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now would not exceed 3,000,00 N.; but since it is the cornenut.e. The priest or priests of the parish have ' the purpose of concocting those preciotts specimens ce rtain that in the year 17 98 the export of British t he r eg ular ins p ection of the schoolmaster, and are re- of le g al exaction called " bills of costs." The in manufactured goods did not amount to 50,000,000/. quired by the government to see that be does his duty— crease in the numberof attorneys of late years in Lon it is manifest that in time year 182 b it must have while each priest, at the game time, sees that the children don is very great, and in country towns may be judged fallen short of 1,500,0001.! Q. E. D., quoth the of his flock attend regul f arly. After b the i it child .has from of from some facts stated by the petitioner, who t at of s thooo religion ion re e t i o es wh rr h worthy Alderman. And yet these are the men who the tt.e a sc tin lin te a d ster numberand of years s s says that the increase in Liverpool for ten years was vote for paper currency, and would revert to highfrom 93 to 153, in Manchester from 92 to 120, and it belongs, a schoolmaster, and without which it cannot g procure prices, by way of tempting foreignere to purchase a em ,in Norwich from -10 to 77. Now, the question plovment. To employ anv person under terentv-one, al - reater quantity of our goods ! Mr. Sadler's speech without such a certificate, is illegal, and punished by a i comes, how do all those persons find employment deserved particular notice, and Mr. Bating hit the fixed fine, as 13 almost every other offence in this part of and livelihood ? In this profession, as in every read upon the head. He pronounced that the ma e'lrltliny ; and the fines are never re mitted, which makes ' other, there are a certain proportion of respect onfacturing and commercial system was one whieli ' punishment a lways certain. The schoolmaster is paid I able practitioners, who are above the low arts and implied of necessity an exposure to frequent floc- much in the seine way as in Scotland—by . a house, a dishonest contrivances on which their less scrupu• roatione, and to all the distresses resulting from them. garden, and sometimes a field, and by a small salary lous brethren subsist—but a great number are tf we have the principal, we must take the incident ' from the parish, and by fixed rates fo: the children. schemers and adventurers of the lowest dcserip " A second law, which is coeval with the school b l law, likewise. All talk about a medium as the cause of 1 tion. Attorneys of this class were mainly instrii- I r e endere fl it illegal for any young wan to marry t ise.lree is that which exists iii the nature of things themselvesmental in getting tip the machinery of the abo any young wcinan bef o re 5 . . , eig hteen ; is, to the last degree, absurd and mischievousminable joint-stock frauds of the years 1825 and 1 ant e t n a tY y -j oiM e g , o i 7 l - ian, at whatever age he wishes to marry, 1826. There no was hardly one of those things In ‘Vhat fell from Mr. Brougham on Friday night, , must show, to the police and the priest of the 'commune which hadsecretary, I where he resides, that he is able, and has the prospect, to orinan th a e ttoriley as of a salaried reepecting Education, we wtre pleased to rind syrn- one or ' more t ßoard paid Directors, and I provide for a wife and fill:lily." Moms of an improvet', state of feeling in the Clergy Of the schools alluded to by Mr. Brougham the they were almost universally found among the ori of the ChtrsTh bf England regarding the people. most a re o f a v er y wre t c hed d e scription. No pains Igins' concoctors of those robbing inventions. When I * ile arts t ßappy in being able to say, that from the are taken to obtain suitable teachers. The qualif i cation i the schemes fell with a crash to the grou nd, a rot lire laesaidred Clergymen to whom lai had written of the teacher in Germany is not left to accident. There took place among this class of attorneys, and those Wm ttais subject, he had not received six answers, are throughout that country colleges for the formation who did not fly were obliged to have recourse to Vetich he could at tell conceive were unfavourable to of the masters. For instance, there is a College for other modes of picking people's pockets. In this a taeneral ditfasion of education. Such had nor,, the Education of Schoolmasters in a village near the law allows them but too many facilities; but we Ise vevers been the case in 1818, when a great num- Stuttgard, and e v e r y master must be found think it might be a great means of repressing the leer 'or Clergymen had declared their opposition to a thoroughly qualified before he is allowed to take the proceedings of such persons if the Judges - would "e4ntral system of education." It is no doubt pains direction of the most common school. The Go- always mark their sense of such actions as are evi- LI to reflect that it should be necessary, in the pre< vernments of these countries are honest, and sin- dently concocted by attorneys on the speculation of sent day, in a country like England, to argue the cerely desirous of the welfare of their people. The costs—a number of which actions form a consider question whether or not we should communicate in- ohject of Government in England hitherto has been able part of the increased litigation of the day. There struction to the people. One should think that to thwart the wishes of the people for ameliorations is also, in general, too much lenity shown as to those who volatile( for the expediency of withhold- —to leave to discharge themselves, as they best striking disreputable practitioners off the Roll. We in g &one tire people the knowledge, much or little, can, what lire conside r e d elsewhere amon g the hope this subject will not be lost sight of until some which 'they are able to acquire, would be equally moat essential functions of Government, and to wholesome enactment be passed to abate the nui isrePtsrel to maintain that the inlets to knowl e dg e , consider the 'main business of ruling, the finding sance, or, at least, produce some mitigation of this the tenses, ought if possible to be deteriorated, that pretexts for obtaining money and spending i t. great public evil.