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stituted a single prosecution, except that bt Mr.
STEPHENS, the Convention waa falling into dis-
repute; it is since the arrests began, and since all
the vigour was displayed, that Birmingham was set
on fire, and that riots have taken place both in Man-
chester and Bolton.

" In consequence a information i received that a num-
ber of peraots wee illegally assembler) in a house in the
town of Sig°.
" Have the gooduris to state to the Committee from
whom you got that information ?
" I received the information from ----."
There is no excuse here for the suppression of
the name, on the ground of apprehensions for the
personal safety of the Catholic Dean ; the part he
took being notorious, where alone there can be any
danger. He makes no secret of it himself, nor
could he conceal it if he wished ; having performed
the service before the eyes of his fellow-townsmen,
and between the hours of twelve and one in the
open day. But this candid method of informing
the public is more in accordance with the real ob-
jects of the inquiry, and clashes less with the policy
of the faction and its agents—spargere voces—
by which the Roman Catholic Priesthood is
to be represented as identified with the Rib-
bon conspiracy, and the Government as the
protectors of delinquent Priests against the penal-
ties justly due to their misdeeds.
We must take another opportunity of expos'ng
the falsehood of the latter part of this vile calumny.

The community at large begin to feel and ex-
press considerable impatience for the CHANCELLOR
of the EXCHEQUER to realise the only Act for
conferring great benefit on the -public which has
been passed this session. " When is the Uniform
Penny Postage to come into operation ?" is a ques-
tion universally asked, and as universally answered,
by " I cannot tell," " Nobody knows ; it all rests
with the CHANCELLOR Of the EXCHEQUER." If
it rests with the CHANCELLOR Of the EXCHEQUER
that Right Hon. Gentleman seems to have so much
to do with Bank of Ireland jobs and Shannon jobs,
and has betrayed so little zeal, and so much disincli-
nation, for the Uniform Rate of Postage, that we are
afraid the public will not speedily be gratified. As
far as we know the first step has not yet been taken.
Surely, if it be intended to carry Mr. R. HILL'S
plan into execution, and no person has shown half
so much acquaintance with the details of the mat-
ter as he has, the first step is to make him the
CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER'S chief ad-
viser for this particular service. We shall suppose
that there is some intention zealously to proceed
with the work when we are informed that Mr. R.
HILL has been appointed Comptroller of the Post-
office for this special service, or has received some
other appointment which will place in his hands
the means of carrying his project into effect under
his own inspection and control. It must not be
marred by being entrusted to another, and perhaps
a rival. The device is his, the chief merit is his,
and in justice to him and to the plan, he ought to
be summoned to carry it into effect. When he re-
ceives some such appointment as we have men-
tioned, we shall congratulate the public on the pro-
bability that their wishes will be gratified.
Some of our Contemporaries have entered into a
discussion as to the merit of stamped sheets of pa-
per, stamped envelopes, label stamps, and other
contrivances to secure pre-payment, but we do
not see why all these plans, as recommended by
Mr. HILL, may not be tried. A great apprehen-
sion is expressed by some persons lest the envelopes
or the stamped labels should beforged, and a great
deal of ingenuity is exerted, and it is proposed to
incur considerable expense to prevent forgery—.
forgery to gain something less than a penny on
every stamp forged. What an immoral set of
people we must be if great precautions are
necessary to guard against such a possi-
bility ? The Chinese, who are celebrated for their
deceptions ; and the Italians, who are equally cele-
brated for mean pilfering, would surely never de-
scend to such petty plunder. Such suspicions argue
a terrible depravity in the nation. Is the Church,
the prodigious Church Establishment, of so little
real use, that it cannot elevate this low scale of
moral feeling, which, judging from the suspicions as
well as the deeds, is common to the upper and
educated classes ? Can no trust be put in man ?
We believe these suspicions are gross exaggerations
which tend to realize themselves, and we protest
against delaying a beneficial scheme till means can
be found to obviate all these foul suspicions of low-
minded persons.
Some apprehension, too, is still expressed on the
score of revenue. Now, Lord ASHBURTON de-
scribed a postage tax as a tax on written conversa-
tion ; and we thought the present rates of postage
were to be given up, because it is wholly indefen-
sible in principle to tax written conversation. If
that is the ground on which the alteration is to be
made, it is a forgetfulness of the aim and object of
the alteration to haggle or doubt about a few pounds
of revenue. If as large a revenue is to be obtained
henceforward as heretofore, from taxing written
communications, the only improvement will be a
better mode of levying the tax, which will remain,
and on principle, is as indefensible at a penny as at
a shilling. The idea is that .the State gives up
taxing written conversation, and only makes
individuals pay the expense of carrying and dis-
tributing their letters. To expect as large a revenue
from an increased number of letters as is now
raised is contrary to this, and is giving something
with one hand and taking it sway with another.
But all the suspicion we have adverted to, and all
the plans proposed, are to protect the revenue,
when, in fact, there ought to be no revenue from
carrying letters to protect.

