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New Zealand Government Bill—Committee.
Supply—Committee.
NOTICE OF NVTION.

Mr. Wakley—To nominate the Select Committee on
Medical Registration and Medical Law.

ORDER OF TEE DAY. -310NDAY, FEB, 7.
Jewish Disabilities Bill—Second reading.

NOTICE OF NOTION.

Mr. Stafford—On motion for the second reading of
the Jewish Disabilities Bill, to move, as an amendment,
hat the Bill be read a second time this day six months.

NOTICES OF MOTION.—TUESDAY, FEB. 8.
Mr. Aglionby—Returu of any application made to the
Government of Ireland by the Lough Corrib Improve-
ment Company for the drainage of Lough Corrib, and
of the letter of the Chief Secretary for Ireland, of the
13th day of December, 1847, with its inclosures on that
subject, addressed to Dr. Staunton.

kr. 'Chisholm Anstey—Address for papers. " except
such documents as have been already laid before this
House.".

Mr. Herries—To move the following resolutions:—
That looking to the state of distress which has for some
time prevailed among the commercial classes, and to the
general feeling of distrust and alarm by which the em-
barrassments of trade have been aggravated, it is the
opinion of this House that her Majesty's Ministers were
justified, during the recess of Parliament, in recommend-
ing to the Bank of England, for the purpose of restoring
confidence, a course of proceeding at variance with the
restrictions imposed by the Act 7th and Bth Vic., c. 32.
That this House will resolve itself into a Committee of
the whole House upon the said Act. Resolution to be
moved in Committee:—" That it is expedient that the
limitations imposed by the Act 7th and Bth Vic., e. 32,
upon the Bank of England, in relation to the issue of
notes payable on demand, be suspended, subject to such
conditions as may be provided by any Act to be passed
for that purpose."
Mr. Aglionby—Return, showing the date of the ap-
pointment of each of the present Masters in Ordinary
in Chancery, with the annual amount of each of their
respective salaries, and when paid ; also, stating whe-
ther any and which of such present Masters are under
any and what Act or Acts of Parliament entitled, upon
retirement, to any and what retiring pension ; and also
stating whether any and what Masters in Ordinary
have, since the year 1830, retired upon any and what
retiring pension, and for what periods the same were
respectively paid and received.

WEDNESDAY. FEB. 9. DEM OF TUE DAY.
Roman Catholic Charitable Trusts' Bill—Second
reading.

