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THE SUN, LONDON. MONDAY, NOVEMI3ER 18, 1 39. IV EN IN "G EDITION. I was not near Newport either on Sunday or Monday, and the persons who have sworn against me have sworn falsely, every one of them, for I am not the person they said, for I never had a gun in my hand from the day that I was born. I have nothing further to say." The prisoner was then fully committed. Jeukin Morgan, who was taken at Bristol, as men tioned in my letter of yesterday's date, was then brought up on a charge of high treason ; but remanded. The Court adjourned at six o'clock till Monday. RIOTS AT NEWPORT. N RWPO RT, FRIDAY NIGHT. "My report of the examinations will show that another lq the rioters has been committed on the capital charge ; 1 but other occurrences in the Court, which I shall at once proceed to relate, have to-day produced a much greater sensation than the examination of that prisoner. It will be remembered that I stated my belief, that an understanding existed amongst the Chartists in other parts of the kingdom, particularly in the North ; that if the " Men of South Wales" were successful, the " Men of the North" were immediately to rise and follow their example ; and thus all England was to be revolutionised, and the " Charter become the law of the land." To say that this scheme is so mad that it could not have been entertained by any but the inmates of St. Luke's, is not sufficient to rebut the daily-accumulating evi dence, proving, beyond a doubt, that the leaders in the Chartists' attack on Newport were not only mad enough to anticipate success, but that they were so far gone in madness that they never for a moment doubted it, or thought of the consequences of defeat, until they saw their deluded followers fall thick and fast around them beneath the fire of a small but well disciplined band of soldiers, there being at the very lowest com putation but one soldier to one hundred Chartists, and they for the most part armed ! I repeat, that the occur rences in the Court to-day, and subjoined documents, tend stroneiy to confirm this view of the Chartists' in surrectionary designs. There can be but little doubt hut that the Mr. Cardo, " member and delegate of the National Convention," was sent on a mission to endea vour to re-inspire and re-organise the " Men of the bills ;" and, the letter, from which I give an e xtract be low (written by the Mayor of one of the largest towns in the north to the Mayor of Newport) is eraa conv bu incthating proof that the organisation is not only genl, t it is uniform, or nearly so. On Thursday evening a person of rather a remark • able appearance, as his description given below will show, arrived at the Westgate Hotel by the Hero, Birmingham and Worcester coach, and slept at the Westgate Hotel, where the Magistrates hold their sittings to examine the prisoners. In the morning he sent for Mr. Hellen, the landlord, up into his bedcham ber, and stated that he had been deputed to come to Wales to make full inquiries into this matter, and to ascertain whether Frost was the leader and was now in prison, as " the men of the north" did not believe it— not believing the lying reports of the newspapers. Cardo told the landlord that he was a Chartist, but that he (the landlord) need not be alarmed, as he was for " peace, law, and order." Mr. Hallen's suspicions being excited from this conversation, he very properly gave information to the Mayor, and the Magistrates thought it advisable to request Mr. Cardo to attend in the justice-room, in order that he might be questioned as to his business and intentions in visiting South Wales. As soon, therefore, as the Magistrates had taken their seats, Cardo was brought in, in custody, when the following dialogue took place : Carolo—l wish to know by what authority, or upon what pretence I am detained a prisoner. 1 The CHAIRMAN—Stop, Sir ; you must answer a fe w questions from the Court first. What is your name ? Cardo--William Cardo. I live at No. 11, Church row, Pancras-road, Somers-town, and am a shoemaker by trade. The CHAIRMAN—Are you a member of the Na tional Convention, or of any political Association ? Cardo—l was a member of the General Convention of • the Industrious Classes, but of the National Convention I know nothing. 1 The CHAIRMAN— When did you arrive here ? Cardo 1 —I arrived here last night by the coach from Worces iter, and, as I said before, I came to ascertain facts rela -1 tive to the proceedings which have recently taken place, ! and which I believe to be the result of Russian agency. The CHAIRMAN—Upon what do you found that be lief ? Cardo—Upon facts which I do not think it I right, under present circumstances, to mention. I The CHAIRMAN—Do you refuse to state these facts? Cardo—l do ; at least thus publicly. The CHAIRMAN—Do you wish to make a communi cation to the Magistrates privately ? Cardo —I have no such wish. The CHAIRMAN—Then, Sir, state what ynu do wish ? Cardo—lt is not my plan to do so. I want to know why I am detained here while prosecuting a na tional inquiry ? The CHAIRMAN—The national inquiry is now taking place by us, and any information you can afford will be received. I Cardo—l meant by a national inquiry not only that 1 which has taken place in Newport, but likewise to as i certain the effects of Russian agency in the several dis i triets of England. The CHAIRMAN—You came here, you said, to ascer tain whether Mr. Frost was in custody or not, for it would not be believed in London. We will have no more of this ; you must leave the town directly. Let 1 the policeman see that this man speaks to no one. Cardo—l am much obliged to you for your courtesy The prisoner then marched out in a swaggeringman i ti er ;bu t he ' Mayor received the following- letter, which caused the Magistrates to despatch a constable to bring back the prisoner. LETTER to D. O'CONNELL, EsQ, M.P. BY SIR ARTHUR BROOKE FAULKNER. " Police-office, Birmingham. Nov : 13, 1839 " Sir—l beg to inform you that one of the ahartist delegates, and member of the General Convention, left this town on his way to Newport and Monmouth. An nexed I send you his description, for your guidance, as well a 3 a portion of his address to a meeting, held hen: last night. " I am, Sir, your obedient servant, " FRANCES 'BURGESS, Commissioner of Police. •' To J. Phillips, Esq., " Mayor of Newport. " Description :—Name, Cardo. He stands abou sit folt one inch high, dark hair, small whiskers, rather broad across the shoulders, small across the lower part of the back. Dress : black surtout coat, black hand kerchief and hat. " Portion of his address at the meeting :—"The secret is to be found out yet, and that must be left till after I return from Newport. When I arrive there, I shat consider it my duty to go to the hills, when I shall see the-men of Wales; and then I shall get the whole tran saction and the truth about the late riots at Newport, and I shall endeavour , o get an interview with Mr. Frost before I return.'" Cardo admitted that he was the person described in the letter, and he was therefore remanded for further examination. On his being searched, a memorandum was found in his pocket-book of some of the places he was to visit, such as " Black Rock," " Blackwood," " Ponty-pool," and a also a large sheet of paper divided and sub-divided in the following manner, and which was to assist him in reorganizing the districts : 9th Division, 10th Division. Ist District. I 2cl District. I 34 - 1 District. I 4th District. Ist Sub-dis- 12d Sub-dis- 3d Sub-dis- 14th Sub-dis trict. Viet. trict. trict. Ist Section. I tal Section. 3d Section. 4th Section. Mayor, Thomas Hawkins, Esq., —Fothergill, Esq., 1 William Brecon, Esq., Maule, Esq., solicitor to the Treasury, Mr. Phelps, and Mr. Thomas Jones Phillips, Crown solicitors. George Turner alias Cole was placed at the bar, charged with high treason and sedition. Thomas Hopkins sworn and examined—l am the son of the superintendent of police of this borough. I live with my father on Stow-hill. On the morning of Monday, the 4th of November, I was standing at the co rner of Mr. Clement's shop, nearly opposite the Westgate. I saw the mob coming down the hill. I I my father, who was on duty at the Westgate , down the Chartists were coming. When they turned f Six,—To be justified in trespassing upon the attend the West thattthe hill they turned round to the yard gates o lion of one whose services are so precious as yours are to every man in the kingdom who wishes his country to noticedone free and happy, needs the excuse of no moderate mo theygate came marching t o the he i n g o a r t d e e s r t n h in ey e or ten abreast. When W hen person in particular when they got tiye, and such an excuse, I trust, you will not refuse He had on a fustian shooting jacket andtrousers , and me on the present occasion. I shall, therefore, come a black hat. I noticed his whiskers were dark. to the matter with as little preface as possible. I took him for a carpenter by his dress. I heard In an address prefixed to the Report of the Roman him speak, but I do not know what he said ; but Catholic meeting of