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of the Constitution the followers of Emanuel Swe denborg and Johanna Soutlicote, and would exclude Newton and Locke were they in life. No matter how much more men may believe than they ought, hut woe to them if they happen to be unable to be lieve as much as their neighbours ! In the debate on Tuesday night, the numbers of the Dissenters were, we think, very much understated. This, no doubt, happens from the circumstance of reckoning only the grown people among them. When we ..:peal.; of a population, we speak of old:and young; .and in speaking of the Dissenters as contradistm guished from the Church, we should include men, '.women, anti children. If we do so, we shall find the Dissenters more numerous in England than those belonging to the Establishment. Let us con sider only how large a proportion of the people of England live in towns of 2,000 inhabitants and up wards ; and then that in all such towns the Dissen ters form the majority; in the great towns, a very great majority. It is true, that the Church is enti tled to reckon in her list, all who belong to no communion whatever; but even with this allowance, ". - e are sure that though much more numerous than any one body of Dissenters, the Churchmen are less numerous than the whole of the Dissenters.— The Dissenters must have doubled within the last twenty years.—lbid. For some time past the state of his Majesty's health has formed a very general subject of conver sation, though, for obvious reasons, the Newspapers have seldom ventured to allude to the reports. The holding of a Cabinet Council yesterday at Windsor has led some people to entertain apprehensions which, we are assured, are without any foundation. His Majesty, we are happy to state, is free from indisposition, though the weakness of his limbs still Lord John Russell submitted last night, his motion for the repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts. Thirty-eight years have elapsed since the last at tempt was made to procure the repeal of these ob noxious Laws. If the Dissenters have been passive duriog this interval, the circumstance affords a strik ing proof of their patience, for the proportion which They bear to the members of the Established Church, has become greater and greater every y ar. In fact, Chapels are springing up constantly in all directions, and often in neighbourhoods where no new houses have been erected, which affords aloft° a presumption that the Dissenters have more than kept pace with a!ie increase of the population. They are very' in discreet friends of the establishment, who thus pro voke the Dissenters to muster their strength in this manner, and irritate, without any conceivable object, so large a party of the inhabitants of England. The Act of indemnity passed every year, freeing Dissen ters from the penalties to which they are liable under these obnoxious Acts, prove that they can have no other object than that of outraging the feelings of Non-conformists. Even admitting, for the sake of argument, that the passing of such laws as the Test and Corporation Acts was justified by necessity, the plea of necessity can no longer be urged ; and as was forcibly observed by Mr. John Smith, " if any Ministry were mad enough, and any House of Com- Mena weak enough, to attempt to enforce these laws now, they would in a little time be assailed by A band of zealots, who would tell Mr. Speaker and those about him to go and seek the Lord elsewhere," But Acts that cannot be enforced, and the effect of which is obviated by Annual Indemnity Bills, cannot, as Lord John Russell observed, " be recon ciled with any principle of justice or policy ;" and The allowing them to remain on the Statute-book only serves to diminish the respect of the people for the laws. The idea of a law rendered perpetually inoperative by annual laws, which are not conceded to favour, but to necessity, is so absurd, that one would think those who could gravely entertain it, might be passed into a County Asylum at once -without the certificate of a physician. Lord John R;kssell gave a very clear narrative of the circum stances which led to the passing these obnoxious Acts, and shelved that justice, policy, and expe diency alike demanded their repeal. The Motion was carried by a majority of 44 in a full House. — That the minority was so large in a question like this does not say much for the " march of intellect" among the higher classes of Englishmen. We are aware that something must be placed to the account of sinister interest, and that if Members could have given an unbiassed vete, the majority would have been perhaps greater ; but making every allowance for men circumstanced like Mr. Peel, the number chargeable only with honest imbecility must have s'ormed by far the larger proportion of the -minority. With respect to Mr. Peel, he reminds us of the Ita lian Actor who was obliged to take the parts of both the Doctor and Pantaloon. He has two characters to perform. One day lie appears before us as a Re former, willing to pay homage to reason, treating the wisdom of our ancestors as little better than folly, and trying the laws by the standard of But our admiration of this Solon of our times has hardly well subsided, after one of those ex hibitioias, when to with the same grave air, the same earnest aaal supplicating tone, with which lie delivered his oraelea of reason, he pours out stores of bigotry and puerile absurdity, too rich, one should think, even for Oxiord Divines, as if he wished to heighten the effect of his wisdom by the contrast of his folly, or the effect of his folly by the contrast of his wisdom. But we have become accustomed to this duality, and can make allowance for it. We con sider him in one case as Mr. Peel in his own proper person, and in the other as the Representative of all and prejudice, which still have the folly, paasion , ;their abode in Oxford. Bet we confeSs we were not equally prepared for the part acted last night by Mr. Huskisson. This Right Hon. Gentleman has not surely given guarantees to Liverpool, that he shall, on certain questions, endeavour to rival Mr. Peel in absurdity ; nor can Mr. Peel have exacted guarantees from him, that in return for the support of the system of free trade, he shall prostrate his inderstanding at the shrine of Orthodoxy. Be this .a.a it