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countrythen have returned to England in abject poverty I
and wretchedness. They have chinos ►pun the Spanish
government for arrears of pay which that government
will not! discharge. Our ministers have been repeatedly
besought to interfere, but in vain. On Tuesday evening
tl►e Marquis of Londonderry presented a petition to the
House of Lords from the officers and men of the late
Legion, praying ►ministers to do something for them ; but
Lord Melbourne would only promise the " good offices"
of himself and colleagues, and denied that the petitioners
had any right to more.
His lordship does the misguided and hapless men much
injustice. Had he and. his colleagues not, to say the
least, allowed false hopes to be held out, the Legion
would never have been formed. He is, therefore, bound
in good faith to see them righted. Every Englishman
has an indefeasible claim upon him, as the chief minister
of the crown, for protection from robbery by any foreign
power ; and this claim is a thousand-fold stronger on the
. part of the men of the Legion, because of Lord Mel-
bourne's part in getting it up. He should, as he could
without much trouble, compel the Spanish government
to pay the arrears forthwith. He would do-so if he were
desirous to vindicate his own honour. The Legion was
fraudulently originated; and all those who were of it,
save the inglorious knight, have been fraudulently dealt
with. from first to last. Their fate is a warning to Eng-
lishmen, which we hope will never be forgotten, to leave
dishonourable and unjustifiable warfare to our enemies.

IRISH MUNICIPAL REFORM.

(From the Dublin Evening 3faio

We have received from our London Correspondent the fol-
lowing important communication on this all absorbing subject.
It will be read in Ireland with deep anxiety—and lI rce be not
much mistaken, the proposed arrangements will by all parties

