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LONDON, MONDAY, MARCH 31, 1845.

discover on what feasible grounds this opposition is
founded. Whether the question is viewed as one of
religion, or of pounds, shillings, and pence—whether
the measure is opposed by members of the Established
Church, or Presbyterians or Dissenters—not one
solid argument can be adduced for refusing to pro-
vide suitable teachers to a fourth-part of the inhabi-
tants of the United Kingdom. The grant has been
recognised and cordially acquiesced in for many years
by the whole nation, for we throw the paltry knot of
bigots that assemble annually at Exeter Hall out of
the calculation. The Irish Presbyterians receive
money out of the Consolidated Fund, so do the
Scotch Presbyterians—the Established Church of the
North, with ample funds, too, for its maintenance—
the established religion in the numerous British colo-
nies—is, with one or two exceptions, maintaine 1 en-
tirely at the public expense ; catholic priests, as well
as Protestant ministers, are paid by the State, yet
when any favour is to be conferred on Ireland—when
the Government ventures to act on the principles of
humanity, justice, and charity—men who are
called Christians excite themselves to fury,
and utter execrations against those who
would obey the divine precept and do as
they would be done by. This is more than
folly—it is absolute wickedness. It displays human
nature in all its deformity, and exhibits erring man
setting himself up as a judge between GOD and his
creatures, and claiming infallibility on a momentous
question, which is viewed in a different light by fifty
sects in England, and on which the sages and priests,
and moralists, of at least a hundred nations of the
earth, disagree. A great country cannot he governed
by bigots. England is not to be at eternal war with
Ireland to humour religious prejudices, and when the
main question is conceded—when provision is made
for Catholic instructors in all our colonial possessions,
and not a whisper is heard against the universal
system, every impartial observer must be struck with
the inconsistency of granting favours—or rather jus-
tice to all—while we refuse them to our nearest and
best neighbours. The opponents of this measure may
be sincere in their opposition, but the admission is at
the expense of their wisdom and common sense. If
a horror of the Catholic religion justifies them in
causing one of the greatest of national calamities, the
disunion of two parts of the empire, that nature
had joined together, if no grant is to be made
to Maynooth, because the Catholic religion
is damnable and idolatrous, and if, according
to their blasphemous phraseology, it will bring down
upon the land the Divine wrath, why do they confine
their religious indignation to only one small portion
of the question, and leave all the other points un-
touched ? Popery is making dreadful inroads on the
l'rotestant Church of England ; the Bishops of that
Church say the Established Church of Scotland is no
Church ; and the Dissenters, who contend that they
alone are in the right path, are treated as visionaries
and impostors. Yet, while we hear of meetings to
oppose a grant of public money to a Church from
which all the rest have sprung, and which so liberally
endowed many national and religious establish-
ments—while the Town Council of Edinburgh, pro-
fessing to follow in the steps of Jonsi KNOX, have
protested against Maynooth—not one word is heard
from the Calvinistic north, or from any of the anti-
Popery sects in England, against the Puseyism or
Popery, for they are synonymous terms, of the
Bishops of EXETER, and LONDON, and OXFORD, and
some other ten or twenty Prelates, with the Arch-
bishop of CANTERBURY at their head. If the
Catholic religion is bad, why confine all their
indignation to the partial relief offered to the
persecuted and maligned Irish ? They are as
sincere in their worship of the Great Creator
as Presbyterians or Puseyites, they are infinitely
more steady in their faith, they are more obedient to
their pastors, when reviled they revile not again, and
they are at this moment submitting to deprivations
and sufferings, which their very oppressors—the Pro-
testants and Presbyterians—rid themselves of by rebel-
lion and torrents of blood. If there is any virtue in
this principle of opposition to one specks of religion,
why is it so limited ? If the Divine Word, as they say,
commands them to resist Popery, they are traitors to
that word, by contributing, year after year, without
either compunction or complaint, to the maintenance
of Popery in Canada, Australia, Gibraltar, Malta,
the lonian Islands, and India. It is impossible to
escape from the dilemma. But there is another most
important part which these persecutors utterly for-
get. They know, or ought to know, that the Chris-
tian religion was nurtured by persecution ; that the
Founder of our faith was the great victim ; that his
Apostles were compelled to fight with wild beasts as
gladiators ; that many of them suffered the most igno-
minious and painful deaths ; that the Coliseum at
Rome, and the other great arenas of Pagan sports, were
made wet with the blood of the martyrs, yet the
Christians remained steadfast to the faith,
and increased in strength and numbers till they be-
came a great multitude. This is only a picture of
the state of Ireland. Every mode of persecution was
tried, Christian teachers were hunted like wild
beasts, they died on the gallows as malefactors, the
wretched people were deprived of every municipal
right, robbed of their property and treated as no
nation ever was treated, yet they have grown and
multiplied, and their very sufferings, like those of the
Christians in the dark ages, have only made them
more fixed in their resolution, and rendered their reli-
gion.more sacred in their eyes. " Refrain from these
men," said a wise Pharisee to the persecutors of the
Apostles, "and let them alone; for if this counsel or
this work be of men, it will come to nought ; but if
it be of God, you cannot overthrow it." The history
of Ireland is a remarkable fulfilment of these pro-
phetic words. The modern persecutors fight against
destiny in vain. The Catholic Church is increasing
every day in Ireland, and its tenets are making rapid
progress in the Protestant establishments of Oxford
and Cambridge ; she is recognised by our Bishops as
the Mother Church, and one of the stanchest Pro-
testants and most upright of men, the late Dr.
AR-
Nor.D, thus speaks of her and her bigoted traducers :
—"I know that my principles would lead to the
establishment of the Catholic religion in three-fourths
of Ireland; but I think that a Catholic is
a member of CUBIST'S Church just as much as I am,
and I could well endure one form of that Church in
Ireland and another in England. We are suffering
here from that accursed division among Christians
of which, I think, the Arch-Fiend must be the
author. The good Protestants and bad Christians
have talked nonsense—and more than nonsense—so
long about Popery and the Beast, and Antichrist,
that the simple, just, and Christian measure of esta-
blishing the Roman Catholic Church in three-fifths
of Ireland seems removed by common consent." And
he adds, in another place—" The Christian people of
Ireland have a right to the full benefit of their
Church property, which now they cannot have, be
cause Protestant clergymen they will not listen to.
I think, then, it ought to furnish them with Catholic
clergymen. I have one great principle which I never
lose sight of—to insist strongly on the difference be-
tween Christian and anti-Christian, and to sink into
nothing the difference between Christian and Chris-
tian." We may here state that an admirable book
has just been published on this subject, entitled
" Past and Present Policy of England towards Ire-
land." We have rarely met with such irrefragable
arguments for the speedy settlement of these dan-

