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of Commons would•render itself contemptible ; because this would be practical tyranny, that a majority not daring to amend an old or enforce a new law, and unable to pronounce a certain action a breach of privilege, would still attempt, by a is,,te of a majority, to degrade those who did it.—( Hear, Lear, hear.) Let them once take that course, and they would find such an arbitrary exercise of power would proycl:e oppo sition and induce men to glory in that which they denounced, and persons would challenge them to exercise their rower by enLreing the very principles which they condemnrd.—( Hear, hear.) The Honourable Gentleman (Mr. S. O'Brien) appeared to have brought forward a very extraor dinary proposition. —( Hear,) He considered that he had R right as an in lividual to complain upon this subject ; he said that it was intended to displace Roman Catholic Members ; and yet that Hon. Member himself, who was the only peti tioner against the subscriptions, happened to be a Protestant. —(Cheers and laughter.) If he was not right in this state ment, the Hon. Gentleman could correct him. Now, he said, notwithstanding the at'ack that had been made upon the Hon. Baronet, he had derived nothing but credit—( Cries of " Oh, oh," from Members on the Ministerial benches) --nothing; but , credit—( Repeated cries of " Oh, oh," and cheers) —nothing,, he repeated it, but credit, from the manly course of 168 pro. ceeding.—(Cheers from the Opposition Members.) Hon. Gent'emen opposite had taunted the Hon. Baronet whh in consistency; could that inconsistency proceed from any dis honourable or dishonest cause ? What reward could the Honourable Baronet hope for? The position of the Honour. able Baronet enabled him to look down upon the imputation of unvrorthrmotives.—( Cheers from Opposnion Members.) He did not admit of the charge of inconsistency as being applic able to the Honourable Baronet.—( Cries of " Oh, oh I" from Members on the Ministerial benches.) He had long been opposed to the Honourable Baronet ; but the position of the Honourable Baronet at that moment was that of many other individtvils of the highest character, respectability, and intel ligence in itist country.—( Hear, hear, from Opposition Mem bers.) The Honourable Baronet had struggled for Parlia mentary Reform—h 6 had assailed in violent language the usurpation of the Peers arrl the boroughmongering system ; but he had never heard of the Honourable Baronet, even at the most inflamed periods of party politics—he never heard of him saying that when Reform was granted that he wanted to sec the privileges of the Monarchy, or of the House of Peers, in the slightest degree invaded.—( Cheers from Opposi tion Members, and cries of Oh, oh I" from the Ministeria benches.) The Honourable Baronet's had : been A perfectly honest and consistent course ; he it was who mainly by his efforts had substituted for the former representation t% at which now prevailed. It was perfectly consistent in the Hon. Baronet, when he had attained that which he had sought fur, that he should rest satisfied, and that when an encroachment was made upon other constituent bodies of the Legislature, he; having the acuteness to perceive, had the meanliness to face the attacks that might be made upon him, when he stood up to oplose the attacks that might be made upon the privi leges of the Monarchy and the Peerage.—(Cheers from the Opposition Members.) The Hon. Baronet did struggle for Roman Catholic Emancipation as it was called. He was amongst the most powerful and the most successful advocates of that measure. The Roman - Catholics of Ireland entertained a different opinion of the Hon. Baronet from that which the Honcurable and Learned Gentleman the Member for Dub lin expressed, when upon two occasions they saw the Ho ncurable Bo: onet bringing forward the Roman Catholic pe titions; and when he (Sir R. Peel) read those expressions of gratitude for the Honourable Baronet's services which had flowed from the Roman Catholics of Ireland, he scarcely expected that one of the chief amongst the Roman Catholics of Ireland would denounce the Honourable Baronet, not only for the present opinions which he entertained, but on account of his past political conduct, asserting that in his youth and throughout his manhood he (Sir Francis Burdett) had done no good whatever to the popular cause—the cause of which the Hon. and Learned Gentleman was so strenuous an advo cate. Here again they found the Honourable Baronet con tending for the complete relief of the Roman Catholics from their disabilities, and the annihilation of all distinctions on ac count of differences in religion : but they never yet had heard the Hon. Baronet maintain it as a necessary consequence of the.removal of the Roman Catholic disabilities that the secu rities of the Protestant Church should be endangered. And again, having succeeded in removing these disabilities, and plac ing the Roman Catholics on a footing of perfect equality, so far from its being inconsistent, it was real consis t( ncy ; it was real conformity with every principle which the Hon. Baronet had everavowed, to say, " Now these disabilities are removed, I shall not, if I can prevent it, endanger the se curity of the Protestant institutions."—(Loud cheers.) And here again, seeing the injustice and the danger, and having the manliness to perceive it, the Honourable Baronet said he would stand there, as he had done, with respect to the Peerage and the Crown. He would make his stand there in defence of the Protestant Establishments of' the country. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE rose amidst loud cries of " QUes tion and Divide !" He thought the reasons stated by his Hon. and Learned Friend the Member for Southwark were most powerful. Well might that Honourable and Learned Gentleman say that the public, when they beard that the House had spent six or seven hours in the debate this evening, would think that the time of the House had been most use lessly expended. The whole had been a farce—the farce of Much Ado about Nothing.—( A laugh.) They would come to no-decision relative—(Cries of Question, question I") What decis;on could they come to unless they agreed to the amendment of his Hon. and Learned Friend? Whit did the motion of the Hon. Member for Limerick mean ? It meant to cast a vote of censure on the Honourable Baronet the Mem ber for North Wilts. It was quite clear, from what the Noble Lord (Lord Jcbn Russell) had said, that the House was not prerar.d to agree to that vote of censure. He, (Mr. Dun combo) for one, was not prepared to say that because the Noble Lord had subscribed 20/. to some fund or other, that tberef.re he was capable of so much dishonesty as that he wou.7d not adjudicate fairly upon a Committee.—(Loud cheers.) He could only say that if he were a petitioner or pe tioned ag3inst, he would be rerfectly ready to leave his case in the hands ,f the Honourable Baronet..—( Loud cheers.) The Noble Lord (Lord J. Russell) did not agree with the motion of the Hon. Member for Limer:ck, nor in the amendment. In this difficulty what was he (Mr. Duncombe) to do 2—( A laugh.) The amendment of his Hon. Friend the Member for Southwark was based on common sense ; it was simply this, whether the House was prepared to remove the expenses en tailed upon petitioners and those petitioned against, who came before Election Committees. That was the simple question. Put . down these expenses, and the Spottiswcode gang sub scriptions and associations would fall to the ground.