July last you take occasion to say there was a violent movement on the part of the mob that your object is to excite among Protestants a immediately. After he spoke they immediately forced spirit of inquiry and investigation into the tenets of a violent entrance into the Westgate. All then I saw your religion ; and, as one of those Protestants whom d I h When they entered the passage ear we re armed.you are anxious to proselytize, and who has not the a firing from the mob outside, and some from the inside. slightest objection to the operation, if you can only I believe the first gun I heard fired was in the passage. succeed in convincing his reason, I beg to submit the I saw the person I have described, and who appeared result of a very thoughtful consideration of the subject, to be a carpenter, walking from the mob ; he was walk- trusting you will see that it bears the impress of all ing lame. I saw him walk over to the corner o pp osite the coolness and caution which you so earnestly, and so Westgate. I heard him tell a man that he was very properly, enjoin as indispensable to so solemn a wounded. He had a single-barrelled gun in his band. task. I looked at him, and saw that he had a hole in his I had intended to notice your address on its first ap. trousers, as if a ball had gone through it into his thigh. pearance, but waited for precursor opinions much more I afterwards discovered that man to be Lovell, who competent than any I can presume to offer ; then suc has been committed for high treason. Immediately ceeded distractions rendering it impossible to give any after the firing commenced, I noticed another persou, attention to the subject, and it is more than probable who attracted my attention from his being lame, and but for Dr. Croly's sermon on the Gunpowder Plot, I having a wooden leg. I saw him come out of the had never thought of it again. crowd. When I first saw him I was opposite the I have looked in vain among the remarks offered by Westgate. I saw him go towards Mr. Lloyd's door, at Journalists upon your address, for that sort of reply the corner of Skinner-street, epposite the Westgate. He which I think it requires ; and what most of all disap had either a gun or a stick in his hand, I do not know A pointeo me, none of your commentators seem to have which. I afterwards saw the same person walk down noticed, or suspected your being a Protestant ; yet that Commercial-street, towards the Salutation ;he then had the fact is even so, it strikes me I shall have little diffi the same instrument in his hand as when I saw him at culty in proving. It shows the omnipotence of truth in Mr. Lloyd's shop. I should know him again if I were a peculiar light, when men, in their endeavours to over to see him. The prisoner at the bar is that person. I throw the opinions of others, succeed only in invalidating have no doubt whatever of his being the same person. their own. Such arguers remind one of the Irishman, By the Rev. Mr. Coles—l am aware this is a very of whom the old story goes, that in sawing off the serious charge ; but lam certain it is the same man. branch of a tree, but, strangely unmindful of his position By the prisoner—l can swear it was you. You had on the wrong side of the hand-saw, he came down, light-coloured clothes on. without the smallest suspicion of such an issue, along Daniel Evans—l reside in Newport, opposite the with the branch he had severed. There is this differ Westgate. I stood at my own door when the mob rence, to be sure, between you and the Irishman, that came round the corner. I saw several hundreds march he succeeded in his purpose at least ; you have had your down Stow. hill. They were armed. When they came tumble for nothing. to the yard-gates of the Westgate, they wheeled back You will doubtless deem this any thing but a modest by the orders of the man who commanded them. I proceeding of mine ; for so puny an arm to enter the believe that man was John Rees, commonly called lists with such an antagonist ! No one, be assured, " Jack the Fifer." He had a drawn sword in can be more sensible than lam of the immeasureable his hand. The mob appeared to obey this man. odds you have over me ; knowing, indeed, on what The mob came to the door and fired. I did not then unequal terms almost any man, one man alone excepted, see a man with a wooden leg in the mob, but shortly encounters your powers of reasoning and persuasion, the afterwards, during the firing, I did see him. He was only dependence I have is on the simple unvarnished armed with a gun. I should know him again. I truth of the matter I produce, and on this I would rely believe the prisoner to be that man. He had a kind of against a legion of Goliahs. fustian or flannel jacket or coat on. He was charging " What I wish," you say, "is calm, cool, deliberate deliberately. I saw him firing. He fired into the West- investigation into the nature of the tenets in which the gate window. He fired into the upper window first, and Catholic believes, and into the arguments and autho then into the lower one. I mean by the upper window rity upon which those tenets are required by us as of the room abode where the soldiers were stationed. The faith," and you moreover enjoin " caution " as "of soldierslhad shown themselves when I first saw him fire. the most vital importance." Now, if these sentences I saw him load his gun again after he had fired the first be not couched in the very spirit of Protestantism, lam time. I then saw him fire again into the windows where yet to learn what the term means. Contrary to a vital the soldiers were. The charge took the side wall, and tenet of your Church, you are deliberately pressing—are the marks where the bullet struck it are there now. He you not ?—that very exercise of private judgment on then ran down the pavement of Commercial-street, with the Scriptures which has reared the adamantine wall the gun in his hand while he was running. There were that separates us. For, I assume that in speaking of two or three lying dead before I saw him running. That an appeal to authority, you cannot possibly intend to man was of about the same height and appearance as the disparage or overlook that first of all authorities—that prisoner at the bar. I believe the prisoner is the same authority to which the Fathers of the primitive Church man ; but I should be more positive if I saw him in the and the Apostles, constantly and exclusively appealed same dress (the prisoner was now dressed in a dark suit to prove their doctrines, nay, to which our blessed Sa of clothes). I saw but one man with a wooden leg in the viour himself referred as constantly for the proofs of his crowd. (After looking at the prisoner)—from his features divine mission. And was it not for vindicating their right I have no doubt of his being the man. He had a round to regulate their faith by such authority that Protestants crowned black hat, commonly called a " Jim Crow were denounced by your Church ? and what is more hat." especially to our present purpose, was it not after such Samuel Williams sworn—l live at Pillgwently, in an investigation of authority as you propose that they the borough of Newport. On the morning of Monday arrived at the conclusion from which no farther investi the 4th of November, I was in the front of the West- gation ever tempted them to swerve—namely, that most, gate. I staid there until I heard a noise and hurraing, if not all, the tenets which you hold at variance with and then I went up into the Westgate Hotel stables, Protestantism, are either absolutely absurd, or untenable which look on Stow-hill. I broke two panes of glass in b y an y, even the slightest semblance of sane reasoning? the window, for the purpose of seeing the mob come That the sentiments of yo ur Church are diametri down the hill. They were armed. I staid there till tally opposed to any inquiry into the authority of the 500 or 600 went by, and they reached to the front of Scriptures by the people at large, is known to the very the Westgate. I saw a man with a wooden leg in the barber who shaves you. Nay, I had no idea that mob, after about sixty had passed, I saw that man, Catholics carried their aversion to the use of reason so and " Jack the Fifer" was by his side. The man with far as they do, until about four years since, when an the wooden leg was armed with a gun. " Jack the accident threw me in the way of the Vicar- Fifer" had a pistol and a pike. They both staid back General of Dublin. While I was submitting to his till mc,st of the mob came to the front of the hotel. I Reverence on that occasion some remarks on the came round to the front, and heard a man in the mob pastoral duty of educating the people to fit them for say " Fire 1" When I heard the firing I got over the proving the authority of the Scriptures and the ortho wall into the garden, and got out by where Dr. Reilly dozy of their tenets, I was stopped short, and told that lives, and came out into Commercial-street. That man the moment a man sets about such inquiries he has al had a gun in his hand. That was after the firing, and ready incurred the penalty of unbelief. when the mob were retreating—some one way and some With what colour of pretence, then, can you call the other. The wooden-legged man had on a round yourse:f a Cathol;c while you propound a course of in jacket and a " Jim Crow" hat. I cannot describe his quiry so opposite to your Church ? How can you pos jacket, es I was so frightened that I did not take parti- sibly hope to escape being turned over to the goats whilst cular notice. I think it was a dark jacket. When I you stand forth a Protestant in all but the name, at saw the prisoner come into the room last night, I didn't least in all that is most essential. I pass on to other know he was a prisoner ; but I then knew him, and matters. told a special constable that was the man. Ido be- Even admitting your tenets could be proved by " au lieve this is the man, but I won't swear that he is. thority and argument" the most ineontestible, there, When I saw him in nommercial-street, he was making is still a little affair, I think, to be settled before you his way back to Risca and the hills. can claim superior respect for your Church as an Moses Scard sworn and examined.