NOTICES
Captain Pechell—Address 1?
of Mixed Commission at the Cape Cape
Epiphany Quarter SessionsO Bill—Second reading.
MOTIONS.
slave- vessel Bella A for return from the Court
ngoial rs relative to the Portuguese
under-mentioned particulars of Good Hope of the
proceeds of sale of vessel
August 14, 1844. Thea, condemned in that Court,
amount of valuation of the said
vessel and cargo, as show
in the manifest. Of gross
and when :ad cargo, with the date when
the same were realised.
incurred relative Of the net proceeds when re-
ceivedpa'ove! to the authorities on behalf
and t
of the Crown. The particulars of all charges and ex-
pensesnation of vessel and cargo. Of all fees and law ex
breaking up the vessel to the sale of vessel and cargo.
the na
by each, and whether hold?ing
charged for the condem-
Of all sums charged for
with the
to Act. The amount
received the same,
and nature of all fees, mweisthofthpeernsaomnseswhoof
office held or performed
agency, and superintendence,a
And an account of all any other office or place.
charges for commission del cre-
dere,the persons to whom the same were paid.
Captain Pechell—Return all sums that have an-
nually accrued since the order °I
er in council of 1834, by re-
duction of the allowance of waste in the provisions on
board her Majesty's ships,
1847. Like return oil board up to the Ist day of July,
transports and convict ships.
Returns of all sums that have annually accrued from all
victualling where pursery
same period. Of all sumsaccounts were kept during the
that have annually accrued
from reduction in credit
prices of provisions from the
30th day of June, 1844, the 30th day of June, 1847,
clear of any sum or sums of money paid out of the same.
Of all sums that have been annually paid, under the
order in council of April, 18
36 for increasing the half-
pay of the paymasters and
pursersal ls, a day, from the Ist
day of July, is 36. And 0
sums annually paid from
the Ist day of July, 1843, t
under the order in council to the Ist day of July, 1847,
1843, creating a re-
tired list, and increasing the huael'f
of the paymasters and pursers, .1-pay Is. a day to part
the payment under the order inc ear and distinct from
NOTICES OF MOTIONS.—Tin
court
of April, 1836.
Lord Nugent—Bill to repeal silsuAs. FEB.
10.
0 much of the Act of
the 2d and 3d Vie , as gives the p
system of separate imprisonment to persons
of applying the
persons before trial.
Viscount Iforpeth—Bill for promoting the
health.
Mr. Hutt—Select Committee, to
consider the best
means which Great Britain can adopt for mitigating
the horrors of the slave trade, and providing for its final
extinction.
NOTICES OF MOTIONS.--TUYSDAy' .
14.
Mr. Moasell—To call the attention of
the House to
the condition of the able-bodied population of Ireland,
and to the best measures for removing the disproportion
between capital and labour in that country.
Mr. Ewart—Bill for the total repeal
of the punish-
ment of death.
Mr. Hume—That the contents of the papers laid
before Parliament in the last session,
respecting the
innocence of the late Partaub Sheen,
the
deposed Raja
of Sattara, taken in connexion with the information
previously presented to the House of C
der it expedient and necessary to the furtherance
ren-
der
of the ends of justice, and for the future
vernment of India, and the protection of the good go-
the people
and princes of the country, that the inquiry
prayed for
by the late Raja in his petition to Parliament,
presented
on the 29th day of July, 1842, should b
a view of rescuing the character of the late Raja,
with
nocent, from the opprobrium which certaint4ja' if in.
brought against him have cast upon it, and charges
vindicat-
iug the honour of the British Administrationf
from the suspicion and obloquy which t_ in India
the proceedings
against the late Raja have excited.
ORDER OF THE DAY.—WEDNESDAY, WEB,
15'
Roman Catholic Relief Bill—Committee.
NOTICES OF 310TIGNS.
Mr. Law—On motion for going into Committees on the
a
Roman Catholic Relief Bill, to move, amendment,
" That this House do resolve itself into a Committee
upon the said Bill this day six months."
Mr. William Smith O'Brien—ln Committee on the
Roman Catholic Relief Bill, to move a clause for repeal-
ing the disabilities by which Roman Catholics aro disquali-
fied from filling the office of Lord Chancellor of Ireland.

NOTICES OF NOTION AFTER THE RECESS, FOE wawa NO
PARTICULAR DAY HAS BEEN MED,
Mr. Grantley Berkeley—Bill to amend the Coroners'
Bill.
Mr. John O'Connell—To take into consideration the

three petitions from the Boman Catholic Archbishops
and Bishops of Ireland (presented 26th November).
Mr. Pusey—Bill.for the improvement of agricultural
tenant right in England and Wales.
Mr. Osborne—To call the attention of the House to
. the state, of the national defences of Great Britain and
Ireland.
Mr. Charles Pearson Bill to enalde a magistrate
sitting at either of the Metropolitan Police courts to in.
florae on the warrant of commitment, in certain cases of
'elony and misdemeanour, a certificate that in his judp-
ment it is not necessary to prefer an indictment against
the prisoner, and in such cases to empower the clerk of
..he court at which such prisoner is to be tried, to fie an
information which shall have the same t fftct as if an
indictment bad been found by a grand jury; and also to
!mike provision for supplying the prisoner, free of ex-
,:ense, with a copy of the information, of the 4epositions
*hereon it is founded, and with such subf woes for wit-
nesses as_he may require.
Mr. Charles Pearson—Bill to regulate the practice
and charges of solicitors defending prisoners at the
Metropolitan Police-courts, and at the several courts to
which such such prisoners may be committed for trial;
and to provide for the speedy and cheap taxation of
bills of cost therein by the officers of the court by whom
the costs of prosecutions are now allowed.
Mr. C. Pearson-41111 to amend the laws which autho-
rise the acquittal of prisoners on the ground of insanity,
and to make suitable provision for their subsequent de-
tention and treatment,
Mr. C. Pearson—Bill to provide profitable employ-
ment for convicted prisoners, with scales of diet suited
to their sex? 'age, and strength. and to the amount of
their labour; also to empower Courts of Criminal Judi-
cature, instead of imprisoning offenders for fixed periods
of time, to, pass sentenees of task labour proportioned
to their offences, so as to diminish the cost of gaols and
induce prisoners to work out their sentences by motives
that excite and means that confirm those habits of in-
dustry and self-control which will qualify them on theia
discharge to gain their living without returning to
criminal pursuits.
Mr. C. Pearson—Bill to declare and explain the un-
altered common law of England, which pronounces, as a
rule, that children under the age of discretion are inca-
-1 paces doll; and also, to make such provisions for the
,reatment of juvenile offenders in conformity with the
principle and spirit of the common law, as experience in
this and other countries has proved that the existing
state of society requires.
Mr. P. Scrope—To call the attention of the Govern-
ment to the expediency of affording a discretionary
power and due facilities to the Boards of Guardians of
the several unions both in England and Ireland, for
setting to work their able-bodied poor, as prescribed by
the poor-law of Elizabeth.
Mr. Ewart—Bill to give a power of appeal in criminal
cases.

