The Sun.
London, England, 1845-04-15 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 15, 1845.

351 at sixty days ; the Five per Cents. at 25i at sixty
days ; and the Debt, without interest, at 81 for cash, and
8A at sixty days.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
There was no change in the Cotton market at Liverpool
-yesterday. The sales were 6,000 bales, including 600 bales
of American for export. The crop is reckoned in the ac-
counts from the United States, per Cambria, at 24 to 21/2
millions of bales, and the receipts into the cot-
ton ports had been large. A good business was
done in Shares, at improving rates : - Aberdeen
Railway, 54 ; Barnsley Junction, 8% 1/2 ; Ditto, Half
Shares, 4%; Birkenhead, Manchester, and Cheshire,
14% 151/2 ; Birmingham and Gloucester, 139 ; Ditto, New
Shares, 4% ; Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton, 554 ;
Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool, 14% ; Caledonian, l3ln. 1/2 ;
Cambridge and Lincoln, 91/4 10 ; Chester and Birkenhead,
50 1/2 ; Ditto, New Shares, 454 % ; Ditto, Half Shares, 254 ;
Chester and Holyhead, 111/2 %; Churnet Valley, 101/ 114 ;
Clitheroe Junction, 5 414 ; Cork and Waterford, 3 ; Coventry
and Nuneaton, 3% ; Coventry and Leicester, 2% ; Dublin
and Belfast Junction, 10% ; Dublin and Galway, 5% ; Dublin,
Mullingar, and Athlone, 735. 6d. ; Dundalk and Enniskillen,
86s. 3d. 41/2 ; Eastern Counties, 21% ; • Ditto, Perpetual,
No. 1, 53% ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 62 62% ; Edinburgh
and Northern, 2% ; Ely and Bedford, 61s. 6d.-; Glasgow and
Dumfries, 11. Bs. 1/. 6s. ; Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock,
18%; Ditto, Half Shares, 9%; Grand Junction, 225 ; Ditto,
Half Shares, 113 ; Ditto, New Quarters, 4414 ; Great
Southern and 'Western Extension, 111/2 12 ; Goole and
Doncaster, 11/2 ; Huddersfield Canal and Railway, 4.38 ;
Huddersfield and Sheffield, 81/4 i ; Inverness and Elgin,
445. 21/4 ; Kendal and Windermere, 5; Limerick and Water-
ford, 6% ; Liverpool and Manchester, New Shares, 373/138 ;
Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 3% 3 ; London and Bir-
mingham, 32/. Shares, 45; Londonderry and Enniskillen, 3 ;
London and York, 3% Bs. 9d. ; Direct Northern, 5% ;
Leeds and Think, 5 995. ; Leeds and West Riding Junction,
71/ ; Lynn and Dereham, 565. 6d. ; Lynn and Ely, 63i ;
Manchester and Buxton, 5% 6 ; Manchester, Sheffield, and
Midland Junction, 10 ; Midland Railway, 15514 34 ; Ditto,
40/. Shares, 1914 % ; Ditto, Fifth Shares, 795. ;-
_Newry and
Enniskillen, 5 3s. 6d. ; North British, 19% ; Ditto, Half
Shares, 5% ; North Wales Mineral, 15% ; Ditto, New
Shares, 5% ; North Western, 4 ; North Wales, 334 ;
Oxford and Birmingham Junction, 4 ; Oxford, Worcester,
and Wolverhampton, 2 ; Preston and Wvre, 33%2 ; Sheffield
and Manchester, 1251/2 ; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 15% ;
Sheffield and Lincoln, 1/. 9s. ; Shrewsbury, Oswestry,
and Cheshire, 4%; South-Eastern and Dover, New Shares,
No. 1, 16%; Ditto, No. 2, 11% ; Ditto, No. 3,8% 8%;
South Wales, 6%7 ; Trent -% alley, 19%; Ditto,
4% 5 ; West Yorkshire, 414 ; 'Wexford and Carlow, 4;
Worcester and Tring, 4/. 16s. 3d. ; Whitehaven and Furness,
4 1/2 ; Yarmouth, Diss, and Beccles, ; York and North
Midland, New Half Shares, 1614; Austrian and Sardinian,
Bs. ; Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Cette, 2/. 13s. 6d.; Lyons and
Avignon (English), 2% ; Northern of France (English),
5/. 163.; Ditto, Rosamers, (English), 2% 2!. 1 ls. ; Paris and
Lyons, English, (Laffitte's), 3% 3 ; Paris and Lyons,
(Ganneron's), 2/. 16s. 234 •, Ditto (Calon's), 2/. 2s. ; Paris and
St. Quentin, 2/. 3s. 6d. ; Sambre and Meuse, 9; Verona and
Ancona, 11. 17s.
Papers and letters, dated as late as January 4, have come
to hand this morning from Sydney, and indirectly to the
15th of December from Hobart Town. Besides this there
is an arrival from Adelaide, South Australia, with advices
of the 11th ultimo. The intelligence brought is not of par •
fielder importance, but we learn from Sydney that there
was some derangement in the exchanges, on account of the
discount charged for bills on England; and that wool had
receded in consequence. The caution exercised just now by
shippers in the mother country has the effect of reducing the
indebtedness of the colonists; and it appears, therefore, that
th it staple is worth less at Sydney, allowing for freight and
charges, than it is here.
The wine trade has been recently agitated by failures, and
now the silk trade suffers, two well-known houses having
suspended. One of them having failed a year or two since,
it is very naturally a matter for surprise how it could so soon
again have got into extensive credit, and have such large
liabilities.
The Stock market is firm, and there has been a fair busi-
ness doing. Consols realise 994 for Money, and 99% for
the 27th May, the new account day. Exchequer-bills have
been 575. to 595. premium. Bank Stock has been 209% to
2D%; but India Stock has gone back to 276% and 276.
The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have been
1011/2 to 14.
The Foreign Stocks, though quiet, are well maintained.
Spanish Five per Cents. have been 304 %, and the Passive
7%; Portuguese Converted have been 65% for Transfer, and
66% for Account ; Mexican Bonds have been 364 ; and
Brazilian, 87 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. have been
631%.

