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that the c onsequences'of revoking . or executing a judicial sentence must be neither snore nor interest must determine the promotions in gene ral ; and if the son of a Nobleman or commoner, possessed of half a dozen boroughs, enter the Church, it would be deemed an insult to question his fitness for a Bishopric. In the same manner, if a Bishop, possessed of ample patronage, have half a dozen sons and as many daughters, all the sons are found qualified for the Church, and all the men in whom the daughters see the qualifications of husbands are usually presumed also to be able churchmen. The Bar or Medicine requires talents, and there fore this pursuit is not for every child. Trade demands assiduity and sagacity ; and those who do not possess both, are more likely to lose what they began with than to gain more. Agricul ture, too, cannot be carried on without some ability ; and hence we know of a young gentle man, whom his parents were obliged to remove from agriculture, his talents being below the level of a farm, to the study of theology, that he might enjoy a family living. We are far from ' wishing to say, that among so many thousands there are not several able men, but, by the ad mission of those best able to judge, the number is far from what it would be, were livings not disposed of through Parliamentary interest. We say nothing of what is stated by Dr. Arnold, of Rugby, regarding the glaring insufficiency of the education of the clergy. In Dr. Thomson's History of the Royal Society, we are told of the celebrated Halley, that " while Astrono mer Royal, he was frequently visited by Queen Caroline, who was a most distinguished patro ness of literature and science. The late Dr. Maskelyne used to relate a conversation that passed at one of these visits ; upon what autho rity he told it we do not know. Queen Caro line expressed her regret at the smallness of his salary as Astronomer Royal, and offered to use her influence with his Majesty to get it increased. Dr. Halley requested the Queen not to make any such application ; for, said he, the conse quence of an increase of salary will be, that the place will came in time to be bestowed on the younger son of some nobleman, totally unfit for the office, but drawn to it merely for the emolu ments." This anecdote is characteristic. It may be safely laid down, that whenever in this country the reward for any situation exceeds the usual ratio of reward for the description of ability required, it will be seized by the possessors of Parliamentary interest. Talent is not excluded from the Church, but talent is not indispensable in- the Church ; and it is a cushion on which I, the great may very conveniently repose. In vain we blame the Ministry for bestowing their pa tronage improperly. The Ministry can only carry on the business of the country through Parliament ; and so far from Parliament being a check on the Ministry, the latter are the only check the country possesses on the rapacity of Parliament. We look on the various Com mittees appointed from time to time to inquire into the expenditure, as so many devices for re straining, through the sanction of the more wise and virtuous Members, the inordinate eagerness of the mob of Members for the public money. All sorts of livings, ecclesiastical and civil, are insufficient to satiate the ravenous maws of the claimants. Our contemporary remarks with re gard to the Lindsay family, who, by the Bishop of Kildare running his life against leases, have become possessed of 3,0001. a year '‘ at the ex pense of the Church—the Church's tenants," that Dr. Lindsay is one of two, or at most of three," pro-Popery Bishops to be found on the Irish Bench. He is brother-in. law of the good Lord Hardwick ;' and was by that Noble man converted from the Anti-Episcopalian creed of the Scottish Church into an Irish Bishop." But Dr. Lindsay is not singular in his conversion to the Church possessed of good livings. Though out of the, two millions, or two millions and a half of Scotchmen, there are not above Arty thousand Episcopalians ; two-thirds of the gentry are Episcopalian, because, no doubt, the Presbyterian Church holds out no temptation for younger sons. The Presbyterian gentry of England, now a numerous body, have from simi lar motives slid over to the Church. The entry of every country are of the Established Church, when it possesses good livings ; and they are always liberal enough to prefer the creed of a neighbouring Church, when that Church possesses better livings than their own, from which they are not excluded.—Morn. Chron. The letter addressed by Mr. Walker, the Magistrate, to the Guardians of the Poor of the parish of St. Ann's, Limehouse, relative to the administration of the Poor Laws, and which will be found in another part of our Paper, is deserving of serious attention. The worthy Magistrate attacks those laws, both in principle and practice. He avows that he has a " thorough conviction, from long experience, of the impolicy, cruelty, and unchristian tendency, of the Poor Laws." We admit that there is much that is objectionable in the theory, as well as the execu tion of the Poor Law system. We allow that it is calculated to create paupers, as well as pro vide for them ; but still we are not prepared to go the length of Mr. Walker, and consider the 4 1Aition of the system desirable. It seems an obvious suggestion of Christian charity that the State should make some permanent provision for the relief and support of that portion of man kind that are unavoidably reduced to a state of helpless pauperism ; but the condition of such relief should