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POLICE.
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BOW-STREET.
Yesterday a mat of the name of Topping, one of the
watchmen of the pariah of St. Pam rag, nal brought to the
Office, and unde•wessi an ',Lamination no stosp.cioo of tiring
concerned nit!. the two men who were detected a short time
'lore in hairier robbed the Initial-ground cf that parish of
the body of a c 1411.1. The Prisoner had been ordered into
ca•tnily in consequence of Coloio I Pied and the principal
Gentlemen of that parish harm; a meeting yesterday to in.
weoigste the condhirt of the sexton, the watchmen, Dud
other. of the parish upon the uccielion, It appeared that
the does who are kept at the baryiniveround would have
attacked the robbers, who had a cart and horse in readiness
to carry off bodies, had they not been controlled by the
watchunu, to whom they were known.

IRELAND.
DUBLIN, APRIL 16.
A meetinv of the Guild of Merchants was held
yesterday, in which Mr. Ness moved a congratula-
tory Address to the Marquis IVellesley on his op-
poititment to the Government of Ireland. The
Address was read and seconded, but wits put aside
by a lion for the appointment of a Committee
to prepare the Addrtss; and, emitrAry to all prece-
dent, the Gentlemen who moved and seconded the
Address were not appoiuted on this Committee,
which it composed of ssames hitherto unfriendly to
the Catholic cause. The Address moved and read,
contained no allusion to Catholic off 11 rs.

Mr. NW then moved the following resolosiinn,
Resolved-11st it is the opinion of this Guild, that, nn
■ll occasions for the admission of Freimen, no person ad-
missible by law should be excluded OH ISCCUIIIII of religion,
a• loyalty and good conduct should be the qualifications
required.
After some conversation it was filially resolved.
on the motion of Captain Fitzsimons, seconded

by Mr. Sslidded
Thai inasmuch as there is no law on our Books to the sus.
elusion of any individual on account of religion, the prey
snit motion is uuneeessaiy, ridiculous, sad absurd.
STATE OF THE COUNTRY.

LIMERICK, APRIL 13.
The quantity of arms entirely surrendered to
Colonel Dick, 4.2 d regiment, commanding at
Itothkettle, is stated to be-.-twenty.noe guns, three
carbines, seven pistols, a blunderbuss, and right
bayonets.
number of arms received by Major Nl.Lean
is—itine muskets, five pistols, a blunderbuss, and
a rifle-piece.
[Films dot Liaserteit Chronicle of Saturday.]
We are much cutivlrlietl to •tate,kat. on yes-
terilsy, gybe Rev. John Croker, of Croom Glebe,
a Magistrate of this county, was returning from
Ballingarry, two fellows, armed with blunderbusses,
attempted tuassassinate him near Kilmacow Church;
but, fortunately, one of the arms missed file, and
the other burned priasing. Mr. Croker was attend-
ed by his servant. An immediate pursuit was com-
meeiced for the perpetrators—they, have, however,
for the present, eluded justice.
A large field was turned up near Hospital on
Wednesday night, but D. C. O'Grady, Esq. with
the police, made the neighbouring country people
turn it down the neat morning,.
The house of James 111.Cortby, a respectable
fanner, near Kilmallock. m this county, was eu-
Way consumed on last Wednesday night.

THE INSURRECTION ACT.
SPECIAL SESSIONS AT LIMERICK.

Mr. Serjeairit TORRENS. and THOMAS LLOYD.
F..q. the Assittatit Barrister, took their treats on the
Betich.

Mary Barry WAS indicted for serving the follow-
ing notice uu alargarct Tuohill :
" NOTICE.
" Bandon, March 20.

" Fresh warning receive,' this day from our Head Gene-
ral, not to admit any person or persons In rem sin on any
unlawful road, bat in their non place of residence; there-
hue I war■ roe to clea► out of 'hie place against the Ist of
April, or you will mark the cona•gseace of it. I ass, over-
looking the slim period of time until the 23th of March
next, therefore against that day appointed be clear out of
Cappyaahaue, for we are weary and tired of being out every
night on that expeditioo, and in likewise being afraid of
bests( detected, as not having oar fortis together, therefore
don't give us no more trouble on that occasion, for this is
the last warning you are to gel, therefore be g by
this notier, or if you du nut, your house and cattle will be
oar mark, for dissection will be their fete. I have no wore
to communicate to you, but be said by this notice.
° By his authority,
" GENERAL ROCK, K C.R.
" Commander and Chief of the Hibernian Forces.