The two Houses of Parliament will resume busi-
ness, after the Easter recess, with, we trust, renewed
strength and redoubled alacrity. They have a plen-
tiful amount of work cut out for them, the greater
part being, in the language of trade, " for orders
that press." In consideration of the large proportion
of such special matters to the general mass of affairs
to be dealt with, we rather hope than believe that
the House of Commons in the first instance, and the
Lords in the second, may be induced to adopt some
more effective plan for the succession and dispatch of
pending measures and questions than, of late
years, has been followed by either. It is a
subject of general and just complaint that
the most weighty and important questions
usually receive a degree of discussion in the inverse
ratio of that importance and weight. After nights
and even weeks have been consumed on some worth-
less party squabble, or some merely personal differ-
ences between individuals who take a prominent posi-
tion on the Opposition and Ministerial benches—and
the devotion of an almost equal expenditure of the
public time to frivolous charges of grave delinquency
arising out of the inevitable excitement of debate—
the real matters of business are sure to be cushioned
altogether, for the next twelvemonth, or pitchforked
into the Statute-book by dozens in the shape of Acts
of Parliament that are, next year, tolerably certain
to be superseded by other "Acts to explain and amend"
them. About a month before the anticipated ad-
journment or prorogation of Parliament it is always
discovered, that there is business enough incepted to
occupy fur its proper investigation and completion
the whole of at least one entire Session. Ministers,
reduced to a state of extreme difficulty between their
anxiety to pass some Bills which they have carefully
framed in order to carry out their own views, and
the necessity for pushing forward to their ultimate
stages, without delay of any kind, those annual and
other money bills, indispensable to the transaction of
the public service—throw overboard the former class,
with as little compunction as a Brazilian slaver,
hotly chased, disperses all its human cargo to the
waves and the winds. But the same Ministers col-
lect, classify, drive on, goad, and bring up to their
destined point of third readings and royal assents
the whole of the latter class, with an impartiality of
purpose, and an inflexibility of vigilance, that would
do honour to a detachment of Cossacks, superintend-
ing, on behalf of the Emperor of Russia, one of his
Imperial Majesty's "grand operations" of internal
policy—such as the transfer of the whole community
of the Russian Jews to the banks of the Don, or the
removal of one-third of the Polish nation into the
territory of Siberia. If a guide, or a guard, an
officer or a superintendent, drops or dies on
the road—no matter ; the first convenient man
to be found is thrust into his place.
The commander charged with the duty knows full
well that the task he is to discharge is to hand over,
and get an acknowledgment for, at the end of his
long march, a certain number of human beings, who
must be certified by the authorities receiving them to
have been brought under an escort composed of so
many officers, and such a troop or detachment. In
like manner, if the Chancellor of the Exchequer, or
the Home Secretary, or the First Lord of the Ad-
miralty, or the Attorney or Solicitor-General, or
the Vice-President of the Board of Trade, or the
Secretary to the Treasury, discover, in the middle
of June, some essential deficiency, some blunder,
or o,nission, or technical error, in a departmental
Bill of his introducing, he puts the unfortunate Bill
horsde combat without ceremony, by "moving to dis-
charge the order of the day upon it." The measure
thus knocked out of the ministerial rank and file Bills,
in their march upwards to the foot of the throne,
which they are to reach, say on the last day of the
session, is replaced by what is called a " short Bill."
This is drilled and disciplined with surprising expedi-
tion through all the various grades of first, second,
and third readings, in both Houses, in the short
space of two or three evenings ; and, after a short
delay for other company, comes up to be presented
to the SOVEREIGN, with a regiment of fifty
others, for her royal assent, with all the external
attributes of a Bill that had gone through the regular
period of probation. The results of this system are
found by long experience to be most injurious to the
public interests. It is difficult to say at what point
the evils of this crude and hurried legislation exhaust
themselves. They are felt long after their cause and
origin are forgotten, and it is usually the employ-
ment of a third of the time occupied by any session
to correct, and if possible to remedy the defects—
the "short-comings," and the mistakes into which
the legislative sagacity of its predecessor has been be-
trayed by this slovenly precipitation.
Whether we regard the number or amount, or the
vast importance of the questions now pending in the
House of Commons, we must express our mos

