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London, England, 1826-03-22 00:00:00

BANK OF IREI,AND.

MEETING OF BANK PROPRIETOIIB.--DUILM
• Su turd ay the re was a close M oeti 4'o: the •
Proprietors of Bank Stock, held in the Great Room, forwierly.
the House of fiords. The Meeting, considering that it was got
up for the purpose of showing the strength of the Roman Ca-
tholic party, was neither numerous nor respectable. At twelve
o'clock the Chair was taken by the Guys:alum
Mr. Alderman IV KENNY, on behalf of the Requisitioniats
..
proceeded to show that, by the :434.1 Geo, 111. Roman Catholics
were eligible to he Members of Lay Corporations. on taking a
certain oath, which he was in progress of reading, when he was .
stopped by 'a wisper from Alr-Hugh.O'Counor, who intimated
to him that no Roman Catholic could take the oath upon which
the Worthy Alderman was arguing their inadmissibility. The
speech, was concluded by 4 Resolution....
" That the Directors be requested to put one or more Roman
1 Catholics on the House List.' ..
Mr. Gums: css thought that such a proceedingon the pato/
the Directors would be extremely indelicate, If such a mea-
sure were adopted by them, it would, in fact, have all the ap-
pearance of dictation to the stockholders, who, king a free
body of electors, could not he cowed into voting for any ind‘.
victual. They would of course select suet men for the Piece.
tion as they conceived most likely to advance the interests of
the body at large, and who were best calculated to manage the
affairs of the Establishment.
Mr. H unit O'CortNOlt, to gratify whose desire for becoming
himself a Director, and at whose solicitation these periodical
requisitions are signed, made a speech of course. He corn,
merited upon the general mismanagement of the Directors,.
and cited the particular case of a sum of thirty thousand pounds
having been lost to the Bank by the failure of a Protestant Di- •
rector—an event which he gravely assured the meeting could
not have taken place if there had been even one Roman Catholic
on the Direction. The absurdity of this assertion excited con-
, siderable laughter.
After a very irrelevant discussion, in which Mr. Borne, a
Barrister, Mr. Alolloy, an Attorney, Mr. Brophy, a wine-tner.
chant; Mr. W. L. Guinness, a Beer Brewer, and Air. Nicho-
las Alahnn, a Bill Broker, took a part, the following Resole:than
was unanimously agreed to
" That the Court of Directors of the Bank of Ireland do•
forthwith instruct the Law Agent of the said Corporation to
lay cases before the Attorney and Solicitor Generals, and each
of the then Serjeants at Law, whether Roman Catholics are
eligible to the office of Directors to the Bank of Ireland, and if
they be, what oaths they are requested to take."

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

HORSHAM, Mancit 20.
.Edward Newman was indicted for knowingly uttering at
Chichester, on the flth of December, a forged check for the
payment of 671., with intent to defraud Messrs. flack and Co.
The prisoner had been a fanner at Strom', near Petworth.
On the tith of December he presented at. the banking-house of
Messrs. Hack and Co., at Chichester, a check for 071.. pay-
able to " James Johnson or bearer," and purporting to be
drawn by Richard Judgen upon Messrs. timeld and Co.,
bankers at Petworth, one of which iirm was father-in-13.w to
a Mr. Judea of that place. The Prisoner told the pay-clerk
that his name was James Johnson, and observing that the
clerk rather hesitated at the name of Judgen, he said that it
was Mr. Juden who kept cash at his father-in-law's bank at
Petworth. The clerk, -knowing Mr. Judcn to he a person of
credit, and believing the representation made, immediately paid
the prisoner the amount of the ;heck, which. was soon after.
wards discovered to be a forgery, there being noVatticon of the
name of Judgen to be found, and that air. Judea did not kbeip
any cash at lus.father-in-law's bank. • ' •• .
!'he prisoner said nothing in his defence, but called wit-
nesszs, who proved that he was a person who had hitherto borne
a good character.
The Jury found him Guilty.
The prisoner was again indicted for a similar ofl'ance, in at-
teting a forged check on the same. day for 951., drawn in the
name of Richard Judgen, in favour of James Mills, with intent
to defraud Messrs. Ridge and Co., of Chichester.
Similar evidence was given in this case to that in the last, and

be prisoner was found 'Guilty.
Judgment wax reApitcd until the opinion of the twelve

Judges should he taken upon u puirit submitted by Counsel on
behalf of the prisoner.

