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after all that had been done, a considerable number of

persons ss ere still left without the means of religious '
instruction. lie knew that there were many aged and
infirm persons who could not attend divine worship, ;
and Dissenters, who ought to be taken from the account,
but from this Report it would be seen that there were
179 places containing a population of 3,548,000, in
which there was no church accommodation for more
than 500,000 persons, or about one out of seven. Many
were in consequence precluded from attending divine
worship according to the frame of the Church of Eng-
land. The cause of this want of accommodation might
be ascribed to the immense increase of our population,
which had outstripped all calculation, and left those
parishes which had formerly sufficient room in their
places of worship without the means of accommodating
those who would willingly attend them. Many of the
parishes thus situated were too poor to be able to build
for themselves, if they were nut assisted by the public.
Ile considered it would be to spew a most unworthy in-
difference to the interests of the Church and to those of
the people if assistance were withheld. A great anxiety
fur religious instruction had been manifested. The
Churches which were already completed, had been
crowded, to the great benefit, comfort, and consola-
tion of those who frequented them. To have those
who were anxious for religious instruction to seek it
as chance might direct them, would, in his opinion,
be to neglect their duty as a Christian Legislature.—
It was desirable to see what had been already done, and
thence judge whether there was not room to hope, that
from an additional grant a corresponding benefit might
be derived. Ile did not mean to say that a new grant
of 500,0001. would afford all the accommodation which
he could wish to see afforded. But it they could not
do all that was desirable at once, it was proper that they
should now accomplish as much as they could, and do
more when a fit oortunity should offer. The sum of
1, pp
000,0001. which had already been granted for build-
-1 ing Churches, had not only done all that was expected
from it, but had exceeded the calculations and the hopes
of the Commissioners. They had expected it to furnish
• the means of building eighty-five Churches, which would
, accommodate 140,000 persons. But the result was,
• that nicety-five Churches had been built; or were now
, building, which would offer seats for 153,000 persons.
It ought to be known that the sum of two hundred thou-
; sand•pounds had been subscribed in aid of the one mil-

