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been called out for active service. Such was the
case with the yeomanry of Essex.
Mr. GOULEURN reminded the Hon. Member
that charges of paitiality had been made against
the Government hi reducing the yeomanry. He
thought the yeomanry of Essex were particu-
!arly liable to be serviceable in protecting the
Ordnance stores at Waltham.
Lord J. RUSSELL and Sir H. VIVIAN both
stated that the yeomanry were not required for
that service.

On renewing the motion for the House to go
into Committee,
Mr. O'CONNELL expressed his regret that the
conduct of the Earl of CARDIGAN bad not been
brought distictly under the notice of the House.
The Hon. and Learned Gentleman condemned
the court-martial on Captain REYNOLDS for not
having taken into its consideration the mitigat-
ing circumstances of his offence. He also con-
demned the conduct of the Horse Guards for ex-
`ending its protection to titles and rank, and re-
'ng it to merit. The Honourable and Learned
Gentleman referred too, very emphatically, to Ca-
nada. He declared that in the civil war which
had already existed there the Government was
wrong; and he cautioned Ministers as to their
future conduct. He referred to the proceedings
of the Bishop of EXETER, which he denounced
as tending to rob the Catholics of Canada, be-
cause they were Catholics. But he would not
believe that such an act of injustice would be
consummated. From Canada Mr. O'CONNELL
went to India, where many of the soldiers are
Catholics ; and he had received many letters
from them complaining of the want of religious
comfort. He assured the House that the present
was a time when they would find it prudent to
conciliate the Catholics of Ireland.
Sir G. GREY, the Judge Advocate, asserted
;hat the court-martial on Captain REYNOLDS had
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strictly done its duty.
Sir DE LACY EVANS thought the court was
not fairly composed. He combatted Lord SoHN
RUSSELL'S opinion that the Earl of CARDIGAN
was persecuted because he was a Peer, the fact
being, that a person of title has many means of
making himself popular more than an untitled
man. He also stated that it was not unusual to
place an officer on half-pay who had incurred

displeasure.
Mr. WARBURTON was of opinion that the facts
of the case required an investigation.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL explained that the rank
of the Earl of CARDIGAN had attracted the no-
tice of the public, not that it had rendered him
unpopular in the army, or with his officers. He
only referred to the affairs of Canada, to say that
any interference with the ordinance would he
considered as intended to withhold a benefit
from Catholics as Catholics.
Mr. HUME thought that Lord HILL should be
removed from the command of the Army.
Mr. MACA ULAY also explained his former
words, and added that they were bound to pro-
vide religious instruction for the Catholics they
sent to India.
Sir R. PEEL deprecated meddling with the
Commander-in-Chief and with the Army. He
approved of the conduct of the Ministry, and
hoped they would persevere in their just course.
After a few words from Colonel SALWEY, Sir
H. HARDINGE explained that he had said the
differences in the Eleventh partook of the nature
of a cabal on the part of some of the officers ;
he bad not attributed a cabal to the whole re-

;invent.
The House then went into a Committee of
Supply, and the Committee divided on the vote
for the yeomanry, which was carried by 49 to 14.
Sir HussEY VIVIAN then moved the Ordnance
Estimates, several of which were voted, and the
House resumed.
The Copyright Bill went through a Committee,
pro forma, and is to be re-considered on the 17th
instant.
Lord J. RUSSELL moved for leave to bring in
Bills to amend the Criminal Law. The Noble
Lord explained the objects of these Bills at some
length. No opposition was made, and leave was
given.
The House adjourned at Twelve o'Clock.

