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PARLIAMENT, HOUSE OF LORDS, FRIDAY, MARCH 15. ROYAL ASSENT. At half-past three o'clock the s Loau CHAN-. zl.Lolt, the Earl of SiLlyrr.setntY, and Vis cou:lt INIELvIr.r.r., appeared as his Majesty's Corn 7::sslboners, and gave the Royal Assent to the Na y Five per Cents. Bill, and the Judges of As t.izo Commission Bill. NEW BILLS. 7,1. B ItOGDEN and otTiers brought up from the Commons h Araw Mutiny Bill, the Marine Mutiny Bill,the Indemnity ozld the Aliens and Denizens Regulation Ilill.—Read ii:st time. Nr. Jou s SON, from the London Dock Company, presented za Account of the Receipts and Disbursements of that Com i..any for the last year, and a Report of the completion of the YV cnks.-,Laid on the table. of SHAFTESBURY, pursuant to order, presented - t:le Report of the (ommiesioners fbr inquiring into the State of Charitable Institutions connected with the Education of the Q't.v.r.—Laici on the table. AGRICULTURE. Lord ERSKINE presented several Petitions from the Owners and Occupiers of Land in certain parishes of the county of Oxford, praying for Agricultural Relief. Ile trusted that the s - 4,ject would be seriously investigated, when.the measures now in ptop:ress through the Lower House should reach their Lord -ships. He wished to see whether it was proposed to have a pro tec:ang duty against the importation of Foreign Corn, and what th'at, protecting duty was to be. The Petitions were then read und laid on the table. ILC HESTER JAIL. The Earl of DARNLEY wished to move for some papers relative to a subject which had occupied the House of Corn -mons, and which their Lordships were bound to investigate.— He meant the abuses proved to have existed in Ilchester jail. - Whatever might be the other merits of Mr. Hunt, still the octintry was indebted to him for having brought those abuses irward. It was impossible that his Majesty's Government sheuld be a party to the persecution of that individual, for his tory proved that the more a person was persecuted by men in ower, the more his influence with the people increased. The Noble Earl then moved for a copy of the Report of the Corn missions on Ilchester Jail:—Ordered. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE should take this oppor tunity of asking a question of the Noble Earl opposite, which might be more properly put to the Secretary for the Home De partment, if he now had a seat in that House, whether a Bill to regulating the state of the prison was still in the contempla tion of his Majesty's Ministers. He trusted that so important a subject had not escaped their attention. The Earl of LIVERPOOL was understood to answer, that the subject occupied the most serious attention of Ministers, though he could not, as yet, speak to the specific nature of the Bbi. Lord HOLLAND observed, that his Majesty's Ministers al ways professed to give their most serious attention to every sub ject mentioned in Parliament ; but this mighty attention never produced any results. The Duke of DEVONSHIRE presented Petitions, praying for agricultural relief, from the owners and occupiers of land of the Hundred of Scarsdale, and several other Hundreds in the county of Derby.—Read, and laid on the table. TYTIIES IN IRELAND. The Duke of DEVONSHIRE said he rose to pre sent a Petition from the Mayor, Aldermen, She riff's, and Common Council of the City of Water ford, praying the House to take into considera ..Con the present unhappy state of Ireland, and more particularly the present system of collect ing the tithes. The Petitioners stated, that they were the lay-impropriators of the tithes of thir -teen parishes, and that they were willing to make -great sacrifices with a view to any alteration in thnsystem of collecting the tithes, which should prevent that irritation amongst the people which unhappily led to so much disorder and disturb ance amongst the people. Circumstances pre vented him from often taking part in their Lord- ships' debates, and he felt himself honoured by the present Petition being entrusted to him, en abling hinias it did to call the attention of the pious; to this most important subject, and to t.e_ - lily, that though necessarily an absentee, he still .took a deep interest in the welfare and prosperi ty of Ireland. He assured their Lordships, that it was of the greatest importance to the interests of Ireland, and consequently of the whole Em pire, to substitute some arrangement for the pre- sent system of collecting Tithes, which might tend to remove.those causes of irritation that were continually operating; and he thought that some -arrangement might be made, which, while it ope rated to remove the causes of discontent, might br, made available to maintain the rights of the Clergy, and be beneficial to their real interests. That the system of collecting Tithes as at pre sent carried into effect, produced the most inju rious consequences, he was fully convinced, nor c=ould it be doubted by any one who was ac- quainted with the real situation of Ireland. The Petitioners, as he had already stated, were the Jmpropriators of the Tithes of 13 parishes, and fey were most anxious that some arrangement should be adopted, for which purpose they were willing to make great sacrifices, in order that a , zystern of conciliation might be substituted for that which only tended to produce irritation.