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be taken away ! But how, if an adjourn-
ment be the consequence of tacit understand-
ing, instead of regular motion ? The rent
is to be put down !. But the rent is a vo-
luntary, not a compulsory subscription. Are
we then to suffer penalties for subscribing ?
What law-maker can touch a private sub-
scription—an anonymous subscription—a sub-
scription under the title of charity ? The
law, as it seems to us, must be - one of
two things—inefficient, and therefore mis-
chievous, by giving any class of subjects a tri-
umph over Parliament—or effective, and of wide
and terrible power, against innocent or beneficent
undertakings. For the real influence of the Ca-
tholic Associators upon the peace of Ireland, we
have yet said nothing, and have no fit materials
whereon to judge with confidence. If they be
put down, that question will be brought to a
decisive though not perhaps an instantaneous
issue. We should have felt a solid satisfaction,
and entertained a proportionate conviction against
the wisdom of a legislative assault upon the
Catholic rent and association, had any recent
proofs appeared of a decay in the spirit which
supports them ; but we are disappointed by ob-
serving that the last return of rent from Ja-
nuary 27, to the 2d instant, is not less than
9821.—the largest sum, we apprehend, which has
yet been paid since the outset of the singular
contribution. If the removal of this bug-
bear shall serve to assuage the fears and jea-
lousies now possessing the minds of Englishmen
against the Catholics, one good, at least, will
have been effected by it ; and this, we confess,
was the single argument which seemed to us of
any serious weight among those produced by his
Majesty's Ministers in favour of their proposed
innovation.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
The principal topic of interest in the city last
week was the New Mexiean Loan, which is to be contracted
for in pretty much the same manner as those formerly rais-
ed by our own Government, viz. by public bidding. The
amount of the Loan will be precisely the same as the old one,
and will be 3,21)0,0001., with this difference, however, that the
New Loan will bear an interest of 6 per cent. instead of 5 per
cent. Much speculation has been indulged as to the terms on
which it will be taken. The general opinion appears to be, that
the offers will be even higher than the present price of the last
Colombian Loan, as the instalments being gradual, the scrip
can be held with a much smaller amount of capital. Nothing,
however, has been done publicly in the New Mexican Scrip.—
We understand that two eminent houses, connected with South
America, have coalesced, and are likely to make a higher bid-
ding than any other party. The future condition of the Loan
will of course depend much on the power and influence of those
who succeed in obtaining it. It has beep said that an eminent
.speculator and loan contractor was forming a list, but on inquiry
we learn that this report is unfounded. The recent depression
in South American Stock is now understood to have been
a manoeuvre, in order to influence the biddings, but
the prices, since the middle of last week are nearly
2 per cent. higher. Mexican Bonds have advanced
from 80} to 82 ; much more business was 'necessarily
transacted in them, owing to the expected .creation. In
the New Brazil Scrip there has been _.a variation of
nearly 3 per cent. On Friday it rose to within 1 per cent. of
the highest price at which it has been sold since it first made its
appearance in the Market. The Old Scrip bears a premium of ,
166 per Cent. In the Old and New Colombian Bonds,-the
provement has amounted to about LI per cent. ; but that in
Chili and Peruvian Stock has scarcely exceeded 1 per cent. In
the two, latter the prices are for the most part nominal. The
Northern Securities have been nearly lost sight of, and but
little has been doing in them. In Danish Bonds there haS
been scarcely a bargain made. Greek Bonds have been rather
more sought after, and have risen from 56 to -58.—Another
blow has been given to the shares of the numeeous Associations,
by the intimation of the Lord Chancellor as to the illegality of
many of them ; their condition, which had become very unfa-
vourable by their own weight, is now very deplorable. The
eyes of the public seem to be at length open, and the quota-
tions of many of the shares have declined to nearly the pre-
mium they bore on their first issue. Those shares, likewise,
which were supposed to be invulnerable, have experienced the
most rapid decline. The United Mexican, which so recently
I as the week before last were at 1401., have fallen not less than
60 per cent. The quotations of Anglo-Mexican, and those just
referred to, have now been assimilated. In the Pasco Peru-
vian, Brazil, and most other South American Mining Shares,
the depression since Saturday week cannot be stated at less
than 10 per cent.

