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EVVNINCi 14.1)1111()N. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, TUESDAY.— Her Majesty and a nume rous equestrian party rode out this afternoon in the drives of th e F orest . A mong th e R oya l par t y were Viscount Melbourne, Viscount Palmerston, Lord John Russell, the Right Hon. F. T. Baring, Sir John Hob. house, the Right Hon. Sir H. Labouchere, Hon. Miss Spring Rice, Lady Charlotte Dundas, Baroness Leh zen, Miss Quentin, Earl of Surrey, and Sir George Quentin. The Duchess of Kent walked for some time to day on the Terrace of the Castle. The Countess of Sandwich, Hon. Miss Paget, Hon. Miss Pitt, and the Hon. Mrs. George Campbell took an airing in a pony phaeton. Lord Byron and the Hon. W. Bathurst left the Castle this morning ; Lord Holland and the Hon. TCowp er are expecte d to arr ive this afternoon. Countess of Surrey, Lady Mary Howard, and Lord Edward Howard, also arrived to-day. • The Chancellor of the Ex chequer, Nit.. Labouchere, and others of the Ministers are expected to leave to morrow for town. The Royal dinner party of this evening is expected to consist of the following distinguished guests :—Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, the Lord Chan cellor, Earl of Albemarle, Earl and Countess of Surrey, Viscounts Melbourne and Palmerston, Lord J. Russell, Sir J. Hobhouse, Lady Mary Howard, Lord E. Howard, the Right Hon. F. T. Baring, Right Hon. H. Labou chere, Right Hon. T. B. Macaulay, Hon. Colonel and Mrs. Cavendish, Hon. Miss Paget. Hon. Mr. Cowper, Countess of Sandwich, Lady Charlotte Dundas, Hon. Miss Pitt, Hon. Miss Spring Rice, Hon. Mrs. Camp bell, Baroness Lehzen, Earl of Surrey, Hon. Major Keppel, and Colonel Wemyss. The Duke of Cambridge came to Cambridge House yesterday from Kew, attended by Baron Knesebeck. Ms Royal Highness visited the Duchess of Gloucester at Gloucester House, and in the afternoon returned to his residence at Kew. The American Minister and Mrs. Stevenson left their residence yesterday in Portland-place for Wales, and the North of England. Princ e Esterhazv and Baron Werther, the Prussian Charge d'Affaires, transacted business yesterday at the Foreig n Office. The Hon. William Bathurst arrived in town yester day from Windsor Castle. Despatches from Sir William Nicolay, Governor of the Mauritius, were received yesterday a,; the Colonial Office. FASHIONABLE IN TELLIGEN CE. ARRIVALS. Sir Richard Jenkins, G. C. 8., in Barley-street; Sir James *Gregor, Bart , in St. James's-place; Earl and Countess Cowper, in Great Stanhope-street; Mr. Babing ton Macauley, M.P., in Clarges-street ; Captain Hotham, in Piccadilly ; Sir William Symonds, in Somerset-place ; the Earl of Euston, in Grosvenor-place; Rear-Admiral Sir William Parltcr, at the Admiralty; Robert Gordon, Esq., M. P., in Dover-street ; Lord and Lady Bridport and the Hon. Miss Wobd, in Wirni)ole-street ; the Hur. Fox Maule, in Lower Grosvenor-street ' • Lady William, Gordo n , a t th e Green Park Lodge ; Lord Francis Gordon, in Wilton-crescent ; Mr. and Lady Julia Langston, on the Terrace, Piccadilly ; Alexander Grant, Esq., in Arling too-street, from Scotland ; Captain and Mrs. Watson, at Marlhall Thompson's Hotei, Cavendish-square; Sir John Baker, Esq., at ditto ; from Matlock Baths ; William Sharpe, Esq., and family, at ditto ; Mr. and Mrs. Jones, at ditto ; Lord Abergavenny, in Berkeley-square, from Bridge Castle, Kent ; Mr. Evelyn and Lady Charlotte Denison, at Harcourt House, from a tour in Germany ; General Sir George and Lady Louisa Murray, in Bel grave-square, from Sunning-hill; the Dowager Countess of Pembroke and Lady Georgiana Herbert, on Hay-hill, Dover-street, from Wilton Castle . Lord Lichfield, in St. James's-square, from Buxton ; Lady and Miss Harvey, from the Ship Hotel, Dover ; the Hon. Captain and Mrs. 01/rig, from Paris; the Hon. Edmund Byng, from ditto; Mr. Under Secretary Backhouse, in Hans-place, from the Germ. au Spas ; Colonel Limond, from Dover • Mr. John Wepo le, from ditto ; General Carpenter, in Cumberland place ; aeneral Sir James Kempt, G.C.8., in South street ; L,'rd and Lady Wynford, fr, , m Brighton ; Lady Lionel Smith, in Cadogan-place ; Mr. Van Buren, jun., from a visit to Major-General the Hon. Hercules Paken ham, of Portsmouth ; Major and Mrs. Langham, in Pall mall, from Florence. CHANGES Lord and Lady Avonmore, at Belleisle, county Tippe rary ; Sir Montagu and Lady Georgiana Cholmcley, at Easton House, Lincolnshire ; Lord Ossulston, at Chil hoghain Castle : the Hon. Captain and Mrs. Frederick Spencer, at Leamington Spa ; Major Lord William Paulet, 68th regiment, at Cork ; the Earl of Clare, at Mount Shannon, near Limerick ; Lord Ward, at Big House, Sutherland ; the Dowager Lady Noel Byron, at Leamington ; Lord Ellenborough, at Southam Park ; Lord and Lady Morley, at Matlock ; Sir John Campbell and the Baroness Stratheden, at St. Leonard's-on-Sea ; the Earl of Sefton and the Hon. Colonel Molyneux, at Croxteth Hall ; Lord and Lady Dunfermline, at Stubbing Court, Derbyshire, from Brighton ; Lord Dalhousie, at li‘lhousie Castle, from Branxholm, Dumfries ; Lord and Lady Manners and Lady Mary Pierrepont, from 'Moresby Hall, Notts, on a visit to Lord and Lady Delamere, at Vale Royal, Cheshire; Mr. and Lady Charlotte Fletcher, on a visit to Lord and Lady Wemyss, at Gosford House, 'East Lothian ; Miss Burdett Coutts, from the Old Ship Hotel, Brighton, for Windsor ; Lord Glenelg, from Stutt ga,lit, on a tour in the German States ; Mr. Sydney and Lady Emily Capel, at Brighton, from a tour ; the Marquis and Ma:ehioness of Thomond, at Brighton, front a visit to Lord and Lady Mayo, at Bognor; Sir Francis Sykes, Bart., at Antwerp, from Germany ; the Earl of Stamford and Warrington, at Dunham Massy, Cheshire, from Enville Hall, Staffordshire ; Lady Ogilby, and Robert Ogilby, Esq., from the north of Ireland, to the Adelphi Hotel, Liverpool. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. NEWMARKET FIRST OCTOBER MEETING. TUESDAY. Handicap Sweepstakes of 10 save each ; for three-yr-olds and upwards. T.Y. C. ( 6 subs. ) Lord T av i s t oc k' s All-Fours, 3 yrs, 85t...... (E. Edwards) 1 9 Mr. Wilson's Louisa, 3 yrs, 7st 21b Duke of Portland's St. feray, 4 yrs, Bst 71b 3 The following were not placed —Lord Exeter's Corban , 5 yrs, Bst 71b ; Lord Lynedoch's Ratamosa, 3 yrs, 7st 41b ; and Colonel Peel's I-am-not-aware, 4 yrs, ist. Betting -3 to 1 agst All-Fours (taken), 3to 1 agst St. Peray, 4to 1 agst Corban, and 4 to 1 agst I-am-not-aware. Won by half a length. The Buckeuham Stakes of 300 sovs each, h ft, for the produce of mares covered in 1836 ; colts, Bst 71b ; fillies Bst 41b. T.Y.C. (10 Subs.) Mr. Wreford's bc by Glencoe (J. Day) 1 Col. Peel's b c St. Swithin, by Velocipede or St. Nicholas 2 Betting-3 to lonc by Glencoe, who won by a length. The Grand Duke Michael Stakes of 50 sovs each ; for three yr-old colts, Bst 71b ; and fillies, Bst 31b. A. F. (19 subs. ) Mr. Thornhill's c Euclid (Conelly ) 0 1 Duke of Grafton's b c £then.. (J. Day) 0 2 Lord Exeter's c Bosphorus 3 4 11Ir. Thornhill's c Ephemeron 4 Betting-5 and 6tol on Mr. Thornhill's two, 7to 1 agst lEther (t), and 10 to 1 agst Bosphorus. After the dead heat 2 to 1 on Euclid. Won by a length. The Hopeful Stakes of 40 sovs each, h ft ; for two-yr-old colts, Bst 71b ; and fillies Bst slb ; the winner of the July or Ches terfield Stakes 61bs extra; if both, 91bs; the winner of any .other Sweepstakes or Plate, 3 lbs extra ; those got by Ara bi.ms, or out of Arabian mares, allowed 51bs. The owner of the ..second to receive 50 cove out of the stakes. The last half of Al). M. (29 Subs. ) Lord G. Bentinck's b f Crucifix Lord Lyndoch's b f Jeffy, Bst 101 b Lord Bentineks's ch c Capote The following also started ;--Lord Exeter's c Raymond, Lord Exeter's br c Hellespont, Lord Lichfield's f Firefly, Mr. Greville's ch c Perseus; Sir. Rayner's br f Ten-pound-note, Bst 81b ; Colonel Peel's b f The Colonel, out of Mary Anne, and Mr. Watts's b f sister to Clara. Betting —5 to 2 on Crucifix, 7 to 1 agst Jeffy, fitol agst Per- Seq S, and 10 to 1 agst Ten- pound.note. Won by a length. There were 15 or 16 false starts, Sweepstakes of 150 sevs each, h ft, for foals of 1837 ; colts, Bst 81b ; fillies, Sat 41b. T.Y. C. Bona fide their own property at the time of naming. (6 Subs.) Loyd Tavistock's f by Glencoe, out of Frolicksome, walked over MAGAZINES -CON TINU ED. THE CHRISTIAN REFORMER. Sherwood and Co. The present Number commences with the " Notes on Passages of Scripture," a series of papers, the nature of which is sufficiently explained by the title. As a specimen of the writer's manner as a commen tator, we extract the following just remarks on Exod. xxxi. 13 ;---., ,M y Sabba ths tiA ye shall keep for it [the Sabbath] is a sig n b e Ten me and you, throughout your generations.' 