— ..11e (the Duke of Devonshire) was also the Irn propriator of the Tithes of more than 20 parishes, anti he was most willing to make a large sacrifice, in order that some better and more conciliatory system might be resorted to, instead of the pre sent mode of collecting Tithes, which tended to -produce so much discontent and disorder. It was impossible, indeed, under the present system, to prevent acts of injustice and oppression from • being committed ; he (the Duke of Devonshire) was necessarily an absentee from Ireland, but aware-of the evils that might arise from that cir tanastance, he had endeavoured to counteract them by the arrangements which he had made with regard to his property ; but with all his care and caution, and adopting every possible measure that could be suggested, by a sincere desire to prevent any evils, it was still impossible to prevent acts of injustice from being committed under the system to which he had alluded. — Tinder these circumstances, therefore; he im plored their Lordships to take into their con sideration the present state of Ireland ; he in treated them to do so, with a view to the adop tion of some measures that might tend to remove those causes of discon(ent that at -present so un happily prevailed, and that Ireland, by these means, might, instead of a source of weakness, -be converted into a - source ofitrength to the Empire. He.trusted their Lordships would not be alarmed if he mentioned the term commutation; but he was fully convinced that; by, a commutation of Tithes in Ireland, upon a principle that should preserve the interests of the Clergy, the great cause of the discontents in that country would be removed, and that many of the Impropriators of Tithes would concur in that object fo'r the purpose of establishing a system which would be so much more satisfactory to all persons interested in the welfare of Ireland, than that which was at pre ,.:ent acted upon. In ,saying this, he did not mean in the slightest degree to allude to the sys tem of Tithes in England ; all their Lordships well knew that the system in England was totally different, in its operation to that acted upon in Ireland. A commutation of tithes, therefore, as applied to Ireland, had not necessarily any connection with any similar measure as being ap plicable to England. With reference to Ireland, he was satisfied it would produce the most. bene ficial effects ; it would remove from amongst the population of that country a continual source of ' irritation, and would tend materially to bring • about that conciliation which was so much to be desired. Certain he was that such a measure would prove kighly gratifying to all the loyal and respectable part of the population of Ire land. Nor would the present time, he trusted. be considered as unfit . for the consideration of such a question ; for nothing could in a greater degree tend to bring back to reason and to loyalty the deluded and misled part of the po pulation than the knowledge that the Legisla ture were inquiring into the causes of those dis contents which unhappily prevailed. Nothing could more effectually tend to put down those discontents than the abolition of that system of collecting tithes, which he believed to be origi nally the main cause of them, and he was satis fied that their Lordships, in extending a pro tecting hand to the population of Ireland, and in adopting measures to remove the causes of their discontent, would find them a loyal and a grate ful people. He rejoiced in the appointment of the Marquess Wellesley to the Government of Ireland ;. a Nobleman whose talents and zeal, applied to the consideration of the state of Ire land, would no doubt earnestly second and sup port every measure that could tend to the benefit and advantage of that country.' He intreated their Lordships, for. these reasons, to take into consideration without delay the unhappy state of Ireland, with a view to the adoption of those measures which might tend so materially to re move the discontents that unfortunately pre vailed in that country. His Grace concluded by presenting the Petition, which was read at the table. The Earl of LtvEneooe, before saying a few words