" To the Widow Tuohill and Sons."
She acknowledged the tact, and the case was
clearly proved. The Prisoner was sentenced to
seven years transportation.
James Cockky and Thomas Holey were tried
for being Anent from their place of residence.
Those persons were employed to make puttees:
they were otherwise inoffensive men. and not com-
ing within the pros ision of the statute they were
acquitted.
CORK, ♦PRtt. 13.

We have the pleasure to state that in this
county the worn of arms continues to afford fur-
ther proof of the good disposition already evinced is
I parishes; lour guns, which had been taken at
Curhue and Donotaglimore ems% were restored
within a few days to Owen O'Callaghan. Esq. of
Lombardstown, who handed them to that active
Magistrate, Adam Newman, E«i. of Dromore, and
two fowling pieces, two gun-lucks, and two powder
fl asks, were sent in to the Rev. Cornelius Buckley,
P. P. of Dottosighinore.
On Tuesday night that active Magistrate. W. P.
White, Esq. assisted by some peace officers, sur-
prised a Committee of tradesmen at a house in
Fishamble-lane, mid having token possession of
some books and papers which they had, made the
parry prisoners, and committed them for that night
to Brulewell ; they have since been transmitted to
gaol, and are, we ate informed, to be tried under
the 11'hite Boy Act.

In the Court of Chancery yesterday morning, the
LORD CCHAMCRLLOR °Wei ved, that it Might be
useful tu the Bar to know that he would ri►e st hall-
pest one o'clock, as he was obliged to attend else.
where. At the reviled of Mr. HART, the hearing
of ihr petition b x perle CARROLL liw the 'natter of
HOWARD mod Gums, bankrepts, was postponed
until ibis dad•.

INVERTED SCIUME of COPERNICUS.

The publication Publication of a work, entitled The inverted Scheme
of Copermiers, was annonisced in our Paper of yrsterdsy.—
In ingesiows Treatise the author, SI,. Pitzticrer. ex-
amines she Copernican System, sail all the itaprnvements upon
it mule by successive astronomers, contrasted with the forma-
tion of the world, as revealed is the history of the erratum.
Prefixed to the work is a long Idler to Sir HVIMITICEY
Davy, !krt. in which She Author thus explains his purpose:
a It is to ONR GREAT ERROR DI public education that I par-
ticularly wish to call your attention. sad I consider Ate is
its tendency of greater importance thin all she rest pus to-
'ether. This e, ror, siliich his berm considered the glory of
our nation, hulls n conspicuous place in the course prescribed
to the Students at all our Universities and l'ablic Schools—
THU MODERN SYSTEM Or PRIMUS, or, is more precise
terms, the modern System of Astronomy—the Suter System :
which combines the Copernicans, Br:plains', and Netruini .n,
Hypothere.. Ido ant hrsitate to say, that to hold a Arm
belief in this system, ■nd •l the same time i■ the sacred
records, is so incongruity that cannot rationally exist is say
intelligent and reflecting mind. This is • prspositios, the
substioneeorwhich, smosg other (hinge, I have maintained i■
the Book of which I have now the honour to request your
acceptance, and It/ recommend to your attentive pef se 1."
In p u of this purpose. the Author labours i■ his
work to overthrow the present generally received ”strat of
Astronomy, as sanctiourd sad unproved by Sir Issas NEW-
TON, and to exsmine and refute the hypotheses Maintained by
various other philosophers of relebi ity, who have advocated
systems not rusiformable with that Inid down in Scripture. The
undertaking is certainly • formidable one, in the ex,cation
of which the Author has di►played extensive kneeing, deep
h, sad great discrimination. Of his success the reader
will judge by the impressios made upon his own mind by
the argument., many of which are poweuful and ingenious,
and all Interesting and instructive. Ie the conclusion of his
letter to Sir HVIIIPUnir DAVY, the Author riniumuces his is-
tention of publishing a second Book, in which be has formed a
system that will nen* r contradict the Scriptures, nor oppose
the experience of the senses, and that wholly rejects the fic-
tions sod extravagant &deities resorted to in the systems
of those who have gone before him. The psblication of such
• work is well calculated to excite extraordinary interest sod
cariosity is the learned sad literary world.

