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bited in a manner so grotesque, as that of' the members of the Roman Catholic Association, and of that portion of the Irish Press which the Rent has enabled them to retain, when they claim the illustrious Premier as their friend and ally, because he has said in effect that he would not despair of settling the Catholic Question, if the Catholics were something different from what they are, and.that they being.. such as they arc, and such as their religion necessarily makes them, he sees no prospect Of its settlement. —This we take to be the. meaning of the Duke of Wellington's letter, and we think it is ex as such a meanin g could" with pressed as plainly any degree of courtesy be expressed in . a commu nication directly addressed to a Roman Catholic Bishop. At once and decisively this communi cation puts an end to the thousand • and one Tumours which have been so industriously pro pagated by the advocates of Popery, of Go vernment having some definite measure in contemplation for the satisfaction of the Pa 'pists. It give a flat contradiction to the asser tion which O'Connell hazarded the other day in the Association, and to all the similar fabrica tions by which the Liberal Press have daily during the last six months endeavoured to amuse their readers. But it does moch more than this,— it proclaims that in the opinion of the 'Noble Duke the pretensions of the Roman Ca tholics are utterly and everlastingly hopeless. At least this is the impression it has produced upon our minds, judging of it without the opportunity of referring to the letter to which it is a reply, and which .letter the Roman Catholic party, from whom the publication of the Duke's reply pro ceeds, have cautiously suppressed.. In the intro ductory paragraph of his letter the Noble Pre mier expresses, in the same general terms which he has more than once employed in Parlia ment, his anxiety for " the settlement of the Roman Catholic Question, which, by benefiting the State, would-confer a benefit upon every in dividual belonging to it." For such a settle ment of the question as this—a settlement which by benefiting the State would confer a benefit on every individual belonging to it, it is needless to say that we also, in common with every loyal subject of the British Crown, are sincerely anxious. " But," says the Noble Duke—and this is the passage of his communication which is of immediate practical importance—" I con fess I see no prospect ( . )i such a settlement." Nor can we e —nor can any honest man who is not himself a Roman Catholic, see any such pro spect. The fact is, and so we have no doubt the Duke of Wellington thinks, that a set tlement of the question which can benefit the State, other than that which may be produced by the complete extinction of the hopes and pretensions of the Roman Catho lics, is impossible so long as that body are distinguished from the rest of their fellow subjects and fellow Christians by blind and de voted slavery to their priests, and by that cala mity or crime, call it which we will—for it ;nay be either, and in some instances it is both-- which a eonstitutea the brand and fetters of their bondage, their exclusion from the oracles of God, 'from that pure fountain of intelligence and morality, the Sacred Scriptures. Let them be emancipated from this degrading and vitiating bondage, and other emancipation they will not require, nor their Protestant fellow-subjects refuse. The Duke of Wellington is of opinion that the absence of party violence' in the dis cussion of the question, and a cairn, dispas sionate, ain-i diligent consideration of its dif ficulties, must precede any satisfactory ad justment. These conditions are no doubt indispensible to any satisfactory adjustment of the question, but it is equally clear that they are unattainable or impossible conditions. The abstraction of party feelings from the discussion would leave the cause of unconditional emanci pation without a single Protestant advocate. A calm, dispassionate, and diligent consideration of the difficulties of the question would lead the Romanists, were they capable of undertaking it, to detect the large and permanent source of those difficulties, in. the ecclesiastical slavery of which they are the voluntary victims, and which, so long. as they are held in subjection to it, must disqualify them for forming an integral and influential part of a Free Protestant Government. In avoiding the polemics of the question, the Duke of Wellington evinces the good taste and discretion which might be expected from Mtn. He requires the absence of party violence upon a question which has hitherto derived its greatest importanc e from the violence or cunning of party. He requires that all parties to the ques tion should fit themselves for a calm, dispas sionate, and diligent consideration of its diffi culties, which, as he well observes, are great, it b e i ng evident and notorious that the most deeply interested and most active of these parties are such, simply because they are, disqualified for perceiving in what the chief difficulties of the question consist, and that when even that dis qualification ceases they will be parties to it no longer. We can wish for no wore explicit de, claration that the Noble Doke neither is now, nor ever will be, an Emancipator.