may, certainly the Right Honourable Gentle -man did surprise all who heard him last night not a little. Last year he saw no reason for the continu ance of the Test and Corporation Acts. This year he has found one ; and it is this, that exclusions, founded on injustice, are necessary for the upholding t h e ,i,, A premaey of the Church of England, and if the Test An d Corporation Acts were to - be repealed, the Catho?ics alone would suffer from exclusion; and as the exclusion would be particularly hard on the Ca tholics, as it would imply the existence, on their part, of a double allegiance, while exclusion is, at the same time, indispensible, it is necessary to add one piece of injustice to another, and punish the Dissenters without a cause, in order that the Catholics may not be -without company. Gracious God, what a mess of alasurdity ! But let us hear him speak for himself. `` The great object in leaving these laws untouched apptars to have been, that the Supremacy. of the Established Church might he recognized. But if we vote for the repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts, what becomes of this general rule ? It will stand as nothing : for the moment that we consent to that repeal we shall create as exception, and the Catholics alone will be the sufferers. The general rule that has been made will cease to exist, and its application will be levelled and directed against the Catholics alone. We shall create in them a dis tinguishiog e xception , when th ey now on l y f orm a part of the ex cluded. The supremacy of the Church either req uires exclusion, or it d oes not; if it does not, why then exclude the Dissenters ?—if it does, why exclude only the Dissenters? But Mr. licakisson is an advocat e of the Catholics; and whil e he contends for the exclusion of the Dissenters for the sake of the supremacy of the Church, he s con tends for the admission o f the Catholics, on the ground of their suf f erings from exclusion. f.;uppose the Catholics admitted, would he still hang ra e and Corporation Acts over the heads of Ihe Dis senters ? If not, why would he hang the a now? If there is injustice done to the Catholics, is 'hat in justice less likely to be remedied, because ta. mass of injustice to be remedied is diminished ? If the doing justice to the Dissenters will make the in iustice.to the Catholics appear in a more taring. light, will the disposition to remedy the evil be im paired ? 0 what drivelling! And this is the price paid for being allowed to serve the country under his Grace the Duke of Wellington.—lbid. - We do not know that it is necessary to enter at large into the question of the Corporation and Test Acts, but there are one or two points which it may not be unnecessary to notice. In the first place, we deny that the relief, which it is the object of Lord J. Russell to give, is desired by the majority of the Dissenters.. It was indeed said by Sir T. Acland, in answer to this argument, that he could procure plenty of petitions —but why have they not been procured ? The motion of Tuesday night was no unexpected motion. It was in course of Irvin , made, though not actually made, last Session, and almost every night since the present Parliament lias met the subject has been talked over. Where, then, is that sense of degradation, that impatience under injury, which it is argued the Dissenters must feel from the operation of these Acts ? Has one peti tion come from Scotland ? The Presbyterians are unquestionably the most respectable in all points of view ; they are also the most numerous denomi nation of Dissenters from Episcopacy. The Scotch have at no period shewn themselves lukewarm or indifferent to any thing that affected their interests whether spiritual or temporal. They bear an ancient grudge against the Church of England, in conse quence of the atrocities perpetrated during the latter part of the reign of Charles 11., which they attribute to that Church; and if any set of men should be disposed to stickle for the removal of the smallest relict of their former bondage, they should naturally be the men ----yet they move not. Is not their qui escence the strongest possible proof that the griev ances which figure in the speeches of Lord John Russell and Mr. J. Smith, have no practical in fluence in the realities of life ? Not only do the Presbyterians not move, but we are assured, that sooner than submit 'to what they would deem the contamination of yoking themselves with Unita rians, there is not a Presbyterian north of the Tweed who would not join the Roman Catholics. In fact, the doctrines of the latter are much - less ob noxious, because it is conceded that they err only by excess; that they have all that is requisite and more; while the doctrines of the Unitarians not only fall grievously short, but some of their short comings are in particulars which a Presbyterian deems es sential, not to church discipline, but to Christianity itself. We affirm, then, in the first place, that there is no sufficient proof before Parliament or the coun try, that the Dissenters de s ire the repeal of the Corporation and Test Acts, in so much as the most numerous, the most respectable, the most influen tial of all the dissenting bodies in the kingdom, has not made the slightest attempt to procure it. But it is said, why should the Church struggle to retain what is confessedly of no use ? Why should she keep up ramparts which afford no protection ? We answer, because of the evil example that yielding up such ramparts would set. Why did the Scots struggle for the debatable land? Was it be cause of its value ? No—but they knew that while they had an enemy the struggle must be maintained somewhere, and they wished to keep it as far from the heart of the country as possible. They well knew that if they gave ap the border they must soon give up the king dom. Such is the - case with the friends of the Church. If they make not a stand now, they must soon make one, and every step that they resile, every foot of ground which they yield, is so much vantage ground occupied for the fresh attack and a farther inroad. If they give way they will soon find them selves in the condition of the Scots. The enemy will first seize their borders—he will next press for ward to the heart of their possessions—he will turn first one point, then another, until he has driven them to the