The Statesman. — London, England, 1824-01-02 00:00:00

ripe CATHOLIC ASSOCIATI (ertoirrne DUBLIN Manx On Fatolituy tHkeatholic Associ 3r et Street:: Th. Fogarty ! mulled to th ,sled, that. - sir. O'Kelly s ttl% s.crrtsry in Aieabsence of, Ir yad besn'appniotterl.by sct fur him during his pbsen , Mr. O'Conttell ros it op Tithe Commit , 1r 14 wore that fli ' „, e t rd sin.t tith ~c .iiiess 7 11Wic p ( oor Purr.) met at their.rooms chair. It wasinneed and mid he requested to act a. Alr. Iticbard O'liornsan,•who . Nicholas Parcel tiGotasan to ice from town. to propose a resolution, relative to ,ton Bill, of which he had eiven notice. was tinderstood,the more likely was it to ,vour. However strong the sensation , might be, this remedy was really worse than A gentleman who writes sometimes for the ,reminded has complained of those who disapprove of ,4.reminded him of the drummer in the familiar , who was employed in flogging a men, and whether :::igged high or low, the sufferer screamed, on _which ft drummer save him a curse, and said there was no ; ,,,ing him, for whether he aniced Filth or low he still ocp A jars!. Now he (Mr. O'C o n nell ) thou g ht that the r;0 e Commutation Act was high flogg'ng indeed. It olsid.rably aggravated the evil of which they already complained. That Bill was attiihotted to Mr. Coulburn, • : : ,tit his office was accountable for it. Mr. •loulburn, believed, was a decent kind of a man in •, • t te life, bat it :roost he admitted that hie r . ; ~;ter story was but ill furnished. That Bill was ate.' withont tact or talent ; in some parts it *as loon.; mom The 3J section requires a list to be delivered to tie inentnitent,or to ang other person or persons ; anti I ;,en it goes.on to say, or to any two persona who signed to requisitios, as if they were not " other persons."L The :du section isle UN most beautiful provisietS, that the Oponsuiesionera,if they think:fit, may have a survey made; as might it say they may have eyes. or they may use .spre toles. Acts of Parliament are generally rendered noun • iciigible to the public by the verbiage with which they are chocked op, and, as if to increase the difficulty, it is a part of the wisdom of the Legislature, that no pitne. vtationis adopted in no:cords. Jo the Napoleon l:otle there was not a single law hut w as p erfectl y intelligible ; they might not Pedlar. approve of those laws, but they could, at least, nuilers'anol them. In this country too millions of green acres were Chum property, and the Clergy of that t hutch had their tithes of .the remainder. They n had the richest Church. and the fewest persons belonging to it, of arty country oaths face of the habitable globe. They had tile richest Church, and at the s sine time the poorest peo• ie of any country iu the world. Ile dill not see why Archbishops 111.011141 not he content with 5500/. a year, and Ili•liops with 45001, ryear. Why should they not he p rid Joinders are ? The Archbishop of Armagh, has from 15 t 020,0001 a year, and they call this the age of political ecionoety. The late Archbishop of Armagh, who was a Scotsman. and not over eight or ten years in office, died worth 300,0001. What- did Doctor Troy, the late Catholic Archirishop. die worth.? He bad an income . of 8001. a year. he held that situation for thirty years. he did more tan.five times the work of the Archbishop of • Armagh, and took quite as good care of the flock he left behind him ;—he died worth TEN PENCE! It would be a good woke apolitical economy, indeed, if the enormous Im bue between that stint and 300,0001. should he struck off Jai placed to the credit of the public. This Commutation ket, as it was called, increased tithes one fifth ; it provides that an average of seven years shonlol be struck for those , erea years ;it specifies the years ISt 1 to I1*.!1. It takes the averts, paid, or agreed to be paid on those year., lout nut according to the present day. It also gives the Clergy this aelyorage, that where they drew their tithes once a year, they now can draw them twice—in May and is November. Thus it forwards the payment of tithes. nominally airs months, tint actually eighteen mon Its. Ily the 314th section. titbits are recoverable as rent, before s tearing might hare something for his landlord; but by ' the Stithltiretion, nfl tredltor can• levy for the *moose& of Lis &mull Anil one year's tithe is paid. Ny the 4thh oction, tithes semi levied as Chord& rates are, and if the valuation and survey ma le are not agreed to, an umpire is to he appointed. But who is to appoint the umpire? 