upon the subject of the Petition, could not but express his regret that any circumstances should prevent the Noble Duke from frequet►tly taking a part in the debates of their Lordships, as he felt it due to say, that he never heard in that House a mere manly, candid, and liberal speech than that made by the Noble Duke upon presenting this Petition. Witl► regard to the matter of the Petition, coming as it did from a respectable body, deeply interested in the pro perty to which it referred, it was undoubtedly deserving of the most serious consideration, it was unquestionably a subject of the greatest im portance. That the present system of collecting the Tithes in Ireland was productive of much irritation, there was no doubt ; but he could not agree in one point with the Noble Duke, that it was the sole cause of the discontents that un happily prevailed in that country, as, from the information of which he was in possession, he had reason to believe, if he was not much misin formed, that there were other causes materially contributing to those discontents. He was, how ever, fully satisfied that much irritation was pro duced by the operation of the present system of collecting tithes, but at the same time it was ne cessary to remove two or three prejudices which were prevalent with reference to this subject. — It was too common an opinion to ascribe to the Clergy all the evils that arose from this system; but the fact was, that more than one-third of the tithes in Ireland belonged to lay-itnpropriators, and it would he found, that with respect to the Clergy in general, the collection of the tithes was managed with justice and liberality. The question, however, as to a commutation of tithes in Ireland, had been under the consideration (though the Noble Baron might again fix upon that word) of several Governments for years past ; but no system had yet been found ade quate to the required purpose, and even the Noble Duke, who held the office of Lord Lieu tenant of Ireland in 1806 and 1807, although anxious to adopt some measure that should re move the evils of the system, had yet found himself unable to make up his mind as to any sys tem that could be beneficially adopted. He ( Lord Liverpool), however, without pledging himself to any thing specific, was perfectly ready to state that he was disposed to enter into the considera tion of the question, with a view to the adoption of a system to do away the evils arising from the present mode of collecting the tithes in Ireland ; and he agreed with the Noble Duke (of Devon shire), that the present unhappy discontents in that country ought not to be held as any bar to that consideration, or to the adoption of such measures as should be found practicable and ex-i pedient. He also agreed with the Noble Duke that the a►gument as to a commutation of tithes in Ireland did not apply to the collection of tithes in England, where it was well known a different system prevailed. The question might therefore be taken as to circumstances applicable alone - ii) Ireland, which circumstances did not apply to England, and which, therefore, did not involve any consideration of tithes in England. —He was aware that in the consideration of any system, as applied to Ireland, they could not get rid of the evil of absenteeship (if he might use that term), which must still unavoidably be an evil to a certain extent. It was true, however, that that evil might be compensated for to a con siderable extent by the conduct of landlords ; and he felt bound to say, from all the informa tion he possessed, what the Noble Duke (of De vonshire) could not, through delicacy, say of himself, that the Noble Duke was one of the most liberal and humane landlords in Ireland, and that by his liberal conduct in the manage ment. of his property he had materially contri buted to compensate for the evil arising from being unavoidably an absentee. He felt all the' importance, with reference to this question, of the persons most interested in this tenure of pro perty calling for some alteration in the system of collecting the tithes, and he certainly felt that it was a subject deserving the most serious consi deration ; nor did he conceive that by a commu tation of tithes the interests of the clergy would be injured. On the contrary, he thought it would be found that by means of such a system the clergy would be ultimately gainers. The Marquis of LANsnowN said, that he had also a Petition to present to the ilonse on this subject, but such was the importance of it, that he felt he should neither do justice to his own interest, or the interest of the public, if he re mained silent. Connected with this Petition was every thing calculated to command the serious attention of their Lordships : the manner in which the