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FRENCH FUNDS.—PARis, MARCH I.

Five per Cents., 105 f. 9"c. 95c 106 k.
Four and a Half per Cents., 1011. 10c.
Four per Cents., 93f.
Three per Cents., 76f. 25c. 45c. 50c.
Bank Actions, 1,780 f.
Rente de Naples, 92f. 50c. 55c.
Roman Five per Cents., 92%%q.
Rente d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 27 27%4.
Rente d'Espagne, Three per Cents., 39% %
Rente Perpet. d'Espagne, k ive per Cents., 61%%.
Belgian Loan, 1831, Five per Cent., 98%34.
Haytian Loan, 275 f.
EXCHANGE ON LONDON.
One month, paper, 25f. 20c.
Three months, paper, 25f. 10c.
—Coors Authentiaue.

The result of the Dudley election may, in
some measure, be attributed to the slowness
of Ministers in granting relief to the Dissen-
ters ; but that forms but a small part of the
cause. Sir JOHN CAMPBELL has himself
chiefly to blame for the untoward event. He
chose a new borough where the electors are
of such a description that they are either led
away by Radical principles, or controlled by Tory
masters. Ike irritated the latter by making
an uncalled for attack on the magistrates, and
branding them as violent political partisans.
His support of the Irish Coercion Bill and
some other measures, ill-suited to radicalism,
formed an excuse for the radical party coalescing
with their bitter enemies. The Westminster
election was another proof how difficult, nay,
impossible, it is to fill a high office under the
Crown and at the same time be a popular re-
presentative. _

The affair of the Rev. INIr. GLEIG and Lord
JOHN RUSSELL continues, as might be expected,
to excite a strong feeling against the Govern-
ment. The Tories secretly boast of it as a
proof of the imbecility of Ministers, and ask
whether this does not show the superior intelli-
gence, learning, and piety of their party, when
the Paymaster of the Forces comes over to their
ranks to select a chaplain for Chelsea Hospital?
And who is the individual chosen ? The
nominee of a Tory Archbishop a Tory
writer in a publication ever hostile to the
Government,—the favourite companion of the
Tory LONDONDERRY, and one of the bitterest
writers against reform. Mr. GLEIG admits that
he wrote against reform ; and he also admits that
the favour was unsolicited. Here we have the
author of the Reform Bill conferring the best

living in his gift on a writer who joined with the
LYNDHURSTS and LONDONDERRYS, and
all the enemies of reform, in opposing a
measure on the success of which the
GREY Administration rested, and in ex-
citing a commotion in 1832, which threat-
ened the very existence of the Constitution.
No defence can be made for such conduct, be-
cause it is impossible to reconcile absurdities.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL has the appointment in
trust for the benefit of the public service—he
grants to an enemy, and encourages every Tory
underling in office to persevere in thwarting the
views of Government. What an encouragement
to friends, and what a compliment to the inde-
pendent clergy, who, from principle, continued,
through good report and through bad report,
to support the Whigs, when they had nothing
to expect from them ! Had this strange
proceeding attached blame to Lord JOHN
alone, it would have been of little conse.
quence, but it is only of a piece with the doings
of some others of the ministry. What was their
conduct in filling up the office of store-keeper in
the stationery-office ? They made an attempt to
put the son of Sir JOHN KEY in it, but the
choice was so notoriously bad that they disgusted
their friends by it more than their enemies.
Whom did they appoint ? One recommended
by their friends, or the nominee of the most
unflinching Tory in the United Kingdom. " Call
ye this backing your friends ?"

There is no news in the Brussels Papers o!
Saturday worth quoting.

. _
BELGIAN FUNDS.—BRUSSELS, FEB. 27.
Actual Debt, 2 % per Cent. 5O
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent 961
Loan of the City, 1832, 4 per Cent.. 9334

The following is the Russian version of the
treaty lately entered into between the St. Pe-
tersburgh Cabinet and the Porte
:
ST. PETERSBURGH, FEB. 10.—A treaty has been signed here
between our Court and the Plenipotentiary from Constanti-
nople, Achmet Pacha, which settles several points relative to
the treaty of Constantinople, to the perfect satisfaction of the
Porte. These points are the evacuation of the principalities
on the Danube, the settlement of the boundaries of Asia, and
of the war contribution. We hear that Hospedars will be ap-
pointed by the Sultan for Moldavia and Wallachia without
delay, and that the evacuation by the small number of Russian
troops still remaining there will be completed within two
months. The question relative to the boundaries of Asia is
settled, and the Emperor of Russia has abandoned a consider-
able proportion of the war contribution, and has consented that
the remainder may not be burdensome to the Porte. Several
years will be allowed for payment. The treaty has been sent to
the Porte for ratification. Achmet Pacha is about to take
his departure for the Ottoman capital—alligemeine Zeitung,
Feb. 25.

By accounts from Niadrid of the 20th, we
learn that a Royal Ordinance has appeared re-
lative to the organization of the Urban militia.
When a military corporation like this, enroll-
ing in its ranks those classes of society who
have an interest in the preservation of good
order, is fully organized, the QUEEN•REGENT

of SPAIN wilt have one great obstacle removed
to the convocation of a liberal and constitu-
tional Cortes. We perceive, by the same
papers, that General QUESADA has been ap-
pointed Viceroy of Navarre and Commander-
in-Chief of the Army of the North, in place
of General VALDEZ, who has been made
Captain-General of Old Castile.

