The Sun. — London, England, 1827-02-10 00:00:00

gin the glorious work by a repeal of the Corn Lawa. The Peti on was read and ordered to be printed. CATHOLIC CLAIMS. Mr. LLOYD presented thirteen petitions from dif ferent parishes in the county of Limerick, in favour of the Catholic Claims.—Ordered to be printed. CORN LAWS. Mr. STEWART presented a petition from Nairn, against any alteration in the Corn Laws.—Ordered to be printed, POLICIES OF INSURANCE. Mr. W. DUNDAS presented a petition from tli? incorporated Fire Insurance Companies of Scotland, praying for a redaction of the duty on Policies of Insurance. TRADE BETWEEN MILFORD AND THE SOUTH OF IRELAND. Sir J. NEWPORT presented a petition from the Merchants, Traders, and other Inhabitants of Waterford, praying an improvement in the packet communication between Milford and the South of Ireland. The Hon. Baronet gave notice that be would, on Thursday next, move for the appointment of a Com mittee on the subject. DEEDS' OFFICE (IRELAND). It was ordered, on the motion of Sir J. NEW PORT, that there be laid before the House an Account of the Rate of Fees demanded at the Office for registering Deeds in Ire land, for the last three years ; distinguishing the duties performed, and the rates demanded in each instance. Mr. D. W. HARVEY presented a petition from certain inhabitants of Colchester, praying such a modifica tion of the Corn Laws as would insure to the consumer a steady supply of bread at a moderate price.—Ordered to be printed. IMPORTATION OF CORN, FLOUR, MEAL, & SPIRITS. It was ordered, on the motion of Mr. Alderman WOOD, that there be laid before the House Returns of the quan tities of Corn, Meal and Flour imported into this kingdom in the last two years (to the sth January, 1827) ; also the quantities allowed to go into the market for consurnpt;n; together with like Returns as to foreign Wines and Spirits ; together with an Account of British Spirits made and consumed within the same period. MODE OF TAKING POLLS AT ELECTIONS. Lord ALTHORPE gave notice that he should, on Thursday the Ist of March, move for the Appointment of a Committee to take into consideration the mode of taking Polls at Elections. CATHOLIC CLAIMS—CALL OF THE HOUSE. Sir F. BURDETT gave notice that he should, on Thursday the 22d inst., submit to the House a motion on the subject of the Catholic Claims, It was then moved by the Hon. Baronet, and carried unanimously, that there should be a Call of the House on that day. CORN LAWS. Mr. DUNCOMBE presented two petitions from Pontefract and Brotherton, iu Yorkshire, praying, that in the event of any alteration in the Cons Laws, care would be taken to protect the interests of the British Farmer. ORDNANCE ESTIMATES. Sir H. HARDINGE brought up the Ordnance Estimates for the year, which were ordered to be printed. Sir H. HARDINGE then gave notice, that he should take the Ordnance Estimates into consideration on Friday next. HERRIES presented a petition from Har wich against the Catholic Claims. GRAIN IMPORTED INTO ENGLAND. Mr. HERRIES brought up an Account of the quantities of Grain imported into England. ARTILLERY OFFICERS. Sir H. HARDINGE brought up an Account of the *umber of the Royal Artillery Officers dismissed without Court Martial. Mr. BROWNLOW presented a petition from the Roman Catholics of Camas (we believe), in the county Tyrone, in favour of the Catholic Claims; he need not add, that this was a question in'whieh ha felt a deep interest. LEOMINSTER ELECTION, The Order of the Day for resuming the Adjourned Debate on the petition regarding the Leominster securities, being read, _Mr. DOUGLAS observed, that the object of the existing.raw on this subject was to give parties, whose seats were petitinned agaiisat, an opportunity of examining into the solvency of the Securities given to prosecute the - petition against the return. Eight days were therefore allowed by the Act for inquiry, and in this instance that full time had been suffered to elapse between the sending in of the names of the sureties and the perfecting of the recognizance, before the Speaker. He moved a Resolution, that it appears to the House that the petitioners have complied with the provisions of the statute. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL called the atten (ion af the House to the dates in this case. Notice of the names of the surettio was given on the 7th December, on the 12th Decem ber the recognizances were entered into before a Magistrate, in Herefordshire, e nd on the 15th December they were perfected be -fore the Speaker. rills more than eight days had been allowed for inquiry, fer the poeeeding was only inchoate before the County Magistrate, and was mot completed until the Speaker had taken due cognizance of it. Lathe fair and sensible construction of the Act, all that was required had been done. Mr. FERGUSON agreed with what had just fallen from the Hon. and Learned Gentleman, and thought that the conduct of the petitioners was open to no fair objection. Mr. BERNAL contended, that petitioners in cases ,af this kind ought to be confined strictly to the forms prescribed by different statutes : a Sitting Member was surrounded by a sort of pnicecting . stmospbere, and it was presumed, until the contrary was shewn, that fe had a right to the place he occupied. He ~fought it undeniable tbat the strict letter of the 53d Geo. 111. ;halt pot been complied witZi, and the petitioner stated not a single /eat= for granting the boon ha pow sought. The :SOLICITOIt-GENERAL argued with the .B.TTORNE,y-E.NERAL and urged that more than eight days . .24.d in fact been Awed for inquiry, because the agents of the sitting Member n3ighs laeye