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TO EXCLUDE THE BOROUGH OF EAST ILITIFORb PROM

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ALACTING !MAMMIES TO sEnvt IN PARLIAMENT, AND

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.TWO REPRESENTATIVES TO PARLIAMENT I V LIEU

THIRSOF.

Whereas _there has been the most notorious, long-
continued- and general corruption in- the Election of
Burgesses to serve in Parliament for the Borough of
East Retford, in the County of Nottingham; -where-
fore the said Borough should be excluded from here-
after returning such Burgesses.:
And whereas the election of Members to serve in
Parliament for the said Borough at the last Election
has been declared .void :
And whereas on account of the great wealth,
trade; and population of the Town of Birmingham,
in the County of Warwick, it is expedient that Two
nurgesses,shonld be returned to the High Court of
Parliament to 'represent the said Town in lien of the
said ,Borough, of East Retford ;
May it therefore_ please your Majesty,
That it may be enacted; and beit enacted by. the
King's -most excellent Majesty, by and with.the ad-
vice.and . consent of the Lords Spiritual and Tem-
poral, and Commons, in this present Parliament. as-
sembled, and by the authority of fhe same, that
henceforth the Borough of East. Retford, in the
County of Nottingham,-shall cease to elect and re-
turn Burgesses to serve in the High Court of Par-
liament.
And be it further enacted, That the Manor of
Birmingham shall be deemed and become a. Borough
for the purposes of this Act ; and that in this pre-
sent Parliament, and at all times thereafter, such
Borough of Birmingham shall have two Burgesses
to serve in the High Court of Parliament, to be
elected and chosen by virtue of a writ to the She-
riff of the County of Warwick, and a precept to be
thereupon issued by him as in the case of other Bo-
roughs, to the high bailiff of the said Manor for the
time being, which high bailiff (or in case of his ill-
ness or .unavoidable absence, then the low bailiff
of the said Manor, or in case of the illness or
Unavoidable absence of the low bailiff, then the
deputy of the high bailiff) shall be the return-
ing officer at every such election; and the same
election shall (in every case except as herein
after mentioned) be made from time to time by the
major part of the inhabitant householders of the said
Borough of Birmingham, who shall have been resident
therein for entire and successive years imme-
diately preceding the teste of the writ of election in
each case, who shall also for, that term have been
assessed in their own names to all such parochial and
other local rates and .charges as shall be chargeable
upon the houses in which they shall severally have
resided, and who shall have regularly paid the same :
Provided always, that it shall not be necessary in order
to establish the right of any inhabitant householder to
vote at any such election, that he should have paid
any rate or charge whatsoever which may have
become due and payable within months
before the teste of the writ of election in such case :
Provided always, That when any person shall have
acquired possession of a house within the said Bo-
rough by inheritance, devise, marriage or marriage
settlement, or by. promotion to any benefice,. and
shall thereupon have become and continued an in-
habitant householder therein, and thenceforth have
paid all subsequent charges and levies necessary for
the purpose of acquiring a right to vote at such elec-
tions as aforesaid, then such occupancy by him may
be connected with. the occupancy and due payment
of rates and charges ,by the preceding inhabitant of
the same house (being his predecessor in title to the
freehold or leasehold interest therein to which he
may so succeed), so as. to enable the new occupant
to vote as aforesaid, if such previous occupancy and
payment, when connected with the occupancy and
payment by
'the party so acquiring such house, shall
be sufficient to make out the qualification hereinbe-
fore
required.
And be it further enacted, that the said Return-
ing officer,. on the receipt of the precept from the
Sheriff of. the County of Warwick, shall indorse
thereon the day of his receipt thereof in the presence
of the party from whom he received the same, and
shall forthwith give public notice of the time and
place of such election by the Town Cryer between
o'clock in the morning and o'clock
in the evening, and also by causing notice thereof
in writing to be affixed on the principal door
of the Town Hall (when the same shall be erected),
and on the doors of the church of Saint Martin
and Saint Philip in the said Borough ; and the
said returning officer shall proceed to election pur-
suant to such precept at such place within the said
Borough as he shall appoint, not later than

days after the receipt ihereof, but so that there shall
be at the least clear and entire
days between the day on which the said notice shall
be given, and the day thereby named for making
such election..

And be it further enacted, that at every such elec-
tion, in case the returning officer shall receive notice
in writing from any persons havipg right to vote at
such . election, that a contest will take place (in
which notice shall also be stated the christian and
surnames of the expected candidates, and their
places of residence,) the said returning officer shall
appoint, or cause to be erected or made
within the said Borough commodious
booths or places for taking the poll, corres-
ponding with the number of districts into which the
parish of Birmingham is divided for ,the collection of
the poor's rates, and one other convetial booth.or

polling place, for that part of the hamlet of Deritend
which is situate within the said Borough, and any
greater number of booths or places corresponding
-with any other division of the said Borough, into
convenient districts, as may to him appear advisable,
and shall cause to be affixed on the most public part
of each of the said boothsbr polling places, the name
Of the district, and the names of all the streets and

places comprised therein for which such booth shell
be. allotted ; and the Returning Officer shall appoint
I.a deputy to preside, and a Poll Clerk or Clarks to

take tbe pall at each of the said booths.
And be it further enacted, that no person shall be
admitted to poll at any of the said ,booths who does
riot reside within the district to which such booth is

appropriated. .
And be it further enacted, that the returning
officer shall, upon receiving such notice as aforesaid,
appoint some fit and proper person, being a barrister
at law, or solicitor or attorney of one of his Majesty's
Courts at Westminster, to be his assessor or adviser
and assistant at the said election; and before such
returning officer shall proceed to the election, he
shall take and subscribe the oath in that behalf set
forth in the schedule to this Act, in the presence of
-any. Justiee of the Peace for the county of Warwick,
who is hereby authorised and required to administer'
the same; and after the said returning officer shall
haie taken and subscribed such oath, he is' hereby
authorised and required•farth with to administer to his
ee
Seritral deputies, to the assessor, and the poll clerks'
to be appointed as aforesaid,and 'they are respectively
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required to take and subscribe the
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And- be' it further enacted, That such Deputies.
shall 444 day upon notice given to themindividually
by the rek,,,...: officer, close 0 ---.4,1g' close their poll 6,,
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dell*er, so tlie.aame to him iounediately;and he shall
thereupon -sum u,-, ther whole number of motes already
polled for each candidate, and enter such number,
when ascertain; into his general .poll .book,' and,
shall thereopQn:cam the Rune, 'aloud; and if any-
Deputy or Poll-Clerk shall refuse to deliver up his
book when so required, orshall 'continue to take the
poll after he 'hill have been directed by the
Returning- Officer to -elotte the wile, he shall forfeit 4
'the.sum of ' to enrPorson who shall, within
twelve.calendar months, sue for such penalty, one
moiety orwhich, when recovered, shall be retained
by him, and the other moiety shall be paid to the
'overseers of thepoor, in aid of tliesPeor rates of - the
said' parish Of,Birminghaln• '... , ,
And be it 'further. enacted, .that the charges of
making and erecting the poll booths, for duly remu-
nerating the Assessor, Deputies, and Poll Clerks,

