The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-04-30 00:00:00

PRICES tIF RItITISII
Rank Stank 232 i 314
3 par Cent. lied. 9lf
3 pert ent. Cnne. 924 94 924
Ditto Acct. 924 14
sj per Cent.
3i pet Cent. Red. 984 99 99i
ew 4 per Cent. 106 1034

•,,•.••••,••••,

ITOCRS YESTERDAY.
India Stock
India Bonds
Long Ann. 22i 1-16th
1ix.11i115,10.1,000/. 55 51 pm
Diu*, 500/. 57 54 fpm
Ditto, kim4ll 57 54 58 pgi
Lottery Tickets, 151. Ills.

Cite Ls,ritiOh 41

QfSfs•

DRURY-LANE THEATRE.
TINIs Evening. SATURDAY, April JO. will Le performed
1/1%.R FREISCHU rz. ,
Casper. Mr. Morn ; Adolph. Mr. T. Cooke; Bernberd, lir. Bedford :
Hermit. Mr. Sheriff: Kilian, Mr. Pitswllltem. Linda, bilis Oraa-
don t Rose, Wise Paw iv.
After which, LOON HASSAN.
TIN g•Uph, Mr. Redford; Abon Hawn. Mr. Horn; Zabel's, Mr.
Marley. Zillion, Miss Graddon.
On Monday, The Cabinet, with Abon Hassan.

COVENT-GARDEN TIIRATRP.
TWA Evening, SATURDAY'. April 30, will be performed
A ROLAND FOR AN OLIVER.
Sir Mack Chase, Mr. Fawcetts Alfred Highdyer, Mr. Jones; Thrtese,
lir. Rayner. Maria Darlf aeon, Miss Fuute.

After which,
C LA 111.
The Date Vivaldi. Mr. T. P. Cooke; Raisin°, Mr. rawsett. Clarl,
Muss M. Tree; Vespina, Miss Lora
To conclude with

SECOND.
King Charles, Mr. C. Kemble; Lord Roeh Mr. Jones; Captain
Coln,. Mr. Fawcett. Mtn', Miss M. Tree.
Ni
On Monday, Orestes In Argo*, with 'Harlequin and the Dragon of

HAYMARKET THEATRE.
This Ironing, SATURD kV. April 30. will be performed
FOR ITNE'S FROLIC.
Robin Rough.head, Mr. Wilkinson.
After AS'illet
LOVE IN A VILLAGE.
Justice Woodcock, Mr. Dowton ; Young Meadows, Mr. Melrose;
Hawthorn, Mr. Pyne. Itowtts, Miss George..
To conclude with
YOUTH. LOVE, AND FOLLY.
Baron de Driaucourt. Mr. Williams: Louis de Limn!, Mr. Melrose;
Florimoad. Mr. Yining; Antunie, Mr. Wilklusou, Arbutette, Mrs
Hutobyi Etona„Mrs. T. Hill."
roiOn
ly. Illeuday.
The Merry Wives of Windsor, with Youth, Lore, and

ENGLISH OPERA HOUSE.
MR. MATHEttS AT HOME.
We Evening. SATURDAY, A pill 30. and on Monday and Thursday.
MR. 11.ATHEWS' MEMORAN HUM-Book
of Pesulltalties, Characters, and Manners, collected during his varknui
Tripe.
gowns—. Memoranda In Confusion--.. Night Coatth"—.. Bubbles,"
a sapitat Song—. Sailing Match"—" Old and New Tirrws*—.. Public
Whet, How-street."
PART —A tionopolTiogue, to he called
THE CROWN INw DANGER.
Owen open at Sevent the Performance to corn manse at Eight.
Celrrion.—The new Entertainment will not be printed; and all
=professing to contain any parte of it era gross Impositions and
on the

TO CORRESPONDENTS.
The second ►etter of 'lndex respecting the West India Company is
unavoidably postponed till Monday.

- -
The Raetidee Passe commenced publishing yesterday morniag
at half-past five o'clock.

