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friend ----- t, be near him (Lord Cottenham) seemed to him not I,,ate. aw are—at least, he did not argue as if he were t lt . as e ; of the difficulties which were in the way of this e• There was no other measure which gave him trouble and labour in preparing and digesting, I Tl''asure he introduced on the subject. If there -ne deputation, there were 200 or 300 ; if there was he itnierial and remonstrance, there were 800 against *jai ' 44 trY Act. The Reform Bill itself had not met th e i r s ° much opposition out of doors—he did not say in oilenere...ordsh. ips' House, but out of doors. The same in ter which were at work against the Registry Act l'h now at work in opposition to the present measure. tolicentire influence of the lauded gentry, with their I , ,,,i itci rs and proctors, was at work to support their f;r ti. e°n rts, and to prevent an efficient measure of re tlim ehi Re therefore believed that almost insuperable lure` "' r es were opposed to the carrying out of the mea liaitriot in this douse, but in the other House of Par itttint ; and it was the business of this house not to ti t a nY measure to the other House which there was 4a reason a bl e prospect of carrying.—(Hear, hear.) ij b O . t ight, therefore, to take all they could get- But by ji l d.' lll they were going to create thirty diocesan NI" , who would have considerable salaries. The con ence was, that they were throwing obstructions in If e t I% ' a y of further reform, if it was deemed necessary. b t herefor e t h oug h t t h at t h ey s h ou ld ac cept their 7 : °, ll the understanding that their removal was not the.way of any future reform. tor • e LORD CHANCELLOR said that was provided 1 1 4) n the Bill. 4th rd BROUGHAM—Then his objection was alto the removed. •His principal reason for supporting Le was, that it did away with the courts of pecu- Kii eh rill d. exempts—one of the greatest improvements ac km. lould b e ma d e. H e th oug ht that they were a Fri tle s4 i 4l , in the ecclesiastical system. For this reason ring v a llY, but reserving to himself the option of pro such amendments in Committee as he might be hilf. sed, he should vote for the second reading of the La or lio n s• CAMPBELL said the House had had no intima nist:f th e reasons which induced h er M a j esty ' s Mi a% s i o s to abando n th e Bill which was introduced last LI. His N o bl e an d L ea rned friend who spoke last lia4"red an ingenious apology for the present Bill , but t h -° ,t stated that b he was present at the deliberations '4 th e Cabinet, or that he had been chosen as the organ 4% 5 'iovernment to communicate information to the toe' Now their Lordships were entirely in the dark t he Motives which caused the abandonment of the „,,,:,fiast session. Yet there were five members of the lA, "'meta present, a nd amongst them a Noble Duke, ta, * as able to explain the advantages and 1 disadvan -111. any measure ; and there was the President of th e °tined, himself a judge, and also the President of t tss .kard o f r, who, as a magistrate at quarter 14, 14 5, must be well acquainted with the working of l'r,Z e ourts. Y e t th e y were all silent. The Right Rev. h at „ te (the Bishop of London) gave no explanation 4 4) ,er, b u t con fi rme d t h e o bj ect i ons of his Noble and varieci Friend I.ord Cottenham). saying that he would er t he Bill of last session. The Right Rev. Prelate tan o , J nlcarred in the Report of the Commissioners, who ,liin se 'nended the abolition of the litigious jurisdiction of 4 ( , 4 , euurts. In 1836 a Bill to that effect did pass the Ent ; b e of Commons, and it was rejected in this House ; kke e Noble and Learned Lard who moved the second lup,"g Professed to anticipate his (Lord Campbell's) 4 r .t. However, he should be guilty of the grossest t%is;'stency if he supported it, because it re iiiart all the litigious jurisdiction in respect to ker ia ges and wills. It continued the necessity of two %negative courts for each diocese—one in the provinces I ', l "u s i ° , l l:l° in London. The Bill of Sir Frederick Pollock "t tg ecl for the appointment of officers in the country tka e regulation of wills, but it would have taken kse ) ;_ t he jurisdiction in personal and testamentary kith(He (Lord Campbell) (lid not wish to interfere qos y ""e authority of the Church in matters of ortho t'r discipline, but what had the Church to do with kii t „ a nd marriages ? All questims relating to mar 4,nt" ',.e-solved themselves into the construction of an ,`Asi i ,°l Parliament to b© determined by the Queen's ,its rf ° ss, and the ecclesiastical courts had no right to k%s,: e re With them. With respect to wills, the Right th nt 4 t etid Prelate (the Bishop of London) said, d o g e much regretted the Church had anything th at them ; and he wished, as soon as possible, tti ti „,;t sho u ld b e relieved from them. The Church li's 4 " 4 ',Y claimed to have cognizance of wills, because it the 'n form er times usual for persons to leave money to Ch u n qurch to say masses for their souls ; but now the kia nt :h had as much to do with wills as with policies of tl l@ - ' li ee• His opinion was, that there ought to be only l Nirt to control these matters for England and kc a l"' and that should sit in London. He was for eoaditio but, in the constitution of local courts, two ns were necessary ; first, that there should be 4 ktls,, -83 ; and, secondly, that there should be competent kti r '`„s• In the diocesan courts there was neither one kra i `7 l other. None of them had more than the frac tots,,,cYl case in the year ; and how could the judges be !lo C'nt, when they were chosen from persons who had &is ti l l°wled ge of the civil law ? He could say from Wh• ich experience that there never was a statement . in got e , - the greatest blunders had not been committed, 4 °ePtin..- the metropolitan courts. Two Eccle 'trie . . °A a, Commissions, and a Commission of that House tots; s ', estates, had condemned these courts. He was ` at his Noble and Learned Friend on the Wool- vos, • gad not more fully explained the motives of the te tt i'ltnent in abandoning their own measure of last lis s i t ' ; In 1835, when his Noble Friend held a different kith .°4 in that House, he enlightened their Lordships f or an elaborate review of the business of the session, of t t k h e purpose of showing that the Government thegat d ay had not carried the measures which be y t had introduced. Amongst other things faits them with not having brought in a measure ,kIV - rd on the report respecting ecclesiastical courts • w Now , as prepared by Dr. LushingtonNow,in 1842, 11 . aajesty's Ministers were instructed to inform the to s - • e ,, e that a measure would be laid before Parliament tha 'se the jurisdiction of the ecclesiastical courts. :But th" Y e ar no Hill was introduced. Why . was it not ? 111, at tim e there was not the same prejudice against e asure which had since been raised. In 18 43 , her lhi -st rs Ministers again intimated that a measure upon ti(,';nject would be introduced. Why was that not to s - A Bill was introduced in the House of Coihm -1) ' 4 a proper form by the Attorney-General, who s °se d to abolish the litigious jurisdietion of Gs ah courts. Th a t Bill was supported by Sir James t krt ttn t , and no measure could have received warmer sup 44liq •" that House. But he must say that it was not the Ae o e°f th e i r L or d s hi ps t h a t th e Bill did not pass, for it t' lo4 r reach e d t h em . H e wou ld c o nc lude his observa '4l4 ,'n th e wor d s o f hi s N o bl e an d Learned riend, meat he said that the measure which they (the Govern fs,lr) t hemselves had devised, prepared, and brought lisst a 4 d -- involving, as they told them, the most Mi tts, ti t interests of the country—they, without scruple, h tl P, at th e w i s h o f a sec tion of a party. He (Lord th ht 'inst s a y there was some mystery hanging about be tack that required explanation, and which l tack 0 1 D ed his Noble and Learned Friend on the Woo - Is k w ould clear up. itib i ," Bishop of LONDON denied that he had, as at- O s Z t ''d to him by the Noble and Learned Lord - ‘ ,„ 1) . b°11 ), said he would oppose the Bill of last year bet we re now introduced. He had said nothing of the r,t tit: l % s ', CAMPBELL said he must have been under A rgil Mi sapprehension. He had thought the Right Rev. e had said so. r4;,7 LORD CHANCELLOR wished to make a few i'll.,C yttt ions in answer to the Noble and Learned Lord, tkriPad asked what reason the Government had for de -11,11, from their original plan. His Noble and Learned, ‘ra e t - ,,' L had supposed that he (the Lord Chancellor) as kl• sq x oer of the Government had not concurred in the '4 e l ? of introducing the Bill of last year into the House in t „hat? l roons. His Noble and Learned Friend was Cl, re spect quite mistaken. Nothing that he (the Lord . qt t Feellor) had said that night in the course of the dis tfit:r)ll Warranted his Noble and Learned Friend in t) ,; 11 R to that conclusion. He, in common with the rest the a Cabinet, entirely approved of that measure, and s e re all most desirous of carrying it into effect. 4 14 1t t r rile and Learned Lord now turned round and they had abandoned that measure, and why, t he , 11. °* , introduced a measure curtailed of some . bf gill s rtier parts of the measure of last session. 