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THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.
GRAND MASQUERADE, To,
NIGHT, Monday, June 15.

•
To-night old Drury's gates will open wide,
To-night the sock and buskin's laid aside,
To-night Melpomene intends to revel,
To-night the Muses mean to play the devil,
To-night the world will be again,
To-night's the Masquerade at Drury-lane.

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY ELECTION.
GENTLEMEN who intend to support Mr.
CAVENDISH, and who are proceeding to CAM-
BRIDGE, by the North Road, are requested to apply at
the THREE CROWNS INN, at LEICESTER; the
GEORGE INN, at STANIFORD ; the INNS, at AL-
CONBURY HILL ; and at the FOUNTAIN INN,
HUNTINGDON; where Agents are appointed to facili-

tate their conveyance to Cambridge.
CHARLES BARRAGE, Chairman,
British Coffee-house, Cockspur-street, June 13.

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LONDON,
MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 15, 1829.

The Lords of the Privy Council had a meet-
ing this morning, to hear appeals remitted from
the Colonies. Their Lordships were engaged
the whole morning in hearing arguments of
Couosel in the case of VANDERSTRADEN V.
the ADVOCATE-GENERAL.

Viscount ITABAYANA, the Brazilian Am•
bassador, and Mr. COLQVIIOUN, the Minister
at the Hanse Towns, had a conference with

Lord ABERDEEN, this morning, at the Foreign
Office.

Despatches were received at the Foreign
Office this morning from Lord STUART PE
RoTursAY, our Ambassador at Paris; and also
from our Ambassador at Brussels.

The Earl of DALHOUSIE transacted business
with Sir GEORGE MURRAY this morning at
the Colonial Office.

We are happy to state, from the best authority,
lat Earl FITZWILLIAM is better, and going

wel

The Herald of this morning has a longer
article than usual upon the present state of parties,
and more particularly of Administration, the
main, though not avowed, object of which is to
impress on its readers the fact that the Govern-
ment is in a ricketty condition, and that from
fear, rather than from any other motive, it has

been endeavouring to " stave off every thing whicl

could, b`• possibility, bring the weakness of the
Administration to the test." Nov► this, though
adroitly, is not fairly put. The fact is, the majority
of the House of Commons have ever since the

passing of the Catholic Relief Bill, evinced the

strongest symptoms of disrelish for public busi-
ness. Emancipation and Mr. O'CoNNELL have
fairly unsettled them. They have been unable
to bring their usual cool habits of reflection to
business, and hence, night after night, has passed
without a single thing being proposed or dis-
cussed, or even an inclination expressed to
have it discussed. But is this languid temper
of the House of Commons to be charged
to the Government account ? Is it not the na-
tural, the inevitable result of circumstances ? In

the opinion of the public, the Session concluded
with the passing of the Emancipation Bill ; that
once achieved, the country was no longer solici-
tous to hear the opinions of Bon. Members on

this or that comparatively unimportant matter ;
and it is not unfair to conclude that where
there are few readers without, there will be
few speakers within, the House. One calls
forth and encourages the other. Again, can
that Administration be justly accused of " fear,"
which in the very teeth of the strongest faction
that ever yet strove to enslave the free spirit of a

nation, brought forward the Emancipation Act,
and perilled its all on the result ? The idea is
monstrous, and has merely been adduced by
our cotemporary as a sample of its logical dex-
terity.

The Prussian State Gazette, of the 9th of
June, has been received, as well as St. Peters-
burgh Journals of the 28th May. The Empe-
ror of RUSSIA arrived in Berlin quite unex-
pectedly : the Empress was met at Frankfort on

the Oder by the KING, her father, and the
Royal Family of Prussia. The following are

extracts :

BERLIN, JUNE 7.--Yesterday morning their Royal
Highnesses his Majesty's sons went to Frankfort, on the
rider, to meet her Majesty the Empress of Russia, whose
joyful arrival was expected that day. His Majesty the
King, with the Princesses, his daughters, went to Fried-
erichtfeld to receive her. If his Majesty and the Royal
family felt the most lively joy on seeing their daughter and
sister, their pleasure was greatly heightened by the wholly
unexpected arrival of his Majesty the Emperor and of his
Imperial Highness the Grand Duke Alexander. Their
Majesties arrived in this city at half-past seven o'clock,
and alighted at the Royal Palace, where they were received
by the Princes and Princesses of the Royal Family and
their attendants, and conducted to the apartments prepared
for their reception.
NEWS FROM THE THEATRE OF WAR.
CAM? 3IEYORE SILISTRIA, MAT 29.--The operations
of the siege have already began, and in the night of the
26th the first parallel was completed. In general the
enemy gives us very little interruption in our work. In
the night of the 29th, however, he attempted a sally in
pretty considerable force, which was chiefly directed against
our left wing, but he was repulsed with loss.
General Roth is engaged in completing the union of
Lis corps before Kostudji. The Grand Viaier remains is