'Phis co mmand re spects the observance of the Sabbath by the Israel ites, even at the time of their fitting up the taber nacle. In the 16 th and 17 th vers es , we find it de clared that a weekly day of rest (namely, the seventh) ~it i ,d in between bot h is of perpetual oblig ation among theca ; ai passages Jehovah ca lls the Sabbath a sign' himself and that people—' a lastin g covenant' ` a sign for ever. Accordin g l y the Christian :—.. i..criptures always represent the Sabbath as a J ew i s h or finance. It is abrogated under the Gospel, and Rom lin writers also des cribe it as, equally with cir. eumciskin, a, distinctive mark of the followers of Mo ses . Judaism is not Christianity ; Judaism, though of superhuman origin, and admirably fitted to prepare its cotaries and mankind for a better dis pensation, must not be confounded with ' the Truth and Grace' which the Messiah brought. It was the Law' which ' came by Moses :' the ileca• Lqgue is a mummery of it ; and I see no propriety, 1 hut: . the reverse, in the custom of reading this in Chri.:itan worship. The practice up holds at least one serious error—the opinion that domestic reli gious services may be omitted for six days of the weak, in the event of their being perfo rme d on t h e fi rst ." " Belief in the mi racles, the necessary consequence of beli ef in the ordinary ls, of the Ch r i s ti an S cr iptures," is a well-written and ingenious article. " Church and State is a 1 repr i n t of the ad m i ra bl e ar ti c le in a late Nu mber of 4 the Edinburgh Rev iew, in which Mr. G ladstone's book on that subject is rather roughly handled. .- - The pleadings in , ' Lady Hewley's Case " are con • . _. tinned in this Number from Mr. Gurney's notes. There is a variety of other articles which we have not time to specify. On the whole, the Number ;God one. THE SPORTING REVIEW. This Review, like its Contemporaries, the Old and the New Magazines, contains two engravings, each exquisite, and telling its history with forcible and felicitous truth ; but the American disposition to go ahead and win is displayed also, by the com mencement of a series of " Limnings from Life ;" the first of which, etched by Landells, is " The Turn-out of the Season." The turn-out is D'Or say's. He is represented entering the Park, with the horses' heads just passed the Wellington Sta tue, in his well-appointed curricle. The tiger be hind is the impersonation of the tiger—it's he to a tee ; while the coat, cuffs, gloves, hat, and whiskers are as truly the peculiar property of the Count as long use and grace, beyond the reach of art, :n the wearer could make them ; but of the man himself we see nothing, his face, for the artist's convenience, being turned somewhat too much to the sculptured Achil les, and too little towards the horses, who are step ping together with that fine lofty magnificent action which is the characteristic of the coursers always driven by our true son of Phoebus and Clymene. The literary portion of the Review is distin guished by good taste, mingled with much and varied talent. There is not either a stupid, a twaddling, or a vulgar page in the whole number. The tact of the editor is shown at •the outset : his " Doncaster Meeting," instead of being a mere collection from stale reports, is a pleasant, sensible, well-informed, original production. Nimrod, with hounds, as usual, is in " a good place," and delights us with the description of a hunt ing tour in the midland counties. And it is evident that those who ride with him in the Review are not mere sportsmen, but well-informed, genuine Eng lish gentlemen, animated by a hearty, cheerful, in vigorating spirit that refreshes one in these lack a-daisical and degenerate days. is a UNITED SERVICE JOURNAL. To those who know the great and commanding talents which distinguish this periodical—and who is ignorant of them—little apology will be needed for the unavoidable brevity of our present notice of its contents. Limiting ourzelves, then, to an enumeration of the papers, we shall, by our general declaration of their respective and varied excellence save our readers the superfluous task of perusing a crude criticism on productions deserving of a less curt, and more courteous consideration than time and space to-day will permit us to bestow on our sailor and soldier friend. Amongst others the fol lowing articles will be found in the present number : —" England's Wooden Walls," " A Journey to Bagdad," " Take the hills before Dark," New " Notices of the Cane and Southern Africa," " Recollections of Nelson," " Memoirs of E. Costello, K.5.F.," " Workings of the Coast Blockade Service, with Anecdotes of Smuggling." GULLIVER'S TRAVELS. PART I. Hayward and Moore, London, 1639. This is the First Part of a New Edition of " Gul liver's Travels," which it is proposed to complete in eight Monthly Parts, price two shillings and six pence each. The specimen before us is a highly favourable one, being copiously illustrated with clever wood engravings, and enriched with a variety of notes in which all the political allusions made by Swift in the course of his masterly fiction arc ex plained at fitting length. BANKRUPTCY COURT.-TUESDAY. IN THE MATTER OF GRAVES. This was the day fixed for the adjourned final exami nation of the bankrupt, who carried on the business of a tailor in the Strand, where, in the course of two years, a sum of 13,172/. Bs. sd. passed through his hands, and his deficiency was upwards of 3,0001. While carrying on this extensive trade, the profits of which he stated in his balance-sheet to be 2,6321. 17s. 10d., he became ac quainted with a person of the name of Hamilton, and it was agreed between them that they should take out a " venture" to Montreal and Quebec—a quantity of goods were purchased for that purpose, and taken away from the bankrupt's shop to Hamilton's office in Cornhill, where they were made up in larger packages, and from thence shipped on board the Cockburne, which was wrecked en her passage, at a short distance from Montreal. When his departure was ascertained, a fiat was issued against him, and after some time he returned and surrendered to the fiat. He has undergone several examinations as to his connec tion with Hamilton, his object in leaving London, and the reason why he did not inform his creditors of his intended speculation in America ; and to these in quiries, he generally replied, that being in want of money, he obtained it from Hamilton, who was intro duced to him as a man of fortune ; that he thought to benefit himself by taking out some of his stock to Ame rica, and there establishing a concern, and he had not informed his creditors generally of his intention, be cause did not think it to be necessary. He was this day examined at great length and con siderable severity by Mr. Chambers, and stated, that in August, 1838, when he made purchases of goods for his American voyage, he did inform Messrs. Robson and 111‘Gregor, of Cheapside, of his intention.—(Here Mr. Robson positively contradicted the statement.) When the ship was wrecked he communicated the state of his affairs to some friends in Quebec, and left the original book, containing a detailed account of the goods which were lost, together with the bills of lading, in the hands of Fraser and Co., and that he had himself brought home the invoices. He left an exact copy of that book in his shop at home with his foreman, West lake, in order that it might be open to the inspection of the creditors. Hamilton did not accompany him from Liverpool to America, as shortly before he went he gave him a check upon Glynn's bank for 450/., which was dishonoured ; but as Hamilton promised to advance that sum in the course of a few days, and thus leave provision to meet his coming payments, he proceeded on his voyage alone. The money, however, was not procured, and hence the main cause of his difficul ties. He discontinued keeping a private ledger of his entire receipts and expenditure about March, 1838, when he borrowed 3001. of a Mrs. Ovington, and with which he opened a banker's account. He would posi tively swear that all the entries in black ink in the ledger were not written in at one time ; but. he could not tell at what intervals. His personal expenses in two years were 287/. 125., including 261. 