and all other necessary and unavoidable expences in-
curred by the Returning Officer in conducting such
election, shall be paid by the several persons entitled
to vote at such election.; and. 'the amount thereof
shall be ascertained -and declared in writing by any
or more Juitiees of the Peace acting for the
county of Warwick, to whom the Returning Officer
shall, within. Calendar months after every such
election, submit an account in 'writing of such his
expellees ;• and the said justices-shall be at liberty to
allow the whole or such part thereof as they may
think just and. reasonable; and for the purpose of
raising the sum of- money, so allowed and declared
by the said Justices, it shall be lawful for the over-
seers of the poor, and they are hereby required forth.
with to make a fair and equal rate upon the said elec-
tors in respectof the houses lands and tenements they
shall respectively occupy within the said borough,
which rate shall be made levied and recovered in the
same manner as rates for the relief of the poor are '
made levied and recovered by law; and the amount
of such rate shall be collected and paid over to the
said returning officer within • calendar months
after the same shall have been made.
And be it further enacted, that if the returning
officer shall think himself aggrieved by the decision
of • such Justices of the Peace, he may appeal to the
general quarter sessions of •the peace which shall be
holden in and for the county of Warwick within
calendar months next after the cause of com-
plaint shall have arisen; on giving the said two Jus-
tices days notice in writing of such appeal, :and of
the matter thereof, before the aforesaid rate on account
of his"expences shall'be made, and on giving notice
also to the parochial officer or officers not to proceed
in making the same; and the Justices assembled in
their general quarter sessions are hereby authorized
and required to hear and determine the matter of
such appeal, and to make such order therein and to
award such costs and damages, either in addition to
the rate so to be made on account of the expences
of the returning officer, or to be paid by him, as to
them in their discretion shall seem reasonable ;
which determination of the said Justices in Sessions
shall be final and conclusive on all parties concerned,
and-shall not be removed or removeable by certio-
rari, or otherwise, into any of his Majesty's .Courts
of Record at Westminster or elsewhere.
And be 'it further enacted,—That from and after
the passing of this Act, an alphabetical register of
the persons entitled to vote at such elections as
aforesaid shall at all times be kept, in ,which shall be
specified their places of abode, the sums at which
from time to time they shall be severally assessed in
their own names, and liable to pay in respect of every
parochial and other local rate and charge" upon
their houses of residence, the times when
every such rate and charge was imposed
and became due, and when the same was paid
by such several persons, together with all other par-
ticulars requisite to constitute their right to exercise
such vote; and for this end, after the passing. of this
Act, a fit and.proper person shall be forthwith and
from time to time appointed Registrar of the said
Borough, by the guardians of the poor of the parish
of Birmingham for the time being, with a reasona-
ble salary to be paid out of the poor rates of the same
parish, which Registrar, upon his appointment, shall
take and subscribe the oath provided in that behalf
in the Schedule to this Act, before some Justice of
the Peace' acting for the county of Warwick, and shall
be removeable by the said guardians of the poor
for the time being, for misbehaviour or incapacity;
and upon the application of every male inhabitant
householder within the said borough, who shall
have been rated in his own name to each of the last
parochial and other local rates and charges which
shall within calendar months prior to such
application have been assessed in respect of the house
in which he may reside, it shall be the duty of the
said Registrar forthwith to enter his name in the
register aforesaid, together with the date of such
entry, and his residence shall, for the purposes of
this Act, be calculated from that date ; and from
time to time afterwards, opposite to the name of
each inhabitant householder so registered, shall be
entered his due and regular payment of every such
rate and charge which he may have been so assessed ;
and moreover when and as the cases shall happen,
there shall be entered in like manner the discontinu-
ance of such person as a householder within the said '
borough, or his ceasing to be rated in his own name, or
his removal to another house specifying the same ; and
in order 'to enable the said registrar to complete the
registry aforesaid, the overseers of the poor and the
officers appointed for the collection of all the paro-
chial and other, local rates and charges within the
thirteen districts of the said. borough herein before
mentioned, shall forthwith, after the collection of
each of such rates and charges, or at the latest
within calendar months after each of them
shall become payable, make out particular statements
of the names of the inhabitant householders (specify-
ing their places of abode) who shall have paid the
same in respect of their houses of residence within
the said borough, and shall deliver such statements
forthwith to the registrar aforesaid, who shall enter
and arrange the same in the said register so and in such
manner that opposite to the name of each inhabitant
householder, the entries which have relation to his
right to vote at the said elections, may, as far as
shall be practicable, appear at one view; and every
months at the least, the said Registrar shall
print and publish the names and places of residence
of. the inhabitant householders, who for the time
being, shall appear upon the register aforesaid, to be
entitled. to. vote at an election for the said Borough,
and the copies thereofshall bepdbliely sold at
each, which price shall go towards defraying the ex-
pense of such printing and publication ; and any
surplus shall be paid to the overseers of the pcior of
Birmingham, in aid of the poor rates, and any defi-
ciency shall be paid out of the same rates ; and such
original register, and the aforesaid returns so made
by the said overseers and officers, shall at all times
be open between the hours of and in
the day (Sunday, Good Friday, and Christmas Day
excepted), for the . inspection of any inhabitant
householder : and the same shall at all contested
elections be produced to the returning officer and
Assessor, in order to determine all disputed votes.
Provided always, and be it further enacted, That
at the first election for the said borough, every in-
habitant householder within the same, who shall be
rated in his own name to all the parochial and- other
local rates and charges which shall within
calendar months before the passing of this Act have
been assessed in respect of their houses of residence,
and shall have -duly-paid such-of them as may at the
period of such first election have become due and- pay-
able, shall be admitted to vote at such first election.
Provided also, and be- it,firither enacted, that at
any Subsequent election for the said borough which
may occur within . years and: calendar
months from the - passing of this Act,' all the inha-
bitant honseholders, who shall be registered as
aforesaid within calendar months from the
Tasting of this -Act, 'and shall afterwards con-
tinue to be resident ,and rated, . and who (except
during the last . months previous to the teste
of the -Writ-of• election- in such case, 'Which shall not
be material.. to,.the validity of the vote) shall. regu-
larly pay their rates and charges from time to time
in the manner hereinbefore expressed, shall be ad-
mitted to vote at all such elections after the first elec-
tion, as shall happen within the said period of
years and months, although the full term
hereby required for such, PrO!ione rating and- resi.
dence,ahadlnot appear upon the said. register to, be
,complete,
-And be it- further enacted,' that the 'aforesaid re-
gister shall ire all cases be taken in evidence pri7iicl
facie for or against the title of any inhabitant house-
holder to-vote-at the said elections. ,
And be it _further enacted, that if any person
shall feel bineself.aggrieved by any entry or ()Mission
in the said register, it shall be lawful for him to
appeal to any two Magistrates of the said County,
giving - days notice to the said Registrar, spe-
cifying therein' 'the cerise' of complaint; and which
two Justices are hereby authorized and required by
examination upon"bath(which oath the said Justices
ate hereby authorized to administer) to hear and de-

termine the matter of such appeal, and make such
order for the amendment of the said register, as they
may think necessary, and also to award such costs as
to them in their discretion shall seem reasonable ;
and by their order or warrant to levy the costs which
shall be so awarded, either against the party Com-
plaining or the Registrar aforesaid.
And be it further enacted, that if the Registrar or
such party complaining of the Registry, shall think
himself aggrieved by the decision of such justices of
the peace, he may appeal to the general quarter ses-
sions of the peace, which shall be holden in and for
the county of Warwick, within calendar months
next after the cause of complaint shall have arisen, on
giving the said justices days notice in writing
of such appeal, and of the matter thereof; and the
justices assembled in their said general quarter ses-
sions are hereby authorized and required to hear and
determine 'the matter of such appeal, and ta make
such order therein, and to award such costs and
damages as to them in their discretion shall seem
reasonable, which determination of the said justices
in sessions shall be final and conclusive on all par-
ties concerned, and shalt not be litigated, removed,
or removeable by certiorari or otherwise, into any
of his Majesty's Courts of Record at Westminster
or elsewhere.

