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saiJ letters of d u u e i,c 1.. t..,.
of the said Hawes and Vicat in aid of justice, &creed th it
I should be cited and called to appear legally before you,
justice so requiring. _ _ _

I object that I am not legally called to appear before
you ; that it is not legal for you to accept such lettels of
request ; that you are thereby aiding a p-acaice which it
appears to me, a!Pd I submit to'you, is fraught with op-
presson and injustice ; and to a poor man would be utterly
ruinous.

I also obj,,ct that justice does not so require ; that jus-
tice requires just the reverse ; and, it being my intention to
seek hereafter those legal remedies at common law against
all who may be parties to the injustice, with which, as it
appears to me, I am now threatened, I deem it right to
protest and object, and to give this notice and my rea-
sons to you for all that I shall hereafter do in seeking
a remedy or compensation for any injustice which may he
inflicted upon me.
I further object to the citation, to your authority to ac-
cept and act upon the said letters of request to the further
proceedings and to the said practice, Isecause I have in my
possession at this time the original bill of costs of one of
the proctors practising in the court. over which you, the
said Sir Herbert Jenner, preside, who is the same proctor
employed to cite me in this case, and who is amenable to
your jurisdiction—because I say I have in my possession
his bill of costs in a cause instituted by the same church-
wardens againat another rate-payer, my neighbour, for the
same rate, which forewarns me of the particular' species
of injustice with which these proceedings are fraught.
I find therein that he is charged in the whole the sum
of 61. 6a. 9d. for merely being cited to attend you upon
similar letters of request, from the same John Sayer
Poulter, and the citation founded thereon; and that more
than one-half of the bill consists of fees and charges occa-
sioned by your accepting the said letters cif request, and
assuming, as I object, a jurisdiction which does not be-
long to you.
I further object and give you notice, that, in the said
bill of costs, it appears that a fee for the judge of 10s. 6d.
is charged bt the hid proctor, in these words :
" Paid lidgeli fee thereon los. 6d.
I am therefoge justed in inferring and honeying that such
fee was, anirthl,e'isuch fees are, received by you for thus
assuming jiiiiisdicdon and compelling the parishioners to
come out of their own diocese to this Court ; ars] I object
that, if this practice he tolerated we may have the whole
series of ecclesiastical judges in England arranging each to
pay 10s. 6d. to the other, because each thought fit to re.
nounce the jurisdiction he hai assumed, and to hand over
to each other the several duties which they, though accept-
ing their appointments as judges, were incompetent, or did
not think fit to discharge, or because they thought
fit to compliment each other with fees out of the suitor's
pocket.

I annex a copy of the said Bill to this protest, for the
purpose of giving you notice of the form and mode in
which these processes of extraction are conducted, and that
the facts I have stated are correctly sct forth.
I further object that it is unjust to cite me before you,
the said Sir Herbert Jenner, who are a member of the
Church of England, and represent a Bishop thereof, for
not contributing to a rate to uphold that Church ; that I
ought to have a disinterested judge, whereas this is in
effect trying use before the Archbishop of the sect to be
benefited, and would be analagous to a case of Dissenters
bringing the Archbishop before one of the deacons or mi-
nisters of the church they belong to, for not painting and
gilding his pulpit, and not washing his surplice, if he wore
one. I ask you if this is just ; you have undertaken the
office of judge voluntarily, and I am therefore entitled to
expect an answer. I ask the churchwardens, the pro-
moters of this suit, particularly Mr. Churchwarden Hawes,
who professes to be a Dissenter, the same question.
I further protest and object that you cannot with pro-
priety try a Dissenter for refusing to support a church
system which, being allied to the State by Act of Parlia-
ment, is, in his view, unscriptural, and injurious to the
best interests of vital religion and godliness, and espe-
cially in its attempting to exact compulsory payments from
the majority, as in the parish of Christ Chvrch, for the
support of the religion of the minority.
I object especially to the Church of England prosecut-
ing men fbr not repairing and building the churches
which they call theirs, it being notorious to all that the
Catholics, out of the same funds, not only repaired but
erected the noble piles which are now the architectural
ornaments of this great kingdom, and that the clergy of
the Church of England having got the possession of the
same funds with which the Catholic clergy not only repaired
but erected those churches, and maintained the poor also,
have taken the funds and the tithes to themselves, thrown
the poor upon the laity for maintenance and charity, and
are now so little religious as to insist upon those who dis-
sent from them (as they dissent from the Catholics), re-
pairing and building the churches in which the now fa-
voured sect meet to worship God.
I object and maintain that all this is unscriptural and
unjust.

