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I, t SPORT:VC. tETTINO, 301. Y 21, MT: hb.WMAII%tT IT. *.?tl I. f to I apt Azor. I R to t agn Student. tto I agst Ina A. • I No batting on Ore rorby Stakes. IosCASTOI ST. tt4;.s. Ist to 1 agst Witlitioek. j l s to I ogst CaMatron,. ; to 1 sgv Restlon 1 11 to I ar•t Sober w 1 , i pt Sir r. sunley. ett :o I :gm any otl*r. It to I :•tts S toitAtn'. to ttts , the Pedestrian, still purstirt his task tot Prot Meadow, Oz(ord The folluvriva are Cie narifh-r ,p( links be had r...tforrueil on Thursday evening— r:;7. iu high. *I. r t s , being eionilliit of tom; :eting :114 arduou;:lionerchilig, l3l.O2<t•CL, a pan,ter, vi!in undertook to sofa; a . 4reesell.nei.l t'insy nut:4 In sit Lour:, on Thursday, imicra Ciro the match net going twetity two 1:4: was todls toain. THE CO 17('N 1'17.41)1:'. YesterdAy a most re ; ectable tinting of Gentle. men cf.i‘c-rned in the (;)tteit Trade was held at the 1,e11,1:41 nivern, in Cheapside. At balf-past 6.ne PETkIt Ilneances, Esq. was called to c Itanturre, Esq. soon after rose v) stare the object nt the Meeting, which had been convened he advertiiement. _ Mr. ItatCLIFIE iptrlleti the business. The Cotton Manufacterers at Manchester and other places bad long wished to see a Chamber of Commerce estab lished in this country for the protection of the Cotton Trade. It was net necessary to insist on the noes• sity of a Society for the protection of the Cotton Trade. In Sweden, in Russia, and other foreign parts. they laid their heads together to protect their own Trade, and their Governments did their duty by them. fie denied, at the same time, that our own Government was remiss. It was the fault nt themselves, who did not assemble to support their own cause, and make Government thus acquainted with their wishes and wants. Such a body should be established as would watch over the. article in question (the Cotton Trade), from the import of the cotton bag up to the export of the finished product. He therefore trusted that their exertion: would be se conded by their brethren of the manufacturing dis tricts and in particular of Manchester; atid-he hoped the time was not far distant, when all the jealousies and ,party spirit which had crept into, the Cotton Trade would tade away, and one common interest bind them all together. The great importance of the Society in contemplation was proved in the interest which foreigners now attach to the Cotton Trade, and the jealousy with whico, naturally enough, they viewed our superiority in it. This, therefore, was another str.•ng inducement why we ourselves should be active in extending and protecting so valuable a branch of nor national trade. Let only such, a So ciety as he proposed be but formed and cemented in London, it would very soon be followed by the forma tion of ethers in Manchester, Nottingham, and Glas gow. Government, he must again state, was not inattentive to them ; all it required was to know their actual waits, represented by themselves, in order to re!ieve them in the surest and most effectual way—. (Hear, hear). The Cimirtstam now proceeded to .read the pro posed Plan of a Society for the Protection of the Cotton Trade. Such a Society, he said, had hitien. tire ar f rob,ition ; ant!, when completed, should ex perience his most cordial support. The various Resolutions for the formation of the Society, were lieu severally put, and agreed te. ROM AN CATHOLICS. The following Circular Letter from the 'Roman Catholic Bishop of Cloyne and Ross, to his Brethren of the Hierarchy, demands particular attention. This titular Bishop, with the true spirit of a Priest, now opposes the will of the rive himself—because in his high infallibility he has committed some of their dearest interests to a secular " To the Most R d and Right Reverend the Ronan Catholic Bishops of Ireland. - "My Dear and Honoured Loids.