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the r e an" he ( 1 11 „ e i vi cfr ni of 1' 13ills were very , nbi , ction, and substituted the word " priest." 'Ci9 two 1( 1 :;shoo ;f whether the d.)cirine was Catholic, or who i. '' their ' character, and yet her ther it was even Christian, did not arose here.' It was s ini ,r in ... . Majesty's Government were ac.2u;ed of doing grievous said that they were over-sensitive. Well. then, let three wrong by introducing this Bill, and ()Tering an insult to or four dignitaries of the Roman Catholic Church be up - Irela n d. H e could only say, that if flonnurable Gen- pinted ; let some Boman Catholic laymen of high rank tb-men would indulge in such imputations as be appointed, and there would be an end of all objection. these against the Gov .ram i - ir„ the to MeV they ; —(Rear, hear.) There was another part of the subject, abandoned all hopes of redressing nny griev - namely, the disposition of a person's property three ante the b etter , f or it would be be ter for the Go- months before his death. That was confined to land, for vernment to leave the law as it stood, than subject i a person in articula mortis might leave personal property. themselves to imputations of this kind. The Act of He did not think there would be any objection to the 1834 imposed a limitation with respect to the amount of Bill on this ground. He might be much mistaken in the property to be granted. It provided that no sum ex- views he had taken on this question. He gave the Right seedin g 2001., and no land greater in extent than forty Hon. Gentleman credit for the most honourable motives acres, should be voluntarily granted for the purpose of in introducing this Bill—(Hear, hear)—he said it was endowment. But it was said that they now imposed new conceived in a spirit of peace, and that it would be so r estrictions, and it was contended that every person received. A great man had said, that he hated little wars. ought to be allowed to make, upon his death-bed, be- He would say the same of little boons, when there was a quests for Roman Catholic purposes. That was the necessity for a feelings amnesty and complete oblivion,— state of th e l aw as it a t p re sent stood. In England any (Hear, hear.) The Government acted on such feelins grant, to be legal, must be made one year before the tes- with regard to the Dissenters' Chapels Bill. On such tator's death. He would be sorry to see that law altered. feelings they acted when the Right Hon. Gentleman They now proposed that in Ireland grants for religious said that Maynooth required revision. There was a Purposes should be made three months prior to boldness and a courage that was almost superior to the death of the testator. If they doubted the virtue Let the same course be taken with regard to this Policy of that, they could alter it in Committee. measure. Let it be made a comprehensive and perma- Lt was entirely a question of public policy. nent measure, and it would be satisfactory.—(Elear.) Ile believed that the Bill, which was seen by Dr. Moir- There }vas one portion of the Right Hon. Baronet's r ay, contained the same provisions, and no objection speech for which he most sincerely thanked him—that was urged to it then, no objection was urged to the rule portion in which he intimated that the Sovereign would that three months must elapse before the death of the visit her throne in the west. If she did so , he trusted patty bequeathing land, in order to make the bequest she would find there a devoted, a gallant, a loyal—still, Valid. But it was said that some rule of the Roman Ca- still a loyal—people, and that she would bear with her tholic Church made it impossible to commit the consi- there that 'mercy which seasons justice."—(Cheers.) deration of matters affecting the spirltualitiss of the Lord STANLEY said that the Right Hon. Gentle- Church to any lay tribunal, that it was absolutely neces- man had done justice as to the views and intentions vary to reserve the consideratios of ,piritual matters to with which the Government were actuated in proposing t ribunals exclusively ecc lesiastical. But this Bill did not this remedial measure, for such it was , as co m p ared with r elate to spi r it ua l matters requiring the cognisance of an the existing law, The objections made to the measure e xclusively ecclesiastical tribunal. The matters, in re- were such as it would be competent for the Right Hon. spect of which the tribunal was to meet and adjudge, Gentleman to introduce in the Committee on the Bill, blight be decided withont the violation of any principle and it would be quite consistent with the principle of it of the C at h o li c f a i t h . B u t hi s fi rs t a nswer to the objec- if the Government assented to the amendments he sug c"on was, that there was nothing in the Bill which im- gested. But the Right Hon. Gentleman was mistaken Posed on the Crown any obligation to constitute an ex- with regard to the views which he attributed to the Go elusively lay tribunal. The Crown would have an op- vernment in introducing the measure.—(Hear, hear.) Portunity of appointing Churchmen to it. His other Her Majesty's Government were actuated by no answer was, that this Bill was in contemplation in 1834, political or religious views, but they saw that the that it then underwent consideration by the Re- present law required amendment, and they resolved man Catholic Prelates, whose assent was given to introduce a Bill which would place charitable bequests to • it, though it did devolve on a tribunal of all denominations, Protestant and Roman Catholic, composed exclusively of laymen , the considera (The on the same footing, under the superintendence of a c " (i n of the very same questions involved in this Bil l . board, which would the confidence of all, and which Right H on . B a ronet read an extract from the Bill, would do justice to all. The question should be viewed regulating the Visiting Board of the College of May- as a question of property, and not as one of religion, booth.) lle trusted he had now given an explanation which he was sorry to see introduced into the discussion tn_fficient t o sat i s f y th e Ho u se at least of the intention of at all. Would it be denied that lawyers should not be Th 'iv i r, Majesty's Government with respect to this measure , on such a board ? An objection was taken t h at the "inch, as his Right Hon. Friend had said, and truly said, highest legal authority, who must necessarily be a Pro. ,Was bro ug h t i n not f or th e purpose of conciliating public testant, was to be a member of the board. That was a favour by any undue or unwise concession, but for the thing from which they could not escape, for such was the P u rpose of doing that which was just, and doing it in a law, and he did not think that any person could doubt of conciliatory and friendly spirit. The o bj ec t o f the Bill the justness of the decisions of the present Lord Chan was to d o justice ; and the motive of the Bill was to be cellor. With regard to the other two judges who were with in a friendly and conciliatory spirit. It rested to be on the board, they selected two of the judges not they the H on . Gentlemen opposite to determine how far for their religion or creed—viz., the Master of the Rolls i n e y Would, acting from the impulse of their own feel- and Chief Baron, both of whom had lately been Roman of r , and following the dictates of their own judgment, Catholics. They also selected the Judge of the Prero se ePposition to the passing of this Bill. It was pos- gative Court, whom the Hon. Baronet the Member for ~,e that such an opposition, strenuously directed Waterford had himself pointed out as a suitable person. t rust the measure. might at that period of the session He must also be a Protestant, and the judge who now 4 ev ail- At any rate, whether that opposition prevailed presided in the Prerogative Court was a person succeeded, he hoped, during the recess, the popular on whose decision the utmost confidence could be placed, tent,, . o real b e ,. ; in Ireland would not be inflamed by charging and who on one occasion had given, as counsel, t ' 'iajesty's Government with unwillingness to listen an opinion against his political friends and his complaints, and with a want of a desire to do co-religionists. He did not see bow they could thatl which it considered to be justice.--(Hear, hear.) appoint Roman Catholic judges ex vi termini. The or e did hope at any rate that, in the course Right Hon. Gentleman complained that they had not b the next session the Government would not consulted any of the Roman Catholic Prelates. Why, e taunted with the imputation that it had permitted at- they had not consulted any of the Protestant Prelates, t endon e to the business of England and Scotland to cc- and for this reason, that they did not consider this ques tb'PY it exclusively, and that it had ne glected Ireland ; tion a religious question, but a question of property. at neglect being used as an additional argument for a They merely looked to the existing law, and they found re pel of the union. —(Hear, hear.) He did trust that that it gave just suspicions to the Roman Catholics, but the Hon. Gentlemen opposite who asked them what they they had some grounds for knowing what were the °pi t% moor do to pre ven t their being influenced by this Oa - nions of some of the most honourable and most u s r for repeal, would, in their explanations to their amiable of those Prelates, and they had rea _ofl v tituent s have the goodness to explain fairly that the son to suppose that a board would not ex measure the Government had produced was a measure cite the suspicions of the Roman Catholics; which did e ",'Fn permitted voluntary endowments to the Roman not contain Roman Catholic ecclesiastics. The present iron s Church—which permitted voluntary subscrip- board was composed not only of one denomination, but .., l i ulas to be applied to the building of R o man Catholic it was partly an ecclesiastical board of one denomination. 