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desirable object—the prostration of the will and the understanding. It gives us sincere pleasure to be able to call the attention of our readers to language in a clergyman, truly worthy of an age professing to be enlightened. At the dinner given to Professor M'Culloch, by the gentlemen of his native county, of which a more ample account is given in the Dzw:f;-ics Courier, than the one we yesterday c opied from the 6urgit Courant, the Rev. Mr. Garlies Mait land, the eldest of the five Established Clergy men preLient, upon the Kirk being drank, deli vered the following speech , which cannot be too rarucir curt needed : Sir, as the senior Member of the Church of Scotland n ow present, I r eturn t h an k s i n me own name, and in the name of my brethren, for the toast w hi c h you have now given ; anti for the high com pliments which y on hay, now paid to ourchurch. These compliments, I hope, Sir, are not altogether inimerited; and it is my earnest prayer, that we may long continue to deserve them. As a Minister of the Church of Scotland, I do not think I am out of my place in being here this day ; and in uniting with so many gentlemen of fortune and respectability, to confer a small token of our gratitude, admiration, end esteem, upon an individual who by his learning, talents, and genius, has conferred so touch honour on the province which gave him birth, and such f , reat nd permanent benefits on society in general. I am perfectly convinced, Sir, that if the matter he rightly understood, it will he found that the Church of Scotland and Mr, M'Culloch have the same object in view, namely, the improvement and happiness of their species. We may seek this great and important object by different means, but the end is the same. We i-ray not travel on the same road, but we shall meet the same point at last. The Church of Scotland a liberal church ; she has discarded as much of bigotry and superstition, and retained as touch of the useful and the rational as any other church, esta blished or not established, with which I am ac (painted. She does not disclaim the lights of rea son, science, and philosophy ; on the contrary, she considers them us useful hand maids, us most valu able arid important auxiliaries, as she desires to avail herself of their services to the utmost. This being the ease, Mr. M'Culloch's labours as a philosopher and po litical economist cannot he indifferent to the Church of Scotland ; nor cuii they be conside:ed as at all :dick to the high objects which he has herself in view. Ilis labours, Sir, if I understand their nature, have a direct tendency to promote the temporal prosperity and happiness of mankind, by means of good order, good government, salutary institutions, and whole game laws. :Now, if this be the case—if it be really trite that Mr. M'Culloch's labours have this ten dency, I think it will hardly be denied that his ob ject is intimately connected with the very best inte rests of religion. For I maintain, Sir, that religion will thrive best, and make the surest and most rapid pro g ress where the people are the most independent, most comfortable;' contented, and happy. It is, Sir, in the very nature of great poverty and wretched ness to engender crime. It is in 'the very nature of such a condition to harden men's hearts, and to ren der them utterly reckless and indifferent about h..ii rality and religion. I need not appeal to the de plorable history and condition of our sister island for a melancholy confirmation of this fact. Every gen tleman who now hears me must be aware of the truth of his own experience. lie must have seen with his own eyes, and at his own door, the baleful and demoralising effects of excessive poverty and wretchedness. If, then, the labours of Mr. M'Colloch, have any trind-ncy to remove or to mitigate these evils, or to produce such a frame of' society as may have a tendency to promote the comfort and happiness of mankind, then, Sir, they must certainly be considered as subsi diary to those of the labours of the Ministers of the Church of Scotland. For, Sir, in proportion as you render men comfortable and happy, in the same proportion do you increase the probability that they will become virtuous and moral. If, on the other hand, by foolish institutions, arbitrary restric tions, and absurd regulations, you render them wretched, degraded, and miserable, there is a pro. liability, nay, there is a certainty, that you wih drive them into crime. Looking, therefore, upon the happiness of our species as the great and ulti mate end of our labours, we must look upon kir. M'Culloeh's exertions with a friendly eve. We must look upon him as a friend, an ally, and a fel low-labourer, in this extensive and important field; and, therefore, Sir, I repeat, that as a Minister of this Church I do not think I am out of my place, or out of the way of my duty, in coming here this day, to testify my respect -and gratitude to the gifted in dividual who has done so much for his own honour, and so much for the benefit of his country and of mankind."—(Loud applause.) - It is the praise of the Church of Scotland, that though she formerly, with other Churches, was chargeable with the sin of intolerancz, she has, as fiir as we know, the exclusive merit (in these kingdoms at least) of having honestly --aught the intellectual improvement of the people, and made education even a matter of Church discipline. The Rev. Mr. 11-laitland says, and says truly, that poverty and wretchedness render unavailing the principles of religion, and that proportion as you render men comfortable and happy, in the same proportion do you in (lease tile probability that they will become vir tuous and moral." Religion is viewed by this enlightened Clergyman as intimately connected with the sciences, which have for object the im provement of the temporal condition of the species. Ile justly Considered the labours of the teacher of Political Economy "as sub sidiary to those of the Ministers of the Church of Scotland.. 0, how the saintly hypocrites, who have so long laboured, both publicly and in private, to raise a prejudice against the London University, as if an acce ssion o f knowied ' were e injurious to religion, ought to bl us h at the lesson read to them by this worthy clergyman. We would go even further than the Rev. Maitland ; we contend that no 111311 can be a safe teacher of religion who is not intimately ac quainted with the principles of the sciences, which provide the improvement of mankind. The sciences of morality and religion arc sciences of relations. • The Bishop of Bath says the essen tials of religion lie in a small compass; but this, we apprehend, would lead to considerable mis apprehension. It is easy to tell a man to do good and to eschew evil ; but when we come to apply these maxims, we find ourselves at once involved in all the complicated relations of human society. Th e Clergyman, if he be unacquainted with the Principles of Politic..]