The Sun. — London, England, 1829-02-09 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.-(TIIIS DAY.) °; COURT OF CHANCERY. IN THE MATTER OF MITCHELL. His LORDSHIP was occupied the whole of the morning in his private room, hearing the arguments of Counsel on this matter, the Gets of which we understand Are of such II nature as to render it totally unfit to be heard in public. COURT OF KING'S BENCH. SITTINGS IN BANCO. SITISII CLAIMANTS ON FRANCE-.--THE RING V. 3IAC- KENZIE. Lord Tnn•rtancri gave judgment in this case this morn .. ing. It will be recollected that a rule for a mandamus Was obtained in this case to oblige the Commissioners for the rlistributien of the grants awarded by France for the indemnity of British subjects, whose property was `confiscated during the war, to pay a certain sum I to the trustees of Law and Chevalier, a firm whose pro perty was confiscated in the lonian Islands, from certain balances now remaining in the hands of the said Commis sioners. It appeared that the awards in question had been granted by France at two different times, for the reim bursement of two different classes of claitnants,—the first chess comprising those persons who lost their property in Paris, and the other those who had been despoiled in the lonian Islands. The grant for the Paris claimants had been stAcitnt to satisfy all the claimants, and to leave a consider- We balance in the hands of the Commissioners. The other 'class of claimants, however, were not so fortunate, for the ttant for the liquidation of their claims had only yielded 8 3 per cent. The claimants in this case being one of the latter class, applied to have their claims liquidated from the Watt of the grant which had satisfied the other class. The tummissioners refused, and the claimants applied to this 'cPilr't, and obtained a rule to show cause for a mandamus, and the Attorney-General and Solicitor-General showed cause at considerable length on Saturday, contending that the grants by France being made by two separate con ventions for the two specific. classes of claimants, the surplu s of either sum, if any remained after fulfilling the purpoae for which it was granted, clearly belonged to the Government, and was not available to the other class of claimants. Lord TENTERDEN in giving judgment this morning stalk that the Court considered, that the Act of Parlia- Which . had been granted to empower the Comtnia su:NitTs to liquidate those claims, di:l.not_vtat. Inem au ,o.a.ntlieb the overplus which remained after the li quidation of one class, to make up the deficiences of the other. In the opinion of the Court, the sum which re mained clearly belonged to the Government, was at the disposal of the Lords of the Treasury, and not in any wny under the controul of the Commissioners, after all the claims had been liquidated. If it had been intended by the Act, that it should have been applied to the deficiencies of the other class it would have been expressed, as one een- lence could have made it clear beyond a doubt ; there was, 'however no sent e n ce o f t h a t sort , nor any one which could bear Ate constructi on , o f i n t en di ng to grant them that Myer. The Court therefore did not think proper to or der the mandamus.'• Mr. Justice B,,sicEir (to Sir J. Scarlett)--It is not itn , Possible that the Treasury may pay you,. Sir James.—(A laugh.) Sir J. SCARLETT-They will behave most unjustly, my I.Ord, if they do not. THE RING tf. R. SEYMOUR. ThisAefendant, a man of large property at Croe Wood, - Wilts, svas convicted, at the last Assizes for Wilts, of im proper conduct with his servant, Charles Macklin, and was galled up this morning to receive the judgment of the Cong.., The Judge's notes of the trial occupied Mr. Jus tice Pat)t nearly three hours in reading. Mr, Sergeant Wane attended to pl ea d i n m i t i ga ti on of punishment for the defendant, who appeatied dreadfully agitaledduring the reading of the evidence, and wept and sobbed aloud. The sentence was not expected to be passed till 4,144- hour. TarLoa V. nosTocK AND ornEsg. Mr. D. PoLtocit moved to make a rule obtained on a former day in this civ , e absolute. Mr. PArnsolf showed cause against the ' .-rule. The 'Conn were asked to set aside the proceedings,in this case on the ground of irregularity in serving pro4cBB. What 'was that irregularity? why, merely serving the iwrit, which , Vas'direeted to the Sheriffs of London, upon the Men .dattt, when he was on the Surrey side of the ,water ; but he (Mr. P.) should submit that the defendaretti bad waived their *right to take advantage of this irregularity, by allowing several days to elapse before they made this ap plication. . After some conversation between Mr. Baron llmocx itud•Mr. PATTISON, the rule was made absolute. PREROGATIVE COURT. IN THE GOODS OF LORD LTTTLETON, DECEASED. Dr. LUSHINOTON said he was instructed, by the consent of all parties, to move the Court that it would order pro bate to he granted to certain testamentary papers, in the hand4riting of the late Lord Lyttleton. His Lordship died on the 12th November, 1828 ; he was at the time of hie death, and 'bad been for some time previous, a lunatic. In the year 1826, a Omunission de Lunatico Inquirendo Passed the Great Seal, which declared him of unsound mind, and incapable of managing his affairs since the year 1825; A Committee was accordingly appointed, who immediately took possession of all Tipers,and documents. One paper was found indorsed in the hand-writing of his Lordship, "My last will." There were several other sealed packets found endorsed "Codicils tcv my will." There was also, at the time of his Lordship's decease, another Paper found, containing instructions ' to his soli . eitor, respecting the will, which was dated . 71 1794, the paper was endorsed, " This paper is to he given to my solicitor after my decease ;" bat as it was only dated in 1827 the Court could not take cognisance of i t , his Lordship being at that time a lunatic ; the real Property of his Lordship amounted to about 30,0001., on w hich were incitmbrances to nearly 20,0001. ; the will • appointed the I , lob. Mr. Legge and Mr. Fullmer execu tors:. the l a tt e i gen tl eman di e d b e f ore hi s Lordsh i p, and Air.. Legge had since renounced administration ; the next o f kin was, however, willing to accept probate. The Learned Counsel, therefore, prayed the consent of the Court. • Sir Jolts NICHOLr. decreed accordinely, granting pro bate of all the papers in the band-writing of the deceased to the next of kin. Ht. FARQUHAR'S WILL.-..COLVIH V. FRAZER. Dr._ Lustilxvrow, who was heard on the last Court day, in behalf of the next of kin, this morning resumed his arguments, the Learned Advocate was proceeding when our Reporter left. • SIR. kJ tiONNELI I , MX. A a quarter past two o'clock yesterday, an immense crowd of the lower o rders asaeinbled outside Mr. O'Connell's house, in Mer -1;1°n-square, for the purpose of witnessing his 'departure. 