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IRISH EDUCATION.

The Earl of WICKLOW presented a petition from
Murragh against the system of Education in Ireland.
The Noble Earl, in bringing forward his motion on
this subject stated, that as the subject which be had
now the honour to bring before their Lordships had been
so very lately discussed upon the presentation of petitions,
he should feel much apology was due from him to their
Lordships in thus even calling their attention to it, did he
not feel strongly impressed with its vast importance, not
only as it regarded the future welfare of the country
to which it more immediately applied, but also of its
tranquillity. Upon one pat t of this subject all were agreed,
namely, that a sound, wholesome, and moral system of edu-
cation, adapted to the wants and circumstances of the coun-
try, would do more than any measures brought forward
by Parliament to effect its future civilization and tranquil-
lity. While, however, all were agreed upon that point,
they were lamentably at variance as to the beat method of
carrying it into effect. Were their Lordships now, for
the first time, called upon to establish a systemof
education in that country, they might well indeed hesitate
and feel difficulties in overcoming the case, for while
upon the one hand they found the whole Protestant
population of the country, the hierarchy of the country,
the whole Presbyterian portion of the country deprecating a
system of education, in which the Scriptures are not
enforced ; on the other, they were taught to believe the
Roman Catholics considered the Scriptures to be at variance
with the doctrines of their church, and with their religious
principles. Those who took this view of the case consi-
dered that there was but one way of overcoming the difficulty,
that of establishing two different systems of education.
Another difficulty then stared their Lordships in the face,
far they had the united declarations and the opinions
of all parties of the vast population, of the Bishops of
`lie country, and the declaration also of Dr. Doyle,
that such a system of separate education was extremely
The declaration of 17 Bishops stated that such

a system would be injudicious, and Dr. Doyle observed
that it would destroy the peace and happiness of the
country. As it was notorious to their Lordships,
for several years past, Parliament had made large
grants for the purpose of carrying on the limi-
ted system of education in that country. The ques-
tion therefore, was, had those grants been unproduc-
tive. lie had no hesitation in stating that they had not;
`or by means of those grants a system of education, calcu-
lated to the wants of the country had been in active operation.
That system had first received its support from Parliament
in 1816, and not a whisper was heard against it on the
part of the Catholics till the year 1825, when there was
a disposition shown against it by the demagogue Ca-
tholics of Ireland.—(Hear.) Such being the case,
he (Lord Wicklow) had been extremely anxious to
know the reasons which had induced his Majesty's Go-
vernment to withdraw their support from it, and
he found that they had three reasons for doing so
first, that it was partial in its operation ; secondly, that
the subscriptions in favour of it were exceedingly small
and inconsiderable, in comparison with the grants
of Government; and thirdly, that its regulations were
o' jetted to by the Roman Caholics. To the
first reason he would say, that any man acquainted
with the Society must be perfectly aware of the utter
impossibility of its being carried on with partiality,
without its being known; and with respect to its being
objected to by the Catholics, as he had before
stated, from 1816 to 1825, such an intimation
was never heard, arid the general opinion was, that
it was more favourable to the Catholics than to Protes-
tants, and it was only, when the aspersions of a base
faction were made against it that it was thought fit to
remodel it. He would next be told that his Majesty's
Government acted under the repeated recommendations of
Boards of Commissions appointed to investigate the sub.
ject. He judged that such a point would be relied on, as
the Lord Chancellor for Ireland, on a late occasion, said as
much ; but he well knew that the Noble and Learned
Lord was constrained to adopt that line of argument ;
for, if he advanced any other, he must have cast a slur on
the Administration with which he was now connected.
There were three Commissions or Boards appointed at
different periods for the purpose of investigating the sub-
ject of education in Ireland. The first was in 1812 ; the
Lord Primate of Ireland was at its head, and several
Bishops were members of it. That Board came to a re-
solution, he was baund to admit, very similar to that
which the present Board bad adopted; and it recommended
that extracts should be made from the Scriptures, from
which the children were to be taught. The Kildare-street
Society adopted that recommendation, and it agreed that
the Scriptures, without note or comment, should be
read in the schools, and that no controversial books or
catechisms should be introduced into them. In 15315 a
report nas made by a Committee of the House of Com-
mons, and the very same words were adopted in it.
From 1812 to 1825, no opposition was made to the
Society ; and, in fact, the report of the Board of that day
was in words and substance the same as the letter so much
alluded to of Mr. Secretary Stanley. In 1825 another Board
was formed, which did not go the length of recotnmend-
ing the abolition of the Society, but it undertook to put a
system of its own into operation within it. They tried
the plan for two years ; but after having given it a fair
trial, the Commissioners declared that they met such diffi-
culties as induced them to desist altogether from the un-
dertaking. That Rerort was signed by every Member of
the Board. The next Commission met in 1828, under
the Government of the Noble Duke below him, of which
the then Irish Secretary was Chairman. It came to a re-
solution recommending that copies of the New Testament
should be introduced for the use of the children, under the
care of their respective teachers—the Protestant version to
the Protestant children, and the Douay edition for the
Catholics. Now he wished to call the attention of the
House to the difference between that recommendation and
the letter of Mr. Stanley. The one proposed that the
Scriptures should be read in a qualified manner, but Mr.
Stanley did not say one word about it. He took up vari-
ous other parts of the Report, but he carefully left out all
that appertained to the most important consideration. He
would next be told that the new Board did not prohibit
religious instruction, inasmuch as two days in the week
were appointed for that purpose ; but the House would
soon see how inefficient such a proposition was when they
considered that the new system was founded in opposition
to a Society which required the use of the Scrip-
tures—(Hear, hear.)—and, when Mr. Stanley's let-
ter alleged, that the reading of the Scriptures
without note or comment, would be objected to by the
Roman Catholics. The friends to the new system could
triumphantly appeal to the reports of the various commis-
sions, but if he were to grant that these recommendations
were entitled to respect, he would, at the same time, ap-
peal from the reports to the Government that appointed
the Boards, and ark why it was that the respective Go-
vernments did not act upon them ?—( Hear.) He put that
question more particularly in reference to the Government
of the Noble Duke, who was anxious to make some im-
provements in the system of education, but hesitated before
he rashly adopted the recommendations contained in them.
In short, the caution of the Noble Duke was so great,
that, up to the last moment of his Administration, there
was neither a change made nor any prospect of its being
introduced.—(Hear.) No sooner, however, did the late
Government go out of office, and no sooner was the fresh
Administration in possession of it, than the work of havoc
began—(Hear)—the axe was laid to the root of all our
institutions.—(Hear.) Revolution, under the name of
Reform, became the order of the day—(Hear)—Refortn in
finance—Reform in foreign and domestic policy—Reform
in Parliament, in Church and State—lastly, Reform in the
system of education.—(Hear.) Nothing was too great for
their Ministerial comprehension, nothing too small for
their inquisitorial execution.—(Hear, hear.) In their
Reform mania the system of education in Ireland, which
had rendered so much practical good, was subverted, and
a system of theory placed in its room,—(Hear.) When
he stated that the Roman Catholics were not averse to
the system of the Kildare-street Society, he must admit
that a large portion of the priesthood were hostile
to it; several of the children were removed, though
the parents, in many instances, refused to withdraw them;
and, so far as his own experience went, he did not know
an instance of any child being removed in his neighbour-
hood, and he was in possession of a memorial from several
heads of families complaining that attempts were made by
the priests to keep back their children.—(Hear.) He was
aware that he would be asked did he mean to excite the
people against their priests, and to discharge them films
the influence of that body. To that he could only if the
authority of the priesthood be on the decline, it was not
for the Protestants to step in to revive it—(Hear, hear)._
and if the chains of the Catholics were wearing out, was
it for the members of the Established Church to forge
them again ?—(Hear.) He should be sorry to see the
people of Ireland suddenly and violently withdrawn from
the confidence of their priests, and transferred to the hands
of agitators and demagogues; but he would wish to see
religion and morality allowed to work their way, and the
gradual light of knowledge let it upon them, by which
they would be enabled to judge for themselves, and for
their offspring, on those matters where their great interests
were concerned. He would consider the converting a
system of national education into a cloak for making prose-
lytes as unwise and unjust, but he would not shut out the
light of knowledge from a whole people, lest proselytism
should follow in its train.—(Hear, hear.) What caused
the reformation ? And why were the people of the
nineteenth century to be excluded from those sources
which led their ancestors, in the fifteenth century, from
darkness into knowledge ? Was it because the light of the
Scriptures brought them from error into truth that the
people of the present day were to be debarred from access
to them ? Their Lordships were called upon to consider
this question as affecting not only the established religion
of Ireland, but of England also. He should expect the
support of all those who wished that the Scriptures
should be circulated in every part of the world ; he should
likewise expect the support of all the orthodox friends of
the Church of England. He should beg leave to submit
the following resolution :-
-• Resolved,—That inasmuch as, by the plan of education
adopted by his Majesty's Government in Ireland, the Bible is
practically excluded, this House cannot view that plan with
approbation."

The Duke of NORFOLK wished to correct an error
into which the Noble Earl had fallen respecting the Ca-
tholics. The Noble Earl had stated that the Catholics
were opposed to the reading of the Scriptures. Now the
very contrary was the fact, for they always encouraged the
reading of the Scriptures. What they objected to was, the
right of private judgment which was sanctioned by persons
of the Reformed Church. He %vas convinced that the best way
to make good Catholics and good Protestants was to avoid
all religious discord.
The Earl of WICKLOW explained. He had not him-
self expressed any opinion on the subject, but merely stated
what he bad been told.
The Bishop of CHESTER said that the principle of
the Catholic Church was to withdraw the Bible from the
people at large. The principle of the Protestant Church,
on the contrary, was to inculcate it as widely as possible.
Mr. Stanley's letter acknowledged and sanctioned the
Catholic principle, in opposition to the Protestant. He
trusted that this new system of education would not be
persisted in.