10s. 2d. for insurance on his life, and 401. for clothes. Mr. Chambers then submitted that the answers of the bankrupt had not been of that satisfactory charac ter which should entitle him to the protection of the Bankrupt Act. The bankrupt said that his final examination was ad journed over in order to give the creditors time to make inquiry of Messrs. Fraser and Co. of the accuracy of his statement ; and, although three months had elapsed, and though a messenger had been sent for that pur pose, yet his (bankrupt's) accuracy could not be ques tioned, although the Learned Counsel had thought pro per to impute fraud to him. Mr. Commissioner EVANS said that undoubtedly this case was presented to the Court under very suspicious circumstances, but the only question for him to decide now was, whether or not the bankrupt had rendered satisfactory accounts. There could be no doubt but that for the venture to America, the creditors would have had 20s. in the pound, and the fact of his leaving London at all when he was carrying on so profitable a business could not easily or satisfactorily be accounted for. The statement of his expenditure, however, was as accurately made out as it was in every nineteen out of twenty similar cases, and therefore he would pass his accounts ; but as to protection, or a certificate being given him by the Court, he would do no such thing ; and upon that point he must apply to the assignees. The Hon. J. E. Elliott, M.P., has left town on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Mnts), at Minto Castle, Roxburghshire. A man named George Parker, in the employ of Mr. Atkins, a lime burner at Coulsdon, was summoned before the Magistrates at Croydon yesterday, for riding in his waggon. Richardson, one of the Croydon police, deposed that he fbund the defendant fast asleep in his waggon at Thornton Heath, at a late hour of the night. The defendant admitted the fact, but said that he could not help it. He was obliged to start with his team every morning between eight and nine o'clock, and go to London, and he then had to go to different wharfs and docks, and generally took home a load of coals, and he frequently did not get back until it was time to start off again to London with another load. The man also said that it frequently happened that the horses did not have their harness taken off for a whole week, and th had n o res t exce pt by s tanding about. Coiling ham, the Inspector of Police, said he had ma de in q uiries, and he had reason to believe that neither the man or the horses has the proper time allowed them for rest, a a t t ld al t i he teams might be zeea comine• through the town hours of the night, with t 1313 drivers fast asleep in-' • master contrived to side. The Bench remarked that it appeared that the do the work of two. Magistrates, the defendant sixteen shsll.ings per week . . make in one set that nothing de.oold be more dangerous man from tile n n s t wer to a question ' of hories aad one 7 41 that his wages were serious wag goes and horses attendedim inthi s than The litagistrates then said fgaving wag aanceidents. They manner, and 4 was constantly the occasin ,of added, that they considered the defend ,izou s n t d na t s n ter more to blame than he_ was, but they were protect the public, and tlieY felt themselves called upcna to in flict a fine of five shillings and costs. _ SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. (Front the Morning Chronicle of Wednesday.) We can find as little evidence in Tory festivals as in the 'Cory press of the disposition, gratuitously attributed to the faction by Lord Brougham, to concur in the edu cation of the people, so that some ostensible superiority be secured for the Church in the practical arrangements. On the contrary, there is either a dead silence upon the subject, or the silence is only broken by unequivocal ex pressions of hostility towards what has already been at tempted, or towards what, it is apprehended, may be at tempted. For anything that appears, the Tories are about as likely to assist in untaxing the bread of the poor as in obtaining for them the advantages of education. Were the feeling distinctly implied at these festivals to be as distinctly expressed, it might be condensed into the sentiment of starvation to their bodies and destruction to their souls, so that our party get into power. At the Northampton " demonstration" on Monday, the only allusions to the education of the people were indicative of triumph at the obstructions hitherto interpose:l, of determined misrepresentation of the friends of education, and of a demoniacal hope that even yet Ministers would not proceed to act upon the grant voted by the House of Commons. And this feast was distinguished for the numerous gathering of clergymen at its orgies, to the shame of their spiritual profession, their nominal reli gion, and their feelings of humanity. If clergymen do not stand altogether aloof from the conflicts of the poli tical world, it is very clear what should be the character of their interference. They should interpose to mitigate animosities, to allay the virulence of party strife, to sustain a pure and practical morality, and to uphold union, peace, and order. And what was the boast of the spokesman of the Northamptonshire clergy ? Why that they are able and successful electioneerers. He claimed for them the laurels of victorious champions in contests, the character of which, according to his own descrip tion, is " to set neighbour against neighbour, and party against party," and "to demoralize the population of that district with the drunkenness and vice incident to contested elections." Such are the fields on which the Tory clergy glory to take their stand and win their wreaths. Amongst the countless paradoxes of Lord Brougham he never vented a greater than that of his professed conviction of the co-operation of this class of persons in any efficient scheme of National Edu caution. The meeting to which we allude commenced its proceedings with the disloyal toast of " Church and Queen." The Church is an inestimable institution, so far as it accomplishes its professed object of teaching true religion ; but the divinity of religion does not extend to the machinery of its inculcation. As hu manized by the agency, the Church is simply one in stitution or corporation out of many institutions and cor porations ; and with less right than many to be thus coupled with, and take precedence of, the name of the Sovereign, inasmuch as it only includes a minority of the people under her rule. There is an insolence of pre tension in the collocation of words which every sincere and sober-minded clergyman ought to repudiate. The more so, as the phrase is not merely a blundering and extravagant compliment to the spirituality, but has be become the bitter war-cry of a desperate faction. (From the Times.) A single grain of common sense or shrewdness would have satisfied the hired advocates of Lord Melbourne's morality and Mr. Spring Rice's disregard of pelf, that their only game with respect to the Rice-Newport job was to shut their ears and hold their tongues, and wait until time and accident should engender some fresh villany, under the prolific incubation of the Whigs, which might swallow up the remembrance of the present. We had, to employ the last night's expression of those persons who are commanded on the part of Ministers to reopen this unsavoury question,— we had " founded on official documents," furnished by the records of the Whig Cabinet itself, a statement of facts, which being on public record, and of sums which, being matter of arithmetic, cannot be refuted, and have never in any shape been impugned,—viz., that Mr. Henry Ellis, in 1834, did the whole business of the Fells-office for 1,4001., but was then deprived of the business and the salary, but given in lieu of both a pen sion of 1,4001. a year, ss ithout any business whatever — a pension at the public expense. That Sir John New port, who before the period referred to had neither public business of any sort to transact, nor public money to rejoice in, was shoved into Mr. Ellis's office, and garnished with a salary of much greater amount than that of Mr. Ellis—to wit, 2,000/. a-year, instead of 1,4001., and all at the public expense. That in Sep tember, 1839, it being found convenient to get rid of Mr. Spring Rice out of the Cabinet, and to faci litate that movement to shuffle Sir John Newport out of the Exchequer, the former personage takes possession of the 2,000/. per annum heretofore en joyed by the antediluvian Baronet, and bestow a pension of 1,0001. a year for. doing nothing on Sir John Newport, as there had been in 1834 a pension of 1,4001. a year, for doing nothing, settled on Mr. Ellis, and all at the public expense. This constitutes our statement. Is there one particle of falsehood or decep tion in it ? Has one syllable of it been denied ? Has the shadow of an error in it been detected ? As be tween Mr. Ellis, the suffering party—the public, a still more extensive sufferer—and Mr. Spring Rice and Sir John Newport, the two loose-fingered winners—was there ever any fact more palpable, than that the coun try in times of Toryism used to pay 1,4001. a year for the office of Clerk of the Fells, and that, since the " Pells" has been transmogrified into the " Controller ship of the Exchequer," the same country now pays 4,400/. " Official documents," quotha ! Why it is all in theirown Gazette, or in formal announcements from Down ing-street. But we are desired to look at the whole department of the Exchequer, and see "what retrench ments have been made therein as compared with 1834." They tell us 30,0001., or some. such amount, which we declare at once, without an atom of circumlocution, to be, in the sense and for the purpose according to which it is now affirmed by the Whitehall scrubs—to be a downright, audacious, and brazen falsehood. Do they fancy they can inveigle us by their voluminous mystifications into the surrender of one simple damn ing charge—a charge which no power can refute—for the sake of entering upon whole columns of slippery Downing-street returns, such as this same Mr. Spring Rice has made a name for himself by shovelling in at the end of a Session upon the table, and thereby puzzling the most dexterous public accountants ! When they assert that charges for the " Exchequer" have been reduced, do they mean by Exchequer that depart. ment of the Exchequer which was formerly compre hended within the office of Clerk of the " Pelts ?" If not, they talk for the sake of fraud, not of elucidation. When they say