MEETING IN FAVOUR OF THE
GRANT TO MAYNOOTII.-(THIS DAY.)

The French Chamber of Peers have passed the Bill
for mitigating slavery in the colonies by a majority of
103 to 59. This is a large minority, when it is consi-
dered how small the boon is which the unfortunate slave
is to receive. But something more will be done. Slavery
cannot long exist in the French West India colonies
amidst those of England, where liberty prevails. The
Paris press too, generally, is favourable to the measure,
and it is understood that a proposition of the Duke
D'HARCOURT, for granticg a certain sum out of the
Treasury to enable slaves of good character to purchase
their liberty, :will be brought forward in the Chamber
of Deputies.
The accounts from Zurich are to the 10th inst., on
which day the Diet was to meet. In the meantime the
Commission bad made a report, recommending the Fe-
deral Commissioners to give efficacy to the resolutions
agreed to by the Diet against the free eorps, and for the
preservation of the public peace, insisting especially that
the refugees from Liu eine shall not fix their resi-
dences within a given distance cf that canton ; and, in
the second place, the Vorort is called upon to see the re-
solution regarding the free corps executed in all the
cantons, and to make a report on the subject at the next
extraordinary Diet. The Catholic cantons had held a
general council at Lucerne, and a general amnesty had
been granted to all persons under twenty years of age.
M. GL-ZoT had addressed another note to the Count
DE PONTOIS, French ambassador to the Cantons, in
which be states that the KING'S Government is anxious
to maintain the independence of Switzerland, whilst at
the same time it must protest against revolution or a
civil war. The following are the only contents of the
note of the slightest interest :
"So far from wishing, by the conduct that I prescribed on the
3d of this month to the King's Ambassador, to affect this inde-
pendence in the slightest manner; our intention was to offer
Switzerland a fresh proof of our esteem. if anything could corn.
promise the external situation, as well as the internal prosperity of
Switzerland, it would be the breaking out of civil war and anarchy
in her bosom. Was it a normal and regular state of things that
the violent action of troops, illegally armed and raised, should
endeavour, in the canton of Lucerne, to impose by violence their
will on a legally constituted Government? Is the revolution
accomplished in the canton of Vaud, by insurrection and mate-
rial force, a normal and regular state of things ? Should not the
friends of Switzerland see in such facts an imminent danger,
not only for the peace and security of the country, but even for
the existence of the Confederation, so unfortunately affected in
the inviolability of its compact and the sovereignty of its cantons.
As long as the question of the Jesuits was discussed regularly and
pacifically in the cantons, the King's Government, faithful to the
principles which have always guided it, abstained from any mani.
festation ; but when the gravity of the situation revealed itself by
disorders that affected the whole of Europe, the French Govern.
meat deemed it their sacred duty to call the most serious attention
of the Diet to perils as evident as they were grave; and it con.
jured it, in a friendly manner, to take prompt and efficacious
measures for remedying the evil, to prevent renewed attempts, and
re-assure at the same time both Switzerland and Europe. These
are the affectionate and disinterested motives which have alone
guided the King's Government."

A numerous and respectable meeting of English Roman Catholics
was held this day at the Freemasons' Tavern, Great Queen. street,
for the purpose of petitioning Parliament in favour of the grant to
Maynooth College. The meeting was convened by an advertise.
ment, bearing the names of the Earl of Arundel and Surrey, Lord
Shrewsbury, Lord Camoys, Lord Beaumont, Lord Stourton, Lord
Petre, Lord Stafford, and Messrs. Charles Langdale, Edward Petre,
H. V. Stafford Jerningham, and John Towneley, M.P., most of
whom were observed amongst the gentlemen on the platform.
The chair was taken a few minutes before twelve by the Earl of
Arundel and Surrey, on the motion of Lord Camoys, seconded by
Lord Beaumont.

The CHAIRMAN, previous to opening the business of the meeting,
stated that he had received a communicatiln from that venerable
nobleman, Lord Stafford, who expressed regret that he would not
be able to attend on that occasion. Lord Shrewsbury, the Noble
Chairman added, was also unable to attend.

Mr. LANGLEY, the Secretary, read the following letter from
Lord Shre vsbury. He did not place it in the hands of the Noble
Chairman, because he was afraid the Noble Earl would abstain
from reading the concluding part of the note:—

"Alton Towers, April 13, i 845.
" Dear Mr. Langdale.—Unable to attend the:meeting which you
have been good enough to inform me is colivened for Tuesday
next, I beg you will have the goodness to express my great regret
at the circumstance, as well as my most cordial assent to the
meeting's objects and Intentions ; and upon this point I need not
say more than express my perfect and heartfelt oincurrence :r, the
sentiments so ably and honestly expressed by your noble chairman
in his place in Par lament on Friday last.—l remain, dear -Mr.
Langdale, very truly and faithfully, yours