41 1 9 t;: 131 and Learned Friends thought there was some giot 3 ,,l r Y about the matter; but if they referred to the S i ", `Y of the Bill in its progress through the other I t)ri Parliament, it would afford them an explana i. the matter. After the second reading of the 414 1 ,4,h the house of Commons, it was seen by every LG ca r er in th a t H ouse th a t it would be quite impossible its -41 'Y it, in its then form, through to the third read d ro S tich alt erat i ons were made in the Committee P°rmas " d er,_ it p ro b a bl e that it might be carried in the l i'll. th t oat it then assumed. The question then was, I }lo l 7 l ' the measure s h ou ld be wholly abandoned, or s ad be carried in its curtailed state. What reason i`tY to suppose that the Bill, in its original form, I ' o 4 l- h ad been sent to the House of Com -4.3 " r agai n so sent, would not be treated similar manner as it had been last ses ,„4!,/vl4,l,The Bill now introduced was in the state ' 1 f r '' it Went through Committee last session in the irufire il,euis;' and in which it had, he believed, been laid Lordships' House. He thought it right and 1 ' 1 ,041 Q ,t . not to do that which experience had shown " 1 41 - ,` )5 i neffectual, but to bring in a measure which un rea dy obtained approval. The Bill could be read t h. e ,"d time and then, if any Noble Lord thought that stilr a anre of: last year' could be passed into a law, he O rd °vN an amendment to that effect. But he (the th — 'ant•ell or ) wou ld not g i ve hi s sanc ti o n to any ,Nir u -rlie ridnient. That p was his explanation of the w hich h a d b een ursued by the Government in "or'p tta r; and in th a t course every member of the 'll se concurred. te t ill was th en rea d a secon d ti me , and o r d ere d to A"c'turaitted on T ues d ay next. 1. ,!1a ti ," a few words from the Duke of BUCCLEUCH, e to the o b servat i ons ma d e t h at n i g h t b y t h e t,t3 l) :°.nd L earned Lord opposite (Lord Camp b ell) with <ll, to the Three •and-a-Half per Cents. Annuities e bl owsb -° Tnrnons' Amendments to the Gaming Transac ks • , 4eljourne , .eS Indemnity Bill were agreed to, ard the d at Nine oloc. Thp 110 "USE OF COMMONS, March 21. c i - ; ,'', 7l 'zsi t ER took the Chair at Four o'Clock. ; EASTP,RN RAILWAY BRANCHES. nat h , ir s'„w "ARI) KNATCHBULL moved that it be an 0 11 to the 1 Committee of Selection to postpone 4icti he 1,,,L, l: e "inZ of the Committee on the South Eastern ih eIY B ill until a ft er E aster . H e sa id t h at hi s o b ject trbitting this mo ti on WAS to ensure th e atten d ance 44 or s who were interested in the Bill. ,a, 44 mo Sirp i\ s ',....fow word s f rom M r . GLADSTONE, AR I) KNATCHBULL consented to with tion. fL NEW WRIT. im• motion of Sir THOMAS FitilLiNlLli new writ was ordered to issue for the Borough of Christ- church. EDINBURGH, SLAMANNAN, &c., RAILWAYS. Mr. GIBSON CRAIG, pursuant to notice, moved that the order made on Friday, the 15th day of this instant March—That it be an instruction to the Committee of Selection to refer the Edinburgh and Glasgow, the Sla mannan, and the Edinburgh, Leith, and Newhaven Railway Bills, to the same Committee—be discharged, in so far as relates to the Edinburgh and Glasgow Rail way Bill ; and that the Committee on the said Bill have leave to sit and proceed on Wednesday next, without furthernotice. The Hon. Member's observations were inaudible. Mr. MACKENZIE opposed the motion, and defended the order proposed to be discharged, on the ground that the railways were in reality but one line. Sir W. HEATHCOTE opposed the motion. Mr. LABOUCHERE said he would oppose any de parture from the rules of the House. Ile thought the resolution of the Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Mackenzie) was one which the House ought nut to sanction. He would, therefore, vote for rescinding the resolution, and would support the motion of the Hon. Member for Edinburgh. Mr. GLADSTONE said that the terms of the rule were quite clear, and if parties were suffering incon venience it was through their ownneglect. He must say that he thought it was for the interest of all the parties concerned to adhere strictly to the rules laid down by the House on this subject. Sir G. GREY hoped the House would not establish a dangerous precedent. He thought the best course would be to extend the resolutions which the House had adopted, with regard to competing lines, to connecting lines ; and, with this opinion, be should vote for the motion of his Hon. Friend. Mr. ESTCOURT said that the order having been made, he was not disposed to vote for its discharge. The House then divided, when there appeared — For the motion 65 Against it Majority against the motion —l THE LATE STATE TRIALS. Mr. WYSE rose to present a petition from the mem bers of the Repeal Association of Ireland, praying for inquiry into the late State prosecutions in that country. The petition had received a larger number of signatures than any petition that had ever been presented to that House from Ireland. The petition was signed by 821,334 persons, and had been got up in the short space of three weeks. It was signed by the coporations of the cities and boroughs of Cork, Kilkenny, Armagh, and other places, by several of the boards of guardians of the poor, and other persons of influence and standing in the country. There was also the greatest care taken to prevent any kind of fraud in the signatures attached to the petition. Means of every description were resorted to, during those prosecutions by the Attorney-General to insure a conviction of the traversers. The charge of the Judge also was such as to impress upon the minds of the peo ple of Ireland and also of the world generally, that there had not been a fair trial in this case. The petition was then borne up to the table by Mr. O'Connell, Mr. Wyse, Sir H. W. Barron, Mr. Blake, Colonel Rawdon, and Mr. Hindley. Upon the Speaker putting the motion that it be laid on the table, there was much laughter, for it seemed to require the united strength of all those Hon. Gentlemen to raise the pon derous mass of paper from the ground. When it was " laid upon the table," it completely covered it, books, ink, and papers. The petition st as then read at length by the Clerk at the table, and Mr. WYSE begged .to move that the petition be printed as it was.—(Cries of "Order," "Chair.") The SPEAKER said the Hon. Member must give notice of any motion on the subject. Mr. WYSE then gave notice that he would call the attention of the House to the subject of the petition on Monday next. WELSH GRIEVANCES. Dr. BOWRING gave notice that he should, before the recess, inquire of the Home Secretary whether it was his intention, during the present session, to propose any remedy for the removal of the Welsh grievances, whose existence had been recognised in the Report pre sented to the House. NEW POOR-LAW. Sir CHARLES NAPIER gave notice that, in Com mittee on the Poor-law Bill, he would move that the guardians should be authorised to give a higher rate of relief to aged people above sixty who had paid their poor-rates. Also that in the event of a man possessing a cottage of the value of 1001. being no longer capable of work, he should be eligible to relief. JAMAICA. Mr. VERNON SMITH said that in the papers which had been presented to the House on the subject of immigration the Noble Lord (Lord Stanley) had inserted queries with respect to the possibi lity of relaxing the rule confirming the immigra tion of women into the colonies to one-third. He begged to ask whether he entertained any intention of proposing a relaxation of the rule which had hitherto existed ? Lord STANLEY said that in consquence of a repre sentation which had been made to him, he had written to the Governors of Trinidad and Guiana to ascertain whether any practical inconvenience would result from the relaxation of the rule. He had only received the answers five or six days ago; consequently he had not had time to send out further instructions. THE APPOINTMENT OF MR. O'BRIEN IN THE COUNTY OF GALWAY. Mr. BELLEW rose to ask the Noble Lord the Secre tary for Ireland a question respecting the appointment of a Mr. Thomas O'Brien, as a magistrate in the county of Galway, that gentleman having been until very lately a violent and undoubted Repealer. Lord ELIOT said the Hon. Gentleman was quite out of order in making such observations. If the Hon. Gentleman had any motion to make he (Lord Eliot) would be prepared to give him any information respect- ing it. Mr. BELLEW merely wished to know on what grounds the appointment had been made. Lord ELIOT said lie must decline answering the question. IMPORT DUTIES. Mr. EWART rose to move the following resolution —" That it is indispensable to the maintenance and ex tension of the trade of this country, that those duties be repealed which press on the raw materials of manu facture, especially the raw materials of the woollen and cotton trade. That it is expedient also that those' duties be greatly reduced which press upon articles of interchange in return for our manufactures ; especially such articles of interchange a.s, at the same time, concern the subsistence of the people ; being (be sides corn, which is the subject of superior and separate consideration) such articles as tea, sugar, coffee, bacon, butter, and cheese. That it is expedient that those duties also be greatly reduced which, by their amount, encourage smuggling ; being at once injurious to the revenue and dangerous to the morality of the country ; such as the duties on tobacco, silk goods, and foreign spirits. That whatever temporary deficiency of revenue be caused by such reduction, ought, until the revenue regain its former amount, to be sustained by the property, and not by the trade and labour of the country." He said that the repeal of these duties were particularly called for in a time of peace, and still more so in a time of distress, such as that which this country had lately witnessed. The same argument which applied to cotton also applied to wool. They would not be able to compete with foreign countries if they kept up their present high duties. They were obliged to re-export large quantities of the wool imported into this country. By repealing those duties they would add to the comforts of the people, and they would extend their commerce in coffee, tea, sugar, bacon, butter, and cheese —articles which were so necessary for the poor. He thought that for their sake they ought to remove the duties on those articles. America. with peculiar sagacity, abstained from levying any duty on tea and coffee. Those articles had become more important