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LONDON,
IVEDNf.;'S'DAY EVENING, JANUARY 13, 1836.

We understand that the arrangements respecting the
Great Seal are at length complete. Sir CHARLES
PE.e-YS is to be Lord Chancellor, and Mr BICKER-
SI.I-:TH Master of the Rolls.

Another Rathcormac affair, on a diminished scale,
has taken place, within the week, in the Trish parish
of Blarnty, of which the Rev. Mr. BERESFORD is the
Rector. In this affray, which, of course, grew out of
the tithe system, two men lost their lives. As, however,
we are not yet fully acquainted with all the particulars,
we shall refrain for the present from making any further
comment on the matter, etccept than just to observe that
had the House of Lords done its duty last Session—as it
vas strongly advised by the moderate and enlightened
of all parties to do—nothing of the sort could possibly
have happened. No one ever so much as dreamed
that tithes could ever aaain be collected in Ireland ;
the system, for all effective purposes, was as much
extinct as if it had never existed ; what then was left,
but for their Lordships to make that just and reason-
able compensation to the clergy, which would have
enabled them to dispense with their present vexatious
method of tithe-collecting ? Such a principle of com-
pensation would have gone no inconsiderable way to
pacify Ireland ; it was what she expected, and had

every right to expect ; but we
suppose it was this very
fact that rendered
AC S 6 Impalateable to the House of
Lords, j•
inouceu them to reject it with c;;;;;.empt.
We look upon the Blarnty affair.
ex•clusively the work
of the Tory Peers i "i4tl sure we are that no sagacious
Irishman but must look on it in this light, and ill 'BO
other. It will however be followeth s'OOner or later,
by strict retribution :it will ell, for instance, the
amount of the chargth that the country has to bring
against the ItioUse of Loids : it will convince them
that va long as they legislate upon the principle of
Utter irresponsibility, little good is to be expected from
their justice, and none at all from their sense of
patriotism ; and confirm, one and all, in their resolu-
tion to demand a prompt and searching Reform of
such an anomalous Institution.

In a recent Number of
The Sun, we published P.
series of Resolutions adopted by the delegates of the
Dissenters at a meeting
Their obje 1",:t in Dr. WILLIAMS' library
- was to rouse their constituents to exert all
const)*.utional means of obtaining the rights which
have for so many years been withheld from them—
withheld from some of the best men and most useful
citizens our country has produced, because they think
the interests of Revelation are best sustained unaided
by worldly establishments, or because they refuse to
bind their consciences to a so-called National Creed.
In enumerating the grievances to which the Dissenters
are subject, these Resolutions justly adverted to the
savage measures taken last year by the Church-wardens
of Bungay against Mr. J. CHILDS, for non-pay-
ment of Church-rates. Our readers remember that
for declining to appear in the Ecclesiastical Court, this
gentleman was apprehended and taken to Ipswich jail,
where he remained eleven days. An act like this,
which showed to the whole body of Dissenters what
every one of them was liable to, while the rotten code
of ecclesiastical law remains, and one creed is allowed
to quarter its professors on the purses of all, was of
signal service to the cause of improvement. An abuse
is half destroyed when it is fairly exposed. Many a
cautious, respectable man, disposed to be quiet in the
enjoyment of toleration, was brought to think on the
true character of religious equality, and a heavy blow
was dealt at the Church by these Churchwardens, who
were the prominent agents in that oppressive transac-
tion, and the bevy of Reverend and Venerable advisers
who pushed them forward.

The business of the Dissenters should now be to
agitate temperately, but firmly ; to state, to repeat, to
enforce their claims ; to urge them upon the Legisla-
ture with a vehemence proportioned to the place they
themselves occupy in the Commonwealth, and the
righteousness of their demands ; and to strengthen the
hands of their friends in the Ministry, by showing to
their opponents that they can be silenced or conciliated
by justice only.
We learn from a correspondent that the Church
itself is furnishing materials for bringing the matter
prominently before the public eye. The Churchwar-
dens of Bungay have again applied to Mr. CHILDS
for the amount -Of Church-rate assessed to him ; that
gentleman has declined, on the same grounds as last
year, to pay it voluntarily ; and they are now left to
elect their mode of proceeding. Whatever objections
existed last year against recovery by the common
mode of distraint are equally operative now, and this
plan cannot now be adopted, without conveying a dis-
tinct censure on their previous proceeding. If they
repeat the Ipswich jail plan, it will be productive of
signal public benefit. The highest ends are frequently
worked out by the agents of oppression.
To avoid all chance of misapprehending the grounds
of his refusal, Mr. CI-tubs tendered the following de-
claration to the person who called on him for his
Church-rate :

