Litchfield enquirer., 1829-07-02
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LATEST FROM ENGLAND.


 HOldrege, arrived yesterday from Liverpool, whence she sailed on Sunday, 94th May.- We have our usual files from London and Liverpool, to esd, inclusive.
 ENGLAND.-On Monday the 18th of May, the House of Commons decided in favor of hearing Mir. O'CONNELL at the bar of the house, either by himself, his counsel, or agent; in respect to his claim to sit and vote in Par liament, without taking the oath of supremacy.
 Mr. O. Council was then called in, and ad- dressed the house in person, tn an able and re- spectful, yet dignifed speech, in which he ur- ged with great force and eloquence his right to a seat as representative from the county of Clare, without taking the oath required.- On his retiring, the question was argued with great cainlness by the speaking members of the house, and on the final vote being taken upon the original question, enforcing the paths heretofore taken by Catholics. the num- bers were as follows Ayes, 19O; Noes, 1l6, Majority, "A. .1sM
 Tuesday, May 19.-Order read for the at- tendance of Mr. O'Connell, and MT. O'Con- nell being in attendance he was called to the bar, whereupon MT. Speaker communicated to him the resolution agreed upon by the house, and the order made thereupon:
 "Thatit is the opinion of this house, that MT. O'Connell having been returned mem- CT of this house before the commencement of the act passed in this session of Parliament for the Relief of his Majesty's Roman Cath oIic subjects is not entitled to sit or vote in this house unless he first take the oath of su- premacy." 3'%
 Ordered, that Mr. O'Connel do attend the house this day; and that MT. Speaker do then communicate to him the said resolution, hot :N.k. AL .sR >supremacy?"
 And then MT. Speaker pursuant to the said order, asked MT. OConnell whether he would take the said oath of supremacy r. Whereupon MT. O'Connell requested to see the said oath, which being shewn him accor- dingly, Mir. O'Connell stated, that the said oath contained one proposition which he be- Eeved to be untrue, and that he therefore re- fused to take the said oath Ofsupremacy.
 And then MT. O'Connell was directed to withdraw, and he withdrew accordingly.
 The Solicitor General then moved
 That MT. Speaker do issue his warrant to the clerk of the crown to make ou. new writ for the election of Knight of the Shire to serve in this present Parliament for the county of Clare, in the room of Daniel OCOnnell, Esq, who, having been returned member of this house before the commencement of an act passed in this session of Parliament : for the relief of his Majesty's Roman Catholic subjects has refused to take the oath of su- preMacy.
 This motion was postponed until Thursday the 21st of May, on which day it was called up by the Solicitor General, and after con siderable debate, decided in the affirmative without division, and new writ for the county of Glare issaaI- -- -, r The Morning Chronicle says "So intense was the curiosity, both in and out of doors; to hear MT. O'Connel on Monday, that the number of members present at four o'clock exceeding five hundred and the applications by strangers for admission to the privileged | seats under the gallery were numel ous beyond l all former precedents insomuch that the | speaker found himself under the necessity of refusing the great majority ofthem. Efforts were made excessively by MT. Brougham, Lord Morpeth, Colonel Craddock. and, we believe, Mir. Hume, to procure this envied for some Irish gentlemen much attached to Mr. O'Connell, and deeply inter- ested in tbe result of the debate but a nega- tive, courteous but decided, was the invaria- ble reply from the chair to these repeated ap- plications."
 The day at present fixed for the proroga- tOu OI uEuuUlCut 1S tuc AOtu VI JUU0 UuC u may possibly be a few days later.
 PoRTUaAL.-Thel latest accounts from Por- tugal represent the affairs of that kingdom as being in no better situation. Twenty-three ( Constitutionalists were condemned in April, as having been concerned in the insGrrection | at Oporto last year. twelve of whom were executed, and eleven banshed. The expedi- tion to Terceira sailed on the 9th April. In . debate in the French Chamber on the l6th, | M. de Pompiere, remarking on expenditure, said that the conveyance of an African lion to Paris cost TOGO francs but that in 1926 it | cost the French double that sum to acceler- ate the. arrivalin Portugal ofa tyger, or biped much more dangerous. This remark led to one of those scenes of seeming confusion, common in the Chamber. The Portuguese | Government, it was said, had abandoned the | issue of paper money.
 There was an order in the Lisbon Gazette | 0f May 1st, from Don Miguel, to dismiss eight Portuguese Consuls. viz at Philadel- phia, New York, Elsineur, Stettin, Paris. Marseiles, Havre-de-G Grace, and Barcelona.
 -TREATRE, OF WAR.-Count Diebitch is no longer Commander in Chief of the Russian army on the Danube. His successor's name is not ulentioned. Something is said of his illness but his retiring is ascribed to jeal- 0usy on the part of the officers, which the Emperor did not think it prudent to encoun- ter. It is supposed that the command is merely placed nnder another name. After the unsuccessful attack by Hussein pAchn ,n-