The Sun.
London, England, 1829-03-05 00:00:00

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IRISH PROTESTANT PETITION.

The following is a copy of the petition presented
on Tuesday night by Mr. Brownlow :

" TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE AND HONOURABLE THE

KNIGHTS, CITIZENS, AND BURGESSES IN PARLIAMENT
ASSEMBLED.
" The humble petition of the Noblemen, Gentle-
men, and others undersigned,
" Showeth,—That we yield to no portion of our
fellow-subjects in a just value for the principles
which placed the House of Brunswick on the Throne
of these Realms, and a resolute determination to sup-
port the same by every means in our power. That
these principles, in the apprehension of your peti-
tioners, are founded on the basis of civil and reli-
gious freedom. '1 hat we cannot recognize the per-
fect existence of such freedom in any state which
permanently excludes from a participation in its
rights and franchises, and eligibility to its honours
and advantages, a large proportion of its population.
That such exclusion is actually maintained in Ire-
land, by the disqualifying statute, affecting his
Majesty's Roman Catholic subjects. That how
over necessary such exclusion may appear to
have been at an earlier period of our history, for the
maintenance of the Established Religion and Con-
stitution of these realms, the moment such neces-
sity ceases, it appears to your petitioners, that in
justice to the excluded, that moment also should
such exclusion cease. That it is the conviction of
your petitioners, that the causes which produced
that necessity have long since, through the en-
lightened spirit of the times, and the remarkable
changes in the civil and religious policy of the rest
of Europe, altogether passed away, and that there-
fore the disqualifying statutes, to which they have
above referred, may with perfect safety to the reli-
gious and civil institutions of the empire be at pre-
sent repealed. That from the progress of wealth,
intelligence, and liberality, which characterizes the
present age, the continuauce of such disabilities is
not a matter of indifference, but a positive and para-
mount evil, affecting all orders of the State, and
pressing with scarcely less injury on the interests of
the Protestant than on those of the Catholic. It ope-
rates injuriously as a bar to the cessation and obli-
vion of political discord, and renders impossible that
union of sentiment and interest on which the internal
peace, and consequently the prosperity, of a nation
must permanently depend. That this, which is true
of other countries, is pre-eminently true of Ireland,
and that your petitioners personally interested in the
condition, and sincerely anxious for the happiness of
this country, feel themselves called upon at this
alarming juncture, to declare to the House, that
these disabilities, by•perpetuating political discon-
tents and religious animosities, are the primary causes
of all our disunion. They further declare to your
Right Hon. House, that this disunion not only em-
bitters all social intercourse, counteracts the march
of national industry and improvement, neutralizes
the value, endangers the duration of all institutions,
but that, from the disorganization which it intro-
duces into every portion of the State, and the dis-
content which it nourishes, as its necessary conse-
quence, in the large body of its inhabitants, it af-
fects in an eminent degree the prosperity, and may
ultimately affect the security and existence of the
British empire. That your petitioners are further con-
vinced, and this colviction is warranted by past ex-
perience, that unless the wisdom of the Legislature
shall apply an immediate remedy to these evils, they
will in their progression assume at an early period a
character which must necessarily and most materially
augment the difficulties of their removal. And your
petitioners, therefore, implore your Right Honourable
House, to consul in your wisdom, not only for the
welfare of Ireland, but for that of the empire at
large, by taking into immediate consideration the
calamitous condition of this country, with a view to
such final and conciliatory adjustment, as may be
conducive to the peace and strength of the empire,
to the stability of our national institutions, and to
the. general satisfaction and concord of all his Ma-
jesty's subjects.
" And your petitioners will ever pray."

A NOVELTY.-TEETH TRANSPLANTED.-
A young man in Congleton, having suffered much from a
carious tooth, and being unwilling to lose it, determined,
in case of its extraction becoming ultimately necessary to
have another substituted in its stead. His brother who
had a supernumerary one, voluntarily offered to accommo-
date him with it, if be would submit to the removal of
the carious one. Having consented to this, both parties
waited upon a medical gentleman (residing not an hun-
dred miles from the post-office,) who accordingly extracted
the carious tooth, and transferred the sound tooth of his
brother to its place, which latter operation was performed
with comparatively little pain. The transplanted tooth
has since become firmly fixed in its new sUcket, and an-
swers every purpose of articulation and mastication, equally
well with the natural one. For the first few weeks it was
tied to the adjoining tooth by means of silk, until the
gums had sufficiently adhered to it.— Chester Courant.

