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influence never before equalled. Agitation kept four-fiftlis of the population is tone contitinous scene of pun eicite• sent, and poverty held it* eansival amid the wild o rgies of theoretic patriotism. Very different indeed is the present social aspect of Ireland compared with the perhsl to which we have just referred. Peace mime* in village and hamlet ; Bands-quay has ceased to wend forth its le+ eon« on ideal nationality, and men begin to leans that self exertion M the surest 'male of local advancement. Even Tipperary, so long famed in the annals of terraria's siirfare, f.ugvts its former follies ; indolent* . give., 1111A•i• to indn,u c, and the results of a ancennsfid industry create fresh CO111• form, as they also produce more esoistentnient. among the toe-ople. William Pargan in the real Young Irelintiler of His example forma a lit ing history tante elispient in int language than the thiest-turned perio al* of " patniitic" declaimiste. That one man's exeitiona have given a %Insulin% to enterprise, and a dignity to toil, which are likely to con fer the most important benefits toe hie native laud. Ten years al t o the ery of over population rang limn t 'omissio's-a to Coleraine ; tile political ee.,nonlist read of the eight millions," and ran itowling to his gods; and Slulthusiens senators gated on the lists of births in Irish papers with the desperation of men about to be jostled out of the world by hoods of Irish adventurers. Sine.. that period thousand* anal tens of thousattils of • people. have bicateol themselves amid the valleys of the United Shoes, In the lakes of c snails. and to is; hey I the far Pacific. to theme lands the emigrants f l their litlossur well repaid. and their enterprise foully rewarded. Every mail steamer brings with it some pee 111 l istry snit Krum the ensignuit pioneer to his friends in the eilar try, mi d tins th e mit ,• vests of one member sif &family cassava:4es others. until, in many instances,* dozen h on,e hol,l, ill one lawality follo w the track of their leader. Plo, mical ent.rgy, the Ism° and sinew of our people hating lied st new value set on their labour. has ceased to be a dreg in the market. Every man willing to work finds a ready sale for Ilia exertions. Cone pubtory idleness no longer Moils a place in irt.laitil's mid paragraphs on the state of the e l rarely meet the eve in the impels of the day. All these ou t w ard and %Willie signs of better tams lead Its to hope that at length the people of Ireland have 6. I out th u d simple problem in wild ethics, thud. in the stilvaticeniesit of any lass, the mensbens oldest i.lass it their oit shoulde c rs to the wheel if the woul d ywo unsur ismst e s ou . ressfist tip. Througl 1111 l t the west of Ireland issi 1 1 1 1 l f ai lures., are making satiafactiory prt.greSA, and we are 1 1 , 4 , 1 ,y to 1,.„ r1 that there is not alone a willingness lll l a l s.oramen the peasantry, lint All wl •ing skill %Melt speaks highly sof the natural abilities of the workers. The practical 'pent. lion of the Encumbered Estates t • 1 hip a new and more energetic race of landowners—men who are in• thawing improved systems of agricitlture o n their estal us, and giving simple employment to the labourers in their m i ee n t i Ten years have, therefore, 'lone slimier" for Ireland : the people are intionivisl in habits :mil in mond»; their West* seelll 111011 i titeitilily 004- 111 l 141111, with tlwir bettered circumstances. they have bee yearend as sell as an industrious tieople, gatu anb Vo Litt. Iv TIIC Vicc iNcrti.ou's On Tuesday. judgment was given in a ease argued at great length last term, and possessing considerable interest to the Methodist %Indy. The eniPie is known as that of " The Attorney .6eneral v. Clapham," and the 1 , 111.4. lion at issue relates to the effect of a deed executed a eentury ago, regarding the no mination o f p re achers at Birsthall, in the county of York. About seven ty veers ago tie same question was stirred among the iiody ; but during the time of .lohn Wisley himself the sense of the members themselves had silenced all disputes. Litigation, however, hail since taken place, which rendered it necessary to consider the c instruction of the deed, and also some other deeds under which land was acquired. The various 'mints at issue may be comprised in three :—First, that the chapel having been built at Birsthall before the deed of September, 1711, the deed ought to affect the trusts not contemporaneous