Committee have prepared a digest of what appears to have been done this way, which they desire to recommend to the consideration of the Clergy, with an expression of their readiness to enter into further communication with any persons who have the time and ability requisite for promoting this important work.

J. C. WIGRAM, Secretary. Central School, Baldwin's Gardens, 18th May, 1831.

POLITICAL DOMESTIC.-Their Majesties' Coronation took place on the 8th, according to appointment. The illuminations were very general, and many of them fine. A large display of fireworks was made in Hyde Park, and free admission to the theatres provided for the populace.

REFORM.-The Reform Bill has been sent up to the Lords; and two other bills, introduced some time since by the Archbishop of Canterbury, are now in very advanced stages of their progress. One for limiting the plurality of preferments. This bill differs from the existing laws, principally by curtailing the legal distance within which two livings must be situated, to enable the Primate to grant his dispensation; and should he withhold this, it gives the petitioner an appeal to the King. The other is to remedy the defects of the tithe system in the only way in which that system can injure the farmer, and this it purposes to do very effectually and very simply:

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secure to the occupier the full return of sums laid out by him in improvements, before the tithe-owner can claim his proportion of the increased produce, and to certify to the farmer what he has to pay. If two-thirds of the parish make an agreement with the incumbent as to the general rate of composition, it shall be binding for any term not exceeding twenty-one years. If so large a proportion cannot agree, it enables the incumbent to let, for the same term, the tithe of any individual to himself; these agreements being binding to the incumbent and his successors. If either party, through a change in the prices of corn, become dissatisfied, such party may, at the end of seven or fourteen years, call in an

These are some of the chief points upon which the Report treats. To this excellent account of the proceedings of the Society are added nine appendices, full of interest to all who are sincerely devoted to the good of the rising generation; and to which we have pleasure in referring our readers.

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experienced surveyor to value the differences occasioned by this change of prices. The Reform Bill, after a three days' discussion on the third reading, was passed by a majority of one hundred and nine; there having been ayes 345, noes 236. remains to be seen how the bill will be received in the House of Lords, where it is to be read for the second time on the 3rd of October. The ceremony of the coronation has been accompanied with a large elevation of commoners to the peerage, and, (we believe,) those so promoted are, without an exception, favourers of the Reform Bill.

POLAND. The Polish troops that left Warsaw have taken up a hostile position in the neighbourhood of Medlin and Zacroczyn, and have published a Proclamation, addressed to the Polish nation, calling upon all capable of bearing arms to continue the struggle. Private letters from Warsaw by no means give up the cause of the Poles as lost, but affirm, that to keep and guard Warsaw will be an immense burden to the Russian army, and that the surrender of that city was only a stratagem to entice Paskewitsch into a

snare.

FRANCE. The ministry have presented to the Chamber of Deputies a project of law for the abolition of the hereditary peerage, that the Chamber of Peers should be wholly nominated by the king,-and that the privilege should die with the person nominated. In presenting this project, M. Perier strongly urged the necessity of complying with this popular demand. The committee to which it was referred, have recommended the adoption of the measure by a majority

of only one; there having been, for it, five, against it, four.

Whilst this was occupying the attention of the Parisians, the unfortunate circumstances of Poland, as before stated, became known, and immediately excited commotions of a most alarming nature. The feelings of the people had always been warm in favour of supporting the Poles, and it had required all the energy of the government to restrain them from the tumultuous expression of them. But no sooner was it known that Warsaw was captured, than the popular indignation burst forth furiously, heightened by an unfortunate sentence, dropped in the Chamber by Gen. Sebastiani,— who, speaking of that event, said, "Order again reigns in Warsaw." This has brought upon him a double portion of the odium cast upon his brother ministers; these were openly mobbed by the populace, and escaped with difficulty. The national guard have been called out to aid the regular army, and have been compelled to act against their fellow-citizens, which they have done with success. The places of public amusement have been closed; and wherever any persons congregated in the streets, they have been immediately dispersed. About one hundred persons have been arrested and sent to prison, as disturbers of the public peace. The mob assembled on the 19th, in great numbers, around the hall of the Chamber of Deputies, and, barricading the approaches by the overturn of carriages, maintained their position till the sitting broke up, when they moved towards the Palais Royal with shouts of "Vive la Pologne!" "A bas les ministres!" but finding the military strongly posted there, who received them with cries of "Vive le Roi!" they dispersed.

If the military only remain firm, the peace of Paris will soon be restored; but here a frightful picture presents itself. On the 18th, the national guard of the fifth arrondissement sent a letter to the deputy, M. Eusébe Salverte, declaring, that though they were friends to order, they would not support the ministers; an armed body thus assuming a right to deliberate.

SWITZERLAND.-The state of this country is a very disturbed one, parti

cularly the vicinity of Bâsle, where the insurgents have come to action with the militia, and gained the advantage. In Neufchatel, (subject to the king of Prussia), they have driven out the garrison and occupy the castle.

BELGIUM.-The French army have evacuated the soil of this upstart monarchy; but they remain on its frontier, and can re-occupy the territory in a few hours whenever they feel inclined to do so.

The meeting of the States has taken place, and their session opened by a speech from the throne. It relates merely to matters of internal regulation; grateful acknowledgments of French interference; dependance on the mediation of the Five Powers; and the abolition of the barrier fortresses: these are, Mons, Charleroi, Ypres, Ath, and Tournay.

HUNGARY.—The interest felt by the peasantry of Hungary in the affairs of their Polish neighbours had induced some of these to take up arms in their favour. Their movement has been suppressed; and four hundred have been made prisoners, some of whom have been shot.

PORTUGAL.-An insurrection against the usurper broke out in the fourth regiment of infantry, about 800 of which marched towards the palace with vivas for Don Pedro and Donna Maria, playing the constitutional hymn. Instead of being joined, they were fired upon by the other regiments, and defeated nearly all the survivors have since been captured.

Don Pedro has purchased a Swedish frigate, which, with another frigate, and a ship of sixty-four guns, is preparing for sea; and Don Miguel is fortifying the banks of the Tagus as if expecting another hostile visit.

TURKEY.-The reports from Constantinople announce the indication of farther troubles from the old Janissary party, who are as yet by no means extinct. The late fire at Pera, the damage by which is estimated at upwards of six millions sterling, is attributed entirely to them.

CANADA. The emigration to this country from the British Isles during the present year amounts to above sixty thousand.