. r ..conomy, may, in applying his rules, teach one of his Hock to do that which will injur e both him and the society of which he is a member. A Clergyman, there fore, who does not know the principles which regulate the temporal advantage of society is an unfit teacher. Religion, we repeat, is not an abstraction ; . cannot be separated from other science 3. Tile man who prescribes to his fellow creatures without knowing the ground s of moral will be like the emp i r i c, who and political science, kills' by doinc , no thing when something ought to be done, or by b doing- that which ought not to be done.—Morning Chronicle. There eau be no doubt that the vice o f drunkenness, with its usual consequences, beg gary and crime, is rapidly increasing among the lower classes at the present day, especially in the metropolis, on account of the low price of spirituous liquors. The Select Committee Oil the State of the Metropolitan Police ascribe to the cheapness of gin a portion of the destructive influence by which the criminal calendar is of late years so frightfully enlarged. Their in ference is nut an erroneous one. A habit which so drains the pockets of the poor, and produces so much mental confusion as dram drinking does, must inevitably tend to fill the workhouses and crowd the gaols. A dram-drink- Mg population is of necessity a demoralised one; and, where the moral restraints are broken, the laws can only govern by their inflictions being- felt. The Select Committee, in corro boration of their opinion on this subject, quote the evidence of an intelligent officer, whose duty (they say) requires a constant and accurate ob: , .ervation of what passes in the streets. He was asked " What effect has the reduced price of gin in your district ?" His answer is, " I think there is a great deal more drunkenness ; I think it was one of the worst things ever done in the world. If they had raised it a penny in stead of Killing it, it :would have been a very good thing." The number of drunken persons of both sexes whom any person cannot now flril to observe in the streets, compared with the number to be seen a few years ago, when spi rituous liquors were dearer, fully bears out the statement of this witness. At this rate London is likely soon to realise once more the melan choly scenes of liogarth's picture of Qin-alley. Another thing besides the cheapness of gin con tributes to its great comparative consumption, which the Committee have not remarked upon ; and that is the scandalous adulteration of malt drink in consequence of the brewers' molzopoly, which has turned a wholesome beverage into a poison.—Morning Herald. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION- HOUSE.—Yesterday the Captain of the Hero steam-vessel, which carries passengers from London to Gravesend and back again, was charged with having vio lated an Act of Parliament in attempting to outdo or cir cumvent hie competitcr for passengers, the Captain of the Sophia Jane, which sets off from the same wharf close to the Custorn-house. The party injured directly by the con duct of the defendant was Mr. Hall, an extensive whar finger in that immediate neighbourhood. The case brought together a great many from the water-side. The Captain of the Sophia Jane bad, it appeared, obtained permission from Mr. Hail to chalk upon the wall of his premises, which were full in the eye of the public, some words, in timating that the Sophia Jane steamer sailed from that place daily for Gravesend. This notice did not fail to at tract customers, particularly as Mr. Ilull was known to he a gentleman who would not be instrumental to puffing off a had article. Hundreds crowded to the Sophia Jane, whereupon the Captain of the Hero, determined to blow up his brother steamer, at least so far as to enable himself to he more upon a par in business with that formidable rival. He did not resort to the ordinary ways of " blowing up, viz —by the use of exploding machinery, or Billingsgate, hut quietly employed a pack of little boys to obliterate the obnoxious words on the wall,—a species of blowing up which gave great offence to Mr. Hall, inasmuch as the means employed were most annoying to the sight and smell. A pot of filthy and adhesive materials was provided by the Captain of the Hero, and the boys Covered the w a ll with the delicate stuff. Every word was covered, except " Gravesend," which was a term as serviceable to one Captain as to the other, and just pointed out where steam accommodation could be given to the public. Evidence was produced from which it appeared, that the defendant was present while the boys were daubing the wall, and urged them to do the work effectually, by crying out, •' Go it, my boys ; give it him well." This very re spectable way of settling the competition was adopted at about 10 o'clock at night, and next morning same customers thought there was " a screw loose," as one of the boatmen said, in the Sophia Jane, upon finding the name at fault. It was stated that all the water in the Thames would not wash out the stuff with which the wall was daubed, although a nap and a tub of water would have cleared away the -hulking. The wall, it also appeared, could not he chipped for less than 151. The clothes of every man who ventured through the passage were, besides, in danger of being much soiled, and, taking it for all in all, there never wasa wall against which greater indignity was directed. The proprietors of the Sophia Jane were in attendance, and most anxious that it should be understood that they never sanctioned such mean proceedings. The Loa;, ILt von convicted the defendant in the penalty of 51., which he immediately paid, arid which was handed over to a charity (the Seamen's Fund). A lady, named Cowen, appeared with black eyes, broken nose, swelled be rd, bruised arms, and other symptoms of somebody's resentment, to complain agairot her huskand. She stated that she had been married to the defendant 27 years, and he had only commenced beating her five or six years ago, when, one would imagine, his affections had grown into a steady habit. lie had, however, followed up the fhlgellating system with such spirit, that she could no longer endure his violence. lie bad " served her out" in the dreadful matmer she appeared in on the previous day, and she knew that some time or other he would give her an unlucky blow that would finkh her. The LORI) MA VOlt said, that care should be taken to prevent an extremity- of that sort. Mrs. Cowen said, that her husband had endeavoured to harass her in a great variety of ways. It was only a few days ago that lie brought in as much laudanum as would kill a dozen persons, and told her that lee was going to put him self to bleep in earnest. The Lund Ma von—Oh, then, it was'nt for you he brought it in ? Mrs. Cowen—No, my Lord ;at least, he said it was for himself. The Loan MAYOR-And why 13id'nt be take it hiruF , elf? Mrs. Cowen—l am sure I don't know, my Lord ; nobody hindered him. The LORD MAroit—What, you did'ut hinder him, then ? Mrs. Cowen—Not I, indeed, my Lord. When he swore so s trong that he would take it off, I told him thai he might do so. (Loud Idugliter.) . _ The LOKI) he wouldn't have it? Airs. Cowen—No, he wouldn't touch it, so it was all wasted.