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HOUSE OF CO:IDIOM, THURSDAY, MAY 19.

Mr. MONTEITH brought up the Report of the Clyde Navi-
rttion Rill.
Mr. DUNDAS presented a petition from Roxburgh against any
n'teration in the Corn I,awa.

Mr. LINDSAY presented a petition from the Mayor and Cor-
poration of Cupar, against a reduction of the duty on the imports-
t.on of foreign linen. The Hon. Gentleman presented a petition
also from Perth against the Salmon Fisheries Bill.
Mr. ('l'R'rEiS presented a petition from Squires, Esq.
pi-cying for eimmennation for alleged injuries which the petiti3ner
'attained under the Com Laws. _ _

Mr. S. RI r E presented a petition from twente-five families in
the county of Limerick, complaining that the benefit of emigration
had not extended to them, and praying that means of emigration
to L'pper Canada might be afforded to them.
Sir R. SRA W presented a petition from dhe Chamber of Com-
merce, in Dublin. in favour of a revision of the Rutter Laws.
Mr. DRUMMOND presented a petition front th • Proprietors of
Fisheries in the Dee and Don a,,,minst the Salmon Fisheries 13111.
Sir 1. COFHIN observed. that fisheries did not come up the
river in the north of England at 1,1 the south.
After a few 'orris from Mr. (ALBERT, the petition was laid
on the table.

Elte airtoo.

THE BRITISH .PRESS. •

The BIITIIII Pans commenced publishing yesterday morning
nt five o'clock.

LONDON. FRIDAY. M♦: 20, 1823.

The Paris Papers of Tuesday are filled with the
continued debates in the Chamber of Deputies on the
Budget of /no. The subject of consideration on Monday
was the expenses of the War Department, which are esti-
mated in the whole at 19.5 millions of francs. General For
took advantage of the occasion, to make a strong appeal to
the Chamber, on the Royal Order in December last, to
place fifty of the old Generals on the retired list. He stig-
matised this measure as harsh, unjust, and impolitic,
and even subversive of the honour of the army. On
the anniversary of the battle of Auterlitz, lie exclaimed,
fifty Generals of the Army that gained it were told that
they no longer were worthy of forming part of it. De
afterwards, at great length, objected to the prodigality with
which the public money was expended. The increase of
the military charge was altogether above two millions. M.
DE Cr. remoxv TON NERR E, the Minister of War, replied
in defence of his department. In conclusion, he vindicated
the measure attacked by General For in the commence-
ment of his speech. The reduction of the General
Officers was, he said, in fulfilment of a pledge given to the
Chambers. The KING had interfered only to moderate
its effect as much as possible. The measure was equally
blameless in its principle and in the mode of its execution.
At a subsequent period of the day, M. Beererem Cox-
'Taxr complained of the conduct of the French Govern-
, mem with regard to the Slave Trade. No effort was made
to suppress it; no notice taken of the petition respecting
it signed by the principal merchants of Paris. M. Denote,
the Minister of the Marine, replied, that the law of France
prohibited the Slave Trade, and that the Government
had adopted every measure calculated to carry the
law into execution. He was of opinion that the severity
of the law ought not to be increased, because the
aggravation of the punishment would only tend to
defeat its object, and secure impunity to the guilty.
He denied that the traffic was contrary to humanity ;
the ne,groes were more miserable since it had ceased;
they were now massacred by the victors instead of being
delivered into the hands of the Europeans, who were in-
terested in maintaining and preserving them. The petition
to which M. B. CONSTANT had alluded, proceeded only,
the Minister said, from a few grocers, who were incapable
of forming a correct opinion on the subject under con-
sideration.

The law for the definitive settlement of the budget of
nes was carried in the Chamber of Peers on Monday by
a majority of 135 against 17.
The intelligence from Greece 'fully justifies the expecta-
tions we had formed as to the fate of the Egyptian expe-
tio:i. Letters from Trieste confirm the account of the
total ddeat of the Turkish troops. From the Journd eh;
Debuts we have given a narrative of the proceedings of this
expedition.
The Elate intimates that the French garrisons will not
be withdrawn from the fortresses they now occupy in Spain
on the Ist of July, as some journals have stated.