" SHREWSBURY."
The Noble CHAIRMAN then proceeded to introduce the imme-
diate business of the meeting. He said—Gentlemen, we have
met here for the purpose of expressing our sympathy on the oe.
casion of a measure of great benefit being brought forward b; her
Majesty's Government, for the relief of our Catholic brethren in
Ireland.—(Cheers.) Gentlemen, for nearly fifty years, the nursery
of the Irish Catholic clergy has been the College of Maynooth,
furnishing almost the entire number of the clergy in Ireland.
Gentlemen, I intend, very briefly, to lay before you the reason of
our meeting here to-day. It is not, however, my intention to enter
into a defence of the much-maligned Maynooth, because the
pure and spotless character of the Irish Catholic clergy is too well
known to need any defence from me.—(Loud cheers.
Her Majesty's Government, with avers, liberal and generous feeling,
and a very liberal and generous speech on the part of the Prime
Minister, have introduced a measure which has been received
with ecstacy in Ireland from one end to the other. Feeling, as we
do, a strong sympathy with our fellow Catholic subjects in Ireland,
it would not be decent, it would not be becoming, if we did not
now come forward to show that we sympathise with them;
and for that purpose, and with that view, we have met here to-
day to petition Parliament that the Bill, which has already made
some progress, may be passed into a law. For that purpose a
series of resolutions has been prepared, which Noble Lords and
gentlemen will have the honour of laying before you for your con.
sideration and approval. Gentlemen, I will not detain you further
than to say I am happy to see so numerous and respectable a meet-
ing. I will therefore conclude by calling upon my Lord Camoys
to move the first resolution.
Lord Casmes said he last year had the honour of presiding at a
meeting of the English Catholics for the purposcof expressing their
disapprobation of the course pursued by the Government towards
the Irish Roman Catholics, and now V ey were met to display their
approbation in favour of the present Administration, in
consequence of the measure now proposed for the
benefit of the Roman Catholics of Ireland.—(Hear, hear.)
But they could not help at the same time expressing their re-
gret that there should be a necessity for disapproving of the feel-
ing which has been excited in England against this Bill. They
confounded a grant for the education of the people of Ireland with
a grant to the priesthood. He himself was in favour of the vo.
luntary principle.—(Cheers.) It was argued also against this Bill,
that it was a violation of conscientious feeling; it was not that
feeling which prompted them to oppose this measure—it was an
intolerant spirit towards the Church of Rome—(Hear)—and au ig-
norance of its tenets that brought forth this display of intolerance
and bigotry. Why did they feel a scruple in supporting this grant now,
when that principle, if it were a principle, was long since violated,
by their paying the Roman Catholic clergymen out of the public
funds, for teaching the paupers in the poor-houses in Ireland ?
(Cheers.) It was also argued that the English should nor contri.
bute to the support of an estabishment to educate the clergy of
the Roman Catholics in Ireland. He would ask who had a bet-
ter right to support the clergy, than those who had long
since plundered the Roman Catholics "of Ireland ?—(Cheers.)
What would they say if they found establishments without at-
tendants ? They would rejoice that they were not Englishmen to
share in such a disgrace. One word as to the policy of this grant.
He did not think that there ever had been a majority in either
House of Parliament which was not in favour of this grant—and
it was good policy to unite the strength of the whole country to
preserve domeatie peace and defy foreign invasion. But if there
was one thing that excited the gratitude of the country
it was the way in which the greet was made, and Sir
Robert Peel might feel assured that he would not be
disappointed in his expectations of the readiness with which the
Irish people would acknowledge the benefit lie had conferred.
Other concessions had been made, but they had been trammelled
with conditions which took away from the value of the boon ; but
in this instance the Premier had had the wisdom and the goodness
to confer this grant without a condition which impeded the ad.
vantage, of the gift. Sir R. Peel might be assured that such
a grant as this would excite a different feeling, and if he accom-
panied her Majesty as he (Lord Camoys) hoped he would
accompany her, he would find the grateful exclamation
of the people for himself mix with the plaudits for her Majesty.
The people of Ireland were aware of their value in the British
empire—they had rights, and those rights they were deterielled
to obtain, and if they did not obtain them the people of this
cauntry oppressed and wronged them. And in the lines of
Captain Rock, he might say :
" As long as millions shall kneel down
To ask of thousands for their own—
So long as thousands turn away,
And to the millions answer nay,
So long the merry reign shall be
Of Captain Rock and his family."