And be it further enacted, that the Burgesses so
to be elected and returned to serve in Parliament for
the said borough of Birmingham, shall have the like
authority and place therein, and the like liberties,
advantages, and privileges, as have been and are had
exercised and enjoyed by other burgesses in the said
High Court of Parliament.
And be 'it further enacted, That all laws now in
force touching the qualification, election, and return
of Burgesses to serve in Parliament, are hereby de-
clared to extend to the qualification, election, arid re-
turn of Burgesses to be elected and returned to serve
in Parliament for the said Borough of. Birmingham
in manner aforesaid, so far as the same may be ap-
plicable thereto, and may not be varied or affected by
this Act.

LORD ROSSMORE AND THE CATHOLICS

OF IRELAND.

The following has been addressed by Lord
Rossmore to the Editor of a Morning Paper:—
Sir—On leaving London, I feel it my duty
again to address the people of England, to call
their attention in the most solemn manner to the
peculiar, and, I may say, alarming circumstances
in which the whole kingdom, and especially
that part of it in which I am most immediately
interested, is placed. I certainly should not
again have obtruded myself upon the British
public, but as his Grace, the responsible Pre-
mier of the Crown, has declared in his place in
Parliament, on Thursday night, that it was not
the intention of the Cabinet to propose any mea-
sure for the relief of the Roman Catholics, I
hope I 'am justified in making a second appeal,
connected, as I conceive their question is, with
the tranquillity of Ireland. The declaration of
the Prime Minister is of the last importance, not
only to Ireland, but to England. It tells Ire-
land she is to remain a victim ; it tells England
that she must continue to feed the thousands of
Irish who annually cast themselves upon her
shores ; nay, more, it tells the friends of civil
and religious liberty, every where, what they
have to expect—whether Protestants or Catho-
lics—what they are to expect ; advocates of li-
berty, or advocates of tranquillity; that the period
of happiness is at all events postponed—that
they have one cause and one opponent;
who that opponent is they can now no longer
doubt. I proved elsewhere, and that proof
has not been refuted, or even denied, that
England is most materially injured by the
continuance of Ireland in her present condition.
I wish now to do more ; I wish to show that
England has common cause with Ireland, to a
greater extent than even her pacification or pro-
sperity ; that she has common cause with Ireland
in preserving the laws and the liberties of the

people inviolate. It is a 'ise saying of my Lord
Bacon, " that measures without men" are dead
images. Had a measure of relief from the pre-
sent Cabinet been offered to the Catholics or
Dissenters, I should have reposed little confi-
dence in it, knowing, as I do, the parties from
whom it emanated ; at all events, I should have
entertained leis fears for the repeal of the Test.
and Corporation-Acts from the answer of the
late highly gifted and-talented Premier of Eng-
land. I'll tell you why : although Mr. Canning
might have created dissatisfaction in the Dis-
senting bodies by the answers he gave them, and
apparently, I admit, with cause ; yet the inqui-
ring mind will not be satisfied without entering
dispassionately a little beyond the mere act of
dissent, and ask, is there no satisfactory reason
why a mind like that of Mr. Canning should de,..
part from -his own general principles in the case
of the Dissenters alone ? Might not Mr. Can-
ning have reasoned thus :—Did the petition of
the Dissenters incorporate the removal of dis-
ability froth others ? If granted, would it injure
the claims of others ?—would it secure the support
of the Disputers in ftvour of the claims of the
Roman Catholics ? Am I not justified in say-
ing that, in this providence of his great mind,
he was probably laying the foundation of a ge-
neral code of freedom ? Am I not limpid to
admit he had a right to suspect the Dissenters,
even looking to themselves alone, as they had
then evinced- no great disposition to take into
consideration. the unbearable wrongs of their
Roman Catholic countrymen, and in which com
elusion he felt himself fortified by the latter con-
duct of the Dissenters in the North of Ireland ?
Was he not justified in saying to himself, if I
concede the wishes of the Dissenters separately
may I not weaken the common cause ? And
thus he naturally decided in his own
If I carry Emancipation, I secure the 'repeal of
the Test
.and Corporation Acts ; for if the for-
mer succeeds, the latter is a natural consequence.
But if the latter were granted first, and sepa-
rately, Einancipation must he postponed, and
Ireland may be sacrificed ; for I could not pos-
sibly, while the parties do not appear to act •to-
gether, succeed in both. What then was my
inference ? That this answer was intended to he
merely temporary, and by no means committing
Mr. Canning to a persistance in refusal; and
that the answer would not have been given had
the Dissenters entered cordially_ into the com-
mon cause of all. I repeat it, he felt that, tin-
der existing circumstances, any encouragement
held out by him would be premature, and might
injure the great general cause which he had so
much at heart, and of which the repeal of the
Test and Corporation Acts, united with the re-
moval of the disability- from Ireland, formed se-
parate and component parts.
How can I, for one moment, suppose the
mind.which had unmasked its ruling principle,
when no longer
controulled by a power to which,
from habit, or from necessity, it had been forced
to yield,:an4 Which it seems to me, with all hu-
mility, the hand of Providence removed, to bring
about his own great purposes, to smooth the way
for the introduction of .a more benign system,
calculated' to shed its influence 'over the nations
of the earth—,how can I suppose a Mind like his,
at the moment he was interesting' himself for the
liberties of America, for the liberties of Portu-
gal for the liberation of Greece, for the removal

of the disabilities in Ireland, could descend to
such an act of inconsistency as to proscribe the
large, influential, and most respectable Dissent-
ing bodies in our country? So far from being
determined to deny the Dissenters their rights,
it is my opinion Mr. Canning was determined to
support them, when the season arrived. What
can be the objection to a union amongst bre-
thren in seclusion, amounting by census to
about fifteen millions, including Ireland, but not
including the liberal Protestants, the best friends
to the cause of liberality ? And why should
not Ireland be included—the main stay of the
cause—on whose wounds the tears of England
are now fast dropping,,--with whom the plighted
faith of Government has been broken ? And, if
her measure of misfortune was not sufficiently
full, I fear her cause has been weakened by a fa-
cility'of doing her injury ; I shall not say in what
quarter.