" I take no exception to the validity of the church.rate, on
account of which you now demand of me Bs. WI.
" I have the same objections to the payment of this rate,
which I had to the last; but in this case, as-in that, I shall offer
no obstruction to your collecting it by any process you may
adopt._

". Whatever be the course you have resolved on, and if you
should even take the same savage proceedings which were per-
petrated in my case last summer, I shall remain wholly passive.
"JOHN CHILDS,
" Bungay, Jan. 11, 1836."

" Mr. L. Scott, tanner, and
" Mr. J. Gower, farmer."

We have received Lisbon Papers to the 3d inst
The following is an extract :
Spetch of Her Most Faithful Majesty, on opening the
Oretinary Session of 1836 :
" Worthy Peers of the Kingdom, Gentlemen Deputies
of the Portuguese Nation,—lt is with real pleasure, with
the firm hope of seeing the wounds of the country healed
by our first efforts, and an impulse given to the increase of
its prosperity, that I see assembled round the throne on
which I am placed, the representatives of a nation which I
so much love, and to whose happiness I have devoted myself.
" The picture of your first Assembly was clouded
at the very beginning by one of those dreadful strokes
to which resignation bows as inevitable decrees of Pro-
vidence, but which necessarily depresS the courage of le-
gislators and paralize the most prudent combination of men.
This catastrophe necessarily distracted the attention. of the
Legislative body by a series of contingent questions which it
was necessary to decide, and delayed the necessary develope-
ment of the Constitutional Charter by means of all the
organic and regulating laws which the nation asked and ex-
pected from your wisdom.
" The Second Session of the Legislature (the first or-
dinary Session of the Cortes) being interrupted by ano-
ther unforeseen event, no less sensible than the first to
my heart, was not able to conclude this indispensable
work. It ended when it hardly began, and before it
completed the edifice of the same laws. There is there-
fore remaining for us in the present Session an important
quantity of Legislative labours, indispensable to give to the
Constitutional Charter of the Monarchy a regular uniform
and rapid movement. My Ministers will present to you what
they have prepared on this subject, and from the initiative
which belongs to you, proposals will doubtless proceed,
calculated to attain the same object. These divers pro-
posals maturely discussed by prudent and dispassionate le-
gislators, will lay the solid foundation of the future happi-
ness of the Portuguese. From the reports which will be
laid before you by my Ministers of the Interior, of Eccle-
siastical affairs and Justice, you will learn what has been
done in the interval between the last and present session,
and the actual state of the administration of the Interior,
of the Lusitanian Church, and of the course of justice—sub-
jects to which it is proper that I should
.call for your
most serious attention, in order to regulate the first in a
manner more advantageous to the people, and less burden-
some to the public Treasury ; to give to the second the
Protection which religion and public morality imperatively
require, and to extricate the third from the confusion in
which circumstances have involved it. My Ministers
of War and Marine will acquaint you with the
state of the Army and Navy, which by the Charter
it is for you to determine ; and will submit to you
the necessary measures which the wants of those
important branches of the public service claim from your
patriotism and knowledge, and calling your attention to the
Trans-marine dominions, will give you the opportunity to
provide suitably for their preservation and future prosperity.
" Thanks to Divine Providence, peace has not been inter-
rupted in this country, and I have reason to flatter myself,
not only that the relations with the Powers which are the
friends and allies of my Crown, are daily becoming more
close through the bonds of permanent friendship, but also,
that in a short time the justice and moderation of my Go-
vernment will be recognized by those powers whose rela-
tions with me have been for a short time interrupted, and
especially by the visible head of the Catholic Church, of
which I am proud to be the daughter.
" The Portuguese arms, which have so lately subdued in
this kingdom the fury of civil war, and the efforts of an
usurping and liberticide faction, are now contributing to
support, in the neighbouring kingdom, the crown of my
august ally, Donna Isabella 11., against efforts no less hos-
tile, no less adverse to the prosperity of Spain, whose inte-
rest is now so closely connected with that of my•kingdom ;
and we may rely on it, that on our joint exertions and the in-
timate relations which unite us with Great Britain and
France, the peace and tranquillity of the whole Peninsula
will shortly result.

