The Sun. — London, England, 1832-03-30 00:00:00

PREROGATIVE OF CREATING PEERS A pamphlet, which contains some curious matter, and displays considerable research on ail questions affecting the prerogative of'the Crown to create Peers, has just been published b\ Ridgway, and is, at the present moment, worth of a perusal. That it should contain any new views upon a subject which has been canvassed And discussed, until there is nothing new to be said upon it, could not he expected, and those who look into " the Prerogative of tnating Peers," in search of such matters, will be sadly disappointed ; but there are several points im mediately connected with the present state of the House of Lords—the sentiments of hying per- ' sonar es having the power to op rate upon it— as well as the ultimate fate of the Reform Bill, and the necessity of popularizing the House of Lords—or, in other words, of rendering it an assembly, in every respect, representative of the feeling,s and sentiments of the aristocracy— which are not only worthy of notice, but highly curious and interesting. In the first place, for example, ..ve find from it, by the following pro test, that, on the occasion of the proposed sus pension of the prerogative of the Crown to create Peers, in case of the Regency of the late king, our present gracious Sovereign was the first of the Peers who protested against such an invasion of a right bestowed for the benefit of the people. The following is the protest and the " Because we think ourselves called upon to rrorest in the most solemn manner apinst the princip l e of sus pending, during his Majesty's indispositino, and of those lawful prerogatives of the Crown which the Constitution vests in the King, not for his personal benefit, hut as a trust en behalf of the people,—and to declare, that in our opinion, if such prerogatives are necess iry, and advantage ous to the people under the permanent .goverttment of a King, they are equally beneficial and more necessary under the temporary and prec.rious authority of a Re sent, especially in a period of extensive warfare and great national embarrassment. CLA RENCE, ERSKINE, LA U DERDA LE, ROSS LYN, HoLLAND, SPENCER." A LBEM A R.LE, in the final debate also, on the Regency Bill, Lord Grey expressed his most decided op position to the Bill ior restraining the Royal Prerogative, and in alluding to the exercise of it observed— " The fact I afin;it to be, that of late that ',ranch .of the Royal Prerogative ha.. not been abused. But I enlist here protest against that line of - , rgurnent which goes to say, that because a prerogative is not necessarily in a state of activity, it shrubd therefore he suspended. The prerogative, like ail other prcr , , , gatives, was given to the Crown for the benefit of the people; and while it a , n be exercised for that object, ought not to Le seerrrated from the person performing the Royal functions." Lord Holland was, also, at the time in qiies-- tion, found upon the same side, equally strenu ous in the defence of the King's. prerogative; and even Lord Harrowhy, who undertook to reply to him, was compelled to admit in his an swer, that " cases might occur in the course of time, in which the use of this prerogative for the purpose of controling the deliberation of this House might be justified by extreme necessity." 'We introduce these matters to the notice of our readers, not for the purpose of proving what has been held at all times, and by all parties, to be in disputable,—the inherent right of the Crown to create Peers to any extent which the welfare of the country may render necessary,—but for the purpose of shewing that the King was long ago, not only fully aware of the right, but a strenuous advocate of its exercise on all great emergencies—and that Lords Grey and Hol wriat is the - inference? Why that which we have all along maintained to be the infallible result of Tory opposition to the wishes of the people—that the King would have no ob jection to create Peers—that his Majesty's Ministers would advise the creation—and, finally, that through this beneficial use of a trust granted to, and reposed in, the Crown for the benefit of the people, the Reform Bill would ultimately triumph over all opposition, and hand down to posterity the name of Grey as that of the brightest and best of its benefactors. Who, indeed, looking at the character of those to whom the Bill has been entrusted—to the ob vious and easy means of t.arrying it which are at their disposal, and the certain danger to the peace of the country which would result from a second rejection of the Bill by the Peers, can doubt for a moment that the creation will take place ? We cannot doubt it—we will not doubt it—we will not suapect it, until more demonstra tive evidence has been laid before us than we have yet seen ; for who that was not desirous either of playing into the hands of the enemies of the people, or of producing a convulsion which would aniiihilate, instead of improving, the House of Peers, could possibly, under pre sent circumstances, refuse to add to their num bers? if Lord Grey were such a man, he would not so employ the power reposed in him by his Sovereign—h e would again leave the House of Lords to its consistency and its fate ; but he is anxious for its preservation, and as the only re maining means of effecting this desirable end, he will do what his King, his character, and the good of his country, so imperiously demand of him— he will create the Peers.—Morning Advertiser. •. A new article of manufacture has just as appearance—namely, gloves made of felt, durable, and elegant.—Blackburn Gazette. n ad e ireful, Some wicked miscreants have been in the habit of late, of laying upon the streets of Falkirk, and on the roads leading to it, pieces of buttered bread, biscuits, oranges, &c., which on examination, were found to be impregnated with poisonous substances. In some instances, where dogs had eaten of the bait, death had speedily ensued. It is supposed that the wanton prepetrators had in view to bring odium upon the surgeons of the place, but happily what might have been the fatal result of their plot, has, as yet been avoided.—Edin burgh Advertiser. -- - TENACITY OF LlFE.—There is to be seen at a tavern near the New Market, Stockbridge, a cocker pup, about eight months old, which was thirty-four days locked up in an empty room of a new house, without either food or drink. Its howling and moaning was frequently heard, but there being 30 many dogs about the markets the sounds were not attended to, and the proprietor offered a reward for the recovery of the animal. On accidentally again going into the room, he per ceived the poor creature in a corner, reduced to a skeleton, and deprived of sight. It was able to lap a little when found, and slowly r ecovered.