0 !.H0O. Gentleman appeared at half-past two, and took Ml ESeat in tbo dickey of his coach, and having bowed Neve- Sal tinies to tbe mob, set off at a rapid rate for Howth, f°ll °lvoi by as many of the multitude as were able to keep up with the carriage. He wore a blue cloak, blue cap w ith a band of green and gold.—Saunders' News Letter of Saturda y. The letters received this morning from Cux haven, to the 2d inst. represent the frost as having been more Z ev ere, and the ice h eav i e r- an d thi c k er i n th e Elbe, th an "ad been known for many years, and it was feared some time ninstelapse before that rimer would he navigable. • - 'meeting took place ion Friday we ek a4Ascot-lieatli, between Alfred D--s--n, Esq., and F.!:ancie P—s --t, Esq., a foreigner; the former accom- P j ahied by Capt a i n W—d, and the hitter by a foreigner of " 41 0 r; . on.'‘ On the signal being given to fire, Mr. D. fired in t air, anil-Mr. 1 3 .'n ball entered the ground about g r ip inches oin Mn. D.'s feet. Here the seconds inter . and atte ted to settle the affair; but Mr. P. in sisred o n their aga n, taking their ground. Mr. P. fired With Out taking effect ; but Mr. D's ball taking his • , • ° Prinnent's left hand, shattered it in such a manlier, that • • f or first and third fingers were obliged to be immediately. ; Atp ktated. LThis was an affair of some standing, and P. had conic to England from Lausanne for the ex i:teas purpose of challenging Mr. D.l—Windsor Express. SIR WALTER SCOTT.—" Sir Walter 'Scott 'B'antvingaged in writing his life, of which more than 100 .pages are already printed. It is to be prefixed to a new editio n of hiictiovels, beginning with Waverley, and to be PUblished in numbers, or volumes, in a neat small form, f d moderat e i n p r i ce . S ome va l ua bl e no t es are a l so t o i tt ' added to each work . :- A third series of the Chronicles " also in a forward state.:' (The above has conic to us an onymously; we have marlejnquiry into the facts, and are enabled to state, that Sir ) 1 1 7 4ilter Scott is not writing kis life; but will, with the new edition of the novels our correspondent describes, pretty accurately give an account • of various circumstances - connected with their origin, .Which will no doubt interest the public. Anne of Geren , nein is the novel our correspondent alludes to, and which he Will find announced by name at the beginnink of the second .. .eriett of Tales of a Graudfather.—Scotsman.) TIIE MAMCP.T.g.-(TIIIS DAY.) )k;\ The supplies of all kinds ,4f Corn last week ;t•er;, There was also a good quantity of Floor both Eii;Oisli and American. This morning there is a moderate slow of samples fresh up of most descriptions of Grain. The Wheat trade is extremely dull to-day, and unless for the j.rbnest parcels, may be reported Is. to 2s. per quarter cheaper. Barley is so plentiful that to make sales 2s. per quarter less must be taken. New Beans are abundant, and is. to 2s. per quarter lower, but Old are unsaleable. Boiling Pease continue in the same dull state. There is a better demand for fine Grey Pease at last quotations. The trade for Oats does not keep pace with the supply, and a reduction of full Is. per quarter is submitted to without making much pro= greys in sales. The Flour trade is nearly stagnated, and a decline from the nominal price is leoked for. PRICES ON ROARD OF SIIIP Wheat % Red (old) —s. —s. .......•••••••• Red (1828) .., 50s. 565. --- Fine sBs. 62i. ------ Superfine 6ls. 70s. --White (1828) sls. 665. Fine... llls. 725. Superfine.. 765. 80s. ---.-Foreign free :•2s. S&L Rye 3Bs. 425. Barley New tns. 30s. Fine 325. Ms. Superfine lds. 395. Malt s6s. 60s. --- Fine 6ls. 665. Pease, Grey - Maple 4ls. 425. -- White Boilers Beans, Small (new) 335. 425. (old) .... —s. —s. Tick (new).... 31s. :3;ls. • (old) .0.3,':s liatrow (new) 335. 375. (old).. 40s. 42s Bran k 9 45. 2Ss. Oats, Feed New lss. 235. -- Poland New 16s. 25.5. Potatoe 4.•6 Nets 225. 265. 275. 3i 13s I9s 2fis. Lek) 70s 756. 60s. Ms. dry 58s. 635. 9s. 10s. botch Irish Flour Town (per ea Seconds ----- North COUII Bran ARRIVALS OF GRAIN IN LONDON DURING LAST WFICK. 0 W ''S Z r w n 2, 0 From Whence. :-, 1.-- F 6' :r, g .3 r • : 1 --- --- --- Qrs. Qrt. . Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. or,; Scks. A hibormigh lOl 1230 10 67 135 lioston Bridlington . 407 C. h ich estei Clay. : c Colcheiter • ) Harwich 3 ) Leigh 593 N;5 —37 S 448 ; 4 (.111.a1d0n 416 132 200 191) 262 211 199 Hastings llO _ _ Hull —l 230 849 —l 1 72 Ipswich — 121 2535 , 57 20 743 Kept .., .. , I ~s , ,t, 42/ 19 i .N.q 409 418 716 Li verpoof . Lynn — 781 1 —I" 791 15 1 890 Newcastle — 396 .... Poole — '7 27 Sind li wold : — 315 Spalding Wells - 990 250 Woodbridge 6O 1014 . 115 33 in 480 Yarmouth — 580 2166 1005 Aberdeen — 3815 Banff — '2333 Berwick Dunbar — 52 35 Dundee llO 2210 9 2601 6877 . 6036 16509 1946 1467 6781 I R(SII Dublin Dundalk — 1000 391 Galway l3O 4715 510 Limerick — 11105 172 Newry — 1050 Sligo — 330 100 Waterford — . 415 235 Youghall — 1416 FotiEtnN. Aalborg Baltimore — 1639 Bayonne Bon rdeau x — 150 Carol ienzicl . — 255 Charente Copenhagen l`9o 250 8 Etliden — 570 Genoa Gothenburg 5lO 563 ' 925 248 Leghorn 2106 Marseilles B7O „ Naples New York ...... - 2120 Narrkoping Ostend Ph i ladelpl iia Rochefort Spain _ 6630 -- 50 Sven berg — 1250 Coastways 21 Total ... 16375 7690 6936 45353 2201 1717 13831 AGGIREGATP Itye. 345—Tares QUA TITY 0: •Linseec F OTHI d, o—. SK KIN •fapesei DS OF PULS: -Bran] : , o - stard, r, '5O. SMITHFIELD MARKET. . . At this day's market, which was moderately well sup. plied throughout for the time of year, each kind of meat met with a steady sale—Beef at a depression of about 2d. per stone, Mutton, Veal, and Pork, at Friday's prices. PRICES PER STONE OF SLES• TO SINK THE OFFALS. s. d. to s. d. Inferior Beasts 2 4 '2 S Second quality ditto 3 0 3 6 Prime largo Oxen 4 0 4 6 Prime Scots, &c 4 6 4 10 Inferior Sheep 2 8 3 2 Second quality ditto 3 2 3 10 Coarge-woolledditto 4 0 4 6 SoutlidownWethers 4 8 5 0 e. d. to s. d. Large Lambs 0 0 0 0 Prime small ditto 0 0 0 0 Large coarse Calves 5 2 5 8 Prime small ditto 6 0 6 4 Large Hogs 4 4 5 0 Small Porkers 5 2 5 6 Suckling Calves 12s to36s. each. Quarter old Pigs 16s to 20s. each. SUPPLY, AS rim CLERK'S STATEMENT. Beasts. I Sheep. I Calves. I Pigs. 1 2,61 18,120 120 130 About 700 of the beasts came up the different North Roads; about 250 from the western and midlagd districts ; about 850 from Norfolk, Suflblk, Essex, - alibi Cambridgeshire; about WO from Kent and Sussex • and most of the remainder f rom th e mars h es, &c., in the neighbourhood of London. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL MARKETS. At per stone, by the Carcass. s. d. to s. d. s. d. to s. d. Beet 2 2 3ln I Veal Mutton 2 6 4 4 Pork FISH-MARKET, BILLINGSGATE. . -- - This morning's market exhibited a good supply of all kinds of fish, which met with a ready sale. The follow ing were the prices : Prime Turbot, each Ditto small, per do. 7 0 10 0 CA-fish, each 6 0 18 0 Soles, per three pairs Fine Whitings, per 15 4 0 15 0 Scate, each Haddocks, per dozen 2O 0 21 0 Brill, each Ournotts, each Live flounders, per quariern Live Eels, per slb Du!ch Plaice, per basket 3 0 7 0 Fine Lobsters, per score 45 0 50 0 Inferior ditto lO 0 .20 0 Shrimps, per gallon 2 6 3 0 Fine Yarmouth Red Herrings, per hun•ired 7 0 8 0 Scotch ditto 6 0 7 0 Cod :3ounds, per barrel Pickled Herrings, per 100 0 0 6 0 Best Common Oysters, per bushel Natives COUNTRY CORN MARKETS. NEWCASTLE.UPON-TYNE MARKET —Feb. 7. We had a fair supply of Wheat and Oats to-day, wit out any fresh foreign arrivals ; sales in the former wi steady at last week's prices, and in the latter brisk at trifling advanco. Fine British Barley in good demar but . nothin g d oing i n i n f er i or or f ore i gn, except f or gr i n mg: No alteration in other articles. W New. O. Wheat, Northumb er l and 704. 766 . 706. 525. Norfolk and Suffblk 644. . - Berwick and Scotch, 695. 72c .........• Dan tzig 795. 82s. Itye, Norfolk and Suttolx .325. 4.05. Foreign —s —4. 3ls. 40s. Barley, Malting, Norfolk and Suffolk 345. 40s. - Grinding and Feeding Vs. 3ts. 60s. (its. B M e a a l n t, ,, N s o m rf a o l l i k and Suffolk 36.5. 38;....... — 4 . .—s. ' Tick Pease, White 3(is 40s. Gray —s. —(, Oats, N rthumbcrland, Potatoe 2Gs. 21s. Feed 18s. 21)s. -- Foreign Flour, Fine (per sack) —s —6 s7s 584. 1%1 ANCIIESI ER CORN Al ARKET.—FeI). 7, Since this day week we have had very little business transacted. At to-day's market we had a good attendance, and a fair business done in Wheat, at about 30. per '7olb. below last week's currency. Grinding Barley is dull, and a trifle lower. Oats are the turn cheaper. Blue Pease were in good demand, but White are in slow request, and Gil. to 90. per bushel lower. Beans have again fallen Is. to 2s. quarter. Malt is still very dull, even at a decline of 2s. Fine Flour is full 2s. per sack cheaper Oatmeal is dull, but without variation in price. Customary Bushel. Wheat. (7011).) a. d. to a. d. English, Old ..11 0 11 3 Fine New-----. 10 9 II 0 Second Runs—AO 6 10 8 Scotch & Welch 10 3 10 11 Irish, Fine Old . . 9 ft 10 6 New--- 9 0 10 3 Inferior 8 9 10 0 Foreign, Free ll 0 11 6 Barley (00lb ) English, Fine Irish Qum'. of Blmp Bush, s. n. to s. .1. 79 2 81 11 i 7 4 79 2 75 7 7% 9 73 9 17 4 6S 1 75 7 64 9 73 9 6t 0 64 9 79 2 52 9. sM c , , .c „ ft 0 0 :t - Inferior for grinding Oats (1.51 b.) English, Fine Poland - Sostch, I'otatoc Irish,'for Alealing 53 5 6 50 5 2 41 7 43 4' 36 4 38 1 31 8 35 9. Ua ~ C7y rroveulcr Foreign, (hap. Pugh.: Blue, (boilers) White (ditto) ------ ;leans (Imp. Or.) 6. d. t(l English, 45 0 43 4 9 42 4 9 3 10 4 0 3 8 3 10 00 0 0 '6 4 ( 6 s. d. (l'er S 16 0 Flour, 31 8 35 5' 31 1 35 5 23 7 29 10 27 4 28 7 - 0 -0, 5?. 0 64 0 48 0 5440 ck 2801b5.) s. d. to s. d. or folk and —••:---: Inferior—. 4'2 0 44 0' - Suffhlk,Fine 55 0 57 0 Irish, Old--.....--- 41 0 42 0 Yorks., Fine 54 0 56 0 Foreign Malt (per load of 6 Imp. Bush.) Irish, Fine....'56 0 57 0 Nottingham, One.. 47 0 48 0 Superfine 60 0 62 0 Yorkshire -- 46 0 48 0 —Heated or stale 50 0 52 0 Irish and Inferior.. 36 0 39 0 • Per load of 2401 b. l'or Sack of 280Ib. Imp. Flour,Notts. Fine 36 0 57 0 —Scotch & Iri4ll 38 0 39 0 ------- Sup. 59 0 60 0 --.----.-- Feeding 37 0 30 0 CONFESSIONS OF BtinKt. AUTHENTICAM BY HIS OwN SIGNATURE. (From the .Ediaburgh Evening 'CoOrant.Y The following is the doctiment Which we have had fin Snine time itt obi p , P , +essit,ii, - tit SUbj(OlllM a 43C-& simile of lint ke's writing, from a passage in the Con fessions written in his own hand on the 21st January. The words printed in italics were added 4- hinitelf in the 11113, Abigail Simpson was murdered on the 12th February, 1828, on the forenoon of the dap She resided in -Gil merlon, near Edinburgh ; has a • daitghter living there.- - - She used to sell salt and can:stone. She was decoyed in by Hare and his wife on the afternoon of the 11th Feb., and he gave her some whiskey to drink. She - had Is. (Id. and a can of kitchen-fea ;. Hare's Wife gave her la. 6d. for it: she drank it all with them. S;he then said she had a daughter. Hare said he was a single man, and would marry her, and get all the •money amongst them. —They then propo,ed to her to stay all night, which she did, as she was so drunk she could not go home; and in the morning was vomiting. They then gave her some porter and t-hiskey, and made her so &mirk that she ardeep on the bed. Hare then laid hold of her mouth and nose, and prevented her from breathing. Burke held `her bands and feet till she was dead. She made very little resistance ; and when it was convenient, they carried her to .Dr. Knox's dissecting-rooms: in Surgeons'-square, and got 101. for her. She had on a drab mantle, a white grounded cotton shawl and small blue spots on it. Hare took all her clothes and went out with them ; said he was going to put them into the Canal. She said she was a pensioner of Sir John Hay's. (Perhaps this should be Sir John Hope.) The next was an Englishmen, a native of Cheshire, and a lodger of flare's. They murdered him in the same manner as the other. He was ill with the jaundice at the same time. He was very tall ; had black hair, brown whiskers mixed with grey hairs. He . used to sell spooks"' in Edinburgh; was about forty years of age. Did not know his name. Sold to Dr. Knox for 101. The next was an old woman who lodged with flare for one night, but does not know her name. She was mur dered in the same manner as above. Sold to Dr. Knox for 101. The old woman was decoyed into the house by Mrs. Hare in the forenoon from the street. when Hare was wor?imua, the boats at the Canal. She gave her whisky, and put her to bed flit e At last she was . so drunk that she fell asleep; and when hare &fife 'home to his dinner, he put part of the bed-tick on her mouth and nose, and when he came home at night she was dead. Burke at this time was mending shoes ; and Hare and Burke took the clothes off her, and put her body into a tea-box. Took her to Knox's that night. The next was Margaret Paterson, who was murdered in Burke's brother's house in the Canongate, in the month of April last, by Burke and Hare, in the forenoon. She was put into a tea-box, and carried to Dr. KIIOX'S dissect ing-rooms in the afternoon of the same day ; and got Si. for her body. She had two-pence halfpenny, which she held fast in her hand. Declares that the girl Paterson was only four hours dead till she was in Knox's dissecting room ; but she was not dissected at that time; for she was three mouths in whiskey before she was dissected. She was warm when Burke cut the hair off her head ; and Knox brought a Mr. —, a painter, to look at her, she was so handsome a figure, and well-shaped in