The rancorous attacks now making, both in Par
!lament and by the Tory Press, on our Catholic
fellow-subjects is calculated to excite . alarm for
the permanent tranquillity of the empire. Do the
Bishop of EXETER, Lord STANLEY, and Mr•
Comauffourt suppose that the Roman Catholics
will lie down and be trampled on by them ? If
they do not, why do they seek to make the Le-
gislature an instrument for oppressing the Catho-
lics? Lord STANLEY, utterly regardless of their
feelings, brings in a Bill avowedly to disfranchise
the Catholic peasantry of Ireland, abate the influ-
ence of the Catholic priesthood, and restore the
ascendancy of the Orange landlord. The Irish
Catholics do not for a moment lose sight of this,
—his real object, and the Catholic Journals
have taken for their watchword, Lord Molt-
PETH'S Bill or Repeal. Lord STANLEY, as Mr.
O'CONNELL said, is the great ,promoter of re-
peal, if he be not also the fosterer of rebellion.
For mischief he is well matched by the Bishop
of EXETER. The great (ifajority of the inhabi-
tants of Lower Canada are Catholics, who,
through much oppression, have been loyal to
England. The chief of their seminaries in Ca-
nada, San Sulpice, has been in possession of
certain property—for seignories, as wellas tithes,
are property—ever since the year 1760. Their
possession has never been contested, but latterly
it has been thought advisable to commute the
seignories. That was recommended by Mr.
BuLLER, in a Report to Earl DURHAM, and after
years of contention the terms were agreed
on between the owners of the seignories
and those who were bound to do them service.
An ordinance to carry them into effect was
passed by Lord SEATON in 1839, but could not be
then rendered effective. It has subsequently
been passed by Lord SYDENHAM, and properties
to the value of 65,9731. had been enfranchised
under that ordinance between last July and last
January. The Governor-General, on the spot,
declares that the disallowance of this ordinance
would be most disastrous. Nevertheless, the
Bishop of EXETER, out of a rabid hatred to the
Catholics, and to their priests, which he avows as
his motive, is to move on Friday next, with, we
regret to state, the support of the Duke of WEL-
LINGTON, that this ordinance be disallowed. He
is determined to demonstrate to the Catholics of
Canada that they must not rely on the English
Government for justice and protection. Will
they, particularly if a time of peril and war
should arrive, submit to this injury, or will their
loyalty be enhanced by learning that some bigoted
priest in the House of Peers, of a different reli-
gion from theirs, have a veto on every ordinance
which may be passed for their benefit, and for
the peace of the Colony ?
In conjunction with the Bishop of EXETER
and Lord STANLEY, Mr. COLQUIIOUN brings for-
ward a motion to put down the College of May-
nooth. The Hon. Gentleman aims at suppressing
the only seminary in Ireland for educating the
Catholic priesthood. They have no access to
Trinity College, though on the Continent Catho-
lics and Protestants study theology at the same
University, and have equal privileges. Excluded
from all the opulent national establishments,
which were endowed by Catholics, the State,
which they contribute equally to defend with
the Protestants, has niggardly conferred on them
seven or eight thousand a-year to support May-
nooth, and this poor boon Mr. COLQUI{OUN and
his friends propose to take away. In the House
of Parliament, then, we find three simultaneous
attacks made on the Catholics, as if they were
enemies to be yellcn coerced, and scourged.
The attacks are seconded by the Tory
press. The Times of Thursday last calls the Ca-
tholic priests of Ireland " the hooded incendia-
ries of Maynooth." They are accused of a de-
sign "to betray Ireland into the hands of a fo-
reign Power," to make martyrs of Protestants,
and " to persecute to death every independent
remonstrant." It is emphatically asked "is this
frightful and bloody despotism of the Romish
priests any longer to be endured ?" • These
Romish priests, who exercise this "bloody des-
potism," are said to live on the estates of the
" Irish landlords by sufferance," who are thus
encouraged to use their power in Parliament and
out of Parliament, as they in fact do use it, to
put down and get rid of these so-called "bloody

and despotic tyrants." The Tory press, there-
fore, seconds the efforts of Tory Bishops and
Tory Commoners, and the Tories. and bigots,
in Parliament and cut of PArliamenl 2
are diligently exerting themselves to goad
the Catholics in every part of the empire into a
determined resistance to the Legislature. Such
conduct may be Christian, charitable, Protes-
tant, and just. We are, however, quite sure,
that, under our present circumstances, it is not

politic.
The ground on which the Bishop of EXETER
and the Times defend their conjoint attack on Lord
SICDENII AM'S ordinance, calling it illegal, anti-
Protestant, usurping, and a host of other names,
is the following Act of ELIZABETH. In the 16th
section of the Act of 1 ELIZABETH, cap. 1, it is

