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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1844.

In the Lords the " Gaming Transactions Wit-
nesses' Indemnity Bill," was read a third time and
passed.
The Law of Libel Bill, on the motion of Lord
CAMPBELL, was read a second time and referred to a
Committee. No other business was done, and the
House adjourned till Thursday.
In the Commons several Railway Bills were brought
up and read a first time. The Manchester and Ros-
sendale Railway Bill was read a second time, and or-
dered to be committed.
Lord PALMERSTON postponed his motion on the
Right of Search till this day fortnight.

On the motion of Mr. WATSON, a number of re-
turns relative to the Courts of Common Pleas and
Chancery of the County Palatine of Lancaster were
ordered.
Mr. HUME moved for a Select Committee to in-
quire into the extent of smuggling in articles that
paid a high duty, and into various malversations con-
nected with the Custom-house, and the expenses in-
curred for the protection of the Customs' revenue.
Lord SOMERSET suggested that the motion, for the
present, should be postponed; and, as far as we can
judge from the report, Mr. HUME acquiesced.
In answer to a question from Mr. HUME, the
CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that the Post-
office authorities were in communication with those
of the United States, for the purpose of adopting re-
ciprocal Post-office regulations between the two
countries.

Mr. HAWES resumed the adjourned debate on the
state of Ireland. His speech very properly was
almost entirely directed to the Established Church of
Ireland. To that he attributed most of her grievances.
The " No Popery" cry could not now be raised. The
Protestant Dissenters had formerlibeen opposed to
the Catholics, because the Catholics were opposed to
civil liberty. Now the case was different. The
Catholics supported the principle of civil liberty, and
they would have the Dissenters with them. He added,
if the payment of the Catholic priesthood should
be proposed as part of a great plan for
tranquillising Ireland, if it were joined with a mea-
sure for the extension of the franchise, then he would
sacrifice his pre-conceived opinions, and support such
a measure. All the old evils of Ireland were sure to
find fresh nourishment, to receive permanency and
strength, from the maintenance of the Irish Established
Church. The contest was between religious liberty
and religious intolerance, and he had no fear as to
the result ; but, in the meantime, the nation was
weakened by these unseemly struggles, and the
enemies of this great country were looking on with
hope, when they saw England weakened by the
misgovernment of Ireland.
Lord CLAUDE HAMILTON followed, and made a
characteristic Tory speech about the trial of the tra-
versers, Father MATEEW, and the peaceable state of
Ulster compared with Tipperary.
The O'CONOR DON supported Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S
motion, and expressed his conviction that if the House
entered on the state of Ireland in the proper spirit,

the condition of that country would be speedily im-
proved. The principal speakers of the evening were
Mr. GISBORNE, Mr. STAFFORD O'BRIEN, and Sir T.
WJLDE, to whose speech we direct particular attention.
The debate was again adjourned, and the House'
rose at a Quarter to Three o'Clock.

The Herald of this morning, alluding to some re-
marks made by Colonel VERNER and Mr. BUSFEILD
FERRAND, in the House of Commons, on Monday
night, respecting the Irish Protestants, of whose ex-
istence these bright senators seemed to take for
granted that the House was ignorant, says, "in
omitting to refer to the number, position, and rights,
of the Protestants of Ireland, the opponents of Lord
JOHN RUSSELL'S motion gave up the better part, if
not the whole, of their case. Let us for a moment
endeavour to prove that there are Protestants in the
sister country, and by proofs that cannot be dis-
puted." Our Contemporary then adds—and by way
of impressing the remarkable fact still more strongly
on the minds of his readers, he prints it in italics—
" there are Protestants in Ireland !" Now, does the.
Herald really believe that the country needs to be re-
minded of this fact ?—that it is at all likely to forget,
so long as the records of history endure, that there is
a fierce, bigoted, inexorable faction in the sister
country rejoicing in the title of Protestants, and still
more so in that of ascendancy-men ? Are not the
annals of this furious party written in the heart's-
blood of the Catholics ? Are they not associated with
the recollection of the pitch-cap and the triangle—
with the public flogging, by order of Rev. Irish
Archdeacons, of innocent women—with the noto-
rious BERESFORD riding-school—with the hangings,
and drawings, and quarterings of hundreds
of ignorant peasants—with the conflagration
of villages—the sack of towns—the revenge of an in-
furiate soldiery—the atrocious spy-system which
penetrated into every house and cabin, sowing dissen-
sion in the bosom of private families ;—and, in short,
with all the horrors of the rebellion of 1798 ? While

