The Sun.
London, England, 1833-01-31 00:00:00

DOVER, JAN. 29.

The contest for this place will, it is expected, be a
severe one. Captain Stanhope, the former Member, but
who was thrown out at the last election, is indirectly
supported by the late committee of Mr. Thompson, and
directly by all the independents, as the Whigs call them-
selves here. Mr. Macomb has all the Radicals on his
side, and most of the middle tradesmen ; but what is ex.
traordinary—if any thing that the Tories can do ought to
appear extraordinary—is, that be is also supported by the
Tories. The chances, therefore, are, I think rather in
his favour. But what a combination, the Ultra-Radicals
and the Tories ! Lord Durham has been solicited by the
friends of Captain Stanhope to use his influence in favour
of that gentleman, but I believe he has refused to take any
part in the matter. His Lordship, however, has been
doing some good here. He and Mr. Edward Ellice, the
late Secretary of the Treasury, have made minute inquiries
into the expense of the packet establishment, and it is pro-
bable that most of those connected with it, and who are
Tories, will fall under the retrenching knife of Ministers.
If I am correctly informed, there are five Captains of Go-
vernment packets, whose incomes from fixed salary and
per centage fees amount to upwards of 8001. per annum
each ; and one of them has an additional 2001. per annum
for being Commodore. On this branch of the Post-office
.ervice alone 2,0001. per annum can be saved. If the
Duke of Rh:h►nnies eyes are shut to such abuses, those
of independent Members of Parliament are not, and he
may be assured that a rigid inquiry will be made into every
branch of the public expenditure.

The LORD CHANCELLOR, after the reading
of the commission on Tuesday, took the oaths singly at
the table of the House of Lords. The certificate of the 16
Peers elected for Scotland was then handed in, read, and
ordered to he entered on the journals.

Earl GREY will give a grand dinner to a party
of the Members of the House of Peers on Monday next,
at his official residence in Downing-street. Among those
who have been invited are his Royal HiEhness the Duke of
SUSSEX, the Dukes of NORFOLK and RicitstoNn, Mar-
quises WELLESLEY, CLA NRICARDE, TA VISTOC I:, and
LANSDOWNE, Etas ALBEMARLE, CARLISLE, BURLING-
TON, SEFTON, Lords GODERICII, FOLEY, MELBOURNE,
AUCKLAND, His MAJESTY'S speech on op-ning the
Session of the Reformed Parliament will be read by the
Noble Premier to his distinguished guests, among whom
will he the mover and seconder of the address.

Viscount A LTIIORP has issued cards for a
grand Parliamentary dinner on Monday next, in Down.
ing-street, to a party of the Members of the House of
Common, including the mover and seconder of the ad-
dress. His Lordship intend@ to give a series of Parlia.
mentary dinners during the Session.
Sir J. GRAHAM entertained Earl GREY and
the other Cabinet Ministers at dinner, on Tuesday evening,
at his residence in the Admiralty.
Baron STOCKMAR, the friend and confiden-
tial Secretary of the King of the BELGIANS, who has just
departed for Brussels, is understood to be the bearer of a
private communication from our Cabinet to King Latoroi.n.
Lord WHARNCLIFF has declared himself
unequivocally in favour of the ballot, and if the question is
mooted this Session he will give it his decided support.
There have been many converts in favour of the measure,
who formerly considered the ballot fraught with imminent
danger to the Constitution, and inconsistent with the spirit
of a popular election. It is now, however, contended, and
truly, that it would relieve dependent electors from their
trammels, and enable voters to exercise their free will.
Petty tyrants could then no longer trample on their tenants
—tradesmen could vote without giving offence to their
customers—and Candidates of honour, integrity, and the
fairest pretensions, would be elected Members to serve in
the House of Commons.

