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thing to him; he war not committed. let the Right
Houourshle Attorney-General defend his misdate is re-
gard to the part lie acted as to t►e property of the Irish
chinch ; let him look to sandy metes minds no that
point, and not beady his terms Omit revolntios avid
vulgar arit►metic. W►y, the part which he was then
taking had sulking to do with arithmetic, though tbe
Right Honniciable Gestlemen would do w.ll to look a
idtte more r hotly to the calmer arithmetic. The Right Han.
Secretary too was liberal of tbooe terms of spoliation and
robbery; but he disdained all such phrases. He ap-
pealed to the pipers on the table; it was writ he who
stated the particulars of the Bishop of Derry or the 507 ab-
sentee clergymen. All he bad asked for was inquiry. The
only difference between them was the use of hard slimes no
cog side sod armaments on the other. Let mot t►e Hight
Hos. Geolleinew opposite deceive themselves. He was erode
to acquiesce in the wish of his friend (the Right Hon. Hart)
hit by nu means barring himself from the light of bringing
fussed the subject at another time.
The motieo was then put and negatived.
♦ division took pace or the Ameidniest—
' For the question
Agaisst it

Majority
The other Orden of the Day were dispo ed of, sad the
Hoots, adjoined et • QUARTER BEFORE THREE
O'CLOCK.

.4 1,4i•-'• THUNDER STORMS.
Paris was visited en Saturday night by a violent thunder
storm. The thunder rolled incessantly from 'levels o'clock
till ball-past torch?, and the ram ►ell in torrents. Exactly
at twelve a tresseadons clap band over the Maile-eitz-blh
(the core warehouse and market), which was struck by the
lightning. The magnetic needy which imminent' t►at
edifice, hoarier, having attracted the electric fluid,
it followed the coadector, and sunk into the well with-
donsg soy damage. Thunderbolts also fell the
same night is other parts of the capital. At a quarter
past twelve o'clock several houses in the Ceq•Hero's sod
TunJenne streets were struck. Soon after a thunderbolt
threw down two chininies of a hat manufactory is soother
street, and damagrd the roof, ■nd broke the windows of the
houses opposite. Another bolt fell in the five St. Deer, oe
t►e place where the Electoral Assembly met last year, and la
the Commons des Eerie', the lightning set fire to three
houses, which were comely destroyed. The must afflicting
*cermet, however, is the following., extracted from the Jour-
*al de !fetes:—r' A thunderbolt fell, in the evening of
the 11th instant, at Hantui, Department of Ilse Lower Mee;
It struck a resprctable individual, father of a numerous fa.
tnily,at the eminent when he bad returned with his son frost
t►e lalsoiera of the Acid, and was entering his collage. He
was surrounded by the electrical flame, and /ell dead in pre-
sence of his family composed of ten children, where cries and
tears were mingled with the peals of the thunder and the
dash of torrents of rain."
On Sunday se'unight, between 10 and 11 o'clock at right,
a heavy thunder storm passed over Ipswich. The lightning
was remarkably vivid, and the thunder loud and frequent;
it was accompanied by a mixed slower of rain and hail. A
part of the electric fluid set fire to a tool bouse of the Rev.
Whitson Edgar, at Westerfield; and upwards of 400 panes of
glass were destroyed by the hail, i■ the conservaturies and
bot•buuses of Charles Bement, Esq. of Woolverstithe Park. ,
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

PARIS PAPERS.

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PARIS. JUNE 16.
'the acconats which we have received from Ger.
Many are of no importance, and furnish no docu-
ment of a nature to clear up the affairs of the

Lair.--/Constiistrionmel.)
The Duct7tris of Gooland (Queen of Sweden)
set out on Friday for Aiz-la-Chapelle, to meet her
boo, Prince Oscar.
The JOUTX4II de Toulouse of the 10th inst. says—
" The 4th regiment of infantry of the line, up-
wards of 2,000 strong, which was in garrison heir,
proceeds to the department of l'Arriev; it is com-
manded by Colonel d'Hautpoul. A battalion of
the 19th light regiment has arrived here, and the
second squadron of the artillery train is also ex-
pected. The national guards are otgauizing in the
departments of l'Aude and l'Arriege. The Majo►-
General of artillery, d'Hautpoul, is arrived at
Toulouse ; he reviewed yesterday the companies of
artillery which set out this morning. It is said that
Lieuienant-Gesseral Lauriston is to command iu
chief the sanitary cordon."
The certainty of the maintenance of peace was
so great at Petersburgh on the 24th May, that the
exchnuge on Paris rose from 101 to 104 ; the ex-
change on London wee in • still greater proportion.
—lJounia/ des Debuts.)
The Russian Colonel Clochowicli, formerly Se-
cretary of the Russian Embassy in Spain, arrived
last night from St. Petersburgh, with dispatches
for the Count Pozzo di Boi go.
They write from Perpignan, the 7th June—
s• The militia which the Spanish Brigadier-General
Llobera took into the mountains to oppose the re-
turn of the refugees, have abandoned their position,
and rejoined their corps towards Ripool.
" Three days ago, there passed mar the Ports of
Pests de Motto and Saint Laurent, a troop of Spa-
'Ash refugees; some of them were even armed;
they proceeded in the direction of Saint Laurent de
Is Monga. Those who took refuge in Cerdagno have
also followed the same route—they passed in sight

. .
of our posts."—(Journal de la Harie-Garoane.)
NAPLES, IdAT se.
MM. De Medici and De Tomtnasi arrived here
the Slaih, in the evening. and the report circulated
that the change of Mitsivtry will take place ou St.
Ferdniand's day.

THE BRITISH PRESS.

