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'FJIE LONDON JOURNALS. DAILY Eth.actgfrom the Morning Papers, Feb. 11,1825. [BRITISH PRESS.] The Parliamentary proceedings last night were of great interest in both houses ; but we have liow only space to advert to them very briefly. The Committee of Inquiry concerning the State of Ireland, appointed by the Lords last Session, was renewed, the Earl of Liverpool-stating, that his object was that the inquiry should be broad and comprehensive. In the House of Commons, Goulburn obtained leave to introduce the Bill for amending the existing laws relative to :)legal Associations in Ireland. This measure, the Rizht Hon. Gezi:leman stated, would extend to alt societies assuming to act for redress of grievances, all Committees of permanent dura tion, and all Associations formed to levy or col lect money. It will also include affiliated and corresponding Societies which refuse admission to any persons on account of their religious faith, or which are bound by any oaths not sanctioned by the laws of the country. Scientific, literary, :sad charitable Associations will be left un touched in their operation,and the ordinary mode of proceeding will be by indictment, though, in rases of vexatious prosecution, the right of in terference will be reserved for the Attorney- Cli , neral. The :%cts proposed to be amended are the Irish Convention Act of 1703, and the Act of 1523 - against Secret Societies. Mr. Aber cromby, Sir Henry Parnell, Mr. John Williams, and Mr. Denman, strongly opposed the intro duction of the Bill, which was supported by Mr. Leslie Foster and Mr. Secretary Peel. Mr. John Smith spoke early in the debate, but not decisively, With respect to the proposed measure. lie reserved himself - till he saw its provisions.— On the conclusion of Mr. Denman's speech, which was peculiarly vehement, the call foradjourn. merit was general from all parts of the House, and accordingly at a quarter past• two the re mainder of the debate was deferred till this evening. [MORNING NAT.] In the nonse of Commons last night, Mr. .i-oulburn proposed the measure of which he had :given notice for suppressing all improper and. .iangerous Associations in Ireland, and explained both the causes which rendered it necessary and ine nature of its provisions. Although it was the boast of the Catholic Association that all their proceedings were exposed to the eyes of the world, they little expected, prahably„ that the. ..ecret organization of the system by which they obtain their rent should be 'so fully displayed as it was by the Right lion. Secretary. lie showed that it was still more obnoxious than the Rent itself. There were officers and inferiOr officers 11 depending on one another,- and exhibiting a machinery which might be applied to the most dangerous purposes. lie also proved that the conduct of the Association", in the prosecution of alleged offences, had been more unjust than that of any Body of a similar nature by which it had been preceded. With respect to the Bill which he meant to introduce, it went to amend two Acts—one passed in 1793 by the Irish Pairlia ment, and called the Convention Act—the other passed the year before last, for putting down Se cret Societies in Ireland. As the most-objection able features of the Catholic Association were the permanency of its sittings, and its obtaining Rent, the Bill contained provisions to prohibit perma nency and the levying of funds in the manner in which it had been done. It also provided more effectually apinst the evasion or substitu tion of oaths, so as to defeat all the attempts of those who sought to maintain secret Societies in defiance of the law. After having brought forward many strong arguments to establish the necessity of the measure, the Right Honourable Gentleman admitted the fol lowing., which appears to us unanswerable. Ile called upon the House to consider the actual di lemma in which they stood upon this, ques.tion. If they refused to put down the Catholic A-so ciation, he told them they must consent to the establishment of a counteracting Society of Pro testants and Orangemen. Thus there. would he two Parliaments in that distracted Country—a Popish Parliament, and a.Protestant Parliament, each exercising the functions of Government, and shaping their hostile course to the destruction of each other. The embarrassments and perplexing evils which would flow from so outrageous a state of affairs, would amount to a complete stoppage of the intercourse of society. The Catholic As sociation had created the necessity for their own dissolution, and afforded a complete justification for the measure. After a debate protracted till two o'clock this morning, in the course