The Sun.
London, England, 1831-09-27 00:00:00

SCOTCH REFORM BILL.

A MENIIIFIL, whose tame we could not learn, gave
notice, that on the motion for going into a Committee on
the Scotch Reform Bill, he would move that it he an in-
struction to the Committee to provide that every Univer-
sity of Scotland should return a Member to Parliament.
LUNATICS BILL.
Mr. R. GORDON moved the Order of the Day for
considering the Lords' amendments to this Bill. The
Hon. Member took that opportunity of expre,sing his ob-
jection to several of the amendments, particularly that of
vesting the appointment of Commissioners under the Bill
in the Lord Chancellor, instead of the Home Secretary as
heretofore.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL defended the amend-
ments. He contended that the Lord Chancellor having
by law the chief superinteudance of lunatics, the appoint-
ment of the Commissioners was very properly vested in him.
Sir R. PEEL thought the alteration effected by the
House of Lords wholly unnecessary. Lie considered that
the office of appointing Commissioners more properly be-
longed to the Secretary of State than to the Lord Chan-
cellor.

The SOLICITOR-GENERAL expressed his approva'
of the amendments of the Lords.
Lord G. SOMERSET desited to see continued the
system which had worked well for the last three years,
and declared that he would take the sense of the House on
the material parts of the Lords' amendments.
Mr. HUME thought that the jurisdiction ought to he
vested in the Secretary of State for the Home Department,
rather than the Lord Chancellor, whose time was already
sufficiently occupied, without being further devoted to the
consideration of police regulations.
Mr. LAMB was of opinion that the jurisdiction could
not be vested in better hands than those of the Lord Chan-
cellor, who, by the law of Chancery, possessed a sort of
general superintendence over lunatics.
Sir C. WE'I'HERELL objected to the amendments
made by the Lords, and particularly to that which placed
the jurisdiction relative to the appointment of Commis-
sioners in the hands of the Lord Chancellor.
The House then divided upon the amendment which
gave the jurisdiction above-mentioned to the Lord Chan-
cellor. The numbers were—
For the amendment
Against it t;tl
Majority --11
Mr. H. GORDON said, that after the rejection of the
amendment, it would be better to reject ull the Lords
amendments iu the same clause.
Several other amendments were then put and negatived.
On the amendment being put, enacting that the Com-
missioners should be a worn not to disclose any circum-
stances with which they might become acquainted, in con-
sequence of their official, unless required to do so by legal
authority, it was opposed by Mr. GORDON and Mr.
PROTIIERor.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL expressed himself
favourable to it.
The amendment was then negatived.
Several other amendments were also negatived.
On the motion of Mr. R. GORDON, managers were then
appointed to conduct a conference with the House of Lords
on the subject of the rejected amendments.
COMMITTEE OF SUPPLY.
On the Order of the Day being rev] for the Ho use
resolving itself into a Committee to consider further of a
supply to be granted to his iII jesty,
Mr. H. GRATTAN said that before time House went
into Committee, be wished to make a statement which
appeared to him to concern their privileges. Seine time
since a petition bad been presented to that House against
the grant to Maytmoth College. certain signatures to which
were alleged to be faiae. lie Lad been written to from
Dublin on the subject ; and the writer stated that he could
find no such persons in the list of traders, hankers, bar-
risters, or solicitors, as George and Thomas
Howell, whose
names were affixed to the petition. Application had been
made by the writer to Mr. Thomas Magee, who stated that
so far from
having_
to sign any thing to do with the petition, he
had actually refused
ir,.....(Hear, hear.) The peti-
tion bad been presented by the Hon. Member for Oxford,
who stated that he had received it from some clerble gyman
that
,
who resided near Kingston. It was very' clesira
the Hon. Member should communicate with th
eindividual
who sent the petition, and that he should state the result
to the House. He could not say that this was a breach of
their privileges, because there might be in existence a

Corp and Theron !!owell, although they were not the
persons meant to be indicated by the petition.
Sir 11. INGLIS said be had received the petition by
post. He had no reason to doubt at the time the truth and
accuracy of the signatures ; but be would not make him-

self responsible for them.
Mr. HUME observed, that such practices ought to be
checked. In vindication of the Bishop, his Majesty's Mi-
nisters ought to bring the matter before the House.
Mr. O'CONNELL said, he was acquainted with George
Howell and Thomas Howell, one of whom resided here, mid
the other in Ireland. He did not think the signature of
George Howell bore much resemblance to his band-writing.
The character of the Archdeacon ought not to be left in
this manner before the House.

