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by the angry retaliation displayed in the lessons fif the Popish priesthood to their flocks. We see that the Catholics in Dublin have been prayine -and there are many besides Catholics whb wish —that the large funds hitherto yielded (and much augmented) to the Kildare-place Asso4ation might be withheld or curtailed. ' We would rather suspend all instruction to the poor youth of Ireland for a time, if the bad and hostile feelings which we have too much cause to fear that schools of opposite sects have been' riade the theatres, and pedagogues on both sides the apostles, could be suspended with it. Not only the peace and industry, but the religion of the Protestant reformed community, would itself he a gainer by the truce. It is well said by the author of two eloquent articles on Ireland which appeared in the Sphya of last week, that " the clogs upon religion in Ireland at present are, not wrong opinions, —the dead and worthless forms of the intellect,—b u t malignant, fierce, persecut ing passions, spiritual pride, and ecclesiastical intolerance,—the hatreds of sects which have analyzed religion until its spirit has evaporated, and nothing is left but the cctput mortuunz of dogma." So English eccleamstics, when the business of their lives is to make unrelenting dogmas the pivots of temporal policy, do not advance the cause either of just policy or of true religion, however they may hope to advance their own vile worldly fortunes,—Eid. The flourishing condition of the National Revenue must always inspire the true lovers of their country with genuine feelings of satisfac tion ; but it cannot be denied that at the present moment there are some circumstances which im part to the cheering statement it was our pleasing duty yesterday to lay before the Public, a greater than ordinary importance. The population of Great Britain, in its various classes, has gone 'through a crisis of depression and suffering which has been rarely equalled in the fluctuating annals of commerce. The pcopla have gone through this crisis nobly. The px, c of history which records the sufferings and privations of the working classes of a great nation, of the mil lions of mankind, is generally a dreary page— hut in this instance it is not so ; it presents a bright example of passive en durance, unpolluted by turbulence, of pa ',ient acquiescence in the dispensatious of Providence, of confidence in the energies, ,md steady hope in the destinies of the country, which may proudly vie with the most stirring incidents of the periods denominated too exclu sively heroic. The reward of this patience, the iiifilment of these patriotic hopes, we may now confidently say, is approaching ; and it is allow able and natural for us, and for the great majo rity of the British public, who throughout the -season of gloom thought and felt with us—for .di wisp adhered to the faith that - the son of Bri tain's prosperity was suffering only a temporary Eclipse—to point with triumph and exultation to its re-appearing glories. But independently of these natural feelings of triumphant exultation, the renovation of the financial greatness of Eng land is to be hailed at the present moment on account of the visible danger of a step being taken, had the depression continued much Longer, which coulo not in our judgment have failed to produce the most terrible calamities—a ~ .4ep which, had it once taken place, would have been irretrievable and most degrading to the country. A notion has been industriously pro pagated of late, and has very recently received the sanction of an authority which was once deemed high, that the Sinking Fund, a fund appropriated out of the income of the country or the redemption of its Debt, is useless and even mischievous. The state of the Revenue for the last two years, without adding any force to the arguments- in favour of this modern opinion, has unquestionably . ' the effect of disposing 4tl the nation t o li s t o ri l'Eeni more favourably than it would otherwise have done_ The counteracting operations of redeeming debt with one hand, and contracting fresh debts with the other, so long as both were going on at the same time, did, it must he confessed, arm the opponents of the Sinking Fund with a very formidable, or at least a very annoying weapon. Their war cry of delusion it was impossible to silence, and difficult to an varer in a manner intelligible to the mu!titude ; yet, nevertheless, we were convinced that their cry was itself a delusion ; that the weapon they brandished s o p ro udly a nd fi er c e ly was not of the true temper ; and that the first change in the political atmosphere would utterly destroy its edge. We now confidently ask if there is any man who doubts that the existing rate of taxa tion will not yield sufficient to defray all the ex penses of the State during peace, to pay the annual interest of the debt, and to maintain the ;Sinking Fund at its present legal amount ? This question will not be answered in the affirmative ; but it will be pretended that the nation requires relief from the present rate of taxation, and the pretence will be se conded, as it has been, by the reasonings of those who argue that a Sinking Fund for the redemption of debt is in its own na ture, and independently of circumstances, use less ; because the money abstracted from the people in order to maintain it would increase more rapidly—add more to the capital and re sources of tire country, and be to all intents and purposes a more valuable Sinking Fund if left in the hands of the people themselves. This is the reverse of Mr. Pitt's doctrine upon the subject, although