—Morning Herald. khe distance between the high and low might However, a better spirit begins to actuate public Ti) THE HONOURABLE THE COMMONS F THE be as great .as possible. That Clergymen should mesa, and it would be inju-oice to deny to the pre- La; LT D EI? s Ia Vaj i la , tl 3 )&9 r al . AT E BRITAIN iED. AND IRE.be found tnamtaining that the great body of the sent Administration a disposition to countenance THE HUMBLE PETITION OF ROBERT BROWNE, OF people tatillOt too much resemble the brutes improvement. Whether, however, it Will dare to MARGARET-STREET, CAvENDisH-SQUARE, IN THE that ptolish, and sharing in the horror expressed by depart so far from established usage as to seek to COUNTY OF MIDDLESEE, GENTLEMAN, the Archbishop of Dublin (Magee) at over-educa- introduce a general system of education, or to make Showeth, 4 :-tis,—that this way of thinking should even at on e religion something more than a pretext for obtain- That our petitioner is an attorney and solicitor, ad- 1 mitred and practising in his Majesty's superior Courts at time have been common to Clergymen,—that the ing a certain share of the property of the nation, teachers of religion should deem the ignorance of remains to be seen. Before, however, placing That Westminster.a petitioner his read the Report of the Com their flocks the best preparation for the reception of the ministers of religion at the head of any system inissione ) re u appointed try hie Maje,ty to inquire into the its principlese—will be believed, we trust, in the of education, it would be necessary to afford some course of proceedings in actions and other civil remedies; security to the country that this would not be the and he has next generation, a gross libel on human nature.— also considered the propositions suggested by What a state of intellect must that man have, and blind leading the blind ; for even if we had not the th e m, f o r the alteration, amendment, and improvement in how vitiated his feelings, who can wish to lower valuable testimony of Dr. Arnold, of Rugby, an to the practice, and for the despatch of general business in and degrade any of his fellow-creatures ! Mr. the low intellectual condition of t he C ler gy , the his Majesty's superior Courts of Common Law. Brots , harn said, "he had repeatedly been asked late fanatical exhibitions afford but too decisive a That your petitioner feels it his duty, as a Member of the Profession, to assist by his opinions the means of • Wil e V fie had abandoned the Bill for a general system proof that little benefit is to be expected from giving effect to the important national benefit contem tee education ? He would now shortly state his them.—Morning Chronicle, plated by his Gracious Majesty in this and other inquiries reasons for so doing. When he brought forward his The Bill for the regulating Schools of Anatomy connected with the practice of the Law. propositions, he thought that no general system of &c., was withdrawn on Friday night in the House of That your petitioner respectfully calls the attention of education could be proposed, with any chance of creased. House to the circumstance of the lare g ore d euccess, which was independent of the Established Lords, on an understanding that another, freed from nutnber of practieing attorneys and solic com- Church. He was of the same opinion still, and any some of the objections urged against the present puted to amount at the present time to 2,000 and upwards thing which he had heard or read on the subject would be brought forward next Session. The Duke in the metropolis, and upward, of 6,000 in the country, tended to tohvince him of the correctness of it.— of Wellington, in his usual straightforward and and the average number of applicants annually for admis- The taaasure had been greatly opposed in con- manly way, observed, "he approved so strongly of •sion at 500. . sequence of this opinion, by several reli- time object of the Bill, and of the principle on That this increase must continue under the present con gious sects, and it was principally owing to which it proceeded, that if this measure had come stitution of the prafes-ion, and while the privi'ege of every this opposition that the measure had been with- under discussion it should have had his full interest practising attorney and solicitor is permitted, of taking drawn. He entertained a very high degree of re- in support of its second reading, and he would have f t a t ro n articled o i c .s lerks at one and th i e saute time, without or td. re spect for the Protestant Dissenters, who had always done every thing in his power to amend it in the r e w a n d c i e nitted to standing and e witil t e the right vu of i s ) u ru ch tersons ex trh slim!' themselves the warm anal steady friends of Committee. The reason he was glad it was post- tics accrues immediately on i the expiration of such service P civil and religious liberty ; and it wee principally pored was, that he was aware of the opposition, and and their being of age. owing to their opposition, that he had given way to of the quarter from which it would come, and of the That persons are thereby induced to enter the profession what he could only consider the prejudices of these influence that opposition was likely to have on the with means very incompetent, and, in point of education, people. Whether the members of the Church would opinions of the people of this country, and how de- with attainments very unequal to the exercise of their pro have supported his proposal, he was unable to say." sirable it was to have some means of preventing its fessional duties, upon those principles of conduct which However, the consequence of the attention drawn to effect. Although he would n ot take u p on him- are inseparable from honourable practice, and the welfare the subject has been, that the number of unendowed self the responsibility of bringing forward any and security of their clients. petitioner beiifthat th whatever ee most ta strongly , iinpressed schools in 300 parishes, in 1318, was only 1,400 ; measure next Session, he would co-operate with I with our may oti in ) • originating te In d _ forei a s dv whereas, now, there were 3,200 schools in the same any Noble Lord who might think fit to introduce plated by giving facilities to the means