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London, England, 1822-07-17 00:00:00

four days, was dug up and carried off by a
wretched family for food ! Still we may be allow—
ed to hope that the full tide of charity will be
strong enough to remove an unparalleled accumu-,
lation of poverty and want, aggravated by diseSse
almost beyOnd human endurance, and that as oil,
when - thrown upon the agitated waters,- gra
dually superinduces,a calm and unruffled surface,
it will with a refreshing effect heal the sickness of
hope deferred, and restore, at least, comparative
tranquillity and comfort, instead of the multiplied
horrors of disease which tortures the body, and
anguish of despair which preys upon'the mind.
The apprehension of continued, nay, of increased
calamity too, remains to be averted, for in some
instances the sufferers, influenced by dire neces-
sity, have had recourse to the potatoes in their
imperfect state of growth, which, if persisted in,
must destroy all hope, so far as regards that
great article of resource, of support for the en-
suing year. As for those who press forward in
this great work of mercy, in the very exercise of
the feeling they have their reward.

[TIli TIM r..s
This being the day fixed for the Committee 01
the Highgate Chapel Bill, every art, we are told
has been resorted to to get up a. sham -case for
the occasion. We have already said that the
proposal to build a chapel, and enrich a clergy-
man, with funds bequeathed and expressly ap-
propriated by the grantor for the establishment
or a school, is a scandalous attempt upon the
sanctity of trusts, and upon the general rights
and safeguards of property. The advocates for the
job, however, refer the public to letters patent
of the reign of Elizabeth, and to a grant made
by the Bishop of London (in the hope, no' doubt,
that such ..musty documents will deter com-
mon readers' from the perusal), for arguments
n favour of the said application of the
trust money, broadly 'affirming that these old
instruments contain authority to build a.chapel
from the grammar-school fund. This is a pure
invention. The patent of Queen Elizabeth
limits the founder:and his representatives to the
creation and support of a grammar-school, and
never says one word about a chapel, which latter,
with two acres of waste land, is made over by
the Bishop of London, in 1565, in perpctuum, to
Sir Roger Cholineley, on condition of his vesting
it in the trustees of the grammar-school " for the
use of the school, and the better maintenance
and support of the same, for ever, and to no
other use whatever." This condition Sir Roger
Cholmeley complies with, and in June, 11565,
conveys the chapel and certain other proper-
ty,
.according to the tenour of the .episcopal
grant. Here,, then, we find a 'chapel made by
law! an appendage to a. charity school, and. the
trustees of the said incorporated properties now
striving to reverse the whole purpose of the said
legal settlernent,:by, extinguishitm the school
.that they may transfer its revenues to the Chapel.
We: further stated some days ago, that the Bill,
if unfortunately it should be carried, would so-
perSede the jurisdiction of the'Court of chancery,
before which the .inhabitaircs of Highgate have
been compelled to drag, these trustees, for the
sake of obtaining from the Lord Chancellor a de-
cision which shall at once define and enforce the
several duties of the trust. The jobmakers answer
that there is a clause exempting the proceedings
in Chancery from the operation of the Bill. A
pretty piece of diollery, to. authorize the Lord
Chancellor, by one clause in an Act of Parliament,
to set aside the whole of the remaining clauses !
as if such a provision could ever stand .in law.
The fact appears to bei that the promoters of the
Bill: have not yet,.as defendants in -Chancery,
put in their answers to the infcrmatiou. They
have nestred within the manifold-involutions of
that high Court of
,Equity—they have asked and
obtained a month from the 4th inst., . to put in
their answers (for that is- one of the few places
on earth where time may be said to go aliegging) ;
but the Session will he over before a month, and
the trustees will, in the mean while, have got the
Bill in their pockets ; and good bye to the Chan-
cellor and his Court.

[NEW TIMES.]
Mr. hope and Mr. Menzies, the two Scottish
Advocates, who have been . summoned to attend
at the Bar of the House of
•Commons this day,
have arrived in town, and will, of course, obey
the orders which they have received. We presume
that the principal object of Winging these Gen-
tlemen before the House is to prevent a serious
breach of the peace ; and in this wish all
considerate persons must cordially join.--
We confess, too, , that even upon the prin-
ciples of those who bold duelling to be
justifiable, We think that the present is not
a case which demands such reparation to
wounded honour on the one side or on the other.
Differing as we do in political sentiment from the
Honourable Member who first gave occasion to
the present • misunderstanding, we nevertheless
think ttat he is entitled to the presumption of
having been guided solely by public motives.
Unhappily, in the discharge of what he con-
sidered as a public duty, he was led to act upon
erroneous information,'and to wound the honour-
able feelings of some other Gentlemen, who have
taken perhaps an irregular, but certainly.. a very
natural course, to set themselves right in the
opinion of the world. In the whole of this
proceeding there is nothing, we think, which
Implies
,the least degree of personal malice
in any individual, or which leaves a taint
of dishonour on any name. It is a case of
mere political difference, mixed up with some
misconception on one side, and with a little
warmth on the other, circumstances which be-
tween men of perfect honour demand and admit
the easiest and most satisfactory explanation. So
far for this proceeding, independently of any
question of Privilege ; and really, in this latter
point of view, it does appear to us to be totally
unfit for further prosecution.

[MORNING POST.]
The discussion on Monday in the House of
Commons upon the general state of Ireland is
another proof of the great interest which the
people of England now take in the welfare of
the Sister Country. Mr. Iktchinsoll himself,