— (Continued laughter.) The defendant said that he had received a wound in his head, and that made him savage sometimes, but at other times he was as mild as a babe. The LORD Marort complimented the pair upon the warm affection which they had exhibited towards each other. He certainly did not wonder at the regret shown fur the waste of the laudanum when the woman was sub ject to such brutal treatment ; but it Was the nature of woman to bear a great deal before she would wish to see her husband the victim of his own hand. His Lordship then ordered the defendant to find bail. CHARGE OF MURDER•--Iminediatvly after the Lord Mayor had entered the Justice-room yesterday, Thomas Kitby, the street-keeper of Bridge Ward, appeared be fore his Lordship, to give information relative to the sup posed murder of an infant child of an Irishwoman, whose name he was not acquainted with, living in George-alley, Thames -street. Rilby stated that the child, which had been dead about four days, had several marks of injury on its skull ; it was a female infant, about fifteen months 01(1. The mother had been carrying the child in her arms about the streets, declaring to every one that her brother had killed it. The LORD MAYOR asked Kilby if he had interrogated the woman himself ?--Kilby replied in the affirmative. She declared to him that her brother had kicked the child on the head with his large brogues, and that this had occa sioned its death. The child was now in the house of its grandmother, in George -alley, and he had examined its o n which there were s evera l wounds. T i L oa n MAYOR inquir e d w h y a Coroner's Inquest h h a e : d n ; ' e not b een held on the Child?---Koilublyd,bien,surieni:nli,nesdta,tetod that he had gone to Peacock, the w ard beadle of Dowgate, in ( o u r i ( r i e er il t i l t i t a ) t th a e ceir(cguoilniesrta'sncjesuroyf should inf ant ' s d eath ; but he il.l hm i l refused to do so, stating that the matter was of no consequence, and not worth inquiring The Loon Miaron expressed his indignation at such improper conduct, Kilby desired to know from his Lordship bow he mother, to should act, All the persons in the house were n wete ; have no inquiry with the exception of the.ronecs Inquest. xviio persisted in her story, and demanded a The undertaker came yesterday morning andpult tledieie; ceased into a coffin, and he was fearful they wo ud bury i i before any inquiry could be made. The LOUD MAYOR would Wiite to Mr. Shelton, t Coroner, to cause due inquiry, and to the faradic, not to tuffer the child to be buried until then. GUILDHALL—The driver of a hackney-coach, No. 517, attended before Mr. Alderman ANSLEY yesterday, upon a summons tor wantonly and cruelly treating his horses. The complainant was John Throeby, one of the officers of the Society for Preventing Cruelty to Animals, who stated that between twelve and onc o'clock on the 4tb as he Wa3 Mending by Newgate, he saw the defendant whip i his horses into a gallop. He held up his stick at him, but the defendant paid no attention to it, and notwithstand ing the rapid pace the horses were going, continued to flog them along Newgate-street to St. Martin's-le-grand. Wit- ; ness desisted from following them any further. The coachm in said he had net the least recollection of the circumstance. Ile could say on his oath he did not remember passing through Newgate_street that day, and his horses were such free-goers he could have had no oc casion for the whip. He was sure the complainant had mistaken the number. The coachman's master was also quite sure his man was innocent. Whenever he discovered that his horses had been ill-used, he invariably dismissed the driver imme diately ; but the defendant had driven for him a consider able time without having at any time incurred censure. He was a remarkable steady careful man. Mr. Alderman ANSLEY was very glad to hear him say no, for there were very few who deserved that character. He asked the complainant if he r emonstrated with the man. Throsby said, only loy shaking his stick, but he could swear to the man as well as the number. The coachmaster questioned him as to the colour of the horses and of the coach, but he declined swearing positively to these particulars. Mr. Alderman ANSLEY said he was bound to speak to the p..rsons in fault at the time, and not merely watch them ; and then, when summoned, they would not ha ignorant of the cause of it. As the defendant had received so high a character, he should discharge him this time on payment of the expenses ; which were immediately paid. Another officer had taken out a summons against the driver of a straw cart, from Kensal-green, but his com plaint was dismissed, because he did sot appear at the hour ,peified in the summons. HATTON-GARDEN.—A young man, of the name of John Barkley, a compositor, was yesterday brought be fore the sitting magistrates, Mr. Setjeant SELLON and Mr. LAING, by the overseers of the p Irish of St. Saviour, Sbuthwark, en a charge of bigamy. Mr. Sergeant Srmi.oN having inquired why it was that the ease should come to be heard before him, one of the overseers replied, that the prisoner's second wife having become a pauper in the parish of St. Sepulchre, the au thorities there passed her upon an order to them, St. Saviour's being her maiden settlement. They relieved her, but at the same time appealed against the order, and the question of appeal was this morning tried at the s ssions for the county of Middlesex. The order, however, was confirmed, but the Chairman advised them to appre hend the prisoner, who happened at the moment to be in the Corn t, and have him examined on the above charge, and therefore it was that they brought him up now to the office. Elizabeth Brand sworn-1 was present on the 16th of Decem!