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yas Ind ent ;till ens Lied )lin ;on, 11r. ) to 'ere rere the ded IrSe 3d a the the song and tine yard, ff orof put' ng IP" ; ibe Is I V 1 tilt' toil° , n th° have , et to '7 aid to 80 10 mt. 4. 3b,R c ro§r whO made' 010 four J he b e ; resst° s IA3 Ice el' the evenin g ; it was held about eight o'clock, by torch-light. He then, I believe, spoke of the Guardians again, as far as my recollection serves. He said they must go to the Poor-law Guardians and get them out and strip them, and get a soft painter's brush, but dont hurt them—daub them over with tar, and feather them. He spoke about the meeting at Kersal Moor. He told them he had said there that the Ballot question was a knife and fork question—a bread and these question. A man in the meeting at Leigh shouted " Would not a spoon do ?" Mr. Stephens said, " Yes, for your porridge, hue a knife and fork for a buttock of beef." Somebody shouted again— . We have no beef—we have no use for knives and forks." Mr. Ste phens said, " Take them and put them to your tyrants' throats, and see how they will fit there." The meeting broke up some time afterwards. I cannot tell when it broke up. Mr. Stephens was asked by Mr. Brandt if he wished to cross-examine the witness. Mr. Stephens—lt having been stated, and not denied, that this Court is determined to commit me to Kirkdale, and no cross-examination of the witnesses previously exa mined having been taken down, and more especially after what has fallen from the lips of the Learned Gentleman, I decline putting a single question to the witnesses. Mr. Brandt—l don't offer any further evidence. The witnesses then signed the depositions. Mr. Stephens—l wish to apply for a copy of the warrant on which these extraordinary proceedings have been founded. Mr. Kenworthy—Do you wish to address anything to the Court ? Mr. Stephens—l wish to apply for a copy of the warrant on which these extraordinary proceedings have been founded. Mr. Kenworthy—You will be furnished with it after wards—it is short, I believe, and you can have it even now. Mr. Stephens—ln an hour will do—to whom' am Ito apply ? Mr. Smith—To me. Mr. Stephens—The name of the informant also. Mr. Kenworthy—lt is on the back of the warrant. Mr. Stephens—l wish to know if he has been produced ? Mr. Brandt—No ; and the reason is, that I apprehend he bas been taken away by some parties. I did not wish to mention the circumstance before, but as it has been al luded to, I may say that I believe that the witness has been taken away by some persons connected with the defendant. It is not the fault of the prosecution that he is not here. Mr. Stephens—The Learned Gentleman may believe what he pleases, but I can't see what that has to do with the case. Mr. Kenworthy—lf yeah wish to say anything on the case, now is the time. Mr. Stephens then rose and said—l had much, Sir, which I wished and intended to have said, but I hardly know whether, after the strange and I believe unparalleled proceedings of this Court in this case, I dare trust myself with saying much more, perhaps, than a word or two. I wa.s arrested, Sir, in the streets of Ashton by two Bow street officers from London, who told me that they had a warrant for my apprehension ; that they were instructed to convey me to Worsley, there and then to appear before the Magistrates that signed the warrant on which I was apprehended. Protesting in their presence against the ap prehension, but acknowledging the form of law with which they were entrusted, I at once peaceably rendered myself their prisoner, and bid them lead on that I might know the end. I was by these officers conducted through Man chester. During our short stay in Manchester, which I may state was not at all occasioned by me or for my con venience, by some means or other a crowd of persons had assembled round the York Hotel to the evident morti fication, disappointment, and confusion of the Bow-street officers. They hurried me away to Worsley as rapidly as some other private arrangements which they evidently had been instructed to make had been completed, and on our arrival at that village, at the Grapes Inn, I was in formed by the officers that no Magistrates had made their appearance. I asked the reason. They said they could not tell. Their instructions were to take me to Worsley, and that I was there and then to be examined by the Magistrates. Goddard, the senior officer, who had the warrant, immediately took a post chaise and proceeded, as 17b declared, in search of the Magistrates in the case. I, in t:ie meanwhile, remained in the custody of Shackell, the other officer, who betrayed considerable agitation and anxiety at the non-appearance of his colleague (Goddard), repeatedly looking at his watch, and several times leaving the room, for the purpose, as I was given to understand, and led to suppose, of holding consultation in a room up stairs with my Lord Francis Egerton and Colonel Wemyss, the Commanding officer of the district. The troops by this time had arrived at Worsley, and by the instructions of the officer, Shackell told me he had authority in his pocket authorizing him to call out Colonel Wemyss, and the whole of his force, but that the production of such an order was wholly unnecessary in my case. I therefore cannot for a moment suppose that the appearance of Colonel Wemyss and the Dragoons was occasioned by— Mr. Kenworthy—Will this end in anything material ? Mr. Stephens—l hope it will, Sir ; and much more that has occurred will be found to end in something material. I remained, Sir, perfectly passive in the hands of the offi cers, and in the meantime a coach-load of reporters found their way to Worsley, very much to the surprise and to the regret, es well as to the astonishment of the officers who had me in custody. A second coach-load of friends of mine from Ashtun-under-Line, who, not having the same implicit c on fid ence i n the inte gr ity, an d hi g h sense of honour and impartiality of a Bench of British Magistrates whi c h I had, Sir, thought it necessary and prudent for my safety that they should be present at Worsley. I came alove—l had desired none to follow me ; I said I am in the hands of the law, and know I am safe ; I am under the shelter of British justice, in the first and highest of her Courts. They, however, thought it expedient to follow me to Worsley, and their appearance at the village in which this case was to be transacted and dispatched, and where the determination to commit me was avowed in the Man chester Guardian ; they came to protect me by their pre sence, and of being - witnesses at least of what the transaction was to end in, so that they might give intimation of the same to my legal adviser, and have an opportunity to consult with me. A third coach-load of me friends (persons from Manchester), afterwards arrived, and altogether in that little village a most unusual and ex traordinary spectacle was presented, particularly at the late season of the night which then approached. I waited pa tiently, because I knew that all would end right. It begin right. I asked the officers what was to be done with me, .for I wished to sleep at Worsley, thinking, as a matter of course, that the case would have been gone into there. The ()Weer only shook his head, and my friends, after repeat ing their applications, wishing to know what the issue would be, th e officer gave them an assurance that I would not be ex amined at Worsley, but be brought back to Manchester and that the case would be heard at the New Bailey. At twelve o'clock Goddard made his appearance in an empty coach, empty as to all but himself—there were no wit messes, no learned prosecutor, no magistrates. What order s Goddard might have in his possession, he being the oniy and sole Court before which I had hitherto appeared, he kept very wisely, with other