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of tb • right of.pro,erty la the garnet but he eottM oot sep4rate the
bui eitial proprietor troni the proorie!nr of the soil.
After a 'der needs front Mr. JONES, Air. WILSON. an! Mr.
blAwriN..he 1-lot.se
Xor the Auleadenent (mortal by Mr. Martin) . .
Againet it

The other clauses ofllle Bill
were then agreed to, the Chairman
reported progress, and 'AAA levee to sit again; after is!,ich the
/I ease resumed, and the other onlers of the day were disposed of.
Adjourned at 'I wr:t.v x o'CLocs.
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PRICES OF BRITISH STOCKS IiESTERG t V.
flank for Acc. av India for Acct. 27* 279 4
Ppa I eat. Oins. 934 93 921 • Ex.Bills,llll.uotit. 54 51 62pm
Ditto Acct. OM i 112 j 13 Mite, 1601. 54 41 xi pin
Sew 4 per Cell!. 1064 i 1 Ditto, Small 64 51 63 pm
India Bonds 80 76 piu. •I Lotiery•Tlokets, 121.1105.
11;111('ES01.- FOREIGN i4TOCI S YESTEIt lIA 1.
Asstiian Honda 984 Ali:lean Bonds Mil 791 I
I.Lito Acct. 98 71 Ditto Acct. 804 711 1 1 1 / 1
• Brazilian Bonds 871 Ditto Scrip (1826) 4014 4 1
Ditto Scrip 0215) 1,1 Ipm . 111 pm
Bue-,no Acre. Bones 901 11 901 Ditto Acct. 11 01 101 1 pin par
[ Cbillian Rontls 90 891 Ii r.
Ditto Adit. 901 89.1 N Milo itan Bolide 911
Golooiriian Itunds Peruvian IlmidaB7 64 1 1
Ditto Bond, (11324)rai 194181 4 Mite Acct. 861 1
MAO Acct. 821 191 1 84 Portuguese Bonds 90 194
Datisli Bondsl6ol 101 Ditto Accr:9ll
k rtlicti Hm eel, Inf. Itig. ex die itiresian Bowie 944 4 . .
Exclianike $5l. 10e. 1 Ditto Acct.
Greek bonds I I.spailish Cantu rift
Wig Acct. 111 Ditto A cer. N . • 1
Dana Scrip (1b26) 4/ 164 dis I Died Cans. (1 All,
Ditto Acct. 41 ,1 16 61 1 4 dia Ditto Aect.
----rinclia OF SHARES YESTERDAY.
DINES.
WA:re. PAW. Premtms, Per Mani.
Aaglo-Worienn--....- ...- 100 16 60 76 80 81
Anglio-Chilian...— ...... ~....”)* 6 1 6
Bcacillea,.-........:.:,.....-.*, 10 • S 61
121 13 111 13 123
Chi1iin—.................—‘..-3 14110 6 11
Colombian 111 4 2$
t...ltiliso and Peruvian Company --; 6 61 I tit*
General Mining Association 1116 $ 101 11
H i beta can 641 4 51 6
Pasco Penivitio. 111 6 161 17 111 1 1917 1
Royal Irish -16 1 die
Run de la Plata. , I* 9 22 21 2$
United Illesican 0 20
Dino New die 5 26 27 23 •
Welch Icor: and C0a1......
AISURAXCC costraxtts.
Alliance Brit. end Fee L lOU DI 954
Ditto Ilai ice BM 6 31 21
SAS lieNT AND COKE courAartia.
Csatinessol... 100 11 1 a
1111SCCL LANIOVII.
Atlantic and Pacific 102 10 1 4
Australian 100 1 24 26
British Iron Company - 100 6 3/ 11
Bristol Shin Canal 1 par 1
Gana! (las Engine 50 1
Colombian Agricul. Company Iro 4 12 14
liquisable Lean Bank 5O 1 llf
General Steam Naviga ion lOO 5 31 35/
Geld Coast Association 100 II 221
Great Westminster Dai y 25 2 1 dia
London Brick Company 5O 1
llexican Con:pany lOU 10 ll 711.1 i
illeimpolitan Fish Company 25 1 8 1
Pearl Fishery (Yellow) 25 2 18
Provircial Bank of Ireland 100 4 7i 7
Patent Bricks 5O 2 21 131
Patent Steam Carriage 5 21 1 1
Pearl and Coral Fishery
',loyal Stannary 5 11 diS
Westminster Fish Company 5O 6 1 1 ilis

Dcputita. and centibued through the Ilsy. We bare
elsewhere even a short abstract of the proceedings.

