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ntle &a. ode I re' d 10 Gen' ne 0 1 terits tithe Established Church by the change of circumstances that the occurred within the last few years. He did not admit that lee;ceersssi:ln had occurred to the extent that some Honourable leged—he admitted it to be large, but it was not `tith an ext ent as to g i ve any colour to the assert i on t h a t t h e re lser c ha only contain e d one -thi r d o f th e p o p u lation. How . - bi t ' ° almitted that a large separation and secession had taken ", and he was gratified, in common with his Right Hon. j o ri end behind him ( Sir James Graham), to hear the tone w hitth the Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Fox Maule) had I t t ken ef t h e Ch urch. He hoped these expressions and sen r'llls would h ave t h e i r effect and due weight in certain o a sters, but certa i nly he had seen much i n the statements o f ti es who to o k a leading position with those who separated th emselve s f rom the Church, which did not lead him to con tlde that the Church was less exposed to danger from those • io s than it was at ithe time the tests were established. Lerefore he thought it could not be said that the tests were ishs: necessary to protect the Church from present danger than Pre were formerly to protect it from the danger . ap _, ended from Episcopacy. If be saw the spirit that Zedt:ted his Right Honourable Ft iend opposite ex its among the parties to whom he referred, he er Ze it kentled the datger. would be less. But that was not the e 'on of matters now • and it was because that danger e -z o is r tel e t t l i tat the Church was ' deserving of protection. If they the safe ave an Established Church, they ought not to remove eteguards that they had placed upon it just at the very th °se e viteheu danger was strongest, and to prevent which danger beiie er vto and protections were applied. He saw, therefore, nor • the fact that a secession had taken place, to lo the character of the Church of Scotland, any reason eir re Tove from it th e protection of those tests. He was quite are that th e effect of those tests at the time of their eats- Wer ment, and now, was to limit the field from which professors rir_eecohoosen to fill chairs in the Universities. That wasa h c a e v s ; e Y o l ude s t lq n zzei. earn lt ed had beenwsoanidlithhantvethposeeeltne would d st e s d Locke and ite_wkal from filling chairs in the Universities of Scotland; hut t a Tet be remembered that the application of similar tests in it. g e rl would have precluded Stewart and Playfair from tak e airs in the Universities of Oxford or Cambridge. The result of e s those tests had been that in either end of the island fesenteaiversities had not wanted most able and effective pro bein r s to fill chairs in their respective Universities. That oo It the result, he could not admit that any practical griev ce h ut th at bile arisen from those enactments. He could not agree 'to ed e continuance of those tests was oppressive. was i tt ne that a most eminent philosopher, who filled a t ositution aft:, e . o f the Univ ers i t i es—a position in which he was placed h e di r eminence h a d been established—in which he believed thorit not each, b u t yet t h at h e exerc i se d considerable au sequenceYh been expose d to h arrass i ng proceedings in con itteedttetn of his secession from the Church. What those pro esuwere, he (the Lord Advocate) was not in a position to jag i s u et, se : 4 ° , l4 that those tests did not operate in prevent ferene 7 4 ‘ smothe r of professors being supplied to the dif of the e.ersities in either end of the island, and seeing that the re s . P ! titi `ms presented to the House on this subject. not thir i i T h re are against the removal of these tests, he did 1 .0 .th a os t .ethey ought to feel themselves called upon to da rt), from safeguards which the wisdom of our ancestors ablished for the protection of the Church. rOlsp r a few words in explanation from Sir. HUTHER- Ar CHRISTIE thought that the proposal of the Right b e c f e 'nser for Perth was too reasonable and moderate, to e eri o e leated f or any length of time by resistance from any Go th•iebsient• He trusted that the conduct of the Government, in the a", at ter, would have the effect of uniting all seceders from te e , ',arch and Dissenters in a comprehensive agitatio . n . againt aPplication of all religious tests in all u niversities. It 1 1 7,- out been denied that the law . imposing those tests test) b " been complied with, and that in Edinburgh those . ; were not applied. The Lord Advocate had rested his Q ta nce to the rnotion on the ground that no grievance ,`sheen proved eal to result from those tests. But, could he y good had'resulted from . them ? In Edinburgh ei r ise t i' L l tY. where they did not exist, had any injury been . the re uY the non-application of them . ? In that . university tire s w , ere many professors who had been Episcopalians at the sni e l:' their entrance, and probably were so still. He ite; Mention the professor of logic, Mr. Hamilton, 1:,‘"„ rers Professor Wilson, who had both graduated in the i tt . t .: it e of Oxford, and the professor of mathematics Of 't he Edinburgh University was a clergyman of the Church iatr edo 4 od,. and the Right Honourable G . entleman who w ore uced this motion stated that the universities of Scotland f Oef ort l i a great degree dependent upon the . universities o Nots „ T an d Cambridge for professors of classical literature. eatr est -h est those learned men performed the duties that were 14 4 th ed to them with fairness and ability, what necessity K ett ere to inquire into their theological opinions? He re- Iteir es . that the Right Hon. Member for Perth had excepted 4 th.'r , of theology from his motion ; for, judging of matters so 7e . Y_ .hew presented themselves in the universities , he must tei;i i n if they could trust them as teachers of literature, they etifo_tltrust them in matters of theology, without any of . these aseoLtests. Those tests only strengthened religious disunion hte t ie we ali parties in Scotland: and he trusted the time was at Si r ge neo all such restrictions would be abolished. tie e - ". CLERK was not surprised at the speech of the to4nourahle and Learned Member, though not immediately tie J l eted with Scotland, inasmuch as he had a motion of E ri e ,Paper for the abolition of tests in the universities they t g i lls& The question really at issue was this; . were bee ° maintain the principle which, on every occasion, had that °red upon throughout the United Kingdom, namely,. the E s . C oanecting the universities, through the medium of t u tablished Church of the country, with the State. I estabel that principle that the University of Dublin . was site es _ s ited, and it was upon that principle that the Univehr ekt4 Scotland were established. He knew of ne tena d le Nated u Ptal which the removal of those tests could . be a - f S tott at a time like the present, when the Universities o l'een ktkl . were most anxious to maintain them. Much had Ce e laid about the secession which had taken place in the h ed r eo of Scotland lately, but he did not believe that it Nose g°ne to the great extent which bad been represented, te es these tests had been enforced in several of the Ulmer . - teed r 150 sears. The subject had been carefully investid c Y a Commission, which made its report in 1813 ; an he , o temission had even recommended that the tests should sit rigidly enforced than they had been. The Commis thee rred to fe e l very s t rong ly on the subject ; stating, as , that no measure could be adopted which would be te e J v ejudicial to the interests of the Universities than th e "loch tended in the least degree to dissever them from erei oi slablished Church. Some years after, a Commission rep ort visited the University of Aberdeen, made a similar a' Under these circumstances, why should they be called t t o ,, °take a step which would necessarily weaken the existing ~ttectiott? They were told that a considerable number of of Y et ainent persons had left the Church of Scot and, many , wh o seli e „ , rt t had held professorships in the Universities. He ts•en that there were many eminent and zealous Presby tada;:'„wllo had been members of the University of Oxford, very l u of course as such signed the Thirty-nine Artie es. of lieilearned judge in Scotland was, he believed, a member o ti l e ti College. It was here sought to alter a fundamental ' W hich hsi the S t° l6 l Union. He did net say that everything, to-- (He le r, teen done n 1707 ought rigidly to be adhered t,,hority i n s e te ar) ; •-ht st they ought at least to have high.au ° mal e ' av ow' before they made this alteration. he b e ii; % ; rl l of the petitions from Scotland were, proposal. e l d f against the Right Hon. Gentleman's en t n eecat . e contended that they ought to have a most un ing l e - Uoit ex pression of opinion before they consented to its t ells for It must b e reco ll ecte d t h at t h ere wer e n o religious ties ; ;he admissi on o f stu d ents i nto th e S cot ti s h Universi thren;l3l were they, because the Scottish Universities had Whi ch _toeil: donna oen to students, to sever the only link ke tohi rnained to connect the religion of Scotland with the coe s i e t vned Church? He, therefore, called upon the House to in 'ee how far itwould with the principles and feel je e t th NI A e Established Church of Scotland, from which the tif "on. Gentleman had seceded, but to which the majority hi s Peopl e of Scotland were still attached. He should give It/ u.sldecided opposition to the motion. to eic e .utA.NNERAI AN thought that the Government ought .e", otland the Bill to be introduced and printed, so that the people en;eio , might have an opportunity of expressing their Pon It. He would vote for the motion of the Right etober for Perth. Iroe,e l A, CKENZIE was at a loss to understand upon what l llttie e ,: this snotion was brought forward. It could only be gel l ; e "Y a unanimous demand from the people of Scotland. the out beard of such demand, and he would oppose r eet ,any e p' °° ;,. 