Star. — London, England, 1831-06-30 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE JOURNALS. TlMES.—There I■ now no doubt that the half.yearly ayment required in the Reform bill, for a qualification to vote at borough elections, is an error. All that is or Is to be required is, a yearly tenancy of a 101. house, according to the term " yearly rent" in the original bill. The obnoxious t pression, the result of some extraordinary blunder, will be left out in the committee. It might seem to give conse. 'pence to a trifle, and to be officiously asserting what is not doubted. or else we should take this opportunity of assuring the publk, that the honest desire of Ministers is to bate the ‘Jill as 'Metal, popular, and efficient as possible. The wish ,tas merely to exclude persons whom boroughmongering landlords might manufacture into electors, by not bona file Jut pretended rents for very short periods. The following a copy of Lord John Russell's letter, in reply to an ap. Ilication on the subject of which we are nesting: Whitehall, June 29. ' Sir,—ln answer to your letter respecting the clause in the Reform Bill which requires the payment of rent half yearly, I have to assure you, that the only object in view was to secure a yearly tenancy of a £lO house, according to the term ' yearly rent' in the original Bill. When the Bill goes into Committee, I shall propose such an amendment of the clause as shall be found to defeat the evasion of the ori ginal clause, and at the same time correct the error of the present wording. " I remain your obedient servant, J. RUSSELL." " To W. Rigby Wason, Esq. bI.P." In the debate lot night it will In observed, that an ex planation was given similar to that in the above letter. The object of the framers of the bill evidently was to admit to electoral rights all householders paying bona fide a rent of 101. a-year. Having secured that object—hav ing found a tcnant of a yearly holding to that amount— the law ought not to interfere between landlord and tenant about the time of paying, or the mode of collecting the rent. The apprehended danger of lodgers, who pay a weekly or monthly rent, being admitted to vote under the old clause, may be obviated by the slight addition of two or three words, purporting that only one person, paying 101. yearly rent and registered a year before the election, shall be allowed to vote for one Mouse. We take this opportunity of reminding the Legislature how closely they arc watched by an intelligent public, in discussing the great " Bill of Rights" to which the nation has directed so enthusiastic an interest. No sooner had the abstract. of the bill, which we published on Monday, apiseared, than letters poured in upon us from all quarters, pointing oat the mistake above alluded to, and showing its consequences. We published two or three out of so many dozens of these communications, and we are sure that every one of their authors, bad he ben consulted, would have prevented the mistake, which. after all, is the result of a mere oversight, and would have been corrected in the corn mince, though it had not created such alarm in the public. Had other bills gained equal publicity and commanded equal Attention, our statute-book would have been more free from errors and blunders than it now is. POST.—For the last three or four days all the newspa pers have been dwelling upon a clause in the new reform bill, limiting the right of voting in towns, &c. to those whose rent was payable not oftener than once in the half year. It was manifest that this clause would almost nullify the new franchise in towns, as seven-eighths of all the tenements which pay rent pay it by the quarter. After four days' out cry upon the subject, the Courier yesterday announces, from authority, that the clause in question got into the Bill through inadvertence! Such an announcement as this at once excites indignation and provokes ridicule. A mistake is made by persons who fancy they possess skill to remodel the repre sentative constitution of the nation—a mistake evincing the grossest ignorance upon a practical matter, and which, had the error not been pointed out, would have rendered the whole measure an absurdity, is described by ttre gentle term an " inadvertence," as though it had been an error in the da:e Hof a dinner invitation. For our own parts we are glad of the " inadvertence," if we are to call it by that name, since it will serve to show the public, if anything can, the pitiable Ignorance upon practical matters of those who presume to meddle with a system interwoven with and d ee ply affecting all the practical affairs of the kingdom. There has been no erne proposition of the present ministers applying to the every day business of the people which has not been scouted as absurd—be witness the Budget and the Timber Duties. If the people generally understood the whole of the Reform Bill as well as they did that clause which went upon the theory that rents were generally paid half yearly, they would reject it as a wholesale and blundering interference with matters not understood by those who interfere. POST.