The Sun. — London, England, 1828-01-25 00:00:00

Church, for whose souls she is responsible), not one thousand present thoniselves to the body of Christ, for their spiritual nourishment and growth in grace." It would appear that, while the number of Scotch in London is constantly increasing, the number of church goers is constantly decreasing. " Within the memory of the Reverend Father of this Presbytery, there were ten or twelve places of worship in the Com munion of the Church of Scotland ; which now, al though the number of our countrymen resident here be multiplied four-fold, are diminished to five, and these by no means in a flourishing c ondition." The Presbytery do not, however, a ccuse the absentees of defection to other churches. " How many there may be who have departed from their Mother Church, and fallen away to other Communions, we gre unable to say but we have reason to believe that they are not ma n s . " We proceed to notice another of the statements : " Of the young Scotchmen whom you shall find labouring in every vocation of life, especially in the depaitments of literature and art in this great city, we lament, yet are bold to say, tle.it you shall not find one in a hundred who i,: a regular worshipper or joined member with any Church." These are strange statements, especially when we hear that " there never was a nation so blessed of Heaven with the knowledge of Christ, and the pure administration of his Church, as our nution hath:been ever since the Reformation ;" and that " religion bath so enlarged the faculties of the mind, awakened the sensibilities of the heart, and opened all the avenues of industry ; there bath been such an outpouring of wisdom and understanding upon the people, for the sake of the faithfulness and long-Suffering of the Church, that it may be said of all, but especially of the lower and the middle classes, that being compared with the same orders of the people in any other country under Heaven, they are, as the servants in the parable, entrusted with ten talents compared with the servant entrust ed only with one." No nation, it seems, is so blessed of Heaven with the knowledge of Christ as she Scotch, and nowhere bath religion so enlarged rite faculties of the mind and awakened the sensi bilities of the heart ; and what is the result ? " How fearfully, alas I this righteous law of Providence (to much is given, of them much Should be re quired), hath taken effect upon iur country men, sojournevs in every region, the earth, where they are generally found to be the .e..ost regardless of God's ordinances, the most zocrldly, the most given up to the utter darkness of i!fidelity, has been reported to us by the most cre dible witnesses, who have expressed their astonish ment and dismay to find such excellent knOwledge of Divine truth existing in the minds of men aban doned to all worldliness and wickedness, jut we need no testimony from a distance to convince us bow evil it must be with our brethren, in the hen-1 thenish and outlandish parts of the world, when we are daily the sorrowful witnesses of their unholy ne glect and indecent contempt of the ways of God, their greediness after the gains of this world, and their devotedness unto the works of darkness, in this ;the city of our habitation." So that this best (Well r eligious educations, in the best of all churches, has led to the melancholy result of Scotch in every region of the earth the most regardless of God's ordinances, the most worldly, and the most given up to infidelity. As far as WP, Q.n under stand the reasoning of these Fathers of the Ssoteli Church, it is this : an excellent religious education makes those who receive it more worldly-minded wad irreligious than those who receive a bad educe ;'ion, because they are required to be better than (Idlers in proportion to the excellence of the educa tion, and not being able to be so much better, it is justice that " even what they have should be taken from then;," However, the Reverend Fathers of the Scotch Church in another place speak less mysteriously on this enbject. It seems it is an easy matter to unite faith and ignorance, but exceedingly difficult to unite faith and mental cultivation. This," they say, is the vulnerable side of our Church, which having trampled upon tbn eupersti tions of the sense, and established herself tree; the primitive simplicity of the Rpirit, cannot he pee. , Nailed against but by the natural intellect, in itself se hostile to faith, and in its own strength more proudly entrenched, than is the sense, which still linketh us with the hopeful visible creation yet to be redeemed, while the naked and unbelieving' irettal lect cloth carry us directly to the fellowship of the spirits fallen." This is a strange sort JO rea soning to find used by a Scotch PreThytery in the very heat of the Second Reforma tion. The Catholics, indeed, are in the habit of holding this language; they say—Examine not avhat is an object of faith—the moment you examine you cease to be a Catholic ; and they say, that the :application of intellect to faith is destructive of it; but Presbyterians, ate imagined, were obliged to le always ready to give a reason for the faith that in in them. The following causes of infidelity are as signed as those which affect the Scotch nation in particular. " These are, first, the peculiar character of our Church, which taketh no instruments in the visible, but chiefly or altogether in the invisible, ad dressing herself neither to the eye with any ma ments, nor to the ear with any instruments of music, nor to avarice with any wealthy endowments, nor to ambition with any high places, but to the under standing of truth, and to the feelin g s of righteous ness, and to the sense of duty, and to the lawe of excellence, and every other affection of the invisible mind ; so that on her, and above her, there can ga ther no banks nor barriers of superdition to with st„,:nd that tide of apostate intellect which bath filled all the. channels of thought and feeling, and is served lip to the .lips of the people in all, or almost all, th,p literature of i lhese times. If, indeed, men so disci -line I 'mild p t cleave to the ordinances of the Church, and submit the imagination of their minds to the obedience of faith, then would they be in the hands of God's spirit the very champions to withstand and bear hack the present -Infidel Confederacy, as our fathers did Popery and Arminianism ; but ye have forsaken, oh! ye graceless children of gracious fathers, the ordinances of the church, and the prin ciples of the faith; wherefore Clod hath gireu you up to become an easy prey to the