14 M. STEWART considered that it was a great Part courtes towards the people of Scotland on the litttj, 'lie Government and its supporters , to give a direct ne al4 to the measure of his Right .Hon. Friend. The test, the t 4had beer, so long inoperative, was now ,Scotland e enforced, t he ,„ — Y e xcluding twO-thirds of the people of from Il le4 B ,'„tion of teachers in the Universities. He was himself kei t° th ose who had been compelled to leave the Establishment 4 t rei •i a la the F ree Ch urc h, but he would never lift his hand b i gh t , his voice to iniure the Established Church. He had s4 ten i b j e d his privilege a a patron with a view to support the sise r -s "ed Church. - He urged the House and the teee-tuaent to allow this Bill to proceed, and to Pie es !" people of Scotland an opportunity of 4'.0 % their opinions upon it. On the other side of the itself 44, n , ‘e ,!w-born zeal in favour of the Union had displayed h ZS e p .eet Zl t e h h he had in vain invoked w last yeareto he ee Bill, not but ..Intreatede. opposition which offered!erasno opp opposite' to allow the 17'11t° R 0 th the Right Hon. Gentleman len t rough the first reading, and thento e t . ° ' the pe_pr, le of Scotland upon it. (11 -QUHOUN would not have addressed the House - es 1 su bject had he not ,,,,aos er „ . once had the honour to occupy an alel s situation in a Scotch University, similar to that 1 44 h e -a5 wow held by the Right Hon. Gentleman opposite; e as ver anxious lest the vote he was aboutt g I n," 1 4 1. 1 1 „ e u e misinterpreted. One thing had been admitted Zi a tia:Qat the discussion by all the Members who had spoken. 'ea exceptio n they all said that it was necessary to have lehe test' • Universitieswell as in the Eng ti„, in the Scottish as eeiet,'"versities in order to prevent the professors . of a t es lld conn ' ected with the State from becoming declaimers 41:4 stators e against a Church also connected with the State. Nati lt in i gnt Hon. Gentleman had proposed to substitute a t se. teat, for the positise test at present provided by the ft ° , l : 11,, N TW, the Hon. Member fur Leith, the Hon. Member ;tiler and other Hon. Members who had spoken on the 'etes e tLe had told them that they never touched..the Pr . es t by- t tiven:eourch of Scotland without doing it eh injury reh 4e re t i d art Episcopalian Parliament meddled with he Chu sic"a d W ithout • it harm ; and yet the Right . Hon. doing titlerl 11 % t 4 wished tion by displac them to deal with this ques f •l ,!le old test for a new one. He would be prepared to o Right Hon. Gentleman's lead if he could show an y 1 te _eit i tt Per secution, or wrong, or grievance. Many cases had ;elt e l e e 4 , but there was no instance of any one who had been ' 4l be th" They had heard of one of the most Eminent _ is test. I.,tedford!ebolars of the Universi t of Oxford (Sir D. K. to a chair at Glasgow. Who had been . removed ent members of the University Ultroi.u, heard of eminent t 1 " 141 h rt °l4e, who had been elected to in Edinburgh. All these e _vte N sense was the case gen aes were Episcopalians—they made no secret of . t . their 4 0, 4 a y n e s s— e t hey continued in the free exercise of their religion, •Ntt them was not applied. It was natural etsit titer the re th t e tes . t te x ment which bad existed in Scotland • 11r,11iwR polenleanl excitement should arise. The case of ate, v ewit Why, it appeared that the eso er was mentioned. t o et that the Presbytery 1 St. Andrew's could do would be ee etp ,_ . o would not ' v ie 'rctloicate him, a sentence which probably y h olm upon' but they could not remove him 11 Il ls Pe r • him. his office of Principal of the to o•easorsh, or from . teo eeeit of StAgain, the Right Hon. Gentle diejtatio . Andrew's . ord Rector of Glasgow, had proposed to hold a „at h 4 0 and some member of the Senate had defied bim, e nad iteld his visitation. They had threatened him erie, e ohollid not be Lord Rector, he had threatened them t t o o i ae e .'; tt t.v'ells before Parliament. He had carried his threat . into g s 1 I°ll th e y had been able to do so by their threat._ onnot 'l 4 .. t if se: a ' these tests were merely used to prevent scientific p e - -rs from in •n I theological discussion, s pe ws e mixing unseemi g y haran uing on 4 ' r e , rs lo m from going about g the subject of them but the ''nutch, he could see no harm in retaining Of . 4 T shouldsalon, or instrument of oppression, t , t fi, rt , ever be used as an , ittle "oal persecution, then he should be of opinion el ad that the t litlei sh come for re-considering the Act by which they were h t ate ete . e d• He thought that if the Right Hon. Secretary of & I rk e s :7, 0 opinion that the introduction of this Bill would do i'd t , be se P resbyterian Church of Scotland, and that it ought " est est ion d dispozed of, he was perfectly right in having ismi •• d sse at once. it,Pstati h ad thought th at a ll t es t s , suc h a s those to which riv "4Q been made in th e debate, ought to be abolished. t t Possible to know what individuals this test had '" ‘#SliVeriities of Scotland were national tions for the education of all classes of the people, and when they considered the change which had taken place lately, by which two-thirds of the people of Scotland had separated from the Church, it b Tame the more necessary that some change should be made in these tests. Such a change would tend to do away with religious animosity, by educating the children of parents of different sects together. The subject was a most important one, and he agreed with the Hon. Member for Renfrew, that the Government ought to allow the Bill to be introduced, so as to give the people of Scotland an opportunity of expressing an opinion on the subject. He should support the motion. Mr. FORBES could see no good reason for the introduc tion of this measure. Throe or four years ago there were large bodies of Dissenters in Scotland, but neither the Right Hon. Gentleman, who Has then in office, nor the Hon. and Learned Member for Leith, who was then Lord Advocate, ever thought it necessary to bring forward any measure of this nature. He had been recently in Scotland, and certainly he had not heard any desire expressed for such a measure as that proposed by the Hight Hon. Gentleman. He trusted that the House would reject this motion which had been submitted to them. Mr. F. MAULE then rose to reizly. He must say that if the question of tests could meet with no better defence than that which it had received from Right Hon. Gentlemen and Hon. Gentlemen opposite, he thought he might anticipate the time when tests—he meant tests upon lay professors—would be abolished. He confessed that he was somewhat surprised at what had fallen from the Hon. Baronet opposite (Sir G. Clerk) with respect to these tests. The Hon. Baronet said that these tests were so slight that any respectable mars might take them, even though he differed entirely from their plain interpretation. Now, if these tests were so slight, he would ask, what was the use of maintaining them, or what protection did they give? But, however, he did not look upon them as being so slight. A member of the Church of England, by ac cepting the professorships which Mr. Sandford and Dr. Lushington held, were obliged to sign a confession of faith to which they did not belong. He was surprised that such a man as Dr. Lushington could do this, and it was the fact of his havin g done so which made him (Mr. F. Maule) b elieve that by encouraging such tests they were encourag ing a system of immorality on the part of those who ought to be an example to the country.—(Cheers.) He believed that if this Bill which he proposed had gone down to Scotland, that petitions innumerable would have been sent up in its favour. In refusing to legislate upon this subject, they might depend upon it that they would do more injury than good to the Church. He felt that it would have the effect of establishing rival Universities and seminaries to a great extent, which would be attended by the youth of Scot land, although those seminaries might not have the privilege of conferring degrees, while those seminaries which could confer degrees would be conducted by pauper professors, and attended by very poor students. Strangers were then ordered to withdraw, and the House divided, when there appeared— For the motion lOl Against it Majority against the motion —27 The announcement of the majority was received with loud cheers by the Opposition. A RCHDEACONRY OF ARMAGH. Viscount EISRINGTON then rose to move for the produc tion of certain papers connected with the Archdeaconry of Armagh. The Noble Lord observed that up to the present time the Government had taken no steps whatever to carry out the recommendations of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for the dissoiution of unions, and the appointment of a clergyman in every parish wherethere was a benefice. The intention of the late Government had been to do away with the monstrous anomaly of one clergyman holding livings in several parishes far distant from each other, and they had acted up to their in tentions as the unions happened to become void. if the pre sent Government declined to interfere to abate such nuisances, it - would be his (Lord Ebrington's duty to take further steps in the matter. The condition of the Archdeaconry of Armagh was this. It contained two parishes covering a surface of nine miles by four and three quarters. It contained 11,500 acres, and the total population of the union was 16,393. There were churches and glebe houses, and the income of the two parishes, enjoyed by one person, was stated in the report of the Commissioners at 1,6421., though he admitted it was now re duced to about 9001. Why had there not been a severance of the parishes, forming this union when an avoidance had taken place? He admitted that in the case of the deanery of Meath, the Government had acted on the principle laid down by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, and ordered the severance of the parishes forming it. This, however, he must observe, had been done since he (Lord Ebrington) put his notice of motion on the books. The importance of the case he wished to ob serve was in the principle, and since the present Ministers had been in power the dissolution of unions of parishes had been the exception, and not, as with the late Ministers, the rule of conduct. Lord ELIOT said it was true that, in 1831, the Ecclesias tical Commissioners had recommended that a division in unions should take place, v‘ith a view to the better apportionment of clerical duty and a juster distribution of patronage. At that time the income of :this union was 1,6001. per annum, but by the provisions of the Church Temporalities Act, this was subject to a charge of 14 per cent., and its present amount did not exceed 9001. Such an income his Noble Friend the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland had thought not too much for the dignity of Archdeacon, and he had therefore not thought it his duty to interfere in the matter. But when an avoidance took place he had taken care to appoint a person most amply quali fied for the discharge of the important duties attached to the living. This was the Rev. Mr. Stokes, who, he could assure the Noble Lord had not been selected for any political partizan ship, but for his acquirements, for his character, and for his peculiar fitness for the duties of a Christian minister. He thought it was only strict justice to adhere strictly to the recommendation of the Commissioners; and he could assure his Noble Friend opposite, that no man was so anxious as he was to carry out all the previsions of the Church Temporalities Act, but there was now under the consideration of her Ma jesty's Government a measure which would tend to cause a better distribution amongst the clergy of the Church revenues, and therefore he thought it would be more wise of his Noble Friend to defer his motion for a Committee on this subject. He should not object to giving his Noble Friend opposite any papers in connextion with this matter, excepting those of a private and individual nature. After a few observations from Mr. Moss, Mr. Shaw, and Viscount Ebrington in reply, the motion was agreed to. SINKING FUND. On the motion of Mr. HUME, the following returns were or dered.