wilderness, and will only then leave them because they have nothing more of which to lie plundered. This brings us to the only other point which we mean to notice. It is said that the repeal of the Corporation and Test Acts will strengthen the ,Church Establishment against the Catholics. It will do the very contrary. There is not one who prays for the repeal, who does not in his heart, however he may gloss it over, hate the Church Establishment even more intensely than the Catholics do. Were it come to such an alternative, that one party must be admitted to keep the other out, the most prudent plan, and that which would most likely be successful, would be to let in the Catholics, in order to keep out the Independents and Unitarians. What said Mr. J. Smith, the other day, in respect to the sen timents of the Dissenters towards the Catholics ? That though they would not combine with them in petitioning for joint Emancipation, they were anxious to have it understood that they were most friendly to their claims. What language does this conduct s; , eak to plain men ? Is it not tantamount to telling the Catholics—" Help us to push in at the door, and we will let you in by the window ?" Oa this point we request our readers to peruse Mr. Peel's speech carefully, for they will find it well repay their labour. That Right Hon. Gentleman saw clearly that the concession sought by Lord John Russell's motion must strengthen the Catholic Cause, and voted with perfect consistency against it. Others, we know, voted against the measure on the ground that it would weaken the Catholic Cause. But is it possible that the more the lines of demarcation between the Established Chnrch and Sectarians are trampled upon, the more zealous the Church should wax for the preservation—and the more her privileges are shared with others, the more anxious should she be to contend for them ? New Times. Lord John Russell brought forward in the House of Commons last night his motion for a Com mittee of the whole House to examine into the pro priety of repealing the Corporation and Test Acts. The motion was seconded by Mr. John Smith, and curried by a majority of 44 ; the }lumbers for going into a Committee being 237, and against it, 193. It has seldom happened that so many Members have divided without any previous call of the House. We have not space to-day to analyse the long and impor tant debate of which the above was the result. The arguments for the repeal of the Corporation and Test Acts possess little novelty; and were we to seek for the refutation, we need not go further than Lord .Tohn Russell's speech. For why shotild we proceed to legislate on - what, in truth, is. not and cannot be a grievance, since the annual indemnity bill removes the possibility of its infliction ?-• The grievance of the Corporation and Test Acti lies, if any, in their penal clauses. If there were no penal ties annexed to a breach of them, would any man in his senses say that they could be looked on by the Dissenters as grievous ? And is not the relief from. these penalties equivalent to the absolute repeal of the only part of the law which can be complained of ? The description of the hardships that were endured previous to . the annual Indemnity Bill being introduced, and of the sin gular scenes exhibited when persons went ' to qualify under those Acts, may be quite true ; but, unfortunately, it is nothing to the purpose. The question is, not what were the ef fects of these Acts, but what are their effects. The argument plainly stated is neither more nor less than this :—The Corporation and Test Acts inflict no penalties on Protestant Dissenters that are not re lieved by an Indemnity Act ; but some hundred years ago they did inflict penalties which were not relieved - by an Indemnity Act —ergo, they ought to be repealed. Whenever a Member proposes a cure, he ought first to show some disease that renders its application necessary. It is no argument to offer to a man in perfect health, who refuses to swallow a potion, that he will be as well after he has taken it as before. His reply will naturally be, " then why take it ?" Such is precisely the argument for the repeal of the Acts in question. The Dissenters suffer nothing from them ;. therefore, says Lord John, why oppose their repeal ? If the Dissenters suffe r nothing from them, we answer, why do they ask it ? We cannot, however, enter into the ques tion at such length as is necessary to de it justice, and therefore we must abstain for the present. The speeches which are best worth a perusal are those of Mr. Peel against, and of Sir Thomas D. Acland for, the repeal. The very ingenious manner in which Sir Thomas contrived to tura the arguments of Mr. Peel against, into arguments in favour of, the repeal, aided as the Hon. Baronet was by the singular fair ness of the Right Hon. Secretary's admissions—in this case more singular than politic—was one great cause of the unexpected issue of the debate.—lbid. The speech of Mr. Huskisson, on the Test, &c. Acts, appeared to us to he but a lame piece of busi ness. In our opinion he had better have held his tongue, or have kept out of the House on that night altogether. The speeCh too, of Lord Palmerston, did not by any means please but to stick to place and pay appear to us to be the order of the day. As to what is called political principle by people called Statesmen and Orators, it appears to have taken flight.—Morning Herald. The Manifesto just published by the Ottoman Porte is a document of great importance, not only as showing the determination of that Power to resist to the last, but the grounds upon which every Mussulman is called upon to come forward in defence of his religion and independence.