We learn by German Papers, received this
morning, that the prices of corn at Odessa have
fallen considerably, in consequence of the de-
mand for Government having ceased. This
augurs well for the continuance of peace. We
also learn from Russia, that the prices have
abated throughout the Governments on the
Wolgo, in consequence of the usual supplies
for St. Petersburgh having been obtained from
other sources. The natural consequence is,
that corn is now become more plentiful for the
poor, in proportion to its cheapness.
VIENNA, FEB. 19.—Five per Cent. Metalliques,
97 21-32 ; Four per Cents., 87 3-10 ; Bank Shares,
1,238.

A Second Edition of the Birmingham
Journal, dated Saturday evening, mentions
that tranquillity is perfectly restored at Dudley.

We have news from Portugal to the 24th
ult. by which it appears that MIGUEL had so
far increased his army by the junction of that
under General LEMOS from Alemtejo, and re-
inforcements from the vicinity of Oporto, as to
be able to make a sortie on the 18th, with a
view of dislodging Marshal SA LDANA.
The Miguelites, were, however, defeated,
after a very sanguinary battle, in which
they fought with more than usual bravery. The
details were not known when the steamer left,
but it was reported that MIGUEL lost 1,200 in
killed, wounded, and prisoners, while PEDRO'S
army suffered to the extent of about 300. A
correspondent of a Morning Paper says of the
affair of the 18th near Santarem :

" That Count Saldanha displayed very great courage upon
that day, and was foremost wherever there was any danger.
At one particular moment of the engagement, 300 men of the
brave No. 12 Cacadores were involved, and must have surren-
dered to the enemy, but for Brigadier-General Bacon's
timely assistance with the only cavalry on the field, not
more than eighty men. The enemy fought so well this
time in consequence of a proclamation of Don Miguel,
telling his men that Donna Maria's troops were all dis-
persed about the country, and that consequently they
would meet with little or no resistance, and be able to arrive
in Lisbon on the :12d, being the anniversary of his own entry
into this city some years since. It is stated by some officers
who were in the engagement, that, notwithstanding Brigadier-
General Bacon's and Captain Wakefield's efforts, about 40
of the cavalry on this side, all Portuguese, when charged by
Don Miguel's, conducted themselves with very great
cowardice, and that it was almost a matter of impossibility
to get them to keep their ground. Captain Wakefield, toge-
ther with three other cavalry officers, is amongst the wounded,
although not severely. A Spaniard is reported to have
been made prisoner, and it is imagined that a battalion
which Don Carlos has been forming at Beja for his own
service was in the action. I have endeavoured to ascertain
this f, om gentlemen who were present, and I find that some
assert it as a fact, and others say that if there was such a
corps they never saw it. General Saldanha did not make
any mention of it in his despatch ; but if it really was
the case, it would alter the position of Great Britain re-
specting an armed interference, although it would be an
occurrence very much to be deplored, from the loss of
men and expense which it would bring on us, as well as
from the length of time which might be required to settle
things. My own opinion is, that there was no such battalion
of Don Carlos's engaged on the 18th. We have not yet seen
Count Saldanha's promised despatch with all the details, I-
should mention that the arrangements on--this 'side were sP
badly made, that it was a mere matter of chance that the--::
happened to be any cavalry on the grouiScV ThelAioners
taken arrived yesterday, and appeared to me to be between 120
and 130 in number, and better clothed thaix we could have
imagined."

THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.)

CITY, T WEL VE O'CLOCK.

We have no arrivals this morning, or ship letters, with the
exception of the Lisbon Mail, by the Coufiance, sailed on the
24th instant, and the Express from Paris.
The accounts from Lisbon are to the 25th instant. A battle
took place on the 18th instant, after Don Miguel had received
his reinforcements from the Alemtejo, and some troops from
the neighbourhood of Oporto ; immediately a sortie was made
from Santarem of about seven to eight thousand men, under
the command of General Lemos, who, it is said, took General
Saldanha by surprise. It was fought at Azamluiguyeira ; the
conflict was severe and bloody, but it terminated with the re,
treat of the Miguelites, whose loss is stated at 1,000 to 1,200
men, and that of Saldanha at 300.
Upon the whole, it appears evident that Miguel is at present in
great force, and that Don Pedro cannot venture to make an at-
tack on Santarem, as his brother is strongly intrenched there,
and it is stated has sufficient supplies to hold out for some time
, to come.
A letter from Falmouth, posted at the North and South
American Coffee-house, says,—l beg to write to you that the
Confiance steamer has arrived from Lisbon, by which I have
received two notes : the first states that a heavy action took
place on the 17th, and the Miguelites were compelled to retreat
with the loss of 700 killed and prisoners, and the loss of the
Pedroites was 500 killed. The Belgians marched for the army
on the 19th. The second note states, that although the Pe-
droites have brought into Lisbon three standards of the enemy,
I believe they have gained no advantage of consequence.
The accounts from Spain are still unsatisfactory : the Carlists
continue in great force. No positive information is given of the
assembling of the Cortes. The accounts from Bayonne state
that the Carlists have reoccupied severalposts which they had
abandoned between Vera and Hernani, and the authorities of
Irun have taken refuge in France.
The, information from Belgium has rather a sombre cast.
It appears that the Prussians have taken up the matter of Lux.
emburg in a serious light and reinforced that garrison to 16,000
men; the Belgians are also on the qui vine, and moving rein-
forcements to that quarter.

THE FUNDS.
Consols, which left off on Saturday at 91 % I for the Ac-
count, opened this morning at 90 % to 91, with the appear-
ance of a heavy market, owing to the continued convulsed state
of th e a ffairs of Belgium and Holland.
It is now the general opinion also that the civil wars at pre.
sent raging in Spain and Portugal will not terminate so soon as
was anticipated. The Queen Regeot in Spain has not sufficient
troops to put down the Carlists, and Don Miguel is still at the
head of a strong force and will fight to the last extremity.
In the Foreign Market the news from Portugal is not thought
favourable, and the Portuguese Stock has fallen 2 per cent.—
done at 69 ; Spanish has also receded to 31 % 34.
HALF-PAST ()XS.