" Gentlemen Deputies of the Portuguese Nation—ln pre-
senting to you the estimates for the ensuing year, and
giving you a short account of the past, my Minister of
Finance will inform you of the state of the finances, of the
wants of the public service, and, conformably to my orders,

will propose to you all the retrenchmeuts and savings
all the
i gswhiel
may tend. to lighten the burdens of the pPoi a
measures necessary to maintain public. credit. and:the solid
basis of perfect good faith and the wiapt P.44lFfiPpt,
obligations contracted beta in awl
" Worthy P--- . el me kingdom.
• - —rs or the Kingdom and Gentlemen Depu-
..,:s of the Portuguese Nation,--I have always borne in
mind MI: representations and your wishes for the stability
or my dynasty ; nor could any other be the thought of a
Queen in whom the Portuguese place their hopes of peace
and durability. I have now the satisfaction to announce to
you, that in the Prince Don Ferdinand Augustus Duke of
Saxe Coburg Gotha, my beloved and esteemed consort, I
shall find the virtues from which my domestic happiness
must proceed, and shall give to the Constitutional Monarchy,
and to our country, which by this union will become his, a
new and solid support, and at the same time draw close by
this m
most
Gaenantetrilieeanmgteeanitllhe s
t l--The
of my
nei
ndcsyl
Crown.wi r hich unite
t .anaco m me to some of tbe
hliu.3. internal security, the protection of tranquillity pteterore-ecstitoanblnisnhdmeen-
c^ ragement of agriculture, manufactures and commerce,
sources of prosperity which have been almost dried up by
our past calamities, will doubtless find a place among the
many other subjects of your deliberation, as they will be
Of the constant solicitude of my Government. lam cer-
tain that you will co-operate to the extent of your power
with your Queen, in the noble enterprise so gloriously be-
gan of restoring the country ; if sacrifices' arc necessary,
they will be unanimously made, because the generous na-
tion which we have the honour to represent, is capable of
every effort for the good of the country."---Zisbon Diario
do Governo, Jan. 2.

The whole of the Paris papers of Monday have
been received, together with a condensed report of the
proceedings in the legislative Chambers. As the Peers
sat in a judicial capacity, all that relates to them has
reference to the trial of the prisoners of April—a sub-
ject no longer of any interest to the public. The de-
bate in the Chamber of Deputies is chiefly interesting
from the speeches of MM. MONTAVILLE and Mu-
RET DE BORD, the former against, the latter in favour

of the address. M. MONTAVILLE dwelt with great
force and eloquence on the fall of Poland. He de-
nounced in no very measured language the con-
duct of France in suffering the Imperial tyrant
NICHOLAS to violate the treaty of Vienna,
which guaranteed to Europe the nationality of Poland.
The speech of the Hon. Deputy was heard with much
attention by the Chamber, and will doubtless be made
the subject of Ministerial comment in the Journal des
Debats. We trust he was not mistaken in presuming
that the speech of the CZAR to the Municipality of
Warsaw will be made the subject of diplomatic re-
presentation on the part of France. Unless France
and England are prepared to have it believed that
the CZAR is Sovereign of Poland by right of
conquest, and not by virtue of conditional trea-
ties, for the inviolability of which they stand
pledged to the rest of Europe,—they are bound in
duty to insist upon knowing whether the Speech
attributed to NICHOLAS is substantially correct. The
Speech of M. MURET DE BORD, in answer to the
oration of. M. MONTAVILLE, was in truth a poor
contemptible affair. The Hon. Deputy, after eulo-
gising the entire conduct of the Government,
had the hardihood to talk of the sympathy be-
tween Russia and France ! After this who will
venture to say that M. MURET DE BORD is not an
universal philanthropist? Sympathy with Russia in-
deed I We never before heard of this sympathy ; and
if it exist, we presume to be, persuaded that it is that
sort of sympathy which exists between freemen and
slaves. But surely France will not listen to vapouring
about " sympathy" when the question at issue is one
of European importance, involving her own honour as
a great nation. The French Chambers and the
French KING cannot be guilty of such egregious folly,
as to prefer the honied but hollow compliments of a
Russian Diplomatist to the good faith of France, and
the Constitutional freedom of Western Europe.
Notwithstanding the folly of the Address, which is
sure to be carried by a great majority of the Deputies,
we have considerable confidence in the French Go-
vernment. We have not the least fear that those mea-
sures will be neglected which may be found necessary
to bring Russia to her senses. A war with Russia
has much to recommend it. In the first place, it would
prove to the world that no impunity is to be hoped
from breaches of treaties to which England and France
are guarantees ; again, it would act on France as a
wholesome purge, carrying off those restless spirits
whose object is not liberty but anarchy ; and in the
third place, it would give stability to the Throne of the
ORLEANS dynasty.

