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the conversion to liberality of the Duke of WEL-
LINGTON and Alr. PEEL nothing ?
Why then the covering sky and all that it contains,
Is nothing ; then is l3olternia nothing !"

We are delighted to perceiv that the University
of Cambridge, in accordance with the growing, libe-
rality of the age, has rejected the Anti-Catholic Pe-
tition. To make this rejection the more efficient--
for we will not do such injustice to Alma Mater
as. to call it extraordinary—the subject was canvassed
not only by the Junior Members of the Senate, with
whom such an issue might reasonably have been an-
ticipated, but even by the big-wigs and senior M.A.'s;
by those very Dignitaries who, if the No-Popery
alarms could for a single instant be supposed to have
an origin in common sense, would be among the first
to lose their fat church pluralities.
But good feeling and the process of a sound en-
lightened habit of reflection found their natural level,
and triumphantly carried the day. The Divines of
Cambridge felt that so long as the Church is under
the guidance of devout and intelligent ministers—so
long as its doctrines breathe a pure, elevated, and
benignant spirit, neither rising into undue enthusiasm
on the one hand, nor sinking into careless indiffer-
ence on the other—so long, in short, as it is the
Church of that Saviour whose last words inculcated
peace on earth, and good-will towards men;" it
will stand, in the calm and majestic consciousness of
strength, unharmed by the masked battery of the
hypocrite, and flourish for centuries over the ruins
,of the Papal superstition. Indeed, it is the No-
Popery alarm, alone, that has elevated Catholicism
into its present undue importance. Had its tenets
been left to run their own course unmolested, they
would long since have dwindled into comparative
insignificance; while Brewing, amalgamating, and
moving fide by side with the advancing intelligence
,of the age, the brighter portions of its faith would
insensibly have become, if not altogether incor-
porated, at least associated with the Protestant
Church in the strenuous advocacy of universal be
nevolence.

