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such-rapid and continued accessions to the rattober of eatolidates for labour preclude the pos aihility of answerina the demand for employmeot; hat the scanty and iojadicioos preparations for the voyage, the crowded and dirty state of the ahips, «onbining with the change of climate (though the e!tmate of this Country is itself healthy), prove the causes of 'much debility and disease among the Emigrants ; that the death of individuals throws whole families opts') the Public ; that shipwreck, with all it 9 accompaniments of loss and hardship, occasionally completes the catalogue of evils ; and that, especially as the winter closes in, the inha bitants of this City have upon their hands an ac cumulation of misery and distress, for which they are without means to provide an adequate remedy. It has, in fact, been found necessary hat e, independently of all the other public and pri vate charity extended to settlers, to open a tem porary asylum expressly for destitute stranger- ; a great part of which is occupied as an hospital, tviivre at this date there are between 70 and SO peients. And lisd not his Grate the late Gover nor-io-Chief, with his wonted benevolence, per mitted the use of some empty buildings belonging to Government, and provided the attendance of the Medical Statf, with certain other advantages, it would have been found impossible to afford even the degree of relief which has been given. Tile next object of this Address is to request that steps may be taken to circulate the requisite information among the lower classes at home, and especially in Ireland ; in order that it may be ge nt rally understood : I tinder What circumstances they may be war rantably encouraged to emigrate. 2. Limier what circumstances they ought to be deterred from the attempt. 3. What knowledge ought to be possessed, what rule, are to be followed, and what plans avoided, by those who do emigrate. The Society therefore beg leave to state :heir opinion, that persons with families, possessing a sufficient sum to support them for one year after their arrival in this country,—or single men, with II provision something less, who are able-bodied, and either expert in agriculture, or masters of any of the common mechanical trades—provided they are of steady, correct, industrious habits, and of enterprising characters, may fairly be encouraged to transfer their homes to this country, and to expect a better fortune than is likely to await them by any opening presented in their own. In many cases, it would he highly useful, if the funds of the Society could be made capable of rendering some degree of assistance to persons of this description. But with respect to persons differently situated, and of a different stamp—persons who abandon their homes in a vague expectation of relief from change, because they are not thriving where they are, and who land upon these shores in a desti tute condition, and without energy to struggle with difficulties, the Sudety can promise them ot;ly disappointment and increased misery : and Hie case is daily to be witnessed, of those who have been lured hither by false and interested representations, but whose wish and prayer, upon their very arrival, is to obtain the means of re turoiog. The Society have actually, in some in stances, been obliged to employ their funds in sending back deluded and helpless beings who had severed themselves from all the dependence which they could count upon for support in this world. It appears also, from the public Papers, that considerable numbers of those who have emi• grated to the United States are straining their ex 'Roisted means to return. It is very important to impress the convic , ion, that there are three arti cles of expense absolutely necessary to the pre servation of life itself in this climate, of which a notch inferior provision will answer the purposes of existence in alter's; the articles, namely, of clothing, tnel, and a compact lodging ; to which it must be added, that there are various sources of employment for the poor, connected with buss b indry and navigation, which' are wholly suspend ed during a Canadian winter, lite cases, however, of those who arrive in this Country in a forlorn and distressed condition, are infinitely multiplied by the want of information under which the parties act. The season at which the vessel sails, and the port to which she is bound, as its situation respects their ulterior pro gress, are two points of considerable moment. It might to be their endeavour to have before them, as much as possible, upon their arrival, the open portion of the year. And it is a very common circumstance, that Emigrants are brought here, whose destination is in some part of the United States, or of the British Provinces of - Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, where they have particular inducements to g' ; to gain which points from Quebec, is pet