subject had been introduced by the Noble Duke ; the nature of the Petition, and further that Petition which he should have to present ; Petitions not from persons desirous of interfering with the property of others, but calling upon their Lordship, upon the most enlarged princi ples, to interfere with their own. It would here after redound to the honour of the Corporation of Waterford that they had been the first to re nounce, as far as they were competent, any inte rest which they might have in the preservation of an odious system, and to remove from their country a principle of distraction and disunion that had afflicted it for years. The Noble Duke, and the individual who now addressed them, also came before their Lordships and solicited inves tigation. From all these circumstances, their Lordships had ample reason to enter upon the consideration of the subject. No man who looked at Ireland but must regret that a system now abolished in a great part of the Empire should continue in full force in that particular part of Europe where its existence was the greatest anomaly, and connected with the most violent irritation that any system could create. If it were intended as a bar to the established church, and as a means of alienating the minds of the lower classes, sowing the seeds of dis cord, and keeping them in life and vigour when they were sowed ; it was that system by which the clergy and lay-hnpropriators of that religion professed by the minority of the people were enabled to grind the majority who professed a different one. He was desirous of not pressing any thing with a feeling of hostility to the Protestant Church of Ireland ; if such feeling were entertained, it would be most undeserved. lie was bound to state that wh.,tever evils attached to the condition of tithe property, the Protestant Church of Ireland has not to answer. Though it was found that many persons were led into abuse by circumstances, yet, at the same time it must be acknowledged that, generally speaking, the conduct of the Protestant Church of Ireland was such as to do honour to any church in Chris tendom. In many parts of Ireland, where no spiritual duty could be performed, many indivi duals he knew felt that they had still a ministry to perform, a ministry of kindness and benevo lence ; and if they could not carry their religion into the cottage of the poor man, they still could bear there compassion and protection.— Such conduct it was that served to neutralize the evils of the system ; but notwithstanding the virtues of the majority, individuals could be found whose power to vex and harass, in consequence of the texture of this property, exceeded any thing existing in other parts of Europe. The Noble Earl (Liverpool) thouglit this system had not the main share in pro ducing the present disorders of Ireland ; with out meaning to impute to it the whole of the evil, he could assure the Noble Earl that in many instances confusion and outrage had arisen out of the tithe system alone, in places undis turbed before. In confirmation of this, his Lord ship referred to the resolutions of two Magis trates of iiilmainham, which stated that the dis turbances there had their origin mainly in an increased valuation of tithes by the Curate, who happened ako to farm the tithes. An addition of 75 per cent. had been made to what the Rec tor offered. to lease them at in 1803. It was hardly necessary to shew that a system which gave great powers to tithe-farmers and tithe r proctors (often the lowest and most ferocious of mankind), could not exist without abuse, and must necessarily produce these bitter conse quences under which the country now groaned. In mentioning the abolition of this system in other parts of Europe, their Lordships would not suppose the course there pursued was intended to be recommended as an example to follow. In the governments which 'had been called revolu tionary, as well as those contra-distinguished by the name of legitimate, the abolition of the tithe system had been attended with a character of spoliation which he should be sorry to see attached to any proceeding of the British nation in which the Government was concerned. The only prin ciple that could with safety be looked to, was do ing ample justice to all parties; and if no other good were extracted from an alteration than the saving of the great expence in the ruinous mode of collection, and the consequent irritation, that would be a most important object. He would remind their Lordships, that it was not with the conscientious rector or lay-impropriator, that from motives of benevolence took two-thirds or one half of what they were entitled to, but they were to deal with the absent clergymans, who was indif ferent to the duties of his station and the dis tresses