CONTENTION BETWEEN HIS MAJESTY AND THE CATHOLIC
XlNth, FOR THE Firi•E. SETTLEMENT OF THE CLAIMS OF
BRITISH AND SPANISH SUBJECTS, UNDER THE CONVEN-
TION CONCLUDED AT MADRID, MARCH 12, 1623.
His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, and his Majesty the King of Spain
and the Indies, being equally convinced of the great and
almost insuperable difficulties that have presented them-
selves in carrying into effect, by means of the mixed Come
mission appointed under the Convention concluded on the
12th of March, 1823, the stipulations of the said Conven-
tion, respecting the claims preferred by subjects of both
nations,—have considered that the most speedy and effica-
cious manner of obtaining the objects which their Britannic
and Catholic Majesties proposed to themselves in framing
the Convention above-mentioned wonld be that of a cosn-
promise, or amicable adjustment, in which their said
Majesties, by common consent, should assign fixed and
proportionate sums for the indemnification of the claimants
of both countries, so that each of the two High Con-
tracting Parties should possess the power of adjudging
and satisfying the legitimate claims of its own subjects,
out of the sums width each Government should, for such
purpose, receive from the other, or of distributing those
sutra among the individuals interested, by means of an
arrangement mutually agreed upon.
With this view their Britannic and Catholic Majesties
have nominated and appointed as their respective Pleni-
potentiaries, namely :—His Majesty the King of the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Right
Honourable George Earl of Aberdeen, Viscount Gordon,
Viscount Formartine, Lord Haddo, Methlick, Tarvis, and
Kellie, a Peer of the said United Kingdom, a Member of
his Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, Knight of
the most ancient and most noble Order of the Thistle, and
his said Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs ' and his Majesty the King of Spain and the.
Indies, his Excellency Don Narciso de Heredia, Count of
Ofalia, actual Knight of the Royal Spanish Order of
Charles 111., Knight Grand Cross of the American Order
of Isabel the Catholic, and of the. Legion of Honour of
France, Councillor of State, and his said Majesty's Envoy
Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary on a special
Mission to the Court of his Britannic Majesty ; who, after
having communicated to each other their respective fnll
powers, found to be in due and proper form, have agreed
upon and concluded the following Articles :
Art. I.—His Catholic Majesty engages to make good to
his Britannic Majesty the sum of 900,0001. sterling, in
specie, as the amount of the whole of the English claims
presented to and registered by the mixed Commission,
established by the Convention of the 12th of March, 1828.
Art. ll.—His Britannic Majesty engages to make good,
in the same manner, the sum of 200,0001. sterling, as the
amount of the whole of the Spanish claims, presented to
and registered by the mixed Commission, in pursuance of
the said Convention.
Art. shall be lawful for either of the High
Contracting Patties to cause to be adjudged within its re-
spective territory the claims of its own subjects, in order
to satisfy, within twelve months from the date of the ex-
change of the Ratifications of the present Convention,, such
claims as shall appear. to be just and legitimate, out of the
sums which one of the High Contracting Parties shall re-
ceive, far this purpose, from the other ; or it shall he law-
ful for the Government of either of the said High Con-
tracting Parties :to agree with the persons interested, or
their assigns, upon any other mode of arrangement which
may be deemed most expedient for satisfying them within
the same term, without the necessity of any previous and
formal adjudication.
Art. IV.—The Government of his Britannic Majesty
shall retain in its possession the suns of 200,000/. sterlioe,
which, by the second Article, is to be made good to Spain,
in order to set that sum against, or deduct it from, the
900,00'1. sterling which it is to receive from the same ;
but it is expressly declared that this compensation is stipu-
lated on the understanding that his Catholic Majesty,
within the period specified in the preceding Article, shall
pay to his own subjects the amount of their legitimate
claims against England, preferred under the Convention of
the 12th of March, 1823, in specie, or in other effective'
value; and in such a massser tbat his Britannic Majesty
may be exempted from every responsibility for the amount
of such claims.
Art. V.—His Catholic Majesty shall effectuate the pay-
meat of the 900,0001. sterling, in satisfaction of the
English claims, by instalments, in the following order :
Two hundred thousand pounds sterling shall be deli-
vered over on the day on which the exchange of the Rati-
fications of the present Convention shall take place ; and
another like sum at the' expiration of three months from
the exchange alluded to.
The compensation mentioned in the preceding Article
shall he considered as the payment of 200,0001. sterling
more; and the remaining 300,000/. sterling shall be made
good
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mouths,instalments,
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the date of the exchange of the Ratifications.
Art. VI.---The two last. instalments of 150,0001. each
his Majesty reserves to himself the power either of paying
ef-
fuentuap in
tng sue payment specie,i atthyemteinmtebyofnetrhiafitesnutems
ofafllininstridputein,nosr oinf
the
English matt Spanish language, expressing the purpose for
which they are issued, bearing interest at five per cent. per
annum, payable half-yearly in London, at 50 per cent.
discount.
Fur this purpose, his Catholic Majesty shall, within
three months from the date of the ratifications of this Coe-
vention, cause the sum of 60,000,000 of reals of vellon,
in such inscriptions (being equal, at 100 reale to the
anemia, FEE. 10. pound sterling, to the sum of 600,000/. sterling,) to be
The Second Chamber of the States General has reen , lodged in the Bank of England, or with the Banker of the
wholly engaged in discussing twenty-two projects of laws Court of Spain in London, with instructions to deliver
for various modifications of the Codes of the kingdom. one-half of them to the Government of his Britannic Ma-
The Marquis de Traregnieo, attached to our Legation at jesty, for the use of the claimants on the day of each of the
Rome, set out for that city on the 6th just. If we come said instalments falling due, provided they shall not' be
pare this circumstance with the assurances contained in' punctually paid in sterling money.
the report lately addressed to his Majesty, by the Minister It is likewise hereby agreed that the Government of his
of the Interior, and with what the Italian journals shave Catholic Majesty shall have the power of redeeming the
lately said on the holding a 000sistory at the end of this inscriptions thus created during the four years succeeding,
month, month, we may believe that the wishes of the Catholics of and upon giving six months' notice, at the rate of 55/. for
this kingdom will be soon fulfilled. every lOW. so delivered. After such period of
.four years,
poci,ooo tio,
It is reported at Ghent, that the Rev. M. Van Rum, the Spanish Government shall only possess the
Chief Minister in that pan of Zealand which is placed un- redeeming the inscriptions referred to at the rate of 60/.
der the jurisdiction of the diocese of Ghent, will be the sew for every 100/.
bishop of that Pity.
I efreCAtrt.theVpmelia;y-Hnits ofC atthhoelisceelto load esty
instalment
shall
b eatliberty
of 2
steeling, mentioned in Article V., by delivering,' on its
being due, 60,000/. in ready money, and 150,0001. in in-
scriptions, at 50 per cent., making 300,000/. in inscrip-
tions; but this arrangement is only to take place on the
express condition that the payment of one of the two last