enacted—
That no foreign prince, person, prelate, state, or poten-
tate, spiritual or temporal, shall at any time after this Sesiion
of Parliament use, exercise, or enjoy any manner of power,
jurisdiction, superiority, authority, pre-eminence, or privilege,
spiritual or ecclesiastical, within this realm, or within any other
your Majesty's dominions or countries that now be, orhereafter
shall be." • •
Now this enactment is one of the many lies
with which the Statute Book is incumbered. The
Tories at this moment complain continually of
the influence and power of the POPE. No statute
can put a stop to it ; it has always existed, in
fact, to some extent, and will exist, till men,
ashamed of priestcraft, put it down; but on this
abortion of an enactment the Bishop of EXETER
and the rest of the Tories find themselves justi-
fied in throwing Canada into flames. How
strangely must their minds be constituted when
they have such a reverence for ancient falsehood.
But any weapon will serve an angry man ; the
Tories just now are very angry—very hungry,
too, for office—and they would rather, under the
guidance of a Bishop and a ci-devant patriot,
plunge the empire into strife than not give way
to their blind passions. They can afford, great
a stake as they are supposed to have in the coun-
try, .to promote, a bloody contest, which is not
likely, they think, even to spatter their garments;
but the bulk of the people here, in Canada, and
in Irellnd cannot afford to butcher each other
under the hostile banners of the Bishop of
ROME and the Archbishop of CANTERBURY, in
order to gratify the bigotry and malignancy of
any Bishop or any Lordling.
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By the arrival of the Westchester at Liver-
pool on Sunday, in eighteen days, from the United
States, we have received New York papers to the
17th ult. Their contents are more than usually
interesting. The Committee on Foreign Rela-
tions of the House of Representatives presented
a report to that House relative to the burning of
the Caroline, and the case of Mr. M'LEon,
which, but for the debate upon it, might pass for
a preliminary step to the declaration of a war
against this country. This report will be found
at length in another part t The Sun, and will be
read throughout with the deepest interest. For-
tunately, however, the debate which arose in the
House of Representatives upon the motion for
printing the Report, served to explain the way
in which it was got up. Of this debate a sum-
mary will be found following the Report, to
which we invite the' attention of our readers.
Mr. GRANGER, one of the Members of the Com-
mittee on Foreign relations, denounced the Re-
port as the concoction of a faction. JOHN
QUINCY ADAMS, ex-President of the. United
States, likewise denounced the Report as intended
to provoke a quarrel with England. Mr. EVE.
RETT and Mr. FILLEMORE both condemned the
Report, in the strongest terms. Mr. PICKENS,
the Chairman of the Committee who drew up
the Report alone defended it; and his defence of
it I.mounted only to an acknowledgent that it
wo..1:1 have the effect of bullying England into
samission to the demands of the United States.
The Report, then, is not the Report of Congress,
but of Mr. PICKENS and the ex-Cabinet, which
on its retirement from office seeks to bequeath
a legacy worthy of remembrance to the country.
When General JACKSON retired from the Presi-
dency he left his country a national bank-
ruptcy, the result of his currency mania. Mr.
VAN BUREN, more ambitious than old Hickory,
is for bequeathing to his successors the manage-
ment of a war with England. But notwithstand-
ing the gloominess of the political horizon, we
trust th:e' clouds of discontent will pass speedily
away. General HARRISON, the new President of
the United States, is strongly in favour of a pa-
cific conciliatory policy. Mr. GRANGER, who
spoke against Mr. PICKENS'S Report, is Post-
Master-General of the new Cabinet. Mr. WEB-
STER, the new Secretary of State, and Mr. BELL,
the Secretary of War, are opposed to a rupture
with Great Britain.
The Grand Jury empanelled to examine the
indictment against Mr. WLEor• found a true
bill for murder, by a majority of nineteen votes
out of twenty. Mr. M'LEOD was brought be-
fore the Court on the 6th ult. to hear the finding
of the Jury, and was then remanded to gaol till
the next Term of Oyer and Terminer, which
commences on the 22d inst., when, if the British
Government do not effectually interpose, his
trial will take place. But as the question has
been brought before Congress it is not unlikely
that the Federal Government will see the neces-
sity of not leaving such a question to be decided
according to the caprice of one State of the
Union. If the Constitution has deprived the Fe-
deral Government of any power of interference,
the Constitution is manifestly imperfect, and
calls for emendation. It was a bungling regula-
tion, which left the peace and security of the en-
tire Union dependent upon the caprice of one or
other of twenty-four distinct and independent
States.
There is very little observable alteration in
the affairs of the United States Bank. Shares were
quoted in New York at 27, and at Philadelphia
from 261 to 27 being about the rate of the quo-
tations by the last arrival. The following re-
marks on the failure of the United States' Bank
from the Courier and Enquirer of the 16th ult.,
are penned in such a fair and moderate spirit,
that we cannot do less than call attention to them :
The unfortunate are always in the wrong, because people
are so apt tomake success a criterion of conduct, and particu-
larly when the party is absent and cannot be heard in his own
justification. 'this is very much the case with the United
States Bank. Its embarrassments, we have no doubt, are
caused by the heavy losses it has sustained in the Southern
and South Westein States; and yet for a long series
of years previous, investments there were actually safer
than any other—and it was natural they should be, for
they were based on the production of the soil. The
loans to planters or those 'connected with them, were regularly
and easily met when the crop came to market. Now, could
any intellect foresee the extraordinary combination of causes
which at once r,duced, and afterwards kept down, the cotton
crop to one-third of its former value ? For years before, the
price had been gradually on the rise and consumption on the
Increase. The advance was not confined to one market, but
extended to every market in the world,—when, suddenly, the
blow fell, aimed by the Bank of England at American com-
merce, in consequence of the accumulation of specie here under
General Jackson's absurd notions of public wealth. The
Bank then, from policy not from choice, was compelled to throw
herself in the breach, and thought ' that the evil proceeding
from a temporary cause, would soon pass away. The conclu-
sion was a just one; though it proved unfortunate, for two.
short crops of grain in England followed in succession, which
had occurred but once before in half a century, and compelled
an immediate and continued curtailment there, that prevented
the cotton market recovering ; and thus investments which in
the first instance were judicious—a policy which under ordi-
nary circumstance would have been suceessful, proved in the
result ruinous.
In fairness to the United States' Bank, it must
be admitted that it was impossible it could con-
tinue to withstand the all-subduing influence of
the " JACKSON and VAN BUREN Sub-treasury
scheme. General JACKSON might safely, on re-
tiring from office, prophecy the failure of the
banks. Cause and effect bear no closer relation
to each other than the JACKSON Sub-Treasury
Bill and National Bankruptcy in the then condi-
tion of the currency and banks of the United
States.

