The Sun. — London, England, 1829-09-05 00:00:00

ould necessitate enormous expenses on the part of England, in order to combat such numerous fleets at so great a distance. t 7 We allow, also, that in the supposition of war, France might lose the colonies of Bourbon and Pon= dicherry; but the former, without Mauritius, is a very insignificant possession; and in regard to Mar tinique and Guadaloupe, it is a well-known fact that the delivering our finances of such a burden would be far from being a matter of regret. " However, what numerous compensations f✓r such losses, if even they deserve the name, in the prizes made on the English commerce, the richest of the world ! Certainly all the chances of war are in our favour, for on sea we cannot be worse, and in a more circumscribed position, than at present ; and on land our coast and national guards would se cure our own territory against all enterprises. But, in fact, we should really be the gainers ; the restora tion of our manufactures and industry, oppressed as well as those of other countries by the rivalry of the English,—our fabrics of cotton, wool, silk, and cloth, liberated from the state of distress in which they now languish,—►the prosperity of our indigenous sugar manufactories,—and, finally, the neutral powers af fording us materials at the same price we pay now. Let no one be frightened by the pretended blockades of England,—by her maxim that the flag does not protect the goods, and that the sea is her sovereign domain,--for she would be unable to enforce the execution of such maxims without going to war with all nations, and especially with North America, more interested and therefore more ardent than any others to repulse such haughty pretensions. " Now let us turn to England. Obliged to pro tect by armed convoys each kind of merchandise that she may import to maintain her industry, and all the produce of her manufactories labouring under insurance fees and shackles of every species, she would never support the rivalry of the neutral power disengaged from all such embarrassments,—she would see her commerce failing, her industry lan guishing, and her enormous debt increasing daily.— Such a state of general disquietude probing her in terior wounds would make still more terrible the permanent apprehension of an invasion; and by finding new chances of success in the irritation of Ireland, which, from one moment to another, might see another Hoche instead of Humbert enter Ban try-bay. " Let, then, the English nation reflect well ! If she be arrived at the zenith of power and glory, it ie that before all others she recovered the charter of her rights and enjoyed the fruits of wise liberty, whilst Europe was fettered by ignorance and servi tude : it is that her government, though often making use of means contrary to justice and humanity, has constantly had in view the national weal, and not the paltry consideration of coteries and private inte rest. But let her tremble to endanger such advan tages by a blind obstinacy, to monopolize liberty to herself, and by endeavouring to repress the efforts of the noble nations who aspire at the imitation of her exam p I e."— Times. The Dublin Evening Post of Tuesday last has a long article on the state of the South of Ireland, which is deserving of attention. After some compliments to Major Carter, the Chief Magistrate of Police appointed for Tipperary, who, says our Dublin Contemporary, " will not be under the necessity of making appeals to the musket on the occurrence of a row at a fair, and he will not unnecessarily cause blood to flow because a coarse jest may be played off, or even an insult may happen to be offered to a Police Constable," he proceeds to observe— " As to the mode of conducting the late trials, it is idle to pretend that there is not amongst high men too, a strong feeling of surprise. For ourselves we have never insinuated—for we never entertained the thought, nor do we at this moment, that the Solici tor-General was actuated by any motives but those of the worthiest kind—nor will all the absurd pane gyric which has been heaped upon him by the Orange papers, remove the favourable impression which we have received of the honour and integrity of the man. But with this feeling, thus unequivo cally expressed, we are amongst those who think that, in conducting the prosecutions, he took a very mistaken course. In the first place, it was inju dicious to have all the juries Protestants. The same result would occur, perhaps, if they were mixed—if an equal number of each profession were suffered to be sworn. But in these trials, the Catholics were universally challenged by the agent for the prose cution—by whose duty it was to obtain a conviction, if the nature of the evidence was such as to justify twelve honest men in coming to such a conclusion. What right had Mr. Solicitor-General to suppose that Catholics would not give a true verdict accord ing to the evidence ? He had no right, and no ground farsuch asupposition; and we are persuaded, when this matter comes before Parliament, that Mr. Doherty himself will he one of the first indignantly to disclaim any intention of doubting the sacredness of a Catholic's oath. We remember when Lord Plunkett was Attorney-General, there was a trial in Green-street of some fellows for administering unlawful oaths. It was at the time of the Ribbon system, as it was called, which was spreading from the County of Kildare into the county and even into the city of Dublin. There was considerable agitation and alarm at the time. When the Jury were called, Mr.. Kemmis, the Crown Solicitor for the Leinster circuit, objected, as usual, to Catholics. He was stopped, however, immedia►ely by