LONDON, SATURDAY, Arai!. SO, ISIS.

The Paris Papers of Wednesday bring the continuation
of the adjourned debate on the law respecting the public
accounts of 14323. M. DE MONTMARTS endeavoured to ex-
cuse the contracts made with QIVILARD, by showing that
the success of the invasion depended rpon the advance of
tho army, and at the opening or the campaign there was a
deficiency of horses for the transport service. Under these
circumstances, the zeal of the Duke DE BaLies s, then
Minister of War, induced him to forru the disadvantageous
contracts now the subject of complaint. The Ministry
would afterwards gladly have quashed them, but as that
was impossible, M. JOINVILLE was sent to moderate their
evil consequences as mu'h as possible. M. Di:not:au, in
voting for the law, proposed that the consideration of the
sum of 5i,239,639f. paid to COUVRARD, should stand over
until the issue of the judicial proceedings were known.
M. Canasta PERRIER was surprised that the Committee
should have commented upon the contracts with OuvasaD,
and remained silent upon the other extra expenses, as, for
instance, those of the Minister of War. An inquiry alone
could throw light upon the subject. If the Ministers re-
fused inquiry, a moral accusation would rest eternally upon
them. M. nc Col:emirs said that the war was not made
against Spain, but against the Revolution, and therefore it
was impossible to act as when the enemy's country was ob-
liged to pay the expenses of the compaign. It had been
said that the Minister of War had suffered his functions t,
be usurped by another; but this was to bring a heavy and
unjust accusation against him. The debate would pro-
bably continue for several days longer.
On Monday the Keeper of the Seals communicated to
the Upper Chamber the letters patent of eleven new Peers.
The Mornings announces their names to be—

Dussa—The Duke de Discus, the Duke de BriTICSA.
AIARQUISSES—The Marquis de Rouge, and the Count de Lally
'ollendal.

_
Co r aTs—Count de Tracy, Count Bruneteau de St. Suzanne.
V tsc o x s—% ocount llorel de Vindb.
BARONS—Count Ruts, Count de Kergolay, Viscount Dubou-
ebage, Viscount Dode de la Brunelle.

It appears that the defection of the Greek General
ODYSIIII:i is almost beyond doubt. The majority of his
troops, however, had abandoned the traitor, and there was
reason to hope, that, aided by the force sent against him by
the Government, he will speedily be brought to justice.
The discovery of an apostate like this only serves to illus-
trate the immoveable fidelity of the great body of the
Greek soldiery to the sacred cause of their country.

• The Etude of Thursday states that the French mer-
cbantmtn, respecting which the correspondence passed be-
tween Captain DCPOTET and General Pa Ez, has been
restored to the French squadron by which Puerto Cabello
was threatened with blockade. We suppose there must
have been some irregularity in the capture of this
vessel, as we base too high an opinion of the spirit of the
Colombian authorities to believe that they would suffer
themselves to be bullied out of a lawful prize, especially
when they had recently manifested so much technical nicety
relative to the terms in which the Commissions of the
British Consuls were expressed.
By the quotations from the Cour, Authentivre of Wed-
nesday, it will be observed that the Spanish Bonds rose on
the Paris Stock Exchange I; per cent. in the course of that
Bert. At the close of the market on Tuesday they were
lbt ; on Wednesday, 19i.

[From the Conititutionnei of Wednesday.]
PARIS, AFRO. 28.
A letter worthy of credit, received from the Peloponnessus, an-
nounces, that she same General Odysseus, who, two years ago. 'ut-
tered an arniy of twenty.tive thousand Turks to pass into the
Morea, and thus exposed to great risk the independence of his
country, has just given occasion to most serious suspicions of his
fidelity ; he has declared himself in open rebellion against the Go-
verommt, which has. lost to time in sending troops against him.
The rebellion of Odysseus will be suppressed with the greater
facility, as the major part of his troops have declared against him in
favour of the Government.

