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London, England, 1838-07-24 00:00:00

and our FARADAYS, with their much-boasted discoveries
and condensation of gases—been separated from the
bodies of this and all preceding generations, r, n d in some

liquid or solid form deposited in some sacred ark in
the stone or brickbuilding. If Sir ROBERT ING,Lts does
not mean to imply that the State alchemists of former or
present times have made a great discovery of this extraor-
dinary description, will he condescend to explain what he
does mean ; for the assertion he made last night, as a bar to
an act of humane improvement, which those who shut up
the criminals are bound to perform, if it do not mean some
recondite discovery of this description, made in ancient
times, is the most arrant nonsense that it was ever our
lot to meet with.

Again last night the Irish Church occupied the whole
time of the House of Commons ; and again it was made
apparent, both by the speeches and the votes of the house,
that the English must now pay, and will have to pay
hereafter, for that luxury of theirs, the Irish Church, in
which they delight to indulge. How pleasant it mull
be to the English Dissenters to find, instead of
being relieved from Church rates, that they are taxed to
,upport the Established priesthood of Ireland ! The con-
scientious Catholic will not support that Church, and the
Legislature, therefore, says that the Dissenters, whether
they have conscientious objections or not, must support it.
This is hardly what the Dissenters expected from the
Whigs, but it is what the hard necessities of the nnisters
drive them to perform. They are the professing f, lends of
the Establishment ; they avow that, they have sworn to
maintain it, and they must dip their hands in the
pockets of the people to sustain the Church of their
love. The Irish Church, like a most disreputable
female, is ruining the character of all who come in contact
with her. Lord HOWICK is the only statesman who, by
boldly speaking out and repudiating all acquaintance and
connection, seems likely to escape the contamination.

We understand the Committee on the reduction
of Postage have reconsidered their resolution vvi;ll
respect to the adoption of a Twopenny rate ; and
have thought it advisable to recommend an uni-
form charge of one penny on stamped covers carrying half-
an-ounce weight, paid in advance—the two-penny charge to
be exacted when stamped covers are not used. The
alteration is to take place so soon as the revenue can bear
the reduction.

Some few days ago Lord BROUGHAM announced his
conversion to the doctrine that there will be no peace in
Ireland till provision is made for the Catholic Clergy.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL last night admitted as much, and
asserted that the time would come, and that before many
years elapsed, when the State would find it expedient to
make provision for the religious instruction of the Roman
Catho!ics in Ireland, and Lord HoWICK went a little
further. "It is impossible," said his Lordship, " thet the
present state of affairs can be permanent in Ireland. I
believe it will be found necessary to devote a large portion
of the property of the Church, if not to the payment of the
Roman Catholic Clergy, to the payment of lay teachers of
general knowledge and religious information." This would
be an appropriation clause with a vengeance ; yet to this
complexion it must come at last. Lord FRANCIS EGER..
TON, as the organ of the moderate Tories, ten years ago
admitted the principle of making provision for the Catholic
Clergy ; and Mr. O'CONNELL but two years since made
a proposition to that effect in the House of Commons.
In fact, it is a question, whether we regard it as an act of
justice, or policy,or humanity, that admits of so little doubt,
that all rational men can come only to one conclusion on
the subject. None but a few individuals, who proclaim
themselves the only friends of the Established Church, but
who in reality are its worst enemies, will even for another
Session oppose tho execution of a plan so necessary to the
peace of Ireland—the security of the Protestant Church in
that country, and the welfare of the United Kingdom.
They may differ as to the mode of doing it, but on that
they must agree, as they have hitherto been compelled to
agree, within the last few years, on many great questions
on which they differed infinitely more widely. Mr.
BAINES, Mr. llustE, and others, who advocate the
voluntary system, may oppose it on principle, but
what is the use of a principle which cannot h 3 put
in practice? The people of this country will not be
ripe for the voluntary system during the lives of these
gentlemen, and, as a matter of economy, i❑ the mean time,
they will find it infinitely better to pay a thousand priests
than ten thousand troops. We have long advocated this
measure, and only now congratulate the friends of Ireland
on the prospect of seeing speedily carried into effect a
plan for uniting that country to Great Britain, compared
with which all that has been hitherto done is but as dust
in the balance.

