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11 , . l EETING OF THE'afURGESSES OF LIVERPOOL. T a PUBLIC M'RETING of the.'BURGESSES - of LIVERPOOL, lad "in 'the Large'Room of the Golden Lion, in Liverpool, on MONDAY, the 29th day of June, 1835, On the motion of CYR vs Mourtatt, Esq., seconded by RAY MOND HOUGHTOW, Esq., ' . JOHN WRIGHT, Esq., was unanimously called to the chair. On the motion of Titosiss.'foaiN, Esq., seconded by N. D. BoLD, Esq., It was rcsolred.—That this meeting observes with surprise and alarm the introduction into the Bill for the Reform of Municipal Corporations of those clauses which exclude from, the New Corporations the ancient Burgesses of England, which deprive their sons and apprentices of their incohate rights and privileges, and which prevent the l tier from ob taining the Elective Franchise so receut,ly an solemnly gua ranteed to Burgesses and their successors, y the act for amending the represeuthtion of the people. On the motion of THOMAS B. HORSEA L 'sq., seconded by JAMES IRVING, Esq., It was resolved,--That the Burgesses of iverpool feel it their duty to appeal to Parliament on behalf of themselves, their sons, and apprentices, and particularly to call upon the *House of Commons not to assent to those clauses of the Bill which affect the rights and privileges conferred upon the Burgesses by the Charters of this town. On the motion of RICHARD DAWSON, Esq„ seconded by WILLIAAI SHAND, Esq., It was resolved,—That a Petition from the Burgesses of Liverpool be forthwith presented to the House of Commons, and that the Petition now read be adopted. On the motion of J. NELSON WOOD, Esq., seconded b THOMAS MOORE Esq . It was resolved,—That the Petition be forwarded to Lord Sandon for presentation, and that Mr. Ewart be requested to give it his best suppart. JOHN WRIGHT, Chairman. The Chairman having left the chair. On the motion of E. B. LYON, Esq., seconded by JOHN SANDERS, Esq., It was resolved,—That the best thanks of the meeting are due to the Chairman for his able and impartial conduct in the chair. EXTRAORDINARY ATTRACTION ! THE truly incredible magnitude of SAL!: at the COMPTON HOUSE ESTABLISH, NT, Maimg the past three weeks, has induced t Proprietor a SECOND TIME this present month to visit ti • London Mar kets, and the various Manufacturing Distri. s; where he has, owing to the advanced state of the season, • •en enabled to pur chase (for cash) Goods to an amazing e. t, and at such prices as will defy all competition ! Having engaged Two Extra Fly Boats, the greater part have been delivered at his Warehouse three days earlier than the regular conveyance, and have been marked atthe usual ratio of profit! The whole will be ready for' inspection THIS DAY, (Tues day,) and during the present week. The following Lots at the subjoined Low Prices will convince y visitor or this Establishment that Wonders can be accom plished with Lash and judgment. Hotel Keetiers, Families, Captains, and other large Blyers, are recommended, for their own convenience, to make their purchases in the early part of the day, previous to the bustle commencing. LiEAPERY, SHAWLS, LINENS, &c. LOT. No. 1.-1600 Printed Muslin Dresses,3s. 100. to 10s. 6d. each. 2.-An innumerable quantity of Chalhe Pattern. Printed Twilled Dresses, ss. 3d. to 6s. 9d. each. 3.-600 full-sized Thibet Shawls, all at 6s. 10Id. each. 4.-450 Edinburgh 15s. 9d. each, worth 30s. 5.-10;'i0 French Filled Shawls, 18s. 6d., to 255. each. 6.-11 Dozen Ditto, last year's styles, all at 12s. 9d. 7.-250 Canton Crape Shawls, astounding bargains. 8,-10 Boxes 7-Bth and 4-th Grass Bleached Coleraine Linens, at, per yard, Is. ald. and Is. 6d. A single Piece at the Wholesale Price. . 9.-20 Pieces 5-4th Linen Sheetings, per yard, Os. 80. 10.-27 10-4th • • ditto 1 9 11.-84 114th Russia. ditto 2 11 12.-Linen Damask, 2-1- yards wide, at 4s. 3d. worth 7s. 6d. 13.-25 Dozen Damask Breakfast Cloths, at 3s. 11d. 14.-26 Ditto Dinner Ditto, 5 3 15.-80 Ditto 4 yards long . 10 9 16.-500 Ditto Napkins by the dozen 13 6 17.-275 White Counterpanes, all at 3 6 18.-700 Marseilles Quilts. very large • 7 6 HOSIERY, RIBBONS, SILKS, &c. A few Hundred Dozen Cotton Hose, from 12s. 6d. to 18s. 6d. both Plain and Embroidered. 50 Dozen Ladies' China Silk, per pair, 2s. and 2s. 61d. 120 Boxes of Swiss and French Kid Gloves, per dozen, 16s. An immense quantity of Lace Silk Gloves, all at Is. 64d., worth 3s. 75 Dozen Lace Thread Gloves, all at Is. per pair. 850 Pieces French Gauie Ribbons. This Lot was cleared from Me Customhouse, London, on Friday last, and will be sold, per yard, 41d. 2370 Parasols, in Five Lots, No. 1, ss. 9d., No. 2,6 s. 101 d. This is the cheapest lot, and comprises about one-halfof the whole; No. 3, with Borders, Bs. 9d.; Nos. . 4 and 5 consist of rich Figured Borders at 9s. 9d. and lls. 3d. A small Manufacturer's Stock of Spitalfields Silks; about 150 Pieces at Is. 112 d. and 2s. lid. In this Lot there are a few Pieces of Blacks, the Imperial Fast Dye. 39 Dozen Silk Umbrellas, at 5s 71d. each. An endless variety of Worked Collars, in Pelerines, Can. zea. , .s, and Chemisettes. These are well worth the attention of the Trade. Compton House, 27, Church-street. Just published, containing upwards of Six Hundred Pages, dewy Bvo,price Seven Shilling HANTISM versus BAPTISM, or INF NT SPRINK LING against CHRISTIAN DIME SION : in which the Arguments for the former practice ar examined and con futed : and the Scriptural Authority for a latter clearly exhi bited. In the form of a Trial. By SEA oats ELLisoN, Author of a Letter to J. J. GuirriEv, Esq. The arguments for the former pract e are set forth at length from the Writings of the following Authors, which contain an epitome of ALL that has been written on the subject Rev. Adam Clarke, LL.D., F.A.S., Rev. William Burkitt, M.A., Right Rev. Richard Mant, D.D., M.R.1.A., Lord Bishop of Down awl Connor, Rev. Thomas Scott, Rev. Timothy Dwight, S.T.D.,' LL.D., Rev. Ralph Wardlaw, D.D., Rev. Gieville Ewing, Rev. AI icaiah Towgood, (recommended by the Revds. David Bogue, J. Clayton, sen., B. Cr a ckn a ll, D.D., J. D u pr e , D.D., T. Durant, T. Haweis, LL.B., M.D., J. Hooper, A.M., S. Lowell, T. Raffles, D.D., LL.D., J. I'. Smith, D.D., and W. Thorpe,) Rev. Richard Watson, and Rev. John Stewart, D. D. Published Lv Hamilton, Adams, and Co., London ; and D. Mavples and Co., Liverpool. Zo be Let. rim b e LET, with possession on the 10th of July next, an 1_ excellent FAMILY HOUSE and G DEN, with or without Coach-house, Stable, and Servant -house, situate on the north side of Pembroke-place, and late n the occupation of George Heald, Esq. The House contains Drawing -room,' ining-room, Library, and extensive Kitchens on the ground our; Ten good Lodg ing►-rooms, and is replete with every convenience. Terms and Tickets to View may . be had on application to TuomAs ettoox and SoN, 19, Exchange -street East. To be Al)lb. BUILDING LAND AT BIRK NHEAD. EV ERAL parcels of LAND, suits e for Building, (in C-77 quantity as purchasers may incline fronting a street 20 yards wide, called Price-street, and at e Crescent adjoining, near Hamilton-square, and within ten minutes walk of Wood side Ferry. For Plan of the Ground, &c., apply to THOMAS Foasyrsi, 23, Exchange-buildings. Liverpool, June 29, 183.5. ELIGIBLE BUILDING LAND. 11) be SOLD by PRIVATE CONTRACT, all at Parcel of LAND on the north side of Pleasant- reet, between Clarence-street and Great Orford-street, havi a frontage of 52 yards by 20 yards in depth. Also, all that other Parcel of LAND on e opposite side of Pleasant-street, having a frontage of 18 yards and a depth of 19 yards. Also, all that Parcel of LAND on the north side of Bittern street, between Great Orford-stieet and Poinona•street, having a frontage of about 5U yards and a depth of yards. The whole is under full corporation lease. Apply to N. D. BOLD, Sun Fire Office, 3, Exchange-street West. iimat 'Notice. THE Creditors who have proved their Debts nder a fiat in Bankruptcy awarded and issued fotth gainst JOHN FOX, of Liverpool, in the :countY of Lane ster, wine-tner 'chant, are requested to meet the Assignees- f the said Bank raft's estate and effects, on Thursday, the econd day of July next, at twelve o'clock at nO,in, at t office of Messt,.l. LOWNDRS' and RonirasoN, Solicitors;•Bru wick-street, Liver pool, in order to assent to •tit diasarWfrtmr tire- said Assignees compounding with certain debtors to , the estate, Who will b named at the meeting; and also to take, into consideration cer tain instances of the placing or .worehousing of Wines with !he Bankrupt by parties who will be named at the meeting; and to assent to or dissent from I Ite.Assiggyes delivering such wines, or any of them, to the patties claiming the Aiple ;. and also to assent to or dissent from the - saitt Assignees referring such cases or any of them to arbitration . , or otherwise to authorize the As signees to take or defend any proceedings the ;High Court of Chancery, or in the Court of fteview, in relation to the said wines; and on other special affairs. LONDON GAZETTE.—FRIDAY, JUNE 2a. INSOLVENTS. June 24, Thomas Tomolit', Luton, Bedfordshire, baker—June 25, Joseph Slnek, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, shipliroket—June 26, William Sturt, Chailey. Sussex, spirit-merehant. • BANKRUPTS. ' John Bell and William Stewart, Fort-street, Spitalf►elds, silk-marm facturera. George William Lyndon, Gerrard-street, Soho, London, wholesale jeweller. .." Joseph Gillnm James,..Bucklersbury, wine-merchant. 