Mr. Baillie Cochrane—Cepies of the recent corm-
spondence which has passed between the Noble Lord the
Secretary of State for Foreign Affsirs and Sir Edmund
Lyons, her Britannic Majesty's Minister at the Court of
Greece.

Mr. Hutt—Select Committee, to inquire into the ex-
pediency of maintaining the existing system for the sup-
pression of the slave trade.
Lord Ashley—To bring under the notice of the House
the evidence taken before the Committee in 1844 on me-
dical relief to the sick poor ; also, the state of the juve.
wile population in many parts of the metropolis and other
large towns.
Mr. Evelyn Denison—Select Committee to inquire into
the composition and management of the Ecclesiastical
Commission.

Mr. Bouverie—Motion respecting the Ecclesiastical
Courts.

Col. Sibthorp—Reduction of duty on fire insurances.
Mr. Baillie Cochrane—Select Committee to inquire
into the duties, emoluments, and present condition of the
schoolmasters in Scotland.

Mr. Anderson—On Mr. Cochrane bringing forward
his motion for a Select Committee to inquire into the
duties, emoluments, and present condition of the school-
masters in Scotland, to move that the following words be
added:—" Also to inquire into the expediency and
practicability of so far altering the plan and principle of
management of the Scottish Parochial Schools, as to
render them more efficient and available for the educe-

tion of the children generally of each parish, whatever
may be the religious profession or denomination of the
parents."
Mr. Urquhart—Address praying ber Majesty to
exercise her Majesty's undoubted prerogative of sum.;
moning within her Majesty's realm of Ireland the peers
spiritual and temporal of that realm, and the knights,
citizens, and burgesses thereof, in order that her Majesty
may take counsel with the same in regard to the great
and manifold derangements and sufferings of that
kingdom.
Mr. Callaghan—To bring under the consideration of
the House the state of the tax in certain cities in Ireland
called" Ministers' Money," with a view to its repeal.
Mr. Bright—Select Committee to inquire into the
growth of cotton in India.
Mr. Hume—Select Committee to consider whether, in
all cases of shipwreck and of collisions of merchant ves-
sels, attended with loss of life, an inquiry, as speedily
after the accident, and as near as possible to the place,
should be appointed, to examine into the attendant cir-
cumstances and causes of the shipwreck, and to report
to the House in what manaer that inquiry should be
conducted.

Mr. Hume—Select Committee to inquire info the
state of the public income and expenditure of the United
Kingdom ; to examine the public revenue, under its
separate heads, as regards the assessment, collection, cus-
tody, and the establishments employed for the same, and to
report whetherjany and what alteration or repeal can be
made under any of these heads, with benefit to the public
revenue ; also, to examine into the public expenditure,
under separate heads, and to consider and report what
measures can be adopted for the relief of the country,
by altering or reducing any portion of the said expen-
diture, without detriment to the public service.
Mr. Reynolds—Bill to place the municipal corpora-
tions of Ireland upon a more equul footing as to rights
and privileges with those of England and Scotland.
Mr. Moffatt—Bill for assimilating the warehousing
privileges on Colonial and British spirits.
Mr. Moffatt—Bill to permit spirits to be rectified in
bond for exportation, and to permit rectified spirits and
compounds to be warehoused for exportation.
Mr. Baillie—Address, praying that her Majesty will
give directions that negotiations may be entered into
with foreign powers for the purpose of relieving this
country from the obligations of those treaties by which
we are bound to maintain a squadron upon the coast of
Africa.

Colonel Thompson—Correspondence, or extracts of
correspondence, between the Foreign-office and the Go-
vernment of the United States or of Mexico, throwing
light on the intention of the United States to annex any,
and what portions of the territory of the republic of
Mexico, for the purpose, or with the effect, of re-
establishing slavery therein.

Mr. Sherman Crawford—Bill to secure the custom
known in the province of Ulster by the name of
tenant-right; and to extend to tenants in other parts of
Ireland, under fitting regulations, the benefits of said
custom.

