The Sun.
London, England, 1837-08-28 00:00:00

TILE 11.,1.11,VE5T

THE CATHOLIC CLERGY IN LOWER CANADA PREACH.
ING THE DIVINE RIGHT OF POWER.—Lord Gosford has at
last touched the true string for calming the agitation and
the agitators in Canada. The Catholic clergy have been
induced to come to his aid, and are preaching, as from
Naples to the Poles, the divine right of power.
[TRANSLATED FLOM THE MONTREAL AMI DU PEUPLE,
JULY 26.]
We are happy to be able to place before our readers the
following extract from an address pronounced yesterday by
the head of the church in Montreal, to his clergy assembled
at his house, on the occasion of the consecration of the
Bishop of yelmesse. We do not doubt that the Canadians
with wham religious sentiments always have such power,
will profit by this notice, which comes from so high a quar-
ter. We learn with pleasure that the Rev. Mr. Chartier
followed the counsel of his superior, and drank very cor-
dially the health of the King.
Ta.e number of priests or ecclesiastics present was more
than 140. After the health of Pope Gregory VI., his
Lordship the Bishop of Montreal rose and said, " That so
solemn an occasion as the pre4ent had never presented it-
self ; that he saw nearly all his clergy met before him, and
that he was gping to take advantage of the circumstance, to
give to the pastors of parishes certain notices of the highest
importance in the present circumstances of the country.
That the clergy were to use every effort to establish charity
and union among their flock ; that they were to represent
to their parishioners, that it is never permitted to revolt
against lawful (?) authority, nor to transgress the laws of
the land ; that they are not to absolve in the confessional
any indication of the opinion, either that one may revolt
against the Government under which we have the happiness
to live, or that it is permitted to break the laws of the
country, particularly that which forbids smuggling ; and
still less is it allowed to absolve those who may violata
these laws."
His Lordship then proposed the health of the King ; it
was received with an enthusiasm difficult to express. The
six bishops present, and all the clergy, by a unanimous
movement rose, and repeated respectfully the name of the
Kin,. All the clergy immediately expressed their approval
of the notice which their chief pastor had just given them.
Yew York Daily Express.
The accounts, brought by the New York Papers, from
Lower Canada, are far from being cheering. Of the latest
movements there the Liberal of Quebec says, that " on
the 21st July the freeholders of the county of L'Acadie
assembled, to the number of 4,000, in the public square of
$ village of Napierville, to take into consideration the
iniquitous measures of coercion hurled at this colony by
the • bloody and brutal' Whig Ministry and their creatures
in the British Parliament."
On the other hand, a loyal constitutional meeting had
been held in Montreal, and a determination was unanimously
expressed to support the views of Government. The 83d
Regiment, commanded by the Hon. Lieut.-Col. Dundas,
which left Halifax 29th June, arrived at Quebec 12th July.
The Legislature was summoned to meet at Quebec on the
18th of August, but there was not the slightest prospect of
any satisfactory result. Papineau's power in the House of
Assembly was considered supreme, and his opposition to
Government being well known, no benefit was anticipated
*rorn the Session.

The electors of Finsbury intend to give a public
breakfast to their excellent representative, Mr. Waklev,
to-morrow at the Highbury Barn Tavern. Mr. Hume,
M. P., Mr. Leader, M.P., Colonel Thompson, Mr.
Ewart, Mr. Roebuck, and many friends of the great
cause of Reform, are expected to be present. The elec-
tors have adopted this plan in preference to the somewhat I
exploded practice of a public chairing.
A large sum of money has been collected in the
county of Northampton, in order to defray the expenses of
the petition against the return of O'Connell and Hutton
for Dublin ; it already amounts to 4,000/.—Northampton
Herald.
On Monday afternoon John, the son of Mr. Smith,
of Farley, a fine youth about twelve years of age, was
drowned whilst bathing in the river Severn. On the mother
of the unfortunate youth going to convey the sad news to
his father, who had previously been in his usual health, he
was found dead in the room, where he had been observed
reading.—llereford Journal.
RAILWAYS.—Mr. Ruthven of Edinburgh has be-
stowed much time and labour in contriving a form of a rail,
which he thinks will be found to possess material advan-
tages over the wrought iron rails now in use.--Scotsman.
