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THE SPIRIT OP TIIE PUBLIC JOURNALS. Among other arrangements for the guidance of the Allied Powers, rendered necessary by the Ma .uifesto of the Porte, is one the importance of which must appear obvious to every one,—viz. a determi nation of the precise limits of what is to be under stood to constitute " Greece," the subject matter of the treaty of July, and the cause of all the present commotion. There are indeed, some droll stories circulated respecting this matter. It is even alle ged, that in drawing the line of demarkation be tween the territories which should belong to tke Grand Scignor and the Greek people respectively, the ne gociators forgot that Greece had ever con tained a city called Athens i--" the part of Hamlet left out," as the old story goes. If this geographi cal chef d'ceuvre had been the work of some igno rant soldier, whose recollection of warlike scenes and history had never been burdened with such names as Marathon, Miltiades, Alcibiades or Phocien, or had some jealous native of Bocotia got bold of the diplomatic minutes, and expunged from the map of Christian Greece that glorious region which eclipsed every other for ages before as well as after the most learned of the followers of .Jesus challenged the proud genius of ancient philosophy to an examina tion of the spirit of the Gospel, it might not have so much surprised as grieved us to find, that in pro viding for the liberties of the Greek people, those of Attica had been silently passed over and left to the brutal Turks. But Lord Dudley is not a mere sol dier, nor a Boeotian ; and to him, with Lord Aber deen, we leave in trust the guardianship of the soil of Athens.—Tiines. It affords us satisfaction to learn that the Finance Committee have already concluded their investiga tion of the Navy Estimates, and are now at work upon the Army, where au honourable and rigidly economical gentleman, as we hear, has contrived to show ; in sundry cases, that the public time is not among those articles which he deems it - of import ance to save. It might be as well for a great re furmer of the expenditure to be taught - (but, indeed, this personage is complained of as unteachable), that if pence be of some value, the value of pounds is still more considerable ; and that more will be done in the way of useful • parsimony by establish ing sound principles, than by peddling for ever about fractions. We do not know NV1444 Mr, Goulburn may feel as to his own particular comFetency in mat ters of finance : if he wished well from the bottom of his heart to the success of those famous ", ex planations" furnished, or rather promised, some weeks ago, by the Right Hon. Gentleman who pre ceded him at the Treasury, Mr. Goulburn must have been a most generous man, inasmuch as it is quite laughable to dispassionate observers, with what marvellous and undisguised coolness the present Chancellor of the Exchequer has on many oc casions been treated by the ex-one,—like how mere an apprentice he is snubbed and sneered at. In fact, the Peel concern in the Cabinet begins to turn musty, both master and journeyman : neither have been tried betbre in any but subaltern ollices, the principal as second to Mr. Canning,—the de pendent as an Orange sentinel over Lord Wellesley, lest the poor Marquis should break bounds. Nei ther has the Minister for the Home Department made much way recently in the favour of a great Personage, by all his tacks and doublingsl he -has not got au inch to windward. We repeat, " he made . no fight on the Test and Corporation Acts." "He is worse than poor Goody would have been as a leader of the House of Commons ;" and besides, " he is" (Oh, inexpiable offence!) " underbred." We, of course, must not say who the person may be whose speeches are thus reported ; but they are, as many persons know, authentic speeches. Th e Duke of Wellington, we have heard, was sent for by his Majesty at five o'clock on Friday afternoon, but was unable to attend from illness„. His Majesty suffered much, it appears, in his own person, from some ne glect in the duty of airing his apartments •at St. James's. It is stated, that recourse was had to leeches after the Council had concluded: It is un derstood, however, that his M:ijesty, before leaving town, will hold•two levees and a drawing-room and ball.—lbid. As the Church, which is generally thought to twive an excellent nose for scenting danger, remained tranquil, while the Dissenters were bestirring them selves for the repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts, turning - a deaf ear to all the solicitations ofits noisy friends—the Ultra Journalists—to gird on its armour and take the field, we began to think there was no real cause for apprehension. In fact, we had imagined that the obnoxious Laws were a source of weakness rather than of strength to the Church, giving to it neither additional numbers, nor increase of property, but furnishing the Dissenters, who might otherwise be indifferent, with good grounds for hostility to it. A friend in need is a friend in deed, says the proverb, and it seems the Church has one friend more than it probably dreamed of; for Mr. Cobbett has just stepped forward to its aid, with a number of reasons to prove that if the Test and Corporation Acts be repealed, the Church is ruined and undone for ever. He seems to think that there is a connection between these Acts and the idea which is entertained by the people, that the heads of Dissenting Ministers are made for the pur pose of being decorated with the contents of addled eggs, and that without this supposed right to pelt Ministers, the Church would 10-c all its attractions for John Bull. But we will allow him on this inte resting subject, to speak fur himself:— " The notion is hereditary in the people in general, that the law holds the religion of the Dissenters as being unfit to be taught to those who are to be possessed of powers, honours, and emoluments. Those persons who pretend that the repeal will have no practical effect, can know nothing of the people, or their ways of thinking upon these matters. The head of a Dissenting Minister has al ways been" looked upon, by the common people of the country, as being made for the express purpose of being decorated with the contents of addled eggs. Many an egg have I employed in that way, and never did I think that 1 was doing any thing that was wrong ; and I remember that, at