unbelievers. A second cause of this proneness of our countrymen to infidelity, against which we solemnly warn you, is the infidel character with which the most fareDus of our Scottish philosophers and economists, and nioll of science and literature,htive been impressed for al most a century, anti which hath obtained a seat and habitation of a long time in the most famous univer sity and capital city of our nation; and which, for the last thirty years, bath circulated its poison through our far famed Northern Journal and Review.. To these, the ornaments anti the works of unsancti fled and apostate intellect, the eye of our Scottish youth is directed with admiration as the pride of their country, until by much admiring they come to love, anti at length to adopt the infidel opinions which are so attractively set forth. Oh, how the intellect of Scotland is proving her bane. • We, who have continual intercourse with the Scot sigh youth, and who know the character of the wan derers from the character of those whom we leave reclaimed, do solemnly declare our conviction, that, as of those who have devoted themselves to worldly g, ain hardly o ne but is converted into a worldling; SO of those who have addressed themselves to the sciences and the arts, to periodical writings and the weekly or daily Press, scarcely one but is less or more tinctured, if not wholly corrupted with infidelity. • • " Our young mechanics, the most ingenious in their several arts, with our young tradesmen, the most prosperous in their several crafts, are, to an extent which we fear to characterise, possessed by the spirit of infidelity ; and, being men of understanding and calculation, are used by Satan as his most successful agents for diffusing the poison abroad in a thousand unseen directions." These are woeful results from the being blessed with the best Church and the most religious education in the world! However, it is time we took care of ourselves. No wonder that England abounds so much with wickedness and crime, and that her prisons are fast approaching to an equality with her Churches, it a most industrious and intellectual people are suffered to enter, to spread themselves over the land, who " are used by Satan as his most successful agents for diffusing the poison abroad in e thousand unseen directions." And observe, too, the coincidence between the rase of the increase of Scotchmen and the increase of crime. The Reverend Fathers of the Scotch Church tell us, their country men have increased four-fold during the time of one of their body. The Parliamentary Commissioners tell us, that clime has, during the same period, in creased four-fold. Here we have the cause stated on evidence not to be c hallenged. It has been pro posed to exclude the Irish. Exclude the Scotch we say. Let us draw a sanitary cordon along the borders; shut our ports against them. Who knows when the most successful agents of Satan are refused admission, but England will be herself again ! We cannot close these observations without throwing out a hint for the benefit of our northern neighbours. We see what have been the/ woeful effects of culti vating the intellect ; suppose they leave the intellect uncultivated. A Clergyman of the Church of Scot land (a paukie chid) in Sinclair's Statistical Ac count, vol. 15, p. 432, does not scruple to tell his countrymen, that, instead of cultivating the intellect they ought to cherish and cultivate superstition. Are the remains of " superstition and enthusiasm," he says," which do affect the character only in small and unimportant matters; or scepticism, which gives A new and totally different direction to the under standing and the will, least dangerous to our happy establishment in Church and State ?" Accordingly, he recommends that ghosts and witches should be treated with due respect, and that we should not be too hasty to " exchange old prejudices for new and strange doctrines." Reasoning leads to all that is evil.—Morning Chronicle. Should the Duke of Wellington remain at the head of the Ministry (though many say that he will be Prime Minister pro tempore only, for that Mr. Peel will succeed him)—yet should he remain Prime Minister, which we think it likely that he will, not withstanding all the reports put about, probably by those who belong to the Household, the question with respect to the Army would have to be con sidered; for surely the Duke would hardly remain Commander-in-Chief, and be at the same time Prime Minister; that would be giving him two of the greatest powers in the State. To give him such would be unconstitutional, and it is very likely that in such case petitions would pour into Parliament for an alteration ; it is also likely that Parliament would interfere ; and if it did, the Crown, no doubt, would give way, and it would be to its interest. For our part, we have long thought that the Crown was aiming at an inerease . of power. At present, it disposes of the Church patreriege ; and in the in stance before this last, of a change of Ministry, the Crown availed itself of circumstances, and seized the naval power; and soon after the death of the Duke of York, and just before the Duke of Wellington was appointed Commander-in-Chief, we recollect that it was announced that a messenger had been des patched to the Continent, to the Duke of Cambridge, offering him the Commander-in-Chiefship ; but, before the messenger could have arrived, the Duke of Wellington was appointed. We thought at the time that these was a degree of precipitation on the part of the Ministry, end that it was in opposition to the wish of the King. Sport after this the messen ger returned, and a report was ;pared that the Duke of Cambridge had refused the command. This re port, however, we did not believe. The Crown having etieceeded in engrossing to itself the Church patronage, enri. the Navy by the appointMent of the Duke of Clarence, it strikes us that it has its eye also to the Army; and we think that it will take advantage of circumstances, and acquire that power. Now here is the opportunity. " Vaulting ambition" has possessed the Duke of Wellington to accept the Premiership : which being obviously unconstitu tional he holding at the same time the Commander ehip-in-Chief, eye think his Grace will remain in possession of the Peere'erehip, but that public opi nion, backed by the (rowri 4t;.4 the Cabinet, will cause him to resign the command of the itur i y; in which case the Dikes of Cambridge or Cumberland tvt - ,:azlAl become C o mmander-in-Chief, and thus the Crown woold secure to itself the chief powers of the realm—the Churein the Army, the Navy ; and the Lord Chancellor being cagy co during the King's pleasure, the Crown might then 1;,:: 3.'',4,1 to possess tii:: Religious, the Legal, the Military, and Q Neval power a : be State. All this is natural enough, and agreeable to k , A - ,,lpMon reasoning as to man—his love for power. Shoul4 the hickerings between the par ties end in this, and th C,',7,9wn seize the good things for which the parties have been tie tong squab ling, many would say that our Government Into re solved i!..:•,eif into an absolute monarchy, with the semblance, however of freedom. Hence probably would come the quesse;oh, What has brought us to this ? We should reply, i.j) Debt ; which being of so unmanageable a'Siature, on ageoshit of its large hiess, neither party could long encounter the o;eghe of it.