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of the peer. But oppression has its limits, end
these limits have been passed, it seems, with the
agricultural labourers. Stupid and ignorant as they
are, they hare succeeded in obtaining by com-
pulsion from their employers a rate of allow-
ance, which the latter ran only continue by a general
strike %post the Church. The determination to
resist the payment of tithes has been universally
taken, and it is well understood that u permanent
arrangement between the land and titheholder, is
now inevitable. At present the clergy are in a
truly pitiable situation. They suffer, however, from
the opposition of their predecessors to the instruc-
tion of the people—possessing, as they have long
done, the ear of all influential persons in this coun-
try, the power of establishing, or pretending the
establishment of schools for the people, being alto-
gether with them.
_The result shows how com-
pletely they misunderstood the true interests of the
Church. Kindness always begets kindness. The
people are never ungrateful towards those supe-
riors who display consideration for them. Had the
clergy been as familiar with the humble cottage as
with the lordly mansion, and raised the condition of
their flocks, they would now be in possession of
general esteem instead of being looked on generally
with ill will.—Morning Chronicle.

SPECIAL COMMISSION.

WINCHESTER, MONDAY, DEC. 27.

On Friday evening one of the Jury Aced if the
Court would allow them something towards defray-
ing their expellees ?
Mr. Baron VAUGUAN said the Court had no power
to order any remuneration.
The Juryman then asked whether there was any
fine for non-attendance ?

Mr. Baron VAtiollAN said certainly there was, but
he could not countenance the absence of any gentle-
man of the Jury.
In the Nisi I'rius Court, on Friday, a Juryman
begged of the Court to allow him to go home; he
had four children at home who were motherless,
and without the means of subsistence. He had, in.
deed, himself been obliged to borrow money to sup-
ply himself whilst he had beer► at Winchester.
Mr. Justice ALDERSON said, as the Junior Judge,
he could not take upon himself to give the permis-
sion required, but it the applicant would call at the
Judge's lodgings, he would consult his Learned
Brat hers on the subject.
The Juryman, with tears in his eyes, said, he
should be obliged to borrow the money to take him
home.

The JUDGES allowed the poor man leave to go
home.

Robert Holdaway, Henry James, Thor. Harding,.
Matthew Triggs, James Painter, John Heath, and
Aaron Harding, were charged with having, on the
23d of November, demolished the poor-house of the
parish of Bramshott.
Thomas Shoesmith, master of the workhouse, de-
posed that on the 234 of November Triggs and
another man came to the poorhouse. Trigg); asked
to see his uncle, who was in the house. lie was
asked what ho wanted with him. He said he wanted
him to go down to liollywull to his own sister, as
he thought there would be a row or a piece of work
at the workhouse that day. The master said no,
he could not spare him ; if there was a row, he
should want him, as he could speak better to the
persons than any other man in the house. About
ten o'clock a mob arrived opposite the workhouse;
Holdaway was ut their head ; the master asked him
what he came for ? Holdaway said, " I mean you
no harm, nor your wife, nor your goods, but get
them out as soon as you OM ;" he then said the
house must come down. The master told him there
was a number of old people in the house, and sick
children bud with a fever; Holdaway said the chil-
dren should be protected, and wanted to know in
what part of the house they were placed in; the
master pointed out the room, and Holdaway said
the windows should be mat keel; the master then
went in doors, and began moving the goods, and in
about an hour, twelve o'clock, the mob returned;
the master pointed out to Holdaway the room
in which the sick children were; the mob
then rushed into the house like a torrent ; they
went into every part of the house and began break-
ing the windows, and the partitions between the
rooms ; witness saw amongst the crowd Henry
James; he was coming towards the room where
the children were ; witness's wife spoke to him ;
witness. locked the door where the children were,
and asked James to put a man at the door to pre-
vent any one from from going in ; James spoke to
it roan to stand there ; witness and his wife went
down stairs, and its they were going, saw Painter
breaking the bannisters ; witness went out into the
yard, and having got out, found it impossible to ob-
tain an entrance into the house; the other prisoners,
were also at work ; the rafters and ceiling of the
upper rooms were broken down ; they had made
their way through the roof by pushing off the tiles,
The copper holding about forty gallons, was taken
out and rolled into the yard ; witness never saw the
copper again ; the mob cominued at work till dark.
Witness saw oldaway as well as many others think-
ing the wine ; there was not one room left in the
house entire ; the children had, been removed into
the open yard, and tarpaulins covered over the sick
—the sick ward was entirely full ; it is a separate
building that was not touched ; there were about
forty people in the house at the time.
Several other witnesses were examined, and cor-
reborated the above statement. They also identi-
lied the prisoners, and said, that the damage done
to the workhouse amounted to about two hundred
pounds.
On the part of the prisoners, the Rev. William
Cobbold, Vicar of Selbourne, said he saw Hold-
away at his house on the 22)1 of November; on that
day there was a large mob at his house; there were
several farmers with them ; they came to his house
twice on that day, and that half an hour elapsed be-
tween the two visits; he was compelled to sign a
paper by the mob, who were about his house three
hours, and who said if he did not sign it they would
murder him, and pull down his house; witness did
not hear the farmers appoint Holdaway to go round
with the peeper to the farmers of the three parishes;
he would rat her not say any thing about Iloldaway's
character.