Motley, only about 12 or 15 years ago, when the young fellows pelted the Methodist Parson, and made his I colour nearly completely yellow ; and the country people in general thought them very harshly treated, because the Magistrates (mostly Parsons) at Winchester gave them a very:severe scolding, and had the cruelty to send them home again, to the distance of ten miles, without ordering the constable to give them one single pot of beer, at the county's expense. Gentlemen of the Collective Wisdom of the nation may say and think what they please about this Bill producing no practical effect ; but I know that it will produce a great practical effect, from one end of the country to the other. The pulpits of every sect, from the Mug,gls tonians to the Presbyterians, will ring with exaltations._ The mass of the people nerer split straws; they rush at once to conclusions, and ascribe the conclusion in short and pithy phrases. The general saying will he, that the 'Die- . senters have got the day ;' ' that they hare beaten the Parsons and as they are apt to anticipate, they will say that the Church is about to he pulled down. The next. Sunday after they have receivad this news, they will look. upon the Church Parson as a defeated man. Nobody wilt persuade them that this is a matter of little consequence, for they have sucked in the contrary notion with - their mother's milk." It is for the Church, then, at this awful crisis, to consider, whether it will part without a struggle, with an advantage, whi c h is so peculiarly interpreted by its followers, and the loss of which will deprive Church-goers of what constitutes its chief attraction in the eyes of Churchmen. W e were not before aware o f the importance of addled eggs to the Church. But then, if, as ldr. Cabbett states, " the Church of England , as by law establish e d, a l t h oug h it swallows up so much, is well k nown to be the teacher of comparatively a very small part o f t h e people ;" and " the Dissent in g Mini sters t eac h s i x to their one throughout the cou ntr y , might not the six learn to pelt with addled eggs as well as the one If the sons of the Church throw addled eggs at the heads of Dissenting Ministers, the Dissente rs might retaliate on Bishops, Deans, and ,Prebenda ries ; and even according to Dr. Southey s calcula tion, who Emakes a Dissenter but half an English man, there would be three dissenting eggs thrown for every Church egg. A p r i v il ege of th is kind is something like the Tartar prisoner, of very ques- donable value. But then, besides the departure of 1 the glory from the Church, of her suns having the privilege of pelting Dissenting Ministers with addled eggs, the King may turn Dissenter, as well as his Ministers. "If there be no objection (he says) to men taught by Dissenting Ministers to be Admirals, Generals, Judges, Lord Chancellors; and if there be no objection to a Dissenter being a King; if this be the case, and this the law will declare to be the case, as soon as this Act is passed, by what species of insolence to be newly invented, arc the Dissenting Ministers to be told, that they are to be shut obit from those great schools and colleges, destined to the preparing of men, for all the trusts and offices of the state I If the law will make it perfectly proper and decorous for the Speaker of the House of Com mons to take the Members to the meeting-house . in Tothill-fields, instead of taking. them to Saint Mar garet's Church, and this the law will do, as soon as it is passed, what unblushing impudence must it be to enable a man to pretend, that a teacher, to whom the grown up ' collective wisdom' went to listen, would be an unfit teacher for them in the days of their youth !"—Let the Church reflect on these things while it is yet time. We must, however, do the Church justice in one respect, in which Mr. Cobbett has hardly been just to it. " The Dis senters," he says, " have always been more cunning than the Church. They have relied upon their in dustry, their frugality, their attention to their affairs; and their priests or teachers amongst them have far surpassed the members Of the Church in literary productions." The. Clergy of the Establishment possess unquestionably much more learning and lite rary tk►lent than the Dissenting Clergy, though the latter may possess more popular talent. The num ber of eminent literary men in the Church may not be very great; but the number is unquestionably much smaller in proportion among the Dissenters.— .Worning Chronicle. We have always considered the great body of publicans to be in many respects a very injured and oppressed race of people ; and whenever they had the courage to take the bull by the horns in resist big their real grievances (in the foremost rank of which we place the arbitrary powers of the Magis trates and the great Brewers' monopoly), they and shall have, our warmest support. But at the Meeting of a small part of their number, on Friday last, at the London Tavern, these objects appear not only to be wholly lost sight of, but the beauties of the licensing system are lauded to the skies; and the whole object seems to have been of securing to a small part of their own body—the tavern-keepers —a monopoly in the retail sale of wine, by which the public are made to pay from 25 to 50 per cent. more for the article than would be its fair and reasonable price; it being quite notorious that at many of these places the very same descriptions of wine are retailed at from six shillings to ten shillings a bottle, which can be obtained elsewhere at from three shillings to five shillings. As for public-houses in general being places where much wine has been or can be consumed, the owners of them themselves put that entirely out of the question, by so constructing their interior accommodation as to put the social glass, or the means of enjoying it, out of the reach of any one inclined to do so. On the whole, there fore, we cannot ourselves countenance—nor do we believe that the Legislature will lend itself to main tain—a project which goes to narrow and pro Mote an already mischievous monopoly. On the con trary, both the morals and comfort of the people, as well as the interests of the Revenue, are deeply concerned in affording every reasonable facility and accommodation.to those who are inclined to enjoy a wholesome beverage in some more seemly and con venient place than the crowd and blackguardism of a gin-shop.