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~- PANORAMA 4W THE BRITISH EMPIRF. 111IlMI11'CIMM JOUR3AL. July 30. Tor: PI'ILIC Oretck.—On Monday last, owing to the absence the Maeistrates, no business was transacted at the Public-office The consequence of this interruption was, many prisoners for trifling offences were detained in t for four, five, and six days anti nights before their e.i:es could he heard, or they discharged—justice was de -I.teed—nrison expenses augmented—the public subjected to the ,neatest inconvenience—and the Magistrates in attend. on Thursday, obliged to perform double duty. The tact is. that at the present moment. we believe we have not one Magistrate residing within the town. Mr. Lee. after working almost single handed for some months past, has very judiciously and properly sought retirement and recrea tion in the mountains of North Wales. Mr. Letlssm has been for months with his family in the south of England ; and Mr. Isaac Spoonrr is necessarily detained in London, by business connected with the Free Grammar School Bill. Here, then, is Birmingham, with a population of 145,000 inhabitants, destitute of any resident ma:;isterial authority ; and the town, prolific as it is in erime•-with its police—left to the mercy and kindness of gentlemen In the commission, residing at a distance. STAFFORDSIIIRIC AFSIZES.—The High Sheriff, Thomas Fitzherbert, Esq. after giving a dinner to the magistrates and county gentlemen en Thursday week, left Stafford about six o'clock on that day, and, accompanied by his officers, &c. proceeded to Moss Pit, to escort into town the Judges of Assize, Mr. Justice Park and Mr. Justice Patteson.— Their lordships arrived about seven o'clock, and immedi. ately opened the commission. At the above assizes, an action for a breach of promise of marriage, was brought by a Mrs. Gallimore against a Mr. Fisher. The circumstances of the ease will be gathered from the following description of it given try Mr. Justice Park, in Lis charge to the jury...-Bere, said his lordship, is an old woman of 61, who bast; children, and 7 grand-children, who seems to have been doting, for 8 or 0 years, on this old gardener. who has made some loose ohs( rvations about giving her 1:411. alear,-which there is not any proof he has got ; still, if there was a proinise of marriag e between these two foolish people, there most be a verdict or the plaintiff, with such damages as you (the Jury) should think proper. Ver dict for the plaintiff—Dam:4;es, Is. Mr. Campbell applied' to the Learned Judge to grant a certificate to deprive Mrs.l Gannon of her costs. Mr. Justice Park.—No, no.—l I think he deserves to pay the costs. vow SENTENCiIi OF THE PRITONEHS. Sentence of death recorded.—William Gibbs, breaking into the house of Irslter Williams, at Handsworth, on the _':id of June, and stealing therefrom six bottles of whiskey, and ttra bottles of wine ; Wilson Scholeßeld, breaking into the house of John Lloyd, at Tipton, and stealing a silver watch ; Richard Brotherton, stealing a cart and bridle from William Brown, of Walsall ; John Neigh, for house-break ing. at Burslern ; Wm. Felton, robbing Matthias South. wick, at Brewood, of money and a watch. [John Hickson, indicted with Felton, was acquitted.] Robert Carter, and James Jackson, alias Yates, for house-breaking, at Stoke. upon. Trent ; Samuel Lote, stealing a gelding from William Turner, of Dixon's-green; Ralph Hammond, stealing a mare front Ralph Beardmore, of Kingslow ; Thomas Lin ford, stealing a mare from James Foster, of Darlaston ; John Ranch, stealing a cow from William Allday, of. Bilston ; Richard Baylis, breaking into the house and stealing money from Thomas Illoorc, of Amblecoat. [ Arthur Turner and Benjamin Hughes, committed for this offence, were ad mitted evidence.] James Bott, for housebreaking, at Rassvich ; John Stokes, stealing a mare from A. Walker, of Darlaston. Transported for life.—John Williams, stealing a copper boiler from 'Wm. Fellowes, of Wolverhampton. Fourteen years' transportation. Charles Garrington, welding chickens, at Walsall. Seven yeats.—Wm. West, stealing a pair of shoes, at Mebane ; Robert Scattergood, stealing a spade, at Bram. pone; Thomas Hanson, stealing a pair of stockings at stoke-upon-Trent. Gramm sr's' Marrxxck—On Tuesday last, an adjourned quarterly and special general meeting of the guardians of the roor was held at the public office Moor.street, Mr. S. W. Suffield in the chair. About thirty guardians were present. " The provision committee in presenting their report, have to state that the average number of poor in the house have been .*3l. and the expense in maintaining them 3s. 20. per bead per week. There hart. been relieved, during the quar ter, 905 tramps ; the expense of which at Bd. per head. mounts to 181. 17. id. " The amount of debts owing the3oth of June, 1831. are as follows : Z. s. d. Provions ... .. ... .. 684 3 91 Sundries and Repairs ... 149 15 1; Stationary ... .. .. 73 13 3 Drugs ... .. ... .. 206 5 75 £lll3 17 9! Prom nine to ten paupers Lave gone out to work during the above period, whose gains have been £l7 lia. THE CLOTHING COMMITTEE REPORT. _ _ _ The clothing Commitfee in presenting their report for the last quarter. have to state the amount of their debts to be £l5O I Is. M. The amount of clothing tlelivered : X e. d. To the inmpoor ... ... Wl3 101 .. Out .. .. -.• ... 29 12 5 Apprentices .. ... .. 13 13 8 Asylum ... .. . ... b7ll 0 Lnnatic Asylum ... ... .. 1 19 0 Bedd.ng, &c. .. 26 17 8 £197 7 st! The average rutrber of poor has been 43U, and the ex.! pcnse of clothing them 2is. per head. At a Meeting of the Council of the Political Union. en Tntsday eveniog. three delegate% from a Political Seciety existing in London. called "Tile National Association of the Working Classes," presented a letter funs! .ha Com mittee of dm , hada', to the Council of the Union, peay ittg their aid and interfer. nee in procuring. tier tit: class of pcts.,rs generally oh . which •the Association was coto poste'. a recognition of their rigkt of franchise, in the Bill now he fore the House of Commons. It was sta.tel by then the Society of which thee were itaembers. was eoniaose , ! el wen subsisting on their labour, or wealth prodecera, who, ith their familles,resided In lodging+ at a rental of 101. per ann.