A COPY OF THE BILL OF COSTS
(Above referred to).
IN THE ARCHES COURT OF CANTERBURY.
HAWES, JUN., AND VICAT, V. WEBB.

' Expenses on behiliof Thomas Hawes, Esq., Jun., and James
Vicat, Churchwardens, of the Parish of Christchurch,
in the County of Surrey.
1839. X. s. d.
Piotors' fee retained o 5 0
Taking instructions for and drawing special
letters of request to be executed by the Wor-
shipful John Sayer Poulter, B. L., the Com-
missary in and for the parts of Surrey of the
Right Rev. the Bishop of Winchester to the
the Right Hon. the Dean of the Arches
Court of Canterbury, to take cognizance of
this cause, and to issue a citation against Mr.
Webb, in a cause of subtraction of Church
Rate
Engrossing s'lme to be executed
Paid for stamp duty thereon 1 15 0
Attending and obtaining the Rev. Mr. Poulter's
signature thereto
Attending and presenting the letters of request
to the Dean of the Arches, who accepted
same, and his Surrogate decreed process to
issue against Mr. Webb accordingly
Paid Judge's fee thereon
Paid Register's attendance
Paid tiling letters of request 0 2 0
Drawing and engrossing Special Act of Court
to lead the Decree and registering
Drawing Decree
Engrossing same and parchment
Office fees of same under seal and extracting
Copy thereof for service
Paid officer's fee serving same 0 9 6
Certificate of service
Affidavit of service ....

£6 5 9

MONK LEWIS'S LIFE AND CORRESPON-
DENCE.—The life of the great magician of horrors, whose
genius partook of the very essence of German "wonder-
working and mysterious creation—the life of Monk Lewis,
who knew, withal, every one of the choice spirits of his
time—affords a moat tempting subject. Crammed full of
anecdote, as these volumes are—theatrical, political, and
literary—there is not a dull page throughout,, while the
greater portion of the stories are highly characteristic of the
individuals, and more generally original than the cele-
brity of Lewis would have induced us to have expected
they would have been. The great body of the work has
relation to theatrical matters, and gives us some capital
stories about the most prominent members of the histrionic
profession of both sexes ; but the editor has introduced so
much matter of a different kind—to present us with so
many varieties of wit and humour—that the work is as
free from the fault of monotony as any we have read.—
Court Journal.

On Monday an immense quantity of mackerel
were caught in seine nets opposite St. Leonard's. Many
of them were what are termed " horse mackerel ;" but the
catch also included a great number of very fine fish, which
sold as high as 6d. and Bd. each.

STEAM NAVIGATION WITH INDIA.—It ap-
pears from the advices received from Calcutta, that the
important question of a perfectly comprehensive steam
communication between our oriental possessions, and this
country is daily becoming more appreciated by the majority
of the more enlightened inhabitants of the City of Palaces.
At a numerous meeting of British and native merchants
held on the 19th of February last, thanks were voted to
Lord Auckland, for his patronage and advocacy of a steam
communication between Europe and India ; to Lord Wil-
liam Bentinck and Sir Wilmot Horton, for their exertions
in promoting it immediately on their arrival in this
country ; to Captain James Barber, for calling a public
meeting on the subject in London ; and to T. A.
Curtis, Esq. for his conduct as Chairman on that occa-
sion. The half-yearly report, laid before the meeting by the
secretary, Mr. Greenlaw, states that already, in conse-
quence of the establishment of the overland mail; the
letters and papers thus transmitted by every mail during
the period embracing the 4th August, 1837, and the 10th
of February, 1839, from Bengal, have increased about four-
fold, or nearly three hundred per cent , whilst those trans-
mitted from England have increased in number to nearly
the same proportion. The private letters agree generally
in stating that this important question was now in a fair
train for the final establishment of a steam communication
by a public company, if the authorities at home will not
shut their eyes to its importance. It is also stated that
the presidencies of Madras and Calcutta were unanimous
upon the subject, whilst in Bombay much of the late angry
feeling which was displayed had abated.
We hear from Sussex that in the memory of man
such severe frosts have never been experienced in May.
The fine beech woods crowning the hill from Arundel into
Hampshire have been so perfectly blasted by the severe frost
of Tuesday night, the 14th of this month, that although on
the previous day they were glowing in all the beauty of
spring, on the subsequent day they presented an appearance
precisely similar to trees adjoining a house that had been
burnt down. Hundreds of acres of woodlands are in this
state, and only the very forward beech, whose leaves had
gained a little more strength, have escaped.
SWEEPING DESOLATION.—A traveller, who
we suppose took the travellers' license, spoke lightly of
the damage done in Scotland by the memorable storm of
mthiett7edthioof
Irelandjanur Y;caonmipaamreodogtootthheerws
Thec timber grew
Clan-
carty, who had lost about 60,000 trees..
linositeasia,leedraLvaogrdescom
51. per tree en an aVerage
yeller cast up a woodland bill a
in Galway, and as much of it nt•asconsidered fine, the tra.
for we ourselves consider it
Tulister, who
iteeatdheer ttuonebeolifev3eoo;hoioso/.
story; W e of course do not ask the
very like
oa
vytEhaille,.—MDAnymjrlises.—Coroiuern.t
was reported to 1,,e dead on Saturday, is still alive, and is
even said to be recoverinn.

