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THE LONDON JOURNALS. DAILY • xtracts front the Morning Papers, April 17. [THETIMES.] We have received several numbers of a Ito maie journal, published at. Missolonghi, under the title of the Greek Chronicle. The last of the series extends only to.the 9th of February, and therefore supplies us with little information on the state of Greece which had not previously reached us through other channels. The very appearance, however, of a newspaper in such a quarter, at such a time,,and in such a language,. is not without its interest—recording, as it does, the noble exploits of a people recovering their independence after, ages of oppression,--ad dressed to the descendants of those whose jour nalists were Thucydides and Xenophon and composed in - a dialect which, with some varia tions in grammar and construction, was spoken by Homer and Plato. The contents of the two - last numbers, likewise, are somewhat curious.— That of the 6th of February gives us an'eloquent address of the Government of the three islands, _Hydra, Spezzia, and Ipsara, to all the Greeks. We know well," say these brave men, " that when a Christian is called to fight for his faith—when a patriot struggles for " his country, every thing else is regarded " as insignificant." They then call to mind, that in the last three years they have sacrificed their property—exposed their lives—and shed their blood for the general freedom, without meeting with adequate support from the rest of the nation. This address is so curious, that we regret our limits will not allow us to give it entire. With some discussions by the editor on a 'criminal code, and an account of the sudden illness and rapid recovery of Lord Byron, this number concludes. The number of the 9th of ebruary contains an' extract from the speech of the American President, received by Galignani's Messenger, ....here the part which refers to the Greek contest and cause is particularly pointed out to the sympathy and gratitude of the Greek patriots. This paper concludes with an account of the proceedings of a meeting, at Cambridge, to receive subsciptions in favour of the Greeks. [MORNING CHRONICLE.] The proceedings of the Court-Martial in De merara, on the trial of John Smith, the Missionary, throw a curious light on the notions of the inha bitants of the slave colonies with regard to the Christian Religion. From the questions put to the Negroes, it would appear that the unfortunate deceased could not read a passage to them, either from the Old or New Testament, without subject ing himself to the charge of exciting to insurrec tion. The very mention of Moses and Pharoah, Sanl and David, was quite enough for them. In fact, the Bible appears to them an incendiary publication of the most dangerous description. Every thing seems to have been construed by them as having a reference to the relation be tween Master and Slave. The unfortunate man could not even allude to the necessity for the ob servance of the Sabbath, but it must be taken as an exhortation to the Negroes to disobey their Masters, or to our Saviour's announcement of the destruction of Jerusalem, but it must be deemed to point to the destruction of the Co.. iony. The prisoner, again and again, asked the witnesses if he applied any of the passages to the situation of the Negroes ? That seems to have been deemed immaterial. In short, Tons Paine was not more an object of alarm to our loyal country 'Squires during the period of Anti-Ja cobinism, than the Bible is to our West Indian slave-holders. The West Indian Planters do not disguise their conviction that Christianity and Slavery are irreconcileable with each other, and we are not to wonder that, under these circum stances, they should look with a very unfriendly eye on the former. They do not, however, say in so many words that they are enemies to Chris tianity—they are only enemies to cant. But then cant means a serious concern for those things which ClniAianity more peculiarly enjoins—lf any concern is expressed for any other than mere worldly interests, it is cant, pure cant. [MOUNINC POST.] We do not recollect a Session of Parliament fur several years past in which so much of the regular public business, together with the deci sion of many important incidental questions, was disposed of previous to the Easter recess, as dur ing the present one. Already the various esti mates for the year have been agreed to, and, not withstanding the utmost vigilance of the Opposi tion, exactly, it may be said, in the terms in - which they were brought forward by Ministers. It may likewise be considered that the other financial arrangements of Government have been nearly completed. The . old Four per Cent Stock has been reduced to Three and a Half per Cent. with the unanimous approbation of the Public, and without any sensible trouble to the Treasury, or any present or prospective engagements on the-part of the- country to sub tract from the-actual profit of the measure. Se veral taxes or portions of taxes have: also been remitted, and an assurance given in the adoption