—(Loud cheers. and cries of " Question.") _ Lord CLEMENTS rose amidst a storm of noises, amongst which the cries of " Divide, divide," were predominant. He hoped they would allow him to mention the circumstances which induced him to vote for the motion of the Hon. Mem ber for Limerick. He thought that this was not only a ques tion of degree, but it was based on the grand principle not only of interfering with the rights of the Irish Members in that House, but afro of disfranchising a large class of voters in Ireland—not fictitious or fraudulent voters, but persons whose property was of a value to entitle them to vote. It was to protect this class of voters, that he was anxious to put down this conspiracy. • Mr. O'BRIEN rose to reply. As he understood, the situa tion in which the House was piaced was this—the majority agreed in thinking that this proceedinr , was unconstitutional. No r no.) The majority agreed with in thinking that it was inequitable that the same person should be judge and prosecutor ; but he observed this, that such was the univer sal practice on both sides of the House, that they could not come to a division, without passing a condemnation en them selves. That he believed was the real state of the case, and that was the reason why he had not the support of Govern ment ; and, as he was not supported by Government, it was no great boast on the part of the Right Hon. Baronet that he would obtain a majority. The Right Hon. Baronet might enjoy his triutnpli. He had enjoyed one last night over a new _Member who was unacquainted with the forms of the House; and now he might enjoy a triumph over him (Mr. O'Brien), for'as soon as he heard that .his motion Auld not he sup ported by Government he despaired of success. But the discussions that bad taken place would do good ; they would convince the country and the House of the necessity of doing something to alter the present tribunals, and thereby, to ren der the expenses of Election Committees less, crushing to those whose duty compelled them to have recourse to them. The SPEAKER inquired of Mr. Harvey whether he would press his amendment ? Mr. II A RVE I replied, most decidedly. The House then divided on Mr. Harvey's amendment, For the amendment Against it . _ Majority against the amendment - 2 98 As soon as this eivision had taken place, the House affain divided on Mr. O'Brien's motion, when the numbers were For the motion Apinst it Majority against the original motion -210 The Orders of the Day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned at a quarter past three o'clock. JANE LOMA X, OR A MOTHER'S CRIME..--If we are _.not misinformed as to the nature of Mr. Horace Smith's new work, the title of it will afford a proper indica catiou of the kind and quality of its materials, which arc said to appeal to that universal sympathy which is felt by the world with those stirring or startling events which grow out of its every day routine. A high tragedy may be the greatest alert of pootry ; but we doubt if the highest tragedy extant ever excited one half of the deep and heartfelt interest which bas been over and over again called forth by some strange and mysterious crime springing up in the paths of daily life. Mr. Horace Smith has deeply cm.ditated on the nature of the human mind in this respect, and has chosen the materials of his new rommic , accordingly. We are justified, therefore, in anticipating a:at it will surpass in popularity all his previous works. COLBURN'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE AND iinfOURIST, EDITED BY TrignponE HOOK, ESQ.—The num ber for December brings with it substantial proof of the knowledge and the fancy, the invention 'and the observation, the wit and good humour, that anirr.ate the " choke spirita" who have admission to its pages. The Gurney Papers are continued with their usual spirit and humour, and Captain Marryst relates a story of " most romantic" interest, under the title of " The Sky-blue Domino," We have a pleasaLt C• fteter cn Life in the East, by Mr. Quin, and a rich collec . ''43.fl' Wstorical memoranda, under the head of the .IManao4. oiiaook—quite a feast in its w ay—comprising 7 k';')itiel*te.,o lea Matthews, and gossip about Mrs. Mar "?';:rhn. - But r ' en than this is the opening paper of the _. --.lini*iriat, 'Lfi tonian one, by the author of " Paul Pry," . 7,l2,esiiiig the •••60 cent title of " The Life and Times of the aatcr. Captain P : ' thus Nix, L. P. L. V." It is full of c lart lery *l4l g, because not ill-natured, satire. 44 ' & The publication of TIIR SUN NEWSPAPRR commenced this daN at 10 minutes past Three o' Clock. PRICES Ul' :3 - r ocis THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. La:..; StocK. 3..er Cent. I , eti . 9•2y 2 5 4% ' \ :itto I;,,nds .. . 3 : , er Cc.nt. 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Morning 49 minutes after 11 Evening......... 0 minutes after 0. tO '' '7 ' , ft , ( AP'', -4: 4 ' 1 ‘1;; , _\-.44:';' 1511111 c.... ) ,P,ty ' 1 '6 t';'":?''''''' . % - • --- ""' ' Ir!r (4 1 11 xe l k '—, ~ . t rZ✓ I}nv LONDON : FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 8, 1837. In the HOUSE OF Loans yesterday, Lord BROUGHAM `re sented a petition complaining that privileged persons at pre sent escaped the payment of their debts, and praying for pro tection for the creditor. Mr. BAINES brought up from the CommoNs the Municipal Officers' Declaration Bill —The House then adjourned. In the HOUSE OF COMMONS amongst the many important petitions presented, were those from Westminster and Edin burgh, in favour of the Ballot, extension of the Suffrage, and shorter Parliaments. Mr. C. BULLER brought before the House Mr. Ews's petition in reference to the Bodmin Election. The SPEAKER, upon Mr. O'Brien being called upon to proceed with his motion, made a communication to the effect that the transactions which occurred in the House on Wednesday at the dose of Mr. BLEWITT'S motion, had made a deep impression on his mind ; that there were appearances there, which seemed to indicate that he did not possess the confidence of the House, in that degree. which it was essenti2l that the Speaker of the House of Commons should obtain it ; and that he most solemnly assured the House that, if he again saw similar indications, he would retire from his office, and re lieve himself from the duties that now devolved upon him. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said in reply to -a question, that it was his intention to renew the Committee of last session upon joint-stock banks. Lord J. RUSSELL in reply to Mr. Heatheote, said that the inconveniences experienced under the Births and Marriages Registration Acts, would, in course, be got over, and that it was not his intention to propose any alteration in the existing law. Mr. SMITH O'BRIEN then brought forward the subject of his own petition, presented by himself last Wednesday. The Hon. Member moved " That a Select Committee be ap pointed to inquire into the allegations contained in the petition presented by WILLIAM SMITH O'BRIEN, complaining of the subscriptions which had been raised to encourage the prosecution of petitions against Irish Members, and of the con duct of a Member of the House (Sir F. BURDETT) in having contributed to such subscription." A debate ensued, which did not terminate until past three o'clock this morning. We have noticed the discussion hi a separate article, to which, in connection a ith, our Parliamen tal y Report, we refer the reader for full information on the in teresting and important proceedings of the night. An animated and protracted debate took place last night in the House of Commons, on the subject of Mr. SMITH O'BRIEN's motion, which was, in point of fact, for a Committee to inquire into the nature and extent of the SPOTTISWOODE conspiracy, and more particularly—as Mr. HARVEY observed—into the conduct of the Hon. Member for North Wilts, in contributing funds in aid of that conspiracy. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL, who made a most lucid and argumentative speech on the occasion, clearly showed that this high Tory combination was altogether illegal—a fact, which not one who spoke on the opposite side of the House attempted to disprove. Mr. BULWER, referring to the recent harlequin changes of Sir FRANCIS BURDETT, attacked that versatile and " faded old beau" in a most caustic and effective style; to which the only reply that the latter could make was, that he was wiser now than at the period to which the Hon. Member for Lincoln alluded. He had cast off, he said, " the follies of his youth," meaning thereby, we suppose, all the political sentiments which he held during the long period that he represented the city of Westminster in Parliament. This is a pre- . cious compliment to those electors who for upwards of twenty years placed implicit confidence in him, on the strength of those very " follies !" But how were they the " follies of his youth ?" Sir FRA NCIS maintained them Ion! , after he had passed, what are called, the years of discretion. He was no chicken when he denounced Toryism in all its forms and varieties, and clamoured for Universal Suffrage and Annual Parliaments ; but, on the contrary, a sober, middle-aged gentleman who had reached that period when a man's opinions may be said to be matured, and fixed for life. The plea of juvenility, therefore, will not avail him, in justification of his ultra-Radicalism, for by no process of logic or sophistry that we know of, can a man—at the staid age of fifty—be proved to be a " youth I" But, mark the glaring inconsistency of . this consummate apostate !. Last night, he represented his advocacy of Radical doe: trines as one of the ". follies of his youth ;" while the night before, he broadly stated that he had never advocated any measure but what was " just, legal, and constitutional !" How, then, can measures thus recommended—recommended by the triple sanction of law, equity, and the Constitution—be " fol lies ?" But it is idle to pursue this matter further. The Honourable Baronet is clearly in his dotage. His memory will not serve hint for eight and-forty hours together. What he said yesterday, he flatly contradicts to-morrow. We shall, therefore, for 7 bear all further comment on his display of last night, in the firm conviction that he himself, in his next speech, will furnish the best answer to it. Poor C/ESA D'ISRA ELI ! He has met„ as he wished to do, BRUTUS O'CONNELL " at Phillippi." And what has been the result of this ardently desired inter view? Why, the most complete and grotesque discomfiture that ever poor ghost was subjected to I " We shall meet again at Phillipi I" Such. yeas the minaceous and awful close of one of Mr. D'ls RA ELI'S letters to O'CONNELL, hll - evidently a threat that when he next met the astounded DANIEL, he would so worry and clap per-claw him ; so terrify him by his cutting sarcasms ; so paralyze him by his " inextinguishable hatred," that he should rue the day when he ever •ven-' tured to breathe a syllable in disparagement of the political and intellectual deserts of the author of " Vivian Grey." The significant lesson read to him last night will,, we trust, induce Mr. D'ISRA ELI henceforth to assess his talents at a more moderate valuation ; and not presume to wield the bow of ULYSSES, when he is only competent to let fly a boy's po p -gun. It is one thing to pen a fashion able novel, and another to address a senate. The Mem , her for Maidstone has abundance of words, but a sad dearth of ideas ; or he would not have talked such arrant, irrelevant trash as he did last night. What had the Vatican, or St. Peter's keys,. or the bell of St. Paul's, to do with the SPOTTISWOODE conspiracy? Why, even PETER BORTH WICK could have spoken more to the purpose than this ; and the redouhred SIBTHORP himself could scarcely have more effectu ally wande re d f rom hi s su bj ect . But we have done with CeESA R D'lsttA ELI, of whom we shall say no more, than that he has now convinced us that he is far better qualified to administer to the tastes of the circulating; library, than to those of the British Sennte. Mr. O'CONNELL'S speech was one of the best and I most convincing of the evening, and Lord STANLEY'S attempt at a reply a perfect failure. The Tory Journals cannot conceal their apprehen sion that the Election Petitions which the SPOTTIS WOODE conspirators - have got up, may be submitted to the decision of a tribunal at which they will have a stricter measure of justice dealt out to them, than they are likely to receive under the operation of the GRENVILLE Act. The organs of the Opposition have taken their cue from Sir ROBERT PEEL, who shewed strong symptoms of alarm on the se cond reading of Mr. CHARLES BULLER'S Bill, and even went so far, in his eagerness to prop up the un constitutional and iniquitous proceedings of this base crew of apostates and vagabonds, as to assert, that to subject their knavery to the scrutiny proposed by the Bill, would be to give to the measure the effect of an ex post . facto law. We stated at the time that the Right Hon. Baronet, in making such an assertion, showed an extraordinary degree of ignorance as to the meaning of an ex post facto law. His own experience— or, to speak more correctly, his own example—in those amendments of the Criminal Law for which he has claimed so much undue credit, would have been suf ficient to close his mouth, had he reflected that the charge which he was straining every nerve to bring home to the promoters of the Bill applied with equal force to himself. The only thing that renders an ex post facto law unjust is that it prescribes for an of fence a penalty which did not exist when the offence was committed. If a man, for instance, commits a crime to which the law has attached the punish ment of transportation, and if in the interval be tween the commission of the crime and the arraignment of the culprit the law be altered, and the punishment of death substituted for transportation, the most obvious principles of jus tice are violated. The law breaks faith with the criminal, and lays a snare for his life ; for had it in the first instance awarded the capital punishment, the crime in probability would not have been committed. But does this objection lie against a mere change in the mode of inquiring into the circumstances of the crime ? It would be the height of absurdity to sup pose such a thing. If this were the case, the first thing we must do is to annul the sentences passed on many of the unfortunate persons who calculated on being tried by a jury selected under the old system, and were handed over to one chosen under Sir Ito- BERT PEEL'S Jury Bill. We must also reverse the doom—we hope it is not irreversible—of the much injured individuals who speculated on the chances of escape