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TUE LONDON JOURNALS. DAILY Extrurtlfrom the Morning Pnpers,Marchl2,l 525. ['EM PUBLIC r.EncEn.] Letters were received yesterday from Malta, dated the 12th of February, which are only in teresting, as they confirm the intelligence we had obtained, through other channels, of the re-esta blishment of tranquillity in the Morea. They also mention a circumstance, for which we had been prepared, namely, that the Greek Govern men't has become more formidable to the factious, in consequence of the promptitude and firm ness it displayed in suppressing the criminal proceedings or Colocotroni. The Turkish gar rison of Patras has been the first to feel the 'consequences of the additional impulse imparted to the measures of the Executive Body —the blockade having assumed a character of -vigilance it never presented before ; and it was expected, with the utmost confidence, that the Greeks would obtain possession of this important place before they entered on a new campaign against the Turks. The fulfilment of this hope is the more important, as, besides giving them a place of great strength in case of danger, it would enable them to turn their whole strength against the enemy, should he attempt another invasion, which, to judge from the naval and military events of last year, we look upon as improbable to the last degree. At that time, the Porte had strained every nerve, and had the cor dial co-operation of the Viceroy of Egypt, in order to make success certain by sea and land. \Ve know the results of these extra ordinary efforts, and, with what a comparatively trifling loss to the'Greeks, they were baffled by this brave people. This war, it should be recol lected, is a war of religion, as well as a contest for social existence ; and if the enthusiasm, which the latter sentiment engenders, were even to ex pire, the religious antipathy would still inspire the Greeks with the inextinguishable zeal of martyrs. Without taking these double motives into consi tfer:ition, it is not possible to appreciate justly the energies of which that people are capable, or their chances of ultimate success. Moreover they have the great advantage over their enemies, that the improvements made in the military art are open to them; whereas the Turk is blind to them all ; and as the war lasts this distinction will be the more marked. We feel very little alarm there fore at the accounts in the German Papers, of the redoubled exertions which the Porte is making :VA year. They speak of five armies that are to P•rouqht into the field, which, we know, make ;e ridable appearance on paper than in reality. One is to consist wholly of Albanians; butwhat is said of another people, may be more properly said of this—point d'argent, point de Suisse ; and we wish to know , where the Porte, with its repeated depreciations of the currency, and its other financial shifts, is to get the money to tempt those mercenaries. As to the other armies or hordes that are alluded to, we can only say of them, that they will be ineffec tive in proportion to their numbers, the Porte disdaining the use of a Commissariat and maga zines. These large masses, when they first move, are irresistible ; but, like a fire, having consumed every thing they meet in, their way, they expire at last from mere exhaustion. We have seen the illustration of this in their last invasion of the Mores, where they perished almost to a man by disease and hunger, after having apparently sub jugated it ; and, out of an army of 50,000 men who had entered it, not 5000 men were alive at the end of three months. The same fate would attend any future attempts, from the causes alone that we have stated. [THE TIMES.] The Worcester Journal contains the following paragraph : " THE ASSESSED TAXES.—it is very generally supposed that Ministers will not consent to the repeal of the Assessed Taxes, ; but that immediately previous to the dissolution of Par: Lament they will repeal the Window-tax ; thereby putting John . Bull in good humour at a very critical moment." I (this paragraph he correct, it seems the people are to he burdened with an oppressive tax for au other_Year, merely because it does not suit the convenience of Ministers to dissolve the Parlia ment-immediately after the present Session. Next year,when they must of necessity appeal to the na tion, they will be graciously pleased to repeal this odious tax, by way of courting popular favour ; and John Bull, ever credulous and forgiving, is ex-' pectedto forget that he has been compelled to bear an unnecessary grievance, for no other rea son than because it was not commodious to the Chancellor of the Exchequer to relieve him soonsr.. It may be a very clever and ingenious expedient to persuade the good people of Eng -lan4 that they ought to be very grateful for a Savour unnecessarily delayed—for a concession which might have been made a year sooner withput any detriment .to the public service, and which is withheld,, notwithstanding the popular importunity, because the Cabinet can ,rely on the