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FOREIGN AMBASSADORS.

Lord STRANGFORD said, that finding that some al-
lusion had been made to him as Ambassador to Russia dur-
ing his absence, he took that opportunity of inviting his
Noble Friend to declare, whether that allusion was
made in consequence of and• •.3mmunicatioß direct or
indirect from him. The Nohle Lord had seen the

❑,atter in the jr;!,lic press, and was anxious that
a full explanation should be given on the subject, least it
should appear that he had brought forward this other—
a grievance which he would not have the resolution to do
himself. He knew enough of the candour and sincerity of
his Noble Friend, to be convinced that he would appreciate
his motives in asking for this explanation.
The Marquis of LONDONDERRY assured his Noble
Friend, that he never for a moment insinuated that
he had received any communication from him on
the subject. The. Noble Marquis was not even
now sure that he had specifically mentioned his Ma-
jesty's Ambassador at Russia. He certainly did allude
to certain individuals who had been Ambassadors at the
Courts Abroad, and who were now returned. He wished
to know their situation on the Pension List; in fact his
object was to elicit the exact state of that list, and to bring
forward the situation of ;lie Foreign Office Department,
in order to contrast its present with its former condition.

The Duke of DEVONSHIRE, as Lord Chamberlain,
presented his Majesty's most gracious Answer to their Lord-
ships' Address of yesterday, intimating that the required
returns had been ordered to be laid on their table.

Their Lordships then adjourned.
[The attendance of Peers was unusually numerous ;
there was also a great crowd below the bar, which felt
much disappointed at the result of his Lordship's motion.]

HOUSE OF•OQMMONS, WEDICESDAT, Max, 9.

The SPEAKER took the Chair this evening at the
usual hour, but there was a very thin attendance of Mem-
bers.

A number of petitions on Private Bills were presented,
and ordered to lie on the table.
CATHOLIC EMANCIPATION.

Mr. HUDSON GURNEY presented the following pe
tition from Lieutenant. General Thornton, in favour of Ca-
tholic Etnancipation
To the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, in Parliament assembled.
The bumble Petition of Lieut.-General William Thorn-
ton, of Grosvenor Gate, Park-lane, in the County of
Middlesex.

Sheweth—That your Petitioner, in the years 1817 and
181 b, being then one of the Representatives in Parliament
for the Borough of New Woodstock, did propose to your
Hon. House to resolve itself into a Committee, to consider
of repealing such parts of the Statutes as require, in certain
cases, declarations to be made against the belief of Transub-
stantiation, and asserting the worship of the Church of
Rome to be idolatrous, on which occasions the previous
question, namely, that the question be now put, was moved
and negatived, on the plea of a Noble Lord, that those sea-
sons were not convenient for agitating the question, so
that your Petitioner humbly represents such a measure has
never been negatived, nor even discussed in your Hon.
House, believing it to have been an original motion on
his part, and that no such proceeding has been before,
or since, brought forward by any other Member of your
Hon. House.

Your Petitioner begs leave to repeat, what he then
urged in argument, that the Oaths of Supremacy, Alle-
giance, and Abjuration, are full and sufficient security to
Church and State against the influence of the Pope and
the Church of Rome; and that it does not necessarily fol-
low that Christians, believing in transubstantiation, believe
likewise in the Supremacy of the Pope. The Greek and
Russian Churches believe in transubstantiation, in the in-
vocation or adoration of the Virgin Mary and of the
Saints, and in the Sacrifice of the Mass, as now used in the
Church of Rome, although they do not in any wise ac-
knowledge the authority of the Pope. They, moreover,
dissent from part of the Creed which the Members of the
United Church of England and Ireland and the Roman
Catholics maintain in common. The tendency, there-
fore, of the declarations to identify and unite the doctrines
of transubstantiation, and the ecclesiastical or spiritual au-
thority of the Pope, is themselves perfectly distinct, your
Petitioner considers a great evil, not only as giving a false
impression, but likewise as contributing to increase the
dangers of foreign influence, which all true Protestants
must wish to avoid,

