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PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.

J. J., and I. Anderton, Pilkington and Manchester,
fustian-manufacturers.
George Waldron and. Robert Watts, Bath, surgeons.
William Louth and James Wilson, Nottingham, lace-
manufacturers.

Samuel Faulkner and George Charlton, Manchester,
coach-lace-manufacturers.

Abraham Hanby and William Green, Sheffield, aaw•
manufacturers.

Richard Edwards and Francis Taylor, Lawrence-lane,
general-warehousemen.
William Harvey and Sarah Harvey, Freme Selwood,
Somersetshire, ironmsngers.
Richard Rake and William Skinner, kin.
John Ward and George Bawer, Sheffield, wine-mer-
chants.

Charles Welstead and Robert Smith Surtees, Berners-
street, solicitors.
Manoel Antonio de Freitas and Antonio da Costa, To-
ken house-yard, merchants.
Roger Rowson Lingard, John Vaughan, and Alexander
Lingard, Heaton-Norris, Lancaster, attorneys.
Thomas Augustus and John Carter, king's-Lynn,
Norfolk, mer:.bants.
Charles Beach and Edward Beach, North Audley-strect,
oilmen.

SCOTCH SEQUESTRATION.
H. Cameron and Co., Glasgow, thread manufacturers.

There has lately arrived at the Hague a large
collection of Egyptian antiquities and guriositiv,, which
hare been purchased by Government fur 136,000 florins.—
Brussels Telegraph.

A most magnificent piece of plate, which,
when finished, will be the largest in Europe, and exceed-
ing anything of the kind manufactured in this country, is
now in course of completion for his Majesty, by Rundell
and Bridge. It is for the purpose of a wine-cooler, and
some idea may be formed of its magnitude from the fact,
that a man may stand upright in it, and that it will com 7
prise7,ooo ounces of silver. This splendid service has oc-
cupied a great length of time, especially in the gilding of it,
as this has been a work of more than ordinary difficulty
irons its immense size, and the prejudicial effects to the
workmen
from the vick9ilver used in the gilding compo-
sition

strenuously recommend to the Duke of Wel-
lington a calm contemplation of so-triumphant
an experiment, made by the wisdom of the
British Legislature upon a mixed Protestant and
Catholic people, among whom, in the emphatic
language of one of the witnesses, " No man asks
whether his neighbour is a Protestant or a Ca-
tholic." Upon your practical " common sense"
understandings, which require facts, and repu-
diate general reasonings, we conceive that one
example, like that now referred to, must have a
decisive influence.

Whatever constructions may be put upon the
recent correspondence between political noble.;
men and a Catholic prelate, the crisis has obvi-
ously been advanced by it. The Duke of Wel-
lington's opinion as to the practical utility of de-
lay, and Lord Anglesea's upon the urgency of
the measure, must come very speedily into con-
flict. The Duke may have difficulties to con-
tend with—no one doubts it ; but, as he is re-
ported to have once said himself, on occasion of

forming his own Ministry, " difficulties are not
impossibilities." We have little reason to fear
that if the Duke of Wellington were to state in
high quarters the existence of a political neces-
sity for this great healing measure, every abstract
scruple would in a moment give way. We are
sure that such weight is attached to his judg-
ment when that judgment is communicated in
strong and unambiguous terms, and more espe-
cially when it happens to be founded on appre-
hensions of coming evil, that an illustrious Per-
sonage would feel it high time to be alarmed
when he found the Duke of Wellington's intre-
pid spirit moved, and that the wise precedent of
legislation. established in our North American
colcmies.would press with full authority on his
reason.
But it is said that some of the Ministry are
still intractable ;—that Mr. Peel would resign,
and the Cabinet be broken up, like so many
others which have fallen to ashes on the first

pinch of emergency. That Mr. Peel would
!eel himself bound to throw up office is
generally understood ; but it is equally so, that
if the Duke of Wellington would take a just
meastr of his own position, and act with but a
small share of that firmness which both the

country and the King expect from him, the se-
cession of Mr. Peel need cause him no serious
embarrassment. No, the Cabinet which has
withstoOd the loss of four or five liberal and able
7Alinisters, has nought to he frightened at in the
absence of Mr. Peel. If, therefore, the Duke
of \Veliington has tact enough to discover where
the real danger lies, and to provide for it by an
act of national justice, he at once proves himself
to be a man well qualified to set all paltry bug-
bears at defiance.

