The Sun. — London, England, 1835-07-06 00:00:00

OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS he REFORM ASSOCIATION II6S published at - )GWAY'S some admirable plans and legal digests securing the full Enrolment of a Liberal consti ency at the approaching Registration. We recom mend them to the immediate notice of Reformers, that they may be extensively disseminated throughout the United Kingdom. The 20th of July, the last day for the delivery of titles to the elective franchise in counties and towns, is near at hand ; our Liberal countrymen, therefore, must lose no time in taking the field and forming local associations where none exist. We are well aware that during the last month the Reformers have been most active, but much remains yet to be per fected. The cities and boroughs require little com parative attention, except to ensure the payment of all taxes and local rates essential to the electoral qualifica tion ; for the registration is to a certain extent compul sory on the local officers, and in the large majority of towns active committees exist, who arc sedulously at tending to the popular interests. The overseers return in the original lists all persons who appear to them entitled to vote, and it therefore only remains for the Reformers--,first, to pay up all arrears of taxes by the 40th of July due before the 6th of April preceding ; second, to see that, before the 25th of August, a due and full return has been made by the overseers, or to claim a rectification ; third, by notices of objection, on or before the 25th of August, to oppose all false re turns or illegal claims. But the rural or county re gistration is the all-important subject which demands immediate and active attention. A county vote de pends entirely on the act of the qualified person, or the activity of the local associations in collecting, register ing, and maintaining all legal claims to the county franchise. In this department of the Parliamentary Registration the Reformers have been most deficient and remiss. The Tories possess superior advantages and peculiar party means for effecting a county regis tration of votes, and for debasing the Registry. The paid agents—the land-stewards—the hired attorneys—the Tory clergy (all the machinery of Toryism)—consti lute a standing army of electioneering partisans, posted in every village and parish. The check on the frau. dulent registration of tenants is difficult, and has been sadly neglected ; but it is still practicable, if the Re formers will only afford a temporary attention, display a little patriotic activity, and, above all, collect small but adequate funds for the object. Nothing is so com mon as the fraudulent registration of a father and a crop of sons, for leasehold or tenanted property which the parent alone really holds ; and in all cases the Re formers should have an eye to the value of the pro perty qualification. Whenever they see on the pub lished lists an ant-hill of family-names, and a clan of kindred electors for the same qualification, strict in quiry should be instituted. So far as to the registra tion and scrutiny of the enemy. Liberal registration, however, in the counties, is the most important subject to which the reformers can apply themselves. The freehold and leasehold qualifications for counties, existing in the towns, especially, have been ex tremely neglected. In the manufacturing and commercial counties, and in divided counties, the active registration of the smaller class of freeholders ought to secure the exclusive return of Liberal Representatives. We have heard of numerous village and suburban dis tricts in which hundreds of freeholders are unregistered. The Reform Association has excellently pointed out the mode and easy practicability of county and district Committees, in " Suggestions for Registration Asso ciations in Counties." They have also lithographed a plan or sectional county map, as a model for facilitat ing local division and district communication. The digests, a " County Elector's Manual," and a printed broad sheet on county qualifications and registration, are invaluable guides for the accomplishment of the all important object of complete registration. We there fore call on the. "Reformers of England,.Wales, Scot land, and Ireland, to give their immediate and active attention to this object of the most urgent and national importance—we do not say their disinterested exertions, for every man is concerned in promoting an object which conduces to his individualadvantage. The recklessparty activity of the Tories, who resort to every corrupt means of intimidating and influencing voters—the wealth of the local leaders of the " Conservative party," their notorious and avowed design to put down the Liberals and the Reforming Administration by their corrupt power over the constituencies, and through the affec tions of the Court, demand of the people the utmost exertions to frustrate their designs. The ultimate de feat of Toryism is certain ; but if the Reformers sleep, their triumph will be indefinitely postponed. Let them act on the encouraging letter of Lord Stanley to Sir T. Hesketh, the burden of which was, "for Heaven's sake do not rally or unite the Reformers by new Conservative Clubs ; leave them alone, or the Liberals will assuredly prevail !" We again, there fore, urge the Reformers to take counsel, and every where and actively to form Registration Associations. " To the ramparts_ I—our enemy i s at our walls ! !" Let not the Reformer s , even where a minority, fear to excite the Tories ; Liberal societies will ultimately en sure success, though at first they may not always be successful: Give us a fair field, and we shall inevit ably vanquish the Tories. And again, under present political circumstances and prospects, we require the Reformers to adopt for their standard the watchword of Union.—Morning Chronicle. The Whigs are beginning to play the old game of threatening "to swamp" the House of Lords. The following delicate hint, to that effect, appears in the Globe of Saturday. After a coarse allusion, by name, to certain Peers who the writer thinks are likely. to op pose the Corporation Bill, he winds up his tirade with the following kind of manifesto :—" That at tempts will be made to injure its provisions and im pair its general efficiency is likely enough ; but we be lieve that Government is resolved to carry the Bill into a law essentially as it stands, and to suffer no deterioration, of either its principles or details. We have reason to suppose that Ministers possess the power to do so ; and we are firmly convinced that they will exercise it without the slightest hesitation." Is this the language, we.would ask, which ought to be used towards a deliberative assembly —an assembly to which the Constitution has assigned the middle and conhecting link in the chain of legislation, and one which has exhibited more talent and apti tude for business than perhaps any other existing legislative assembly in the world ? In saying this we do not mean to disguise our impression that a large proportion of the House of Lords may be behind ',, he spirit of the age on the subject of Reform. T', 1 1 5 , to sanguine minds, may appear to be a much greater evil than it really i s . T o us t h e s l ow caution and Conser vative spirit o f th e H ouse o f Lords rresents that ki n d of preventive check which resemble.s the effect of a drag put upon a w h ee l, w hi c h would., without it, d escen d a hill with too rapid and dangr.:rous a velocity. And on what subject and by whilm is this threat of swamping the House of Lords htid out ? Upon a measure which has been reeeived by the opponents of