with it, that the whole of the trusts ought to be as if no such deed had existed, and a scheme ought now to be directed for the administration of the property ; secondly, not only as to this particular chapel, lint also other property of the body subsequently acquired. the deed aim-, not sufficiently &clam the trusts at the time, and if it did. es en looking n t the vicars o f the parties, there ought to he a new scheme ; and thirdlv, the present trusts, as to the appointment of ministers, it is alleged, are inconsistent with the con. stituti of the Methodist hotly. The defendants deny this, alleging that the trusts were exeented by parties eompetent to as, so, under the devil o f 1 ial ; that the trusts are laleglialely eNttresSea in the deed and that, whatever may he the cons truction o f t h e trust deed, the trusts ought to be carried out, he. cause, at the time the chapel was founded, th o u g h the general society established 10. Wesley co ns t ituted one joint hotly of Nlethoilists, nevertheless th e l oca l govennuent was always left to every patiicular society, and therefore it was co nsistent w ith th e o h. jests of the trust to leave the local management to them, including the arpojatiacat of i i re nchen o n these points Sir W. P. Wood now pronounced judg. Meat Vint, ‘`‘ to tha Chapel at itirs , hall 1 110 not agree M iih the relators that the trtt.t% cannot I declared by a 'teed e•retttell after the foundation or the digett. I thud: then eau but the trUtitil IttUit tit all the , e ce*e* , t.e lit•t'eltailiol 1 1 . tile k‘ss ef the THE PRESS. bounders at the time ; but it would be carryiug that principle too far if, in a are like this, where persons subscribe and build a and a deed is executed nearly contemporaneously with the erection of the building, if the parties legally entrusted with the property, ha% tug also power to declare the will of the parties —I say it would be a dangerous rule in stn.li a ease to lay down that a declaration of trust is not v slid, especially after a lapse of list years. 'therefore, if the deed clearly expresses the trusts, and those trusts are consistent with the scope of the view* of the parties, it is good. 'the question then is, whether, on the face of the deed, the trusts are expressed clearly and intelligibly without looking to the surrounding circumstances. N - iw, no one could, by reading the deed, arrive at a elear notion of its pur po.es ; and therefore it is necessary to look to external dream smilers. The deed speaks of preachers and of the preaching and expounding of God's word ; and. to see what was meant by this, we must hook at the surrounding circumstances. Now, look at Dr. Warren's case, and the exact history of the founders of the charity in question; and, looking at this, I have come to the coticlusion, first, that the charity was founded by persons origin ally 1 ght together by the ministrations of John Nelson, who, same eight or owe years previous to the foundation of it, had ass..ciatetl themselves with the larger society of Wesley, and known sines bis time as Methodists. John Wesley Lad so far organised the body that they were divided into classes, cachalots having a leader chosen by themselves. The classes were IWO. ended into societies, of winch there was one at Birrithall, ga thered by Nelson. The societies were organised by Wesley, and as sociated in circuits; and the habit of Weslev was to send down, with the advice 4 a cumber of p ers ona e ified th e Con. ference, certain preachers to itinerate in these circuits; and they alone officiated as ter* distinguished from the local preachers. The Birsthall circuit had p reachers, and Joint Nelsen himself went circuit as a preacher. None of the local preachers had residences, but were persons who, along with their usual trades and employments, took upon themselves the office of ex p. ling, but they were no put of the machinery by which spi ritual iniuistratious were made to circulate. His honour proceeded to trace the history and sta tistics of the Methodist body, their practice, and the various transactions connected with them, down to the present time, and cited the chronologi cal history the Methodists, front various letters and papers, in illustration of his meaning, referring to various regulations of the body—such as in March, 1142, the ticket system, which was established as a title to membership ; and, after reviewing the whole case, he thought the right to appoint the preachers rested with the Conference, and not the trustees