Til-E SUSI, LONDOST, MONDAY) AUGUST 19, 1836

as they contain much intelligence calculated to gratify
,rnuize curiosity: it is oonfidently stited-ttrat tne rune
hat tweed to all the pfero§aht itiade by MEtiEttrr
ALL, anti that no further difficulty will be experienced
in settling the Eastern Question. A Marseilles Jour-
nal of the 13th inst. informs us that HAytz PACHA
has been assassinated by the emissary sent by Kilos-
nEW PACHA from Constantinople for that purpose.
The statement is of little importance whether true or
false, except as manifesting a return to the old Mus,
sulman form of impeachment. In all probability a aunt-
lar fate awaits the CAPITAN PACHA.
The Spanish question begins to excite a lively inte-
rest in Paris. Royalists and Republicans agreed in the
opinion that the triumph of Don CARLOS has become
impossible ; and that, in fact, he is fast hastening to
destruction. The following telegraphic despatch from
the frontier, published in the Illoniteur of Saturday,
proves that his authority has been completely set at de-
fiance by a numerous body of his own troops
Bayonne, Aug. 15, Half.past Twelve, P.M.
" THE GENERAL COMMANDING THE 20TH DIVISION TO TILE
MINISTER OF WAR.
" On the 13th there was a conference with the revolters.
The Cure Echevarria had an interview with Don Carlos
at Lessee. The 12th battalion of Navarre came on the
same day and joined the insurgents at Vera, and or. the
14th they marched to Urdax, where they were joined by
the 3d. Elio, having only two battalions left, retrograded
upon Goyzueta with Don Carlos, who there found his
consort.

•• Espartern has marched in the direction of Alava.
Maroto has followed his movement,.
The Post observes that the Cura Echevaria " is an
ignorant fanatical priest, who formerly exercised great
influence over the mind of Don CARLOS." We readily
believe this, as Don CARLOS is incapable of having his
mind influenced by other than the ravings of ignorant
fanaticism. But this fanaticism is now directed against
his authority, and if the QUEEN'S Government only
know how to profit by the circumstance, the expulsion
of the Pretender from Spain will be speedily accom-
plished,

. -
The Commerce publishes the following as the lates
news from the Russian capital

- . -
ST. PETERSBURGII, At m. 4.—. Yesterday the Emperor
held a Council at Peterhoff, a thing which is extremely
rare. All the Ministers and Privy Councillors attended,
and sat from eleven till his Majesty's dinner hour. It is
said in the diplomatic circles of the capital that Govern..
ment has resolved to occupy Moldavia and Wallachia with
troops, but undertake nothing against Constantinople or in
Asia until it is ascertained in what manner the differences
between Turkey and Egypt are likely to be settled by
diplomatic means. It is added that the Minister of War
has already sent orders for the troops at Odessa to be
marched to the two principalities and to be replaced by a
like number, to be drawn from the army of•the south.
It was rumoured that in consequence of the intrigues
of Russia an insurrection has taken place in Thessaly,
and that in fourteen towns and villages- the Turkish
authorities have been expelled or murdered.
HUSSEIN KHAN, the Persian Envoy at the Court of
France, is to return tomorrow to Teheran. He will be
the bearer of rich presents from Louis PHILIPPE to
the SHAH.