[From the Monieeur of Tuesday.l
Mantis 21.
The body of Princess Metternich was brought to-day to the
Church of the Assumption, where low mass was celebrated. The
Diplom:it:: Body attended. After the masa was over, the remains
of the Princess were conveyed in a hearse to the hairier of Paatin,
where they were placid in a berlin, which immediutely set out tor
Mayence, at which place they will be deposited for the present.
A Decree, in 29 articles, issued by the Minister of the Interior,
contains the regulation for the herse-races in the different parts of
the kingdom. The races are ter be in eight districts, via—Paris,
Le Pin ((knee, St. Brieue, Strasburgh, Limoges, Aurillac,
Bordeaux, and Tarbes ; four prizes to be given at each race.
There are also to be three Royal prizes. The ordinary prizes
1,100 to 2,610 francs; the three Royal psis:a $.509 to 5,000, and
lON Mum. The first of these to be run for at Aurillac, the
other two at Paris. The horses must run at the rate of 550,609,
11041 630 metres per minute, according to their age. Horse running
alone may gain the prize, but he must go over the ground marked
'W. and at the rate of 630 metres per minute.
(From the Etoik, dated Wednesdrry.)
TittiArn, Miaca 9.
The last packet from Corfu brings letters from Miseolonghi of
!Fhb Feb. They confirm the total defeat of the rebels, arid the
tentmaker of public tranquillity. Lando and Zaim are taken and
1169119911nd to Anatnlico. Colocotroni's party is dispersed, and the
Oetelk Hovernmera has now only to attend to the preparation for
ilhe fifth campaign.
Pants. Manes It
?three kletternieb, whose fears (too fully justified by the lose he
„Ings Jost saistabred) were the only 'motives foe his journey, will quit
Midi the day after to-marrow.
i•
iraibtCH FUNDII.—PAnts, MAIMS Et—Fit/epee Cents. 102 f.
11111...dase, 103 f. ; Royal Spanish Lean, 391; Bank Stock,
tale - Me-

The Amsterdam Papers of Wednesday arrived last
night. Their most interesting contents relate to Poland.
The Emperor of Rossi.* has issued a proclamation, con-
voking the Estates of that kingdom to assemble fur the
third general Diet, which is to open on the 12th of May,
and to close precisely at the end of one calendar month.
In this proclamation his Imperial Majesty admonishes the
Senators and Deputies not to follow the example of the
Diet of IS2O, which, he says, spent its time in continual
debates on subjects not submitted to its deliberations. By
another proclamation, however, we find that the EMPEROR
has applied an effectual remedy to the evil of which he
complains, by suppressing the publicity of the proceedings
of the Diet. The Journal of St. Petersburgh denies the
statement in the French Papers, that a treaty has been
concluded between Russia and Spain, by which the latter
Power was to receive military aid from the fonner in
exchange for the cession of the Balearic Islands. The
Russian journalist assures his readers, that "since 1814
the Russian Cabinet has concluded no treaties but those
which have contributed to the restoration of general peace
which all Europe desired; and its policy is confined to the
maintenance of those principles which, in concert with the
Allied Courts, it has so often and so formally sanctioned
by its declarations and its measures."
The second proclamation to which we allude above is to
the following effect :
WZ, ALEXANDER, &c.

" Faithful to the paternal sentiments and intentions which in-
duced us, of our own free will, to give a Constitution to our sub-
jects of the kingdom of Poland, in order to give to all classes of
people what is so necessary to their welfare—peace, union, and
concord ; desirous of removing the dangers the abuse of one article
in the Charter has already caused and may eau** again; consider.
ins that the publicity of the debates in both Chambers has induced
tiwapowkon to think-rather of an ephemeral popnlarhy than of
the public good, by which the debates degenerated into empty de.
klamations, calculated to destroy the expected unanimity, and to
banish the tranquillity and decorum which should prevail in every
important deliberation ; desiring to cure the evil in its source, to
prevent the necessity of ill influence in elections and opinions, and
to cause our subjects of the kingdom of Poland to enjoy all the
benefits which the Charter accords to them—We have resolved to
fortify our work, by altering, by meant of an additional article,
one point of the regulations experience has proved to us to be
highly detrimental. We have therefore decreed as follows:

The Sittings at the opening and close of the Diet, and those
on which the royal sanction of projects of law is declared, shall be
public as hitherto.