be so limited as not to operate as at temptation and encouragement to idleness, eareless habits, and the satisfied debasement of a servile dependence. If the relief contemplated by those laws were confined within its original limits, and only afforded to the " lame, the blind, the impotent, and the infirm"—to those cases, in fact, where indigence is the result of the act of God, and not of the vice and negligence of man—the principle would be sanctioned by every sentiment of humanity and religion. But when this relief is taken from the active, the moral, and industrious classes of society, to be indis criminately, squandered upon the lazy, the profligate, and extravagant, the consequences are most debasing and pernicious. One of the greatest checks upon immorality and pro 4igal habits among the inferior classes of society, is the consciousness of vicious and idle conduct kleing followed by the bitter sufferings of want and destitution. This is the great law of na ture, which the English Poor Laws, as at pre sent understood and acted upon, may be said to have effectually repealed. Hence much of the demoralization now too apparent among the la bouring classes of this country ;—hence a disre-, gard of character--a preference of the bread of beggary and dependence to that which is honestly earned by the sweat of a man's brow. In this respect, and in payin g a portion of the wages of the employed labourers from the poor-rates, the present system is exceedingly impolitic and dis graceful. There are many other defects and , abuses, but none equal in importance to those which we have mentioned. The reprobation which Mr. Walker flings upon the Poor Laws is too sweeping and indiscriminate. It is clear that he has not sufficiently thought upon the less than those which he anticipates ; but we ac knowledge that our fears are strong of the results to be lookerl for from refusing an extension of mercy to the convicts above alluded to. We fear the effects of their death by the executioner, because that portion of the public on whose minds it is v.ished to operate by an example of signal punishment, will be apt to more than doubt that the punishment has fallen upon guilty men, and will therefore only feel compassion for the victims, mingled with indignation against the authors of their suffering. We believe that there is no question as to the general prevalence of a per suasion that Leary and his alleged accomplices were not found guilty by due course of law,—that is to say, on incorrupt and indisputable evidence. If, then, the multitude be not satisfied that the punishment has been deserved, is it credible that they should accept it for themselves as a warning against criminal courses ? They will not, in such case, remind each other that conspiracy and murder are certain roads to the gallows, but that as innocence_is no protection, there may be better policy in crime. So much for the ap pearance of this execution to the people, and for its probable effects upon them. But there is a still more important view of the matter—we mean not its apparent, but its real justice. To our minds there presents itself the most per plexing doubt whether these four men could have been guilty of the atrocious purposes wherewith the informers charged them. Two subsequent juries disbelieved the evidence on which the verdict of the first was given. From the delays which have taken place since the close of the trial, it is obvious that such doubts must have been shared by those official persons with whom would rest the final decision of Government. Had the case been a clear one, sound policy re quired that the culprits should have been hanged at once. But since the difficulties of the ques tion have been grave enough to occupy Govern ment for about three weeks, the wretched men ought, we submit, to have the benefit of so much procrastination, and to escape a punish ment which, after the hopes engendered by the suspension of it, might be almost termed cruel. It is said that Leary has got a reprieve until April, but that the rest are likely to be executed. As at present instructed on this subject,we would earnestly deprecate any such discrimination. The case of Leary cannot in common sense be sepa rated from that of his companions. The same evidence affects them all, or ought not to affect any of them ; and Leary, if guilty, was, consi dering his age and station, even more guilty than the others. But we do still trust, that under the circumstances, Government may be able to reconcile with their sense of duty a pardon for all the prisoners.—lbid. The Standard of last night has the following observations on the state of the Church Estab- lishment : " We are Church Reformers, as sincere as the Earl of Mountcashel himself. We think, however, that we further the Reformation, so much to be de sired, more .effectually, by directing the attention of the public to specific cases of neglect or abuse, as they arise, than by general accusations. We have not scrupled to arraign the besetting sin of the Eng lish Bench—the neglect of the zeal and talent by which the literature of the country has been adorned, the safety of the Church as a temporal establish ment assured, and the best interests of religion pro moted. This is a guilt by which, if it be per sisted in, the Church (we still speak of the tempo ral establishment) will fall, because it ought to fall. Whether it proceed from nepotism, or an aristocratic spirit of caste, perfectly disgraceful in any one, and most sinful in a churchman, we are unable to say." Bishop Warburton writing to Hurd, so far back as 1752, says— " Reckon upon it, that Durham goes to some Noble Ecclesiastic. 