31r. Secretary Hoolburn ; —.tn app-al to the Courts of law is taken sway, even elionld three times the just aleoant he deamtualied. if they resist the demand, an ibr ikro iter, u ,;fire, very probably; may be the Clergyman's brother. I they appeal to the hoed Lieutenant and • Priry Council, a the witness.s must come up to Dublin, to the Castle, at .o..i?erable expense. The expenses of the Clergyman :re levied on the parish, muney is advanced for the pur p„,,,,,ml the Commissioners have thirty shillings a day whilst the inquiry last'. lie did not think it wesintended Iv np the Act fraudulently. but it hail really all the 4 Paearance of it. It gave to a Judge of Assize the same ;meet to annul or confirm, as the Lord Lieutenant and Her Conseil hare; bat it gave the Chief Governor and ?tin , erstoneil no power to annul or confirm. Ile conl.l rot think that it was framed in this manner through de it it occurred through mistske, it sac really cruel frightful that such men as framed that bill shoal(' be ;ermined to make laws for a people. At present the Clergyman must sae as any other man, bot • here all forms are done auav with . A man's rattle may be 6 , u:tined fur fire thousand ponntle,or five hundred pounds, lie may proceed by replevin ; hut if the Clergyman sec '"'he, he gets double cos•e, snit if the Clergyman should wrong, the other gets hat common costs ! This Corn ruda.ion Act would, in a very few rears, commute the ..,!ire property of the country to those worthies; and ly th e wisest thiorr the reiniinder of the people could uoull he to pack up their all, leave tha land en•irely to them, rid take themselves away. That Act nearly doubles tit miwunt o f tithes, it increases the periods for demanding then, and it gives the Clergymen power over all other creditors. It is even full of absurdity. Perhaps it might, n ire one good result, that o! reconciling the people to tithes, it ahead them that it was possible to produce some :44lg worse than. the evil of which they have previously tivaplained. It was rea lly so h a d t h at i t wou ld b e I m po ss ibl e to wend it. Who would think of pateting an ill made red? it vas monstrous that the Archbishop of Dublin should have 15 or 20,0001. a year, that be might have hisure enough to devise means of insulting 'that Catholic people. The enormous revenue of the Church was a m in v.rvus evil. In the year before the Voisin the Church, the Army, and the Nary, were set ep at auction; one man was' bribed by a Judge's place, another ! l l' a Bishop's See ! Mr. O'Conoett concluded hl moving fur the appointment of a Committee, to prepare a Petition to Parliament for a repeat of the Tithe vomintation Act. Ilr.Ltta Pzcosurr secanded this motion. Ut. liet.ty wished to make a few observitiorts before tie question shoold be pot on the motion, but he would *lt remark that be did not think that there had been saute eked of a motion for the repeal of the Tithe OM,- molation Act. He was aware that there bad been notice eiven of a motion to facilitate the payment of tithe in kind, 'l t h e war not aware of any notice having been given of itlepremat motion. Ur. O'Cosnesti. assured Mr. Kelly that he had a perfect !ecullectiuo of having given notice of the motion, and that it was entered on the books of the Association. Mr. KZLIA resumed.