—Return of the several amounts which were appropriated in each year since the passing of the Act of 1780 Mr. Pitt's Act), to the creation or support of a Sinking Fund, with the authority for creating and appropriating the same ; exhibiting from year to year the capital and interest thereon ; also, state ment of the amounts of capital and interest which from year to year were applied out of the said Sinking Fund to the pub lic service ; stating for what particular service, with the autho rities for applying the same, up to the period of the final ex tinction of the Sinking Fund. Mr. P. S. BUTLER moved for returns of the sums of money demanded by the clerks of the peace in the different counties and counties of cities in Ireland, to remunerate them for their additional services under the new Arms Act. Of the sums of money approved of by the different grand juries of Ireland for (het purpose. Of the number of arms registered in each county. Of the sums of money demanded and allowed as above to the different clerks of petty sessions under the above Act.—Agreed to. Mr. FRENCH moved for several returns relating to new r ov The on w H o o r o k . ho G u e s o e t s le i a I r o el a s p n o d k and t t h a e otn P ° e el;w Commissioners. between the appointment of E n g lishmen to various offices in n i a gt h the spopti England and Ireland. itut he would suggest that ld not inclu Sir J. GRAHAM said he had no objectdioenthtooothame emotion b u l t a h o e d l . rish paupers who had beer, shou removed from England to Ir e- Sir R. PEEL was sorry that the Hon. Gentleman eg em v an a b r a d d t a o gai adverted to the injustice done to Irishmen va rious offices which he had mentioned. He thought there was no ground whatever for his observations. If preference were likely to be be shown anywhere, it was, as he thought, in the diplomatic appointments; yet, what was the fact? The repre sentatives in this country, in the United States, in China, at Constantinople, at St. Petersburgh, and at Paris, were all Irishmen.—( Heer,f hear.) Thus again. The Comman der of the Forces both in this country and in India, was an Irishman. He thought there could not be more conclusive proofs that there was no intention whatever to do injustice to Ireland. The Hon. Gentleman, however, might depend upon it that the Government would not be influenced in their appointments by observations like those with which he had accompanied his motion.—(Hear, hear. ) The motion was then agreed to. Mr. BROTHERTON must move the adjournment of the House. He would not trust to the chance of another Irish debate to-night.—( A laugh. ) POOR-LAWS (IRELAND). Sir D. NORREYS assured the Hon. Member that his motion was not opposed by the . Government. He moved for a Select Committee on poor- laws in Ireland ; and an in struction to the Committee relative to valuations for local taxation in Ireland. Mr. F. SHAW was sorry that the Government had con sented to the Committee. In two-thirds of the unions in Ireland, the law was working well—in the other third, in consequence of persons agitating against the law, it was not, per haps working so well, but the appointment of this Committee would be comsidered in Ireland as a prelude to the repeal of the law. Mr. FRENCH denied that he had ever agitated against the law. He had never opened his mouth on the subject of the poor-law, except in that House. Mr. BELLEW believed the law had, on the whole, worked satisfactorily, and wished to know to what objects the Com mittee were to direct their attention. Mr. BROTHERTON moved that the debate be adjourned. Sir R. PEEL, before the question was put, thought that, in order to do away with any misconception which might arise in Ireland from the consent of the Government to the appointment of this Committee, it was necessary that he should distinctly state that it was the opinion of the Government that the poor- law in Ireland ought to be strictly maintained in its whole integrity. —( Cheers. ) They had done all they could to maintain it by the civil power, and by having recourse to military power where that was necessary. If they acceded to the appointment of this Committee, it was not with any intention of defeating the working of the law ; but seeing that there were objections made to it, which they considered unfounded, and seeing that the law had worked well in many parts, he thought that either party might be reconciled to it by inquiry. It was not always wise to compel obedience to the law by force, if by granting inquiry it could be proved to those who were opposed to the law that the working of it was advantageous.—(Cheers.) The object of the Govern ment in acceding to the appointment of the Committee was not to disparage, but to fortify the poor-law. Col. CONOLLY thought the alterations made in the law last year would work well, and he was backed in that opinion by the Luke of Leinster. He besought the Hon. Baronet to postpone his motion for twelve months, in order to see how tbose alterations would work. Mr. V. STUART advised the postponement of the motion until next session. Mr. FRENCH hoped the motion for adjourning the debate would be withdrawn. The motion for adjourning the debate was then withdrawn, and the Committee was agreed to. Mr. AGLIONBY moved for. the appointment of a Com mittee to inquire into the state of New Zealand, consisting of the following Members:—Lord Francis Egerton, Viscount Howick, Mr. Lascelles, Mr. George W. Hope, Mr. Robert Clive, Mr. Hawes, Sir R. H. Inglis, Viscount Ebrington, Mr. Charteris, Sir John Hanmer, Mr. Milne', Viscount Jocelyn, Mr. Roebuck, and Mr. Wilson Patten. Mr. M. O'FERRALL objected to the mode in which the Committee had teen appointed as improper and unusual. After a few words from Lord STANLEY and Mr. AGLIONBY in explanation, the Members of the Committee were appointed, the orders of the day were disposed of, and the House adjourned at Half-past One o'Clock. DETENTION OF THE OVERLAND MAIL: . The following is posted at Lloyd's : " General Post-office, April 30, 1844. "The Overland mail, via Marseilles, is detained. Letters in time till the 6th of May." by of I ter last kr•) le to' it as thel sub' and 3cot inkY their er of o late must THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 1, 1844. NOTICE TO MARINERS. SAILING DIRECTIONS FOR THE RIVER ELBE. In the copy of these directions, which appeared on the 18th of April, one or two errors occurred. First section, in stead of "You will then shoal the water gradually, from 5 to 10 or 9 fathoms," read "from 20. to 10 or 9 fathoms." Lower down, sentence commencing " * The pilot galliot, when vrepther permits, lays E. by S.E. two miles," rod " gag. tr 9 MAGAZINE DAY. BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE. The opening article in the present N amber is on the subject of the " Increase of Crime"—an increase which the writer with cool impudence attributes to the Liberals, observing They shut their eyes to this, because it affords a sad illustration of the effect of their favourite theories, which for a quarter of a century have been, under the direction of her Ma jesty's Ministry or her Majesty's Opposition, in al most ceaseless operation." Now, it happens that the party whose principles are thus boldly stated to have increased the amount of crime in the country, have invariably made every effort in their power to dimi nish it, I;3T the prudence—the liberality—and the en lightened character of their views. Who first pro posed to relax the demoralising severity of the cri minal code ? Who first softened - the atrocities of the game-laws ? 'Who first advocated a system of general education, and strove to enlighten the masses on the subject of their political privileges ? Who, but these maligned Liberals, who are yet taunted by Black wood with having swelled the amount of crime in the country ! The great,:unquestionable parent of crimi nality among nations, as among individuals, is igno rance; and if a vast mass of this still exists among us, the Tories—and the Tories only—are to thank for it. The writer goes on to observe :—" Govern ment, meanwhile, albeit fully aware of the danger, is not sufficiently strong to do anything to arrest it." There is some truth in this, for Sir Robert Peel, notwithstanding he has a majority of ninety at his back, and a Cabinet crammed full of aristocrats, is powerless, apparently, for any purposes of good. He has just strength enough to keep himself at the helm, and that seems to be about the extent of his influ ence. " Rhine and Rhinelanders" opens with an in flated panegyric of the picturesque beauties of the Rhine. The theme is an intolerably hacknied one, and has employed the pens of one half the scribblers in the three kingdoms. Every one now-a-days rushes across the Channel, to take a peep at the over rated Rhine, but few ever dream of exploring the more inland beauties of our own Thames ; and yet from Henley to nearly Oxford, passing through the King's Meadows at Reading—under the wooded groves of Sunning—at the foot of the cliffs at Cavers ham, and the lawny slopes and springs of Cliefden, there is scarcely another river in Europe so rich and luxuriant in its scenery as this calm and majestic stream. " The Monster-Misery of Literature " is a clever quiz on the prevalent taste for novel-reading, which the writer says, and with truth, has infected all classes of the community. In " Indian Affairs" there is a spirited defence of Lord Ellenborough from the opposition which he has encountered in almost all quarters. " Much of the hostility directed against him," we are told, " is owing to his resolute emancipation of himself from the bureaucracy of secretaries and members of council, who had been accustomed to exercise control over his predecessor." Are believe there is much