'Alfred Price, Priest-court, Poster-lane, Cheapside, London, straw bfmnet-maker. William Thomas Pesten, Budge-row, Watling-street, and Bromley, Inciia-rulther-manufaeturer. George Clisby, litutgerfolli-market, London, corn-dealer. John Wallis, Tooley-street, Southwark, iinen-draper. John Ravenscro ft, jun.iManch'ester, wine-merchant, James Whitelocks, Watnall,Nnteinghathshire, buildef. John Broom, Jesse Taylor, • and' Solomon Briggs, Huddersfield. fancy-cloth-manufacturers.. •• • •• • James Bastian. Truro, g ornwall, merchant. Thomas Young, Nericastle-dpon-Tyne. grocer. John Burnley, Wetherby, Yorkshire, wood-merchant. July 18, J. Fox, Liverpool, •wine4rierchanV—July 18, T. Wadley, Liverpool, merchant—July,l4;• P. Richard, Liverpool—July 20, J. M. Holt and %V. Oswald,Yeather's-eourt, London. Irish-linen-factors —July 17. J. Chandler and. S. King, St.. Paul's Churchyard, Londo n , woollen-drapers July" '2O, G. Williams, Union-court, Holloway, merchant—July 17, W. 13ealeandJ: H.Wrathall, Union-street, South mark, hat-makers--July 20,' a: Hill, Royston, Ilertfordshire, builder —July 20, T. Grove. Great Surrey=street London, tailor—July 17, J. Lucas, City-road, London, timber-merchant—July 10, J. Carter; Cole man-street, London, woollen-warehouseman —July 17, H. IL-New ington, High-street, Southwark, .Chinaman—July 17, S. and K. A. Crickett and S. 11. Buffett, Chelmsford, bankers —July 17, G. Telfer," Phoenix-wharf, London; coal-thershatit—July 17, P. D. L. Hilde sheimer, otherwise P. Levi', Woolwich, grocer—July 7, T. R. Lewis. Tunbridge-place, Lond on , w i ne - merc h an t—J u ly 2.7,' F. P. Couch, Launceston, Cornwall, horse-dealer—July 31; .P. Cox, Fairford, Gloucestershire, builder—Aug. 7, J. Dent, Durham. draper—July 18, 0, 'Willson. Atherstone, Warwickshire, victualler—July 20, J. Edles ton, Manchester, eommission-agmt—July 21, H. and C. Battersby, 'Lindley, Lancashire, cotton-spinners—July 22. H. Battersby, 'Lindley", Lanenstire. cotton-spinney—July 23, C. Battersby, 'Lindley, Lan- rashire. cotton-spinner—Aug. 15, T. Lord, Newton-heath and Man .chester, silk-manufacturer—July 24, W. D. Price, .Chejstow, Mon mouthshire, innkeeper. Emptrial Varliamtnt. HOUSE OF CONIMONS.—WEDNAsnAy. SPANISH AFFAIRS. _ ....._. Lord MAHON moved for a copy of the order in council, and all' communications respecting . it, exempting his majesty's subjects who may enter the service of the Queen of Spain from the provisions of the foreign enlistment act. The debate on this motion was a very long one,' but nu opposition was offered by Lard Palmerston. Col. Evans, the officer who is to hav'e the command of the English auxiliaries now raising, took ex ceptions to some expressions used by Lord Mahon, which called for the interference of the speaker, in consequence of which the noble lord and the gallant colonel mutually ex plained. MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS' BILL LOIAJOHN RUSSELL moved (us committee) the 10th clause of this bill, with some alterations. This clause affects the rights of all freemen to any property to which they might be entitled by depriving all freemen, widows of freemen, &c. &c.— who were not freemen on the sth of June, 1835, of any right to participate therein. His lordship having explained the amend ments which he proposed to make in this clause, said, with re gard to freedom by birth of right, he thought that it did not stand an the same ground as the right to freedom by apprentice ship. It had been urged with regard to the latter that the ap prentices had either paid themselves, or their friends or relations had paid for them, sums of money, iu the expectation that those sums of money would be afterwards repaid to them by means of the advantages which they would enjoy on becoming free men of the borough. It would therefore be a hardship upon them if the house were to deprive them of those advantages which they had been accustomed to expect. As to those who, by the accident of birth, were entitled to become freemen on their coining of age, it was quite clear that the same argument did not apply to them. They gave nothing for the advantages which they might enjoy, and therefore had no reason to com plain of the operation of the clause. Sir Wm. FOLLETT understood the amendment of the noble lord to admit the principle that certain persons had vested rights in property which ought not to be destroyed, and in fur therance of it we ought to exempt all persons having at this moment the same description of vested interests. What was the distinction between an apprentice whose right was admitted and the son of a freeman now born who possessed the same right on arriving at the age of twenty-one? Did it make any difference when we were dealing with the rights of property whether the property was that of a poor or rich man ?---an estate of £20,000 a-year or a right to turn out a few bead of cattle on a common ? What he meant to propose by . way of amendment was, that every person having an actual right as a freeman at the time of the passing of the act, and every person then having an incubate right to b e ad m itt e d t o his freedom by birth or otherwise, should have the same rights of property as if this bill had never existed. Exemption from tolls might be a public in convenience; but he thought the house ought to be cautious how it took such privileges away. • Lord JOHN RUSSELL subsequently moved that the chairman should report progress. The hon. and learned member (Sir W. Follett) could inform him of the words he proposed to introduce into the clause, and he (Lord J. Russell) would consider them. . The CHAIRMAN then reported progress and the house ad journed. HOUSE OF LORDS—THURSDAY. The Earl of Devon took the oaths and his seat. The Bishop of LICHFIELD presented petitions from Coven try, Cardiff, and other places against the appropriation clause in the Irish church bill. IRISH POOR LAWS. The Duke of RICHMOND presented a petition from a parish in the cothity of Clare. praying that poor laws might be intro duced into Ireland. The noble duke said he had passed a great part of a long life in Ireland, and was convinced that there was no man acquainted with that country but must feel that what would suit England would not suit Ireland. Poor laws had crushed the energies and demoralised the people of England, and in Ireland would destroy all the charitable feelings which now existed there. Poor laws in Ireland would be productive of the most mischie%ous effects. IRISH EDUCATION COMMISSION. The Bishop, of EXETER presented a petition from the Rev. Edward Mangles, a minister of the established church in Ire land. It set forth, in effect, that the petitioner, the Rev. E. Mangles, a member of the united church of England and Ire land, and minister of the island • of Achill, had been placed in that living in July last; that at the time there was no glebe house on the island; that the petitioner procured a tract of mountain land, and proceeded to build houses upon it; that he had expended £1,500 in improving the place, and that £5O for a month's wages had frequently been paid to the labourers employed by him; that he had gone to considerable expense to clothe the naked children, and that he had established schools for their education; that Mr. Newport, one of the commission ers of public instruction, had visited his establishment, and' ex pressed his approbation of it; that a Roman catholic priest, who resided ou the island, had done everything in his power to frustrate the petitioner's attempts to ameliorate the condition of the inhabitants; that he pronounced from the altar frightful imprecations against those who worked for the petitioner or went to his school. The petition then proceeded to set forth a great many outragesTerpetrated against the petitioner, as it was alleged, in consequence of the influence of the priest, and con cluded by praying that measures should be adopted by the legislature to secure to individuals the right of professing with out annoyance or molestation the protestant faith in Ireland. Lord FARNHAM had known Mr. Mangles for many years, and believed that there did not exist a milder or more auiiable man, or one less likely to provoke the outrages which were de tailed in the petition. The Bishop of EXETER then said that he had also a petition from the Rev. Mr. Stoney. The petitioner " implored their lordships to take such steps as should seem fitting in their lord ships' wisdom for the protection of the _protestant religion—for the redress of those grievances which afflicted the country—and to extend such relief to the members of the church of England as would ensure to them religious liberty and personal safety." The petition was against partial and unjust proceedings alleged to have been resorted to by two of the commissioners of public instruction in Ireland. Now, in order to see whether their con duct was partial and unjust, the best course, perhaps, would be refer to the commission. Their lordships would bear with him when he said that, recollecting that this was a commission un der the great seal, it was to be expected that the object of such a commission could not be meant, in the slightest degree, to weaken or to interfere with the cause ottrue religion,'or to im pair any of the rights and privileges of the clergy of the esta blished church in that part of the united kingdom to which such commission was directed. Those rights and privileges were of the most sacred character, and he was sure that in granting this commission it was never intended that it should be made an instrument for invading them, because, if his majesty departed from that principle, it must be plain t o th e i r l or d s hip s th a t i n such a case his majesty would have done that which it would be unseemly to conceive possible —nay, which could not be con ceived,to be possible—that he had adopted a course contrary to the iuterests of the established religion, and thereby violated his coronation oath. The terms