The preparations for the coronation approach their com-
pletion. It is decided that the KING shall make his
solemn entry into Paris after the ceremony on the Gth of
June.

The Moniteur contains, in Its official part, a Royal Or"-
donnance, nominating Cardinal the Due de CLEastowr
TONNEHRE, Peer of France, the Archbishop of Toulouse
and Narbonne, and the Comte de LODI 1., Peer of France,
Archbishop of Rheims, Commanders of the Orders of
St. Esprit and St. Michel, and authorizing them to wear
the decorations of those Orders.
Professor COUSIN has arrived in Paris.

FRENCH FuNDS.—PAttla, MAY 17.—Five per Cents. opened
al 101 f. 50c. closed at 101 f. blk. Three per Cents. 741. Bk.
Neopolitan live per Cents. Certif. Falconnct 91f. 10e. Royal
Spanish Loan 1823,07 i. Exchange on London:—One month,
2,1 f. 93c, ; three months, 24f. 00z.—Conrs Authentique, May 17,
1825.

Last night we received Amsterdam Papers of Wednes-
day : their contents relate principally to the means of
executing the plan for making Brucsls a seaport. There
are some accounts from Turkey in these Papers, but they
are vague and contradictory. It is stated that the Alba-
nians, after receiving the money required from IREDBCHID
PACHA, have raised unexpected difficulties, in order to
give them with a pretence for not furnishing him with the
troops they had engaged to provide him. Nothing decisive
could take place until he was able to march towards
Etolia.

if/mut, MAY IC.
The following particulsrs respecting the great hydraulic works
now carrying on in the southern provinces will certainly be interest-
ing to our readers :
M. Siemon, chief inspecter of the province of South Brabant, is
zealously engaged with various plans for digging the new canal, by
which Brussels is become a tsea-port. The intention of his Ma.
jesty is, that there shall be two canals besides those of Antwerp and
Ostend ; one at Brussels and one at Ghent. At this time 4,000
men are engaged in digging the canal from Ghent to Serneuze, and
it is hoped that of Brussels will be begun next year. Of the above.
mentioned 4,000 men 800 are exclusively employed in making
fascines, Etc. to stop up the stream called Axels che Got,
which the canal is to traverse obliquely. The remainder are regu-
larly divided Into 12 or 13 detachments, along an extent of two
leagues in length. The most admirable order prevails among the
body of workmen, who are directed by M. Von Asperon.
Three persons are charged with the police, an office which they
perform in the best manner. Each division has a barrack to lodge in.
Besides this, M. V. Asperon has built two vast magazines, con-
taining provisions to the amount of 1000.000 forms, for the
workmen, each of whom gains at least 20 eels daily, and are
supplied with provisions from the magazines on account. One
sof per week is kept back out of their wages, for which they are
attended in case of illness.
At the end of the month the operation of tilling up the Axels che
Got is to be performed. This is said to be an operation which no
person before M. Van Asperon has ventured to undertake, and is
certainly one of the boldest and most difficult in the art of by.
draulics. On the day fixed, this operation is to be performed at
once at low water, by 2,000 men on each side. This embank.
ment will restore to agriculture some thousand acres of land, new
covered with water. In short, this canal, when finished, will be
reckoned a master-piece of the hydraulic art.
AMSTIEDAM, MAY 17.
Exchange on London, 39. 16.; two months, 39.4.