.....
This insurrection does not appear to be connected with any party
formed In the interior. Having been formerly the satellite of •
Pacha, it is supposed that he feels lots aversion than all the other
Cheeks from a re-union with the Turks, and, if he is Lot soon
stopped by the Clretks, the Turks will do justice ott him, as they
did on Alt Pacha.

[From the Bloik, dated Thursday.]
PARIS, APRIL 27.
We learn from Calais that Lieutenant Vaux, Master of the
Horse to his Excellency the Duke of Northumberland, Ambas-
sador Extraordinary from his Britannic Majesty to the Court of
France, landed there on the 211, gbh eighteen of his Grace's ser-
vants and thirty-one horses. They were to set out the next day fur
Paris. _

Ihe Urania, a French merchant vessel, which was captured last
year by a Colombian privateer, and conducted to Porto Cabello, has
been restored to the Ircnch squadron otE the latter port, and con-
ductal to Martinique. From thence she sailed on the 6th of March
for the Havannah, whither she was originally bound, under the
escort of the armed brig be Curieux.
The works of the Canal de l'Ourcq, wh.ch proceeded but slowly
during the winter, are now tarrying on with great activity.
A Proterati parish near Cologne recently offcred to a contiguous

THE • BRITISH PRESS.

Catholic pariah the use of their church, whilst the temple of the
Catholics is building. The latter readily accepted of it I and thus
at this moment is presented the singular spectacle of the Catholic
and Protestant *mitt) being celebrated in the same structure.
FRENCH iv WDS.—Pasts. Arat t. 27.—Five per Ccnts. opened
at 102 f. 20c.. dosed' at 1021.13 c. Bank Stock., 2,160 f. Rents de
N_a_plea, $O(. 60e. Rente d'Espagne. 12j. Royal Spanish Loan,
16=, Rrersogs on London—One month. 24f. 93c.; three
months, 24f. 60c.—Cusrs Abthentique, April 27.

In the House of Common' last night, Mr. S. WoRTLIT'II
Bill for amending the Game Laws was read a third time
and passed. We have stated our objections to several of
the clauses, which we fear will, in a great measure, defeat
the good effects that would result from carrying into com-
plete exectition the salutary principle on which the Bill is
founded. These errors of detail, however, may be easily
amended,, and al we hold it to be exceedingly deirable to
have the principle of the Bill sanctioned by Parliament,
via. that of rendering game saleable, as venison now is, we
would rather that the present measure should pass than
that the law should remain in its present state. The num-
bers on the third reading were—for the Bill, 94 ; against
it, 69.
Lord F. L. GOWCA afterwards brought forward his Re-
solution respecting a provision for the Roman Catholic
Clergy of Ireland. The Noble Lord, in referring to the
opinions of the illustrious dead, quoted the great authorities
of PITT, CASTLEREAGH, and bopiv-ALLII, in support of
this measure. The opinions of Mr. LEALII Foss ea, in
1812, were also cited, though that HonoUrable Member
afterwards explained that his approbation of a provision
for the Ronan Catholic Clergy depended on a regulation of
the appointment of their Bishops, to which the Rothan
Catholics had since refused their consent. The advantages
expected to be derived by the Noble Lord from the provi-
sion are the improvement it would produce in the Roman
Catholic priesthood, by giving them an interest in common
with the State, the melioration of the condition of the
peasantry, and as a collateral but not less important cir-
cumstance, the security that would be afforded to the Pro-
testant establishment. Ile deprecated any objections that
might be made to the proposed allowance, on the score of a
wretched and mistaken notion of economy. The task of
arranging the details of the plan was simplified by re-
curring to the precedent of the Presbyterian clergy
in Ireland. A direct salary was first paid to them in
the reign of JAMES I. The arrangement now subsist-
ing was that concluded in 1803 by Lord Carcas-
es AGH. According to the principle of that plan, Lord F. L.
Gowan would divide the parish priests and curates into
three classes, and the following was the provision for them
and the dignitaries of the Roman Catholic Church which
the Noble Lord recommended :

