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SLAV!: TUADE LAWS CONSOLIDATION BILL

fin the motion of 141sYeLaws
l'onsolitlation Rill wax re-x(l,mo l i ....... The Report was brotight
up. and ordered to he received on Friday next.
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'il(' other flnlers of the Day were then diaposeti of, and the
110 Use adjourned at a quarter put Nevin.

NOTICES OF MOTIONS THIS DAY.

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Mr. iiiii tttv to wansider at the Church Est tblishmcnt
of liehuid.
Mr. Wodchntete—rontinuance of the present Salt Duties.
Mr. peter Moore-- Bill ut repe.-il l'oiiiination Laws.
Mr. Jones--Committee of the whole 'louse on Salaries sod An.
niiiiies to \l'cleh Juiiges.
Mr. I:oolhurrn—l'iiiiimittee on the State of the Counties in !re-
knit in shirt' the Insurrection Act has been in hirer.
Sir John Newpert. Statistical Returns respecting the Population
of Ireland.

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tillrtEßS OF *MR DAY.
Dublin Small 1)e1oa Bill—Strand Reading.
V atoranta Bal.-Further consideration of Report.
ll'archooloal IVheat !till—Second Reading.
Roman II larriages Bill—Second Reading.
tilass and Site. ts Hill— I 'oniinittee.
l'asarge %%wad.: &I•.daturn 11111—ll'onituittee.
I tit al. Tronara 1:111---t'otnniittee.
Sating Banks .Acia --Committee.
ut't V ictualling Committee.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.
"C. D." in our next. The letter on •• French Inventions"
shall also appear to4norrow.

The BILITIIIII Pimps commenced publishing yesterday morning
at five o'clock.

LONDON, THURSDAY, MAy 6, 1621.

Within this day or two, in the absence of all other news
from the Continent, an Expedition from the Tagus to
Brazil, to consist of from seven to ten thousand men, was
confidently mentioned, on the faith of private letters from
Lisbon, and vast alarm was excited by the appearance oft
Lisbon of a French sloop of war, from Cadiz, with some
invalids on board. Now we do not believe that any Ex-
pedition of the nature these letters mention, is in either
idea or preparation ; nor is Portugal equal to the sending
out such a force. The party now in power in Lisbon could
not muster two thousand soldiers to be relied on for such
an Expedition, and the necessary funds to meet the ex-
pensed are equally deficietit. Don Pedro may have been
intriguing with the faction at Lisbon, but the Brazilians
II arc universally devoted to the cause of independence, and
would to a man oppose the attempt to revive the supre-
macy of Portugal over that country. As to France, let
her feelings be however strongly inclined, she will not ven-
ture a rupture with Great Britain, by an open attempt on
ally part of Southern America. The diplomacy of our Fo-
reign Minister has been all through tlecided on this sub-
ject, and repose is as essential to the interests of France as
to this country ; no attempt, therefore, will be made, either
lin Brazil or Spanish America, by a French force.

The punishment of the tread-whe:l in the prisons of
this country, now become so general and unpopular, was
again kst night brought before the House of Commons by
the worthy and esligitietted Member for Sotnersetshire,
Sir Thomas Lethltrittg;, in a pt tition from the indefatigable
Sir John Cox llippcslcy, and Mr. Briscoe, the Surrey Ma-
gistrate, whose representations were so ill received at the
last meeting of Magistrates of that county. The petition
was of considerable length, soil stated in detail all the

arguments lately made use of against the employment of
prisaners in the tread-mill. Sir John Cox Ilippesley, once
so deep in the mysteries of Popery, anti anxiously engaged
in searching the records of the Propaganda, and conferring
with his Holiness the Pope and the College of Cardinals to
exclude all foreign interference with the Irish Catholics,
has now changed his pursuits : and, " her! Traeutu mea-
tus!" has gone to the tread-mill for occupation. There he
has worked hard of late, and tried every prison in suc-
cession, publishing, with his usual industry, voluminous

