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THE LONDON JOURNAP. IIATILVVI FROM TME D.ll4l' ' MORNI N G PAPERS, July 4, 182. [muTISII PRESS 3 The House of Commons did not sit yesterday, • in consequence ; of the w ant,of attendance of the Tequisite_ number cif- Members at four o'clock; Mr. Western was thus deprived of the opportu • nity of rnovin3r, a series Of Resolutions, of -which fin hacl given notice. They are descriptive of the distressed state of the agricultural part of the -country-:--the" effects Of the altered state of the currency—the general amount of taxation — and the -relative situation of the public creditor and, the public, under such altered state of the currency. These 'Resolutions are derived from . the' Agricultural Report, and the debate upon • ,Ahem will be r in fact, a-debate upon the state of [NEW TIMES.] new writing , our yesterday's article on the new scheme bi'Church Robbery, we have acci dentally met with the account of Benefices, Churches, and Chapels of the Establishment, which was laid before Parliament by order of his IliajeSly (then Prince Regent), in- 1818; and as it tends to ,exhibit in a striking light the utter ignorance of a writer whom the Morning Chronicle applauded as " displaying prodigious knowledge and research," we Shall not hesitate to make a,.few quotations from it, and to compare' them with the statements in the paMphlet.—l. The Panwhleteer says, " according to the last Diocesan' Returns to Parliament, there were Churches and Chapels of the Church of .Englatid, and . 3338 of other persuasiOns.— Now.the return lying before us,, dated February. :16,1 818, contane the exact number or Churches -and Chapels of the Establishment 'very sepa rate Diocese ; and' tliere are actually more in the two Dioceses of Lincoln and Norwich than this learned man allows fcir all England and Wales!!! Lincoln - Churches - - 1,303 'Chapels - - 76 ,;*. • Norwich - Chin - Hies . - 1,167 Chapels - 31. 2,577 ---The whole number for the Twenty-six Dio ceses is 10,192 Churches and . 1,551 Chapels, Making together 1,1,743.-2. In` order to make up a round number for the basis of his calcula tions, the Pamphleteer says—" by computing 67 for new Churches, since the retarn, including those already built with , the million voted by Parliament for erecting. Churches, of the esta blished faith,. the nuMber of 2,600 is made out." Now it appears from what we have already stated, that in this liberal calculation there is only a trifling error of Nine Thousand One Hundred and Forty-three !—" Prodigious knowledge !" Vast research !"—Why, this beats the arithmetical blunders of Joseph Hume, who mistook - Seven Millions for Seventeen.-3: This- worthy Gentleman talks of English Churches as he might of the Pagodas in Tibet, from some strange book that he had read.— " There are," says he, " 10,500 livings, com pressed into a small number of pluralities, With 2,600 places of worship." 46 Any num ber of Clergymen may have appointments in a Church, and even perform some little ditties there, to save appearances !!" . And this is his hypothesis to account for the fact, which he collects, 'we know. not exactly whence, that there are 17,343 "working Clergy." Now, the real fact is, that there are 10,421 benefices, which have 11,743 places of worship ; so that the ,places of worship, instead of being 7 3 900 less in number than the' benefices, are 1,322 more in number. That there are some pluralists among - the holders of these benefices is certain ; and it is easily . accounted. for from the fact, that of the whole number of 10,421, there are no less that 3,503, which do pot exceed 1501. Per annum; and 2,274, which do not exceed 1001. But the six or seven Clergymen who crowd round a: _:Parish Church, and " perform . some little duties" in it " to save appearances," are plurakists of quite a novel order and descrip tion. SeriouSlY, is it not lamentable to see such egregious blunders, such monstrous absurdities, gravely advanced to the world as reasons for the robbery and, impoverishment of a whole clasS of society ? .And then, that a Journalist„ a daily , enlightener of the:British should take up this nonsense, and assure his readers that it is knowledge—" prodigious knowledge!" There is one afinfort,hOwever; the'same person who lauds Mr. Cam' Itobliouse's financial' ability voucheS for the accuracy, of this outrageously blundering patriphlet. .We at leaSt knoW what such praise is worth.. , [THE TIMES.] We have no courage to dwell upon the details which we publish from Ireland.. The suffering' continues: and What is Neat suffering? It is What those to whoa' we address our supplication hive never felt; and oh, may they never feel it ! the, agony of hunger unappeasable—but by. death. Take. but one sketch from one' single cabin :—A father and Mother, and nine infants, all perishing together, for the want of food ! God of mercy ! the mother and her babes, and the dying father and husband, an helpless convulsed witness to the more than mortal ruin. This, too, but one scene from : . , tens of thousands ! History his nothing like it : no heart of flail and blood but Mist sicken under the conception of it. Well was it said the.other night, that relief to the remnant of that expiring race is no longer charity=it is the' most sacred of all duties. The guilt of refuSing bread to these our gasping fel- I:ow-creatures is - inexpiable. It is not Selfish.: ness.