The Sun.
London, England, 1829-03-07 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE LONDON JOURNALS.

Mr. Peel's motion for going into a committee was
this morning carried by a triumphant majority of one
hundred and eighty-eight Members, there being 348
for the proposition—l6o against it; being an abso-
lute majority by 38 of the whole 658 Members. In
the Committee a resolution, expressing that it is de-
finable to repeal the .laws imposing civil disabilities
o►► Roman Catholics, with such exceptions as may be
deemed necesary for security to a Protestant State,
was carried without a division. The report of the
Committee will be brought up on Monday; and the
Bill will then be introduced and read a first time
without opposition. The second reading is fixed for
the Monday following.—Tiines.

A meeting appears to have been held at the
Thatched-house Tavern in the course of yesterday,
which 'was attended, says the Evening Paper, by
some of those Irish gentlemen who are now in town
for the purpose of taking measures for opposing, -by
every effort in their power, the extension of the
elective franchise from 40s. to 101. Judging by the
names reported, the meeting must have looked not
very unlike a comm;ttee of the late Caiholic Asso-
ciation. With the declared object of their
_as-
sembling, however, we have no right to quarrel.
There are many persons who wish that the Relief
Bill could have been introduced and passed through
Parliament, free from any connexion with an attempt
to disturb the elective franchise: there are many others
of opinion that it would have been sufficient to le-
gislate against the abuses of the 40s. franchise, with-
out an entire abolition of it. For ourselves, we are
not at all inclined to raise a controversy upon this
appendage to the general measure of emancipation.
he scope and character of that proposed measure
exhibit, upon the whole, such skill and excellence,
that it would grieve us to see its passage through
the House of Commons arrested, or its triumph em-
barrassed, by a partial opposition to one of its
(+loses, a dispute respecting which could be of ad-
vantage to none but the Brunswickers, and might
risk the immediate safety of the great cause itself.
tlr. O'Connell, who was deeply indebted to the
forty-shilling freeholders, or fictitious freeholders,—
of whom hundreds are to be found in every
Irish county,—for his success in Clare, and
who pledged himself to resist their disfran-
chisement by means which were, perhaps, ex-
cuseable if resorted to its a figure of rhetoric only,
feels it no doubt a point of honour to make the best
defence for them that lie is able. A meetieg and
petition will, nevertheless, be all that he can effect
upon that point ; and they will suffice to satisfy his
old associates that the Learned Gentleman has been
at his post. There strikes 1;s to be some diffi-
culty in believing that Ministers could have yen-
. tured to give so largely without requiring some-
thing in return. It is not accurate to allege, as has
been done by an Evening- Paper, that the ground
for disfranchising the forty-shilling freeholders was
the " independence" wherewith they exercised their
privilege : the reason explicitly declared by Mr. Peel
was the reverse of any thing like their indepen-
denee—it was their " subserviency" to the priests.
We certainly must admit that a limitation of the
franchise will tend to increase the real independence
of the constituent body, and so to withdraw them
from the unworthy aseendany, not only of priests,
but of landlords, or any others by whom a corrupt
influence might be exerted. Hud the first grant of
tho elective franchise in 1793 raised the standard
of qualification to 101. or 201., much benefit might
since have accrued to Ireland from the original adop-
tion of such a principle. But we have a repugnance
to woturd existing rights, and are disposed to think
that little harm could have flowed from making
the present Act prospective—that is to say, turning
its prohibitory powers against the creation of future
40s. electors, but leaving every plan who now
enjoys a freehold to exercise it lawfully, until
disfranchised by accident or time. Notwithstanding
these remarks, which arc thrown out with diffidence
and perfect calmness, we beg to add, that no con-
sideration could induce us to employ them, or to
act upon them, as grounds of serious objection to a
measure which, taken in its full extent, we look
upon as the greatest, the wisest, and happiest, that
has ever, since the dethronement of James 11., been
proposed to the Parliament and people of this
country—as one, moreover, the defeat of which
would plunge the British Empire into a state of
desperate and bloody anarchy, to be ended, accord-
ing to every human prospect, by nothing short of its
political dissolution.—lbid.
We must again urge, by every thing that is sa-1
cred, the departure of a certain person. The mis-
chief which he might have done creates an appre-
hension of the mischief which he may do. It is
true, he must be checked by disclosures; but then
what a scene for the British nation !—for any
Christian nation ! If the mischief be not done, the
bankers, respectable bankers, dare not surrender the
CEdipodean box ; and if they do there is another
CEdipus in the next best legal evidence. What a
heap, too of living, as well as documentary testi-
mony. That a Secretary, hitherto of untainted
character, and now with a religious office attached
to his name, should enter into a trusteeship with
such a co-trustee ! 0 Seeula! what an Age ! Is
it not shocking that honourable men should be
tainted by their unavoidable intercouTse with the
person alluded to, and the services to which he
puts them ?—lbid.

