The Sun. — London, England, 1840-02-24 00:00:00

; ,i'',' X .l ---.... THE TORIES AND SIR R. PEEL (From the Examiner.) What's to be done with Sir Robert Peel ? is now be coming an urgent question. In the words of the old epigram, the Tory party can neither live with him nor live without him. They murmur against him, they mutiny against him, they reproach him, they revile him, they insult him, but yet they suffer him ; but the ques tion is, can he much longer suffer them ? He is neces sary to them, and they use and abuse hi:n ; but they omit to observe that while they abuse him they damage him for their uses. To broil( their utensil, without breaking with their utensil, is the character of their conduct. Their only presentable leader in the Com mons they mutilate and cover with dirt. Avers ion, which for some time confined itself to sneers and disparag ing hints, has burst out upon this privilege question, because it is now seen that it might have been turned to golden uses of faction if Sir Robert Peel had either not so early committed himself to the course of duty, or bad retraced his steps on seeing that a path to office laid over the ruins of the privileges of the House. For this single preference of public virtue to the interests of fac tion, see how the Tory Chief is treated by his own -gan, the Times. In its leading article, giving a sum. ary of the proceedings in Parliament, which is gene al'; written, if not with absolute fairness, at least with• u bitterness, or the insolence which characterizes the other editorial productions, a deviation is made "from ordinary moderation and forbearance of that part of the Times for this fling at Sir Robert : " It is a sad sight to see the Right Hon. Baronet, night after night, floundering on in the labyrinth of error, into which his want of perspicacity led him, and not having the manly courage to confess his mistake and retrace his steps." The next day this is made the text for a letter to Sir Robert Peel, which is honoured with the distinction of the large type leaded (as it is technically called), like the editorial articles. Of this contribution (real or pre tended) the writer signs himzelf "'with much abated re spect, Harmodius." Much abated respect !—why there is not a trace of respect in the long strain of objurgation. It is insult, expressed or understood, from beginning to end. The attack has been kept up in the columns of the Times. The following day was admitted the dis covery of a correspondent : " Sir—l have for some time doubted Sir Robert Peel's moral courage. I am grieved to say, my opinion of his talent, also, has now had a shake." And another contributor commences a long letter with a menace of the punishment of Sir Robert at the next general election, if he do not forthwith repent and recant. Sir Robert is now " Robert the Devil," with his party. The revolt is breaking out in overt acts, and how is it to end ? flow are the leader and the fol lowers who pelt him With abuse, to work on together, pulling different ways, and hating, despising, and openly scorning each other? What is to be the denouement of this new play of " Rule a Chief and tlave a Chief ?" The appearances would denote a rupture, and Sir Robert Peel's assignation of his irksome post ; but we do not anticipate any such event. We have seen this state of things once before—we have seen its conse quence, and we shall see a repetition of the same effect. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. CAMBRIDGE, FEB. 23.—We are requested to state that her Mjesty will receive the address from the University at Buckingham Palace on Tuesday next, at two o'clock. At the congregation on Monday last, a petition to the House of Commons was unanimously agreed to in favour of Church Extension in England and Wales. BELL'S SCHOLARSHIPS.—The Vice-Chancellor has given notice that an election of two scholars upon this foundation will take place on Friday. the 3d of April next. That the members of any college, (except King's college and Trinity hall) sons or orphans of clergymen, who were admitted between the Commencements of 1835, and 1839, may be candidates. The candidates are require Ito signify their intention of offering themselves on or before Satur day next, the 29th instant, in a Latin Epistle, to be pre sented to each of the electors, who are : The Vice-Chan cellor, the Regius Professor of Divinity, the Regius Professor of Civil Law, the Luca•ian Professor, and the Public Orator.—The examination will commence on Mon day, the 9th of March, at ten o'clock, at the Law Schools. On the 14th instant the Lord Bishop of Peterborough instituted the Rev. Sir George S. Robinson, Bart., to the rectory of Crauford St. John, in the county of Northamp ton, vacant by the resignation of the Rev. D. Bagley, on the presentation of the Lord Bishop of Lincoln. - On Monday last the Rev. Thomas Maurice, M.A., was instituted by the Lord Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol to the vicarage of Driffield, in the county of Gloucester, vacant by the death of the Rev. Edward Ashe. Patron, the Rev. Robert Ashe, of Langley House, Wilts. On the 14th inst., the Rev. Henry Freeland, rector of Hasketon, Suffolk, was instituted by the Lord Bishop of London to the rectory of Ovington, together with the chapel of Albright; and on the same day to the rectory of Silbury (juxta Clare), in the county of Essex. The Westmoreland Spring Assizes commenced on Tuesday last, before Sir John Taylor Coleridge and the Right Hon. T. Erskine. DISSENTERS.—We understand that Mr. Mark Philips, whose vote, of course, would have been in favour of religious liberty, was out of town on business, and that Mr. Fenton, of Rochdale, had, from indisposition, been confined at home. Still there were many from this district whose absence has net been accounted for ; and we should be glad, in eur columns, to give them an opportunity for explanation. Amongst the majority, sanctioning the imprisonment for life of John Thorogood, because he has a conscience, we find Sir R. Inglis and Lord .1. Russell; Mr. Herries, the ex-chancellor of the Exchequer, and Mr. Baring, the present Chancellor ; Mr. Goulburn, another Tory ex-Chancellor, and Sir J. C. Hob house, an ex-radical; Mr. Shiel, the President, and Mr. la bouchere, the Vice-President of the Board of Trade ; Sir Francis Burdett, and the new Catholic Lord of the Treasury, Mr. Wyse; Lord Morpeth and Sir James Graham, Sir Robert Peel and Sir George Grey, Mr. Egerton of Tatton, and Mr. E. J. Stanley, Sir Edward Sugden and Mr. Fox Maule ! In the same company we find, appropriately enough, Mr. W. Bolling and Mr. T. Grimsditeh—but why was Mr. J. Fort there ? We recommend to the especial consideration of the SLeeders of Dunfermline the vote of Lord Dalmeny on this question. Will the followers of the Erskines sanction this intolerance on the part of their representative ? Sir Henry Parnell has thrown the Independents and the Dissenting Pres byterians of Dundee overboard. Will this be tamely submitted to? Is there no spirit of religious freedom in Edinburgh and Leith, that both Dlr. Macaulay and Mr. Rutherford are per mitted to be on th e persecutor ' s s id e ?—Manchester Timrs. ALLEGED SHORT WEIGHT OF FOOD GIVEN TO THE POOR IN MARYLEBONE WOREHOUSE.-011 Friday, at the meeting of the Marylebone Board of Directors and Guar dians of the Poor, held at the Workhouse, New Road, Mr. Lowe in the Chair, Mr. Thorne, the Secretary, stated that he had received the following communication from Sir P. Laurie, as Chairman of a Petty Session holden at the Court-house on Monday last :—" Middlesex.