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prehended and prosecuted to conviction. But this offer of a reward may be considered as inPre words. —lt is, we believe, as Nvell known as need be, that no Jury in that part of Ireland will find a verdict against an Orangeman, for such a venial matter, in the eye of faction, as murdering a Ca tholic; and the people, who might otherwise be tempted by the money, know that a conviction can not be obtained. If, after the finding of a Coroner's Jury, there is not one Magistrate to be found who will see that the law will be put in force against the murderer, who walks about without apprehension, what hope is there that a Petty Jury, packed as all the Juries in the North are, will find a verdict of guilty ? It is no doubt true that Government have no means of obtaining justice for a Catholic in the North, fur the Government may offer rewards for apprehension, but all the machinery for putting the law in force is Protestant. There is one law for the Protestant and another for the Catholic; or rather there is a law which, in the hands of the Protest ants, is an instrument to enable them to oppress the Catholics, but affording to the Catholics no re dress against Protestants. Among the letters read at the Catholic Association, there is one from a Patrick Tierney, an old soldier, who expresses an opinion, which is probably shared by many poor Catholics of the North of Ireland—" I have tra velled," he says, " through same parts of this Pro vince, and it is my firm belief, from what I have seen and heard, that it. is the intention of the Orangemen to murder the Catholics as soon as they possibly can." Patrick Tierney has, perhaps, a too lively imagination ; but as this is riot uncommon with his poor countrymen, we can well believe that the Catholics of the North live at present in great trepidation. Miserable policy ! But we are a great nation, and have a wise Government. (PROM TILE MORNING POST.) The intended meeting of the freeholders of the county of Kent has thrown all the enemies of the Church and Constitution of England into a state of utter dismay, which they strive in vain to conceal by furious railings against the authors of this most loyal, constitutional, and necessary proceeding. That the freeholders of this and every other county in England have a right to entertain and to express an opinion upon the state of public af f airs, and to recommend by respectful petition to the Legisla ture and the Throne, such measures as they think conducive to the public welfare and security, is a proposition which the apostles of faction have not the hardihood to deny. They do not venture in deed to dispute the existence of this right, but, in pursuance of a system of tactics peculiarly their own, they strive to prevent its exercise by pouring forth an incessant torrent of coarse, intemperate, and un meaning abuse, upon every distinguished individual who unites with or attempts to stimulate and guide his more humble countrymen in the eminentiv proper, and legal, and constitutional course which the freeholders of Kent are about to - pursue. Happily the King's Government has now pro claimed, by measures which faction can no longer affect to misconceive, and which render further de lusion upon the subject impossible, the entire sym pathy and unanimity which we have always believed and asserted to exist between its feelings and opi nions and those which actuate the British people, and which constitute the most effectual guarantee, and the ultimate and impregnable defence, if every other defence should fail, of the National Church and Constitution. The acts of Government in Ire land—the wise and salutary acts—the Lord Lieutenant's Proclamation—the arrest of the ' seditious Lawless—the terror with which all the other traitors, his colleagues and confede rates in treason, are at this moment struck, prove to the satisfaction of all men that the Con stitution of England is not yet driven to its last de fence—that the duty to which the people of Etek land are now called is merely that of resisting and overwhelming a cabal of desperate and wicked in cendiaries, and net the more painful and arduous :ask of counteracting and defeating and destroying a treacherous Administration. The slanderous impu tation that an Administration with the Duke of Wellington at its head meditated treachery to the Constitution, is nobly repelled. And a deeper humiliation, a more severe chastisement, awaits the incendiaries who sought to fix it, than they would have deserved for 1,11 the other crimes, numerous and atrocious as they are. Let not the friends of the Constitution, however, suppose that the friends of Popery and the emissaries of faction, foiled and humbled as they are, will yet be inac tive. An attempt , will we apprehend be made to interrupt and disturb the freeholders of the county of Kent, in the exercise of one of their most important rights, and the discharge of one of their highest duties. The leaders of the re volutionary and republican faction in England, be tween whom and the chief agitators in the cause of Popery and despotism an unnatural and wicked al liance has long subsisted, will unquestionably be in the field. Already have they taken measures to draw around them upon that occasion a rabble route, to impede the progress of proceedings from which they foresee consequences the most fatal to their cause. The friends of Despard and O'connor are united with the associates of Thistle wood and lags. These, with certain orators and writers, and fortified by the scum of the metro polis, will attempt, we have reason to believe, to create ennfusion, and to disturb and discredit the proceedings of the Freeholders of one of our m ost wealthy, populous, and enlightened counties. IVe trust the High Sheriff and the Magistracy of Kent will be prepared for th em. If any man not known to be a Freeholder should attempt to put down by clamour the expression of Protestant and Constit u tiono feeling, for which the Meetin g is culled toge ther, it will quite safe to take him immediately into custody, and to lodge him forthwith in the county ' gaol. The chances will be thousand to one that he is not a Freeholder, and had therefore no business to be at the Meeting. The presence lof an adequate . body of constables, properly instructed, will be suf ficient to overawe and corarol the rabble followers