= and upwards, but not beteg renters of houses at that sum. were therefore excluded from :the interded alteration, nett not recognised as being worthy of rem sentetion. They estimated their numbers at about seven thousand, mid, with others of the saute class as themselves, but belonging to otitar Political Societies. computed that no less than twenty thousand may be supposed to be interes.cu in the application in London alone. The object of the fo tetferecce of the Dinningbam Political ('nion in their behalf was to be directed towards eta aining fur them the same privilege as was intended to 1): bestowed upon. the I tll. hook . ..holder*. or to procure a recoanition of their right to re presentation, by the insertion of a clause to that effect in the preamble of the bill ; and after the lapse of a specified runt her of years, by virtue of the some clauee, to have the law of franchise btatowed upon a limited vomiter, inereatting i.t extent. as education, prudence, and krewleage made way among them. The interfetenee re* however objected to by the Ditmingham Political Council. ea account of its being an attempt to alter Ca: bill, to which they were pledged in support. The right to the possession of the electivefranchiee by the cites of persons. of which the National Aseccia - tioa" was composed was fully admitted, but they declines., from a disinehrati to to disturb the bill. to make any inter position in ttaar behalf. The'hosinees above reported. Itavieg been diecossed. the subject of the Reform bill and the factious opposition by which it is met in the House of Common:, was next intro aimed. It was ultimately agreed, atter a very animated conversation, to adjourn the further consideration to a Special Meeting of the Couteil to b: ettlied tot Timrsday. Ac cordingly. in the evening of that day they again met, when the following petition wars unanintoualy adopted : 1. That your Petitioners believed that the nation had, a• the late election, returned to yeur Honourable House, as re presentatives of its feelings and interests. a majority of Alentbers who were convinced of the neeeesity of Parliament ary Reform ; and of that Reform, at the least, which had been proposed by I:is:Majesty's Ministers. 2.—That the confidence which your petitioners therefore repeat , in your /knowable House, has hitherto induced them to wait with patience for the issue of its deliberations; hut they regret to ohaerve, that the nation's determination to possess, at ltrigth, the rights of which it has been so long deprived, is set at nought ; and that dtEtrence is paid less to the will of an LZr bed people, titan to the sordid and filen. kea ollections of hats-rested individuals. S—That li te r tat:the:era have observed with disgust and indigorrion, the tac:ioto• anti puerile opposition made to the eptriors • f a majority of your Honourable House, and to the den:rl,,l A of an epprorted and insulted people; and with fe,l:llg3 of a nearly similar character, they contrast the ra pidity with which measures of penalty and of spoliation have been enacted by former Parliaments, with the ex traordinary tardiness at present displayed in completing a wholesome and healing measure of wisdom, justice,and con. ciliation. 4.—That your petitioners respectfully retulod your honour. able house, that the state of distress which has so lung op pressed the energies of the nation, and filled the country with anxiety end misery, imperatively demands the immediateat tendon of your honourable house, and the adoption of com prehensive and Effectual remedies ; but that it is impossible until the present gnat measure of retorm shall be carried into effect. that such attention should be given, and such reme dies be applied ; and that, therefore, your petitioners feel it their duty to urge upon your honourable house the absolute necessity of no longer permitting the bill of reform to be re. tardtd in its progress, pod the sufferings of an oppressed, but i patieni people, prolonged by the obstinate and factious op ppousition eby s small and interested minority to the as knowledged and Expeessed opinions of the great majority of the members of y our h o n ou rabl e h ouse , an d o f the peopl e of the united kingdom. s.—Your petitioners do therefore strenuously urge your honourable house to take the premises into most serious con. sideration, and in the passing of the bill before it, to observe a despatch which is demanded alike by the justice and reason of the case, and by a due regard to the feelings, the wishes, and the interests of a mighty nation. Birmingham, July 28, 1831. The petition is to be presented by Mr. O'Connell. Foazrow GLovas.- —The following is copied from an official return of the number of dozen pair of Foreign Gloves, imported in 1828, 1829, and 1830, and the amount of duty received : Habits. Mtn's. Women's. Duty. 1828..69,.564 27,688 3,025 X 21,653 18'29-45,679 23.635 2,781 13,510 1830...62,923 25,013 3,187 19,468 Q uarter } 19,132 10,505 881 6,529 April 5, It will he observed from this account, that the importation during the last fifteen months has been very great. A hve seems to be entertained that some arrangement will be made for checking smuggling, from which the trade also suffers much. FIRE.—An alarming fire broke out on Thursday morn ing, at the extensive china manufactory of Messrs. Chem. Pertain rend Cain Worcester. The entire of the painting room was gutted, and it was also unroofed • the model rnom adjoining was likewise injured; and besides this, damage to some amount was occasioned in the destruction of en:l=ous valuable models, and sonic beautiful china in the process of painting. STAFFORDSHIRE POTTERIES.