—it is not .robbery;, it amounts almost to murder of the most intro' an kind—a delibe lite consignment of an entire people to pangs, more ten;ibie than barbarism ever invented, 9r,-. vengeance indicted on a fallen enemy.— This is not a call upon the humane and ge nen:ins .for a surrender of superfluities alone : comforts must be not sacrificed,. but .shared with the destitute, .whom Providence has Stricken-- 2 7 inloart,it may be, as a trial of ourgrati; tulle for that exemption..froni present evil With which, if weyCbie wanting, He may not favour O. us for another hour. *re trust that requisitions, earnest, urgent, and universal, will be instantly carried to every door throughout the metropolis. Let the Clergyman himself of every parish be foremost in this mission of piety and peace. Ir4re are nonenot the first Dignitaries of the Church of England—too high ; for the beneficent office none, we do.hope, among l'he chosen Servants of ii / eligion, who would unworthily •shrink feom rousing the indolent, rebuking the sordid, and blessing the truly, bountiful in such a - cause: While we hesitate to succour them, they perish., [MO RNING CHRONICLE.] We received the Paris Papers of - Monday last night by express. They contain the answer of the King of Spain to the message of the,Cortes. An article headed Odessa, from the Allgemeine Zeitung, gives a striking picture of the spirit which'now pervades the Greeks. Nothing, in deed, is so' astonishing as that this singular people should still preserve so much of the character for which they were noted in their best days, not withstanding all they have suffered from the brutal barbarians who have been so long encamped in their country. During the strug gles of the last forty years,' the Suliots, Sphagits, and several other bratiches of the population, have repeatedlY distinguished them- selves by the most heroic achievements. Their skill and bravery, as sailors, must excite univer sal astonishment ; and as nautical excellence is impossible without a commercial navy, .which the Turks are wholly without, it will be difficult, if not impossible, for the latter ever to cope with thertf'successfully by sea. It would appear, from an article in the Constitutionne/, that there is still -much mystery and inconsistency in the conduct of the French Government with respect to its sa nitary or incendiary system. Switzerland has also embarked deeply in the Custom-house war fare with France. This matter may yet, as. we ob served, have.serious results'. The commercial in tercourse of a population not inferior to that of England, namely, that of the two banks of the Rhine, cannot be abruptly interrupted without great evil being produced. If these protectors of agriculture and manufactures were capable of profiting by; experience, they might see that Switzerland and Saxony, which have always been free from all commercial restrictions, vie with England in many branches, both of manufactures and agriculttire, and are altogether far superior to' the rest of the Continent: [MORNING HERALD.] One of the most sensible speeches we have read for a long time, was that of Mr. Robinson, in the debate of: Tuesday night, on Mr. llob house's-motion' fora Repeal of the Window Tax. In contained, much Matter in a few words: He .condemned the system of Loans, and said that it Would havebeen - much better, on the part of our ancestors, had they.raised the Supplies Within the year. The consequence of the great burdens which •had thus been thrown upon us was, that if we were obliged to go to war,we should not be able to meet the expenditure. As those Loans, however, had been contracted, we were bound to pay the in terest ; and this could not be done, if there were any further reduction of 'taxation. We quite agree' with Mr. Robinson, and think that' our ancestors, for these. last 150 years, ought to have paid for their wars, as they waged-them. "It is clear that they had the meney, or the could not • have lent it.. They ought to .have given order to have averted either a Revolution'' or the encroaclnent'of an enemy, and not tO have loft it on the shamefully usurious principle of parting with 50/. in cash, and taking -a' bond or stipu lation, that, on re-payment, they should re ceive •100/., besides an interest of 5 per cent. going on all the while on the 501.. advanced.' There has been lately much profession as to na4 tional faith. When Sir Francis Burdett got up in h's place, and asserted that the interest of the National Debt ought to be reduced, the llon. Baroi.et was landlY cheered; yet, ever since a certain celebrated political writer, not long after, at a public meeting, asserted the very same thing; it has been fashionable, both on the part of those who are in place, as well as those who are out, to hold in abhorrence. even the idea of violating faith with the public creditor. So much for