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LAW INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DAY.) COURT OF KING'S BENCH. (Mjourned Sittings after Term, before Lord TENTERDEN and a Common Jury.) WHITTAKER V. CLEMENT. In this case only ten Jurors appeared, and the Counsel at both sides agreed that the case should Proceed with that number. There was nothing of the slightest public interest In the ca se , which was an action on a Bill of Ex change, and was ultimately referred to a gentleman of th e Bar. ACTION FOR SLANDER. EUSTACE V. CONWAY. Mr. BAnsrow o p ene d th e pleadings, and Mr. F. P OLLOCK stated the "case. It ,was an action for slanderous words, the defendant having aharged the plaintiff with committing the crime of wilful and corm , pt perjury. The plaintiff is an attorney's Clerk, in the employment of an attorney named Rine. In the end of 1826, an action was brought by the assignees of a person named Watts against a man named Steel. Mr. Hine was attorney for the plaintiff in this action, and the de fendant and a person named Moore were tendered as bail for the defendant. It therefore became ne cessary to inquire into the circumstances of the de fendant, who was stated to reside in No. 7, Wine office -court, Fleet-street. The plaintiff (E us t ace ) was sent to make inquiries respecting Conway, and, in consequence of those inquiries, made an affidavit, statin g that he had visited the house in Wine office -court, Fleet-street, on the 13th March, and that the house was then unoccupied and to let, and that he had made inquiries about the defendant's residence, and Was informed that he lived somewhere about noxton. It subsequently appeared that the de fendant had lately been a bankrupt, and when the parties came before Lord Tenterden at chambers to Junify bail, Conway's bail was re j ecte d b y hi s Lordship. Whilst waiting in the outer chamber, previous to going before Lord Tenterden, the defendant made use of the slanderous lan guage n ow complained of, and in reference to the affidavit sworn to by the plaintiff, said, "It is a Wilful and corrupt perjury—it is as false as hell, and 1 can prove it to be so by fifty witnesses." This language being used in the Judges' Chamber, and Withi n the hearing of several persons, Mr. Hine, the employer of the plaintiff, did not think he should let it pass with impunity, and wrote to the defendant, callin g upon him to retract or apologise for the lan guage he had used towards the plaintiff, but the defendant refu se d to make the slightest apology and now repeated his charge by pleading a justifica tion. T. J. Richards was examined, and proved that he visited the house in Wine-office -court, Fleet -street, and that there was no furniture in any of the rooms. r ov J. Hine, the br o th er o f th e pl a i nt iff' s emp l oyer, Ped that th e s l an d erous l anguage alleged in the decl aration was uttered by the defendant. , The COAIMON..SERGEANT shortly add resse d t h e ' u rY for the defendant, and called the following tvitnesses Joseph Rose stated that he is a surgeon, and had been in attendance on Mrs. Conway, the defendant's w "e, from February, 1827, until the present time. Attended her in March, 1827, at No. 7, Wine fhee-eourt, Fleet-street. Visited her on th e sth March, and on th e 18th M arc h ; an d a l so v i s i te d her on int erme di ate d ays, b ut too k no note of those d a Ys. Mrs. Conway was in the back room on the gro und floor on the sth and 18th March, and there was furniture in the room. Several other witnesses were examined in sup- Port of Mr. Rose's testimony. Mr. F. POLLOCK then replied, and Lord TENTER nEN left the ease to the Jury, who returned a ver dict for the plaintiff—Damages ls. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT. r 1 , hinos Cowper Sherwin, a commander in the Navy, was brought up on his petition to be discha r ged, and was opposed by Mrs. Gill, and by Mess rs . Sharpe and Jeremiah Davis. The latter i ndividual professed himself to have very kindly feelings towards the insolvent and his family, at the same time he pressed the Court to recommend the aliProptiation of some p or ti o n o f his h a lf- pay to the payment of his debts. Mr. Davis insisted that this would produce a beneficial effect on the insolvent himself, by checking his very ex iravagant habits. It is we ll k nown ( sa id M r . n -":ut av is) that he has a ct ua lly . li ve d u p t o t h e . of two gu i neas a wee k, upon some occas i on inn London. The CHIEF COMMISSIONER said that extrava gance did no t f urn i s h a su b stant i a l groun d of oppo 3itiok Insolvent, who was su pp or t e d by M r . - `ekrit, stated that some time since he had been appointed to the situation of a sub-collector of cue ton's in Nova Scotia; that he had incurred great ex- P t en ee in the ne cessar y ou tfit, b u t t h at on hi s arr i va l a Halifax he found that his salary had been reduced one half since his appointment to the office. T his circum s t ance urge d him to resign his situation and return to this country. He subse cluelltlY petition e d the Lords of the Treasury, and ',Rs award e d t h e sum of 150 / . as a compensation. is Money h e i nstant l y pa id i nto Court, where, w ith the exception of the portion allowed him for Tinaintenance, it still remained. His half-pay was liv 160/. a - year . He had at one time ten children, e f of o whom di e d l ate l y, all w i th i n the short space one year; his wife was in a delicate state of health, and was likely before long to add another v mer nher to his family. Under these circumstances (f l u e e t t r a t n ts y t e d the Colin would not feel it ri g ht to de or his sutphpine g rt. from the small income that remain©d Davies having again urged his former request, Mr. HEATH put it to him whether, after hearing that Capt. Sherwin had five children, he could pos sibly expect that any deduction could be made. Mr. Davies—_l have myself 13 child ren, S i r --(A lau g h . ) After some further discussion, The CHIEF COMMISSIONER. said, that the fact of the insolvent's having formerly lived beyond his m e ans, was no reaso n why the Court should, for the future, put him in the condition of not living within them. Upon the whole, the conduct of the insolvent had been highly creditable to him, and the Court therefore thought him t elt t itl e d to hi s di s charge. The next and the debt case was for whicha ih h 0 had been arrested wasof a n ava l warran t officer, c ontracted for the outfit of h eldest son, now ill acti ve serv i ce in the navy- The insolvent stated, in order to enable him to meet that debt, he had, although after 28 years' service Captain's Clerk, and would , enaeavoured to '"tisfy his creditor, had he not thrown hi m into prison. The I nso l vent was or d e red to b e di sch. drged, and his detainin g cre di tor (Jones, a tailor, at Portsea), was appoint e d his assignee. EPIIESLIS.