The whole of the Paris Journals of Sunday have been
received, but their contents are of no political importance.
According to the Jourual du Commerce the KING was
prevented from assisting at the inauguration of the Polygon
at Vincennes on Saturday, in consequence of his daughters
the Duchess of WURTEMBERG, havingbeen seized with the
first symptoms of her accouchement. The Duchess of
ORLEANS is likewise expected to give birth to an heir to
the French throne in the course of the present week.
The Indicator of Bourdeaux contains the following
account of the deplorable affair of the ship Alexander
which has just been brought into that port, accompanied
with a letter from the owners, thanking the French autho-
rities for their promptitude and zeal :

It is reported that revelations of the highest importance have been
made to the maritime authories of Bordeaux by the cook who was on
board the Alexander when shat vessel was put under the command of
Capt. Bonet.

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The story of the cook is of so grave a nature that we publish its
substance, not by any means guaranteeing its authenticity.
" During the voyage from Itatavia to Mauritius, in the morning,
Captain Bonet, who was walking the deck with some part of the crew,
ordered the cook to prepare his tea. Whilst the latter hastened to obey
this order, there was a silence of some instants on the deck, then a
great noise, caused by a violent struggle—then a heavy body fell into
the sea.

" The cook did not disturb himself, but he perceived an officer,
armed with a piece of wood, hasti!y go on deck. The same struggle re.
Commenced. A second tall into the water was heard more distinctly
than the first—the captain and the officer had disappeared.
" The noise appeared to increase ; cries of distress, threats, blows
given and returned, men thrown into the s,a, caused the cook to be-
lieve that the ship Alexander was the theatre of a great crime. The
weather was fine and the sea calm.

" the storm which assailed the Ale.randrr after this terrible event,
and to which they attributed the loss of the captain and five man of
the crew, gave the conspirators the idea of thus writing the tragic
end of their comrades ; all the sailors signed it ; the cook, under
the dread of threats made by the chief con,pirator, signed as well as
the °tilt rs.

"Before arriving at Mauritius, and some days afMrth e storm, the
conspitators having doubts about an Eugli,h sailor, notwithstanding he
had taken an active part in the assassination, tied his feet and hands,
nad, after stabbing him, threw him into the sea.

"The cook, who reports these events, says he only owed his life to
the promises they extorted from him, and to the necessity the crew had
for his services.

"This man was not detained at Newport with the other companions
of Narsaud ; he preserved an obstinate silence in presence of the
French and American authorities; he did not commit the slightest
indiscretion during the last voyage of the Alexander, under the com-
mand of Calitan Casy.
" It is said that his reason has been so weakened by these horrible
seems that he hars.ly knew his wife at Bordeaux.
" It is said th it the French Government have dcmandel of the Ame.
rican, that Marsaud and his companions should be given up."
The advices from Madrid are of the 15th. The QUEEN,
by a Royal Decree, had conferred the Grand Cross of San
Ferdinand upon Major-General PALAREA, for his eminent
services as Governor-General of Granada. Genet. it NAR-
VAEZ was hourly expected at Madrid, but on what business
w•e are left to conjecture. ESPARTERO continues to meoace
Estella, to which Don CARLOS, with his suite, had returned
on the 14th. Rumours were in circulation that General
ALAVA had been appointed Spanish Ambassador at the
Court of St. James's; and that the Marquis of AGUILAR was
to proceed in a like capacity to Lisbon.
Letters from Trieste of the 12th announce the destruc-
tion of several Ressian vessels in the Back Sea, in conse-
quence of a recent violent hurricane.

The subjoined intelligence from Egypt is the only thing
of any interest in the German Journals, received this
morning. The Brussel; papers announce that vast pre-
parations are making for the celebration of the seventh an-
niversary of the " Inauguration" of King LEOPOLD

Very satisfactory news from Egypt has been received at Lloyd's...-.
(The Llcyd Austriaco.) Mehemet Ali has for the present renounced
his plan of independence; he fears the great powers. The trade wi.h
Egypt is therefore brisk and uninterrupted.
From Athens we hear nothing but good. King Otho has, in the
literal sense of the word, emancipated himself. He governs with
extraordinary energy and activity, and has pretty well extirpated the
bad seed which had taken root under the Provincial Government ; for
the few foreign adventurers who are still in Greece endeavouring to en-
rich themselves at the expense of the Greeks, no longer meet with any
support, and their inlrigu, s :o excite discord are defeated by the good
•.f the Greek nation, which desire rc pose and concord, and seeks
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to reeci'ver trout tr.e. heavy burdens which i has had to bear for many
vars. King Otho is the man of the people; he will happily seem.
'dish the task which he has to perform, and put all those to shame who