lion which had been granted by Parliament, and by
Ineans of the subscriptions, additional means for tfie
accommodation of 19,000 persons had been provided.
'The fact which he had just stated proved that pro-
fessors of the Church were not so supine as they had
been represented to be, and that they were not resolved
to do nothing but what they were enabled to do by the
extravagance, or, as some might think it, the profligacy
of Parliament. He would refer to one or two particular
cases, to shew the good which had been effected by the
former grant. The Right Honourable Gentleman then
' proceeded to read papers ielative to the attendance at
the new Churches at Blackburn, Birmingham, Notting-'
hem, Portsea, Ringwood, and Trinity Chapel, in Bath.
These, which were letters from Clergymen, described
the attendance to be good, most of the pews which were'
to be let were taken, and generally the greatest practi-
cal benefit was realized from the effects. of the grant.'
He had troubled the House with these statements to
refute the assertion, that when the Churches were
erected they would not be well filled. He had shewn-
that the Ministers were not likely to preach to empty
walls, and having already granted 1,000,0001. to erect
new Churches, he thought if the present grant were re-
fused now, when they were much licher than before,
and could spare the sum ten times better, it would be
most extraordinary. lle did not believe . the House
would act so niggardly and miserable a part, or that
they would view this as a mere question of pounds,
shillings, and pence. He knew It might be said, that
as this sum would not suffice to afford all the ac-
commodation that was wanted why did he not ask for
more ; that he took too little, or he took too much.
He should not however ask for more; but he had no
difficulty in saying, that if it were the pleasure of Par-
liament to appropriate a larger sum to this purpose, it
would not be a misapplication of the public money. He,
however, should move for no more than the sum which
he had first mentioned, as he felt that if the hmnty of Par-
liament were to extend beyond reasonable bounds, those
friendly to the Church would not have that inducement
to exert themselves which it was desirable should con-
tinue to operate on them. He concluded by calling on
the House to sanc.ion the grant, and thus contribute to
promote an object which they must feel to be of no
small importance to the country. Notwithstanding the
observations which had been thrown out when the sub-
ject was first mentioned, he was confident that the Bill
which lie desired to bring in would pass with but little
opposition. He moved a Resolution to "enable his Ma-
jesty to give directions that Exchequer Bills to the
amount of 500,0(X)1. should be issued to the Commis-
sioners appointed to promote the building of additional
Churches and Chapels, to be by them applied accord.
ing to the' regulations of Acts of Parliament passed or
to be passed."
Mr. HOBHOUSE admitted the question, relating as
it did to the religion of the people, to be one of no small
importance. He was aware of the delicate ground on
which he stood, as some observations bad been thrown
out relative to those who were indifferent about such
matters. It a want of religious instruction were one of
the immediate wants of the people, he should he disposed
to vote for the proposition of the Chancellor of the
Exchequer. This, however, did not appear to be the
case, and if it were, he should have thought the Church,
highly beneficed as it was, might have found the means
of correcting the evil without coming to the public. The
Right Honourable Gentleman said he had not objected
to the grant for a like purpose for Scotland. But in
Scotland there were no established churches highly be-
neficed as here, on which such charges could be thrown.
Because a grant had been made in aid of the Presbyterian
Church of kicothindilt by no means followed that a vote
like the present'ought to pass.' There had been no call
for new Churches—not a single Petition on this subject
had been received. lie however believed that the
religious feelings of the country had greatly increased
of late years (Hear, hear, hear). By that cheer
he understood he was supposed to have advanced
something which made against his own argument.—
He believed religion had become more prevalent among
the people of late years, but by that he did not mean
since the grant of 1,000,0001. had been made to erect
additional Churches, but he believed that it had been
on the increase from the period of the French Revolu-
tion. For the forty-three applications which were said
to have been made for assistance in this way, these did
not at all surprise him, as whenever Parliament should
make it known that a portion of the public money was
to be given away he had no doubt there would be a
sufficient number of persons ready to receive it. They
were :old that sufficient means•were not provided for
the accommodation of the people with respect to reli-
gious instruction. In six out of the eight parishes it
was represented that one hundred and thirty-three thou-
sand persons were thus circumstanced. He had inquired
into this. In the Pat ish of St. George, Hanover-square,
there was supposed to be 33,477 deficiencies. This, by
the bye, was assumed from a reference to the census of
1821, which included all persons living there,• among
whom were many infants and others who could in no case
attend a public place of worship. The Church of St.
George, Hanover-square, was certainly thronged ; and
at Saint James's the excellent man who there officiated
was so attended, that to obtain a pew in that Church
it was necessary to engage it seven years beforehand.—
An applicant for a seat was promised to be put on the
list, but more could not be looked for. But in the pa-
rish of. St. George there were three Chapels of Ease. The
first of these at which Ire enquired could have furnished
one hundred places; the second was not full, the third
was. In St. Ann's Church, it was stated that there was
a deficiency of room for fourteen thousand persons.
There was no Chapel of Ease in that parish, which con•
tained but about twelve or fourteen hundred houses, but
he found there was plenty of room in the Church. So
the statement of a deficiency to the amount named was
incorrect. In the next parish the deficiencies were
26,319, but then there was a Chapel of Ease, in which
places were to be obtained. In St. Martin's in the Fields,
the deficiencies were reported 23,752, but seats were
easy to be got. In St. Margaret's parish, the deficien-
cies were said to be 20,889. The Church was full, but
in that parish there were three Chapels of Ease,
where seats might be obtained without difficulty. In
the parish of St. John, room was wanted for 14,839 ad-
ditional persons.—That Church, however, was not at all'
full, and one of the sextons had told him that when a
sermon, which . was expected to bring a crowd, was
preached, there had been room for more than 100 per-
sons. There were instances of deficiencies of room in the
IDtssenters' Chapels, but this was no argument in fa..
your of assisting Dissenters to build additional places
'of worship. He did not think that ought to be done.
The attendance at Church had not fallen off, and there.
was scarcely a tradesman in Westminster who did not
take his family to a place of worship on Sunday, and
who would not be pointed at if he, wore not to d 610;