The recent differences between France and the can
ton of Basle are on the eve of an amicable adjustment

PARIS, JAN. 11.—The Moniteur does not contain any
official article this morning.
Rear-Admiral Mackau has not yet set out for Brest.
Letters from Toulon of the 6th state that a frigate and two
or three corvettes were shortly to sail from the coast of Spain.
Letters from Bordeaux of the Bth inform us a disaster less
important certainly than that at New York, but very deplora-
ble ; 3,000 barrels of wine of the beet growth have been de-
stroyed by fire in the magazine of Messrs. Springer and Motz,
at Chartrons. It is a miracle that the fire, which was rendered
more violent by some barrels of brandy, did not extend to
the other warehouses. The loss is estimated at 700,000 francs.
The two magazines were insured. This is the fifth fire at
Bordeaux in less than five days.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs does not venture to avow
the conditions of the arrangement with Basle, which, however,
are well known for the truth, is that M. de Broglie has given
way in every point, and has acknowledged that his bureaux
had committed an error on a question of internal law, which
was regulated by a special convention during the embassy of
M. de Rayneval. M. de Montebello, who is said to be ill at
Geneva, will not go to Berne till the termination of this affair,
which has excited great attention in the whole Swiss Confe-
deration.— Constitutionnel.

General Alava, who was expected at Bayonne, resolved to
go by sea to Bordeaux, but the ice preventing the steam-boat
(the Phoenix) from going up the river he landed at Royan,
and we hear that he has stopped at Saintes, being ill.
The Infant Don Sebastian was at the siege of Guetaria.—
Messager, Jan. H.

FRENCH FUNDS.—PsAIS, JANUARY 11.
Five per Cents., 108 f. 50c. 45c. 66c.
Four per Cents., 10if. 1021. 25c.
Three per Cents., Slf. sc. 10e. 15c.
National Loan. 108 f: 50e.
Rank Actions, 2,147 f. 50c. 2,150 f.
Rente de Naples, !?St: 6Cc. 75c. SUe.
Roman Five per Cents., 103 103143 4.
Spanish Actives, 501 liNi•
Spanish DifFeres, 25 2514.
Spanish Passives, 1636%.
Royal Spanish Loan, 4.0}4.
Rente Perpet. d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 4054.
Belgian Loan, Five per Cents, 102 A.
Portuguese Three per Cents. 55k.
Hayttan Loan; 4201. 4171. 50c. 4201.
axeiamos ON LONDON.
Onernonth, paper, 25c. 55c. • money, 251. 52}4c.Three months, paper, 251.3754 c. ; money, 25f. 35c
—Coors Authentigue.

BOUM, TARIM .—Since this morning the Three
per Cents. have been on the decline. At Tortoni's some
bargains were done at 81f. 22-ic. On 'Change some brokers
tried to place some Rentes, but very little inclination was
shown to purchase, when one agent sold some at 81f. lbc.,
and this has been the price without fluctuation almost the
whole day. Very little business doing, and no news whatever.
The Spanish securities are also somewhat lower than Satur-
day ; no reason is assigned for this, except that the secret
plan of finance gives some uneasiness to the Spanish stock-
holders.

P. S. The complete stagnation in the market is the cause
that the Rentes, on a few orders of purchase have improved to
81f. 25c.

QUAKTER TO FOUL—Five per Cents., 108 f. 80c. ; Three
Per Cents., 81f. 20c. ; Five per Cents. Spanish, —; Three
per Cents. Spanish, —; Cortes, —; Coupons, 251 ; Gueb-
hards, —; Differes, 194; New Loan, —; Actives, 503-;
Passives, 16i; Ducats, 98 80; Romans. 1031; Pedros, —;
Belgians, 1021 ; Dutch, —f. —c. ; Haytians, 4201..._c. ;
Miguels, —; Brabant Bank, —; Belgian Bank, —; Con-
tinuation, —e, ; New Differes, 25i ; Five per Cent. Pei pe-
tuelles, 40i.