—At a Petty Sessions of her Ma jesty's Justices of the Peace, acting in and for the said county, assembled at the Court- house of the parish of Saint Alaryle bone, present, Sir Peter Laurie in the Chair, Edward lodge, Esq, W. M. Nurse, Esq., E. Pepys, Esq., Peter Laurie, Esq., Charles Elliott, Esq., John Alirehouse, Esq., John Gibbons, Esq., Thomas Carvick, Esq., J. Edward Conant, Esq. Resolved—That the clerk to the Magistrates be directed to inform the Board of Directors and Guardians of the poor of this parish that it has been communicated to the Magistrates that certain weights need in the workhouse for weighing the food issued to the paupers are defective, and have been marked as such by the persons appointed to rectify them; but that, not withstanding such notice, the defective weights are still in use. The Magistrates themselves having no jurisdiction, beg to call the attention of the Board to this complaint. ( Signed) P. Laurie, Chairman." Mr. Atting, the master of the workouse, was called in and questioned as to the accuracy of this report. He stated that the annoyaace jury had called and inspected the weights, but he.was not aware that anyof them were marked ex cepting one, which had a slight cross put upon it, and it had not been used since. Some time ago a rate-payer had called, and made a complaint to him that the weights used in the allotment of food to the paupers were defective, and he allowed him to take one away. He returned it in the course of a couple days, saying that it was deficient a grain and a half in the quarter of a pound. This, however, could not affect the poor, inasmuch as he always gave the poor the draft of the scale. After some dis cussion a Committee was appointed to inquire into the subject, and the Board brokeup. DRAMATIC AUTHORS' SOCIETY.--The Dra matic Authors' Society have been thrown into considerable con sternation and confusion (vide the neighbourhood of a fire !) during the last few weeks by the opposition to their proceed ings manifest e d b y one of their body (Mr. Moncriel). This member has frustrated two notable resolutions which had been made absolute by unanimity--one to compel the managers of Royal Theatres not to pay less than fifty pounds an act for any of the pieces written by the members of the Society, whether • good or bad, translation s or adaptations • and the other, th a t none of the pro cee di ngs of the Society should be made public, but that the business of their meetings should be transacted with closed doors, on pain of expulsion for the violation t of ei h ther of these regulati ons . N otwithstanding, the Soiec yielded to the singl e reason i ng of Moncrieff on both y these points. A portion of them, from motives best kno wn to them selves, have felt so en rage d, t h at after a fruitless attempt pttosilence their opponent, they h ave at l ength come to the to expel him altogether, on the singular charge of having laughed at them. The Government have been offered terms of a very advantageous description by the trustees of the Gloucester and Berkeley Canal Company, in liquidation of the debt of 200,0001. owing to the Exchequer Loan Office, 60,0001. to b e paid .down, 60,0001. more in ten years, and the remainder in twenty years, with 3i per cent. interest in the mean time, and 4,600/. a year to be reserved from the profits to insure the pay ment of the instalments. A subscription was ordered towards paying the first sum, and_3o,oo/.was put down at the meeting. Worcester Journal. A memorial signed by members of the Church of England, has been presented to the Archdeacon and clergy of Bath, calling upon them to remove from all Protestant churches in their district every form and ceremony partaking of the Ro man Catholic form of worship, particularly all pictures and im a g es . _Bath Gazette. Messrs. Coutures Brothers, of Bordeaux, glass blowers, have just introduced an important improvement into the art of blowing black or bot tle glass, by using a flexible tube, worked by machinery, for injecting air ir.to the parcels of fluid metal instead of letting their men continue to blow them by mouth. An in geniously -contrived cock allows them to consume just as much or as little air as is wanted. These gentlemen have declihedtaking )1t tt 3 (J.* Chair invention. P26.-.001 111 1 1 AMERICAN SLAVE TRADE. The compassion and justice of Britain are at this mo ment widely awakened in behalf of the negrocs. No mea sure is left unconsid ere d w hi c h may improve the blessing of liberty, and restore to them the rights and hopes of man, whether in our colonies or in their native land. At the tame time it stands confessed, that elsewhere their wrongs and sufferings from the slave trade and sla very are increased and increasing, and particularly in the United States of America, in some of which men, women, and children, are expressly reared for the market; b oug h t an d so ld , and driven off in strings and herds, like horses or oxen or other beasts of burden ; but more wretched than these, to be broken in by a system of c rue l ty an d oppress i on, and enforced ignorance, swage in proportion to the danger apprehended from their power of reasoning, and resisting. This state of things is acknowledged, made public by the law of the land and the Lynch-la w o f t h e mob; but the exertions of the Ame rican aboliti on i s t s to put i t d own, t h eir sacrif i ces, their efforts, at the risk, and even at the loss of life, their difficulties and dangers, are comparatively unknown, and can indeed scarcely be imagined here ; for they have to struggle against a league of circumstance and feeling, incredible to all who have not known the baneful effect of slavery on the enslavers. They have to oppose the great power of the Southern States in the Legislature ; the im mense mass of public opinion, which, in the Northern as well as the Southern States, declares itself against dis turbing the present pro-slavery system of society; at every step they meet the insensibility and the antipathi e s nurtured by custom, and reckoned essential to the tone of what is called " good society ;" yet, " though per secuted, not forsaken," the American abolitionists have already effected a change in opinion which is felt in Con gress; which has, for the present at least, prevented the annexation of Texas to the United States, and from which may be hoped blessed and permanent effects, if the opera tions begun in the spirit of justice and humanity are con tinued as they were begun. But the Abolitionists are still comparatively few in number, and limited in their means for the arduous task before them. They intreat the aid of their British fellow-labourers in the great cause. Their end is the same, to assist the African race ; and their means are such, and only such, as are worthy of the end. They endeavour to spread knowledge and to awaken conviction on the subject of slavery in the minds of the powerful. They utterly reject all violent and inflammatory measures, being entirely persuaded that there is no need to enlist on their side any other feelings than those of justice and hu manity. They neither have, nor desire to have, any com munication with the slaves themselves, end in disproof of the accusations some bring against them, of exciting the slaves to insurrection, they point to the fact, that, since the year 1634, when the first Abolition Society was organised, but one feeble attempt at insurrection las taken place in the South. The Abolitionists write and disseminate books and papers, they send lectures to various parts of the non-slave-holding States, and, in the common intercourse of life, they use their ut most endeavours to improve the condition and to elevate the character of their coloured brethren. One of their powerful means for attaining there objects is the college established at Oberlin, in Ohio. The free coloured people, now numbering near 400,000 in the United States, are subject to oppressions and injuries only serpassed by those inflicted on the slaves. Among many instances, we will mention only one. They arc, by custom, though not by law, denied admission to the same schools with whites, and the means of instruction to which they have had ac cess have hitherto been so meagre, that very few among themselves arc qualified to impart, even to their children, the rudiments of learning. The Oberlin Institute in Ohio, and the Oneida in New York, are noble exceptions to the common rule of exclusion. It is for the former of these that the help of the British public is now solicited. The Institution ori ginated thus. Five years ago the students of Lane Semi nary, Cincinnati, Ohio (a free state), having become inte rested in the subject of slavery, held discussions and formed an Aboli jon Society among themselves. They hereby drew down the censure of their college superiors, whe went so far as to forbid all discussion and conversation on the subject of slavery, "on ordinary occasions and elsewhere." Forty students, on account of this prohibition, quitted the semin ary. The want was immediately felt of an institution where good