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LITERARY GLEANINGS. honoured with an especial allowance of'surh honour—king regarded as elegant nrige, or tasteful relaxations from the drier routine of ordinary practice—somewhat like snatches of the Belles Lettres , in the midst of a course of hard reading. I could perceive, that even the grimmest and most morose•looking tnen of business would, in pass ing, endeavour to wedge their noses into the crowd, and after catching a few words of the pleading, would turn away grinning like satyrs, with the relish of what tney heard still mantling in their opaque imaginations. Jeffrey also told me, that Irish cases of the sort above-mentioned are extremely frequent even hi the Scottish Courts; and, indeed, the great Phillips himself seems never to enjoy the fiill command and swing of his powers, unless on the subject of a seduction ; so that it may be said with truth lof this wonderful man, and the gallant nation to which be belongs, that they mutually stand in much need of each other. " 'Tis well that they should sin, so he may sLine." P. M. Peter's Letters to la s Kintfolk. No. XVI. come or SESSION IN EIMNRURGII.—Sy degrees I , o 0 ray way through several different currents of the crow d, and established myself with my back to the wall, full in the centre of the Advocates' title Of the house. H er e I could find leisure and opportunity to study the minutie of the whole scene, and in particular to " fill in as foreground," as the painter's phrase runs, much more accurately than when I was myself mingled in the central tumult of the place. My position resembled that of a p e rson visiting a peristrephic panorama, who, himself im moveable in a darksome corner, beholds the whole dust and glare of some fiery battle pass, cloud upon cloud, and flub u pon flash, before his eyes. Here might be seen some of the "Na nanimi Heroes," cleaving, into the mass, like g f ur ious wedges. in order to reach their appointed station = and traced in their ulterior progress only by the casual glimpses of " the proud horse-hair nodding on the crest" —while others, equally determined and keen Is, sr l iteesecor, ovelhiss, from their stature and agility, might be me re properly compared to so many shuttles driven through the threads of an intricate web by some nim ble-jointed weaver, Msxpos pAi, *Xka Marmas. On one sire might be observed some first-rate champion, paus eel for a moment with a grin of bloody relaxation, to breathe after one ferocious and triumphant charge—his plum? Sancho Psnza busily arrvigieg his harries, for the nest, no less ferocious. (hi another sits some less success ful combatant, all his features screwed and twisted toge ther, smarting under the lash of a sarcasm—or gazing blankly about him, imperfectly recovered from the stun of a retort; while perhaps some young beardless esquire, burning for his spurs, may be discovered eyeing both of these askance, envious even of the cuts of the vanquished, and anxious, at all hazards, like Uriali the Hittite, that some letter might reach the directors of the fray, saying. ' Set l i g thit man in the front of the battle." The elder and more employed advoestes, to have done with my similitudes, seemed for the most part, when not actually engaged in pleading, to have the habit of seating themselves on the benches, which extend along the whole rear of their station. Here the veteran might be seen tither poring over the materials of some future discussion, or contesting bitterly with some brother veteran the pro priety of some late decision, or perhaps listening with sweet smiles to the talk of some uncovered Agent, whose hand fn his fob seemed to give promise of a coining fee. The most-of the younger ones seemed either to promenade with an sir clutter nonchalance, or to collect into groups of four, five, or six, from whence the loud and husky cackle of some leading characters might be heard ever and anon rising triumphantly above the usual hum of the place. I could soon discover, that there are some half-dolen, per haps, of professed wits and story-tellers, the droppings of whose inspiration ere sufficient to attract round each of s them, when he sets himself on his legs in the middle of Mr. Owen, of Lana*, in arrived In the metropolis. On the floor, a proper allowance of eyes and mouths to glisten Sunday merning he breakfasted with the London Co and gape over the morning's budget of good things=-some operative Society, in Pickett-street. When lie left the new eccentricity of Lord H—, or broad bon-mot of Mr. settlement of Harmony, in America, in June last, that f'—. The side of the Hall frequented by these woe- new co-operative community was making most rapid and thies, is heated by two or three large Promstoves ; and orderly progress in apiculture and inanufactures. The ap from the custom of lounging during the winter-mouths in pile:nous for admission had been much more numerous the immediate vicinity of these centres of comfort, the bar- than could be complied with, but various establishments testers of facetious disposition have been christened by one o f a s i m il ar ki n d were about commencing. Mr. Owen, of their brethren, the " wits of the Stove-school." But, since his arrival in England, has visited New Lanark, and indeed, for aught I see, the journeyman days of the whole also the buildings making by the new community of Orbis of theyoung Scotch advocates might, with great propriety, ton, near Glasgow. be called by the simple collective,—Store-hood. The Washington Gazette says, that an association modeled What has a more striking effect, however, than even the on the plan of Mr. Owen, of Lanark, had been form glee and merriment of these young people close at hand, ing in Cincinnati. They had purchased a tract of land is the sound of pleaders pleading at a distance, the music of upwards of seven hundred acres. A constitution had of whose elocution, heard separate from its meaning, is been adopted, and the community was to commence opera net, for the most part, such as to tempt a nearer approach. tions immediately. At one bar, the wig of the Judge is seen scarcely over topping the mass of eager, bent-forward, listening ad- To PREVENT MISCHIEF BY ROOM—Take a straw.. miters, assembled to do honour to some favourite speaker rope, such as is used in some counties for thatchin g , a nd stretch it across the field from about the middle towards of the day—their faces already arrayed in an appropriate smile, wherewith to welcome the expected joke—or fixed the fences, supported by stakes fixed in the ground, to raise it a few feet. This is sufficient notice to the rooks to keep in the attitude of discernment and penetration, as if re off. If fields are large, other ropes may be placed at a pro solved that no link of his cunning chain of ratiocination should escape their scrutiny. At another extremity, the per distance; for if food grows scarce, they may, after eau tiously reconnoitering for some time, approach to within whole paraphernalia of the Judge's attire ere exposed full to vision—all the beaches aronnd his tribunal deserted WO or 300 yards of the supposed trap. and tenantless, while some wearisome proser, to whom DANCI NO.