The Sun. — London, England, 1829-02-10 00:00:00

OF THE LONDON JOURNALS. The declared intentions of his Majesty's Ministers to follow up the wise and just policy of last year, by adding the relief of the Catholics from real griev ances to that of the Protestant Dissenters from such as were less solid than imaginary, and thus to sig nalize the reign of Geo. IV., and the Administra tion of the Duke of Wellington, by a system of in ternsl government at once Hovel and enlightened, have naturally produced throughout the kingdom a sensation of the deepest interest amongst all classes of nieo. That Englishmen have for centuries been ready to express what they feel, upon questions which—as they conceive, and as is beyond all contro versv—are of high national importance—the annals of the country demonstrate at every page ; arid without such promptitude of expression through the press, or public meetings, the health and spirit of the nation would long since have declined or been extinguished. But we do not like to see these wholesome vents for the mind of England made the channels of quackery and fraud. It is odious as wellas dangerous to have a suborned press, and packed or fictitious meetings. The educated part of the corn niunity are disgusted by them, but ought not to despise them, for they mislead the igno rant, rouse the worst passions for the worst purposes, and end by laying prostrate all that is wise and virtuous before headlong numbers and brutal force. With regard to the Catholic ques tion, the voice of the nation is now fairly heard through its representatives, and the proportions of popular intelligence which resist or favour the diffu sion of civil and religious liberty out of doors, are well potutraved by their respective organs within the walls of - Parliament. For many months past it has been given up, as a point no longer subject to discussion, that Mr. Peel was the single individual in the House of Commons of the United Kiegilorn, entitled to the least consideration for ability, who opposed the petitions of the Catholics. Mr. Peel has now become the officiel advocate of the claims of these our suffering fellow-subjects. He is more, Ire has become their agent, in carrying through Par liament a Bill for their relief. What, then, has pro duced this remarkable change, not of sentiment, but of action, in the most conspicuous opponent of eman cipation ? We address ourselves now to the bigots of the highways, to the rump of the dismembered Bruns wickere. What can have changed Mr. Peel ? Was it abstract reasomrg ? No. He professes to retain those opinions against the Ca tholics, on the strength of which he had always hitherto voted. Was it any view of personal interest? Mr. Peel's first interest—namely, his reputation— has, from his earliest entrance into politics, rested on his anti-Catholicism. Exclusion was the only party of which he could ever be the acknowledged head. We ask, then, once more, what can have compelled Mr. Peel to vote and act now in favour of that policy of which heretofore he proved himself the unvarying and most conspicuous champion ? Necessity. He has avowed it—state necessity— stem impossibility of resistance—the safety of the empire, the first principle of all government—the dre‘tdful danger of excluding from the legal exer cise of many millions of British subjects who approached every hour nearer to the prospect of exercising is in defiance of legal prohibition. Mr. Peel, prejudiced, interested, wedded to the exclusion of the Catholics, repugnant against the slightest ap proximation to liberality, bee gained that knowledge s 4 the state of Irish feeling and power, of which his old followers of the highways mid small market towns throughout this country are ignorant, and ho yielded; while they, short-sighted and credulous tacit, Atilt feed their imaginations on the cast-off chimeras cf their less untaught leader. What—to put a still stronger and more decisive question to the dregs of Orangeism—what can have changed she - views of the Duke of Wellington on this subject ? Tell us that. Was the Duke a man to be lightly driven from an opinion ? Ile told the Courts Try from his place in Parliament, that without set. ling this question, it was " impossible to go on !" Will not this fearful deelaration satisfy the church men of Gxford, and the Orangemen of Bristol ? Is , the Duke a man more easily intimidated than con vinced ? Yet there are desperadoes, or idiots, in the island, who pretend to more courage than the Duke of Wellington, and to more knowledge of facts and consequences than Mr. Peel ;—creatures who talk of rallying round the dotage of Lord Eldon, arid the ranting wildness of Winehilseae-erand the sullen ob duracy of Newcastle, and the honest, straight fssward, unselfish, comprehensive liberality of old Mr. - 2ankes and his offspring; for even Sir Thomas Lethbridg'st has, it seems, ceased to be an exclusive. What then can be the meaning of the Orange Rump ? They raise an outcry—they congregate:a majorit y in the I louse of Lords—the force the Duke of Welling ton out of office—av, and Mr. Peel too who cow hands pledged to emancipation ! Then let them tell ua, where will they find a Ministry capable of governing the empire for a single week ? That is the question. The Whigs are emancipators to a man : the only Tories worth speakir4; about are to a man declared emancipators; the Church (the majority of the Bench of Bishops we meao) have given in. Answer us, then, ye close vestry-men of Bristol, and convocationists at Oxford, where is your Ministry, on the Duke of Wellington resign ing ? Yes, a messenger may be sent to Berlin, and a steamer come back, freighted with a eertsin pair of mustachios, and a Hussar-Government may be formed on principles somewhat ultra-Brunswick, perhaps ; but how long would it endure ? Does that personage suppose, if the public knew what it may yet know, that his influence could endure even for a single day ? The University of Oxford, it is said, has accepted Mr. Peel's resignation. What a pity Mr. Bankes, junior, belongs to another University ! —Times. We can venture to state, on what we deem good I authority, that it is not at present in contemplation to interfere at all with the concerns of the Catholic Church, or ro attempt to controul the communica tion of its members with their spiritual superiors abroad. But though the idea of a Veto is abandoned, yet to calm the fears of the Protestant Church, it is in contemplation to se.eompany the repeal with a provision for the Catholic Hierarchy, the receipt of which shall be optional with the members of that body—with this /imitation, that it shall be in the power of Government, on:the nomination of any Bishop being communicated to it, to signify its dis approbation of such nomination by withholding the allowance to him. This power of 'withholding money is the only influence which it is wisiiked to exercise over the Clergy of the Catholic Church. There is no doubt as to the intention of proposing an attaation in the freehold qualification ; but we are inclined to believe that this measure will not accompany, but fillow the repeal of the disabilities, On this point, however, we do not possess an precise information at present.