the At torney-General. Catholics were placed upon the Jury, and the Ribbonmen were convicted. But the very case we report this day will satisfy any reasonable man, that it was injudicious in the Crown to object to Catholics. Mr. Sheil certainly took a wise course for his clients, for the cause of justice, and, we will add, for the peace of the country. The case was as between Protestant and Catholic—the Jury were composed of Protestants and Catholics. Mr. Shiel failed in convicting the prisoner—but whit was the consequence ? that the prosecutors, the Judge, and the public were perfectly well satis fied with what was done." The following aie strictures on the mode in which the Solicitor-General conducted the trial, he having been, as Mr. Justice Moore said from the Bench, " Counsel for the prosecution and for the defence at the same time." If, he adds, " the Solicitor-General acted from instructions, then we say, and we make this declaration, too, with equal pain, Government is answerable for the consequences, whatever they may, likely to arise ,fronz the conduct which has been pur sued. The Evening Mail would insinuate— indeed it states the proposition very broadly— that we are the organ of the Government. There was a time, we confess, in which, for the sake of the country—to leave personal considerations out of the question—we should not be sorry for the imputation. We sustained occasionally, it is true, but zealously—and we have every rea son to believe with considerable success—the cause of the Government against the faction by which it was beset. In doing so, we felt we were sustaining our own cause and that of the country—that we were advocating, and in the most practical manner, the cause of Catholic Emancipation, to which the energies of our life, and our talents, such as they were, i had been pledged, almost since our boyish days. - • • • • • • • • If the Government choose to pursue what has been called the stern path of duty, by maintain ing tlt9 Protestant Ascendancy, after the Relief Bill wa4-YOsed, we really think that it would do a,wiii-tbink by making an organ of such influ -1444 4 . t 4, vecial medium of its commu ;iititti6hs.- t -,„ ! , th e world. If it have gone ,' - r4uri'4,tcY'i;the Even* Mail, as one wou l d -,.. l e d : .: to _ believq iby perusing th e recent it li cks --, 14 '. t ho jcourpal ; let the thin be known ~' and avowed. We shall then know precisely the ground. For ourselves, our path is plain. We have never been such Utopians as to expect un mixed good from any Government. But this we say, that it would be better to have a Govern ment with a distinctive character, than one that vacillates with every wind of doctrine.' " Be fore offering any observations on these state ments, we quote the following from a corres pondent of the Standard of yesterday ;—" And that Government organ (the Dublin Evening Post) goes on to account for the restoration of confidence, by stating as the reason, that they know he (Major Carter) never ordered the po lice to murder the people. The confidence of the peasantry of Tipperary,' indeed ! As well might the Government of Sydney expect con fidence from the bush-rangers, or the native aborigines, as the Irish Administration, or any who have to administer law or justice, that of the more savage, because half-civilized, barbarians of Tipperary. Munster has always been remark able for the savage atrocities there perpetrated by the most Popish (for in this, after all, will the only true cause of the difference be found) por tion of the Irish people. It is there only, and in the counties appertaining to the other pro vinces which have the geographical misfor tune to be contiguous to it, that the peasants meet at their fairs, patrons, and other places of business, and convert scenes of traffic into battle fields. It is there only that Captain Rock, or the insurgent principle under some other equally absurd denomination, has ruled for ages. It is there only that a combination against the land lord's right to dispose of his land as he pleases, becomes part of a general system in which all classes join." The case which has given rise to these comments on both sides, has nothing to do with Protestant Ascendancy. But the Landholders of Tipperary are, generally speak ing, we suppose, as in most parts of Ireland, Protestants. A system of intimidation has noto riously been acted on in Tipperary, and that sys tem, if inquired into, will be found to have its origin in a very natural cause—a desire on the part of the peasantry to exist. " The general cause of outrages (said Mr. Barrington, solici tor for the Munster Circuit) was the changing the possession of lands, one tenant being put in, and another tenant being put out." Now as we observed in commenting on this evidence, " the putting a tenant out in Ireland, is putting him out of existence." The police are unpopular in Ireland, because the police execute the law ; and the law is unpopular in Ireland, because it is an engine in the hands of the rich to destroy the poor. The " landlord's right to dispose of his land as he pleases," is resisted by a combina tion, who have a common interest of the strongest kind—no less than their lives—in pre venting him from disposing of his land as he pleases. If the landlords were Mahometans or Jews, and the tenants Catholics, there would be a Mahomedan or Jewish ascendancy ; for it is natural that landlords, hostilely opposed to the tenants, will select policemen (for in this coun try landlords and magistrates are synonirnous and the police must, ex necessitate, be creatures of the Magistrates), who sympathise with the tenants as little as possible. But it is an abuse of terms to call this a