—The e rods received into the Potteries last year, and despatch from them, amounted to upwards of 106,000 tons : the first price of the raw materials used in their manufacture was but 56,0001. and that of the same materials wrought op was 1,300,0001. ex hibiting an amount of wealth created, of labour paid, and profit actually reaped, hardly falling short of one million and a quarter sterling. MARRIED.—At Bridguorib, the Rev. W. B. Crotch, A.M. to Elizabeth, second daughter of Thos. Duppa, Esq. of Briagnorth.—Mr. John Adams, of Kinnersley, to Emma, second daughter of W. Palin, E s i q. of Cherringtoo Manor. DIED.--At Handsworth, Sarah, widow of the late Lieut.-Colonel A. J. Blaedonnell, of Lochgarry-83, Mr. G. R. Shaw, an eminent surgeon, of Dudley—ln Shrews. bury, the Rev. Peter How, Rector of Workington, 72—At Cheadle, John Higgs, Esq. banker-69, Cottrill Corbett Req. of lieneyborae, Gloccesterehire—At Croft Cade, the Rev. James Kevin, 62. FREEMAN'S JOURNAL, July 29. LETTER OF DR. DOYLE TO LORD FARNHAM, ON' THE IRISH TITHE SYSTEM. NT Lottp-liinWhefirtehadtitit honour of addressing your lordship. The cause or occasion of my doing so was your tffuet at Cavan to propagate the " New Reformation." I then warned you of the mischief you were attempting, and foretold you the issue of your pious labours. Some friend or foe of your lordship, in the Dublin Eve ;limp Post, of the 17th of this month, introduces a speech, as if delivered by you in the House of Lords on the pre vious Monday evening, and thus, under a most imposing title, endeavours to vent his folly or malignity against many thing or persons. but especially agaiast me. This writer, with that adroitness suited to little minds, opens his case by a speech, as it were, of the Bishop of Ferns, and then represents your lonlship as statin g it fully. with a gravity not unbecoming a court of justice. In this form he charges me with being at the head of a conspiracy formed in this country to resist the payment of tithes, and in the perversity of his judgment imputes to me the late slaughter at Newtownbarry. He also insinuates that I being a bishop had accepted the commission of the peace. But then, as to shat more immediately concerns myself, and first as to the " commission of the peace." I would' not, sly lord, for your estate, accept and exercise such com. ntissien. I ant forbidden to exercise jurisdiction of any sort in criminal cases connected with blood, but independent of this prohibition, the " commission of the peace • is not compatible with that higher commission which I h o ld. E ve's if I were a private individual, l could not but fed that the office of what is called " justice of the peace has, now-a. days ceased in Ireland to confer bonouron those who held it. Nay, if that office were accepted of by any one of the numee tous clergy subject to my coottoul, he should cease to hold his spiritual office in conjunction with it. This part of the charge preferred aioinst me is, however, of minot importance. What follows is much more serious. The word " conspiracy" is generally received In its worst sense. and so taken signifies " a secret contrivance by a few or many to oi:et some evil purpose." Stacey is the soul of conApirecy, and conspirators often tasted blued to confirm ! their iniquitous league. • In my letter .o Mt. Spring Rice on a legal provision for I the Irish poor, which this writer has quoted, the nuisance, the ttojust and iniquitous exaction of tithes is but briefly and Toothily exposed. I hate in all my writings for several years past nested of the tithe system in Ireland ass chief I cat se of her sufferings, as an impetlittont to her improve ' Intuit in peace as in agriculture-seas unjust in principle and odious in practice--as injurious to the best iottrests of giei..—as oppressive to the pour—as inconsistent with good government, and intolerable to .he Irish people. Does your lordshio think it is otherwise, or that 1 have erred hi try estanata of it ? I; it be not an hopediment to her improvement in peace, nhettee riot:ceded that rustle Fate bir.h to 4:: at more thee sanguinary code called the •• Nlhiteboy Acts," and to those tithe lass enacted io doe Irish Parliament about the same time, which create •• Wencee mid rights with regard to tithes such as never before sailed the property of matatiod ? Whence proceeded those scenes of injustice o: oppiession whien Grattan. with an eloquence almost divine, denounced 111 his place in Parliament. when rah ly eneivvoitring to amer.d this system ? Whence proceeded those perioacal honoree dons against thltes from which this country has not been exe empt educe their lien ititrolluctihn ? Whence the battle of S:c!'barecui ‘Whence tho.......meruue applications by grand jraitie and oellet public bodies for the peace preservation act, Cl insurrection act , and ;or a connewation of tithes? Whence the tithe emumutatior act itself? Is the slaughter Newtowriniery the ee'eet o.' a clitt‘e ttiffiotne front that which produced ilta battle of Ski'ihercen ? No. toy t.ord, the exact'etn oi"thhe is incotookhle with the pe.tc.: of Irt laud —it was hand aid rf sistel lieffae I was born, and it will be cussed whit t I ant its my glare. I have never plotted in secret against this system, but mine has been, am. ever will be, one of the thousand voices raised to denounce ft. to the , hatred of mankind, until a wise lehisitnure removes it frout the shoulders of an uppressed pcm , h.. and delivers religion, to use the idea of &imam from the injustice of the C. orch. ; But then the Common-atm. Act remedies .his inconv:rience. They who epplatte this act do not feel how the income of . t',e inewnix.nr, to he rendered doubly secure by it. is old. mated by the average amount of the tithe of tic Jar d, ca. pital, labotai aced industry of the seven preceding Years.