—elforaing Herald. FRom A CoRRE,iWNDENT.—ProbabIy the British Government was never ip greater difficulties, arising from official blunders, and the iseees neglect and in attewion of public offices and public ofSicees.. At the Privy Coancil held on Tuesday week at the finyel Lodge, Windsee, there was only one confidential adviser of the King present—viz. the Lord Chan cellor. The others present ca neat time were merely Privy Councillors—viz. the Doi,p arf wellington, Mr. Arbuthnot, Sir Wm. Fremantle, toe PO Steward, kvi4 Sir George Cockburn. At this as.. sembly the Prye ,Councillors advised the King to agree to an Order in en:mei) to put off, or to pro rogue, the Meeting of Parliemem, We are at a lose to know what to call it, the proceediur 6 vas so ex tremely irregular. The regular mode of proroguing, the Parliament eseeuld have been to supersede the former Order in Couneil /when a Royal Proclama tion was issued for the asserniie.2 . ,pf Parliament for the despatch of business) by issuing another Royal Proclama.t;tee to put off the other, or supersede it ,!'er a week ; and theeefore, if the Parliament meet next Tuesday, it will mese., illegally, as the necessary forms have not been obsessed, At the assembling of the late Ministers and their renenessors at the Royal C-odge, Windsor, last Tuesday, eha former to resign their official situations, and the latter to receive the eeas of office from the King as their successors, th.e proceeding necessary to qualify tine new Minister.; en act as such could hot be completed, owing to the same causes. The first neglect rested with the Mar:neje of Lansdowne, az Secretary of State for tine Home Department, who oughee to have summoned a Privy Council, to swear in the new 'Ministers, or have sent orders to the Council Office for that pitenose ; if the Noble Marquis had not himself gained suttieient official knowledge epon the subject, he could cer tainly have sent fo,• bis principal clerk to make in quiries. On account of this neglect very great con fusion existed Yesterday. Mr. ge.el, although virtu ally appointed Secretary - of State for the Home De partment, did not attend at the Office of that P,e partment, owing to his not having been sworn into office : the Right Hon. Gentleman received official communications, and transacted various business as Secretary for the Home Department ; but we un derstood that any documents, which required the signature of a:Secretary of State, the Right Hon. Gentleman sent to be signed by Earl Dudley—the Noble Earl being the Secretary next in rank to the Right Hon. Gentleman. A similar correct diffidence of improperly was observed by Earl llathurst,l who acting i oditl not attend at tine Council Office to transact Earl not having been declared business, tolifetiNieohle Council by the King in Council ; and, as a last instance, at a Cabinet Council yester day, a Nobleman was present who ought not to have been so--viz. Lord Ellenborough, his Lordship not being a Privy Councillor.—lbid. Some of our contemporaries seem to puzzle them selves very much with the difficulties which are about to overtake Ministers at the opening. of Par liament. The Times of yesterday quotes largely from Hatsell, to prove that the two Houses can not open without a Royal Speech, and if a Speech be made from the Throne, then, for certain, it will prove " the fruitful parent of a hundred mote." We think the premises sound, but we demur to :the con • elusion. It is competent, unquestionably, to any Member to speak tt. .a Speech, or from the Speech, or at the Speech ; and when its merits come to be discussed, we have no doubt that we shall have ex hibitions of oratory in abundance, in all these three legitimate forms ; but, in looking to practice, we are not called on to decide the possible, but the pro bable. The plan which Ministers, in compliance with established usage, will adopt, will be to have the Speech read, and, instead of proceeding to the ' consideration of it immediately, to name a day for that purpose. The necessary writs will then be moved for, and the House will adjourn to the day agreed on. Why should it be supposed that the Opposition will object to this mode of pro ceeding ? If they are strong, such captious con duct would be as undignified as it is unprece dented. If they are weak, it would be useless. On one Occasion it will be recollected that Sir F. Burdett moved the Address, and the real Address was, in consequence, moved in the shape of an amendment. The Hon. Baronet may pursue the same course now, but the Ministers will not. They will move the previous question. If that should be lost, there is but one alternative—the Parliament will be dissolved, or the Cabinet must. Setting aside, however, the unfairness of such a mode of defeating a Ministry, were it practicable, which we possess at present no means of judging, we should question its expediency. If cue side steal a march in that way, so may another. The House of Com mons would, under such a system, present not an assemblage of Representatives, endeavouring by dif ferent ways to accomplish the good of their consti tuents, but a couple of perverse factions, seeking by tricks and subterfuges to out-wit each other. The Times admits that the mode, which we have chalked out is the natural way—the rational way it unques tionably is—and yet it is most wcftilly afraid that it will not be followed. Why is it so ? Since no purpose under Heaven can be accomplished or aimed at by departing from precedent, why is it imagined that precedent will be departed from ? If Ministers should do so, the Opposition may think them selves dispensed from that courtesy which they would otherwise, it they regarded their character, be compelled to observe. A debate can be raised on a motion for a new writ as easily, and maintained as long and as vigorously, as upon an Address. Mo tions have been raised ere now on