be deemed far from satisfactory :
" LONDON, SATURDAY, MAY 25.—The discussion on the Irish
corporation bill has been postponed until Tuesday next. I be-
Neva I can inform you pretty accurately of the concessions
which the Conservatives mean to make in return for the couces-
-sions made to them on the Irish tithe question by the govern-
ment. I apprehend Sir Robert Peel will on Tuesday night in-
form the house that he is prepared to grant corporations to all
the towns' in Irelaud having a population exceeding 15,090
souls. This will consequently include the following towns, viz.:
—Dublin, Cork, Limerick, 'Waterford, Belfast and Galway.
The franchise is to be a ten-pound one, and the rate under the
new poot-law -bill to be the basis. Sir Robert Peel will also
insist on the appointment of sheriffs, recorders, &c. being in the
hands of the government, and not, as in the English bill, in thd
gift of the council. It will also be intimated to the government that
unless the tithe bill be framed its every particular so us to meet
the views of the Conservative party, no corporate reform bill
will obtain their sanction. Whether or no the plan X have
sketched will receive the approval of Mr. O'Connell or his
servants, the ministers, I have no means of ascertaining, but all
must allow that the proposed concessions on the part of the
Conservatives are large enough to satisfy the rapacity of any
one save Mr. O'Coanell."
This is the first.intimation in the press of either.country as to
the course intended to be adopted. The reservation which sus-
pends the passing of the-Corporate Reform Bill, to the extent
and validity of the securities to be provided for the Church in
the Tithe Bill, is intended apparently to disarm the fears of
those who dread the operations of expediency and the facilities
of compromise—and doubtless it will reconcile many to with
hold their judgments until the experiment shall have been tested
by the actual provisions of both measures. Neither can we deny
that the restriction of municipal rights to a high rate of popula-
tion—and of corporate franchise to a high rate.of taxation, will
remove some of the apprehensions with which this measure is
viewed by the Protestants of Ireland. We shall also admit that
the retention of the power of appointing Sheriffs, Recorders,
&c. from the hands of the corporate democracy to be thus
created, is a vast improvement upon the English system; and
consequently that if the bill,,as contemplated, be carried by both
Houses of Parliament, it will constitute a measure much less
dangerous and objectionable than the formidable transfers here-
tofore insisted upon by the members of the Lichfield House
conspiracy. Notwithstanding these improvements, we must en-
ter, in the name of the Protestants of Ireland, a caveat against
the measure. After all, it is but a greater or less degree, a
transfer of municipal privileges from . one party to another;
and as long as that is the case in any respect, so long and so far
the original objections continue to be valid. Corporations, mu-
nicipal or otherwise, are the creatures of the law, created for
specific purposes. When these purposes cease to be exigent—
or when the pursuit of them becomes inexpedient, it is obviously
competent to the creating power to annihilate its own creatures;
and the policy may be wise and beneficial which dictates their
extinction; but it can be neither wise nor beneficial to re-
create those institutions in favour of an adverse principle—or
even a different body of constituents—still subject to those ob-
jections and inconveniences which render their suppression, as
far as regarded their original possessors, salutary or expedient.
And such is the case of the Irish Municipal Corporations. They
were created. for the encouragement of the Protestant religion,
and. for strengthening the bonds of connexion between Great
Britain and Ireland, by fostering in this country a British in-
terest. If they have become needless in these respects—if their
working be prejudicial to both or either of their original objects
—let them be suppressed—let them be extinguished. The Pro-
testants of Ireland make no objection; for peace-sake they are
content to part with privileges, which, for centuries have been
their birth-right. But in the name of common sense—of true
religion—of sound policy, and of national faith, do not trans-
fer them, in whole or in part, to those against whose power and
machinations they were first set up as a bulwark; do not hand
them over to the enemy as instruments to he used, and effec-