of which Mr. Secretary Peel made a forcible and eloquent speech in support of the Bill, the further discus sion was adjourned on his motion to this day. In the House of Lords the Earl of Liverpool moved " that a Select Committee be appointed to inquire into the State of Ireland, more particularly with respect to those circumstan , :es which may have led to disturbances in that part of . the United Kingdom." The motion was adopted unani mously. [rnF. TIMES] Mr. Goulburn, it appears from ourseport of last night's proceedings in the house of Com mons, opened his plan of warfare against the Irish Associations, Orange as well as Catholic. — Since, however, the Right lion. Gentleman re serviqi for a future period all details of the in tended Bill itself, we can form no . judgment of its spirit or efficacy but from the imperfect light aff)rded us through the official and somewhat meagre statement of its objects. From these we learn, that self-constituted assemblies are not to be considered permanent, and that they are not to levy or receive contribuitions. So much for the Catholi, side of the question. The Bill is to operate against the Orangmen, by supp ress i ng affiliated societies, and b y making it illegal to take the oaths of allegiance and supremacy be fore a Magistrate . (this . being the device by which the Orange faction kept their bands to gether after the Bill of 18:29., against secret oaths Gad been eaacto), except in cases where such oaths are enjoined by the Legislature. These, we apprehend, are the principal objects unfolded by the Secretary for Ireland, on moving for leave to bring in his Bill; offences against which are to he proceeded against by indictinent,under the authority of the Law Officers of the Crown. [NEW TIMES.] Mr. Goulburn's Bill, which was moved last night, will be found not to be directed against the Catholic AssociatiOn exclusively. It is neither the 'object nor the wish of Government to make itself a party to any invidious distinctions, where the injury to the community is equal : and by the injury to the community alone the degree of restraint imposed on individuals or associations must be determined. Generally speaking, there fore, all Societies in Ireland, which, assuming to act for redress of grievances, give themselves a permanent duration, and collect money to support such continuous establishment—all Societies which are affiliated or correspond with others taking oaths not authorised by law, or excluding per sons on account of their religious faith, will be reached, and controuled by the proposed law. — In putting down the Catholic Association alone, his Majesty's Ministers would have been support ed by at least nine-tenths of the population ; but when that measure is carried into effect with a manifest spirit of impartiality, when looking with an equal eye on the excesses of Cattolit and Protestant, the Legislature can truly say Tros, Tyriusve, mini nuilo discrimine agetur ; then the appropriation must be as nearly as pos sible unanirnous.—The Eloile labours very un successfully to defend the Catholic Association. This is natural. The bond of common faith must necessarily give a bias to the French Jour nalists in favour of a Society which assumes the name of Catholic, and of which he knows little beyond the name. Some of his reasonings, however, are curious enough. lie contends that the Bible Societies stand on the same footing as the Catholic Association, inasmuch as they receive pecuniary contributions. But the question is, what do they do with the money they receive ? Do they apply it to a political use ? No, they devote it solely to religious pur poses. Can any one say, that the purchase and distribution of Bibles bears the least analogy to' the institution of party prosecutions, the inter ference in private disputes, or the acting for redress of public grievances? The end and pur pose of the Society determines its real character; and, therefore, exceptions will, with great pro priety, be made in Mr. Goulburn's Bill, of So cieties manifestly devoted to innocent or laudable purposes, such as agriculture, trade, and charities. One word more—The care of Government to protect, as much as possible, the liberty of the subject, is sheNvn by the provision, that no per son charged with being a member of an illegal association shall be prosecuted otherwise than by indictment. The Bill, therefore, can never be made use of for purposes of vexation ; or, should such an attempt be made, the Attorney-General, by directing a noli prosequi, may protect the party accused from injustice. STILE PUBLIC LEDGER.] Letters were received yesterday from Leghorn to the 28th ult. They announce, on the autho rity of recent 'advice's from