Protestant Ascendancy in a religious sense ; it is a landholder ascendancy, accidentally Protestant, as it might have been Catholic or Jewish. Now, with respect to the trials of the policemen, we have no hesitation in saying, that Government dared not commit the policemen to the chance of a conviction. The police officers either did or did not misconduct ,hemselves. It was the business of Government to institute an inquiry with a view to ascertain how the facts stood. If the result of such inquiry proved that the officers misconducted themselves, they ought at once to have been abandoned by Government to theirfate. But if the result showed that they were innocent, then it was the duty of Government to protect them, and not to join in proceedings against them which, if conducted as in England, would, in all probability, end in their condemnation. The Dublin Evening Post talks of Catholic and Protestant Jurors. 'Would it be safe, in a case of such extent as that at Borris-o'kane, in Ca- tholic Jurors to acquit the Police men ? Where there intimidation it of course extends to all who can be intimidated ; and we should suppose the feeling of the peasantry against a Catholic Juror or witness against them would be stronger than against a Protestant Juror or witness, be cause he would be looked on as an apostate or traitor. Jury trials in a county like Tipperary are a farce, and a cruel farce—laying, as they do, a foundation for endless vengeance. Mr. Do herty, in his evidence on the Irish Estimates, says—" In that same case which I allude to, after a vast deal of trouble to bring the prosecu tion to bear, in the course of the preliminary examination it became necessary to send to the borders of the Queen's County and the County of Tipperary, to get a witness who was referred to by the evidence of one of the approvers, as to an apparently immaterial fact, which would be very valuable in corroborating the approver. A Police Officer was sent at night and brought him to my room ; the man came into the room and utterly denied every thing upon the subject ; he refused to give evidence ; he was a very respectable-looking man, ap parently of the better class of farmers ; and when he was urged very strongly to give evidence, he burst out crying, and said, If the book is put to me, I will not perjure myself, I will speak the truth ; but I must make up my soul, for I shall be murdered when I return.' He was one of thoSe who was told he should be provided for, he was obliged to give up his farm in the county, and I never saw a man suffer more in giving evi dence, under the idea of being obliged to give up his farm." Such being the state of things, a fair jury trial is of course quite impossible. The Legislature ought to interfere to give the people protection by law ; but, till that is done, those who execute the law must be hated by the people. In the mean time, Government are bound to execute the law ; and were they to abandon men, whom they know to be innocent, to the chance of a jury trial under such circum stances, they will commit felo-de-se. What we like the worst in this business is Mr. Doherty's joining in the farce of prosecuting the policemen, after he knew they were innocent. No doubt precautions were taken to guard against convic tion. But it is this trickery, which runs through all the proceedings of this country, that w e dis like.—Morning Chronicle. We recently took the liberty of making a few remarks upon the method adopted by the Irish Chief Baron of disposing of prisoners accused of violating females. His Lordship's plan appears to be to marry the delinquent to the prosecutor, thereby saving the trouble of a trial, and, in case of a verdict of guilty, the expence and disagree ableness of an execution. This may be, for aught we know, all very well in Popish coun tries) but a Protestant Judge ought to know that such proceedings could not take place in a Protestant nation, and that they are, in short, contrary to the doctrines of his own religion, and to the laws which it is his duty to administer. The idea of permitting a man to marry a woman on whom lie had inflicted one of the most atro cious injuries, and for which he ought to be ha►►ged, is monstrous. Nor is the injustice of the case less towards the man, on the supposi tion of his being wrongfully accused. In such marriages the man must be a criminal deserving of death, or the woman a perjurer deserving of the pillory. Truly these unions are little ac cordant with the Divine precept—" Those whom God has joined together let no man put asun der ;" for the joining is brought about by wrong and violence, and the work of the Spirit of Goodness is superseded by the Spirit of Evil. These marriages, as they are begun in folly, are conducted with levity; but levity is a circum stance of too frequent occurrence in Irish Courts, nor is the indecorum always irradiated by any flashes of wit or humour. Let the reader take the following instance : In the case of Jones v. Gustavus Meredith War ner, in the County Record Court, on Friday, the following dialogue took place between the Court, Dr. Harris, of Dunmanway, a witness, and Mr. O'Connell : Mr. O'CoNNELL—WeII, my fine old buck, you have got married lately ? Dr. HARRIS—If I have, what is that to you ? (Laughter.)—When you come to my age you will not be able to marry; and if I had you in a room I would floor you.