—Merning Herald. • The Emigration scheme was again brought for ward the other night. The essence of it is this : Parishes arc to borrow money, and, in order to se cure the payment of the interest, the security of the poor-rates is to be given, and the money so borrowed is to be spent in sending the over-population out of the country. Now we would ask Mr. Wilmot Hor ton whether the borrowing principle he proposes is not precisely Mr. Pitt's principle—that of borrowing from the rich, and taxing the whole of the people to pay interest, instead of taking the money from the rich at once, as a levy ? If it be beneficial for a nation to do any thing, let it give its money, and not lend it. The principle of lending money, on the part of a nation, for the benefit of the nation, is a dastardly. ,principle. We hope the Houses of Par liament will oppose this Bill of Mr. Wilmot Horton's in every stage, should lie venture to bring it for ward. It would give us much pleasure if, the first night that he attempts to foist such a thing on the nation, that the House were to cough it dOwn. We have had quite enough of the borrowing system. Mr. Wilmot Horton can surely never have looked at the strings, of figures composing the National Debt ac counts I—and yet he would give every parish in the .country a parochial debt. If it would be expedient to get rid of the poor from the parishes, let the . expence neeessary for that purpose be levied on the parishes at once ; and if afterwards there were any return-of money made to the parishes, the accounts of the latter might easily be given credit for such moneys, and less poor rates afterwards be levied.— The borroWing system has already brotight on this country a taxation of thirty millions a-year. We need not increase such taxation by a parochial taxa tion for a parochial debt. But why should not the Government make a present to - the people of the Canadian or other foreign hinds ? There are abun dance of people of small properties who would be glad to receive such lands as a gift, and would go and settle upon them with their families, and who would at the same time, take out a proportionate number of the poor to assist them in the cultivation of such lands. This principle of gift would be much better than that of enabling every parish in the coun try to get into debt. We wish Mr. Hume would bring in a Bill to enable the Government to make presents, to whomsoever applied,, of the Canadian and other British colonial lands. The Government would soon have applicants enough, and the people would flock to such lands at their own expense.— What difference would there be to' the nation be tween giving such lands, or Conveying - the poor from the country at the expense of;probably, 401. or .50/. a family ?—lbid. It wonld tend very much to simplify important operations connected with the foreign policy of States, if, when they are agreed upon the necessity or expediency of accomplishing a particular measure, the execution of it were entrusted to one Power, in stead of its being left to assume . the character of a combined act. The selection, in such a case, would obviously be influenced sometimes by local considerations, and, at others, by the peculiar re sources of a particular country. Look, for example, at the present situation of the Turkish question. War is virtually declared; but it cannot be practi begun, till there has been an. interchange of diplomatic communications between London, Paris, St. Petersburgh, and Vienna. The time thus con sumed would suffice to settle the whole affair. forms, and ceremonies, and precedents, are but the fringes of State measures ; very becoming, perhaps, when there is leisure to adjust them, but very ridiculous when the main business stands still while they are being prepared. There is 'a combined fleet in the Mediterranea n , and there is a Russian army on the Pruth. Before these war ►ike elements were concentrated, would it not have been wise to determine the precise case which should call them into action, and to provide for their im mediate employment, the moment that case oc curred ? Promptitude and decision make quick work of difficulties; or, rather, difficulties are born of delay. We suspect there is at least one States man in Europe who understands this truth, and who is now viewing, with supreme self-complacency, the .practical illustration of it, in the work of his own hands. When the right to do a thing is deliberately asserted, the sooner that right is enforced the better. The three Allied Powers, nine months ago, solemnly, and certainly not hastily, affirmed their right to esta blish the pacification of Greece. Hare they ssta- blished it ? No. Instead of doing so, they have courteously and civilly wasted the intermediate pe riod in fruitless efforts to persuade the Porte to re cognise the right. The question at issue was neither complicated nor obscure; and the only answer de manded from the Sultan should have been a catego rical Yes—or—No. If the former were obtained, diplomacy might have gone to work at once, and settled the basis of the arrangement; if the latter, the cannon, the musquet, and the sword, would have been the best negociators. They would have spoken in language which could be neither evaded nor misunderstood. And what has been gained by delay ? Simply this—that while the Allied Powers are certainly in no better condition to strike the blow, which seems, after all, to be inevitable, the Moslem is in much better condition to %yard it off.—Ncw Times. There is not one of the artifices by which the Popish Faction in Ireland constantly endeavours to delude the British Nation, that has been more suc cessful upon the whole, than their false representa tions of the ,numbers, and wealth, and importance of the Popish as compared with the Protestant inha bitants of that country. We hear no speech, we read no article proceeding from the leaders or the emissaries of this faction, which does not assert or imply that they and their blinded and bigotted fol lowers constitute in effect. the Irish Nation. The falsehood to be sure is monstrous and revolting; yet it has been repeated with so much pertinacity and boldness, and supported by so unbroken a sue. cession of plausible but fraudulent details, that it has to a certain degree imposed upon the cre dulity of many well-meaning persons in England. It is a falsehood indeed which in our view of the subject does not tend to promote the objects which the papists have