Sir H. INGLIS explained.
MAYNOOTII COLLEGE.

On the question being again put,
Mr. PERCEVAL said, that although it was his wish
that the vote for Maynooth College should be entirely done
away, he was precluded from taking any step in the Com-
mittee for that object, except by putting a direct negative
upon the grant. As so much of the year, however, had
pissed away, and as the faith of Government had been
pledged, he was not disposed to propose that the grant
should be now refused, and he would therefore
propose a resolution for the future. He maintained
that for a Protestant Parliament to vote money fir
the support of a college established to uphold a sys-
tem of falsehood and corruption—(" Hear, hear,"
from Mr. O'Connell and others)—of the word of God, was
1 a great departure from the duty they owed to God. He
would ask Protestant Members of that House why they
separated from the Roman Catholic church, if they did not
think it a system of falsehood and corruption of the word
of God. He might be told that he was precluded from
this line of argument since the passing of the Roman Catholic
Relief Act; but that Act had not been passed with that
animus ; and his Right Hon. Friend (Sir R. Peel), who
had been the prime supporter of that measure, had dis-
tinctly stated, that in granting relief to the Catholics, he
was not to be understood as adopting the expediency of
taking the Catholic priesthood into the pay of Govern-
ment, and uniting the Catholic religion to the State. He
was fully borne out in this view of the subject by the oaths,
on condition of taking which Catholics were even still
admitted into this Protestant assembly, and which showed
they came in under certain Protestant engagements, with
a view of satisfying the fears and doubts of Protestants.
Fur what purpose were these oaths retained, if the animus
of the Roman Catholic Relief Bill was to throw down
all the barriers of the Protestant religion ? He ob-
jected to the grant as a matter of conscience, and of duty
towards God. Infidelity, Ile feared, was on the increase.
He believed that the doctrine of holding the scale equal be-
tween God and Satan on all occasions was gaining ground
in that House. He was as certain of this as of any thing,
—that liberalism in religion was infidelity at bottom; that
they both came front the same root, and led to the same
consequences ; and he lamented to see in that House, the
scales held up before the world, equal between God and
Satan, on all occasions. Whilst Ministers were taking
away the grant to the Kildare street schools, they were
continuing that to Maynooth College; and it is difficult to
satisfy the Protestants of Ireland of the propriety and jus-
tice of this proceeding. He pressed his objection to the
olant, on the grounds he had stated, and he should move
'that " It is the °pillion of this House that it is not expedi-
ent to continue the annual grant to the College of Maynooth
after the present year."
An Ilos.r. MEstnEn (said to be Mr. YOUNG) in second-
ing the motion observed, that he was an advocate of the
Protestant ascendancy, not, as the phrase was commonly
understood, as the shibboleth of a party, but the ascen-
dancy of the Protestant religion, derived from the only
pure source—in our hearts and minds. He deemed it his
bounden duty to the cause of God and man to resist the
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continuance of this grant.
Mr. STANLEY observed that it was impossible to trex
with levity a subject of such importance as that which
had been introduced by the Hon. Member, and introduced
by him in so solemn a manner. It was difficult, however,
to grapple with the Hon. Member on a question which
he had not put upon the footing of reason or argument,
but upon a sense of conscience and duty towards God.
But he (Mr. Stanley) could not look at the question as a
religious but only as a political question.—(Hear, hear.)
11 by consenting to this grant be could imagine that he
promoted the ascendancy of the Roman Catholic religion,
or impaired the interests of the Protestant faith, lie would
vote for the motion of the Honourable Member, and ac-
knowledge it was not consistent with the duty of that
House to sanction this vote. But that was not the
light in which he could consent to look at the grant,
which had been voted for years past, and by greater
men than now advocated it in that House. It was no way
csnnected with the Catholic question, nor had ever been
considered to lie so. So long ago as 1795 the Legislature
had sanctioned this grant, not as a religious grant; and
from that time it had been undisputedly and uninterrupt-
