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London, England, 1822-05-11 00:00:00

TIIE LONDON JOURNALS.

11XTRACTS mom VIE DAILY MORNING PAPERS,
May 11, IS'22.

[NEW TIMES. j
In the house of Commons, last night, Mr.
Canning moved the second reading of the Bill
to repeal so much of the 30th of Charles 11. as
debar§" the Roman Catholic. Peers from the exer-
cise of their rights of sitting and voting in the
'.Mouse of Lords. After a debate, in which the
principal opponents were Mr. Wetherell and Mr.
Peel, the motion for the second reading was
carried by a majority of 235 to 223.

The Paris journals of Wednesday arrived last
night. The contain nothing but worn outt stories
about Turkey and Russia. An article from Ve-
nice mentions that the German Officers recently
returned from Greece gave a most deplorable ac-
count of the state of the Greek forces.—(lbid.)

[monNri-ra CHRONICLE.]
The opposition to Mr. Canning's Catholic. Bill
re:arced itself chiefly to the inexpediency of se-
parating ore class of Catholics from the rest of
the body. If emancipation was proper, it should
be -given to all ; if improper, it should be given
to none. One argument of a peculiar kind was
advanced by Mr. Foster, who allowed that until
the Penal Laws were totally repealed, the peace
and tranquillity of Ireland would never be re-
stored, namely,• that " in repealing those laws
the Parliament should take care to carry the
mind of the country with them, and he denied
that the mind of the Protestants was with the
present measure."—So Ireland is to be kept in a
state Of continual disturbance till the Protestants
cease to have prejudices'. Does he suppose that
the concession can produce an evil greater than
'that produced by the existence of continual
disturbance in a country like Ireland ? We
are sick of these superannuated absurdities.—
The pretended friends of the Protestant religion
who wish to defend it by penal law are its worst
enemies,avowing by, their fears that Protestantism
unaided by such means cannot keep its ground
against its rival.—Frederick of Prussia, though
an infidel, did more good to Protestantism than
these zealots, by shewing the world that when
put on an equal footing with Catholicism, it has
a tendency to gain on it. In Silesia the Catho-
lics,_were the great majority ; but after the in-
troduction of equality the Protestants gradually
rose till they formed the majority, though when
the Jesuits were expelled from every other
country he employed them there as schoolmasters.

[Tile CS.]
The proposed meeting between the monied
gentlemen on the one side, and the First Lord
of the Treasury with the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer on the other, took place yesterday. It ,
will be seen that the South Sea Company was
thrust forward into the post of honour,for taking
up the new loan. Nothing, however, is as yet
decided. There was a meeting of the South Sea
Proprietors, after the meeting of the Treasury
Chambers : but the novelty of the scheme seemed
to keep a company possessing no great commer-
cial activity in suspense ; and small progress
was made either in assent or dissent. We
should not wonder if the scheme failed !

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Had the Company in question possessed funds
of its own, more than adequate to the loan pro-
prosed, then little account would have needed
to be taken of the dissentients ; but where the
original funds are deficient by more than a third,
the dissentients must tell. And who are likely
to be the dissentients ? All those, we should
think, whose time of life cuts short the hope of
distant wealth, and who are therefore more
anxious to enjoy their present fortune as they
have been used. It will be seen by an observa-
tion n Lord Liverpool's speech, that he is not
quite confident of the success of the scheme on
the terms at first expected by Government.
There is to be another meeting at the Treasury
Chambers on Tuesday next, and of South Sea
Proprietors on Monday next.