of parishes. Butt still, out of the 1,200 parishes of any measure founded on the principle of this Bill, conducting suits, the only remedy to secure fair s a i n g d s h u o- Ltegiand, there were vet 2,000 without schools of in order to get rid of the evils of the present sys- pourable practice, and the protection of the ptiblic against .ittl• sort. Mr. Brougham said, "he now doubted tern. He would not enter into ti statement of those abuses arising from a desire on business, and the devices of whether it would not be better to leave the subject evils, with a view to show that they most affected needy practitioners, whose only object is to delay the to the feelings of the people of the various districts." the poor, on whom they principally fell, nor would course of justice, will be found in constituting the prat- i There is another reason for remaining inactive a he now attempt to show time benefit they would de- tising attorneys and solicitors a Corporate Collegiate.Botly, l ittle lot4er. The notions of the people of Eng- rive from time encouragement of science. There was placing the regulation for the adiniseion of fit nil proper land ) respecting education, are yet too low to allow no remedy for these evils except that of increasing persons as 31einbers, and the protection of their rights and then to adopt such a measure as would be really the number of subjects liable for dissection ; with- privileges as practitioners, under the controul and Govern beneficial to the people. The teachers themselves out that they do nothing; and their object must be certainmentof a limited nutnberof experienced practiti!hersf require to be taught. Reading and writing do to find out how they do it in a way the least objet- , standing, to be , constituted a . I:resident, Council, d arid Fellows of the Society of Practising Attorneys an not of themselves constitute education ; though a tionable to the feelings arid prejudices of the peo- Solicitors. • number of people seem to think that enough is ple." With respect to the prejudices of time people, Your petitioner therefore humbly prays, that your done when a boy is taught to read and write. The notwithstanding the attempts which have been lion. House will take the premises into your eon loivett of the people might be taught many branches made to excite and encourage them, we do not be- sideration, and adopt such measures for placing the of knowledge which would render them both more lieve that there is much to be apprehended on that practising attornies and solicitors upon an e q ual valuable and more respectable members of society ; account. Whatever is proposed in a country like footing with other Learned professions as to your and we do trot despair of seeing the degrading funa- this, will be opposed by some, especially if they lion. House shall seem meet. tieism ) which is so prominent a feature in the cha- can thereby make themselves of importances, -There And your petitioner will ever pray, &C. racier Of the Englishman of the present day, yield to has been not a little opposition to this measure of a Wilson's Estate Bill is "progressing" (a Yankee more enlightened notions. If England is now very questionable description; bnt we have no fears word) through the House, as reglar as the " most nearly at time bottom of the scale respecting educa- for the result.—lbid. reg'larish" coach (vide Cruikshank). This Bill has, tion, time example of those States where education In the discussion on the Police Bill en Friday eight we understand, reference to that most beautif ul o f has been more attended to will not be lost on her. i n t h e House of Lords, it was observed by Lord ur- all spots round London, Hampstead Heath. If this What has been done in the short space of ten h am , " that if this Bill was adviseable for any thing P ass, the effect, in all p robabilit y , will be that yearsjustifies this expectation. Time indefatigable Hampstead Heath will be covered with houses. if it was for its uniformity of enactments. The preen -111 e Mr. Loudon, the Editor ofj" The Gardener's Maga- of the Bill set forth this, arid yet the Bill was the inhabitants of Hampstead will get up a petition, zinc, and the Magazine of Natural History," and and send it to us, we will insert it ; but, we rearm limited to particular districts, and excluding from the author of many valuable publications on Horti- mend them not to employ an attorney to pen it; its operation one-half of the metropolis. The city culture and Agriculture, has lately communicated for in that case the petition will be so wordy arid and the Bow-street jurisdictions were discrepant. to both the French and English publics an account The judgments in the city were not only the subject obscure, that no person of common understanding of the state of education in Bavaria, Wurtemberg, will be able to make out its meaning. Most peti of reprobation, but they were absolutely ridiculous. and Baden, the results of his eb , ervations in these Those who sat in Guildhall were unfitted by t heir ti ins are penned by attorneys or barri s t e rs, and that countries. The French are behind us, but we are, is the reason they are, take them in general , such education, or rather by their want of education , to it seems, an immeasurable distance behind the peo- abusiness andwordy, rigmarole, strange all-alike things that what superintend the of the Police; an they pie of the South of Germany. were, in fact in the hands of the Clerk." What ! is done commonly with them is, merely to read the , " In no part of Europe (says Mr. Loudon) have we the Ald ermen of the city of London not fit to be title, and down they go under time House of Com. seen, or thought we have seen, enjoyments so generally B ut , molts or Lords' tables.—/bid. diffused as in the countries we have recently passed through, o a Justicesf Peace from want of education ! .--- and more especially Wurtemberg. We entered on those really, is the education of the Unpaid throughout Eeuntries, expecting to find the people not much better off the country so very finished ? We are glad to hear than in France; but we could not resist the conviction, that they are so superior to Aldermen. 