edly complied with. It it was only on the score of autho-
rity the House ought not to condemn, as unworthy of a
Christian Legislature, a grant which had been introduced
by Mr. Pitt, which had the full concurrence of Mr. Fox,
and which hail been supported by all the weight of the
authority of Mr. Grattan.—(Hear ) These were the three
great names under the authority of which the grant wan first
introduced in 1795, and it had been continued by every
succeeding Government, not excepting that of which the
Hon. Member formed a part, and not on religious, but on
political grounds.—(Hear.) Nor was the grant without
special grounds of justification. During the last war Bo-
naparte offered an education to the Irish Catholics in France;
but this was r. jeered by the Roman Catholic Priests, who
forbade their youth to exchange the education they obtained
at Maynooth for the better education they could have
got at Paris ; and, therefore, on a principle of gratitude,
we owed something to the Roman Catholic clergy.—
(Hear, hear.) Did the Hon. Member think that it they
refused this grant there would be one Catholic less edu-
cated, or cne Protestant added.—(Hear.) The danger of
refusing the grant was tenfold greater than voting it. If it
was only for the interests of the Protestant religion, it
would be politic to support this grant. The Right lion.
Gentleman then read some extracts from the report of the
Commissioners, showing the advantages of the education
at Maynooth College. The education at the college was
dear, and so far from its tending to introduce the lower
classea, it was calculated for the highest class of pupils.
Upon the grounds that the vote was not in relation to re-
ligion, but simply founded upon political justice, he be-
lieved that no man could do more to destroy the Protestant
church in Ireland than by refusing his assent to this grant.
Sir J. NEWPORT supported the grant, and contended
that the claim upon England was one of justice and of
right.
Sir R. INGLIS thought that the question was open to
discussion, and ought to be taken up de note.
Mr. T. LEFROY objected to the grant in every respect.
Lord MANDEVILLE conceived that the grant would
be destructive of the Protestant interests in Ireland.
Mr. CRESSET PELIIAM thought the grant ought
not to be continued.
Sir 11. BATESON wished that his Majesty's Ministers
had followed in the footsteps of their predecessors. The
college of Maynooth was founded in illiberality.
Colonel SIBTHORPE felt it his duty to oppose every
grant which was exclusive of the interests of that religion
which, as a Protestant, be was bound to support. He
should therefore oppose the motion.
The House then divided—
For the original motion
Against it 47
Majority against the amendment lOl
On our re-admission to the gallery we found the House
in Committee, and
Mr. O'CONNELL deprecating the language applied to
the Catholic religion by the Hon. Member for Tiverton.
That lion. Member had taken it upon Idol to pronounce
the Catholic worship to be false and damnable. Was a
fallible human creature thus to assume the attributes of
infallibility,—a worm judge of the doom of a fellow worm,
and presume to set up its own interpretation of the Scrip-
tures as the word of God !—(Loud cries of " hear.")
With respect to the grant then before the Committee, he
did not accept it as a boon to the Catholics. They were
willing to support their own Clergy like the people of Scot-
land, if relieved from the burden of an Established Church,
in whose tenets they did not believe.
Mr. PERCEVAL did not think that any thing he had
said justified the Hon. Member's animadversions. He
had only said, that taking God's word as a standard, the
doctrines of Popery were frauds and corruptions of the
pure worship of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
Captain GORDON agreed with the Hon. Member (Mr.
Perceval), and felt that he should be guilty of a sm against
the interests of true religion, if he did not oppose a grant
which went to maintain an establ.shment in which the
dogmas of Pope Pius IV. were taught,—which dogmas,
embodied in the popular works sent forth under the sanction
of Dr. Doyle to the Catholic iaiety, represented all Pro-
med it to.
t(eis„tanta to be heretics. He opposed the grant, because he
Mr. O'CONOR
Church and in State.
he injurious to the Constitution both in
State.— (Aloud latubgalti .
the)was calculated
of the
Gallant Officer who had just sat down
excite, rather than to appease, the religious animositiest eulated !o
Ireland. The House of Commons ought not tbethine
arena of polemical contention, but the fountain from which
peace should he diffused in 3 thousand streams throughou.

