The Sun.
London, England, 1836-02-29 00:00:00

IRELAND.

..-rATE op Tim COUNTRY —The calendars prove beyond dis-
Peirit-et.:nes comparatively tranquil condition of the country. The
sizes opened on Monday in the town of Drogheda, which.
a Population of over 15,000 souls ; there were only
three cases of felony to be tried, and one or two misdemean-
Zurs• The Lord Chief Justice, in addressing the Grand Jury,
wogratulated them very warmly on the tranquillity of the
proportion of the cases to be tried at Trim,
hadn.theirArvisaestin the service of law processes for the recovery
' tithes, and may be classed under the head of common assaults.
al Reform
from Belfast, not to be included in the Munici-
viiitteform Bill, is in the hands of Mr. Tennant.
the 'NI" HIGH LIFE. TITHES.-The recent outrage in
11,,,,,ftY of Wexford, has been mentioned in Parliament, and
th come the subject of legislative inquiry. It appears that
arne 'Ol3lO were ready to pay their rent ; but without the
ceu--t claimed for tithe a receipt would not be given, and a
!eizure Was the consequence. Corn, furniture, &c. (includ-
lIIC the bed, table and coffee-pot of the parish priest),
14raouriting in value to about 100/., were sold for a few pounds
.1° The agent. It appears that the Sub-sherifr—or rather the
IRlividual -who filled that office until Mr. Derinzy's appoint-
the
ellt as High Sheriff—was present, and took an active part in
„Proceedings. A coal of fire having been procured from a
gelghbouring cabin, one stack of corn was disposed of after
,be rnost approved manner of the Kent incendiaries, The re-
11.'ainder, with the priest's furniture, would, in all prebabil;ty, qa% .shared the same fate, but for the remonstrances of Chief-
stbie Kelly, of Enniscorthy, and of the officer who corn-
idt 4 a. military party in attendance.

The See Lands are now let at low rents to the families of
former Bishops, and other tenants, under leases which the pre-
sent Bishops may renew or not, at pleasure ; and the tenants
may be evicted, or be required to pay the full rent value of
the lands, on the expiration of existing leases. The whole of
the Church Lands, if properly managed, would let at an aver-
age rent of at least one pound an acre, and yield an income
far more than sufficient for the Church Establishment which
the Irish Protestants require.
By the Census of 1834, there were found to be in Ireland,
7,943,940 persons, of whom 6,427,712 were Roman Catholics ;
642,356, were Presbyterians • 21,808, were Quakers, Baptists,
and other Disenters ; and only 852,064, were Protestants and
Wesleyan Methodists, whist' latter sect being deducted leaves
752,972 actual members of the Protestant Established Church.
Yet this Protestant Churcliof 752,972 members, being less
than a tenth of the whole population, is provided with an
Ecclqiastical Establishment, at the expense of the nation,
which has had assigned for its maintenance—nearly, eight hun-
dred thousand acres of Land—Tithes of a:ricultural produce,
the composition for whick now amounts to 555,0001. a-year—
Ministers-money in Cities, amounting to 10,0001. a-year—Fees
on Marriages, Baptisms, and Burials—Rents of Seats in the
Public Churches—with a Parochial Assessment for providing
Church requisites, and building and repairing Churches, a
charge on the community which was largely augmented to sup-
ply deficiencies in the First Fruits Fund, caused by false valua-
tions of the incomes derived by the Bishops and Clergy. And,
notwithstanding its great revenue from all these sources, it has
obtained since ISOO, in Parliamentary Grants-595,3771. for
the building of Churches, superadded to Church rates '•—
336,881/. for the building of Glebe-houses;-1,105,8691. for
educating poor children in Protestant Charter Schools, to sus-
tain the Protestant Church and check Popery ;-101,991/.
under the pretence of discountenancing vice ;—and, 170,508/.,
for Biblical Schools in connection with the Kildare-street Pro-
selytising Society,—in all 2,310,6271. ;—while Loans for
Churches and Glebes have also been given, to the amount of
324,6231. a great portion of ,•.'hich sum has not been repaid,—
forming a grand total of Too MILLIONS AND A HALF. But
this is not all. To sustain th. career of the Protestant Estab-
lishment, the nation has had to support a special standing army
of no less than 15,000 men, in excess of the military force
which would be necessary if an Irish Church Militant did not
exist. So that the Church of 752,972 Irish Protestants,—(not
even a tithe of the whole population,)—has cost the Nation
Upwards of TWO MILLIONS A YEAR.
The income of the Church Establishment of Scotland,
with congregations containinr, about 1,600,000 persons, in a
population of two millions and a half,—ls 269,033/. from all
sources.