4. 4 ees of worship—which rendered it impossible here- It was composed of the Lord Chancellor, the Judge of t after to interfere with such bequests, and which proposed the Prerogative Court, the Judges, the Provost of . I , ° constitute a commission of regulation, composed of Trinity College, the Dean of St. Patrick, and the Vicar .aoln an Catholics and Protestants in equal numbers, General of Dublin. Five of those constituted a quorum, Proving that the principle of the measure was one of but of those five an Archbishop or Bishop should tiquality. And his belief was, that if they would permit be one, and poser was given to them to ap suset, measure to pass it would be hailed by the uninflu- ply charitable donations or bequests, according eu _ e . ed and r easona bl e p ar t o f the people of Ireland as a to the intentions of the donor; and in case it was expe -2_ alaure of v e ry grea t a d v antage, and indicative of the dient or unlawful to apply the same according to the in spirit in wh ic h h er M a j es t y ' s G overnmen t was disposed ten ti ons o f th e d o nor then to apply them to such pur 'o legislate with regard to that country.—(Hear.) poses as they considered nearest to the wishes of the Mr. SHEIL h o p e d t h a t, as th e Ri g ht Hon. Gentleman donor. — (Hear , hear.) T he p resent Act was a g reat had, not h a d t h e opportun i tyo f consu l t i ng t h ose w h o were grievance and it was felt as such; and now when the y came Lae best able to give him advice on this important mea- for the first time with a remedy, complaints were I made t !lire, he would permit them to make such comments upon as to the measure whicla . they brought fo e r f w or a e rd the Corn l _t,as their duty required them to offer. He had waited was the opinion of . Mr. 0 Conne_l,.givez! b with rfoonet's speech, mittee which sat in 1829, on this su jee b t? He stated, anxiety for the conclusion of the Right Hon. Ba in answer to a question which had been put to him, that Id suggest to hear what reason he would 1 the Roman Catholics had no confidence in the board, r not having consulted a single Roman Catholic ece e siastic upo tit .- measure.—(Hear, hear.) But he had and that they entertained apprehensions as to li stened in n vain l . s `l'this point the Right Hon. Gentle- what the ultimate application of the charitable Ina bequests made by Roman Catholics would be, and , n had not thought it judicious or necessary to refer. lie had heard with much surprise the audio- as long as the Commission remained in its present city of the Honourable Member for Waterford state that apprehension would continue. He was then or (Sir H. • Winston Barron) quoted by the Noble asked what would be the ob j ect of a Commission com d, th e S ecretary for Ireland, as the groun d f or ap pointing the Jud ge o f t h e P rerogat i ve Court as one of posed partly of Catholics and partly of Protestants ? He the C omm i ss i on . He (Mr. Sheil) did not wish to throw answered that that would mitigate a great deal ; and he any reflection on th e li on . Member for Waterford—he would go further and say this, that if the Commissioners had a right to give an opinion, and he were composed of two or three Roman Catholics out of . . He didcu Court t bear in paid great attention to the thatinm,mceinssda,rigave it. He had nine or ten, one great objection would be removed. — paid re; o e g r . a t i v il e subject, but he was not a Such is the opinion of Mr. O'Connell in 1829; and in the y b the e a J u p d r a o e t espresent Bill, five out of the ten Commissioners would of Bill was so framed necessity be Roman Catholics, and five would be Protest- Thethat, d e i for oft atnhte. Come, the Protestants ,acto, many years to ants. There was no jealousy between the Protestants Wes board. It was must have the majority on this and Presbyterians, or between the Protestants or Wes quite true, that the but the Church of Rome singly and alone re- Baron and that of the ' offices of Chief leyans, filled by Roman ofofthe Commissionersfrom Master of the Rolls might be ceived five out ten Catholics. held, and Church; and he thought it most indecent, unwise, to suggest it was true that it They had been so likely to Hon. G occur during the administration of the Right not perform his functions justly and fairly, without re entleman, he could not see far enough into the ference to the religion of the parties who came before futur e to foretel. But they asked this—how would the Bill him. If they threw out a suspicion that Roman Catholic operat eama for the present ? It was so framed as to give judges would not administer justice fairly, because they jority on the board to Protestants for a considerable might be of the same religion with one of the claimants number .. of years. Why was it so ? It was admitted before them, it would be said that they insulted the 4 ,'__ e th e e Right Hon. Baronet, the Secretary of State, that Roman Catholics. He lamented the necessity of stipu rac-fourths of the property to be managed by this biting that a certain proportion of the board should be °° 5, that three-fourths of the property held under of one reliaion ; but he thought it most unwise to dis charitableo bequests in Ireland, was Catholic property. pate whether there should be five against six, or six aa W that fact, as stated by the Government itself, being against seven.—(Hear, hear.) But, if there were any beyond disput e , wa s it not natural that they s h ou ld pretence for this, it was provided for by the Bill ; for, a najuire of th em , why they so gratuit ous ly where bequests w ere made for Roman Catholic purposes iii ' t unnecessarily placed a majority of Protestants they were to be placed exclusively in the hands of the foru that b oar d ? What reason had th ey Roman Catholic members of the board. Yet they were i t , except that principle which seemed to pervade told that this Bill was an insult to the Roman Catholics. eve ry _ scendancy. T i nstitution in Ireland—the sp i r i t of Protestant The Government was d es i rous o f h o ldi ng th e b a l ance !seendancy. He did not say that it was so, but the equally, and of doing justice to all , but it was not EDINBURGH JURY CO UR. -night, Hon. Gentleman must feel that the objection was very encouraging, when they wished to put all on the BREACH. OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE. one that _ would be naturally entertained. Why should same footing, to be told that they were insulting and An action for breach of promise of marriag e was tried the ajority o f th e b oar d b e P ro t es tants when the b u lk injuring the party from whom they sought to remove on Wednesday before the Lord Justice-General a nd a of tr a r, property to be administered by the board was the unequal pressure of the existing law. It was next jury, in which Miss Margaret Croall was pur suer, and ti on 'iin? Let them not suppose that he had any objec- objected that they placed in the hands o f Ro man Ca - Mr. Joseph Hutchinson was defender. The followin g was h. to the Judge of the Prerogative Court. He knew tholic laymen questions affecting the doctrine and the issue in the case : Ina welland h , , 0 was a man of the highest talent and discipline of the Roman Catholic Church, and that was " Issue in the cause in which Miss Margaret Croall, strictest • • of it. integrity. He would tell them an instance contrary to the usage of that Church. The Right Hon. daughter of Mr. John Croall, coach proprietor in Edin of in 1828, when he acted as assessor of the county Gentleman quoted the opinion of Edmund Burke, who burgh, is pursuer ; and Joseph Hutchinson, Esq., re was Clare, it was by his decision that Mr. O'Connell said he did not t hi n k t h e mem b ers o f one religious sect siding at Woodside, near Dalserf, in the County of La b declared returned. He did not object to the man , were fit to appoint the pastors of another. How did the nark, is defender. ~,,1 11 , t he did object t o puttin g men upon the board from Right Hon. G ent l eman apply t h at t o th e present Bill? " Whether the defender, in the month of April, 1843, w hom th th , _ 0 _ . e . profession of Protestantism was required as . The Right H on . G ent l eman sa id th a t Dr. Everhard had promised and agreed to marry the pursuer ; and whether R ,7_e . ildition of their holding their offices. The Right founded a college, and he had dwelt upon the circum- the defender has wrongfully failed to perform the said A .7," ° Baronet had not given a reason for not consulting stances of th a t case . Th e ques ti on w as, should they . promise and agreement, to the loss, injury, and damage Thingaale Roman Catholic Prelate with regard to the Bill. have an exclusively ecclesiastical authority to decide of the pursuer ?"—Damages laid at 3,0001. to "'as .an ecclesiastical measure, relating to property legal questions ? Suppose th e Roman Catholics were Mr. INGLIS, with whom was Mr. Rutherford, opened tri ne a pp l ied to ecclesiastical uses. It touched the doe- recognised, protected, and en d o wed in Ireland, and a the case for the pursuer. He stated that the pursuer /Ai _ and constitution of the Roman Catholic Church. case arose where one person sue d ano th er for a charit- was the daughter of Mr. Croall, the eminent coach con th,s':.Right Hon. Friend was mistakea in his view as to able or religious foundation as a Roman Catholic foun- tractor in Edinburgh, and that the defender, Mr. Hut te:.e's_.tent to which questions would arise under it con- dation. To whom did the Right Hon. Gentleman say chison, who was the only son of a gentleman possessed B ll ' , 1 with the views of that Church. In the face of the they must refer a question involving not spiritual juris- of landed property, at Woodside, parish of Dalserf, th th at e Government had stamped its own conviction diction, but temporal payments,_ the payment of money, Lanarkshire, paid his addresses to her about the begin lady. Of thosecommon questions would arise ; then why, in the name the receipt of a salary, the right to receive as a profes•• ning of last year, and was accepted by the young itia4 nion consistency, did they not consult a single Ro- sor, in a particular body, a certain amount of It was difficult to say whether he had ever been sincere th ey Catholic Prelate ? He was willing to believe that stipend ? Did he say they should refer to the i n hi s addresses; if he were, it was impossible to M eer " Pate tacted from the purest motives, and he did not im- Church of Rome ? Why, that at once claimed taro from what cause lie had been induced to break off Would° them any sinister intent in that omission, but it for the Church of Rome the recognition, the the match. The Learned Cousel then proceeded to tell a Place them in a great embarassment. He would protection, and the authority of the law, provided it were read various:letters addressed by the defendant to the ie ni Co u l d -frankly that he did not think any Protestant always upon its side, while for the maintenance of these pursuer, all breathing the warmest affection and attach • such a en ter into the feelings of a Roman Catholic on rights it refused to abide by its decision.