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If UNTING APPOINTMENTS.
His Majesty's Stag Hounds meet on Monday, at her Heath ;
Friday, at Knaphill, near Chobham-1 1.
The Tiverton Hounds, Monday, at Rock Inn, New Minehead-
-road ; Wednesday, at Cutcombe ; Friday, at Cutcombc-10.
Lord Fitzwilliam's Hounds, Monday, at Mowhay Lawn ; Thurs-
day, at Broughton Furze-10.
The East Kent Hounds, Tuesday, at Tyler Hill; Friday, at Gat,-
street—half-past 10.
Sir H. Goodricke's Hounds, Monday, at Collier 11111 ; Tuesday.
at Veddon Wood—ll. s
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Sir 11. Sutton's Hounds, Monday, at Stapleford Moor ' • Tues-
day, at Blankney ; Wednesday, at Sedgrorc Wood ; Thursday, at
Legsby.; Saturday, at Stapleford Moor-11.
Lord Yarborough's Hounds, Monday, at udleby ; Friday (last
day), at Sixhills-11.
Mr. Farquharson's Hounds, Monday, at Stafford.
Sir J. Flower's Harriers, Monday, at Eccles Hall (a deer)—
half-past 10.
Mr. Wilkins's Hounds, Tuesday, at Weekly Hall Wood ; Thurs-
day, at Pipwell Abbey ; Friday, at Geddington Chase--11.
Duke of Grafton's Hounds, Monday, at Stow Nine Churches--
half-past 10.
The Holderness Hounds, Monday, at Riston Village; Wednes-
day, at Bainton New Inn ; Saturday, at Arras-11.
The Sandbeck Hounds, Monday, at Norton ; Wednesdag, at Mt.r.
them Hall ; Friday, at Oxcroft-11.
The Monmouthshire Hounds, Monday, at White hill ; Thurs-
day, at Coldbrooh Park—half-past 10.
-Mr. Portman's Hounds, Monday, at Milton Park ; Thursdayo.ll
Woodyates Inn—half-past 10.
Mr. Hall's Hounds, Tuesday, at Hinton Warren Ilcuse.
Wednesday, at Orchard Portman; Thursday, at high Ham-11_
The Herefordshire Hounds, Tuesday, at Berrlngton ; Friday, at
Tiberton Village-10. -
The East Sussex Hounds, Monday, at Laughton Brind—quarter
before 11.
Mr. Wicksteacl's Hounds, Monday, at Moreton ; Thursday, at
Stallington—half-past 10.
The Ailrighton hounds, Tuesday, at Teddesley ; Friday, at
Middleton Furze—half-past 10, .
The Wynnstay I-LAW& Tuesday, at Chide Castle; Saturday, at
GobOwetk-111
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SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

It was rumoured about the House of Commons last
night, that should the resolution of -Lord John Rus-
sell be passed in the committee, his Lordship will not,
as he at first proposal, follow up the decision by moir7
ing an address to the throne, but will wait till the
introduction of Sir R. Peel's Tithe Bill, and proposed a
clause founded on the resolution. This, in fact, would
be adopting Sir R. Peel's suggestion of Thursday

More, we confess, to the disappointment of . our
wishes than of our expectations, the resolution of Lord
J. Russell has been carried against the British Go-
vernment, and not merely against the existing Govern-
ment, but to the infinite perplexity and detriment of
any other by which it may be succeeded. It is a vote,
the speedy and party consequence of which may just
suffice to expose to its Whig authors the frightful pre-
cipice towards which they are impelled by their revo-
lutionary allies. It is a vote, which, professing one
illegitimate and foolish, more than pernicious, object,
tends by a short and direct path to others which are
irretrievably fatal. It leaves unsettled the single point,
which it makes belief of providing for, and opens
many with which it has no ostensible connexion. It
brings to a crisis that fearful and now inevitable ques-
tion---whether the Protestant Church of Ireland shall
henceforth exist even in name ? The test of honesty
in a Parliamentary proposition is the identity of its
spirit with its letter, and this is always best understood
by considering the construction which its own advo-
cates affix to it. Not to go further back than the con-
cluding night of the discussion, and the speech of the
Mxpectant Solicitor-General for Ireland—to wit, Mr.
Daniel O'Connell—it is obvious that this learned anti-
Saxon legislator pretends to regard the passing of the
resolution as equivalent to a reform of all the past
misgovernment of Ireland for the last 700 years. But
we all know what it is which, in the O'Connell dialect,
is meant by the name of misgovernment. It means a
Government not wielded by Popish hands, and directed
to Popish purposes ; it, means not only that no man
except a member of the Church of England shall pay
a shilling towards the support of the Church of Eng-
land, but that no fund destined for the maintenance
of that Church shall so much as pass through the
hands of a Roman Catholic. Let the words of the
Learned Milesian in other places, where he is less
subdued than while addressing the Speaker of the
House of Commons, and where his spirit riots in its
natural undisguised abhorrence of all that belongs to
Protestantism and to England—let his words on such
occasions, in reference to the Irish Protestant Church,
be taken as a fair index of his motives in pushing Lord
John Russell's resolution through Parliament. It was
he who last year forced the surrender of 40 per. cent.