—l am a police instrument of diffusing a rational faith ; I say officer. I remember the mob coming down armed to rational, for with your sentiments I cannot suppose attack the Westgate on Monday, the 4th of November. y o u object to a man's faith being rational. Of I saw a man with a wooden leg in the mob. I what use is it that your tenets were as true as truth noticed him particularly. He was nearly in the front itself, while your flock are only passive recipients ? of the mob. He was armed with a gun. He was march- What possible difference can it make whether what a ing with the rest, and appeared to be very active. He man is told to believe be false, or does not know that it went towards the yard gate. He had on, I believe, a is true ? and yet your Church exacts faith in her tenets flannel jacket, and a round black hat. I should know from the most crassid ignorance with as unsparing a him again. The prisoner is the man. I would swear denunciation against unbelief, as if every such believer to him amongst a thousand, I took so much notice of were qualified to examine the grounds of belief him at the time. At that time I was not more than for himself. If the investigation which you propose twelve yards from him. I was in front of the door be necessary to make you and me believers, it must be when the mob came round. I watched him for about no less so in every instance, and yet you treat the great a minute, and made observations to people in the crowd multitude of mankind as if they had nothing to do with about him. The passage was full. creeds but to swallow them, as our Tories think they William Johns, sworn and examined—l live at Mr. have nothicg to do with taxes but to pay them. I beg William Brewer's surgeon. I saw the attack on the you will consider the col de sac your Church has got Westgate on the morning of Monday, the 4th of No- into by exacting creeds of the multitude, while men of vember. I observed a one-legged man in the mob. He education are urged, as you press me now, to settle their had a gun in one hand and a stick in the other. There faith by acautious investigation of authority and argument. was a man with a sword, but he was not near the But you will perhaps tell us that your Church has wooden-legged man. The man with the sword told us found your tenets so absolutely true and undeniable boys at the end of the Westgate to go go away. The that no man, ignorant or educated, refuses them but at mob afterwards came in front of the Westgate. The his peril. Still I want to know by what talisman an mob began to fire. I did not see the man with the unlettered clown is to know, because his pastor is Extract from a letter received by the Mayor of woolen-leg do anything with his gun. But I afterwards knowing. The clown can surely have no property in Newport from the Chief Magistrate of one of the saw him ram down his gun as if he was loading. I an opinion more than you or I can, which is not born largest towns in the northern part of England : was only a yard from him. I think he had a fustian o f his own understanding. Is it in fact less absurd " From what lam able to ascertain, it appears very coa t on , and a " Jim Crow" hat. lam not quite cer- to hold that he can be saved from perdition by evident that there is a secret correspondence and organs- t a in it was fustian. I should know him again. I he- his pastor's skill in orthodoxy than from drowning by cation in all parts of the country. We have here, as have the prisoner to be the man. He was about the his skill in swimming, or fed by his science and excel the party at Newport, secret signs and watchwords, same height and appearance, but he has not now got lent skill in eating and drinking. You have to show, captains, &c., and some arms. From the accounts 1 on the same dress. I have not seen him since until to- in short, how his soul can be nourished any more than read in the papers, I find a very striking connection be- day. I know him by his features and his looks. his body by proxy. Yet you hold up your Church as tween the system adopted with you, and the one now in H en ry Bear sworn and examined—l live near the the only one fitted to make people orthodox, or give progress here." Salutation Inn, in Commercial-street, Newport. I saw them any sure hope of salvation. Do, pray consider The other occurrence which created great interest in a great many people go down the street out of the town this balderdash a little seriously, and let us have your the court was the appearance of Samuel Shell, the on the day of the riot. They were mostly armed. I honest Protestant opinion about it. father of George Shell, a young man of nineteen years saw amongst them a man with a wooden leg. He had You tell us to our beards that " Protestan of age, who was killed on the morning of the riots. He a gun in one hand and, I believe, a stick in the other. tism cannot be true, unless God left miserable was a cabinet-maker, of Pont-y-pool, and was a young He had on a dirty coloured flannel or fustian, I cannot man to guess, to alter, and to remodel articles man of good character and moral habits. He seems tell which, and a round crowned hat, I think it is what of belief, without any authority to decide controversies, to have had some presentiment of his end ; for, in ad- the boys call a " Jim Crow" hat. He came down to reject guesses and imaginary interpretations ;" and dition to the following letter, written on the very night c ommerc ial-street towards the Cardiff-road, from the in another place you say it is "a species of law that has of the commencement of the riots, he had in the course di rec ti on o f Westgate Hotel. That road leads to Risca no living justiciary to expound its meaning or define its of the week made several trifling presents to his most and the hills. I think I should know him again if I limits." Be so good as to bear with me while I endeae intimate friends. The father appears t o h ave suffe re d saw him in the same dress. He was a man of about your to meet these grave charges. greatly ;h e sa y s th a t a more d u tif u l c hild never lived ; forty years of age, dirty looking, and about five feet If you mean by Protestantism that form of religion, that it i s on ly w ithin the last twelve months that his son hi g h. The prisoner is like him, but I should not like to the vital and characteristic principle o f w hich, a s the f ac t has resid e d i n P on t.y.pool from under his care ; and he swear to him positively ; but I have no doubt he is the is, resides in the free unfettered use o f p r i va t e j u d gmen t , assist have imbibed his Chartist principles very recently , man. He is not in the same dress now. in the interpretation of the Scriptures, then I affirm , from the delusive representations of some of the By the Rev. Mr. Coles—He appeared about five feet with a boldness equal to your own, that so far from de leaders, hi g h. He was walking stooping with his gun in hi s ser ving your censure, it must clearly b e th e on ly true - Samuel Shell was sworn, N and deposed to the letter's hands. I was about two or three yards from him. It religion, the only true law of interpretation, as embracing being in the handwriting o f hi s son , an d that he had;re- was opposite the New Church. I took more particular the only principle by which a man can possibly know w h a t ceived it at Bristol, through the post-office, though it notice of him than of any other person. I saw him he can conscientously profess as his belief. It is the was evident that it had been opened before it reached rimming away, from his having a wooden leg. H e was o nly true religion, precisely for the reasons which you his bands tit had two wafers, and bore the Monmouth in my sight for a minute or a minute and a half ;he assign for denouncing it as false, namely, be post mark, and did not reac h hi m in B 'awl till the made a stand, and sto o p ed down as if to p ick u p som e- cause " God has left man (in many cases) to Thursday atter it • Bristol was