—(Hear, hear.) m eat, b u t most of them adverting to the fact that b letiv question as this. He could not appreciate their That was a very large and important question. He would his sisters were opposed to the match, and that they they w es— ,he could not understand their feelings, or, if like to know whethr there was any religious persuasion were endeavouring to stir up his father against at o ne - e (nt l, their prejudices and jealousies. He would in this or any other country which claimed that exclu- it, in which he was apprehensive they would succeed. t o . tell them that he would not trust a Protestant sive right?—(Hear, hear.) He was speaking of tern- At the same time, he declared emphatically, and in re egsat ' eipl iti eon a matter in which the doctrine and dis- poral stipends a nd sa l ar i es , rece i ve d qua p r ofessor of a peated letters, that no opposition on their part, or on e o f n ot tba.. the Roman Catholic Church was concerned; particular university, an d no t o f t h e a pp o i n t me nt of a that of his father, would have the slightest effect in heca, ase 4 he had any suspicion of their int e grity, b u t professor, if that professor should have been appointed. causing him to change his purpose. His letters also si gns they could not enter into the feelings and pas- Mr. SHEIL—By the Protestant majority. bore testimony to the fact that he kept a race-bore — which laced n _ must be borne in mind by those who legis- Lord STANLEY said there was no appointment by that he was in the Lanarkshire Yeomanry—and that Il i ad eciti P s ' u ? such a topic. If the Right Hon. Baronet the Commission. It was intended to see that property he indulged in other amusements altogether ineon aye avoided any Roman Catholic Prelate he would was applied to the purposes, be they Protestant or be sistent with the defence which was now set up by the ° a pp osing all this. Let them not suppose that he was they Roman Catholic, for which the founder intended defender, that he was so utterly poor, and dependent them in the spirit of faction. He had received for subsistence upon his friends. In June last year, ~ letter from it.—(Hear h ) If the Roman Catholic professorship , ear. ung u i sh ,a Roman Catholic Archbishop, dis- of theology in Maynooth were recognised by the law, he paid a visit to Edinburgh, and spent ten days or a va le had a for his learning and his moderation, and • fortnight in Mr. Croall's house, where he was received 11 . never the ultimate resort, in case of any dispute, must be to Right been an impediment in the way of the the Lord Chancellor. But if the Hon. Gentleman said by the family with the utmost cordiality. At that time to ex__ ssHonourable Gentleman, and he felt it his duty it was a matter of discipline in the Roman Catholic he went with Miss Croall and another lady to the shop C o h ure r °o _ , , his conviction that the Roman Catholic Church not to entrust these matters to laymen, he of a jeweller in town, with the intention of purchasing th e t he church was acquiesce in a Bill by which authority begged to say there was nothing to prevent the appoint- for her a diamond ring, but when there, was induced to I 'l G overn _ _ was given to laymen. Why could not, ment of a Roman Catholic ecclesiastic, or of any number change his purpose, and buy a gold watch, with which the b y ur w . eat take the same course as was adopted in of Roman Catholic ecclesiastics. There was nothing to he presented her. After his return home, on the 29th e Colleae of Pitt, with respect to the-visiting board of declare by law that these legal questions should be de- June, lie wrote to the pursuer, intimating that he had vela tl l te d to the Maynooth, by which all matters which tided by an ecclesiastical tribunal, and he confessed he had-a conversation with his father on the subject of his . olie Church doctrine and discipline of the Roman Ca- should think it most unwise in the British Par- marriage, in which his father, while fully admitting the the were to be regulated by such members of liament to give that power to any Church, be it respectability of the pursuer's family, and the unble boardaean, as were Roman Catholics ? In the case of' mished nature of her character, thought that his son th e ;„ '3' by death the • - Protestant or be it Roman Catholic. In confining successors survivors had the power of electing exclusively Protestant charities to exclusively Protestant might have made a more advantageous match, and ob- Ott once rid the • i ßy adopting this course they would Commissioners, and exclusively Catholic charities to ex- jetted that the pursuer was beneath him in rank. This ti T,,,,,,_ ~° m t se the of the difficulty which would arise elusively Catholic Commissioners, they were doing all in the defender denied. The conversation dropped, the vtligeoleyewalasgseoe election of the board. The same their power to place the different religious denominations writer added, by the father declaring that he was un gtand Burke wholl by a greater man than Mr. Pitt—Ed- on a footing of perfect and entire equality. They had alterably opposed to the match, while the son declared „ a te of public feeling, thoroughly to understand the sought to do away with the religious jealousies of either firmly, on the other hand, that nothing but death should Crow n an , ____ and the difficulty of giving the party b confining to the care of each the religious cha- prevent him from carrying his intentions into effect. atholi e 6rwer over the doctrine and di sc ipli ne o f th e • • which belonged to that particular denomination. A day or two afterwards he wrote again, in which he rities . then . i t h r (The Hon. and Learned Gentleman - r a Pe n ead passage Further than this by law he thought it would be unwise , repeated the substance of this conversation, and added, Penal co , from Mr. Burke's pamphlet on the They ready in Committee to consider the that he had had a conversation with one of his sisters, were "e, as directed against to go. were wi.., not about to . Roman Catholics, in objections to the details which any party might make.— l i in which she stated that she would offer no further gleh he t appoint pastors perha s but tl • They had anxiously considered the ob- , opposition to his marriage ; and he congratulates the s atedthatthe me b - ' •.p ,ley (Hear, hear.). 'fr. allow one of m ers of one religious sect would • • jections which were raised in 1829 by Mr. pursuer on this first indication of a bright change in tr o Y tt e ( p ainly were about anotherto to . appoint their pastors.) their O'Connell, the great lay leader of the Ca- . circumstances. Matters remained in this state LI aa. • • app, ant those who would con-till the 20th of August, when a change in the style of question His Right Hon. Fe d did tholics had anxiously considered the pro-m- nof the doctrineslen not see how the •• ; they • 4 vere assented to by Dr. the defender's letter began to appear. The jury would 'Bill B of the Church could • arise under _ positions which in 183 % theßoman Ca- ' find in them what he (Mr. Inglis) must call a ' aris . But he could show him that Murray, one of the most estimable of cunning f e , " He stated the question could tholic prelates ; they had sought to shape their men- and gradually executed device to shake himself free from A nniled i n c case of the Roman Catholic Colleg to either party, his promises ; and his object was to disgust Miss Croall with rehbisbo Cashel by Dr. Everhard, the Roman Cathore sure so as, without giving ascendancy a essors 0, . p_o the district. Supposing one of the ic to do justice to both, and to unite both in the . common her to give up the engagement. On the 20th of August !lett' , _.! ethstiaecollege embraced Jansenist wepurold- work of charity; and he should deeply res,ret if the men- her wrote that he had unpleasant news to tell ugust Th e _ 11u. i nbetweenthecollegeandthevis't• doctrine,csb d sure should be rejected on its second reading on . the I her, that si in, oar ? his father was unalterably opposed to the • 444 4 did not wish to have the education principle introduced ; and if, even on the discussion of had marriage. He the Control 9f the laity. But of the eo le it was • P P the details, it should be met either by Protestants or ,known this some weeks before, but he was ' • unwilling 3 said the Rowan Catholics with a sectarian feeling, which was ito tell her. Why, said the Learned Counsel, he did tell the fardiest of all from the motives by which her Ma jesty's Government had hcen actuated. Mr. BELLEW explained. Mr. WYSE said that no person who had considered with any attention the principles on which the existing board was founded, could fail to admit that it was to ' tally unfit to carry out this object. It wee of the hihcst importance, that in the present position of Ireland they should have the amplest security for the proper carrying out of charitable intentions.