the world's consistency. • Mr...llobhouse, as well as Mr. Ilume, and indeed almost all the Opposition Members, are very inconsistent, when they push for a reduction in the. taxation, without. first suc ceeding in Paring'down the expences of the Go- . vernment, or the expence of the interest of the Debt; or both ; for the latter charge is•in the proportion of about two to one in comparison with the former. The Opposition now univer sally express their disbelief in that which has been called a Sinking Fund, which all allow means the surplus of • income beyond expendi ture. And yet they want to reduce taxes to so great an amount as 22 "millions at one pull, and. at the same time their profession 'is to " preserve. the national faith inviolate." If the present income will only just pay the debt, and the, Government expence, which Of the two expences! must go unpaid, should the revenue not equal the expenditure:--If this is not beginning at the wrong end, and 'if this is not altogether in consistent, we know not what inconsistency [MORNING POST.] We yesterdai shewed from the official state ments in the Chancellor of the Exchequer's Budget the great diminution in the permanent expences of the country this year, compared with last year. We also shewed that the incidental chrgeS were in the first place limited to the present moment, and though swelling the total amount of supply, for this year, actually pur chasing, as in the case of the 5 per cents. a large perpetual revenue henceforth. Agreeably to our promise we now proceed to the comparative Ways and Means for 1821 and 1822. We shall here find a large sum relinquished to directly relieve the public, and next a deficiency, arising from in cidental receipts' applicable fast year but not in the present, covered ; which deficiency, if the expense had not been, so greatly reduced, taxes must have been retained to meet, or it should be otherwise piovided for. There is in the first place Annual Taxes in 1821, 4,000,000/.; in 1822, owing to the remission of the Malt Duty, 3,000,0001. leaving 1,000,000/. The Tea Duties and Lottery are the same in both years. • Old. Stores in 1821 were 163,400/. ii 1522, 151,300/. leaving.a difference of 12,4001. In 1821 there was a surplus pecuniary indemnity, payable by France of 500,000/. of which there is none this year. Next is a difference between the two.years, of 4;5701. in the repayments from the loans for Public Works; and in 1821, there was a Surplus of Ways and Means from 1820,amounting to 81,6301. Lastly, there was in 18217-461,639/. of new Capital lent by the Bank of Ireland ; 83,580/. of Un-reclaimed Dividends, and 82 interest'on Land Tax. These sums, added together, make a gross total of 2,143,801/., by which. the Ways and Means of this year are less than those of last. 'W4 haire, however, to deduct from this a sum of 557,000/. payable at present by the East India Company, leaving a nett difference of 1,586,8001. We would here beg the attention of the Pub lic to a fact, with reference to this state ment of Income and our statement yesterday of Expellee, " which appears to us of great import ance in proving our financial prosperity this year. According to tbe statement of Expence, we have for 1822 many extra and incidental charges not occurring in 1821 ; in the statement of Income we have for'lBB2 a gross reduction of Malt Tax and Incidental Receipts compared with 1821 of 2,143,801/. ; and yet such is the state of our resources, coupled with the - rigid economy which has been pursued, that we have this year a great addition of surplus, making a Sink ing Fund of upwards of five millions, notwith standing•the double disadvantage of an increase of incidental charge, and a decrease of inciden tal income. If we now reflect that while our FinanCes in the aggregate are thus flourishing, so important a class as the Agricultural Interest has been greatly distressed, and the rest of the com munity thereby injured, we may indeed antici pate ere long a state of public prosperity hitherto un k nown . MINCIRIIIIIIIIII.IIII3II/111 LAW , INTELLIGENCE. COU / RT OF KING'S BENCH, JULY 3. The LORD CI4EF.JUSTICE sat at Prius, and tried several causes of no public interest. At his rising, the Sit tings were adjourned till the 17th inst., but with an intimation that no more causes will be taken until October. The interval before the ' Circuits will be occupied entirely by the trial of causes in London. COURT OF PLEAS, JULY 3. DOE, ON THE DEMISE OF LEECH, V. ETTERSHANK AND AVIrOTHER. _ ..... This was an action of ejectment to try the right of the Dean and Chapter or-Westminster Abbey to a certain piece of. land at Hampstead, which has been in the uninterrupted possession of the lessOr.of the plaintiff for a period of 50 years ; but which they claim as being part of a waste belonging to the manor of Belseise ; or, should that not be found,to he so, then as theirs by presumption, it lying between their freehold lands and the road, and belonging to no other person or persons. When the evidence was closed on both sides, The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE charged the Jury, and laid it down as