—Edinburgh Advertiser. STARVING A JURY TO A VERDICT —At the Norwich Assizes, last week, en action was brought by one Everett against a farmer named Youell, to recover damages for the breach of a contract in the sale of fifteen score lambs, sold and warranted sound by the defendant to the plaintiff. At the last Assizes this case was tried, and a Jury were locked up all night, and then they could come to no decision on the case. The present Jurr was special, and the Foreman was John Anger_ stein, the late High Sheriff for the county. The defend ant sold several lambs to the plaintiff, and a few days after one howed symptoms of the rot, and fifteen died afterwards. It was proved that the plaintiff's land was good dry land, and se veral witnesses said the lambs must have had the seeds of the disease when sold. On the other hand, it appeared the de fendant had sold several lambs of the same sort to other persons, and they had not been attacked with the rot. It was con tended that the plaintiff's lands were calculated to produce the disease. After the whole day had been taken up by the evi dence, the case went to the Jury on the opposite opinions of the witnesses for the plaintiff and those for the defendant—all of whom were men of experience and respectability. The Jury were locked up the whole of the night without fire, candle, fond, or drink, with an intimation from Mr. Baron Vaughan that he should not discharge them without an affidavit from a surgeon that the health of any one of them would be endan. gered by a longer protraction of abstinence. At one o'clock on Sunday afternoon, the Jury were starved into unanimity, and boy returned a vercici. for the defendant. MR. PORT MAN. (From the Morning Chro=!cle.) The announcement of Mr. Portman's inten tion to rerign his seat, in consequence of a sup :osed obligation, from some observations made by him on the eve of the late contest, has pro duced a great sensation. The determination is greatly regretted and a wish is generally enter tained that he. may be persuaded by hls friends to abandon it. The Anti-I ef:;.in Papers are in ectasy at the annotincetnent: and endeavour to turn it. to the best account. Onr contemporat7 tile Standard) takes occasion from to read a lecture on Whig arrogance. wtti atteknpts to persuade the Dorset. shire keholders to show their independentt , ,, resenting all objection to their right to exercise their franchise in a thant'ie't which proves both their want of prlncple and their degradation'!— " Ample (says our contemporary) as [mist k the esti mate of Whig arrogance, funned Pty 'every one conversant with the history of pubic atairs during the last half cen tury, we suspe,:t nobody is capabh^ of anticipa , mg its latest disptay. The display, as we learn from the Mornine 01-onic/e, has hem male in the county of Dorsen by its late Whig Member, Mr. Portman, wont loks attnally filing thc representation of this great and independent county in the faces of his electeer., ln•lause they, forsooth. dared to exercise s of their own in the selection of a second Member- Talk of Re:orm, talk of noreitation boroughs after this. Ilere is this Mr. Portman, who, no doubt, most heroic:oly voted against Schedule A and Sche dule B, offering the p,rcat county of Dor-et the [nest contenlptuous insult imaainable, and the opiy :vault in his pnwer to offer, because he cannot tr..it it as the closest of nomination boroughs. Alt.rSeii e, indeed, is set up, that Mr. Portman sem ty,inr only in redemption of a pledge given bv t.':l7. at the suns:Tier election ; but how does this menu the matter? The insf•lence of March is not miti gated by nine months of slelibetatien. Insolence in March and June differ in nothing, except, prhaps, that the latter was committed as a threat for the purpose of coil • trolling the freetinnt of election, and is therefore greatly more criminal than a mere peevish expre!,aion of disap appointed presumption, offerAs,'c and intoltrabk as such expression ii.. _ _ Will the P. - eeholders of Dorsetshire re-elect Mr. Portman' .`o ; thanks to that gentleman's resolute self 7 ittportance, he wi.l not he re-elected by them. Will they send another Whig to Parliament, to turn them off without a character, if they refuse to !et him nominate to boil.) seats, as trey have been turned cff by that gentle man ? th e last election ftlbitis us to su-pet-t the men rf Dorset hire of mut+ meanness and folly. They h •ve Flown th 0, Rim months ago, they s through the wicked injustkT threatened to the agricultural interest by the W±;ig Bill, anti they are scarcely tutors reconciled to its authors by the sample of their feelings and spirit furnished by Mr. Portman." We have a very short answer to give to this tirade. The freeholders of DerstA cannot con scientiously return tenth a Reform and an Anti- Reform Member. If they have any opinion at all on the question of Reform, they must be lieve it either beneficial to the country, or the reverse. If they believe Reform a healing mea sure, they must believe the loss of the Reform Bill a national calamity. The men who vote for a Reformer out day, and vote for an Anti- Reformer the next, either are in a condition, in point of understanding, little elevated above that of the brutes that perish, or they sacrifice their principles on the altar of interest. The very utmost that can be said in favour of those who vote against their conscience is, that the state of dependence in which they are placed is such, that they Irv; conceive a conscientious exercise of the f:anchise would involve them in irretrievable ruin. The observations of our contemporary are an insult to the understanding of the Dorsetshire electors. It supposes them utterly unable to comprehend the nature of the trust reposed in them by the Constitution. They were not con ferrin, a favour on Mr. Portman in returning einevous consequences of the system of corrup tion which has so long prevailed in this country, that they who are in possession of the franchise too often look on it as a right entitling them to a certain share of the taxes. The candidate advances to the electors a sum equivalent to their respective titles to the public plunder, for which they convey to him by his return a right to indemnify himself with interest. If the freeholders of Dorsetshire view the franchise in this low and degrading light, and exclude from their thoughts ail ideas of honour and duty, then they may consistently find fault with Mr. Portman's objecting to their voting as they please, as in this case they may deem themselves as much entitled as the Duke of Newcastle to do what they will with their own. If it was a fa vour conferred on Mr. Portman to return him, they may think it insolence in bins to find fault with conferring a similar favour on Mr. Bankes. A man on w'hom a courtezan confers her fa yours, has no right to find fault with her con ferring Favours on others. But Mr. Portman thought. more favourably of the freeholders of Dorsetshire than to believe they entertained this low and degraded idea of the trust reposed in them. He supposed them rational beings, capa ble of understanding the high import of the du ties they were called on to discharge at a crisis like the present. But while we cannot think so poorly of the Dorsetshire electors as to believe for one mo ment that they will pride them-elves on the li berty of manifesting their utter indifference to all principle by voting for men of opposite principles, we yet cannot help regretting that Mr. Portman should subject the liberal electors to the sacrifice attendant on a fresh contest at this time. Dorsetshire is a county in which the Tory interest is necessarily strong, because a large proportion of the gentry, magistrates, and parsons, are of that party. A man who opposes that party does it at a considerable sacrifice of interest. It is hard on the Dorsetshire Freeholders that they should be so often called on to testify their liberal principles at the expense of sacrifices of this sort. And, in truth, experience does not warrant us in ex pecting that the generality of men will continue to make such sacrifices. Mr. Portman, we trust, will take these things into consideration. The defeat of a W hig candidate in Dorsetshire would not prove that the freeholders had changed their opinions, but merely that they were no longer disposed to bear further sacrifices. Yet, as advantage might be taken from the event, it were as well not to presume too much on the virtue of the Dorsetshire electors. 