Ministers with a degree of carrs'our, not to say of approbation, as to its general objects, which has, in fact, annoyed and dis comfited its projectors, who themselves owe their politi cal existence to a faction unparalleled both in its objects and component parts by any thing which the history of Parliamant can exhibit ! While, then, on the one hand we have no wish to see the House of Lords rejecting a measure merely on the score of the party with whom it may originate, neither will they, we trust, be deterred from examining it minutely, and exercising an un biassed judgment on its principles and details, when it comes before them, by any such threat as the above, the decency and prudence of which we leave to be re conciled by those who, professing Whig now,rinciplenow, know w h at they formerly professed to p be. \V e know of no satire upon Whiagisin h a lf so bi tter as these bruta fidmina o f its modern professors exhibit. There are few of the original principles of Whiaaism better defin e d an d un d erstood than the attachment of bt) that party to what may be termed the balance of the Constitution, or the manner in which its three com ponent parts are made to operate as a check upon the encroachments and excesses of each other. Never was the maintenance of that balance more important than at the present moment, when the democratical branch is prepared to run riot to 4/1 ex t ent w hi c h calls so loudly for the drag to be put upon its velocity. This, then, is not the period when. any well-wisher to the CrOnditUtioll "Mid Wibb to see one branch of the Constitution nullified ; and least of all is such an ob ject excusable in the quarter which, however, thus unequivocally displays it.—Morning Herald. , We publish this day the official tables of the public income and expenditure for the year and quarter which terminated yesterday, compared with the statements by which the nation was apprised of its financial position this time last year. It will be seen with regret that the income of the country has decreased, whether we make our comparison upon the whole year, or the single quarter. The diminution in the year is 1,758,386/. ; that of the quarter is 656,407/. These figures unfortunately show that the defalcation of the quarter just expired exceeds the average de falcation of the whole year, unprosperous as it has been. We have no pleasure in contemplating the figures which represent a declining Revenue, since they are generally the forerunner of a bad Budget speech, and bad Budget speeches arc our especial aversion. Mr. Spring Rice will have to make a speech upon the subject, which, but for the Church Revenue Appropriation resolution of the House of Commons, would have been in the hands of Sir Ro bert P ee l ; an d, a ll t hi ngs cons id ere d, we confess wee cannot consider the position of Mr. Spring Rice as peculiarly enviable. Our Ministerial contemporaries talk about the transfer of the tea duties from the Ex cise to the Customs as a mode of accounting for the diminution of the Excise revenue. But the Customs ought surely to have increased as much as the Excise has fallen off, or there is no sense in the argument. Now, the diminution of the Excise and Customs taken. together in 'the last quarter, when compared with the corresponding quarter of 1834, is just 736,750/., which is, as it appears to us, a proof that the people of England, in these liberal and reforming times, possess diminished means of consuming those articles of comfort or luxury which are chargeable with the Custom and Excise Duty ; the former as well as the latter being a criterion of the enjo3ments of the people. Many of the more simple of our countrymen entertained the belief that the liberal principles which are so well represented by Lord John Russell, and Mr. O'Connell, Mr. Roebuck, and Mr. D. W. Harvey, must conduce to the welfare of the people. Those principles are now in full operation, notwith standing which it appears that the enjoyments and comforts of the people, as represented by the Customs and Excise Revenue, are progressively and rapidly de clining. This, we should think, must be a puzzle to some of our very liberal Members of Parliament.— Morning Post. Some of our contemporaries appear to be rather strangely affected by the disclosures made through the Rev. Mr. M'Ghee's translation and publication of parts of " Dens's Complete Body of Theology," a book which has been published at avast expense by the heads of the Popish Church of Ireland, sanctioned by their authority, and enjoined by them as a text book to the priests under their sacerdotal rule. In connection, or contrast, with this elaborate, expensive, and official work, which prescribes the answers to be given to the questions discussed at the quarterly con ferences of the Popish clergy throughout Ireland, and is, in fact, to be considered as embracing the whole body of doctrine, as well as of religious exercise, to be maintained and observed by the priesthood of their Church—in contrast with it we are obliged to Mr. M'Ghee for presenting to us certain declarations of the Roman Catholic Bishops, made when, in the hot pursuit of emancipation, it was the interest and the object of these same Bishops to throw a smooth sur face over their principles, and, as Mr. M'Ghee ex presses it, to blind the Protestant Government to the real projects of Popish supremacy entertained by them and their confederates—the lay agitators. Here fol lows the placard, that is, the ostensible and make believe profession of faith, political and religious, put forth for the mystification of the Protestant coinmun nity by these devout diplomatists : " In the year 1826, when it was the interest of the Church of Rome to blind the Protestant Government, the Roman Catholic Archbishops and Bishops assembled to make a decla ration and protest, and to give their sentiments as ratified by an oath to the Protestants of the Empire. The smoothness and plausible tendency of this address is much to be remarked it begins— "' At a time when the spirit of calm inquiry is abroad, and men seem anxious to resign those prejudices through which they viewed the doctrines of others, the Archbishop and Bishops of the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland avail themselves with pleasure of the dispassionate tone of the public mind, to exhibit a simple and correct view of those tenets that arc most frequently misrepresented. " If it please the Almighty that th© Catholics of Ireland should be doomed to continue in the humble and degraded condition in which they are now placed, they will submit with resignation to the Divine will. The prelates, however, con ceive it a duty which they owe to themselves, as well as to their Protestant fellow-subjects, whose good opinion they value, to endeavour once more to remove the false impressions that have been frequently cast upon the faith an d di sc i p li ne o f t h at church whi c h is entrusted to their care, that all may be enabled to know with accuracy the genuine principles of those men who are proscribed by law from any participation in the honour, dignities, and emoluments of the state.' " Their declaration is divided, then, into 14 heads, which are numbered—and in the last they conclude with the same protestation " ' Whilst we have in the foregoing declaration endeavoured to state in the simplicity of truth such doctrines of our church as are frequently misunderstood or misrepresented amongst our fellow-subjects, to the great detriment of the public web. fare and of Christian charity, and whilst we have d.'isclaimed anew those errors or wicked principles which Ilave been im puted to Catholics, we also avail ourselves i the present oc casion to express our readiness at all_ times to give when required by the competent authority authentic and true infor. mation upon all subjects connec*. e d with the doctrine and dis. cipline of our church, and to e_eprecate the injustice of having oar faith and principles ju'lged of by reports made of them by persons either avowedly ignorant of, or but imperfectly acquainted with, tbq nature of our church government, its doctrines, laws, e:.;ages, and discipline. " This declaration we approve, subscribe, and publish, as well that those who have formed erroneous opinions of our doctrines and our principles may be at length undeceived ; as that you, dearly beloved, be made strong in that faith which you have inherited as the children of saints, who look for that life which God will give to those that have never changed their faith from him.'