The Duke of LEINSTER said that the most anxious
desire of the Board was that the Scriptures should be read
by the Catholics as Catholics, by the Protestants 39 Pro-

te,tants, and by the Presbyterians as Presbyterians. It was
a foul reproach to say that the Scriptures were withheld
by the new system.
Lord SUFFIELD said that never was there so miser.
able an expedient as this to raise an outcry agaiust the
Cabinet. Two days in the week were allotted to religious
instruction, and surely nothing more could be desired. He
very much wished that Noble Lords on the other side
would go through the public schools of England, and join
with him as a parent in seeing to what extent religious
instruction was given in them. He greatly feared it
would be found that the pupils were more conversant with
Homer's heroes than with the characters recorded in the
Bible. He contended that this was a most miserable
shift of a most rancorous opposition.

The Bishop of LONDON maintained that religious in-
struction was by no means neglected in the public schools,
and a very great improvement had taken place within the
last twenty years. He knew that at the public school at
which his own son was placed,youth received as good a re-
ligious education as the fondest Christian parent could de-
sire. If the Catholics were not opposed to the reading of
the Scriptures, how did it happen that they were opposed
to the Kildare-street system? The new plan was an in-
novation on Protestant principles, and therefore he, as a
Protestant minister, could not agree to it.
Lord SUFFIELD, after speaking briefly in explana-
tion, was proceeding to advert to some other points, when
he was called to order by Lord TENDERDEN and the Mar-
quis Of SALISBURY.
The Marquis of CLANRICARDE denied that the Bible
was excluded from the schools. Within the short time that
the new system had been commenced there were 40,000
applications for admission to the schools, and, under the
Kildare-street system there were not more than 47,000
since the year 1811.
The Bishop of EXETER said that this system was
not sanctioned by any of the Committees that had been
previously appointed. Mr. Stanley's letter made no men-
tion of the Scriptures. The Right Rev. Prelate then
quoted several portions of evidence from the report of the
Committee of 1824., and contended that the plan proposed
by Government was not founded upon it, because it was
not in accordance with that report, which recommended
Scripture readings as the basis of education in Ireland.
It would be recollected that the report of 1824 was sub-
sequently abandoned, because there was no standard com-
mon version of the Scriptures equally acceptable to the
Catholics and Protestants. It might be imagined from
Mr. Stanley's instructions that Scriptural readings were
not prohibited, because any selections meeting the concur-
rence of the Board of Education might be used for the
purposes of education. This, however, was not the case,
for a word was introduced, he believed without any autho-
rity, but which would have a material effect in altering
those instructions. That word was " entire," which
was introduced before the words " of the Board ;" so that
no portion of the Scriptures could be used unless with
the approbation of every member of the Board. Thus
every individual member had a veto upon the introduction
of any selection from the Scriptures for the use of the
public schools He should now advert to the system pro-
posed for educating Protestant children in Ireland, and in
so doing lie must allude to Dr. Sadler and the Arch-
bishop of Dublin. Of the latter Right Reverend Prelate
he had a personal knowledge, and be would say of him,
that a more estimable character was not to be met with.
Their Lordships would recollect that there had once been
a Prelate of Socinian principles as Archbishop of Dublin,
and should such be the case under the proposed plan the
religious instruction of all the children in Ireland would
be in the hands of this person. The Rev. Prelate then
quoted several papers, in order to show that the plan of
Mr. Staley was directly in the face of all the documents
with which it professed to be identified, and contended
that it was the bounden duty of a Protestant Legislature
to take especial care that the Word of God should have
free course amongst all classes of the people. The Rev. Pre-
late next adverted to the petition of the Catholic Bishops
in 1824, and to the enciclical letter of Leo XII. to the
Catholic Bishops of Ireland, i❑ which it was stated that
the indiscriminate circulation of the Scriptures could not
fail to be productive of great mischief. The Commissioners
of 1824 had acted with great propriety, and without de-
parting from the duty of making the Scriptures the basis
of education in Ireland. They succeeded in obtaining from
the Catholic Bishops a Testament which the latter would
nut object to have used in schools. This was obtained
before the Catholics felt themselves so strong as they
afterwards found themselves. The Testament, which
was the Rhenish, had notes to it, but they were such
as no reasonable Protestant could object to. In
those notes the Catholic Bishops put forward their
own interpretation of the Scriptures, but in a
fair and candid manner, and cautiously abstaining from
offending the feelings of any other religious persuasion. It
was very strange that the use of this Testament was not
insisted upon in all future plans of education. According to
Mr. Stanley's plan there was no provision whatever made
for printing Bibles, while, according to the Catholic rules,
the Bible was practically prohibited, so that, in effect,
there could be no such thing as Scriptural education in
that country.--( Hear, hear.) He had now gone through
the whole of Mr. Stanley's plan; and he was sure he did
not overstate it when he put it thus:—lt divorced morality
from the Word of God—it controlled the Protestant clergy
iu the exercise of a right, and subjected them to a tyranny
which neither the laws of God nor of man could acknow-
ledge.—it conspired with the Catholics in shutting out from
the people the truth contained in the Book of Light, and
consigned the Catholic peasantry to a state of irremediable
darkness.—(Hear, hear.) Why did they (the Bishops)
sit there as legislators ? Why was a strict union main-
tained between the Church arid the State? Was it to
mike the Church political ? No ; but, in the language of
his Noble and Venerable Friend, who had so long sat upon
the Woolsack, it was not to make the Church political,
but to make the State religious.—(Hear, hear.) He
stood there as an advocate of the religion which he
professed—a religion professed by the ancestors of their
Lordship's, who had driven a bigot from the throne.
He would not go on his bonded knees, as had been done
after a most eloquent appeal to the House on a former oc-
casion, imploring their Lordships to entertain a measnre
then under discussion, but he would implore their Lord-
ships to sanction the resolution which had been submitted.
The Right Reverend Prelate then, in a lower voice, made
some allusion to the necessity of Monarchs being under the
influence of religion; and concluded with quoting the
words, "Because thou hest rejected the word of God, he
has rejected thee from being King over Israel."
The Bishop of CHICHESTER contended that the
plan devised appeared to him unobjectionable. Their
Lordships would bear in mind that the greater portion of
the children to be educated were not Protestants but Ca.
tholics.— (Hear.) The Commissioners had proposed that
five days in the week the children should be educated in
various branches of instruction, and that two days the
Bible should be read. This appeared to him very reason-
able, notwithstanding the complaints urged against it by
the Right Rev. Prelate. Could any one doubt that John
Knox was a staunch Protestant? Knox had entered, in
his Treatise on Education, most fully upon every part of
the Scriptures, as applicable to education. He said that
" the reading of the Holy Scriptures indifferently is what
I think very inuonvenient for children—(Hear)—until
they have some notion of the plain fundamental parts
thereof." The Right Rev. Prelate here quoted a passage
from Burke, containing the opinion of that emi-
nent man on the vast variety of subjects contained
in the Bible, and then went on to say it was
impossible that the great mass of mankind in their edu-
cation could be always reading the Scriptures ; nor was it
desirable they should. Now, he had made inquiry into
the mode of education in Scotland—a country in which
it was admitted there was great morality—and the result
was, that the religious education was chiefly carried on at
home, and the usual branches of education were taught at
the schools. After all, he was of opinion that religious
instruction No's best adapted for domestic education.—
(Hear.) It was the duty of Government, doubtless, to
take care that the religious views of all parties were not
' obstructed by a plan of education—(Cries of, " Hear,
hear")—and the Committee, he thought, had acted in
conformity with that view. He could not forbear observ-
ing that his Right Rev. Friend had made some remarks of
an invidious ❑ature respecting the Archbishop of Dublin
—(Hear)—which the facts would not warrant—(Hear)
—and if Dr. Murray, or any other Member of that Board
had acted unreasonably, he (the Bishop of Chichester)
thought the Noble Duke at the head of that Coenwitsion
wou?al have noticed it.
Lord MONTAGU wished to state that in Scotland the
Bible was considered essential in advancing the education
of the young.—(Hear.)
The Earl of RADNOR said he could not remain silent
altogether, after hearing the speech of the Right Rev. Pre-
late (the Bishop of Exeter), although it bad been ably
answered by the Rev. Prelate who had just addressed the
House. The Bight Rev. Prelate, to whom he had first
alluded, had pronounced an anathema which was neither
called for under the circumstances of the case--(Hear)--
nor justifiable.—(hear.) In what the Right Hon. Pre-
late had asserted he had begged the question, and had pro-
nounced an anathema against all who ventured to differ
from him in opinion. The Right Rev. Prelate had as-
sumed to himself the words of the Prophet addressed to
Saul, applying them in a way which their Lordships would
understand—(Hear)—but which he would not repeat, if
lie had heard him correctly. Their Lordships would de-
termine whether the mode in which it was done was quite