—It is lamentable to observe the unworthy arti. ices to which the Revolutionary faction do not scruple to resort in furtherance of their purposes. The subject of the :nfamous publications naturally springing out of the princi ples of the Reform 11111, and to which we have frequently called attention, was again brought before the House of Com mons last night by Mr. Hume, who unblushingly asserted that they, to use his own expression, " came from the enemy's camp," by which he probably meant that they were Ore production of, and were sanctioned by, the Tory party.-- Such • charge, not less ridiculous than insidious, a charge worthy of Mr. Hume, but entirely unworthy of aoy other Member of Parliament, was repelled with the indignation and contempt it merited. Can Mr. flume prove his accuse. Lion ? Will he even attempt, as in honour called upon, to 'hew proof or ground for ,it ? If not, w h at i s t h e opinion :hat must be formed of Mr. Flume by every man of common hor.eAy, or possessing a spark of gentlemanly or honour. ..ble feeling ? HERALD.—It is now clear, beyond all doubt, that the Russian official account of the death of Field-Marshal lliebitsch, which attributed his sudden disease to cholera reorbus, stated a falsehood, and was so far In keeping with :It the official accounts which the Russians have published relative to the operations of their armies in Poland. But the death of Diebitsch--whether he fell by his own hand,or tLed of apoplexy, brought on by the anguish of his defeats, and the stimulant resources of • broken spirit—is an event of little importance in the eyes of the Poles, compared with the great historic truth that they stripped him of his laurels before he died, and that life did not become a burden until the arm of unassisted Poland arrested his career of military glory, and crushed for ever his pride of soldiership upon that land of freemen, where he was at first apprehensive :•e should not have met with sufficient resistance to serve la a pretext for the carnage and devastation which he was canmissioned to perpetrate, to fill up the measure of that' revenge which the name of the MOST from bad ten impiously abused to sanction. Still the cause of the des—and they know it, does not depend on the life of any liyidual. Their cause is one for national existence against age extermination. It is a conflict that can now admit of compromise. Poland must either be reduced to worse than former state of vassalage and degradation, or she must re ter her rights by the sword. Her enemy has great les, and the Poles are aware he will submit great sacrifices to attain his object. The failure of Aaitsch will probably exasperate him Into renewed Is to subjugate a people who have dissipated the es of the Balkan, and torn from the Russian Em those attributes of terror which inspired the greatest na with awe. Bat we doubt that he can make more pow efforts than lie has already made. Tyrants may collect -4 ' slaves together for the field of slaughter, but they take them soldiers in a day. When Diebitsch first upon Warsaw he was at the head of 150,000 men, / flower of the Russian army. On the 23th of Fe. this ramp, beetled by a General who had acquired reputation than any Russian warrior since Suarroff, with 230 pieces of cannon, was beaten, after a long and tssriguinary conflict, by an army of Poles amounting to 60,000 men, of whom only 35,000 were regular as, anti with only GO pieces of cannon. At Ostrolenka, about 30,900 Poles, or one-half of the army'at Prigs, tood Dit.hitsch's army of 90,000, reinforced as it had the Guards, and fought it for two days, remaining salon of the field of battle on the ni g h t hat termin - engagement, and causing the enemy three times in own loss. This is a proof of moral power over brute rte, which equals any thing that history presents on her 'tit splendid records. Little did the " Holy Alliance" culate on such a demonstration of this righteous and say ; power, when they entered into that nefarious compact rch;they vainly thought would constitute them the eternal tators of Europe. Great is the debt which the civilised rid owes to heroic Poland! Much has been said