•er, 1824, at the celebration of the marriage between the prisoner and Elizabeth Cornelius, his first wife, •at Newington Church, Surrey, and subscribed the registry. The registry book was here produced by the palish clerk and handed to the witness. Witness—The registry refers to the marriage; that is my hand writ'ng, and my husband is the other subscribing witness. Mary Phillips, the second wife, now came forward, and deposed that she was married to the prisoner at St. Dunstan's, Stepney, in June, 1827, by banns. Mr. Sergeant SELLON—IIOW old are you now? Pro secutrix—l am about 20 years of age I was not 19 when I married. Mr. Sergeant SELLols . —Were your parents or either of them present at your marriage ? Pcosecutrix—No, they knew nothing of it at the time. I was then living as a hired servant in Holland-street, Blackfriars-road, and when nay father subsequently heard of it, he expressed his disapprobation, and could never be reconciled to it. Mr. Sergeant SELLON—Did not the Clergyman who married you ask the question, " How old are you ?"—Pro secutrix—No, that question was never put. Here it was urged that a clergyman, where even th e parties are minors, cannot refuse, to perform the celebration of marriage, upon the publishing of banns. Mr. Sergeant SELLON-As far as regard; the fact of the prosecutrix being a minor at the time of her marriage, I should like to have proof of that. The impression upon my mind is, that a marriage, to render it valid, must be al bona fide one, agreeable in all its circumstances to law ; and 1 know the attempts have been made, even at the Old Bailey, and before the Judges of the land, to invalidate marriages by pressing forward t'Ae alleged minority of the parties. Here a question arose as to whetLer the marriage was no, void, and Mr. SerjeantLou, aided by Mr. Mallett, the chief clerk, referred to the new Act of Parliament, to Russell's Reports, and other legal authorities, upon the subject, but could find nothing directly bearing upom ur illustrative of the question, The prisoner said that he, too, was a minor at his first marriage, having been then only 20 years of age. Mr. Sergeant SELLON—I have reason to think that the objection I raised in your favour extends only to marriages that are solemnised by licence; and Russell, to which 1 have referred, reports only upon these. I am afraid, however, that you have imposed upon the clergyman who married you ; and if persons married by banns will impose upon fire officiating Minister, they are still subject to be indicted for bigamy, and I shall therefore send the case to the Sessions, The prisoner was then fully committed. Two celebrated French tight-rope dancers, Madame Saqui and her husband, came to this office, accompanied hy an interpreter, to prefer a charge of assault against John Monkhouse, keeper of White Conduit-house, Pen tont•ille. It appeared that the complainants had engaged the gar dens of White. Conduit-house at 10 guineas, to per form there during the last week, and did so every night since Monday. On Saturday night, however, having come to perform as usual, they were disappointed and surprised at finding all the ropes down, and at Mr. Monkhouse telling them he wanted neither them nor their dancing any longer, they remonstrated with him, and out of their remonstrance arose the assault now complained of. He struck Monsieur first, and next transferred his blows upon Madame, xvhom he struck in the eye, mouth, and breast. The defendant denied. the assault, and said that the com plainants had deceived the public in their bills, for it was announced that they were to send a rope over the house, upon which they were to dance, but they had not done so, and such deception practised upon the public and himself he could endure no longer. They were extremely violent in their behaviour and language towards him when he at tempted to put them out of the gardens, and the female made strong efforts at his face and person to tear him. A witness was produced who corroborated this state ment, and the defendant was discharged. Oldhams, who seconded a man of the name of Cocker in a late fight at Kentish-town, in which Cooker was killed, was !nought up to this office last night, upon Coroner's warrant, charged with manslaughter. The prisoner, it appeared, had been imprisoned in the gdol of Hertford, whether he had fled after the unfortunate event of the fight, for non-performance of a contract for labour ; and Brown, a con table of Kentish•town, who held the warrant, having come to the knowledge of this circumstance, went down yesterday to Hertford, and took him out of gaol into his custody. He had been previously indicted at the sessions, and a bill found against him. He was now fully identified, and ordered to be locked up, to be sent to Newgate for trial to morrow (this day). MARLBOROUGH - STREET.--Yesterday James Henry Prince, the schoolmaster belonging to the charity school for the united parishes of Bloomsbury , and St. Giles's in-the-fiehas, was brought to this office before Mr. COSA NT, the Magistrate, in:custody of Valentine the officer, charged with violating- two of the female orphan children in the school to which he was attached. The parish solicitor, together with the trustees and go vernors of the school, attended to support the charge ; and Mr. Harmer appeared on tie part of the prisoner. The first witness examined was Frances Hutchinson, one of the children in question, who stated herself to be 14 , years of age, although she had not the appearance of being more than 12 at the utmost. She deposed, that one even ing, about a month ago, the prisoner, under some pretence got her into a private passage leading to the boys' school room, and after taking very indecent liberties with her per son, and making her take equally indecent liberties with his person, he proceeded to commit the forcible violation with which he was now charged. (Here the child described particularly the entire of the prisoner's conduct towards her, which, if truly stated, could leave no doubt of the com pletion of the offence charged against him.)