We have no important news from Canada or
the South American States.
siur-BUILDING IN MAINE.-The tonnage of new vessels
built in Maine last year, was 27,705,60 tons, being more than
any other in the Union, consisting of 26 ships, 48 brigs, 68
schooners, and 3 steamboats.

The Madrid Papers received are of the 27th
ult. They contain no news of importance.

Three of the Ministers, Messrs. Fries, Becerra, and Chacon
were to be members of the Senate ; and three others, Messrs.
Ferrer, Gamboa, and Cortina, were to take their seats in the
Chamber of Deputies. The Duke of Victory, who was re-
turned for both Houses, had not yet made known his choice.
The transactions in the Five per Cents., twenty-eight in
number, amounted to 21,800,000 reels, one of which was ne-
gotiated for cash, at 2$ 3-16, and the rest at 284 at 60 days.

The French Journals of Friday and Saturday
have been duly received. They contain very
little news of political interest. MM. Tamils

and DUPIN visited Lord BROUGHAM at, his hotel
as soon as it was known that he lad arrived in

Paris.
The Prince of Moscowa, the son of Marshal Ney, was ad-
mitted a Member of the Chamber of Peers on Saturday. The
Prince, before taking the oath, intended to enter into a pro-
test against the sentence of his father, but was slenced by the