•' In the elections of Committees, and in every discussion and
debate in the two Chambers, they always form themselves into a
Special Committee.

" This article forms an inseparable part of the Charter.
" Ceankojiselo, Feb. 13. " ALEXANDER."

EXCHANGES._

A mrricaa.tx, MmtcWii..=l3nticrn. 39 7; two months, 39 3.
HAWBURON, MAncft 13—London, M 1 ; 2 Us. 3510.
PZTZRIBUIGH, 31 MICH 4.—London, 9 *Z9-32 ; Paris, 102/.—
Amsterdam Papers, March 23.

Mr. Hems, conformably to his threat, inflicted upon a
portion of the Ilouse of Commons a repetition of the dis-
cussion of the Indian Trestion, which was debated on
Wednesday in Leadenhall-street. The result, which is all
we can notice now, was, that his motion was negatived by
a majority of S 8 against 15.

ITISH PRESS.


FRENCH PAPERS.

CHAMBER OF DEPCTIES. Mutest 21.
The order of the day—the resumption of the debate on the law
relative to the public debt and the sinking fund
)I. 3/ASSON, who supported the project of last year, opened the
discussion with a speech against the present measure, which, he
sald,would not,likethst.be either simple in execution orefficient in Is
general result. He proposed fixing the price of the Three per cents.
et a mittinarior of 31, or incase thst proposal should not be approved,
be wished the reduction to be deferred till next Session.
11. De Is BOUILLERIE, the Royal Commissary, defended the
law in a tone of voice so low and indistinct that nobody could heat
what he said.
M. SAVLOT Daottexauv maintained, that the law of 1823
was essentially similar to that 11124. It reared on the same false
basis that the ordinary interest of money in France ads below five
pet *rent., though the 3lioister of Firunce had opposed the appro-
priation of the Sinking Fund to the payment of the indemnity, on
the ground that it would infallibly lower the price of stocks. Now
as the fire per cents. were only a trifle above par, with the aid of
the Sinking Fund, it followed irresistibly that the general rate of
interest was nor so high as the Minister had represented. The
speaker then proceeded to contend, that the optional conversion was
a niece illusion, on account of the fundholders being obliged by the
feet to consent to that conversion.
Isl. PAVY said, that a number of hypotheses had been set up to
prove that the interest.of the fundholder was the general interest.
Now there were only fiat.ooo fundholderv, and he +should ask were
there. numillione of citixens who had interests opposite to theirs P
Let the numbers of both bccomppared and they would see where was
the general interest. The speaker combated the allegations mule
respecting the bad tate of public credit. So far from being so, it
must hove been trong to have been able to resist the attacks of
which it had been the object. The speaker then called the recollec-
tion of the Chamber to a period when tunhey was much more rare
than at present t• ordonwance of Louis Xl'. had fixed
interest at 3 per cent. per annum, whilst in 1795 that interest rose to
It per cent, per mensem. and the government of that period, arising
from Ilia bankruptcy of thetwo-thirds, was net able to borrow under
15 per cent. apd that in the most burdensome manner; from which
arose the consequence, that the interest .of money having varied
at different period.. it ass allowable to goteenment not to borrow
hereafter at above 3 per cent. After having passed in review in a
strict examination the. advantages of the present law over that of
last year, he conrinded by voting in favour of the project.
The Court then adjourned,till the next day at a quarter to six.