—She struggled, she said, as much as site possibly could to get away from him, but he held her so fast round the neck with one of his arms, that she could not extricate herself, and it was entirely, she said, without her consent that the prisoner acted as he had done. On her cross-examination by Mr. Harmer, she said that this occurred about nine o'clock in the evening, and after the treatment she described herself as having received from the prisoner, she went to supper the same evening with the school m i stress and the other children, without mentioning to any one whet had happened to her; nor did she afterwards mention it at all to any one, except to one little girl named Sheffield, who happened accidentally to see herself and the prisoner together on a second occa sion; neither did she tell it to arty person now until she was first questioned upon the subject. She resisted the prisoner, she said, as much as she was able, but she did not call out for assistance, or make any noise further than by struggling to disengage herself. On the second occa sion, about a week after the first, sire said that what occurred between the prisoner and herself happened in the eirls' school-room, and there it was that the girl (Sheffield) saw them, after which she told Sheffield all that had taken place. On this second occasion the prisoner, site said, treated her precisely in the battle manner that he did on the first time, and by using equal force and against her consent. On being asked why it was that she did not call out for assistance as well as struggle to resist the prisoner, she first said that she did not know why, but afterwards said that she was afraid. Mr. Harmer now contended, that from the evidence of this girl herself, allowing it all even to be true, it was clear that she was a consenting party to what she had described as having taken place, although he nnderstood that the pri saner denied her story altogether ; but, at all events, it was evident that the girl had consented, and in the eye of the law she was of a sufficient age to give her consent,—the age for that purpose being, as the law now stands, no more than 12 years, and this girl is by her own account 14. He (Mr. Harmer) therefore submitted, that any felonious view of the case was quite out of the question. The girl had never mentioned what had happened, nor did she call out, or make any noise, during the occurrence ; but while he urged thus as a lawyer, on the part of the prisoner, his client, he, Mr. Harmer, freely admitted that if what the girl swore was true, the conduct of the prisoner, in a moral point of view, was most scandalous, and he deserved for it the severest punishment that could be awarded him ; but if, on the other hand, this was, as he asserted, a ease got up against him, without any foundation, he was very much to be pitied. The solicitor for the prosecution said, that he Aid not think the circumstance of the child not calling out was suf fieent to %variant the inference that she consented to the treatment she had received, because the relative situation of the two parties should be considered. The prisoner, it should be recollected, was a master in the school, and to• wards whom this child would naturally feel under a degree of awe and dread, which might prevent her from calling out, ared her not mentioning it afterwards to the mistress or any one else might arise from a sense of the same fear or of shame. Mr. Cosner said, that had the complainant in this case been a grown or a matured female, such evidence as she had given would at once do away with the ides of enter taining it as a felonious charge ; but he did think that the age of this girl, and the situation in which she stood, as regarded the prisoner, in the school, made some dif ference. On the whole, however, he thought that the safest way would be to proceed against the prisoner for the misdemeanour. The little girl Sheffield was then questioned, and she 3tated that she saw the prisoner and the girl Hutchinson in an indecent position in the girls' school-room, and that after that Hutchinson told her all that the prisoner had done to her. The next witness was Elizabeth Bryan, who also stated her age to be 14 years. She deposed, that one day about four months ago she was sent by the school-mistress to the prisoner's house, which adjoins the school in the church yard, for some writing pens and ink ; that the prisoner took her into his parlour, and that there he committed the offence with which he is charged. He first, she said, kiss ed her, and told her she seas a very pretty girl : he then began to speak indecent words to her, and he made her spell those words, having first spelled them over for her himself. After this he proceeded to take indecent liberties with her, and ended with forcibly violating her person, which (according to the description she gave of the treat ment she received) he completely effected, and all this she positively swore took place without her convent. The pri mer, she said, told her that if ever she wanted any money she was to ask him for it, but he never gave her any, nor did he ever give her any thing in lieu of money, except sonic gin to drink, and of this he gave her a tumbler full one (lay : he also gave gi❑ to sonic of the other girls in the school. She did not, she said, resist the prisoner very much when he was ill-treating her, nor did she call out for any assistance, because there was no one within hearing. Mr. CONANT said that it was clear this last case t►o could only be taken as a misdemeanour, although on the whole, if these children spoke truth, nothing could be more atrocious than the conduct of the prisoner. Mr. Harmer advised the prisoner not to say any thing in the present stage of the proceedings, and he was ordered to enter into his own recognizance of 1001., and to procure two sureties of 50/. each, for his appearance at the sessions, to meet an indictment which the guardians of the school expressed their determination to prefer against ' him, and in default of the Puteti es he seas locked up. The prisoner is a slight, dark-complexioned genteel looking man, about 35 years of age, and has a wife and three children who resided with him at the school, where he has been master for about 12 months. lie was very much like , ' by- the guardians of the school, su muck so, that at the last quarter they voted hint a present of 51. in addition to his salary, for his excellent good conduct. LAMBETH-STREET.—In accordance with Mr. ilAsuwicK's directions, the chief officer, Mr. Miller, pro c. (sled to St. Bartholomew's Hospital to learn from Mary Larkins, whose case was on 'Wednesday last reported in the Sun, whether the representations made by her mo • they of the abominations carried on in the house of a Jewish brothel-keeper in Albion-street were or were not correct. Mr. Miller visited the unfnrtunate girl, who is not more than 15 years of age. Ile questioned her is the presence of a third person, and her replies to all his inter rogatories completely established the truth of her mother's statement ; indeed they went mach further, and disclosed a series of transactions Which, even taking human nature in its worst stage of depravity, could scarce be imagined, The details are too disgusting to submit to the public eye. Mr. HAnnwlcK asked the chief officer if he thought . the girl was desirous to lead a different life, and abandon the pursuits which had brought her into her present situation. Mr. Miller said