in praise of Mrs. Palmer's .rnificent donation fur the relief of the poor of Mayo. Four easand pounds, they say, have been subscribed in aid of relief fund by her. We do not know whether the fact .0 or nos. We should hope the report is authentic, for 1 %. Palmer is an absentee, chewing some 30,0001. a-year of Ireland, and possessing in Mayo a territory of ly magnitude. But even so, 4,0001. should still be lered a munificent subscription. We have not, how -I', been able to ascertain when the money was given, or it has been expended, or how it has been disposed of. Icon impious] Poles—and tl mage extern 110 cornpromii ha former sta conquer her r:sourcea, at to great sacri lhebitsch wi tfforts to su /lotto of thl p:r e those am none with aw trful efforts tl tams of slit' :afoot make I:archeil upo the very flow .:teary this %ore repurati Ind with '250 "Ott Linguini 'lt 60,000 coops, and ov, about 31' iihstood en by the ( 71 possession ted the etig `weir own los .rce, which ::ost s p l , tali. deulate on - I power, hiciethey v .atstots of 4'ald owes ti Nltich h ••zoiticent dt .4/usand pot r.r relief fun so or not. t ire. Palmer .41 of Irela rir..edy stag qc , idtred a !,tr, been at COURT CIRCULAR. Yesterday, at half-past one o'clock, their Ma jesties arrived at their Palace, in St. James's, from Windsor. At two o'clock, Don Pedro, ex-Emperor of the Brazils, and suite, arrived at the Palace, in two of the King's carriages ; they entered through the garden-gate, which is reserved for the Royal Fa mily. The Don appeared in a very splendid uni form of green and scarlet, and wore a number of orders. His chamberlain and other attendants were also very richly attired. Don Pedro was received at the private entrance by Lord Falkland, the Lord in Waiting, who conducted him to the King's closet, where his Majesty gave him an audience which lasted for half an hour. The King was accom panied by the Duke of Sussex and Prince Leopold. The convocation of the clergy, which assembeld as usual at the meeting of a new Parliament, ar rived at the Palace at half-past one-clock, in grand procession from the Jerusalem Chamber, for the purpose of presenting an address. The procession was preceded by the Apparitor-General in his robes, bearing the silver mace, followed by the Archbi shop of Canterbury, the Bishops of London, Win chester, Bristol, Bangor, and Llandaff, the Deans of Christchurch and Chichestar, Dr. Richards, the Rev. Mr. London, Dr. D'Oyley, the Rev. Sir Herbert Oakley, Rev. H. Barton, Archdeacon Hillingworth, Dr. Kenney, the Dean of Norwich, and the Archdeacon of Barnstaple. All the Rev. Prelates wore their convocation robes. The convocation were introduced into the pre sence of the king by the Gentleman Usher in Waiting. His Majesty was seated on the throne, surrounded by his Cabinet Ministers and great of ficers of state. To the right were the Duke of Brunswick, the Marquis of Winchester, Groom of the Stole, Lord Falkland, as Lord in Waiting, Lord Combermere, as Gold Stick, Lord Foley, as Captain of the Hon. Corps of Gentlemen Pension ers, the Earl of Belfast, as Vice-chamberlain. On his Majesty's left were the Marquis of Wel -1 leslev, as Lord Steward, the Earl of Albemarle, as Master of the Horse, Sir Wm. Fremantle, as Treasurer of the Household, Mr. Grosvenor, as Comptroller of the Household and the Page of Honour. The Gentlemen Pensioners formed a double line to the throne. The Address, which was of considerable length, was read by the Archbishop of Canterbury. His Majesty was pleased to return a most gracious answer. The Archbishop and the other Members of the Convocation had the honour of kissing the King's band. His Majesty afterwards held a Levee, at which the Marquis of Chandoe, accompanied by the Agents for Barbadoes, Antigua, Montserrat, St. Vincent, St. Christopher, Dominica, Nevis, the Virgin Islands, and Grenada, presented a petition on behalf of the West India Colonies, praying for relief. Among the gentlemen who accompanied the Noble Marquis were, Mr. Colquhoun, Mr. Burge, agent for Jamaica, Mr. Mayers, agent for Barhadoes, and Sir Henry Martin. Lord Ponsonby was presented, on his return from his mission at Brussels. The Right Hon. C. R. Vaughan, his Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States of America, was presented, on his return (on leave of absence) from his Mission, by Viscount Palmerston. At the Entree Levee were also present, the Aus trian, French, and Netherlands Ambassadors ; the Spanish, Prussian, Danish, Sardinian, Mexican, Hanoverian, Wirtemburg, Lucca, Neapolitan and Hans Town, Ministers; the Brazilian Charge d'Af faires ; the Lord