—The Chinese have odd ideas of this amuse nobody listens except from necessity, is seen thumping the ment. When Commodore Anson was at Canton, the bar before him in all the agonies of unpartaken earnestness, officers of the Centurion had a ball upon some Court bo las hoarse clamorous voice floating desolately into thin liar while they were dancing, a Chinese, who very air, " like the voice of a man crying in the wilderness— quietly surveyed the operation, said softly to one of the whom no man heareth." party, " Why don't you let your servants do this for you ?" The appearance of the Judges of Lords Ordinaries, AFRICAN MANI:FACTURES.—A cotton shawl, menu themselves, next attracted my attention, and I walked factored by Africans from the growth of their own coun round the Hall to survey them, each in rotation, at his try, has been received at Baltimore. It consists of five particular bar. Their dress is quite different from what pieces, woven three yards in length, and six inches in we are accustomed to in our civil courts in England, and width, sown together, and is considered a fair specimen of bears much more resemblance to what I have seen in the arts vet in their infancy amongst that rude people. Cotton, sPortreits of the old Presidents of the French Parliaments. of the quality of which this shawl is manufactured, is said ludoed I believe it is not widely different from this; for to grow in abundance over a track of country extending the Court of Session was originally formed upon the model to 40 degrees of latitude, and SI to 70 of longitude, inha of the Parliament of Paris, and its costume was borrowed bited by many millions of naked human beings. from that illustrious court, as well as its constitution. The CONVICTS.—We understand the Government, in its Judges have wigs somewhat different from those of clemency, have directed Mr. F. Murphy, the Governor the Advocates, and larger in dimension; but their of the Convict Penitentiary in this city, to provide ac gowns are very splendid things, being composed of pur- commodation for a certain number of women and chil ple-velvet and blue cloth and silk, with a great variety of dem, the families of men transported to New South knots and ornaments of all kinds. I could not see this Wales for various offences, and who, while in that vestment without much respect, when I reflected on country, hare conducted themselves to the satisfaction the great number of men celebrated both for greatness of thelocal Government of the colony. Those persons have and 'sootiness that have worn it. It is the same gown been brought together from all parts of the kingdom, at in which the venerable Duncan Forbes, of Colloden, the expense of the Government, and are meow comfortably delivered judgment—in which Kaimes, and Hailes, and lodged and maintained in Cork, until a ship arrives ex- Braxfield, and Monboddo, and Woodhouselee—and later, pressly to convey them to their destination. This humane Perhaps greater than all, in which Blair was clothed. • • act towards a truly wretched portion of society is attribu- I t struck me that the Judges in the outer Court were ra- table to his Excellency the Marquis Wellesley, whose noble tiler younger men than we commonly see on the Bench in feelings in softening the miseries of exile, is well worthy of an English Court of Law ; but their physiognomies, and his illustrious name and family.—Cork Advertiser. the manner in which they seemed to be listening to the On Monday afternoon, about five o'clock, a dreadful ac pleaders before them, were in general quite as I could have . adent occurred in Tothill-street, Westminster, which, it is wished to see them. At one end sat Lord G—, brother feared, will prove fatal to four unfortunate individuals, to the excellent historian of Greece, and translator of irris- named Sowter, Henessy , Fitzpatrick , and M ' Call, all tale's Rhetori c * and Ethics. Ile has at first sight an air bricklayers. Sowter, who is the master bricklayer, is so of laziness about him, and seems as if he grudged the 1a- severely injures! that he now lies in a very dangerous state. hour of lifting up his eyes to view the countenance of the alenessy has his thigh broken. Fitzpatrick is dreadfully person addressing him. But every now and then, he injured in the spine, aml many of his ribs are broken ; muttered some short question or remark, which showed and M'Call is injured about the head and neck. abundantly that his intellect was awake to all the intrica- dreadfully •. • cies of the case ; and I could see, that when the Advo- . The latter sufferers now lye in the Westminster Infirmary, in a very hopeless state. cater were done, he had no difficulty in separating the es sence of the plea from all the adventitious matter with SUSPENDED ANIMATION.—A labourer having fallen which their briefs had instructed them to clog and em- off a scaffolding from a considerable height, was carried, barren it. Hellas a countenance very expressive of acu- apparently dead, to medical aid ; and though every men, and a pair of the finest black eyes I ever saw, al- means were used which the surgeons thought necessary, though he commonly keeps them half shrouded under he remained in the same torpid state from two o'clock their lids; and I have no doubt, from the mode in which till six , when his friends carried him home on a door, he delivered hims e lf , t h at h e must have been a meet ac- with advice to make his coffin. On inquiry being made complished debater when at the Bar. At the other extre- into the particulars of the case, another surgeon volunteered unity, the greatest stream of business seemed to rush in his service for his recovery. This was readily accepted, as the direction of Lord P—'s tribunal. This Judge has he was given up for dead. When the surgeon arrived at the most delightful expression of suavity and patience in his house, which was a quarter of a mile distant, lie found his look and manner that I ever saw in any Judge, unless he had heat enough to convince him that the vital spark was it be our own venerable old Chancellor Eldon. The calm not fled. On opening a vein in the arm, no blood of any con cascientious way in which he seemed to listen to ever sequence came ; but, on drawing the scalpel over two thing that was said, the mild good-tempered smile with branches of the temporal artery, lie bled profusely. Before which he showed every now and then that he was net to a pound had flowed, be breathed; and when two pounds be deceived by any subtlety or quirk, and the clear and were drawn, lie respired almost naturally. 