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'otter lay. t M. tag. give the it has to tents of ogress of refs to be ves made ate them • the era' rs of the nilucted• 'ketch in to fil l s. The positive , call the his right into, and sme aeta las give!' to strap acts lay vote are imissioa :onstitti . fulfil its on this 'ursuing lyse the ctionedt ✓ecutivs der the all the e have asking zuneutal • ion ever le to na UAS. MS. but let ;ten by ms the ions of traordi as. We on will in aoy Bruns ition by hag re- Oa of the rgh has patches r 6. 3 RE ' AND sidera of the ncil of we ea.. finer or ignio rnastyl raged, Led by of the ases be eption gatory ball in tran ►r dis , shall established and recognised as necessary for the salutary and effective conducting of the affsirs of . a Government con stituted as ours is. ," Understanding there is little probability of your ac cordance in the matters that are pending, under such cir cumstances I consider it my duty to relieve you from fur ther continuance in Session, that you may return to your homes to attend to your private concerns." (Signed) " MICHAEL WALLACE." After which the Assembly was prorogued to the Ist July next. It lately became our duty to call the attention of the public to a prosecution instituted by the Metropolitan Commissioners in Lunacy, against an Apothecary, for having signed a certificate thata woman was mad, without his having seen the individual. The circumstances, though said to be somewhat extraordinary, we fear are not of very uncommon occurrence, but respecting which we shall for the present content ourselves with makin g some few enquiries. Is not the woman in this case the wife of a gentleman's coachman, and was she not cook in the family ? Was not the certificate of insanity signed by two Apothecaries, co-partners, who attend the family? • Did not one of the co-partners sign the cer. tificate without seeing the woman, at the request of, the other who did ? Is not the woman SANE ? Is not the Apothecary who signed the cer tificate at the instance of his copartner, without seeing the woman, prosecuted at the instance of the Commissioners in Lunacy ?—and Is not the other Apothecary who having seen the woman, signed the certificate, and then pre vailed on his copartner to do the like, allowed to escape ? Does the law take no cognizance of such an of offence as conspiracy ? and do the Commissioners admit without an argument, that any couple of Mad Doctors, or even Apothecaries, who find it to their advantage to sign certificates of insanity, may legally incarcerate the sane subjects of the ICING at their discretion, if they but take the precaution first to see the victim The Police reports on Tuesday last contain a melancholy case of a respectable lady, who stated herself to be the wife of a gentleman, and the mother of ten children, saved from committing an act of self destruction by the Police, which she had been induced to contemplate, to avoid re turning to one of those abodes of wretchedness, a Mad-house, from which she had escaped, but who, during the time she was at the Police office, spoke in a perfectly rational manner, and exhibited no symptoms of insanity ! ! It would be assuming a great deal to assume that this unfortunate lady was, or ever had been, insane ; certainly an attempt to escape from, or a reluctance to return to, one of those abodes of misery, a lunatic receptacle, such as they have been proved to be, is no proof of insanity, what e'er the troop of Mad Doctors may say or swear On such a subject ; at any rate, under the present syste m , the public can have no satisfactory evi .denee t h at this unhappy person may not have been incarcerated on a certificate signed by Mad Doctoi.s, or some nameless Apothecary, without having been seen by either ; or, even if seen, that she even was otherwise than sane, if D octors are absolved from all responsibility, h owever false or corrupt their certificates, by Merely seeing the unfortunate beings they incar cerate. An advertisement obtained insertion in our columns of yesterday (which could hardly be considered serious on any other subject) for a ` Mad D octor ; or, as it is there expressed, a Scotch Doctor," though why this term should hav e been used we know not, as the highest medical talent has been frequently displayed by persons educated in Scotland, where it is gene rally admitted the opportunities of acquiring medical science are greater than in any other quarter of the United Kingdom. A Doctor, however, appears to be wanted in Ireland, as a partner, to conduct an old-established Lunatic Asylum, under the " new system." The advertisers state, " they can c l ear ly " shew the profit s will be six hundred per cent. without risk" —and " the Doctor " can have a horse to hunt two days in the " Week" I! ! It seems that Ireland is admitted 1 0 th e full benefit of the Union by Mad Doctors. We never doubted that the profits of this wretched t rade were enormous to those who condescended t o embark in it, but were never before admitted So fully into " the secrets of the prison house." Six hundred per cent. profit with out risk, and the Doctor may have a horse 1 0 hunt two days in the week ! !—and this is the new system! Really, these things would be past credence, if facts, shamelessly and al most daily exposed, did not place them beyond the possibility of being doubted. We scarcely dare trust ourselves to make observations, but we should ill discharge the duty we owe the Public, if we hesitated to aver that the empirical rac e of Mad Doctors and Receptacle-keepers are a disgrace to the honourable profession to which they impudently affect to ally themselves, --to.the nation that endures them,—to the Go vernment that permits them, and the system that generates them, to have an existence. THE ELDON TESTIMONIAL. A numerous meeting of the subscribers to the fund for Presenting to Lord Eldon a testiial for th service rendered by that Nobleman to the mon* country, was p held yes ter d,.. y at the Thatched House Tavern, St. James's. WThe Duke of RICHMOND, who took the Chair, stated uit was int en d e d to found a Scholarship for Oxford /1:°IA 411 the p rocee d s of the subscription, to be cal'ed after ldon, to be given to a student who intended to fol .,„"1 the law, in honour of the profession followed by the 4101)10 Earl. F rom a statement of the total of subscriptions, it ap peared that the amount received up to that day was 7.595/. 