to the people of this country than formerly, because they had become more temperate. The tea duty pressed with peculiar severity on the poor. Taking the amount of tea imported into the country to be 40,000,000 lbs., it was not too much to say that 22,000,000 lbs. of it consisted of congou, the tea used by the poor. There was a duty of 2s. Id. on tea of all descriptions, which pressed equally on the tea consumed by the poor and by the rich. On the trade with China being opened, a proposition was made that there should be a distinction in the duty, but a Committee having sat to consider the subject, they found the difficulty of distinguishing the different teas so great that they recommended the present rate of duty, which was adopted. He was of opinion that to make up to the poor for this, they ought to remove the duty on cotton. Tkey anticipated an ex tensive trade with China, but unless they removed the duties on cotton they would not be able to compete with Russia, who, next to themselves, were the greatest ex porters to China. The duty was reduced in 1784 by Mr. Pitt, and the consumption was immediately doubled. From 5,000,000 lbs weight it wet increased to 10,000,000, and in two years the consumption of tea, in consequence of that reduction, rose from 5,090,000 to 17,000,000 lbs. weight. Then, as to the duty on sugar, it also pressed heavily on the labouring poor, and it was known that ten per cent. of all the inferior sugar consumed by the poor was adulterated. This was owing to the high duties on that article. With respect to coffee, the con sumption increased in an inverse ratio to the amount of duty. In 1811 there was but one coffee-house which was frequented by the poor in London—there were now 2,000, and all in consequence of the reductions made from time to time in the duties upon that article. In the late adjustment of the tariff he regretted that the Right Hon. Baronet did not make an equal rednction of duty on both foreign and colonial coffee, The article of coffee had shown in a peculiar degree the wisdom of re ducing duty to increase consumption. The present high duties were great encouragements to the smugglers. Look at the enormous duties which were imposed on the importation of tobacco. The duty on tobacco was about 800 per cent. on the original cost of the article. Hardly a day passed without some poor unfortunate man being brought before the stipendiary magistrates in Liverpool for having contraband tobacco in his possession. He thought the duty on tobacco ought to be reduced from 3s. to Is. " I hope," said the lion. Gentleman, in allusion to a somewhat ominous gesture on the part of an Hon. Member on the Ministerial side, "I hope the Hon. Member does not meditate anything of that sort so soon!"—(Laughter.) The Hort. MEMBER alluded to protested that he did not comprehend the meaning of the Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Ewart). Considerable laughter was occasioned by this little incident, and upon its subsiding Mr. EWART proceeded. On former occasions, when duties were reduced, the revenue had always been benefited. This had been particularly the case with respect to the article of brandy. He thought the duty on brandy ought to be further reduced, considering that it was now very much used for pharmaceutical purposes. An HON. MEMBER here moved that the House be counted, and there being only thirty-eight Members present, the Speaker adjourned the House at Seyen. THE SUN, LO NDON, FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH. 22, 1844. THE HIGHLAND SOCIETY OF LONDON. feelings could be diffused among all those generous Celts who were first led to believe that alienation must necessarily exist between the Celt and the Saxon, and who then, with marvellous inconsistency, were told that the Saxon was well-disposed towards them.—(Cheers.) He knew not what other branches •f the Celtic race might believe, but he was con vinced he was only speaking the sentiment of every. modern Celt, when he declared that he con sidered all animosity and jealousy had ceased to exist between them and their Saxon fellow-country men, except that which might be called jealousy, but which he should rather term a generous emulation to outvie each other in feelings of loyalty to the common Sovereign of their common country.—(Loud cheers.) The proud pre-eminence of Highlanders in this qua lity he attributed to that patriarchal system alluded to in the toast of " Chiefs and Clans."—(Cheers.) Under that system, the Highlander was taught, from his earliest infancy, that the chief of his clan was his temporal superior, and one from whom he had a right to expect every sympathy and support. The bonds which united " chiefs and clans" were those of reciprocal love ; in them there existed no feudal tyranny on the one hand, and no servile vassalage on the other.—(Cheers.) The Highlander imbibed the principle of loyalty from his birth; and as his limbs straightened and as his frame hardened by exposure to the breeze on his native mountain's side, he felt that inborn spirit of Highland chivalry which fostered the memory of the deeds that their fathers had done, and which their country might one day require at their hands.—(Loud cheers.) Thanks be to God! the finger of undying fame had not left his country's glory without some record of its heroes' deeds. Their attention had been called, that evening, to the ex pedition to Egypt, under Sir Ralph Abercrombie; they had been reminded of the deeds the Highlanders there performed. While they dwelt upon .them, he must beg to remind them of the fact that, although the British force mustered only 15,000 swords and bayonets, yet, so good an account did they render of their enemy, that, besides the more than human efforts they made on the field, for the glory of Britain and the freedom of England, they shipped for Eng land 32,000 French prisoners.—(Loud cheers.) Although assailed by the invincible legions of Na poleon, their enemy quailed beneath the stalwart arms of the gallant 42d.—(Cheers.) The Colonel of that Regiment—the Blazk Watch of Scotland—was then present with them.—(Cheers.) If he cast his eye over the campaigns of the Peninsular war, wherever they had been called they had maintained the character of their country, as if proud of the name which, as Highlanders, they bore.—(Loud cheers.) In the last great struggle, after the scourge of Europe burst from his island prison, and displayed his standard in the plains of Waterloo, there, too, the Highlanders showed how they could dare, and do, and die !—(Loud cheers.) Sir Walter Scott, in speaking of the fall of Colonel Cameron, of the 92d Highlanders, could find no stronger reason for the gallant bearing of that distinguished officer, than the strong Highland blood that ran in his veins. FREE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND. A meeting took place on Wednesday evening at the Wesleyan Chapel, Sloane-terrace, Chelsea, which was very respectably attended by the friends of the Free Church movement. Mr. Farmer, a gentleman residing in the neighbourhood, was called to the chair, and was supported by the Rev. D. M'Kellar, late Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland ; the Rev. Dr. Buchanan, of Glasgow ; the Rev. Mr. Tweedie, late of the Tolbooth Church 4 Edinburgh ; the Rev. George Scott, Wesleyan Minister of Gravesend ; and other ministers interested in this spiritual mission. The CHAIRMAN stated that he regretted that justice should not be done to the mighty cause of truth by one more efficient than himself. It was indeed a momentous, a most important movement which was then going on— a movement which ought to, and did, draw blessings and reverence upon the heads of those pious and conscientious men engaged therein. Such blessings had been, and con tinued to be poured upon them, not only by those who had the welfare of the Church of Scotland peculiarly at heart, but praises were heard from all to whom the soul inspiring struggle for conscience sake was of the slightest import.—(Cheers.) The Rev. Dr. BUCHANAN explained the character of the visits of the Scottish Free Church ministers. He said that to show the extent of the movement to those who dwelt in England, it might be but necessary to say, that if such an one had been made in England, the results in proportion to that in Scotland would have been, that 500 ministers would have quitted the Established Church, and that from six to seven millions of laymen must have followed, to be in the same ratio as the number of the people who seceded in Scotland. But he would not say that numbers at all times constituted the right and honesty of the cause in which such numbers were en gaged. The Rev. Doctor then went fully into the rea sons which induced the ministers of Scotland to give up private emolument and domestic comfort, and to become voluntary exiles from their land in search of sympathy, adopting, as it were, the character of sacred mission aries, the better to make the grievances under which their Church laboured, known to their fellow-men. He (the Rev. Doctor) would urge, that as God was the head of the Church, his ministers could not bow down or obey a temporal master. He would strongly contend for the right of the people to elect their own pastor, and the interference which had sprung up to meddle with this wholesome right was a cruel and oppressive act, wholly at variance with the strict com mands of Divine precept, and in direct violation of the laws as guaranteed to the Church of Scotland. The people had a right to see that the man who was sent to look after the welfare of their souls was not a cold, worldly mortal, alike careless of the spiritual welfare of his flock, as of that of his own. They, the people, had a right to see that such a man was not an irreligious man, whose intrusion had only for its end the idolatry of Mammon, and not the worship of God. Yet such a right was denied them.