—(Hear, hear.) The board was intended to undermine the Ca tholic religion, and the question before the House was, whether the measure before the House provided a sufficient remedy? He admitted, fully, that the ques tion of temporalities was a question of property, but they often became mixed up with spiritual matters. The State should not go beyond its legitimate sphere and interfere with what was spiritual.—(Hear, hear.) Bequests and donations to hospitals and institutions of a similar nature, fairly came under the influence of a mixed Commission, but there were other charities which, being strictly of a spiritual character, should not be sub mitted to the same influence. There was no jealousy on the part of the people of Ireland against a board for the administration of general charities, but they were lealous of interference with spiritual matters, and the question was, whether this Bill provided for the removal of jealousies of that nature. He wished to see one ecclesiastic at least on the board.—(Hear.) The question which the board would have to decide would be the proper application of a fund left for re ligious purposes, and that question must be decided by a reference to doctrines. The Noble Lord said that in the case of a professorship there would be an appeal to the Lord Chancellor. But the Lord Chancellor must refer to the Commission for their opinion. Would it not be much better to nominate a bishop on the board who, inThnine, could decide whether certain doctrines were or were not in accordance with those of the Church ? His principal objection to the Bill was, that its object being to conciliate the people of Ireland, the Government did not take the precaution to ascertain the opinion of the Catholic prelates, and that the Government had not shown sufficient regard for their position or character ; and he thought it would be a wiser course to make the Bill acceptable at once, than to leave it to be amended at a future time. Mr. HUME believed the Bill had been brought for ward in the spirit of peace, and all that he wished was that every measure connected with Ireland should be brought forward in the same spirit. He gave the Go-. vernment the greatest credit for what they had done, and he did not think that the objections that had been taken to the measure would do any good for Ireland. Colonel RAWDON thought there was great necessity for the measure, and he should therefore give it his sup port. Ho believed it had been brought forward in a good and kind spirit. Mr. D. BROWNE deprecated a measure of such im portance being brought forward at so late a period of die session. He believed the measure would not be satisfactory to the people of Ireland ; and he thought the Government ought to postpone the further consi deration of the measure to another session. If the Go vernment attempted to force the measure through the House during the present session, they would greatly outrage the feelings of the people f Ireland. Strangers were then ordered to withdraw, when there appeared— For the second reading Against it Majority _ -66 On entering the gallery we found, Mr. MORGAN O'CONNELL protesting against the provisions of the Bill. Why should not the clergy of a higher order be termed bishops and archbishops ? the question had been repeatedly asked, and had been yet unanswered. Neither had there been any satisfactory reason given why the Catholic hierarchy of Ireland had not been consulted. He had moved an amendment that instead of the words " clergy of the higher order," it should be, " bishops and archbishops." On the Dissenters' Chapels Bill the Government acknowledged that they had consulted the Dissenting clergy, but they disdained to treat the Catholic clergy in the same manner. The Govern ment gave notice of their intention to bring in this Bill in February, and brought it forward in the month of June, and introduced a clause by which a lay Commis sion would have power over the doctrines and discipline of the Church of Rome. To this he in the strongest manner objected. The only consolation Roman Catho lics would have was, that the Bill was not compulsory. The Bill was then ordered to be committed on Thurs day next. Sir J. GRAHAM moved the order of the day for the House going into Committee on the Marriages (Ireland) Bill. The Bill then went through Committee pro forma. The Report on the Savings' Bank Bill was then brought up. The Fisheries (Ireland) Bill passed through Commit tee, and the report yas ordered to be received to-morrow PRIVY COUNCIL BILL. The report C; - thisßillwas brought up. Mr. ELPHINSTONE proposed that the following clause should be added to the Bill :—" And be it en acted, that in all causes of appeal to her Majesty in Council from Ecclesiastical Courts, and from Admiralty or Vice-Admiralty Courts, which now are or may here after be depending, in which any person duly monished or cited or requested to comply with any lawful order or decree of her Majesty in Council, or of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council or their surrogates, made before or after the passing of this Act, shall have neglected or refused, or shall neglect or refuse, to pay obedience to such lawful order or decree, or shall have committed or shall commit any contempt of the process under the seal of her Majesty in ecclesiastical and mari time causes, it shall be lawful for the said Jndicial Com mittee or their surrogates to pronounce such person to be contumacious and in contempt, and after he or she shall have been so pronounced contumacious and in con tempt, to cause process of sequestration to issue under the said seal of her Majesty against the real and personal es tate, goods, chattels, and eifects,wheresoever lying, within the dominions of her Majesty, of the person against or upon whom such order or decree shall have been made, in order to enforce obedience to the same, and payment of the expenses attending such sequestration, and all proceedings consequent thereon, and to make such fur ther order in respect of, or consequent on, such seques tration, and in respect to such real and personal estate, goods, chattels, and effects sequestrated thereby, as may be necessary, or for payment of moneys arising from the same, to the person to whom the same may be due, or into the registry of the High Court of Admiralty and Appeals, for the benefit of those who may be ultimately entitled thereto."—The clause was passed, and the report agreed to. Mr. HUTT moved the Lords' Amendments to the Aliens Bill, which were agreed to. AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE. Mr. ST AFFORD O'BRIEN moved for leave to bring in a Bill to regulate the sale of agricultural pro duce in Ireland.—Leave was given to bring in the Bill. The House then adjourned at Half-past Ten o'clock. r her so far back as the 29th Jane. He Vent on to say in the letter that he had no prospect now of altering his father's opposition. He could force an income from the property that was vested in him by .his mother, but not to enable them to lire in the style he could wish. Under tiicse circumstances, he had been revolvintr, many schemes in his mind, but ho had now positively re,:olved to CrOS3 the Atlantic ocean, and become a culti,Tator of the soil. He hoped she would not consithr him cruel in asking her to accompany him. He lauew the sacrifice she would have to make in leaving fond parents, loving brothers and sisters, and admiring friends, in order to share his fortune, which did not pro mise very brightly ; but he was determined to go, as he saw no prospect of any change in his circumstances, and he trusted he did not ask too much in asking her to go with him. This letter the Learned Counsel charac terised as a trick. He presented all the dark colours of an emigrant's life, none of the bright ones, evi dently to induce her to refuse her consent. In reply to this letter, Miss Croall wrote that she was much dis tressed by his letter. That to go to America was out of the question ; that she could not make up her mind to leave her native country ; and that she was sure her father and mother would not give their consent. She entreated him not to make up his mind rashly, and re minded him of some of their acquaintances, who had emigrated to their ruin. In his reply to this letter, the Learned Counsel said, the defender artfully turned the poor girl's own fears against herself ; he admitted all she had said of the dangers of emigration ; and it was too true that many of his acquintances had suffered from emigration ; but nevertheless he was determined to go ; and therefore the only question was, whether she would or would not go along with him. He could not—he dared not—anticipate th:,t she would ; but he left the matter in her own hands, and advised her to consult her father and mother. The pursuer, on re ceiving this letter, did consult her father, and he wrote to the defender. Penetrating his disguise, he took no notice of his resolution to go to America, but put the question simply, did he or did lie not mean to fulfil his promise of marrying his daughter ? The defender, finding that his artifice was discovered, talked no more of going to America. He wrote in answer, af ter referring to the two last letters he had written Miss Croall, that as matters stood with him, it would be per fect madness to think of marrying his daughter, with any prospect of happiness either to her or to him. This closed the correspondence, and with it, he might close his statement. He confidently asked from the hands of the jury such a verdict as would give such reparation as the law allowed to the injured feelings of this young lady. Witnesses were then called, who proved that the fa ther possessed landed property to the extent of about 5001. per annum, 4001. of which was entailed on the de fender in right of his mother at his father's death, but burdened with the sum of 2,000/. to his sisters. Mrs. Buchanan, of the Clydesdale Arms, Lanark, stated that she was acquainted with both parties, and