these things are remembered, can the existence of
Irish Protestants be forgotten ? But, 'granted that
even these atrocities could be expunged from men's
minds, still, is there: not a wealthy, sinecure Church
Establishment, with its staff of bishops and deans,
prebendaries and archdeacons, canons and minor-
canons, to say nothing of the favourite tithe-
hunts of the parsons, to keep Irish Pro-
testantism alive in public recollection? What
absurdity, then, in the Herald—with these facts star-
ing it fully and broadly in the face—to assure its
readers that " there are Protestants in Ireland 1"
" Protestants in Ireland 1" Aye, verily there are !
Else wherefore the late speeches of Lord STANLEY
and Sir JAMES GRAHAM, and the desperate cheers of
the Treasury Bench whenever any sentiment of an
Orange complexion falls from the lips of the Minis-
ters or their obsequious cads ? What the people require
to be reminded of is—not that " there are Protes-
tants in Ireland," but that there are Catholics in that
country—injured, insulted, oppressed Catholics, who
are left to wither in the cold shade of neglect, and
who on public trials of moment are not even thought
worthy to serve in the capacity of jurymen ! This is
what the people need to be reminded of, for the policy
of Government is so studiously framed as to lead to
the inference that the Irish Catholics are a mere ag-

gregate of cyphers, on whom a serious consideration
is thrown away, and for whose imagined grievances
it is not worth while to legislate in a
kindly and enlightened spirit. To throw to them
from time to time a soft word or a specious promise,

just as you would throw a bone to a dog; to
endeavour to keep them in good humour by assuring
them that one day or other something shall be done
for them, when it is fully intended that the day of
relief shall never arrive ; to promote the antagonist
party to offices of trust, power, and emolument, while
professions are constantly made by those thus acting,
of moderation and impartiality, thereby adding insult
to injustice—this is the manner in which our Tory

Ministers treat the Catholics ; and then, when the
latter protest with vehemence against such treatment,
the former lift up their righteous eyes in perfect as-
tonishment at such ingratitude Gentle Herald, it
needs not that you remind your Tory readers
of the existence of Irish Protestants, for they know
it right well—too well ; enough that you remind
them that there are such beings as Catholics in Ire-
land, and that you impress on them also the whole-
some fact that these Catholics—notwithstanding that
they refuse to anathematise the POPE—are quite as
worthyfas their Orange brethren, to share the favours
of Government !