cannot recognise the real channel of the river, except by
the whitish mountains of ice. The causeway above the
town is overflowed, and three quartets of a mile below it
towards Giun ; and where the dike ie broke down, the
waters rise above the dike and conceal tb:s rupture.
1 BERLIN, JAN• 6.

The St. Petershurgh Gazette of Jan. 29, contains
further accounts of advantages gained by the Russian troops
under General Emmanuel over the mountain tribes of the
Caucasus, and of their submission to the Russian Crown.

THE FUNDS.--(THIS DAY.)

CITY, TW BLVB o'Cloex.

Consols opened in the morning at 87k, and shortly after
were buyers, at which price a purchase of 50,000/. fur
money took place, tvhich had the effect of stopping the
market, otherwise, from its gloomy appearance, a decline
might have been expected. The premium oil Exchequer.
Bills and India Bonds fell one dinning per cent. late yes-
terday, and the prices are, for the former, 61 6, and the
latter, 62 4 pm. •
The Foreign Stocks are still very idle, except in Mexi-
can Bonds. The accounts received this morning via
America, although but a day later than our former advitse,
have served to confirm the discouraging state of the country;
the Bonds have, in consequence, fallen to 274 8, and most
still go lower unless some favourable intelligence should
shortly arrive. Portuguese are 52 1, and an opinion seems
to be gaining ground that sometlaine- relative to the pay-
ment of the dividends may be.shortly expected ; Russian
are 97/- SI; Colombian, [Bl 19; and Brazilian, 62/ 31.
In Shares there is nothing new to state.
Three per Cent. Consols, 87 *; Ditto, for Account,
87* ; Three and a half per Cent. Reduced, 97/ ;
Four per Cent., 1826, 105/a ; India Stock, 236 7;
Bank Stock, 2114 125; India Bowls, 62 4 pm. ; Ex-
chequer Bills, 64 6 pm.
Foalruls.—Brazilian, 62* 31 ; Buenos Ayres, SS 9 ;
Chilian, :-111- 24 ; Colombian, 18119 ; Danish, 64/ 5 ;
French, Five per Cent., 109/ 104; Three per Cent.,
761 4 ; Greek, 144154; Mexican, Five per Cent., 22 4 ;
Ditto, Six per Cent.; 2718; Peruvian, 13 14 ; Portuguese,
52 4; Russian, 97/ 8/ ; Spanish, 9 I.
Alexican, SI 80 die. ; Brazilian, 86 8
pm. ; Bolanos, 55 65 pm. ; Colombian, 20 19 dis. ; Real
Del Monte, 140 per share; United Mexican, 29 28 dia.
TWO O'CLOCK.

Consols are now 571, sellers, with little doing.
It is said in the City that the letters in town from Ire
land report that the Catholic Association has dissolved itself.
THREE 0' CL 0 C.K.

Consols, 87i 1.

STATE PAPER :-SPANISH CLAIMS.

It was doubtless some feeling of this sort that in-
fluenced the. Senate in its rejection of the Anti-Ca-
tholic petition. A few Bceotians, however, fresh
from the Cimmerian gloom of the Isle of Ely Fens,
stilt stuck fast to their old principles of exclusion
and intolerance. Peterborough, Ely, and. one or two
other towns in that charming country of bog and fog,
had the honour of sending forth these Intolerants—
the descendants, no doubt, of that particular tribe of
Vandals whom, according to GIBBON, " the Em-
peror PROBUS transplanted from the banks of the
Elbe to the Isle of Ely." There—but there alone

—may they still continue to flourish I The soil is
worthy of them and they are worthy of the soil.
" Et vitttli to dignus et hie."