A commercial treaty with the French Govern-
ment, which is said to be on the Lapis, has lately occupied
the attention of the Ministry. Lord LANSDOWNE and
Mr. P. THOMSON have been in constant communication
with Lord GREY on the subject.
The Honourable Colonel GREY has had a
suite of apartments in Downing-street, fitted up for his
accommodation as Private Secretary to the First Lord of
the Treasury. When Mr. ELLICE left town on his tour
to the Continent, the appointment of Colonel GREY at
Private Secretary to the Noble Earl, his father, was un-
derstood to be pro tem. ; but the Gallant Colonel, we
have reason to know, has been since confirmed in the
post, as well as Mr. CHARLES WOOD, who, it was at first
b'lieved, would only officiate for Mr. ELLICE during his
absence.

CONTEMPLATED ALTERATION IN THE
SUGAR TRADE.-The following aie the details of the new
system about to be introduced into the sugar trade, alluded
to last week :—The cane juice about to be imported into
Great Britain goes through the process to that point
which prevents fermentation on the voyage ; it has been
contracted for at 15s. per cwt. deliverable in this country,
the buyer paying freight, insurance, and ail other charges.
Lord AUCKLAND, the President of the Board of Trade, has
authorized the import at a duty of 12s. per cwt. ; of
course the latter will be liable to alteration according to
circumstances ; it will thus be laid down on the wharf at
the rate of 325. to 335. per cwt., and it is calculated that
one•half the weight will be sugar.

DOVER, TUESDAY.—Arrived Le Courier,
French post-office packet, with Prince CZARTORINSKI and
Cady, and about thirty other passengers. Lord Dun-
HAM left this place for London yesterday, but returns in a
few days. The arrangements for a daily mail to and from
Paris are still under consideration ; but it is said will be
finally settled in a few days. The point of difficulty seems
to be the sea conveyance of the letter bags, the land trans-
mission of them, from the two metropolises to the out-
ports, by coaches and carts, being now in actual operation.
The Experiment, revenue cruiser, sent to the Dover
Customhouse yesterday a seizure of a lugger, call-d God
Sure the King, belonging to Hastings, with 105 casks
of spirits of brandy, and one min, THOMAS SWAIN.
Three others escaped, after knocking down and ill treating
the mate and two men belonging to the Experiment,

REPEAL OF THE UNION.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIII,-Who is there in this widely spread and widely
spreading metropolis, from the inhabitants of palaces to
the inmates of prisons—from the Peer to the Pauper—
that has not heard of Irish education? And where, under
the wide canopy of Heaven, is the country to be found, tr
whose eternal happiness greater zeal has been devoted, or
for whose growth in grace greater desire has been manifest-
ed, than Ireland? Talk of our sympathy for Poland indeed !
'Tis true, the best and the bravest in our land deplored
her fall. The philanthropist wept as he remembered
her glories, and the veteran sighed as he stretched out his
shrivelled arm, for a moment renerved and reanimated in
her cause. But for the mental darkness of Ireland is the
annual hallowed heaving of tbe female bosom alonere-
served. For her blindness alone does the bright eye of
beauty overflow, as Erin's itinerant emigrant in the person
of a Daly, a Wolfe, a Pope, or a Griffith, describes in a
strain of impassioned eloquence—President Lord BEXLEY,
in the chair—and in the hearing of a deputation of every
sainted Auxiliary Bible Society in this side of George's
Channel—the scarcity of Scriptural lore among the super-
stition-loving peasantry of Munster and Connaught. Nor
has British sympathy for Irish ignorance been confined t,,
mere condolence. Parliament granted, and saints sub
scribed sums to enlighten the peasantry of Ireland, to ar,
amount that would almost lead us to expect a population
of graduated philosophers. Peeresses have plighted promises,
and sometimes pledged themselves to redeem from spiritual
bondage their soul-enslaved fellow-beings is a siste.
island ; whilst Misses intrusted with half-crowns each to
purchase two-and-sixpenny silk stockings, have preferred
darning the old ones for months to come, to have the
opportunity of subscribing for the conversion of the wild
" Hirish." Of two things Great Britain has never al-
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lowed Ireland to feel the wart—bayonets and Bibles. She
might at any time repeat Cato's soliloquy, for her " bane
and antidote" were always in her presence, and besides she
was saved the moat disagreeable part of the tragedy when-
ever its performance was deemed requisite; being, instead of
agent and object, simply the object. Ireland has truly a
right to be thankful, for what England calls justice bag
always been tempered with mercy, when administered to
her. Irishmen may have been starved to death, but,