had seen them together frequently. Knew that Miss Croall had been on several occasions visiting at Wood , ' side for ten days or a fortnight at a time ; and on one occasion, at least, when old Mr. Hutchison was at home. About the spring of last year, she had a conversation with Mr. Hutchison about his intended marriage with Miss Croall. She advised him to let his father know of his intentions, and he appeared disposed to do so. In June last year witness paid a visit to Mr. Croall's family in Edinburgh, and found Mr. Hutchison there also on a visit. She then detailed the circumstances of the pur chase of a gold watch, and its presentation to Miss Croall, as given in Mr. Inglis'speech. Witness stayed a week in Edinburgh, and when she went away she left Mr. Hutchison still staying there. She did not see more of them till after the marriage was broken off. After that she saw Mr. Hutchison in Lanark, and asked him his reason for breaking of the match. He said it was owing to his father and sisters' objections, and that he had not a sufficient income of his own. He had expected that Mr. Croall Would make some allowance till he came into possession of his property, but that he had not done so. Witness asked if he had mentioned the matter to Mr. Croall, and she understood from him he had not ; for she remembered saying . to him, she was sure if Mr. Croall thought he needed it, he would at once come for ward. The correspondence between the parties was then put into Court. The LORD ADVOCATE then addressed the jury on the part of the defender. The JUDGE summed up, and the jury, after consulting for an hour and a half, returned a verdict for the plaintiff —Damages 350/. SMITH V. GENTLE.—DEFAMATION FROM THE PULPIT. This case, which was an action of damages at the in stance of James Smith, tenant of the farm of Wester Alves, parish of Alves, and county of Elgin, against the Rev. Alexander Gentle, minister of the church and parish of Alves, and was tried before a jury on the 24th July last year, came on for trial on Wednesday, before Lord Ivory and a jury—the verdict of the former jury having been set aside as contrary to evidence. The fol lowing was the issue in the cause : It being admitted that the pursuer was, during the year 1841, and that he had been for several years prior to that time, tenant of the farm of Wester Alves, in the parish of Alves, and county of Elgin, and a member of the congregation, and a communicant of the Established Church - in said parish, of which the defender is now, and has been for fourteen years, minister— Whether, on Sunday, the 14th of March 1841, or about that time, and during divine service in the parish church of Alves, the defender did, while preaching to or addressing the congregation then and there assembled, and in their hearing, falsely and calumniously say, of or concerning the pursuer, that he had been guilty of cheat ing, deceiving, and over-reaching others in the course of business ; that he had kept up false and ficti. tious appearances, and had, on false or fictitious credit, engaged in speculations and improve ments, and indulged in sumptuous living ; that in the course of his speculations and improvements, he had cheated or deceived his more ignorant neighbours, by inducine• them to sign documents to their prejudice or ruin, and had thereby converted the house of mirth and joy into a house of wailing and mourning, so that if its walls could speak, they even would testify against the vile intruder—meaning thereby that the pursuer had been guilty of obtaining money under false pretences, had kept up false appearances, and had cheated and deceived his neighbours and others, with whom he had transactions, to their injury or ruin ; or did use or utter expressions, in allusion and with application to the pur suer, to the above or the like effect, to his loss, injury, and damage.—Damages laid at 1,000/. Mr. WHIGHAM opened the case for the pursuer, and called nine witnesses. Mr. RUTHERFURD addressed the jury for Mr. Gentle, the defender, and also called nine witnesses. The evi dence was in some respects of a conflicting character. Lord IVORY, having summed up, the jury retired, and after an absence of a quarter of an hour, returned with a verdict for the pursuer —Damages 1001 The case, which excited much interest, lasted for twelve hours. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD, JULY 27.—The nomination of incumbent to the new church at Bardsley, in the parish of Ashton under-Lyme, Lancashire, will take place on the 22d of next month. It i s understood an exhibtiioner of Brase nose College on the Hulme Foundation will be appointed. The Rev. W. P. Picken Rev. J. L Hoskyns, Rev. J. T. B. Landon, Messr s . Harris Smith, H. C. Adams, and R. Cholmeley, Probationary Fellows of Magdalen College, have been admitted Actual Fellows ; and Mr. H. G. J. Parsons, a DemY, h as b een a d m itted a Probationary Fellow on the Chi c h ester Foun d at i on . The Rev. M. A rg l es, of Merton C o ll ege , h as b een ap pointed to an Honorary Canonry in the Cathedral Church of Peterborough. The Rev. J Sandford, of Balliol College, has been ap pointed to the second Honorary Canonry in the Cathedral Church of Worcester. MURDER AT LIVERPOOL. (From the Liverpool Albion, of Monday.) At an early hour, yesterday morning, an appalling murder is alleged to have been perpetrated in Peter street, in this town, by a tailor, of the name of Owen Leonard, upon his wife. The parties occupied the house No. 35, Peter -street, which is a narrow but densely-populated place, to the rear of St. Thomas's buildings, leading, by a circuitous route, from White chapel into the lower part of Dale-street. They kept a sort of lodging-house, occupying themselves the ground and upper floors, and letting off the second floor to some poor men, who gained a precarious livelihood by working about the town. Leonard himself occasionally followed his employment of a journeyman tailor ; but, from his dissipated and vicious habits, he appears to have been seldom successful in getting any work. Their principal means of support were derived from the rents paid by the lodgers, and also from the wages of their two daughters, grown-up young women, who were in ser vice at respectable gentlemen's houses, one in Rodney street, and the other, we believe, in Everton. It was about half -past one o'clock yesterday morning when tne dreadful occurrence took place. The lodgers were singing and carousing in their apartment at the time, when suddenly Leonard rushed into their room, and accused one of them, a lame man, with having been on terms of more than ordinary intimacy with his wife. The lame man indignantly denied the charge, and Mrs. Leonard offered to restore him a small balance of tdioianetween the parties ensued, tel b lodging money , which was to his credit, provided he 3', and thus terminated the which for a time ended b y Leonard striking hie wife and the lame m an strikin g Leonard in return. Leo nard subsequently fasten ed the street door, and, in left dispute. the house A n the presence of his son , a lad of thirteen years of age, mentio ned before, deliberately took out his raz or and commenced to sharpen the edge, mut alitnlermcae tering some threats, at the same' ime, as to what he in tended to do to his wife. In a short time Mrs. Leonard came down stairs, and almost immediately upon her en tering the apartment where he was, he struck her a blow on the head with his clenched fist, which felled her to the ground. He then caught hold of her by the hair, and, with the razor, partially cut her throat, first on one side and then on the other. After he had mangled her in this brutal manner, he suddenly raised the razor and cut off a part of her nose. She, beinc, a powerful muscu lar woman, made a des p e rate effort to release herself from his grasp, and, in the struggle, he gave her another deep cut with the razor upon the fleshy part of her left leg, and also two othergashes upon her arms. The I•male screamed terrifically ; so also did the lad, who, as we have before stated, was present during the tran saction ; and in a short time the house was surrounded by the people of the neighbourhood. The door was speedily opened, but, before an entrance could be effected, the crowd wa s horrified at seeing the unfortunate woman, from whose neck, leg, and arms blood was flowing profusely , either kicked or pushed by her brutal husband down the steps and into the street. Here she lay upon the pavement for a short time in the greatest agony but at length a stretcher was brought, and she was removed to the Infirmary where death speedily terminated h er su ff er i n g s . dfficer 48 ar rested Leonard almost upon the instant. He found him in the act of washing the blood from his hands, and he discovered the razor under the table. The wretched man was immediately conveyed to Bridewell, but, during the whole of yesterday, we understand that he betrayed but few symptoms of concern at the awful situation in which he has placed himself. He is sixty years of age, of rather diminutive stature, and an Irishman by birth. His wife, also a native of ie sister country, was about the same ago, and extremely corpulent. It is said that Leonard has before made several attempts to cut her throat. An inquest will be held before the Borough Coroner to-day. AMERICAN NEWS. DEATH OF SMIT:T, THE LEADER OF THE MORMONITES. (From the New York Herald.) We have just received by the western mail the follow ing particulars of the death of Joe Smith, the prophet, and his brother Hiram. They were both shot. There .was a tremendous excitement at the west in consequence of their deaths. A dreadful civil war was expected. 'We learn from an extra of the St. Louis Gazette, that War saw was all excitement. The women and children were all removed, and an immediate attack was expected from the Mormons. We met the Boreas just above Quincy, with three hundred men armed and equipped for War saw, eager for fight. Three o'clock.