consistent with the charity which that religion taught.--
(Hear.) As to the complaint made against the Kildare•
street Society, it was a little singular that the very things
now complained of by the Catholics, who objected to the
Bible being given to the children, unless it were accom-
panied with note or comment, so did many of the orthodox
clergy, twenty or thirty years ago, :abject to the Bible
Societies, when they were first introduced, and refused to
become subscribers for distributing the Scriptures.—
(Hear.) He was old enough to recollect the day when
three-fourths of the Bishops would have objected to the
introduction of Bibles without note or comment.—(Hear.)
The Bishop of EXETER said that he had pledged
himself to the world, and had maintained the necessity of
obtaining strong security before the measure ought to be
carried. When the Noble Duke had determined to bring
forward the measure, he did him the honour to commu-
nicate with him, because he had said it ought net to be
granted without some strong security, and he believed that
such a security was possible. He told the Noble Duke
the nature of the security which he thought necessary to
be obtained; and the Noble Duke took the subject into
consideration. Subsequently to this the Noble Duke told
him what was the measure he was about to introduce ;
and he (the Bishop of Exeter) disapproved of it. From
first to last he distinctly and decidedly objected to the
Bill, considering that the security was inadequate.
Lord STOURTON had always avoided taking a part
in similar discussions; and, i❑ so doing, he hoped that he
was interpreting correctly the feelings of the House, as
well as following his own. He certainly dissented entirely
from the opinions and the tenets that he had heard often
ascribed to persons of his religious belief. But yet he ab-
stained from any expression of his own sentiments, and
mingling in discussions, that might, in his regard, appear
to be somewhat of a personal nature. If he departed from
this general rule upon the present occasion, it was singly
and solely because the tenet ascribed to Roman Catholics of
withholding the Scriptures from the people, which had been
rebutted by a Noble Duke, a friend of his, had been again
attributed to the Roman Catholics by the Right Hon.
Prelate who immediately followed that Noble Duke in this
debate, and he wished, therefore, to bring before the House
the evidence of Doctor Doyle as taken upon oath before
their Lordship's Committee in 1825. And the Noble Lord
who opened the debate had acknowledged that Doctor
Doyle was authority on those points. Doctor Doyle is
eked, " In the address of the Roman Catholic
Bishops to their clergy, published at the end of last
year, and to which your name is affixed, it appears that
you object to the possession of the Bible by the Roman Ca-
tholic laity ; does that apply to the Bible attempted to be
circulated by the Bible Society, or does it equally apply to
any other version of the Scriptures, such as that called the
Rheims or Douay version? It applies to the version sought
to be circulated by the Bible Society amongst us, and not
to the Rhenish or Douay Version, which is sanctioned by
our Prelates. That we have no aversion to the
reading of the Bible, and the possession of it by the
laity of our Churches, is best proved by the great many
editions it has gone through in Ireland, under our express
sanction, and to which editions there is affixed a Rescript
of Pius the Sixth, directed to a prelate in Italy called
Martini, who had translated the Bible out of the Vulgate
into the Italian Language. We prefix this rescript of Pius
the Sixth to our editions in English of the Bible, in order
to spew that not only we, but the bead of our Church is
joined with us, in exhorting the faithful to read the
Word of God. We have not only procured editions
of the Bible ; I believe three by Coyne, two by O'Reilly,
and one by Cross (perhaps it is two) ; but this very year
we have procured a stereotype edition of the Bible, of a
small print and low price, to circulate it among all. So
that of all things said of us, there is not any thing
said of us more opposed to truth, than that we are
averse to the circulation of the Word of God. Have
the editions which have been circulated of the Douay
or Rheitns translations been accompanied with notes ?
They have very short notes. You think it necessary that
notes should accompany the Bible for the purpose of ex-
planation ? In our country, where religious controversy
prevails to such an extent, I do think it neces-
sary that short notes, explanatory of the texts, on
which our differences turn, sli.iuld b? prefixed to the Bible."
Now, only one word as to Doctor Murray, a person exer-
cising episcopal functions in Dublin, whose name had been
brought before the House. Of that Right Rev. Person he
would only say that lie knew no one who, from his great
talents and virtues, and amiable and mild and conciliatory
character, was more calculated to render important and
valuable services to a country, in which conciliation
and forbearance and charity were the highest requisites,
as leading to that tranquillity and concord which was so
truly and eminently desirable.
The Earl of RODEN said that the Kildare-place So-
ciety had answered all the purposes that could be expect-
ed, and had only been opposed by the demagogues and
Roman Catholic Priests, for be denied that the Catholic
people were in hostility to that Society. The Noble Earl
then referred to the number and respectability of the peti-
tions which had been presented on this subject from the
Protestants of Ireland, and he had in his hand a declaration
signed by 3,221 Roman Catholic Scripture Teachers, in
which similar sentiments were avowed. In answer to the
aspersions thrown on the Irish Protestants, he should only
say that they had united and formed themselves into so-
cieties in self-defence, to uphold the law, and for the pro-
tection of their liberties, their properties, and their reli-
gion.—(Cheers.)
The Earl of GOSFORD would readily admit that the
Protestants of Ireland would have been justifiable in coming
forward as they bad done on this occasion, if the statements
made to them on this subject had any foundation in truth.
If those statements had been correct, he, for one, must
have united himself with his Protestant fellow country-
men, and withdrawn all confidence from the present Ad-
ministration. The most incorrect representations, how-
ever, had been made, and zealously disseminated amongst
the Protestants of Ireland. Emissaries had been sent
through the country to tell the people that the Bible was
to he taken away from them by the Government, and the
most unwarrantable means had been resorted to, for the
purpose of exciting their feelings, and awakening ancient
prejudices and animosities.—(Loud cheering from the
Ministerial benches.) To such a system he could never
give his countenance, and the difficult situation in which
Ministers were placed, he conceived, ought to have pre-
vented every sincere friend to Ireland from sanctioning so
unjustifiable a species of political warfare.—( Hear. ) Under
the new system, 200 schools were applied for, and 61
granted. The Government was steering a middle course
between two parties, and therefore he was determined to
support them, feeling convinced that, in doing so, he was
promoting the peace and security of the empire.
The Bishop of BRISTOL deprecated the new system.
The Bishop of LLANDAFF defended the conduct of
the Archbishop of Dublin, and said at the same time that
he must support the resolution, though he wished it had
been more mildly worded.
The Marquis of LONDONDERRY said that the grand
object of the demagogues of Ireland was to separate the two
countries, and make the Catholic religion dominant over
the Protestant.

Lord PLUNKET said that all possible arts and delu-
sions were practised on the Protestant mind of Ireland, in
order to create an excitement against this measure. He
hoped that holy names had not been introduced into this
debate for political purposes. The Roman Catholics were
dissatisfied with the late system, and the only question was,
whether or not there should be a joint system cf education
for Catholic and Protestant Children. It was a doctrinal
maxim with Roman Catholics that no individual should
set up his own private interpretation of the Scriptures,
in opposition to the dogmas of the Church. If it did so,
he was no longer held to be a member of that Church.
Now, the Protestants held that the Scriptures should be
circulated, but that the doctrines of the Protestant Cnurch
should not be impugned. If the Protestants insisted that
the Bible should be a school-book, it was quite impossible
there could be any joint education. The Prot 'tants by
urging such a demand, called upon the Catholics to abjure
one of the very first principles of their religion.
The argument of the Right Re'erend Prelate was one
which had encroached uu the jurisdiction of law itself,
and went indeed so far as to render it impossible for him
conscientiously to enforce the observance of the Fourth
Commanilment--(Hear.) From a candid perusal of the
plan of the Right Hon. Secretary for Ireland, it was im-
possible to pronounce that the Scriptures were to be inter-
dicted to students in the schools on the new system. So
far as the use of extracts of Scripture, or lessons from
thence embodying the substance of the Scriptures, being
interdicted in these schools, as had been vulgarly reported
in Leland with a view to inflame the Protestant mind in
that country, there was no truth in the assertion.
The Duke of WELLINGTON said he hail always re-
gretted that the Government bad adopted the measure now
under consideration, because it had rendered the Protestant
population apprehensive of their conduct, and so far weak-
ened the Government in the affections of the Irish Protes-
tants, who, whether from historical recollections, their su-
perior information, or their possession of five-sixths of
the property of Ireland, were the real strength of the
empire there, and the pledge of union between the two
countries. The worst feature of the change of the system
was that it unhinged that valuable system of education ex-
isting there, imparting its beneficial influence to above
600,000 individuals, and making rapid progress through-
out Ireland. Was it nothing to check such a system in
its benificent course? It was impossible to read this cor-
respondence and not say that the Legislature was not

rls!ing the interests of the Protestant population—the in-
!,nests of the rising generation, 1,01 Protestant and Ca-
,ll,.lie, in thew schools, and !).I'tiTiq to hazard the bast in-
rr,sts and the safety of the Protestant establishment in
I t