haps a matter of much greater diffi culty and expellee, than to go direct to them from Great Britain or Ireland. Several women, with families, coming lately to join their husbands at the points above•mentioned, have been led to suppose, that their object would be as readily at tained by taking a passage to Quebec, which they have reached without the means of proceeding farther. It is essential, therefore, that persons emigrat ing to Ametica should be furnished with some de gree of geographical information. And it they itesitate under what Government to place them selves in this quarter of the globe, it may be very honestly recommended to them, to forbear from changing masters. Of those who have recently made their election in the United States, it is a fact personally known to Members of the Society, that large numbers have found their advantage in resuming:their allegiance, and have made appli cation Aro the British Consul at New York, for aid to effect a removal into Upper Canada ; prac tic,i4 disproving an opinion, uhich has a pretty general influente, as to the superior inducements of Foreign America. With respect to that frequent separation of fa milies which has been adverted to—the husband, or Ihe father, coming alone to try the country, .nil sending afterwards for his household, or per haps returning to fetch them out, the Society can by no means recommend this experiment, unless - lite parties are so situated, that a considerable ori.sent sacrifice will not eventually distress them. - Not only is much time lost, perhaps at a season which renders it highly valuable--not only is the eidiculty and expence attending a removal across the -sees inevitably - increased by 11)4 practice— but it constantly happens, that the family, upon their arrival at Quebec, are utterly at a loss to trace the person whom they have come to seek; and there are some instances within the know ledge of the Society, where the hope of doing to seems almost gone. It might be productive of incalculable benefit ,to the cause of Emigration, if certain Associations were formed in different places at home, composed 'of intelligent and benevolent individuals, who world open a correspondence with the Society here, and furnish information to the parties upon the spot. The materials for such Associations exist abundantly in Great Britain and Ireland ; arid the Quebec Emigr an t s ' S oc i e ty entertain a confi dent hope, that neither the distince - at which they act, nor the inferiority of their own pretensions, will cause their appeal to be disregarded, or de prive them of that encouragement and assistance 1%11 ich they anxiously solicit. They trust that they are engaged in a good work, and in the pro secution of their endeavours they look to the co operation of good wen, and the blessing of God above. NATHANIEL ATCHESON, Esq. Great Winchester. street, London, hai been requested to communi chic with his Majesty's Government upon the sub ject of this Address, and to receive communica tions from individuals at home. The Lord Bishop will receive those addressed to Quebec. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. NOVEL CASE. MANSION-Hot/so —Captain Cuthhertson, of a merchantman in the Thames, summoned a lighter man named Bourne, before the LORD MAYOR yesterday, under the following peculiar circum stances : The Captain, said that during the late very incle ment weather he was lying blocked up by the ice in the Thames. When the frost began to break Lip, and the ice and snow drifted with irresistible force, he was compelled to cut away his a►►- chor, slip Lis cable, and run down the River.— In the interim, before he brought to again, his anchor, &c. had been hauled up by time defendant, and for which he claimed a com pensation of 251., and refused to deliver up the property until that sum was paid. fie (the com plainant) resisted this upon the grounds, first, that he had not employed time defendant to do the la bour ; and next, that if he had even done so, the charge was enormous. The defendant, in reply, said, that -the charge was not only not enormous, but most reasonable. The anchor of the complainant, together with many others, had got bedded in the river, and the labour to raise them was indescribable. The an chor, also, and the apparatus of the Captain, was greater in magnitude titan the others, and the task was of course the more formidable. The weight of the anchor was 1004 lbs., the cable was from 60 to 70 fathoms in length, and the chain 60 fathoms. The allowance for labour of this description also was in general estimated by the value, and one third was uniformly paid. Here the anchor and apparatus were at least worth 120/., and his legal demand therefore might have been for 401. Mr. NELSON, the Deputy Water Bailiff, being in the Justice Room, the LORD MAYOR consulted with him, and he confitmed the account given by the d, Adant of an allowance of one third being paid for such labour as had been done by him. The LORD MAvoit, under these circumstances, thought the demand of 251. just and reasonable, and dismissed the complaint of the Captain. Bourne then declared that he would keep the anchor until paid; or, if the Captainshose, he was ready to meet him in a Court of Law. OUTRAGE AT TIDE LONDON-WALL INSTITUTION. GUILDHALL.