Upon the whole, he was of opinion that a general wane
of accommodation for the purposes of religious in-
struction had not been proved. It appeared that the
1,000,000/. expended in building Churches had pi ovided
accommodation for 153,000 persons. It followed that
the 500,0004 now to be voted would provide for about
77,000 more. The Chancellot of the Exchequer had
said he would not stop here, but proceed by degrees as
Parliament Might see fit. But going on at this rate,
did the House consider what it would cost to provide for

the 3,024,148 deficiencies which were stated to exist ?
It would cost the country no less than 20,000,000/. He
thought the present motion unnecessary, and that the
intended grant might be saved by instituting double
service, or even triple service, as was common on the
Continent. He had another plan to propose, which hatl
already been suggested by his Hon. Friend the Membei
for Midhurst, namely, that congregations should be al-
lowed to
.appOint their own pastor, subject to the 2p.
probation of the Bishop of the diocese, who ought to
posses; a Veto in such cases ; and if the privilege of
choosing their Ministers were granted to them, he
thought the*professors of the Church would provide
places of worship for themselves. Since he had been
one of the Members for Westminster, in which it was
stated there were 133,000 deficiency, he thought his
doors had been open to all; and though all sorts of
other complaints had been brought under his notice,
his constituents had never called his attention to this

subject. Considering there was not that want of ac-
commodation for the people generally, which the Right
Hon. Gentleman had supposed, he begged to move the
following Resolutions:
" That it appears to this Committee, that the sum of 1,000,0001.
sterling has been already granted out of the public Iteveoues, a:ld
that the number of individuals accommodated in the Churches ru-
viiikl, Or about to be provided, by means of that grant, would Lot
exceed 153,886.
" That it appears to this Committee that a further sum of money
Is now called for by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, for the saint!
purpose.
" Thit it appears to this Committee, that in 179 Parishes only,
more than 3,000,000 of persons are stated by the Parliamentary Ile-
writs, to be still unprovided with this requisite accommodation, and
that, according to the rate of expense incurred by providing fur the
deficiencies already caused, t) provide for those stated to raja in
the 179 parishes, would cost the country nem ty twenty millions of
money, besides what might, be wanted for a like purpose in other
parts of the country.
" That it appears to this Committee that there are several other
modes of providing for any deficiencies that may exist in the accom-
modation provided for the religious instruction of the People, ac-
cording to the principles of the Established Church.
" That it therefore appears to this Committee, that it is inexl,.=
dient to make any further grant for the erection of new Churches."
Mr.'Secretary PEEL, before he pi oceeded to notic:e
any of the observations of the Honourable Member for
Westminster, felt himself bound to say that nothing
could be fairer than the principle upon which h:: pro-
posed to rest the whole of this argument: it was a fair
and liberal mode of settling the question. All that the
Honourable Gentleman required was, that there should
Ise ample proof that the church establishment did re-
quire this additional expense to be laid out for the due
maintenance of the national religion ; that proof being
made out, the Honourable Gentleman said tharbe
would be amongst the foremost to give this establish-
ment the aid now sought. The first argument of the
Honourable Gentleman was, that there was no imme-
diate want of means felt, and that no call had been
made on Parliament to supply means. But how was
the fact ? Previous to 1817, there weie complaints
forwarded to the Parliament from valions parts of the
country, that the Petitioners were without sufficient
means of accommodation for religious worship. Par-
iiament appointed a commission to inquire into the sub-
ject—to that commission, and not to Parliament, all
subsequent complaints had been addres,sed. The Hon.
Gentleman founded his argument upontthe case of the
Westminster parishes; but there could be no conclusion
in that argument. The Honoutable Gentleman found
no . deficsency...f . seats and accommodation in the
churches and chapels of those parishes. But he con-
fined his remarks to the accommodation required by
the rich, and those who were able to pay. What was
the case with respect to free admission? The object
of the Parliament was to provide accommodation for
the poor. The Honourable Gentleman totally Mis-
took the pu! port of the return on the table. It was
by no means intended for a return of all places
whatsoever which were without adequate means of ac-
commodation for religious worship; but of all such
places wanting the necessary means as contained 4,000
inhabitants and above. In Westminster the Commis-
sioners did not find the necessity so pressing as else-
where. They had, therefore, spent little upon churches
or chapels in that city. In St. Margaret's it was com-
puted that there was a deficiency with respect to a popu-
lation of 19,817 persons, and yet the Commissioners did
not advance one farthing. They applied their means
where the deficiency seemed to be great, and the urgency