now unfortunately maintained by some of those who arc indebted to their connection with that immortal Statesman for the greatest part of whatever political reputation th e y enjoy. \V have no hesitation to d escr ib e it as a false dogtrine. It says in substance, that a nation, after having contracted a debt, should make no effort to pay it ofF; that a nation may go on indefinitely, as occasion re quires, encumbering and f or estalling its future revenues, without availing itself of any opportu nity t o di sengage t h em . Its eventual conse quence, in a financial point of view, is national bankruptcy ; not because curious calculations ofl compound interest are disregarded—not because money will not fructify even more rapidly in the hands of individuals than in the hands of Go ernment ;but b ecause i ts i mmed i ate moral ef f ect upon men's mind s is to break down the outward barrier of national faith, an d to fam i l i arise them to, and legitimate the idea of national bankruptcy. The debt of England was contracted during the of the expectation prevalence, common alike to the borrowers and the lenders, t h at i t was eventually to be redeemed by the op erat i on o f a Sinking Fund. No new lights in po li t i cal eco nomv can enable any body to contradict that fact. We do not say, however, that Parli ament may not disappoint thi s ex pectation, or that t o disap point it will be to commit national bankruptcy. But we do say, that the very general notion —a notion the most honourable and the most ad vantageous to England—that a national bank ruptcy in this country is an impossible thing, would be very considerably weakened all over the wend, by the abandonment of the Sinking cer- Fund system, and that it would have tl tails effect of diminishing the streng energy of the country in the case of any war, m a degree altogether beyond oalcula Morning Post. A report of a case at the Denbighshire Assizes, which will be found in another column, exemplifies very happily the peculiarities WI Eng lish jurisprudence. Owen Owens is indicted, under the statute of 7 and 8 Geo. IV., for hav ing feloniously killed a mare, by pouring a uan tity of nitrous acid into one ear and eye. There were two other counts, charging a wounding and maiming. The Judge directed an acquittal on the two counts for killing and wounding, as the surgeon said the injury caused an ulcer, and not a wound—remained the maiming, and the question is, whether pouring aqua-fortis into the ear of a horse, and thereby destroying it, cOmsti lutes maiming. His Lordship said, in the event of the Jury finding the prisoner guilty of the maiming, he should reserve the case for thU opi nion of the twelve Judges. A verdict of Guilty of maiming was returned, and if the Judges should be of opinion that the destroying the horse by the above means does not constitute maiming, Mr. Owen Owens will again be a gen tleman at large. that peruses the pro ceedings of an English Court of Justice would imagine that the men who occupy themselves with these trifles were not Chinese, or Burmese, or some such barbarians, instead of belonging to the country of Newton, Bacon, Hobbes, and Locke ? Will no man free the country from this stain on it ? Nothing so easy as to avoid the necessity of this minuteness by classification and arrangement. We address those who wish that guilt should be punished, and not lawyers, ‘.ho have an interest in the perpetuation of abuses, by which guilt may be enabled to escape the consequences of guilt. If the Legislature, for instance, wish to preserve the lives of horses, the quo mode is of slight import, except as indi cative of the intention of the agent. The life of the horse may be attempted in a hundred ways, but all the legislator has to do is to attach a penalty to the taking away intentionally the life of the horse, or the committing an act indicative of an intention to destroy the animal.—Morning Chronicle. 1 and Future on.— There arc two questions which a Statesman has to resolve when he ventures on any new or untried measure. 1. Is it desirable ? 2. Can it he carried into execution ? Unfortunately it is a much easier task for a legislator to examine a theory, or to estimate the force of an abstract argument, than it is to collect, compare, and weigh the numerous facts, whose consideration are absolutely necessary to solve the second question. It requires more time, inure lakur, and in appearance, though not in reality, fewer talents, to enter upon such an examination, and therefore idle men dislike and brilliant men despise the task. Thus, it for the most part happens, that in planning enactments which go very seriously to affect numerous and important interests, the manner and degree of their in fluence are very slightly attended to ; and some times wholly neglected. There are many.pro blems in practical politics, which are not the less true, that they do not admit of a' rigidly logical proof; and there are many problems in theo retical politics which are not the less in applicable that they dO. We see no danger in theoretical men, considered as such. In fact, without a knowledge of theory, no man can be a statesman. But we see great and imminent danger when men who are theorists, and nothing else, interpose to regulate the complicated ma chine of the State. Our present Ministers are not of this description ; and, with talents to appreciate just theory, they have also talents to calculate the numerous disturbing forces to which the nature of our social system gives birth. Yet we cannot help thinking that there are some measures into which they have gone (we speak of them here as individuals), not from lack of