A MILITARY AWARD.—Captain S
of the regiment, during the American war, was no-
torious for a propensity, not to story telling, but to telling
long stories, which he used to indulge, in defiance of time.
and place, often to the great annoyance of hie imicoecliate
cotnpanions; but he was so good-htralp4red *aim!, that
they were loath to chec;i 'abritplly'or harshly. An
opportunity occurred o!} giving him a hint, which had the
desired 'effect. Ile was a member of a court-martial
sembled for the trial of a private of the re.g-7,inent. 1:14
man bore a very good chara,g,ir,. Keneral, the ogerice he
had committed v,:as slight, and the 'court was rather at ti
loss what punishment award, for it Vfal mluigite to
award some, as the man had t.T4 Itrand guilty. While
they were deliberating on this, Major —, now General
Sir suddenly turning to the president, said in his dry,
manner, " Suppose we sentence him to hear two of Cap-
tain S-••••••••• 3 long stories."

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRENCH PAPERS.

(From the Gazette de France, dated Tuesday, March 3.)

PARIS, MAncu 2.—We learn from Lisbon that
great exertions are making to fit out a squadron.
The greatest tranquillity prevailed, and all are as-
sured that the sword of justice, which the revolu-
tionists of all countries represent as being inces-
santly directed at their brethren and friends in
Portugal, was never less employed that at present.
. _

The Austrian Observer of Feb. 21 say---" The
Ambassador of the Netherlands at Constantinople
despatched, on the 26th January, a courier to Paris
and London, with the answer to the communications
made as well by him as by M. Jaubert to the Reis
Effendi, in the name of the Allied Powers."

Accounts received at Toulon from the division
before Algiers say, that it has had several engage-
ments with small vessels of the enemy, several of
which have been sunk, and the others put to flight.
The blockade of Algiers is not easy, because our
cruisers cannot approach the coast near enough to
intercept the communications. It is to this difficulty
that the Algerines are indebted to some degree of
security. The division would be very glad if a se-
rious attack were made on the town.

(From the Messager des Clambres of Monday.)

PARIS, MARCH L—Count Saldanha, commander
of the Portuguese emigrants at Brest, and Colonel
Pizarro, has just arrived at Paris, for the purpose,
it said, of thanking the French Government for the
generous reception they have met with in this
country. _ _ _

Letters from Gibraltar of the 12th February say,
that the measure relative to the expulsion of all
foreigners who have not resided there 15 years are
to be executed with rigour.
We yesterday published the table of the price of
corn, for the regulation of importation and exporta-
tion, by which it appears that the average price of
wheat for all France is 22f. 57c. Last year at this
time it was 21f. 60c., so that there is an increase of
97c. Compared with the price of last month, there
is a rise of 39c. Accordingly, exportations wi 1
cease to be permitted during the month of March
from the ports of the Lower Loire, La Vend6e, and
the Lower Charente; so that it can take place on the
coast of the ocean only from Bordeaux, La Teste,
and Bayonne.
BUCHAREST, FEB. 6.—According to a report of
General Malinofsky, from Simnitza, the citadel of
Tournoul finding all its communication with Nico-
polis cut off, had offered to capitulate, and the
General had submitted the articles agreed upon to
the approbation of the General-in-Chief Count Lan-
geron, who had set out for Tournoul.
(Letters of the 9th state that Tournoul was oc-
cupied by the Russians.)

FRENCH FUNDS. —PARIS, MARCH 2.—Five per Cents.
110 f. 25e. ; Three per Cents., 76f. 65c. ; Bank Stock,
1,822 f. 50c. ; Naples Stock, 81f. 30e. ; Royal Spanish
Loan, '79f. ; Spanish Rente perpetuelle, 4Si. Exchange
on London, one month, 25f. 30e. ; three months, 25f. 15e.