body and limbs. One of the students said she was as like a girl he had seen in the Canongate as one pea is like to. another. - They desired Burke to cut off her hair; one of the students gave a pair of scissors for that purpose. In June last, an old woman and a dumb boy, her grand son, from Glasgow, came to Hare's, and ''were both mur dered at the dead hour of night when the woman was in bed. Burke and Hare murdered her the same way as they did the others. They took off the bed. clothes and tick, Stripped off her clothes, and laid her on the bottom of the bed, and then put on the bed-tick and bed-clothes on the top of her; and they then came and took the boy in their arms and carried him ben to the room, and murdered him in the same manner, and laid him alongside of his . grand mother. They lay fur the space of an hour and then put them into a herring barrel. The barrel was perfectly dry; there was no brine in it. They carried them to the stahle till next day; they Put the barrel into Hare's cart, and Hare's horn was yoked to it; but the horse would not drag the cart one foot past the Meal Market, and they got a porter with a burley and put the barrel on it. Hare and the porter went to Surgeons'-square with it. Burke went before them, as he was afraid something would happen, as as the horse would not draw them. When they came to Dr. Knox'idissecting-rooms, Burke carried the barrel in his arms. The students and them had hard work to get them out, being so stiff and cold. They received 16/. far them both. Hare was taken in by the horse he bought that refused drawing the corpse to Surgeons'- square, and they shot it in the tan-yard. He had two large holes in his shoulder stuffed with cotton, and covered over with a piece of another horse's skin to prevent them being dis covered. Joseph, a miller by trade, and a lodger of Hare's. He had once been possessed of a good deal of money. He was connected by marriage with some of the Carron Company. Burke and Hare murdered him by pressing a pillow on his mouth and nose till he was dead. He was then carried to Dr. Knox's in Surgeons'-square. They got 101. for him. Burke and Helen M'Dougal were on a visit seeing their friends, near Falkirk. This was at the time a procession was made round a stone in that neighbourhood ; thinks it was the anniversary of the battle of Bannockburn. When he was away, Hare fell in with a woman chunk in the street in the West Port. He took her into his house, and murdered her himself, and sold her to Dr. Kriox's assist ants for 81. When Burke went away he knew Hare was in want of money; his things were all in pawn. But when he came back, found him have plenty of money. Burke asked him if he had been doing any business ? He said he had been doing nothing. Burke did not believe him, and went to Dr. Knox, who told him that Hare had brought a subject. Hare then confessed what he had done. A cinder-gatherer ; Burke thinks her name was Effy. She was in the habit of selling small pieces of leather to him, as lie was a cooler, she gathered shout the coach works. He took her into Hare's stable, and gave her whisky to drink till she was drunk ; she then lay down among some straw and fell asleep. They then laid a cloth over her. Burke and Hare murdered her as they did the others. She was then carried to Dr. Knox's, Surgeons' Square, and sold for 101. Andrew Williamson, a policeman, and - his neighbour, were dragging a drunken woman to the West Port watch house. They found her sitting on a stair. Burke said, " Let the woman go to her lodgings." They said they did not know where she lodged. Burke then said he would take her to lodgings. They then gave her to his charge. He them took her to Hare's house. Burke and Hare mm dered her that night the same way as they (lid the others. They carried her to Dr. Knox's, in Surgeons' Square, and got 10/. Burke being asked, did the policemen know him when they gave him this drunk woman into his charge ? He said he had a good character with the police ; or if they had known that there were four murderers living in one house they would have visited them oftener. James Wilson, commonly called Daft Jamie. Ilare's wife brought him in from the street into her house. Burke was at the time getting a dram in Rymer's shop. He saw her take Jamie off the street bare-headed and bare-footed. After she got him into her house, and left him with Hare, she came to Ry►ner's shop for a pennyworth of butter, and Burke was standing at the counter. She asked him for a. dra►n, and in drinking it she stamped him on the foot. He knew immediately what she wanted him for, and he then went after her. When in the house, she said, you have come too late, for the drink is all done; and Jamie had the cup in his hand. He had never seen him hefiire to his knowledge. They then proposed to send for another half mutchkin,which they did, and urged him to drink ; she took a little with them. They then invited him ben to the little room, and advised him to sit down upon the bed.— Hare's wife then went out, and locked the outer door, and put the 'icy below the door. There was none in the room but themseiVes three. Jamie sat down upon the bed. He then lay down upon the bed, and Hare lay down at his back, hil head raised up and resting upon his left hand. Burke was standing at the foreside of the bed. When they had lain there for some time, Hare threw his body on the top of Jamie, pressed his hand on his mouth, and his nose with the ether. Hare and him fell off the b 'd and strug gled. Burke then held his hands and feet. They never . quitted their grip till he was dead. He never got up nor cr i e d an y. When he was dead, Hare felt his pockets, and took out It brass snuff-box and a copper snuff-spoon. He gave time s poo n to Burke, and kept the box to himself. Sometime after, he said he threw the box away in the tan-yard; and the brass box that was libelled against Burke in the Sheriff's• office was Burke's own box. It was after breakfast Jamie was enticed in, and lie was murdered by twelve o'clock in the day. Burke declares, that Mrs. Hare led poor Jamie in as a dumb lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep to the shearers ; and he was always very anxious making inquiries for his mother, and was teld she would lie there imme diately. He does not. think he drank above one glass of whiskey all the time. He was then put into a chest that Hare kept clothes into ; and they carried him to Dr. Knox's, in, Sorgeons'-square, that afternoon, arid got 101. for litui. Illirkegare Daft Jamie's clothes tb hi6hrother's Children, they *ere almost naked ; and when he untied .the bundle they were like to quarrel about them. The clothes of the Other rhiih!ered petSonS were generally de- Struied, ttt preient detei;tlOn. Ann 111.13otidal; a cousin offt•feri formiir husband. She was a young woman, and married, and h carne on it visit to gee theM. Hare and Burke