written. The wretched man thing. He was then not m ore than three or fo ur yards co n j ecture, to alter, and to remodel," as I shall also deposed to his having . written a few lines, as follows, from me , and from again lookin g at him now, ind eed , I p resentl y show by a memorable and most damnatory te, his sop very recently, have no doubt but he is the man. exam p le culled from your own Church. Why he has Copy of a letter from the fath er o f Sh e ll to his son. Herbert Williams s worn and examined—l am a been pleased to leave so much to conjecture, so much " Oh! George , my son, it ~. ever you listened to the voice of your father, listen to me now. Don't let your as mine have been." chemist and druggist , ru gist residing i n Commercial-street. I the limits of which cannot be defined—why so muck h in el s l ie tO his father and moth er : was standing , on g the ' morning of the riots, about fifty where we feel it necessary to guess and remodel, is quite youthful days be spent s Copy of a letter from yards from the Westgate, on the opposite side of the another question, of which it were presumptuous to at. 4t p on t-y-pool, Sunday Night, Nov. 3 way. After the attack on the Westgate, and the mob tempt the solution. But as many portions of the Scrip. engaged in I shall this nig t be " Dear Parents—l hope this will find you well, as I had dispersed about five minutes , I saw a man with a tore are confessed on all hands to be mysterious, flue am myself at present. wooden leg ;he had a gun in his hand. I did not see tuition of opinion becomes a necessity. To suppose fas.a—sPliaarerrll him . do . anything with his gun at that time. I saw him men doomed, as your Church holds, for not being able a struggle for freedom ; and, should on butit' please God to spare my life, I shall see you . so ; i not, g ri eve not again in f about ten h minutes ; I was then standing at th e irrevocably to settle their opinions on mysterious Scrip for me — l s hall have fallen in a noble cause. My tools corner omy own ouse. _He came down Commercial - tures , were blasphemy aga i n st h ea ven ;it were to app l y are at Mr. Cecil's, and likewise naT , G clo E t o h ß e , Street from the front of the . Westgate ; hHe He t a n d e n a h gu ad n t d o ev a ou gr r a e e d io a u l s l P w r h o o vid a e t n te e m e p th te e d fa t b o le e o x f p t ia h i e n S h p .i h s y ce nx o , jg w m h a o s " Yours, truly, . in his hand then. He was going quietly. without success, and to suppose that he deli his in the still continue Accounts from the iron districts favour. destruction of his creatures—the Bible, in place of the able, except in the neighbourhood of Pont-y-pool, an d dirty. I noticedthe more than his dress. I did a light fustian coloured dress on, which was a little notyn.oti hi hat. I means of salvation, being only a snare to entrap into the Varteg and British Iron Company's works, where only dou e b e t I s had f bi s s aw b 'n ni the same man arose from eism in your professing the meshes of its fatal web. There is a palpable sole some considerable uneasiness still prevails., according to being the same man. his Navin a different dress el g I have now looked at man hi mysteries, but intelligible truths about which the repost of a gentleman whom I have just seen from t!____ damn the . i." 4ll closely, and have no doubt in y t o s t i fied, expound they mysteries.would h e no f that neighbourhood. could be no plea for any diversity of opinion. isoner,having been duly cautioned, was asked ' t tl ß o r h ue ne et gr h i ee d , r e s, we are expressly told by the unerring word of Extract of a letter from Mr. Homfray, a large iron The Pr _ what he had to say in his defence, and made the follow that we see here as through a. glass darkly, and master, of Bedweltry-house, near Merthyr : " All is quiet here, and not a word mentioned about ing statement • I am quite innocent of this crime ; I Merthyr being was in bed on the Sunday gby eight o'clock. otherwise. lam going to Pennydarran absurd to expect all men should see alike evening to-morrow to dinner, and if there is anything worth, I I rose about where none can see clearly. seven on the Monday morning. I have I will let you know per post." witnesses, if I could send to Blackwood to fetch them But you urge unity of faith on the plea that " truth it were THE EXAMINATION.—FainaIr. I d o wn, who would clear me. The constabl es who took is one, and cannot be divided," and that "nothing can Magistrates and professional gentlemen present : :me beard several say that they would swear that I was be of more importance than the true faith." Who will The Rev. J. Coles, Octavius Morgan, Egg., the lat home that mo rnin g between seven and ei ght o'clock. doubt such truisms? of what use are they, since they 1 • can only apply to truths which are intelligibly revealed ? You deprecate hypocrisy as one of the attributes of our religion, but to stickle for unity of faith on de bateable matter is clearly to make the very hypo-1 crates you denounce. Very justly you tell us "if a man be not sincere in the belief of that faith which he outwardly professes, his condition must be dangerous." But bow can he possibly be sin cere if tied down to one opinion on questions that necessarily admit of a variety ? The plain fact is that it is not the profession of a truth that renders a man's condition secure any more than the profession of what is not true makes it dangerous. His condition in pro- fessing anything true or false can clearly only be dan gerous when his profession is at variance with his belief. On the Protestant principle of private judg ment a man's condition can never be dangerous but by his own fault, as that principle never requires him to profess what his judgment does not perfectly sanction. Nay, on such questions it is not only absurd and irra tional to require a man to coincide with creeds dictated by others, but no less so that he should agree unchangeably with himself, his conclusions being uncontrollably liable to alter with the variations of the data and the modes of reasoning he employs ; and therefore I repeat, that to avoid hypocrisy he must do the very thing you condemn—he must alter and remodel. Galileo, whose case is hinted at above, had been no less a hypocrite for professing that the earth went round the sun, when his opinion might have been that the sun went round the earth, than if, through a pious scruple to remodel his opinion, he had persisted, like the Pope, doggedly, though orthodoxly, in the latter notion after facts showed him his error. But to smooth all these difficulties, you present your Church as an "authority to decide," " a living justiciary," ever at hand to clear up and to remove obscurities. The Church, you will allow, was rather unfortunate in the affair of poor Galileo ! at least that infallible living justiciary the Pope was out for once in his life, insisting as he did, and for a series of years too, on the sun going round this " sin-worn" globe of ours with all the laudable pertinacity of an article of faith ; and on the plea of Unity he certainly had as good a right to compel assent to this error as to any other tenet of Catholic belief. We are to hope, how ever, that he saw some reason at last to alter and remodel his creed, and if he did, what becomes of your grand objection to Protestantism, that it alters and remodels, when it can quote the practice of the Pope? To be sure it was a case where his Holiness's infallibility could be demonstrated to have made a slip (aliquando bonus dor mitat Homeras) as clearly as two and two make four, but had the point been of a less demonstrable nature, would his bigotry in insisting upon an unhesitating assent to his opinion have been one whit less? We know what the fate of the unhappy philosopher was for refusing to be bound to the rule of Unity. Again, let me ask when your Church acts the justi ciary in some abstruse cases, are her decisions much less perplexing than the Scriptures they were intended to clear up ? If not, what do we gain, seeing the explana tion needs a justiciary quite as much as the thing to be explained. Transubstantiation, e. g., is repugnant to all human experience, and to all the ordinary laws of reasoning ; and can we suppose, without sinning against the mercy of God, that he should require us to abuse his best gift of reason in believing—and on pain of damnation, too—any dogma of man's, which is repug nant to his reason ? I am surely rather justified to doubt your living justiciary on a perplexed and controverted passage, than the evidence of my senses, and the con clusions of my understanding. You may tell me that a wafer is God, just as the Pope told Galileo that the sun went round the earth, on the credit of your infal libility ; but if I am not convinced of your infallibility by a better reason than that which leads me to be lieve the wafer only a wafer still, I shall not only be justified in doubting the fact, but be a rank hypo crite to profess any beiief in it at all. Indeed, such belief is plainly impossible, though we sought it with no matter what earnestness, unless you can show