Mr. G. Thompson—Select Committee to inquire into
the conduct of Lieutenant-Colonel Charles ()vans (of the
Bombay army), whi?e British Political Resident at the
Court of Sattara; and into the proceedings of the Bombay
Government, and the Court of Dir.ctors of the East
India Company. in relation to certain charges preferred
against that officer.
Sir B. Hall—Statement of the Church property in the
parish of St. Pancras, Middlesex, held, by the Dean and
Chapter of St. Paul's, together with an account of the
revenues derived therefrom, showing upon what terms
leases or 'alienations have been granted, and to whom,
with the rents or fines taken, and bow the proceeds have
been appropriated; together with' as account of all sums
of money subscribed by the said Dean and Chapter of
St. Paul's for promoting church and school accommoda-
tion in the said parish, and the numbers and extent of
sites allotted for such accommodation.

Sir R. IL Inglis—Select Committee on the present
state of the new Palace of Westminster, s ith a view to
the reception and accommodation of the House therein,
and the probable expense of its completion; and also to
inquire into the present state of Westminster-bridge:—
Sir Robert Harry Inglis, Viscount Morpetb, Sir Robert
Peel, Earl of Lincoln, Mr. Herries, Lord Granville
Somerset, Mr. Cardwell, Mr. Stephenson, Mr. Wilson
Patten, Mr. Hume, Lord Ernest Bruce, Mr. Deering,
Mr. Stafford, Mr. Tufnell, and Mr. Evelyn Denison.
Mr. Brotherton—Seleet Committee to.inquire as to
the expediency of abolishing th. oMoe of Chancellor of
the Duchy of Lancaster. and of the propriety of trans-
ferring the duties appertaining thereto to the Secretary
of State for the Home Department.
Mr. Hindley—Bill for the amendment of the law
against Sunday trading.
Earl of Arundel and Surrey—Select Committee to
inquire into the discipline and regulations now in force
in prisons, penitentiaries, houses of eorrection, and
other places of confinement for criminal offences in
Great Britain, with the view of ascertaining the best
practicable means of securing to every prisoner. not in
communion with the Church of England, the benefits to
be derived from a due observance of the religious duties
of his faith; and also the best practicable means of se-
curing the proper attendance of his priest, or other
minister of his religion, for the purposes of religious in.
struction.

Mr. Urquhart—Copies of correspondence between
the Hon. Captain Denman and members of her Majesty's
Government, in respect to the proceedings undertaken
by her Majesty's Government, in defence of the actions
brought by Buron and others against the said Captain
Denman, and now pending in the Court of Exchequer.
Mr. Horsman—Resolution, to the effect that the dis
tinction between the episcopal and common fund ought
no longer to exist.
Mr. Horsman—Motion respecting the Universities of
Oxford and Cambridge.
Mr. Raphael—Bill to exempt from the legacy duties
all charitable bequests not to private individuals, but to
public bodies, such as the royal hospitals, and the many
charitable and benevolent institutions in which this
blessed country abounds.
Mr. Raphael—Bill to alter so much of an Act of Par-
liament of the Ist and 2d Victoria, entitled, " An Act
for the better regulation of Hackney Carriages and
Metropolitan Stage Carriages" (cap. 79, c. 5), as im-
poses the obligation on the drivers of the several num-
bered vehicles to wear a numbered ticket.

Mr. Monckton Milnes—To call the attention of the
House to the injuries alleged to have been received by
Mr. Rayson, merchant, from the agents of the Austrian
Government at Constantinople.
Mr. George A. Hamilton—To ask the Chancellor of
the Exchequer whether it is the intention of the Go-
vernment, in consequence of the acceleration of the con-
veyance by railway between London and Liverpool, by
the, opening of the Trent Valley line, to make any ar-
rangement for the conveyance of letters for Dublin by
.an afternoon express train, which, arriving in Liverpool
before the sailing of the Dublin mail-packets, might
afford persons receiving letters from Dublin in the morn-
ing the opportunity of answering them, and of the an-
swers reaching Dublin on the following morning ; or of
otherwise accelerating the transmission of letters be-
tween London and Dublin.