that in his opinion she was sincerely penitent, and expressed great horror at again returning to the streets. Mr. Ilmtnwtex—Then, if such be her feelings, we must endeavour to assist her, and may perhips be able to get her into the Magdalen. Has the brothel-keeper given up the entire of her clothes? Mr. Miller—She and her mother say not,—that some things are still detained. Mr. HAanwicK—Then, go to her and demand them, and inform her, that now it is proved that she keeps so infamous a house, if she does not shut it up this very day, and instantly leave this district, she shall be sent to the House of Correction for three months. Mr. Miller proceeded on his mission, and received from her, among other trifling articles, a pair of ear-rings and a necklace. These, however, were not those taken from the unfortunate girl ; the one, instead of gold, was pinchbeck, and the other, instead of being coral, were composed of wax. Mr. Ilaanwicx, when informed of this additional ini quity, IN-as much irritated, and gave orders that the most rigorous measures shank' be adopted to punish the wretches concerned in this abominable system. UNION-BALL.—A little boy, named Henry Perry, eleven years of age, was charged with stealing 771. 4s. the property of Mr. Stephens, a tradesman at Deptford. William Morgan, the driver of an errand cart, was en trusted by Mr. Stephens - with a parcel containing the above sum to convey to town. He pat it into a locker among his provisions. On the road the prisoner obtained per mission to ride a little way -in the cart, but he repaid Morgan's kindness by opening the locker and stealing the parcel. He was pursued and overtaken with all the mo ney in his possession except a 3/. note, which he said he had destroyed. He was committed. A complaint was made by Mr. Gude, of Battersea, of an attempt by thieves to poison a dog which was kept to guard his premises. A thief had attempted to enter the garden, and to prevent the dog making a noise, threw him a piece of liver, in the centre of which was placed some arsenic. Mr. Gude added, that several daring robberies had been recently committed in his neighbourhood, and attributed them to the defects in the Police. If some plan were not adopted before the winter for the regula tion of the nightly watch at Battersea, he was confident there would be no security for the property of the inha bitants. TOWN-HALL, SOUTHWARK.—ScarceIy a day passes of late that some case either of bigamy or adultery does not occupy the Magistrate's time. A few days since, a young woman named Ann Wilkinson made an affidavit that a gentleman employed confidentially by a merchant in the city Was the father of her illegitimate child, for the pur pose of a warrant issuing against him for refusing to sup port it (she having applied for assistance to the parish of St. Olave) productive of his appearance, and the child being now sworn to hint, he explained his reasons for re fusal, by saying that she had passed herself off to him as a single woman, and bad the hardihood to swear to it in her affidavit, though he was prepared to prove she had a hus band-living, to whom she was married long before tbe birth of the infant. The affidavit was produced. To this the mother replied that it was true she was Married six years since in North Church,Berkhampstead, to a gentleman en titled to considerable property now in the Court of Chan cery, but separated from him three months after, owing to his being placed under reetraint by his relatives on the score of imbecility of mind, and that she subsequently lied in service as a single woman. Alderman J. Sstrrit told her she was liable to a prose cution for perjury, and asked how long she had left the de fendant, as he was informed the child was two years old, and whether he had ever allowed any thing for its support? —She said he never had, nor should she have troubled !dm now, only that she was out of a situation, and unable to maintain it herself, which she had done hitherto from the hour of their parting (shortly after its birth), since which he himself had got married. The ALDErtmaN observed to the defendant, that however the mother might have forfeited her claim to his regards, he ought not to withdraw them from his innocent off spring. The defendant said he had fair grounds for doubting the infant to be Isis. The A I.D ER N thought non-access sufficiently proved. The defendant said he was not sati.fied on that point and should decline paying a single farthing until compelled, and the parish not feeling inclined to interfere under such circumstances, the defendant was discharged. OLD BAILEY, SEPT. 11. Peter Fenn, described as a schoolmaster, was in dicted for uttering a forged bill of exchange for 301. to one Thomas Pratt, well knowing the same to be forged. Mr. BRODRICK and Mr. BARRY conducted the case for the prosecution. Mr. ALLEY and Mr. ADOLPHUS appeared for the prisoner. Mr. B►toDßich stated the case very briefly. The prisoner at the bar was a person representing himself as the Rev. Peter Fenn, who had some time since been engaged as a teacher in a respectable academy kept by a Mr. Kirkman, at Islington, and having conducted himself well in that situation, had gained the respect of a great number of persons. After he left Islington, he opened an academy on his own account, in Hyde-street, Bloomsbury, and was shortly afterwards introduced to Mr. Thomas Pratt, a respectable army agent; and having engaged in certain money-transactions, he induced Mr. Pratt to discount several bills, amongst which was the bill in question, which was dated the 21st of February last, and purported to be drawn by a Mr. Phillips upon one James Powell, of Colchester, and to be accepted by that individual, payable four montks after date, at Messrs. Hankey's bank, in London. —The bill, which became due on the 24th of June last, was discounted by Mr. Pratt, and the prisoner shortly afterwards left this country for the Continent. Upon inquiry being made on the part of Mr. Pratt, it was discovered that the bill was a forgery, and the prisoner being pursued, was found at Calais by Mr. Vincent, Mr. P.'s an orneyorho had an interview with him. The prisoner was brought to England by Mr. V., and, in the course of an interview which Mr. Pratt had with him, he (the prisoner) made a dis tinct confession of the forgery. Under these circum stances, the jury would have little or no difficulty in coming to a decision in this ease. The indict ment contained two counts, in the first of which the ptiloner was charged with forging the bill of ex change, and in the other he was charged with uttcr ing it, well knowing it to be forged. He (Mr. Brodrick) had no doubt of being able to prove the fact of the