'f he vessels distinct manner is whtch he explained the grounds of his were then secured. The next day he could articulate. decision, left me at no loss to account for the extraordinary Twelve days after he resumed his employment. It oc pressure of business with which this excellent Judge cap- curred to the surgeon at the time (and which he found in peered to be surrounded. Before these two Lords it was a similar case since the above) that the blood remains that all the principal causes of the morning appeared to in the arterial system, in a warm fluid state, after the he argued. I happened to be standing close behind Lord super-veins become nearly empty, and what remains in P-- a bar, when a pleading was going on for aliment of them is partly congealed from losing its free caloric ; also, a natural child, at the instance of a servant-wench against that the arteries retain their elasticity and vital properties an Irish student, who had come to Edinburgh to attend the a considerable time after the veins have lost their little medical classes. The native of the Emerald Isle was per. contractile power necessary to carry on the circulation. /tonally present In the rear of his Counsel, arrayed in a Pidding and Co. have had an extraordinary demand for tarnished green great-coat, and muttering bitterly in his Whole Tickets at their Office, No. 1, Cornhill, in conse national accent. I heard him say to one near him, tbat he T reece of the publicity given by the friends of Mr. H. had been prevented from getting out of the way in proper the Member of Parliament, to his success in gaining time, by the harsh procedure of a grocer in Drummond- 40,000 (Nines% the last day of drawing ; People however street, whose account was unpaid, and who had detained remark that, although the M. P.'s have determined to dis him by what he called a " meslitatione fugie warrant." continue Lotteries, they must not expect to engross these The poor girl's ease was set forth with great breadth of co- choice things to themselves, for others have an equal Louring and verity of detail by Mr. CLERIC (a fine saga- chance and not less inclination to carry some to their etotts-looking old gentleman, of whom I shall speak anon), Homes before the opportunity expires; and as there will and the bar was speedily surrounded by clew ranks of hs- be Four Prizes of 25,000/. distributed Next Wednesday, tenets. Mr. JETIPIREY wbo was Counsel for the son of 31st August (each of which will be thought seasonable Erin, observed t hat the exceeding rapidity with which the as a Harvest Home), no wonder the demand for 'rickets crowd clustered itself around did not escape my attention, and Shares is so uncommonly brisk at Pidtling's Lucky and whispered to me, that cases of this kind are always Corner, No. 1, Cornhill. ST. PETER'S. Sublimest Temple of the living flod ! Shall I no more the thrilling transport feel That o'er me came, when, ere thy court I trod, I saw, far off, a crown of braided light Purple thy cross? that purple light, which eve Seeni'd like a glory round thy dome to weave, When in the peaceful hour, half day, half night, Th' aerial wonder first cntranc'd my view, And more than mortal power my spirit onward drew. The sun had thro' a gorgeous canopy Of gold, of purple, and of Imre sheen Virbeerd his broad orb, and set with glow serene; And all was stillness to the ear and eye : The labors of the day began to cease. And alt without was calm, and all within was peace; But deep the glow and tumult in my heart, llThen on th' eternal flint my footstep rung; Thought, fancy, feeling to one object clung; Nor joy, nor woe thin claim'd divided part. On, to the Temple; on, I sped my way, Reckless that Tybee's flood athwart my passage lay. 'I saw no good, on cows. no pillar'd zone - That girt it roust: I heard no fountain play. With guidelesa foot, as sunk the dying day, I sped impatient on A rd stood beneath the dome, at fall of night, What time a priest, dire seen, slow pae'd with lonely light. Else, all was darkness ; all mysterious gloom : Save where, bright gaming round the altar, rose The silver lamps, that day nor night repose, And here and there the baldachin illume, Where the calossal column's brazen frame Catches on wreathed spires by fits the gliding flame. And, save those lamps, and that departing light, Darkness above, beneath me, and around : No marble glittcr'd thro' the gloom profound; Tomb, statue, column, none tlisturb'd the sight : The spirit of devotion fill'd the whole, And scaling up the lip, held commune with the soul." Poems by William Sotheby. MEETING OP LINA. N-DR AliE I?.S. SR OPM EN. Played rindrilify, and acted a noble part. They s h ou kl h ave cre dit ' LINEN TRADE OF IRE LA N D. —... or it. I have been spending my afternoon among a few friends A Meeting of Auletant Linen drapers, Haberdashers. Silk- (roars of laughter), and hate not any thin g written down on ili mercers, Hosiers, ste. of the metropolis, was last night held at the subject of the employers and their anarnity. Howsomever, Crown and Anchor Tavern, for the purpose of takatg into c o na i. hereby propose a vote of thanks to the masters, and, moreover, deration the Resolutions agreed to at the previous meetings of t h e i r I'll second it I i employers, with regard to the propriety of Closin g their shops at an The facetious gentleman attempted to si t d o w n am id roars of cattier hour than that at present in use. The Meeting was further laughter and applause, but whether he effected his purpose "mis called with the view of submitting to it certain rules and regula. factorily or not is more than we can say. dons for the establishment of a Society to carry