popular placability. This may be good policy ; but really the Chancellor of Exchequer and his friends should not take such large credit for candour and frankness as they so constantly do! We know it is very easy to use the people, when in tolerable humour, as if they were mere playthings; and it has tong been an established. nriaxim. with Cabi nets to act upon the knowledge of that possibility. Bat looking at the speeches, and we may add the general character, of the present Finance Minister, we had entertained a hope that he was disposed to treat his fellow-subjects with the respect' due to rational beings, and to meet their just petitions, not with fair words and ..ilattering promises, but by the immediate grant-of every request not in cterssistent With the general welfare. • [narrisn ettEss.] The Paris Papers of Wednesday contain no thing .of much interest to the Fuglish public. The' discussion of the Law of Indemnity is not conletded - , but it is no longer calculated to ex cite seven, the. slightest sensation of curiosity in this country. The amendments debated . an Tues day related merely to the details of execution. Six articles composing the first title of the law have been adopted. The Chamber had begut3 the consideration of the second title, regulating the admission of claimants to the indemnity, and the mode of its liquidation. The Papers either dare not, or do not choose to say any thing on this subject. The King of Spain, it appears, is busy with his Ministers respecting the New American States and his finances, but nothing is known as to what passes. One act of retributive justice at least has been performed : the Presi dent of the Tribunal of Purification has been himself exiled. This is somewhat like the burn ing of an Inquisitor-General. Nobody can pity the sufferer. Ferdinand is endeavouring to or ganize an army. He should first provide funds for main tai fling it. He may purify theservice as he can ; but while he cannot secure the fidelity of his sol i diery by paying them regularly, he will always be in danger of revolutionary movements amongst them. Quiroga was the very officer who brought him the dispatches announcing the failure of Lacy's revolt, and Iturbide commanded the Royalist fokces with which the insurrection of the Mexican patriot, Ilidalgo, was suppressed. So much are men the creatures of circumstances, and so little can their abstract principles be relied upon for the guidance of their practical course! The Illoniteur of Wednesday contains, in the official part, only an ordinance of the King relative to the duties to be levied o❑ the Canals of Orleans and Loin;. - [MORNING HERALD.] We are glad that, at length, the Civic Body are beginning to take up the subject of Com panies. In our yesterday's paper we gave a speech of Mr. Waithman's, with regard to the Equitable Loan Company. He mentioned a curious circumstance, but we should hope that the worthy Alderman had been misinformed. He said that out of the twenty Members of the House of Commons, who were now sitting in a Committee on the merits of the Equitable Loan Company—eleven were interested in the mea sure itself.—Some French writer—we believe it was Montesquieu, said that if ever the British Parliament became corrupt—the far-famed British Constitution would become extinct, and that then England would follow the fate of all other nations, and sink into insignificance. We hope such a period as that described by Montes quieu is far off ; but we do not like to hear that a measure should be referred to a Committee of twenty Members of our House of Commons, and that 11 out of the 20 should be interested in the very measure referred for the Committee to report on. But the worthy Alderman must have been misinformed. We hope, however, that inquiry may be made into the matter when the Report comes down. Mr. Robertson too, in his place on Thursday night, said that there were hundreds of thousands of shares in these new Companies reserved for Members of Parliament. We hope that Alderman Waldman will not stop at this Equitable Loan Company, but that he will get hold of the prospectues of all the new Companies, and whenever they deserve exposure, we hope that he will expose them. It redounds very much to the credit of the present Lord I\iayor that he resigned the shares put on one side for him in the Equitable Company, and that he refused to become one of its Directors, and that he also, refused to become a Director in other Companies. We should like Mr. Waith man to exhibit in the Common Hall a few of the Solicitors' bills who have the working of Com panies. INIEW TIMES] Much business was gone through in the House of Commons last night, and much desultory con versation took place on a variety of topics, al though there was no lengthened debate.