— . Phis act test:dates toe oppression, hut does not li.ittest it ; It dues u.t. idiotic agriculture butt it screens tile Otaollii cx. action. The merits of this act are fully comprehended art} duly estirreted by ti.e public, and they deceive themselves who itongine that the enormous charge imposed by it will r • ever he patiently !sortie. . The remark that I complained of the non-residence cf the I Prottstan, clergy, and infared from it their inutility, is another assertion as absurd as it is false. I never in my lice, by word or writing, complained of the non-residence of I the clergy—l don't recollect to have even mentioreil it his. ; torically. The truth is, I always though t it s illy an d severe to con fi ne a well-educated man to a spot or parish where In ; had CIO duty to perform, no business connected with his pro. fession ; and where be should, in most cases, eke out his days . in an indolent repose, or deliver himself up to study, for a hich few arc fitted, or to secular pursuits unbecoming his I profession, or to die indulgence of his appetites, which would render him a rock of scandal, or to the purposes of fans ) deism, which would expose his folly and disturb the peace. was, and am of opinion, that the established clergy arc Waving the question of right, which governments are too apt to confound with might or power. I say the State has no right to sustrin what is injurious to the public goof. The right of government is the interest of the people ; there is no right in the legislature of a state to do wrong. the source of their power is the will of the people, their office is a trust for the public good, they confer no favour when they enact good laws or repeal bad ones, and they fail to fulfil the trust conf;ded to them, when they neglect the interests of the community over which they are commissioned to pre. side. Every executive power or government is identified with the legislature or emanates Cron' it, so that if the above truths be indipu table as applied to a legislative body, they are not less so us applied to a government. But it is said, "if you met:tile wish, or encroach upon church property, no other properly will he secure." This assertion is employed by two classes of persons ; the one CliaSS extremely ignorant, who speak of that they do not comprehend, and often with a degree of' assurance propor tioned to their ignorance. The other class consists of self. interested knaves or their advocates, who know as well as I do that churchmen are not proprietors, yet represent them as such to create alarm in the minds of real owners of pro ven), who are led by this alarm to defend the tithe system, regardless of its injustice, as if it were an out . work to the security of their own estates. There are many of the forther ela nwho are incapable of corn. preiiending the plainest truths, and others whose pursuits in life render them unfit to enter upon legal disquisi. lions; these men must be borne with, hitt the se cond class are noxious animals who never pursue right or avoid wrong, when doing so would compromise their love of " base lucre." It is sufficient, however, for the guidance phi the public to know, that the state or legislature has at all ;lines dealt with church property as with a public trust. The holders of this trust, or as the law language calls them, Lile uctearii, are not the owners of' the property of Mulch they leave a life use ; ar.d to suppose that any legal mo :ideation of ti:e property thus held by them, or of the terms on which they as trustees hold it, would affect even re motely the ottliaary titles by which men hold their estates, is to confound things as distir.ct as light is from darkness. The real and only question is, whether it be consistent with the public interests in Ireland, that the persons enjoying the use and fruit of church lands and tidies, should not only hold then, for life or a consideration in lieu of them, but also trans mit them to their successors P If the holders of this property were the owners of it, this question could not be raised, for who could challenge the right of a man to transmit his inheritance to his heirs P but if the churchman only enjoy the use and fruit of the f u nd during his life, who mu doubt the right of the state to which the fund itself belongs, to deal with it on the demise of the ecclesiastiml incumbent in such manner as the public in. ~---- more than twice as numerous as the wants of their chneeb terests require ? To question this right is to deny the high require, and that enforcieg residence by them on their cures, dominion and supreme jurisdiction by which all society is as they are called, is a portion of that fatuity which more governed and all rights secured. The exercise of this judo than once has been broached even in parliament. There it suction by the state has as much connexion with an invasion has been said, " build churches, and congregations will of private property, as It has with measuring the height of arise to fill them ;" and this maxim is wisely propounded, the Andes. and is wisely admitted, though it be in opposition to the The question to be inquired into therefore is this, " whe• rule and practice of the apostles, and of their genuine sue. the: the amount of church property in Ireland, and the mode tremors. These first converted men, and then converts built of collecting it in tithe, be, or be not, suited to the coup. the churelles. But the apostles or their successors, were try ?" No honest man will pretend it so. The full amount not blessed with statutes made and provided to supply the of this property has never yet been asartelned ; all the re treats of all their own exertions. turns made respecting bishops' lands, and the rentals of I have, my Lord, always considered and represented the them, are fallacious. These lands are supposed to amount tithe system in Inland not only as an impediment to bee to twoelevenths of the entire kingdom ; and the bishops, in improvement in peace and agriculture, but also as inkiest In all their isal to disprove this estimate, have neva made, principle and odious in practice. Does not justice, my lord, nor caused to be made, a survey of their poseuiltas, or require that an equivalent be given for whatever is readved ft even furnished a single satisfactory return of either tie ear- Did GOD or Coarse ever will or command, that then &km or extent of their lands. Then, as to the should be sinecures in his Church ?