1 here can produced by constant observation, and time result of vari- be no doubt, however, that it is most absurd to ea u= enquiry, that comfort and happiness exist to a much cept the city from the plan. Lord Malmesbury greater degree among the labouring classes of society in observed, that "if the law were carried into effect the south of Germany than they do in Britain. The (he ought to have said effective), it would be ad_ people, at first sight, have a milder and more civilized as- mirably calculated to drive all the rogues into the pert. The dress of the country labourers, male and fe- . city " The Duke of Wellington said there was art male, does not consist of such tine materials as in Eng- understanding that the city of London would be in land ; but one part of the dress is of a qua'ity consistent •de I tf the Bill were found efficacious.—lbid. with the- others, and the whole is in a superior style, corn- ' rlu- ( ' _ pared with the dress of the other classes of society. There We observe that a petition has been presented to is no such thing, in this part of Germany, as a man or the House of Commons, from Mr. Robert Browne, woman in rags, or with a coat or gown of the best qua- man attorney, of Welbeck-street, representing the lity and the hat or. stockings in tatters, as is frequently the great evil of having so many attorneys, and praying ease not only among the labourers, but even among me- that a limitation be put to their number, and other citanics in England. In short, the dress in Germany is in • regulations enacted wit regard to • hthat branch ' of the much better keeping. Both men and women of the la legal profession, among which he recommends a bouring class here are more intelligent in their aipect, Law Institution, for the examination of cle rks before much more civil and polite on a first acquaintance, and much better furnished with conversation, than the British admission. 'We agree with the petitioner in think labourers. What struck us particularly were, the great ing it necessary that some check should be given to rarity of exceptions to this general description, the general the increase of attorneys in this country, whose num uniformity of manner and character throughout the whole hers have already grown to an alarming extent. We country, and the total absence of public beggars. On in- often hear of priest-ridden countries, and the misery quiry, we found that there were few or no poor supported which clerical domination produces. Englishmen publicly, though every parish is obliged to support its poor are apt to turn up the whites of their eyes in asto when unable to work ; and also, that there were very nishment ' when they hear of the swarms of Monks few people in prison, either for debt or for crime of any kind. and Friars, and all sorts of holy vagabonds, who, in some Popish countries, overrun the land like " This state of things more particularly applies to Wur temberg ; and time causes, we think, may be very easily locusts, and fatten upon the destitution of a traced. The first and principal cause is a law respecting blind and superstitious people; but a plague nearly schools, which has existed, more or less, in the States of equal to this is being ridden by lawyers— the South of Germany for above a century, but which has and, if eveelhere was a lawyer-ridden country, it is been greatly improved within the last thirty years. By England. Other professions and trades suf f er more this law parents are compelled to send their children to or less of contraction on account of the contracted school from the age Maier to fourteen years, where they resources of the country, but the profession of law must be taught reading, writing, anti arithmetic, but where flourishes in proportion as the wealth of the nation they may acquire as much additional instruction in other decays. Attorneys and solicitors are the first movers branches as their parents choose to pay for. To many of • of litigation, and must live by it. If they do not the schools of Bavaria large gardens are attached, in which the boys are taught the principal operations of agriculture find people quarrelling, it is theirinterest to set them and gardening in their hours of play ; and in all the by the ears. They put the first wheels of the law schools of the three States, the girls in addition to the same in motion; and if they do not sow disserition among instruction as the boys, are taught knitting, sewing, ern. men, how can they reap the golden harvest of bills broidery, Sec. &c. It is the duty of the police and priest iof costs ? We admit that, while men arc governed (which may be considered equivalent to our parish yes- by laws, there must be lawyers t o mana g e and con- 1 TREACHERS AT ST. MARY'S. tries) of each commune or parish, to see that the law is duct their legal affairs; and there will always be a Rev. Mr. Hinds, of St. Alban Hall, Sunday morning and duly executed, the children sent regularly, and instructedof individualsin society dishonest I afternoon. duly. 1 certain proportion Whit Tuesday. Rev. Mr. Percival, o_f_Wadham_C s ollege, Whit Monday. "If the parents are partially or wholly unable to pay and obstinate enough not to do justice but tinder for their children, the commune makes up' the deficiency. the compulsory process of the Courts. What iCooke, of 'Magdalen, Latin Sermon, 10th inst. Rev. o ‘ Mr. Iltiglies, of Trinity College, no regulation should exist . Rev. '' : r. we complain of is, that Religion is taught by the priest of the village or hamlet ; at nine. and where, as is frequently the case in . Wurtemberg, there to protect society from being over-run by swarms Rev. Mr. Hopkins, of Pembroke College, St. Barnabas. are two or three religions in one parish, each child is taught of ignorant, needy, and unprincipled practitioners, PRgACHERS AT CARFAX, by the priests of its parents—all of which priests are, who make it their constant business to foment liti• Rev. Mr. Hyde, on Sunday morning. from their office, niembeis of the committee or vestry of gatiun, and embroil man with man—and all this for Rev. G. Taunton, in the afternoon, UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. CA3IBRIDGE, JUNE 1.-At a Congregation en Wednesday last tire following Degrees were con ferred : HONORARY MASTERS OF ARTS. Lord Wrioth. Russell, Trinity, son of the Duke of Bedford. Lord Norreys, Trinity, son of the Earl of Abingdon• At the above Congregation the Rev. S. Smith, M.A., of Christ Church, Oxford, was admitted ad eundem of this University. OXFORD, JUNE s.