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THE WEATHER-SUN OFFICE, APRIL 14.

ferred back to the Committee of Standing Orders, for
the purpose of enabling them to institute an inquiry
into the alleged improper conduct of the agent of the
Bill.

Mr. FERRAND gave notice that on the third reading
of the Maynooth Bill he should move, " That it is the
opinion of this House that the 7th and Bth of VICTORIA,
commonly called the Catholic Bequests Act, was a vio-
lation of the Act of Settlement, and a contravention of
the oath of supremacy, and that the present grant to
Maynooth is calculated to subvert the Constitution as by
law established."

Mr. S. CRAWFORD gave notice that, in a future stage
of the grant to Maynooth Bill, he would move the fol-
lowing resolution:—" That the principle of endowment
of any religious sect or sects, from a State fund, or from
a fund received from tithes, rents, &c., whether known
by any other name or denomination, is a violation of the
rights of conscience, detrimental to religion, and dan-
gerous to civil and religious liberty, and that all such
grants ought to be abolished."
On the motion of Mr. FEARAND, the petition of the
Dublin Operative Conservative Association, praying for
the impeachment of Sir 8.. PEEL, was ordered to be
printed with the votes.
In answer to Mr. HINDLEY, Mr. 'tom said that a
Governor was about to be appointed to Port Natal.
The second reading of the Medical Bill was post-
p.sned.

THERMOMETZR, Lowest, 38 ; Highest, 48; Noon, 50.
BARONZTER, 29.50.—W1ND,
NoTi•—The figures which follow the words "Lowest" and
" Highest" denote the lowest and highest state of the
l'hermometer during the preceding twenty-four hours. All
the other observations are made at noon.

The adjourned debate on the Maynooth Bill was then
resumed by

Mr. HAwEs, who supported the second reading of
the Bill. He thought, however, that the grant ought
to be annual, and that the funds should be taken out of
the ecclesiastical property In Ireland.
Sir T. FREMANTLE StippOrtA, and Mr. Fox MAULE
opposed the Bill.
Lord CASTLEREAGH, who supported the Bill, said no
one could complain of being taken by surprise, and his
only astonishment was to find that the first of the Irish
measures was so exceedingly trifling.
The House was subsequently addressed by Mr.

WYNNE, Mr. COWPER, Mr. GREGORY, Mr. MACAULAY,
Mr. SHAW, and Mr. S. HERBERT, after which the de-
bate was adjourned till to-morrow (this day).
The other business of the day was then completed, and
the House adjourned at Half-past Twelve.

patch dated Rome, March '2B, announces to the Go-
vernment
of her MAJESTY that he received on the27th
a note from the Cardinal Secretary of State. The
prelate informs him in that note, that he is officially
authorised by his HOLINESS to accept the Royal cre-
dentials delivered to M. CASTILLO as Minister Pleni-
potentiary of her Catholic MAJESTY QUEEN ISA-
BELLA 11. to the Holy See. The CARDINAL is like-
wise empowered to proceed immediately in conjunc-
tion with said Plenipotentiary to arrange the eccle-
siastical affairs of Spain."
On the sth the Three per Cents. closed at 351 at
60 days ; the Five per Cents. at 25i ; and the Debt
without Interest at 8i at 60 days.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY.
Morning • • 10 rntnates after 7 Evening • • 43 minutes after 71

