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London, England, 1835-06-26 00:00:00

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LONDON,
FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 26, 1835.

The Bishop of EXETER presented a petition last
night in the House of Lords from an Irish Protestant
clergyman, named STONEY, charging two of the Com-
missioners of the Education Enquiry with partiality.
On this occasion, the Right Rev. Prelate, instead of
confining himself to the topics mentioned in the peti-
tion, launched into a variety of extraneous ones, such
as DENS'S Theology, the Errors of Popery, Arch-
bishop MURRAY'S Creed, Jou Ns() N's Dictionary,
and the proposed appropriation of the surplus of the
Irish Church Revenue. This last theme was too
tempting a one to be dismissed in a mere common-
place sentence ; and accordingly the Bishop expatiated
on it at some length, and with much emphasis, ob-
serving that it actually made him " shudder" to think
that ecclesiastical funds should be devoted to
other than ecclesiastical purposes. The Right
Reverend Prelate is notorious for his shuddering pro-
pensities. He has a genius that way. He shuddered, we
remember, at the bare idea of Catholic Emancipa-
tion ; and would, no doubt, have gone on shuddering
to this day at such a frightful proposition, if his fits
had not been seasonably cured by that most skilful of
physicians, Dr. WELLINGTON. There are few ma-
ladies so easily remedied as a Churchman's shuddering
fits. Preferment is an infallible specific, were the
paroxysms even as alarming as those which must have
attacked Dr. PHILLPOTTS, when he found himself
suddenly deprived of his rich rectory of Stanhope.
Were we Prime Minister, we would be bound to cure,
in ten minutes, the most obstinate shuddering fit that
ever afflicted a delicate diocesan. Lord BROUGHAM
well defined the character of the Bishop's speech,
when he said that " the petition had been em-
ployed as a mere peg on which to hang a charge
of partiality, brought against two members of
the Commission, which had at length, under the
charitable hands of the Right Reverend Prelate,
been melted down to an accusation of dereliction of
duty directed against the whole Board." Truly this
is 'a creditable task for a Christian Bishop to be en-
gaged in I Dr. PHILLPOTTS knows well—none
better—that the course he pursued last night was one,
to use the language of Lord RADNOR, " most likely
to foment animosities in a country already too much
disturbed ;" but what does he care for this ? His
object is, by writing or speaking, to make an impres-
sion, just as he did, first, when he wrote pamphlets
againSt Emancipation, and secondly when he made
speeches in its favour. Luckily, however, his power
to " fonient animosities," is more circumscribed, than
it was in the days when he pamphleteered and pelted
Mr. CANNING with the mud of Billingsgate. He
may astonish still, but he can convince his readers no
longer ; for they are well aware that his holding a par-
ticular set of opinions to day, is no argument for his
holding them to-morrow.

The Duke of RICHMOND last night presented a
petition from the inhabitants of Clare and Tullatnore,
in favour of the establishment of Poor Laws in Ire-
land, and took occasion to state his conviction,
that such a measure would be highly beneficial
to that country. We have so often expressed our
opinion on this important subject, that it is scarcely
necessary for us to say that we concur with the Noble
Duke. We are surry.to find the Earl of LIMERICK
thinks differently, though we cannot give much weight
to the reasoning by which it is attempted to prove that,'
because poor laws have produced mischi,vous come-
quences in England, they must do the same in Ireland:
it is not the law, which throws the burden of support-
ins the destitute upon those who are able to bear it,

that is to blame, but the senseless manner in which
the law, humane and just and good in itself, has been
administered. The Noble Earl said, that he had
passed the greater part of his life in Ireland, and
was convinced that were Poor Laws introduced there,
they would do away with all the kindly and chari-
table feelings which at present induce the rich to
support the poor without compulsion. The Noble
Lord seems to us to resemble the worthy old Admiral
who had been many times round the world, but never
in it. We really cam hardly conceive how any man,
be his faculties ever so obtuse, who has passed a long
life in Ireland, can have failed to observe that it is the
abject poverty of the great mass of the Irish people,
that lies at the bottom of all the crime, and all the
misery, which afflict that part of the empire. We
know, as well as the Earl of LIMERICK, that the
affections of the Irish are strong, and that the
people are generous even to a proverb. But what can
the strongest feelings avail in such circumstances.
The Irish pauper will share his last morsel
with his brother pauper, and both will starve
together. This is the amount of the Noble
Earl's argument. He quite overlooks the fact that
it is not the want of kindly feelings in the poor
themselves towards one another that is to be supplied
by a Poor Law, but the want of humanity on the
part of the rich towards the poor. This is the great
desideratum, and this can be found only in such a
legal provision for the poor as shall make it the interest
of the landed proprietor to find employment for the
labourer, who is able and willing to work for his bread.
Let a well regulated system of Poor Laws be in-
troduced into Ireland, and we may venture to prophesy
that peace and prosperity will follow in its train.

The Deputies now assembled in London to promote
the progress of the Municipal Corporation Reform
Bill, have been unremitting in their exertions. They
are sent by upwards of 700,000 persons, with the
fullest powers to act. Other cities and boroughs have
declared their readiness, the moment they see the Bill
in danger, to send up Deputations, and pour in peti-
tions for the same object. Yesterday the Deputies pe-
titioned Parliament, stating by whom they were deputed,
the objects of their appointment, the careful perusal
and discussion (which lasted four days) that they had
given to the Bill, to observe whether any of the
clauses were prejudicial, locally or generally, to their
several towns; and that they had come to an unani-
mous vote that the Bill was eminently calculated, in
all its great provisions, to promote the interests of
those towns and cities that had sent them. They
represented to the House that they felt great alarm,
" checLed alone by the confidence the) had in the
wisdom and patriotism of the majority of its Members,-
from the recent attempts that had been made to subvert
some of the leading principles of the Bill. They consi-
dered that the perpetuity or even continuity (beyond
existing lives) of the degraded class of freemen would
deeply injure the Bill ; and they prayed the House
to continue steadfastly to resist all alterations, having
for their object the impairing or mutilating of this
great remedial measure. A statement of this important
petition is the more necessary, as a Morning Contem-
porary, of greater notoriety than consistency, has
otherwise represented it.