—While we cannot but regret the turn which affairs have taken, it is impossible, at the same time, not to be struck with the truth of most of the statements made in this do cument, and the just grounds of complaint which Turkey makes against the Allied Powers. Its genuineness is doubted; but it is so descriptive of the well-known feeling of the Turks towards Russia, and so much in unison with their conduct since the battle of Nayarit', that if the document has not appeared exactly in this shape in Turkey, there can be little doubt that the substance of it has been communicated to different Governors throughout the empire. According to this, Russia evidently is regarded as the principal enemy,---France and Eng land only as secondaries, and inveigled into the cause by the insinuations and schemes of Russia. That Power has,'. for the last sixty years, been con stantly directing its views towards Constantinople, and seizing every opportunity of interfering in the disputes between the Porte and the discontented subjects of the different provinces—at one time taking. under its protection the Moldavians and We liaians; at another time the Servians; arid now claiming the same right to assist and protect the re volted Greeks. In consequence of this interference Turkey has lost the greater part of her fleet ; the Greeks, who were ou the point of yielding to their old masters, have nearly secured their indepen dence; and Turkey believes that the moment is at last come when, in order to maintain her sove reignty not only in Europe, but over the Greeks in Asia, she must resist, by force of arms, all further interference. The obstinacy of the Turks evidently proceeds, not solely from their reluc tance to grant a comparative independence to Greece, but from the firm conviction that it is the object of Russia to drive them from Europe, and instigate all their Christian subjects to imitate the Axample of those in the Morea. It is not at all imp ibable that this is the real state of the case ; but, at least, the Porte is fully justified from all ap pearances in disseminating such a belief in order to excite a spirit of resistance among the Mahometan subjects of the empire, and obtain some security, if she should be obliged to abandon Greece, that no further interference shall take place. This, probably, is the chief object she has in view in resisting with such obstinacy the present claims of the Allied Powers ; and, as a matter of justice, we think she has a full tight to obtain some guarantee to that effect. Let our Government, in conjunction with those of France, Austria, and Russia, if the con sent of the latter can be obtained, give such a pledge, and at the same time insist on the fulfilment of the Treaty of the 6th of July, and there can be lit tle doubt that the present differences would soon be settled. The influence which the distinguished in dividual at the head of the Administration has with most of the Courts of Europe would make any sug gestion of his receive the most ready and mature consideration. His name and character too must have great weight with the Turks; and if a similar plan were proposed by him, we can hardly see how it could be rejected by the Allies, or fail of success in reconciling the Turks to the loss of Greece. If Russia refuse to give a pledge that the integrity of the. Turkish Empire shall not be further infrin ged, we can only conclude that the designs at tributed to her by the Porte are well founded, and that, after obtaining additional territory at the expense of Turkey, she will next excite com motion among the Greeks in Asia, in order to have a pretence for interference, and pave her way to our possessions in the East. If these are her real mo tives, the sooner they are known the better. There, no doubt, are difficulties connected with the disputes which are not fully known to the public ; but we trust, that by the change, of Ministry, and the supe rior influence which the present, as compared with the last, have in most of the European Cabinets, they will vet be able to prevent hostilities. The Noble Duke, by his bravery and skill, had the ho nour of putting an end to one war in Europe; and we trust that he has an honour only second to that yet to obtain—that of preventing another.—lbid. MEETINGS OF CREDITORS. LONDON DI ARY.—Fninnv, l'En. 29.--At the Court of Commissioners, Basinghall-street. Atkinson, J. Oxford-street, oilman Ball, J., Het"hersett, Norfolk, engineer Booth, W., Worksop, maltster Bowes, J., Battersea, carpenter Grain, G., Cambridge, hatter ll Hall, S., Able-end, tallow-chandler COUNTRY DlARY.—Ssaultruv, Maacit I. Battye, E., Burton Salmon, Yorkshire—Green Dragon, Pontefract lO Bayley, P., Cheddar—Bush, Bristol Darwin and Co., Sheffield—Tontine, ihettield ll Fornachon, V., Manchester—White's, Manchester ll Hall, E., Ashton—White Bear, Manchester ll Hamer, H., Liverpool—Clarendon, Liverpool Howe, S., Devonport—London inn, Devonport James, W., Bruton—Blue Ball, Bruton Rees, J., Neath—Public rooms, Swansea ll Sommerville, H., Liverpool—Clarendon, Liverpool l2 Whitelege, J., Manchester—Star, Manchester lO Wh.ittenbury, .1., Manchester—White's, Manchester lO INSOLVENTS APPLYING TO BE DISCHARGED, COUNTRY.---At the Court-house, at Bristol, March 3, at Ten o'clock. Weston, Thomas, Bristol, grocer and tea dealer Allen, George, Compton Martin, innkeeper Hoare, John, St Paul's, dyer and.scowerer Bartlett, Wm., Stapleton-road, pin-maker • Rogers, Samuel, Bristol; mason Monday, William, Bristol, huckster Cass, James, Bedminster, woolstapler Fisher, James, Wellington, victualler Bwdeti, Wm•, Bedminster-parade, carpenter An ingenious individual has, it is said, perfected the model of a vehicle, of a very simple con. structiou, to go without horse or steam. The Lord Provost has received from the Se cretary of State a *spite in favour of ANDREW EWARI:f now under sentence of death in the jail of this city, until farther signification of his MAJESTY'S pleasure.— Catedo nion Mercury. GLASGOW MARKETS, FEB. 23.—There having been no arrivals of Sugar this week, our Market has continued in a very inactive state; and the Sales effected, which amount to 115 hhds. Demerara at 635. tid. a 655. 6d. for low to good middling, were at the reduction of 6d. per cwt.—West India Molasses still are very flat, and it is reported that a parcel of Demerara was sold at 279. per cwt.—ln Coffee the only transaction s were 39 tierces Jamaica at 455. a 525. for ordinary to fine ordinary, and five tierces good middling at 68s. per cwt.—There was more inquiry for Rum, but with the exception of some small , we have not heard of any sales.—We have heard of n o sales o f Dyewoods, of w hich parcels Leeward at 2s. ld. for Proo f , our stock is now much reduced.—Jamaica and Honduras Logwood are offered at 61. 6s. per ton. The demand for Cotton has been more extensive than for some weeks past, but holders having shown a disposition to meet the buyers, prices may he considered a shade lower. The sales amount to 1,681 bales. Some small parcels of New Pot Ashes were sold at 335. and of Pearl at 335. 