155.; from which was to be deducted 3461. 18s. for iminagettient, leaving an available balance of 7,2491. 17s. applicable to the purposes intended. A merits of-Resolutions were adopted ; and it was under stood that should the incretse of subsci iptions be sufficient, of anotherrent sh ou l d be provided for in the University We understand that Lord G. L ENNOX i s appointedLieutenant-Colonel of the Enniskillen Dragoons. This is the appointment which We announced some time l'kek as being about to take place--zw uhton Gazette. LAW INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DAY). COURT OF CHANCERY. TIPPER V. GLOVER. Mr. Parts stated an application had been made some time ago in this case to dissolve an injunction that bad been granted by the Court below. The parties were now very desirous of hearing his Lordship's judgment, his Lord ship at the time having said he would look at the papers. The LORD CEANCELLOR said he had read the bill and answer, and the affidavits it was proper for him to look at, long since ; and the perusal of those left not the slightest doubt on his mind that be ought not to alter the opinion he expressed at the time the case was argued, which was that the order should be discharged.—lnjunc tion dissolved. ROLLS COURT. The MASTER of the ROLLS on coming into Court this morning informed the Gentlemen at the Bar that it was his intention to sit on Saturday, as his presence was not required at the Privy Council on that day. ROBARTS V. JEFFItIES, The Court was occupied the 'whole morning with this part-heard cause, which was a bill filed fur the redemption of a mortgage. VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT. TYLER V. DRAYTON. The case of the plaintiff having been closed yesterday, . - Mr. HORNS addressed the Court on the part of the de fendant. The Learned Counsel began by stating, that though he was in point of fact Counsel for only one of the defendants (Mr. Drayton), yet the case of Mr. Serjeant Wilde was so interwoven and mixed up with that of Mr. Drayton, that it was impossible to argue one without the other. The Learned Solicitor-General and the gentlemen following on the same side bad been most lavish in calling this a case of collusion and fraud, epithets which were totally unwarranted in the present case. It was to be remembered that at the time this con tract was entered into, the title to the property, though perfectly clear now, was then in great obscurity and doubt, and that doubt was considerably in creased by the conspiracy (for he the Learned Coun sel could give it no other designation) of all Jenkins' relations to keep every clue to this properly in the dark. Their fraudulent conduct kept from the eyes of the defendants the interest which Jenkins had in this property, which his relatives were enjoying. This conduct it was that led the defendants to believe that, instead of an inte rest in possession, as it had turned out to he, the only interest which Jenkins had was a reversionary one. The contract would prove that such was the obscurity of the title, that if the parties had rested on that title, both Serjeant Wilde and Mr. Dray ton would have lost every farthing of their money ; what, he would ask, would have been said then, would it then have been called a case of fraud ? No, but the lawyer and auctioneer would have been laughed at for l i buying what was regularly called " a pi; in a poke," and that they were a couple of simpletons for their pains. As to the observations that had been so thoroughly urged with respect to Jenkins having no solicitor, it must be re membered that that was his own choice, he bad an aver sion to attornies, and said they would raise quibbles about nothing. The Learned Counsel commented strongly upon the evidence of the Quarter-master, considering it was fa bricated and incredible, and his conduct most disgrace ful,—so disgraceful that the Learned Counsel was thunder struck, to bear it said that men who stood so high as Serjeant Wilde and Mr. Drayton, were participators in it. Our Reporter left the Learned Gentleman addressing the Court. COURT OF KING'S BENCH. JUDGMENT.-THE PING V. BARNEY LENNA RD• The ATTORNEY-GENERAL prayed the judgment of the Court upon this defendant, who had been found guilty at the last assizes for the county of Lancaster, of assaulting some excise officers, and obstructing them in the execu tion of their duty. The defendant said he had ne affidavit, or Counsel to speak in mitigation of punishment: but he could assure the Court he was innocent of the charge upon which he bad been convicted ; that he was a hard-working man, his employment commencing at five o'clock in the morn ing, and not terminating until nine o'clock at night; and that he was only a lodger at the house where the officers found a private still. _ _ The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said he was at all times un willing to press for a heavy judgment upon persons in the defendant's station in life ; but the practice of obstructing Excise officers in the discharge of their duty had grown to such an alarming extent in Lancashire, particularly in the town of Manchester, that some check must be put to it. In that county (he was happy to say it was not general throughout the kingdom) it had become almo-t a matter of course when the Excise had discovered a private still, and took means to apprehend the parties carrying on the illegal traffic, for all the neighbours to rise up and as sault the Officers, and often succeeded in preventing them from doing their duty. He had thought it right to mention those facts, and he wished also publicly to state, that all such attempts in future would be repressed by lawful autho rity, and the parties brought to punishment. He did net press for a heavy judgment against the defendant, who he wished to inform the Court had already been in prison since the beginning of January. Mr. Justice BAYLEY, in passing judgment, told the de fendant there could he no doubt. from the evidence, that he had conducted himself in so outrageous a manner, that the lives of his -Majesty's subjects had been endangered.