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the sentiments of all the Protestant Churches, en deavours to prove that the Church of England is a stranger to the principles of the Reformation, and in all essential respects identical with the l hurch of Rome. " Protestantism and Catholicism," he observes, " amidst all the changes of their forms , remain for ever as incapable of union as that which constitutes their respective foundations, as priest hood and moral religion. And herein consists the dangerous character of the Episcopal Church, that its very existence seems to weaken this truth, a nd to admit of a point of union between parties to one of which it only bears a resemblance, while it is essentially the same with the other. To be convinced of thia, we • have only to consider what peculiarly di st i n guishes the two re li g i ons . If t h ere is one principle in the Catholic Church which is more than any other essential to its existence, and which constitutes a tacit but indispensable condition of all its other doctrines and institutions, it is that of the ' signification of the Church itself. The Gospel is ea r, as in the sense of Protestantism, a truth con fided to the conscience of individuals, but the legis lation of a religious State, the constitutional docu ment of a Corporation, ruling in the name of God; and all its consolations and promises, the heritage of this body, belong to individuals, in so far as they are its members, and not farther. But this very view is also the predominant one of the Episcopal Church, and its most important, nay, its only principle of life. It seeks and finds Christianity not in every pure heart, but in the State fabric of the Hierarchy alone. The salvation of mankind was confided ex clusively to the three orders of the Priesthood. It can only thrive under the protection of its guardian ship ; anti it recognises no Gospel, be its seed ever so genuine, and whatever good fruits it brings forth, but that which was diffused by its Priests. . . Compared with the greater practical dogma, every other of a more speculative character which the for mer serves to support, every particular form of mental dominion, appears quite unessential, when the question is as t& its existence. Whe ther the ruling Corporation in your spiritual State is divided into three or seven orders— whether mandates appear in the form of Bulls or Syndal Decrees, is of little consequence. The Papal Church is also an Episcopal; and the Pope--or, as he is more suitably called, the Prince Bishop 'of Rome, only an overgrown Bishop. With the prin ciple of the Divine rights of the Priesthood, there may notwithstanding be factions among its members, yet no salvation for its subjects; revolutions, but no reformation. A free clergy is one thing, and a free conscience another. The Episcopalian may consti tute a separate church from the Papal; but Pro testantism is a different religion." There have been many excellent men in the Church of Rome, and very excellent men in the Church of Eng land ; but let us never forget that, as a body, the clergy of the latter have always opposed the diffusion of knowledge among the people. The very warmth of the applause which we bestow on such individuals as the Bishop of London, who depart from the narrow corporation spirit of their order, and claim for their fellow -creatures, however humble, the benefit of education, is, in reality, a severe censure on the Church to which he belongs. It is really too much for such a body to invoke the principles of the Reforma tion, merely to throw odium on the Reformation, by representing it as unable to stand its ground against the body from which Protestantism emanated without the aid of penal laws. The Reformation was the offspring of increasing knowledge, and in its infancy it proved too strong for power. The same causes which led the members of the Catholic Church to vindicate the rights of conscience are and ha 4 always been operating - throughout Europe, Catholic as well as Protestant. We owe the Re formation to the same causes which produced the French Revolution—the spread of knowledge. If Protestantism could establish itself in the teeth of penal laws, surely penal laws can hardly be neces ,ary to protect it in its maturity against that which it Ladled in its infancy. The cry of alarm for the principles of the Reformation is a hollow cry ; .the alarm, however, is real, but it is an alarm for money. That 'is the Reformation principle for which the Church militants of Kent are in arms. That is the principle which nerved the arm of the Rev. Mr. Horner, of Dungannon, and led him to the beatific vision of augmented tithes from fields fertilized by the careaees of seven millions of Catholics. The Re formation principles are in no danger—the Press will always secure and give extension to them. Even now the Reformation principles are at work among the Catholic Priests themselves; for, as has been well observed by an able Protestant writer, " A man may unquestionably be a Protestant, and yet believe in purgatory and the invocation of Saints, so long as he follows his own conviction and does not insist on making his own belief a standard for every other person. A man may swear to every one of the thirty-nine Articles or the Augsburgh Confession, and yet he a Catholic, so long as he hearkens to any other authority than that of his conscience." The spread of knowledge among both Catholics and Pro testants, gives US an additional security for the prin ciples of the Reformatiim, for they rest on the dif fusion of knowledge, and suf f er from all attempts to secure them by means which are at variance with persuasion, arid kindness and brotherly love. It is melancholy to think that bad neighbourhood should have seduced several of the Presbyterian Clergy in the North of Ireland to swell the ranks of the Church Militant. The small share of Mam mon allotted to them in the Regiwn Donut; has had its effect, which would seem to prove that a great deal of money is too often wasted in corrupt ing, as even the Regium Donunz has answered its purpose. A great foreign writer exclaims, " Ho nour to the Presbyterians ! They gave to one of the poorest lands of Europe in the high cultivation of its inhabitants, the most complete compensation for all ot h e r wealth, and at the same time an infallible means for the acquisition of other wealth. It was they who converted one of the most neglected na tions of our quarter of the ... world, i nto one w hi c h more than all the rest, justifies its claim to the ap pellation of civiliz ed ; and America ow es to t h em, in the best support of Protestantism, one guarantee more for the hopes o f the humanity which she bears in her bosom." Disgrace, however, and not honour to those men who could dishonour a name Se, spoken of in the country of the Continent in which learning is held in the highest