then, let it be remembered that the bread of life and

fountains of living waters were offered them : they may
have perished by the sword which should only have been
drawn in their defence ; but, again, let it not be for-
gotten that no means were left untried to prepare them for
immortality ! The maxim of the Monk in the story of the
drowning Jew, seems to have been a favourite one with
John Bull on many occasions, as be has often been ac-
tuated by the most Christian and charitable motives in
killing his neighbours, having reasoned himself into the
belief that it was acting more the part of a saint to send
them to Heaven perforce, than suffer them to take their
own time in going to Hell ! Unhappily for mankind,
Jahn was not the only one that held this opinion, or acted
upon a supposed real or affected conviction of its truth.
The first successful attempt made to establish an Eng-
lish system of education in Ireland was in the early part
of the reign of Charles the First, during the Lieutenancy
of the Earl of Strafford, when seven Royal schools were
founded in different parts of the kingdom, but chiefly in
the north, and tracts of land adequate, and only appli-
cable to their support, were granted by the Crown. The
object of these schools was not the dissemination of the
rudiments of learning amongst all classes of the King's
subjects, but solely amongst the children of those who
conformed to the religion of the State. The absurd fa-
brication of a Gunpowder Plot in the preceding reign hail
afforded Sir A. Chichester, James's Lieutenant in Ireland,
and his profligate associates and successors, Parsons and
Borlase, the means of confiscating six counties in the
north of Ireland, and several fine estates in the west, the
unoffending peasantry of which were driven to seek shelter
in the woods, whilst their places were supplied by a race
whose superior merit consisted in greater pliability of con-
science, and for their descendants were the schools chiefly
intended. Still the number of Protestants was far from
being considerable, and, as a taste for belles lettres, and
indeed learning of every kind, had given way to theologi-
cal attainments, such schools became either sinecures, or,
to spe ik in metaphor, the artificial hotbeds, in which
budding bigotry bloomed and ripened int, fierce, fearless,
furious fanaticism. This perversion of taste and misap-
plication of study arose out of that fondness which man-
kind have evinced in all ages of following the examples of
those whom themselves have set up to be their rulers.
James, whose pedantry was only equalled by his ignorance
and cowardice, was not half so tenacious of his rank as a
King, or of his abilities as a Statesman, as he was of his
soundness as a Scholar, or his subtleness as a Divine; and
as uniformity of sentiment only led to distinction in the
State, self-interest created a passion in the higher classes
which their influence extended to the lowest.

Objects could not possibly be more remote than those
of Charles and the Earl of S'raffird in founding these
schools. The former hoped by them to convince his dis-
affected subjects of his paternal solicitude for the welfare
of the Protestant portion of the community, and of his
detestation of the Catholics, to whom his enemies pretended
to believe him partiil, whilst the latter expected either to
drive, by the odious distinction, the Catholics of the pale
into rebellion, and so have a pretext for further confisca-
tion, or, by shutting out from tbe Catholics, as much as
possible, the means of gratuitous instruction, virtually dis-
qualify them for the discharge of duties appertaining to
honourable offices in the State. The designs of both were
suspected, but other circums,ances occurred to frustrate
their schemes, already known to every reader of English
history. The advantage which the Protestants derived
from the Royal schools, was more than counterbalanced to
the Catholics by the labours of their clergy, on whom
devolved the instruction of the poor, and who were, gene-
ral:y speaking, infinitely superior to the creatures of the
Administration on whom the mastership. of the Royal
schools were bestowed.

The landing of Cromwell in Ireland, and the settle-
ment of his followers in that country, disorganized, but
did not destroy the Royal Schools, which, after the rest°.
ration, were approved of by the King, and had their
claims strengthened, and possessions enlarged by additional
charters. Their number was likewise increased, and
every means adopted to make them more eff,ctive, but to
no purpose.