—Mr. Calvert presented a petition from a number of inhabitants in the neighbourhood of St. Cathe rine's Docks, against that new undertaking, which again led to some discussion as to Members who are interested in Private Bills taking any share in the proceedings of the Committees, and Mr. Huskisson, with those clear and compre hensive views which he possesses on every sub ject of which he treats, made it obvious to the House, that the Members for inland counties are as much interested in the prosperity of the trade of London, as any citizen of the metropolis is in terested in it. In the Committee of Supply, Mr. Hume inquired when the Report of the Commis sioners sent to the Cape of Good Hope might be expected ? and was answered by Mr. W. Horton, who assured the Committee that the Commis sioners were most actively engaged in their in vestigations ; and that as to the conduct of the Governor of that. Colony, if the Honour able Member chose to bring forward any specific motion regarding it, he would be fairly met by his Majesty's Government. On the question of a grant of 45,0001. to de fray the expences incurred by our endea vours to abolish the Slave Trade, Mr. Buxton inveighed in severe terms against the baseness and perfidiousness of some of the Continental Powers, iu violating as they have done the trea ties they had entered into for the suppression of that odious traffic, more especially of the French Government, which has, we fear, but too well merited the bitter censure the Honourable Member pronounced upon it. In our intel ligence from the City will be found a letter which gives some information respecting this infamous trade, and if the details are cor rect, no language is strong enough to express the abhorrence- every one must feel. It is not for us to say where the blame lies, and who among the French authorities are the most deeply implicated ; but disgrace and infamy must rest somewhere. The thing, if not en-, couraged, is at any rate permitted, and the Bour bons ought at least to have learned one lesson from adversity, and feel compassion for human. misery.=Mr. Martin's Bill against cruelty to animals, we regret to say, was thrown out, there being, on a division against the Bill, 50 ; in its favour 32.—Majority against the Bill, 18. [monsixo rosT.] We were the first to intimate, after Sir Franci. Burdett's motion relative to the Roinan Catholic Claims was carried, that the great question in volved in that proceeding might now be expected to receive more consideration than heretofore, with a view to some practicable arrangement. — Others have since enlarged upon this hint, until at present very general and sanguine hopes are entertained on the subject. We still, however, see a mass of difficulties to be overcome. In the first place, will it satisfy the Papists, and will it conse quently tranquillize Ireland, if any thing short of a full participation (so far as regards eligibility), in all the offices, honours, and emoluments of the State,were conceded to that Body? And then comes the important question, can that full participa tion in all those essential privileges and concerns of the Constitution be granted without sapping the foundation of every thing free, great, and glorious, in the history of the country—an ex clusively Protestant Government in Church and State ? With regard to the former, what ob ject can there be for conceding an iota of the claims advanced by the Roman Catho lics but to terminate their notorious dis contents, or, we might say, disaffection, and if possible amalgamate them by force of reason and natural feeling, in concord and peace ful allegiance with the rest of his Majesty's sub jects. We are convinced, however, that this ob ject can never be attained by partial concessions. On the contrary, every civil privilege conferred short of the whole, is so much additional power conferred to extort the rest, and with that power must be combined a proportionate aggrava tion of discontent at the remaining disabi lities. The obvious result of such a mode of proceeding would he to embroil the United King dom more than ever. Let the Papists into Corpo rations and into Parliament, as well as into all the intermediate institutions of the Realm, and at the same time exclude them from all the higher objects of ambition, and what must follow ? That every one of those Institutions will be kept in eternal distraction by the intrigues and the clamour of the Papists respecting their " griev ances," and their inability to reach the higher objects of ambition. Now their complaints are general, and made in their isolated character as a distinct class of the community ; but then we should hear the welkin ring with brOken and discordant cries for redress from every parti cular body and place in the Empire. See the dilemma—seethe danger into which such a course would lead. To grant the Papists eligibility to minor offices, and withhold their appointment to those offices, would be mockery—it is what no honest - Ministry could harbour a. thought of. — Shall we then pursue a policy which would ren der it imperative to nominate persons avowedly discontented or disaffected, on account of their remaining exclusions, to places of trust and emo lument ? And yet, if we say, that the absurdity as well as peril cannot be avoided, if the Ca tholic Claims be but partially conceded. How