regard, and swell the rabble rout of vulgar persecutors,—therelay proving either their own degeneracy or their own basenessaa- Morning Chronicle. Lord Harris, a brave and worthy old General Officer, who was, we believe, a Captain in the army no shorter time ago than the siege of during Gibraltar, where, as a correspondent informs us, he received a dreadful wound in the head, has felt it his duty to give the county of Kent the advantage of whatever remains to him of his intellectual powers, and, in contemplation of the public meeting of that county, which is called for the 24th inst. to discuss the expediency of establishing a Cumberland Club, he has written a letter, addressed to his 0 Fellow countrymen and Men of Kent," wherein, after de claring his Lordship's attachment to " the Protest ant Church and Constitution," he enjoins every true Protestant to present himself at the abovementioned meeting " calmly and delib era t e ly t o cons ider the subjects which will there be discussed;" " and having done so, firmly to unite in whatever may appear most advisable for the welfare of the existing Constitu tion." This is excellent advice. We, too, are per haps even more desirous than Lord Harris, that every man who attends the county meeting may consider the subject " c almly an deliberate 1 y ;' in which case it appears to us probable, or rather certain, that the Cumberland Club scheme will be Irnanimea " sl Y given up , an d that. an earnest prayer t o Parliament for an admission of our Catholic brethren to the rights of Englishmen will be adopted in th e place of it. Soldiers—especially those who are no thing, and who have never before pretended to be any thing but mere soldiers—ought to be caution, for the sake of their own reputation, and delicate, tram a regard to the well-being of others ; how they venture to lay down the law upon questions of great political magnitude; and it is more surprising that such an exercise of discretion should not have seem mended itself to the mind of an individual who, like this respectable, hut somewhat superannuated officer, , has not even, if judged from his own letter, shown by any means an undiscriminating rashness. The Noble Lord has displayed the most exemplary mo desty in forbearing to reason upon the merits or principles of the question. He does not, indeed, shock the understanding 'of his readers by attempting to explain the grounds of his ex clusive tolerance of whatever is Protestant in the state, or to offer any argument against the emanci pation of the Catholics. We therefore say again, that our regret is mingled with a small degree of wonder at his Lordship's entertaining just so much of well-founded diffidence in his own capacity as deters him from risking a defence of his hostility to the Catholics, while he feels or expresses no back wardness at all in declaring that he is their oppo nent. Lord Harris therefore, we are apt to think, will not make by his manifesto a very deep impres sion on the opinions of the gentlemen of Kent, and still less of the independent and reflecting yeomanry of that county. What is the object of the Cum berland Clubs ? We can conceive a suffering and inferior portion of the community associating toge ther to obtain a redress of their grievances. If any given class of the King's subjects be excluded by law from the general benefits of the Constitution, they, by the mere fact of their being an exception, are already packed into a fraternity, and made, in spite of themselves, a sort of political club. The power which brands them, binds them. Combina tion is necessary for those who seek to gain a hear ing to their petitions. But what business has the majority of a great nation with confede racy of any description ? The law admi nisters itself—the Government enforces, nay, must enforce it. The State requires no sup port from clubs, composed of those in their in dividual character, who already, in their collective character, constitute the State. If clubs of such men exercise any power, it is one which must overawe and supersede the Government—it becomes a revo lutionary Government. A distinguishing feature, and it is a fearful one, of these fierce autocracies is, that their accompaniments and incidents are altoge ther illegal. When the poor Manchester multitude assembled on the memorable occasion of the " Pe terloo," the voice of gl en in office was loud enough in proclaiming them an unlawful assembly, because they moved in military order—because their several subdivisions were marked by separate banners, and because the array was such as tended to inspire fear in the beholders. Lord Anglesea's proclamation the other day, which commanded the Irish pea santry to discontinue their meetings, animadverted upon the military order, the banners, the multitudes, &e. But what is going on in Kent ? The Bruns wickers ate " organizing parties at Canterbury and Rochester, and the Anti-Brunswickers are doing the same, to proceed in large bodies to Maidstone, with purple and green flags, which are to he the symbols of the conflicting classes." Will this then be permitted by his Majesty's Govern ment ? Will this image of civil war be looked at with indifference ? If the attempt to establish these persecution-clubs be suffered to extend itself throughout England, a coun teraction more than commensurate with the original violence will assuredly take place in every county; the fruit of the whole experiment will be a general overthrow of the public peace in Great Britain, of the same nature as that which has so long afflicted Ireland, and an ultimate intrusion of factious viru lence and hatred into all the departments of society, and all the relations of life. Once more, then, will Ministers behold such things unmoved ? Is this their theory of good government?--this their notion of state policy ?—to render a raging civil war the ordi nary condition of the realm ! Shame on those who persevere in an unfeeling concealment of their plans for the administration of the commonwealth ! Shame, we repeat, on the men who by a single word .might restore steadiness to the wavering, confidence to the timid, cententment to the dissatisfied, and calm to the disturbed. If Ministers have decided on amending the laws of exclusion against Catholic Dissenters, it is their bounden duty, as guardians of the realm, as protectors of the Empire against dis cord at home and indignity abroad, to let it be known that such is in fact to be their policy. If they have no such intention, may Heaven save thiF; country from destruction ! for, under the present circumstances, in no human agency can we have hope.