of the disaffected. TIIE 3tORNING JUVENAL alias NEW TIMES.) It is hardly necessary to repeat to our readers the news that last reached us from the theatre of war. The Russians were described as in full re treat from Shumla; the road strewed with their dead and dying; they were beaten at Silistria, and had been compelled to fall back in disorder on Hir. sous ; before Varna they lay with the smallest prospect of success. The accounts from Wittgen stein's corps d'arntee came down to the 19th wit., at which date they were said to be at Jenibazsr, whi ther they had retreated from Shumla. This intelli gence cam e via Bucharest, the capital of Wallachia, a city in the possession of the Russians. The ac counts from Silistria, which were of the 21st Au gust, were received through the same chann e l t h ose from Varna, o f the 21st ult., came through Odessa from Lord Heytesbury. Up to last night every no ti c e, direct or indirect, from every quarter, Was more or less confirmatory of these accounts. It was not, therefore, without very 'considerable lAtrprise, that we read in the German. papers that then reached us (extracts from which we give in another column) an account so very different from that which we have been publishing and con,. meriting on for the last eight days. The latter carne be us through the same paper from which we have ; on various other Occasions, received information of the Russian victories in Bulgaria. The Berlin Stales Gazelle is, of course, no greater authority than was the Moniteur under Napoleon; still even the Atunitcur, among all its exaggerations of victory and palliations of defeat, seldompublished narratives that were not bottomed on facts, however, to suit the interest of its master, .these facts might be dis torted. But we have hardly any resource left us, iii the present case, except a total disbelief not only of the accidents but of the essence of the reports that the Berlin Gazette contains. In the first place it is implied, if not directly asserted, that, so far from Wittgenstein being ct Jenibazar, with the loss of his cannon and all the m ateriel of his army, he has never moved from Shumla. "From the Ifiltfi to the .Ist October," so says the demi-official " our position before Shumla is the same, without alteration." It is possible that die dates of the Bucharest letter may have been juror rect. The Russians may have retreated to Je nibazar—Hussein Bey may have followed—and Wittgenstein, as Schwartzenburg did in his fa mous march upon Paris in 1814, may, by a dexterous movement, have retraced his steps, and taken up his old position, leaving the Turks in his rear. If the disorder of Wittgenstein's corps was so great as it R as represented, such a movement was very like to be facilitated by Hussein, who may have, as indeed some accounts say he did, sent for ward his right and centre to the relief of Varna, while his left pushed on to Silistria, in order to in tercept Wittgenstein in his retreat, and to complete the destruction of Roth. The letters from Vienna of the 7th state, as a rumour, that the Russians had teturned to Shumla, which, while it gives cvedibility to the Berlin account, confirms, at the same time, the retreat announced by the letters from Bucharest. There are other difficulties in the Berlin accounts which we in vain attempt to solve. The &giro from Varna are of the 23d September t those from Silistria of the 28th Aug. Now as the accounts from Bulgaria reach Berlin through Lemberg and Warsaw, it is strange, not to say incredible, that the letters from Varna should be of a later date than those from Silistria, which a simple inspection of the map will show, not only to be a great deal nearer, but directly in the track of the Varna courier. There is one way of explaining the contradictions in the account itself, and its incompatibility with those that had previously reached us, namelyy by supposing that some error of date had crept into it ; and we rather think that the !text arrivals will show this to be the trove key to these difficulties. The accumulating and almost monstrous wealth of the Aristocracy, increases upon us like- an oVer shadowing power; threatening us With a renewal of the feudal darkness of other times it not crossed in its monopolizing purposes, or precipited from its dun= gerous eminence within the arena of Government by some prompt and vigorous counteraction of the public spirit. The enormous revenue of the tottntry is made to minister to this overgrown Oligarchy, inas much as the heads of tontines have little to do hut support themselves and aggrandise their resources ; contriving to shoulder the other and younger branches ) by aristocratic influence, on one depart ment or another of the State. The natural and wholesome operation of things, which went to divide large estates between a large family would, do gbod but here the iniquitous law of primogeniture steps in ; and caresses and nurtures the " first orn " alone; throwing off the remainder of the breed, as a supernumerary refuse of State pauperism. We might point out numerous instances Nvliae the re venue of a nobleman is not less than from two'to three hundm-1 thusand per all7llOll ; yet who has his younger sons placed in sinecure offices, or other pensioned posts; and here, the very means which should render such a proceeding both ZIPJICeend/ And indecent, are able to influence this ittiproper disposal of such offices. It is this perversion of all just dispensation of places of emolument, that is contributing to create an un known and misshapen power in the State ; which ; in the hour of peril, will constitute a dangerous weakness, by tempting the cupidity of desperate men ) in speculations of plunder; and tend to involve the nation in anarchy from the worst motives. The insolence of enormous wealth; and the unsocial and outlandish hauteur, which travels in this train of things, have completely changed the old social rela tions between the higher and middle classes in the Country, into ill-disguised hatred and mistrust. Poverty, desperation, and discontent, have hence ex perienced a congenial and corresponding growth, as though Providence were preparing the thunder-bolt destined to strike the weak tyrant of his kind,—in the very nucleus of his tyranny. This country is experiencing at the present moment th e mos t con • flicting and opposite weaknesses. The great ex tremes