BOURSE.--PARIS, SATURDAY, AUG. 17.

first Highest Lowest Last
French 5 per Cent 5.......... Prioe Price. Price.
1.265...65 ... 11. 65 ... 112 60 ... 1260
4 per Cents 102 75 ... 11 275 102 75 102 75
3 per Cents So 70 . S 0 75 ••• $0 65 S,) 75
Bank of France 27310 —.2790 ...2790 ...2790
Latlitte Bank Looor. 1060
...two ~.10(i0
5,000 f. Si 523) ...5230 —.5230
Belgian 5 per Cents , 104 104' "' " ... 104
Belgian Bank
770 ... 772 50 ... 770 772 50
Coupons ...« 45 45 ... 45 ... 45
Spanish Ac,ive ...... . .
Passive
... 4% ... 4% ... 4%,
Neapolitan
Roman
RAILWAY SHARES.
St. Germain
Versailles, N. B
LB. 332 .S 0 ... 332 50 ... 330 ... 332 50
Havre
Strasburg to Bale
Bordeaux to La 1 este 4OO ... 400 ... 41)0 4(0
Montpellier to Cette

DUTCH FUNDS.—AMSTERDAM, AUGUST 16.
Money. Bills,
54% :,54'

Actual Debt, '2% per Cent

Ditto, ditto 5 pei cent.

A ',mit svndic,4% per cent......
96 Sr 7
Ditto, ditto, 3% per cent. Bl% 82

Commercial Company, 4,,,, per cent 173
Ditto (1832 and 1833) 5 per cent.
Ditto 1.37, b per cent
_ _

Loan 18137, 5 per cent. IOOU WO i
Exchange on London, One month l2 1174
Two mon thl
—Dutch Papers, August 17.
AUSTRIAN t'UNLin.—Vixxiva, Ara S.

Five per Cents. Metalliques .................. ............ mai4
Four per Cents.
Three per Cents.
Bank Shares ......—.— .............................. .. 1.‘....... /5.31:001:ly.
—Allgemehee Zcstung, August 13
PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BERLIN, AUGUST 13.
St. Schuld. Sch., 4 per cent 103% 1034
Prussian Engiish Loan, IRV, 4 per cent /031,i 102 5-6
Xxchange on London, three months „...
....
—Prussian State Gazette, August 13.

By express from Falmouth, Lisbon journals to the
evening of the l 2th instant, brought by the Liverpool
steamer from the Tagus, have been received. As we
anticipated, the news of the throwing out of the Portu-
guese Slave-trade Bill by the House of Lords excited
great joy among the Portuguese man-stealers, and the
indications of a brisk trade in African flesh were every-
where visible. By the time the cruisers are ready to
put to sea the very same Bill will have passed, and
thus the praises lavished upon their Lordships,and par-
ticularly the Duke of WELLINGTON, by these homicide
merchants will be changed into the bitterest execrations.
The Duchess of BRAGANZA and her daughter arrived
at Lisbon on the 7th. She was met at her landing by
their Majesties the KING and QUEEN, the Duke of
SAXE-COBURG, the Princess his daughter, the two
Princes his sons, and several Nobles of distinction, who
gave her a most welcome reception.
The Portuguese Government is reported to have
lowered the duty from 6,000 reis to 500, on wines
shipped to Canada ; thus equalizing the dUty between
Canada and the United States.

Letters and papers from Madrid, of the 1 Oth inst.,
have reached us. The complete success of the Ex-
altacfo or Radical candidates at the lite election has
rendered a dissolution of the Cabinet probable, and its
modification inevitable. On the 9th a great meeting
of Spaniards of distinction was held at the house of
the late Captain-General QUIROGA, to deliberate about
-the best way of manifesting the national gratitude to
the Earl of CLARENDON for his late excellent speech
on the Spanish question in the House of Lords. After
the gentlemen present had warmly expressed their gra-
titude to his Lordship the following resolutions were
put to the vote and agreed to unanimously :
" 1. That the speech of the Earl of Clarendon, as one
of the most important documents of modern times, and
most favourable to the cause of Isabel 11, and of Eu-
ropean civilization, be translated into Spanish by Don
Jose Garcia Villalta (a member of the Committee ap-
pointed for this purpose), and diffused in the widest pos-
sible manner.
" That a magnificent copy of his speech be presented to
the Earl of Clarendon, as also a cup of one of the precious
metals, of such form and with such inscriptions as shall
hereafter be agreed upon.
"3. That for these purposes a subscription shall be
entered into in all Spain, fixing the maximum of each
subscription at four mats (about tenpence British).
" 4. That a Committee be now appointed to carry these
resolutions into effect."
The following gentlemen were appointed a Committee,
by ballot, to carry these resolutions into effect :—.Gene-
ral Quiroga, Don Augustin Arguelles, Conde de las
Navas, Jose Don Garcia de Villalta, Don Jose Maria
Morente, Don Manuel Cantero, Don Manuel Jose de
Quintana.