The following is an extract from the Work just
published :
" King Solomon, in the beginning of his book called The
Preacher, affirms, that all things are in motion excepting
the earth ; that generation succeeds generation; that the sun
moves about the earth; that the wind perpetually whirls
about to the south, and from the south to the north, accord.
lag to its circuits; that the rivers thew from their sources
iota the sea, and thence return to their sources: but the
earth, says lie, stands still for ever'. The same philosophical
truths are corroborated by other passages of Scripture as
well as by the certain evidence of our senses. And so well
satisfied are the Newtouians of the oiler Insufficiency of all
their elaborate arguments and boasted (alinements to pro-
duce a direct and manifest proof, or any proof at all, to is.
validate the divine assertion, ,hat they ace constrained to
declare, that were it nut fur the Axed stars, it would be
extremely difficult, If not impossible, to prove the motiou
of the earth. We should suppose that the oilmen 'wade a
complete revolution between any two similar situations
with respect to the sun, because the places of elongation
are similarly described, and are in quantity the same, whet her
the earth be in motion ur not. It is from the apparent
motion of the sun with respect to the Axed Stars, that we
conclude that the earth describes an 'obit in about three
hundred amid sixty-five days.' Posterity will, I believe, read
with asinisliment, that the turn of this are, by looking at
the son in motion, supposed it to stand still ! As these is
no appearance, even according to their owes admission, and
consequently uo proof, of the earth's motion ; why not
draw the natural and obvious conclusion., that the sue really
describes the orbit which he appears to do? That, how.
ever, would not suit their purpose, and therefore they go
on to assert, that ' the strongest objection that can be made
against the earth's motion round the sun, is, that hoopoe'.
site points of the earth's [obit, its axis, which always keeps
a parallel direction, would point to different fixed stars,
whin is not found to be the fact. But this objeetin is
easily removed by 'considering' (not by experiment) the
imassiesse distance of the Axed stars, is respect of the dialer.
ter of the earth's orbit, the latter being no more than a
point when compared with the former.' Thus they consider
a thing as they would have it, and then :bey positively as-
sert that it is so!
" In order to make this objecioa, respecting the poles,
go down' easily,' it is necessary to believe, that although two
opposite points of the earth constantly coincide, to a single
second, with two opposite points iu the heaven: (which
points are not perpendicular to the plane of the supposed
orbit of the earth, out to the noire of the plane of the equi-
noctial;) I say, that, notwithstanding the well-known fact
that these four points, the celestial sail terrestrial pule ,
are, according to the nicest observations, made with the
must perfect amendments, immutable fired in the same
right line; we are required to believe, or be stigmatized
'the worst or 'seinen, that the elope mores one hundred
and fort y•one times faster than a ball shot from the mouth of
a cannon unperceived by us on its surface! Further, we
are required to believe, that in December, we are about
200,000,000 amities from the place we left in June, thengh
we cannot possibly discover, by the most exact übservition
of the polar star, that we have moved one inch!
" 'f hisunchngeable coincidence of the poles of the world
is in decisive a proof that the earth dors not move, that, in
order to set it aside, it was necessary fur the maven of the
Newtonian school to astound and overwhelm the under-
standings of their disciples with an assertion which, io the
whole annals of romance, was perhaps never outdone. O !
say they, it is easy to remove this objection' ' because
from what we know of the immense distance of the fixed
stars, the nearest of them is 32,000,000,000,000 of miles,
which is. further than a,connon ball would. fly in seven
sail-
lieass rf gears!' limier, look at this fine row of kures and
rtfleet upon the assertion! That amazing stretch was no
doubt intended as a finishing stroke to the hint given by
the great Dr. Wallis about one hundred and sixty yeas. ago.
Noticing parallax of the earth's anent orbit to rove
the Copernican system ; if, says he, • it can be observed, it
proves the affirmative; Lint if it cannot be observed it duth
not prone toe negative, but only proses that the semidiameter
of the earth's epicycle is so small' (0,00,000 of miles !)
as not to make any sensible parallax.' Yon will perceive,
reader, by ibis, that the Doctor was pre.determieed to re.
ceive evidence only in support of the Corvine', hypothesis,
but sot a word against it ; otherwise I conceive that is
would have been more consistent with fairness and candour
to have expressed himself to this effect, If it can be floe.
covered that the declinations of what are termed the fired
stars, are masifestly different in June from what they are in
December, such difference may be received as an aremint
in favour of the Copernican 'Tann ; but if, by the most
diligent and careful observation made with Ibe best imaw
went*, out the smallest difference can St any time possibly
be discovered, it may then be fairly inferred that the earth is
firmly and perpetually at rest.

