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LEEDS CORN M A It liET.—May 5.
The supply of Grain has been small to this day's market,
Wheat and Barley in particular. The best samples of fine Ne•x
Wheat have been full Is. per quarter higher, and rather better
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limited demand. Fine heavy Barley being scarce may be noted
6d. to Is. per quarter higher, and there has been rather more
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alteration in price.
Wheat, Norfolk and Suffolk, 601 b.
---- York. and Lincoln. 601 b.
Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk
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THE SPITALFIELDS AND NORTH OF

LONDON CATHOLIC SCHOOLS.

Yesterday a dinner was given, at the London Tavern,
to celebrate the foundation of schools for the education of
Catholic children resident in the north of London, and in
the neighboOrhood of Spitalfields. These schools have
been in existence for seven years, and during that time
have educated no less than 600 children, boys and girls.
The Chairman (Mr. O'CONNELL), after the healths of
the King awl the rest of the Royal Family had been drunk
with appropriate honours, proposed as a toast, " Prospe-
rity to the Corporation of London," which, he said, had
alwayS stood the foremost friend of the people's rights.
Mr. HUNT had no objection to the toast being received
with due honour, but he denied that the Corporation had
ever been the friend of the people. On the contrary, they
had always truckled to persons in power, and had only
been friendly to Catholic emancipation since it had become
t Ministerial question. He reminded the assembly of the
foul and disgraceful lie, which stood recorded in imperish-
able stone, within a short distance of the place where
they were now met : he alluded to the inscription on the
Monument of London, which had been erected by the Cor-
poration, stating that the Papists had set fire to the city
of London.

The toast was, after some discussion, drank with three
times thre

Mr. HUNT proposed the health of the Corporation 6f
Dublin and the Forty-shilling FreAolders.
This itoa4,..Acitetl, general disspprobsitisarl but as Mr.
font persisted in giving it, a compromise was made, and
his health was drank instead, for which he returned
thanks.

The CHAIRMAN then, after a few introductory remarks,
proposed—
" The Duke of Wellingtcn, Mr. Peel, and the rest of
his Majesty's Ministers."
This toast was received with great choering, and drunk
with the accustomed honours.
The CHAIRMAN then rose and said that he ever had been
still was, and ever should be, a radical reformer.—(Thun-
ders of applause.)—The talent of the country he consi-
dered decidedly in favour of the question—the wealth of
the country might probably be against it, yet were there
many men of wealth who were ranged on his side of that
important cause. Amongst the foremost of these indivi-
duals he would mention his worthy young friend who sat
on his right hand, Mr. Otway Cave. The feelings of tho•
gentleman had repeatedly been evinced by expressions cf
true Whiggish liberality. The Learned Chairman con-
cluded by proposing—
" 3lr. Otway Cave, and the Cause of General Reform,"
with three times three.
Mr. OTwAY CAVE said he never rose so much over-
come with feelings of gratitude as upon that occasion.
To think that his name should have been introduced and
coupled with that cause, which, he was now proud to say,
he considered in a degree as victoriously gained—the cause
of radical constitutional reform. He would not have re-
course to the use of those quibbles which were common
with many persons, but he would say, and firmly declare,
that in his opinion no reform was constitutional which was
not a radical reform. The question was not upon the
general merits of reform, but at.that moment it was as to.
which was the beat plan to be adopted to obtain it. The
carrying the question of emancipation was one step to-
wards a removal of the barrier. He did not scruple to
say, that he had at one time prejudices to overcome as well
as innumerable other individuals with respect to that sub-
ject. He had been ;born with those prejudices, and he
had been bred up to believe that the Catholic faith was
peculiarly distinguished for its uncharitableness and cruelty,
in addition to several other obnoxious qualities. On his first
visit to Ireland, a country with which in blood he was con-
nected, all those prejudices—all those objections—all those
suspicions which had haunted his breast, were almost in-
stantly dissipated. With respect to the point of unchari-
ta!deness, he could only say, that in no country which he
had visited, did he ever find less warrantry for such a
charge. On every side was there aroof offered as a shelter
for the visitor. He trusted-ill-litre time would shortly"
arrive when the rights of the forty-shilling freeholders
would be restored to them. When he had attended the
meetings of the Catholic Association, he had heard this
doctrine held up, that " the few were made for the many,
and not the many made for the few." He had also heard
it proclaimed, " that to rebel against tyrants was obedience
to God." Hearing these things, how could he close his
ears and eyes to the truth. He could not but believe that
the Catholics were an oppressed people. He must have
been lost to all those feelings of common humanity which
usually pervade the breast of man, had not his heart bled
for the sufferings of his Roman Catholic fellow-creatures.--
(Loud cheers.)--If any circumstance were wanting to
prove their good feeling, and that they deserved to be
emancipated—if any proof, he would ask, were required,
he would refer them to the manner in which they had re-
ceived the gift, if gift it might be termed.—(The Hon.
Member sat down amidst loud and long continued cheers.)
Alr. 0. CAvE, in rising to call the attention of the com-
pany to the toast he was about to propose to their notice,
observed, that he could only say that it was one which re-
quired
no preface ; indeed, he was not capable of doing
justice to the merits of that individual who had, for so
great a length of time, laboured for the emancipation of
upwards of seven millions of his fellow creatures. He
would therefore, without further comment, propose the
health of " Mr. O'Connell," which was drunk with
three times three, accompanied with the most enthusiastic
applause.
As soon as silence was obtained,