In remarking on the progress of the different Societies,
the mectings of which it has been of late so frequently our
province to record, and of which those instituted for pur-
poses professedly religious are among the most prominent,
we lament to perceive a spirit of fanaticism fast gaining
ground ; a spirit at all times pregnant with evil. The
columns of a public newspaper must necessarily be the
depository of whatever is going on in the world; they are,
from their very nature, a register of the proceedings and
as such, a record of the character of the times. But it is
painful to find the precepts of our pure and holy religion
daily losing their influence, and superseded in their autho-
rity by the enthusias.n of an over-heated zeal, and the
cant of a debasing hypocrisy. Happy would it be for
mankind if every Sancho would not think himself capable
of governing in the religious world, but would leave the
direction of it to those who, by their natural ability and
their public education, are fitted to the task ; to those, in a
word, by whom such of in as have yet much to learn,
need not be ashamed to be taught. We have no objection
to a Society for Me Protection of Religious Liberty, al-
though we do not believe that liberty to be at all in
danger. 11e have, in truth nothing but a kindly feel-

ing towards this vigilant Society. We wish most sin-
cerely that Heaven would grant to all its members common
sense, and would inspire them with the same hatred that
we ourselves have to long speeches. We should consider
this as a great point gained. As for the Co STI NENTAL
SOCIETY, whose proceedings figured in our pages of yes-
terday, if we were to offer any prayer on their behalf, it
would be that they might be endued with such a share
of understanding as might prevent them from making
dupes of others, or fools of themselves. 'd'e consider the
pious harangue of Mr. VANDEUX, a native of Denmark,
as a genuine sample of that spurious godliness with which
the new reformers are so active in inoculating the uncon-
verted, and which has generated this spiritual company,
who have avowedly established themselves with the lung-
nifictlrt intention of " dflpsing religious knowledge over
Me Continent rf Europe ;" a most extraordinary project to
be called for at this time of day ! One would really think
that Christianity was a revelation of yesterday; that an
Established Church was a thing unknown in the world;
that Europe was overspread with a spiritual darkness, and
that this Mr. VANDECX, together with Professor Tnort-
LI-ex, of Berlin, and Dr. Boone and Mr. Burrora, not
forgetting Lieut. GORDON, R.N., were deputed to pour
upon it a flood of arm light, and to dazzle those benighted
heathens of the Continent with the doctrines of a miracu-
lous mission. But the carrying on this work of continental
regeneration is found tote an -expensive process ; the ex-
vend; est. ”strally happens in these generous under-
takings—outruns the receipts, and the subscription-purses
require " a long pull," in order to supply " the absence of
religious truth in Gusnanv, and in those countries where,"
according to Professor THORLUCE, " religion had just
awakened, and the efforts of the CONTINENTAL SOCIETY
would prove most useful." But Mr. VANDEUX, knowing
that there was something still more " rotted in the state of
Denmark"—

" Suggested the utility of a mission to Norway, and appealed to
the liberality of Britain to contribute to this lautlable object. He
feared he should be considered bold, and was likely to be judged
horehly, when he thus came forward to recommend pecuniary
efforts. lie cared not for the judgment of men, but he trusted his
humble example might have some effect, when he came forward
and thus bestowed what he had bought with his blood. I Mr. Van.
deux here took from his neck a gold medal.] lie said he had been
a soldier—that be had fought for fourteen years under the banner
of a temporal King, but he had determined from henceforth to serve
under no other banner but that of Christ. The gold medal he now
presented was given him by the King of Wit-ten:berg, in return for
his military services, to be worn by him whilst he lived, and de-
scend to his family after his death; but he now gave it, not to the
Treasurer, not to the Society--bat to Christ."

To our ears this language is most revolting. We abstain
from further quotations. We really deplore most sincerely
the progress of this distempered state of religious feeling
among) the lower classes ; and it is for this reason that
we draw the public attention to the spread of that religious
frenzy, which, delivering itself in a language peculiarly its
own, unsettles the minds of the multitude, and leads even-
tually to the abandonment of all rational piety, and the
oblivion of all moral duty. The Clergy of the Established
Church have no agents more active, nor any enemies more
dangerous, than the juggling confederacy that make up the
mass of this fanatical priesthood. It may be truly said of
the bigoted zeal which actuates them, that it entirely re-
verses all the principles which a benevolent nature has
erected within us : all outward considerations are made to
give way before it; it emanates, in fact, from that lust of
spiritual dominion which is the fruitful source of all the
worst of those evils which have infested the world from the
beginning, and we fear will infest it to the end. Religious
instruction is of infinite importance, because we all of us
want, more or lees, to be perpetually reminded of our duty,
and to have our hearts and minds bowed down to the yoke
of moral obedience. But such instructors as have here
set themselves apart to enlighten the Continent—we suspect
the chief result of their labours will be fount in the increase
of lunatic asylums.

