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This comes with a ver y b ad grace from them, as it is notorious that the P a rty, favourable to emancipation had n ot more , i lolent opponents than the Clergy. I took much Pains and trouble in getting vario us p etitions to ' the Legislature signed, and the most un- Co urteous refusals were those of the C l e r gy . I would recommend, whenever a Clergyman again co rnes forward publicly, and makes such a boast, t hat he should be asked if ever he signed a peti tion in favour of emancipation, or whether he in any Way exerted himself to procure the rep eal of the Slavery-laws-- as it is notorious that the "ante of not one in a hundred of the whole Clergy i l to be found in the petitions presented to Par -I,iainent, and that ninety-nine out of every hun dred, who were asked to sign such petitions , ely a n d con t em ptuously refused to do so; and that emancipation was carried in opposition to t heir wishes and exertions. A STRANGE STORY. On Wednesday . last the Governor of Westminster Bride lell having reason to believe that a prisoner who was ad mitted under the name of " George White," was a ! r atan, instituted an inquiry, which confirmed bis suspi e:°l9. The girl, who is about eighteen years of a g e, after various attempts on the part of the Governor to get an e x t Planation, made a statement, of which the following is toe substance : She admitted that the name of " White" was assumed, and said she was an orphan, and had always lived with her family and aunt in Sussex, who are a highly respectable in that county. But, apparently fearful of publi city, she resolutely declined to mention their name or t esilencc. They were on terms of intimacy with a family at som a distance off, and her uncle's footman was in the 1 ' 41 )4 of conveying her occasionally there and back, unac eftpanie,i by any of the members of the family. This led to 44 intimacy between them, and a short time after theaervant üb"anddenly disappeared. Dreading detection and exposure, put on a suit of clothes belonging to her brother, who ut at Cambridge, studying for the Church, and with a "till sum of about 111., she secretly quitted her uncle's ,' e sidence, and went to Chihester about six months since. 'he remained at a lodging- c house some time. and on find ' ,a R her money exoended, parted with her clothes by the a dvice of the lodging-house -keeper, and, buying a a r noek-frock, the dress of a common farm-labourer Sussex, she left Chichester and begged her way `') London. Her adventures in the metropolis were e xtraordinary. Amongst other places, she hal been e mployed in the work-rooms of the Mendicity tctiety, and from the 7th to -15'h of March, in the work ouse of the Kensington Union, where she was eight days i l lider medical treatment all the time, being supposed to be a man, and her real sex remaining undiscovered. She d ad at times endured the greatest privations, and was ulti 1114tely committed from Marlborough-street Police Court 14 a rogue and vagabond, under a sentence of six weeks confinem e nt and hard labour in the Westminster Bridewell. Inquiry was made by Mr. Tracey, the Governor, at t he workhouse of the Kensington Union yesterday, and t j'at part of her story is found to be correct. She has uoen cross-examined repeatedly, but her statement con turtles to be the same. _ . M. Tracey has written to several gentlemen in Sussex for the purpose of finding out her relations. THE LATE MURDER AT CUR RAGHMORE. On Saturday last James Carroll, Esq., Coroner, held an inqui.ition on the hod es of Timothy Tierney and John Gleeson, whose murder we but briefly noticed in our last, 111 ", 0 which occurred on Friday morning, at the hour of ten ?Clo c k, at a small village called Curraghmore, on the b orders of the Shannon, about seven miles from Nenagh. The scene of this melancholy tragedy is one of the most beautiful and romantic, and close to the demesne of Castle. town. Tierney, who was about thirty-five years of age, ' 443 a very comfortable farmer, possessing about thirty , "c acres of land. He was married, and has left a young widow and fire helpless children to mourn his untimely end. The other (John Gleeson) was in e qually comfortable circumstances, having upwards V forty acres of land, and has left an only son. what makes the fate of the fot mer more melan choly i s , that his life was sacrificed by the hands of his own brothers-in-law, his widow being the sister of the murderers. Both of the unfortunate men were Ma `aeAites. Patrick Fury, examined—Vas in a field at fork on Friday morning between the hours of eight and Witness and a man named Thomas Needham were leani ng oats. Tierney and John Needham then had tu nic dispute about the grass. Soon after Wi lliam Ne e d. barn came into the park, and told Tierney that he would sot allow anything belonging to him on the grass. Tier t.cY said he would put them on the grass i n spite (f him. co h o f them then began to argue, and took off coats to !'ght. Tierney took up the hook and commenced shout. At this time John Glceson came down and said, If it be fight you want, you'll get enough ;" John Glee tea threw off his coat. John Needham, sen., and John : I ,cedham, jun., James Denis and William Needham were `were. Witness held John, sen., and John, jun. Did not ace e ither stick or stone with them. Whilst witness was ibolding the two Johns, deceased (John Gleeson) fell at nis feet. Upon looking down he saw his head covered With blood. Witness, upon seeing Gleeson fall, said, " Oh, ye villains, ye'vc murdered the man." Thought to raise him, but could not. lie was unable to speak ; assisted him home. Tierney was able to walk by him- I Self, Witness then went for the priest and the doctor. Can't say if it was from the effects of the blows wh ex they received on that day, that they died. To the best of his belief it was. John Ryan examined—Was in the employ- Inent of Tierney ; was threshiug for him on the day in question. Went out when he heard the noise. Old Need ham was arguing with Tierney. They were arguing about the grass of sheep. Needham said it he put his sheep there he would turn them out. James, Denis, and William Needham had stones in their hands. Saw Tim Tier. ney and Gleeson knocked down by the three Needharns. Paddy Fury cried out that the man was killed. Witness helped to raise up Gleeson, and bring him home. Tier. ney walked home. They lived fer about five or six hours afterwards. Dr. Hobbs, of Borrisokane, deposed that he ,examined the bodies of the deceased men. John Glecson had an extensive wound of the scalp, with a fracture of the inferior postern angles of the parietal bones, and the superior postern of the occipital bone, with a lar ge extravasation of blood on the surface of the brain ; John Gleeson had a fracture on the left parietal bone, to- Rether with extravasation of blood ; the fracture of Tierney had the appearance as if it was caused by a bullet. The Jury brought in the following verdict :—‘, That Timothy licrney came by his death in consequence of a blow of a stone inflicted by Denis Needham; and MI it John Gleeson came by his death in consequence of a blow of a stone in flicted by James Needham ; which wounds were given Whilst the parties were engaged in a dispute about some grass land." The police of Borrisokane visited the scene of outrage the next day, but the Needh ims had fled. There was much apprehension that the families of both parties Would meet with injury front the excited feelings of the aVve;al friends and relatives of each. —Nenagh Guardian. THE CORN-LA NI S. Several excellent speeches were delivered at the meeting held in Clayton-square on Monday last, to pe tition the Legislature for the repeal of the Corn-laws. Sir Joshua Walwsley showed how closely dependent not merely the comfort and welfare of the working Classes, but our very existence as a great and inde- Pendent nation, is upon the removal of the iniquitous tot on food, and of the numerous impolitic restrictions 4 n commerce, which fetter the industry of the country, and render its vast resources comparatively unavailing. Mr. Thornely delivered a statesman-like address, the more valuable as it came from a practical man, long e ngaged in commerce, and thoroughly conversant with all its principles and details. Other gentlemen spoke well, and to the purpose, but the speeches of the day Were decidedly those of Mr. Duffy, an operative tailor, and Robert Jones, a labouring man. Honest Ro ' bent speaks feelingly, and, therefore, well. He ap peals to his own experience and that of his fellow- Workmen, and that appeal is quite unanswerable. In 1835 he got good wages, and could then ob liAin albs, of bread for the shilling. In 1837 the 'billi ng loaf was only 4i lbs., and instead of saving his wages raised, as they ought to have been, if there were any thing in the assertion of the mo nopolists that wages are dependent on the price of food, he had to submit to a reduction of two shillings a week; 1 O that he got not only less food for his money , but had l est, money to buy it with. " He always looked," said " to what his wife fetched home from market on the Saturday right ; and what would be the use of his having Si. a week it it would not fill her basket ?" This 14 hitting the right nail on the bead. The question is tint what is the nominal rate of wages, but what will .°N, fill the basket, cni er the back, and educate the mind ; the practical experience of such men as Robert 'Ones o n these poin:s is worth a bushel of theories. Let Ihe working classes only take the trouble to think— et them only, like Robert Jones, consider their own ex perience, with the inferences to which it leads, and they W ill no longer submit to the delusion which has been Practised u p on them. We are happy in the belief that t his enli g ht enmen t o f the minds of the working classes i ` in progress, fur we are assured that, whenever that 15 tOce9a is effected, the doom of the Corn-laws, and of all other restrictions on the industry of man and the free `'i")Yrnent of the bounties of Heaven, is sealed at once a nd for ever.—Liverpool _Mercury. P RIVATE BILLS, &c.