By the minutes of communications made by Mr.
CANNING and the Marquis WELLESLEY to different
influential personages, on the subject of forming an
Administration in 1812, which we have published
in our columns of to-day, it will be perceived that
so far from his MAJESTY having ever been overse—
as more than one Ultra 'I ory Journal has suggested—
to the concession of the Catholic Claims, he has in-
variably been. the first to sanction a Ministry formed
expreisly on the consideration of them. Thus then
the last resting place of the Brunswiclers is snatched
from them, by the very same historic fact that re-
cords the good sense, consistency, and enlightened
character of GEORGE the IVth.

While on the subject of these Claims, we would
strenuously exhort the Catholic Association, whose
members, we perceive, are now busily debating the
question of dissolution, to come at once to a una-
nimous vote in favour of it. To talk of mere, ad-
journment is idle, they must dissolve immediately, and
for ever. Such a measure is due not less to their
own character for consistency and good feeling, than
to the prejudices of the English nation, who having
granted a boon—in their opinion of the most vital
importance—with judgment and generosity, have a
right to expect that that boon shall be received with
equal courtesy.

Extracts from American (New York) Papers to
he 17th January, will be found in another column;
they chiefly relate to the affairs of Mexico and Co-
lombia. ~

Montreal Papers to the 2d January have been re-
ceived, but arc not important.

The following are extracts from German, Brus-
sels, arid Prussian Papers. They contain nothing
particularly new, unless we may consider the fol
lowing proposed boundaries of Greece in tha
light:—

SMYRNA, DEC. 28.

It is affil med that the frontiers of Greece have been fixed
as follows by the three Ambassadors. It is to include
Attica, Livadia, and Eubcea, and to he bounded by a line
drawn from the Gulf of Arta to the Gulf of Volo, in the 39th
degree of latitede. The following 28 islands to be united
to it, viz. :—Syrn, population, 60,000 ; Myconi, 8,000 ;
Mari, 30,000 ; Tyno, 30,000 ; .Andros, 30,000 ; Serfo,
4,000 ; Sifno, 2,000 ; Skins, 1,000 ; Nio, 2,000 ; San-
torin, 18,000; Anafe, 2,000; Stampalie, 2,000; Hydra,
40,000; Spezzia, 15,000; Eginn, 15,000; Poros, 12,000 ;
Salamine, 5,000 ; Milo, 10,000 ; Scyro, 5,000 ; Thermia,
4,000 ; Zea, 8,000 ; Amorgo, 4,000 ; Calemnos, 5,000 ;
Leros, 3,000 ; Nysiros, 2,000 ; Patmos, 18,000 ; Nicaria,
b,OOO. Delos is uninhabited, but highly valued by the
Greeks on account of its antiquities.

VIENNA. JAW. 31.

The Austrian Observer gives an extract from three
numbers of the Universal Gazette of Greece, of 26th and
29th Nov. and 3d Dec., which cont; in among other mat-
ters, the account of the capture of Livadia. The Greek
Commander Rango had been attacked at Agrafa by 1,700
Albanians, sent against him by Redschid Pacha, and obliged
to retire. The Turkish Commander, Kariofyl Bey, then
proceeded to Karpenissi, which was besieged; and succeeded
in throwing supplies into the place. But 'Dwell/ has since
renewed the siege, and repulsed with lose two hal ies made
by the besieged.

VIENNA, FEB. I.

The Austrian Observer contains a letter from Con-
stantinople► of hot. 10, followe•1 by some accounts of the
sours of Greece. There is -car,:ely anything not known
before. It is pt.,ted that no want of provisions is yet felt
notwithstanding the blockade ; only the
aptriC:nortnhleit: ordinary kitut of bread had risen a little
within a few days.
The citadel of Salons had surrendered to the Greeks
under Demetrius Ypsilanti, wbp took possession of it on
the 29th November. _ _

Aix-LA-CHACELLE, FAIL 7.
A letter from Rheinbeq, of Feb. 3, ease :—" Since the
day before yesterday, the state of the 'Rhine has beeorre
terrible. From the ramparts of this town to the opposite
banks of the river, herewitht has the appearance of a
vast sea, partly cover flukes of ice, where the eye