'The forthcoming number of " The Standard Novels" will consist of Mr. Cooper's tale of " The Pioneers, or the Sources of the Susquehanna," the scenes of which are laid in the haunts of the author's early youth. On this account, as he himself declares, the work gave him more pleasure in the composition than any other product of his pen. REFUSAL OF THE HOUSEKEEPERS OF ST. GILES'S-IN-THE-FIELDS TO PAY CHURCH( RATES.—Yesterday the following Public Notice was exhibited at the houses of several respectable housekeepers in the parish of St. Giles's-in the-Fields : ST. GILES'S-LW-THE-FIELDS. Whereas, John Le Merchant, of Holborn, in the company with one J. Barter, of No. 1 Stone-cutters -buildings, in the parish of Sr. Giles's-in-the-Fields, have di-trained the goods of two housekeepers in the said parish for the amount said to be due from them for a church rate, or pretended church rate, made on the 16th day of November, 1830. Notice is hereby given, that the said church rate is alto gether illegal, and that all persons who may be distrained, or threatened with a distraint for the same, are requested to apply to the Househilders U nion. . which i s es t a bli s h e d for the mutual protection of the parishioners against the Select Vestry oppression. 0. ROGERS, Chairman. The meetings are held every Thursday evening, at eight o'clock, at the Angel Inn, High.strett, St. Giles's. IMPERIAL PARLIAMEN C. HOUSE OF LORDS, MARCH 29. Lord TEYNHAM moved for returns of the importa tion and use of hemp and flax in the Royal navy, and also for the reenit of experiments with the j'Crihiun; tenax, or New Zealmd flat. Et:l GREY apirebetided there multi he no objection to the returns moved for by the Noble Lord, rtlitive hemp ind 11-ix. But he did not consider that a cis, lrul he , .n made out to show the necessity thst the re sults ,:fexp•riments M . ;“le I , ,•' , _th the forrnium tenax should be laid , :sr tFe ''.;.,Lle.—(l-Irar.) They would requiie both cn . asinerable time and expense before they could he kid on the nble, and he could see nom , e to which they could be put. L-rd TEYNFIAM said, from c:lntt had fallen from the Noble Earl, he ”76.1,,a withdraw the litter part of his too tier.. titt , rebrns relative to hemp and flax were th:n ordered. Viscount . GODERICH laid a Tee.nti;.'y of papers on the table r,leting to o.t'tte-y. hiri of ROI)EN presented petitions against the new system of education in !rebind, from the Sunday- School teachers of Dublin, front Bridport, Dorchest r, Shafteshury, and St. Paul's, Deptford. The Nlarr A uis nf LAY.SDOWNE presented copies of two °Telef., !n whiCh were lately prostinleated. le Earl of WINCI4ILSEA rope to present a petition of which he had given notice, from the eastern part of Kent. against th'e proposed system of education in Ireland. In his opinion no question had ever come before the Le- Legislature since the Refornattion of more importance, or one from which if it were founded on wrong principles, greater injure, would arise, H e disclaimed for the petitidn - Liii, and for himself, being actuated by a'ey party-feeling on this question. Indeed there were many names cttached to the petition who were the fiiends and admirers of Government, and who he was sure would never be induced to act upon such a question from motives of party feelings. The . Nob:e Earl contended that the question was, whether the Legislature should in any way and a system of education in any part of the en e ire, of which the Tree and unrestricted use of the Scriptures was not the foundation. The faith of the Protestant was founded solely on the Scriptures, but the faith of the Roman Catholic was not founded on the entire Bible. Ile Roman Catholic creed denied to its disciples the free exercise of religious opinion, and he could not help thinking, that in the system proposed by his Majesty's Government touch attention had been paid to the Roman Catholic, and but little to the Pro testant. As regarded the Committee upon Irish Educa tion, ho war of opinion, that constituted as that Commit., tee was, of persons of different religious persuasions, their labours would never he brought to a satisfactory conclusion. A Rght Rev. Prelate (Chichester) had attributed the op position raised to this measure of Government, to factious motives. He would scern to appeal to that Right Rev. Prelate after what he had said relative to the division hit had taken place in October last on another subject. A more malignant and unfounded aspetsion he would however say, had never been cast on the conduct of Lords in that House. But he would call on their Lord ships to give as the basis of national education free' circu lation to the Scripiures, which was the characteristic of Protestantism. He did not think that Government would ddioerately act against the best interests of the country. He was rather inclined to believe that they ha I been ihfiu need by the opinion and advice of desienmg tri• n. But in the name of God arid of Protestants, he called on the Noble Earl at the head of his Majes ty's Government, for the love he bore hi country, and the duty he owed to his God, to retrace his steps and abandon his system, or he was confident the results would h e most alarming to tine pe ice and prosperity of Ireland. He recominermbil the withdrawal of all Parliamentary as• sistance whatever for the purpose of religious education in Ire and, [ache' than a perseverance in the proposed system. The petition from the inhabitants of Canterbury was then read. Earl GREY regretted extremely that the Noble Earl had not been present at the dehate on this subject on Thursday 1 ist, when it hid been regularly in troduc:A on a motion, and when he might have had a full opportuni'y of expressing his sentiments. He thou4ht that a continual allusion to questions 01 this nature on the presentation 4 of petitions, mere partieu:arly when intrigiured with so much heat, as on the present occ,ion, coul I not but be attended with disadvantage and danger to the general peace of society. H iving ad dre,,sed himself to the H. use in the Decision to which he had alluded, he was very unwilling to say any thing more at present. But Adjured as he had been by the Notife Lord, uftaniti • lJ V 140h1 .- 111.% .1..0,4via from which the Noble Lord expected such evils, it was itnpos sible for him not to say a few words. The Node Earl did not ascribe to Government any intention to overthrow the ins:itutinns of the country, but lie believed their con sciences had b.