The Paris papers of Wednesday, the whole of which
have been received, bring no intelligence of any poli-
tical importance. The despatches from Madrid,
which we stated yesterday had been received by the
French Government, bringing letters and papers to
the lith inst., refer in part to a conspiracy of some
few Carlists in that capital, who have been made
prisoners. The particulars are not reported, but we
have reason to infer that they are scarcely deserving
the notice that has been taken of them. At all events
an hundred such conspiracies could lead to no con-
sequences more disastrous than a mob-attack on the
carriage of a Minister, or the demolition of a few
windows. We suspect that the French Government
has thought it safest to wait a few days, before giving
publicity to the principal subjects discussed. in these
despatches. In fact, we are more convinced than ever,
that ToßENo's communications to the Foreign Mi-
nister had reference to the question of intervention ;
and that the subject -is only kept private until the
French Government, or rather Lours PHILLIP:r,
has decided upon the course which shall appear the
most prudent to be adopted.

The Sentinelle states that ZUGARRAMURDI,
ASURA, and GAMIOT have been shot. No intelli-
gence that can be relied on has been received from
the Basque provinces. Almost the whole of the ac-
counts received are fabricated by the stock-jobbers at
Paris. The siege of Bilboa has not been raised, but
no fears are entertained relative to the safety of the city,

FRENCH FUN DS —rams, JUNE 24.
Five per Cents., l'3Bl. 40c. 3:4. 30c.
Four per Cents., 1511. 35e.
Three per Cents., 7-f. 30e. 25c. 21c.
Bank Actions, 2,00,.1. —e.
Rente dv Naples, 96120 c. Sc. HZ
Roman Five per Cents., 10.
Rente ,EEspagne, Five per Cents., 35% 35 3134.
Bente d'Espagne, Three per Cents.,
Rove' Spanish Loan, 461,4
RentePerpet.d'ElTagne, Five per Cent., 41 4034 }4" %.
Belgian Loan, Five per Cents.; 101.
Hay tian Loan, 4001.395 f. 390 f.
EXCHANGE ON LONDON.
Ole month, paper, —t. —c. ; money, 251 42'4c.
Three months, paper, 251. 32X, c. ; money, 251: 30c.
•• •rs rithen'ig _ - •

BOURSE, THREE O'CLOCK.—The publication of the news
from Spain has checked the rise of the 3 per Cents., which
otherwise would have reached a higher price to-day, in conse-
quence of the improvement in Consols. But the general
aspect of affairs keeps up uneasiness among the monied men,
who are not very willing to embark in speculations of any
magnitude. There have been bargains done at 78f. 25c. ;
but the price has since improved to 78f. 35c. 40c. Spanish
stock is rather worse, and very little business doing.
QUARTER TO FOUR.—Five per Cents., 108 f. 20c. ; Three
per Cents., 78f. 211 c. ; Five per Cents. Spanish, 40i ; Three
per Cents., Spanish, 271; Cortes, 341 ; Coupons 17 ; Gueb-
hards, 461; Differes, 161; New Loan, 45i ; Definitives, 391;
Passives, 12 ; Ducats, 96 ; Romans, 991 ; Belgians, 101 ;
Pedros, —; Miguels, —; Dutch, ; Haytian, 390 f. Bra-
bant Bank, 10.

Advices from Naples to the sth, from the frontiers
of Bosnia to the 6th, and from Berlin to the 14th
instant, have been received. The English nobility
at Naples celebrated the birth-day of his Majesty,
WILLIAM IV., on the 28th of May, by a splendid
entertainment, which was graced by the presence of
many of the Neapolitan nobility, and the Envoys of
most of the European Sovereigns.
The plague has raged in Bosnia since the 20th of
May, but the fact of its existence was not known to the
proper authorities till the 2d of June. It was then dis-
covered at the Austrian quarantine office at Costeinieza,
that the plague had carried off a great number of persons at
Trawnick and Sarajevo. On further inquiry it was
found that in Sarajevo alone, there were daily from 70
to 80 new cases, and from 40 to 50 deaths. In con-
sequence of this, the term of quarantine on the Austrian
frontier was fixed at 20 days for persons, and at 42
days for goods, susceptible of contagion. The frontier
cordon was reinforced, and measures taken to send a
sufficient number of medical gentlemen to those dis-
tricts which, on account of their geographical position,
are the most exposed to danger from the spreading of
the plague.
The only intelligence from Berlin relates to the sub-
ject of the Commercial Union.

Jack Ketch, hangman at York Castle, has been
committing an inconsiderate act. He has entered intoa com-
pact with a medical gentleman of that city, by which he en-
gages that his body, after death, shall be given up to the other
for dissection, for which consideration he is to have medicine,
&c., when required, as long as he shall live 1. Honest Jack is
a bold, confiding man, or he does not consider the triple tern;,-
tation to which he exposes his medical friend ; to wit, e,e
speedy acquisition of a haud,onie subject for diection—the
consequent saving of drugs—and tl \-;trit of Jack Ketch him-
self to do his office in return.—llull Packet.