—Morning rhronicl y e. The Holy War begins to be carried on with some- , thing like briskness. The presentation of several petitions in both Houses afforded opportunities to those who wish to be considered the champions of Protestantism to signalize themselves by their seal in the cause. We had imagined that the Duke of „Newcastle would be the Leader of the new Opposi tion ; but it seems, if we are to credit ,the Noble Duke himself, he labours under the impediment of being scatter-brained, or, to use his own language, , " all Lis observations vanished whenever he rose to address their Lordships." His Grace helungs to the genus so happily pourtrayed by Sir Walter Scott in Doeninie Sampson, the itirkj minister, who, his Grace, had abundance of zeal, but was equally trotsbled with a want of retention of ideas. His Grace hoped last night, aii,or the pause to which he was forced prematurely to " that on an other occasion he might he able to collect his thoughts." Let us hope so too. Some men can not get hold of ideas at all ; but his 3race, we know from the epistles with which he has favoured the world, hits abundance of ideas; but the trouble with him is to collect and ummeet them. 'With the aid of the pen, his ' Grace can catch a few of them in their rapid flight, and fix them to paper, though the gaps in the order of succession sufficiently prove their flighty cha racter; but this process requires retirement and pa tient effort. The admirers of his Grace may lament the excessive volatility of his Grace's ideas, but we fear they must renounce all hope of his services as a parliamentary champion. He has lungs, tio \VCVCr, and we have 110 doubt that he will make up in the loudness of his cheering for his want of power over his own ideas. The Earl of Winchilsea seems destined to be the Corypheus of the party. His Lordship is equally powerful in debate and in the closet. He has already issued his summons to the Protestants of Great Britain; and last night he an nounced his intention of presenting the Penenden Heath Petition on Friday next. The Bishops of Durham and of Bath and Wells expressed themselves last night hostile to further concessions to the Ca tholics. In the House of Commons there was ra ther more personality than in the Peers. Mr. Trant went even so far as to enter on the family history of the Duke a Wellington. " It is not easy to under stand," he observed," how such remarkable changes could have been effected in the opinion of the Go vernment, and he could not help supposing that Wesley, the head of the Methodists, an ancestor, he believed, of the Noble Duke, might have had something to do with it. ( Hear, and a laugh.)" Whether Wesley was or was not an an cestor of the Noble Duke is a matter which had very little reference to the question ; but, however this may be, the Honourable Gentleman was rather unfortunate in his reference, as John Wesley was always a staunch opponent of concessions to the Catholics, and, indeed, resembled the Wellesley ' family only in the excess of his love for the fair sex. This is a puerile made of meeting an opponent. The most striking feature of the evening was a speech of Colonel Peel in opposition to his brother. He had also the advantage of having monopolized the only argument urged on his side. "If men's minds (he said) be so divided in Ireland as they arc represented to be, was it at all probable that con cord and hat moray would arise from a measure of securities insufficient to the one party and unsatis factory to the other? Emancipation is to be given to the Catholics in return for securities offered to the Protestants ; but what secinity could be given to the Protestants that they may not be deprived of their security by a renewal of those scenes of violence and intimidation which appear to have produce 4 so much effect at the present moment He was very well aware it might be said that all moderate and rational characters would be satis fied with emancipation, accompanied by these se curities; but who could say that those turbu lent spirits who possessed all the influence in Ireland, and governed the seven millions, as they were called, by their absolute will—who could say that they would be content, or that they would not again exert that power, the existence of which is acknowledged, and which this act of emancipation proclaims the Government unable to resist ?" The best answer to this is, that the Gallant Colonel com mits the slight oversight of omitting in his array of ' the force which the Government has been unable to resist, the liberal Protestants. It is because the Pro testants consider themselves interested in the resto ration of the Catholics to their rights, that it has be come imperative on the Government to agree to that measure. The Protestant Nobility and Gentry, at the Rotunda, made common cause with the Catho lics ; the most distinguished Protestant Noblemen and Gentlemen of England have always supported their claims, because they consider them just, and the granting of them would conduce to the welfare of the Empire. It is one thing to yield ;. - i) just claims supported by the property and the moral strength of the Empire—Protestant and Catholic; and another to yield to unjust demands, against which not only liberal Catholics would be arrayed, but all Protes tants whatsoever, both the liberal and the class to which Colonel Peel belongs. The Catholics are only strong in the justice of their cause, which gives them the support of the wise and good of all parties. The Protestants are divided when the alternative is justice or injustice. But though the liberal of the Protestants join the Catholics in an endeavour to obtain justice for them, it would be singular indeed if they were to enable the Catholics to be unjust to wards the Protestants; and it is obvious that the Catholics have not the power to oppress the Protes tants, without the latter aid them against themselves. —lbid. There is one part of the Lords Commissioners' Speech which cannot be too strongly impressed upon all parties ; it is that which recommends that the consideration of the Catholic Question should be entered upon with " the temper and moderation which will best