—(Hear, hear.) The first step in the revival of the Scottish Church after the Reformation, was the check which was laid upon the law ef patronage. The patron might nominate an individual to a parish, but, before he could be received, he must preach at least four sermons, and, if such accorded with the feel ings of the majority of the Church members, the patron's nominee was elected, but, if otherwise, another must be provided, and so on until a fit and proper person, whose character, too, would bear the strongest scrutiny, was found. This salutary system was exercised for upwards of a century, and the results were eminently beneficial, and there came from day to day into the various parishes a class of ministers whom, for evangelical doctrine, ex cellence of heart, and brotherly love, no portion of the civilised world could surpass, or did ever equal.—(Hear, hear, and cheers.) This period was very properly called a revival, but such blessings excited the envy and dis pleasure of the world, and the most insidious opposition to the progress of good arose. The patron became jealous, and insisted upon his protege being thrust upon the people. This the people resisted, and tho wealthy patron flew to the courts of law, where he unhappily obtained a verdict to compel the people and ministers to elect his protege to the parish—a man whom they they so lemnly believed—and had the most irrefragible proof— was wholly unfit to be intrusted with so sacred and re sponsible an office.—(Hear, hear.) What did the minis ters do ? They refused.—(Cheers.) They said they could not fly in the face of the laws of God. Their duty was written in the holy book—there was their law, and that law they must obey.—(Cheers.) The patron goes again to the Courts of Civil Law, and gets a ver dict, subjecting the Church to submit to Caesar in the things which are Christ's.(Hear, hear.) When the ministers deposed men for immorality, the Civil Court interposed to keep them in office, and to this day some of those men remain. —(Hear, hear.) The Rev. Gentleman concluded an address, marked with great power, by stating that he looked upon the present accident in the Church's history as being one for its good. It had caused persons of most religiots denominations to ex tend the hand of fellowship and co-operation to thorn, and such a friendship and co-operation might, at a crisis when he saw infidelity upon the one hand, and Popery upon the other, coming in like a flood, be of most espe cial service to the great cause of enlightenment and of truth. He was about to leave for Scotland that very night, and ho carried back to the land of his birth a very strong sense of gratitude for the sympathy which had everywhere in England been raised on behalf of the Free Church.—(The Rev. Gentleman then quitted the platform amidst loud and continued plaudits.) The Rev. Mr. TWEEDIE said that in England the Reformation commenced with the King, and went downwards to the-people ; in Scotland it commenced with the people, and went upwards to the King.— (Hear.) The books of policy in Scotland expressly stated that " no minister shall be forced into any parish contrary to the will of the people," and the principle is embodied in the word of God.—(Cheers.) The people must either listen to the minister thus forced upon them, or go some twenty, or it might be thirty, miles to hear another more consonant to the spirit within them. — (Hear.) Such men who had been forced upon the peo ple were, in many cases, " experimentalists," such as got into the Church by subscribing to her doctrines, and when there, repudiated them—men who went so far as to state that to visit the heathen, and endeavour to make him acquainted with the blessed Redeemer, was both useless and foolish.—(Hear, hear.) Now there was an Act passed by the Court of Session in General Assembly, and which was ultimately eulogised by the Lord Chan cellor Brougham from the woolsack, and its validity recognised by the Attorney-General and Solicitor- General of Scotland. This Act protected the people, or was supposed by these great authorities to protect them from the tyranny of the patron ; yet, in endea vouring to carry it out, the ministers got into contact with the lay officers, and, whilst seeking to give the people their privileges, they (the ministers) lost their own. They (the ministers) would not consent to see their people thus subjected to have a man sent amongst them who was unworthy, and for this they were dragged into the civil courts, and the damages were laid at 16,000 i. 1 Since that period, in 1836, the ministers had not had a day's peace. Actions of damages and penal ties followed rapidly upon each other, and thus, by taking the advice of the law makers, they (the ministers) became the law breakers.—(Loud laughter.) The Rev. Speaker then contended for the spiritual independence of the Church of Christ, urging that no human being had a right to give laws to conscience, but the God of conscience. They were ready to the death to submit to civil laws, in matters which were civil, and they were equally ready to the death, to resist the interference of civil laws in things which were spiritual. The ministers preferred retiring from such a state of affairs, where they had not the liberty to con sult God's word, but were to be compelled to take man dates from a certain Act of Parliament, which now lies upon the Presbytery table. He (the Rev. Speaker) would not take the interpretation of God's word from an Act of Parliament, while he had the word itself to go to.—(Loud cheers.) No statute should bind him to things spiritual, but the Statute Book of the Almighty, —(Loud cheering.) Five hundred churches had been built during the last five months, to provide for the im mense number of persons who had followed, their pastors into the Free Church. But he would tell them that these churches were built with every regard to economy—Scotch economy.—(Hear.) These, or nearly all these churches had been raised out of the deep po verty of the people; yet so thoroughly were they embued with the necessity for such edifices, that upwards of 206,000 L were subscribed by the poor and despised. Two hundred and eighty-seven new churches were yet needed. Their people were well nigh exhausted, and it was for this the ministry appealed. The Rev. Gentle man concluded by stating, that the weekly income for the support of the Free Church ministers was now 2,354 L, and that not a farthing of the money subscribed for church-building purposes, went to the maintenance of the clergy. The Rev. Mr. DILKELLAit and other ministers ',attar. wards spoke at some length, and the meeting separate, at ten o'clock. The anniversary dinner of the Highland Society was held last evening at the Freemasoitis' Tavern, Great Queen-street, it being the anniveri iary of the battle of Alexandria, rendered memorable :to all High landers, by the conduct of the Scotch Rego nents upon that glorious day, and by the fall of the Gallant Com mander, Sir Ralph Abercrombie. Previous to the banquet the Society held a general court,: at which the minutes of the former meetings we re read by Mr. G. Bain, the Honorary Secretary. The attendance was very numerous ; above a hundred gentlemen sat down to dinner. The scene was a most brilliant one, from the number of naval and military uniforms, and the display of the picturesque costume of the Highlands, some individual specimens of which were of the most magnificent description. The gallery, too, was filled with elegantly dressed ladies, who re mained as spectators during nearly the whole of the proceedings. The band of the Coldstrearnt Guards was in attendance, and played several of the most favourite Scotch airs and popular pieces during the dinner, its performance being varied by the skill of M‘Kay, the piper to the Highland Society ; and of the pipers to the Duke of Sutherland and her Majesty. Every arrangement was made that could conduce to the comfort, the hilarity, and the amuse ment of the company, and as a display of national feeling, looking with pride upon the deeds of the past, and forward with hope and kindliness to the future, nothing could exceed it. The number of visitors of " Saxon," as distinguished from " Celtic " blood, was alluded to during the evening with very happy effect, as a proof that there is not that anti pathy and estrangement between them which has been too often stated to exist. The dinner was an excellent one, and the wines unexceptionable, and all the arrangements gave the utmost satisfaction. Among the distinguished gentlemen present we observed Colonel the Earl of Cardigan, General Sir Fitzroy Maclean, Bart., the Adjutant-General (Sir John Macdonald), Major-Gen. Duffy, Major-Gen. Sir J. L. Lushington, Colonel Munro, R.A., Colonel Rolt, Captain Sir Andrew Green, R.N., Colonel Elwin, Captain Lloyd, R.N., Captain. Fead, R.N., Colonel Falconer, Captain Beares, Major Burnes (son of the Poet), Major Lutyens, Sir J. Sinclair, Major Chase, Captain Gunning, Sir John Hall , Sir W. D. Ross, J: E. Tennent, Esq., M.P., Dr. Quin, Colonel Godson, John Walter, Esq., M'Alister, of Inistrynich, &c. &c. Lieutenant-General Sir JAMES MACDONELL pre. sided. On the removal of the cloth, grace was said in Gaelic by the Rev. J. Lee, the Chaplain of this So ciety and the Caledonian Asylum. The CHAIRMAN then severally gave the toasts of the " Queen," the " Queen Dowager," the "Prince of Wales, and the rest of the Royal Family," which were drank with every mark of loyalty and enthu siasm. The CHAIRMAN next gave " His Royal Highness Prince Albert, the Chief of the Highland Society." The toast was drank with " Highland honours," and tumultuous applause. The CHAIRMAN said he had now to propose the health of an illustrious individual, the mere mention of whose name would, he was sure, make the hall re sound with applause. He gave them the health of his Grace " the Duke of Wellington"—(Cheers)— and he had to inform them, at the same time, that his friend, Sir J. Macdonald, the Adjutant-General, was charged to deliver to them a message from his Grace. The Noble Duke's health was drank with the warmest applause.