of society are becoming )ictier and poorer-- more oppressive and mole discontented, Super stition is marshalling its ranks, prompt for vengeance; and sounding its call through all the dense ranks of ignorance. We are glad to see that shine of bur contemporaries are cerretting a little their sanguine expectatitths from the " Schoolmaster" that is said to be " abroad." That capacity of the human mind which is able to slough off the prejudice and bigotry incident to early impressions, is not exactly the work of the " Schoolmaster ;" nor books, not Mechanic Institutes; you may find bigots in all grades of Common knowledge ; and in all the stations of scientific attainment—amid the extremes of poverty and of wealth; and among Poets, Moralists, and Mathtimaticians. The men who think fdr themselves, and who tape nothitlg for granted, are few in number, aid ever have been in all ages of mankind. It has ' been properly said that "you may be learned with other men's learning; lint you cannot be wisewith other men's wisdom." In the formation of the Brunswick Clubs, we see the learned ac'rgy pre , eminently distinguish ing themselves by appealing from the commonest maxims of political prudence, to the worst and the last resources of desperate faction and ignorance. Such a set of Reverend Firebrands, under any en lightened and powerful Government, ought to be stript of their gowns; and handed over to their Clubs for their means of a. livelihood. Can the na tion be justly called on to pay men extravagant sala ries, or any salaries at all, who are seeking to place themselves in a position of etUtddiona/ allegiance? No ; let the Throne banish for ever from its employ, and from its favor, the desperate and ungrateful knot of bigots, who derive their very power to be fermi:. dable (if formidable they be), front that source of honor which they would betray when they failed to coeeee it. This phalanx of bigots will. prove the most dangerous faction of the times, if th e wea k ness of the Throne give way to it ; and the King should dream fora moment, because it wbilid in naive iden tify itself with Royalty, that it has any object in view hut to become Royalty's master; and make the Crown the subservient instrument - of the Priest hood—views worse than Popish, in all their intents, and in tendency—though promoted under the mask of Religious Freedom, and as effected in Contraven tion of Popery ! And what is the great Achilles of the State doing, during all this unmolested mar shalling of provisional Governments, and separate jurisdictions of power ? Literally " nOthlng ) ".as - the Times says; but then there may be powerful rea sons for that. To " do" to-day, might be only finding work for somebody to " undo" to-morrow ; and it has transpired through some of the crevices of place, that this state of things will last As long as iti3 master! Thus is the vessel of State driving at randoni before the wind; and beaten about in the gulph of conflicting currents ; and we may perhaps consider ourselves better off, even at the mercy of winds and tides, than as directed by ignorant pilots; How long we are tO remain in this incertitude, Heaven knows ; but we should hope, until either choice or necessity shall throW us into competent hands. (FROM THE MORNING ADVERTISER.) ► In another column will be found the. report of a case which occurred at Mariborough-street on Sa turday, and which We beg to recommend to the at tention of those of our readers whom it concerns. The Abstract of the new Licensing Act, to whleh the report refers, appeared in this and Other papers, but the clause. restricting the operation of the Act to such licences only as should be granted under it was omitted ; and for two reasons ; first, because, as the Magistrate states, no one would have thought of looking for an express enactment in a paragraph whose object is the repeal of all former enactments; and secondly, because in the clause immediately fol lowing that in which the exception against those kalding licences under the old Act, there is ttn express provision in direct contradiction to it! According to one clause of the Act, in fact, Mr. Dyer was authorized to convict; according to another, he not only had no authority, but was expressly forbidden to impose a penalty ! Lest our readers, however, should imagine that we are merely joking with them, here are the words of the Act itself. After pro viding for the repeal of all preceding Acts, it goes on to say,—" Except only such parts of any of the said Acts as repeal any former Acts or pm of Acts, and except also, that all licences granted and re cognizances entered into under the said Acts hereby repealed, or any of them, or under an Act passed in the third year of his present Majesty's reign inti tided An Act for amending the Laws fur regulating the Manner if licensing Alehouses in that part of the U nited Kingdom called England, and for the more ef fectually preventing disorders therein, shall remain in full force and virtue until the end of the terms for which such licences and recognizances respectively have been or shall be granted or entered into . ; and all offences against the tenor of the said licences, or in breach of the conditions of such recognizances, and all offences committed against the said recited Acts, or any of them, before the commencement of this'Act,, shall and may be prosecuted, heard, deter mined, and punished, as if this Act had not been made ; and all such offences committed after the commencement (j . this Act shall be prosecuted, heard, determined, and punished under the provisions of this Act." Nothing can be snore precise than the last clause,. which states that " all offences com mitted after . the passing of this Act shall be determined and punished according to the pro.. visions of this Act ; and these provisions ex tend only to keeping riotous and disor derly company, and to selling exciseable li- , quors during the usual hours of divine service.