secure its successful issue." We feel this the more necessary, as so iking proofs are already given, that that which has been produced by clamour is likely to be met by similar weapons. .Now, as we never yet heard that intemperance pro duced any permanent advantage to any cause which had truth apd justice for its basis, we are somewhat surprised at the indiscretion and bad taste of those who think that they advance the Protestant cause by a senseless vituperation of those, even of their own party, who happen to differ from them upon id; s occasion. Thus, for instance, we see in a Sun day Paper, which professes to be a chosen oracle of orthodoxy, the very Bishops and Clergy of the Establishment mixed up in an equal share of con windy with the Catholic Priests and Laity. Dr. Johnson, who was said " to like a good hater," wistikl Cl oubt 1 ess have been pleased to his heart's content with a boundless animosity like this—an animosity which hates every thing and loves nothing, and which appears to revel in the luxury of " run ning a muck" both at friends and foes. w But what, we would ask, does truth or reason gain by such a proceeding? The world has been long enough di vided on this question, to take from mere difference of opinion the obloquy thus attempted to be cast upon it. At all events the opposition and that ob loquy must cease to be of much value in the eyes of the world, when it sees them directed equally against friends and foes, and falling with unsparing severity to-day on the objects of yesterday's eulogy.— Morning Herald. Mr. Secretary Peel will this evening move, in the 110116•2 or Commons, for leave to bring in a Bill, the object of which will doubtless be th,e, suppres sion of the Catholic Aes,ociation. This augurs well for the future peace of Irelarel. By thus promptly following up the recommendation contained in the Speegh from the Throne, Ministers have evinced a praisewor:.4 solicitude for the welfare of Ireland, as well as a (jilts . determination to effect their pur pose, in spite of all opposition from the friends of civil and celigions liberty. t)f the perfect justice of Any measure of this kind, no doebt whatever can be entertained. There are, we well know, pertain learned Tbeiwis who contend that the suppression of the Catholic Assor;ation would be an illegal act. The Constitution, it is said, does not invest the Executive Government with power to put ~ , !own or to punish any class of individuals who assemble to petition against opprecsion. This is a plausible argument, very plausible inde2d, but unfortunately it is not sound. To deprive the people of the right of peti tioning against any real or supposed grievances would be a aseet unwarrantable act of oppression ; and the Minister wil,o dared to make the attempt would soon repent of his ti..lrierity. But at the tame time ;t must be remembered ehat the Constitution of this eountry exists for the beneit cf the people at large, and a . 9t for the convenience of any p;Tticular knot of individuals; and that the moment ai l ' body of men abuse the popular privileges, the same Constitution which wanted those privi leges for the public good, withholds thz.m for a similar:end. We must beg, therefore, to inform those sapient jurisconsults, who deny the right of the King's Government to defend 14 people, that if it can be proved (as it assuredly can) that the Ca tholic Association has abused the popular privi 14es, that it has grossly violated the law, and that under pretence of stating certain grievances, it has goaded the people on to acts of outrage—if, we say, all this can be proved against the Asso ci ation, then the Constitution arms the Legisla• tore, not only with full power to suppress it, but also to punish its members for high treason.— However, we shall not argue the point further with these superficial cavillers, for we are well aware, that to reason with men who, from sheer opposition, will swear that black is any colour but black, is as useless as to attempt to persuade the world that there is melody in the bray of ar: ass. Of this we are quite sure, that all who view matters in an impartial light will agree with us in saying that the suppression of the Association is a proceeding equally consistent with the spirit of the Constitution, and with the principles of strict justice.—Equally evident with the justice of the measure is its im perative necessity. Every man who has watched the progress of events since the Catholic Associ ation sprung into existence, must feel convinced that the peace of Ireland, and not of Ireland only, but of the whole United Kingdom, demands its immediate suppression. Have the Agitators proved themselves loyal and trustworthy subjects 1" Have they confined their proceedings within the limit of the law 1' Have they aimed at the attainment of a consti tutional object in a constitutional manner? No. At the first moment of their combination they proved them selves to be a band of desperate traitors, who, under the mask of patriotism, would wish to involve their native land in ruin and desolation. Since then they have fully sustained their original character— they have endeavoured by unremitting exertions to frustrate all measures adopted for the benefit of their country—they have reviled the Established Church, and heaped insults upon its members—they have de nounced the Ministers of their King as remorseless tyrants—and they have infused sedition, like a mad dening poison, into the hearts of their fellow-coun trymen, until Ireland has become a scene of dreadful! confusion ; and her sons, otherwise peaceable, re ligious, and contented, have become rioters, and murderers, and rebels ! Such has been the conduct of the Demagogues—such the dangerous, the awful state of things, which they have produced ! Our picture may seem highly coloured, but it is one for the fidelity of which all will vouch, who are ac quainted with Ireland.—Morning Post. PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF COMMONS. NOTICES OF MOTIONS FOT, Tins DAY. I. Mr. Michael Angelo Taylor—Chancery Returns. 2. Mr. Secretary Peel—Bill for the suppression of dan gerous Associations in Ireland. ORDER OF TILE DAY FOR THIS D►Y. Motion for Supply—Coinroittee thereupon. NOTICES GIVEN YESTERDAY. Tuesday, Feb. 17. 1. Mr. Maequeen—Bill to amend the Law of Ritoehial Se tt'emedt. Thursday, Feb. 19. 2. Sir Jarneg Mackintosh—Copies or Extracts of Commu nications concerning the relations between this Coun try and her Most Faithful Majesty the Queen of Portugal. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S. The betting yesterday was not sufficiently important to require a quotation of odds, which gene► ally remain as on Thursday last. Espagnolle and Canvas continue at evens, so close indeed, that we are unable to state which had the call at the close of the room. Will-o'-the-Wisp was again i❑ ►equest, 17 to 1 being taken just at the finish. No other alteration took place for the Derby; the Oaks as in our last. For the St. Leger 25 to I was taken about Sir Hercules, and 30 to I offered against Prince Eugene. For the Itiddlesworth 3 to 1 was taken about Lugs, ❑nd 10 to about Morel, both p.p. The above comprises all worth I notice in yesterday's betting. WARWICK SPRING MEETING. The Pillerton Stakes of 25 tows. each. Lord Anson's Sister to Mayflower, 4 yrs Mr. R. Tomes's Eastgrove, 3 yrs Mr. J. H. Peel's b. e. by Young Hambletoniau, 3 yrs Mr. Hick's The Tartar, aged Mr. Hodgson's Agnes, 3 yrs Mr. Case's Doubtful, by Bilsthorpe, 5 yrs Mr. Steel's Sawney, by X.Y.Z., yrs Mr. Kent's Mr. Fry, 4 yrs Mr. Price's b. f. by Gulliver—Caribert's dam, 3 yrs A Cup, value 50 gs., the gift of the Ladies of Leaming ton, for two-yr-olds. Lord Anson's br. c. by Fillio-da-Puta—Nell Gwynn Mr. King's b. f. by Antonio Mr. H. Robbins's The Asps, by Swap Mr. J. H. Yates' Ellen Gray, by Swap Mr. Shaw Hillier's Brother to Lavinia Mr. I3inton's The Post Captain, by Cannon Pall Mr. Painter's gr. c. by Woodless's darn HUNTING INTELLIGENCE. APPOINTMENTS FOR TILE ENSUING WEEK. llis Majesty's Stag-hounds, on Monday, at 'lwo•mile Brook ; and Friday, at Longford----at half-past ten. If not prevented by the weather they will meet at the cane place the lollowing day. The Cadbury Harriers, on Monday, at Miiborne Wyke ; and Thursday, at Cucklington. The Worcestershire Fox-hounds, on Tuesday, at Wor- cester Perry Wood ; and Friday, at Goose-hill—at half past tee. The Gransden Hound,, on Monday, at 'rosebud Wood; and Ft iday, at Potton Wood—at ten. The Puckeridge Hounds, on Monday, at Waolesmill ; Wednesday, at Manuden ; and Saturday, at Throcking— at half-past ten. The Brighton Harriers, on Monday, at Patcham ; Wed nesday, near the Race Course ; and Friday, at the Dyke— at half-past ten. The Brookside Harriers will continuo to meet every Monday, at Newmarket ; Wednesday, at the Lewes Race Course ; and Friday, at Tellesceinhe Tye—at half-past ten. The Royston Harriers, on Tuesday, at Meldreth ; and Thursday, at Therfield-mill—at half-past ten. Lord Yarborough's Hounds, ou Monday, at Ayleshy Village; Wednesday, at Kirmington Vale; Friday, at Binbrook-hill ; and Saturday, at /lye-hall—at eleven. The I3lack►aoor Vale Hounds, on Tuesday, at Batcombe Wood; and Friday, at Halfway-house, Compton—at ten. Sir John Cope's Hounds, en Monday, at the Black Horse, Cavershani; Wednesday, at the Red Lion, Basildon ; Friday, at Compton ; and Saturday, at Riseley-mill— at ten. The East Sussex Hounds, on Monday, at Nutley; Thursday, at Southease ; and Saturday, at Blatchington Downs-at a quarter before eleven. Mr. Freeman's Harriers, on 11fonday, at Charlton ; Wednesday, at Curbridge-gate ; Friday, at Challow bridge ; and Saturday, at Clantield—at half-past ten. Mr. Meynell's Hounds, on Monday, at ligginton ; Thurs day, at Eton Wood; and Saturday, at Hoareruss—at half past ten. The Weatacre Stag-hounds, on Monday, at Swaffham Race Course; and Friday, at Hilborough Swan—at half pot ten. Mr. H. Villebois's Harriers, on Tuesday, at Oxburgh Ferry ; Thursday, at Foulden Common ; and Saturday, at Swaffham Race Course—at eleven. Mr. Allen's Harriers, on Wednesday, at Blackborougli ; and Friday, at Shernborn—at eleven. The Shropshire Hounds, on Monday, at the fifth mile stone on the Bo.schurch-road ; Wednesday, at Holston ; Friday, at Pethian's-gate ; and Saturday, at Shawbory White-gate—at half-past ten. The Qiiorn Hounds, on Monday, at Steward Hay's House ; Tuesday, at Cotes-turnpike ; Thursday, at Great Dalby ; and Friday, at Bunney Park—at half-past ten. Lord Anson's Hounds, on Monday, at Princethorpe Vil lage; Wednesday, at ; Thursday. at Bourton ; and Saturday, at the Black Dog —at half-past ten. Lord Scarborough's Fox-hounds, on Monday, at Aston ; Wednesday, at Finningley-park ; Friday, at Clayworth ; and Saturday, at Wadworth Wood—at half plat ten. The Badsworth Fox-hounds, on Tuesday, at Cusworth park ; Thursday, at Bolton-bridge ; and Saturday, at Cud worth Village—at half-past ten. Sir Geo. Sitwell's Fox-hounds, on Tuesday, at Hollin wood Common ; and Thursday, at Mosbro' Moor—at ten. Dansey's Hounds, on Tuesday, at England's-gate — at ten. At the Insolvent Debtor's Court yesterday, Benjamin Davis, was sentenced to twelve month' impri sonment for fraud and a gross breach of trust. ANOTHER F M E.—We have again the pain fal duty of recording a dyYastation ,of property by fire in this neizlibourhood, similar to he two instances which have oceured within the last five weeks. We say for we fear there is no doubt but that this, like the two former, was the diabolical act of an incendiary, —Learning ton Cour ier, his opinions. An aged Prelate, who bas been always friendly to the Catholic Claim, has been heard quaintly to ob serve, that lie understood all his Reverend brethren "within the ate of trandition," had becdme convert to LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, FEB. 9. IN RE 3IITCHELL. The LORD CUANCRLLOR. was, during the whole day, occupied with hearing Counsel iu kis private room on this petition. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, FEB. itEx V. TRUSTEES OF THE METROPOLIS ROADS. The question was, whether the trustees were bound to watch and light the road between Highgate and Hampstead. The Couive was equally divided on the question, and therefore, the Mandamus could not be granted. That the applicants might proceed against the trustees by indictment, if they thought they had good grounds to do so.-I.tule discharged. REX V. SIMIOUR. The judgment in this case was postponed till to-day. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, FEB. 9. DE CRESPIGNT V. WELLESLEY. The Lord Chief Justice BEST delivered judgment in this case, at the sitting of the Court. The question the Court had to decide was, whether the publisher of a libel pro tected himself from legal proceedings by stating the name of the person from whom the libellous matter had been ob tained. Much had been said in argument concerning the case of Lord Northampton. But that only applied to oral slander ; and no case had been quoted to chew that that case applied to written slander. Oral slander was calcu lated to have a very different effect from written slander. In the case of oral slander, the character of the speaker, and the circumstances under which he spoke, could then he taken into the view of the person who heard him. But, in the case of written slander, no such mitigating cir cumstances existed. The Court therefore found itself war ranted in saying that the defendant had made a most un justifiable attack upon the plaintiff's c:iaracter. The judg ment must be for the plaintiff—Judgment for the plaintiff POLICE INTELLIGENCE. DINNER OF THE UNITARIANS. Yesterday was the Anniversary of the Building of the Finsbury Unitarian Chapel, in South -street, Muorfields, and in consequence the members of its congregation met at the London Tavern, for the purpose of celebrating it. It is at this Chapel -that the Rev. William Johnson Fox is the Pastor, and in order to do the more honour to the celebration of the anniversary, he was invited to take the Chair. His accepting the invitation was rendered the more interesting, owing to the circumstance of his long illness, which for many months—almost years,—has deprived the Chapel of his services, and rendered hint equally incapable of taking any part in the proceedings of his congregation. The consequence was, that the anniversary yesterday was more than usually well attended. The Rev. Mr. Fox, in proposing " the health of the King," said, that the toast had usually stood at the Lead of their list, as a mark of respect to the Chief Magistrate of a free Empire; but he could not allow it to pass over in that way on the present occasion, when he remembered that last year the King had put his sign manual to the emancipation of the Dissenters, and when there was such reason for hoping that he would this year put the same sign to the emancipation of the Catholics.—(Applmse.)—lf such should be the case, it would do more honour to the Monarch than any act of his reign ; and when they should all have returned to that dust from which they came, and George IV. would only exist in the chronological tablets of England's Sovereigns, that act would leave a sunny spot attached to his reign, on which futurity would love to dwell, and mark his era by.—(Cheers.) The Rev. CHAIRMAN-Wheu the ship lifts her anchor, the pennant is let fly, and so I in the commencement of our voyage of this evening am about to unfurl our flag.— . The toast I am now going to give is one, than which there can be none dearer to our hearts—" The cause of Civil and Religious Liberty all the world over." (Applause.)_ Yes, Gentlemen, the cause of Civil Liberty all the world over, not even excepting Spain and Portugal—(Hear, hear)—the cause of Civil and Religious Liberty, not even excepting Ireland., (Cheers.) Every where may they flourish—here in our own country—here, amour those who are drawn by a common feeling among us Unitarians, may these pi inciples earn a throne of glory ; and while we wish for the universal diffusion of this blessing, let us hope to see its complete establi•hutent here, where there are minds to estimate it rightly, where there are hearts who hold it dear as their life's blond, because they know it to be the origin of all that is lovely and civilized in man kind. (Ilear, bear.) Without this blessing we are little higher than brutes; with it we are little lower than angels. (Applause.) It is only antler the influ ence of this, that the mind attains to the complete de velopment of its social and moral character. But though we should not have been the less faithful to this great cause, even if it had been a falling one, though we would have supported it through sackcloth and ashes, still we are delighted to feel that we are speaking of it in the time of its success and prosperity. The flood is roll ing on, and nothing can resist its progress : its influence is becoming universal • it has been Britain's glory, anti it shall be Europe's blessing (applause)—it has been heaven's charter, and it shall be earth's heritage—(applause)—and when the time shell have arrived for its diffusion, bigotry and despotism may endeavour to obstruct it, but will suc ceed no more than marble monuments sad iron rails will be able to keep the dead confined when the tempest of the archangel shall sound to the resurrection.—(Appl Luse. ) The Rev. Mr. Fox. in giving the next toast, spoke as follows :—ln looking abroad at the world, and expressing the warmest wirhQs of our hearts, still we cannot forget the ties that hang tound us, and bring us back to our more limited affections—we cannot forget that we have a coun try, nor that it is a country in which we have full reason to glory— " En2,land, with all thy faults, I Icve tine still !" So sung Cowper ; and so, after hint, sung Byron—the one a plebeian, holding the noiseless tenour of his way in the middle walk of life ; the other a Nobleman, who wished ever to be in the world's eve, and whose longing it was at every syllable to make all Europe ring from side to side— the one of a calm, quiet, unassuming disposition, going on in a course of kindness, with pity for the erring and affec tion t it the good ; the other of volcanic passions, restless, ardent, impetuous—whose mind was almost as mighty as it was unfathomable ; the one a man of devotion—of mor bid devotion, carried to what we must almost term super stition ; the other, one who owned obedience to neither God nor man—who delighted in trifling with every thing that was most solemn, and in sbewing his fearlessness of every thing that was most venerated. Surely there must be deep and fervent truth in a sentiment that has entered minds so differently constituted as those of Cowper and Byron. There is, indeed, a truth in it, which all should feel with gratitude to heaven, for casting our lives in plea sant places, and which all should endeavour to support, by doing what public good maybe within their power. England, whether we consider her moral and intellectual features, or whether we look towards those snen who for genius have the first station in the world, and who, like the chival rous champions of old, have gone abroad challenging all, is entitled to a high rank among the nations. England, too, is a country renowned for her benevolence; for there is not a tire or an earthquake in the remotest corner of the globe that does not freely draw upon her wealth ; it is a country which has devoted itself to the principle of im provement in a most striking degree, and which I trust that it will continue to support, so as to continue what Milton has sleacribed as its ancient prerogative—of teaching the n..tions how to live, and of giving its children reason to glory in its name front generation to generation. I con elude by proposing as a toast—" The land we live in."