the whole country. To withhold the grant to this College, • 1
would be as unjust as it would be impolitic.
Mr. T. LEFROY opposed the grant, because the State
ought not to encourage conflicting religions.
Mr. E. PETRE regretted the introduction of theolo-
gical discussions into that House. All that they had to
de with religion in that House was to do their duty to their
country, to exercise charity to all mankind, and to do
justice to all the interests in the country. He should sup-
port the grant, because the refusal of it would alienate the
affections of the people of Ireland.
Mr. BURGE deprecated religious discussions like that
which had taken place on this subject, as being likely to
disturb and destroy those feelings of charity and forbear-
ance which the common religion of all inculcated.--
(Hear, hear.) He was not therefore opposed to this grant
on religious grounds ; but he would oppose it because that
he found that his Majesty's Government were not disposed
equally to protect and encourage Protestant establishments
in Ireland.
Lord EBRINGTON said that he was as conscientious a
Protestant as any man in that House; but that he did not
thing it that was any part of the religion of a conscientious
Protestant to abuse and vilify the faith of any other sect
of his fellow Christians.—( Hear, hear.) He did not
think that the adoption of such a course as that was at all
calculated to prove a man's attachment to the Protestant
religion. He should support the grant.
Mr. WY SE said that the question was not whether
Ireland should be Catholic or not, but whether the Irish
Catholics should get a good education or a bad one. He
defended the Catholic clergy against the charges which had
been preferred against them, and especially against the
charge of their being opposed to the education of the
people. As one proof of the contrary being the fact, he
stated that very lately a college had been founded in the
county which he represented (Tipperary) sufficient for the
accommodation of three hundred students ; that admission
to it was open equally to Protestants and Catholics, and
that all the expenses of its erection had been defrayed from
the funds of the Catholic clergy of the diocese.
Mr. H. GRATTAN said that the true way to secure
the British connexion, and to keep the Catholics of Ireland
attached to this country, was to educate them at home. It
was most extraordinary to behold men like the Hon.
Member for Dundalk and others, who bad lived so long in
the world and who had learned so little, venting at that
time of day the threadbare calumnies, the oft-refuted libels,
and disregarded and exploded cant which had been sa often
employed against the pious and exemplary Catholic
clergy of Ireland, amongst whom the Protestant esta-
blished clergy might find many examples worthy of their

imitation.
Mr. A. JOHNSTONE said he was opposed to the
grant, because he thought that the evils of Ireland were
not so much attributable to misgovernment as to the de-
testable faith which prevailed there.—(Cries of " 011 !")
The Presbyterian people of Scotland should not be taxed
fur a support of a religion which they believed to be ido-
latrous. The Roman Catholic Members around him were
tolerated in that House, and the conduct of some of them
gave him reason to mistrust them laugh.) Ile
should oppose the grant.
Mr. HOWARD slid, that be was one of those who
voted for the grant of 21,0001. for the maintenance of the
Presbyterian Church in Ireland, and that the Hon. Member
who spoke last did not hear from him or from any person
professi❑g his religion, any abusive attacks on the faith of
the Presbyterians.—( Hear, hear.) If the Catholics of
Ireland were not taxed for the support of a Church to
which they did not belong, they would not ask for such a
grant as this.
Sir It. MUSGRAVE defended the Catholic Clergy from

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the imputations which had been cast upon them, and said
that they were in fact the preservers of the peace in Ireland,
and that he should give his cordial support to the grant.
The resolution was then agreed to, and the House re-
sumed.—Report ordered to be received on Wednesday.
After which, on the motion of Lord Aurnour, the
Churches' Building Act Amendment Bill was passed
through a Committee.
The House resumed, and the report was ordered to be
received on Friday.
SCOTCH REFORM BILL.