was greatest. They only provided for about 5,000 per-
sons in all the parishes of Westminster. [Mr.Hontrouse
said across the House; that he had no objection to the
mode of applying the moneyll. The Honourable Gen-
tleman had not objected to the conduct of the Commis-
sioners in applying the money, but he had drawn his ccn -
elusions wrong. What would he say to the large ma-
nufacturing towns,—to Birmingham, Manchester, and
Walsall? Would he say that because Westminster did
not want accommodation, that these places had also
sufficient means ? Would the House allow itself to lose
sight of the effects which were likely to result from a
want of those means in large manufacturing places?—
He would calculate then, that one-fourth of the whole
population were without the means of religious worship,
which ought to be provided for them. Suppose a town
to contain 100,000 inhabitants, it would be necessary to
find accommodation for 25,000. He could satisfy the
House, that with what was already done, 500,0001.
would go a great way towards the completion of the
whole. Manchester, for
_example, contained 187,000
population. One-fourth of that number gave 46,000.
At present there were accommodations for 22,468:
there only remained 24,761 to be provided for. Of
Birmingham, the population was about 100,000; one.
fourth, 25,000; persons already accommodated, 16,000;
about 10,000 to be provided for. Wouhl any man say
that 10,000 persons should be left in such a town as
Birmingham without the means of religious worship ?
The population of Leeds, 81,000 ; the fourth about
20,000; present accommodation for 10,000; to be pro-
vided for 10,000. They ought to do what good they
could, leaving it, like setds sown, to mature growth,
and in the end there would be a plentiful harvest.—
The Honourable Gentleman proposed double services.
He ought to know, that in many of •these places there
were already five services in a day.' He could mention
a place where, besides
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vices, therii were 20 issarriages celebrated ; there were,
lasside,s, baptisms, burials, catechising the children,
and sometimes administering the 'sacrament. As to
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would be favourable 'to the interests of religion.—
Parry contests would be mingled with religious feelings
_a most unprofitable conjunction of sentiment at all
times. At present, there was no hindrance to the choice
of a pastor by the congregation, provided that the diocesan
and the patron of the living agreed upon the presentation.
In Frome there were 12,500 inhabitants, there was only
accommodation for 950. In Walsall there were 12,000,
and accommodation for no more than 700. In Halifax
there were 92,000, and 85,480 were without the means
of religious worship. He knew no method of meeting
these cases by any recourse to local means. The rich
proprietors were driven away by the very presence of
the manufactures. There could be no rational objection
to laying out half a million of money on this object.
As to the million already granted, there was no pretence
of anything wrong in the application of it. Of the
Churches, the expenses of which were voted in the reign
of Queen Anne, there were only eleven built in all; but
of the one million voted by this Parliament there had
been' ICO Churches built. The 500,0001. if granted,
would enable them to build fifty more. This would ex-
cite the liberality of individuals, and if altogether they
could succeed in providing the means of religious wor-
ship for one member only out of every family in 800,000,
they would effect a greater good than they could achieve
by any other application of the same sum of money.
Dr.LUSH INGTON had turned his attention more par.
ticularly to the subject since it had first been mentioned
in the Hou,se. By an Act of Elizabeth, a penalty was
imposed on all who did not attend divine worship ;
that plainly slimed the sense of our ancestors on the
subject. He could enter taut no doubt, not only of the
propriety, but of the necessity of the grant. Where
there we: e no churches, the per,' le must either want the
benefit of religious worship, or seek for it among tle
Dissenters. Ile wished the Church of England to have
fair play. The Hon. Gentleman bath alluded to a So-
ciety termed the " Horne Missionary Society," who were
strenuously employed in turning the people from the
cummuni-on of Me Church of England. Among the
members of the Established Church, there used to
be always ample .accommodation in the Churches.
deprecated the idea of the popular election
of a Clergyman. On that subject he had some
experience, having been Counsel on a contested
Clerical Election, which had lasted five days.—
It was not the fact, that the inhabitants of Westminster
hid the means of attending Divine Worship. He must
think that the expenditure of the Million first voted had
been upon too great a scale. There should be a free
seat for every 51. expended. A certain Society had, for
the expense of 63,000/. procured accommodation for
130,0 W persons; having, for that comparatively small
sum, effected as much a. had been done by the million
voted by Government. Ile should move, that none of
the Chinches erected by Parliament should be tenable
with a Church of any other description. He should
also moire a Clause in the Committee, that the consent
of the iecumbent should not be necessary for the build-
ing of a Chapel; but that the consent of the Diocesan
should be indispensable.