The QUEEN REGENT amuses herself with the plea-
sures of the chase. The Royal game is the wolf ; and
it is asserted that her MAJESTY is as expert a destroyer
of this ferocious animal as any cavalier in her train.

THE FUNDING OF EXCHEQUER
BILLS.

(SATURDAY.)
TIMES.—Mr. Spring Rice, having failed in his in-
tended contract with the wholesale dealers in Exchequer
bills, bas now opened a shop on his own account, in which
he will sell the same article by retail, and adapt himself
to the wants or wishes of every description of purchaser.
Only on Thursday last, as explained in his letter to
Messrs. Rothschild, he would decline any offer for the pur-
pose of conversion of less amount than 500,0001. Now,
after a lapse of no more than two days, he will receive
any amount that may
be offered, and according to the no-
tice which has been posted this morning at the
Bank, subscriptions even of 1,000/. will not be
objected to. Thus he has gone back to the course
which from the first he ought to have pur-
sued, because sanctioned by all former precedents at
the Treasury, from which, unless for very good reasons,
it is always dangerous to deviate. He has now named a
price, the same as that propounded in the Treasury maxi.
mum of yesterday, at which be will give stock in exchange
for Exchequer Bills, and such a price as would probably
have brought in a sufficient amount of subscriptions, had
he fixed it in his original notice for , the funding; but, so
much as he damaged himself, and disturbed the Stock
Market, by his vacillating mode of proceeding, the great
doubt prevails in the city whether the required amount of
Exchequer bills will now be brought in to be funded.
HERALD.—According issued from
the Treasury Chambers, the Chancellor of the Exchequer
has thrown the biddings for the conversion of 4,000,000 of
Exchequer Bills open to the public, as was formerly the
custom on the likeoccasions. This notice following so closely
on the heels of the transaction with the Bank of England
yesterday is considered as very evident that the Govern-
ment are rather solicitous to obtain the speedy conversion
of the remaining 3,500,000/. Exchequer bills. An im-
pression, however, has prevailed here this afternoon, that
Mr. Spring Rice will not obtain the conversion on the
terms offered, particularly as Exchequer bills have
advanced to 21 premium this afternoon, and have been in
much demand ; the parties who have lately bought them
at from par to 6 and 8 premium, will, therefore, make a
good thing of their speculation.

------____
CHR ONICL E.—The peculiar and mortifying position
in which the Government was left on Friday by the failure
of Mr. Spring Rice's plan for the funding of four millions
Exchequer bills, rendered, of course, some further step
absolutely necessary,if the Ministers really were in earnest ;
consequently the public were in a great measure prepared
for the notice which was posted on Saturday morning at
the Bank of England and the Stock Exchange.
The manner in which this document is drawn up,