I have long supported his Majesty's Govern-
ment in Ireland—l would continue so to do, if
the present evinced any wish to adopt the mea-
sures necessary for her peace. Of what conse-
quence is it to me who is Minister or AO is not?
I belong to no party ; but when I find the old
system-is to be persevered in—aen I find those
in power whose cradles have been rocked in. the
Ascendancy School of Ireland—who have been
fostered on the lap of that power ;—when I find
one of them, after admitting the dreadful state
Ireland is in, that the system tried has failed,
chat another should be tried--s-when I-. see him
resume office to persevere in the old system,
with a characteristic coldness when she is in
question—when that Minister owes his political
consequence to a determined opposition to the
measures I know can alone eventually tranquillize
my country, how can I reconcile it to myself not
to oppose, by every legitimate means, an Admi-
nistration in which he fills so ostensible a situas
Lion ? Every day proves to me how little the
question of Ireland is understood. A. says, in
a certain House, B. threatened us with unbe-
coming language, and therefore I'll not accede to
a great imperial question, on which the proper-
ties, peace, and happiness of millions depend.
C., a great statesman, declares he'll exclude a
whole nation, " because a few Roman Catholics
are, he alleges, intemperate." I am a Protestant,
and I should be glad to be informed what is the
intemperance of a Roman Catholic to 'me ?
Why should I be debarred from my rights to
return a Roman Catholic to Parliament ? If
I choose to vote for him, why should my Rios
litical ineligibility arise out of his being ineligible
contrary to the compact ratified between two na-
tions ? Why should I be debarred froth living in
peace and quietness, and from getting the same
price for my lands I would if my country was
tranquil ? Because a Roman Catholic has made
use of intemperate language. A fine Statesman.
like argument truly ! " No, no," says the public
voice, " that cannot be ; another reason is as-
signed for your systematic opposition." What
hopes, then, has Ireland of a shadow of peace
or rest ?—Already we hear from the tribunal
to which she appeals, the cold refusal. Before
whom is her cause to appear ? Before those
who have received their political education in the
Castle of Dublin, and whose early march was in
the train of the Ascendancy power. I repeat again,
every day convinces me more and more how little
the question of Ireland is understood—the inte-
rest of the Protestant is totally forgotten. If any
Catholic was to tell me, " Oh, this is a question
you have nothing to do with, it is a Catholic
question entirely," I would answer, " By your
leave, Sir, its my country as much as your's ; I
have no property elsewhere ; my ancestors have
lived here for ages. I and my children live here,
and I am interested as well as you in this tre-
mendous question. I'll tell you more ; I'll make
common cause with you in it, and if the Minis-
ter, contrary to the plighted faith of his Govern-
ment, were to attempt to re-enact the Penal Code,
I would join you in opposing him." Why am I
so adverse to this Ascendancy power, and what is
it ? I know it well, for I was brought up under its
shade. It is the evil genius oflreland, whose princi-
ple it is to govern her by sword. She sits en-
trenched in the Castle of Dublin, the Acropolis
of Corruptions—there she held her Court, not to
distribute her equal law, but to instruct the youth-
ful English senator in the dtt of goversing poor
Ireland by the sword. Hence our misfortunes.
There are five, at least, of those statesmen in the
present Administration. The early poison is in-
haled—,Ascendancy principle takes root—pre-
judice prevails, and bigotry covers all the land.
Here she makes Protestantism a good trade,
monopoly the law, remonstrance against it dis-
loyalty ; she would have made the illustrious
name of Grattan a term of reproach—she drove
the immortal Abercrombie from our shore, the
bravest of the brave, because his honevolent mind
would not consent to carry free quarter and de-
solation in our 6elitis, and become accessory to
revive ag4ip, the day of Elizabeth, marked in
the gloomy pages of our history, and recorded in
the lamentations of Sir John Davis. I heard
the parting words of Abercronshie; I was often
with him ; I shall never forget them ; there are
those alive who heard the same I will never
draw usy sword upon Paddy." He dropped the
prophetic tear of mourning upon our fate, and
his departure from Ireland was more creditable
to him than the victory which closed his honour-
able career. Prom such a subject, Englishmen,
allow me to move the scene, and present to you
another, with which all that is dear to you as
freemen is connected. - I saw it first at Cintra ;
and now it advances upon me " in such a ques-
tionable shape that I will look it in the face.
Caesar fought for Rome, and overthrew her li-
berty with the legions lie led on to conquest in her
cause., An awful and a in.c.morable lesson !--
Caesar, as conspicuoiss for clemency as for suc-
cess in arils% But there is a fascination atten-
dant on losing command, that perhaps unfits st
man for the subordination necessary in times of
peace. By this event a principle was recognised,
which had beets introduced by Scylla ; hence
followed a, Military Government, and all the
misfortunes attendant on military rule. The late
war, when England fought for her existence, au-
thorised a departure from the jealous provisions
of our ancestors ; our armies were increased to
an amount never before known, and with it the
influence of the Minister.
this
iliiiiieysAr tr.vheePterryeeMal
ide ec4iinyi
Establishmentteistry l:aretltahfnoeelll.olmelancholy
rdieede4diui buteufaedeset
d,naeriainet-
, in
apparent in the assumption of a power (for 'tis
nothing else) hitherto unheard of in Britain; in
the person ,of the Commander-in-Chief or our
Armies—of him who had so often led
wen' on
to conquest, no; only in defence of our liberties,
but of those of the civilized world—after dictating
his own terms, filling two situatons, incompati.
ble with the spirit of the Constitution. But the
Duke of Wellington, like Caesar,eini
tl; -passed
the Rubicon ! There something
un-
controlled power that knows not how to re-
cede. The principle is to be established or not.