that we have the power to believe what we like, which every man knows to be as impossible as " to change the hue of his skin or the height of his stature." If your Church be so infallible a justiciary as you represent it, how will you account for the swarm of what you call heresies which infested it from the very begin. ning. History acquaints us that men, not only ordinary men, but Popes themselves, often took the liberty of differing upon articles of faith. Widely, and most stoutly too, did they dispute, anathematizing one another without mercy, (one Pope was actually dug up to have con dign punishment dealt on his dissentient head by flinging it into the Tiber), nor were the councils of Popes less bitterly and obstinately at variance. But I have heard that our Church, altering and remodelling her creed, has come of late to disclaim infallibility, a fact which, if true, rather impairs than improves her credit, for if guilty of misleading at any one time, how can she ever be trusted again ? The Vicar-General of Dublin may perhaps expound this mystery. Upon the whole,then, have I:not some right to retort that in place of our religion not being true, it is yours that incurs the full weight of this censure, as standing on the assumption of an authority which I. have shown historically to be without foundation, whose decisions, even if Late, are useless, as being incomprehensible, and if even understood by learned justiciaries, leave the unlettered multitude, will we hope have souls to be saved as well as the Pope, just where they were—com pletely in the dark. I hope you will do me the justice to believe that I am speaking without one spice of unfriendly or bigotted feeling. What I say of-your Church in prescribing cut-and-dry articles of faith I say of my own—the Church of England and her creeds as by law esta blished. It is clearly guilty no less of an intolerant spirit than yours if it did nothing worse than wield the thunders of St. Athanasius. It is immea surably more culpable than yours, inasmuch as, professing to leave us freely to our private judgment, it u nblushingly abandons the principle by which it exists, and the very climax of criminality has been reached by her using thy mendacious pro fession of this principle, as the means for supplanting your establishment, and pillaging its revenues, thus making merchandise of a hollow profession, and adding to robbery the crime of the hypocrite and the traitor. If you can pardon what may appear a piece of imper tinence, but which never can deserve to be so called while I hold the high respect I do for your character and illustrious services to our common country, I would beg to ask is there not some slight smack of the intole rant old Church in your so sturdily claiming for it a superiority over all others ? I am the more puzzled to understand this, as, in seculars I believe there exists not a sturdier foe to every species of monopoly than your self. Do you believe, when we shallall, of every sect and denomination, stand waiting for our turn at the bar of final judgment, we should then be in a temper to indulge this exclusive spirit, and to impugn the tenets of our fellow-sinners? Rather should we not be more likely to distrust being right ourselves, tremulously sus picious of our own condition, apt, indeed, to believe all others more right than ourselves than prone to de nounce. And that charitable misgiving which you then would feel, ought it not to govern our dispositions to wards each other now P We are told by the common authority to which we all bow, that charity is the whole end of religion. We have the same unerring authority for believing that the time approaches when there will be but one fold and one shepherd, and then will all sectarian differences merge in the one simple de nomination of Christians, all united in one com mon bond of charity and fellowship. The conscien tious worshipper, whatever be his speculative er rors, is still a conscientious worshipper, and, we are to hope, an object of God's mercy. These at least are my notions of tolerance ; yes, and I can practice them too ; I can and have . joined in worship with my fellow Christians in churches of all denominations, with the same feelings of fellowship and devotion as ever I knelt at the altar of my own. As I have professed myself ready and willing to be come your convert, provided my objections are removed ; it will not be asking too much of zeal like yours, zeal so fearfully anxious for the salvation of poor heretics, if I look for some reply to deliver me from my difficulties, more particularly as they are the difficulties of every denomination of re ligionists to which you affix the brand of Protestantism. Convinced as I am of the absolute liberality of your nature, I am quite at a loss to know why you have entered the field of religious agitation. Had you come to the tournament with any new weapon besides assertion, there might be some excuse for your taking a tilt at our Mother Church, for she certainly is fair game enough. But it is surely a little supererogatory your appealing at this time of day to any fresh investigation of your tenets by Pro testants, which has already made its report more than 300 years since. So much for the religious view of this subject—the political I leave untouched, merely observing that the present seems hardly the best chosen time for such ex periments, while High Church r ancour is straining its last nerve to influence the prejudices of the bigot-mob of her retainers, and your address can only furnish a text for the fresh agitations of the O'Sullivans and Magees._ But your patience must be e xhausted ; I know mine is, and yet many things are left o u nsaid. Lee only hope you will take the freedom in god part, w t m ith which I have responded to your call. Right or wrong you have my honest sentiments, and I would not compro mise them to her Majesty, much as I like her. Should you think me intrusive, recollect you invited the in quill'. I have the honour to remain, with great respect Your sincere servant, ARTHUR BROOKE FAULKNER, The carpet trade at Kidderminster is now, it is reported, very brisk.— Worcester Journal. HOW TO ENFORCE S ILE NCE.—The offic ers of the Scotch Criminal Courts create disturbance by calling " Silence" to the auditory. In Cork they ma nage the matter better ; they writ e ." Silence" in large - letters on a piece o f pasteboard , stick it into the cleft end of a long white rod, and wave it in the face of an y oseavopicroediuseeheciauridesreinscine! the admonition i s e n forced above a whispe r . If one th whose s do es n by a rap on the nead with the rod.—Phrenolo gical Magazine. A ROYAL LOVE AFFAIR ---sag.----- The Courrier Francais gives the following from Frankfort : " it has been stated in the German Journals, that the Hereditary Grand Duke fell ill on his journey to War saw, and was returning to St. Petersburg. Tue Prince did, in fact, stop at Mohileu, but his indisposition was a moral and not a physical one. Before his late journey into Germany and England, the Grand Duke, who in taste and character very much resembles his uncle, the Emperor Alexander, whose name he bears, had fallen deeply in love with one of the maids of honour of the Empress his mother. The young lady, repelled his advances, till the Prince, excited by passion, declared he would marry her. The Emperor Nicholas, on being made acquainted with this vow, sent for his ' grand galliard,' as he is accustomed to call his eldest son, scolded him roundly, ordered him to travel abroad, and not to return until he had become affianced to some foreign princess. It seems to be the fate of the Princes of the family of Itoinanow to be attracted by females of the countries which they oppress. The Grand Duke Constantine married a Polish lady, and she who has inspired the strong passion in the oreast of the present Hereditary Grand Duke is the daughter of General Kallinowski, formerly Aide-de-camp to Murat, when King of Naples, who, atter the fall of the empire, and the death of his master, was inscribed in the black books in the po lice in every kingdom of Europe. Proscribed as a member of the Italian Carbonari—known to be brave and adventurous, though somewhat of a braggadocio— General Kallinowsky was the terror of all Italy, and yet we find his daughter among the Maids of Ho nour of the Empress of Russia. The heir of the Czar, in his travels, taken in obedience to his father's commands, having passed in review all the Princesses ou the list given to him by the Emperor Nicholas, arrived at Darmstadt, where he found one whose name was not in the catalogue, and impelled, probably by the spirit of opposition, declared that he preferred ' her to all others. The Emperor received his son with open arms, and desired hien, after resting a few days, to return to Darmstadt. But, in the meantime, the Prince had been again in company with Mdlle. Kallinowsky, and had scarcely left St. Petersburg when he repented of what he hid done, and, on reaching Mohdeu, refused to proceed. The Emperor now forbids his return to St. Petersburg ; the Prince persists in not continuing his