—or that an industrious of the sae, which incomes cadet, for perhaps the man should pay the tenth of his substance, not to a clergy e greater part, of renewal fines, they are calculated, If I ea. man who made him no return, but who did not profess his derstand the returns rightly, not by their real amount, bet faith, nay who abused and reviled, and blasphemed that by the amount of rents exclusive of fines. The estimate of faith ? I our lordship might do well In giving a sheep from their value can be more justly appreciated by the quarter ei your flock to Mr. M'Climock, because be rayed and come a million of money, which not one, but several of those forted you, and no doubt consoled your lotdship, or at least bishops have been enabled to amass from their sees in a few condoled with you on the failure of your new reformation years, after maintaining the charitable institutions which project; but in the name of truth and Justice, what did bear their names and exercising th at hospitality for width this Mr. he , Clintock ever do for the fanner D o yl e they are or have been so distinguished. why he should possess himself of his two heifers?— Can Ireland, the poorest country in Europe, support the What pastoral or sareedotal duty did he ever discharge for most affluent and luxuriant priesthood which inhabit the this industrious man or his family, why he should receive of earth—a priesthood which does not profess the religion of she his temporal good s ? and if h e (lid not labour why receive people, Aloe minister to the wants of the poor ? Is it jest hire ? It is then, that this exaction is not sup wcW that the Ekingtons, the Magee", the Knoxes, the Totten. by any principle clear,f reason or the gospel. It is on pr inc iples hams, tbeJocelyns. should enjoy princely fortunes, extracted opposed to both. I might, my lord, refer to Greece, op. from the industry of this people?—.bat not two-cleventha of pressed and insulted by the Museuhrian—to Egypt and the the soil of Ireland, but the tenth of all ha agricultural taw coast of Africa, trampled upon by the Janissary and Maine- duce and of the capital, labour, and industry employe d lake—to leke—to South America, enslaved by the proud Castilian— therein, should be perpetually devoted, under the pretence of to Hindoetan uncle: 'the sway of Hastings, and to Poland, religion, to men who have no tide thereto, derived from lobe partitioned and plundered by the tyrant of the North. and thence, purchase, or public services ? Is this jest ? Is this challenge these countries or any person on their behalf, to consistent with the gospel, or with the public good 1 1 Is this produce a ease of more bitter grinding, and insulting injus- a system which an enlightened nation can tolerate ? le this' them, than to compel the Catholics of this country to pay the the system for whose potation the aid of religion is In. tithe of their substance to a church, which, for three an- voked ? This writer, whom I combat would nt yaw tunes, has not teas e d t o ma li gn an d persecute t h em I C an l or d s hi p as h o ldi ng me forth to the erasure of nobie Heaven, my Lord, witness. or the earth endure, any thing colleagues, because I said the Irish nation was always at more opposed to piety and justice than a man professing to war with this system, but in my doing so you are aware I be the minister of Him, "who being rich became poor for only stated an historical fact recorded in every page of the our sake"—the teacher of his Gospel, the follower of his annals of our country. What I have asserted of the Irish law, taking the blanket from the bed of sickness—the ragged nation is true of every class and denomination which come apparel from the limbs of the pauper, and sell it by auction pose it, excepting only those whom I have before excepted. for the payment of tithe ? Who with patience can hear or Not only the original inhabitants of the country, but the behold the hundreds of starving peasants assembled before great bulk of thou settlers who considered Ireland as the seat of justice (oh ! justice, how thy name is prophaned) their country, have ever been at war with tithes. Dean to await the decrees of some heatless lawyer, consigning Swift bears undoubted evidence to the temper of the Irish their persons (for property they have scarcely what deserves gentry in his time as it regarded the Church. The vote of the name) to ruin or imprisonment for arrears of tithe ? In agistment, and the almost last act of the Irish Parliament this group of harrassed, hungry, and afflicted pupas, you, legalising that vote, prove what the proprietors of our soil, my lord, could recognize the widowed mother and the orphan the men most interested in her prosperity thought at all child—the naked youth, whom individual charity had just times of the acumen wealth and exactions of the church. clothed, and the common mendicant, whose cabin and rood I would blush for my countrymen of whatever creed melees of earth could not supply them with food and shelter for if they did not properly estimate the tithe system ; and I one half the year. But to view this assemblage of human cannot more properly conclude this letter than by reiterating misery, which I so often have beheld, and reflect that the prayer already known to your lordship, " may their perhaps a moiety of them were the very objects for whose hatred of tithe bees lasting as their love of justice." relief or comfort tithes were consigned by our fathers to J. DOYLE. clerical trust—that these paupers were the legal claimants on the funds now ext o rt e d f rom t h an un d er t h e very colour MARRIED.