PRICES OF IRISH STOCI
Bank Stock
Consols, .3 per cent . BSW,
Got. Stock, 314 per cent 95
Ditto, New
t per Cent ' 101
Gov. Deb. 314 per cent 9SN
Royal Canal Stock --
Grand Canal Stock --
City Deb. 4 per cent --
Ballast Office Deb. 4p. c -

COURSE OF Excm
Amsterdam C.F 12 24
Ditto, at sight 12 04
Rotterdam 9 U 12 2}
Antwerp 12 24
Hamburgh M.B. 13 13
Altona 11 13f
Paris, J days' sight .......25 40
Di to 2 U. 25 75
Borduaux 95 80
Berlin
Frankfort on Maine, Ex.M 151
Petersburgh, ruble, 3 Us. 10 0
Vienna, cffemive fl. 2 M. 10 3
Trieste de 10 3
Madrid. 364
Cadiz 163 i
Bilboa
B;:rcelona 36,i
Seville 364'
G.braltar 4o',

MA
Arrived. flue.
O America
O Brazil
• Buenos Ayres 0
1 1 habl n. 0
• Flanders
O France 0
O Got tenburgh I
O uernsey &Jersey 0

HUGH WATER AT LON!),
M. rning ...I0 minutes litcr 4.

Arrived. Due.
O Hamburgh • - 2
0 Holland
O Jamaica
0 Leeward lalandn
0 Lisbon 0
O Malta
O Mexico
1 Waterford

IN BRIDGIK TO-Mnit Row.
F.rening ...28 minutes after 4

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LONDON,
SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 7, 1829.

Mr. PEEL'S reply last night, to the attacks, per-
sonal awl political, of those who are opposed to
Emancipation, was remarkable for its spirit, its
energy, and the unanswerable quality of its logic.

It literally left the Brunswickers not a leg to stand
on. The Right Hon. Secretary indulged in no
prolix common-place—no inflated verbiage—no
stale repetition of acknowleged truisms—he rose to
the dignity
.of his subject, came at once to the
point, and threw off his arguments " quick, thick,
and heavy as a thunder-shower," with an epigram-
matic newness that tolkl amazingly with the
House. To those who, in reply to his state-
ment respecting the distracted condition of Ireland,
recommended a military increase in that country, he
observed, that in the course of the hilt Summer
fire-sixths of the infantry force of the United King.

dom were employed in conducting the Government
of Ireland, and hinted that it was impossible that
they could apply a greater force there. To the ad-
vocates of a dissolution of Parliament, he replied that
such a dissolution would be the very height of im-
policy, for it would necessarily leave the Association
untouched, avid the Elective Franchise unchanged.
Can a stronger argument be adduced than this ?
Dissolle the Parliament, Gentlemen Bainswickers,
—dissolve it by all means—and you instantly secure
the return of ten Irish Emancipators for every one
now in the House; so true is Mr. SuEtt.'s remark,
that the representation of Ireland, as the law of
election at present exists, is wholly in the hands of
the Catholics. But, let the law be modified so as
to suit the complexion of the times, and
the necessities of either party, and the re-
presentative interests at once revert into their