In Belgium, containing a Catholic population of four millions
tile public provision made for an Archbishop, five Bishops,
various Dignitaries, the College of each Bishopric, and the re-
pair of Churches, amounts to 434,800 francs ; and 2,828,100
francs are paid to the parochial Clergy—the whole being only
130,5161. a-) ear.
The incomes of the Bishops and Clergy of the 6,427,712
Irish Roman Catholies,—derived from voluntary contributions,
Easter dues, sacramental offerings, and burial fees,—form a
total under 1100,0001. a-year.-4-[vidence of Dr. Doyle, and
Dr. O'Kelly, Roman Catholic Bishops, before a Committee of
the House of commons, on the State of Ireland, in 1825.1
Let us now review the detail of the Irish Protestant Church.

By the Report of the Inquiry Commissioners appointed in
1834,-4 appears that there are 2,348 parishes in Ireland,
forming 1,385 Protestant benefices, 478 of which are- Unions.
In one Union, Kilcooly, there are ten parishes, yielding in-
comes to a single incumbent, and one of them is six miles, and
another ten miles, from the rest. In the Union of Ballymakill,
there are nine parishes, yielding incomes to a single incum-
bent, and one of them is twenty-seven miles from the church.
And in the Union of Burnchurch there are fourteen parishes,
also yielding incomes to a single incumbent, and three of the
parishes are stated in the Report to be " at opposite extremi-
ties of the county of Kilkenny, many miles from each other,
and from the body of the Union."
There are in Ireland, it appears, forty-one Protestant bene-
fices, in which there is not one Episcopalian Protestant ; ninety-
nine, containing less than twenty Protestants ; and one hun-
dred and twenty-four, containing only. from twenty to fifty
Protestants.
Were the 752,972 Church Protestants distributed equally
over_the 1,385 benefices, there would be in each only 543 of
them,—men, women, and children, or about 120 families.
Were the Catholics similarly distributed, there would be in
each of those benefices 4,641 of them, forming at least 1,000
families.
It appears by one of the tables in the Report, that seven
benefices, containing in all only sixty-two Protestants, have
not one church, or one resident clergyman—and yet are liable
to tithe composition, amounting to 2,8881. a year.
Another table presents fifty parishes, whose revenues amount
to 11,8971. a year. They contain 527 Protestants (not three
families to each), and forty-two of them are without a resident
Clergyman, and forty-one without a Church.
There are eight parishes of the diocese of Cloyne, which
contain only 173 Protestants, and the Tithe Composition
amounts to 4,8601.
In the diocese of Emly united to Cashel, there are only
1,246 Protestants :—yet Tithe Composition, amounting to
7,969/. a year, is exacted for seventeen Benefices, ten of which
are without their Rectors, and in five of them Divine Service is
never performed.
Nothing but tho presence of a great army has hitherto
maintained such a system as this • but now, even the military
power of the British Empire has become incompetent to uphold
it. The time for modification and half measures has passed,
and the law and authorities, incapable of subduing the hos-
tility of millions, are compromised by their association with a
system, which the millions resist as a national injustice, and a
memorial of conquest, confiscation, and persecution.
LORD STANLEY, The MARQ. of ANGLESEY,
When acting as a Minister of the While Lord Lieutenant of Ire-
I Crown in Ireland, resolved, a . land,-proposed, in a letter to
all hazards, to secure to the Earl Grey, which by a strange
Church a full equivalent for accident has been published to
Tithes, and to maintain its gor- '-es country, that Tithes should
genus and redundant Hierarchy be abolished as a source of reve-
in the possession of princely do- nue for the Church.
mains. His desire was to see the whole
By one law, far this object, he of the Church Lands, Palaces,
placed the whole country under and Glebes, derived from the
a compulsory Composition for State, transferred to Public
Tithes, extending to pasture Commissioners. The lands to
tracts, previously exempt, and be sold, except a few acres an-
even to labourers' gardens ; so nexed to such Palaces and Glebe-
that many thousand families, houses as might be necessary for
never before called upon for such the future. . The proceeds of the
a tax, were now charged with it. sales to be invested for the sup-
And then it was enacted, that port of the Church and Schools.
the tax should become a perma- Then, an equable substitute for
irrit charge on inheritances— Tithes to be collected, and ap-
(the design being to associate it plied in maintaining Schools, in
with Rent, to which it is no contributing to the support of
snore analogous than any outlay the Poor, and for other public
of farmers that enters into the purposes.
cost of production and the price By the Marquis of Auglesey's
of food)—this charge to be paid plan, a fund of several millions
by the Landlords, and to be would be raised for the Church,
exactedby them with their rents. from lands which now support
By another law, he abolished only a few Bishops, and form
Church rates, vested a Fortion part of the support of a small
if the Church Lands in Corn- number of the parochial Clergy,
missioners, and provided for the • and of a large number of useless
abolition of a few of the surplus ecclesiastical functionaries. And
Bishoprics. But this law has the lands would be transferred to
idi-
Lands, the great bulk of the Church absolute pro;;rietors, with a as formerly, in the sole rect interest in their improve-
power
mp ve-
power of individual Churchmen, ment, and full power t.o give
and their successors, to be still leasehold rights under which the
mismanaged and wasted, with- utmost capability of the lands
out a sufficient stimulus to the would be developed—at once in-
Incumbents, or security to the creasing the means of subsistence
tenants, for promoting improve- for the community, and enlarg -
ments ; when by a judicious aping the sources of employment
propriation of all the Church for the working classes.
property, the Lands might be so It would, which is still more
enhanced in value as to supply important, establish contentment
means for supporting the whole and peace in Ireland ; and the
Church Establishment, public income, which is now ex-
These measures have failed. pended in supporting a special
Hostility to Tithes has become army of at least 15,000 men, for
a great public principle ; and upholding the Irish Church,
blood has been copiously shed, would be available to the Legis-
and property largely wasted, but lature in abolishing taxes, or un-
to render this principle still more dertaking great works of national
national and triumphant. utility,
The Administrations which the Irish Church has successively
destroyed, have, in struggling to secure a redundant revenue
for its redundant Establishment, endangered all the real pro-
perty in Ireland. The landlords are required to pay the tithes,
and make reprisals ; but the occupiers of the land are resolved
to resist the indemnity, and to punish the landlords if they at-
tempt to enforce it. Thus the proprietors of the soil, already
surrounded with difficulties, are placed in a new dilemma, to
Y iise money for a church which has other resources lying almost
waste, that are available and superabundant ;—and a pretext is
• supplied, which may be used, if the struggle be not speedily
1
• terminated, to promote and cover most ruinous designs,
It is quite illusory to expect that the occupiers of the land