—The following persons of this University were ordained by-the Lord Bishop of Norwich on the 24th ult.:— DEACONS.—Wm. Bannerman, 8.A., Bravn-Nose Col lege ; John A. Blackett, B. A., Christ Church ; Kirby Trimmer, 8.A., St. Alban Hall ; Benj. Wm. Salmon Vallack, 8.A., Exeter. Pitieszs.—Jonathan Blennian Cobham, M.A., Oriel ; Thos. Dix, 8.A., Christ Church; John Savile Hillifax, 8.A., Trinity. ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS. The Rev. Wm. Mellard, M.A., of Magdalen-ball, has been instituted to the Vicarage of Caddington, in Bedfordshire, on the presentation of the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's, London, The Rev. G. W. Steward, 8.A., to the Rectory of Caister St. Edmund and Trinity, Norfolk ; patron, John Steward, Esq., of Norwich. The Rev. J. E. Daniel, 8.A., to the Vicarage of Weybread St. Mary, Suffolk, on his own petition. The Rev. H. Linton, M.A., to the Vicarage of Nassington with Yarwell, on the cession and presenta tion of Archdeacon Bonney, Prebendary of Lincoln. On Sunday l►st the Rev. J. C. Prosser was or dained Priest, at St. Paul's Cathedral, London, by the Lord Bishop of Llandaff; and on Monday was instituted by his Lordship to the living of New church, Monmouthshire, on the presentation of his Grace the Duke of Beaufort. The 11ev. Octavius Mathias, B.A. to the Vicar age of Horsford and Perpetual Curtsey of Horsham St. Faith's, Norfolk ; patron, Vice-Admiral Philip 1 Stevens. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. M A NSION- HOUSE. 'llalland'L orders, in a conspicuous pat t of my window, to be read by the other weavers."—" I admit," said •Mr. Halland, " it was done to save my property, I had a piece of silk already cut; and many other weavers who received similar documents knew per fectly well at the time they were given that 9d. would not be paid nor could be paid." Alderman `ENABLES—YOU did a very weak thing, Mr. Halland, to give way to the threats and intimidations of the workmen. It is quite evident you were alarmed for the safety of your properly; but let men do what is just and reasonable, and it will always answer best in the end. If you were not able to give more than 7d. why promise 9d.? I think, Mr. Halland, you are bound by your contract ; but, in my opiniun, Magistrates ought not to be called upon to interfere between masters and woik- GENUINE DISINTERESTEDNESS !! !—On Saturday Mr. Stockdale, the publisher of " Harriette Wilson's Memoirs," appeared before the LORD MAYOR upon a subject of very considerable importance, in his Opinion, relative to the daughter of a convict now under sentence of transportation in Newgate, and about to be sent. off to New South Wales. It will be recollected that Mrs. Stamp Sutton Cooke was some time ago tried for having commit ted acts of palpable dishonesty, and that the Jury were so well satisfied of her guilt that they convicted her of swindling, a decision which was followed up by a determination on the part of the Secretary of State to carry the law fully into effect. This lady has reared Children, all of whom she is anxious to take with her into her exile, in order to have them brought up under her paternal eye, and educated strictly in the principles of morality. The claim for the barony of Stafford, for which she considers there is ground in her family, rendered it more necessary that the children should be all under the " special observance" of the mother, particularly the indivi dual in whose person that claim is, in her opinion, most likely to be one day settled. The whole family, with the exception, however, of tliat one individual, the eldest daughter, were ready to accompany their natural protector to the distant regions to which the Government had been pleased to transfer Mrs. C.'s abode. This child was detained by her uncle, a Mr. Coady, who, Mr. Stockdale declared, separated her from her mother for particular reasons, which were of great importance to the whole family. In fact, the interference of the hand of authority vas neces sary in this case, in order to enable the parent to assume her natural controul over the child. Mr. Cundy had been applied to frequently to give up the girl, but he resolutely refused ; to consent, and thus the unfortunate mother's hard fate was aggra vated by the dictum of an usurped and unreasonable authority. The LORD MAYOR said the case was one in which he could not interfere. Mr. Stockdale must apply for assistance for Mrs. Stamp Sutton Cooke else where. Alderman ATKINS, who sat with the Lord Mayor, asked what sort of controul a woman who was con victed of, and sentenced to transportation for, the most nefarious swindling ought to have over her child ? He would put it to Mr. Stockdale whether it was not better that the child should remain under the eye of her uncle ? Mr. Stockdale was of opinion that Mrs. Stamp Sutton Cooke was much " more sinned against than sinning." She would, he said, leave behind her people of much more objectionable conduct than she had ever been guilty of. The 'motives of Mr. Cundy for separating the child from the parent were of such a nature that it became absolutely necessary to re move the girl from such guardianship. The LORD MAYOR—What motive ? It would appear from the act of Mr. Cundy in this case that he has been influenced by the kindest motives. lie has liberally offered to protect the daughter of a convict, whose example the girl ought to avoid and not imitate. Mr. Stockdale assured the Lord Mayor that Mr. Cundy acted merely for his own purposes. The girl stood very close to the Barony of Stafford, and it was easy to see how Mr. Cundy could convert her into an engine to work his own benefit. That ob ject, which must, of course, militate to the injury of the whole family, would be defeated if his Lordship would compel Mr. Cundy to produce the child, and hand her over to the mother. The LORD MAYOR felt no hesitation in declining to interfere. Alderman ATKINS snit!, that the law could, in fact, compel the uncle to do that he was now doing so willingly. It would be very ungracious to inter fere to yrevent that which it required no compulsion to accomplish. Mr. Stockdale was not aware that any but blood relations were compellable