his opinion, that although a quiet and uninterrupted possession for 60 years was a good bar agaidst a claim on the part of the Crown, and of 20 years against that of a common individual, no lapse of time was of itself a Sufficient bar against the church.. Here the Jury had three ,questions to decide : The first was, whether Belseise was or was not a manor ; and if it was then, secondly, was the land in question a part of the waste belonging, to that manor ? supposing this was not a part of such waste, then was the presumption arising from the Situation of the land between the freehold lands of- the Dean and Chapter and the road, ,of its belonging to them, unmet by a stronger presumption to the contrary? With respect to the :first of these points, evidence had been given to prove that the other two were manors, with which this: was stated to have been granted hy Henry VIIL-; but no court rolls were produced, or other sufficient: proof given, to show, that Belseise was a manor. Then as ththe right to be presumed from the situation of the land,. he .(the•Le4ned Judge) was of opinion, that the quiet possession of fOr,fSet many years (in favour of which it was an evellent inaxitif of law that every thing was to be presumed) raised a still stronger, presumption in behalf of the plaintiff's right. It Was,' hOwever, for the Jury to draw their own con 19sions, and decide' ccordingly. 'The Jury, without hesitation, found for the Da mages One shilling. THE MARKE'T'S. donor EXCHANGE, JULY 3.—Our Market being abundant ly supplied with all kinds of grain, and, having but few buyers; the sales were very heavy, and only,picked samples of 'Wheat support Monday's quotations • all other sorts were offered on rather lower terms. Fine fresh Barley being scarce, found buyers - at Monday's prices, but the ordinary quantities were dull sale,—The arrivals of Oats have been very considerable this.-week-, and, at a reduction of is. ps quarter, very few sales could be effected. In Beans and Pease there is no alteration. HOP INTELLIGENCE. SOUTHWARK, JULY I.—We still continue without any de mand for Hops. The accounts from the Plantations are not 4uite so favourable as they were, and corisequently the Duty is down to 120,0001. MAIDSTONE, JULY I.—We cannot discover any substan tial improvement in our Hop plantations during the past week ; we certainly have in many situations more ver tnin, and the plant generally shews a great want of sap. —The branches have but little head, and they are very ,fine and spindling; upon all 'the' strong bine the piping Joints for' blooming are further apart than ,is usual ; upon the whole they have grown but little since this day week. We have observed honey-dew in a great many gardens, and the 'appearance of blackness upon some of the strong bine. The white mould certainly increases: Taking into considera tion the great reduction in the plantations, the large breadth of the Hop lands last year sown with corn and planted with different vegetations, and which we are now convinced can do but very little, or perhaps nothing, with the want of manure and usual management, together with present appearances, lead us still to beieve that the duty in a certain quarter must be muth overrated. A SKELETON.—On Friday last, as some' work mien were ploughing in a field belonging to Mr. George Fowlc, situated about a quarter of a mile from Kits Coti House, the ploughshare was impeded by something, which had repeatedly been the case before, and the men'having a desire to ascertain what was the obstruction, they commenced digging, and a little , below the surface found two stones about six feet and a half long, and two broad, lying lengthways, upright, but rather slanting, between which was a. skeleton, in nearly a perfect state. The skull, teeth, and, two of the vertebrae of the neck were quite perfeci ; on being exposed to the air they soon crumbled into dust. The body lay directly east and west, and at the bottom was a stone which lay fiat, supposed to have been occasioned by the pressure of the earth above. The soil is very chalky, and tb this is attributed the excellent preservation of the bones. The stones appear to be exactly similar in quality to those of Kits Coti House, and it is conjectured were placed there about the same time that monument was. The skeleton is doubtless that of some chief slain in the battle fought here between Vortimer, King of Britain, and the Saxons, which is said to have happened about the year 454. In that battle it is related that Catigern, brother of Vortimer, and Horsa, brother of Hengist, the Saxon commander, in single combat slew each other, and in memory of Catigern a monument of stones was there erected by the Britons, and which is now vulgarly called Kits Coti House. The lovers of antiquity will be glad to learn that a gentleman, who has long made researches into the early history of this part of the county, is now engaged in taking drawings of these curious remains of former ages, and through whom, it is probable, we may shortly be enabled to lay before our readers some further particulars.