into effect this an d Sundry individul t lose Id becoutt the resolution, which was m other objects. reed by acclamation. ''t Gentleman At a quarter hefore nine o'clock, upwards of 200 individuals being pre.ent, ilr. Iliss was called to the chair. The Citatamalt informed the Illeeting that in consequence of • A _ came forward fns the purpose, as he said, of dis abusing the public mind, and abusing the Moraine Herald. ;Ind haying spent a moderate , of time in amusing the meetin) the suggestion of the linen-drapers assistants., the Masten had held two meetings, to consider what alteration in the present hours of business were desirable and practicable, and had come to the resolution that the time foe closing their shops should be in future as follows the months of November, December, Janu ary, and February, at meveh o'clock in the evening ; in March, April, September, and October, at eight; in May, June. July, and August, at nine o'clock I and one hour later on Saturdays. This was proposed by their employers as an amendment on tint original Resolution of the ahopmen, which was to the effect that the hours of discontinuing business should be seven o'clock la die six winter and eight o'clock in the six summer months. k'or his part, he could not avoid saying that he thought their employers hail conceded a great deal in recognising the pro. priety of an alteration in the existing hours of business ; and as their principals had proposed a modified arrangement, he felt happy in proposing to the assembly to meet them half way, and concur in the projected alteration, which, howe ver i t m i g h t d ev i ate from the original design, watt still a pan of it, and fully ademitted the propriety of the principle on which they had acted. (Applause.) The Chairman was then proceeding to put the amended Reso lution relative to the hours of concluding business, when It was suggested by a person present that it would be more re gular if the intended Resolution *ere duly proposed and seconded previous to its being put from the chair. The propriety of this suggestion was acceded to, and an indivi dual rose for the purpose of moving the resolution with due for mality ; and in doing so, begged to be permitted to observe, that, in his opinion, the respectability of their respective trades had been' injured, and wax likely to be f a rther l owere d, b y a cont i nuance of tfie present system as tar as it regarded the hours allotted to busi ness, and the severe calls made upon the time and labour of the assistant. The body of shopkeepers in question was, in fact, placed below every other class of society, and deprived of all those relax.. Lions and privileges enjoyed by the lowest mechanic. fills must be admitted, when it was considered that many of them laboured 18 hours a day and upwards, and wars in an infinitely worse situa tion than almorsoany Rther members of society. He wished to pro pose to the consideration of the Meeting the propriety of establish. mg a register office, where the employer might be enabled to find an misistatit, and the person in want of employment find a situation. in addition to this, a society were formed, which should have for Its objects the promotion and defence of their several interests, and should also provide an allowance for the support of decayed members of the society who might hereafter fall into distress, he considered it would be attended with very beneficial results. The resolution respecting the hours of closing, as amended, was then seconded and put. The CHAIRMAN requested all who concurred in its propriety to hold up their hands. Straightway a honest of hands, " frequent and thick as are the leaves, In Vallambrosa," shot up ! The show of hands on the contrary side of the question was con. fined to three or four individuals. po .tan g, Another individual wished rtion to make a SiMpie observation . . ox A per. son had come forward to oppose a resolution who was not a draper, nor the son rf a draper! (Hear.) That individual was not a Chris. don 1 (Order, 4nd go bn .) Mr. Chairman, will y o u he a r me ? (Hear, hear.) The man 1 speak of, who is neither Christian nor Draper, though he comes here among those who arc both, was seen in conversation with Dr. Taylor op professes the unchristian religion. (Name, nathe; order, order.) Mt. Chair, am 1 out of order P The Chairdtan decided he was. Several Gentlemen wished to know where copies of the rules were to be had, and other information obtained. The Chairman said it should he announced in Thursday's paper. Soveral voices.—" Not in the Herald ! !!" The names of the Committee were read and agreed to with ttnamify quite satisfactory to the gentleman who had been spending the afternoon with his friends. Thanks were voted to the Chitirman for his very tilde conduct in the chair, and the Meeting adjourned sine node, several of the Members being apprehensive of being locked out of their quarters. The CHAIRMAN—" I call upon the gentlemen who hold up their hands In opposition to the resolution to state their reasons. The meeting will be happy to hear them." (Applause.) An individual in the crowd—." Pray, Air. Chairman, is this re. gular ? You come to establish a Soeiety—ahould not the rules on which you would establish it be first read previous to going into other matter ?" (Some disorder.) The CHAIRMAN—" The rules were read and agreed to on a fer met occasion. Since then they have undergone some alterations. and if it is the wish of theassembly, they shalt be read as amended." (Loud anti tumultuous cries of " read, read," and " no, no," from all quarters.) After some additional discussion the reading of the rules was postponed till a further stage of the proceedings. A Person rose—we beg pardon, came forward—most of the orators were on their own own legs or those of the forms during the night, eagerly awaiting an opportunity to measure out their elo quence to the audience without stint or restriction. I think the first resolutions of the Shopmen—(some indignation at the use of this unluckly term was here manifested)—l beg pardon, the assistants (Applause loud and long) was good, anti that our employers should not alter or oppose them. The commonest mechanics are not afraid of combining to oppose their masters, anti I ask, are the linen-drapers assistants afraid to open their mouths ?—(With great energy, which called down corresponding applause.) Are you afraid of men not at all above yo u , an d w h ose capac i ty I s h ou ld blush to own ? (Vehement applause.) I approve of the Society. I approve of combination. 