—A list of the petitions 'in' private bills and the progress therein in the present 'eisio n ii now before us, from which it appears that the n umber of private bills on which petitions have been pre te.in,l", amounts to ;133 cr thereabouts. Out of these 13 have: already received the Royal assent, and le!er f te others aro in an advanced state of prog!Tss. "s al e bills embrace almost every thaeription of :private Miter pr i 3e. HURRA hip, hurra 1" originated the crusades, it being a corruption of H. E. P. tit , ic t:,lB of " Rierosolyrna est perdita" (Jerusalem is lost) , e motto on the banner of Peter the Hermit, whose fol ,ovfers hunted the Jews down with the cry of Hip, hip, iittrra, COURT OF SEWERS FOR WEST MINSTER AND PART OF MIDDLESEX. A Court of Sewers for the City and Liberties of West minster, and part of the county of Middlesex, was yester day held at the Commissioners' Offices,Greek-street, Soho. Thomas Levetton Donaldson, Esq. in the chair. The minutes of the proceedings of the Courts held on the 2d and 6th instant having been read and confirmed, Mr, LESLIE asked why the report of the Solicitors as to the opinion of Sir W. Horne and Sir John Campbell, taken in 1833, had not been printed and circulated among the Commissioners, according to the order of the last Court. The CLERK said that in consequence of the interven tion of the Easter holidays they could not get the printers to work. On the motion of the CHAIRMAN a Special Court was ordered to be held on Friday next, to examine candidates for the office of collector. He thought, also, that the rate of poundage might be lowered to sixpence for the nearer disti lets, and should, therefot e, give notice that on that occasion he should bring forward a motion to that effect. The Collectors then made their usual report; of cash received and paid to the Trc asurer, and of the proceedings taken on warrants and summonses. The CLERK reported on the state of the Collector's ac count, and on the money in the hands of the Treasurer. Various payments were ordered to be made. The COURT having disposed of a great deal of routine business, proceeded to the next business, which was to sign a warrant cf distress against the Churchwardens for the Church of St. Martin-in-the-fields, ordered at the last Court to be prepared by the solicitors. The CI.ERK rc ad a report from the Solicitors, stating that they had settled the warrant with Mr. Hoggins, the counsel, who had written certain remarks for the information of the Court. Mr. LESLIE had understood that the question was finally settled at the last Court-day, and that no further discus sion was to take place upon it. Now Mr. Smith had taken upon himself to consult counsel on the subject, and he had written certain remarks which were now to be read, and might, perchance, give rise to discussion. Mr. A'BECKETT said that Mr. Smith was certainly right in consulting counsel on such a case as this. The CHAIRMAN said that the order of the Court authoe rised the Solicitor to consult counsel. The CLERK then read the opinion of Mr. Hoggins who stated that he hati drawn up the warrant to the best of his ability, but that he could not advise the Commis sioners to place a distress in the churches, and that if they were beat in a Court of law on the question they would be personally liable for the costs. The question which would be raised before a Court of law would be as to whether the occupier on the land was liable, but he doubted whether in point of law the Churchwardens could be considered as occupiers of the church. The warrant was then read. Mr. T. DYER moved that the opinion of Mr. Higgins be printed and circulated among the, Commissioners, which was agreed to. Mr. J. WHITE said the case of Ambassadors appeared appeared to be perfectly analagous to the present case. The houses of Ambassadors had always been assessed, and there had been no means of enforcing the assessment. He therefore asked what was the situation in which they were with regard to the houses:of Ambassadors. The CLERK was not aware of any Ambassadors' houses being exempt from sates at the present moment. Mr. J. WHITE thought the Jury were correct in bringing the churches before the Court. He would sign the war rant notwithstanding the opinion of Mr. Hoggins, so strongly was he convinced that these churches were liable. The CHAIRMAN would place the warrant upon the table, and those who wished to sign it might do so. Captain BAGCE understood the Chairman had pledged himself the warrant would be signed. The CHAIRMAN had not done so he had only said that he supposed the nine gentlemen who had voted for the amendment would sigu the warrant, and he had caused them to be written to. Mr. BRANSCOMBE, as one of the nine, would not sign it after Mr. Hoggins' opinion. Mr. T. DYER thought the warrant should be tendered to each of the nine. Mr. REocn was not one of the nine, but he protested against the adoption of so personal a course ; after the opinion of Mr. Hoggins he should not sign it ; but he was still convinced that churches were liable, and thought they ought to go to the Legislature to obtain the power of doing their duty. Sir G. FARRANT would sign the warrant if it were a perfectly legal one ; but, doubting that, he would not thrust his hand into the fire. He would move that the solicitors be directed to draw up a statement, stating the difficulties in the way of enforcing the sewers'-rates against churches, and that the Chairman be requested to lay the same before Lord Normanby, and to apply tor the intro duction of a clause into the New Drainage Bill, giving the Commissioners powers to enforce the rate. Mr. T. DYER thought that motion could not be brough' forward without notice. The CHAIRMAN agreed with Mr. Thistleton Dyer, and Sir George Farrant gave notice accordingly The CLERK repotted that two Commissioners only had signed the warrant. Mr. LESLIE wished to know whether they intended to repeal the oraer of the last Court, which was, that the warrant should be signed. There was to be no Nailer discussion on the subject, and yet they were now going into it. If they could not get any Commissioner to sign it that was another matter. Sir J. S. LILLIE thought that Sir George Farrant's motion might be entertained without notice. For himself he was as ready to sign it as he had been the other day, but his signing alone would not do, there must be five others. He thought they were at liberty then to entertain any motion likely to get them out of their difficulty. He was not to be induced by the fear of a white sheet to show a white feather. He supported Sir George Farrant's resolution, and could see no benefit from the postponement. Mr. LESLIE said that: according to Mr. Hoggins' opi nion the signing the warrant would try the question as to whether the property or the person were chargeable. Why that was the very question they wanted to try, and those who were of opinion that the property was liable ought to sign he warrant. Captain BAGUE rose to order. There was no question before the Court. The CHAIRMAN said the motion of Sir George Farrant had been seconded by Mr. J. White. It was contrary to practice to have such a motion put without notice ; but it would be for the Court to decide whether, under the emergency of the case, the motion might not be discussed without notice. Sir J. S. Liters would move that the resolution of the last Court, as to signing the warrant, and the opinion of Mr. Hoggins, should be laid before Lord Normanby. Mr. Bouveirte said that it could not be expected that the Secretary of State would take up the cudgels in fa vour of the crude notions of the Ccurt. They were, in his opinion, only putting money into the pockets of law) ers without any benefit to the public, and he thought no Secretary of State would, or ought, to give the Com missioners additional powers. Mr. T. DYER should oppose both motions, for the rea sons given by Mr. Bouveris. They had agreed to give time to certain parishes to consider the question; now they were attempting by a side-wind to legislate upon the sub ject. No Home Secretary could introduce a clause affect ing matters already the subject of litigation. He hoped the Court would allow the question to be put at rest, and that it would never be put into the power of the Chairman to say that there were nine gentlemen who had refused to sign the warrant alter voting for its being issued. He could not sign it, because he believed that their proceed ings had been from beginning to end illegal. There had been some proceedings in regard to the Palaces ; he should like to know the position in which they stood in reference to those proceeding=, as that might throw some light on the subject. He should like to know also what steps had been adopted with regard to the other parishes. He should like to know whether the other parishes had agreed to abide by the decision in the St. Martin's case. The CHAIRMAN said that at the last Court it had been understood that the case of St. Martin's Church should be the test, and that proceedings in the other cases should be suspended until after the case of St. Martin'e should be decided. Mr. SMITH said that he had been yesterday to the Crown-office to know if it was possible to urge on the case of Kensington Palace, but he had been informed that there were no means of urging on the Crown. They had pleaded to the criminal information last term as early as they could, and the Crown had not since taken any further steps. Mr. T. DYER asked whether it had not been agreed to drop these proceedings, and to turn the whole into a special case ? Mr. Saris I said that a proposition to that effect had been made to Mr. Pemberton, whe had agreed to lay the proposition before the law officers of the Crown, but no answer bad been received to the communication. Captain BAGUE complained that every one of these questions had been answered over and over again, and that they were wasting their time. Sir J. S. LILLIE suggested that the resolution of the last Court and the opinion should be submitted to the Law Officers of the Crown for their opinion. He would sign the warrant now, Mr. LESLIE objected to Sir J. Farrar.t's motion being put as being contrary to the standing orders. Mr. THISTLETON DYER moved that they do proceed to their next order of the day. He would suggest that neither of the present motions could be entertained, as being distinctly out of order. Mr. W. WHITE moved that the motion of Sir George Farrant be permitted to be put. The CHAIRMAN then put the question upon Mr. Thistle ton Dyer's proposition. For