determinations of the Bench, to himself. The troops were ordered to mount, and I was escorted in the dead hour of the night ; hurried off at midnight, when the stillness was unbroken save by the clatter of the horses' heels on the hard ground, and oc casionally by the appearance of parties who had been roused from their sleep by these, not riotous, illegal, or tumultuary proceedings. I was hurried, under that escort, ..like another Duke D'Enghien, to the New Bailey Prison, without knowing what awaited me. I will not troubl e the Ceaurt with what happened to me in the New Bailey, but on the following day I waited very impatiently for the exa min/tele° that was to take place. I was informed at Wors ley that I would be examined at nine o'clock. At Man chester I afterwards found that it was to be twelve, and I ' wai ted till that hour, but there was no Court for me or my case. Another hour elapsed, and I then said to one of the Officer s , I have been in custody for more than 24 hours, and would reall be obliged to hire, after having carried me up and do w y post-chaiPost-chaises.n the country in hackney coaches and with officers and troops of dragoons, a major as a colonel, steould like to know when and where I was to make my al ) " Teyance, and before what Magistrates the case was to be ushered into a court similar to this, and in the same prison, .and there I found yourself in the chair, and another Magis tzv te whom I d o not now recogn i ze on th e b enc h. He be he re , b u t 1 d on ' t recogn i ze hi m . H e l e ft an d ano thel. . c ame, and he left and ano ther came, and I saw another person whom I th en t oo k to b e a M ag i s t ra te, because I found th e r , him, I Courtin close consultation and conference with .presume, upon this c ase . Th a t gentleman I have since learned t o b e M r . Sh utt l ewort h , o f M anc h es t er . I could not object to any conference with him in my case, be cause I understand from his own personal experience he was , every way qu a lifi e d to g i ve a sat i sfactory, an i mpart i a l , an d a _favourable v ers i on o f such like transactions.l understand that he h a d cons id era b le experience of popular process i ons proceedings i n 1816, an d at the meet i ng at P e t er l oo , and tiiat all th e organ i zat i on, arm i ng, an d training was well known to him, and that he (Shuttleworth) :had declared that the people wen t t o t h e p l ace o f meet i ng on t h a t occa _,on in most beautiful order, and that neither he nor an) other reasonable man could entertain the least ground of alarm. Mr. Brandt said, it was a very painful thing for him to interrupt a p erson on his defence, b ut i t was not j ust to tack an ab sent person, who had no connect i on with the Theter at all. If it w ou ld d o Mr. Stephen's case any good woeld not have interfered. Mr. Stephens was hoping that that was not an attack hut A,,_, . c ommendation of Mr. Shuttleworth, especially as 1 find - a Min it public character, in the confidence and patronage of her Majesty's Government, with a salary of 1,500/. a year, which, no dcubt, had a tendency to inspire sentiments and opinions in every way worthy of the office he fills, and of a loyal and constitutional subject. But I will pass on from that—l will pass to the Magistrate who, along with yourself Sir, signed th e warrant, Mr. Sanderson. I rooked on the bench for him, and to the best of my knowledge, and the result of my inquiries was, that Mr. Sanderson was not present, although he was in town and in the immediate neighbourhood of this prison. He was, I understand, sent for by the officer of the Court by a New Bailey officer —h e was personally applied to by yourself, Sir, and on that occasion, to that application he, the second Ma• gistrate, who had signed the warrant, Mr. Sanderson, posi tively refused to come, saying as his reason why be would not—" This case ought to have been tried at Worsley ; I am not going to appear in a Court before reporters and a thousand persons, spectators, and auditors." I thought that was a satisfactory reason, and it excited no surprise whatever in my mind, and if Mr. Sanderson is present this morning (and I am not aware whether he be or not, Sir,) Mr. Sanderson's own ideas of the sanctity, the inviolable sanctity which attaches itself to the holy office with which he has been invested by her Majesty, will at once lead him to feel that he is not this morning the most competent person to sit and adjudicate upon this re-hearing of an old case, and this production of an entirely new and altered case. I should have rejoiced had Mr. Sanderson been present on the former hearing of this case. He would have been the first Magistrate in the whole commission of the peace for Lanca shire before whom I should wish to appeal ; because, from his previous acquaintance with political transactions—from his intimate acquaintance with the nature of public meet ings, and the prominent part he has taken in Courts of Law on trials of this description, his mind, of all Magistrates of those on this Bench, was best fitted to decide upon the facts so glaringly, so palpably, so self-evidently falsified by the witnesses who have perjured themselves in that box, and which they would have been made to do, if that Court which has deemed it wise and prudent, and consistent with its determination, to commit me to Kirkdale ' had directed it to be taken down. Mr. Sanderson, the Magistrate who signed this warrant, which I am to see hereafter, and for the non-production of the informant whose name appears upon it we have the strong, the unmanly, the dishonour able, the infamous excuse of the Learned Gentle man, who, seeing me in this defenceless predicament, has availed himself of the privileges of his order to pump up and produce before the Court statements in reference to his non-appearance, which he knows, or ought to know, and which he ought to be instructed to know, is far from being the true cause—is the very reverse of the true cause. Had that witness appeared I should have known what to have done with him. Had the cross-exami nation of the other witnesses been taken down, I would have known what to have done with them, not only before you, but elsewhere. Had Mr. Sanderson, whose name appears on this warrant, been present, I could more confidently have referred my Case to him along with yourself—inas much as Mr. Sanderson has given important evidence in a case very materially bearing on the case before you. I refer to the case of the meeting at Peterloo, when Mr. Sanderson was a witness for Henry Hunt at York, when he declared that it was all peace, all decorum, and all pro priety. He did the same at Lancaster at the trial of Radford v. Burleigh, which can be easily referred to. You may at once perceive that had the Magistrates who signed the warrant made their appearance in this Court at the time appointed—had the informant been produced by the prosecutor, as be was in duty bound to do—had the other witnesses after being subjected to cross-examination had their evidence taken down—l don't mean the whole of it, for I could not expect that in a Court like this that they would insert either the whole of the examination or the whole of the cross-examination ; I do not complain of abbreviations or omissions, but I say that every particle of their cross-examination went in my favour—that they admitted that they had only spoken on hearsay, and on their cross•examination " they declared that they did not know certain facts of their own know ledge—that each contradicted the other and himself, and that altogether the evidence on the very face of it bore the stamp of a conspiracy on the part of some parties who will yet have to make their appearance in another place. Then I should have had an opportunity of proving distinctly a conspiracy by some parties, or a collusion either from