1 approve of the Register-oflice, approve of every thing but the resolution that has just passed, and that is the reason fur why I held up my hand. (Thunders of ap plause, and shouts of laughter.) A second individual expressed himself dissatisfied at the warmth manifested by the last speaker. (Applause and hisses.) It was ill calculated to serve the cause. (Hear.) Theirs was a state of drudgery and slavery ; (hear, and cries of " No, no;") but they should accede to the proposal of their employers, which might mititigate the severity of their eervitude. A. opposition to that resolution would not insure success to their wishes. (Hear and hisses.) Another Gentleman Shopman begged leave, most solemnly, to deprecate the imputations attempted to be cast by a portion of the Public Press upon the virtuous anti moral race to which he had the honour to belong. (Hear.) They had head of oystershops, ta verns, and coffeehouses (hear, and laughter), and it h a d been basely asserted, that if the proposed indulgence were granted, their time would be occupied in attempting to seduce servant-maids and opera girls. (Laughter.) Now did ever any one hear of such a calumny ? (Cries of no, no.) He was sure not ; and yet here were imputations cast on the fair fame of an innocent and injured class of people ! Some such characters there might be among them he was ready to admit. but that did not form a cause for why they should be indiscriminately stigmatised " as walking four abreast" in one mass I (Applause and loud laughter.) A Gentleman, whose name we understood to be RAir, now ad vanced to express his concurrence in the proposition of their em ployers. It as nine o'clock an unreasonable hour to conclude business in the summer months? Ile thought not! They all knew as how the weather had been very hot this year, so much so that ladies could not come out for their necessary purposes to make purchases till after sun-set (a laugh), and were they to require their fair customers to spoil their complexions or submit their delicate frames to the oppression of a vertical sun, or, in the event of the ladies declining to undergo the grievances, were their masters to be the sufferers, and keep their goods on hand ? He thought not ! Neither of these disagreeable alternatives shourd be resorted to through the means of the shopmen, that was, the assistants ! Besides, in his opiaion, the assistants ought not to be saucy, (hisses, hear, and • laugh,) and throw in their employers' teeth the liberty they were disputed to afford them. He had heard some suggestions of the confusion that would atteud the adoption of differant hours of closing in different months; but what confit. sion could take place so long as they had the almanack to refer to ' and see what month it was. (A laugh.) He repeated there could he no confusion about so simple a matter, among persons of intel lectual attainments. (Hear.) Had not they their mental faculties and the almanack to guide them . (A laugh, And cries of yes, yes, to be sure.) Assistants were sometimes engaged 18, 18, or 20 hours ! (A person in the crowd, " Aye 21 hours fer the matter o' that") Ile himself had been often engaged 20 hours, so he could speak from unhappy experience, having risen frequently at six, and dragged his weary bones up stairs to bed, at .two in the morning, for the purpose of sleeping till six again ; and then going through his days labour, and again taking his " toilsome rest." (Hear.) A 81 r. BALCH said that the individual who had first opposed the Resolution that hael been carried, was neither a mercer, a draper, or a haberdasher, and what right had he to oppsse it : (hear) seeing lie was neither a mercer, a draper, nor yet a haberdasher ? (Cheers.) Some further desultory conversation and miscellaneous speeches having taken place, It was agreed the rules and regulations of the Society of Assist. ants should be read, I'hey were read according ly , and began like an Act of P a rli a . W ment, with a " hereas, and ended with " a penalty of flve shillings." Mr. BALCII begged leave to propose a new regulation, to the effect; " that every metnber convicted of immorality or dishonest conduct, should be forthwith expelled the Society." A MEMBER wished to know what immoral conduct - . was ? (A langh.) Alr. BALCH—As the gentleman thinks " immorality" so vague as liv— . a definition, I consent to - ' it o u t o f the question. The Select Committee appointed to consider the hurt which regu late the Linea Trade of Ireland, particularly au It as relate to Foreign Linen fart and Foreign dressed Flax, and to report their opinion and obserration■ thereupon nom time to time to the House;—have furthe: considered the Nlatters referred to them, and agreed upon the following Report : Among tilt many Parlisttchtgry inquiries which have lately been . " into the internal condition of Irelghd, Made h. your - Committte 11-0 that the stitdeet referred to thew for investiggtion is amongst the most i ; inasmuch most ittqrortat. the linen manufacture (tracing it through all its various stages, from the culture of the flax to the weaving of the linen,) affcrils employment and support to a far greater portion of the 'peoldeuf that Outlay thin any other branch of public indtistry, and is intitilately Connected with the peace and prosperity of Ireland. Your Committce accordingly entered oh the subject sub• milted to their consideration with an anxiety proportionate to its importance, and called before them several witnesses well informed in the business of thellinen trade, as it is carried on in Ireland, and some persons also, who are ex tensively engaged in it in England and Scotland. Your Committee have thereby been enabled to compare the rent habits of pursuing the same manufacture in different parts of the same empire. The evidence of these witnesses is annexed td this nes , port, together with an Appendix, Containing a acumen' illustrative of the origin of the manufaCture in Ireland. and its continued claitn to Parliamentary support ; also re turns showing the present extent of the trade, the expends of the establishment under the direction of the Linen Board, and the appropriation Of their funds. Your Corn , mittee have likewise subjoined several resolutions, contain , ing their opinions upon some of the principal (litigious of their inquiry, which have been already feported to the House; but in presenting them again as a putt of