6d. a 345. per cwt. —Tallow being in limited supply, has improved in price, 30 a 40 casks, Y. C. having brought 455. per cwt. — Almost nothing was done in Tobacco. There have been considerable arrivals of Grain. Wheat and Oats were in limited demand at rather low prices, but Malting Barley was in fair request, and prices supported ; inferior kinds a shade reduced. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. --Yesterday two respectable young women, one of whom is 16, the other 17 years of age, of most prepossessing appearance, and in deep afflic tion, came to the Justice-room to entreat his Lordship's ad vice under the following melancholy circumstances : Their mother, the only parent who had brought them up and educated them, had two other daughters, and two sons, and their father had long since ceased to consider that he had any obligations to perform towards his family, and indeed had contributed to embarrass them. They were, notwithstanding, able to make a decent appearance, with the assistance of customers who employed them in engraving, and printing cards and tradesmen's bills, and by adopting a plan of economy, amounting almost to privation. They were struggling on for some time, when, about three months ago, their mother, on going to the Stamp-office, was robbed of her pocket-book, con taining 401., which was to pay for stamps upon receipts, which she had engaged to print. This loss was her utter ruin. The party to whom the 401. belonged arrested her two days ago, and she now lay in prison. The eldest daughter, a girl eighteen years of age, was so affected at the imprisonment of her mother, and at the dreadful pros pect before her brothers and sisters, who were on the brink of starvation, that she fell sick, and was now unable to act in their emergency, rendered more frightful by the conduct of the landlord. This tender-hearted individual, immediately after the mother was arrested, seized the furniture for 15/., half a-year's rent, and declared that lie would, on this day, sell off every stick, and that it would be in vain to solicit indulgence. The poor young appli cants did not know what to do to save themselves, and the rest of the helpless family, from perishing in the streets. They were apprehensive that the gentleman we have just spoken of would perform his promise to the letter, and then they would have no alternative, and had not a friend in the world to whom to apply for assistance. They, therefore, thought that his Lordship would condescend to pardon them for intruding the story of their misfortunes upon him, and that he would send a messenger to beg that the lard lord, who knew his Lordship, would not turn them and their brothers and sisters out of their only home, but allow them time, which they would employ in working day and night until all demands should be liquidated. They added, that their mother owed part of her distresses to the trea chery of a false friend. Mr. Hobler asked whether the name of the applicant was Innes, and whether they did not live in Little Bell alley They replied in the affirmative, and Mr. Hobler said that he had long known their mother, who was a most industrious woman, and who had been frequently obliged to apply at the Justice-room for protec tion against her husband for the sake of her children. He knew her to be a most deserving woman, and one of the best of mothers. His Lordship, and two or three of the Chief Officers of the establishment, then put into the hands of the young woman as much money as would satisfy the present craving of the landlord, and the poor girls left the Justice-room wholly unable to express their gratitude. UNION-HALL. —DESPE RATE A SSA U LT. — . Yesterday two men, named Hayes and Maloney, were charged with assault. The MAGISTRATE asked the prisoners what they had to say, Hayes stated, that he had been only a few weeks arrived from the county of Limerick; and on the evening of the row he met Judy Casey—" Arrah ! Paddy, is that your self?" says Judy, running up to me in the street, and kissing me. " Wisha faith, an' sure enough Judy 'tis my own self; an' is that you, Judy ?" " Arrah, who else would it he, agra?" says she. " An'so your Worship, we could'nt do less than take a drop together ; for, when friends meet, your Worship, across the seas, their hearts warms to one another. So in we goes, your Worship, that is, Judy and Tim Maloney, him that is here aside me, and myself, into the Paviors' Arms ; and we called for a pot o' beer—though, to tell the truth, your Worship, I'd sooner, for my own part, have a drop of the crater. So, as I was saying, we had a pot o' beer ; and in the course of conversation, I just let slip from use a report I heard, that Judy Casey (who, I must allow, is come from a decent stock o' people), had certain rasins of her own for laving ould Ireland.' My dear, on an instant Judy flew into a rage, abused me, and at last, your Worship, went so far as to call me a bastard. I could'nt bear it, your Worship, I'll tell the truth, I could'nt bear it ; my mother was poor, but she was honest; and no one was ever able to say ' black' to her eye : was she by, your Worship, I should'n mind it so much ; but, God be with her, she was far away, and not able to take her own part. So lup with my hand in the hate of passion, and give Judy a poulthogue, when, in a moment, that youngster, pointing at Porter, the complainant, comes over to me, and axes me why I did it? Now, I did not see what right lie had to interfere between people of the same country, whether they were fighting or not ; be cause to-morrow or next day, Judy and I would lose the last drop of our blood for one another ; and if what he says be true, that she went for a constable, pen my soul 'twas very hard to find him ! for we remained long enough in the house after she went, too long I believe for them, for they were the first that wished to get away. They struck us as well as we struck them ; look at poor Tim Maloney's eye, your Worship, and beside all this, plase to consider, Sir, that there were four o' them, and only two of us ; and sure, your Worship, that was two to one." The MAGISTRATE told them that he should hold them to bail for the assault, and in consequence of its being so aggravated, would require twenty-four hours' notice of bail. LAW