— Times. The exclusion of a Vestry Clerk from the hearing of parish appeals seems a new and extraordinary proceeding, for which the Magistrates who direct it have, doubtless, some good reasons, which it is a pity are not generally known. Of course the Ma gistrates themselves are not in any way mixed up in parochial squabbles, but which, of course, they take every means in their 'power to discountenance and allay. Still, if the parishioners were even so head strong as to elect a person as their Vestry Clerk whom the Magistrates may think they had better not have elected, yet, while holding the office, he should not be precluded from performing its duties, by attending to the interests of those by whom he is delegated. Magistrates can and ought .to have nothing to conceal as regards themselves. In some criminal matters, and in some doniestic ones, pri vacy may, in one case, sometimes aid the ends of justice, and, in the other, prevent exposures which can tend to no good ; but what secrecy there can be about parish rates.we are at a lOss to imagine; nor can we conjecture (though we dare say there may be) what good reason can exist for shutting the doors of a Justice-room against the person who is the official organ of the very transaction which is under discussion.—Morning Herald. When a man undertakes the task of being his own historian, there is no law that prohibits his making the hero of his tale as important a personage as possible. But there is something so burlesque in the manner in which Mr. Lawless avails himself of this privilege of autobiographers, in his account of his Northern expedition, that we can hardly think he meant his hearers should consider him serious. According to his own statement, he had nothing but a series of victories to detail, so sudden, so bril liant, so complete, that, if he would adopt a motto ap propriate to his skill and fortunes, he ought for the future write' veni,vidi, vici, on his shield. If we are to credit himself, he was not only achieving those splendid victories, but also dispensing peace, as he went along, with a most liberal beneficence. Yet he tells us, at the same time, that he had an excited multitude, consisting of not less than three hun dred thousand, following his chariot wheels; and, to use his own words, " All the hills poured down their streams of population. They contributed to form one immense mass of waters, which must, i n an instant, have overwhelmed every barrier and impediment that could be opposed to it."— y et h e says all this was tranquillity ; that is, a mob of three hundred thousand persons, rushing wildly i n t h e track of one whose professed mission But it is cur i ous to see gues no w c l a i m t h e merit of was " political agitation, must must have h a d a most tran9uilli tl t ' o as ha c l e , r e ta p it t t i l t y dßo 'e wr y n itoty the o s l i sse si s tendency g o ! . so lately va unte d and gloried pacific in the work of and good will," and whi c h a l g ris t h atl f7xecuti l v t e soupephreassiniviessoiofnthoefo peace must have tended so materially to teach the Irish venerate the of the Associatio n t law. It was also very cruel peasantry to control their passions and advance a step farther. Why he could not affairance_ recall Mr. Lawless when they found he could a not cP we cannot tell, for now it appears that the . of Ballibay was no discomfiture of his project at all. On the contrary, Mr. Lawless says that it was " as Splendid and sublime a transaction a s ever to ok .place;" and he accounts for his not entering Balli bay, according to his promise, by saying, " I didnot go into Ballibay, for I had no business in it." It was well he recollected this, when his three hundred , thousand an d the exasperated Orangemen were on 1 the pint of coming into hostile collision. Still he admits many were for urging him forward ; hut he got upon a fine horse and gallopped away, and this he calls " terminating the bus►ness by a coup de main !"—lbid. That France is anticipating some conflict, in which all her strength will require to be exerted, is ren dered manifest by her present military preparations. Our private letters from Paris—the journals are silent on the subject--(this is at least discreet, if not liberal)—state that in every part of France the most active recruiting prevails—that a new impetus is given to the military spirit—that conscripts are levying in all the departments—that drillings, pa. radings, marchings, and reviews, are the order of the day. The spruce drum-major is seen in every street of the metropolis, pacing along, in all the majesty of conceit, to his murderous music, and leading on his party-coloured raw soldiers, to the astonishment even of the Parisians themselves. " War" is the topic of conversation every where— the officer is dreaming of renown, the recruit of glory. What is the meaning of all this ? Can France seriously meditate the invasion of the Algerine Empire?— Three of her merchant ships have been captured by the Dey's cruisers, and the whole of la belle France is drowned in tears. Her mercantile marine is threatened with destruction, her royal fleets are de fied by a single town on the coast of Africa, the Dey's boats sail within sight of the French blockad ing squadron, insult them by passing to and fro as they please, and consequently the liberal Ministry of his Most Christian Majesty are warranted in order ing a levy en masse of the heroes of France to pu nish the haughty " barbarian." Other rumours we know are afloat : and the new forces, we are in formed, are to be employed in a still nobler enter prise. But it is impossible that the Ministry of France can entertain such intentions, or cherish views of ambition in Greece, in Egypt, or elsewhere so long as the King of a little town, with one har bour, seven small vessels of war, and a hun dred brass cannon, beards them and sets them at defiance. It is true that the blockading squadron may be an excellent school for young sailors; but this pretext is but an equivocal apology for the gallantry of the French. It is also true that the benignity of the Ministry may induce them to compassionate the weakness of the poor Dey, and restrain the power of their naval thunder upon his fortifications; but, without questioning their philanthropy, we think they might prove them selves as good Christians if they were to conquer first and spare afterwards. They have professed their pacific intentions quite long enough. They have for eighteen months displayed their flag and their guns within telescope range of his Highness's palare ; and, accordingly, we are of opinion that they have evinced as much forbearance as might rea sonably be expected from so great a nation. No man, not even a Quaker, could blame them now were they to blow the forts of Algiers into the air and_ fill the harbour with the ruins. This, indeed, we have every day expected they would do ; and nothing, we believe, but their nice feelings of generosity have prevented them from performing. But this reluctance to ac quire so much glory may possibly be iraced to jea= lousy. The French army may not be disposed to give to the navy the exclusive honour of such an enterprise ; and the liberality of the latter may have prompted them to dispense with the monopoly. The journals have proved how ardently France longs to give laws again to Europe; and this chivalrous and romantic spirit may have restrained the one descrip tion of force from reaping laurels at the cost of the other. They perhaps think they ought to share the triumph equally, and that a military expedition should assail the Dey by land while the fleet co operates at a respectful distance by sea. These, however, we beg to state, are merely speculations of ours; and the grand levy now in progress may be destined to other employment. In this case the blockading squadron will perhaps continue their operations for eighteen months longer.