The Sun.
London, England, 1845-04-15 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, APRAL 18, 11448.

351 at sixty days ; the Five per Cents. at 251 at sixty
days ; and the Debt, without interest, at 8+ for cash, and
81 at sixty days.

The French Chamber of Peers have passed the Bill
for mitigating slavery in the colonies by a majority of
103 to 59. This is a large minority, when it is consi-
dered how small the boon is which the unfortunate slave
is to reek ire. But something more will be done. Slavery
cannot long exist in the French West India colonies
amidst those of England, where liberty prevails. The
Paris press too, generally, is favourable to the measure,
and it is understood that a proposition of the Duke
D'HARCOURT, for granting a certain sum out of the
Treasury to enable slaves of good character to purchase
their liberty, will be brought forward in the Chamber
of Deputies.
The accounts from Zurich are to the 10th inst., on
which day the Diet was to meet. In the meantime the
Commission had made a report, recommending the Fe-
deral Commissioners to give efficacy to the resolutions
agreed to by the Diet against the free eorps, and for the
preservation of the public peace, insisting especially that
the refugees from Lucerne shall not fix their resi-
dences within a given distance of that canton ; and, in
the second place, the Vorort is called upon to see the re-
solution regarding the free corps executed in all the
cantons, and to make a report on the subject at the next
extraordinary Diet. The Catholic cantons had held a
general council at Lucerne, and a general amnesty had
been granted to all persons under twenty years of age.
M. GEZOT had addressed another note to the Count
DE PONTOIS, French ambassador to the Cantons, in
which he states that the KING'S Government is anxious
to maintain the independence of Switzerland, whilst at
the same time it must protest against revolution or a
civil war. The following are the only contents of the
note of the slightest interest :

"So far from wishing, by the conduct that I prescribed on the
3d of this month to the King's Ambassador, to affect this inde-
pendence in the slightest manner; our intention was to offer
Switzerland a fresh proof of our esteem. if anything could com-
promise the external situation, as well as the internal prosperity of
Switzerland, it would be the breaking out of civil war and anarchy
in her bosom. Was it a normal and regular state of things that
the violent action of troops, illegally armed and raised, should
endeavour, in the canton of Lucerne, to impose by violence their
will on a legally constituted Government? Is the revolution
accomplished in the canton of Vaud, by insurrection and mate.
rial force, a normal and regular state of ttings ? Should not the
friends of Switzerland see in such facts an imminent danger,
not only for the peace and security of the country, but even for
the existence of the Confederation, so unfortunately affected in
the inviolability of its compact and the sovereignty of tts cantons.
As long as the question of the Jesuits was discussed regularly and
pacifically in the cantons, the King's Government, faithful to the
principles which have aletays guided it, abstained from any mani.
festation ; but when the gravity of the situation revealed itself by
(Murders that affected the whole of Europe, the French Govern.
ment deemed it their sacred duty to call the most serious attention
of the Diet to perils as evident as they were grave; and it con.
jured it, in a friendly manner, to take prompt and efficacious
measures for remedying the evil, to prevent renewed attempts, and
re-assure at the same time both Switzerland and Europe. These
are the affectionate and disinterested motives which have alone
guided the King's Government."

The French Three per Cents. were done at TOR
TOM'S on Sunday at 85f. 70c.

THIS DAY'S NEWS.

CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.)
This being the first day of Easter Term, the Lord Chancellor
entertained the Judges, Masters in Chancery, and Queen's Counsel
to breakfast, at his Lordship's residence in George-street, Hanover-
squure. After which his Lordship, accompanied by the Judges.
proceeded in state to Westminster Hall, for the purpose of taking
their seats in their respective Courts. His Lordship took his seat
shortly after one o'clock, accompanied by the Master of the Rolls,
the Vice-Chancellor of England, the Vice. Chancellors Knight
Bruce and Wigram, and Masters Sir Giffin Wilson and Sir
George Rose.

His Lordship took motions, none of which possessed any points
of interest.

ROLLS' COURT.-(THIS DAY.)
His Lordship did not take his seat today till nearly two
o'clock. His Lordship took motions of no general interest.

VICE-CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.)
The Vice-Chancellor of England took motions.
The Vice-Chancellor Knight Bruce did not sit to-day.
Vice. Chancellor Wigram sat in the new court recently erected
for him in Old Palace-yard, and heard motions.
In the Equity Courts, sevetal gentlemen were called within the
bar, who have been recently appointed Queen's Counsel. Among
them were Mr. Wood, the son of Sir Matthew Wood, Mr. Hey.
ward, Mr. Sergeant Murphy, and Mr. Sergeant Manning.

QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.)
Their Lordships took their seats on the bench shortly after one
o'clock.

Her Majesty having granted patents of precedency to Mr. Ser.
geant Manning and Mr. Sergeant Channel], those learned gentle-
men were called within the bar.

The following gentlemen having lately received silk gowns, took
their places inside the bar as Queen's Counael :—Messrs, Wood,
Humphrey, Butt, Gurney, and Haywood.

BAIL COURT.-(THIS DAY.)
(Before Mr. Justice Comminute.)
TUB SPA FIELDS BURICINCLORMIND.

Mr. PEACOCK moved, on the part of Mr. Bird, manager of the
above burying ground, for a writ of certiorari, to remove an in.
dictment for misdemeanour out of the Middlesex Sessions into the
Court of Queen's Bench. The Learned Gentleman moved on the
ground that questions of fact were likely to arise which would
render it advisable to have the case tried by a special jury.

Mr. WILDE said he had been but a few hours before instructed
to show cause why the writ should not be issued, but, supposing
that his Lordship thought that the indictment ought to be removed,
he bad no objection to make some arrangement relative to the
trial.