Humbly conceiving that the present may be thought a
proper season for bringing forward such a motion as a Pro-
testant question, in the true spirit of Christian charity and
toleration ; and hoping it may be received as a peace offer-
ing, and as a liberal, rational, and most conciliatory pro-
posal, as it was declared to be in Addresses of Thanks
communicated to him from large meetings of Roman Ca-
tholics, as well by many Protestants individually ; your Pe-
titioner beseeches your Honourable House to adopt speedy
measures for dispensing, in future, with any declaration
hitherto required from any of his Majesty's subjects, against
the belief of transubstantiation, any law, statute, or usage to
the contrary, in any wise notwithstan6ling.
WILLIAM THORNTON.

The Hon. Gentleman expressed his most hearty con-
currence in the prayer of the petition—Ordered to be
printed.
SUSSEX ELECTION BILL.

r Mr. CURWEN, in moving the second reading of the
Sussex Election Bill, complained of the enormous expense
and great inconvenience to wliich the freeholders of the
eastern part of Sussex were exposed, from the holding of
the election at Chiche,-,:r.

Mr. HUSKISSON said, that a Committee had been ap-
pointed to consider the means of diminishing the expence
at Elections, and it would be very premature to apply any
remedy to one county, at a period when the Committee were
likely to suggest some remedy on a general principle
which would be applicable to every other county. The
course pursued by the Hon. Member was the more unne-
cessary, because the grievance complained of, was not any
thing like so great in the County of Sussex, as in the
Counties of York, Lancaster, and several other Counties.
For these reasons, he should move as an amendment, that
the Bill should be read that day six months.
Lord G. LENOX seconded the Amendment, and com-
plained of the reports which had been spread by the Hon.
Member, to the prejudice of the City of Chichester, by re-
presenting that his life had been in danger from the mob of
Chichester, and that he had been prevented by them from
going to the poll. The Hon. Member had also written to
the Mayor of Chichester that he had given information to

the Government abtint the matter, and that the Mayor
might be called upon: to answer at-the bar of the House,
as the person- most .capable of affording an explanation.—
' It. 'appeared also from a letter from Mr. Peel, having
reference to a letter of the Hon. Member, that he had
stated to that Gentleman (then Secretary for the Home
Department), that he had been prevented from going to
the poll by the Chichester :nob, and that his son had been
seriously injured. Now he had attended the hustings for
the whole fifteen days except three, and raw no such grounds
of complaint as had been stated by the Hon. Member ; who
hal, however, even gone so far as to require, by advertise-
ments in the newspapers, that a list of the wounded should
be sent him.----(A laugh.)—The Hon. Member, instead of
attending at Chichester, had gone to Lewes, and there ad-
dressed the Freeholders in the Star Inn at that place, pledg-
ing himself, if they would vote for him, that he would
bring in a Bill for transferring the polling for the county of
Sussex from Chichester to Lewes. In this way the present
Bill originated. He cordially supported the Amendment.

Mr. POINTZ also opposed the Bill.
Sir J. SHELLEY supported the Bill, because he was
friendly to a moderate but gradual Reform in Parliament,
and thought the best way to begin it would be by allowing
all the freeholders of Sussex to give their votes at the
County elections, which they could not do while the poll
was taken at Chichester. By this course one fourth of the
freeholders were virtually deprived of their suffrages.

Mr. W. BURRELL was favourable to the division of the
county into two parts, for the purpose of taking the poll ; the
freeholders of the western part might vote at Lewes, and
those of the eastern part at Chichester.
Mr. D. GILBERT said, that as a Committee had been
appointed this Session, on the motion of a Noble Lord
(Althorp), to consider generally the mode of taking the poll
in County Elections, he would advise his Honourable Friend
(Mr. Curteis) to withdraw his Bill for the present, until
he saw the Report of that Committee.
Sir C. BURRELL protested against any proposition to
legislate for Sussex on any principle distinct from those
which were applicable to other counties.
Mr. C. PELHAM was of opinion that local interests
were better attended to at present, than they would be
under the proposed Amendment.
Mr. CURTEIS assented- to the suggestion of his Hon.
Friend (Mr. D. Gilbert). If, however, the measures of
the Noble Lord (Althorp). did not succeed, he would, if
called upon, revive this Bill.