— (A (Applause.) The Rev. CHAIIOI.II4 then proposed—" Prosperity to the Finsbury Unitarian Congregation," and congratulated its members on their trust deeds being shackled by no creed, having boldly committed themselves to the storm of opinion, with the assurance that the cause of truth must finally prevail. The Rev. Mr. Fox then proposed the health of Dr. Bowring, and said that he was happy to mention hint in connection with a toast, the agency of the subject of which was for the good of all—he meant the Press—that mighty, that almost omnipotent instrument, which Providence, having withdrawn miracles, had given us to work miracles for ourselves.—(Applause.)—None could be indifferent to that instrument, however high their station, or however influential their power ; it was the means by which bigotry was put to flight, and by which the great ends of the Divine will were brought into existence. He did not know whose name lie could more appropriately connect with the press than that of his excellent friend, Dr. Bowring,_ (Hear, hear,)—who had identified himself with it in so many ways ; through him the blossoms of other countries had been introduced into this, and encouraged to take root, forming at once the most lovely and the most pleasing of bonds between country and country.—(Applause.)—The Rev. Gentleman concluded by giving " The Press—its freedom, its activity, and its power," and in connection with that toast, begged to add the name of Dr. Eutering. —(Applause.) Dr. Bowitisro expressed himself grateful for the way in which his Rev. Friend had alluded to his name, though he had done him dis-service, perhaps, in thus early introducing him to the notice of the meeting.—(Hear.)—When, how ever, the heart was full of joy, the tongue might his allowed to be fluent, and there never was an occasion in which any man us-110 entertained sentiments of honesty—in which any man who was able to entertain sympathy for the new pros pect that was opening upon seven millions of his fellow suhjects—in which a more fitting opportunity presented itself.—(Hear.)—The principles to which he had to advert, were great and glorious ones, anil there was therefore no necessity to draw any line in giving utterance to them. The principle that the Unitarians had always acted upon, aud which he hail endeavoured to inculcate on late occasions, was that a Government had nothing to do with human errors, but only with human misconduct. All that he could say was, that the wider the gate should be opened, the greater ' w o uld be the delight he should feel. It was his firm belief that the success of the Dissenters had only exciter( them to attempt greater things, and the great progress that the cause had undergone, was suffieiently shown in the declara tion that had just fallen from Mr. Peel's lips—" That re ligious opinions were no longer to be a ground fur civil dis abilities."—(Applause.) —The victories of the Duke of Wellington on the Continent were of that nature at which he (Mr. Bowring,) could not rejoice,' because misery must always be the attendant of war; brat his victory of last Thursday was truly great and glorious. That was a vic tory which cost no tears, unless tie Earl of Eldon should weep—(a laugh)—that was a victory which would cause no distress, unless the bigots feel it at knowing that the day for exclusion was over.—(Applause.) On the health of Dr. BIUKEECK being proposed, that ' gentleman shot tly returned thanks, and said he was glad if any efforts of his had tended to the promotion of science or to the advancement of knowledge. Several other toasts were then drunk, after which the Rev, Chairman withdrew, accompanied by the majority of the company. MANSION-HOUSE. Yesterday, a young gentleman na►ned Brook, who has, we understand, a good property, appeared before the Loan Alavort and Alderman &HOLEY, to answer the complaint of his female servant, who swore that the child she carried in her arms was her's by the defendant. The girl swore that she entered the service of her master en the 16th of January, was wheedled out of her virtue on the 26th of the same moth, was turned out of the house by her master on the 24th April, and put to bed on the 6th of November. She solemnly declared that it was i►npossible any one else could have been the father of her child. In her cross-examination by Mr. Phillips, she stated that on the day she was turned out she drank a quartern of gin and a pint of porter, as the day was not only a wash ing-day, but her birth-day; but she was by no means drunk, and she abused her master no more than she had a right to dO. She believed her master turned her away because he saw a young man, uamed Joseph Jocelyn, with her in the kitchen. Mr. Phillips submitted that, calculating from the period the intimacy commenced to the time of delivery, it was impossible the child could b? his client's. The LORD MA Yon, Alderman SCISOLEY, Mr. Hobler, and Mr. Adolphus, all bore testimony, from experience, to the possibility.--(Loud laughter.) Mr. Phillips said, that if such a thing were allowed, his client would take his oath, that he never had been in the least familiar with the girl. Shepherd (the street-keeper) swore, that on the day of the girl's dismissal she could hardly keep her feet, or an swer a question, she was so '' consarned" in liquor. He thought it a proof of drunkenness when a girl staggered about, and did not understand what she was trying to say. —( Laugh ter. ) Mr. Holder here informed the Lord Mayor that Ken nersley, who had been beadle of Aldgate, a most prolific parish, for many years, wished to make u communication to his Lordship on the subject. The Loan MAYOR should willingly hear a man of so much experience. Kennersley then looked at the child, and turned it round to the Lord Mayor, said, " Look, my Lord, at the two faces, only look at the two noses on 'em ; I'd take my oath they are father and son."—( Loud laughter.) An officer, and a servant of the defendant, deposed that the girl was drunk the day she was dismissed. Win. Baker, the person who recommended her to Mr. Brook, stated that he also saw her drunk ou that day. He spoke highly of her character, and Lad known her twelve or thirteen years. Mr. Adolphus said the matter was so clear that he would not offer any observations. The Lomu MAvoa had no reason to doubt the veracity of the girl on the point in question. Alderman &HOLEY was of the same opinion. He re commended Master Brook to take the child hones, as he might be convinced it was his. Several gentlemen also gave the same recommendation, amidst great laughter. Kennersley offered to take the boy cut of the mother's arms, but— _ The Mother said she would not give up her babe for the father's weight in diamonds. Mr. Phillips—No doubt—for you know he is no more the father than the Worthy Alderman. The child was then, with the usual forms, affiliated to Mr. Brook, who will not appeal. GUILDHALL. INTERESTS of ScrExcE.