— Mr. Sweetman, therefore, according to this clause ; ought not to have been convicted; according to the one preceding it, he was liable to a conviction ; but as many houses have been licensed under the new Act, and many more have been licensed under the old, common sense, we think, would dictate the propriety of dealing impartially with all, which can only be done by rendering all amenable to the same law. Those who have been licensed under the new Act have, in fact, an unfair advantage over those who obtained their licences under the old; and as u few months more or less can be of little value in such a case—more especially where the Meaning of the Act is liable to be disputed--we would venture to recommend to the Magistrates the carrying of the new Act into immediate effect, as the best means both of saving themselves trouble, and of fulfilling the intentions of the Legislature, (triton THE NEWS.) THE STATE OF THE COUNTRY,—EFFECTS OF REE G lOUS DIFFERENCES. " Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen who surrey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's dr,:ay ; 'Tis your's to judge how wide the limits stand 13.. tween a splendid anti a happy land."—GoLnsmrrit. (FROM THE ATLAS.) During the pabt Week, the arrivals at the Corn tXchange have been considerable; and some of our contemporaries congratulate themselves on what they term an extraordinary supply. Of wheat, the receipt of 38,000 quarters is acknowled ge d, 20;600 atta r; ters of which are forei gn ; also, 21,000 sacks of flour, 6,300 quarters of barley, and 23,550 quarters of oats, of which 18,950 are British—principally, we believe, Scotch. Some of the Journals, drawing their conclusions from the temporary fall in prices during the week occasioned by this unexpected sup ply, consider that we arc now quite secure froth the chance of a scarcity. But we again warn the public not to be deceived: The quantity Of Oaio received during the week inconsiderable, in com parison with the quantity demanded for - consump tion, that, although prices may vary and decline for two or three weeks, the anticipations we ex pressed in our last must ultimately be verified; -Orden our proposition is adopted by the higher arid middle ranks. On Friday the state of the market was so unsettled that our contemporaries are unable to fix the average sales ; some affirming that wheat might be noted at from 4s. to Gs. lower than on Monday, others making the reduction Bs. t. "and some bringing it down to 10 3 . Thi s unsettled state of the sales Iti• a proof of a want of confidence between buyers and sellers; and these who are best acquainted with the actual condition of the harvest, and the probabilities of supply from abroad, do not hesitate 'to assert that prices will as suddenly ascend us they have abruptly fallen. There is no reliance to he placed on sudden re-actions ; our protection is in our own hands. The public may rest assured that the information upon which we ground our conclusions is drawn from the best sources ; and that when we earnestly recent mend a diminution in the domestic consumption of bread-flour as the only means of averting a gre a t na tional calamity, we urge an advice which h as b e en maturely consid e r e d, an d not offered until all other remedies appear to have failed. The supply of the past week, we repeat, can at best afford but tempo rary relief. Empires have usually fallen amid all the gorgeous ness of that magnificence which is incident to luxury and egotism ; and when the obligatory relations in society between high and low have become only nominal. In such cases, there ceases to be any na tional coherence; and in the absence of this main principle or cement of the different orders of the so cial compact,—individual wisdom, knowledge, or courage, become powerless or valueless. A State may thus rock and totter, like old Rome, for a cea- :ury and a half; as though waiting only to be struck at ; when the ponderous mass falls into incurable ruin, with a helplessness that astounds and amazes mankind ! 'I here does not appear to be any subject that so fatally distracts a people; dividing and driv ing public opinion into hostile ranks, which regard each other with a superhuman horror,—as that of Religion. This fact has puzzled the philosophers and moralists of all ages ; but example seems to be nothing with nations. Goldsmith, who was one of the most practical Christians of his time, attributes the chief decline in the power of Rome to the change in the National Religion; and the moml dis sonance that arose, When thb enormous fabric that had existed for so many centuries, and which had been built and formed on pagan principles, —wa s to be converted to fresh and strange uses; and guided and ruled in,by nnre‘avpminanxnienhish.ig ltlot,isthiisiosttatitteatofEthugnliagisit! rnstances are in onthtehceooupr:eratoiofnsdoe-f is exactly publi c k nowledge. 1 ci N r v c l u tich will soon surprise those mind s b ve a l t op i t?i a e n n y t, that t p h r a e v s e e nt calculat ed stag e and t o If , g o r n e d e l y f The prospect of invasion "by foreign f orce could not non , rally the a s i i i ) irit of the country, as it did i n t h e time of the Addington Administration; and the rett son would be found in those changes p rodu ced of party; thou g h continual and unremitting habitude b y the the same laws affecting the Catholics existed ide th b en as exist now. Au invasion of Ireland wou hailed by the great body of the peopl e a s 'a boon from the Gods. In England, the commercial and manufacturing public arc almost without exception opposed to the general policy o f the Government; and the agricultural population,—between the op pression of the Game Laws and the new system of Letting Land, subject tu discounts instead of re duced rents adapted to the times,—feel no longer that common interest with their landlords which marked Other (1834; but even the farmers regard themselves as servants,.working by a sort of commission; with the chalice to lose; but little to gain ; and not cer tain of the indemnity of discounts where it is best understood as a kind of °‘ secret article " in the Treaty. The country is not therefore, as it stands at pieseiit, prepared to meet any of those shocks which are the test of the entireness of nations. fires, in well-carpeted rooms, and supplied with all the other comforts of life, may easily allow theist. selves to be defrauded for a few months longer, but those who are pining and wasting away in cheerless hovels, under the double privation of food nod warmth, feel •the delay inost bitterly. The state of the labouring classes in this country is a fearful one. Poverty is increasing, crime, its necessary conse , quence, is augmenting. Let the rich and powerful, the torn-law making landholders especially, look to these. things ; they threaten serious consequences, which, to say nothing of the claims of humanity and justice, a provident self-interest would alone instruct them to avert: ithtx BULL.) It seems that after the sacred performances in the Minster of York, there was given, at so much a head, a public fancy ball ; we last week had the pleasure of making a few extracts from the account of that at Manche ter, which serve to .enlighten tree unin itiated as to the extent of the tom-foolery; and it seems that at the fancy ball at York there appeared a considerable number of Clergymen ; the Committee having cautiously and kindly itatified that the Cl`rgi) iVere not expected to appear in character!" thus leaving the clerical body distinct specks upon the splendour of the spectacle, so many black sheep among the bleating flock, in all the conspicuous mo desty of plain clothes. To this fancy ball seventeen clergyrneii resorted, whose names were printed and published in the Yorkshire Gazette of Saturday, Sept. 27, and which our correspondent forwards to us. We are unwilling to detail them, because such an exposure, however thoughtless and harmless the conduct which leads to 'it, might git-e pain to the families arid Connections of the exhibitors; but there are two out of the seventeen, who, having ,waived the right of appearing in plain clothes ; abandoned their own characters, and appeared, one, the Rev. C. Forge ; of Mapleton ; as a Master of Arts—(our correspondent charges him with appearing in his clerical robes—this is not exactly thy case, because the dress of a Master of Arts is peculiar to the j University degree, and not to the sacred office of the Ministry—still the absurdity is great)—and the other, the Rev. Mr. Blanchard, in a "fancy dress." This we presume to be indefensible ; and we sincerely hope that the reporter for the Yorkshire Gazette was in error—we can haidly believe it. The great body of the clergy of En g l an d are hot to be excelled, we would say equalled, in learning, piety, and Chris, tian endowment s , by an y o th e r boy of equal extent in Europe ; but. it is painful, indeed, to find one of that class forgetting the sanctity of - his office, the duties of his calling, and the decency of his station, tricking himself out in all the fantastical trappings of a mime or a mountebank, and kicking his heels about in the midst of the lollies of French quadrilles, jor the grosser indecencies of the sensual waltz. It appears, too ; that the Chaplain of Earl Howe was present ; it is presumed in official attendance upon his Lordship, who was dud of the stewards. Surely the Bishops will resume their dormant authority, and interpose to prevent the Clergy of the Lstablish merit from reducing themselves to a level with pub lic mummers; and if they cannot cheek the extraor dinary propensities of the few unworthy members of the church by other means, enforce, as thep the wearing the Canonical dress upon all occasions; this would be the most effectual correction of the levities of the irregulars. Neither cricket nor. fox hunting could well be performed in such vestments, and it would be a sight not likely often to be seefi to witne3s a clergyman ready dressed for the pulpit, making up his book on INewmarket-heath, or beat ing out a prize ring on Moulsey Hurst. (ilto3t THE stNbay Mr. Lawless, who headed a Catholic mob of 20,000 persons, some weeks ago, at Ballibay, has been ar , rested and held to bail: Of the propriety of suck a proceeding, on the part of the Oovernitient,dilf&eut opinions will, undoubtedly, be entertained. For our own part we have only to express our regret that thelime was not better chosen. Of the ille• gality of Mr% Lawless's eondticti and of its tendency to a breach of the peace, no doubt can be entertained by any rational and sober-minded person ; and had the Government, or the local authorities acting under its direction, seized that opportunity of making an example of Mr. Lawless, they would have not only acted iii eonForinity with the law, but done n pUblit service to the community. Mr. Lawless, however, was then allowed to go at liberty; arid now, after the issuing of a proclamation against such unlawful assemblies, and the complete restoration of peace throughout the country, he is somewhat extraordi narily seized by a judge and held to bail ! Such proceeding cn the part of the Government can only be justified by its dealing with equal impart;ality to wards those who ale so busy in endeavouring to collect similar tumultuous assemblies in this country. Let it next arrest the agitators oh Ptiientleit Heath, and the arrest of Mr. Lawless will not be brought forward as an instance of its hostility to the Catho lics. But, on the other hand, if it manifests its dis pleasure towards the one, and allows the other to pursue a course-equally fraught with mischief to the country, the consequences are such as we dare nat even hint at. Though Ireland is now quiet, it is only the quietness which precedes the storm, and which the slightest manifestation of hostility and partiality on the part of the govertittient disturb: The public peace, in fact, may have already been broken ; and if broken, what blood must not be shed before it can be restored ! DEATH BY STABBING. (From the Suffolk Chronicle.) A report having been current on Monday, that a female domestic in the se► vice of William itodwell, Esq. solicitor, Ipswich, had - been stabbed by the butler, and another report on the Tuesday morning that she was dead, the town was thrown into a con siderable state of anxiety to learn the truth of the matter. About twelve o'clock on Tuesday morning a respectable Jury assembled at the Bear and Crown Inn, where the following evidence was given before them : Maria Bishop s servant . to , Wm; Rodwell, Esq. has khoWn Elizabeth '3qUirrell, the deteaged, dbolit a year. She had lived with Mr. Rod well as house keeper since witness first knew her. Has heard the deceased and Churchyard quarrelling frequently ; but they have been on good terms lately. On Saturday Churchyard and witness rPturtted from Bury with the family ; no quarrel took place between the de ceased and Churchyard that day. Witness and the other servants were all comfortable on the Sunday; in the evening about eight o'clock, Elizabeth Squir rel! returned fibte wefi, and '.3he din not appear in a Very good humour, but it was not with any par