On the question that the House go into a Committee on
this Bill,
Lord A LTHORP stated, that it was intended that the
number for Scotland should he fifty ; that Peebles and
Selkirk should each return a Member; that Dumbarton
and Bute should each return a Member ; that the eastern
district of Fifeshire boroughs should return a Member, with
the addition of Cupar and St. Andrew's ; that Perth should
return a Member, and that Peterstown should be added to
the Aberdeen boroughs. He hoped that would give satis-
faction to the Scotch Members.
Mr. KENNEDY and Mr. C. BRUCE expressed their satis-
faction at this arrangement.
After a few words from Sir C. FORBES, the House went
into a Committee, some blanks were filled up, and the
Chairman reported progress, and obtained leave to sit again
on Friday.
The other Orders of the Day were then disposed of, and
the House adjourned at a Quarter to Three o'clock.

DREADFUL HURRICANE at BARBADOES,

We gave ye4terday a brief account of the destruc-
tion to life and property at Barbadoes, by one of
the most dreadful hurricanes ever experienced in
the West Indies, on the 11th of last month. From
accounts received at Lloyd's, we learn that the fol.
lowing vessels had been driven on shore, where
they remained when the accounts left the island :
BARKs—lrlataz and Arethusa.
BRIGS-Exchange, Quebec, Decagon, Mary, Kezia,
Alliance, Antoinette, Horatio Nelson, and Eliza.
BRIGANTINE-Samuel Hinds.

SCHOONERS...-Ark and Perseverance.

MA I L -BOATS —Montagu and Barbadoes.
The Heroine escaped with only loss of rigging ; the
schooner James lost mast.
It is said that St. Vincent's has suffered equally with
Barbadoes.
In addition to the information we received yester-
day, it is stated that not fewer than three thousand
lives were lost. The following extract from the
Barbadoes Globe, of the 15th of August, conveys a
mournful picture of this awful and destructive

visitation :
" Through the merciful forbearance of an all-
powerful Deity, we are enabled to resume the publi-
cation of our Paper by issuing a half-sheet to-day.
That we printed none on Thursday, is owing to the
awful calamity which, on the morning of that day,
laid the whole country in a confused mass of ruins.
Our lire having been spared, and our office but
partially damaged, the duty of telling the tale of
affliction, however, harrowing to our feelings, must
be performed ; but to convey to the distant reader
a correct idea of the scene of devastation before us
is a task impossible to be accomplished. Wherever
we turn our eye, the desolation and misery presented
to the view bid defiance to the power of language to
pourtray them in adequate terms. Barbadoes
wa
never in such a condition since the year 1783. The
hurricane of that time might have exceeded in dura-
tion, but not in violence, the one of Thursday last ;
the damage suffered is perhaps equal in extent—the
number of lives lost is at present incalculable.

" The appearance of Wednesday evening was
indicative of unsettled weather, and many persons
prognosticated that there would be a gale before the
morning, but few anticipated a visitation so dread-
ful. The wind was at times rather high, and about
ten o'clock there was a shower of rain, which was
succeeded by a calm. After this, a dense mass of
clouds gathered over the horizon, and remained for
some time suspended in gloom. At twelve, they
burst in a severe squall, which was followed by a
heavy lain. At this period there was a smart
breeze from N.E., and the ‘Nind began to increase.
In two hours it blew a tremendous gale, but mode-
rated for a short time, when it suddenly became
more violent, and was a perfect hurricane at three
o'clock. Now the work of destruction commenced.
From this hour until five it raged with unparalleled
violence, whilst the lightning would at intervals
cast a momentary but horrid glare on the mangled
objects around. The houses were either levelled
with the earth or unroofed; the largest trees torn
from their roots, or broken as reeds. Numerous
individuals were buried under the ruins, or exposed
without a shelter to the pelting of the storm, and
threatened with instant death at each successive
blast that hurled the shattered fragments in
every direction. The majestic cocoa-nut-tree would
be tossed to and fro as a withe, then snapped
off with an appalling crash, or driven from the earth
with terrific force. The wind had now veered to
E., back to N. and to NAV.; again it shifted, and
blew fiercely from E., veered to S.E., and about six
o'clock burst from S. `l'. with renewed violence,
twoompanied by torrents of rain. Once more the

