THE indications of war have subsided during the present month, and ministers have declared their opinion that under existing circumstances they see no cause for engaging in the approaching contest between France and Spain.

In the House of Commons, on the 4th inst. Mr. Hume brought forward a motion relative to Irish tithes, which he supported by a speech of great length, and containing a mass of important information. Previous to Mr. Hume bringing on his motion, Sir T. Lethbridge gave notice, that, on the succeeding day, he should present a petition relative to the Jesuits in Ireland. Mr. Hume's motion was opposed by some of the ministers with

great violence; but on a division there were found to be 62 for it and 167 against it. In the course of the debate Mr. Grattan said, that Ireland had become in fact, "entirely a Catholic country."

On the 5th, Sir T. Lethbridge presented the petition he announced on the preceding evening against the Jesuits in Ireland. It came from a Mr. Parker, of Cork, one of the adventurers to the Cape of Good Hope, who ascribed his failure and misfortunes in the enterprize to a Lieutenant-colonel Bird, the colonial secretary, who, Mr, Parker asserted was a Jesuit. The petitioner further stated the existence of Jesuit establishments in Ireland, and traced them from Stonyhurst in

Lancashire. The debate was animated on this subject, and we rejoice to say that the Jesuits had many friends, though their enemies were not very sparing of abuse.

Close upon this petition came a motion for an address to the King, to assure him the house would co-operate with him in any measure that he might take to restore tranquillity in Ireland. This motion, made by Mr. Abercromby, was a censure upon the Orange societies. The ministers were very much on their guard in the debate which followed. Mr. Goulbourn, the secretary for Ireland, said it was the intention of Government to introduce something in the way of law to put a stop to the offensive part of the proceedings of the Orangemen, and Mr. Abercromby consented to withdraw his

motion.

Mr. Goulburn, the secretary for Ireland, has brought forward a measure, on which the Irish government have, for the last year, been so intensely deliberating, respecting the tithes in Ireland. The principle of the measure has been highly praised by the Irish members, and it is presumed will meet with satisfaction throughout the country. Mr. Goulburn's intention appears to be to promote a temporary composition of tithes in Ireland, and next to provide for a permanent commutation. This he proposes to do by two separate bills, which he has introduced into the House of Commons.

On Sunday, the 9th of March, Midlent-Sunday, the annual sermons in aid of the funds of the Associated Catholic Charity for educating, clothing, and apprenticing the children of poor Catholics, and provide for destitute Orphans, were as usual preached at the six following chapels:

The Portuguese Chapel, South Street, Grosvenor Square.

French Chapel, King Street, Portman Square.

Spanish Chapel, Spanish Place Manchester Square.

Bavarian Chapel, Warwick Street Golden Square.

Sardinian Chapel, Duke Street, Lincon's Inn-Fields.

New Chapel, Moorfields.

The amount of the collections we have not been able to ascertain, but we understand it was considerable, notwithstanding the peculiar pressure of the times.

The friends of useful and religious education, and the benevolent and humane in general, will have an opportunity of uniting the agreeable with the useful, of enjoying a little innocent hilarity and of promoting at the saine time an act of manifold charity on the 14th of April, on which day the anniversary dinner for the support of the East London Catholic Institution, for educating and clothing poor Catholic children will take place at the London Tavern, Bishopgate Street, his Grace the Duke of Norfolk in the chair.

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A report is in very general circulation, that the Rev. Gradwell, D.D. has been appointed coadjutor to the Right Rev. Dr. William Poynter, V. A, of the London district, and that the Rev. Baynes, O. S. B. has likewise been appointed coadjutor to the Right Rev. Doctor Collingridge V. A. of the Western district. It is also said that the Right Rev. V. A. of the Midland district will shortly declare the appointment of his coadjutor.

It is reported in the fashionable circles, that his grace the duke of Norfolk is about to be married to the relict of the late Sir Thomas Gage, bart. and that the right honourable lord Petre is shortly to lead to the hymeneal altar, Emma, the amiable and accomplished daughter of - Howard, Esq. of Corby Castle.

IRELAND.

Dublin, March 8th.-Yesterday the following placard was hung out of a window in Cow-street :-" The Master Key to Popery, laying open the villany of the Priests-is published here." A great crowd was assembled round this

offensive exhibition, and several persons expressed their opinions on its indecency, and mischievous tendency; the proprietor was recommended to remove this offensive placard, which he refused to do; and upon his refusal, the police officers displaced it, and the crowd dispersed. The placard was again exhibited this day, but was again taken down, after the mob bad proceeded to break the windows.

The Catholics in the north of Ireland, adhering to the solemn injunction of the king, refrained this year from making any parade on St. Patrick's day, which was usual with them before the publication of his majesty's letter.

At the late Ballymena sessions, nine respectable young men, Catholics, were sentenced to be publicly whipped on the 31st instant, for being concerned in one of those party riots which so frequently occur at the fairs in the north of Ireland. The magis trates there permit Orange paradings and processions; they permit all the exasperating displays of faction; and then they visit with unheard-of vengeance the unfortunate individuals, whom such tolerated proceedings drive to madness. The marquis of Wellesley, however, with a penetration that reflects infinite honour on him, does not concur in these unjust and partial proceedings. A petition being presented to the viceroy, in behalf of the above unfortunate individuals, laying before him the whole of the case, his excellency was pleased to order that the ignominious part of the sentence should be remitted, and thus the town of Belfast has been spared the disgusting sight of nine respectable men undergoing the lash of the executioner, whose couduct before was unstained by any crime.