objected to either of the sureties at A ny time before the recognizances were completed by the Speaker. ;le priwision, allowing security' to be entered into before a Ma giatrate in the country, was contained in the Act of the 28th ilieorge In.. for the convenience of parties residing at a dis tance from Landon. It seemed to him that all had been done that was required, and that the Sitting Member had been deprived of no advantage which, under other circumstances, he would have enjoyed. Mr. J. WILLIAMS adverted to the particular term. of the two statutes', and argued from them, that eight days ought to elapse between the giving notice of the names of the sureties and entering into the recognizances before the Magistrate. It was considered on all hands that statutes of this kind ought to be strictly construed, and yet the Learned Gentleman on the other side now wished a liberal construction to be put upon them, for lie benefit of the petitioner. Mr. WYNN bore witness that the petitioner had with- the true intent and meaning of the Act of 53d (seo. 111. Lf)CKLIART opposed the motion, and *stated that the ouse was bound to adhere strictly to the provi cons of the law, thaw it might not be said that they took it upon them to &span with the law.; when it bore hard upon s"them selves ; and thus Adopted a different rule with respect to them saves from that wttiC;: they acted upon with regard to the people in general. The words • pf the Act required that the eight days' previou s no ti ce should be before ent?ring into th e recogni aances; whereat, on the other 4tlt,, they contended that it was sufficient if the regular notice were glwrp before the recognizanus were perf ee t e d, by being allowed by the Spier. But this was a mode of construction which rood not be allow,4d. It was altering the terms of the Act of Parlistnent, and if he were allowed to alter the word s as h e p l ease d, he ought hake an act of Parlia ment mean any tiling h e p l ease d. The Act wls intended to take proper care of the interest of the Sitting Afe mbers , o would be moat materially injur e d • if the coamouction, now co.uteta4 for , should be adopted by theitc, . se. Mr. WYNN still mai nta • wed that the provisions of the Act of Parliament bad been --- h • aud that even if the construction "'bualY complied wit otbei side, were ad o p ted, the House, construction , endtheed for on the Act, had a discre tionary power to enlarge the time for enterin g i n t o th e recog izances. Mr. ABERCROMBY supported the motion, being satisfied th at the p rovisions of the law had be en su b stant i a ll y vomplied with. Mr. CARTER opposed the motion, and COll - if the construction contended for on the other side should be adopted with respect to the petitioner himself, the same rule must be adhered to with respect to the sureties, which would be attended with great inconvenience aud hardship to the sitting Members. The House then (Elided on the motion that elle provisions of the law had been complied with—Ayes, 59; Noes, 21—Ma jority, 38. COLONEL BRADLEY. Mr. HOME, adverting to some letters which had been laid ow the table by the Secretary at War, to clear up the case of Colonel Bradley, observed, that some further papers were re quired, in order completely to elucidate that matter. Mr. Secretary PEEL Suggested to the Hon. Mem ber the propriety of postponing his motion for additional papers for a short time, as his Noble Friend the Secretary at War, was not then in the House. It was desirable that the motion should be made when his Noble Friend was present, that he might have an oppor tunity of giving such explanations as the case might require. Mr. HUME agreed to postpone the motion till Wednesday next.—Adjourned till Monday. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FRENCH PAPERS. (From the Etoile dated Wednesday, Feb. 8.) " LAUSANNE, FEB. 2.--The Lausanne Gazette—besides other news faVourable to the Greeks, such as the defeat of the Turks at Athens and Arachova (Fabvier is now Governor of the Acropolis), and the approach of Caraiskaki to 31issolongbi—gives the following : " Letters from Trieste of the 14th of January announce, (after letters from Zante of the Ist), that Misulis had attacked the, Turkish fleet near Zea, taken two corvettes and three brigs, and sunk or dispersed the remainder. " Letters from Zante of the 9th of January say, that Ibrahim being entrenched between Modon and Navarino, was attacked by the combined forces of Colocotroni, Nikitas, Geneus, and Botzaris, 3,000 strong. The battle was bloody, and the noise of the cannon was heard for five leagues. Ibrahim, at the head of 3,000 men, endeavoured to break through the troops of Geneus, but was re pulsed with lo.es, and, after an action of five hours, his troops were driven into Modon, leaving 1,500 killed on the field, a great num ber of wounded and prisoners, 11 pair of colours, eight cannon, and 3(10 horses. " Another letter from Zante, of the same date, says was re ported that Redschid Pacha, after having been beaten in Eubcsa, had perished in a bloody battle ; that the town of Caristo had fallen into the hands of the Greeks, and that Miaulis had again beaten ibe Egyptian tlrA between Candia and Cerigo. LIES OF THE DAY. " The Courtier Francais.—M. de Villele has had a confer ence with M. Bonnet, in which be declared to him that the law would be withdrawn if the amendments were adopted. " The same.—New representations were made some weeks ago to the Court of Madrid by France, England, and Russia. The King of Spain rejected these remonstrances haughtily. The offi cialinews of this reached theßussian legation the day before yesterday "The Quotidienne.