of salutary. alterations ,in different branches of trade that- the . future increase of the Revenue will enable Ministers,to afford still further relief to the people at no distant period. The most important pf , these regulations is that affecting the Silk Manufacture, which, however mis takenly opposed,,even at present holds forth the mostflattering prospects to the nation. The re duction of the, Duties on Wool is a proceeding of the same description, and with the other altera tions in o.ur,commercial .code,'intend.to liberate . trade from the absolute, shackles in which it had h:eem bound for ages, - wisely aims at the opening.of new and the enlarging of old chan nels fo r ,r the investment of our vast and accu mulating capital, as well as the employment of our increasing population and the general augmentation of the national resources. The finaecial arrangements of this Session have in:. deed. ',wen more politic than popular—they are directed to the future aggrandizement of the em pire ; rather than the momentary gratifica tion of public cupidity, but in laying a solid foundation for our resources, give the best secu rity for their permanency and power. If we now turn to the explanations of our system of foreign policy, which have been given in the course of the current Session, we shall find if possible still higher grounds of exultation. To say that this policy has undergone discussion in Parliament would be unjust—the Opposition could find no tangible excuse for demanding an inquiry into the course pursued by Mr. Secretary Canning, or provoking a debate on our foreign relations. [BRITISH PRESS.] A Dutch Mail brought us papers yesterday to the 12th of April. With the exception of an Ordinance from the King of the Netherlands, regulating the herring fisheries of the Dutch on the coast of Scotland, these papers contain almost nothing of any importance. The Ordinance itself, if any interest can be attached to it, will be found to follow. Accounts from St. Petersburgh to the 26th of March state that the twenty third anniversary of Alexander's accession to the throne was celebrated in that capital, on the 24th, with universal joy. Te Deum was performed in the Imperial Chapel, in the Winter Palace, in the Casa Metropolitan Church, and all the other churches of the city. We shall not be surprised, if, before many revolving years pass away, the Russian has his Te Deum, chaunfed in the 'Great Mosque of the infidel in Constantinople, once the Greek church of St. Sophia. The long-depending disH putes between these Powers are far from being arranged, and the wily Russian is only waiting his hour to pounce on the Turkish provinces. A new company, it appears, has been formed, under the name of the Russian South-West Company, for carrying on the navigation between the Black Sea and the Baltic, by means of the canals and the rivers Dnieper and Niemen. This Company mean to improve to the utmost the na vigation on the rivers between the two seas. Russia is omitting nothing that can add to her resources and her strength. This ambitious Power already overshadows Europe ; her dan gerous influence is every were felt, and will soon be incompatible with the liberty and peace of the other nations of the Continent, who, in their own defence, must arm against her. [NEW TIMES.] _ __ In another part of our Paper will be found the Affidavit of Mrs. Smith, the wife of the unfor tunate Missionary, whose fate has excited so much commiseration. We greatly lament that his Majesty's Ministers were not in possession of this important document when the proceedings o the Court Martial were submitted to them. We persuade ourselves, that if that had been the case, they would, without hesitation, have testi fied their conviction of Mr. Smith's entire inno cence. The only two points on which any doubt could arise are here cleared up ; namely, the intercourse between Mr. Smith and Qua mina, the Negro, on Sunday the 17th, and Wed nesday the 20th of August. It may have been thought, that Air. Smith, on the first of those occasions, distinctly learnt the intention of the Negroes to revolt, and was culpable in not re vealing it to the Governor; and it may also have been conceived that he sought on the Wednes- day a clandestine meeting with Quamina, from which clandestinity a partnership in guilt may have been inferred ; but these suspicions vanish before Mrs. Smith's plain and simple statement, which carries truth on the face of it. It appears that on the Sunday Mr. Smith had been busied till a late hour in the fatiguing duties of his church ; after which Quamina, Seaton, and two other Negroes, came to bid him good bye, as was usual with them, another Negro, named Bristol, being present ; they stayed only two or three minutes ; it was in the open hall; and nothing was said from which the most sus. picious person could have conjectured that any thing like a revolt was in agitation.