truth in the remark. From Marston, or the Memoirs of a Statesman," we sub oin a sketch of the hero's interview with Robes- pierre : On reaching the barrier, we turned off to the quarter of the Luxembourg, and stopped at the gate of a mo derate-sized house, where my conductor and I entered. I was shown into a small and simple room ; where I found a man advanced in years, and of a striking aspect. He said not a word. I had no inclination to speak. The one or two hesitating syllables which I addressed to him were answered only by a bow and a look, as if he did not understand the language ; and I awaited the ap proach of the terror of France, and horror of Europe, during half an hour which seemed to me interminable. The door at last opened, a valet came in, and the name of " Robespierre" thrilled through every fibre ; but, in stead of the frowning giant to which my fancy had in voluntarily attached the name, I saw a slight figure, highly dressed, and even with the air of a fop on the stage. Holding a perfumed handkerchief in one hand, which he waved towards his face like one indulging in the fra grance, and a diamond snuff-box in the other, he ad vanced with a slidinf , step ; and after a sallow smile to me, and a solemn bow to the old man, congratulated himself on the " honour of the acquaintance, which he had been indebted to his friend Elnathan for making, in my person." I was all astonishment—l had come in ex pectation of receiving my death-warrant--I had a recep tion like an ambassador. I naw perplexed myself with the idea that I had been mistaken fin. some stranger in the foreign diplomacy ; but I was instantly set rigt by his pronouncing my name, and making some allusions to " the influence of my family in the British Parliament." Yet, I was still in the tiger's den, and I expected to feel the talons. I was happily disappointed ; the claw was sheathed in velvet. A slight refection was brought in by an embroidered domestic, and it was evidently the wish of this tremendous demagogue to appear the man of refinement, at least in my instance. "My friend Elnathan," said he, " has informed me that you wish to return to England ?" This was pronounced in the meekest tone of interro gatory ; and, with eyes scarcely raised to either of us, he awaited my confirmation of his idea. It was given unhesitatingly ; and my glance at the eountenance of the old man was answered by another which told me that I saw the correspondent of my friend Mordecai. " The circumstances are simply these," said the Dic tator, in the same delicate tone ; the Government has occasion to arrange some matters of importance with the British Cabinet. The successes of the Republic have raised jealousies, which it is for the advantage of human nature that we should reconcile if possible. France and England are the only free countries ; their hostility can only be injurious to freedom." He paused, and his cold grey eye, after crossing the floor, was slowly raised to me. I admitted my perfect agreement in the opinion, that " wherever national conflict could be avoided, it was the business of all rational men to maintain peace." I saw a grim smile pass over his sallow features, probably at s trßiothgb into hador e embarrassmentar the marked k e, e rd Jew's g fi hra having found ano th er d upe. El nat h an sa t i n p ro f oun d silence, without a musc l e move d . tookdiat. address, w l r • H o eh m sei portfolio n a haonhwdihis had shp oa habitual gt u iaoatlargely,l overletter, thatandan put strange , sw n t with a considerable expre ss i on o f aut h or i ty . "The English Government," sa id h e , "h ave expresse d some unnecessary uneasiness at th e p rogress o f op i n i on nervous nessc in Europe. The late victory, which has decided the fate of the Austrian Netherlands, will probably increase that uneasiness. Communications through the usual channels are slow, imperfect, and open to espionage on all sides. I have, therefore, applied to my friend Elnathan to point out some individual in whom he has perfect confidence, and through whom the communication can be made. lie has named you." Of the i t li o 1 " k S e C e p E u L p L Ah his story " Scattergood Family" with spirit, though we must Albert B Sm E i N th T m L a E n Y ag ' e S s object to the present portion of it, that some of the incidents are too much spun out, as if for the mere pur pose of filling up space. The most vigorous scene in the chapters before us is the account of the street row between the boys of Merchant Tailors' School and those of Chrisallospital, and the running away of Young Frederick Vincent from the latter establish ment, from a natural disinclination to be flogged. The description of his night wandering through Ep ping Forest, and of the visionary horrors with which he was beset, while bivouacking in the hollow of a large beech tree, reminds us of the free and eas y man ner of Captain Maryatt. The " Omen" is a pass able poem, in which an attempt—not remarkably suc cessful—is made at the facetious. " Visit to Sand wich" is a minute and circumstantial account of one of Queen Elizabeth's numerous visits to this decayed and old-fashioned town, then a place of some copse; quence. In a short paper, entitled " Indian Luxuries, the author furnishes us with a plesant description of some of the daily annoyances, arising from the exces sive heat of the climate, to which English residents in the East are at all times liable. His details of the incessant activity and perseverance of the insect tribe, who in India are in season all the year round, by no means prepossess us in favour of that much belauded country. The " Vetturino" is a continuation of an amusing prose tale, whose scene is laid for the most part in Switzerland, that was commenced in last month's Miscellany. A little judicious abridgement would not have misbecome the present chapters. The " Sportsman's Fireside" is a lively, good-humoured, domestic sketch, by an author who signs himself Paul Prendergast. The " Fatal Mark" is a story of deep tragic interest, whose leading incident—namely, that a young French officer marrying a beautiful girl, whom, immediately after his nuptials, he discovers to have murdered her first lover, and to have been branded on the shoulders by the common executioner —might be turned to some account at one of our minor theatres. Mr. Murray's " Physiology of London Life" is rather languid and heavy this month, compared with some of the former chapters. The best passage in it is the brief but forcible sketch of a London l i thunder-storm. " Mike Leary" is a whim sical extravaganza, told in a delicious Irish brogue. Mike, it seems, was a " broth of a boy," who dwelt in one of the wildest parts of Ireland ; and one fine evening it came to pass that a strange black gentle man paid him a visit at his solitary cottage among the mountains. This stranger was no other than the Devil, and his host no sooner discovered his quality, than he slily made him fast by the tail to a nail in the wall, and then ran off at a break-neck pace for the priest. On the latter's arrival a diverting scene ensued, which we give in the narrator's own word s:— " Whin they reached the house, a very spate sane of confusion they saw. The chairs looked as if they 'd been havin' a deadly battle wid one another, for legs and arms were strewed in all directions ; the table had gone clane mad, and had cut its capers till it fell down all of a heap ; a whole side of bacon was br'ilin' on the fire, and the devil had basted it wid the frying-pan. The tief had taken one swate pig by his purty little tail, and broken its nose against the wall, and had clawed the ear of anode,., and swallowed the whole ; but, worso than all, he had danced upon the whiskey-Cask, and smashed it to smithereens ; but the rearin' lion didn't forgit first of all to dhrink the whiskey, and a blind man o l n V l h y in sa A i l d ik t e o s h a w i m s a e l l l f th , l is, ,m he th d i i n a k n i ' n t ~s A p f a i k s he te a r w ij o i r v d i 4 might have see n th a t th e b as t e was r oarin' dhrunk. t h h e a " t ye 'll be afth er payin,' for yer sport.' I " The moment Mike and the praste intered, he was quiet as any helpless lamb ; he shluuk into the corner, I like a well-whipped - cur, and - would have put his tail betwane his legs, only he couldn't. " Ho ! ye re here, are ye ?' says the praste. " Not a word did the divil reply. " The divil's in it, but we 'll find manes to make ye spake !' and says he, Mike, be afther givin' me some wather and Make gave his riverince the wather, and his riverince blessed it, and turned it to holy wather intirely, and thin his riverince dipped his hand into it, gave the divil a taste o' it ; and didn't it go into him like scaldin' broth ; be dad, but it did ; and how he roared, and how he groaned, while Mike and the praste larfed outright, and well they might. " 'Now, thin, ye brimstone-stinkin' baste ! what have ye got to say for yersilf ?' " The unfortunate divil could only groan. Wid that the praste give him a taste more of the wather. " Spike, and be damned !' cried he. 'lt 's yerself that shall remimber comin' to Ballyhaugh.' " The poor divil managed to squake out,--' Let me go ! let me go ! arid I 'II be on my oath niver to come widin fifty miles of yer riverince "' Ye will?' said his riverince; yes, I dare say ye will; but, do yer think I'm such a faol as to take a divil's oath? not I. I'll have yer bond; yes, yer bond, Misther Divl, and brake it if yer dare.' " The divil signified his willingness to comply wid any tarms to get free. Mike wanted to try the effects of the shillelagh on his skull, but the praste would'nt have it all; he had no objection to taze, but he didn't like committin' murther ; besides, his riverince had an eye to business, for he knew that rootin' out the divil, like oder ill wades, made work. " Mike, by the praste's desire, produced a skin, and his riverince sat himself down to write, and he wrote an agramint as long as a homily. He tied the divil down in all sorts of ways niver ag'in to show his nose in Ballyhaugh; there was all sorts of curses and anathemis, and the like; and he made the divil promise to ate him silf up if iver he broke his bond. The like of this writin' ye won't often meet wid. When it was finished, he gave it to the divil to sign, and what should he do to make the barg'in more bindin', but open a vein, and write his divilish name wid his blood. " And now,' said he, to be sure, kind sir, ye'll be afther lettin' me go? Come, undo the halter, for I assure you it begins to make me fale rather -oncom fortable. "' To be sure! to be sure!' says the praste, and wid that he wint behind him, pertindin' to undo the halter; but, faix! he took up his chopper, and wid one clane blow cut of