created, amazement
•for after what had
T:Ftirred, in reference to the iirsi raeJEe;iih'ire !Or 4111,n:11N-it
imagined that another ;,,7..-111d be buffered to be issued egeiaff;)
txtilapation but strange as it may appear, such has
been the case. The See:-Ind parao,Taph is a perfect jumble, and
one upon which nobody would venture get without some
elucidation ; for the first portion of it ;Ira* *he
business Wotild he closed the montrot the amount appied
for reached 3,600,0001. and the inference to be drawn
from the latter part is, that tendei will be received until
Friday. S,veral gentlemen, therefore, fy waited
upon 'Mr. M 5.18114114 of the Bank, but he was thinfole to'
throw any light upon it. Ilowetsgry he at once proceeded
to the Treasury, and on his return Informed them that
the intention of the Chancellor of the ExCliequer
was, that all tenders should be immediately refused
the moment the amount was equal to three millions
and a half, even if it were comprised In one offer ;
that each applicant should receive an acknowledgment
marked I, 2, or 3, according to the order in which
the tender had been presented: and that the stock
, should be disposed of in the same manner, by
the appropriation of the full amount applied for by each•
This is not only altogether extremely unfair, but is the
revival of a system once tried, but proved so prejudicial
to the public at large, and inconvenient to the Go-
vernment, that it is indeed inexplicable why Mr. Spring
Rice has thought proper to adopt it. The plan on these
occasions, with the solitary exception now alluded to,
always has been to open the books fur a certain time, and
then to dispose of the stock pro rata, " by which means,"
justly observes a correspondent, " the weak would stand
as good a chance as the strong, and the small subscriber
not to be ousted by one or two overwhelming parties."
Throughout the whole affair there has 'wen a degree of
injustice manifested which is not to be accounted for.
Again, are all the Scotch banks and persons in the
country debarred from any participation in the operation ?
—fir it is quite possible that the whole amount may be
taken before the delivery of letters from those places even
fr)m whence a reply could be obtained, for on Monday
morning toe post is seldom out until about half-past nine
or ten o'clock, and the office for receiving proposals is to be
opened at nine o'clock. Ira every point of view, the scheme
of the Chancellor of the Exchequer is a hazardous one to
be concerned in, and it will be well for the Government
when the affair is finally adjusted.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

(THIS DAY.)