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—.— SS 78 ,z 6 32 : 0 4 35 it?
• 5,1 77 22 31 Ir, 'lO 30 32
Newark 62 82 •a 4 19 28 51 43
64 79 2S 31 , '25 42
tr'et,A hcrough 52 •-•.2 35 42 !22 29 29 42
Plymouth 58 St 30 34 20 23
Pont,"ract 77 43 27
Sleaturd —* (43 80 53 33 ,O 2 28 41 43
Upping,h am „ 13.) 81 24 no 'lB 2n ;32 44
Wishech 63 82 ;30 32
DEVIZES CORN MARKET._May23
Per Sam, a d. s. d, I', Quarter. s.
...... 0 to 40 0 Barley 93
Second 'l 0 35 0 ;Oats 2O
Third
1277 Sacks of Wheat ,old/ 33 2 Flour (per 13.,g, 55
at tlui average of 3 ;Bread (per

d. s. d.
it to 41 6
O 30 0
O :5 0
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L. V E R POO I, CORN MA RKET.—May 21
WHEAT, English, White, per 70th. ll., o.t to 11 i. 9d.
Red
-- Scotch, Welch, and Many. .... ...............
Irish, White 9 6 10 0
- Red
--- Foreign
OATS, English, Welsh, and Stioach, Her 451 b.... 4 0 4 4
- Irish
- Foreign
BATLEY, English, Malting, per Imp. quarter 42 0 46 8
Scotch and Irish, per 601h.5.
Feeding 4 9 5 0
BEANS, English, per 'imperial quarter 44 0 48 0
- Irish, &c.
---- Foreign
PEASE, Englisn, per imperial quarter 4B 0 52 0
- Foreign
',Lome, English, per 2.501 b. ' 5l 0 57 i
--- Irish
OATMEAL, English and Irish, per 2401 b, 35 6 37 0
IN,4AN CORM, per 44111 b. ....,_ 42 0 46 0
RI E, per Imperal quarter
MALT, per Imperial ipiarter

LEE DS CORN id AR K ET.— May 21
Wheat, Nqrfolk and Sutlid
York. and Lincoln. 601 b.
Barley, Norfolk and Stdiblk
Yorkshire and Lincolnshire
--- Grinding 934. to 39-;.
Beans 63lb.
I,4ts, Potatoe
--.---11ealing, For.—d. to—d.
Eng . 1 2 1/,, o
t 1046 53j3... stunt:o,e
Shelling