Mr. HUME had seldom heard a speech so little ap-
plicable to the sbbject as that of the Learned Civilian
who had last addressed the House. The Act of Eliza-
beth had no reference to the present time, unless it was
meant that competitioa should be employed in securing
attendance on the Church. The Honourable Gentleman
had set out oil a crusade against all classes of Dissen •
ters, whose places of worship amounted to 3438, being
one-third more than all the Churches and Chapels be-
longing to the C::urch of England. There were many
Churches well endowed that were very indifferently
filled, mainly because the people had no share in the
choice of their Pastor. Such a choice would, on the
whole, be attended with the must beneficial effects. The
Church had a sufficient Revenue of herself for the pur-
pose contemplated, without the aid of Parliament. 'lhe
mass of the community was not rich, as had been
stated by the Right Honourable the Chancellor of the
Exchequer. The grant of half a million was one
quartet of all that the People of Eugland had received
for a debt of twenty-one millions, that had been due
from Austria. The Revenue of the See of Durham
should be looked into—(Hear, hear! and cries of No!)
before demanding money for building new Churches. It
was in the highest degree unfair to call upon the Dis-
senter ,to contribute. Churches might easily be built
by pi 'vale subscription, either by allowing a certain
numbtr of free seats, or giving to the people the choice
of their I,actors. The way to give fair play to the
Church of England would be, to put down non-resi-
dence alio pluralities; in short, to give no pay to those
who did no work—(Hear). By returns made in 1810,
1811, 1812, 1813, and 1811, relative to the Church
of England, it appeared that of 10,600 parsons, 6,804
incumbents were non-residents; 3,798 were residents.
Parliament had heard a great deal about the absentees
and non-residents in the Church of Ireland; but they
bore no proportion to the Church of England. In Ire-
land the proportion was about 800 residents to 400 ab-
sentees. In England, according to the return of 1814,
which was similar to that of 1817, almost to a fraction,
the non-residents wet e thus stated:
Exemption; from residence
Ditto by licenses, and various other enuies
Exemptions, sinecures, and sequestratioui
Ditto miscellaneous causes

2,545
2,758
1,7,06
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Making a total of ti,BC4
"Ple Honourable Gentleman concluded by declAriag
Lis conviction, that new Churches were unnecessary,
and the? efore he should oppose this vote to the utmost
of his power.
Dr. LUSIIINGTON denied thera was a tingle sentence in his
t?eech which could be fairly construed as hostile to the Dissenters.
Indeed he called on every Gentleman who had witnessed his con-
dact since he had been a Member of the House, to say, w hether
his Parliamentary course had not been decidedly different ?
Lord PALMERSTON supported the grant. An additional
copulation called for additional Churches. Between 1801 and 18121,
the population had increased .1,000,000; and he wouid ask, were
these individuals to be thrown on the Dissenters? He contended
that, if we v....re degrou:: to keep up the number of members of the
:Established Chun. h. we must provide them with Churches in which
to assemble and p.:rfurn religions duties.
Mr. GORDON said, that ~vhen this vote was first hinted at, he
had regretted it much, and tea rr.ach inclined to oppose it ; but
that opinion had been shaken y the able address of the Leartkd
hltmber (Dr. Lushingtor), and ft,lly established by the speech of
the :Member fee Aberdeen ; for ra..eer had he heard that hlo-
ntiiiraide Merr.bet with so little satisfaction as on this occasion.
rte 11o:towable and Learned Member (1)r. I.uhingtua) had said,
that the Missionaries and Evangelical Ministers went roaming
abets tha country, striving to infuse into the minds of the people
Lew .tat improved notimis of religion. This was a canting :ie.
cant, hnwever, was not with the Ministers of the Established
Church, hut with those of another description, and therefore it was
that be sul)port the present Vote.
The Commi:tee then divided—
For the Resolution, 148 I Against it, 59 I Majority, 80.