Sir P. Nugent—Return of the sums of money paid to-
wards arterial drainage in Ireland, from the Ist day of
January, 1847, to the Ist day of January, 1848, under
the Act 9 and 10 Vic.; distinguishing the sums paid for
actual labour from those paid the staff; and also the
sums allotted and paid towards each particular work, dis-
tinctly set forth; and stating the original estimate for the
completion of such works, and the number of labourers
daily employed on each particular work, during the
above period; whether any or which of the said works
are completed, and what sum it will now take to finish
those that are in course of operation.
Mr. Osborne—Select Committee to inquire into the
state of the law as respects the appointment of re-
ceivers under the Courts of Chancery and Equity Ex-
chequer in Ireland; and the effect of the present laws
and regulations of the said courts in the management of
estates, under their control, and how far the improve-
ment of the said estates and well-being of the tenantry
have been thereby advanced.
Sir De Lacy Evans—To ask the Secretary of the
Board of Control the cause of the delay in the issue of
the Sinde prize money.
Lord Arthur Lennox—When the army estimates are
moved, to call the attention of the Committee to the
warrant of May, 1846, which gives a retirement after
thirty or more years' full-pay service, ten-twelfths of
the said full pay to the two junior regimental staff
officers, the quartermasters, and veterinary surgeons;
whereas the two seniors and much more responsible
staff officers, the surgeons and paymasters, obtain only
eight-twelfths of full pay after the same service.
Mr. Osborne—On reading the order of the day for
going into the first Committee of Supply after the recess,
to call the attention of the House to the sums of money
expended on the new Houses of Parliament, and the
present state of those buildings.
Mr. George A. Hamilton—Before going into Com-
mittee on the educational estimates, to move, that an
humble address be presented to her Majesty, praying
that her Majesty will be graciously pleased to direct
that such a modification of the system of national edu-
cation in Ireland may be made, as regards children of
the Established Church, as may remove the consci
entious objections which many of the clergy and laity
entertain to the system as at present carried into opera-
tion ; or otherwise, that means may be taken to enable
those of the clergy and laity of the Established Church,
who entertain such conscientious objections, to extend
the blessings of scriptural education to the children of
the Established Church.