INTELLIGENCE. VICE CHANCELLOR'S COURT, FEB. 27. EX-PARTE OLDFIELD, IN THE MATTER OF OLDFIELD. This was a petition by a bankrupt to supersede his commission, on the ground that the petitioning creditor had no just debt. It was alleged in the pe tition that the bankrupt (Oldfield) was in prison for penalties to the amount of 4,800/. inflicted by a judgment of the Court of King's Bench : and that the petitioning creditor (Miller) came to him, and offered; for 1,000/., to intercede with a Noble Lord for the remission of the penalties. The bankrupt, haying no money at that time, gave him an I 0 U for the amount, but afterwards gave him the 1,000/. without obtaining the restoration on the previous acknowledgment ; and upon this I 0 U a debt was sworn to against the bankrupt, and a commission issued. The bankrupt prayed that the facts might be examined by the Commissioners. Mr. Miller put in an answer, upon oath, to this statement, in which lie declared that the bankrupt owed him the money for cash advanced to pay duties for wine, and that the acknowledgment had been 'given for the sum so advanced. The letters put in in evidence were declared to be forgeries . : and it was admitted by the Counsel on both sides, that, in the statements of the parties, there were irreconcileable differences, which axed the stamp of guilt somewhere. The VICE-CHANCELLOR thought the only mode to be pursued, where there was such a singular con flict of evidence, was to send all the parties before'a Jury. He directed an issue, therefore, to be tried at the next Surrey Assizes, to determine. Whether the petitioning creditor had a just debt, and that all the parties: should 4e.examiried without reference to any legal disqualification. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, FEB. 27. SIMMONDs V. 7 , ,mGEolti). This was an issue from the Court of Chancery, to try the validity of a commission of bankruptcy. The question was whether it was a conceited com mission. The Jury were of opinion that it was, and found a verdict for the plaintiff.. NB.VMAN V. SOUTH DEVON INSURANCE COMPANY. Mr. Pouocti, for the plaintiff, stated, that this was an action on a policy of insurance on the ship Arcadia, at and from St. John's, Newfoundland, to Halifax and back again. The insurance was for a sum of 150/. on the ship. Verdict for the plaintiff-150/. COURT OF CONINION PLEAS, FEB. 27. RA)t V. lIEsKIN. Mr. Serjeant ANDREWS stated the case. It was an action brought by the plaintiff, a widow engaged in farming in the county of Essex, against the de • fendant, who is a horse-dealer in the same county, for the recovery of 1161., being the difference between the sum for which a grey stallion, intrusted to the defendant for the purpose of sale, had actually been sold, and that for which he had accounted. The stallion had actually sold for 250/., and the defendant said, that he only received 1401. for it. Against this sum he had set up a demand for the keep of the horse and his own agency, by which the sum paid to the plaintiff amounted only to 1201. A Mr, Elwan, to whom the stallion had been sold, proved, that he had paid 2561. for the stallion in question to the defendant. On the part of the defendant, an attempt was made to prove that the stallion had been really sold for 140/. to a man named Reeves; then that the animal was returned to the defendant for the pur pose of sale ; and that it was on that occasion the sale for 2501. took place. This, however, failed altogether; and the Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff. Damages, One Hundred and Sixteen► Pounds—Costs, 40s. OLD BAILEY, FEB. 27. Charles Taylor, a very intelligent-looking boy, only twelve years of age, was capitally indicted for uttering a bill of exchange for 1751. with a forged acceptance, he well knowing the same to have been forged, with intent to defraud Messrs. Ladbrooke and Co. bankers. The prisoner was found Not Guilty, no evi dence being offered, and was discharged from the bar. Ann Myers, a Jewess, 50 years of age, and Daniel Myers, her son (who has absconded), were indicted for forging and uttering, or publishing as true, a bill of exchange for 4881. 2s. 2d., purporting to have been drawn by Ann Myers upon Messrs. Parker, Walker, and Co., and accepted by them, with intent to defraud Jonas Levy. Mr. BRODERICK stated the case. The prosecutor was a clock and watchmaker, in Bevis Marks, St. Mary Axe, and the prisoner was a rag merchant, trading to some extent in Carter -street, Houndsditch, and it was with pleasure he added, she was a person of unquestioned respectability till the present charge was brought against her. The Jury would direct their attention to the charge of uttering only. On the 6th of September, Daniel Myers, the prisoner's *son, called upon the prisoner Levy, and asked him to discount the bill which was the subject of the present indictment. Mr. ,Levy accompanied Daniel, Myers to Parker, Walker, and Co.'s warehouse, and from what the prisoner said was led to believe the bill was genuine ; he, however, did• not rest there, but ac companied Daniel' Myers to his mother's warehouse, and there, in the presence of the prisoner, he had a conversation, from which the Jury were to draw their conclusion, that the prisoner published the bill with a forged acceptance, knowing it to have been forged. Jonas Levy was sworn—He confirmed Mr. Bro derick's opening, and added ; I went -on the 6th of September, with Daniel Myers to the prisoner's warehouse, in Carter-street, Houndsditch, where I saw the prisoner in Daniel's presence; I had the bill in my hand, and I said " Mrs. Myers, your son has brought me this bill to be discounted; it is drawn by yourself on Walker, Parker, and Co., for 488/. 