some motives to commit perjury or without motives. Had this examination been taken down, the case might have pro ceeded till midnight, or it might have been adjourned from day to-day until the Court had declared itself satisfied with the evidence laid before it ; but I do contend, appearing as I now do charged with scmething stated in that warrant— for it is yet denied me, although I am to learn it some time—but under a warrant to be afforded me by and by— standing as I do before you in this Court, after the very extraordinary proceedings of the previous examination, and the still more extraordinary character of the present exami-. nation to-day, which I hereby proclaim to be an illegal pro ceeding, and by which I intend to abide—standing thus, Sir, not only charged with the offence of misdemeanour mentioned in the warrant, but charged as I am be fore the whole of the country, throagh the public Press, not only of this town, but by the organs of the Ministerial party, in London, and not only so , but by a Member of her 'Majesty ' i s Government himself, publicly—l refer to the Hon. Fox Maule,. in :his late speech at Perth, standing thus publicly charged with having been most directly the author or instigator of, or the actual author of, the late fire at Ashton-under-line—John Edward Taylor being the author of the statement in his own paper, andeven pending this inquiry, so far from retracting it, giving to it all the weight which the subtlety and malice of his mind can furnish to it a fire, the real origin of which, a not far distant day will, I expect, discover, and when discovered, will prove to this Court, should this Court unhappily have allowed its mind to be influenced by those reports, so far as the determination to commit, will prove, if not to this Court, to the country, and will unfold such a case of public as well as private villany, as for many years has not been laid before it.—(Sensation.) It does not belong to my case to go into that matter. I shall, perhaps, on a, future occasion find myself compelled to do so. At present I confine myself to a distinct and most unqua lified disavowal of any art, part, or participation in that or any other act of outrage.':. With this statement, Sir, by way of ex planation—with this declaration of the entire illegality of the proceedings as now before the Court, and most respectfully to yourself and the Bench, as I trust I have conducted myself to-day, and' on all previous occasions—with the utmost deference and respect to the law and to the Bench, entering this protest against this most extraordinary and illegal proceeding, I hit down without at all entering upon my case, which yet remains to be disclosed. After conferring for a short time with the other Magis trates, Mr. Kenworthy said—The Court has considered all that has been said by yourself and the witnesses, and they are of opinion that you should be committed to Liverpool, to take your trial at the next Assizes. Mr. Law—l take it for granted that, as before, you will allow Mr. Stephens to bail, and the same gentleman about whom inquiry was made, are ready to tender themselves. Mr. Kenworthy—We think it ought to be Mr. Ste phens in the sum of 1,0001. and two sureties of 5001., with 24 hours notice of bait. Mr. Brandt—The same gentlemen may not do, as it is not the sa.rne sum. Mr. Beswick tells me, that as to one of them, he considers the security sufficient, but with re spect to the other it will be right to make some further inquiry, Beswick--I think Mr. Williamson is sufficient. Mr. Law suggested that they would take the recogni aances of Mr. Williamson now, as he lived at Ashton, and this was assented to, the understanding being that the re cognizauers were not to be considered forfeited, or Mr. Stephens liberated, until the other party had been bound. The three witnessed were then bound over in the sum of 100 t. ea,ch to attend and give evidence at the Liverpool Assizes, and it was understood iho,t if on inquiry Mr. Richardson was found sufficient he would br the other se curity. Mr. Stephens was then rernovAA in custody, and the crowd gradually left the court. Colonel Wemyss was in the court during the investiga tion, and Mr. Maude, the stipendiary Magistrate, was on the bench, but t,ook no part in the proceedingo. After the proceedings a-........ ,4 terminated, Mr. Thomas, the deputy constable, requested that Mr. Feargus O'Connor would use hisititluence with the immense concourse outside. Mr. O'Connor recorowfidecl him to apply to it'is friend Mr. •Ketaworthy, the Chairrfia4, but said that if the lives of the i‘lagistrates were in any d ang e r , h e wou ld mos t willingly interfere. Mr. O'Connor was then, with much pomp, escorted by the deputy .constable through the back stairs, and upon reaching the outer door was soon recognized and hailed with shouts of applause. fie desired every man, woman, and child to fohovi him, which was instantly istrates, Hotel, in hearing of the. Mcom iw com plied with, Mr. O 'Connor took up A p osition at the win dow of the Brltigg and addressed the twi4i:-.1..g at great len g th I n terms of the most manly &lianand bitte r d enunc i at i on of what he calhid the poltroon bench. 4e would, he said, r _l.o an now tgle the command as J ud g e, General, and Jury ; he would lead It.a.?, people on withll4 usual stead y d lon g con perseverance ' in the cause of CQiversal Suffrage—k tim,led cheers) —as by that alone could they P4rify the bench, ts,o,d. elect the authorities to wLoci) t , ley Were answer- Able. Stephens, he said, should not be sacruiLed, or his cause Oamaged by therm. They must remain within the law, behind the law, and opon thz law, until they coul constable had sent him there, kw bad not ushered him out of prison with half that delight with Which he would introduce him to it.—(Laughter.) To-night he would address them in the Carpenters' Hall 7 and he would then expose the ignorance of " fat chops," Kenworthy, the carrier.— (Cheers.) The Counsel for the prosecution said that others were to be implicated in a c onspiracv. He (Mr. O'Connor) was doubtless one—if so, he would - lead them a dance which they little dreamed of. The ruffian Parsoto would pray from their Act of Parliament Litany on Sun day, for all prisoners and captives ; but an Order of Coun cil might make an exception in . favour of Joseph Rayner Stephens. They were the moral and physical force of th, country, and let them hold up their right hands, every mat who pledged himself to obey Feargus O'Connor, and to strengthen him by observing the law.—( Here a foreEt of hands was held up.) Mr. O'Connor then ordered tin whole meeting to follow him, and to leave the contaminated precincts of the blood-hounds and perjurers. This was instantly complied with, the whole body following Mr. O'Connor, and cheering. in defiance of all, as they passed through the streets. The startling yells and groans set up opposite the Cham• ber of Commerce and the Manchester Guardian office were truly appalling. Mr. O'Connor led the multitude, consistinc , of about a thousand, to the centre of Market street, and there dismissed them, with an injunction to at tend this night at Carpenters' Hall, where one of the most important and spirited meetings ever held is expected to take place. One or two shots were fired by persons in the. crowd while Mr. O'Connor was addressing the people from the Bridge Hotel. (From a Second Edition of the Morning Chronicle.) MANCHESTER, THURSDAY, JAN. 3. On my arrival here I have not been able to discover anything like that excitement which I supposed, from the accounts I had previously read of the doings of the Chartists, would have been found universally to prevail. I could not, for instanre, perceive, is any of the mercan tile or the tradinc , classes with whom I chanced to con verse, any apprehension entertained regarding Mr. Ste