instruction and freedom of discussion might both be enjoyed. To meet this want, the Oberlin Institute was planned. Five hundred acres of land were obtained in the north of Ohio, 700 miles from New York, 11 from Lake Erie. Funds for present support were contributed, and hopes held out for the future. To that wild tract of five hundred acres the forty students and others of a kindred spirit repaired, and began to clear. They persevered through the winter of 1834-35, and with the help of workmen, 200 acres are now partially cleared and cultivated, and buildings have been erected. Profes sors and teachers, eminent for ability and learning, •have devoted themselves to the Institution, though they might elsewhere obtain l ucra ti ve s i tuat i ons. Student's have flocked in to the number of four hundred, and many have been refused from want of means to accommodate them. Students are received with out respect to colour ; and this Infant Seminary is de signed and permanently cultivated to elevate and to bene fit the coloured race. It serves, and this is its most strik ing feature of immediate usefulness, as a school of/cachets for the coloured people.. Among the 400,000 free co loured inhabitants of the United States, there is ample field for meee teachers than cal be prepared at Oberlin. A large number of the students of Oberlin have gone forth, full of the purpose for which they have been in structed, ready to devote themselves in any way that might prove desirable to the benefit of their coloured brethren. To preach, to lecture, to write, and to teach, are their principal vocations. If, as happened in many instances, a portion of their time is necessarily occupied in toiling for their daily bread, they still feel that they are consecrated to this work of love, are enabled to devote to it their best energies, as " bound with those who are in bonds ;" seizing every opportunity to assist and encourage the objects of their sympathy. Nor do they confine their labours to the United States. Twenty of them are en gaged among the ten thousand fugitives in Canada. Twelve are employed as teachers and missionaries in the West In dia Islands, and others are gone to the Aborigines in the west of America. The Institution has no funds or endowments from which an increase is guaranteed. The American Abolitionists contributed to its support with their accustomed liberality; but owing to the great fire in New York, Dec. 1 815, which fell most heavily upon its first patrons, and the subsequent commercial distresses in the United States, many who, three years since, were wealthy, are now so reduced in circumstances as to have become unable to fulfil their en gagements to the Institution. Tire entire expense of these Slavery operations rests upon the Abolitionists of America, but few of whom are now wealthy, and they have made for the cause pecuniary sacs ifices such as have rarely been'known. Of tbe originalmembers of the Oberlin College many, the sons and brothers of slave holders, by the very act of joining this institution, sacrificed .their possessions and prospects. These, and others equally unable to con tribute in money to the funds, now earn their subsistence by the labour of their hands. All the members, without exception, devote a portion of every day to labour, and thus, aided by extraordinary abste miousness, they have been enabled to bold together with no other help than the occasional and precarious contributions of distant friends. Bui the Institution has contracted a debt which bears a high rate of interest; the professors and their families have no perrnanent.pro vision for their daily sustehance, and must, though in bitterness of heart, relinquish their situations, unless the appeal now made to British philanthropists enable tho Institution to overcome its present pecuniary difficul ties. These difficulties once overcome, the Abolitionists have every hope, from the diminishing pressure of com mercial distress, and from the increasing spirit of hu. inanity and freedom in America, that their Institution will be enabled to go on and prosper. If it is objected that British philanthropists are not con cerned in the abolition of American slavery, may it not be answered—first, that the abolition of slavery is not a national interest merely, but the interest of humanity at large; and if this is not a suffie:ent answer, be it remem bered that slavery was first established, and for 163 years maintained in America under British rule. Even in spite of a petition from the Virginian Assembly in 1772, praying the abolition of the slave trade on the ground of its great inhumanity and injustice, expressing their fears that it would endanger the very existence of his Majesty's American dominions, our Government continued to uphold it for commercial reasons (good or bad). In spite of an Act of the Pennsylvanian Assembly, about the same time, transmitted to England for the Royal Assent, whereby a heavy duty was to be laid on the head of every slave im ported, in order thereby to discourage the trade, the Bri tish Government persisted in allowing it to continue. In the words of th e venera b le Granville Sharp—" The guilt of persisting in that monstrous wickedness demands in deed an atonement of repentance, but not from America " In four years from this time, the British Government lost for ever that power of interference which she had refused to exercise on behalf of justice. But something yet remains. Individuals may aid individuals—and shall we rot all unite, all who acknowledge ourselves children of one Father, all who value our common heritage of lite, liberty, and the pursuit of h a ppi ness , s h a ll we not all unite heart, head, and hand, to cl eanse t hi s p l ague spot o f sin and suffering—Slavery—from oar racey The Abolitionists of America ask our aid for the Ober lin Institution. 'I hey have sent over Deputies able to explain all the circumstances and necessitius of the case, and accredited by the most known and honoured among the body to which they belong. These Deputies, the Rev. John Keep and Wm. Dawes, Esq , have already communicated with several of those best known in Britain as philanthropists, and especially as friends of the Negro. The venerable Clarkson has given his aid and the sanction of his entire approbation to their object. Among their contributors are found the names of Buxton, Gurney, and Sturge. Let us hope that these examples will be followed by thousands. WEDDING EXTR AORDINARY.—Married, Feb. 18, by the Rev. NV. Fernie, at Zion Chapel, Frome, Mr. Richd. Dole, to 111 rs. Kerenappuch Baker, both of Frome. The parties were married 22 years ago at Exeter, but the mar riage having been discovered to be invalid, they have now avadod tie.m , elves of the security of the New Marriage Act," and there being now no just cause or imp,dirr.ent, they are at l ength legally joined together in holy matrimony._ Wiltshire ndependent. NEW PRINCIPLE IN STEAM NA- IT . i ii lLO . Is An important discovery has been made by Mr. Samuel Hall in the paddle-wheels of steam-boats, by which a great saving of steam power may be effected under cer tain circumstances, and to which other advantages at tach. It is by rendering the goat-boards moveable, and by that means altering the diameter of the paddle.. wheels, making it greater or less as may be required. In the case of a large steam ship, like the British Queen or Great Western, a paddle-wheel of very large diameter is required when not heavily laden, on account of the vessel standing so far out of the water. But no sooner is the ship heavily laden than the paddle-wheel s are sunk down into deep water, and the resistance becomes so great that only about nine strokes of the engine per minute can be given instead of eighteen, and a vast expenditure of steam power is completely thrown away. Now, the fist suggestion to the mind of any one conversant with such matters would be that this difficulty could be overcome by raising the wheels to a certain extent out of the water, and this, in effect, is just what Mr. Hall's invention ac complishes. The wheels, however, are net raised out of the water, but the float boards rendered capable of being d . rawn up towards the nave, or sent down to wards the tire of the wheel, just as the lading of the vessel, the power required to be used, or the state of the