ticular person. Witness went ,to bed about half past eleven on Sunday evening; about. half-past nine witness went with the other servants to hear a sermon in the parlour, and when they 011ie Out about ten, Churchyard 'took the stiper intO thei parlour. When Churehml had tak e n toe supper tningsbach into his pantry, the deceased went there. to take away the dishes. Witness heard 110 conyersation between the deceased and. Churchyard. Some few minutes after, Churchyard came into the room where witness was, an d ta id, " A re you ready.?". , H y 7 nness " Whet, •to go to pi4ees e said, Witness went into the kitchen, and @MOH THE Churchyard w ent to l oc k t h e outer EXAMINEIv.) t; To th e great mass of the' population; the price had not se 4iyciitseo during this me. neceas e A m door, Witness see that the of •coals is always important —to th e very poor it i s came into the kitchen while witness was standing at of the utmost moment. We arc therefore sorry to. the fire. She said she bad been, and ttill waS qi,!/ Magistrates do not proceed with sick, It W 8 hot More than ten minutes from the greater despateh in this matter. Therpri ee o f b rea d ) titne the Witness had previously seen the deceased it is manifest., and continued frost takes place, ':vrreillythis winter be enormous. Sup- till she came into the kitelro l . Dvces ' s k'd t j' 6 ' pose a hard coals fore complained of beinis - s!‘,itt sire said she still felt will then,when wanted most, be also extravagantly very . sick inqe'cd, and * requested witness to get her dear; and thus the poor half-starved, shivering II a little brandy, which she did ilia tea-e 4; and creatures, who Swarm ire this metropolis, will be led it with water, and deceased drank it. .141 A. exposed in a more than usual degree to two of the Nvell's bell rang •; deceased requested witnetls to at greatest evils that can Alia hunianity--4unger and tend it, as she felt ver sick. Witness afterwards Id. No time should be lost M seeing teat the asked deceased how she felt she Sid ? !!! ( ..' l ‘ co mischief of high price is not augmented by that of but thought she,„tould be better. Deceased slept deficient measure, when it is shewn that fraud ; with Elitahetlitiaylor the laundry-maid, and two thus systematically and most extensively prac- ; other servants slept in ' another bed n t he same room. tised in that respect. Persons sitting before goad ; Witness did not ee deceased Swain ,ntil shorn three o'clock on Monday morning ; When she was called up. Elii. Taylor Went to witness 3 s room and begged her to get ttp as Squirrell Was Very bull; Witness ittitne diately Went to the deeeaSed as stint] as sht.i went up to her, deceased said, " Oh, my dear girl, I asp dying ! - (The witness here became much affected, and was not able to proceed for some time.) Wit ness said, " Don't say, so; you'll be better soon." She was sitting tip in the bed supported by Charlotte Stephens. Witness took hold of the deceased ! itc screamed, and said, " You must not touch my side." Witness was going to take hold of deceas ed's shoulder, when she said her side was bursted; it was her 10 . t side;. Witness asked what was the matter, and looking into the lied saW a great triantity of blood. Witness instantly said, send for a doctor: The upper nurse came into the room, and then called for her mistress. 'Before Mrs. Rodwell entered the room, witness sent one of the servants to call Churchyard: onie tine asked deceased what Was the matter with het side; she said she would tell if all left die room but Sally and Chttrellyarth Witness and Other ser-Vants left except Churchyard and Mint Wilson f the latter is called Silly by the family. Witness with others returned in about a minute ; did not hear the conversation pass in the room. Witness does not recollect if they were called back. When witness and others returned, Churchyard left the room ; nothing was said about the cause of deceased's - illiiess. shortly rafter Mrs. Rodwell came into the room and spoke to the deceased, asking her if any thing made her un happy. Sally said to witness, " Shall I tell my mistress \vhat is the matter ?" Witness said, " Yes, conceal nothing-2' Sally called Mrs. Rodwell out Of the room. Nothing afterwards passed between witness and deceased ; the surgeon soon after came; deceased died about half-past two in the morning. Witness went down stairs with the tipper nurse in search of Churchyard, who came into the kitchen; he appeared much agitated. Witness left him there, and returned shortly after to Churchyard's pantry; this Nkas jtet before -daylight; he was in his bed room adjoining; when he came into the pantry he was crying, and appeared very miserable. Witness asked Churchyard how this happened, alluding to the deceased, and also if he was in a passion at the time ; he said yo, they were both in a passion ; it was about a tray which had beet; carried into the parlour; deceased had said lie had taken the wrong; he said some words followed, and also dial deceased was in a great passion, and took a knife out of the tray and darted it at him, or ;Vas going to do so; he said he was in a great passion;'and took up the knives and dashed them at her feet to frighten her; they were small knives out of the tray; but he did not know that be had stabbed her; he said deceased was closer to him than he thought at the moment. Churchyard said deceased told hint he had cut her, but he thought it was only her foot ; he said de ceased bled, and wanted a hndkerchiel; Church yard also said he asked deceased to let him go for a doctor; but she would not ; he also said he wanted deceased to let him tell the witness before she went to bed, but she would not, and ;aid she should be better soon.. Churchyard appeared greatly agitated, and witness asked hint if he would take any thing. to drink; he said he did not want to drown his thoughts lit drink. Witness at length persuaded him to take a little brandy. Deceased had said she did not know she was wounded till she saw the blood, as she only felt the handle of the knife strike her. During the cAtnination pf this witness, a message was sent into the room, aiitionnting that the knife was found in ,the body of the deceased. This ex cited a feeling of horror and astonishment in all pre. biin: The jury immediately repaired to the room in which the body cif the deceased was lying. The surgeons, in examining the