afforded by a trial at the Assizes, and were compelled by an ex post facto law, to plead at the bar of the Central Criminal Court. The case of the SPOTTISWOODE conspirators, if brought before the tribunal created under Mr. BUL LER'S Bill, is precisely similar to that of the worthies above mentioned. The penalties attached to breaches of the law in Parliamentary elections, are neither in creased nor diminished in the smallest degree. The quantum of punishment is just what it was ; but the mode of trial is altered, so as to get at the truth with more certainty. Thus no just cause of complaint is given either to the accused or the accuser, but more impartial justice is dealt out to both parties. Sir ROBERT PEEL has given notice that he will this evening move, as amendments upon the motion of the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER for a Select Committee upon the Pension List, a series of resolu tions, pledging the House to make ample provision for the payment of all pensions continued on the accession of his late Majesty, WILLIAM IV., together with such as. have been granted since that period. The Right Hon. Baronet might save himself this trouble. By the motion of the CHANCELLOR of the Ex- Ch EQuER the Committee will stand pledged to have .1 due regard to the just rights" of the pensioners = viz., to sanction the continuance of the pensions, if the recipients can only prove that they are able to squander them. The best tight to the continuance of a pension from either a Whig or Tory,Government is the plea of poverty, aristocratic connections, and a contempt for that drudgery by which ordinary people earn an honest, independent livelihood. In the threatened proceedings of the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER we can discover nothing to cause the Right Hon. Mem ber for Tamwortli the shadow of uneasiness. Fie may rest satisfied that the Whigs will handle the Pension List with edifying tenderness, and that no name will be struck out that can be kept where it is. But we, the people, are not the less anxious to have a Committee on the subject. We should like to know, though compelled to continue the pensions, who really are the recipients of what is assumed as the Royal bounty ? We should like to know too, for what services, real or alleged, their pensions were granted—the actual funds out of which they are paid—and whether a. Minister of the Crown in granting a pension confers upon the recipient the gift of immortality ? We have heard it repeatedly stated that pensioners on the Civil List never die ; and we are anxious to ascertain of our own knowledge whether this statement be, or be not, a popular fallacy.. We admit that much va luable information was elicited by the Committee on the Pension List appointed by Lord ALTHORF in 1831 ; but the country is not yet in possession of one-fourth of the facts connected with this question, of which it is the duty of an honest Administration to make it fully acquainted. It is not so much the amount of the pensions as the jugglery of the Govern ment, in concealing and mystifying them, that rouses the indignation of the people. It is the low subter fuges had recourse to in the quartering them upon this, that, and the other fund, nominally not under the direct control of Parliament, that excites the disgust of every honest and intelligent member of the commu nity. Let the Royal mantle be raised, that we may obtain a view of the noble paupers sheltered be neath its ample folds. We care not now whether the crumbs which fall from the Royal table be eaten by dogs or children, provided we can but as certain their number, their relative allowances, and their individual characteristics, if, indeed, they have any. The people of England are generous to a fault, and if left to them, the dignity of the Crown will never suffer diminution from a lack of means to indulge in acts of merited bounty. We regard the amendments proposed to be moved this evening by the Right Hon. Baronet, upon the motion of the CHANCELLOR of the Ex- CHEQUER, as' designed to stifle any inquiry - which Parliament may hereafter think proper to institute, by pledging the House to a specific line of conduct be fore any of the facts are before it. The insidious policy of the Tory leader, supported, as it is sure to be, by a large section of aristocratic Whigs, cannot he too strongly opposed by the Liberal party ; and we take leave to assure the Government, that upon no • question will its votes more affect the confidence re posed in it by the people of these kingdoms. A com promise here would be ahnost as bad as a coalition. The second Report of the Cothmissioners appointed to inquire into the state of the Scottish Church, was pre sented to the House of Commons on Wednesday by Lord JOHN RUSSELL, with an understandir, that the discussion on the subject should take place within a few days. The public will look with anxiety to the re suit ; and as the Ministry may lay their account with 'offending a large portion of the community which ever side they take, they ought to be the more on their guard, anti adopt a plan which will bear the strictest test of inquiry. If it were a matter of policy, they could not hesitate for a moment. By . proposing, a grant out of the Consolidated Fund to increase Church- accommodation in Scotland, they would not gain over one of the party in that country 110 w so hostile to them. The Tories would claim a ll the merit of the action—they would tell .Lord JOHN RUSSELL that'he was forced into the measure by Sir ROBERT PEEL—and that they will therefore con tinue to support the leader who had conferred on them such a benefit. Of this Lord JOHN R u s _ SELL may rest assured. No act the Ministry can perform will reconcile their enemies—they must look only to their friends, and take no steps which can alienate one of them, Unless on the strictest grounds of justice and necessity. fly proposing a grlmt of money, they would alienate a large proportion of the liberal constituency in Scotland—they would give offence not only to the Dissenters, but to a vast pro- potion of the Burgh electors who have hitherto sup ported them, and also to the Dissenters throughout the rest of the United Kingdom, who contend, and contend justly, that there are ample funds for the maintenance of the Established Church,without calling them to contri bute for support of an Establishment of which they dis approve. Besides, it would not confer any benefit. It is necessary only to put a case. We know several towns in Scotland where there are two or three Dis senting meeting-houses to one Church. These cha pels were erected,, not because the parish Church was too small, but because they could not join in the reli gious services ; and if a thousand new Churches were added to the thousand that already exist, we doubt much if one Dissenter would be brought over to the Established Religion. There are already teinds in almost every parish sufficient for the decent main tenance of a clerp man, and some years ago a grant was made under a Tory Government, by which about 10,0001. a-year is set apart for increasing small livings. The Dissenters think the Church ought to be satisfied with this, and look with strong suspicion on the religious zeal of those who, while they are eternally calling out for support to the Church, will not contribute, unless • they can at the same time put their hands into the pockets of those who disapprove of its dis c ipline