weather may demand. The difficulty to be overcome in the case of large anti heavily-laden steam-vessels, when sunk by their burthens deeply into the water, will be at once evident to all who know what in row ing is called " catching crabs, or, in other words, sink ing the oar too deeply into the water. The eff,cts in both cases are very similar. "It must," says Mr. Carpmael, in speaking of Mr. Hall's invention, "be evident to every engineer that when from stress of weathe,r, or deep immersion, the number of strokes of the engine is reduced, the power the nagine will then be exerting will be reduced in the scale proportion. Thus, supposing a pair of engines snaking eighteen strokes per minute be constructed to to be equal to 500 horse power ; if from stress of weather the number of strokes be reduced to nine (no uncommon occurrence), in such case the engines will only be working at 250 horse-power; and for the whole length of time that the circumstances remain such as to keep down the number of the strokes, the vessel will be under the prejudicial condition of carry ing engines of a size, weight, and cost of 500 horse power, without the capability of using more than 250 or other reduced power, according to the relation of the number of strokes." There is to be seen a model of a pair of paddle wheels, constructed on the new principle, at Mr. H a ll' s premises in the City, as well as one of a pair of wheels about to be fitted to an iron steam-boat which will ply on the Thames. The arms of the paddle-wheel are double—that is to say, besides the ordinary arms, there is to each a moveable one, to which the float-board is attached ; and by means of a simple, but powerful, principle in mechanics—a worm—(in the nave of the wheel), it is moved upwards or downwards ar pleasure. The invention is of much higher importance to marine steam-vessels than to those used in rivers ; but the power and command which it gives in both cases are great and valuable. ITHESUN, LONDON, MONDAY, - 1 , 14:13RTT RN'24,g-1840.- CHINESE BARBARITIES. The following is the deposition of Mr. Moss, describing the treatment he received from a party of Chinese sailors, who attacked the Black Joke in which be was a passenger, on the 24th of August : DEPOSITION OF MR. MARK MOSS. ThuN saith iMark Moss, a British subject, born in Lor. don, before Van Bszel, Dutch Consul ; Paiva, late Procurador at Macao ; Kerr and Leslie, British merchants; at Macao, this 25th day of August, 1839: I left Macao, on board the Black Joke, on Friday night last, the 23d instant, to proceed to Hong Kong; having got as far as the point of Lantas, anchored there yesterday evening at five, supped, and went to lie down. About nine o'clock I heard the crew, which consisted of Lascars, eight in number, crying out " Wylo 1 Wylo 1" ran to the skylight and saw three guns fired at us wadded with char coal. When I reached the deck I saw three Lascars cut down, a nd got a cut on the left aide of the face, on which I went below, when I heard the Chinese crying out " Ta, ta," and, on putting my head out of the stern companion, got a most severe wound on the top of my head. The Chinese then laid hold of me, and stripped me of my clothes. and cut my arm in three places as I put it up to save my head. They then proceeded to plunder and break up the boat, and, coming down with lights into the cabin, one of them, seeing I had a ring on my finger, attempted to cut the finger off, bat I took the ring off and gave it to him; and another, seeing my watch, took it out of my pocket, and laying bold of my ear called to a man who came with a shlrp instrument and cut it off .i-cm g with a Jerre portion o" the skin on the left side of my head, as you now see, and put it in my mouth, attempting to push it down my throat. I was then knocked about on all sides by the Chinamen, and saw them bring a barrel of gunpowder, with which they attempted to blow up the boat, but did not succeed. was rendered senseless from the smoke caused by the ex. plosion, and was nearly suffocated, when, making a last effort, I reached the deck and found no one there. I called out the names of some of the Lascars, and seeing a rope moving astern, found that the Tindal alone, of the whole native crew had saved himself by hanging on the rudder under water. He came up, and gave me somo water, of which I drank five basins full, and felt refreshed. A short time after this the Harriet, Capt. Hall, came up, and I suppose the Chinese, from their leaving the boat so sud denly, had seen the vessel. From Capt. Hall I mat with the kindest treatment ; he took me on board, dressed my wounds, and, taking charge of my boat, brought me to Macao this morning, about five o'clock. PAIVA. W. L. C. K. S. v. B. A PEEP BEHIND THE CURTAIN.—From Oxford, I proceeeed to London, where I became " Secre tary of Presentations " to my uncle, the late Earl of Eldon, and hail an opportunity of cultivating a more intimate acquaintance with the clergy than [ had even at Oxford, and of ascertaining snore precisely the grounds on which the mere secular clergy (for I knew such before) expect preferment from the State. One had raised, or assisted in raising, a troop of yeomanry, in the iron age of William Pitt. Another had voted for Lord Eldon at Oxford. A third had the audacity to offer Lord Eldon ten per cent, en the produce of any living to which he might be pleased to prefer him. I well rerr ember the indignant scorn with which that high-minded nobleman, and my much respected relative, showed me this letter. I respected him— yea, I loved him—in spite of his bigotry ; and when I left him, which I did solely for conscience' sake, and because I could not continue a party any longer to such infamous traffic in souls, it was to me like cutting off a right hand ; and, if I am rightly informed, it was not much otherwise to him. —Autobiography of an Obsolete Churchman, by R. B. Saunderson. Esq. There seems to be a move in the " State of the Country" Journals again, judging from the renewed industry which they are evincing in the fabrication of outrages. Thi Dublin Evening Packet lately gave an account of " Murders at Brag" which never took place, and a contradiction of which was givrn even in the Evening llf 2il immediately after. That never-endiag slanderer of the country, and of private charac ter, too, the Limerick Chronicle, announced, in its number of the sth inst., amongst other outrages, equally atrocious, that Mr. Scully, of Kilfeacle, county Tipperary, had been deprived of his gun a few days before, while out shooting. The Tippe rary Free Press of Wednesday has a letter contradicting the lie in the Chronicle. Loss OF LIFE BY CARELESSNESS IN THE Use OF DRUGS AND MEDICINES.—A return has recently been printed, by order of the House of Commons, of all in quests held by the Coroners of England and Wales, during the years 1837 and 1838, in cases where death was found by ver dict of the Jury to be caused by poison. The return is not so complete of d a e s at ehosulbdypoison bewished; inlB3 but 7 and it showslB3B w that the number 543, namely, 261 females and 282 males. The number poisoned by opium, or its preparations, was 186. We are anxious, how ever, to direct attention to the lamentable fact, that nearly one-seventh (721 of the cases of death by poison resulted from the carelessness of mothers and nurses, ignorant of the powerful effects of substances which are only used by medical men in slight doses, and with the utmost caution. The return shows, that the deaths of very young children (most of them at the breast) from opium or its preparations, were 52; and from opium or laudanum administered in mistake for other medicine, 20. Narcotic and anodyne drugs a re scarcely ever administered to infants by experienced surgeons, without accurately calculating the power of the patient, and mothers and nurses ought never to administer medicine of this description, excepting under their direction. Mr. Browne, the Coroner for Nottingham, states that " a cordial is given to children to a great extent, and that he has no doubt whatever that .nany infants are yearly destroyed in that bo rough but who. dying eff gradually, never come under his noti , !e officially." In recording one of the cases on which lie held an inquest, in which death had been caused by an over-dose of lau danum, Mr. Browne says, "There appeared very greatnegligence on the part of the person who sold the laudanum. He had not been brought up as a druggist, but had lately taken to the business, and employ d two young girls to attend his shop, and sell drugs in his absence. I ascertained personally at the shop, that ene of them sold twice as much for a penny as the other. Mr. Frampton, the Coroner for Dorsetshire, suggests that those who sell poisons should be compelled to register the day and hour of sale, and the name of the purchaser. The total deaths by arsenic were 184 ; opium, 42 ; laudanum, 133 ; prus sic acid, 27 ; vitriol, 32 ; corrosive sublimate, 12 ; oxalic acid, 19 ; poisons not specified, 14. Working Man's Almanac and Companion, 1840. LA W versus LIBERTY.