Mr. WILLIAM CRAWFORD, M. P., was unanimously called to
the Chair. He was much gratified to find that they should
have a union of merchants formed, by which those measures
which were now in prggress, relating to the trade of their
Eastern dominions, would be looked after. It was then pro-
posed to establish an Association, to be called " the London
East India and China Association," to which all gentlemen
interested in that trade in London would be equally eligible.
The proposals for the formation of such a society having been
agreed to, it was proposed to appoint a provisional committee,
who were to consider the amount of subscription which may
be required to meet the necessary expenses of. the Associa-
tion, to select an efficient Secretary, to draw up rules and
regulations for the government of the Association, and to
report thereon to another general meeting.—( Hear, hear.)
With regard to the proposal of its establishment he would then
merely say, that they had already the signatures of fifty of the
first firms in the metropolis in its favour-4 Hear, hear), and
he had no doubt but that they should ,speedily be in pos-
session of ample funds to effect the objects they had in view.
Those objects, he would shortly state, were to facilitate the
communication with his Majesty's Government on all questions
affecting the interests of the trade in which they were em-
barked, and to facilitate their means of becoming at an early
period acquainted with the proposition of any measure in
Parliament or elsewhere, when it might be of importance that
they should adopt some plan either to counteract its effect, or
in its support.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. JOSHUA BATES proposed the first resolution :—" That
an Association be formed, under the description of the London
East India and China Association, for the protection of the
general interests of the trade with the East Indies and China."
After what had fallen from their excellent Chairman upon
the subject, it was not necessary for him to offer any com-
ment, beyond expressing his conviction that incalculable good
must arise to the trade in general by the formation of such a
Society.
Mr. J. HORSLEY PALMER seconded the motion, and referred
to instances in which the Association would be highly useful
in removing present inconveniences in carrying on the trade.
The tea trade were endeavouring by memorial to obtain con-
cessions as to the payment of duties, and had had on Thurs-
day an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer upon
the subject.
The memorial ran thus :

" London, Feb. 15, 1836.