The general topic of conversation in the city this morning
entirely relates to the news from Portugal, and is regarded in
various lights, according to the interest of the parties. Report ,
says that Saldanha was obliged to retreat ten miles after the
battle, and that Miguel was strongly intrenched ()Inside of
Santarem, with a large force. He had also received a great
supply of shoes for his army.
Portuguese Stock, which was done at 68, has improved to
691,4 ; Spanish 32 33.
Consols have been during the morning at 91, alternately
buyers and sellers, with little doing.
The sale of the East India Company's tea has been put off
until to-morrow, owing to the great amount of the declaration.
THREE O'CLOCK
Consols for the Account, 91.

GRAND ORIENTAL BAZAAR.—We beg to
call the attention of our readers to an advertisement in
the front of our paper, in reference to this recently esta-
blished promenade. We have visited it ourselves, and
the gratification we experienced induces as to strongly
recommend it to the notice of the public.
The " Duty Pohl List," published by the
Customs, gives the quantities of wines cleared during
eleven days, ending with yesterday fortnight, as follows
—Sherry, 87,675 gallons, equal to 811 butts ; Port,
98,938 gallons, equal to 860 pipes; Madeira, 10,422 gal-
lons, equal to 113 pipes; French, 7,640 gallons, equal to
166 hogsheads; Cape, 11,679 gallons, equal to 127 pipes;
all others 15,354 gallons, various. Total, 231,709 gal-
lons. *On the Thursday and Friday the quantities of
Port and Sherry alone were, of the first, 25,818 gallons,
or about 225 pipes ; of the other, 24,692 gallons, or
about 200 butts.
RATE OF INTEREST.—It is a singular fact
that, owing to the amount of unemployed capital confined
to the metropolis by the vicious state of the currency, the
rate of interest has been for a long time in an inverse ratio
to the nature of the security, the discount on bills of ex-
change being, at this time, little more than half the corn-
men mortgage interest.

IMPERIALPARLIAMENT

THIS DAY, MONDAY, MARCH 3.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

The SPEAKER took the chair at a quarter.past twelve o'clock.
Mr. HODGSON presented a petition from Newcastle.upon.
Tyne, in favour of the establishment of the Newcastle water
works.

Mr. SINCLAIR brought up the report of the committee on
the Glasgow roads improvement petition, and brought in a biil
in accordance with the report.
Read a first time.
Mr. TOWNLEY brought up a report of the committee on
the Wisbeach improvement petition.
Referred to the committee on standing orders.
On the motion of an Hos. MEMBER (name unknown), the
Bute Ship Canal Bill was read a second time.
Mr. HARLAND brought in a bill to enable the Hartlepool
Dock and Railway Company to make a new branch railway,
leading from Hartlepool to the city of Durham.—Read a first
time.

Lord SANDON brought up the report of the committee on
the Liverpool Court of Passage; and brought in a bill to alter
and amend the practice and proceedings of that court. The
noble lord then presented a petition from Liverpool in favour of
the union of the Wigan branch railway.
Mr. CLAY presented the report of the committee on the
London and Westminster Banking Company's petition to ena-
ble any one or more of the directors or trustees to sue and be
sued in the name of the company; and obtained leave to bring
in a bill for that purpose.
An Hot. MEMBER presented a petition from Melton in favour
of the London and Bristol Railway.
Mr. HODGSON presented a petition from a Baptist congre-
gation at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, for the removal of the grie-
vances under which the Dissenters laboured.

Mr. POTTER presented a petition from a congregation of
Dissenters assembling for religious worship in Hope Chapel,
Wigan. The petitioners prayed to be relieved from the pay-
ment of church-rates, and other ecclesiastical demands for the
repair and maintenance of the established church, from which
they conscientiously differed, and consequently received no bene-
fit. They also expressed their conviction that religious associ.
ations should depend for support upon the voluntary contribu-
tions of their own members. They complained of the great
hardship and serious inconvenience arising from the want of
a legal mode for the registration of births, marriages, and
deaths. The petitioners thought they ought to be allowed the
of parochial cemeteries which were public property ; they also
considered their exclusion from national schools and the univer-
sities as very unjust. As regarded the payment of church rates,
he considered the dissenters had just grounds of complaint,
and he trusted the house would at no distant period relieve
them. The strong feeling which had lately manifested itself in
the country against the payment of church rates, ought to con-
vince his Majesty's ministers that they cannot be long exacted.
In many parishes the opposition to them has been successful,
not by illegal means but by a vote of the vestry; two instances
of this occurred last year at Christ Church, Surrey, one in May
and the other in July, and the opposition was so general that
there was a considerable majority not only by single votes, but
by plurality of votes under Sturges Bourne's Act. The church
was for three weeks without sexton, organist, and other persons
generally employed ; even the clock was stopped. A few weeks
back every thing was restored as usual, but not by means of the
parish funds, and it is generally thought it will be impossible to
obtain another rate; a circumstance like this must greatly in-
jure the establishment. Many other instances might be men-
tioned where church rates have been so refused. If he (Mr.
Potter) was one of the most ardent supporters of the church
the best and safest course he would recommend was to give up
the church rates with a good grace. It was said the church
rates in England amounted to about 600,0001., and an opinion
had been given from high authority that they might be very
considerably reduced; but he (Mr. Potter) begged to observe,
that it was not so much the amount as the principle which was
objectionable. An instance of this occurred last year in the
great parish of Manchester ; a vestry was called to lay a church
rate, only one halfpenny in the pound was proposed, but the ob-
jection even to that small rate was as great as if it had been twenty
times as much : the show of hands was decidedly against
the rate ; a poll was demanded, and at its close, at the end of
several days, the rate of one halfpenny was only carried by a
majority of 156 voters ; nearly double the number of persons
voted against the rate, and it was only sanctioned by the voting
under the vestry act. As regarded the Dissenters' Marriage Bill,
brought in by the noble Paymaster of the Forces, he regretted
that it did not give satisfaction, not only to Dissenters, but to
the hon. baronet the member for Oxford. If hon. members
would only refer to the report on parochial registration, they
would find the registers of all classes were very defective, and
loudly called for an alteration.