—Everything we learn at the scene of action is now comparatively quiet. An express was started to Harrisburgh for the Governor about five o'clock in the afternoon, for the purpose of getting his Excellency to attend. It seems that the circumstances attending the killing of the Mormon Prophet and his brother Hiram are as follows :—Yesterday Governor Ford left Carthage with about one hundred and twenty soldiers, for the purpose of taking possession of the Nauvoo Legion and their arms. They arrived at Nauvoo about noon, and called for the assembl'ng of the Legion. About 2,000 men with arms immediately responded to its call. These troops were put under command of Colonel Singleton, of Brown county, who accompanied Governor Ford to Nauvoo. The Governor finding all quiet left Nauvoo about five, p.m , with a company of 60 men, for the purpose of encamping about seven miles from the city. At about the same time that Governor Ford left Nauvoo, the Prophet and his brother were killed at Carthage, under the following circumstances, as near as we can ascertain them : Joe and Hiram were both confined in the Debtors' room of the Carthage gaol, awaiting their trial on a charge of treason. The gaol was strongly guarded by soldiers and anti •Mormons, who had been placed there by the Governor. A Mormon attempted to rush -by the guard for the purpose of forcing his way into the gaol. He was op posed by the guard, and fired a pistol at one of the guard, giving him a slight wound. A general confusion ensued in the crowd around the gaol. Joe and his Mormon fellow prisoners, it seems, had provided them selves with pistols, and commenced firing upon the guard within. He then attempted to escape from the window, when a hundred balls entered his body, and he fell a lifeless corpse. His brother Hiram shared the same fate. Richards, a leading Mormon, was badly wounded. There our in telligence ends—what took place after this, God only knows. Mormons immediately left for Nauvoo to carry the news of the death of the Prophet. It is feared that the Mormons at Nauvoo will be so exasperated as to exterminate the Governor and his small force. Boreas brought down most of the women and children from Warsaw. It is feared their town is in ashes before this. Our citizens were aroused this morning by the ring ing of bells and a call to arms. Our three independent companies are already in marching order. Major Flood has ordered out the militia of this regiment, and the steamer Boreas is waiting to convey them to the scene of action. _ _ ......____ There is no knowing where this dreadful affair will end. Many express fears that our city is in danger, be cause most of the Warsaw families have taken refuge here—but we believe there is no danger, we are too far from the scene of action. HAMBURGH MAIL. STOCKHOLM, JULY 19.—Official notice is given that the opening of the Diet will take place to--mor row with the usual ceremonies. The department of justice has made its report on the fanatic proceedings of a new sect, which, under the pretext of piety, hos tilely attacks the Church and the clerical office in the present form ; the King, conformably to the proposal of that department, has resolved not to order any special measures against it, only that if such proceed ings are repeated ithe principals and authors of such unlawful acts, and the persons who have afforded them a locality, shall be examined before the proper tribunal, and the case then decided according to cir cumstances. BOHEMIA ; FRONTIERS, JULY 21.—Tranquillity is now restored in Prague, but the troops collected there, to the number of 20,000 men, have not yet been sent back to their garrisons. Perhaps a greater number of troops than our garrison consists of maybe required for the patrols of the city, which are still continued. About a week ago the windows of the Jewish Syna gogue at Brandis were destroyed, but no further ex cesses committed. The regiment of Cuirassiers in garrison in that town had been ordered to Prague. COPENHAGEN, JULY 23.—The Russian war steamer Kamschatka, of 300 horse-power, with fourteen howitzers, two mortars (ninety pounders), and a crew of 250 men came into the road yesterday afternoon to take in coals. Information that may be depended on (says the Berlin Gazette) states that the steamer is in tended to take on board the Grand Duke Constantine, who has been at Archangel where he joins the fleet with the ship New Ingermanlow, which has been built there (it has already arrived here), and has ac companied it to the English Channel. The steamer will take his Imperial Majesty to St. Petersburgh, but the fleet will proceed into the Channel. It is said that it has sealed orders which are not to be opened till it reaches a certain latitude. These orders are supposed to relate to the further destination either of the steamer or the fleet. _ The Constantine frigate, of forty-four guns, bound to Cronstadt, is also arrived ; and also the Virginia corvette of thirty-guns belonging to the fleet at Elsi neur, which is still detained in the roads by contrary winds. LANDSIIUT IN SILESIA, JULY 20.—This morning, at ten o'clock, a fire broke out in the inner town, con sisting of narrow streets, with lofty wooden houses, and though there was no wind, spread with such ra pidity, that in three hours, fifty houses, besides the out-buildings, and two large inns, were reduced to ashes. Nearly 200 families are houseless, and have partly lost not only their property, but the means of gaining their livelihood.—Hamburgh Papers July 26 SIGHT AND HEARING.--39, Albemarle-street, Picea. dilly. Newly-invented spectacles, telescopes, opera glasses, microscopes, &c. 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ADDITIONAL MEMBERS FOR MIDDLESEX.—It is understood that in consequence of the disfranchisement of the borough of Sudbury, attempts are being made by a large number of the influential electors of the county of Middlesex to obtain the consent of her Majesty's Government to Middlesex having two additional Mem bers. The metropolitan county at present only returns two Members, while the counties of Surrey, Kent, &c., re turn each four. The city of London. and boroughs of Marylebone, Finsbury, and Tower Hamlets, with the city of Westminster, certainly each return two Members, but so also do . the boroughs of Southwark, Lambeth, Greenwich, &c., while a large and influential portion of West Middlesex is nearly - unrepresented. It is, there fore, proposed that the parishes of Kensington, Chelsea, Hammersmith, Fulham, and Chiswick, which contain a population of upwards of 140,000 inhabitants, shall be formed into a borough, to return two Members to Par liament. Another suggestion is, that Middlesex shall, like Surrey, be divided into two divisions—East Middle sex and West Middlesex, each to return two Members; but the latter suggestion does not appear to meet with the support of a large body of the inhabitants of the parishes above-named, who will in that case, by the right of voting being still confined to freeholders only, be disfranchised. Meetings are, we understand, about to be called at Kensington, Chelsea, Hammersmith, Ful ham, and Chiswick, to adopt measures to obtain a char ter as a borough without delay.—Observer. LIE KING OF SAXONY.—On the evening of Tuesday last his Majesty arrived at the Argyle Hotel, Inverary, where he dined. Next morning, after breakfast, his Majesty was waited upon by Mr. Robertson, chamberlain to his Grace the Duke of Argyle, who accompanied his Majesty and suite through the beautiful and picturesque pleasure-grounds of his Grace. After the party had visited Inverary Castle, they proceeded to the top of the neighbouring hill of Dunquaich, where there is a beau tiful view of the surrounding magnificent scenery, with which his Majesty expressed himself highly gratified. Having returned to the hotel, his Majesty and suite soon afterwards entered their carriages, and proceeded by Dalmally to Oban, where a steamer was to be in waiting to take the royal party to the Islands or Staffa and lona. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, MONDAY.—The Queen and Prince Albert walked in the pleasure-grounds of the Castle this morn ing. The Prince, attended by Colonel Bouverie, Equerry in Waiting, afterwards went to inspect the battalion of his regiment (the Scots Fusilier Guards) stationed here. His Royal Highness returned to the Cast le soon after eleven o'clock. Their Roial Highnesses the Prince of \Vales and the Princess Alice were taken drive in an open carriage in the forenoon. The Earl of Aberdeen and the Earl of Jersey arrived at the Castle to-day, on a visit to the Queen. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent took an airing in an open carriage. .. • In the afternoon the Queen and Prince Albert left the Castle in a pony phaeton and pair, the Prince driving. The Equerries in Waiting on her Majesty and his Royal Highness, Colonels Buckley and Bouverie, attending on horseback ; and the Countess of M ou nt-Ed gecu mb e , Hon. Miss Liddell, and Hon. Miss Paget following in an open pony carriage and four. The royal party returned to the Castle at a quarter before seven o'clock. The Royal Family were taken airings this afternoon. His Grace the Duke of Wellington arrived at the Castle soon after seven o'clock this evening, on a visit to her Majesty. The royal dinner party at the Castle, this evening, included her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Lady Charlotte Dundas, and the Countess of Wratislaw. Yesterday afternoon, about four o'clock, her Majesty the Queen Dowager, attended by Lady Gore, the Misses Gore, and the Rev. Mr. Hudson, left Marlborough House, in two open carriages and four, for Bushy Park. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, and the Here ditary Grand Duke and Duchess of Mecklenburgh Strelitz, visited the Queen Dowager yesterday, at Marl borough House. The Queen Dowager, accompanied by Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, and attended by Earl Howe, the Marquis and Marchioness of Ormonde, Lady Georgina Curzon, Sir Andrew Barnard, and the Rev. G. F. Hudson, honoured the exhibition of the Royal Academy with a visit, yesterday morning. Her Majesty was received by Sir Martin Archer Shee, P.R.A., and the officers of the institution. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, the Hereditary Grand Duke and Duchess of Mecklenburgh Strelitz, and the Princess Mary of Cambridge also visited the exhibi tion of the Royal Academy. The Duke of Cambridge, attended by Baron Knese beck, left Cambridge House about half-past nine o'clock for the Review at Wimbledon, and returned about one o'clock. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, and the Here ditary Grand Duke and Duchess of Mecklenburgh Strelitz, honoured the Marquis and Marchioness of Londonderry with their company to dinner yesterday, at Holderness House. The Marchioness had a very numerous assembly in the evening. The Earl of Ripon had an interview with the Chan cellor of the Exchequer yesterday. Lord Stanley arrived in town yesterday morning from Tunbridge Wells. Dispatches were received at the Colonial-office from the Governors of Canada and the Mauritius, yesterday. Earl Howe and Lady Georgina Curzon left town yes terday, for Gopsal. STRAND THEATRE A pleasant little interlude, entitled La Polka, was produced at this theatre last evening, with complete success. The fun of the piece, of course, turns upon the Polkamania which is so prevalent at the present 'moment, and the heroine is a fascinating French opera dancer, Mademoiselle Aventurine, a professor of the true Polka. This character was admirably sustained by Mrs. Montgomerie, whose broken English sounded very pretty, and who threw into the part that mixture of naïveté and espieglerie, which makes the French female character so interesting. Around the heroine circulate various satellites, such as an ancient dancing master, who teaches the Gavotte, and calls it the Polka. A young aspirant, who, having been vic timised by the old dancing master, comes to Aven turine's to learn the true Polka, and there, meeting with Polly Lightfoot (excellently acted by Mrs. C. Melville), who has come in search of her husband, an amorous old coxcomb, who makes love to Aven turine, mistakes Polly for Aventurine, and the old dance of Sir Roger de Coverley, which she teaches him, for the Polka. All their mistakes are, however, cleared up, and the piece concludes with the real Polka, elegantly danced by Mrs. Montgomerie and Mr. Roberts in appropriate costumes„ and which was loudly and deservedly encored. This is one of the best acted and most amusing trifles to which the Polka has as yet given birth, and it is no doubt destined to a long run. It was preceded by Martin Chuzzlewit, in which the acting of Hall, in the double character of Pecksniff and of Sairey Gamp, is beyond all praise. His Pecksniff is the best on the stage. The house, we were glad to see, was crowded from the commencement of the evening. ADELAIDE GALLERY. One of the most curious philosophical toys of the day is now exhibiting at the Adelaide Gallery, and is drawing crowded audiences every morning and evening. We allude to the Automaton Draftsman and Writer, recently exhibited at the exposition in Paris, where it attracted the marked attention of his Majesty the King of the French, and which is now on a short visit to the Adelaide Gallery. The automation is about eight or ten inches high, and is attired in the cos tume of the Court of Louis XIV., he is seated cross-legged in a fauteuil his arms, resting on a table—in his right hand he holds a pencil. He nods his head to signify that he is ready to com mence operations. A piece of paper is placed before him—he steadies it with his left hand, and with his right commences writing or drawing upon it. When he has finished his work, he indicates its completion by elevating his head and raising his hand from the paper. He executed several drawings with great ac curacy while we were present, and wrote a variety of words. This automaton is certainly a very won ' derful fellow, and his performances appeared to afford the greatest satisfaction to one of the most crowded audiences we have ever seen in the Adelaide Gallery. CAPT. WARNER'S EXPERIMENT. (From the Brighton Herald.) Certain reports having come to our ears calculated to throw a suspicion upon the genuine character of the ex periment, we resolved, in justice to Captain Warner, whose character these reports affect, to trace them to their source, and having done so, we now place the result without comment before the public:— " Soon after the arrival of the John o'Gaunt in the Shoreham roads, four pilots of that port, named Aus tin, Page, Merricks, and Parish, accompanied by a well known and respectable inhabitant of Shoreham, Mr. Young, went off to her. Mr. Young proceeded on board, and being asked by a person, apparently in com mand, what they wanted, replied that the men in the boat were pilots who had come out to offer their ser vices, should they be required. Having stated this, he soon afterwards returned on board the pilot-boat. At this time they remarked, as a very unusual circum stance, some ratlin lines between the fore and main mast, down the ship's starboard side (her head then ly ing to the westward), and passing through an eye-bolt, which was about three inches in circumference. Mr. Young also remarked on board the ship a quantity of new warp (a rope about three inches round) lying on the deck, and wondered what the rope could be for. On the arboard side he had an opportunity of seeing also a rat in down the ship's side. " The day that the vessel was destroyed, Parish and other pilots went off towards the ship again, and he states that he then saw three ropes of the size of the warp passing from one point under the bulwark down the ship's side, but separated, as they descended, by two of them passing through the eye-bolts, leaving the centre one in a perpendicular line between them. The eye bolts were below the water mark, but could be clearly discerned through the water. The ropes could be traced under the bottom of the vessel ; and there were similar ropes fixed in the same way on the larboard side. The steps were thrown over on the larboard side. Beside the ropes already described, there was a guy rope passing from the stem down the ship's side, dipping beneath the eye-bolts, and ascending afterwards to the stern." Such are the statements made by Mr. Parish and Mr. Young. It is for Captain Warner to deny or admit the allegations, and, if it is admitted, to explain the use or intention of the above apparatus, which, to say the least, will appear to all nautical men unusual and ex traordinary. ANOTHER FATAL CASE IN THE ERPENTINE.— On Saturday evening Mr. Higgs, Deputy Coroner, held an inquest at the Life Guardsman, High-row, Knightsbridge, on the body of Mr. W. Jacksln,age o d f seventeen years, a medical pupil of Mr. York, witnesses dbn the Maida-hill, St. John's-wood, who was drowned i Serpentine, Hyde-park. Severa l y the declared boatmen deceased might that if proper activity had been used of the Humane Society, the life of the have I ask whether any ofthe been me n o s a f v theed . Royal A HumaneJuror.—.MaYociety are entitled to any pecuniary reward for saving the life of a fellow-crea ture ? Mr. Williams, the superintendent—Nothing whatever. The Juror—Then are they allowed anything for picking up a dead person ? Mr. Williams —Only what the Coroner allows. The Juror—What may that be ? The Coroner —I generally allow 3s. for picking up the body, and another shilling for giving evidence. After a short consultation, the jury returned a verdict of " Ac cidental Death." ANOTHER BODY FOUND IN TIIE THAMES.—On Saturday an inquest was held on a body, greatly decom posed, of a young man, about eighteen years of age, at the York Hotel, Waterloo-road, Lambeth, which was taken out of the river Thames on Thursday evening. The body was discovered in the mud, opposite the wharf of Messrs. Edwards and Bennett, Commercial road, Lambeth. The Coroner, during the investigation, remarked that it was distressing to mention the number of cases of a like nature to the present ; and, notwithstanding Anderson, the beadle of Lambeth, had made every inquiry, the friends or relatives of the de ceased could not be traced. At the same time the jury could da no other than return a verdict of "Found drowned." The deceased was dressed in a black waist coat and trousers, Oxonian shoes, blue pocket-handker chief with white flowers, blue worsted purse with Ger man silver watch-guard, and containing two sixpences and a fourpenny-piece. On his third left finger was a gilt or brass ring, with the word "Love" inlaid, - - SUMMER ASSIZES. OXFORD C l RCU l7 :—Worcester, July 27. CROWN COURT.