it Against it Majority The COURT consequently proceeded to consider No. 9, which was—To sign a Precept to the Sheriff of Middlesex to return a . Jury to inquire into such things as shall be given them in charge : (viz., to present the property liable to be rated to the Western Division of the Westminster Sewers.) Mr. A'BECKETT asked if the precept was in the usual form ? The CLERK stated that it was. Mr. Last=s said he was in hopes that they would have had Mr. Smith's printed opinions before they proceeded to sign this precept, in the matter which had met them every Court-day. He contended that it was not the pro party they rated, but the persons, and yet here they were again about to issue a precept for rating property. He thought they had better postpone the consideration of this No. 9 until they bad before them the opinion of Mr. Smith, on which that monstrous doctrine was fcnuded. Were they to go on signing precepts for the western district until the question should be settled They ought to postpone the issuing this precept until the question should be settled. In the decree they charged the per sons; why should they stave to the Jury that they only wanted the property ? They had gone on to decree ; there was the warrant on the table not signed ; but let them recollect that they could be forced to carry out their decrees; it was not for them to- play at battledore and shuttlecock with the decrees as they were doing. Now, was it wise to go on involving a million and a half of pre petty addHonal ? Were they to go collecting 20 00C1. without some sort of eslin , we as to what was to be done with it ? They had 10.0001. in hand at the time the rate had been ordered a twelvemonth ago. Mr. T. DYER said it was perfectly absurd to contend that it should take thirteenth months to make a rate. lie would undertnke tog t the rata books in the difierent pa rishes copied in a fortnight. When had these books been sent by the parishes ? The CLERK SZ.ii some of them did not send in their books until three months after the order. Mr. T. DYER thought it was right the public should know that the rate was made in April 1841, upon the rate of June 1840, so that there must be a great deal of rate able property which did not appear 4 all. In justice to the public, they ought to obtain the rate-books of 1841, be fore submitting the question to the Jury. Mr, UN WIN said that would apply only to a small portion of the rate. Mr. LESLIE thought it applied to all the rate. How could they say ti ey were placing any existing poor-rate in tl:e hands of the Jury ? They had no right to collect a rate sufficient to last f,,r two years. The proper course would be to suspend furth r proceedings until the various ques tions now at issue should be decided. He hoped that ear what had been elicited by the lion. Magistrate, they bad better pause, until they could see sonic way out of the subject. Mr. J. WHITE had always understood the property, and not the person, was to be rated to the Sewers-rate. The only question agitated by him was, that they should leave out nothing, no property whatever. The person was merely an indication of the property. With regard to the rate, it was a constant practice to make a rate last as long as it could last. It was the land and not the tenant that was assessed, and theefore the injustice of making the rate upon the poor-rate of 1840 did not exist. He could see no reason why the precept should not be signed, but he thought it had heea postponed too bang. Mr. BotivErtiE wished to know whether the churches were included in the property to be submitted to the Jury. . _ The CLERK said they were. Mr. T. DYER should draw the attention of the Jury to the fact that the presentment was based upon the rate of 1840. He thought they ought to get the rote-book of 1841, and alter the presentment, and if additional assist ance were necessary, they ought to have it. He put it to the solicitor whether he would advise the Court to make the presentment upon the old rate? Mr. SMITH thought if the new rate-books were ready, it would be unwise to proceed upon the cld ones. Mr. W. WHITE and Mr. UNWIN both said that in their respective parishes the new rate-book was not made out. Mr. FULLER thought it odd they should make a new rate when they had that day refused to carry out their old decree. He could not understand such conduct. He thought persons, not property were assessable. He would be no party to signing that precept. Mr, LESLIE contended the precept was not in confor mity with the statute of Henry VIII. The CHAIRMAN rose to order, Mr. Leslie had already spoken. Mr. BEACH thought the precept ought to be signed at once. The land alone was liable. The person occupying was merely named fur the more perfect identification of the land. The CHAIRMAN said, that unless the precept were signed, they would to thrown back inextricably ; all the circum stances and opinions relating to churches would be laid before the jury and he thought they would find it improper, if not illegal, to include churches in the rate. He trusted the precept would be signed for the jury to meet on the 30th April. Mr. T. DYER moved that the Court do now adjourn. Mr. UNwirq seconded it. On the show of hands, there were for the adjournment, 4, against it 6. On the question of signing the precept, there appeared for signing it 7, against it 3 ; majority for signing the precept 4. Mr. T. DYER gave notice that he should ask, in the presence of the jury, if the Vestry Clerks were in attend ance ? and, it not, he should tell the jury they were making a presentment upon the rate of 1840. He would also give notice that at the next meeting he should move— Mr. Beach here walked out of Court, and The CHAIRMAN observed there were only five Commis sioners present, and, therefore, they no longer constituted a Court The Court was then counted out at a Quarter to Five o'Clock. CHURCH-RATES. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) WEYMOUTH, APRIL 13.—This town has been kept in a considerable state of excitement for these last twelve months, in consequence of the all prevailing subject of Church-rates. 'I he parish church, comparatively speaking a new church, was built under an Act of Parliament about twenty-four years ago, and upon which 2,0001. was borrowed by the authority of this Act, and which said sum of 2,000/. is not yet paid off, though what arc called Trustee Church-rates have been continually made and paid for that purpose during this period, and it somewhat astonishes plain-dealing folks that a Trustee-rate amounting to upwards of 400/., should be so often called for, acrd that still this church is in debt 1,000/., the trustees paying interest. of 5 per cent. upon that amount, and keep ing a clerk to attend to the business. In addition to this, the Ciurchwardens likewise call for a rate of fourpence in the pour d, making also upwards of 400/. per year, to keep a new chui ch in repair. To the Dissenters of the town this is doubly grie. cut, inasmuch as they feel that not only are they called upon to pay to the support of an edifice in which a creed, and form, and ceremonies are used and taught contrary to what they consider conscientiously to be the truth, but also that they have to pay towards the extravagances of that church. Be lieving this rate to be illegal, several of the inhabitants refused to pay it, whereupon they were some some months back summoned before the magistrates ; they pleaded the illegality of the rate, and entered into the required engagements to defend themselves in the Ecclesiastical Court against any suit that might be entered by the churchwardens. This, of course, closed the jurisdiction of the magistrates. After waiting till March the Churchwardens selected seven individuals as fit and proper persons to he per secuted by citation to the Ecclesiastical Court, namely, fur. Charles Pope, Mr. Thomas Dodson, Mr. Stephen Farwell, Mr. George Groves, Mr. Joseph Farwell, Alr. James Clare, 3lr. Alfred Galpin. The parties appeared to the citation at 131andford, 24 miles from Weymouth, when they were admo nished to appear again in a fortnight, to receive the libel that would be then exhibited by the Churchwardens. At the ap pointed time they made their second appearance, when the Churchwardens' proctor prayed the Court for further time, as, he said, they were not prepared with their case, they had no papers ready, and, as they would have to be presented to Dr. Addams before they could exhibit their libels, he should ask four four weeks more, at which time the parties cited should again appear. Mr. Pope complained of this annoyance to the parties, in addition to the expense of coming twenty-four miles to no purpose, and asked, as a reasonable thing, that the court should order the expenses of the day ; but the answer was, " This court never allows expenses." Application was then made to name any other day than Saturday, as it was a most inconvenient day for the parties to leave their homes, they being all tradesmen. This was also refused, and the whole of the parties ordered to attend that day four weeks, Satur day, 24th April. At the first appearance of the parties to the citation, it was proposed by them, that as they wished to try the validity of the rate, and all had the same objection, the churchwardens should take one case, Mr. Pope's, and all the others would enter into an engagement to pay if the church wardens succeeded in their suit against him. Their proctor said he would make the communication to them, and let Mr. Pope know the result. He did make that com munication,:and the t esult was the positive refusal of the churchwardens to ac cede to this most reasonable proposition, and their determina tion to proceed with the whole of the cases. And thus the mat ter stands with respect to the seven inhabitants cited for re fusing to pay what they conceive to be an illegal rate, all hav ing the same objection to it. The churchwardens, however, have not yet done. I'o-day they have summoned twenty-two inhabitants, two of whom, frightened at the expense and annoyance, paid the rate and costs, but the others have declined to pay till the suits now pending in the Ecclesiastical Court be decided, pledging them selves to pay if the churchwardens succeed. The Magistrates, however, have issued orders for the payment of the rate and costs, and say they shall issue