Mr. BROTHERTON presented a petition from an indivi-
dual named Thomas Hopkins, of the borough of Salford, pray-
ing for a repeal of the corn laws, and a remission of those taxes
which press most heavily upon industry.
Colonel L. HAY presented a petition from a place in
Scotlard_ pr•ving for the repeal of the law of patronage.
r Ordered to be referry=i to the committee.

The same Flo v. Mr°4l3l_, gave notice that on the ;)'i of
tat k; would move for a select committee to investigate the
amount of fees, and other expenses, attending the passing of
private bills.
Mr. E. L BULWER presented a petition from members of
the Baptist persuasion of the city of Lincoln, praying relief
from the disabilities under which they laboured, and for the re-
peal of all laws affecting the rights of conscience. There were
two points in the petition upon which he could not entirely
agree with the petitioners, wherein they prayed for admission
into the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, because he
could not see how it was possible to compel those two univer-
sities to admit Dissenters, as they were supported by private
donations. He concurred in all the other parts of the petition.
Mr. TENNYSON begged to say a few words upon the
petition which had just been presented. He greatly
regretted that the bill brought in by the noble llord, the
Paymaster of the Forces, was not of a more extensive
nature, and he greatly regretted that his Majesty's speech
did not express something like a recommendation to that house
to introduce some measure for the disabilities under which
dissenters laboured. Judging from the measure brought for-
ward by the noble lord, judging also from the measure of Irish
Church Reform passed during the last session, he greatly feared
that nothing satisfactory to the feelings of the dissenters would
be done by his Majesty's government.
Mr. O'CONNELL having received many letters andpetitions
of a similar nature, from dissenters, calling upon him to sup-
port their paayer, now rose for the purpose of discharging his
duty to that body once for all. He concurred with the hon.
member who had last spoken, that the bill introduced by the
noble lord would be totally unsatisfactory. It did not extend
any relief as to the want of a proper registration of births and
burials of dissenters. For his part, he did not think it any
boon to the catholic portion of dissenters, for they had the
same objection as the protestant dissenters to have any religious
ceremonies in which they did not concur mixed up with their
own forms of worship. He did not concur in the observation
made by the hon. member for Lincoln regarding the uni.
versities. Nine-tenths of these institutions were founded
for the relief of the suffering souls in purgatory, by
the celebration of mass, and other Roman catholic ceremonies.
Now, unless the Government could by an act of parliament
clear out purgatory, they did away with the intention of the
donors, by converting these institutions to any other purposes.
He thought that having established religious equality, their
next step should be to extinguish the feeling of asperity and
animosity that existed between Christians of different persua-
sions. One of the best modes of doing this would be to educate
the youths of different persuasions together. The Dissenters
had requested him to support the prayer of their petitions, and
they did him but justice in supposing that he would be ready
to procure for them that relief from religious disabilities which
he had already procured for themembers of his own persuasion.
Sir M. W. RIDLEY said, that as he had a petition to pre.
sent upon this same subject, he would take that opportunity of
stating what his sentiments were with respect to it. lie en.
tirely concurred in the prayer for granting relief to Dissenters
from those grievances under which they laboured, but he cer-
tainly did not go to the extent that some of those petitions
went, particularly as far as regarded the separation of church
and state. This was a most mistaken view of sound policy,
and if the house were to act upon this recommendation, it
would do more injury to the Dissenters themselves and to the
body of the community than any other measure. He agreed
with the hon. and learned member for Dublin, that if the mea-
sure of relief were to be confined to the bill brought in by the
Paymaster of the Forces, he (Sir M. W. Ridley) would be con-
cerned that it did not go further. He had, however, reason to
believe that a measure granting more advantages to the Dis-
senters, and remedying more grievances, would be soon sub-
mitted to the house.--(Hear, hear.) A great deal had been
said about the compulsory payments of church rates, &c. ; he
concurred in the propriety of putting an end to them ; but there
was a circumstance which had come to his knowledge so highly
creditable to the character of the dissenters, that he would take
the liberty to state it to the house. In the parish of St. Mar-
tin-in-the-Fields the church rates had fallen into arrear, and
a large sum of money, about 1,6001. was due. The vestry
did not think it right to press, and they trusted to be able to
make it up by voluntary contributions. The plan was tried,
the whole, or nearly the whole, of this sum was raised, and the
collectors informed him that no class of persons contributed
more liberally or generously than the dissenters.—(Hear.)
Mr. C. I'DWYER said that there was one principle con-
tained in le bill introduced by the noble Paymaster of the
Forces whir_ , in a similar bill introduced by Lord Plunkett
in Ireland, had been productive of serious inconvenience and an-
noyance—he meant the Provision which rendered it necessary
to have the permission of the clergy of the established church
previous to the burial of the dead.
Dr. LUSHINGTON said that it would be much more expe-
dient to wait till the noble Paymaster of the Forces was pre-
sent before entering upon this discussion. Unless the bill was
fairly stated, and the principles of it fully understood, it was
entirely incompetent for any gentleman, be his talent what
it might, to pronounce a just opinion upon any particular
part of it. The hon. member who spoke last has stated that
a particular part of the present bill would be productive of
considerable annoyance to the Dissenters. He would state,
that when the bill was seen, and its provisions known, the
Dissenter would not entertain that opinion, and for this res_
son, that there would be no such provision contained in it.
lie was afraid that it was premature to enter into any discus.
sion at present, but he would say that it would be competent
to any person whatever, whether a Dissenter or a member of
the church, to be married in a dissenting chapel. If
any hon, member could tell him precisely what a Dissenter