Zante, without mentioning however any (late, that order was entirely re-established in the-Morea, and that Colocotroni was obliged to surrender himself up to the Government, without being able to stipulate for his personal security. As this was his second offence, it was supposed that he would be left to the rigour of the law. One of his chief partizans (Sicini), who had escaped to Zante, had nearly fallen a victim to the indignation of the Islanders, but was saved by the timely interposition of the English Autho rities, who had placed.him in the Lazaretto, for; the purpose of subtracting him from the resent- 1 ment of the inhabitants. We mentioned on a former occasion the arrival in the same island of Longos, another principal conspirator ; and we now learn, from these letters, that he had first tried to tint: a place of refuge at Alissolonghi.— Before he thought proper to trust his person to the Governor (Mavrocordato), he sent to make inquiries whether he could land in safety. The answer was, that he might land, but that his .safety would depend on the Government of the Mores, to whom, if they were to make the de mand, he should be given up. After this answer, he did not think it prudent to follow his original intention, but proceeded to Zante, as we have al ready noticed. The overthrow of this formidable conspiracy shews that the Greeks have as little to dread from domestic tyranny as from open hostility ; and indeed their factions, by keeping their energies constantly alive, have had only the effect of consolidating their cause. [MORNING CfiIiONICLE:3 We have received the Etoile of Wednesday, and the other Paris Paper for Tuesday. We are not a little amused with a controversy between the Constitutionnel and the Etoile, on the subject of the British recognition of South America, in which the former Paper triumph antly cites from Mr. Canning's speech, in the discussion on the Address, a passage, in which the Foreign Secretary is made to assert, that the Power which first recognizes the inde pendence of South America must necessarily gain advantages over .the others. The French are a very clever people, and a very diligent people, and we are therefore surprised that they should have such difficulty in discovering the meaning of what they undertake to translate. Mr. Canning was at particular pains to disclaim all at tempts to obtain preferences and undue advan tag,es. " Spain," he said, " has been told for years, that if she would take the precedence in this act of grace, Great Britain would he content to follow at a humble distance, giving her all the advantage of priority in the markets of her Co lonies. She has refused our offer, and though we go alone in this recognition, we scorn to take any separate advantage. in every treaty we have negotiated with the Independent 'States, so far from selling our recognition for a price, w e de manded only to be placed where those IA ho chose to follow us should stand upon equal terms at our side." We will allow of controversies re-' specting the meaning of Hebrew or Chaldaic writers, but we protest against the embroiling the Grande Nation in a controversy respecting the extent in which it has been cheated by our great Statesman, when his language was as clear as the English language would allow it to be. LMORNING HERALD.] Ireland has been for centuries a standing sub ject of experiment to political doctors of various systems, and as various qualifications. It would seem as if they thought they might try their hands feeely upon the patient, like the doctors, who, falling in with the unknown and half de funct body of the poor French grammarian in a hospital, 'whispered to each other experiamur in corpore viii. This latter patient demurred in their own language, " non tarn vile, doctissinzi quoniam," &c., and he was spared. But Ireland—if this personification may be allowed in speaking of a country where the figures of rhetoric are of a familiar growth— bore every operation—not very patiently, it is true—and appeared the worse for it. In the last twenty years there have been nearly as many Lords Lieutenant and Chief Secretaries practising in couples, and of these no two couples pursuing the same principles. Take the four latest on the list, including the present, Messrs. Pole, Peel, Grant, and Goulburn, and no one who knows any thing of the individuals, or of the country in question, will deny for an instant the discrepancies between them. At length, how ever, there is something like improvement—there is the authority of the King's Speech for assum ing that Ireland is tranquil. Tranquillity in Ire land, however, is a thing so strange—so like that suspension of, or deviation from, the ordi nary course of nature, which