YORK, Manor 20.
Joseph Pe, aged 27, stood indicted with having on the.2B4
of September last, on the King's highway, between.Rothwell
Haigh and Ilethley, in the \Vest oiding, violently assaulted
Thomas Ilinclicliffe„ by striking him with a stick, and knock-
ing him down, and also with having then and there feloniously
stolen and taken away from the said Thomas Hinelteliffe the
sum of 181. in provincial blink.notes.
Thomas Hincheliffe resides at Mobley ; the robbery took
place on the Friday in Doncaster race-week. He had been to
get his vessel loaded, and on his return home met the prisoner
at a public-house, and gave him share of four or five pints a
ale. In paying for it the prisoner could see the notes in wit.
ness's pocket-book; and soon after leaving the public-house,
the prisoner took a stick out of a hedge, and knocked the wit-
ness down. On recovering iiom the insensibility oecassioned
by the blow, he found he had been robbed of all his money.—.
The prisoner soon after made his appearance again, anti being
taxesl with the theft, denied it ; and, to prove his innocence,
offered to submit to being searched, and pretended to go back
and examine the place where the prosecutor fell, 'in hopes of
finding the money.
Witnesses were called, who proved the prisoner to be with-
out money on the morning the robbery was committed, and that
on the subsequent day he was In possession of 171. and that ha
offered a Gl. nate instead of a IL In payment for some liquor
which he had purchased.—Guilly.
Om. iirrix.
Mr. Justice BAYLEY presided in this Court, but the 4atlatis
tried were entirely destitute of interest.

CORN EXCHANGE, MAUCH n.—The arriv4la
to this morning's market are small, except of Outs. Wheat,
Barley, Beans, and Pease, .are still dull at Monday's prices...
In the Oat trade there is but little doing, and prices are neatly
nominal. In Flour no alteration. No market on Friday.—
Arrivals: English Wheat, 2,600; Barley, 860 ; Oats, 10,000
qrs. Flout, 3,600 sacks.

MAN Cif EST lt, Maa cu 19.—News has reached here today
that the fugitive daughter of Mr. Turner has been overtaken at
Calais. The uncle of the young lady followed her and harp's-
lector to Gretna Green, where he ascertained that they were
married. From Scotland the parties proceeded southwards, and
embarked at Dover for France. They travelled, it is raid,
with the greatest rapidity, having made a distance of six bun..
tired miles in three days. The young lady is little more than
fifteen years of age, and though beautiful, of very deficit*
health. When her uncle introduced himself to .her at CA..
-leis she declared that she had been forced away, and she
had married Mr. Wakefield when under the htfluence of fear.
She appeared to have suffered very much from fatigue and
mental anguieh, and expressed herself highly pleased at tha
appearance or her uncle. The young lady is not only 6*
heiress of her father's immense property, but also of that of her
three rich uncles. Mr. Wakefield is about finty years or eel
and has two children by his first wife, a lady whom we
reectr,
when she was a ward in Chancery. Mr. Turner its
partied to France by two police offic.ere.

e
itEmit ILK ABLA !AORTA LIT v.--A Benefit Society
in Leeds, consisting do
oth of five tindr`in the short,
has lost eleven members by
,since er eleven weekb.

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DAILY
.firaelsfi.oin the Atorniag I' opers,lll arch 22,1