" My Lord,—We, the undersigned merchants, importers,
and consignees of tsa, feel ourselves.under the necessity of
drawing your Lordship's attention to the operation of the Act
passed at the close of the last Session of Parliament regulating
the duties upon that article.
" That Act equalizes the duties upon all qualities and de-
scriptions of teas, and conies into operation on the Ist of July
next. The understanding of the merchants and importers is,
that all teas of the Bohea character then in bond will be sub-
ject to 2s. Id. per pound duty.
" From the best calculations which can be made, taken
from the stock in warehouse, it may be stated that the
quantity of Bohea tea which will remain in hand of the
first year's free trade importation will not be less than
5,000,000 pounds weight on the 30th of June next, and that
the import of the same quality,, in the second year of the
five trade, will not be less than double that of the first year, or
about 10,000,000 pounds weight, making a total of 15,000,000
pounds weight, upon which the importers will be under the
necessity of paying, on or before the 30th of June next, the
duty of ls. 6d. per pound, or be afterwards subject to pay the
new rate of 2s. id. per pound, notwithstanding the universal
impression arising from the explanations of the Members of the
Committee, who had various interviews with Lord Grey, Lord
Althorp, Lord Glenelg, Lord Auckland, and the Right Hon,
C. Poulett Thomson, in February 1834, upon the arrange-
ments for the regulation of the free trade then about to com-
mence, that the importers of such teas would be protected
against any future equalizaticn of the duties, until due notice
should be given of the alteration.
" The lateness of the period last year, at which it was offi-
cially announced by his Majesty's Government that the duties
would be equalized, put it out of the power of the importers
to countermand their orders for the Bohea qualities to be sh:p-.
ped from Canton in the present season, a large proportion of
which was purchased by contracts entered into in China in May
and June, or previous to.those periods.
" A merchant's_ operations, under the long-established
bonding system, arc regulated with reference to the cost of his
imports, and the charges of importation in bond ; it therefore
becomes next to impossible for him, in the case in question, to
pay in advance a duty of Is. 6d. per pound, equalling twice
the amount of the import value (which duty has never formed
any part of the calculation), and amounting to upwards of
1,000,000/. sterling, upon an article almost unsaleable, from
the apprehended effect of the new duty on buyers.
" We may confidently assure your Lordship that the im-
porters are now selling the description of tea to which we
have alluded from 35 to 40 per cent. loss upon the prime cost,
and if the payment of the duty be enforced in July next, that
loss must be increased on the part of those who do pay the
duties, almost to the annihilation of the property, before it can
be realized, by the accumulation of the very greatly increased
interest and charges, while to the parties who either cannot
pay the duties, or may judge it most prudent in the choice of
evils not to do so, it will be a virtual withdrawal of that pro-
tection, in the full faith of which his imports were regulated.
We beg further to represent to your Lordship, that in the
present depressed state of the market for this quality of tea, it
is important that even the desperate alternative of export to
the Continent should remain open to us ; while the duty of
23. Id. would annihilate the property, as regards a sale in this
country.
" In order to abate this serious evil, and feeling confident
that His Majesty's Government can have no wish to anticipate
the revenue, to the severe detriment of the merchant, we
earnestly entreat your Lordship's attention to this our repre-
sentation, in the hope that your Lordship will consent to place
Bohea tea upon the same footing with all other toas, by post-
ponement of the receipt of the duties thereon, until cleared
fur home consumption, and that the same may be liable to the
duty of Is. 6d. per pound only, if imported prior to the Ist of
July next.
" As the granting of this request will be in no way preju-
dicial to the receipt of the revenue in the accustomed manner,
we feel' confident that your Lordship will see the justice
of our request, and by acceding to it, avert the ruinous losses
which must otherwise fall upon the merchants, arising entirely
from the lateness of the period at which the determination of
made known.
HisMajesty'scn

" We have honour to be, with respect,
" Your Lour Lordship's most obedient humble servants,
Palmers, Mackillop, and Co. Daniel and Dickinson.
Basin; Brothers and Co. Morrison, Cryder, and Co.
Thos. Wilson and Co. . Rawson, Norton, and Co.

Forbes, Forbes, and Co. Thos. Dent and Co.
Marjoribanks and Ferrero. Thos. Heath.
Gregson,- Melville, and Co. Thos. Weeding.
Colqiiboun, and Co, Lyall Brothers and Co.
Ilenry Templer. Crawford, Colvin, and Co.
Walkinshaw and Co. Fletcher, Alexander, and Co.
Archibald Hastie. Charles Cocktrell and Co.
Scott, Bell, and Co. Hunter, Gouger, and Co.
F. and C. E. Mangles. Reid, Irving, and Co.
" To the Right lion. Lord Viscount Melbourne, &c."
The resolution was carried.
Mr. H. LARPENT moved the second resolution, " That all
merchants, shipowners, brokers, and others interested in the
trade to India and China, should be eligible to become
members."
The resolution.' was seconded by Mr. SMALL, and adopted.
Mr. WEEDING moved the next resolution, appointing a pro-
visional committee, and referred to the fact that the King's re-
presentative at Canton had resigned, to accept a situation in
the finance department of the East India Company.
The resolution was seconded by Mr. WATKiNs, and adopted.
Thanks were then returned to the Chairman, and the meet-
ing adjourned.