Mr. Robert Hutton, the new Member for Dublin,
resides at Putney Park, near Roehampton. He married
a daughter of the late Dr. Crompton, of Eton, near Liver-
pool ; remembered in the north of England, especially at
Derby and Preston, as a staunch Radical. Mr. Hutton
is a Fellow and one of the Secretaries of the Geological
Society ; a member of the Royal Irish Academy, one of
the Council of the University College, London ; and also
of the British Association for the Advancement of Science.
He is better than all this—an intelligent, well-informed, and
independent man.
A public dinner is to be given to the distinguished
representative for the Haddington District of Burghs, on
Wednesday, in the very heart of the camp of his opponents.
Perhaps the octogenarian Radical of former days—the
" plain Mr. Maitland"—may say in his heart to this mani-
festation of public feeling, " God speed."—Kelso Chronicle.
The same display of scurrility—of tedious iterations
—of gross and false charges against their opponents—were
made by the Tories at Jedburgh, on Tuesday last, as were
indulged in at Kelso on the previous Friday.
BRUSSELS, AUG. 26.—Yesterday the King trans-
acted business with the Ministers of Finance and public works.
M. de Beaulieu, Belgian Charge d'Affaires at Berlin, had
his audience of leave of the King. The Municipal Council
of Louvain has voted 15,000 francs for the expences of the
inauguration of the rail-road.
We observe, from a report in the Perthshire Ad-
vertiser, that the Annual Registration Courts for that
County have just been held at Perth and other places, and
that a largo number of fictitious voters have already been
enrolled. In the course of the examinations which took
place before the Sheriff, several curious facts were elicited.
One of the parties bad not seen the subjects on which he
desired to claim as life-rent proprietor till the very morning
of the Registrations, and all of them had granted bills for a
given sum, in consideration of property, the value of which
they had taken no pains to ascertain.

A philosopher being asked why learned men fre-
quented rich men's houses, but rich men seldom visited the
learned, answered. " That the first know what they want,
but the latter do not."

DUBLIN, AUG. 26.
VICEREGAL COURT.—The Lord Lieutenant returned to
the Park on Thursday, accompanied by the Hon. Captain
Boyle, Lieut.-Colonel York, &c., after passing a few days
with Lord and Lady Cloncurry, at Lyons.
VICEREGAL DINNER PARTY YESTERDAY.—His Ex-
cellency the Turkish Ambassador and suite ; Monsieur
Salame, Viscount Templemore, Hon. T. Chichester, Right
Hon. Kennedy, Colonel White, Colonel and Mrs. Ar-
nold, Mr. and Mrs. Ponsonby, Major and Mrs. Wynd-
ham, Mrs. Forster, Mr. Lynch, M.P. ; Mr. and Mrs. St.
John Blacker, Captain and Mrs. Bathurst, Mr. Norman
Macdonald, Captain and Mrs. Williams, Colonel Sir James
Hope, Scotch Fusileer Guards ; Lieutenant-Colonel Phipps,
Lieutenant-Colonel York, Mr. Barry, Bth Hussars ; Cap-
tain Liddell and Captain Boyle, A.D.C. in Waiting.
His Excellency Moustapha Rechid Bey Effendi intends
leaving Odienne's hotel (where he has sojourned since Mon-
day) en rout to Belfast. His Excellency sleeps at Newry
to-night, and proceeds the following morning to Belfast,
and thence to Glasgow. The Marquis of Ormonde, Lords
Ossory and Charles Butler, Captain Davis (Scotch Fusileer
Guards) family 'and suite, are among the fashionable arrivals
at Odienne's hotel.
O'CONNELL AND CRAWFORD.—Mr. Sharman Crawford
has addressed a long letter (the first of a series) to Mr.