Earl GREY said the Noble Duke had been particularly
pointed in his insinuation that the measure had been
adopted by him and his colleagues in consequence of their
ho:ng practised upon and deceived, as if he alone had authen-
tic means of information, and was alone incapable of being
misled or deceived. He was sorry to find that, during
the debate on this subject, opportunities had been seized
upon for the purpose of expressing party or religious feel-
ings, which were always inimical to the maintenance of
peace and a good understanding in a community like this,
c imprehending Members of different religious persuasions.
He was the more concerned to hear from the Noble Duke
himself any thiug which might have the effect of again
awakening that religious animosty or distrust which he
had hoped the great measure of that Noble Dukes'e
life had done so much to soften down and to extinguish.
If he saw, as he thought he bad seen, a measure which was
likely to conciliate parties of different religious persuasions,
and induce professors of opposite creeds to send their chil-
dren to acquire in public schools that information which
they could not otherwise obtain, and which was always of
s ► much importance in the improvement of the condition of
society, but more particularly in Ireland, were we to be de.
terred from adopting that measure as part of the policy of
the Government, because there were not wanting some who
were ready to tell him, as they had told the Noble Duke in
reference to the great measure of Catholic Emancipation,
" Yon are going to dissolve the ties which boud the Pro-
testant interests in Ireland to the throne of England. You
will strengthen the hands of those•whose political and re-
ligious feelings are opposed to the union of the two coun-
tries, and weaken that party in the State on which you can
alone depend."—(Hear.) He was not, be trusted, to be de-
terred from doing what he clearly conceived to be his duty
as a Minister, by language which had failed to have any
effect on the Noble Duke when in office with reference to a
measure of much greater importance ; and, least of all,
ought so give to them any weight when coming from that
Noble Duke's own lips.—(Loud cheers.) On that occasion
he (Earl Grey) had felt the force of the arguments adduced
in favour of that measure, and supported the Noble Duke
in the great object then contemplated. Least of all shoo d
he be disposek to listen to arguments drawn from vulg. r
bigotry, or religious fanaticism, in determining upon a
question of such vital interest to society in that part of 0 .r
empire, where the want of education was most sensibly felt
and acknowledged by all. If partial dissatisfaction might be
the result of the measure, he begged to say that the conduct
of the Noble Duke on some occasions had met with op-
position from the Protestant party in the north of Ireland,
who continued their processions in despite of the presence
of the King's troops sent to enforce the order of the Noble
Duke's Government. Nor was there wanting a mouth-
piece for that party, in that very House, in the person of
the Noble Lord who in partrepresented that interest there.
For on the first day of the Session, 1830, that Noble Lord
told the Noble Duke, in his place, that he had weaned
from him and his Government that party on whom alone
he could with safety have depended in the hour of trial.
He wished that it would be permitted to his Majesty's Go-
vernment to proceed with the measure which they contem-
plated, as being alike beneficial to the Protestant and Ca-
tholic population of Ireland. And, notwithstanding any
insinuations—(Hear, hear)—that might be thrown out,
he could yet truly say that no one could be more attached
to the great truths of Christianity, or to the support of the
Protestant Church, than was the humble individual wile
then addressed them.—(Hear.) He had, however, still
to learn that in adhering to a line of conduct which had
proved disastrous to other religions, and which alienated
trona this country the affections, not only of the people of
Ireland, but also the good-will of other nations—he had
yet to learn that such a line of conduct was calculated to
preserve the Protestant Church.—(Hear, hear.) He had
been educated in a different school. He had been taught that
where grievances existed, the first step taken should be to
examine into them, and, if redress was requisite, to grant
it without delay, and not wait until it was forced upon the
Government, in which case it would not be received as a
boon, and would, of course, fail to couciliate.—(Hear.)—
The Noble Duke, however, had said that every thing was
well ; but the information which he (Earl Grey) bad re-
ceived relative to the Kildare-street Society convinced him
thee it was not operating benefically for the people of Ire.
land—( Hear, bear)—that it was not giving to them that
which was contemplated--a system of national education.
The Noble Duke had said that 600,000 children bad been
educated in Ireland; and, from the way in which he said
it, one might be led to imagine that they were all educated
by the Kildare-street Society. Such, however, was not
the case. All that had been done by Government was to
withdraw the Parliamentary grant from the Kildare-street
Society, and to place it in the hands of a Board. Every
thing else was left precisely as it was.—(Hear.) The fact
was that 560,000 children had been educated in Ireland
altogether, by all of the schools, Catholic as well as Pro-
testant, and of that number only 57,000 were educated by
the Kildare-street Society.
The Duke of WELLINGTON—Yes, 147,000 wer
educated by that Society.
Earl GREY was willing to give even that number to
the Noble Duke, though he believed it to be exaggerated,
and still it left 400,000 educated by the other schools.
The chief part of those educated by the Kildare-street So-
ciety were educated in Ulster ; very few in Connaught, anti
very few in Munster. This fact alone showed that it was
not operating beneficially as a system of national education.
Government had taken fur their guide in the plan which
they had adopted the reports of the two Commissions. The
only question was whether they were or not to have a
system Of national education in Ireland. If they were to
have such a system, it must be upon a plan agreeable as
well to the Catholics as to the Protestants. Was there,
he would ask, in that plan any want of attention to the
religious interests of the country ? He was certain that no
reasonable person could answer in the affirmative. Its
beginning was most auspicious, and the most sanguine
expectations were entertained of its ultimate success. He
was so convinced of this, that he would do his utmost
to support it, and he trusted that it would also receise the
support of their Lordships. It was for their Lordships to
determine whether they would defeat at its outset a project
calculated to promote peace and good will amongst man-
kind, and to promote the welfare of the Protestant Church,
which could not be safe without the prevalence of peace
and good-will in Ireland.—(Hear, hear.)
The Earl of WICKt.ow replied, and
Their Lordships then divided—
Non Contents—Present
Proxies
Contents—Present
Proxies 27— 87

Majority for Ministers
The House adjourned at Oue o'clock.

Prince Puckler Muskau, the celebrated, "Ger-
man Prince," is the head of a noble house in Prussian Saxony,
but he is not entitled to the rank and privileges of a Sovereige
Prince of the empire, although in many respects he exercises
considerable power in his own domain. The Prince is alliedby
marriage with the family of the late Prince Hardenberg, Chi.
Minister to the present King of Prussia, his Highness having
formed an alliance with a daughter of the deceased Prussian
Statesman. The Princess Puckler Muskau, before her mar-
riage with this distinguished tourist, was relict of a Prussian
Nobleman, by whom she had a daughter who became the con-
sort of Prince Carolath, and who, with her husband, came to
this country in the summer of la), on a visit to their Ma-
jesties. Prince Puckler Muskau, on his last visit to England,
was chaperoned by Baron Bulow, the Prussian Envoy, who in.
troduced him into the Travellers' Club.

RECOLLECTIONS OF AN ASSIZE WEEK.--
A man was indicted for setting fire to a stack of straw. An ob.
jection was started that it was a stubble stack. The Judge de.
tided that the term straw did not apply to stubble, and the pri.
sorer was acquitted.—The Counsel for a man convicted of
sheep-stealing endeavoured to get rid of the case by showing
that the leg bones of the sheep did not fit in the way described
in the indictment. Objection over-ruled, on the ground that
the non-fit was owing to the sinews having become dry and
contracted.—The prosecutor in a case in which a man was con-
victed of robbing him of his handkerchief, whilst he was at-
tending a funeral sermon at a Baptist meeting-house, being
asked by the Judge why he did not take care of his property
when he was in a crowd, replied, " My Lord, I was attending
to what the minister was saying." Judge—" Oh good, very
good. I wish every hearer was so attentive."—ln the case of a
man convicted of stealing some barley, his Counsel asked the
prosecutor why he grew barley in a particular field ? The Judge -
to the Counsel—" Why do you carry a 5/. note in your pocket ?
I never heard such a question put- I will not allow such non.
sense before me. The Jury, myself, and the auditory deserve
better treatment."—Two men were tried for stealing a hand.
vice, and acquitted. The prosecution will cost the county more
than is usually allowed by parish officers for the support of a
man and his wife for twelve months.

THE BITER BIT.—A farmer's wife not many
miles from Spalding, and who usually attends the market with
her butter and eggs, one week lately being busily engaged,
which prevented her attending the market, for the sake of
convenience consigned her butter and eggs to a shop not far
distant from the town. Being a new customer, old split-plum
commenced trying her honesty, and the butter being found de-
titc,ieenretpi, weight,if
it is not weight it ought to be, for my pound it was soon communicated to the old lady.
She
weight, which has stood the test of ages, is somewhere not to be
youribu'ld ,and I was compelled to weigh my butter against one k
pounds of sugar.—Boston Paper.

