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London, England, 1825-04-22 00:00:00

PARLIAMEN'T'ARY PROCEEDINGS.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
Jovis, 21° die .Aprilis, 1825.
111Essacz from the L6o.ns—That they have agreed to—
Weaver Navigation Bill, Vauxhall Bridge Bill, and Ounelle
Improvement Bill, without amendment.
ComPANlEs—British Gas Light—Petitions of Leicester and
Bristol Gas Light Companies, against—referred to the Com-
mittee on the Bill, Counsel ordered. Western Ship Canal—
Petitions from Carmarthen, Newry, and Belfast, in favour,
to-lie en the table. Metropolitan Fish—Petition from Dover,
against—to lie an the table. London Water—Petition from
Havering, &c. against—referred to the Committee on the
Bill, Counsel ordered. Metropolitan Waterworks—Peti-
tions from Mary-le-bone and Justices of the Peace of Mid_
dlesex, against---referred to the Committee on the Bill, Coun-
sel ordered. Herring and Cod Fishery—Petition from Stran-
raer and Bay of Lochryan, against—to lie on the table.
of Dogs—Petitions from North Shields, St.
George in The East, Coal Consumers of London, and Water-
men on the Thames, AnaixsT—referred to the Committee
on the Bill, Counsel ordered. St-Katharine's—Bill to be
read a third tine this day. Kingston-upon-Hull—Petitions
from South Shields, Newcastle, and Mahon, against—re-
ferred to the Committee on the Bill, Counsel ordered. Ben.
mondsey Collier—Petition from Waterrnen on the Thathes,
against—referred to the Committee on the Bill, Counsel or
dered. South London—Bill reported, .Report to lie on the
table.
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HARBOUR—Pembrey—Petition of T. Gaunt, Esq. against—
referred to the Committee on the Bill, Counsel ordered. -
NAVIGAT toar—Slour—Petition from :'anterbury, in favour—
to lie on the table ; and from Commissioners of Sewers for
several Limits in the Eastern parts of Kent, against.---referred
to the Committee on the Bill, Counsel ordered.
CANALS—Berks and Hants Junction—Eleven Petitions,
against, and Ten, in favour—to lie-on the table ; Bill to be
read a second-time this day. Gloucester and Berkeley—Pe-
tition of C. Carrington, against—referred to the Committee
on the Bill, Counsel ordered.
ImpnovzsimiT—/Averponl—Petitions of Justices of the
Peace of Cheshire. and F. R. Price, Esq. against--referred
the Committee on the Bill, Counsel ordered. Bill reported,
to be ingrossed.
RAILWAYS—Tees and Weardale—Petitions from Sidmouth
and Poole, in favour—to lie on the table. Stroud and Se-
vern—Petitions of R. Seward, and Miners, &c.- of Dean Fo-
rest, in favour—to lie on the table. .Edinburgh and Dalkeith
—Petition from Dalkeith, &c. against—to lie on the table.
ESTATE—Rowbottom's--Bill read a third time, and passed.
ROADS—Rotherham and Tankersley, and Barnsley and Pon-
tefract—Bills read a third time, and passed. Kensington—
Petition from Grosvenor.place, against—referred to the Corn-
mittee on the Bill, Counsel ordered. Leeds and Whitehall—
Petition from Hipperholme,
&c. winst—referred to the
Committee on the Bill, Counsel ordered. Cork and Bally-
hooly—Bill read a second time, and committed.
DnAiNAGL—Mrainfieet—Bill read a second time, and com-
mitted.
`VATERwoßxs—Chesterfield—Bill reported, Report to lie on
the table. Limerick—Petition of Inhabitants, in favour, and
another, against—to lie on the table.
THAMES QUAY—Petitions of Owners of Houses, &c. in St.
Dunstan in the West, an Whitefriars, against—to lie on
the table.
INCLOSE RE —llockering and Morton (Norfolk )—Bill report-
ed, to be ingrossed.
Wiarnow TAX—Petitions from bimehouse, Prescot, Wel-
lington, and St. Mary-le-port, Bristol, for the repeal of—
to lie on the table.
ROMAN CATHOLIC Caatats—Seven .Petitions, in favour,
and'Fourteen, at lie on the table.
CORN Laws-. Petitions from Repton and (Presley, and Ashby-
cle-la-Zouelt, against any alteration—to lie on the table.
COMBINATION Laws—Petition of Master
of DOlba, nainst—referred to the Select Committee Upholsterers, &c..

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LONDON,
FRtD.4Y EFENING, APRIL 22, 1825.

-it is reported that favourable accounts respect-
ing the operations of the army against the Bur-
mese Lave been brought from India, by a vessel
which is just arrived from Bombay. An im-
portant Burmese fortress has been carried by a
division of the army, consisting of Madras troops,
in which were found jewels valued at five Jacks
of rupees, and treasure to the amount of 13 lacks.