With these remarks he would move the first resolution i—
" That the English Catholics in communion with all of every
nation of the Holy Catholic Church in communion with the See
of Rome, are deeply interested in whatever affects any portion of
the visible church of Christ on earth, whether for good or evil.
That if they regard even the most distant and widely separated of
their holy church with such feelings of affection and brotherhood,
how much stronger is the claim of their Irish Catholic fellow.
subjects upon their sympathy and interest,"
His Lordship sat down amid loud and protracted cheering.
The Rev. Mr. SLOE, after plying a comp iment to the Chair-
man, said that he had read the excellent speech of Mr. Macaulay,
in which he reprobated the shabbiness with which the grant to the
Irish Church had hitherto been made. Now he (Mr. Sisk) felt
that this grant was not a concession to the Roman Catholics, but
a first acknowledgment of the rights which they possessed—a
sprinkling of justice through the long train of injury to which they
had been so long subjected. It should not be forgotten that the
whole population of this country consisted of 24,000,000 of indi.
viduals, and out of these more than 8,000,000 were Roman Catholics,
who bore their share of the taxation of the country, and who were
as good and as faithful subjects of her Majesty as any other portion
of the people. And if the Protestants of this country conceived
that there was any objection to the endowment of the Catholic
Church, the Roman Catholics, with equal truth, objected to the
endowment of the Protestant Church. The Rev. Gentleman then
cited another extract from Mr. Macaulay's speech, in which he com-
pared themunificent endowments of Oxford and Cambridge with the
Do-the-boys Hall, which with scanty and parsimonious niggardliness,
the Parliament had hitherto fancied they had endowed the Ca.
tholics. He (Mr. Sisk) would not follow the bad example of those
who, with a profession of charity on their lips and hypocrisy in their
hearts, vilified the holy religion which the Roman Catholics pro..
fessed, but he would say this, that the Roman Catholic subjects
of this country were behind no body of men in the excellence of
their lives, the extent of their attainments, and the worth of their
principles. The Rev. Gentleman sat down very loudly cheered.
Lord BEAUMONT rose with great pleasure to respond to the call
to move the second resolution :
" That this meeting of the English Roman Catholics having
seen a Bill that has been introduced into Parliament by her Ma-
jesty's Government, which, if passed into a law, will be productive
of great benefit to their Catholic fellow-countrymen in Ireland,
are anxious to express their sincere gratitude to her Majesty's Go.
vernnient for the introstuction of the Bill, and also for the liberal,
kind, and generous feelings expressed on that occasion by the First
Minister of the Crown."
Those who imagined that the grant was simply a vote of some
28,0001. or 110,0001, for the support of the Irish Catholic priesthood
were grievously mistaken. Instead of its being such a vote, it was the
commencement of a series of great measures for bettering the con-
dition of the great body of the people of Ireland, and on that account
it behoved them to use their best endeavours to remove the scruples
and objections of thcopponents of the grant. At the same time he must
confess that he was convinced those persons who opposed it were
sincere in ►heir opposition. He was personally acquainted with
many of them, and he could truly say those he did know
were men of high moral integrity and spotless character.
Nor did they oppose the grant because it v‘rai extravagant in a
pecuniary point of view, but because they believed it was at
variance with the faith they professed. They looked upon the
Roman Catholics as professors of error, ,and were desirous there-
fore sf convincing them of the truth of their own religious prin.
ciples. On the other hand, those noblemen and gentlsnees who
bad called that meeting looked upon the opponents of
the grant as the victims of error. Were they then
to be deterred from doing all they could to obtain this grant ?
Certainly not.• They were acting in accoreance with the dictates
of their own consciences, and their support of the measure was no
more unjust or objectionable than the warm and enthusi-
astic declarations and protests of its opponents.—(Hear, hear.)
He would again read the resoeitiou, and hoped that, whoever would
second it would make use of eny necessary remarks which he might
have omitted. The Noble Lord concluded by proposing the
esolution.
The lion. EDWARD PETER, in seconding the resolution, said
that as he laboured under indisposition he would be excused from
going into those topics alluded to by his Noble Friend who pry
ceded him. Whatever they might think of the voluntary system,
this movement was solely against the religion cf the people of Ire
land. It was nothing but prejudice and calumny that had excited
this opposition ageinst this most beneficial measure. He could
truly say that he would support every measure tl at would tend to
alleviate the wrongs of Ireland, and would tend to cheer its pros-
pects.—(Cheers.)