—Morning Journal alias New Times. Not a day passes but our foreign arrivals bring us additional proofs of the unbounded confidence which may be placed in Russian honour, and of the un equal contest, in point of political cunning, which is now waging between his Grace of Wellington and the Northern Autocrat. The treaty of the Eith of July furnished the latter with a fine opening for trying not only his own strength, but that also of France and England, upon the Porte, and the pre tence of waving the rights appertaining to him as a belligerent in the Mediterranean, of sending an ad ditional squadron into that sea, and throwing the Sultan off his guard with regard to the force which it might be necessary to retain for the defence of the Dardanelles; hilt the blockade of the latter may fairly be set down as his chef d'a?uvre in political juggling, and outstripping by far any other speci men which he has yet exhibited. The previous mea sures of the Autocrat had but feebly assailed the immediate interests of his Allies, and appeared to have for their object rather the injury of his imme diate enemy than the detriment of his Allies: the present goes a step further, and, under cover of a blockade to which they have foolishly given their assent, lets loose upon their commerce in the Grecian Archipelago a horde of miscreants with whom it would be almost vain for them to contend, and al most equally impossible to exterminate. We allude, of course, in making these observations, to the re port in the French papers of the intention i pf the Emperor of Russia to grant letters of mar4ue to Greek cruisers, for the more effectual preverttion of supplies to Constantinople—a measure which, should it be carried into effect, will not only operate a total destruction of our trade in that quarter, but is, at the same time, a most gross and unparal leled contravention of the stipulations of the Treaty of July. One of the professed objects of that treaty, and one of the hest reasons for the Allies having entered into it at all, was the suppression of piracy; and in that respect it has been carried into full and complete operation; but if the Emperor of Russia be allowed to " play hell and Tommy" in the Mediterranean, as lie has attempted to do be tween the Danube arid Constantinople, the exertions of the combined fleets will have been worse than useless—the pirates will again come forth from their hiding-places, and, under cover of the Russian firman, commit greater devastations than they ever yet had it in their power to. do, on the trade of France and England. Will these Powers tamely submit to such barefaced treachery on the part of Russia. Will they look calmly en at the seizure of British and French merchant vessels, and answer the complaints of their owners by referring them to the notification of the blockade of the Dardanelles, and the inalienable bel ligerent riglits of the Emperor of Russia ? We would fain hope that their eyes are by this time fully opened to the unprincipled conduct of the Autocrat, and that such a barefaced attempt to injure the very parties with whom he pretends to co-operate will be via ted with condign punishment. They have given him " tether enough" already in all conscience—a little more, and we should not be surprised to hear of his intention to shut up the passage into the Me diterranenn.—Morning Advertiser. A very remarkably shaped animal was last week kittened at Tattershall.—lts head is considerably larger than usual ; within the mouth are two tongues, and there are two under jaw bones. The fore legs are properly formed, as is also the body extending to the shoulders, but at that part it divides and forms the after part of two dis tinct bodies ; with two tails and four hind legs : there are also two other legs bent back upon the body. The chest is double, but covered by a single skin, which is stretched remarkably tight. We have repeatedly heard of these malformations, but there is a singularity attached to this In stance, which is especially worthy of note ; and that is, that this deformity of nature lived two days with five others which were kittened at the same time, and is sup posed to have been ultimately killed by the pressure of the other kittens. Since death it has come into the possession of Mr. Tiiomas, druggist, of the Market Place, in this town, who has preserved it for the inspection of the curious, andwhose sh o p w i ndow it is now placed. It is really acurious in ous instance o f th e freak.) of dame nature.—Boston, ei Gazette, POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE.—A pauper, about 40 years of age, was charged with having persecuted the parish officers of St. Bennet Fink for money, and with having spent the money he had received in gin, and sold the clothes they had provided for him to the purchase.of the same destruc tive beverage. The parish officers stated that the defendant was most incorrigible. • He had been long a burden upon the parish, which he bad endeavoured by several ingenious mod es to defraud, as he would not work, although well able. The day before he applied for be. to rig himself out for a situa tion, which he said he could then obtain, and he also re. quested a new shirt. They gave him the money, and offered him a check shirt, but he refused to touch it. The loan MAvon—Refused to touch a check shirt ! Didn't he think it good enough to work in ? The officer said the pauper, upon looking at the shirt, turned up his nose at it, and swore he would have nothing to do with such a thing, for it wasn't the thing for him.— (Laughter.) The Loan MAYOR observed, that check shirts were be come a very fashionable article, and that the dandies, who were to be seen about the streets with them, must find them extremely convenient as a substitute for a washer woman's bill. He did not see why such an article should be treated with contempt, either by dandies or paupers.