anxious solicitude that this long established but mis

chievous precedent of " getting through (as it is
called) the sessional business," may be abandoned in
1845. The enormous interests involved in new lines
of railroad in all their associations, and the stupendous
aggregate of the capital invested in those, even alone,
which are now before Parliament; the new proposi-
tions for simplifying the law of parochial settlement;
for regulating and ',reforming (or deteriorating as it

may be) the medical profession; the present condition and
aspect of our foreign relations, and especially those
which regard our territorial negotiations with the

United States; the scheme of Sir R. PEEL for

stopping the further growth of Scotland's prosperity

by putting down her small-note circulation; the
incidental necessity connected with this scheme

for again examining the actual condition and ten

dencies of our own monetary system, as it exists

under' the Acts of 1819 and 1844 ; the progress

made in our steam armament, and in increasing
and extending the general efficiency of our

navy ; these, and a- prodigious number of fiscal,

commercial—aye, and of social questions, are, each

and all of them, pressing for full and mature discus-
sion, under circumstances of almost unparalleled inte-

rest and exigency. The public mind is profoundly
occupied with them ; and the future welfare of the
country may be said to depend on their deliberate
but early examination and adjustment. They cannot,
with reason or deeencT, be further evaded or post-
poned, still less cati'they be permitted to run through
the forms of Parliament, in unexamined sections,
and to be, at the eleventh hour, swamped, or em-
bodied in statutes, en masse.

gerous civil broils, so much good sense, and so
much Christian charity from any writer;
and coming from a Churchman and a Con-
servative, their value at the present moment is
doubly enhanced. The approaching contest with
America, and it cannot be long delayed, adds one
reason more for the final settlement of Ireland. Let
England yield in time to the dictates of justice and
mercy, and not be forced, as hitherto, to make reluo-

tant concessions, which give no satisfaction to the re-
ceiver and lowers the national dignity of the giver,
for, says the able writer, "if any menacing cloud
begins to blacken the horizon, if any storm appears
brewing on the side of America, or France, Ireland
rejoices. She has not forgotten the memorable words
of GRATTAN, That the weakness of England is the

strength of Ireland;' and experience has shown, that
when England's fears are thoroughly awakened,
there is no concession that may not be extorted from
her in some moment of difficulty and danger."

BANDEIRA had again come forward as a public cha-
racter, and with Count DE MELLO and some others,
was organising a strong opposition to the CA-
nr.AL Ministry. The Chamber of Deputies had re-
sumed its sittings, and the Committee appointed to
examine the financial plans of the Government had
made a favourable report. The discussion on the
Budget was fixed for the 26th.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Royal Tar, has arrived with the Peninsular Mails
with intelligence to Gibraltar to the'22d of March,
Lisbon the 25th, and OPorto the 26th. Political af-
fairs st Lisbon presented little vaxiety. Viscount

Madrid journals of the 23d and 24th have been re
ceivel, but they are destitute of news.

The Bourse opened on Saturday, the 22d,
and the following are the quotations of Spanish
Stock :—The Three per Cents. left off at 341 for
cash, and 35 at 60 days ; the Five per Cents. at 251
for cash, and 26 1-16 at 60 days ; the Coupons at 281
for the 28th inst.