—At the Sessions a wretched looking man named Eldridge was summoned to show eaufm why he should not be committed to gaol as a rogue and a vagabond. It appeared that Eldridge had for months past been living with his family—a wife and five children, who were in a state of starvation—under the hedges on Hampvrorth Common, without any visible means of subsistence. The Bench asked Eldridge why he did not go into the Union-hou:e? He said he did not liko to do so. Ihe relieving ottieer of the Downlon Union said he had been in the house, but had.left it. preferring his present mode of living. The Bench told him he must either go into the poor-house or to gaol. The poor fellow reluctantly chose the former,— Wiltshire Independent. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF Q UEEN'S BENCH, FEB. 22 . (Sittings at Sisi Prins at Guildhall, before Lord DENMAN and a Common Jury.) WEEKS V. SMITH AND OTHERS Mr. JAMES stated that this was an action brought by the nlaintiff to recover compensation at the hands of a jury for an injury which he alleged] he had sustained by reason of he conduct and negligence of the set vent of the defend ants. The plaintiff was a person who sold colours, and fur that purpose travelled throughout the kingdom with a horse and cart. On the evening of the 26th October, about ten o'clock, he was going from London to Chelms ford ; his cart was driven by his nephew, a boy of 15 years of age ; on the road he passed two stage-waggons belonging to the defendants, one of which was drawn by six horses. When the cart arrived near the sth mile-stone on the Rom . ford-road, some part of the harness broke, and the nephew got out to repair it, and while doing this, and while the cart was stauding within five feet of the foot-path on the near side of the road, the waggon drawn by six horses came up. and the horses went between the cart and the path, and the fore-wheel of the waggon took the wheel of the cart, tore it off, and turned the cart into the middle of the road, in consequence of which the plaintiff, who was riding on the goods in the cart, was thrown off and his leg fractured in a very severe manner; he was taken to a beer-house near at hand, where he had remained until the present time, and it would be some weeks before he would be enabled to resume his business. After evidence to this effect had been called, Mr. TIIRSIGER addressed the Jury for the defendants, and urged that the boy Weekes must be under some mig_ take, because he had several witnesses who would prove that so far from the cart having beer, standing still, the boy was attempting to pass the waggon, when he ran the cart against the trace of the first horse in the waggon, and that the noise occasioned by that circumstance so frightened the horses that they immediately started off, and ran the shaft of the 'waggon against the cart; and, therefore, he contended that the accident was occasioned by the gence of the nephew of the pla'ntitr, who could not make the defendants answerable for the injury he had sustained. The Learned Counsel then called witnesses, who differed materially from the witnesses called by the plaintiff's Counsel. Lord DENMAN briefly summed up, and stated that the difference in the statements of the witnesses could not arise from mistake; but he feared they must impute per jury to one side or the other. The Jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages 1201. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, FEB. 22. MR. PICKWICK-IN RE JAMES WOULDS. Mr. CooKE said he had to apply in this case for the appointment of an assignee before the hearing. The insolvent was the proprietor of some theatres in the country, and the creditor who made the application W 33 a Mr. William Eleazer Pickwick. CHIEF COMMIGSIONER—Who Mr. CooKE (smiling)---Mr. Pickwick, Sir.—(A laugh ) Mr. Pickwick is a well-known gentleman ; he is a deputy lieutenant of a county. The Learned Counsel read an affidavit., in which it was stated that Mr. Pickwick, with others, was a cre ditor for 4821. on a judgment. The insolvent had theatres at Swansea and Cardiff, and the object of the application cis to save the property for the creditors, :nstead of having a farted sale. The insolvent was 'n Bristol Gaol, and would be heard on the 23d of March. Mr. Pickwick was the deputy lieutenant of the county of Somerset, and was, in the opinion of the party who made the affidavit, a proper person, from his respectability, to be named assignee. The CHIEF COMMISSIONER said the schedule did not appear to have bren filed. Mr. Cooke remarked that Mr. Pickwick's object was to sell the property to the best advantage. He had an execution on the property ; hut it had been withdrawn o hen it was found that Woulds had become an insolvent. The CHIEF CemmisstoNEn. suggested that an under taking should be given, that Mr. Pickwick would not avail himself of his execution, and then he could be ap pointed assignee. Mr. COOKE assented to the suggestion, and Mr. Pick wick was appointed assignee. Some time ago Mr. Samuel Weller appeared in the Court as a witness POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MARLBORO UGH-STREET. SINGULAR AFFAIR.--Mr. Brown, a very respectable gold-lace merchant, in Regent-st:cet, came to this Court and requested to have advice in the following matter : A person with whom he had some acquaintance had that morning come into his shop and insisted upon having "sa•. tisf.ction" from him. Applicant made every effort short of force to induce the intruder to leave his shop, but with out success. As the individual persist:A in remaining in the shop, he wished to know what steps he was to take to get rid of him. Mr. Fitzpatrick, the chief-clerk, said the applicant might have the assistance of a policeman, who, if the intruder would not leave when requested, and re sisted proper force, might then take him into custody. Policeman Smith, C 60, accompanied Mr. Brown to the shall, and found the same individual there, who, on being asked to quit the place, again said that he would not, and that any one who attempted to remove him would be made to repent the action. The policeman finding remonstrance was in vain closed upon him, and, after a severe struggle, succeeded in overpowering him and bringing him to the Court. When placed at the bar he said his name was Henry Verlander. He was of gentle. manly appearance, wearing moustachios. Mr. Brown repeated to Mr. DYER the demand of satis faction made upon him by the defendant, and his refusal to leave the house. The defendant denied that he had wished Mr. Brown to give him satisfaction. He had asked Mr. Brown to do what was right. As for fighting, he was satisfied that Mr. Brown would not go out with him. as he made his religious feelings a cloak for his determination not to accept the challenge. Mr. Brown hinted to the Magistrate that the defendant's visit related principally to a young lady, a ward under his guardianship. The defendant caught the import of the words, and got very warm upon the subject. He said the young lady, Mr. Brown's ward, had been introduced to him as a mar ried lady. when he had pod that she was not married. Mr. DYER asked Mr. Brown if he really believed the defendant intended him any personal harm ? Mr. Brown said he sincerely believed the defendant meant to use personal annoyance towards him. _ _ The defendant denied ;tny such intention, and depre. cated the use of the young lady's name, or further allusion to the matter in the court. Mr. DYER said he did not wish to hear private affairs ; and called on the defendant to put in bail. .HATTON-GARDEN. Frances