— (A laugh.) The parish officers said that the pauper certainly could not be prevailed upon to take the check shirt, and in order to equip him to his fancy, they gave him a white linen shirt, and he left the workhouse with a new suit, and some silver in his pocket. Many hours, however, did not elapse when lie appeared again before the parish authorities, in his old clothes and in a state of intoxication. He loudly demanded money, amid swore that he would punish every man of them if they did not " tip. "—(Loud laughter.) The Loan MAYOR-And Inurnt he even the new shirt on ? The parish officers said he had not a stitch that was not in tatters. They caused him to he detained in custody, to answer for conduct which other paupers were but too well inclined to follow. The LORD MAYOR Very much approved of the course pursued by the officers, and said that they had shown a great deal of kindness in administering to the taste of the pauper as regarded his - linen. He (the Lot d Mayor) thought that a little work at the tread-mill would do some service. Mr. Hobler—He may be prosecuted for disposing of the parish clothes. The palish officers said, that the conduct of the pauper was the more annoying, as, although he would take nothing that was not of the best kind, they were obliged when he first favoured them with his company, to scrub him all over with a brush dipped in tobacco water, to make him fit to be amongst the other paupers.—(Loud laughter.) The pauper said he was unwell and unable to do any thing, but he had, notwithstanding, engaged with a per son to work, to save the parish expense. He found upon going to work that his inside was weak, and he took a little beer, only half a pint, which mounted into his head, and he never recollected that he abused the parish officers or by what means he got into his old clothes again.— (Laughter.)—As for the check shirt, if he had appeared in such a thing, he would have been the laughing stock of the other paupers, because it " wa'nt quite natural to see a sailor's shirt upon a tailor's back."—(Laughter.) The Loan MAYOR told him, that as lie was too lazy to work for his bread, he should work for his health, which would stiffer if he remained too long inactive. The pauper was then sent to Bridewell for three months. A chimney sweeper, in a light-coloured jacket and clean face, complained against the overseers of the parish to which he belonged, they having refused to supply him with the means of pursuing his tt ade, which refusal compelled him to seek parochial relief. The complainant is upwards of thirty years of age, and , of the ordinary site. He stated that he had been brought up to the profession of chimney sweeping, and was of course fit for no other, except the army or navy. When he was too big to go up a flue, he could get nothing to do, and he went into his Majesty's service and lost an arm, and was damaged in both legs. He of course was of no use in the second profession ; and his Majesty not thinking fit to give him a pension, he was completely thrown upon his legs, bad as they were. He did not wish to be a burden to the parish, and he would, if they would assist him, sweep chimnies again. Mr. Hobler—Why, you are too big, even if you had your arm, to go up a chimney. Sweep—Bless your heart, Sir, I didn't mean nothing of that ere kind. I'd have no business to go up no more. Mr. Hobler—Oh, then, perhaps you want the parish to enable you to keep boys to help you in the trade? Sweep —Boys ! No, your Worship, I never swept a chimney in my days with a boy.—(Loud laughter. )—I looks upon it as wery cruel to sweep with a poor boy, because, your Vor ship, when you sweeps with a boy it don't mop the ant a bit better nor these here machines does.—(Laughter.) Mr. nobler asked the sweep whether he had made any application to the Society for the Prevention of the Em ployment of Climbing Boys. The sweep said lie bad not. lie could, he said, use the machine well, but lie knowed too well what it was to go up aloft in a flue ; it was as bad as going aloft in a gale of wind. Mr. Holder told the pauper that the machinery was considered by the parish to be too expensive, and advised him to go at once to the Society, who would most pro bably serve a poor fellow, who seemed to bare so much humanity. Mr. Hobler, in the course of the inquiry into this cause, mentioned that he was some time ago waited upon by a gentleman, who requested with pious warmth, that he would subscribe to prevent poor children from being employed in such cruel business. Two or three mornings afterwards, however, said he, upon looking up at my humane petitioner's house, I saw a little bit of a sweep at the top of his chimney, hallooing as loud as he could, to show that be was doing his duty properly.— (Laughter.) The chimney-sweeper left the justice-room in the hope of being enabled to clean out chimnies without sweeping them with boys. BOW-STREET.—Yesterday, George Leith, a stout young man, with an intelligent countenance and good ad dress, having no other clothing than a flannel jacket and a pair of canvass trousers, was brought before Mr. MIN.." situLL, charged by Mr. Webb, baker, corner of Chancery lane, Holborn, with stealing a twopenny loaf from his shop window. The prosecutor stated that the prisoner came to his shop under the pretence of begging ; and being told there was nothing for him, he snatched a twopenny loaf from the window, and began in the most impudent manner to de- vour it. ' Mr. MINSHULL told the prisoner that he must not ex pect to live by pillage in the streets of London. The prisoner replied, that such a mode of subsistence was quite foreign to his wishes, being most desirous of ob taining any sort of employment by which he could earn an honest penny. His great wish was to obtain a passage to Van Dieman's Land, where his father was an extensive settler, and hai written to him to join him in that country. Mr. Mriasorm. asked the prisoner how long his father had been a settler in Van Dieman's Land. The prisoner replied that his father had left England many years ago, and in consequence of a letter which he wrote home when he (the prisoner) was a mere child, his mother made application to Admiral Sir Sidney Smith, then in England, for a free passage for herself and two children. The free passage was obtained ; hut his mother died before she could take advantage of it, and the prisoner and his brother were sent to the poorhoule, being wholly destitute, without house or parents. The prisoner added, that he had also applied to Mr. Dundee, M.P., but that gentleman was unable to procure him a free passage to his father: His brother, however, having been regularly sent to sea, was more fortunate; for a short time ago he obtained a passage to Van Dieman's Land, and was now on Lis way to that country. The Magistrates having consulted together for some time, determined, as an act of charity, to commit the prisoner to the House of Correction as a vagrant, with a view to his being passed to Rochester, with a recommendation to the Magistrates there to endeavour, if possible, in ease his story should be true, to procure him a passage to