—(Before Chief Justice TINDAL.) Robert Bonlion, 17, and Richard Stanley, 17, were indicted for breaking open the dwelling-house of Henry Day, at Feckenham, on the 9th of March, and stealing • a razor. Mr. iluddleston prosecuted, and Messrs. Cooke and Barrett defended the prisoners. _ The facts of the case possessed no feature of interest. The defence set up was that the prosecutor had mis taken the prisoners for the men who had committed the otTeneP, After a long trial, the jury returned a verdict of Guilty against both prisoners. A previous conviction was proved against Boulton, who was sentenced to ten years' transportation, and Stanley to twelve months' imprisonment. Stephen Dovey, 30, who was acquitted yesterday of the burglary at the late Major Williams's, was now in dicted for breaking and entering the dwelling-house of Mary Lovett, at St. John's, on the 14th of March, and stealing nineteen sovereigns, four silver tablespoons, seven teaspoons, a watch, and various other articles, the property of the said Mary Lovett and of one Lucy Lock. Mr. Keating and Mr. Yardley prosecuted ; and Mr. Huddleston defended the prisoner. The following are the facts:—Mrs. Lovett is a widow lady, residing by herself, with a female servant named Lucy Lock, and on the day in question went out to a friend's, leaving directions to her servant to fetch her home. About half-past six, the girl locked up the house, and proceeded for her mistress. On their return, at eight o'clock, they found the back door open, the house in confusion, and the articles named in the indictment stolen. On looking into the adjoining garden, footsteps from there to the road were discovered, which were afterwards found to correspond with the prisoner's shoes. The prisoner bad been observed walking up and down before the house when the servant went out, and it seemed that a girl named Mary Jones, who was sent with the invitation from her mistress to the prosecutrix, was an acquaint ance of the prisoner's wife, and after carrying the invi tation to Mrs. Lovett, called at his house, when in the course of conversation the prisoner learnt that the old lady and her servant would be absent for some hours on the succeeding evening. He was very inquisitive as to whether Mrs. Lovett lived alone, what sort of a house she kept, if she had plenty to live on, and similar in quiries. On the 16th, two days after the robbery, the prisoner's house was searched by the police, and a bag of copper coiii to the amount of 35., 2s. 9d. of it being in penny pieces, found. Although none of the coin could be identified, a bag containing exactly that amount in the same description of coin was stolen from the chest of drawers at Mrs. Lovett's house. A screwdriver was also found in his house which corresponded with the marks made upon the drawers and chests, which had been forced open. The pri.oner was asked for his shoes, and gave them up, saying, " They will not fit any marks." The police-officers observed him whispering to his wife, and hang an apron up, which induced them to inspect it, and on removing the apron they found a key, which, being taken to Mrs. Lovett's, was found to lock and unlock the back door, by which the entry had been effected. The prisoner was found Guilty, and sentenced to ten 'ears' transportation. NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—Durham, July 26. CROWN COURT. Robert Ridley and John Ridley were indicted for setting fire to a large quantity of gorse, in the parish of Stan hope, in this county. Mr. INGUAM, who appeared for the prosecution, stated that in the parish of Stanhope were large commons covered with gorse, which was both useful and valuable to the lord of the manor, who is the Bishop of Durham. The prisoners turn their cattle on the common, as do many others ; and in many cases the gorse has been set fire to and destroyed by the commoners, with a view to improve the herbage. This practice had gone on to so great an extent that it became necessary to put a stop to it ; and he believed that when it should be known that it was unlawful, the offence would not be repeated. The prisoners were, therefore, allowed to go, on en tering into recognizances to appear and receive judg ment when called upon. William Kinsop and George Twaddle were indicted for setting fire to three stacks of wheat, four stacks of oats, and one stack of meslin, the property of Ann Lockey. Mr. Ingham and Mr. Otter appeared for the prosecu tion and Mr. Mathews for the defence. Two other persons, named Oxley and Toulson, were in custody on the same charge, but were allowed to go, be fore the grand jury to give evidence against the other two. Cuthbert Lockey deposed that the prosecutor is his mother, who is the lessee of two farms, upon one of which the stacks which had been burned stood. She is up wards of 70 years of age, and he manages the farms for her. On the evening of the 29th January last, between seven and eight o'clock, the stacks were discovered to be on fire, and the whole were destroyed. The wind was high, and all efforts to stay the progress of the flames were fruitless. Other witnesses were called, who spoko to the time of the commencement of the fire and its destructive cha racter. Robert Oxley, one of the approvers, was then trans ferred from the dock to the witness-box, to be examined, but after some time spent in his examination his evidence was given in so unsatisfactory a manner, that the Learned Judge ordered him to be taken back to prison. Isaac Toulson, the other approver, was then called. He stated that he and Oxley were walking together on the evening of the fire, when Oxley said this is a fine night for a blaze, and passing in the direction of the stacks, about half a mile distant, said he wished they were all on fire, it would light them home nicely, and proposed to the prisoner to go and burn them. He asked if they had any matches and paper. They said no, and he gave them some. The prisoners went away and he and Oxley took a turn, and came back again. They looked and saw the blaze. The prisoners came back and rejoined them, and said they had set the stacks on fire, but they were a long time before they could get it to go well. They afterwards went back to the fire, and the witness and Oxley went away. On cross-examination the witness stated that when they were apprehended they were taken to the house or premises of Mr. Hall, the superintendent of police, where they were kept nine or ten days before they were taken before a magistrate, each handcuffed to a police man. That during their stay there fiddling, fluting, and dancing, were going on. On one occasion they had a mock trial. One of the police, named Harrison, sat in a chair as judge, with a nightcap on for a wig. Another policeman was counsel. There were two others as the jury, and the prisoners were put on their trial. There were also witnesses, who were examined and gave evi dence, after which the prisoners were called upon to say what they had to state in their defence ; and were told that they must say all, and then they would be sure to be acquitted, and if they were acquitted there they would be sure to be acquitted by the jury at Durham, and that by this means a confession was obtained from the prisoners. James Harrison, who, it was stated, played the fiddle to the judge, was put into the box, and appeared to be considerably embarrassed. He denied the whole of the statement, and swore that it was false, and that the pri soners confessed of their own free-will. He admitted, however, that each prisoner was kept handcuffed to a policeman till the time they were taken to the magistrates and committed to prison. Mr. Hall, the superintendent of police, said the pri soners were confined in his house, each handcuffed to an officer. He had no prison in his district, and it was nine days as to one, and ten days as to the other, before they were taken before the magistrates. The magistrates knew of the apprehension of the prisoners. He had been in daily commnnication with them. On cross-examination, he admitted that a report had got abroad that there had been irregularities such as had been described by Toulson, and he had inquired into the fact, but could not find any foundation for it. No other inquiry had been instituted upon the subject beside that which he had made of the officers. He said the confession of Twaddle was made voluntarily, and that which he (Hall) had taken down from the pri soners' lips they had afterwards signed before the magis trates. The confessions were then tendered in evidence. Mr. MATHEWS objected to their being received, on the ground that they were tainted by the transactions which had been spoken to, and which it was probable were not entirely without foundation, or how could the report have got abroad which led to the inquiry by Hall ? He submitted, too, that the keeping men in handcuffs nine and ten days was placing them under restraint, calcu lated to depress the mind, and not leave it in that free and voluntary state necessary to make a confession ad missible. The statements made by the prisoners were put in and read. Mr. MATHEWS then addressed the jury on behalf of the prisoners, and commented upon the conduct of the police. Whatever might be the truth as to the mock trial, it had been placed beyond doubt that the pri soners had been kept handcuffed nine and ten days with out a hearing, and if-the jury thought that circumstance and the other circumstances sufficient to cast suspicion on the confessions, there was no other evidence against the prisoners upon which they could be convicted. The case being summed up, the jury returned a verdict of Guilty against both, but strongly recommended them to mercy, and expressed a wish that proceedings might be instituted against Oxley. The Learned JUDGE said he would take their recom mendation into consideration, he thought it a very pro per one ; and he would also direct a bill to be preferred against Oxley, as an accessory before the fact. July 27. George Bewick was indicted for a burglary in the dwelling-house of the Right Hon. Lord Stourton, at Hartlepool. Mr. Ingham and Mr. Otter conducted the prosecution. It appeared that in the early part of July the house of the prosecutor was broken into and robbed of some jewellery and plate. Shortly after this event the pri soner offered some of the stolen articles to a silversmith in Sunderland, who observed that one of the rings had a stone in it with a coronet and a motto, and objected to buy it on that account. The prisoner said he would crush the stone out and sell it for old gold. This led to inquiry, and the prisoner was taken into custody. had been statement to the jury he said that one ni g ht he be out late, and on returning to his lo d g in g s found himsel f locked out. He then went to the Mow, and as he was s r t a l n tin a g wa c y lo , wn, and was wandering to a h tut , hes going upand when he came to the place he found the articles in question. The jury found the prisoner Guilty. when a w t hae man nn No fewer than 1,300 men have been hired for the lighting of the lamps in the Champs-Elysees, for the illumi nation of the 29th. They will commence at a given signal, so that the lighting up is expected to be almost simultaneous. --Paris Print. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY_ EVENING, JULY 30, _1644.