—(Loud laughter, whilst the old gentleman went through some boxing attitudes.) COURT—Doctor, Mr. O'Connell is not aware that a few days ago I tried a man of seventy years of age for a rape. Mr. O'CoNNELL—Ah, ah, my old buck, do you hear that ? I suppose we will have you peeping over the rails some time or another. Dr. HARRIS—Don't be badgering me any longer. Good bye, gentlemen. Mr. O'CONNELL—Oh, good bye, my old buck. Nothing can be more frolicsome, and at the same time more dull, than all this. We see here the manners of the bear-garden without the vivacity or humour which may enliven, though it cannot excuse, coarse deviations from pro priety. In another part of our Paper it will be found that Mr. O'Connell stated, at a dinner at Cork the other day, that " he saw, while a human being was on trial for a capital felony, the Judge asleep, an attorney examining three wit nesses at once, the Jury cheapening plums and ' apples with a fruit-woman, and one of them reading a newspaper." This is a Dutch pic ture which we should like to see from the pencil of some modern Jan Stein. But nobody who wears a wig is more apt to introduce levity into a Court of Law than the Learned Gentleman who has thus set up for the office of arbiter elegan tiarurn of the Cork Assizes. Judges, who take a comfortable nap upon the judgment-seat while a poor wretch stands upon his deliverance of , life or death, cannot be defended upon any prin ciple of humanity or law—but Barristers who ' abuse their privilege to make dull jokes upon witnesses, are no less deserving of censure. Surely Government ought to be able to fill ju dicial situations with members of the profession who are capable of preserving the dignity of the Bench, and who have energy enough to prevent Barristers from conducting themselves in a man ner not at all in keeping with the decorum of a Court of Justice.—Morning Herald. At the Westminster Sessions yesterday, a woman was tried for stealing a quart pot. A watchman proved that he saw the prisoner take it and conceal it under her apron, and accord ingly took her, very properly, into custody. In this stage of the business the Chairman stopped the case, observing, " that if people left pots in the public streets and left no one to look after them, it was too much if they were stolen to call upon the Court to treat such an offence as a felony." With great deference to the Chairman, we cannot consider it any thing else than a felony to all intents and pur poses. The owner of the article did not leave it in the street, and we cannot conceive either on what grounds he should be deprived of his property, or the thief not only escape, but having been acquitted, have a right to claim the article as her own. We apprehend that the precedent will prove a very dangerous one, and lead to many other thefts not so easily and sum marily dealt with ; for shopkeepers, brokers, and others, whu expose their goods at their doors for sale, have, on the principle advanced by the Chairman, no remedy in case of their property being stolen. If, for instance, the Chairman or any other gentleman, left his horse in the street while he stepped into a house for a moment to speak to a friend, and the animal was stolen, would it not be considered a theft ? This is a parallel case, and if not a felony, we know not what is.—Morning Advertiser. RARA AvlS.—Mr. WILMA N 1 BROOKES, of Tattershall, has new in his possession a bird of the black bird species, which has been till lately quite of a salmon colour. Within the last few days its feathers have fallen off, and the new ones are perfectly white. It was taken from a nest last June, with three others, which were, as usual, black.—Drakard's Stamford News. A clergyman who officiates in the diocese of Winchester, was lately complained of by some of his pa r;shioners, that he the said vicar preached sermons no exceeding 15 minutes in length. The Bishop admonished the clergyman to preach sermons of a greater length. The obedient vicar, on the next Sunday, preached a sermon two hours long, which set all the congregation gaping.— On the ensuing Sunday, after reading the lessons, he re tired and placed the keys in his pocket, and ascending the pulpit, informed his audience of the fact, that he should preach to them for three hours. This he did, and his hearers afterwards besought him to return to his pristine mode of preaching.— Cheltenlaam Chronicle. EXTRAORDINARY DISCOVERY OF STOLEN FAULT. —A goat, the property of a miller in Durham, and remarkable for its playful vivacity, was observed one day last week to be more than usually sportive, and on being watched was seen to leap up several times at one particu lar part of a haystack, as though a more savoury mouth ful was there to he obtained than in any other portion of the stack. At length the instinctive animal succeeded, and drawing out the hay he aimed at it, its removal was followed by so heavy a shower of apples (supposed to have been stolen and concealed there), that the poor goat scam pered off in dismay. Some pigs, not so easily intimidated, soon afterwards approached the stack, and sans ceremonie, commenced a most determined attack upon the apples, which, under the activity of their masticators, soon disap peared ! York Chronicle. EXTRAORDINARY VORACITY OF A SHARK. —When the present Rear-Admiral Sir HENRY HEATH COTE commanded the Galatea frigate on the West India station he happened to have on board, as his own cook, a black man, who had in the same capacity served Lord NELSON. Poor Sambo sickened and died, and was, with the usual honours of sepulture, committed to the bosom of the deep, encased in his hammock. In a day two the th e e lmn remainspany' who, on ripping of poor Galatea sailed on a cruise , a nd aft er an absence of three months returned to Jamaica , and let go her anchor about the same spot she had before occupied. Soon after a large shark w u as p taken tiie mboyn m onster, discovered of th e slt ip's Sambo, the cook, enclosed in his maw, whose identity was proved beyond a doubt by the number of his hammock and a pair of silver shirt buttons which he was known to have worn. These shirt buttons were presented by Sir H. HZATHCOTE to the hero of Acre, Sir SIDNEY SMITH.