‘eranneceh ofe ster Mrs.- st -- -
ANOTHER PLATE ROBBERY.—OII Saturday even-
ing last a quantity of valuable plate was stolen from the resi-
dic table,
reMeta,cdoAniaanlde,heastverri_dsociwu•alraed,y,coricissiisdtiinngg at
of
49,
dessert, and tea-spoons, and various articles of plate. Infor-
mation was given at the station-house, Marylebone-lane, when
Thomson, serjeant of the D division; attended, and after mi-
nutely investigating the premises, and examining the persons
in the house,
was of opinion that the robbery was committed by
some one inside, and he accordingly took James Newland into
custody. He was taken before Win. Shutt, Esq., at the
I'vlarylebotm
Office, and after a long examination, was re-
manded till Friday next, to give the officer time to make further
inquiries,

Whitehall, Feb. 26, 1836.
Sir—l consider it to be my duty to transmit to your
Royal Highness as early as possible the printed votes of
the House of Commons, containing an address on the sub-
ject of Orange Lodges, and other similar societies, together
with His Majesty's most gracious answer. I presume it
will not be necessary to take any further step to bring to the
knowledge of the society of which your Royal Highness is
Grand Master, the contents of these documents.

I have the honour to be your Royal Highness's obedient
bumble servant, _ _ _

J. RUSSELL.
To his Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland.

St. James's Palace, Feb. 26, 1836

My Lord,—l have received your Lordship's letter, with
the enclosed printed copies of the resolutions of the House
of Commons, containing an address on the subject of Orange
Lodges and other similar societies, together with his Ara-
jesty's most gracious answer. Before I had received your
Lordship's communication I had already taken steps, in con-
junction with several official and distinguished members of
the Loyal Orange Institution in Ireland, to recommend its
immediate dissolution, in conformity with the loyal principles
of that institution. I have only to add, I shall. take
immediate steps to dissolve the Loyal Orange Institution
in Great Britain.

I have the honour to be, your's sincerely,
E RN E ST.

To the Right Hon. Lord John Russell.

TO THE MEMBERS OF THE LOYAL ORANGE INSTITUTION

IN IRELAND.

Dear Brethren,—Thela;CfeWltours have been fraught
with acts of momentous importance to our loYal institution.
The situation of those members of the Legislature in
whom you have so long reposed confidence has been one of
extreme difficulty as regards long-cherished feelings and at-
tachment, which we should have felt insurmountable had
we not been intimately acquainted with the spirit of reli-
gious and political subordination which has ever been the
distinctive feature of our bond of union.
We have now no need to remind you that the foundation
of that union has been strictly Scriptural—exemplifind in
the short sentence—" Fear God—honour the King," and
having hitherto experienced your unshaken steadiness du-
ring successive trials of no ordinary character, we now con-
fidently appeal to you.
We have been placed in a most painful position—viz.,
either to advocate the continuance of an institution op-
posed not only by our enemies, on account of our religious
and political principles, but also by many of our most emi-
nent and Conservative friends, who are of opinion that se-
cret societies should be discontinued. Under such circum-
stances the attempt to prolong our existence by adopting
a violent course of opposition might have exposed our-
selves and you to that which we have never laid ourselves
open to—" a suspicion of conditional loyalty." Our se-
cond course was to state, that if our strong remon-
strances with the present advisers of his Majesty did not
avert the injustice that was threatened to our loyal body,
the King's will, constitutionally expressed, would be obeyed
by us in spirit as well as to the letter, and that we would
submit, as we bad often done, to any obloquy in asser-
tion of the true Christian basis of our social compact.
Could we hesitate for a moment as to our course of duty ?
You know the result, and to give full effect to this state-
ment, we offer our advice and admonition.
The attention of England is fixed upon you, and, hu-
manly speaking, you are to determine the fate of Protes-
tantism in Ireland. Friends and enemies expect your de-
cision with almost equal interest—the adversary hoping that-
some manifestation of intemperance will place you within
his power—friends confident that you will be found equal
to the difficulties of the occasion, and will give a crowning
assurance of the pure faith and loyalty by which you ever
have been distinguished.
We cannot, and do not, attempt to disguise from you that
the address voted by the House of Commons was not called
for by the state of Ireland, or by any demerits in our insti-
tution. We cannot say to you that the dangers to meet
which the Orange Institution was framed threaten us no
longer; or that you must not as we feel it a painful task to
relinquish an association justly endeared to us ; but we can
tell you that an opportunity has now been given you which
should not be lost—the opportunity of manifesting a dutiful
re,se and to the feelings of our gracious Sovereign, and offering
to his Majesty a proof of steadfast attachment, of which we
are persuaded he will never be forgetful.
The severe duty has devolved on us of recommending
that, in the spirit of the generous devotedness which has
always characterized the Orange Society, you now dissolve it.
The sacrifice is great ; and we will not conceal from you
that attendant circumstances may render it more painful.
You may have to endure the taunts of the malignant, and
to resist the temptations of those who, for their own dark
ends, would provoke you to indiscretion ; but the reward is
also great. You will release your Sovereign from embar-
rassment ; you will disappoint the malevolence of your ene-
mies ; you will win for yourselves the approbation of the
wise and good, and silence, by one heroic act, the slanders
which have long been circulated against your reputation. •
Receive, brethren, the advice an admonition in the feel-
ing in which they are offered, and with them the pledge that
your confidence shall not be abused. Anticipate legisla-
tion ; relieve the Sovereign from the necessity of enforcing
52V,1T measures against you. To the renown you had pre-
% iously well earned, of being ready at your King's command
to encounter every danger and endure every toil, add the
still higher honour of renouncing all feelings which be
would discourage, and even the institution in which you
have found such effectual protection. Show your bre-
thren in England that you are patient as much as re•
solved—that your principles of rcligien and loyalty are
not of a nature to fall away in the time of trouble
and rebuke. Show them that the lessons of Christian en-
durance taught by the instruction and example of the per-
secuted ministers of the Protestant Church have not been
learned in vain, and be encouraged by a confident trust that
the King and people who came forward so nobly to sustain
those afflicted men under their temporal privations will
never desert the high cause for which they are suffering, or
forsake you, who will have' thus proved yourselves worthy
to be permitted by an allwise Providence to rank amongst
its most faithful champions.
ERNEST. A. PERCEVAL, M.P.
THONIOND. 11. MAXWELL, M.P.
, ELY. J. YOUNG, M.P.
BANDON. M. ARCHDALL, M.P.
LOFTUS. • R. H. PL UN K ETT, M.P.
MANDEVILLE, M.P. C. HAMILTON, M.P.
T. JONES, M.P. BERNARD.
E. J. COOPER, M.P. J. CREIGHTON. •
E. S. HAYES, M.P. H. STEWART.
COLE, M.P. H. H. BERNARD.
W. VERNER, M.P. M.' O'SULLIVAN.
A. H. COLE, M.P.
London, Feb. 25, 1836.