that the Exchequer now costs only " so much," how do we know, or who will be able to wring out of them, how much of the business which formerly appertained to the Exchequer may have been withdrawn from the department which bears that name, and been transferred to the Treasury or some other public office, thus continuing the same amount of busines, and the same, or a far greater, extent of patronage, though fur tively under a different naniefrom that of "Exchequer!" (From the Morning Post.) The circumstances of the late contested election at Manchester have shown the public how great has been the progress of Conservative opinion in that populous town within the last two years. We rejoice to think that, within the last few days, that progress must have been considerably accelerated. The great Protestant meeting at Manchester on Monday last produced a very earnest development of practical truth, which cannot but be productive of a large increase of Conservative senti ment, and a proportionably wholesome addition to the feelings of hostility with which thoughtful and honest people in all directions are becoming more and more habituated to regard our frivolous and mischievous Government. The speech of Doctor O'Sullivan at the Manchester meeting was a remarkably able and lucid, as well as earnest and temperate, exposition of the real state of public affairs, and the true com plexion of Ministerial conduct. As regards Ireland especially, it was more instructive in the bringing forward of important fiats, and in the critical acumen with which it dissected the statements relied upon by the Ministry, than any speech or document which has been published since the inquiry of last Session by the Lords' Committee. We shall do a service to the cause of truth by abstracting and stating separately the va rious circumstances of the country, in relation to the conduct of its Government, which Dr. O'Sullivan ra pidly enumerated as the grounds for believing that an evil influence predominates in the nationalcouncils. They are as fellow ;—That theGovernmcnt of Great Britain is found, so far as it had power, to have established Hu manism in our colonies, and to have discouraged and de pressed the Catholic religion abroad and at home. That to retain the Bible in our schools is pronounced an offence punishable by forfeiture of the national favour and support. That public support has been diverted from schools where God's Word is taught, and directed upon schools which have become national, by ceasing. to be scriptural. That in order to purchase the admission of scriptural extracts into these places of instruction, a price is paid in the concession of the Romi-li principle, that the Scripture as a whole may be righteously ex cluded. That the Press can announce through a favoured Government organ, in eulogy rather than in defence of the policy which now prevails, that changes have been made in Ministerial arrangements—it does not say for the good of the country—but it boasts ire manifrstation of defiance against the great Conser vative body, the Protestantism, it might be said, of the land. That because of the exercise of his powers in Ireland for which Lord Normanby is said to have been threatened with impeachment, the domestic affairs of England are committed to his keeping. That be cause the it , . ople and the Parliament had exhibited un equivocal testimony of their want of c onfidence in Lord John Russell's Canadian policy, Lord John Russell is to sake charge of all the colonies. That because the mer cantile views of Mr. Poulett Thomson were pro nounced ruinous by the me rc h an t s o f England most conce rned with Canada, the Canadas are aban doned to the government of Mr. Poulett Thomson. 'That l;eeause the No Popery cry is loud in the e xtorted from th e peop l e by Popish prac ticesia nd7ac,a cry and wrung from a country which Popery has rent and strained upon its tortare),-,lier Majesty's Go .. TIPP SUN - , LONDON., WEDNESDAY, OCTOMM 2, 1839. v en-Anent have strengthened themselves by the addition , of Roman Catholic associates. That because the na tion, people, Parliament, the Church, the Methodists, and multitudes of pious Dissenters have loudly pro tested against a scheme of education which they have declared to be infidel, the favourer, if not the promoter, of that condemned scheme is made a member of the G overnment. That these things are clone openly and ostentatiously, and these motives made matter of boast. These are matters which, as they severally come before the public, we have not failed to-notice and to make the subject of indignant commentary. ' (From the Morning Advertiser.) Out of evil cometh good. The late Chartist demon s trations, though attended with the temporary incon veniences of certain trifling breaches of the peace, and though having filled for a time the minds of the wiser and better classes of the community with serious apprehensions and alarm, promise to be produc tive of incalculable advantage to all ranks of society. The entire extinction of the Chartists as an organized party, coupled with the condign punishment which is being inflicted on some, and which inevitably awaits others of the desperate demagogues who sought to throw the country into anarchy, and to involve the work ing classes in utter ruin, will be attended with the most salutary results, not merely for a few years, but for generations to come. Not only have the poor simple persons who were deluded by the artful designs of some half dozen unprincipled democrats, had their eyes so entirely opened to the supreme folly of the Chartist de monstrations, to which they were parties, as to preclude all possibility of their being ever again entrapped into a similar course of insanity ; but their children, and children's children, will look back on the events of 1839 as to a beacon which warns them of the tran scendent absurdity of clamouring for those wild and ridiculous concessions which are demanded by the Charter. From the same events they will also learn the perils to which those persons expose themselves who adopt and avow the preposterous doctrine of " physical force." Since, therefore, the result of the recent Chartist exhibitions will thus be to sober down the minds of the labouring clasies, and to render them proof against any and all the attempts that may be made to mislead them into a practical concurrence in the revolutionary purposes of designing demagogues, the temporary fears of the people, and the transitory breaches of the peace in particular localities, cannot be regarded as too high a price to have paid for benefits of such incalculable magnitude. (From the Morning Herald.) The price of wheat fell on Monday, in Mark-lane, eight or ten shillings a quarter ; and from several parts of the country, accounts have been received, to the effect, that the prices of grain are falling, more or less rapidly. Such a result will damp the ardour of the anti-corn law zealots. Exceeding stress has been laid, of late, on the helpless condition of the Bank of Eng land ; and much vituperation has been directed against the Corn-laws, in consequence of the fact that foreigners are found to prefer English gold to English manufac tures. We have, repeatedly, shown that a repeal of the Corn-laws would prove no corrective of this incon venient craving, on the part of foreigners, for bullion in exchange for their corn ; while, in so far as the Bank of England is concerned, why should the Corn-laws be blamed for vices;that may be inherent in the system of our cu rency ? The vital necessity of protecting native in dustry by means of laws excluding untaxed foreign grain, is in no way impaired by the fact, that the Bank of England may, at particular seasons, be found ill pre pared to meet its liabilities. The agitators for the repeal of the Corn-laws are, however, benevolent men. They shudder to think that the labouring poor should be subjected to the miseries that are (to labourers) in separable from " dear bread," and " a scarcity of bread I." Now, it so happens, that, of late years, there has always been a large section of the labouring classes to whom bread has been " dear"—and to whom, there• fore, bread has been "scarce ;"—ay, even when wheat might be selling in the market of England, at 35 shillings a quarter ! Might it not be worth the while of our humane Anti-Corn-law agitators, to inquire into the causes of the " dearness," and " scarcity," to which we have alluded ? There are, for instance, in England at this moment, hand-loom weavers to the number of eight hundred thousand, to whom is allotted, under our modern system of manufacturing production, scarcely one-third part of what they received in the form of wages, some five-and-twenty years ago. To these men, therefore, bread, without reference to the character of th e seasons, is perpetually becoming " dearer" and " scarcer !" These men frequently want employment— and, as a necessary consequence, they not unfrequently want bread. But do the Corn-laws rob these men of bread, or of employment? Undoubtedly not ;—for these men possessed abundant occupation at remunerating wages, during a long tract of years, in which corn was nearly twtce as dear as it happens to be at this mo ment. There must, then, exist some cause, altogether apart from the influence of the Corn-laws—nay, in di rect opposition to the influence of the Corn-laws— which tends perpetually to render bread " scarce" and " dear" to a large body of our fellow-subjects. 