—Mo? n. Post. In another part of our Paper will be found a letter from the Duke of Wellington on the sub ject of the Roman Catholic Question, the honesty and good sense of which we would fain recom mend to the kind consideration and favourable construction both of the opponents and abettors of the measure of Emancipation. If any one thing be more palpable than another, it is that the violence of these parties has done more to retard the settlement of the Catholic Ques tion than any difficulties peculiarly belonging to the measure itself; and that until their violence has given way to calm consideration, there will he no possibility of settling it. From the con tents of the letter itself, we do not perceive that any deduction can be made either in favour, or against the concession, of the Catholic claims. There is nailing positive in the letter either the one way or the other ; and all that is question h as b een sa id s a id upon the general again and again by the most determined oppo nents of Emancipation. All profess themselves willing and anxious to see the affairs of Ireland fettled ; .and all agree, that if they could be set tled without endangering the stability of the Con stitution, there would be a great and beneficial change in the state and circumstances of both countries—a - gain to Ireland in internal peace and general tranquillity, and a gain to England in the saving of an enormous military expenditure - for keeping our fellow-subjects quiet. But then the question again recurs how is the benefit to be secured on the °He hand, and the danger averted on the other ? and to this the Duke of Wellington has only answered by saying, that such an im portant object can only 1e secured by burying, for a time, all the jealousies, animosities, and party fesling, and coming as calmly to the con sideration of the question, as to that of one of mere expediency, which involves no feeling but that of conducing to the benefit of 'the State.- The indefinite nature of such an answer makes nothing, certainly, against his Grace's sincerity ; but we are frank to own, that if the question cannot he settled until the conditions, which he has pointed out, shall have been complied with, it never will be settled.—Morning Advertiser. The Letter of the Duke of Wellingtop to the !lonian Catholic Primate of Ireland, expressing his sincere anxiety to witness the settlement of the Catholic Question, which he says " by be nefitting the State would confer a benefit on every individual be:onging to it," is important as proving the opinion which his Grace enter tains himself on the subject. His subsequent confession that he sees no prospect of such a set tlensent, as party has been mixed up with the consideration of the question to such a degree, and such violence 'pervades every discussion of it, that it is impossible to expect to prevail upon men to consider it dispassionately, leaves us very much in the dark as to the grounds for his opinion. There is evidently more here than meets the eye. If the Duke had wished to pre vent party from being mixed up with the ques tion, he would have declared himself distinctly at an earlier period, for we are convinced that almost all the opposition in this country has arisen from t hodoubt respecting the views of his Grace. But it is possible that his Grace alludes here to the secret power, without which, no doubt, he cannot act. He knows best the diffi culties of his position. The rest of the letter must not be construed strictly. He no doubt means, by burying the question in oblivion fer a short time, and employing that time diligently in the consideration of its difficulties, the absti ' nence from the public agitation of it, in order that the warmth on one side may not call forth an equal degree of warmth on the other. When it is known, too, that the Head of the Govern ment is anxious for a settlement, all those who look forward to favours will, at all events, be anxious not to be prominent in counteracting it. We have no doubt that the letter will give great satisfaction to all the Catholics. Our readers will see the impression which the read ing of it produced at the Catholic Association.— Morning Chronicle. This metropolis is famous for having the worst police in Europe, without exception, and for having more females of easy virtue than all the other capitals of Europe taken together. The latter evil -is perhaps inseparable frinn the greA wealth and luxury and circulation both of men and property ; and perhaps the beat policy is to wink at an 'evil that cannot be suppressed, and to say as little about it as possible, recurring to the law only when offences against public de cency are committed by the frail sisterhood. In other cities the police, to prevent any public scandal, takes the regulation of this matter into its hands. But Englishmen, free-born English men, have been taught to believe that it is better to be without security for person and property, than to submit to any regulations for keeping the evil-disposed in check, and deg the constant spectacle of disgusting indecency is necessary to the existence of liberty. But every now and then, amidst all this pretended regard for liberty, there occurs a most insufferable interference with indis viduals, under the pretence of preserving purity of morals, which is the more disgusting from the knowledge of the rank hypocrisy from which it emanates. Our readers will see, from our Man sion-House Report, that a discovery has been made in the Records of the City of London, that " a lewd woman may be pursued, if she be in corn pally with a man for Wrong purposes, into a house of ill repute, and be taken therefrom, and carted through- the streets ; and that her male compa nion, in such wrong-doing, of' whatever degree, may be also apprehended and carted like wise ;" and that the City Police are employed in the praiseworthy attempt of carrying that custom into execution. If the accounts which the Com mon Councilmen gave of' each other at the late Wardmotes be at all like the truth, we may soon expect to see carting one of the best trades in the city of London. " They are, it seems, placed back to back, in an open cart ; and a piece of parer is pinned to the breast of each, stating the nature of the offence. They are then to be driven at a slow pace to the City boundary ; and when they arrive there, the