-- The whole of it was recorded in the log-book of the Galatea. THE BANK CHARTER. The following has been circulated in a printed form : TO THE GOVERNOR, DEPUTY GOVERNOR, AND DI RECTORS OF THE BANK OF ENGLAND. GENTLEMEN,—On reference to a copy of the Charter and By-laws of the Corporation, it is or dered that a General Court shall be called and held in the month of September, in the following words, " for considering the general state and condition of this Corporation, and for making of dividends out of all and singular the produce and profit of the capital and fund of this Corporation, and the trade thereof, amongst the several owners and proprietors therein, according to their several shares and pro portions," and I do hereby require that your public notice to the proprietors of such meeting shall be a true copy of the said by-law, and not as heretofore omit the word " for considering the general state and condition of the Corporation," and that you there produce a balance sheet containing an account of the profits and of the charges of management for the preceding half year, the sum of 13,089,740/. having been paid by the Bank to Government for the purchase of military and naval pensions, begin ning in April, 1823, and ending July, 1828; for an annuity of .585,740/. for the term of forty-four yews, which sum for six years to April, 1829, amounts to 3,514,4401., and the interest thereon at five per cent. per annum 175,7221., making together the sum of 3,690,162/., which should now be ap plied either as a dividend or a bonus to the proprie tors. I intend to put the following questions at the next meeting, and expect a candid answer, there fore do not hurry yourselves im moving an adjourn ment. Printed copies of the eleventh by-law should be printed and posted up in the Rotunda and the Banking-offices, to prevent impositions, which I and others have been subject to " by persons rais ing their crests far above their coat of arms." QUESTIONS. Amount of debt due by Government to the Bank at Midsummer day, 1829. Ditto of the defalcations of Mr. Aslett. Ditto by Mr. Fauntleroy. Ditto by other persons. Ditto amount of notes, bills, bonds, mortgages, and other securities unpaid, and any other items omitted in this statement. Amount received and receivable on Bills, Notes, Loans, Pawns, &c. Ditto of Gold and Silver in Coin and Bullion. Ditto of Bank Notes and Post Bills now in cir culation. The number of Branch Banks, and where situ ated, the profits received from them to Midsummer day, 1829. Note—The usual answer, of their " working well," will not be satisfactory. Should I not suc ceed in obtaining an explicit reply to the above questions, it is my intention to petition both Houses of Parliament on the subject in the ensuing Session. Requesting the favour that you will cause the con tents of this letter to be read at the next General Court of Proprietors, I remain yours, respectfully, WM. HARRIS, a Proprietor. CORONER'S INQUEST AT PLYMOUTH An inquest was held on Saturday last by JOHN ROBINS, Esq. at the Queen's Head, on the body of Elizabeth Hamlyn Pike, a remarkably fine young woman, aged twenty-three, who died at half-past three that morning, in consequence of having taken an the preceding evening an ounce of arsenic. The first witness examined was Caroline Pike, sister of the deceased, who deposed as follows :—I am sister of the deceased, who is twenty-three years of age, and resides with me in Vauxhall-street. My father and mother reside in Catherine-street ; my mother is matron of the Green School. The deceased was a person of a great flow of spirits, and I never ob served her to be either dejected, or at any time dis ordered or affected in mind or intellect, although she had frequently said she would destroy herself if I would do so likewise, but without assigning any reason for so doing. About nine o'clock yesterday morning, deceased and I went, as we usually did, to our father's to breakfast. She was very cheerful, and in good health and spirits. About ten o'clock we returned, and my sister immediately sat down to her piano-forte, and played several tunes, all of a lively character, with the exception of one, which she played at my particular request. Whilst playing she turned round and said—" Caroline you'll soon have my clothes, and every time you put them on you'll thi►►k of me, my dear sister; and likewise the piano -forte will be yours, and the waltzes : when you come to play them you'll always think of me !" I replied, if such were the case, I would never play them afterwards. She went out at three o'clock, and remained about an hour. I watched her going out, and saw her enter my cousin's, in Looe-street, where I have since learned she bor rowed a shilling. When she returned, she was very cheerful and lively, and again went to the piano, and played several times. About seven she went out to see an acquaintance, but returned in a quar ter of an hour after. The witness then proceeded to state that her sister was visited in the course of the evening by two acquaintances, one a lady, and the other a young gentleman named Boulter, who had been with her several times in the course of the day—that she was equally cheerful and collected till the time of her illness, which happened about nine, soon after which her mother was sent for, and the deceased was taxed with having taken something : she denied it so strenuously that they did not send for a medical man till eleven, who, in conjunction with deceased's mother and sister, urged her to