-1 1 n crisis like thei present, when our Religion is mote forinidably threatened than at any period heretofore'it) the records of our national sufferings, an old member etyour body may, without the Imputation of culpable obtrusion, litimbly suggest to your Lordships what he conceives to be imperatively required of us, as an additional, if not perhaps a last effort against the coming evil. The Roman Catholic Church of Ireland is confes sedly a National Church : our Hierarchy has con tinued unbroken, throuleh every political convulsion, to the present day. This is a proud eminence— whereas, then, by the spec ial Providence of Goo, we can take our stand upon it ; let us, while we firmly occupy that high ground, participating, as we natu rally must, in the sentiments of indignation which now pervade the Roman Catholic People of Ireland at seeing their dearest interests, their spiritual con cerns, banded over to a Secretary for temporal af fairs, associated with such incompetent assessers, let us enter our most solemn protest against that unprece dented measure; let our Clergy and our People speak out in unison with os—ue have all a right to complain. To this procedure of the Court of Rome we cannot, is my bumble opinion, conscientiously accede ; it 11951 d be a betray ing of cur trust, a criminal disre• gard of those souls for whose salvation, upon our own, we are responsible. When, therefore, our repeated dr legations, our rritetated 'and Irma forcible remon. swam s hitherto have proved ineffectual, what else le mains for us now than the measure I !lave here presu- Meil4o suggest ? Let us, then, assemble, forthwith, in some central part of our respective provinces, accom par?ieil• by a certain number of our Clergy ; and let us send forward to Rome these our isres..accor dant,piotests from the four quarters of be kingdom. Onsa.)nmmon Father cannot be inatt'entite to such lar*uage from such a long-tried portio'n.pf his faith. ful,children. It success crown our efforts.the triumph will be glorious indeed—if diseomfiture await us, we shall at least enjoy the consolation of haring done our - duty-. Whatever be the issue, we shall rise or fall with the Catholic People of Ireland. " I have the honour to be, my dear Lords, " Most cordially and my, tolabl; , " Your faittdurhumble servant, (Sig,led) 44 WILLIAM CUrrINGILII." cove, July 1$ 1517." Sc SIZES. CIIF I .MS FOR D. JULY 113. CIVIL SID& NI:LLOC.I AND AOGTHER, ASUONUS 01 DIJAKAIO, V. PRA keep Mg. This was an action upon the case by the assic!neo , of a, bankrupt named Durham, aping the HO. Sheriff of this county, to record! the value of the !cos, of the Green Man Inn, at Haolow, on this eolonty. 01 which the bankrupt was tenant, and certain other property which were seized by the defendant in axe cuticaltocoa.judgrna:nt creditor, after an act of bank ruptcy... Notice having been given by the defendant to dismo.te the trading and the act of b a nkruptcy. thoieleeaniihe principal questions in the cause.— The banktatipt• had formerly been clerk to the late Baron liothain, and upon that Learned Judge's re tiring from the Bench. he became the tenant of the Green Man Inn, at Harlow, which he occupied too several years, but at length becoming. embarrassed by the difficulties of the times, he found himself unable to carry on the concern, and became bankrupt. The matters above mentioned peit; in issue bring proved to . the satisfaction of the Jury, the plaintiffs had a verdict of £lOO. HOGGATT V. /*LENART AND ANOTHER. This was another action arising nearly out of the same transaction, to recover the value of a horse which had been seized under an execution by the de fendants, the Sheriff's auctioneer and the Sheriff', racer, upon the premises of the bankrupt Durham. The question was, whether the property of the hone WAS in the bankrupt or the plaintiff at the time of the execution t It appeared that the plaintiff had sent the horse to the bankrupt upon liking, but before it reached his possession, the animal, from the care lessness of the bankrupt's servant, broke one of his knees, and became unsound. The bankrupt after wards took to the horse, and considered that he was bound ►o purchase it, and accordingly employed it occasionally in posting. For several months atter Durham became bankrupt the plaintiff slid not claim the horse as his property. It appeared to the satisfaction of the Jury that the bankrupt, according to the language of the statute of Jam:: 1. was in the apparent urder, possession, and disposition of the property at the time of the ezecu. tion, and, consequently, a verdict was found for the defendants. . ALLEN V. COATES. This was rather a novel action, being brought by a constable to recover his expenses, and a quantivia see r:sit for his trouble, in apprehending two defendants at the instance of the deleudant, to take their trial for an assault at the Essex Assizes. The sum sought to be recovered was 46. 