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would be an undue interference with the rights of parents
and the choice of young men, to insist upon a particular
- line of study and an examination, as a sine qua non to
granting commissions in the army.
Mr. MABERLY thought education more essential to
the duties of officers in the army than to the members of
almost any other profession.
The following votes were then agreed to :--
136,0001. for the pay of general officers.
36,862/. for garrisons at home and abroad.
109,0001. for the full pay of reduced, retired, and un-
attached officers.

739,0391. for the half-pay and military allowances of re-
duced and retired officers.
97,270/. for the half-pay and reduced allowances of offi-
cers in foreign corps, pensions to foreign officers, and widows
and children of foreign officers.
46,6101. for the in-pensioners of Chelsea Hospital.
1,278,403/. for the out-pensioners of the same.
24,1551. for the Royal Military Asylum.
143,4111. for pensions to officers' widows.
189,0371. for the Royal bounty and pensions to widows.
56,044/. for allowances, compensations, and emoluments
in the nature of superannuation or reduced allowances to
persons formerly in public situations.
33,000/. for Exchequer fees on issues for army services.
The CHAIRMAN then reported progress, and obtained
leave to sit again on Monday next.
The House then went into a Committee on the New-
foundland Fisheries Acts.
• Sir G. MURRAY brought in a Bill to amend the same.
Mr. PETIT moved, that a new writ be issued for the
borough of Ripon, in the room of Sir It. H. Inglis, who
bad accepted the stewardship of East Retford, as we under-
stood.

Mr. DAWSON brought up the miscellaneous estimates,
which were laid on the table, and ordered to be printed.
The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and
the House adjourned at Twelve o'clock.

We are informed, on good authority, that
Mr. Peel, considering his rejection at Oxford as certain,
has sent a special messenger to take the necessary steps for
his return for a borough in this neighbourhood.—Ply-
'outh Journal.
The Bishop of Rochester, the Dowager
Countess of Kinnoul, Lady Sarah Murray and family, left
the Deanery yesterday, for his Lordship's Palace at Bram-
ley, Kent.— Worcester Journal.

The Earl of Roscommon will shortly lead to
the hymeneal altar a young lady possessing, in addition to
Wore than the customary share of personal attractions, a
splendid fortune.—Dublin Morning Register.
Above 120,000 copies of Mr. Brougham's
Tract " On the Pleasures, Objects, and Advantages of
Science," have been sold by the Society for the Diffusion
of Useful Knowledge at 6d. each. Such a circumstance is,
perhaps, unprecedented.
The town of Boston, has at the present mo-
ment, two petition: in the course of signature ; the one
for, and one against, the Catholic claims. The Clergy,
and the Corporation, &c. have mostly signed the latter ;
with the Wesleyan ministers, an] principal members of
that creed ; the Calvinists, Unitarians, &c. with some ma-
gistrates and merchants, have signed the former one.—
Lincoln Herald.
We understand that the Marquis of Stafford
has purchased from Lord Reay the estate of Reay in the
county of Sutherland, at the price of 300,000/. This ex-
tensive property, added to the Earldom and estate of
sutherlaud, makes the Marquis the first proprietor, in
Polot of extent of territory in Scotland, if not in Great