[NI.ORISING HERALD.]
An attempt was made on Saturday morning to
impose on the credulity of the people here, by circulating an ex-
tract from a pretended letter. said to have been received by Mr.
F.?cretary Canning from the British Consul-at Bogota, bearing
'date the 19th of November last, and announcing the total de-
feat of the Royalist General Canterac by the victorious army of
Bolivar. Notwithstanding this story has been so often told,
and as often proved to be false, still, it did not fail on Saturday
to obtain believers, and a number of persons immediately began
to speculate on the faith of its proving true.
.Unfortunately
however, for the projector of the story, it was very shortly made
appear that letters were in London from Bogota, of ten days
later date than the letter imputed to our Consul there, and that
these letters, although written by the best-informed persons,
did not allude,. or even hint, at any such battle having been
fought. ' This overturned the story previously told, and the
matter ceased to excite interest. The proceedings on the
Market continue to be of the same uninteresting nature as
we have had a:most daily to record for some time past ;
not so, however, -on the Foreign Market, for there, on Sa-
turday,.bustle and activity was called in full employ, thanks
to the Shares. - It is only a few weeks since the people were
mad to purchase these Shares at any price ; those who
were fortunate enough to get them, appear now to be
surfeited of their fortune, and much more anxious to
get rid of them than they were before to get hold
of them ; throughout the whole of Saturday afternoon the
general cry has been " who's a buyer ?" but none answered
except here and there a Contractor or Director, who would give
some price for a Share or two, in order to-keep up the respecta-
bility of a Company, by having a price given the Shares of it
in the Price Quotation List. To describe the situation of the
parties - who are large holders is totally impossible; in fact,
they are more fit to be inmates of St. Luke's, than to be suf-
fered to go at large. All the Brokers, too, have got their hands
full ; their clients have sent them their Shares, with instruc-
tions to sell at what they will fetch ; but these instructions are
Of no use, for they will fetch nothing, that is, in the present
state of the market—people will not give any thing for them.
The only Shares that at all stood their ground amidst the gene-
ral wreck, were the Anglo-Mexican and Colombian Mining
Shares ; for these Shares, up to the close of business, buyers
could be found at a very trifling decline from the prices of the
early part of -Saturday, under an impression that the persons
I connected- with these Companies contemplate something more
than a chimerical enterprise. The Shares of the various Gas
Light Companies' Railways, and what are termed Miscella-
neons, can hardly be got rid of, even by giving money to per-
sons to take them. What the end of this will be, a few days
i must now chew. . .

BIRTHS.
On the sth inst., in 'Betifbrd-street, Bedford-square, Mrs.
William Hunt, of a son.
On the 4th inst., at Brentford-butts, the lady of Dr. Ronalds,
of a daughter.

MARRIED.
On the sth inst., at Battersea, Mr. William Niblett, to Miss
Moorman, both of that place.
On the 4th inst., Roger Gadsden, Esq., of Walthamstow, to
Miss Field, of Leyton, Essex.
On Wednesday last, Edward Fisher, of Northaw, Ilerts,
Esq.; to• Susannah, eldest daughter of Mr. Wm. Scott Smith.
On Saturday, at St. Paul's, Deptford, Mr. J. Ilormann, of
Brunswick-place, Loampit_hill, to Miss Louisa Matthev,
daughter of the deceased Mr. P. Matthey, of-Chaud-de-Fond,
in Switzerland.

DIED.
A few days since, at Boulogne, Peter Dickons, Esq., hus-
band of the celebrated Vocal Performer.
On the 24th of January, at Vueillereus, in Switzerland, Air.
William Knobel, eldest son of the, late Air. Salin..Knobel, of
SOuth Audley-street.
On 'Wednesday, the 21 inst., at Warww
. th, aged 48, Char-
lotte, wife of Mr,Samuel :Thaiand, of the-Customs, kohdon,
t4t4 orWeirjuouth, Dorset.