COPY OF A LETTER ADDRESSED BY COLONEL PERCEVAL. TO

THE ACTING SECRETARY OF THE GRAND COMMITTEE OF
THE ORANGE INSTITUTION IN DUBLIN. •
London, Feb. 26, 1836.
,My dear Sir,—ln accordance with the declaration made
by me in the House of Commons on the 23d inst., and in
cempliance with the spirit of his Majesty's message, I feel
myself called upon to resign my office of Grand Treasurer
of the Orangemen of Ireland, and to withdraw from that
loyal but calumniated body. . .
In making this communication to the grand committee, I.
beg you will assure them, one and all, that I do so in the
discharge of the most painful duty ever imposed on me. It
is a source of consolation to 111:2 to state that the members
of our Orange Institution now in London
pietetsitni:nntimßoriu:.
as to the course we have thought it prudent to. pursue.
God grant for our corm-non good that our friends in Ireland
may coincide in our views. I have only to add, that, I shall
ll4ntakn and uphold to end those

" In order that the securities belonging to the nation,
which are already destined, or which may in future be destined,
for the consolidation and extinction of the public debt, instead
of being depreciated, may preserve or increase their value, and
that their produce may be applied in the way indicated by law,
I have judged it proper to decree, in the name of my illustri-
ous daughter, the Queen Donna Isabel 11., as follows :
" Article L In each provincial capital a commission n ill
be formed, composed of the Intendant, of a member of the
provincial deputation elected by it, and of a commissioned ad-
min•strator of the extinction funds.
" 11. The functions of this commission will be—

" Ist, To take cognizance of the securities, claims, duties,
and shares of whatever kind which have become the property
cf the nation, as proceeding from the monasteries, convents,
and similar establishments, already suppressed, or which may
be suppressed, and to take care that the funds of the said esta-
blishments, their produce and appurtenances arc, and continue
to be, applied as prescribed by the laws, decrees, and orders
already existing, or which may in future be called into
existence.

" 2i. To take care that the said funds and assets which
may still be subsisting under the charge of the nation, in con-
sequence of their public sale and adjudication not having taken
place, shall be let, or otherwise rendered productive in such
manner that they may sustain no deterioration, nor fail to
yield what ought to be fairly expected from them.
3d. To take care that the cultivators and tenants, or all
persons who may have the usufruct of the properties and assets,
not only fulfil all the clauses of their stipulations or contracts,
but that they do not abuse their right of usufruct, by sacri-
ficing the future produce of the predial property to present
advantages derivable from their leases.
" 4th. To take care that the urban landed property be not
abused or deteriorated, examining with deliberation and scru-
pulousness such works and repairs, the omission of which might
deteriorate their just value at the time of sale. .
" sth. In fine, to develope with an enlightened zeal every
means whereby may bet maintained in the greatest possible va-
lue property the destination of which is of-so much importance
to the State.
" 111. The commission will communicate to the Govern-
ment monthly, through your department, the obseruations it
may deem suitable for securing the objects specified in the
foregoing articles, but without meddling or interfering in, or
dictating.measures which may relate e=ther to the administra-
tion of those properties or to the collection of their rents or
profits, or to the conversion of the one or the other ; because,
in the character of mere curator or conservator, the commis-
sion must abstain from interfering with the functions of the
officers of the public treasury, over whom there is constantly
impending the responsibility of their respective duties, and
who cannot elude or diminish that responsibility under the pre-
text of the transactions of the commission. You will thus un-
derstand this decree, and do what is necessary for the fulfil-
ment of the same.