'Why do the more zealous agitators against the Corn-laws fail to inquire into the nature of the cause in which this " dearness" and" scarcity" of bread take their rise? The Corn-laws add to the extent of the field of employ ment for labour. The use of untaxed machinery, on the other band, tends perpetually to narrow that field. The loudest clamourers against the Corn-laws are the men who profit most largely by the operations of un taxed machinery ; and in denouncing the influences of the system which renders bread " scarce," and " dear," to the poor, they are, in truth, pronouncing the bitterest condemnation on those social arrangements, in virtue of which they are permitted to rob the labouring poor of profitable employment. The Courier of last evening, alluding to the state of the present harv es t, says :—" The accounts of the crops for the last ten days have been watched by those who are aware of the effect of a deficient harvest on the currency, with the most intense anxiety. It may be said that it depended on the accounts to be re ceived up to this date, whether the state of embarrass ment and difficulty in which the commercial and trad ing interests have been recently involved, and from which they are now just recovering, was to corn tinue from bad to worse, or whether by the subsi dence of the corn-panic the money-market would again return to a sound and healthy state. It is with great satisfaction, therefore, that our readers will observe the very considerable fall in the price of wheat yesterday at th:: Corn-market. We may add that the general feelinc , is that the present prices will not be sustained. This feel ing, and the impression, which is now general, that the harvest in the north is by no means a deficient one, have restored confidence to a great degree, which is confirmed by the circumstance of orders having been despatched to stop all purchases of wheat abroad. The appre hension of a further demand on the country for gold in payment for foreign corn, is thus materially relieved, and it is trusted that the money market will rapidly as sume a firm and healthy tone." The Globe thus alludes to some articles that have lately appeared in the Times on the subject of Lord Monteagle :—" The Times is amusingly angry at the array of figures by which we, on Saturday, demolished the reiteraterated falsehoods it had put forth respecting the Comptrollership of the Exchequer. After chewing the bitter cud of chagrin for three days, the bully assumes a swaggering air ; and, with the usual portion of asper sions, threatens what wonders in the way of disproving the plain matter-of-fact statement it will achieve at some future time. We (says the Times of this morn ing) left the article without notice yesterday because we had matters of more importance than Treasury lies to at tend to; and we do the same to-day, and for the same reason.' We know—and the most inexperienced of the public in the tactics of the Times know—what this lan guage means. The more important matter' which occu pied the Ti»zes columns of yesterday was an article on Lord Brougham's pamphlet on Education ; in which extracts were strung together with about as much regard to harmony of design as a school-boy s h ows in stringing birds' eggs. The more important m atter ' of this morning is Daniel O'Connell ; who has sup plied our Contemporary with topics for the last five or six years : and, to use the descriptive appellation he has so happily and good-humouredly applied to himself with relation to this daily vituperation poured upon him by the Times—has thus become the best abused man in the country.' We have in vain looked into these arti tidies for anything that can be regarded as novel or important.' There is nothing in them which the Times has not said in similar language on a thousand former occasions ; while the only quality they possess is power fully soporific. This their readers will attest—if, in deed, on ascertaining their contents they did not wisely abstain from risking the result by avoiding a perusal." The Standard, speaking of Mr. Drummond's evi dence on the Lords Irish Committee, remarks as fol lows :—" The Morning Chronicle still persists in boast ing, in behalf or Lord Normanby, of the increased tranquillity in Ireland. We have repeatedly shown how little substantial ground there is for such a triumph. Our Contemporary picks out little tid bits of the evidence given before the Irish Crime Committee of the House of Lords (almost exclusively confined to that of Mr. Drummond, who has an interest, putting all his political predilections out of sight, as a particeps criminis, in whitewashing his superior), and then proceeds to insist, either that all that gentleman's statements and inferences, co loured by the wish which is " father to the thought," are correct, or that we want to charge him with perjury ! That Mr. Drummond has seen everything in a most favourable light for Lord Normanby, and that ho has shown a natural dislike to become the depository of disagreeable intelligence—any infor mation, in fact, calculated to verify the charges against the late Viceroy, is most certain ; and these facts afford abundant excuse for not re ceiving his testimony without due qualification. We wholly repudiate some portions of his evidence, because it has been flatly contradicted by several of his own witnesses ; but we do not, therefore, charge him with wilful and premeditated falsehood ; because it is clear that on a question in which a man's personal interests and personal prejudices incline him to a parti cular view, he often becomes comparatively blind to everything that militates against it. Of all witnesses Mr. Drummond is the most deeply interested in the matters at issue ; and if this be admitted, his evidence may surely be received with considerable qualification, without imputing to him conduct so disgraceful as that which our Contemporary declares must attach to our non-reliance on his testimony." .. We understand that the stuffs of the Militia are about to be inspected, with a view to the discharge of such men as may be found inefficient—it being intended to re-organise this truly constitutional force in the early part of next year." We announced a few days ago the appointment of Lieutenant-General Maister to succeed Lieutenant-Ge neral Sir Samuel Ford %\i'hittingham, K.C.8., in the command of the Windward and Leeward Islands. The following are the officers who have been selected by Lieutenant-General Maister for his personal staff:— Captain Egerton, of the 89th Regiment, to be his Military Secretary ; and Captain Staunton, of the 10th Foot, to be his Aid-de-Camp." " The last United Service Gazette announces that the depots of the 18th and 94th Regiments are to embark for the East Indies about the middle of the present month, these regiments having been augmented to the Indian establishment. We have since learned that tonnage has been engaged for their conveyance by the Directors of the East India Company on the 19th inst., within a day or two of which time they will, of course, take their departure." We stated a week ago, on the authority of the United Service Gazette, that it was in contemplation to place the establishments of all the Depot Companies of regiments serving abroad upon one uniform footing. The service companies of regiments abroad, with the ex ception of those in the East Indies, are also to be sub jected to a similar arrangement. They will in future comprise GOO rank and file, and the depot companies 200. It is, however, apprehended at the Horse Guards that it will be difficult to carry this plan into effect, in consequence of the large body of men which mustneces sarily be left with the Depots." THE HOPS IN KENT. MAIDSTONE.—During the last week the picking has proceeded with comparatively little interruption from the weather, In this immediate vicinity the crop turns out to be decidedly short of last year, and this applies, we believe, to the Golding plantation generally. In the " Flower of Kent" garden, which was laid at nine bags an acre, we understand the crop is now estimated at a hundred tags, which would give five bags an acre ; and in another almost equally celebrated piece the esti mate, since the picking began, has sunk from six to four. On the other hand, on the level and low lands, where the grape hops are cultivated, they come down more abundantlyjin bushels, but at the same time weigh light. The consequence, we should think, would be a brisk demand and a good price for the superior sorts, of which there will evidently be a deficiency. FARLEIGII.—The hops in Farleigh come down very much shorter than was anticipated, and it is very much the same in the adjoining parishes. TESTON, WATERINGBURY, and MEnEwonTx.---The hops in this district come very short of the planters' ex pectation. Most of them thought of growing as many as last year, but they are disappointed. CHART, BOUGHTON, and SUTTON.