-John Canning, an Irish labourer, was yesterday brought to the Office, upon a cha rge exhibited against him by Duncan CarupbeH, Esq. of the tollowing nature : Mr, Campbell .stated, that he was one of the Committee for " Affording Temporary Relief and Shelter to the Homeless and Destitute," at . London-wall. On Tuesday evening, between nine and ten o'clock, while the Committee were engaged in relieving the poor applicants, the prisoner, at the head of about 150 others, burst in the doors, and caused a great riot and confu. sion. Large sums of money were lying upon the tables, and fearing an attack on these, witness rushed forward, and with a stick beat off the fore most of the inn - micro. The prisoner received some more severe blows than he (Mr. Campbell) could have wished to inflict, but the dread of los ing the money, and the fact of having discovered two notorious pickpockets secreted in the room where the money lay, justified him, he thought, in resisting the outrage and intrusion of so large a body of persons. He did not attribute any dis honest motive to the prisoner, and he would not shrink from the investigation if the latter thought he bad behaved illegally or cruel towards him. The Magistrate (Alderman Tuoat.) thought the conduct of Mr. Campbell not only justifiable but even laudable. H. Willis said, he was door-keeper at the In stitution on the occasion in question. It was the rule not to suffer more than three persons to enter the room for relief at any one time. Ou Tuesday evening this order was broken with great violence, and the prisoner and about 150 others overpower ed him and rushed in. Mr. Campbell said, he did not seek the punish ment of the poor man. He had already suffered a good deal in the loss of his relief . money, his supper, and a good lodging. All be had got for his imprudence was a night's imprisonment. The disorder, however, of which he (Mr. C.) com plained, was of such a nature, that if not checked, the objects of the charity must be defeated. The prisoner said he was a poor labourer, hav• ing a wife and four children dependent upon hint, and he had been wi►hout employment since Christ mas. He declared his innocence, and said Ile Was shoved in by other persons. The Magistrate regretted the imprudence which had led him to so much suffering and imprison ment, and hoped he would learn to conduct him self better. Mr. Campbell and the other bunirine Gentlemen assisting him, ought to be protected in the great good they were doing, and be would advise them to apply to the Lord Mayor, as head of the Institution, for his aid and advice.—The prisoner was discharged. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, JAN. 2G. 'rite Court was occupied the whole of the day in hearing further arguments in the case of the Marquess of Townshend v. the Bishop of Nor wich. It was not fini.died, and we therefore think it better to give an outline of the whole when - the parties have been heard. The point is one of very great importance, in so far as the duties of trustees under a will are concerned, and particularly where there were several church livings in the ifr of the testator. Mr. Wetherell was heard this day for nearly three hours, and Was followed by junior Counsel. The Attorney- Genet al, Messrs. Hart, Shadwell, &c. have yet to be heard. The CHANcOLLoR rose at half•past three. He gives judgment in Bryant v Bryant on Friday, and in several other bankrupt cases. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JAN. 26. THE KING V. JOHN ARCHER BORRON, ESQ. It will be recollected that in last Term a rule shew cause why a criminal information should lot be filed was obtained at the instanceof Charles l'earcon, Gent. an Attorney of this Court, against he Defendant, a Magistrate of the County of Lancaster, acting for the Warrington division, for corruptly refusing, as was alleged, to take the depositions of certain witnesses, against a member of the Manchester Yeomanry, charged with felo niously cutting and maiming tile accusers, after the transactions which occurred at Manchester on the 16th day of August. The circumstances of the case were then fully discussed, and report ed, in this Paper ; and the Court having taken time to consider of their judgment, The CHIEF JUSTICE, at the sitting of the Court tl►is morning, read the written opinion of the Coors ; but as the Learned Judge was not audible in many parts of the opinion delivered, we Can not attempt any thing like a detailed account of whet his Lordship read. Much encomium was passed upon the Magistracy of the whole king dom for their integrity and learning, and the de fendant was described as a gentleman entitled to his spate of time eulogium. On the other hand, the conduct of Mr. Pearson, the solicitor, was condemned, in his having used the language of peremptory demand and menace i❑ requiring the defendant to discharge his magisterial duti,s.