back-board is to be iemoved, and they are both to be gently dropped into the county." Whet a nice spectacle it would be to see the Deputy - A. and Miss B. carted in this way through the City ! What folly ! We are told in the excellent History of the French Revolution, by Thiess, that during the Reign of Terror, an enthusiast of the name of Chaumette endeavoured in good earliest to effect what the city people, for reasons best known to themselves, arc now pretending to effect. " Chaumette (says the historian), destitute of political wisdom, full 'of' a common-place philo sophy, and- carried away by an extraordinary penchant for declamation, preached with ar dour, and the devout pride of a Missionary, good morals, industry, the patriotic virtues, and finally reason, abstaining always, how ever, from naming God. lie thundered against prostitution, and caused to be prohi bited by the commune the profession of public women, usually tolerated as inevitable. These unfortunate wretches were prohibited from ap pearing in public, or even exercising in the in terior of their houses their deplorable industry. Chaumette said, that _ they belonged to Mo narchical and Catholic countries, where there were idle citizens and unmarried Priests, and that labour and marriage ought to drive them from Republics. Of course the exertions of Citizen Chaumette were as successful as those of the Municipal Officers of London will be. We dare to say Englishmen were very few aware that any Beadle or Constable could, under the pretext of repressing paw paw proceedings, enter houses without a war rant, and drag whom he conceived as offending before justice. Even during the reign of t error , this was deemed no small stretch of authority in Citizen Chaumette. Such law cannot be exe cuted in England—it may afford a handle to malice. This comes of living under Sleeping laws, which any coxcomb or busy meddling, fool may put in force to gratify spleen. It is admi rably remarked by Jeremy Bentham, in his book on Judicial Establishments :—" Of the condition of him whose curse—l had almost said whose crime—it is to live under such laws, what is to be said? It is neither more nor less than slavery. Stich it is in the very strictest language, and according to the exactest definition. Law, the only power that gives security to others, is the very thing that takes it away from him. His destiny is to live his life long with a halter about his neck ; and his safety depends upon his never meeting with that man whom wantonness and malice can have induced to pull at it. Between the tyranny of sleeping laws, and the tyranny of lawless Mo narchy, there is this difference : the, latter is the tyranny of' one, the other is the tyranny of mil lions. In the one case the slave has but one master ; in the other he has as many masters as there are individuals in the party by whom the tyranny has been set up. Tyranny and anarchy are never far asunder. Dearly, indeed, must the laws pay fin- the mischief of which they sire thus made the instruments. —The weakness they are thus struck with does not confine itself to the peccant spot ; it spreads over their whole frame. The tainted parts throw suspicion upon those that arc yet sound. Who can say which of them the disease has gained--which of them it has spared ? You open the Statute Book, and look into a clause : does it belong to the sound part or to the rotten? How can you say ? By what token are you to k no w? A man is not safe in trusting to his own eyes. You may have the whole Statute Book by heart, and all the while not know the ground you stand upon under the law. It pretends to fix your -destiny ; and after all, if you want to know your destiny, you must learn it, not from the law, but the temper of the times. The tem per of the times, did I say ? You must know the temper of every individual in the nation ; you must know not only what it is at the pre sent instant, -hut what it will be at every future 1 one. All this you must know, before you can lay your hand upon your bosom, and say to yourself, I ant safe. What, all this while, is. the character and condition of the law ? Some times a bugbear, at other times a snare ; her threats inspire no efficient terror, her promises no confidence." There is not a member of the Corporation of .the city of London, who would not be afraid of the ridicule of a denial than he had some time or other deserved to be carted, if municipal justice had been done to him. How foolish, then, to rummage musty records for customs, from the execution of which they would themselves have been in danger ! But it is worse than foolish. They are affording a justi fication to the Constables, Beadles, and other people in their pay, to neglect duties in which they may be useful to their fellow-citizens, by busying themselves with the more agreeable business of prying into the conduct of their neighbours. Is there not a sufficiency of em ployment for these people in affording protection to persons and property, : and hunting out thieves, but they must, forsooth, meddle with what constitutes a violation of morality rather than a crime ?—/bid. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. An elderly woman named Mary Moss, alias Bullivan, alias Salmons, was charged before Alder man FAREBROTHER with having assaulted and ob structed Collins, the beadle of Wa'brook, in 'the execution of his duty. This case was rendered remerkable by being the first connected with the revival of a very old custom of the city of London, established for the punish ment of persons guilty of immoral conduct in housea of a certain description. The City Solicitor attended for the pro wcution. He stated, that as it was impossible to calculate with certainty upon the punishment of the keepers. of notorious and dangerous brothels in the city of London, and as numerous complaints had been lately made against the owners of such HOuses by some of the most respectable families, it had been at length determined to resort to the ancient and ex cellent custom of carting those who frequented such places for immoral purposes. It was mentioned in one of the City records, that " a lewd woman may he pursued, if she he in company with a man for wrong purposes, into a house of ill-repute, and be taken therefrom, and carted through the streets, and that her male companion in such wrong-doing, of whatever degree, may be also apprehended and carted likewise." This custom, the revival of which would perhaps be attended with some inconveni ence,.was, he thought, calculated to prevent the dis graceful scenes which so frequently took place in houses of ill-fame. A very prudent officer had been directed to " pursue" couples, according to the terms of the custom, into the house, No. 6, Sherborne lane, Walbrook, and in the performance of this duty he had been assaulted. Collins deposed, that having received his orders to keep his eve upon the house in question, a girl addressed him in the street in the usual strain, and invited him to No. 6. Be told her to go in and he would follow her. She forthwith led the way, and walked up stairs. He also went in ; but before he reached the landing-place, the defendant rushed out of the parlour, seized him by the collar, dragged him down, and called for the poker. Ile imme diately showed her his staff. She still, resisted— called him by the most opprobrious names, and he left the house. Mr. Harmer, who attended for the defendant, said that the beadle could have expected no other treatment ; Mrs. Moss conjectured that he had an improper design upon the young woman, and very properly interfered. if it was the beadle's intention to enter, not for pleasure, but for the purpose of apprehending parties, he should have brought his warrant. The City Solicitor said, that Mr. Harmer was quite mistaken in that respect. The beadle bad a tight to pursue parties who were in homses of the kind upon "disorderly business," and to take them into custody without Ft warrant, and any one who interfered was punishable at the Quarter Sessions, which was a custom certainly peculiar to the city of London. Mr. Harmer contended that such a custom had fallen into aesuetude, and was worth nothing; ao man had a right to enter a house without a warrant to search for persons. Besides, the officer himself was the companion of the girl, so that if any carting were to take place, he must in all fairness un dergo it. How did Mrs. Moss know but that she was beset by thieves? The custom alluded to was certainly " more honoured in the breach than the observance," for other reasons. The Alderman asked whether the defendant wished to give any account of the matter. Mrs. Moss—Your Vorship, I did'nt like to see Mr. Collins, what every one knows has a large family, go along with a duberous character. I con sidered that he had a vife, and I knows the feelings of a voman, and I vouldn't let him do no such a thing. Collins stated, that some time afterwards be " pursued" a gentleman and a female to the same house, and upon going after them up stairs, he was again seized in a very rough manner by the de fendant, to whom he again showed his staff, but who grossly reviled him, and threatened him with the poker. Mr. Harmer said he really considered this most unwarrantable conduct. It was quite ridiculous to suppose that a man could be justified in entering house of any description without an authority signed by a Magistrate. The City Solicitor—l expect that the defendant will be ordered to find bail. The house is a dread ful -nuisance, and carting is the only alternative left. There is n ow a gent l eman i n t h e J ust i ce - room , w h o is prevented from bringing home his children to his house because it is opposite to that in question. We thought to burn Mrs. Moss out, but she was not to be mth-ed by fire. Mr. Harmer—How did Mrs. Moss know that the couple were not man and wife ? The City Solicitor—Nobody can doubt the pur pose for which they went in. The whole neigh bourhood is disgraced and disguked by the proceed ing there, and we must put a stop to them. Mr. Harmer—But you must not ransack our rooms in quest of couples. The City Solicitor—We must prevent these things, friend Harmer. The revival of this custom vvill, I trust, produce a wholesome effect. If we do not adopt this plan, we shall be obliged to con tent ourselves with the old one of indictment, and defendants will manage to escape us by a speedy transfer. Alderman FAREBROTHER observed, that nothing could be a more dreadful nuisance to a respectalele neighbourhood than a house such as that at present In question. Mr. Harmer (notwithstanding the city solicitor's great experience of city customs) expressed a strong doubt of the existence of the custom described, it was in such decided opposition to the liberty of the subject. The City Solicitor—Of the existence of it there is no more doubt than that we are here. There was rather a singular ease of the kind, which is mentioned, I think, by Stowe. The Pope's Nuncio Caine over to this country, to anathematize certain of the clergy of the city of London, for having taken unto themselves wives, in contradiction to the spirit of celibacy which so powerfully operated upon the Catholic community of that day, with respect to their pastors. On the night of his arrival, however, that reverend personage was taken out of a house of ill fame in Cornhill, where he was discovered by the police in bed with a girl. Alderman FAREBROTHER—And what becamo of the Nuncio ? The City Solicitor.