The French Three pct. Cents. %ere done at TOR
TONI'S on Sunday at 85C 70c.

THIS DAY'S NEWS

CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.)
This being the first day of Easter Term, the Lord Chancellor
entertained the Judges, Masters in Chancery, and Queen's Counsel
to breakfast, at his Lordship's residence in George-street, Hanover.
squt.re. After which his Lordship, accompanied by the Judges.
proceeded in state to Westminster Hall, for the purpose of taking
their seats in their respective Courts. His Lordship took his seat
shortly after one o'clock, accompanied by the Master of the Rolls,
the Vice-Chancellor of England, the Vice-Chancellors Knight
Bruce and Wigram, and Masters Sir Giffin Wilson and Sir
George Rose.

'1 he Share Market has been decidedly quieter, but it is
evident from the firmness of the quotations that this is chiefly
the result of the arrangements fur the settlement.

His Lordship took motions, none of which possessed any points
of interest.

ONE
PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock ..
3 per Cent. Reduced ... 98%,%
3 per Cent. Consols
New 34 per Cents 1014174%14
Long Annuities to expire Jan. 1860 11 7-16 %
Ditto 30 Years, Jan. 5, 1860
India Stock
South Sea Stock
Ditto Old Annuities
Ditto New Annuities . 981%
Consols for Account.... ......
Exchequer Bills, 1,0004, 11/d 59 57 pm. of
Ditto 5001. .
Ditto Small ... 59 57 pm. 57
ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Brazilian Bonds
Chilian Bonds 6 per Cent... • ...., —
Ditto,Deferred —
Columbian Bonds, ex Venezuela —
' Mexican 5 per Cent. 18.37 ......
Ditto, Account —
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent -
Ditto, Converted 651/2 6514
" Ditto. Account ..... ... .....
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840.
Ditto, Account 305/2 30%
Ditto, Passive
Dutch, 2% per Cent
/4
Ditto, Account
Ditto, 4 per Cent., Certific.... 97%1;4 97N3
PRICES OF PAID. CLOSING
. AT ONE O'CLOCK.
RAILWAY SHARES PRICES.
Aberdeen
Armagh, Coleraine, and
Portrush l% 3 2'Xi
Birmin and Gloucester. 100 139 140 138
Ditto % Shares
Bri'ton, Lewes, & :Hest. 10
Bristol and Exeter 7O
Ditto New 2
814
14 ,
Bristol and Gloucester... 30 .......
1629221434 13
Chester a 64
Caledonian
...... . .
..............
..
Cambridgend
Churnet Valley
Coventry, Bedworth, and
and Lincoln 114 5
.....
oNrnuwnaelalton ........ ....a.
304... . 35%%.........
4..........
C
Direct Northern
14iblin and Belfast June 214 914 10 .........
Dublin, Belfast, and
Coleraine
Dublin and Mullingar... 2% 5l; ... ...... ...
Eastern Counties 25 •••••• 21,4 21
...... ..•
Eastern Union l5 .. ..• ............ ..
Ditto Extension
Edinburgh and Glasgow 50_
Ely and Bedford ...... ... 11/4 --...............
Great South. and West.
(Ireland)
Ditto Extension
,-,_
Great Western BO '`..„..187 ............ ... 188
Ditto % Shares 5O lO5 .............. 105
Harwich
1 •••••• 25/8.2 ......... 21,
London and
eai%lvdTßhiirrmdsinghm (52t0c.,.k)...2:34-6, 23.! ........................ 24366
London
ini aannad BBlraicgkh•stveanll 16510. 135... :4.d...
6438! .:.6,...i...................
6448i)144
London and Croydon, 131. Iss. t-41. 18!4 17% ...... 17%
London anti S. Western 41/6s 10d 81% ............ _ 81%
Do. New
London and York ...... ••• 21.2
Manche:ter and Birmin. 40
4 ....., 10 ... ........... 10
Do. Quarters
Midland 100 ..... 159 150.- ......... 158
Do. New
...„. 20% ............ .. 21
Newcastle and Darling-
ton Junct!on
Do. New Brandliug... 10 ...... —_ ............... 32%
Newcastle and Berwick 1% ...... 1614 ............ 1610
Newark and Sheffield ... 1% ...... 6% % ........,•, 6/2
North British
Do. New
North Wales . ll/4 7
..
41 ' '• :5
Rugby, Worstr, & Triug 1 ...... alt / 8
Scott isL Central
•Cottish Midland PA: 4%),
Shrews., Wolverhamp.,
Dudley, and Birm 2l/,. „„ 5 43i...
South Eastern & Dover 33/ 2s 4d...
Do., No. 1... 8
Do., No. 2,
South Wales ... ... 91/, 7l/.1
Trent Valley 2 .. . 19% ,::i
York and North Midland 50
Ditto Searboro' Branch. 20
Do. Extension
FRENCH RAILWAYS.
Bouloi,fne and Amiens... 4
Bordeaux, Toulouse, and
Cette ... ..... ..... ..... 2
221 h
............ 25%
:) iii 2%
~,
Great North. of France.. 4
Do. do. (Rosamel's) 2
31/2
Louvain and Jemeppe... 2 ... . 3jBli
Lyons and Avignon 2 3...
12
Orleans and Bordeaux 2 ... . . . 12'"14 ...... .. ...
Paris & Lyons, Laflitte's 2 ...... 3% .... .......... 31i
Paris and Lyons, Gan-
-2% neron's, ... ..
San:
ParisPaanrlibs
raaenn and
nOi
at Orleans 481 e , .
.. . I,s,
20
EO4
Tours and Nantes, Mac-
kenzie's
JOINT STOCK BANKS.
Provincial of Ireland
~. ........... 46
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, APRIL 14.—The sales
are :—Birmingham and Gloucester, New Shares, 5 ; Eastern
Counties
Manchester 2 l
a; n Ad I
Birmingham,a n c lie s teran d
NewLeed Leeds,
Quarters,
6 prem. Shares,
;i % ;
220
...... 44838z:43/9:2 ...... ''' 1,83k4,3
BCi4ons;olßsair4koe/n.hSehaadr,es;ul9ncl/2he;
South-Eastern;
ho
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-ri;: Bury,aste
rn;
Na no:. lu3r
n,RBloeis,e; naAdnabdleer,d
Accrington,
5 . ;Midland
Darw e n , and Bolton, 5%;
?8; Blaciaiirn, stNerm;athndlircithi:;sh , New Shares, 5%;
14%; Caledonian, 12% ; Cambridge and Lincoln, 9% A$ ;
Clitheroe Junction, 4';' prem.; Churnet Valley, 10% 11%;
Direct Northern, 5%; Dublin and Belfast aunßctliaocnk,
Ely and Bedford, 3* ; Glasgow and Dumfries, 1/. 7s.b6uldro.l::
511.4 u d; d eir:fieedlsd ,
nanndd
1111,.e1
satn c
RI) ei
as tienrg
Junction
Railway and , a7n,,di, ; Canal, 'q.l ;
Bolton,
NI r i
g:
ahnßirae9ranJns;td! Junction,
jo:lnen,replt ;714:
Huddersfield and Sheffield Junction, 8%; Leeds and Thirsk,
Ormskirk, and Preston, 314 ; London and /4
Manchester and Buxton, 5 4 ; Newark and Sheffield, 6% 1/2 ;
North Western, Pi %; Preston and Wyre Extension, :-I,''ii
14 prem. ; Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton,
Dudley, &c., 4%;
South Wales, 6%; Trent Valley, i -1
•'' -9-A: Wakefield, Ponte-
fract, and Goole, 134 ; West Yorkshire, 414; Whitehaven
and Furness, 3; Bordeaux Toulouse, and Cette, 2.i ; Great
Northern of France (English), 5%.

ROLLS' COURT.-(THIS DAY.)
ills Lordship did not take his seat to-day till nearly two
o'clock. His Lordship took motions of no general interest.

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VICE-CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.)
The Vice-Chancellor of England took motions.
The Vice. Chancellor Knigt.t Bruce did not sit to.day.
Vice-Chancellor Wigram sat in the new court recently erected
for him in Old Palace-yard, and heard motions.
In the Equity Courts, sevet al gentlemen were called within the
bar, who have been recently appointed Queen's Counsel. Among
them were Mr. Wood, the son of Sir Matthew Wood, Mr. Hey.
ward, Mr. Sergeant Murphy, and Mr. Sergeant %arming.

QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.)
Their Lordships took their seats on the bench shortly after one
o'clock.