his father. The prisoner expressed his thanks, and said he had no de sire to wrong any man breathing, but it was a hard thing to be half famished, and plenty of food within his grasp. MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—Yesterday Lady Anne Bentinck, residing at No. 1, New-row, Park-lane, ap peared at this office, in obedience to a Magistrate's war rant, placed in the hands of Goddard, the officer, but which he did not execute in any other manner than by requesting her Ladyship's attendance at any hour most convenient to her, to meet a charge of assault preferred against her Lady ship by Sarah Walker, who has for a short time past filled the situation of cook in Ludy Bentinck's service. The complainant, a termagant-looking cook, stated, that on Sunday evening last Lady Bentinck, without the slightest provocation, pursued her: up stairs with a candle stick, which her Ladyship flourished about, and struck her (the cook) two violent blows with it on her skull, and another on her arm, which inflicted very severe wounds in both places, but which wounds she kept out of sight from the Magistrates, and every body else, Nor was this all, for Lady Bentinck, she said, after using the candlestick until she was tired, then bncl recourse to the operation of kick ing her (tie cook) from the top to the bottom of the stairs, and then along the passage, and out of the house altogether. Lady Bentinck, a lady of elegant person and amiable manners, declared that it was entirely groundless to say that she ever struck, or designed to strike, the complainant with a candlestick, or anything else. The truth, her Ladyship said, was, that for several days past she has been dreadfully annoyed by the insolence and intoxication of the complainant, who is: not the regular cook in the family at all, but a substitute for the latter, who is at present with the greater part of the establishment of servants in the country ; and on Sunday evening the complainant, tak ing advantage of the circumstance of their being no other servant in the house except a little footboy, redoubled her insolence until it was beyond all endurance. She (Lady Bentinck) ordered the complainanl to quit the house im mediately, and took a candle in her hand to light the complainant down stairs from an upper apartment, where this insolence was displayed by her; hut she refused to stir, and dared any one to lay a linger on her. She (Lady Bentinck) did then lay her hand upon the com plainant's shoulder, and made her go down stairs, following her with a candle into the hall, but here again the com plainant renewed her abusive language, and positively re fused to leave the house. She (Lady Bentinck) then told the footboy, the only other servant in the house, and who is quite a lad, to open the street-door, and turn the woman out; but the complainant persisted in her refusal to-quit the house, and the boy, not being strong enough of him self to expel her, she (Lady Bentinck) did, she acknow ledged, lend him a helping hand, and in pushing out the complainant at the street-door, it was possible that her (Lady Bentinck's) knee might have touched the com plainant's person ; but if so, this was certainly all the kicking that took place. The MAGISTRATE asked Lady Bentinck if she had any witnesses to produce that she did not strike the woman with the candlestick above stairs, or kick her below stairs. Lady Bentinck said, that the only two persons in the house besides the complainant and herself at the time were her Ladyship's daughter, about 12 years of age, who had witnessed what took place up stairs, and the fi►otboy who assisted in what occurred below stairs, and they were both, her Ladyship said, outside the office with her Lady ship's carriage. The MAGISTRATE said he should wish to hear them, and they were accordingly called in. The first person questioned on the subject was her lady ship's daughter, a beautiful and intelligent-looking child, displaying in every look and word an ingenuous simplicity that left no doubt of her veracity. She said, " Oh, no in :feed, my mamma did not touch cook with the candlestick." The complainant here taxed the child with perjury, and her mother with urging her to the commission of it; and then, with an air of confidence in which she was not de ceived, called aloud for the footboy to be examined. " By all means," said Lady Bentinek ; " he saw every thing that took place below stairs." The footboy was then questioned, and said, " that cookey did not say a word in anger to my lady, but that my lady kicked cookey very much indeed." Lady Bentinck smiled, but said not a word further than observing to the Magistrates, that she was certainly, she admitted, touch to blame in at all laying her hand upon the complainant, when she ought rather to have sent for a con stable to remove her; but the woman's extreme insolence made her for the moment forget herself. The two Magistrates who heard the case having given it every due and proper consideration, convicted Lady Ben tinck in a penalty of 4/. and the costs for the assault, under the new powers given to Magistrates in such cases by Mr. Peel's late Act, in which the highest penalty awarded to the most aggravated case of assault is 5/. Her Ladyship, of course, instantly paid the one. Reuben Hale and John Frederick flood, in custody,' the former charged with stealing, and the latter with re ceiving, knowing to be stolen, various parcels of curious and valuable seeds belonging to the Horticultural Society, were brought before Mr. CoNam" for final examination. Several of the Members of the Horticultural Institution, as well as the secretary and chief clerk, attended the exami nation, as did also Mr. Harmer, to conduct the prosecution on the part of the Society. The first witness examined was Mr. John Lindley, who deposed that he is assistant-secretary to the Horticultural Society, and knows the two prisoners, one of whom (Hale) had bee❑ in the service of the Society as under gardener up to the present time, and the prisoner Wood had also filled a similar situation in the Institution for some time, but had quitted several months back. On Friday last witness received the following letter, enclosed to the Secretary of the Horticultural Society, Mr. Saline, from Mr. Mackey, an extensive nursery and seedsman at Clapton, to whom it was addressed : .. October 9. " Sir—l beg your attention to the following list of seeds which I have to dispose of. awl knowing your capacity of appreciating their value, I make you the first offer, as sured that they are not to be had from any other :-- " Clarkis polehella, 6d. per oz. ; escholkia californica, Bd. ditto; collomia grandillora, 3d. ditto; gillea capitata, 3d. ditto; collinsia grandiflora, 4d. ditto ; lupinus poly phylus, 3d. 300 seeds ; eccismocarpus scalen, 2d. per paper, 400 seeds ; onothera quadribulinera, 3d. per oz. ; lupinus sp, very