--I believe that our respect for his Holiness induced the Lord Mayor, before whom his emissary was brought next day, to let his reve rence go without carting him, but I am sure we carted the girl. (Laughter.) Alderman FARBROTIIER ordered the defendant to find bail, And in default committed her. We understand that the carting system will he immediately adopted on a very general scale in the city of London, and that the operation is as follows : —The delinquents are placed back to back in an open cart, and a piece of paper is pinned to the breast• of each, stating. the nature of the offence. They are then to be driven at a slow pace to the city 'boundary, and when they arrive there, the back board is to be removed, and •they are both to be gently dropped into the county. BOW-STREET. Last night Alexander Reid, the pugilist, was brought before Sir R. BIRNIE and Mr. HALLS, by Dodd, the officer, charged, under the Pawnbrokers' Act, with unlawfully pawning one pair of boots, one pair of shoes, and a pair of boot-trees, the property of Wm. Jackson, the celebrated pedestrian. The prisoner acid that the property was ple►iged at the desire of Jackson. -" The charge, your Wor ship," continued Reid, " has been got up to spite me. I acted in the kindest manner towards Jackson when he was unable to help himself, and this. is the return I have met with." " Who is Mr. Jackson ?" asked Mr. HALLS. " Lord love your Worship, I thought you knew Mr. Jackson ; why he is quite entirely a notorious sort of a character." "And this gentleman, yoar Worship," rejoined Jackson, " is Mr. Alexander Reid, the fighting man, better known by the name of the Chelsea Snob, who stood his trial for manslaughter at the Old Bailey. He says that I authorized him to pledge these things, but he speaks falsely. I was in a typhus fever at the time, and in a state of insensi bility, so that I could not have acted as he says I did." Reid—l shall be enabled to prove that you au thorised me to pledge the property. You know you are a greater rogue than I am. Sir R. BraNtri observed, that the prisoner was very candid in acknowledging that he was a rogue. Most likely it was six of one and half a dozen of the other. The prisoner was remanded to give him an op portunity of bringing forward witnesses to prove that he was authorized by the prosecutor to pledge the property. H ATTON-GAADEN. Two brothels, of the name of Roche, were charged with assaulting a constable of the name of Waite, in a riot yesterday, in Gray's-inn-lane. One of them wrenched the staff out of the constable's hand, and wounded him with a blow of it so se verely on the head, that he was obliged to be con veyed immediately to a surgeon, and at present is considered in very imminent danger. The prisoners were ordered to give 2 hours' no tice of bail. A hat manufacturer, of the name of Emerlon, re siding at Islington, wag charged with having com mitted various assaults. Mrs. Emerton, of No. 36, Gloucester -street, Queen-square, stated, that on Christmas-day, while about to sit down to dinner, and having a roasted goose just ready to be served up at table (a dish that always graced her board on festive days), the defendant entered her kitchen, and insisting that the goose belonged to him, immediately demanded it, and absolutely refused to quit the house unless he were permitted to take the goose with him ; nor would 'be suffer it to be laid o❑ the table, lest it should be incised with the carving -knife. Mrs. Emerton endeavoured to put him out of the house (without, however, indulging the extravagancy of his demand), when he became exctzsively impatient, and struck her a violent blow on the neck. A young mac, \vho rushed to her assistance, the defendant, also made a desperate assault upon, and the constable, who took him into custody, complained, that while bringing him to the watch-house, he made a violent effort to get away, and in the struggle his (the constable's) coat was rent from the collar to the tail. The defendant still insisted that the goose was his, and that it had bean sent to Mrs. Emerton's for him. When he called there to take it away, he was certainly provoked to find that, Mrs. Emerton in tended it rather for her own use, and when he de manded it, even dressed as it was, she was the first herself to begin the assault by striking him. This was denied by evidence, and the elefentlant %vas. fined 10s. UNION- H ALL. Yesterday, a Mr. Mortimer, of the tncdical pro febsion, was charged with having violently assaulted Mr. T. Gregory, a tradesman residing in the district of this office. From the evidence it appeared, that the offence complained of was committed about three weeks ago, at which period Mr. Gregory came to this dice in order to apply for a warrant, and exhibited a counte nance much disfigured, in consequemee of the ill-usage he received at the hands of his assailant, who, it seems, left his former abode, and removed to another part of the town, with the view of avoiding the consequences of his conduct. The complainant, however, deter mined on having reparation for the assault committed on him, and his assailant punished, at length disco vered his residence, and had him immediately brought to this office. The facts of the assault, RR stated by the com plainant, are as follow :—As Mr. Gregory and his son, a little boy, were proceeding up the South wark-road, the latter some distance in the rear, the defendant, who was accompanied by tn•o other young men, snatched the cap off the boy's head (whether for a " lark" or for the purpose of keeping it, com plainant did not know), and walked away with it. The father having observed the transaction, imme diately went up to the defendant, and desired to hare his son's cap restored, upon which the defendant, instead of deliverin g it up, commenced abusing him ; and when retorted upon for interfering with the lad and snatching away his cap, he (defendant) without further ceremony ' pitched into" Mr. Gregory, and before he permitted him to escape out of his hands, gave him a severe beating, the complainant, it