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mode of taking up the bargain for the pay-
ment of the Dead Money, which is to be con-
cluded next week. On the first of these im-
portant subjects, the Earl of Liverpool stated
that both money -to buy provisions, and seed
to secure a fresh crop of potatoes, had been
sent by his Majesty's Government to check
the progress of famine in Ireland, and the mo-
tion of the Earl of Darnley for an Address to his
Majesty on the subject was rejected by a majo-
rity of 35 to 17. On the second, the Earl of
Liverpool assured the House that if the terms
which he and the Chancellor of the Exchequer
had in contemplation could be obtained, they
would prove more advantageous to the public
than any arrangement by which the Commis-
sioners of the Sinking Fund, as proposed by the
Marquis of Lansdowne, should be enabled to
take np the pending bargain.

CATHOLIC PEERS.

To the Ilonourable the Commons of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland in Parliament assembled.

The humble PETITION of the undersigned INHABITANTS of
the PARISH of SAINT MART, in LEICESTER, and its

Vicinity,

SHEWETIT—That, your Petitioners view with great anxiety
a Bill for the Admission of Roman Catholics into the House
of Peers, which has been recently introduced into Parliament.
That, while your Petitioners are ready to acknowledge the
high characters of the Noble Persons who are the more parti-
cular objects of the Bill, yet they consider such a measure as
being completely at variance with the Fundamental Laws of
the Country, established at the Revolution in 1688.

That your Petitioners do not view the Act of the 30th of
Charles 11. (which is sought to be repealed by the Hill now in-
troduced into Parliament) as a temporary measure, and as
arising out of particular circumstances which existed at the
time of its passing, and which have now ceased to exist—on the
contrary, they are most 'decidedly convinced that the spirit
which dictated it is one necessarily interwoven in the Protestant
Constitution of this Country ; and that, independent of the
particular causes which have been generally supposed to have
occasioned the Act in question, there did exist at that period of
English History, an infamous and formidable conspiracy
against the Protestant Establishment, fully sufficient to justify
the act itself.

That your Petitioners most respectfully submit to your Ho-
nourable House that there has been no alteration since the Re-
volution in Roman Catholic tenets sufficient to justify the ad-
mission of the Members of the Church of Rome into an Eng-
lish and a Protestant Parliament, and that until such an altera-
tion has taken place, the admission of them as Legislators
would be dangerous and impolitic. They also beg to put to
your Honourable House whether a more flagrant anomaly than
any which has been hitherto supposed to exist would not be
created, in case Roman Catholics were to be called upon to aid
PROTESTANT BISHOPS in consulting and in legislating for
the good of a Protestant Church ; and which must necessarily
be the case if the Bill to which your Petitioners have alluded
passes into law ; and they humbly submit, whether the correc-
tion of such an anomaly might not form one object in view when
the Act now sought to be repealed was passed ?
Your Petitioners, at the present moment, forbear to urge se-

vend other arguments which have occurred to them with re-
spect to the impolicy and dangerous tendency of the Bill to
which they object; and viewing it as they do, as pregnant with
danger to civil and religious hberty—as the precursor of a line
of policy destructive of the Protestant Interest in these King-
doms—,-and as calculated to bring into contempt the Statutes
which were passed by our sturdy but persecuted ancestors, in
times when they bent under a yoke, from which their exertions
and wise precautions have hitherto saved'their descendants, they
most humbly but fervently pray that the proposed Bill may not
pass into a Law.

And your Petitioners shall ever pray, &c.