Chancellor, the Lord President, the First Lord of the Treasury, the Lord Privy Seal, the Secretaries of State for the Home and Colonial Departments, the Chancellor of the Ex chequer, the First Lord of the Admiralty, &c. &c. The General Levee was numerously attended. Several addresses were presented. After the Levee, his Majesty held a Privy Coun cil, at which the Duke of Leinster and Sir Edward Hyde East were sworn in Privy Councillors, and took their seats at the Board accordingly. Mr. Vaughan, the British Minister to the United States of America, was rr. -sworn a Privy Coun cillor. The Recorder of London was admitted, and made his report to the King in Council of the 21 convicts capitally convicted at the last sessions in the Old Bailey. The King gave audiences to the Marquis of Winchester, Earl Grey, Viscount Melbourne, Viscoun: Althorp, the Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Albemarle, and Lord Belhaven. Mr. Hope Johnstone had an audience of the King, to deliver the badge of his late father, Ad miral Sir William Hope Johnstone, G.C.B. In the evening their Majesties had a musical party. His Serene Highness the reigning Duke of Saxe Coburg Gotha, attended by two Aides-de-camp ar.d suite, arrived at the Tower yesterday, from Rotter dam. His Serene Highness has come to pay a visit for a short time to their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Kent and Prince Leopold. Immediately on the Duke's landing, he proceeded on to Ken sington Palace, where his Serene Highness will reside. In the afternoon the Duke visited Prince Leopold, at Marlborough House. The Duchess of Kent entertained the Duchess of Cambridge, Prince Leopold, the Duke of Saxe Coburg, and a dis- ' tinguished party at dinner yesterday, at Kensington Palace. Yesterday the Recorder of London made his Report to His Majesty in Council of the following persons capitally convicted at the last Sessions, Old Bailey, viz._ John Smith, 29, John Langshaw. 26, 'flimsies Norrington, 29, George Dent, 20, stealing in a dwelling-house; John Hayes, 35, Gwrge Osborne, 37, John Redford, 18, Henry Bradfield, 27, William Tinney, 18, Charles Crackwell, In, John Atwick, 20, Francis Robertson, 16, Edward Brown, alias Rowley, 23, Benjamin Grimley, 21. Thomas Chalk, 21, house-braking; Samuel Penton, 49, George Smith, 20, John Anthony Dobbs, 22, hone-staling; Ma ry, alias Hannah, Kell, 40, uttering counterfeit c o in (b e . fore convicted ;) John Ilarknett, 22, highway robbery; all of whom His Majesty was most graciously pleased to respite during pleasure. ENSUING SESSIONS, OLD BAILEY.—The fol lowing is a summary statement, descriptive of the various offences with which the prisoners for trial at the above Ses. dons, which commenced this morning, severally staid charged, dr.—Burglary, 2; forgery, 2; housebreaking, 12; highway robbery, 3 ; bore-stealing, 2 ; stealing in dwelling.bouses, 11 ; unnatural crime, 1 ; cutting and maiming, 3 ; embezzlement, I ; stealing from the parson, 63; receiving stolen goods, 3; larceny, 225; uttering counterfeit coin, 2; uttering a forged order for the deliver. ing of goods, 1; (manslaughter, I; having in possession counterfeit coin with intent, dr.e. 4; total 342. Of the shove offences, 55 are alleged to have Leen committed within the city of London, and 287 in the county of Middlesex. PROGRESS OF TEMPERANCE SOCIETIES. A Scotch Paper states that the county Lanark has 29 Temperance Societies, Ayr 27, Renfrew and Stirling 18 each, Perth 17, Edinburgh and Fife 11 each, Dumbarton 10, Argyll 6, Dumfries 5, Wigton and Forfar 4 each ; Clackmanan, Kin ross, Linlithgow, and Roxburgh, 3 each; Bute 2; Aberdeen, Banff, Berwick, Peebles, Kirkcudbright, 1 each ; the other 10 counties have no Temperance Societies. At a public Meeting lately, one gentle man, not a member of any Temperance Society, as signed as a reason for doubling his subscription of 5 guineas, the abstinence of some of his family, and their moderation, so that there had been a considerable reduction in his family expenses. The change in public opinion and practice is indicated by the multiplica tion of Temperance Coffee-rooms in various parts of the country. The temperance Coffee-rooms at Edinburgh have made a commencement in the way of providing accommodation for travellers; end we have no doubt that such accommmodation will soon be imperiously demanded in all parts of the country. At a late meeting of the Temperance Society, at Shott's Iron Works, a letter was received from the manager, enclosing a subscription of 51. from the Company and 11. from himself, in testimony of their conviction of the beneficial effects