TITHE MEETING AT CARGREEN, . - A falling interest, and render gradual, one of numerous, and 400 cannon are mounted on the SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.)
PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
CORNWALL. Rank Stock - those unavoidable changes in human affairs, ramparts :- -.......____
• FROM LLOYD'S.
- - --oeses- a per Cent. Red ...•.. shut India Stock -
:leper per Cent. Cons. ............S3j% Ditto Bonds VIENNA, Matsui 10.-Five per Cent. Metalliques, sa% ; DEAL, MARCH 22.-Wind W.S.W., moderate.-Arrived
(Abridged from the Plymouth Journal.)l " di& which are afflicting to humanity, when they are
It Cent. shut South; Sea Stock 92 Four per Cents., 75 % ; Bank Shares, 1,115 %. the Jane, Price, from Jamaica; and Young Peggy, Lefevre,
A meeting of the owners and occupiers of land in the pa. Ditto Red - ;Old Annuities from Tenerif. Arrived from the river and remains the Wind-
- too sudden and extensive. Upon this point the sorp,
OPRroTcsti3ri3OfruomTHln, India.
rashes of Landulph, Botusfleming, and parishes adjacent, was ",%c7r
3eeconetr
Ann. Cent. ii, e 1
..
2; ii* 91)7
ICpeewr jeeit.T' Ann. 1751 - as: :
held at the Royal Oak, Cargreen, on Tuesday last, for the pule {per cent is‘aa
pose of determining on the propriety of petitioning the Legisla. Rank Long Ann. to expire !Ditto .50(' 9lO pm. the Lady , , Stonehouse, _ .
Harewood for New South Wales
ture on the subject of the present system of Tithes. Jan 5, We - Ditto! Small
FALMOUTH, Maisel' 21.-Wind N. W. to W.N.W., fresh
Mr. WM. WYMAN having been unanimously called to the Jan. 10, 1859 s
- ; Ditto Advertised - sugar, and by sustaining other existing regula-
chair, that gentleman proceeded to make a few remarks on the jan: 351 1880 HOLYHEAD, MARCH 21.-Arrived the Apollo, Glasgow,
'Bank for Account -
many grievances experienced by the yeomanry from the present Aprils, 1880 -.llndia for Account
--,* tions, they may be really depriving the
system of tithes. He trusted the time was not far distant when Jan. 5, 1870 I Cons for April 11 .... ..... 83% BRISTOL, Masten 22.-Arrived the Pomona, Norton, from
the great body of the people of England would not only see the
FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'cLocK. poor of England of better and cheaper markets,
Mac-
iniquity of such a system, but join heart and hand in adopting PnICES OF WATERFORD, MARCH 20.-Arrived the Swallow, Mac.
Austrian Bonds - 'Peruvian Bonds ... ......... ... - , . amuse, the Episcopal Bench. At this Meet-
every constitutional mode of redress. He, as well as those Belgian Bonds Ditto Account ___ which they must ultimately possess, and ought kean, from Pernambuco ; and Manchester, Leish, from London.
LIMERICK, Maacit 20.-Arrived the Aurora, Forsyth,
around him, had experienced for many years the baneful effects Ditto Scrip ....... ...... - pm. Portuguese Bonds -
arising from tithes. They had not come to the meeting with Brazilian
Account pm. Ditto Account -to possess, still they are graduating a transition inn--a most significant one, considering the
from St. John's, N.B.
45% Regency Scrip
mere theoretical notions of the manner in which the present AtoanAnuoonuanst 0..4 d- is. which would otherwise be a sore infliction upon present state of feeling ill this country and in CORK, MARCH 20.-Arrived the Mary Ann, Werett, from
Ditto Account
system worked-their knowledge was founded on experience- Buenos Ayres Bonds
Ireland regarding Tithes-each Speaker deli- GREENOCK, Mallen 20.-Wind N.W.-Sailed the Joanna,
and that experience unequivocally declared that the whole Ditto Account Ditto Account - humanity. Were Ministers to lessen the duties
Chilian Bonds . 16ee Ditto Bonds, 1822
system was bad. M'Kellar, for Calcutta.
Ditto Account Ditto Account vered himself, as though his whole soul were
Mr. MARTIN RICKARD-As far as himself was con- -_-_- upon West India produce, and to adopt the MARGATE, Maecit 22.-A bowsprit, painted white, and
Columbian Bonds - Russian Ponds, 182 e
auappaorrently nearly new, supp. osed to belong to. a brig or ship of
rerned, should always be happy to lend his best assistance for Ditto Account - Ditto Account Wrapped up in the great question. The
the abolition of the existing tithe laws--;Cheers.) As a Ditto Bonds, 19e4 - measures which the Opposition wish to force 300 tons, was towed in here this morning.
stranger among them, he might also congratulate them on being Danishi BondsAec it 67% Ditto Account - s • .
,Spaniah Bonds, 19'21" 13%,4 upon them, from the most iactious motives, they strictures in particular of Mr. VEALE, on LIVERPOOL MARcii 21.-The Belem Castle, Dennis,
the first to set so noble an example to the rest of the county- Greek Bonds ....-.. ....... ..... - ! Ditto Account " I'll-s?si from Lisbon, sustained much injury last night in a heavy sea.
and he would to God that that example might not only be fol. Ditto Bonds, 3825_ - would eventually increase the sufferings of all what he aptly termed the " Levitical Alagis- -.....---_
The St. G.eorge, of Liverpool, was spoken with on the 19th of
lowed by every parish in Cornwall, but by every town in the Ditto Account - !French Rentes, sp. c. -f. -c.
West India connexions, the interests of which tracy," are full of zealous, downright truth.
kingdom.--:Cheers.) The present system of tithes was not Mgitcato• nßonds, 5 per cent. -I- Exchange -f -c.
Ditto, 6 Account
per
cent
only most exorbitant in its demands, but most iniquitous in its -' - Exchange -f -c. " Taken as a body," said Mr. VEALE, " they the Morley, Douglas, arrived at Columbo. She was again spoken
operation. It was not so much the money wrung from the Ditto Account - Dutch Scrip 43% the opponents of Government pretend to pro- with on the 16th of October, in lat. 9. S. long. 84. in distress, by
classes of small farmers, as their continual fear of being thrown Neapolitan • - French Scrip were a disgrace to any age and any country. He La Clorinde, arrived at Madras.
into the Ecclesiastical Court, that prevented them from paying - mote by roositions they advance merely to
, knew no set of men less incommoded with a About forty bales of cotton have been saved from the wreck
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAT AT ONE O'CLOCK. p p
their tithe in kind. For this reason, the clergy might enact Paid. Per Share. suit their own elfisli and party feelings. IL of
of those very laws, on an acquaintance of the Penelope.
any sum they pleased, and the farmer was obliged to submit, Bolanos Mining Coleman) £l5O 130 Arrived off Bardsay, the Terranova, from the Clyde, with
or live for ever in fear of the visitations of the strong hand of Brazilian Imp. Min. Co. (ass. at 5/. pm.) £2O
1337 is in vain to conceal that our West India with which the justice or injustice of legal deci- loss of both masts, boats, &c., bound to New York.
Real del Monte Mining Co. .. , -
clerical law.-!Cheers,) Continental Gas Co.
Mr. BOXER said the present tithe system was in every way Canada Company 1311%
43 N 3 Colonies are in a false position, from sion must depend. He knew no set of men CHOLERA MORBUS, OFFICIAL REPORT.
Dad, both in principle and effect, and it was necessary that Van Dieman's Land Agricultural Co. 12 554 'X
which even the revenue of England could not more generally unjust, or who were more willing _......_____
some change should take place. He did not consider that
PRICES 01 IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, MARCH 21. CENTRAL BOARD OF HEALTH.
one of the clergy had a real or substantial right to tithes. It rescue them. The wretched colonial policy ot to crush the farmer, should their interests happen
Bank Stock ... ........... .... 2044 ISt. Patrick Insur.(pei Share - COUNCIL OFFICE, WHITEHALL.-(THIS DAY.)
was a property originally reposed in them in trust for the Consols, 3 Der cent. .:.... 82% ; Royal Irish Ditto
people, to be used for their advantage, but had been diverted Gov. Stock, 3% per cent 904 INational Ditto ......... - Spain, in hermetically sealing her American _____
from its legitimate purposes to support the bloated pride of an Ditto, New 904% ,Patriotic Ditto - have fallen, we fear, on evil times. ----
Cent - iHibernian Bank
overgrown hierarchy. The interest of the clergy in tithes- dominions-the equally bad policy of our an- .4s. 1 ...: ..
IGPoevr. Deb. 3% per cent ... 84% Provincial; Ditto
was nothing more nor less than a common law right-it had Royal Canal Stock * &5% ;Royal Royal Irish Mineg 8. ra 1 b.:' iii s; d ~.ie
been converted into a tyrannical right, and made use of as a Grand Canal Stock s7eri Imperial Mine cient ally, Portugal-the fluctuating ownership MESSRS. DUCKETT, MORLANDS, & CO. Places and Date. 'a" a, (..) . .:2 `., C..) r, ~.“.4
'Pi' ill t' g 3E' ^Eg
chain to blind and enslave the people. Where were they to City Deb. 4 per cent....... 77 ng Co. of Ireland
n t Office Deb. 4p.c. - Commercial Buildings. -of the Dutch and French settlements in South _______4o.- .4 Z -' ' -ts ot.'
look in the greater number of the dignitaries of the establish- 133-"" .-.. .4 g II- - ~,
At a meeting of the Creditors of the firm of Messrs. -
meat for that principle of conscience-that rectitude of life- WAILS. America-the resort of the Blacks in St. Do- Duckett, Morlands,and Company, held this day, at twelve 022 0 0 2 2
that meekness and want of worldliness that should distinguish Arrived. Due. Arrived. Due. Yarmouth, March 22
o'clock, at Willis's Rooms, in King-street, St. James's- Ely, Cambr. March 92
the teacher of Christianity ? Were not the greater proportion
(0) likrmazeirlica ll 0 Hamburg - 4501 8 15 5
0 0 Holland
of them mere time servers-the creatures of persons in power square ;
0 Buenos Ayres - CHARLES BARRY BALDWIN, Esq., M.P., in the Chair North Shields, &c. Mar.2l 200 2 0 339 98
-ready to grasp all within their reach, and evcr striving for 0 carthagena 0 1 0 Leeward Islands ... 0
the possession of temporal emolument and the advancement 2 Dublin 0 1 0 Lisbon our interruption of the French trade with Gua- A statement of the debts and credits of the firm, with South Shields, March 21 0 1 4 0 0 , 16 '7
temporal ambition.-(Louti cheers.) Mr. B. then proceeded to (il Flanders 0 ! 0 Malta an account of the private property of the partners was
0 Sweden
56) daloupe and Martinique, and the frequent Coldstream,slarch 20 29 8 0 13 22 109 37
lay before the meeting an estimate of the expenses incurred
0 Gruaenrcnesey &Jersey.. CO) 1 Waterford
by the different Governments of Europe for the maintenance That the gross amount of their debts and habilis Edinburgh, March 20 .... 1 0 2 0 0 39 20
of an Established Church, particularly dwelling on the HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. transfer of those islands, by conquest or ties was
enormous disproportion that existed between this and Morning... 17 minutes after 7.1 Evening... 45 minutes after 7. That the Partnership debts, exclusive of some of Water of Leith, March 20 5 2 1 3 4 48 23
any other country. Between seven and eight millions annually - --- . ' __ __ _ _
_____ _ . ,_ _ _ seaees___
_______ treaty, between France, England, and Sweden- the doubtful and other debts (not carried into
account)
were devoted in England to the support of the clergy alone,
.ts.4el- 0. these these and many other causes have produced Balance to be provided out of the Partners' -
a sum nearly as great as the expenses attendant upon the sup- .Glasgow, &c., March 20 32 14 0 51 31 1,401 212
tin+ in the West India islands a forced F,state
port of all the church establishments of the continent. Could a r,,r „___:,:-6-.,,,p-, ":
state of things so preposterous be longer tamely submitted to ? esestsi. 4-sese es. es : • .
_,
~ and - 63 27
e- - .e. - e That the net available Property of Sir George
Tithes were not only a chain fastened round the legs of the
people of England, but it had been twisted around their necks, LONDON, which it is impossible that they can sustain when Sir Frances B. Morland's
Mr. 'l'. T. Bernard's
and it behoved them to act like men, and to seek by every legal 9,0 W 0 0 Pollockshaws, March:2o.- 4 0 I 1 1 3 1 1 8 1 3
means to relieve themselves of the fettars that girded and FRIDAY EVENING. MARCH 23, 1832. other lands are brought into competition, and 1R3,673 0 0 Perth, Marchro 531112 6 aa 1 12
weighed them down.-(Long and continued cheers.) ___Balance due to Customers