of the chapel, but he refused to remove the present trustees. IN THE QUEEN'S lils.ctt a case bad been proposed for the opinion of the Court, between two clergymen, the Rev. Messrs. Bartlett and Kerwood, regarding the validity of a sequestration. The plaintiff was the perpetual curate of a parish in Herefordshire. to which parish the defendant hail been appointed upon a sequestration being issued against the plaintiff for non-residence. In Decemher, 1546, the Bishop of Hereford had issued a monition calling upon the plaintiff to reside upon his benefice, or to make a return showing why he refused to do so. On the 25th of January, 1511", the plaintiff made such re turn, stating—tirst, that there was no house of re sidence belonging to the curacy ; and, secondly, that he had a legal cause for non-residence. These reasons were unsatisfactory to the bishop, who caused to be served upon the plaintiff an order to reside within thirty days. In the course of April plaintif f made an affidavit stating that he was proceeding to prosecute writ of error to reverse the order. On the 1; th o f May, however, he was served with the writ of se questration. The question now raised was, whether that writ of sequestrat was valid : Mr. %memo. t . 11411 NELL, on the part of the pi t chout now coo. tended that the writ was invalid, • has ii.ltiliftkiWit notice 110.1 'been tier% ed on the plc . I. and he had not had an opportu nity of show 111;.! rlllll4` whir the writ ought not to have issued. Mr. Kit ris.;, for tile ilefendant, contended that the plaintif f had MI sufficient reason for non-residence, and that he had en ippon 'y of answering, and had, irt fact, a n s wered N o l l th e munition, the order to ressim, and the sequestration. Ile also submitted that the plaintiff could mit complain o f the Invalidity of the sequestration, as he had admitted its validity by appealing to the Archbishop of Canterbury. Lord C 041'11E1 , 1. wall of opinion that the defendant was entitled to 'Ointment. lie concurred in the decision of the Court of Ex chequer Cluulier, that before a sequestration issued a party must have an optiortnuity of being heard against it. But, at the 110111.• time, he concurred in the opinion that the bishop was not bound to proceed to hear charges with the same formalities as were *lolled in proceedings before courts o f law. No g r e ater degree of (ono was requisite than was sufficient to justify the re um% id of the piuly. In this case at every stage of the precetsi• Jag: the incumbent had not out) had an opportimity.but had cue lowed the opportunity, of being heard. Ile therefore thought that the sequestrati tttt Itsit been well issued. Justiees Coleridge and Erie being of the game opinion. judgment was given for the defendant. tit A I' AAA KIS I).tv furnished abundant employment for the metropolitan pa.lice magistrates, who were called upon on Monday to investigate numerous offences against tho law by letting off fireworks, alarming passengers, dnuikenness, or resisting the polity in every llistriet of London. Numerous tines, %ming from one shilling to forty, according to the gravity of the ease, were inflicted. At the Mansion. house, one gross but respeetably•dressed offender, who bad assisted in rescuing a friend from the city constables. was sent to prison for twenty one days, a peemiary mulct being refused by Alderman Carden. Some of the "tittys - had also turned their hands to petty larcenies, resulting in the committal of one urchin for trial train the Southwark court. A PRIVATE IN THE ARTILLERY named iiihnour, was brought up at lUlarlborough street office on a charge of having surreptitiously worked the billet ing system" for his private ends : t liesbeth tAmadei, daughter of Jute I Amaer, inalkt to Tettcubstu-ceurtreatt, 'aid the isrhencr %awe w the SATURDAY, bar and ofiered what appeared to be a billet fur two soldiers, to be billeted in the hon.+e for seven nights. lie told her the billet WWI quite correct. Witness asked how much he could get a 1,,,t fur out cif the house. He replied ed. and witness, believing the billet to be genuine. gave hint tie . 