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specified for taking the oaths. , The like OftlissiOn or
bro4d assertions *ere made respecting Yelemon's. Act,
' the Union, itf. He contended that the Ail of Union,'
39 and 40 Geoge 111. c... 61, said, as regarded Peers,..
that they should take the oaths and make the
ration as then established by law. It abrogated no,
laws, except .where that was specifically done; but,
on the contrary, enjoined the taking and subscribing
of oaths, &c. as previously established. As to the

doctrine held to the contrary, it was puerile and ab-
surd. And as to " Roman Catholics'' being no where
mentioned, es was alleged by Mr. Pollock, the SSd
Geo. 111: c. 21, was expressly " for the further relief of
Papists or Roman Catholics." The Learned Gentlemen
then proceeded at some length to show, that by the
construction of those Acts a Roman Catholic was ineli.
gible to sit, and, being so ineligible, a person declaring
himself to be a Roman Catholic, and that being a mat-
ter of notoriety, he was ineligible to be a candidate, or
to be returned, and that therefore his election was, to
all intents and purposes, null and void. At the coaclu.
sion of his address, the Learned Gentlemad put in the
return of the High Shedd', to which were appended a
• certificate hoot the office of the Crown and Hanaper in
I,eland, id Mr. O'Connell having been sworn in as a
Roman Catholic Barrister, also an affidavit of his bar-

ing declared himself a Catholic.
Mr. Poct.ock objected to those documents being. re-
ceived with the return, and contended, that the Sheriff
had no right to make those additions to his return ; and
• that on that ground they could not be received. Nothing
could be received as evidence bin the rettrin. In some
particular cases the Sheriff might no doubt receive evi-
(truce ; for instance, in that of a buy Of tender age, and
notoriously a minor, he might receive evidence cf the
4act,-and append it to his recur n ; hut in most other cares,
and in the piesent, his office war i.uteiy ministerial, and
he was bound to make the return, and any addition to it
would be irregular on hispart, and could not therefore be
admitted as evidence with the return itself. It was rug.
gesteJ to him (Mr. Pollock) by his Learned Friend Mr.
Alderson, that a Clergyman entering a register of a
heparin, and adding in it the age" of the child, the re-
gister would be legal evidence of the baptism, but the
'eat y of the age could DM be received as evidence of
the, age, because the party was authorized only to re-
gister the fact of the baptism, and not the age. In like
-manner an envy or addition to the return, which the
Sheriff was not authorized to make, could not be re-
ceiv-d as evidence of any fact with the return.
Mr. HARRIS )11 contended, that the Sheriff was pound
tostate, in his return, the special circumstances of any

peculiar case, and to add any evidence that he might
have received of those circum.tances; and that such
addition must be received along with the return. •As
TO the ease which pis Learned Friend had cited, the en-
try Of the Clergyman of the age of the chird could not
be legally received, because the Clergyman could not
'know the tact of his own knowledge.
- Mr. POLLOCK, in reply, observed, that let the same
test be put to the case before the Committee, and it
would at once put an end to hi. Learned Friend's argu.
meat. How, he asked,could the Sheriff know any thing
of the affidavit? It was haaded to him as sworn ;
bow could he know that fact, or know that it was true?
.iher some further dbesseioa, the room was cleared, and stran-
gers were excluded for about 110 minutes.
On the return of Counsel, they were informed by the Chairman,
that the documents appended to the writ might be read—bet that
reading was not to be considered as evidence of the truth of their
contents.
The documents we read by the Clerk, after which
colonel Fitzgerald was put into the box, and proved
that he had heard Mr.O'Cormell declare at Vie hustings
that tpe,fieehoiders had to choose between him and Mr.
Vesey Fitzgerald; that Mr. Fitage.ald had sworn, on
taking his seat'in Parliament, that their religion ( hat of
theCatholicletas impious and idolatrous, and was ready
10 swear it again.sh )uld he be returned ; but that he
(Mr. O'Connell) bring a Rumen Cath,lic, would never
take any such oath—that.he w. uld sooner die first.
`On his closikezamination, Col. Fitsget aid admitte.i
that Mr. O'Connell more than once declared that it was
not necessary that he, u a Catholic, should take the
be would try that question.
Mr. Dillon Maenamara gave similar testimony as to the decia
rations of Mr. O'Connell of his being a Catholic.
.- De. his eross-examination, he nude the sante admissions as to
Dlr. O'Connell's assertion. that it would not be necessary for him
to take tie oaths previously to his Waft his seat.
In answer to another question, as to whether Mr. O'Connell
'bad not expressed his detetatinatl
na to try the right, witness re-
plied, that no doubt he bad, but the right could not be tried till
the retern was made. This produced a laugh among Mr. O'Coo.
nell's friends; and Mr. O'Coneell observed to one of Ms Counsel
—Certainly it cooldpoot, and that is the whole of the cam.'
Mr. lisamsou said be should cell no further evidence, on this
pert of his ease.
The Catatana. after consulting with the Committee, declared
It would bv advia:lale to adjourn the COIIIO2IIWIII till to-morrow.
homed accordingly till to4lotrow (this) ma'am:At eleven.

