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may unite in that desirable purpose. In point'
of concessions, the Commissioner last arrived is
said to go a step farther than his brethren, being
authorized to acknowledge the Cortes' bonds to
their full amount, but to couple with that ac-
knowledgment the reduction to a very low rate
of the interest payable upon them. But the
English creditor is made of materials too sturdy
to connive at this mode of sneaking out of the
obligation ; nothing but the full execution of
" the bond " will satisfy him. His stand must be
taken on a point which Spain, under a despotic
King, will never reach, but which may be attained
when the change to a better system takes place.
It is simply this—that Spain shall acknowledge
all her just debts in full; pay up the arrears of
interest also in full ; and give security for its
regular payment in future. If these conditions
could be complied with now, it might be proper
to add another, that the money so raised shall
not 1-.,applied to the destruction of our valuable
interest in the American States, which is worth
more to us than the whole fee-simple of the. soil
of Spain would be in present possession. All we
trust is, in relation to the attempted new loan,
that the individuals concerned, before issuing a
single scrip receipt, will give their names to the
public, with a full explanation of the grounds of
their justification for a proceeding-which it will
be so difficult, on ordinary principles, to compre-
hend. They may depend on having every as-
sistance in our power.

[NEW TIMES.]
In the House of Commons last night several
morn• petitions were presented respecting the Ca-
tholic Association ; one of them by Mr. H. Davis
from Bristol being in favour of the Bill now be-
fore the House. Sir Charles Lung presented a
petition from the Trustees of the British Mu-
seum for a grant to enable them to make the
acquisition of nine hundred volumes of most
valuable manuscripts, in various Oriental lan-
guages, belonging to Mrs. Rich, the widow
of Mr. Claudius Rich, late Resident at Bag-
dad. AVe trust that this request will be com-
plied with, and that in the present prosper-
ous state of our finances no false and narrow
views of ill-directed economy will interfere,
when our great national establishment may be
enriched by such a splendid addition. Besides
these collections, we would fain hope that Mr.
Rich has left behind him some literary remains of
his own ; for his was a life of constant activity,and
in his bright but short career, he gave a foretaste
of what might have been expected from him. Such
remains, we would venture to hope, might be given
to us by un elegant and accomplished scholar, one
of the most able and virtuous men that ever set
foot in India, to whose high and honourable mind
the memory of Mr. Rich must be peculiarly dear.
'We allude to Mr. Will►am Erskine, of Bombay,
whose time and talents have ever been employed
for the benefit of mankind.—After some further
discussion, in which Mr. Doherty, Mr. Denman,
Mr. Peel, and Mr. Brougham took part, a divi-
sion took place on the motion for the third read-
ing of Mr. Goulhnrres Bill, when there appeared
in favour of the Bill a majority of 226 to 96. The
Bill was then a third time and passed.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
Mr. Dogherty, whose perseverance in praising
the administration of justice cannot be sufficiently
admired, returned to his favourite subject last
night. Mr. Dogherty tells us " that the poor
man could obtain justice in Ireland without the
aid of the Catholic Association, and it was for
that reason he wished the course of justice not to
he interfered with by that or any other Asso-
ciation." Mr. Dogherty assured the House
" that he was not arguing the case as an Ad-
vocate ; when he entered that House he
threw off the Advocate, and the opinion which
he now delivered was his sincere and conscien-
tious opinion, not as an Advocate, but as a Se-
nator." When we see the Senator Dogherty,
however, we may safely say the Advocate is not
far off. In putting off the Advocate, he fortu-
nately did not loss the recollection of him—
" When he said,therefore, that justice was equally
administered between Catholics and Protestants,
be was stating the results of his (Mr. Dogherty's)!
professional experience. He was not arguing
upon hypothesis: but upon facts, and he was
in a situation, as a barrister, to say what had
been observed by some one, who founded his
argument. upon the experience he bad had in
another profession, expert° crede." Thus, the
barrister helps the Senator, and the Senator helps
the Barrister. " Whom, Sir,did you want (says
James, in The Miser of Fielding), your coach-
man or your cook—for I am both one and
t'other F"—But, for the soul of us, we cannot see
what the Senator DOGHERTY, had to do with the
Advocate DOGHERTY, on this occasion, except to
inform us, that, in several cases, in which he had
been engaged for the plaintiff, two years ago,
he had succeeded " in obtaining an ample mea-
sure of damages against Protestant defendants ;" a
piece of information of more importance, perhaps,
to the Advocate than the House. For the charges
against the administration of justice, as the Sena-
tor Dogherty has been told over and over again,
have nu reference whatever to the arena in.which
the Advocate Dogherty has so successfully com-
bated for his Catholic clients, but to the conduct
of the unpaid Magistrates, who, according to the
evidence of all respectable persons, have been in
the habit of oppressing the poor peasantry in the
moat shameful manner. That numbers of im-
proper persons found their way into the Ma-
gistracy, is pretty well proved by the admis-
sion of the Government, and the attempts at
purification. No one has ever questioned that
those who were able to arraign oppressive Ma-
gistrates in the King's Courts would obtain im-
partial justice : hut from the peculiarly depend-
ent situation of the lower Irish, to tell them that
they might prosecute Magistrates, is about as
much to the purpose as to tell them they might
take a journey to the moon ; and it was to en-
able them to avail themselves of their right to
prosecute, :hat the Catholic Association came
forward. The practice of the Catholic As-
sociation said more in favour of ti4r RdMillk-
tration of the law than Mr. Dogherty; for it
.was the object of all their endeavours to
I lead the people to seek protectiots in the