The proceedings which took place in the Chamber
of Deputies last week on the Customs' Bill shows that
any improvement in the commercial system of France
at present is utterly hopeless. The majority—we
may say all—of the representatives of the people, with
exceptions that hardly deserve notice, are a century
behind the age, and adhere with the most impertur-
bable pertinacity to high duties and prohibition as the
perfection of commercial legislation. The duties on
oleaginous seeds furnished an excellent subject for the
display of this bigoted spirit. The present duty on
sesame is 21 francs the 100 killogrammes. A Member
from the north proposed to raise the duty to 5 francs.
The Minister of Commerce reluctantly consented, but
that was only one-half of what other Members wanted.
M. GARNIER PAGES proposed Bf. M. D'ARBLAY
outbid him, and proposed 10f., which the Chamber
almost unanimously adopted, thus raising the
duty on an article from Egypt four hundred per cent.
This is a melancholy exhibition, and will not at all
tend to raise the character of French legislators in
the eyes of their friend MEHEMET ALT. The same
feeling prevailed in reference to duties on foreign
machinery, which were raised on several articles.
The Member for Rouen moved an amendment to
raise the amount of duty paid on foreign linen and
cotton threads, and that, probably, would have been
carried but, for the interposition of the Minister of
Commerce, who requested the Chamber to postpone
their decision till the tulle manufacturers were con-
sulted. The tax on Swedish iron amounts nearly to
prohibition, and it was proposed to modify the duties,
as French iron is badly fitted for machinery, but the
patriotic motion was rejected, and France, therefore,
must rest satisfied with machinery for her steam-
vessels and carrying on her manufactures inferior to
those used in every part of the world, solely for the
advantage of a small portion of the population. This
is actual suicide, and precisely what the enemies of
France wish. England may well be proud of the
vast step towards free trade and the total abolition of
useless restriction, which has been almost unani-
mously sanctioned by her representatives this session.
In the Chamber of Peers the discussion on Count
DARE'S motion, relative to jobbing in railway com-
panies, was renewed on Friday, and ultimately re-
jected. Ministers have been more lucky than usual
in the appointment of Committees for the month of
April, having obtained eight members out of the nine.
This result is considered of vast importance, as these
Committees have to report on the vote of 17,500,000 f.
for arming the fortifications of Paris. The Opposi-
tion journals are highly incensed against the vote, and
openly assert that the " Chateau" is the sole cause of
this inroad upon liberty. The Reform thus writes
on the subject :
" The fortifications of Paris have been erected against
the liberties of France, and not against foreigners. This
is a fact so obvious, that it would be losing one's time to
attempt to demonstrate it to those who still affect to doubt
it. The fortifications of Paris are menacing Paris, but
once armed, Paris is enslaved, In proposing,to arm the
forts our rulers call on France to declare if she is tired of
the representative government, and ready to bow to an
ignominieus despotism. The Ministry, we are told, has
lost its senses, arid the Chamber has only to pronounce
its interdiction. The Ministry, we maintain, is fully
conscious of its acts—it is the system that is pre-
paring to pronounce the interdiction of its adversaries.
Ministers obey the dictates of him who fostered them,
and directed their entire conduct during the last four
years. Supported by a doubtful majority, placed in pre-
sence of an assembly in which there is no majority cer-
tain for anybody, the Cabinet wishes to obtain from a
Chamber whose fate was sealed by the vote on the Ad-
dress, an act of extreme weakness ; they think they may
expect anything from those who granted an indemnity
to Mr. Pritchard. It is their last obsession at the bed-
side of a dying power, it is a will extorted in extremis.
We are told that the Ministry hesitated a long time
before embarking in an undertaking so difficult ; after