" (Signed by the Royal Sign Manual.)
" In the Pardo, Feb. 15, 1836.

" To Don Juan Alvarez y Mendizabal."
MADRID, FEB. 19. —The refusal of M. Isturiz to become a
member of the Administration is no longer a matter of doubt ;
the former President of the Chamber of Procuradores ex-
pressed his sentiments in the society of a number cf friends.
yesterday evening, and in so decided a manner to leave no
uncertainty upon this point.
The elections continue to attract general attention. The
Ayuntamiento, composed of those paying the highest taxes,
has been sitting,isinee nine o'clock this morning, for the pur-
pose of proceeding with the appointment of the electors. It
appear ceitain that Mendizahal will be elected by the city of
Cadiz.

By the unanimous assent of the National Guard of Malaga
the rank of Commandant of the third Battalion of that force
has been conferred upon the directing Minister. The delay
which has taken place in publishing the law relative to the set-
tlement of the debt has led to variouslnterprctations.prejudi-
eial not only to the Ministry but to the course of the Spanish
funds. Upon this subject the Espanol newspaper of yester-
day contained some very severe remarks, under the head of
" Exchange ;" In fact, the Minister thought it necessary to
reply to them, and for that purpose sent for M. Goicochea, in-
spector of the Exchange ; the result of this interview was, that
a notice was posted up at the Exchange, intimating that the
Ministry had by no means lost sight of its promised plans with
respect to the acknowledged debt. In fine, M. Terrer had
another conference with M. Mendizabal upon this important
subject. A good deal of business was done on 'Change. The
debt (without interest) remains at 15. •
The following letter, written by an individual whose situa-
tion enables him to know what he relates, seems worthy of
public attention at the present moment :
" OPERATIONS OF THE REBELS.—LAHRONO, Fan. 10,--
" It will not be surprising if the Carlists should boast of the
great forces which Don Carlos is about to employ for invading
the Asturias, Castile, Arragon, or perhaps the Moon. I will
explain to you faithfully how the matter stands. Eguia,
with a ssrong division and several pieces of artillery, occupies
Balmaseda, and, it is said, will march on the Asturias. Villa- •
real is in Miesta, and though it is not stated whither he in-
tends to direct his march, I believe he will turn out a mere
bugbear. Eguia is watched by 2,500 Portuguese, with 300
cavalry, who are at this moment in Reinosa. General Manso
is marching on the Encartaciones with 4,000 men, and the
divisions of Generals Espeleta and Espartero are marching
to render assistance at the point to which Eguia is directing
his forces. It is certain that the plan of the rebels is to divert
the attention of the General-in- Chief; but the General-in-Chief
will not suffer his attention to be diverted, and he will doubt-
less complete the important measures he has projected, of
which some have already begun to be realized. The march
of the rebels on Arragon is one of the gre& measures on which
the Carlists found their hopes, but there •is no likelihood of
its being practicable-Ist, because they have boasted
.of itifor
a very long time ; 2d, because they have not sufficient force
to effect the invasion ; and 3dly, because the chief singled out
for commanding the enterprise is Villemur, who, as you arc
aware, is already turned of 80 sears of age. lam not one of
those who regard this war as unimportant ; on the contrary,
it has always appeared to me too protracted and obstinate to
be regarded with indifference. But, at the same time, I
affirm, that, judging from the manner in which the forces are
disposed, the greatest benefit the rebels can confer on us is to
sally from their retreats in great masses, and the greater the
better. Should the projected invasion of the Asturias ever
take place, you will speedily see that my opinions have riot
been formed at random, and I close this letter by sayingi would
to Heaven that the invasion were realized !"