of the commission were such as went strictly to the protection of the rights and privileges of the church; but there was one part of it liable to much objec tiou—that which directed a summary to be made of the number of persons attached to different religious persuasions in Ireland. Looking to the commission, the powers confided to the fidelity of the commissioners would, if rightly followed up, have con ferred the greatest blessings upon the people of Iceland. He alluded particularly to the last matter given in charge to the commissioners—namely, " to inquire generally whether ade quate provision is now made for the religious instruction and for the general education of the people of Ireland, and to report such other circumstances connected with the moral and political relations of the church establishment, and the religious institu tions of other denominations dissenting from the established church as may bring clearly into view their bearings on the, general condition of the people of that part of our said united kingdom called Ireland." Nothing better for the happiness of Ireland—nothing better for the security of England—nothing better for the good, temporal and eternal, of the popolation of the former country could be devised than a thorough investiga tion of the effects produced by the respective religious principles of the established church and of the Roman Catholics on the character and conduct of the people of Ireland. It was with regret he found that the commissioners had not only not exe cuted that important part of the inquiry —that they had not only nut touched upon it, but had, as be thought, permitted themselves to pass it over most unjustly and unfairly. He had just read what the commissioners were called upon to inquire into, and now he would refer to their report. They said, speaking of the course which they had adopted, that, in pursuing it, " we are influenced by the consideration, that, inasmuch as the inquiry committed to our charge is essentially of a statistical nature, and as we are not authorized to recommend remedial measures in respect to the anomalous relation in which the institutions of the. established church stand, with reference both to its own members and to the rest of the population in the greater part of Ireland, as apparent from those facts as set forth in our reports, any comments upon- those facts illustrative of that relation would necessarily involve us in the lengthened discussion of many matters of serious import not comprehended, a s we conceive, within the scope of our inquiry." (Hear, hear, hear.) Their lordships would perceive they hail not only refused to do that which they were called upon to do, but had been pleased to allude to what they called the " anomalous relation in which the - institutions ()fate established church stands with reference to its own members and the rest of the population of Ireland." Ile would now call the attention of the house to the allegations contained in the petition. It was alleged that the Roman ca tholic priest objected to the reception of the statement given on oath by the parochial schoolmaster of the numbers of the pro testants, and - the commissioners refused to receive evidence re fife" protestants thought it waquitt — ' of their instructions to inquire into the reasons of the increase or diminution in the number of the persons who attended schools and places of worship. The petitioner stated .that lie was ready to prove at the bar of that house, that the protestants had been subject to the most cruel and' unrelenting persecution ; that the Roman catholic children would attend the parochial scripture school, if it were not that they were pelted with stones, and hunted across the streets ; lie said that some of them had the. mark of the cruel whip of the priest upon their backs, and that some had been confined to their beds in conse quence of the ill usage they had received. 'Whether that state ment was or was not true he ( the Bishop of Exeter) could not say, but the petitioner had offered to prove its correctness before the commissioners, and he now offered to do so, with their lordships' permission, at the bar of that house. The commis sioners, for reasons with which he was not disposed to find fault, thought proper to bring forward their statement in justi fication, and it would be in the recollection of their lordships that the following observations were made by the noble viscount (Lord Duncannou), and that they produced some effect at the time :—" When the commissioners first arrived in Dublin, they deemed it necessary to address certain queries to the clergy of all denominations. T. these they had generally received proper answers, but the parish of which Mr. Stoney was the incum bent formed, it appeared, an exception. He did not think pro per to return written answers to the printed queries, but sent back printed answers, many of them irrelevant." In conse quence of that statement, he (the Bishop of Exeter) wrote to Mr. Stoney, expressing very strongly his disapproval of the course which had been taken by that rev. gentleman in dealing with the .quei ies put by the commissioners. lie had also con demned the ill temper exhibited by liiin, and the improper lan guage employed in several instances in his answers: In reply lo his communication he received a letter from Mr. Stoney which utterly astonished him, and which he should presently take the liberty of reading to their lordships. He felt it neces sary, however, to state, in the first place, that after reading that letter, he thought it right to move that the original letter re ceived by the commissioners from Mr. Stoney in answer to their queries should be laid on their lordships' table. That motion was agreed to, and in compliance with it, the noble viscount placed last night on the table a written copy of the letter. He (the BishOp of Exeter) remarked to the noble viscount that the nranuscript was not the original letter. The noble viscount promised to show him the original, and had that day placed in his hands a paper which purported to have been received on the 23th of November, 18&I, at the Record-office of the Public In struction Commission, in Dublin. The paper was without any cover, and whether it was received by post or not was not ap parent. He had no hesitation in saying, that in the absence of all internal evidence, be must give implicit credence to the ex ternal evidence which the Rev. Mr. Stoney offered on the sub-1 ject. He trusted, however, that if there - was any cover to the letter, the noble viscount mould produce it. The rev. gentle- TUE LIVERPOOI man, in his letter to him (the. Bishop of Exeter), said the t statement that he had returned printed answers to the queries of the commissioners was a mistake. He (the bishop of Ex eter) rejoiced to find that the rev. gentleman had now adopted a more temperate style. At a former period hemight probably have applied a stronger term, to the statement of the cThuniis sioners than mistake. (A laugh.) He (the Bishop of Exeter), however, firmly believed that it was a mistake on the part of the commissioners. The rev. gentleman proceeded to state in the letter addressed to him, that he did not send printed answers to the commissioners ; he said, that a printed list of queries was forwarded to him, that he made out manuscript answers to them, and sent them by post to the commissioners. He distinctly denied that he sent printed answers, and he asserted that his memory ou that point was refreshed and cor roborated by an individual who officiated as his clerk ; he said that he afterwards got them printed and circulated, in answer to some virulent attacks which had been published by the priest Hughes ; that he had no intention to show disrespect to the government or to the commissioners, but that he felt strongly, in common with the rest of the clergy of the establish ed church, on receiving queries, calling on those who replied to them to recognise the mass as part of divine service ; the rev. gentleman apologised to the house 'and to the government for anything that might appear improper in the tone or language of his answers ; but he repeated that the statement made by him was perfectly true, as to the Romau cath o lic priests p re aching in his chapel the destruction of those who read the Bible by pitchforks, and of his ordering the people to wallop (such was the priest's expression) any one who dared to collect tithei for bum (the petitioner)—.as to the soldiers being obliged to leave the Roman catholic chapel in consequence of the seditious lan guage spoken in the pulpit —and as to the children of the na tional school going out to meet the catholic Archbishop M'Hale with green boughs, ribauds, and flags, in October last. He (the Bishop of Exeter) need scarcely remind their lordships that the professed object of the government in establishing these national schools was to put an end to everything like religious strife, and to promote peace and charity among the people ; but, he would ask, was that object likely to be answered if the children educated at these schools were permitted to go out, and meet a Roman catholic archbishop with party, if nut seditious, emblems ? With respect• to Mr. Stoney's assertion, that the soldiers were ordered o ut o f th e R oman ca th o li c chapel in con sequence of the seditious language used by the preacher, be would remind their lordships that that was a circumstance of no uncommon occurrence in Ireland. In the report of a commit tee of their lordships in 1832, a case was mentioned where the officers of a regiment felt it their duty to order the soldiers to quit the chapel to which they had gone for the purpose of wor ship, and Dr. M'Hale himself made use of such