lU USE OFCOMMONS.
The SPEAKER took the Chair at Twelve o'Ciock.
BANK OF IRELAND BILL.
Sir W. SO el ER VILE, E.presented two petitioes as.,sainst
the Sank of ft-eland Brli trout Drogheda and ante her place,
the Lame of which we could not eseei fain
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER rose
to move the 0, tie,' Of the Day for going into Committee
on this Bid, when
Mr. O'CONNELL rose and said, that a prac-
tice had prevailed within the last few days of ring-
ing a bell when a Member moved that the House
be counted. He would submit to the Speaker whether
that was consistent with the meaning of counting the
House. Formerly it was the practice for the Speaker to
take note these were not 40 Members in the House, aed
then adjourn it. Fur many years that practice had been
altered, and it was now nu longer the duty of the Speaker
to count tin flou-e unless called upon to do eo, Now it
h4Dpened five or six times during the diecueeion on this
Bill diat there n ere not mote than 20 or 25 Members
present out of 858, and he th •ught it 40 would not attend
it was a tacit declaration against the importance or pro.
priety of the measure. It appeared m aistrous that the
practice should arise to look out; torl Members to come
in to be counted, and go away the moment they acre
counted.---( Hear, hear.) They came tit at the ringing
of a bell, as house-servants would de at the cell of their
masters.—( Hear and a laugh.) He submitted that the
practice of ringing the bell when the House was counted
was a modern practice, and ought to be discontinued.
Mr. R. S I'UART said the ringing of the bell had not
been introduced on the occasion of this Bill, but was intro-
duced in reference to some other question, and the wish
expressed by Members on both sides of the House.
Mr. O'CONNELL never heard of the practice until
within the last four or five days, and it certainly, according
to the admission of the Hon. Member, was a modern otie.
The SPEAKER said there could not be a question that
the practice of ringing the bell when the House was to be
counted, was of modern date. It was introduced on the
suggestion of the Hon. Member for Kilkenny, in conse-
quence of the complaints made by some Hon. Members
that they had been absent only for a few minutes. It was in
consequence of remarks that had been made by the Noble
Lord the Secretary of State for the Home Department,
in which the House appeared entirely to concur that he
(the Speaker) had given directions that the bell should be
rung when notice was taken of there not being 40 Mem-
bers in the House.—( Hear.) Of course he conceived he
had acted only iu obedience to the wish of the House ; and
if the House desired to give any other order, he would be
most willing to obey it.—( Hear.)
Mr. O'CONNELL then moved that when notice was
taken that 40 Members were not present in the House,
the practice of ringing the bell be discontinued.
Mr. R E DIN G TON seconded the motion.
Mr. WAKLE Y thought the motion might be carried
one step further, and extended to the ringing the bell on
divisions, because it seemed to him infinitely more mis.
chievous that members should come in and constantly vote
on subjects which they had not heard discussed. Several
Members, on the division on the Poor Law Bill, came in
from Mr. Bellamy's and other places;on the bell being rang,
and voted when they had not heard one word of what had
passed in that House for many preceding hours.—( Hear,
hear.) He therefore hoped his Hon. and Learned Friend
would agree to the motion being extended to divisions.
Strangers were then ordered to withdraw, and the House
divided, when there appeared—.
For the motion
Against it
Majority for ringing the bell
On our readmission into the gallery we found
Mr. T. DUNCOMBE moving that it was the opinion
of the House, if 40 Members were not present, the business
of the country might still be transacted. The House had
in fact come to that decision by the vote just taken. The
Hon. and Learned Member for Dublin deserved the thanks
cf the country fur having drawn attention to this subject ;
fir not only ass the way in which the business of the Howe
was got through discreditable to the House, but was
most disgraceful to the Administration. Several most
important measures had already been passed when
there were scarcely 40 Members present on one occasion.
If the principle of ringing the bell was to be carried out,
they might as well extend the bells to Downing-street, and
the Reform and Carlton Clubs—(Laughter)—or send out
a crier in the street to announce that there were not 40
Members in the House, and that 30 or 40 more were
wanted —( Hear, and laughter.) The present discussion
would open the eyes of the public to the way in which the
business of the House was conducted. If the decision to
which the House had just arrived was to be carried out,
there was no reason why the Speaker and two Members
should not be sufficient to perform the duties of the House.
The SPEAKER said it was impossible tor the Hon.
Member, according to the rules of the House, make the
motion he had just submitted as an amendment to an Or-
der of the Day. The only amendineut that could be moved
to an Older of the Day was, that sonic other Order of the
Day be read.---( Hear, hoar.)
Mr. DUNCOMBE then withdrew the motion.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER again
moved that the Order of the Day be read for going into
Committee on the Bank of Ireland Bill.
Mr. O'CONNELL then moved that the next Order
of the Day be substituted for it. If he were to die on
the floor of the House this Bill, if the forms of the House
would permit, should not pass before Cbristmas.—(Cheers.)
He had pledged himself to his constituents—he had
pledged himself to the country not to allow any motion to
be made without a discussion and division under such cir-
cumstances.—( Hear, hear.) No man would be warranted
in taking this course if he was nut right in the judgment
of every rational person. If the Bill had been brought in
at the beginning of the Session, and he had adopted such a
course, the good sense cf the House would have borne
down all opposition. But he had the good sense of the
House with him on this occasion. There was not a gentle..
man present who would get up and declare solemnly his de-
liberate opinion that this Bill had not been brought in at
too late a period of the Session.—( Cheers.) Was there
a man who would say the Irish people should not have had
time to deliberate on all the parts of the Bill, and see
how their interests were affected—that the great commercial
towns should not be heard, if necessary, at the bar against
the provisions of the Bill ?—( Hear, hear.) The Irish
Members had been here from February to July, and when
many of them were obliged to leave for the purpose of
attending the Assizes and could not come hack again,
this measure was brought forward.—(Cheers.) The Hon.
Bart. the member for Wicklow, had talked of the " wither-
ing" effect of this monopoly on his constituents.—( Hear,
hear.) Would the House continue to enforce that
" withering" process ? Ought not the House to give time
to that Hon. Member to have a county meeting of his
constituents, and obtain the opinions of the thousands who
were " withering" under the baneful influence of this
monopoly ?—( Hear, hear.) He should not have taken
the present course, if any reason had been given for not
bringing the measure forward earlier, or in support of the
merits of it. Much had been said of Joint Stock Banks.
But the Chancellor of the Exchequer the other day was
glad to find one of the Scotch Joint Stock Banks coming for-
ward to:bid for his Exchequer Bills. And why should not the
Joint Stock Banks of Ireland be in the same condition they
would have been, if the monopoly of the Bank of Ireland
had not for so many years sat like an incubus on the heart
of the country, and " withered" its resources ? This was
a subject which ought to have beon discussed before—a
subject which his constituents were in a ferment upon,
because they were afraid of the Bank of Ireland, and they
knew what would be the result if they took part against
the monopoly. If the Government would grant a call of
the House, he would then agree to discuss the measure,
and submit to be beaten as he did on every other occasion.
The Hon. and Learned Member then moved the next
Order of the Day.
Mr. DILLON BROWN seconded the amendment.
This measure had been resisted by every independent
Irish representative, by men of the highest condition in
the country, and there had not been a single independent
vote from Ireland in support of the monopoly.—( Hear.)
The Government were now hurrying this measure through
the House, although they knew they owed their existence
to the support they received from the Irish represents.
,
tives.—( Hear, hear.) It was not treating the Irish
Members as they deserved to endeavour to smuggle
the Bill through the House in this manner. How
could gentlemen who had resisted a civil coercion Bill
for Ireland, support a mercantile coersion Bill for Ireland ?
How could gentlemen, who advocated Reform, approve of
this Bill ? How could they conceal from themselves that
in supporting this Bill, they were favouring monopoly ? It
could not be denied that the Bank of Ireland was one of
the very worst monopolies that ever existed—that it pre-
sented the most exclusive features of monopolies. Out of
300 servants of the Bank, only three were Roman Catho-
lics. It was unintelligible, how gentlemen, who had sup.
ported Catholic Emancipation, and who advocated Reform
principles, should favour so corrupt and exclusive a
monopoly. In the persevering with this measure,
the Irish people would have one of the strongest
arguments I for a Repeal of the Union. They were
refused railroads because, forsooth, they were poor;
curious argument that, for refusing people money.
And now they were refused a free end unembarrased sys-
tem of banking, by which the people of Scotland had been
enabled to achieve such enterprises as railroads. Irish
Members would be neglecting their duty most grossly
were they to neglect any opposition in their power to this
Bill. No opportunity had been given to the people of
Ireland properly to understand this measure. In conse-
quence of bad Government the means of communication
had long been so bad in Ireland, that in parts the news had
not reached them that there was such a Bill before Parlia-
ment. Was it fair and honest that a Bill like this should
be carried on, not by open and unprejudiced support, but
by simply the aid of officialists? The business of the
House had for some time been carried on by Members,
three-fourths composed of Government dependents.
It was suspicious that those persons seemed afraid
of giving any reasons for their support, and to
be unwilling to commit themselves to it
the m orethan
possible. And it was equally surprising that
Govern-
ment, instead of propitiating the independent support of
liberal measures were anxious to gain the support of gentle.
men opposite. This appeared to indicate that the Ministry
were only Whigs in profession, and Tories in reality.
(To be continued in our SECOND EDITION.)

