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London, England, 1838-05-16 00:00:00

ing ; end in that circumstance, combined with the difficulty of
settling this important and troublesome question, they had a sort
of justification, or at least a pretext for not carrying it into
effect. But the sagacious Tories would persist in asking the
House of Commons to rescind those waste paper resolutions,
and the Ministers to brand themselves ; the consequence is
that this House of Commons, by refusing to acceed to Sir
THOMAS ACLAND'S motion, has made those resolutions its
own. They are confirmed. Sir ROBERT PEEL has suc-
ceeded in eliciting the opinion of the present Parliament in
their favour. Now this miracle of sagacity wishes to have the
tithe question settled; he knows that were it settled the Tories
might perchance get into office, and govern Ireland, and
he promotes a motion which pledges the present House of
Commons to resolutions which he says are an insurmountable
bar to settling the Tithe question. Wise Sir ROBERT PEEL I
We doubt now whether the Ministers either can or will carry
a plan through this House of Commons which does not em-
body the appropriation clause. The Tithe question will again
be left to the mercy of the Irish, who, we have now no doubt,
will finally, and ere long, settle it, as it ought to be settled, by
each peasant keeping his own produce, setting the unjust law
at defiance, and positively refusing to give one atom of the
fruits of his labour to the parson. Sir ROBERT PEEL, you
are a sagacious Statesman !

We regard the motion of Sir THOMAS ACLAND as the most
important event of the Session, and most heartily do we re-
joice at the result—not because the enemies of Ireland have
been signally defeated on their own ground, but because their
whole conduct on this occasion must convince the Whig Go-
vernment that no confidence can be placed in their professions,
and that henceforth Ministers must look for support to their
only true friends—the people. Injury may be forgiven, but
insult never. Lord JonN RUSSELL has been bowing to the
Tories all the Session—he has all but courted their alliance at
the risk of losing the support of the best friends of Reform,
and they make him the appropriate return of attempting first
to degrade him, and then turn him out of office. Could he
have expected any other return ? Does any rational being
now believe that any concession would satisfy them while
Lord JowN sits on the Treasury Bench ; or doubt that the
Member returned for Marylebone by Colonel THOMPSON and
Mr. MURPHY spoke the whole truth, and nothing but the
truth—the sentiments of one and all of the party—when he
expressed his earnest wish . that " the blow should be
fatal ?" None but men willing to be led captive could have
been deceived by Tory professions, or trusted to Tory
faith. We have never ceased to revile that most un-
toward speech made by Lord JOHN RUSSELL, on the 20th
of November ; and we now rejoice that the result has
justified our anticipations, and that the Tories have unani-
mously declared that with him and his party, while in office,
they will have no communion. He knows now whom to trust
—Whigs and Radicals of every shade have come to his as-
sistance in a cause the most sacred that ever engaged the
thoughts of a leader of the House of Commons—in rendering
justice to an oppressed and long suffering people. The preju-
dices of Englishmen against their unfortunate fellow-subjects
in Ireland are gradually wearing away, and the day is not far
distant when, with few exceptions, they will do justice to the
Ministry—who shall have the courage and the perseverance to
pe-sist in the only mode of pacifying the people of that
country—in placing them on a perfect equality with English-
men and Scotchmen. Mr. O'CoNNELL's speech will sink
deep into the hearts of his countrymen. He spoke with more
than his usual vigour, and with a truth which the Tories dare
not deny, said " the real question was—how shall Ireland
be governed? You have taken the property of the Catholics—
and having done this, you now refuse to do justice under the
paltry pretence of religion. It is a paltry and a hollow hy-
pocrisy.