-en surpris.d by designing persons, and that this system hail oeen taken up with too little consideration. Who the designing persons were to whom the Noble Earl alluded, he was nut able even to guess. But he would confidently state that so far tram the system b ing taken on with little consideta Lion, it was taken up after the most deliberate attention to " " all the interests concerned, after an exaorination of Re ports made under Commissions, and R.:Torts made by Par liament, and with a serious and earnest sod anxious hope that by introducing this art-m, not only the general peace of Ireland !night be promoted, but that the interests of religion itself be mater Tally assisted. He must in the first place begin by contradicting what the No le Earl had assumed, that it was the intention of Government to riebar the whole of the k chooN from the use of the Scriptures. This, wisby no means the case. But what was the ansxer to the statement that the WI had been withdrawn from the schools? Much clamour had been raised a:lout withdrawin4 the Scriwures from t;:e Protestants,—tile present syweni took no pill of the Scriptures from any person, nor did it lay any thing in t' e way of children reading the Bible, whose parents tuna Ale wished th e m to read it.— (liar, hear.) lie c;ust disclaim the construction dial had been put most erroneoust) upon this measure ; its only object being to relieve the mind of th- Cath , lie► from thee false religious notions which they at present entertain. From what did that arise? Why, the state of ignorance in which the present system of education in Ireland l ft them. Such was the system which so un.feservedly m , t with the Noble Earl's reprolia'ion. So far from the pre ,ent system excludii,g the use of the Bible, certain days in the week were appropriated for the reading; o it. It was true selections were made from the Bible for the purpose of education, but that never could be considered as a mutilation. (Hear, hear.) Th , . Noble Earl then referred to the opinions of Dr Magee, who con sidered the plan propii-ed as calculated to impress on the mind of children the sacredness of the Word of God. Ile (the Noble Earl) did not mean to deny that the neigh. hours of the Kildare-street Socie , y had been in much re. lute, but lae Inuit deny that it Wll operating in the general promotion of that religious education that was so essent,al to Irela❑d. The Bishop of CHICHESTER entered into an ex planation and defence of some opinions of his which had been attacked by some Noble Lords on the opposite side of the House. He admitto that he had expressed doubts of the propriety and advantage of putting the whole of the Bible into ti.e hands of children as an ordinary school b.,ok, but he begged to deny that he haft at any time ex pressed opinions favourable to the doctrines of the sect re ferred to, tor the more he reflected, an the more he read upon religious subjects, the more was he convinced of the excellence of the Church of England. The Earl of RODEN defended the statements of the Kildare-place Society, and strenuously contendA that the new plan of education did amount to a practical denial of the !Mile to the t4reat body of the people, for it went to say, you shall be handed over to the Priests, and they, it is well known, will give you no Bible. The Archbishop of ARMAGH asked the Howe, was it wise or politic to destroy an institution that had effected touch good, in order to pursue a theoretical project, which had been tried before, and had signally failed ? His objection to the plan of the Government Wa., that a Pro t.starit Legislature should neither directly nor indirectly Tend itself to the practical exclusion of the Bill, arid upon that be would take his stand. The Earl of WICKLOW denied eenerally the state ments and inferences of the Noble Earl opposite, after which the convenatio❑ dropped ; and the several Bills upon their Lordship' Table haying been forwarded a st.ige, the House adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS, Meßcu29. The SPEAKER unterrel the House at a Quarter to Four o'clock, and at Four o'clock there being only twenty-eight Nlesubera present, the House adjourned. According to accounts from Buenos Ayres of the 15th of December, received by way of France, the Custom house tariff of 1831 has been made applicable to the present year, by the Chamber of Representatives, with the following modifications only :---Hats, formerly liable to nine dollars duty, to pay thirteen ; foreign salt, lately free of duty, to pay one dollar per fanega. A good deal of business was doing in Buenos Ayres in hides, but chiefly for French markets. The exchange on London was at if to e. MANCHESTER, MARCH 27. From the Morning Herald.) NIEETING of the MASTER COTTON-SPIXNERS I Mr. S.dler'i Bill for the regulation of factorie, has ex cited great attention among the master cotton-spinners of his extensive district, but it is scarcely probable that the ,vlll agree, as an entire body, to any_ decided measure o! .pposition to it. The cotton-tnantifiCtiires, have held on -o many invitations to t!otritetition, thd have been con ducted under such various and conflicting circumstances, that hardly two masters are to be !ound in perfect unison on any given subject connected wit', their trade interests. A few weeks ago a public meeting of the mist: r spin ners of this town and neiehhottrhood W . P.3 held here, at which : after a rood deal of needess and unen , aning d;s cuedon, it was agreed that Mr. Sadler's ebould be or posed—that Parliament ShOuld Ise petitioned to restrict the time of I,tiour to 69 hoer.; pCr week, according t o lioblotuse's.:nl passed in November las,—and that re striction be also plated (as the cure means of limiting human hOour) on the moving power in the several The petition adopted on th it oecasion lay in the public rooms of the town fa. weeks, but only about 60 signatures were &Alined to it number, of course, Which very partially expreised the opinion of the trade on the question. A Committee appointed at thet imetitighaS . Siree met once or t'yk-ice, an I drew up a report, which they were desirous of sufuniiting to the general b o dy of master-spinners. Fer this purpose a Public meet ing was held to-day, in the Exchange-room, but so slight an interest was taken in the proceedings, that only about a score assembled on the occasion. A 11114 an-i irregular discussion was entered into, and the general opinion of the meeting appeared to be in favour of ;idditional petitions to Parliament, to be sent from the various districts in the neighbourhood. Mr. S Bill was condemned in strong language by more than one master-spinner pre sent, end the most injurious consequences to the working classes were anticipated from it, if it bhoulii pas, into a law. Another party was eager to dissolve the meetine, on the ground that the proceedings hitherto taken by the spinners were not aereeable to the general body; but the majority of the meeting are decidedly in favour of the 69 Flours' 13.11, with a restiction on the strain-power as the best means of giving satisfaction to the masters and men. It mly not be improper to notice t: at a very nume rously signed petition, bearing upwards of 15,000 signa tun s, has ben presented from this place in supp •rt of a measure for the limitation of time in human labour, some what on the principle proposi.d in Mr. Sadltr's Hill, al though the measure is not specifically referred to, and that at the present moment a petition is lying for