The French Chamber of Peers have advanced another
step in favour of the slaves in the colonies, but it is to
be regretted that the step, though ostensibly liberal,
can hardly produce any material result. A debate
took place on the clauses fur allowing the negro to
purchase his liberty on certain conditions, and was
adopted with an.aniendment proposed by Count BEUG-
NOT, to the effect that he shall have the right of
choosing the employer with whom he shall labour, fur
the periodof five years, which be is still to serve after he
is able to purchase his freedom. The price is reckoned
at about 521., and few slaves with only one day to them-
selves for the weeks' maintenance will be able to realiie
that sum iu ten years. With the five years of probation
added, he cannot be free for fifteen years. This is a sad
mockery, but possibly the Chamber had no choice, as the
opponents of emancipation are more powerful
in France than they were in England, and it would be
impossible to wring frt. m the Deputies such a liberal
grant as was voted by a British House of Commons.
The Journal des Debt* regards most of the remedies
proposed as of little value, because they hold out so
little hope of liberty to the victims of slavery. "It
would be difficult," observes that journal, "to imagine
a system of emancipation more limited, more prudent,
more slow, and, we should add, more timid, than that
which the Chambers of Peers has been occupied in dis-
cussing for some days past. England on the same day,
and on the same hour, generously and boldly granted
liberty to 800,000 slaves in her colonies, and drew from
her treasury 500,000,000 f. to fhdemnify their masters.
We are far from possessing so much decision or so much
liberality. We tell the slaves in our colonies, you shall
be free on condition that you pay the price of your free-
dom. But the slave possesses nothing. The Bill under
consideration, however, provides for this by giving the
slave one day in the week, on condition that he supply
himself with the means of existence during the remain-
ing days of the week. The value of a day's wages in the
West Indies is estimated at lf. 600. It follows from this
calculation that at the end of the year the slave will have
gained from 75f. to 80f. If from this sum be deducted
what the slave shall have expended for his subsistence,
the difference will constitute the amount of savings by
which the slave is to pay his ransom. But what is the
value of a slave? By some a slave is estimated at 1,200 E,
by others at 1,400 E According to the Bill under dis-
cussion, the value of the slave is to be fixed by commis-
sioners. It is not to be feared, therefore, that the work
of emancipation will advance too rapidly. It appears
certain that., by the proposed measure, slavery will re-
quire a longer time to disappear from our colonies than
the period which has existed since its establishment."
This is a dismal prospect, and shows that the
French know very little yet of the true secret of
governing colonies. The same paper announces
the following decision of the Council of Prefec-
ture in the case of the officers of the National Guards
who had signed the petition against arming the fortifica-
tions of Paris :