the tip of the diva's tail. Sathan gave a bellow that would have quieted a thousand big roarin' guns, and widout so much as sayin' good night to ye, bounced through the winder. The noise the divil made drove Mike against the wall, and quite stunned the poor lad, but nothin' the baste could do - had any effect on his blessed riverince, who cried out, ;as the divil flew away, " Hal ha! me boy, there ye go wid yer tail off; but niver mind, there's plenty o' places where they retail bad spirits,' and wid that his riverince picked up the tail, and he and Mike made thimselves comfortable, and ate their suppers quite well.' " Now, then," continued Tim, " I've only to tell yer honours that the blessed jewel that ye've been favoured wid a sight of, is the very tail that the devil wore whin he visited Mike Leary on the night o' the famous storm. And, can yer honours concave anythin' m•re precious and beautiful. Here it is, and here it shall be as long as the world stands. " I'll just conclude by tellin' yer honours what became of Mike, and the praste, and the other paple. To begin wid the halter; by express desire, it was sent to his holiness at Rome, and his holiness was so delighted wid it, and so sure that it would put him into the right road, that he hung himself wid it. What became of the divil I have niver exactly larnt, but 'tits quite sartin that since that night he has'nt been so free wid his personal visits, and much more particular in the company he kapes." NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE. The " 111-Humorist" is an entertaining quiz on John Bull's well-known prope n sity to grumble, no matter how little cause hemay have for querulousness. " To be abusing somebody or something th e li ve -l ong day," says the author, " is an enjoyment not to be dispensed with by those who have once tasted it; and the abuse highest in favour is that which comes in our way most frequently, and affords us the greatest number of occasions for exhibiting our spleen. We have known a man keep a three-legged stool in his study, for no earthly purpose but to knock his shins against and to swear at. Upon the same principle, many people keep cats and dogs in their houses, that they may have something to execrate for every broken saucer, and to cuff and kick whenever they meet it on the stairs." Humorous as this passage is, it is still full of truth, as every one's experience must con vince him. " The Robertses on their Travels" is a sketch by Mrs. Trollops, and possesses much of her breadth, coarseness, but, at the same time, masculine vigour of touch. The " Gladness of May" is a pas toral that makes its appearance just at the right sea son. The versification is correct, and in places spi rited, but there is a little too much about " zephyrs," " love," and " flowers." We have a surfeit of such sweets. In the late " Prince Talleyrand" we find accounts of this veteran statesman's conversations respecting the once-popular quack—and necromancer, as he was considered at the time—Count Cagliostro, and Voltaire, the keen, restless, and malignant ex pression of whose eye the Prince describes with great exactness. These Talleyrand papers are adroitly worked up, but we suspect that they must not be al looked on as gospel truths. The facts related in them must be taken cum grano salis. The " Bit of Pre ferment" is a bold, dashing sketch of character, by a contributor who adopts the quaint soubriquet oiPeter Priggins. " Deceased People whom we meet Daily" is an exceedingly lively little essay, containing several home-truths, expressed in a sportive vein of raillery. In his poem on " Lachrymose Writers," Mr. Horace Smith, very justly denounces the folly, the puerility, and extravagance of the writers of the Sardonic Byronian school, whether in prose or verse. Fortunately for the interests of our national litera ture this school is nearly, if no t quite, extinct. " Milicent, or Summer and Winter,'' is one of . Mrs. Gore's entertaining fictions. It is entitled a love story, and would have been more effective had it not been quite so sentimental. We subjoin Mr. Kenney's sprightly poem on " Mrs. Hope, the Fortune-teller :" Mrs. Hope, the fortune.teller, Call'd on me wh en I was young. e you," she cried, " will be a dweller All the great and wise among. On your shoulders fortune thrust is— Honours mole than I can tell"— Mrs. Hope, to do her justice, Really talks extremely well. a First, she cried, " Y ou ' re dev i l i s h c l ever , forFPeulsththel fame ure laurels and deck my pocket br pe ow lf,_ Write a play and l ay for ever Billy Shaksp eare on the shelf. " 'Twas done—th e curtain rose, I near l y Deuce a bit, I wish sincerely Mrs. Hope had heard the row. Eloquence, at her suggestion, Conscious too that I possess'd, I, on some important question, Soon the sovereign mob address'd. Strange to say such storms assail'd me, Showers of worse than hail or rain, All my elocution fail'd me— Mrs. Hope was out again. Whisp'ring then my wondrous merit Claim'd at court a leading place, I at length contrived to ferret First my Lord and then his Grace. Much they said conceit to soften — Promises they made a few — Mrs. Hope, great people often Humbug fools as well as you. Oft she vow'd the sex adored me, Conquering all where'er I chose, Husbands, lovers, tho' they bored me, Ne'er could such a smile oppose. Yet I scored by wives and misses, When I came to count my game, Quite as many kicks as kisses— Mrs. Hope, oh ! fie, for shame Wedded bliss, she now reported, I should taste serene and true ; Trusting still, I proudly ,courted Quite a stylish black-ey'd blue. Though the fair could not refuse me, What the sort of wife she made, If you wish to know, excuse me— Mrs. Hope's a cursed jade. Thus with endless tarrididdles, Still th e gipsy wins her wa • ), Gulls us all, and fondly wheedles Shallow pates l i k e mine astray. Fame and Fashion thus allure us Lions, lords at routes to meet, Then blue devils come to cure us— Mrs. Hope is fairly beat. Yet, old girl, on recollec.cks tion resent, Why should I y .our tri Since I've form'd a new connexion— That sweet modest maid, Content. Weary now of you and blarne y, Snug with her I dwell secure, In my little chambre garme— Mrs. Hope, votre serviteur. AINSWORTH'S MAGAZINE. The intrigues and ingenious disguise s by w hi c h Mastam contrives to outwit the Duchess of Marl borough, and procure the restoration of Queen Anne's favour towards him, are cleverly described in the present chapter of the Editor's " St. James's ;" but we must protest against one portion of thi s in cident—that, namely, in which the footman S ne ll, dressed up as Masham, deceives in broad d a yli g ht, and while standing close beside her, the latter's inamorata, Abigail Hill. No woman who really loved a man, and who had seen him not once but a hundred times, could have been so deceived. "An Ode-let to Master Izaak Walton," is a sort of pas toral panegyric from the pen of John Hamilton. If poem is pleasingly we except, here and ther e, some quaintnesses and waffrietctt:nti.onsßuotf thee expression, of then,the old cockney fisher man is much too e xaggerated. Isaak Walton was by no means the meek, pure, simple creature that it is now the fashion to represent him ; on the contrary, he was as sly, shrewd, and oily a man as ever perhaps existed, - and never failed, in his peculiar unobtrusive manner, to look sharp after his own interests. " A Few Passages on Dreams," is an agreeable, gossiping, little essay by Mr. Charles Oilier, who alludes to some of the most remarkable dreams recorded in ancient history, but makes no mention of that re lated by Cicero —to the effect, that a man once dreamed that a friend and neighbour was murdered, and his body hidden in a cart which was standing at the door of a particular house. The dreamer started up in a fright, dressed himself, and the instant day broke hurried to the house indicated in his vision, and there, sure enough, found the cart, and buried in it, beneath a heap of dung, the body of his murdered friend. This dream is perhaps the most remarkable on record, and Cicero expressly states that he had it on the authority of the dreamer himself. " There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamed of in your philo sophy." In the " Elliston Papers" we find a curious account of an epistolary squabble between the great lessee of IDrury-lane and the still greater Edmund Kean, when the latter first arrived in London, and was anxious to try his fortune as a tragedian on the boards of a metropolitan theatre. Elliston's lofty disdain and Kean's bull-dog independence are very amusing touches of character. " Oriana and Vesperella" is a sort of allegorical story, the drift of which, will not we fear, be sufficiently obvious to magazine readers. The following graphic little poem (a portion of which we quote) is from the pen of Mr. Charles Mackay : Alone, amid a million souls, Round him the tide of people rolls ; • But lora and desolate is he, None heeding what his lot may be— A drop of water in the sea. , 'Mid all the crowds that round him swarm ; He feels for him no heart will warm ; There is not one that knows his name, Or cares to ask him whence he came ; His life or death to them the same. The rich man's chariot passes by, And lacqueys with a saucy eye, From outside plush, and inward meals, Grin at him, as the rattling wheels Splash him all o'er, from head to heels. He walketh on, a friendless boy, With much of hope, with little joy ; Elbow'd fur ever by the proud, As if they grudged the room allow'd To this mean mortal in the crowd. On through the busy mass he goes, But whither bent he scarcely knows ; Through lane and street, and park and square, And looks at wealth he may not share, Though he is hungry and half bare. For him amid these houses small— For him amid these mansions tall, There is not one, where he could go, And say, " I am a child of woe, To cheer me let the wine-cup flow." No ; he is friendless, and alone— • To no one are his sorrows known. His hope, or, joy, or g rief, or fear, There is not one, would care to hear, Or say the word, " Be thou of cheer!" And evil thoughts will sometimes rise, When flaunting wealth affronts his eyes ; Envy, perchance, and discontent, That he into this world was sent— No good with all his evils blent. "No good?" saith he. " Ah, surely wrong; Fresh health and youth to me belong; And from endurance I can learn - Still to endure and never turn From the high thoughts with which I burn." And still within himself he says, " Each man must pass his evil days— Each man should suffer ere his prime, If up the world's high steeps he'd climb, Some grief to fit him for his time. " I am not all alone nor sad, The face of Nature makes me glad, The breath of morn, the