of his flock. If it were attended with no other consequences, it would be worth their Lordships' while to interpose, and not to let the humane man stand in the situation of renouncing his profits, whilst men of another description ex acted to the last farthing. On the nature of the remedy, so far from the Noble Duke, to whom allusion had been made by the Noble Earl (Li verpool,) having formed an opinion that nothing could be done on the subject, he had considered of a plan, and he (the Marquis of Lausdown) be lieved he was authorised in stating, that that plan, or something similar, might with advantage be adopted. The mode suggested, o f su b s tit u ti ng land for Tithes, he had formed no opinion upon ; and without meaning to say that it would be ap plicable to Ireland, yet he might be allowed to say, that even that substitution, objectionable as it had been found in England in enclosure cases, yet that objection did not exist in Ireland. Neither would another objection made in England, of the possession of land diverting the clergyman's attention from his duties, apply to the south of Ireland, where his flock was not nume rous, and the clergyman was looked to more as a resident proprietor and magistrate. He had heard with great satisfaction that the Noble . Earl opposite and the Noble Marquis at the head of the Irish Government had turned their attention to bringing before their Lordships a plan for the commutation of tithes. He had never adopted an opinion so insulting to the Iklarquis Wellesley as to believe this subject could have escaped his attention ; in that belief he felt relieved from the necessity of bringing the subject before Par liament. lie had also heard with satisfaction from the Noble Earl opposite, that he did not consider the present agitations a bar to the con sideration of the subject. Relying on that as surance from the Noble Earl, he felt inclined to abstain himself, and would also express a wish and hope that others would abstain from pressing • the subject now ; but at the sonic time Parlia ment would not do its duty if they suffered much time to elapse without investigating this subject. Obstacles and difficulties there might be, but there could be no difficulty or obstacle comparable in magnitude with the evils which were now sub verting the very elements of civil government in that distracted country. Earl LIMEEtICK bore his testimony to the state ments so powerfully introduced to the attention of their Lordships by the Noble Duke who had presented the Petition. He (Earl Limerick) did not say that the present disturbances arose alto gether from the Tithe System in Ireland ; but he was convinced that that system contributed, and mainly contributed, to produce them. As in the production of all other evils there were many concurring causes, he would the_u state only one other cause that was of considerable influence— it was the abominable mode of carrying into ef fect the excise on distillation. The effect of such a system must be to barbarise the country and to ruin the army, and to make every district the scene of unceasing outrage and insubordination. He agreed with those Noble Lords who stated that no consideration of the present state of outrage and lawless force in which a groat portion of Ireland was unhappily placed, ought to have the effect of delaying the consideration of that question.— It was true, that in a part of that country there raged a rebellion of a most savage nature, be ginning in plunder, and ending in the assassina tion of every - respectable man. Knowing that country well—having spent a great portion of his life in it—attached to the Protestant Church, and being a sincere Protestant, he must say that he considered the Irish Tithe System as a bounty for the maintenance of the Catholic' religion.— (Hear, hear !)—What did the Irish peasant know of the Protestant clergyman ? He only knew him through the Irish Tithe Proctor—he only knew him in such an application as such a description of character was likely to make. Earl of BeEsINToN said, it was not his inten tion to enter at large on the question at the pre sent time. It had been so ably discussed by the Noble Duke who presented the Petition, and by the Noble Earl at the head of his Majesty's Go vernment, that it was indeed unnecessary to prolong the discussion. But as he was con versant with a part of Ireland, differently cir cumstanced from the South, with which the Noble Duke was connected, he could assure their Lordships that the Presbyterians of the North felt severely the oppressions of the tithe system; and .though they had not petitioned, were as hostile to it as any other description of the Irish people. The Noble .Earl complained that his Majesty's Government had not availed themselves of the College statutes, a redress which was within their controul, and put an end to the demands which the Fellows of the Uni versity of Dublin, when they went out on College Livings, took care to exact, successor after suc cessor, from the cultivators of the soil. The livings were of great value, from 18001. to 20001. per annum. They left College when their fa milies became numerous, and when they arrived at their livings, were wholly unequal, from their advanced state of life, to attend to the duties. The Petition was then laid on the table. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE then presented a Petition from the Lay Impropriators of Tithes of Listowel and eleven other Parishes in the south of Ireland, praying for the consideration of the Tithe System, and for a commutation of Tithes.— Read and laid on the table.—Adjourned till Monday. [For the Proceedings in the IlousE of CommoNs, see our Fourth Page.] FOR THE SUN. A PROPOSAL FOR THE Er or AGRICULTe DisTzEss.—Let twenty millions sterling be lent without interest to the Landholders for three years on mortgage on the land, whether entailed or otherwise, so that the sum lent should not ex ceed one-sixth the value of the landed property. The landlords can then afford to remit one third, or more, of the rents to their tenants, the characters of whom they know; the Lords Lieu tenants of the County, High Sheriffs, and Grand Juries, can be assembled, and they can have the assistance of any Bankers, for the distribution of the sums, as every Landholder will mention in writing, signed, and addressed to the Lord Lieu tenant, what sum each is in want of. Here will be a sufficient security to Government, and the loss to the public, at 5 per cent., will be three millions only, a mere trifle for the extent of good so gene rally diffused. The late Right Hon. Mr. WiNconAm said in the House of Commons during the late war, " That a pitiful Five or Six Millions were " not worth a thought." Being now peace, is it the inverse of this saying ? Suppose the following alteration in the Corn Laws, that the quantity of Foreign Corn imported should be limited to Forty Thousand quarters or less, of each species of grain a month, with a duty of 3s. Gd. a bushel on foreign Wheat 2s. Gd. a bushel on Barley ; and 9.5. a bushel on Oats. This will check the influx of Grain, to the injury of the British Farmer, and at the same time prevent the ruin, perhaps, of specu lators in Corn. Thursday, March 14, 1822.—N0. 715, drawn this Day a Prize of X 2,000 was sold by EXTON, Stock-Broker, 2, Cornhill and Lombard-street. PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF COMMONS. Veneris, 15° die Martii, 182. iloAns—Guldcford and Farnham, Rutbin and Mold, and Brighton and Shoreham—read a second time and committed. Wrexliam and Denbigh, Harlow; Spann Smithy, Glaigow and Inchhe Bridge, Worksop and West Retford, South'arn, Mansfield and Worksop, Westwood Gate and Higham Per rers, Royston, and Shrewsbury—Bills presented, and read s , first time. Axminster, and Burton anti Preston—Bills or dered. Cirencester and Cricklade—Report on Petition fur Bill read, and recommitted to former Committee. GLOUCESTER & BERKELEY CANAL . ) INCLOSURES—WingiieId (Wilts), Sea tin), &Z!. (Cumberland), and Duxford I Bills presented, and (Cambridge) read a first time. TAY FEILItIES PAVISG—St. Mary-le-bone Alnwiek FF.VEIt HOSPITAL (l)ubl;,.)Bills ordered. GAs LlGHT—Warwick and Southampton) Wakefield, and Bradford—reported to be in grossed. CO . IIIZ. IMP:10V EMENT—BiII ordered ; leave given to present it on or before 20th March. IlAvEnronlowEsT GAOL—Petition for Bill reported; Repott to lie on the table. LIVER POOL WATE2IWORKS BlLL—Petition of Joseph Gzeg so-; , of Liverpool, Surveyor, against, to lie on the table. :IGuict: 1.7 mu, DisTnEss—Petition of Thomas Checketts— to lie on the table, and to be printed. SMALL. Dr.wrs—Petition from Taunton, in favour of a Small Debts Bill—to lie on the table, and to be printed. LONDON BRIDGE WA T E itWOIIKS BILL—to be read a secon'l time on Friday. Petition of Managers of London Bridge Waterworks, againrt ; to lie on the table till second reading. Lio DT HOUSES rteturn ordered," of the total amount collectd in the United Kingdom as Duties for Light-houses and Float ing Lights, stating the Rate or Rates of charae; distinguisi:- ing the Rate payable by Vessels having British Registers, and by Vessels not having British Registers, and the amount re ceived for each Light-house, with the disbursement for main taining the same, and the appropriation of the surplus Reve nues arising therefrom, tis far as can be done; distinguishing England, Scotland, and Ireland, with the rate per centage al lowed for collecting the Duties; and specifying the particu lar Patent or Patents, Grant or