Far be it from me 'a ::.7:;:pose that any act
would take place on the. part of his Grace, or any
of his Majesty's present Ministers, to over-
turn the liberties of these realms, or inten-
tionally to injure them ; but if the principle b--
comes once recognized, the gulf is open for any
future despot to hurl the Constitution into an
'abyss ; and where will Britain find a Curtius to
close it up ? Britons, this is a power that can
he no longer trifled with ;
.fornierly, Administra-
tions depended for their existence upon "-the
Majority 'of the people's voice; now, they depend
upon the Lords. Here is the cancer with which
the Union with Ireland has infected En ;land.
Her fibres, imperceptibly advancing,- have now
taken root—and, if not in time eradicated, will
extend their ramifications, and overspread the
fair face of the Constitution. Here is one of the
deadly symptoms of the measure, which, properly
executed, would have given security to the par-
ties ; but, insidiously contrived, and Jesuitically
effected, has, by bad faith, destroyed the social
compact. The Minister of that day, to carry
the principles of the Union, strengthened him-
self in the Lords by the introduction of Irish.
Bishops and of Representative Peers, who were
notoriously returned by him to counteract
the voice of the people in their Commons'
House. So long AS the Duke of I'Vellington is
First Lord of the Treasury, so long will he,
virtually, be Commander-in-Chief of the Briti'sh
civil
v Armies,i
l situations, uth he d
•itsituisatpoloisla of all app
situations under
uliderGoovintfnneinie,:nitts, tas
well as the whole patronage of the Church.
This is a monstrous power---rar exceeding that
of the Sovereign.
Any attempt of his Grace to get rid of the
responsibility, by appointing a military friend or
friends, will avail him but little, such appointees
being in reality, nothing more than Aides-de-
camp to his Grace. How could our armies be
' better commanded—how could the vessel of the
State, under such circumstances, be worse guided
---than by the Duke of Wellington ? What
kind of power is this ?—People of England, he
:date one moment, and the principle Leconte
recognized by which the liberty of your_ country-
may be, hereafter overthrown. Lose not one
moment_--I call upon you not to lose one mo-
ment. Resist the establishment of this power.
Its next inroad may be upon the Press—wit-
ness the late attempt in France. Are not all the
Powers in Europe confederated in secret league?
Petition from John o'Groat's House to the
Land's End : petition—l call upon you to pe.
tition, by the memory of your ancestors, by the
duty you owe: yourselves, your poster,ty and
your country. Petition before this c.c self-con_
:,leenntiranetde"itasnsdtreinnegtoihis,isatlelfilithpiosAA'erd
'l.:nz)istitiismtraetitooneNovnili
vanish into air. For, (in tke'words of one of -
our most eminent Statesme,h)" No complaisance
to our Court, or to our age, can make us believe
nature to be changed, but that public liberty
will be arnot-ist us, as among our ancestors, ob-
noxious to some person or other : and that op-
porttinities will not be furnished for attempting,
:it least some alterations to the prejudice of our
Constitution. These attempts will naturally
vary in their mode, according to the times and
circumstances :—for ambition, though it has ever
the same general views, has not at all times
the same means, nor the same particular objects."
--I have the honour to be,
Sir, your milt obedient servant,
Hatellett's Hotel, Feb,. 3. ROSSIIORE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SlRS—Among the various measures that have
from time to time been adopted in this country, for
the benefit of the lower classes, 1 am surprised that
no associations have been, formed among the heads
of families for the better government of female ser-
vants ; lam convinced that were such associations
to be entered into, a real and lasting benefit would
thereby be conferred on the servants themselves, on
their employers, and on the community at large,
and that we should soon see a great falling off in the
ranks of those Unfortunate females who prowl about
our streets, and fill our 'gaols and convict ships, and
the greater number of whom once belonged to the
class alluded to. - These associations might be
established in every part of the'kingdom, and might
be useful in various ways, but more particularly by
I liscountenancingthe inordinate love of dress, which
oow unfortunately pervades almost the whole' body.
of female domestics, and which leads nunibers of
them directly or indirectly to shame, infamy, wretch-
edness, and crime. It is clear that this style of dress is
mitst be maintained, eithei. by
(mite inconsistent and incompatible with their rate of
wages, and consequently,
sacrificep
oof their virtue. By pur-
', as very fewof them have pri,
course they not only lose their own
,s%
i-uai
sitrie
go
ries
t foodsh ety t
l.atootr thedrr aw
characters, but are the means of ruining numbers of
yoting men in all the different branches. of business,
who, in order temporarily to 'gain their affections,
and to flatter the vanity caused, or at all events en-
creased ten,fold, by this wretched passion for finery,
defraud 'their employers, and frequently finish their
career on the scaffold. lam aware that it would be
very difficult, if not impossible,, radically to cure an
evil, which has attained -to. such a height ; and that,
if it were possible to do so, vice would still prevail „
nit I am confident, if the heads of families were to
unite and make an unalterable rule, that at the time
of engaging servants they would hire none but 5w.:.11
is would agree to dress in a manner suitable to their
:,cation, that the rage for dress in this class would
receive a decided cheek, and the ' greatest strong
hold vise possesses among them (though this be a
bold expression) would be shaken to its foundation.
in
very feeling terms,
There are many ways besides this in which such as-
, dy
ooft
nala bue exe ehe ne good,
1 en very,
,ociations as I have alluded to mightin
but there is none by which they could, in my opiuiou,
be of such effectual service to themselves and to their
female servants (than whom a more useful class no-
where exists, or one more deserving every care' and at-
tention that can be bestowed on them). Ihave often
considered this subject, butiny attention
by the
forcibly -drawn to it by reading
paper of the 25th January, an '
extract from the
Poems of Mr. Gent, painting,
he extremity of misery endured .
yrror and misfortune. I shoals feel great pleasure
4, by inserting the foregoingdaughters of
remarks,. or any 'ether
aore forcible ones of your °"11 ITI Your paper, you
,vould be the means of interesting the public, and
more especially the ferook Part of it, on this subject.
I am, Sir, Q.
_..-............_

SSY
BE ANDivtetii NvelnA,
RtlYie GsenntAinilern."—talitirl2erlle
ceding :
nay gratify. 0 teel ings by a visit to the grave of BESSI
;L t
31:1.T. and MARY GRAN., those two beautiful young
comer', whose, romantic fate has furnished- the subject of
„1. interesting and popular gong. It is situated near the
,ridge of Dalrie. The Etther of BEssr BELL was the
r:aircl of Kinrald, and MARY GRAY was the daughter of
he neighbouring Laird of Lednoch. They loved each
..thcr With the most romantic attachment. During the
.lagna in 164.5, in order to avoid the risk :of 'contagion,
hey erected for themselves a bower, about three-quarters
.f a mile west of Lednoch-house, in a secluded spot called
turn-braes, on the side of Branchburn, where they re-
ided for some time, till at last they both caught the infec-
ion from a young gentleman, who, with a liberality of
)ve somewhat uncommon, was enamoured of them both.
—ln this sylvan establishment they both died, and were
:uried in another part of Mr. GRAY'S grOlid9, called the
)ronach-haugh, at the foot of a brae of the same name,
Lear the river Almond. Major BERRY, late proprietor
.f Lednoch, repaired, with pious care, the spot consecra-
,A sacred to the memory of the amiable friends.— Glasg.
Courier.