—He should ia that case confine his Gitemations to the motion before the Meetiog. Being of different religion from the Majority of the pelvis p es pre 'eat, h e f e l t peculiar delicacy in stating that he should re " I nsolation& aegative. thirislied the Catholics to be ", that they bad jot a firmer friend than blmseif. Slate Ns dates of reason diet broke upon isitsiLbe.katil l 'Prteateri all religious astitsumity." He ties do asimmate of be cause of Catholic Emancipation, and be was proud to ty that he fresinentlyleard in that roam the most liberal i• • • principles expressed towards peratins of the Protestant faith. Although the opinion of the Meeting should be against him on the present occasion, he trusted that gentlemen would admit his claim to be beard.—(lieir, hear, heir). He considered that soy petition which they should adopt would be thepetition only of the individuals who shOuld sign it. And who are they, he would ask ?—Do they pay tithes ?—He thought that the Aldermen of London might as well petition against tithes. Ai an individual he was opposed to the tit h e systenir lie thought that a worse practice could not he adopted. Hut would a petition coloring from the Catholic Association remedy the evil?—He wished for Catholic Emancipation, and hr feared that such a proceeding might mar it. lie should wish :midi that Gentlemen wunlil confine themselves to the proper objects of the Apociation. That Catholic was mistaken who would suppose tlia't a feeling of hostility towards their faith was genenil' anion* •Protextenta. That feeling among enlightened .protrittots was fast decreasing, and to what was that to be atiributed. but to the condect of the Catholics fur the last few years.lie'is as sorry to hear the Clergy stigmatised as oppressors and extortioners . ; there'inight be oppressors and extortioners amongst theitt,but he regretted . that the whole body Should he stigmatised as such. He would remind gentlemen of the divine precept," Do unto others as you would they should do unto you." Nothing would.do the Catbolice so much injury as those attacks on the Pastors of the Protestant Church. He thought that what was to be desired in the way of 's of the tithe system could he better elf.eted by a correspondrnce, and a petition coold be then forwarded from those places where the evil was most felt. That lie thought was not the place for adopting such a petitiOn. and he would much rather the gentleman would withdraw. his motion, than• divide the meeting on the question. Mr. R. Okaates stated, that notice of Mr. O'Connell's motion hail - been'given, and was entered on . the booki . iii the Association. • He then read the notice from the book in which it had been entered. Mr:O'CONNELL TOSS to reply. He felt .geest pleasure, in hearing the gentleman who had just spoken. ne con. tarred with both in principle and in feeling. Religion was between man and his (ion, and in Madrid as in MA- I Ho, in Lisbon as in Belfast, he should feel proud to see the saine•feeling of Christian charity revealed. lie (Mr. O'Connell) was himself a paver of tithes, so were in iny of the gentlemen who surrounded him the Catholic Aliso -1 elation, however, acted for the Catholic body at large, and nut morely for the Catholic citizens of Duldin. He could ' not, he trusted, be supposed to include in his observations ! the entire. Clergy of the Estublistied Church. lie had i himself some relations who were Protestant Clergymen, !and lie felt assured that many excellent characters belonged to that body. He cool I not be supposed to cen.ure all the individuals of that holly ; he would rather, on the contrary, draw a line of distinction, not only between the indivi.inals and the system, but also between individual and indi vidual. They were not all parties tit the public act of the Archbishop. He could nut, however, consent to with. draw his 'motion, but would leave it to the decision of the Meeting. The motion was then put and carried with two or three • dissentients. Mr. Lcxe PLUNKET moved a resolution of thanks to the writer of the letter, addressed to the Marqtarsa of Lansdowne. Mr. Dwren seconded this resolution. Mr. CONWAY moved the previous qmiestion. The writer I of those letters was a Member of the Association, and be thought they should not thank one of their w.vn bo my. He had some reason to know that lie but spoke the senti ments of the gentleman alluded to, by moving the previous question. Mr. F.marm seconded Mr. Conway's motion. 