By the COURT—Said he was sorry to say that
three of the prisoners, iloldaway, Heath, and Aaron
Harding, are from his own parish; Heath was a
master carpenter, and certainly not in distress ; said
that in justice he mu,t acknowledge that lioldaway
saved his life by his influence over the mob,
Mr. Baron VAUGIIAN said, the rause of these
lamentable outrages, he had heard, was distress
amongst the labouring classes ; but he must say, ar
far as he had had an opportunity of observing from
these trials, there was no distress urnoupt that class
of persons; for a considerable number of the parties
accused had proved to be mechanics, some of whom
were in full weak, and others who were not si,fTer•
ing from the effects of the times; had, however,
the distress been R 4 general and as great as had been
stated, it would not have been a justification for the
outrageous violations of the law with which the
parties were charged.
The Jury, after a short consultation, returned a
verdict of GuLty against all the prisoners, with a
recommend►ttiott of mercy ; trusting that their
Lordships would take into► their consideration any
extenuating circumstance in the case of either of the
prisoners.
Join, .muh, 2l ; James Afarlin,33; &row,
37, were indicted for assaulting William Baker,
and stealing from him two sovereigns, on the 23d
November.

William Riker is servant to the Rev. Mr. Barter.
On the 211 November, a mob came to fis master's
house about halfpast one; five of them came to the
door; 300 were within a stone's throw, breaking
umehines, be Few the three prisoners at the bar
there; he asked them what they wanted, and S:roud
said two sovereigns; he told them his master was
not at home, and that he had no money ; they said
if they did not have it, they would fetch their emu-

panions, and beat down the house; they continued
saying ;hey would have it, and if his master had
been at home, they would have had 51.
The Jury found all the prisoners Guilty.
John Silcock, aged 27, and George Pace, were
indicted for destroying a thrashing machine, the
property of Thomas Dowden, of the parish of
Northington.
_ _

John—Ailworth is bailiff to Mr. Dowden, and was
at the farm on the 19th of November, when a mob
came. they had hammers, bars of hot), and sticks;
•ome person said " Come on, my lads ; show
you the way," anti they then went to the barn,
broke through the hoards, and got to the thrashing
machine, which they broke; after the machine was
broken, he saw Mr. Baring; Sileock was there, and
Mr. Baring tried to take him, but the mob sur-
rounded them, and rescued Sileock ; he saw Henry
Cooke there. This statement was confirmed by
other evidence.

The Jury found the prisoners Guilty.
Thomas Whits, 22, Thomas Scammell, 22, John
Painter' 29, James Moody, 33, William Reeves,
30, and Alexander Praguell, were indicted for taking
from John &tatted one sovereign, and also for break-
ing his machine.
Mr. William Steele, solicitor, of Romsey—He
met a mob coming from Wilts, near East Welton,
consisting of 200, who had large sticks and ham-
mers; ire saw Reeves, Moody, and Painter; Moody
had a white handkerchief round his hat, and Pain-
ter a ribbon; they told him they were going to Mr.
Penton's, of whom they meant to have 514 they
asked him for money, but without intimidation or
threat, and he gave them he.; they said it was not
enough.
John Eastted, sen.—He is a farmer at East Wel-
ton; on the 24th November he saw the mob at
Welton Farm ; he saw Moody; lie had a handker-
chief round his hat; he asked Moody where they
came from, and what for; lie said they were come
to regulate wages and tithes; he said he did not
belong to this parish ; he said be paid his men on
Saturday night, when they did not complain,
and if they had any complaint to make he
would hear them; some of them came forward,
and said that they had no complaint to make;
Scammel said they were going to have 12s. a week
and he (witness) said, you rascal, you are not worth
a groat a day, and he would not give it to him a
lazy fellow; White was there, and they said they
would break witness's machine, which is a chaff-
cutting machine ; he then went home, and about
one-third of the mail came to his house, and de-
stroyed his machine; the mob then asked him for
two sovereigns ; he said he could riot afford it—lie
would not do it; he then said, " Well, we can work
as well by night as by day," and he could not tell
what may happen; witness offered him a half-
sovereign, but they would not take it; lie then gave
Painter a sovereign, upon the understanding that
they would leave the parish peaceably.
After some other witnesses had been examined,
who corroborated the preceding statements,