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

Our readers will see with interest,but with regret,-
that the House of Assembly of Jumaiea has taken a
view of its own " constitutional" rights—or speaking.
we suppose more near the truth, of the individual
interests of proprietors and planters—quite adverse
to those considerations of policy which were enfor-
ced by Mr. Huskisson in his able and celebrated
letter. The present state of the 'case is, that the I
Government at home has rejected theßill which the
Assembly thought fit to pass, and that the House of
Assembly have refused to pass another more conso-
nant to the wishes of the British Parliament, and to,
what are perhaps the predominant feelings of tin
people of England on the relations between the
Whites and Negroes. If the Assembly of Jamaica
should unfortunately (for most unfortunate we are
convinced it would be) force Parliament to legislate,
since the Assembly will not, let the planters only
ask themselves—where will be their remedy
Times.
Within these three days there has been circulated
about town, a rumour of approaching changes in tin
Cabinet, among which the secession of a Nobleman
at the head of the Foreign Department, and of tilt
Learned Lord not long upon the woolsack, were in-
cluded. We can assure our readers, that such re-
ports are wholly unworthy of credit. Respecting
the former of the above Ministers, it would be an:
fortunate for the reputation of the infant Govern-
ment, that an independent nobleman, the represen-
tative of Mr. Canning's liberal policy, should find
any reason to abandon a post, his retention of which
is a security to the empire, that .no great interest
connented with European justice will be .sacrificed
or neglected. And for his learned colleague, we
should be sorry to see him deprived abruptly of a
more ample opportunity than he has yet enjoyed, of
fixing in the minds of the public a fair impression ot
his powers as a Judge and a Statesman. We repeat
our assurance to the public, that the reports alluded
to are void of every shadow of truth.—lbid.
Having failed to convince the Stamlard of what
(on the part of a journal which aims at respectabi•
lity) is always due to the public, in the assertion of
constitutional principles, and in the r course to out
national records for facts, we must no vadmonish it,
for the sake of its own interest, not to be so disinge-
nuous as it has proved itself since Monday last in
argument--not to be so very intractable in an error
which is obvious to the whole world—not to refer
to the Tudors and the Stuarts for precedents illus-
trative of the spirit of our constitution—not to build
upon a joke of Swift's as a grave historical evi-
dence—not to affirm that during the war of the suc-
cession, Marlborough commanded but " occa-
sionally !" a British arniy in Flanders—and not to
deny, with an utter disregard of fact, our having
plainly stated in yesterday's leading article, that
" Godolphin" (not Marlborough) " was, from 1704
to .1708, Prime Minister of England," inasmuch as
be was then "at the head of the Treasury and of
the Government." Our motive for all these ex-
hortations is, that' we should witness with undis-
sembled pain the banishment of ss7ell a
I:aper r;,: the
Standard ought to be, froth the circles of educated
and thinking readers, to those where the means of
information are inaccessible as its uses are un-
known, and where teachless ignorance may securely
entrench itself in desperate effrontery and false-
hood.—lbid.
It was stated by Lord Palmerston, on Monday
night, in answer, to a question put by Lord William
Pawlett (during a noise in the House that prevented
the question from being heard in the gallery), whe-
ther there was, any intention on the part of the Go-
siernment to make reparation to the Porte for the
destruction of the fleet at Nayarit' ? that no such
intention was entertained by Government.—Morn-
ing Chronicle,
Already petitions pour in ou the House of Com-
mons from the Catholics of Ireland. On presenting
several from the counties of Louth and Vestmeath,
Mr. Alexander Dawson said, that " not fewer than
four 'millionwrof people were assembled at the dif-
ferent meetings lately held in Ireland, one million of
whom were capable of bearing arms." The persons
capable of bearing arms are supposed to be one-
fourth of the population, and, therefore, the number
of Catholics capable of bearing arms in. Ireland must
be more than a million and a half. Mr. Dawson ob-
served, that " the Protestant Dissenters of this coons
try have united like one man with. the -Catholics, in
their prayer for relief." Mr. Dawson was not pre-
sent in the House on Monday night, when Mr.
John Smith observed, " it has been pualicly stated
in the Newspapers, and elsewhere, that the Dis-
senters have united with the Catholics on this occa-
sion, for, the attainment of their COMMOTI rights.
I am authorised to say, they have done no such
thing"—and he proceeded to read a resolution of the.
Committee of Dissenters now sitting, agreed to
that day, to this effect :—" This united Com-
mittee acting on their own best judgment, and on
the recommendation of some of their Parliamentary
Friends, have thought it expedient not to unite their
application to Parliament with that of the Roman
Catholics ; but they disavow any inference that.their
acting separately or independently proceeds from
any hostility to the claims of that numerous and re-
spectable body." Mr. John Smith stated, .at the
same time, " that the immense majority of the Dis-
senting body is favourable to the claims of the Ca-
tholics; and among that majority will be found all
ths, names; and they are not a few, which are emi-
nent in that body for talent and ability." Dissent
comprehends all sorts-, of opinions from the well-or-
ganized and rigid Presbyterians down to the Ranters,
and followers of Joanna Southcote ; and as it, is
impossible that such a body should be united on
any one subject whatsoever, it would be imprudent,
perhaps, in any Committee, acting in the name of
the Dissenters, to agree to make common laws with
the Catholics. It does not follow, however, that
Members of either House, may not deem it ape_
• client, actingson their judgment of what justice de-
mands, to make. no distinction between Catholics
and other Dissidents.; but to comprehend all
equally in one - measure, for the removal of all
civil disabilities on account of religious opin
in pions.—
The Dissenters, no doubt, suffer little rao_
lice, from the Test and Corporation Laws; but'
why should they allow themselves to remain brand-
ed. by the lasv as unworthy of trust ? The mem-
bers of the Church of England have the advantage
of a retiaion paid for by the nation ; whereas
the othei religionists must pay their share of the na-
tional tax to the Church, and a separate tax for their
.own Pastors. The Dissidents submit willingly to
theY hold their brethren of the State Religion
in high respect - but they do not see that their bre-
thren of the National' Church are better citizens
than themselves, or possess any well-founded claim
to a superiority over them in civil matters- If we
• take the Presbyterians of Scotland and Ireland
(with other Dissenters) at three millions, the. Eng-
lish Dissenters at
at five and a half give in all be-
tweenB.lx millions, the Irish Catholics
millions--this will
fourteen and fifteen millions of subjects of the
United Kingdom who are migmatiwa as unworthy
of trust by the law. We have no doubt that the
number of English Dissenters is u
usuauy understated,
as compared with the members of tl
The Establishment receives
ment.
who fre e
sessi„ all those
if
the Presbytery
no congregation,
cxeeditfor pos-
instance,
that out
of London be
Thus, for
correct in their statement, out of one hundred
thousand Scotch in London not above one thousand
attend any Church,
the ninety-nine thou
sand arc
ranked as a matter of course among the followers of
But this miserable system of
the 'Establishment.
exclusion and preference creates bad blood anti
jealousy in every quarter of the British demi_
nions. Thus Canada is fast becoming another
Ireland, in consequence of the mad attempt to
establish the Church of England in a country
where she is without followers. In a series of
letters from Canada, from one of the Scotch
settlers, published in the Glasgow.'Chronicle,
we have •some striking instances of the immo-
fality to which this attempt has given rise. Large

sums of money are spent on Episcopal Clergymen. '
From the :Society for Propagating the Gospel .
Foreign Parts, each Clergyman of the Church of
England receives two hundred pounds a year, and
the consequence is, that that Church is rich in Pas-
tors, who are without flocks. Fi or nstance, it is
stated, that there are five Episcopal Churches in the
Niagara district, which cost the Society for.Propa-
,g,iting the Gospel 1001. annually, at three of which
the hearers are from twelve to fifteen on a good day,
and the whole congregation of one of them is car-
ried away in two waggons, one of which 'contains
three souls. The Presbyterians, indignant at the
attempts at deception practised for the sake of poc-
keting money, are now.it seems making exertions t€,
ascertain the number of persons belonging to other
Communions, and to the Church of England, in each
township, county, and district in both provinces ;
and the following is given as a sample :—" I will
now quote the returns I have received from four
townships in the Eastern District, giving a census
of the people therein, made not more than a week
ago, and to which the signatures of two Clergymen
of the Church of Scotland ate affixed—
POPULATION OF OLENGART, UPPER CANADA, IN THE