journey, and thus remains like the coffin of Mahomet. In the meantime the Court of the Grand Duke of Hesse Darmstadt is in a state of great disquietude, and worse still, it suffers its chagrin to be apparent. Recently the police of Darmstadt has seized a great many lithographic portraits of the Princess, which have been printed at Manheim, and exposed fur sale in the capital. The reason for this seizure is that the name of the Princess is inscribed at the bottom of the portrait in the German, French, and Russian languages, describin g her in the latter as the affianced bride of the Grand Duke of Russia. M. de Brunow, who is now at Darmstadt, where he is accredited as well as at Stuttgardt, is badly rewarded for his glorious mission to London, for he is placed in a very delicate position. He is at a loss what to say to the Court, where all the saloons are decorated, and preparations made for a grand festival in honour of the expected bridegroom. He cannot leave it for Stutt gardt, as the Emperor desires him to remain to receive his son. Thus he risks the loss of his diplomatic re putation at this Court, because the son of his master, being infatuated with a pretty Polish girl, will not come into Germany." TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUA. SIR,—In The Sun of this evening the gas accident at our house being so very greatly exaggerated, and in other respects incorrectly noticed, we think it right to state-- Ist., That the statement of the extent of the mischief is unwarranted. 2d., That the accident was occasioned by the bursting of an India rubber bag con taming common gas (carburetted hydrogen) which was taken for oxygen by one of our men. We are, Sir, your most obedient servants, HANCOCK and CO. 1, Cockspur-street, Nov. 16, 1839. EXTENSIVE QUESTS CHARITABLE BE . The will of T. Hill, Etq., formerly of South Lam beth, Surrey, and late of Serbiton, near Kingston-on- Thames, has just been proved in Doctors ' Commons, by John Squire, James Brady, Thomas Willett, and Charles Bennett, Esqrs., executors. The property ha; been sworn under 120,000/. The testator has given the following legacies : To the Middlesex Hospital £l,OOO To the Blind School To the Female Orphan Asylum l,OOO To the Deaf and Dumb Asylum 2,000 o the Female Orphan School, Hampstead-road 500 To Lord Eldon's School, situate at Battersea 500 To the Licensed Victuallers' Sch00l To each of his Executors the SUM of And the residue of his property, amounting to about 80,0001., after giving several small legacies and annuities in his will, he bequeaths to the London Missionary So ciety. The will is dated in 1836. By a codicil in his own handwriting, made in September, 1839, he has re voked the bequest of the residue of his property, and has directed the same to be divided into four equal parts, to be paid to the following charitable institutions, namely— To the Loudon ?Missionary Society To the Home Missiotrary Society '20,000 To the London Bible Society To the London Evangelical Society 20,000 Which last legacy is to form a fund, the proceeds thereof to be paid to the widows of Evangelical Ministers only. So large a sum of money has not ever before been be. queathed by any individual, with the exception of Mr. Day, the blacking manufacturer, who left 100,0001. for the purpose of endowing an hospital for blind persons. Mr. D. himself having been blind for many years pre vious to his death. The deceased died a widower, with out any relative whatever. Dr. Hamilton, for many years Professor of Mid wifery in the University of Edinburgh, expired at his re sidence in St. Andrew's-square on Thursday morning. There are a great many candidates for the chair. Dr. Robert Lee, of Golden-square, London, well known for his skill in practice, and his writings and discoveries, on subjects connected with his profession, is, from All accounts likely to be elected his successor. CORN.LAW COMMERCIAL LEAGUE.—MANCHSTER, THURSDAY EVENING.—A special general meeting of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce and Manufac tures met Dr. Bnwring on Thursday, to hear a commu nication respecting the state and prospects of our re lations to the countries comprisedin the German Com mercial League. At the time appointed there was a large muster of the members present, the " Chamber " being completely crowded. Dr. Bowring was intro duced to the assembly by John Benjamin Smith, Esq., the President, and was greeted with several rounds of applause. Amongst the gentlemen present we observed Mark Phillips, Esq., M.P., Joseph Brotherton, Esq., M. p., Holland Hoole, Esq., Vice-President of the Chamber, Alderman John Brooks, Boroughreeve of Manchester, Alderman Kershaw, Alderman Callender, Alderman Cobden, Alderman Roberts, Thomas Hilt on Bayley, Esq., Boroughreeve of Salford, Robert Gard ner, Esq., Benjamin Pearson, Esq., Henry Ashw or th, Esq., William Lawson, Esq., John Potter, Esq., Henry Tootal, Esq., and most of the respectable merchants and manufacturers of the town. The Learned Gentle man gave a long description of the German Commercial League, of the progress of manufactures in Germany, and of the ruinous effects of our own legislation on our well-being. At the close of the meeting, resolutions were passed in favour of perfect free trade. We shall on a future occasion give the principal part of Dr. Bowring's address. The Earl and Countess of Lincoln are still stny'ng at Ranby Hall, near Retford. The Countess continues to enjoy most excellent health. DRURY-LANE THEATRE.—Cinderella con tinues to be played at this house with increasing suc cess. Miss Delcy has, at once, taken high ground ; and when we consider her extreme youth, and the conse quent immaturity of her voice, we are fain, from her present achievement, to augur for her a most prosperous and most brilliant career. There is so much freshness, so much, if we may use the term, natural sparkle in he r voice, that even the redundancy of ornament with which she has been made to oppress and overlay it, cannot destroy it. Nature does not endow many with voices such as her's ; it were therefore indeed a pity that the beautiful gift should be spoilt by the musical embroidery worker. The opera throughout is very creditably per formed. EQUESTRIAN HlNTS.—There is a race of young sportsmen who, though they don't shine in after years, can make horses go that nobody else will ride— butchers' boys. A horse that can't be kept upon his legs will carry them along as briskly as a five'year old, and never make a false step ; there must be a something be tween them and the animal that nobody but a butcher's boy can understand. The reins hanging as loose as a halter, and, with their baskets across their arm, they sail on full gallop as easily as madam in a sedan chair. I always think when they are on the back of a hos that they are the most saucy, independent, and happy rogues in the world. I remarked this the other day, when a spruce young gentleman was riding along, and his hos shied at a coal cart and threw him over the pummel of his saddle. A butcher's boy ridin alter sings out—" I say, mister, the next time that you goes by a hos, I'd recommenc you to g et inside and pullhupd the blinds ;" with this he dashed p ast, and only laugake e at the gentleman who whipped a nd spurredt o overt a and punieh his impudence. There's nothing like butcher's hos and boy for a.trottin match. nult-rider. " Teddy, me boy, jist guess how many cheehses),thfiere's in this here bag, an faith I'll give ye the. w ye.' Diva, says Teddy. ‘• Ariab, by soul, ba (.1 t o the man that tould ye 1" EVENING EDITfON2 THE MARKETS• COUNTRY CORN M OM AME PERS RICAN PA- SUICIDE.—The colonel of a regiment of militia down east, was informed lately that one of his sons had run 7 7, - " his sword through hii body. On inquiry he found i cAtti..l, that he had sold the sword for liquor , whi ch he had I,l,'Jtu' drunk. I Pe Brit DEFINITION OF LOVE.—A little sighing, a little crying, a littie dying, and a deal of lying. Fer i A PRESS OE BUSINESS. — WiII cur paper-maker (c,aarrtniitta please to call at this office, 21, Ann-street, and get Cowbri the money for the paper he sent yesterday-250 dol lars, I believe. We sire so busy at the Herald-office, Barn rh ar that we have no time to se nd him his mone y . Dua' Richm VALUE OF PAPER MONEY. -- The Schuylkill Bank, stockti at Philadelphia, seems to have taken suspension in the second degree. A gentleman i.‘resented four of its five-dollar notes at its counter on Friday, and asked for specie, and they said no. He then asked for other bills, and they sa id no. Will you give me anything for them ?" and they said no. AFFECTIONATE.