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dined from the state of our Foreign Relations: but
those Ministers were at variance in their statements as
to the causes which have led to/ their present views.—
His Grace totally discarded the idea of fear arising
from the state of Ireland having* had any influence
with them, but that they brodght forward the measure
from a sense of what was' due to the country, and to
the happiness, peace, and tranquillity of the Em-
pire at large. Mr. Prat. on the other hand, in the
Commons, assigned the dangers arising from the
present state of Ireland, as the influential cause of
the steps proposed to be taken. Mr. Moons, how-
ever, whose intimate connection with that part of
the United Kingdom, and whose talents entitle his
statements to the utmost attention, declared his sin-
cere convicting% that the settlement, as it is called,
of this great question, so far from benefitting Ire-
land, will expose society in that country to dangers
and evils by which they have never befure been threat-
ened.—This is exactly our belief. We oppose Catholic
Emancipation because it is an inroad upon our Consti-
tution, and because we are fully persuaded, that.if it is
granted it will utterly fail in producing the good effects
which its advocates anticipate in Ireland, and.will lead
to a state of things, both there and in England, more
dangerous to society at large, and more pregnant with
evil to the Empire, than that which even now exists.--
We sincerely wish we may be mistaken ; but conscien-
tiously believing that such will be the case,. we still
cling to the hope that the voice of the country will be
sn decidedly expressed against the measure as to arrest
it in its eatliest stages in the Houses of Parliament.
The Paris Pacers of Sun Jay, and the Gazette de
Pearce, dated Monday, reached us last night. Their
contents again principally relate co several new Projects
~f Law whiela have been submitted to the Chambers.
Tne only paragraph of political interest is one in the
Gazette de France, which will be found in another co•
lumn, stating that the Councils which prevail in the
Russian Cabinet are entirely pacific, and that the Eu-
Paton's views are confined to the execution of the
Treaty of Akermann. This is one of those articles so
often manufactured in Paris fir stock-jobbing purposes.
and is deserving of no credit. On the other hand, it is
known that the Emperor of RUSSIA is making the most
stupendous preparations for a new campaign, and that
he fully expects to fulfil in the course of it the threat
which he has made—namely, to dictate peace to Tur-
key in the heart of her territory.
New York Papers to the 26th It. were received last
night. They are destitute of news respecting the affairs
of the United States, but they contain intelligence from
Mexico to the SOth ult. of a melancholy nature. Civil
war, with its attendant horrors, reigns in that city. The
Foreign Ministers and Consuls were on their way to
Vera Crus, and commercial proceedings were at a
stand. Extracts will be found in another column.

At no former period to outParliamentaryHistory did
Petitioos from 'the people to the Legislature flow in
so rapidly as upon the present occasion; nor, Perhaps,
was ever less attention paid to them. Men of all parties
have found it convenient to come to the conclusion
that the House of Commons is the voice of the people,
and that power being once confided to their represents.
lives by the people, they have no right to interfere
after wards. We have before observed that, to a certain
extent, we are willing to subscribe to this as a general
principle; but occasions must and do ads. in which
the voice of the people may with propriety and
justice be raised, and the Legislature in such cases
has never yet failed to attend to it. ,We will sup.
pose, for the sake of illustrating this position, that
the present House of Commons, finding that the
voice of the nazi, n was against the measure which
is to be carried (as it is stated), by• an overwhelm-
ing majoriry, were suddenly to pass a Bill declaring
that the prese,.t Parliament should be perpetual, would
it be then said that the people had no right to interfere
in that constitutional mode which they are now pur-
suing ? It is a new doctrine to push this argument to
the extreme point; and it is one which the people of
England will never submit to. They have a right, on
in momentous a question as the present, to have time
to consider its consequences, and their deliberate opi-
nions ought to influence the vote of their Representatives.
This feeling is indeed now becoming so universal, that
many are of opinion, the general sense of the country
must yet be taken by a dissolution of Parliament, before
the general question is determined on.
•
It is rumoured in the French Papers that the second
division of the Portuguese Emigrants landed on Ter.
ceira, while Captain WaLeoLa was conducting Gen
Sammuna's division towards a French port. We be-
lieve the report to be unfounded; but it is of very little
consequence where these unfortunate men take refuge.
Their services will ere long be called for in their own
country, for the conduct of Don Moon . will bring
down upon him the punishment it deserves at a very
early period.

CITY. Twit Lye o'CLocc.

The private letters from Mexico, of the 20th of December, state
that order had been again restored in that capital; and that, by to.
formation received, there k every reason to believe that &arra
Arra had delivered himself up, which will be the means of ending
all farther confusion. Foot or Ave districts have declared in favour
of the present Government. Three thousand men were marching
on Puebla, as an escort to the cooducta, which was in safety there.
It also says that only a few of the revoked troops. remained in the
capital, and it would be impossible for them to resist the measures
now taken by the Government, as they expected that Generals
Macon, Cautaant, CORTIPMIAL and Passes would be able to unite,
and bring into the field about ten thousand men, while the insur-
gents have only two regiments disciplined.
Consuls opened this morning at 2411 j, since which they have
been done at 461 1, and at present may be quoted at 861 1.
CITY. HALF-PAST ONE O'CLOCK.
The Consol market, which remained steady during the morning
at eel 1 for tbe_Account, has, within a short period. rather de.,
dined, and may be quoted st present at Set 4. and for April adj.
The Government Broker is again selling Exchequer Bills, which
has caused a fall in the Exchequer market of es. Exchequer Dills
are done at 425.
In the Foreign market, Pampas meek has receded. as well
as klezlean Beads, in of the very safrreenble sews
from that curter of die