9s. inelthling a charge of 10s. for apprehending the defendants and bringing them from Halsted to the Assizes. Mr. Justice DALLas Wit of opinion that the plain tiff was entitled to recover nothing for his trouble, if the employment exceeded the ordinary line of his duty as a constable. The Jury found their verdict for the defendant. CROWN SIDE. Israel Alexander and Thomas Davi: were indicted for horse.stealing. Mr. Cuitwoota stated, that this case was of rather a singular nature, for although the crime of horse stealing was not an unfrequent offence, yet it did not ,otten occur that a hors* was taken in the mode in which the prisoners had possessed themselves of the horse in question. The prosecutor cf the indictment, a tie. Minton, was a tradesman in the Borough, a,id he was in the habit of lending his horse to a friend, of the name of Carter. On the sth' May last, as he had often done before, he lent his horse to his friend Carter, to go to Woodford. Now the horse, although a very good I horse in many respects, and a great favourite with his master, had imbibed one or two awkward pro. pensities, one of which was, that he had an invincible objection to passing certain pdblic.houses without a call. It so happened on this day, for when Mr. Car. I ter set off on his journey to Woodford, as soon as he arrived at the King's Head, at Stratford, the horse drew up to the door as usual. Carter, being rather in haste, Wished to go forward, but the horse as reso lutely persisted in having a bait, and in this contest the horse beat the rider, who was forced to give in and comply with the wish of the beast, but not with- I out gieaf indignation. During the contest, the pri. soner Alexander, who is a noted bruiser, and Davis. a horse-dealer, were smoking a friendly pipe in the King's Head parlour ; they threw up the window, and Alexander exclaimed," What will you have for the rusty one l" Carter, being angry at his defeat, replied, " I)—n him, £5 is more than he is worth." He then alighted, and went into the parlour where the prisoners were sitting. Soon after he got there, Alexander threw down a note, and said, " Give me change, I'll have the horse." Carter said, " He did not want to sell the horse; in truth it was not his own to sell." But both Davis and Alexander swore they would have the horse,.that they had bought it, and would keep it. Alexander then went out to take possession of the horse, and Carter followed to prevent Min; but Alexander knocked him down, and took the horse into a back stable, where he locked him up. Carter could not believe that they meant ' seriously to take away the horse ; and having an sr ' gent necessity to go to Woodford, as it was to get security for a new place he had got as collecting clerk to a brewhouse, he pursued his journey on foot, expecting he should find his horse at the King's Head on his return; but when he came back he found they had taken it away. After some time he discovered the horse in the possession of a fair pur chaser, but they had so altered him by trimming his mane, heels, and cutting his ears, that he scarcely re cognised his old acquaintance. It appeared that be was sold for 020; aad the prisoners, finding that they wrere-likely to be prosecuted for this new mode of horse.deiling, absconded, and it was several weeks before they. were apprehended. With. respeet to the law of the:•cise, the Learned Counsel said, it must arise out of the opinion the Jury would draW from it. If they thought that the prisoners meant to take the horse and convert it to their own use, and made the pretended isle a mere cover and pretext to effect their fraudulent purpose, then it would amount to a felo nions taking; but if.they thought the prisoners really conceived they had title, though they might be mis taken, then it would be a mere civilArespass, and sot a felony. Cuter being called, stated, that tie bid set out on the journey to Woodford, as described, and when he got to Mr. Reeves's, the King's Head, at Stratford, the horse wculd not pass it, and 1 :e was forced to stop. WHe he was at the door, the priso n, r Alt amulet. sixlce from the parlour window, I olf hit %vie pm have for the rutty one ?" 