" Now the result of all observations made to ascertain this
point has been, that the declinations of the fixed stars are
every day iu the year the same to a hair's breadib (fur the
change in one year by the precession of the equinoxes can-
mot be discerned); sod therefore in order to render nugatory
the evidence which so folly confirms the led system in
Genesis, the followers of Newton are called upon to credit
the enormous tale, tbat a cannon ball with its greatest velo-
city, if that velocity were coatinued for seven millions of
years, would not reach the nearest of the fixed stars ! !!
" Oh ! how these philosophers have sutured their imsgi-
wallows and exercised their ingenuity to invest plaustbilities
to support their system! Mr. Romer sail Mr. Huygens pre.
tended to calculate the motion of light reflected from the
small stars which move along wish the planet Jupiter, is
order to reader the idea of an annual mut i .... a little feasible:
bat Mr. Cassini and Mr. Miraldi, after ex:miming the hypo-

• " Rut as some may t►ink that this might be translated
I remiss or continues for ever;' it witty be proper to notice
soother passage o► two. He laid the foundation of the
earth that it should lot be moved fur rare Peal. cis. 5.
Thou h►st establurh...l the eel tb and it stsudeth.' Peel.
90.

thesis, ti, A crest nemlier of observations, esprrestia so opi-
nion that those philosophers were completely mistaken. Wtirt
Mr.Brarlley wrote about she motion and aberration of lights
of about equal importance sad merited just the same miter-
lion, as is evideut from Dr. Maskelyne's remarks upon the
neseertainty @Heading such nice observations; for, when he
attempted to ascertain she parallax of Sines with a ten f. et
sector, he found, by the fraction of the plummet-line upon
the pis, by whiels it was suspended, that ■n error of ten to
thirty seems& could rot well be avoided. Upon the whole
them it is abundantly evident, that no I parallax has
ever hero discovered ; and that therefore there exits not even
the shadow of a roof, that the sum is isetiorary and the
earth to rapid m0tt0..."

PROMENADE;
FROM DIEPPE TO THE MOUNTAINS OF SCOTLAND.
HY CHARLES NODIER.

The following extract from this interesting Ut►le
Work rosy afford in idea of the fancy and feeling
of the Author
:

