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~rM.r:.~-~~, PRO V! NC Th L J() JRNALS. 'Amidst tke .rithimirs ut ivar, 'the efforts ittittectibh its at lifithe we ft.t.l :•ery' refreshing to imuse *a while t uric' I)aci;ic stibiert: The extract ivlricii 'we st , l)- til l troai the Dit/ilin if/eel:ly I^e, literEaiv places rig 'kali/lig tit lila tilid•flow'ers; "trail we are satiqit.d h•ir take intieb iiiea sure i k so `agrc-eahte of a trip c, is of 11(!!, high—re - 01140s of 'the highest imoor.~• sock'. We a - re Oa also to find, that agricoltnie i 3 stmlied it/ It etiti/Lint: diligently pursued, not only /13 a 1;n/fir, hitt as a science. " AGitiCU - LTEIRE AND BOTANY. " Upon the . se two most inreresting subjects, intimately cote netted together, duriog the months of May, 3ime,•july, Augmist and September, Doc tor Wade, Prafessor to the Institution of the Dub lin Society,. has delivered above - '6O lectures, which. We are happy to say it, were nunierously and Most respectably attended - . • " Sitoated and circumstanced as Ireland is, the abov• subjects, deeply interesting to mankind at larg , , are of . paramount 4)4)olr:ince to her. It is Iron , the bosom of time earth that she Must derive the principal source t:f her wealth '; and cantemp tuonslyas some very contemptible writers haVe ventured to speak of agricultural' pursuits, there are none so yontiticive - to the weltare, either Moral or political, of a nation, and none, When prosecuted in a liberal and philosophical Manner, that require rt tet ider or M m ore.coprehensive range of acquaintauee' with the useful arts and sciences. Considered in the first respect, that is, in a moral point of view, it is evident that such pur suits are not only not ft lemony to, but are abso lutely incompatible with, any that are calculated to dissipate or debauch the mind, to pamper or enervate the body. But, without reasoning a priori, it we look immediately to effee:s, we shall find persons seriously engaged in the business of agriculture, no matter of what rank, distinguished from their equals in other respects, by regularity Of life, sobriety of demeanour, and general de cency of conduct, .characteristics that tad be ascribed to no other cause than the nature of their Pursuits, which require all these as toncomitantS necessary to ensure them .success. They have little, or no time to spare for the frivolous anntse- Thents and debilitating pleasuresof town life, and no ne whatsoever - to devote to the interests of Party or Faction. Whatever loosens the bonds of Society, or serves to sow the seeds of disseo tion or discord amongst if) 11 , 1eMber3, is directly adverse to their interests ; and, accordingly, we never find them joined in time outcry Of sedition, or ioterferitig, in any degree, except for the laud , able purpose o f ' r e stor i ng • order and harmony. Re•idine where their property lies, a circtimstance essentially necessary to their avocations, the in fluence of their example, still more titan of their authority. if felt throughout the whole neigh bourhood, and the peasantry becomes reconciled and even well affected to that life of labour and industry, in which they see their landlords, their natural- friends and protectors, take so deep at iutee,,,te • " If tee consider the matter in a' political point of view, wreshall hod that it is equally beoeficial to a state in all its external relations. No coun try is sti difficult to he "conquered, as a country strictly agricultural ; labourers, says Machiaveli, form time very best soldiers . , because their bodies, inured to all the vi, issitudes of the seasons, and readered vigor Ons by temperance, are more cap able than those of any other description, to un dergo the fatigues and hardships of military life. To then: the acqui,ition of discipline serves as an amusement, as a sort of relaxatiomm from work. Sr far tar the mere machinery of an army, for what the French call the materiel; let us now examine as to its moral energy, which is much more essential to the grand and ultimate purpose, that of defending the country, and repellipg vasion. Here an agricultural nation has an on ppealiable advantage' over every other. Property, whet Im r in a'civilized or savage state, is the great Cement of society, of which it is time creature. 