Mr. PEACOCK cited precedent to show that a rule absolute should
be granted in cases of misdemeanour.
__ _

lii.
LORDSWIP, however, only granted a rule to show cause, two
days hence.

EXCHEQUER.-(THIS DAY.)
(Sittings in Banco.)
THE DISTILLERY CASE-TRIAL AT BAR.

This case, which was adjourned till to.day from last Term, In
consequence of an informality, was, after a brief conversation, again
postponed to Wednesday, the 22d inst., for which day it is positively
fixed.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
There was no change in the Cotton market at Liverpool
yesterday. The sales were 6,000 bales, including 600 bales
of American for export. The crop is reckoned in the ac-
counts from the United States, per Cambria, at 21/4 to 21/2
millions of bales, and the receipts into the cot-
ton ports had been large. A good business was
done in Shares, at improving rates : - Aberdeen
Railway, 51 ; Barnsley Junction, 8% %; Ditto, Half
Shares, 414/ ; Birkenhead, Manchester, and Cheshire,
14% 15%; Birmingham and Gloucester, 139 ; Ditto, New
Shares, 4% 14 ; Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton, 5% ;
Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpcol, 14% 1/4 ; Caledonian, 131/. 14 ;
Cambridge and Lincoln, 934 10 ; Chester and Birkenhead,
50 %Ditto, ; New Shares, 451/4. %; Ditto, Half Shares, 251/4 ;
Chester and Holyhead, 111/8 %; Churnet Valley, 10% 114 ;
Clitheroe Junction, 5 434 ; Cork and Waterford, 3 ; Coventry
and Nuneaton, 3% ; Coventry and Leicester, 2% ; Dublin
and Belfast Junction, 10% ; Dublin and Galway, 51/., ; Dublin,
Mullingar, and Athlone, 738. 6d. ; Dundalk and Enniskillen,
86s. 3d. 41/ ; Eastern Counties, 211/3 ; Ditto, Perpetual,
No. 1, ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 62 62% ; Edinburgh
and Northern, 2%; Ely and Bedford, 618. 6d. ; Glasgow and
Dumfries, 11. 83. 11. 6s. ; Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock,
1834 ; Ditto, Half Shares, 9%; Grand Junction, 225 ; Ditto,
Half Shares, 113 ; Ditto, New Quarters, 441/4 ; Groat
Southern and Western Extension, 11% 12 ; " Goole and
Doncaster, 111 ; lluddersfield Canal and Railway, 4% ;
Huddersfield and Sheffield, 8% ; Inverness and Elgin,
445. 2% ; Kendal and Windermele, 5; Limerick and Water-
ford, 6% ; Liverpool and Manchester, New Shares, 37% % ;
Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 31/ 3; London and Bir-
mingham, 32/. Shares, 45; Londonderry and Enniskillen, 3 % ;
London and York, 31/.1 Bs. 9d. ; Direct Northern, 5% ;
Leeds and Thirsk, 5 995. ; Leeds and West Riding Junction,
71/4 ; Lynn and Dereham, 565. 6d. ; Lynn and Ely, 6% ;
Manchester and Buxton, 51/4 6 •, Manchester, Sheffield, and
Midland Junction, 10 ; Midland Railway, 155% 3/4 ; Ditto,
401. Shares, 1914 ; Ditto, Fifth Shares, 795. ; Newry and
Enniskillen, 5 3s. 6d. ; North British, 191/2 ; Ditto, Half
Shares, 5% •, North Wales Mineral, 15% ; Ditto, New
Shares, 5% 6% ; North Western, 4 ; North Wales, 3% ;
Oxford and Birmingham Junction, 4 ; Oxford, Worcester,
and Wolverhampton, 2 ; Preston and Wyre, 33141/ ; Sheffield
and Manchester, 125% ; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 15% ;
Sheffield and Lincoln, 11. 93. ; Shrewsbury, Oswestry,
and Cheshire, 4%; South-Eastern and Dover, New Shares,
No. 1, 16%; Ditto, No. 2, 11% ; Ditto, No. 3,8% 8%;
South Wales, 6% 7 ; Trent Valley, 1914 ; Ditto, Extension,
474 5 ; West Yorkshire, 4%; Wexford and Carlow, 4;
Worcester and Tring, 41. 16s. 3d. ; Whitehaven and Furness,
4 %; Yarmouth, Diss, and Beccles, 41/4 ; York and North
Midland, New Half Shares, 1614 ; Austrian and Sardinian,
Ss. ; Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Cette, 2/. I3s. 6d.; Lyons and
Avignon (English), 2% ; Northern of France (English),
5/. 165.; Ditto, Rosamel's, (English), 2% 21. 1 ls. ; Paris and
Lyons, English, (Laflitte's), 31% 3 ; Paris and Lyons,
(Ganneron's), 21. 16s. 234 ; Ditto (Calon's), 2/. 25.; Paris and
St. Quentin, 21. 3s. 6d. ; Sambre and Meuse, 9 ; Verona and
Ancona, 1/. 17s.
Papers and letters, dated as late as January 4, have come
to hand this morning from Sydney, and indirectly to the
15th of December from Hobart Town. Besides this there
is an arrival from Adelaide, South Australia, with advices
of the 11th ultimo. The intelligence brought is not of par-
ticular importance, but we learn from Sydney that there
was some derangement in the exchanges, on account of the
discount charged for bills on England; and that wool had
receded in consequence. The caution exercised just now by
shippers in the mother country has the effect of reducing the
indebtedness of the colonists; and it appears, therefore, that
th,ir staple is worth less at Sydney, allowing for freight and
charges, than it is here. •
The wine trade has been recently agitated by failures, and
now the silk trade suffers, two well-known houses having
suspended. One of them having failed a year or two since,
it is very naturally a matter for surprise how it could so soon
again have got into extensive credit, and have such large
liabilities.
The Stock market is firm, and there has been a fair busi-
ness doing. Consols realise 991/4 % for Money, and 99% for
the 27th May, the new account day. Exchequer-bills have
been 575. to 595. premium. Bank Stock has been 2091,E to
213% •, but India Stock has gone back to 276% and 276.
The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have been
101% to 14.
The Foreign Stocks, though quiet, are well maintained.
Spanish Five per Cents. have been 3054 %, and the Passive
7%; Portuguese Converted have been 65% for Transfer, and
66% for Account; Mexican Bonds have been 3614 ; and
Brazilian, 87 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. have been
631/4.
The Share Market has been decidedly quieter, but it is
evident from the firmness of the quotations that this is chiefly
the result of the arrangements for the settlement.
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(Front the Official List.)
Bank Stock 20914 2101
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 9B rs%
3 per Cent. Consols Anus
New 31/4 per Cent. Annuties
Long Annuities ,Expire sth Jan. 1860 1 091
911 1/11:
7-16%11111/
Ditto 30 Years, Expire Jan. 5, 1860
India Stock 27614 276
South Sea Stock
Ditto Old Annuities
Ditto New Annuities
Consols for Account
Exchequer Bills. 1341 11, d.
1,000/.
500/. p ... 59 57 pm.
Ditto Small
?RICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent B7
Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent 361/4
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent
Ditto Converted
Ditto for the Account
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent., 1840 30% %
Ditto for the Account.
Ditto Passive Bonds
Dutch 21,4 per Cents
Ditto for the Account 63,74
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates
PRICE OF SIIARES AT ONE O'CLOCK.
RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHAP.E
Aberdeen - to -
Armagh, Coleraine, PA•trush
Birmingham and Gloucester 100 139 140... to 138
Ditty, Ilia Shares 3
Bristol and Exeter