—Job. ii, 18. " Reverend Brothers —beloved children---:' Grace, mercy, and peace be to you from God the Father, and from Christ Jesus our Lord.'-1 Tim., i, 2. " Dublin. 25th January, 1826.' " ' Patrick Curtis, D.D. " Daniel Murray, D.D. Oliver Kelly, D.D. Robert Laffan, D.D. Farrell O'Reilly, D.D. J. O'Shaughnessy, D.D. • Peter M'Loughlin,_l3,l). Thomas Costello, D.b. :• James Magauran, a D. Kiaran Marum, D.D. George T. Plur;Kett, D.D. Peter Waldron, D.D. James Keat;:,, g , D.D. John Murphy, D.D. Charles 7:usky, D.D. J ames Doyle, D.D. Keerman, D.D. P. M'Nicholas, D.D. ?crick Kelly, D.D. P. M'G ett i ngan, D .D . Cornelius Egan, D.D. Edmund Ffrench, D.D. William Crolly, D.D. Thomas Coen, D.D. Patrick Maguire, D.D. Robert Logan, D.D. Patrick M‘Mahon, D.D. Patrick Burke, D D. John M'Hale, D. D. John Ryan, D.D.' " Nov you see, brethren, the signatures of all these Doc. tors of Divinity, these Roman bishops, to this address and de claration, which, to give it more weight and authority, they address to their priests and people. " You have here only the first and last paragraphs of it, which express their intention in its publication, as if, being addressed to their priests and people, it furnished a conclusive pledge and proof that they could never teach them any other principles than those contained in this declaration. Now mark, brethren, one of the principles which in the 11th head they abjure on their oath:— XL The Catholics of Ireland not only do not believe, but they declare upon oath that they detest as unchristian and impious the belief that it is lawful to murder or destroy any person or persons whatsoever, for or under the pretence of their being heretics, and also the principle that no faith is to be kept with heretics.' " Thus much for ostensible and skin-deep Popery, placed in that point of view whence Protestants are invited to behold it. But the canvass has another side when exhibited to the eyes of true believers. It is observed by Mr. M'Ghee, that " as the Roman Ca tholic church does not allow her priests to speak, every man after his own private judgment, b u t h as t h e regu lar standard of her infallible councils, according to which those priests must regulate their opinions, the questions discussed at their diocesan conferences must be treated occording to some approved and accredited standard of Roman orthodoxy," and if we could lay hold of that standard, we should be at no loss to as- certain what her principles are. The Rev. Gentle man then proceeds to inform us, from printed docu ments published by the Roman Catholic bishops, that Dens' s Complete Body of Theology is in fact that stan• dard book : " At a meeting of the Roman Catholic Prelates of Ireland, assembled, in Dublin on the 14th day of September, 1808, they unanimously agreed that Den's Complete ,Body of Theology Was the best book on the subject that could be republished ; as containing the most secure guidance for such ecclesiastics as may, by reason of the peculiar circumstances of this country, be deprived of the opportunity of referring to public libraries, or coastilting those who may be plead in authority over them, THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, JULY 6, 1835. In consequence, an edition of the work was ordered to be printed by the present publishers, to the number of 3,000 co pies. The work is now very rare, and scarcely to be met with. And inasmuch as his Grace, Dr. Murray, Dr. Doyle, Dr. Keating, and Dr. Kinsella, have made it the conference book for the clergy of the province of Leinster, the publisher, as well to obviate the difficulty experienced by them in pro curing the work, as also to advance the cause of religion and morality in the other parts of the Irish Church, is induced to reprint a limited number of copies." Again, in the words of the Rev. Mr. M'Ghee— " We perceive that this book was held in such estimation by the priests, that in 1832 there was scarcely a copy to be got, and that it had been made the standard book for the con ferences of the clergy through the province of Leinster, as 3,000 copies had been ordered to be printed under the autho rity of their bishops and all the priests of Ireland, and there fore in the year 1832 Mr. Coyne published again a limited number of copies, but that number Mr. Coyne informed the writer of this was 3,000 more. We have, therefore, this book authenticated, and set up universally by the highest autho rities in the Church of Rome, as containing an undoubted ex position of all their principles ; published first in 1808, 3,000 copies in seven volumes; again in 183:1, 3,000 copies more in Fight, in all 6,000 cop i es, w hi ch, at two guineas a copy, which is the selling price, allowing for the additional volume in the last edition, makes the sum of 11,250 guineas ; a book must be of no common importance to be published for the priests at that enormous expense. " We now come to consider the principles of this book, and as it is not my object to make this a theological treatise, I shall confine myself strictly to those parts which concern our religion, and the judgments denounced against us by the Church of Rome." We shall now extract, here and there from the pamphlet, a few of the questions noted in it, with the answers furnished by this grand standard theologist :- 6 , Quid est hwresis? " What is heresy ? " IV. Responsio. Est in- " IV. Answer. It is the credulitas eorum qui profitentur unbelief of those who profess quidem Christum venisse, sed indeed that Christ has come, doctrinam ejus ab e,!clesia pro- but who reject his doctrine as positam quoad partem aliquem to any part as proposed by the abjiciunt : tales sunt Lutherani, Church ; such are Lutherans, Calvinistw, &c." Calvinists, &c." a a a a • • a " Let me here pause to observe, that this is the great prin ciple of all religious toleration—that a man, in the worship of his God, might be at liberty to worship him according to the dictates of his conscience, and that he should not be held responsible for the conscientious exercise of his religion before the tribunal of his fellow-creatures. The Church of Rome here supposes this principle to be urged as an objection to her doctrines--and does she admit it ? does she admit that which Mr. O'Connell vaunted of some years ago in his address to the Dissenters of England—' We desire,' saith he, to bring into practical operation this great principle of individual duty and social right, that every human being should worship God according to the sincere dictates of his conscientious belief.' He adds, This is, we assert, an universal principle, not con fined to one sect or persuasion, but extended to every existing and to every possible mode of Christian belief.' " The Catholics of Ireland have ever grounded their peti tions for emancipation on this great principle of freedom of conscience.'