The humanity and interest which had long been
vainly appealed to on behalf of that enormous com-
munity of the rising generation,—the youth and chil-
dren of both sexes engaged in the various pro-
cesses of our manufacturing industry—have been,
within the last four or five years, excited into
vigorous and healthful action. The kindly feelings
thus elicited have not evaporated in the mere enuncia-
tion of general principles. Sympathy and charity
have not stopped short at the rounding of a
few well turned periods, inculcating sentiments
of unexceptionable benevolence. They have vi-
sited the abodes—they have inspected the habits
—they have watched the incessant labours of their
unfortunate clients. They have scanned the amount
of their privations; they have measured the protracted
efforts of their toiling industry; they have contrasted
the maximum product of their vigilance, dexterity, and
application, with the minimum wages received by
them. They have superintended the entire occupa-
tions of their physical existence, from the early close
of their short night's slumber, and the scanty morsel
(hastily snatched in the uncertain daybreak, dimly
lighting the misery of their squalid homes) to their
morning's toil, in the mill or the factory, amidst con-
gregated masses offellow-labourers, pent up in spacious,
but unhealthy, work-rooms. This toil they have seen
the young work-people prolong, through the live-long
day, in the polluted atmosphere of densely crowded
chambers, and amidst the incessant uproar of steam •
engines in action, and huge revolving machinery—
through the afternoon, whose brightness and sunshine
never glowed or beamed for them—through the soft
evening, whose refreshing coolness was not suffered
to play upon their pallid cheeks—and far into the
night, whose solemnity and silence were properties
which they had learned only by report ; for, how could
they know these through the din of wheels, the hiss-
ing of steam, the hurtling of looms, and the flying of
shuttles? From the monster mill or the labyrinthine
factory, the same disinterested philanthropy has
tracked the returning footsteps of the overworked
infant and the exhausted adult, perhaps through the
dreary buffetings of a tempestuous night to their
cheerless cottages. It has examined the discomfort,
it has glanced over the desolation, of those miserable
tenements ; it has tasted of the wretched pittance that
has awaited the factory people for their mournful
supper; and it hai contemplated the more wretched
pallets to which they have betaken themselves for
their deep but feverish sleep of " a scant" five hours,
prior to the morning's renewal of their ever-recurring
and spirit-crushing toils!
It is certain that the spirited exertions of an active
beneficence, incited by the noble example of such
men as the late Mr. THOMAS SADDLER, and the present
Lord ASHLEY, have been successful with the master
rnanufacturms and millowners, to induce them greatly
to ameliorate the condition and to multiply the com-
forts of these hard-working children of labour. The
Legislature, at the instance of Government, has
assiduously addressed itself to the task of protecting
them from oppression—from overwork—from being
rendered, under various pretences and misrepresenta-
tions, accessories to their own wrong, by facilitating
evasions, on the part of the employers, of the
statutes touching the lowest ages at which children
may be employed, and the utmost daily time for
which they shall work. We are well pleased to see
that Sir JAMES GRAHAM, in kis official capacity, is
lending a powerful aid to the furtherance and conso-
lidation of these' sanatory measures of protection.
We have given, elsewhere, a notice of the Bill lately
introduced by the Right Hon. Baronet, and now be-
fore the House, "for regulating the employment of
children, young persons, and women in factories." It
is scarcely requisite for us to add, that we wish, for I
so just and humane a measure, all the success to
which it is fairly entitled ; and to its framers and
supporters, without distinction of party, all the credit
and praise that are due to those who step forward to
befriend the friendless.

The intelligence from Spain, which is to the 13th
inst., has heen anticipated by the French telegraphic

dispatches given in another place. General RONCALI,
it will be seen, has blockaded Alicant, and that town
would probably yield in a few days. Some accounts
say that he had refused to obey the orders of the
Minister of War to shoot the thirty insurgents made
prisoners at Alcoz, and would be recalled. This
report, however, has been officially contradicted.
The Three per Cents. were done at 28i for cash,
and 29} at 60 days ; Five per Cents. at 201 at 60
days.

The French Government on Monday received the
following intelligence from Spain :

"TELEGRAPHIC DISPATCHES.
" BAYONN E, FEB, 16.

" The Portuguese movement has taken place at Torres
Novas, in the 4th Cavalry. Several arrests were ordered on
_ . _

the 7th at Lisbon.
" General Roncali writes on the 9th from Villa Francasa,
that he has blockaded Alicant, with General Pardo.
" Several of the insurgents had surrendered to him.
" The address of the Deputies to the Queen has been sub-
scribed by seventy-two of them."

" FEBRUARY 17,

"We learn from Orihuela, whence the advice of the
9th, that the insurgents had abandoned that town, and shut
themselves up in Carthagena.
" Baron Bomtin, who is believed to be the leader of the
late Portuguese movement, has been arrested at Yelvas.
" M. Olozaga has been sent by the Government to reside
at St. tiles."

The following telegraphic dispatch of an earlier
date appears in the Illoniteur of the same day

" BAYONNE, FEB. 15.
" Forty senators, present in Madrid, have voted an address
to Qucen Isabella, in which they assure her Majesty of their
adhesion to her Government. They voted another address to
the Queen-Mother, expressive of their wish that she should
ppeedily return to Spain. The Deputies of the majority fol-
lowed the example of the senators.
"The disarmament of the National Militia of Lugo, Cadiz,
Seville, Ceuta, and of the whole camp of San Roque, took
place without any disturbance. Malaga and Almeria were
tranquil."