knowledge, much less from any improper mo tives, but solely becan,lc they have not attended ufficiently to the whole of the paiticulars neces sary to answer truly aid well the second question above adverted to, which their more informed judgments would lead them seriously to recon sider. We should feel some hesitation in pointing out the propriety of such a reconsideration, had we weaker men to advise, because we should anticipate from them, as usually happens, a more obstinate determination to remain steadfast to their errors. But when we address Mr. Peel we know that we address one who is not ashamed at any time to avow that he is wiser to day than he was yeserday. With this know ledge of his charm t r, and confidence in his can dour, we state to him that, among the measures requiring re-consideration, is that which declares that all one pound notes must cease after July, 1829. Without one pound notes it is univer sally admitted that the country banks must cease to do business, or do so on so narrow a scale as to be of no use to themselves or their employers. This would, in itself, be a great evil ; for the men whom it would directly visit, are numerous, wealthy, and respectable ; but the evil cannot rest here. Without country bankers the ' inter nal commerce of the country must suffer a con traction fatal to its prosperity, if not to its exis tence. From every quarter of the country such is the language that reaches us. It calls for at tention, and ought to have it. It is true, an other Session of Parliament must intervene be fore the legislative enactment to which we allude can come into operation ; but it would, we think, be unwise to allow this to pass, without some motion, which may tranquillize the fears so extensively felt from it. It was passed in a mo ment of great excitement, and that circumstance alone would furnish sufficient grounds for a calm review of its probable consequences. But there are higher and more imperative reasons, reasons not accidental but permanent. Even, if upon such a review as we would recommend, it should be determined to leave the enactment undis turbed, the review would not be made in vain. But we are much deceived if that would be the Iconclusion come to.— New Times. • how little medium is wanted. A man's anival um in 200/. keep but let is return may be 10,0001., and yet the med his banker's hands may not be more than on the average, and the banker does not the 2001. to answer the tradesman's deman only one-third. When the corn subj( broached in Parliament, so far as importal considered, we are surprised that the cut question should he mixed with it. Thl questions ought to be discussed distinct each other. It is mixing the two causes so much confusion in the speeches that has been the means of bringing fora loads of pamphlets. Whether it is the in of this country that we should import corn rather than grow it, is the question at issue between the agriculturists and manufacturers. Considered generally, it i s our interest not to import it, but tv grow it—because, by producing it ourselves, we cannot be at any time indebted to other na tions for it ; for such a possible circumstance might arise as that no nation would send,it to us ; and being accustomed to it, we should: find an inconvenience in wanting it. Not but, that there aro other things to live on as well as wheat; as in Ireland potatoes, or in Scotland oats. So far as the manufacturers are concerned, we d o not think it signifies to them whether we grow wheat or whether we import wheat ; for if the question be wheat only, and if the farmers of England produce wheat to the amount of one hundred millions a year, and in exchange for suclt wheat, take goods of the manufacturers to an equal amount, here is just the same exchange of wheat for manufactures as would be if wheat were imported and manufactures were sent ion is trency two from 1 that , and such ;crest to foreign farmers. The difference, if any, to the country, might lay in the shipping; and here the landlords have probably the better of the argument ever manufacturers. For if it would require 1,000, or any given number of foreign ships, to bring over to this country the wheat it consumed, it would only require ton British ships, probably not so many, to convey 1 -ack British goods to other countries in payment. That is supposing that we had a law that none but British ships should take British goods, and that foreign nations had one that none but foreign ships should take foreign wheat. Provided there Isere no need for a taxa- tion of fifty or sixty millions a-year, we should prefer what is called free trade—that is, to let nations send what they please to us, while we exported any thing we thought proper in payment. But even then we would not have the trade with foreign countries free from taxation ; fin. as all nations must have revenue, and as indirect taxation is more pleasant than direct taxation, we would lay a tax upon the importation of every thing, and a smart tax, too, so as, if possible, to derive all our revenue from an indirect taxation. Now as to the principle of protection, as wheat can be produced abroad at 405., while it cannot be produced at home under 605., if Ave were to have what is called free trade—that is, no tax on imports—we should, in all probability, have such a quantity of wheat imported that it would knock up those who are at present em ployed only in the growing of wheat ; therefore, if we import wheat, we ought to put a tax on it of 15s. or 20s. to prevent — such people from being broken up ; for though the time would arrive that the imported wheat would have to be paid for, and the people who