was, so as that it might be embraced in an act of Parliament,
in such a manner as to render it effectual, he would say then
that the practice might be different, and that they might go
upon another system. He was well aware that these observa-
tions were premature—(Hear, hear, and from some hon. mem--
ber, " Why do you make them ?") Why did he make them ?
For this reason ; he did not introduce the discussion, but he
thought it right to prevent any misapprehension, and he
thought that it would be expedient that no missatement should
go forth upon this most important question, because he thought
it desirable that they should not raise an outcry against a mea-
sure until they had had an opportunity of considering it, and
because, above all, he thought it desirable:that the truth should
be stated at all times.— (Cheers.)
Mr. SHIEL would say that if the present discussion was
premature, the statement of the noble lord was one of supere-
rogation. If the learned doctor were right, no doubt ministers
had misled the public. It was asserted that an evil would
crise from the omission of proclaiming bans previous to the
helebration of marriages ; that clandestine marriages would be
the consequence. Still, in Ireland no bans were proclaimed,
and there those private marriages did not occur. He consi-
dered the learned doctor had treated the subject with too much
warmth. _ _

Mr. H. BULWER differed from the hon. member for Lin-
coln. He thought it quite fair that the property of Uni-
versities should be subject to the controul of Parliament ; in
fact, the constitutions of all corporate bodies should be altered,
and especially those of Universities.
Mr. C. BULLER hoped that the spirit of the nineteenth
century would regulate such amendments as were proposed,
and not the unchristian spirit of the 16th century.
Mr. D. W. HARVEY said there was nothing so un-
grateful to the ears of Dissenters as the word " toleration;" it
should be exploded altogether—perfect equality was
what the Dissenters aspired to.—(Hear, hear.) All Christians
should be put upon an equal footing. He would like to
hear an illustration for saying that the separation of church
and state would be prejudicial to dissenters. No argument
had been used to prove that assertion. With regard to the
sroperty of the church, it was not the wish of dissenters to
spoliate it, for dissenters themselves had an interest in pre-
serving such property as was just; their own endowments
were concerned—(hear, hear),—and while they prayed for an
altilption in the existing system, they did not intend that the
chu/ch should be disrobed of what fairly belonged to it.
Mr. FINCH said he could not let the observations made by
the hon. member for Colchester go forth to the public without
a reply. There was no doubt but that Parliament had the
power to enact any measures as regarded' the church that it
pleased, but he for one held that the property of the church
ought to be held as sacred as the private property of any gentle-
man who heard him. Then, again, the property which had
been bequeathed to the Universities was bequeathed to them for
a particular and specific purpose, and how to interfere with that
—to divert it from that purpose—would, in his opinion, be
complete spoliation. He also thought that it was the duty—
the bounden duty—of every Christian state to provide, and
that most liberally, for the religious instruction of the people.
Mr. H. HUGHES said he would take that opportunity for
stating that the intentions of the dissenters, as stated by the
hon. member for Colchester, were not those held by the great
majority of the dissenters in the country. He had waited there
for two mornings in order to support the prayer of a petition
from a large parish in Surrey. That petition was the joint
one of churchmen and dissenters. There was one paragraph in it
which belonged exclusively to Dissenters, and there they stated
their desire to bear witness to the scriptural nature of the ar-
ticles of the church, and that they viewed the establishment as
having been a complete barrier to the inroads of superstition
and infidelity which otherwise must have overrun the land.
Mr. A. JOHNSTONE believed that the hon.member for Col-
chester might have properly stated the views entertained by
one party of Dissenters, but certain he was that the great body
of Dissenters had a very different view of these matters as con-
nected with the establishment, and their intention was to strip the
church of all its endowments. The hon. member has
said, that the dissenters did not pray for, but demanded
equality. He (Mr. Johnstone) trusted that he would never
see the day when the highest privileges of the state
would be conferred upon those who were inimical to the
religion of the country—(hear, hear ;) —and that when
any such demand was made to that house, the House of Corn-
mons would meet it in such a way as it ought. to be met in a
Christian legislature.

After a few words from Mr. E. L. BULWER, the petition was
ordered to lie on the table.

Mr. BELLEW presented petitions from parishes in the
county of Louth, praying for a repeal of the union, and the
total abolition of tithes. He said the petitioners did not wish
that the abolition of tithes should benefit the landlord, but the
people, and certain was he (Mr, Bellew) that until there was a
proper appropriation of the Church property in that
country there never would be any peace.--(Hear, hear.)
Mr. RUTHVEN supported the prayer of the petition, ob-
serving that the extinction of tithes, in its most extended sense,
would not prevent the people of Ireland from asking for repeal,
and that nothing short of a domestic legislature would satisfy
them. After a few words from Mr. Lalor, the petition was
ordered to lie on the table.

Sir EDWARD KNATCHBULL presented a petition from
the co-A:neis acting for the county of Kent, praying for addi-
tional fees.

Sir GEORGE STRICKLAND, while he deprecated the
burdening the county rates, admitted that the fees to coroners
were too small, and ought to be increased.