O'Connell. It is not easy to determine with precision the
object proposed to he attained by the epistolary operations
of the latter gentleman. According to his own account,
the letter is written " for the purpose of declaring that
which Mr. O'Connell seldom hears—Truth." Now into the
merits of the multifarious matters with which Mr. Craw-
ford has with equal industry and intrepidity dealt, we have
nei'her time nor inclination to enter. We cannot, however,
but observe, that the late Member for Dundalk might, in
our humble opinion, employ his time and talents to much
more advantage in the popular cause to which he professes
adherence, as well as put his " principles" also—principles
for the peculiar possession of which he claims credit—to an
infinitely better purpose than in penning and publishing a
series of letters which will be greedily seized by the Tories
as affording weapons to attack Mr. O'Connell. The Dublin
Evening Post has allowed Mr. Crawford's letter to occupy
two of its columns. Whether the effusion be entitled to the
distinction of so large a space will be seen by the following ex-
tracts. They are short, but abundantly significant of the ac-
tuating spirit : " Yes ,Sir, the name of Daniel O'Connell, the
Liberator, is here recorded in the ranks of the Tories, and
the Tory Whigs, in support of Curfew law for Ireland ! ! i
—in support of a law adopted by the Whigs, from the pre-
cedent of Tory legislation. • • • • • •
You have brought yourself and your country into contempt
with a great portion of the British people ; and the Go-
vernment to which you gave a
injured by
founded on pa-
tronage, and not on principle, is by your connexion.
You have hurt the weight of the Liberal party in the House
of Commons with the people of' England." These are fair
samples of the sack. Towards the conclusion of Mr.
Crawford's letter we find these words—" These observa-
tions may be considered severe ; but observe, Sir, I deal
with your acts and votes as respect Ireland, not with your
motives. I censure the former, as I
have a right to do. I
impugn your policy ; limpugn your judgment. I wrestle
with you on facts: I impute no motives, You will say,
you desire to attain this power, to use it for the good of
your country. Be it so. you are not. infallible ; a warn-
ing voice may not be useless to you. You give no quarter
to your opponents ; you can claim none. Those who court
popularity dare not speak truth. Were a seat in Parlia
went my object, I for ever cast away my chance, by the
course I have taken ; I sacrifice the political affections of
the Protestants, by supporting an equality of rights for my
Catholic countrymen ; • I sacrifice the affections of the Ca-
tholics by my opposition to you ; I disconnect myself from
the Whigs, by refusing to become a party to their compro-
mises ; and from the Radical leaders of the British people,
by my condemnation of their junction with the Whii;i3, I
am shunned by all parties as an impracticable, but yet, I
have the satisfaction of observing, that the views I enter-
tain are creeping into the public mind, and if these views be
correct, a seed is sown which may yet ripen into fruit. I
conclude with a repetition of your own sentiments—'There
is one truth should never be forgotten—that Ireland never
yet confided but she was betrayed. "
THE CATHOLIC CLERGY.—The following observations
on the crime imputed to the Catholic Clergy of interfering
in elections, are extracted from the last number of the Corl.
Repo[ler. Though they relate principally to the late elec-
tions for this county, they possess a general application.
With respect to the interference of the Catholic clergy in
the late election, we expressly avow and maintain their right
and duty of counselling and advising their parishioners in
the duty and proper exercise of a great constitutional fran-
chise. That counsel and advice aro habitually applied for
and readily given, in all the temporal and spiritual affairs
of our poor peasantry. Why should it be withheld from
them in a temporal concern of the highest interest and im-
portance? At a Conservative meeting held at Lloyd's
hotel, a short time before the election, the clergy of
the establishment constituted fully one-fourth of those
assembled. We never questioned their right to ex-
press freely their political opinions, or to use such in-
fluence as they could legitimately exercise, to advance
and promote them. We claim for the Catholic clergy the
same right and lir ivilege, which, circumstanced as they are,
with a comparatively unenlightened population looking to
them for advice, will not he denied them by the rational
and moderate portion of the community. The charge of
intimidation, as applicable to the Catholic Clergy, is faintly
reiterated. Its absurdity in the late instance is a sufficient
refutation. If the peasantry be not as well educated as we
could desire, they are not deficient in natural intelligence
and shrewdness. Intimidation was not necessary to induce
them to vote against Mr. Longfield. They knew very
well that he had opposed in Parliament a settlement of
the tithe question, and that he had voted against the
education of their children. Their anxiety, and the
sacrifices they make to impart to their offspring the benefits
of education, are well known. There was no difficulty in
persuading them that Mr. Longfield was an unfit person to
represent the county. The charge of intimidation, as ap-
plicable to the Catholic Clergy, is therefore absurd and
false. The farmers in voting against Mr. Longfield, followed
the dictates of their own inclination and judgment. It is
stated that a meeting of the principal landlords of the barony
of Condons and Clongibbons was held on Monday, the 21st
inst., ' when spirited resolutions' were agreed to, and
signed by every gentleman present, deprecating the recent
illegal interference of the Popish Priesthood at the elec-
tion for this county, and pledging themselves to adopt every
measure the law will permit to prevent a similar occur-
rence.' It is stated further that a petition to Parliament
also was adopted from the Protestants of the barony, de-
tailing strong facts, and praying that the Priests may be re-
strained from meddling in future with temporal matters,
especially with politics. The spirited resolutions' depre-
cate the interference of the Popish Priesthood as illegal.
