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ing Ins proposed motion, that the whole body of
Roman Catholics would not indulge in the hope
of annihilating the PROTESTANT ASCENDANCY,
and of rendering once more their own the predo-
minant Religion ? Granting the impossibility of
their ultimate success, is the Country in the mean
time to be exposed to all the heart-burnings, the
struggles, the conflicts, and the convulsions which
trught be expected to attend the attempt to Papal-
ize the British Empire, and restore all the horrors
of a bieotted Government, which would deem it
an essential duty to persecute Protestants on earth
in order to ensure their salvation hereafter. It is
understood that Mr. Canning is about to leave this
country
on a mission of the utmost importance
to the British Empire. It might therefore be ex-
Pected that the Hon. Gentleman would have left
the question to the wisdom of the Legislature
rather than to have proposed such a motion as
that which he has announced, and which, in fact,
may be considered as throwing the apple of dis-
cord among his countrymen, and leaving them to
Weather the storm when he shall be distant
from the contest and the danger. Even Mr.
PLuNKETT obviously deems the present period
unsuitable for the discussion of the MAIN QUESTION;
1111 it would be absurd to suppose that the
main question would not be essentially involved
in the discussion of Mr. CANNING'S proposed
tnotion.—We hail the promptitude with which
Mr. BRIGHT came forward to enter his protest
against this alarming proposition, and trust that
If it should hereafter be imprudently brought
forward, his example will incite every friend to
our Orthodox Establishment to rally round the
CONSTITUTION ill CHURCH and STATE.

IttELAND.—.A. man of the name of O'NEILL,
who was to have prosecuted several prisoners at the tast. Assizes
for Limerick, escaped from the Crown Office, on Thursday
week, after he had given information against several persons
concerned in the insurrection. He has since been found mur.

dered near Kappa. The body was discovered under a heap of
stones.—Miss GOOLD, the young lady carried off some weeks
since from the house of her father at Liscarrol, by a party of
'ruffians under the conduct of afellow named B ILOWN E, has been
recovered, in consequence of the active search which has ever since
been maintained, and restored to her friends. Lieut. ROBERT-
-5O ,of the Rifle Brigade, had the good fortune to perform this
Pleasing service to humanity. After a long and fatiguing search
through the mountains on Saturday night, he found the young
Lady in bed, in a house where he had been informed she was con-
cealed. Iler clothes, in which she slept, were very much worn by
the fatigues to which she had been subjected, having never slept
two nights in one place; but having been hurried backward
and forward through the country, living only on bread and
tea• BitowNE, she said, had offered no violence to her person;
and on Friday he had become so alarmed from the activity
of the search that was making for her, that he took his leave
of her for ever. A few nights previous to her being recovered
by Lieut. ROBERTSON, she heard Colonel NORCOI'T and his
party in search of her. She was then within two fields of the
party, concealed, naked, in a ditch ;--and the man who had
charge of her declaring that he would shoot her if she made the
least noise. Three men have been apprehended on suspicion of
being concerned in the abduction.—Two houses at Turtulla,
near Thurles, Limerick, were burnt on the night of the 14th
inst. when nine in-calf cows, and other cattle, perished in the
flames. A farm-house on the lands of Ballyellis, near Done-
raile, county of Cork, the property of CLUTTERBU CE CRONE,
Esq. has also been consumed, together with the furniture, dairy
utensils, wearing apparel, &c. &c. The Cork County Calen-
dar presents a list of 340 prisoners, of whom more than 200 are
charged with Whiteboyism.—The Limerick News states that
" fuel and potatoes are scarce all through the country, and the
poor arc suffering severely."

CITY, FRIDAY EVENING.
By the return laid on the Table of the House of Commons,
it appears that there are only 678,609 i quarters of Foreign
Wheat now bonded under the King's Lock in the United King-
dom. This quantity is nearly 14 days consumption of the
British Isles, and it ought certainly to become a matter for
Consideration with the Agricultural Committee whether the
nation would not be benefited by admitting it for home con-
tumption. It is now almost universally understood that agri-
cultural distress originates from want of consumption, and that
the necessary consumption can be best produced by fret. trade ;
nut, at the same time, many well informed men think that an
immediate admission of foreign grain, added to the quantity
already on hand, would at once prove fatal to the agricultural
interest. One year hence, however, this objection will prove
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doubly strong, fur the quantity of heat then under bond in
all probability will be very considerably increased. It is there-
fore well worth the attention of the Agricultural Committee to
consider whether, keeping in view the great principle of free
trade, means may not be fallen on to admit the Wheat, now
under bond, for home sale, without any injury to the farm-
ing interest. Gentlemen well qualified to fbrm a just opi-
nion think that this operation may easily be effected, and,
so far from injuring, that it would benefit the agricultural
interest. They think that an Act of Parliament might be
Passed, granting permission to sell the Corn now under
bond ' for home consumption, on paying a certain duty a
quarter • and all Foreign Corn, imported after a certain day,
to be admitted as British growth, after paying a duty equiva-
lent to the laige taxation imposed on the growers in this coun-
hy, from which the foreign grower is exempted. Many great
advantages would arise from such an act. Government would
immediately obtain a sum of money which would enable them
to grant the proposed reduction of the Salt and Leather Taxes,
both of them of immense importance to the agriculturist.—
The English millers would be enabled to pay the farmer a
better price for his inferior wheats, by having some fine
)antzig and polish wheats to mix with them, large capital, now
uselessly locked up in bonded wheat, would, for a certain
lime, be employed in speculations in English grain, and there-
by an active tone would he given to the corn trade; but,
above all, such an act would prepare the way, without the
Slightest injury to any interest in the kingdom, for freedom of
trade, and a general and beneficial intercourse with all nations,
are as necessary certainly to the farmer as to the manufacturer,
arid offer the best prospect for promoting the true interest of
this great commercial Empire.—Scarcely any business is do-
ing in the English Funds. Consols for the April account
opened at coi , and closed at 801 a, being rather lower and
very fiat. Foreign Securities improved in the demand in the
course of the day, and the Spanish Bonds advanced about a
quarter per Cent. A great deal of paper on the Continent was
?tiered at 'Change, but money is scarce, and there were few
uuYers of bills; consequently the exchanges are rather dearer.-
4. fatal duel, last Tuesday, in Fifeshire, has been much com-
Mented on in the City, arising out of the infamous system of pri-
vate abuse adopted by some new periodical publications. Mr.
STUART bad suffered by anonymous calumny; Sir A. Bos-
;YELL was the suspected author, and has, it is said, lost his
'tie*, leaving behind him an affectionate family, and many
Private friends to regret his fall., Under circumstances, how-
ever, it was impossible to prevent a meeting, though all means
ly_ere used to this effect —Mr; STUART was attended by the
arl of II . . ~ and Sir ALEXANDER BOSWELL by Mr.
" • • ~ brother to the Marquis of Q . . . . This is
one result of the infamous system of detraction, lately carried
to so audacious a length. Another duel, which might have
troved equally fatal, was prevented some time ago by Lord
.et E'S interference.
In a paragraph from a most respectable source, in another
Part of this paper, Sir A. is said to have been severely
wounded.—( Morning Chronicle.)

Yesterday, at a quarter before one o'clock,
his
.MAJESTY left his palace in Pall-mall for
Brighton.
Yesterday, at three o'clock, a Cabinet Council
Was held at the Secretary of State's office, which
was summoned by Mr. PEEL.