2s. 2d.; is this correct ?" She answered me— " Perfectly so; we sold them a lot of pig-lead for it, and if you wish to be further satisfied, Daniel will throw open the book and show it you." Daniel then opened a book which was on a desk, and turned over to a date in July, and pointed to an entry of a transaction between the prisoner and Walker, Parker, and Co. (The prisoner, pursuant to notice, produced all the books.) The entry corresponded with the date and amount of the bill. I told Daniel Myers I was quite satisfied, and I took him over to my house and discounted the bill for him by giving him ano ther bill, which I held, of Messrs. Parker and Co., which came due next day, and the remainder in cash. I was induced by the representation of the prisoner and her son, to discount the bill, which I afterwards discovered was a forgery. Mr. Justice GAZELLE said, the Counsel for the prosecution had not evidence to carry the case fur ther against the prisoner, and there being great doubt whether the prisoner, who could not read or write, might not have misunderstood the prosecutor when he was speaking about the bill for 4881., es pecially as there had been another transaction relat ing to a bill of Parker and Co. of a different amount ; and under such circumstances, it was very proper that the prosecution should be given up, especially as the prisoner had borne a good character up to this affair, and as it was very possible she had been de ceived by her son, who had absconded. The ac quittal of the prisoner would not clear her son from the charge. The Jury returned a verdict of " Not Gulity." The prisoner was in a state of insensibility several times during the trial; and when conscious of what was passing, she clasped her hands together, and with her eyes closed, appeared to be praying. There was a shout of applause outside the Court on her acquittal being pronounced. Alex. Ephraim Shorter, whose trial was post poned on Saturday, was charged with knowingly uttering a forged 51. Bank of England note, with intent ti defraud the Governor and Company of the Bank of England.—Guilty—Death. AN EXTRAORDINARY TRICK.—Wm. Shelton, a man of elderly appearance, was indicted for stealing, on the 14th December, eight mourning cloaks, value 201. the property of William Haldigrave Parker, an undertaker, in the Whitechapel-road. Verdict— Guilty. Thomas Riordan, a middle-aged man, of respect able appearance, who had been remanded from last Session, was indicted for having unlawfully inter married with Ann Barton, his former wife, Ellen Roberts, being still alive. The prisoner paid his addresses to his first wife at her father's house, in Dublin, in-1799, and her mar riage was solemnized on the 19th of November in that year, according to the rights of the Protestant religion. The prisoner continued to reside at the house of his father-in-law for four months subse quent to the marriage, after which period he left his wife, and came over to this country, 'and in May, 1801, he married his second wife at St. Georges, Hanover-square, with the full sanction of her pa rents. Under the impression that she was his law ful wife, she continued to cohabit with him for the space of twenty-six years, and during that time she bore him the unusual number of twenty children; only three of whom are now 'alive. About five years ago, in consequence of information which Mrs. Riordan's friends received, Mrs. Le Gresse, her sis ter, came to London, anti discovered the place of his residence, and on that occasion the prisoner con sented to allow his first wife half-a-crown a week. This arrangement being accepted, - the prisoner was permitted to enjoy the society of his second wife until three or four months ago, -when the circum stance of his first marriage' came to the lcaowledge of Anne Barton's relations . ,;aird r _they imtumrpately caused him to be taken-into custody. • On the part of the defence, it was sat up that the prisoner was a minor at the time of his first _marri age, and also that the marriage was solemnized with out the consent of his parents. Ws sister likewise deposed to 'the fact, that six months prior to the date of the certificate of the first marriageohe pri soner slept at his father's house, and it was there fore impossible that he could have consummated the marriage. The Jury found the prisoner " Guilty ;" but added, that he was under age at the time of his marriage. • 1111'. ALLEY—Arid doyou say, Gentlemen, that he married without the consent of his parents ? as that will hereafter raise a point for his Lordship's con sideration.—Foreman : We do not say that. RECORDER—But I wish you to add your opinions as to that fact. Do you, or do you not believe, that the prisoner married without the consent of his parents ?--Foreman : We do not think that he was, my Lord. his favour. Ju dTghee p p r r o i s m o i n s e e r d ;was o e t o h n e s n i d r e e r m o o v f e t d l , l e a nd thepoint L raisedearu Learned A circumstance, in its n ature truly tragical, occurred, we understand, in the neighbourhood of Tip= perary a few evenings since:—The daughter of a respect able farmer, a few moments after she had ken married, complained of indisposition, and withdrew to an adjoining room. In a short time soine of her friends, who had gone to enquire after her health, were horror struck on perceiv ing her in the last stage of mortal existence, having burst a blood vessel. She bled profusely from the nose, and was soon a corpse ! annmel MYSTERIOUS OCCURRENCE. About half -past five o'clock in the afternoon of Tuesday last, two men and a woman alighted from one of the Glasgow coaches at the east end of Mait land-street, and went almost immediately into the house of Alexander gtewart, who keeps a spirit-shop and tavern there. They conversed familiarly t,- gether like persons well acquainted, and their ap pearance being decent and respectable, the landlord showed them into a box in a sort of tap-room. One of the parties, however, objected to going into the box, and requested a private room, into which they were accordingly conducted. Here they asked for a gill of rum toddy, which was brought them ; and when it was discussed one of the two men tendered to the landlord a pound note, and received the change minus the price of the liquor. In the mean• while, the other man, upon some trifling pretext, went out, and was absent for about a quarter of an hour. On his return, he called for a gill of rum, a bottle of porteroome raw sugar, and a couple of tumblers, appaolistly with the intention of mulling the porter ; but no hot water was asked for, nor any vessel in which the porter might be heated ; after the lapse of a few minutes, however, he again went out, and as nearly as the landlord can remember, was absent about twenty minutes. At this moment a neighbour of the landlord's happening to call, the latter retired with him to partake of a - dram, and talk over the news, with which they were occupied for a considerable time ; but when their sederunt terminated, Mr. Stewart