—When people impose on themselves the duty of being ministerial, they must abandon their doctrines, their recollections, their attachments; and the same paper which formerly defended the Baron d'Eroles, ar.d his noble companions must now resolve to calumniate the Marquis de Chaves and the Portuguese Royalists." (From the Quotidienne.) "It appears certain that the Spanish squadron on the Cuba station, commanded by Admiral Laborde, on the damage it has sustained being repaired, is to take on board troops for a descent either on Mexico or Colombia. " Letters from Vienna state, that the Hereditary Archduke gave a ball on the 2iith of January, which was not attended by the Infant Don Miguel. This absence of the Prince was very much noticed." FRENCH FUNDS, FEB. 7.—Five per Cents. 101 f. 35c. ; Three per Cents. 69f. 15c. ; Bank Shares2,ooof. ; Rented de Naples, 73f. ; Spanish Rentes, 12f. ; Royal Spanish, 514. ; Haytian Loan, 693 f. Exchange on London, one month„ paper, 25f. 40c. ; money, 251. 40e. ;—three months, paper, 25f. 25e. ; money, 25f. 25c. (From the Etoile of Friday.) " Ltseo.N, JAN. 27.—The insurrection, now concentrated in the province of Tras-os-Montes, can no more threaten the tran quillity of the other provinces. The last letters received from Count Villa for were from Trancoso ; he is going to join the Marquis d'Angeja near Villa Real. He did not pass the Douro on the 22d, as was said ; he wished to assure himself that the in surgents would not throw themselves into Beira behind him. " The pacific resolutions adopted by the Cabinet of Madrid have been announced by a Spanish courier to the Count de Casa Flores, who was ordered at the same time to communicate them to the Portuguese Government. "M. de Casa Flores has obtained leave of absence. The Se cretary of Legation will remain Charge d'Affaires, and the title of the mission will be preserved. " Three of the English ships of the line that were in the Tagus have sailed to return to England. The Marshal Beresford went on hoard the Ocean. " The Chamber of Peers has just rejected the law proposed by the Chamber of Deputies, which fixed the number and the salary of the Cousellors of State. It is thought that the law .w dotation of the Crown will he also rejected by that Chamber. " It appears that both sides are disposed to suffer the mixed committees to fall into disuse. It was a bad institution, for the result of it naturally was, either to place the administration entirely in the Chambers, if they agreed, or to put them in opposition to each other in the contrary case ; but in doing away with it, no thing else has been substituted for it. ~ WAR-OFFICE. " Lieutenant-General Marquis d'Augeja writes from Villa Real on the 18th—' I hasten to inform your Excellency that Ge neral Mello, having effected the movement which I bad ordered him, entered Chaves to-day, after having repulsed the rebels, who to the number of 400, as well veterans as cavalry of the 9th Re giment and disbanded soldiers, made a considerable resistance. "' They at length abandoned the field of battle with several killed and wounded, to retreat towards Lomba and St. Vincent. General ➢lello, is pursuing them and has already taken some pri soners. As soon as I receive a more detailed account, I shall have the honour to send it to your Excellency, to be presented to the Princess Regent. " Brigadier-General John de Silveira writes from Guarda, on the 7th, that he entered that town the day before, and that he expects there the orders of the Count de Villa Flor.' ' " There has been no sitting in the Chamber of Peers for these three days. The Chamber of Deputies was engaged yesterday in revising some articles of it, standing orders, and with a project of law on a new mode of election. " The Minister of Foreir Affairs has acknowledged the re ceipt of the act by which the Chamber votes thanks to the Kin.. of England. This act will be transmitted to the Marquis de Palmella, the Minister of Portugal at the English Court, that he may have the honour of presenting it to his Britannic Majesty. " Mamma, JAN, SO.—The King has just ordered a separate list to be made out of all the officers, either absent or retired, who were in the Royalist Volunteers ; and that these officers are to be paid as regularly as pos.,ible by the local authorities. " News from the Havannall, of the 24th November, has been received. The colony enjoyed the greatest tranquillity. The Guerrero ship of the line, respecting which some apprehensions were entertained, arrived there ou the 6th. All necessary mea sures were taken to repair the disasters caused by the hurricane of September. " The accounts from Mexico say that a change in the present form of Government may be looked for, because it has too many adversaries among the partisans of a more central Government. As for the revolution in the Terra Firma, directed by Paez, though it seems to tend only to overthrow the present Govern ment, the true object of it is to give the people of colour the pre pond over the whites."—Madrid Gazette. " AADRID, FEB. 2.