'Tis a morsel only for them. Our Grandees have at last found their way back into the Church. I only wonder they have been so long about it. But be assured that nothing but a new religious revolution, to sweep away the frag ments that Harry the Eighth left after banquetting his Courtiers, will drive them out again. The Church has been of old the cradle and the throne of the younger Nobility. And this nursing mother will, I hope, once more vie with old imperious Berecvnthil:— Lmta Deum partu, centum complexa'Nepotes Onmes Ccelicolas, omnes supera alga tenetites." You mention Noah's ark. I have really forgot what I said of it. But, I suppose, I compared the Church to it, as many a grave Divine has done be fore me. The Rabbins make the Giant Gog or Magog contemporary with Noah, and convinced by his preaching. So that he was disposed to take the benefit of the Ark. But here lay the distress : it by no means suited his dimensions. Therefore, as he could not enter in, he contented himself to ride upon it astride. And, though you must suppose that, in that stormy weather, he was more than half-boots over, he kept his seat, and dismounted safely, when the Ark landed on Mount Ararat. Imagine now to yourself this Illustrious Cavalier, mounted on his hackney, and see if it does not bring before you the Church, bestrid by some lumpish Minister of State, who turns and winds it at his pleasure. The only difference is that Gog believed the Preacher of Righteousness and Religion." We ivill not offer such an insult to the un derstanding of our contemporary as to assume, even for the sake of argument, that he really conceives it possible that, under a Constitution like ours, valuable preferments in the Church, any more than in the State, should be given to men merely on account of their merit. Far be it from us to pretend to say what the English Constitution is. This, however, may be said of it, that, in order to command majorities in Par liament, the various offices in Church and State must be distributed among those possessed of votes, or form part of the machinery through the instrumentality of which men possessed of votes find their way into the Legislature. It does not follow that all Bishops, Dignitaries, and holders of rich livings in general, must be noble, or even of the gentry ; but if they are not themselves highly connected, and possessed of Parliamentary interest, they must be favoured by those possessed of such interest, in conse quence of services as tutors, or early friendship. The presumption is, that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred the best livings will fall to the lot of stupid men ; because in the families of those possessed of Parliamentary interest, there must be numerous individuals unable to make their way in the world by their talents, for whom livings in the Church or lucrative situations un der Government are especially desirable, and it is not to be expected that the claims of strangers should be attended to in prefer ence to the claims of kindree.. Whoever has read the Correspondence of Lord Collingwood, must have been struck with the constant lamenta tions of the veteran that the navy was filled with men utterly useless, whose only claim to their situations was Parliamentary interest. His Lord ship continued at sea year after year, while the state of his health urgently demanded a little re pose ; because, in the multitude of Admirals cre .ted through interest, there was not one to whom, at that time, the safety of a fleet could be entrusted. In the Church, there must be one or two men in it to redeem it from utter worthlessness, just as there were Nelsons and Collingwoods in the Navy ; but Parliamentary ' subject to be competent to distinguish between the use and the abuse of the original plan for the support of the poor. He c onfounds the good with the evil, and expresses his censure in a i manner which shows that his opinion s less dictated by wisdom than influenced by pre ' judice.—Morning Herald. The Lord Chancellor, we are happy to per ceive, has given a severe rap on the knuckles to the Commissioners in one of the bankrupt lists. As a punishment for an alleged neglect of their business, his Lordship has ordered them to re fund all the fees which they previously had re ceived, and has transferred the bankruptcy in question to another list, and only in mercy spared them from paying all the costs to boot.-- This is as it should be. If men are paid for duties which they do not perform or complete, surely it is fit that such payments should be re funded. But then—refunding !—what a word for the ears of a lawyer ! It never before was heard, we believe, within tha walls of Westmin ster Hall, as applied to the profession itself; the descent into which, for money, is as easy as a certain other descent, described by Virgil, but the return as difficult, and hitherto as impos sible. It may be very agreeable, no doubt, for Learned Gentlemen to enjoy the long vacation, an enjoyment not a little heightened, we pre sume, by the means of doing so, even should such means be gathered from the wrecks of in solvency—but then, what these same persons call the quantum tneruit ought not to be lost sight of; and if both creditors are kept out of a dividend and bankrupts deprived of their certifi cates, that those who are paid for forwarding both the one and the other may enjoy a learned leisure, it savours rather too much of the well- known line— ., And wretches hang that Jurymen may dine." The Lord Chancellor, therefore, is, we think, entitled to the thanks of the community for put ting his finger upon any instance approaching to this, when made apparent to him. We do not believe, if common report is to be credited, that the instance is singular; and we trust, therefore, that, though the punishment is confined, the effect will be general, and that this will be looked upon as one of those examples of a severer kind, which are sometimes recommended to be made " pour encourager les autres."