grew wheat would be ap plied to to produce something to pay for the im ported wheat, vet there is an old saying, " while the corn is growing the steed is starving." But considering, however, the prejudice that there is on the subject, we think the Ministers would he wise if their scale of taxation of wheat was' diminished ; looking at 60s. for the cost of wheat in this country, a'id that the same might be bought in a foreign country at 405., we should say that, when wheat was here 605., that it should be imported with a tax of 155., instead of the present tax of 275. Bd.; for we should think that it would cog not much less than 10s. to bring it, when we consider freight, insurance, cartage, merchants' profits, &c. Here, then, would he sufficient protection ; ,ind, even at such a tax, very little would be imported. The pre sent Statesmen have now the o pportunity of pleasing the people ; for 15s. would be consi dered a boon, whereas the tax now fixed of 275. Bd. will be considered a grievance. By the-bye, what an odd sort of scale it is. Why have eightpences—why not shillings ."' Why should the tax not he as well 255. as 245. Bd. ? Why cause more work for clerks in Custom houses and counting-houses than is needful ? Morning- Herald. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. WORSHIP-STREET.—Yesterday, Mrs. Harriet E. Guy, who had been remanded, was brought up for final examination, at this office, before Mr. BitouGHTON, charged with having stolen two dresses, value N., the property of Miss Mary Susan Jobble, dress-maker, No. 50, Taber nacle-walk. The witness stated that prisoner was first her lodger a few weeks ago. On Saturday, the 29th of March last, she went out on business, and returned lstt in the evening, when she found that two dresses were missing from her show• room. The prisoner confessed the theft, but could not tell what motive actuated her to the com mission of it. This acknowledgment was made in the presence of the mother of witness, and of another lodges• in the house. The mother of witness, and Mrs. Harriet Bristow, a lodger in the house, confirmed the above statement. At this periol of the case a Mrs. Robinson complained most bitterly against the prisoner for the seduction of her dear husband. Mrs. Robinson was obliged, for the benefit of her health, to remove to thu country, and poor Mr. Robinson was deluded so far as to supply her virtuous place by the prisoner's companionship, who, Mrs. Robinson said, also took off her bed-gown, night-cap, &r. to the amount of 11. Mr. BROUGHTON—My dear madam, I am aware that such conduct must incense all ladies in such cases ; however, I doubt much that you would act wisely in prosecuting the unhappy prisoner, who is now so low in spirits from the late charge, that she appears to suffer enough on that ac count. You canuot identify the property produced (a few light articles, worth about 55.); they are not marked ; and although the prisoner says they are not yours, she is willing to resign them. Mr. Wooler, who appeared for the prisoner, acceded to giving them up ; but Mrs. Robinson said, " But, Sir, can't I have my Belcher silk handkerchief returned ?" Mr. BRMUGHTON—Under all the circumstances, I don't think that request can be insured to you. Green, the officer, said all matters were amicably made up between Mr. and Mrs. Robinson—that be confessed his fallibility, and Mrs. Robinson forgave him. The intended charge of Mrs. Robinson, therefore, fell to the ground ; but the unfortunate young woman (a perfect lady in exterior, and evidently suffering under the most agonised feelings) was, on the first charge, fully committed for trial. John Williams alias Ned Turner, and a man named Smith, were charged with having broken into the divel ling-houses.of Mr. Baker and Mr. Wilson, of Thurlow place, Hackney-road, about five o'clock in the morning of the I Ith of March last. The prisoners were remanded for further examination to next Saturday. The proposed Corn Bill has much disappointed our expectations, so far as that an opening would have been made for the importation of corn. This Bill, on account of the high rate of taxation of corn, appears to us to be a complete bar to im portation, except that we should have a very bad harvest or two. As an ftbstract question, as we have before mentioned, it matters not (consider ing a series of years) to landlords, as to rent, whether we import the wheat we consume, or whether we grow it, for we must employ the same land on which we grow wheat to produce some- There is a sportsman in Paisley who has re thing else to pay for wheat impel-tee( ; and whethe - peatedly hid down his double-barrelled gun loaded at ;his feet, th rown t wo penn y pi e ces over his head, lifted the the land grew wheat, or whether it produced wool, gun, turned round, and struck the penny-pieces succes or other things to pay for wheat imported, the lively, right and left, before they reached the ground. The same rent would be obtained by the land- s3me gentleman, for a wager that he would not, with a lord. All commerce resolv es itself into barter ; very Sin gle-barrelled gun , l oa d e d with ball, hit t w o oranges out . wanted of twenty, thrown up one by one, at the distance of 20 little money, either metallic or- paper, is ii . itiometna .. y u struck two of the first seven that were between nations for the purpose ofsettlinglancesi, *thrown up, and thus decided the beN—Greenock Ad even as it respects home trade, it is alPgtilitr l tvrtimr. LENT ASSIZES. NORTHERN CIRCUIT—YORK, Anur, 4. HAILS V. WILSON. This was an action for libel. Mr. BROUGHAM stated the case. The plaintiff was a respectable attorney in Hull. The