—Olfaidstoite Jowrnal.) . We are sorry to hear that there has -been a great mortality among the grouse upon the WestmorlanaMoors this season. The shepherds find them dead in great quanti ties ; with scarcely any flesh upon them, but the cause is hitherto unaccounted for. The late dry weather, too, has been extremely unfavourable to the young broods, so that it is-ex pected to be the worst season 'ever remembered.--( Kendal Paper.) OLD BAILEY. The Sessions commenced this morning before Mr. Justice HOLROYD, and Mr. Justice BURROUDH. IMPORTANT CASE OF RIGAMY. Tobias Burke was indicted for intermarrying w ith'lllarian Bruce, his first wife (Mary Butler) being then living. .The following witnesses were called by Mr. ALLEY, for the prosecution : Elizabeth Butler stated, that she resided at Cashel, in Tip perary. It was her sister Mary who had married the prisoner. At about the latter end of May, 1815 the ceremony took place. He stopped for nearly a week ut her father's house, previous to the marriage.. 'Dr. Wright performed the ceremony. The pri sonerand witness's sister were both of the Roman - Catholic re ligion. He represented himself to he a Roman Catholic at the time, and always joined in the ceremonies of that religion, especially of the rosary at prAyers. Tile prisoner had said that he had a brother Thomas who was a Catholic priest at May nooth College. The marriage was celebrated, and the pri soner had a part of fifer sister's fortune. He went away alone with it. Her sister Mary and another sister went to Dublin after the _prisoner, in consequence of receiving a letter. More than a year afterwards, the prisoner returned to her father's house. Her father was now dead. The prisoner failed in busi ness, and 201. was given to, him by her family. Her eister Mary was now living. Cross-examined.—Her father was a leather merchant. The prisoner was a publican and grocer, and kept a public house at Dublin. At the time of the marriage she was about sixteen years old. The marriage took place' between five and six in the evening. ' - Julia Butler, sister to the last witness, confirmed her testi mony. The prisoner always assisted at the rosaries ; she pro duced a mass-book, in a leaf of which was written the names of two of her sister's children by the prisoner. She was pre sent at the birth of one of them at the prisoner's house, at Clon mel. She went to mass at, the thee she was with the prisoner at Clonmel. She resided with him for five months.—(A paper was handed to witness)—She could not prove the prisoner's handwriting. , Cross-examined.—She was very young at the time of her sister's marriage. She believed she was about 12 years old. . Before the prisoner came from Dubliri, she never saw him. Her sister was at Dublin at the time. Her father and all her family, were Roman Catholics. The marriage took place, about nine o'clock in the evening. -She thought that it was about that time.• She could not tell.how long, the prisoner re mained at Dublin,. at the time of 'the marriage. It might be a week. The marriage was performed by the Rev. Di. Wright. She did not know whether any other -Priest was there. She had seen the mass-book produced in the hands of'her 'sister, Mrs. Buike. • Orie of the children - was born at Clonmel. Re-examined.--She was now 19; andthe marriage was Cele brated seven years ago. She could not rightly tell at what hour the marriage took place. She'thought about nine o'clock. The next evening a . party was giver', and another Priest, Dr. O'Brien, ' was then invited. It was dusk, in June, when the marriage took place. • - • Alexander Bruce lived in Upper Bedford-place, Russell square. He knew the prisoner at the bar. In the latter end of October; "1820; he received a note from the prisoner, to which he paid no attention. In December he received another note from the prisoner, and he met him in consequence' at Gray's- Inn Coffee-house. The-prisoner then told him that he wished 'to marry his daughter. Witness refused consent until ,he knew who and what he was, and whether he could make an adequate settlement. He never saw him for 14 montht after wards, and never gain his consent. The name of the &Righter alluded to waillarian Bruce.. [A certificate was here' shown 'to- witnesq lie procured it from Dr. Strahan, of Islington, and 6 had since received some letters from the prisoner. [A letter was here handed 'to witnessi He had received that leiter, andit purported to be signed by the prisoner.' He never . returnedany, answer to it. Marian Bruce was then called. • Mr. Anemplus, for the defence, objected to the witness being called. She being , the lawful wife, as he contended, could give no evidence. The Court overruled the objection. Marian Bruce' daughter of the last witness, proved that she was married to die prisoner at Islington Church on the 4th of December; 1820. (The certificate of' the marriage between the prisoner and Marian Bruce was then read. It was signed " G. Strahan, Vicar.") The case for tbe prosecution was here concluded, and the prisoner was called upon for hiS defence. He said, " All I have to say is this—that I was,made drunk, and entrapped into the first Marriage. I am and always was constant." The