rTHE
We'have much satisfaction in stating, that the
mission of his Grace the Duke of Wellington has
commenCed under favourable auspices. If our
intelligence be not incorrect, the . first interview
of his Grace with his Imperial Majesty bore the
2sPeet not .merely of airacious feeling towards
the Ambassador, but of an unequivocal concur-
'owe in the great object of his embassy—viz. the
preservation of unbroken tranquillity throughout
Europe. It is understood—as we, indeed, an-
nounced the fact to be at the period of the Duke's
departure from this country7—thut he was charged
with what might be termed, credentials, from
France, and Austria, and -Prussia, as VI ell as from
Great Britain, all calculated to impress the
Cabinet of St. Petersburg!' with the convic-
tion that the ebove great Powers were un-
animous in their purpose—lSL Of protect-
ing the Greeks against the Ottomans. 2d.
Of protecting the latter against an attack from
Russia. The Duke of Wellington is said to have
received the most prompt assurances of the satis-
faction with which the Emperor Nicholas regard-
ed the first of the two objects explained, to him,
and of his entire acquiescence in the second.—
The five most powerful' States of Christendom
are now, it is added, to unite in a common and
peremptory declaration to the Grand Seignor,
that Greece shall !to longer,, be occupied or In-
vaded by his arinies,7—that he must give up nil
pretensions to the sovereignty of that people, and
cease in any mower to molest them.,. On their
part it "is allirtned that theft Greeks; aware of
the negocietion with Rusqa, and contemplat-
ing its successful result, have offered the con-
stitutional throne of their country to verb in
succession of three foreign Princes—the Duke
of Sussex, Leopold of Saxe,Coburg, and the
son of Gustavus the Swede ; but that by none
of them has the Royal prize been accepted. The
Greek nation, ho ever, be left to
the choke
of its own Chief, and of the form of Government
which best may suit its ,genius, wants, or preju-
dices. With respect to Russia, she will feel the
necessity of abstaining from any positive act, or
even from demonstrations and menaces of aggres-
sion upon Turkey. There is little doubt that
Nicholas has troubles to COSHetid with at home,
whiCh would not be appeased, but might. he ag-
gravated, by the incidents and casualties of
foreign warfare. A reduction, therefore, of the
military malcontent power of Russia may be na-
turally anticipated by surrounding States. Let,
than, the Duke of Wellington comeback to Eng-
land, ufter happily concluding a negociatiou, on
the success of which has depended the peace' of
Europe., and the only chance of breathing. tithe
for this overburdened and
,exhuusted country,
and we shall hail the execution of such a task as
eintnig the most glorious of his achievements.

• NEW Tim ten.)
. The Engli,le Funds experienced little or no
fluctuation yestertloy, nor was the day marked
by any event' of sufficient interest he Wore the
speculators to engage to any extent for the Ac.
count. An attempt was made tit owe period (by
the speculators for a fall) to persuade some ie•
dividuals that the fail in, the Russian Exchange
'wits to lie attributed to a political cause; but as
it was not believed, tiny failed in their purpose.
Consols were the whole day 77f to at which
price they closed, both for the Account and for
Exchequer Bills of all descriptions .ss.
pm.; inifia fonds 4s, pm.—le the Foreign
Market thole was likewise very little variation.
in the dilrerent Securities. Colombian buds
49;; ; Mexirao feints 657, ; Urazihein Bonds 60 ;
Chiliaee Bonds ; Spanish Roods WI. French
Mantes- Five per Cent. • 97f.; Exchange 251.
50c. In boils Markets there was very little bu-
siness transacted. In Shares there is little to
notice, as these Securities for some -time past
Reeve varied in a very trilling degree at any
rate, they have not advanced in public estitnu,
lion. Anglo Mexican from .1.0 to 171 ells. ; ilo!
Lanai 10 pm.; British Iron 111 dis.; Paseo Peril...
visit .8 dile.; Ttalpuxaltua, par; United Mexican
dis. ; Australian 0 ptn.

[MORNINO POST.]

In the Muse of Lords, last night, the Mar.
gals of Lamsdown called .the attention of his mo•
jesty's Ministers to the fact, that there was not
Jess thou fifty-five country banks, one as fur its
Aberdeen, which issued notes payable only in
London. lie urged the necessity of compelling
every individual who issued notes to make them
payable at tlw place where they were issued, and
showed that in the distant parts,of Ireland, the
notes issued by the branch banks being payable
only in Dublin, circulated at a discount, and
consequently at a loss of four pence per Pound.—
The Earl of Liverpool agreed in the propriety of
adopting some measure to put an end to this prat*.
which he also considered highly injurious.
—This; however, could only bra done effectually
at present with regard to tin Banks in
tlitotiami MI Ireland, as with respect to (hem
nothing had yet been legislated, whilst three
years have been allowed. for the gradual ex-
tinction of all tier notes actually stamped up
to a certain tiny in England, no diffei wire could
be made between those payable in London
and those payable where issued withont
lug what might be, considered a vested and
established right. He conceived however the
sohject to be of such importance, that should not
the Cotmuittee now sitting on the Banking System
of Scotland. mill Ireland recommend any other
measure, it ought to introduce a separate. Bill to
abolish thittittjnyious practice. The Marquis of
Lansdown tinier promised to call the attention
of their Lordships again to the subject after the
recess.