If the Duke will but do what he unquestion
ably can do, and propose a Catholic Bill wit
securities; he may be Minister, as they say i
Scotland " until the cows come home."
Would it not be worth the Duke's while to
consider the great facility of settling the quarrel
now, while Parliament appears generally favour-
able to him and his administration, compared
to what it might be after a new election, when
it - is indisputable that the Catholic interest in
Ireland would return four-fifths of the represen-
tatives from that country—every man of them,
not merely devoted to the Catholic cause, but
pledged to a systematic opposition against his
Grace on all questions of national concern, as a
means of coercing him into emancipation, without
restriction or security ? Besides, would it be
wise on grounds of internal tranquillity, to
hazard a general election in Ireland before that
irritating queqion is settled ?
" By the same policy by which other States have
thus secured religious peace to themselves in Europe,
the Government of England has secured it to itself
in Canada. The original proclamation of the King,
upon the conquest of the Province, introduced
provisions which militated against the Roman Ca-
tholic religion; these were afterwards repealed, the
whole principle of equal rights between Protestants
and Catholics established, and religious peace is the
result. The first Canada Act 14 George 111.
chap. 33, recites, that the proclamation had been
found upon experience to be inapplicable to the
state and circumstance of the said province, the in-
habitants whereof amounted at the conquest to
above 65,000 persons, professing the religion of the
Church of Rome,' and 'for the most perfect security
and ease of the minds of the inhabitants of the said
province,' it is declared and enacted, 'that his Ma-
jesty's subjects professing the religion of the Church
of Rome, of and in the said province, may have,
hold, and enjoy, the free exercise of the religion of
the Church of Rome, subject to the King's supre-
macy, declared and established by an Act made in the
first year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, over all
the dominions and countries which then did, or
thereafter should, belong to the imperial Crown of
this realm. Provided always, that no person pro-
fessing the religion of the Church of Rome, and re-
siding in the said province, shall be obliged to take
the oath required by the said statute, passed in the
first year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, or any
other oaths, substituted by any other Act in the place
thereof. But that every such person, who by the said
statute is required to take the oath therein mentioned,
shall be obliged to take and subscribe the following
oath, viz.-4 I, A. 13.,, do sincerely promise and
swear, that I will be faithful, and bear true allegi-
ance to his Majesty King George, and him will de-
fend to the utmost of my power• against all traitors,
conspiracies, and attempts whatsoever, which shall
be made against his person, crown, and dignity ; and
I will do my utmost endeavour to disclose and make
known to his Majesty, his heirs, and successors, all
treasons and traitorous conspiracies and attempts,
which I shall know to be against him, or any of
them. All this Ido swear, without any equivoca-
tion, mental evasion,- or secret reservation, and re-
nouncing all patdona and dispensations from any-

