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LONDON:
MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 6, 1838.

The Commons' amendments to the Loris' alterations in
the Irish Municipal Bill are to be tak'n into consideration
by the 13, ers to morrow. We have already expre-sed our
()pi-lion, and it seems to be the prevailing opinion, that the
Peers w iil not accept the Commons' amendments. One
excellent reascn assigned by Lord JoHN RUSSELL for
not accerilg Lord LYNDHURST'S Bill wa3, that it is, in
fact, with nine:v-two new ClAu3es a ne-v Bill, which
wag rcad only on-,e in the Lords instead of going through
wral stages. But a sitratr objection may be made to
the two new enactments introduced into the B:11 by Lcrd
Jou s RussF.LL and by Lord MoaPETH, and the Peers may
on that account reject the Common, ametuitnents. We
believe they will, and the S-subn will come to an ead

without the incasure bring, completed. If the Lord; re-
-I,nt and voluntarily abstain f:.oni doing m'schief to Ireland
it wid be a new feature in ti;e7r ch u c r, and cause the

publi.s: much mere. surpr,se than rcgret.

The Siect Com:r.ittee, appoiote I on the motion of Sir
E KNATCII UM!, to inquire into all the ciretrostancos con-
nect, 4 tvit'l the discharge of JOHN Nit tiot.t. Timm alias
(101;WIEN AY from the Kent Lunatic A?:,lurn, hate reported
to the llouse of Commons the Alinut•!s oF taken
I,efure them. Their Report is piloted. They ivalti, no
nth, r Report, an:l we presume tl!&r Eine:loos arc at an end.

They t. 7.1-, four and examined only Mr. PHlc.l.lrrs, t
U:akr Sect ciaryof the Home Department, Mr. G. Fr.ANc

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the man who re, cived COURTENAY, Mr. TURNER, M.P. for
T uro, Sir I
t VIVIAN, all Mr. Witurt..l:u.A.u, an auc-
tioneer and general agent at St. Coluo)b. At no one
Eneifn .; was Sir E. KNATcHaULt. pre.ient.; so Chu a!ter
provokieg the inquiry, and morio; for :he Cautin'ttee,
ran away from it, and left the whole invosfg ttinn to others.

What t viderce he could have adduced had he be, n
present Ice cannot guess at, but Mr. WHITEFIELD'S
cei-
dence negatives in the strnnzest rosib!e manner the
shabby insinuation mod;! by S'r EDWARD Wholl be brought
forwrrd the m,,tion, th,t Thom hid bet n relea,;ed fr m th•
Asylum as the pr re of a cd.rru:-t vote gi; ea by his fatly r
to Sir 11. VIVIAN, after he had promised to v'te
fur Lord Mr. Wit ITEFIELD deposes that
Thom has alvcas sided with lieUrm, and that be hail
canvass .a mom in favour of Sir 11. VRLIN and Mr.
TRELAWNY SiX months More the election. We cannot
believe that the Church-lot;ng Baronet did justice either
to himself or Sir 11. VIVIAN in shrinking from all attempt
to establish that shabby insintwien.
We see another statement in the evidence which does
no honour to the Kentish 11,Iagitrates, and tsillca it would
have become Sir EDWARD to hate attended the Com-
mittee torebut or (xplain. In his place in the House,
formerly, Sir EDWARD stated something to the effect tl at
there was not a Magi,trate in the eastern part of tho
coulty who cou`d not bare told Lord JoitN RUSSELL before
THoll'S release took place, that it would be dang,rous to
release him. But Mr. FRANCIS deposes that he was sent
for by Mr POYNDER, the keeper of the Asylum, to
take away THOM, on the authority of a free pardon Giving
Thom up- to his father, and on the authority of a let-
ter purporting to be from the father authorizing
FRANCIS to receive THOM. But neither POYNDER nor
FRANCIS knew the elder T noms signature. It was
suggested that it might be a forgery, and an appeal
was made to a Magistrate ; and he, on no better a:u-
thority than this letter, which might have been a
for,ery—withcut any reference to the Home Office,
or to St. Colums—and 11Ir. POYNDER together, de-
livered Tuom up to FnANcts. If any persons arc
to blame for the unhappy lunatic Lot being placed, as
Lord J. RUSSELL supposed he would be, in the custody
of his own friends, it was the keeper of the Asylum and
Mr. LUSIIINDTON the Magistrate. He must have been
one of the vqady few persons in Kent who did not antici-
pate injury from liberating THOM. But after be was
liberated he speedily left tEe house of Mr. FRAN-
wlio never had the least controul over him. He
was only one. month in his house out of tip seven
which elapsed between his release and his death. During
that time he went amongst the lower classes and the mob ;
and et the Magistrates of Kent, who knew before hand of
the danger ofreleasing him, never took the least cognizance
of these things, and never made the least representation
either to THOM'S friends or to the Home Office. According

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to Sir EDWARD KNATellfieLL'S statements, these Alagis-
trates, of which he is the chief, have much to answer for;
and he neither did them nor himself nor the public justice,
by nut atiending on his own Committer, and clewing up al

points.