Men possessing even the ordinary powers of reason,
on undertaking any measure of importance, look for-
ward to the consequences. They are not like the
beasts of the field, left to instinct—they have been
gifted with rational minds, and are accountable for
their conduct. It may, therefore, not be out of sea-
son at the present moment to ask Sir R. INGLIS, Mr.
HINDLEY, and Sir CULLING E. SMITH, in case of
their opposition to the Maynooth grant being su,3-
cessful, if they are prepared to meet the crisis which
must follow ? Should Sir R. PEEL'S scheme be de-
feated in the Commons or the Lords, he and his
entire Cabinet must resign at once. The QUEEN
would apply to Lord JOHN RUSSELL, or possibly
consult Lord MELBOURNE, with the view of form-
ing a new administration, and the result could not
for a moment be doubtful. All the Whig party, which
we admit is not very great, and all the leading men
of the Liberal party are bound to this measure, even
by stronger ties than the present Cabinet. In fact, it
is their measure ; they cannot escape from it; and
they must tell her MAJESTY that they will not incur
the awful responsibility of forming an administration
which would be opposed to the death by seven millions
of her most loyal subjects, and which could, under
such circumstances, receive the support of not one
statesman out of the Cabinet. As a forlorn hope,
application might be made to the parties who had
upset the PEEL Government. At the head of these we
place Sir R. H. Nous; he must, of course, make the
best of his materials, and on looking at the list of the
division against the grant, he would be compelled,
probably, to choose the following members :—Mr.
PLUMPTRE, Mr. T. DIJNCOMBE, Mr. G BANKES, Mr.
C. HINDLEY, Mr. B. D'ISRAELI, Mr. LEFROY, Lord
ASHLEY, Mr. COLQUHOUN, the Hon. E. P. BOUTERIE,
Colonel SIBTHORP, Mr. E. ELLICE, jun., and Mr. E.
GROGAN. To select a Cabinet from among these names
even with Lord KENYON, Lord RODEN, and some less
prominent members from the House of Lords, would
be a hopeless task even under ordinary circumstances.
And at such a period of excitement as would infallibly
succeed the rejection of a measure so important to
Ireland, even if they were selected, they could not
keep together for one week. But placing their case
in the most favourable light, and admitting that all
the Liberals were rejected and a High Church
Cabinet constructed, with a majority too of the
House of Commons at their back, they could rule
Ireland only by the sword. Repeal meetings, and
such monster meetings too as Ireland has never seen,
would assemble in every valley and on every hill;
the spirit of Irish independence would be one and
indivisible, and " death to the oppressors," would be
the watchword of a million of brave men. Then
scenes would follow which would make the stoutest
heart to quail—the subjects, and the loyal subjects too,
of the same sovereign imbruing their hands in each
others blood—in the north the nearest neighbours
fighting as the bitterest enemies, in the south
one armed camp—the horrors of Scotland under the
persecution of the Episcopalians, the deeds of the
bloodthirsty DALZIEL, and DRUMMOND, and TURNER,
and the savage resistance of the Covenanters, would
all be thrown into the shade by a civil war in Ire-
land. These are no imaginary evils—they would
succeed the appointment of a High Church Cabinet
as certainly as the effect follows the cause. And
should the power of England prevail, what would
the Anti-Popery party gain ? Would the Catholic
religion be crushed—would there be one convert ?
The number of Catholics would be diminished, but
only by the edge of the sword and the gibbet, and
the spirit of their religion, like that of the Covenan-
ters, would only rise higher, and assume a more noble,
a more holy, and a more enthusiastic tone. Let these
men, therefore, look to the end. Let them look to
history, and they will find that persecution has
never had any other result; but, above all, let
them look to their Bible, and read that the " wisdom
which is from above is first pure, then peaceable,
gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and
good fruits." This is the religion of CHRIST—the
other is the religion of MAHOMET. These topics are
not convenient for a newspaper; but when religious
zeal is producing most dangerous effects on the com-
munity; when a large proportion of the teachers of
the people appeal to religion as their authority, and
not only the lives of thousands, but the very existence
of the State is in jeopardy, no other weapons remain
to counteract the evil. Great evil, we fear, has
already been done. The Irish people, who are as much
attached to their religion as the English or Scotch, and
who have more regard for their spiritual guides, must
witness with dismay this unexpected insult. The
grant to Maynooth has been recognised by the
Crown, the Legislature, and the whole community,
for nearly half a century ; and when a proposition is
made to increase it by a sum not equal to the income
of the Archbishop of CANTERBURY, the Puseyites
and the Dissenters, men of the most opposite religious
opinions, cordially unite to raise an outcry against
the unfortunate Catholics. Mr. O'CONNELL, with all
his ingenuity, has never yet had such an argument
for repeal as this. Ireland has lung been an object of
sympathy to foreign nations—it has been regarded as
the great blot of our Constitution, alike admired for
its liberal principles and the harmony of the dif-
ferent points ; and after Emancipation had been
conceded, and a generous spirit of conciliation was
displayed both by Whigs and Tories, a belief
began to prevail abroad that our religious animosities
were drawing to a close and justice was to be done
to the sister kingdom, when, to the joy of our enemies
and the sorrow of every friend of his country, in the
middle of the nineteenth century, the spirit of per-
secution breaks forth with all the vigour of, the dark
ages. This is news to the Legitimatists and Re-
publicans of France, and to still more dangerous ene-
mies, because more united—the States of the American
Republic.
Will
Sir P..
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o despised?
to the history of their own country, and know that
the Scots, who hatedEhpipscoi
hated Popery, when Episcopacy more than they
them, now regard the Churn England
fi
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nearly
they at faith
Church of Scotland as sisters
all the higher classes in the north and
against which their ancestors fought till
con-
quered ?

Of the several officers of the National Guard prosecuted
for having signed petitions against the armament of the for-
tifications of Paris, thirty-five have already been brought
before the Council of the -Prefecture, presided over by Count
Rambuteau in person, and composed of Messrs. de la Morelle,
Lafond de Ladebat, de Maupas, Lucas de Montigny, and
Molin. The officers were defended by M. Ledru Rollin and
M. Joly, both Members of the Chamber of Deputies. It
was not till Friday that the Council pronounced its decree.
Thirty of the officers cited are suspended from the exercise of
the military functions of their rank fur two Months, but the
five others, having givers satisfactory explanations, were dis-
charged free from the complaint laid against them."