—Air—" See the conquering hero comes." " Where Cameron in the shock of steel, Fell like the offspring of Lochiel I " —(Cheers.) He would for awhile forget his re lationship to the Chairman, and once more relate how the blood of the Macdonell and the spirit of Glengarry showed itself that day.—(Cheers.) These seeds and such as these would never die— "No Agincourt may be forgot, And Cressy be an unknown spot, And Blenheim's name be new ; Yet, still in story and in song For many an age remembered long, Shall live the towers of Hougoumont, And field of Waterloo !" After a song in Gaelic, sang by Mr. M'Alister, The CHAIRMAN gave " The British and Native Soldiers in India." Sir Jowls MACDONALD (Adjutant-General), re plied to the toast ; he said he was desired to convey to them individually and collectively, an expression of the great and sincere regret which his Grace, the Duke of Wellington felt, at not being able to meet them here to-day. He was prevented from at tending by the pressure of his Parliamentary duties, which were of such a nature as on this evening to call for his particular attention. That circumstance must be his excuse for not meeting them.—(Cheers.) They might well suppose that the Duke of Welling ton would have been desirous of meeting with the members of a Society of Highlanders who had always been remarkable for their loyalty and attachment to the Crown. It RAS a great source of disappointment to the Noble Duke, that he was not able to mingle with the members'of a Society, of which the Consort of their beloved Queen—(Cheers) —had that evening been announced as the Chief.— (Cheers.) He would also have been most anxious to do honour to the merits of the distinguished officer whom they, as Highlanders, must be proud to see in the chair.—(Loud cheers.) That gallant officer was one who had acquired, not merely high, but the very highest, distinction in his profession, on the most eventful day that had distinguished the Noble Duke's career.—(Hear, hear, and cheers.) At the battle of Waterloo their Chairman had the good fortune to be called to defend, if not the most difficult, certainly a very difficult post of the English position ; 4 and he defended it with the greatest bravery and the most consummate military ability and judgment.—(Cheers.) The CHAIRMAN then gave, " The Army and Navy." Sir ANDREW GREENE replied to the toast, on be half of the Navy, paying a high tribute to the gal lantry of their Chairman. Sir FITZROY MACLEAN acknowledged the toast on the part of the army. He referred to the high esti mation in which the officers of both services were held abroad, and stated that it was the constant en deavour of the officers cf the army to cultivate a good understanding with the officers of the other great branch of her Majesty`, service; The CHAIRMAN gave, as the next toast, " The Memory of Abercrombie, and of the heroes who fell with him in Egypt." The toast was drank in solemn silence, and the band played the " Dead March," which contrasted with great effect with the previous festivity. The CHAIRMAN said they were favoured with the presence of several officers. He regretted that their number was small who were survivors of the celebrated battle of Alexandria.—(Cheers.) Sir Joins MACDONALD, in acknowledging the toast, said it could not be otherwise than gratifying to him and his brother officers to find the last toast so well received. There could be no doubt that the services of the army in Egypt were most important to the nation, while they were rendered memorable by the fall o f commander in the glorious struggle in which he was engaged. As one of the survivors of that battle he returned them his thanks for the honour they had done him and them. The Earl of CARDIGAN rose to give the next toast ; he was received with applause, not, however, without some expressions of disapprobation. He said that, at a moment's notice, he had been desired to perform a, duty, which, however agreable, he still felt some hesitation in undertaking. That duty was to propose the health of their gallant and distinguished Chair man, Sir James Maedonell.—(Cheers.) That toast ought to be proposed in a manner worthy both of the Gallant Officer and of the Society with whom he was then sitting, but he felt himself incom petent to do justice to it. Nor was it necessary that he should dwell upon the gallant services he had rendered his country, for they were well known to every indivi dual present. He was covered with honours and wounds gained in the service of his country. Ho begged to connect with the health of the Gallant Officer some mention of the charitable exertions of the Highland Society itself, which had been productive of much good among the children of soldiers. The CHAIRMAN (Sir J. Macdonell) acknowledged the toast in a feeling speech, expressive of his sense of the condescension of the Duke of 'Wellington, in having taking notice of them on this occasion, and thanking the Noble Earl for the kindly manner in which he had introduced his health. Alluding to what had been said respecting the share he took in the battle of Waterloo, he said, in the defence of Hougoumont, the instructions given to himself and his companions were briefly these—to defend the post to the last.—(Cheers.) They eventually succeeded ; and in doing so, he could assure them, he laid claim to no greater merit than that of having done his duy to the utmost.—(Loud cheers.) On such a subject they would excuse him from saying more.—(Cheers.) The CHAIRMAN then gave as a toast, " Chiefs and Clans."—lt was drunk with all the honours, and every mark of enthusiasm. The toast was followed by a Highland reel by the four young men who danced before her Majesty at Tavmouth Castle. They wore the full costume of the . Highlander, and displayed an activity perfectly astonishing. The spectator might well exclaim in witnessing it— " Magic motion ! changeful ever, Can I catch thee ; catch thee ? Never ! Whirling o'er the slippery boards 1" The dancers were enthusiastically applauded by all present. Tna CHISHOLM rose to acknowledge the last toast. He was greeted with cheers that continued for some time. He said, no person could, for a moment, doubt the cause of the enthusiasm with which the toast had been received. The toast of " Chiefs and Clans" included in it every Highlander.—(Cheers.) No wonder, then, that such a toast should be so re ceived in such a Society. He could not forget, too, that there were many among them of their Saxon fellow-countrymen, and to them he felt especially grateful for the warm sympathy with which they had entered into their national feelings.—(Cheers.) They had heard much--too much lately—of a necessary incongruity between the races of the Celt and the Saxon. Let the cordiality and good feeling evinced among them that evening, for ever give the lie to so vile and so false an asser tion.—(Loud cheers.) Would that the same good Sir JAMES LUSITINGTON replied to the toast in a neat speech, in which he alluded to the services of the detachment of the army in India, which, under Sir David Baird, marched across the Desert to co operate with the force in Egypt under Sir Ralph Abercro:nbie. He also paid a just tribute . of praise to the conduct of the 74th Highland Regiment at the battle of Assaye. The CHAIRMAN then gave "The Visitors," coupling with the toast the name of the Rev. Mr. Gleig (the Chaplain of Chelsea Hospital). The Rev. Mr. GLEIG returned thanks. He thanked them, as a clergyman of the Church of Eng land, for the compliment paid him by many who, he was aware, were not members of that Church. He had seen some service in the army, and he knew what soldiers were ; though he never had the honour of be longing to a Highland regiment, yet he knew what they were, and what was the extent of their grati tude to those who endeavoured to make them not only good soldiers, but good men. The "Highland and Agricultural Society of Scot land" was then drank, the " Caledonian Society" being joined with it. The latter part of the toast was acknowledged by Mr. GORDON Durr, who stated that the asylum, which educated ninety-three boys, had just added ten to that number, and that the funds of the institu tion enabled them to add to their present building ac commodation for 100 inmates. _ A song, most sweetly sung by Miss P. Horton, " Will ye come to the Highlands," followed. The CHAIRMAN gave "The Branch Societies in the Colonies and elsewhere ;" the name of the Bishop. of Newfoundland was mentioned with great praise in connection with this toast. Mr. Templeton sang, in his best style, the song of " There lived a young lassie all down in yon glen. , " The Emerald Isle" was then toasted, and was followed by an Irish song, admirably given by Mr. Jones. The toast of " The poetry of out native country" was followed by a song from Major Burns. "The Ladies" were given with all the honours. " llighlanders, shoulder to shoulder," followed ; after which Mr. M'lan sang " Donald Caird." On the motion of The CuisnoLm, Sir John Mac donald was elected a member of the Highland So ciety by acclamation. C o l one l F au lkner and Mr. M‘Gregor (of the Board of Trade) were chosen mem bers in the same manner. "The Fine Arts and Scottish Artists" was then given, and was followed by a song, "The oak and the ivy," from Mr. Ransford. _ . The CHAIRMAN gave the " Gaelic School So ciety of Edinburgh." In introducing it, he stated that when he was in Canada he met with many of his old relations and friends, for they were Highlanders, and he was much morti fied to find that their children could not speak a word of Gaelic. This, he thought, was a sort of insult to their mother country. The French Canadians, on the contrary, still spoke their native French, and many of them had even learned the Gaelic, but could not speak English. He hoped, therefore, that the Society would do all in its power to extend the knowledge of the Gaelic language. The toasts concluded with "The land we live in." In addition to Mr. M‘Kay (the Piper of the So ciety), his brother (her Majesty's Piper), by per mission, attended also , Prince Albert being chosen Chief of the Society. Hie pipes were of the most splendid description, the Royal arms being richly embroidered in gold on a blue banner. Macbeth (the Piper of the Duke of Sutherland) was also present, and the three, in their picturesque costumes, added much to the brilliancy and effect of the entertainment, as they paraded the hall— " In the plume of the eagle and plaid of the north!" The company separated at one o'clock. THE MURDER or Ma. SOLOMONS.