Ditto New
Bristol and Gloucester 3O
o 64
Caledonian 5 ...... 14 131 A to 14
Cambridge and Lincoln
Chester and Holyhead 5 ...... 12
Churnet Valley
Coventry, Bedworth, and Nun-
eaton
Cornwall ..
Direct Norwich
- t..t.
to
Ditto _7_lo
Dublin and Belfast Junction
1226222151:111/,:.......................................
Dublin and Mullingar
Eastern Counties
Eastern Union
Ditto Extension
t o 18 1j
Great South arid IV. (Irish) 5 ..... 19
-Ditto Extension
Great Western
to 236
London % Shares
Londdwooinnehaanndd Bsoiruntihinlgshreasmtern. 1
450 00122.1.........................................21.181032481168626519727353281::61;3;.:........:...:..•::
Ditto Thirds
London and Blackwell
.. . .
tt
oo
1664014
London and Brighton....
10050
ttitttooool: 111:257414y3 /
London and Croydon... 13/. 15s• 9.. d.....
..............
2 to /4
Ditto New
London and Y0rk........
...... 5114 374 to 4 2
4 - ...... to
litaDniethtoesQteuraartnedrsßirmir.gham 40
to
Midland
Ditto New 2 ...... 203/ •:
.... to
Newcastle &Darlington Sunc 25 ...... 501
.....
to
Newcastle and Berwick
Newark and Sheffield
North British
...... to
Ditto New 1" - 5r4 to
Rugby, Worcester. and Tring 1 543
Scottish Central ............... 21/2 7l/4%-.. to
Scottish Midland ............ ... 14 43/4Ys to
Shrews., W o I v e r . ,Dud.,Birm. 21,4 5 ..... to 43/
South Eastern and Dover ... 33%, _ .
.... to 4
Ditto New, No. 1. . ........... 8
South Wales .................. 2IA
Trent Valley ...... 2 - 19%14... to
York and IN orth Midland ••• 50 -- . . ...... to
Ditto Scarboro'Branch ...... 20
Ditto, Extension ............ 11/1, 173/4 ..... to
FRENCH RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and Amiens ......... 4
Bordeaux,Toulouse,andCette 2

Great Northern of France
(Laffitte's)
Do. Do. (Itosamel's) ...... ... 2 ..... 2NI//... to
Louvain and Jemeppe ...... ... 2
I.
i3_

/4
Orleans and Bordelitix 2 )2 to
Paris and Lyons (Laffitte) ... 2
Parisand Lyons(Ganneron's) 2 ..... 2 /4% to
Paris and Orleans 2O 48 ...... to 491,4
Paris and Rouen ..

1 Sambre and Meuse
Tours & Nantes (Mackenzie) 2
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, APRIL 14.—The sales
are :—Birmingham and Gloucester, New Shares, 5 ; Eastern
Counties 21 ; Manchester and Leeds, Sixteenth Shares, 7%;
Manchester and Birmingham, New Quarters 6 prern._; Man-
chester, Bury, and Rossendale, 18% ; Midland Railway
Consols, 401. Shares, 191 ; North British, New Shares, 51/2 ;
South-Eastern, No. 3, 84 ; Aberdeen, 5 ; Barnsley Junction'
814 ; Birkenhead, Manchester, and Cheshire Junction, 133/4
%; Blackburn, Burnley, and Accrington, 9 ; Blackburn,
Darwen, and Bolton, 5%; Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool,
14%; Caledonian, 123/ ; Cambridge and Lincoln, 9% ;
Clitheroe Junction, 4' prem. ; Churnet Valley, 10% 11%;
Direct Northern, 51,/, ; Dublin and Belfast Junction, 10;
Ely and Bedford, 3X ; Glasgow and Dumfries, 11. 7s. 6d. ;
Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal, 4% ;
Huddersfield and Sheffield Junction, 8% ; Leeds and Thirsk,
514 ; Leeds 'and West Riding Junction, 7% ; Liverpool,
Ormskirk, and Preston, 314 ; London and York, 3% ;
Manchester and Buxton, 5 1/4 • Newark and Sheffield, 61/i ;
North Western, 5% %; Preston' and Wyre Extension, 3%
14 prem. ; Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, Dudley, &c., 4%;
South Wales, 63/1 ; Trent Valley, 19%; Wakefield, l'onte-
tract, and Goole, 131%; West Yorkshire, 44 ; Whitehaven
and Furness, 3; Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Cette, 2%; Great
Northern of France (English), 53/4.