phens, or those who are connected with him, as to their power (if they have the disposition) of exciting a tumult in this town. In fact, there were none of those persons either talking or apparently thinking about him, as—to use the expression of a merchant who spoke to me—" they had in Manchester too much to do, to afford time to think of Mr. Stephens." The hour fixed for the proceedings to commence in tie Court-house was eleven o'clock. At that moment Mr. Stephens was in attendance very punctually, and made his Way, loudly cheered by the crowd assembled outside the New Bailey, to the place assigned to him within its walls. It is but right to state that no persons could conduct themselves with more propriety than the multitude did on this occasion. About the time that Mr. Stephens came into the Court Mr. Oastler made his appearance ; Mr. Feargus O'Connor had been there for some time previousy, and was, when I entered, seated at the same table which was appropriated to the barristers and reporters. With the personal appearance of Mr. O'Connor I was well acquainted. He was, on this occasion, dressed in a dark frock trimmed with fur, and not only appeared to me to be very.pale, but also had a care-worn and anxious look ; while I, could perceive in him none of that bluster ing manner for which he was remarkable when he was an " Irish" agitator. That manner, however, I should not be surprised to find him reassuming when he appears at the public meeting which is to be held this evening. During the entire proceedings in the court, Mr. Feargus O'Connor did not speak, nor indeed did I perceive him give even a suggestion to Mr. Stephens. Mr. Oastler, on the contrary, spoke to him frequently ; but it was before and after Mr. Stephens addressed the Court. Mr. Oastler is a large, heavy-looking man, be tweet), fifty and sixty years of age. His complexion is ghastly pale ; his eyes, grey• and staring, have little expression in them ; and, with very common features, he has the appearance of a mechanic in his Sunday clothes. As to the Rev. Mr. Stephens himself, he is a small, thin man, and one who in his manner looks like one who indulges himself with doses of opium. His hair, which is a very dark brown, grows 'thin and high upon his head, so as to leave the forehead and temples completely bare. His features, which are diminutive and flat, do not indicate the posses sion either of much intellect or of a good command of his temper, which I should consider to he very hasty, al though he exerted himself in the Court-house, and with some effect too, to keep it under command. He wears spectacles, and dresses like a clergyman. In speaking, his voice, which is sweet and distinct, is calculated to produce a much greater effect than the matter or the ideas which he gives utterance to would merit. He is certainly not deficient of nerve, and his conduct througout the day was such as must have won for him the approbation of those disposed to admire him. MANCHESTER. BY EXPRESS. GREAT RAD I CALDEMONSTRATION Another meeting of the Radicals of Manchester took place this evening (Thursday) at Carpenters' Hall, which was, like the meeting of last night, attended by several thousands. _ _ _ Previous to the Chair being taken, Mr. Wheeler came forward and stated that he was happy to announce to them that their friend and champion Mr. Stephens had been that evening released on bail, and he (Mr. Wheeler) had left him taking tea at Mr. Richardson's.—(Tremendous cheer ing for some minutes.) He would be there in a few mi nutes, to address them.—( Reiterated cheering.) Mr. DEEGAN wished to address a few words to the meeting, before the chair was taken. Until the people had a voice in the making of the laws, they would ever be slaves ; and their labour, the most valuable species of pro perty, was not protected. The time was come when either the Legislature must redress the condition of the people and give them protection, or, instead of having Irish red herrings and brown loaves on their spears, they would have Lord John Russell, Lord Melbourne, and the Poor-law Commissioners hoisted on them. (Great laughter and cheering.) Nobody minded what he was saying, he was merely amusing them before the commence ment of the proceedings. He did not advise them to treat the Commissioners in that way ; but if he had the power he would treat them so. Pikes were manufacturing in various parts of the adjacent districts ; and such was the demand for them that the people were making a fortune by them. It was disgraceful to them that the people of Manchester should be the last in the race. They ought to be the first in leading the people in the battle and to victory. Why had Stephens been in carcerated—not because he was Whig, a Radical, or a Tory, but because, being a Minister of the Gospel, he had preached the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. He had toldthe tyrants of the people that sooner or later they would have to answer to an avenging God for the crimes they had committed on the people. The Whigs were a more despicable, a more bloodthirsty, a more in- famous faction than the Tories. Mr. F. O'Connor, Mr. Oastler, Mr. Richardson, and several others here entered the room, and were received with deafening and long-continued cheering, clapping of hands, and waving of hats. Mr. R. J. RICHARDSON was then called to the chair, and said that he was happy to announce that the Rev. Joseph R. Stephens was once more nt liberty.—(Cheers.) Al though the recognizances were legal yet they were most oppressive—he was bound over to keep the peace. Act ing, therefore, on the suggestions of his Counsel and his friends, he had abstained from attending the meeting.— (Hear, hear.) He would now call upon Mr. Feargus Connor to address them. Mr. O'CONNOR came forward and was received with loud cheering, He equally, with Mr. Stephens, was bound to keep the peace, but the surest way to preserve peace was to prepare for war.—(Great cheering.) He hail been present in a Court whera all proceedings of a legal cha racter commenced; they knew the characters that attended that Court, and as ho was 4bit of a phySiogaOiniStile flied his eye upon one man named " Fat chops.") He meant the prrier.—(Cries of " Kenworthy.") He saw that great waggon-hofse to-day 4ttempting to depide upon a case of which he knew literally nothing. The Putch gentleman who attended as Crown prosecutor had stated that there were the warrants and other parties to be impli cated ; and although there was no band,wothq op the wall, he saw Feargus O'Connor plainly written down in his 50041:41 Taut he had been with them last night before the battle—he wan will thfirp that flight apd ha would be with them whenever the battle was to 1)e really fought._ (treat cheering.) The great object of the Pres, and the Government, of the 10 - 0 0 i7, 8 Chronicle, the bull dog of the Whigs, of the g/o4e, the terrier of the Whigs, and of the Weekly .Chronicle, the kitchen-maid of the Whigs, was to prevent the people obtaining a voice in the representatipn. Lord Melbourne was making love, Lord Normanby was in a mess, Lord Brougham was in. a fright, O'Connell was in a puzzle, and the people were in the bastiles. He however would never cease agitating, and if the Poor Law Bill was r e p ealed to-mor row he would roar a o s f t l 0 0 - n d d a l s y j e t e'ers wo s ti td for Universal hl4ci 4t y 0 point 7 Suffrage,ntu the b ou rs e they were o After the mock trial i, to adopt. They were in a gl orious p osit ion , and he would tell them why. In 1831 t he p eo p le wer e all roused up , and their agitation had been termed, constit u ti ona l. Lord Althorn did not disdain to enter into a correspondence with the Birmingham Union, and while towns were fired, and the ji..ing'§ bead exhibited with n a;e over it, the People w ere encouraged by the Whig Government to go on. Mr,O'Connor then proceeded to comment on the proceedings at the trial to day, and denounced the conduct of the presid ing i‘legistrates. The fat and the lean man- r the fat, big head of the one not being able to eontA all that was stated, he' required the assistance of the'Other. The wit ness brought up was crammed as full as a turkey, .and he ere )pe• lett ght" hire Ma• heel SOOl . ose . who here P re' what dead Town ,lyeAg worth pa ir ' to' to 3trik' ran it tb. ° 7clito" ;e was tbiof r •orrae to the ,y t he r i' e the THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 4, 1839. stated what none of the other witnesses had heard ; and I Kenworthy, with the smile and the grin of a bird of prey gloating over its victim, said, "., We commit you to Kirkdale for trial."