details of all his Inquiries and reattaches. The pamphlets
of the Hon. Baronet failing in the effect he hoped from
them, Sir John entered into a partnership of grievances
with Mr. Briscoe, and the petition of last night was their
. joint production. Mr. Denison, the Member for Storey,
contended, cu the contrary, that the tread-wheel had been
fouled the best mode of punishment, and had received the
almost unanimous approval of fire•anel-twenty commie,.
It kept poisoners (the lion. Member said), as the law in-
!tended, to hard labour, without breaking their spirits or
injuring their health. Sir John Cot Ifippeslcy (Mr.
Denison added) had sent a kind of memorial to the
last Surrey Sessions, which had been objected to, he.
cause the reception of such documents would put an
end to all business, and Mr. Briscoe bail also broti7Jit
I some charges which he bad not supported. 71see.
was no county in England, Mr. Denison stated, in which
more attention was pahl to prisoners than in Surrey,
and he was glad that Mr. Briscoe intended to brin3 the ob-
ject before the house. Mr. Hobhousc said that the Home
was aware that this punishment had been grossly ahusel in
OM or two instances. It was (he said) a great mistake as
to this pubishinent, that because it attached disgrace to
the parties suffering it, it was therefore held to be
good for all occasions. It might, in the lion. Member's
opinion, he a good commutation for transportation cr
ing. But it had 'been monstrously ap:_lied as in the case of
Mr. Flint, who, for no crime what. vi r had been confounded
with the vilest criminals and (dons. The petition WAS
ultimately laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. It
lig well that the discipline of our prisons, and the too-oftea
arbitrary conduct of Magistrates, can be checked by salu-
tary appeals to Parliament; othet wise we should bare the
most despotic acts eanniittal in every county in England.
We have seen the torture of the tread-wheel indiaai-
tninately inflicted on all the unhappy inmates of oar
prisons, tried and untried, innocent and guilty, until the
tyraimic abuse was checked by Mr. Peel's interference and
the authority of the Legislature. This instrument of
punishment and degradation is still much too indiscri-
minately applied, without regard to the health, the
offence, or the effects, physical or moral, it may praline
on those subjected to the painful infliction. While t•ir
John Cox llippesley continues an ex-legislator, ar.d de-
votes his time and labours to prison discipline, he may
bring numberless abuses to light; and by placing the ole-
tails before Parliament, effect many salutary reforms. We
think Mr. Briscoe was extremely ill-treated by the Surrey
Magistrates the other day ; and if the tread-wheel is to
remain an instrument of prison punishment, it ought
only to be applied to hardened convicts, and yet laths
aiminately inflicted on all those who may be condemned
to labour by the sentence of a Court, or the arbitrary
mandate of a Magistrate, for limited periods..

We insert a letter at some length, this morning, from
Mr. Devercux, of the county of Wexford in Ireland, and
Mr. Eneas Matelonnell, two Catholic gentlemen of great
respectability,—on the subject of Cathoic Burials in Ire-
land; and Dr. Magee's letter to the Bishop of Limerick,
Dr. Jebb, read by the latter in the Ilense of Lords, just
before the adjournment for the Easter recess. We hare
read this letter from Mr. Devereux and Mr. !Mcdonnell
with attention, and think it decisive on the subject of this
painful controversy: it extinguishes every unfounded alle-
gation made by the Archbishop of Dublin. Indeed the
Resolutions of the Catholic clergy of that city, which fel-
lowed the publication of the Metropolitan's letter, set at
rest every doubt that existed on this distressiog suiject,
and carried universal conviction with them, that the Arch-
bishop's assertions were totally unsupported by anything
like facts. Months since, when this agitating
which has roused such violent feelings throughout
Ireland, was first discussed, we stated from personal
knowledge, that the Catholic clergy had, during mc-
mory, been in the habit of attending the remains
of their deceased friends to their last resting-place,
and of offering up the prayer for mercy and eternal rest for
the soul of the departed, over the grave. But they at-
tended only as other relatives and friends did ; they wire
distinguished by no clerical habits, or particular costume ;
they celebrated no particular service within the church-
yard: all was unpretending and unostentatious in the
mournful ceremony. Dr. Blake, the Catholic Archdeacon
of Dublin, who was rudely and uncharitably interrupted
in St. Kevin's Church-yard, at the funeral of Mr. D'Arcy,
has himself stated the simple facts. " Yielding," said
Dr. Blake, " to the particular request of a very near and
venerable relative of the deceased, I took off my list, to
assuage, by a short condoling prayer, the sorrows of the
iving—to implore perpetual re st and peace for the departed
soul ; and at this moment, and without any other provo-
cation, the order of Dr. Magee was rung in my ears, that I
must not offer any prayers over that grave." The Arch-
bishop has denied that this uncharitable and unchristian a-
lit!. issue d from him ; but we know the proud and intolerant
disposition of that haughty churchman ; we are aware of his
feelings towards the Catholic people of Ireland ; and we also
know, that neither theßector of St. Kevin's, nor any otter
Clergyman in that Prelate's Archdiocese, would bare
dared to commit the outrage in question, unless sanctioned
by Isis Superior's express authority. Dr. Magee affected
great liberality until he was promoted to his prevent " high
estate:" he then threw off the disguise, in which he had
walked for years, and fronted the Catholics as their most
intolerant and decided foe. Had the Government known
thei man as they do now, he would have rotted is oh-
sturity—be would have consumed the remnant of his life
in a College Living, or his promotion would never have
gone beyond the Deanery of Cork. Hut his early friend,
Mr. Plunkett, vouched for his principles, and hoed Wel-
leeley consented to his elevation. The gratitude of the
Archbishop was shown in early and dens ineelerauees—
the dark been, r of proscription floated over the Marne of
his Cathedral—rand his violence oonnamenised the ewer II -
mot' of the King's Representative in Ireland: That
island was agitated trout end to end by the insults offired
to the Catholic clergy within the sanctuaries of the 11,
and over the very grave, by the Archbishop or his wants :
and the Irish I kivernment hall to al peal to the Legisletu
to quiet the alarm of the Catholics, and secure for them
peaceful privilege of the tomb. Dr. Magee has sines smeht
to shake the foul reproach that has rested on him, of his
,
head ; but nis letter, from the first line to the last, is
equally insincere and untrue ; every assertion contained in
•it has been denied by solemn affidavits, and refitted by
the unanswerable resolutions of the Catholic clergy: not a
sentence he has written is believed in any part of Ireland.
, If we were its any doubt as to the sentiments of the Arch-
bishop towards the people of that conntry, his St•a-
in-law, Mr. Nl•Seil, has fully satisfied us. We found
' this clergyman, at a meeting at the Argyll-mous. a
fortnight or three wee'es since, giving utterance to the
grossest illiberality, and the foulest calumnies, against
the Catholics in general: we noticed his harangue, in the
terms it deserved, at the time. While on this subject, we
regret to say that our worst anticipations reepecfng
Plunkett's Burial Bill have already been mate than reahse