to support persons rn• able to support themselves. Alderman ATKINS said, that there were such things as relative duties, which testified the obliga tion upon relatives, not by blood, to support others. The LORD MAYOR told Mr. Stockdale that he could not render either him or Mrs. Stamp Sutton Cooke any service on this occa•ion. The Chief Justice of the King's Bench must be applied to. Mr. Stockdale trusted that, although a refusal had been given to his application, justice would not be denied to his motives, which were merely for the benefit of an unfortunate woman. His Lordship gave Mr. Stockdale every credit for humanity and disinterestedness on the occasion. Alderman ATKINS concurred in believing that Mr. Stockdale exerted himself purely for the benefit of the Mother and child. Alderman COPELAND also thought that there was a great deal of philanthropy in the proceedings of Mr. Stockdale, and that gentleman retired bowing, amidst the praises of the three magistrates.. " Really,' said Alderman ATKINS, (looking side ways at the Lord Mayor), " it is very kind of Mr. Stockdale to interest himself so much about a person in misfortune." " Upon my word it id," said the LORD MAYOR, "it showa such excellent moral feeling. It is a de lightful thing to see the warm manner in which some gentlemen advocate the cause of humanity. How kind and considerate they are !" " Yes," observed Alderman COPELAND, " and to step out of their way, too, to do good,--no praise can be too great for it. I have good reason to believe that Mr. Stockdale is as busy as possible at this mo ment in getting up the Memoirs of Mrs. Stamp Sut on laughter.) GUILDHALL. men. " I shall submit the dispute," replied Mr. Hal land, "to any of his fellow-workmen, and if they say I ought to pay 9d. I will pay it ; but it is more than we can afford. We have had a hundred and fifty looms at work in Spitalfields, and at present we have not above twenty." Alderman VENABLES—I am quite aware that the cutting and sealing, recently had recourse to, will lower the value of labour for the next twelve or fif teen years in Spitalfields; but still a contract is a contract. Ido not decide as a Magistrate, but as a man. I think you ought to pay the ninepence. I do not say so in respect to Dorton, because I am aware that the price he demands is too exorbitant, and would drive the trade from Spitalfields in less than three years; but I say so in regard to the effect your proceeding must have in keeping alive the flame of discord raging in the disturbed districts:--- The operatives seeing these papers stuck up in their fellow-workmen's windows, declaring that one firm pledged themselves to give the prices of 1824, the effect of which must naturally be to impress on the minds of the silk-weavers 'That those masters; who stood firm in refusing to comply with demands which they could not comply witkwithheld their compliance, not because they could'nt pay, but be cause they would not. Mr. Halland said he would bow to the Alderman's opinion, and directed Dorton to come to the count ing-house towards arranging their differences. BOW-STREET. On Saturday Captain Locke, of the guards, was charged with having assaulted a person named Last at the French theatre. It appeared that a box on the first tier at the French theatre was engaged by Captain Locke and a party of friends at Sams's for Monday night, but that, owing to some mistake or the other, it was found to be occupied by another party, and the complainant was directed to provide Captain Locke with another box. Captain Locke, on coming to the theatre, was sadly vexed at his disappointment, and applied severe language both to Mr. Sams•and the complainant. The complainant having, though not in direct terms, returned this compliment, the gallant captain struck him two severe blows over his temple, which blackened both his eyes. The captain was then given into custody, but, instead of appearing on the following morning, went off to Epsom, whereupon a warrant Was granted against him. The gallant captain admitted the assault, but in extenuation declared that the complainant had applied to him an opprobriousepithet before he struck a blow. In this he was contradicted by a witness. The captain said he had three witnesse., but they were all, unfortunately, out of town. Mr. HALLS toll him he might take his witnesses to the sessions, and ordered him to find bail. The captain had his bail in attendance. M A It LBORO U Gil-STREET. On Saturday Mr. Bradford, the gentleman who prosecuted M'Dougall and Collett for starving their children, attended before the Court to prefer a charge of assault against his apprentice, John Cutler. After hearing the evidence, • Mr. CONANT observed that the defendant's con duct had been very improper, and he should there fore order Trim to enter into his own recognizances to keep the peaei. The Worthy Magistrate afterwards complimented Mr. Bradford for having prosecuted M`Dougall and Collett, die former of whom was sentenced, in the course of the day, to twelve months' imprisonment, and be kept to hard labour, and the female only to fourteen days, in consequence of her advanced state of pregnancy. DARING ROI3BERY.— Mary - Scott and Catherine Swain., two well-known visitors at the office, were brought up for re-examination, charged with having violently assaulted and robbed Mr. Richard Jaines of a Old watch, chain, and seals, of the value of 6/.. 155., under the following circumstances Mr. James upon last Saturday week was return hug towards his residence, about eleven o'clock at night, when, in passing through Broad-street, the prisoner Scott, and two other girls, came up to him and asked him to treat them. This he declined to do, when two of the females left-him. Scott, how ever, continued to follow him, although lie repeatedly begged of her to go about her business. On coming to die corner of Bainbridge-street, two females came up, when one of them snatched at his watch. At the same instant the prisoner Scott and the other girl caught hold of his arms. He endeavoured to extricate himself, when Scott struck him several times on his arms and face, while he was held by the other. During this time the girl continued to pull at his chain, when she broke it from the watch, and succeeded in making her escape. The other two prisoners also went off. Shortly after, seeing a watchman, he gave information of the robbery, and described Scott, when she was subsequently appre hended. A watchman deposed that, in consequence of in• formation, he went to Scott's lodgings, but upon THE SILK TRADE.