inflammatory language in the pulpit in the town of Ballina„ that the officers of the 27th regiment were obliged to withdraw their troops from the chapel. In his opinion, the fact that the answers sent by Mr. Stoney to the commissioners were not printed extenuated in some degree the language in which they were couched, be cause it might happen that the answers, being in manuscript, were written hastily, and sent off in a hurry. He felt- it his duty, however, to declare that the language of some of those answers was intemperate and improper. The rev. gentleman had acted improperly in ch a rging th e g overnment with helping to build up the superstition denounced as contrary to God's truth by the law of the realm, and supporting nurseries for re bellion, sedition, and treason. Such language, in his opinion, was highly indecent, and his statement that Satan sat at the board of file new education commission shearing God's word of its glorious truth deserved reprobation. He also thought that the commissioners had acting indiscreetly in calling in their printed queries the Romish mass divine service; for it was un doubtedly true that in one of the articles of the established church it was designated to be blasphemous. The petitioner asserted that when he gave to the commissioners a statement of the number of protestants in his parish (which he set down as amounting. to about 500 persons,) the list was handed by them to the Roman catholic priest, who forthwith op — e - ned a large book, and began to examine the list of protestants amidst the jeers and laughter of the surrounding crowd. The petitioner reminded the commissioner of the dangerous persecution to which the protestants were subject. but the commissioner allowed the priest to go on with his objections, and one poor protestant, who had married a catholic, was r particularly singled out for comment. 'Again the petitioner stated, that, in reply to the question whether the attendance at the protestant church had increased or diminished, he said that the attendance would be much greater were it not for the intimidation which was prac tised. The commissioners told him to refrain from such obser vations, because their inquiry was restricted to statistical facts, and would not extend to the causes of the increase or diminution of the protestant congregation; and why? Because such, an extension of their inquiry was likely to lead to aitercations. This was a most extraordinary statement, because it would seem that the commissioners expected their mission to be all plain sailing. In that respect they had exhibited g reat ignorance of human nature. The petitioner further asserted, that he went to the commissioners to prove cases of persecution against the protestants; but he found that the word persecution" was un pleasing to the delicate ears of the commissioners, who would not allow the evidence to be received.' The proof of minor peccadilloes they were willing to admit, but they would h ave nothing to do with an offence of so heinous a kind as persecution. The petitioner also said that Mr. Stewart, who, when the list of protestants was given, observed that it must have been made out On a red-letter day, meaning thereby that the protestants must have been counted on a ate day, and not oil a Sunday, was a great friend of the Roman' catholic priests, and joined in the laugh raised against the clergyman. That gelitleman, who was nominally a protestant, alleged that the .number of the protest ants was - 110. The petitioner complained of the unbecoming conduct on the part of those present, which was allowed to_ pass unchecked by the coinmissioners ; but in his (the Bishop of Exeter's) opinion those gentlemen were chiefly to blame fur refusing to inquire into the causes of the increase or diminution of the protestant congregations. He had no hesitation in say ing that it was a culpable dereliction of duty nn their part to refuse to enter into that inquiry, which they had themselves invited, and which those individuals whom they summoned were ready, by every means in their power, to facilitate. He wished to deal with this question on general grounds ; he had. no wish to bring any charge against individuals,•but he believed that the statements in the petition made out a prima facie case for inquiry. The right rev. prelate then referred. to Dens's Theology, and stated, we believe, that the question of Irish education had assumed great interest in consequence of pro ceedings which had lately taken place in this metropolis. He said that more dOutlful principles than were set forth in that work it was never his misfortune to read, oven in the worst publications which had appeared in the worst ages of popery. Protestants were described as being worse than Pagans, and' were doomed, not merely to ecclesiastical punishment, such as excommunication, but to the greatest corporal inflictions, and even death, together with the confiscation of their property. This was set forth in plain language, and was sanctioned by no less a person than Dr. Murray, the Roman catholic Archbishop of Dublin, one of his majesty's commissioners of education in Ireland, who was stated in a work of the most authoritative kind to have directed that that book of Dens's should not only be published for the education of the priests in Ireland, but should also be made the test-book at the conferences which the Roman catholic clergy were bound to hold four times •every year. The right rev. prelate then presented the petition. Lord DUNCANNQN defended the conduct of the commissioners, who had acted pfoperly in refusing to re ce i ve any evidence *ex cept such as tended to establish facts of a statistical nature. The petitions after some remarks from Lords Brougham, Wicklow, Hatherton, and Radnor, was laid ou the table, cud the house adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-THURSDAY. Mr. Raphael, one of the sheriffs of London, took the oaths and his seat for the borough of Carlow. THE YOUNG FREEMEN OF LivicupooL. Lord SA N DON presented a petition from the merchants, ship owners, atitt other inhabitants of the town of Liverpool, praying that no change should be made in the differential duties on tim ber. 'The noble lord also presented a petition from Liverpool signed by 2,500 young men, whp were either freemen or en titled to . lie freemen, expressive of their apprehensions that by the bill before the house they would be deprived of their pri vileges. The noble lord said he had now a petition to present from the corporation of Liverpool, which stated the manner in which the bill now before the house would affect several local bodies tbeie. The statements were so complicated. that in or der that members might understand them he would move that the petition be printed. The petitioners did not intend to offer any opposition to the bill, but they defended their own character as a corporation from any charges of mat-administration or abuse. Mr. Winn H AM, in reference to the monopoly in salt pos sessed by the East India Company, asked what steps had been taken by the late or present government towards instituting an inquiry on that subject? Sir J. C. IlnanousE stated, that on coming into office his attention had been directed to this important subject. His hon. friend was probably not aware that £1,600,000 of revenue was derived by the East India Company from the monopoly of salt factories. He was not . prepared to say that at present the com pany would make any immediate or decided change in the sys tem. (Hear.) He (Sir J. Hobhouse) was ready to admit that upon every principle such a mode of effecting a revenue was al together indefensible. The same objection also applied to the revenue derived from opium in India. He had to state, that on the 13th of April the Board of Directors sent out despatches to India, leaving the salt monopoly Its it stood. He could assure the bon. member he would direct his attention to the subject, and that whenever he brought forward a motion on the subject he (Sir J. Ilobhouse) would give him every information as to the views of government upon it. He trusted that the govern ment nllpht yet be able to - adopt in part the.,hon. Member's views. -Mr. WI IBRAIIAM, having observed that he should not he able to bring forward the subject this session, gave notice that he certainly would bring a motion forward on the subject next session. DROGHEDA ELECTION. Mr. GOULDURN presented a report, as chairman of this com mittee, stating that it appeared from evidence adduced before li` this morning that Catherine Adams, John Doyle, and Thomas Ferrall, had been duly summoned by the Speaker's warrant, but refused to appear. On the motion of the right hon. gentleman the parties were ordered to be taken into the custody of the sergeant-at-arms. Mr. P. M. STEwART presented a petition trom John Bury Desent, confined in Newgate, praying to be discharged. Petitions were also presented by Lord Henniker from John Eddowes Sparrowe ; by Sir Broke - Vere, from John Bond and Arthur Bott Cooke; by a❑ hon. Member, whose name we could not learn, from Robert Beauchamp Clamp; by Mr. Jackson, from Peter Frederick O'Mally, with a similar prayer. Mr. O'DwvEn said, he understood that in his absence the right hon. chairman of the Drogheda election committee made a report to the house that some parties had refused to give evi dence. In the circumstances in which he was placed, he wished to avail himself of that occasion to express his strohg concur rence in the proceedings which the committee had adopted. Had he been in the house at the time the motion teas ,made, he should Certainly have seconded it. It was essential to the pri vileges of that house that its process should be enforced, and he was convinced it would in this, as in all other cases, promote at the same time the ends of public justice. CASE OF THE DORCHESTER LABOURERS Mr. WAKLEY moved, after recapitulating the circumstances of the case of these men, and referring to the act relating to the combination laws, "that the Dorchester labourers convicted of illegal combinations in 1833 be pardoned and recalled." Mr. IlusiE seconded the motion. The house divided after a long debate. The numbers were— For the motion. Against it Majority.. 