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

Oxronn, MAY 10.—Thursday, May 9, the following De.

grees were conferred :

M ASTERS OF 'ART s.=-The Rev. John D'Arcy Preston,
Merton college ; Rev. Richard Derby Ness, Lincoln college ;
George Musgrave .Musgrave, Brazen-nose college; Rev. Wal-
ter Haynes Bury, Fellow of Sf. John's.'
BACHELORS OF Awrs.--John Manuel Eschalaz, Scholar
of Trinity college ; EdWard Denison, Oriel college ; Samuel
Richard Bosanquet, and. Luke Fowler, Christ Church ; John
Campbell, Balliol college; Williani Fowle, University college;
James Davis, Scholar of University college; William Buller,
SchOlar of Worcester -111ege.
The Rev. William Vaux, M.A.,late Fellow of Balliol col-
lege, has been appointed Chaplain to his Grace the Archbishop
of Canterbury, in the room of the Rev. Charles Lloyd, D.D.
Regius Professor of Divinity. .
PnE AC It E S.—Rev. Mr. Whately, of Oriel college, the
Bampton Lecture, on Sunday morning, at St. Mary's.—Rev.
Mr. Lovedal of Magdalen college, Sunday afternoon, at St.
Mary's.--Rev. Mr. Longley, Ascension, at Christ Church.—
The Hon. R. Grosvenor, Of Christ Church, son of Lord Gros-
venor, is returned M.P. fat Shaftsbury, vice Abraham Moore,
Esq., the Barrister.

DEATH OF HIS GRACE THE ARCHBISHOP OF
CASHEL.—Died, last evening, Monday, the 6th
inst., in Rutland-square, Dublin, at a quarter
past eight o'clock, his Grace. the Right lion.
and lion. CHARLES BaoopaoK,D.D:, Lord Arch-
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bishop of Cashel, Primate of Munster, and Lord
Bishop of Emly. His Grace was translated to
the Archprelacy in 1801. He was consecrated
Bishop of Clonfert in 1795, and Bishop of Kil-
more in the succeeding year. His Grace was
brother to Lord Viscount MIDLETON, was a
Commissioner of the Board of Education, a
Treasurer to the Board of Eirst Fruits, and a
Vice-President of the Society for discountenanc-

ing Vice.—(Dublin Patriot.)
A process was lately brought before the'Court
of Session, respecting the validity of a presenta-
tion to the Church of Kiltarlity," on the ground
that the patron is' a Roman Catholic, and had
never taken the necessary oaths. But there was
no opportunity of deciding the question, as the
pursuers (mere parishioners) were found to have
had no title. In consequence, however, of the
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Judges' opinions, the Presbytery of Inverness have
taken up the case, and commenced a pro'cess of
declarator of the jus devolutum, so that a decision

on the, merits 'urn now he obtained from the
Court, notwithstanding that the patron has carried
the matter to the Church judicatories. This is
understood to be the first time that a Popish pa-
tron openly attempted filling any benefice in the
Church of Scotland, and its fate excites much in-
terest on this account, and in general reference
to Catholic Emancipation ; more particularly, as
Mr. PLUG KETT declared that Popish patrons
could not at 'present exercise any right of pa-
tronage, and the same disability was continued
by his own bill.---(Edinburgh •Weekly Journal,
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May 8.)
A Flour Mill, on an improved construction;
has lately been erected for Mr. Joseph Ratcliffe,- on the leat
near Exeter Quay, by Mr. A. Richardson, millwright, of Exe-
ter, which, for symmetry and strength, it is said, surpasses any
other in the west of England. The principal wheel, which
presents to the water a breadth of 12 feet, and is 13 feet in dia-
-1 meter, is wholly (4 cast iron, as well as the shaft, the fall un-
derneath, and all the minor wheels. Upwards of 12 tons of
iron are employed in this machinery, and' the construction of
the mill is such, that in case of a flood, when the. fulling mills
adjoining are still, two pair of stones (out of four which the
mill contains) can be kept at work.
Flax Mills, when-first introduced, promised to be extremely
lucrative, but- they soon became very ruinous ; and about 10
years ago might have been purchased for a sum extremely
disproportionate to prime cost. For more than three years,
however, they have been again the most profitable business
in Scotland ; and great numbers are erecting in every part of the
East Country. One of the Proprietors is said to be at present
realising at the rate of 20,0001. a year from his establishments be-
tween Dundee and Aberdeen. The yarn spun at the mills is
for the coarser sorts of linen ; but it may be expected that
progressive amendments in the machinery, will enable it by
and by to produce materials for lawn. -