Mr. VEALE trusted the feelings that had led them to as. We can, at length, congratulate the Country, trade and human exertions and intercourse are Total 11'2'2 127154 1 39 1103 1362 607
semble that day would not be confined to the circle of a few Surplus
left unshackled. Tile soil of many of our islands . That in addition to the above, Sir George Duckett and and from which no returns have been this day
parishes, but spread and enlarge itself into a flame that should that the Reform Bill has been read a third time,
be felt from one end of the kingdom to the other. That a Sir F. B. Morland had to the credit of their accounts up- received 5327 1520
- -
great amelioration in the present tithe system was absolutely after an attempt at further delay, so pitiably is of a very inferior description, some of them wards of 35,5001. not included in cash balances. Grand Total 6689 12127
necessary he was most sincerely of opinion;. still, he should
mean, that Colonel SIIITHORP, who made the are exposed to droughts, and others to tor- It was moved by the Rev. J. B. Ferrets, and secondesl __a-saw--
be very unwilling to lend his voice in support of a total by Mr. Hatchard. LONDON.-MARCH 22, FIVE P.M.
abolition of tithes. He had no very great respect for par- motion, could not procure a member to second nadoes, which render cultivation extremely That the thanks of the Meeting be given to Mr. Walford
sons, taken in the lump, for he considered them anything Iliss ,-,, t I '.',.
.r: a g
for the clear and explicit statement which he produced in
but merciful or intelligent, but yet he was so far their him. The majority on the third reading is con- expensive, and the results precarious. The 4'; 14, . g: ._.,a Ld(s E .-` c,e° E
this Meeting.-Carried unanimously. Districts.
friend as not to wish for a total abolition of tithes.- 74= .s
He was willing that tithe should be restored to its primitive elusive of the sense and wishes of the Country, entire want of irrigation in some islands, the It was afterwards moved by Mr.W. A. Mackinnon, Esq. El - 3 p, rr.s
M. P. and seconded by Sir Robert Price, Bart. M. P. =.-. . g ^ toP as e
foundation, and applied to its original objects; and that the .
The Bill has to go through two processes of still more severe want of rivers and inland navi- That the conduct of the late Partners of the Firm of
clergy should be entft • led to their fair share-but only their Afloat in the River l3 5 1 116' 60 2t3
fair share-of the immense sums accruing therefrom. Now, mere form-the motion that "the Bill do pass"- gation in others ; with the consequent difficulty Messrs. Duckett Morlands, and Co., appears to be highly ,
however, the ecclesiastical cormorants contrived to swallow honourable, and that the statement of their accounts is Limehouse, Feb. 13 1 0 0 0 1 . 21 17
all-he would therefore propose as a basis for their petition, and secondly, ~ that this be the title of the Bill." of transporting extremely heavy produce over candid open and satisfactory.-Carried unanimously.
that tithes be restored to their original purposes-that Church CHAS. B. BALDWIN, Chairman. Shadwell 3e3 0 2 15 le
end State he divided, so that the affairs of the Church should Ttaken b
'bile Opposition may avail themselves of these rocky and unequal surfaces destitute of roads, On the Chairman quitting the Chair it was y Ratcliffl
I 1 0 1 2 1 8 4
alone employ the consideration of the clergy, unmixed with forms, as they did with the first Bill, and may must eventually throw these Colonies out of the Lord Dunboyne, when a Vote of Thanks was carried to 21 6 4 3 20 86 40
political offices, and that every parish should be allowed toßermondsey
choose its own Minister. Lastly, it was his opinion, that there get up another vexatious debate. Sir ROBERT market. No power of legislation, no sacrifice the Chairman, and the Meeting was dissolved.
Southwark 49 21 8 13 49 491 245
could be no impropriety in petitioning the Legislature to
PEEL put forth his strength last night, and did of domestic interests at home-not all the artifice
forego the adoption of coercive measures towards their Irish THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) Newington Butts B2OOlO 77 38
brethren on the subject of tithes, and he should therefore - --.40.--;----._
Camberwell
propose that a clause to that effect should be introduced himself much honour. Under the mask of re- of factions, nor the ingenuity of man could CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
into the proposed inemorial. Nothing was more cal-
proving Sir J. C. HOBHOUSE for wandering enable our islands- to compete with the Con- A regular file of Jamaica Papers, to the 2d of February, Lambeth
culated to excite jealousy against their Pastorhave been received at the North and South American Coffee.
among the yeomanry, than the system now pursued ; from the subject, he read such a lecture upon tinent of South America, where the soil is house. Christchurch 3 1 3 0 I 41 24
for six days in the week the one was striving to (From the Jamaica Courant of the Ist of February.) Westminster l4 2169 I 35 17
grasp and the other to withhold every thing in his the foul tactics of making discursive speeches and richer, and, what is of more consequence, where The accounts from Sir Willoughby Cotton's head-quarters
Chelsea 4 1 1 0 4 21 16
power, and bickerings and ill-will were thus engendered; that
of yesterday were favourable. As the slaves are disposed
not all the pulpit eloquence of the Sunday could allay. Dr. paltry objections for the sake of delaying what it is more fresh and new, as well as benefitted by the to return to their duty, we hope his Excellency, on his arrival St. George's, Hanover-sq. 0 1 1 0 0 5 4
Lushington, every one would admit was no bad authority, and at 'Montego Bay, will issue a proclamation, offering a free
he would give them that Learned Gentleman'. (Minion of the could not be fairly opposed, that Sir CHARLES natural facilities of irrigation, and of inland water- pardon to all except the ringleaders, and by this means put an
Marylebone 161106 G 1 16
Ecclesiastical Court. A friend of the Doctors was unfortun- st
te*TETHERELL and his crew writhed under carriage. The Colony of Demerara is susceptible end to a servile war. It is gratifying to observe that the three
ately plagued with a horse that broke over every fence, and Paddington Canal.
desperate chiefs have been taken : their followers, no doubt,
will soon be induced to give themselves up. It is reported St. Pancras
contrived to get out of every inclosure in which it happened to the lash. Sir ROBERT'S logic is amusing. of more improvement, anti would become more 0 1 0 0 1 8 6
be placed. Luckily he met Dr. Lushington one morning, and that the Earl of Belmore will in a few days visit the several
the discourse happened to turn upon this vicious propensity in He founds all his arguments upon the igno- productive than all our West India Islands put disturbed districts. Ilis Lordship will embark at' Port. Royal, St. Giles's 2I 2 1 0 3 37 24
the animal, when the Doctor suddenly interrupted the !amen_ in
and prejudices of the English people, for- together. In fact, it now chiefly supplies the in his Majesty's ship North Star, and call at every. port in the Whitechapel ... B2 12
_1 8 36 21
rations of his friend by abruptly remarking, " Pools, pooh ! the island where his presence is required.
thing might easily be remedied-I'd soon put your horse in a • . . . It affords us the highest satisfaction to learn that his Ex- St. Georges's East
„aettmg that the prejudices have been inculcated Islands with fresh provisions ; although not one- districts 6 1 2 0 5 19 11
place from which it should never get out." " Could you, my cellency the Commandant-General of the Eastern of
dear Sir," eagerly replied his friend, "but how?" " How :- by bad government. Sir ROBERT makes a wo- fourth cultivated. If the hand of improvement Cuba has, in a communication to the Earl of Belmore, mast St. Luke's 5 1 0 0 6 '2O 11
returned the Doctor, " why I'd put it in the Ecclesiastical , handsomely offered to render such assistance as he can afford to Bethnal Green
put down the rebellious in this island. 0 1 0 0 1 5 3
Court." - ',Loud laughter and cheers.) His friend, Mr. ful mistake in asserting that many of Mr. PITT'S were suffered to extend into the Continent, how I
Boxer, had stated that the amount of tithes for England , Brentford 4 0 1 0 3 18 9
THE FUNDS.
and Ireland at present amounted to from seven to eight liberal views of commerce were opposed by the much more would its natural resources be dove- The debate on the third reading of the Reform Bill last night Wandsworth 0 4 1 0 3 4 1
millions. He had heard it stated et nine millions.-;Hear. entirely engrosses the attention of the public this morning.
people. The The people had no power to oppose, loped by the produce of thousands of miles of Total 11(56 163 36 136 166 1165 614
Another point he wished to recommend to their consideration P Consols, which left off yesterday at 83 %ae for the Account, 48 33
was the removal of all ecclesiastics from the exercise of polite. and all the opposition emanated from the aril- country I
opened at 895 y ;soon after there were sellers at 83% ;at present Cases from pieces before reported
cal power. lie would not make any allusion to the dignataries they are again ta3 %N, with little or nothing doing. Grand Total 1913 647
of the Church, nor stay to point out the manner in which they tocracy, both landed and commercial. Mr. It is absurd to suppose that tea will always be In the Foreign Market as yet not a bargain doing. (Signed WM. MACLEAN, Secretary.
had ever been found to place themselves in opposition to the
The Dutch steamer is anxiously expected.
wishes of the nation. He would come nearer home, and con- PITT was so entirely ignorant commercial li-
confined to China, or that England must for
of
EL le
tent himself with glancing at the inefficiency of our LeviticaILIVERPOOL, MARcii 21.-It is stated that the Chieftain
beralisrn, that he laid it down as a fixed prin-(From the Cambridge Chronicle.)
Magistrates. 'Taken as a body they were a disgrace to almost ever draw her sugar from her own Colonies, steamer, from Belfast, was placed under quarantine.
(From the Courant of the 30th of January.) We much regret to state the cholera morbus is now ragin;
any age and any country. He knew no set of men less f I
cipie, " that every commercial concession made at Ely. We have been favoured with the following official ac
incommoded with a knowledge of those very laws, upon an. ac- Tile old doctrine that England never could be a His Excellency the Governor, embarked yesterday afternoon
' •
t Ireland was an injury to England." on board his Majesty's ship, North Star, for the purpose of pro- count, signed by the medical gentlemen of Ely :-
quaintance with which the justice or injustice of legal decision -,
Sir manufacturing country, but must always depend "Ely, Wednesday Evening, March 21.
ceeding to the disturbed districts.
must depend. He knew no set of men more generally unjust,
or who were more willing to crush the farmer, should their in- ROBERT PEEL attributes this inost barbarous HALF-PAST ONE. "On Saturday morning last, the 17th inst., Joseph Layton
Upon the Netherlands for her woollens anda labourer, went to his threshing as usual (he had had a sligh
In contradiction to the assertion of the French that
serest.; happen to disagree. Mr. Veale concluded by proposing Papers,
for the adoption of the meeting the following ptition, which, notion to Mr. Fox. But the Bill may be con- broad-cloths, vvas not more preposterous. The a Conference is to take place to arrange the affairs of Ancona, diarrhoea the evening before) ;whilst there he was taken il
and returned home between eight and nine o'clock, A,):
after a few verbal alterations, was eventually put by the chair. • we are credibly informed that accounts are in town of its being
sidered out of the Commons, and the peace and . Having been put to bed, medical assistance was procure<
man, and carried without a dissentient voice. question of the sugar duties has been dexte- finally adjusted.
ea
s --- Ii• .1 I • .t._ Consols have been during the whole of the morning at F 354 and such means used as were thought advisable, with
out effect ; re-action never took place, and he die