their Find Report, they deem it necessary to accortipeuy them with a te* observaticihs. In considering the lAws relating to the linefi trade of Ireland, your Committee found that many of them, which were deemed wise and necessary at the time of their enact ment, have become inapplicable to the present usage of the trade, aid if now enfbrced would prattles great inconVeni4 nee, and ought therefore tb be repealed; and ith others of them required much revision and amendment, your Corn.' mittee have therefore thought it expedient to pfopose the consolidation into one act of All such provisions as ate found to be necessary for the future regulation Of the trade. A Bill for this purpose has been accordingly prepared, which does not, however, notice the duty on the imports• tion of foreign dresses' flax, a reduction of which duty, already recommended by your Committee in their first Re port, has been adbpted and provided for in the Customs Bill. The inspectilin of fbrelgn flax-seed by a publie oeer oft importation, for the purpose of ascertaihing its soundness and fitness fbr sowing, had hitherto been carefully provided las has, for by law. The necessity of such inspection how- ever, been lately questioned; and, pursuant to a recom mendation of your Committee, the Bill provides for the repeal of such inspection from and after the Ist of July 1826; by which time the policy of continuing that inspects tion, in respect to Which there ckiats so much diversity of opinion, may be further ebnsidered Mid investigated. It has appeared to your Committee, that the preparation and management of Irish-grown flax are extremely defec tive, and very injuriously so to the cultivators and manta.: facturers, and ought to be brought to public market in a elate perfectly free from any fraudulent mode of making it up that could impose upon a purchaser; and it has been made clear to your Committee, from the evidence of intel4 ligent persons, that Irish-grown flax, if properly managed and judiciously made up for sale in a clean and uniform state, would eventually supply the British manufbcturer ofz linen, and thus become a branch of very profitable export. With respect to foreign and British yarns, your Com mittee recommend that they should be henceforth exempted from all examination by a public officer; but that the existing regulations, in regard to the sale of Irish yarns and brown linens, should be continued under certain mo-, difications and diminutions of penalties, but with this pro vision, affecting each of these three different brances of the trade, that none of these regulations shall affect any Irish flat, or Irish yarn, or Irish brown linen, except such as shall be exposed to sale in public and open market; leav4 ing, at the same time, all persons free to sell at other times and places, when and where they may think most conk venient. But while, from an Untvillingness to forte any hasty changes upon the settled habits of a people long engaged in an established manufacture, your Committee thus recom- , mend to the Legislature the policy of continuing to g ive a legal sanction to some parts of the system of regulation by *lnch it has been governed, they still hold it 0 be their 'duty to this House, as well as to those who are engaged itt the linen trade of Ireland, to state unreservedly their own opinions upon this most important subject. The system of conducting the linen manufaCture in England and Scotland, as described to your Committee by the witnesses from those countries, appears to be in many instances preferable to that which is pursued in Ireland. The different branches of the trade in Great Britain are divided among different persons, each of those branches becoming a separate business in itself ; and this division of labour necessarily leads to a better economy of time, and the production of more even and better fabricks, all which advantages might be gradually introduced Into Ireland s and it is only by gradual measures these improvements can be obtained. Your Committee abstain from offering any opinion on the policy of collecting the peasantry into towns or villages, or disturbing their present habits of mixing agricultural with manufacturing occupation. With a view to the introduction of this improved divi sion of business, your Committee would chiefly direct the attention of the Linen Board to forward, by every Meant in their power, all possible improvement in the eultitation and the dressing of the flax. The efforts which the Board have already made towards encouraging the erection of flax mills, should therefore be followed up with increased sex, iety, so as to have the flax brought to matket in the cleanest condition and at the cheapest rate. Your Committee are disposed to dwell upon this subject. as it is of considerable importance, not merely to the into* rests of Ireland, but to those of the empire at large; for so long as we are obliged to import from foreign eountries this elementary part of the linen manufacture, so long must those countries who engage in that manufacture themselves, possess an advantage over our own; and there is every rea- , i so mp n r t o o vd believe that treatment oreflahnetrl, flax, byan might, extede o d i t e h o o lt u k t , a a t t io a n n ant en croaching upon the quantity necessary for her home cone sumption, supply the demands of the British market. Next in importance to the dressing of the flax, is the spinning and sale of the yarn, which, from the evidence liefore your Committee,are carried on iu Ireland in a way very capable of improvement. It has beta stated to you? Coin. mii the Irish Antee, that spinner too often endeavours to gel the greatest possible length of thread out of a given quan tity of flax, without any regard to what may be the quality of that thread when proilneCd. Thus, four to five hinks o► yarn are often spun ont of that quantity of flax, which, to hat , * ' NEV CATHOLIC ASSOCIATION. There was a highly respectible and numerous Meeting of this body to-day at the Corn-Exchange Rooms, Lord Viscount GoasfittsTows; In the Chair. Several persons were admitted members, among whom were the Earl of Fingal, 31r. Rose Lambert Price, the Rev. Mr. Therry, of Nenagh, a letter from whom was inserted on the minutes, sixteen gentlemen of the county of Galway, and about twelve other clergy men and gentlemen. Mr. Lau•t.ess thought that the addition of these names to their body would be a tolerable reply to those journalists in England who assailed the Catholic