is called a miracle, that people in this incredulous ade are slow of believing it, or they regard it as the Pagans did what they called a prodigy—the sign of approach ing evil. But admitting even that the tranquillity is neither unnatural not delusive, there is still another mischief—the credit of the cure, instead of being left to the regular practice of the Lord Lieutenant and Chief Secre tary, is claimed by a mere quack without diplonza—the Catholic Association. Whether this Le so or not we will not stop to inquire. The question here is the health and safety of the people. Mr. O'Connell and the Catholic Asso ciation may die, and even he forgotten, but " the people are eternal." But assuming for a moment, without asserting, that the tranquillity of the Irish is produced by the Association, is there no consolatory, encouraging, and beneficial infer ence to be drawn from this ? Leaving out of the question altogether the views and characters of the Association, personal and political, what is the ostensible process publicly taken by them in their appeals to, and their connection with, the Catholic, or great mass of the population ? It is simply holding out to them the se curity of an impartial administration of the laws as they exist, and the promise or the hope of admission to the entire protection and privileges of the Constitution. Surely a people which can be diverted from riot, anarchy, and crime by considerations so perfectly and com mendably legitimate as these, is capable of being brought, and speedily brought, within the unity and integrity of the Empire, instead of the pre sent existing relation,discord, division, and eccen tricity. Now,if this course, pursued by the Catho lic Association—which has but little authority, still less stability, and no power, has pro duced tranquillity, how much more efficacious would it prove if adopted by the Government —or, it may be called, by the State, and how easily might the Catholics be thus taken out of the hands of the Association, and brought within the circle of their natural allegiance ? 1 t would seem as if the Government thought it a point of dignity to put down this Association. But the very inequality of the parties is a reason why the higher and the stronger may compromise its dignity, and even its power. There are, no doubt, those in the Cabinet whoare competent and expel t in the fram ing of an Act of Parliament; but a very inferior degree of invention and sagacity will suffice to evade one, especially where the ground is so wide and the object so volatile. How, for ex ample, is it possible to prevent men from meeting and talking, and publishing this " talk," if they think proper, in the newspapers (always sup posing that they talk within the law), unless there be an end put to the freedom of meeting, the freedom of speech, and the freedom of the press ? Again, how is it possible to prevent peo ple from voluntarily subscribing their money, for an avowed purpose, however indiscreet, or even injurious if it be, as it may be, legal—from sub. scribing, suppose, avowedly to pay Cobbett for travestying the History of the Reformation—with out assuming a controul over individual disposal of property, fit only to be exercised over Turks and Russians. Possibly legal ingenuity may do this. But if there should be a failure, what a spectacle, the Catholic Association, and the •Government — the former baffling, -like the Silenus of the poet, the toils thrown around it ; by the evanescent versatility of its forms ; unless indeed, like the personage just mentioned in the eclogue, he should be overtaken drunk—a supposition, it must be allowed, not quite so violently improbable in Ireland as elsewhere. FOR THE SUN. LANDSMANNSCHAFTEN. MR. EDlTOR—Whoever has travelled through any of the University towns in Germany, cannot but have been struck with the appearance of the students. They appear, what it seems they feel a strong inclination to be, quite a race by them selves. Their appearance is neither gentlemanly nor classical, nor is it academical ; but seems intended to set at defiance all idea of elegance or of gentility. It is, however, strongly charac teristic of the , youths themselves. The Burschen, which is the name they adopt, enjoys every possible liberty. They live where they please, and how they please ; and the only restraints upon them are, au entire subjection to the University discipline, which they do not much regard, and an attendance at the lectures, which there is no one appointed to see carried into effect; but those who do attend, behave for that space of time with a degree of decorum which forms a striking contrast with their belia viour out of the lecture room. But once out of this room, then