the lighting of the candles. If, therefore, the object of Ministers be to have no tails—disco,sh-,,n there cannot be— Mr. Peel, Mr. Huskisson, and the rest of the Members who have accepted office, be re-elected, they will succeed much better by the ordinary plan than by departing from it. The Times is fond of setting up men of straw, in order to show its skill in bringing them down again. We can conceive no reason else for its laboured r t ttempt to combat an arrangement which, in all probability, was never contemplated. Another contemporary, the Chro nicle, looking to the numerous Ministerial changes tkat have occurred during the year, seems inclined to doubt whether the country might not go on very comfortably without any Ministry at ail. Our con temporary is very facetious on this hint. He says that the revenue does not suffer by the interruptions of the Cabinet, and that the expenditure does not diminish ; and as the only use of a Government is to raise money and spend it, there is no use for any new Cabinet at all. We rather think, how ever, we most have - Ministers, we have been so long accustomed to them, were there no better reason.— Besides, if the expenditure be the same without as with them, we should by all means vote for their continuance—if we must pip© we have a right to in sist OA a dance. Another contemporary attacks the Cabinet, in a graver strain, It informs us that cer- , tain Noblemen have sent a protpt to his Majesty, against the Duke of Wellington's remaining at the head of the Army while he manages the highest Civil Office in the State. It is not that we contem plate even the remotest attempt, on the part of the Noble Duke, to infringe the liberties of the coun try, whose brightest page of glory is summed with his name, that we joill with tli4t contemporary in deprecating the continued nnion z in onepefson, of offices, which we consider to be incompatible, and for the union of which we are not aware of any pre . cedent in our constitutional history. We believe that each and all of our contemporaries, if they would ho nestly spy all their sentiments, are as little suspicious of the honour and patriuti.n f th ‘.Toble Puke as we are ; and were we at all dubious of either, we knew that we have, in the intelligence and temper of the people of Great Britain, a force which would meet and resist any efforts which even he, mighty as at 11 ; is name and authority, could' make to de press or crush ou- ire;; iMOtntions: All fear, there fore, is most idle and most ridiculous ; bib: we must not forget the adage—mania mola et, bonis oriuntur e.remplis. We may be perfectly content to trust the Duke of Wellington with the highest civil and the light military offices in the realm ; but circum stances may elvgi.iige, .pd with the change men may be found, who, if they cannot employ powers to the destruction, may yet use them to the injury, of the country. It seems, therefore, both for the security of the people and for the honour of the Dul:e, whose pure fame the holding of them cannot fail eventually to shade, that a separation should take place as soon as the state or the I;,iinisteri;i'l ar rangements will admit. These the meeting of Par liament has necessarily hastened to their completion sooner than would otherwise have been necessary ; and to iii;p forced acceleration may be fairly attri buted any anomalies 464 :Treplarities which they exhibit.—i\ eic Times. The Meetings of the British Catholic Association have hitherto failed to attract any considerable at 7._':.‘ey have generally been very dull affairs indeed. This . duilne4p we„s however in some degree relieved upon the occasion of the last Gi these Meet ings, which took place a few days ago, by the pre sence and Speech of a Protestant Irish peer—Lord Rcompre—who according to his own confession, greatly at a hfry to make a sensation in the world befitting his high rank, resArted to the whim sical expedient of deliVering a long harangue in tlie narrow Board-room of this obscure Club. Having; qentioned the debut of this Noble Lord, there re remair.3 it; t;:tth no other novelty for us to notice, The arguments and aeelamations in favour of the claims of the Catholics were precise;y the same as those with which our readers have been long fami liar, and which they also know to have been a thou sand ti; .es refuted. We cannot refrain, however, from noticing tit; topics upon which the Noble Lord thought proper to insist; and the public will judge whether the Protestant Patrician acted wisefr in derogating from his rank and his religion, for the purpose merely of attempting to enforce them. The N i o and as his audience was io l‘aNi'Tltef-L willing one, probably not without b d le ou L bt ord a success, to convince them that there was a secret article of the Union with Ireland, by which the English Government promised to concede the claims of the Catholics, upon the condition that they should support that measure, He insisted that the Union was carried by Catholic efforts and Catholic influence, under the stimulus of this compact, and t h e se circumstances he pronounced to be th e corner , ' stone of the Catholic Claims. Now it appears to us if the corner-stone of the Catholic Claims be such as it is here described, that the edifice rest s opol , a support. Whatever hopes may h a ve been fragile ) n held out, or whatever promises made by indi viduals to individuals, it is abundantly clear that no individual or set of individuals could hav e a r i g h t to make secret conditions, or to give a clandestine pledge on behalf of ale British .empire. N o body, we are well assured, was at any time e so in sane as to . assume such a right. Neither it a fact, that the Union was carried by Catholic influence. How, in deed, could it be so ? The Union was determined on by the concurrent decision of the Legislatures of both countries, and in neither of these Legislatures had any Catholic a vote. But we will even go so far as to say that such a compact, had - there been any parties competent to enter into it, on the part of the British Government, would , 1ia.72 been ntietly invalid in a national point of view, simply because the other parties to the Treaty, had, in becoming so, yielded not to national but to sectarian inducements. We may safely conclude then that there never was any such pledge or compact, and if there had, that it would have been vicious in all its parts—equally vicious and invalid from the incompetency of both tin parties, and from the sectarian objects and motives of one of them. The other argument of the Noble Lord is, that the concession of the Ca tholic Claims would lead to the introduction of capital into Ireland, to which the habitual tut , bulency of the country is now the chief if not the only impediment ; and that the introduc tion of capital is all that is required to convert the unemployed and lawless multitudes, who now overspread that country and are daily over flowing upon this, into an industrious, happy, and virtuous population. This argument is old, and it requires only the old answer. The concession of their present claims to the Catholics would not give tranquillity to Ireland. It would make her turbu lence more extensive and inveterate. The ignorant population, now excited by brawling laymen, would then be more violently excited by ambitious Priests. Ile object of obtaining political power for their lay leaders would quickly be succeeded by the more ani mating and dazzling object of restoring the glory and the power of the Catholic Hierarchy.