distress warrants on their goods if it is not paid, one of them observing that it might be four or five years before the suits now pending would be settled. On Tues day next an immense number more are to be summoned, and if the Magistrates shoidd be so insane as to grant distress war rants against all who have and will refuse this rate, Wey mouth will be turned into an entire Auction Illart, to suit the tender mercies of the Church of England as by law esta blished. flow much longer are the Dissenters of this country to be taxed against their consciences—be taxed to support a system that the freedom of conscience God has given revolts from ? To the Dissenters is owing the liberation of this country from bigotry and oppression. To the Dissenters does our beloved Queen owe the crown she now wears; and long may she live to wear it ; but as they have once overthrown oppression, it will be no hard task to do it again, when once they are united, as they are fast becoming on this all-absorbing question. It has been truly said there are but three ways to obtain redress of grievances ; the first by petition, the second by remonstrance, and the third by—but God forbid they should ever be driven to do as the Covenanters of Scotland did, gird on the broad sword of freedom to their thighs, and in return to a citation present its sharpened point ; yet who does not approve of their glorious struggle for the freedom of that conscience which God has given, free and unshackled to all men ; and will those who approve of this conduct, carried to extremes as it certainly was, condemn the Dissenters of their own day, who tread in their footsteps ? No, and the surprise will be, next, they had not done so before. Cases like the one before us arc enough to drive men to the utmost extremity. Would not one case have been sufficient to decide the question of the legality of this grievous, burdensome, iniquitous rate ? But no, they will have " justice, and their bond ;" they will have their " pound of flesh ;" but a day of reckoning is coming—we " bide the time." ~. LONDON', SATURDAY, APRIL l7, Mi. STEAM-SIIIPS-FLOAT-ANCHORS -- TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sra—The result of an experiment lately tried, of discon necting the paddles of a steam-vessel, appears to establish the practicability of overcoming no inconsiderable obstacle to the perfection of steam-navigation. Paddles fitted upon a prin ciple to permit their disconnection from the engine, will con veniently admit, under certain conditions, an application of a simple contrivance, which may prevent much stress to the ves sel, and possibly the fate of foundering. The contrivance alluded to is a float-anchor. Dr. Franklin, many years since, suggested its utility, which was tested and proved by Captain Gower, of the East India Company's service, and by others since his time. Float-anchors of convenient form can be easily handled, and when judiciously managed enable a vessel to bow the sea with title chance of injury. If a steam-vessel leave port with favourable weather, and after gaining an offing should encounter an adverse gale, against which it is not in the power of her engine to urge her, or if she be forced a-head, not without considerable risk of safety both to herself, her engine, and paddles, it would be better to ext. nguish the fires, uisconnect the paddles (lessen ing, by so doing, the mischievous effect of violent concussion of heavy seas by yielding to their force), and bring her to by her float-anchors, saving thereby her fuel till it can be advan tageously applied. The vessel's drift will not be considerable, and should she drive too near land, she will in all;probability be in a perfect state to free herself from difficulty or danger , and with respect to gaining her port of destination she will have a better chance of accomplishing that than by a ttempting to ad vance, which must necessarily be attended with great expendi ture of fuel, compelling her to return to port for the purpose of replenishing it, possibly the reason of delay in the arrival of the anxiously looked-for President. J. H., Commander, R.N. lONiNtrion DR. GILLESPIE AND THE VETO. Dr. Gillespie, the successor of the celebrated Latin scholar, Dr. Hunter, for'many years Pro fessor of Humanity in the University of St. An drew's, has addressed the following letter to the Fifeshire Journal. It affords another proof, in addition to many we have already given, that the Scotch people, clergymen as well as laymen, are beginning to take a rational view of the Anti-pa tronage question, and to admit that the laws of the country must not be trampled upon under the fanatical pretence that they are contrary to the laws of Christ. Dr. Gillespie voted with Lord Moncrieff, Dr. Chalmers, and the party who carried the Veto law, which, as we foretold, has turned out no law; and having seen, and experienced, too, the mischief which the Non- Intrusionists have done to the beautiful fabric of the Presbyterian Church, he has prudently made his escape from the fire-brandst- • Would he not have shown more courage, and more wisdom, and more faithful attachment, too, to the '' Church of his fathers, whose bread he had bro ken,"—if, instead of declining, lie had so licited again a seat in the General As sembly, in order to point out in his elo quent strains the dangers which Chalmers and his mushroom proselytes have brought upon a Church so long celebrated for the purity of its doctrines, the exemplary conduct of its clergy, and the industrious and moral conduct of the people educated under their charge ? A speech of his in the General Assembly would have been of more avail than ten thousand letters like that addressed to a local paper. We are glad, how ever, to see symptoms of repentance, and have, • therefore, great pleasure in publishing the letter : From the notice of my sentiments respecting the General Assembly taken in the Town Council of St. An- I drew's, and published in your paper of last week, as well as from some observations upon the same subject made in the Herald of the same date, it appears to me, that, considering the interest which, for some years, I have taken in the question of Church Patronage in particular, some explanation may be necessary to prevent mistakes injurious to my character on the score of consistency. 1 will therefore state shortly, I hope, but freely and frankly, and without any reservation cr disguise, the circumstances which have induced me, under the present attitude which the Church preserves in regard to the civil power, to re frain from solhiting the patronage of my kind and in dulgent friends of the Town Council of St. Andrew's on the present occasion. I was early in life struck with some of the evils of Pa tronage as it was then exhibited, and my intercourse with Churchmen afterwards did not tend to weaken this im pression ; and so soon as. in the year 1814, I came to have a vote, and ultimately (after a noviciate of some 10 or 12 years) a voice in the General Assembly, I uniformly di vided on the Anti-Patronage side. Accordingly, in 1833 and 1834, 1 both voted and spoke in favour—first of Dr. Chalmers', and lately of Lord Moncrieff's Bill—the now notorious veto law. But I openly declared, that, whilst I hoped the very best results from it, I was not quite sure that it did not run some risk of being resisted by the patrons as trenching on their civil rights, as the law of the land then stood, and still, very unfortunately, stands. In the collier enforcements of the veto law I took an interest, and gave several votes at least, in order to ob tain for the new regulation a fair trial; and even when, last year, I saw that the Assembly were decidedly wrong in resisting the cir it power, I still voted with the majority on this question—being unwilling that the Church of my Fathers, whose bread I had broken, and whose peaceful and honourable shelter I and my family had shared, should be trodden down, as it were, by the rampant foot of the civ:l authority—convinced as I then was, from, what I was induced to consider good autho rity, that the civil power was about to GIVE WAY, and that a Bdt was on ;he eve of being brought into Parliament to legalise the veto law, cr even to secure something prefer able (which was exceedingly desirable) for the good of the Presbyterian Church of Scotland. Under this impres sion and belief—though greatly, as is known to the first minister of Cupar against my will—l countenanced and attended an Anti-Patronage Meeting the winter before last, in St. Andrews: but upon the express condition that the motion with I agreed to make should not contain one worst commendatory of the conduct of the General Assem bly, but simply a strong appeal to Government to alter the law of Patronage as it then stood, and still stands. I can appeal to the crowded audience whom I shortly ad dressed, as well as to the county newspapers of the day which published the petition to Government, fur the truth of my statement. Observing, however, as time and experience, the great and the safe teachers, unveiled the true position in which the Church stood, as well as the fallacy of the "day dreams" in which many had been indulging, I found that I could not, as a Scotchman, as a citizen of a great and loyal community, set myself, as a Churchman and Pres byterian, in opposition to the known and repeatedly-de clared and acted upon law of the land. I saw, and still see, no safety for the Church, but much and inevitable danger and ruin, in her onward course ; and, in conse quence, have firmly resolved that, from henceforth, I will wash my hands of the business ; and yet I would not choose, nor could I well be expected, to oppose the friends with whom I have all along acted, and who, I am certain, are proceeding (however, in my opinion, inju diciously) on the purest arid most commendable motives. These are the plain fart; of the case ; and although I am as anxious as ever for the total abolition of Patronage, yet I would llte to know previously what is meant to be substituted in its stead ; for I am equally and even more aver:e to the turbulence and prejudices of a mere mob of elector=, as I am to the reckless and overbearing induction which may take place under existing Patronage. I printed a little pamphlet some years age on this subject, and which was partially circulated amongst the members