TO MY WIFE.
cannot accustom myself to the idea of being separated
from you, of living and thinking without you. Each sire
object that presents itself to my view seems • theft from
you; sad when I think that every thing I am going to see
will be uew to me, that there will he no longer • common
oensatiou between the multiplied sensations of my days sod
those which fill your recollections, I look upon this jewelry
with a sort of terror, as the essay of eternal separation.
Fur twelve years past, associated with all she vicissitudes of
my life, you bare followed me in the rigorous pilgrimages of
exile, and is the noire agreeable excursions which I have
sesdertaken from my hive of scieisee sad of the! arts. You
have visited with me the smiling regimes of she eolith of
Prance; the austere monuments of Normandy and Brit-
tatty; the majestic antiquities of Italy; the relies of Magna
Gracia, the oarless patrimony of barbarians. 1 told you
the tsaues of all the places which recalled grand ideas, or
attested ancient glories. I taught our dear little girl to lisp
their solemn names in a language different from that of her
nurse, and which struck her ear fur the first time. Now, I
am alone; for though friendship is a sweet auxiliary of hap-
piesesa, it still leaves very empty • beast that is separated
from what is most dear to it in the world. lam alone; sad
the impress' which hail so minty charms when you par-
took them with me, now find me inattentive, and almost in.
different. The names of places and of teen only interest
me for a moment, like uaknowe words the messing of which
is not worth seeking. Though I arrived yesterday gather
early at Dieppe, it was only this morsiag that I event on the
sea-shore, and I scarcely cast my eyes over the magnificent
scene which it here displays. My daughter has sever looked
foe shells on this shore. If we thought of all this before
we net out, we should never go; but what man is always
happy with the happiness he has?
Huwever, I have hit upos s scheme which delights my
Imagination : it is to speak to you every moment as if you
were present, and *either to see nor to feel any thing with-
out transmitting it to you immediately in idea. "flee,
Mary, how nice it would be for you to play with your little
companioess under those green arbour■ of Yseilly. Aad
you, my dear, cast your eyes on this vies of Dieppe, sad
of the sea, from the top of the hill of Dourdwn, which is
consideri d to be sue of the finest sights in nature; or amuse
yourself with the marvellous 'aerations of our driver, who,
though lie is going on full speed, rela.es with his hoarse ac-
cent the last exploits of the privateer Dullidar." In this way
you will travel with me even to the distant shorts towards
which I ens impelled by the mania of 'Mug whet coun-
tries, and studying other manners. What regions, ao va-
ried in their aspect ■ud character, shall we Nut go over to
• ! Nevertheless, we will not atop to dwell en the de-
tails. We go quirk, because other cares call us back, sad
because our hearth is keeping for us treasures of tenderness
user happiness that are not here. Alas! may I find diem
again! Moreover, we have nut the pretension to instruct.
Oar ambition is limited to the enjoyment of what is bees-
tifal,
and the exertion of our understanding to conversing
about it. If the journal which I trace as I run ran have soy
merit, it caw only be that of representing, with *oink,
free sod natural impressions. Almost a wronger to the las-
guage, the history, and the matinees of the souatrics I am
going to visit, I ■m certain to speak of thins less accord-
ing to the /strut of their fame than the force of my own
sensations. Only do not reject my poetical scraps. I write
very rapidly, and you know that my first thoughts are al-
wsys ready to accoutre themselves with the tatters of the
toilet of the Muses; but what would be a di feet in • formal
volume is tinily a slight i levee is ibe familiar im-
promptu■ of carelessness. The indiffereace with which a
traveller makes notes in his pocket-hook, is the same az for
his clothes. He puts down what comes into his head as he
takes what is lyiug about him. After all, who knows what
this pocket-Look may turn out? A volume or oothiag, I
care little •boat it. It will have fulfilled all the hopes I
formed of it, if it succeeds sometimes is cheating the tor-
ments of abseuce by one of t►ese illusion* which I embrace
so easily that they are sometimes equivalent to eiijuynieut
itself.

Comb then, and quit me no more, fur it is eight in the
eveuing. 'the iiile is g g out, and already knees, fur se-
veral fathoms behind, an uneven, waving, si band of
black foci, just like the irregular projectiuu of the last
waves nitwit expired in floods of fume on the mad. We
shall mama in the Unity corvette, Capisia Holdea ; it is
that which you see Crum here with the black and blue flag
flying.
No, rather let en separate, I lieserch you, fur this night.
The sea is so rough that the fishermen themselves have nut
dared to attempt the daily navigation srh ch supplies the sub-
sistence of their families. The immense surface is furrowed
all over with high and seitieal mountaius, like the rocks of
the coast, white like them, rushing, 'lnitiate
mountinr one above the other, breaking and falling with •
tremendous roar on the beach. The mind is cuatialy and
furious. The sregull, which it drives slung with impeitiu-
Miy, draws in his keg wings, as the skilful sailor dues his
canvass, and felting obliquely by degrees, comes doom quite
MI the ground. Heaven fotbid 1 Asia expose you, my
elailusg treasures, io the caprices of this terrible drama.
10 the name of my rest, let us separate for this siusbt. 1
find you uu the opposite shores.

On Thursday last one of the most bat-barons and
wanton outrages occurrred in this town vltich it
hu ever becit our duty to lay before the public.
The circumstances are briefly these :—One of the
preventive water guards, of the name ui Kearns,
belonging to the Clugher station, went into Mr.
MARTIN'S public-horse, at Laurence's•gate, when,
after drinking a small quantity of spirits, be became
quite unruly ; he drew * small sword, which he
flourished through the house, and slightly wonsidsd
111ARTSN'S servant woman ; a decent indus-
trionsold man, named CAMPBELL, by trade a car-
penter, and well known in this town, who was pre-
sent, entreated in the moat conciliating ntsmier that
Kearns would put up his sword, when the ruffian
made three stubs at the unfortunate man, one of
which entered the left breast and perforated the
lungs: he now lies in a most precarious stow, at-
tended by Surgeons PRNTLAND end FOGARTY.
The fellow was 11111 l iediately secured, and upon the
necessary informal inns bring sworn before the
MAYOR, be was frilly committed to take tits trial
for the offence.--(Drogheda J (normal.)

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