—Yesterday, before Sir R. CARR GLYN, Elizabeth Shearing was charged on suspi cion of having sold the dead body of her father to the anatomists; and William Shearing, her husband, was charged with having aided, abetted, and assisted her therein. The prosecution was instituted by the Committee of the Grub-street Asylum for the liouseless Poor, upon the fol lowing facts ; On Tuesday last an inmate of the Asylum, named John Evans, after having been ill a day or two, died there ; and the body was sent to Cripplegate workhouse for inter ment—as usual in such cases. On Thursday, the female prisoner applied for it, saying the deceased was her father, and she would conduct the funeral at her own proper cost. She gave her name Elizabeth Evans, described the dress and appearance of the deceased minutely; produced an un dertaker's contract to furnish the funeral for a stipulated sum ; and " manifested so much filial affection," that the Committee ordered the corpse to be given up to her. On the following evening, Friday, she and her husband, and another man, appeared at the workhouse with a cart, and the corpse was delivered to them. It had been prepared for burial by the parish officers, but the prisoners and their companions removed it from the coffin to a shell, which they brought with them ; and they even stripped it of the grave clothes, saying they had "no use for them." They then put it into the cart, and having rewarded the help ers with a shilling, they drove off at a great rate—leaving the female prisoner behind them. These circumstances excited suspicion ; and an officer of die Asylum, who had attended the delivery, ran after them to take the number and name of the cart ; but he could net overtake them, for " the more lie called after them, the mole they would'nt stop." The prisoners were next day taken into custody, at their:dwelling, No. 9, Molder's-row, a row of small houses in the brick-fields at Ball's Pond. In the house were found several spades, mattocks, ropes and other such implements as are used by the dealers in human flesh. This was the substance of the evidence for the prosecution. The female prisoner, in her defence, said she did not know that the deceased was her father ; but a man, named " Bob Bonner," told her that another man, named " Old Patchy," had told him that her father was lying dead in the Asylum ; and therefore she applied for the body. Her husband, when asked by the Magistrate what he bad done with the body, replied—" I went with the cart as far as Fore-street, and there I got out. Su it isn't likely I should know what's become of it." They were then admonished and discharged—on the ground (we believe) that, as the corpse was delivered up to them, they could not be legally indicted for stealing it. REX V. BARRY.—This was a proceeding by the same Committee against Edward Barry, for wantonly and ma liciously breaking the lamp in front of the Asylum. Mr. Barry, a fine specimen of "the fitiest peasantry on the face of the earth," has been a resident there for the last fortnight. On Sunday morning last he went out, and when he returned in the evening the following colloquy took place between him and the attendant Committee man :—" Why did you go out when there was Divine Service here, with plenty of food ?"--" Because I'm a Cutho/ic." " Have you been to a Catholic Chapel then?" „ " No, devil a bit ! —upon which answer the Committee man ordered him to he expelled as a worthless disorderly. About eleven o'clock the same night the door-keeper hear ing the great lamp, in front of the building, break, looked not and saw Mr. Barry, wha said, " T'was I did it ! for I'm resolved I'll lodge somewhere to-night !" So they took him to the watch-house, and lodged him there. He was sentenced to get one month's board and lodging in the Compter. 40W.STREVr, It was confidently stated yesterday in this office, that the means resorted to by the monster Burke and his confe derate in Edinburgh, to procure subjects for dissecting tables, are practised in this metropolis at the present too meat. Certain it is that several persons have lately disc appeared in the neighbourhood of London, whose sudden absence can be accounted for in no other way. The old woman named Bray, who came from the country to visit her friends who reside at No. I, Pancras-place, has never been heard of since she was last seen in the neighbourhood of Chelsea Hospital,' where she had spent the day. When the information of her absence was first given at this office, about a fortnight ago, Mr. HALLS directed that an officer should go round to the several hospitals and workhouses in and about the metropolis, to ascertain whether the poor woman might not have met with some sudden accident, or had fallen down in a fit, and in that state had been cha ritably removed to some place where surgical assistance was at hand. On inquiry, however, it has been ascertain ed that no such person Lad been taken in at any of the hos pitals or workhouses at the time stated, and the friends of the poor old woman, having made every exertion them selves to solve the mystery attached to her absence, are now firmly convinced that she has been unfairly treated. Two elderly persons Kaye disappeared in the same unac countable manner from the neighbourhood of Hackney within a very short period of time; and it was stated yesterday as a positive fact, that a little boy in the course of last week was actually trepanned to a house near the Kent-road, for the purpose of making him a subject for the surgeons. The story is almost incredible, but it has been repeated by so many, that it must, iu some degree at least, be founded iu truth. The boy, it is said, was car rying his father's breakfast, when he was met by a man, who said he would give him a penny if he would carry note for him to a certain house, situate in an unfrequented street near the Kent-road. The boy promised he would ' do so, but first went with his father's breakfast, to whom he accidentally mentioned the circumstanoe, showing the note which he was commissioned to deliver. The father, knowing that the street to which the boy was directed bore an infamous name, looked into the letter, and to his horror found these words—" I send you another young subject—dispatch !" The father having consulted some friends, it was determined that the boy should deliver the letter according to the address. He went, followed by his father, and several men; and the moment he entered the door of the house to which he bad been directed, it was closed upon him., The father and his friends immediately rushed forward, and forced their way into the house just in time to save the boy from being strangled. Two dead bodies were found in the house, but in the confusion which pre vailed, two mien and a woman, who were in the house, effected their escape. Such is the story which was repeated in this office yesterday, and which received some degree of confirmation from the fact of its having been repeated in the course of the morning by several Bow-street officers. 