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al; k bog only brougl:t added discontent and difficulties'
kits train, and its unfintunate effects are already appear_
kg. We have now be:iwe us an Irish paper, of only a few
back, which states that a young pentleman, of one of
toot respectable Catholic families at Youglial, in the'
eamy of Cork, hail dial on last Saturday week : on the
ch,yriog Monday' his remains were to be interred in the!
burial-place. 'The Catholic clergymen (tho account

Rho wer•• called *Ton to attend the procersion to the
ch,rcli.yartl, would not nib the minister's permission to
, they wen. too proud to beg that, as a favour from
no, to which Col were eojo:ned by the Almighty : but
tie rill:ions of the duceasol made the application, wad if
rfitirei, probably under the pretext that the humble
r,otion did not come from the l',itholic clergyman. This is
ooh itis:ance otily of the many that have slimily succeeded,

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a•t: sltro to follow, this unfortunate and most unpopular)
hill We stated all this when the measure was in pro-
gym; but our representations were unavailing, and the
awl:mg-holy results arc now daily disclosing themselves.
Prot-statit Prelates and. Clergy of Ireland seem as if
thee were determined to bring the monstrous Church
I:i,.:.blitlintent of that island into general odium and dig-
; all their acts seem fatally directed to thnt end.
tl list a picture easel !tlr. 1/swoon's letter to the hlayor of
Rrry, of a few days since, present.of that Prelacy ! I low i
oculgjitiz the reproach that the Secretary's letter conveys!'
The Bishop of Derry, 1)r. Knox, receives, it is said,
tacitly thousand a-year from that See, and the Ibms of
th: Day• se upwards of four thousand ; and vet the Cathe-
dral is in raitts• and service, for some years, has been
4%4e/rated by sufferance in the Presbyterian meeting-hone
tbt tuna of Derry ! Can such a state of things exist,
asl the Itegidature longer be blind to it? Is it not plain
that the Church Eatiablishintnt of Ireland is encompassed!
round with corruption and negligence, and that it needs
a thorough and general reform ? And the sooner it is
cv• synced the better, if its ultimate preservation is
!wird tu.