Mr. Sharman Crawford-Bill to relieve tenants in ---
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Ireland from the liability to pay landlords' rates, and to RAILWAY RETURNS
make provision otherwise for securing the payment of BAILwAT TRAFFIC. -The following are the Total Receipts of Ralle
rates chargeable on landlords. ways for the past week-that is to say, up to the date to which the
Mr. Hume-To bring the existing laws respecting
• respective returns are made, together with the receipts of the sarn-
week in the previous year:-
banks of issue before the House, with a view of repeal-
ing the restriction clauses of the Act of 1844 (7th and 1,1
Bth Viet., c. 32) on the Banks of Issue of England; and Week Last g 1,2,
of repealing the Acts of 1845 (Bth and 9th Vic., c. 37 eudink NAME OF RAILWAY. week. : ki,,''
and 38), which restrict the Banks of Issue of Scotland
* b.
and Ireland, and of placing the Banks of Issue of the c..) E.
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United Kingdom on the principle of free trade, taking £ £
adequate securities for the issues. Dcs. - Amiens and Boulogne .........•. •• • • -
18 Arbroath and Forfar ............... -
Mr. Slaney-Appointment of an unpaid standing 114 120
committee, or commission, to consider the state of large 17 Chester and Birkenhead . • ... •••• • • • • 1551 480
16 Dublin and Drogheda.. • ... . • ... •• • • 703 609
bodies of the working classes in Great Britain, with a 21 Dublin and Kingstown ••••••• . • • • • • • 501 574
view to the improvement of laws and regulations affect- 18 Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen .... • ..• 726 190
in g the social condition and suggestions for their benefit. 18 Edinburgh and Glasgow .• .. ........ 3,081 3,040
18 Edinburgh and Northern ••--- • . .. 536 -
Mr. Pigott-Bill, by which the owners of houses 19 Eastern Counties and North Eastern.. 11,143 9,005
under the value of eight pounds a year in towns, and 18 East Lancashire .
five pounds a year in the couutry, shall be assessed, and 12 Eastern Union •••••• • • • • • • .......... 1,119 426
18 Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr ...• • . 2,103 1,956
not the occupiers. 18 Glasgow and Greenock •• • ...... .... 885 784
Mr. Urquhart-Copies of all correspondence between 18 Great Southern and Western ........ 1,620 1,125
the Hon. Captain Denman, R.N., and her Majesty's Go- 19 Great Western,l4c- ••.. • ... ••-.• • • 18,006 17,336
18 Kendal and Windermere......... .. 77 -
vernment relating to the undertaking given by the Go- 18 Lancashire and Yorkshire ••••• • • • • • 7,969 8,143
vernmeat to defend the actions now pending in the 17 Lancaster and Carlisle. 1,013 -
Court of Exchequer against the said officer for the - Londonderry and Enniskillen .......• - -
destruction of property on the west coast of Africa. 19 London and North Western, &c. ..... 36,657 36,583
19 London and Blackwell - 737 644
Colonel Dunne--Select Committee to inquire into the 18 London and Brighton ........• ••• . •• 7,118 6,004
working and efficiency of the Poor-law in Ireland. 19 London and South Western. •••• • • • • 7,3G8 6,704
Mr. George A. Hamilton-On the motion of Colonel 19 18
2.lManchearyportsteandr, Sheffi
Carlisle eld, and• Lincolnshire 1,877 1,48
••• ••••• • • • • • 531 4654
Dunne, for a Select Committee for inquiring into the 18 Midland, Bristol, and Birmingham •• • • 18,551 17,929
working and efficiency of the Irish Poor-law, to call the - Midland Great Western (Irish) ••• • • • - -
947 1,278
attention of the House to the unequal and oppressive 18 Newcastle and Carlisle.. • •
• • • • •• •• .. 1,
taxation to which the present mode of rating subjects 19 Norfolk. • • 1,005 1.264
......
18 North British ...... ••••••-• . . • • • • • 1,783 1,096
the clergy of the Established Church in Ireland. 18 Paris and Rotten .••••••••• • • • • • • • • • 5,582
Mr. Poulett Scrope-To call the attention of the IS Rouen and llavro .. ••••-•• • • • • " • • 2,002 -
240
House to the means of facilitating the setting the able- 17 Shrewsbury and Chester •••••• • • • • • •
612
18 South Eastern and Branches •••• • • .• 7,742 6,364
bodied poor. whether of England or of Ireland, to work 672 594
17 South Devon.. ••••••••• • • •• • • • .....
of a productive character, and of substituting partially 1,685 1,251
577 680
the outdoor labour-test for the exclusive workhouse-
-19 Wster.hiteltaven Junction .• ••••••• • • • • • • 172 -
test of able-bodied pauperism. 1$ York and Newcastle .••• • • • • ....... 10,887 3,003
Mr. Poulett Scrope-•Bill to extend the provisions of 18 York and North 511,111,ml .•.••• • • • • • 7,145 5,142
the Saving Batiks Annuities Act, to the granting of de-
COURSE OF EXCHANGE.
ferred Government annuities of small amount to mem-
bers of the industrious classes, on the principle of mutual Amsteor.ltun .......... 1,2 5 Gibra1tar.............. !,c, ....
Dit., at sight ••.• .. 12 2 Leghorn - .... - • ..... 30 40
assurance. Itottcrdarn .• •••• • • • • 12 556 Genoa -• • • ........... 26 15
Mr. Poulett Scrope-Bill to exempt the occupiers of A„ 15 Milan .....
small tenements from local taxati,,n. datnburgh .....•34.11. 13 14 Venice....... •••• 11 •••• •••• •••• ---
- Naples ..
Mr. Feargus O'Connor-Bill for the establishment of plaitrcisins3.ll.;;;,.sii.h.t.:::: 25 70 Palermo, •••••• • • • • • • 119
district registration courts in Ireland, for the registra- Dine. •• •• •• •• - .... 26 5 Lisbon...... "• • • .....
,
Lion of leases, contracts, and other documents between Marseilles ••••••• • .• . . 26 10 0p0rt0.... ••::::• • • • ' • ',`,
nourdeaux......... .. 2C 10 Rio Jaueir,o• •• •
a. 3 I
s.i.g.h.t 111 4
landlord and tenants. Also, for the appointment of six
Frankfort on Maine.... 124 Bahia .........' '•• • '' -
equity judges from members of the Irish bar, of not less Petersburgh, Sit. Itble ..
than fourteen years' standing, such appointment to be
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made by the Lord-Lieutenant, by and with the consent Vienna, effec. n 0...... -10 21 11:17dslAYres :••• • • • -
of the Law Officers of the Crown in Ireland, the duty of Ft esrtc, d.i.t.to.
such Judges to be to hold courts in convenient places on cladlizid..
.... • •••• 4b i Foreign Gold in bars.. .£3 17 9 .
their several circuits for hearing and determining all 48% New Dollars ...... 04 9
matters in dispute between landlord and tenant, and Barcelona ~., ........ 1 I;ortegal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0
iavWe.... ......
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..... ps.vnish Doubloons .. 00 0
whose judgment shall, in all such cases, be final. Also,
ill er 1n bars ........ 0 4 11S
to take away the powers of di,stress in all cases where a BRISTOL
SUGAR MARKET, ---
DEC.
22.-Our sugar
lease has not been granted, and in cases where a lease
has been granted for a term to be specified, to render mar
hket continues quiet, and since our last the sales
the process of ejectment more immediate and less ex- aye been unimportant; but our merchants are firm,
pensive. acnhdripsrtimceass without change. The offices will close for the
Mr. 'eargus O'Counor-Bill to alter the rate-paying recess to-morrow, the 23d, and will not re-
open for business until Wednesday, Jan. 5, 1848.