defendant was the printer and publisher of the Hull Advertiser. It would appear, that early in the last year a person of the name of Harrison had been the tenant of the plaintiff on a considerable farm at Humbleton, in Holderness. Either through the distress of the times, or his own misconduct, Mr. Harrison had become embarrassed, and the plaintiff in the present action had been com pelled to distrain for rent. Soon after that event Harrison had become insolvent, and had, in May, applied to the Insolvent Debtors' Court to be dis charged. His discharge had been opposed by a Mr. Beckwith, and the hearing of the case had been ad journed. The London newspapers had given a fair report of the proceeding in the Insolvent Debtors' Court; but the defendant, instead of copying the report from those paper=, had chosen to insert in his columns a report which contained the libel now complained of. The libel stated that the insolvent had been opposed on the ground that he had, in col lusion with his landlord, Mr. Haire, set up a ficti tious distress, and it went on to state that the insol vent had been remanded, and Mr. Haire ordered to attend the Court on a future hearing. Now in this report there was no truth, for no such objection had been made to the insolvent's discharge, nor had Mr. Haile been directed to attend. The Jury found a verdict for the defendant. SATURDA'r, APRIL 5. BACIHOUSE V. 7411M3WORTH. Mr. BAINES opened the pleadings. The declara tion stated that the plaintiff was a good, just, and faithful subject of the realm, and until the commit. ting of the grievances by the defendant, in the decla ration mentioned, had never been suspected of murder or otherwise ; yet that the defendant, contriving to oppress and ruin the said plaintiff, on the 16th of November, 1527, went before one Christopher Beckett, Esq., a justice of the peace, and falsely and maliciously, and without probable cause, charged the plaintiff with having feloniously poisoned and murdered one Mary Hemsworth, and caused and procured the plaintiff to be arrested and detained in prison for four days. There was another count, charging the defendant with saying of and concern ing the plaintiff, " He has poisoned my mother, and I can prove it ; he always keeps poison in his house." Plea, general issue. Mr. BROUGHAM addressed the jury for the plain tiff, and after detailing the facts, was about to call witnesses, when Mr. Justice BAYLEY called Mr. Pollock, the defendant's counsel, and a conference of some length took place between the Judge and the leading counsel on both Bides. In the end, Mr. PoLLocx rose, and in a short address to the jury, made, on the part of the defendant, an ample apology, and expressed the firm conviction of the de fendant that his original suspicion had been un founded. A verdict was then taken for the plaintiff— Damages Is. Mr. BROUGHAM observed, that damages had been offered on the other side; but that as the plaintiff's object had been the vindication of his character, he had refused to take any damages beyond what was necessary to carry costs. DENBIGH, MARCH 4. Owen Owcns was indicted under the Statute 7th and Bth George IV. (Mr. Peel's), for having feloni ously killed a mare, the property of Thomas Davis, by pouring a quantity of nitrous acid (aqua fortis) into one ear and eye. There were two other counts, charging a wounding and maiming. Mr. Attorney-General Htu stated the case for the prosecution. The prisoner (a very ill-looking fellow, with a remarkable cosiformation of cranium, the transverse diameter of his head, from ear to ear, being to the conjugate at least as five to three) is son-in-law of the prosecutor. On Sunday morning, the 7th of October, he was seen close by the mare, as she was lying down in a geld, and was observed to stoop and pick something up, which he put into his pocket. For four or fire minutes after he left the mare, she remained quiet; but immediately afterwards she began to exhibit symptoms of unea siness, and when the person who had seen the pri soner near the mare went up to her shortly after wards, and roused her to get upon her legs, she staggered and fell down again. One eye was also perfectly opaque, and the sight of it completely gone. The g►ass upon which her head lay was of a brown or burnt appearance. She was then re moved to a stable, where she continued to writhe in great agony, beating her head against the man ger, &c. until at length, after several days, dur ing which one ear became ulcerated, she was killed by the directions of the owner, in order to relieve her from her sufferings. The ulcerated ear was cut off and preserved; the carcass was given to the Rev. Mr. Nanney, Rector of Llanrwst (of sporting cele brity), as food for his harriers, and the bones of the head, when produced by his huntsman (having been previously boiled to get off the flesh), exhibited evident marks of discolouration and corrosion in that part of the os frontis immediately beneath the ulcerated ear. The ear was also produced, and the appearances, immediately after it was cut off, des cribed by a farrier, who had then seen it, and also by Mr. Griffith, surgeon, of Llanrwst, and Mr. James Hughes, surgeon to the Denbighshire Militia. In the opinion of one it was " an ulceration," and not a wound ; and the other said it was "an ulceration that might turn to a wound." Mr. TEMPLE submitted that there was no case for a jury. The count for " killing" could not be sup ported, inasmuch as the prisoner's was not the hand that killed the mare. The count for wounding was negatived by the evidence of the surgeons, who said the injury, such as it was, was an " ulcer," and not " a wound." Mr. Justice JERVIS—WeII, Mr. Temple, what do you say to the " maiming ?" Mr. TEMPLE—My Lord, I contend that here there is no maiming. JUDGE—Suppose a man's eye is knocked out ? Mr. TEMPLE—My Lord, my definition of a maim ing is a hacking, a severe injury by an attack on several parts ; and the injury to the eye of this animal, however produced, is not of that nature; besides, my Lord, it is not even pretended that the prisoner put any thing into the mare's eye. I'll ad mit, fir the sake of argument, that he might have done so into the ear, then his was not the hand that injured the eye. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL contended that the in jery to the eye of this poor animal was clearly a " maiming," which was a permanent injury to any member of the body, as contradistinguished from a " wound," which was a merely teMporary injury. Mr. Justice JEavls decided,- that there was a case for the Jury ; and, in summing up, directed an acquittal on the two counts for killing and wound ing, but agreed with the Attorney-General in his view of the maiming. His Lordship intended that, in the event of the Jury finding the prisoner guilty of the maiming, he would reserve the case for the opinion of the twelve Judges, nu the objection taken by the prisoner's Counsel. The Jury retired, and, to the astonishment of the Court, remained in deliberation three hours and twenty minutes, when they returned a verdict of— Guilty of Maiming. Sentence respited until next Assizes. If the opinion of the Judges should be in favour of the prisoner, he will be discharged as soon as it can be ascertained. The accounts from Mr. Justice Warren continue unfavourable. His Lordship has been again let blood; but without experiencing scarcely any relief. PREVENTION OF POISON BY OXALIC ACID.—In the event of a person having swallowed oxalic add, by immediately taking a mixture of whiting or chalk, and water, the danger will be in a great measure prevent ed. The oxalate of lime may be afterward' expelled from the stomach either by an eme.ie, or by a brisk cathartic, which will be much preferable, from producing lees irrita tion os the coat. of the stomach. MURDER OF DANIEL MARA. EXECUTION OF PATRICK LACY AND JOHN WALSH, AT CLONMEL. On Wednesday evening the streets of Clonmel were not a little disturbed by the shrieks of a wretched woman, who was nearly related to one of the unfortunate sufferers who were to be execnted the next day. A general rumour was in circulation that the execution would take place at eight o'clock in the morning. Accordingly every avenue to the gaol, and immediately in front of the drop, was crowded ; and various knots of the peasantry were thickly to be seen contiguous to the gaol ; but this impression was shortly removed, and twelve o'clock .was correctly ascertained to be the hour. The un fortunate culprits, since the hour of their conviction up to the moment of their execution, spent their time in penitential acts of unfeigned sorrow and re gret for the perpetration of this cruel and abominable murder. Before twelve o'clock a party of the Scots Greys and horse poliee surrounded the drop of Clonmel gaol. The crowd was immense, and more particularly of that class, the peasantry of the county, for whose salutary example this awful exhi bition was more particularly calculated to make a lasting and useful impression. About twenty-five minutes after twelve o'clock Patrick Lacy appeared on the platform, attended by the Rev. Mr. Baldwin : his appearance was at once the signal for a simultaneous burst of sympathy ; he appeared extremely contrite, and struck his breast with both hands alternately. After some time occu pied in prayer, the executioner appeared near him, put the cap on his head, and covered his face. A similar exhibition of popular sympathy was here manifested by the multitude. Lacy occupied the left of the drop : he appeared Nvith fortitude and resignation. Very shortly after John Walsh, the other culprit, came forward; he appeared languid, and was scarcely able to sustain his position on the drop. He stood slantingly, as if his legs were tot tering from beneath his frame. Walsh was accom partied by the Rev. Mr. Brennan. Lacy and Walsh were quickly, after some short exhortations to a resignation to their unhappy fate, left by the Roman Catholic Clergymen. Walsh said a few words, namely :—That he was now about to die, and for gave his prosecutors; he died in peace with al mankind. Lacy did not utter a word. Here a most appalling and frightful scene was exhibited. The drop has two foldings: Lacy stood on the left,Walsh on the right. The executioner proceeded to let the drop fall, when the folding upon which Walsh stood fell rather gently at first, and shortly went back freely. The fold ing under Lacy did not give way, except a gentle slant ing, and the unfortunate man was upheld, his legs sus tamed and sliding, and he presented an awful spec tacle of strangulation. The simultaneous roars were indescribable,and several voices of" Shame, shame!" were to be heard. Walsh was hanging in the usual way when the executioner came forward and shoved the body off the slant into the open drop wherein Walsh htmg; but in this effort he was unsucceFs • ful, as the rope was not sufficiently long to admit of extending the body so much to the right, and the executioner had then to draw the body on the verge of the entrance to the scaffold. Lacy, visibly with the vigour of life, stood up, and participated himsch in an effort to get rid of the position he was in. The executioner made another effort, and forced the body on the still slanting drop, which, after a few mo ments, gave way, when