pro duced on the morals of the people of the Society. In America the cause of temperance is making. rapid advances. At a recent meeting of a Tem perance Society, two merchants were so convinced of the mischiefs resulting from the use of ardent spirits that they immediately proceeded home and poured several hogsheads down the streets. After a meeting in another place, a merchant, who sold 3000 gallons yearly, for conscience sake disconti- ! nued the sale entirely. Three other merchants, in the same place, are about to follow his example. Forty vessels have lately cleared out from Boston without any spirits on board for the crews, they having voluntarily abandoned the custom of grog drinking. The same has occurred in Carolina. Spirits are excluded from the tables of many per-1 sons of rank and opulence, and should a candidate I for office give spirits, it would be sure to prevent his election. CRUELTY TO ANIMAL& Yesterday the annual meeting of the friends of this Society, which was established some years ago for the purpose of preventing cruelty to animals, was held at Exeter Hall. Sir C. Mack IN NON, Bart. M.P. in the Chair.—The Secretary, L. Gom pertz, Esq. read the annual report, which stated, that the finances of the Society bad fallen off in the last year, the receipts being 1241. 1 Is. Bd. less than in the preceding year. Abort 2,500 books and tracts haye been distiibuted; of 158 cases of prosecu tions for cruelty to animals, 51 had been fined in penalties, costa, and imprisonments ; 32 had been amerced in costs; 21 had evaded the charges; and 29 cases had been dismissed. The Magistracy in moat cases supported the society. The society has felt particular satisfaction in announcing the abolition of three of the pits for dog-fighting, hear baiting, &c. Other pits still remained to the dis grace of society, but the society's funds were too low to enable the committee to prosecute. The committee had been endeavouring to obtain the abolition of the bull-running at Stamford, but without success, the authorities there not having taken sufficiently active means to remedy the evil. report then referred to the successful attempts to prevent the practice of torturing lobsters, to keep them alive for the markets, by runnings peg through their claws. The places for receiving horses in tended to be killed were another nuisance which called for a remedy. Old and diseased horses were kept there without any thing to eat or lie upon, being kept alive till the flesh was wanted. Many homes intended to be killed were afterwards com teled to work in the East India Company's va ns . report concluded by noticing two new inven tions for the purpose of conveying calves and con ducting sheep to market. The Cu AI K MAN said that cruelties were prac tised upon animals still to a great extent. He had received a letter from a clergyman in the north of L . England, describing a bull-bait which had occurred in his presence. The bull was tied to a stake, and after the animal was completely exhausted, and its eyes torn out, a man went and pulled out the bull's tongue, which he sent to have cooked, the animal being yet alive. The Society had done great good. Mr. J. Ward, M.P. Mr. Marshall, Mr. Mey mott, G. Raymond, Esq. and others, addressed the meeting in behalf of the Society. Resolutions were passed that the report be adopted, and that the Society merited the support of the public. M. Gon.Dsiftn, Esq. moved a vote of thanks to the Secretary, L. Gomperts, Esq. for his gratuitous exertions in behalf of the brute creation, which was seconded, and carried by acclamation. LAW REPORT. COURT OF C031310N PLEAS, Juwi 2/1. lIAMBRIDGE Y. CRAWLEY. This was an action for crim. con. brought by a barber living somewheie in the neighbourhood of Long-lane, Smithfield, against the defendant, who possesses a certain degree of notoriety as a pugi list, and keeps the Queen's Head and French Horn public-house, Duke -street, Smithfield. Mr. Sergeant Storks and Mr. Payne appeared for the plaintiff; Mr. Sergeant Wilde and Mr. C. Phillips for the defendant. The first witness called was a glazier, who pro fessed to be qualified to prove that a vemarkuble amount of conjugal affection subsisted between the plaintiff and his wife, because on several occasions when he, the deponent, had been mending the broken windows of the Queen's Head, he had seen plaintiff and his wife " walk out together arm-in-arm." The next witness was sometime a waiter of the defendant, to prove the improper intimacy of the parties, and he stated that during a period of three weeks that the defendant's wife was out of town, the plaintiff's wife was a