PO ST.—A literal error occurs in the notification of the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, which, however, is so pal-
pable that it is scarcely necessary to point it out. It is of
course meant, not that subscribers should take, but that
they should receive, Consols for Exchequer Bills, though
the reverse of this is stated in the preamble.

THE MARKETS--('PHIS DAY.)

CORN EXCHANGE.
The past week's arrivals of English grain were small, of
Foreign Wheat and Oats good. This morning there has been
a very small fresh supply of all kinds of Corn. The weather
being unfavourable Wheat has advanced 2s. to 3s. per quarter
for English, and 21. per quarter for Foreign. Barley, Beans.
and Peas, each maintain their value, with little doing. Oats
are Is. per quarter dearer than this day se'nnight. The top
price of Flour is unaltered ; for ship prices higher rates are
asked. New Rape seed is unsaleable at 321. per cwt.
rateEs ON BOARD OF SHIP
Wheat, lied (old) —s I Beans, Small ,new) 43, 41s
--- Whit

Modern ; .mprovem hasent destroyed the most
------ just
ancient building in Hull—except the chancel of Trinity
the town.
. e ITheeased space required
by the
h e
erection oldestn f a relicn e i n w
w
poration of the town to the Commissioners of her Majesty's
for Church,
the
Customs, has led to the pulling down of the old Chain
House, at the South end of High-street.—Hull Advertiser.
SEIZURE OF ARMS.—During the past week
pikes, muskets, swords, &c., have been seized in several
places besides those which we have before indicated. In
the north the seizures have been more ext •
ensive. The
Chartists, in whose possession the weapons were found,
t in many cases, been c '
to prison despite
their declaration that they kept arms for sett-defence onl
thy,
aneir d were guiltyountr of no offence recognizable by the laws of
cy.