sustaining so many defeats on secondary questions, to
raise one that may prove their destruction, is, it is
alleged, the height of imprudence. We say that they
are obeying an imperious necessity."
Some of the other journals use the same strong
language. The Courrier Francais thus deseribes
the extent of the fortifications, and the enormous
number of guns required to mount them :
" The continuous line of the fortifications contains
94 fronts and the detached forts 93, in all 178 fronts.
Each front, consisting of two half curtains and a bastion,
requires for its defence twenty pieces of artillery, or for
the 187 fronts 3,640 guns. As each gun is to be sup-
plied with ammunition for 600 rounds, the war depart-
ment will have to provide 2,184,000 cannon balls and up-
wards of 25,000,000 killograrnmes (25,000 tons) of gun •
powder. The 17,000,000 f. demanded by Marshal Soult
will consequently comprise but a portion of the expense
necessary for the complete armament of the fortifications
of Paris:"
The following telegraphic dispatch had been re-
ceived by the French Government :---
" PERPIGNAN, MARCH 25, 9 P.M.
"LIEUTENANT-GENERAL LAMORICIERE TO THE MINISTER
OF WAR.
"BIVOUAC OF SIDI-BE L-ABBES, 20r et.
"The Convention for fixing the frontiers between Al-
geria and Morocco was signed the day before yesterday.
MI the conditions stipulated by General Delarue have
been acceded to by the Morocco Commissioner. The
interview was attended with great solemnity. The
numerous escort of Si Hamida showed the most ami-
cable dispositions. The news of this happy solution has
already produced a vod effect in the country. Si
Hamida has announced that, by order of the Emperor,
he is about to march against the Emir, and that his
movements will be combined with those of a body of troops
arriving by the Rif."
The accounts from Switzerland are still unsatisfac-
tory. The following intelligence to the 26th appears
in the Constitutionnel :
" The intelligence which we received yesterday from
Switzerland announces that the invasion projected by the
refugees of Lucerne to overturn the Government was to
take place on the night of March 26. For this purpose,
continual envoys of fresh refugees were arriving on the
territory of Argau, where the insurrectional committee
furnished them with arms and ammunition, which ap-
peared to be in abundance. It was said that they had
been able to procure several -pieces of artillery.
Numerous defections were reckoned on amongst
the troops which the Government would oppose
to them. This prospect had even acquired
in the eyes of the commander-in-chief of
these troops such a degree of importance, that at Zurich,
Berne, and Argau his resignation was expected. This
officer (General Sonneberg) is the only military man of
real ability which the Government of Lucerne can op-
pose to the insurrectionary troops. On the other side, a
report was current that the refugees were to be com-
manded by the head of the federal staff, an officer who
had made the last campaign of the empire, and who be-
fore deciding on taking this command, had, it is said,
sent in his resignation as colonel-federal, a grade
corresponding in Switzerland to that of general
of division, or general of brigade, according to the
length of service. If this intelligence should be con-
firmed, all the chances would be in favour of the
army of invasion, looking at the ardour and hope with
which it is animated, and its confidence in the incon-
testable capacity of the leader commanding it. The re-
fugees intend occupying a secondary town in the canton
of Lucerne, in order from thence to proceed on the
capital, of which the greater part of the population is
hostile to the present regime. The co-operation of some
free corps appeared to be altogether secondary, in pre-
sence of the support which is found in the numerous de-
sertions that had just reinforced the insurrectionary
troops. It was stated at Zurich on the 25th that M.
Siegwart, deputy of Lucerne, had come to solicit the as-
sistance of the directory ; but that this authority had
decided to place only a battalion on foot, leaving to the
Grand Council, which is going to meet, the care of pro-
nouncing on the ulterior destination of this force."