—O'Connell and Sheil's speeches, page 500. " Now let us try the worth of these assertions. Here is this principle brought to the test. The Popish bishops and priests of Ireland anticipate this as an objection against their intolerance of our worship : they suppose an objector to urge that the apostle says, Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.' Therefore liberty of religion is to be left to every man. How d o th ey meet t hi s ? Do they admit it ? Do they tolerate the principle ? Mark." In reference to the question whether " Unbelievers are to be compelled to join themselves to the bosom of the " faithful ?" a question which involves the whole practical' existence, as recognized by the Romish Church, of that great principle of toleration which Mr. O'Connell and his compeers so solemnly appealed to, and so loudly vaunted, when they were on the hunt to obtain political power from the Protestants, we shall confine ourselves to those answers which are applicable to our own condition as Protestants (or, in the Romish version, " heretics"), and which prove what measure is in store for us from the hands of the Romish hierarchy of Ireland, at that day, perhaps no very distant one, when the whole power of the state, that is, of the se parate state of Ireland, shall be at their disposal : " 111. Responditur 2do. ad " 111. Weanswer,2dly, to the qutestionem. Infideles baptizati question, that unbelievers who quales esse solent haerettei et have been baptized as heretics and apostate, item schismatici bapti- apostates generally, and also bap zati, co.i possunt etiam penis tized schismatics, can be corn corporalrbus ut revertantur ad pelled by corporal punishments to fidem Catholicam et unitatem return to the Catholic faith and ecclesia. the unity of the church. " Ratio est, quod isti per " The reason is, that they baptismum subditi facti sunt by baptism are made subjects ecclesim, adeoque ecclesim in of the church, and therefore the cos jurisdictionem habet, et po- church has jurisdiction over testatim eos compellendi per them, and the power of corn media ordinata ad obedientiam pelling them by ordinary means et ad implendas obligations in to obedience, and to f u lfil th e baptismo contractas. obligations contracted in their baptism." Hence it appears that every Protestant who has once received baptism is claimed by Popery as one of her lawful subjects, and may be legitimately coerced by all those means which the genius of that despotic church enforces for the execution of her mandates. " Perhaps a system of equal religious intolerance was never yet recorded in print. Let us pause and meditate a moment on its enormity. " Every creature who has ever been baptized in my church, whether voluntarily as an adult, or in infancy, or by compul sion, no matter how, is by baptism mad e su bject to the do mination of the Church of Rome, comes under her juris diction, and is to be compelled by corporal punishments to go over to the faith of Popery ; not, observe, forced to believe against his will, but forced to be willing to believe—that is, he is to be brought to the rack, or the scaffold, or the stake, and to be for ce d t o p re f er t h e pro f ess i on o f h er f a i t h oss to the cruelty of her persecuti on . I t i s on l y necessary to point out t o you one or two more passages in wh i c h i t is set forth—first, th at t h e b apt i sm o f h eretics is valid,and i s l hat in which is meant h ere . S econdly, the author i ty w hi ch is claimed over all wh o are b apt i ze d , expressed, if pb stronger language. " First, lest Romanists should deny that they considered us as baptised, and that not being validly baptized, we did not come under their jurisdiction and their ban, we recite the deci. sion of Dens on this question, thus:—... " Non requiritur ut ministre "It is not required that a explicite intendat facere quod minister should explicitly intend facit ecclesia Romana, sed suf- to do that which the Roman ficit ut simpliciter et generatim Church does, but it is sufficient volet facere quod Christus insti- that he should simply and gene tuit, vel quod facit vera ecclesia rally intend to do that which qutecunque illius sit sententia de Christ instituted, or that which ecclesia, ut declarat praxis ec- the true Church does, whatso elesix ratum habentis baptisma ever his opinion of that Church hwreticorum." may be, as the practice of the Church declares, which holds the baptism of Heretics to be valid." So, once more, on the necessary subjection of Infi dels and heretics to the Church, we have the sweeping sentence which follows : " Hwretici, schismatici, apos- " Heretics, schismatics, apos tate, et similes omnes baptizati tates, and all similar persons, obligantur legibus ecclesia; ,qua who have been baptized, are ipsos concernunt, neque magis bound 1y the laws of the Church a legibus ejus solvuntur quanf which concern them, nor are subditi contra legitimum princi- they more released from her pem rebelles a legibus principis." laws, than subjects re b e lli ng against their lawful Prince are released from the laws of that Prince." Now, here, for the present, we shall leave to the re flection of our readers that hopeful sample of religious toleration, or, in other words, of unrelenting perse cution, upon which our Protestant brethren in Ireland must calculate, when the supremacy of the Popish priesthood shall be firmly established in that ill-fated country. Innumerable, and appalling as innumera ble, are the topics which grow out of those now ad verted to in the pamphlet whence we have made the foregoing extracts. The relative numb ers o f Protest ant and Catholic in Ireland, and the chance afforded to the former, who are our brethren, of maintaining a religious, political, nay, social being under the scourge provided for them by the ill-omened league of authority and agitation, form one of the deepest elements of the mass of evil which impends over us. It is strange that those of our contemporaries who seem most fami liar with the fact of that alarming disproportion, have never once recurred to the most important of all the considerations belonging to it—n ame l y , ' t h e pr i nc i p l e which has produced and accelerated that dispropor tion. We may offer on that point a remark or two anon. Connected with the above subject we insert a letter from Dr. Murray, titular Archbishop of Dublin, addressed to Lord Melbourne, and renouncing, as ob solete and untenable, those very doctrines of Dens's Theology which we have already seen to be formally approved by the whole Popish hierarchy of Ireland, as attested by the signatures of all the Bishops. Now the name of Dr. Murray does certainly figure among those of th e R orn i s h P re l ates w h o have in their official address to their clergy sanctioned that extraordinary work. The authorities on both , sides, therefore, being so high, and, truth to say, so accurately balanced— viz., the most Rev. Dr. Murray "pro," and the same most Rev. Personage " con,"—we must leave the people of England to determine between them, adding only that the object in prescribing the book to the priests for their edification - is somewhat different *ow that which the,most Rev. Archbishop may have had in view while writing to the head of his Ma'jesty':s Government, it being in the former case to whet th.e• zeal of the active Popish prLoas.iu the latter. to (16'. arm the political, and not unreasonable, jeolousv of the King's responsible advisers.-7imes. We give elsewhere the statement of the income and expenditure of the United Kingdom for the year and quarters ended yesterday, the sth instant. Upon the former, as compared with the year ending July 5, 1834, there is a decrease of 1,758,886/.