♦ Int Alt EACH.
Archbishops . - . £l5OO
22 Bishops . . . . . 1000

26 Deans - . . 300
200 of the First Class of Parish Prints 200
SOO Second Class . . . 120
1000 Third Class - . . 60
The whole sum required annually would not exceed
431,000/. The Noble Mover concluded with observing
that the measure was one that would bind the Roman
Catholic clergy more closely to the State, and whatever the
charge was to the revenue, it would be amply repaid by
the diminution of the military force now necessarily main-
tained in Ireland. Colonel B•aw ELI. seconded the motion.
Ile supported the provision, not as connected with the re-
moval of the disabilities of the Roman Catholics, but on
its own merits, because it would render the power and
influence of the Roman Catholic clergy serviceable to the
State. The principal speakers in opposition to the motion
were 3.sr. Secretary Pun and Mr. GOULRCILN. On the
other side, Mr. W. IVTNN, Mr. PI CNICETT, and Mr.
BROUGHAM, addressed the House. The latter Gentleman
was principally anxious that no fresh influence should be
given to the Crown, by sharing in the appointment of the
Roman Catholic clergy. Being satisfied on that point, he
would not oppose the measure, because he considered that,
under existing circumstances, it was highly desirable that all
minor differences of opinion should be conceded for the sake
of promoting unanimity on the general question of Roman
Catholic Relief. It is understood that, with the game view,
Mr. Baocattass intends to abstain from any further oppo.
sition to the Bill for regulating the Elective Franchise in
Ireland. The arguments of Mr. Secretary Part against
the proposed provision for the Roman Catholic Clergy,
were heard with great attention by the House, and
it must be admitted possess considerable force. He
remarked in the outset that the question of providing
for the Roman Catholic Priesthood was a question
perfectly different from the removal of the disabilities
under which the Roman Catholics generally laboured.
The concession of their claims was essentially distinct
from the question whether the State should foster
and propagate a system of doctrine and discipline
which the members of the Established Church conceived
to be erroneous, and which they solemnly abjured and
protested against. The Right Honourable Gentleman
could not understand, therefore, how these two questions
had become connected together. " Why," he asked,
" was it necessary to discuss the intended provision
for the Roman Catholic Clergy at this moment ?"
Why not wait till the whole question of Emanci-
pation, as it was called, was completely and finally
settled ? All other countries had refused temporalities
to the Roman Catholic] Clergy, unless the interference
of the Governments was allowed in the appointment
of the Bishops. But in this case 450,0001. were to
be expended annually from the public purse, without
any interference on the part of the Crown. The Roman
Catholic Clergy of Ireland were to be rendered absolutely
independent of all control, though they were to be sup-
ported at the public expense ! He denied the applicability
of the precedent of the Presbyterians. They admitted all
the doctrines of the Church of England, and differed from
it only in discipline. After making a grant. to the Roman
Catholic Clergy, how could Parliament with propriety re-
fuse one to the Protestant Dissenters? To give this kind
of qualified establishment of the Roman Catholic Church
was, besides, a direct contravention of the principle of the
Revolution in 1688. The Right Hon. Secrets ry objected also
that the House was called upon without sufficient informa-
tion to precipitate a question which would inevitably excite
very great jealousy with regard to the leading measure of re-
lief wi,h which it was unwisely and unnecessarily connected.
We have thuslaid before our readers the principal arguments
on each side of this question. We confess that our own opinion
is favourable to the measure, as necessary to the settlement
and tranquillization of Ireland. We feel, as strongly as
Mr. Peet., the objections he urges to grant supplies for the
propagation of the Roman Catholic religion; but as five-
sevenths of the people of Ireland belong to that religion,
and cannot, at least by any sudden violence, be con-
verted from it, we ought, in common prudence, to endea-
vour to attach their Clergy to the State by some ties of
permanent interest. They are now the enemies of the
State: we would endeavour to render them its friends.