fallowing witnesses were then called :- - Thomas Maher lived at Monro, in the county of Tipperary, and was a fanner. He was a Roman Catholic. He knew the prisoner at the bar, and was sponsor at his christening. He was christened by Mr. Edward Jordan, parish minister of Temple derry : that minister was a Protestant. The prisoner's uncle was a Protestant, and the prisoner was always considered to be a Protestant. lie knew the prisoner for 12 or 13 years after the christening, continually. The prisoner never attended mass, and he always thought he was of the Protestant religion. Once when witness was going to mass the prisoner was in his com pany. The prisoner was christened in 1794, and at that time he was but two or three days old. ' Edmund Burke, brother to the prisoner, lived at Springfield, in the county of Tipperary.. He was older than the prisoner. His brother at the bar was' brought up in the Protestant re. ligion. He was at Cashel at the time of the supposed marriage . of Mfss Butler, and was at Butler's house at the time of the marriage. On the Sunday preceding the marriage'witness saw his brother, and on the day of the marriage dined at Butter's house. It was late in the evening. He could not say that his brother was either drunk or sober. He heard James Butler (the father) say he would send for the priest, and that he wished to give him one of his daughters. Witness forbad Butler to have any thing to do with him, as he was a Protestant, and was not a man fit for his purpose. They drank hard, and played at cards for two or three hours, and then sent for the parish priest, and his coadjutor. It was Dr. Wright, the Catholic priest, who came with his as sistant. They came, las Witness supposed, with the intent of marrying the prisoner. They sat down and drank hard, and then called him, and asked him to comply with the Catholic church, to become a Catholic, and go to confess. The prisoner said he would not. His brother was not then sober. Wright then came out and declined marrying them, said he would have no thing to do with them, and would go home. Witness desired his brother to get up, and come home to his mother's house, at a place about 15 miles off. The prisoner stood up to come ; and then Biitler stood up; declaring that neither witness, the priest, nor the prisoner should go until they had parted upon good terms. They then sat down to drink again, and they all got stupidly drunk. lie saw no ceremony of marriage per formed by any one. He went away somewhere about one and two in the morning, quite drunk. His brother was also dan gerowly drunk, and came out with him. Hp found the prisoner was unable to walk. He did not go to Butler's house again for three years. , He did not know how long his brother remained at Cashel. The next day but one, he saw his brother at Temple more, which was about 17 miles from Cashel. The prisoner then said he would go home to Dublin. Witness believed his brother was then in the grocery, wine, and spirit business. It was, as he understood, his own business. ross-examined—He went to Cashel to look after a' mare which had strayed.' That was his only reason of his going there. The prisoner wrote to him to come to Cashel to find the mare, and told him to meet him at his first cousin's house in Cashel. He found him in the street, and the mare was at Butler's. Witness and he went to Butler's, and fell to drink ing and card-playing. He didnot know his brother was staying at Butler's house. He had then no more notion of a marriage than he had of going home in a boat from this place. For many years before this he had lost sight of his brother. He would not swear it was seven years. He was very young at the time. It was the straying of the mare that brought them to gether. Witness's mother was a Catholic. At the time of the prisoner's birth his father was dead. The mother was always a Catholic._ He, was sure it was on Sunday, June 11, that he was at Cishel. He remained at Cashel until 2 o'clock on the morning of the 13th. He could not get his brother out. He was asked in to take a little refreshment, and he got stupidly drunk, and his brother dangerously drunk. They kept playing at cards, and drinking all the time. He thought it best to go away at last, lest he should have , been turned out.. He swore positively that he never gave his brother away in marriage, neither on the 11th nor 12th of June, nor at any other time, to neither Mary Butler or any - body else. On the night' of the 11th of June, he went' to bed at Butler's and breakfasted the next morning at 10 with, the family. de was at the time neither sober nor drunk ; he might be betwixt and between. He dined with the family, and was not sober. then. He dined at about 10 o'clock at night ; lie had nothing to eat in the mean time, but plenty to drink. He never saw Dr. Wright until the Monday morn ing. Dr. Wright was now dead. Witness had a brother of the name of John. His brother Tom went to ,Maynooth College. Toni was not at college. kle did not know whether Maynooth college was a Catholic establishment. He could not swear that Tom went to Maynooth college. He did not suppose lie went to any college at all. Tom was the only one among them who knew Latin. Tom was now gone to America. He left his brother, who was dangerously drunk, On the street, and desired him to go to his cousin's. On the Monday his brother was locked up with the young women in Butler's house, playing cards, and he could not get a sight of him above once or twice. He never heard that his brother Tani was expelled from May nooth, and never said so. Re-examined.