226 Mr. F. MAucp. then moved for leave, according to his notice, to bring in a "bill for relief of the tenants and occupiers of land in ScoCand from the datnages.done to their crops by hares, pheasants, and rabbits." Admiral ADAM seconded the motion. After a short discussion, in which Sir George Clerk, Mr. Jer vis, Mr. Howard, and Captain Wemyss spoke against the mo tion, and Mr. Curteis and Mr. Benett supported it, the house divided on the question, when there appeared— Ayes Noes ~ 50 76 Majority against the bill being brought in.. 26 STANDARD. SOLTII SEA DUTIES. Mr. YOUNG moved for leatk to bring in a bill to repeal cer tain clauses in the act 55 Geo. III.; c. 57, imposing duties on tonnage and goods in thu t ra d e w ith countr i es w i th i n the limits of the exclusive privileges of the South sea Company. Mr..P. THOMSON said that the government contemplated a general measure, to include these duties, which had been hitherto delayed owing to the difficulties of the subject. He hoped the hon. member would withdraw his 'notion. After a few words from Lord SANDON, Mr. YOUNG withdrew hiS motion, on the understanding that a'measure would be introduced next session. Mr. HESEETH FLEETWOOD moved for the appointment of a committee to .inquire into our consular establishments.—Or dered. On the motion of Mr. BROTHERTON, the house adjourned a a quarter to one o'clock. HOUSE, OF COMMONS.-FRIDAY . - Mr. Ilesketh Fleetwood presented a petition from Preston praying for a law to prevent drunkenness. THAMES TUNNEL. Mr. WALTER gave notice that, on the house going into a committee of supply, he should move for copies of any docu ments under the authority of which £30,000 had been advanced to the Thames tunnel company. IPSWICH ELECTION. Mr. P. M. STEWART called the attention of the house to the case of Mr. Daseut, from whom a petition had been presented on the preceding day. Mr. Dasent had been committed to Newgate tinder the speaker's warrant. Mr. Stewart concluded by moving that John Bary Dasent be called to the bar of the house. On this motion the house divided—ayes 190 —noes 141—ma jority tar the motion 49. Mr. HAWES then made a similar motion with respect to John Pilgrim, another of the persons also in custody. Sir George Clerk brought the case of Bond under the consi deration of the house, but the motion was withdrawn. The SPEAKER having informed the house that Messrs. Dasent and Pilgrim were its attendance, after some discusiion, the bar was cleared, and the serjeant having taken the mace from the table brought Messrs. Dasent and Pilgrim to the bar. The SPEAKER said—" John Bury Dasent and John Pilgrim, this house has decided that you have been guilty of the grave offence of violating one of the most important, one of the most valuable of its privileges. You have been guilty of absconding for the purpose of withholding evidence which might have been conducive to the furtherance of justice. It must be unneces sary for the information of any class of persons in this country to enlarge on the importance of at all times yielding a prompt and willing obedience to those privilegesashich this house holds for the benefit of the people, and as their representatives. It must least of all be necessary to enlarge on the nature of the offence committed in the case of a gentleman whose professional habits and avocations must have made him more peculiarly ac quainted with the nature ofthe obligations impoSed on all those who are placed in circumstances to contribute to the furtherance of public justice. You have, however, both of you made that atonement which was in your power, by an expression orsor-• row and contrition for the offence of. which you have been guilty. This house has taken your petitions into its favourable consideration, and dealS with you with all the mildness which a sense of justice permits.' I have now to acquaint you that you are discharged on payment of your fees." Messrs. Dasent and Pilgrim then withdrew. Lord J. litisSErs moved that,the reprimand be entered on the journals. TITHES-IRELAND. . Lord MoneETti, in rising to bring in his bill respecting tithe's iu Ireland, bespoke the indulgent forbearance of the house. After detailing at great length the operation of former acts on this subject. the noble lord said, in conformity with the provisions of the bill of last year, and of that which the late government intended to have introduced this session, he pro posed to convert the existingcomposition into an annual rent charge, payable, by the owners of the first estate of inheritance, or such other equivalent estate as would be accurately defined by the bill, equal to seven-tenths of the amount of composition, or. £7O for every £lOO. The right hon. baronet, the late secre tary for Ireland, proposed that the amount of the rent charge should be equal to three-fourths of the composition, or £75 for ever £lOO. He (Lord Morpeth) need offer no apology to the Irish landowner for the reduction which be proposed. By the bill of last year the rentacharge was fixed at only three-fifths of the composition; or £6O for every £100; but in addition to that there was a settled change of 172 per cent. in the first instance on the consolidated fund, and afterwards on the perpetuity pur chase fund, and that act also made no remission of the million. It. was proposed to charge the cost of collection on all tithe owners, because they would be relieved frotu all risk and trou ble. This charge would be 6d. in, the pound, which would leave the sum of £6B ss. as the net income derivable from every £lOO of composition. He had considered it advisable to make a dis tinction, not only between existing and future clerical incum bents, but also between clergymen and lay impropriators, inas much as the latter had no duties to perform, and had generally other sources of income, whilst on the other hand the clergy men bad, or were assumed to have, duties to perform which were above all others important, and he was afraid that in a great many instances, from the circumstances of the last few years, they had been reduced to a state of great privation and dis tress, not in most cases from any fault of their own, or by any demerit of the body to which they belonged. ( Hear, hear.) Indeed, be believed that the case was very much the reverse; but their'unfortunate condition was the result of that just retri billion which sooner or later involved in the penalties of a per nicious system even the most unoffendiog victims.. (Hear, hear.) Cie had'stated that he thought it advisable that a dif ference should be made between clergymen and the lay imps°. priators, and therefore he proposed that the existing clerical in cumbent should receive £73 Bs. for every £lOO of composition. The additional 5 per cent. in this case would be charged upon the perpetuity purchase fund. This charge would he tempo rary, and not perpetual, as was proposed be the bill of last year, and as he had stated amounted to only 5 per cent. instead of 171 per cent. And he was pleased to think that this view of the subject received countenance from the statements made by the right hon. and gallant gentleman opposite, for, as he under stood the speech' delivered by that right lion, gentleman on the introduction of his tithe measure, he meant, in the case of any loss accruing to the incumbents during the investment of the redemption fund, to indemnify them to the a moun t o f £75 . The machines) , of the bill whi c h he proposed to introduce was so similar to the bill of last year, that he did not feel called on to enter into any of the details respecting the real charges payable to the-crew% and the-investments, which would b e , played under the management of the commissioners of land revenue. lie believed that the right hon. and gallant gentleinan intended that the clergy should recover f rom t h e head landlords, and that if they did not receive their dues in proper time, the ecclesias tical commissioners should levy for them. Now, in his (Lord Morpeth's) opinion, that was an arrangement calculated to in volve the ecclesiastical commissioners in altercations and dis putes to a far greater degree than was desirable. (Hear, bear.) One of the provisions ht the bill which he proposed to introduce would empower a revision and revaluation, under certain cases, of benefices for the tithe composition. He should have very much desired to avoid the necessity of providing for the revalua tion of henefices, but so many and such urgent propositions on • the subject were made to the government, for the most part by persons who wished well to the church, and backed in many instances by strong corroborating circumstances, that it was felt to be difficult, if not impossible, to make any settlement of the tithe question, which was likely to be acceptable to the Irish people,• unless some power of revision or revaluation were al lowed. Of course, proper precautions would be taken to con fine the inquiries to the matters really in dispute (which in some instances were that promissory notes had been given by insolvent parties, and in others that adjudications had been made in the absence of interested parties;) and also to pre vent the power of revision being unnecessarily and caprici ously put into operation. It was likewise