—Several persons have been executed at Velez Mala,r,a, who were arrested in consequence of tie revolu tionary movements which broke out some weeps ago in the neighbouring village?. " All the roads are so infested by robbers, that we do not re member any thing like it since the civil war. An Austrian courier has been stopped half a league fro m the ca p ita l. " At Alicant (Valencia), the police have made some domiciliary visits. "The Superintendant-General of the police published on the 29th of last month, ap ordinance agaiust the seditious and calum nious writings which it is attempted to circulztelin Spain.t" "". We defended legitimacy in 1822 and 1823 against the Cortes, and in 1826 and 1827 we have defended it against real leagners. Whether people borrow the mask of Royalism or of liberty, they. are equally factious if they attack principles." — Note of the Etoile. I. I; seems that this severe ordin ance h as a re f erence t o th e pamphlet published in England, and o f w hi c h t h e E to il e h as al ready spoken , in which the Liberals, taking the mask of Royalism, 4nnou nce the idea of raising the Infant Don Carlos to the throne. —Nat!! of the Etoile." , .Letters from Ghent mention tnat on the 31st of Ja-: nuary a woman precipitated herself from the fourth row of the boxes into the pit of the theatre of that town, the house not hav ing been lighted up. The lustre was lighting at the moment when the woman entered. The unfortunate person thought she was Crossing a bench, when she got over the balustrade ! There is some hope of her life being saved. SEPARATE MEETING OF CATHOLICS. (From the Dublin Morning Register.) Yesterday, a Separate Meeting of Catholics was held at the Corn Exchange Hotel, JamEs O'GostmaN Mattox, Esq. in the Chair. _ . Mr. O'CoNNELL said, my heart never was so sunk at looking forward at the fate of Ireland as at the present moment. One reason for my despondency is, that I find I have been myself de ceived. I did confide in the honesty and , sincerity of William Conyngham Plunkett. The delusion has vanished—l hid no Catholic to confide in that man.—(Great applause.)—What has occurred in this short week ?—A letter was written to Mr. Staun ton to give up the author of a certain speech, and that unless lie did so, lie would be prosecuted. The meaning of the word " unless," was, that if Mr. Staunton would do so, he would not be prosecuted. This was the meaning of the sentence. The pro secution was, of course, aimed at Mr. Sheil. Every Irishman living pours forth the warmest blessings on my brilliant friend., He believed others to be like himself, incapable of deceit or treachery. He stood forward at once with the manly avowal— "Do not (said lie) prosecute Mr. Staunton—l am the man." A treaty was entered upon—an honourable bargain was struck, from which he who would flinch, cannot be considered in any other light than that of a betrayer, and one unworthy of confidence. (Mr. Sheil here entered and was reeeived with great applause.) I must take care in my speech not to make use of a phrase that W. Conyngham Plunkett can lay hold of. I will call on the people to shun all secret societies. The man who enters into a secret society is tied hand and foot at the mercy or the informer. I will appeal to the good sense and understandings of the people of Ireland. I will warn them like the shepherds of the Alps, when the wolves are abroad—that in the political darkness of this coun try the foulest beasts of prey are abroad, gorged with public plun der, and seeking whom they may devour. I pledge.myself to have the address ready on Tuesday, to which day this meeting can ad journ. PROSECUTION OF MR. SHELL. Mr. StifilL said, in siting to address you upon a subject by which the national sympathy has been in a great degree awakened, (for the great body of the Irish people are determined not to desert me)—(loud cheering)-1 do not intend to express myself with a vindictive virulence in regard to Mr. Plunkett. Yet I cannot avoid expressing a wish that his conduct had been a little more consistent with cur ordinary notions of justice, of truth, and of honour; for while ,I acquit him, as far as I ant myself concerned, I pronounce his proceedings against the proprietor of the Register, as not only wantonly oppressive, but as amounting to a breach of contract, which should have been the more binding upon an ho nourable mind, from its being less direct than implied. I accuse Mr., Plunkett before the tribunal of public opinion (and in doing so I appeal both to Catholics and Protestants) of having acted a part utterly at variance with all customary conceptions of official propriety. The facts stand thus :—On the 2d of February the Crown wrote to Mr. Staunton; that unless he gave up the author of the Wolfe Tone speech, he should be prosecuted. Having fur nished a report of the speech myself, I did not for an instant hesi tate in avowing it.--(Loud cheers.)—Now mark the duplicity, the disingenuousness, an !, let me add, the absolute mean ness, with which the prosecutors have acted. Upon as certaining the publisher of a speech printed on the 22d of January, they call for the publisher of another speech, purporting to he delivered by n 'self several days after, and printed in the Register on the Slat of January. Re member that it wag on the 2d of February that they required the publisher of the first speech to he delivered to them. They had then the speech of the 31st of January, purporting to be spoken by the same person before them. They do not call for the pub lisher of both at once ; but after they obtain an avowal of the first, they demand evidence of the publisher of the second. I put it to every honourable Protestant, whether this be fair deal ing.—(Cheers.)—Why not ask for the publisher of both speeches at the same time ? Why, after entangling the speaker by the admission of one speech, and obtaining, such advantage-ground, call for an admission of the second I—(Cheers.) —To get evidence drop by drop, to win out of a newspaper-office these piece -meal acknowledgments—to gather up these drippings of admission, (the image is a vile one, but it befits the object of its application) was to say the least, an exceedingly shabby proceeding.—(Cheers.)