—and on the quarter of no less a sum than 656,4071.—0 r, in other words, so far as the quarter is concerned, a growing decrease from the sth of April up to yesterday of about three-fourths more than the loss incurred during the previous year. The only increase is in the Customs, the Post-office, and the Miscellaneous department-- in all others, including the Excise, the Stamps, and the Taxes, there is a deficit of more than a mil lion sterling. The increase on the former depart ments being deducted, there remains, as we have said, a loss upon the quarter to the extent of 656,4071. This loss would be a matter of very serious mo ment, and calculated to give rise to very grave reflec tions, were there no possibility of accounting for it on rational grounds ; but on recollection of what has been done during the last two years, and of what ought to have been done, the conviction will be strong in every one's mind, that the wealth and resources of the country are unimpaired, and that the most common financial skill and ministerial economy only, are required, in order to effect an increase both of the knowledge and comforts of the people. With regard for example, to the apparent decrease in the Excise, it is to be accounted for by the transfer of the tea duties from that department of revenue to that of the Customs ; while in the department of the Taxes, if the amount of the house duty, and other taxes which have been repealed, be deducted, it will be seen that the deficit upon the quarter amounts only to about 72,0001. That deficiency is also in some mea sure to be-accounted for ; the probable amount of the twopenny stamp and alnianack duties amounting, had they been in existence, to about 10,000/.—thus leav ing, after allowing for the total abolition of taxes, from which no benefit to the Revenue could arise, a total loss upon the quarter of a mere trifle in the national ac count. To those who may investigate the financial statement—no very agreeable labour—the accuracy of this calculation will be at once apparent ; but the trifle to which we have alluded—namely, about 72,000/.—is well worthy of the attention of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, because it occurs in that department, the Stamps, which in ordinary times rarely undergoes any change, and which, during the last quarter, has exhi bited a startling decrease. That decrease, however, may partly —nay, in great part—.be accounted for by the unrestrained circulation, so far as the efforts of the Government are concerned, of publications which ought to be stamped, but which are allowed to cir culate in their different localities without any stamp being appended to them. Two hundred thousand of these publications —or rather, we should say, ten millions of numbers of these publications are allowed to be published annually without stamp or tax of any description—and is it, therefore, to be wondered that the stamp duty on newspapers should be the source of the deficiency ? Nay, is it not rather to be wondered at, that newspapers, having been allowed to be published without a stamp, the defi ciency should not have been greater ? We have reason to believe that the Government of which Lords Althorp and Brougham formed a part had determined to reduce the tax on newspapers to the lowest p oss ibl e amount , i n or d er at once to furnish the best information to the public, and to protect the re venue against such frauds as those to which we have made allusion ; and wisely they would have acted in adopting such a course. The revenue would have sustained but little loss—smuggling (in so far as news papers are concerned) been prevented—and the fair trader been protected ;—but not so the present Go vernment, whose maxim is, apparently, to lower the amount of the revenue, by encouraging the contraband merchant at the expense of the fair trader. Will the stamped newspapers submit any longer to this unfair system of taxation ?—or rather, we should say, will the present Chancellor of the Exchequer, who might gain immortal honour by a bold reduction of the duty— attempt to defend such partial taxation ?-3forning Advertiser. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW-STREET. Mr. John O'Connell, M.P. for Youghal, and residing at 9, Clarges-street, Piccadilly, applied to Mr. MINSHULL under the following circumstances : He had been induced to come forward to put the public on their guard against a man who, by personating him, had already obtained considerable sums of money in the way of charitable contributions, by representing himself as collect ing subscriptions for the relief of a worthy and much dis tressed family at Youghal. The applicant had discovered that he had already succeeded in obtaining about 201. from various gentlemen, whose feelings he had acted upon by a recital of the tale alluded to. His usual plan was to send in a card, bearing the name of the applicant, to the person on whom he called, and on being admitted, to produce a book containing a list of names of those whom he repre sented to have already subscribed to alleviate the miseries of the unfortunate family in whose cause he had taken an interest. The Hon. Gentleman stated that on first hear ing of the impositions practised by the person in question he thought that it would be unwise to take any notice of it ; but finding that he continued, with the greatest effron tery, to persist in following up his scheme, he (Mr. O'Con nell) thought it his duty to represent the circumstance to the Magistrates. Mr. MINSHULL hoped the present public allusion to the circumstance would have the effect of putting a stop to the imposture. He inquired if at any time the person alluded to had made use of any other name ? Mr. O'Connell replied that he had once given the name of Mr. Latouche of Dublin, but at all other times he had styled himself Mr. O'Connell. From the descriptions which he had received of him, it appeared that he was a tall dark man, with bushy black hair, and marked with the small-pox. He spoke with a strong Irish brogue, and al ways appeared well-dressed. Mr. MiNsittru. hoped the publication of the present application might have the effect of stopping the individual from proceeding any further, or if he still persisted in en deavouring to impose upon the public, that he might be se cured and given into custody. Mr. O'Connell then retired. George Maughan;, the younger, was brought up in cus tody of Haines, a policeman of the P division, charged on a Bench warrant, issued upon an indictment, preferred by Captain Riley, of Montague-street, Russell-square, with keeping a common gamin g -house. The defendant, having been identified as the person who was indicted, was ordered to find bail himself in 1001., and two sureties in .50/. each, to appear at the Sessions to an swer the charge ; to give 24 hours' notice of bail. THAMES OFFICE. William Edwards, aged nine, and Mary Edwards, eleven, were charged by Custom-House informations with smug gling 211bs. of tobacco, which had not paid duty, and by which each of them had incurred a penalty of 1001. In consequence of information that great quantities of smug gled goods were daily conveyed from the steamers to the house of a waterman named Joseph Bean, two Custom- House officers, Jackson and Carroll, and Mr. J. C. Evans, a surveyor of the Thames Police, proceeded on Friday evening to the neighbourhood of Bean's house, where, after waiting some time, they saw the two children come out, and stopped them. Eleven parcels of tobacco were found upon the boy, and ten upon the girl. They would give no