~~

IVE.S TM !NS TR R MINTING..
....—.......---_
In compliance with a requisition, addressed to the High SAW
by some respectable inhabitants of the city and llberthie of Wen-
minster. a meeting was held yesterday in C,oventouderi, to andO.
der the propriety of petitioning Parliament for tire repeals! the
Bente and 14'inilow Tax. . •
At one o'clock the High Bailiff Arthur Morris, Esq. Ski".
Burdett. •and John Cam Hobhouse, Elm. the Members eve Iho
City, Mr. Henry Huut, and A considerable numberof the Ms-
. tors,.weeended yi temporary hustings erected in the north-wan Id*
nee of the market. ?tit:Kite Covent-garden Chambers.
The High Bailiff having read the reqviehlon, . . .
Mr. OARDIINER. after It short address, read the feline*
Resolutions, upon which the petition was to be roundlet.
Resolved, I. That this meeting have noticed, with great 1141-
factiou and pleasure, the assurances contained in his 31
Speech at theopenjng of the present Session of Parliament, lIIIIM
declaration of the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the increase ad
general prosperity of the country. .
2. That it is the noininn of this Meetragobat the people imiii
right to expect, and particularly from those encouraging NOW.
ciente, that some portion of the razes would be diminiaherdaZ
that his 31ajesty*. Ministers would, In the first place, bete
..
them from those taxes the most oppressive and obnoxious, he IliSO.
femme to others of a mime. consequence; that the re et fallHouk and NV indow Taxes would haze taken. p.,.W Wil
others, as the most harassing, reeatietts, and smeguat fa Mit
operation.
3. That it is the opinion of this Meeting that the Houk ma
Window Taxes should, beyond ail others, have received doss
consideration of the Legislettnei not only 00 atollllt of dens
being the. most oppressive and obnoxious of all taxes, but
having been increased in their present high rate in aid of dos
war only; they therefore cught, in justice and equity/ to here boa
repealed.
4. That the House and Window Taxes have gird's teal 090-
!tittered a grievance by all classes of his Majesty's subjects' and
the meeting is of opinion that the remission of ass team 4
amount will affrod so much direct end subsuintial relief, be
received with so inuch satisfaction by the people at 111216, 1M tltt re-
, peal of the House and Window Taxes.
The Resolutiohs were put eeriefiens and tfitrried onsaitnousli.
Mr. HENRY HUNT then addresied the meeting. it sae Ms
long since he had the honour to addreol a public meeting that b•
sea eely recognised his own voice. But although he had, stow the
passing of theft: A cte,been precluded attending key assembly Oh*
countrymen, and although he had been too years and aix month, lil
prison without being able to meet them there, and twayeart and sit
months, mita prison without having an oropwtuoity of doieg it, MIR
he felt himself as competent as es er to address totem. They had
held up their hands in favour of a set of Resolutions Which he
would venture to say they had not heard i brat they had cor.fideoce
in those who proposed them, and they knew they were to bit en-
! bodied in a petition for the repeal of an odious and infamous,
much worse than that, an impious tax, whifth withheld the light tri
heaven and free sir from man. (Cheers.) To a man they Alia&
one and all call upon Parliament to abolish it. They were nett
called upon. In the tenth year of peace, to petition against* tan
which should have been taken Mr one year after the war. (Cheers.)
They would hear more of this fr0m...6.4 more competent to ex.
plain e 1; but if they knew no more than that ft was proposed
plainly and simply that such a tax shimld be repealed, he was stir*
they would be unanimous. He hoped the time was coming when
all political differences would be at an end—when the contest*
which had taken place under that church (pointing to St. Paul's/
would be forgotten, and when there would be only one conarmen
feeling. one .ontmon desre, that of best serving the country. *e
hoped thetefore they would allow ,tiro to submit a short Resolution
presently, to be added to the original ones. He lamented that the
gentlemen who had brought forward these Resolutions had one
pointed out the sources front which the sum was to be deducted if
the tax was repealed, some means by which so large& sum could be
supplied for the purposes of Government if they cemented to giver
up this tax. Fur his part he must revert to the old Mpie, and he
hoped and trusted when he abandoned it, that it might be the lase
words he should utter. Ile should have pointed out that the cheapest
govermr.e it made the happiest people, and called upon them to
abolish the uszlees piacA, sinecures, sod pensions. Twenty year,
ago, he had. at a public meeting, read those placernen and sine.
counts a lesson—the Duke of Buckingham and the Marquil
Camden ; twenty years ago he had pointed them out to public re.
probation, and he had lived to have the satisfaction of seeing the
one yielding to public opinion, resigning his sinecure, and the other
deprived of his byAct of Parlianent. (Cheers.) At tho time whew
thanks were lately voted to Lord Clunden for his good and pa'.
triotim resignation, he (Mr. Hunt) would not have. tbonght is
emits if some honest individual had risen up and told them to.