— Taking then, the whole of Mr. Plunkett's conduct in this busi ness together—looking at the spirit by which he has been ani mated—considering the traps and pit-falls which he has laid, when we find him making a specific demand, and then advancing upon concession, demanding an ell where he first only required an inch, and prosecuting a popular journal for an alleged libel, which first appeared in a Government paper, we must—what should we say of him ? Nothing, but oh, fie ! lie is, I understand, about to proceed to England before this double prosecution shall take place. What ! run from the Grand Jury, and try to shift upon his colleague in office, but not in 'sentiment, the Solicitor-Gene ral, the burthen of responsibility. I trust he will not shew him self such a craven, and shrink from the performance of his public duty. Let us not be told that he must proceed to England, in order to vote for Ministers ion the Corn Laws. lie throws all Ireland into tumnit by his preposterous prosecu tions. Let him not, while the flame which he has excited is raging, and the whole country is involved in it, desert his post, and leave to others the task of extinguishing the fire. When the chief director of the great insurance-office of the State sets fire to the edifice, he should, at all events, remain to work the engine by which it is to be put out. I confess that, I although such poor abilities as I possess, must, in comparison with the gigantic talents of Mr. Plunkett, sink into dwarfish diminu tion, yet I do not fear to confront him upon the subject matter of this prosecution.—(Cheers.)—l cannot but enjoy an advantage over him in the justice and the nobleness of the cause which I shall have to maintain, and I know that the consciousness of a moral superiority will do more than place us on a level. I can turn his own weapons against himself; I can cut down this Go- Halm with his own sword—(cheers)—l can ask him to his face with what front Le dares to accuse me of sedition, when his own , speeches are fraught with faction, and teens with the same in- I flammatory matter? I can remind him of the time when he went far beyond the limits which I have prescribed to myself, and uttering a sentiment in which I do not participate. he spoke of "Ringing British connexion to time winds." I want his presence for these purposes, for I know that he must quail, in that appeal to himself. When 11Iaster Ellis abandoned his office, and went to Parliament in search of political renown, Mr. Plunkett determined to abridge him of his Parliamentary honours, and to withhold from him "the applause of listening Senates," which the worthy Master is so eminently qualified to command.—(Cheers.)—Mr. Plunkett in sisted that it was fitter for him to ascertain and report the Popish Mortgagees and Judgment Creditors, upon the Cromw e lli an Estates, which were brought to the hammer snider my L or d Mau ners's decrees. Surely, when the whole n a ti ona l m i n d h as b een raised into an unusual commotion by Mr. Plunkett's prosecution, it is unbecoming of him to run from the sceue of contention, which he has himself produced, and to throw the whole onus of his proceedings upon the " Atlantean shoulders" of Mr. Joy. I would therefore catch the official robe of Mr. Plunkett, like the bramble that caught the gown of Demosthenes in the field of Chro nea, and prevent him from running away—(Loud cheers.)—Bnt it is not to his inflammatory orations Orme that I can ap peal. A pamphlet, written by Mr. Spring Rice, has just come out, which contains not only as strong matter as my speech, but exactly the same matter,, conveyed in a still more ardent expression than my own.—(Loud cheers.) — Gracious God ! (exclaimed Mr. Shell, after reading the passage) gracjous God ! is the writer of this to escape ; nay more, is he to ke lauded in the language of Parliamentary cant, as. " his elo quent and honourable friend," by the Attorney-General; and am I ?—Oh, shame on Mr. Plunkett to act such a part as this !-- (load cheers,) —to let the wealthy, time useful, the convenient, the high, the Parliamentary, go by not only with impunity but with honour, and to fasten upon me, who am guilty of no other offence than speaking with ardour what I feel with intensity, in order that he may throw sue with a feeble frame into Ipri;oz, and depriving me of my livelihood, by locking me up from my profession, leave me " to live upon the vapour of a dungeon." But " on that va pour" I had rather live, than act such a part as Mr. Plunkett is performing. What an example does he afford of the union of great talents and fagrant indiscretion !—What a noble vessel, how finely rigged, how lofty its PAIN, and how ample are its sa il s , an d how ma j es ti ca lly i t ma k es its way ; but unfortunat e ly it i s w ithout rudder, and drives upon the breakers with all it s vest and expanded can , vacs. Never did a man commit a like series of imprudences. He commits the Orangemen for High Treason, and he is igno miniously beaten. " Death in a Bottle" would make a good title for a new farce. He next tries his hand at en ex-officio, and never reward* the man who supplied him with the facts to which he owed his safety. What proof of his gratitude did he ever give to Arr. Foley ? He assails the Evening Mail for comparing Lord Wellesley to one el" his predecessors, and is foiled again. He prosecutes Mr. O'Connell for a phrase, and is flung out of Court. He grapples with Sir Harcous - t Lees, who gives him a tremendous fall in the mud ; and now, in order to prove his com plete confideuce for his office, and that be may go before Parlia ment with a conviction to boast of, he aims a deadly blow at my exist ence, and seeks to take my life, by taking " the means whereby I live." And, after all, am I worth the crushing ! Let them cast me into the lowest and dampest vault of Newgate, with the stone for my bed, and a spider for my companion, what will it avail them ! They have a nobler quarry, and they feel it.