fine, Sd. 12 seeds ; lupinus cricola, ioz. 4d. ; lupinus sabina, 12 seeds, 3d. ; lupinus hercophylus, 3d. 6 seeds ; momidus moschatus, led. large paper, whole stock ; momulos gallows, 3d, per paper ; momulus vivo laris, sd. ditto ; momulus florabunda, 3d. ditto ; pentstemon ovatum, 24d. 4itto ; pentstemon diffusion, 2d. ditto ; penstemon spy, 2d ditto ; gaultherem shallon, Id. ditto. " I believe I have in all about Mb., which I have no objection to sell together fur 121., allowing discount for ready money, which I consider cheap, as many of the things . are not in the trade at all as yet, and the rest very sparingly. If you are inclined to become a purchaser, please to write me by return of post, and appoint where I ant to meet you in town. I forbear at present giving my name for certain reasons, which are obvious, and remain, Sir, very sincerely yours, &c., " HORTULANI7S. " N.B. Direct A. 8., Man in the Moon, King's road, Chelsea, post-paid." On the receipt of this letter, Mr. Lindley said measures were immediately adopted to detect the writer, which led to the apprehension of the prisoners and the discovery of the seeds now produced, and all those seeds, the same de scribed in the letter, witness could take upon himself to say were the property of the Horticultural Society. Mr. Monroe, the chief clerk to the society, after examin ing all the seeds produced, had not the least doubt but that they were all the property of the Horticultural Society ; indeed, the most of them are not to be procured any where else in this country. The prisoner Hale had no right or authority whatever to dispose of those or any other seeds, nor coold even have access to them by any honest means. The prisoner Wood, who is a very respectable looking young man, and when apprehended was an assistant in the gardens of Mr. Knight, au extensive nurseryman in the King's-road, said in his defence that the first time he ever knew that Hale had any seeds of this nature to dispose of, was one evening, some time time ago, when he met Hale in company with a young man named Robinson, wh o i s now in Van Dieman's Land, and to whom Hale was selling some of those seeds to take out with him to New South Wales. He (Wood) then asked Hale to get some of the same sert for him if he could, which Hale did, and he gave him for them what he considered a fair price, nor had he the least idea that the seeds were stolen when he purchased them. Mr. ilarmer said, that no one could be more reluctant than he was to say a word to the disadvantage of the pri soners, as the case stood, more particularly as they had no legal adviser present; but he could not help reminding Wood, that those seeds which he said he considered 5/. a fair price fur, he told in his anonymous attempt to dispose of them he could not sell under 121. Hale said nothing in his defence, and both prisoners were committed to Newgate for trial. MARYLEBONE.—On Monday afternoon George Curtis and Thomas Smith were brought before the Ma gistrate, on suspicion of felony, and remanded. Yesterday they appeared at the bar, to hear the charges against them, dressed in the first style of fashion. John Bacon, shopman to Mr. Edwards, dressing-case maker, 21, King-street, Holborn, stated that on Monday morning, they called at his mastee's shop and bought a knife with a silver and a steel blade, and he identified three other valuable knives which were found upon Smith, as the property of Mr. Edwards, and he had no doubt that they were stolen. Mr. Hardep, 120, Fleet-street, jeweller, said that yes terday week they called to see some wedding-rings ; h e took a tray from his window, and after looking them over they selected one, and asked to see some keepers or guards. They laid one aside, paid 49. as a deposit, took a card of the shop, and said they would cull again ; but they never returned. Two wedding-rings found upon Smith were shown to him; he said he believed they were his but could not swear to them. About one o'clock on Wednesday they requested Mr. W. Tyas, 88, Holborn-hill, to show them a gold seal of the best kind, as the price - was no object. From their re spectability, contrary to big general custom, he placed a tray of seals and keys before them. They selected one worth 81.55. ordered another to correspond, and left ss. deposit,.., saying they would call in two hours, but they never came back again, and he afterwards missed a solid gold . a valuable key. 00 1(. ' On the 24th o f l as t mon th th ey ca ll e d a t th e shop 0 , E. West, 3, Ludgate-street, to look out a diamond 0 . The shopman placed a case upon the counter, and that' 0 „ lected one worth five guineas and a half, paid 53. °s o ot count, and said they would call in the afternoon. A S jab as they were gone h e m i sse d a di amon d r i ng , worth . They never came back. Mr. S. Jones, of 78, Cheapeide, said on Friday 0 0 noon they entered his shop, an d as k e d t o see so me in der ei ing rings and gold seals . Th e y p u t one r i ng as ide, : mi ll, a motto to be engraved on it, p a id b e . an d l e ft, 97 °` - ' immediately missed two rings and a seal. d ' e Mr. Marriott, 27, Fenchurch- s t ree t, was se rved same way. ree!` The next case was Mr. Tutrnan's, Great Ru.ssell t e d, Bloomsbury, by whom they were traced and appren e as stated in our former account. rus e They were committed to Newg a t e on th e ca pita' e le ; of stealing Mrs. West's diamond ring, and ordered l° detained upon the others. n stoe 4 UtZ.TION-HALL.—Yesterday an eld e rly man fe t, Mansfield, who keeps a marine-store-shop in Parkil, Kennington, was brought before 11. J. CataNtit3 3s ' bit charged with receiving stolen property. Th e prisool t he been for a cons id era bl e t i me i n t h e a b ove tra d e , It, o f evidence on thi s occas i on ex hibi ts t h e a b om i na bl e 3Yl' to encouragement gi ven by suc h c h aracters as t h e prig''' . juvenile thieves. Mr. Baynes, a shopkeeper in the general line, r es ..,, e r in Great Park-str e et, K enn i ngton , state d , t h at o n day, the 30th of September, a loft at the rear of bii s , raises, which was u se d f or th e p urpose o f d ry i n g d o of was entered, and three g owns , an d some ot h er artic°:,,b o linen, stolen. Subsequently to the robbery, a female, wbat cohabited with the prisoner and passed as his wife' s** whose real name is Maria Cashbird, called on Mr. 114 , 0 , and producing a pawnbroker's ti c k e t f or th r ee 13', re pledged on the Ist instant, d escr ib e d th a t th e ar ticle! " 0 4 those which had been stolen from the complainant lot s named Skinner; that they were sold by him to til e d,. soner, who gave 3s. for th em , an d w h o a f terwar d s per i A4 on her to pledge them. Upon these circumstance stated to the Magistrate, a search-warrant was gi7 o r against the prisoner, and Grosamith, the officer, vitar cuted it, found on the premises a quantity of a pef kind