Sir EDWARD KNATCHBULL presented a petition from
the inhabitants and landowners of Clare, in the county of Suf-
folk, in support of the established church.
Mr. O'DWYER presented petitions from Ballynocking for
the repeal of the union and the abolition of tithes. The hon.
member also moved for a return of the expenses of the prose-
cution against Mr. Barrett, of the " Pilot" newspaper.
Mr. POULTER presented petitions from the dissenters bf
Greenwood, in Wilts, and several other parishes in the county
of Dorset, praying for the removal of the disabilities under
which they laboured. It was the general opinion of the dis-
senters that the bill introduced by the Paymaster of the
Forces was not only no boon to them, but a most ob-
jectionable measure. In the opinion of the honour-
able member, clandestine marriages would be prevented
by a system of universal registration. He trusted that the time
was not far distant when all classes of Dissenters would be ad-
mitted to the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, and receive
that education to which they were entitled.

Mr. TENNYSON presented a petition from Mr. Henry Hunt,
complaining of the expences to which returning officers put
candidates for the House of Commons. The petitioner stated
that he lost his election in consequence of the conduct of the re.
turning officer for Preston, in appointing not less than 20 polling
booths, instead of 15, which was limited by the reform bill, and
he was thereby put to a very considerable and unnecessary
expense. The right hon. gentleman moved that the petition
be referred to the Committee on Election Expenses.
Mr. H. FLEET WOOD would not enter into the statement
in the petition at present, but would content himself with
beseeching that the house would not come to any judgment
upon the subject until the report of the committee had been
presented.

Mr. BUCKINGHAM presented petitions from Sheffield,
and from the fishermen and seamen of a parish in the county of
Fife, for the abolition of the system of manning the navy by
impressment.

Mr. H. HUGHES supported the prayer of the petitions, and
he trusted that the Right Hon. Gentleman the first Lord of
the Admiralty, would introduce a measure that would have the
effect of abolishing the system of impressment.

Mr. ROBINSON said he had a petition from a considerable
number of merchants, shipowners, and traders of the port of
London, upon the same subject, but as he feared that he should
not have an opportunity of presenting it to-day, he would
make a few observations upon the petitions presented by
the hon. member for Sheffield. He believed that this was the
first time the attention of the merchants and shipowners of
London had been expressed upon this subject in a formal way
to the house ; and they were of opinion that the time had now
arrived when the House of Commons ought to take into its
consideration this important matter. If ever there was a time
when an inquiry could be advantageously insisted on as to the
Impressment of seamen, with a view to ascertain any other
mode of obtaining them this was that time; for we were now in
to hearty concurrence
doing
a w
a y
a state of profound peace, and in close alliance with a
most powerful nation, with whom we were for many years at
enmity. He (Mr. R.) would not occupy any further attention
of the house; but for fear that he might not have an
opportunity of presenting his very important petition, he
toa
hogged
y proposition
t s aywthhiacth hweo uwouldwould
haveh
give
e his
effect
the impressment of seamen.

Sir GEORGE STRICKLAND deprecated the system of im-
pressment for seamen. He could conceive that if the country
became suddenly involved in war the Government might be
placed in a position of great difficulty from not having the
means of supplying the navy with seamen, but he trusted that
some other system than the present would be adopted. He had
heard with pleasure that it was the intention of government to
have not less than 1,000 boys in the navy, for the purpose of
having them drafted into vessels as they may be required,
and this would have the effect of making employment in the
navy much more popular. He conceived that no impressment
should take place Unless when circumstances rendered it
absolutely necessary. He was aware of many cases of hard-
ship and cruelty having occurred from the impressment of sea-
men during the last war.
Mr. PARKER said that no person was more opposed
to -the impressment of seamen than himself. There might be
cases where impressment was necessary, but its abolition
was perfectly practicable, and compatible with' the interests of
the naval service, and called for the early attention of the house.
Mr. E. BULWER presented a petition from the inhabitants
of the town of Stowe, and another from the inhabitants of the
town of Eccleshall, against the Stafford Disfranchisement
Bill. The petitioners assumed that the object of the house was
not to disfranchise the borough of Stafford, but to obtain a re-
spectable constituency, and that could be obtained in the towns
from which the petitions emanated.
Sir OSWALD MOSLEY would urge upon the house a
similar proceeding to that suggested by the hon. and learned
member for Dublin in the case of Carrickfergus.—(Hear,
hear.) He thought that the franchise should be extended
to the towns named by his honourable friend, and even
if the principle suggested by the hon. and learned member for
Dublin was not acted upon, that was no reason why Stafford
should suffer. There had been a considerable proportion of
uponStalfotrhde, but
oict
ewn
to.u—ld(
Hb oe
av
re:r yh
ehaarr.d)
tcoorvriusiptttiohne isnintshoefbtohreoguugihßoyf

. . _
Mr. O'CONNELL presented petitions for the repeal of the
union and for the total abolition of tithes, from Elm Grange, in
Wexford, Enni§corty and Temple Shannon, the Union of Dro-