—(Load cheers.)—They have already made their election between the two victims offered to them, by Mr. Plunkett, in his own person and myself.—(Cheers.)—Sir Harcourt Lees is already preparing a cougratulory proclamation to his army in the North ; M r . Rom ney Robinson is engaged in the composition of a triumphal ode ; David M'Cleary, the Legislative Tailor, has taken Mr. Saurin's measure for a new gown ; and the Rev. Tighe Gregory has un dertaken to preach a funeral oration on Mr. Plunkett, from his father's pulpit, in the Socinian Chapel, in Strand-street.—(Loud cheers.)—For Mr. Plunkett had doubts on the Trinity, until some time in the year 1805, when all his father's difficulties on the Athanasian Creed were dispersed by the Grace of God and of the King, and yielding td what has always had an irresistible influence upon his acute and logical mind, he became an ardent, and official member of the Established Church.—(Mr. Shell sat down amidst loud and long continued cheers.) UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD, FEB. 10.-Thursday last the following Degreei were conferred : BACHELOR AND DOCTOR IN DIVINITY, BY ACCUMULATION. Rev. John Cookesley, Exeter college. BACHELORS IN DIVINITY. Rev. Benjamin Saunders Claxson, Worcester. Rev. Edwin Prodgers, Trinity. MASTERS OF ARTS. George Pavies Kent, Scholar of Corpu a. _ Rev. Ernest Hawkins, Balliol. Rev. Charles Oakes, St. John's. Rev. Thomas Price, Exeter. BACHELORS OF ARTS. T. J. Heming, C. C., Grand Compounder. Edward Cave, Brasenose. James Macbell, Brasenose. George Cary Elves, Trinity. Patrick Murray Smythe, Christ Church. John Gower, Magdalen. Samuel Beckwith, St. John's. Charles Nicoll, Exeter. ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS. The Rev. Dr. Nares, of Merton College, Regius Professor of Modern History in this University, and Rector of Biddenden, Kent, by dispensation to hold the Rectory of Newchurch, in the same county. The very Rev. the Dean and Chapter of Christ Church have been pleased to present the Rev. James Lupton, Chaplain, to the Vicarage of Black Bourton, in this county and diocese. The Rev. Dr. French, Master of Jesus college, Cambridge, to the Rectory of Moremuncton, near York : patron, the Crown. The King has been pleased to present the Rev. Charles Musgrave, M.A. to the Vicarage of Halifax, in the county and diocese of York, void by the death of the Rev. Sam. Knight. The Rev. John Vernon, B.A. has been instituted to the Rectory of Shrawley, in Worcestershire, void by the resignation of the Rev. John Foley, the last incumbent, on the presentation of the Executors of the late Thomas Shrawley Vernon, Esq. A dispensation has passed the Great Seal, enabling the Hon. and Rev. Thomas Henry Coventry, M.A. to hold with the Rec tory of Porton. with Croome d'Abitot annexed, the Rectory of Croome Montis, otherwise Hill Croome, all in the County and Diocese of Worcester, to which latter preferment Mr. C. has lately been presented by the Lord Chancellor. The French fishermen who visit this port carry on a very profitable traffic, by purchasing quantities of skate (a fish commonly known by the name of ray), and selling them to great advantage in France. They are purchased here. for Is. Bd. per dozen, and are sold in France, at the rate of from 12s. to IBs. per dozen. —Plymouth Journal. CAPuA.—We loft Naples for Rome, in company with two Englishmen, and a Neapolitan priest. Capua was the first stage. If Hannibal and his soldiers had fared as we did at that place, perhaps Rome might have yielded to Carthage, and the face of the world been entirely changed. Most of the inns in the South of Italy are of the worst description. In winter they are cold and dreary, and in summer they abound with mosqui toes, bugs, fleas, and every annoyance. The remains of ancient Capua, which are still considerable, are about two miles from the modern town, anciently called Cas:linum, and celebrated for the brave resistance which, with only 500 Prmnestian soldiers, it made to the repeated attacks of Hannibal. The Volturnus now, as formerly, flows by the town, and forms at one place an angle, which the imagination can hardly withhold supposing to be that at which the half-famished inhabitants caught the barrels of flour and the nuts which the Roman General had thrown into the river above the town. " }IYDATIDS.—Now there are Hydatids found in the liver ; and wherever you see these animalculm, they form in cysts. You find them, however, in natural cavities, as well as in cysts ; and the cysts are so large sometimes, as to occupy the whole lobe of one side of the liver. I say, whenever you meet with them, they are either found in natural cavities which have secreting surfaces; in the abdomen, in the bursa of joints, in the bursae of muscles, and so on ; they grow to a considerable size, and burst.