The Resniution was then agreed to.
The Ite•port of the Sugar Duties Acts Resolutions, and of the
Rini Dunes Resolutions, were agreed to, and ikUs ordered
ac-
curdiugly.
The other Orders were disposed of, and the House adjourned at
Oac o'Clock.

THE EVENING STAR,.

LONDON.

SATURDAY, APRIL 10, 1824.
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Consols opened this morning at 96i, and got up to 96i for the
May Account, and for Money 96i, a; but there Is little business
doing except in settling the Accounts—paying and receiving the
difference. At present Consols are 96a, 1, for May Account.
An Express from Paris this morning has brought the Rentes, after
'Change hours, at 102 f. 65c. which is somewhat higher than yester-
day's prices.

FOREIGN FUNDS.
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but afterwards rose to 18. The Greek Scrip, at the commence-
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Current Prices:—New Spanish 16/ 4, Old 174 to 18, Chilian
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At a late hour this forenoon «e received the Moniteur
of Thurt.day, by Express. In the official part it contains
a Royal Ordonnance, dated the preceding day, granting
a free pardon to the following accomplices in the plot
of General BERTON :

Mathurin Civrai, Pierre Cornuau, Jean Michin, Pierre-Louis
Millasseau, Henry Godeau, Jules-Louis Mix, Normandin, Jacques
Meunier, Henri Prier, Ilyacinthe Ledein, Joseph Ricque, Robert-
Augustin Lambert, Joachim-Pierre-Marie Ferail, Louis Sanxids,
Edouard Beaufils, Vincent-Louis-Armand Coudray, Rene Nonet,
and Augustin Malecot. .

They are ordered to be immediately set at liberty,
but they will remain five years under the surveillance
of the police, conformably to the 44th Article of the
Penal* Code.

The Chamber of Deputies on Wednesday assembled
in their respective Bureaux, to nominate Committees to
examine into the eligibility of M. BENJAMIN CONSTANT,
when the following Members were appointed:
M. Pardessus, M. Millet, M. Delllorme, M. de Verigny, M. le
Comte auidive de Mayneuf, N. de Martignac, N. le Comte de
Salaberry, M. de CardoLnel, M. de CaAelbajac.

The Emperor of Rossi's has been very liberal of his
honours to the Generals of the French army in Spain,
the bravery and discipline of which, says the Moniteur,
has been admired throughout the whole of Europe.—'
His IMPERIAL MAJESTY," adds this Journal, " appre-
ciating the services that this army has rendered to the
world, in chasing the revolution from its last asylum,
nd ensuring the rights of legitimacy, has conferred the
Grand Cordon of St. \Vladimir of the first class on—

"Marshals—Tile Dukes of Cornegliano and Reggio, ntle
ton, Conue Meilitor, and Prince de Hohenloe. The Order of St.
Alexander Newsky, on Lieutenant-Generals Comte Guillendoot,
Comte Bourdesoulle, Viscomte Tirlet, Viscomte Dude, Comte
Curial, Comte Bourke, Baron de Darius, and Comte de Loverdo.
And the Cross of the Order of St. George of the Third Class—
on Viivomtes Vallin and Saint Priest"
FRENCH FUNDS, APRIL 7.—Five per Cents, 101 fr. 25c.
We have received intelligence from Brazil, through
various channels, so late as the 24th of February from
Pernambuco, and to the 14th from Bahia. The Lisbon
Papers received this morning, also contain advices
which, though not of so late a date as the others, are
interesting in shewing how little hope Portugal really
entertains of recovering her late footing in Brazil. 'This
will be seen by the following extract from one of the
Lisbon Gazettes last received :

" LISBON, MARCH 19.

