8 FEBRUARY 1851, Page 9

The daily journals have reprinted from the Constitution and Church

Sentinel a correspondence between Mr. Thompson, a Protestant butcher of Dublin, and the Duke of Wellington. Mr. Thompson is the spokesman of some memorialists who call the Duke's attention to a matter which seems to them of the deepest importance to their church, their country, and the Sovereign of these realms,—namely, to the fact that "the following remarkable words are reported to have been used by your Grace in the House of Lords when urging the adoption of the Roman Catholic Relief Bill "— " I will say, however, that if I am disappointed in my hopes of tranquillity, after a trial has been given to the measure, I shall have no scruple in coming down to Parliament, and laying before it the state of the case, and calling for the necessary powers to enable the Government to take the steps muted to the occasion."

"In other words," say the memorialists interpretively, "if the bill should prove a failure your Grace would not hesitate to call for its repeal." "That it has proved a failure," they add, "now requires but little proof." So they call on the Duke for the redemption of his promise.

Field-Marshal the Duke of Wellington acknowledges the receipt of Mr. Thompson's letter, and the address, on a subject on which he had received anonymous letters, and he had observed paragraphs in libellous newspapers, but which he considered unworthy the consideration of any respectable person." Field-Marshal the Duke thinks that such respectable person should have examined what the Duke really did say on that occasion, and if that was not clear, then the context spoken at other stages ; "and words should not have been added in a parenthesis—' in other words'—which, according to the published record, do not appear to have been used, and positively were not used by the speaker." Such an examination would have disposed of the "imputed engagements." "F. M. the Duke of Wellington, although now in the service of her Majesty in the capacity of Commander-in-chief of her Majesty's Land Forces, is not called to her Majesty's Council " ; "as Commander-inChief it is not his duty to receive, consider, and submit to Parliament measures to relieve her Majesty's subjects in Ireland" from inconveniences and evils of which they complain. Such is the duty of the LordLieutenant, "an officer of great power and influence"; ; and to him Field-Marshal the Duke of Wellington refers Mr. Thompson and the "others denominated Protestant inhabitants of Dublin " ; he himself "positively and distinctly declining to interfere in any manner whatever."

A most demonstrative deputation waited upon the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Thursday, to impress on him the energetic determination of the Metropolis to get instant and unconditional repeal of the Windowtax. About three hundred persons, churchwardens and other leading men of the Metropolitan parishes, started from the Marylebone Court-house, and in seventy cabs made a descent on Downing Street. Sir Charles Wood was obliged to borrow a sufficiently large room in the suite of tho First Lord of the Treasury ; and there he listened to the statements of Lord Duncan, Sir Benjamin Hall, with half a score more of Members of Parliament; and of the parochial notabilities who jocosely sought to terrify him into compliance with their desires, by threatening him with a speech apiece from all the three hundred gentlemen! They were treated with uncommunicative good-humour.

We have reason to believe that it has been decided that the duties of the Quartermaster-General's department at the Horse Guards shall be carried on under the superintendence of Colonel Freeth, an officer of great experience, who has served as Assistant-Quartermaster-General for several years, and is in every way calculated for the service. It was at one time supposed that a general officer would have been appointed to this situation ; but we understand that economical principles have had their weight, and that her Majesty's Government have been influenced by them upon the occasion.—Hcrning Chronick.