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This day is probably the rant important to the
BI itish Constitutioi., and to the liberties and happiness
of the nation, which has occurred since the glorious Re-
volution of 1688. It will witness the commencement
of measures which, if adopted by Parliament, will make
A. /1110410 ON THAT SACRID CONSTITUTI.)N s of it
will witness the downfall of an Administration which
appeared to possess all the elements of permanency, and
which undoubtedly would bare long lasted secure in
the confidence of the KING and the People, had not its
leading Members proved AMITATIS to the principles
on which their security was founded.. In either cue,
the malt must be disastrous to the country; and we
stall long have to lamest that the *sample of the fate
which befell a former Mioistre, when they attempted
ter make a similar inroad upon ant Caastitatioop bad,

as

not deterred his Main's present Minhters frost the
coarse they have taken.

Those hopes, however, of the firmness of the Kama
on this question, which have dawned for some days,
seem now brightening almost into certainty. And if
the Constitution is but preserved inviolate by his
Maprarfa determination, the nation will indeed owe
a debt of gratitude to their Sovereign, which should
heighten, if possible, that attachment. for his person,
and that reverence for his illustrious station which Eng-
lishmen already so strongly feel. The nation, we know,
would lose much, in losing the services of the Duke of
Watutrorou as the Premier; but with all that respect
which we feel for his Grace, still his retirement frog
offi.e would be as nothing compared with the blessing'
which an immense' majority of the nation would
consider the abandonment of the odious measures
in-
tended to be brought forward; and although the loss
of his Glace's services as the Fii a Minister of the Crown,
might for a time occasion some inconvenience, we can-
not believe that in this intellectual country there are
not other men who ate 'capable of wielding the affairs
of the Empire; and that his MAJE;TY Would be able
to eiclaini, as Hess: did when Le received the rote!:
Space of the death of Priacv of Nosthumberland—

" I trust 1 have within my Realm,
" Five Hundred good as He."

The Paris Papers of Monday, which reached us last
night, contain but little worth noticing. The Fuads
remained nearly stationary, and no political news had
reached the French capital. Letters from Toulon re..
precited that the ships before Algiers had had occa-
sional conflicts with some ut the small cruisers of that
State; but the manner in which this set vice his been
conductvd, throws so little lustre over the arms of
France, that the Paris Papers are rather cautious of
even, mentioning the subject.
Extracts of these Papers will be found in another
column.

The lierman Papas received this morning confirm
the surrender of Tourneul to the Russians. Ttieir other
contents, from which we subjoin extracts, do not re-
quire any puticular remark.

BUCHAREST, Fusemir is.
OFFICIAL ■ULLQIII.

We have this moment received the news of the imutteder of
the furtreu of Tourmoul (or Tourno), which capitulated the day
before yesterday. Ablaut Selina, the Governor, has delivered the
keys to Count Langeron. This General has in less than three
weeks caused one fortress (Kale) to be taken by storm, compelled
another (Tourney!) to capitulate, taken ninety-eight cannon and
eight pair of colours, and killed or taken 3,500 Turks.
Though the ground is covered with snow a foot deep, and the
cold has been constantly at five, ten, and Atte= degree., the Ras-
Sian troops, which lay in the bivouac with their °dicers, have
triumphed by their zealous perseverAnce over the inclemency of
the season, as their bayonets have overcome the Turkish sabres.
VIENNA, Fsa. 2S.

The President of Greece returned from Peros to Egina on the
40th December, after the departure of the three Ambassadors.
Tbs. Greek Dee of 40th and 93d.De&mber say,, that the 'lurks
had left Karpenuissi on the kb December. and retreated towards
Thesisly, and had been followed part of the way by the Chiliarcbs
—Strato, [tango, and Tuve lla, and General D. size!. According to
the Greek Bee, the Greeks hare occupied the Thermopylas.—
ifirdriaa Owe rev, Feb. 43.