and doctrines. The House of Commons has on two late occasions shown great discretion with regard to the distribution of the public money. They properly listened to the Just prayer of the Danish claimants, and rejected the unjust claims of Lord CANTERBURY; and we there fore look with more confidence to an impartial deci sion on this important question. Madrid Journals to the evening of the 28th ult. have reached us this morning. The debates in the Senate and Chamber of Representatives had not ter minated when the mails left for Paris and London. The capital was much agitated, but no breach of the peace had occurred. The re-organization of Democratic and Anti-Constitutional Clubs had likewise commenced. ESPARTERO had been ap plied to by the Government for troops. to put down the disturbances in the interior of the king dom ; but he answered that he had no supplemen tary forces in the Basques, and would not suffer a single regiment to cross the Ebro. According to ad vices received from Bayonne of the 2d instant, the Christino forces north of the Ebro do not exceed 60,000, exclusive of the National Guards. The Paris Journals of Wednesday have all been received, but their contents are of very little impor tance. The Courrier Francais, on the authority of letters from Lemberg in Gallicia, states that Austria is preparing vast magazines of warlike stores, and that there is every chance of the peace of Europe soon ter minating. The same journal states that the Emperor of RUSSIA is making vast preparations for the subjugation of the Circassians, whose recent advantages over his troops have well nigh driven him out of his senses. The Siecle has the following news from Toulon : The Triton anchored here last night, on her way from Tenedos, which she had quitted on the 11th Nov. She had left there Admiral Gallois' squadron, consisting of the Mon tebello, the Santi Petri, the Trident, and the Jupiter. Ad miral Gallois had recovered his health, and was able to mount upon deck and give his orders. " The squadron of the Capudan Pacha, reinforced by fresh vessels, was preparing to leave the Dardanelles, and the French Admiral had taken all his measures to follow afresh the Turkish fleet, and prevent it from effecting the disembark ment of any troops upon the coast of Africa. It is said that the Turkish vessels have troops on board—a fact which would confirm the accounts from Bona, that Achmet Bey had de manded the intervention of the Sultan." We regret to announce that letters from Brest of the 22d ult., state that an English brig, named the Eliza beth, CHARLES HOOPER, laden with timber, was wrecked off that coast, and that all hands on board appear to have perished. FRENCH FUNDS. • PARIS, DEC. 6. Five per Cents., 106 f. W.c. 107 f. 10c. sc. 15c. 25c. 35c. Three per Cents., 801. 35c. 53e. 50c. Bank Actions, •2,560 f. Rente de Naples. 97f. 95c. 9Sf. 15c. Roman Five per Cents., 101 10074. Spanish Actives, 20;,%. Spanish Passives, 4% %. Slanish Differes, Brussels Society, 1,8901. Belgian Bank, 1,527 f. 5Ce. I,MOI. Portugue.e Three per Cents., 19 1914. Dutch Two and a halfper,Cents., 55. tlaytian Loan, 355 f. EXCIIANGE ON LONDON. One month, paper, 25f. 42y,c.; money, 25f. 40c. Three months, paper, ‘.23f. 27!2c.; money, 25f. '27%e -fours Autlientigue. LAST PRICES. Five I.er Cents. 1011. Me. Three per Cents., 80f. t Oc. rank Actions, '2,A Romans, 101. Belgian Bank, 1,531 f. Brussels Society, 1,690 f. Portuguese Three per Cents., 19%. Spanish Actives, 20%. Spanish Passives, 4%. New Differes, 81. Haytian Loan, 355 f. Dutch Two and a Half per Cents., 55. Brussels and German papers of the latest dates are come to hand, but their contents are of no political interest. BELGIAN } UNDS—BRussm.s, DEC. G. Actual Debt,'i per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent Loan of Thirty Millions 9 1 34 Loan of City, IS ;32, 4 per Cent lOl IA Society of Commerce, .Is. ) per Cent 1444 Bank of Rel ,, ium 5 per Cent 1i..17. . - National Society . _Brussels Papers. Dec. 6. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—NIENNA, Nor. 23. Five per Cents. Metalliques Four pee Cents. Three per Cents. Bank Shares lgemeine Zeitung, Dix 3. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. We are again without any arrivals, with the exception of the French and Ostend mail.—No ship letters. Consols, which closed yesterday at 931 I for the Account, opened this morning at 931 R. Exchequer Bills, 47 49; India Bonds, 28 30, Bank Stock, 204 205. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active closed 191 20, with Coupons ; Passive, 44 ; Deferred, 74 ; Spanish opened at 19 8 . i ; Portuguese closed at 294 I, opened at 30 to 304 ; Three per Cents. closed at 191 h, opened at 191 20; Dutch Two-and-a- Half, 541 ; Mexican, 281; Brazilian, 781 I; Columbian, 25+. HALF-PAST ONE O'CLOCK. Consols which were in the course of the morning at 931 i for the Account, with a steady appearance, have since re - ceded to 93i 4, owing, it is supposed, to the trial of strength of the Ministers this evening in Vi e House of . Commons, on S , r Peel's motion respecting the Pensions : Exchequer Bills, 49 preen ; India Bonds, 28 preen. ; Bank Stock, 206 205. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active with Cou pons ; Portuguese improved 291 301 ; Three per Cents. 191 20} ; Brazilian 78 4 1 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 541 ; Danish 74 ; Russian Ilq ; Belgian 1021. THREE 0' CL 0 CK. Consols for the Account, 93i1 AWFUL DEATII.—A most awful death occurred irOlorneastle on Sunday week: a young man named John Mower, who has been keeping a house of ill-fame in the Mill stone-street, on Saturday night last, out of bravado, drank a quantity of neat rum, which terminated his existence on the following morning. —Doncaster Gazette. Mount Vesuvius and the other mountains round Naples were covered with snow this year as early as the first week in November. This unusually early appearance of a white bonnet on the mountain was looked upon as indicating the approach of a severe winter. On Sunday list the schoolmaster Ilfracoinbe left Linton in company with the postman to Portlock. On their journey they went to a road-side public-house, where they both got intoxicated by drinking gin, the schoolmaster chang ing a 5/. note to pay for it. Notwithstanding their inebria tion, they proceeded on their journey, when, as the postman asserts, he was obliged to get on faster, and left his companion on the road, but did not say a word about the circumstance on his arriving at Portlock. On Monday morning the school master's body was found, with life extinct, lying on Portlock hill, by the side of the road. The corpse was taken to the public-house and the clothes searched, but no portion of the change of the Si. note was discovered in the pockets. An in quest will be held on the body.