account of the means by which they became possessed of the tobacco, except that their parents had ordered them to carry it ; and were accordingly given into custody. The officers then proceeded to search Bean's house, in which were found 5001 b. of tobacco, in various bales, and which had evidently been landed from a steamer. The whole of the tobacco was seized. Mr. COOMI3E inquired of the clerk to the Solicitor of the Customs, whether the Board meant to prosecute the chil dren ? That Gentleman replied that the children were supposed to be the instruments of persons engaged in large smuggling transactions. Such persons had lately got into the habit of employing children in this way, under the im pression that, if detected, they would not be punished. The brother of the prisoners, aged 15, had lately been convicted of the same crime. On an examination it turned out that he had acted on the employment of an uncle of his own, a man named Gregson, in whose house large quantities of smuggled tea, tobacco, &c., were found. These children he had no doubt were also acting as the agents of Gregson, and they had displayed great ingenuity in their mode of conveying the articles put under their charge. Mr. BRODERIP had no doubt that if the children were found guilty they must either pay the fine or be consigned 40 prison ; and he doubted whether the parents, who scru pled not to employ :their children as instruments in an ;illagal trefic, would either come down with the fine, or ore aboitt their being imprisoned. The parents were tp bl of the children, who, if they hod, refOlpoil to obey , _ • w ~, . -•,_., them, would no doubt have been beaten. If the Board of Customs, however, insisted for a judgment, they must neces sarily give it. The Clerk to the Solicitor for the Board then stated that after what had fallen from the Magistrates he would withdraw the information, which he accordingly did. Mr. BRODERIP then addressed the children, and warned them against similar conduct. PRICES OF CANALS, DOCK STOCKS, ASSURANCE COMPANIES, &c. &c. &c. LONDON, TUESDAY, JULY 3. Number Dividend Price of per CANALS. per Shares. Annum. Paid. Snare, 1,710 64 per cent. Ashton and Oldham ...Average 971. 18. s. sh. 157 1,482 Ii!. Ashby de-le-touch Average 113/. sh. 65 1,200 Basingstoke lOO/. sh. 54 1,04 , 5 51. Brecknock and Abergavenny 150. sh. 83 4 4 :10045h. 121. 10s. Birmingham, 4 share 171. 106. 241 4,000 Ditto and Liverpool Junct....llo/. eh. all p 4 600 Bridgewater and Taunton ....1004 sh. all pd 64 4.0 11. Cheliner and Blackwater 1024 sh. 102 500 42/. Coventry lOO/. sh. 4,5;6 Croydon Average 31!. 2s. 10d. sh. 2.1 2,11601 3t. 108. Dudley 600 61. Derby 1 00/. sh. 1‘..0 3,57;1 ; Ellesmere and Chester Average 133/. sh. SS; 231 1 43'. Erewash .. 'Ol/. sh. 513 1,297 284 Forth and Clyde Average 4004 16s. sh. COO 11.505 12/. Grand Junction lO 1. eh. 237 2,8494 Grand Union 110/ sh. 23 1,521 Grand Surrey Wel. sh. 12.,000.'. 41. per cent. Diu() (optional) Loan lOO/. 73 3,096 Grand Western 600 131. 12s. Bd. Warn rganshire Average cost 172/. I3s. 4d. 280 1,9;i0 Gloucester and Berkley lo't sh. 13 74!) IN. Grantham 150/. sh. 202 6,23 14 108 Hudderstit Id Average 57/. 6s. 6d. sh. 33 100 Kensington 100 sh. all pd. 10 23,329 I/. Kennet and Avon, Average 391.85. 103. sh. 241 i 2,8974 211/, Leeds and Liverpool 10i 1. sh. 525 545 12/. Leicester l4O/ sh. 149 . 907 4/. Leicester and Nort hamp; 0n... Aver t' , W. ;Os. 14) 55'1 5/. per cent. Liskeard and Lone Union ...... 25/. sh. all pd. 23 7., 144/, Loughborough Average 142/. 17s. sh. 1,600 . 2,44 e 511. Monm ,, uthsliire lOO/. sh. 1811 .. L'so 9/. Melton Mowbray 1001 sh. ,v 0 500 251 Mersey and Irwell 100/. sh. 561 3,000' 217 15/. Neat h 101 ...... ... Nene Navigation Bonds „AM/. sh. 1004 pd. 1,739 821. Oxford. 1004 sh. 322 '2l. Oak ham 1301. sh. 2,400 41. Peak Forest Average about 781. sh. 21,419 14s. Regent's (or London) Aver. 33/. los. Bd. sh. 5,669 5/. per cent. Rochdale Average 851. sh. 500 81. Shropshire 1251. eh. SOO 10/. Somerset Coal 150/, sh. 45,0010. 6; per cent Ditto Lock Fund Stock l2l. 10s. sh. 700 36/. Stafford and Worcester 1 4 04 sli. 500 111. Shrewsbury 125/. sh. 300 44. Stourbridge 3,047 IL 10s. Stratford-on-Av .n ...Average 794 9s. Bd. sh. 333 13/. Swansea 100/. sh. 3,7 e 14 Severn and Wye and Railway ...Av 35/. sh. 2,600 4sl. 321. 10s. Treat and Mersey, ; share 1001. sh. 8,141) ... ...... Thames and Medway...Aver. 191.55. Sd. sh. 1,11(10 sh."/ 5 , 51 Warwick and Birmingham 100/ . s h . 1,000 is h. . 980 112.. Warwick and Napton lOOl. sh. 6,000 3/. lOs Worcester and Birmingham... Av. 784 Bs. sh. 20.000 As Wilts and Berko .. Average 101. 17s. 83. sh. 1 800 61. Wyrley and Essington ...... 125/. sh 1 , 26 „,..., Wisbeach 1054 sh. 90) 1/ Wey and Arun llO/. sh. DOCKS. 2 ' 6 " 3 3 o c. Commercial 100/. sh. 1,0(1345h • ' 498,667;1. 3.238,3104 2/. 58. p. ct. London Stock Ditto Bonds 1,380,0004 5/. per ct. %Vest India 2;20.1 3/. N. 4d. Bristol Average 1471. 19s. sh. 69,3244 Si. per cent. Ditto Notes, various amounts 1.352,732 3 per cent. St. Katharine Stock Ditto Dtro B B o o n o d d s . for 10 yea is Shoreham Harbour 200 5°0 ,0(/) 444 per( cceenntt. BRIDGES. 1,600 11. Hammersmith 5Ol. sh. 7,2.31 Southwark, Old Av. 631. 2s. Bd. sh. 1,700 H. 15s. Ditto, New, of 7; per cent. .50/. sh. 5,000 5,000 11. 2s. Ditto, Old Annuities of 81. OO/ pd 5,000 19s. 3d. Ditto, New Ditto of 71 401. pd 60,0004 54 per cent. Ditto Bonds 6,00(1 1/. Vauxhall Average 701. IN. 3d. sh. ASSURANCE COMPANIES. 2,000 31 lOs Albion .500/. s h. 50/ . p d 5,0005 and ss. cent. ] Alliance, British & Foreign 100/. s h. 10/ . p d r er l 50,000 6 per cent. Ditto, Marine 100/. sh. 5/. pd 24,000 10s. per sh. Atlas 1,20045 h. 4/. Birmingham Fire 2501, sh. 55/. pd 103 20,000 4/. per cent. British Fire 250/. sh. 504 pd 40 12,000 W. per cent. British Commercial 50/. sh. 5/. pd di 5,000 5/. per cent. Clerical, Medical, &c. Life...loo/.sh. 2/10s pd 1 4,000 2/ lOs County 'OO/. sh. 10/. pd 42 6,000 ss. Eagle 50/. sh. Si. pd 54 200 Economic Life lOOO/. sh. 250/. pd 315 2,271 si/. per cent. European Life .0/. sh. all pd 22 50,000 2s. Ditto, New 204 sh. 2/. pd lj 1,000,0001. 74 per ct. Globe Stock 156 29,000 11. Guardian 1001. sh. 20/. pd 334 ,-,,,,, r Fire 5 p ct.l , 4(1, - t Life 8 p ct.l '''' o p e 504 sh. 5/. pd 6 2,400 51. 7s. dd. Imperial Fire 5001. sh. 50/. pd 117 7,500 9s. Imperial Life 100/. sh. 104 pd 1 1 ; 5/. per cent. Indemnity Marine 100/. sh. 8/. pd 12 2,020 34 Kest Fire 501. sh. all pd 85 10,000 16s. Law Life 100/. sh. 101, pd 2(1 3,900 11. London, Fire 2.34 sit. 12/. 103. pd 23; 31,000 1/. London, Ship 251. sh. LI/. 10s. pd 23i 30,800 5/. percent. Pall a di u m L i f e .504 sh. 21. pd 2/5s 230,003 Is. 6d. Protector Fire 204 sh. 21. pd II 9s 2,300 11. Provident Life lOO/. sh. 104 pd 19; 100,000 ss. Rock Life 201. sh. 21. pd 5/ lls. 630,2201. 5/. per ceut. Royal Exchange Stock... 185 Sun lO 50,000 4 per cent. United Kingdom Life 2l. pd 212 s 63 JOINT STOCK BANKS 5,000 . .... .... Awitrala.ia 4Ol. sh. 261. pd 31 10,000 10 percent. Bank of Birmingham 5(l. sh. 101. pd 12i 10,000 10 per cent. Birmingham Bank 5O/. sh. 51. pd 12 18,000 2 per cent. London and Westminster...lool sh. 151. pd 3,000 ...... ... Lancaster 1001. sh. 20/. pd 30 25,000 6 per cent. Liverpool 100/. sh. 10/. pd 15 20,000 7 per cent. Provincial Mink of I reland 100/. sh. 25/. pd 49 10,000 National Provincial Eng. lOOl. sh. 25!. pd 23 10,000 lOper cent. Gloucestershire 50/. sh. 5/. pd 11 6,000 GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANIES. 2,500 1112 s Bath ..... 20/. sh. 1(</. pd 28 5,000 61. per cent. British 404 sh. lel. pd 23 nn ,-, r 5 / .percent 1 s '""'" Land Bs. ss. j Ditto Provincial ...., 201. sh. 191. pd 24 844 51 lOs Birmingham 5O/. sh. 100 4,250 21 Os Bristol ... 