—lbid. A great deal of misconception appears to pre vail on the subject of the Spanish expedition to Mexico, and, the chances of success to which it may be fairly considered to have a claim, and which it may not be unimportant to remove. At the time of the first intimation of the expedition, we laid before our readers several valuable ar ticles from a correspondent, who was, from the knowledge of the country and of the people of Mexico, peculiarly well fitted to give an opinion on the subject ; and we may now repeat, that the tenour of these communications afforded no ground for crediting the success of the invading expedition, unless, in the first instance, it suc ceeded either in corrupting the Mexican General or raising up a party in the interior favour able to its views. It is true, that we men tioned at the same time, as some ground for apprehension, that the most influential Mexicans sighed after the titles and dis tinctions which they would enjoy under a mo narchical government, and that many of them were not only desirous, on that account, of see ing the ancient regime restored, but that were the Spanish Government to relinquish its claim of suzeraiuete, and to send them Don Francis de Paul as their future King, there could be little doubt of his elevation ; but now, on the one hand, the fidelity of Santa Anna appears to have restrained the silly longings of the Mexican Chiefs ; and, on the other, the Spanish Govern ment has hitherto refrained from taking the only step which, as we then stated, offered a plausible ground for anticipating success. We consider, therefore, provided the Mexical General continue to prove faithful, the result of the Spanish expedi tion as already certain and decided. The clergy have no influence in Mexico, nor indeed in almost any part of South America, beyond what is fairly their own, as the result of an assiduous discharge of their duties, and for a reason the very reverse of that which gives their brethren such undue and pernicious influence in Spain and Portugal—they are remunerated by stipu lated salaries, as in France, and do not derive their revenues, as in Spain and Portugal, from endowments of land, or other property. The clergy, in a word, are not wealthy ; and being also not very eininenttly distinguished for learn ing, exert but a very feeble controul over the opinions and actions of the people. Their in fluence, therefore, though no doubt exerted in favour of the ancient regime, is scarcely worth being placed in the scales, and is no doubt also paralyzed, in part, by the dread of incurring the vengeance of the State, from which they at pre sent derive their revenues.—Morn. Advertiser. On Saturday night, in the pit of the Adelphi Theatre, a gentleman named CHARLES HINDE was robbed of his purse, containing eight and a half sovereigns, a 51. Bank of England note, dated 27th of August, 1829, No. 13,342, and a Si. note of the Andover bank, payable at Messrs. MALTERMAN and Co.'s, London. The lace factory established at Mount Ken nett, under the auspices of a spirited Englishman, already employs upwards of 300 children, all girls, who are thus saved trans the many evils incident to idleness and vagrant habits.--Limerick Chronicle. RAILWAY THROUGH THE KINGDOM.— The experiments that have taken place show how desirable it is that a line of railway should be constructed, if pos sible, through the island, from south to north, or at all events from London to Edinburgh. A work of this kind would be of prodigious importance, not merely for the purpose of facilitating the ordinary intercourse which takes place between different parts of the country, but also in a political and military point of view. In case of in vasion or internal commotion, the whole disposable force of the country could, with the aid of such means of con veyance, be brought to act on any given point in an amaz ingly short space of time; a circumstance which would enable Government considerably to diminish the number of troops, which, under other circumstances, they might be compelled to keep up. It appears to us, that in order to secure the execution of a work of such first-rate im portance, Ministers ought to cause a survey to be made of the best line which presents itself for the formation of a railway, such as we have described, without paying the slightest attention to the town or districts near which or through which it may happen to pass. A power should he obtained from the Legislature, to grant a certain sum per mile to any company, who, being about to construct a railway, would make it wholly or partly upon the line laid down, and in a manner which should be prescribed to them. By the adoption of this plan it is probable that a considerable portion of the national railway might be constructed at a moderate cost ; and the remainder then be completed at the public expense. If some plan of this kind be not adopted, it is probable that many railways will be so formed as to afford little assistance in the construction of that national work, which, at some period or other, mast be undertaken.-4 1 ranchester Paper. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL. John Denaird and Francis Robinson (the latter a silk manufacturer at Hackney, the former a wee• ver) were brought up on suspicion of having stolen, or knowingly received, a piece of gros-de-Naples, the property of Messrs. Eastman and Hill. The prisoners solicitor put various questions to the witnesses, to show that it is impossible for a ma nufacturer to identify his goods after they are out of his keeping. Mr. Alderman GARRATT thought of getting over this difficulty by admitting Denaird King's evidence, to show that the piece he sold at Ellis's was the same he had received from Robinson. Denaird, however, when sworn, proved not only this, but that he seen the piece in the course of ma nufacture at Robinson's premises. An old man, named George Ferry, also (with considerable hesitation) swore that he had been em ployed in manufacturing such a piece at Mr. Robin son's, but it was, he said, impossible to swear to anything after it left the weaver's hand. The Alderman, after deliberating upon the evi dence some time, discharged the prisoners. BOW-STREET. Mr. HALLS was engaged until past five o'clock in disposing of several cases in which the Mint were the prosecutors. Thomas Middleton, the creole, who was taken into custody on suspicion► of being concerned with Johnson and his gang, and charged with having one half-crown, four shillings, and a sixpence, all base money, sewed up in the lappel of his coat, was fully committed for trial for having counterfeit coin in his possession with the intention of passing the same. The prisoner begged hard to be allowed a few minutes' conversation with Mr. Powell, solici tor for the Mint, for the purpose, it is supposed, of making some disclosures connected with the mode in which he had been so deeply engaged, but that gentleman did not think proper to accede to his re quest, and he was accordingly sent to Newgate to await his trial. Johnson and Reilly, who were taken into cus tody by Mr. Thomas and his men, in a room upon the first floor of the house No. 37, Bed fordbury, on the morning of Monday, were also fully committed to Newgate for trial, charged with having in their possession twenty-one shillings and thirteen sixpences, all base money, with the intention of passing the same. The fe male prisoner, Mary Johnson, was discharged, there being no evidence tending to fix a charge upon her, further than her known connexion with the gang. It was erroneously stated at the first examination that she was the wife of the prisoner Johnson. It appears she is his daughter. Johnson is not the per son who was tried at the Old Bailey, and acquitted by the Jury on account of the manner in which the prosecution was got up by the officers of the Mint, but he is the brother of the individual, and both have long been known to the police. Daniel Flynn and Ann Flynn, alias Ann Cox, were charged with having in their possession several moulds, made of plaster of Paris, and also a variety of implements for coining, for the purpose of making counterfeit money. The prisoners were taken into custody by the officers of the new police, on the first floor of a house in Church-lane, St. Giles's. In searching the room the plaster of Paris mould s and other implements of coining were discovered under the bed of the pri soners. It was alleged, however, by the prisoners, that these implements were placed in the room for the purpose of trepanning them; ar►d there being no evidence to negat►ve that assertion, or tending to prove that the prisoners had a guilty knowledge, Mr. Powell said, that in justice to the public on the one hand, and the prisoners on the other, the case should undergo the strictest inquiry, for which purpose a statement, detailing the pecular facts con nected with it, should be drawn up, and laid before his Majesty's Attorney-General ; and with this view he (Mr. Powell) requested that the prisoners might be remanded for a week. The male prisoner hoped that his character would be inquired into. Mr. HALLS assured him, that not only had that been already done, but further inquiries should be made upon the subject ; and in remanding the case for another week, he felt that no injustice could arise to the prisoners; but that, on the contrary, they might be materially benefitted by the delay. Several minor cases of passing base money were afterwards disposed of. MA RLBOROU GESTREET. Yesterday a very fine-looking young man, a pri vate soldier in the Ist Regiment of Grenadier Guards, was brought before Mr. CONANT, the sit ting Magistrate, in custody of one of the new police constables, upon the following charge : Mr. Greet, one of the overseers belonging to St. George's parish, Hanover-square, stated that about seven o'clock on the evening of last Saturday week, this soldier came to the parish workhouse in Mount-street, bringing with him in his arms a re markably fine male infant about five weeks old, and which he said he had just then picked up in Hyde Park, close to the statue of Achilles, where he found it deserted. Not cloaking the truth of the roan's story, the child was of course taken into the work house, and proper care taken of it ; and as it was so very young, it wus deemed proper to christen it, as it was not known whether or not it had already un dergone that ceremony, and it was accordingly christened by the names of " Hyde Park," from the place in which it was found. Since then, how ever, it was discovered thas there were some grounds to suspect that the soldier knew something more about the child than he had chosen to tell, and an inquiry being set on foot, it led to the man's being taken into custody and brought before the Magistrate. 