" We have received a set of the Echo da Patria, a
Bahia Paper, to the 24th of January. These Papers
contain very little that is interesting, except the melan-
choly certainty which they furnish of the progress of
revolutionary virulence in that unhappy country, and
of the studied persecution which the European Portu-
guese there experience from some rebellious subjects of
the King our Sovereign. We can assure our readers that
the sound and respectable part of our Brazilian brethren
detest these proceedings, and sigh for the re-establish-
ment of the legitimate authority, without which there
can never be repose nor happiness in that otherwise so
highly favoured country. Some sincere persons, fol-
lowing the first impressions of their own pure hearts,
suffered themselves to be persuaded that the event at
Rio de Janeiro, in the month of November, when his
Royal Highness the Prince Don Pedro dissolved the
so called Constituent and Legislative Assembly, was
the first step towards recognizing, in the face of the
whole world, the stored and inalienable rights of his
august Father and Sovereign, obeying the voice of na-
ture, the laws of religion, and of the country in
which he has his patrimony, and which is the cradle of
his Royal progenitors, arid the inhabitants of which ate
I accustomed to the mild sway of that illustrious House,
I joyfully held out their arms to him, and hailed him as
the future heir of the throne, and of the virtues
of his incomparable and most benign father.—
The Decrees of the 12th of November dispelled this
illusion, and the words which assured the Public, that the
new plan of a Constitution which his Royal Highness
will propose to the Assembly, will be twice as liberal
as that which the dissolved Assembly had drawn up,'
is equivalent to the declaration of the Governor of
Bahi.i in his Proclamation of the 20th December—' that
only the workmen are ch.arged, and that the plan of
[the edifice which is began remains the same:—After

various other reflections, the article concludes with ex-
pressing a confidence that the revolutionary Hydra,
which has been overcome in various countries of Eu •
rope, will be destroyed in Brazil by the good sense of
*!fie Brazilians themselves, who will free the Prince
Royal and that Continent from its malignant influence
and avert the dismemberment with which Brazil is
threatened in its component parts)."
The intelligence received direct from Brazil is by no
means important. General FILISBERTO BRA NT was
waiting at 13ahia, from whence he was to take his
passage for England in a few days, in an English
ship of war, for the purpose of negotiating the loan
for the Government of Brazil. Another Commis-
sioner, who shares with General BRA NT the authority
for that purpose, has already arrived in this country.,
—The union of Pernambuco with Rio doe:. not appeal
to be in a settled state, in consequence of a republicar,
party still existing there. At Pernambnel, die local
Government, conformably to the policy adopted at Rio
de Janeiro, have decreed, that the importation of all
articles, being the produce of the soil or industry of
Portugal, shall be prohibited, whether coming in Bra-
zilian or foreign vessels, and liable to seizure and con-
fiscation. By a subsequent Decree, it was ordered that
the Proclamati, a should be carried into effect three
months after the date thereof, the 12th of February ; a
circumstance which we deem essential to merchaws
fitting out vessels for the quarter alluded to.

Lisbon Papers to reache-I us this
morning, from which we make the following extracts:

LISBON, MARCH 19,

The Gazelle contains various Royal Decrees. By the
first his Majesty declares, that experience having shelvn
the disadvantages resulting from the separation of the
departments of the Secretary of State for the Interior
fiorn that of Justice, he has resolved to revoke the law
of the 23c1 August, 1821, and to reunite the depart-
ments of Justice and of the Interior. The second De-
cree, in consequence of this decision, dismisses Senhor
Joaquim Pedro Gomez de Oliveira from the office of
Minister of the Interior, and Senhor Manoel Marinho
Falcao de Castro from that of Minister of Justice ; and
as his Majesty is satisfied with their services, they are
each to have a pension of 1,600 mill ees.
The 3d decree appoints Senhor Jose Antonio d'Oli-
' viers Leite de Banos, Minister Secretary of State for
the Affairs of the Interior and of Justice.

An Alvara orders that all taxes on provisions shall
be abolished throughout the Kingdom, in the same
manner as was determined by the law of 11th June,
1821, for the Court and City of Lisbon.