—Morning Post. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION- HOUSE. —Yesterday .1. Kurr, a journey man biscuit-baker, appeared before Mr. Alderman ANSLEY, who presided in the absence of the Loan .11Avoa, to answer the complaint of Mr. Moxhay, of the firm of Fisher and Moxhay, 55, Threadneedle-street, biscuit-bakers. Mr. Moxhay stated that the defendant, who is a Ger man, had been in bja employment some time, that he re• ceived for his service:, lodging, bread, and beer, and I/. 6s. a-week, and that, in consequence of a considerable increase of business latterly, having, amongst other orders, to sup ply a large quantity of biscuits for the East Indies, the complainant was under the necessity of employing two more workmen in addition to the 12 Germans engaged in his establishment. The defendant, who was, Mr. Moxhay said, spokesman fee hia countrymen, objected to the firm engaging the two additional hands without the consent of the twelve, and had threatened to abandon the work if the firm dared to act upon the occasion independently of them. Alderman ANSLEY, upon looking over the Act of Par liament, said, that the offence is punishable with imprison ment, but that the presence of two Magistrates being ne cessary, the case shotild be remanded till next day. A tradesman from Iloundsditch requested permission, for the sake of the public, to expose a plan of passing off bad sovereigns, which was now every day in great practice. A person having a decent appearance stepped into a cheese shop a few hours before in the neighbourhood, and ordered a certain quantity to he sent to No. 3, in the next street, together with change of a sovereign, The messenger was accordingly despatched with the order, but before he reached the house to which he was directed, he met a person who rebuked him for slowness, put a sovereign in his hand, took the change• and the cheese, and walked away. The sovereign proved to be of real birmingliam manufacture. In many cases persons in livery took care to meet the mes sengers, and to take their change, no suspicion, of course, being attached to them. GUILDHALL—Mr. Alderman CaownEe was en gaged for a considerable time yesterday in hearing a dis pute between a journeyman weaver, named Brooks, and his employers, Messrs. Bridges and Campbell, silkmen, in Fri day-street. Brooks's statement was, that he received the materials for 80 yards of French lavender plain silk on the .26th of December, and carried it home finished on the Wednesday. In an early stage of the work, he had complained that the colour was flying, and he was directed to carefully cover it up at night, but in spite of every precaution, the. part that was immediately under course of tnanufackwe when he closed hi 1ahni47 . .4 for the day, was cure to be sensibly affected by the atmosphere in the course of the night. One day, when he was complaining of the unfixed nature of the dye, the clerk turned to the dyer, a Mr. Pearson, then present, and said, " Here's another man finding fault with your colours, which will not remain even while passing through his hands." The clerk from the defelu!,ant; inter.: opted him to ob serve, that he need not say a word more about the colours, as it 'was not intended to charge him with damage for the fading. The colour was as fast as any dying of that shade could be, and it was not, as the workmen supposed, a dye adopted on account of its cheapnesß. The complainant said that DA first the fading of the colour was the chief complaint of the roaster. There were two imperfections which he was willing to allow for,—one of them caused by a spot of water felling from his mouth, and where it fell the colour entirely vanished directly.— When he took the work home, his master stopped 11, for damage, which was one-third of his wages for the whole piece. He thought it hard, where the pay was small, to charge the man with damage at all on such excessive deli cate work. The clerk itatt:d that his ;nawtr was, that the silk had not been properly manufactured. The ALDERMAN inquired whether it was the custom with the masters to send an experienced person, from time to time, to the weavers' habitations, to see that the work was going on properly. It was admitted that this was the practice, and as the defendants' foreman had only once cot - pi:l(l4rd of the JlightucF.s of the fabric, and that com plaint had been followed by amendment; and as there had not been any stipulation or mutual understanding about the number of shoots to the inch, the Alderman decided against the claim set up by the master. The journeyman allowed is. for two yards which had been damaged by him inadvertently. MARLBORO G H-STRBET. —The following curious charge and countercharge came on to be heard before Mr. CONANT, at the sitting of the magistrates, between seven and eight o'clock ou Wednesday evening last : A Mr. Campbell stated that he was quietly sitting at a house where he had occasion to call that evening, in Park- Fdgeware-road, when Mr. Williams came there and inqUired for him; and after making some very ridi culous accusations against him, and conducting himself in a very intemperate manner, he (Mr. Campbell) went out into the street to avoid any altercation in the house, as he had no witness, and was quite alone there. In the street Mr. Williams increased his violence, and calling a con stable, insisted that he should take him (Mr. Campbell) to the watch-house, upon some undefined charge, which nei ther the constable or any one else could understand ; and while they were spealiing upon this point, Mr. Williams, without any provocation, struck him (Mr. Campbell) a severe blow on the side of the head with a stick he car ried, which cut him very much. [Here Mr. Campbell showed the wound on his head, which