—The hops come down very short of what was expected in this district ; in most of the grounds there is a less number of bushels, which weigh very light. It is thought by most of the planters that the duty will not exceed last year's. THE WE A LD.—Hop-pieking has made considerable progress during the past week, in consequence of the very favourable state of the weather. In some instances the crop exceeds that of last year ; in others it falls short of it.—Maidstone Journal of Tuesday. CHURCH-RATES. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sia ; In common with every Church-rate comba tant, whatever side he takes, I was utterly astonished at Dr. Lushington's decision in the Stebbing case, where he determined that the omission of property of large amount from an assessment for Church-rate does not invalidate the rate. I had lately seen an opinion of this same Dr. Lush ington, in which he propounded an exactly opposite doctrine ; and for the instruction of your readers, I annex so much of that opinion as relates to the question raised. " Question. Whether, if complete evidence can be given that, as respects the amount assessed on the par ties against whom the suit" (in the case submitted) " is brought, such amount is, with reference to the assess ments of other parishioners, unequal and too high, the Court will not upon such grounds declare the rate in valid ? " Answer. If the parties sued can prove that persons liable to be rated are omitted in the rate, or that they, the parties sued, are assessed at a higher rate in pro portion or value than other persons rated, the rate is invalid, and cannot be recovered ; but tenants of the glebe are not liable to be rated. " Question. Whether the omission of any one or more of the parishioners or inhabitants by law liable to be assessed is not of itself a sufficient ground for the Court, on due proof of such omission, pronouncing against the rate, and dismissing the suit with costs ? ‘‘ Answer. If as I have already said, any person he omitted justly liable to be assessed, the suit must be dismissed, provided the person omitted was liable for any sum worth inserting. Ido not say a rate would be invalidated when the omission was for such a sum as sixpence, but almost any sum would be sufficient to in validate the rate, when there is an emission. In such case, I think the party proceeded against would be en titled to costs. (Signed) "S. LUSHINGTON. " Great George-street, Feb. 10, 1838." The italics stand as in the original, and I have not given the whole case, because the questions and answers are complete in themselves, and the remainder has no bearing on the same points. If, then, I understand the facts, they stand thus :-- The public attention has been fixed on the barbarous proceedings and anomalous practice of the Ecclesiastical Courts, and many persons like myself have determined to bear all consequences rather than submit to tribunals so iniquitously constituted. In the mean time, it is discovered that the intricacies of Ecclesiastical law may turn to the discomfiture of Ecclesiastical authori ties, and are as dangerous to their purposes as a cum brous flail in the hands of an awkward workman. The exactors of Church-rates have been baffled in their pursuit, and the Dissenters, with the opinion of Dr. Lushington in their favour, and their " tried friend" for an Ecclesiastical Judge, supposed they stood well in the contest, when out comes the Stebbing decision, and the tables are turned. I have often and zealously endeavoured to divert my fellow-sufferers from confidence in man, especially in the professions of great men, to a course of vigorous self dependence in their efforts for religious freedom. Few public men have paraded their professions more than Dr. Lushington, and few have received greater credit ; but as soon as a weapon has been found annoying to the ecclesiastical extortioners, this " stanchest retainer" of a much-professing, little-doing Ministry, steps in with his judicial authority, to shatter the weapon, and palsy the arm that wielded it. To effect this purpose, he will even sacrifice his own consistency, and contravene his own formal enunciation of the law. These be your Gods, 0 Israel! Such of my fellow-countrymen as abhor the Ecclesiastical Courts too much to be volun tary parties to any suits therein, will find nothing in this transaction to mitigate their objections, although it is probable the many who are willing to turn upon their oppressors the arms of their own warfare will not be discouraged by a decision of their friend, which their worst foes will scarcely venture to confirm. It is for tunate the learned Knight does not yet preside over the highest Court of Appeal. Sir, your obedient servant, Bungay, Sept. 30. JOHN CHILDS. The Right Hon. George and Mrs. Dawson and Mr. Henry Dawson have taken their departure for the seat of Lord Lurgan. THE Jaws.—ln the very midst of the turmoil and confusion of the Crusades, a new power was evolv ing, which was about to become far more potent than the sword. The poor Jews, driven from country to country, seeking for rest and finding none, returned like the dove to the ark, into their own invulnerable patience and hope ; and yet, unknown to their tormen tors, they were performing a great service to the cause of European civilisation. Whether or not they were the inventors of bills of exchange is a question of little moment ; we know that, moving disjointedly over the surface of society, they became the chief bankers and commercial agents of Europe, and paved the way for funds and loans, and the dominion of capital. The world owes them far more for this service than it can yet fairly estimate ; and it appears to us that Pro vidence which educes good out of mans evil, has made the separate existence of the Jews, and the cruel ties of Christians towards them—a separate existence perpetuated by their own obstinacy, and cruelties com mitted in the ignorance of barbarism—a grand means of advancing the civilisation of the world, of furthering the social and intellectual progress of the human race. And the condition of the Jews in some parts of the Continent has been very considerably ameliorated. Na poleon made them citizens, placing them on the same footing as other Frenchmen ; some German Powers have also given them civil rights ; and in Holland they flourish. There are supposed to be from 28,000 to 30,000 in Great Britain, of whom about about 18,000 are in London ; in France, 50,000 ; in Holland and Belgium, 80,000 ; in Austria, Prussia, Italy, &c., they number nearly a million ; in Russia and Poland up wards of half a million—while their numbers throughout the East are unknown.—London Saturday Journal. A Baronet who has, during several successive Parliaments, represented a remote Welsh county, upon Conservative principles, has so involved himself in pe cuniary difficulties that the entire of his estates will shortly be brought to the hammer. The debts amount to 4 4 0,000/.—Limerick Chronicle. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. Arthur Hughes, who was remanded on Wednesday last on a charge of having deserted his wife the morn ing of ilia marriage, was this morning again placed at the bar. The Loan AlAvoa, after eliciting some information relative to the disgustingly profligate habits of some of the parties connected with this case, told the complain ing wife (who had shown how soon some women can be won) that he could not assist her in her object unless she could produce further evidence relative to the al leged bigamy.—The prisoner was dismissed. Thomas Laws, a young man in the employment of a knacker or horse-boiler, was charged with having treated a poor horse in the most cruel manner. William Cornwall, City policeman, No. 57, stated that at half-past five o'clock in the evening, as a fine horse, for which he had been given to understand fifty guineas bad been lately paid, was standing at the bot tom of Queen-street,the wheel of a waggon or cart got entangled wjth its leg, and actually tore away the hoof, which was seen immediately afterwards adhering to the rest of the limb merely by an integument.. The holler made no noise upon receiving the dreadful injury, but several persons ,whose feelings were affected at the spectacle, sent for a knacker to put the suffering animal out of his pain. The defendant attended, and with his pole-axe struck the horse on the head and knocked it down. He then got a piece of a stick and thrust it into the hole made by the pole-axe, but the poor horse, after a struggle, succeeded in getting upon his legs, and actually walked along the street with the stick in his head, and upon three legs. A more shocking sight, the policemen said, could not be seen. At last, some coal-heavers, with a heavy blow on the head, killed the horse. The LORD MAYOR, and Alderman FAREBROTHER, who sat to adjudicate with his Lordship on various cases of assault, expressed much indignation upon hear ing the statement, and remarked upon the great impro priety of employing in such a business young men who were not able to perform it properly, and who had no feeling in their business." James Gibbins said that the defendant was perfectly competent to the task of killing the horse without sub jecting it to such agony, being 25 years of age, and ac tually in the habit of killing upon an average 20 horses per week. He also said that the defendant had been in his employment 10 years. Witnesses said that for a considerable time the public feeling was shocked by the sight. The defendant was then adjudged to pay the penalty of 40 shillings and costs ; and his master, who felt indig nant at the conduct of his servant, refused to pay the fine, in consequence of which the defendant was sent to Bridewell for 14 days. GUILDHALL. STEALING A CASH BOY.