Mr. Justice PARKE directed the Jury to acquit
Scammell, Pragnell, and Reeves, as there was no
evidence against them.
Painter was found Guilty, and the other prisoners
were acquitted.
James White, Thomas &animal, John Painter,
James Afoody, and Wm. Reeves, the same prisoners
as in the last indictment, were indicted for assault-
ing and robbing the Rev. Thomas Penton.
The Rev. Thomas Penton proved that a paper
was handed to him by Moody, which he wonted
him to sign, containing a description of an agree-
ment as to the wages of the labourers, and also as to
lowering his tithes, but which paper he refused to
sign ; and that as regarded the wages, he should
most likely do as his neighbours did, and that he
should arrange with the farmers about the tithes.
Moody then demanded ten pounds ; he said he had
not ten pounds, nor half of that, for them ; arid that
he should not give any money willingly. Moody then
mentioned the names of several parties who had
given them five pounds. Witness then offered two
pounds to them, when Moody turned round and
asked the mob if they would take the two pounds?
To which they assented. Moody then pointed out
the person who was to receive the money, and wit-
ness then gave it to that person ; witness gave the
money from the idea that it was not improbable
lint that they migh• destroy some of his property.
Mr. Justice PARKE—This case, in point of law,
if it be stretched to its fullest extent, may amount
to a robbery, but he thought the better and safer
way would be to acquit them. The Jury returned
a verdict of Not Guilty.
ha re Ofer, 21, Charks Fonder, 29, Wm. Noble,
jun., 20, Henry Gale, 17,John Lush, 30, and Wm.
Kelsey, 22, were indicted for destroying u threshing.
machine, the property of John Box.
John Box—lie lives with his father, who is a
farmer; on the 21st of November, at half-past seven
in the morning, a mob came to his father's house;
John Lush and William Kelsey came with them;
1.11.11 is a bricklayer, the others are labourers, except
Gale ; Lush was cutting down some of the wood
of the machine with a saw.

Mr. Justice PARKE told the Jury there was no
evidence against Offer, Fouler, Noble, jun., and
Gale, therefore they must be acquitted.
The Jury found Isaac Offer, Charles border, Wm.
Noble, jun., and Henry Gale, Not Guilty; and
John Lush and William Kelsey, Guilty ; but re-
commended them to mercy on account of their
good characters.
Thomas Aeate, aged 20; George Carter, aged
38; Robert Cooke, and George Jiopgood, were
indicted for riotously and feloniously robbing Mary
Sergeant.
Mary Sergeant—She is a widow ; a great many
persons came to her house on the 21st November,
between six and seven o'clock ; they had bludgeons
in their hands ; the first three that came demanded
money ; she asked them what they wanted; they
said a sovereign, which she gave them, and they
said they would take care that those who came after
should not distmb her; she saw three tnen were at
the door ; shortly after there was a great knocking
at the door; she went up stairs and looked out of
the window ; they swore at her, and told her to
come down stairs and show herself; some cried
" Silence!" and others would not hear what she
had to say ; she went down stairs, and they
were breaking her windows; afterwards they
broke in the glass over the door, and then
she gave them another sovereign ; they still
continued breaking her windows ; they then
went to the back of her house; about forty or fifty
got into her kitchen, but she did not know how—
thhy had. sticks in their hands; they asked for some
money; she said she had no more for them; they
asked for beer; she told them she had not any good
enough for them ; they said they would go into the
cellar, but they did not know the way ; they threw
stones into the upper room ; they went away ; some
time after a constable came.