31e. O'Coxszt.t. spoke in suppotrt•,of Mr. Plunkers motion, which was then put and carried unanimously . ; the question on Mr. Conway's amendment not hattog been put. Mr. ANTHONY BRAWN& moved that iwfuturo tbo Meat.. NO of the Catholic' Assoetaton, should be hold Wiens o'clock in the evening. Mr. Smurti seconded this resolution, which was carried enanimminoly. • Mr. O'Con eIA gave notice of a motion, which he should bring forward, to call an Aggregate Meeting for the 2d day of February next. Mr. Ararnosv OttowNte was then called to the Chair, when the thanks of the Meeting were vote I to Mr. Fogar ty for his proper cooduct in the Chair, after which the Meeting adjourned. CONSUMPTION (IF TAXED ARTICLES IN IRELAND. Time larEest and most wastefol consumption in IrOseni is that of Ardent Spirits, of which the hou►e mode amitosis to 10,000,003 gallons annually. The Foreign Spirits are trifling, the impart being Only 43,881 gallons. Of Tobacco there were imported last year nnlY 2,14174 2371h5., whereas in 1812 the import was 8.729,3091m5. This article, indeed varies very much from year to year:. hut, taking the average's of 1811, 12, and 13, and ot 1821; st, and 22, the latter is not more clan half the-former; An export of Tobacco tsok place in 1823 . to the omiaotrot of 229,2951b5. • It is remarkable that theimport of Tea has varierl'tery little for the last ten years;, it amounted in . 1822 to 3,816.96611 m - The import of Sugar was 343.632 cwt:, being less than 4 lbs. for each individutl in the population ;.whereas the consumption in England is about 16 lbs. for each in• dividaal. In 1812 the import into Ireland was . 462, 140 cwt. _ Coffee, a luxury of the higher classes, appears alio to hare much fallen off in consumption : the i:npurt of Oil was 9,211 cwt.; in 192•2 only 2,865 cot. The consump ion of Wines seems to hare ditninished in a still more remarkable degree. The comber of gaPotis of ill kinds of Wines tliSt paul the Custom duty in Ireland in 102 was 2,398,8 1 .10 in 1822 oely 613,468.• The *lnes too in the latter vear • were of inferior . quality,, gallons being laps' Wine, which •was unknown a the forger period ; wbereae ' in 18.2, there were 1.728,190 gallons of 'Port, 'and 215,173 of French Wine bitt in i 822, only 250,743 gallons of For*, and 30,470 of Neetich A TTEgPT TO ROO THICCOSTOM HoOSE AT .LIIB.CRIgg. —On Christmas Ere a fellow of .the name of John .Cellins, (a most notorious anti , ter, oho has already stos4 several times at the bar of Justice,) contrived to secrete : himself in one of the lower.apartments of the Custom Reuse during the day time, and , aboin e.gbt o'clock at night; consioeoard hii operations by breaking open all the desks itrthe Long Room, and itteinptiq the ironiafe, ea% tteisoilited a Considerableiain of-money, in gild and bong rietei; Most fortunately, blaster Walter; one of the pilti . ctireqlietinger sons, pacritre threitgli Rutland Stree; t pirceir.cil alight in the Costae; House llama is an apartuselit ivin reciouircoald at tbat.bour have.riceeas.bat the accredited psesoose nod knowing that saucy( that eLiss were .Sliea, -in the.eisilese. gar* sis alarm, when the police were sent for, 'Millie- pre: . c'utiOnary measure of surrounding the permit* ItalthiS" been taken, they proceeded to search the inniee, *bee the fellow um eeetred, and committed to t• Evening Peet.) . The Irish blagiutrutes.'have, btpli . to: eitivi:t.iniatitlye . loontroul over the condu4 of the, tie4y.pigice •Canipi. le4-w IA the county of Kilkenny, a aorjeant; istthe nosni-AVeck-. eon, has been, committed for trial ; on s cbsege of aterielosi outrage, with intent to murder a person -aimed Iforibey, lot* vbatbottla henvillireSparty of policemen . . Verged- big 7 night ; sod in Ahe . Ring's County lowlier serjesat %as displaced for needliesly chaining or pristaer - ,.. siker liberated by the Magistrates. Win% STATESMAN nocroas , commoxs. --....