Some of the journals add, that a distinction was made
between the officers who admitted that they were igno-
rant of the existing law, and those who persisted in
their right notwithstanding the law. The former con-
sequently were acquitted. On Friday, the Chamber of
Deputies adopted the Bill relative to the arrears due to
the members of the Legion of Honour, by which all
those admitted previous to the 6th April, 1814, and
whose dotation was reduced by one-half from 1814 to
1820, are to receive 100 f. per annum, in addition to the
pension of 250 f. attached to the decoration, from the Ist
of January, 1846. Those decorated by NAPOLEON dur-
ing the hundred days are included in this list.
The Constitutionnel contains some rumours relative to
the negotiations carried on in London on the right of
search, but places no confidence in them. " Twenty
different plans," it says, " have been imagined for the
mixed commission, and the Duke DE BROGLIE ought to
have carried from France an enormous pile of those in-
ventions, more or less ingenious. But the oldest of all
was the best—the American treaty."
The accounts from Switzerland are to the 9th inst.,
and we regret to say, very unsatisfactory. There seems
to be no controlling power, in fact, no effective executive
in the country. Each canton will have its own way.
At Lucerne great exasperation still prevails, and serious
apprehensions are entertained for the fate of the pri-
soners. The Consfilutionnel says :
"The unusual precipitation with which judgment has been
proceeded to at Lucerne, on the principal leaders of the un •
fortunate expedition of March 31, had led the Commission of
the Diet, assembled at present at Zurich, to fear that the
victorious party would have the capital condemnations car-
ried into effect before the Diet could have come to a decision.
This circumstance had induced it to leave aside for the
moment all other questions, in order to attend to the am-
nesty only, and the Members of the Diet had been given
notice on the 7th that there would be a sitting next day.
But on the Bth the Commission had two of the Deputies of
Lucerne, MM. Siegwart and Attenhofer, called before it,
and, on the assurance that they gave that there would be
no capital execution during the week, it decided that it
should resume the simultaneous examination of the pending
questions, and the report was to be submitted to the Diet on
the 10th. As it is not probable that a majority can be ob-
tained for the interdiction of the Jesuits, under form of
summons, or invitation, this question will be allowed to
rest until the meeting of the ordinary Diet, which is ti
take place in the month of July. Lucerne will judge
meanwhile if it become her to call the good fathers in the
midst of the streams of blood which they have already
caused to be shed."
The accounts in the Journal des Debuts are a little
more favourable :

" By accounts from Geneva of the sth, we learn that, on
the preceding day, an attempt was made in that town os •
tensibly to raise a free corps, but in reality to excite a local
insurrection. Several hundreds of persons assembled on the
Paquis, proclaiming an intention to march against Lucerne ;
but their real project becoming evident, the Government im-
mediately took measures to d►sperse the agitators. They
were composed for the much greater part of men from Vaud,
Neufchatel, and Germany, very few Genevese being amongst
them. The movement was principally directed by two men
from Vaud, who have escaped. The soldiery answered the
call of the authorities, and came out with the greatest ala-
crity. In Lausanne itself the Radical Government has been
outdone by the people, and has been obliged to resist their
exigencies. We have received the report addressed to the
Vorort by the Federal Commissioners. It is dated on the
6th, ffom Arau, and expresses great uneasiness, the Com-
missioners being forced to acknowledge that, iu general they
have met complete defiance from the Government of Lucerne
and its allies, and that they seemed to foresee a federal in-
tervention. The Commissioners declare their apprehensions
that Lucerne and the lesser cantons will refuse to place their
troops under the federal command."
THE BOURSE--.SATURDAY, Arm, 12.

Madrid papers of the 6th have been received. A
settlement of the difference between Spain and the
Holy See appears to be in a fair train. The Heraldo
announces that the POPE acknowledges the rights of
the owners of Church property purchased according
to the laws of the State, and a nuncio from Rome
was daily expected. The following appears in the
Madrid Gazette of the 6th :—" Ministry of Foreign
Affairs.—Dox Jose D 4 CASTILLO T ATENzA, in a dis

First 1 tit hest Lowest Last
Price. Price. Price. Price.
French Five per Cents. •••• 117 10 .. 117 15 .. 117 •• 117
Fours. •••• 107 50 .. 107 50 .. 107 50 .. 107 50
Three per Cents.... 85 85 85 38 .• 85 73 85 75
Bank of France •• •• •- ••••3213 ..3215 ..3215 ..3215
Gonin Bank, I,ooof Shares-1107 50 ..1107 59 ..1107 50 ..1107 50
Belgian Fives, 1840.. •• •• •• 102% .. 102% .. 102% .. 1023
1842...••••• 105% .. 10.5% .• 105%
Four-and-a-Half ... 101% .. 101% 101% .• 101%
Dutch Two and-a-Half. ..• •. 641,E .• 64 • . 64% . 64%
Spanish Threes•• • • •'• •• •• •• 411,4 .. 411 41% .. 41%
Passive -.• 7% .• .• 71% .. 7%
rortnguese Five per Cents• • 66% •. g 6 66 .. 66 tAi
Roman . ......... ..... 105% •• 105% .. 105% .. 105%

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