enough to hear, seemed by their attention and approbation to find in it a great deal of good matter and sound reasoning. In adverting to the Catholic Question, Sir JOHN became more distinct; he expressed his determination to resist those claims on every occasion, and he paid a handsome compliment to the memory of the late Doctor Duigenan ; he expressed great doubts as to the propriety of the exclusive advantages lately extended to the Irish linens, and stated his determination to oppose in every stage the proposition for a grant of public money for deepening Waterford Harbour, which he could not but characterize as a job; and he sat down amidst cries of hear, hear! from Mr. HILEY ADDINGTON, Sir CHARLES POLE, and Mr. EST

COURT.

Mr. BATHURST immediately replied to Sir JOHN, which he did in a sharp, shrill voice, and with considerable vehemence and agility: he ridiculed Mr. HILEY ADDINGTON's cheering; defended the ex

clusive bounty to Irish linen, and the grant to Waterford Harbour; and on the subject of the Catholic Claims, he avowed his determination never to desist from pressing that measure of strict justice and indispensable policy on the House: he largely complimented his Right Honourable Friend, the Chancellor of the Irish Exchequer; and concluded by producing a small pocket-book full of scraps of papers, out of which he gave notice of three motions -the first, for an enquiry into the Lord Chancellor's Fees; another for the Abolition of Tithes; and the third, for an account of the number of Ounces of Irish Butter consumed every morning in England and Ireland respectively, distinguishing fresh butter from salt. Mr. BATHURST, in sitting down, placed himself between Sir HENRY PARNELL and General MATHEW.

I next thought that Mr. VESEY FITZGERALD and Mr. WILLIAM SMITH were called to the table. Mr.

FITZGERALD testified great impatience, while Mr.

SMITH appeared very passive during the operation. When it was over, Mr. FITZGERALD presented a petition from the Society of people called Quakers, against Church Music; and also from the three Congregations of Dissenters, praying that all bricks and other materials, of which conventicles are built, might be allowed a drawback. While Mr. FITZG ERALD was prosing in this manner, I thought that Mr. SMITH interrupted him with great warmth; he deprecated the abrogation of fiscal imposts propounded by the Right Honourable Gentleman; he also reprobated the assertion of his Honourable Friend (Mr. Bankes) that Ireland had not borne her share of taxation, and his monstrous proposition that as the property tax was no longer wanted in England, it should be transferred to the service of Ireland: "Ireland," exclaimed Mr. W. SMITH, "had sacrificed her treasure in the common cause, and she was now about to sacrifice her Treasury-she was even ready to part with her separate debt,

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and to transfer to England this last proud relic of her national independence."

Mr. SMITH, every one admitted, spoke with very unusual animation and ability, and after a long and masterly speech, in which he took occasion twice to call the Speaker to order, sat down amidst loud cries of hear, hear, from Messrs. LESLIE FOSTER and CROKER.

The next exchange was between Viscounts PALMERSTONE and FOLKESTONE. Some little delay was occasioned by a strong repugnance evinced by the former to Lord FOLKESTONE's red waistcoat; but the Speaker observing that a change of heads did not immediately involve an interchange of dress, Lord PALMERSTONE acquiesced.

When the Surgeons had dismissed the Noble Members, Lord FOLKESTONE lost no time in opening a great red box, which lay at his feet, and, producing a paper therefrom, he proceeded in the clearest and most satisfactory manner to move the

Army Extraordinaries - he took occasion in the course of his speech to pay the highest compliments to the Commander-in-Chief, and to remind the House of the complete refutation which the infamous calumnies of Mrs. Clark and her associates had now received, and he expressed his heartfelt satisfaction at being able to state, before his country, that He had had no participation in any part of that disgusting transaction. His Lordship next entered into an animated defence of the Military Club; and concluded by expressing a hope that Mr. BANKES, or some other independent Member, would propose a vote of 1000l. towards defraying the outfit, first cost of plate, waiters' liveries, &c. &c. for that most useful establishment.

Lord Palmerstone rose to reply to the Noble Lord-" He objected--he objected to all estimates original or supplemental—or supplemental. He saw portentous signs-signs, in every street, that this this country was on the eve of becoming a military