hurricane raged, but there wfts little standing to en-`
counter its fury. For two hours the wind and rain
continued thus; and it is easier to conceive than to
describe the sufferings of those unfortunate beings
who were all this time destitute of even the slightest
shelter to screen them from the contending elements.
The bodily and mental torture of those who were
in health must have been excruciating; but what
must that have been of delicate females who had
been lingering on a bed of sickness—and many of
these there were—some in the open fields, separated
from their relatives and friends, and in a state of nu-
dity ? Helpless infants, too, were in like manner
torn from the arms of their distracted parents.
" When the light of day dawned through the
dreadful gloom of the subsiding tempest, the devas-
tation of the country exhibited a heart-rending pic-
ture. The dreadful howling of the winds, and the
crashing of the falling ruins having ceased, the
shrieks of the affrighted, and the groans of the
wounded and dying, broke in mournful sounds
and pitiable accents on the ears of the less un-
fortunate survivors. Those who had sufficient
strength remaining, commenced a sorrowful search
for the respective members of their families,—
some of whose lifeless bodies were disinterred from
the ruins to be transferred to another grave, whilst
mangled forms of others were dragged forth, fright-
ful from their bruises, and making the hearts of their
sympathising relatives bleed with anguish. The
fields which the day before presented so luxuriant
an appearance were completely changed into a de-
sert—neither canes, corn, nor provisions, with a few
inconsiderable exceptions, having been left in the
ground. The houses as well as windmills were
thrown down, parts of them conveyed to an asto-
nishing distance, and costly furniture destroyed or
materially injured. Oistins, Hole-town, Speight's-
town, and Bridgetown, have all suffered equally,
there not being a single house in the island standing
uninjured. A few certainly are only partially da-
maged, but many which at first sight appear to have
escaped, are found, on closer examination, to be in a
condition that would be imminently dangerous either
in heavy rains or strong winds. The barracks and
hospital at Si.. Ann's have suffered in common with
other buildings, and we understand more than forty
of his Majesty's troops lost their lives, besides many
women and children ; the number of wounded is

mmense.
" On a future occasion we may give a detailed
account of the numerous deaths that have occurred,
and of the almost innumerable dangerous wounds in-
flicted; but as we cannot do so at present with any
degree of accuracy, we abstain from inserting those
that have come to our knowledge. The scenes of
horror in the churches baffle all description. There
the dead and dying have been borne from different
places—there the bruised have been taken from sur-
gical assistance. The bodies of all the killed, how-
ever, have not yet been recovered from the heaps of
stone under which they were crushed; and as putre-
faction has already taken place, we are threatened
with the addition calamity of a deadly pestilence.
God, in his infinite goodness, avert further hot
tors from our devoted isle! Threatened, as we
are, with famine and disease, we can only rely on
his bountiful Providence to outstretch his heavenly
arm for our timely rescue. Without a plentiful
supply of articles of food, the inhabitants will
perish of hunger,—without Divine interposition,
their dire fate must be consummated by contagion
from the effluvia arising from the putrid carcasses
of men and beasts which lie on the face of the
earth 1
" The churches and chapels throughout the island
have suffered each to a greater or less extent. The
sacred edifice in St. James's was injured less titan
any other. The Cathedral and St. Mary's were de-
prived of the greater part of their roofs, the organ
of the latter was blown to atoms ; St. Paul's and
St. Matthew's were nearly totally destroyed. Go-
vernment-house was unroofed, and otherwise injured,
and his Excellency the Governor obliged to take re-
fuge in the cellar. King's-house, the girl.' school,
and the common gaol, were seriously damaged, the
boys' school was partially injured, and the Custom-
house was blown down. But to particularise would
be a preposterous attempt, when every house and all
parts of the island, have, in some respect or other,
shared in the general destruction.
" The schooner Elizabeth sailed hence for Deme-
rara on Wednesday afternoon. She fortunately
weathered the storm, and returned here, when she
was employed by his Excellency the Governor to
proceed, we understand, to that colony with de-
spatches, in the hope of falling in with a homeward
bound vessel ; but failing in that, they would be im-
mediately forwarded to England by his Excellency
Sir Benjamin D'Urban, Governor-General of British
Guiana.
" The schooner Agnes, which arr'ved on Friday
morning from Trinidad, has also been employed in
the service of Government. She sailed last night,
but her destination is not exactly known.
" The merchants of this town, although sufferers
themselves to a considerable extent, have spurned
the opportunity of demanding an increase in the
price of provisions. Care should be taken to prevent
any unfeeling huckster from profiting unfairly by this
berality.
" his Excellency the Governor called a meeting
of the Hon. Board of Council for to-day. We have
not been informed of the result of their deliberations.
" It will be seen that H. D. de Wald, Esq. has
generously come forward for the assistance of the
poor and destitute, with a spontaneous offer of 10
barrels of flour; and as the vesiry have made an
appeal to the public, we trust there are many others
who will lose no time in contributing to the relief
of their wretched fellow-beings."
" The Barbadoes Mercury of the IGth says,—
We ate sorry to state that the island of Sr. Vincent
has not escaped the late hurricane. An arrival from
thence announces that considerable injury has been
done both to the island and shipping.'
" A letter received from Dominica last night, in-
forms us that the effect of the late gale was felt in
that island, but no lives lost, nor any very serious
injury sustained. The town of Roseau was, how-
ever, almost inundated by the breaking in of the sea.
" The schooner Perseverance returned from
Guadeloupe this morning. The gale was felt in
that island also, and some trifling damage done."