—A more thorough than, be can "'tely be conceived than that which has actually occurred at t phesu _ 8. Once the seat of active commerce, the very has shrunk from its solitary shores; its streets, once Populous with the devotees of DIANA, arc now ploughed by th e O ttoman ser f or browsed by the s h ee p of the pear by It was ear l y t h e s t rong h ol d of Christianity', and w 4" at the head of the Apostolic churches of Asia. It m i g ht' 'e that, as St. Pam, says, the w or d o f G o d grew E/ . t 'lY, and p reva il e d. N ot a s i ng l e Ch r i st i an now dwe ll s vr to i e th" ; i i n it! Its mouldering arches and dilapidated walls acti -/ Whisper the talc of its glory; and it requires the ex : l : 4 , uf the geographer, and the active scrutiny of the ve; e -t ?' l traveller, to form a probable conjecture as to the retiZ l4 of the First Wonder of the World.' Nothing Caye t , -I upaltered save the 'eternal hills,' and (the mazy the the stream of which rolls on still changeless and not 4 ;".„ Whilst gazing over the solitary plain, one can to th e : 4l applying to Ephesu s th e a p os t ro ph e o f QUEVI3/30 ills of Rome : " I tht but a name thy mould'ring corse retains_._ And seem'd eternal long bath pass'd away, Mut was fugitive alone remains. Letters from the 4ast. Ste - 6" 0 5 112 2 116 t Satur, 5 to 5 10 0 SIS 8 110 0 IIS han last , ntered v firm. but ists to Much )ort. sale at present rations most re, and he end Lion re, that hat of 00,000 to 395. e until ire still better trences, If duty ition of Is have about period ance is orders te, but of pre- Sperm pc Oil ask so the de , mone) Barley without The fol- 0 0 v to toy :erning The :urrent er thao ease in n, and . 1827. !74 329 93 !76 ?50 )52 )35 66 I 5 MO '5O '3O 00 1 00 00 00 to b 4 be re m ap- SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S.-JAN. 7, The Shoveller colt (Mr. Thornhill's) is gone altogether, owing to his having (as it is said) broken down. The accident is stated by some to have happened on Sunday, and by others on Thursday last. Some business was done on the outsiders, but the general betting was rather dull. The following were the closing prices. DERBY. 7 to 1 agst Mr. Thornhill's Merchant 11 to 1 agst Hon. E. Petre's The Colonel 13 to 1 agst Duke of Rutland's Sorcery colt (taken) 16 to 1 agst Duke of Grafton's Druid 22 to 1 agst Mr. Payne's Johanna Southcote colt (taken 22 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Folly colt 25 to 1 agst Mr. Thornhill's Mariner (taken) 40 to 1 agst Mr. Thornhill's Shoveller colt No others named. OAKS. 11 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's Trampoline 22 to 1 agst Mr. Peirse's Sister to Swiss (taken) 30 to 1 agst Mr. Beardsworth's Lestelle 30 to 1 agst Mr. Shard's Baleine (taken) ST. LEGER. 12 to 1 agst Colonel King's Bessy Bedlam (taken) 15 to 1 agst Mr. AV. Scott's Velocipede (taken) 17 to 1 agst Mr. Petre's The Colonel 27 to 1 agst Sir T. Mostyn's Ultimatum, by Fancy 27 to 1 agst Mr. Petre's Emmeline (taken) 30 to 1 agst Louisa (taken) 2000 to 20 agst Colonel Udny's Lisette filly (taken) 4000 to 70 agst Mr. Armitage's The Nun (taken) No others backed. The following additional nomination will make the Great St. Leger Entry 82 :—Mr. Wyvill's own brother to Sprinkel!. THE RING.-FIGHTS TO COME. Jan. 15.—8i1l Savage and Paddy Flynn, near London, for 25/. a side. Jan. 15.—Stockman and Fisher, between Liverpool and Manchester, for 251. a side. Feb. 23.—M`Kay and Lowden, 100/. a side, in Ireland. March 11.—Ned Neal and Baldwin, within forty miles of London, 250/. to 2001. April B.—Brown and Sampson, 250/. a side, half way between Birmingham and Bridgenorth. DON MIGUEL. (From the Court Newsman.) His Royal Highness ; accompanied by Prince Esterhazy, the Austrian Ambassador, and attended by Monsieur de Saldanha and Earl Mountcharles, left town about half•past eleven o'clock yesterday morning, in one of the King's carriage s an d f our, with outriders, for K ew : th e Noblemen and Gentle men of the Prince's suite followed in another carriage and four. Mr. Aiton, the superintendent of the Royal gardens, Mr. Turner, and others of his Ma jesty's gamekeepers, were in waiting to attend the Prince. His Royal Highness and suite took the diversion of shooting for abbut two hours, during which time they shot 26 brace of pheasants, and eight brace of hares. The Prince and party, after partaking of a Neune at the old Palace, returned to Arlington -street, where his Royal Highness arrived about five o'clock. In the evening the Duke of Wellington gave a grand dinner to his Royal Highness, at his residence in Piccadilly. The different services of plate and china presented to his Grace by different Courts of Europe were displayed on this occasion. The band of the Grenadier Regiment of Foot Guards, of which his Grace is Colonel, were stationed in the grand hall, in their state dresses, and performed several choice pieces of music in the course of the evening. The Prince, attended by Counts Villa Real and Bellantine, Messrs. de Mello and de Saldanha, Earl Mountcharles, and Sir . William Fremantle, arrived about half-past seven o'clock in two of his Majesty's carriages. The band received his Royal Highness with etod save the King." Among the company present to meet the Prince were the . Spanish Minister; Baron Falck, the Ambassador from the Netherlands, and Baroness Pala; the Marquis de Palmella, the Portuguese Ambassador, and the Marchioness Pal- . mella; Baron Bulow, the Prussian Minister; Count d'Aiglie,the Sardinian Minister s Viscount Itabayena, the Brazilian Minister ; the Marquis Wellesley, Earl . Dudley, Viscount Palmerston, Sir Charles Stuart, Lord and Lady Fitzroy Somerset. WINDSOR, JAN. 7.—llis MAJESTY yester day forenoon attended Divine Service at the Private Chapel, accompanied by his suite. The Rev. Mr. SEY MOUR officiated. His MAJESTY dined and passed the evening with his . personal attendants, at the Royal Lodge. Messengers continue to arrive daily, and are again des patched to the various Government Offices. Prince LEOPOLD left town yesterday morning on I visit to Earl DA RN LEY, at his seat, Cobham-hall, Kent. The Princess SOPHi A partook of a dejeune yesterday with the Duchess of CLARENCE, at her Royal Highness's residence in the Admiralty. The Earl of CARLISLE had a conference with Mr. 14usxissoN yesterday, at the Colonial office, Down ing-streei,. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER Visit ed Viscount GODERIC/I ycsterday, at his residence in Downing -street. Monsieur Ito Tit, the French Charge d'Af faires, transacted business with Earl Dumar, yesterday, a t the Foreign-office. ROBERT GRANT, Esq., of Lincoln's Inn, M.P., has sent 101. to be distributed among the poor of Chanonry and Rosinarky, which has been a great relief at this season of the year.