— It was his bounden duty, when he was taken into custody, to have gone quietly before a Magistrate; and then, if be could have established his inno cence, he would have been discharged ; but, instead of so doing, it appeared that he had kicked the officers in the stomach and other parts of their bodies in the most violent manner. The sentence cf the Court was, that he be imprisoned in Salford House of Correction, and kept to hard labour for the term of six months, and at the end of that time enter into his own recogniz ince of 401., to keep the peace for two years. The COUNT afterwards proceeded with the special paper. EXCHEQUER CHAMBER. BLAKE V. SMITH AND OTHERS. Mr. SIMPKINSON, t►t the sitting of the Court this morning applied upon motion for an mar on the part of the defendant Smith, to compel General Robert Dudley Blake, also one of the defendants, or his solicitor, to pay the hum of_ 121. 16s. 4d., the taxed costs of a motion made in this Court on the 22d of July, 11429, tvhich n►o- tion was refused with costs. The object of the present motion also was, to take the bill off the file, compelling General Blake, or his solicitor, to pay the taxed costs of the whole proceedings, or that all further proc,edings should be stayed. The present bill was filed without the authority of the plaintiff, he being total'y unable, from the state of his mind, being a lunatic, and having been so for upwards of twenty years, to give any such au thority. The mother of the plaintiff, and three of the defendants, died some time since, supposed to he intestate Shortly, however, after her death, a will was brought for ward by one of the defendants. By this will, Smith was appointed executor of her Ladyship, and he applied to the Ecclesiastical Court for probate of that will. General Blake opposed the application, alleging the will to be a forgery. After considerable argument, the Court de cided in favour of the will, granting the probate. On appeal to the Court of Delegates, the decision of the Prerogative Court was affirmed. The present bill was filed for an injunction, in order to restrain the executor from winding up the property during the pendance of an application for a Commission of Review, and also for the purpose of obtaining a receiver. The motion for the injunction was refused, and thus the present application became necessary. There could be no doubt that the object of the present bill was to vex and har rass ; and it was plain from the affidavit of Mr. Harrison, the defendant's solicitor, that she bill was the bill of the defendant, General Blake, and him alone. The reason for his not filing the bill himself must be apparent, he would then have had to pay the costs ; not content with this General Blake had actually filed a bill in the Court of Chancery against the executor, for the purpose of enforc ing the payment of a legacy under this very will, which he disputed in the Ecclesiastical Court. The LORD CHIEF BARON.—SO that he blows but here and cold there. Mr. SIMPKINSON.—Just so, and I have no doubt, (observed the Learned Counsel, after reading. several affi davit; in support of the motion, and one of the Solicitor of General Blake, in which he admitted that he had never seen the plaintiff and that his sole instructions proceeded from General Blake) that the Court, taking all the cir cumstances into consideration, will grant the prayer of my motion. The Lorn Cum' BARON wished to know from Mr. Jervis (the Counsel for the defendant) whether he had any objection to give security for the costs? Mr. JEftvls observed that that was not asked. The Loan CHIEF BARON—No ; but I ask it. After a few words from Mr. JERVIS on b,half of Gene ral Blake, The Loam CHIEF Dm-Lox said he thought security ought to be given for the costs ; if it was, then the pre sent motion was to be refused, and the costs in the cause. If such security was not given in the course of a fortnight, the further consideration of the motion must stand over, when his Lordship had very little doubt as to what ti 'result would be. RYE ELECTION.-(THIS DAY.) In consequence of some of the Members not being in attendance at tee usitJ time, the Committee could no proceed with business until half-past eleven o'clock. Lord ParmensTosr said, as it was probable the busi ness might occupy some days longer, he thought it would be better for the Committee to enter into a resolution, that in case any Member was not present within five minutes of eleven o'clock, be should submit to a fine. Mr. Hanmson thought it would be unnecessary. H e confidently expected that the labotirs of the Committee would terminate this evening. Mr. THESSICEIC resumed his summing up of the evi dence that had been adduced. The C o mmittee, in his opinion, never could sanction the extended right of voting set up by the other side. From the limited. number of freemen which appeared at all times to have existed, it was clear such an extension had never taken place. He also contended that the Court of King's Bench wa's the proper tribunal to decide the right of inhabitants to be admitted to this freedom, and not a Parliamentary Committee. That Court would enquire whether the parties had been guilty of negligence in demanding what they considered their rights, or whether they had, in any other wa y , for feited them ; in fact, a more rigid inquiry would there take place, than could, by possibility, he obtained in a Committee of the House of Commons. He therefore hoped the Committee would not come to a resolution that would, in all probability, be at variance with a decision in a Court of Law. Mr. ADAM then commenced his reply. He trusted the Committee would never sacrifice the powers they possessed out of deference to the opinion of any Court of Law. The Court of King's Bench had nothing whatever to do with the rights of election, it was a question purely for the consideration of a Parliamentary Committee. The Learned Counsel then went on to enforce the right of all the resi dent inhabitants of Rye to he admitted, after a residence of one year, to the freedom of that port, and as freemen, their right to vote for Members to nerve in Parliament. He had not concluded his address when our reporter left. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY. FROM LLOYD'S. DIAL, MAY 12.—Arrived the Ann, Ross, from Bahia; and Castalia, Londonderry, and Times, from Ire land. Passed from London the Lady M . Naghten, Pope, fur India. DOVER, MAY 12.