frequent visitor at the Queen's Head, and supplied her place at bed and board. On his cross-examination he admitted that the defendant had charged him with robbing the bar ; and also, after very gross prevarication, that since he left the defendant, the plaintiff had sup• plied hint with money, clothes, victuals, and drink, and that he was examined by the plaintiff's attorney whilst he was in a state of intoxication. Rebecca Broffby, an old woman, who was the defendant's servant at the same time with the last witness, deposed to witnessing " very improper goings on" between the defendant and plaintiff's wife in defendant's kitchen when they were at sup per there together; but " her wishes did not ap prove of such bad characters, and she was dismise'd the kitchen," and therefore could not tell the exact nature of what occurred; " but of this she could very well pertain, that there was scandalous mis conomy between them." " Miss Conomy !" observed Mr. CitA tun PHILLIPS," and pray who might she be ?" Witness—" Oh, Mrs. Crawley, undoubtingly," (much laughter.) This witness also admitted,w•hen cross-examined, that she had been charged with aiding the waiter in stealing liquor from the bar, and also some mo ney from under a bed, and that when she was dis charged from custody, and the service of the de fendant, she went to the plaintiff, and the first thing she said to him was, " Sir, as you are a stranger to me, will you lend me a shilling ?" and be lent her a shilling, and then she in grati tude told him about the misconomy of his wife with the defendant. A superintendent of the City police stated that he had been acquainted with the parties ever since their marriage, and that he never saw any impro priety in the conduct of the plaintiff's wife, till one night he saw her in Smithfield with her arm round the defendant's neck ; but, when examined for the defence, he would not swear that he had not seen her in the company of common prostitutes before this. She was now entirely abandoned to a vi cious course of life. A witness proved the serving of the writ upon the defendant, who, at the time, said to his wife, " Ah, this wouldn't have happened if you had stayed at home !" ____ _ This was the plaintiffs case. Mr. Sergeant WILDE, after addressing some observations to the jury on this evidence, said he would not insult their understandings, or be a party to the further degradation of the administration of justice in that Court by calling any witnesses, although he had upwards of 40 in his brief. The CHIEF JUSTICE commenced addressing the jury, but was interrupted by the Foreman, who said they were of opinion the case was not made out, the principal witnesses being unworthy of credit. Plaintiff was accordingly nonsuited. CONSISTORY COURT, Juxr 29. rains V. PHIPPS. This was a suit for a divorce, brought by Henry Phipps, of Gmcechurch-street, against his wife, on the ground of her having criminal conversation with Wm. Forrester, of Fish-street-hill. Sir HERBERT JEN N ER, for complainant, said that the parties to the suit were married in Nov. 1824, and up to August 1830 had lived happily to gether. A t this latter period Mrs. P.'s affection for her husband was observed to decline. The reason for that change on her part was her having formed a criminal connection with a Mr. Forrester, who was shopman to Mr. Stone, a haberdasher, residing on Fish-street-hill. In support of this allegation, it was proved that Mrs. Phipps had been generally very familiar with Forrester ; that Forrester, on one particular occasion,had been alone with Mrs. Phipps for upwards of an hour in her parlour, on pretence of showing some silks ; the blinds of the windows had been drawn down, and there was a sofa in the room ; Mrs. Phipps appeared flushed, and unusu ally high-coloured, after his departure. He and Mrs. Phipps were also identified by a boatman, named Lill, as having been conveyed by him, on the second of July last, to the Red House, Battersea, where, after they had spent the day together, be brought them back to Arundel street -stairs, in the Strand. They were also iden tified by the waiters at the Red House. It was also in evidence that a coachman, of the name of Wing, saw the parties, and they were driven by him, on the 25th of July, to Snaresbrook, where, it was proved by the waiters, they bad dined, and had afterwards walked together in the forest. This was the principal evidence for the party suing for the divorce. Dr. HAGGARD follo7Ved On tho same side. Dr. ADDA xis appeared for Mrs. Phipps against the divorce, and said, that Mrs. Phipps was of a gay and lively disposition, and rather coqnettish ; but still, up to this time, was never in the slightest degree suspected of infidelity. He maintained that no improper familiarity subsisted between her and Forrester, but that living in Gracechurch-street, within a few doors of Mr. Stone's house, she had often dealt there for these things which she wanted to purchase. Forrester, on the day on which suspicion attached to him, came to her house on busi ness, in the middle of the day, between one and tw• o'clock, when her husband was every moment ex pected home to dinner. It was in evidence that on the day on which she was alleged to have been at the Red-house, Battersea, she was with an old gentle man and a lady, a I articular friend of her's, at the Star and Gaiter, Putney, and that on the day on which she was represented to have been at Snares brook, she was with her dress maker for the greater part of the day. Mr. Forrester, it was also proved, had dined on tke 25th of July at Hampton Court, and left that place for London by the stage-coach, in the evening. This was the substance of the evidence adduced to meet the suit for divorce. Dr. M ATC II EM was rising to address the Court on the same side when the Judge (Dr. LUSHING TON) said that ho must postpone the further hear ing till the first convenient tiny next week. TIIE GIGANTIC WHA L E.—The skeleton of the Gigantic IVha e is to be seen in the booth erected to receive its remains, opposite the King's Alerts. The naturalist will be delighted with the present opportunity of inspecting the most perfect existing specimen of the cetaceous tribe ever exhibited ; the articulation of the Nk e:cton is complete, the interstices between the vertebra are filled with a composition painted to resemble the adjoining bone ; the while is fixed together on iron stands, the ribs depending in their natural position by hooks and eyes of the same metal. The belly of the whale is fitted up with a table and chairs, containing an album, some books of natural history, and other things. The following arc the precise dimensions of the whale Total length of the animal, 03 French feet ; length of the head, 22 ; length of the tongue, 20 ; Leight of the cranium, 4k ; length of the vertebral column, 691 ; r.umber of the vertebra, G 2 ; length of the ribs, 9 ; number of ditto, 28 ; length of the fins, I2i ; length of the fingers, 41; width of the tail, 24 ; length of ditto, 3; weil,ht of the animal, 400,00tilbs ; weight of the oil, 40,000; weight of the rotten flesh buried in the sad, 170,1100. The upper jaw is fitted up with 800 lanais or whalebones. From the calculi, tion made by Monsieur le Baron Curler and the Profes sors of the King's Garden. this enormous cetaceous animal must have lived nine or ten centuries. Tile whale was found floating in the North Sea, between Belgium and England, on the 3d of November, 1827, by a crew of fishermen. This boat being too weak of tonnage and sail to remove such an enormous masa, hailed two other boats to their assistance, and the three together towed the whale on shore, and arrived in sight of Ostend harbour at four o'clock in the morning of the 4th of November, 1827, being then high water. At the moment the whale was just going to easel the harbour, the cable with which it was fastened to the boats broke, and it was cast on the sands on the east aide of the harbour. It was there that all the preparatory operations were made. Corros Woos. (Lon.: SiLa (thrown: (raw) FLAX . Isom Conga . LILA II - Ttoi &Ica eis Tosacco - OIL BIAXDY . Rum - , q (10 a 20)! Waisur .1 GUM . • Pons - • SN . . MADItIA - Care - • Hums - - COFitli . .1 TRA Berns - Cum, - TALLOW (Hui.: Rica IIZAIII (Lona.: Conn (London; Hon (London: Hay (London: CoaLs - °alarm Avis.' IPernams N. Orleans; 'Saxony pr. Austria pr. l Segovia I S Down ll3l4nket Pied. wt.iti Modena Bengal Riga Antwerp Pg IBars Swedish British IS. Arthr.c., I Bars Blocks Bengal Janalca Maryland Virginia Cuba Florence Linseed Pale rape Bordeaux Jamaica DCOI !Irish Good Good Prune (p 2 p) Botts B. Ayres British t I Plan t. ) . Mocha &bra Congou Hymn Cosh Dutch Cht. shire Glo'stee Yellow White Itirton Veal Pork Wheat Barley ()ass Beau Kert Smuts Kama Farnham. Good Middling Si raw Waxed !Wheat Barley THE CONVOCATION. ADDRESS TO THE KING, AND ANSWER TO THE SAVE. "TO TUT KING'S DINT ffiCELLENT MAJESTV. " Most gracious SovereiAn.