toeln, ,
noes, Bantry, in Kerry, 13allinoslaney, \VelaOrd, Thorne: ,
~„
in Kilkenny, and Colinkill, in the came county, for th
Dublin
tion of tithes, stating that there was but one Protest;
in the parish ; from the glass cutters and makers 0
which
the
from the parish or St. Paul, Dublin, in w
s's, in the
tithes amounted to 2,000/. a year ; from St.
same county, signed by all the inhabitants exceptMeath, from
whom four were Quakers ; from Ardmurcon, in
rtion of mi. , •
jai
seven, a .'
Clune, from Kilcushan, from Dunore, for the abo I
_e ,n.
Nicholas parish, in Kilkenny, from
nisters' money, from Balbynacue, in Cavan, frobeint Nfr"orau"st.
barry, in Wexford, from Dunlomond,
NarY'from the Pro-
Kilcormack, in the same county, and a petition
Carmart
testant Dissenters of Llamgan and Llanbody, in •stra-
a legal rev
praying for a relief from their grievances, ber theit •
tion of births, marriages, and deaths. The hon. Mein
0,,,0_
presented a petition from a person of the name of Hughes I_.o a ,
rofin, stating that he was 77 years of age, that he had. bee
ng that I,
landholder in that parish for the last 57 years, that dun
soh
period he had been paying 171. a year for tithes, that theme'
and
had been known to him historically for the last 300 Y, ,
during that time no Protestant had been born there,
.tlini
who
Protestant had been therewith the exception of 3 farail%e!,
con. ~
had sojourned there for a short period, that the Pars a
to the
Sftr.um Pun
Dublin, from
tamed 4,000 Roman Catholics ; that. the tithes, owing
.. .
Composition Bill, had been latelyate d
tthat
Ire f rish except t,;
and that the protestant rector never visited the Pa
f f the / '
for the purpose of collecting the tithes ; that the roof
;ne (t)o the ;''
Catholic chapel had fallen into a state of ruin, ev4444. ssis.e44::„
poverty of the parishioners, which arose from the oppre .0 ,
burden of tithes, and that though there was no Church
letsl i.„
the parish they had been paying vestry cess for the %,,
Mr. F. O'CONNOR intimated 14.
twenty years. :f
Mr. BLAKE supported the prayer of the petition. „,.,. i .
Mr. F. O'CONNOR concurred in the petitions most heal., l
for
Mr. O'CONNELL presented a petition from Limerick, ~.
t -•
the repeal of the union.
1,-.:
Mr ROCHE-
• supported the petition.
but withdrew his motion subsequently in consequence of the . ,
presence of Lord Duncannon.
Mr. CHILDERS presented three petitions from the Fro" i
testant Dissenters of the counties of Cambridge and Glamorgan,
for relief from their grievances. '
Mr. SULLIVAN presented a petition from Kilkenny for
'
repeal of the union. The petition was signed by 2,000 indivi- 4
duals. Mr. Sullivan bore testimony to the injurious efibcts st- ,
tributed to the union by the petitioners. Mr. S. read a tette( :
from the physician of Can f ce, depicting the wretched condition
of the people, and the aggravated horrors of disease and P°-
verty. The hon. member presented a petition from the saw ;
place for the abolition of tithes.
Mr. T. O'CONNOR was glad that the noble Lord (Duncan'
wouldr°rn 2c
nl t tllehous. e;.1,1:1
non) was present while the letter produced by Mr. Sullivan
~,
was being read. a
Lord DUNCANNON wren perfectly aware of the distress,, ./
state of the population of Ireland, but he did not exactly
know what his Majesty's Ministers could do to alleviate it ;,.
Mr. F. O'CONNOR could point out several courses OM
' .
might be adopted. In the first place he should advise
~?
vernment to levy the tax upon the landlords and not upon the_, . t
tenants. Another course would be for Government to loot:
:,
into the proper expenditure of the local taxation. Was Gip ,
vernment to sit in that house to levy taxes, and not to attend
the wants of the people?
Lord the '•
to which
DUNCANNON hardly knew the tax
hon, memher referred.
' '
Mr. F. O'CONNOR said,that he referred t the Cholera tas. ,•;
Lord DUNCANNON said,that he considered that tax to be '1;
very fairly and equitably assessed. After some observation, „.'
the petition was ordered to lie on the table.
Mr. ROBINSON presented a petition from the merrhantgt 't.
bankers, and traders of the City of London against the '4'm.
pressment of seamen. -
Mr. F. O'CONNOR presented a petition from the rl
payers of the county of the city of Cork, praying that thud ~
for keeping a certain turnpike road in that city in repair, Id.
Pl.fi,
which expired after the present session, might not be NOW ~ ,
Lord DUNCANNON said the subject was under the coonee,
deration of an hon. friend of his, and he had no doubt se...j it
thing would be done to remedy the present system of trusts 1.-
, i,
turnpike roads. 5 Of rt
Mr. RUSSELL presented a petition from Dissente! a
a remedY •,
Blockley, in the county of Worcester, for
grievances. waWO the rfdi '4.
Mr. HEATHCOTE presented a similar Pei"s pen '.;/•'''
protestant dissenters of Tiverton in the county Of Dettr. the tfs,
Mr. PENLEAZE presented a similar pttition fotrop, ‘-',t
dissenters of the town and count,' a
statedS it 4.
he
ton ; and in support of its Prayer dissenter*,
his own opinion as well as that of most of the
t. e ~__„not
that the bill of the noble lord, the paymaster of II 4°' .
~
would be far from giving general satisfaction. of 6141-
Mr. BLAKE presented a petition from the coura. , .
way for the repeal of the union. ....Ashes 1 i,-
Mr. R. TREVOR presented two petitions front Y— and t.o .„
the county of Carmarthen for the abolition of tithes, • v
arrest all proceedings now pending to recover then,. ' V
The SPEAKER left the Chair at three o'clock.