—lnverness Courier. Mr. BOLLAND is expected to succeed the late Mr. Nor„lN, as one of the Welsh Judges. We regret to learn that the health of Chief Justice BEST is such as to render the prospect of his return to his official duties extremely improbable.-1170TH. Paper. FASHIONABLE ARRIVALS.—Sir R. Fer guson, M.P. in Bolton-row, from Lord Robert Spencer's, Woolbeding ; R. Knight, Esq. M.P. in Grosvenor-square, from Henley in Arden; Mr. and Mrs. Henry W. Hob house and family, at their house in Norfolk-street, Park lane ; Sir C. M. Pole, Bart. at his house in Upper Har ley-street, from his scat in Herts; Lord M. Hill, in Ar lington-street, from a tour; the Hon. William and Lady Barbara Ponsonby, in St. James's-square ; Earl Gower, in Hamilton-place, from West Hill, Surrey; Mr. Robert Williams, M.P., Mrs. Williams, and family, in Grosve nor-square, from Bridellead, in Dorsetshire; Captain and Mrs. Grant, in Cadogan-place, from Brighton; the Prince de Viterbo and suite, at Grillon's Hotel, from Paris; Sir G. Pitcairn, at ditto, from his seat in Dum friesshire ; the Rev. J. Delafield, at ditto, from the Mar quis of Cleveland's seat, near Bedale, in Yorkshire, for Southhill Park, in Berks, the seat of the Earl of Limerick; Lieut.-Colonel Girandol, of the Coldstream Guards, at the Hyde Park Hotel, Hyde Park-place; John Gouth wayte, Esq. at ditto, from Liverpool ; Richard Foster, Esq. at ditto ; Edward Lytton Ilulwer, Esq. at Marshal Thompson's Hotel, Cavendish -square; Captain William Lyons, at ditto ; Sir Charles Chad, Bart. and the Hon. Captain Turnour, at Fladong's Hotel, Oxford -street, from Brownsea Castle ; Charles Stouor, Esq. at ditto, from Brighton. DEPARTußEs.—Captain an d M rs. H ughes, from Dover-street, for Bath ; William Blathwayt, Esq. and Mrs. Blathwayt, from Marshal Thompson's Hotel; Airs • an d t h e M i sses S a li s b ury , f rom ditto, for the Close, Salisbury 7 Mrs. Leigh and William L e i g h , Esq. from ditto, for Herefordshire ; Rev. George J. Cornish, Mrs. s...orr t i si , , and family, from ditto, for I.llcomlie, Kent ; Rev ' G ecrge Glead, from ditto ; Charles Brinsley Sheri dan, E. from ditto; David Ricardo, Esq. from ditto, for Hereford,hire; Major Forbes, from the British Hotel, Jermyn-street, for Oxfordshire ; J. Lumley, Esq. from ditto, on a tour. CHARACTERISTIC • ANECDOTE.—" I have written,' Lord C oLowoon, in one of his letters, , 1- t i o " urt Lloyd's about Mr. CIIALMER'S family. He left a mother a nd s everal sisters, whese chief dependence was on what this worthy man and valuable officer saved flora his pay. He stood ChM to Inc when he received his death. A great shot almost divided his body ; he laid his head on my shoulder, and told me he was slain. I supported him till two men carried him off. He could say nothing to me but to bless me ; but as they carried him down he wished he could live to read the account of the action in a Ziewspaper."....Lord Collipgwood's Memoirs. HIGHLAND CLUB DINNER. The members of the Highland Club of Scotland, to the number of about eighty, sat down to a sumptuous dinner in the British Hotel, on Friday evening ; Lord Glenorchy in the Chair; Reginald Macdonald, Esq. of Statra, and M. A. Fletcher, Esq. advocate, croupiers. After the cloth was removed, the King, Duke of Cl arence _ _ . ..„ and the Navy, Duke of Wellington and the Army, were given from the Chair, and drunk with the customary marks of loyalty and enthusiasm, the band of the 92d Regiment playing appropriate air s . The memory of the Duke of York was drank in silence. The health of the Lord Provost and Corporation of Edinburgh—" Flowers of Edinburgh." The CirataikrAw then rose to introduce the leading toast of the evening, in doing which he stated the objects for which the Club had been instituted. The first of these was the encouragement and revival of the national games and sports of th e coun t ry . Thi s , though some might think it unimportant, did not appear so to his Lordship ; hut the attention of the Club had also been directed to an other object of more importance, namely, the education of poor children—an object which he was sure was worthy of encouragement and certain of success.—(Applause.) His Lordship then congratulated them on the present state of the Society, which had increased in numbers since last year, and he had no doubt would continue to increase. The re vival of the national games was of much importanc e in a society like this, where many were in danger of becoming relaxed by luxuriousrefinements, and others from being oc cupied in sedentary pursuit. It was, therefore, a desira ble object to counteract the effects likely to arise from such a state of society. The people of this country now ap peared rather disinclined to games of this sort ; but in Switzerland, where the inhabitants were remarkable for orderly conduct and intelligence, they were extremely com mon. Indeed, there was not a town, hardly a village, in which there was not a club- for rifle shooting, and where one day in the week was not set apart for healthful amuse ments. Ina national point of view it was also of int- portance; for what was it that made even the Ameri can recruits formidable to their enemies, but their un erring skill in the use of this destructive weapon. He considered that it should be an object with the Society to prevent encroachment on public pieces of ground in the neighbourhood of towns, which Magistrates were so much inclined to do in their inordinate desire to accumulate wealth. Among our southern neighbours, twenty years ago, there was scarcely a village in England which had not its common for the amusements of youth. These were now nearly all done away; and what bad been the conse quence ? The time which was then spent in healthful ex ercises was now spent in the alehouse or in poaching.-- (Hear, hear.)—His Lordship, after some further remarks on the subject, then thee) ved, that part of their funds bad also been applied to the sacred cause of charity ; and they had now npwards of 30 children who were receiving edu cation at the expence of the Society.—(Applause.)