enIAI. CON. IN INDlA.—There is now be-
fore the House of Lords, a Bill To Dissolve the Mar-
riage of Henry Peach Keighly, a Captain in the Service of
the -East ' India Company's Madras Establishment, and
Judge-Advocate-General of the Army on the said Establish.
sat, with Ann his now Wife, and to enable him to marry
'Y arul and for other Purposes therein mentioned."—The
taaart Which this divorce is founded is, that Mrs. Keighly
ad committed adultery with an officer named Hawes.
Ris Grace the Duke of Norfolk has present-
ed some of his fine stags and hinds in Arundel-park, to the
Rid of Derby. The Noble Earl sent his huntsman and
bWhipper-in with his celebrated stag-hounds to Arundel, on
q'sday evening last, and on the following morning great
ti.4thers of people assembled in the park to witness the
Of the stags, &c. ; the park being hilly, the specta-
the eminences bad a most excellent view of the dif-
iewrenoot hunts, which took place as follows :—three hinds
ert driven-into the nets ; next a tine stag was pointed
,out :or Capture, and after a long chase he leaped over a
fence, and being weary, lie lay down unable to show any
mope sport, and was easily taken, and confined with the
Other prisoners, Another stag, after showing considerable
game, made his way to the milhpond, in which he swam
about for a short time, but a boat was provided and the
animal was conveyed ashore in safety, and confined like-
wise. The sixth and last was a short, but very good
data, the stag, as is their custom, making his way to the
pond as soon as he found it convenient, from which he was
also taken as soon as possible, There had not been so
teatg a number of persons congregated in Arundel.park
many years.._.lien! Herald,
In common with the majority of our contern- !
Poraries, we readily bear testimony to the great exertion
made by The Sun, to put its distant readers in possession
of the earliest intelligence. In proof of its unparalleled
a"Patch, We may mention, that we have repeatedly found
t to contain later news, and a larger portion of the Parlia-
"'entary debates in progress at its publication, than even
°at' Private letter. We are aware that this exertion can
only be effected at a prodigious expence, Oct o,oly in the re-
-111/411 printing deparimants, but in the expresses
;rch are almost daily despatched from The Sun Office
1;;tr the Scottish and Irish mails; and we shall, therefore,
We Pala no opportunity of acknowledging the advaatagie
ictinerlye from the efforts of this sl)iriteci
:64isrea 9kertlct's
.1 rads Correspondent of a Morning Paper
ite6"-" The Earl of Bridgewater is dead. Mr. Phillips,
jlartner in the house of La Fitte, is his executor. It is
'Lai that he Las Taft 20004 year to his Secretary.
d-aco is spoken f his singularities. His fonduess for
;(1.5, and the care which he took of them, excited uni-
-Tal wonder. We often met half a dozen of' his dogs in
„.."14e carriage, drawn by four horses, followed by two foot-
t Thp ppduct of these favonritei was punished or
tIC„ arded• The honour of sitting beside their master at
titin'aej was the dearest recompense which they could oli

. .
WHALE AT WHITSTABLE:—it is sixty
'ears since one of those Leviathans of the deep, a whale,
b seen was
at Whitstable, though they have now and then
AugbStritllled upon the Kentish coast. On Monday a
er of sedan vessels were engaged in their usual avoca-
tivit of catching oysters on the Pollard Grounds, when a
)11,4 Was observed making rapidly towards them from the
coast, and throwing up the water in gland :tieara band my lads," says Jack Foreman, '4 and pre-
"7„l! for boarding," and the little fleet instantly left the
yilelier, ground and sailed after the monster of the deep._
.44 Youd no weapons on board with which to strike it, but
titiY absolutely threw their anchors upon him, and sailed
t One boat, only I tons burthen, went over him, at'id
e Powerful fish lifted it quite out of the water, and most
Thtutiately without precipitating the crew into the sea.—
tif sthb.ack of the whale shews evident marks of the effect
cls charge of the Whitstable sailors. The boats on-
Awed 51a0e....„ .fa pursue him, and after an anxious chace they
Wh'T-4 ill driving him upon the " Grass Banks,"
era the enormous and unwieldy animal threw himself
gickint, his back, from which he did not recover. He
br-aeed or bellowed loudly, and shortly after expired. The
tide fishermen fastened a warp to him, and in the night
.44 got him upon the rock, where he now lies—the wonder
th eetonislimunt of those who never before saw one of
caese immense animals. This whale proves to lie of the
elot or spermaceti species—of the masculine gender,
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quite 60 feet in length, and 36 feet in circumference.
bile:ol,44;k mis.shapen mass of flesh—the eyes are small,
parjaiPi'llate4 tq NA before and behind—and the only
ill that has any claitu to symmetry is the tail, which
sptres about eleven or twelve fgq in Width. The head
,th re to be about half the fish, and contains tweoty,ope
shut" on each side of the lower jaw, which is narrow, and
• gig,: into the upper jaw considerably below his prodi-
k,d °frontal. There are also two fins, one on each side,
.Ivh: I'l'l4 upon the back resembling the New England
e described by Buffos. There are several animals of
*!'Peeies, but from our observation, and all we Call learn,
I,i believe this to be a fine specimen of the Cachelot, or
:ec„,seter While, and affords much more oil than the
I)ter, )'eeri whale—it is more valuable too, as yielding two
'440" drugs, the ambergris and spermaceti. We need
•tta TY add that the little town of Whitstable was crowded
*NluieBll„ °Y and yesterday, by visitors from all parts, and
Ns, regret that the intrepid fishermen did not make
tto Iteet of
prize. Who would grudge a shilling or more,
net th "at which they can hardly hope to behold again .
Ilestlk„"4' ttet upon this hint. The whale was sold on Wed-
', at the Royal Exchange, for 701.—Kent Herald.