in view, for the same circumstances which would encrease the danger and difficulty of re sisting their encroachments upon the Constitution, would also, but in a much greater degree, encrease the necessity and ennoble the duty of that resistance. Admitting their own audacious exaggerations, as to their relative importanuin Ireland, they still would form only a small part of the British Empire—of an Empire the great majority of whose subjects are capable of yielding every thing to the suggestions of reason or of justice—of yielding much, as they have already shewn in the case of these Irish Papists, to the impulses of generosity, but incapable of yield ing any thing under the influence of fear. But it is useful, nevertheless, to expose the false hoods of a faction, at once so despicable and so dangerous as this, even when they militate against its own objects. It is useful to undeceive the well meaning though timid men, upon whose minds those falsehoods may have made an undue impres sion. And accordingly we have to express our gratitude to the Guild of Merchants of the .sity of Dublin, whe have appointed a Committee of their body; and to that Committee, which has most ably discharged the duty entrusted to it, to collect and promulgate facts calculated to throw light upon the actual position, conduct, and object of the two great divisions of the Irish people. The report of this Committee, published in Dublin, relating in many of its details to circumstances of which every Citizen of Dublin either has or may easily ac quire a perfect knowledge, and thus challenging contradiction, where contradiction must be the most easy, states facts i3c) utterly irreconcilable with the repeated, the incessant allegations of the Popish Leaders—that the, latter must either disprove these facts, or hide their heads for ever in shame arid con fusion. Unless they mean, indeed, to exhibit to the world a new 'miracle, transcending any in the legends of Popery, of men clearly convicted of syste matic mendacity, still claiming and obtaining the con fidence of their fellow men. 'We will repeat in a condensed form four of the statements of this Com mittee, of the Dublin Guild of Merchants, any one of which, if true (and if untrue, let them be dis proved), would be sufficient to convict every one of the Popish Leaders in Ireland of wilful menda city—of systematic, reckless, audacious falsehood, in respect to the importance of their party, as a distinct division of the Irish nation. Ist, This Com mittee informs us, that in the .principal squares of the city of Dublin, in which the Irish nobility and gentry who inhabit that city usually reside, there arc four hundred and sixteen houses, of which twenty- two only are the houses of Roman Catholics, being little more than one-twentieth of the whole.- 2dly. It states that in the greatest trading streets of that metropolis, where the shops are richest - and most magnificent, the total number of houses is '4ll, of which only ninety-two, or much less than one fourth of the whole, are occupied by Roman Catho lics. 3dly. It asserts that the Lying-in Hospital of Dublin, during the three quarters of a century that it has existed, in which period • 17,000 Catholic mothers have shared its benefits, has, although it de pends chiefly upon voluntary contributions, been aided by Catholic contributions, amounting in the aggregate to no more than the insignificant sam of 157/. lOs. It will be discreet on the part of the Popish Leaders, after the promulgation of this very important and extraordinary fact, to abstain from those boasts in which they have recently so much delighted to indulge, of the wealth and social importance of their party. The 4th fact, to which we solicit the atten tion of the Public, resting as it does upon the high authority of the Committee, is one which proves incontestibly either that • all the property or all the loyalty of Ireland is Protestant. It was determined, as our readers know, to commemorate the visit of, George the Fourth to Ireland, by a monument to be erected by voluntary contributions. The sum actually subscribed is 13,0001., the amount of Ca tholic subscriptions being no more than 800/., or less than one-sixteenth of the whole. It will be re collected that this subseription was set on foot at a moment when the loyal attachment of the Catholics of Ireland to his Majesty appeared to be the most enthusiastic. Were the Catholi cs o f I re l an d' in general hypocrites upon this interesting occasion ? We do not believe it. Yet we must believe this, or disbelieve the demagogues of the Association.and ether demagogues in various parts of Ireland, when they assert, as they have often done, that a large proportion of the wealth of Ireland is in Catholic hands. We prefer the latter alternative. The amount of Catholic Rent, as it is called, may per haps be objected to our view of this subject. But the distinction between the two cases is palpable enough. The monument of loyalty was to be erected by the spontaneous oblations of the affluent— the Rent is plunder extorted from penury and igno rance, by a callous Priesthood, wielding the terrors of superstition.—Morning Post. STOMACH OF THE HORSE.—It is popularly known that a horse cannot be made to vomit. This is owing to one half of the stomach being covered by an insen sible cuticle ; and when an emetic substance is exhibited, the food is thrown upon this part of the stomach,' and re mains there. The attempt, however, was once successful ; but it cost the animal its life—the stomach being burst by the violence of its efforts.—London Maly Review. WORDSWORTH, AND SIR WALTER SCOTT'S Roe ROY.—When " ROB Roy " first appeared, a party was made at Mr. Joi; WILSON'S house at Elleray, to read it. Mr. WORDSW ORTH was invited, among others, to the party ; and, as a special inducement to go, he was in formed that the illustrious author had chosen the motto for his novel from his name-sake poem, " Roe ROY." The verbose and venerable Laker accordingly went; and when the volumes were laid on the table, he eagerly turned to the title-page, when he read— " For why ? because the good old rule '"i7: 44,1 * Sufficeth them—the simple plan A - '' That they should take who have the power, And they should keep who can." " Ladies and gentlemen," ,Broth the Author of the "Ex cursion " and other universally'-read Poems, " you see this motto : it is from a poem of nune,—the volume contain ing which I have brought in my pocket ; and lest you should not understand the novel for want of knowing thoroughly my poem, I mean to read my verses to you." He accordingly began— " A famous man was Robin Hood," & c . and went on to the conclusion, not even omitting a comma, and then putting the vivacious tome into his pocket again, he said, " Ladies and gentlemen, I leave you to your novel," and walked home !