--Witness's father was a Catholic., His two brothers, Denis and John, were Protestants. Tom was a Pro testant, and took Denis and John underhis care. In all the time he was in Butler's house, he saw no marriage ceremony. Tk bis Burke was an elder broth er o f t h e pr i soner. H e h a d known brother Tobias constantly, excepting for 3 years. He was alwq: a Protestant. Witness was a P rotestant, an d had.always be so. John went to mass, b u t he believed him.to prisulP ut a Protestant. The p r i soner h a d gone to mass someti mes of curiosity only. He firmly b e li eve d' hi s brother Tom nev e r was at Maynooth College. John Burke, also an elder brother of the prisoner, 1 00°61 . 0 him to be a Protest an t. When in Ireland witness went ' mass. He lived with the prisoner at Dublin, after the or posed marriage. .The prisoner lived, at: üblin for about three years. h i e d th t er o b; r.. Cross-examined.—There w as child; which wassa , the infant of the prison er ' s wife. He did not, know li was the prisoner's child. At t h e t i me o f t h e bi rt h o f t he ai, he was not in Dublin. His brother Tom went to , Ameries ; his own freewill and consent. H e never sa id to Eli z a Butle or any . body else, that his broth er T om was e d uca ting for priest in Maynooth College. Re-examined.-:-He believed his brother was a Protesta nt clergyman in America. Martin Murray k new th e pr i soner a b ou t seven years in nub .. lin. He professed the Protestant religion, and alwaYs had done so as long as he knew him. Mr. An or.rx us, for the prison er , now ma i n t a i ne d that There —the was no evidence to g o t o th e J ury,. i nasmuch as t o prove n , second marriage no witn ess h a d b een ca ll ed b ut the Y'9° woman, who, he contended, was legally married to him, an could not therefore be a witness against him. To support -h a argument he cited the 19th o f G eo . 11. c h . , 13, an Act fram ed for the purpose of restr a i n i ng th e encroachment of the l'alii st %i Mr. Justice HOL ROYD t h oug h t t h ere was - very m aters evidence to go to the Jury. , Mr. ALLEY urged that the evidence for the defence oug ht ..., not to have' . been given at all, because th e C our t h a d no Pow' to decide upon . a case of-nullity of marriage. Mr. Justice H-OLROYD would reserve the point, if requisite', Mr. ALLEY proposed to .call back a witness to contradict trn evidence for the defence relative to Maynooth College. Tan Court, however, would not suffer it, because+ it was on a ques ts collateral to the issue. • Bliza Mr. ALLEY then proposed to, prove, by recalling Butler, .that Edmund Burke gave his brother in mariw a This the Court allowed. Elizabeth Butler swore that Edmund Burke took the Pr'' - soner by the hand, and gave him in marriage to her sister Marl; Cross-examined.—D r . W r i g h t married the parties at ab out six o'clock. Dr. Wright-did not leave the house until the tor' nage was celebrated. Julia Butler swore to the same effect... Mr. Justice HOLRO YD summed up to the Jury. There Wer e : he said, two poi n t s t o b e cons id ere d -Ist, Whether the firs. marriage was celebrated ; an d 2dl y , w h et h er the pr i sone r wr i a Catholic, or had represent e d hi mse lf to b e so at the time. ,p he 'were a Protestant, then a p o i n t o f l aw ' wou ld p r obably arise. The Jury found a verdict of—Guilty. e On the motion of Mr:ALLEY' the witness Edmun d Bur k Th y was ordered to be ,det a il le d, to- be inflicted for perjury. T„ witness was accordipglyiplued in confinement, a nd the 13 1,1 now before the Grand, IJAry SESSIONS., • • - 1•' • 'PERJURY. Yesterday John Kneiler was indicted for wilful and corr t ri perjury committed by hi m i n an affidavit filed- in the Court a t. the Relief of Insolvent D e b tors i n t h e month of Novem b er his Mr. COOPER and Mr. Bnoixunicx• conducted .the pros° . Lion ; and Mr. ANDREWS appeared for the defendant. that Mr. COOPER, in a very abl e a dd ress to t he J ury, sta te d the defendant was,, in the month of January last year, a P r- f soner in the King's Bench,. and that it was the_ misfortane4 ) , his client, -the pros ecu t or in t hi s case, to be chummed µ'i him in the same r oom ; • that the prosecutor (Mr. Willian3 Hayward Vincent) availed himself of the offer of the de fendant to assist him in arranging his accounts while in P n ; son, previous to hi s c l a i m i ng his discharge as an insol vent debtor. That Vincent was discharged under the Insol vent Debtors' Act, and retur ne d to his native place, Sudbu A ry' in Suffolk, wit& soon afterwards, h e was j oine d by the le: fendant, who, resided for seve ra l wee k s at t h e . h ouse of t prosecutor, and then returned to London. But after