body, had just found the knife hi the situation afterwards described by Mr. A. - It lied entered in nearly a horizontal direction, the point slightly raised, and was com plete!) embedded in the stomach and intestines. _ _ Mi. A. H. Bartlet, surgeon, examined---About three o'clock on Monday morning witness was called to attend the deeeased found her in her bed partly undressed ; inquired what was the ;tatter with her; deceased said she had a violent pain in her body; witness examined her side, and found a transverse wound about an inch in length on the left side , between the hip•botte and lower rib ; witness dressed the wound, and endeavOttred to alleviate the pain and abate the sickness : deceased vomited dreadfully; witness asked Churchyard for the instrument with which tho wound had been inflicted ; he said it was a. knife similar to several he showed to witness (ivory-baiidled dessert knives). Witness said it was impossible to tell the face that had been used by looking at the wound ; witness examined the clothes is ascertain the quantity of blood on them. Witness attended the deceased ; left her about half-past one the mornin g ; witness has since opened the body, and found the knife in it; it had entered the cavity of the body, penetrated through the stemaeh and one of the small intestines and into one of the large ones, and which, witness has no doubt, caused the death of the deceased. [The knife was here identified :it was a dessert one with a ivory handle, and consider ably worn and sharp at both edges of the point.] Witness said the inflammation occasioned by ouch injury was the immediate cause of death. - 1% . 1 - r. A, H, Bart4et, re-examined--iras present when the declaration of the deceased was read on Monday, and witnessed it; Mr. nodwell read it over to the deceased; witness is of opinion she ArAff_ in a perfect state of mind, and was well aware of what she put her hand to. The following is a copy df the declaration " Ipswich, Oct. 12, 1828. " In.the event of my death front that injury I received last evening, I hereby solemnly declare that the wound was inflicted by a knife thrown at me by Thomas Church yard, and that I do not believe he was actuated by any feel ing of ill will or malice towards me, but that he was acting under sudden provocation that I might unintentionally have gWeli i and f ffeely forgive him, as I hope in Almighty God to be saved through irstiS Christ. " Witnesses, " The mark of Y. SQUIRRELL. " Alex, Bartlet,` " Alex. Henry Bartlet." Wm. Rodwell, Esq.—Witness asked Churchyard if th 4 de.eased had struck him. Witness thinks Churchyard replied, deceased was about to strike him. Witness saw the deceased, and asked her to tell .him the whole truth. She replied, " Thoma 3 be hung if I die?": Witness believes the deceased was, during the whole of this conversation, impresied With thb idea that she should not survive. Witness replied, that it der &Wed entirely upon the circumstances, which only she and Thottlas knew, WittietiS theit asked the deceased how . it bad oc. cuffed; sne.replied that the injury was inflicted • by a knife thrown at . her by Thomas. Witness asked deceased if she had given him any provocation; she replied not that sh e k new o f, or wor d s to t h at e ffect. Witness particula r l y ,asked the deceased if she had struck Chu rc hy ar d. Sh e sa id, " N o ." Thomas Churchyard was p reseut w h en w itness asked the deceased Whether she had struck him. The deceased addres se d h erse lf t o Tho ma s, alit! said, " Did I strike you ?" Th o mas's reply was, g . "jilt you know you had your hand on a knife, and were goi ng to strike me." Deceased distinctly said " No;" to which Thomas replied, " I thought you were g o i ng to strike me." Witness asked deceased if she thought Thomas had any malice against her; :The " No." Witless then asked her if sh e thought • such a wound; s h e sa id Thomas intended Mum.. s ' " No?' ;r Witness then asked herforgave him; if s she s a id, et quite," After the eVidente was concluded, the p r isoner de; Otted . asking anir questions; or saying tiny thing in his defence. he looked pale and .dejtetedi bid did hp net betray the least emotions either When the fatal .knife was prodticed, or any other time during his stay iii the Verdict; " Manslaughter against Thoiitas Clinrehytird :" dud •he was cdminitted on the Coroner's warrant, and soon afterwarda relitoVed in a chaise to the Borough Gaol. The prisoner is ars of ay.- • he has a wife and two children. Th© deceased was about :31 years of age. A consi derable number of persons were waiting in and about the inn-yard, uxious to learn the result of the in- SURREY SESSIONS. KINGSTON, Ocr. 18. .1; Pi ddi4 was put to th e b a r s charged with b o il ; 4 1, til t ' ari ; ing, the 20th Of jutie, ass a ulted William 0,4 1 , 11 :foi der, at Chertsey. The detendititt pleaded "' •ntats• Guilty. The CHAIRMAN—WeII, Mr. Hould e r, tea 011111 nature of this assault. ttie t7ot g i t s' Mr. Houlder (after a pause)—Why, language he Used was so terrible bad, Sir, tha t kkE, l asham'd to mention it before females; if you ' d!!l)ou, a send them our, Sir, then— 0,11 Mr. THESSIGER, for the defendant—Come.r:O T i T on, Sir, we want to hear none of yo u r imPrird i r one letittna g e; tell about this assault you complo . 44‘use Mr. boulder—Well ; Sit; had heth tiding I;7id business wi t h M r . Fi n ch, fir ; and sd we went: o , the Bull, and M r . P u ddi c k was thee, and the ht ht meat we went in, he say; with an oath; Ne 0 1 , 40 " here's the wretches a-coming." And 0 0 0 0 came and pitched into me; h e hit me on my l ?-,4 and tut my lip; he then asked mu if I'd havei S ti c" more, and I said no, I' ve h a d e n o u g h. . 21 10 i tt k Cross-examin e d by Mr. T HESSIGER — , 7 au .-4 4 , 0 jA t struck you on the mouth ? Mr. Houlder--le and loosened my teeth. Te )0 0 : 4 1 1 44 . Mr. THESSIGER—Are y our t eet h l oos e 1 0 0 4 t, Mr. Houlder—(Smiling and displaying a v ery st Pet set of teeth. )—They are not. g icl 7 4 4 Mr. TiIESSIER—I thought not, for you eall..c o pi a very good grin still, I think. Pray what . Mr. boulder ? Mr. Houkler-- ,,, An eggler I Eir. Pl 4. Mr. TIIESSIGER—A what ? An egg-layht old f say ? Mr. Houlder—No, Sir, an Iggler ;I P 4 4 2 poultry for dealers in the London markets. 7 0 Mr. THESSIGIift —Pray my good Sir, did youo . when the defendant struck you, say, " verY,o that's enough; that's all I wanted. I've go t `if tight .now and I'll pull you up for it ?"