would the same cause operate in Parliament, or at least in the House of Commons ? Unquestiona bly, that every Papist Member would place himself in constant and determined opposition on all points to a Ministry which refused to grant him a right to office. Nature, interest, every thing, wourd compel him to act thus ; and who would have'the real welfare of the State so trifled with—who would have the best and dearest ob- jects of a wise Goverement so sacrificed ? In this way, one of two things would be inevitable— either the Papists would turn out the Ministry, or the Ministry, after a useless and exasperating struggle, would let in the Papists. Such is not the course which either wisdom or policy would dictate ; and we therefore hope to hear no more of so impolitic and dangerous an expedient. [MORNING CHRONICLE.] Mr. Peel opposed the second reading of Mr. Martin's Bill, as he did not see upon what ground monkeys and badgers and bears were entitled to a distinct legislative enactment for their protec tion, while other animals were excepted, merely because Country Gentlemen took a pleasure in hunting them. " Let them for a moment," he said, " compare hear-baiting with stag-hunt ing, and they would find that the former ani mal had a considerable advantage." We believe that the practices of bear-baiting, cock-throwing, cock-fighting, and the fighting of dogs, monkeys and badgers, are now comparatively rare in this country. The people have left them off because they ceased to have attractions for them. In towns these fights are very rare, and even in the country villages in most districts of the Island they are getting fast out of repute. Cock-fight ing and badger-fighting were a favourite amusement in the place where the writer of this passed his boyhood, but they are now utterly unknown there. A legislative enactment to put them down would, in all probability, have had an effect quite contrary from that t% hich the Legislature intended, just as the Act to compel the Highlanders to wear breeches served only to prolong their attachment to a dress, of all others the most unsuited to a cold northern climate, and which was adopted at first to make a dress to fit the lower part of the body, exceeds the ingenuity of a savage. And here it seems to us, that Sir J. Mackintosh might have suspected from his own statement with respect to gaining, that rooted habits are not to be changed by Legis lation ; while, on the other hand, the change pro duced by the diffusion of education and enlightened principles, renders Legislation unnecssary. When we first alluded to Mr. Martin's statement respect ing Dr. Magendie, we observed, that " no man of any humanity would wish to see an animal sub jected to unnecessary pain ; but when the alter native is human or brute suffering, we would cer tainly prefer the latter, on the principle that every thing that lives is sacrificed without hesitation when it contributeste our existence."—We added, that we deemed it very unfair on the part of Mr. Martin to attempt to influence the public against a scientific gentleman of the first eminence, because " without presuming to determine whether the experiments of the Professor (Ma gendie) are or are not judiciously conducted with a view to the a d vancement o f science, we thi nk we may venture to observe, that the Country Gentlemen a re not likety to settle this Auebtion in a satisfacto r y manner ." We are happy to find Sir J. M ac ki ntos h, though he adv ocates Mr. Martin's Bill, t a k es th e same view with respect . to experimenti ng on animals. " ho could say where scientific discoveries should stop ? and if they could not be limited, and it was desirable they should not, experiments founded with a view to beneficial scientific results might be permitted, although they could not be permitted without the infliction of pain on the animals. From the responsibility of the obloquy of supporting such experiments he should not shrink; for he thought that they would be the means of advancing science ; and though he must acknowledge that the means were harsh, he thought it could not be denied that the results were beneficial." -After paying the highest compliments to Pro fessor. Magendie, he observed, " he did not think such a subject could properly be made the ground of legislative enactments, but must be left to the humanity and feeling of the inen of science engaged -in performing the experiments." — As we have already observed, it is to edu cation, and not legislation, that we must look for a change in the habits of a people. To take as a case in point, the barbarous,and savage practice of hunting, which yet retains its hold on a tolerably large class (certainly not the most enlightened), could not, we believe, be put easily down by legislative enactment, supposing Country 'Squires to have no power in framing the laws. The time will come, however, we have no doubt, when people will look back to the practices of the Country 'Squires of the present day mil h as much astonishment as we look back to the painting of the bodies of our ancestors. They will be amused to hear a man like Sir F. Burdett, himself a sportsman, eulogizing his fa vout ite amusement, because, forsooth, though cruel, iCis healthful, and condemning a bullock hunter, though to him the pursuit is no doubt equally invigorating. THE LATE MR. BELZONI.