of tithe instead of 20 to the Irish landlords. It was
he who talked of his anxiety to secure a surrender of
3-sths of the tithe—instead of 2-sths—as being most
desirable, if it could be obtained—but as being un-
fortunately, at that time, unattainable. He it was
who described in general terms, as an enormous
hardship, that Catholics should pay any thing, (how
many of them do, in reality, pay any thing?) to a
Church with which they had no concern, and who pro-
claimed the " voluntary principle," that is, the utter
extinction of the establishment, as the only rule for
Ireland compatible with equal justice. Construe then
the vote of this man upon the resolution for diverting
a possible " surplus.' of Church revenue, by his own
habitual language respecting the Church, and it is
easy to divine the true spirit and character of the pro-
ceeding to which he is a consulting and directing
Party. How well was all this penetrated by Sir Robert
eel, and in what powerful, nay, ;appalling terms, did
he enforce his exposition of it upon his hearers, in
that perhaps the most correctly reasoned, the most
sagacious, impressive, and commanding speech, that
has been delivered in Parliament since the Right Hon.
'Baronet became a member of it ! How cruelly did the
Prime Minister contrast the words of the resolution
with the arguments of its many-coloured supporters I
What a dreadful responsibility rests on those who have
flung this new element of confusion and of suffering
into a country already so convulsed as Ireland I Truly
did Sir R. Peel charge Lord J. Russell with having
" thrown chaos in." The lure to the Papists, to pre-
vent the spread of Protestantism, is a fair and clear
deduction from the proposal that the fund to be hence-
forth doled out to the Church shall be just as elastic
as the Protestant population, shall dwindle with it,
and shall not swell again but with its increase. Mark,
however, the prodigious despotism over Protestant pro-
perty of every kind which is threatened by the Popish
advocates of the resolution. They tell us tithe, as
such, must cease, and we acquiesce : they tell us again,
" But remember that tithe must not be revived under
an. it ii er form. The landlord must not charge for
hi; land as much rent as would cover the present
amount of tithe plus the 'existing rent, otherwise we
shall look upon it as tithe under the cloak of
rent ; and so beware lest you endanger rent itself,
and provoke ' the people of Ireland' to refuse
the payment of either." This, then, is the cleft
stick in which they place the Protestant Church
and the British Government. It says, in effect, there_
shall be neither tithe nor commutation of tithe; for an
equivalent is as odious as the thing itself, and • must
not be paid at all. What, then, is their meaning when
they talk to us of alienating " a surplus" above the
wants of the Church, when in the same breath they
threaten that the Church shall have no income what-
ever ? Will they appropriate a surplus out of nothing ?
Eut Sir Robert Peel has brought it home to every
man with a spark, of candour or intelligence in his
mind, that there is no settlement of any description
meditated by those advocates of the resolution who
proclaim it to be a final settlement, that they know not
what fund they have to administer, that they are un-
prepared with even a loose definition of the objects to
which they would divert it, that they have calculated
none of the difficulties in their.. progress, that they
have exaggerated, nay, doubled, by their estimate, the
entire income of the Protestant Church, and if they
take from it the 200,0001. per annum which ,Lord
Jilin Russell speaks of as necessary for religious edu-
cation, they will reduce the Ministers of the Protestant
Church to beggary. We do not envy the situation of
the expectant Whig Ministry with this work Upon
their hands, which they have themselves cut out, and
with Mr. Daniel O'Connell for their nominal journey-
man, but their real master. We do not envy them the
sentiment which their earliest transactions, nay, which
the very list of names in their Cabinet, Nvill excite_
t(. wards them throughout Great Britain, the first
day after that grand consummation which they are
gasping for, viz., the summons of him, whoever may
bc their leader, to the Roy al presence. They are as
diversified in birth, in soil, in clime, in taste, in
quality, as undisciplined and mutinous as the crew
of any privateer during the last long war, or of any
pirate that ever hoisted a succession of false colours.
He who takes the helm will never keep it. He who
is!,nes orders will not have power or courage to enforce
them. The vessel will be at the mercy of winds and
waves ; and ere they have been one month on board,
all hands will be food for fishes. A terrible prospect
for this great country now rises before the imagination
of every honest and independent Englishman. All
the principle's which have hitherto held law and pro-
perty sacred are abandoned for speculations without
shape or definite purpose ; our institutions are driven
from their moorings, and the bonds of empire are
already broken.—Times.
The debate on Lord John Russell's motion was
last night renewed in Committee, and is to be fur-
ther continued on Monday, when the Committee
will probably divide. The discussion of last night
does not present any prominent point for remark ;
and we gladly, therefore, avail ourselves of the able
assistance of a correspondent in giving a brief out-
line of the argument upon l*he question so far as it
is connected with the general right and of
security
property :—All property (except, perhaps, what in a
state of nature is in actual use) is the creature of law,
and can therefore be modified, or even taken away,
by the Legislature ; but as the inviolability of pro-
perty to a high degree is the base of all social in-
stitutions, no other than the most cogent reasons—
nothing( indeed, far short of the preservation of
..-: the State itself—can justify the taking away of
--". property, without a just recompense, so long as no
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