When the Hon. Gentleman stated his intention to with-
draw the Bill, several voicee cried, " No, no, divide ;" but
the motion was 'fix,n.y withdrawn without Opposition.
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POSTAGE DUTIES' BILL.

Mr. HERRIES theix,,,moved the third reading of the
Postage Duties' Bill, to _which he., added several clauses by
way of rider.
Mr. HUAIE gave notice of • his intention to move to-
morrow for a Return of the Amount of Fees received at the
General Post-office for the-early delivery. He repeated
his objections to this practice, by which, for a guinea a-year,
one person obtained his letters two or three hours before
another. The public were entitled to an equal delivery,
and he had no doubt that that might be effected at the
earliest time for a sum nut exceeding the amount of the fees
now paid for the early delivery.
Mr. HERRIES said, when the Return was produced,
he would satisfy the House that all parties were benefitted
by the present arrangement, and that the public at large
obtained their letters much earlier than they would do with-
out the early delivery.—The Bill was then passed.
The other Orders of the Day were then disposed of, and
the House Adjourned.

PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
NOTICES OF MOTIONS roR, THIS DAT.

I. Mr. Wilmot Horton—Bill to amend the Slave Trade
Coniolidation Act.
2. Mr. Macqueen—Law of Settlement
S. Lord John RusseH—Select Committee to inquire into
the cause of the increase of 'crime in England.
4. Mr. Wilmot Horton:--Correspondence between Sir Ru-
fane Dunkin and the Colonial Department, and other
Papers on the subject of the Government of the Cape

of Good Hope.
5. Mr.-Wilmot Horton—Bill to provide for the adminis-
tration of Justice, &c. in New South Wales, and for
the Civil Government of the said Colony.
ORDERS OF EMI DAY FOR THIS DAY.
1. Fraudulent Bankrupts (Scotland) Bill—Committee.
2. Aliction Duties (Ireland) Bill—Second reading.

'NOTICES GIVEN YESTERDAY.-
Wednesday, May 16.
Mr. Wodehouse—Bill to discontinue certain Presentments
of Constables.
- Tuesday, May 22. •
Mr. Michael Angelo Taylor—Motion tending to sepa-
rate the jurisdiction in all matters of Bankruptcy from
the High Court of Chancery. -
• -Tuesday, June 19.
Mr. Lombe.-,Mil-administestion of the Cape of Good

THE WlDOW—and DAUGHTER of an
OFFICER,' whO was THIRTY YEARS in HIS
MAJESTY'S service, being minced to a state of the greatest
destitution,- the attention of the Benevolent is earnestly
solicited to an examination of the case, full particulars of
which will be furnished by an application at 112, STRAND.
They will gladly undertake the care of Chambers or a
Counting House, if a small subscription could enable
them to redeem the little property which they have been
obliged to pledge.

FILICKS OF STOCKS THIS
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Rid. 82% 2
3 per Cent. Cons. S'N% 74
34Y per Cent. BBl' li
Ditto Red. BB ,4 n 0,..
4 per Cent. New 99% 9
Ditto, 1826 9B
Bank Long Ann..... 18 15-16 %
India Stock 244 5
Ditto Bonds ...... ...-.. 7B pm.

PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS
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Brazilian Bonds' 6034 60
Buenos Ayres Bonds.
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Colombian Bonds —
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Danish, 3 per cant.
Greek Bonds

Ditto, 1826 l6
Guatimala
Mexican Bonds
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DAY AT OWE o'cLocir.
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,ssoe 5 £1 15
150 ISO
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PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, MAY 7.
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Bank Stock 259. St. Patrick Insur. (per sh.)
Consols, 3 percent. BO4 Royal Irish Ditto
Gov. Stock, 3.' per cent.... 87 National Ditto
Ditto, New Patriotic Ditto 4%
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Royal Canal Stock Royal Irish Mine —
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City Deb. 4 per cent BBl,{a Mining Co. of Ireland
Ballast Office Deb. 4p. ct. Commercial Buildings —

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW.
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