-The following is a copy of the last letter which was received from this highly lamented individual. It was written the day before he died, and the sentiments which it contains are alike honourable to himself and to those who survive him. It is dated at Gato, in the kingdom of Benin, Dec. 2, 1823, and ad dressed to Mr. BRIGGS, formerly his Majesty's Consul at Alexandria, and now of the firm of BaiGas and Co. Gould-square, London : " My dear, dear Sir, and true Friend.—God has pleased that I should not survive to see my friends again ; a violent attack of dysentery has brought me to the hour of death. All I can say is, that I am fully resigned to my fate, and I beg pardon of any one I may happen to have offended in my past life, begging their prayers for my next. All the travelling apparatus will be carried to Liverpool, by the brig Castor, now in the river Benin, I believe belonging to Mr. Bold of that place. The next is what I feel most deep in my heart ; console my dear Sarah ; tell her I cannot write to her—she has been to me a faithful and good wife upwards of twenty years. I die at last a beggar ; and if my friends should agree to do any thing for her and my family, 1 wish it to be divided between my wife and my mother. God bless you, my good Sir ; may he reward you for all your`goodness unto me. Your's most truly, G. BELzoNi." ST. PAUL'S.—In digging the foundation for the rebuilding of this cathedral it was discovered be neath the graves, that the foundation of the old church rested on a layer of hard and close pot earth. Curiosity led Sir C. WHEN to search fur titer. He found, that on the north side it was 6 feet thick, that it grew thinner towards the south, and on the decline of the hill was scarcely 4. Onadvan cing farther,he met with nothing but loose sand; at length he came to water and sand mixed with periwinkles and other sea-shells ; and, by bor_ ing, came at last to the beach, and under that the natural hard clay, which evinced that the sea had once occupied the space on which St. Paul's now stands. It was the opinion of our great architect, that all the space between Camber well•hill and the hills of Essex had been a vast bay, at low water a sandy plain. ROBBERY BY A SERYANT.—On Thursday a girl named Mary Hutchinson, was charge before the Magistrates of Union-Hall, with having robbed her mistress of a great quantity of clothes. It appeared that the prisoner, who was in the service of a Mr 3. Peniston, a haberdasher in Blackfriars road, had become acquainted latterly with one of the thieves in Kent-street, who had made her a promise of marriage; and for the purpose of decking herself out on the bridal day, had burst open her mistress's drawers, out of which she took a vast quantity of very valuable clothes; the property was after wards discovered at a lodging, which she bad previously hired for concealment. A large bundle of the clothes was produced, and consisted of articles of finery, such as silk dresses, lace caps, &c. The prisoner was fully committed for trial. A gentleman has been in the neighbourhood of Montrose lately looking out for hunting quarters for Colonel GORDON, of Cairness. The habits of this celebrated character are no less remarkable than his disinterested generosity. He generally rises every morning at four o'clock, and remains in his library till eight. After breakfast he mounts his horse, and continues the chase generally till lour or five, when he spends the evening with a few friends. Independent of the personal exertions of the Colonel in behalf of the Greeks, he has presented them with no less than 20,0001. in aid of their cause.—(Montrose Review.) The congregation of Sleaford church on Sun day morning were surprised by a very audible forbidding of banns, by a buxom young woman from Swarby, whose ci devant sweetheart (assistant to a malster) was asked in church to another woman. The Minister parried the interruption by requesting her to attend in the vestry-room after divine service. The poor girl there stated her claims to the false swain, who had been unhappily too much favoured by her; but her objections were not held to be valid in law:—( Lincoln AJereury.) Another ghost is frightening the old women at Chelsea. It is described by one of the credulous sufferers from the alarm which it occasions, as " a tall figure in black, which in a few seconds becomes perfectly white." COURSE: OF EXCIIANGF., Nlarch 11. Anistetdant Ditto, at Sight...... Rotterdam Antwerp 1-lamtnii gli Altona Paris,3 Day's sight Ditto llottideans, ditto Berlin ...... • 7 5 Frankfort oti the Main Pelee shtirgli 9 0 Vienna Trieste 10 2 Madrid - . 36 i F. &el ive Cadiz Billma . '36f Effective Barcelona ieville Gibraltar 31 Leghorn 4i Gel t a 45 -Venice, Ital. Liv. '27 Nlalla ' -Naples 4O Palermo 119 per Os. Lisbon Oporto It io Janeiro Bahia publin .... 