10 Moe+, I,e replue,:, 1)—o 111111, a 5 is ru ire than he is , woitli." li e t h en went i nto the same tons where' the pri,oaer, were sitting. and a'ter a little titer Al.-x +oder went and 1 : tin n in g , ;1 1 ,, w down a note, which he believed) WAS /e2O note, sayin g to Witneff, ' 4 There, give met change, I'll Lave the horse. "—Witness sa;d he .did; not mean to sell the horse,it was a friend's. der said, lie had honght the hone, aod asked tori change. DASiS 9104 " l will knot y u Li, you ddret . want chamte ; h. Se it is," and pend a c ‘ d a ,c; Carter siiJ, 4 , None of pnr tricks, I iliws not sand no nonseo4e." Alexander then called oat to the b Here, pot, my horse in th e stahle." Ctit...r replied, " Leave m y hnrse alone." Al. x tii.ler then welit out, any began taking off the saddle, when the witness perceiving fun , followed, and endeavoured to pie vent him ; when Alexander kn"cked iiitn down, and throwing off the bridle and saddle, led the horse into a back stable, locked it np, and put the key into his pocket. The witness then proceeded to Woodford on foot, thinking it was only m eant as a j o k e . Lord ELLE:annum:cm asked why he did not make immediate application to a Magistrate ? and told the Jury it would be to much to consider this as a felony. It was all done in public and broad day-light, and, though It was trespaiss, be cculd not consider it A itiOlllOUS taki..g. .The Jury, atter a little consideration, said, they thought the prisoners were guilty of a fraud. His Lordship told them that was not the charge, and they inu,t acquit them. Verdict—LNot Guilty. JULY 31. The following cause occupied the whole day until nearly eleven at night ; and there were upwards of thirty witnesses. vonony V. vixen. Mr. CURWOOD opened the pleadings in this case, and stated. that it was an action of trespass against the defendant, for deepening 'and widening a water clurse, called ih.e rotter'a Ditch," on the liver Lea. upon which the plaintiff WAS the occupier of a niill, called the Abbey-mill, whereby the plaintiff was deprived of the water vihich of right belonged to •his will, producing a loss to him of 810 per week,lor three years, in his business of a miller. Mr. Serjeant Ons Low stated the case to the Jury, which was as fellows :—The plaintiff was proprietor of certain mills at Waltham Abbey, in this county, and about three years ago he discovered that his mill had lost a great deal of its power, not being able to grind more than three pair of mill -stones, having before ground with five. He could not for a time account for the loss of water, until at length he dis covered that an old ditch leading from his mill stream, called the Channelaea River, had been deep. ened and widened, ai.d carried off his water into another stream, called the Waterworks River; and upon.inquiry lie found that a part of the mischief was done by defendant's orders, who made the place navigable for his own barge to pass from one stream to another. Fifteen or sixteen witnesses were. called on the part of tbo plaintiff, to prove that it was of old but a mere bour.dary ditch dividing the fields in the marshes ; and several Engineers stated positively,- that the loss of water by means of being carried off through that ditch was the cause of injury to the mill. On the other side, for the defendant, twenty wit nesses were called, who stated, that they had known the place in question for twenty, thirty, forty, and, filty years, and that at all times it was navigable for barges, and was a common water way; and three eminent engineers were decidedly of opinion that it did no injury to the plaintiff's mill. Alter this conflicting testimony was concluded, the Jerry deliberated about half an hour, and at length, returaed a verdict for the defendant. Amos? I.