1t is dearer to than than life, and the reason is it does not arise from a blind instinct .of our 'nature) because property is essentially necessary to maintain all those social relations, to which lite is indebted for its principal charm. The man who 'sacrifices , his life, sooner that resign property, may be truly said to have sacrificed it to his family, to his relations, to his friends, and to his country ; kir, as Cicero justly observes, Amines omniptin caritates una PATitiA eomplexa est. it is not, therefore, from,a principle of selfishness, that such a sacrifice is made. Noty, of all pro perry, the least moveable is that which is attached 'to time soil. It is there property is realized—it there becomes what the law terms " real proper ty." It is the cultivation of the soil that renders such property .valuable. The 'merchant may, in a case of paramount danger, transfer his capital to another country, to .another hemisphere. It has paper wings to Hy. With ; it is.endo wed with a sPecies of obiquity ; but the land is'stationarv, as i t i s stable ; the oecttpier must defend, if he 'swishes to keep it ; and, as in an agricultural society,' the occupier has rarely any other kind of propriety,' he seldom resigns that, except with his breath. Thus the paramount interest of so cial man engages him to defend his country, and all the uniform habits of his life are admirably calculated to coality - liiin for the performance of the -duty. shall make apology for the length of this article ; anti, indeed,- little apology will be deemed Ocressar --a. COll4l ry, where, as here •and in theSister-Island i - men May seem to be so sensible of .the truth of the principle that we have been endeavo ur i ng to inculcate. Tifill our eyes where mite will, and we shall find instances cit. the truth' of Wis.remark. But we need not go beyond the•very institution, which has given birth to the Profestorshi'p, to: the. labours of which -we have been referving. The Dublin Society gives that degree of consideration, and precedence in consideration, to the Agricultural interests of Ireland to which they arc entitled. The Institu tion, therefore, is truly of a patriotic character; as such, it has received the liberal encou ragement and encrgeticsiippint of a parental Go vernment. The example it sets' has 'been most extensively foll Owed, and in'eiery to:trier we End laming societies arising under various nations. 'l'o the diffusion of•knOwledge, 'on this subject of pararninint national importance, tlie %cientific labours, ill the Botanical 'Garden at Glastlevin, have contributed, more 'even titaft men are aware of. The merits of Doctor Wade in this departnient liave been 'evinced by thilr effect upon thy Public. Hi 3 Lectnres, a's we have already remarkeil, have been Most nuttiv - ously, and most restectatity attended -; this .cOuld be only for, the purpose of acquit'ing inforthation ; be - citisSe the s'ekuce of Botany is destitute of that attractive glare, iyhich Chemistry au,l tsther branches- of experimental philosophy posse'ss, and which Is calcUlated to gratify a n idle curio- , sity, as well as a liberal thirst for information. But if this were at all "clouhtfuj, the serious at- tendon paid to him by his auditors, and the se dulors care with which they are observed to note down his Lectures, and to preserve the dif ferent specimens which he submits to their ob servation, are substantial proofs that his labours answer the grand purpose to which they are directed, and for which they were intended by that respectable Body, whose organ he is. The Duke of Bedford, bred, up in the school of that great Patron of Agriculture, his late brother, did not think it below the Viceregal dignity to attend the Lectures of our. Professor. He at, tended them, and with unostentatious attention. His approbation, so highly honourable to the talents of the Lecturer, was ,evinced, not only by Isis repeated attendance; While bere, hot by his recollection, of them, after he had retired front office, and Withdrawn fs:oin the country.' This appearS fr'om his correspondence with Doc tor Witde, upon subjects