It was not until 1695, three years after the signing of
the famous treaty of Limerick, and in violation of the
articles which the English had sworn to observe, that laws
were passed making it penal for a Catholic to be educated
as such, either in or out of the kingdom, and offering re-
wards for the apprehension of Popish schoolmasters!
During the reign of William, these sanguinary and detes •
table enactments were productive of, comparatively speak-
ing, little injury, as the King was himself deeply sensi-
ble of the just odium with which posterity would regard
such flagrant acts of treachery. His successor, however,
was troubled with no such qualms of conscience, and in
1703. Anne permitted the English Statute Book to be
stained by laws which, so long as the world exists, will call
down execration on the memory of those by whom they were
enacted. Not only were schoolmasters forbidden to teach,
but rewards were offered for their apprehension ; so that
the hunting of them became a profitable as well as a
fashionable amusement ! Still the heavenly fire was not
extinguished : persecution purified, and fanaticism fanned
the flame. The sequestered vale, the deep glen, the lonely
wood, the silent forest, the trackless mountain, and the
concealed cave, became severally the seminaries in which
knowledge, divine and human, was conveyed by proscribed
wisdom to unconsciously offending innocence.
Ages of experience at last forced the conviction on the
minds of men generally, that all coercive measures are
least available to the eradication of opinions, and that
error, instead of being destroyed by ignorance, is produced
and fostered by it. In despite of Court intrigue, and
Castle influence, to whom all abuse was emolument, the
benefit of this discovery at last reached Ireland, in the
repeal of some of the most detestable of the penal laws
in the early part of the reign of George 111. The tolera-
tion of the Catholic religion, and the granting a sum an-
nually to the support of a College for the priesthood of
that faith, were undoubtedly amongst the wisest mea-
sures adopted by that Monarch during his long reign.
The great misfortune was, that either every measure for
the relief of Ireland was incomplete, or came only when
it could no longer be withheld. Hail Catholic emancipa-
tion passed in 1782 instead of ise9, Ireland would now
have been the must flourishing and happy portion of the
British dominions.

The state of o r ance to which a long period of un-
exampled cruelty, combined with a barbarous system of
internal and external policy, reduced the poor of Ireland,
as well as the misery, wretchedness, and propensity to
outrage, of which that ignorance was so fertile, at last
wrung from the people of England a confession of the
evils inflicted on that unhappy country, which was fol-
lowed by the adoption of messures far their redres,. As
every party attributed the evils to a different source, each
proposed a different means of removing them, the whole
agreeing only on one point—the necessity of education
being communicated to, or diffused amongst, the poor.
For this laudable purpose societies were formed, money
was subscribed, cheap copies of the Scriptures were pro-
cured, and every thing done that editions zeal, frenzied