tell ►hem if she had taken any thing to cause her illness. She replied, " No, I have not," although she had been complaining, previously to the arrival of Mr. Tripe, the medical gentleman, of a great pain in her side, and a burning sensation in the stomach. She expired at half-past three on the following (Satur day) morning. The witness then concluded by stat►ng that she was with her the whole of the day, with the exception of the two intervals above men tioned, and deceased neither ate nor drank any thing after dinner, which was between one and two o'clock, till the time of her sickness—although, on recollection, she stated that deceased had taken two apples; the witness then concluded her evidence with these words—" My sister was perfectly sane, and has never shown any symptoms or indications of aberration of mind." Mrs. Jane Reed, in whose house deceased resided, was the next witness examined, and her evidence confirmed most fully the testimony of the sister, as to the perfect sanity of deceased. J. H. Boulter, son of the parish-clerk of St. An drew's, was the next witness examined ; he knew the deceased well, and was in the habit of visiting her; was with her yesterday (Friday) afternoon, when, in the course of conversation, deceased said, r, I a m going away, Master Boulter;" " Where to ?" he asked ; she replied, " To Heaven, I hope."— Being, however, in good health and spirits, he took no notice of it; and at his request she played seve ral tunes on the piano. The evidence of this wit ness was detailed at great length, but nothing was elicited to shew that the deceased was of unsound mind. Mr. T. Tripe, surgeon, detailed the symptoms of her illness, and the energy with which she denied having taken any thing to p ro d ace h er ill ness. H e had no doubt, since her death, that she had taken poison. The Coroner, in summing up the evidence, com mented at great length on the total absence of any proof of insanity, when, to his surprise, the jury re turned the verdict—." Di e d f rom h av i ng ta k en ar senic whilst labouring und er t emporary derange ment." Plymouth Journal. Contracts have been entered into for the erec tion of a Suspension Bridge at Craiglug ; and the work is to be begun forthwith. Captain SAMUEL BROWN, R.N. the patentee, is the contracter...Scotsman. ASTRONOMY. OCCULTATIONS OF STARS BY THE MOON DURING TEE MONTH OP SEPTEMBER. MONDAY, SEPT. 7.—A star of the sixth or seventh magnitude, whose right ascension is 18 hours 7 minutes, and declination 19 degrees 1 minute south, will be eclipsed by the moon's dark limb at 4 minutes after 9 (Greenwich time) in the evening ; it will emerge from the bright limb at 15 minutes after 10 ; the angles of im mersion and emersion being 116 and 299 degrees respectively. 2dly. A star of the seventh magnitude, right ascension 18 hours 8 minutes, declination 18 degrees 51 minutes south, will pass behind the dark limb at 14 minutes after nine, and will re appear at the bright limb at 37 minutes past ten; angles of disappearance and re-appearance being 157 and 268. FRIDAY, SEPT. 11.—The star 919 of Mayer, will undergo occultation by the dark limb at 36 minutes after eleven, and will emerge at the bright limb at 31 minutes after midnight, at angles of 84 and 347. WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 16.—A star of the sixth magnitude, right ascension three hours, two minutes, declination 12 degrees, 32 minutes north, will immerse behind the bright limb at 42 minutes after midnight, and will re-appear at the dark limb at 31 minutes after one in the morn ing of Thursday, the 17th ; angles of immersion and emersion being 123 and 219. 2dly. The star Piazzi 111. 4, will be eclipsed by the bright limb at 38 minutes after midnight, and will emerge from the dark limb at 47 minutes after 1 ; points of immersion and emersion being 85 and 260. As telescopes which give an erect image of the object viewed are rarely used for astronomi cal purposes, it has been thought right to aban don the ordinary mode of reckoning the points of immersion arid emersion by references to the real vertex and real western limb of the moon, and to adopt in its stead the apparent vertex and the apparent western limb, as presented to us by the achromatic telescope, furnished with two eye-glasses ; or, as the combination is usually termed, an astronomical eye-piece. Thus the angles above given become immediately appli cable to instrumental manipulation ; the moon's apparent vertex being considered zero, or point of departure, and her apparent western limb the course of measuring round the circumference. CRIMES OF A BAVARIAN PRIEST. A trial for murder of a very singular and hor rible kind, before the Supreme Criminal Court in B:tvaria, has just terminated. The trial oc cupied no less than four years, and the pleadings and documents amounted to forty-two volumes : the criminal was examined one hundred times, and it was only at the last examinations that a confession of his guilt was wrung from him. Riembauer, the criminal, was born in the lowest rank ; but at a very early age gave marks of an intellect of a superior order. His ambition was to enter the ecclesiastical state ; and through the medium of the curate of his native village, Ran derstadt, he was enabled to gratify it. Riem bauer was born in 1770 ; at the age of fourteen he was admitted to the Lyceum of Ratisbon, where his conduct and progress were exemplary rapid ; in 1795 he was ordained a priest, and performed the duties of assistant-vicar in dif ferent villages ; in 1807 be underwent, with much honour to himself, an examination for a curacy ; in 1808 he was appointed curate of Priel ; and in 1810 be was promoted to the curacy of