connected with those of his Lectures, and by the present of a unsigni ficent folio edition of a History of Grasses, pre- sented to him by his Grace. and of which hut a few copies were struck off. These are open for inspection at the Botanic Garden ; and we mention the circumstance merely to slew that a science, so caicidated for the benefit society, Js meeting encour3gtment and stoppor from those whose encouragement and support tan best contribute to its progress and props. gut ion." LAW INTELLIGILNCE. COURT or tftINCERY, obi. 30. The proceedings in the Vice- Chanceiloi•ii Cour :his day were wholly nnintereliting, consisting o fry legal argument in Bankrupt and Partnershir ransactions. COURT OF KING'S !3ENCE-1, SERGEANT'S I:tti HALL, otioliE a 'SO. HOLLAND AND CO. V. HALL AND CO. This was au action hrooaht 'by the Plairitifts against the Defendants at the last Assize at Croy don, betore Mr. Justice I.3trattouGuts. The fol lowing tvvre the principal farts of the ease, as stated from the report of the evidence ert the trial At a pet iod kvhen the export of arms from this cuuntry.to South America Was prohibited, the two parties in the case agreed to send Out a C 81. ;4 0 of arms to Buenbs Ayres, and a ship named the A me-• lia was jointly purchased by (hem to take the car go ion board. The plaintiffs were to pay two thirds of the price, and the defendants the remain = ing third, which amounted to 466/. 6s.'Sd. It was arranged that the arms should be put on board the Amelia, with. a covering license for a cargo, of salt to Ostend, but that another ship, called the Richmond, should be. ready to re ceive the firms on hoard, at sea, from on board the Amelia, and convey them to South America. After some time, the arms not having been put on board, the speculation was.consideted unpromis ing, and abandoned accordingly, and a cargo. ' salt was conveyed by the Amelia. to Ostend. The third of the price of the siiip,•amounting to 4661. 6s. B , l'.‘was chimed from the defendants, who re sisted payment, on the ground of the illegality of the original agreement, and their coose ctently not being bound by it. The Jury, under the direction of the Learned 'Judge, found a verdict for the plaintiffs, subject 'to be set aside by the Court, and a nonsuit entered.— A rule having been obtained to . spew cause why a nonsuit should not be entered, Mr. Gurney. showed cause in support of the verdict. No illegal act was, he contended, committed by the parties. But, on the contrary, the cargo of salt - Wcl6 sent on board the Amelia to Ostend: This, he main tained, legalised the agreement. Every thing il legal in the.contract had been abandoned. And the Jury, upon a view of the facts of the•case, must have been 'satisfied of this when they found a'verdicrfor the plaintiff., The Court was of opinion, that as the agree ment originally was illegal, it could not bind the defendants. :.knd no act of the parties had been proved, shewing that the contract had been lega lised or abandoned. On this ground their Lord ships ordered . a nonsuit to be entered, SUICIDE.-Tuesday a young man named Ebbs put a period to his 'existence by taking a ( i na p t i ty of poison, a t a p. i bli c --h ouse at Hackney. The ,untortunate young man carried his desperate pur pose into effect in the most deliberate Manner.— On the morning in question be called on an ac- quaintance, anti asked him if he would take a walk with hint. -His friend complied, and in the course of their walk passing a public-house in Hackney, he invited his friend to go in and take part of a glass of brandy and water. His invita tion was accepted, and on its coming to his turn •. to drink, Ebbs took a small paper of 'powder front his pocket, put it into the liquor,•and drank it oil'. On his friend asking . bitn what it was, he said it `vets physic, whi c h took in consequ ence o f . hi s stninacb being out of order. He. then took the glass to the bar, and desired the mistress to wash it (juke clean, as he bad been mixing physic in ir, and stood till he saw it rinced several times. Soon after be was taken violently ill, and it was !hen discovered he had taken atsenie. rle lived'aboutd .three .hours, when he expired in the