fanaticism, or overweening vanity could do to effect the;
ourpose. In 1801, a Society or Association " for dis-
countenancing vice" was established, to which Parliament
made annual grants to the amount, in round numbers, of
from one thousand pounds in the infancy of the Insti'u
'ion, to nine and above; averaging, from the commence-
ment, about six thousand a-year. The Society for the Edit
.ation of the Poor, better known by the name of the " Kil
fare street Society," was organised in 1816, and to this
Parliament, up to 1830, granted sums to the amount of
twenty.five thousand pounds annually, to be applied in the
Tection of schools throughout Ireland, and the furnishin2
of requisites, and providing proper persons to instruct the
eople. As the grants of land originally made to support
Charter Schools, were represented as inadequate to their
support, Parliament voted annually sums varying from
Five to thirty-eight thousand pounds for their relief; with
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Hibernian Society for educating the children of the sol-
fiery, and the donations of charitable individuals, man.
of whom support schools at their own expense, with the
lab .urs of the Auxiliary Bible, Sunday School, and Tract
Societies, one is astonished to hear that ignorance pre-
vails, notwithstanding all these, to such an alarming
,xtent as to render insecure the possession of property.
To investigate briefly the cause of this total failure (fsr
I am prepared to show it was such) of the labours of those
who undertook the instruction of the Irish people, would
lead to a metaphysical disquisition with which at present I
shall not trouble your readers. Suffice it to state simply, that
that cause was BIGOTRY. The exertions of all the societies
I have enumerated were directed not solely, but princi-
pally, to the conversion, perversion, or changing of the
religious sentiments of the people, I care not by which
nime you may designate their proceedings. Theirs was
a war, not against ignorance, as pretended, but against
faith. No moral lesson was imparted to the Catholic
child unaccompanied with a sneer at the religion of his
fathers, or an obscene jest at the expense of the Catholic
Hierarchy. The Bible was introduced, but not that it
might be read over as was stipulated, without remark,
hut that portions of it might be committed to memory,
the calling on the children to recite which was always an
excuse for lore-loving Blue Stockings to display before the
man of birch, and his open-mouthed auditory, the accu-
mulated wisdom of a thousand Wesleyan lectures in tea-
table divinity. Under every circumstance, the object
appeared to be a desire to alienate the young mind from
all that ancestry held sacred, and to infuse a spirit of re-
sistance to religious control. To such of the children as
manifested symptoms of compliance gifts were given, and
hopes held out in case the parents offered to exercise any
harshness towards them.
The Catholic clergy were not slow in discovering the
real object of the Education Societies, and the zeal with
which they denounced them from the altar and the
pulpit, paralyzed their efforts throughout the kingdom.
The return of the number of scholars taught in the diffe-
rent schools went on increasing, and Parliament went on
increasing the grants, but in reality the twentieth of the
children enumerated, never received a single lesson in the
Societies' Schools. To render this observation intel-

ligible, it is only necessary to remark, that before the day
of inspecting the schools, which happened every quarter,
and was known to the teachers severally a week before,
the masters went round and begged as a favour of parents
that they would allow their children to appear at school
on the day of inspection, in order to secure the salaries.
As many of the masters were harmless men, and all of
them useful in writmg letters, &c., in country villages
a request so reasonable was seldom refused, and by this
means I have known returns of children educated in cer-
tain schools in the North of Ireland to amount to four
hundred, when in reality the daily attendants did not
amount to an average of six throughout the quarter !
Thus the societies deceived Parliament as to their object,
and their servants in return deceived them as to their
own utility, and plundered them of that gain of which
the societies had become possessed, by means almost equally
dishonourable.

The accredited agents of these societies were also
more than sufficient to fill the people with dis-
trust. They were all either furious bigots, fanatics,
who gave to the service of God the remainder of
an ill spent, profligate, licentious life ; legal usur-
pers of the properties of such as were persecuted for religion,
or little tyrants who ruled with a rod of iron the stern
destinies of the poor. So unfortunate were they in this
respect, whether from ignorance or design I know not,
that the very names of many of the agents employed by
them would in Ireland be more than sufficient to render
any cause suspected. To elucidate this, it will he only re-
quisite that I refer to the names of Lord Farnham and
Miss Ilempenstall ; the former as Colonel Barry, the but
too well-known ----- in 1798, recommending the of
the Irish prisoners then confined far treason in his Majesty's
prisons, the latter as the daughter of Lieutenant Hem-
penstall, the celebrated gallows walker, whose fond-
ness for hanging the Irish pearintry, by suspending
them over his shoulder in Claudius Beresford's riding-
house, in College Green, is still fresh in the memory of
the present generation. When Miss Hempenstall's resi-
dence in the vicinity of Dublin was first painted out to me,
the poor man to whom I was indebted for the favour, sc.
companied the direction of his hand with an expression
truly characteristic of his country. " Much as they say
about the saints hating the devils, ye see it's all only family
disputes; for that lady's father was a devil, and she's a
.aint, and so they're all relations one way or other; and
sorra bit of rue knows which of them is the worst, for the
ene tries to kill us here, and the other to kill us hereafter."