tually used, to the promotion of purposes the very reverse of
i
those contemplated n their first institution. A measure short
of the latter we feel confident will never content the enemies of
the Protestant faith aud British connection in Ireland:—any
thing approaching to it cannot but dissatisfy and discourage
that powerful, intelligent, loyal, and wealthy, portion of the
Irish people, on whose affections and religious sympathy the
permanence of the British connection, so far as this country is
concetued, altogether depends. Security for the church is,
doubtless, a desirable object; but, under peculiar circum-
stances, it might be purchased at a rate wantonly extravagant ;
and, in the present circumstances, we can ourselves command
the market. We can reduce the enemy to concession, without
sacrificing one principle, or abandoning one just and seasona-
ble advantage of our own. We can afford-to bold out, for the
adversary but exhausts his vigour iu those attacks which daily
Add to our triumph, by proving our position to be impregnable.
We therefore recommend the protestants of Ireland to pause
and ponder ere they finally approve. .The measure we confess
to be divested of several of its most adverse characters :—cor-
porations, as now proposed, will become a name rather than a
reality; in the reform proposed, the remedy dwindles into a
placebo. But in proportion as it is so, it is less likely to be ac-
ceptable to that party to whose pretensions it professes to be a
sacrifice; and we are, therefore, convinced that the safest and
the best method for all would be the total abolition of the insti-
tutions themselves.
For supposing, for a moment, the Protestants to be content
—is there no other party to be satisfied t Will the Irish agita-
tion joy fully accept this proffered bauble of corporate equality
in lieu of the substantial machine of municipal •power? Will
they accept dress parts in the six raree shows of municipal dig-
nity reserved for their amusement, and play mayors and com-
mon-council men on the stage of public life, with all the strut,
and as little of the reality, as the members oet lee histrionic body
enact kings and cobblers—tyrants and buffoons—" lords and
others," on the stage theatrical ? To ride in the gilt coach of
Dublin—to walk behind a mace in Cork—to spott a threescocked
hat on week days, in Limerick—to be ushered into chapel after
the cap of maintenance in Waterford—to sit iu Walker's chair
in Derry—or even to astonish Belfast with the unwished-for
glories of a civic procession, may be an object to some—" for
"little things are great to little men"—but what is this but the
childishness of ambition, " pleased with the rattle, tickled with
a straw ;" whilst all the greatness and solid power which manly
ambition wishes to grasp, have already vanished from the empty
pageant? It is true theme may be Cawtholic mayors, and com-
mon-councilmen, and burgesses and so forth—but "the mace"
will be, as in Cromwell's eyes, "an empty bauble," and their
councils so many schools of idle oratory, or noisome agitation.
'['he- substantial powers of a corporation, viz., the election of
sheriffs, &c., will, by the present measure, be withdrawn; and
the local authority over the lighting, paving, furnishing of wa-
ter, and other municipal improvements, will be, in every in-
stance, vested in commissioners appointed for these purposes.
Unlike the municipal institutions of England, in which the
powers just mentioned are legally vested, the new corporations
to be established in Ireland will he but the shadow of a shade—
the unreal mockery—the unsubstantial pageant of our ancient
corporate solidity. 'There will be the rotundity of the alderman,
per chance, but nothing, as we may say, of the calapash and
culapee which ministered to his greatness.
Surely it is not for the sake of conferring on the one hand, or
acquiring on the other, such trumpery honours, that the great
and powerful Protestant interest is to be offended, and its reli-
gion, liberties, rights, and independence, to be endangered
We beg of her Majesty's opposition to consider this, without
reference to the motives which actuate the concession—for it
must be apparent, to the most short-sighted observer, that the
Duke of Wellington and Sir Robert Peel are conscious that the
time is come when the voice of the nation Will make the accept-
ance of office imperative—and it is equally obvious, that the
settlement of these questions is solely with a view of remo% ing
all obstacles to the permanent continuance of their admittistra-
ion.