was not a very slight one.] Mr. Campbell said, that upon this wanton and unprovoked attack, he gave charge of Mr. Williams to the constable ; and the latter, having himself seen the blow given, did not hesitate to conduct Mr. Williams to the watch-house, where, for some reason or other, the lat ter thought proper to enter a very ridiculous charge against him (Mr. Campbell). The constable, who witnessed the assault by Williams, confirmed the complainant's statement to that effect. Mr. Williams did not deny the blow he had given, but he had ample provocation. He begged to state that Mr, Campbell had given a false address, A lady of genteel appearance, who had hitherto been a silent listener to the proceeding, now stepped forward, and sail that she could confirm what Mr. Campbell said as to his residence. Mr. Williams told the Magistrate that this lady was not to be believed, for that she was his wife, and of course an interested witness against him. Mr. CONANT did not know, or want to know, who the lady was ; the assault had bee❑ clearly proved, ar" l Williams must procure bail, 11Ir. Williams said that he should decline offering any evidence, or going into the other case at present, and so the matter ended. Charles Pascoe, bel ong i ng to one of those ga n g s of de predators known by the slan g name of " dragsmen , " —that is, fellows who cut and carry off trunks, &c. from behind ca rriage?,-was cha rge d w i t h stea li n g a valuable cloth cloak from behind the gig of a Mr. Mills, a surgeon, re siding at Twickenham,—The prisoner was fully committed, MARYLEBONE. —Johnnoway, an old beggar, who imposes upon the f ee li ng s and pockets of the benevo lent, by devouring raw cabbage, was charged with creating a mob yesterday morning in Oxford-street. lie appeared at the bar with a savoy under his arm, and lie told Mr. GRIFFITH he was compelled by necessity to eat it. " I do not believe it," said Mr. GRIFFITH. "And I know it to be false," responded the gaoler, " for he has bread and meat in his hat, and lid. in his pocket."— ' " Come," added Mr. GRIFFITH, " now begin, and let us see Low much you can eat of it." Necessity, for the first time, perhaps, compelled John Holloway to eat raw cabbage. His performance was short and amusing, and after he had finished it he was sent to the tread-mill. UNION-HALL.--At the last Surrey Sessions, Mr. Ford, the proprietor of the Rotunda, was convicted in two penalties, of 501. each, for keeping a disorderly house.-- In the course of yesterday Mr. Meymott, the solicitor on behalf of the prosecution instituted against the defendant being in attendance, the MAGISTRATE asked him whether the penalties were yet paid. Mr. Meymott in reply stated, that he had already pledged himself that the fines should not be put in force, on the assurance of the defendant to abate the nuisance. He had ►trictly conformed to his promise, and therefore the parish were satisfied, as also the informer, who claimed no part of the penalties. The MAGISTRATE observed that the penalties should be enforced against the defendant, and directed the chief clerk to make a communication to him to that effect; and in tke event of refusal, that a distress-warrant should be imme diately issued against him. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JAN, 24. THE WINO V. THE ST. CATHERINE ' S nOci,: COMPANY. Mr. ADAM (with whom was Mr. PLATT) appear ed to show cause against a rule obtained in a former term by Mr. John Williams, calling upon the St. Catherine Dock Company to show why a writ of mandamus should not issue, for the purpose of hav ing a precept directed to the Sheriff's Jury to assess the damages sustained by the Turnway Society, by reason of their moorings near the docks having been removed. Lord TENTERDEN—WOUId it not be the better way to refer the question of compensation. At pre sent, I purposely abstain from giving an opinion whether or not the Court has the power of granting a mandamus. Mr. WILLIAMS was willing, on the part of his clients, to let any gentleman at the bar look at the Act of Parliament, and say whether any and what compensation ought to be given. Mr. ADAM could not give any definite answer to this proposal until to-morrow (th►s day), as his client was not in Court. Lord TENTERDEN—Let it stand till to-morrow. THE KING V. FRANCIS YARD GILBERT, ESQ. This was a rule obtained last Term by Mr. Erskine, calling upon the defendant to show cause why a criminal information should not be filed against him for having published, during an election at Boa min, two hand-bills, one signed " Veritas " and the other " Monitor," reflecting upon the character of several persons of great respectability. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL, on the part of the de fendant was instructed to express his client's most unfeigned regret for having attacked the character of the prosecutor. Mr. ERSKINE. said, there were some cases of libel so flagitious as to admit of no apology, and the pre sent was one of those. Lord TENTERDEN said the rule must be made ab solute if it was pressed. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL made no resistance.— Rule absolute. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, JAN. 24. SCALES V. PICKERING AND OTHERS. In this case the plaintiff sought to recover a com pensation from the defendants, who are members of the East London Water 'Works, for a trespass committed by them in laying down pipes for the conveyance of water across :field belonging to the plaintiff, through which there was a narrow footpath. A rule nisi was move for and obtained last term, and the parties this day appeared to show cause, when, the case having been fully argued, The COURT were of opinion that the action was maintainable, and that the rule to set aside the ver dict should be discharged. At one o'clock the LORD CHIEF JUSTICE sat at Nisi Prizis, and disposed of several cases, chiefly undefended ; none of any interest came on. PREROGATIVE COURT, Jaw. 24. ARBIERY AGAINST ASH. This was a question as to the admission of an allegation in a suit to establish the validity of a paper of an extraordinary and unique character, alleged to be the will of Robert Hoadley Ash, D.D., who died in 1826. The paper bore date in 1824, and began, " I promise and swear that I will leave my plate, watch, jewels, and other property"—but no legatee was named. The testator then 44 promised" and 44 swore" that he would leave his property to a Mrs. Arbery, the wife of a person who kept a public house, but who had been since in confinement for debt. The allegation, which set up this paper as a testamentary instrument, was opposed by