the Burchen shows himself, such as be delights to appear in the eyes of the towns people, or Philistines. The mornings are spent in duelling, for duels are numerous ; the middle of the day in renouncing, or any thing that will make people stare at them, and in arranging the duels of the ensuing morning ; and the evenings are devoted to the various houses, where they smoke, drink beer, and sing songs, breathing only the spirit of liberty, until long after mid night. In these carousals, they fancy themselves the worthy representatives of the true German character, and either execrate the Holy or swear to accomplish the long w ished - for re- , generation of their native land. In all their songs, however, though there are frequent de clamations about patriotism and liberty, no al lusion is ever made as to any particular plan, or any individual government. Disgusting as such a mode of life really is, and injurious as it must prove to the youths them selves, it is not this that renders them dangerous to the peace of society. There exists amongst the youths of each University, an esprit du corps, which is rendered extremely alarming, by ex tending throughout all the Universities of Ger many, which are thus united by a powerful hand into one solid mass. This it is that has given birth to the spirit of insubordination that has oc casionally broke forth with singular violence. This union is dangerous, because, while it adopts as a maxim the more determined spirit of oppo sition to all constraint and discipline, it possesses, by its various and extensive ramifications, an in trinsic force of union sufficient to give effect to this opposition. This association is known under the name of Landsmannschaften, which signifies literally countrymunship. Those, in each Uni versity, are associations of students, formed in direct opposition to the laws of the Univer sity, for the purpose of accomplishing any purpose that may enter into their heads, and it is thought also for the more important one of propagati►►g wild political theories, and of preparing some great political revolution. These associations have each a President, a Secretary and Council lor, which we together styled the Convent of the Landsmannschaft, and by which the funds, and all the business of the association are managed.— The Presidents of all the Landsmannschaften, from what is termed the Senior Convent, are to decide what concerns the whole body, and to enforce a due observance of the established rules of the society. Though both these tribunals are known to meet often and re gularly, yet the utmost vigilance on the part of the Police, has never been able to detect them. It is only by the riotous and general opposition to any new measure determined upon by the Senate of the University, that the professor discovers the active operations of this body, but they can neither discover what youths are members of the society, nor detect the meetings of the leading members. If Governments have thought it necessary openly to attack this association, it has only con cealed its march with the greater secrecy. As the Bunsche considers fidelity to his society to be his first duty, he scruples not to sacrifice every principle of honour, to promote its interest. Thus, in some of the Universities, it is enacted that every student when called before the Senate to be examined concerning the society, leaves to be a member, and may co nsequently assert that he belongs to no such institution: while in others such an inquiry is considered as in itself dissolving the body, until the inquiry is over ; thus enabling each member to swear that he is ignorant of the existence of such an association ! In some, when the student is admitted into the Society, he gives his word of honour that he will omit nothing that lies in his power publicly to discredit the ex istence of this, of which he then becomes a mem ber ! The promise, exacted in some places, that the student will not enter into the Association, has been declared by the Code of Leipsic, which is printed, to be made null and void, or those who exact it, are threatened with punishment ! There are a small number of youths who con scientiously refuse to join this society, but wretched is the life they are doomed to lead ! insulted whenever an occasion offers, they are banished from every place of entertainment fre quented by the adepts. Nor can the wretched wild ones, as they are termed, hope for redress or protection for any attempt to do so, infallably of the whole body. Thus exposed to hourly mortifications, and treated like miserable gobeurluticergal'sy down upon him the overwhelming yen sts, many are compelled to seek the protec tion of a Landsmanschaft, and become