91 Oak ...... 9i pet Cent. BULLION. - Portugal Clol,l,iti Coin I .0 0 0 per Os. foreign Gold, *to Ii its :4 17 .9 N, w Doubloon, ....... , ..., 0 0 0 Nvw Dollari ............................ 0 4 101 Silvet Standard in /I,,r s , ANNIVERSARY MEETING of the CLERGY ORPHAN' SOCIETY, Held at Freemasons' Hall, on Tuesday 22d or February. Present, the Bishops of London, Chichester, Gloucester, Chester, Bath and Wells, Exeter, Landaff, Sa lisbury, Litchfield ; the two Lord Chief Justices of England, Mr. Justice Park, Mr. Justice Gaselee ; and above a hun dred other Governors, and Friends of the Charity. The usual business of the morning being ended, during which 14 Orphans of deceased necessitous Clergymen were elected into the excellent Male and Female Clergy Orphan Schools, at St. John's Wood, and a long list of new Subscribers, from District Committees of the Deanery of Storrington in Sus sex, and from Lincolnshire, was read by the Secretary ; the Company proceeded to the Hall at five o'clock. After the usual loyal toasts, the Bishop of Bath and Wells rose to propose the health of the Right Reverend President of the Society, the Lord Bishop of London ; and acknowledged—the obligations under which the Institution lay to the Right Re verend Prelate. The Bishop of LONDON expressed himself-hig,lily grati fied by the handsome terms in which his health has been pro posed, and the flattering manner in which it had been drank, His Lordship admitted that the Bishop of Bath and Wells had properly dwelt on the interest which he felt in the welfare of the establishment ; and declared that he should consider himself unworthy of the office which he held in the Church, if he did not feel such an interest in an Institution excellent in its object ; and so conducted as fully to satisfy the wishes of all who contributed to its support, and were anxious for its being rendered as beneficial as possible to the Orphans of the Clergy. His Lordship congratulated the meeting on the prosperous state of the schools, but claimed no merit to himself on that account, as it was owing to the vigilance and judgment of the Managing Committee, and the competency and exertions of the officers of the Institution ; to the increasing interest ex cited throughout the country in favour of the establishment ; and to the countenance afforded by such numerous and highly respectable Meetings as the present. Those . gentlemen who were present at the proceedings of the morning, would have heard with great pleasure that fresh sources of support were opened ; and that there was at length some prospect that their wishes might be realized, that the number of children' admitted into the Clergy Orphan Schools might be equal to the capacity of the building. A considerable contribution bad been received from the Archdeaconry of Lincoln ; and equal li berality had been displayed in the thirty parishes of the Deanry of Storrington, in Sussex, under the auspices of the excellent Prelate who presided over it; and as much might be expected from the Lewes Deanery Committee of this Society. From Buckinghamshire, also, considerable supplies might be antici pated, in consequence of the activity of the Clergy in that part of the Country. His Lordship earnestly requested the Gentle men present to exert themselves in making known, and pro moting, the interests and objects of the . Charity. The success which had already attended partial endeavours, was a strong indication, and the best pledge, that the friends of the Society would succeed upon a larger scale. To those among the Laity. who were then assembled from all parts of the country, his. Lordship presumed it would be unnecessary to expatiate on the benefits resulting from the Institution; inasmuch as it was to their conviction of its utility and importance, that the meeting was indebted for their company. It was due to the Master, and the Mistress, of the Clergy Orphan School, to r e p ea t w h a t h e had often before had the pleasure of expressing, that nothing could be more praiseworthy than, the care and attention bestowed by them on their charge : in these respects they had by no !nears fallen short, during the last year, of their former merit. His Lordship concluded, by proposing the health of their worthy Vice-President Lord Kenyon ; unfortunately obliged to be ab sent on account of ill health ; a Nobleman not less remarkable for his stedfast attachment to the Church, and zealous support of all its Institutions, than respectable in all the scenes of so cial life. The Bishop of LONDON neat proposed the health of the Stewards for the, day, and remarked that it was to the cir cumstance of some among them being of high" rank, and dig nity; and engaged, in consequence, by business which would not allow of their attendance ' • that the absence_ of so many of the number was to be attributed, especially in the case of Lord Liverpool, the Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge, the Lord Mayor of London, and the Dean of Christ Church ; the Bishop of Bangor was also