LLO YD'S SHIPPING.—(THIS DAY.)
, LONDON, Arum 15.—Wind Northerly. It blew strong
last night, with severe squalls, and continues with rain at
times.
DEAL, APRIL 14.—Wind N. W., fresh and squally.—Arrd.
St. George, Wright, Sydney ; Alma, Anderson, Batavia ;
Batavia, from Hamburgh.
POOLE, APRIL 13.—Arrd. Gipsy, Figuera, loss of mainmast,
bulwarks, &c.
FALMOUTH, Amur, 14.—Wind fresh gales, and
heavy squall.—Arrd. Maria, Mincham, and the Hannah,
a .—Arrd. Hindoo,
Roddam, Ichaboe. It has blown a hard gale all this day
from W.N. W., and still continues.
LIVERPOOL, APRIL 14.—Wind N.W., gale
•
Spinole, Calcutta ; Wokington, Mauritius ; Jane Augusta, and
Victoria, Lordly, Ichaboe; Adam Smith, Valparaiso; Mary
Forshaw, Old Calabac ; Lehigh, New Orleans ; Asia, Cartilage,
Joshua Bates, Lanark, Maranham, .and Virginia, Mobile;
Liberty and Ocean, Apalachiola, Leander. Savannah ;
Macao, Selina and Sarah, Charleston ,• Briton, Yarmouth.
PENZANCE, APRIL 12.—Arrd, Black Diamond, Port Talbot,
for Manilla, starboard-rigging and fore-rigging adrift.
GRIMSBY, APRIL 11.—Put back, Ann Jane for Scar-
borough, stanchions carried away, &c., having been in con-
tact with the Fair Maid of Perth, 9th instant, in the Hawke.
BitimLNGTON, APRIL 14.—1 t is blowing a gale from
W.S.W. The Prima, from Shields to Fecamp, has put in
here leaky, loss of mizenmast, sails, &c., having been in con-
tact with the William and Ann of Shields now in the bay,
without damage.
HULL, APRIL 14.—1 t blew a strongale all last night
and yesterday, and continues at N. to N.N.E. with rain.

MEETING IN FAVOUR OF THE
GRANT TO MAYNOOTIL-(MIS DAY.)

A numerous and respectable meeting of English Roman Catholics
was held this day at the Freemasons' Tavern, Great Queen-street,
for the purpose of petitioning Parliament in favour of the grant to
Maynooth College. The meeting was convened by an advertise.
ment, bearing the names of the Earl of Arundel and Surrey, Lerd
Shrewsbury, Lord Camoys, Lord Beaumont, Lord Stourton, Lord
Petre, Lord Stafford, and Messrs. Charles Langdale, Edward Petre,
H. V. Stafford Jerningham, and John Towneley, M.P., most of
whom were observed amongst the gentlemen on the platform.
The chair was taken a few minutes before twelve by the Earl of
Arundel and Surrey, on the motion of Lord Camoys, seconded by
Lord Beaumont.

The CHAIRMAN, previous to opening the business of the meeting.
stated that he had received a communication from that venerable
nobleman, Lord Stafford, who expressed regret that he would not
be able to attend on that occasion. Lord Shrewsbury, the Noble
Chairman added, was also unable to attend.

Mr. LANGLEY, the Secre'ary, read the following letter from
Lord Shre,vsbury. He did not place it in the hands of the Noble
Chairman, because he was afraid the Noble Earl would abstain
from reading the concluding part of the note:—

"Alton Towers, April 13, 1845

" Dear Mr. Langdale.—Unable to attend the'rneeting which you
have been good enough to inform me is convened for Tuesday
next, I beg you will have the goodness to express my great regret
at the circumstance, as well as my most cordial assent to the
meeting's objects and intentions ; and upon this point I need not
say more than express my perfect and heartfelt °lncurrence in the
sentiments so ably and honestly expressed by your noble chairman
in his place. in Par lament on Friday last.—l remain, dear Mr.
Langdale, very truly and faithfully, yours