The framers of, and those who assented to, the spirited
resolutions,' will be so good as to point out the law, sta-
tutable or pther, rendering it illega for a Catholic Cler-
gyman to advise his parishioners as to the exercise of the
elective franchise. No such law exists. We should feel
' obliged by having those resolutions given to the public in the
terms in which they were adopted, and we fancy we shall have
little difficulty in showing that, if they be correctly described,
though they may be spirited,' they are repugnant both to
law and common sense. The electors in Condons and Clon-
gibbons are principally those on the Kingston estates. There
was, certainly, an interference with them in the exercise of
their franchise, which was both unwarrantable and illegal.
The political opinions of the Earl of Kingston and of the
heir to the estate, Lord Viscount Kingsborough, were well
known. That Mr. James King, a younger son, should en-
deavour to poll the tenantry against their known opinions,
and, failing in doing so, that he should endeavour by his
presence to intimidate them, was unwarrantable. A like
mode of conduct on the part of' the receiver under the
Court of Chancery, whom the law recognizes in the capa-
city, not of an ordinary land agent, but of an officer of that
Court, was unjustifiable and illegal. It was not our desire
to be drawn into this line of observation, but it has been
forced upon us. As to the petition to Parliament from the
Protestants of the barony, praying that the priests may be
restrained from meddling in future with temporal matters—
especially with politics—it is not merely absurd, but ludi-
crous. What would be thought of a petition praying to
restrain the clergy of the Establishment, who formed one-
fourth of the meeting at Lloyd's Hotel, from meddling in
future with temporal matters--especially with politics ?"

CHURCH-RATES.—On Monday, at the West
Bromwich Petty Sessions, the overseer of Great Barr
summoned F. Finch, Esq., M.P., before Lord Dartmouth
and other magistrates, for refusing to pay the Church-rate
as voted by the vestry. The Hon. M.P. objected on prin-
ciple to pay Church-rates ; but he said that by Sturges
Bourne's Act the minutes of the vestry at which the rate
was made should be entered in the rate-book, which not
having been done, he contended, therefore, that the rate
was invalid, and could not be sustained. After consulting
together, the magistrates allowed that the objection took
the power of enforcing the rate out of their hands, and
dismissed the summons.—Staffordshire Examiner.
On Friday morning a❑ itinerant hawker of books
committed suicide by drowning himself about half -a mile
west of Granton Pier. He was observed from the railway
by an old man who was unable to render any assistance,
but who hastened to the pier, where he gave the alarm. A
boat was immediately dispatched to the spot, but life was
found to be extinct. The clothes, bundle, &c. of the unfor-
tunate man, who appears to have executed his fatal purpose
very deliberately, were lying beside some trees at a short
distance from tile place where he put a period to his exis-
tence. He was from Aberdeen, and has left a wife and
family,.--Edinburgh Courant.

In some places, we have been informed that the wheat
has been got together too hastily, but there is never a year
but we hear complaints of some farmers housing too early
and others too late. Competent judges assure us, that, on
the whole, the quantity and quality are such, as to be satis-
factory to the grower. The ear and straw are said to be
very clean, and not one complaint has reached us of smut,
rust, or fly ; the same description will apply to the Barley
and Oats, the crops of both of which are said to be excel-
lent. The " hits" of apples and pears are very partial,
being in some places abundant, in others light ; a large
quantity of fruit has fallen from the effects of the wind and
heavy rain. - The late " dropping weather" has been
favourable to the potatoes, of which an abundant crop is
expected. The hops have thriven most luxuriantly during
the " rainy and warm season," but we fear the last three
or four cold nights have operated unfavourably on this un-
certain plant. The crops of turnips are full, and with the
abundant aftermaths, give a very different prospect to cattle
feeders, to that of last winter.—Hereford Times.