—(Cries of "Shame.") Little Spring Rice declared that when the gambling of the money mongers had nearly reduced the country to bankruptcy, the savings of the poor people in the savings' banks had saved the country from ruin. He would recommend them now to withdraw their money from the savings' banks until 'ley had obtained a voice in the making of the laws. He (Mr. O'Connor) was not to be gagged or put down, but he would not allow Lord Durham to divide them. The Weekly chronicle, the kitchen-maid of the Whigs, of which Mr. Ward was th e e di tor an d propr i e t o r, said that Lord Durham was in future to be his leader, and that the people were unworthy of the rights they demanded.—(Shame.) He had been denounced as a trai tor by O'Connell ; but that very man had himself done something very like that himself.—(Cheers.) The present was a battle between the people and the Whigs. One party said the people were too violent. Neither Whig nor Tory censured the conduct of their own parties ; but the Radicals were always dividing and denouncing one another. The Government had left the people without the means of education and called them ignorant—they had left them with out employment, and called them idle—they had left them without food, and called the people paupers. He would, if he had the power, place the country in such a po sition as that there would be no necessity for a Poor-law for there would he no paupers. He (Mr. O'Connor) would not give up Universal Suffrage, but would go for it to the death. They would never join Lord Durham—they would never join Lord Brougham ; but they would remain united, and they would eventually be successful. They only wasted their strength when they sought for trifles. and for too many things at once.—(Hear, hear, and cheers.) The result was that not a single change had been effected with the abuses of the country. It would be more d:fficult to reduce one regiment of Dragoons than to obtain Universal Suffrage.—(Mr. O'Connor then pro ceeded to point out the absurdity of seeking a Repeal of the Corn-laws, and concluded by calling upon them to take nothing but that which would give them a voice in the representation.) Their motto was, "No surrender." Let them stick to their moral force, and if their rights were still refused, let them raise the arm, and their physical force would obtain their rights. Mr. O'Connor then denounced the Manekesier Guardian and Mr. Baines of the Leeds Mercury, and recommended them never to drink the beer or ale in any house where these Papers were taken in. He knew not how soon he might be incarcerated, but neither dungeons nor racks would ever intimidate him.—(Cheers.) Mr. OASTLER then came forward.—Never was there an excitement like the present before. Last night that vast hall was filled, and now again it was crowded with thou sands of the working classes, to hear what was the result of Mr. Stephens's trial of the Magistrates at the New Bailey. The rules of justice to-day were turned topsy-turvy— the Magistrates had been tried and convicted by the prisoner at the bar. He had heard him tell the Commander of the Forces, Colonel Wemyss, a brave and gallant man, that it was disgraceful to him to he under the orders of a Bow-street runner.—(Groans.) If her Majesty submitted to that degradation of her gal lant officers, he (Mr. Oastler) was determined to place his Royal prerogative against it. The British bar had been ilea day disgraced in the person of Mr. Brandt.-- (Groans.) His conduct was such as had never before been witnessed in a court of justice. If he (Mr. Oastler) was at the bar, wherever he met Mr. Brandt be would tell him that in his excess of zeal, whether bribed or not he did not know, he had disgraced the British bar. He stated what it was impossible he could know ; but when malignity, not authorised in the Queen's Council, and when all the power of the realm were at the disposal of the malignant and the vicious, to crush a honest and unoffending man, the bar was disgraced, and the Bench became its own rebuker. —(Cheers.) Had they heard the brilliant display of elo quence from his friend, Mr. Stephens, to-day, how they would have seen that the Bench writhed under it, and wished themselves anywhere but where they were. H e was disgusted to-day, when he saw Mr. Foster, a man of irreproachable character—when he saw that be had been compelled, by the power of the Government, to disgrace himself by aiding and insuring the conviction of Mr. Stephens. His friend Stephens told him to day that they had taken him into the chaplain's room, where there was a Bible and a Prayer-book, and that he had registered an oath that the Word of God and of truth would be upheld, though it should be written in his blood. Let the Press tell her Majesty that the King, had had three happy days—one when he received his wife—one when he had been divorced from the Squire —and to-day, when he heard that her Majesty had been displeased with him.—(Great cheering.) He had been charged with conspiring against the Poor-law Bill. He avowed it. He had conspired against that law of Devils with all the powers of body and soul that God had given him, to dethrone those three Kings who had usurped more than her Royal authority. He had conspired with the people of England, and with the framers of Magna Charta—with every principle of the British Constitution, with the late Earl of Eldon, and with the Bishop of Exeter, whom he had heard state in the House of Lords that no Englishman ought to obey that law, and that no Christian dare obey it. —(Vehement cheers.) He had conspired with Lord Stan hope, whose daughter was a great favourite with her Ma jesty. Lord Eldon had told him that the Parliament had no power to pass such a law or to enforce it. There was an open conspiracy for them. By the turn of events he might have those three traitors in the dock, and tried for high treason—if he (Mr. 0.), was arrested, he hoped no man would become his bail—all that he wanted was, that they should have O'Connor, Stephens, and himself, laid ' hold of, and they woukl prove to any judge in the country that he could not adjudicate upon such a law.—(Cheers.) He panted for that day with all the reins and sinews of his heart. But the serious part of the conflict was now at hand—the troops had become tools of the police—the Magistrates, too, forgetting their sacred character—and the bar had disgraced itself.—(Shame.) No man came came out of that Court, who was not satisfied that every person connected with the prosecution had been covered with infamy, save his friend Mr. Stephens. They got up a lying vagabond to swear against Stephens —to state that he spoke of the Ballot, a subject he never touched upon.—( Hear, hear.) He would advise the people to save their pennies for the purpose of buying arms. Their Queen had not a sufficient number of loyal troops and he would advise them to arm themselves in her defence against the ruffian band whom O'Connell had threatened to invade her kingdom with. Would they do as he bade them ?