Binkercomb was charged by Mary Chesterton with the murder of her own child The witness statr d that the prisoner, who was kept by a Mr. Lovett, at 31, Graf.. ton-street East, had lately given birth to a child by a farmer named Robert Gill, and that she k witness), having missed the child when about six weeks old, charged the prisoner with its death. when she acknowledged that she had poisoned it, and had then thrown the body down a cesspol in Monmouth -street, Seven-dials. On the prisoner being called on to make any statement she thought fit, she accused the witness of giving the laudanum to the infant, and afterwards making away with the body. Here a scene of the most revolting recrimination took place between the two women, leaving no doubt of both being concerned in the murder, and the Magistrate remanded them for a further examination, ordering that the cesspool should be starched for the body. MARYLEBONE. Two ruffianly fellows, named Martin and Savage, well known burglars, were examined on the following extra ordinary charge of robbing a publican, named Franklin, in Exeter street, Lisson-grove : The prosecutor was informe 1 that his tap-room contained a set of thieves, who were robbing his cellar of wine. Ho sent for the police, who rushed into the place, where they found the prisoners and others, who had taken up the flooring, and abstracted nearly five dozen of choice old port and Madeira from the cellar below, which had been carried out by four and five bottles at a time. The thieves made a desparate attack on the police, who managed to se cure them after a struggle. The prisoners were fully co mmitted for trial. UNION-HALL. EXTENSIVE ROBBERY. —James Simmons and Richard Bailer, two young men in the employ of iVlersrs. Richards and Co., the extensive cotton-manufacturers of James street, Kennington, were brought before Mr. Traill, charged on suspicion with breaking open a desk in their em ployer's counting-house, and stealing cash and notes to the amount of 3001. It appeared that on Friday afternoon, one o f the partners in the above firm, having occasion to leave the counting-house, which is attached to the manu factory, on his return soon afterwards found that it had been entered in his absence, and the desk, which contained cash and notes to the amount of 3001., broken open, and plundered of its contents. On this discovery, he gave immediate orders that the gates of the manufactory should be closed, to prevent the work-people he employed (150 in number) leaving the premises until they were searched, as it was conjectured at the time that the robbery must have been committed by some persons well acquainted with the place. The police were also apprised of the robbery, and after a strict search all over the premises the drawer was found in one of the machine-rooms, evidently placed there for concealment, but emptied of all the gold and si!ver, the notes and other securities for money being found in it. The circumstances which gave rise to the suspicion against the prisoners were, that one of them (Hillier) ab sented himself from the manufactory few minutes pre viously to the search of all employed therein taking place, and did not return again until the following morning. Wq:er, it Caine to the other prisoner's torn to be searched, ail gouge Yrils found in his posse sign, which had all appearance of haviii, been the instrument with which the desk had been forced open, the indentations made in the wood-work in wrenching it exactly corresponding pith the marks which such a gouge as that found on the prisoner would make. • Although a strict search was made of all those employed in the manufactory, yet none of the money taken from ti desk was round. The prisoners, who declared their innocence of tle charge, were remanded. THE MARKETS.-(SATURDAY (From the London New Price Current of Feb. 21.) SUGAR.—The indifferent assortment of British Planta tion Sugar at market has restricted business this week in grocery kinds, and the purchases have been rather limited, if there had been a supply suitable for the wants of the grocers a large business would have been done. For re fining purposes there has been a fair demand for all kinds, the prices paid are fully equal to those of Friday last for brown a; well as for yellow qualities. This afternoon there was a fair business doing in West India to supply the wants of grocers as well as refiners, and former rates were fully supported. At public sale 100 hhds Barbadoes sold with animation at prices fully equal to those of the last auction, and fetched 64s to 703 for low to fine quality. The total purchases for the week amount to 1,900 hhds and tierces. REPINED —For Refined goods previous rates have been fully supported, for standard lumps 79; to 80s has been given, 783 to 783 6d for rather inferior, and 75s to 77s 6d for low and good by own lumps ; Treacle common at 32; 6J, and patent and the IN st old make at 33s 6d to 355. For Pieces former rates have been maintained ; for Bastards the lowest price of common dry quality is 525. Bonded Crushed Sugar for present delivery at 34s 3d to 34; 6d, but to wait a few weeks under 34s there are no sellers. Loaves 101bs at 383 to 39;, and 14Ibs 375. Treacle has sold freely at 13s. Pieces and Bastards at 17s to 275. Dutch Crushed Sugar at 31s to 31s 3d on board at Amsterdam. MAURITIUS.— At public sale the whole of 9,616 bags were disposed of, and the biddings were animated, fine yellow sold at 673 to 68=, good 65s 6cl to 663 61, g Kid middling 643 to 655, middling 63s to 633 6d, low mid 62s to 62s 6d, tine brown 603 to 61s 6d, good 583 6i to 59, , , low middling 55s 6d to 57s 6d, low 50s 6d to 523, very ordinary and black 433 6d to 493 6d, good dry grey 663 to 66i 6d, good middling 645 to 64s 6d; middling 633 to 633 6d, 1)w midaling 613 to 62s per cwt. EAST INDIA.—This afternoon hlanilla, Java, and Siam were all in fair demand privately at previous quotations, but buying to any extent is prevented in consequence of the short supply. The grocers are still in want of Bengal; 2,219 bags white and 689 bags brown were put up to public sale, the former sold at stiffer prices, good middling bright at 70s to 71s, middling greyish 65s to 693 6d, good and fine yellow 68s 6d to 735, damp 68s to 70s, washed 67s to 68s 6d ; brown sold at moderate prices, low damp at 50a to washed 48s 6d to 495. FOREIGN.-This afternoon, 107 chests white, 264 chests 8 boxes 33 brls brown Bahia were offered at publiz sale, the former sold at previous rates, mid greyish at 25s 6d a 263, low mid 24s 6d a 255, low soft 23s 6d, very soft 223 6d ; the latter went readily at stiff priers, and were chiefly takea by our Refiners, fine strong greyish brown sold at 235, good 223 a 2236 i, mid 21s a 21s 61, low foxy 193 6d a 203 per cwt. TEA.—Without any apparent cause the demand for Tea has greatly subsided since we last wrote ; the sales, which commenced on Monday last, consisting of 94.000 packages, or 6,515,0001b5, have been well attended by town and country buyers, but they have evinced very little desire to purchase Tea at anything like previous rates, and the principal merchants not being disposed to submit to any material reduction in prices, have caused the demand to be very limited for actual consumption, and capitalists refrained altogether from buying ; the princip a l p art passed the sale has been bou g ht in and withdrawn at prices equal to those of this day week, but where the merchants have shown a desire to realise, they have been compelled to submit to a reduction on previous market rates of 4d to 6d for Congou, 5d to 61 for Twankay ; the decline on other kinds as compared with the sale which commenced on the 6th of January is 4d to 5d on Hyson, 4d on Imperial and Gunpowder, 31 to 4d on Hyson Skin, and 3d on Orange Pekoe; up to yesterday afternoon only 13 500 packages were actually disposed of, out of 49,500 packages which passed the sale, the re mainder being bought in and withdrawn at prices much above what the trade would pay. Sales in Company's Congou in the early part of the week were made at 2s 7id for cash, but they have since rallied to 2s 8d to 2s Bid ; large parcels have been disposed of during the last two days at 3s to 3s Oid, with two months' prompt. The latest prices actually paid are—Bohea, Fokien 2s Hid to 3a Ind ; Congou, common 2s 61 to 2s 7d, but