—J. Carrie, Esq. of Edinburgh, to Catty line, youngest daughter of the late Mr. A. Kennedy, et of law—to consider all this, and that the religion of him who m ount pl um y B anc i m b. claimed this tithe was a religion unknown to them—that the priest who fleeced them never prayed with them, never coo- DIED.—At Cronkauld Ballough, Tale of Man, J. Mae soled them, never ministered for them to ALNIOHTY Goet to reflect on all this, and yet be silent or unmoved, should . l san,Esq. 50th Regiment ..- At Caudebec , in Ncomandy,W. F. Hart, Esq. of Leinstaestreet, in this city.—At Hurst House, Mikity, Caroline Drury, wife of Col. Sir Dudley not be expected unless of some whose god was Oil St. eger efieL_A t Ba D aza ti , Anne, wife of J. Holmes, belly, or of some fanatic, whose heart was hardened, and Esq At Newtown, Clue, Marcella, second daughter of whose sense was reprobate. Andrew Welds, Esq. Of what avail is it to stifle opinion by alarming power, by an appeal to privilege by threats of prosecution ? Power may incarcerate the body, but cannot imprison the mind. Privilege can protect whatever is useful to the state, but if it cut a shield over unrighteousness or bar discussion, it be comes weaker in a little time than the spider's web. Prose- CtltiOnS are may powerful when sustained by truth and jai tier ; but of prosecutions no mention, at last in Ireland, should perhaps be made. With us they have become a bye-word, or an index of our party feuds, but have ceased to furnish proofs either presumptive or conclusive of innocence or guilt. The common sense of the public has ignored those proceedings ; but why dwell on this subject whilst writing to your lordship, for, except the present Lord Chancellor of Ireland, there is no person better acquainted than you are with the equity to be obtained by indictments and prosecu tions. Your lordship also recollects the years as and ye, ad bow juries and prosecutions upheld that sangebery spirit which the legislature, of which your lordship wee a diode guished member, refused to cherish. These juries ad pa. seeminna, my lord, have passed away, but themeless' which guided than are still alive, nor will, I fear, the present genes ration witness their extinction. But to relieve the tithe system from the charge of Impiety and injustice, it is said, " this sy stem is sanctioned by law, and should not therefore be denounced," to which our reply is—Yes ! the law sanctions it, but law also sanctioned the burning of witches, the persecution to death of men, women and children, for following the dictates of their own coned ence ; law sanctioned the slave trade, and all manner of monopoly, of feudal tyranny, of rapine, prostitution, and fraud. There is nothing in the history of mankind so ab surd or iniquitous, which might not at one period or ano ther, claim the sanction of the law. The laws, therefore, themselves, may be as replete with error or injustice as any other human institution, and we can obtain their amendment or repeal by exposing their pernicious effects. There is, —I admit, in Ireland not a law, but a whole code of laws, enforcing the payment of tithes, but they are all unwise, prejudicial to the public interests, and odious in the last degree to the entire people, except only the few attached to them by interest, the hope of gain, or by a blighting bigotry or stupid fanatici sm whi c h leads them to confound religioe with the very poison which mortifies it—which turni its heal. ing influence into a seminary of hatred, and soma of discard. These laws do exist, but they are the worst remnant of fate dalism.arci it is the duty of every good man to co-operate le procuring their repeal. But his said, " has not the state a right to support, le Ireland. an established church, and if so, why complain of the tithe-laws ? NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. Post satotrva, SATURDAY.-4k E. Codrington's squa dron still continues cruising between Plymouth and the land's End, and will return to port (we believe Spitbead) on the 12th of August. No opportunity. It appears, Is lost to exercise the squadron, either in manceuvring or gun peso. dee, and the rate of sailing of the various ships la tried in all kinds of weather. The Tweed, 20, Commander Ellen Bertram, and Victor. 18, Commander EWce, will go out out of harbour on Man. day, and will join the squadron under Sir Edward Codring. too. Theff are ordered to try their relative rate of sailing with the Duke of Portland's brig yacht Pantaloon. The Semarang, 28, Captain Charles Paget, sailed on Tuesday, for St. Michael's, to relieve the Galatea, 42, Cap tain Charles Napier C.B. The Ids, 80, at Chatham, Is ordered to be brought for ward for commission. The Dartmouth, fitted for the qua rantine service, has proceeded from Chatham, for Leith. The Winchester, 52, Captain Lord William Paget, was taken out of dock yesterday. On Tuesday arrived the Alban steamer, with men from Leith ; yesterday sailed the Sylvia cutter, to meet the fleet under Sir Edward Codringtoo, with seamen. His Majesty's ship Falcon has arrived at Bermuda from Halifax; the North Star was to sail thence for Halifax, June 20. The Caddis arrived at Halifax from Newfound land, June 24, and sailed, 26th ditto, for the Mediterranean. The Columbine arrived at Jamaica, from Barbatloes. May 25, and sailed, June 2, for Clugres. The Blossom, Blanche, Magnificent, and Firefly, remained at Jamaica June 4. The Kangaroo end Hyacinth, for Bermuda, and Pickle for a cruise, sailed from Nassau, May 21. The Childers, from Portsmouth, and Eclipse, from Falmouth, arrived at deira, July 1, and sailed again the same day, the former from Rio Janeiro, and the latter for Buenos Ayres. The Spar. rowhawk arrived at Portou-Prines, from Jamaica, June B. Hampshire Telegraph. The Ariadne, 28, Captain Phillips, arrived on Tuesday, from Lisbon, from which port she was sent with dispatches from the English Consulate the day after the Freueh fleet forced Its entrance into the Tagus. This operation was per formed in a very spirited manner, and