We have transferrA to our columns a very just and
Oraperreprobalion of " fool:sh intolerance on the Becch,"
from .yesterda's Speclalor. It :o happens that there ap-
pears in our Police reports to-day, under the head Lam-
beth-street, a case from which it may be inferred that the
foolhh intolerance of the Bench finds many imitators. We
refer our readers to that case, and, supposing that they have
read it, we must remind them that a considerable number of
street and field preaAers are to be mct with every Sunday
in most of the squares of the eastern and northern parts dare
metropolis, and in all the fields, and about all the waits in
its neighbourhood. We have nct frequently of late heard of

their being interfered with ; and therefore the presumption
is that it was the nature of the doctrines taught by the
disciples of mental improvement, which made the policemen
remove these two lecturers. The policeman cannot be tole-
rant of other men's opinions. The respectable classes were
much shocked by such teachers—even the Reporter feels
an evi lent horror at the men who ridicule the idea of re-
vealed religion ; and so, through Reporter, respectable
classes, and policemen, the teachers of mental improvement
are interrupted in their Sabbath avocations, and held up
to public reprobation. They may block up the public way
preaching one kind of doctrine but not another ; so that to
have an Established Church, gives into the hands of a
Judge, or a police Man, the power of determining what s all
and what shall not be.taught. For us, however, who have
occasionally noticed these street and field preacher!, who

are .I.leh forreidable rivals of the Ministers of the Poor
Man's Church, without imposing on the nation either
Church-rates or tithes, it opens a subject of much re-
flection to learn that these preachers are mem-
bers of a society, and that they scout the idea of
revealed religion. To have that preached in our streets
and lanes on the Sabbath may make Mr. PLUMPTRE and
the parsons think it would be better to allow the people to

engage in all kinds of work on that day, than throw
them idle in the way of such dangerous teachers. What

can have put such doctrines into men's heads ? Something
is due, we believe, to the circumstances that those wl.o

preach revealed religion to other men, do not observe and
obey the moral doctrines inculcated by and with it ; and that
they do acquire and receive large revenues for their teach-
ing. From 'those two circumstances other men naturally

suspect the moth es of those teachers, and from suspecting
their motives, they weigh and scrutinize their doctrines.
They attend to the trinisters of the Church of Eng-
land, when they accuse the Catholic Priests of
making religion a mere stalking horse to their ambition ;

but they retort the accusation on the Bishops and the other
Ministers of the Church of England. They look at re-
vealed religion in conjunction with the scandalous and
criminal blood-red Churches of Rome and Ireland.;
they see that religion, by a union with the State,
is made into a mere mischievous political instru-
ment, and they jump hastily to the conclusion, that
revealed religion—the evidence of which they cannot
weigh, for they know nothing of the languages in which
it was revealed, or of the manners of the people who
are said to have received the revelation—is a fic-
tion of the priesthood, invented and taught for their
obvious advantage. Thoy see that the doctrines and
lives of the Established Priesthood are at va►iance,
and they cannot, on their authority alone, believe words
which their actions contradict. Hence we are afraid there
is a great mass of unbelief in the land, which any pro-
per occasion will make manifest. The clergy may be jug•
tified, perhaps, in being alarmed, and thiaking it high time
to be intolerant, when societies of the working classes exist,
who are said to ridicule the idea of ret ealed religion, and
whose licensed teachers every Sunday address great num-
bers of the people.

We are glad to perceive that the Coffee and Eating-house-
Keepers' Association, which was lately established in the
Metropolis, is flourishing even beyond the most sanguine
anticipations of its founders. It appears from a Report
of the proceedings at the third half-yearly meeting of the
.i‘sociation held last week, that such has been the success
atteraling the early eff.Ats of the friends of this Inst!tution,
that it has already been deemed expedient to do away with
the rule which prohibited any pension from being granted,
till after the first three years. The patronage which this
charitable Associaion has received is highly creditable
to the public feeling in a moral roint of view. As the taste
fur tea and c,:ff. e c steeds itself among the community,
the drinking of spirituous liquors will be diminislicd as a
matter of course. It is, therefore, the obvious poliey of
all who regard soLr:ety r.s a virtue, to ervcatrage an institu-
tion founded for the benefit of those who have been instru-
mental in promoting it among the middle and lower classes
of society, whore—among the latter especially—it is so
much wanted.