—" Now, with respect to these things, some believe they are nothing more than coagulable lymph, and some believe they are a peculiar species of animalcules. The latter opinion have I. You find 'them in the brain. A sheep has one in its brain, and it goes off in a fit of apoplexy. Now, I have had.the opportunity of opening the brain of a sheep that died in this man ner; upon taking off the top of the skull, opening the brain, and making an incision into the cyst, out has leaped one of those glo bola hydatids. If you catch one of them in this way, in warm water, really you would think that there is undoubtedly vitality in it. They grow to immense sizes, and there are specks upon them, which seem to be young hvdatids. Nov there was a person in this hospital who had them in his belly; it was supposed that something else was wrong with him, and he was ordered to be tapped ; and he was tapped, and that let out something like a sort of soapy stuff ; he was punctured afterwards, frent time to time, and then there seemed something to come out like onions. How ever, as this mode of going on was very painful to him, th e wound was closed, and upon examining the contents of the abdo men where the pain from the disease had been most acute, there were found to be an immense number of hydatids in the fluid that was contained there, of all sizes. Now if they can live and gro w —if they can multiply, and detach young ones—if those can live and propagate, I think they have every right to be accounted as as a species of au imalculee.—.Abcrnetlay's Lectures. BABYLoN.—WiId beasts appeared so numerous, that we gave up all examination of the ruins. From the summit we had a distinct view of the vast heaps which constitute all that now remains of ancient Babylon ; a snore complete picture of de solation could not well be irwined. The eye wandered over a barren desert, in which the snips were nearly the only indication that it had ever been inhabited. It was impossible to behold this wale and not to be reminded how exactly the predictions of Isaiah and Jeremiah have been fulfilled, even in the appearance Baby lon was doomed to present ; that she should " neyev be inha bited ;" that " the Arabian should not pitch his tent there ;" that she should " become heaps ;" that her cities should be " a deso lation, a dry land, anil a wilderness," * • • Theprophecy of Isaiah, that Babylon should be inhabited by wild beasts, was fulfilled after the extinction of the Selocithe ; for their suc cessors, the Parthians, turned the city into a park, and stocked it with wild beasts for the purpose of hunting. Amongst these the wild boar is enumerated. It has been supposed that many curious trees are to be fou n d on th e s it e o f t h e Hanging Gardens. This is not the case ; th ere i s b ut one an d t h a t is in the most elevated spot ; it is a kind of cedar. One-half of the trunk is standing, and is about five feet in circumference. Though the body is decayed, the branches c,re still green and healthy, and droop like those o f the willow. With the exception of one at BussorQh, there is no tree like it throughout Irak Arabia. Tir e , Arabs call . it Athele. Our guides that this tree was left in the Hanging Gardens for the purpose of enabling Ali to tie his horse to it after the battle of Hilleh, Not far from this tree we saw indications of a statue, which had bee 4 imperfectly seen by Beauchamp and Rich. - We set our men to work, and in two hours foundcoossii piece of sculp ture, in black marble, representing a lion standing over a man. When Rich was tiqc the igure was entire; but when we saw it the head w 2,4 pile. The length of the pedestal, the height of the shoulders, and the length of the statue, measured, in each of their respective parts, nine feet. I would venture to suggeSt; that this statue might have reference to Dc.pit4 in the lion's den, and that it ft - Innerly stood eve; one of the gates, either to the palace, or of the liang:og Gardens. * It is natural to suppose that so extraordinary a miracle could have been celebrated by the Babylonians, parti cu la r ly as D a niel was afterwards G overn o r of their city. The proph e t was also g o vernor of Susa (the Shushan of Scriptur e ), wh e re he frequently went in the dischar g e of his official duti e s, and at which place he died. A short time a g o, Susa was-visited by some French officers in the service of - the Prince of Kermanshah ; among st other anti q uities, the y found a block of white marble , cove red with Bab y lonian characters, hav ing sculptured on it the figures of two men and two lions. This may also allude to 'the same event.—Keppel's Journey from India. PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS. ' HOUSE OF COMMONS. NOTICES OF MOTIONS AND ORDERS OF THE DAY WHICH NOW STAND ON THE ORDER HOOK FOR TILE ENSUING ; WEEK. .Monday, Feb. 12. ORDERS OF THE DAY. 1. Postage Duties Acts (Great Britain and Ireland)—Committee there upon. 2. Supply—Committee. 3. Ways and Means—Committee. NOTICIES OF MOTIONS. 1. Mr. Secretary Peel—To move an Address of Condolence to Hit Ma jesty upon the death of His Royal Highness the Duke of York. 2. Sir George Clerk—Navy Estinictes (in Committee of Supply). 3. Mr. Hume—Copy of the Report of the Committee of Inquiry.on the Mutiny of the Native Troops at Barrackpoor in November 1824, and of Orders issued since that time. Tuesday, Feb. 13. NOTICES OF MOTIONS. 1. Mr. Mabel*ly—Returns of articles imported and exported; also, an Account of Bank Notes in circulation. 2. Mr. Scarlett—To discharge Order for considering the Wootton Bas sett Election Petition. 3. Lord Viscount Althorp—Committee on Petitions alleging notorious Corruption at Elections for Members of Parliament. ORDERS OF THE.DAY. 1. Denbigh Borough Election (Double Return) Petitions—Ballot for Committee at three. 2. Leominster Election (Double Return) Petitions —Ballot for Commit tee at half after three. 3. Mallow Election Adjourned Debate on M ot i on for en.. 4. Waterford County Election larging time for enterin 5. Cavan County Electi on g into lite cognizance!. 