the drop fell, and the body hung in the usual way. Walsh was to all appearance dead : and Lacy, after a few struggles, was launched • into eternity. It is impossible to describe the emotions of horror and dismay which pervaded the vast multitude dur ing this scene of botchery of execution. There were to be seen avast slumber of persons wailin loud, men cryieg, their hands covering their faces ; and a very general sympathy, sorrow, and lamenta tion, pervaded the peasant portion of the specta tors. The bodies hung three-quarters of an hour, when they were let down front the pullies of the gallows, and put into two coffins, laid on cars, under the gallows, and conveyed to the Gashel Infirmary, twelve taiileti oft, and in the neighbourhood of the residence of many associates of the unfortunate sufferers. Walsh was what a person would denominate a decent comfortable farmer, and rather a very sightly man, and seemed to be about 36 years of age. Lacy was a tall, active young man,about 26 years of age. He had, however, a countenance of deter mination and boldness, and had strong lineaments of feature, which indicated a daring, enterprising spirit. TREASURE IN THE SERM:LIO. PARIS, APRIL I.—A Neapolitan paper contains the following account, which at this moment will prove highly interesting : " At the present time, when Turkey occupies all our attention, the following particulars respecting the accumulation of the immense wealth existing' in the Seraglio, will be worthy of notice. " Several laws of the Koran enjoin the Mus.,ul - to lay by sums of money. In order to observe this precept, each Sovereign, residing in Constanti nople, since Mahomet 11., who made the conquest of this city in 1453, encloses in a chamber of the Seraglio the gold, silver, and other riches which lie intends to economize. The sum that each Sultan puts aside in this manner amounts to about4Blt,oool., a kind of tariff fixed upon by common custom. In dependently of the duty of the Sovereign in placing to this amount the sums received from the ti xes, and not expended, he conceives it to be agreeaote to Heaven, and to the nation, in adding to this fund the presents that are made him, either of precious stones or other article of great value. It is well known how punctilious the Turkish Sovereign is in this respect; his subjects, as well as foreigners, cannot obtain what they solicit, even according to all princi ples of justice, unless they add to their petitions, presents, the value of which is proportioned to the degree attained to such a temore Superstition, this s object which they desire. No on e can be ignorant of the extent of confiscations pronounced in un ar bitrary manner by the Despot of Constantinople against private individuals, and against the Pashas; and when he has deposited these sums in hi s sink ing fund, in his opinion the iniquity of su c h roes. sures is immediately obliterated. und increases, in the Ottoman territory, has t n h e a r t ea th se e s, peoplethe moreare persuaded, the be fortu na t e ari d , v h prosperous. This fund is, therefore, called the Sacred Treasure. History does not confirm this opinion ; tory, or the lessons it affords. And what becomes of this treasure accumulated in so considerable a manlier by each Sultan ? This is a curious question. Every year the Kislar-Aga, the Chief of the black eunuchs, makes an inventory of the riches amassed during the twelvemonth; and the operation being terminated, the Grand Seignor, accompanied by the principal officers of the Crown, re pairs in grand ceremony to the, chamber of the Treasury, and places his signet upon the chest. After the death of the Sovereign, there are found as •naany chests in this chamber as he has lived years. The chamber is then closed, and the signets of every one of the principal officers placed upon the door; and an inscription is added, indicating that in this place is the treasure of such a Sultan. his successor forms his treasury in another room of the Seraglio, and after his death it is also closed, and the same circumstance occurs during each new reign.--- Now, as from the time of Mahornet 11. Constauiti nople numbers forty-one Sultans, there exist in the Seraglio forty-one chambers, containing each the treasure of each of these Sovereigns. " In order to touch any of these treasures—to dare to enter a single one of these numerous cham bers—it would be necessary that the Ottoman Em pire were reduced to the l o west extremity. I t ap . pears that the necessity of violating the Sacred Treasury has not hitherto been deemed necessary.— The Sultans, rather than have recourse to such a. measure, prefer making the most cruel exac ti on s from their subjects. Such . is the financial system of economy of this nation—lt is far from the acknovv ledged principles of civilized States." LOVE AND REVENGE. PARIS, MARCH 31.