Randerstadt. Riembauer carried his customary zeal to the exercise of his sacred duties ; in the performance of which he was ap parently as sincere as he was punctual. His sermons were eloquent ; his denunciations of vice severe and frequent. It is not wonderful that, so accomplished and gifted as he I,as, with an elegant person and seductive manners, Riem bauer should be looked on by the country people as a saint of the first water. The crimes with . which Riembauer was charged were chiefly in continency. He had a child by the curate of Huskerchen's cook-maid ; another by Anne Marie Eichlaetter, the curate of Hernsheim's servant ; a third by a milliner of his acquaint ance ; a fourth by another curate's serving-maid ; a fifth by Madeline Frauenkneicht,--whose father he swindled out of 5,000 florins, and whom, together with her mother, he poisoned ; and lastly, he had several more children by Ann Weinegar, his last kitchen-maid. With all his victims he performed a marriage ceremony at the altar. The crime for which he was at length ar rested was the murder of Anne Marie Eichlaet ter. The girl had importuned him on several occasions for money, and threatened, on being refused, to expose him. She was induced to visit him at the house of the farmer Frauenk neicht, and was there murdered by him. Whilst the monster was in the act of cutting the unhappy girl's throat, Catherine, the youngest daughter of Frauenkneicht, happened to peep through the key-hole, and observing what was going on, called her mother and sister Madeleine to witness the scene of hlood. The mother was anxious to denounce the murderer ; but on his expressing profound repentance, and threatening to commit suicide, she was induced to bury the transaction in silence. Shortly after this murder, Madeleine and her mother fell sick, Riembauer compounded their medicine, and they died—the one within five days of the other. Catherine, who was twelve years of age at the period of the murder, became subject to fits of melancholy, and to con vulsions, from its effects on her imagination ; and at length, unable to retain the secret, told it to her confessor, with the other particulars ofl Riembauer's conduct. The confessor, who thought to turn the confession to Catherine's pecuniary advantage, wrote (in Latin) the fol lowing letter to the poisoner of her mother and sister, and robber of her father :—" A case has been submitted to me which you alone can solve.' A certain man, whom you well know, owes a certain stranger somewhere about 5,000 florins. If your conscience be awake, pay this debt. If you do not answer within four weeks you may tremble for the consequences." No answer was returned, and Riembauer was accordingly de nounced. Among other particulars, Catherine stated, that Anne Marie Eichlaetter had a pe culiarly fine set of teeth ; and after her deposition was taken, in a closet where the body had been" deposited a skeleton with a case of teeth as de scribed, was discovered. In the confession of the criminal, it is worthy of remark, that be de fended himself on that dogma of the Jesuits, — that it is allowable to kill anothe r if t h ere b e no other means of saving one's honour or good re-; nown ; the fallacy of which Pascal has so trium phantly shown. " I also (h e says ) recollected t h a t other principle of th e J esu it s , " th a t th e i end sanctifies the means." 1 reflect upon thei great evils that the p u bli c scan d a l with whir l,; Anne Marie menaced . me would causeto.thei people and to my s a cr e d profession, and I said ,to myself, " if a priest of such unblemished Fe . ; putation were found to be a sinner, gr ea t would the detriment thereof be to religion ;" therefor? , as there were no other means of avoiding public scandal but by the death of Anne Marie, and that this death tended to produce a laudable re' stilt, I do not think that I have acted criminally' for my intentions were pure, and ad majoras Dei Gloriam. Moreover, before killing Ann! Marie, I exhorted her to repent of her sins, and I gave her absolution." This holy ruffian has. been condemned to imprisonment for a n unh mited time. SUMMER ASSIZES. OXFORD CIRCUIT—GLOUCESTER, SEPT. 3. Peter illeggett and Robert Evans were indicted for burglariously entering the house of Thomas Hate ten, at Coleford, on the night of the 24th of May last, and stealing therefrom a quantity of drapery and mercery goods. Mr. Serjeant TADDY summed up the evidence, and the jury returned a verdict of guilty against both the prisoners.—Sentence of death recorded. CHESTER CIRCUIT-CHESTER, Szrr. 3. Josiah Thornton (18) was indicted for bigamy. The prisoner was a native of Brinniegton, and kept company with a young woman named Ann Knowles, who, becoming pregnant by him, was removed by the parish officers to her own settlement, Matlock , Derbyshire. The overseer of Matlock hearing that the prisoner was about to be married to another to' man, caused him to be apprehended, when he con' sewed to a union with Knowles, and the ceremony was performed in Matlock parish church, after two or three drops of rum had been given him to keep up his spirits, on the 11th of July, in the presence of the overseer and constable. On the 13th of July the prisoner again intermarried at the Collegiate church, Manchester, with Hannah Pearson, the young woman to whom he had paid his addresses, after abandoning Knowles, and on the 14th was a ppre.. hended at Britinington.