" SHREWSBURY."
The Noble CUAIRMAN then proceeded to introduce the imme-
diate business of the meeting. He said—Gentlemen, we have
met here for the purpose of expressing our sympathy on the oc.
casion of a measure of great benefit being brought forward b; her
Majesty's Government, for the relief of our Catholic brethren in
Ireland.—(Cheers.) Gentlemen, for nearly fifty years, the nursery
of the Irish Catholic clergy has been the College of Mayuooth,
furnishing almost the entire number of the clergy in Ireland.
Gentlemen, I intend, very briefly, to lay before you the reason of
our meeting here to-day. It is not, however, my intention to enter
into a defence of the much-maligned Maynooth, because the
pure and spotless character of the Irish Catholic clergy is too well
known to need any defence from me.—(Loud cheers.
Her Majesty's Government, with a very liberal and generous feeling,
and a very liberal and generous speech on the part of the Prime
Minister, have introduced a measure which has been received
with ecstacy in Ireland from one end to the other. Feeling, as we
do, a strong sympathy with our fellow Catholic subjects in Ireland,
it would not be decent, it would not be becoming, if we did not
now come forward to show that we sympathise with them;
and for that purpose, and with that view, we have met here to-
day to petition Parliament that the Bill, which has already made
some progress, may be pa=ssed into a law. For that purpose a
series of resolutions has been prepared, which Noble Lords amid
gentlemen will have the honour of laying before you for your con.
sideration and approval. Gentlemen, I will not detain you further
than to say I am happy to see so numerous and respectable a meet-
ing. I will therefore conclude by calling upon my Lord Camoys
to move the first resolution.
Lord CAMOYS said he last year bad the honour of presiding at a
meeting of the English Catholics far the purpose of expressing their
disapprobation of the course pursued by the Government towards
the Irish Roman Catholics, and now ti.ey were met to display their
approbation in favour of the present Administration, in
consequence of the measure now proposed for the
benefit of the Roman Catholics of Ireland.—(Hear, hear.)
But they could not help at the same time expressing their re_
gret that there should be a necessity for disapproving of the feel-
ing which has been excited in England against this Bill. They
confounded a grant for the education of the people of Ireland with
a grant to the priesthood. He himself was in favour of the vo.
luntary principle.—(Cheers.) It was argued also against this Bill,
that It was a violation of conscientious feeling; it was riot that
feeling which prompted them to oppose this measure—it was an
intolerant spirit towards the Church of Rome—(Hear)—and an ig.
norance of its tenets that brought forth this display of intolerance
and bigotry. Why did they feel a scruple in supporting this grant now,
when that principle, if it were a principle, was long since violated,
by their paying the Roman Catholic clergymen out of the public
funds, for teaching the paupers in the poor-houses in Ireland ?
(Cheers.) It was also argued that the English should not contri-
bute to the support of an establishment to educate the clergy of
the Roman Catholics in Ireland. He would ask who had a bet-
ter right to support the clergy, than those who had long
since plundered the Roman Catholics •of Ireland ?—(Cheers.)
What would they say if they found establishments without at.
tendants ? They would rejoice that they were not Englishmen to
share in such a disgrace. One word as to the policy of this grant.
He did not think that there ever had been a majority in either
House of Parliament which was not in favour of this grant—and
it was good policy to unite the strength of the whole country to
preserve domestic peace and defy foreign invasion. But if there
was one thing that excited the gratitude of the country
it was the way in which the grant was made, and Sir
Robert Peel might feel assured that he would not be
disappointed in his expectations of the readiness with which the
Irish people would acknowledge the benefit he had conferred.
Other concessions had been made, but they had been trammelled
with conditions which took away from the value of the boon ; but
in this instance the Premier had had the wisdom and the goodness
to confer this grant without a condition which impeded the ad-
vantage, of the gift. Sir It. Peel might be assured that such
a grant as this would excite a different feeling, and if he accom.
parried her Majesty as he (Lord Camoys) hoped he would
accompany her, he would find the grateful exclamation
of the people for himself mix with the plaudits for her Majesty.
The people of Ireland were aware of their value in the British
empire—they had rights, and those rights they were determined
to obtain, and if they did not obtain them the people of this
country oppressed and wronged them. And in the lines of
Captain Rock, he might say :
" As long as millions shall kneel down
To ask of thousands for their own—
So long as thousands turn away,
And to the millions answer nay,
So long the merry reign shall be
Of Captain Rock and his family."
With these remarks he would move the first resolution :
" That the English Catholics in communion with all of every
nation of the Holy Catholic Church in communion with the See
of Rome, are steeply interested in whatever affects any portion 01
the visible church of Christ on earth, whether for good or evil.
That if they regard even the most distant and widely separated of
their holy church with such feelings of affection and brotherhood,
how much stronger is the claim of their Irish Catholic fellow.
subjects upon their sympathy and interest."
His Lordship sat down amid loud and protracted cheering.
The Rev. Mr. Stag, after p lying a com;sliment to the Chair-
man, said that he had read the excellent speech of Mr. Macaulay,
in which he reprobated the shabbiness with which the grant to the
Irish Church had hitherto been made. Now he (Mr. Sisk) felt
that this grant was not a concession to the Roman Catholics, but
a first acknowledgment of the rights which they possessed—a
sprinkling of justice through the long train of injury to which they
had been so long subjected. It should not be forgotten that the
whole population of this country consisted of 24,000,000 of indi-
viduals, and out of these more than 8,000,000 were Roman Catholics,
who bore their share of the taxation of the country, and who were
as good and as faithful subjects of her Majesty as any other portion
of the people. And if the Protestants of this country conceived
that there was any objection to the endowment of the Catholic
Church, the Roman Catholics, with equal truth, objected to the
endowment of the Pro:estant Church. The Rev. Gentleman then
cited another extract from Mr. Macaulay's speech, in which he com.
pared themunificent endowments of Oxford and Cambridge with the
Do-the-boys Hall, which with scanty and parsimonious niggardliness,
the Parliament had hitherto fancied they had endowed the Ca.
tholics. He (Mr. Sisk) would not follow the bad example of those
who, with a profession of charity on their lips and hypocrisy in their
hearts, vilified the holy religion which the Roman Catholics pro-
fessed, but he would say this, that the Roman Catholic subjects
of this country were behind no body of into in the excellence of
their lives, the extent of their attainments, and the worth of their
principles. The Rev. Gentleman sat down very loudly cheered,
Lord BEAUMONT rose with great pleasure to respond to the call
to move the second resolution :
" That this meeting of the English Roman Catholics having
seen a Bill that has been introduced into Parliament by her Ma-
jesty's Government, which, if passed into a law, will be productive
of great benefit to their Catholic fellow-countrymen in Ireland,
are anxious to express their sincere gratitude to her Majesty's Go.
'eminent for the introduction of the Bill, and also for the liberal,
kind, and generous feelings expressed on that occasion by the First
Minister of the Crown."
Those who imagined that the grant was simply a vote of some
28,0001. or 30,0001. for the support of the Irish Catholic priesthood
were grievously mistaken. Instead of its being such s. vote, it was the
commencement of a series of great measures for bettering the con-
dition of the great body of the people of Ireland, and on that account
it behoved them to use their best endeavours to remove the scruples
and objections of the opponents of the grant. At the same time he must
confess that he was convinced those persons who opposed it were
sincere in their opposition. He was personally acquainted with
many of them, and he could truly say those he did know
were men of high moral integrity and spotless character.
Nur did they oppose the grant because it was extravagant in a
pecuniary point of view, but because they believed it was at
variance with the faith they professed. They looked upon the
Roman Catholics as professors of error, and were desirous there-
fore of convincing them of the truth of their own religious prin..
ciples. On the other hand, those noblemen and gentlemen who
had called that meeting looked upon the opponents of
the grant as the victims of error. Were they then
to be deterred from doing all they could to obtain this grant ?
Certainly not. They were acting in accordance with the dictates
of their own consciences, and their support of the measure was no
more unjust or objectionable than the warm and enthusi.
astic declarations and protests of its opponents.—(Hear, hear.)
lie would again read the resolution, arid hoped that whoever would
second it would make use of any necessary remarks which he might
have omitted. The Noble Lord concluded by proposing the
resolution.
The Hon. EDWARD PETRE, in seconding the resolution, said
that as he laboured under indisposition he would be excused front
going into those topics alluded to by his Noble Friend who pre.
ceded him. Whatever they might think of the voluntary system,
this movement was solely against the religion of the people of Ire-
land. It was nothing but prejudice and calemny that had excited
this opposition against this most beneficial measure. He could
truly say that he would support every measure that would tend to
alleviate the wrongs of Ireland, and would tend to cheer its pros-
pects.—(Cheers.)
The resolution was then put and unanimously carried.
Lord EDWARD Howano then rose to propose the following
resolution :

