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LONDON,
SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 24 1832.

The Archbishop of CANTERBURY'S Restric-
tion of Pluralities' Bill went into Committee
last night in the House of Lords. To a certain
extent we are glad of this, .as it is an express
acknowledgement on the part of the highest Ec-
clesiastical authority, that some Reform is ab-
solutely necessary in the Church. But here our
satisfaction must halt ; for the Bill, viewed in
the light of an improvement on the present
system, is meagre and barren to a degree, full of
unjust partialities, grounded on prejudice ; in a
word, a mere begging of the question, as might
have been anticipated from any plan of Church
Reform broached by an Archbishop. The
people demand an absolute cleansing of the Au-
gean stables, his Grace gives them merely a slight
sprinkling. The people demand that the Church
should march a mile on the broad high-road of
improvement, his Grace forbids it to march be-
yond an inch. The people demand an unquali-
fied, his Grace proffers them a bit-by-bit, Reform.
Well then might Lord KING exclaim, that the
whole Bill was a "delusion, a net which let in
all the rich drones, but kept out the working and
poor clergy !"

The good Archbishop. seemed particularly
sore on the amendment of Lord SUFFIELD, to
the effect " that no Bishop having a See worth
four thousand a year, should be allowed to hold
a living in commendam." He thought the
amendment most unjust, and the reasons he as-
signed for such an assertion, though plausible
and ingenious enough, tend irresistibly to
the conclusion that Bishopricks are not
to be valued in proportion to the rank
they confer on the individual holding them ; not
in proportion to the facilities they give him of
advancing the sacred interests of charity and the
true faith ; but solely in proportion to the wealth
with which they furnish him, and the means they
enable him to acquire of providing bountifully
for his family. Else why the idle talk about the
high rank which Bishops have to support !
What hare they to do, of necessity, with the
ostentatious shows of Vanity Fair ? There is
no warrant for such frivolities in scripture.
We cannot find it, 'tis not in the bowl" as
SHYLOCK says. But we may have more to
say on this subject hereafter.

Lord AL rlloßP last night in the House made
a stateme►►t of the intentions of Government
respect to relieving the sufferings of' the
West Indian colonists. His Lordship's plan is,
to lend money to all who can give security upon
their estates, and the Government are to have a

priority in claiming a repayment of the loans.
We are far from wishing to embarrass or to im-
pede a case of such an urgent nature ; but we
must confess that we are totally at a loss to con-
ceive how the plan of his Lordship can be put
into execution. The property of a vast number of
the colonists consists in negroes, and it would
be difficult to make them available as a security
for money lent by Government. But a great ma-
jority of the estates, and all the estates of dis-
tressed colonists, are already mortgaged to
English merchants, and generally to the full
extent of their value. It would not be just for
Government to enact a priority of claim over the
original and prior mortgagees, and yet without
this the public can have no security for the
money which Ministers may advance.

Sir ROBERT PEEL, on Thursday night, as-
serted that the liberal commercial views of Mr.
PITT, in 1785, had been thwarted by the gross
ignorance of the PEOPLE. It may be useful
to know what Sir ROBERT PEEL means
by . the PEOPLE. The ignorance appears
to us to have been all on the side of a few
rich Trading monopolists. The opposition to
Mr. PITT was founded upon the evidence given
at the Bar of the House. And who were the
witnesses ? We have a list of them. They
were, 6, Mr. WEDGWOOD, of Staffordshire ;
Messrs. WALKER, RICHARDSON, and PEEL,
of Manchester ; Mr. ROBERTS, of Glasgow ;
and Mr. GIBBONS, of Bristol." It is too bad
of Sir ROBERT PEEL to palm the Trading errors
even of his own father upon the PEOPLE.

Dutch and Hamburg Papers have been re-
ceived. It appears that rail-roads are in high es-
timation on the Continent. One is on the point
of being made to facilitate the communications
in Northern Germany. We have no doubt that
in a few years an inventio❑ of such obvious
utility will be very generally adopted. The fol-
lowing are extracts :

BRUNSWICK, MARCH la—We have received from good
authority the following piece of intelligence, which will be
highly agreeable to all the people of Brunswick. The plan is
resumed of facilitating the communications between Hanover
and Brunswick, and the Hanseatic cities, by a new iron rail.
road.