to our small squa dron there afforded a most magnificent sight. The French ships, which consisted of three line-of-battle ships, three 60. gun frigates, and five smaller ships, were about two hours ' and a half under the fire of the batteries; no damage was, however. sustained by them—not even a spar was carried away. On the entrance of the French ships up the Tagus, as far as the city of Lisbon, the Portuguese men-of-war which were moored across the river hauled down their co lours. Our snips had no communication with the French squadron, nor had the French Admiral any hu. official inter course with the Portuguese authorities. It was understood that no mischief occurred to any one in the French squadron, if we except that which resu'i.ftl from the explosion of a ear. fridge on board one of the line-of-battle ships. by which 10 or 11 men were severely wounded. Our ships in the Tagus now consist of the 8rit0n,443, Captain parkland, and Des patch, 111. Commander Frankland. The Ariadne could only uisecrn five shot-marks on Fort Belem ; the guns on both sides must, therefore, have been too much elevated. Our squadron holds no intercourse with the city of Lisbon. for every unfortunate Portuguese who is known or seen to speak to an Englishman is immediately sent to prison. The pri sons are said to contain 40,000 persons, and the great hope entertained was, that the French ships would have landed fotces, of which they have four thousand on board, and hate thrown these prisons open. Don Miguel behaved with cou. rage on the occasion of the French ships forcing an entrance, and endeavoured all in his power to induce the soldiers to be effective in their opposition. FRLIVEH Parma commisaim ap pointed to revise these laws has made its report. Among the most important ameliorations, it abo lishes many punishments ; and in place of trans poi tations— it substitutes imprisonment for life in a particular place. Civil death, branding and mu tilation of the hand, aro abolished, without any substituted punishment. It replaces the carcan (iron collar) with civil degradation. The punish ment of death is to be no longer inflicted : those guilty of coining, counterfeiting state seals, forgery of the public funds or bank checks, or robbery committed under aggravated circumstances. In any case the receiver, or relapsed criminal, will not be punished v:ith death. This punishment is re placed by perpetual bard labour. The completion or attempt at the act will alone in future constitute the crime. There are other ameliorations of the criminal code recommended. The Messeger des Chambres regrets that the commission have not recommended the introduction of the Habeas Corpus. NoIMPININF'7M 4 4i." •e; SCINTILLA. ARTICIPATION THE CAUSE OF DISAPP6IN rases.--How comes it that disappointment is s e o ft, * on a view of things not only strange b ut nes, anti tr, curious in themselves—such as are for the most counted eights f Simply, because that we exp ect too 1,,,,;,• and set no bounds to the full career of fancy and , don. Thus, by an over-free indulgence of our though t .; expect beforaltand all that surprise and novelty can g . ,. which I take to be the end of all sights.—ezperto erede. I'. E. COMETS AND WOMENo--COMetil were tutu.ted, doubtless, for eminently wise and useful purpo—, a. were also WOMEN. Comets are inexp ress ibl y beat,tifu'l ;,&,; splendid, as are also women.—Comets s h ew f a i rer by night than in the day, melee do women. —Com ets exc i te as n . d, admiration in the philosopher as in the most simple c6ttzet, so also do women,—Comets and women have thcruorebz. tweet them great analogy. These two objects being til t " difficult of definition, we should be content to admire iv ; one and adore the other. 1 hug. 1831. F. E, THE SWORD MIMUNG ; OR A TASK riP TUE SateTrazn Psornz,—The Sword Mimung 114 S G:t of those invaluable weapons sometimes fabricated by t h, old northern smiths, compared with which our modes, Foxes and Ferrara., and Toledo., are mere leaden tml.. Mime: was challenged by another craftsman, named An.. lies, who boasted that he had made a suit of armour no stroke could dent,—to equal that feat, or own hitzs,i t the second smith then extant. This last the stout Moir would in no case do, but proceeded to forge the sword 2,1„ muag, with which, when it was finished, he, in the pre. mace of the Sing, cut asunder • a thread of wool floating or. water.' This would have seemed a fair fire edge to mot smiths; not so to Miner—be sawed the blade in piec t ,, wielded it in red.hot fire for three days, tempered it "with milk and oatmeal," and by much other cunning, bro ug h t out a sword that severed " a ball of wool floating o n water. But anther would this suffice him ;he turned to his smithy, and by means known only to himself, produced, in the course of seven weeks, a third and final edition o f Mimung, which split asunder a whole floating pack a wool The comparative trial now took place forthwith Amillas, cased in his impenetrable coat of mail, sat down on a bench, in the presence of assembled thousands, uod bade Mimer strike him. Mimer fetched, of course, bit best blow, on which Amities observed that there was a sump feeling of cold iron in his inwards. " Shake thyself: , Milner; the luckless Wight did so, and fell into two halm being cleft sheer through, from collar to haunch, never me;. to swing hammer in this world.—Art. ma the 21*alielanLl s Lied, in theWeahuitareer Review. AMERICAN MOCK -MODESTY AND FINE Lawouaus.—Our readers know that a beautiful piece e: sculpture the " Chantin g Ch eru b s ," is being exhibited is Boston ;it is the bandy.wolk of Mr. Greenough, a astir, artist, now in Italy. With a view to delicacy, some le. sons have caused a small piece of muslin to be festoosei round a part of these little marble matters. Spirit of in,,. deity I that erst lightedst up a blush upon the faded cheeks of our grand aunt Tabiths, as she gazed upon the gambols of some childish swimmers, and bides& her peep through the lattice, seeing and unseen, may no marble - association, drive thee from thy throne in Boston. where thy power so readily eonfeased—.for in these southern climes the bests would blush at the cheek's redness from such a cause. Mar thy influence, pure spirit of delicacy, extend over Baste: common, till every cow wear pantalets, and the poodle dogs be like the " Chanting Cherubs,' bandaged in muslin.