appeared, standing no chance against his adver sary, a young man, his superior by many degrees in the science of pugilism. After having pum melled away at the poor man, who lustily called out f or help, the defendant fearing the consequences, took to his heels and escaped. His companions were secured on the spot, and forthwith brought to this Office, but it appearing they were not concerned in the assault, were discharged, both of them, be fore leaving the Office, declaring they were unac quainted with the defendant's address. Mr. Gre gory now stated that he had much difficulty in dis covering the defendant's abode, since which he had made inquiries into his character, and was perfectly satisfied now that bo had Lo intention of takings, the boy's cap away with any other view than to have a "lark;" still he should not have attacked compl►►inant in the violent manner he did, upon being civilly re quested to return it. Mr. HONE said that be remembered the circum stances; the complainant's face was certainly very much bruised and disfigtsred when he first made ap plication for a warrant. Mr. Gregory said, that previous to his having come into the office that morning, the defendant offered to make reparation for his conduct by paying Oiree guineas to any charity ; he named an hospital, to which h►e expressed a wish the money might be pivot. Mr. HONE said that the defendant's wish on the subject should mot he consulted : he was the aggressor, and if the complainant was satisfied in arranging the assault in the above way, the money should certainly be at his disposal, to do what he thought proper with it. Three guineas, at the suggestion of Mr. Gregory, were ultimately transmitted to the secretary of a charitable institution about to be erected in the neighbourhood of Charing-cross. The defendant, in addition, had to pay a sovereign for the expenses in curred in finding his residence. Information of a robbery, attended with violence, was given at this office on Wednesday night. As Mr. Kearsey, a farmer, residing at Tarleton, near Cirencester, was proceeding home between eight and nine o'clock, he was attacked near the village of Itodmarton by two men, who, springing out on him from behind a quickset hedge, fell upon him, knocked him down, and beat him severely. While on the ground, the offenders turned all his pockets inside out, and robbed him of four 5/. notes, besides forty one 1/. notes of the Tetbury Bank, and a silver hunting-watch. The thieves are described as dressed like countrymen, one of them about five feet ten inches, and the other about five feet four inches in height. LAW INTELLIGENCE. VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, DEC. 21. TERRY V. 11OR8FALL. . The ATTORNEY-GENERAL moved for an injunc tion in this ease, upon the following statement of facts :—lnk in its liquid state not being easily made the subject &an export trade, in consequence of the difficulty of preserving it in a warm climate, a ,per ' son of the panic of Richard Walkden, a stationer living on London-bridge, at the sign of The Bell, se long ago as 1735, discovered a mode of preparing it in a state of powder. This article had a very considerable sale, and was known by the appellation of" Walkden's Fine British Ink Powder." The recipe afterwards came into the possession of John Walkden, the son of the original inventor, who entered into partnership in 1785 with a Mr. Darby. Upon the death of Mr. John Walkden, in 1806, Mr. Darby for some time continued the sole pro prietor, till in 1817 he formed a partnership with the present plaintiff. That partnership has since been dissolved by the retirement of Mr. Darby from business wholly, and in consideration of a large sum of money paid by Mr. Terry to Mr. Darby, the sole title to the powder vested in the plaintiff.— From the time of the original discovery by the elder Walkden down to the present time, the powder has always been prepared in packages of a certain form and Rife, each enclosed in a wrapper bearing upon it a particular label. The plaintiff has lately discovered that the defendant, Mr. Horsfall, Who carries on the business of an ink-maker in Grerille street, Hatton-garden, 'has been for some time past in the habit of selling a composition purporting to be " Walkden's Fine British Ink Powder," arid which was made up in packages with wrappers and labels similar to those sold by the plaintiff. The Attor ney-General (with whom was Mr. Belles's) applied to the Court for an injunction to restrain the defend ant from using any such wrappers or labels. The ViCE-CHANCELLOR granted the injunction ex parte. BURGLARIES IN THE ENVIRONS OF THE METROPOLIS. The astonishing increase of the clime of burglary in the villages and places round about the Metro polis has become the general topic of conversation in all quarters, and has attracted the serious attention of the Magistrates of the different police-offices. It most be regarded as an astounding fact, that nearly 50 burglaries, accompanied by the abstraction of va luable property, have been committed within 12 miles or so of London since the beginning of Octo ber ; and so successfully have the depredations been carried on, so well organised have been the plans of the robbers, that there have not been more than one or two convictions of regular burglars during the whole of that time. There has been scarcely a day for the last two months that informations have not been received at Bow-street-office of two or three burghries on the previous night. Amongst the most daring were those of Mr. Warrington, at Moulscy ; Colonel Whatley, at Watford; and that on Saturday night last, at the Tedilisigton Lock house, occupied by Mr. Savory, the cdector of the lock-dues for the Corporation. In the middle of the night Mr. Savory was roused by a noise, and immediately after four men enter ed the room where he was in bed, and one of them presented a pistol at his head, and warned him to be quiet if he valued his life. There was light in the room, and one of the men carried a lan tern, and Mr. Savory could perceive that the faces of the robbers were blackened. They ransacked the place, taking away a watch, a quantity of money in notes and cash, a receipt on a stamp for 8001., and a quantity of old coins, and sonic wearing apparel.