greatest] agony. • bi,b hA:t LtA*. CUTTING A - N - i) Yesterday Without mi r y,- aged v , as indicted for utaliciaisly Cuttiwr r a •ud maiming Alaria Hera, with i n t ent to d o hay bodily harm, and prevent his lawlid anPrehension. The facts of the case as detailed in the evidence are its fnllow t--01) the 2Sth of September, - Joseph Jacobs, with whom the young woman iS servant, went with his family to Bromine») Charier), leaving the house in care of the servant. IVhile engaged iu One of the rooms op stairs, She was alarmed at hearing a noise below, espeCially as there %vat no person left in the aortae but herself. On going down she fOnt`ni the prisoner in her master's dreSsiagarooni ; stooping over a portmanteau. She uttered a'cry ut " Oh 1 villain, what are ynu doing here ?" He inamediately rose, se'ized her by the arms, and said, " By Clod, I'd kill you if you say one word." She begged hint to spare her lite, on which lie was leaving the,roony, and had reached the door, when seeing he was about to lock it, she seized it with both her hands. On this he cut her severely across the hands with a drawn knife, which he had at that moment in his hands, by which she lost a considerable tplantityof blood ; and was' a fortnight under the care of a surgeon. She ran to a window, and called out murder, on which Holliday, a young Gentleman in one of the Cloyernment Offices, came to her assistance, and secured the prisoner. The outer door.beingbsten ed, Mr. Holliday stated, he obtained entrance by going over an iron rail and breaking a pane'of glass, by which h opened the windoW and got in. The girl, at the time he 'entered, was bleed ing profusely, and the cuts seemed deep. The prisoner had not his shoes out, but when taken he made no resistance, and in going to the watch house, he vnlantarily acknowledged having enter ed the honse for the purpose of robbery. Iu his defence fie endeavoured to spew that t! , e cut was the effect of accident, and was solely owing to 'the gill's imprudence, who would not surf: r hits t 6 quit the house in the 83411 C quiet and peaceable way that he had entered it. She was continually. calling him a villain, a robber, and a murderer, which so 'prOvoked him, that he said, " If I' an) either I will send you jumping into the other world." He said he did so because she was th e public to•come to her aid,'and he .vas not willing to fall into the hands of public jus. tice. He called no witnesses, but spoke in the above manner for neatly 17 minutes. Mr. Justice DALLAS summed tip the evidence, and praised the conduct. of the servant in the strongst terms. He held it to be law, that if a person found in a honse . bya servant in this situa .tion cut her in any way to cause death, he would certainly be guilty of murder. if be wiltally cut her in the house tel- the pitrpose of making his escape lie was liable wider the statute pissed 15 years ago, The only question here was simply this, did he wilfully or accidentally cat her ? ser vant had positively sworn that he did deliberately do so, as she saw hits wove his hand for that purpose ; while he denied it in the most positive terms. They would therefore consider whether it was possible this, could be the case, aad see what eredit,wrs to be g iven to the witnesse, The eircumstanceof his having a erivii koileat the moinent In his Ii cud, was. ekt remely: an t 'mate ; but a portnianteau being in the room, he might probably have had it for the' purpose of cutting that portmanteau. These weie points worthy of the deepest attention, and Wi,Juld; no doubt, have a proper consideration from the Jury, , wbo were bound to take no notice Of the 'motive he might have had in entering the house, but merely to at tend to the facts charged in the indictment.. One of the Jury feeling unwell, the other eleven retired with him, and in twenty minutes returned a verdict, finding the prisoner Guiilia-- - -Deatit. The prisoner is a stout Man, and was dressed in'a black coat and waistcoat, black silk Laud kerchief, and grey. pantaloons. Ile seemed in deep thought during the time die Jury were out of Court. Yesterday James,Kelly, 37, and John Thomson, 26, ‘vere indicted for assaulting George Curtis on the highway, and