— United States Gandee.--[This is of a piece with the inter. diet of the late Lord Mayor. against thc naked olumes' hawked about the streets of Lon b don y the,ltalian % V boys. For the elegance of the American writer's denunciation we cr. find no pareliel] How TO GET RID OP WARTS.—Rub then, over with toasted cheese, and then let some sharp set mit, nibble them. BLACK JOKE BEFORE THE JUSTICES.—A ease tame before the Justices on Monday, which afforded sense amusement. The def en d er , a black man, was paw. euted for a quarter's nursing of a child, and though ins written obligation was produced, and be had entered kis payment, be now denied his liability. " What reason bare you for resisdng your written obli gat i on ?" as k e d t h e j ust i ce. " Vary good reason, my Lord, very good." "Do you deny that letter to be your wr i t i ng ?" " O h . no, no; I • no deny that my writing—but that go for nothing nom." 46 Why ?" " Because, my Lord, 1 see the child since." " Well, what then, what difference does that snake ?" " Oh, my Lord, much difference; because toad thediii white—no black child at all—some white man must lap the child." The court was convulsed with laughter; tut the justices told him it did not matter whether the chili was black or white, for be had granted an obligation on black and white, which they must enforce by decree against him.—Cakdonian Mercury. A CHINESE BItILDEr." The greatest rarity. however, aster this feast, was the sight of a Chinese bride. The son of our host having been married a few days before, we were honoured (according to the usage of the country, during the boney.meon,) with permission so look at his wife, as she stood at the door of her apartment, while we were passing out. The lady was surrounded by several old women, who held tapers and lamps above and about her, that we might have a more complete view of her figure and attire. She was a yot•ng person, (perhaps 17 years of age,) of middle stature, with very agreeable features and a light complexion, though she seemed to us to have used paint. Site wore a scarlet robe, superbly trimmed with gold. which completely covered her from the shoulders to the ground. The sleeves were very full, and along the bottom yen a fringe of beautiful small bells. Her head-dress sparkled with jew. els, and was most elegantly headed with rows of pearls, encircling it like a coronet; from the bent of which a bril liant angular °moment hung over her foreheati and betted:. her eye-brows. Site stood in a modest and graceful atti.aie, having her eyes &Neil on the floor, though she occasionally raised them, with a glance of timid curiosity. towards eL spectators. Her hands, joined together, but folded in he robe, she lifted several times towards her face, and thin lowered them very slowly. Her attendants, presuming that the guests would be gratified with a peep at that consuretna• (ion of Cisirese beauty, the lady's feet, raised the heat c: the mantle from hers, foe a moment or two. They were of the most diminutive kind, and reduced to a mere rein at the toe. Her shoes, like the rest of her bridal agparal, were scarlet, embroidered with gold. In justice to the pour creature, (luring this torturing exhibition, (as we imagine it must brae beer. to her,) her demeanour was rm. I tural and becomint.; ; and once or twice something lik e a half smile, for rat instant, showed that she was not merely unconscious of the admiration whkhilier appearance CICi!l!. nor much displeased by it.— Tycrasan and Bennie Voyages and retards. A SA !CON PAINCE.—Among the nuaterott•t princes who were present at the ball, was Prince B—, a second Claudius, but in personal appearance and accompliahmenta n Claudius Pulchcr. A manlier form. or finer military deportment, is very seldom to be met with. There was a ooble generosity inlis countenance an ease ' and frankness of manner, with th at good.humou re d socia bility in it, which raised him as high in the estimation, as his birth and services had in the scale of society. In addi. tion to all this, he had still the merit—or misfortune, as he would have expressed it—to be a bachelor ; and with every eufnwment which can render such an acquisition delighuni iu the ball.ruom. There was one little drawback, however. which must be mentioned ; he had staked a)eg en the isslx of the late campaign, and in a display of heroism--an here diary virtue of his family—forfeited the pledge. But greats doe sufferings wet 5,14 t had. ahead, Mess ma . dotted to him bye ball. his relish for those of a more dc- IlleSlie Mare remained unimpaired. In the present h: moved with as much grace upon his wooden prop, as an) of his contemporaries could do with all the advantages of hear and muscle.—Dr. Beattie . * German Courts. NEMINRINIMMINM EMBENI BIRTHS. The Ist inst. the lady of Sir S. Graham, of a dauglutr The lst inst. in Iloougue•plaec, Bryanstone.square, the lady of R. Burn, Req. of a son. MA Yestettlay, at St- 31arylebone Church, Mr. J. Poren, Kent-terrace, Regen.'s-park, to Charlotte, daughter of Alt. J. Prerdergrass Pe. k-place.—The Stith ult. at Clapham Church, E. B rown, Esq. of Weitield-home, Strtzth..m. to Elizabeth, daughter of the late J. F. Seaton, Esq. of ClP ham-rise. DIED. The 20th ult. of apoplexy, the wife of Mr. R. S. J.ll ll . of Baire.pond.—Tbe 30th of June in the island of M..- delta, 22, Hush Putlsei, only eon of Pudsey Dawson. IN. of Ilinnington Manor, Vork.—Tite 29th ult. at !Melanin) Park, Iles. Martha Rust, 80. IDON : Plifltedllll Max E, at Bros Orrict, No. 1. 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