—A recent letter fiats Seville (Spain) contains the following account of a singular act of vengeance perpetrated by young girl of eighteen, in the neighbourhood 0 1 that city:— Juana Zamora, the daughter of a widow if: respectable circumstances, was the prettiest gin. in the town of Alcala de los Panaderos, apa consequently had a numerous train of admirers: , of whom the two most ardent and persevering were Cipriano Moron and Ceferino Gallartl o : nano, fired with r ag e and j T u h a e m l i t . ttter H s i t s te r c i e v e a t l l , ed c in l) gainin g th e a ff ec ti on s et jealousy, watched his motions, and, on the night of the 25th of July last, having discovered hilt' conversing with Juana .at the window of her mother's house, he rushed upon him, and ripped up his stomach with a knife. The ill-fated Cc' ferino cuffed out for help to two of his friends' who were watching for him at the end of'the'' street, and then fell dead. The two friends par'' sued the murderer, till he took refuge in tilt' house of the Cure. The two friends t'eien formed the Alcalde of what had takm pilttee, strui the first step the Alcalde took was to chip thefo' both into prison. On applicxtion beitfg to the Cure, Cipriano, who was his relation,. wag' delivered up. The bloody knife was found his pocket. lie, however, denied being the sassm ; but, whilst the Alcalde was questiortil a physician, in presence of the body of the de'' ceased, whether he couldsayifthe moundhadbee bdiieted with the knife found upon the prisoner , ' Juana, who had eluded all her mother's efforts' to keep her at home, rushed into the. Alcahle's,f house, threw herself upon the mangled body of her lover, avowed her passion for him, and tie . scribed his cowardly assassination by Ciprialio',l The prisoner was then fully committed for and the two friends of the deceased set at lihrrt)': Cipriano was found guilty, and condemle to death ; but, before the approval of the oil"' tence by the Supreme Tribunal of Seville, contrived to escape from prison, through the fluence, it was supposed, of his relation, tae` Cure. Whether the Cure was concernel 0' not in this escape,Juana at least thought that he IT" 3 ".r and resolved to take vengeance on him. Towaldi nightfall, on the 26th of October last, Jusugo ! returning from a farm of her mother's, met 0 3 the road the Cure, who was walking alone. M .ihe since confessed, the id e a s udd en ly ente r her head that that was a fit moment to execute' her design of vengeance. She approached the' Cure, stabbed him. to the heart with a knifo and then mutilated his body, and almost 4 fr vided it into quarters:. On reaching the tow) , she went directly to thee prison, and said to the. gaoler, " I am your pri7tioner, for I have kind' , the Cure, who 'was th e case of all my suffer' ings ; but now that I am r evenged, I care tic' what you do with me." O n her trial she tered into a minute description' .of the murder' and concluded by addressing thee Alcalde, Ear " It was fortunate for you, Alcahle?! that I did not also meet you o n the road, 30 which case you should have met theNsame fat e as the Cure, for you also contribute d to insi‘ e ' me suffer." Her Counsel endeavoured to establish a plea of insanity, but the priso 'tier eo 3 ' tinually interrupted him, for the purpose' of d e '' flying the truth of his assertio n . Sh e wa e fau t j i l e guilty, and sentenced to st ra ngul a tio n by t h '', ea c garotte, which sentence being approv e d by t cAttlico lie , l otc, the 22d of pm iiaßealeofs evilelee,b it received re l seti.ved u The # 1111 ; fortunate Juana ascend e d th e sca ff o ld with 4111" utmost firmness ; her last words were an exp, sion of her love for Ceferino. Her you beauty, fortitude, and devoted passion, stro even in death, powerfully affected the multitut lei many of whom burst into tears and sobs ; Jua' 11 ' herself was the only unmoved person amoni the thousands present on the place of executio The ex-King of Holland, Louis BUONA . ' rABTE, who has resided for severs' years at Florence, I lately purchased a hotel there, and chosen that oily for 111 ' permanent abode. We have been informed, that the considers' tione en which Mr. Joins WILKS, jun., the:el-member f'°' Sudbury, quitted piddle life and retired to the continen t " were an annuity of 1001. per annum for himself, from father, and a small annuity for his wife from a member her family. Some weeks ago a letter from Mr. J. Wits"'" jun., was in circulation, containing an offer to vacate seat for Sudbury, by accepting the Chiltern No% dreds on receiving 1001. down, and an engagerne" from the agent or the gentleman in whose favour 0, 4 : seat was va c at e d, to pay £OOl. more in the ev ent o f J'' - beconilfg successful candidate. It is reported tli l b Major Ilrlowx negotiated with Mr. WILKS, jun., Oil effected his resignation, hut the terms,—whether th' offered in the letter allo , led to, or whether the resig l tion was i n M a j or Bnowx's favour, or wheth er i n for" of Mr. MAcLaon, (the candidate first in the field, befor e ' the vacancy was publicly known), are s e r i ous ly reporte'i and we are unab'.e to ascertain.— Times. BIRTHS. On the 7th inst., Mrs. Stratton, of Maida Vale, FO' dington, of a son. On Saturthy, the sth inst., Mrs. B. Williams, of rw' ting7hill-square, of a son. At his house, in Chapel-street West, Mayfair, the 14 ,41 / of Edward W. Lake, Esq., of a daughter. ,•••• MARRIED. On the 7th inst., at All Souls Church, Langbam-pber 4 by the Rev. C. Moore, Lieutenant-Colonel Marley, sea ,ll son of Mr. and Lady Catharine Marley, grandson o f the Earl of Lanesborougb, and nephew of the Earl of Belvelter e ' to Miss Tisdall, only daughter of the Countess of %ark' vine, and the late James Tisdall, Esq. On the sth inst., at St. Andrew's, llolborn, Me. pt' IC Walker, of Featherstone-buildings, to Eliza, on}Y daughter of Mr. James Powia, jun., of Newman's-oct On the 22d ult., by licence, Mr. Arthur Taylor, of London, to Miss Julia Pearson, of Ware, Hats. On the 7th inst., at St. Mary's Church, Maryleborlay by the Rev. Dr. Dibdin, Lieut.-Colonel WM. Farquhar' E. I. C. S. to Margaret, daughter of Robert Loban, Kish s ton, N.B. At St. Martin's, by the Rev. D. Morgan, Captain FA: mend Morris, of the 49th Regiment, to Elizabt th, second daughter of the late Samuel Delpratt, Esq. of Kingston , Jamaica, and of Bath. DIED. of Wimpol e - 4treet, aged s i x !eoliths. 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