MORE OF THE NUNNERY BUSINESS.

From the New York Protestant Vindicator of April 13.)
MR. RICE AND HIS DUPARQ TRIAL.
We have frequently alluded to this famous trial, in Kentucky.
The friends of the notorious priest Duparq, at the head of whom
was Mr. Elder, the President of BardstOwn ..Romish college,
brought a suit against the Rev. Mr. Rice, Presbyterian misister
in Bardstown, and editor of the Western Protestant.- • They
charged hint with libel. He bad published the universal talk of
the State about„this.Duparq's licentious conduct, his improper
connexion with nuns; the affair of the eloped nun Milly
M 'Pherson, who has told certain appalling tales about this priest,
and other priests. She did this. in assigning her reasons
fur eloping from the horrid den of her nunnery. No body
doubted her word. All the world cried out against the
priests and nuns, and the nunneries! But lo! suddenly the
poor eloped nun Milly M'Pherson, disappeared! She was seen
last going to the house of a Roman Catholic family. And to
this day she cannot be found, dead or alive ! Every one saw
that her disappearance was necessary to save the priests, and
the nuns, and the nunnery . She did disappear just in time.
And a certain priest high in office, in Bardstown college, uttered
a mysterious saying. namely, " tllilly APPhei son will be forth-
coming when we need her evidence!" The public called aloud
for her appearance. Every body was beginning to execrate
priests, and bishops, and nuns, and nun's cells, and all such
dens ! Mr. Rice put these things into print. He told in print,
what. every body was speaking of. The president and priests
of Bardstown, felt that they were suffering. and their cause
qff
sinking. The priest Duparq was sent to 'France fora season,
till the storm should blow over. Meantime the priests bring a
law suit. They laid the damage at ten thousand (loners ! The
trial went on. Some extraordinary details were dragged to
light. The trial is published by Mr. Rice. The jury gave a
verdict of damages, one cent, and ro costs! The sum of one cent,
is by jury of honourable men, deemed the amount of the value
of Duparq's character: And the priests, and .Mr. Elder in
particular, have lamented most bitterly the day they had re-
course to a jury by trial ! They would have had abetter chance
in an inquisition! While writhing under this calamity, and
under the additional inflictions made on the them by Mr. Rice's
hook of Trial, the priests of Philadelphia are, by the Herald,
calling on the Roman public to come to the rescue ! The im-
plore the whole posse of the Homan subjects of the Pope, to
come up with their subscriptions to aid Mr. B. J. Webb, of
Bardstown, to come out with his version of the Trial, to counter-
act the fatal effects of this Awful Trial and this awful book of
Mr. Rice. We venture to give the Philadelphia and Bards-
town priests an advice. " Don't publish ! You will make the
matter worse ! Just agree to produce poor Miliy M'Pherson.
Bring her from her dungeon, if sheds alive. If she is dead, tell
the public the whole history. Only produce Milly if you can.
Be advised : bring poor Milly out of her cell, from Maryland,
or Kentucky, or Ohio. Be sure to produce' the eloped nun.
This will settle Mr. Rice's career very soon ! Only produce
her ; you can " easily gag her, and crush her stories."