YEAR 1827.
Townships. Presbyterians. Episcopalians. Catholic s.
Charlottenburg
Lancaster 922 1019
Kenyon ‘4 597 490
Loehiel

4755 76 3823
" A few individuals, who belong not to any of the three
denominations in the precedingstatement, are not included.
‘‘ Jowl MacKENzte,
ARCHItIALD CONNEL."
The writer has no hesitation in saying, that from
the Ottowa to Detroit, the communicants of the
English Church (that Church for which the im-
provement of the Colony was first retarded on ac-
count of reserves in land, and its morality is next
sacrificed in the encouragement of a trade in or-
thodoxy) do not amount in all to the number of
Presbyterians in these four Districts. Such
is the vile system which is suffered to disgrace
this great nation. The Schoolmaster is, however,
abroad, and we trust he will ply his task so di-
ligently, that the tricks by which sects have been
arrayed against each other, will be so universalry
scouted, as to shame men in power from longer at-
tempting them. The Duke of Wellington is, we
dare to say, not very strait-laced in matters of reli-
gion; and though he knows from hearsay, that
there are thirty-nine articles of the Church of Eng-
land, it may be doubted whether he ever read one
of them. The principle on which he opposes the
repeal of the laws of exclusion, is, we dare to say,
Just as intelligible as if he had compared the Catho-
lic and Protestant versions of the Ten Command-
ments with all the diligence of Mr. Peel. A discus-
sion of considerable warmth grew out of an observa-
tion by Mr. Villiers Stuart, " that he should ever
steer his political course by reference to the conduct
that might be pursued by the Government with re-
gard to the Claims of the Catholics; and be deter-
mined. by it in the opinion he should form of the
Ministers Of the Crown, be their merits what they
might in other respects,—whether they were the
best. -Financers, the ablest Diplomatists, or the
soundest Legislators, in every other department
of public affairs." Mr. Stuart could not, of course,
be understood to mean by this, that he would op-
pose the best financial plans, or the soundest
legislative measures on account of their being pro-
posed by opponents of the Catholic ,claims; but
that he would take their views respecting this para-
mount question, as a test of their general merits as
Ministers. Mr. Whittle Harvey considered it a de-
lusion of the grossest kind, and of the most' mis-
chievous nature, to say that by the concession of
the . Catholic claims Ireland would be pacified, and
raised_ from wretchedness to tranquillity and prospe-
rity,
,But though the concession of the Catholic
chums may not make Ireland tranquil and prospe-
, rous, if, as long ,as these claims are'not conceded,
Ireland can never be either tranquil or prosperous,
this concessioniwis the foundation on which all our
plans of improvement must rest. A , society, con-
stituted as that
,of Ireland is, must' for years after
emancipation be in a most disordered state : but we
mast itiWayg bear in mind, that-the- 400gev-
Mimi is delayed,: the greater.must be the disorder
against which we have to make'head. As Mr. S.
Rice strewed, even in An economical point of view;
the qnestion 'of concession to the Catholics, connec-
ted as it is with the possibility of remedying the
disorders of the country, is of the very highest im-
portance, The rebellion of 1798 was, indeed, begun
by the Presbyterians, but had the Catholic Claims
been conceded then, the Presbyterians and Catholics
would never have unitedmq:bid.

...,...._ ___. __
We perceive that such of the-French Papers as
are in the habit of arrogating to themselves the ex-
clusive appellation of Liberal, are busily engaged in
re-echoing the school-boy quibbles of the " ancient"
Lord Holland upon the words of the King's Speech.
That the Administration of the Duke of Wellington
would not, any more than the military character
and achievements of his Grace, be to the taste of 1
the Liberals of the French school, we were quite
prepared to expect. We expected also, that they
would spare no efforts to depreciate his splendid re-
putation ; nor were we less confident that their ut-
most efforts would fail, In all respects our antici-
pations are realized. The Journal des Debats
ascribes ignorance to the Premier of England, and
traces it to the military habits and avocations of his
life; assuming. as the proofs of that ignorance the
expressions of the King's Speech, in which the Ot-
toman Porte is charaetarized as the ancient ally of
England, and the victory of N9,varin as an untoward
and lamentable occurrence. It is amusing to un-
ravel and expose the errors of the presump-
tuous, and we shall therefore show, that in every
word of .this insolent tirade there is involved
a gross blunder, or a wilful misrepresentation.
The King's Speech is not exclusively the pro-
duction of the Duke of Wellington, any more than
of Mr. Peel, Lord Dudley, or Mr. Huskisson. It is
the joint production of an united and unanimous Ca-
binet—which, after many changes, England has at
length obtained—being the first to merit these epi-
thets since weakness and confusion were east into
her public Councils by the political demise of one
eminent Statesman, and the reckless ambition of
another. Military habits, like those of the Duke of
Wellington—habits of assured success, and of never-
failing triumph—do not imply an incapacity for the
duties or an unfitness for the cares of Civil Govern-
ment;—quite the reverse. History, experience,
reason, loudly proclaim that the qualities which are
subservient to eminent military and political success
are not ottiy generally united in the same i;erson, but
in truth they are the same qualities. To oiait the
splendid examples which Grecian and Roman His-
tory furnish in every page, bow can we other-
wise explain the characters of Henry the Fourth,
of Frederick, of. Peter, of Cromwell, of Wash-
ington, of Napoleon, of our own Marlborough,—
Yet how imperfect is this enumeration of the
names upon which, even in modern times, flints
tress, vigour, and activity of intellect—a deep pe-
netration into human character, vigilant circumspec-
tion, and that clear foresight which' is dependent
upon an acute and accurate perception a the ten-
dencies of circumstances and of minds, have sited
once the brightest militaly and civil glory. 0111'
illustrious Wellington has attained without a back-
ward step to the summit of military greatness, whilst
`Europe.
the high qualities'
his political knowledge and wisdom are from expe-
rience acknowledged by, all the Courts of
Time legitimate interference therefore • is, that lie
ismiss with a
yconeditilderetdo with all
r'enown. .
we., ,
will
siOgle.,word the objection to the
to the. alliance .be_
ehrmircihchl
alliance is
and Turkey.applied
twee: Englandaneient '"a
t .. This ‘
ancient, not embodied in ~ the form of express
rreaties, but resting upon the firmer basis of a
veil .understood
- community of interest. It is
rncient with reference to the. power 'which it prin-
ipally affects, forit is coeval with.the existence of,
tussia, as one of the .greatest European- nations.
'he French Journalists are however more especially

enraged with the present Government of England
for reptvliating the victory of Navarin, achieved
with the assistance of the navy of 'France, and'in-
sinuate that had the triumph been over, instead of
with, the French flag, a splendid page would have
been assigned 'to it in the records of 'our national
glory. The French nation will not sympathise .with
this jealous and abject feeling. It knows- that our
victories, over its. fleets have ever been obtained .in
fair.and open warfare-that the present blow has
been struck against an ally, pending a .negociation
' and in a moment of profound peace. - It knows also
that the naval annals of England are.not so barren
of achievements, that she need cherish- the recollec-
tion of a triumph won against a feeble antagonist,
and in a cause, the justice of which, to say the least
of it, is held in England to be equivocal. The
French have not the same reasons for indif-
ference, but as a high-spirited nation they can-
not fail to perceive, that there is more real glory
in being defeated, after a hard fought struggle
by the invincible navy of England, than in the de-
struction of the Turkish marine, had they even ac-