THE BOURSE--SAavaDAY, MARCH 29.
First llirhest Lowest Last
Price. Price. Price. Price.
French Five per Cents..... 117 75 •• 117 90 .. 117 M .. 117 85
Fours •••• •• •••••• •• 107 .• 107 .. 101 .. 107
Three, per Cents.... 85 60 .. 85 60 65 60 85 80
Loan ••••••••• •• •• 86 40 •• 86 40 •• 86 40 .. 85 40
Bank of Prance •• •• •• •• •• 3200 • •A2OO ••3:01 .•0309
Gouin Rank. I,ooof Share 3 • • 1035
—lOll5 • .1060 • .1085
Belgian Bank .••• • • • • ..... eto .. 670 • • 670 .. 670
Belgian Fives, 1840— •• •• •• 104% •• 104% •• 104% .. 104%
1842•••••••• 107 .. 107 .• 107 .. 107
Four-and-a-Ilalf ..• .. 103% .. 103% .. 103%
Dutch Two anti-a-Ha1f..... 64
.. 643 i .. 64 . 643,,
Spanish Active •••• •••• •• 4) • • 40 .. 4) •• 40
Three 3 ••••••• • • • •• 41 • • 41 .. 41 . • 41
Portuguese Fire per Cents.. ccyl 6G3 60
Neapolitan •••• •• 102 .. 102 .. 102 .. 102
Roina.n .•• •• •••• •••••••• •• 10514 .• 106 .. 105% ..
RAILWAY SHARES.
St. Germain •••••• ...... ••1205 ••1210 .•1205 ••1210
Versailles, R.B• ••• •. ...... 640 .. 640 .• 640 .• G4O
L.B•• •• •• • ..... 407 50 . 407 50 .. 402 50
.• 40
Rouen • • • • • • •• •• • • • • • • • • • •11452 60
• 150 1145 ..1150
Ronan to Havre..,......... 975
.• 9 ..M
-. 975
Orleans •• • •• ••1320 •
-1325 ..1317 .. 975
50 ••1321 25
Strasburg to Bale•••••••••• 340 •• 341 25 .• 338 75 .• 341 25
Avignon to Marseilles.... ..1:40 ..1140 ..1135 . 1}35
RAILWAYS FOR TUE ACCOUNT, APRIL 3. •
erina111.••.•..........1205 ..1210 ..1205 •1210

Meetings have been held in some parts of the coun
try to oppose any additional grant of public money to
the College of Idaynooth; but no rational being can

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 31, 1845.