, • . •
[MOII m mci ittmAt,n.]
Mr. Peel seems to he every day acquiring fresh
ciallus upon the gratitude and respect of the
instances occurred in the
Gauntry. or this tvvp.
proceedings of the housee-of Commons on Thurs.

day night---the one in his readiness to adopt and
give the weight anti sinctiob of his Official cha-
racter to the improvement in the Jaw which Lord
Althorp has so long vainly endeavoured, to effect,
7.--the other, though a less important topic, his;
readiness to institute an inquiry as to the practice'
of the Dean and Chapter of Westminster in
excluding the public from 'their ; Cathedral.—
The Public are delighted to see that they
have in 1111 r. Peel a Minister who seems
to have discovered what most eminent Statesmen
are too apt to ovoriaok,,, that the fame,
honour, and duty of public; men do.not ,exist in
war or diplomacy alone, but that the, best use
any man can make 'of hiS talents is to' employ
them in what may be'called 'the domestic service
of the State—in improving her situations, cor-
recting abuses, and applying her means and re,
sources in the way best calculated to promote the
general welfare. This is, to 1w sure, the peculiar
duty of the Minister of the flume Department ;
but, without meaning_ the least disparage-
ment to any Mr. Peel's predecessors,
it must be allowed that he has. done 'more
during the short period. which he has filled,
that office, in promoting its legitimate objects,
than the public has witnessed at any 'pre-
vious time. It must be no small consolation
to Mr. Peel that his services are duly valued by'
the. country. Ills efforts, in fact, create a new
era in public affairs ; and we trust that the re.
sults which are htiurly accruing to the country
and himself—of advantage to the one, and of
lasting fame to the other---=will stimulate public
men to follow his example; and, by cultivating
the arts of peace, induce both nations and
statesmen • to adopt a rivalry, widely different
front that which consists' in war and bloodshed,
and that species of " glory " which costs so much,
and in the end profits mankind so little.

[BRITISH r truss.]
Mr. Arbuthnot last night introduced a Bill
into the House of Commons for the improvement
of Charing-Cross. The Right lion. Member
stated the object of his measure to be, the forma-
tion of a, quadranlge, to extend from Pall-mall
to St. Martin's-lane five hundred feet, alai to ex-
tend for an equal distance for thee statue towards
the north. There will be titre:, new streets in-
cluded in this improvement, and the Strand will
be widened from thirty-five to sixty feet as far as
Bedford-street. The first additional carriage-way
will; he across the upper part of the proposed quad-
rangle,-that wilt run into a street to be formed on
the south• side of St. Martin's church ; and which
will run diagonally into the Strand. There will be
another street from Hemming's-row and Chandos-
street into the Strand, by Bedford-streeL Mr.
Arbuthnot stated, that he did not intend to call
upon the House for a single shillintto,carry this
improvement into effect. lie expected to meet
all the expellees by the sale of a portion of the
Crown lands, and by an exchange of another pop.
tion. In reply to a question respecting the Ref
gent's Park, Mr. Arbuthnot declared that it
would be opened to the public as soon as the
plantations were in such a sill te as they mould not
be injured by the violence of mischievous per-
sons. In answer to another question from Sir M.
W. Riley, respecting Exeter Change, the Bight
lion. Gentleman 'observed that it was the private
property of Lord Exeter, who he understood had
expressed un intention of pulling it down, by
which that part of the great thoroughfare that
runs past it would be materially widened ; end
he assured the lion. Baronet that if lie (Mr.
Arbuthnot) could du any thing to facilitate the
intention of the Nob le Marquis, he would do so
with pleasure.