—Arrived off port the William Belson, Rogers, from Leghorn ; and Crescent, Guild, tram Trieste. BRISTOL, MAY 11. --Arrived the Marmion, Ad MS, from Cephalonia ; and Maria Eliza, Getling, from Messina. SLIGO, MAY 10..—The Corde:ia, Wood, of London derry, put in here yesterday evening, in distress, having carried away the foremast in a gale on the Sth inst. The following vessels have arrived :—The Eliza, Potter, from Pernambuco, off llastings ; the Agr.es, Harding, from Matanzas, off the Start; the Martha, from Mal iga, off Falmouth; the Reward, Soagrez, from Rio Janeiro, at Guernsey ; the Arichat, Paton, from Newfoundland, at Jersey ; the Cri.scent, Roche, from Smyrna, at Mil ford ; the Ivy, Robertson, from ditto, at Liverpool ; the Juno, Scott, from Alicant, at Newry ; and the , Mary, Sinclair4from Memel, at Aberdeen. The Dogrrbank, from Lanscrona to Amsterdam, is to tally wrecked near Whitby. The Good Sailor, Knop, from Kierteminde, was car ried into Shields on Tuesday, water-logged, having been en the Herd Sand. The Nautilus, laden with timber, belonging to Liver pool (United States), and the George Henry, were driven on shore and bilged at Liverpool (United States) during a violent gale on the 26th March. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, T WEL TE 0' CL 0 CK. Halifax Papers to the 15th April have been received a the North and South American Coffee-house. A vessel has arrived at Havre from Manilla ; upwards of 2,000 rats were found on board; the• sailors consumed a great many of them during the voyage. THE FUNDS. Our arrivals this morning are again scanty, conse quently we have not much information to communicate at present. The Funds remain steady, and Consols opened at the same price they left off yesterday, 922 for the Account, with little or nothing doing. The unfortu nate situation of his Majesty, with the uncertainty of his health ever being restored, throws a great damp on all speculations in the city ; and every bulletin is sought after with the greatest anxiety in the hope that it may throw some new light on his disorder. In the Foreign Market Spanish has improved. EN GLISE Bank Stock, 21434 215;8 India Stock, 239 40 `3 per Cent. Cens. 92% Do. for Account, t2S_ . }4 Ditto Reduced, 91% ;!,ti FOREIGJ - FUNDS. : t Ai per Cent. 98; 9 4 per Cent. 101% 4 per Cent. 1826, 104 India Bonds, 81 8? Exchequer Bills, 78 79 FUNDS. Greek, 475 Mexican, 38% 44 Peruvian, 24% 5% Portuguese, 60% 11 Prussian, Russian 1103 y 11 Spanish, ISI 19 Two CL 0 C.K. We have very unfavourable reports in the City with regard to his Majesty, and it is the same at Windsor early this morning. The public are very anxious for the appearance of the bulletin. Brazilian, 73M 4 Buenos Ayres, 38 41 Chilian, Colombian, 24% 5% Danish, 745 5 French 5 per Cent.'los 1 Ditto 3 per Cent. 12 83 It is said that Government received yesterday an express from Constantinople, aad it brings the sanction and ap proval of the Porte to the definitive arrangements with Greece. The above is the report on 'Change. Consuls have continued the whole of the morning at 92ii 4- for the Account, with scarce a bargain doing; and for 'Honey the same. The Estafette brings the French I?entes at 82f. 65c. Spanish Bonds have got up at Paris to 11. The Foreign Market is also in a stagnant state. Spanish Bonds maintain their price. Consols, 92 a I. 7 I.IIZEE 0' CL 0 CK. A Masquerade on a most splendid scale, took place at the King's Theatre last night, and was very fashionably attended. The characters were nuoierous and well supported, reflecting great credit on the different amateurs who undertook them. Sol's radiant beams made their appearance before the company thought of separating, each one feeling regret at bidding farewell to the festive scene. Young BURKE had his benefit at the Surrey Theatre on Tuesday night, which was well attended. On this occasion a Miss MATLEY, a child only 12 years old, sang several popular songs with great sweetness, especi ally " Rise, gentle moon." The Shoreham Bridge Bill was read a third time and passed yesterday se V onight, in the House of Lsrds. We heartily congratulate the public, especially the inhabi tants of Brighton, Shoreham, and Worthing, on the 81.1eCeSil of a me isure which is cakmlated to produce such important advantages. The inhabitants of Worthing intend, we un derstand, to invite the Committee by whom the Bill has been managed, to a public dinner, as a mark of the sense entertained of their exertion.—Brighton Gazette. A case very similar to that of the Siamese youths, has just occurred ne it Bangor. A poor woman, who resides near Llanberris, was, on the 29th ult. deli vered of a deplex female child, still born, which had two heads, two necks, four ar ms, four legs and thighs, all per fectly and naturally formed. The two trunks were united at the breast bones, and the union terminated in one umbili cus. The union appeared to he remtukalily tine, and ap peared to be of bone.—Bath Chronicle. LORD ASHBURTON.—In the debate which took place on the 25th of March, 1771, upon the motion for committing the LORD Illavort and Ablerman Onivxn to the Tower, for their conduct towards the eerjeant at arms, Mr. DUNNING made a long and animated speech against the right of the House to commit for such a case of contempt. Ile also took the opportunity of teferring to the imperfect state of the representation, in the follow ing strong terms ?—" It is a plausible argument, that the voice of the nation is only to be heard in this House ; but plausibility does not necessarily imply justice, nor does to is House constitute a real representative of the kingdom. The metropolis, for instance, which contains nearly a sixth part of the people, has no more than four members, and many of the principal trading towns are wholly without a member. When this is recollected, Sir, and when it is moreover recollected that t h e i na d equacy of Parliamentary rer resentation is a subject o f un i versal com plaint, there is but a slender basis for asserting that our voice is the voice of the kingdom, and that, as such, it should be decisive in every deliberation." —Dr. Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopredia, Vol, VI. PARTSII OF ST. ANN'S, SOHO. (THIS DAY.) A vestry meeting which, in the course of its proceed , ingi, threatened more than once to become not a litt!e to multuous, was held in the Vestry-room, St. Ann's, Sulp• this morning. The object of the meeting was to take into consideration a report which had been made respecting the dangerous state of St. Ann's church, by Mr. Abraham; the architect, and to adopt the necessary measures iu *con sequence. The measure, it appeared, was exceedingly obnoxious to many of the parishioners, since at eleven o'clock, the hour appointed for the commencement of the proceedings, we found the Vestry-room in a state of some confusion. On the Rev. Dr. APCLoun (the Rector), taking the Chair, Mr. NORMAN rose to olioct to his presiding on the pre. sent occasion. Dr. M'Cr.oun—l sit here, Sir, by right-1 am em powered to preside at all Vestry Meetings. Air. NORMAN still thought if the Rev. Dr. did not in sist upon that right-it would be much more becoming. The CHAIRMAN-But, Sir, I do insist upon it.—(Ap plause, not unmixed with laughter.) On the motion that the Report be read, Mr. NORMAN again rose to address the Meeting, when a scene of con siderable confusion ensued. Mr NORMAN—I never rise to express my sentiments in this room without meeting with interruption.—(A cry of " I should wonder if you ever did.")—He then proceeded amidst great confusion, insisting upon his right to be heard. However gentlemen might sneer, laugh, or scoff, he would never tamely submit to see the money taken from the pockets of the parishioners squandered away, and especially in such times as the present. He would beg to remind the meeting that the churchwardens, at the time the last church-rate was made, had given a pledge that not a farthing should be spent on the repairs of the church, until the whole of it was paid up. But six months had elapsed since that pledge had been given, and now these respectable men—he meant the late church wardens—had scarcely gone out of office, when the pa rishioners were called upon for a sum, which would not be less, nor indeed so little, as from six to 7,000/. Mr. KELK warmly denied that any such pledge had been given. What had been promised was, that no repairs should be undertaken without a Vestry being previou•ly called. Mr. GRANT said, that at the time the last church-rate was made, he had expressly asked whether any repairs for the church Were in contemplation, and had teen as ex pressly answered in the negative. Mr. KELI again repeated his former declaration. It should be remembered that from the office he held, he was sworn to support and uphold the church—(A laugh) —how therefore could he have given such a pledge as that which had been insisted upon by the two former speakers. The confusion now became redoubled; when it had some what subsided, the report of the architect, Mr. Abraham, was read. It gave a deplorable account of the state of the church, which was declared, both as respected the walls and roof, to be in a most dangerous condition. The esti mate of the expense to put it in sufficient repair to warrant its perfect security, was 1,5001. Mr. NORMAN wished to know what necessity there was of their going out of the parish for an architect.— (Much laughter.) Mr. FOSTER rose with reluctance on the present occa sion, but when the sacred buildings of their parish were in danger, he could not remain silent. The report of Mr. Abraham had been confirmed by two other architects, and therefore it was absolutely necessary that some steps should be taken to effect the necessary repairs. After having eulogised the able manner in which the architect had drawn up his report, the speaker proceeded to say that he should propose that a Committee of twenty one parishioners should be appointed to assist the parish officers in making the necessary investiga tion into the actual state of the church, and to pro cure estimates of the expences necessary for its repair, to he laid before the Vestry, subject to their approval or rejection. He thought no one could object to this course who did not wish to frighten away the inhabitants from divine worship. Ile would ask any one present if he would continue to live for a single hour in a house pro nounced to be in as dangerous a st its as the church was shown to be in. Mr. NORMAN persisted, that the church bad been in the same conditio❑ for the last twenty years, and he should not have the least objection to live in a house in a similar condition.—(A laugh.) Mr. FOSTER would beg to be excluded from his list of visitors in this case.—(Laughter.)—After having cen sured the opposition which had been made to the Rev. Dr. M'Cloud presiding on the occasion. Mr. Foster mu eluded, by moving a resolution to the effect above state-d. Mr. GRANT complained that sufficient notice bad not been given, as to the state the church was in. KELIC said, that the real amount of the danger had not been discovered for more than six weets. Mr. GRANT was convinced that the time the last exa mination had been made into the state of the church, the expellee of a few pounds would have put all to rights. He, however, approved of the resolution, for at a time of such general distress as the present, when every pound was a se: ious object to every tradesman in the United Kingdom, it was quite monstrous that so large a sum as 6,000/. should be taken out of the pockets of the pa rishioners, without a due investigation as to the ne cessity of the measure. For his own part, he was con vinced that they might pull the old church down and build a new one in its place, for a less sum than would be requisite to effect the repairs pointed out in the report of the architect. He hoped that the contract would be open and general, and not confined to the parish. A long discussion here ensued as to the manner in which the dangerous state bad been so suddenly discovered. Mr. NORMAN explained the reasons of his objection to Dr. M'Cloud taking the Chair. It had been complained that the seats in the church were but very thinly occupied. He would beg to assure the Reverend Doctor that every fresh church-rate that was made would produce a corresponding effect on the number of his congregation. The inhabitants would leave in disgust at the enormous expences entailed upon the parish. lie should move as an amendment, that the question of the repairs of the church be taken into