—William Lowell and John Chapman, who were remanded a week ago, were again brought up, charged with having stolen from the shop of Messrs. King and Thompson, tea-dealers, King William-street, a cash box containing a 101. Bank of England note, a 51. Bank of England note, between 71. and 81. in gold and silver, a check for 101., and another check for 71. 15s. 6d. It appeared from the evidence that, on the night of the 14th ult., the prisoners went into the shop of the prosecutor, and each asked for half a pound of tea. They were served in different parts of the shop, and Lowell went out first. Shortly after he had gone the cash box was missed. Chapman tendered a 5 1. note for his tea, and received the change, and also went away. In the course of the evening the box was taken to the shop by a boy, who proved that he had received it from Chapman ; it contained some paper memo randums, but no money. Another lad, who was stop ped at the Bank with the checks, proved that he was sent by Lowell. Sir P. LAURIE committed the prisoners for trial. MARLBORO UGH-STREET. THE MUFFIN-BELL AND THE NEW POLICE ACT.— Charles Smith, a young man, was charged before Mr. Long, the presiding Magistrate, with offending against the provisions of the New Police Act, by ringing a bell in the streets for the sale of muffins and crumpets. Police constable 106, took the defendant into cus tody about six o'clock last evening, committing the offence in Woodstock-street, Oxford-street. The defendant said he had been a muffinman from his cradle, and could not see the harm of getting his living in the manner he had hitherto done : his tinkling bell was a nuisance to no one, but, on the contrary, if he might judge from the smiling greetings he received from those of his customers who were waiting for their tea. Mr. LONG said he had incurred a penalty of 405., but under the circumstances he would mitigate it to 7s. —he must in future vend his wares without ringing his bell. HATTON-GARDEN. PICKING POCKETS AT SADLEIt'S WELLS.—Edward Darmeray was charged with stealing the pocket of Mary Davies in the yard of Sadlers' Wells Theatre on Monday evening. It appeared from the evidence of the prose cutrix, that while she was waiting on Monday evening in the yard of Sadlers Wells until the doors of the Theatre should be opened, the prisoner snatched her pocket containing a pocket-book, and one shilling and ten pence from her side. She snatched the pocket from his hand, on which he hit her a tremendous blow on the head, and ran up into the gallery of the theatre, where he was taken by the policeman. On searching her pocket the money was gone from it. The prisoner, who denied his guilt, was fully com mitted for trial. I VORSHIP-STREET EXTRAORDINARY INCREASE IN THE AMOUNT OF DRUNKENNESS AND OFFENCES.—Yesterday being the day when the return is made to the Secretary of State of the number of convictions which have taken place at the office during the preceding month, the same were made up by Mr. Boustield, clerk to the Magistrates, when the aggregate showed a most remarkable increase of offences and drunkenness, compared with the same month last year. In September, 1835, there were 108 persons charged and convicted of being drunk, and of having created a disorder, and assaulted the police ; while the total number of convictions for offences of every description was (G 3. In September this year, there were 101 cases of drunkenness alone, with 74 cases of drunkards charged with being disorderly, and having assaulted the police, making 175 cases, while the total amount of every description of offences was 812, showing an increase in the month of 149 charges. But in September this year, there was one day less than was last, in consequence of there being five Suii days, the addition of which would increase the differ ence to above 180. CIRCUIT INTELLIGENCE. INVERNESS, SEPTEMBER SCHOOLMASTER OF KIRKHILL-SINGULAR CASE. Hugh Fraser, Schoolmaster of Kirkhill, charged with breach •of the peace, as also profanity, especially when the said crimes, or either of them, are committed in church, and during the time of divine service, and to the disturbance and disquietude of the congregation, are crimes of an heinous nature, and severely punisha ble : And albeit, by an act passed in the eleventh Par liament of the reign of James the Sixth, chapter 27th, entitled, " Punishment of the Kirk, Invaders of Mi nisters, and of Excommunicat Persones entrand into the Kirk," it is statuted and ordained, " That quhat sum ever persons or persones shall happen hereafter to perturbe the ordour of the Kirk in time of Divine Service, or to make ony tumult, raise ony fraie, either in kirk or kirk-yaird, quhairthrow the people then con vened, sail happen to he disordered, troubled, or dis persed ; the same sail be ane point of dittay, and the persones to be convict thereof; sail tyne all their move able gudes, to be escheat to our Soveraine Lord, for their offense ; but prejudice of greater punishment, gif there should happen any greater offence, as slauchter bloud, mutilation, schutting, of haggbutes and pinto, leites, according to the lawes of this realme." Yet true it is and of verity, that you, the said Hugh Fraser, are guilty of the said crime of breach of the peace, and of the said crime of profanity, both and each aggravated as aforesaid, and of the crime and offence specified as aforesaid, in said statute, or of one or more of them, actor, or art and part. In so far as you, the said Hugh Fraser, being parochial schoolmaster of the parish of Kit khill aforesaid, and being well aware that, by the laws and practice of the Church of Scotland, of which you became, or professed yourself a member, on being appointed schoolmaster aforesaid, no person is entitled and warranted to sit down at the communion table, and participate, or attempt to participate, in the dis pensation of the sacrament of the Lord's supper, in any parish church, without the sanction or consent of the minister or kirk session of such parish, and with out having previously received or obtained, from, or by authority of the said minister or kirk session, a token in evidence of such sanction or consent; and you, the said Hugh Fraser, having at one time been in full communion with the Church of Scotland, and a communicant in the said parish of Kirkhill, and there after having been, by the kirk ssesion of the sa id parish, and in particular by the unanimous resolution or sentence of a meeting of the said kirk session, held on or about the 13th day of June l 835, suspended from, or refused the privilege of communicating at the dispensation of the sacrament of the Lord's supper in the church of the said parish, and refused a token of admission to the communion table. And the libel, after narrating several intermediate occurrences and pro ceedings in tho Church Courts, charges the pannel, that without having applied for or obtained a token from the minister or kirk session, you, the said Hugh Fraser, did, upon the 10th day of June, 1838, or upon one or other of the days of that month, or of May immediately pre ceding, or of July immedi a t e ly f o ll ow i ng , an d withi!.,. the parish church of the said parish of and during the time of divine service, and, which the con gregation was then and there aeserebled on the occasion of the dispensation of tha sacrament of the Lord's EVENING EDITION. supper, wickedly, wilfully, profanely, and unwarrant ably intrude yourself, and sit down at the communion table among the communicants of said congregation, then and there assembled ; and having been requested by the Rev. Alexander Fraser, minister of the said parish, then officiating, or about to officiate in dispensing the sacrament of the Lord's supper, to withdraw - front the contmunion.table, and you having refused to retire, though repeatedly requested and called upon t o do so by the said Rev. Alexander Fraser, and though remon strated with, and urged and commanded to withdraw by William Campbell, then and now or lately residing :u Muir of Kirkton, in said parish, and Alexander Sin Clair, then and now or lately tacksman of Buncbrew, in said parish, both, or one or other of them, elders of said parish, and by George France, Esq., then one of the members of said congregation, and one of her Ma jesty's justices of the peace for the county of Inverness, and acting in his said character of justice of the peace, at the request of the said Rev. Alexander Fraser, as you, the said Hugh Fraser well knew, and you, the said Hugh Fraser having intimated that you would not withdraw, and would resist being forcibly removed ; and the said Rev. Alex. Fraser having thereupon di rected that force should not be used to remove you, but having publicly announced that you would not be I permitted to