Balarick.
(The Prussian State Gazette fills seme columns with
accounts of the arrival of the Emperor and Empress of
Russia, and of the rejoicings of the people of Berlin on the
occasion.)
ST. PE` ERSsußiisi, MILT 27. The Commercial State
Gazette contains the -following article :—" Among. the
erroneous-statements circulated respecting Russia, we must•
place what some foreign Journals have said of considerable
consignmente of gold made to the Russian Government by
a. hone at London,, and on the differences with the Bank
of England which these consigOments are said to have oe-
casioned. If any consignments of gold have been made,
the-only purpose of them Inuit lie to pay for the corn pur-
chased for England, and which is expected there."
FRONTIERS or WA ILACIIIA Y 15.—A corps of
10,000 men, consisting wholly of natives, is to be
raised in our proximity. Little Wallachia to furnish
6,000 men, and Great Wallachia 4,000 ; the former to be
organised by General Geismar, the latter by Gen. Pahlen.
Russia undertakes the charge of clothing and arming those
troops, but the pay and subsistence are to be at the ex-
pence of the Principality. The Wallachian free corps con-
sists at present of only 198 men, the others have partly
deserted, and partly been dismissed as unfit for service.
The President is very active in seeing the establishment
of military hospitals: be requires that every district shall
make arrangements for the accommodation of 1,500
patients.
Troops continue to match towards Ghiurgevo ; two
regiments of chasseurs on horseback from Bucharest passed
throuzh to-day. Each of these regiments hal hardly 500
men, but about 50 or 60 supernumerary horses : these
troops are also provided with pikes, the better to resist the
attacks of the Turkish light cavalry : one hundred wag.
gong, with provisions frena the south of Russia, have taken
the same direction.
Letters from Bucharest say, that on account of the cares
of plague that had occurred in the city itself, the police had
caused all the taverns and coffee-houses to be closed ever
since the 12th, and had forbidden 'all communication in the
streets for three days. Hitherto 15 persons who have the
plague have been discovered, some of whom have had the
infection ever since the Ist April, and yet were not con-
fined to their beds, a proof that the disease has abated in
malignity. Most of the Boyards had left their houses, and
the usual modes of fumigation by burning heaps of manure
was universally practised.
Flaareuacir, JUNE 9.—The inclination to a rise mani-
fested by our place was confirmed by the arrival of the
English and French mails. Diacount 5a4? „ per cent.
End of June.
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per cent ....... 63%
Anglo-Russian Loan
Ha.nburgh-Ruseian Loan
A ngio-Plussian Loan of 1818 9911
Polish Bonds
Austriantstai ii Bank
kalSlihqaureses 11.5 0
Ai
96
To day being a holiday, no regular exchanges have been
noted ; bills, however, have been done as follows:
Exchange upon London at eight
at two months, 13 813 EN
BERLIN, JUNE 10.—The Prussian State Gazette of
this date contain no further news from Turkey.

The French Papers of Thursday and Friday
have been received. Their contents principally
relate to matters of interest only to France. The
state of parties occasions as much annoyance to
the French Ministry as ever. The Ministry
does not possess the exclusive confidence of the
KING nor the support of the Chambers. This
occasions hesitation on the one hand and distrust
on the other. The Constitutionnel says that Count
PORTA LIS " is only the hat which keeps the place
of Minister for Foreign Affairs for Prince Po-
LIGNAC, who is regarded in all the high circles as
the inevitable Minister." The same proceeds to
say, that Prince POI, IGNAC will be very consti-
tutional,—that he only can grant France Muni-

cipal Institutions, and that even those who re-
gard every improvement as revolutionary, yet
ardently wish for the entrance of that personage

into power. If this be so, Prince POLIGNAC
will be more fortunate than his predecessors,
should he exchange the functions of Ambassador
for the more arduous and respoksible ones of
Foreign Minister.