— On the previous night, Friday, the house of Thomas Carr, Esq. (once of the residence of Garrick) at Hampton, and that of a lady named Archer, near Kingston-bridge, were also broken open and plun dered of considerable property. At Mr. Carr's, the thieves had first tried to obtain an entrance by boring through the shutters of a hack window with a centre-bit, but the lining of iron was too stout for them, and they then tore up the flap of the cellar, and made their way through two wine cellars up stairs. Not the slightest noise was heard by any one of the family. A few days ago two gentlemen, from Bromley, in Kent, called at Bow-street Office, to consult the chief Magistrate upon the best means of checking the nightly depredations in that quarter. They stated that no less than nine burglaries had been committed in Bromley parish within eight days, and the inhabitants, especially the female part, were in a pitiable state of alarm. Sir R. BUtNIE should be most happy to render any assistance, but lie much feared that if he sent officers it would be incurring an useless expence. The plans of the burglars (Sir Richard continued) were so well laid, and the facilities for the disposal Of stolen property so great, that detection after the offence was next to impossible. The only possible way of effectually stopping these outrages would, in his opinion, be to establish a local police, consist ing of strong, active men, well acquainted with the neighbourhood; arid he would recommend the ap pointment of an experienced police-officer from one of the metropolitan offices, as a superintendent, at a reasonable salary. The gentle - men stated that they 'had something of the kind in contemplation, and would consult the parishioners, and apply again to Sir Richard on the subject. The three Magistrates of the office have had seve ral conversations on the subject, and they all agree, that with the present number of police tinder the management of the Home Department and of the Magistrates, the prevention of the crime which has given rise to so much alarm, and attracted so much of the public attention, is totally unattainable. The officers, we can state from positive know ledge, have been indefatigable in their endeavours tu, bring the West Moulsey gang to justice, and wititn' the last few days they have had persons in custody who, they had the strongest information, were part of that gang, but neither Mr. nor Mrs. Warrington nor their servants were able to identify them, and the detection of these daring robbers is now consi dered almost hopeless. MEDICAL. PRACTITIONERS. .1 Yesterday evening Inquests were held at King's Arms, King -street, St. James's, on the dies of two children, Henry and Isabella Goff, four, and the other two and a half years of age, father of whom is coachman to the Marchioness Londonderry, mid whose deaths were alleged to la been occasioned by the improper treatment of 6 6 , medical men by whom they were attended. The first witness examined was Henry Goff; father of the deceased children. He stated that left town on Tuesday fortnight, the children 5r . ,%. then in good health, and lie returned on the Sad day following. On Monday week Isabella taken ill, and his wife went to Mr. Davies,,./- chymist, residing in King-street, to procure sov.i medicine for the chili ; and Mr. Davies then ked her to have the assistance of Mr. Douches, Air-street, Piccadilly, who, he said, was a partiti friend of his, was very clever, and particularly s fill in treating the scar l e t f ever , an d un de r whl t i he supposed the children then laboured. t) Davies said she could not have a person sessed of more skill. Mr. Douchez - was tr A requested to attend the child ; ho complied sr i .. the request, and attended from d a y to dg:: and during that time said he was a physicist the chid laboured ender great pain from the trrj merit she had received from Mr. Douches, and nri medicines given her which occasioned a great struction in the bowels. The other child (the be was taken ill last Wednesday week, an d 11 ; Douchez attended him also Finding that el' were getting worse, th e w it ness sa id, th at about hours before one of the children died he repos - 11 Dr. Merriman to attend, as he was not satisfied ot the treatment of Mr. Douches. H e was m et Mr. Davies, and they remained some time in 1 sultation upon the case. The boy died on Saturdet and the other child on the Tuesday follo w i ng . Davies had since sent in his bill, amounting to I t 75., which he had paid ; Mr. Douches had not asp j i in his bill, but had stated that when the addle had recovered he might make him what compels! thin he thought proper. Douchez, who is a very young man, be. stepped forward, accompanied by another p e rsSi l 'i and said that the child was afflicted - with the maliF nant scarlet fever. Dr. Merriman, of Brook-street, Grosvenor-sqt l .:, 4 —Witness was sent for on Saturd a y l ast to v i si t tt„, deceased children ; when he went to Mrs. Gone; found four children labouring under a scarlet fever, one of them, Robert, hail be e n lat e ly t a k en ou t warm bath, and was lying in a bed in a conal, state ; witness did not expect he would recover; / (yo r ministered some medicine, but without expectetto of prolonging life; his attention was then drawl . . Isabella; thought her so ill as to doubt of her PI. coyery, but he administered medicine. CORONER—Did you see what. the medicie