— On the Wednesday Mrs. Smith, having passed the preceding day and night in great alarm on account of the tumult of the Negroes, without consulting her husband, sent for Quamina (because he was a Deacon of the Chapel, and therefore better known to her than any other slave), in order to learn what the news was. He came to the house, quite unexpected by Mr. Smith, and left it again, after a few insignificant phrases had passed between them. This short statement is perfectly consistent with the whole of Mr. Smith's con duct ; whereas the accounts given by this Ne groes Bristol and Seaton, which might seem to infer some degree of imprudence hi Mr. Smith, are confused, contradictory, and such as might be expected from the vague and unexercised me mory of persons in their situation. It must not be forgotten that even Bristol and Seaton do most explicitly declare that Mr. Smith, far from encouraging any idea of revolt, uniformly depre cated any such proceeding. [MORNING HERALD.] Nye gave yesterday and the day before copious extracts from a trial, by a Court-Martial, of Mr. Smith, the Missionary, who was sent by the Mis sionary Society to Demarara, for the purpose of converting the negroes in that colony to Chris tianity. For our part, we do not like trials by Courts-Martial ; and in this case we cannot see why, as a matter of necessity, it should have been adopted. Why could not a Common Jury have been summoned ? Were the Go vernment of that colony apprehensive that no Common Jury would dare to find. MT. Smith guilty, in case-the evidence were sufficient ? If the Governor of that colony were apprehensive that such was the ease, and if sit should be the belief of the inhabitants of Demerara, that, had a sufficient number been impanneled, and had found Mr. Smith guilty, their lives and those of • their families would have been endangered, then- there is a good reason why he should have bee►► tried as he was. Mr. Smith was, in all probability, as most of the Missionaries are, an enthusiast. It is no wonder that they should be enthusiitsts, foe the education they receive iti the society of those who profess Methodism causes them to be enthusiasts, These peopl e ire !accustomed, from their childhood, to hear a long prayer before breakfast, long graces before and after their repasts, and a, long prayer before and after their suppers, besides a prayer of their own just before going to bed, independent of prayers and sermons at places of public worship, often delivered with considerable enthusiasm—add to all this, what are called the love-feasts, the pri vate assembling of the old and the young, both male and female, for prayer meetings, succeeded by what are called religious conversations. We have been at Methodist meetings where the preacher has so worked on his audience, that they have been in the most extraordinary ecstacies. Whether this mode of worship ping be in strict accordance with the doctrines as taught by our Saviour, we will not stop to inquire, but we hardly think it is. Not that we would attempt to alter it ; foi had we any thing to do with the Legislature, we would let every body worship the Divinity in any manner they thought proper; but this we must say, with regard to prayer, that our Sa viour repeatedly said to his hearers, " When ye pray, do n o t make long prayers to be seen of men : but enter into your closet, and pray in secret, and thy Fattier, who seeth in secret, will reward thee openly." Certainly, the Methodists justify the enthusiasm of their preaching, by set ting before us the example of the Apostles Paul, Peter, John, and others of our Sa viour's disciples, or believers ; but why should we not in these matters go to the fountain head ?—The Founder of the Chris tian Religion delivered a very different doc trine. We have made a digression, but we hope our readers will excus e us. We have done so for the purpose of endeavouring to account for the religious fervour with which, there can be no doubt, Mr. Smith was imbued, even before he left this country. If we, as a Juryman, had been sitting in judgment on Mr. Smith, we should have taken these circumstances into consideration, and we should have given him the benefit of such circumstances. IRISH BURIALS. The following is the letter of the Archbishop of DUBLIN read in the House of Lords on Thurs day by the Bishop of lA . :4lEnlct : ‘4 DUBLIW, APRIL 7. "Mr DEAR LORD—I perceive that in a petition against the Burial Bill, signed by two Roman Catholics, which has been presented to the House of Commons, and which, of course, will also be presented to the House of Lords, there occurs the following passage :—That no inconveinence had resulted from the practice of free burial, as it existed in that city (meaning Dublin) prior to the appointment of the most Rev. Dr. Magee, as Archbishop of the Diocese.' " The moaning of this is obvious. A charge is brought against the present Archbishop of Dublin, as having, by some means or other, introduced a change of practice respectin g th e interment of Roman Catholics in the church-yards of the city of Dublin since his appointment to the Archiepiscopal See. "By the words free burial,' though not defined in their application, the petitiones must be supposed, in reference to those of their own communion, to intend to