—lf deemed expedient to extend their sphere of usefulness to the encouragement of Gaelic literature, much good might be done in this way ; for nothing was so much wanted in the Highlands as translations of some of our best English works into the language of the country; and if they could accomplish this object, their memories would be handed down to posterity as the best benefactors of the Highlands. His Lordship concluded by giving—" Prosperity to the Highland Club of Scotland,"—which was drank with Highland honours. Tune—" O'er the muir," &c. Mr. MacnoNAnn of Staffa, after alluding to the disap pointment they had experienced in the forenoon, from the unpropitious state of the weather, gave the healths of Major Macdonald and Mr, Duncan Stevenson, who were to have led the parties intending to compete for the prizes. Major MAc no NAr.n returned thanks. The CHAIRMAN then said, he had now the pleasing duty to perform of moving that a venerable father of the Church (Principal Baird), and a Reverend Doctor (Dr. Macleod, of Campside), should be received into the So ciety a.l honorary members.—(Great applause.) In the presence of the venerable Principal, he would not dilate upon the services which he had rendered to that part of the country with which the Society was peculiarly con nected, but he-would venture to say, that any honours which the Highland Club could bestow upon him were not too great for his merits.—(Cheers.) He proposed the healths of the Reverend Gentlemen, which were drunk with great applause. Principal BAIRD begged to express the sincere gratitude he felt at being admitted an honorary member of this most respectable society. He bad paid particular attention to what bad been described by their Noble Chairman, as the objects of this Institution, and he had great pleasure in saying that he approved of them all. He particularly ap proved of the scheme of extending the means of education to the children of helpless Highlanders resident in the me trorolis, and of preserving those interesting memorials of the ancient Celtic race of this land, than whom earth's surface did not contain a nobler or more estimable people. (Great applause.) In allusion to what had fallen from the Noble Chairman regarding the translation of English works into the Gaelic language, the Reverend Principal said a similar idea had occurred to him ; and he had in his pocket the prespectus of a periodical journal to be pub lished monthly in the Gaelic tongue, and , to which many respectable and talented clergymen were ready to become contributors. The Reverend Principal then read the prospectus, which was listened to with great attention.— He expressed a hope that every individual who had beard the proposed scheme, would give it their public and private support, :and if they did so, lie was certain that support would be effeetiy,e., • Mr. JOIIN BOWIE, W. S. then made some interesting etatements regarding the progress made by the Education Committee, and read the report of the Committee, from which it appeared that their funds would now enable them to increase the number of children on their list to 50. While Mr. BOWIE was speaking, the sliding doors which inclose the western division of the Hopetoun Rooms were thrown back, and displayed the very interesting spectacle of the children educated by the Society, drawn up in order, and attended by many of their parents.—Th e children, who were all neatly dressed in their holiday suits, were then marched round the ts.bles, preceded by the officer of the Club, and the piper playing a pibroch ; after which they were conducted to another room, where Mr. Cockburn liberally supplied them with a refreshment. - The whole scene had a most exhilirating effect, and spoke powerfully to the feelings of the company, as was amply evinced by a collection in aid of the education fund, which immediately followed, and which the treasurer shortly afterwards an nounced, would enable the Committece to take forty more children upon their list. This announcement was re ceived with enthusiastic cheers, which were redoubled when Mr. Bowie stated that he found in the box the name of Major Macdonald put down for the liberal donation of five pounds. At a later period of the evening it was stated that the merit of this part of the Society's scheme was attributable chiefly to Mr. Bowie and to Major Mac donald, the latter of whom, rather than the object should be defeated, had pledged himself to defray the whole ex pence for one year. After the amount of the collection had been intimated, Principal Baird said it gave him pleasure to learn that the Society could now educate ninety poor children; and re quested that his name might he put down for ten more to make up the hundred.—(Loud cheers.) On the motion of the CHAIRMAN, the name of the Duchess of Argyle was enrolled as an honorary member of the Society ; and the same compliment was, on the motion of Mr. COLIN APNAIi, paid to the Countess of Breadal bane. This was followed by the healths of the Countess of Glasgow, and the other lady patronesses of the Society. Mr. M. A. FLETCHER, after an eloquent eulogium on the public character and virtues of the Noble Chairman, which lie said were those peculiarly characteristic of a good Highlander, namely, patient endurance, and a firm and un conquerable determination to perform his duty in every si tuation, proposed the health of Lord Gleriorchy, which was drank with enthusiastic Highland honours. The Noble CHAIRMAN returned thanks, and proposed the health of their Chaplain, Dr. M'Leod, who had come from a great distance on purpose to attend the Meeting.— ( Applause.) Dr. M'Llion rose to return thanks. He was well aware, he said, that he was indebted for the honour of being elected their Chaplain, and an honorary member of their Club, more to the private friendship of certain individuals than to any claim which he could possess to so distin guished an honour.—(Cries of" No, no!")—But one thing he would assert, and he did so with confidence, that there lived not an individual, not even excepting his venerable friend (Dr. Baird) who led the march of moral and intel. lectual improvement in the Highlands and Islands, to whom he would yield in an ardent, devoted, and enthusiastic re gard for the land of the mountain and flood.:—(Loud cheer ing.)—And in an anxiety for the prosperity of any institu tion which was calculated to promote the honour and wel fare of the land of his fathers.—(Applause.)—Born in Morven—that land where Fingal fought 'and Ossian sung —it might be readily conceived that all the; earliest, and consequently the dearest associations of his heart, hallowed in his esteem the objects for which this NatiOnal Associa tion had been instituted. Could it be soppiest that a Morven man could for a moment be indifferent to the pre servation and encouragement of the games and exercises of his own beloved land?