forgery by the prisoner ; but as there was a technical difficulty, namely, his being unable to show in what country the forgery was committed, which might prevent his sustaining the first count, he would confine the evidence principally to the count for uttering the bill with a knowledge of its being a forgery. Both counts constituted the same species of offence, namely, a capital felony. Mr. Thomas Pratt, an army agent, Parliament street, had known the prisoner about 14 months prior to his absconding. He first became acquainted with him at the house of a person of the name of Cooke, in Holborn. Witness discounted the bill in question for the prisoner in February last, at his house in Hyde-street, Bloomsbury, where be had sent for witness to pay him some money which he owed him. He assured witness that the acceptor was a very respectable person, residing in the neigh bourhood of Colchester, and said he kept his ac count at liankey's. Witness had no suspicion of the bill being a bad one until the prisoner absconded. After he had been brought from Calais by Mr. Vin cent, witness had an interview with him at a lock up house in Chancery-lane. At that interview the bill now produced was spoken of, and the prisoner declared to Almighty God that witness had not got a bad bill; he added, that if any thing could give satisfaction to a man in his unfortunate situation, it was witness's liberal conduct to him during their ac quaintance. The next day but one witness had another interview with the prisoner at the same place. At that interview the 3W. bill was spoken of. Witness having, since the former interview, made some inquiry respecting the bill, told the pri soner that he was fearful, from the result of those in quirks, that he (the prisoner) had deceived him with regard to the bills : he then, without any re serve, said, " I am sorry to say they are forgeries." Cross-examined by Mr. ALLEY.—No person was present at this last interview. Witness took the bill solely on the prisoner's credit. Mr. George Vincent, an attorney, in Clifford's Inn, wrs employed by Mr. Platt to go after the pri soner to France. Witness \vent in March last to Paris in pursuit of the prisoner; but finding he had left that place, he proceeded, accompanied by a per. son named Cook, to Calais, where he discovered the prisoner at an hotel. On seeing witness he ap peared like a frantic man ; he said he was ruined, and mentioned who had ruined him. Witness the same evening made a memorandum of what passed. The prioner said, " I will go quietly to New-gate = only don't put me in irons. I'll plead guilty. I shall then have about six weeks after I am con demned. I'll se no one-I'n do as Fauntleroy and it will be over in a moment. I was coming to England to deliver myself up to justice." Witness requested him • to compose himself, and after some further conversation the prisoner, clasping his hands together said, " Melton is the man who ruined- me, he has gained by me 7,0001. within the last two years." The prisoner mentioned other names also, and told witness that he must not leave him or he should cut his throat. Witness brought him over to England. He made no resistance to coming ; and he could make none, as he was passing in a false name. Witness knows the prisoner's hand writing, and believes the acceptance (the signature " J. Powell") ,upon the bill in question, to have been written by him. Cross-examined--I never told the prisoner that if he would make up the money of which he was de ficient, I would ptotect him, nor did I ever tell Mr. Cooke to say so to him. I never offered any induce.. meat to prisoner to confess in the presence of Han bury or of any one else. 1 did not send any account of this case to the newspapers. Sev era l persons called on me for particulars. I don't know who they were, but I believe they were people connected with the newspaper offices. I looked over a statement which was brought to me, and I said I believed it to be true. I made an alteration in it, suppressing the names of some persons who were mentioned in it as connected with the prisoner, and I signed the paper thus—" 1 know the above to be true in sub stance and fact—J. Vincent, solicitor, Clifford's-inn."- This paper did not contain an account of the pri soner's examination before the Magistrate, but of transactions which led to that examination : I was called upon to do what 1 did. Mr. ALLEv—What ! to publish a narrative of a transaction affecting a man's life, a nd that before h e was tried, or before even an examination at th e police-office ? In answer to some further questions by Mr. ADeLPIIUS, the witness stated that the statement in the newspapers was copied, under his di rect i ons, b y his brother (svho was a clerk of his), from a rough draught sent to him by some of the newspaper people. The article, which was headed " Th e Rev. In con sequence of Peter Fenn," began thus -- " cer tain rumours, we have made inqui r y i nto t h e con duct of this person , and in the whole annals of guilt we scarcely find an equal in atrocity." I thought I was justified 114 sanctioning such a statement as this, when I found there were twenty or more bilk lik these. Mr. Apowit;s-•—lf you had been acting as iudg and jury, you would have gone beyond your duty t have made such a statement. Other evidence for the prosecution was then ad duced, after which _ . The prisoner being called upon for his dcfene! read from a written paper a very elaborate thong not a very ingenious address to the jury. The paragi'aph published in the Newspnpets it April last reipccting the prisoner was then read. John Hanbury was with the prisoner at Calais March last. Mr. Vincent and Mr. Cooke had /‘ interview with the prisoner in witness's presence, an both held out inducements to him to make a cos fession. 'Vincent in particular pressed the prisons to confess, but he made no confes s i on in witne ss presence. Th e y sa id th e y w i s h e d to s p e ak to prisoner in pri va t e , an d requeste d w i tness to relic Witness at first refused, as he was the prisone r friend, but after some persuasion he did retire for short time. He was absent not so long as half 3 hour. O n w i tness ' s return h e Paw them search er the prisoner's t run k ( w hi c h h a d b een b roug ht bar to the bed-chamber), and there were notes, and so ~ vereigns, and pap ers on t h e ta bl e. Wi tnes s asi`e them if they had any writ to authorise them in de Wining the prisoner, and they said they had not, bu stated that they were his friends, and that he Ica quite safe in their hands. Witness was sent by Dot Vincent, with a Mr. Richard Thompson, to PI pose terms t o th e p r i soner , an d to t h reaten him w it a forfeiture of his life if he did not inform them wheil his money was hid. Mr. Vincent was here called by the counsel fc the prosecution, and contradicted the witness's stat‘ meat. \lr. Justice GASELEE, in surrim'ng u p, 019sefv e that the conduct of Vincent in sanctioning the P"' lications in the present ease was most abominable It was also a gross violation of the duty of conductor of newspapers to give publicity to such stateine t for, however useful correct reports of trials Wl'i c took place in our courts of justice might be, it " 4 stepping far beyond the duty of the public press t' publish ex-parte statements of transactions atrectini the life of fin individual. His Lordship then tooltl review of the n•hole of the evidence. The Jury retired to consider their verdict, al after an abience of a quarter of an hour, prorotint the prisoner " Guilty." AUDACIOUA ATTACK UPON A WlTNrss 17. 