express the undis turbed privilege of the Roman Catholic Priesthood to officiate in the church-yards of the Clergy of the Established Church. An innovation on this supposed privilege has been loudly and repeatedly charged against the Archbishop, for some order al- September, n t p b u e b en lie u , nitd setnililabeolyntiensittaes . ledged to have been given by him, in the, instance of th e in terment of a person of the name of Arcy, in St. K ev i n ' s church-yard, on the. I" i he last ye ar ;of and, although, the most decisive proofs of the total f a l se h oo d of the a to ll e b g e a i t o e n it er h a a v t e e d been a s i p f l a i r s d t b r u e f t o h r e b t a n d e blished. "So long as this charge had been confined to hand-bills, newspapers, and pamphlets, and employed merely as a topic of vulgar abuse, I did not deem it suitable to the station in which I am placed to offer any public contradiction, although I was fully aware of the personal danger to which I was exposed by leaving it uncontradicted. I contented myself, at the time of its first announcement, with a written assurance to the head of the Government in Ireland, that it was, in all its fmrts and bearings, utterly untrue. I was at that time, and had been for several days before, residing at Leamington, in England, being obliged to visit that place by the indisposition of a member of my family. From that place I addressed myself by letter to the distin gu i s h e d P ers onage already alluded to, stating, that respecting the transactions of the interment which had ren dered me the subject of the existin g violent outcry, and which had freer. made ge a theen nly occasion only of denouncing me as an object of popular knowledge of them had been y de rived from the public Papers; and declaring most unqualifi edly, that ' the allegation that any order had been issued by me uaztrue, but destitute of allfoun l" This declaration, which I felt myself called upon at that foun dation tliTit truth.' subject, u,, was nut only time to make, in such a manner as could not derogate from my station, I feel myself called upon to repeat in a more pub lic manner, now that the formal announcement of this charge, in the two Houses of Parliament, not only affords me a suit able opportunity for doing so, but, at the same time, imposes such a proceeding as a duty, founded upon the respect which I entertain for the opinion of the Members of both Houses, and for the judgment of the reflecting and reasonable part of the community in both countries. " This not being my year of parliamentary attendance, I am, of course, prevented from offering this declaration in my , own person in the House of Lords ; I have, therefore, to re quest that your Lordship will offer it for me; or rather, that you will take the proper opportunity of bringing the entire con tents of this letter before the House. Have the goodness, at the same time, to add, that as to the transaction in St. Kevin's Church-yard, which has been pronounced a change in the prac tice of free burial as it existed in the City of Dublin, befbre my appointment to the Archiepiscopal See, I not only issued no order of any kind, general, or particular, public, or private, and had no previous communication with any person what soever upon the subject; but that although nearly forty years a resident of the City of Dublin, and not acquainted with the occurrences of an Ecclesiastical character within that period, I had never heard of a Roman Catholic Priest officiating, or at tempting to officiate, at any interment within the Church-yard of any of the parishes of the metropolis, until I read the report given by the public papers of the proceeding at St. Kevins'. " It may not be amiss also to state, that when, subsequent ly, I was (on my return to Dublin). consulted on one or two occasions by some of the parish ministers as to what they ought to do in this new and alarming state of things, should a Ho man Catholic Priest insist on exercising his functions at an in terment in their Church-yards my advice to them was, that they should be ready at their posts to officiate according to the rites of the Established Church ; and that, if not permitted, and that the Priest still persevered in his invasion of their rights, they should employ no force, and oppose no resistance, further than to protest formally and solemnly against the un lawfulness of the act, with a view to ulterior proceedings be fore the proper Tribunal. 1 have the honour to be, my dear Lord, " Your faithful Friend and Brother, " W. DUBLIN. To the Lord Bishop of Limerick." Ilis Lordship added, that he had received another letter also from the Archbishop, stating, that " the Parochial Clergy of Dublin havcsigned a declaration, that, to their knowledge, no Roman Catholic Priest has ever officiated, or attempted to officiate, in their church-yards respectively, with the exception of the St. Kevin's busin ess , an d a s i m il ar a tt empt s i nce t h at i n St. Mary's." SUDDP:N DEATIL—A melancholy instance of sudden death tookplace on Thursday, and which created a consi derable sensation in the City. -Mr. MAcxrivro4ll, a Mem ber of the Stock Exchange, and in the full vigour of manhood, suddenly fell down and expired in ars apoplectic fit, whilst ad justing an account in his Counting-house. CompuNcTioN.