—DORTON V. HALLAND AND searching - it he was not able to find any traces oi Co.—On Saturday an operative silk-weaver, named the property. He afterwards took Swaine, having Dorton, applied to Mr. Alderman VENABLES for a seen her in company with Scott a few minutes be summons against Messrs. Halland, Wilson, and Hel- fare the robbery. The prisoners were two of the leby, silk-manufacturers, Goldsmith-street, Wood- worst characters in St. Giles's, and not a night street, for refusing to fulfil a contract entered into passed without their robbing persons passing by. with the applicant. Mr. CosaNT—Do you recollect seeing Swaine? Dorton stated that, on the Bth of May, he took Mr. James—l do not; the only person whose face out a cane of silk to be woven for Messrs. Ilalland I saw Was Scott's. and Co., and, at the same time, received a paper, Mr. CONANT regretted that be was not ab l e to containing an engagement on their part, to pay him for it the prices of 1824; but, on Friday, when he commit Swaine fob, trial ; but as the case stood she must be discharged. As for the-other prisoner he brought home the weak completed, and which con- should send her to the Old Bailey. tabled 80 yards, Mr. Halland refused to pay more than 7d. Swaine was accordingly discharged, and t he other prisoner fully committed. He handed the paper to the Alderman. It con ' To our knowledge there is not a month p asses tained the following contract, written in a large le- without one or ot h er . o f t h e se wretched females gible, read :" round hand, so that those " who run may hei„g persons passing along High-street , but unfortunately Mr. Dorton—We hereby promise to pay you the prices charged with stealing watches o r mone y from of 1824. The prices of 1824 , continued the weaver, are nine- evidence so as to convict them for the losers are in general so ine briated as to be in (Signed) ‘• HALLAND, W ILSON , an d HELLIEBY." capable of giving evidence the offence. pence per yard, therefore he deemed it an open vio- A young 'man named William Payne, who has lation of their agreement to cut him d own to 7d. lived in the situation of waiter at several of the Alderman VENABLES expressed his positive dia- hotels at the west end of the town, was en Friday like to issue a sum mons i n suc h a case . H owever , brought before Sir G. FARRANT, the sitting Magis he would send for on e o f th e fi rm , a nd hear why the. trate, charged with the following robbery. weaver's demand was resisted. Accordingly, the It appeared that a young gentleman named Beau- Alderman's compliments were despatched to Gold- mont occupying a suite of apartments at the Hyde smith-street, and in a few moments Mr. Halland Park Hotel, near Tyburn-gate, went from home an was in attendance. Monday morning last, leaving various articles of The complaint being stated to him he replied that valuable property on the table in his dressin g -room, it was perfectly true that he had given Dorton the amongst which w as a gold watch attached to a gold paper produced ; but since the Btb of May there neek s chain, both of which, on his return in the even had been , two meetings of the operatives, at the first ing, were missing, and no where fo be found; and of which they agreed t o red uce their demands ten on inquiry being made amongst the servants, 'one of per cent. below the prices of 1824; and at the sub- the house-maids stated, that the prisoner had on sequent meeting they assented to a still further re- i that day called at the hotel, where it seems he had duction of another t en p er c en t. This second re- I lived as waiter three years ago, to visit another duction would fix the prices at about 60., but he ' female servant in the house, and as she, the house offered Dorton 7d. "But my agreement was made," maid, was going up stairs, she observed the prisoner replied the silk operative, " before the men agreed coming out of Mr. Beaumont's apartments, with to these reductions." both his hands behind his back, and under his coat " What are the prices for which such work is in a very suspicious manner, which induced her to done at Manchester ?" inquired the Alderman.— ask him what he held his hands in that position for, ' F o urpence-halfpenny," replied Mr. Halland, " and and on asking him this question, he Moved his I assure you that in a little time we shall not be hands, and let drop from them on the staircase a able to give sevenpence." gold pin and a silver snuff-box. She then charged " I think a contract is a contract," rejoined the him ivith having robbed Mr. Beaumont's. apart operative ; " besides, this paper was put up by. Mr. meats, and told him ifhe ditrnot replace die. things he had stolen where he had taken them fronl,. ll , e. would not only bring ruin and disgrace on himsel.4 but also on the servants of the house. Theplioh e l then admitted that he had stolen the anuff-bot 5$ pin, but that they were, he assured her, the oulY things he had taken, and that distress alone 'hod driven him to it, and that be would instantly return the articles to where he took them from if she would let him go and not say any thing more about o°' matter. She then accompanied him back to Mr. Beaumont's apartments, and the prisoner there re; placed the snuff-box and pin where he said he lola found them. There was no watch, she said, 00,, on the table, nor was she aware that Mr. Beaumonl had left a watch behind him, or that any thing its been removed besides the box and pin. Nothing was found on the prisoner that ould t _ lead to a discovery of what had become of the wits and yesterday, although he admitted the truth the housemaid's statement as regarded the snuff-1;0 and pin, he denied all knowledge of the watch ; burs - to give time for further inquiry on the subject, 1 ! ° , was remanded for a week. The watch was a French gold enamelled 0 0 ,e , made by Giteau, Palais Royale, Paris, and cost NC' Beaumont 30 guineas. John M'Call, the driver of the backney , c o N aci ! , o. 853, appeared to answer the complaint Cochrane, of the Guards, who charged him