--(Vehement shouts of " Aye, aye.") He had just been informed that there were six troops of Dragoons in the New Bailey. It depended upon themselveS, now that they had promised to support Stephens, not to allow their enemies to ride rough-shod over them—they were the best friends of the country and the Queen. and he hoped her Majesty would throw herself upon their protection, and dash the tyrants behind her back.—(Vehement cheering.) Mr. NIGHTINGALE subsequently addressed the meeting, and concluded by moving the appointment of a Committee so receive subscriptions, to co-operate for the defence of Mr. Stephens, and to communicate with Committees in the adjacent villages. The motion was carried unanimously. Mr. JACKSON then proceeded to address the meeting at some length, in the course of which he condemned the New Poor-law Bill in very strong terms. Thanks were then voted to the Chairman by Mr, Oastler, and the meeting broke up, The Hall was, if possible, more densely crowded than on the previous evening, and many persons were almost fainting from the excessive heat' LIBERATION OF MR. STEPHENS. AI,. Richards on wa i te d upon some of This eveni ng theagistrat e s at the Blackf r i ars I nn, and the in quiries instituted by Mr. Beswick, of the Police, having been announced to them to be satisfactory, the bail was p er f ec t e d by the Cle r k o f t h e J ust i ces " over as a person w h o was present i nforme d a bottle of wi ne ," me, all(i at halt-past six o'clock Mr. Stephens was discharged from custody. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE„ I his week's arrivals of English Grain and ?lour are mode rate; of Irish Oats oonsiclorablik ; and of Foreign Wheat vgood.aale ; e r d All parcels s are very dull. B ar l e y i s aga i n Is. t o 2 s . per quarter dearer. Beans and Pease remain as last reported. Oats are not so lively as of late, but Monday's terms are maintained. In the Flour trade there is a fair sale at last quotations, ARRVALS Wheat. Barley. Oats. Flour. English 9,3, 3 1) Ors S,VIO qrs. 2,450 VS 5,090 u ck, Irish Foreign 7,990 795 SMITHFIELD MARKET. -- brls, Supply large for a Friday, trade slack, and prices declined from 4d. to 6d. per stone. 1 3eef 3,5. 4d. to 4s. 4d; Mutton 4s. 2d. to ss. 1 VW 4s. Od. to ss. lid. ; Pork 4s. 4d. to ss. 4d. I3casts 665, Sheen 4,300, Pigs 380, Calves 150. CITY FISH MARKET. _ . Supplies bettor, and prices rather lower. Turbot, ss. and 7s. to 10s. 153., and 255. each • Cod, 24. and 4s. to Bs. 411`,4 15s. each for large ones ; Soles, 6d. to 3s. 6d. per pair. Whitings, 3d. to 6d. each ; Haddocks, 5,,d. and 6d. to 10d. and Is. each, • COLONIAL MARKET. Bat very little business passing; there was one public sale onlV 100 bags B ar bice Coffee, which sold at previous rates. 13:P. Sugar sold steadily at much about its previous value. MAGAZINES CONCLUDED BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY. We should have noticed this periodical earlier, but it only reached us on Thursday at two o'clock. It is a capital number, and would deserve high praise, if only for Mr. Ainsworth's " Jack Shepherd," which is, we perceive, to be continued regularly in the Miscellany. We hope, how ever, the author will not overdo his highwayman hero— that is to say, fix the reader's attention too exclusively on him ; for if he does, what with his Sheppards and his Jonathan Wildes, and Boz's Fagins and Bill Sykeses, the Miscellany will wear quite the aspect of a Newgate Calen dar. In the chapters before us, however, Mr. Ainsworth gives us no cause for complaint. There is nothing re pulsive in his sketches of flash life in London ; nor are they thrust forward too officiously on the canvas ; on the con trary, they rise naturally out of the subject, like Scott's famous robber-scene in the cave under Ingleborough hill. The opening scene, where Jack Sheppard's mother is represented sitting in a wretched, half furnished hut, with her infant child in her arms, is wrought up with infinite cleverness of detail, and two or three touches of pathos are introduced, which humanize, and break the still life of the description. We know no no velist of the day who works up good materials with more skill and spirit than Mr. Ainsworth. He does not, to avoid the labour of thought, avail himself of the first crude hints and suggestions that his fancy throws out, but digs deep for his ore, and is well repaid for his industry. The whole scene in the Borough, "in the row of old ruinous build ings called Wheeler's-Rents," evinces striking and success ful proofs of this unwearied attention to detail ; and the flash characters, such as Baptist Kettleby, Bluskin, and Jonathan Wilde—this last personage, by-the-bye, is very distinctly pourtrayed, though as yet only in outline—have each the stamp of marked individuality upon them. We subjoin Mr. Ainsworth's sketch of the old Mint : Mrs. Sheppard's habitation terminated a row of old ruinous buildings, called Wheeler's-rents ; a dirty thoroughfare, part street and part lane, running from Mint-street, through a variety of turnings, and along the brink of a deep kennel, skirted by a number of petty and neglected gardens in the direction of St. George's-fields. The neighbouring houses were tenanted by the lowest order of insolvent traders, thieves, mendicants, and other worthless and nefarious characters, who fled thither to escape from their creditors, or to avoid the punishment due to their different offences; for we may observe that the Old Mint, although it had been divested of some of its privileges as a sanctuary, by a recent statute passed in the reign of William the Third, still presented a safe asylum to the debtor, and even continued to do so until the middle of the reign of George the First, when the crying nature of the evil called loudly for a remedy, and another and more sweeping enactment entirely took away its immunities. In consequence of the encouragement thus offered to dishonesty, and the secu rity afforded to crime, this quarter of the Borough of South wark was accounted (at the period of our narrative) the grand receptacle of the superfluous villany of the metropolis. In fested by every description of vagabond and miscreant, it was, perhaps, a few degrees worse than the rookery near St. Giles's and the desperate neighbourhood of Saffron-hill in our own time. And yet, on the very site of the sordid tenements and squalid courts we have mentioned, where the felon openly made his dwelling, and the fraudulent debtor laughed the object of his knavery to scorn—on this spot, not two c itturies ago, stood the princely residence of Charles Brandon, the chivalrous Duke of Suffolk, whose stout heart was a well of honour, and whose memory breathes of loyalty and valour. Suffolk House, as Brandon's palace was denominated, was subsequently converted into a mint by his royal brother-in law, Henry the Eighth ; and, after its demolition, and the re moval of the place of coinage to the Tower, the name was still continued to the district in which it had been situated. Old and dilapidated, the widow's domicile looked the very picture of desolation and misery. Nothing more forlorn could be conceived. The roof was partially wailed ; the chimneys were tottering; the side-walls bulged, and were supported by 'a piece of timber propped against the opposite house ; the glass in most of the windows was broken, and its place sup. plied with paper ; while, in some cases, the very frames of the windows had been destroyed, and the apertures were left free to the airs of heaven. On the ground-floor the shutters were closed, or, to speak more correctly, altogether nailed up, and presented a very singular appearance, being patched all over with the soles of old shoes, rusty hobnails, and bits of iron hoops, the ingenious device of the former occupant of the apartment, Paul Groves, the cobbler, to whom we have before alluded. " A Visit to the Chateaa of Chinon" is pleasantly and