CITY, THUJSDAY EVENING.

This being the Derby day at the F.psom Races, it wu nearly a
dies non on the Stock Exchange. There wu scarcely any business
doing in the Briti►h Funds, or in Foreign Securities, and the
bargains that were completed were at about yesterday's quotations.
The time and money prices of Consols were the same, viz.-
904 4.
In the Foreign Market, Greek Scrip may be quoted at 61. 6, and
the Bonds at 30i 1. The Old Spanish Bonds at '.0!!, and the
New at 184 19. Colombian Bonds 138. S 9. Mexican Scrip 2 dis-
count ; Danish ditto 3 24 discount ; and Brazilian ditto 1
premium.

The Share 31arket was equally deserted. There were a very few
bargains in the Pasco Peruvian Company, at 94 10 ; and in the
New Potosi, at 4i i.
The Colonists were enjoying the sports on Epsom Downs, as
well as the Members of the Stock Exchange, for not a transaction
either in Sugar or Coffee took place.

Yesterday the Princess Augusta visited the Duchess of
Gloucester and the Princess Sophia.

Prince Leopold, attended by Baron Stockmar, Sir Henry
Seton, and Sir Robert Gardiner, left Marlborough House
on Wednesday evening for his residence at Claremont.

Sir Charlea-Long Lad an audience of the King yester-
day.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer left town yesterday
afternoon for East Coombe, the rent of Lady Buckingham•
shire.

It is said that the majority against the Catholic Relief
Bill would have been fifty-three (instead of /arty-eight)
but that the Duke of Northumberland and Lord Prudhoe
would not leave proxies ; the new Bishop of Salisbury had
not taken his seat ; and two Lords were recently dead,
whose successors had not yet taken their seats.
The habit and decorations of the Order of the Garter,
which the Duke of Northumberland is charged to deliver
to the King upon his coronation, are now in the hands of
embroiderers at Lyons, who are charged to place the dia-
monds. They are said to be worth 1,800,000 francs.--
Galignants Paper,
By the last intelligence from Gibraltar, we learn that
the Governor, Lori Chatham, whose health. has suffered
materially since his last residence in the garrison, is coining
to England, and expected to arrive in this country by the
end of June.

THE EARL OF CLANRICADE.--The munificence of the
Noble Earl has called forth an expression of gratitude and
thanks from the respectable parish Clergyman and pa-
rishioners of Portumna, which reflects credit on his Lord-
ah ip and family, and justifies the expectations of his friends.
Ills Lordship (as we before stated) has contributed to.
wards the building of a Chapel the sum of 100/., and
also an acre of ground. The Countess Dowager and her
amiable daughter, Lady Emily, have also subscribed the
sum of 1101. towards the work. We feel particular plea-
sure in noticing these facts ; they are strong evidence of
liberality and patriot/sm.—Connaught Journal.
We are informed that a very extensive coinage has taken
place for export to the English colonies, to aupersetle the
dollars and other circulating medium in all the English
possessions. This measure will facilitate the exchange of
all articles, and greatly promote commerce.

• .
The monthly return of the port of La Gusyra presents
receipts, under various denominations, of 1,63%496 dol-
lars. and an expenditure of 1,411,755 dollars for the month
of February last.
The Honourable and Reverend George Neville, Master
of Magdalen College, Cambridge, under whose imme-
diate patronage the curious Papysiatt Diary has been de-
ciphered, for it is written in short-hand, is, we understand,
the younger brother of Lord Braybrooke, the Editor of
the Memoirs.

An Evening Paper says that Mr. O'Connell and Mr.
Lawless have been recotuiled.