LONDON,
SATURDAY EVENING, eBRUARY 2] , 1829.

The petitions presented last night to the House
of Lords by Lord HOLLAND are worthy the most
serious consideration of those who oppose Emanci-
pation to the Catholics. One of the petitions was
from the Dissenting Ministers of the three De-
nominations in and adjoining the Metropolis.
" They were the descendants," said his Lordship,
" of the old Protestant Dissenters, who had long
been distinguished for their wealth and respectability,
and who now amounted, as he was informed, to not
less than 3,500,000 persons, exclusive of the Wes-
leyans and other Methodists." Another petition
from the Corporation of Nottingham, is equally
worthy of attention. If these people apprehended any
danger to the Constitution, would they petition
Parliament in favour of their Catholic Brethren ?
Surely not. Let but the Question be once settled,
and the Ultra-Tories themselves will think like the
Corporation of NottingliaCn. They would even
become converts now, but for the fear of being
laughed at.

The only news in the French Papers is the death
of the POPE. The health of his HOLINESS had
been for some time in a languishing state. He died
at Rome on the =thing of the 10th of February.

LEO ITA,NIVA,L DELL GENOA, was born at La
6lenga, on the 2d of August, 1760. He was elected
POPE, at Rome, on the 27th September, 1823, and
enthroned on the 6th lof October fo:lowing. His
death will occasion the usual competition among the
Catholic States for the honour of giving a successor
to the Papal Throne, who best study the in-
terests of the fortunate party. Such contentions re-
flect little creel h upon the piety of the Catholic
Chttra, however consonant they may be to the am-
bition of the respective candidates:—
(From the Moniteur of Feb. 18.)
The Government has received the news of the death of
his Holiness the Pope. His health had been slightly
affected for two or three days, when on the 9th of Fe-
bruary the physicians declared that his life was in immi-
nent danger. His Holiness expired on the 10th, at nine
o'clock in the morning.

The loss of a Sovereign Pontiff, so enlightened, so pious,
and go modigate, ;e a real calamity to Christendom.
France, more than any other Catholic State, has reason to
deplore the premature death of Leo the Twelfth, who had
a particular affection for it, as he had a just and entire
confidence in the virtues and religion of the King; his
exalted wisdom displayed in every affair a spirit of mini-
Jizttio4 and peace. He appreciated times and conjunc-
tures; he has found means to maintain unity in the two
worlds by watching with indefatigable solicitude over the
government of the Church, and by providing for its wants
with zeal and firmness.

(From the .llessager des Chantbres, Feb. 18.)

There is no longer any doubt respecting the melancholy
end of M. Auget, perpetual Secretary of the French Aca-
demy, who disappeared from his home on the 2(1 January,
his body having been found in the Seine, near Meulan, and
the identity proveel by several witnesses, in the presence of
the Magistrates.
(From the Courier Francais of Wednesday.)

PA tusi.FEts. 18,—The Government has this day re-
ceived the news of the Pope's death. His Holiness, who
had long been in a languishing state, expired on the 10th
of this month, at nine o'clock in the morning.
Leo. XII., Hanihal della Genga, was born at La Genga
on the 2d August, 1760. He was elected Pope, at Rome,
on the 27th September, 1823, and enthroned on the 6th
octqber fonowii!g,

FRENCH FUNDS, PARIS, Fea. 18.-Five per Cents.,
110 f. 15c. ; Three per Cents., 76f. 35c. 45c. ; Bank
Stock, I,Blor. 1,5151. ;Neapolitan Rentes, Cert. Fal. SOf.
95c. 15c. ; Spanish itentes, 71 7. ; Royal Spanish loan,
791 1 ; Interminable Spanish Annuities, 48i 48 ; Hay-
tian Loan, 535 f. 540 f.