of Assembly, in which I proposed a scheme of my own, based principally on the elders of the Kirk sessions—chosen not as at present by the arbitrary will of the clergyman, but by the heads of families in communion with the Church, being bound either to present these heads of families with a limited choice, or with such a person as they know will be i generally acceptable. Till some such scheme to prevent turbulence and schism on the one hand, as well as violent settlements on the r ther, be presented to me, I can have no part in those efforts which are now so ostentatiously and prematurely making for the total abolition of Patronage. I am yours, &c., THOMAS G ILL'E S PIE, Professor of Humanity. , Sc. Andrews, March 29. ZANTE. E T .:o r i t. tr nh s o E T .3I xs s t sat f i tr r ?, a o nne m get rs a t fhar D teo m e i en s patch from j o Tu r r f ry u e , assuu d sr a ty t a e i idn Z u a itn n e t i e tt , hh ae 6 tr t e h i osl n o d v e b tr y i b e a r n , l Earthquake which occurre d on t h e 30th d a y of October, I arrived on the morning of the 30th ultimo, half an hour after the occu rrence o f a d rea df u l ca l am ity, which has irreparably injured the whole town and island of Zante. Oa proceeding through the streets I found them filled or encumbered with ruins; the bulk of the population still out of doors; the tiles and the shaken and disunited por tions of houses fallen or ready to fall ; very few of the houses, net even those most solidly built, had escaped ex ternal and apparent injury ; and even where such was not visible, had suffered greatly internally in their furniture by the concussion. I regret to state that I fund three of the school-houses wholly or partially de troycd ; the Resident's house is greatly injure 1, not habitable, I fear, with safety. The Courts of Justice, hired building, reduced to a dangerous state, and no longer tenable. The Regency terribly shaken. Many of the churches smiuusly injured, sore irreparably so ; some of the principal steeples cracked and brought into a dan gerous state; and one so much so, that, with the consent of the Bishop, I immediately ordered it to be taken down. Innumerable private houses have been: injured more or less, many enth ely destroyed ; many poor and destitute persons made houscless ; upon the habitations of the poor indeed the grestest ruin has been occasioned, from these having been less solidly built, and in most cases formed of unhewn stone, and no other cement than mud, and which crumbled to the earth at the first shock. I regret to acquaint your Lordship that the devastation is still more general in the country than in the city, and that the distress is and will be infinitely greater ; and the means of the inhabitants whose huts and houses have so generally been destroyed or injured, affurd little or no re sources for them to fall back upon. On the 2d November, after having inspected the mili tary works, I devoted myself to a personal examination in lie city of the several cases of severe distress, which by my directions the inspector of police, with some of his as sistants, had ascertained to exist ; some I found not only houseless and destitute of all means to cover themselves against the approaching inclement season, but actually in want of food ; I extended immediate relief in both respects so far as I could, and certainly, fur the moment, sufficient. I then proceeded to Scudicado, and there I witnessed a scene of desolation and ruin, of consternation and misery, far exceeding any I had previously seen in the course of these visits, and, I may well add, in the whole course of my life. This village, containing a population of about 800 persons, is nothing but a heap of ruins ; not a house untouched, and very few left standing. In all the other villages, even those most injured, there is covering left, which will enable the more fortunate to show their hospi tality and feeling for their unfortunate neighbours by giving them shelter, but here in Scudicado there is no s helter left. The site of the village is on a small bill, no part of the surface of which is fre e from ruins. The fur niture, the beds, buriedin the ruins of the houses, the de vastation is so great . that no parts of the fabric in the shape of planks are in a state to form fresh cover. I noted the cases of utter destitution, they arc numerous. I intimated to those who had some resources of property, though at present none in ready money, that they might seek relief in the shape of loan out of the sum decreed by the Senate, and I acquainted the Capo that if they would send to the town a sufficient number of horses to carry out seven or eight hundred planks for the use of tha destitute, and to form covering for them, I would direct that these should be supplied gratuitously. This has been done, and small sums of money have, by my direc tions, been dispensed to the most destitute for immediate necessities, and to enable them to get shelter put together, should their fellow-townsmen either refuse to labour for them gratuitously, or be too much involved in distress themselves to assist them. The material injury which the island of . Zaste has sus tained is extensive, and cannot be rated at less than 300,0001. sterling. I need scarcely tell your Lordship how utterly inadequate the revenue of these States is to afford any significant relief, and I deeply regret to say that since I hove arrived here I have received very bad ac counts of the oil crop in Corfu. I have set on foot a private subscription here, to which I have liberally contributed, in addition to a much larger sum I had previously appropriated to the immediate relief of the more destitute and helpless persons. This has been cordially and liberally seconded by most of the leading people, an example which 1 have no dcubt will be followed in all the islands. The general distress cf the poorer classes will be very much aggravated by the heavy losses which this` signori in all parts cf the island have sustained. Their country houses, exclusive of the damage to their town resider.ces, have almost without except.on been seriously injured, many of them entirely destroyed, and in general they are become, in many instances, rather the objects than the dispensers of charity. They however have in general con tributed freely to the subscription, but without advances on credit, either by loan from the Government or in some other way, they will be unable to restore or repair their habitations. This will have a serious effect in the country, not only from the signori being obliged to abandon their country residences, but from the want of assistance which the country people would receive, were the signori able to engage labour for the repair of their houses. I cannot express how greatly I have been relieved and comforted in the arduous and painful dunes I have had to discharge, and the proxhional measures which I prumptly adopted on behalf of the Senate, by the effectual, prompt, and worst paternal action of his Highness the Presi dent, Sir Pietro Petrizzopulo, and the members of that illustrious body. in approving and confirming all I had done, in announcing their desire and determination to do whatever further is in their power, and even empowering me, in their name, to extend such further relief as I may deem necessary. EXTRACT FROM TREASURY MINUTES, DATED DEC. 31, 1840. Write to Mr. Stephen, with reference to his letter of the 2d of December, that my Lords have learnt with the greatest sorrow the distress occasioned to the inhabitants of Zante by the late earthquake, and taking the circumstances into consideration, and adverting to the opinion expressed by Lord John Russell, my Lords feel they should be jus tified in making a small grant from civil contingencies in aid of the sufferers ; my Lords, therefore, have directed that a sum of 4,0001. should be set aside from civil contingencies for that purpose. Lord Melbourne and the Chancellor of the Exchequer state to the Board, that her Majesty has been graciously pleased to direct that 1,000/. should be issued in aid of the distress of the inhabitants of Zante, out of her Royal bounty. R. GORDON. Whitehall, Treasury Chambers, April 1, 1841. AMERICAN PEOPLE. As fir as the American people have had time enough to degenerate from their British origin into a distinctive national character, we are afraid that that character con sists, for the most part, in empty pretension and puff. Haring begun their Republican career with a deep tinc ture of vanity occasioned by their successful struggle for independence, and having afterwards enjoyed considerable mercantile prosperity as the principal cotton-growers for the European market?, they seem to have strutted into a precocious and unnatural self-importance, as if their poli tical and commercial resources had attained a maturity which, under the guidance of democratic infallibility, ren dered every chance of miscarriage an inconceivable thing. Like the Persian ambassador, who, on learning from Sir Gore Ousely the prodigious revenue of the English Post-office (before Spring Rice's time), was so oblivious of the local exigencies and facilities pro ducing that revenue, as to have determined that his own country, though neither conducting an extensive correspondence, nor furnished with suitable mail roads, should immediately reap a similar fiscal advantage—the equally sanguine Americans appear to have jumped to the conclusion, that because properly conducted banks of issue, amenable to legal restrictions, and instituted by a substantial proprietary, have been found eminently con ducive to public prosperity in old countries, therefore in order to possess themselves of analogous benefits, no thing more was necessary than to organise a board of needy Directors, get hold cf an easily-procured charier, open shop with a suitable complement of counters and clerks, and scatter their paper responsibilities over the whole surface of their credulous and confiding country. In general, not to speak of their unscrupulous defiance of the statutory regulations of such chartered forcing beds, they have not only multiplied them in every district, without inquiring into their means of per manency, or whetlizir they were actually called for by the fair necessities of the neighbourhood, but they have almost universally neglected the provident pre cautions which, alone, could