Miss Ash, tile daughter of the deceased, on the ground that the paper was not dispositive it spoke only of what the writer would do ; and if otherwise, it was felo de se, showing insanity or folly upon the face of it. The COURT admi►ted the allegation. lIARFOR.D JONES BRYDGES, BART. V. KING. This was a suit to decide the validity of an al leged codicil, executed by Mrs. Mary Brydges, spin ster, of Winterbourne, near Bristol, who died the 4th of February, 1826, at the age of 75, in posses sion of very large property. Her personal estate amounted to nearly 60,0001., and she was possessed of real estates in Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, and Gloucestershire, of considerable value. A will, dated the 19th of March, 1823, and a codicil, dated the 15th of April, 1825, had been admitted to probate by consent, and 18,0001. had been invested in the hands of trustees, to abide the event of this suit. By these instruments, the great bulk of the property was left to Sir Harford Jones, Bart. (who afterwards took the additional surname of Brydges), a cousin, and the nearest relative of the deceased, wbo was nominated therein executor, and residuary legatee: and in the codicil he was left a specific legacy of 35,0001. The codicil in dispute bore date the 25th of January, 1826, a few days only previous to the death of the testatrix. It contained a legacy n of 10,000/. to Miss Sarah King (t he party in the suit), who had been a companion to the testa trix, and attended her in her last illne ss, which was of a painful and distressing kind ; another legacy of 1,0001. to Mr. John Hay, her medical attendant, and 1,5001. to Thomas Gay, a " servant of all work," and smaller legacies to two relations of Miss King. To secure suflicient fun& for the payment of these legacies, the codicil of April, 1825, was re voked, and the amount of the specific legacy to r H. Jones was reduced to 20,000/. hrumen Si t which was drawn up by one and attested by an other of Miss King's relations, it was alleged, had been concocted by the parties benefitted thereby, the te:tatrix having been for some time previous to its date confined to her bed, and in such a state of mind as to render her incapable of making a dispo sition of her property. After the evidence had been read, The remainder of the case was postponed till next Court day. the susceptibility of SUSCEPTIBILITY OF SERPENTS TO MUSIC. —Professor oifnalLiserwt:tharkin .:fonograjia de Ser- pentl di Roma, &c. relates the following e xperiment made serpents to music. During the heat o f noon-da y he put into a large box s e v era l individuals of the nine s pecies of nni coluber, )au, swhichoun:is o inarfeafnouonrdgan produced a general commo ti on the vicinity of Rome, and into another box the different specie s of vipers. The clear, har monious the non-venomous species ef coluber, who moved about in different directions in the box, and crawled up on its sides. The Coluber Elaphis occasionally stopped, and then moved slowly in the direction of the instrument 4 the Colubei .Esculapii (of Sitaw) stood with one half of its body raised upright, whilst the Coluber ttrovivens alone con tinned in a state of constant restlessness, and in motion ; the other species of coluber, with the vipers, remained un affected by the music. These experiments were repeated several times, and invariably with the same results. Pro fessor AlETAxA,:therefere, concludes that it may be inferred that the Coluber Elaphi and the Coluber ./Dculapii (of SHAW) might be tamed by music; that otters, as the Coluber Atrovivens, are irritated or e xcited thereby; and lastly, that vipers are unsusceptible of its influence.— London Medical Gazette, Jan. 19. - PUBLIC SALES, J.4.N. 24. BY MR. ROBINS, OF WARWICK HOUSE, AT GARRAWA Y'S. C/IFI.SFA.—A Leasehold ERtate, producing 101/. 10s. per annum, comprising a commodious dwelling-house, in Cadogan-place, let at a rent of 1151. per annum ; held for 771 years, from 1806, at a ground-rent of 131.-104.--- Knocked down at 1,550/. BY MR. BARTON. WATERLOO-ROAD.--A well built House, No. Stil, Little Henry-street, Waterloo-road, containing five good room/ and kitchen, let at 24/., held on lease for 90 year., from 1826, at a ground rent of 41. 10e.--120/. Two ditto, ditto, No. SA and 40, producing 481. per annum, held for the same term, at a ground rent of 13/. is.-290/. A ditto, ditto, No. 41, presumed to be worth 241. per annum, held for the same term, at a ground rent of 61. 12s. 6d.-1351. A well built House and Shop, adjoining the above, held for a term of 90 years, from 1826, at a ground rent of 61• 12s. 6d.--145/. BY MR. ROBINS, OF COVENT-GARDEN, AT THE MART. STRATFORD-PLACE.-An elegant and capacious Resi dence, situate on the west side of the square in Stratford place, was brousht to the' hammer of George Robins this day ; it was described as being replete with every passible convenience, and as an eligible situation for the residence of a family of respectability. The premises are held fee a term of hl years, from Christmas, 1813, subject to a ground rent of 28/. MANCHESTER.SQU A RE.-An excellent double CAA, b House and Stabling for six horses, with other necessary offices, situate in Jacob's Mews, Charles-street, Mancheeter square, held for a term of 921- years, from Christmas, 1792, at a ground rent of 71. 10s.-4001. SHARES IN DRURY-LANE THEATRE.-._A Renter's Share in the Theatre Royal Drury-lane, entitling the purchaser to an inconie of Is. 3d. per night, and also a free admission, transferable every season ; admitted every night of per formance, not excepting Oratorios, Benefits, Bse.-230 gs Five 100/. Shares in the same Theatre, being J o int Stock or Proprietors' Shares.--231. 10s. per share. A 100/. Share, with a nomination fur any one peraoe, free for life.--60 guineas. A DEBENTURE.I—A debenture for 5001. granted by the Right Honourable Lord Foley to secure such sum, with interest, at the rate of five per cent., secured upon unsettled Freehold Estates in the Counties of Worcester and Salop; the debenture is transferable, by special indorsement, like bills of Exchange.-455 guineas. BY MR. JOHN KING. A Policy of Assurance on the Life of a Lady, 64 yearn of age, for 6001., in the Equitable Office, together with the subsequent accumulations thereon, and for which a pre mium of 24/. 15s. 6d. is annually paid.-4101. MEETINGS OF CREDITORS. COUNTRY DlARY.