—At an ad journed meetiag of the Brighton Commissioners of Police, held on Wednesday, the following resolution, moved by Mr. Folkard, and seconded by Mr. Bradshaw, wait unanimously carried :—" It is with the most painful feelings the Corn missioneue have heard the awful account of the murder of Mr. Henry Solomons, their chief officer of police, and com mend their clerk for the steps he has taken in bringing the murderer to justice. The Commissioners cannot but express their abhorrence and detestation of the cold-blooded deed which has deprived the town of an old, faithful, and valuable servant, the country of a most zealous and vigilant officer, and a mother and nine children of the only support on which they depended for subsistence. The Commissioners, deeply commiserating the distressing situation into which, by this aw ful act, the family of their latechief officer is plunged, resolve, That a special meeting be convened on Wednesday, the 27th inst., for the purpose of taking their unhappy circumstances into consideration, and to adopt such measures relating thereto as the meeting may deem ex;pedient-" [ADVERTISEMENT.I-....UN THE VERGE Or THE GRAVE ; OR. A MIRACULOUS CURE ET HOLLOWAY'S PILLS! —James Langley, a ladies' sho ema ker , residing in Allen . street, Goewell-street, caught a violent cold about twelve months since, which, being neglected, brought on s swelling of the legs and feet, pains in the side and shoulders, night sweats, with inability to keep food on his stomach : indeed, he was at last reduced to such a state of general weakness and debility, that no one thought he could long survive ; but by the use of Holloway's Pills every dangerous system quickly disappeared, and he is now as hale and as hearty as ever he was in his life.—Sold at Professor Holloway's Esta blishment, 244, Strand (where advice may be had . gratis) • and by almost all respectable Tenders of medicine throughout the cheilised world. TRArALGAR-SQVARE. — The works within the en closure are proceeding rapidly towards completion, Mr. Barry, the architect, hating devoted much of his time of late, for the purpose of causing the whole to be thrown open to the public during the summer months. The Artesian well is likewise fast advancing, the bore having been alread - sunk a considerable depth. The basins of the fountains be 83 feet in diameter, and are to be covered with Mande's 1 Patent Portland Cement, which has been found to resist the action of the atmosphere and of water as long as most de scriptions of stone, while it possesses end retains the colour of that material. The pavement of the inner court of the quadrangle is to be laid out in a somewhat teaselated style, the darker parts being composed of asphalte, and relieved by the introduction of ornamental work in the Portland Cereen.:. The whole space to be covered is about 18,000 feet. PRINCESS'S THEATRE.—The new Easter spectacle preparing at the Princess's Theatre is from the pen of one of the principal contributors to a most popular periodi cal. It will combine all the comic talent of the Theatre, with the addition of Wright ' and the aid of the admired ballet company. The musical arrangements are entrusted to Mr. Corri, who displayed so much tact in his labours in the Magic Mirror, and the ballet of Lcoia. INTERESTING ANECDOTE OF BERNADOTTE, KING or SWEDEN.—Among the wounded prisoners, was a young French sergeant, who so particularly attracted the notice of Colonel Wangenheim, commandant of the Hanoverian troops in the English service, by his interesting appearance and manners, that he ordered the young man to be conveyed to his own tent, where he was treated with attention and kindness until his recovery and release. Many years afterwards, when the French army, under Bernadotte, entered Hanover, General Wangenheim, among others, attended the levee of the con queror. " You have served a great deal," said Bernadotte on his being presented, " and, as I understand, in India?" " I have served there"—" M. Cudalore ?"—" I was there — Have you any recollection of a wounded sergeant, whom you took under your protection in the course of that service 1" The circumstance was not immediately present to the Gene • ral's mind ; but on recollection, he resumed. "I do, indeed, re member the circumstance, and a very rine young man he was ; I have entirely lost sight of him ever since, but it would give me pleasure to hear of his welfare." "That young Sergeant," said Bernadotte, " was the person who has now the honour to address you, and who is happy in th e public opportunity of acknowledging the obligation, and will omit no means within his power of testifying his gratitude to General Wan genheim."— Wilks's Sketches of the South of India. SERIOUS ACClDENT.—Wednesday evening, about six o'clock, W. B. Glasse, Esq. of Lincoln's Inn, was proceed ing along Portland-place on horseback, accompanied at a distance by a youth, his groom, when the animal, a high-spirited one, upon which the latter was riding, took fright and ran with . great violence against a l am p-post ; by the concussion the horse was nearly stunned, but after a short lapse of time, it started off again, and came with such violence against some area railings, that it dropped dead upon the spot. The groom fell under the animal, and on being extricated he was immediately conveyed in a cab to the surgery of Mr. A. B. Chisholm, in Devonshire-street, who upon examina tion found that there was a severe concussion , his right ankle being much injured, and otherwise bruised very much in various parts of the body. Ho was promptly bled—and we are happy to find that the sufferer is doing well. Dispatches were received yesterday afternoon at the Colo nial-oface from the Qovernor of the Falkland Wanda. The farm of Hougoumont, on the field of Waterloo, which watt several, times during the day Cie point againat which the terctst Qf liftpolas'o ittidi ware cliocted. THE BANK of ENGLAND and the CURRENCY QUESTION. The following remarks upon the late Mt. Harman (one of the most active Directors of the Bank of England during the late French war) are extracted from the Banker's Circular, of the 16th February, 1844 : " Having mentioned the name of Jeremiah Har• man (who died last week, full of years and honour), we cannot, for the s a k e o f exam pl e , re f ra i n f ro m di recting reflection to the virtues of this eminent per son, which were as remarkable in his private as his public station ; the l a tt er on l y b e i ng w i t hi n our province to notice here. D ur i ng th a t event f u l an d critical period of our history which elapsed between the years 1797 and 1818, Jeremiah Harman had more concern with the regulation of that vital func tion of our system—its money power—than any other man : he exercised thi s , w ith ou t emo l umen t or t i tu l ar distinction, with a degree of foresight, circumspection, prudence,. and vigour, which, if th ere ever b e an historian capable of doing justice to human actions in the most important positions of life, will place his name among th e mos t es ti ma bl e an d ill ustr i ous o f the age in which he lived. What are the duties of a Lord Chancellor, with laws and precedents and a learned bar to assist and guide him, compared with those of a man who, in an, extraordinary, difficult, and unprece dented conjuncture of affairs, is appointed to hold the balance which determines whether the people, what ever the sacrifices demanded from them, shall prosper or wither in their industry ? What honour belongs to that the highest subject of the realm, that is not due to the balance-holder after he has performed his duty discreetly, judiciously, and wisely ? Where would have stood the names of Peel and Ark wright if a man of opposite character to Mr. Harman had governed the affairs of the Bank when they were struggling to acquire wealth and pour wealth into the country ? They would have figured in the Royal Gazette as bankrupts, instead of being re corded there with honourable titles. Where would have been Wellington's victories and glory, if such a man as that had not given vigour to the " sinews of war ?" And let not us of the lower grades of the commonalty ever forget that Mr. Harman was the man who boldly stretched out his arm to avert that fatal blow on his industrious countrymen—the Act of 'l9; for he it was principally, we believe, who composed and tendered that celebrated remonstrance against the impending mischief with which the Act of 'l9 was charged, and which drew forth the undignified sneers of Lords Grenville and Liverpool, and Mr. Huskisson—presumptuous men, who dealt with a case of which they were totally ignorant in defiance and contempt of the remonstrance of those who practically knew all. We here speak of Mr. Harman as the last of the old school, with no desire to detract from the merit of his colleagues and coadjutors. We had no intercourse with him, and have not had the pleasure of seeing his grove, benevolent, and intelligent countenance, for ten years ; but it would be wrong in a publication set up for the purpose of giving warning of any danger which may be seen approaching, in consequence of the disre gard of Mr. Harman's counsel, to omit this feeble expression of our veneration for his character. He was the brightest example of an independent high minded British merchant, as anxious for the success of others as for his own, which ever appeared in our