evening's sigh, The contemplation of the sky, That fills my soul with yearnings high. " The leafy glory of the woods, The rushing of the mountain floods, The wind that bends the lofty tree, The roaring of the eternal sea, — All yield an inward joy to me. " I find a pleasure in the sight Of meadows green and corn-fields bright, I find a pleasure in the lay Of birds that hail the breaking day, Or warble to the moonlight grey. " If no man loves me, Nature's voioe Is kind, and bids my heart rejoice; The path I go, true souls have trod, I will look upwards from the clod, With a firm heart, and trust in God." And thus he walketh, hour by hour, And day by day, and gaineth power Over himself, and worketh still, Through storm or shine, through good or ill, The one good purpose of his will. TRADE WITH FRANCE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. Sir,—lt is not our province to take part in public dis cussions upon questions of political economy : but we are compelled, in self-defence, to refer to the letter of " Publius," in the Times of this day, on the subject of " Trade with France," which is made the medium of an unwarrantable attack upon us. " Publius" is, no doubt, an interested party, who, under the shelter of an anonymous signature, would fain serve himself and other holders of French brandy. To do this, he adopts two means—argument, if his writing can be so called, tending to a reduction of the duty on French brandy, and thereby to enhance the value of that article in bond ; and abuse, applied to British produce, with a view to creating a greater demand for the foreign. He, and those interested with him, or whose feelings he is engaged to represent, may justly feel alarm at " the continually declining quantity of French brandy, which pays duty for consumption, in the face of a constantly increasing population ;" and, having little regard for truth or consistency, it is not to be wondered at that, in the spirit of unscrupulous advo cacy, he should assign any but the real cause for such decreasing consumption ; or that he should attempt to put down successful competition, which is the real cause, by vulgar abuse, Indeed, so reckless is he, that, not satisfied with an onslaught upon British distillers, he even assails the whole medical and chemical professions. The simple truth is, that the constantly increasing demand for our patent brandy has made an important inroad upon the trade in foreign brandy ; and that this, with the adoption of our patent metallic capsules, as an effectual security to the public against the fraudulent substitution of inferior spirits, has occasioned the utmost uneasiness in those who deal in foreign brandy. That "Publius" is what we have described him to be there cannot be a doubt. lie asks for a reduction in the duty on French brandy, not for the benefit of those con sumers who will, at any price, indulge their taste for " the finest Cognac;" but for the pnrpose of effecting "a conciliation of the powerful agricultural interest" of France. Generous cosmopolite ! lie is eager to uteri • five every native interest (except that of the holders of French brandy) at the shrine of foreign prosperity. What to him the grain of England in competition with the grapes of France ? If there be sorrow in our farm steads, will there not be joy in the vineyards abroad ? " Although our farm is not mentioned by name, yet, as our patent brandy is the produce of British grain" — as the trade description of it comes within the scope of "high-sounding titles"—and as its healthfulness and genuine purity are borne out by the " testimony of scientific men," it is barely possible to suppose that "Publius" did not intend, and deliberately perpetrate, a personal attack upon us ; or that the passage referred to has not been, more or less, applied to us by your readers, and the public generally, many of whom are unpossessed of the absolute merits of the case. We maintain, Sir, and we have the most incontro vertible evidence of the fact, that our patent brandy, distilled from British grain, is a purer and more whole some spirit than Cognac or other French brandy. This has been ascertained by the most careful analysis, made by chemical professors whose names rank with the most eminent in the world—by "scientific men," who were unquestionably paid, not any agreed sum, as is basely insinuated by " Publius," for the purpose of influencing their opinions respectively, but according to the charge made by them, for the time and professional skill bestowed upon tile inquiry, as a physician, a barrister, or any other gentleman, would be paid for first-rate pro fessional services. That the opinion of such a person as " Publius " would conform with that of any purchaser, at a given price, we have no reason to doubt. On the contrary, we believe him to be a commodity for any market—at present disposable by the holders of foreign brandy. But "the gall and wormwood" to "Publius" is, that the genuine and decided testimonials in our favour have had their natural effect upon our sale. They have led to the use of our patent brandy by an immense number of private consumers, among whom the greatest men of the day might be named ; and to its being prescribed daily, in preference to French brandy, by the highest medical authorities at Guy's, St. George's, and the Westminster hospitals ; at the Manchester, Bristol, and Brighton infirmaries ; and, in short, at the principal hospitals and public institutions in England. Free from the acid inseparable from French brandy, and from its astringent nature, we challenge competition at home and abroad ; and whilst we thus tear away the mask from " Publius," controvert his statements, and re pudiate his conclusions, we say at once, that fear of com petition does not for a moment influence us in writing this letter. The fashion for the use of French brandy is rapidly passing away. British science and British en terprise have succeeded in raising the produce of British grain far in intrinsic value above that of foreign grapes; and however much the duty on foreign spirits may be re duced, we are confident that such a reduction will not prevent the continued increase of demand for our patent brandy.—We are, Sir, your most obedient servants, J. T. BETTS, Jun., and Co. 7, Smithfield-bars, Friday, April 26, 1844. TIIREE LIVES LOST.— On Wednesday last, a powerful steam boiler, employed by Messrs. Ilipkiss and Green, brewers, at Olwinsford, btourbridge, suddenly burst, and destroyed everything around it. Three indi viduals were killed; and Mr. Green was severely scalded. The anniversary of the birth of Shakspeare was celebrated on Tuesday last, at Stratford-on -Avon, by the annual dinner of the Shakaperian Club. The attendance was not numerous, and it was stated, has been diminishing gra dually fir seTeral years pmt. TUESDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE. \VAR-OFFICE, APRIL 30, 1844. BREVET-Commissions to bear date April 30. To be Lieutenant-Colonels in the Army-Major T. Ryan, 50th Foot • Major E. W. Bray, 39th Foot ; M a j or G. L. Christie, 3d Foot ; Major J. Stopford, 40th Foot ; Major M. Barr, 29th Foot ; Major P. J. Petit, 50th Foot; Major H. llavelock, 13th Foot ; Major C. Van Straubenzee, 39th Foot. To be Majors in the Army-Captain P. M'Kie, 3d Foot; Captain F. Coddington, 40th Foot; Captain J. B. Oliver, 40th Foot; Captain A. W. F. Somerset, Ist or Grenadier Guards ; Captain M. G. Nixon, 39th Foot ; Captain W. L. Tudor, 50th Foot. To be Lieutenant-Colonels in the Army, in the East Indies. Major H. C. Barnard, 51st Bengal Native Infantry ; Majer J. G. Drummond, 6th Bengal Native Infantry ; Major H. Dick, 51st Bengal Native Infantry ; Major 0. Phillipps, 56th Bengal Native Infantry; Major H. Earle, 39th Bengal Native Infantry • Major W. Mactier, 4th Bengal Native Cavalry; Major W. Garden, 36th Bengal Native Infantry ; Major E. J. Smith, Bengal Engineers; Major J. Nash, 43d Bengal Light In fantry; Major W. Geddes, Bengal Artillery ; Major T. San ders, Bengal Artillery ; Major 11. J. White, 50th Bengal Na tive Infantry ; Major C. E. T. Oldfield, C. 8., sth Bengal Light Cavalry ; Major J. Alexander, Bengal Artillery ; Major J. T. Lane, Bengal Artillery. To be Majors in the Army, in the East Indies-Captain P. Grant, 59th Bengal Native Infantry ; Captain B. Browne, Bengal Artillery; Captain H. M. Graves, 16th Bengal Grena diers ; Captain C. terant, Bengal Artillery ; Captain B. Y. Reilly, Bengal Engineers ; Captain F. Brind, Bengal Artil lery ; Captain H. Clayton, Ch Bengal Light Cavalry; Captain R. J. H. Birch, 17th Bengal Native In fantry ; Captain H. J. Guyon, 31st Bengal Native Infantry ; Captain J. Saunders, 50th Bengal Native Infantry; Captain J. H. I%l.Donald, Bengal A r till ery; C apta i n G. Camp bell, Bengal Artillery ; Captain R. Cautley, 10th Bengal Light Cavalry ; Captain R. Smith, 28th Bengal Native Infantry; Captain Peter Innes, 14th Bengal Native Infantry; Captain Philip Harris, 70th Bengal Native Infantry ; Captain C. Ekins, 7th Bengal Light Cavalry ; Captain N. A. Parker, 58th Bengal Native Infantry; Captain F. R. Evans, 26th Bengal Native Infantry; Captain J. G. W. Curtis, 37th Bengal Native Infantry; Captain T. Young, 2d Bengal Grenadiers; Captain G. Ralston, 58th Bengal Native Infantry. Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire. Denbighshire Corps of Yeomanry Cavalry-H. Jones, Esq., to be Captain, vice J. Peers, resigned ; R. Lloyd, Gent., to be Cornet ; W. Rowland, Gent, to be Cornet, April 18. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. Easter Term.-Seventh Victoria.-April 30. This Court will, on Thursday and Friday, the 9th and 10th days of May next, hold sittings, and will proceed in disposing of the business now pending in the Special Paper and New Trial Paper, and in giving judgment in cases previously argued. By the Court. WHITEHALL, Arati. 25. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Henry Bunny, of New bury, in the county of Berks, Gent., to be a Master Extra ordinary in the High Court of Chancery. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. WILLIAM GIBSON CLIFT, coach broker, Chapel-yard, Cross-lane, High Holborn. BANKRUPTS. JAMES MACLEAN, carpenter, Somerset-street, White chapel, to surrender Mav 11, at two, and June 11, at half-past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Frederick's.place, Old Jewry ; Burnell, Fenchurch-street. SAMUEL WILCOCKSON, linen draper, Chesterfield, Lancashire, May 14, and June 5. at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Pott, official assignee, Manchester ; Hard wick and Davidson, Weavers' Hall, London ; Sale and Wor thington, Manchester. CHARLES JOHNSON, lime dealer, Rochdale, May 11, at eleven, and June 4, at one, at the Manchester District Court. Stanwav, official assignee, Manchester; Woods and Jackson, Rochdale ; Norris, Allen, and Simpson, Bartlett's buildings, Holborn, London. CHARLES NICHOLS, bookseller, Wakefield, May 11 and June 6, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Fearne, official assignee, Leeds; Willis and Co., Tokenhouse-yard, London ; Taylor and Westmorland, Wakefield. GEORGE FREDERICK WRIGHT, innkeeper, Iron bridge, Shropshire, May 18 and June 8, at eleven, at the Bir mingham District Court. Whitmore, official assignee, Bir mingham; Clarke and Gosling, Austin-friars, London; Marcy, Wellington ; Slane}, Birmingham. JOHN PERRY, maltster, Birmingham, May 11, and June 5, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. Whitmore, official assignee, Birmingham ' • Suckling, Birmingham. GEORGE EDWARD PHILLIPS, saddler, Plymouth, May 13, and June 6, at the Exeter District Court. Herne man, official assignee, Exeter; Elworthy, Plymouth; Stogdon, Exeter ; Surr, Lombard-street, London. JOHN PEMBERTON, soap boiler, Leeds, May 11, and June 1, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Hope, official assignee Leeds; Williamson and Hill, Gray's Inn, London; Bond, Leeds. GEORGE MORREY, publican, Stratford-upon-Avon, May 9, and June 8, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. Bittleston, official assignee, Birmingham ; Robinson, Ironmonger-lane, London ; Stringer, Stratford-upon-Avon. JOSEPH GOULD, cheese factor, Sheen, Staffordshire, May 10, at half-past twelve, and June 7, at one, at the Bir mingham District Court. Christie, official assignee, Birming ham ; Smith, Birmingham. NOTICES OF INSOLVENCY. T. S. Robinson, publican, Great Neston, Cheshire. E. Isl. Shaw, Manchester. W. H. Bagnall, watch maker, Bishopsgate-street Without. F. N. Bracher, schoolmaster, New Sarum, Wiltshire. M. Fothergill, attorney-at-law, Pontefract, Yorkshire. W. Dennis, joiner, Nottingham. J. Standen, block pitcher to a calico printer, Salford. J. Pagden, London-road, Southwark. A. Benjamin, dairyman, Gravel-lane, Hound:ditch. G. Carreer, edge tool grinder, Sheffield. M. Piebble, tallow chandler, Strood, Kent. W. Swann, fish merchant, Great Yarmouth. W. Barthram, livery-stable keeper, Raven-row, Mile-end. J. Luckett, coffee-house keeper, Adam-st. West, Marylebone. J. Thompson, veterinary surgeon, Aldborough, Yorkshire. J. Garrett, licensed victualler, Cock-lane, Shoreditch. W. Curran, stevedore, Liverpool. G. P. Trounsell, Lieutenant, R.N., King's Kerswell, Devout. R. A. Jefferiss, butcher, Newington. J. Bonny, tailor, Liverpool. W. Cornhill, coffee-house keeper, Coleman-street. R. Hamm, carpenter, Bedford-street, Tottenham-court-road. W. Ellerson, horse dealer, Eynesford, Kent. E. Baker, publican, Lawrence-lane, City. W. Coningworth, sen., purser R.N., Agnes-pl., Waterloo-rd. G. Chamberlain, carpenter, Praed-street, Paddington. J. Shepherd, cabinet maker, Guisbrough, Yorkshire. J. Bryden, commercial traveller, Manchester. T. Close, druggist, Halifax. J. Hall, farmer, Bubwith, Yorkshire. R. H. Hoskins, public-house manager, Liverpool. T. Ingham, farmer, Luddington, Lincolnshire. D. Evans, coach spring maker, Liverpool. J. G. Hatcher, coachmaker, Toubridge. G. Baker, jun., ironmonger, St. Alban's-place, Edgeware-rd. J. Willey, grocer, Sheffield. W. Marsden, table-knife manufacturer, Sheffield. G. How, butcher, Hammersmith. C. Collins, saddler, South Ilincksey, Berkshire. J. Black, labourer, Horwich, Lancashire. J. Naylor, hosier, Liverpool. I. F. Coyle, Alexander-square, Kensington. L. Alman, musical instrument seller, Bristol. F. Mitchell, cab proprietor, Bride-lane. T. Smith, gun maker, High Holborn. J. Aspinwall, warehouse-salesman, Manchester. A. Aspinwall, tobacconist, Manchester. W. Newman, builder, Hammersmith. J. Collins, toy-dealer, 131ackfriars-road. H. Davis, governess, Gloucester-place, Portman-square. SECOND NOTICES. S. Cumberland, clerk, Arundel-street, Strand, May 6, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee. J. Claridge, butcher, Oxford, May 6, at half-past eleven, al the Court of Bankruptcy. Turquand, official assignee. J. Weston, innkeeper, Colnbroek, Bucks, May 6, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, !official assignee. J. Perry, livery stablekeeper, Lant-street, St. George the Martyr, May 8, at half-past twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee. S. Webster, Spring-place, Paddington, May 8, at half-past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee. C. Malvern, broker, Southampton, May 8, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee. R. D. M'Manus, surgeon, Wilson-street, Gray's Inn-road, May 9, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee. W. Godwin, linen draper, Providence-row, Hackney, May 8, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee. G. Fox, beer-seller, Thomas-street, New Kent-road, May 8, at half-past one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee. F. Rumble, artist, Pavilion-place, Battersea, May 8, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee. J. Goodson, plumber, Royal Oak-place, Eaton-square, May 11, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee. A. Soulby, clerk, Blackwell, May 11, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, official assignee. W. Pett, farmer, Minster, Isle of Thanet, May 11, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee. E. Bosworth, beer-seller, Paget-place, Waterloo-road, May 6, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Turquand, official assignee. C. Kempster, Upper Barnsbury-street, Islington, May 6, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Turquand, official assignee. G. L. V. Grey, shoemaker, Leman-street, Goodman's-fields, May 6, at half-past twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Gra ham, official assignee. J. Bell, gardener, Norton, Durham, May 6, at twelve, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne District Court. Baker, official assignee. W. Bell, greengrocer, Stockton, May 6, at half-past twelve, at the Newcastle-upon-'f yne District Court. Wakley, official assignee. J. Ingram, author, Greenwich, May 6, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Turquand, official assignee. E. Boothroyd, Huddersfield, May 4, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Hope, official assignee. T. Odeland, millwright, Bath, May 6, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Kynaston, official assignee. T. Thompson, farmer, Birmingham, May 7, at twelve, at the Birmingham District Court. Valpy, official assignee._ at W. Pugh, grocer, Wednesbury, Staffordshireyi half-past eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. Ma Christie, official assignee. at eleven, A. Balfour, beadle, Liverpool, May 3, pool District Court. Bird , official assigneoxt at the Liver . 1 Dividends, &0., in our ru, .] __.--,..____________ LAW INTELLIGENCE. SHERIFFS' COURT, April 30. (Before Mr. Unde,r hef KENNEDY and a Common lury.) 7 SEI C I N -13A TINES V. MILLS. 1 -S co rit This was an action broug ht b y the p l aintiff , William B arne s, an engineer. in the employ of Sir John Rennie, against Frederick M ills, his ne p hew, a cabinet-maker, re siding in Drury-lane, to recover compensation for the sedue tion and loss of the services of his daughter. The damaves were laid in the declaration at 1001. _ _ Mr. NASH ' in addressing the jury, said the pres e nt case was one of the most painful that had ever been brought in a court of justice, and a most heartless one on the part of the defendant. The plaintiff was a man in a humble station of society, with a family of six children, four of them girls, the unfortunate object of the present inquiry. being the eldest, depending upon his exertions for support. The defendant was the son of plaintiff's own sister, a young man, who, instead of ruining his cousin, ought to have been her pro tector. He (the Learned Counsel) would not dilate . upon the conduct of the defendant, but leave the jury to judge of it from the narrative he would lay before them, and the evi dence in support of it. The Learned Counsel then detailed the circumstances, as afterwards brought forward in evidence. Miss Mary Ann Barnes, an artless, simple, but pretty young girl, was then called, and depesed as follows :—My father's name is William Barnes, and he resides at No. 11, Longstaff. buildings, Great Guildford-street, Southwark. lie is an en gineer at Sir John Rennie's. The defeltiale knowndlan.t,t'redeokl Mills, is his nephew and my first cousin. aboutibree years, and during that time he has dresses to ins. From the first time I walked with I remem ber to marry me. That was two y-ears t ago month the de fendant 11111181" h; August of last year. On the 15th of t t o ha niarr me on the came to me and said he intended_ e had been walk. morrow. He further said that be thought w ing longlenough, and it was time that we made matters up. He should furnish a room, as he had money sufficient to bny the goods,- and would get me to mind them for a fortnight, when he would then be married. I told my parents, and they consented to my going to mind the apartments, which were in Thomas-street, Stamford-street. They were furnished , and the defend an t came to see Inc daily, and left at eleven o'clock at night. There was a mutal agreement between us that he should take no liberties with me.—(A laugh.) For some days he made n o a tt empt to b rea k t h e agreement, b ut on the Saturday night he wished me to allow him to sleep with me, but refused, lie then will sleep with the tiro girl I b r s u toe the I'ollowin~ day I consented. cn a ae : : : ll l l(a , ii,taii( 4 pi,7nr l afo r stnti t tianrics O tid l n l acifyr ( s i dt o eole, r n wmet o inesi t iir , nsi:: l l he brought hi.s sister to tea with went to Chelsea, but on reaching Westininster-bridge coining back, he left me to some home by myself. .1 saw him the next morning (M on d ay ) , an d up b ra id ed him for his conduct. He promised to come in the afternoon, but he did not, and I did not see him . again. The following Thursday I was ill bed, when the defendant's mother and sister, with a porter, conic to take away the things. I.got up, and defendant's mother said to the porter, "Drag, away the things; never mind her." The landlady of the house, pitying me, sent to my parents, and they took me home. About the beginning of October, and after the action was brought, I met Mills, whilst coming home from work. He came up to me crying, and said the action was a bad job. It began to rain, and we went into a tavern. Whilst there, he said he would marry me if I would go down to Gravesend with him. I consented, and we went' the next da y . We stayed there ten days, and on returning we went and lived in Marylebone.:l stayed there five weeks, at, the end of which I had nothing to eat or drink for three days, as he refused to give me any money. lle said I must go horns, and I went, my parents having again consented to receive me. Whilst at Gravesend, defendant said, "Now I have settled all your law proceedings, and you and your may father's lawyer go to the devil ; and that if his (the solicitor's) name was Game, and he was game be nature, he should not game hint out of anything."