—sistotta v. lIICHARDSON. This was an action to recover a compensation in damages for very atrocious slander. The plaintiff• and defendant were both farmers resident near Col chester. Damages it 100. The Assiaes . concluded early this morning. ' IRELAND. The Assizes for the County of Lothll commenced on SAttarday, the 19 di of July, before Mr. &Iron Ail•CtntArin, in the Crossu Cow, and Mr. Justice Ossonxs in the Civil. • • The consideration of the Wild-goose Lodge burn ing was appointed for the following Monday, when bills of indictment were sent op again.t Patrick nevan only, and, on their being found by the Grand Jury, he was arraigned thereon, and put upon his There were several' bills of indictment against him —three of them for the minder, and one for the burning of the house, of t the 30t11 of October last, at Riorstown. The first witness produced was William Fi!glue, Esq. Magistrate of the County of Louth : knows the ferm-hoose called Wild-goose Lodge, and knew Ed ward Lynch, the occupying tenant thereof;. it is pe culiarly retired, difficult of access in winter, all the passages thereto but one being flooded. There was a trial in Summer Assizes, 1816, for a burglary and robbery committed at said house in the April pre- I ceding, when three prisoners, Coulin, Shanty, and Keenan, were capitally convicted of said burglary and robbery, on which trial Lynch and Thomas Rooney had been examined as material witnesses for the Crown : witness was present at the execution of those convicts. After that trial, the Gentlemen of the neighbourhood gave Lynch, who was a brave old man; arms to protect himself. Witness went to Lynch's the day after the burning ; nothing of the' house remained but the walls; saw the fragments of several dead bodies; Dr. Blackwell, Coroner, held the inquest. Patrick Halfpenny lives near Lynch's house ; re members the night it was burned; a person knocked at his door, and asked, if he had fire in his house ? His wife refused giving fire out of the house, when the man told her he would drag her mad the house, .and kill her if she should say one word; they set a guard on his house, and desired him to go to bed; heard a noise of persons about the door, and some time afterwards heard tour shuts fired, and subse quently heard, the noise of horses passing by; he men again got up, went to the door, and saw Lyncies ' house on Ere; called Thomas Carroll out of his Led, and told him Lynch's houte wis on sire ; when re !tuning, a voice cried out to him to go int:, tti. h nrse or he should be killed. lie knew Lynch, Rnoney, his son-in-I.lw, and Rooney's wife and child, a son ti Lynch's, two servant girls, and a boy c.dled Rispin; believes - they were all in the h Buse when twinned : Las ner:r teen any of tliem .riiv • since ; lu wis ti .e first to go into Lynch's house the next n; with Einaliam g sAw dead bridles brou;ht out ; 'he which la:cd brenin a good %tate the day before, %Iris continuing U. boo whetetriqiess first went there II e suat twaning. • tr. Alice Rismti knew Jarhes ltipia. he was her, pm, end had been b moil° ray iurthree keara i cote home to her about thre et!lts before the burning. and-returrted these.elie oright•of AlFe-liitersing. 'Mintage went t 3 Lynch's neat day, saw eight corpses buint, of which her son was one, and Biddy Ittchard , .. servant of Lynch's. another. Henry Munro BliiOcAell is a Coroner of said C,,unt ) ; went to Lynch's the morning alter the fi-es found the house burned ; Cre nit entirely out; SAW eight dead bodies ; csamined them. all. Knew Lynch long before 11,4.; SAW him there dt : him and Biddy Richards. . Bernard M'llroy, an approver, know! the priso ner, Patrick Levan, whom be identified in Court ; knew him first in summer, 1816 ; lie lived alc or Cer• creagli ; was a weaver, a schoolmaster, and clerk of the chapel of Stonetown. Witness lived in Faris, in the parish of Louth ; was in the County last Octo ber; remembers the burning of Lynch's house ; was at it with the prisoner and Thomas CIAO), ; Thomas Clubby brought him to the chapel of Santelown; on Friday before the burning ; saw the prisoner there with four or five others ; prisoner said there must be a gathering AS quick as possible of the boy s, to go and set fire to Lynch's house, for the porpoise''f heap ing him and his family, fur prosecuting the three men at Dundalk;. nine or ten men more came to the chapel from Inniskeen about twelve o'clock; they separated arid went home; some of the party tailed to meet en that night. About an hour after night fall, the night of the burning, witness again weat to Stonetown • dispel, and 'found some persons there, amongst whore swat the prisoner. Mean h slt•past nine. forty persons who had assemble! there lett the cl;apel ; prisoner diviued party into two divi s ions: witness and prisoner *wit r.th time tire' party sir tight to the mill of Ltitett..; ifiq went v. MO yards of Lynch's house: touttein feefitteen persons; they had fare