CATHOLIC ARCHBISHOP OF CASHEL. The following article is extracted from the Dublin Evening Post of the 13th March. "We learn from a special and authentic source, that doctor Laffan was elected by the congrega

tion of Propaganda, to the vacant archbishopric on the 17th of Feb. We should state that the anti-vetoists of this city have heard of doctor Laffan's elevation with the greatest satis faction." Doctor Laffan is a man of acknowledged talents, piety, and erudition; he received in the year 1794 the most honourable testimonials from the university of Salamanca, where he graduated; his diploma as licentiate of that school is in the hands of Dr. Curtis, who was formerly president of the Irish college at Salamanca, and has been for some years past the Catholic archbishop of Armagh. Doctor Laffan was postulated in the year 1816, by doctors Bray, Troy, and Murray. Although this election was unexpected by many of the friends of doctor Collins, who appeared from their publica, tions in the Dublin Evening Post, and other papers, to have made sure of the doctor's elevation to the archiepiscopal chair. Yet it seems to have been in some measure foreseen by the friends of doctor Laffan, some of whom have ably vindicated him from the asper. sions thrown out against him in the public prints.

AMERICA.

Cincinnati on the Ohio, 5th Dec. 1822. "We are beginning two establishents in this state; one here and one at Somerset, two hundred miles off; we have room enough for them and plenty to do. Our little church here is finished, and is very decent; unfortunately it is not yet paid for. It is well attended by other professions. Our congregation daily encreases; prejudices are wearing away; it is not possible to have a fairer prospect before us; not only no impediment on the part of government, but on the contrary every encouragement, as our establishments are looked upon as contributing to the public utility, by dif fusing religious principles and useful knowledge."

We are in want of lay brothers, and for these we must apply on your side of the Atlantic; it is in vain to look for them among the native Americans; a spirit of false liberty which they have all imbibed, renders them totally unfit for the restraints of a convent. Young men acquainted with any handicraft or trade, would be most acceptable to us, but should they be unaoquainted with any, still we I would receive them, and give them employment.

The Rev. C. Nerinckx, the indefatigable missionary in Kentucky, again earnestly solicits the assistance of the charitable, in aid of the convents, of women which he has established. "Besides (he says) the discipline of a religious life, the labours of the society embrace the education of orphans and others gratis, and since its institution in 1812 above one hundred females have become members, and it is calculated that no less than eight thousand females have been prepared by them for their first communion." He is also actively employed in forming a community of men, upon a similar plan ; and in furtherance of this opject he has sent a young man to London, to procure the necessary means, for from Europe alone he can expect pecuniary relief, and subjects to commence his projected undertaking. Donations will be most thankfully received by the Rev. Mr. Nerinckx, Somer's Town chapel.

ITALY,

ROME, Feb. 22nd. His Holiness has definitively determined that the next consistory shall be held on the 10th of March. The notes which he has addresed to the prelates whom he proposes to raise to the dignity of cardinals, remove all doubts upon the subject. The following is a list of the eleven who have received notice of their nomination. Monseignor's Dandini, commandant of the hospital of the Holy Ghost; Palotta, au

ditor general of the Apostolic chamber; Pediciri, secretary of the Propaganda, and of the Camerlingat; Frosini, majordomo; Riario, apostolic prothonotary; Odescalchi, auditor to his holiness; Orfini, dean of the clerks of the chamber; Serluppi, dean of the Rota; Falsacappa, dean of the council; and Turriozio, assessor of the Inquisition. It is generally supposed that this promotion will extend to Monseignor Leardi, nuncio at Vienna, and to Monseignor Guistiani, exnuncio at Madrid, and that the latter will be nominated to the archbishopric of Ferrara. It appears that no foreign cardinals are comprehended in this promotion, but two cardinals will be reserved in petto, Monseignor Crissaldi, treasurer general; and Monseignor Burretti, governor of Rome; both prelates of known virtue and integrity, and who will add a lustre to the purple, with which they are to be hereafter decorated.

The whole of the correspondence on the subject of the late misunderstanding between the courts of Spain and Rome, has been published in a supplement to the Diario di Roma of the 22d February. It appears, that on the appointment of don J. Lorenzo de Villanueva, on the 31st of August last, to the office of envoy extraordinary and plenipotentiary from Spain to the court at Rome, a confidential note was written by the cardinal Consalvi, to the cav. Aparici, the charge d'affaires of his Catholic majesty to the holy see, stating that his holiness objected to the appointment of don J. de Villanueva, on account of his having published works and expressed sentiments on ecclesiastical subjects, which would render him undeserving of that confidence on the part of his holiness which his situation would demand, and begged that some other person might be substituted in his stead. It stated him to have been the author of a book entitled Letters to Don Rocco Leale, which had been condemned by his holiness, and that