gave her Whiskey till sht Was drOnk, and whthi in bed and asleep, Burke tole, flare that he Wotild ha 4 .'e must to do to her, as she being a distant friend he did not like to begin first nn ker. Hare murdered her by stopping her breath, And Burke assiSted hini the same iitav is the others. One of Dr. knok's assistants, Puter.;'nit, goYe theiti a fine trunk to put her into. It was in the afternoon when she was done. It was in John Broggan's house; and when Broggan came home from hiAivork be saw the trunk, and Made inquiri e s about ht kne* they had no trunhs there. Bilike then gave lihn two or three drams, as there was always plenty of whiskey going at these times, to make him quiet. Hale and Burke then gave him H. 10s. each, as he was back in his rent,, for to pay it, and he left Edinburgh a fee; days after. They then carried her to Surgeoiis'-stitiate as soon as Broggan went out of the house, and got 101. for her. Hare was cautioner for Broggan's rent, being 3/., and Flare and Burke gave him that sum. Broggan went off in a few days, and the rent is not paid yet. They gave him the money that he might not come against them for the murder of Ann MiDougal, that he saw in Lis trunk, that was murdered in his house. Hare thought that the rent would fall upon him, and if he could get Bus be to pay the half of it, it would be so much the better ; and proposed this to Burke, and he agreed to it, as they were glad to get him out of the way. Broggan's wife is a cousin of Burke s. They thought he went to Glasgow, but are not sure. Mrs. Haldane, a stout old woman, who had a daughter transported last summer from the Calton Goal for fourteen yea rs, and has another daughter married to -, in the high-street. She was a lodge.' of flare's. She went into llare's stable, the door was left open, and she being drunk, and fielling asleep among some straw, flare and Burke mur dered her the same way as they did the others, and kept the body all night in the stable, and took her to Dr. Knox's next day. She had but one tooth in her mouth, and that was a very large one in front. A young woman, a daughter of Mrs. Haldane, of the name of Peggy Haldane, was drunk, and sleeping in Brog gan's house, was murdered by Burke himself, in the fore noon. Hare had hind he it. She was taken to Dr. Knox's in the afternoon in a tea-box, anetse. She was so drunk at the time, that he thinks she • was not sensible of her death, as she made no resistance whatever. She and her mother were both lodgers of Hare's, and they were both of idle habits, and much given to drinking. This was the only murder that Burke committed by him self, but what Hare was connected with. She was laid with her face downwards, and he pressed her down, and she was soon suffocated. There was a Mrs. Hostler washing in John Broggan's, and she came back next day to finish up the clothes, and when done, Hare and Burke gave her some whiskey to drink, which made her drunk. This was in the day time. She then went to bed. Mrs. Broggan was out at the time. Hare and Burke murdered her the same way they did the others, and put her in a box, awl set her in the coal-house in the passage, and carried her off to Dr. Knox's in the after noon of the same day, and got Si. for her. Broggan's wife was out of the house at the time the murder was committed. Mrs. Hostler had ninepence halfpenny in her hand, which they could scarcely get out of it after she was dead, so firmly was it grasped. The woman Campbell or Docherty was murdCred on the 31st October last, and She was the last one. Burke de clares, that Hare perjured himself on his trial, when giv ing his evidence against him, as the woman Campbell or Docherty lay down among some straw at the bed-side, and Hare laid bold of her mouth and nose, and pressed her throat, and Burke assisted him in it, till she was dead, Hare was not sitting on a chair at the time, as he said in the Court. There wore seven shillings in the woman's pocket, which were divided between Hare and Burke. That was the whole of them ; sixteen in the whole ; nine were murdered in Hare's house, and four in John Brog gan's ; two in Hare's stable, and one in Burke's brother's house in the Canongate. Burke declares that five of them were murdered in Hare's room that has the iron bolt on the inside of it. Burke did not know the days nor the months the different murders were committed, nor all their names. They were generally in a state of intoxication at those times hut they were all from the 12th February till Ist Novem ber, 1628 ; but he thinks Dr. Knox will know by the dates of paying him the :none) for them. He never was concerned with any other person but Hare in these matters, and was never a resurrection-man, and never dealt in dead bodies but what he murdered. He was urged by Hare's wife to murder Helen APDongal, the woman he lived with. The plan was, that he was to go to the country for a few weeks. and then write to Hare that she had died anti was buried, and he was to tell this to deceive the neigh bours; but he would nut agree to it. The reason was, they could not trust to her, as she was a Scotch woman. Helen M'Dougal and Hare's wife were not present when those murders were committed ; they might have a suspicion of what was doing, but did not see them done. Hare was always the most anxious about them, and could sleep well at night after committing a murder; but Burke repented often of the crime, and could not sleep without a bottle of whisky by hie hed-side and a twopenny candle to burn all night beside him ; when he awoke he would take a draught of the bottle—sometimes half a bottle at a draught—and that would make him sleep. They had a great many pointed out for murder, but were disappointed of them by some means or other ; they were always in a drunken state when they committed those mur ders, and when they got the money for them while it lasted. When done, they would pawn their clothes and would take them out as soon as they got a subject. When they first began this murdering system, they always took them to Knox's after dark; but being so successful; they went in the day-time, and grew more bold. When they carried the girl Paterson to Knox's, there were . a great many boys in the High School Yards, who followed Burke and the man that carried her, crying, " They are carry ing a corpse ;" but they got her safely delivered. They often said to one another that no person could find them out, no one being present at the murders but themselves two ; and that they might be as well hanged for a sheep as a lamb. They made it their business to look out for persons to decoy into their houses to murder them. Burke declares, when they kept the mouth and nose shut a very few minutes, they could make no resistance, but would convulse and make a rumbling noise in their bellies for some time; after they ceased crying and making resistance, they left them to themselves; but their