The Paris Government journals make no com-
ments whatever on the intelligence brought from
Otaheite, and will probably continue to do so till a
commmunication on the subject tekes place between
Lord ABERDEEN and M. GUIZOT. Some of the Op-
position journals, on the other hand, praise in high
terms the conduct of Admiral DUPETIT THOUARS, and
call upon the Cabinet to sanction at once the occu-
pation of these islands in the name of the KING of the
FRENCH. The poor missionaries, of course, come in
for a great deal of abuse. "M. GuizoT," says the
National, " whatever he may really think, cannot dis-
avow our brave Admiral, and we shall necessarily
learn, without delay, that he has ratified the defini-
tive and complete occupation of Otaheite. Let the
Bible-sellers cry out; their Government laughs at
our most legitimate complaints; let us treat with
contempt the Methodist brawling of those preaching
folks, who, under the missionary's dress, cannot con-
ceal the political agent, and still less the trader !"
The Siecle views the affair in a different light, and

is opposed to any scheme for colonizing "at great ex-
pense an island which cannot be preserved during a
time of war, and will not repay us in time of peace,
for the expenses imposed on our treasury. It will
therefore be necessary to give way to the intrigues of
this Mr. PRITCHARD, or get deeper and deeper in an
ugly affair." The Quotidienne says Lord ABERDEEN
" would with very bad grace exhibit indignation at our
taking possession of the island, and it would be but
too easy to remind him with how little scruple England
plants her flag wherever she pleases. The British
establishments in China, the encroachments on Gwalior,
the flagrant usurpation of Sinde, are examples
enough of what England does, but which French
honour would blush to imitate." Yet French
honour dethroned the Dey of ALGIERS, plun-
dered his treasury of several millions sterling,
and seized his dominions, and something more, be-
cause from accident or momentary irritation, he
touched the sacred cheek of the French Consul with

his fan. •
The French Funds remain nearly stationary. On
Monday the Three per Cents. closed at 82f. 35c., and
the Fives at 125 f. 55c.
THE BOURSE—MONDAY, FEB. 19.

First Highest Lowest Last
Price. Price. Price. Price.
French Five per Cents. • • 125 65 .• 125 65 .. 125 60 .. 125 60
Four-and-a-Half.... 112 50 .. 112 50 .. 112 50 .• 112.50
Three per Cents... • • 82 35 .. 82 35 .. 82 25 •• 82 35
Bank of France
Laftlttc Bank, I,ooof. Sharesllo2 50 • • 1102 50 .• 1102 50 .. 1102 50
Belgian Bank .. • . • .
Belgian Fives .•••••• • • • • • • 1071 • • 1071 • • 1071 • • 1074
1840•.••••.. lO9l •• 109 i •• 109 •• 1091
1842
Spanish Active
Passive 5l . • 51 .. . • 51
Portuguese Five per Cents • • 444 • • 45 . • 444 • • 45
Neapolitan• •• . •••••• • • • • • - 104 50 •• 104 75 .. 104 25 • • 104 50
Roman •.• • • - ••• ••••.• • • • • • 106 • • 106 • . 106 • • 106
RAILWAY SHARES.

St. Germain
Versailles, L.B l7O •• 175 •• 170 •• 170
Rouen .•....
Rouen to Havre • • • • ...... • • 670 • • 670 . • 655 .'. 655
Orleans ....... • - • • • 837 50 . • 837 50 . • 830 • • 830
Strasburg to Bale.. •••• •• , • 242 50 .• 242 50 • . 237 50 • • 238 75
Avignon to Marseilles.. •• • • 730 • • 730 .. 720 • • 720
Mulhausen to Thann .• • • • • • 380 380 • • 380 • • 380
RAILWAY SHARES, FOR TIIE ACCOUNT.
Ver-ailles, L.B.•••••• ••• • • • 172 50 .. 172 50 • • 172 50 • • 172 80
Rouen•.••..
Rouen to Havre 670 670 661 25 .. 661 25
Orleans ••.• .• •
Strasburg to Bale.-- •• 241 25 .. 242 50 .. 235 240
Avignon to Marseilles.. 740 741 25 .. 722 50 . • 730
Montpellier to Cette • • • • .. • • 445 445 . • 445 445

DODD'S PARLIAMENTARY COMPANION.-Mr. Dodd,
so well known for his useful information on subjects
connected with the two Houses of Parliament, has
just brought out a new edition of this work. It con-
tains amy emendations and improvements, and fur-
nishes the latest statistical intelligence on the con-
stitution of the country. The details respecting the
House of Commons are very copious, and include a
concise biography of the Members, their principles,
and pledges to their constituencies, their parentage,
age, marriage, &c. It furnishes also a statement of
the numbers polled at the last general election, the
population of each place, the registered electors, and
a general outline of the forms and usages adopted in
Parliament. The returns for all the vacancies caused
by death and resignations since the last prorogation
up to the present session are given, with the usual
historical and family notices. We believe this is the
only hand-book of the kind now published.