LONDON,
THURSDAY, Jolts 20. 1822.

Mr. JAlin DALY having, in compliance with
the reqoest of Ministers, withdrawn his motion re-
lating to the tithe system of Ireland, which stood
for last night, Mr. Hvue, oho had abandoned •
motion on the same subject, of which lie had given
u'.'tice early in the Session, in order to give w■y to
that Honourable Member, resumed the subject, as,
by the rules of the House, he had a strict right to
do. and proceeded to move a Resolution pledging
the House " early in the neat Session to take the
State of the Church and the manner of collecting
Tithes iu Ireland into its consideration, with a view
to making such alteration as might be thought fit."
Sir J. Nswroirr moved as amendment, pledging
the House " to take the subject into its coosidera-
ton early in the neat Session, with a view of sub.

stituting for the presrtit precarious and vexatious
mode of supporting the Church Establishment, a
full and fair equivalent." The motion of the Right
Honourable Baronet was opposed by Mr. GOUL.
DUNN. and met by Mr. PLUNKETT with the pre-
vious question, which was carried by a majority of
SEVEN ! The numbers on the division were—For
the previous question, 72—For the amendment of
Sir J. NEWPORT, 65: Majority 7.

The Irish Police Bill happy to state, will,
when reproduced in the House of Commons, come
forth divested of some of its terrors. It has been
denominated nut of doors a Bill fur the encourage.
merit of A boentership, a system ruinous to any coun-
try muter any circumstances. In Ireland this sys-
tem has proved fatal, end unfortunately the temper
and habits of the Gentry, with all their romantic
feelings end professed lure of country, tend to an
uggrovation of the evil. The spirit manifested in
the House of Commons on the first blush of this
bovines', has produced • salutary effect. The
Governuieut of Ireland, we understand, is not to
consist of an llospodar, with his subordinate officers,
oho, constables, as proposed for the Turkish pro-
vinces of ‘Vallachia and bloldavis. The Gentry of
Ireland, however defective in number, talent, and
education, are not to he entirely art aside as mere
ciphers in society, or something worse. They are
to be retained iu the system as a set of beings worth
cultivating, and whose stake in the country may
possibly render them, with all their faults stud de-
fects, not totally insensible to its interests.

The Irish Tithe Bill, by relieving the people
from the merciless fangs of proctors end jobbers,
will remove one source of oppression and diem.
tent ; tint unfortunately there are many other
causes of the present degraded and distressing state
of Ireland which are left untouched by any mea-
sure introduced or to be introduced in this Session
of Parliament. The removal of the hearth and
window tax will prove beneficial to the upper classes
of society, but will not affect the peasantry.
Their humble cottages have been for some
years exempt from its pressure. The reduction
of the salt tax in Great Britain deprives the
provision trade of Ireland of the advantage
which it has hitherto enjoyed, and the loss of
which will be peculiarly felt in the very scene of
the lute disturbances. Neither of these measures,
therefore, can be considered remedial of the distress
of those orders commonly designated the people.
There remain, therefore, only Mr. GOULIWILteII
Police Bill and the Insurrection Act, the re-
newal of which is so strongly urged and solicit-
ed by the Marquis WELLESLEY, in the papers laid
before Parliament, to which we adverted yes-
terday. This is a highly penal and not a remedial
Act : it may control the expression of distress, hut
it .increases the pain which it cannot cure. The
Police Bill participates of the same character. The
constitotion of Ireland is in theory the same as that
of England. In practice it is extremely defective,
and in this defect principally consists its inferior
state of society. The Irish peasant dues not enjoy
the paternal care, presence, amid protection of his
landlord in an equal degree. This is a principal, if
not the chief cause, of the wretchedness of his situ-
ation. The Police Bill is not calculated to cure
this defect. It must perpetuate and augment
it. Instead of extending to Ireland the benefit
of the British Con►titution, it introduces a new
one, and lays the foundation of en entirely novel
system of Government. both in spirit and form. It
entirely withdraws the promise of the Union, and
defeats all the hopes which that measure held out
to the country.

It will be seen in the advertisement in front of
our Paper, that the sum subscribed in England for
the relief of the distress iu Ireland amounts to up-
wards of go,ooo/. This, however, is not the sum
total of the generous exertions of British liberality
in this noble cause. Provisions have been sent gra-
tuitously from various parts of the western coast of
England, in aid of the general cause, of the
value of which we can form no precise estimate, and
only know that they have been very considerable.—
To the credit of English generosity be it spoken,
nothing has been left untried that ingenuity could
devise to alleviate the sufferings of the Sister Island.
The Churches and the Theatres, the grave attd the
gay, all have been pressed into the service.

Paris Papers to the 18th instant have been re-
ceived. They communicate nothing of importance.

The KING returned to town from Kew ou Tues-
day slight.
Yesterday his MAJESTY gave audience.' to the
Earl of LIVERPOOL. Marquis of LONDONDERRY,
Me. Put., Viscount Mst.siLLE, and the Earl of
WARWICK.

The Samuel and Mary Anne. belohging to Har-
wich, SAMUEL TuaN ER, master, was lately wrecked
upon the coast of Norway. She sailed from theuce
oo the 27th ult. bound to Ssayanger, for lobsters,
and went on shore through missing stays. The crew,
with the exception of the roaster, succeeded in getting
safe to laud by lacuna of ropes fixed round their
bodies, by which they were hauled through the surf.
The master was very active in assisting his men to
escape, but was resolved to be the lust person who
left the vessel ; having seen them all safe landed, he
fastened the rope round hi. own body and was drawn
from the vessel, but by the impetuosity of the sea
the rope became entangled and broke, and human
aid could no longer avert the lamentable fate that
awaited him.

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