-- 1 • Sittings appointed to be held in the Ecclesiastical Courts, : at Ihntora d Commons, i io the ensuing Term, 1824: . A r aks. .. Admiralty. Ist Se& op • . . Tueiday, Jan.. 2f) Wednesday,3an.2l 2nd Session • Manly/. 25 Tuesday. .. 27 3rd Session - 31 ------ Feb. 41k . Session • • --I-- Feb. 7 . . 10 3th Session • • ---. 14 17 . . I Prerogaiiis. Delegates. Consistorv. Ist Session .. Thurs. Jan.ti I Fri4iry.Jan.23 Sat. Jan. 'Si 2nd Sessiun .. Wednesday.2B Thursday.. 2 9 Friday , 30 I 3rd Session .. I Feb. 4 Feb. 5 I Feb. 6 4th bessi9n .. I .. I I -- .. IQ : .. 13 Alb Session .. 1 —.— .. IS -- .. IV ... 2U Caveat Day A the Prerogative, TuridAy 23. March. Default Day . at the Admiralty, Wednesday 2itli March . Sk )ohn Nicholl presides in the Althea and Prerogative courts, the flight Honorable Lnrd Stowell in the Admiral, tv, the usual various Anrragates in the. High Court of Delegates, arid Sir Christopher Robinson, his Majesty's Advocate general, in the Conaistory Court. • BOW STREET—(Ties DAT.) DAriNG Rosnsar.—A lid who gave his tttme Michael I , Cronin, was put to the bar,chargrd with stealing from the .hop of Mr. Balfour, pawnbroker of Chemlos Street, two siik hankerchiefs„ about II o'clock .this morning. The prisoner took the property in the most daring manner and ran off; he was however pursue , ' through Round Court up the Strand and eventually on the Adelphi Wharf, where the bard' kerchiefs were picked npand given to the shop-' man of the prosecutor. tie was remanded until Tuesday. RoInIERY AT ST. JAM. S's PALAcr.—Philip 'Wen was put to the bar, charged with stealing • quantity of lead, the pro perty of his Majesty, from B.t.Jandes's Palace. David and Izzard , the o ffi cers, stated, that they met the pri soner in Piccadilly about I I o'clock this morning, and suspect ing he bail got stolen property, Davis went up and asked him what helmil got. The prisoner produced the lead, and said a man working at the Palace gave it him to sell. Davis went to the Palace, hut the person described denied all knowledge of the transnctien. The prisoner, in his defence, repeated his former story, and added, that a man named Foster saw the other man bind the lead round him with a strap, which he now took from his hat. ii.tvis 'aid the prisoper toll the same tale at the watch house. . _ _ - • M r. HALLS remanded his urvil Toesday for the purpose of prodacing the persons in question. SPORTING : INTELLIGENCE. BETTING AT TATTERSALL'S—JAN. 1. R IDOLUSWOIIIII. Even betting between Quadrille and Don Cart 3. DEN 11 Ir. Twenty live to one against Jetay. OAKS. Nine to one and eight to one against Darwin,. ft/. LEGV.R.— I I to I mast Vtisidnra—l7 to I age' Ringlet -20 to I aloft Rosanne-23 to l art Hansbee-23 to I asst Nlias Crantield. THU CIWIPIONSHIP.-At a sporting dinner, yesterday, at Cribb's, which was attended very numerously by Professors and Amateurs of the Fancy, the alike, of 6001. whirr Spring and Langhan next wept enter the lists, were mare good. The backers of Langhan expressed the utmost confi dence that he would strip the laurel from the brow, and the belt from the shoulders of Spring ; while the supporters of the English Coampion lanahed at the idea, and two to one against Langlssn though frerpiently offered, obtained but few takers. figls4g4 excited as strong a feeling in the country. its the - anticipation of an expected b stile used to create in the political world daring the late war. Eleven miles from Birmingham, will, it is said, be the scene of at tion. It is supposed that one of the first subjects of the atter• tion of Parlisment on its assembling, will he the Va4r ant i Act, under which so many persons have been deprived of their liberty. Returns will he called for from every gaol in the lencdosn, of the persons committed limier its pro -1 vision. And petitions, it is sail, will be presented from -some of the persons convicted under it, praying fur redress. %t the close of a tavern dinner, two of the company fell down atairs : the one tumbling to the first landing place ; the other 'rolling to the bottom. Some one rem irking'. VW the list seemed dead drunk.