consideration this day six months._(Long-continued laughter.) After a lengthy discussion, •which our limits will not admit of being given, the original resolution was put to the vote, and carried unanimously. The Ccmmittce was then elected amidst considerable confusion, much opposition, and still snore laughter; after which the meeting separated. LORD MANSFIELD. At the trial of the rebel Lords in 1746, Mr. Murray assisted in his character of Solicitor- General. His speech on the trial of Lord Lovat is said to be , one of the few of his speeches which have been authentically given. It con sists, indeed, of little more than a concise and lucid statement of the evidence. " Every gen tleman," said the Solicitor-General, " who has spoken in this trial, has made it a rule to himself to urge nothing against the prisoner but plain facts and positive evidence, without aggravation." The prisoner himself made some singular ob servations on the address of Mr. Murray. " My Lords, I am very sorry I gave your Lordships so much trouble on my trial, and I give you a million of thanks for being so good in your pa tience and attention whilst it lasted. I thought myself very much loaded by one Murray, who, your Lordships know, was the bitterest enemy there was against me. I have since suffered by another Mr. Murray, who, I must say with pleasure, is an honour to his country, and whose eloquence and learning are much beyond what is to be expressed by an ignorant man like me. I heard him with pleasure, though it was against me. I have the honour to be his relation, though perhaps he neither knows it nor values it. I wish that his being born in the north may not hinder him from the Preferment that his merit and learning Till that gen tleman sp o ke, yoti deserve.rLordsh Lordships were inclined to grant my earnest request, and to allow me further time to bring up m y witnesses to prove my innocence ; but it seems that has been overruled." In concluding his defence, Lord Lovat added, " I have said all I have to say; and beg your Lordships' pardon for the rude, long discourse I made to your Lord ships. I had great need of my cousin Murray's eloquence for half an hour, and then it would have been more agreeable."—Dr. Lardnel s Cabinet Cydop(edia, Vol. VI. THE KING'S HEALTH. (From the Court Circular.) The Bullet7n of his MAJESTY'S health issued yesterday was unfavourallle,--it was as ((Mows:— ‘. \Vint 1:41,r Castle, May 12. " The KIN:: Las passed a distur;;ed night. His MA JESTY'S symptoms continue the same (Signed) " HENRY HALFOIM. " MATTHEW J. TIERNEY. The Duke of WELLINGTON arrived at the Palace abor eleven o'clock yesterday morning from London, on a viii to the KING. His Grace remained at the Palace ti half-past two o'clock in the afternoon, when the Duke le; on his return to town. The Duke of LEEDS arrived about one o'clock at the Palace, to make his personal inquiries aftcr the state of the Ktxc. His Grace took his leave about half-past three o'clock. The medical gentlemen were in constant attendance on his MAJESTY throughout the day, and would, it was ex pected, sleep at the Palace. , At the King's Palace, St. James's, the Bulletin was shown by Lord GLENLYON, as Lord in Waiting, awl Mr. FORESTER. (for Sir WILLIAM KEPPEL) as Groom in Waiting. Among the inquirers yesterday were—The VICE-CHAN CELLOR, the JUDGE of the PREROGATIVE COURT, the SOLICITOR-GENERAL for IRELAND, the RECORDER of LONDON, and tile PRESIDENT of the ROYAL ACADEMY. Princess ESTERIIAZY. Ambassadors and Ministers.—Prussian, Wirtembergh, American, Neapolitan, Bavarian, Netherlands, Austrian, French, Mexican. Charge DA ffaires.—Brazilian, Sweden. DuciTessks.—MoNTaosE, Dowager of RICHMOND. Marquisses•--AlLEsaunr, CAMDEN, WINCL;ESTER. Alarchionevws.—Dowager of SALISBURY, Dowager o: DOWNSHIR F., WINCHESTER. Earls. —ABING DON, CARLISLE, FITZWILLIAM, BRAD FORD, CORNWALLIS, BELFAST, CHESTERFIELD, DE LA WA RR. Countesses.-COTENTRY, BELFAST, ABINGDON, CORN WALLIS. GODERICIT, STORMONT. Viscountess MAYNARD. Lords.—MARYBOROUGII, REDESDALE, C. MANNERS, CLIFDEN, MILTON, KENMARE, ELIOT. Lailiei.—FULLEß, A. VERNON, WHARNCLIFFE, GOR DON, TRIGGE, VYVYAN, GRAHAM (2), BRYDGES, KEN :HARE, A. BYNG, CURTIS, BERTIE (2), J. ELLIOT, Al. LONG, M. STANLEY, ROSE, A. COTTON, E. AsimunN ll.A3l, G. ASHEURNHAM, G. BULKELEY, HOUSTON, PON SONRY, A. 311i.LnANK. Right Hon. W. DUNDAS. Justice GASE LEE. Honeurables.—W. H. Scorr, Misq S. WORTLEY. Sirs.—C. WETIIERELL, L. SEIA DWELL, G. TlromP sow, W. HOUSTON, G. SMART, G. WARRENDER, V,. PEACOCK, G. WOOD, M. W. RIDLEY, J. PHILLIMORE, T. DYER, F. BAKER, J. BRYDCES, C. FLOWER, H. BUXTON, G. ROBINSON, H. PAUL, W. CURTIS, G.Moonr. Generals.—EDEN, BALFOUR. CoIoneI4.—WHATLEY, WOODFORD, THORNHILL, Po- TEN. Captains.—CATEs, Vvvy AN, VINCENT, MARSHALL. Rev. Dr. DE A LTRY. Rev. Mr. J. PEARS. Ales9l-B.—F. HITCH, VAUGHAN, C. WESLEY, LISBON, WASHINGTON IRVING, MAGUIRE, E. FOLEY, M.P., J. ROUND, BLACKBURN, WALTER JONES, FLOWER, ASKEW, SCTIOMBERG, BULLOCK, WHITIIAM, FROST, CHOLSIELEY, DE NEUMANN, WALLIS. Mistresses.—WALTEß SMYTIIE, WHATLEY, MITCHELL, WALTER JONES, F. LANE. --MITC HELL, SMYTHE, DEALTRY, JONES, FLOWER, BRODERICK, DE GRAY, BLACKBURN (2,) OGLE. Prince GEORGE of CUMBERLAND, attended by the Rev. Mr. .Jimr, came to town yesterday morning from Kcw. The Prince left town in the afternoon on his re turn to Kew. The Duke Of WELLINGTON, after his return from having an interview with his MAJEsxv, at his Palace at Windsor, yesterday aiterßoon, joined Earl BATHURST, the Earl of ABERDEEN, Lord EL LENBOROUGH, and the other Cabinet Ministers, at the residence of the Eirl of ROSSLYN, in St. James's-squire. The Nobll Earl entertained the Cabinet Ministers. A deputation of the Bankers of Scotland, headed by Sir CeUTTS TaorrEa, attended yesterday at the Treasury, and had a conference with the CHANCELLOR of the Ex- CUEQUER. The Russian Ambassador had an interview with the Earl of ABERDEEN yesterday at the Foreign-office. Despatches were brought by a messenger to the Foreign office, yesterday morning, for the Earl of ABERDEEN, from Sir ROBERT GORDON, our Ambassador at Constantinople. A deputation from the Goldsmiths' Company had a conference at the Treasury yesterday with the CHANCEL LOR of the EXCHEQUER, the MASTER of the MINT, and the CHAIRMAN of the COMMISSIONERS of STAMPS. The law officers of the Stamp office attended during the meeting. Viscount 111E1.1;11.LE, as First Lord of the Admiralty, held a levee at the Admiralty yesterday, which was at tended by Admiral STOYFORD (Vice-Admiral on the Ports mouth station) and a numerous party of naval officers. Mr. EGERTON, Mr. LAWLEY, and a deputation of licensed victuallers, from Birmingham and places adjacent, met the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, the PRESIDENT of the BOARD of TRADE, and some of the gentlemen con nected with the Stamp Office. The Round Tower, at the King's Palace, at Windsor, has been raised eight feet in its entirecircumference, during the last fortnight; the most rapid progress has been made in the alteration : the number of bricks used exceeds 40,000 weekly, exclusive of the stone work of the exterior. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. NEWMARKET SECOND SPRING MEETING. WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. The following horses left Newmarket this morning for Epsom Lord Jersey's Dovegani—Derby orcl Sefton's Captain Arthur—Derby Lord Sefton's Juryman Lord Sefton's Mouche—Oaks Mr. Grcatorex's Citron—Oaks The Jockey Club Plate (to-morrow)—Ca•lland is ex pected to walk over for it. 500 sovs. stakes (to-morrow)—All have paid except Gayhurst, Ebnry, Tyke, and noundwaist. Two-year-old stakes (to-morrow)—The following horses are named . Mr. Stonehewer names Zany, by Morisco Mr. Rogers's Spaniel, brother to Laixlog Mr. Gully's colt, by Wrangler His Majesty's b. c. by Mustachio Lord Tavistock's colt, by Lapdog Mr. Angerstein's filly Araby Mr. Lane's filly, by Woful The following races have been decided this afternoon : Match, 50 sovs. T. Y.C. - Mr. Wagstaff's b. f. Landrail, 3 yrs. Bst. 91b Mr. Medley's br. f. Psyche, 2 7st. 2lb 2 Won cleverly. Handicap Sweepstakes of 10 sous. each. Ab.M. Lord Worcester's Coulon, 5 yrs. 9st. Mr. Ridsdale's Tranby, 4 yrs. Sst. 4lb 0 Mr. Turner's Benedict, 4 101 b 3 Mr. Wilson's colt, by Tramp, 3 yrs. est. 61b. Dead heat between Coulon and Tranby. WEDNESDAY NIGHT, ELEVEN o'cLocr.. Betting at the Kingston House Rooms : DERBY. 7 to 2 agst Mr. Chifney's Priam 8 to I agst Lord Exeter's Augustus 8 to 1 agst Lord Sefton's Captain Arthur 9 to 1 agst Mr. Forth's Orion 11 to 1 agst Mr. Ridsdaht's Little Red Rover 11 to I agst Sir M. Wood's The Mummer 11 to 1 agst Mr. Metre's Brunswicker 13 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Malimoud 16 to 1 agst Sir Mark Wood's Cetus to 1 ag,t Lord Cleveland's Wat Tyler 30 to I agst Lord Sligo's Brine 30 to 1 agst Mr. Ramsbottona's Zucharelli OAKS. 7 to 2 agst Lord Sefton's Mouche 11 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's Charlotte West 6 to I agst Ltrd QuecrNherry's is 11 to 1 agst Mr. Benson's Lady Blanche I . ? to I agst Lord Anson's Zillah 15 to 1 agst Mr. Payne's Brown Duchess f.. 16 to 1 agst Leeway 20 to 1 agst Frederica SYDEN HA M.—A. fresh example of the gene ral encouragement afforded to the efforts of those laughing philosophers who make it their pastime and their busin.ss to " catch the living manners as they rise," is manifested in the popularity of this lively and satirical novel, so aptly styled, in its second title, " the Memoirs of a Man of the World." To all who take an interest in contemplating the eccentric movements, in tracing the moral features, and in noting the varying peculiarities of the great and the prominent in existing Ltaalon society, the possession of a text-hook so explanatory as this must be a sin gu l ar acquisition. Th e work indoll may be said to com pr i se, like the brilliant pictures of Sir. I,tio3tas LAwaExcE, a fashi ona bl e "gallery of portraits —the i n di v id uals of which are less flattered , albeit , than the courtly gentle men and ladies who breathe from tie canvas of the ac complished painter. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. Having cordially admitted, in some observations which we made last week on the Parliamentary Paper entitled " Diplomatic Expenses," that we have no objections to the reasonable allowances of our Ambassadors at foreign Courts, and that what ever the charges under_ this head may still be, the present Ministry deserve credit for the reductions which they have effected, we cannot be suspected of any wish to cavil, if we recur for an instant to the subject, on a new return which has just been print ed. This return embraces the details of four mis sions —viz., those to the Netherlands, to Tuscany, to Wurtemberg, and to France; together ‘vith some arrear of the diplomatic expenses to Lisbon. We stated before that we thought the expenses of the Belgic and Dutch mission extravagant. We may well call it Belgic and Dutch, for we find that our Ambassador considers it his duty to keep a house both at Brussels and the Hague. Not only do we pay 3001. a year in house-rent for the annual migra tion of the Court from one capital to another, but we find that Sir Charles Bagot does us the honour of allowing us to pay his travelling expenses for this short journey, to the tune of nearly 2001. more. It strikes us that a man, who has 1,1001, a year of salary, and 1,0001. a year for house -rent, might easily procure his lodgings and defray his travelling expenses for a single day's journey, without making an additional charge of nearly 500/. a year. The fact is, that our Anras sador at the ambulatory Court of the Netherlands must put the Dutch Ministry to shame. His salary, as we before mentioned, would pay the saldrks of all the Dutch Cabinet.. Did Sir C. Baget ever in quire into the remuneration of one of his predecessors, of the name of Sir W. Temple ? The expanses cf this mission, and grounds on which it is defended, must be inquired into. Into the items or the Paris mission we shall not enter. The 11,0001. a year of salary to the Ambassador, and of 1,1001. to the Secretary, are placed beyond our reach, till we are prepared to suggest a new arrangement ; but why saddle us with the expenses of 294/. for servants, and 374/. for stationery and pamphlets ? The Noble Ambassador might as well charge John Bull with the maintenance of his cook, as with the s,tha l of his porter ; and if he chooses to read pamphle , s, see no more reason why lie should not pay I,r thtin himself than for the Champagne or Burgurvly drank at his table. All the items of extraordiuery ex pense, in addition to salaries of 12,1001. a year, amount to 2,116/. With respect to the Embassy io Tuscany, we can scarcely venture upon any 012- servations in addition to what we have formerly said. In addition to an allowance for himself and his Secretary, of 4,440/., our Noble Envoy at the Court of Florence has been paid 6741. for a trip to Itome. Had his Lordship bribed the Conclave, and bought the election of a Pope, there mig'rt Lave been some ground for this charge. Nothing of the kind of course was done: his Lordship was pro bably content to bribe the Pope's Chapel-master for the score of the last anthem.