The Education Societies in Ireland have been only
beneficial in a great degree by rousing the clergy from
their lethargic repose, and inciting the Catholic priesttio.4
to emulate them iu providing for the instruction of their
flocks. Many excellent and efficient schools are new flourish-
ing in Ireland that would not have had an existence but
for a dread of the sinister influence of the Kildare-street
Society. Yet even in this the evil is nearly paramount to
the good, as the schools founded in opposition are almost
exclusively sectarian in the inculcation of murals as
well as principles. The Monastic Orders in Ireland are the
most influential with the people, and up to the present time,
no body of men could possibly have done more to merit
the affection of the whole community. I have visited
most of their schools in Dublin and its vicinity, and a few
in the counties of Carlow, Kiikenney, Waterford, Limerick,
and Cork; and I can positively assert that I never entered
schools better attended or better regulated. I would in a
more especial manner mention the schools under the super-
intendence of Mr. Rice of Waterford as examples of order,
regularity, and strict decorum. Still I must object to the
exclusive system under which they are governed. Such
schools would be eminently useful if they ceased to be en-
gines for the inculcation of religious belief and conformed
to the rules laid down in the Irish Education Bill lately in-
troduced into Ireland through the medium of Mr. Stanley.
I have thus far trespassed on your attention for the
purpose of showing your readers that ignorance in Ire-
land has been the effect of misgovernment in the first in-
stance; and latterly the result of bigoted insolence on the
one aide; and a justly awakened jealousy on the other.
The only panacea for these evils, the only anodyne to
allay the pain of festered feeling, is the Bill lately passed
for the education of the people. This Bill, though ius-
puted to Mr Stanley, was first introduced to the notice of
Parliament by the late Member for Tipperary, Thomas
Wyse, Esq,—a gentleman whose labours for Ireland and
for the empire in the late Parliament merited a better
reward than that bestowed ou him by the people of Water-
ford. I saw the Bill as it was first drawn up by Mr.
Wyse, and I can state with confidence that it has not been
since improved by any alterations which it has undergone.
No man is better acquainted than Mr. Wyse with the
subject of education, and for the sake of the country I
deeply regret his absence in the first Reformed Parliament,
that he might assist Mr. Hume in the Bill which be has
given notice of introducing for the establishment of parish
schools throughout England and Wales. The rejection of
such men as Mr. Wyse is certainly not creditable to any
constituency.
I am well aware that Ireland contains no greater
mockery under the name of popular institutions, than the
royal, diocesan, and charter schools, which are in reality
hot-beds of bigotry, the bane of that country. The whole
number of free scholars taught in these sc:;ools amount only
to 417, according to the returns made to Parliament,
though I have good authority for saying that one fourth
that number woulh be found more than have ever been
regularly in attendance. But for this the New Parliament
will find a better remedy than if the cure was left to be
prescribed for by Irish legislation. B gotry is unknown,
in England, except as an article imported into the count!),
and therefore she is must likely to legislate wisely for a
people divided into factions, mutually bating each other,
and mutually under the influence of this worst of pas-
sions.

The progress which the Education Bill has already
made, is a gratifying proof that the Legislature have at
last adopted a plan which promises in a short time to raise
the feeling of the lowest orders in Ireland on a level equal
with that of the same description of individuals in Scot-
land, so justly celebrated for their superior conduct, and
high mental acquirements. It has also opened the eyes of
the people of England to the selfish shout of self-interested
bigots, that the Catholics are averse to education, as out
of 432 schools already established, all, with the exception
of 29, hare beau sought for by Catholic*, is aeigheour-