graphically written, and we like it the better, that there is no mock-sentiment in it. The writer justly observes that when pacing the dungeons of this lake fortress, we think far more of Bonnivard than of Byron. " The Twin Doomed" is a tragic legend of the American backwoods, something after the Damon-and- Pythias school of romance. " Shakspeare Papers," by Magian, contains an analysis, shrewd and subtle, but unfortunately incomplete, of the character of lago. " Oliver Twist" is here brought down to the murder of Nancy by her paramour, Sykes —an inci dent related with extraordinary power. " Songs of the Flowers" is pretty poetic trifling ; but being of a Utili tarian turn of mind, we should have preferred reading " Songs of the Vegetables," having stronger sympathies with that useful, though perhaps unimaginative, esculent, the cauliflower, than with any other flower that gresys. " Merry England in the olden Time" is a very entertaining article, in which much research is evident. The embellish ments by Cruickshank are in his best manner. THE LONDON MONTHLY MISCELLANY. Smith, Elder, and Co. We are much pleased with the spirit with which this unpretending periodical continues to be conducted. Among the best articles in the present Number is the " Trip Ashore" and the " Inedited Remains of Eminent Per sons," the latter enriched with a fac-simile of an original letter addressed by Chatterton, the poet, to Dodsley, the bookseller, " Another Word on the Old 'Watchmen," by Cornelius Webbe, is an article not to be read beyond the sound of Bow-bells, nor by any citizen of this our good city of London, unable to distinguish the cut of a " char ley" five streets off in the grey twilight of a spring morning. By the properly qualified it will be conned over with many a groan for the " changes that have come over the spirit of the times." Prefixed to this Number is a fac-simile of an original sketch of a female figure from the pencil of Sir Joshua Reynolds, which has at least novelty to recommend it, as it was never before published. MONTHLY MAGAZINE. A new series of the Monthly Magazine commences with this number. The work is henceforth to be under the superintendenc e of Mr. Heraud—a gentleman well known by his poem entitled " The Descent into Hell." His present number is a very fair specimen one, but in at tempting to raise the tone and character of the " Monthly," we hope he will not give us too much of pure metaphysical writings, for unless these be first-rate in essence, they are calculated only to bewilder and fatigue attention. The best article in the number is, the Editor's poem on " The Pleasures of Genius," in which we find many bold and striking flights of thought, and melodious versification throughout. " Remembrances of a Monthly Nurse" is the continuation of a series of tales that appeared a year since in " Frazor's Magazine." It is a cleverly -constructed story, and the interest is sustained to the close. " A New Year's Greeting" is rather too pompous for mere gossip, which it professes to be, METROPOLITAN. In the " Note Book of an Irish Barrister" we find, this month, a sketch of Lord Avonmore, the well-known Irish Judge, and friend of Curran. The sketch is impartial in its tone ; but we wish the writer would lop off a few of the verbal superfluities in which he so lavishly indulges. His style is not quite so verbose as it used to be, still there is far too much heaping up of tawdry epithets ; and the imagery is too redundant, and not always apposite--sometimes indeed not even intelligible. " Christmas Thoughts" is a light, sprightly poem—as best befits the season—by Mrs. Abdy, who is a versifier of no mean excellence. " Habits and Opinions of the Poets" contains some agreeable gossip about Cowley —.-a delightful poet, though somewhat too fantastic, and whose translations of Anacreon are the best we have in the language. The " Courtier of the Reign of Charles the Second" is by Mrs. Gore. It is scarcely worthy of her pen, In the prose article entitled " Auto biographical Sketches," which is the production of a lady named Crawford, we meet with some stanzas suggested by the sight of a beautiful moon, which are distinguished by f ee li ng and simplicity. THE CATHOLIC MAGAZINE. Simpitioe and Marshall. W e implore the relatives of the Church alarmists, who congregate monthly at Exeter Hall, to weep over the thraldom of priest-ridden Ireland, and to groan over reports of the progress of Popery in England, not to suffer them to cast their eyes over the first article in the January Number of this Periodical. It is entitled " Prospects of Catholicism," and corroborates, by the testimony of Ca tholic statements, the bare probability of which has al retdy driven some of the fiercest champions of the Exeter Hall arena out of their wits. Were it road in an assembly of the " Saints" the whole auditory would run as mad as March hares. For ourselves, we must say that our nerves are equally proof against the alarms on the one side and the ex ultation on the other. They are both equally groundless. In every nation in the world there are thousands of persons to whose paculiar feelings, tempera ment, and mental assockatutis the predominant religious form is not adaptea, and these, where freedom of Q hoice is allowed, trai embrace some other. But. Vi the pre vii,l:.ng faith be founded on truth, ay.cli secessions will strengthen, instead of wealAkining it. The mentally restless, the victims of Wildorse, and the habitually gloomy, may be e3Teckea to embrace a religion which satisfies the hez4. through the imagination—if indeed the heart can be said to be so satisfied ; but, happily for the world, the time is past when the conversion of such persons might be pre sumed W e,ffect the civil and religious rights of the British people. Besides, the balance is still pretty even. If Ca tholicism progresses in England, Protestantism is making rapid strides in Italy and France. The " Case of Mary Woo'Frey" occupies, as might be expected, the largest space of any article in the present Number. It is treated with much ability, though in a partisan spirit. Its only fault, in a literary point of view, is the overloading the text with an accumulation of quotations from the Fathers of the Church, many of which appear to us not to be well selected. The number is embellished with a well-engraved portrait of the. late Cardinal Weld. THE DUBLIN UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE. This is an excellent Number of one of the most spirited of our monthly periodicals. The " Anthologia Germanica" would of itself relieve from a charge of dulness, the dullest of our quarterlies. The translation of Gellert's piquant tales and amusing fables convey to the reader all the fresh ness—all the point of the originals. Take the following as an example : A father had two sons,—the one called Will The other Christy,—this a bright young lad, And that a humdrum. The good man fell And, finding himself getting very bad, Stretched on the bed of death, be glanced with misty Regards about the room in quest of Christy. " My son," he said, " sad thoughts begin to darken My mind. You are a genius. What a task it Will be for you to face the world But, hearken! Inside my desk there lies a little casket Of jewels. Take them all, my son, And lock them up, and give your brother none." The youth was wonderstruck. He thought this droll, And, looking in his father's face, he said, " But, bless me, father I—if I take the whole What. is poor Will to do ? I greatly dread--" " Dread nothing, Christy," interrupted t'other ; " There's not the slightest ground for this timidity ; I'll warrant you your booby of a brother Will make his way through life by sheer stupidity l" There is a sound philosopher for you! Dullness any day against the most fearful odds in the shape of goods, chattels, dividends, and hard cash ! Your dullard is the fellow to make his way through the world with every prospect of re tiring at sixty after amassing wealth sufficient to purchase an estate. We never despair of the success of any man in any business if he be dull enough. All failures are the re sult of some unlucky non-obtuseness of intellect. " Francesca da Rimini' is a translation of some of the most beautiful passages in one of Silvio Pellico's Tragedies, by one who felt their force, and well understood the art of communi-. eating his impressions to others. The " Victim of Illicit Distillation" is a heart-stirring tale of every-day life in the remote districts in the North of Ireland. With the poli tical diatribes indulged in by the contributors to this pe riodical, we shall not trouble our readers, except to say that they are cleverly written. Orangeism has not a more able organ. ALEXANDER'S EAST INDIA MAGAZINE. This is but an indifferent Number. Some of the articles are merely reprints from other Journals, and those that claim originality are only so in name. This is the more extraordinary, as this periodical is generally conducted with care and talent. HEADS OF THE PEOPLE. The present Part, which is the third, of this lively miscellany, contains four sketches—one of " The Spoiled Child ;" another, of the " Old Lord ;" a third, of the " Parish Beadle ;" and the fourth, of the " Linen-draper's Assistant?' Etch of these is smartly and aptly hit off, especially the first, through which runs a vein of most amusing comic humour. In the sketch entitled the " Old Lord," wherein certain aristocratic foibles are glanced at in a good-humoured spirit, the writer who signs himself " Echion," relates a curious anecdote—which he vouches for as true—of the conduct of a noble patron of the Fine Arts towards Sir Joshua Reynolds : " The Duke was one day in the painting-room of Sir Joshua Reynolds, talking in warm terms of a picture which he called a Titian. The President of the Royal Academy quietly said, he had seen the picture, and did not think that it was by Titian. flow, Sir !' cried his Grace, do you mean to say that picture is not genuine ?" You may depend upon it., my Lord,' replied Sir Joshua, never saw it.' The 'Duke's countenance reddened beneath his powdered wig, as he pas sionately vociferated, at the same time shaking his clouded cane over the Presid en t' s h ea d , ' D o you dare, Sir, to dispute with me on the merits of a picture ?' We would have given tomething to have seen Sir Joshua's expression at that moment What the sensitive mind of a man of genius would feel, we can conceive ; but whatever the tumult of his thoughts, all that happened was, that he shifted his trumpet and only took snuff.' Reynolds, however, felt the insult keenly, and ap. pealed to Burke and Johnson, asking their advice under the circumstances. Pooh. pooh,' said Johnson, you must take no notice of it I you live by these people.'" The " Par:sh-Beadle" is a pleasant portrait by Corne lius Webbe, of which we should have thought still more highly, if we had not a vivid recollection of Boz't masterly sketch of Mr. Bumble. The embellishments to this Part will add greatly to its popularity. LOND ON AND EDIiVBUttGK FILM 0 S OPIIL, GAL MAGAZINE. Taylor, Red Lion -court. This Magazine sustains, i❑ the present number, the high character which it has obtained as a journal of science. The reader will find, besides the articles purely scientific and original, a fund of miscellaneous information extracted from the transactions of the Royal and other Societies, both British and Foreign. THE CONGREGATIONAL MAGAZINE. Jackson and Ti r afford. From the " Analytical and Historical Notices of Church Accommodation in the Metropolis," it appears that there are, within the limits of the cities of London and West minster, and the boroughs of Marylebone, Finsbury, Tower Hamlets, Southwark, and Lambeth, 115 parish churches, with 76 chapels of case, and 64 private chapels, all in com munion with the Church of England ; 116 independent churches ; 83 belonging to the Baptists ; 12 Presby terian churches ; 10 Unitarian ; 60 Wesleyan Me thodist chapels ; 9 C a l v i n i s ti c Methodist y chapels ; places of meeting belonging to the Society of Friends ; 10 foreign chapels ; 13 Roman Catholic chapels ; 8 Jew ish synagogues ; and 43 places of miscellaneous worship_ Within the city of London there is church accommodation for 18,083 additional inhabitants ; but taking the whole of the metropolis the deficiency of sittings is calculate, at 243,475. Many of these notices are exceedingly curi ous ; and the whole article will interest the religious por tion of the community. The Memoir of the Rev. Dr. Humphrys abounds in religious gossip ; but as we never indulge in the expression of opinions 'decisive of the merits of points of disputed theology, we shall rest satisfied with observing that it will afford much satisfaction to that large class of Dissenters, of whose religious convictions this periodical is the able advocate and representative. THE FREEMASONS' QUARTERLY REVIEW. Sherwood and Co. We congratulate the Masonic brethren, whose literary labours enrich the pages of this most mystical of Quarterlies, on the degree of general interest with which they con tinue to invest subjects upon which it is not allowed them to gratify public curiosity. By exhibiting as they have done the mutual advantages to men in every rank of life of the Masonic Institution--by showing th 4, whatever be its secrets, its objects are benevolent ; they have directed an attention to it which will operate beneficially upon the whole Masonic body. The articles are numerous, and what is better still, are designed rather to instruct, edify, and amuse, tly.in to per plex or mystify. The scholar and the philosopher will both find much to interest them in an ae.iele entitled, "On Freemasonry" in the present Number. " On Mys tic and Cabalistic Numbers," is another, paper not. less curious. The verse and anecdote contributions are nu merous, and as love is, for the most part, the subject of them, they ilia be sure to meet. with abundance of fair admirers. LIBRARY of EN7'ERTAINING KNOWLEDGE• Vol. 111. C. Knight, London, 1838. - - The present volume of this miscellany is the first of a Natural History of Monkeys, Opossums, and Lemurs,. which, it seems, will be completed in another volume. It is written in a very popular spirit, is enlivened with several amusing characteristic anecdotes, chiefly regarding the baboon tribe, and is embellished with wood-cuts. THE ANTEDILUVIANS. , Cradock London, 1838. _ _ The author of this poem, Dr. M'Henry, should have applied his poetical talents, which are far fro..n inconsider able, to some more attractive and popular theme than the Sayings and Doings of the Antediluvian V'orld, in which no genius short of Milton's could ever e'.lable us to take in terest. This is the besetting defrect of the poem, which otherwise, is a very meritorious r:;roduction, p enne d i n flow ing and harmonious blank ver.se, and replete with manly and dignified sentiments.. The most spirited portion of it is the description Di' the great Deluge, as viewed by Noah and his family from their protecting ark. --- LIRE'S DICTIONARY OF ARTS. Wo are glad to learn that this work is successful, for it deserves an extended popularity, compressing an immense amount of solid practical knowledge, on all useful and worldly matters, in the smallest possible compass that is compatible with clearness and distinctness. Dr. Ure is the Editor, and is every way fitted to do good service to the work entrusted to his superintendence. SPORTING MAGAZINE.—SPORTSMAN. Magazines exclusively devoted to a recapitulation of the field sports of the month, and well adapted to secure th e suffrages of the numerous class of readers to whom they appeal. Each is embellished with appropriate plates.