complished it single-handed. To foment an irra
tional hatred and Jealousy of England in the minds
of the French people is the,plain object of this in-
sinuation ; and we greatly mistake the character of
that nation if it excite any other feeling than that of
contempt towards its authors. To cast.a shadow
over the first naval victory in modern times in which
the fleet of France has had a share, is a motive which
it will at once be perceived could never for a single
moment have entered into the contemplation of an
English 'Ministry. It would rather be the desire of
an English Ministry to extol the naval - prowess of
France, for with this. the naval glory of England
is intimately connected. The Nile. and Trafalgar
excite recollections which make Englishmen indif-
ferent to the doubtful and divided glories of Navarin.
To these Frenchmen also will recur, not with the
same triumphant feelings, but with feelings abiding
in the bosom of every Frenchman who may hope at
any time to compete with the naval heroes of Bri-
tain, which will sink every thing connected with the
name of Navarin into the deepest shade. The-Liberal
Journals of France so far forget themselves too,
we perceive, as to assume a threatening tone
up&a this occasion. Russia is to take prompt
measures. • France is to' take 'prompt measures.
Journalists and Governments .are fortunately not
identified. - The Governments' of Russia and
France know that the maintenance of national faith
is in England a consideration subordinate to, no
other. They know that the engagements of Eng-
land, even those which the present Administration
of England may think questionable as to their justice
—injudicious as
,to. their policy—will be fulfilled
strictly and to the letter. .Violence, therefore, will
not be resorted to—the peace of the world will not
be disturbed, It is but Justice. to observe, that the
Quotidienne and other respectable French Journals
take a very widely different view of the question
from that to which we have felt it our duty thus
pointedly to allude ; and that their observations and
feelings on the occasion. are in. perfect coincidence
with our own, -and- those of his Majesty's Ministers,
and the' Parliament and People of Briitain.—Morn-
ing Post.
The Duke of Richtnond .preiented several peti-
tions on Monday, evening, from various parishes in
the County of Sussex, praying for an inquiry relative
to the importation of Foreign
,Wool, and for an, alte-
ration in the laws with reference to this subject.
Inquiry, we are satisfied, cannot- be refused; and if
it be gone into with good faith, with an honest desire
to ascertain the truth, and with enlightened views
upon the question, we are equally satisfied that such
a modification of the existing laws will follow,as will
protect the just interests of the .petitioners, who re-
present not their own grievances merely, but those
of the numerous class to which they belong. We
shall have frequent opportunities of recurring to this
topic, and content ourselves for the.present with this
general declaration of our sentiments, as to
,the expe-
diency of granting adequate protection to-one of the,
oldest, as well as the_most important, branches of
our domestic industry. We are neither so wedded
to antiquity as to recoil with unreasoning terror from
all change, nor so prone to change as to reeeive it
Ivittitlle implicit Conviction of ifs, being necessarily
improvement;an ive -confess, when we, perceive
'an eager desire to disturb the ancient sources of our
prosperity—to alter and reform those principles,
under whose operation Eilgland has become what
site is—we pause, and ask ourselves, are we,' of the
present day, so • transcendantly superior to our fore-
fathers, that our'only task is, not to preserve, but
destroy ?—New Times.
There was no business transacted in the House of
Lords last night. In the Honse of Commons Mr.
Tierney took his seat. Mr. A. Dawson, Mr. Geo.
Lamb, and Mr. Villiers. Stuart, presented each se-
veral petitions in favour of the Catholic CiaiMs.
Several of the petitions presented by Mr. Stuart re-
gretted
the.change of the Ministry. Mr. S. declared
that he would ever be guided in his support of any
Cabinet by its conduct on the Catholic Question,
as 'their neglect of that question disqualified them for
managing the affairs of a free country. Mr. D. W..
Harvey expressed his opinion that, the emancipation
of the Catholics would by no means tranquillize Ire-
land, or remedy its evils, and that :it was only by a
rigid attention to economy that either could be
affected. He was determined to support any Minis-
ters, who advocated economy. Mr. Spring Rice
contended, that economy, and the concession of the
Catholic Claims, were intimately connected ;
that to grant it would enable Ministers to
dispense with the large body of troops at
present necessary to the tranquillization of Ireland,
and thus to economise on a large scale. On the
motion of Mr. Lyttleton a Select Committee was
appointed, to which all matters respecting private
Bills are to be referred. Lord John Russell pre-
sented a petition from certain Dissenting Clergymen
in London against the Corporation and Test Acts.
Mr. Curteis moved. for a return of the excess of
Land Tax'paid by Catholics This was done with
a View to oppose. Mr, Bankes's Bill for the relief of
Catholics from such excess of payment. Such op-
position appears to us, coming from, any quarter, as
most frivolous and uncalled for. If the Catholics
pay a single shilling more than the Protestants, that
shilling is exacted from them by legal robbery. We
oppose claims,which it would be dangerous and un-
constitutional to grant, but not such as it would be
gross injustice to deny. The .Army, Navy, Ord-
nance, and Miscellaneous Estimates were ordered
be laid before the House.—lbid.

DUNGARVAII OIAPEL-THE DUKE OF
DEVONSHIRE.—On a late =pion, the Parishioners of
Dungarvan received from the Duke of DEVONSHIRE an acre
of ground, rent free, and a donation of 300/., towards the
erection ,of a Chapel thereon. We now feel pleasure in
having to record a second donation of 300/. from the
Noble Duke, for the same purpose, making a total of Six
Hundred Pounds.—Waterford Chronicle.

The Bromby, ROBB, of this place, arrived at
Hull on Monday last, in five days from Aberdeen, and
Captain ROBB gives the following melancholy particulars of
the loss of a vessel on the passage. When off Souter Point,
which bore S.W. by W. 15 miles distant, Captain 'Rona
saw a vessel dismasted with a signal of distress flying, and
immediately bore'down to her assistance. With great dif-
ficulty be succeeded in getting a warp on board, and pro-
ceeded with the vessel in tow, it blowing strong from W.
and by N. intending to carry her to the first port, Whitby.
The tow-rope having slipped, the smack tacked, and again
took the wreck in tow, but had only had her astern about
three hours, when a heavy sea struck her, laying her on
her broadside, and no sooner had the vessel recovered, than
it was overwhelmed by another swelling wave, when me-
lancholy to relate, it went down bow foremast, with all on
hoard ! The Bromby Was put about, and every exertion
used for saving the unfortunate crew, but only some light
pieces of wreck were seen floating about the spot where
the vessel disappeared. Captain Rosa describes the vessel
to have been a new sloop, between 30 and 4.0 tons per
register, yellow sided, painted hawse boxes, with two white
stars, one on each quarter of the stern, on the lower part of
which was painted, the Eliza, or Elizabeth, of Newcastle.
There were only two people seen on board, one of them
between 20 and 30 years of age. --Aberdeen.. Chronicle.
seemingly a middle-aged man, and the other a young man