A second experiment was last night made in the
House of Commons with the oleo-oxygen, or Bude light,
and was attended with the most decided success Accord.
ing to Mr. Gurney's ow • statements, the previous trial
took place under very great dradvantages. The notice
given was extremely shori, and from " crowded state of the
House," the doors having, been thrown open to about three
hundred persons, it wns impossible to offer anv oxplanationa
or receive any suggestions from the scientific gentlemen
who were present. Mr. Gurney's object on the former oe-
cash n was to show the great power of the light about
which we believe there exists no second opinion. The
light, which, as has been already stated, is produced by
directing a stream of pure oxygen gas through the
central part of the fame of an oil lamp, is extremelY
brilliant and colourless, and somewhat similar in
its appearance and effects to moonlight,. but in a
more intense degree. On the former occasion the
light was transmitted from the eight apertures in the ceiling
of the house, through prismatic or plain glass, and the great
objection then urged was, that the glare was too powerful and
affected the eyes in a painful degree. Last night, however,
Mr. Gurney introduced ground and corrugated glass lenses!
by which the light was more equally diffused, and rendered_
much more soft and mellow. By the intervention of
coloured glass the yellow or reddish tinge of oil or wai
lights was closely imitated, and by regulating the supply °f
oxygen to the flame it was shown that any required degree
of intensity could be produced. It appeared to us that the
,
light was not thrown sufficiently under the galleries, and
that there is some probability, unless some improvement be
made in this point, of their being converted into " doom-
tories," as the galleries were under Sir Frederick Trench'!
system. On the whole we think the experiment
of last night decisive of the success of Mr. Gurney s
invention, which we doubt not will ere long be sr
plied to other purposes, for which it is peculiarly
adapted, from its great brilliancy and intensity. A s):,'"
tern of night telegraphs or signals at sea could be reedity
constituted wish this light, as we understand it can 11
managed with as much ease as the ordinary lamps, an,
the advantage of employing a light which is visible at
four times the distance, is too obvious to require any
comment.

THE NEW WORK, By THE AUTHOR °I.
" TIIE PILOT."—We are requested to state, that Mr.
Bentley, Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty, New
Burlington-street, will publish to-morrow, the 25th inst.,
the new work entitled " The Naval History of the United
States," by J. Fenimore Cooper, Esq. Author of 2 The
vols.
Pilot," " The Spy," " Homeward Bound," &c.,
Bvo., bound, and embellished with numerous Edin-
Agents for Scotland, Messrs. Bell and Bradfunte,
r Orders
Dub •
burgh ; for Ireland, Mr. John Cumming,
received also by all Booksellers. • extract
OPIUM TRADE.—The following Is an _
from a Calcutta letter from a well-informed party, dated
at nearly the end of March, which is interesting, since
d under this head
supports some opinions already expresse ipnortraits.
in this Journal on the subject of the opium traffic :•--" It is
a pity that Calcutta has no mind or means for enterprise
beyond its staple gambling in opium, &c. Depend upon
it India would be ten times better and sooner improved if
not a rupee were sunk in opium or indigo. The former
carries off all energy and enterprise in clippers and in
struggles to do something here at the opium sales, and to
play the smuggler in China ; and as for indigo, it yearly
locks up nearly a million sterling, doing no earthly good
to India as far as the natives are concerned, except the
displacement of one kind of agriculture for another. The
ryot himself never proving a rupee richer for the change,
and the entire profits in India (when the weather permits a
profit) going to a few Calcutta agents and half-a-dozen
overgrown indigo planters ever eager to take off their
fortunes to England. These are the true causes of the want
of enterprise, and that we have done nothing in India that
will truly henefi tit."
A worthy dame at South Shields, who states that
she is 102 years old, has sent us an account of the way in
which she expends her weekly allowance from the poor
Law Guardians of that town, and at the same time she
begs to thank them for the kindness they have manifested
towards her. The sum allowed her is 2s. 9d. per week,
which she apportions in the following manlier : rent, 1 lid: ;
coals, sd. ; bread, 6d. ; coffee, 3d. ; sugar, 3-1-d. ;
11d. ; tobacco, 14d. ; total, 2s. 9d. We admire the old
lady's economy, and we hope she has something more t°
live upon than the Guardians afford her. She is apparentlf
blessed with contentment, and that, according to some,
but another name for happiness.—Port of Tyne Pilot.
BOLTON AND PRESTON RAILWAY.---. 1111:
workmen are proceeding rapidly with the works on t"'
line of railway. The rails are now laid down as far as the
foot-path leading up to Dean Church. Farther UP
rats"
valley Lady-bridge has been taken down, a teroVrsei;
wooden bridge has been erected in its stead at a short
tance, and the workmen are now eng aged at a magoificeom
stone bridge on the site of the former one. The line, frein
Bolton to Preston will be one of the most picturesque
the north of England.—Liverpool Paper.
L. pill'
THE NATIONAL GALLERY.—For it
pose of giving additional accommodation to the PS -
is intended to keep the National Gallery open, t,:natist•
o'clock during the months of May, June, July, su", ...
The new arrangement will begin on Monday nel."TreroUS
ST. Ives.—On Friday last a very 110",,n Inn,
and highly respectable meeting was held at the Cru"se of
St. Ives, pursuant to public notice, for the VIP-to the
considering the propriety of presenting an address in
Queen at this momentous crisis. Wm. Coote, Escivs'ere
the chair. The address and all the other motions of
carried unanimously. The address is now in
will,sFigitnzwatiuurien,ma,ndfnrpcoursLri
rewsehnethatcioomn when tu
the
Noble Earl's name was mentioned it drew forth
the Re"'
plaudits of the a pt
nl etheedr,
:Nbiea
jesty. entrusted to Dle
assemblage. The speakers were incle.
J. K. Holland and T. Bliss, B. A., the former the
ler,
pendent, the latter the Baptist Minister; \Vm. fewe,ul,
Esq., Mr. J. B. Ulph, Mr. Thomas Coote, Mr. -for
Mr. Robinson, &c. The speeches were well adaptedho
the occasion, mad were well received, particularly which
any allusions were made to that onward policy, w and
really must take place, if the Ministry intend to st G.
their ground. Our correspondent regrets that 0'
Day, Esq. was prevented attending the meeting incense'
quence of the demise of a relative.
an
PEACE SOCIETY.--Tuesday evenings the
ens
nual meeting of the Society for the Promotion of Pertcatling.
and Universal Peace, took place at the Friends' Meed
re,
house, Hotmdsdictch. It was most numerously
"acted,
spectably attended, the assemblage, as might be exPof the
consisting chiefly of female and male members takes
Society of Friends. At six o'clock the chair Wag the
f
by G. Bennett, Esq., who explained the object - „
ofthe
meeting. A gratifying report of the proceedings
Society was read by the Secretary