—One of the prisoners in the Ifjgh Gaol, Exeter, against whom sentence of death was recorded, has, since the Assizes, made over the, property of a house to a. person of the n ame of Davenport, whose house he had robbed of WI. eleven years ago. DEMERARA. The following is the Affidavit of Mrs. JANE SMITH, wife of the Rev. J. SMITH, Missionary at Demerara •-- " Jane, the wife of John Smith, Missionary, late of Le Res souvenir, on the East coast of the Colony of Demerara, at pre sent in George Town with her said husband, John Smith, a prisoner under trial ; which deponent being sworn on the Holy Evangelists of Almighty God, deposeth as follows, that is to say :—That on Sunday the 17th of August of this present year 1823, about the hour of four o'clock, or rather later, Bristol, a Negro belonging to plantation Chateau Margo, the said Bristol being a Deacon of Bethel chapel, of which chapel her said hus band, John Smith, was then the Minister, was conversing with her, the said Jane Smith, concerning a little negro girl, the daughter of the said Bristol. That th e sa id B r i sto l was des i rous of placing the said Negro girl under her the said Jane Smith, to be taught needle work and reading, and to be instructed in any other way she, the said Jane Smith, might think fit. That whilst she was so engaged in conversation with the said Bristol, the said John Smith, who had been, as this deponent verily be -1 ieves, engaged till that hour in and about his duties as a Minister in the said chapel, came in and found her and the said Bristol en gaged in the conversation aforesaid. That the said John Smith, upon entering the house, came up to this deponent and the said John Bristol, and joined in their conversation. That the conver sation concerning the said Negro girl was continued until the said John Smith learned from the said Bristol, that the said girl had had the measles, from which she was not at that time perfect ly recovered, when the said J. Smith objected to this deponent's receiving the said girl for the purpose aforesaid, until she was perfectly cured. That whilst they (this deponent, the said Bris. tol, and the said John Smith) were still continuing to converse about the said girl, four Negroes (Quamina of Success, Seaton of Success, and Peter and Shute of Le Ressouvenir) came into the back gallery of the house, and accosted this deponent and the said John Smith with the usual salutation of " How are you, master ? How are you, misses ?" That the said John Smith then went into the hall for the purpose of taking a glass of wine, his usual custom after coming into the house after a fatiguing day's ministry. That this deponent was then stand ing upon the step leading from the gall e ry t o th e h a ll ; t h at h er attention was then called to the servant Charlotte, whose duty it was to bring in dinner, which was then ready, and which had been waiting for her said husband. That this deponent then heard her said husband speak to the said Quamina, whose reply this deponent well remembers: the said Quamina laughed and said, " 0 nothing, Sir, we were only saying it would be good to send and tell the managers to go to town and get the new law ;" that thereupon this deponent's husband reproved the said Qua mina for so talking. The said Negroes were in the gallery, to the best of this deponent's knowledge, not more than two or three minutes; that the said Negroes Quamina, Bristol, Seaton, Peter, and Shute, then all went away together, each bidding this depo nent and her said husband good-bye. That this deponent did not remark any thing unusual in the manner or behaviour of the said last mentioned Negroes, especially as it was customary for some of the Negroes attending the said Chapel to call,in, every Sundayin a similar way, to bid this d e po nen t an d h er sa id husband good bye. That after dinner on that same day, to wit, the said 17th of August, this deponent and her said husband went to take a rather long walk, being out about an hour, and on their returning home from the same, about fifteen.mi nu t es a f ter sun set, met Mr. Hamilton and Mr. Van Ness, a young gentleman lately gone to America, as this deponent has heard and verily believes. That deponent invited them to go home and take tea with her said husband and herself, which the said two last men tioned persons thereupon did. That this deponent heard nothing from her said husband touching or concerning the aforesaid con versation with Quamina on the said 17th, until the following Monday the 18th of the same month of August, when after dinner, about six o'clock in the evening, this deponent and her said husband were on the point of setting out to take a walk, a Negroman of the name of Guildford, belonging to Dochfour, made his appearance, and handed to deponent's said husband a note or letter; that her said husband read the said note or letter, and asked several questions concerning the said note and its contents, and who had carried a certain in closure therein to Jackey Reed, of Dochfour. That the said Guildford returned evasive and unsatisfactory answers, which this deponent attributed rather to stupidity than design.