mid coarse 2s 71c1 to 2s Bd, but mid rather strong 2s 84ci to 2s Bid, but mid blackish leaf 2s 84d to 2s 90, do ra ther strong 2s 10d to 2s 10i-d, do strong 2a lld to 3s, do Pekoe flavour 3s lci to 3s 7d, Sauchong 2s 7id to 3s 10d; Caper 2s 5d to 2s I lid ; Orange Pekoe, ord 2s 7id to 3s 3d, good to fine scented 3s 6d to 4s; Pekoe, black leaf 2s Bhd to 2a 8.0, flowery 3s to 4s 10d ; Twankay, fair common 2s 9d to 2s 91d, fine brightish leaf 2s lOid to 2s I ld. Hyson kind 3s to 3s 6d; Hyson Skits, crdinary 2s 6d to 2s 6id, mid to fine 2s 9id to 3s ; Hyson, ord 2s 10d to 3s 6d, mid and good 3s 8 - i to 4s 9d, fine and very fine 5s 5d to 7s 6d; Young Hyson, ord 3s to 4s, good and very fine 4s 2d to ss; Imperial 3s 2d to 5s 6d; Gunpowder 3s. 8d to 6s. 3d. To.day several sales were made in Company's Congou and they advanced to 2s 9&d for cash; for prompts there are not many sellers. " Board of Trade, Feb. 17, 1840. " Sir,—Having understood from representations which have been made to me, that much anxiety is felt by merchants and others connected with the Tea trade, with respect to the admission of Tea brought to this country in British bottoms from the coast of China, and having been in com munication with the Lords of the Treasury on this subject, I beg to iworm you, that Tea water-borne at Cariton, and received on board the importing ship at the most con venient place on the coast for taking in her cargo, is held to be imported from Canton, and therefore is admissible for consumption in this country. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, H. LABOUCHERE." To-day at the Tea sale the merchants displayed more firmness, and bought in and withdrew large parcels 2d per lb above the rates of yesterday ; the trade were also more anxious to do business, and there was a fair competition in the biddings—a larger proportion of the Tea which passed the sale was actually disposed of than in any previous day, and the prices paid show an ad vance on the rates of yesterday of id to Id per lb for Congou, other kinds also slightly improved in value, ex cepting for Hyson, which are Id cheaper; Twankay of low quality a shade easier, but the better sorts of the latter have maintained previous rates : the market closed with a much firmer appearance. Prices left off as follows : Cangou, mid blksh If ra str kd lit Pk fie 3s Id, but mid blksh If and ra str 2s LI to 2s I Od, but mid ra coa and ra str 2s 84d to 2s bid, but mid sea new If 2s 7d to 2s 7fl, good ord coa and new 2s 7d ; Twankay, low mid plait If 2s 83d to 2s Bd, mid ra cos 2s 91 to 2s 10d ; Orange Pekoe, but good mid blksh If 3s 4id to 3s sd; Souchong, good mid blksh If 3s Id; Flowery Pekoe, mid and good mid 4s. The following statement will show the progress the sales have made each day:— . _ _ Monday .. l5 060 chests passed, of which 3,000 chests sold Tuesday Wednesday Thursday 14.000 do do' 4,500 To-day 23,000 do do 5,000 Total 72,000 de do 18,500 COFFEE..—The sudden falling off in the demand for Tea has caused the grocers to be lass desirous to purchase British Plantation Coffee this week, and the private trans actions hare been on a small scale; clean kinds have maintained their former value, the supply being very small ; but unclean qualities went 2s cheaper. This afternoon there was little desire shown to buy any kind of Coffee by private contract, but prices underwent no further change; at auction 681 bags Ceylon sold at 102 s 6d to 103 s fur good ordinary, be;ng former rates. RUM, BRANDY, ♦ND HOLLANDS.—Rather more business doing in Rum ; the trade bought sparingly ; rather lower rates for Leeward of common quality; better kinds, as well as Jamaica, maintained former rates ; 100 pun,s Ja maica sold at 5s 6d to 5s 8d for 28 to 32 over proof, 5s 9d to 5s 10d for 33 to 35 over proof. In Leewards the sales are 130 puncheons ; proof to 5 over, at 3s 7d to 3s Sd ; 7 to 10 over proof, 3s 9d to 3s 11d. For East India 10 per cent over proof, 3s 8d is asked, but there has becn little business doing ; there is now no doubt but that it is the intention of Government to reduce the duty ; there have been some small arrivals. For Brandy the demand has been very extensive, principally on speculation, and prices have advanced again for Cognac; first brands of the vintage of 1836 have been disposed of at 5s 6d to 5s 7d in hhds, and 54 4d to 54 5d in puns ; 1837 in hhds 5s 5d to 5s 6d, in puns 5s 2d to 5s 3d ; 1838 in hhds 58 2d to 53 3d, in puns 58 Id. Bordeaux is also dearer, sales have been made at 2s 9d to 2s 10d ; large purchases have been made in Cognac for arrival at 5s Id to 5s 3d for first brands of the vintage of 1838, and 1839 at 4s 9d to 4s lld per gallon : the stock here of this kind is small. At the above rates some parties are not in clined to sell, in consequence of our Government having acf,reed to reduce the duty if the French Government will follow the same course towards certain articles of our ma nufactures, which proposition is to be brought before the House of Deputies, and will no doubt meet with success. Geneva is held firmly at 2s to 2s 2d, at which there has been a fair business doing. British Corn Spirits have been in good request at 9s 10d a 10a per gallon. Ores.—Cod Oil at 28110 s to 21{1155; Pale Seal at 29/ for first quality ; Sperm is held for former rates ; Linseed Oil at 24s to 24s 3d; Rape Oil, pale at 37s to 378 6d, and brown 36j to 36s 6d; Olive on the advance; East India Cocoa Nut 43s 6d to 44d for good quality. TALLOW.—The demand for Russian Candle has been steady throughout the week, and the continued firmness of the holders has led to a further improvement in prices ; fine Petersburg 'Yellow Candle on the spot has sold cur rer.tly at 518 9d to 525, and to be delivered all next month at 51s 6d per cwt. New Tallow for arrival at the end of the year is quoted at 42a 6d, with but a small business doing. The Count Dern+doff, the richest Russian sub je(!t, and posstsor of the celebrated silver and platina mines in sihrtria, is (according, to a correspondent) now in London, where he has just completed art angernenti for an alliance with the Princess Louisa, the b,•autiful daughter of the Prince Je rome Buonaparte. SPORI IN G INT ~LLIGEgCE. LATEST BETTING AT MANCHESTER. THE CHESTER CUP, P.l'. 8 to 1 agst Sir Thomas Stanley's Cowboy_offers 9 to 1 agst Mr. Ramsay's Lanercost 14 to 1 agst Mr. 0. Fairlie's Abraham Newland 14 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's St. Bennett 15 to 1 agst Lord Miltown's Cruiskeen: 15 to 1 agst Mr. Fowler's Gilbert Gurney 16 to 1 agst Mr. Copel an d' s Ki ng Cole-14 offered 20 to 1 agst Lord Westminster's Sir Ralph, 25 to 1 agst Mr. Price's Captain Pon. 30 to I agst Lord Eglinton's Maly°lio: 40 to 1 agst Lord Milltown's Wiirestrew 40 to 1 agst Mr. Speed's Aimwell THE DEMIT.III Muley Ishmael has been p'aced hors de combat ; 50 to 1 hAs been laid. TN OAKS. 3 to 1 on the field ; 12 to 1 agst Black Beg. STEEPLE CIIASE.—The Finchley Steeple Cline° atateh between Robinson's and Brown's mares, Caroline anti Claret, came off as appointed, on Wednesday. A few minutes after three o'clock the mares were brought our. both in fine condition, and with their respective riders, started to make the best of their way, without any restric tions as to line of country, and barring riding through7a gate or down a lane, to turn a flag at the back of a farm belonging to Mr. Hamilton, and return as they went, to to the field whence they started. Caroline took the lead to the first fence, followed closely by Claret, who after landing at the lane, fell into a grip of brambles and threw her rider, who quickly got up and overtook her, after parting company for half a field ; this enabled Robinson to gain 41 full 11 , 1 d and a ht.if. At the next fence Littler, who was riding a pilot, came down a burster on Robinson's Gray. The mare of the young 'un took her fences well, and gained ground fast, and on to the brook, which both cleared gallantly, Robinson still a long way a-head. The fences were all well cleared up to the turning flag, where, much to Robinson's surprise, Claret at the sane time t ,ok the turn with him. On returning they both took their own line back ; Claret fell at the fence, and struggling to rise, young Jackson following, rode over both and parted the mare, who again gave her jockey a second run after her. Robinson had