signature in the public rooms, agreed to at a large meeting of medical men, merchants, and m mulacturers, fully apposing of Mr. S idler's Hill. A very general ',pinion is entertained here that this measure will p. 193 in.o BIRMINGHAM POLITICAL UNION. At a meeting of the Council of the Birmingham Political Union, held on Tuesday evening last, at the Globe Inn, Bir mingham, T. ATTWOOD, Esq. in the chair, a petition to Parliament was adopted, praying the Government not to inter. fere between the Irish tithe payers and the clergy in the collec tion of tithes, by allowing the clergy compensation for tithes that they were unable to collect. The meeting was addressed by the Rev. Mr. 3riacdonnell, Mr. Hadley, Mr. Attwood, jun., Mr. Weston, Mr. Haynes, and several other able members of the Council, all of whom deprecated the injustice of the mea sure now before Parliament, on the subject of the Irish tithes, in the collection of which, it was stated. within a comparatively short period, that no less than 26,000 lives had been sacrificed. The petition prayed that the subject be deferred until the great measure of Reform had passed into a law, and so allayed the agitated state of the country. The large room in which the meeting was held was crowded to excess, and the petition, which is to be entrusted to a mem ber of the Union (Joseph Hume, Esq.), was unanimously agreed to. Mr. Shiel will be requested to support the petition, A new building in Charles-street, Birmingham, fitted up for the purposes of the Union, is just completed, and a meeting of the Council is appointed to be held, there, for th• first time, on Tuesday next. A gentleman having a recent communication from New South Wales of the efficacy of a decoction of the bark of the blue gumtree in cases of the most virulent Dysentery, would suggest the propriety of its adoption in cases of the pre vailing Cholera. It appears to have been the recent discovez y of one Newman, a convict, and to have restored the lives of se veral who had been given over by their medical attendants. Two ounces of the bark boiled from two pints of water to one pint, is the dose of an adult.—Chellezthirm Chronicle. The cholera Asiatic is in Dublin. Of this no man competent to form a judgment--no man whose feelings are not seared against the calamities which impend over the nauner nouulation of this *city can entertain the slightest doubt, communicated. We should indeed have been slow to make this statement until the Board of Health had made their report, which will probably be this evening, too late for insertion, if we had not ascertained and proved the particulars. Five eases have occurred in the vicinity of Summer-hill, four of which have terminated fatally, and all exhibiting the most marked and virulent features of the malady—purging, total cessation of the animal functions, disappearance of pulsation, and final ex haustion, at a space from thirty to nine hours. However the disease may have originated, it is certain that it has been com municated. This is the time, therefore, for action—for prompt, immediate, and energetic action.—Dublitt Evening Post. ItIOT AT PAISLEY.— Sunday afternoon, some boys discovered two small shovels and a hook on the end of a cord, concealed beneath a small bridge leading from a country road near the new burying-ground. These instru ments were taken to the town and exhibited there. The public mind was so excited by the supposition that those dying of cho lera were thus transferred to the dissecting-table, that a crowd collected early this forenoon, and commenced opening the graves, in one of the first of which an empty coffin was found. As this proceeded, the crowd rapidly augmented, and collected round the scene of exhumation. As each successive grave was opened, it was discovered empty ; the intelligence was received with a shout by the multitude. At the opening of the fifth grave, on the same announcement being made, the fence of stobs round the ground was torn down. Numbers more commenced leaving for the town, and each individual on his arrival declared more positively than another the certainty of the great number of empty graves. About twelve the affair had math, so much noise, that the Magistrates assembled for the preservation of the public peace. It was instantly agreed that a reward of fifty pounds should be offered for the discovery of the offenders. This had scarcely been resolved on before the crowd arrived in town, numbers armed with stobs, bearing an empty coffin. They, notwith standing the efforts of the Magistrates, proceeded through the town, and broke the windows of all the surgeons' houses and shops, the windows of the hospital, broke the cholera hearse, and demolished everything connected with the establishment so far as possible. The first time the crowd, consisting almost entirely of half-grown lads and Irishmen, visited the hospital, they were persuaded to desist from their work of destruction, but after taking a turn through The town, they came back and broke the windows, forced up the gate, and did other mischief. A patient in the hospital, named Henderson, was struck on the head with a stone, and had it slightly cut ; he was not expected to recover, but after calling for assistance against this treatment, he shortly after expired. Another patient, Mr. Kincaid, who was recovered, and who was to have been dismissed from the hospital this day, has relapsed, and now lies in a very danger ous state. A party of cavalry left Glasgow at four o'clock for Paisley. —Abr id ged front the Glasgow Chronicle of Tuesday. IRISH TRADE 'WITH LIVERPoOL.—Soine idea of the extent and importance of the trade between Ireland and this port may be formed from the following list of Irish articles imported into Liverpool during the year 11 1. It would not be easy to form an accurate estimate of the value of these imports, but it must amount to several millions sterling. It will be seen that the articles exported consist entirely of agri cultural produce. Ireland, in fact, seems destined to become the granary of England, and we cannot help hoping that the continually increasing intercourse between the two countries will, at last, have the effect of raising that rich and beautiful country to its proper rank amongst nations. The invention of steam has already done more for Ireland than a thousand Acts of Parliament, and it must, sooner or later, either raise it to the same level as England, or drag down England to the level of Ireland. Our interest in the prosperity of Ireland is, there_ fore, scarcely less deep than that of the Irish themselves. The following is the table which we mentioned above:— Cows , . Horses Sheep 134,702 Ditto 19,217 halfdo Mules 243 Pigs 156,001 Eggs ...... ......... 2,504 crates Calves Lambs Hams and Tongues 590 hhds. Barley Bacon 13,090 bales I Rye Pork 14,534 barrels Beans Ditto Beef Ditto 1,189 barrels Meal 149,810 loads Lard 463 tierces Flour 93,154 sacks. _ . Ditto 4,512 firkinsi Li , erpoo Times. NEW PUBLICATIONS. — The following inte re,ting works have been lately published by Messrs - Colburn and Bentley, New Burlington-street :—l. Memoires et Ito. mances de Hortense, Duchesse de St. Leu, Ex-Reine de Hol lande, 1 vol., with a portrait, &c.-2. Private Correspondence of the Empress J,sephine, Editions in French and English, 1 vol. forming a Supplement to her Memoirs.