Grants, Act or Acts of Par liament, under which the Rates have been levied ; also stat ing whether any and what Light houses or Floating Lights are let out or rented, to what individuals, at what amount per annum, and for what term of years rented ; also hcw much of the Duties collected was received by, or paid to, the individuals who had rented each of these Light-houses or Floating Lights, in each year, for the three past years." CANDLE TAX—Petition of Tallow Chandlers of London, for repeal thereof ; to lie on the table, and to be printed. TALLOW—Petition of the London Ship-owners and others, in terested in the South Sea Whale Fisheries, against the un - portation of Foreign Tallow ; to lie on the table, and to be printed. ORDERS of the DAY, for MONDAY. I. Turnpike Laws Amendment Bill—Second Reading. 2. iVatchousink; and Navigation Acts—Committee thereupo> 3. Land Tax Commissioners Names Bill—Third Reading. 4. Malt Duty Repeal Bill—Report. 5. S:pply—Committee. 6. Receivers General Bill—Committee. 7. Ways and Means—Committee. 8. Attornies and Solicitors Regulation Bill—Committee. NOTICE OF MOTION, for MONDAY. Sir John Osborn,—Navy Estimates. (In Committee of Supply.) PRIVATE BlLLS—Second Readings, for MONDAY. . - 1. Chippenham Roads 5. Alloa Pavinti 2. Old Stratford & Dunchurch Road 6. Canterbury Gas L - ght 3. Dartford and Northfleet Road 7. Bristol Poor 4. Netherßridge &Winthrop Roads 8. Bristol Port. PUBLIC COMMITTEES, for MONDAY MORNING' 1. Members Returns, at one. 13. Sewers, at one. 2. Agriculture, at one. 4. Foreign Trade, at one. Last Day for Reading Ptivatc Bills the First Time. PRICE TIIIS DAY AT STOCKS NE O'CLOCK. Rank Stock shut 5 per Cent. Navy Ann. .. 1021 3 per Cent. Red. shut 103 102 1 3 per Cent. Cons. 7t) India Bonds 465. 49 5 3 per Cent shut Excheq. Bills 2 5 p_r: . 4 per Cent. shut Cons. for Account 79i,71 PRICE OF IRISH STOCK, MAncit 13. Bank Stock `'47l Grand Canal Loan, 4 p.ct. •••"" Gov. Deb. :M per cent. — __Ditto 6 per cent --- Stock, 3:1, per cent. ... 891, 1 , lii, Ditto Stock -- Goy. Deb. 4 per cent. - Gov. Deb. 5 per cent •L I Wide-street Cert. 6 per ct. --- - Stock, 5 per cent....4i 4 Do. Deb. with Gov. sec.— ---; Treasury Bills, 5 per cent. Pipe Water Deb. 5 per ct. 21 City Debentures, 5 per Do. - cent — Ballast Office Govt. Sec. Lying in hospital 4 per ct — 5 per cent. Exchange on London, March 13, 831. HIGH WATER AT LONDO Alurnin,z, 24 minutes after :1. BRIDGE TOZIORROW' Evening, 43 minutes after 116 THE SUN. SOLEM QUIS DICERE FALSUM AUDEAT ? LONDON, ,cATURDAY, MARCH 16, 1822. We subjoin extracts from the Paris Papers of Wednesday which arrived this morning. No fresh disturbances have taken place in the capital; but the 'Missionaries are still interrupted in their e xercises, and numerous patroles of cavalry are found necessary to traverse the streets. The affair of the property left by BUONAPARTE in tl.e hands of M. LAFITTE, has been determined by the Tribunal of First Instance. The Court have deckled acrainst the validity of the will, and dis' missed the plea of the plaintiffs, with costs. The death of Ar.i PAcnA is confirmed, by ac , - counts from Vienna. It is stated that Aix bad fallen a sacrifice to the resentment of his own troops, and that his head had been sent by then') to CHOURSCHILD PACHA, who immediately for. warded it to Constantinople.. Its arrival in the Ottoman capital had excited such lively trans ports of joy, and raised the fanaticism of the Turks to so great a height, that the Gr I ANn VIZIER was expected to march immediately, wits; the army assembled atAdrianople, to the Danube. W e think it probable,feom the Turkish character, that the violent excitation and blind conf•,dence in spired by this event, may have determined the Porte to reject in lobo the propositions of Russia, and to direct this hostile movement. Even the best informed and most sensible MussulmanS believe in the doctrine of fatalism, and will re gard the tragical catastrophe of Am as a proof of the will of Destiny in favour of the Ottoman Empi re . The desire for War, on the part of the Army, has revived with redoubled fury s ince the fall of Au, so that it has been difficult to pre' vent their marching instantly against the Russians• PARIS, MARCH 13. TRIBUNAL or THE FIRST INSTANCE, DEPARTMENT OF TIIE SEINE. AFFAIR OF THE WILL OF BUONAPARTE. The sentence passed by the Tribunal in this affair was pro nounced yesterday, the lt2th March, in a public sitting. The following, as far as our memory could retain them, were the reasons on which it was founded :- 44 With respect to the character of Mandataircs (Attorneys) taken by Messrs. Month°lon, Bertrand, &c. ; " Considering that the letter of Buonaparte, of 25th April i t 1821, cannot avail as an h o l ograp h testament ( a ll wr i tten with I I I