—A Connecticut Jonathan, in taking a walk with his dearest, came to a bridge, when he honestly said, after paying his toll (which was one cent), " Come, Suke, you must pay your own toll, for just as like as not I shan't have you arter all." sivv Winch COUNTY COURT OF REQUES TS. Mr. Johnson, a respectable tailor, was summoned by a girl, apparently about sixteen years of age, for twelve weeks' wages. Mr. Commissioner DUBOIS—What reason has your master given for witholding, your wages ? Girl-- Please, Sir, I went. into the back parlour to put it to rights, while missis and master were down in the kitchen haying breakfast, and as I saw a piece of cloth on the counter, I went into the shop just to look at it, and as I was playing with the shears, they slipped and cut the cloth. So, as I was afraid my master would see the place, I cut the piece off and took it into the kitchen, and put it into the drawer. My master found out the piece of cloth, and he sent me away without my wages. Mr. Commissioner Dußois—Do I understand you to say that you accidentally cut a piece of cloth from another piece which you went into the shop merely to look at ? Girl—Yes, Sir. Mr. Commissioner Dußors—And that you then took the cloth into the kitchen and bid it in a drawer, because you wanted to conceal the accident. Girl— Yes, Sir. Mr. Commissioner Dußois--Upon my word an ex traordinary story indeed I think I could tell what a Jury at the Central Criminal Court would think of it. Defendant (throwing down a piece of cloth, about a quarter of a yard wide) —There is the piece the girl cut off and placed in the kitchen-drawer. She went into the shop, and with the shears cut it off a roll that was on the counter. When the theft was discovered the cloth was found in the kitchen-drawer, with a quan tity of cigars, and a lawn handkerchief and a pair of silk stockings belonging to my wife. Mr. Commissioner Dußois (to the girl)—Afler this do you still mean to say the cloth was cut by accident? Girl—Yes, Sir. I was playing with the shears and they slipped out of my hand and cut the piece of cloth: Mr. Commissioner Dußois—Well, such a " slip" as you experienced has been the means of transporting many persons. Pray were you taken before a Ma gistrate ? Girl—No ; I was only ha& up before an inspector, and the inspector thought it was better to let me go. Defendant—The fact is, the girl, as soon as the rob bery was found out, ran away. I discovered her and gave her into custody. The inspector however thought, as the girl was so young, it would be better not to pro secute ; and so, after she had been in the station-house a few hours, I agreed to release her. Mr. Commissioner DUBOIS—You acted with more humanity than prudence. But we'll hear what the Jury says as to the demand. The Jury found a verdict for the defendant. Mother—But my daughter has not been paid her wages, and that's what she has summoned her master here for. Mr. Commissioner Dußois—We never give wages under such circumstances. Your daughter has been proved to be a thief. Mother—No, she hasn't, and it's a shame she isn't paid what's due to her. She ought to have justice. Mr. Commissioner DUBOIS—Oh, she shall have it if you choose. Come, we'll send her before a Magistrate, and then you will hear what the Magistrate's opinion of the matter is. The mother and her hopeful daughter made the best of their way out of Court. Gentlemen," said Mr. Commissioner DUBOIS, ad dressing the Jury, " this girl has exhibited the most extraordinary instances of s implicity I ever met with. First, in the invention of such a story, and next in the supposition that any sane person would believe it." AN OWL " FAR, FAR AT SEA.—The ship, Marga ret, which arrived at this port on Friday last from Quebec, has brought home a prisoner of rather an extraordinary description. This is a fine owl, which was captured at sea, not less than 500 miles from any land. Whither the solitary bird was voyaging is not irst second third known. EARTHQUAKES.—The latest arrivals from the Mediterranean state that Vesuvius is inwardly con vulsed, and thick clouds of smoke cover the mountain top, the vapour of which is so very prejudicial to the nines in the immediate neighbourhood, that the Govern ment has remitted the taxes of the growers. It is a remarkable fact that the eruptions of Vesuvius have, almost in every case, been preceded by alarming indica tions of the volcanic action in Perthshire. About a month ago, it will be recollected that some smart shocks were felt at Crieff and Cowrie. It now turns out that, almost immediately afterwards, Vesuvius became con vulsed. It thus appears that there must be a chain of strata, of uniform sympathy, stretching from the Gram pian and Ochil Hills to Italy. There is nothing in the history of Scotland to show that earthquakes were pe culiar to Perthshire previous to the great earthquake at Lisbon ; but, since that time, they have been more or less common ; and, on the assumption that a chain of electrical strata does exist in this direction, the conclusion might be drawn that " the foundations of the earth," so to speak, we re then .‘ "rent ;" and thus, according to Daubeny's hypothesis, wate! l a t mo spheric air" would thereafter find comparatively easy access " throug h the channels in the rocks, and, reaching the heat which is believed to " exist below a g iven point of the ear th ' s surface," produce the volcanic action. From the borings which have been made in Perthshire in search of coal, the strata have been proved to he highly charged with electricity, more especially in the valley of Strathearn ; and it has also been demon strated that the heat there is not far from the earth's surface. Loch Earne, too, never freezes—a phenomenon exclusively applicable to that lake, as compared with others of equal dimensions in Scotland. Taking all these circumstances into account, we think they open up a very interesting and inviting field for the father inves tigation of physical science in connection with volcanic phenomena, and we hope the attention of scientific gen tlemen will be early directed to the subject. In the garden of Mr. Peck, of Rushwick, was yesterday dug a carrot, measuring one foot five inches in circumference, and weighing four pounds.— Worces ter Journal. MARYLEBONE VESTRY, SATURDAY.—Mr. Da niell, the Churchwarden, having taken the chair, it was moved and seconded that the minute appointing a Com mittee to inquire into the means of improving the reve nues of the district Churches of the parish be confirmed Dr. Dibdin opposed the motion. He said the resolution was most reprehensible ; no persons but the Bishop, Rector, or Churchwardens, had the power to interfere in matters connected with the Church, either spiritual or temporal ; the resolution implied an unjust censure on the conduct of those having the management of places worship, and an insinuation that he (Dr. Dibdin) had not done his duty. Those present had nothing snore to do with the churches, while there, than to kneel down and say their prayers, and heat the doctrines pro pounded. There had been but 101. deficiency in St. Mary's Church. The Committee sought to alter the arrangements of the choir, into which they wished to introduce fiddles ; he deemed this attempt as wrong in principle and as illegal. Lord Stowell had decided that no persons, hut those above stated, had a right to inter fere with the doctrines, worship, or management of the Church. Messrs. Savage, Rathbone, Jackson, and G. A.Young, were against the confirmation of the m inute. conceiving that the vestry were not legally authorised to interfere in the way proposed. Messrs. Biers,Theobald, Gibson, Loder, and Joseph, were in favour of the Com mittee, and contended for the right of the Vestry to interfere. The last-named Vestryman said that the desire of those in favour of the Committee was to makemusic introduced, as in the Roman Catholic Chapels. Mr. Kensett said that he was i n duced to bring forward the motion from the following facts :—Since the year 1811 nearly 270 ar ,000/. had been expended upon the Ch urc h es of this parish, an d the p ishioners were still sa ddl e d with a Church -rate, which he thought was caused by bad management. There had been a varying deficiency in the receipts compared with the expenditure of all the Churches, w hilst the Dissenting Chapels more than supported themselves. Baker. street Cnapel, w hich three years since was bankrupt, had, in consequence of a more popular preacher and better management, an annual net income of 6001. or 7001. ; this convinced him that the introduction of similar attractions into the district Churches would prevent them from being any longer a burthen to the parish. Dr. Dibdin having re plied, the question was put from the chair, when there appeared—For the motion 23, against it 21 ; majority in favour of app o i nt i ng t h e C omm ittee, 2.—The Vestry then broke up. Ever since the severe shock on the night of the 23d ultimo, the earthquake has been felt, though slightly, we may say, through the course of every night since, in this place. Being now accustomed to it, the alarm is not so great ; but in Comrie, fear pro caii, Lo a great extent—the cotieusious being much severer there than about this place.—Aberdeen Journal. - - ,RKETS DURIN feafE. ,T ER. F. to s. 29 I 'cheat. 1 Barley. 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Barley, Malting, 'lorfolk and Suffblk 33s. 4.55. ...... -5. -s. :.'..1 --- Grinding and Fs,eding .25 365...... -s. -s. r, Pease, ish;.lt, Norfolk and Suffolk 64s 70s . -s• -s , C- BeaW , , Small ---.- Tick 42s 44, ...... -s -8. ~.., White 426 435. ..