secure the provincial succ,!ss of these Banks, and their requisite credit in the remoter ramifications of commercial enterprise. The con- sequence has been, that the speculations in question have both generated and shared all the disasters inseparable from an unreal capital and from over-trading. For some years the manner in which they ministered to the conveni ency and accommodation of their respective vicinities (though often on usurious terms), as well as to the private avarice of their Directors in divers forms of traffic for- bidden in their charters, imparted to them a plausible and adventitious prosperity. The day of reckoning was never thought of; but when that day—which honest men who mean to pay their bills must always be provided for—was suddenly brought about by a no-confidence panic, such as every mercantile community is liable to, the pretended stock of these Banks, in nine cases out of ten, was ascertained to be non inventus est ; scarcely a dollar could they muster to hon our their worthless paper; their nefarious proceedings spread havoc and consternation thougbout the entire Union; peen niiry distt ess became everywhere prevalent ; and many of the implicated parties, if they were not actually subjected to restraints of a sponging-house, had at least done every thing in their power to deserve them, A day or two ago, we briefly noticed the scandalous dis closures upon this subject which have recently been sub mitted to the American Legislature. In to-day's paper we give a faithful abstract of the remaining portion of the evidence ; and, according to the explicit confession of these reports, which minutely detail the defaultership of the various bubble-banks throughout the republic, the sys tem generally pursued has been such as brings no ordinary disgrace upon the popular domination inseparable from democratic governments,—a domination, which, judging from this particular instance, is scarcely more blind and resistless in producing internal distress. than arbitrary and mischievous in shaking the national credit. Owing to the supreme force of the popular will in the United States when a sufficient impulse of supposed self-interest calls it into action, it appears that an application for bark charters, backed by the provincial authorities who systematically league together—not for weigh ing, or, if necessary, overruling the wishes of their constituents, but for implicitly carrying them into effect— has generally been complied with, as a matter of course. Precautionary inquiries and securities have been too ge nerally disregarded ; nominal provisions and prohibitions introduced into charters have been carelessly trusted to ; and hence the disastrous upshot has been exactly what every provident calculator might have clearly foreseen. With regard to the almost incredible facts, authenti cated by the American commissioners, we can do little else than refer our readers to our accompanying abstract, con tinued from Wednesday's paper. The following are in structive specimens : " MICHIGAN.— This report commences with a statement of the condition of the Farmers' Bank of Genessee county, from which it appears, from the evidence of the cashier, &c., that no set of books had ever been kept, that the whole amount of specie which appeared at any time to have been the bone fide property of the bank was about $1,560; that fraudulent attempts had been made to ex hibit the bank in a sound condition, in anticipation of the commissioners' visit, such as borrowing certificate; from other banks; $lO,OOO in silver were actually paid into the hank by a party, together with two certificates, all of which remained in the bank a few days, and were then taken away by the same parties. In short, the condition of this bank was utterly rotten. " The report on the other banks, dated April, 1838, ex hibits a wholesale syst oil of fraud and rascality of the most disgusting nature; six banks were found in such a condi tion that injunctions had been applied for and issued ; in the Jackson County Bank a horrible system of fraud was discovered, which we have no room to detail. Among other instances, 11 boxes were discovered, containing a snperficies of coin, altogether amounting to $5,099 (reck oning the coin found elsewhere), whilst the substratum contained lead, tenpenny nails, and window-glass broken into small pieces. Notwithstanding this, the statement of the bank, dated three days before, claimed possession of $20,000 in specie. On an examination of its affairs, there appeared a real deficiency of assets to meet the liabilities of the bank of $44,701 ! " Of the Exchange Bank of Shiawassee (Michigan), the Commissioners report that no part of the capital stock appears ever to have been paid in ; that seven ' coppers' were found in the safe, but that no other coin appeared at any time to have been the property of the bank; that there was one counterfeit note of $5OO on one of the New York banks; that the cash in the bank, stated at $14,174, was made up, as far as could be ascertained, by certain cer tificates of deposit, obtained from other banks. The Report of the Commissioners to the Legislature of Michigan contains an able and forcible expose of the banking system generally . they strenuously recommend a repeal of the general banking law of 1837. On the Commissioners' inquiry into the origin and transactions of the Grenada Bank in Mississippi, we find that : " A. C. Baino affirmed—Was elected a Director, but knew nothing of the organization. There were no visible funds in Bank. He demanded the certificate of deposit, $50,000, from Mr. Royall, but he repied that it was not given him to be used unless he could not induce the Com missioners to take stock notes, payable and negotiable at the Brandon Bank. Mr. Royall admitted that the certi ficate from Brandon was a false one, or, in his own words, a sham.'" Matters in Illinois, Ohio, and Indiana, were found to be equally bad. Violations of Charter, base swindling, illegal speculations, and general insolvency, are charged almost without exception against the entire swarm of ac credited pickpockets who have contrived to overrun those States. What renders the evil infinitely worse is the fact that nearly the whole of the principal local authorities in each State, being deeply implicated in these trans actions, have generally lent their official influence, by all sorts of collusive contrivance—not only to screen the chief defaulters, but to enact local laws to enable them to continue their malversations. Wholesale villany like this, threatening the United States with absolute ruin, has latterly received a partial check, simply because its inherent elements of calamity could no longer be overlooked with safety by the central Govern ment. Unpardonable laxity, if not actual connivance, has too obviously prevailed in that quarter where there ought to have been the utmost circumspection and good faith. The whole expose, however, will not be without its advan tages. While the American democrats must doubtless learn to practise henceforth a lower tone of vaunting in reference to their national wealth, the numberless fo reigners who have suffered by their failures will naturally exercise a more prudent distrust of them in future trans actions; and our own countrymen, in particular, may be expected to deduce from these occurrenew a proportionably strong conviction of the superior soundness and stability of the public institutions under which they have the happi ness to live. It is notorious that for one man robbed by the highwayman, burglar, or pickpocket, thousands arc daily plundered under forms of civil law.—Tory Standard. TRIAL AND CONVICTION FOR MURDER IN NEW BRUNSWICK. The trial of Peter Robinson, charged with the murder of Mr. Suydam, the President of the Farmers' and Me chanics' Bank of New Brunswick, which continued seven days, having occasioned considerable excitement, we ex tract from a New York paper the account of the last day's proceedings, when the murderer was found guilty, and sentenced to suffer death. The particulars of the murder will be found in the judgment:— This morning the minds of every person here seemed relieved from a great load. Robinson was convicted, and was to die, and they were satisfied ; and had the Jury ac quitted him last night, beyond a doubt, the people here would have hung him on the neatest tree to the Court house. I never saw or heard of such a state of excite ment and indignation as this whole community has been thrown into by this affair; and many persons wanted to have Robinson hung this afternoon, saying, " There has been too much money spent on the d—d scoundrel.' And yet the people of New Brunswick are tolerably moral as times go. But the ladies in particular all wished to have Peter hung. Mr. Graham's speech was a brilliant one, and at the close of it the audience burst out into loud tokens of ap. probation and applause. Chief Justice Hornblower re buked them, and said, " stop this noise; if people want to evince anything cf this nature they had beitar go to a theatre, and not to a court of justice. This occasion is a most solemn one ; and this is the first time I ever saw any such feeling exhibited in the State of New Jersey during 40 years' practice; and it is highly disgraceful to the county of Middlesex." At half-past eleven this mornine. the Court was opened ; the crowd was tremendous, and there were a large number of ladies present, as before. The prisoner appeared very pale, but apparently unmoved ; although his lips were parched and a death-like palor overspread his countenance. Solemn silence was obtained, and the Chief Justice said, " Peter Robinson." The prisoner stood up. " You stand before this Court convicted by the verdict of the jury of the murder of Abraham Suydam, in the first de gree, Have you aught to say other than what, by your self and by your counsel, you have already said, why the Court should not proceed to pronounce judgment upon you ?" Prisoner--I have nothing to say.