communicate or partake of the elements of the Lord's supper, and the elders engaged in dis pensing the elements of bread and wine on the side of communion table where you sat, having accordingly, as instructed by the said Rev. Alexander Fraser, passed you over, you, the said Hugh Fraser, did then and there, while the cup containing the wine was pass log from one to another of the communicants seated on the opposite side of the table, wickedly, violently, for cibly, and unwarrantably, and profanely, and indecently, snatch at and seize hold of the said cup, and partqlte,or attempt to partake of its contents ; and all this you, the said Hugh Fraser, did, in opposition to the authority of the said Rev. Alexander Fraser, and the remonstrances of the said elders, and in breach of the public peace, and to the great disturbance and disquietude of the congre gation, and to the interruption of the dispensation of the solemn ordinance of the sacrament of the Lord's sup per, and to the grievous outrage of the religious feelings of the communicants and other members of the gail con gregation, and to the scandal of all pious persons. The pannel pleaded not guilty. Mr. EDWARD GORDON, as counsel for the pannel, objected to the relevancy of the indictment, contending that there were no facts set forth sufficient to found a charge of breach of the peace. The ADVOCATE-DEPUTE answered these objections to the relevancy. The Court, after consulting for a short time, repelled the objections. A .Jury having been balloted for and sworn, wit nesses were examined. Rev. Alex. Fraser, minister of Kirkhill—l s clergy man of Kirkhill since Lottery 1837. Pannel has been schoolmaster for 28 or 29 years. A schoolmaster signs the Confession of Faith, if required, previous to admission. Recollects of dispensation of sacrament in June 1837—the pannel had not asked for, or obtained a token to communicate, and he had got no permis sion. I was officiating outside of the church that day, and did not see what took place inside ; I recollect dis pensation of sacrament in June 1838—the panael had not applied for a token, and got no permission to com municate. I officiated within the parish church—the pannel appeared on that occasion. It is the practice to require tokens of admission in my parish. Pannel catun forward after the table was nearly occupied ; my at tention was directed by seeing the annoyance of the communicants. After a little time I got up, and ex pressed my regret that a person should scat himself at the table without my permission. I was about to offi ciate in dispensing the sacrament ; I hoped he wor: I J not persist, as the same would not proceed unlest t te re moved. I paused—he took no notice. sj men tioned his name, then, to prevent ar.y. mistake. I said he must retire. He conti'.ued still to sit. I then intimated to one of the elders that he was to remove, or sve:rds to that effect. Campbell went and spoke for some time ; I did not hear the conversation ; he sa'Al he refused to retire. I then addressed myself to Mr. France, and requested him to interfere as a Magistrate to remove him. Mr. France spoke for some time ; he said, " Mr. H. Fraser refuses to remove unless violence is used." I then stated, that owing to the excited state of the comniu ticants I would allow him to sit there, but that he did so by force, and not with my consent. I mentioned that he was not to have the communion elements ; I then came down from the pulpit, and gave directions try Campbell as to how he was to manage with the e',e ments. The conversation with the elder was private, all the rest was public. I saw him put down th e cup after partaking of it ; the service then proceeded. I thought the communicants were very much agitated with the whole proceedings ; several were standing and crowding, to see what was passing below. The service was interrupted with this occurrence from fifteen to twenty minutes. Pannel's declaration was read. Witnesses were then called in exculpation. Rev. Mr. Fraser, Dores—Produced records of the Presbytery of Inverness for 1834, in which are recor4d two certificates of character in favour of pannel, by 150 parishioners of Kirkhill. Jahn' Fraser, Teanuilt, was at the communion -table, at liirkhill, in June 1838. Schoolmaster came accentiy and orderly to the table ; nothing occurred till tninFistor s p o k e . I came to the table niter patina ; he sat op poslte me. Never knew anythin g but good of pannei's character. Dr. John Mackenzie, Inverness, was known to pannel for thirty-four years. Panne! and witness were tone years together at college, and witness never heard an'y thing against his character. John Rose, tacksman of Kirkton, was in churc' m of Kirkhill at sacrament in June 183 S. Saw par,n e l go to the communion table—he went decently and orderly. Witness has known the pannel for nearly thirty years; he is of good character. The ADVOCATE-DEPUTE addressed• the jury in sup port of the charge. Mr. GORDON replied on behalf of the pannel. The pannel conceived that he had not been legally and for mally deprived of his privileges as a communicant, and therefore went to the communion table. But, everk if it were granted that he went unwarrantabW to the sa crament, that was merely an ecclesiastical offence, un -1 ess it was accompanied by acts or threats of violence or profanity, which were necessary to constitute a cri minal act. Lord MACKENZIE summed up, when the Jury., after an absence of a quarter of an hour, gave in t 1 eir vet.- di ct, unanimously finding " the pannel not g'ailty of u breach of the peace, and not guilty of profanity ; but but find him guilty of illegally disturbing the congre gation." Lord MEDWVN said, that under the statute, they were directed to inflict one particular punishment, and they had no discretion left to them. The Clerk then read the sentence of the Court, de claring- the partners moveables to be escheat to her Me. jest• ; and the pannel left the bar. CHARLES DICKENS.—The National Gazette (Philadelphia paper) gives the following skr.tch of Mr. : Dickens, the auth or o f th e " Pickwick .pers" —" In person he is a little above the standard Vight, though not tall. His figure i s s li g ht without 'oeing meagre, and is well proportioned. The face, t }- ,e first object of phy sical interest, is peculiar, though not remarkable. An ample forehead is displayed ".nder a quantity of light hair, worn in a mass on one s',.cle rather jauntily, and this is the only semblance of dandyism in his appearance. His brow is marked ; I nis eye, though not large, bright and expressive. Tlie most regular feature is the nose, which may be called handsome ; an epithet not appli cable to his lips, which are too large. Taken altogether the countenance, which is pale without sickness, is, in. renose, extremely agreeable, indicative of refinement telligence. Mr.Dickens' manners and conversation, and ; An except, perhaps, in the perfect abandon among his fami liars, have no exhibition of particular wit, much less of humour. He is mild in the tones of his voice, ar.d qui escent ; evincing habitual attention to the et. rn iqcctte anA conventionalisms of p o li s h e d c i rc l es . His society is r, o h sought after, and, pos s ibly to avoid the invitations pr'fssed . re treat upon him, he does not reside in London, but, with a in n ov t e h ly e wife, and nd Ile is a charmingchildren,it26years of he has 3 age, but does not look more than 23 or 24. Mr. Dicken'A is entirely self-made, and rose from a humble station by virtue of his moral worth, his genius, and his indu, try. ” The Monitezzr announces that ici ng D enys, a Negro chief of the coast of Guinea, w h o h as rendered many se rvices to French comm erce , h as b een made a Keimh 3; of t h e Legion of Honour. A. brother of his Majest was a non-commissioned officer in Napoleon's Impe rial Guard. The Sun of Wednesda y costa ins a letter beaded 1 " Chartism in Sheffield?' In ow', respect the statement in the letter is not correct. The writer says that the man when bailed on Friday evening, was told to appear at the Town Hall on the day following (Saturday) ; that he did so attend, and, after waiting a long time, was told that he could not be examined that day, but must attend again on Tuesday. Now we happened to be present on Friday evening, when Mr. Brownell admit , ted to bail ten of the prisoners, and among them Balm- I forth, whose cases were represented to him as the ler s t serious, and we heard them told that the conditic, o o f their recognizance was that they should appear again, not on Saturday but on Tuesday. If; therefore,, Barn forth was in attendance on Saturday, it rAmst have been either from choice or from a mirandetstanding of as plain instructions as ever were given.—Mc:geld and Rotherham Independent. THE EGLINToN 11.ANQUET. —We under stand that, in conseque:ice of the Glasgow Sacramental Fast hap- ti epi n on tine 24th of October, it is prop:wad to .- r .ut off the banquet to the Right Hon. the Ear', of Eglinton, at Irvine, till the 28th or 29th, a num}, or o f gentlemen from Glasgow having expressed a wish, to be present at the banquet. On the night after thr, b anquet it is proposed that there shall be a splendioA dress ball within the same pavilion.—Ayr Observer.