Her Majesty having granted patents of precedency to Mr. Ser-
geant Manning and Mr. Sergeant Channell, those learned gentle-
men were called within the bar.

The following gentlemen having lately received silk gowns, took
their places inside the bar as Queen's Counsel :—Afessrs. Wood,
Humphrey, Butt, Gurney, and Haywood.

BAIL COURT.-(THIS- DAY.)
(Before Nr. Justice COLERIDGE.)
TRE SPA FIELDS EURIING-GROLIND.
Mr. PEACOCK moved, on the part of Mr. Bird, manager of the
above burying ground, for a writ of certiorari, to remove an in.
dictment for misdemeanour out of the Middlesex Snslons into the
Court of Queen's Bench. The Learned Gentleman moved on the
ground that questions of fact were likely to arise which would
render it advisable to have the case tried by a special jury.
Mr. WILDE said be had been but a few hours before instructed
to show cause why the writ should not be issued, but, supposing
that his Lordship thought that the indictment ought tobe removed,
he had no objection to make some arrangement relative to the
trial.

Mr. PEACOCK cited precedent to show that a rule absolute should
be granted in cases of misdemeanour.

Ilis Loßiasutp, however, only granted a rule to show cause, two
days hence.

EXCHEQUER.-(THIS DAY.

(Sittings in Banco.)
THE DISTILLERY CASE.--TRIAL AT BAR,

This case, which was adjourned till to-day from last Term, in
consequence of an informality, was, after a brief conversation, again
postponed to Wednesday, the 22d inst., for which day it is positively
fixed,

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The resolution was then put and unanimously carried.
Lord EDWARD HOWARD then rose CO propose the following
resolution:—

That this meeting deeply regrets the tone assumed at this
Aare by too many of their Protestant fellow.subjects. That they
feel much sorrow when they see unfounded—they fondly hoped,
forgotten—charges renewed against them. But, often as those
charges have been successfully refuted, they teel their best return
for calumny—which, they hope, has arisen from misapprehension—
is the charit) and patience inculcated by their Church."
The grant to alaynooth was • chiefly opposed by two classes—the
Protestant members of the Established Church, who felt strongly
and conscientiously on religious measures, and to whose opinions
he looked with great deference—and the other class were
those who dissented from the Established Church in this
country, and who were in favour of the voluntary system of
support. With regard to the former, he felt that their arguments
were contravened by those of Mr. Roebuck, who stated that this
was a grant which was given by an exclusively Protestant Perlis.
ment in Ireland, and continued by an exclusively Protestant Par.
liament in England, and now it was about to be increased on the
same principle. There were, no doubt, an immense number
of petitions presented from the people of England to Parlia.
went against this measure; but he believed that they
were very little more than paper, for when they
came to look at the signatures of those petitions,
they would find that there was not, in reality, such a great extent
of the feeling of the country represented by them. Those who
opposed this grant on the ground of the voluntary system, had but
a very poor ease in their favour in Ireland, because there was there
a Presbyterian Church Establishment, as also the Church Esta-
blishment of England, which he did not think a good argument
against a grant to the education of the priests of Ireland.
Therefore he would say, associated as he wad with them, he was
very sorry to find there should be so great a sensation against the
Catholic religion, He did not think that there was any man who
could Justly tax the Catholic body with disloyalty. For himself,
and the Catholic body in general, he repudiated any such charge if
it were made. It was constantly inculcated from their pulpits
that they should pay a proper and right obedience to the autho-
rities and the laws under which they lived.—(Hear, hear.) Such
were the tenets which they were taught by their religion,
and he trusted that the people of England would shortly see that

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Spinole, Calcutta ; Wokington, Mauritius ; Jane Augusta, and
Victoria, Lordly, Ichaboe ; Adam Smith, Valparaiso ; Mary
Forshaw, Old Calabac ; Lehigh, New Orleans ; Asia, Carthage,
Joshua Bates, Lanark, Maranham, and Virginia, Mobile;
Liberty and Ocean, Apalachiola, Leander. Savannah ;
Macao, Selina and Sarah, Charleston ; Briton, Yarmouth.

this grant was founded in wisdom, and that it would be a means of
combining ali classes of tile community in one common bond of
unity and amity; and he felt assured that in the case of any civil
commotion—which heaven keep from us—there would be no reason
to fear that the Catholic body would prove a source of weakness.
Such being the case, it must be far from the opinion of any
w2l/.informed person that the Catholics of this country would
prove disaffected to the Government, if their rights w ere
duly and fairly considered. Ile deprecated any imputation that
the Catholics wished evil to the Established Church, or any other
institution of this country. He was an Englishman, and he felt
proud of being connected with a country which was, unques.
tionably, the first in the world. They could not be more loyal
or well disposed than they were now, and more affeetionate than
they were now, to their beloved Queen ; and if they did not
exactly obtain all that they could desire they looked for.
ward to better times, and he trusted that the experience of
their Protestant fellow.countrymen would induce then to look
upon them with greater charity and more right feeling; and
with this hope he would move the resolution which had been put
into his hand.
The Hon. CHARLES CLIFFORD rejoiced to see one of the family
of Howard engaged in this demonstration of fealty to his Church
and charity to his fellow.subjects; and he would congratulate the
meeting also on this opportunity of showing to the world that
the principles of their Church were principles of kindliness
and justice, and that obedience to the laws anti affection for the
Sovereign were as rife in 'he bosoms of the Catholics of Ireland as
in those ofany other inhabitants of the empire. He congratulated
the Prime Minister on the progress he hrd already made in this
great and well-advised measure; and notwithstanding the 113
petitions of Mr. Hindley, and all the oppositi'm which it had met
with, he trusted it would be carried out to a successful conclusion,
for it would be carrying out the dearest wish of his heart. To him,
who was one of a family who had never swerved from the re-
ligion cf their forefathers, there was no snore earnest wish
than to see Ireland happy. He knew that those imputations which
had so frequently been thrown upo❑ their religion would in time
die away, and he rejoiced at this opportunity of bearing his testi.
mony to the truth and the charity of that religion, which was al-
ways an agent in promoting loyalty and truth. It was a religion
which taught the fulfilment of all public as well as all private du-
ties—this it was that taught the Catholic soldier to bear the brunt
of the battle, and fight in his country's cause the way to
victory—( Hear, hear)—this it was which taught the Catholic
sailor to tread the deck with firmness and devotion, and to bear
to battle and to conquer in his country's cause. Rejoicing as he
did in the charitable terms of this resolution, and trusting that it
might prove in some degree instrumental in removing the erro-
neous impression of many in this country with respect to the na
tune and spirit of the Catholic religion, he gave it his cordial sup-
port.