in the meantime stole a field ahead, and after bending the hill to the down ride to the brook, where Littler again fielded Robinson a different way back, the mare Claret recovered her lost ground, and stole down the hill at a slapping pace, charged, and was first over the brook and up the hii: over the rising fences. It was odds Claret had the race in band, when within two fences of home, by riding to a stile instead of a fence in front; he lost ground, and Robinson gained the lead with his pilot to cover Claret's advance, and got first into the wiening field by a few lengths. After the 'race the party, about forty in number, sat down to an excellent dinner, prepared by the worthy host of the Queen's Head Inn. MR. JOHN THOROGOOD. London, Feb. 15, 1840."' DEAR have received the inclosed mite from a warm-hearted friend of religious liberty, with a request that I will forward it to you. Pray drop me a line to say thit it has reached you in safety. The debate on your case, and on the abolition of Church -rates, so far as Dissenters are concerned, was not very satisfactory on Tuesday night in the House of Com— mons; and it wo&d appear that all that we, the Dissenters of England and Wales, have to expect is a law that will free our persons from imprisonment, but not our property from seizure for these rates. I hear with sorrow of your declining health, and I think that in your situition you should consult with your friends as to the proper course to be pursued in the state of the Church-rate question that has now arisen, and the pro spects it exhibits.—l am yours, very faithfully, Mr. John Thorogood. EDWARD BAINES. c ; ( Enclosing lOs.) Chelm , ford Gaol, Feb. 17, 1840.". DEAR SIR—I thank you for conveying the tribute of re spect from a friend at Halifax, his name not being attached to his letter, I cannot thank him personally; but I hope; Sir, you will, on my behalf. The termination of the debate has not surprised me, for I fully believe that a proud and overbearing aristocracy have no sympathy for the honest and industrious classes of society. As it regards myself, no one could have devoted more time, or expended more money, to promote the return of the supporters of Lord John Russell's Government, than I have, according to my moans ; therefore I thought, at the least, he would have endeavoured to procure for Dissenters the privilege of worshiping their Maker according to the dictates of their consciences. With him, as a public man, I feel disgusted at his dis honesty ; and you may tell him, I would rather we tea thousand deaths, if that were possible, than submit to him. or any other man, and thereby violate sny principles. Knowing that God will judge the world in righteousness. I, for one, spurn his offer of a Bill to rob the just, with as much contempt as he has treated my present sufferings. I am sorry that you. Sir, should have retracted what )00 said relative to Mr. Mildmay, for you may rest satisfied I should- not have been here but -through his dictation. I beg also to tell you that he, with his warden, waited till the Bishop came to consecrate a chapel of ease, towards the building of which I subscribed a sovereign, before they made up their minds to cite me. It was settled at at sumptuous entertainment given by Mr. Gepp. one of the Wardens. As regards consulting► my friends, I believe you give me your advice from the beat of motives ; but I tell you, Sir, no power on earth shall cause me to yield what I know to be right in the sight of God, feeling grateful to Him that, be His grace, I am saved from suffering as a murderer, or a thief, or a►, evil doer, or a busy body in other men's mat.. ters ; and, acknowledging all your kindness, I beg you will believe me your obliged tied humble servant, JOHN THOROGOOD. Edward Baines, Esq., M.P. _HEROIC CONDUCT OF A YOUNG LADY. -- A few evenings ago, as a young lady was on a visit to a friend in the peaceful village of Youlgreave, in this county, a young' gentleman was escorting her from her friend's house, and hav ing to pass a small fish-pond situated in the pleasure grounck attached to the house, from the darkness of the night he acci dentally slipped into the water, and would, in all probability, have been drowned, had it not been for the determined resolu tion of the young lady, who, at the imminent peril of her own life, rushed into the water, and succeeded in grasping firmly hold of her lover's arm, and safely brought him again on terra firma.—Derby Reporter. The Silurian complains that the following fed accident has been magnified into murder •—" On Friday week, the woman employed by the Victoria Iron Company, in carry ing the letter-bags up from Aberbeeg was blown into the river Ebbw at a dangerous part of the rood, about two miles front the latter place, and was drowned. The body was found seve ral miles from the place where the accident happened, the flood in the river being at the time very high, but the bags have not, yet been recovered. [We (the Silurian) perceive by the. London papers that some of their correspondents have magni fied this accident into a horrible murder. The reports fur nished during the late disturbances were in many instances ex aggerated in a manner highly reprehensible. We hope that such practices will in future be discountenanced by our London Contemporaries, as the injury done to business by continual alarm is incalculable.] denimut SILVER TEA a n d COFFEE SERVICES, Drawings of the newest patterns, will be forwarded to any part of the country, in answer to a paid letter, with full parti culars of size, weight, and price; or Purchasers will find a most extensive assortment of the Silver Services is the Show Rooms. Either Tea-pot, Sugar Basin, Cream Ewer or Cofeet pot, may be had separately. T. COX SAVORY, Silversmith, &e., 47, Cornhill (Seven doors from Graoeshurek street), London. B IRTI-i On the 14th inst., at Charlton, Dorset, the lady of G. Sloane Stanley, Esq., of a son. On the 21st inst., at Brixtun-rise, the lady of Edward Har• vey, Esq., of a daughter. On the 20th inst., at Adlestrop-house, Glocestershire, the Lady Eleanor Cathcart, of a son. On the 22d inst., in Upper Gower-street, the lady of Edward Esdaile, Esq., of a son. On the 22d inst., in Chester terrace, Regent's -park, the lady of Robert Lyall. Esq., of a son. On the 22d inst., at South-bank, Regent's•park, Mrs. d. Previte, of a (laughter. On the 19th inst., at Clifton Church youngest son cf the Rev. James Vaughan, Rector of Wrazall, Somerset, to Har riet, daughter of the Rev. John Hensman, Minister of Trinity Church, Clifton. On the 20th inst., at Walc-_ , t Church, Bath, Langton Browell, Esq., of Kentish -town, to Mary Anne, eldest daughter of Cap tain Leigh Lye, of Bath. On the 22d inst., at St. James's Piccadilly, Mr. Au gus t us Colema n C roc k er, youngest son of ' Jonathan Crocker, Esq., of Hanover- park, Peckhun, to Elizabeth, youngest daughter of Charles Cliffe, Esq., of Regent -street. On the 22d inst., at St. Pancras Church, B. Harting, Esq., Albany, late of Calcutta, to Louisa Le Neve, widow of the late G. F. Le Neve, Esq., Barrow, Suffolk. Oa the 22d inst., at Charlton Church, Leopold Redpath, Esq., of Blackheath -terrace, to Jessie, only daughter of Thomas Sherman, Esq., late of Charlton. DIRD. On the 20th inst., at Cranford, Middlesex, Wiliam Cane, Esq., formerly of Pall-mall, aged 61 % On the 21st inst., Henrietta Mary, second daughter of Corn wall Reynolds, Esq., of Hackney. On the 21st inst., in Fitzroy-square, Thomas Wilkinson, Esq., formerly of the Bombe) Civil Service, aged 81. On the 16th inst., in Upper Berkeley-street, Benjamin Prep.- ton, Esq., late of Calcutta, aged 58. On the 17th inst., at Soham, Cambridgeshire, John Slack, Esq , aged 53. On the 18th inst., at Turnham-green, Susan Eliza, the wife of James Home Renton, Esq., of the Admiralty. On the 18th inst., at Cheltenham, Lady Drake, widow of the late Sir Francis Henry Drake. At Crofton Lodge, Hammersmith, Robert Cory, jun., Esq., of Burghcastle, and Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, aged 65. On the 2.oth inst., at Grays, l'..*sex, Matilda Bedford, youngest sister of Just: ua T. lledf.rd, lar; it,2 rl•in -s,t ; eef. London: Printed and Publn.hed by AI fli11)0 () UM/ of No. 112, Strand, at Mc Sun Office, No. 112, Strand, it t! 0 county of Middlesex.—Monday, February 2401840. 4