LORD HERTFORD'S WlLL.—Another hearing respect-
ing a codicil, claimed by the Right Hon. .1. Croker, of
100,000 dollars in Virginia Stock, under the will of the
late Marquis of Hertford, was given this morning by
the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, to hear
the Solicitor-General on behalf of the Right Hon.
Claimant. Lord Brougham, although evidently suffer-
ing under the effects of lumbago, was present, as were
also Lords Campbell, Abinger, Denman, and other Lords.
Sir William Follett having concluded, it was intimated
by the Court that judgment would be deferred to a future
period. Sir Charles Wetherell appeared on the part of
the present Marquis of Hertford, the respondent in this
case.

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.)

CORN EXCHANGE-7-WEDNESDAY,

We had about an average supply of English Wheat. For
the finest parcels the demand was steady, at previous rates,
but in other kinds exceedingly little was doing. Foreign
Wheat was a heavy sale, but we can notice no alteration in
prices. Barley was quite as dear, but Malt Barley supported
Monday's figures. Oats, Beaus, Peas, and Flour were un-
altered.

ARRIVALS.

Wheat.
English. 1,140 qrs.
Irish -
Foreign 6OO

Barley. Oats. Flour
3,570 qrs. t 1,540 glya. 3,450 sacks,
760 10,550 ---
Lew

Malt, 1,750 qrs.
WIIITECHAPEL.

Although the supply of each kind of meat was but mode-
rate, the trade was throughout heavy. on the following
terms :—Beef, from 2s 2d to 3s 4d ; Mutton, 2s 6d to 3s 6d ;
Veal, 2s 10d to 4s 6d; and Pork, 2$ 6d to 4s per 81bs, by
the carcase.

EAST INDIA HOUSE.-(THIS DAY
IMPORTANT STATEMENT.

This morning a special adjourned Court was held at the
East India House for the purpose of further considering the
papers relating to Sinde.
The Minutes of the last Court having been read,
The Chairman, Mr. CorrErt, said, the Court of Directors
deplored the course pursued by the Governor-General of
India, in relation to the Arneers of Sinde. But they were
satisfied that he had acted conscientiously; and it was the
intention of the Court of Directors to give every aid and pro-
tection to the Ameers, against whom no charges had been
established. He thought it would be the better course to ad-
journ the Court without discussing the resolutions proposed
at the last meeting.
After this important statement, a discussion upon the point
oforder ensued, in which the Chairman gave way, and admitted
that the resolutions proposed at the last Court might now be
discussed.

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Mr. WEEnniu then addressed the Court and Was left
speaking.

BURGLARY.—Between the hours of eleven on
Monday night and six on the Tuesday morning, the premises
of Mr. Lindsey, keeper of the Lewisham post-office, were
broken into and robbed of bank notes, silver, gold, and a
quantity of plate, amounting in value to about 3001. The
letter-bag, which had been dropped the previous evening by
the Hastings mail, had been broken open, and the letters it
contained opened, and their contents torn into fragments and
strewed on the floor.
THE Pgicr or BREAD.—The bakers throughout
the metropolis raised the price of bread yesterday. The firs-
rate bakers at the west-end now charge 91d. and even 10d.
for the 41b. loaf; the second-rate, Bd. and 7id. Some of the
inferior ones in Whitechapel, Blackfriars-road, Westminster,
Drury-lane, and St. Giles's, only charge Qd. and 7d. Not-
withstanding that there is a plentiful supply of wheat in the
country, of English crowth, no less than 6,220 quarters of
foreign wheat have been received during the last week in the
port of London-1,500 quarters of which were from"Dantzic,
and 1,000 from Odessa. Twenty thousand quarters were
entered on Monday last at the 19s. duty. The price of wheat
at Mark-lane varies from 40s. to 60s. per quarter, and flour
of superior quality from 466. to 50s. second ditto, 40s. to 455.
per sack.