--London Weekly Review. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, MucH 8. IN RE MAGDALEN COLLEGE. Mr. LYNCH applied that this cause should be set down in the appeal paper, the Attorney-General hav ing been made a party pursuant to the order of the Court, which after some conversation between, Counsel was, granted. SWAISEY V. liAJOIXI; Avn.orms. Mr. BORNE was about to open this case, the ob ject of which was to obtain a reference to the Mas ter, to inquire respecting the rights of •some infants who are concerned in the cause. Mr. KNIGHT appeared for some of the defendants, and was quite willing that the reference to the Master should be made at once. Mr. Hon.NE said nothing should induce him to desist, unless the other side agreed to his terms. Mr. KNIGHT WaS not induced to mate the offer from any fear of Mr. Horne's case. He did it to prevent parties being harassed and dragged through the mire. The reference was therefore directed by consent, and the question of costs reserved. VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, MARCH 15. MURRAY V. THE ASSIUNEES 'BEATH, A BANKRUPT. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL in this case applied to the Court to give directions for the trial of the right claimed by the plaintiff to certain impressions from engravings executed by the defendant. The plaintiff (Mr. John Murray, the bookseller, of Albemarle-street) some time in 1826 applied to the Court to restrain the defendant (Mr. Heath, the engraver) or his assignees, from selling certain prints or copies of engravings executed by him for the plaintiff, from designs drawn by \Vestal!, to illustrate "'Crabbe's Poems ' and a costly edition of Lord Byron's works. The application for the injunction was made upon Mr. Murray's own affidavit, which declared him sole proprietor •of the drawings• and plates, for, which he had paid * and that the•engraver had no right to take a single impression, either to sell or for his own use, without his (the bookseller's) permission. Mr.- Heath answered this affidavit by another, in which he swore that he had always un derstood, that by the custom of the' trade, with which he had invariably complied, the engraver had a right to take ten or a dozen impressions from his own engraving, and dispose of them as he thought proper, without asking any consent from the book sellers or publisher. In this instance he had taken 10 sets of impressionsTrom the plates in question. He also produced the affidavits of nine other eminent en gravers, who all swore that it was the recognized custom of the trade to take a certain number of im pressions from their own engravings. They, hew ever, differed as to the number which they consi dered themselves entitled to take. The highest stated a dozen to he the established number ; the lowest, half a dozen. Under these circumstances, his Honour directed the Master to frame an issue to try the question ; and counsel attended from both parties before the Master to settle the terms of this issue. The Court below were then directed to try whether it was the practice or usage of the trade of engravers to take for their own use, without the consent of the purchaser of the engraving, a certain number of copies. The case was tried in the Com mon Pleas, and the jury found that a custom existed under which eight was the number of impressions taken by the engravers without the consent of the proprietor or publisher. When the case came back again to this Court, it was discovered that the issue had omitted the most material question, namely, whether by the custom of the trade the engraver had a right to sell or dispose of in whatever manner he thought proper the impressions so taken. The At torney-General stated that this question was one of the greatest importance to all booksellers and engravers, and that his client, both . for his own sake and for the sake of the trade whom he represented, was deter mined to carry it to a final settlement. The Court had already expressed an opinion that the queoon of right would be better tried by an action of trover than by another issue. The more effectually to bring the question of right to a decision, the Learned Gentleman had to move .that the Court would re strain the defendant from defeatieg - the action by any formal objections either to the proceedings or to the evidence by which the case was supported. Mr..HILL, who attended from the Common Law Courts on behalf of the plaintiff, had framed the pleas in the best manner he could, to try effectually the right, first of the 'defendant to retain impressions of the plates; secondly, of the right to retain and sell them; and thirdly, he had introduced a count for piracy. Mr. HORNE (with whom was Mr. GIRDLESTONE, sett.) on the part of the defendant, trusted his Honour would consider that there had been already in this cause enough of motions and of cross-motions of the suit in Chancery—enough of issues and of ac tions in the Courts belowetiough of money paid; and that here the litigation ought to terminate. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL , in, reply, said that it was of great importance to the bookselling and pub lishing trade, that the question as to the right of en ' gravers to take and sell in the market so many copies should be finallysettled. He therefore persevered. The Vi CE-CHANCEr,L©R said, that the right to sell was certainly the important question in the cause, and that right had not in the issue already tried gone to the Jury. The right to retain did not necessarily imply the right to sell. Of this position a familiar instance was afforded by letters which the parties to whom they were sent had a right to re tain, but had no right to dispose,ef. The question of the right, to take and the right to sell were here, •however, so intimately blended with each other upon the custom, as questions of fact, that he could not separate them, and be must therefore send them to a Jury in the form which he considered the most effec tual for bringing the question of right to issue—an action in trover. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, MARCH 8. STANLEY AND ANOTHER V. LADBROKE AND CO. This was an action brought by the assignees of Hobson and Marshal, to recover the value of seven Bills of Exchange for 2,193/. Is., deposited before the bankruptcy with the defendants, who are bankers in the city. Mr. Caatrata,r, (with whom was Mr. PLATT) stated the plaintiffs' case. It appeared that Hobson and Mar shal were corn factors, and kept an account with the defendant.. Becoming embarrassed in Dec. 1825, they called a meeting of their friends, at which it was re solved, that if they could procure an advance of 3,0001. on the sec urity of landed estates from the defendants, and also induce them to 'discount several bills of exchange, then in the hands of Hobson and Mar shal, the house might go on. The defendants, however, refused to snake the required advance ; upon which Hobson and Marshal stopped payment, and subsequently became bankrupts. The defendants then refused to give op the bills which the bankrupts had sent them to discount, alleging that they retained them as a security, for a balance due on the bankrupts' account. The assignees, however, insisted that the bills were only sant to Ladbroke and Co. for inspection, and they were not discounted. Both the bankrupts and several other witnesses were ex amined in support of the plaintiffs' ease. Sir Jams ScaaLarr then addressed the Jury for the defendants, and contended that the hills had been discounted by Ladbroke and Co., who actually paid the bankrupts' bill for 1,0001. due on the same day, from a part of the pro ceeds of the discount. Witnesses were then examined to prove that the bills were left with Ladbroke and Co. to be discounted, and that they were discounted and passed through all the books of the house the same day. Mr. Castraeu, having replied, Lord TENTritnitti summed up, and left it to the Jury, whether the bills were given to the defendants to discount, and pass the amount to the bankrupts' credit, or whether the bills wets only given for inspection. The Jury returned a verdict for the plaintiffs--Da mages 1,1931. The Court after disposing of one other cause of no pub lic interest, adjourned to Monday, the 14th of April next. THE LEAD TRADE.—Petitions to both Houses of Parliament, from the inhabitants of the parish of Alston, Northumberland, are now in the course of signa ture, praying far a revision of the laws relating to the im portation of foreign lead and lead ore; and it is expected such petitions will be general from all the mining districts. —Sheffield Iris. HOWARD THE CONVICT. Another attempt was ,made by Howard, to decoy a gentleman, .with a large slain of money in his possession, into' the same chamber where he at tempted the assassination of Mr. Mullay, a short time: before that event, and.had very nearly proved 'suecessful. Howard called on Mr. Massey, gold smith and bullion dealer, in Leadenhall-street, on Saturday, the 26th of January, and stated to him that he had a quantity of gold and silver in his pos session, which he wanted to dispose of, the following list of which he produced :—A gold cup, 9 oz. ; a crucifix, 16 oz. 13 dwts. ; 70 doubloons (old) ; 36 ditto (new) • 207 Spanish dollars • *4B five franc pieces; 16 sitildores, and 215. rix-dollars. This, he said, a moiety of the property in his possession, btti: the other half belonged to another person, in conjunction with whom he had made the purchase in another country. He observed to Mr. Massey, that he had formerly dealt with Mr. Smith, of Cornhill, and about. twelve years ago had made a sale to Mr. Massey himself of a smaller amount. Mr. Massey had no objection to make the purchase, which was between five and six hundred pounds, for which he was to pay ready money, and agreed to call on Howard, at No. 36, Red Lion square, the ensuing Monday morning. Mr. Massey, accompanied by his clerk, accordingly. called at 11 o'clock on Monday morning, and were taken up to the top of the house, to the very room in which, a few days after, the attempt was made to assassinate Mr. Mullay. Howard. then stated, that the pro perty was at that instant in the possession of his partner, who had advanced him between 2001. and 300/., which must be repaid before the matter could be finally settled. Mr. Massey now began to enter tain no very favourable opinion of his customer ; the situation of the room to which he. was taken, which he had before attributed to its being the place where the property. was deposited, now appeared to him very extraordinary, as well as the non-production of the property itself. Howard requested that Mr. Massey would call on him the next day, when his partner would be. in attendance with the coins and bullion. To this invitation no favour able reply was given; and Howard perceiv ing that Mr. Massey was disappointed, said to him, " It may appear strange to you, Sir, how we became possessed of such a quantity of coin and bullion, but the fact is, it has, been all pur chased from pirates;' but howe'ver dishonestly it might have been obtained in the first instance, our transactions have been most honourable, I assure you." Mr. Massey, on hearing this account, refused to call again. Howard, however, was not to be easily repulsed; he called upon Mr. 'Massey, and pressed him to come to Red Lionssquare, where he assured him the property was ready for delivery on. payment. Mr. Massey, however, positively refused to go there again, telling Howard, that if he wished to make a sale to him, he must bring the property to his shop. It is scarcely necessary to add, that this determination on the part of Mr. Massey. put an end to the negotiation. It is believed that Howard had an accomplice, and that if Mr. Massey had paid a second visit at Red Lion-square, with the money for the purchase, even though accompanied by his clerk, they would probably not have returned alive. Mr. Massey declares that he never saw - any 'place under a roof in the metropolis so much`adapted, by its locality, for the commission of m4der: . Since Howard's committal to Newgate several per sons, who have been plundered by a man whose de scription resembles that of the convict, have been at Neu-gate to see him. Of those six or seven have identified him as 'the individual who plundered them. To one gentlemen, a laceman inßond-street, he in troduced himself at Paris in the name of English, representing him Self as a general agent between Paris and London; and