` That this meeting deeply regrets the tone assumed at this
time by too many of their Protestant fellow-subjects. That they
feel much sorrow when they see unfounded—they fondly hoped,
forgotten—charges renewed against them. But, often as those
charges have been successfully refuted, they feel their best return
for calumny—which, they hope, has arisen from misapprehension—
is the charit) and patience inculcated by their Church."
The giant to Maynooth was chiefly opposed by two classes—the
Protestant members of the Established Church, who felt strongly
and conscientiously on religious measures, and to whose opinions
lie looked with great deference—and the other class were
those who dissented from the Established Church in this
country, and who were in favour of the voluntary system of
support. With regard to the formes, he felt that their arguments
were contravened by those of Mr. Roebuck, who stated that this
was a grant which was given by an exclusively Protestant Parlia.
nient in Ireland, and continued by an exclusively Protestant Par.
'lament in England, and now it was about to be increased on the
same principle. There were, no doubt, an immense number
of petitions presented from the people of England to Parlia.
silent against this measure; but lie believed that they
were very little snore than paper, for when they
came to look at the signatures of those petitions,
they would find that there was not, in reality, such a great extent
of the feeling of the country represented by them. Those who
opposed this grant on the ground of the voluntary system, had but
a very poor case in their favour in Ireland, because there was there
a Presbyterian Church Establishment, as also the Church Esta-
blishment of England, which he did not think a good argument
against a grant to the education of the priests of Ireland.
Therefore he would say, associated as he was with them, he was
very sorry to find there should be so great a sensation against the
Catholic religion, He did not think that there was any man who
could justly tax the Catholic body with disloyalty. For himself,
and the Catholic body in general, he repudiated any such charge if
it were made. It was constantly inculcated from their pulpits
that they sheuld pay a proper and right obedience to the autho_
rities and the laws under which they lived.—(Hear, hear.) Such
were the tenets which they were taught by their religion,
and he trusted that the people of England would shortly see that

this event was kidhied In wisdom, and that it wiouitt bc a means ul
combining all classes of the community in one common bond of
unity and amity ; and he felt assured that in the case of at y civil
commotion—which heaven keep from us—there would be no reason
to fear that the Catholic body would prove a source of weakness.
Such being the case, it must be far from the opinion of any
wall-informed person that the Catholics of this country would
prose disaffected to the Government, if their rights were
duly and fairly considered. He deprecated any imputation that
the Catholics wished evil to the Established Church, or any other
institution of this country. He was an Englishman, and he felt
proud of being connected with a country which was, unques.
tionably, the first in the world. They could not be more loyal
or well disposed than they were now, and more affectionate than
they were now, to their beloved Queen ; and if they did not
exactly obtain all that they could desire they looked for-
ward to better times, and lie trusted that the experience of
their Protestant fellow countrymen would induce then to look
upon them with greater charity and more right feeling; and
with this hope he would move the resolution which had been put
into his hand.