— That thereupon her said husband desired the said Guildford to make haste back and tell Jackey, meaning the said Jackey Reed, of Dochfour, that he this deponent's husband knew no thing of the matter to which the contents of the note referred ; that it was too late to call any people to inquire then, none of them being then accessible to him ; but if there was any thing going to happen, he begged that he (Jackey) wo u ld not have anything to do with it. That after delivering this message, the deponent's said husband said, Wait a little ; and thereupon wrote a note, the contents of which this deponent did not see, and gave the same to the said Guildford, telling him at the same time to make haste back and run all the way. That this sleponent's said husband then addressing her, said, Come, let us go a little way ; and that thereupon she and her said hus band proceeded to take a short walk, where he declared, that from the words and manner in which the said Quamina had answered him, he, the said deponent's husband, had not, until the receipt of the said notes on that evening, attached any im portance to what the said Quamina had said on the Sunday; that this deponent's said husband appeared very much dis tressed and uneasy, and did in fact express himself to be so. That whilst this deponent and her said husband were continu ing to walk on their way up the front middle walk of Le Res souvenir, going towards the sea shore, and consulting as to what were the best steps to be taken hey the deponent's said husband, I they heard a great noise at the buildings of Le Ressouvenir, and thereupon immediately returned, with an intention, as this deponent verily believed at the time, of going directly home to their own house. That they however did not pro ceed many yards on their return, when John Hamilton call ed aloud to this deponent's husband to come and help him. That both this deponent and her husband thereupon went to the spot where the Negroes had assembled in front of the said dwelling-house ; when, observing their conduct to be outra geous, and by no means what this deponent ever witnessed from any Negroes before, she became exceedingly alarmed. That her said husband then went forward to speak to the said Negroes, who thereupon began to brandish th e i r cut l asses, and make many threatening gesticulations, which terrified this de- I ponent, and she ran home to her own house; that upon arriving there she went direct to the yard to look for some one to call her said husband away. That she fbund the servant Charlotte in the yard, whom this deponent requested to go and call her hus band, which the said servant refused to do, declaring that she was too much afraid to do so. That thereupon this deponent repaired to the spot where she had left her said husband, and there found him standing at a little distance from the said Ne groes, there being near him the manager and the two overseers of the estate, and that she, this deponent, besought her said husband to go home, which he did. That this deponent saw nothing more of the revolted Negroes, or any of them, on that day, or the day following. That on the day following, how ever, all the Negromen of the estate Le Ressouvenir, having left the same, and this deponent being exceedingly uneasy . and al. armed at all that had occurred, was walking anxious and alone up and down the front gallery of her house, when it oc curred to her, that probably Anchey, a woman of colour, liv ing on he Ressouvenir, might be enabled to give her some information as to passing events. That previously to this, not a creature from whom she could obtain any information had called at the house of her this deponent. That she, this depo nent, sent for the said Anchey, and inquired of her if she knew what the people were doing—if she, Anchey, thought they were going to return home. That the said Anchey appeared to be quite as ignorant as this deponent, whereuFon this deponent expressed a wish that she should see Quamina or Bristol.— That at the time this wish was expressed, she, this deponent, was not aware that either the said Quamina or Bristol were re puted rebels; and that this deponent did not know this fact until after her said husband was arrested and on his trial. That the only reason this deponent had for wishing to see either the said Quamina or Bristol was, that they were deacons of her said husband's Chapel, and on that account she knew them better than she did the Negroes in general. That this deponent then went to lie down, not having slept any part of the preceding night. That this deponent did not communicate to her said hus_ band a single syllable of the conversation that passed between her and the said Anchey ; and that she, this deponent, had not been, directly or indirectly, induced to wish to see either the said Quamina or Bristol by her said