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London, England, 1831-12-08 00:00:00

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Remaining at this date, S o'clock, A.m,

Cases. Died.
From the Commencement of the Disease, on
the 26th October, 1831
(Signed) G. STEPHENSON,
Secretary to the Sunderland Board of Health.

In the House of Commons last night, Lord
ALTHORP, in moving the reception of the enor-
mous Yorkshire petition, whose weight was not
far short. of a cart-load, took the opportunity of
observing most distinctly and decisively, that
whatever alterations might be made in the new
Reform Bill, it would be found that the leading
principles of the former one were all most scru-
pulously preserved. Lord MoRPETH supported
the petition, which, his Lordship added, was a
convincing refutation of the slanders of those who
had still the effrontery to assert that the influen-
tial county of York had exhibited symptoms
of re-action on the great question. Mr.
HumE afterwards presented a petition from one
of the Political Unions respecting the reduction
of all taxes on knowledge, and asked of Govern-
ment whether it intended to bring forward any
proposition on the subject in the course of the
present session. Lord ALTHORP declined giv-
ing any answer as to the nature of the measure
that Ministers had in contemplation. On the
presentation of the report of the Address, Mr.
G. DAWaON signalized himself by one of those
peculiar bursts of eloquence, in which the Hon.
Member for Preston can alone rival him. After
some slight discussion, the Address was agreed to.

The most novel and striking part of the Royal
Speech is, unquestionably, that which recom-
mends an inquiry, whether it may not be pos-
sible to effect improvements in the laws respect-
ing tithes in Ireland ? For the first time, we
have now the Royal admission that the Irish
Protestant Church cannot go on as it is, and a
Committee is forthwith to sit for the purpose of
investigating the condition of that Church, and
recommending the Reforms which may appear
to be requisite in it. This event may be con-
sidered an important aara in our history ; for it
will lay the foundation of a new order of things
in regard to the Church of England and Ireland
" as by law established," and will be the means
I of introducing the reign of justice and toleration
in the room of that of bigotry and oppression.
The minds of Ministers have been brought to
a decision by the general resistance to tithes
which has been, for some time, in progress in
Ireland. It is a case of necessity, in which
some compromise must be made with the irritated
Catholics, or the tithe will become an empty
name. We do not presume to anticipate the
opinion of the proposed Committee, but it is
understood that a commutation of tithes in Ire-
land, into a fixed charge upon the land, out of
which provision may be made for the Catholic
Clergy, as well as the Protestant Establishment,
is not unlikely to be the outline of the recom-
mendation of Government. This, as a matter
of course, involves a large reduction of the Pro-
testant Hierarchy, both in number and value, in
anticipation of which the recent Ecclesiastical
appointments in Ireland have been made with-
out prejudices to such changes as Government
might, for the future, deem expedient to carry
into execution

So long as tithes are protected by law, the
law must be respected, and its observance en-
joined by all constituted authorities. But the

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scandal is such of a system which taxes a Ca• '
tholic people for the maintenance of a Protestant
Clergy, having no sympathy, no union, no bro-
therhood, with their flocks,—that it is impos-
sible for any man with a due sense of justice,
not to entertain an abhorrence of that impost,
which Dr. DoYLE has well called " the pest of
agriculture and the bane of religion." It is for
the present generation to restore to Ireland those
social rights of which centuries of misgovern-
ment have debarred her, and which she would
probably have been exasperated into an attempt
to regain by force before long, if she had been
destined still to groan under Tory misrule.
Ministers will lay before the Committee with-
out delay the measures they intend to suggest.
It is to be hoped that, after the example of the
Reform Bill, they will be as full and comprehen-
sive as the urgency of the case requires. Mr.
STANLEY must be aware that any plan of the
bit-by-bit description would expose Government
to far more obloquy and censure from the Irish
agitators than if the question had never been
mooted at all.

It will be seen by our City Report that the
Bank Directors have come to the resolution to
advance money as heretofore on Exchequer
Bills and Bonds at 4 per cent. interest, till the
14th of January next.