-3. The Earl of Munster's Memoirs of the late War, 2 vols.-4. The Exqui_ sites, or a new Portraiture of Exclusive society, a novel, in 9 vols. 215.-5. The Living and the Dead, a Series of Personal Sketches, 2 vols. " A work possessed of much interest and powers of entertainment."—Literary Gazette. -6. A Second Series of Babylon the Great, or More Men and Things in the British Capital, 2 vols. ISs.-7, 31usical Memoirs, by W. J. Parke, Esq., the celebrated Oboist, comprising a fund of infor mation and anecdote relative to Music and its eminent votaries, during the last fifty years.--8. Memoirs of Women celebrated in the writings of Ancient and Modern Poets, by Mrs. Jame son, Authoress of the " Beauties of the Court of Charles H.," 2 vols. COURT CIRCULAR. The Duchess of Kent and the• Princess Victoria walked fLi some time in Hyde:park yesterday. Prince Lieven, the Russian Ambassador, accompanied by Cot, ntOrloff, visited Viscount Althorp yesterday, at the Treasury. The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of London, Arch deacon Hamilton, and a deputation of gentlemen, had a con ference with Viscount Goderich yesterday, at the Colonial-ottice. Mr. Burge, the agent for Janiaica, transacted business yes terday at the TreasUry. The Earl of Mulgrave, the Governor of Jamaica, had an in terview yesterday with Viscount Goderich at the Colonial.ollice. The Duke of Gloucester did not visit the King on Wednes day. His Royal Highness was confined to his house during the day by indisposition. FASHIONABLE INTELt,MENCE. ARRIVALS. Lord Fitzclarence, in Eaton-square, from the North ; Sir Charles Saxton, Bart., at the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn-street, from his seat in Berks ; Baron Stockmai, at Marlborough House, froth Claremont; Mrs. Brander, at Hawkins's Hotel, Dover and Albeinarle streets, from Brighton ; the Rev. A. N. Colville, at ditto, from Bury St. Edmonds; Captain and Mrs. King, In Harley-street, from Cheltenham; Major Morris, in Regent-street, from Brighton ; Mr. and Mrs. T. Price, in Park lane, froM Norfolk. DEPARTURES. Lord Gardiner, for Melton Mowbray; W. A. Roberts, Esq. M.P. from Hawkins's Hotel, Dover and Albemarle streets, for his seat in Worcestershire; Captain Mayne, from the Pulteney Hotel, Albemarle-street, for Brighton ; Mr. and Mrs. C. Meyer, from Brook.street, for Norfolk. A Deputation from the North Western Me tropolitan Union waited on the Secretary of State for the Home Department on Wednesday morning, with a Memorial to his Majesty, praying him to adopt such measures as may be ne- , cessary to ensure the speedy passing of Ihe Reform Pill. The Rev. Diniel Wilson is appointed Bishop of Calcutta. the Earl of Kerry, eldest son of the nirquis of Lansdowne, became of age on the 24th inst. The Noble President of the Council, by his marriage with a sister to Lbrd Ilchester, has another son, Lord Henry Fitzmauriee, who is in his sixteenth year ; and an only daughter. RUMOURED CHANGES.—It was whispered, with some confidence yesterday, that a small creation of Peers will take place preparatory to the second reading of the Reform Bill. The number stated was only six, of whom it was still asserted that Lord Althorp was to be one, and the only one, selected from the House of Commons. Independently of the fact that the rumour of his Lordship's elevation has existed for some time, there are other circumstances which conspire to give it credibility. His Lordship's intimate acquaintance with the details of the Bill, his unwearied industry, his placid tem per, and the happy combination of tact and talent displayed by him in the House of Commons through a long course of vexa tious opposition, unexampled in the trickeries of debate, point him out as the fittest person to conduct the great measure through similar difficulties, if similar difficulties should await it in another place. Then as to the honour arising from such ad. vancement---;the honour of fighting the battle of reform upon two distinct arenas, but upon one and the same principle—the destruction of a corrupt system)—as to the honour to be de- rived from such advancement, it seems to be but a just tribute to his Lordship's merits, in which the voice of the country will agree. The changes spoken of in the Ministry as consequent upon the elevation of Lord Althorp are the same as those men tioned by a morning Contemporary yesterday, with the addition of Mr. Macaulay, who has been named as the new Judge-Advo cate. The appointments will then stand thus— Mr. Stanley to succeed Lord Althorp as Chancellor of the Exchequer; Sir J. C. Hobhouse to succeed Mr. Stanley as Secretary for Ireland ; Mr. R. Grant to succeed Sir J. C. Hobhouse as Secretary at War ; and Mr. Macauley to succeed Mr. R. Grant as Judge_ Advocate. The limited number of the new creations, if our in formation be correct, would seem to argue something like con fidence upon the part of Ministers that present apppearances, at least, are rather favourable than otherwise to the success of their important measure.—Morning Herald. • A private letter from Paris, dated Tuesday last, state that a duel was to have taken place near that city on that day, between Mr. C (brother of an Englishwoman whose elopement we reported before) and the compassion of her flight. As a preparatory step to the combat, the lady was (according to the letter in question) delivered up to her brother on the peceding evening. Letters from Odessa of the 20th February, state that commercial business had been suspended in conse quence of the port having again been suddenly frozen over. It was hoped, however, that a thaw would soon take place, as the severity of the weather was not accompanied with the usual in dications of duration. Upwards of fifty vessels were at anchor at Cape Nalacri, bound to Odessa, and waiting for a change of weather to proceed thither. SIR RALPH Esll ER.—Among the nume rous historical personages introduced into this sparkling pro duction, from the pen of Leigh Hunt, are the following : —the merry Monarch himself—Duchess of Cleveland—Duchess of Toct i ga°. f ae Y° . rk sour—Sir George Hewitt—Slr Philip Herne—La belle Stewart —Oliver Cromwell—Nell Gwynn—Milton—Butler—Dryden —Lady Castlemain— Killigrew—Colonelßlood—&c.—Sfc. These remarkable characters afford abundant opportunities to the pen of the novelist for striking and contrasted incidents ; and rea ders of all classes have recognized the rare ability with which he has turned them to account. Herring, who was formerly a favourite comic performer at Astley's, had the misfortune to step upon one of thoie loose paving stones which are known by the not inap propriate name of beau-trap. " Halloa, Herring, you are in a pretty pickle!" said a facetious friend, who was passing at the moment. Herring laughed—so did his friend; but the hilarity of the actor was checked by his observing a sweep join in the joke- " What the d—l are you laughing at 1" said Herring. " Vy," said the sweep, quite overcome by his clear perception of the jest, " Vy, that there man said yi,u were all over mud."—The Original. _ _ . ECCENTRICITY AND IMPUDENCE.