absent from illness. Since the origin of the Clergy Orphan Society in 1749, when it emanated frau the SonS of the Clergy, who still continue its generous friends and patrons, no anniversary had equalled the present, whether as to increased funds, or the election of every little candidate, or the eminent talents and character of the Stewards, who were members of both of our Unive rs i t i es , and the largest company ever present at this Meetin g . The healths of the Stewards being then drank, the Lord Chi e f Just i ce BEST returned thanks for the honour done them; :u t h av i ng expressed his sense of the excellence of the Institution, an d hi s goo d wishes for its welfare, thus emphatically concluded If the Clergy' had exacted all that the law gave them, their children would n°; now be in a condition to require the assistance of thi s Ch ar ity. The Bishop of LONDON called th e a tt en ti on o f th e Needed to the claims of a kindred Charity, th e Co r p ora ti on o f th e Son; of the Clergy ; when the Lord Chief Justice A BBOTT returnee' thanks_as one of its members. The Bishop of LowDois" gave —" The two Universities , and then—" Success to the Clergy Orphan Corporation." His Lordship then proposed—" The Prospenty of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge • with thanks for the gra tuitous supplies of books furnished by it, from time to time, to the Clergy Orphan Schools." The Rev. Mr. Secretary PARKER returned thanks on behalf of the venerable Society—the honour and . ornament of the Church of England, and The active friend of all mankind ; and assured the Meeting that it was desirous of rendering every as sistance, and of seconding every exertion in favour of art lulu tution which so well deserved, the support of every Clergyman in the British dominions. The Bishop of BATH and WELLS begged leave to propose the Health of the four Judges who now honoured the Society with their company, and said that it was unnecessary to point out, that as religion is the foundation of law, and that law, in turn, lends her support to religion ; so the Judges of the land were always foremost in giving their personal aid and sanction to the institutions of the Church. Lord Chief-Justice ABBOTT acknowledged the truth of the Right Rev. Prelate's observation, and trusted that he and his brethren would always be found doing their best to maintain the union of the Church and the Law. The National Society was given by the Bishop of Lo;4nor.i and the Rev. Secretary, Dr. WALIVISLEY, in returning thanks for the honour conferred upon him, by associating his name with that of the Society, expressed himself happy to state that the National Society had been progressively increasing in the last thirteen years. That it had derived great aid from the King's letter, which had not only added considerably to the funds, but had made the objects of the Society more generalli known, and increased the demand for assistance to country schools. He was convinced that, if in the prosecution of this great work their funds should again be exhausted, the genera l sense of their beneficial application would secure their being again replenished. The Bishop of LONDON proposed the health of the Tres surers, Mr. Archdeacon Cambridge and Mr. Joshua Watson. The Archdeacon, returning thanks, expressedhimself much distressed and mortified at standing alone on that occasion, uo: accompanied by his brother Treasurer, whose ill health woul d not permit him to attend the dinner, though he had not .BhTunx from the business of the morning. Mr. Watson's absence* however, afforded him an opportunity which he had not befoll enjoyed, of speaking fully of the meritorious services rendere d by that gentleman to this Society, which, of all those he served so faithfully and effectually, he verily believed was his chief fa' vourite, because he thought he could not demonstrate his Ot; tachment to the Church more strongly, than by. protecting On educating the families of the deceased Clergy, whose sm.!' means have prevented their making any provision for ,theft" children. " The City of London and one of its Members present.'?` Mr. Wilson returned thanks. • After the regular toast, " May the Orphans of the Clete never want protectors, or the protected gratitude'." the compita retired. 0 The Schools are well deserving of examination, awl may •:A seen by applying to the Secretary, the lion.. and Rev. dwaT J. Turner, M.A., 30, Somerset-street, Portman-square; or t the Master or Mistress, St. John's Wood. • • . On the 11th inst., at Putney Mrs. Mosley Watts, of a'soll_,' MARRIED: Last September,. Dr. Scott, of Bedford-square, to Mar i " daughter of the late W. Willes, Esq. DIED. On the sth inst., Charles Broughton Shelton, eldest son of Wm. Shelton, Esq., of Mile.end, in the 17th year of his age. On the Bth inst.,.Mr. James Tomlins, of Westham-abbel' o f On the 26th ult., at Clifton, Thomas•Munkhou.se, E 54.9 Gloucester-place. fo On the 25th ult., at Brighton, Dr. Johannes Muller, late Christiana, Norway. 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