husband, or byany other person, but that such wish was expressed by her as it arose at the moment. That on Wednesday, the 29th of the same August, between seven and eight of the cluck in the evening, whilst this deponent was in the front gallery of her house, her said husband was in the hall, the said Anchey came to this deponent, and told her, this deponent, that Quamina had conic if she wanted to see him. That at that time a free woman, named Kitty Stewart, was sitting on the steps at the back door of her said house. That it is true this deponent did request the said Anchey to invite the said Kitty Stewart to go home with her, and did tell the said Kitty Stewart to go with the said Anchey ; but that this arose entirely from the circumstance of the said kitty Stewart sit ting alone on the said steps, apparently thoughtful. That the sa id Kitty Stewart and Anchey then went away, and shortly after the said Quamina came to the back door. That this deponent most perfectly remembers that she did not shut the back door. That the said Quamina accosted this deponent m his usual manner, and, before entering into any conversation with her, this deponent, he, the said Quentin. seeing this deponent's husband sitting in the hall, said he would go and spea k t o hi m . That the said Quamina had crossed the back gallery and entered the hall, where deponent's said husband was sitting. That this deponent followed him. That the conversation that passed on that occasion consisted merely of inquiries respecting the health of him, the said Quamina, except that Mr. Smith observed, that he was sorry and grieved to find that the people had been so fool ish and wicked and mad as to be guilty of revolting, and hoped that he was not concerned in it ; to which the said Quorum made no reply. That this deponent's husband then asked him where he had been all the time, and where he had then come from ; upon w hi c h t h e said Quamina appeared confounded and abashed, and without answering a single syllable suddenly turned round and went away, having remained not more than two or three minutes. That upon the departure of the said Quamina, the deponent's husband said, I wonder what brought Quamina her e thi s even i ng ; an d then for the first time this de ponent informed her said husband, that she had expressed a wish to An c h e y t o see e i t h er him or Bristol. That her said _ husband told her she was very foolish for so doin, from the manner i n w hi c h t h e said Quamina had suddenly gone away, th ere was no say i ng b ut t h at he might be also en gaged in th e revo l t ; an d t h at if that was the case, lie never wished to see hi m . Th at t hi s deponent then became alarme d, and might have t o ld th e li tt l e g i r l , Eli zabeth, who this depo nent knew had seen th e sa id Q uam i na i n her house that even ing that ,she w as n o t t o ment i on the circumstance, an d that if s h e did, s h e certa i n l y would whip her. That if t h is threat was made to th e sa id Eli za b et h b y her, this deponent. it was witho u t th e p r i v it y , consent, or knowledge of her said husband. Th a t thi s d eponent was conveyed to town the fol lowing day with h er sa id h us b an d , w i th whom she has remain ed ever since. f or that , (Signed) JANE SMITH. (Signed) JOHN MURRAY, Gov. Sec- POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW-STREET.--Mrs. H., a very smartly dressed woman- , was brought before the Magistrates on a peace warrant, char td with threatening to inflict bodily injury upon Miss Eliza H. h., - her reputed daughter-in-law. .It was stated by Miss K., who appeared to be a highly se- , complished young lady, that she had resided with Mr. H. from infancy, and until lately she always supposed him to be bet' father; but circumstances had occurred which induced her now to doubt upon the subject. She was educated in France, and until she came to reside in this country she knew but vet/ little of the English language ; but the knowledge which she had since acquired had led to a discovery to which the present com plaint was in her opinion to be attributed. Mr. H. some time ago married the defendant, and from that time her (Miss K.'e) home was no longer supportable. They were quarrelling in-. cessantly, and at length Mr. H. placed her in lodgings at the house of a Mr. Ritter, a German tailor, undertaking to pay for her board and lodging. A few days ago Mr. Ritter presented a bill to Mr. H. for certain extras that she bad been furnished with, and very shortly after Mrs. H. went CO her lodgings, and conducted herself with great violence, threatening to " tear her liver out," and making use of other declarations of such a nature as to excite serious apprehen sions in complainant's mind. The discovery to which, she had alluded was this : she once saw a document which she u nder , stood enough of to know that it was a will of her late mother, (who died when complainant was very young), in which pro perty was bequeathed to her, and Mr. H. was nominated trustee. She, of course, made no secret of this, and she attri buted the conduct of Mrs. H. to