The Hon. CHARLES CLIFFORD rejoiced to see one of the family
of Howard engaged in this demonstration of fealty to his Church
and charity to his fellow subjects; and he would congratulate the
meeting also on this opportunity of showing to the world that
the principles of their Church were principles of kindliness
and justice, and that obedience to the laws and affection for the
Sovereign were as rife in the bosoms of the Catholics of Ireland as
in those of any other inhabitants of the empire. He congratulated
the Prime Minister on the progress he had already made in thii
great and well-advised measure; and notwithstanding the 113
petitions of Mr. Ilindley, and all the opposition which it had met
with, he trusted it would be carried out to a successful conclusion,
for it would be carrying out the dearest wish of his heart. To him,
who was one of a family who had never swerved from the re.
ligion of their forefathers, there was no more earnest wish
than to see Ireland happy. He knew that those imputations which
had so frequently been thrown upon their religion would in time
die away, and he rejoiced at this opportunity of bearing his testi-
mony to the truth and the charity of that religion, which was al-
ways an agent in promoting loyalty and truth. It was a religion
which taught the fulfilment of all public as well as all private du.
ties—this it was that taught the Catholic soldier to bear the brunt
of the battle, and fight in his country's cause the way to
victory—(Hear, hear)—this it was which taught the Catholic
sailor to tread the deck with firmness and devotion, and to bear
to battle and to conquer in his country's cause. Rejoicing as he
did in the charitable terms of this resolution, and trusting that it
might prove in some degree instrumental in removing the erro-
neous impression of many in this country with respect to the na-
ture and spirit of the Catholic religion, he gave it his cordial sup-
port.

The Hon. CHARLES LANGDALE, in moving the adoption of a pe.
tition to both Houses of Parliament in favour of the grant, de-
clared that his Catholic brethren in Ireland ought to be grateful to
her Majesty's Government for the boon they had given to
them, and expressed a hope that the complete and full
adoption of the grant by Parliament would not lead to the
catastrophe which some of its opponents had predicted. Ile
alluded to the sacrifice of certaia Members on the
floor of the House of Commons.—(Laughter.) The Church in
Ireland eirigin2lly helnnupd to the Catholics, and he was therefore
far from objecting to the grant, but he trusted it would not be
taken as a precedent for making future grants to endow other sects.
He did not object to the expression of opinion on the part of the
opponents of the grant; but what necessity was there for their
going out of their way to heap abuse and calumny on the Roman
Catholic religion ? How different had been the spirit which pervaded
their own proceedings that day. Were the speeches of those Noble
Lords and gentlemen who had prec;ded him tainted with the
bigotry and illiberality of their opponents, who held forth at Ex.
eter Hall ? God forbid that they should be.—(Cheers.) Far be it
from them to imitate their opponents. Let them rather pursue a
directly different course, and endeavour, by calm and persuasive
arguments, to convince their Protestant fellow-subjects that their
opposition was uncharitable, and not by violence and abuse widen
the gap which existed between the members of the two uersuasions.
He would conclude with moving—
" That a petition be drawn up in the usual form for presenhtion
to both Houses of Parliament, acknowledging with gratitude the
progress already made in the Bill, and most earnestly praying them
to pass and carry it into a law.
The Hon. Mr. STAFFORD JEHNINGHAM, in seconding the rem.
lution, expressed a hope that the Premier would pay more attention
to Lord Sandon, the Noble Member for Liverpool, than to Mr.
M`Neill, the rev. incumbent of St. Jude's. He recollected seeing a sen.
tence which was framed by this rev. incumbent placing her Majesty's
name in a very unfortunate juxta.position with the name of Jezabel
and when brought up to explain it, he stated that, by her Majesty,
he meant the Roman Catholics.— (Laughter.) He meant nine.
twentieths of the civilised poltion of the world. That there
were ten thousand petitions against the measure was a
circumstance rather untoward at first view, mid upon
which he looked with the highest respect, but justice
they had a right to—(Cheers)—and when such sentiments as those
put forth by the rev, incumbent of St. Jude's, were expressed, they
could not be treated with any other feeling than that of indigna.
tion.—(Cheers.) His Honourable Friend who preceded him
proposed a tour through Ireland; he could say that
he had anticipated him by having already made that tour And
he denied that there was in Maybooth that waist of cultivaticn, or
that absence of humane conduct which had been so frequently imputed
to them ; for example, he would state that he never met a more
finished gentleman, or a more perfect scholar, than
Dr. Dengan, who had been a Professor of that Col.
lege, and had now become a Bishop. For this measure,
as a religious measure, he did not care, for, whets they were not able
to force their opinions from three millions of Roman Catholics,
how could they expect to suppress the opinion of seven
millions ?—(Loud cheers.) It was impossible that they could
alter their principles by this grant now.—(Hear.) He could
not sit down without stating that if Englishmen insulted their
Irish fellow.countrynr.on by withholding this grant, he, as an
Englishman, should shudder at the consequences, He cordially
supported the resolution moved by his Hon. Friend, and thanked
the inee Ling for their patient attention.
The resolution was Carried unanimously.
Mr. Sergeant iiIEE thought it his duty, as a Catholic resident
in London, to express his thanks to her Majesty's Government for
the first occasion on which they had shown any disposition
of conciliation towards their Roman Catholic fellow.sub.
jects. The resolution he held in his hand needed no
recommendation from him. It was that their Noble