—( Here his lips quivered.) JUDGE—Peter Robinson, after a full, fair, and impar tial trial with a Jury selected by yourself out of a large number of your fellow-citizens, and by the aid of efficient, honourable, and able counsel, who have left nothing un said or undone in your behalf which became them, or which honourable men ought to have said and done in your behalf, you have been convicted of the wilful, foul, malicious, deliberate, and premeditated murder of Abra ham Suydam, by which conviction you. arc doomed to suffer the awful punishment of death. [Here several of the ladies began to cry, but the pri soner was unmoved.] JUDGE—Mr. Suydam was your neighbour, your fellow citizen, and for aught that we know, or that has ap peared to the Court on the trial, be was )our benefac tor. He had conveyed to you a lot of land ; he had ad vanced you money to build a comfortable dwelling thereon, for yourself and your family. In consequence of what he had advanced to you, and for the security of the proper payment to him of his money, you had fur nished him with a bond and mortgage on that pro perty. With these securities on his person, and in his possession, on the morning of the 3d of December, and, as we have reason to fear, in pursuance of a previous arrangement made by you with him, he left his home and the bosom of his family, and entered your house, never to return to that home and that family alive. It is evident that but a few minutes elapsed after he entered your house, before you cruelly murdered him, and then robbed your victim of his money, his watch, and the papers which he had about his person ; and there, at the bloody scene of his murder, you dug the unhallowed grave; and within the walls of that building, erected by his money, you sought to conceal his mangled corpse. Mr. Suydam was a husband and a father, as well as yourself ; to him life was as dear, and perhaps dearer, than it was to you; and his death was a, little expected by him at that awful moment when you killed him, as it was by you. But, unmindful of those dear and blessed ties which bound him to his home, to his wife and his children—unmindful of the ties which equally bound you and him to society—unmindful of the rela tions in which he stood as your neighbour, your friend, and benefactor—unmindful of that tribunal before which you were about to send your victim, and before which you would have to appear—unmindful of the vengeance of a just and holy God—forgetting that his eye was upon you then, and would be upon you through time and through eteinity, you committed this cold-blooded mur der. We do not design to dwell upon the details of this awful tragedy—its bloody history has been listened to by, and is painful to us all. Nothing now remains but to pronounce the sentence of the law ; and we only pause, Peter Robinson, to warn you against the delusion of in dulging any hope that you can by possibility escape the vengeance of that law- If chains, if bolts and bars, and human ingenuity and watchfulness can prevent it, you can never escape from the custody of the law but by death. And we warn you against the slightest hope that execu tive interference will be extended in your behalf. The outraged majesty of the law demands your life, and no thing else will satisfy it. We only, therefore, as your fellow-men, and with the sympathy duo to you as a fellow-mature, here pause to commend you to Him whose blood alone can wash out the guilt which rests upon your never-dying soul. Your blood falling upon the ground cannot restore the life of him whom you mur dered, nor prepare him for that eternity into which you sent him without a warning. But, unlike hi, sad close of life, sonic time is allowed you to prepare for that awful change which you have shortly to undergo. We commend you to God. We commend you to that Saviour of men through whose mediation alone you can hope for forgiveness hereafti.r. You cannot intend to assume an idle indifference to your fate, to the solemn death you have so soon to undergo, or to the scenes of eternal life that you have to pass through. You may affect an indifference to all this; you may reject the Bible and the Ministers of Christ, and those consola tions which they may seek to offer you. But God knows your heart. You may deceive men ; you may die as the fool dieth ; but that is the most that, you can do. You cannot deceive God ; his eye is upon you, as it was at that moment when you struck the fatal blow—as it has been ever since—and as it will be until the moment when the breath ceases to ani mate your body—and it will follow you to another world ; and his wrath will rage against you through the unwasting ages of eternity, if his justice is not satisfied . by the atoning Wood of his Redeeming Son. Hear, now, the sentence of the law—lt is considered by the Court, that you be taken to the gaol from whence you came, and that within that gaol, or some place else which the Sheriff in his discretion shall decide upon, according to law, on Friday, the 16th day of April (yesterday), be tween the hours of ten in the morning and two in the afternoon, you be hung by the neck until you are dead, and may God have mercy on your soul." Here there was scarcely a dry eye in the Court. The ladies sobbed audibly, and all were deeply affected. The prisoner appeared to be the only person present that was unmoved. His eye never quailed, his lips scarcely parted, and not another muscle moved in his features. The Judge himself was evidently completely overcome. In a few moments he said, " Let the prisoner be removed from the bar." Here the rush was tremendous to get a sight of the pri soner. The ladies, in particular, were all anxious to see how he looked. Finally, he was removed between twe officers, through the crow d, t o th e gao l, a b out 300 y ar d s distance. He smiled, as usual, to the crowd, and said to the Sheriff, " Remember, you must share the fees with me that you get for hanging me." And such was his hardened indifference to the last moment, that after he was ironed and locked up in his cell, he said to the gaoler, "As I am a carpenter, I think I ought to be employed to help to build my own gallows, and I should make my own coffin, and give my wife the money. All I ask is a snug platform and a strong rope ; and if Jackey Edmonds goes to Heaven, I don't want to go there. I won't have a d—d priest come near me." The Court ordered that his wife and child might see him at all times consistent with the prisoner's safety, and in the presence of some of the proper authorities. But that she was to have no direct intercourse with him, nor to see him alone—and she is to bo searched carefully before she enters his cell. A Juror asked Peter how he felt at last, and he said, " First rate." Such is the last but the closing scene of this sad tra gedy. It appeared to be to all, except the pri . soner, a great gala-day in New Brunswick : and even to him,judg ing from his conduct and conversation, it was a source of interest and apparent amusement. Such and so various are the ways of man. CANDIA. A letter from Athens, 27th ult., in the Angsburg Gazette, gives the following details of the insurrectionary movements in Candia:— " The Christian inhabitants aro nearly all in arms, and have taken np advantageous positions. They have published a de claration that their only object is to protect themselves against the Governor, Mustapha Pacha, complaining that the protect ing powers have left them under an Egyptian Pacha, instead of incorporating them with Greece. They declare the project of placing them under the dominion of the Sultan is a violation of their imprescriptible rights. They announce an intention of addressing petitions to the Three Protecting Powers, and will not lay down their arms until they have received a favour able answer. According to the last accounts (to the loth) a deputation of four Caniliotes has been on board an English fri gate, and had a conference with the Consuls of the European States. On being asked whether they would prefer being united to Greece, or be under the protection of England, or have a Sovereign Prince, they replied that their wish was to become a republic, adding that they would rather die than be ruled like the Samians. It was decided that their petition should be presented to the Protecting Powers, and the deputa tion was then sent back, under an Lnglish escort to the camp of the insurgents." Mr. FoRsYTH.—The ex-Secretary of State, Mr. Forsyth, has been sued in a ward court for the sum of eighteen dollars I The suer must be a Locofoco, for Mr. Forsyth would have no dealing with a rascally Whig. Bu t what presumption fur a plain man to coerce Mr. F ors y th to pay a debt. A man of his distinction has no b usiness with dollars and cents. It is honour enough for a trades man to furnish his goods without looking for pay. If the ex-Secretary has any more small debts about town, his creditors may send their bills, properly authenticated, to thisoffice ; we will settle all such matters for him, on ac. count of the love we bear the lato Administration._... American Paper. - --- SCARBOROUGH.— I a m en chanted with Scar borough. And who would nut be who has sojourned but a single day at this " Queen" of Erglish sea-bathing places, at the close of the summer months, or in the early days of a bright autumn? To me Scarborough was a surprise, to the full extent of the word. I was not prepared to find a bay of Naples on the north-cast coast of England; nor so picturesque a place perched on lofty cliffs, reminding en old and experienced traveller of some of those romantic sea views which he beheld abroad, particularly in ti'e Adriatic and Grecian seas.-- Granville's Spas of England. MORNING EDITION. • SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. ,> --' NEWMARKET CRANEN-MEVI'ING. .. 7 rt \ FURTHER PARTICULARS OF , TIIL'IISPA,r6 RACES. PLATE.—Rodosto, with Ramadan' and 'llarbara in attend ance, made the running to the Cads, where Barbara went up, and, after a short struggle, d iatcd Rodosto • Remnant then challenged, but after a shag was_dd r eated , by a head. Rodosto eas a good 'he others, were beaten off. SWEEPSTAKES OF 50 sous. EActr. l --Ibe 'Dttke of Port land d ec l are d to win with the Tragedy cult, which made play at a good p ace , G arry O wen f o ll o wing him into the Cords, where he went up with Ruthless, and made a brilliant finish, the Judge's award being " a head" only. SWEEISTAKE S OF 100 sous. EACH.