— His Lordship declared it to be the opinion of the Court, that an attorney ,had no right to act in the manner suggested to have been that of Mr. Pearson, in having remonstrated with the defen dant—that an attorney had no right to be present in the justice-room of a Magistrate—that his be ing allowed to be present was mere matter of courtesy—and that, at all events, he was not to be - pertnitted to comment upon tl►e conduct of a Justice. The threats held out to the defendant were such to which he, as an honourable man, ought not to submit ; and the Court could not forbear expressing their disapprobation of the language imputed to Mr. Pearson. On the whole, the Court, being of opinion that nothing like a corrupt motive being imputable to the defendant, and that under the critical and delicate circun►- stances in which he was placed, he had acted with correctness, the result was, that there was HO 'pretence for a criminal information, and con frequently that the rule must be discharged laid Costs. THE KING V. PARKINS AND OTHERS. This case, which, it will be recollected, is a rule nisi for a criminal information against the defend ants, for an alleged interruption of the proceed ings at the last election for a Lord Mayor at Guildhall, stood in the peremptory psper for ar gument this day, and 'fire SOLICITOR•GRNERAL, for the Crown, hav ing applied to the Court td fix a day for the argu ment, in consequence of the voluminous affidavits on both sides, and Counsel being separately em ployed for each defendant, . _ The COURT - Was of opinion, that in the present state of the business of the Court, the case must come on in its turf). Mr. H. Hunt was present, and warmly..ob jected to any postponement, disclaiming, on his part, any connexion with the other defendants. Mr. Alderman %Vaithman, M. P., one of the defendants was also in Court, but eventually the case was not called on, as the other business oc cupied the Court until its rising at four o'clock. THE KING V. HUNT, JOHNSON, AND OTHERS. Mr. CHITTY was asked, whether he was pre pared to'resume his motion made yesterday in tliis case; but answering that he was not yet fur. nished with the necessary affidavits, the case stool! over. THE KING V. WEDDERBURNE. On the motion of Mr. LITTLEDALI3, this de fendant was brought up to plead to an indict ment, charging him with uttering certain• blas phemous expressions at a chapel in Berwick street, Soho, wherein he was a preacher; tending to impugn the Christian Religion. The indict ment contained seven counts. The defendant being called upon for his plea, said be was a foreigner, and admitting that some of the words imputed to him had been uttered by hint, desired to know, whether, if he could prove on his trial that the Bible contained lies, he should be exempted from criminal Time COURT said they could answer no such question. He was only now .called upon to plead. The defendant said, that in pursuance of the advice he had received, he should plead Not Guilty, which he did accordingly, and received notice that he would s be tried at the Sittings after this present Tern). CONSISTORY COURT, DOCTORS' COMMONS. CORFIRLD V. CORFIRLD. This was a suit for restitution ot conjugal rights, by the wife ot a respectable solicitor carrying on business at.the east end, and residing tat the west end Of tl►e town. The wife, it appea••ed, shortly after their voluntary separation, was delivered of male child, of which the husband disputed the legitin►acy,having previously put in a negative plea generally, as to the fact of the marriage. t w►s BOW alleged on the part of the husband, that this plea bad been put in merely for delay, in order to give time for negotiating compromise; but tbse now he admitted the marriage. Dr. LUSIIINGTON observed, the mode of de'. fence resorted to in this case was quite unjust' liable, as it went to deprive the wife of alimony , she having received only 100 t. since the suit cow' menced ; and the Bishop of Carlisle, who per' formed the ceremony, being about to be exit' mined, the object was to prevent and shut out: this evidence. The Court gave leave to examine the Bishop. THE PATENT THEATRES AGAINST THE ROYAL CO• BOURG THEATRE. (Before the Sitting Magistrates at Union-Hall.) WARD 4. T. GLOSSOP. Yesterday being the day appointed by adjourn' meta to hear the information, at the instance of the Secretary of the Drury-lane Theatre Commit' tee, for penalties against Mr. Glossop, the Pro.! prietor of the Royal Cobourg Theatre, for in.' fringing his License, by enacting at that Theatre a modified performance of the tragedy of Richard 111., the defendant, attended by his Counsel, Mr. Adolphus and Mr. Dowling, appeared