-I'e4, (observed a wag) but he is not to liir gout as the gentleman below The following curious° correace took place s little time ago, not Wyly miles from this town :—.'t barber and a paling. Inmate:having bad their bans published, attended at the church to be married. When the minister canto to a I certain part of the ceremony, tit...bridegroom very gravely [asked the clergyman If he might not take this woman in marriage on trial for a term of years. as be knew it was the custom in parts where he had bean i" The clergyman of course anassered in the negative. " Weil, Sir." says the barber," I. suppose I mast risk it ; in you may go on in the usual way." The ceremony was-then duly performed. —( To untoss 'Courier.) A qaantity of priumoses were gathered in the worlds in i the neighboiarbood of Maidstone, on Christmas Day. It lightned for some time on Satordarevening, and thunder Was heard at a dista.:ce. Several peals of thunder were also distinctly beard early on 3londay morning, during a storm of Mind and rain. Three very beautiful Rein D•ers, whieh . arrived lust - .yreek, by the*Einily, liothenherg paeluq, no v ozcaay its quarters, at the Three Cups; two females and a Ma:e ; they are going to tbe North, where an attempt is beinz male, with. seers prospect of success, to natur Alive this most „ m kt anima l. I; a ppears the farouri.e food of the rein !Jeer is, the licAor ra,s . rifi..i..u.s#, or mountain moss, ellich I abotinds in many disttiots in the North of England. A 1 quantity of this , curious macs was brossght over to snare; n them during the so/age. Atilt male and femile citedder I (Tetras urrigallus) or cock •of the woods, accompatitis them.—(Bury 4,424 • . . . . . - - We are happy to And that as the villains supposed: to be concerned in the robbery of John Tyers's cottage at Pbkirk. are safely lotlieed in . Peterborouel•giol. k we've e de cr' e%idence is co:lected. independent of that fficalft ny no axon . pliee. Amongst other things the followitte circumstance ie• 'curred :—one of die men, on Dilating his companion had tut tied evidence against him, pee a little. girl 1114 linen le wash. and' at the same time taking off an old a ai tcoast, bade her lel: her mother to tear it in pieces-and :mike a snap of i:; this was not aolicarl at the thee, but it „brier remarked that .the man was without a waistcoat, se enquiry was made, au! the waistcoat ' was discovered torn to shreds, haltiMadeinto a mop; it proves babe one svleo from the cottage,and is idmitided as belonging to Tyers. A pair of small ctotheahai also been found Which. can - be sworn to. A tOut the theeitfe robbery was evaluated. several suspicious peraons.were. examined. particadatly 2 froin' • Cromland; they denied having eitilleated . lbe burglary, 'baler latomiedged that they Intendant to - I:resit:tete she house, but iv r prevented-bp some other parsons totally.unconoected with them has*, got the start of thee, aunt plundered the tottaae while lief /were oat, planing.-.(gtumiiird News.) • • A Wirer engine wee bittern down in ayme Fen, ani c .thesis killed by linhining, iii • a &id ne a r Boston, dnritbri the elreadini h' rric. ns tb4t .suddenly arose about tips *telinairbb gendsy night ; whieh'eoritinuel forlralf an. hells mitit midi violence as has seldom been experienced in 'lit towniand wee rendered stktl-moro Aar ng ky, east! ,s q` tirbteing, so miasma in December, which. were client" emridoiedesfansiecf • .4 . % • " • • .. • : : SURREY WINTER ASSIZES.—(Tut s DA If.) (Berolto Mn. .IttiTtcz PARK.) MARGE OF CHILD' AIUROER. Sardis Read, aged :12.