—(Laugliter.) Die reason for not going home when I came front Gravesend was not being married. I was afraid. The Witness, in continu ation of her evidence, stated that she was in the habit of earning' money at, her needle, and also that she had the management of the younger members of the family. Mr. Nash was about to call other witnesses, when 'The Learned UNDER-SHERIFF, finding no one for the de. , fonlant present, thought it was unnecessary to call any fur ther evidence. He then addressed the j ur y, an d sa id that everything was admitted by the defendant except the amonnt of damages. It was a very serious case, and it was 'for the ,jury to say what compensation the plaintiff was entitled to for the loss of the services of his daughter. The jury consulted for about a minute, and returned a ter diet for the plaintiff—Damages, 1001. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. On Monday, Eh:aleth Cole, who has long been known at the Justice room as a woman of most idle, drunken, and disorderly habits, was brought before the Lord Mayor charged with having smashed a pane of glass. It was known that she takes a fancy to a niche in Bridewell occasionally for a month or two, after she has been tumbled about the streets in her passage from one public-house to another; and when she was put to the bar, the complainant stated that she dashed her hand through the glass as if she bad been accustomed to such pastime, and when asked why she put a tradesman to expense and annoyance, " I:3e-cause I want to go home to Bridewell, to be sure. If I knock at a door they pay no attention to me, and therefore I just tap at a window, and that brings 'em out immediately, so that if I don't chose to walk, which I seldom do, they are obliged to take me home to Bridewell in a cab." The LORD MAYOR—We certainly ought to have some way of making what you consider a pleasure a punish ment. lam obliged to acquiesce in your desire to be committed to Bridewell, The defendant—That's where I want to go. lam tired of cutting about the streets with nothing to do. It's all the same thing every day. lam devilish fagged at it, I assure you. The Loan MIYOR—You shall go to Bridewell for a month. The defendant—Say a little more. As much as ever you can. Hang it, stow me up for the three months. you can do that, 1 know. 'The LORD MAYOR—I shall not gratify you. The defendant—Then I'm blest if I don't just tap at the window again when I come out. The LORDMAIOR—I shall not send you for three Months, nor even for one month. I can, by shortring the duration of your imprisonment, cause some dinunu- . tion to be made in your diet. You shall go to Bride well for fourteen days upon short commons and hard labour.—(Laughter,) The defendant—There's no use in that, for I have no great appetite. The LORD MAYOR—We shall try it, however. •• The defendant left the bar in a fury, and was COM mitted accordingly for fourteen days. A gentleman came to the Justice-room to make a complaint against a publisher of an illustrated journal in the French language, containing woodcut representa tions calculated to excite ridicule against the Christian religion. He considered it necessary, he said, to keep the name of the publisher private, lest the offensive work might gain a large circulation amongst those who de rived amusement from such exhibitions ; but he did not himself justifi e d, having seen it publicly exhibited for sale, in not informing the highest authority in the City of so serious an offence against morality, and against the law. He had entered the shop for the purpose of expostulating with the publisher, who, the moment the matter was complained of, offered one of the numbers for sale. 'The woodcut to which he particularly alluded. professed to represent the Conversion of St. Paul, and was, in an extreme degree, in his opinion, calculated to give offence to the followers of the Christian religion. It was suggested to the applicant by Alderman Wm sofa, that if he intimated to the Society established for the purpose of putting a stop to publications of such a description that such a trade was carried on by the per son complained of, immediate steps would no doubt be adopted to prevent its continuance. -, John White was charged with stealing a chest of tea, the property of Mr. Williams, of Beer-lane, Thames street. It appeared that the prosecutor had sent twenty-font chests of tea to the Custom-house quay, on Saturday last, in order to their being conveyed to Holland per the Batavier. The carter who had them in charge stopped on his way for the space of three or four minutes at a house in the neighbourhood of Thames-street, and upon returning to his cart he missed one of the chests. In the meantime a young man named Slator, who did busi ness in Mr. Williams' establishment, observed a man carrying a chest of tea, and suspecting that he bad not, come honestly by it, he pursued him, and upon turning the corner of Beer-lane he observed him handing it to the prisoner, whom he immediately seized and gave in custody to a policeman. The chest of tea found upon the prisoner was that which was stolen from Mr. Wil liams' cart. • The prisoner, who was stated to be an old offender, was committed to Bridewell as a vagabond for three months. CLERKEN WELL. Tin: LATE ABDUCTION CASE. William Burton NrwenAart was brought up on remand, charged with the abduction of Frances Louisa Wortham, daughter of Mrs. Wortham, a widow lady residing in Gerard-street, Coburg-road, Islington. Mr. Southee was for the prosecution, and Mr. Humphries for the defence. . The Court was still more crowded than on any former casion. Every partpart of it was thronged to inconvenience. The first witness examined on this occasion was Mr. Ham mond, a solicitor, residing in Furnival's Inn, but his evideitc• was not important. Miss Wortham was also re-examined at some length, but nothing of material interest wm elicited. The prisoner was again remanded for further evidence of a technical nature. WORSHIP-STREET. William Holes, Joseph Prior, and Robert Thompson, three athletic voung men, were charged, before Mr. Bingham, with been concerned with several other men in assaulting and attempting to drown four policemen of the N division, by throwing them into a branch of the river Lea. Several witnesses were examined, from whose evidence it appeared that, on the preceding afternoon, four policemen of the N division, named Rogsdale, Farrell, Quinlan, and Hali fax, being off duty, agreed to make a short excursion on the river Lea, and hired a boat for that purpose. They proceeded up the river as far as Tottenham Mills, where they discovered that their boat had sprung a leak, and tilled so rapidly, that they made towards a small islet, called " Horseshoe Peint,' order to bale out the water. While they were so engaged, the prisoners came up in a boat, in which there were also several other men, and, on observ ing the policemen, who were all dressed in uniform, they immediately assailed them with a volley of abusive and threatening language, and, at length, rowed towards the bank, with the intention of giving them "a b—y goo d towelling." After leaving their boat, they advanced to wardshallcnged to fight, and, on the policeman, whom t hey c a t t , e t r ru t c o k eb theel quietly o a g y s , da t e, e p r i so ner Thompson instantly being requested by the and ttiliireoaptr,iasolindetrbHreowl nhieismaity same e n i t l c e m e n se to lted hint thestre stream the which divides the islet from the land. The rest of the party on i(t.f)nhillgiFiseir:esc't°lbcnwaCieji:lekloe;Ciletesi e sc t a i re s r ‘ o l a sc i l l t en n e t i b i ts :l si c i . it i a r ' g en a ley o s o s u ' a t 'l i s' i o r a e f a l e : t t it s l l 3) l , i e (t' t ka l i N l t - r e a e l( t il e P e andt o l o o ee l n: o g . w at ai lti e e n e r r :- . of secured, tti::tri:estcobta. t r l g ie e, g t at he lg p t: i e so tre n a e t r ec s i a b t a ti c r k t to their boat, caon;nl:4oaTteman:OYf.having committed the .first a s ggi a l u s s io ed n, t b he y statement, s did not know and said th a t th ey were so "luhv" at the time • p u e ia lt t i them ng with st on e s , b ut t fteprirds retracted the/ they they a what they were about.. Mr. 14sGttam , aid that, the case was one of far too serious a nature to be s y disposed unaril l of, and he should,t hPr*• fore, submit •it to the decision of a jury. The prisoners were committed for • THE iEws' IlosriTAL..—The annual dinner of this Charity took place last evening, at the London Tavern. liishopsgate-street. About 200 0 - entleinen were present. The chair was filled by Martin T. Smith, Esq., in the Monne of his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, from indis position. ('race was then said by one of the readers, in the Synagogue. " The Health of her Majesty the Queen," soil the customary toasts on public occasions, were then &IveP successively, and duly honoured, The principal toast of the evening, "Prosperity to the Jews' Hospital," was then„given. The objects of the Society's bounty were introduced to the company. Those employed in learning handicraft. trades, each carried a specimen of his work, which was inspected by his friends and patrons during their progress round the room. The Chairman, in proposing the toast, stated in a few w ords and for the of the aged poor of the .hiwish persuasion,_ ____ the design of the Charity, which was instituted for the relief educe tion and employment of the youth 'of both sexes.: The.to,4l. sum subscribed to the funds, during the evening, amounted i • to 'upwards of 1,0001. ... ._ M ELANCHOLY ACCIDENT: OH Friday afte rnoon; as one of the labourers in the em pl o y ment of Messrs. co w n a d gg o an ne s ama Up with waggons— the first one in Th oms on and Son, contractors at White lash, was en d:atothoef the se gr eat violence, and jammed the poor fellow .betitiut ieavvogursiundgateeni u nhook n stopped,hook them, whereby he was instantly crushed to death. • Wye understand that the unfortunate man's name was Rodger BrnAlly, and that he has left a' widow and two ebildriU to lament his loss. Immediately on the iteeidetit occurring, all hands dropped 'work; and the majority df them showed their deep feeling for their unfortunate neighbour by. accomp an y ing his corpse k o m e to fartietr t . . —Citasgow Post. , . Ell