Cor
T. COX SAVORY, Goldsmith, Sze., 47, „so thl
London (Seven Doors from Graceehurch-street), an;',
Public, that he offers DESSERT FRUIT Isli" niated a'
solid
FORKS, with plain ivory handles, silver ferrulo' Ith
steel blades, at Three Guineas per dozen pair, or win
ilver blades, at Eight Guineas and a Half per dozelloPz3e";l
N. B. Carved ivory handles at 13s. 6d. extra per

311C11-IS.
On the 20th inst., at the Rectory, Denton, near Canterbury,
the lady of the Hey. at
S. :fichmond, of a son.
ladY Charles
On the 2lst inst., at Weymouth-street, the -
R. Freeling,
On the 21st insqst., o
at Richmond, Mrs. Browns, of Mell4°ll'
of a
On th daughter. ore,
e 22d inst., Mrs. John Davies, of Devonshire-sq°are,
of a daughter.
On the 22d inst., in Brompton-cescent, BromptontMfg.
Heather, of a daughter.

MARRIED, NV
On the 21st inst., at St. Lawrence, Reading, Alfred J.
most, Esq., M.D., to Fanny, youngest daughter of the late
Pullen, Esq.
On the 22d inst., at St. Matthew's, Brixton, Ge°rge:
youngest son of Thomas Brocklebank, Esq., of Westcorob.
park, Greenwich, to Elizabeth Jane, second slaughter 0: It
W. Herring, Esq., of Brixton, Surrey
On the 23d inst., the Rev. Francis Tucker, 8.A., to Caroline
Eisdale, daughter of Mr. R. G. Marten, of Millbank, Wrest"
n a inster.

LaOno.n tEhseq.2,9othf
i‘olofollr.l.apraelhsk,laFpsat,,lnaEht
aVaiendee2nst.'s, Robert Cooper
cofht\h,ineilsatt,eAißooeb_eerntdS_harrock, Esq., of Gately,
On the 17th inst., at Gately Hall, Norfolk, Susanna•
Hants, aged 79.
On the 19th inst., Elizabeth, the wife of Mr. George SunleP
nea(r)nCtohbehaZ road, aged 31.
On the 22d inst. at. Rya-ley-grange, near Kettering, ..°
amptonshire, Mrs. Burke, aged 90. and of East Meow
On the 23d inst., at Aldermanbury, Mr. Thomas Lamb.
Atkinson, Esq., of SilYermere,

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