•wai placed at the bar.Chargeil. .on the Coroner's Inquisition with the wilful murder of deer new born female bastard ilia Mi. Law stated the cue ihi "moan*, anti called Gaskin, the aunt of the prisoner, :llrtio dope? . sid..,,itat on the • 1 4 2 th October, , her niece Caine to' hee'ellylPg. Ma/ her mistress had given her two day least iiNtbseneeCand retired to bed about ten in the eteping. 4°064. tstie . c l . ll : she heard the faint cries of an infant. and OP 0rie1:1.0,44e room in which her niece. slept, she sateeichitd to the OA, and the prisoner in great pain, having delfirstrad She procured the assistance of a nurse, named. C,:ele, tette washed - the inf silt and - %dud nistcrrd the moat 'cordialio it. The child appeared to be very healthy and full . gron. Sarah Vole of No..1:1, Newingtv., attended the Prisoner hy desire of her.annt ; she., washed and dressed the infsnt, and gave it to the prisoner, Al i e . suck'. il it. In the course of the day the prisoner-gof rte and dressed herself, and at five in the evening - OA child and said she was going to Strratham. _ • • • Julia Bi.:mour resides at Streatham, saw the pristtnet ; •( the evening of the 12th October. She .had a child WI:) her, and told witness that he was the father of it, arti l asked whit provision lie intended to make c); it. %Vitness replied it could not he iii', anal tobt.hee Shit was joking. She however persisted, and he told' her . •to do the best she could with it, for Ise,would n rito'y provision. She then said she.would .go before the Mligi strateson the Saturday and swear / it to him. . • John Brett, aged 10 years, lives with hie utothofr : at Otterilown, lower Tooting.. Was at Oarrett Oven ok the 24th Novetnbcr looking for water rats in• a ditch,. aniksapt the body of a child antler the weedi; he got it ontialtiv stick, and went and told Martin King,. and atverahothet persona, who came to look at it. .11e left it with them. The body appeared to be in. a putrid state, Mach menet). Benj .min Briggs, a constable of Wandsworth, took the body to the Leather Bottle Publicilouse, end* afteiwirds went in company with a brother officer to the - priaaner 4 .4 mistress; saw her there; did not hear his brother Offider tell the prisoner she had better confess, as the whole troth must come out before the Magistrate. Thomas ',even went in company with the last' witnet.:; and acknowledged that he had interrogated the prisoner, and told her that she had better confess the whole•tratsi. This witness underwent a strict examination by Mr. Adolphus, and his conduct was animadverted on With.con. siderable severity hy•the Learned Judge, for extorting from she prisoner a contession of the Circumstances which i • might lead to her capital conviction. ' Prisoner in her defence stated that she was innocent o; the crime imputed to her. Mr. Justice Yana summed up the evidence, and the Jury immediately acquitted her. Levert, the constable, and Gilmo.tr, the repntell father o the child, were by the desire of the Learned. Judge deniel their expenses. CORN EXCHANGE, JANUARY 2.—The arrivals are sr' 1 sinalliqvint principally to contrary oinals 7 —Wheat 2:IW ._ D ai l e y. 1700 —Oats. 700 qrs.—Flonr. 100 sacks. Iris!. Oats, 3550 qrs. Our millers appear inclined to purchase very little to-day, anal the priers of Wheat •are not apt to supported. All other grain fully maintain last quolations ; but most of our buyers are disposed to wait for larger stip• plies before they make any considerable !ucleases. SMITHFIELD Nl.tnacr, J tn, 2, 1824 —The above market was this stinruitig short of cattle, particalarly of oxen, amt but few appeared of g..od finality, bat there appea...t-t amine the hoteliers a disposition to purchase articles of good cutalitc., and the priees may be gitoted as follows : 3s to 44 ; mutton. 44; *l. 41 to Ss 4.1 ; pork, •3.41 to 4a Gd. . , .-.- • . CARLOW, Dec. 29 —Tisk town presented, os last Christ. Inas Eve, a scene of bostle sod activity, not before witnessed since the termination of the war. The farmers, the working tradesmen, and the farmers' labourers, expended snore money in the purchase of wearing apparel, and of bacon, beef, blew!, flour, &c. than has been received by the re-r dens of these coutuso.lities on any Christtu;:ss Eve, fot the last six years. 