robbing him of ten 11. notes. The prosecutor is a seafaring man, and hail been for two years with the prisoners in the. same ship. On the 141 U of Ovober he was in company with them in it ,, sern4 l yoape,' when they complained they were badiAtt, on which. be said, •` come along with me, and give you meat and drink." They accordingly weOt to a public-house, where he gave them sonic beef steaks and eight pots of porter. They went with him .after this under the pretext of seeing him home, and on the road they knocked him down, beat him, and robbed him •of the money. He procured a constable, who in two hours after fohnd Thomson, on whom were seve ral of the notes, a handkerchief and some papers, which were the property of the prosecutor. On' Kelly there was found also some of the property. The description of the two men given by the pro sectitor was sO accurate, that the Head-borough bad no difficulty in tracing them out, aud Kelly made a desperate resistance. The prosecutor was, extreme)) , hurt by them.' I u (reitnee they alledged that he had given them the money, but of this they had no evidence, nor any to chartic/er. The Jury were charged by Mr. Justice DALLAS, entisidered the conduct of the prisoners one Of the Most brutal and inhunian in erery point of view, Ile particularly commented on the circuit: stance of their treating hint So Cruelly, after the humane manner in which he had , relieved than,. complaining to .him as an old t► lend that they were; in deep distress. No doubt whatever appear-, ed to hint which he could possibly suggest in their favour,'and he was afraid the Jury mast find them :Th-e Jury considered the case, very clear, and without a moment's hesitation found them Guilty, Death. Wm . Edgar, 19, and Joseph West,- 18, were in - •• dieted tor assaulting George Saunders, and rob bing hill) of 241. it, Notes, From the prevric.ac ingAnautter.itt trbich the-prosyeutor detailed the vase, 111 r. Justice PAtul surpired the pri)sectizioti, and refused Saunders his expences.--=-The prison erawere of coarse diicharged . . • The following . were capitally convicted : Thonts Welch, for „acsaulting Elizabeih Crew on. the highway, and tithing from her Inperson a shawl. Robert Kelly, for assaulting' Matthew Young. on the Vgh-, way, aut.l taking from ais person a silver watch. POLICE i , "::\SION t'i6trsi,. • . _ . , • tk're&siva Itosn R Et/011apOrli dryer, cliargcd with robbin t i his empb,yer, of•Sulithlield; ot 62Si. 17s. was yeiter• day filially , examined., The 1)10ln:111:J1S of tbo •ease ivere fully detailed a few days'since, and yes terday the whole of the e'videlice regarding tf“; flight of the .prisoner s his ext'Yaordinary vicissi tudes.in France, and arrt•st at Ch4thant, was read over and sworn to by the several witnesse s . The prisoner was 'fully committed tot; trial. G►JiLDHALL romGP.o I3ANK: No TES.—Llannall Brown wai charged ‘yitil attempting to pot off a forged of England note. Mr. Wackmore, a hosier, of 54, Floll3ornhill, was the prosecutor. The pri. saner-was contruitted for further examination ou Monday. DRASIA. , --William White, a boy of about 15 years of age, an apprentice to a Mrs. Barton, bookbinder, of Lovell's-court, Paternoster-rove, was charged by his mistress with absenting him self from her service. The prosecutrix state;;, that the prisoner was a most industrious lad t:l1 tvithiu these few months, " when he had Olt misfortune to gt.s to a private Theatre," and since that time he had utterly ne4lected' his business, and, upon being urged to for;ake his tiranyi, , tic friends, he dec , smped. A kind of theatrical journal, kept by the culprit, was here handed to. the' Alderman—it 'contained entries of the different Chara'icters 'he had sustained. The fol-. lowing is one item among the multitude of Jrr 'ones.—" The Woodman's Hut, Oct. the '6014 Count Conenherg by Mr. King, right ,name White, will cost Bs.''— S ir thinks Price read se vend extracts from this bdoki by which it ap peared' that the owner of it was not afraid of emulating Kean himself, for lie had , otie thr,,o g b the whole range of his 'characters. In spite of his histrionic talents, however, he was ordered to return to his bookbinding, .with promises of Iris, future good conduct, or otherwise he vvotilti make his debut upon the boards at 13rideweli.