The Catholic Question was last nip ht carried
in the House of Commons by a tnajority of 27,
the numbers being for the second readiag of the
Bill, 268, against -it, 241. We may presume,
then, the contest is pretty nearly over in the
Lower House, and that in due time it will find
its way to the Lords. The debate was com-
menced by skirmishing parties of each side, pre-
senting Petitions for and against the measure,
as credit to be which every now and then gave rise to obser-
vationsto the degree of
at-
tached to them, and as to the manner
in which they were got up. This partial sue.
cess will give the friends of the Catholics spirits
to persevere, but its enemies are no wayi.
daunted; being fully aware that a tougher and

a harder fight awaits them in the House of Lords.
The kind of reception the Bill will meet with
there is altogether another matter, and if we may
judge by the little asperities that occasionally
shew themselves in that august Assembly when
Petitions are presented, connected with the
subject, we should say the debate will be long
and ardent, and appearances at present bear us
out in saying the Bill will not go farther
this Session. Our principles have always hi-
therto led us to oppose the intended concessions,
but of course, should the Bill ever pass into a
law, it will become us to submit and to hope the
best. A great deal may be said on both sides,
and it is an extremely difficult task to decide
between the contending parties. The Catholics
owe this sturdy opposition to their own conduct,
both now and in times past, for it appears to us
obvious enough, that had they even for the last
ten years submitted patiently to the law, univer-
sal acclamation would have given them long ere
this what they now seek ; and, it is therefore
to be hoped, that should the Picas penilentice be
forced upon them by the rejection of the Bill,
they will shew by their obedience to the laws
for the little time that elapses between the rejec-
tion of this Bill and the bringing in of another in
the next Session, that the qualified doctrines they
allege as now forming the basis of their religion,
are not adopted for the purpose of makings good
show before their judges, but are the true and
sincere belief of their hearts and consciences.—
The time is now near at hand when the present
Parliament will be dissolved and a new one elect-
ed. If this measure is to pass, perhaps it would at
all events be better postponed until the new
Parliament is assembled, because the privileges
the Bill confers affect so large a body of people
in Ireland. If, therefore, these privileges are
called into action so speedily after they have
been given, and whilst one party is elated
with success, and the other proportionably sore
with defeat, the heats, the animosities, the
dreadful riots that must inevitably ensue in such
a country as Ireland (never at any time famed
for its passive obedience to the law) are past con-
ception ; and, besides, additional time will give
to the Catholics additional means of proving, by
their good and orderly conduct, the strength
and truth, of their alleged attachment to their
King and Country.

The remainder of the. Paris Papers of Tues-
day arrived last night. It appears by the fol-
low•ing extract horn the Constitutionned, that
attempts are making, under any pretence, to
dispossess the holders of national property, who
purchased it.duriug the French Revolution.
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PARIS, APRIL 18.
'An estate in the department of the Gironde, which was con-
fiscated as belonging to M. Simeon Leris, a- deported Priest,
was sold on 14th Germinal, in the year 3, to M. Azevedo. M.
S. Leris returned to France and resided at Bourdeaux, where
he died in December last. He made no representations after"
his return to complain of the sale of the estate. Scarcely had
he closed his eyes, when his nephew and son, M. Leris, Judge
in the Tribunal of the First Instance at Bourdeaux, applies to
the Prefect of the Gironde, desiring to have the sale declared
null as illegal. This magistrate pretends that his uncle, before
dying, expressly conjured him ,to make his demand, which he
supports on this ground, among others, that the sale was made
to the detriment of Simon Leris, not f Simeon Luis, whence,
says he, there is, in the proces verbal of the sale, a misnomer,
and consequently a radical defect.

Frankfort Papers to the 16th inst. arrived this
morning. The Empress of AUSTRIA, and the Archduchess
SPTHIA, arrived at Munich on the 9th. In the evening of the
4th, the young Princess of TUSCANY was baptized at Florence
by the name of AUGUSTA FERDINANDA MARIA JOANNA
JOSEPIIA, the Dowager Grand Duchess representing the King
of SaxoNY as Sponsor. The Grand Duke, on this joyful
event, ordered portions to be paid from his privy purse to 360
young women ; those narnea by his Highness will receive 20
crowns, and those who are designated by lot 15 crowns. His
Highness has also granted a pardon to all 'deserters, and to all
persons .condemned for trifling misdemeanours.

By the Manhattan packet ship, which sailed
from New York on the 25th ultimo, we have re-
ceived New York Papers to that date, and Bos-
ton Journals to the 9.2 d. It is stated in these
Papers that martial law had been proclaimed at
the Havannah on the sth of March, and that on
the 14th the Marquis MAGNAN landed at Cartha-
gena (Terra Firma) from a French' frigate, with
dispatches of the utmost importance from his
Government to the Vice-President of Colombia.
The Marquis would, it was supfrised, proceed
without delay to Bogota.

TUE G ItEEKS.-According to recent advices
from Trieste, it-would seem that the Greek fleet,
divided into several squadrons, is now in the
Archipelago, where it has had several partial
actions with different Turkish and .Egyptian ves-
sels, in which they have been uniformly success-
ful. A more serious affair is said to have taken
place between a Greek division and an Ottoman
squadron which left Suda for the purpose of rais-
ii, the naval blockade of Patras.

Ad vices from Alvarado mention the arrival of
the British ship Lion at Vera Cruz with a mil-
lion of dollars for the Mexican Government, from
the Contractor of the last Loan, Mr.- B. A•
GOLDSCIIMIDT; previous to.which a sloop of War
had also arrived at the same port with dollars to
an equal amount, part of the above Loan. The
November packet had likewise reached Vera
Cruz with fifty thousand dollars from the Mining
Companies. . .
The Piedmontese Gazette of the 12th instant,
mentions the departure of the Kina and Queen
of SARDINIA from Turin on the 9th for Genoa,
on their way to Milan.
, Miss FooTE.----We understand that Mr. Gni.
has returned to Mr. IIAYNI 631. 6s. 4d. the hal-
-1 ance of the 200/. paid by him on account of the
'settlement.