By the Si. Andrew packet sh'p, which arrival at
Litz r, oat yesterday front the United States, we lute
reeited New Yerk papers to the 16th ult. inclusive, from
whkh intereitiAg and inn..oltant extracts will be found in
another part of T•'re Swi. The Proclamation of - the
Gov,2rnor of Pennsylvania re,pecting the resumption of
c,s't paymeLts is of 1;1e tt commercial importance. From
Can tv'a the revs is scanty, but the little received is, upon
the whole, very fatourable.

Ir tters and Papers f our 11Iacir:d of the 28th ult., I are
been roc:tired this morning. Accor.ling to one report, all
dit r. aces n EseAtrrEno anti ry r.r.: at an
cad ; wLereas it is ass rte I in iv:Miler statement of the
qu s t n, th,it- Es PARTERO has protested a_ anst continuing
to act in cotkinn,:tion with a Cabina of which sonic mem-
bers are i.i ;i. rso, a: ern mice. I. the ure..n.irne, al parties
act as if the prot.raction of Va., civil war was the m tin oh-
ject of their labours. NV ith a nriiiary force, amouniag in
all to nearly 700,000 arm in the field, the QUEEN'S Gene-
rals :.re content to rn,:intain a clef:ens:re attitude, Bur-
leg 0-.0 only se son when it is compe!ent for them to clear
the coun!ry of the Carrsts. We ktve no account of any
pr ogress having been made towards a settl, meat of the
Loan aft:dr.

The P..ri.= Journa's of Friday and Saturday have all bein
receivel. They annt:unc•2 the (!tali of the Duke de
DURAS, who expked u Ida nly at Versdl'e= on Thursday
last of an atta,l of apoplt xy. The illoniteur Parisien
positively dente; that tiler,: was any abstraction of &cu-
m( nts from the gpreign-offiee ; although it appears from a
private letter' rif4lturday that •an 'individual named
CHALTAS bad forged certain despatches which he offered
to dispose of to M. FABRICIUS, Dutch Minister ad interim,
at the French Court. Unfortunately for the credit of the
Dutch Minister, when by order of the Government
CuALTAs was arrestA, lett,,rs were found upon his person
addressed to him by M. FABRICIUS, containing offers for
the purchase of documents ab,tracted from the Foreign
Office. A Cabinet Council was summoned in consequence
of this disclosure, at the Lr. aking up of which Count MOLE
had an interview with M. FABRICIUS, when he de-
livered him his p‘ssports and ordered him to quit
Paris. The Dutch Minister was thunderstruck, but after
remonstrating with the President of the Council on the
injury which he would receive from such an instant
expulsion, obtained permission to await the return of a
Courier from the Hague with letters of recal from his own

Government.
The 217ational cont:tins a report of the proceedings at a
public banquet given at Metz, on the 29th ult., in honour.
of the re% olution of 1830, at which three hundred National
Guards, with their officers, were present. Several speec..es
breathing the most determined Rc-publican spirit were de-
ny( red on the occasion. Before separating the company
sung the Mars, illaise Hymn.
The folios lug arc extracts of the Journals :
The Duke tie Nemoars took the command of the camp of Lunerille
en the 28th ult.

Count St. Aulaire, the Ambassador of France in Vienna, left Paris
on IV
TheedKneir,,dea.yr,
ptorursestitairrnettourneds
The Prussian State Gazctie olf)totolsitell. Vtihn tfirlot me
.Tt i ornp
al !ttezz, oa nt
ntehaer 21
07 toh,
01101 to.
the number of political exiles dill:treed throughout the fur Govern_
,re.Govertiment of Jennisseisk,
merits of Siberia. Those tran‘poTior:tellot,ton.,,iitsha
i'L'ils)o7to)at the Maen' transport,
from
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which &Med fruit Smyrna on the 4th
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reorno,3 ,clsotnesaids
and served as a die.
ASudnmda. yomatoiornisi,n,
the Jupiter (on board of which was the Admiral
II sail for the
coast of Barbary. The brig Painure, commanded byerCillaptain Guillot,
was observing the manwvres of the Turkish fleet,
patch vessel for the French division.
Marshal Soult does not intend to make a long stay at Paris
learn that Inc williet out in a few days for his estate, near, Toulouse, w
e to
rust after the fatigues of his visit to England.
The Madrid Journal Eeo del Conerci'o of the 27th says, that an ex-