The 'Stock-Exchange has -been chiefly occupied
v..ith its interal disputes, and the conduct of the committee..
The resignation of the eighteen members has not been
declared; but the names will be made known this day, and
on Thursday it is expected th'at the naw elections will take
place. Those who have resigned are eligible to be re-elected,
and, as many of them are highly valuable to the house from
their habits of business and long experience, a belief prev,:its
that the whole of them will not be set aside on account their
participation in the recent unpopular decision. rue vote of
thanks referred to yesterday, as signed by 10d. members, was
net, we understand, to the minority of
.thq tommittee, but to
.
those members of the house who hay brought about the pre-
sent, dissolution of the committe;,, by resisting the order to re-
fund in Lakeman's affair. The price of Consols has amain ad-
vanced .4- per cent., and the market altogether appeared
strong, although husta.est was very limited in it. The last p ice
for money was 911 to 1, and 91i to 92 for.the account. Exehe-
quor Billswrere last marked at 20s. to 225. premium.—Times.'
• commissioN o LUNACY.,-BRIGHTON, FEB.
27.—A commission of lunacy was opened at the Town-hall
this morning by Thomas Partington, C. Cooper, and F. H.
Esqs., to make inquiry as to the state of mind of
Captain William Henry Rowlls of Preston, late of the 14th
LightD
Dragoons. There was no opposition to the inquiry, the
commission for instituting which had been granted on the pe-
tition of Charles Rowlls, Eiq., brother to the unfortunate lu-
natic. Mr. James, as counsel for the petitioner, stated that
the unfortunate object of the inquiry was a gentleman of in-
dependent fortune, and 42 years of age. lie had been educa-
ted at Cambridge, and on leaving that University, entered
the army. After serving at the battle of Waterloo, the un-
fortunate gentleman retired to live upon his own property,
leading a wry idle and luxurious life, the deplorable result of
which was his present imbecile state. Captain Rowlls being
called into the Court, was asked several
Chief Commissioner, but questions by the
appeared quite incapable of
.udnd him
a them. Upon his withdrawal, the Jury declared
a lunatic without lucid intervals, and declared it as their opi-
nion he had become so from July Ist, 1834.

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Bridlington .... • - - - 20 - - - --
Bridp _ o:t - 150 125 -- - - -
L .... ... _ ;386 - _ - -
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Dartmouth . 1 - 60 -._
(t.:.'.irt.t:•,i(ler... I I 77'•-3,'41 14C;(1) 11'.1.5:3i --
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( 11, idUll - 800 449 ;214
1 x:.ter - - 87 - - _ _ 33
C3ainsboroubli : - - .41 - , - _
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!Nit'. - - - - 1 - 1 - - 730
Ipswich - - 2,1 _ 6..k4
t...,nt - 418 lo; 910
Loweauft - - 1.:,5 - - - _ 15J
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l 3 omne 2::0 1-0 - 403 - - _ I 1,7
Newhaven ...... - - - - - - - 2,41
l'o.:19
Rye ll. - - - - _ 6I
i uttliwi;la - 20 22) _ _ _ 1, --.....
Sp.:Ming .... - - 050 - - :,:.9 _
..t,,ektoo - - - - - - - t!.ot,
Teignmouth - - 50 - - - _ _
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Wisl e.:el; - - 5•,7 _ - _ _
W odbridge - - 40 .2,1 200
Va,moulll - - - _ 6:5
Aberdeen - I,io
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13. m -4
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- 1414 - - - I -
,Prwiek . - 170 .... 232 CO - - i •;)
Grangemouth-. - - L.,. _ _ _ _ , -
1 V121:::,5... . Di - 5 -..• 25 - '-- - -
L ith - - 80 12 -
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91!'6 5015 2136 ' 6152 GO 22.137 .1319 1 8.215
111.1SII
t'orlt - .._ _L° 1952 - -- - -
Duldin ..... . . - - -7 532 - - - -
, ;id .vay - . - - 101.1 - - - -
Kilrush - 1504 - - - -
vVatorloTO - - 1 2));! -I -
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FOREIGN
Ki 1 5 I -
1 7,..-
Total
AGGREGATE QUANTITIES OF OTHER KINDS OF rut.sE.
rat.,s, 33 •_•.;;lst ed,11:1-qaperieed,0-11rank,11 Mustard.2o-9.( es, 716
SMITHFIELD MARKET.
The supply to this day's market was not great, aul the trade was
dull, at the following
ruicEs VEII. STONE Or BLI3. TO SINE THE OFFA LS.
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_NE Or 81.13.. TO SINK T 1
S. ri.tos.d s 0, to s .1.
Inferior reasts •' 4 2 ti Infetior Sheep '' S 3 6
:•-ecoml quality ditto 219 3 :"..' Second quality ditto 3 3 3 I()
Prime large Oxen 4 4 4 0 , Cuars,..w..olled ditto .... 4. 6 4 ~.
l'•'ime Scot 3, &c.
Large coarse Calves 4 4 5 2 large Hogs • 'i i, 4.!
Pi toe email ditto
s..tekling Calves each —l4 u :.*,,1 01 Quarier 01 l'igs etch 10 u 11 0

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