Association, and said that the Catholics of this country were acting solely under the guidance of lawyers and attorneys, and were only instruments in the hands of some wily practitioners. The first Nobleman of the Catholic body had come forward, and become the keystone of the arch of the Catholic Asso ciation. Mr. butEit., in proposing the admission of the if, county of Gal way gentlemen, at the head of whom was Lord /Trench, entered into a view of the effects which the three great measures proposed by the Association (the taking a census of the population, the si. multaneous meeting of the people of Ireland on the same day in every parish throughout the country, and the grand assemblage of the Ilierarchy, Nobility. (entry, and Merchants of Ireland, for 14 days successively, in Dublin, at the commencement of hest Session of Parliament), would produce in favour of the Catholic cause in in the minds of the great mass of the English people. Mr. Shell concluded a speech of considerable length and of the most brilliant description, by advising the Catholics not to be disheartened from carrying these great and stupendous measures Into effect by any apparent difficulties which might b e t h rown i n t h e i r way. "Let ' us," concluded the Learned Gentleman, " nut be deterred by small difficulties. If the noble Carthagenian, when he stood et the foot' of the Alps, had waited to measure Mount St. Bernard geometri cally, and taken out mathematical Instruments to ascertalli its alti tude above theses, do you think he would ever hare crossed their summits? (Loud cheers.) There is at present but one feeling and one soul in the Catholic body, and, I may say, in the beautiful language of the poet-- •• Spiritus intus alit, totamque Infuse per artus " Al ens agitat molem, et magno se corpore miscet." Mr. Co w as• proposed that Mr. Richard Martin, M.P. he ad mitted a Member.—Carried. Mr. LAWLESS said, it was his intention to move, on this day week, if the question of adjournment were not carried, that an in. quiry be made into the present income and expenditure of the As sociation. He would also wish that, in future, their petitions should not be called Catholic, as he could inform the Meeting, on the authority of a most influential man in England, and who was. besides, at the head of the sect called Unitarians, that 100,000 of that persuasion were ready to join them in their petitions to Parlia ment fur redress. After some discussion on Mr. Lawless's intended motion, in which Mr. Conway, Mr.Sheil, the Rev. Mr. I: Estrange, andnthers joined, Mr. Lawless withdrew his notice, declaring his intention of submitting the propriety of changing the name Catholic Cause tb , the sense of the next Aggregate Meeting. The Rev. Mr. LEST RANGE moved, that a Committee of seven be nominated to report forthwith the names of 31 efficient Mem bers, to carry into effect the principal object of the New Catholic Association, namely, the providing a liberal and moral education for the people of Ireland. lllr. DOWELL O•RBILLY seconded the motion, which was car• tied unanimously. The following were appointed to the Committee:—Lord Dor manston, Lord Killeen, Sir Edward Bellew, the lion. Mr. Preston, the Rev. Mr. L: Estrange, and Messrs. Shell and O'Reilly. The Rev. Mr. L'ESTRANCE, after some conversation between Sir Edward Bellew, Mr. Lawless, Mr. Conway, Lord Killeen, and Mr. Shell, withdrew his motion for the appointment of a Com mittee regarding the Catholic Burial (hounds. Mr. CONWAY moved, having given 'twice to that effect on this day fortnight, that the Association do adjourn at its rising to dm first Saturday in November. The motion was seconded by Lord Killeen, and after some opposition on the part of Mr. Lawless, carried with only two or three dissentients. Mr. CoxwaY then moved that an open Committee of 31 be tip. pointed ass permanent body sitting in Dublin doting the period of adjournment, with a view to carry into effect the objects of the As. iodation, and open a correspondence with the Catholic Clergy of Ireland.—Carried. _ iir.Cuitisi:;withdrew his motion regarding the vblication of the Members' names. The same gentleman's motion, Ithat those persons who become Members of the Association before November continue so fur the next year, was carried unani. mously. The Committee of seven retired to the Committee-room. and, after some delay, returned and reported that they lied nominated the following Gentlemen as the Committee of thirty-one, to carry into effect the purposes of the Association : Doctor Curtis, Doctor Murray, Doctor Doyle, Lord Gormanstown, Lord Killeen, L or d Ffrench, the Hon. Mr. Preston, Sir E. Bellew, Sir Thos. Esm on d e , Messrs. O'Connell. Shed, H. O'Connor, Begot, Murphy, O'Reilly, N. Mahon, M. O'Brien, Lawless, Forde, Redmond, Brie, Fo garty, Fitzsimon, L'Estrange, Staunton, Conway, J. O'Brien, and J. Murphy. Lord Killeen was voted into the Chair, thanks returned to Lord Gormanstown, and the Association adjourned to the first Saturday in November. —Dublin Everting Pod. ADULTERATION OF SUGAR. Yesterday, in consequence of a report which appeared in some of the newspapers respecting' the adulteration of moist-sugar by mixing salt with it, in order to increase its weight, a grocer, who belongs to a very respectable house in the City, waited upon the Lord Mayor, for the purpose of showing to what the mixture was attributable, and of course of proving that the charge brought against the trade by 111 r. Clarke was without foundation. It ap• pears from the terror with which the vendors of moat of the neces series as well as of the luxuries of life look at that part of the newspapers in which the analyser's complaints and cautions are i generally contained, that he is an object of no inconsiderable inte rest with the public. It is rather remarkable, that neither baker, nor flour-merchant nor confectioner made any attempt to refute or contradict what appeared in the newspapers under this head from the same authority some time ago, although it is well known that the Chief 3lsgistrate considers the honour of many of his fellow citizens seriously coucerned : and it is certain that he expected, long before this, to hear an indignant denial from the majority of those trades. The complainant, who is not chargeable with the like supine ness, and who, we believe, belongs to the firm of Stubbs, Absolon, and Canning produced a sample of sugar, which was of an exceed ingly dark colour, and excessively salt and bitter to the taste. This disagreeable mixture was, he said, a specimen of the sugar which often came into the market from our Colonies, and men of science, -....