were ? Dr. Merriman-4 saw medicines, but could ! PI distinguish them without analysis; I did not AI, to the general remedies .Which had been ad m i n ister a, As far as I know, the children did not die of 0 treatment. Dr. Merriman was further examined by jo a uomii• Douchez as to the remedies proper to be given ' s; ‘ Co ml he stated that he thought the medicines not .r . Wee proper. kcal The post martens examination, performed 1)) 9 ,1 1 , tbsta Healy, Dr. Tuson, and Dr. Dermott, was then re . , The opinions of these gentlemen were, that had V o per remedies been applied, the lives of the chaf e might have been saved. et WTI One of the Jury considered it highly improP,, t; „, that Mr. Douchez should have stated himself tg haa sin been a surgeon, without being regularly adrnietV` l :; hitLe The Jury, after some consultati o n, returnedat w i Verdict—" Died of Scarlet Fever." (*Ali One of the Jury expressed in strong terms. not disapprobation of Mr. Donehez acting as a regal Co' practitioner, without being authorized.. .The. ()e t a 9 , b itit rosier said the Court could net ente r t a i n t h a t we c ru , lion.— The Jury then separated. Ditto of sigP; TRET (4)4 Ph Partiel eve b BIRTHS. On the 21st inst. at Beaufort Castle, Inverness- 0 the Hon. Mrs. Fraser, of Lovat, of a son and heir- Ou the 25th ins', in Lower Belgrave-street, the wire of the Rev. R. Lynam, of a daughter. „, p el On the 24th inst. at Kinmel Park, the Nea t o f Coa li Hughey, ;11.P., the lady of Francis Lyttleton HOP': Esq. of twin daughters. At Raterpark, county Limerick, the lady of SO, tic Binder., Esq. of a daughter. In Drogheda, the lady of George Murphy, El. ofd . On the 24th inst. in Grafton-street, Lady Vincent' daughter. MARRIED. .to On the 24th inst. Louis Perez, Esq. of BrightOM 'Miss Mercer, of the same place. of 0:i the 25th inst. by the Rev. Dr. Richards, r ectv , o h. St. Martin's-in-the-fields, William Shaw, Esq. of K 0 .1 6 0,0 town, to Frances Mary, the widow of the late Th°. Jones, Esq. of Grarog, South Wales, and Long.aere..,o On the 24th inst. at St. James's, Piccadilly, Parker, Esq. of the Hon. Society of Lincoln's Inn, to Jett Seraphinsonly daughter of the late Signor Romualdi At Dca) cot, Walker Smith, Esq. of Kington St. MO' to Miss King, of Draycot. bit On the 25th inst. Mr. James Hopkins, of 1 . 81° ,0 Conduit-street, to Elizabeth, eldest danghtey of 141 r. r Young, of Islington. T. WES' iCHA with klittut Artie] abroa, land, tvury tizid tio n f biii All and c' adlitr Whisel I"fl, S i i &CHI Lt IN t W.lll WSX'd hubi 1 laltsu i whia "I'las( DIED. On the 24th inst. ageti 29, kir. James Dixon, of street, Strand, carriage lamp-maker, son of the late Pr James Dixon, of the same pl ice. 0 4 On the 24th inst. at Clifton, William Gaven Nufeet Lieut. in the Hon. East India Company's Engirt Madras, aged 23 years and six months. On the 25th inst. at Teddington, James Soppitt, late of Queenhithe. i On the 25th inst. at hi s house at Camberw e ll, C.'l. Johnson, Esq. in the 68th year of his age, much reenat On the 21st inst. at Brandon Hall, Suffolk, Sr., Dena, Esq. aged 72. On the 21st inat. at Kensington, aged 29, C a rolinet.. Het of Mr. James Gerhard Andreson, of Port-an:POT / a, On the 20th inst. in hjs 85th year, N a th an R o llie' Esq. of Montpelier-row, Twickenhatn. On the 26th inst. aged 31, in London, after a illness, the Rev. Edward Elton Chaundy, M.A., ortli," of the Rev. John Amyatt Channdy, late of Charlincl4, , Bridgewater. • On the 24th inst. at Hare Hatch, to the cape, grief of her family and friends, after a lingering. TOP borne ,with Christian resignation, Elisabeth, relict • Ita*. Philip Trent Niud, late vicar of Wargrave, 1301'.40 On the 16th inst. at Lausanne, aged 83, Maria '.of Rtidell, widow of the late Thomas Rundell, 1..: 0 41bia Bath, and only child of the late Abel Johnatone Nett i ot El. of Ludlow and Stepple Hall, near Cleohtmy, b et, ' the cotmty of Salop. eS ee -i On tber,2sth inst. suddenly, at his father's resi gl Minories, aged 29, Mr. Peter Blackburn, of - the Messrs. Vendome and Co., Leadenhall-street. This 11 ir event took place whi'st surrounded by his relations at e ;it annual family meeting, and changed a seene of don ) * and innocent gaiety into one of "lamentation, met ol and woe." On the 3d inst. suddenly, at his residence in Heal Ot. the Bight Rev. Robert Stanger, D.D., formerly 0 1 g e. John's College, Cambridge, in the 69th year of b' iii Dr. Stanger, after nearly 30 years - of laborious and f¢'-s' service, as a Missionary from the Society for the - V(l4dt tion of the Gospel, in the province of Nova Scotia, ..„J.'"oos America, was consecrated in the year 1816 Bishop o ; h de province at the urgent and unanimous desire of theett community. The highest and the lowest, dank' and Dissenters, on that occasion were all anxious to 10 1 to his worth, and to evince their affection for him. shun, indeed, was the period allowed him for e xertr'or the high station he was chosen to fill; for the discs... o ,oh tracted in a severe climate from 'exposure and LI ill under circumstances very far different from those 1 1 °. fo r existence, began too soon to prey upon his frame, ant. tiered him incapable of attending to his arduous cw7 e ar In consequence of which, his Gracious Majesty, in the tale 1825, was pleased to allow him to retire, and in 1 10 p rof seclusion has he lived to this period. Devoid altogstbp pride, possessing a benevolent heart, of endearing 81:1 jet fectionate manners, it is but due to this good man ° has the world know he lived beloved and respected, and 10 died sincerely lamented. ---- the PRINTED and Panuorun by MURDO 70UNG, 114 SUN Or MS, 1 1 it, &TR A 1.40, LinflOff. 6 e No dwru Tim eapa and col2l Co., Von( I} au el v or t i Ole 1 bawl as W ~vllm poik hts Whit: ‘vit,b , had I 4-eat Ju Lye, 2, I.] ki k y 1 6, I !fir ' crt buLl Itteel