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London, England, 1844-01-15 00:00:00

them by the law authorities of Dublin who, by
striking all the members of that faith off the jury
list, have deliberately proclaimed it as their
opinion that they are not to be trusted on their
oaths. Lord KENMARE, Mr. WYSE, of Water-
ford, Mr. SHELL, and several eminent Catholic
Prelates, who have hitherto either taken no part
in Repeal, or shown themselves decidedly hostile
to it, have come publicly forward to mark
their sense of this flagrant indignity ;
and at the Aggregate meeting which was
held in. Dublin on Saturday last, the Lord
Mayor, who was in the chair, correctly expressed
the feelings of his excited hearers, when he ob-
served that "as in religion he was a Catholic,
the conduct pursued by the Crown within the
last few (lays showed that they considered hian
unworthy to act as a common juror in the city of
Dublin. Every citizen who professed that creed,
sincerely believing it to be best, was declared
disqualified to discharge the functions of a juror.
There are seven and a half millions of Catholics
in Ireland ; they were excluded—practically dis-
qualified by the act of the Crown, which
expunged the name of every Catholic from
the jury panel in the State prosecutions."
It may perhaps be imagined that these
gentlemen were struck off merely because they
were Repealers, and might naturally therefore be
presumed to be so biassed as to be unable to
give an impartial verdict; but this was not the
case; their sole crime was their religion—a fact
to which Mr. WYSE thus alludes:—" It was not

until after the Catholic jurors had been struck
from the list that any idea was entertained of
inquiry into their political principles; so that it
has been clearly ascertained that it was not
the connection with any political associa-
tion, or the profession of any principles
which might be considered as forming any
particular political creed, which had incapa-
citated those gentlemen for the enjoyment of
their privileges. Their sole crime was their Ca-
tholicity. The conduct of the Crown had esta-
blished the principle that the being Catholics
implied a suspicion which in itself was sufficient
to deprive men of the rights which belonged to
the great mass of the people of Ireland." And
this is the way in which the. Catholics are treated,
—fourteen years after the passing of the Act

which professed to emancipate them from all the
legal and political and civil disqualifications under
which they had hitherto laboured ! And the
Government, which treats them thus cavalierly, is
the same which brought forward and carried that
Act, which was intended—in the language of its
authors—to be one of grace and conciliation !
Yes, the Tories, who were the Emancipators, are
now, true to their old instincts, become once
again the oppressors of the Catholics. They
cannot divest themselves of their old hereditary
prejudices—they cannot get rid of their favourite
system of government—but must needs betray
the cloven foot, no matter how indispensable
it is to their interests that they should
keep it carefully concealed. Justly observed Sir
ROBERT PEEL in the year 1836—only a few

hours before he crossed over from the Treasury
bench to the Opposition side of the House—that
his great difficulty was Ireland. It was his
great difficulty then—it is his great difficulty
now—and it will continue to be his great diffi-
culty, until he sees fit to humble himself and
cry " Peccavi"—to retrace his whole course of
policy—and turn over a new leaf as regards the
sister-country. Surely he must by this time be
convinced that a one-sided system of legislation
—a petty, temporising, neither-this-nor-that
line of conduct, will never do for Ireland ! He
has already given it the fullest trial, and it has
failed—failed so egregiously that not a few, even
of those who have hitherto been its warmest ad-
vocates, have at length seen their error, and re-
fused any longer to sanction such a blundering
system of policy. Beset with difficulties as the
Premier now is—difficulties in a great measure
of his own courting, and which he might have
overcome, had he been possessed of the requi-
site energy and decision of character—we suspect
the it is in Ireland he is destined to meet with his
doWhfal. That is the rock on which he will
split—the country in which his reputation for
political sagacity will ere long find its grave.
Let the issue of the State prosecutions be what
it may, he cannot fail to be the sufferer. If the
result be an acquittal, his Ministry will have the
mortification of having been beaten by O'CoN-
NELL in a trial of strength of their own seeking,
and in which they had put forth all the resources
of • the Crown ; if, on the contrary, the
result be a condemnation, not a Catholic
in Ireland—no matter which he be a
ory a non-Repealer— but will be
inced that such a result was
firmly
yalecr convinced
brought about in bold defiance of justice.
The consequence will be that a spirit of discon-
tent and distrust will become more general than
people ; and Mr. O'Corr-
N
leritshhe agitation of Repeal with
resume
and confidence, in his solitary
everrnEnLrle among
Nvviigllaarret
dungeon, than he would if he were declaiming
publicly in the Conciliation Hall, or at one of his
famous monster meetings.

We have accounts from Madrid to the 7th
inst., and though the capital and the provinces
were perfectly tranquil, many feared that it was
only the calm before the storm. GONZALES
BRAVO and his Ministry are becoming every day
more contemptible, and as soon as General NAR-
VAEZ has served his purpose with them he will
get rid of them, as he did of LOPEZ and OLOZAGA.
One point of importance has already been
gained, the renewal of the pension to the Queen- I
Mother. The Gazette of the Bth was to contain '
the following Royal decree :
',According to the advice of the Council of Ministers,
and following the dictates of my heart, I have decreed as
follow :
" Art. 1. The decree issued by the ex-Regent of the
kingdom at Vittoria on the 26th of October, 1841,
which suspended the payment of the pension assigned in
the budget of the Ist of September of said year to my
dearest and most beloved mother, Queen Maria Chris-
tina de Bourbon, is hereby revoked.
" Art. 2. The Minister of Finance is charged with the
execution of the present decree.
" Given at the Palace, on the 6th of Jan., 1844."
M. L. A. de Cueto had been appointed Minister Ple-
nipotentiary at Lisbon. M. Martinez de la Rosa was to
proceed to Paris in a few slays, and the Duke de Rivas
to embark at Cadiz for Naples.

The Paris Papers bring the Address to the
Royal Speech, agreed to by the Committee, and
a full report of the financial statement for the
year 1845, made by the Minister of Finances on
Friday. The Address varies little from that
adopted by the Upper Chamber, and requires no
comment. The Budget is of more importance,
as it shows the good effects produced on the
country by peace and security. The subjoined
brief outline, which is sufficiently favourable,
is extracted from a Government paper, the
Journal des Debats. The Budget for 1844, pre-
sented a year ago, required for the ordinary ser-
vice a sum of 1,281,013,710 f., and the receipts at
1,247,228,366 f., leaving a deficiency of 33,785,344 f.
For 1845, the ordinary
expenses are put down at
1,276,106,797 f.,
and the receiptsat 1,276,925,231 f.,
giving a surplus of nearly 1,000,000 f. Besides
for 1834, the extraordinary Budget amounted

123,500,000 f;,
80,000,000 of which were to be
covered by loan, and 43
,500,000 were imputable
to the floating debt. For 1845, the first part of
the extraordinary works, that which is to be
acquitted by means of the loan already voted,
amounts to 62,431,344 f.; the second, charged to
the floating debt, amounts to 34,000,000. But it
must be remembered that among the expenses
is included the dotation of the sinking fund, the
larger portion of which, or that which corres-
ponds to the Four per Cents., Four-and-a-Half
per Cents., and Five per Cents., remaining un-
employed, is applicable to covering the floating
debt. For 1845, the resources of the sinking
fund will amount to double the sum which the
floating debt will have to bear on account of the
extraordinary works.
well
-founded
atidodns_,
,i,vith what we hope is
The writer, after quoting some other proofs of
We do not think
there is in Europe such an instance of the in-
crease of revenue, without an aggravation of
taxes. Since 1833, all being balanced, it has