Brussels Papers, of the sth and 6th instant,
contain the following :

BRUSSELS, Dxc. s.—Baron Stockmar set out this
morning for London. M. Le Hon also left Brussels at
one o'clock this morning to return to his post at Paris.
We learn from good authority that M. Potter has
just disposed, in the following manner, of the indem-
nity which was allotted to him as member of the Provi-
sional Government, one-part will be distributed among
the poor of Bruges, and a third among the Polish refugees
in Belgium.
The Prussian State Gazette of the 30th Nor. con-
tains no news from Poland. That from Sr. Petersburgh
is to the 19th November. It appears that in the course of
this year there have sailed from Archangel 357 ships,
bound to England, Scotland, Jersey, and Guernsey ; 50 to
different parts of the Netherlands, 19 to Bremen, nine to
Hamburg, and seven to the United States of North America.
Accounts from Odessa, of the Bth of November, say
that the Neva steam-boat arrived there on the sth, from
Constantinople, laden with goods of various descriptions,
as well as gold and silver in bars. It performed the voyage
in 51 hours.

An Imperial Ukase, addressed to the Senate, relative to
the corporations of Schlachty (Nobles) in the governments
of the west, is designed to lay down distinctions between
real gentlemen, and individuals who cannot produce any
document in proof of their noble origin, and who, being
destitute of a fixed residence and of fortune, are particu-
larly disposed to revolt and to criminal actions, as has
been demonstrated by the late events in Poland. The
former are no longer to be called Schlachty, but gentle.
men, and will retain their titles and rights of nobility ;
the others, called Schlachty, will be divided into two
grand classes, the inhabitants of towns or villages, and
subdivisions will be made of them, according to the pro-
fessions which they exercise ; they will also be liable to the
payment of taxes, like other subjects of the empire.
GHENT, Dec. s.—Hitherto it has been possible to
carry on some little trade with Holland, by means of
English ships, but a letter from Ostend of Dec. 2, informs
us that the Ministry has just deprived the Belgian mer-
chants of this last resource. By an order of the Govern-
ment published at Ostend on the 2d at noon, it is decreed
that all ships coming from Holland and the Northern parts
shall not he admitted till aftrr the performance of forty
days' quarantine. Thus only ships from England and
France can enter the port of Ostend. This measure is
extremely vexatious and unpleasant to the merchants.
GHENT, Dic. 6.—We are informed that the Bishops
of Liege and Namur are extremely embarrassed by
the acceptance of the twenty-four articles, because in the
parts of their dioceses ceded to Holland they will have
to conform to the concordat concluded between King Wil-
liam and the Pope, whereas in the rest of Belgium our
Prelates have rejected, by their own private authority, this
convention which they at the time solicited, and by virtue
of which they are Bishops. It will be indispensable for
them to carry on their spiritual administration in the form
of double entry. Perhaps even priests ordained in one part
of the diocese will not be allowed to exercise their ministry
in the other. It will be pleasant to see my Lord, paid at
the same time by King William and his Majesty Leopold.
go successively from Liege to Maestricht, to make his bow
to the two Sovereigns.

THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.)

CITY, TWELVE 0' CL 0 CK.

Accounts received from Bermuda, via America, contai❑
further particulars of the late hurricanes. Previous to
the 3d of August six vessels had arrived at Barbadoes with
provisions. At St: Lucia the loss of lives was not so
great as in the year 1817, but the loss of property
was more extensive. The towns of Denery, llecerid,
Vieuxfort, Laborre, and Suffriere, are in ruins, and the
stores of the first-mentioned are swept away by the
sea, and every thing in them lost ; also vast quantities of
produce were destroyed ; and it is added, that in conse-
quence of the bad crops the unfortunate inhabitants will
feel the disaster the more, it being the third gale from
which they have suffered during the present year.
The following we copy from an American Paper, re-
cently arrived, on the affairs of the Madawaska settle-

ment :
" Thus it is seen that American citizens, acting under
the law of the Senate, are fined and imprisoned by a Fo-
reign Power, and we wait to see whether our Governor
has energy for an occasion which calls upon hint to act in
some way or other in the defence of our laws, rights, and
liberties."
The above imprisoned American citizens, with D. Bean,
John Baker, and twenty-seven other persons, are al,o
joined in another indictment by the Grand Jury, which
charges them with the intention to stir up and procure
sedition in the province of Madawaska ; but it was deemed
exprdient by the Crown-officers to suffer further proceed-
ings to stand over until the meeting of the Supreme Court
in February next.