old channel: the Protestant landlords resume
their just influence; and even the Catholic, so far as
the moral influence of his tenantry extends, is him-
self improved by the change. To those few who
deprecated all hasty measures, Mr. PEEL'S reply was
unanswerable. It was to this effect—that the an-
nouncement of the intention of his MAJESTY'S Mi-
nisters to remove Catholic disabilities had been full
a month before the public; that en the sth of Fe-
bruary it had bccn declared from the Throne, and that
Ow, on the 6th of March, the Question was but just
commenced. On the subject of the concessions, as to
boil/ far they should be restricted or enlarged, Mr.
PEEL'S remarks were statesmanlike and comprehen-
Sive, and marked by a keen and discriminating spirit of
sagacity. " lf," said he," Emancipation be a boon, let
itbe awarded with a geriero*ity worthy of the givers;
if it be a debt, let us pay the Catholics twenty shil-
lings in the pound, it will prevent the extortion of
another farthing," This last metaphor, so every way
suited to the habits of the English nation, was, we
learn, received with great applause. We have no
space left to revert to Mr. PEEL'S comments on the
subject of education in Ireland ; this, he said,
is as one of the chief causes of Emancipation,
this it was that had enabled even the Catholic pea-
sant to come to a full knowledge of his situation,
yet this was the very measure that session, after
session, the present opponents of Emancipation had
been among the foremost to support. Altogether
Mr. PEELS speech wa.s worthy of himself and his
subject, and was followed by a majority in favour
of his Resolution, of 186 over 160.

Colonel Davison, Honourable A. G. Percy,
and Captain \Velle•ley-, Aides-de-Camp to his Excellency
the Duke of Northumberland, arrived at the Royal Hotel
Kingstown, this morning.—Dublin Evening Mail of
Wednesday.

As an instance of the spirited exertions of
the proprietors of The Sun Newspaper, who arc indefati-
gable in their endeavours to supply the earliest possible in-
formation, on all matters of moment, an express arrived
in this town, yesterday, at a quarter before eleven, a. rn.,
bringing a third edition of that journal, published at half-
past twelve, the preceding night, and containing seven
columns of closely printed matter, consisting of the entire
of Mr. Peel's Speech, preparatory to his motion, for the
House resolving itself into a Committee, to consider the
laws affecting the Roman Catholics.—Brighton Heruld
of this day.

, It is but justice to The Sun newspaper to
state, that its exertions to supply the provincial press with
the latest intelligence during the Oxford Election have
been extraordinary. Indeed its reports of Parliamentary
proceedings to a late hour on the (lay of publication, in its
second editions, miw in many cases supersede those given
in our private letter.—Scotsman.
TliE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND.—His
Grace is expected to arrive at Kingstown by two o'clock on
Friday. He means to enter Dublin in full state, and his
conipages and appointments will present an appearance
never witnessed in this country. His state and other car-
riages are now at the yard of Messrs. Long, in Mary-street,
his Grace's coach-factors, and orders have been issued to
have three in readiness, exclusive of the state coach, at air
early hour on Ft iday morning. They are each to be drawn
by six horses; and that in which the Duke himself will
la le, is one of the must magnificent specimens of csstly and
splendid workmanship that has ever been seen. Hundreds
of per sons daily visit the yard of Messrs. Long, to inspect
these magnificent carriages, —Dublin Evening Mud of
Wednesday.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

SUN OFFICE, Ibar-PAST TsvP,

At a late hour this afternoon an Express arrired
from Paiis with the French Papers of Thursday;

the following are extracts :
(From the Constitutionnel of Thursday, March 5.)

The Imperial ratification of the Polish Loan, concluded
at Berlin, has arrived here from St. Petersburgh. It was
announced in the above city, that two commissioners from
the bank Of Rothschild bad also arrived. Colonel Scharn-
hirst, Adjutant of time Grand Duke Michael, will precede

DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.—We regret to state
that last night between 11 and 12 o'clock, a fire broke out
in a straw-rick belonging to Mr. W. 'island, at Staleley his Highness-to Tulcryn, where the Prince is to put him
Castle, a few miles front Tewkesbury. Before the flames
self at the head of the Guards.
could be extinguished several ricks of corn, &e. were de- ,
stroyed. It is lamentable to add, that this fire is suspected I Lise", FEB' 18.—A battalion of the 16th regiment,
to be the work of an incendiary.— Worcester Paper. and one of tha 14th, have received orders to embark on

board the vessels for Ming the expedition against Terceira.
Count Admiral Rom will have the command, who went on
hoard a frigate yesterday to announce to the officers that
probably he may meet the two Brazilian frigates, and be
hoped that the men and officers would do their duty.