4 d., which was the presumed charge fur two bete at bul. per bed for seven nights. The pri• rosier signed a receipt for the money on the back of the billet tireeu, billeting•scrgeant at the Albany barrack., said the billet in question *Ms not in his handwriting. The prisoner was remanded. :Auittnts ant Ohm. THE ANNIrLItsARY 01 " tgUNPOWDER PLOT" seldom passes at oxford without a gown and town row. On Saturday evening the loud cry of " Gown, gown:" 'town. town :" soon caused the principal streets to be paraded by large numbers of undergraduates and townsmen. The latter, in consequence of its b e ing Saturday night, mustered more numerously than usual. Considerable fighting took place between the parties ; the town, being superior in numbers, had somewhat the best of it. Besides a large amount or bloody noses, and frontispieces being otherwise dis figured, nothing serious is said to have resulted. Or e unfortunate Wight. belonging to Worcester College. was moat severely treated, and, but for the interferen , e of a few townsmen, who protected hint from the mol serious consequences would no doubt have been the result. One of his companions Intl shelter in the shop of Mr. Cousins, chemist and druggist ; for which act of kindness the "town" retaliated by breaking the windows, injuring the front of the shop, as well as by destroying several show-glasses, .t c. The proc tors and police, after considerable trouble, cleared the streets of the undergraduates. by ordering them to their respective colleges and halls. Mu. BARIN(...s FAMOI's PICIt RE GALLERY in Grosvenor-street narrowly escaped destruction by fire a few days since. As it is, some considerable damage has been sustained. A servant, it seem., carelessly left a light in a position where the flame caught the draperies of a couch. Before the tire wrs discovered and extinguished nearly all the furniture in the apartment was burnt, and the heat seriously blistered the paintings left upon the walls. Fortu nately the most valuable works of the Italian, Spa nish, and Flemish schools had been removed, and were packed in a corner almost out of harni . s way. Those that are injured consist chiefly of works by living artists, of which some valuable specimens are destroyed. The contents of the gallery are insured for 30,000/., and are valued at ten times that amount. A REMARKABLE CASE OF POISONIM: By s ibENT has occured at Bristol. Joseph Russell, a young man in business at Chard. in Somereetshire, visited his brother in Bristol, and at dinner partook of some scrapings from a root which the servant had dug up in the garden, believing it to be horseradish. Atte) - wards he was seized with giddiness, and in spite of medical aid died in a few hours from the effects of a narcotic poison. Subsequent examination showed that the root in question was aconite or monkshood. The brother also ate some, but has recovered. ANoTHER FlitEiroßK MANUFAcToItV ii ‘s EXPLODED AT Exam:. The men at Messrs. Osborn's factory were employed in preparing some fireworks for a wholesale order, when two boys, who were filling rockets, commenced throwing a few grains of gun powder into the jet of the gaslight. This reached the explosive material lying about the room, and a terrific explosion was the immediate result. The two boys and the foreman were blown with great violence a distance of nearly twenty feet. The latter was very much scorched, and the two boys were carried through the passage and out of the window, from whence they fell through the skylight into the kitchen below ; but, strange to say, only one of them was hurt, having been badly burnt and bruised, and his left arm broken. The tire raged for upwards of an hour. and was not subdued 'until Messrs. Osborn's premises were completely gutted. The loss of the stock is estimated at upwards of I,OMf. THE INQuEsT nEsrEcTINO THE BURNTIAM MURPEIt was resumed and concluded on Tuesday. A pro tracted investigation resulted in the committal of Hatt°. the groom, on the charge of " Wilful Murder." 't he evidence was entirely circumstantial ; bat a multitude of minute incidents were brought together in the evidence which constituted a strong case of suspicion against him. At first no idea was enter tained of his complicity in the crime; but the atten tion of the keen anti experienced police officer. en trusted with the case was first directed towards him by the bravado of his demeanour in overacting, as they fancied, the character of an innocent man. A YouNte WoMAN, who had been deserted by a heartless betrayer, committed suicide at St. 3lonance, Fifeshire, yesterday week. While the other inmates of the house were asleep she quietly left the dwelling and cast herself from the neighbouring rocks into the see. AT THE MANcIiEsTER POLICE Col - ItT, on Monday morning, a man named Lawson was charged with having ferociously stabbed Edward Clarke. The two men, who were drinking at a beer-boucle en