—to the preservation of that lan guage which he first lisped—in which he still even thought —end which possessed to him charms which that language in Which he now addressed his Lordship, though this arose probably from his ignorance, did not ; because it did not afford to him language sufficiently strong to exp:sess his feeling'. Could a Merven man be indifferent to that poetry which had immortalised the place of his birth, and rendered it awfully interesting as the consecrated abode of the spirits of other times? And, added the Rev. Doctor (amidst con tinued bursts of applause), can a Ch urchman—can a Mi nister of the Gospel be indifferent to the prosperity of an Institution which has for its object the education of the poor and fatherless children of Highlanders who have been torn from their native glens and mountains—who have found an early grave in the dense popula tion of your crowded cities, in employments and of fices ill suited to their early habits and occupations True it was, he (the Reverend Gentleman) had left the land of his early days ; but the sympathies of many now present would bear him out while he stated, that his affec tions still clung to the land of his birth—that his dreams were in the hills of Morven—that absence, instead of weakening such attachments, strengthened them more and more, and rendered the objects of this association infinitely more interesting than if lie had yet been a resident of Mor ven.—(Applause.)—That man, said he, has little title to philosophy, who would sneer at the preservation of cus toms and exercises which helped in a great measure tb fonr. the Highland character of former days.—(Cheers.)—Na tional games, poetry, and music, bad a share in all the festi vities of the most celebrated nations of which history spoke —the greatest heroes, the wisest legislators, and the best men of antiquity institutes? and supported them, and thought it glorious to share in their honours. After considering at some length the influence of these games on the charac ter of a people, the Rev. Doctor proceeded. He rejoiced in being made a member of this Club. Indeed lie would not be ashamed to he a member of an association which had for its object to preserve even the superstitious of his country. That superstition, dark as it was and wild, had a happy tendency in forming the character of the Highlander—it had a happy influence in cherishing a virtuous and patient spirit—in softening the manners, and framing that kind ness of disposition, and comparative purity of character, for which, in spite of a Pinkerton or a SAPCulloch, their de scendants were to this day distinguished.—(Cheering.)— The land of our forefathers had been a land of heroes— from those hills and mountains, multitudes of gallant men had sprung, whose names adorned the brightest pages of history; and should that day again arrive when Britain should again let loose the furies of war—should her ban ners be again unfurled—not one disaffected individual would rally round them from that land. The sons of Morven would again be the first to rush forward to the field of strife, and to conquer or die fin• their country.— (Cheers.)—The Rev. Doctor concluded by giving in Gaelic—" The land of our forefathers."—(Loud applause.) Mr. H. Bauer:, Advocate, begged to dedicate a bumper to the ProTerity of the Highlands of 'Scotland, where a friend never met a traitor, nor an enemy a coward.— ( A pplause. Mr. A. M`NEIL. Advocate, said the worthy Secretary had assigned to him a toast, which he wished he could in troduce to their notice, as the Reporters would say, iu a neat and appropriate manner—he meant the Island of Inch keith. He knew not whether it was intended that he should give the health of that thriving rock, or the memory of its departed worth—or an account of its Celtic ancestry—or of its present peculiarly Highland aspect.—(Laughter.)— He wished he could introduce the island bodily—as a visit ing or an honorary member—to speak for himself, herself, or itself; for he was at a loss to know the gender of their acquaintance.—(Loud laughing.) He had indeed heard of a Celtic strain in which Old Father Ocean was made to sue Staffa—(not the Lord of the Isle, who he was happy to see in his place)—but the island itself, as a maiden "no thing loth ;" and that from this hopeful suit there sprung a goodly number of islets—(Laughter)—Egg and Rum he supposed. On this authority he presumed it must be held that island belong to the softer sex. But be that as it might ; the old lady was an extremely hospitable personage— and this Society could never forget the kind reception which it met with from her in the month of August last. He was sure she would be equally glad to receive a similar visit ; and he dared say that her best endeavours would be used with the Forth and her fickle friends, or foes, he knew not whieh, the clouds, to render it as agreeable as the last— " The Island of Inchkeith."—(Laughter and applause.) Tune, " The Boatie Rows." Captain CAMPBELL proposed the health of Major-Gen. Stewart of Garth, and afterwards th . at of the Doke of Argyll, which were both crank with Highland honours. The CHAIRMAN gave the health of the gallant officer on his ]eft hand, Colonel Teesdale—(Great applause.) The gallant Colonel returned thanks, and observed, that this was the fifth time he had been en duty in Scotland ; he hoped it would not be the last. He never came to it but with pleasure, and never left it but with regret.—(Loud cheering.) Dr. APLEon said, he much regretted the absence of that man (Professor Wilson) who, of all others, was the fittest to do justice to the toast he was about to propose. One of the greatest objects of the Highland Club of Scotland was, to preserve the language and poetry of the Highlands. It was not to be denied that the English language was rapidly gaining ground ; nor was he now disposed to question the sagacity of those wise men who were anxious that the in habitants of the empire should speak the same tongue. A century had now nearly passed since the Gaelic was con demned to death by a solemn Act of Parliament, and sen tenced to be shrowded in its own ancient garb, which was denounced along with it. The great philosopher, Johnson, declared, fifty years ago, that it was then in a decay, and that its death was at no great distance. Much as that learned Doctor had said about the second sight, it was evident that he possessed it not; for if by decay he meant consumption, it had, at all events not been a galloping one.—(Laughter and much cheering). — The Gaelic language still lived, and if it had symptoms of dissolution, it threatened to have a very lingering death. It had resuscitated wonderfully by its change.of climate. lii America there were thousands and tens of thousands of Highlanders who speak this language, and it only ; and it would live when they had, all of them, and their children, passed away.—(Applause). While the Gaelic existed, it was most desirous to preserve such monuments of its power and genius as could not fail to be interesting to future gene rations. The language was worthy of. this. It was a language hold and animated—adorned with tropes and figures, and a rhetoric+, even in ordinary conversation, which he would have ventured to tell John Wilson, (if he haul been there to propose the toast as was expected), even he would be shy of using, except in his highest and noblest flights.