Mr. O'Cosrisxrd. observed, that he was not insensible to
their kindness, and regretted that he felt perfectly inade-
quate to give a due expression to his gratitude. If he was
gifted with any remarkable facility of speech, he was in-
debted for it to the profession of which he was a mem-
ber. If he was possessed of what some persons, when
alluding to it in terms of flattery designated by the
cognomen of eloquence, it was only produced by an
ardent desire of rendering a service to his fellow
creatures. He was born, be might almost say,
with the word of liberty in his mouth, and he should
never forget the moment when he vowed to Heaven
that he would never cease exerting himself, with a hope
of one day obtaining an emancipation from the state of
degradation under which so many of his fellow-creatures
were labouring. He bad kept that vow, and ever would
keep it.—(Applause. )—He would never lose the oppor-
tunity of endeavouring to wash away the foul stain. He
had at all times struggled for the Protestant Dissenters
with as much sincerity as for the Catholic, and it was with
no ordinary feelings of pride and satisfaction that he
looked back to these exertions, the more particularly as he
could now boast of having been successful. Mr. O'Con-
nell next alluded to the forty-shilling freeholders, for whom
he said he should struggle. Tho Learned Gentleman,
after a few more observations, sat down amidst loud
cheering.

In the course of the evening a very great number of
boys and girls, clothed and educrted by the Institution,
passed through the room. Several songs were sung ; and
one sung by Miss Byfeld was given with so much feeling
and taste as to excite a universal encore. Upwards of
1801. was subscribed towards the Charity during the
evening.

A work of great interest has been recently
published entitled, " A History of Italy during the Con-
sulate and Empire of Napoleon Buonaparte." It is
the production of CA RLO Barra, and the history of the
Italian states is given during NAror.Eon% connexion with
them, beginning about the time of his return from Egypt,'
and ending with his final overthrow. The masterly views
of this writer cannot fail to give great interest to his work.
We have several Lives of NAPOLEON, but in none. have we
thus developed the beginning of his
,g.rea; plans for uni-
versal empire ; plans that were ti:fst tried in Italy, and then
nearly overspread the world. The historian appears to
hove known tEe true character of this extraordinary man
better than any of his biographers; ah,d being of the same
country with his hero, and lic.4.g where his genius had its
earliest rariv, ht gives peculiar interest to the changes
-,za(.le 14 the various governments,—to the circumstances
attending the elevation of so many hranehes of his family '
to sovereign authority in Italy and the neighbouring states,
—to the history of these individuals,—the great battles he
fought, (for his most famous feats were beyond the Alps),
to the great Generals that accompanied him (and it is re-
markable that to nearly all he gave Italian titles), his
quarrels with the Pope, the final seizure of his states, and
his imprisonment at Fountainhleau. This work is exceed,
ingly:well translated ; and for information and entertain-
ment it is not excelled by any publication of the season.