of soap, also a large cheese, and a Dutch c lock, !' which he suspected was stolen property. On questioning the woman who cohabits with th o rt to, 'toner, the former being present on the occasion Alla 0 0 relative to the soap and other articles enumerated, sh!:;;a s t Grosamith that the soap had been purchased by the at the rate of 2d. a pound, from two thi e v es , w ho he°7le it there after having stolen it; and with r es pect ti!,. o Dutch clock, she stated, that it also had been brought S e . the day before by two other thieves, and left on the Y; il raises by them until the prisoner returned home to g l os s price for it. She added, that the thieves were to es, such an hour for the m one y. O n thi s i n f orma ti o n, u s ; smith remained there: and at the time specified hi the woman, the two lads who left the deck called, officer took them both into custody. In the posselow' s i, one of the prisoners the o ffi cer found a rasp, which h e .1 leged had been lent to him by Man s fi e ld, an d th e instruO e i n had been employed by the person to whom it was let ts deface some peculiar marks on the clock, in order that identity should not be proved. Mr. Baynes and his wife identified the three gotv° oo , their property, and to have been stolen under the cir c . o 4 stances above-mentioned ; they also identified the soall ide d, cheese found on the premi ses o f th e p r i soner , a nd , that those latt e r ar ti c l es h a d a l so b een sto l en f rom t h e ir 7., The boy Skinner acknowledged that he had entered r , Baynes's premises, and stolen three gowns, which he h 3P) wards sold to Mansfi e ld f or 3 s . Th e gowns, it 011„41! leged, were worth at least four times as much as had R [ u a l ) given for them by the receiver to the thief. The '. which was stolen from Mr. Baynes, and fur which time r , saner had paid 2d. per pound, was worth Bd. and 9 pound. - 70 With respect to the Dutch clock found in the priso lle t el house, a gentleman attended who identified it, and ° S I4 that it had been stolen on the night of the 7thinst. °,7,. the Lambeth Association School, which bad been bro'i i , into and robbed. The two fads who committed the bcry were also apprehended, and admitted that they sold the clock to the prisoner. The female with whom the prisoner cohabited tol d! Magistrate that she was so disgusted with his co° to towards her, and also with the encouragement he thieves, that she was determined on leaving him alw 3 titer, —The prisoner was fully committed. miss GORDON, OF GIGHT.--The . f 0..0 verses are taken from a collection of the old songs of oc- b land, by Mr. BUCHAN, and which is just published. f a ,,, persons referred to are the father and mother of the 09 . - Loid BYRON 0 whare are ye gaeing, bonny Miss Gordon , 0 whine are ye gaeing, sae bonny and braw? Ye've married wi' Johnny Byron, To squander the lands o' Gight awa'. This youth is a rake, free England is come, The Scots ilitina lien his extraction ava' ; He keeps up his misses, his landlords he duns, That's fast drawn the lands of Gight awa'. • 0 whare are ye gaing, &c. The shooting o' guns, and rattling o' drtuns , The bugle in woods, the pipes in the ha'; The beagles a howling, the hounds a growling, , These soundings will soon gar Gight gang O a ' 0 whale are ye gaeing, &c. , s FIR E-WORK S.—Yesterday, about tnree o • cpac k the neighbourhood near the Obelisk, St. Georgo'nJ e i t h was thrown into a state of alarm by a loud explosion, occurred in the lower part of the house occupied by or , dame HENcrEa, who, daring many years, has roon ti vo i tared the fire-works for Vauxh a ll. Th e explosion4.o followed by a thick volume of vapour, which came the kitchen. It was soon ascertained that a fire !Ina v iol pened in the kitchenf and that a quantity of p o wder t o ignited. Several fire-works went off at intervals, an d inmates of the premises, as well as those kept by old TRAM, the fire-work-maker, were in a state of grea t „..„ o le tor, expecting the blowing up of the building. The P7J it t in the first floor of Madame HENGLER'S house, territo. the danger of egress by the staircase, got out of the 'iv dow, and descended to the street by a ladder. It soon pi appeared that the danger was not of the magnitude I/ o fear had painted. The en g i nes arr i ve d w ith grea t pro t , tulle, and by throwing water on the lower part of the Poe raises, the fire was soon extinguished. Fortunately damage done was not extensive, but the dredad whief6 o . public felt of the explosion which the powder an d e' works might have produced, was displayed . on every. vv ie tenance. These establishments for pyrotechny are in je neral a great nuisance, and should stand distant froti l .,- e nt habited houses and tenements. We have had frer explosions of this description. BIRTH. t he On the 12th inst., at Turkey-mill, near Alaid..too e f lady of J. Hollingsworth, Esq., of a daughter. MARRIED. 'll 4O On the 14th inst., at St. John's, Hackney, • „lab' Harmar, Esq., of Burton-crescent, to Emma, fourth "r o - o r , ter of the late Charles A. Stephenson, Esq., of pa til house, Bucks, On the 14th ins., Thomas Johnson, jun , Ol o blo Romford, to Mary Janson, only daughter of the Rev. Clayton, of Great Gains, Upminster, Essex. On the 15th inst., at Lambeth Church, George, r" the Rev. Joseph Hughes, Battersea, to Miss Ann Caw' ward of R. Cottle, Esq., Kennington-road. On the 14th inst., at Mapledurharn, by the Lortl,.o of Winchester, James Adair, son of Vice-Admiral Li f : rio e, Colpoys, and Rector of North Waltham, Hants, to / 1 eldest daughter of the Lord Bishop of Chester. shirt' On the 14th inst., at Pitsford, in Northampt o " of by the Rev. E. C. Wright, George Fletcher, 4. 411, Croydon, to Jane, second daughter of Francis ISIAr s. Esq., of Pitsford. foLil On the 14th i ns t., a t St. P ancras N ew Ch u rch, Booty, Esq., to Laura, widow of the late E. Salon. *!; At Glasgow, Robert Howie, Esq., to Marion . 3 1 " 1 " relict of the deceased Captain M'Nair, Greenock. On the 10th inst., at Minto-street, Newington, the R e g David Crawford, Minister of the relief congr ati Earlston, to Margaret, daughter of the late Mr. J. HO land-surveyor, Edinburgh. DIED. On the 15th inst., aged 41, Henrietta, w;fe of Mr. it! Liam Cansdell, of Bishopsgate-within. On the 13th inst., in the 18th year of Lis age, Jaha P. eldest son of Mr. B. W. Scott, of Upper Clapton. On the sth inst., in Fitzwilliam-street, Dublin. Cl!" lotte, the wife of John Leland Maguey, Esq. On the 13th inst., at Richmond, Jemima . Ctt youngest daughter of the late John Cussans, Esq. On the 13th inst., at Marlborough, the. Rev. Townsend Lewes, A.AI., Vicar of Halberton, Devon/T.O petnal Curate of Easton, Wilts, and Master of Marlbot7 - Grammar School. NM!, _ r o:gir t lol PH INTED and.PuBLISHED by. 1111URDO YOUNG, SIN OFFICE : 112; STRANP ? 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