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Tor. Ki No.—The information received from Windom,
code, respecting his Majesty's health, is of the most fa-
rocrable character; the attack of the gout is gone, and his
Mkiffly'S general health is goal.
Yesterday 'morning the l)nke and Duchess of Clarence
preseedel from their residence in Stable-yard, St. James., ,
in their carria,:e and four, to Ifeptford, where their Royal
Ilighnemies went on board and inspected the discovery
ships lying there. Their Royal highnesses returned to
tenni in the afternooe.
The Doke and Duchess of Clarence honoured the Italian
Opera House with their preatoice on Tuesday night.
Yesterday the Duchess of Glonceater and the Princess
S4phia visited the Princess Augusta at her residence in
:gable-yard, St. James r, whore their Royal Highnesses
partook of a djetsise, and afterwards rode out together.
On 'I itcsilay morning a courier arrived at the Colonial
Ciftier. Downing-street, with despatches from the lonian
Islands.
We understand that the hatisc of Niemen. Alexander and
Fletcher have received a letter of the Bth March, from a
palate who accompanied Sir G. M.Carthy to Men, which
data not mention a word of the battle with the Ashan-
ti: a.—busing Paper.
Liters were. received yesterday from Cephalonia. but
the dates are not very recent. They state that extraordi-
nary exertions are making in all starts of Greece to meet
the threatened attacks of the Porte ; and that the jealousy
which subsiatial between the Greeks and the cnterprisiug
foreigner% who have employment under the Government is
gradually subsiding.
Retract of a letter, dated Canton, January 9:—" Every
thing goes on quietly here, and the. Linton affair is at
Izoiset:leil, by the Emperor of China leaving the King of
to punish f'aptain Richardson and the inur-
siersts, should they ever dare to return to their own
cowntry."
Yeltertlay a Court of Directors was heM at the East
India Douse. when the following chartered ships were
thus stationed, viz.:—The Claudine and Boyne, fur Ben-
gal direct, to be afloat the loth into. ; and the ayton, for
Bewpd and flentavolen, to be afloat the Isth inst., and to
sail from Gravesend at the expiration of thirty days from
their coming afloat.
CHANOE or ADNIIIIII.TIATION.—Reports of the int-
artediate resignation of Lords Liverpool and Eldon circu-
lated pretty freely in town on Saturday and yesterday.
We believe, however, they owe their origiu more to the
desire of the public for such an event, and to the probabi-
lity of its occurrence, than to any thing that has yet been
.decided on the aithject. The great age of the Lord Chan-
arikw, the alterations which the constitution of him Court
moat prolribly undergo, to satisfy the people of Eugland,
with whom it has fallen into a degree of unpopularity
almost without an example, and his Lordship's late unfor-
tunate disagreements with some of the must respected and
prominent members of the lbw, must, doubtless, make
him wish to be speedily relieved from the fatigues of
office. Lord Liverpool'. delicate health would seem to
make retirement equally desirable to him ; so that a partial
change in the Cabinet is not at all unlikely to happen.
Should it fortunately take place, there can be little doubt
but that a great improvement in the system of government.
in England and Ireland, would follow. The sound con-
stitutional principles which his Majesty imbibed in early
Lie, and the liberal inclinations of his mind, would of
course Wiwi: him to adopt the views of Mr.Canninir in pre-
firmer to those of Mr. Peel. The influence of the former
wood become paramount in she councils of the nation;
and the benefits of his enlightened policy would be soon
felt in all parts of the empire, but especially in Ireland, as
it Is well known that the Marquis Wellesley, and the
splendid statesman who preside' at the Foreign Office, are
perfectly agreed in r space to the manner in which this
country ought to be treated. We need not remind our
traders that Mr. Canning and the nettle Viecroy are per-
sonal and political iriends.—ThoWia Fl ermam's Jusirnal ey.
21funday. •
A rumour very generally prevails in this and the Eng-
lish metropolis, that we are shortly to have a change in
the Ailminititration. It is reported that Lords Live, pool
and Eldon have resigned their seats in the Cshinct, and
that the former Nobleman is to be succeeded by Mr. Robin-
aori, who is to be raised to the Peerage. Some say that
Mr. Robinson is to succeed the Marquis Wellesley, while
others mention the Marquis of Lanallown as his successor.
It Is aka asserted that a dissolution of' l'arliament is to
take place forthwith. We treat the entire as idle rumours,
for which there is no teal foisadatioe.—/risA 'flow of
,tite.".
Tilt LOllll Nlavocit--At the Quarterly Assembly an
Paid ty, the citizens of Dublin were disappointed in their
esoktatlons of the re-election of oar present excellent
sAtief Magistrate to fill the important office for another
year. It appears to have been the general wish of the
Corporation that his Loribiltip shnuld have been ro-eleeted,
bet it was found to be contrary to one of their standing
loos. We lurk no doubt, however, that our fellow-citi-
zees will conw/bewatel, anal in a suitable way, to evince
their respect and gratitude to his Lordship fur his
unwearied exertions to pro.note their intercom—lrish
Timm
(:rent itlstreqt exists amongst the Sheffield cutlers. These
ortiruns have published on address to the public, in which
they say. " Taking an average of wage. throughout the
trade, we shall find it not tam exceed from 9s. to I Is. per
week, soil they are working from fourteen to sixteen hours

per day."
The curious in natural history have abundant food for
contemplation in the siasgular individual who has been in-
troluml to the public as Miss Crachami, the Sicilia.'
Dwarf. l'uli:.e most others of whom any record is pre-
served, she is not uulv diminutive, but beautifully pro-
pmtienell, and so perfect in every respect that many
members of the faculty have given it as their opinion, that
she will not increar„: in size, and that there is every proba-
bility of her living. to a considerable age. Miss Crachami
is oboist nineteen incises high, of slunder snake, but still
well proportioned ; she is said to be Its years of age, yet
her countenance indicates a more advanced period at life,
and her weight is under five pounds. We bete'', that this
int:untwist stinted growth, oonsbined with doe proportion,
4wl, in none respects, crew elegance of form, is unique.