exercised, as was done last besides which, the armaments in the artillery depot c° tinue without interruption. t ra VIENNA, SEPT. 15.—Five per Cents. 771; T en " Cents. 67 ; Bank Shares 94.0. ba VIENNA, SEPT. 14.—The Emperor has addressee his autograph letter to Count Dietrichstein, expressing 0 satisfaction with the care which he has bestowed withG much success in the education of his Majesty's gr ae" o l the Duke of Reichstadt, and conferred on him th e il Cross of the Order of Leopold. 11 8 1 The Austrian Obsery er, up to this date, does n ote' tion the appearance of the cholera at Vienna. The Hamburg steamer arrived at a lateb °ll' this afternoon, w ith th e P a pers of Friday. - contain intelligen ce f rom th e Polish frontiers 0 late as the 17th, and from Cracow of the 1° Itwoulnktlended resisting :_ seem bylttese advises that the army tb rfe CRACOW, SEPT. 15.—Our Courier contains „or. official reports from the camp of General Rozycki, od or mander of the armed forces of the palatinates of C ri t sip Sandomir, and K a li sc h. One of these reports, after cle ing a variety of skirmishes with General Rudigecr 4 1 4't seeds as follows :—" Yesterday we arrived at gu ibE and to-day we w ere j o i ne d by C a ptain Nieszokor , f tiot artillery, who arrived from Morn . ), with intelligen ce ', to on the 6th instant, th e com bi ne d h os tile army h e Ppf ° attack Warsaw at eight o'clock in the morning' r est' r egi' battalions of the 13th, an d one b atta li on o f the St" „ire l ment, under General Sowin s ki, d e f en d e d thor n— tt oct‘ at the Wola barri e rs, wh ere th e enemy's, a 'Lee rt was most impetuous. The first trenches ha" fat' already taken, and the enemy was a lreadY, rs! ing his way upon the ramparts, when "e,,lea Rybinski arrived with a brigade, and killed and olsilcht upwards of 10,000 men. On the following day, the tha t Marshal Paakewitsch summoned the city, declaring c i,y he would plant 250 pieces of artillery against th e ffeot , This summons not having produced the desired e co ed at one o'clock in the afternoon, the Russians P r A d forward upon all points between the J er usalem . an d Mokotow barriers, and between the Wola barriersrv of the Laboratory. But the 26th regiment of inf'ult,loeit fered resistance upon every point, and at elev e l :wing in the evening th e a tt ac k ceased. On the fo lio tha t day, the army evacua t e d th e ca pit a l, through i g b l the fire, which had broken out in the s uburb , ": t ire spread, and destroy the city walls : a temporary ar tn ;,• ' o o s ' followed, anti the enemy desisted from further °per: 0 11 The lo,s of the Russians exceeds 12,000 men. ri c e a te' Geismar, Gortsehakoff, Ulasoff, and almost all th e L iar madding officers, are wounded. Marshal Paskewitsehroeo. self has r ece i ve d a severe contusion. The Gov er° i 0; the Members of the Chambers, and all public function3tioir artillery, ammunition, and every material of defenc e7 t or been removed to Modlin, from whence the C omm in -Chief, General Malachowski, has &Art hither the lowin4 order : (I, : e ‘ n l cc h o a t ie ai t l h a e r, l , l l o i n st o i r c i e r toociclfii)ormnedyobuy, the evacuation utZni'oinf;Sc4t‘l>: saw, hostile operations have for the present been suslf o rViTe You will please to issue the necessary orders, G en eral--o!! ..00. however, that nothing that has happened releases us i'rriilt4 strict observance of every usual measure dictated by oetie* watchfulness. I have also to inform you, General, that Krukowiecki has resigned the dignity o f P r esident of. a • tD or re t tonal Government, and has now no longer auv o tiic►al i ll in the country. With respect to further details, You „ - , i nic 3- to act according to the instructions which will be colu'" Af to you by Captain Nieszokoc." .0 r 4 The enemy, weakened by severe losses before t ; 0: will be obliged, if he attempts to retain possession ', 9 th city, to garrison it with half his army. Si) long pa ls Government is not in di rec t communication with their:3or; thoseotf lives at c a ss happenp a tatil t t i l s a e t l ,e : be ar at u , C i a li c io o swur,d head-quarters, e n ao d dr . S qu t lueait willtlN,na b l l i le : pir e ne s sveris te4 3' ntb e with supreme authority. o.- . 0 " General Romarino, who marched from 22d of August, pursued the corps of General.. L.; $ O l and Rosen, whom he defeated twice, at Lni‘ the A S lon 01 ( 'les, !P"e; r e s c a prkitive liepr itries, en e ,„ fi at), R. 1.11,41 e a stitho e derel Pal Del to DAY AT ONN o'cLocr. New 5 per Cent. India Stoct Ditto Bonds South Sea Stock Old Annuities shut New Ditto 3 per Cent. Ann. 1751 -- Ex. 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