Kneller arrival in London he sent in the month of May last Yea l d several threatening letters to the p rosecu t or f or t h e p u rpose extorting money from him • and among others he sent on in a feigned hand, w i t h the name of Hawkes affixed, i 0 re commending' the . payment to Kneller of a sum of money , prevent his exposing the prosecutor's. conduct to his c redit whom he had defrauded. To these applications Vincent par no attention, and i n th e mont h of. November last ,the defe i t : ant filed a very long affidavit, in•the • Insolvent Debtors' Cou r , charging the, pros ecu t or w i t h having, while in the King s Bench Prison, transferred various property to his breth er, , Philip Vincent, and a mo ng ' ot h er t hin gs a note f o r 2 0 4, upon which note the act of perjury was principally fixed. 0 Learned Counsel st a t e d,.th at h e wou ld prove t h at t h at no te, s confidently sworn to by the defendant, had been paid by t he prosecutor to his father, a farmer at Waldingfield, near Sudbury' about two years.ago, in' part of payment of a l arge d e bt due t o _ him, and consequ en tly that the defendant cou ld no t h ave seen al: note handed in the Ki ng ' s B enc h, severa l mont h s a f terwar ds,t Philip Vincent.; indeed, h e wou ld p rove.t h at M rs . Vi nce nt, I , ''' ., mother of the prosecutor, had had the note for 2001. in her con stant possession fo r th e l ast two years ; and he would acqua int the Jury of the reason why it remained under her care instead octi that of her husband—it was because her husband was blind, an nearly eighty years of age, and she therefore took charge of v 5 luable papers and do cumen t s b e l ong i ng to him.—The Leal= Counsel said, he would prove the - letters - threatening the PZ O secutor, to be in the. defendant's hand-writing, including the the one written in a feigned hand, and subscribed witi!_, „ name of Hawkes; he, would prove 'that through the i aLs i f, swearing of the defendant, the prosecutor was re-examined $ the Insolvent Debto rs ' C our t, recomm i tte d to pr i son i n Jan uAT A last, and sentenced t o remain t h ere i n f or t h ree years fromth date, and in doing so, he looked with confidence to the Jury for a verdict of guilty against the,defendant. The Learned Counsel then called Mr. Yeo, an officer belong ing to the Court for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors M r ill ia° Hayward Vincent, the p rosecu t or , Phili p Vi ncent, his brothe r j Mary Vincent, his mother, Daniel Turrell, John Hardy, Albion Cooper, who completely established his statement. , e Mr. ANDREWS, for th e d e f ence , ma d e an a bl e appeal W t;: e Jury in favour of his client ; insisting, that notwithstandifig . r o great length of the affidavit,- on which the present proseetgl was founded, the indictment against his client mentioned only twenty-four crimes thereof as being f a l se and untrue. He th en called George Lander and John Lande r , first cousins to ..t defendant, and : Somerset, a bailiff's follower; their evidence did not in any degree disprove that for the Fry secution. • Mr. COOPER made an eloquent speech in reply. l it The CHAIRMAN swonmed up ;. and the Jury, after being of Court ten minutes, returned with a verdict of—Guilty. The trial lasted the whole of the day. ROBERT ALEXANDER, the Editor of the Sel l : tinel, whose incarceration we fo rmer ly no ti ce d, was , t 10; (Saturday) liberated, in consequen ce o f a. Bill of Sii t sPelLg and Liberation passed by the Sup r e me C our t, on hi s sufficient caution for Mr. BORTHWICICS claim against biro''' . ( Glasgow Chronicle.) COAL-MARKET, JULY 3. Ships at Market. Ships sold Price. oa 57 Newcastle - - -30 s Od to 39 Sunderland • - - 6 - 2tls Od to 40s u BIRTHS. At Sedbury, near Richmond, the Lady of Henry Tower/ Esq., of a son and heir. wife On the 24th at., at Grangebill, , Sotland, Mrs. Reid, of Captain Reid, R.N. of a son. MARRIED. A 0 1- Yesterday, at St. George's, Hanover-square, Richard phus Musgrave, Esq., fourth son of the late Sir James Mtl.„. grave, Bart., eßarnesby Park, in the county of Gloucester, "' Katherine, second daughter of Colonel James Lowther ! , the On the `29th ult. Robert Robinson, Esq., younger son of late General Robinson,. of Denston all, Suffolk, and nep hew , of the Earl of Powis to Clementina Constantia, third daug hte i of the. Rev. Richard Bingham., Incumbent of Gosport Ch a p and Prebendary of Chichester. DIED. On the 22d ult., at her house in South-street, Chelsea, 313* Peachey. On the 26th ult., at Camberwell after a long protracted a late ness of nearly six months, most sincerely regretted by, circle of relatives and friends, Mrs. Mary Glossop,. 01 nigh Holborn. Hi t On Friday last, at Acre-lane, Brixton, Mr. James. 44,6 Stopforth, of Little Newport-street, Leicester-square, in 55th year of his age. On Sunday evening last, at Park-place, Teddington, the wife of Colonel Sir Robert Arbuthnot, K.C.8., Coldstr e '" Guards. of On' Monday last, at Lympstone, John Williams, E s •q* Sowden House, aged 73. th SUl e Printed and Published for the PROPRIETORS, - ' Office, No. 112, Strand., by J. B. CAasimus. .~, ?~ f