before the Sitting Magisti aces for the purpose of meeting the charge, when it was discovered that the informa tion bad been withdrawn without any reason as- signed. The Informer's Counsel, Messrs. F. Poumcfc and Mr. Tuaritea, were nor in attendance, but his Solicitor, Mr. 13u EIGESS, appeared, and stated his regret that the Learned Counsel on the other side should have had the trouble of attending as notice has been sent to Messrs. Rogers and Soo, the Solicitors for Mr. Glossop, that the informa tion had been withdrawn, and that it would be unnecessary for them to appear pursuant to the adjournment. M r . Apo',rims and Mr. DowLING urged, that the cireutiwanee of such notice having been se.ut, was no reason why they should not appear pur suant to the adjournment, the,object of which ap pearance was to meet the informarion if it can't! be sustained, and it not, to have a verdict of0;r -j quittal recorded. They complained in strong terms of the uncandid n►anner in which the intor- , mation had been withdrawn during the interval Of an adjournment, --the necessary inference from which was, that the parties at whose instance the information was lodged, were conscious of the in justice and unpopularity of the step they had taken, so prejudicial to tl►e interests of Mr. Glossop. The defendant having appeared to the information, he was entitled to have an acquittal entered upon the record, and they now pr4ed that the information might be dismissed, es the prosecutor did not think proper to come forward. The Sitting Magistrates said, they conlit have nothing to say to the business, inasmuch as the information had been wholly withdrawn mt . Tues- day. and as there was nothing upon which they could proceed, the presence of the Learned Coun sel was quite unnecessary. It was the ordinary and every day's practice to lodge informations under Penal Statutes, and withdraw them at the will of the parties prosectoing. Such, was the present instance, and there was no precedent which justified the defendant in having an acquit tal recorded. In fuel, there was no iniormatiou now beim e the Court. Mr. ADOLPHUS anti Mr. HOWLING reprobated the practice alluded to, as highly injurious to the character of persons who might he subject to nin licions and nutotinded accusations. In the present instance, Mr. Glossop had been subjected to a charge highly injurious to his property--he had appeared to the charge with a manful deteimina tionof meeting it, and after the expence, incon venience, and trouble, to which he bad been put, be had much reason to complain of the uncandid course which the business bad taken. The Magistrates repeated what the practice of )e office was, and that they had now no intorma on More them on which they could act, one way or the other. Mr. IItraGESS, the Solicitor, then lodged ano ther information of the like nature, but contain— ing other allegations, and it is understood that the case will come on for argument on Wednes day the 9th ot February. The Counsel and the parties then retired. The office WAS crowded to excess by persons anxious to hear the decision of a cue' in which the public feeling is so much interested. SUICIDE PREVENTED.—Yesterday morning, be tween the hours of nine and ten o'cl(Sek, a young man of gentlemanly appearance was observed walking on Hackney Downs, wi , h his hands clasped together, and Isis eyes fixed as if in deep thought, when two men were determined to watch his movements. They followed him nearly an hour, when the unhappy man arrived at a lonely spot, and, casting his eyes ai omit!, fell on his knees, and offered up a prayer ; he then untied his neck•handkerchiet, and, taking a razor iron his pocket, applied it to Isis throat, but the two men rushed forward, and prevented him from corn mitring the rash act. Upon his being questioned, he sa id hi s Dame was Beverley, that he lived with his friends at Abingdon ; and, from his incolio rent statement, he appeared to have been disap• pointed in marriage. COAL AIARK ET, JAN. 2G. Ships at Marliet. Ships sold. Prices. 79+ tivwcastltt 0 Soodedand 0 BI RTI I. On Tuesday last, in Hos Aland-street, Fitzroy-square, the Lady of Mr. Benjamin Goode of a son. ~1A1;Itl1;.r~ ` On Tuesday last, at Allhallows Staining., Mark-lane, Was Heittlicote, Esq. of Muunt-pleasant, l'uttenham, to ,Mils Stet laud, of PI ED Yesterday, at his house, in Rutland-place, Mr. John Pearson, aged 455. Orr the 25tli instant, at his son's house, Sloane-street, at the advanced age of 83, Charles Dick,Esq. heir to the title of Braid. LONDON: Priiited by.). B. C.-kIISTAIRS, of No. 29, Great Ori»oncl-street, Queen-square; and published by W. A. SCRIPPS, of No. 7, Smith Alolton-street , at THE SUN Office, No. 115., Strand ; where Advertisements, Orders, Letters, Cte. (post-paid) athirst be addresSvd. Chu lion and to ti td t C, Nor SI Nor St apd PI ift e Pa,ks Coa c Zol I , ', re Alori vcr% Lai Fl l any 111 0; ,, len s , at l's:; sid, Li Arl Wz,