The National Register.
London, England, 1820-01-10 00:00:00

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LONDON, MONDAY, JANUARY 10.
Three o'clock, p.

Yesterday evening we received the Paris Papers
of Thursday.. The King daily transacts busine►s
with his Ministers, but has not for some time past
leA his apartments. Tuesday the Minister of Fi.
Dame presented a Bill to the Chamber of Deputies
of cansiderable importance, and which, when carried
into is Law, will dissipate those fears entertained
by. so*ie persims v ith respect to the stability and
seeurilf of the titles to eettain National hoperty.
This 411 or project of Law, formally secures the
purchaitrs of such property from all pecuniary
claistu.ot the part of the Government, on aecoont
of mach pprehases; and also by finally adjusting the
asruntsbetween them and the former proprietors,
so as to. eltinguish, by the Ist of January next, all
claims non the property not made .good previous to
-that perioi. This is a subject that should be set at
rest, howerer irksome it may be to those who have
set up pretiosions long sines forfeited. The .Pro-
se:; was uriered to betaken into consid,ration in
the Bureaux on Thursday.—The Journal des De-
bati compllins of an Ordinance issued on the /9th
tilt, by the Adjunct of the Mayor of Crony, and
approved 4, by Count Germain, Prefect of the Seine
and Marne, prohibiting all religious processions,
preachings and planting of crosses, beyond the
boundaries of places of worship, as being interdicted
by the soth article of the law of the 15th of De-
cember, 1789 ; and by the Concordate of the year 9,
which sultiects the exercise of religious worship to
those regulations of police which may be deemed
necessary iby the Government for the maintenance
•of public tranquillity.

Mr. HAY, or Miktectternen•—We Jest week
mentioned the presentation of this gentleman to a
valuable living..“ Men? virtues are best known at
home," al,l we copy the following paragraph from
Cusedroy'r MANCNESTErt Gazette :--We have to
inform out readers, that the atev. W R Hay,
Rector of Ackworth, and Stipendiary Chairman of
Salford Quarter Sestions, has been presented to the
very valuable living of Rochdale (the richest vicar-
age we believe, in the kingdom). Those who
know the active share which Mr. Hay has had in
recent political proceedings in this neighbourhood,
will be at no has to assign a probaWo cause for this
promotion. He has rendered services to Ministers,
• though perhaps not to the country ; and, by she
former, or at least by their influence, he obtains a
reward, to which, certainly, public opinion, as
expressed by the meeting; respecting the Manches-
ter transactions, in every part of the kingdom, does
not consider him entitled. The interests of true
religion must always suffer, when ecclesiastical
patronage is ,employed to reward political subset-
vieney :.but 4.11 the present case, we have particular
as well as general objections. We do not wish to
say soy thing invidious of an individual ; but we
arc decidedly of opinion, that no one who posses.es
the means of judging, will think it in the slightest
degree probable, that Mr. Hay's flock will receive
any spiritual benefit from his ministry ; or that
those, by whom the living of Rochdale was presented
to him, were induced thus to reward him, from any
anxiety for the religious welfare of the parishioners
et largo.