If we may credit the Journal (hi Commerce'

le operations of Admiral GUMMI have bee

more successful than was at first supposed. The
Admiral not only frightened the Turkish fleet
back into the Bosphorus, but captured along the
coast a number of transports, and destroyed in
the harbour of Penderaclea a new ship of 60
guns, which was ready for sailing.
The labours of the French Parliament are
drawing to a close for the present Session.
On Wednesday and Thursday last that part of

the Budget which embraces the funds for sup,
porting the National Church was discussed

As the observations of a Morning Contempo-
rary on this subject are much in unison with our
own views, we have no hesitation in adopting
them• The Church Establishment, having no

independent support from the land or the capital
of the country, comes as regularly for a mainte-
nance under the annual inspection of the Le-
gislature as the army or the gendarmerie.
Though it is not likely to suffer any injury
by this frequent display of its dependence, any
more than royalty itself, which is supported by a
civil list annually voted, still it must be confessed

that one great argument in favour of its stability,
namely, the independent existence of its funds,
is destroyed. Its budget coming as regularly
under review as our Mutiny Bill, it may be
thought by some to be assimilated to the army,
and liable like it to be reduced or augmented
according to circumstances. -.The remarks of
some of the left side on the Clergy in Wed-
nesday's debate were severe, and their present
rate of income was voted with reluctance, though
no Member spoke decidedly against the esta-
blishment. It must be owned by impartial fo-
reigners, that no extravagance can be found
either in the whole sum devoted for the support
of the Church, or in the salaries of any of its
functionaries, A religious establishment for
30,000,000 of people, with all the ranks of its
hierarchy,—Cardinals, Archbishops, Bishops,
and their subordinate Clergy,—costs the nation
less than a million and a half sterling. On this
fund depends the existence of nearly 40,000
Cures or Priests, with their ecclesiastical staff of
80 Prelates and other dignitaries. It would appear
not a little startling to some of our Irish Bishops,
who have so large incomes and so few duties, to
hear any proposal to reduce their revenues to

lose of the French Cardinals, who, besides

their labours in their diocesses and in the
Chamber of Peers, have lately been obliged
o defray the expenses of a journey to Rome

ope. ihe
salary of :a Bishop in
France is only 15,000 francs (or about 6001.),
and that of an Archbishop, 2.5,000 francs,
or 10001. starling a year. They receive from
the local funds of their departments a little more,
and in being made Peers of France, or Cardinals

of 'the Holy See, have an advance to support
that dignity, but the whole does not generally
lamount to more than about 1,5001. or 2,0001. a
year. The revenues of three or four of the Irish
Bishoprics would amount to a sum sufficient to
support the eighty prelates of the Catholic,esta-
blishmems of France. The inferior clergy are,paid
on a scale by far too small, their incomes on an
average not exceeding 1,000 francs (or 401.),
both from the State and from the Departments.

In the time of BUONAPARTE the whole funds
allotted for the support of the church did not
amount to half a million sterling. The conse-
quence was, that many of the parishes were left
without a priest—that none but peasants would
accept of ordination, and nothing but a fear of
the military conscription could drive recruits into
such a pauper establishment."

Another Contemporary has the following ob-
servations on the same subject:—
" In the Chamber of Deputies, the subject
of discussion on Wednesday and Thursday was

the Budget of Ecclesiastical Affairs. M. de
CORCELLES observed, that this Budget, which
did not exceed 12 millions under the Consulate,
and 18 millions at the time of the Restoration,
now exceeded 40 millions, without being equal to
all the demands on it still in reserve. If to this were
add edthe sums contributed in aid of the Com m Lines,

the allocations of the Councils-General of De-
partments, the income from the inalienable estates,
which are swelled every day by a considerable
mass of legacies and donations, the produce of
casualties and quests, perhaps it is not going
too far to estimate the whole of the different
revenues of the Church at a tenth of our public

revenues.'

" We perceive from this discussion that it is
not in the Church of England only that the in-
ferior Clergy exist in a degrading state of de-
pendence. From the following speech of M.
DUPIN, it would appear that there are Vicars of
Badney and Bishops of Lincoln in France as well
as here. , This very morning (said M. DUPIN),
two ecclesiastics called on me ; they are in full exer-
cise but they complain of the tyranny which weighs
on them. These respectable ecclesiastics com-
plain of all sorts of encroachments and acts of
injustice on the part of those who ought to be
their protectors. One of them delivered to me
a petition, to which was joined a note which
might be detached, and which contained these
words in Latin—, Melins est veteres sacerdotes
cadere in manus Judicis Divini quam in regi-
men mall Episcopz.—it would be better for old
Priests to fall into the hands of their Divine
Judge, than under thegovernment of a bad Bishop.
You have deemed it just that the grade of a
military officer was his property ; because, being
a soldier, whether he would or not, he ought to
preserve the rank that he has so painfully ac-
quired. Well, the Priest is also an officer of
another kind.' However, the hardships in the
Catholic Church cannot be compared to those in
ours, where the poor dependent on the caprice
of an Ecclesiastical Superior may see a wife and
familv plunged in a moment into destitution."