whom it was principally owing. (Cheers.) He had the honour to be
the only man, who, at • public meeting in Somerset, pointed out
that gross misapplication of the oolitic money, the settling of fifty.
thousand pounds a year upon the Prince of Saxe Coburg, in case he
should survive the Plincess. lie said then, as he thought now, than
so large a SUM was tog German Duke a bribe and a temptation kb
get rid of the Princess, and go back to his own country, and spend.
the money with hie own nullity. He had no objection to the sum.
for both united, but lie had felt a atrong eeluctence to the smarm*
sums, and had dencuneed it, as it deserted, to be a gross and infer.
moue waste of the public money. Charity began at home, so hat
thought should Reform t and he would take leave to say, with defer.
eats to one of their lirpres fntatives, and without meaning any thing!
personal, that :fir Benjamin H obhouse (hisses and cheers)—he mean,
no personality—but he would propose that Sir Benjamin Hob,
bottle, Lords Arden, Grenville, and the other sinecurists, should
give up their ill-gotten gains to thZ relief of the public. (Hisses ands
cheers.) If that was not the question, he did not know what was, sad
he confessed he was surprised not to find it a part of the resolutions...
But while they were about to petition Porliament for relief from new
burthen. he had heard with some surprise the imposition of another.o
a sum of 230,0001. he believed, to be collected from the pockets of
the people of this country to pay the Catholic priests of Ireland.
Do you consent to that, my friends? aid Mr. Hunt. (Cries of
No, No, and cheers.) Let them inquire what that tam was for;
why, to bribe them tamely to submit that half a million of their
countrymen, 40 shilling freeholders, should be basely deprived of
their Constitutional liberty. The question which their worthy irad.
eloquent Representative, Sir Francis Burdett, had so ably intro-
duced into the House of Common, every fair and liberal man
niust wish to be successful. They must rejoice that the day of
superstition and bigotry' was Emile by, and that seven millions of
people were likely to be restored to their rights as freemen. No
honest man, be repeated, could object to that ; bunt he confessed it
was with something more than surprise that he had seen Croke:.
the Secretary of the Admiralty, rise up to second the Honourable
Baronet's proposition. His hopes were then dashed to the
He despaired of the cause; he said to himself, could the
down with the lamb ? (Cheers.) Could the tiger herd al 111.
deer? (Cheers.) He could tell that the epoch of liberal fetid*
was not arrived when he heard of the enemy of all political firedog",
rising up to give his support to a liberal proposition ; he knew them
was something bellied the curtain—that the Bill proposed contained
a something nut meant by those who advocated Emancipatinn; and
he was right; for out came this Bill to grant 230,0001. to bribe the
Catholic priests to betray their charge.
A person in the crowd cried out, " they shan't have it." No;
said Mr. Hunt, I hope not, and thanking you for not having
offered any opposition to what I hive offered to you, 1 shall non
propose that my Resolution lie read.
The Ilion Bat stye here, we believe, intimated to Mr. Hunt.
I that for the sake of u-ranimity he had better allow the Petition wi
i be read, and propose his Resolution afterwards.
No, no. sad 3lr. Huare. I am coo old a soldier to lle nicked
openly. if cry Resolution is left out now, it will be said, after the
Petition has bee:, teceised, that try Resolution has nothing to oho
with the body of the Petition. No, no ; they shall hear it reed
now, anti then we will hear what sort of arguments they mean W
, oppose to it.
Mr HUNT then read the following Resolution :
Resolved—That this Meeting has heard with surprise and indig.,
ration, of a proposition to bring a Rill into Parliament, to imposes
new tee of 330,000 L a year, to-be collected (ruin the Protestants OA
England, to pay the Ronnie Catholic Priests of Ireland, as a briar
to inthice them. tamely and basely, to submit to the treasonabisi
disfranchivement of a half a trillion of their countrymen (forty
shilling freeholders), who have always, up to this tint*, enjoyed sod
exercised as the dearest birthright of freemen the right of voting
for Members of Parliament."
After the Resolotioo was read,
Some person, we believe the alas Beletee, hint mentiooed
to Mr. !tout, thnt Sir Francis Burdett denial that,lgigerse any
intention, we believe, to pivc the money for any web .
Mr Bust said, he did not think the liciassatbie ' t 0.%
cursed in a measure which would do away with rat linear
to accrue from Emancipation, but he would notdoweeet W withdasot
Et
his Resolution.
It was then objected that no one had 'meander! it.
A 31r. Bodo then performed that duty.
The Hunt BAlLliir put the Resolution, and upon a show 416
hands it was declared to be carried by a large majority.
Mr. OARRENiR then read the petition.
Mr. Huse., after expressing a hope, that as Englishmen sad
hottest men, they would not content to vote in favour of the peti-
tion, unless it contained his Resolution—moved that it be engrossed
with it.

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