bodies would often move afterwards, and for some time they would have long breathings befOre life went away. Burke declares, that it was 'God's providence that put a stop to their murdering career, or he does not know how far they might have gone with it, even to attaqiiseople in the streets, as they were so successful and always :net with a ready market ; that when they delivered a body they were always told to get more. Hare was always with him when he went with a subject, and also when he got the money. Burke declares, that Hare and him had a plan made up, that Burke and a man were to go to Glasgow or Ireland, and try the same there, and to forward them to Hare, and he was to give them to Dr. Knox. Hare's wife always got , 1/. of Btirke's share, for the use of the houss, of all that were murdered in their house ; for if the price received was 10/., Hare got 6/. and Burke got only 4/. ; but Burke did not give her the 11. for Daft. Jamie, fur which Hare's wife would not speak to him for three weeks. They could get nothing done during the harvest time, and also after harvest, as Hare's house was so full of lodgers. In Hare's house were eight beds for lodgers ; they paid 3d. each ; and two, and sometimes three, slept in a bed ; and during harvest they gave up their own bed when throng. Burke declares they went under the name of resurrection men in the West Port, where they lived, but not murderers. When they wanted money, they would say they would go and look for a shot ; that was the name they gave them when they wanted to murder any person. They entered into a contract with Dr. Knox and his assistants that they were to get 101. in winter and Si. in summer for as many subjects as they could bring to , them. Old Donald, a pensioner, who lodged in Hare's house, and died of a dropsy, was the first subject they sold. After he was put into the coffin and the lid put on, Hare un screwed the nails, and Burke lifted the body out. Hare filled the coffin with bark from the tan-yard, and put a sheet over the bark, and it was buried in the West Church yard. The coffin was furnished by the parish. Hare and Burke took him to the College first ; they saw a man there, and asked for Dr. Monro or any of his men ; the man asked what they wanted, or had they a subject; they said they had. He then ordered them to call at 10, Dr. Knox's, in Surgeons'-square, and he would take it from them, which they did. They got 71. 10s. for him. That was the only subject they sold that they did not murder, and getting that high price made them try the murdering for subjects. Burke is thirty-six years of age, was born in the pari:.h of Orrey, county Tyrone; served seven years in the army, inost of that time as an officer's servant in the Donegal militia; he was married at Ballinha, in the county of Mayo, when in the army, but left his wife and two ail- dren in Ireland. She would not come to Scotland with him. He hail Often wrote to her, but got 'net answer; be came to Stattland to Work at the Union Canal, and wrought -there while It fete 1; lie resided for about two years in Peebles, an I worked as a Irtbrforet: Hie W6rke►l as a weaver for 18 months; and as a bak,r for five rtattiths ; he learned to ,mend shies, as a colder, with a man he lodged With in Leith ; att4 Ire haS tired with flekn M'Dougal about IC years, until he and she :'.'ere confined in the Calton gaol,- on the charge of murdering the wonian of the name of Docherty, or Campbell; arid both wete tried before the Iflgh c►mrt of Justiclq'y, in Deceinbet last. Helen 111`Dougal's charge was not proven, and fl rl a found guilty, and sentenced to stiffer death on the 28th January. Declares; that Hare's servant girl could g;i'e lnformation 1 - t•V:.'etin4 the Manatees done in flare's house, if she 1:1-te0. She came to hini at INlhsonday last; went to harvest, and returned back to hiM when tl;tt harvest was over, She rethainedOultil lie was confined, along with his wife, in the Calton taol. She then sold 21 of his swine for and absconded. She Wa3 gathering potatoes in a field that day Daft Jamie was murdered eat t'llW his clothes in the house when she came home at night. fief- nettle is Eliialieth M'Guier• or Mail.. Their wives saw that people came into thvir houses et night; and went to bed as lodgers, but did not see them in the morning, ntir did they make any inquiries after them. They certainly kneW What became of them, although Iluike and Hare pretended to the contrary. Hare's wife often helped Burke and Hare to pack the murdered bodies into the boxes. Helen . .I%l`Dottgal never did nor saw them done, Burke never durat'let her know ; he used to smuggle and drink, and get better victuals unknown to her ; he told her he bought deA bodies and sold them to doctors and that was the way they got the name of resurrection-men. APPREHENSION OF MARTIN. (Front the Second Edition of the Leeds Mercury of Saturday.) Jonathan Martin, who stands charged with Intvitig stt fire to York Minster, on the night of the Ist of February instant, was apprehended near to Hexhant, on Friday, the 6th inst. and lodged in the House of Correction at that place. CURS. JNO. NEWSTEAD, Clerk of the Liberty of St. Pea. Residence, York, Saturday Morning, Miff-past Ten o'Clock. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. HUNTING INTELLIGENCE. A proth i . .z . l7s ,p rott THE ENSUING WEEK. His Majesty's Stag-hounds, - ‘,7. , M onda y , Brook ; and Friday, at Lo ng f or d %-t 'olf-cst ten. If at Two•mile not prevented by the weather they will meet at;h place the following day. a same The Cadbury Harriers, on Monday, at Milborne Wyke; and Thursday , at Cucklington. ___ • The Wortesterhhire Fox-hounds, on Tuesday, at Wor (Teter Perry Wood ; and Friday, at Goose-hill—at half. past ten. The Gransdcn Hounds, on Monday, at Toseland Wood ; and Miday, at Potton Wood—at ten. The Vuekeridge }founds, on !Monday, at Wadesmill Wednesday, at Mann( ; and Saturday, at Throcking-, at half-past ten. The Brighton Harriers, on Monday, at Patcham ; Wed nesday, near the Race Course ; and Friday, at the Dyke— at half-past ten. . _ " The Brookside Harriers will continue to meet every Monday, at Newmarket ; Wednesday, at the Lewes Race Course ; and Friday, at Telleseombe Tye—at half-past ten. The Royston Harriers, on Tuesday, at Meldreth ; and Thursday, at Therfield-mill—at half-past ten. Lord Yarborough's Hounds, on Monday, at Aylesby Village; Wednesday; at Kirmington Vale; Friday, at Binbrook-bill ; and Saturday, at rye-hall —at eleven. The Blackmoor Yale Hounds, on Tuesday, at Batcombe Wood; and Friday, at Halfway-house, Compton—at ten. Sir John Cope's Hounds, un Monday, at the Black Horse, Caversham; Wednesday, at the Red Lion, Basildon ; Friday, at Compton ; and Saturday, at Rieder mill— at ten. The East Sussex Hounds, on Monday, at Nutley; Thursday, at Southease ; and Saturday, at Blatchington Downs—at a quarter before