. .
tempted the defence of the Popish Propaganda in Marlborough-
street :
" You complain (said Doctor Stanley, the Titular of Nor- The current number of the Foreign Quarterly Review puts its
wick,) that the Roman Catholics of Ireland all; barbarians. seal to the following affecting particulars respecting the Llama,
(` No, tio,' from the opposition benches.) Why, you say that which it describes as authentic:—" The Llama is the only
they are not to be believed on their oaths (` no, no,' and a cry of animal associated with man, and unriebased by the contract.
' hear' front the same benches;) and you call them idolaturs. The Llama will not hear heating nor ill treatment. They go io
(` Elear, hear,' front time ministerial benches.) Now, if they are troops, an ludiau walking a long distance a heal as guide. If
barbarians, it' they are ignorant of the obligations of an oath, if tired they stop, and the Indian stops also. If the delay is great,
they are aolators, if they are thus immersed in barbarism and the Indian becoming uneasy, towards sunset, after all sorts of
superstition, whose fault is it ? (` Hear, hear,' from the mi- .precautions, resolves on supplicating the beasts to resume their
nisterial benches.)" journey. He stands about 50 or 60 paces off, in an attitude of
We can tell him whose fault, it is—and upon an authority humility, waves his hands coaxingly towards the Llamas', looks
which he will nut choose to reject—that of a commissioner of at them with tenderness, and at the same time in the softest
his favourite board—its most active commissioner—the life and tone, and, with a patience I never failed to admire, reiterates
soul of the whole system, even the Rev. James Carlile—trans- ic-ic-ic-ic. If the Llamas are disposed to continue their course,
lator of the pro-popery version of Scripture Extracts used in the they follow the Indian in good order, at a reg,ular pace and very
National Schools.. This gentleman, whether wittingly or not, fast, for their legs are extremely long; but when they are in ill
has told the cause why Ireland is barbarous, why perjury is pre- humour, they do nut even turn their heads towards the speaker
valent—nay, why .murder .is altnost .a.Sabbath pastime. We —but remain quite motionless huddled together, standing or
quote front the Bishop of Exeter's speech the following solution lying down, and gazing on heaven with looks so tender, so me=
of those awful mysteries : . lancholy, that we might imagine these singular animals had
"On the authority of the Rev. James Carlile, the resident the consciousness of another life,-of a happier existence. The
commissioner," said his Ibrdship, "an authority which the go- straight neck, and its gentle majesty of bearing, the long down
vernment, at all events, would not be likely to.dispute—he was of their always clean and glossy skin, their supple and timid
enabled to state that which be well.knew_before, lin which their motions, all give them an air at once noble and sensitive. It
lordships might be glad to hear had become evident to Mr. most be so, in fact ; for the Llama is the only creature employed
Cat lile—that the Roman Catholic priests held, the. Roman Ca- by man that he dares not strike.. If it happens (which is very
tholic people iu the strictest.aud most oppressive thraldom. In seldom) that an Indian wishes to obtain either by force or
a memorial, a copy of which. he held in his hand (proceeding, threats what the Llama will not willingly perform, the instant
as we understood, from the above-named rev. gentleman )it was the animal finds itself affronted by word or gesture, he raises
stated that recent, events prayed .that .the Roman Catholic his head with (Faulty, and without attempting to escape ill-
priesthood in Ireland were most .deeply tinged with infidel treatment by flight (the Llama is never tied or fettered,) he
principles, and That they rejected the Scriptures as the Word of lies down, turning his !oaks towards heaven. Large tears flow
God, although they formerly held them to be so sacred that freely from his beautiful eyes, sighs issue from his breast, and in
none but the clergy should be allowed to peruse them. Some half or three quarters of an hour at most he expires. Happy
amongst the Roman Catholic priesthood in Ireland held that it creatures. who so easily avoid sufferings by death! Happy
would have been better if the Bible had never been written. It creatures, who appear to have accepted life on
,condition of its
was justly observed that the people of Ireland possessed no being happy ! The respect shown these animals by the Peru-
means of learning what Christianity was, otherwise than vian Indians amounts abso:utely to superstitious reverence.
:through those teachers." When the Indian loads them, two . approach and caress the
Is it now a wooder that Ireland should he so barbarous ? animal, hiding his head that he may not see the, burthen on, his
Have we now a solution of that state of things which led Baron back. If he did, he would fall down and die. It is the same
Richards to remark on the frequeucv of murder following close in unloading. If the burthen exceeds a certain weight, the
upon attendance at the mass house? Are we surprised, as the animal throws itself down and dies. The Indians of the cor-
learned baron expressed himself to be, that the instruction the dilleras alone possess enough patience and gentleness to manage
people received from their church had neither a moral, a re- the Llama. It is doubtless from this extraordinary companion
ligious, nor a humanizing tendency ? Alas! it is for not that he has learned to die when overtasked."
effectually counteracting such teachers and such lessons—hv
endowing colleges and establishing boards—that she is still
more awfully responsible. And yet—it is with sorrow and
shame that we record it—and yet. with these facts staring him in
the face, we find the illustrious Wellington lending the sanction
of his name to this ungodly system, and voting for a continued
experiment on the in rats and religion of the nation through
.slika
the agency of the i anal Schools. His Grace admitted the
truth of the Bishop 'xeter's charges •he distinctly admitted
that as a system of conjoint education ale national scheme had
failed—that its tendency was to encourage popery, and to dis-
courage the protestant religion in Ireland; and yet he would
leave it undisturbed to work out its evil purposes. We cau Un-
derstand the whigs, who have no disrelish for infidel principles;
we can understand the bishop of Derry, who wishes to suoport
the whigs through thick and thin ; we can understand the bishop
of Norwich, in which see a fancy for popery seems to be inhe-
rent; but we really cannot comprehend the Duke of Wellington
in the course which he has taken.
His grace may probably be paving and smoothing the way
for his return to power in company with his former colleagues.
But we can assure him that should he trample'down in his way
any of those great principles which the protestants of the em-
pire venerate, be will come to the helm with the public confi-
deuce in his virtues very much diminished, and of course with a
corresponding diminution of that power which has hitherto
borne him forward to the object of his ambition.
The Earls of Roden, Wicklow, and Wincheisea, are not
chargeable with this time-serving abandonment of either friends
or principles. They boldly stood out for the sake of truth, pro-
testantism, and civilization, and have added to their patriotic
wreath the laurel of an independence which severs them from a
respected leader, whenever he appears to depart from that
course which true religion points out, and the soundest policy
sanctions. The speech of the Earl of Roden will be read with
delight by every man in Ireland who desires to see national
education conducted on sound and holy principles, who reve-
rences the Bible, as the word of God, and respects the clergy of
the established church as a learned, pious, and able Christian
ministry, zealous in their master's cause, and devoted to the
service of their countrymen of all religious perivasions in what-
soever pertains -to their temporal or eternal happiness. We
trust the Bishop of Norwich will lay to heart the truths so im-
pressively brought before him by this distinguished champioq of
the protestant faith.