TO TII! RIGHT HONOURABLF, THE LORDS SPIRITUAL AND TPNL

PORAL OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN ♦ND

IRELAND, IN PARLIAMENT ASSEMBLED.
The petitioners, undersigned, owners and occupiers of land in
the parishes of Landulpe and Botusfleming, and several other
parishes adjacent, in the county of Cornwall,
Humbly sheweth—That yonr petitioners being impressed with
the many and grievous evils arising from the present system, do
earnestly implore your Right Honourable House to remove so
intolerable a burthen.
That the present mode of paying the Clergy by tithes is in-
jurious to religion, and contrary to souud
That your petitioners are fully persuaded that tithes are public
property, and may be disposed of in any way the Legislature may
deem fit. Your petitioners therefore most humbly pray your
Right Honourable House to restore to the people of England
their ancient and legal rights.
Your Petitioners also most humbly pray your Right Hon.
House, to remove all the ecclesiastics from political power—to
disunite Church and State; allowing every parish to choose its
own Minister.
That your Petitioners hear with regret that coercive measures
are in contemplation to be enforced against the Tithe Payers in
Ireland. Your Petitioners therefore earnestly pray your Right
HOD. House to suspend all proceedings against their Irish bre.
thren respecting tithes.
And your Petitioners. &c.
It was then agreed that E. W. Pendarves, Esq. the county
Member, be respectfully solicited to present the petition to the
House of Commons, and to support its prayer : and the business
of the meeting being finished, thanks were unanimously voted
to the Chairman, when the meeting separated.

'We can, at length, congratulate the Country,
that the Reform Bill has been read a third time,
after an attempt at further delay, so pitiably
mean, that Colonel SIIiTHORP, who made the
motion, could not procure a member to second
him. The majority on the third reading is con-
clusive of the sense and wishes of the Country.
The Bill has to go through two processes of
mere form—the motion that "the Bill do pass"—
and secondly, " that this be the title of the Bill."
The Opposition may avail themselves of these
forms, as they did with the first Bill, and may
get up another vexatious debate. Sir ROBERT
PEEL put forth his strength last night, and did
himself much honour. Under the mask of re-
proving Sir J. C. HommusE for wandering
from the subject, he read such a lecture upon
the foul tactics of making discursive speeches and
paltry objections for the sake of delaying what
could not be fairly opposed, that Sir CHARLES
WETHERELL and his crew writhed under
the lash. Sir ROBERT'S logic is amusing.
He founds all his arguments upon the igno-
rance and prejudices of the English people, for-
getting that the prejudices have been inculcated
by bad government. Sir ROBERT makes a wo-
ful mistake in asserting that many of Mr. PITT's
liberal views of commerce were opposed by the
people. The people had no power to oppose,
and ali the opposition emanated from the aris-
tocracy, both landed and commercial. Mr.
PITT was so entirely ignorant of commercial li-
beralism, that he laid it down as a fixed prin-
ciple, " that every commercial concession made
to Ireland was an injury to England." Sir
ROBERT PEEL attributes this most barbarous
notion to Mr. Fox. But the Bill may be con-
sidered out of the Commons, and the peace and
welfare, the lives, the property, and industry of
the people of three kingdoms are now at the
mercy of two hundred Noblemen, many of
them young, dissipated men, and three-
fourths of them persons who, if thrown
upon their own exertions, would not have
talents or acquirements sufficient to raise
the most humble livelihood. A set of men
who " can not dig," but who the people of
England have found to their cost are not
ashamed to beg." A popular Member for
Shrewsbury observed, in the House of Com-
mons, that Lord SIDNIOUTH and many others
who had been enriched out of the taxes, and
raised to the Peerage, had not talents to be more
than door-keepers to their own House. This
speech enraged Lord CASTLEREAGII, but the
people of England are likely to feel the full
weight and justice of the observation.

MURDER. IN NEW SOUTH WALES.-A
son of Mr. Horne, barrister, of Van Dieman's Land, was mur-
dered on the 13th ult., by an assigned servant of his father's,
,n so diabolical a manner, that it could only be excelled by the
atrocities practised by the villain against the agonized mother.
On Thursday, the 13th of Oct. last, the deceased required the
servant to bottle-off wine; he became inebriated—and got pos-
sessed of his master's double barrel gull, loaded with small
shot ; then very abruptly opened the parlour door (where Mrs.
Horne and the deceased were sitting, the latter amusing
himself at drawing`., and discharged the contents of one of the
barrels at the young gentleman, whose back was towards him,
which passed between the shoulders and lodged in the breast,
and caused almost instantaneous death. It is beyond the
power of language to describe the feelings of Mrs. Horne at this
afflicting moment, to be thus deprived of her child. He then
ordered her to carry the deceased to bed, which she with
much difficulty effected. In passing through the passage
which leads to the back door, he knocked her down several
times, repeating many blows on the face, one of which struck
out some teeth. At length he demanded the key of the store,
.and entering, seemed intent only on procuring shot and am-
munition. He then caused her to proceed before him to the
men's hut, about one hundred yards distant, where two of the
men were, one of whom he ordered to tie his mistress's hands,
and then caused his hands to be tied by the other who re-
mained loose ; and percei ing the overseer passing, he then
levelled the gun and fired, but missed (the man, conceiving
that there was a general insurrection, ran off to Campbell Town
to acquaint his master) ; having missed, his next step was to
again visit the house, taking with him the man that remained
loose, in search of more ammunition, leaving his mistress and
a man tied at the hut, the latter of whom very fortunately et"_
fected his escape, and proceeded with all speed to acquaint the
military party stationed at Ross, who secured the wretch, who
Is at ircsisent in safe custody at Campbell Town gaol.—.lustra.
jigssOo". 11, 1831.
41./CoRONER'S INQUEST.—Yesterday an In-
qizeit Was held on the body of Mary Connell, who was killed
err Tuesday night, by her own son, at ‘24), Francis-street,
or • • . 4nster.road, when the Jury after hearing evidence, re-
• .ed a verdict of manslaughter against John Connell.

The question of the Sugar Duties is to be
brought forward to night, and it is but too
evident that the whole circumstances and condi-
tion of our West India Colonies, must, ere long,
peremptorily demand the almost undivided at-
tention of the Government and Legislature.
The subject is becoming of fearful difficulty. It

ever draw her sugar from her own Colonies.
The old doctrine that England never could be a
manufacturing country, but must always depend
upon the Netherlands for her woollens and
broad-cloths, was not more preposterous. The
question of the sugar duties has been dexte-
rously perverted into a party rocket, to fright the
Government from its propriety.—lt is calculated
by the Tories, that they have availed them-
selves of a means of creating a general distrust
in the strength cf Ministers, and by this they
hope to injure the Reform Bill, and retard all
other measures of improvement.

The Earl of WICK LOW brought forward his
motion last night in the House of Lords, re-
specting the Government plan of education in
Ireland, and was defeated by a majority of 38.
The Duke of WELLINGTON and Earl GREY
had some sparring on the subject, greatly to the
disadvantage of the Noble Duke.

involves almost the existence of many hundred
thousands of our fellow-beings ; and whilst it

The French Papers of Wednesday still harp
on the recent disturbances at Grenoble, and the
speech of the Duke of WELLINGTON.
In the Chamber of Deputies on Tuesday a
violent altercation took place between M. °DIL-
LON PARROT and M. CASIMIR PERIER,in con-
sequence of the latter having praised the conduct
of the military at Grenoble, thereby prejudging the
case before the ordinary tribunal had arrived at
the proper decision.