()HORNING cnnoNict.E.]
A circumstance was alluded to last night, in
the House of Lords, by Lord King, which has
for seine time, we believe, occupied the thoughts
of many well-informed men. There is every rea-
son►, his Lordship said, Co apprehend that. our
supply of Corn will not last till the next har-
vest ; and to add to the evil, in consequence of
the operation of the Corn Laws, we can have
little hopes of a supply from abroad. The cowl-
tries from which we might have 'been supplied,
had a commerce in ,grain existed, have for some
time ceased to grow more than sufficient for their
a►vn wants. This is one of the evils of the MO-
nopoly system, that the Landowners not only
tax us for their separate benefit, but they expose
us to the risk of famine. if every county, in
England were interdicted from obtaining food
from a neighbouring county, the chance is that
in many of theM there would he a scarcity of
fond every year ; but when the supply can be
obtained from the whole of a great country, the
chances of famine are of course greatly dimi-
nished. I.ly extending the commerce to several
kingdoms, the risk of famine is still further dl.
mioished. It seems as if nature, by this diver-
sity, had endeavoured to produce that inter-
course which our Country Gentlemen have been
at'such pains to prevent.

[IIIE itEentszsrrATimj
The Paris Journals of the 20th have been re-
ceived. Their contents are not of importance.—
Speculations concerning the consequences of the
death of the King of Portugal, occupy all the
French papers, as they do a great many of the
English. When the length and breadth of that
kingdom, deprived as it is of its colonies, are
considered, it is rather amusing to hear such sell-
fences as the following from the Constilutionnel :
" It would be, no doubt, rash to give ourselves
up on the moment to conjecture theconsequences
of the actual crisis. Prudence advises us, on the
contrary, not to hazard, an ()pillion, without
better knowing delicate facts, which must be
weighed with a maturity and circumspec-
lion equal to their importance." Now, when
We recollect what Portugal is, this is altogether
delightful. There is no great sagacity shown in
pronouncing that whatever may be the lot of Por.
timid, it cannot just now be of the slightest itn.
portauce in the affairs of Europe. If England
"hell to take into its hands Lisbon, or any
other of the maritime towns,, we do not see who
could prevent us. If a Decree of the Comineutill
Powers united Ik. I
t whole iug(,om, al ways ex-
cepting the matitime points, to Spain, we du not

see who could hinder them. That Portugal it-
seff should have a voiee OR the subject is not to
be imagined ; and still less is it to be dreamt that
any wrangliug as ti the internal management of
the kingdom should have the slightest effect in
disturbing the state of the world.

ETRE PUBLIC LEBGER.I
The arrival of the Mail yesterday from Buenos
Ayres has put us in possession of intelligence from
that place to the 4th of January, and from Monte
Video to the Bth of the same month. The bloc-
kading squadron had, already captured several
vessels, of which the greater proportion was En-
glish, and sent them into Monte Video,where they
would be released, we.presume, upon -giving as-
surances of proceeding to some other port,but that
which was their original destination. As they could
not have been apprised, when they left this court,
try, of hostilities between Buenos Ayres and
Brazil, the laws ,of blockade could not, with:any
appearance of justice, be enforced :against them,
unless they attempted to: break through it, after
having received formal notice to do so at their
peril. The Brazilians, in the mean time, seem to
have found this mode of annoying the enemy so
'profitable, that there was an evident. neglect on
their part ()fall other means of annoyance ; for, to
to military operations very little is-said ; and this
little relates to the efforts of their opponents, who
appear to have entered cordially into the dis-
pute. The latter had already sent two de.
tachments of troops, consisting of one thousand
four hundred oleo in all, to reinforce, the_ oriental
army under Gen. Lavilliga.; and we are assured
that the latter was daily improving in numbers
and discipline. This was not n bad earnest of the
energy with which the people of Buenos Ayres
meant to prosecute the contest ; for, after the
long peace they had enjoyed, and the compara-
tive affluenee they had acquired, it bespoke no
common enthusiasm, that even this number of
combatants had been raised, equipped, and for-
warded to their destination within •so short a
period. .