EXTRAORDINARY PROCEEDING,,ga. id:
' '''
AnT 1 lE
extraordinary E AS TIND
scene
w h lerAe
wasHO UcoS witnessed
t. ——R :Ht id:Se .5.,: :
id) I 0 , =
House this mor • ning,
awagsreater excess than ever before remembete° The aueule cuo, ,
men occasioned by this being the day appointed for 00
_,ni ,
in
itscem ent of the last sale of Teas by the East India C 707e4
to trading character, and the trade being theygenereilP tlif.
the large declarationmade . and tt►t TI -
by the Company , ~of t I'
ther require, that all Teas on hand in the possessio
lot t,),
buyers, and
purchased at the last sale, should be en ='
the Company. : seat, lir. I'
As soon as the presiding Chairman had taken 11'9,,hairmall+
Norton addressed the meeting, and asked of the '" tell
the
let
whether the wishes of the trade contained 11°
addressed to the Company, would be attended to ? the teal,
The CHAIRMAN then said he attended there to sell the die
and not to argue. He regretted the trade was Plec pirectolo ",
situation it had been, and thought the Court ° .
ille
would attend to their wishes. .h Meet it.
Mr. NICHOLSON and Mr. TWINING addressed the iiti 0 t , ;
some length. The former gentleman moved a rt."---- :onside'
in order to afford time for the Court of Directors to
A Olt - tbe
the desires of the trade, the sale should be arl:l°Urnd.- IV
power to adjourn
uroo it-
The CHAIRMAN stated that he had the
sale if the trade would not buy and he accordingli i° a trade'
of the te
A committee was then formed
of members
to confer
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Robstone, from Lisbon. Off port the Corsair
and Desaccio Breeck, from Vitt iiala,es,4;,: '-;,
Stuart, Follett, ett, from Palermo; Columbia, Ford, flr°- raw'
filo . .
Richard Hill, Hopper, from Marseilles;and Vii.•' licaf• ~ ~
3.. 0, , ~
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4 4
on Goeree
. Steeple, was lit on the evening of G
and a 'gilt
inst. ; it is visible at a distance of four .
miles of fifteen to a degree. leis •
_____4.------ was al
00l to Boston,
saved.
The Newton, Hathway, from LiverP
night---crewvr. drill
on shore in Drogheda Bay on ThlITSdaY Leer, ,to , ,
The Catharine, Zylstra, from Liverpool t°
on shore at the Isle of Man on Thursday, but expectP"
10 ' ,
got off. uCestr;',,d. '
The Valentine, Williams, from Milford to Glo 401 0
driven on shore in Sandyhaven Bay on Tuesday, sl'lto virestP°
The John Leith, bound to Liverpool, put baol‘ ' '
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A SHOCK FOR THE LIBEL TRADE.."Aie are
' ll° 0 e 113 t).
arVaeleM,fr-oAniulaeL'rj::: ' 'l,
see that sonic of the judges have begun to opP tog, 4
and fraud, disguised as law, by annotleciago sOttlot
~
gentry, who bring action after action on the king to er ;
not in the hope of getting damages, but 10'0100g 100 .
i penny by costs, may expect, if they get a obleb le
diet, that they will certify for the defendant/ 0i Pre;ol,
deprive the plaintiff of costs. This Wil'en fa) W beg°
step will save their lordships' time, and Put e- .1011
s IOPt 1
of those nefarious schemes which have e'ulertecter Pe
worked on a grand scale. The farthing c"--
~,i tile
men are quite disconsolate on the occasi°l'. At• ei wg 1g- a 1
A SPRIG OF NOBILITY.—At tile 7 airineo°loll;k4
to Sir John Beckett, last week, the Earl al -, 441%015
reatA the company with a song, in the ceor°l3", chic' 1
he admirably imitated the cackling of geese,;, prtiP be
of hens, and the braying of H lifts s-
tt
asses !-- a
AfoOrige,!'i
MILDNESS OF THE SEASON.-"--- 4
of the r 4r ;
many proofs of the extraordinary mildness
lest WV,' ~
season, we may mention that on Thursday wig gfr ' (
bought to the office of a Manchester PaPer' lif
Mr' -,1 i°
a plum-tree, now in full bloom in the garden :Joo iteit
field, of Falsworth Lodge. The tree, we u o°4
an et P
not growing against a wall, or in any 0- °
against the weather.-r• Halifax ,b'xpress •

COURT CIRCULAR.

Their Majesties
44t4rdaY all erno in
town at half-past three o'clock on
:of T.._
r, on, in a carriage and four, escorted by a party
Znee , for Windsor Palace.
pril`Re I:kitchen of Gloucester, the Princess Augusta, and the
• Tirs SOPhia visited their Majesties on Saturday morning.
etice e Right Hon.
E. Ellice, Secretary at War, had an audi-
of the
The D -`",g on Saturday at St. James's.
'Whet,
turday. of Kent entertained a party at dinner on Sa-
Yesterd.
la ,s —Y was the anniversary of the Duchess of Cumber.
birthday.
The Duke of Gloucester attended divine service yesterday
tholeinft, in the Chapel Royal, St. James's.
R e,49uchess of Kent and the Princess Victoria, and their
ya -"i
at°x„„7ghnesses' household, attended divineservice yesterday,
• 7,-42agton Palace. The Rev. Mr. Pitman officiated.
h, "e Mike of Cumberland left town on Saturday, for his re-
-"Zee at Kew.
-
Right Hon. Sir Henry Williams Wynn, his Majesty's
.I),OLEXtraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at the
eGLs?.Court, left lown on Saturday night, on his return to
Zhwren.
nee Talleyrand had an interview with Viscount Palmer-
(4l Saturday; at the Foreign Office.
,424,e_PUlation from Kendal, headed by Alderman Thompson,
.at had an interview with Viscount Althorp on Saturday,
Treasur
-:tmiL"Xediterranean mail was ordered to be detained on Sa.
••••:,>,: !night till this evening.
unt Althorp gave a grand dinner on Saturday evening,
n. 7"! residence in Downing-street, to a party of Members of
'lts7eof Commons. Among the comikany were Messrs.
•
Pendarves, Sanford, Curteis, Wilbraham, Methuen,
s•.- /Cu,.aY, George William Wood, John Parker, John
• Eyng, W. Brougham, Belli)), Thompson, Thomas
sniffic,l3orninick Browne, Lambert, Childers, Winnington,
,e ,71and Sir George Strickland.

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