Accounts, not only from our own immediate vicinity, but
from all parts of the three kingdoms, are highly encourag-
ing.—Leicester Mercury.
The harvest commenced in this neighbourhood yesterday
week, by the cutting of a portion of a field of oats at
Hanroyd Bank, near Hewood Hall, in Midgley ; being, we
believe, the first application of the sickle in this district.
During the last week, reaping has become pretty general,
and should the present favourable weather be providentially
continued, the harvest, which is abundant, and almost un-
precedentedly early, will no doubt be secured in the course
of a fortnight. In some of the hilly parts of this country,
the anomaly will be presented of two harvests being housed
in on eyear,—a field of oats being now nearly ready for the
sickle, on a farm near to the Old Dolphin, in Clayton, where
the produce of last harvest was not secured till the mouth of
February last !—Halifax Express.
The operations of harvest have for a while been suspended
by the late showers, until the arrival of more auspicious
weather, which we hope has now set in. The rain, al-
though it has retarded the carting of wheat, has had a very
beneficial effect upon the pastures, which are now exhibit-
ing a most luxuriant hue, whilst it has not been enough to
injure the corn. Of wheat we may say that, contrary to
the general expectation formed in the spring of the year, the
crop will be even more than an average one, and of which
we may safely say two-thirds are now secured ; and also of
barley, though the long-continued drought has had a very
serious effect on the poor lands, the cool and rich lands
have been so much improved by opportune showers as to
bring the whole to a general average crop.—Wilts Inde-
pendent.
Wheat harvest is likely to become pretty general this
week in the north 'of England, a considerable quantity of
oats having been already cut. We believe that the quality
of the grain will be good everywhere, and the quantity a
fair average.
The hops at Willem have rapidly improved since the
late gale, which blew away every vestige of disease, and the
crop has now the appearance of being the best growth that
has been known for many years, and if the planters do not
obtain better prices than they did last October they will
be fiats. The picking will commence the Ist of Septem-
ber, and the crop here will average from five to six cwt.
per acre.-o.r.Prd Gazette.
We have timing the first days of this week had the plea.
sure to enjoy the most truly nobly spectacle the county of
Norfolk can exhibit, since the termination of the Holkham
sheep-shearings, in sui veyiug the progress of the harvest in
Lord Leicester's park. It had just commenced, and on
Monday we saw no fewer than one hundred and eighty
labourers, men and women, girls and boys, at work in one
field of wheat. There were seventy-five acres, and the
rapidity with which it was mown, bound into the sheaf, and
set up in shocks, would seem niarvellous to those accus-
tomed to the ordinary progress and the few hands employed
on common farms. But e high satisfaction was in seeing
so many industrious labourers made joyous by employment,
whilst the master of all this wealth rode about the field,
luxuriating in the riches of the earth, which have arisen as
it were at Isis bidding, and delighting in being able to dif-
fuse so much comfort around him. Such is Lord Leices-
ter's daily employment, and it is impossible to imagine more
true, more heartfelt delight than he derives from the har-
vest, now covering with the richest crops a soil of which,
when he came to the estate, eighteen-pence per acre was
the entire rent. Titus is this first of country gentlemen
recompensed for passing his life upon his own domains,
where it constitutes the first happiness of this most happy
of mankind, to see the trees he has planted flourish, and
the corn he has sown ripen, the farm-houses and cottages
he has raised peopled, and to live amidst the blessings of a
satisfied tenantry, and of labourers in the possession of
every comfort of their condition, through their own industry
and the employment he has provided them. —Norwich
Mercury.
In this district the crops are looking well, and the pros.
pects of a successful and abundant harvest are very cheer-
ing.—Sunderland Herald.
The harvest is proceeding most satisfactorily in this
county. In the immediate vicinity of Chelmsford a large
breadth of wheat has been carted ; one occupier has got
in seventy acres. The barley in particular will be greatly
benefited by the rain that fell on Wednesday, as well as the
mange], turnips, and feed generally.—Cliehnsford Chronicle.
In the course of a few days, except on the lowest soils,
the harvest will be in full operation, with every prospect of
a bountiful produce.—Doncaster Gazette.
HOWDEN.—The crops are generally very heavy, and
require additional labour in consequence of being so much
beaten down by the recent storms.
PONTEFRACT.—The weather during the last ten days
has been very fine, and extremely favourable for the harvest.
