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THE BRITISH PRESS.

LONDON.
TUESDAY, MAT 14, 1843.
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The Roman Catholic Prers Bill went last night
thresigh the Committee, and the Report was or-
dered for to-morrow evening.
The Report of the Committee on the Distresses
of the Agriculture of the Country was brought up,
endgame rise to another long debate upon the me-
rits of Lord LoNnosnsastr•s Resolutions, which
were &sally agreed to.

The Keno will honour Drury-lane Theatre with
his presence to-morrow night. TA. Siege of Be!.
grade and Monsieur Toneon, the former of which
displays Mr. WUHAN'S splendid talents to such
advantage in the Streakier, are the pieces honoured
with the royal command. Drury-lune has cruse of
pride in betug thus honoured with the first notice
of his MAJIITY after so boil an absence.

Paris Papers up to Saturday last have arrived at
our office. We apprised our readers some days
since of the insurrection io the island of Scio
against the Turkish power, we this day give some
account of the circumstances that led to that im-
portant event. The acquisition of this island to the
Greek Confederation is a triumph of no trifling
magnitude, for it contaius no fewer than 100,000
Greek inhabitaifts, and possesses some strong places.
The enterprise which has been crowned with a re-
sult so brilliant, seems to have berm prompted by
the belief amongst the Greeks that hostilities were
un the eve of being commenced between Russia rod
Turkey.

Upon this point these papers offer no intelligence
of au authentic character, and the endless rumours
that float about Paris and Vienna are oo longer de-
serving of attention. The elections of Deputies
chiefly occupy the public mind now in France.
The funds remain nearly unchanged from the last
quotation,. The Five per Cent.. are 871. 75c.
Bank Stock 1,595 1.

The Journal des Debuts gives an account of
some late operations in St. Domingo. A French
►quadrorr, consisting of eleven ships, had been dis-
patched some time since to St. Domingo for the
purpose of protecting the persons and property
of some Feench subjects who were settled in
the peninsula of &mane, in the Spanish part
of the island. Admiral JACOB, who com.
mended the squadron, found it necessary after
the submission of that part of the island to
the President Bova', to embark these persons,
and succeeded in taking away 1,400 men. This
operation was protected, say the accounts front
Brest, by four frigates. A division of BoTER.II
army advanced towards them, and a smart action
en►ued, which ended in the defeat and retreat of the
Darien troops. The French flog was hoisted at
Santana, where it remained at the time of the de.
parture of the latest recounts. Letters from Cayes,
received at Bourdeaus, state, that an embargo hew
been laid ou all French ships in that harbour.

A numerous meetiog of South Se. 9tock Pro+
prietors was held yeoterdtry it their Home, when it
Irmo rtotrind titre the Governor nod Deputy-Gov

vernor of lie Company should be authorised to
treat and contract with Government for the poy-
t
ment of the Pension Superannuation and Half-pay
List. It was further resolved by the Proprietors,
that an additional Capital should be raised for this
particuliir purpose, not exceeding the present
amount of the Company's capital, viz. 3,600,000%
It was 'WO to the meeting by the Chairman, Mr.
BOSANQUEi, that during the ptopdsed term of the
contract, namely, forty-live year!, the sum in be
advanced would be about 24 millions, and the re-
turn about 28 or 519 millions. The general impres-
'ion in the City yesterday, after the resolutions of
the South Sea Company had become knowd, was
rather favourable to the proposed contract, and
South Sea stuck rose in consequence upwards of
three per cent. The subscription towards the cow-
tract, however, was not very large but as the pro-
posed enlargement of the Company's capital will
In some fleece open the scheme to the public, there
can be little dotibt that sufficient money will be
raised to meet the reqeisilion of the Government,
which, in the first year, inthiding the five millions
tetinired In the way of seebrity, will be about seven
millions. It was Urged yesterday at the meeting
by Mr. Hruorits, that no engagement ought to be
formed with the GoVernment until a dividend of
four per cent. was secured to the old Proprietors,
but the prdposition was not entertained by the Pro.-
prietors. This is the day originally fixed by the
Lords of the Treasury for receiving the biddiogs,
but it is understood that the deputation from the
South Sea Company will not be prepared to wait
upon their Lordships until to-morrow. We cannot
presume, from the williogness shown by the South
Sea Company to treat with the Ministers, that the
terms which will be offered by the Governor end
Deputy-Governor will differ in any degree from
those which Lord Lownonticaeir intimated in the
House of Commons. The fixed annuity will there-
fore probably be about 2,800,0001.

The distress in the south of Ireland appears, lin-
happily, to have been greater and more extensive
than it had been at first supposed. It is stated in
a Cork Paper that die wretched peasants have, id
some 'intoner's, experienced so poignantly Ai
pressure of famine, that they have dug op the
seed potatoes which they had previously 'Oilseed.
It is very remarkable that Ibis state of extreme
distress prevails most strongly in those parts of
Ireland which are particularly remarkable for
their ordinary fertility. The counties or Li.
merick, Clare, and Cork are the most deeply
afticted with the present calamity, but norm.
weakly these counties by no means mark its
mite. Sligo, Mayo, and Galway Rho experience
large share of distress, but the generous sympathy
which has been manifested for their sufferings, not
only in Loudon, but also in various parts GCal
country, will, we trust, quickly afford thetas *Db.
sundial relief. We find that the ComMittint iiho
here the management of the splendid subsCriptiori
which has been raised in the metropolis, and which
already amounts to at least 5t6.000/. have offered
premiums of 10s. • ton for the importation of po-
tatoes into certain specified harbours of Ireland ;
and we also understand that the Ministers have con-
tracted with persons for the immediate supply of
one thousand tons of potatoes, to be delivered
within the most distressed districts. We are not
aware, however, that these supplies are to be sold
cheaply to the poor peasants, or whether the impor-
ters P. hall have the power of entering the murkets.at
• remise price, with the additional advantage of the
premium granted by the Government, or by the
Committee of Management. Potatoes form the
ordinary food of the lower orders of the Irish, and
usually are sold for three or four-pence a stone.
Vire now find by the Cork and other Irish Papers;
that the potatoes imported from this country are
selling in the markets at ten-pence or a shilling a
stone; and if such be the case, the poor laboureri
and peasants are as little served by the supply as
if they had been left to the resources of their
country, and compelled to purchase animal
food and wheaten bread, which may be pro-
cured at a price not much higher than that
of the imported potatoes, and undoubtedly afford
• better and more wholesome nourishment.
We should be glad to turn the attention of the
Committee to the obvious 'advantage of establish..
log Assistant Committees in some of the large towns
in Ireland, which should have for their object the
supplying of the markets with animal food for the
labouring poor at a comparatively luw price. In
the present circumstances of the south of Ireland,
we have reason to believe that beef and mutton can
ha procured more reasonably than the vegetable
diet to which the first desires of the people are habi-
tually turned.

Yesterday the Governor and Deputy Governor
of the Bank of England had an interview with the
End of LaveatooL and the CliasciLLOL of the
Excnetiuse.

The Duke of Yoas transacted military business
with the Kim. yesterday.
It bus been reported to us that Mr. Owen formed
his new plan for the permanent ►elief of the poor in
►his country and Ireland. wh• are unemployed and
suffering from wens. un • prineiple in Which all
parties will now agree, and that at the !Kibbe meet-
ing he has called to. morrow at the City of Lou-
don Tavern. he means to explain at some leogth
the peculiar benefits that will arise from ski/lying
that principle
,judicionsly to practise;