proposed to extend the provisions of Lord Tenterden's act for the limitation of suits to Ireland, in the same way as it was included in the bill of last year. These were the principal enactments of the pro posed measure, as far as regarded the immediate settlement of property in tithe, and the interests of existing incumbents. With respect to the distribution of ecclesiastical resources the noble lord said,—there now lay on the table of the house the report of the commissioners of public instruction, who, iu .pur suance of the directions given them, had prepared a census of the population of Ireland, specifying the proportion of the dif ferent religious sects. Now, he certainly could not pretend to claim for that work, or for any work of such nature, especially when concluded in so limited a period, the merit of perfect and undeviating accuracy; but, as far as circumstances permitted, the report of the commissioners was framed in such a manner as made it as accurate and authentic as any document of such a kind could pretend to be. The house would observe, that the census of 1831 was taken as the basis of the present census. The census of 1831 was not formed in any expectation of its being used for the purpose of ascertaining the relative propor tions of the different religious denominations in Ireland, and it was not, consequently, liable to to the imputation of partiality in that respect. By the report on the table, which he contended was entitled to be considered as authentic and accurate as. any census of the nature could be, it appeared that the total popula tion of Ireland amounted to 7,943,940; or, in round numbers, to 8.000,000 persons. Out of that number the members of the established church amounted to 853,064, the presbyteriaus to 642,356, - and the other dissenters to 21,808 persons. The num her of the Roman Catholics was 6,427,712 (hear, hear); in other words, the members of the established church amounted to 853,064 persons, and the number of those who dissented was 7,091,876. (Hear, hear.) The distribution of the members of the .established church was almost as disproportionate as their total amount. It was well known that the greatest number was to be found in the northern province of Ulster, and he would mention one or two instances of that disproportion to which he • Isadaulverttd—s.For.tbissnurnoae he should safes -to a work some authority, " 13oether's Ecclesiastical Map of Ireland,"•' and comparing the number of persons belonging to the esta blished church with the number of acres, he found that in the diocese of Dromore there were. 264 members of the established church for every 1,000 acres; in the diocese of 'foam only 8 to • every 1,000 acres ; in the diocese of Clogher there were 26 to every 1,000 acres; while in the diocese of Kilfenora there was less than one. Now, how was it proposed to meet those glaring instances of disproportion both in the total amount and the re lative distribution of the members of the established church ? He should ask the house to give authority for the suspension of the presentation or appointment to every benefice in Ireland where the number of protestants did not exceed 50. But before he went further, he might, perhaps, be asked whsther it was his intention to leave, ,in all those parishes in whtch the number of protestants did not exceed 50, the members of the established church who might be found in them entirely without the means of spiritual instruction or public worship ? He had never dis guised, either elsewhere or in that house, his own adherence to the principle of au established religion, and therefore in intro ducing a measure for the regulation of the religious establish ment now in existence, and tu endeavouring to adapt it to the state of society in which it was found, he would not shrink from contemplating such a curtailment of its privileges, and diminu tion of its revenues, as seemed prescribed by a ' just consideration of what was due to other parties, nor would he be scared from the view by the cry of confiscation, spoliation, or sacrilege. His Majesty's ministers did not profess to do more than comply with the principle, which left no part of the state's dominions out of the pale of the state's religion (which principle he was sorry to see not carried into effect in all parts of Ireland, some of which did not come within the provisions of the proposed bill,) but they endeavoured to fix the amount of the provision of the clergy strictly and scantily, as circumstances required, in proportion to the extent of the duty performed. I n t h e i nstance which he had taken, of a p ar i s h without either church or churchman, the cure of souls (which he believed to be a correct though contra dictory expression) would be committed to the care of a neigh bouring minister, appointed by the bishop of the diocese, at a stipend of £5 a-year (loud and general laughter,) in which case it was indulgently proposed to depart from the principle that where there was no duty performed there should be no pay. It was likewise proposed in the bill which he should move for leave to introduce, that in the case Of a suspended parish in which there was any number of members of the establishment from 1 to 50, the ecclesiastical commissioners, to whom it was thought that the superintendence o f a ll t h ese matters could be most properly confided, should be empowered, subject to the ap probation and consent of the Lord-Lieutenant in council, either to assign the cure of souls in that parish to the care of the neigh bouring minister, in like manner as was done where no pro testant was to be found in the parish, or else, should they think that the spiritual Wants of the members of the established church could not be adequately provided for by such assignment, to ap point a separate curate. H e would state what provision it wa proposed to make to the clergymen so appointed. When the cure r:f souls was committed to the care of a neighbouring mi nister, excepting the case before-meutioned of a parish without a church, and without a single member of the establishment, the ecclesiastical commissioners might, with the consent and approbation of the Lord-Lieutenant in council, assign any amount of stipend which they should consiaer adequate remu neration for the duties performed, which shall not be less than £lO or more than £5O a-year. 'Where a separate curate was appointed the salary allowed to him was not to exceed £75 a-year ; and if he chose to occupy the glebe-house and under took to keep it in repair, he was to be allowed to take possession of it, together with so much of the glebe land es the ecclesiasti cal commissioners should think proper to grant him, provided its amount did not excee d i u va l ue £ 25. In every parish where the cure of souls was committed to a neighbouring minister, and where his own church was so situated as not to be calculated to afford accommodation for the spiritual wants and public worship of the members of the established church in the annexed parish; and also in those parishes where a separate curate was appoint ed, provision was to be made for the erection of suitable places of public worship fit to accommodate the probable number of the different congregations, which were to be built at a cost not exceeding £lOO, or rented at a cost not exceeding £l5 a-year, (Laughter.) In making all these several provisions, the arch bishop of the province and the bishops of the dioceses were to be associated with the ecclesiastical commissioners. Cases would frequently occur where these suspended parishes formed part of the unions. The commissioners would then be authorised to dissolve the suspended parishes from the unions to which they belonged, or, if they should think such a measure inexpedient, they were to assign to the future incumbent such a Salary, in consideration of that suspended benefice, as they. would have assigned to a neighbouring minister, or to a separate.curate for the cure of sou l s therein. It was also provided that henceforth no unions should be made without due notice to the ecclesiasti cal commissioners. With respect to other parishes not coming within the provisions before mentioned, if it should appear, after deducting thirty per cent. from the existing tithe composi tion and the payment of the tax on ecclesiastical benefices, that the income of any parish should exceed £3OO per annum, the ecclesiastical commissioners would be required to report the cir cumstance, on the voidance of the benefice, to the Lord- Lieutenant, who would he empowered to make such a reduction as should seem to him fitting, taking for his guidance the report of the commissioners as to the amount of the congregation and the extent of the duty to be performed. The income was never, however, to be reduced below £3OO a-year. In attempting the settlement of the tithe question, he thought that the most scru pulous regard should be paid to all rights which partook of the nature of private property, and therefore provision would be made to indemnify the owners of lay advowsons and to charge that in demnification on the fund to be created from various sources, and to which it was intended togive the name of the "Reserved Fund." That fund, after paying the stipends of the neigh bouring ministers, or separate curates, the , erection or pro vision of places of public worship, wou ld th en, i n\t h e spirit of the resolution carried by his noble friend, be applicable to the purposes of national education, and to the religious, and_ moral instruction of the peopld of Ireland without distinction of reli gious persuasions. The government proposed a modification and curtailment of the present ecclesiastical revenue of Ireland, • which the state of the Irish church