path of life." We subjoin a copy of the memorial of 1819, which is alluded to in the above remarks as being princi pally composed by the late Mr. Harman. The man ner in which his fears and predictions have been since d realised, constitutes an imperishable monument to his memory. " The universal interests of the em pire, in all the relations of agriculture, manufacture, commerce, and revenue, have been ruinously compro mised, notwithstanding the prolonged state of peace with which this nation has been blessed since that period." " The Directors of the Bank of England, having taken into their most serious consideration the reports of the Secret Committees of the two Houses of Parlia ment, appointed to inquire into the state of the Bank of England, with reference to the expediency of the re sumption of cash payments at the period now fixed— have thought it their duty to lay before his Majesty's Ministers, as early as possible, their sentiments, with regard to the measures suggested by these Committees for the approbation of Parliament. " In the first place it appears, that, in the view of the Committees, the measure of the Bank recommencing cash payments on the sth of July next, the time pre scribed by the existing law, ' is utterly impracticable, and would be entirely inefficient, if not ruinous.' " Secondly, it appears that the two Committees have come to their conclusion at a period, when the outstand ing notes of the Bank of England de not much exceed 25,000,0001. ; when the price of gold is about 4/. Is. per ounce ; and when there is great distress, from the stag nation of commerce, and the fall of prices of imported articles. " It must be obvious to his Majesty's Ministers, that, as long as such a state of things shall last, or one in any degree similar, without either considerable improvement on one side, or :rowing worse on the other, the Bank, acting as it does at present, and keeping its issues nearly at the present level, could not venture to return to cash payments, with any probability of benefit to the public, or safety to the establishment. " The two Committees of Parliament, apparently ac tuated by this consideration, have advised that the Bank shall not open payments in coin for a period of four years, but shall be obliged, from the Ist of May, 1821, to discharge their notes in standard gold bullion, at Mint price, when demanded in sums not amounting to less than thirty ounces. And, as it appears to the Commit tees expedient, that this return to payments at Mintprice should be made gradually, they propose that on the Ist day of February next, the Bank should pay their notes in bullion, if demanded in sums not less than sixty ounces, at the rate of 41. ls. an ounce, and from the Ist of October, 1820, to the Ist of May following, at 31L 19s. 6d. an ounce. " If the Directors of the Bank have a true compre hension of the views of the Committees in submitting this scheme to Parliament, they are obliged to infer, that the object of the Committees is to secure, at every ha zard, and under every possible variation of eircum • stances, the return of payments in gold at Mint price for Bank notes, at the expiration of two years ; and that this measure is so to be managed, that the Mint price denominations shall ever afterwards be preserved, leaving the market or exchange price of gold to be controlled by the Bank, solely by the amount of their issues of notes. " It further appears to the Directors, with regard to the final execution of this plan, and the payment of Bank notes in gold at Mint price, that discretionary power is to be taken away from the Bank ; and that it is merely to regulate its issues, and make purchases of gold, so as to be enabled to answer all possible demands, whenever its treasury shall be again open for the payment of its notes. " Under thew impressions, the Directors of the Bank think it right to observe to his Majesty's Ministers, that being engaged to pay on demand their notes in sta tutable coin, at the Mint price of 3a. 17s. 10id. an ounce, they ought to be the last persons who should object to any measure calculated to effect that end ; but as it is incumbent on them to consider the effect or any mea sure to be adopted, as operating upon the general issue of their notes, by which all the private banks are regu lated, and of which the whole currency, exclusive of the notes of private bankers, is composed, they feel them selves obliged, by the new situation in which they have been placed by the Restriction Act of 1797, to bear in mind not less their duties to the community at large, whose interest in a pecuniary and commercial relation, have in a great degree been confined to their discretion. " The Directors being thus obliged to extend their views, and embrace the interest of the whole commu nity, in their consideration of this measure, cannot but feel a repugnance, however involuntary, to pledge them selves in approbation of a system, which in their opi nion, in all its great tendencies and operations, concerns the country in general more than the immediate inte rests of the Bank alone. " It is not certainly a part of the regular duty of the Bank, under its original institution, to enter into the general views of policy by which this great empire is to be governed in all its commercial and pecuniary transactions, which exclusively belong to the Adminis tration, to Parliament, mid to the community at large ; nor is it the province of the Bank to expound the prin ciples by which these views ought to be regulated. Its peculiar and appropriate duty is the management of the concerns of the banking establishment, as connected with the payment of the interest of the national debt, the lodgments consigned to its care, and the ordinary advances it has been accustomed to make to Govein- went. " But when the Directors are now to be called upon, in the new situation in which they are placed by the Restriction Act, to procure a fund for supporting the whole national currency, either in bullion or in coin, and when it is proposed that they should effect this measure within a given period, by regulating the mar ket price of gold by a limitation of the amount of the issue of Bank notes, with whatever distress such limita tion may be attended to individuals, or the community at large, they feel it their bounden and imperious duty to state their sentiments thus explicity, in the first in stance, to his Majesty's Ministers on this subject, that a tacit consent and concurrence at this juncture may not, at some future period, be construed into a previous ira plied sanction on their part, of a system, which they cannot but consider fraught with very great uncertainty and risk. " It it impossible for them to decide beforehand what shall be the course of events for the next two, much less for the next four years ; they have no right to hazard a flattering conjecture, for which they have not real grounds, in which they may be disappointed, and for which they may be considered respon sible. They cannot venture to advise an unrelenting continuance of pecuniary pressures upon the commer cial world, of which it is impossible for them either io foresee or estimate the consequences. " The Directors have already submitted to the House of Lords the expediency of the Bank paying its notes in bullion at the market price of the day, with a view of seeing how far favourable commercial balances may operate in restoring the former order of things, of which they might take an advantage ; and with a similar view they have proposed, that Government should repay the Bank a considerable part of the sums that hare been advanced upon Exchequer-bills. " These two measures would allow time for a correct judgment to be formed upon the state of the bullion market, snd upon the real result of those cbwges, which the late war may have produced, in all its conse quen CPS, of increased public debt, increased taxes, in - creas ed prices, and altered relations, as to interest, ca pital, and commercial dealings with the Continent ; and how far the alterations thus produced are temporary or perm meat ; and to what extent, and in what degree, they .operate. " I t was the design of the Directors, in pursuance of , as far as a legitimat e con the bcfT•e-mentioned two measures, to take advantage of every . circumstance which . could enable the Bank to ex tend 1.1". purchases of b . ullion do not .. consider themselves justified siderati , ln of the ordinary wants of the nation, for a sufficient currency, could possibly warrant. Beyond t ;ip t ( h )n e) a . ny opinion, conjecture, or speculation, he:r own ; and, when a system is recom timmnheeigsnreormeydgi,nt. which seems to take away fr om t h e B ank anything like a discretionary consideration of the ne cessities and distresses of the commercial world ; if the Directors withl2 ol d their previous consent, it is not from a want of deference to his Majesty's Government, or to the opinions of the Committees of the two Houses of Parliament but solely from a serious feeling,. that they have no right whatever to invest themselves, of their own accord, with the responsibility of counten ancing a measure, in which the whole community is so deeply involved ; and possibly to compr omise the un i versal interests of the empire, in all the relat ions of agr i culture, manufacture, commerce, and reueirue, by a seeming ac. quiescence, or declared approbation, on the part of the Directors of the Bank of England. " The consideration of these great questions, and of the degrees in which all these leading and commanding interests may be affected by the measure proposed, rests with the Legislature ; and it is for them, after solemn deliberation, and not for the Bank, to determine and de cide upon the course to be adopted. " Whatever reflections may have from time to tine been cast upon th e B an k, w h a t ever i nv idi ous represen tations of its conduct may have been made, the cautious;, conduct it adopted, in so measuring the amount of cur rency, as to make