—Mre, your Majesty's (I u::ful subjects, the Archbishop, Didier, and Clergy of the ro vince of Canterbury, in cons (nation assembled, most humbly entreat your lilajoity to accept cur assurances of t.,ncere affcc'ion and loyalty. " It has been the wisdom of our sovereigns, and of those more particularly of yeur Majesty'a illustrious house. to secure to their subjects the Inestimable blessings t f sound doctrine, and the regular ministrations of religion, by 'Wind ing their special protection and courtenance to the esubliht.d church. In this faithful attention to the charge committed to Christian Kings by Divine Providence, your Majesty has aderid the principles of your ancestors, and acted on their example, a consideration %Ilia, in this reason of Inlet and difficulty, tends much to our encouragement and cetaxt Yet, Sir, we must not conceal that we are not altogether free from anxiety. Since last we had the honour of ad-* dressing your Majesty, the tranquillity of the coun.ry has been partially disturbed by a spirit of violence, a filch pre railtd for a time over the moral restraints eau:nth:l iti the well-being of society, and which, though now proridenthilly quieted, may again be called into action. Among the means of averting such a calamity, your Majesty will un questionably look to the professional exertions of the clergy. We trust, Sir, that, taken u a body, wilt reasonable al lowance for human infirmity, we cannot be justly accuscd of inattention to our sacred duties ; and we humbly venture to promise, that, with the blessing of God on our resoluthins, no supineneu or negligence on our part, no went of mod, r:- don, or zeal, or disinterestedness, shall obstruct the succ,s of cur pastoral cares and labours. " But we humbly represent to your Majesty, that the exertions of the ministers of the church, however assiduous or able. must fail in too many instances of their full effect, whilst the truths of Divine Revelation are publicly held up to derision by professed teachers of impiety, and writin i is rep'eta with sedition and blasphemy are exten.ivelv elicit. lated, in open defiance of the law. We do not object to Oa fullest discussion of religious subjects, or the fr.est nnims.l - ton the church or its ministers, whete either may stem in faul'. Even when the intention is hostile, the re sult may be the elucidation of truth, or the removal of tele. misliescr defects. But, Sir, no excuse can be offered far a course of proceeding, which poisons the motels of .he young, l and emboldens the ignorant to scoff at their Creator, and 'e -1 jest the inAruction which would render them happy in them. sehay and estimable and useful In society. " At the same time we beg leave to assure your Ma. jesty, that in every disadvantage we may have to criounter, I we shall find an additional incitement toithe diligent use of die means which .lie mercy of GOD has placed in our hands, for the benefit of our fellow-creatures. To the mis. cli‘evous delusions of infidelity and immorality on the one hand, and enthusiasm and superstition on the other, we shall persevere in opposing the doctrines and precepts of the i Gospel. And while, in humble reliance on aid from above, we in.ulcate the necessity of personal holiness, and cheerful obedience to the lass, we shall never man to pray, that your Majesty may long continue to reign, beloved at haute land respected abroad, in peace, prosperity, sod honour." TIM XING'S ANSWEIL, " My Lords, and the rest of the Clergy_l thank you f..r your loyal and dotifol adlreva. " Deeply sensible of the necessity of ensuring to my sub. joins the blessings of a pure religion, my constant care will be directed to the sopport of the Established Church in all its just rights and privileges. I _ " I rely with confidence on the moderation, seal, and dig. interestedness of its minis ers in the performance of the im. portant duties assigned to them ; and 1 receive with the high est satisfaction your assurances that, not objecting to the utmost freedom in the diricussion of religious subjects which can be fairly required for the elucidation of truth, you will persevere in opposing the doctrines and precepts of the gos pel to the delusions of immorality and infidelity on the one hand, and to enthusiasm and superstitir non the other. " A due enforcement of the powers of the law shall not be wanting on my part, whenever it may be required for the pro tection of the true interests of religion; and to your profes sional exertions, directed by a just sense of duty, and by the meek spirit of Christian charity, I trust, under the blessings of Divine Providence. for the defeat of all at tem p ts Eo which moral may be made to pervert the fe e lings of a and re. ligious people, or to shake their belief In those holy truths on which their pre.cnt and their future happineas equally depend." STAPLES OF BRITISH COMMERCE (THIS DAY.) 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