In contradiction to the assertion of the French Papers, that
a Conference is to take place to arrange the affairs of Ancona,
we are credibly informed that accounts are in town of its being
finally adjusted.
Consols have been during the whole of the morning at 3
alternately buyers and sellers, with little or nothing doing.
The approaching struggle of the Reform Bill in the House of
Lords causes a stagnation in all speculations; at present money
is yet scarce in the house.

THREE 0' CL 0 CK.

Consols, 83k.
FOUR O'CLOCK CLOSING PRICES
Consols .. S3 3- Danish 67a
Ditto for Account 83 Greek, 1825 2B
Brazilian Bonds Nlexicas, 1825 —
Buenos Ayres... Peruvian ---
Chilian Ditto.... 16i- Russian 97
Columbian 1824 Spanish

No fresh intelligence has been received from
Windsor, respecting the health of the Princess of Saxe
Weimar.

We believe that we may confidently announce
to our readers, that the Austrian ratification of the Belgian
treaty may be expected in London in the course of a very few
days.— Times.
The public is aware of the obstruction which
was very properly thrown in the way of reading addresses of a
political nature to the King at his Majesty's levees, which have
hitherto been considered as meetings of a friendly and affec-
tionate intercourse between the Sovereign and his subjects ;
and it will now be perceived, by the proceedings at St. James's
yesterday, in how disingenuous a manner the regulation was
evaded by Lords Mount Edgecumbe and Falmouth. It was a trick
not much unlike those evasions of the law which are practised by
authors and venders of low publications. The substance of their
petition was printed on the cards of these Noble Lords. Should
this be prohibited, they will probably elude the order, by print-
ing their names and object of their visit in future on cotton.
And who are Lords Mount Edgecumbe and Falmouth ? Two
notorious possessors of rotten boroughs, whose trade will be
affected by the purifying Bill. Here id delicacy of sentiment
for you! The Peers to be made must, of course, be very much
below such men as these in dignity and disinterestedness. The
whole proceeding is most disgusting. Lord Kenyon avails
himself of the same ruse, but then it is certainly for an object
in which he has no personal interest.—Titnes.

We much regret to state the cholera morbus is now raging
at Ely. We have been favoured with the following official ac-
count, signed by the medical gentlemen of Ely :
" Ely, Wednesday Evening, March 21.

It appears that Cardinal BERNETTI has ful-
minated a new protest against the occupation of
Ancona by the French, who sit down very com-
plaisantly under the anathemas of his Holiness.
FRENCH FUNDS.-P•RIS, MARCH 21.-Five per Cents. 9(lf.
3(k:. 45c. 40c. 25c. 35c. 90f. 30c. 35c. 40c. 35c. 33c. 35c. 30c. 35c.
; Three per Cents. 69f 55c. 50c. 40c. 30c. 35c. 50c. 40c.
35c. ; Bank Actions, 1,660 f. 1,633 f. 1,660 f. 1,657 f. 50c. 1,660 f. ;
Rente de Naples, 80f. 30c. 15c. 40c. 10c. 80f. ; Roman Five per
Cents. 7914 ; Royal Spanish Loan, 1832, 79; Rente Perpetuelle
d'Espagne, 55 4i,sea ; Belgic Certif. 7814 78 77%. Exchange
on London, one month, paper, 9.5 f. 5.5 c. ' • money, .25f. 50c.;
three months, paper, 2.5 f. 40c.; money, 25f. 40c.-Cours Au-
thentique.

" On Saturday morning last, the 17th inst., Joseph Layton,
a labourer, went to his threshing as usual (he had had a slight
diarrhoea the evening before) ; whilst there he was taken ill,
and returned home between eight and nine o'clock, A.M.
Having been put to bed, medical assistance was procured,
and such means used as were thought advisable, with-
out effect ; re-action never took place, and he died
at eleven o'clock, P.M. The symptoms and appearances
struck all the medical attendants as corresponding with
those described of the Spasmodic Cholera ; which opinion was
confirmed by the post mortem examination made on Monday
last. They were further confirmed by the occurrence of five
other cases, on the same day ; of these four died before nine
o'clock, P.M. Three additional cases of rather a milder charac-
ter occurred in course of that night (Monday). To-day (Wed-
nesday) there have been three cases of diarrhoea. Yesterday
(Tuesday) the post mortem examination took place of one of
the cases that died on Monday. It fully agreed with the ap-
pearances exhibited in the first case which was examined.
Upon the strictest inquiry we have not been able to trace the
cause to anything like contagion ; indeed the progress of the
disease has satisfactorily proved (as far as it at present goes) in
the opinion of all the medical gentlemen of the town, that it is
not contagious.
" Signed by Five Surgeons.
" Thursday Morning, Eleven o'clock.
" Since writing the above, we have had another case of ma.
lignant cholera.

The Rev. Hugh Percy, A.M., soon after his
marriage with Dr. Manners Sutton's daughter, was fortunate
enough to be endowed with sufficient strength to perform the
duties, and to take upon himself the responsibility, all at the
same time, of Dean of Canterbury, Canon of Finsbury, Chan-
cellor of Salisbury, Rector of Bishopsbourne, and Rector of Ivy
Church, and to be at the trouble of expending, annually, the
proceeds from the Deanery, 2,400/., with a palace for a resi.
dente, for such is the Deanery house ; the Canonry, 1,5501. ;
the Chancellorship, the fines unknown, but enormous ; Bishops.
bourne, 1,800/. ; Ivy Church, 1,10/. Oh! it's a very fine thing
to be a son-in-law—to a very liberal Bishop papa. You may
see a specimen of the Church militant in Canterbury dignitaries,
where a Nelson, a Pellew, and a Boscawen are Prebendaries.—
Times.

BELFAST.
(From the Be(jast Northern Whig.)
We are sorry to find that the cholera has at length appeared
in this town. A person named George M'Keown, a man em-
ployed about the lighters, was seized on Thursday night last.
It was hoped, at first, that his case was going on favourably ;
but, on Saturday, it took a decided turn for the worse, and he
died yesterday (Sunday) about one o'clock, P.M. His wife and
son, living in the same room with him, in Jonny's-entry, off
Talbot-street, were seized early on Sunday morning, and were
sent to the new cholera hospital, at ten o'clock. The son, a stout
young man of 27 years of age, however, sunk rapidly, and died
about three o'clock, P. M. Before his death, he assumed the blue
choolio,eu rt,h:twhich e iwn arks
nthe:
will
most
cexquisitewe
ermh
eoafrt
thheadti
hersea case i disease. We
of a milder character. In the evening, the brother of George
M`Kreown, a man living in Grattan-street, having shown some
premonitory symptoms of the disease, it was thought advisable
to send him to the hospital, as he had frequently, during the
course of the illness, been in the room with his brother. We
understand the Board of Health have reported these cases to
the Lord Lieutenant. It is said, that all these cases arc trace-
able to the late fatal case which occurred some time ago in
Quay-lane. The following letter on this subject, has been ad-
dressed by the Board of Health, to the Secretary of the Cham-
ber of Commerce :
M.D.
" Board of Health, Belfast, March 18, lE3'2.
.` SI is with great regret, that we acquaint you, for the
ie
slinnafv,oteinaocn. actcui ohrorri
deorfait,hi
hetai
ie
lia,attimerchants,hferseteedd7iydt townof
clared, this day, to be decided cases of Oriental cholera, by the
Medical Members of this Board. ctwhnl ai,ragvele,,obt.he
eraict,
attsil
eei
D. " Charles Trevor,
" William Cairns, " Jas. M'Donnell, M.D.
" F. Coulson, " R. F. Gordon.
Ss.: ~AsNi.
iaocr,nie,,,apilirrn, yim,o, u. most
vvb..l se, rlNavvrakinl
estos, ,n
" H. Cooke, D.D.
" Samuel Bruce, Esq., Secretary to the Chamber of
Commerce, and Commercial News-Roorn.
OFFICIAL REPORT,
Belfast, Sunday, March 18, Four o'clock, P.M.
New cases 4 ; died 3 ; recovered 0 ; remaining 1. Total
cases from the commencement of the disease 4. Total deaths 3.
CHARLES TREVOR, Secretary.

comprises the interests of an immense number of
individuals of every rank and class in the com-
munity, it deeply affects every connexion of
business throughout the United Kingdom, and
must very materially influence the foreign
relations and integral condition of the Em-
pire itself. For these reasons (although we
wave all details) we are induced to make a few
abstract observations upon the subject. There
is a temporary question of expediency—whe-
ther the people of England, lay paying a higher
price than would otherwise be necessary, for su-
, gar and colonial produce in general, should prop

Frankfort Papers of the 16th have been re-
ceived. The only news they contain is that the
GRAND VIZIER is going to take the command
of the army acting against the Pacha of EGYPT.
ABDALLAH PACIIA, the Governor of St. Jean
IYAcre, is resolved to bury himself under the
ruins rather than surrender. The garrison is

The lovers of fine dancing will regret to learn
that Mademoiselle Taglioni on Tuesday met with a serious
accident at a rehearsal, in Paris, when she fell, while flying
like a sylph, on the stage front a considerable height. She has
been bled twice, and is considered in great danger.—Times.

e are informed that his Majesty has resolved
on giving the hoof of a celebrated racer (Eclipse we have heard),
to be run for at Ascot, as a kind of challenge prize, and to add
to it 200 guineas ; those running for it to pay 100 guineas each.
—l3righton Gazette,

Orders have been given for demolishing the
monument in memory of the Duke of Berry, commenced in the
rue Richelieu, opposite the Royal Library, on the spot where
formerly stok+d the Ae;.(lf.nlie Royal. d,,'ll2,lque.—Paris Paper •