German Papers, of the 14th February, received
this morning, say that the plague has re-appeared
in the military hospitals of Moldavia, and that several
changes have taken place in the higher departments
of the army. Count PAHLEN is to be relieved his
command. The preparations for war continue with-
out intermission. The Turks are said to have as

yet shewn no real inclination for peace, and the
Emperor NICHOLAS is therefore determined to try
the fortune of a second campaign. The war is daily
becoming more popular in Russia.

The outliner in which Anti-Catholic Petitions
are "got up," may be guessed from the following
paragraph copied from a Morning Paper

" The Anti-Catholics have found out that the easiest
wad of getting their senseless petitions numerously signed
is. to hire a boy to write signatures to them by the hour.
7ke are given to understand, that this System has been very
vigorously pursued within the last two or three days at a
shop near the Poultry, where one of . the Protestant
petitions, as it is styled, is placed for signature. On
Wednesday a gentleman of our acquaintance was
led by curiosity to enter the place,—we believe it
was very lately a mock-auction-room,—in which
these fraudulent proceedings were going on. The
persons then present, besides the clerks superintendig the
petition, • were one or two porters, a chimney-sweep, and
three or four idle mechanics. A pen was. offered to our
friend to sign the petition; but he, of course, refried. The
lad who offered it burst into a loud laugh, and se d, ' Oh,
we can do well enough without you,' and imtnediately
began scribbling on the parchmert before him. What he
wrote oir friend did not see, but the meeNtnics wrote
their names on the same parchment, and as soon'as they
had concluded the lad went on scribbling a:. befor."

We can bear testimony to the correctness of. the
above description. Indeed, we know a neighbour
whose errand-boy, in the wantonness of sport,
signs the petition► referred to four times a day
on each respective visit to the City !
.To save

time, we would recommend the onties interested to
send their petition at once to the. 'Line Coat School,
or some other equally numerous, and" make it a
morning's task for the boys to sign the petition
twenty times over: it would be excellent diversion
for the consequential rogues.
Poor Mr. HALCOMB, with his London and West--
minster Protestant Club! What will become of his
petition and its non-subscribers ? We would recom-
mend him, before it be too late, to take his petition
to Exeter 'Change, and give the frequenters of the
Wild Beasts an' order" for their signatures. Exeter

'Change and the Constitution are to be pulled down
together,—What will Mr. llALco3ta and the wild
beasts do then ?—and what will become of the
hopeful petition ?

Ihe following spirited and loyal appeal to the
people of England has.been circulated at Leicester
yesterday. The pertNal of it must be wormwood to
the exclusionisis in Church and State. We publish
it for the edification of the non-conformists of the
Convocation of Oxford—if any such there be, by
the time The Sun reaches the favoured city of Ox-
ford to-morrow morning:—

SIIIPPINi ; INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.)

FROM LLOYD'S.

DEAL, FEE. 20.--Wind W.S.W.--Arrived from
London, the Admiral Cockburn, Kemp, for Aew South
Wales; Elphinstiine, Richardson, for the Mauritius; and
John, Alunro, for Berbice.

Powrsmotyru, FEe. 20.—Wind :S.—Arrived the Mary,
Ellis, from Naples.
PLYMOUTH, Fee. 19.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrived the
Horatio, Carter, from Leghorn; and Mayflower, Martin,
from Figueira.

FA L;OUTII, FEB. 19.—Wind variable.—Off Port, the
James, Smith, from Gallipoli. Arrival the Prudent,
Nove, from Lisbon ; and Esther, Vantine, from Cette.
COWES, FEB. 20.—Arrived the Mary, Stephens, from
Malaga ; and Emma, Bowen, from Leghorn.
HOLYHEAD, FEB. I9.—Arrived the Pomona,
from Bombay, sailed the 27th of October; Robin Hood,
•
from Savannah ; and Sprey, from Charleston.

• CORK, FEB. • 18.—Arrived the Morning Star, Watson,
from Buenos Ayres.

VESSELS SPOKEN WITIL-Dalhousie Castle, from Liver-
pool to New York, the 3d inst., in lat. 43. long'. 42 ;
Lady of the Lake, from Liverpool to Philadelphia, the 4th.
inst., in lat. 43. long. 40 ;- Argo,' front Messina to Lon►3on,
sth inst., in lat. 34. lung. 12 ; Ardent, front Liverpool to
Wilmington, the 28th ult., lat. 34. long. 51.