'When the soldier left the child at the workhouse, Mr. Greet said he gave his own name " John Powell," which now turns out not to be his real name. The soldier, on being now questioned by the Ma gistrate, said that it was true he was, to the best of his belief, the father of the child, and he never had picked it up at all in Hyde Park, as he had stated at the workhouse; but he took it to the work house, as he was advised to do, not knowing how else to dispose of it, he being a single man, and having no means of taking care of it himself. The fact, he said, was, that on the evening in question the mother of the child, whom he had not seen for many months before, called on him at the canteen at the barracks, and said, that she had brought him his child to look at, but did not give the slightest intimation of any intention to desert it. Until that evening, he said he did not know that she had had a child at all, but when she told him that it was his, he did not doubt it, because there was a possibility of its being so. While at the canteen they had something to drink together, and the mother sud denly placing the child on his knee, told him to hold it while she retired for a moment, but she never afterwards returned, and left the infant altogether on his hands. Not knowing what on earth to do with the child, he consulted some of his acquaint ances, and they advised him to take it to the work house; fearing, that if he told the truth, they would not take the child in, he said that he had picked it up in Hyde Park. The Magistrate asked the prisoner if he knew were the child was born ? The prisoner said, that he really did not know. All that he knew about it was what the mother told him, which was that the child was born its the workhouse of Marylebone parish, on the 10th of October, but whether that was true or not he could not say. The Magistrate inquired who the mother was, or where the prisoner had ever lived with her? The prisoner never did live with the mother any where, and all he knew about her was, that she told him her name was Ann Crawley. The Magistrate asked where he had known or beeome acquainted with her? The prisoner about ten months ago was quartered with his regiment at the Tower, and while there he accidently became acquainted with the mother of the child, who lived at the time as cook in the service of the Rev. Mr. Mann,'who resides atißankside, but having left the Tower soon after, lie saw nothing of her until she brought the child to the canteen and left it on his knee, as he had stated before. The prisoner was then discharged, bis command ing officer having undertaken that he shall be forth coming at any time he may be required. WORSHIP-STREET. Yesterday James Udderhill, a postboy, in the employ of Mr. James Painter Davis, of the Bell Inn, at Bromley, in Kent, was brought before Mr. BENETT, in custody, from the Kingsland watch house, charged with having wantonly endangered the life of Mr. Deacon, proprietor ofLthe White Horse Inn, Cripplegate. It appeared, that about eight o'clock on Monday evening, Mr. Deacon was in his chaise, driving to his country residence at a place culled the Seven Sisters, near Tottenham, and was met near Kings land-crescent by the prisoner and two of his fellow servants, who had been post to Stamford-hill, anti were then returning to Bromley with the horses. The prisoner, the foremost of the three, drove his pair of horses with such violence against the chaise, that Mr. Deacon was thrown into the road upon his head, and carried in a state of insensibility, to the Red Lion public-house, where he was put to bed, and still remains in a very serious state. A gentleman passing near the spot at the time of the occurrence, saw the horses driven rapidly to wards the chaise, and heard a voice call out " pull up." That was almost instantly followed by a crash, and Mr. Deleon was thrown head-foremost out of the chaise with such violence that for some time the witness thought he was dead. Collar and Prince, two of the Hackney patrol, also gave evidence as to the prisoner's driving his horses against the chaise, and proved that the post-boys were very drunk. The chaise was stated to be broken to pieces. Mr. BENETT asked if Mr. Deacon's life was con sidered in danger. A certificate from Mr. Towne, the surgeon who attended him, was produced, from which it appeared that the concussion had been so violent, that there was still some danger, and he could not at present be removed from the public-house. The prisoner was therefore remanded, until a more favourable account could be obtained of Mr. Deacon's condition. UNION-HALL. Yesterday a journeyman baker, named Bland, vas brought before Mr. CHAMBERS, charged with embezzling divers sums of money, the property of his employer. Mr. Harper stated that the prisoner was employed in serving the customers with bread each morning, and it was his duty to receive payment, and account for all monies received by him to his employer. Re cently the prisoner had complained to • his master that some of the customers neglected paying their weekly bills, some owing to indisposition, and others to disappointment in money affairs. One of the customers in particular, a Mr. Montague, who was hitherto most punctual in his payments, the prisoner represented had not settled for some weeks. Al though the circumstance rather surprised the com plainant, yet he made no inquiry to ascertain the real fact, until within the last few days, when it was discovered that Mr. Montague had regularly paid the prisoner the full amount of his baker's bill. This fact was completely proved by that customer pro ducing the different receipts signed by the prisoner, in all amounting to upwards of 81. odd shillings. There were several other cases against the pri soner, but the Magistrate said that be should com mit him on this; and, in the event of an acquittal, which