Vuton.a, Fga. Si.--Illetalliques, 97 7-16.—Bank Shares, 1,1941

CONSTA NTI NOPL E. JANUA RV 26.

The mediums irony Greece are of a nature to excite serious
attention. The Greeks under Ypsilanti are making considerable
programs. They are advancing along the coast by way of Talanda
towards the Therruopylat, where they seem to intend to fix them-
selves. This enterprise is said to have been undektaken by the
advice of French agents, in order that when the questann ef the
frontiers of Greece comes to be decided, it may be penal° for the
French Ministry to induce the Allies to give them a greater extent.
The English Government, it Is said, opposes the proposal et Pi ince
Polignag, to determine the boundary by a line, drawn from the
Gulf of Voio to that of Cerra, on the ground that the Treaty of
,6th July speaks 'poly of the pacification of the Greek provinces
that were in a state of revolt, and consequently was not applicable
to Livadia and Tbessaly, as those countries took no farther part in
the insurrection. Ypsilanti's invasion I. designed to do away with
this argument of the English Government.
It is long sines we had any news from the army at the Balkan.
There were reports last week of surprimes attended with success, of
the Russian widths-quarters near Koludjik and Paravadi, but no-
thing official has been published, which indeed is seldom done by
the Pont.t The accounts from Asia do not agree. Some say the
campaign has already recommenced, and that the Ituwians having
received great reinforcements threaten Erstretant ; while others
say, that the Persians seem disposed to break the peace, and that
General Paskewitsch has thus been obliged to send troops towards
the Persian frontier, so that be would find it diffi:uit to maintain
his present position in Armenia. Tir.!Soltan's new Guard already

amounts to 7,000 ineo.—Algemeene Zeitaing. Feb. Y 6.

CITY. TWILVIC o'CLock.
The whole of the Public attention is fizsd to the affairs of the
House of Commons this evening, and the .pcech of Mr. Past on
the civil disabilities of the Catholics.
Our funds have improved this morning. in consequence of the
massy reports of yesterday having died away. Consuls opened this
morning at 86d for the Account ; since which they have bees
door at'B6l, and at present 86/ I, and 86i for Mosey. Many
persons who sold yestrrday,are purchasing to-day.

The Fos eign market at present is without the {eat interest, with
not a bargain d•'og.
Letters from illembnegh, dated hut Friday, bring the Exchanges

the utile u pet lest smuts.
CITY. HALF-PAST ONE O'CLOCK.

The Cosset market has been hi a very feverish state daring the
whole of the moralise, sod fluctuating between 1161 and eel for
the Accoent, with a great deal of business doing. is is said that
the Hebrew party have been selling largely, which is supposed to
originate from ucounts received from Vienna this morning.
' Various reports are again aeoat that Ministers have not as y#t
obtained the Kum's sanction to the Bill for the suppression of the
Catholic. association ; and if they do not obtain it by three o'clock
this day, the Catholic Disabilities will not come forward this evening.
The French leaving of prices on Monday were-3 per Cents.
77f. 2Sc. end of the month, S per Cents. l ief. 110 c.

A re-action has taken place in Console; at present they may be
quoted 87 to I foe the Account.

In the Foreign Market nothing doing.

During the month ending on Siturdey last, there
were so lass than thirteen Cabinet Councils held at the Foreign
Office; threw Privy Councils at Windsor; and the like number at
WhlieiaelL
Yagardar a Court of Directors was held at the East
Who Hew. when captain David R. biswata, was sworn into the
ownellid el she ship Waled" consigned to China direct.

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THE KIIG.
WINDSOR, MARCH 4.—At twelve o'clock dos day,
his Grace the Duke of Wat.t.ttecrom arrived at the
CAstle, and had an audience of hi. MarrtrrY. Soon
Atter the arrival of the Doke, Mr. Secretary PEEL a'
rived; and a few minutes before one, the LORD CIiAN- I
CELLoR, who were both immediately introduced to the
presence of the KING, and xemained, with the Duke of
WELLINGTON, in conversation with his MAJESTY for a
considerable time. The three distinguished individuals
aft-rwards partook of refrebhments, and returned to
London between three and fuur o'clock.

The Kin° talrean:;iting both yes•
rerday and this day in the Great Park, but the weather
continuing unfavourable, his MAJasTY was prevented
from enjoying his usual drives.