establishment, in their opi nion, admitted, and to appropriate a portion of it to the great object of the moral and religious education of the general Irish nation. (Hear, hear.) But, lest it should be thought that, when he talked of parishes in Ireland where there was no pro testant population, they w ere bunting. up shadows and raising an outcry where there was no ground-for it, he would call the attention of those who were disposed to sneer at the stipend of £5 proposed to be given to clergymen without duty, to a state ment of the number of parishes which would come under the operation of the bill. He would read the general result of the statement, as it applied to all Ireland. In the 26 dioceses of Ireland, the number of parishes without any member of the es tablished church was no less, as appeared from a report on the table, than 151. Of parishes containing less than 10 prot es t an t s , 194; less than 20, 128; less than 30, - 133; less than 40, 107; less than 50, 77; total number of parishes that would come un der the operation of the bill, 860 (hear, hear); and consequently these parishes contained an overpowering number of other per suasions who were entitled to share in the benefits of a moral and religious education, which a beneficent government ought not to refuse to any of its subjects. (Hear.) He had also bad a computation made of the amount of the property which would be derived under the provisions he had mentioned, when the bill came into full operation, from the suspended benefices, not including the reduction of benefices exceeding £3OO a-year, because it was'difficult to arrive at this computation; and he had not made any computation of the value of the glebe houses or glebe lands. Without going through the dioceses, he might say, that after deducting 30 per cent. for the tithe composition, there would accrue from the suspended benefices, in parishes within royal or ecclesiastical patronage, £47,898. He . had computed the salaries of the curates at £65 each; and after the existing interests were provided fro., there would accrue to the reserved fund £47,898, to which when was added, on account of indemnified patronage, £l,OlB, the whole would amount to £58,876.. In a case like this, the bare enumeration of the num ber of parishes where there were no protestants, and the reek oning•by tens, and twenties, and thirties, and the statement of funds provided for those who bad no duty to perform, did more than auy declamation could do, for no contradiction could be brought to bear upon such argument.. The bill contained fur ther some clauses for the purpose of amending and filling up and extending certain provisions of the church temporalities bill; it was not necessary for him to enter into the details of these clauses, they were in the spirit of that bill.—They trans ferred the duties of the minor canons and chanters to the vicars choral, they vested in the ecclesiastical commissioners certain powers respecting deaneries, and gave to tenants of bishops the privilege of securing their payments fora limited period, instead of paving immediately. He declared from his conscience, that if he thought the measure calculated to operate against the in terests of real religion, no one would more rejoice than he should at its failure, and no one not confident of its success would ven ture to move, as he now did, that leave be given to. bring i n a bill for the bett e r regu l a ti on o f ecclesiastical revenues, and for the moral and religious education of the people of Ireland. (Loud and prolonged cheering.) Some questions were put to the noble lord by several members of the house. Among them Sir Henry Hardinge put a hypothetical case. Stippese a pa rish.contained 55 protestants, and by means of emigration, cho lera, death, or assassination, that number should be reduced to 49; was this parish under the system of the act to be suspended? Lord AlotieETri said that - the - measure woo/a operate on ttmse parishes in which, according to the report on the table, the number of protestants did not exceed 50. Our limits preclude us from giving the speeches of Sir Robert Peel, Lord Stanley, and Lord John Russell. Leave was given to bring in the bill. In answer to a question put by Colonel Perceval; Lord J. RUSSELL said the second reading would not. take place till after the corporation bill had gone through committee. The other orders of the day Were then disposed of, and the house adjourned at a quarter to two o'clock AFFAIR OF HONOUR. At four o'clock this morning a meeting took place at the North Bull,, between James Haire, Esq., chairman of th e Dub lin election commission, an d J. J. Murphy, Esq., the agent for Messrs. O'Connell and Ruthven. The former was attended by Robert Johnston, Esq.; the latter by Ebenezer Jacob, Esq. After the usual, preliminaries had been adjusted, the parties ex changed shots without effect, and Mr. Johnston asked Mr. Jacob "if he were satisfied?" to which, Mr. Jacob having re plied in the negative, Mr. Johnston then added—" Recollect, on your shoulders rests the responsibility of a second shot, but if you demand one you shall have it." Mr. Jacob answered-,-- " You have insulted us, and we must have a second shot." Th e parties were then placed on the ground, and a second shot was interchanged, also without effect, upon which Mr. Johnston re moved Mr. Haire from the ground without any remark or fur ther explanation given. The circumstances which led to the above meeting originated, as we have been informed, in the following proceedings which took place before the commissioners yesterday : Mr. Maguire, the agent for the petitioners, rose to leave the court, whereupon the chairman requested him to nominate, in writing, a person to act for him in his absence. Just as he left the room he stated to the chairman that he was called down in a hurry to the Court of Chancery—that Mr. Brennan, whom he now nominated, he would nominate in writing, at his return, which would be in a few minutes. _ _ Within a few minutes after, Mr. Murphy, the agent for the sitting members, said to the chairman--" in allowing Mr. Bren nan to act as an agent, without being nominated in writing, the court has one rule for one side, and another for the other." Upon which the chairman replied—" In consequence of what occurred yesterday, I did rewire a written nomination from you, Mr. Murphy, because you deceived me." - Mr. Murphy then stood up and said—"l, in the presence of Mr. Haire, and of all here present, most distinctly and em phatically ueny, that I ever deceived Mr. Haire, or that I am capable of deceiving him or any one ; and I call upon, him to state any instance in which I deceived him, and st a t e d that a person tu Mr. Haire's situation was privileged to make observa tions as he pleased." When the Chairman replied—" Mr. Haire never seeks to shelter himself under auy privileges." To which Mr. Murphy replied—" I never supposed so." The Chairman then stated the transactions of Tuesday and Wednesday, and also read the minutes of yesterday's proceed ings and the evidence of Mr. Turking,ton; and again stated that he considered himself deceived by Mr. Murphy, in leaving Mr. Turking,ton apparently acting for him, without stating to the court the extent of his authority (the court considering him .talax.e_full. authority to-act for him ift--his abse.noeosed havi recognized him, on• several occasions, in that capauity,) and, afterwards, disclaiming the acts of Mr. Turkington. Mr. Murphy again said—" I deny that I deceived Mr. Haire." The Chairman then stated that he would, in the course of the day, examine further into the matter. Mr. Turkington was accordingly ag a in examined and cross examined, the court putting to the witness every question Mr., Murphy required. The cou r t, at the cl ose o f th e exam i na ti on, remarked gut they would send the minutes relative to this matter ovet' to the committee, with the other proceedings. The three commissioners were understood, at the close of the examination, to be concurrent in the opinion expressed by the Chairman, and which he had formed from the previous proceed ings of Tuesday and Wednesday. In the course of the evening Mr. Johnston was waited on by Mr. Jacob, on the part of Mr. Murphy, who announced that he (Mr Jacob) came about the business which occurred in court; upon which Mr. Johnston asked Mr. Jacob if he were aware of the particulars of the case, to which Mr. Jacob replied, that Mr, Haire had stated that Mr. Murphy had deceived the court. Mr. Johnston then insisted on detailing all the particu lars, which he did, which Mr. Jacob assumed to be correct, but demanded an immediate meeting, or a public retractation of Mr. Haire's observations in open court; Mr. Johnston, on the part of Mr. Haire, having declined the latter, an appointmen, on the fifteen acres, at half-past eight, was agreed to; Mr. Jacob, requiring as a preliminary to the meeting, that Mr. Johnston should engage to adjourn with M r . H a i re to F rance, if the police should interfere, or anything else occur to prevent a meeting. This offer being declined by Mr. Johnston the par ties separated. On Mr. Haire and his friend reaching the ground they were informed by Mr. Jacob that they had outstaid their time, and told Mr. Johnston that as some officers' servants had taken.their pistols from them whilst waiting, asked for th e loan of one of Mr. Johnston's pistols . * Mr. Jo hnston, in order to put an end to the matter without adjournment, complied with Mr. Jacob's request. While in the act of loading the police came up, and secured Mr. Murphy's broth er; t h e pr i ncipals and their seconds, however, eluded heir vigilance. Another preliminary meeting took place at a late hour last night, when the Nortli Bull was agreed on, as before stated," Mr. Haire, to say the least of it, ho wever hi s sense of honour may have impelled him to take the course he adopted, acted im prudently, and for the following reasons:— First--Had his death ensued, the commission would have been at an end. • • Secondly--" Had he shot his adversary, the fact of his being compelled tolly would have h a d a lik e e if ect. Thirdly—Plad he been taken into custody by the police, and been necessarily absent for a single day, he would have been subjected to a penalty of £5OO. We are requested to state that neither Mr. Joy or Mr. Antal, the other commissioners, were aware of the fact of a hostile message having been delivered or accepted until the assembling of the court this morning.