-_ _ . who were not acquainted with the soil from which it sprung, might conclude that it was adulterated, when, in fact, it was per fectly genuine. Now the cause of this apparent phenomenon was, that the - from which the - - was extractea -on lands canes . - sugar ~. _ grew t. that had been lately reclaimed from the sea, and imbibed a consi. derable portion of saline matter, of which the sugar could be di. ekill of the refiner alone. It was highl , stated - vested try the._- _ ly probr.ble that the sugar which had been analysed as was -- in the Alan gion House report was sugar of this description which had been ignorantly sold. It - indeed, almost ridiculous to sup• that o requ ire.. - to put .. make good cloth, ought not to . . been spun into more - —.nay sow. was, ... _, _...—.....em0us to suppose , ,A laugh, and 4 ‘ yes, put it out of the question—Dever mind im- retail grocers would knowingly sell sugar adulterated with salt to than two. A poor raw thread, int , apable of producing a morality.") t h e extent t h at h a d b ee n represented. In a recent sale several " Immorality" was accordingly left out amine cooradieente. hogsheads of sugar of the kind described had been sold by mistake good stout fabric, is thereby sent among the weavers, to The CHAIRMAN—Then the r esolution stand s " th a t a ll m e mbers to a country dealer, to whom a deduction was made in consequence. the great injury of the manufacture. But the evils of ;his convicted of dishonesty be expelled the Society." As many as are The trade had already sustained quite enough of odium from the branch of the trait: do not end here. Almost all of the of opinion that this resolution do pass will hold up their hands. malpractices which had been proved against some unworthy mem- spinning is carritsl on by poor people, who naturally look All the honest men held up their hands accordingly, and the re- hers, without having en accidental circumstance adduced against . solution passed. with anxiety to the time the market-day comes round, fur them to raise a suspicion of a general want of integrity amongst Somebody in the crowd—Yes, "We are all honourable men." the trade. which they seek to provide themselves with as much yarn A Gentleman then got up behind the Chair, and spoke as fol- The sample was left at the Mansion House in evidence of the as they are able, gathering it up from every member of lOW :—" I have been a linen-draper all my lite, and what's more inaccuracy of Mr. Clarke's judgment, but that Gentleman had in my father was a linen-draper before me ! (a laugh); and though a former conversation with the Lord Mayor stated distinctly that I bare quit the yard, and bid adieu to the counter for good and the sugar which came front parts of the island of Berbice, and of ' their own families, sometimes from those a their neigh- , bunches, than desirous of sorting them ace° all, I must ise allowed to pay linen-drapers' tosistants are neither other islands, imbibed particlee of saline matter, in consequence of boors, and always more anxious about the b rd ul i k n thetm more nor less titan common slaves, and I'd rather be a common the condition of the soil; that the flavour was of course vitiated, different gr fists of the t. lifferent yarns that compose porter !than one of them any longer. (Hear, and hisses.) I've and that the trade were apt to lay hold of that fact to cover their Thus the two things essentially nect2SIIK denied to him peen two or three and twenty years in tile employment, and know ma l -practices, but h e r idi cu l e d t h e id ea t h at a sugar c ane weld weaver to make good linen ate too often , as much as most men of ' the trade,' and what is and what is not grow as much salt as sugar. yarns well assorted • towards natnely good and even _..o,_ g ef to th tlt i e r ac close ' shaving.' (Hisses at the mention of ' shaving,' which The sample produced was as dark coloured as the sugar usti,.:ly appeared to be a cant term known only to the innitiated. sold for mixing with or making what is called wine, with as much - -ni t - g • yarn vroews, to be kept by persons The Meeting became positively barbaro u s.) I repeat, I know propriety as the stuff sold at many plats. As nearly as might be forward to the Introduction of the spinning by machinery, all about that ere ;shaving, and that keeping open late at night, guessed from the tame, it seemed to contain not more than about and the establishment of ,,- in nine cases out of ten, is just to get off damaged goods, 10 per cent. of salt. what we call ' jobs,' and for no other earthly purpose in the The sugar which Mr. Clarke analysed, it will be recollected, was the weavers , so that bleach and assort it, and prepare it for , eo nli loin there important objects, heavens above. I approve of the conduct—the noble, manly, very tine and bright in appearance, and he observed that salt was each man who came to buy from them might be able at - conduct of Mr. Brooks , of Parliament-street, in opposing the calculated to brighten the appearance of sugar when mixed with it once to provide himself with as much as he wanted of that insertion of our advertisement in the Morning Jim-old, because it by the hand of the grower. who would buy up the yarn from the hand spinners, and • represented us es a dissolute low class of men, who were neither Mr. Clarke is to be shortly engaged in analysing what is ustra y more nor less than wolves, that would, if let loose, devour all before called port wine, and sold at what is said to be a cheap rate. suitable to the particular quality of linen he was preparing n particular kind of Yarn , unmixed with any other, that was them. lam glad to see so much unantity ((lucre unanimity ) to weave. It appears from the evidence before your Corn among you, gentlemen, and I congratulate you thereupon. chargeable with the offence of adulterating sugar, thecompla o in f a o n ,. miters, that considerable improvements have been made in The ItORD MAY OR was satisfied that however others might be t 1 ( A laugh and hear.) That is the way to get your cause founded was acquitted of all idea of permitting such a practice to g : the last twenty years in Great Britain in the machinery f on a firers tali (sic put base). I think the masters have also dis- ward in the concern to which he belonged. Y°lll. C o t ' tettneeablie - 11 SI