this circumstance. Mr. n• had repeatedly urged her to retire to a Covent in France, but she refused. Miss K. was entering further into this part a the subject, but she was stopped by the Magistrate, who 15 ; formed her that he had nothing to do with private matters of that kind—he could only take cognizance of the threats which she alleged that Mrs. H. had made use of. On the part of the defendant, it was declared that Miss K. was totally mistaken as to the Will of which she had spoken. —She was actually daughter of Mr. H. by a former marriage, and there was not the least foundation for the supposition which somehow or other had entered the mind of the complainant with respect to the supposed will. The Magistrate repeated that he h a d n o thi ng to d o w i t h t h at part of the case, and, after s om e c o n versa ti on , Mrs. H. was' held to bail to keep the peace. EXTRAORDIVARY PROCEEDING.-(Cork, April 90—During the proceedings in Court, this day, Mr. O'Connell came in, apparently much asto nished and irritated, and made his way through the gentlemen of the bar, up to the Judge, and in a hurried manner addressed his Lordship thus My Lord, I have to request your Lordship's attention--the unfortunate man who is to be ex ecuted to-sorrow is a Catholic, and.—." His Lordship said, "If your application, Mr- O'Connell, relates to that subject, I would suggest the propriety of having it private." Mr. O'Connell and his Lordship then conferred toge ther, and the Learned Gentleman soon Left the Court. We heard something relative to this matter whispered abroad, but we could not bring ourselves to believe what we heard ; we doubted that any one could seek to embitter the last moments of life. On inquiry, we have been assured that an order, issued by the High Sheriff, had been directed to the Governor of the gaol, directing him not to admit any clergy man to the criminal but the chaplain of the gaol. It is unnecessary for us to enter into a detail of the causes—we will merely say that the county' Chaplain appointed to that station is not ap proved of by him in whom the exclusive right of appointment ought to be vested—the Catholic Bishop of this diocese. We understand that the J u d ge , with a humanity becoming him, imme diately rescinded the order. We merely men tion this matter, to allay the very great excite ment raised in this city by this reported occur rence ; and if we have been in any way misin formed, it would give us infinite pleasure to be enabled to correct our statement.—(cork Mer cantile Advertiser.) EXPLOSION OF CAS. —Monday moring, (11th inst.) about ten o'clock, the family of Mr. CARROT., of capel street, was th r own into consid era bl e alarm by a quantity o f gas being ignit e d. The smell, d ur i ng the morning, had been so great as to cause an inspecti on of the pipes on the pre mises. A gentleman lodging in the House proceeded to the lower part to examine, and having unlocked the door of a cellar, the confined gas became ignited by means of a lighted candle which he carried in his hand. The flames burst through the top of the partition into an adjoining kitchen, tore away the ceiling, and forced off the door of a press. The gentleman who first discovered the origin of the mischief, has been severely burned. He acted most incautiously in bringing a light to the cellar before he allowed the gas to escape. It is to be hoped this accident will serve as a warning to others to be more careful. We are happy to say no other member of the family was injured.—( Dublin Frecman's Journal.) MARRIED. On the 10th inst., at St. George's, Hanover-square, William Turner, Esq., Secretary of Embassy to the Ottoman Porte, to Mary Anne, eldest daughter of John Mansfield, Esq., M.P., for Leicester. On Thursday, the 15th inst., at St. Margaret's Westminster Samuel Harper, jun. Lincoln's-inn, to Miss Fugion, of Pimlis:o, DIED. On the 27th ult., at Copenhagen, the 13th day after her accouchement, the Lady of Baron Nicotai, the Russian Mi-' nister at the Danish Court. The premature demise of this truly amiable and accomplished Lady (say the Copenhagen' papers) has caused a deep sensation of grief throughout the Danish capital. On the 12th inst. at his residence, Pardon-house, Newcastle upon-Tyne, John Stead, Esq. a ge d 67. H e was a kindhearted man, and by great industry and attention to commercial pur suits had acquired a considerable fortune. For many years he was the chief director in the extensive board and crown-glass works at the Ouseburn, (of which h e was a partner) carried on under the firm of Sir Matthew white Ridley, Bart. and Co. Oh the 15th inst. Mr. Hilton, formerly of Rutland-place, Upper Thames-street, aged 85 years. On the 14th inst. Mrs. Sarah Simpson, relict of the late Rev. Robert Simpson, D.D. many years Theological and Resident Tutor of the Hoxton Academy. On the 14th inst. at Earl's Coble Priory, Essex, inthe 90th year of his age, the Rer. Thom a s Carwardine, A.M.. Preben dary of St. Paul's, and Vicar of Earl's Colne. Printed and Published for the PROPRIETORS, at the Sus- OFFICE, 112, Strand, by J. B. CARSTAIRS.