—Loud cheering.) The light of song was rapidly passing away from the Highlands. Poverty had in a great degree destroyed the muse. But he rejoiced to say, that the change arose from another cause. The progress of useful and religious knowledge bad done much to destroy the taste for oral tradition. The circumstances of the Highlanders were greatly changed. They, indeed, might exclaim—" Tempora mutantur, et nos mutamur in illis." Formerly a Highlander sat at his ease at the foot of a grey rock or a green tree—tending to flocks which frolicked around him: on the then unmeasured mountain. Few were his wants—fewer his cares. He hummed his song— tuned his pipe with joy—while his soul in silence blessed his chieftain. Those days were passed away ; but still there was much traditionary poetry in the Highlands worthy of being preserved—poems which bespoke high powers of soul—venerable monuments of former days—for bards of distinguished name had existed there since the clays of Ossian.--(Cheers.)—His form had remained—yes, and it grew, as he said, as the green oak of Morven, which lifts its head to the storm. But the modern poets were like mists lingering on the hill, which fly away with the blast of the morning. Many of them were like stars which had set—much of their fame was left; but it was like the last rays of the sun when it hides its head in the west. Among these he would name the bard, Duncan llPlntyre, emphatically called in Gaelic, " Fair Duncan of the Song," and his countryman, Evan M‘Laehlan, of Aberdeen, the translator of Homer into Ossianic Gaelic. The toast was—" The memory of Ossian, and also that of the modern Celtic Poets."—(Applause.) Colon;:i TEESDALE gave the health of Colonel William son :Ind the 92d Regiment; for which the Gallant Colonel returned thanks. The health of Colonel Rogers of the Artillery was then given from the chair. Colonel R. returned thanks. Mr. MAcnoNALn of Stafla gave the health of his rela tive Marshal Macdonald, who, he said, was as decidedly a Highlander and a Scotsman as it was possible for man to be. He felt particularly proud of our ancient metropolis, which he designated the queen of cities—(App/ause). — ln a letter which he had received from him within these few days, the Marshal requested to be furnished with a plan, 'including the projected improvements, of Edinburgh, « the capital of our country," as he expressed it. This toast was drank with Highland honours. Mr. SrEwAtur of Shierk,:rlass proposed the health of Sir A. CAmpbell.—(Applause.) Colonel TEESDALE then gave, Sir James Stewart and the Scots Greys.—(Cheers.) The healths of the Duke of Athol, Dr. Stewart of Bon skeid, Major Macdonald, Staffs as President of the Ban nockburn society, Miles A. Fletcher, &c., were afterwards drank with applause. • Mr. J. A. ROBERTSON, W. S., proposed to dedicate a bumper to a gentleman who was an honour to his country, and who now held a high place in its Administration. He was sure the Association would join him in drinking the health of the excellent reresentative of a principal portion 'of the Highlands of Scotland. He alluded to the Right Hon. Charles Grant.—(Applause.)—He was so well known in this country, and so much esteemed, that it was unnecessary for him to say more. He proposed, with all the honours, to drink the health of the Right Hon. Gentle man, and prosperity to the County of Inverness.—(Drank with great applause.) The conviviality of the Meeting was kept up to an earl• hour on Saturday morning, the Chairman be,ng among the last to depart ; we have seldom, indeed, seen a happier as semblage in the Hopetoun Rooms. The dinner and wine provided by Mr. Cockburn, were as usual of the finest de scription ; and his whole arrangements gave, the highest satisfaction, particularly his spoNtaneous attention to the children patronised by the Club. LIVERPOOL. [We copy the following spirited article from the Liverpool Albion : we are unacqua i n t e d with the real merits of the case, but if the exac tions of the Surveyor be a s re p resen t e d, and we have no reason to 'doubt the respectable autho rity of our excellent cotemporary, we think the qtlestl as " ar O e f the rumours o f great reason to peace or war c in o l m ia p b l i a ti i i ii ls — o l f Liverpool havewlnteresting, and a i th interesting' ith intended changes in the Ministry of this country, there is one question, of a purely local and do mes ti c nature, infinitely more interesting to the inhabitants of Liverpool, and one which attracts far more of their attention, at the present moment, than the poli tical state of the East and the strife among our politicians for office at home. That question is— shall all-ranks, and classes of the inhabitants of this great commercial town allow themselves to be oppressed by a practical addition to the load of direct taxation which for years they, in common with the empire at large, have with difficulty borne? The proceedings of the Board of Taxes, through their surveyor, have spread alarm throughout almost every dwelling in the town. Go where one will, the principal topic of conversation is the new and into lerable system of surcharging which this individual has, in the discharge of his duty and in the execu tion of his instructions, we suppose, deemed it proper to cary into effect against thousands of our fellow townsmen. The inquisitorial mannm in which this Government inspector made his surveys of houses and windows justly exasperated all classes of housekeepers, and filled thew breasts with indig nation against a system under which any functionary dare to obtrude himself into the very rooms of an Englishman's boasted " castle," and - to put his wife and his daughters almost to the blush. When, in deed, we consider the exacerbation of feeling which the inquisitorial proceedings of the surveyor have produced in the town, we wonder that he has still a whole hide. Many of the surcharges which have been made on houses and windows may, we will ad mit, be perfectly just and proper, as the law now stands; but, when it is recollected, that the inhabi tants of this town have for years been saddled with a greater weight of direct taxation than most of the principal towns in this county as well as in other parts of the kingdom the extreme hardship, nay, the positive cruel tyof the surchargeswhich have been made on houses and windows in Liverpool are evident. The grievance is intolerable. It loudly calls for the prompt interference of the Government, to suspend the enforcement of the surcharges which have been made on our fellow-townsmen within the last few months. It may