" 11, Carlton-terrace, London, Friday,
Nov. 26, 1837.
My Lord Archbishop,—l must entreat ryour
Grace to forgive me for the liberty I am taking in
addressing' you. My acquaintance with the high
character your Grace bears, as well as your exalted
position in the Irish Church, emboldens me to lay
before you the grief which heavily oppresses me as a
faithful sun of the hely Catholic Church. I
am deeply sensible of the claims which the
Irish Church has to the love and admira-
tion of the Christian world. History relates the
heroic constancy with which the Irish Catholics have
endured the relentless persecution and hitter scorn of
those who claimed religious liberty for them elves, '
and denied it to their unhappy brethren: With the
knowledge of such sufferings endured for the faith, how
bitter it is to my heart that I cannot defend the Irish
Church in my intercourse with my friends, or against
the attacks of violent opponents in the House of
Commons. It is not of the fearful crime of murder
by individuals of the peasantry that I wish to speak,
however shocking such cold-blooded revenge appears
to thcse at a distance. Nor do I wish to notice the
frequent connivance of the peasantry in the escape of
the assassin. It is not so difficult to make ex-
cuses for men in their circumstances. But

that which completely overpowers me, and deprives
me of all defence, is the :conduct of some members
of the priesthood. Denunciations from the altar fol-
lowed by the speedy death of the denounced, and
public speeches of most dangerous tendency to an
inflammatory people, are the melancholy accusa-
tions to which lam unable to reply. If I assert
the small numbm- of the clergy who have recourse
to such means of obtaining or retaining influence,
I am immediately asked—Where then is the
boasted discipline of the Catholic Church ?
How is it that men so imprudent, if not so
wicked, are not suspended from their spiritual
functions ? lam told that either virtue or discipline
is banished from the Church. If I assert the primi-
tive customs of the Church, the public penance, and
the paternal admonition of the pastor, delivered in
the presence of the people : the reply is, why de-
nounce those not subject to your discipline ? And
why make use of such dangerous methods in a
country which has not forgotten the crimes
engendered by cruel persecution and consequent
dispair ? Oh, my Lord, it is indeed severe to
feel the justice of such remarks—not the remarks, be
it observed, of thoughtless and uncharitable men, but
of those whose best feelings would willingly seek for
all that is pious and good in the Catholic faith. These
are the topics which I venture as a humble and faith-
ful member of the Church to bring under your Grace's
notice. Can nothing be done to remove from us so
heavy a scandal ? What comfort -and security would
be brought to many a confiding Catholic by the speedy
and stern censure of ecclesiastical discipliue upon
the offenders I The fierce declamations of Exeter
Hall, and all the vehemence of Parliamentary oppo-
nents, and all the freedom of Protestant assertion,
have not done so much injury to the cause of the
Catholic faith in this country as these unhappy cir-
cumstances. And now, my Lord Archbishop, it is
my duty to beseech your forgiveness for my great
boldness, which anxiety for the Church has alone
prompted.

" I intreat your Grace's benediction, and have the
honour to be, with every feeling of the deepest respect,
your Grace's very humble, faithful, and obedient
servant,
" ARUNDEL and SURREY.
" To his Grace the Archbishop of Tuam,
St. Jarlath, Tuam."