—Times. Mr. O'Connell has, it appears, from his own de claration in Parliament, made a vow never to tight again. This being the case, it becomes km, by all motives of honour and good taste, to be pen- Early guarded in his language—for a man who will not tight to use abusive or violent language, is something like sculking behind what has been called " the sacred shield of cowardice." We ad mit that the rule should be reciprocal, and that the same abstinence from vehement personal invective which becomes Mr. O'Connell is no less necessary for all those who think it worth their while to enter into discussion with him.—Times. We are glad to find that the public feeling against the needless and disgraceful severity of the criminal law is becoming more manifest every day. It is in,- possible that a system so repugnant to reason, to sound policy, to Christian sentiment, and to civi lization, can loag withstand the opposing power of enlightened opinion. Even Sir Robert Peel Las felt himself compelled to admit that our penal code is more cruel and sanguinary than that of any other state in Europe, and yet Sir Robert Peel obtained the credit of having reformed this code—of having purified it from batbarism, end made it fit for the ends of justice among a civilized people I—The laurels that only belong to humane and judicious legislation were showered upon him by miters who were either too ignorant to know the truth, or too servile to avow it. But Sir Robert Peel, when /to undertook the task of reforming the laws, not having the comprehensive intellect or the moral courage which such a task requires, was not competent to lead public opinion, and must now be content to fol low it ; and even that he will do reluctantly and_ un graciously—but still he must do it. It is not in the power of a Secretary of State, or any other adviser of the Crown, to resist the progress of that moral power which has gone forth among the people to de nounce and overthrow a system of vindictive justice that, in the revolting and indiscriminate cruelty of its punishments, sinks the public abhorrence of crime in sympathy for the offender. Sir Robert Peel ad mits the existence of the evil, but, whenever he is urged to remove it, he talks of the danger of inno vation. Yet in what consists the innovation here ? Simply in retracing our steps, from :he barbarous accumulation of cruelties which the Statute-book presents, to the humanity of the common law. We should always bear in mind, when treating upon this question, that all the Statutes (if we recollect right, upwards of sixty in number) which inflict death for forgery are of comparatively recent ori g in. The common law p un i s h e d t hi s s p ec i es o f fraud as a misdemeanour, and inflicted on the offender fine and imprisonment. It did not terrify prosecutors from bringing criminals to justice by the dread of shedding human blood, or turn away the people with sorrow and disgust from the last cruel and ap palling exhibition of its vengeance. As to Sir 11 0 . bert's new Bill respecting forgery, it is calculated to do no good whatever, notwithstanding the eulogies which a sycophantic Press poured forth upon it. Indeed it is more likely to do harm, because it sub stitutes a pretended reform, which many, infl.ienced by the charm of a name, may mistake for genuine and substantial improvement. We see, however, that our exposure of this measure has not been lost on the country. We showed, at a time when the Ministerial newspapers described this Bill as the perfection of legislative wisdom, that, as to all prac tical purposes, it was but a deception on the piablie, inasmuch as it only went to abolish the penalty of death in cases where, in modern days, it was not, and dared not be, carried into execu- tion. We are, therefore, gratified to observe Ow: the public are beginning to understand this, and, to learn to treat the Bill as it deserves. There were several petitions presented last night, in tbo Ho u se of Commons, against the severity of the criminal laws, and among them was one from respect.tble and numerous inhabitants of Malffiesbury, in the county of Wilts, whch was presented by Mr. R. Gordon, and payed not only for the abolition of the punishment of death for forgery, but that the Bill recently introduced by Mr., now Si r Robert _ . Peel, might not pass into a law. The petitioners stated that they saw, with considerable pain, that all the severity of the old laws was retained in the Proposed Bill, and they, therefore, supplicated the Legislature that it might not pass. The advocates of this cruel principle have no longer the support of the argument which they derived from the sup posed protection which it gave to the property bi bankers. The bmihers in general bear testi-mony to its inefficiency. They are aware that it is the cause of multiplying cases of forgery by preventing people from coming forward to prosecute. There are in London and other places several houses that have borne great losses rather than bring the culprits to justice under the existing law. Need we wonder, then, that the bankers have so numerously signed the petitions for the mitigation of the laiv both in Englan:l and Scotland ? In Edinburgh alone, as we have already stated, eighteen bankers affixed their signatures to the petition. At this me mega there is a banker most assiduously exerting himself in travelling from town to town in his own ie ball ialtiea ty 16, men• . one, ;ht to and of ap ge to- r , the wards eases coin- in the that lapse eons- ue at .otia ence )un d by I of rom luty ised that r to sact ibly, If it. itsed s of and Lion the that to uld fol- ;tee lola tate )ple t by Pre- Ay 'll