eleven. Mr. Freeman's Harriers, on Monday, at Charlton ; Wednesday, at Curbridge-gate ; Friday, at Challow bridge ; and Saturday, at Clantield—at half-past ten. Mr. Meynell's Hounds, on Monday, at Egginton ; Thurs day, at Eton Wood; and Saturday, at Hoareross—at half past ten. The Westacre Stag-hounds, on Monday, at Swaffham Race Course; and Friday, at Hi'borough Swan—at half past ten. Mr. N. Villebois's Harriers, on Tuesday, at Oxburgl; Ferry ; Thursday, at Foulden Common ; and Saturday, al Swaffham Race Course—at eleven. Mr. Allen's Harriers, on Wednesday, at Blackborough ; and Friday, at Shernborn—at eleven. The Shropshire Hounds, on Monday, at the fifth mile stone on the Baschureh-road ; Wednesday, at Halston ; Friday, at Pethian's-gate ; and Saturday, at Shaivhury White-gate--at half-past ten. The Quorn Hounds, on Monday, at Steward Hay's House ; Tuesday, at Cotes-turnpike ; Thursday, at Great Dalby ; and Friday, at Bunney Park —at half-past ten. Lord Anson's Hounds, on Monday, at rrineethorpe Vil lage; Wednesday, at Shnekhurgh-hill ; Thursday, at Bourton ; and Saturday, at the Black Dog—at half-past ten: Lord Scarborough's Fox-hounds, on Monday, at Aston ; Wednesday, at Finningley-park ; Friday, at Clayworth ; and Saturday, ut Wadworth Wood—at half-past ten. The Pladsworth Fox-hounds, on Tuesday, at Cusworth park ; Thursday, at Bolton-bridge ; and Saturday, at Cud worth Village—at half-past ten. Sir Geo. Sitwell's Fox-hounds, on Tuesday, at Hollin wood Common ; and Thursday, at Mosbro' Moor—at ten. Mr. Dansey's Hounds, on Tuesday, at England's-gate— at ten. ANATOMY.—We are glad to learn that an arrangement is now making, for investigating the connec tion betwixt Burke and Hare and the anatomists, which we have no doubt will bring every important fact to light, and set the public mind at rest upon a subject which has been the source of many painful, and probably of many idle rumours.—Scotsman. HARE.—It was mentioned in our last, that Hare, the West-port homicide, was detained on a fusga warrant, granted at the instance of Daft Jamie's relations, but, contrary to all expectation, the warrant was with drawn, and he was liberated on Thursday evening. Being a remarkably dogged fellow, he did not manifest the slightest appearance of feeling either of joy or apprehen sion, at his liberation. Not a sentence did be utter worthy of repetition. He• left the pri , on in custody, or rather under the protection of a trusty servant of the Magistrates, who left him at some distance from town. For the pub lic information, and f,r the special comfort of all who en tertain the slightest fears of a recommencement of the Burking system, we may mention that Hare will, in all probability, be in Ireland, hi s na ti ve ki ng d om, b e f ore Sun day night. —Scotsman. Hare was liberated on Thursday night, when he set off by the Dumfries mail. • The coach arrived there yesterday morning about seven o'clock, and although there was no intimation of his arrival, he was recognised by some persons in the town, on which a crowd speedily col lected, who assailed him with stones and other missiles, which compelled the miscreant to take refuge in the King's Arms Inn. He was lift locked up in the inn, round which a great concourse of people had collected, when the mail which, arrived here last night passed through between seven and eight in the morning. From the determined appearance of the crowd, the most serious consequences as to the fate of the wretch were entertained.—Edinburgh Evening Courant. The following has been detailed to us as the manner in which the first murder tuns committed. The quarter from which it has reached us is such as makes it worthy of credit. Hare and Burke were sitting together carousing at Hare's fireside—both considerably the worse of liquor, when a poor woman (Abigail Simpson, rt•e pre sume), who had formerly been a lodger of Hare's at a penny per night, r. as asleep in bed and breathing heavily, upon which Hare remarked, "Do you hear that ?-1t would not be difficult to t die her where we took Donald." Burke acquiesced, and suggested the method adopted by Hazeal when he destroyed Benhadad, the King of Assyria, by dipping a cloth in water, and covering the mouth.— This was no sootier hinted than it was put in praetice.— Edinburgh Evening Cmirant. EXPORTATION OF DEAD BODlES.—Tims day a large hogshead was brought by a carman to a sailing vessel here (we believe the Mary), bound for Glasgow, to be skipped for that pwt, as containing hams. 'A strong smell, however, which proceeded from the cask, cxcited the suspicion of the Captain- as to the contents—examina tion followed, when it was discovered, that instead of hams, the hogshead contained the bodies of no less than seven individuals—four males, two females, and a small . boy. After remaining fiw some time in the Custom hsuse-yard, they received burial in St. Thomas's church yard,—Saunders' News Letter. :. if', SPIRIT OF THE LONDON JOURNALS. (FROM THE TIMES.) We publish to-day what must undoubtedly be thought at the present moment a remarkable and interesting document, being an address from Mr. O'Connell, as 'Representative _ for Clare, to the M_ , ,inhers generally of the House of Commons; and containing an elaborate legal argument on his right to enter that Assembly, and to exercise all the pri vileges of a Member, without previously taking thorqr oaths of which the Catholics complain. We owe it to Mr. O'Connell to acknowledge, that this address is written with temper and moderation, and that his argument is conducted with the skill and Ingenuity of an experienced lawyer. It would be useless for us to offer even a sketch or scanty out line of the reasonings through which the Learned Oentieman arrives at his important conclusion. A hint or two only on that point will suffice, more particularly as we mean to insert in to-morrow's number, the whole of the adverse argument of Mr. Sugden, that the whole question, so far as the pro visions of the statute law are concerned, may thus be placed before our readers, and every one be itt liberty to draw his own inference from the opposing statements. Mr. O'Connell dwells on two or three elementary maxims which he conceives to bear with decisive influence on his case ; as that penal statutes must be con strued strictly, and not extended by implication - ; that affirmative words in an Act ofParliamesrt never take away a common law right; and that the right of an elected representative of a county to sit and vote in Parliament is a' common law right of the highest nature. It appears that the 30th Charles confirmed and strengthened by Ist William and Mary, created the obligation to take the obnoxious 11f o a l r t e i penesanaynd exercised sr b i i f t i e thes, for re rights of Acts upon all recusant members of the English o f o t . t. ' i t s t o: l ': ; : e c r 'el i Ft r i f i7el l irt l s t l irliament, were imposed by the