Versailles, R. H.....• ••• • • 640 .. 650 .. G4O .. 645
L. 8.. •• • .
Rouen •• • • .• ••.•• • • • •
Rouen to Havre. •••••• •• • • 955 975 • • 965 .. 975
0r1ean5...... ••••.• • • 1320 ..1325 ..1315 ..1323 75
Strasburg to Bale •• .
Avignon to Marseilles ••.• • • 1122 50 . • 1140 .. 1122 50 ..1132 50

THIS DAY'S NEWS.

ADJOURNED GENERAL LICENS-
ING MEETING FOR THE CITY.—(THIS DAY.)
This morning the adjourned licensing meeting for the
City of London was held at Guildhall, fir the granting
licenses to new houses. The Lord Mayor in the chair.
Aldermen Sir John Pirie, Sir P. Laurie, Farncombe,
Hooper, Challis, Hughes, and Moon. Several licenses
were renewed to persons who had forfeited them by non-
attendance in proper time at the last Court, and they
wero admonished to be more careful in future. The
following new licenses were then applied for:—
For the White Bear, Bishopsgate-street, re-opened--
granted.

- For the Dark House, Darkhouse-lane, Thames-street,
for removal of the license to ra house in Thames-street.
Mr. Clarkson opposed it on behalf of the rector, church-
wardens, and inhabitants, on the ground that the Dark
House was a night house for the accommodation of the
fishermen coming up with the brats and persons at-
tending the market, and that the removal would create a
great nuisance.—Application refused.
For Grady's Coffee-house, 34, Bw:klersbury, second
application.—Granted.

For Careless's Coffee house, Finch-lane.—Refused.
For a new house the corner of New Farringdon-street.
—Refused, there being twenty-two licensed houses in
the immediate vicinity.
IMPORTANT CASE.—By Ralph Fellowes, for a license
to a new house, the corner of Bride-lane. The
applicant is also the occupier of the Crown, in Fleet-
street.

The application was supported by the parochial au.
thorities of St. Bride's and several licensed victuallers.

Sir PETER LAURIE said he had seen the house, and
should support the application, as he considered it was
much more to the public interest to have houses in a
public place than up courts and alleys.
Mr. CLARKSON said that the applicant had been in-
solvent three times within seven years, and had once
been remanded for six months, and again for eight
months. This being proved,
Sir PETER LAURIE said, he should, under such cir-
cumstances, refuse his consent, and vote against the man,
though not against the house.
The original license to the Crown, which stands up a
court, was granted to the application, but the extension
refused.

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY,

CORN EXCHANGE-MONDAY.

During the past week large arrivals of English Wheat,
coastwise as well as by land-carriage, and samples were re-
ported for our market, while of Irish Oats upwards of 55,000
quarters came to hand. Of other kinds of grain the receipts
were by no means extensive. From Essex and Lincolnshire
a fair average quantity of Wheat came to hand, hence the
stands were rather heavily filled with parcels of both Red
and White. Notwithstanding we had a large number of
buyers in attendance, the demand for all descriptions of
Wheat of home growth was extremely dull, at a decline in
the currencies paid on Monday last, of is per quarter, and a
large quantity was left unsold at the close of business.
The accounts which have reached us this morning,
from various parts of the country, relative to the ap-
pearance of the wheat plants, are very satisfactory.
The show of free Foreign Wheat was on the increase ; hence
the trade for that article was much depressed, and previous
rates were with difficulty maintained. Bonded Grain almost
nominal in value. Of Barley, the supply was rather limited,
yet the demand for all except the best Malting parcels, which
were quite as dear, was in a very sluggish state, at last week's
figures. Superfine Malt supported previous rates. In other
kinds next to nothing was doing. The supply of Oats being
unusually large, that article was a mere drug, and quite is
per quarter lower than on Monday last. Beans and Peas
were in slow inquiry, at unaltered currencies. The Flour
trade was again dull. Most kinds of Seeds were in sluggish
request, at about stationary prices.

CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE.
Wheat—Essex & Kent, Malt—Chevalier • • • • .. 64s to 65s
Red .
Ditto, White.... • • 428 54s Lincohish., Feed. 22s 23s
Norfolk and Liu- Potatoe 248 25s
coin, Red... • . 38s 43s Youghall and Cork,
Ditto, White...... 403 47s Black ..... • • 20s 22s
Irish, Red
Ditto, White.. • -s —s Scotch, Feed. •• • • 22s 23s
Rye—Old ..... ....... 30s 34s Beans—Tick.
New........... • . 35s 36s Pigeons ...... .• • • 38s 39s
Barley—Grinding .•• • • 27s 30s Pease—Grey . .... •• • • 34s 36s
Malting . .... • ... 338 35s Maple. ••• • • •
Chevalier
Malt—Sufrolk. and Nor- Boilers ..... ••• • • 36s 38s
folk .... .... .... 588 63s Flour—Town-made •. • 42s —s
Brown ........... 368 60s Suffolk ••••• • • • • • 338 35s
Kingston and Ware 60s —s Stocktn & Norfolk 23s 35s
FOREIGN GRAIN AND FLOUR IN BOND.
Wheat—Dantzic.. •• 328 to 36s Beans ..... ..... ..... 24s to 29s
llamburgh
Barley
Oats—Now ....... •
Feed •• • •
SMITHFIELD,
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Compared with those of several previous weeks, the im-
ports of live stock for our markets, since Monday last, have
been somewhat limited, they not having exceeded 37 oxen
and 12 cows, all from Holland. The number on sale con-
sisted of only 15 oxen and cows, but the whole of them were
of full average quality ; indeed, we may observe, that
scarcely any of them were out of condition. The demand
for them ruled steady, at prices varying from 14/ lOs to 18/
lOs per head, at which figures the whole found buyers. The
supply of Beasts from our own grazing counties was less, by
nearly 300, than that exhibited on this day se'nnight, and we
arc happy to observe that that description of stock was less
afflicted with the so-long-complained-of epidemic than was
the case on that day. Still, several losses have again oc-
curred on the roads. On the whole, there was a slight im-
provement in the demand for the primest Scots and Home-
breds, which sold at from 3s 10d to 4s per 81bs ; but all
other kinds were extremely inactive, at barely late rates,
while a general clearance was not effected. The bullock
droves from Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire,
were composed of 1,800 Scots and Homebreds. From the
northern grazing districts we received about 200 short-
horns ; from the western and midland counties, 400 Devons,
Runts, Herefords, &c. ; from other parts of England, 200 of
various kinds ; and, from Scotland, 110 horned and polled Scots.
The numbers of Sheep were somewhat on the increase, par-
ticularly those out of the wool. Prime Old Downs mostly
sold at previous currencies ; but all other kinds had a dew-
ward tendency. A large portion of the Kents and Leicesters
were in demand. From the Isle of Wight were received 135
Lambs per railway ; while the receipts from Essex, Kent,
Hampshire, and other quarters were seasonably good.
The Lamb trade was rather inactive at Friday's reduced
currencies. The supply of Calves was small, yet the Veal
trade ruled heavy, at a decline of from 2d to 4d per 8 lb. on
last Monday's figures. The Pork trade was very dull, and
the prices were 2d per 8 lb lower.