was not very likely, the individuals required to prove other charges of embezzlement against him might attend the Sessions on the day of his trial. Mr. Harper declared that there was no class of tradesmen in the metropolis who suffered more than the bakers, for they were continually exposed to the plunder of dishonest journeymen. The Magistrate readily bel►eved the assertion, for he was aware that scarcely a week elapsed that journeymen bakers were not committed front the bar of that office for robbing their employers, although severe examples had been made of several of the of fenders. TOWN-HALL Sarah Winson, the young woman whose mu was reported yesterday, as being at the point of death in consequence of an unfortunate dispute with her bro ther, expired at seven o'clock yesterday morning. Her last words were, " Oh ! have mercy on my poor brother : it was not his fault, but mine." Al derman SMITW had sent orders to Mr. Law, the keeper of the Borough Compter, to show the pri soner every leniency the nature of the case admits of. The body lies for a Coroner's Inquest. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY Nov. 17. DUKE OF ST. ALBAN'S V. DUCHESS OF ST. ALBAN'S. This case arose upon the will of Lord Vere, who bequeathed certain furniture, plate, and other chat tels, to trustees upon trust, to permit his wife to use and enjoy the same during her life; and after her death, that his son should enjoy the same effects ne r o o h t j o s time be Lord sole during his life ; and after t h e death of the survivor, in trust v tfor Vere, the testator'sersr persons as should i n t f i m motive for making such d is p osition b e in g , that the chattels should from t ime to time g o with the title , and be enjoyed by suc h p ersons as sh ould bear that n, time ad title, so far as the rules of law and equity would permit. The matter first came under discussion before the Master of the Rolls when Vice-Chan cellor, and he decided that the bequest in the will constituted a direct gift, and that there was nothing exec utory in it. After the testator's death, a great grandson was born, who, upon the deaths of those to whom the previous enjoyment was limited, be came entitled to the chattels. The rules of law and equity did not permit hini to be limited to the use and enjoyment only ; but he took an absolute interest, and that interest, his Honour decreed, was now vested in his representatives. Against this de cision the present appeal was brought, and having been partly argued yesterday, the discussion was to-day resumed. The present Duke and Duchess of St. Alban's were parties to the suit, but had no real interest in it. The LORD CHANCELLOR would consider the mat ter, and give judgment on a future day. There was no business of general interest before the Court. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Nov. 17. At the sitting of the Court, the Hon. C. Lew took the usual oaths as King's Counsel. WHITEHEAD V. WATKIN. Mr. BROUGHAM showed cause against a rule ob trined by Mr. Alderson on the part of the defen dant, to stay proceedings in this action, which was brought to recover the amount of an attorney's bill for business done for the defendant, in an action at his suit against a person of the name of Askew. The COURT, after hearivg some of the particulars stated in the plaintiff's affidavit, referred the case to the Master. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Nor. 17. SMITH AND ANOTUEIt V. MOON. This was an action of trover brought by the plaintiffs, as assignees of Bulcock, a bankrupt, against the defendant, to recover the value of some prints, which it was alleged were the property of the assignees. It was contended on the part of the defendant, ►hat no act of bankruptcy had been committed by Bulcock. It was proved, ►hat after attending a meeting of his creditors convened for the purpose of effecting an arrangement with them, Bulcock was absent from his house between every meal, and that he was twice denied to persons inquiring for him, whilst talking to an attorney on business. But it was insisted that he had merely done this in conse quence of being engaged in making exertions to effect the desired arrangement with his ereditorv° The Jury found for the defendant. Mr. Serjeant ANDREWS now moved fora rule,l4: show c a us e why th e verdict should not be set a r " and a new trial granted. The COURT refused to d;sturb the verdict.. CHEROKEE AND CREEK INDIANS•`' The following statement of the relations he,; tween the United States and the Cherokees sn ' Creek Indians, and the treatment of the Mori' ainal race by the European intruders, who h a t e. become their masters, is taken from the Cherol Phcenix—a Paper published in the English e° Cherokee languages, and conducted by wr ite , r9 of the Indian nation. The Government r Washington is endeavouring to persuade or Duerr awe these two nations to give up the land th e / possess at the West of Georgia, and, with that view, have offered them an exchange of it for • greater quantity, but of much inferior value, 431 the Arkansas River, a north-west branch of i t ' the Mississippi, into which it falls by two mouths, inclosing an Island. The tempere and clear manner in which the Cherokee di! cusses the subject, and states the facts, ralex the highest honour on him, and makes us ree that a people, already so improved in civiliSsr tion, should be driven again into the wildernej, and, by what is tantamount to brute force- 6 4 expression of the wish of a superior—depri l f of the advantages they have acquired by livnig on their present territory, and the increased v ilue that belongs to it from the growing populatiea by