Parlioment down to the Scottish Union. The adoption of these Acts into the 22d article of the Union with Scothtud. rendered Members of the British Parliament liable to the same obligations as those of the English Parliament had been. Thus things stood until the Union between Great Britain and Ireland. Mr. O'Connell insists that no article of the last•mentioned Union imposes t he same necessity as to the taking of oaths as the that neither the time, nor the place, nor the -manner of swearing, is pre;criLei in any part 22d article of the Scottish •:1 1 ) let of union,--md it contains no the sexed to the re : or disability Union had done; ility am • , pursti„ sanction of pens.. , • - the suoject fusal to swear. We pp l ::zi g e ,i ntary . to that of much further. An act su Union, 41st of Geo. 111., •declaresi- h .:t. • air y ,. sons disabled from, or incapable of, being elected, or voting in the House of Commons of Ireland," should be equally so &dm that of the United King dom, Mr. O'Connell gets rid of this by saying, that in such case the Irish House- of Commons, with its Speaker and other incidents, must be re vived, because all Irish members had been com pelled to swear before an Irish Speaker, or to in cur the disabilites. We should apprehend, how ever, that if au act of Parliament enjoins that oaths shall be taken, the usage of Parliament, which is the law of Parliament, and therefore, according to the views of courts of justice, the law'of • the land, might determine the tithe and . Manner of' taking . them. As we purpose to-morrow to give-the opi-- nion of so able and experienced a lawyer as Mr. Sugden, we shall not intrude our own, except so -far as our avowal that we agree with Mr. Sugden. (FROM THE MORNING CHRONICLE.) Among the yarious*.ays of serving a cause, there aro none perhaps more efficacious than the confes sions of weakness which seem to be wrung from op ponents. The statements of a partisan are received with distrust;- but people naturally receive with confidence the admissions of an enemy. The back handed blow of a friend is much more to be dreaded than the open thrust of a foe. We were, therefore, not a little delighted to find that whilst some of the Brunswick papers were indulging in noisy rhodo montades, John Bull, under the mask of devotion to the cause, was doing more signal service to the Duko of Wellington than if he had openly deserted the. Brunswick ranks. " Why, we say, have his Grace and Mr. Peel bee; driven into this ab surd and inconsistent course? . . . This is the cause--the intimidation and division of the Protestants of Ireland, the apathy and negligence of the Protestants of England. It is recorded as one of the tyran nies of bondage, that folks - were required to make bricks without straw, and we read that the task-masters who ought to have furnished the material were the first to attri bute negligence and disaffection to those who had failed to produce the manufacture. - It is impossible to produce ma jorities without votes ; and if the people .of the United Kingdom hsve not felt it la be tfeir -duty to send to the United Parliament representatives of. their sentiments, we cannot see hoW4he Duke of Wellington- and Mr. Peel can be blamed, because, as was stated by the night Hon. Gen tleman, four consecutive Houses of Commons had given a vote in favour of the Roman Catholic claims." This is the true justification of the Duke of Wel lington and Mr. Peel, it is impossible to make bricks without straw, it is impossible to produce majori ties without votes. The King can only act by re sponsible Ministers; the Administration can only govern through the instrumentality of Parliament. The Duke of Wellington had no choice; things:had come to that pass that it was necessary for him either to attempt to strip the Catholics of the power which they had acquired by the relaxation of the penal laws, and to make them once more hewers of wood and drawers of water, or to receive them into the Constitution. The Protestant Noblemen and gentlemen of Ireland called on him to restore to them the influence of which injustice to the Catho lics had deprived them, and which was to be achieved only through concession to the Catholic claims. Such is the statement by John Bull of the force of the circumstances to which the Duke of Wellington and Mr. Peel were compelled to yield. But not content with this piece of service, the writer in John Bull artfully exposes, in a strain of cutting irony, the absurd pretensions of the party, if we venture to call it a party, now opposing itself to the Administration : "Let them (i.e. the people of this united realm) show them selves—let them respond to the call of the venerable Lord Eldon—venerable by his age and his services, but we are happy to say, as young as t wen ty i n s pi r it a nd activity ; let them respond to the call of the Newcastles, the Win chilseas, the Falmouths, and the Chandoses ! let us see bow the case really stands ; let us tell the Duke of Wel lington whether he has before him a slight line of skir mishers, or the embodied force of the nation; let us ac quaint Mr. Peel whether the jury is unanimous, or whe ther one man of stronger voice and stomach - dictates to to eleven oth e r s . Th e d u ty o f a G overnment is to give fair play to opinions, to repre ss b u ll y i ng , to encourage the timid, to ar e ri la ve m a o t ur a a fair re estimateb be our of guides, pu nothing will sentiment—if ever viol be violence and rightly decided ; but, on the other hand, if those who are in the right are timid, or lazy, or venal, the Minister who is to decide from expressed opinion is no more to leo blamed for the result of the contest than the returning officer who casts up the votes at the end of a poll." This is very well timed. The bare statement of the names speaks volumes. Come, ye people of England, Ireland, and Scotland, raise your voices against all the men of any note as politicians in either House ---Ministerial and Opposition —and throw yourselves into the arms of those tried and profound Statesmen, Newcastle, Winchelsea, Falmouth, and Chandos, headed by Lord Eldon, a man eminent, no doubt, as an English lawyer, and formidable as a magogue, but not even possessed of the first ele t,tits of politics. Duringtthe-Whole Parliatiiehlary c.ireer of Lord Eldon, we defy any man to say 'he ever heard one sentence fall from his Lordship which betrayed the slightest acquaintance with any of the great interests of the nation—one sentence in the de bate on any great question which indicated an ap proximation even to the views of a Statesman. He is a mere English lawyer—the greater, perhaps, that he is nothing but a lawyer ; for the English law being a perfect chaos into which a ray of principle never enters, a huge store-house of anomalies, the minds best adapted for mastering it are those which have the least power of generalising. You must r_