it adequate to the wants both of the nation and of the Government ; at the same time keeping it within reasonable bounds, when compared with what existed before the war, as is shown in the Lords' Reports, pages 10, 11, 12, and 13 ; the recent effort to return to a system of cash payments, which commenced with the fairest prospects (but which was; afterwards frustrated by events which could not be fore seen nor controlled by the Bank), are of themselves a sufficient refutation of all the obloquy, which has been so undeservedly heaped upon the establishment. " The Directors of the Bank of England, in sub mitting these considerations to his Majesty's Ministers, request that they may be allowed to assure them, that it is always their anxious desire, as far as depends upon them, to aid, by every consistent means, the measures of the Legislature, for furthering the prosperity of the empire. " ROBERT BEST, Secretary." THE WILL FORGERIES. Lydia Sanders, the wife of Sanders, and the fictitious Emma Slack, with whose name the public have been so long acquainted in connexion with the will forgeries, has, as well as her husband, been apprehended, through the able instrumentality of John and Daniel Forrester, the officers. They will be placed at the bar of the Man sion-house on Saturday, together with Barber, Fletcher, Mrs. Dorey, and Griffin, when the depositions against all the prisoners will be read over preparatory (according to the general expectation formed upon the evidence pub licly adduced against them) to their commitment to Newgate for trial, at the ensuing session, at the Central Criminal Court. After much activity and tact of' investigation exhi bited upon the part of the officers employed by the pro secutors, it became apparent that Sanders and his wife were both secreted at Edinburgh, or in the immediate neighbourhood of that city. John Forrester was, upon the receipt of such information, dispatched to Edin burgh, and, after considerable difficulty, he ascertained that persons answering the description of the two ac cused individuals had been lodging, under assumed names, from the middle of January until within the last three weeks, at a small lodging in an unfrequented part of Edinburgh, but that, in consequence of some dis turbance between two of the inmates of the house, on account of which a threat had been held out that the as sistance of the police should be claimed, they had de parted, but whither, the occupiers of the house were un able to afford any information. Forrester, however, through the medium of the Post office, learned that when Sanders and his wife left the above-mentioned lodging, the former requested the post man of the district to leave the letters addressed to him at a grocer's shop, where it appeared they had been in the habit of dealing since their arrival, and during their stay in Edinburgh. The people of the shop, it would seem, did not know Sanders's place of residence, but they knew him from the calls he had made to purchase various articles, and to receive his letters. Having amen tained so strong a fact, Forrester forthwith obtained permission to have two of the Edinburgh police stationed at the back part of the premises from morning till night for the purpose of pouncing upon Sanders when he should call for his letters. This course was pursued for several days, until at last, at about nine o'clock in the evening of Wednesday, the 13th instant, the hus band of the notorious Lydia Sanders, alias Emma Slach, made his appearance at the shop, and purchased a small quantity of tea. The desirable visit was instantly com municated to the police stationed on the premises, and to Forrester, who, dreading that he might lose Sanders in tracing him to his home, considered that the best plan he could adopt was to secure the prisoner he had so long sought for on the spot. Sanders refused to state where he resided, what his name was, or to answer any questions put to him by Forrester, who, of course, could not guess amidst such exclusive caution as that exhibited by hirn and his wife. The law of Scotland does not, it appears, authorise the committal of a person apprehended under such circum stances as those above described to prison, and Forres ter was, in consequence of so remarkable a difference between the English and Scotch systems, obliged to keep Sanders at his hotel, in custody of two men, night and day during his stay in Edinburgh. where he was delayed in the hope of finding Emma Slack. With this vie* the officer remained in Edinburgh during the whole of Thursday and Friday, but without success, when San ders ultimately requiring that the warrant should be complied with, viz. that the prisoner should be taken before the Lord Mayor, there was no alternative, and Forrester was obliged on Saturday to leave Edinburgh with the individual named in the warrant, after having given strict injunctions to the Edinburgh police to pur sue the inquiry, and apprehend the female they sought, if she was to be found. lie arrived in town with the prisoner at six o'clock on Monday morning, in the mail. At twelve o'clock on the same day Sanders was takes before the Lord Mayor, and, after a short examination, remanded till Saturday next, when her final examina tion is to ta4e place. Forester, having deposited his prisoner in safe custody, left London again for Edin burgh on the same night, to renew his search after Mrs. Sanders, alias Emma Slack. It seemed to be next to impossible that she should escape, as it would appear that she had little or no money in her possession, and her friends had no means of sending her any assist ance, except through the former address, where, of course, she would be apprehended, if she went to receive what might be necessary to her existence. A dispatch was, we understand, received yesterday morning, from the chief of the Edinburgh police, an nouncing that they had discovered Mrs. Sanders in the course of Tuesday, and that she had been apprehended, and was then in custody; and it was proposed to send her to town on Wednesday night in the care of a male and a female guard. Forrester, it is conjectured, arrived at Edinburgh on Wednesday last, and will, no doubt, accompany the prisoner, who is to be attended by a female to town, where they will arrive in the course of this day. We have been given to understand that before it be came known to the prosecutors that Mrs. Sanders was the party who personated the fictitious Emma Slack, suspicion attached to various females who were in any degree connected with, or known to either Barber or Fletcher ; and in fact we have reason to believe that at one time Emma Slack was supposed to have been a man in female disguise. Daniel Forrester contrived, with great ingenuity, that Mrs. and Miss Neville should ob tain interviews, under the most extraordinary pre tences, with these parties, they little suspecting at the time the object of the mission. Ultimately, however, it appeared that Mrs. Dorey had been seen to kiss the female who personated Emma Slack, and that kiss at once suggested to the prosecutors the utility of looking more closely to the connexions of the former. The description of Emma Slack was accordingly ob tained with the greatest precision and accuracy, in cluding her manners, her habits, her mode of singing, of which she was represented to be very fond, and the songs she sung. Armed with all this information, the officers employed upon these important investigations, found that no two persons could be found so closely to resemble each other in all those particulars. Dates were then compared, and it was ascertained that Mrs. Sanders was absent from Bristol at the time in ques tion. Other facts were also ascertained, which it is not necessary to represent here, but which, combined with what we have detailed, remove all doubts as to iden tity. All that was then to be done was to track Mrs. Lydia Sanders, alias Emma Slack, out ; an undertak ing which has been just so ably accomplished by the. sagacious officers to whom the task wits consigned. THE STORM IS ATRSHIRR.—EarIy on the morn ing of Saturday last, one of the most fearful storms raged around Kilmarnock which the mem or y o f t h at anacima earls, "the oldest inhabitant," enables him to meal from his youth upward. As the day advanced the storm deepened into the utmost pitch of hurricane fury. The gusts which roared in hollows were alike stunning from their noise and violence ; the woods resembled an army making war upon itself; branches were lopped in pruning-knife fashion, torn, twisted, and whirled through the air, and echoes awakened in hidden recesses, so clamorous that they seemed, to be " sympathiserP with the Spirit of the Storm. Little chil dren in venturing abroad, were in many instances toppled head over heels, and even adults, taxing their energies to the uttermost, were in danger of sharing the same fate. Cane were dashed from ehimney-tops, roofs at least partially tirled, and thatch coverings grievously disturbed, if not blown bodily away. In the west end of the town, two stately beeches were prostrated, that bad withstood the blasts of many a winter, shrubberies greatly injured, and the architectural ornaments on villas grievously defaced. But the strangest arrival of all, was the arrival, at the ter minus of the Glasgow and Ayr Railway, of a truck used in the transmission of goods, driven by the wind at the rate of seventy miles an hour. In approaching the depot it split the huge pillars of the gate, and would have done otherwise much mischief, had not its career been stayed by the buffers —Dumfries:Courier. Three weeks ago a mare, belonging to Mr. Father stone, of Tibberton, was backed for ten sovereigns to trot jfour miles in sixteen minutes. The animal was in the straw yard, and quite out of condition at the time, but last week she justified the confidence of her backers by trotting from the Crow to the fourth mile-stone en the broitwieh road in fifteen minutes and a half, being half a minute under the time. ',