The Hon, CHARLES LANGDALE, in moving the adoption of a pe-
tition to both Houses of Parliament in favour of the grant, de-
clared that his Catholic brethren in Ireland ought to be grateful to
her Majesty's Government for the boon they had given to
them, and expressed a hope that the complete and full
adoption of the grant by Parliament would not lead to the
catastrophe which some of its opponents had predicted. He
alluded to the sacrifice of certaia Members on the
floor of the House of Commons.—(Laughter.) The Church in
Ireland originally belonged to the Catholics, and he was therefore
far from objecting to the grant, but he trusted it would not be
taken as a precedent for making future grants to endow other sects.
Me did not object to the expression of opinion on the part of the
opponents of the grant; but what necessity was there for their
going out of their way to heap abuse and calumny on the Roman
Catholic religion ? How different had beer the spirit which pervaded
their own proceedings that day. Were the speeches of those Noble
Lords and gentlemen who had preceded him tainted with the
bigotry and illiberality of their opponents, who held forth at Ex-
eter Hall? God forbid that they should be.—(Cheers.) Far be it
from them to imitate their opponents. Let them rather pursue a
directly different course, and endeavour, by calm and persuasive
arguments, to convince their Protestant fellow-subjects that their
opposition was uncharitable, and not by violence and abuse widen
the gap which existed between the members of the two persuasions.
He would conclude with moving—
" That a petition be drawn up in the usual form for presentation
to both Houses of Parliament, acknowledging with gratitude the
progress already made in the Bill, and most earnestly praying them
to pass and carry it into a law.
The Hon. Mr. STAFFORD TERN/NGHANI, in seconding the reso,
lotion, expressed a hope that the Premier would pay more attention
to Lord Saneon, the Noble Member for Liverpool, than to Mr.
M`Neill, the rev. incumbent of St. Jude',. He recollected seeing a sen-
tence which was framed by this rev. incumbent placing her Majesty's
name in a very unfortunate juxta- position with the name of Jezebel
and when brought up to explain it, he stated that, by her Majesty,
he meant the Roman Catholics.—(Laughter.) He meant nine_
twentieths of the civilised portion of the world. That there
were ten thousand petitions against the measure was a
circumstance rather untoward at first view, and upon
which he looked with the highest respect, but justice
they had a right to—(Cheers)-- and when such sentiments as those
put forth by the rev. incumbent of St. Jude's, were expressed, they
could not be treated tc ith any other feeling than that of indigna.
tion.--(Cheers.) His Honourable Friend who preceded him
proposed a tour through Ireland; he could say that
he had anticipated him by having already made that tour And
he denied that there was in Mayeooth that want of cultivation, or
that absence of humane conduct-which had teen so frequently imputed
to them ; for example, he would state that he never met a more
finished gentleman, or a more perfect scholar, than
Dr. Henget], who had been a Professor of that Col.
lege, and had now become a Bishop. For this measure,
as a religious measure, lie did not care, for, when they were not able
to force their opinions from three nalhons of Roman Catholics,
how could they expect to suppress the opinion of seven
millions ?—(Loud cheers.; It was impossible that they could
alter their principles by this grant now.—(Hear.) He could
not sit down without stating that if Englishmen insulted their
Irish fellow-countryn-.on by withholding this grant, he, as an
Englishman, should shudder at the consequences. He cordially
supported the resolution reeved by his Hon. Friend, and thanked
the ewe ting for their patient attention.
The resolution was carried unanimously.
Mr. Sergeant Eirez thought it his duty, as a Catholic resident
in London, to express his thanks to her Majesty's Government for
the first occasion on which they had shown any disposition
of conciliation towards their Roman Catholic fellow-sub.
jects. The resolution he held in his hand needed no
recommendation from him. It was that their Noble
Chairman, the Earl of Arundel and Surrey, be requested to present
the petition to the House of Commons, and that his Noble Father
be requested to support the Bill when it reached the House of
Peers. When he recollected that, through all the struggles of the
last 20 or 30 years, the grandfather of their Noble Chairman
had ever been in the front of the contest, and that the noble
house had ever been foremost in bearing their testimony to the
faith that is in them, he felt that no resolution could have been
confided to him which could have met with a more cordial re
tponse in his feelings. When he looked at the speech of
the Noble Chairman in the House of Commons last Friday, he was
assured that there could be no better representatis e of the Catholic
body in England ; and lie trusted that when the Bill was again
brought before the House he would repeat the same manly con
duct ; and he did conceive that the Noble Lord, and
those who had acted with him in what was called the Opposition,
if the country were doing nothing that in any way derogated from
their characters as public men in giving their support to the Mi-
nister of the day against the factious large minority at his
back. He remembered when the Prime Minister went
to the Guildhall to be invested with the freedom
of the City of London, he liad stated that the Catholic
Emancipation Bill should never, if he could help it, remain a dead
letter, but that it should become a real charter of liberty to his
Roman Catholic fellow subjects ; and he (Mr. Sergeant Shea)
did feel that it was their duty to give him the whole
of their sUpport. When he looked at the way in which the
Opposition was giving all their support to Sir Robert Peel,
when Lord John Russell could, if he had pleased, on this
measure, have put the Minister out of power, he did
say that the Opposition were entitled to their very beat thanks.
He had heard it asserted that when they obtained this
greet, they were pledged to look for no ulterior mea-
sures ; but when he looked at the endowments of
Winchester and Harrow, and the other great este.
blishments of the country, he thought that there was no reason
why, after having obtained this grant, they should look
to further endowments for their Church; and he agreed
with the Noble Lord who spoke to one of the early
resolutions, and who said that it was idle to suppose that this
measure was to end with the grant of a few thousands to May-
nooth—something more than this : and he felt that Edmund
Burke was right when he said that the Catholic Church ought to
be supported as a good, and not tolerated as an inevitable evil, and
he was assured that if Sir Robert Peel were to fotsake those prin-
ciples of Conservatism, of which every body seemed now ashamed,
and followed a course which was just to all patties in the State,
lie would find as much support from the Roman Ca-
tholics as from any other body in the empire.
They were there to refute the assertions of those
who with Machie'eelian mechinations wished to make it appear
that the Catholics of England were indifferent to, or ungrateful for
this boon to Maynooth. With these observations he begged to move
that the Earl of Arundel and Surrey be requested to present the
petition to the HODS.: of Commons, and that the Duke of Norfolk
be requested to present it to the House of Lords.
_ _