President.
The body of Marshal Victor was embalmed, on Wednesday,
by M. Gannal, according to his process, and was afterwards
laid on a bed, where it was visited by agreat number of his
friends. The funeral will take place on Tuesday, when the
body will be transferred to the Invalides, at 11 o'clock, to re-
ceive the last ceremonies of the church.' Everything will be
conducted on such a. scale as to make the spectacle one of
great magnificence. Detachments from all the regiments of
the garrison will be in attendance.
By the death of the Duke de Bellune, there are now only
four marshals of the empire--viz., the Dukes de Conegliano,
de Dalmatie, du Reggio and Raguse.
In the Chamber of Deputies M. Lacrosse addressed some
questions to Ministers respecting the condition of the Blacks in
the French colonies. Admiral Duperre replied, that the bar-
barity of the planters towards their slaves was greatly exagge-
rated, and read a report of the Governor of Guadeloupe,
which stated that no rigorous chastisements had been lately in-
flicted in that island.
The editor of the journal called La France, and the mana-
gers, Messrs. Lubis and De Menton, who were thrown into pri-
son, charged with having forged the letters attributed to Louis
Philippe, were liberated on Thursday last. These gentlemen
have been in prison for a month, on a charge which it appears
is now abandoned; and their case is the more severe, because
the law affords them no remedy for so grievous a wrong.
'1 he last accounts from Wilna state that the Emperor Nicho-
las had laid an extraordinary contribution of a silver ruble per
head on all the inhabitants of the two principal governments
of Lithuania, those of Grodno and Wilna. The population
amounting to upwards of a million of souls, it is calculated
that the proceeds of the tax will exceed 4,000,000 f., which,
according to the imperial ukase, are to be applied to
the foundation of a school of cadets at Wilna. The
Emperor had, moreover, ordered that a permanent capitation
tax of one ruble in paper, or 10d. per head, be levied on the
people of those two Governments for the maintenance of that
establishment. " The regular taxes being If. per head (says
our private letter) the public burdens will thus be doubled at
the caprice of the Czar, who, from the wording of the ukase,
seems to threaten a similar visitation on the other govern-
ments of the empire."
The Independent de /a Moselle gives in its last number the
following news extracted from a letter addressed by a person of
distinction in St. Peter,burgh, to an ecclesiastic of the diocese ;
it appears to us the more remarkable from its having been pub.
by that journal:--
" Tell me if it is the same with you as in Russia, great nu,m-
bees of Jews are converted ; the population of entire places em.
brace Christianity. lam delighted with these conversions, even
should they announce the end of the world, the approach of
which, according to the prophecies of the Bible, is to be indica-
ted by the conversion of the remnant of Israel."—La Gazette
de France.
The Messager contradicts the statement of the Journal de
Havre, that the Aube frigate is coming home from New Zea-
land, and affirms that if it has left, it can be only for a time, to
take in provisions at Sydney. Very well ! but we are not told
whether the Government is resolved to enforce the claims
arising from contracts; made by Frenchmen for the posses-
sion of certain portions of the territory of New Zealand, and to
dispute the seizure by the English Government of the whole
territory.
The Committee of the Chamber of Deputies on literary pro-
perty has decided that the right of the Academies, and other
learned bodies, to writings published in their name should cons
tinue thirty years ; but it gives the state only ten years pro-
perty in the writings published by its order and at its expense.
Ihe Count de St. Aulaire is detained at Vienna by indispo-
sition ; it is doubtful whether he will be able to be at Paris to
attend the debate and give his vo!e on the Fortifications Bill.
La Presse.
BOURSE.--PARIS, SATURDAY, MARCH 6.
First Highest Lowest Last
Price !'rice. Prict, Price
French 5 per Cents i 1160 ... 113 85 113 60 113 85
4 per Ceuta
3 per Cents.., 76 90 ... 77 5 ... 76 90 ... 77 5
Bnkof r ranee
...3
.10
L ditte Bank 1,0001. Sh ..... 1030 ...10)0 —lOO ...1050
5000 f. Stares 5155,..5155 ...5155
'elgian Bank
5 per Cents lOl% ... 101% ... 101% ... 101%
3 per Cents 7O N 5 ... 70 35 ... '7O 10 70 10
New Loan 111%... 1 1% 10i% ... iota
Spanish Active 25% ... 25% 25% ..„ 25%
Passive 6 ... 6 a
Portuguese 3 per cents
Neapolitan log 5 ... 102 30 ... 102 5 ... 502 :.*0
Roman lolY's ••• 101 i
. RAILWAY SHARES, 101
Versailles,R. B 405 40 50 ... 405 ... 40y 50
L.B. .....
Orleans ..
Strsehurg to Bale 212 50 ... 242 50 ... 242 50 .. 240 50
Rouen 455 ... 460 ... 455 ... 460
BELGIAN I! UNDS—Bausens, MARCH 6.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent.
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent 99lc,
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per-Cent....
3 per Cent. .....

(1? 40) ill%
Loan of City, 1832,4 per Cent. BB
Society of Commerce, 4Y4 per Cent 192
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent 87%
National Society. ....... .....
Exchange on London (short)
—Brussels Payers, March 6.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—Vranna, Fen. 26
Five per Cents. Bietalliques • ..... 105 N
Four per Cents• ...... 98%
Three per Cents. .............. 1.••••••••••••••• ..... 78
Bank Shares •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• ............ 10.4
...Allgenseine &hung, March 3.