what they denominate a Renouncer. But even then, they are considered as mere dependants upon the pro tection of the Society, but are denied the most enviable privileges of the Burschen. The sentiments awakened In the breast of many German youth during the campaigns of 1813 and 1814, nearly proved fatal to the Landsmannschaf ten. Some of the leading heads at Jena proposed its abolition, which was eventually voted, and ;mother society, founded upon more civilized prin ciples.has been established under the new and ap propriate name of Burschenschaften, since it was to comprehend all the Burschen of Germany. it was at the same time agreed to form one suprely.e Council of Delegates from all the Universities, ' n order to cement the union, and to give more energy to its proceedings. This, by a wakeifin 4 the fears of the Government, proved the coos' of its ruin. The organization of this immeas e body was considered as indicative of a secret Plu d i ' to undermine the existing order of thing,; if it be recollected that nearly ten thousand 0 0 ' ruly and rash young men spread over the w bn te face of Germany, were thus united into one body: and about to obey one head, the fear of the power can scarcely be considered as wholly ch i; merical. The Burschenschaft was abolished, bn nosooner was this done than the Landsmannscha ft en rose again into existence, and with it all the and riotous proceedings which had disappear e during the short-lived existence of its succ es „ sor, again became in vogue among the Burschen' Whether this Society will prove eventually troublesome to the Holy Allies, time a lone ( 9 " show. Certain it is, that the principles which tll students imitate at the University are not at a! calculated to render them the submissive vass als ' of arbitrary power. Because no effect has Y et been visible in Germany, it is supposed 03t when the student leaves the University, he aban' dons all his Burschen notions. This is, at bes t ' a hazardous opinion. Germany has, at all tittl es ' been the country of secret associations. I h e associations, necessarily, ever worked in tn e t dark, and in our days, when the hand of RoY a authority is comparatively strong, all plans for a ' ' ed against it, require time and patience to bri n g them to maturity. In fine, it is sca r cely re a p sonable to suppose, that youths trained up hate and despis e th e au th or ity of th e i r p ro fessor s ; will feel inclin e d t o b ow down w ith cornple t submission to that of th e ir Sovereign. A . l'' SPORTING INT ELLIG ENC E. STATE OF THE ODDS.-- ,ETTING-ROOM, FEB.IO 17 to agst Muleteer 9 to 1 awt Rufus 12 to 1 agst Bolero 15 to I agst Phantom c., darn by Rubens 17 to 1 agst Webb colt BY. 11 to 2 agst Mine 9 to 1 agst Tontine 9 to 1 agst Sorcery DONCASTER 18 to 1 agst Advance 23 to 1 agst Legacy 24 to 1 agst Defiance 30 to 1 agst Macduff 40 to 1 agst Cain. i 7 to 2 agst Memnon 12 to 1 agst Cleveland 15 to 1 agst Redgauntlet 28 to 1 agst Androgeus 10 to 1 agst Attica 11 to 1 agst Pptinie. ST. LEGER. 30 to 1 agst Cow-boy 35 to 1 agst Dare Devil .50 to 1 agst Cain 100 to 1 agst Alandane. MURDER OF MAJOR CHAMPION.--- - We la t el y mentioned that this officer was shot at Kingston, St. Vincents, by a private of the name of Ballarty. We have now to state that the criminal has since been tried and executed. EXTRAORDINARY ESCAPE. Thursday last, James Lestar, the youngest Q t . the three lads who were lately apprehended f or ro bbing a chant's shop in Sanquhar,. effected his escape from the 13 11 `,,, well attached to the gaol here, in a manner that rivals the e" ploits of the famous Baron Trenk. First, he burst open ."4 main force the door of his night or :sleeping cell, anal hanis thus found access to one of the day rooms, he squeeze(' $ body through the iron bars of a grating scarcely four an e d half inches wide, and decended head or feet foremost--T t thi g or covered, into the chapel, or centr a l p ar t o f the huilt e % —a height of about 12 or 13 feet. As silence was a n e 'vt sary part of his plan, he took especial care to alight on a blan which he had previously dropped into the area below, and net ascending the pulpit stair, he attached the blanket to a sle rl ,l l , cord used for pulling down the window—lowered the sa t ' h i climbed to the top, tos s ed the cord and its a pp e ndage to outside, and partly by trusting to the slender support the 04. afibrded him, and partly by pressing his knees against the s'i lP , o landed on a stair-case two goodly stories beneath. Still lie l o ft within the " the four walls" of the prison, and his next eslyo was to ascend the stair that l ea d s to th e street, and whic h o f strongly secured by two doors, the one of iron and the