FRENCH PAPERS.

(From the Quotidienne of Saturday, Sept. fa.)

" PARIS, SErr. 23.---The conferences between sevarcl
members of the diplomatic body of the Government recom-
menced on Wednesday last.
" This morning an extraordinary courier brought to
M. Appony despatches from his Government. Yesterday
a Secretary of the French Legation at Brussels brought
despatches to the Government, and an extraordinary
courier from Berlin brought despatches for the Prussian
Ambassador. His Majesty the King of Bavaria has ordered
prayers in all the churches, to implore Heaven to avert the
thesekvienrga(llipilrno.motions have been made
cho,l,elrta misoarffiburms
efrdointhat
in the Third Regiment of Light Infantry, as a recompense
for its conduct in the Palais Royal on Monday evening.—
Two additional commissaries of police have been appointed.
A paper, without the signature of either the author or
printer, has been seized ; it contains an appeal to arms,
addressed to the patriots of July. This morning commis-
saries of police searched several houses which had been
informed against as containing fire-arms.
" The last accounts from Neufchatel are of the 17th.
Negotiations had been opened, and a commission appointed
by the, Council of State had had a conference with the
chiefs of the insurrection. The basis already agreed upon
are, a general amaesty, the disbanding of the tso opposite
corps, and the convocation of the primary assemblies to
deliberate on the emancipation of the canton. The nego-
tiations are delayed by one clause demanded by the country
party—that is, the occupation of the fort of Neufchatel by
400 men, till the primary assemblies shall have deliberated.
The standard of the country party is read, with a federal
cross, and the arrow of William Tell."

From the Messagcr des Chambres, dated Sept. 25 )

;‘ PARIS, SEPT. 24.—1 t is affirmed that a battalion of

the 2d Regiment is to repair to Toulon, and there to em-
bark for Algiers. This reinforcement sent to the army in
Africa, with the military stores lately embarked for that
country, by no means intimate the intention which some
journals have ascribed to the Ministry to restore that
colony to the Dey of Algiers.
" The Minister of Marine and Colonies has informed

the Chamber of Commerce of Havre, that our relations
with Hayti are not broken oil', that the French Govern-
ment has no desire that they should, and that our com-
mercial interests are under the protection of the Consul
whom M. Mofilen left there when he left the island to re-
turn to France."

PRICES OF THE STOCKS
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Red
3 per Cent. Cons 3',2 y,
per Cent. shut
Ditto Red shut
New 3 per Cent q9A 7
3 per Cent Ann. 1726 -
4 'per Cent. lit 26
Bank Long Ann to expire
Jan 5, 1860 shut
Oct. 10, 1859
Jan. 5, 1860
Jan. 5, 1880
April 5, 1880 --
Jan. 5, 1870