---e Discharged. HATTON-GARDEN. PRIVATE STlLL. — YesterOav Thomas Nichols teat brought up by an Excise Officer, charged vvith litleping a private Stilt, for the p urposes of iikfir,Bl distillation. The charge being fully proved, he was convicted in the penalty of 301. beii4 tillable to pay, he was committed to priblon fog_ six 'mouths, to he kept to hard labour, unless the penalty be paid within that period, according to the Actof Parliament. M URD CRS. CONFESSION OF TIIE SATE MURDERS AT THEI7° Dt ETHOUPE.—On the22d of October instant, vionsly to the removal from Louth to the Cad of Lincoln, for trial at the. next Aisizes, tridia Raithby, the unhappy man coonn'tted to that NJ ' son, upon the Coronet's inquest on the ttith volumarily and fully confessed bimsdf to Ire thej only person guilty of, or in any mainter concerne:l iii,.the pet petrition of the, Crimes on lllBt occa sion charged against him; We understand him to have stated, tbat be went atone for the purpose oi robbing the house, without any intention of corn miffing the murder, but was led to take the lives of the old man and woman from the resistairce they Made ; and that the resistance made, parti .colarly by Iltdl, was So great, that thcy b„,d one time nearly overpowered their desiierme as sailant.—(Bosion Paper.) ANOTHER HpRRI,D MURDER ^On Sunday even ing; the 19th instant, a most 'horrid murder was committed on the body of John Parkins, a youth of about 15 years of age, servant of Mr. john Cutts, of North Hykenham. The hotly was fonnti 13:'ing, in a ditch., by the side of the turnpike-roaj leading from Lincoln to Newark, in the parish of North flykeharn,- with a fracture on the left tem vle, and severe bruises on - the bead and various parts of the body, supposed to have been inflicted 'with -a stick, or some similar weapon. The de-• ceased left'his master's house about half-past three o'clock on Sunday afternoon, with a horse, which lie took to the close itt a halter. The .horse was put into the close, and the gate fastened, but the halter has not been round. A tobacco-box, which was lying near the, body, is supposed to have be longed'to the murderer, and is left in the hands of the constable of North Hykuhant.—(lbid.) SINGULAR ESCAPE.—On Tuesday last, Wrr.... LIAM HUNTER, a boy about nine years of age, accidentally fell into a w a t er pit at Silk stob, shire, of the depth of forty-gve feet, and, what is most extraordinary, without receiving the slightest injury.. After, being immenied in the water,t we're feet deep at the bottom bt !he pit, he caught tlie end of 13 chain, which he held 'till his ,cries were heard above, when he was happily released from his perilous situation. BIRTHS. .On the 29th instant, Mrs, J.,A. of a stn. t On the 17ifi instant, the Lady of Tholmt.s jsuu, of,Barnes, of twin sans, our still.born. AIAIIRIED • Orr the 1841) instant, 'at St. Anne's Church, in rtegin. Captain. the Hon. James Ast6y IMatide, it6yal NaVV, to Mias rilhinia itrodricL, second daughtvr of his Urace the Arch.. hishop of CaShel. o.) . the,27th 'hist. Alexander Gillespie, Esq. of Americas square, tw.latie, eldes4 daughter of the . 114 r. - .WilliarnMenZiesi of Lanark, N. B. I DI Et). On Wednesd:ty evenin, Mrs. Marchant, of Gerrartl-3truct, , Soho, 'en the year of her age. Yesterday, in:Monte,;:pg-plxce, Anna Fox, etekst (Luis-liter of the h+te tier. Fox, of Ettyl, Beverly. • 'I he Hee. George Hotton, D.D. fate Ftll , ,)w of Magd,d.e n 1 College, Oxford,' Vera'r of Statetton,‘ end :lector of ;.1,1,1- churcle-etnn-Fo ; klike, on :Sunday. last. After ha rine in - .'" formed it portion of the duty at hot b tke former ehelreilvseol that flaw, Ice was seized wiCl) a viuletzt pal , n in tlie• about 11.211-pa;l ' , even in the eveninz,ared vuleireC:lti,aet 6efore medical .assiatanee eauld possibly lee uletenresi. LONDON: Pritited by J. IL CA TIST,'IRS, of No. 29; Grer Ormond -street., Qat:en-square; add published by R. A : SCRIPPS; of 'No. 7, Soutil Molton-street, at Tire Sun Oltice, No. 112, Strand;- where ALP:et tiseinents ) Orders, Letters, &c. (post-paid) must he addressed. ' to ` :~ 1 i r i~