Wit" wanton and furious driving in the streets. The defendant was convicted in the penalty 10i. and costs, which, after being locked up P r about three hours, he paid, and was discharged. • H ATTON.G ARDEN. On Thursday a gentleman named Simpson -yr° brought up on an order of affiliation, when the fol ' lowing conversation took place : Mr. LAING—Do you dispute the order? P r ' fendant—No, Sir; I will allow 2s. 6d. per week . . Mr. LAING—It is too little. What are you' Defendant—l am a person under peculiar circus' stances. Mr. LAlNG—Where do you live? Defentlant - •'' e know, r e did Sir, th at I have no fixed home at present. don't "h De M fo r i . d L at t—l answer these questions. Mr. LAING—You are bound to answer all que r a a s t t c a o ra m tions here, Sir. I ask you *here you -last ca l " from ? Defendant-From the Houseof Coreeat"' Mr. LAING—For what were you confitied? A ; fendant—My dear Sir, I again object to this nr`";l of proceeding; these, Sir, are unnecessary quest, l7 o Mr. LAING—Why were you eohlined, Answer me that question, and don't stand in t" - t impudent manner. Defendant—For an atempt_t felony. But, Sir, Ido not come here to be insulte d b e out ) d ili t : lam a gentleman, and am fit for any situation. • I Mr. LAING—Yon are the most 'audacious felle f ever saw to have just escaped from a two y e w s imprisonment in a House of Correction. Yo u " 0 now let loose on society once more. How d o r o intend to get your living ? Defendant—l have " means at present of (loin & so. Mr. LAING—What business were you brought (1 . 0 , 11 to? Defendant--None, Sir; but I have been el str ;ice, where I never broke the confidence telo in me, Sir. Mr. LAING—Pray, Sir, what service hav e f! been in ? Defendant—A was in the service of tt, Marchioness of Londonderry as groom of t' chambers. Mr. Li thing °f OfF tiow tll to you ;icers, tl man sg Several officers here stated that the defendan t , 3. 0 well known about town as a " noted character;.- •",1 that his father was a watchman and street-We belonging to that district. Mr. LAING—The son of a watchman and AM', keeper From his appearance he can afford to 3s. per week. iA Simpson, we should have stated, Was drisead a handsome green coat, flowered silk waistcoat, 0 white trowsers. MARYLEBONE. , of BILLIARDS.-011 Saturday Mr. fiodges, Adam and Eve, Bath-place, New.road) wip cher . before Mr. HOSKINS and :Mr. RAWLINSON WO In lawfully permitting certain persons to gmai ift premises. Atkinson, the informer, was the complainant' - •rt, Eye' William M'Cloud, "of No. 12„,yre-court, - his witness, stated that on the 23d of May Ile ' le° ed through the house.ofthe defendant into a yar d s t ' up a staircase into a room; where four gentlefs'eci were playing wills billiards. • One gentleman knael.‘lo a white ball iota a bag, and declared himself to( winner of the game, and he took four.shilfings oat°, the bag, and put them into his pocket, and the l ie meat he (the witness) left the room they s hot t door upon him and locked it. Mr. Harmer, on the part of the defendant ~A° e , WClond what he 'meant by playing with what sort of things they were ?—M'Cloutl En i " " had no knowledge of the game. It was played `v balls and a stick. ( „ d i , Mr. Harmer directed the -attention of the 1,..im„,1 strates to the information which lead been • 11 g ' 1, 0 , 11 1 where also the gentlemen were said to be P's' o rso with billiards, and submitted that the charg t 1; not made out, for they were not playing Or 'el bards, but at billiards, with ball, &e. and he b°‘,.. they would dismiss the case.—The Magistrate oc sidered the objection insufficient. 4 0 Mr. Hodges said the billiard-room was 30 er re . feet from his house, and several gentlemen were P o oy sent who had frequented it 'for years, and _were ?fieret• to prove that it was conducted in a most r e p able way. vilify Mr. RAwuNsoN did not doubt the resPe ett 'oje; of the thing, but that was not the point in qu e _,,, ti t es if Mr. Hodges could show that the room wet " no " ear his premises, or Mr. Harmer could make it 6 ,210 that the statute did not refer to billiards as r;iiial other games, he said he - should be happy to go' the benefit of it. hte Mr. Hodges admitted the room to be yr" premises, and left the ease to Mr. Harmer. • e Vet Mr. Hartner contended that t •gatites'of . cr j v ice and trap-ball might With as much proprie;Ys, lie t 'it o hibited, and it was better for„persOtit to get,.7 ;0 10, enjoy these rational amusements than'to sit e t ", 'oo' and be getting . tipsy. He did riot think, fi c " i pir the statute was ever designed to suppress th'e r, • ing at billiards, for it was a scientific gain*. o tto t Mr. RAWLINSON asked him if games *le r • scientific ?—Mr. Harmer—No, dice is not. of , Mr. EAWLINSON did not see why butlab }e l f ero and bagatelle should not be exempt if billiards .o ‘ lo 4 and, 'after smite conference between Mr. Ole and Mt. Ratvlinson ' Mr. Hodges was fin ed 1 " mitigtted penalty of 20s. ti Mr. Harmer gave notice of appeal. • e , e dve -Mr. RaWtANsoN said he was -glad t o t, vadi fo ol for he should like the question to go to the BIHTHS. ~„•• On the 3d inst., at Shef fi eld, the lady of CaP l— : Forster, Royal Horse Artillett, ala elm. coor On tire 6thinst., at Finehley,l%lrs. of a son. , " MARRIED. to On the 6th ins'., at Mortlake, J. Malleott, I A do, Mary Ann TI ompeon, of East Sheen. cto tP i a lt On the 6th inst., at Hildersbatu, ( t he ) Esq., of l'avistock-square, to Mary, only child w,,,.., 4 „ John Burgoyne, of Hildershatn, Cambridgeshirc9,' 10111" On the 26th December, at St. Peter's Churell,,° Oir island of Ceylon, by the Rev. J. Garstin, H o f 1) e Esq , to Charlotte Carpenter, fourth daughter 43 ife ° h0 Colonel Hook, of his Majesty's 16th Reg;inent ..I°'46 On the 6th inst., at St. Margaret's , b y the I,l°lol M'Evoy, M.A. of hi. Majesty's Chapel RoYa",,,, 1. Parrott, of the Inspector-General's office, Cit&t°l - Miss Rose. eli d' DIED. Lia' i r,i On the 2d in +t., at Plasnewydd-cottage, 010 , 1 P 0 , Lady Eleanor Butler, aunt to the Itlargnis of °. r a lis te t ip. On Friday, at Bath, Richard Martin, aged z' r :ges . New College, Oxford, and second son of J Ob p c( Esq., 111 I% be liv On the sth inst., at Byde, Hann ah Jean, t x• t• 0 the Rev. 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