power or person whomsoever to the contrary.--se
help me God.' " A subsequent Act, SI Geo. 111.
chap. 31, divides Canada into two provinces, and
establishes two legislative assets: dies in each, one
representative, the other chosen by the Crown; they
thus correspond with our Lords an-] Commons; and
the members are required to take a similar oath to
the oregoing, and no other. Ne IT, by the Act of
Elizabeth, the supremacy of the Crown was estab-
lished iu Canada the moment it became a British
province, as firmly as in England or in Ireland ; and
all persons in office there were bound to take the
oath of Elizabeth, as altered by the first of William
and Mary. Neither of the Canada Acts disturb the
supremacy of the Crown, lout both adapt the law
, respecting it to the circumstances of the country.
This is done, there being 65,000 Rearm Catholic in-
habitants, but substituting an oett Which Catholics
may take; for one -which they ca;u take. Whet
more do the Catholics of Ireland desire ? It is im-
portant to observe, that the first Canada Act contains
a solemn, deliberate declaraticre tliet the King's su-
premacy may be preserved, although the test, called
the Oath of Supremacy, be dispensed with, provid-
ed that other oath, which, members of the church of
Rome may take, be subStituted for it. This, too, is
done with reference to the admission. of Catholics to
the highest legislative and executive functions. The
principle, then, being thus establied, and having
been applied to Canada, why shoM,I it not also be
applied to Ireland ? Has not the old oath been
found, upon experience, to be inaeplicable to the
' state and circumstances' of Ireland ? If it were
wise—and who will venture to say that it was not ?
—to adapt it ' to the state and circumstances' of
Canada, where there were 65,000 Roman Catholics,
would it not also be wise _to adapt ,it to the ' state
and circumstances' of Ireland, where there are not
65,000, but 6,500,000 of these same:- Catholics ?
• ...
Could experience testify against the, oaths according
to its present frame, more forcibly,' or more wofully
in Canada, than it does in Ireland P:ris Ireland less
worthy of consideration than ' Cnnada ? Are the
Irish Catholics inferior to the Cenadian in truth,
honour, or moral worth ? .No : nor to their Protes-
tant fellow-subjects either. Let the state of crime
—let the state of education in Engand and in Ire-
land be compared, and Ireland, with her Catholic
millions, will not be found below even England in
the scale of knowledge, or of virtie. Her people
are divided by violent animosities; but let it be re-
collected, that the law puts enmity between them ;
that it ties them together, by principles calculated to
produce not sympathies but antipathies. The law
is, therefore, the great agitator of Ireland, and upon
the law let justice be, done.. • Let it be dealt with in
Ireland as it has been dealt with in Canada. What
Canada has derived from the change, that will Ire-
land derive also, and then, at length, Will be effected
that real union between Great Britain and Ireland
which it was the great object of Mr. Pitt to ''necom.
plish and perpetuate. • - e • - .. -
" Of the effects produced by the policy pursued
towards Canada, the reader may form an idea from
the evidence annexed to the late report of a select
committee of the House of Commons, upon the
civil government of it; the following is an extract
from the examination of Edward Ellice, Esq., a
Protestant :

" !When you alluded to a claim on the part of
the clergy, did you allude to the Roman Catholic
cleriii or the Protestant ?—The Roman Catholic ;
and I think it necessary to state, that when I talk of
the claims of the Roman Catholic clergy in Canada,
I do not believe a more liberal, •beneiiiilent, or cha-
ritable body of Christian ministers exist in any coun-
try, or one whose conduct and habits are more ex-
emplary or praiseworthy ; and I um persuaded they
will be found at all times disposed to lend them-
selves, consistently with the interests of their reli-
gion and church, to every measure for the improve-
ment and advantage of their country.'
" The following are extracts from the examination
of John Neilson, Esq., also a Protstant
" Are the committee to understand from what

you have said, that if both the Protestant and Ca-
tholic religions are protected in their establishment
in that country, and there is no appearance of any de-
sign on the part of Government to infringe on the
rights of one or the other, that you do not appre-
hend that there will be any religious animosities boa
tween Protestants and Catholics in the province of
Lower Canada ?—I should think so. It was not
till 18.21, upon the rejection of the school-bill sent
up by the House of Assembly, giving the direction
of the schools severally to the clergy of all religious
denominations, that there did not .e.ern to break out
any great jealousy on the part of the Roman Catho-
lics. That confirmed them in the jealousies which
they probably had internally before, on account of cer-
tain instructions already mentioned, but then they
burst forth to a great extent; since that time they have
gone on increasing., but they did not believe, nor dro
they yet believe, that the Government of this coun-
try was at the bottom of it ; they generally thought
that it was something started in the colony, and it.
has not, in consequence of that, got to so great a
height as it would otherwise have got; for amongst
the body of the people at this present moment, no
man asks whether his neighbour is a Catholic or a
Protestant; there are Catholics f.nd Protestants in
the same family and neighbourhood, and all living in
perfect harmony. In truth, no country was ever
more exempt from religious animosities than Lower
Canada has generally been duriitg the 37 years
have resided there.