— 7'aunton Courier. The Liverpool Times states that new carriages are about to he prepared for the conveyanCe of the mail along' the Grand Junction Railway, so col:t, ived that a post office clerk sent with the bags will be able to sort the letters on the journey. The following melancholy accident occurred on Sa turday evening at the alms houses at Croydon :—An aged female, named Dorroll, who lodged in an upper room of the first almshouse, was conducted to bed by her daughter about 8 o'clock, 'and shortly afterwards an alarm of fire was given, and it was discovered to proceed from the old lady's room, but the fire burnt so fiercely that it was some time before any per son cou!d enter it. This was, however, at length-effected, and the poor old lady was dragged out. The remains presented a dreadful spectacle. The head and upper part of the body were burnt completely to a cinder, as was also the right arm, no portion of which but the bone remained. The old lady's claugh. ter states that she put the candle out care f u ll y w h en s h e left he r m other in bed, but it is supposed that a spark must have fallen from it, and thus caused the melancholy accident, It is a circumstance worth mentioning that the poor old lady who met with such a dreadful end completed her 84th 3 oar on the very day of the melancholy occurrence, VICE-CHANCERY.-(THIS D=AY•) RICKETT V. BODENEIAM. Mr. Sergeant STEP HENS applied this morning to the Vice- Chancellor for an order nisi to quash two significavits which had been sent from the Court of Chancery to the Court of Arches, and the Court of Delegates, for irregularity. The case hed been originally insti:uted in the Corsisto:•y Court of Hereford, where his client, Mr. Riekett, a barrister, had been ordered to pay certain small sums for Church-rates. The amount was no object to Mr. Riekett, but considering the proceeding irregular and oppressive, he appealed from the decision of the Consistory Court of Hereford to the Court of Arches, and from thence to the Court of Delegates, both of which tribunals confirmed the sentence of the Court in Hereford. Upon that confirmation, according to the prat• tice of the Ecclesiastical Court, a monition issued, and in consequence of Mr. Rickett's not obeying that monition he was declared in contempt. Formerly the practice was, where a party refused to obey a monition he was excommunicated, but an Act passcd in the reign of his Majesty George 111., in lieu of excommunication the Judges of the Ecclesiastical Court signified to the Court of Chancery, and upon that a writ de contuntace capiendo was issued. Such a proceeding had taken place in the present case. The significavit from the Consis tory Court had been set aside by Lord Brougham, when Lord Chancellor. Upon the case coming before that Noble Lord, on account of the defects appearing upon-the face of it, and upon that decisisn being brought before the Lords Commis sioners of the Great Seal, they adopted the same view that had been taken by Lord Brougham, and set aside the sig nificavit. With respect to the other two significavits, the same objection had not been made, and the con sequence was that the plaintiff was served with the writ de con turnace capiendo, and when the significavits were returned into the Court of King's Bench his client succeeded in setting them aside ; upon which the parties in the Ecclesiastical Court, determining not to be defeated, issued another monition from the Arches Court and the Court of Delegates, and upon that monition other signifieavits were issued, to quash which was the object of the present application. The course which had been taken in the present instance was rather singular, being warned by the course in she Ecclesiastical Court, that it would not be right to state the judgment. They had shifted the nature of the' case, and the sentence, instead of stating it to be a case of church-rates, and other ecclesiastical contributions, as was the case in the other significavits, and for which they were set aside, stated it to be a case of the abstraction of a church-rate, so that the result was, the Court had specified a case that had never been before them. As a matter of course, under such circumstances the writ issued, and un der such circumstances he now asked for a.rule nisi to quash those significavits and the stay of all l roceedings in the meantime. The VICE- CHANCELLOR, thinking a sufficient case had been shown for the application, granted the order nisi. QUEEN'S BENCH.----(THIS DAY.) (London Sittings at Nisi Prius, before Lord DENMAN and a Common Jury. ) THORNES V. HEALEY. Mr. THEOBALD stated the case. It was an action for a breach of contract. The plaintiff was a widow lady, residing at Howard's-place, Hackney-road, and the defendant, who was also a widow, agreed to board and Age with her, and for which she was to pay eighty pounds a-year. Mrs. Heally remained from the 15th of March to the 21st of January, and left, after giving a month's notice, instead of three months' notice., as she was bound to give by her . agreement. The rent had been paid from March to December, and a sum of 6/. 13s. 4d. had been paid by the defendant into Court for the remaining month, and the action was brought to recover tha rent for two months in addition, to which the plaintiff, it was alleged, was entitled, in default of the notice. The following witnesses were examined : Anne Boothley—l am sister to the plaintiff. I was pre sent when an application was made to my sister by the de fendant's sons. The agreement was SOL a-year for board and lodging. We were then residing in King-stre2t, and Mrs. Heally came there for a few days, and we then removed to Howard's-place, Hackney-road. Mrs. Heally came on the 15th of March, and left on the 21st of January following. She paid a quarter's rent, 201., on the 25th of June, and half a year's rent ending at Christmas, in January following. De fendant's sons made a bargain that the rent should be paid half-yearly, when Mrs. Heally received her dividends. Thomas Jamb, brother to the plaintiff--I took a house for my sister in Howard's-place, for the defendant's accommoda tion. I made an agreement with the landlord for six months' notice. Mr. HUMPHREYS, for the defendant, submitted that no evi dence of a specific contract had been given. After some argument between the connsel on either side, Lord DENMAN gavc it as his opinion that no evidence 6 a specific contract had been laid before the Jury, and The plaintiff was accordingly nonsuited. TIIE MARKETS-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. This week's arrivals of Wheat, Barley, and Flour have been good ; of Oats moderate. There is not much doing in the Wheat trade, and Monday's prices hav e b een we ll maintained. Mirky, Beans, snd Pease remain as last reported. For Oats there is a fair demand, and Monday's terms are fully sup pdrted. The Flour trade has been slack this week, at former rates. ARM VALS. Wheat. Barley. Oats. Flour. 7,450 qrs 13,450 qrs 1,290 qrs 9,820 32( la. - - 9,210 - - - 750 - Fnzlish Ir,sh Foreign THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1837 This day's supply was very good, and the sale was dull at litti„ alteration from the prices last quoted ; SMITIIFIEL PRICES PER STONE OF hit s. d. to 1. si Inferior Beasts... Second quailty ditto 2 6 3 0 rrime large Oaccon 3 6 310 P-irne Scuts, &c. Large coarse Calves.. 4 0 4 'I: e rime small ditto S•ickling Calves each l7 34 SUPPLY A' Beasts. Sheep 9U '7,144 MARKET. TO SINK THE OFFALS. 5. d. to a. d. Inferisr Sheep ...... 2IS 3 Second quality ditto 8 2 3 4 Coarsv-wt,olleol ditto :3 8 310 Southdown Wethers Latge Hogs 3 4 4 4 Small Porkers ....... 4 8 it 2 Quarter old Pig t each 12 4 20 0 Pigs 3t)(i MARKET. Calves. 129 • NEWGATE AND LEA At per stone, 1 s. d toed Peef, inferior 3 0 3 4 Mutton, inferior - middling 3 G - 3 8 -- prime large - prime small 4 • 4 '1 Work, large Veal DENHALL MARKETS, by the Carcass. s d te s 3 A :3 2 A 310 40 4 4 3 4 4 4 II 5 ! COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING TUE WEEK. ‘N heat. Barley. Oats. j Beans. Peaae. Per Quarter. !s.to s. s. s. is. to 8.1 s. to s Blandford 52 (10 '29 ,25 27 ;40 44 !54 64 34 40 22 28 142 44 Canthridg,-- ; 57 34 25 ; 40 Chard !56 62 23 34 1 '2O '26 !44 48 Huntingdon-1 46 60 34 38 124 29 38 48 Long Sutton-1 28 38 j l'i '2O 30 34 Louth .