" Tuatn, Dec. 1, 1847.
"My Lord,—l am honoured with your Lord-
ship's very kind letter, and feel sincerely obliged
for such a communication. If my acknowledgment
should not appear to your Lordship sufficiently
prompt, the delay arose from my anxiety to meet
your anxious wishes to satisfy those who feel
much surprise and sorrow at the present condition of
Ireland. From other respected individuals I have had
lately similar letters; and as the calumnies of the
public journals regarding the conduct of the Catholic
clergy—for calumnies they mostly are—appeared to
have made an unfavourable impression in the sister
country, I thought it but right to put before the
public a correct statement of the relation in which the
clergy of Ireland stand regarding the present circum-
stances of the country.
" The same post by w hich this letter will reach
your Lordship, will also convey a public communi-
cation to the Prime Minister on the important sub-
ject on which you did me the honour to write. I should
perhaps be too sanguine if I anticipated that the senti-
men ts of the let ter would give general satisfaction, even
to all pious and benevolent Catholics, who are sorely
afflicted, as well at the sufferings of the people as at the
imputed connivance of some of the clergy at those
excesses of barbarity of which some of the people
have been guilty. It is not necessary that I should
repeat what I have publicly stated, beyond the asser-
tion that if the clergy were capable of encouraging
or abetting, not only such heinous crimes as they are
charged with encouraging, but even lesser offences,
they would assuredly pay the forfeit by being sus-
pended from the duties of their sacred office. Vague
charges, however, originating with the bitter
calumniators of the Catholic Church, and widely
circulated through those advere organs, can-
not be deemed accusations on which any
canonical proceedings could be foundel. Your
Lordship will not, I trust, imagine that I am
now vindicating or excusing intemperate language,
which I deplore. We must suppose that when such
is uttered, the usual evangelical process of admoni-
tion is made use of Should such language, how-
ever reprehensible, be found accompanied with
such zealous reprobation of crime as the best
friend of society and religion could give expression
to, end should the sincerity of that zeal for the public
order be so borne out by the blameless tenor of a
long and laborious life in advancing the interests of
piety and of the public peace, that it could not be
questioned; the isolated words which could bear a
bad meaning would be favourably interpreted by any
lay impartial jury. I think, then, your Lordship
could put it to any of your scandalized friends,
whether such a person, so circumstanced, deserving
admonition no doubt, could be ignominiously laid
aside from the discharge of the duties of
a ministry which he faithfully fulfilled. I
have dwelt on this case as somewhat ana-
logous to one which has excited, and I re-
gret the occasion, much animadversion. No provoca-
tion, it must be avowed, can excuse the hideous
crimes of some of the peasantry. If religion were
entirely out of the question, good taste and a sense
of propriety should check the use of language of which
the awkward fashion is sometimes as reprehensible as
the idea which it may convey. Still I would
implore of your Lordship to plead for us from
your English friends, when contrasting the two
countries, the consideration of the different
circumstances in which the two countries are
placed. It is not to extenuate crime; that is out
of the question; but within the range of lawful
regimens, it might as well be said that the ordinary
dietary suited to a sound man is also fitted for one in
the last state of sickness and exhaustion, as that the
same course of instruction and discipline adapted to
the well adjusted relations of English society would be
equally efficacious in restoring the shattered frame of
society in Ireland. All I can say is, that from all
your Lordship could read and hear of the cruelties,
the ordinary, the every day recurring cruelties
endured by the Irish peasantry, and inflicted by
those from whose position and education some hu-
manity should be expected, you would have no idea
of the state of Ireland, or the difficult and anomalous
position in which the Catholic clergy are placed. It
is a state of which I pray your Lordship will con-
tinue ignorant in England, to the benefit of the people
and the honour of their aristocracy and gentry. But
whilst I sincerely wish you the continuance of this
comparatively happy state, I beg, in return, to claim
some indulgence for the
position of these who are
not similarly favoured. The clergy of Ireland
may adopt a line of conduct wh' h however
within the pale of Catholic discipline asic ;ell as the
constitution, may appear somewhat strange, nay,
utterly unaccountable to their brethren in England.
It may be—and I own it is the case—that their con-
duct, strictly within the laws of propriety too, would
appear equally strange to those on this side of the
Channel in same circumstances. I have not the least
doubt but many of those who thus view each other's
conduct with equal surprise, would change their line
of conduct if they were to exchange their mutual
positions. And yet to neither one or the other should
I impute inconsistency or any subserviency either he
rto
popular or aristocratic influence unworthy oftheir
order. No, my Lord; in those reflections.siom to which
I am only
the ancient fathers of the Church,
especially
feebly copying those precepts of K
andwl the
great
ne tells us that
the St.
mode
d o and Gregory gave expression.
address
suited to one may not
be applicable to another. lie illustrates this judi-
cious and seasonable variety of treatment by a re-
ference to the different state of the human consti-
tution, and the same may be said of different states of

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society.
" Public denunciations of persons by name, what-
ever be their misdeeds, are not the practice in Ire-