" Ave there any attempts to proselyte on the
part of the Catholic Church ? ; I think they
are the least proselyting- people that ever I have
seen. I have been frequently at iheltoutes of the
clergy, and they never talk to you about religion;
generally the Canadian Roman Clitholics shun every
conversation about religion.
" Are the Catholic clergy mach respected by
their flocks generally ?—They art: respected, I be-
lieve, by every body in the country; I lave never
heard any body speak ill of them erierally.
" Do they mix themselves up :n the general po-
litics of the province, or in matters disconnected with
their own religion ? No, they never have interfered
with politics to any extent ; they fenerally have kept
away even from appearing or voti.!g at an election ;
they do not think that it is eonsis ent with their in-
terest and religious duties to have any thing to do
with politics.
" Did not they materially assist the Government
in the defence of the province during the war ?
That is with them a religious dut.i.. In the war in
1775 they took a very active prq in encouraging
the people to defend the country ; and in th•e war of
1812 they also took an active pat ; but the whole
body of the people took an active part at that time;
they were opposed to the Americans, and they were
strongly attached to a connexion with this Govern-
ment.' "

The circumstance of the Duke of Wellington
having spurned all commerce with the; Marquis of Angleses
upon Irish affairs, produced, as it w.:s well caleulated to
produce, -universal indignation amon;,st the people of this
country. The allegation that the cattle of the Noble Mar-
quis's recall was his refusal to overite? the law, and, in
contempt of the law-officers of the C .3wn, extend the pu-
nishment of Mr. O'Gorman Mahon I;eyond mere magis•
terial suspension, heightened this h:dignation. But the
scandalous whispers which have been :Yervading the public
car for the week now passing, and tieir broad-day detail
and inuendoes in the newspapers, hav2 excited exasperation
to a pitch not equalled by any remin.scence that we have
of popular wrath. When men (fiery deserve not the
name) perpetrate that moral ruin by which family comfort
is blighted and hearts are seared, they ~we it to their victims
at least to keep them above penury, and supply the means
of aliment to the ity'ortlines who may have abandoned
affluence and protection at their solicitation. The fact is,
Lord Anglesea refused to act the pander, to smuggle the
name,of a Countess well-known to the newspaper repor-
ters, into the coucordatum list ; and this was his pecratum
peccatorum. —D n Freeman's Journal.
Government has ordered a reinforcement of
forty additional constables to the police force of Roscom-
mon county, in consequence:of the resolution of the Magis-
trates on the disturbed state of tome of its baronie...—
Liuterich Chronicle.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRENCH PAPERS.