—Morti mer was employed by Lord Melbourne to paint a ceiling at his seat of Bracket-hall, Herta, and taking advantage of permis sion to angle in the fish pond, he rose from a carousal at mid night, and seeking a net, and calling on an assistant painter for help, dragged the preserve, and left the whole fish gasping on the bank in rows. Nor was this the worst; when reproved mildly, and with smiles, by 1.:' , 2y Melbourne, he had the audacity to declare that her beauty had so bewitched him he knew not what he was about —Lives of Painters. EMIGRATIoN.—Among t:ie numerous emi grants from Fife, on board a vessel which sailed from Dundee roads on Tuesday last, for Quebec, is a woman 76 years of age — she goes out, of course, not as " a tiller of the ground," but to escape being left friendless in the place Of her childhood, the last of her family, from this country, being in the vessel along with her. She carries out, it is said, :100/.,—a considerable sum, considering the small means she had for acquiring it, her usual occupation having been that of going messages to the farmers, ire. in the neighbourhood. Another vessel laden with Fife emigrants, we understand, sails this week from Leven, and another from the same port will sail next week.—l7,,re Herald. FLOWERS AND FR UI TS.—The following very useful works, connected with planting and gardening, are submitted to the attention of the public at this season of the year, and are to be had of all Booksellers :—l. The Florist's Manua!, or Rules for the Construction of a Gay Flower Gar den ; curious farts respecting the management of Bulbous Plants, &c. ; the culture of the Guernsey Lilly, &c.; with a Ca talogue of Plants as they appear in each season. New and im proved Edition, with Six Coloured Plates, ss. 6d.-2. Phillips's Companion for the Orchard, or an Historical and Botanical Account of Fruits cultivated in Great Britain; with important directions for their improvement, and new methods of retarding and ripening them, so as to ensure their enjoyment in all seasons. A new and improved Edition, Svo. 75.-3. Phillips's Companion for the Kitchen Garden, or History of Vegetables cultivated in Great Britain, on the same plan as the preceding. A new and improved Edition, in .2 vols., only I2s. —I. A Dis course on Forest Trees and the Propagation of Timber. By the celebrated John Evelyn. A New Edition, in '2 vols. 4to. embellished with 4fi I'lates, 31. 3s. " A diligent perusal of this noble work may animate our nobility and gentry to improve their estates by the never-failing method therein recommended. All persons, indeed, who are owners of land, may find infinite delight as well as profit in this book." FLIGHT OF THE BOURBONS AND REIN STATEMENT OF NAPOLEON.—In Paris, the state of interior commotion and outward quiet was such as cannot be conceived by those who did not witness it. Terror and dismay, hope and joy, intrigue and apostacy, hatred and revenge, strove vainly to disguise themselves under masks, the effect which was exagge ration and distortion rather than concealment. Louis XVIII. repeated his grovelling appeals and hollow promises; his miserable successor, the Count d'Artois, pledged himself to the constitution by an oath, in the presence of the two Chambers. It was too late. Napoleon was already at Fontainbleau. At one o'clock in the morning of the 20th of March the Bourbons stole out of the Tuilleries ; and at seven in the evening of the same day, the Emperor (for such he now was, emphatically; drove into the court-yard of the Palace, escorted by a squadron of cavalry, galloping round him in a disorderly martial array, with shouts which weresoon drowned in the tumultuous cheers of the vast multitudewhich filled the carousal. The postillion, obstructed by the dense crowd, could not reach the Tuilleries. He opened the chaise door to make his way on foot ; but before he touched the ground was borne by men's arms to his very consideration cabinet, and in a f ew h ours f oun d himself surrou nded b y his household officers and Ministers of Stat e, as if his reign had never been susp en d e d.—D r . Lordlier's Cabin;:t Library. 11l flct, idea i to 1 IleOnSta andrepresent the et, some under whateverperi m ay cl ~ose people, I have found by experience that they frequently ern. brace certain views which, it must be confessed, they pursue hotly, or rather, perhaps, with fury ; but that those views have always for their object a common interest, or one of a certain generality at least, and never an interest purely private, like those interests which engage the passions, and towards the ad vancement of which the exertions of an individual, or of a small number of individuals, are directed. I will even make bold to say that, upon this point, the least fallible judge is the coke the Prqgc.. — Mem. dP SKIIy, trench edition. FRENCH PAPERS. CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES, MARcg 26. The Chuntir-r proceeded to tt:e discus ion of the Budget the Marine depatttnynt. The Minister ef the Marine defended the shale :iterative syst in of his departtnt nt from the attacks made upon it by the various orators of the Oppositi:m. In the course of his addreis, he stated t:-.at it was admitted that the French utvy alieti!d consist of 40 ships of the no, 50 frigates, and several lighter v;!issels. The num ber of seamen in France ntight be stated at 60,000 of which were effective h and the rentain4t incluled the artisans and invalids. With respect to the exp.-tees, he stated that the American navy, which con - sisted only of five ships of the line afl..at, and seven in con sttuction, and 16 frigates, cost 23,000,000 fr., so that aking into consideration the comparative force of the French navy, its cost must be considered as very moderate. In reply To the remarks of M. Roger on stram-veesels, be argued that steam navigation can never 13, applicable to long voy.tgef, on account of the itnpossibility of laying in a suflit lest stock of fuel; t , e long , sit period for Yihich any vessel could sore its fat) bring 11 drys—(lleac, and in support of his argument menlion d the s•earri boat sent to them from England, which, although there were numerous retays of fuel established on it. route, only a: rived at its destination as soon as a sailing vessel de spktehed at the elute tittle, and was found to entail so much expense that the freight of goods tent by that con veyanco would be very much greater thait Cent by an ordinary vessel. In conclusion, the lion. Minister re.: prated his conviction of the system of accounts and man. agement now adopted in the marine department bring in capable of improvement, and quoted the opinion of the Emperor N,,psleon in support of his assertion. The general discussi:Mwas then declared to be closed. (Front the Journal des Debuts of Wednesday.) FrAiItENCY, MARCH IS. —S:veral Austrian regiments will he marched into the Pontifical States, from the other srtle of the Appenine:, through Tuscany. As Pesaro is near AnconA, and that the Pontifical States on the olier side of the Appenines are the Marches, the soldiers of Austria will arrive without obstacle in the U;.r, BOLOGNA, MARCH 16.—Tie Austrians have at length decided upon pushing forward their troops—the march begins to- d ; Rimini, Pesaro, Earn), and Urbino, wdl be occupied. The Court of Rome has oeinandA three times, and in the roost pressing manner, this movement on the part of Austria. Nart.r.s, MAncu 9.