found that the party above mentioned had had a third gill of rum ; and on re marking to his female servant that they had grown extraordinary quiet, considering that they had so soon begun to sing, she informed him that one of the men and the woman had abruptly quitted the house a few minutes before. The landlord's auspicious were roused, and conceiving them to be thieves, he made a pretext for entering the room into which they had been conducted, and there he found the individual to whom he had given change of the pound note, lean ing against the mantle-piece, in a state of insensibility, having vomited freely among the ashes of the fire place. Mr. Stewart's first impression being that the man was drunk, he endeavoured to awake hint by shaking his person, and calling to him that his companions were gone ; but the only response made was a faint and hollow moan, and all efforts to rouse him 'proved fruitless. The landlord was now seri ously alarmed, and lost no time in calling in the aid of medical men, who promptly attended, but a ll exertions were of no avail. The unfortunate man languished, apparently in great agony, till mid night, when he expired, without having been able to articulate a single word. On searching his per son, his purse was found to have been emptied of its contents, including the change which he had re ceived from Mr. Stewart, and the only article in his possession was a " Ready Reckoner," on which his name was written ; a circumstance which - enabled the landlord to trace out his connexions and place of residence. When this had been done, it was as certained that he had left Bathgate on Tuesday morning, with 181. in his pocket ; and the guard of the Glasgow coach which brought the party to Edinburgh, states that the man and woman - who have acted so extraordinary a part in this distressing occurrence, and who have not yet been heard of, were picked up on the road a little beyond Corstor phine ; but he adds, that they commenced all at once talking so familiarly . . with the person who has so mysteriously met his death, that he supposed them to have been all previously acquainted. We think there can be little doubt that this unfortunate person was poisoned to facilitate the commission of the robbery; and we are also of opinion that lau danum was mixed with the porter, which it so nearly resembles in colour, and given to the destined victim by the wretch who, on one pretext or other. contrived twice to leave the apartment.—Caledonian Mercury. THE MARKETS. COAL MAlt: Beaumont 31.. 6d. Heaton 35 0 Hebbutn Main 34 0 32 6 Killingworth 34 9 Liddell's 31 3 Pontop Windior--... 31 0 Pelaw .:33 0 Shipeote 32 0 Willington 35 0 Walls E ndllew ck e& Co. 36"9, Ditto Brown's 34 - 6 Ditto Clarke and C 0.... 32 6 _ Ditto Carr and Co. 32 6 Ditto Cramlington* 31 6 Ditto Hotspur--.. 34 3 Ditto Northumberland .34 0 Ditto Perkins and Co. 35 6 Ditto 36 • 0 Ships at market, 55N--,SI ,ET.—Feb. Walls End Newroarch... 355. lJ• Beamlsh South !door 29 6 Fawcett Alain 31 6 Walls End Reboil-- 38 0 Walls End Will:AWL—. 38 0 Walls End Lyons— 36, 0 Ditto Stewart's 38 0 Ditto Wear ' 39 0 Cannel (per 44) 0 COwpau _ 31 0 Eldon Main 33 9 Fordel Main 3l 0 _Hartley Llangennath Coal— 41 0 Walls End Old Etherley 33 0 Ellison Trader Walls End Jesmond da maged 33 0. sold, MU--Uosoltl, 18. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE WEEK. Wheat. Barley. I Oats. Beans. Per Quarter. s. to s. S. to a. s. to s. 9. a. 54 66 35 42 35 42 62 Andover --- 53 29 23 Birmingham.-- 48 62 30 34 24 40 62 Bridport 52 56 32 39 26 28 56 Cirencester 48 56 2'7 30 24 26 64 Faringdon. . 48 51 36 as 24 31 46 Guildford . • 44 64 :36 45 2 6 37 58 Henley 5O 66 32 43 26 34 60 Hereford 64 66 4 6 50 .42 • '72 Maidenhead 6 0 68 39 42 28 38 60 Newbury.—» • 40 64 26 30 '35 60 Oakingham Reading 50 69 26 34 20 35 Salisbury 5O 60 29 32 21 26 64 Southampton . 52 56 37 40 so 32 S 4 Stroud --............. 56 60 36 40 32 42 62 Tewkesbury 54 60 40 42 33 38 el) Uxbridge 66 74 30 3-1 24 32 •52 Wantage.---.... 65 '7O 35 45 30 40 62 Warminster ......,• 46 60 28 33 23 26 50 Wind50r................ 48 64 30 34 22 30 6 6 Worcester....--....... 52 64 34 •—• 22 32 ~ CHELTENHAM MA liKET.—Feb. 26. Per Bushel. s. d. to s. d. • Per lb. d. to i• Wheat 6 0 7 0 B ee f 6 6 Barley • CHELTENHAM Per Bushel. s. d. to s. d. Wheat 6 0 7 0 Beef Barley Oats 2 9 3 3 Veal ;.... Beans 5 6 7 0 Lamb.... Pease 5 0 8 0 Pork Hay 4l. 15s. to 5/, —Feb.: 96. lb. d. to a. 6 6 CI 6 d U 0 6 d I•• ss. pet ton. LEW - ES MARKET.—Feb. 126. White Wheat (per quarter) £2 18 0 to £3 1 0 Red ditto 4 2 $ 0 • 2 14 0 Barley Oats, New 1 1 0 1 1 6 Pease 2 0 0 . . -2 4 0 Oil Cake, New BIRTHS. On the 27th inst., the lady of Sir Sandford Grabar o, Bart., of a son. On the 22d inst.,' the lady of Charles Oswiu, E a tp, of 72, Harley-street, of a son. . . . On the 24th inst., at the Admiralty, Mrs—Keith Dow glas, of a daughter. . . On the 26th inst., in Park-place, St. Jameit:s, thttsfq of Thomas Rose, Esq., of :a daughter. aur L - .' Of Ed' On the 25th inst., at Denford House , Berks, the ladY of Co.nilti;eC7hriyu,sEf.: atq: of liec -d kl te e g kl h , l - ute, the lady ward Polhill,. jun., Esq.,' o f a son. • ....- MARRIED. O v n be Rhod es, at of Norwood, $ 4) , 's, Lambeth, by the R Ann Christiana, th e eldest dau g hter of Mr. Joseph Foy, of Southwark. Yesterday, at St. James's Church, Samuel Sande!Rud e Rev. the Gibson, sion it., h at R S h t. od Rogers, o f Bristol, Esq. , to Caroline, youngest daughter of the late Jo hn Williams, Es q ., of Lincoln's I nn. jon DIED. O n the 26th ii,e 83d inst., yaetarlloj his age. laidenhead, Berke, John Lane" ton, Egg" in the On the 26th inst., at Worthing, James, only child of the late Mr. James Briggs, of Leadenhall-street, London. ag ed 5 years and 6 months. On the 27th inst., at Woodbridge, Suffolk, in her 76th year, Elizabeth, widow of the late Thomas Salkeld, Esq. On the 25th inst., Mr. John Tayler, of Hadley, near Barnet, universally respected. On the 25th inst., at Hampstead, Mrs. Ana Farring• ton, aged 75. On the 26th inst., at Wandsworth, Mr. Owen Coy' thorn, aged V. On the 7th of October, at the house of James Joseph Sparrow, Esq. , Bombay, Lieut. George Richardson, o f the 7th Regiment Native Infantry, and second son of Calk T. G. Richardson, Alfred-place, Bedford-square, aged 19. 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