THE LLAMA.

Intelligentt.

TUESDAY, MAY 29.—Wind S. Fair.

ARRlVED.—Rochdale, •Neverson, from St. Vincent—Alexander
Stewart, from Jamaica—liitson. , from Savanilla—Manchester,
, from Savannab—l-lilah, Hammond ; Arco, Farley, fm Natchez
—Dream, —, from New Orleans—Fatima, tethers, from Calcutta
—7 willinge, Brandt. from Copenhagen—Amalia and Courier, from
Danzig—Emanuel, from StettinMaria, fin Wolgasteori»th, Smith,
from Apalachicola—Ma rmora, Meyer, from Mobile—Frederick
Basnett, from Copenhagen—Fate, Fierche, from Danzig—Alletta
Elizabeth, Voer, from Rotterdam.; •
SAI LED -7 Rebecca. Sayer. for Tampico—Mandarin, Donel, for New
South Wales—Jupiter. Ramsey, for Bombay—Rebecca, Pickauce, for
St. John, N.B,—Pioneer, Davis, for Buenos Ayres. •

Parker. Risien, hence, at Demerara
Swift, Rogers, hence, at Port-au-Prince
Brothers. Hutchinson, hence, at ditto
Lancashire Lass, Norman. hence, at Smyrna
Flora, Tem k e, and Nyverheid. Levens, hence, at Flushing
Columbine. BroWn, from St Domingo, at Antwerp
Queen of the South, Gilbert, hence, at Cuxhaven
Cleopatra. Stewart. from Bremen, at London
Intrepid. Stewart. hence at Demerara
Lipsey, Harvey. from Callao at Valparaiso
Kate, Lofgren, from Buenos Ayres at ditto
Fanny Palmer, Easter, from Constantinople at Smyrna, the 31 inst.
Royal William, 'Rogers, from ditto at ditto the 3d
Mary, Walker, from Saros at ditto the sth
St Alexis. Killea, hence at Bergen
Micmac, Stephens, from Trieste, at Copenhagen.
Nyverheid, Lievens, hence, at Flushing.
Agatha, Schurr, hence, at llelvoet.
Neptunus, Bakker hence, at ditto.
Superb. hence, at Riga.
Reins, Voss. hence, at the Texel.
Maria and Anna, lingerdorn, hence, at ditto.
Ituna, Sanderson sailed from Valparaiso for Masco 2nd Feb.
Gem, M'Kenzie, sailed from Smyrna for this port 2d instant.
Lady of the Lake, Munn. from Sierra Leone, at the Clyde.
Charles, Le Graod, from Rio de Janeiro. off Dartmouth.
Arab, M`Queen, hence, for St. Petersburg, at Longhope 12th inst.
The brig Martha. for this port. had returned to Sierra Leone leaky,
after being eight (lays out. The colony was very unhealthy ; the
shipping in Sierra Leone river suffering much from sickness.
Orient, hence for Philadelphia, was spoken in lat. 41 0, log. 49 0.
Wilton Wood, Russell, hence for Barbadoes, was spoken 25th March,
in lat. 2 S. long. 21.
Courier, hence for Calcutta, was spoken 26th March, in lat. 3 20 N,
long. 22 W.
Ottersspool, Downe, from Calcutta for Liverpool, was spoken 16th
ult, in lat. 1 N, long. 22.
Merchant, Jordan, hence for New York, was spoken 23d instant, in
• lat. 49. long. 8.
GUERNSEY, May 21.—The barque William. Moullin, belonging to
this island, arrived at Rio de Janeiro from Cette on the 17th of March,
after a passage of 70 (lays. On the Ist of Feb., when near to Madeira.
she fell in with the brig Brothers, of Whitehaven, White, with loss of
masts, rudder, Stc. and in a sinking state. The William took the
crew onboard, a (etook them to Rio de Janeiro.
STORN OWAY, 19th May.—Several bales of cotton have been picked
up by the fisherman on the west side of this island, but the marks and
numbers were so destroyed and ultimately divided by the crews, that
the officers of customs could not trace them.