------ 153 58 25 32 20 25 132 44 !54 64 !22 31 !16 20 I :30 32 Newark Nottingham !31 39 ; `2B 31 19 28 ;35 42 eeterborongh ,49 62 135 42 ! !38 48 Plymbuth 40 58 130 34 '2O 23 Pontefract-- O7 43 27 43 Sleaford ....! 65 70 j 36 38 22 48 41 43 Uppinghain !43 61 ;24 30 18 28 .32 44 Wisbech 13 62 I ; 20 30 32 S. to S. 38 - 36 40 32 34 - 36 LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.) DEAL, DEC, 7. —Wind S. E., moderate.—Arrived from the River, and proceeded, the Calpe steamer, Cox, for Lisbon ; Monkey, Cargill, for St. Michael's. The brig Harriet, of Liverpool, from Hamburg, passed to the westward this day. PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 7.—Wind N. E., very hazy.— Arrived the. Hollander, Kelly, from Boston. PLYMOUTH, DEC. 7.—Wind E.N.E.—Arrived H. Z., Derries, from Havannah. FALMOUTH, DEC. 6.—Wind E. to N. E., strong breezes.— Arrived Jane and Susan, Lewis, from Newfoundland. BRISTOL, Due. 7.—Arrived the Reward, from Bourdoaux. Coax, DEC. 5.--Arrived the Governor, Corney, and T. S. Reeves, Bailey i .from London. HULL,.. DEO. 6.—Arrived th e Eli za b et h, Mi nnett, ' f rom Wyburg' , i Waam the Fourth steamer, from Hamburg ; Sea horse steamer, from Rotterdam. LIVERPOOL, DEC. 7. —Arrived the Release, Curtis, Denia. BELFAST, DEC. 6.---Arrived Astrea, Miller, from Quebec ; Venture, Wilson, from Miramiehi. GRIMSBY, DEC. 7.—Arrived off, the Houghton le-Spring, from St. Petersburgh. LYNN ROADS, Dec. 7.—Arrived the Ann Laing, from Sr. Pet'enburgh. ARBROATH, DEC. s.—Arrived the Countess of Airlie, Child, from St. Petersburgh ; Jane, Simpson, from Riga. PENTLAND FRITH, DEC. s.—Arrived the Sheron, Burdes, and Traveller, —, from Quebec. LIMERICK, DEC. s.—Arrived the Abby, Atkinson, and Breeze, O'Donnell, from London. TEXAL.—Arrived the Vrow, Hendriker, from' Batavia. CHARENTE.— Arrived the Brandywine packet, from New- ALlCANT.—Arrived the Peri, Vivian, from Liverpool. BATAVlA.—Arrived the Malcolm, from Liverpool; Admiral Trump, and Pollux, from Amsterdam. SINGAPORE.-Arrived the Arab, Ferrier, from Sourabaya. The Diligence, Bes, was destroyed by fire at Paparoar.g, on the 22d August. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, YESTERDAY. —The transactions in our Cotton Market to-day are to the extent of 4 ; 000 bags. The Market has been quiet, and though generally steady, there has been a little turn in favour of the buyer. TIIE IRISH TITHE QUESTION.—We find that Mr. O'Connell, as well as half the world, was hoaxed by the suppositious letter of the Rev. Elias Thackeray relative to the Hon. and Learned Gentleman's plan for the settlement of the tithe question. We do not wonder at it; for the lie wore all the semblance of truth, and we are informed by some who are conversant with Mr. Thackeray's sentiments that they were admirably simulated. —Pilot. On a grave-stone in the Perc-le-Chaise is the fol lowing in , cription :—" Here lies N—, the best of fathers, the most tender of husbands. His inconsolable widow still keeps the fancy shop, Rue Richelieu, No. T o consequence of the pressure of business, her Majesty will not be able to leave Buckingham Palace much before Chi istmas, and the 23d is now the period fixed for the removal of the Court to Wii,dior. The amount of diplomatic pensions saved to the nation by the death of the late Earl of Clancatty is 1,7861. per annum, COURT CIRCULAR. tile performance of A milk, Cogent-garden Theatre, last The Queen,- accompanied by her august mother, honoured evening with her presence. Her iThijesty arrived at th e th.‘atre shortly be f ore eight o'clock, btt-rded by the Countess of Cho:lemon-, Lady in Waiting ; the Hon Alis Di Lady Carolin..l Barrington. the Lord Chamberlain, Lord Byron, mild, ti•e Hon. Colonel Grey. Her iNtijtY gave audiences yuterdny to the Marquis of Conyngharn end Viscount Melbourne. The Duke of Cambridge gave a grand dinner last evenlogat Cambridge !Foust', Piccadilly, to a party of the officers or the Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards, of which regiment his Royal Highness is Colonel. The Duchess of Gloucester entertained the Duchess and 60 Princess Augusta of Cambridge, and a select party, at dinner last evening, at Gloucesterr flonse. Prince Ueorge of Cambridge, attended by Colonel Corn-. wall,.vi,ited Covent Gar,len Theatre on Wenesday evening. The Dowager Duchess of Richmond visi d ted the Duhcs4 of Cambt Pge 3 4 at, rJay. Sarim Eirondi, the new Ottoman Ambassador, vi sited Viscount PaLuerston y(steiday-afternoon at the Foreign- Office. The Spanish Minister transacted business )esterday at the Foreign- Office. Despatches for the Earl of Gosford, Governor of the Cane &s, wire sent off yesterday from the Colonial-Office. The Lords of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yeAeld Ay. Mr. Lloyd for the respondent, and Dr. Lwb ington is reply for the appellant, ware heard in an a ppeal from Bombay, " Buman Jec Muarther Jee, one of the ori ginal defendants, v. Syud HoosFain Abdoolah, the original plaintiff." Lord Brougham gave judgment on the part of their Lord ships, that-there was not sufficient grounds to reverse the de crte of the Suddcr Dewanny Adawlut, but that the respondent wr.s not entitled to his cots in this appeal. - Mr. Wigrarn, Q. C., was heard for the appellant on an ap peal efsroinoln Btoerß,gai Rajah G R u ajz u h a p D e u r r s i a d . : l al s S in i g ng t , an o cl ri Anund Ki h S' • viur Sing, in succession to his father, 'Nati Beer Ki.seur Sing, the original defendant." r. Baron Parke, on the part of their Lordships,dism issed (lie appeal with costs. goitnhaelrsp,lavi.ntßiffa Rajah SPURTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S-YESTERDA . TEIF. DERBY. • 9 1 4 to 1 was offered against D'Egville, an d 10 1 / 2 to I t." ... ei c i 4 about the Cobweb colt ; 16 t o taken about the Early a " afterwards offered. A very thin attendance. FIRE AT LORD ,SEFTON'S.-About nin e o ' clock yesterday morning a fire was discovered in the drawing-ro om of Lord Sefton's residence, i n A r li ngton - street. The t-;°°_v ° and the parish engines were qu i c kl y b roug h t to t h e spot, 3 . 1 , 1 _ . after the firemen hal lab oure d some h ours t h e d anger was sn.u_ dued. The fire, it app eare d, or i g i nate d i n t h e sa l oo n of.tti Marquis of Salisbury's, wh ose res id ence a dj o i ns t h at o f Lord e Sefton's. Some soot had f a ll en b e hi n d t h e i r o n p l a te at tine bark of the-stove, an d thi s h a d i gn i te d t h e b eams w hi c h con nected the two houses. The fire had made its way for so:e ci hours unnoticed among th e flo w i ng an d t h e ra f ters , an d, l not great exertions been used by th e exper i ence d fi rem en attended with the engines, th ere i s very li tt l e d ou b t t hat both manes ins would have been in a very per il ous s i tuat i o n. T ° ,,. damage was principally confined to the fl oor i ng an d woodvOr' of the drawing-room and the library ceiling. On Thursday a young man named Isaac Moses* was buried in Meavy church-yarl. Although only sixte.el l years of age, his height, wh en li v i ng , was seven feet! and was otherwise finely propo r tio ne d. H e was t h e sec ond son of Mr. Moses, farm e r, o f M eavy , w h o has ten other sons, all " a rapping young fello w s." la_e On Thursday some incendiary, for the third time in little more than a year, set fire to the wheat stacks on the fai n of Mr. E. Turner, of Trowse-hall. The stacks, which ar e at a considerable distance from each other, were both on fire at the same moment.