The farmers in the neighbourhood have generally com-
menced operations in the corn-fields during the present
week. The crops are looking remarkably well.
NORTH DERBisHIRE.— Harvest has partially commenced
in this district (which is not thought as strictly agricultural)
with every sign of abundance. The crops in this division
are superior to what has been observed for many years.
NEWCASTLE.—Another week of fine weather has been
productive of great benefit to the crops, which are pro-
gressing rapidly to maturity ; but it will be some weeks
before harvest is general in this neighbourhood. The bulk
of the hay crop is now secured, but some old land is still
unmown.
WHITEHATEN.—The weather continues highly auspi-
cious far gathering in the fruits of the season. The crops
in this district were never known to look better, and more
than an average yield may now be fairly calculated upon"
In many quarters the busy reapers may be seen plying their
tail, and a few days will ripen the grain generally and render
it fit for cutting.
Several fields of wheat and barley in the vicinity have
been cut during the past and present week, and should the
weather continue propitious, the sickle will be in general
operation in the course of another eight dogs. It gives ue
sincere pleasure to state that every kind of crop is not only
excellent in quality, but abundant in quantity.—Kelso
Chronicle.
The harvest is now fairly begun on almost all the low
farms in the eastern district of the county of Haddington.
The small crofts in the Highlands are remarkably abun-
dant. Every patch of ground around the huts on the hills
is rich with promise. An old man informed us this morning
that he had assisted to cut the oats and barley in his native
glen for sixty years, and he never saw such a season as the
present.--.lnverness Courier.
The country never was blessed with a more delightful
prospect, nor at a season of more need. All over the east
country, and in the earlier parts of the three wards of our
own county, reaping will commence seriously on Monday.
In all the crops the head is heavy, and the supply of fodder
is very great. Young clovers never were more luxuriant.
The roots of the sheaves where these have been sown, will
be very bushy ; so much so, that the farmer will require to
allow more than ordinary time for drying thoroughly, for
fear of heating. If next month prove kindly the fields will
be clear by October ; and then all hands will be employed
in digging up the potatoe crop. By a letter received, of
date the 21st, from Mauchline, we learn that a great many
fields in that neighbourhood will be cut down next week,
and that harvest will be general all over the country by
the Ist of September. The same will hold good of the
southern and border counties, and the northern shires are
represented as not being a whit behind. Their crops, how-
ever, are said to be lightish, from a want of early moisture.
--Scotsman.

The Earl of Durham, after spending a few days
with the Bishop of the Diocese, at Auckland Castle, has
returned to his splendid Castle at Lambton. We regret
to hear that his stay in the county is very uncertain, and
that he has been suffering from indisposition.
Mr. Fleming, of Gateside, in Conistone, had in his
garden three branches of rhubarb from one root. They
measured round 11 feet and a half. The root was 2 feet
91 inches in circumference, and the weight altogether was
4113.—Kendal Ilfercury.
The notorious George Steele, the accomplice and
King's evidence in the Wistaston murder, has been com-
mitted to Stafford gaol on six charges of burglaries in various
houses in that and adjoining counties.—Chester Courant.
On Thursday a carpenter went into the church-
yard, Halsted, Kent, to repair a vault. He discovered in
the vault a basket, which, on being opened, was found to
contain the body of a female child. A surgeon was in-
stantly sent for, who stated the infant to be about three
days old ; but from the state of the body, he was unable tld
o
say whether it had been born alive. An Inquest was he
on the body on Saturday morning, before Mr. C. J.
Carttar, but there being no evidence to prove bow the
child came there, or whether it was born alive, the Jury
returned a verdict accordingly,

re-elected :--
The Marquis of Tweeddale
The Earl of Morton
Home
Elgin
Airley ...• 43
Leven
Selkirk
Orkney 4l
Viscount Arbuthnot
Strathallan
Forbes
Saltoun . 42
Gray
Sinclair
Colville of Culross

Reay 4l
The Earl of Stirling voted for the Earl of Buchan and
himself ; and we are requested by the latter nobleman to
state that, by an unavoidable delay in sending his signed
list to the Palace of Holyrood, his vote was not taken for
the Earl of Stirling, to whom he was pledged in return for
his Lordship's vote for himself. The proceedings of the
meeting were finished about three o'clock, having com-
menced about twelve.—Scolsnzan.