—Verdict, Guilty. Sentence, —two years' imprisonment and hard labour. John Hoyle (18), John Hats:hall (20), and John Taylor (21), were indicted for feloniously shooting at Thomas Foster, on the night of the 23d of DP comber last. The prisoners formed part of a regular gang of poachers, and were out on the night in question inn a lane near the lands of Mr. Assheton and 'Squire Egerton, at Ashley. The prosecutor was one of the gamekeepers in the employ of the, Earl of Stamford and Warrington. A verdict- ar guilty was returned against Hanshall and Taylor , and Royle was acquitted.—Sentence deferred. It was proved that Hoyle had left the party befors the firing commenced. WESTERN CIRCUIT-BRISTOL, SEPT. S. HERBERT, ASSIGNEE, V. KNIGHT AND JOYCE. This was an action to recover a sum of m oneY obtained by the defendants from an insolvent, of the name of Knight, to the prejudice of his other creditor , . After a long but unimportant trial, the Jury pro nounced a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, 301' 4s. 9d. NORTHERN CIRCUIT—LANCASTER, Styr. S. Joseph Clemmett was indicted for having in Ng possession at Great Bolton, on the 1 1th of April last, without lawful excuse, one forged Bank of England note, for the payment of 5/., knowing the same to be forged. Verdict, Guilty.—Fourteen years' transportation• The prisoner, it was said, is well connected, and has for a long time successfully practised in the dis• posal of forged notes. Many traps have been set far his detection, but he always managed to avoid them until the occasion detailed above. William Caxon was capitallyipdicted for felo' niously cutting and maiming John Cropper, w ith intent to kill him, or to do him some grievous bodily harm. The Jury found the prisoner Guilty. Judgment of death was recorded, but the Learned Judge intimated that it was probable a mitigated sentence would be passed. Co RON ER'S N QUE ST.—Yesterday an inquest was held at Mrs. KEENE's, the Savoy Palace, Savoy" street, Strand, before Mr. limos, the Coroner for Wes!" minster, on the body of GRIFFITU ROBERTS, the Captai n of a Welch slate vessel, who fell overboard on the 269' ult., at Hersleydown, and whose body was not found 01 yesterday at DUPRE'S Wharf, Savoy. The Jury returned a verdict—" Found Drowned." A perfectly white starling has lately been seen in the neighbourhood of Holt, Norfolk, several time*, an d with it a pied one. They are generally seen in company with several hundred others in the same flock. Severa l attempts have been made to shoot them, hut hitherto 0 0 1 have escaped.—Drakard's Stamford News. LIBERALITY IN A BISHOP.—The following' instance of liberality and justice in a high dignitary of th e , Church, affords a strong contrast to the proceedings 0 ' many other Spiritual Peers :—The Lord Bishop of DO" HAM has inserted the names of Sir CARNABY HAGGSIV STON, Bart., GEORGE SILVERTOP, Esq., BERTRAII OR°' Esq , and W. T. SALVIN, E.q., Roman Catholic g entle' men, in the Commission of the Peace for that couorr i , ; thus evincing, that though his Lordship conscientie o " , ,„, opposed the late Parliamentary measure in its progresstr i is liberally disposed to admit it into full operation novt tP ti it has passed into a law. A most melancholy occurrence took Or, at Marazion on Wednesday morning. Between hours of eight and nine o'clock, Mr. WILLIAM 11110 6 ,. 1 : surgeon, of that place, shot himself in his garden. 1.1 "" fatal instrument used was a fowling-piece, which he Or trived to discharge so as to shoot himself through the bed' The unfortunate gentleman had previously exhibited fe l ' toms of a disordered mind. —Exeter Flying Post. Owing to the vast burial places of the Turks the universal silence and air of desolation which mark th e approach to Constantinople impress the mind of th e traveller with painful and gloomy feelings ; he seems be entering upon a scene of death, or one laid waste ill pestilence, or some other great national calamity. The extent of the recent failures in the woollen trade is said to be greater than was at first apprehended''' . The claims en only a few of the houses exceed 800,0001. Many compositions have been already made, and others have been proposed. Basinghall-.street swarms w ith country lawyers who have flocked to town in the hope getting profitable jobs. If the assets on these est l l should be 4s. in the pound (and it is believed they 0 " not average 2s. 6d. under the most favourable of arrange ments), the lawyers will, under commissions, swallow 0 P at least 50,0001. of it. It is not unusual in the c ountry for an attorney to pocket 2,0001. by a single commission' and it is said that the country bankers often share in the spoils. A wealthy banker, in a notorious borough , : 6 lc, , own to have m a d e a f or t une ou t o f th e s p o ils of a 81 0 6 16 bankruptcy. BIRTHS. At Inniscarra-glebe, the lady of Lieut.-Colonel Bere s ' ford, M.P. of a daughter. At Mallow, the lady of Major Creagh, 86th regime l34 of a daughter. MARRIED. On the 3d inst. at Wonersh, near Guildford, W. 11 ° ° 1 Eeq. sth Dragoon Guards, to Sarah, eldest daughte r R. Sparkes, Esq. of Wonersh. On the 3d inst. at Church Lawford, Warwickshire , I dr. John Gandell, of London, and of the Horseley Iron Kal b parry, Staffordshire, to Miss Wall, of Newnhan -ha _ . Warwickshire. On the 3d inst. at Cheltenham, the Rev. Luke Booke r' vicar of Dudley, to Elizabeth, youngest daughter o f t late J. Barclay, Esq. M.D. of Conduit-street, and nie ce ° the late Col. Sir R. Barclay, K.C.B. DIED. On the 3d inst. Alexander Urquhart, Esq. of Long ton, Surrey, aged 76. On the 3d inst. at Southwold, the infant daughter of Si r G. Crewe, Bart. of Calke Abbey, Derbyshire. of On the 3d inst. at Carshalton, Eliza, eldest daughte r Robert Wallace, Esq. On the 30th ult. in Great James-street, Bedford-MP/1 the Rev. H. H. Smith, son of the Hoo. Mn. Smith, and nephew to the Earl of Donoughmo re. Puma and Puaturtzb by MURDO YOUNG, at till Ornat, 112, Svcrars, Ptrapt,