4 ; 01 7 COURT.—John Webb, aged 39, a dustman, a fe low of a most determined appearance, was i n dict[ for stealintr four pewter pots, value Bs. the pro Pe rl of John Waldener. Elizabeth Huntingford, a delicate-looking servant to the prosecutor, who keeps the RI", Sun, in Piccadilly, afforded sufficient evidence I prove the theft. Benjamin Webb, an officer, on the day in (1t; tion, met the prisoner about 100 yards from Ai street. He was carr yi ng somet hi ng h eavy c onceol o j under his smock-frock; witness suspected 0 , 4 Neatened him, an d at l engt h saw hi m o ffer so' pots for sale. The witness, Elizabeth Huntingford, at this meat approached to within about five yards of ( ill dock where the prisoner was standing, wheil o o suddenly stooped. down and took off one of his sho which weighed about two pounds, and was alit io studded with large nails, and threw it at her witb, t o greatest violence. It struck her on then s hoe' s e with such force, that had not a person who - was Iv ing by caught her in his arms, she would have P o e to the ground. The prisoner exclaimed at the time," your eyes, take that for false liweeri n t;t In an instant the Court was thrown into the o' 9 e confusion. The prisoner stooped down for the P r ly pose of taking off his other shoe, and had 1 1: 0 1, done so, when two of the gaolers sprung upon ta ' - ip c and, after a desperate resistance succeeded in ta" • it from him. • o' l Mr. Sheriff Spottiewoode went to the Doc k give directions to have the prisoner p r op er ly sectir cd, and had the victim of the fellow's brutal o ntOr,, ( who was crying excesiively from th e p a i n caus ed I/1 the blow) carried out of Court. d The CoMMON SERGEANT, addr ess i ng the us j e f keeper of New - gate, Mr. Barrett, said, " 'Whate%r may be the re s ult o f thi s tr i a l, w h et h er the pri'ejjr, is found guilty o r acqu i tte d, l et hi m b e k e pt 11' ifi g, tary confinement f or a f or t n i g h t f or t hi s m o s t rse I wicked, and abominable outrage." i d do Prisoner—l just served herright, and I wou ,o to any body that came to swear against . me• d i e t The Jury, without hesitation, returned aver of " Guilty."• The Coantos SERGEANT ordered him to -- mediately called up for judgment, and, in P t ' en sentence, told the prisoner that, to mark its 6e lls b iel/ the outrageous and abominable behaviour of ' e s ' t he he had th a t d a y b een gu il ty , t h e sentence 01 Il itt Court was, that he be confined in a solitary ref f his M a j es ty' s gao l o f N ewgate f or t h e space e o r months, for hi s contempt o f C ourt , an d be firtho wards t transp or t e d f or t h e term o f seven years, 6" felony of which he had been con?icted. The prisoner was then removed from the b 0•, ri .1. On thi BIRTHS. btu inst , at Highl try-place, 10th Ih Roll, e un., On j the 106.1 inst., Mrs. J. R. Dickinson, Fre& . place, Old Jets-iy, of a daughter. tO On the 9th inst., in Dover-street, the Lady -e tiD s Eliot, of a son. On the 10th inst., at Southwark Crescent, Symon, of a son. /p e, On the 7th inst., a t th e Parsonage, Walton-}e" 00. Lancashire, the lady of the Rev. R. H. Fielder', 0 15 ‘fr , 5. March 12, at C a l cutta , E ast I n di es, t h e l a dy of A. Walker, of a sen. MARRIED. On the 10th inst., at St. James's, by the 1' e . „,1. 0 t0 'daddy, M r . B urrowes , o f N orton - street , t o L o uisa/ , daughter of Mr. Reed, of the Corn Exchange. reel. On the 1 Ith inst., by the Rev. Thomas HollivaP o , tar of Partney, W'illiam Charles Spencer, eldes t' o; o' 4 Thomas Clay, Esq., of Bury St. Edmund's, to Janet se daughter of Thomas Barrett, Esq., of Mark-lane• by the On the 11th inst., at All Saints, Tottenhan'!, jell° Rev. J. B. Deane, M.A., Alexander, second son °I Lon' Ebenezer Saunders, Esq., of Laurence Pountney-lar a 'olo don, to Elizabeth Sarah, eldest daughter of J. • Esq., of the former place. On the 9th inst., at Hastings, the Hon. G. F. ,thri 3, ton, only eon of Lord Visctmat Boyne, to Etnni3 *jotle, daughter of the late Matthew Russell, of Brancepoth Duiham, Esq. do er On the 13th March, at Calcutta, Albert 1‘ 11 ":„, 09 , Esq., to Caroline, eldest daughter of Dr. J. ft' Calcutta. ' 3 ,, the On the 11th inst., at Pancras New Church, „dojo rev. Wm. Borradaile, Vicar of Wandsworth , Forster, Esq., of the Isle of France, to Ann, 1,135 1" .-- the late Henry Borradaile, Esq., of Newington - g r ' 4 e t a ~ On the 6th inst., at Clifton, William Charles Esq., M.D., of Northampton, eon of the late L ieut. James Kerr, of the Hon. Ea s t I n di a Company '' tjr"l to Maria Eliza, daughter of th e l a t e William Lewis, Eel r formerly of the Hon. E as t I n di a C ompan y's Civil Service and Member of the Bombay Government. tt e On the 3d i ns t., at Se g arheron 11, near Beve rle y , Rev. John W m . R ower, second son of Robert Bower, ° of Palham, Y O , k s hi re, to Eugenia, youngest elitughtt4 ' John Hall, E sq., of Scarborough. CV On th e 9 t h i nst., at Rattle, the Right Hon. ...or. .0, tint, of El m Park, county of Limerick, to Susan L fi le Beth, younge s t d aug ht er o f Hugh Barton, Esq , of 13 ' Abbuy, Sussex. Serric, On the 9th inst., in Myd Dl dl E eton-square, Sadler's-'cld " Ann, wife of Mr. Thomas Dibdin. , o f On the -Itli inst., at Market Deeping, in the coonti,),, Lincoln, the Rev. Jostpli Monkhouse, rector of that rir the and also of the parish of St. Mary, in Stan:dad, i f ' 63d year of his age. Ol lO On the 10th iast., in Claremont-place, Pentoologh Elizabeth, the wife of Edward Proton Gore, bite of Holborn, in the 61411 year of his age. or '''' On the 9th inst., Mr s . Hunter, late of Bromp t". ( t ) er n id t 4 l l 7 t ii ged 58. MP tcr At S to th th i e ns i t io , n. C E np as ta t i i n gi l a se o pl ) i m ßo pa t t i , l y d . er som ------ t ' INC At PRINTED and Pun tsrun by MURDO YOL- " SUN OTFICE, 112, STRAND, LONDON. 4