which it is surrounded, merely that th e . Georgia treasury may pocket the produce of th e . industry ,Tf hhe e llon o cd f ail tl niais articlesituation intelligent ios f tot ht Cherokee. ahtisceoffenucttr effect: (t h e 13 , on the Arkansas) cannot bear a comparison w i th the Cherokee lands this side of the Missi s a i ll in any respect, and it will be a barrier that ever remain to prevent the improvement of Pr country. It possesses no allurements to incltlO Indians to better their condition, but the revere", surrounded as they are by every species of ilr trigue and imposture—infested by roguish a re laws from all parts of the United States, togethe! with the various remnants of Indian tribes, whe are not stationary, but rove from place to ph' e in quest of game or of booty, and who think l a great honour to be stiled a great horse thiC. I saw many Indians of various tribes, such sr Osages, Peoles, Peyanshaws, Miamies, Sena° Shawnees, and Delawares, and various other i e tP The Delawares claim to be the Grand Fath r f e all Indians, and imbibe more enmity agains t white people than any other tribe. They °II cry with anguish when speaking of their powerful nation. he Our brother Cherokees have obtained al l lands that are of any consideration on the ..:; kansas River, from Fort Smith westward 0, 1 ' 6 is, on the north side of the River). From ° 0 Smith to the Creek Agency is about sixty' miles, the full length of the nation up and dons the Arkansas river, but between those two P, Ol ° J , I do not recollect seeing any good uPlar:o6 Good land is entirely confined to the Arks ll ,) and its tributaries. Water (that is good 1 01 ' 0 ,' is also very scarce in most part of the west country. There are hardly any s trearnS ho 1" water, and those of considerable size, but are subject to have standing pools in dry sessf:a and, in fact, the Arkansas River itself aPre!'' pi last nogol rto winter almost ver s a sr absorbed tp resents i n her nothingsa nd . in o s f tr a u l c l t r i e v g e i ; on b s ut m e o v s e t ry un t i i n li v n i g tin tp o b ,: 7.o : culated to dull the faculties, depress the 1 1 "--' and to suppress all those finer principles O. 11:: mind so essential to the maintenance of airy and good order in society. the From State Fortof three-quarters M • but mountaito country in the universe—nothing i Smith Missouri u w r a i t s o i s i t n s h e f e o v r e ll in n ° L e y r d t - i s i e b w v y e e n s t t ho c miles e l.a . e r r p ; if other country this side of the Mississippi. Thtee, accompanied brambles extent.surveyor, I t t h j e s t i t np t d iv e e a d s t u h n e i k o e o so r eP tii following up the north. western line of the St il s o until it strikes the old territorial line, and t er , following the slid line to the Arkansas Il y a you would pass over nothing but barren 134, and extensive prairies, almost boundless in,:tig tent. Within this circumference there are 31)0vco two millions and a half acres of land. Theo. down the Arkansas to the mouth of the Ca t o dian river, up the same until north and 0 0, line from river to river will make the sev en ,, o s e lions of acres (see late Treaty), which w ill of far west as to clash very much with the the Creeks ; and it must strike the river s. i d. distance above where the Creeks were loca_log This fact was no little dissatisfaction e w ois, them before I came away ; and not only 0 04 but they considered themselves sadly disale in regard to the nature of the country. n The truth is, they (the Creeks) have %We rantee to any land in that country ; all the , wr is a mere promise of the Government O ee. ' shington Treaty, 1826). All the land th r e ke claim by the promise lies between the Ve t in' river and the Arkansas, and a part of i r far' eluded in the Cherokee boundary. d o es not thest settlement from the Cherokee line u° sof A „l o ns exceed twelve or fifteen miles up the 0 for and much farther than that they cannot goo, the grand Prairie, for they already ha ve e interest:too sive Prairies all around and amongst then i. .,, le' The Creeks immediately where they n o / cateci have excellent land, but it is badly for bored f a t h n d ofthe population not extensive i tio,n of re rot enough u nag4 oh a one-fifth e; it is not as large as Creek Path valley. we have settled very densely indeed , but the nit o ff of the country is such that they cannot bane' any distance. BIRTHS. On the 17th inst. at Coolhurst, near Horshanb B°ll° the lady of Arthur Chichester, Esq. M. P., of a 07", On the 12th inst, at Nortnanbv, Lady Sheffield , o r 4 On the 12th inst. at Brockhnrst, nea t. GosP° lady of Lieut. W. Fuller, R.N., of a son. O t On the 16th inst. at Norwood, the lady of T. Gri Esq. of a daughter. MARRIED. On the 17th inst. at St. George's, Hanover-9/10A Dunlop, Esq. of the Grenadier Regiment of Foo t eldest son of Lieut.-General Dunlop , of polorol; Southwick, North Britain, to Charlotte Consto°noe son, younger daughter of Major-General Sir R' Jackson, K.C.B. Ce i DIED. Jol' r n o to s On the 12th inst. in his 64th year, the Non' v vestry, second son of the late and brother of , ' 0 .. Earl of Coventry. f I° Or ,he 16th it. J. R. F. Doveton, Esq' in the .th ins, ~ ___ _. th r* center-place. ~ OLIO On the 13th inst., at Bault, South We'"clor'" second son of the late C. Banbury, Esq., ° I „,cet Halstead, Essex. „. 6 11 '" On the 9th inst. much regretted, Mr. Thote."- 0., of Devizes. f gir On the 11th inst. at the advanced age ° f olio Haley, of Wigmore-street. IP On the 10th inst. Sophia, the wife of gr. of Saffron Walden, aged 31. 0 i ii 6 ..ffit, PAINTED AND PUELIEINED IT MURPO. !Le Tft3SVN OFIMPI, 1114 IMAM) v'" 1