COPENHAGEN, MARCH 10.—The following ordinance has
just been published here :

" Frederick VI. by the Urace of God, King of Den-
mark, &c. &c.

" Dearly Beloved—By the general law published by us on
the 28th May last year, respecting the establishment of provincial
estates in the Duchies of Sleswick and Holstein, you are ac.
quainted with what we have thought fit to resolve respecting
the introduction of those estates. In that law we also thought
proper to determine, that experienced men from the two
Duchies should be consulted respecting the measures intended
to be adopted for the regulation of the estates in each Duchy
for the proceedings at the elections, and in the provincial as-
semblies, before we issued our final resolution on the subject ;
and at the same time that we would declare our decision re-
specting the number of Deputies for each Duchy. We there-
fore command you, and you—(Here follow the names of 29 per-
sons) of distinction in the Duchies two to meet before April 9.7,
this year, in our capital city o f Copenhagen, at which Military
Coart, Van Maltke, our Minister of State will preside, to deli-
berate on the contents of the projects of law, which will be com-
municated to you for that purpose, and to deliver your report
on them, that such report may be submitted to us before we
make a decision and publish our final resolution through our
Chancery of Schlemig, Holatien, and Lunenburg."

(Signed) " FREDERICK R."
" Copenhagen, March 6, 1832."
BERLIN, MARCH 16.—Prince Paskewitsch, who left St.
Petersburgh on the 2d., arrived at Warsaw on the 10th inst.
with the Princess, his wife, his son, and three daughters.
Many persons of distinction waited on him immediately on his
arrival. The Municipal Government of Warsaw has pub-
lished an order of the Military Governor of the
Capital most strictly prohibiting the wearing of the uniform of
the National Guard, and enjoining the officers of the former
Polish army henceforth to lay aside the uniform and insignia
of their rank, excepting such Polish officers as have remained
on actual service, who are allowed to retain their uniform and
insignia till further orders.

THE HAGUE, MARCH 20.—His Royal Highness the
Prince of Orange arrived at the head quarters, at Bois-le-Duc,
at eleven o'clock on Friday. We hear that the Governor. Ge.
neral of our East India Possessions, General Van der Bosck,
among other important measures for the advantage of the co.
lonies, has taken steps to make tea an article of exportation from
Java, and that a specimen of Javanese tea lately sent by him to
the King promises a favourable result to the Governor's exer-
tions, which have merited new testimonies of his Majesty's sa-
tisfaction.

AMSTERDAM, MARCH 20,
Actual Debt, 234 per Cent 41►34 to 42
Amort Syndic, 434 per Cent 68% to 70
Ditto, ditto, 334 per Cent.
Voluntary Loan, 1832
Exchange on London, one month IIE 95
Two Months llf. 90

HAMBURG, MARCH 16.—BORSEN-HALLE, HALF-PAST
Two o'CLocx.—ln the wheat market business is brisker, and
the arrivals are considerable, but of rather inferior quallity, so
that they scarcely fetched the quotations ; picked samples, how-
ever, found buyers at even higher prices than are quoted.
Rye prices firm :
Wheat, Anhalt, white
red ll6 to 120
- Brunswick l2O to 128
Mecklenburgh ll5 to 130
- Holstein, red llO to 126

Our Stock market has been looking up this week, owing to
the improvement of those of Paris, Amsterdam, and Berlin.
Yesterday and the day before a good deal of Stock was sold to
speculators. In Austrian and Russian Securities much busi-
ness was done. To-day the price is somewhat heavier, occa-
sioned, probably, in some measure, by the demand for gold :
End of March.
Anglo-Danish Loan, 9 per Cent 647
Anglo-Russian Loan
Hamburg ditto 86%
Russian Inscription, 5 per cent 86%
Ditto, ditto, 1831 85%
Polish Bonds
Austrian Bank Shares lll
1136%
Ditto Metalliques
New Austrian 4 per Cents 76%
—Hamburg Reporter. •

The report of an insurrection at Naples is not
credited. It is very possible that a riot may have
taken place during the Carnival, but that is a
matter of usual occurrence on such occasions.
The French Papers contain no other news, and
some of them do not even notice the report re-
specting Naples.