cods where Catholic childien were not provided with the
means of acquiring instructino.
Ireland is possessed of the most a nple means of educe-
rion,mid I have every.confideuce in the British S-late'l
Roper application of its. Soon as the more urgsnt reforms
n the Church have passed, under consideration of the
Cabinet. Trinity College must no longer be a nursery
for young Conservatives; the people's property has been
confiscated to support, and to the people, untrammelled
by the desecration of sacrament, or fanatical tests, must its
blessings be extended. But from the experience we have
had of an Irish Legislature, I am justified in inferring
that it would he the extreme of folly to expect the regene-
ration of that country from such a source. The only
rime the Irish Parliament could bosst:of independence was
from 1782 to 1800, and never was there a time when
unblushing bribery stalked so openly abroad in College
there enwer
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any
one given time during this perio I, that had never stipu-
lated on the means of purchasing, or disposing of a vote.
The immortal Grattsn and Flood were the only angels to
he met with in that Sodom—all the rest were mortals, and
some of them exceedingly frail ones.
I need not stop to argue the point, that as far as edu-
cation is a desirable object, the Repeal of the Union would
be an injury to its progress, rather. than a good. No mea-
-ore+, in the present state of society, could be better adapt•
ed, than those at present taken, to secure the blessings of
peace, prosperity, and the alleviation of the pain of i rite
ted feeling. Changes to produce the beat effects must bA
gradually made. There is, moreover, a teeklessness in
driving a people who know not where to stop, from one
change to another, of which no enli •htened statesman
ought to be guilty; for though he may do so for a certain
purpose, can he hope to reconcile them to a van,
of inertness, when he may think it prudent to stop ?
Besides, on the question of Repeal, I would observe that
Mr. O'Connell is premature in his agitation, and all th it
he has done wisely for some weeks was the not pressing
the question on the Irish Members. At the same time, I
must say that I see nothing objectionable in a meeting of
the Irish Members in Dublin, or of the Scotch Members,
if they thought proper, in Edinburgh, previous to their
assembling in St. Stephen's. Such meetings, if properly
conducted, would prevent the utterance of a thousand
blunders as to facts, and often spare the time of the House
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such proceedings there appears to me nothing objectionable.
I have the honour to he, Sir,
Your most obedient servant,
London, Jan. 29, 1833. DALETH.

It was very generally rumoured yesterday, that
Mr. STANLEY was about to resign.—Dublin Morning
Register.

The Standard of last night says—" We have
the highest authority for stating that the information con-
tained in a Sunday newspaper, respecting the abolition of
the Stamp Duty on newspapers, and the charge of a
postage, is incorrect, as Ministers have not yet come to
any final determination on the subject."

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dehi circular r has been addressed from Sir F.
FREELING, as secretary to the Post-office, to some of the
leading merchants, to obtain their opinion respecting a
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new arrangement intended to be introduced for conducting
the correspondence with France. It is proposed that the
writer of a letter to any part of France shall have his
choice of three different modes of proceeding to convey it
to its destination,-1, he may, as at present, pay the Eng-
lish postage ;-2, he may pay here the inland French post-
age, in addition to the postage now paid in England ;
or, 3, be may send his letter without any payment
i❑ England, leaving the whole postage to be paid by
the person to whom the letter is addressed in
France. A similar mode is, of course, intended to
he adopted for the writers of letters from France to
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England. We have not heard as yet what opinion
circular has been addressed on the merits of the
country. Since
kind has, we believe, ever been thought of before, and it
could only be proposed in the expectation of the confine-
once of the moat cordial good understanding between both
countries. It is hailed, too, as a prelude to other and
better things of the same kind, and induces the hope the.
the next step may be the abolition of the vexatious and
abominable system of passports, so that Englishmen may
hereafter be allowed to travel in France, and Frenchmen
in England, with no more obstruction than if both were
mentionedacsnto parties
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under the same Government.—Morning Paper.
'We are requested to state that the Second
Pact of " Mr. Burke's History of the Commoners of Great
Britain and Ireland," embellished with the armorial ensigns
of each family, accurately engraved, was publis' ed
this day, and at the same time appeared also the first
Monthly set of" Colburn's Modern Novelists," containing
:he celebrated story of " Tremaine," at only 45. per
volume, bound in Morocco cloth,

SCOTLAND.—A change for the better is
noticeable in various parts of Scotland. Iron birs.,
formerly bought at 4/. si. per ton, have risen to 5/. 54.
In Havvick, where a great deal is done in spinning wo;,l‘
and manufacturing hosiery, trole, in modern times, has
rarely been brisker at the same period. The spinners
good, and the stocking weavers tolerable wages. From
Gallashiels the accounts are .qually cheering. In S-ottish
wools there has been an improvement within the last two
months of from 15 to 20 per cent. Go id Cheviot laid is
now worth from 17s, to IN. per stone; white ditto,
from 235. to 255. ; black-faced in proportion.—Dunifri•s
Courier.