'I here was se treely one joint of Butchers' meat wisold on Wednesday evening, and not a loaf of brrad could be procured at any Baker'i after nine o'clock that ;tight. Lvsx, DEG. 30.—Oar market to flay was well ettinatiti and we had a very good supply of Wheat : thebret samples were in good demand, and taken off briskly on full as good terns as last tvetk ; the second. &nap and nferior corr.; were not so much is reeves': and may be noted a trifle 1p ver. Barley was in fair supply ; for wl.t. Is we hive a great demand : all the .Miakt..altsertetion's fit .fur malting were taken off Is. to 2s. 'per week ; the second and interior descriptjores remain mach the sane. Oats iu thin supply, the prices of, which eon dour as I set week. The herrings are at pres‘nrvery plessliful in the Fri Frith of Forth, and Ism: supplies daily arrive it - flown. • The/. are sellini at 2i. 6i. a hundred, and were reistiltsig at fur 2d. --(Gliss,;•ote Free Prte).) . •.• . CALAMITetts rtaa.—On.Tues,lov.loorAing , last (23d alt) ... . • about three u's;:tack, a fire took poi! iF titbits, mac& larney, which has been more affii4ting . io,..its consequences than any which occurred fornererot years isohntpoolutis town. The particulars were luuttedjotely forstarded tb is, by a respectable correspondent for Our publication to.. Wed nesday, but through: some iaidiertence, tha:y did' not reach us in sufficient time. The foilitioitig . are Itc *dit4rcapios details Anindustrious poor mom„ natile t slActter, wi,th his family' cermietink of his wife, Ainc as !led fother and Mother, 'and serra g ni oicuptest . thstrhall ikti cahin.in this tows I the old, usan, whole ajtit had "hem • is i 'adeclitir.g sate for abate 'time, *a+ iii i eojn, and jlis Kite 4et up to.,lirocure 'him 'a drink ;.sud r . ias..lighting coedi t ., the firecOmmaniested wit}s stisue„last'istitteh was drying near die be irth :' the affarisnimr ins•suitly sew Neletied in a Beene, And:the Ma wotaail, and' tier daughter •tin , taw, is endeaverarioi get.its'entlee, introke her, von and hashani, who had only time to escape sritis the yoingest child; who was is bed with its f.thcr. In a few snifittentg'the entire house wed is fiouted,• attit• the hohibie sitastion of the parenso, grandfather ihiPtiratideisother fit this awful moment, must hare hew tordiffe.on hearilig the screams of the three wretched: •citiktreass•tb- whelp it 'was impossible to• afford any relief•ftettst•ihe-derotring .lunent. In this painful' prestilamettt - -.the 'old woolen's : freltngs get the better of herress.on,4lo':she rash•d : into ibt house, hoPitist that she insight• beadiletto afford.theru some teat f, but her efforts' ware , odIA• cateihried to Mil • to the number of the %offerers, as almost ••an' the •iristaut the in, asil this world orea-cli , ed fort it- ule4his heroic oW %co ll ie, her three grand•ohildeee, thd Itilliervott girl. The serec led falser, mothrer;uticbi A tirldiattiert hare thus beet is a•few minutes rensleseditedestitit *Cacti* of kit. «It beings. Eyeay pofaible assitt.wee matestarsich but of do argil. • At this moment:ter:Vs:Th(4)P 'the' wrethhesl -proce-sioni containing the remains of•titallki woman and •er three children (two gi. Is and one boy . the two eldest sired' /2 and 14) . have poitiesi the • Wage "Ht"terich - 1 am mriting,•for intermit:it •_thqsertafst gifednasii teken•tt her iris•ndi, frienitt. :• Tls e Mother of tlititre folesiettittfress;bas bee iery AtudisAltret. •in her effort* sate . Sittit, atit4• her danger. las! v ill. It is a meta !choly feat; tititthiestaitffisseliidit is tits most pepelous of antlit'its size in Os, kitigilosb ad. amu l et it ties the advantage:of itltfisitrlt‘lif.at• ingatessue eompaty, has nut a fire engine Jolt, notwithstanding that chattyvwistscet of Mehra iccafreirtiire." l —kelift Cos • • ••• . 4 : • gitkrio4o . • • .6 ••• l• ;~'_ t . 4 114 . , ; • • • T . ; •