—Norfolk Chronicle. The tradespeople in Brighton estimate that by th e death of the Duchess of St. Alban's that town sustains th e loss of an annual expendit ure o f ten or twelve t h o usand pounds ; and a still larger deficit, if the neighbourhood and poor of Brighton be included, by the demise of the excellent Earl of Egremont. MUTILATING THE SCRIPTURES.—Since th e paragraph in our paper of the 22d November appeared, rf: sp -ct:ng the habit o f th e l ate Si r Harry Nloncrieff, of onin . tug certain passages in reading the Old Testament , w e have been informed by a gentleman, who has access t° know, that, in Mr. H a ld ane ' s congregation, Leith-W s ,,, ' where they read the Old Testament in the forene° ° ' and the New Testament in the afternoon, straight f°,. 7 ; ward, exactly the s ame p ract i ce preva i ls as we have no tion in the case of Sir Henry, whole chapters being som etini: omitted, where they do n o t ev id ent l y ten d to e difi cat i o n, °r are peculiarly hard to be understood. Mr. Haldane is at P re : sent in high repute with th e C onservat i ve an d Ch urc h Par` , J on the Annuity-tax question. His example may, therefore, have some weight also in the Irish Education eon t r oversy.;., for, if so great an auth or it y on religious matters considers I , proper for his con grega ti on to pass over whole chapters as unedifying or hard to be understood, surely they will not se riously contend th a t t h e same pract i ce may not benefic i a lly be followed in the e luc a ti on o f children.—Scotsman. RARA AVIs.—A few years ag o a nor th er n diver , or ember goose, having been shot on Talkin Tarn, in Cumber land, the circumstance was noticed as an extraordinary occur rence, that bird being rarely seen so far south.. A fine speci men of the same bird, measuring, from the tip of the beak t° the end of the tail, two feet ten and a half inches, a nd fro' tip to tip of the wings four feet four inches, was taken alive 11 a boy on the 16th ult. in the public street, of Pennith. T h° cause of its not taking flight from its pursuer cannot be ac counted for, as its wings, on being examined, were found to be perfectly sound.—Caledonian Mercury. . m About 18 months ; since one of the min ers wor ki n g at Hust-lane Colliery, Chadderton, at a depth of 100 yards, cut out of the coal strata a piece of sandstone rock, baying every appearance of a human thigh, leg, and foot, joined to gether, flattened, and a little bent at the knee, as in a n atural state. The thigh appears somewhat attenuated, is broken off about the middle, and the whole is covered with a cost of black shale. From the extremity of the thigh to the heel, In a right line, is two feet three inches ; from the heel to the toe, ten inches ; gilt of the thigh nine incites ; calf, eleven inehe s; foot, seven inches. Th e rea d er w ill perceive that the w h0 ,,,, . is tolerably proportioned; it appears as if the limb had been separated from the body previous to its transformation int ° stone. This curiosity is in the possession of Mr. Moses Mellor, at the colliery.—Manchester Courier. ECONOAIY.—A correspondent informs us that woo d goes further when left out of doors than when well housed' , some of his having gone u p war d s o f a quarter of a m il e in °n° night.. rS, PLATED CORNER DISH— 4 . e j with Strong Silver Edge s an d Handles. —A Set o Four Pia" Corner Dishes and Covers are offered, complete, for Eight Guineas.' or a set with richly or n a men t e d Edges, Handles, &c., for Te n , : ht neas. The Handl es t a k e o ff t h e Covers ; the set thus form I s _ Dishes when re qu i te d . T . COX SAVORY'S, Working G ° mith, Silversmith, and Watchmaker, 47, Cornhill, London. „,_ N.B. A var i e t y o f Second-hand Watches may be selected 6° "" price Two Guineas each, Warranted. 17 TBS. A On tho 3d i ns t., a t Stockton 111 Rectory, Warwi c k s hire, the la-Y of the Rev. C. Pilkington, of a scn. On the 3d inst., in Weymouth-street, Portland place, the w ife of the Rey. C. Cotton, Vicar of Chertsey, of a son. On the sth inst., M rs . .1 . G . L ewis, of Ely-place, of a son.t in At Ajme re , E ast Indies, oti the Bth of July, the lady of CaPa W. 0. Young, Deputy Commissary of Ordnance, of a son. On the Ist., at Luton, Bedfordshire, the lady of Edwin L. Brig' wood, Esq., of a son. Re v ' On the 3d i ns t„ at th e P arsonage, K n i g h ton, the l a d y o f the J. R. Brown, of a son. On the 6th inst., at East Dulwich, Mrs. James Gay, of a s°9. n.. On the 4th inst., the lady o f M r . F. H u t c hi nson , o f Farringo a street, of a son. On the sth inst., at the school-house, Reading, the lady of the Rev. F. Valpy, of a son. MARRIED. . 0%, On the 15th ult., at Northfield Church, George Price Sim , Esq., son of the late T. G. Si mcox , E sq ., o f Il ar borne 1 -I ° °s o l Staffordshire, to Jemima, eighth daughter of L. Haslope, EA" Selly Hall, Worcestershire. ' stir - On the 18th ult., at West Tilbury, Thomas Radford, Esq l , te r of goon, of Standford-le-Hope, E ssex , to M ar y, y oung est clang the late R. Turner, Esq., of the same place. N ea le, On the sth inst., at Christ Church, Marylebone, William Esq., of Park-square, Reg en t' s -p ar k, to Mi ss Elizabeth Ne a " - Dorset-square. On the sth inst., at S t . G eorge ' s, Hanover-square, Mr. •P'ne,,gi of Knightsbridge, to Eli za M ary, d aug h ter o f M r . G. Saltmert " Redcross•street, City. relict n f o t t f h h e e L l i 4 e a t u t h e t . inst. Lieut.-General General ien Sir e r a W I Raymond.. 't . a_t G ß c lackh D eat l b E , Margaret Marianne Lady IDOL * ter o On the 7th ult ' Juan Escudero, late of Baker-street ' , at Argelly near Pau, in France, Don Inlis,K K. C. 8., and eldest daugu er-street. On the 2(1 inst., Mr. Mivart, of South Molton-street, Gros venor -square, aged 81. On the 24th u l t., at Pl ymout h , John Brook Knight, Esq,, A - sist,Fll-Commis s a r y-G enera l t o the Forces, aged 68. n the 26th ult., at the Cape of Good Hope , Hester Eliza, w if e O of J ames D u ff W att, E sq . , A ss istant-Commissa r y - of .in and eldest (laughter of the late Bodychen Sparr ow, Esq., of Lg ton, Warwickshire. • ton the On the 19th ult., at Heston, near Hounslow, Mary Wit t.. ..,... wife of John Johnson, Esq., of Park-place, Paddington, and CI" foul's Inn barrister-at-lw.Miles On the , 27th ult., ina Gl o ucester-place , Portman square' Weston, Esq. Ilev. Robert Fer- On the 29th ult., at his living in Sussex, the • ryman, aged 95. Goat Hope, Hoter On the 26th of September, at the Cape of t Commissary- Eliza, the wife of James Duff Watt, Esq., Assistan - General. Colonel Jarnes Hing- On the 26th ult., at Camden-town, Lieut.- ton, Royal African Corps. John Bloomsbury-square _... On the 27th ult., in Vernon-place, Inn, and late of Queens C 1 Holman Kintr,don, Esq., of Lincoln's lege, Cambridge. o f Verulam -buildings. On the 23d tilt., William Derby, Esq., Gr On a's Inn. John Wain, Esq . y the 30th ult., in Vale-place., Hammersmith, aged 58. ------............,....-.....-r - r -— ` iNrntof / 4 ° • London: Printed and Published by MU!IDO x " in the county „ 1 , -, Strand, 112, Strand, at The Sun Office, N • -• of Middlesex. —Friday, December, 8, 1837.