othe r t, wood, driven fall of ponderous nails. The first is surrunlino ed by a revolving chevaux de frile, and here again hems" 0 excellent use of his blanket, by wrapping it round the l e ugly-looking machine, in such a manner as to sheath its sln die and impede its motion. This done, he vaulted nimbly t°. se il top, and by some means, which we cannot , comprehend• p°i, h e himself upon an axle of rusty spears, which seems liable t° put in motion by the weight of a feather. But still 10 P c s i ," s t was incomplete. Above the lintel of the outer door, an t he d i e least four a nd a h a lf f ee t high e r th a n th e i ro n guardl c.v inner one ( e ven coun tin g p er p e ndic u l ar ly,) a ro w of P' are inserted in the wall, in a slanting direction, and °n t o p these it was necessary to seize before be could re a ch the ad of a parapet, still several feet overheard. But he, w1 1 °, 1 , - er done so much, was willing and able to essay more ; stl°' o f spring and the pike was seized—another pull and exertio%o the muscles, and he was fairly on the summit of the Pr'' e s wall,..from which the descent, though 11 or 12 feet, is by tn, e 7 - d ie of a lamp-post comparatively easy. And a ll thi s l ie acconlln i ;lo ed. The pike he hung by is strongly bent, while the wall o t ee ",: side bears strong marks of the pressure of his feet and la I , v , and, indeed, the wonder is, th a t he was not impal e d on the f i ` i ve vanz-de ; frise,oz: dashed to pieces on the granite stair below have ourselves examined the whole scene of these exploits. to , we must say that every step of the lad's progress seemed raculous-in the extreme.. .To all appearance, the bars of it, Bridewell grating would do little more than admit a cat ; a 54 t ile ref can scarcely scale the, window above the pulpit, while t iti tiny. cord suspended from the top hardly seems fitted to sv; o the weight of an ordinary infant.. Again, the scaling iron door, the muffling of the iron pikes, with the power eV i t 'i necessary to lift a lad of fifteen up a perpendicular heig",l4 fi , ,e feet, imply so much danger and difficulty, that we wf ti s; really have laughed in any man's face that would have Klue a priori, that such things were possihle. As yet no trace ° g t i s , culprit has been found, though a reward is offered by the i" gistrates for his apprehension.—(Duetfries Courier. ) BURY, FEB. 6. NATIONAL SCHOOL.—On Sunday last, on 9/ 1; propriate discourse was preached at Woodbridge Church'iot the Rev. W. Strong, i%I.A. of Peterborough, for the b ell c v of the National School, wh en upwards of 301. were collecto Some time since a man was cutting chaff at Linton, in.' e pt , folk, having in his pocket a 101. note, which, by some acelt„ol , slipped into the box and w a s cut to pieces. A young lAa l ' t ot that town, with infinite pains collected the fragments, thereby enabled the man to recover the value of the note. A couple of villains, whose respectable ape ance renders them unsuspected, have lately bee practising an artful and cruel species of robb er y They are accustomed to visit various A lmshou se e under colour of being employed by the trus t % to inspect the buildings, for the purpose uf i tt ir certaining what repairs may be needful ; an d e the course of their pretended examinations, take an opportunity of stealinc , any little valu aw o article which may come in their way. Soru e . c i the aged tenants of the benevolent retreats O l d i e these wretches have visited with this infamous 0 , sign, have formerly occupied respectable stati c ' in life, and probably retain a few relics of vo lli , At the Almshouses, near Shoreditch church , oe , poor old woman lost a watch, and another Ore o silver spoons. Similar depredations were C ° mitted in the Borough and elsewhere. It w °ll j be highly gratifying to see these survuors stli v ing at the bar of a Court of Justice. BIRTHS. At Paris, on the 2d inst., Mrs. Henry Robinson, of a 5° , 1 . 1 ; 4 1 On the Bth inst., sirs. Whalley, of Aldgate I' street, of a daughter. MARRIED. James Capel, jun., Esq., of the Coal Exchange, Tl l3 , i i t i street, to Mary Ann, only da u ght er of t!.e late Mr. Ral o l of the Old Bailey, and niece to William Bury, Esq., Fire-office. DIED. On Sunday evening, the 6th inst., at Hammersmith, ag William Day, Esq.., of Newgate-street. On Wednesday,,the 9th inst., at Barnwell-castle, Nortbeo l tonshire, aged 80, Mrs. Oddie, wife of Henry H. Oddie , On the 10th inst., at Bermondsey, in her 82d year, DY wife of George Choumert, Esq. f 111 On the 9th inst., aged 1 5, Elizabeth, second daughter of William Dawson, Piccadilly. Printed and Published for the PROPRIETORS, at the - OFFIc, No. 112, Strand, by J. B. CARSTAIES•