Mr. C. DOUNLEY had great pleasure in seconding the resolution.
He thought they ought to support Sir Robert Peel on this occasion,
because it appeared to him that the Right Hon. Baronet had taken
the first step towards giving justice to Ireland. How could
those who a short time ago voted 7,0001. for the Catholic schools
in Ireland oppose this grant ?—(Cheers.)
The Chairman having vacated the chair, and Lord Carnoys
taken his place,

Mr. HOWARD, M.P., moved a rote of thanks to the Earl of
Arundel and Surrey for the able: manner In which the Noble
Earl had presided over the meeting. The Hum Member thought
the meeting would have two objicts, It would convince the
Government that they were grateful for the measure, and show its
opponents that they could support the grant and 'resist their efforts
without any acrimonious spirit.
Mr. Wm. JqNES seconded the motion, and it was afterwards car..
tied by acclamation-

The Earl of ARUNDEL and SURREY subsequently acknowledged
the compliment, and the meeting terminated.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
(RECEIVED TIIIS DAY.)
NEWMARKET, MONDAY NIGHT.
BETTING UP TO POST TIME.
2,000 GUINEAS STAKES.
14 to 1 agst Kedger
NEWMARKET HANDICAP.
3 to 1 agst Croton Oil 8 to 1 agst Celeste
6to 1 agst I-am-not-aware 12 to 1 agst Poor Soldier "
7 to 1 agst K. of the Whistle
CHESTER CUP.
8 to 1 ag:A the three yrs olds' 25 to 1 agst Trueboy
Bto I agst Semiseria (taken) 30 to 1 agst Yhoeman ac
8 to 1 agst Cataract Knock (taken)
12 to 1 agst Obscurity 30 to 1 agst Ouki Ireland (0
16 to 1 agst The Era 30 to 1 agst Pug
23 to 1 agst Portrait t 0 to 1 agst Ratan (taken)
25 to 1 agst Winesour to 1 agst Aristides
DEC I.
10 to 1 agst Idas "22 to 1 agat Newsmonger
11 to 1 agst Alarm (t to 500)30 to 1 agA Pantasa
15 to 1 agat Cobweb cult 35 to 1 agst Laird o' Cockpen
15 to 1 agst Kedger ( 4345 to 1 agst Wood Pigeon (t)
backers) ;.149 to 1 agst Fuzbos (taken)
17 to 1 agst Pam 150 to 1 agst Jinglepot (taken)
20 to 1 agst Clear-the-way 66 to 1 agst Javelin
22 to 1 agst Weatherbit (t) '66 to 1 agst Seaman
OAKS.
12 to 1 agst Lady Wildair 125 to 1 agst sister to Ma flip
Newmarket Handicap—The following are scratched :
Napier, Orion, Johnny, filly out of Coranna's dam, b. g. by
Slane, out of The Captain's dam, Captain Flathooker,
Perkin Warbock, and Strathspey. Example, Yardley, Porto
Bello, and Gorhambury are not here.
Idas walks over for his race to-morrow, Mr. Newton with-
drawing his stake.

2 to I ag,st. Idas

The Earl of Cardigan has purchased the Royal
Yacht Squadron cutter Reindeer, 109 tons, from Mr. Spencer de
Horsey. This vessel was formerly the property of the late Mr.
John Moore (an old member of the Club), who by his will be-
queathed it to Mr. Spencer de Horsey.

TEMPLE enuacts.—Tho following notice appears
on the Temple Church :—" Divine service will be performed daily
in this church, at nine o'clock, until further notice."
CAMBRIDGE CRICKET CLUB.—Last week this club
opened the season by a match with the Trinity and St. John's Club,
and the first match of the season will be between the University of
Cambridge and the Marylebone Club and ground.
REPRESENTATION OF W ESL KENT. —lt is said that
the approaching election will be contested, in consequence of Lord
Holmesdale having expressed himself favourable to the endowment j
of Maynooth,