20.. sh. 394 1,500 Brighton "0/. sh. 13 750 ......... Ditto, New 20/. sh. 181. pd 12 2,471 5 per cent. Brighton General 201. sh. all pd 19 4,000 :3/. Continental Cansolidated lOOl. 51j/. pd 76 1,000 101. City of London .......1001. sh. all pd 1924 1,000 61. I)itto, New 4,000 4!. Equitabl e ls/. pd 31 6,000 64 per cent. East London 51. sh. 4/. pd 44 10,000 5/. percent. Imperial 5O l. sh. 43 i 800 5/. per cent. Isle of Thanet 25/. sh. 20!. pd 21} 2.350 6/. per cent. ndependent 3Ol. dr. all pd 50 9,000 41. per cent. Phianix 501. sh. 39/. pd 24 1,000 4/. per cent. Itatcliff 100/. sh. tio/. pd 4,000 South Metropolitan 5 ,1. sh. 13/. pd 144 8,200 51. per cent. United General 5Ol. sh. 441. pd 39i 240 5/. per cent. Warwick 511. sh. 50 400 115 s Wakefield 251. sh. 224 !2,000 31. Westminster Chartered 5O/. sh. 4t4 6,000 12s. Ditt o, N ew 5O/. sh. 10/. pd 600 WATER WORKS. 4,800 Birmingham 251. sh. 25/. pd 9.7 4,433 51 . East London lOOl. sh. 138 i 4,500 2/ lOs Or trid Junction ....Average 41/ I3s. 4d. sh. 58 2,000 2/. Kent 100/. ah. 46a47 358 101. Liverpool Bootle 2O/. sh. 300 1,500 2110 s New River London Bridge Water Annuities 58 6,486 11. Manchester and Salford lOO/. sh. 47 1,000 4 per cent. South London 100/. sh. 85 8,:,00 3/. West Middlesex ....Average 631. 12s. 9d. ah. 79 1,360 1114 e York Building Co. Lessee Prop 1004 sh. 0 34 IRON RAILWAYS. • Cheltenham 1001. sh. 7F Clarence lOOl. ah. 100/. pd 4' 19s. Forest of Dean 5Ol. pd 2 Grand Junction 1001. sh. 30/. p 1 Hartlepool 100/. sh. 1001 pd ' Leeds and Selby lOO sh. I Leicester and Swannington .A. 501. sh all pd 9 per cent. Liverpool and Manchester...loo/. sh. 1001. pd Ditto Quarter Shares 251. pd London and Greenwich 2Ol sh. 131. pd London and Birmingham ...100/. sh. 35/. pd Preston and Wigan 204 pd . Durham Junction 1001. sh. 101. pd MINES. 330 2,000 2,500 2,010 2,10 1,500 5,100 20,000 25,000 2,500 800 8,000 4,000 10,000 2,000 10,000 6,010 10,000 6,000 8,500 2,850 20,000 6,155 2,000 11,500 30,000 5,( 00 10 pm Albion Copper — 5/. sh. 2/. pd Alien 151. sh. 101. 10s. pd Anglo Mexican , iss 5/ pni all pd ... ..... • . .... 1 00! . s h Ditto Subscription 25!. pd Bolinos , 1501. sh all pd 31. : .1, Brazilian Imp. iss. 54 pm. 351. sh. 204 pd Macaubas & Cocaes United.... 254 sh. 201. pd Ditto St. John Del Rey 20!. sh. 714 pd Cata Branca 4,4/. pd Candonga 5 1.1 x, Bolivar Copper Company, 201. sh. 201. pd Ditto Scrip 14 pd British Copper Si. sh. 3jl. pd Columbian, iss. 51. pm. 551. sh. Mg pd ••• .. 1/. English General Mining A ssociation...2o/ sh. 154 pd "- ... Mexican Company 100/. sh 49,44 pd Polberou Consols 101. sh. til. pd Real del Monte, Unregistered l" , Loan N uo, Ditto Loan Notes - 150/. pd United Mexican, iss. 2 pm..... 40/. sh all pd Ditto Subscription 2l. pd Ditto New Scrip 5l pd Union Gold, iss. 2/. ss. pm....22e/. sh. 4,41. pd West Cork. 501. sh. 25/. pd LITERARY Ii!STITUTIONS. London, with Brb.:"ze Ticket 75gs. sh. Lond. , n University.... lotl. alt. all pd Russell osgs. sh. King's College 20 24 8 44i MISCELLANEOUS. 10,000 10s. Australian Agricultural....loB/. ski. 21 i 1• Ph 1,050 1/. Auction Mart 'W. ah. 8 , 6,000 British A mer i can L and Company Bs. Tx ! I,g 10,000 61 per cent. Canada Company 1001. sh. 201. ix, "7 - 4 200,000 51. per cent. Upper Canada Loan 10.4 City Bonds, 4 per cent lO-,.. 15,000 IL per cent. general Steam Navigation ...151. sh. 131. pd 1 , 1. per rent. Htlson's Bay Stock 260 2,000 1/. London Coin. Sale Rooms Av. 751. sh. 18 2,754 41. per e...nt. Iteversionary InterestSoc...loo/ sli. 1001. pd 134 2,633 4/. per cent. l)itto New Its l. sh. 4i.l. pd 75 4,1)00 Thames Tunnel 501. sh. all pd 10,000 tan Di: men's Land 11101. sh. 161. pd 11 LIST OF SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES, JUNE 1, 1835. BANKS. 1,500,0001. St p. ct. Bank of Scotland 031. 6s. SJ. sh. all pd 204 p. c. 2,000,0001. 54 p. ct. Royal of Scotland 100/. sh. all pd 1701. 500001. bp. et. British Linen Company 100/. sh. :al pd 2401.. 3,000,0001. 61. p. ct. Commercial 5OOl. sh. 1001. pd 1701. 5,000,000/. 5 p. ct. National 2,00 %Ma 24/. p. ct. Glasgow Union 2504 sh. 501. pd 60/. 4,000,0001. 6p. ct. Western of Scotland 2OOl. sh 30/. pd 33/. ___ __ INSURANCE COMPANIES. 250,0005 h. sp. ct. Scottish Union 9 0/. sh. 11. pd 19s. 7,500 sp. ct. Hercules 100/. sh. 101. 11/. 100,000 sp. ct. Insurance Co. of Scotland....lol. sh. all pd 7/ Os 50,000 6 ii. ct. North British 2001. sh. 104 'pd 15/. imp sp. et. Caledonian Fire 100/. sh. 10/. pd 13/. 5,000 6p. et. Edinburgh Life 1001. sh. 104 pd 14/. 100,000 4p. ct. West or Scotland lOl. pd 9/. MISCELLANEOUS 4,810 Etlin. and Glas. Un. Cana1...501. sh. all pd 11/10s Ditto Allocated .9el. oh. all pd 601. 5,400 5 per cent. Edinb. Joint Stock Water... .254 sh. all 14 33/. Carron Iron Company 2501. sh. all pd 4501. 9,0005 h. 15 per cent. Shotts Iron Foundery 50/. sh. 38/. pd 18/. 10,000 3 per cent. Edinburgh & Leith Glass 2Ol. sh. 164 pd el. 4,500 10 per cent. Edinburgh Coal Gas 251. sh all pd 651. 4,450 10 per cent. Glasgow Gas '2sl. sh. all pd 601. 730 6 per cent. Leith Coal Gas 20/. sh. all pd 33/. 1,200 5 per cent. Edinburgh and Dilkeith Railway...so/. sh. 751. 3,000 10s. per sh. Equitable Loan Company 251. eh. 91. pd 101. LOST CHILDREN.--Between the 13th of _April, and the 23d instant, no fewer than 1001 children (an average of 100 weekly) lost in the streets of Manchester, were taken to the Police-office, and ultimately restored t o their parents. vair4VancAcstfr (ivurdieri, • . VICE-CHANCERY COURT. IN ItE ANN FOX. In this case, which was the petition of a lady named Fox, praying that the order made on the petition of a gentle man named Marston, a merchant residing at Manchester , might be discharged, or that the execution of a writ de ventre inspiciendo, which had been issued against the peti tioner, might be stayed, and that matrons might be sent at seasonable times to ascertain if the petitioner was enceinte, and which was not concluded on Saturday when we went to mess, his Honour the VICE-CHANCELLOR, after hearing the facts of tile case at some length, said, that from read ing the affidavits there was strong ground to believe the lady was with child ; it seemed to him a proper case to stand over for a month, when any further proceeding m ight be unnecessary. The suggestion here was that the lady . was not pi egnant— no d ou b t was ra i se d as to the patern i ty o f her issue. The petition might remain in the paper to be mentioned at the end of a month before the writ should be executed. Of course either party might apply to the Court in the meantime, if it should happen to be necessary. This proposal was acceded to on both sides. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. SALAMONSON V. MENSALL. This was an action brought by the plaintiff against the defendant for the recovery of a loan of .2001., made upon a bill of exchange, at. eighteen month's date, for 215/., ac cepted by an individual named Bull, and drawn by the defendant. Mr. Bull being in want of money applied to Messrs. Salamonson and Frazer, bill-brokers in the city, to discount the bill in question. As it had eighteen months to run Messrs. Salamonson and Frazer objected to discount it, but it was finally agreed between the parties that Mr. Bull should give a bill at a short date for the amount, and leave this bill in their hands by way of security, the understand` ing being of course that. the more negotiable bill should be renewed from time to time as it became due. Messrs. Sa lamonson and Frazer, however, became bankrupts, and the bill in question was then alleged to have passed into the hands of the plaintiff, Mr. Salamonson's brother, for a va luable consideration. On the part of the defendant it %via contended that the plaintiff was well aware of the condition on which the bill had been deposited with Messrs. Salamon son and Frazer, and that, therefore, it was not true that he could be the bona fide holder of the security. The Jury found a verdict for the defendant. PREROGATIVE COURT. FORD V. FORD. In this case it appeared that the deceased, Benjamin Ford, died in March 1835, and that he left a widow (Abi gail Ford), and a grand-daughter (Frances Mary Mar church) ; that the will of the deceased was propounded on the 14th of July, 1832 ; that Marianne Ford was left sole executrix, except as far as regarded the maintenance of the widow ; and that the will was regularly attested by Mr. Ashton. The allegation on the part of the widow pleaded the imbecility of mind evinced by the testator in his general conduct for the last several years, and stated that the will in question had been obtained during that imbecility of midd, and under an undue influence exercised by the sa id Marianne Ford. Sir J. NICHOLL said the Court would direct that the allegation should be reformed. PooLE.—A Meeting of the Corporation was held on Wednesday last, for the purpose of appointing a deputa tion to meet other deputations now assembling in London. under the :specious pretence of witching over the Municipal Reform Bill, but evidently with the view of keeping fast as much as possible of the old system.--Sherburne Journal. SUDDEN DEATH.—An awful instance of the un-. gertainty of human life occurred on Wednesday last, at Hack ney, to Mr. Samuel Wakefield, a retired gentleman, brother to the late Mr. Gilbert Wakefield, the celebrated political writer. He had dined and spent the evening with a friend at Clapton-square, and on his return to his residence at the Triangle, about eleven o'clock, when arrived at the end Of Well-street, he fell down in an apoplectic fit. The assistance of the neighbours being procured, he was conveyed to his resi dence, but before he reached it life was extinct. The deceased gentleman was seventy-five years of age. Saturday an inquest was held at the Mitre Tavern, Islington ' on the body of Miss Martha Th omas , age d 20 , w ho drowned herself in the New River. The deceased resided, with her father in Clerkenwell- c l ose , an d on b e i ng repr i man d e d for coming home late she rushed down stairs, and was never heard of until found in the river. It appears that she was attached to a young man who was not admitted to the house, which circumstance greatly affected her mind. Verdict-+ " Temporary insanity." A mysterious circumstance occurred at Arlesford last week. On Monday a man and four boys (Italians) were seen exhibiting white mice and guinea-pigs, who all put up at the Fox public-house. The next morning, the man rose about six o'clock, had his breakfast, and went towards Basing' stoke. The boys rose a little while after, and went towards Winchester. Sometime in the course of the day, as Lord Rodney's keeper was going over his master's grounds, he ob served a box lying in one of the coppices, and on going up to it, found it to contain guinea-pigs and mice; he imme diately made the circumstance known, but the man has not since been heard of, although strict inquiries have been made. The man on the Monday evening pulled out of his pocket money to the amount of twenty or thirty pounds.-- Hampshire Advertiser. LAMENTABLE SUICIDE OF COUNT OBERG.---* --- It is our painful duty to record the death of Count Oberg► Equerry to the King of Hanover, who terminated his existence on Wednesday morning by stabbing himself with a dagger. It appears that the deceased left his lodgings in St. James's street, on Wednesday morning, at an early hour, repaired to Palaceyard Stairs, Westminster, and hired William Campbell, a waterman, to row him a short distance up the Thames, for the purpose of bathing. On the waterman reaching the middle of the river just off the Speaker's house, the deceased said that he would bathe there, and began to divest himself of his ap parel. He shortly plunged into the stream, but had not been in the Thames more than a few minutes when he swam back to the boat, and took from under the cushion a small phial, which he put to his mouth and swallowed the contents. The deceased again plunged into the river, and swam about for a short time, until at length the waterman's suspicions were excited by observing the Gentleman sinking. He immediately rowed towards him, and succeeded in dragging him into the boat, at the same time calling for assistance, which being a hand, the Count was brought on shore, and led to Doctor M'Cann's in Parliament-street, who succeeded in administer ing an emetic, but without its having the desired effect. Mr- M•Cann then sent his assistant home with the Gentleman, but they had no sooner arrived at his lodgings than he made an excuse to get rid of the attendant by telling him to send his master. Immediately, however, on being left alone, the de ceased, it is supposed, took a small but a sharp and finely pointed dagger, and, placing himself before the glass, twice stabbed himself in the left breast in the direction of the heart, with .a desperate and mortal force, the dagger each time pene trating the body up to the handle. It is believed that h e fell dead instantly after the committal of the act, for a youth em ployed in the house; on hearing something fall heavily on the floor, proceeded to the apartment, and found the Count a corpse, weltering in a pool of blood. Mr. Elwyn, a surgeon, in Albemarle-street, was promptly in attendance, but he found that his assistance was of no avail. An inquest was held on the body on Thursday, when several Hanoverian Gentlemen stated that in their opinion the mind of the deceased had of late become seriously affected in consequence of severe bodily affliction, for which he could get no relief, notwithstanding be had been attended by many eminent medical Gentlemen. The Jury returned a verdict of " Temporary derangement," and the remains of the deceased were on Saturday morning con veyed to the Lutheran Chapel, Savoy-street, Strand, for in terment. The deceased was twenty-eight years of age, an d was the only son of Baron Oberg, of Hanover. BIBTIIS. On the 4th inst., at Clement's-lane, the wife of Henry Baynes, Esq.. of a daughter. On the 4th inst., in Great Russell-street, the lady of Joseph Goodeve, Esq., of a daughter. On the 3d inst., Mrs. IL Finch, Ludgate-hill of a son. On the 4th inst., in Newington -place, Mrs. Cabell, of a daughter• MARRIED. On the Ist inst., at Littleham, neal 7 F;xmouth, Devon, the Rev. Wili'Llm Heberden, Vicar of Broadhembury, to Susanna Catherine, youngestdaughter of the late Ja mes B u ll er Esq., of Downes. On the 2 ,,,' inst., at Worfield, th e R ev . d. F. Broadbent, to Bar bara Anne, , e l e :-st daughter o f th e R ev . E. S. D avenport, of Da' venport House, s !Iropshire. 3 On the 23d ult., at St. Pancras. Edward Willi am Cl arr ib u tt, Esq., of the Bengal M e dical Establishment, to Katherine Day, only daughter of the late Georg .e Gill, Esq., of Queen-square, Blooms bury. _— DIED. On the 4th inst., in his 86th year, George Tennyson, Esq., 0f Bayons Manor and Usselby House, in the county of Lincoln. On the 2d inst., at Malshanger House, near Basingstoke, aged 73, Colonel Pennington, many years Commander of the East India Company's Horse Artillery in India. On the 3d inst., Louisa, the sister of John Fennell, Esq., Coal' wander, R.N. On the 3d inst., at Brighton, Gerard de Visme, Esq., o f St. Andrew's-place, Regent's Park, aged 56. 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