MonoN, FEB. morning the officers of the
garrison assisted to bury an officer of the 27th regiment
who was killed in a duel by one of his comrades.
TOULON, FTB. 26.—Yesterday, about nine o'clock at
night, there was an insurrection in the port amongst the
convicts, to the number of 300, who were going to he
sent to Bret on boird a corvette. The troops in the ar-
senal soon suppressed this mutiny by firing on the ring-
leaders.

(From the Journal des Debuts of Thursday.)

They write from Havre, 2d March, that Viscount de
Canellos, nephew of the Marquis de Chaves, arrived at
Havre yesterday, it is said, charged with a diplomatic
mission from Don Miguel to the Court of France. The
above Gentleman, say the letters from Lisbon of Feb. 17,
is goingto.Brussels to sound the Dutch bankers, if they
will have more confidence in Don Miguel than those of
France.

The French Journals contain nothing worthy of
comment. The follow•irg is the state of the Funds :

FRENCH FuNns.--PARIS, MARCH 4.—Five per Cents.

110 f. 60e. 45c. 65e. 60c. ; Three per Cents., 77f. 70c.
60e. 55e. ; Naples Stock, 82f. 15c, ; Royal Spanish
Loan, 79f f. ; Haytian Loan, 530 f. Exchange on London,
one month (paper), 25f. 30c. (money), 25f. 25c. ; three
months (paper), 25f. 1.5 e. (money), 2M. 10c.—fours
Authentique.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.)

FROM LLOYD'S.

Di AL, MARCH N.E.—Arrived from Lon-
don the Miranda, for the Mauritius.
PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 6.—Wind E. —Arrived the
Agnes, Eaton, from St. Domingo. Sailed the Herald, Dal-
rymple, for Dominica.
FALMOUTH, MARCH s.—Wind E.—Arrived the RtBo-
- Reed, from Charente.
eowEs,MARC* 6.—Wind N.E.—Sailed the Agnes,
Menton, for Antwerp.
Rre, MARCH 6.—The Adelphi, Minday, from Cardiff
to London, having been run on board of by the schooner
Hastings, of Hastings, was obliged to cut from anchor and
buoy, and received considerable damage in the hull.
GREENOCK, MARCH 4.—The Adventure, Williams,
arrived to-day from Marseilles, was run on board of on the
17th of January, in hit. 41., long. 11., and cut down
nearly to the water's edge on the larboard quarter, by the
Prince Eugene, from Liverpool to Naples.
RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN, MARCH 3.—The main-mast
of a brig, with the letters " T. F. B." marked en it, came
on shore near Point of Ayr on the let inst.

The Vigilant, Thorp, from Carthagena to
was twice attempted to be boarded by a piratical schooner,
with about 40 men on the deck, off Cape St. Antonio, on
the*2sth Dec.

THE FUNDS.--(THIS DAY.)

CITY, TivELrE o' CLOCK.

Up to the present hour there has been no life in the
Consol Market ; they left off yesterday at 86-1, 87, at
which price they opened this morning, and may still he

Inoteirthe same. The Foreign Market also is quite in-

animate.

Three per Cent. Consols, ; Ditto, for Account,
86} 7 ; Three per Cent. Reduced, shut ; Three and a
half per Gint. Reduced, shut; Four per Cent , 1011 ;
India Bonds, 47 9 pm. ; Exchequer Bills, 53 35 pin.
FOKEIG 61 ; Buenos Ayres, 33 4 ;
Chilian, 21 ; Colombian, 18 ; Danish, 64 ; French,
5 per Cent., 110 k 1 I ; Three per Cent., 771 8 ; Greek,

. .
-.-
14; Mexican, 245 ; Peruvian, 13 14.; Portuguese,
431 4; Russian, 941; Spanish, 91 i.
11I1NES.—Anelo Mexican, 775 5 dis. ; Brazilian, 34 5
pm. ; Bolanos, par; ' Colombian, 20 dis.

TWO O'CLOCK.

Consols have continued the whole of the morning 97,
alternately buyers and sellers, with little doing ; at present
may be quoted 86i 57.
The Foreign 31arket is also •oid of interest. Exchequer
Bills rather better, 53 55 ; Brazil, 611 ; Colombian, 18i ;
Mexican, 2q; Russian, 9t 3 ; Portuguese, 4S ;
Spanish, 9i 4.

THREE O'CLOCK.
Cons°lq for Account, 86i 87.

TILE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.)

COVENT-GARDEN MARKET.