COVENTRY.—During the last fortnight there
has been a partial turn out amongst the fi.oare weavers in
Coventry, in consequence of the three principal manufte-
turers of figured gauze ribbons refusing. to pay the list
price for these articles. The manufacturers assign, ais
their reason, their incapatoility of c rupeting with the
French manufacturer in that branch, without a further
reduction in the price of labour. Toe men object to the
reduction, on the ground that the present price is birely
adequate to their support. Tie men employed in the:
above houses are now out, and supported by subscriptions
from those in employment.—BirmiNgham .I.)urnal
Two YEARS AND A HALF IN THE ANIF"
RICAN NAVY', EY E. C. WINES.—" This most amusing
work is the Journal of an Officer of the United States
Navy, detailing his adventures in a cruise of two years and
a half in the frigate Constellation, in the British seas,
amidst the Greek islands, and on the coasts of the Medi-
terranean. The author visited England, Spain, Italy,
France, Africa, and Greece, and availed himself of every
opportunity of making himself acquainted with the man-
ners and cu•toms of the various na,ions—wheili, it be
the mercurial European of southern climes, his own more
sedate ancestors of the Old Country,' the astute Greek,
the tattered Bedouin, the picturesque Albanian, or the
inagnificent Turk."—Guardian.

LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER RAILWAY
ComrANy.—The number of passengers conveyed by the
railway from the Ist July to the 31st December, 1832,
was 18`,823; and the merchandise during she same pe-
riod amounted to 36,642 tons, independently of the coal
that was also carried during the same period. The gross
receipts of the half year amounted to 80,901/., of which
43,120/. was for passengers, and 37,7811. for goods. The
expenses were 48,278/. (of which one i'ent alone. for the
repairs of the locomotive engines, amounted to 12,6161.),
leaving a profit for the six months of 33,623/ This
profit enables the Company to make a divi,!end of 4/. 4s.
per share, to be paid on the sth of next month, and leaves
a surplus of 693/. The Committee recommended to the
Proprietors the necessity of their fulfilling a cou•ract en-
tered into between Mr. WlLf.is and the Committee of
Gentlemen who manage the affairs of the Company. A
railway from the Whiston Colliery to the main line of the,
railway is to be made immediately, and also a line of rail-
way along the docks. The formation of the new tunnel
from Wavertree to the Haymarket is in fair progress....
Liverpool Mercury.

FIRE IN HATTON-GA RDEN.—Yesterday
an inquest was held before Mr. STIRLING, at the work-
house, on Little Saffron-hill, Clerkenwell, on the remains
of Mrs. SARAH MANLEY, and CATHERINN, SUSAN, and
ANN, her infant children, who were destroyed at the fire
in Hatton-garden on Saturday morning last. After hear.
ing evidence, the Jury returned a verdict of " Acci•
dental death."

LENGTH OF STREETS IN LONDON.--'
Bishopsgate•street, 1,045 yards ; Fenchurch-street, 654;
Lower Thainea- s t r ee t , 400 ; Upper Thames-street, 1,331;
Gracechurch-street, 357 ; Lombard-street, 374 ; COM%
•
bill, 286 ; Chsapside, 36S ; Aldersgate-street, 456 ;
Fleet-street, 610. In Westroinster--Strand, 1,369;
Haymarket, 357 ; Pall-wall wee, 660 ; Regent-street,
1,730 ; Oxford-street, 2,304; S. J4111e4 s street, 385 ;
Piccadilly, 1,694; B ,nd-street, 990. In S wthwark—.
Touley-street, 972 ; High-street, Borough, 781 ; a telt-
roan-street, 390; Great Surrey-street, 1,193, Li it,,,
Suburbs—City-ro.rd, 5,115 ; New-r,ad, 1,690 Su ,re
ditch, 715; High Holkt)rn2 1,04.5...,pianych,; G4ia;
to Kmoscledste.