The debate adjourned on Monday was resumed last night
and brought to a close. In almost as full a Honse as it is ever
possible to assemble, 620, including the SPEAKER, the Minis-
ters obtained a majority greater than the Tories on the question
chosen by the latter of 19. There voted for Ministers 317,
and for the Tories 298. The strength of both parties has
been fairly tried on a Tory field of battle, and the Ministers
are successful. Nothing has been spared by the Tories to
ensure success. They have had Church Missionaries going
through the land to kindle the slumbering zeal of Pro-
testant tradesmen, and warm the courage of country
gentlemen. They expressly invited a groat man to London,
to inspire Members of Parliament with the serpent wisdom
of the Clergy. They paraded their strength at a great festi-
val, and expected by boasting and bullying to fascinate their
opponents and make resistance impossible. On Monday
morning only the thunderer of the party said, " We wonder
not at the feverish scurrility with which the organs of the
wretched men in office have already begun to vent their ap-
prehensions of what may be the result of this demonstration of
a force to them of such fatal omen. Among its results there
a-e some, and not trivial ones, which may he apparent to the
whole country before two days are over. Carry but that close
and energetic co-operation of which the meeting in question
has been the index into the benches of the House of Com-
mons, and in one week the stigma entailed upon us by
the last three years of ignominious thraldom is effaced."
All these mighty preparations have failed ; all the boast-
ing and the bullying has been unheeded ; the sly insi-
nuations and the pious injunctions of the priesthood have
teen disregarded ; and the Tories have been defeated.
We heartily congratulate the country on the result,
which demonstrates the imbecility of a faction that is
equally mischievous and wicked. Under the mask of
protecting property, the Tories seek to plunder the people.
Under a pretence of supporting and strengthening religion,
they associate i t with sordid tyranny; and make the balm of
our earthly existence a poison and a curse. They pervert to
political purposes and political ends revealed truth itself, and
make men hate religion, by clothing it in the character of a
tithe collector, supported by an armed soldier. They have
aimed to get possession of office, that they might with some
chance of success continue their hateful career; and in their
prosecution of their abominable design they have dared to risk
the internal peace of the empire, and sought to arrest the
progress of society. Sincerely do we rejoice that such a fac-
tion has been once mere defeated, and that its impotency—
happily for the world—is proved even to surpass its wicked-
ness, We see with delight that the Times, which on Monday
could write of nothing but the expected victory, is completely
stunned by last night's vote. It grinds its teeth, and stifles,
in utter silence, all sign of its bitter agony

New York Papers to the 21st ult. inclusive, have been re-
ceived this morning. They bring advices from Upper Canada
of the 12th. SUTHERLAND, Dr. THELLER, and WALTER
CHASE, the former of Detroit, the latter of Port Stanley, have
been sentenced to be hung. LouNT and MATTHEWS were
hung at Toronto on the 12th ult. at eight o'clock in the morn-

ing. A petition for mercy, signed by 3,000 citizens of To-
ronto and its vicinity, was presented to Sir GEORGE ARTHUR,
but so far was the new Governor from complying with the
prayer of the petitioners, that he refused even to give up to
the wretched wives of the culprits their dead bodies before
dissection. Bitterly will Great Britain repent the hour when
Sir GEORGE ARTHUR was chosen to water the seeds of rebel-
lion in Canada with the blood of her deluded citizens. There
were four more victims to be hanged at Toronto on the 30th,
and seven were ordered for execution at Hamilton, on the 24th.
These executions have naturally created a strong feeling of
repulsive excitement in the Upper Province. The " Patriots"
are regarded as martyrs, and every act of merciful forbear-
ance on their part is remembered, only to contrast it with
the sanguinary policy of a Governor, odious to thousands in
consequence of having served his official apprenticeship in a
penal settlement. Our Government was guilty of a gross
dereliction of duty in recommending to her Majesty, as the
Governor of the moat obscure Colony under the Crown, a man
so notorious for the anti-liberalism of his career as Sir GEORGE
ARTHUR—much moro for appointing him to such a Govern-
ment as that of the Province of Upper Canada. The rebels
have already suffered greatly, and the Government is strong
enough to exercise, to the fullest extent, the divine preroga-
tive of mercy. If it be necessary to make a few examples,
that can be best done by banishment, imprisonment, or con-
fiscation of property. In the name of humanity, let there be
no more bloodshed in expiation of past delinquencies. Trials
in Canada must, from the state of public feeling, be little
better than mockeries of justice. We have sheathed the
sword, let us not disgrace the generous impulses of our nature
by erecting the gallows to debauch the moral feelings, or
curdle the blood of infancy and womanhood.
There is no domestic news of any importance in the New
York Papers. We copy, from the New York Daily Herald,
the latest account of the state of the Money Market:—

CITY, THURSDAY ETUNING, APRIL 19.--United States Bank Stock
opened to-day at 114, and closed at 115, cash—over 250 shares chang-
ing hands. Other stocks went off with some animation. Delaware and
Hudson closed at 67. The sales this day comprised about 2,000 shares
of all sorts of stocks. This looks a little like a return to the palmy days
of 1836. How long it will last, it is hard to say. We fear it is nothing
more than hectic flush.
Mobile money is 4 par cent, better, and in demand. This further
movement in Alabama bank notes, indicates that the institutions of that
state are at last taking measures to elevate their circulation.
Specie continues a drug. American gold is to 1 per cent. premium.
In the midst of all this approximation of bank paper and coin to the
same level, Treasury notes maintain their depreciated rates. Increase
the quantity of this sort of paper, and its depreciation will become more
marked. _

At New Orleans on the 10th instant, there arrived from Tampico and
Matamoras, to various merchants Of that city, 165,745 dollars. It is
sold by the brokers at from 6 to 7 per cent. premium over city notes.
Texas money was firm at 25 per cent. discount, and not SO per cent.,
as was quoted in the Loco Foco papers of New Orleans. The Citizens,
Con.olidatcd and Canal Banks are issuing post notes, payable lit March,
1840. They are greedily seized at, and have already afforded some re-