—Wallab went away at the top of his speed, and made very strong running to the Cords, where the lead was taken from him by Arundel ; Robin son waited on the latter more than half way up the Cards, and then collared him, and won very cleverly ("easy, say his friends) by half a length. Wahab was beaten about two lengths. The race excited great interest, and had an irnme di,te effect on the betting for the 2,000 Guineas Stakes and Derby. It was not known until a short time before the race that Eringo would not run ; he would have had to carry 101bs • more than the winner. afternoon's betting closed as follows : TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS STAKES. 5 to 2 agst Metternich—taken 9 to 2 agst Eringo—taken 9 to 2 agst Ralph—taken 8 to 1 agst Joachim THE DERBY. 14 to I agst Fords lot 15 to 2 agst Coronation 12 to I agst Van Amburgh—taken T 4 to 1 agst Knight of the Whistle 18 to 1 agst Prince Caradoc—taken 20 to 1 agst. Metternich—taken 22 to 1 agst Ralph 22 to 1 agst Palwinon 23 to 1 agst Eringo—taken 40 to 1 ag-t Arundel 50 to 1 agst Duke of Wellington—taken 50 to 1 agst Pko,phorus—taken 1000 to 15 agst Y. Quo Minus. 600 to 500 on Eringo agst Palwmon ; 500 even between Ro salie c. and Faleernon; and 1,400 to 800 on Mr. Ford's two agst Pala3mon. The weather in the first part of the day was extremely favour able, and as the 50 sous. Match was fixed for one o'clock, there was a good show of company on the heath ; as the afternoon advanced, however, the wind became strong and wintry, and a heavy shower drove many home who had trusted to the lightness of the atmosphere and left the town unprovided for a change. Amongst the departures fOr London after the races were the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort, and the Marquis of Worcester. FRlDAY.—(Concluded.) Match, 50 sots. Bst 71b each. A. F. Lord Exeter's Bey rout (Darling) 0 Lord Albemarle's Viola Betting-2 to lon Viola, who waited on her opponent to the Ab. N. bottom, where she challenged; a pretty race home ended in a dead heat. The Port slakes of 100 soya. each, h ft, for 4 yrs old colts Fst 71b, and fillies Bst 41b, not named in the claret ; the second saves his stake. T. M. M. (9 subs.) General Yates's Gibraltar, by Aluley (Nat) 1 Lord Exeter's Amurath Lord Exeter's Scutari .. The betting began at 6 to 4 on and fini , hed at 5 to 4 against Gibraltar. Scutari made strong play, followed for the first mile by Amurath ; after which they ran together, Gibraltar waiting on them to the new ground, when he went up, and after showing a strong inclination to run among the foot people at the ropes, won in a slovenly manner by half a length. Lord Exeter's two made a capital race for second, the horse getting it by a head. It was reported that the winner had been a little off, which will account for the change in the betting. The Albemarle Stakes of 100 sove. each, h. ft. for colts Bst 71b, and fillies Bst 21b, foals of 1838. D. M. (4 Subs ) Mr. Thornhill's Eringo walked over. The Grillion Stakes of 100 sous. each, h. ft., for foals of 18.38, colts Bst 71b, fillies Bst 21b; those out of untried mares, al lowed 3 lb. D. M. Duke of Pedford's c Oakley, by Taurus-Oakapple, walked over. In consequence of the poverty of the list the course this afternoon was badly attended. LATEST BETTING IN THE TOWN. Two TPIOUSAND el UINEAS STAR ES.• 2 to 1 agst Mr. Ford's Metternich 9 to 2 agst Mr. Thornhill's Eringo—taken 9 to 2 agst Lord Albemarle's Ralph—taken THE DERBY. 8 to 1 agst Mr. Rawlinson's Coronation—taken 12 to 1 agst Lord Westminster's Van Amburgh—taken 15 to 1 agst Lord Chesterield's Knight of the Whistle 15 to 1 agst Lord Bruce's Rosalie colt 18 to 1 agst Mr. iNlostyn's Prince Caradoc—taken 18 to 1 agst Mr. Ford's Metternich—taken 18 to 1 agst Mr. Thornhill's Eringo—taken 40 to 1 agst Lord O rford's Arundel—tarn 50 to I agst Mr. Ford's Y. Quo Minus—taken 50 to I agst Duke of Grafton's Mosque 90 to 1 agst Colonel Anson's Duke of Wellington ALCESTER STEEPLE CHASE.—WEDNESDAY. Sweepstakes of 5 sovs. each, with 30 added; four yrs, 1 Ist ; five yrs, 1 Ist 71b ; six yrs and aged, I2st ; winners 71b extra; second horse saves his stake ; winner to be sold for 3001. Four miles. (7 Subs.) Mr. Kellett's Alischief, aged Mr. Lamplugh 1 111 r. Stevenson's True Blue, aged 2 Owsley's Protestant, aged Four others started. A remarkably fine race between the two. The second race of 3 sov. each, and 15 added, two miles, was won i❑ two heats by Mr. Williams's Miss Foote (Powell), beating four others. SOUTHANI STEEPLE CHASE.—TUESDAY. Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each, viith 40 added. Five miles. Mr. Brown's Challenger, 12st 71b Mr. Akermau's lilazeaway, 12st Captain Price's &limn, 12st Derrynane, Ma3ic, and Mazeppa also started. Won by twe lengths, after a lino race. '1 he second race Avas won by Mr. Gliffins Topthorner. KENILWORTH STEEPLE CHASE, &c.—MoNiir. The Steeple Cha e was won by Mr. Lee's Brown Stout ; the Handicap by I‘.ll,Alater's Spting; and the Hurdle Race by Mr. Birsell's2ilatirda.- 7 . .• • XBERGAVENNY - 7 - tA-CES—Wr.nwrsnAY. " • The MonmoutbSbire Sta'kes,ef* - 5 sovs. each, with 40 added. • .''Heats, two miles. Mr...Befinett% Woodbine, 6 yrs, 9-t 91b ...(Davies) 1 0 1 Mr: Key's Mortmain, 3 yrs, 7st 71b ... 0 1 2 Mr. Jones's Maid of Ghwent, 5 yrs, 9A llb Mr. Winn's Milo, 3 yrs, Bst 131 b Three or four others started. A tine race ; won cleverly. The Monmouthshire Hunt Hurdle Cup, .with 2QI. added by Captain M'Quarie to a sweepstakes of 3 sons. each, h ft. Mile-and-half heats over four hurdles in each. (8 subs.) Mr. Williams ml Brunette, aged, llst...(Williams) 0 1 1 Mr. Stretton nd Lottery, 6 yrs, 12st 1 0 3 Mr. Batt ml Volunteer, aged, 12st 71b Three beautifully.contested heats. The Llandilo Hurdle was won in two heats by Mr. Rey nard's (owner) heating three others, and the Town Stakes by Mr. Trotter's Nell. CATTERICK BRIDGE RACES.—WEDNESDAY. The Claret Stakes of 2O soy s. each, for three )rs old. Two miles. Duke of Cleveland's ch c Oxton, Bst 31b (T. Lye) 1 Lord Kelburne's b c by Muley Moloch, Bst 31b Won easy. The Two yrs old Stakes of 20 sous. each, lift. One mile. Duke of Cleveland's b c Foxberry, Bst 31b (Lye) 1 Mr. Jaqucs's Playfellow, Bst 31b Mr Metcalfe's Fremlington, Bst 31b 3 Won by a length. CANTERBURY SPRING RACES.-TUESDAY. The Hunters' Stakes of 3 cove. each, and 25 added, were won, in two heats, by Mr. Hornsby's Whalebone (Mr Sim moods), beating Mr. Hobbs's ch. m. Victress, by half a neck. A Sweepstakes of 5 sovs. each, for horses 'belonging to Officers of the 13th Light Dragoons, was won by Mr. Allgood's The Doctor, beating two others, after a good race. The Hurdle•race Stakes of 2 soy. each, and 25 added, were won, in two heats, by Mr. Simmcnds's Trim, beating Mr. Marsh's Dick; and the Easter Plate was walked over for by Sir. Hornsby's Whalebone. THE PRESIDENT STEAM SHIP.—Her Ma jesty, upon leaving Buckingham Palace for Windsor Castle, left strict commands that immediately upon the newg of the safety of the President reaching London a special messenger should be despatched to Windsor with the intelligence, and it having been (alas 1 too confidently) stated in Loudon, on Tuesday evening, that some informa tion had been received respecting this 'vessel, which left no doubt that it had been heard of, and was in safety, Mr. Rogers, a Qu, en's messenger, arrived express at Windsor from town, shortly after aig,ht o'clock that evening, and her Majesty, immediately after his arrival, had the intelli gence communicated to her, through the Lord Chamber lain, when the Queen and Prince Albert expressed the highest satisfaction at the gratifying communication. ROBBERY OF MAIL BAGS.—=Some excite. ment prevailed during last week at St. Neot's, awing to the mail bags having been broken open on Monday night the sth inst. It is the custom of the Mr. Brown, the landlord of the George Inn, Eaton Socon, to send his. man and horse to the post-office at St. Neot's every night at ten o'clock for the mail bags, which a re to be tar a a-ded by the up or down mail, and they remain at his with house, thorn a s giving far a house until the arrival of the coach. It appears that on. the night in question, the man, ahose name is Prigniorea, came (unknown to his master) on foot :d w the post-mast er h s a v i n d W n hoetn l be 'r e i n gm d: cl e h r e e b h ag e s c , al b i cd a e p r o ee t a pdoeblic i . the bags to a companion named T ownsend, who for merly Eaton g given Ford, h i h t . filled the same situation, desiri n g him to p roc eed witll c them, and he would overttaekebahgts ha m. arrived at the George, h livered; this caused an inquiry to be ma d e, and after a dili gent s earch one of th e bags %vim found by the roadside, near to a plantation,between -ea'xcen Eaton Ford and Eaton Socon. This l ed to a further search, when many of the letters were found strewed about in the plantation, and several of them torn. The postmaster, being informed of the. non -arrival of the bags at t h e George, repaired to tlae spot, when he found that the St. Neal'a and London and the Kimbolton and London bags bad been broken open. He collected the letters and the fragments, and forwarded them to Lon don by the Rockingham coach, it being impossible to col lect them in time for the up mail. Prigmote was imme diately given into custody, and Townsend was appre hended on the following morning, when they underwent an examination before It P. Stanly, E s q., who remanded. them until Thursday to allow time for the Post-office authorities to come down. On Thursday they were again taken before the same Magistrate. when they were re manded until Saturday. We cannot but think the above plan an unsafe mode of conveying the letters from St. Neot's to Eaton Socon. Why does not the mail-coaels run through St. Neot's? It would not make five mi nutes difference. Is not the town, the population of which is about 3,000, of sufficient importance ?,Stain-. ford Mercury. CAMBRIDGE. —The following notice has been signed by the Vice-Chancellor and heads of Colleges " Whereas it has been represented to the Vice-Chancellor and Heads of Colleges, that several resident students of the University have of late been engaged in riding in 'steeple cliaces,' and otherwise promoting the same, we, the Vice- Chancellor and Heads of Colleges, hereby order and de cree, that if any person in statu pupillari be hereafter found guilty of either of the offences above described, ha shall be liable to the punishment of rustication or expul sion, as the case shall appear to the Vice-Chancellor and Heads of Colleges to require."—Cambridge Advertiser. •