There was a good supply at this morning's maihet, but
a sluggish trade, and prices were about the satne as those
ef this day sc'nnight.
s.d. s.d.
Potatoes (per cwt.) 36to 7 0
Cal bages (12 heads) I 6 2 6
Ditto Red ...
Item Itadish(bui.dle) 2 6 4 0
tiro, o'i 2 0 3 0
Celery
Rhubarb lO 1 6
Carrots 12 bunches) 5 0 '7 6
Turnips, I 6 2 6
Coleworts or Greens— 1 9 3 6
Young Onions I 9 5 0
Leek s 0 9 1 0
Broeoli Sprouts (bush )2 6 5 0
Turnip Greens
Sea-kail (ptunmet)

s. d.
Spillage (balf-sieve) I (Ito! 6
Oni n•
Apples 5 I) 17 0
Sweet Oranges (MI) :1 0 8 0
Seville' rhtto 6 0 12 0
l.em•.ns 6 0 120
Asparagus. 6 0 9 0
Itadisbe, ',band) lIl 1 0
Span Chc•nuts (peck) 5 0 10 0
rem)) ditto
Spaillsb tlazlentits ' 0 10 0
French Walnuts
Filberts (124).)
Grapes (per lb.)

HAY ➢MARKETS.—(At per Load of 36 Trusses.)
ST. JAMES'S.
Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay £2 5 to £2 10
Best New Meadow Hay 2 15 :i 0
Fine Upland Meadow and Bye-grass Hay ......
Clover Hay 3 8 5 0
Oat t'traw
A great supply, and a dull trade; prices as last quoted?
SMITHFIELD.

Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay £2 5 to £2 15
Best New Meadow 11.1 y
Fine Upland Meadow and Rye-grass Hay 3 0 4 0
Clover Hay (extra tine)...£s 5 ... Generally 3 5 4 15
Oat Straw f 1 10 to :El 15—Wheat Straw 1 15 1 19
A good supply, and a dull trade, at Thursday's prices.

The Duke of Cumberland and Duke of
Sussex visited the Princess • Augusta on Wednesday even-
ing, at her Royal Highness's residence, in the King's Palace,
St. James's.

The Princess Augusta visited the Duchess o
Kent, and the Princess Sophia, yesterday, at their apart
rents in the King's Palace, Kensington.

• Earl Bathurst, the Earl of Aberdeen, and
Mr. secretary Peel, bad interviews with the Duke of Wel-
lington yesterday at the Treasury.

Monsieur Bermudez, the Spanish Minister,
bad a conference with the Earl of Aberdeen, yesterday, at
the office of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, in
Downing-street.

Mr. Secretary Peel visited the Chancellor o
the Exchequer yesterday. sl'?

The Solicitor-General had a long interview
this morning with the Lord Chancellor, in his Lordship's
private room, adjoining the Conrt of Chancery.
A King's Messenger brought dispatches on
Thursday night for the Earl of Aberdeen from the
Right Hon. Stratford Canning ; and another mes,enger
arrived at the Colonial Office the same night, with de-
spatches from Sir Frederick Adam, the Lord High Com-
missioner of the lonian Islands, and also from Sir Pulteney
Malcolm, the Commander of the naval force in the Medi-
terranean. Despatches, in answer to these, were sent off
last night from the Colonial Office.
ALTERATIONS IN CIVIL NAVAL AP-
POINTMENTS —Commissioner Ross, from Malta to Ply_
mouth; Commissioner Briggs, from Bermuda to Malta;
Commissioner Inglis, from Jamaica to Bermuda ; and
Captain John Ayscough, appointed a Commissioner at
Jamaica.

NEWARK EL ECT ON.--The intelligence
brought by passengers who passed through Newark yes-
terday morning was, that the election was over, and th:t
Mr. Sadler was chosen.— Times.

Yesterday morning Mr. Henry Bosanquet,
the youngest nephew of Mr. Sergeant Bosanquet, shot him-
self No. 5, Stone-
buildings, Lincoln's inn. Mr. Henry Bosanquet was im!y
through the head, at his
inghi,telTiaemriniicsrsa,t
22
2tl yienaressopfecagtaetion of living called to the Rir.

There was a numeroti 'Meeting of the Whig
Members of the House of Commons yesterday, at the house
of Sir Francis Burdett.