—The presence of a French vessel of War, intended for the exercise of the maritime pupils in the port of Palermo, has produced some disagreeable scenes, of the, details of which we are still ignorant. We are assured that our C turt, informed by the Ainbassadoe of France of the occupation of Ancona, complained in its answer of the violent m miler in which the occupation had been effected, offering at the same time its co-operation to rwcupy the Roman Marches. But it is added that the Pipe, fearing the consequences of a triple occupaion of Status by vrangers. refu-ed the off,-r, and we hear no more of the in irch of our trope towards Amb; uzzo. THE CHOLERA IN PARIS. (From the Times.) EA rtIS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28, FOUR O'CLECK. There is now no doubt of the c holera being in this city. Ten persons have been already removed to the Hotel Dieu, where preparations are made for the reception of many more. Seven persons diod of it yesterday ; among whom was the cook of Marshal Lobau. The autopsy of five bodies to-k place in the presence of thirty-eight medical men, and of the Minister of the Public Works, M. d'Ar g by whom no doubt is e.tertained of the existence of the malady. The Government, in order to prevent the extension of the alarm necessarily cons qnent on the report, endea voured this morning to contradict it, but contradiction Was useless. The Medical Board has been assembled, in order to make all proper regulations. S;itne of the members of the Chamber having expressed an intention of alluding in the discussion of this d ty to its existence in this city, it is said that they have been re quested not to give it undue publicity. The funds rose this day. in consequence of a London Evening Pap r of Monday having announced the cer trolly of the ratifications being given in London on the 31st. Much amusement is created by the general belief that that paper, now in favour of peace, is ruled by a great German capitalist, while the Messayer des ( hombres, which supports a c-ntrary policy, is in the hands of a leaden; Spanish banker. Thus the Bears and Bulls lead the puh:ic in both capitals. It is a remarkahle fact that a high diplomatic character has received a reprimand from his Court, for having, in witt, one of those epeculators, gambled in the funds. The French Government has come to an arrangement, pubkhed in the Moniteur of this morning, whereby packets conveying passengers are to be suhjected, on en tering their ports, to only the duty of one ton for each, provided no merchandise be on board. The determination of the King of Holland not to ratify the treaty of the 15th of Novenver, which is seconded by the delays in di, ratifications of the three great dissident Powers,—the refusal of the ecclesiasitcal Government in Rome to allow any power in the legations to mere civi liates,—the numerous protests of the Pope against the French occupation of his st ites,—the excitement existing in Italy, which is manif,sted at well in the thronging of Liher)Ot to join the tricolour flag in Ancona as in the marching, after three pressing invitations front Rome, of the Austrian soldiers from Bologna, and other stations, in order to occupy Rimini, Pesaro, Urbino, and Farrt,—have contributed to produce :darn) and feats of warlike collision among many it) this city. Yet there app, ate but little apprehension of war, and, as it is assert,d, Sehastiani spoke even yesterday as if the removal of the French troops from Ancona was at hand. The article inserted in the Ministerial journal La Noutelle France, of yesterday, continues uncontradicted i yet the despatches conveyed by the courier to Vienur, who l-ft Paris on Monday, are sup psed to have for object the arrangement of the affairs of the P p States, in such a manner as will enable the French to withdraw without dishonour. In the Journal des Debuts of this morning, a para graph is inserted by the editor, who is considered as having communication with the French Cabinet. It is worded thus:—" It appeal a that the French Cabinet is resolved not to withdraw our troops froisi Ancona, except when the Legations sl. all be constituted on the basis conformable to the engagements made by the Pontifical Government and in such a manner as to remove all fears of new trou bles " How t .e Pope is to give security which will satisfy his ecclesiastical and his civil subjects, and at the sante time prevent all disturbances in future, may puzzle the diplomatists. The King of Naples and the Swiss Govern ment are stated to have refused to allow the Swiss regi ments in the service of the fin mer to change into that of the Pope. Hence Colonel Zamboni, at Bologna, is de scribed as enlisting some thousand peasants, who will, it is hoped, maintain tranquillity in the Legations. One fact seems clear, that it is the presence of the French which upholds the excitement. Therefore their removal, as soon as a settli-ment can be effected, is highly probable. Counected with the arrangement of those affairs of the Pipe's Government, may he mentioned the official insertion in the illoniteur of this morning, of an ordinance of the tine, by which the Papal bulls for the canonical institu t,on of the Lately nominated Archbishops of Aix and Avignon, and of the Bishep of Dijon, are received and published, with, however, a solemn protest against all teausee, formula.. and expressions which are or may be censid, rest contrary to the constitutional charter, and to the liberti e s of th e Gallivan Ch u rch, a nd especially iiga i nst the words " Aloisiutn Philippum Francim et Navarrae Reeetn "—that King " Louis rbilip , of France and Navarre." It is indeed strange that the Roman Court, which is of a ll roost particular in those minor concerns of diplomatic etiquette, s hould, while Louis Philip styles him " King of the French," still maintain tee old form, which the Legitimists and Cerlists contend belongs either to Charles X. or Henry V. This detearation of the Pope, 4. , their ec eleeiastical chief, must prove to the adherents of particular t o th e e ditors of th e t h e exiled branch , and in Gazette of France, and all the other gazette a published i„ t h e provinces, that their efforts will be nugatory to have France again disturbed on their account. The name ‘• Gazette" is peculiar to the Carlist j , urnals, and all their ,ffortm tend to have the States- General assembled as in 17H 9 , aid to procure universal suffrage throughout the retain, which is evidently an absurdity, if not an impos sibility. The disturbances near Ancennes, which were yesterd.y magnified into a defeat of the military by the Chouens, !lave since been explained as of no importance, for the brigands fled before the troops. At Strasburg, also, it welt said that cone movement took place in the regi tnents ; but a notice of the Prefet, published on the 24,th, has de,slpatel all alarm. The Alinisterial journals irate, that all his tranquil at Grenoble ; but private letters speak of duels betweeen the citizens and some of the officers. The inquiry still continues into the late eisturhaticee. The preparations for the extraordinary expedition still ontintie at Toulon. Cannon trains are stated to have been lopatched from Vincennes to that port. Letters from Naples speak of some trifling disturbances et Pale: MO. The King of Naples has offered to join the French and Austrians in tnaintaining the quiet of the