'Whatever credit may be due to the above statement, it is certain that the demand for subjects at the present moment has never been exceeded. In the course of the last week two bodies were stolen from the bone-house attached to the workhouse of St. Clement Danes. Three strong locks were forced in the night-time, and the bodies carried off. A warrant was applied for at this office to search a house in the neighbourhood, to which suspicion attached; but the bodies have not been traced.. Information was given yesterday to Sir R. 13thstr, that a young man in livery, who lived with Mr. Bowles, of St. Paul's Church-yard, has been missing since Thursday even ing last, when he was sent with a parcel to Burton-crescent. Ile delivered the parcel, and was seen in Portugal-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields about ten o'clock the same night, in quiring his way to the Strand, since which time he has not been heard of. Sir It. flittNin directed that he should be sought after• His Ether, who gave the information, stated that he was wily 20 years of age, and stood nearly six feet high. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. LIVERPOOL. LIVERPOOL, FEBRUARY 8.---Wind N. W.---High water tour minutes past two.—Arrived the Isabella, ---, from Demerara ; John and Mary, Cowan, from the lila of Man ; Anne, Rowe, from St. Michael's; Iris, But.' cher, from Santana ; Malta, Vurau, from Gijon ; Janet, , from Westport ; Betsey, Hurell, front Larne ; Dolphin, Smithet, from Newry. sailed—The America, —, for New York ; Herald; —, for Baltimore ; Gulnare, —, for Naples; Wm. Iluskisson, ---, for New Orleans; Georgia, for Boston. The great seal itself, when not in the King s own costa:fly, was entrusted to the " Chancellor," whose salary, as fixed by Henry the First, amounted to fiv e , shillings per di em , b es id es a " li very " of provisions. And the allowan,e of one pint and a half, or perhaps a q uart, of claret, one " gross wax-light," and forty candle-ends/ to enable the Chancellor to carry on hie housekeeping' may be considered as a curious exemplification of primi tive temperance and economy.— Quarterly Review. A lover, in a village on the northern side of the Forth, lately fell upon the following notable expedient , in order to deter his rivals from visiting the fair object of his affections. He conveyed from a gentleman's grounds in,the neighbourhood, and fixed in a conspicuous situa tion in front of her door, a board containing the folloW ing notice in very large characters :—" Persons found trespassing within this enclosure, being private propertP will be prosecuted according to law." To this notice he added the words, " except A-- alluding t ° , himself : and it is said that his mistress was so mu° pleased with his ingenuity, that she has consented to b 6 come his bride.—Stirling Journal. AFFECTING STORY.---At a time when 'OW, totny, subjects, resurrectionists, murd ers , & c . are the al' engrossing topics of conversation, the following affecting story, the accuracy of which may be depended on, will b g read with more than ordinary interest. Some time ago physician in a neighbouring county, in the course of B, P , interview with tw o resurrec ti on i s t s w h o were i n t h e habi t of supplying him with subjects, intimated to them anxiety to procure against a given time, the hody of a dee' child for anatomical purposes. The brace of resurrectionii ° assured their employer that no exertion should be wantir 4 on their parts to gratify his wishes. In the course o f tw° or three weeks after the interview in question o •the retie' rectioniets waited on the physician, and handed over l , him the body of a deceased child, for which they 0 , ceived a certain sum, and then departed. On the lb' lowing day, the Doctor's wife having occasion to 1 1 inside the counter of the shop, saw the head-dress .° her recently interred child, which she more react recognized in consequence of having made it W' t . l ; her own hands. She instantly exclaimed in half fran tl accents, rushing at the same time into an adjoining ap3a went in which her husband was a t th e ti me , h o w iP , name of Heaven had he procured the head-dress of he r child ! Before the husband had time to return an a nswe r ' his wife recognis e d oa th e di ssec ti ng t a bl e , i n a s h o ckin6. l7 mangled state, the remains of her child. She fell down l ig ° a state of insensibility at the painful spectacle. The ab° c o which her feelings received at the discovery produced t partial derangement of intellect, but not to such an exteP, as to render her afterwards unconscious of the affecting e ir i , eurnstance which had taken place. It preyed unce4N o l f on her mind for the period of three months, at the f,lase which time it brought her to a premature grave, It unnecessary to add, that until his wife made the dos,", very, the physician was not aware it was his own child had dissected. —Elgin Courier. Blra lIS. On the Slii inst., the holy of T. J. pl#l, Esq., tock-tquare, of a eon. la 3l On the t - 3th inst., at Croo m ' s -hill, G ree n w i c h , t he of Captain Popple.well, R.N., of a daughter. On the sth inet,, at Satsden, the lady of the Rev- Ruler, of a son. MARRIED. t' On the 7th i ns t., a t S t . J o h n ' s, H ac k ney,. b y the v e William Lloyd, o f Lilli ngs t one -L ove ll, O xon , flerh ei t Lloyd, of Tliavies-inn, solicitor, to Mary Ann, younge l l daughter o f th e l ate J o h n Gilb er t Saggers, Crosby-squa t solicitor. DIED. On the 7th inst., at his house in Southampton-PO P John George Graeff, Esq. On the sth inst., at Hampstead, Charles Jacob, f'q .' surgeon, aged 46. On the 3d inst., at her father's, Addlestead-house, Peckham, Kent, Sarah, wife of Mr. W. Town, Reg° street. 1 On the 7th inst., at St. Mary Cray, Emma, it'll r 11 daughter of the late John Drew, Esq. On the 7th inst., 4t Monmouth, Mary, wife of slo i3P Norton, Esq. On the Bth inst., Mr. John Sly, of Southampton-bid ' ings, Holbotn, aged 71. t bl On the 6th inst., at Parkiditee, Paddington, Emily, • wife of Mr. Alfred Turner. ti)t• On the 7th inst., at Manchester, John Howtirsh ' son of the Rev. John Addison Cootnl, - On the 3d inst., at West ptuton, in the North Rid' /4 of the county of York, William Purehas, Esq., aged if'', On the 7th inst., Edward Everard, Esq., of Aliddle t ' H near Lynn, Norfolk, aged 68. PRINTE and PullustiEn by 111URDO YOUNG, 83 " D SUN OF'FIIE, I I V;STRAND, LoNDoli.