be said, that these surcharges, if they arc illegal, will be quashed on being appealed against before the Commissioners appointed to hear appeals against the assessed taxes. But is it either just or reasonable, that a man, in the character of an inspector of taxes, should have the power, first ,to invade the houses of the inhabitants in the manner in which they have been invaded; and then, if the people will not sutler themselves to be squeezed, like sponges, by a person ".drest in a little brief autho rity," to compel them to dance attendance on a body of commissioners who, we fear, arc too often, espe cially in ordinary times, led by the nose by the Go vernment surveyor? If the Government, whose servant he is, will riot interfere in the business; if the necessities of the Treasury are so great as to dis pose its guardians and purveyors to wink at pro ceedings which, however they exasperate they peo ple, will extract money, in the shape of taxes, out of the pockets of the industrious housekeepers and , tradesmen of Liverpool, we trust that our fellow• townsmen, before whom the appeals will be heard, will do their duty manfully and courageously in this juncture, and rescue a multitude of sufferers from the scourgings of an inexorable taxgatherer, whose perpetual cry, like the cry of the horse-leech, is " Give, give !" LiVcrpool is not, we should hope, the only town on which a harpy, in the shape of a surveyor of taxes, has been let loose by the Board of Taxes. If they have sent their myrmidons into every city, and town, and village in the empire, we shall rejoice exceedingly ; for then the cry against the nuisance of the assessed taxes will become as general throughout the kingdom, as it is at the present moment in Liverpool; the tables of Parliament will, at its meeting, be loaded with petitions from all quarters for the repeal of the not more obnoxious than cruel and impolitic taxes on houses and windows : and the Government will be compelled to attend to the voice of the country le gitimately expressed through their representatives in the House of Com Mons. We would recall to Lord Goderich's recollection the excitement which the proceedings of the Board of Taxes caused in the public mind in the year 1824 ; and would respect fully inform that nobleman, that the feelings of the inhabitants of Liverpool are more highly excited on the subject of the assessed taxes at the present mo ment, than were those of their fellow -countrymen on the same subject at the former period. We call upon his Lordship to redeem the pledge then given, to make the survey general, with the view of ulti mately relieving the country from a portion of the load of direct taxation. But if he should shrink from carrying such a measure impartially into effect, we protest; in the name of the inhabitants of Liver pool, against their being made by means, of indis criminating and shameful surcharges, to pay more than their fair and just proportion of the assessed taxes. We are exceedingly glad that the Liverpool sur veyor, not satisfied with his success in surcharging houses and windows, attacked the trading and mer cantile establishments of the town. This proceed ing was really indiscreet on the part of the surveyor; and we are surprised that so experienced an officer should have been guilty of such indiscretion. By attacking these establishments, he has thrust his hand into a nest of hornets, and, if they do not sting the poor man until he roars and stamps with pain, we shall be much astonished. He will not find it so easy to deal with the merchants and traders of Liverpool, as he found it to deal with the tame tits of the ancient city of Bristol. They will remon strate with his masters on the subject ; and, if the latter do not speedily clap an extinguisher on him and the bulk of his preposterous surcharges, we will confess, that the Government is as regardless of the opinion of the people of Liverpool as the surveyor is of our feelings. Speaking of the altered state of the cities of India, ViSCOUIIt CITATEAUBMAND says, " the carriages of London ar e now seen trave lli ng, toget h er w i th palanquins and car avans , th e roa d s o f t h e t i ger an d t h e e l ephant. " As Sir R. B. P. P HILIPS , B ar t. o f pica)" Castle, Pembrokeshir e , w as p ass i ng over a teipporary wooden bridge at St. Clear's, C a mb r id ges hi re , Oa wheels of the carriage came in contact with one o f t baluster posts, and carried it off. By the concussion , t he carnage swung over the cdgc of the bridge, and we' considerable time susp e nd e d by In this Perilous actually the traces, actually f or a situation o i t f rgermeaaint exertion e i n t n i, t n i i l assistance illvasogig:eisdfuropctutrzc,l ,I , when with ropes, and the worthy Baronet and La d y Pliturs, who with great presence of mind kept their scat, were relieved from a situation the mo s t noTA dangero us , an d awful that can .well be imagined; f e r had the traces given way, they must have been p r eclpated into the abyss below, and the destruction of t hemselves and carriage would have inevitably ensued, for the liver was heavily flooded at the time. BATTLE OF NAVARIN. VISIT TO THE GENOA. The Genoa is now nearly dismantled of he: stores ai'd guns. An opportunity is thus afforded, of surveying the effects of the Navarin contest., It appears, from various iitteresting conversations with those present in the action, that the Turkish and ERptian fleets were held rather too cheap by the Allied squadrons, and it is generally thought, that butfor the timely arrival of a se cond " Blusher," in the person of the Russian Admiral, with his force, to draw off the attention of the Turkish batteries, our ships would have run great risk of being totally destroyed. The instant Admiral Heiden corfltieneed his ball practice at the forts there was a momentary pause and general slackening of fire along th e T urkish line. The black smoke seen rising Above th e in Point Forts indicated the destructive p dvie r the bands of the Mussulmen, and sufficient; y ex plained the cause of the continued and quickened step of the Admital, whose repeated reference to* his time-piece shewed that he was calculating the time which would elap':•,A . are shot could be. rendered sufficiently hot for roving upon bun with effect, at a moment, when hisYittle squadron was engaged with the immensely superior force of the enemies' fleets, drawn up in the most advantageous situation. The exclamation of " God be praised" had hardly escaped from. his lips, before the thunders of Count Heiden s. divisio n caused the long wished for diversion of the gallin g fire from the Turkish batteries. The English ships were, however, on several occasions. struck with hot balls, in circumference about the ordinary size of argand