recommended: himself so strongly by his accomplishments as to secure a warm invitation to. Bond-street. No soorier,. however, was be esta blished as a visitor, than he contrived to obtain pos session of 2001. worth of lace,, and made off towards the Continent. By the activity, however, of one of the partners, he was overtaken at Dover, and stripped of the lace, which he was carrying concealed on his person. A pretty . girl, with whom it appear's he has been some time acquainted, has called' twice at Newgate to see him, but without effect : no other human being has ever asked after him, except those who have been robbed, and who suspected that it was to his ingenuity they were indebted. Some persons, in their determination to make Howard a rival of John Thurtell, declare that they have been concerned together in devising plans of robbery, and that the bloody disposition . of the one was as Com pletely established as that of the other. EXECUTION OF FIVE MEN ON WEDNESDAY. Five unhappy creatures are (loomed to expiate their crimes on Wednesday morning next, on the scaffold in front of Newgate—three for the offence of robbing i►► the dwelling-house, under very aggra vated circumstances, and two for horse-stealing. The three for robbing in the dwelling-house are named Charles Mclford, aged 18 years, William Melford, aged 21 years, and Jeremiah Sullivan, aged 28 years. The two former are brothers; they were convicted on two indictments in January last, and in the last indictment Sullivan was included. The two Melfords, on Sunday morning the 9th of. December, entered the house of Mr. Pring, a cheese monger, No. 9, Plumber's-row, Shoreditch, when his wife was left alone in the house. They Pre tended that they wanted to buy some cheese, when W. Melford presented a pistol at her head, and threatened to blow her brains out if she gave an alarm ; Charles then said, "It is your money we want—do not be alarmed—we won't hurt you, but we must have your money." They then rifled the drawers up stairs, and took property, in cash, &c. value between twenty and thirty pounds. When they came down stairs they produc©d a cord, and were about to tie the hands of Mrs. Pring, but she begged them not to do so, and promised she would not stir from the place for half an hour. They were both identified and convicted. The second indictment charged the two Melfords and Sulli van with a robbery in the house of Mary Anne Norbuu•y, who keeps a fish shop, No. 5, 13irchin lane. . William Melford had. some time before been in the service of Mrs. Norbury. Ile and the other two prisoners entered her shop, on the evening of the 11th of November, when a young man, named Tibbs, was alone in the house. They had some oysters, and inquired of Tibbs whether Mrs. Nor bury was at home, and being informed that she was at her father's, one of them instantly shut the door and locked it ; and William Melford, at the same moment, pulled out a pistol, which he presented at Tibbs, saying, " Don't speak a word—l won't hurt you—we don't want any thing of you—we only want your mistress's money." Charles Melford also drew a sword from a stick, and Sullivan pulled out a pistol, and said to the shopman, that if he made a noise he would blow his brains out. They then broke open several drawers, from which they took 5/. in money, and several articles of plate and linen; after which they tied the shopman hands and feet, and left the house. Part of the stolen property was found in their possession, and they were identified in the most po sitive manner, and found guilty. The Recorder, to mark his sense of the enormity of the pritioner's conduct, instead of allowing them to remain to re ceive their sentence at the end of the Sessions, with the others convicted, called them up for judgment immediately after the second trial, and w arned them not to indulge the slightest hope of znercy. Their demeanour, while in confinement, has been ill suited to persons in their awful situation -- even subse quently to their conviction, their conduct w as so violent even towards eaeh other, that for sonic time it was found necessary to place them in a more than ordinary degree of restraint.— Charles Melford, the younger brother, was the con triver of a desperate plan for breaking out of New gate, a short time since, but fortunately the inten tion was discovered before an attempt was made to carry it into effect. It appears that 'they have ne father living. Their mother, who; it seems, is re• spectably connected, has been unceasing, in her ap plication! and endeavours to obtain aFOintruitation of the sentenc e p asse d on her unhappy offspring, and petitions in their favour, numerously and respect ably signed, have been presented-'in the , highest qtiarter, but without effect. Jeremiah Sullivan, aged 28, who- Was . . their partner in crime in the robbery at - - Mrs.-Nbrbury's, had been employed in the Prevontive Service, from which he was discharged about R year before, and afterwards became a patient in Guy's Hospital. It was here, it appears, that his acquaintance with the Melfords commenced, Wm. MelfOrd being also a patient of the Hospital for a disease, by which his countenance was so completely disfigured, that Mrs. Norbury, in whose employ he had lived as waiter, about two years before, was unable•to recognise him as the same person. For some after the two brothers were apprehended, Sullivan remained in concealment in a lodging he had previously occu pied, at a public-house near the hospital. On Christmas eve, the day before he was taken, his landlady seeing a Police Report of the examination at Worship-street, immediately recognised, in the description of the Melfords, the two brothers, whom she hall known as Sullivan's companions. She ac cordingly intimated her suspicion that he was the person mentioned as the third robber. He endea voured to quittt her suspicion by an assurance that "he did not earn his bread in that way." He- was apprehended on- Christmas day, by Flarley, of Wor ship-street. Chapman and Johnson, the two men for horse stealing, are about 40 years of age. They were seen at Marshfield, in Gloucestershire, on the sth o Oc tober last, and on that night, a Mr. Jones and a Mr. Bone, both residing. at Marshfield, had each a mare stolen out of their fields. The prisoners were ap prehended.in London by officers,,of Worship street,two mares s th t o pos se s sion 11th of October, of t he pr and itheyione prisoners, whoon tracer} he the Bth Oct. arrived in London with them, and put them ap at a stable, and gave orderittbat they should be shod. They were found guilty onn - both indict ments. The usual sermon to the •condeMited was preached yesterday, at-the chapel of Newgate, by the Rev. Mr. Cotton. The culprits have been visited by Mr. Cotton and Mr. Biker, who have humanely urged them to prepare, by repentance, for the transi tion that so sooh awaits them. POLICE -INTELLIGENCE. LAMBETH-r3TREET.