(Prom the Mmager des Cliambres of Sundey.)
Teter is no important news from the theatre of
eta,. It seems certain that all that has been said of
a iccet bettle in the neighbourhood of Yarns is des-
feu-e a: foundation : the position of the contending
a: mies are still the same.
Letzere from Bucharest, of the 28th of Decem-
ber, announce that a thaw had set in three days
before, and that the roads continued to grow more
and more imnas'able.
The last litter,* from Lisbon are of the 6th of
January. They confirm what was announced by the
telegraphic despatch respecting the improvement of
Don :4ieetiel's health.
The Courier de Smyrne, according to custom, en-
deavo-nrs to place the Greek Government in the
wnrst light. That journal, in its last number, says,
" The Government could find no means of putting
a stop to the alarming desertion among the troops
of Ypsilanti, which threatened a total dissolution
of his corps. but to spree,' a report that a Turkish
army had orders to invade the Peloponnesus. This
news has produced a bad effect among the inhabi-
tants, several of whom have suspended the rebuild-
ing of their houses, and forming plantations. Cap-
tain Cr:exi has succeeded Bassano in the command
of the Greek flotilla, which has done nothing but
capture a Turkish brig anti a gun-boat in the gulf of
Prevesa. The corps of General Church, not being
able to undertake any offensive operations, con-
fines itself to useless demonstrations, which can-
not ,aye the Turks, and are very burdensome to
Greece."
ODgssA, DEc. 27.—General Diebitsch, the Chief
of the Staff, left Jassy on the 25th of December for
St. Petersburgh. General Strekaloff, who is ap-
pointed Governor of Tiflis, arrived at Odessa on
the 25th on his way to his post.
(From the Gazette de France of Jan. 19.)
PARIi, JAN. 18.--The Diario di Ronza announ-
ces, under the head of Corfu, that the Ottoman
Primates of Epirus and Albania having been cenvo-
ked at Berat and Janina, to receive a communice-
/ion from the Porte, inviting them to continue the
war at their own expence, as the Government was
unable to afford them any assistance, resolved not to
continue so ruinous a war, but to negociate with
the Greek Government. Accounts had been re-
ceived from Malta, that there were in that port five
English ships of the line, and seven English frigates
and brigs. Great exertions were making there to
repair the fortiErations. The French are also busy
in fortifying Patras.
(From the Journal des Debuts.)
(PRIVATE LETTER.)
LISTO.I, JAN. 3.—The greatest activity reigns in
the War Department, Orders have been issued to
put in motion 4,000 men of the division of Chaves,
who are divided among the provinces of Alernejo,
Beira, and Tras-os-Montes : 800 men were to repair
to Lisbon, about an equal number to Oporto, and
the rest were to proceed to those points of the coast
which are most easy of access. This measure
proves that the Government has more confidence in
the troops of the Chaves division than in those of
any other divisions of the army ; it has, therefore,
produced a bad effect on the regiments in garrison
at Lisbon.
(EXTRACT OF ANOTHER LETTER.)
Consternation reigns in the palace at Queluz,
since the great council held there on the 30th of
December. The Ministers of War and Foreign
Affairs have had conferences with the usurper of se-
veral hours' duration. The abject of these confe-
rences is to find means of maintaining for Miguel an
army strong enough to keep the inhabitants of Por-
tugal in awe, without taxing tilem for the payment
of it. The result is said to be a decision to dimi-
nish the number of troops of the line, and substitute
for theta new royalist volunteers, under the pretext
that the existing army is that which, in 1320, com-
mitted so many .disorders, and which has figur-
ed in to many revolutions. Serious misunder-
standings exige between the volunteers and regulars.
The councils of the Ministers are frequent, and it
is generally believed tliat they are occasioned by the
last despatches receivedfrem London cud the Isle
St. 'Michael.
The prisoners of state from Madeira are still on
board the transports. They thus, at least, escape
the cruelty of our prison-gaolers, eel the ...onerous
maladies arising from the infected atmosphere of the
prisons.

Russian officers, and several hundred privates taken
prisoners, almost all wounded, have been brought
hither in a very deplorable condition, it is said, from
Silistria. They are distributed on some islands
near the capital, where they are attended by the
physician of the Eur,p,ean Legations. The Sultan
is said not to have shown himself well disposed to-
wards them. It was with great difficulty that the
Austrian, Dutch, and Danish Ambassadors ob-
tained from the Reis Effendi permission to send
them medical assistance, and to provide for their
most urgent wants.
The want of ready money is sensibly felt, and the
Turkish Ministry is seriously engaged in devising
means to put a stop to the increasing embarrass-
in;..nt. What it means to adopt is not known. Or-
dinary methods are not applicable in a country
which has no regular financial system, and extraor-
dinary ones are dangerous, as the germ of discon-
tent exists, and the old esprit du carp: of the Ja-
nissaries does not cease to manifest itself under the
most diverse forms. _ _

VIENNA, JAN. B.—Metalliques, 96 ; Bank Skirt*,
1,109.

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