The Jury returned a verdict of Guilty against
Neale, Carter, Cooke, and Hopgood.
In the course of the morning the Rev. Edmund
Ponher, a Magihtrae of this county, dropped off
his seat in a fit. lie %vas immediately carried out of
Court, and medical assistance called to him. lie is
the father of the barrister of that name, who goes
the 'Western Circuit. He had but just gone into
the other Court. A short time previous to this,
one of the prisoners %vas seized with a strong hyste-
rical tar, and was removed from the dock in a den-
porous state.

Ma. NOUTIICOTE'S LIFE OF TITIAN.--
When the length of TITIAN'S life,
t(justhctekbrity he enjoyed, and his constant intercourse with
all who were distinguished either by rank or by talent in
his time are considered, it will not appear surprising that
Mr. NOWTIICOTE, in the course of his ntrrative, has intro.
&teed Sketches of many persons of whom every body rutht
be desirous of knowing something. But the most
valuable parts of the work are the original remarks by Mr.
Nortmucurr: himself on art generally, and on the peculiar
qualities of the Venetian school, and on the style of TITIAN,
its illustrious chief.".—.l;iterary Gazette.

ENTERTAINMENT AT THE MANSION-

HOUSE.

On Friday a very splendid entertainment was
given by the Lord Mayor, on the occasion of the
swearing-in of the new Alderman of Farringdon
Within Ward, to between sixty and seventy distin-
guished persons, amongst whom were the Envoy
Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from the
United States of America to the Court of Russia;
his Majesty's Attorney-General, Baron Bolland, and
several of the Aldermen and leading members of the
Corporation.
After the usual loyal toasts had been enthusiasti-
cally given,
The LORD MAYOR proposed the health of the
new Alderman, and prefaced it in a highly compli-
mentary manner. lie rf-joiced at presiding at the
first entertainment to which Mr. Kelly had been in-
troduced as Alderman, the mere especially us it was
rat his suggestion that excellent individual had en-
tered into public life.
Alderman KELLY, in returning thanks, declared
his strong friendship for the Lord Mayor, whom he
had known for a number of years, and who was qua-
lified to discharge the duties of the office he had
been unanimously appointed to, with ability, zeal,
and independence. tie concluded by proposing the
health of the Lord Mayor.

His Lordship returned thanks, and adverted with
great warmth of feeling to the manner in which he
had been elected to the office of Chief Magistrate.
He was bound for ever, he declared, in ties of gra-
titude to his fellow-citizens, for their kindness to
him; a kindness which was sure to be more actively
displayed on occasions when unworthy, or interested
motives, might be assigned fur conduct which de-
served is more charitable construction.—(Cheers.)
If he had acted erroneously in the part he had lately
taken on a certain subject of paramount interest, he
knew the generosity of his fellow-citizens too well,
not to be convinced that they laid no censure upon
the intention, and he should endeavour to do justice
to the meaning of his heart, by-keeping as much as
possible from amongst the stragglers in the march of
intellect.—(Laughter and cheers.) In fact there
was no circumstance of his life which was not in
some way or other connected by an obligation upon
his part, to those whose Chief Magistrate he had
the honour to be. His Lordship in proposing the
health of the American Ambassador to Russia, said
that he was most happy in the recollection that it
had been always the pride of the possessors of the
Mansion-house, to entertain any distinguished fo-
reigner who might visit the City, and he had now
the happiness of tendering the hospitalities of that
house to an eminent and able foreigner who sat by
his side. Foreigner, did he say ? No, he would
call him brother, for in speaking of an American, he
was speaking of one who was descended from the
same parentage, who spoke the same language, and
who possessed the same love of liberty, which was
the birthright of every Briton.—(Cheers.)
Mr. RANDOLFE returned thanks in a very elegant
speech. He was peculiarly happy in being asso-
ciated with the citizens of the great metropolis of
England, who, as well as those of his oam country,
were descended from the Anglo-Saxons, rho spoke
the same language, which was so extensively and
vigorously spread over both hemispheres, and which
would continue to increase and to be used as the
vehicle of the grand inspirations of liberty, when
every other language should be consigned to the
tomb, and be only found amongst the recollections
of posterity.—(Cheers.) With every wish for the
prosperity of the City of London, and with the
deepest sense of gratitude for the hospitality and
friendship with which his Lordship bad honoured
him, he returned thanks for America and for himself,
one of the humblest of its citizens.--(Loud cheers.)
The next toast was Baron Holland.