6. Limerick County Elect io n 7. Stirling., &e. Burghs Election 8. Dover Election Consideration of Petitions for further 9. Pontefract Election time to enter into Recogni lances. la Ilchester Election Wednesday, Feb. 14. NOTICE OF MOTION. Mr. Hume—Motion for Copies of Orders and Commission' respecting Major Arthur's Command at Honduras, and Lieutenant-Colonel Bradley's dismissal from the Army. • Thursday, Feb. 15. NOTICES OF MOTIONS. 1. Colonel Davies to move a Resolution; That the Estimates, previously to their being printed, be referred to a Select Committee. 2. Mr. Spence—Motions concerning the Excheqm.r, Rolls, and Vice- Chancellor's Court, &c. 3. Mr. Wilmot Horton—Appoii.tment of Committee on Emigration. 4. Mr.' Fyne. Clinton—To disch:rge the Order for consideration of the Hec..in Election Petition. 5. Sir John Newport—Select Committee on the Petition from the City of Waterford [presented 9th February], for the improvement' f the eommunication to the South and South-west of Ireland by Milford Haven. ORDERS OF THE DAY. 1. Westmeath Election Petition —Ballot for Committee at three. 2. Ilchester Election Petition—Ballot for Committee at half after three. a Private Bills—Adjourned Debate on Motion (4th December] re specting payment of Costs on Appeals. Friday, Fob. I& NOTICE OF MOTION, • Sir Henry Hardinge--Ordnance Estimates (in Committee. of Su] NOTICES GIVEN YESTERDAY. Monday, Feb. 19. _ Mr. Secretary Canning—Consideration of the Laws relating to the I. portation of Foreign Corn. Tuesday, Feb. 20. Mr. Brownlow—Copies of Correspondence which passed between 'the Irish Government and the Magistrates of Lisburn, and Its vicinity, relating to Orange Parades on the 12th July, NU :—Also, Copies of the Opinions of the Law °lacers of the Crown in Ireland which were laid before the Magistrates respecting Processions. Thursday, Feb. 2.1. Sir Francis Burdett—Roman Catholic Claims. Thursday, March 1. Lord Viscount Althorp—Committee to consider the mode of taking Polls at County Elections. Thursday, March 8. Sir Henry Parnell —Debt due by the Government to the Bank—the ba lance of the public money in the hands of the Bank—and the sum paid in 1826 to the Bank for the management of the National Debt. Tuesday, M -- March 13. Mr. Wilmot Horton—Bill to amend the Slave Trade Consolidation Act. NGE YESTERDAY. Leghorn 47}i Genoa 43% Venice 46 Ma4ta , Naples 3B Palerzno per oz. 114 Lisbon 51% Rio Jan Oporto eiro 4 5 0 %1 Bahia 42 Buenos Ayres . Dublin, 21 days' sight .1%, Cork l%. - --- -- MULLION, PER OZ. s. d. Portugal Gold, in coin OO 0 Foreign Gold, in bars 3 17 6 New Doubloons ....... New Dollars 0 4 gi Silver, in bars, standard 0 4 Ili PRICE OF IRISH Bank Stock: 235% Consols, 3 per cent-, SO% Gov. Stock, S per cent. ... 86% Ditto, New 4 per Cent. Gov. Deb. 34 per cent B9 Royal Canal Stock - Grand Canal Stock - City Deb. 4 per cent. 89% Ballast Office Deb. 4 per cent. -- STOCKS, •FEB. 7. St. Patrick Incur. (per share)... Royal Irish Ditto .............. ... National Ditto .................... Patriotic Ditto 4x Hibernian Bank ............ .... P rov incial Ditto ........... _ , Royal Irish Mine Imperial ... Mine ... . ........... Mining Co. of Ireland .................. Commercial ••••••••• LONDON 1. Evening 1 BRID .. !! si H on l , G in i g l WA 48 TE . R ATinutes ftll miflutee after sr , Nogit ' 1 11 11.6y n (Jd)t i mp i LONDON, - SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 10, 182 t We are happy to state that the report of the health of Mr. CANNING is more favourable to-day. We received last night the Paris Papers of Wed nesday, and at an early hour this morning those of Thursday, with the Etoile dated yesterday,,extracts of which will be found in a preceding column. The news from Greece is of a gratifying nature ; the tide of affairs appears to have turned in favour of the Greek cause, and success to have attended the operations of their Commanders by sea and land. MIAULIS is stated to have taken, sunk, and dis persed the Turkish fleet near Zea, while IBRAHINI has been defeated by the combined forces under Co- LO'COTRONI, NIKITAS, G ENEUS, and BOTZARIs, with the loss of 1500 killed, a great number wounded and prisoners, 14 pair of colours, 8 cannon, and 300 horses. It is further reported, that REDSCHID PACHA had perished in another bloody battle. . The Moniteur of Friday, with its supplement, is filled with the project of Law on the Press and the proposed amendments, which are to be discussed on Tuesday. F orty -four Members have inscribed thei r to speak against the law, and thirty - one for it. . The Etoile contains intellig e n ce f rom Lisbon of the 2 of yesterday, uit.and d from Madrid of th e 2d instant. The pacific resolutions ad opted by the Court t a of Spain had been announced by a Spanish Courier to the Count de CASA FLORES, who was ordered at the same time to communicate them to the Portuguese Government. No mention is, however, made that he did so, and it is a little curious that the next paragraph states that the COUNT had obtained leave of absence ; but it adds, that the Secretary of Legation will remain Charge d'Affaires. Lord BERESPORD had embarked for England in the Ocean. The intelligence from the Army is all of a favourable description, and the insur rection, now concentrated in Tras-os-Montes, will, it is said, not threaten the tranquillity of the other pro vinces. The Madrid article contains nothing of political importance. Some executions had taken place at Velez Malaga, in consequence of revolutionary COURSE OF EXCH Amsterdam C.F. 12 5 Ditto, at sight Rotterdam 2U. 12 8 Antwerp l2 6 Hamburgh 2% U. 37 3 Altona IN U. 37 4. Paris, 3 days' sight Ditto 2 U. 25 95 Bordeaux 25 95 Berlin Frankfort on Maine, Ex.M. 154 Petersburgh, rble 3 Us. 9 0 Vienna, effective fi '2 M. 10 15 Trieste...... do. Madrid 333i Cadii Bilboa Barcelona 14 Seville 33% Gibraltar 45