—Ainong the paupers brought up to this'office on Saturday last, in order to their being passed to their respective settlements,. was,the Rev, Mr. R—, a clergyman of 'the - established .lurch, who . bas for 'several y e ars back be e n an O c c a sional preacher at Shoreditch, Stepney, 'Poplar, Ratcliffe, and St. Anne's, Limehouse, and who lately officiated at (;Dopers'-hall alms 'houses. . , The unfortunate man is a native of a parish near. Leeds, and when placed before the bench, presented the most piti able spectacle of extreme wretchedness. Ilia clothes were in tatters; and even these, bad as they were, were covered with filth and vermin. The Magistrates, on perceiving his name prefixed with a '0 Reverend," asked Warren, the beadle, under what cir sumstances it was that he beeame chargeable to the parish, and in reply, Warren stated; that on Thursday night last, the Rev. Pauper was found by some of the parochial officers while going their rininday sleeping in the porch of the church, from whence they removed him to the watch house, where he received shelter for the night. In the morning he departed, but returned again in the evening, being destitute of means to procure a lodging; and a second time received shelter. On that day he applied .for relief, being in an utter state of destitution, and the' pariah Officers (be having that become chargeable to the pariah) thdu ht it their duty to have him pissed to his proper settlement., , The Reverend' applieatiti who is about 60 yetis of age, objected to this 'course being pursued he did not wish to be passed home in forma pauperis,' his brother being' a respectable man, who had frequently contributed to his ne cessities, and who, he was ince, *Could again, if a commu 'nication were made to him; besides which' his being,t hue treated as a - mendicant would painfully . wound the fee lings of his friends. , . i The ALM4I§TItATE remarked, that he had; by _sleepy* n the - open *li t committed an act of Vigrincy;;lihich sub.. jected hum to be sent to the tread-Mill for three Out of respect to his prefeseion, however, he should regret being compelled to adopt such an alternative; but at the 'tame time he must learn that he would not be permitted .to lead this vagabond kind of life. It was ultimately arranged that, if before - Tuesday his friends did not do something for him, lie should be passed to his parish in the ordinary manner. Some persons in .the office who had witnessed the habits and conduct of the Wretched man, attributed his present degraded condition to an unquenchable, thirst for ardent spirits. . , Sine° the late calamity :it the Brunswick Theatre no less than V4notorions pickpockets hive been" comMitted,from this Office fir practising their avocations among, the crowd surrounding the barriers. Among them was , a young Sew for stealing a handkerchief belonging to his ,Grace the Duke of Argyll. Saturday, Captain John Camp.. bell Lti4n, who has been some time in-custodyona charge of bigamy, was brought np for a final examination. Mr. Adnlphus, who attended for the prosecution, repre sented that the prisoner had four or fuod wives - now alive, and that, notwithstandng' the plurality, 'there was co'nsiderable difficulty in.obtaining the necessary witnesses to establish 'the charge. Me, Lee, the_parish clerk, of SL George's, • Ilanovei... square, produced, the register of marriages, In 'which . was entered that a.titin dainPbell, . with Miss Char lottelVeit, 'dated the sill of October, ' .; Aft.. ,Hurst proclueed„the register of marriages "for, the parish of - "St. George; the Martyr, Senthwark,, in'which was entered solemnization 'of marriage . between : John Campbell' Device and Miss Sarah Davies, on the 9th of June, 1,82 f; ititneSs did not reeelleet the prisoner. Iltk..Riehard Bell attested the"Mairiage; and perfectly:re , eolleeteil the prisoner.. —.:11 - Was then, fully committed. BIRTHS. On the 6th inst. at Hillfield„ Herts, the lady of J. F. Timing, Esq. of a daughter. On' tbe 6th inst. Maria, wife of W. Borman, Esq. of a son. On the 6th inst. at Charmoutb, Dorset, Mrs. J. Wilson, of a son. MARRIED. On the 6th inst. at Wells, Somerset, the Rev. Wm. Nelson Jackson, of Youghall, county of Cork, and curate of Dartford, to Isabella, daughter of Col. J. Smith, of Belvue-place, eheltenham. On the 4th inst. W. G. Bell, jun. Esq. to Harriett, daughterof the Rev. R. Worsley, Dean of Ripon. DIED. On the Bth inst. at the Stud-house, Hampton-court, Charlotte, the youngest daughter of the Right lien. Lerd Bloomfield. On the Sth inst. at Kensington, in his 12th year, John Croker Bond, son of the Dean of Ross, and nephew to the Secretary of the Admiralty. On the 6th inst. at Exmouth, John Moseley, Esq. of New-street, Covent-garden, and of Mill-hill, Middlet.ex, in his 66th year. On the sth inst. at Welsh Pool, Mr. Wm. Bewdler, of Cheapside, aged 42. On the Gth inst. Miss A. J. Cullen, daughter of the late Archibald Cullen, Esq. On the 7th inst. at Kirton-Lindsay, Lincolnshire, Mrs.. Sarah Stamp, wife of Richard Stamp, Esq. aged 73. On the 7th inst. at Carnherwell-grove, aged 18, Isabella, daughter of J. T. Walker, Esq. On the 26th ult. in Elm-tree-road, Mr. W. Makin., a ged 66. On the 2d inst. at Bodlendeb, Carnarvonshire, in his 'Oth year, Abraham Mills, EN. F.R.S., late one of the officers of his Majesty's Ordnance Department, Dublin. On the 9th inst. is Cumming -street, Pentonville, Mr. John Evans, late a member of the Stock Exchange,• in his , 6th year. On the 3d instant, at Withington, Elizabeth, the eldest daughter• of the late John Trafford, Esq. of Trafford-park, Lancashire. • On the 2d instant, Henry Carr, Esq., -architect, Albe marle-street, Clerkenwell, aged 57. lw -n en On the 3d instant, Mr. John Wakefield,. Calming • street, Pentonville. On the 3d instant, itt Withington, Elizabeth, eldest daughter of the late John Trafford, E9(1., of Trafford Palk, Laneashira. p RI NTso and POBLISHED by M. 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