—Mr. 70 der—l believe I did say I'd pull him up for 11.4 pitched into me once before, about three years' and I gave him a good threshing; but I have * 0 ift tkpi a been confined with the gout, o r 'else I'd se o „: l4 oi t ei take the law of any man. gte Mr. THESsIGER—Did you not tell your friend the Bull, not to ask " that villain," meaning IVO A r 74 171 fendant, to drink ?—No, I did not say villain; vagabond. I was not in the habit of insultingj defendant's wife; once, about three years 80'7 met her, and asked her for— # It. Mr. TuEssmu--I don't want to hear asked her; I dare say it was some very imp 7 .of q uestion. Mr.llouldt‘r (warmly)—But, Sir, I can ex tli Mr. TuESSIGER—No, Sir, we don't wan it. The Learned Gentleman then admitto assault had been committed ; but, certainl, circumstances of provocation which would it Bench in pronouncing sentence. The fact the plaintiff had pitched into the defends years ago, and soundly thrashed him : the d was anxious to settle the account, the cred: which had been so long in favour of his q and, accordingly, " pitched into him" on t: sion, So that— Mr. Mulder—l beg your pardon, Sir, b explain, if-- Mr. THESSIGER—There he is again, G —you see there's no stopping him.--(A Ile has told you that his teeth were, loosened tlemen, if they are now loose, let me ask y ther the incessant wagging of his tongue,is than sufficient to produce such an effect.—(A Mr. Moulder—Bur, Gentlemen, I wish t ‘vord ; I Mr. TiinsstoEtt.— There be goes agOilb men; the fact is, that if he did not. speak b burst, and so he opens his mouth as &Safe —(A laugh.) The Jury found the defendant Guilty, and he fined 10s. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. I w I~'eliw i iiIN 44, nt co ► A it r hee ll i n - li ts ; ant th... defento" lit fl ae ,: ' tat p 17 0% the this 0 ' htlifei te. but.l ..red gentle d hoir 4.. 1,, IA , hot 0' N; A lag i t , to dal 14i4 e°ety~4 v' the vf i n ;# red id he 44% -hi LIVERPOOL • FRIDAY, Ocr. 17.—Wind wie/ minutes past five.—Arrived the Speedy Packet, e; brook, from Jersey ; Marquis, Marquis, from StraP l Mary, Dowdley, from Newry ; Three Sisters, .Monn; from Baltimore; Prince of Wales, Aitkin, from visr7- Catherine, from Dundee. CLE A RED 0 U TWA It Di. —,The Hendrick, •Hardio ' fthi Antwerp; Cambrian, Airey, fir Brazil; Johanat sins, Bchusuir, for Dordt ; Manchester, M‘Cullocl" . l Genoa; William Pal ke, Smith, for Jamaica; SOI P 7# Dunn, for Port-au-Prince ; Ivanhoe, Nisbet Pr varnish. . SaTuRDAY, Ocr. 18.—High water lb toIP•A seven.—,Wind S. S. E.—A rr i ve d th e Ann, Paley/ , from Lisbon ; J o h n an d William, Qum, fromiskSo; Aurora, Thorne, from Drammen; Ali ce , Kheide, P c, the Isle of Man ; Birmingham, Head, from Dublis ; res, —, from Londonderry. fo , CLEARED OUT WA RIM --The Bransty, BrocklebaAfts' Tampico; Star, Davies, for Gibraltar; Ceres, Cait of f New Orleans; Science, Goodrich, for Charleston ;. I` r Ann, Robertson, for Jamaica ; Larch, Atkinson, for",,i; nambuco ; Caroline, Augusta, Merrill, for New Joshua, Prowse, for Madeira and -Cape-of Good IWO Europe, Ellis, for Vera Cruz ; William Pitt, Bant_ . St. John's; Hannah Eliza,. Taylor,. for Leer; filifr flathhone, Owens, for Africa; Matilda and Susan, for Leghern. • BIRTHS. ;de On the 18th inst. in Southampton-row, Russell-Or .. :he. lady of C. F. Cock, Esq. of a son. On the 17th inst. the wife of Mr. Anderson, surir Great St. Thomas Apostle, - of a daughter. ~e 4 On the 14th inst. at Swinburne' .Castle, Northo - Oro land, the lady of Thomas Riddell, Esq. of a son and 1 ! ; ,,,dt On the 17th inst. the lady of Joseph Collis, Esq. Cora in-street,. of a daughter. of , On the lath inst. the lady of C. J. Cook, EA' daughter, still-horn. At Dangan-house, near Kilkenny, the lady of CO, Richard English, of a son. I At Mellerstein, the lady of George Baillie, a. Jerriswoode, of a san. At Perth, rs. Ball of a aught. At Clifton, M the lady of andene, d Charles Wedder er burn ve`r LA. of a son, MARRIED. d 9 On the 16th ins. at St. Peter's Church,..neritt s :o ile t the Rev. Henry Gippa, LL.B., the Rev. HumphrYndit M.A., youngest son of Henry Allen, Esq. of ,thiv7 4 ol Preconshire, to Anne Caroline, daughter of the leAs !„, sister of the present Lord Southampton. On the 18th inst. John Davidson, Esq. to Miss .naktf F., daughter of H. G. Minshaw, Esq. Crofto n P" -- 7 county of Kent. - On the 15th inst., by the Rev. Jamee. Worsaici. , _., A -"st Catholic Chapel; Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and afterwv — , lt io Clusforth antra], by the Rev. Johri:Walker . roil. Reavely, Esq. (of the firm of Edward.ua Camp ' bel' , f t he and Co., of Newcastle), to Ana Wilson,-daughtef • !Ste I. Sands, Esq., of Morpeth, Northumberlaod., -i viof On the 13th inst. at Churchtown, North Meolo , 4 . of Etienne P au l e t, E sq . to Elizabeth, eldest daughter P` Rev. R. Newton, Liverpool. Edmond Phelan, Esq. of Dnblin, to Charlottes . ei cl : 4 daughter of the late John Max, of Maxfint, countY d T perary, Esq. DIED. - . - .! On the 16th inst. Lieutenant James Eicks; R.N. ~,' On dm 17th in.t. at Royston, Cambridgeshire, 11 P 1 Wm thaw, relict of Hale Wortham Esq. aged 74. . ;es On the 19th inst. at Shirley, John Adants,.youvt • child of John S. Gregory, Esq. Bedford-row, Londogb!.. On the 6th inst., at the Tontine Inn, Glasgow, rit e lie few 'ditys' illness, Mr. T. F. Gaine, a commercial g Ti man, from Birmiogham. • Mr. Gaine was-a gentle : a f highly respectable connections, and was much once , e , a very numerous circle of friends in different parts X1 1 i j n i t ,: Kingdom. His death has excited a.:very gello sympathy, Loth among those who knew -him and 0%0 strangers, of which it were easy to give some very PISO ptOofs. He lin lett a widow and seven children WO! ts his lose. 5 0 " On the if inst. John Richardson, Esq. of Bury St. James's, and Epsom, Surrey, aged 80. ....liei vo. •, • •On the 16th inst. in the 90th year of his ages t Packer, Esq. of Great Beddow, Essex, and tor 7-: , ,,,, Charlotte4-Irileteitiiinlistl.oovirminsh.urGy.ee, Esq. of West-ball, 1 %4 , ef l ' lake, late of St. Martin's lane, Liondon. , ' - t/i e -•-----,'-r,,:----—,----7—' G, 0- PRPTTED and ruaLtsnap hy )lI.JRDO YOU,' Sim Ortle'F; 112, S 'P A4 P' 14°SP0 :4' ill / 4 tx ; i l l 4 * 4tiick:tes *Ain Si ~ ~~ ~~ 1~,~ 1 ._____. Pc *, '/