„ -s. -s. , ---- Gray Cats, Northurai;erland, Potatoe 3os. 315 ..... - -S. ... - 5 . - --3 . -------- ---------.- Feed ---Foreign . .......... a. 10.. :;Is -s. - ssi 53s -s. -s *, Flour (per sackl _..... WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET -Noy. 15 Wneat, Red, Norfolk and 5ufr01k......... -a. Os. to 67 5. fine . fide TN. ---- Lin. and Cam. ............... -s. Ms. to 66 665. ---- Yorkshire ....................... -5. 50s. to 625. fine 668. --- White -s. SO3. to 655. fine 745. ----- Foreign, Iced -s. -a. to 745. nne SO! White Barley, L incoln and sutrolk --- L ... Lincolnshire ---- York , ture Wold - Foreign Beans, New ----- ld O Oats, Potato -s. to 3:ls. fine 3f , - - Poland -s. -s. to :52...... fine f 6s, - Criezlans l and Sins) , -- It.:.!ating honing . ~!.... eseed iap - S. 8 4l - 48 - . 40 42 45 s. d. 00 00 56 )0 50 5. 1 56 60, Wheat. 40 42 1-TCII MARKETS. Earley. 5 33 s. d. s. 9. 00 00 00 u• 00 00 00 00 Oats. I Beans. Oatut 32 to 36 40 43 kl.crcleen 7C to 60 21 to 30 24 to 27 —to Berwick 33 LO 20 27 17 25 33 33 Coldstream Cora 68 (Fife) 4 , 65 126 31 Pi 22 2'2 26 ; Dunbar Elgin - Inverness Kelso . 42 51 23 26 19 23 32 34 -- Kirkaldy .... 162 67 , 36 33 45 48 43 Perth LS , The stz, of the measure varies throughout the country. HA DDINGEON CORN MARKET.—Nov. 15. 1 Wheat. Barley. Oats. Pease. Sls Od 44s 03 28s od 49s Od 656 Od 36s 03 25s 65 4ls Od 555 Od 36s Od 20s Od $ 38s 03 Avtrag, .................... 31. 5.. Ca 16-12th. DALKEITH CORN MARK ET.—Nov. 14 Wheat. t Barleyl Oats. Pease. 1 Beans. N irst BO6 Od 1 42s 00 1 28. 85 1 44s Od 1 44s 02 •ieconn (*a: 03 I 3,1 a Od I 2 5 s 48 —s 0d —s Od Third VIMMMM.=M - - 40 42 Beans. 44s Od Od —e Od Hereditary wealth is in reality a premium paid to idleness, an immense qnnuity expended to retain mankind in brutality and ignorance. The poor are kept in ignorance for the want of leisure. The rich are furnished indeed with the means of cultivation and lite rature, but they are paid for being dissipated and indo- lent.—Godwin. A carrot, of extraordinaiy size, has this week been politely sent to us by Henry Stracey, Esq., which was grown in that gentleman's garden, at Kirby Bedon ; its weight is 50bs. ; it is eighteen inches long, and its greatest circumference fifteen inches. It can be seen by any one calling at our office. The above gentlemen pulled a parsnip a fortnight since weighing five pom:ds, minus 5 oz. ; a nd he has also some potatoes remarkable for their size. Sir Edward Stracey has potatoes of even gt eater weight, at Rackheath, but these are again exceed,ed by some grow n by Sir Henry Durrant , o f Scottow. Gem of those grown at the latter place, we understand, weighs three pounds.—Norfolk Chronicle. PRO VINCIAL.—There is little news from the country , if we except the intelligence from Newport, at which locality we may observe, by the way, the insur rectionar y movement appears to have been limited, for save in So uth Wales no symptom of a Chartist rising is seen. The country, however, exhibits in many instances% a frightfu record of rural crime. Stealing from fields, barns, and houses, is of nightly occurrence almost every where, and the state of society in the provinces gene rally, shows at least one thing plainly, it proves that the protecting duties on corn do not secure the rich, on the one band, from constantly recurring depreda tion, nor, on the other, do they appear to procure those comforts for the labouring poor, the possession of which form the best preventive to the commission of crime. FAILURE OF THE EXPERIMENTAL FOOT PATH IN ST. JAMES'S PARK.—On Friday the experi• mental new gravel footpath, which was made of the tar of gas spread over with grave), being found not to answer, was fenced in, so that the public cannot walk on it. The gas tar, by walking on the pave', worked through it, and became a dhesive to the passengers' boots and shoes. The smell arising from the tar is most obnoxious. The whole of it has proved a com plete failure. PUBLIC HISTORY.—A register of the sue ceases and disappointments, the vices, the follies, and the quarrels of those who engage in contentions for power.—Palcy. A WONDERFUL AND CERTAIN CURE FOR GOUT ANT) RHEUMATISM.-- , -If those who suffer with these dreadful comp laints would persevere for a time with " Holloway's Ointment" as an external applica tion, and his " External Disease Pill" to be ta ken et the same time, these remedies would effectually era dicate from the system the most inveterate Gout or Rheumatism that ever assailed it. Nothing is more certain than that they perform t housands of most traordinary cures in every class of External Diseases , and no family throughout ithout them. Every respect able chemist througthe kingdom keeps them, or they may be had at 13, Broad-street Buildings, City, the establishm ent of the Proprietor, where advice il given g ratis. CREDITORS OF THE DUKE OF YORK. We have great pleasure in stating that his Royal High ness the Duke of Sussex has consented to act as Dukead mi nistrator to t h e estates of his late brother, the bert of York. The death of his executors, Sir Her Taylor and Sir Benjamin Stephenson, rendered this step necessary. Her Royal Highness the Princess So phia is residuary legatee, and although her Royal Higiiness has always been willing to abandon her claims in favour of the creditors, still she has a right, through her illustrious brother, to protect her own interests as well as that of the creditors. The latter are deeply sen sible of the kindness of the Duke of Sussex, and ear nestly hope that some means will now be found to ex * pelite the adjustment of their claims.—Correspondent qf the Observer. On Saturday, at the Kensington Petty Sessions, a number of omnibus drivers on the western road 3r_ peered at the instance of the police before the Bench, cud answer summonses for furious driving, obstruction, a n ~ for loitering, In most of the c ases, the evidence vv", conclusive, and the defendants were fined in mitigate penalties. It is understood the the police have reeelv:u strict orders to enforce that clause of the new act wil e imposes a penalty of 40s. on the driver of every Pu b i • carriage" which obstructs a public thoroughfare a lone; time than is necessary "to take up or set down by gers," " a desideratum devoutly to be wished" bY t omnibus-going public. of In consequence of the late heavy rains, relyllo..flg P- the lowlands of the county have been com,,d. flooded, and much stock has been injured or destrol",‘, Several small bridges have also been damaged bY ti; jo swelling of the rivers. In some p laces where ferer run across public roads, there has b een great dangot, in crossing them, and a few d a y s since an acc at ide nearly attended with fatal conseq uences, happened the ford across the Culm , be tween Huxham an d St ° Canon.—lrestern Times LC es' LONDON -MADE SILVER L. , Cas fes 3 WATCHES, Six Guineas each , or, in H u ntin g Shillings each extra. ucl ej These highly-finishe d Watches are p a rtic u l arl y reconit:a e fo ur for great accuracy and durability ; they are jewelled In s io. holes, hard en amel dial, hand to mark th e seconds, and P 3 taming t ower to continue going whilst being wound. A. B. SAVORY and SONS, Watchmakers, No. 9, Cornhill, London (opposite the 13291‘ England) Wit P h s A i v reir‘i , i: ou N ble T bott L om E ca V ses E . ......... .... .. ......... ,66. ct With silver hunti ng cases This celebrated construction (the most accurate 0 ro ve' A watch can b e ma d e ) is now offered, with the latest in'Pholet, ment.s C. the detached escapeuAent, jewelled in N u t r i e capped, hand to mark the seconds, hard ename l dial, a 0 a bo taming power to continue going while winding up, at the price, at T. CON SAVORY'S, ocl Watchmaker, Silver and Goldsmith , 47, Cornhill, (Seven doors from Gracichurch-street). , N.B.—Second-hand Watches purchased in e~ lIIMPIIIMIIMMMIIRVIMMICIIIMMEMMMUNIMM•IIIdI....IINror '------.-- BIRTH'. On the 11th inst., in the Close , Salisbury, t h e lady °f I°lll3 6 ton , t Mills, Esq., of Bisterne, of a son. he Is/ On the 13th inst., at Su.n rn it-place, Upper Cla p of Charles Barrow , Esq., of a son. - , 5 0. On the 15th inst., at Sydenham comLnc. , • ----- MAR Rli• r' 1). ~ ' f the Or - At Kernaul, in the East Indies, William Balfour, '''' geon of her Majesty's 44th Regiment, to Anna, daughter:, sd late William Bishop, Esq., of North Bank, Regent spar aeb ° of Gray's-wood, Haz lemere. S:f On the 14th inst. , at St. Giles's, Camberwell, J. ter - tharn, Esq., of Feneh urch-street, to Catherine, only daugh the late Thomas Coleman, Esq. DIED. vkr aid On the 16 th inst., at No. 51, Cambridge-street, ..--n d gi road, Mrs. An thon y Austin, daughter of the late Da cardo, Esq. iteet ° On the 12th inst., the Rev. James Geldart, LL.D., o f Kirk-Deig hton, Yorkshire, aged 79. , V - A O n the 12th inst., Mary, the only daughter of the O' rou nd Fisher, o f Linton, Cambridgeshire. . • ~, ,-, : , o l m , 1.).".'.• ' , ... 1'..! I:, .. ' ' :7 nf ;Y ( ' ! . t he 1 I _ o N. 112, :..trand, at The Sun Office, IN o I 1-., strand, coo n y of Middlesex.—Monday, November 18,18'39. SCRAPS F