—Motinav, JAN. 28. Bennett and ( 0., Kidderminster—White Hart, Hartlebury 10 Bottomley, J., Delph—Ramsden Arms, Huddersfield IY Buck, J., Norwich—White Lien, Norwi c h Procter, J. and Co., Leeds—Court-house, Leeds Roby, IL, Leamington Priors—Bath Hotel, Leamington Priors - ll Wilson, J., Coventry—Craven Arms, Coventry Winkles, 'F., Coventry—Craven Arms, Coventry fi IY-SOLVENTS APPLYING TO BE DISCHARGED, Petitions to be heard at Pottugal.street. Lincoln's Inn Field*. Jan. 2.0, at Nine o'clock. Frith, T., Prujean-square, Old Bailey, plumber Frosdick, H., Yarmouth, lime-burner Hales, 8., Old Kent-road, engineer Hards, G., Oxford, victualler Hyde, G., Old Windsor, tailor and draper King, A., Waltham-Abbey, corn-f ac t or Morgan, M., Kennington-lane boarding-schoot-keeper Pennington, T., Bolton-le-Moors, bookkeeper Price, 'l'., Birmingham, engraver Undershell, J., Doctors' Commons, factor Webster. J., Hoxton, dyer and scowerer Whitfield, J., Denshaw, Saddleworth, merchant Woods, J., Kingston-upon-Thames, coal-dealer Wood, R., and J., Kirkman, Edgely, book-keepet- THE MARKETS. SOUTHALL MARKET.—Jan. 23. This day's supply having been rather limited, and the buyers in attendance numerous, each kind of meat com manded a moderately brisk sale, at the following pricee per stone of Sib. to sink the offals Beef 4s. Od. to ss• Od. I Veal •10d. to 68. 1)0. Mutton 310 410 Pork 8 510 The foregoing quotations are, Beef 4d., and Mutton 2d. per stone higher than on this day se'nnight ; in prices of Veal and Pork no alteration. Nearly all the stock was sold. LEWES II ARKET.—Jan. 421. Bey( 4s. Od. to 4,1. ad. Vea1..,..,.,,,,.., Os. Od. to Os. Ode. Mutton 4 2 4 10 I 4 4 4 About an average time of year supply, wad a dull trade. RUMIORD M A ItK ET.—Jan. 23. s. d, tot. d. s. d. to s. 3.. Beef 3lO 4 6 Veal Mutton 110 4 8 Pork 4 6 5 6 suckling Calves from 14s. to 405.; Quarter old PigslOs to 16s. each, supply rather limited, and trade dull. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE WEEk. Wheat. Barley. Per . Quarter. Blandford —.......... Brigg Chard s. to s. 58 45 50 54 56 (36 50 56 40 55 44 48 42 58 49 55 55 . 61 40 50 50 60 S. to 9. 20 25 Huntingdon - Long Sutton...._... Louth . Newark Nottingham -.-- Peterboroitgh -- Plymouth ... Pont et ract—....— , ... Sleaford .-.......-,-.-- Uppiugh am W iibech 30 32 26 30 2S 34 23 37 33 42 28 32 26 30 49 53 50 54 40 M 26 30 a. to a. 23 IS 25 18 24 30 22 24 17 24 14 20 16 24 18 31 30 40 24 90 90 22 - 28 19 20 90 38 20 24 s. to s. - 47 42 4( —33 45 .4K 43 44 37 39' 38 4Y 36 40 41 42 M, 59 -49 40 44 at 75. 96 fitt 7---MANCHESTER SMITLIFIELD.—Jan. 23. At per lb, sinking the oft:J. 2,587 50. to Id. 13 qd. to 1 ,1, 1652 Cattle I 4 (.4 212 Pigs 41 (1 1 r ditto; ian . T l9 l:rnip:- 12no. 1 : 1 A N N ev, C , H di E tt S o " , l'E: a A n I d A os itK .L E: Potatoes, 4s. Od., 4s. 3d., and 6.5. Od. per load of 12 score and ss. Skl., ss. Od. and ss. 3d. per load of 16 pecks ; Onions, 12s. Odd ~ 13s. hl., and 13s. per 12 score. N MARK ANC N I-1 0 E . ST d E . R VAR I . Thro , tle Twist, 20 101 to 11 30 l2 124 40 15 16 'Mule Cop , NlulkopTwisti „,11 12 Weft— for warp 4D,.14 15 T.—Jan. 22. 30 ---.. 10 to 101 .40 .....—.- 11 12 50 --- 11 15 60 15 11$ ........., 19 2& SO 22 24 10 0 29 :10 .120 34 3 6 14 ---.8 96 18 9 9f 24 10 105 Lij :17 60 .19 70 ..22 60 -26 24 I Weft from 28 waste BIRTHS. On the 23d instant, at the Priory, Downham Market, the lady of the Bev. Edward Bellamy, of a son. On the 23d instant, Lady Alice Peel, of a son. On the 21 st instant, a t Goldsbro' Hall, Lady L o uisa; Laseelles of , a son. W. Scott, eldest son of James Scott, Duke of Gloucester, IGEepor.ge's, Bloomsbury, An" On the 24th instant, at St. George's, Ilanover-aquarr► by the Rev. T. Snail, Chaplain to his Royal Higlin es ,' the drew Wood Esq., of Rothertield-park, Hants, to Lucy, daughter of the d aug hter of the late 'William Ashmore, Esq.' Rev. Sir Samuel Clarke Jervoise, Bart,, of Idswerth, in the sam : e ra. R ev. of Alexander Poole, 8.A., t o Eliza' E sq. ' M.D., of Ipswich, Suffolk, to Anne, e ldest e place• On t h e 24th instant, at Hackney, by the Re v . ElwarJ o li f i t s h h e , eldest daughter William Tudor, Re q,, q• , of Homerton• Wthoode 24uthaixtarli:aAtRstR. DIED. Th On instant, athisho a u se, fter a Great f s ew tanru lu o o urs' aged 6 4. Mr. On the 24th instant, Laura Mary, the infant daughter 0( Nfr. Henry Bateman, 3, King-street, Finsbury. On the 23d instant, Mrs. Mary Fouch, aged so, relict of the late Mr. William Fouch, of Nortonfalgate. On the 23d instant, Mary, wife of Mr. Charles Char num, of Cornhill, in the 73d year of her age. On the 16th inst., after a few days' illness, aged 6 4 ' Mr. Joseph Hardy, of Portland street, Manchester, for tnerly of Sheffield. At Ashmans, near Beccles, Joseph Cotton, Es q . aged PRINTED a s n ty d N P o u F l lrs, usHE N D o. b ynt Strand..N G, at stle 3,1 c 1101:11i'l the RC) Majesty'; 1765, 1 who ha. Papers ti %Notic e will con Mosb A ) Aud it the Boui Affidavit pedite th TH' of the TJ th e SUP the sever . Carts for the 15th Condition tive Dist cation at Sealed for Wate Twelve c !kietropol KE K- 7 111.1 the Eii;t: ibis LEI of CARL TARY ai Print This d ay L°' "'ll5 Printed FILE pads in .1% rriucipal _ "'flute( !Ilford. I hi, d ay he r g Putket rice 1 }if Thi3 cation s fr f4518 Y , r 4 racy of it 'n a alma cooeize az Fi MR' Politicttl shing 'give two , Vubliib e d tir o t ud ut the ; shall au "amentar , nitich tereat, di: lithe& I by th e Cl. This da Y fIRP NJ Print ec Marsh a l l Who hay : Pieces the hes Pric e r TALE 'NM th e Littlejohn it T he, k.,CleatiOn :art inscri 4.tcr rlpt a ! ion of it trig b een Fornpilati itt the h o Anchor's Abt ------ Now TH' TION, for he Tw( leparatel: Printe garde n ; g"' ; an Th e N it Daunt] Th e /.1, V OLTA Tioarst, abj ect a ; Plan, in t'on, thjj vu the si boards. A NEI , 101 . 8,, , A BEI . vol. 8,, itn 1-enueetk The I resitiou, prO uet , t h e atket a L o , ticlo a. I)ls.tabes Cure by It ernb Publi3hei LEEDS CORN MARKET.—Jan. There was but a middling supply of Grain to-day; for Wheat and Barley of good quality rather higher price , * were demanded, but the buyers purchased sparingly at any advance, and up to the close of the market not much business done. In Oats and Shelling there was little do ing, and prices nominnally the same. Beans were in rev,: limited demand at last Tuesday's quotations. R apesee d full as dear. Wheat, Norfolk and Suffolk, fOlb. 503. to 58s. York. and Lincoln. 60Ib. 4tis. to 565. Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk .......................... 335. to 365. Yorkshire and Lincolnshire to 321. Grinding 28s. to 295. Beams 63lb. ................... 44s to Ms. Oats, Potatoe ....................^........................... 328. to 346. r s Foreign lid, to 12d. English I2d. to 13d. per st. Shelling 2Bs. to 28s. per load. Rapeseed, English, 241. to 261. Foreign, —l. to —l. per last. f U ..7