The LORD MAYOR said he felt ;highly honoured
by the company of the worthy and excellent Judge,
more particularly as there had been a long connec-
tion between that gentleman and the city of London.
After Damn BOLLAND returned Outdo,
Sir C. FLOWER gave the Lady Mayoress (with
three times three enthusiastically.)
The LORD MAYOR, in a very unaffected manner,
returned his warm acknowledgments for the honour
don him, and proposed the health of Sir Thomas
Denman, his Majesty's Attorney-General, who had
for a series of years been connected with the city
of London, greatly to the satisfaction of every indi-
vidual belonging to it, who had endeared himself to
ell by his kind and amiable manners us a private
gentleman, by his upright and implodel conduct as
u Judge, and by his independent and consistent
character as a Member of the Legislature.--(Cheers.)
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL, in returning thanks,
said he could not adequately express his feelings to-
wards the citizens of Luidon. From the moment
of his election to the office he had lately resigned,
no one unpleasant feeling bad crossed lint mind; on
the contrary, he had ever been treated is ith the most
distinguished kindness, and he should to his latest
breath feel the highest gratification at continuing to
deserve the good opinion of his fellow-citizens.

" The Magistrates of the City of London,;; The
City Representation,' and several other toasts.
The pests bad no reason to complain at the pro-
mise of hospitable treatment made by the Lord
Mayor at the time of his election.

We understand that sixteen successive dinners are
to take place at the Mansion-house during this sea-
-8011, so that the Corporation regularly crack their
fingers at the cold weather.

•
WONDERFUL 11,SCAPE.—On Saturday last a
girl, aged 19, named NZWW.AIIt whose parent. reside at
St. Lawrence, having incautiously approached the edge of
the Cliff, opposite Mirables, the wind blew so strung that
she lost her footing, and was precipitated to the bottom, a
perpendicular fall of upwards of 170 feet ; and although
bruised most (heedfully, not a bone was broken, and she
was enabled to walk home afterwards, a distance of three
and we underat.ind is likely to recover.—Ports-
mouth Herald.

NEWBURG H.— On Wednesday a bride-
groom's flitting came to this town, and among the neces-
saries with which the cart was loaded were two grey-
beards of whisky in a sack. An old man, wishing pos-
sibly to earn a dram, would needs carry in the bottles.
lie caught hold of the bottom of the pock instead of the
mouth, placed his back to the vehicle, made a move, and
clash went the big stone bottles on the causeway. A
drake that happened to be present observed the limpid 'laid
trickling over the stones, and, marvelling at seeing such
clear water in such dirty weather, made towards it with
the greedy haste of a sober glutton. lie arri►ed at the
spot, drank, shook his head, drank again, then sounded
" Quack / quack!" like the blest of a brazen trumpet,
through every tenement about the West Port. Quickly
a number of the hobbling feathered tribe were congre-
gated round the luckless remains of the broken bottle,.
They drank, quacked, fluttered tbtir wings, quashed and
drank again, " and none were so happy as they." In
a short time 14 decks and five drakes, inspired by the
spirit of aqua vita,,, were seen staggering, quackling, and
gallanting, through the street, in such a manner as no
decent duck could approve of. Towards gloaming, no-
thing was to be seen but old wives hurrying to their re-
spective places ofabode with baskets full uf drunken ducks
and intemperate drakes.—Perthshire courier.

On Wednesday night last, about half-past
eleven o'clock, the inhabitants of Chatted* were thrown
into great alarm by the terrific cry of " Fire !" which in
a few minutes caused the whole street to be one scene of
hustle and anxiety to ascertain where the fire was, which
was quickly discovered to have taken place at a hay-stack
at the back of the premises of J. C. Dune, Esq., corn-
mon•brewer of that place. Providentially there being
but little wind at the time, and by the great exertions of
the inhabitants, the fire was extinguished without doing
further damage, although corn-stacks stood contiguous to
it. During the bustle while the fire lasted, it was deeply
impressed upon the mind of Mr. Duro( that it was the
work of an incendiary, and in a few minutes a young man
of the name of JonN DKAKE, eon of Mr. M. DaAtat, a
respectable farmer, on whom suspicion rested, was ap-
prehended. The Magistrates, who were present, retired
immediately to the George-inn, where a most minute in-
vestigation took place, cthich lasted until half-past four
o'clock on the following morning ; and was then ad-
journed until nine o'clock, when other witnesses were ex-
amined, after which he was fully committed to Ely gaol
to take his trial at the ensuing /Wires.