in a !mall pot:. theapall stapped at the little swamp on the road up; i 4 the whole body came, which had been juined by a great many strangers, and amounted to 100 and more; there were some horses, but none belonging to his party; the ground was deep and greatly flooded; they received orders that some of them thouid spread themselvzs round the boom to prevent Lynch or his family from escaping; the order was given by the prisoner. Witness was of the party who went straight up to the house along the road ; heard some of his party say that the people in the house were herring the door; beard a %nice in side declare , that the first person that should enter would be shot, and heard prisoner then say,'' Rooney, don't think it is old times, this night is your doom.:' Witness was employed to carry unthreshed corn to the house to throw in, in order to add to the B.naes ; saw and heard shots fired, but cannot tell whether any of them were fired from within ; iaw the door broke open with a sledge, and straw thiown in upon the tire. While the house was burning. heard the try of a woman and of a young child, and soine petaotis interfered to have the woman let out—hot pris o ner cried, " Will you have the live.. of all here endar gered by letting any them mat?" Wittieis did rot watt till the roof fell as a Rihandnian ; was made so in the Meath at Ili ;r1 Copt lilt Chalk toia's corn. luny. Witness lent a letter to Mr. Filgate, the Ma. gistrate, in April last, begging of him to. meet wit. ness in Slane ; went to souk for him to Slane the Wednesday before May.day lest, in melee to tell him all he knew about Wild-goose.lodge, but d.d not find him ; heard at Slane tint, he had gone in the coach the day before to Diihirtfravas apprehended NaLin by the Rev. Mr. Hamilton Ind rilr. Shore ; saw nosey persons in the totra.paaraiog by the gaol ; saw Mr. Charleton ; sent f..r himil4ggld I►e came to witness, and he aid him a good dee.. aboat Wild goesz-1 ; after that he was brought to Dundalk, :red there made 4 full cornn6ilication to Mt. Frankton and Mr. Brabazon ; knew Goiaby bad been talteo up - be: fore the time that witness was taken up.. %torts had written to Mr. Fil4ate before (lobby had b een ;Tin ehended. • Cross.elainined,—The people outside the' house were armed; had a pistol with inte• lion to shoot the people, should they attempt to come out of the house ; he dared not reftlie to do so, or he nodhl probably be shot himself ; lie twos oteiaged to go for Die straw, and admitted that li- brought straw to add to the fire after fie heard the cries of :he people in. side t, he did , not think it haratilest to do to, but he Wits!obligrd by his party; he lived near ter place; got his pista.l between Friday and the night of toe butning ; he could not have staid in the coirirty it lie had not gone to that business : it was v.411' of work brought bins to the ctnintry ; lie would have quit the country, but might net rev/ gotten wo:k elsewhere if he load quit it; did not tall sooneobecause • he was afraid of oaring destroyed it he shoo' lae seen speaking to a gentleman ; he was sari rn onsli:r the pain of the same late as Lynch's, not to discover ; they were all sworn to that, and the whole party were very closely watched by one another; got aecpiain , fl with Gubhy in Drogheda ; heard of hie betug taken up a t i w il o tun. days W b litt ei l made a ilitwithe ß ss ibZ s lo t s a a k n e , it was n nllpb a a yI L . Hamilton. ligation he made tin liis knees, and i.ut on a bot..a ; the oath was, to aid and assist our lnothers, and nut to deal with a Protestant it they could get what they Wanted from a Catinlic, and to assist the ciao! wily person and pocket ; wai sworn to 4.:crecy alter thi burning. He wishes to do ittsbee ;he expecte no. thing, and has no motive but to tell the truth ; does' not know whether it, will save his hie or not; el'es tact come for a reward, hut. would take a situatani it peo. tested; has been confined in the gaol. Mr. Filgate proved the letter. which he marked 90th April ; it is dated the of April, but Mr. Fel. gate did not receive it till the •M(tli, hew as foam borne. Francis 1). Hatunton, Esq. sovereign of even, apprehended Millroy on Tuesday ti.: ::7;11 May, at the factory, a mile from Navan : oat their going to gad witness told him that he hod been z e k all ea a - I 1 !I ill