lamps, one of which was so unpleasantly Warm as to get into the gunner's store-room of the Genoa, causing the jolly tars, quartered at the starboard gun, abreast of the fore cockpit ladder, to exclaim, that "theyfett something within hail a sight hotter than usual." The Genoa suffered most in the tar- : board quarter from the oblique elevated` fire of the Turkish ships, their shot generally' striking just above the waterways of the main deck, cutting through the upper encl poop decks. To this circumstance the - great loss of life among the marines on the poop is attributed, ten men having beer killed at that point, before a shot was fired from the Genoa. Those few left, with their ' gallant officer, Lieut. Miller, on being at last or dered down, could with the greatest difficulty see their way to the quarter-deck, being literally co vered with the brain :3 and blood of their slaugh tered comrades. The appearance ofthe mizen-mast, ; the following morning, almostt baffles description. For ten feet above the deck . t was studded with the remnants of th e killed, e .lemonstrating the dreadful carnage whi c h t oo k p l a ce in its imme diate vicinity. Captain Bathurst received his death wound from part of a grape-shot, 7.vel i glung 41bs., which entered the port before tho star board-pool; awning cabin, passing through ,the middle of his body, and lodging above the lar-- hoard foremost port on the quarter deck. The , Genoa was struck by a stone shot, weighing about 102ihs. which entered her lower deck, five feet above the water, leaving a gap that puzzled the carpenters of the squadron to patch up. It killed four men, aud afterwards split in pieces on the deck. It appeared. to have been fired from one of the line-of-battle ships. each of which had two of these guns a-midship, which are only fired in cases of forlorn hope. A son of Capt. Sir Philip Broke, the hero of the ShalinGn, was attached to the Genoa in the action, and though but a young officer, Lieut. Broke's conduct shelved that he carried the blood of his gallant, father in his veins. Mr. Mitchell, the interpre- - preter and pilot, was killed on coming down the side of Moharein Bey's ship - into the boat, by a pistol-shot fired at him through the main deck port, by a Turk, who called him a Had but tihlca n ,t o i‘d t iho t . illiaisrneagicnct the d Nev e o l E l u t ld p soh; eha l n‘ ) . l ee o d o 4 d r el y tti. so r i e ls e u k ti :ose Admiral's thoughts, commenced operations, which were returned by the Asia with such ra pidity, that Admiral de Rigny compared the noise from the execution of her shot against the sides of the Capitana Bey, to the " united efforts of all the caulkers of England and France." The emulation which prevailed between the French and English line-of-battle, was worthy of admiration. Each strove to be foremost in ac tion.—Devonport Telegraph. PAssloN.—According to Dt, JoHN': . ,ON, a passionate man has a pretty life of it, •' spending his tiuLe in outrage and acknowledgment, injury and reparation GLOUCESTEIi.—A considerable sensation has been excited here by the recent elopement of a young lady from the Spa lintel. The lady in question is Miss DA NIEL, a young lady of about 19 years of age, possessing considerable personal attractions, and a fortune of nearly 20,0001., independent of her relations. She is the daugh ter of a learned counsel of that name, who was at this time absent from the neighbourhood, the young lady being on a visit to her elder sister. The object of her choice was a very handsome lad of about her own age, named Re,. mzarsos,, whose father is the proprietor of a respectable boarding-house situate near the Spa Hotel. The court ship was carried on with the most perfect secrecy, and the youthful gallant had taken the precaution to cause the banns to be three times published at a church i❑ Bristol, after which the young lady, under pretence of paying some morning visits, went a little way down the Bristol-road. got into a chaise-and-four, with her youthful admirer, and proceeded to Bristol, where the indissoluble knot was tied. The parties, however, came back so speedily, that at first nothing was suspected; but at the expiration of a if)eo‘tvhdbayL, leftthe happy bridegroom ty br o i n de t g b r e o i o r nicl ied matrimonial h t is ou b r. ride, and to have heard of. It as i, ge,erally the The man, named JAMES S of G the n m iG o o:: in l g Y u ll ia o l e y banishment from the county of Elgin, for theft, \ve re corded in our paper of the 21st ultimo, seems to have been, if we may use the expression, the numerous &predations a c i o ) n p s e t a r r i s ie t t i e ,a d t tl a i l i i e l y m e s s t N t s h 'e e e n v . e h r ol i e - e o c t o . lle ct of which he was guilty were coromitted from a pure or case with our ab stractlight- love of stealing, and cot for the purpose of being converted into cash, fingered gentry. We a, informed that he never made any preparations for his acts of theft, or set out for the ef stea . ling ; 1 ostensible purpose out then the abstracting propensity, as a pb.,,nologist might express it, was so pro minently developed. in his cranium, that he could keep his hands from 0 ,, article Whatever, with which he came ac cidentally it , ((nth " , provided he supposed there was no individual ,vho witnessed his doings at the time. Bowls, am/Plate able all sizes withit - k• • - ongs, po LT s, chai r 1 , , chairs, stoo s, ts, whether one, two, three, or four k0.5.,..-bannners, axes, night-caps, shoe:, stockings, hilts, trousers, cart-wheels, wheel-barrows, broken or whole— oddies, bridles, boat-keels, (it was foe stealing a boat-keel he was banished from the county), and etceteras without num ber —cam e all alike to honest JAMES Gitioorr. The c o ' !equence of this system of thieving was, that JAME.' ', bouse was a general, not to say universal, repository fo r thi:l world's goods. It was literally brimful Of them — so much so that there was scarcely a possibility of getting into its interior. When any individual in the surrounding country went to him in quest ~f artides supposed to have been stolen, and accused him o f being the guilty person, he never attempted to deny it; but with the utmost sung froid, would have requested him to " look about anion' that things there, an' zee if he could fin' them," pointing at the saint time to his amply, but rather confusedly, fur nished lodgings. When the stolen articles in question were discovered, JAWS, in a manner perfectly inimitable, and as if he bad conferred an actual favour on the in lividual by the trouble he had given him, was sure to ex claim, addressing himself to the person whose property he bad abstracted,, ~ N oo, noo, ye're surely pleased not), arc ua ye, sit' ye Ye gotteu yer e amp ?",....Elgin Courier.