—Dublin paper. E O , 1 836: THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL The Last Night but Three of the engagement of Mr. and Mis. WOOD, of the Theatres-Royal, Covent-garden and Drury lane. Second Week of the engagement of Mr. BROUGH and Mr. G. HORNCASTLE. ripHIS present TUESDAY, the 26th iiisttnt, will be per il_ formed (for the third time this season) the popular Opera of CINDERELLA; OR, THE FAIRY QUEEN AND GLASS SLIPPER. The Orchestra (which is considerably augnien ed on this occa sion) under the direction of Mr. A ridge. Previous to the Opera, the Overture to enerentola. Felix Mr. Wo d. Baron Ponapolino....Mr. G. rncastle. Dandini Mr. Bro h. Cinderella rs. Wood. Clorinda Miss orge. Thisbe • M s Stanley. Incidental to the piece, a variety of DANCING, by Mr. J. Ridgway and Mlle. Marie. To conclude with the Romantic Melo-Drama of VALENTINE AND ORSON; OR, THE WILD MAN OF THE WOODS. On WEDNESDAY will be repeated, for the second titre, the celebrated new Opera of FRA DIAVOLO; or, the Inn of Terracina; which was received with the most decided appro bation last night by a crowded and fashionable audience. Pre vious to the Opera, the Original Overture. Fra Diavolo, Mr. .Wood. Lord Allcash, Mr. G. Horneastle. Giacomo, Mr. Brough. Lorenzo, Mr. Frazer. Lady Allcash, Miss George. Zerlina, Mrs. Wood.—After which a favourite FARCE. On THURSDAY au Opera, in which Mr. and Mrs. Wood will perform. On FRIDAY Mrs. WOOD'S BENEFIT, and the Last Night of the engagement of Mr. and Mrs. Wood. Trfit 3"iiberpool *tattbariL TUESDAY MORNING, JUNE 30 - ; 1835. We have Jamaica papers to the 16th of May. It will be seen by an extract elsewhere that Lord &too had re sortedqo some extraordinary and apparently► arbitrary proceedings in the Caymanas islands. The animadver sions upon his lordship's conduct are extremely severe. By the George Waitldngtoit, - whf6h — airifed here on Saturday; we have received New York papers to the 9th instant. They do not contain any political news ofinuch interest. The following relates to a subject which we have alluded to before : LATE FROM NORFOLK. They contain two articles of eonsicferable interest, viz., the arrest in that place of the insurgents of Port Praya and din safety of the commanding officer of H.M. schooner Virefly, lost some time since on the coast of Gabs. THE PORTUGUESE INSURGRNTS.—The U.S. district attorney arrived in this place on Sunday last, and, after consuitatiou with the mayor of the borough, the latter issued a warrant for the apprehension of the Portuguese officers and soldiers who ar rived here on Wednesday last, in the Brazilian schooner Boa Nova, from Port Praya, via St. Thomas. The mayor issued his warrant on the oath of Bernardo Raggis, who certifies that the said officers and soldiers committed an act of piracy on his vessel, within the cognizance of the act of congress of April, 1810, and about fifty of the soldiers were accordingly taken into custody. The officers, being informed of these proceedings, took mea sures for eluding the process issued agailist them, and it is reported that some of them left here yesterday morning, in the steam-boat South Carolina, for Charleston Yesterday afternoon, the men in custody were examined before the mayor, in the presence of the district attorney and the Portuguese'vice-consul, and committed for further exanaina "-- THE FIREFLY.—We are pleased to learn that the reported loss of Lieut. M`Donald, commander of the schooner Firefly, is incorrect. That gentleman has escaped with his life; his pre servation was almost miraculous, his sufferings intense; for, after ten days' exposure on a reef, he was fortunately discovered and conveyed to the Belize. We cannot refrain from express ing our sincere regret at the loss of Mr. Lockyer, first mate; the assistant surgeon, Mr. M'Rae; and six seamen; as also Capt. West, his son, and servant, who were taking pafsage in the Firefly when she was wrecked. Mr. Lockyer was the son of Capt. Lockyer, late mayor of Plymouth, England; and had been some years in his majesty's service. Capt, West was of the Royal Engineers, and had been ordered from Jamaica to Hon duras, on duty, and was on his return : he is spoken of as an officer of much merit—as having served with great distinction during the peuinsular war and during the attack on New Orleans, where his conduct was particularly mentioned as a zealous*fficer and oue of promise. —Bermuda Gasettto. We have a file of the Malta Government Gazette to the 4th instant. They announce the death of His Highness , ifassEN, Bashaw Beglerby of Tunis, on the 2% ult., and that he had been succeeded by his brotherSint 11InsTAFA. The new sovereign had assured Sir THOMAS READ; his. I Majesty's agent and consul-general at Tunis, of his earnest and sincere desire to maintain unimpaired the friendly relations which had so long subsisted between, his late brother and th e B r iti s h government. We have given elsewhere an account of Col. CHESYEY'S expedi tion. to the Euphrates, extracted from these papers. The following is taken from the Gazette of the 3d instant : The master of the Greek brig Policritos, which arrived here on the 29th ultimo, in two days, from Tripoli, states that on the preceding Monday, the 25th, a Turkish squadron made its ap pearance there, composed of two ships of the line, two frigates two corvette; four brigs, and t w o sma ll er vesse l s, accompanie d' by eight transports, from which three thousand men were im mediately disembarked. The Pasha, Sidi Ali Caramanli, went on board the ship of the Turkish commander of the expedition,, and on the following day the gates of the fortress of Tripoli were thrown open, giving free ingress and egress tcithe people of the town and country. The Policritos left Tripoli on the 28th . in the morning. There were then in the roadstead . an English. and a French corvette, and a ship of the line and a frigate, ap parently American, were in sight at a distance of about twenty' miles in the offing. We have been favoured with the following extract of a private letter received by a nietcantile house here : " LIMA, MAacit 9, 1835. " On the 23d of February the commander of the castles of Callao, General Salaverry, marched up to Lima at the bead of his troops, disposed the government, who retirtd into the in terior, and nominated himself supreme chief. The general levied a contribution of 100,000 dollars on the inhabitants of Lima. Trade is entirely at a stand still." We have some difficulty in determining whether the case of Lieutenant-Colonel EVANS, therepreientative of Westminster, or that of the transported' Dorchester la- . bourers, be the hardest.: Some six or seven patriots are sent to Botany Bay for having combined against their employers, menaced their fellow-workmen, threatened their masters' property, and for having administered ille gal oaths. The Whig government, the friends of the people, having succeeded in convicting these men, did not lose a moment in shipping them off to bur_ penal set tlement on the other - side of the - globe. ; Tha — t they justly deserved their fate we never for a moment doubted ; hut in candour we are bound to say that the ministers who , encouraged political unions, and corresponclo.d with the Birmingham union, ought to have accompanied them in the same transpot t. That not having been.done, we are called upon to don cede that the hig ministers, in pure liberality, took a very diTferent view of ihe . matter. The House of Com mons too considered the merits of the transports worth a ten hours' discussion, which fact, in our estimation, forms the ground for our assuming that their case is deemed of as much importance as that of Colonel EVANS and the transports he has been appointed, without consulting his constituents, to conduct to Spain, there of course to be shot and immortalized. In the house, on the debate which Lord MAHON origi nated, an immense deal of palaver and affectation was brought to bear upon an exceedingly simple question.. The hero of the London stock-jobbers, who has been pre ferred to tight the battles of the insolvent bondholders — of CHRISTINE, and her daughter IsABELLA---who, from the rank of a half-pay lieutenant-colonel, is raised to that of a general—who, from commanding a marching regiment, is entrusted with the command of an army—, who, from having ten hundred soldiers under him, is deemed fit to marshal some ten thousand tailors, gaol- Wrds, swindlers, Irish peasants, suspected of being coat less and shirtleSs, as he himself once was—this hero of. Westminster has chosen to take a sort of Boa ACRES and twelve-paces exception to the natural and harmonioes term—MERCENARY. lam no mercenary, saith half-pay Lieutenant-Colonel EVANS, any more than Marshal BERESFORD or the Duke Of WELLINGTON! Beautiful comparison this ! 4 The mo desty of the contrast is quite delectable. Half-pay Lieutenant-Colonel. Mr. LACY EVANS puts himself into the scale with the Duke of WELLINGTON ! The hero cf C ` may' ° '`