Chairman, the Earl of Arundel and Surrey, be requested to presen

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the petition to the House of Commons, and that his Noble Father
be requested to support the Bill when it reached the House of
Peers. When he recollected that, through all the struggles of the
last 20 or 30 years, the grandfather of their Noble Chairman
had ever been in the front of the contest, and that the noble
house had ever been foremost in bearing their testimony to the
faith that is in them, he felt that no resolution could have been
confided to him which could have met with a more cordial re
sponse in his feelings. When he looked at the speech of
the Noble Chairman in the House of Commons last Friday, he was
assured that there could be no better representative of the Catholic
body in England; and he trusted that when the Bill was again
brought before the House he would repeat the same manly con
duct ; and he did conceive that the Noble Lord, and
those who had acted with him in what was called the Opposition,
if the country were doing nothing that in any way derogated from
their characters as public men in giving their support to the Mi-
nister of the day against the factious large minority at his
back. He remembered when the Prime Minister went
to the Guildhall to be invested with the freedom
of the City of London, he had stated that the Catholic
Emancipation Bill should never, if he could help it, remain a dead
letter, but that it should become a real charter of liberty to his
Roman Catholic fellow.subjects ; and he (Mr. Sergeant Shee)
did feel that it was their duty to give him the whole
of their support. When he looked at the way in which the
Opposition was giving all their support to Sir Robert Peel,
when Lord John Russell could, if be had pleased, on this
measure, have put the Minister out of power, he did
say that the Opposition were entitled to their very best thanks.
He had heard it asserted that when they obtained this
great, they were pledged to look for no ulterior mea-
sures ; but when he looked at the endowments of
Winchester and Harrow, and the other great esta.
blishrnents of the country, he thought that there was no reason
why, after having obtained this grant, they should look
to further endowments for their Church ; and he agreed
with the Noble Lord who spoke to one of the early
resolutions, and who said that it was idle to suppose that this
measure was to end with the grant of a few thousands to May.
nooth—something more than this ; and lie felt that Edmund
Burke was right when he said that the Catholic Church ought to
be supported as a good, and not tolerated as an inevitable evil, and
he was assured that if Sir Robert Peel were to forsake those prin-
ciples of Conservatism, of which every body seemed now ashamed,
and followed a course which was just to all patties in the State,
he would find as much support from the Roman Ca-
tholics as from any other body in the empire.
They were there to refute the assertions of those
who with Machievelian machinations wished to make it appear
that the Catholics of England were indifferent to, or ungrateful for
this boon to Maynooth. With these observations he begged to move
that the Earl of Arundel and Surrey be requested to present the
petition to the Housz of Commons, and that the Duke of Norfolk
be requested to present it to the House of Lords.

Mr. C. DOUNLICY .had great pleasure in seconding the resolution.
He thought they ought to support Sir Robert Peel on this occasion,
because it appeared to him that the Right Hon. Baronet had taken
the first step towards giving justice to Ireland. Ilow could
those who a short time ago voted 7,0001. for the Catholic schools
in Ireland oppose this grant ?—(Cheers.)
The Chairman having vacated the chair, and Lord Camoys
taken his place,

Mr. HOWARD, M.P., moved a vote of thanks to the Earl of
Arundel and Surrey for the able manner in which the Noble
Earl had presided over the meeting. The Hon. Member thought
the meeting would have two objacts. It would convince the
Government that they were grateful for the measure, and show its
opponents that they could support the grant and resist their efforts
without any acrimonious spirit.
Mr. Was. JONES seconded the motion, and it was afterwards car.
ried by acclamation-

The Earl of ARUNDEL and SURRLY subsequently acknowledged
the compliment, and the meeting terminated,

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
(RECEIVED THIS DAY.)
NEWMARKET, MONDAY NIGHT.
BETTING UP TO POST TIME.
2,000 GUINEAS STAKES.
4 to 1 agst Kedger
NEWMARKET HANDICAP.
3to 1 agst Croton Oil IBto 1 agst Celeste
6 to 1 agst I-am-not-aware 12 to 1 agst Poor Soldier (t)
7 to 1 agst K. of the Whistle
CHESTER CUP.
8 to 1 agst the three yrs olds 25 to 1 agst Trueboy
Bto 1 agst Semiseria (taken) 30 to 1 agst Yhoeman ac
8 to 1 agst Cataract Knock (taken)
12 to 1 agst Obscurity 30 to I agst Ould Ireland (t)
16 to 1 agst The Era 30 to 1 agst Pug
23 to 1 agst Portrait 40 to 1 agst Ratan (taken)
25 to 1 agst Winesour 50 to 1 agst Aristides
DEHUY.
10 to 1 agst Idas j 22 to 1 agst Newsmonger
11 to 1 agst Alarm (t to 5001.) 30 to 1 ag,t Pantasa
15 to 1 agst Cobweb colt 135 to 1 agst Laird o' Cockpen
15 to 1 agst Kedger (n 045 to 1 agst Wood Pigeon (t)
backers) 50 to 1 agst Fuzbos (taken)
17 to I agst Pam 50 to 1 agst Jinglepot (taken)
20 to 1 agst Clear-the-way 66 to 1 agst Javelin
22 to 1 agst Weatherbit (t) :66 to 1 agst Seaman
OAKS.
12 to 1 agst Lady Wildair 125t0 1 agst sister to Ma Mie
Newmarket Handicap—The following are scratched :
Napier, Orion, Johnny, filly out of Coranna's dam, b. g. by
Slane, out of The Captain's dam, Captain Flathooker,
Perkin Warbock, and Strathspey. Example, Yardley, Porto
Bello, and Gorhambury are not here.
Idas walks over for his race to-morrow, Mr. Newton with-
drawing his stake.

2 to 1 agst Idas

The Earl of Cardigan has purchased the Royal
Yacht Squadron cutter Reindeer, 109 tons, from Mr. Spencer de
Horsey. This vessel was formerly the property of the late Mr.
John Moore (an old member of the Club), who by his will be-
queathed it to Mr. Spencer de Horsey.

TEMPLE CHURCII.—The following notice appears
on the Temple Church :—" Divine service will be performed daily
In this church, at nine o'clock, until further notice."
CAMBRIDGE CRICKET CLUB.—Last week this club
opened the season by a match with the Trinity and St. John's Club,
and the first match of the season will be between the University of
Cambridge and the Marylebone Club and ground.
REPRESENTATION OF WEST KENT--It is said that
the approaching election will be contested, in consequence of Lord
Holmesdale haring expressld himself favourable to the endowment
of Haynooth.