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London, England, 1836-11-28 00:00:00

THE SON. LoNDON, MONDAY, NWIEMBER 28, 1836.

fled at the opportunity of bringing. forward such a
subject at the commencement of a mayoralty. The an-
cients used to introduce their officers of justice with
initiatory sacrifices, in the expectation of a prosperous
event to their selection ; and he trusted that the intro-
duction of the grant at the beginning of the Lord
Mayor's career would be the forerunner of much good
to the community, and redound greatly to the honour
of the citizens of London. The object of the grant was
to supply moral and religious instruction in places where a.,cia
the absence of moral and religious education was most
deeply felt—the suburbs ,of the anetropolis." We
cannot go all the length of believing, with the worthy
Deputy, that the outskirts of London produce all the
vices which infest the city, hut undoubtedly in the
outskirts are to be found the impure sources of a great
portion of the depravity and crime which contaminate
the moral atmosphere of London. Not long since Mr.
C. Pearson showed that another large portion of the
evil is generated in the great city prison, where the
coercion of crime had long been closely interwoven
with the process of its reproduction. But this last
source of public demoralization, we trust, will be soon
reformed ; and as to the vices of the neglected suburbs,
nothing can be , a more effectual, though it must be a
gradual corrective, than carrying through the vicein-
fested regions the purifying streams of religious and
moral instruction. Talk of a preventive police, in-
deed ! The preventive police of France can destroy
liberty—can invade the privacy of every man's domi-
cile—can almost suppress the voice of public opinion,
by wielding its arbitrary powers against the indepen-
dence of the Press—can discover political plots that
never existed—can spread alarms of its own creat-
ing, but cannot restrain crime. Mild laws, fairly
and judiciously administered, may do much
a to-
nd
wards correcting and reforming public morals,
so make the punishment of crime subservient to its
prevention : but the most efficient preventive police
is a sound system of popularinstruction—the instruc-
tion which teaches the people their moral and religious
duties, impressing their minds with the obligations of
Christianity, from the observance of which proceed
social peace, contented industry, temperance, and the
domestic virtues. This is the 'preventive police which
interferes not with political freedom or private liberty,
and which crushes the seeds of crime without oppres-
sing the independence of a people. It was to the
mode of preventing crime that Deputy Corney alluded,
when he said that " to counteract the effects of the des-
perate evil which he had described, it was proposed
that additional churches should be built, in which pa-
rish priests, like those whom England used to boast
of, should give religious instruction. Every body
knew that if the water at Chelsea was pure, London
would feel the advantage ; just so it was with the
sources of moral and religious sentiment, which would,
through the instrumentality of the fund, tend to the
advantage of the City." We trust that the Established
Church at the present day has many clergymen la-
bouring in the vineyard of Christian instruction "like
those whom England used to boast of." One went
down to the grave within a few days, full of years and
of the glory which the grave cannot extinguish. The
name of Simeon was but one of the highest names
among a class whose beneficent labours have a higher
incentive than the perishing praise of man. We said
that there was one exception to the pertinent and
judicious remarks with which Mr. Deputy Corney
introduced his motion. In saying so, we alluded to
the following passage in .his speech Some time ago
the Bishop of London and the Chairman of the London
Bridge Committee, contemplated an improvement of
the description now proposed, and suggested the re-
moval of several of the City Churches in order to effect
the object. The cry of desecrate the Church, however,
was raised, and the popular clamour occasioned the
abandonment of one of the most useful projects. He
trusted that as no cry of the kind could now be raised,
no objection would be started." How, we ask, can
any cry of the kind be now raised ? The object is
not now to destroy, but to construct—not to pull down,
but build up. We do not think it was in the best taste
to introduce that subject just now, in connection with
the promotion of the subscription for building au addi-
tional number of metropolitan Churches ; but since it
has been so introduced, we cannot pass it by in silence
—for, if it were an offence to oppose that design, and
to denounce that scheme of destruction on the plea of
improvement, we must plead guilty to the charge, and
take all the responsibility of being among the first and
principal offenders. We are glad it is in our power to
contradict one part of the statement, and that is that
the Bishop of London was a consenting party to a plan
for demolishing at one fell swoop, if we recollect right,
about 23 City Churches, afterwards reduced to 17.
We did our utmost at a time when there was consi-
derable popular excitement, and levelling doctrines
were in more favour than at present, to avert the omen
and prevent the evil of that wholesale work of destruc-
tion. What does the worthy Deputy mean by po-
pular clamour ? All the respectable inhabitants of
those parishes whose Churches were threatened, and,
we are happy to say numbers of Dissenters, as well as
Churchmen, went with us, and joined in the resistance
to the desecration and destruction of so many of those
temples of Christian worship with which the emporium
of commerce is sanctified and adorned. We are not
ashamed to say that, besides their holy uses, we prized
these temples of religion as beautiful works of art,
almost all of them being the productions of the genius
of Sir Christopher Wren ; and when we say that
St. Stephen's, Walbrook, where an able preacher now
draws a numerous congregation, was one of those origi-
nally pointed out to be taken down, we need go no
further in illustrating the Vandalism of the design.
We will only observe that St. Edmund's, the King
and Martyr, where attentive crowds have been edified
by the eloquent preaching of the Rev. Hartwell Home,
was another. But what was the pretext then alleged
for the demolition of all those parish Churches in the
city ? It was that they stood in the way of projected
improvements. Deputy Corney says they were to be
taken down to be re-constructed elsewhere. We do
not understand what is meant by this, except it be
that the old materials were to be worked up into new
Churches ; unless the Churches as they were could be
miraculously removed, like the house of our Lady of
Loretto, from the city to the suburbs ! Great con-
sternation prevailed among the parishioners, who,
with their families, felt a sort of domestic venera-
tion for the places of worship where their fathers
worshipped before them, and round the walls of
which the ashes of their ancestors reposed. Need
we remind our readers that Counsel were retained
i6_oppose the design—that two advocates. appeared,
"at the bar of the 'Common Council to support pe-
titions of rectors, churchwardens, and parishioners,
against what they considered both an unnecessary and
an unhallowed project--that one of those Counsel did
address the Court, and that a day was fixed to hear
the other ; but in the mean time the better feeling pre-
vailed in the Common Council, the projectors of the
measure saw it would be fruitless to press it, and the
design was abandoned. We now say that it was sub-
sequently denied on behalf of the Bishop of London
—denied most distinctly and positively—that lie had
ever given his consent, to the Church-destroying project
as had been reported. It was not our wish to recur
Just now to this unpleasant subject, but it has been
forced upon us—upon us, and the part which we took
iii (Wending those sacred edifices at the time, has the
attack been made. To that attack we oppose the plain
facts of the
case,' which then were the incentives to
our conduct, and
now constitute our vindication. Let
us add, the upon that occasion, the part taken by se-
veral Disnters, who were members of the Common
Connell, 'n'-s_,,Fich as
reflected on them the highest
credit for gentiii. liberality of feeling and true Chris-
tian sentiment.-11107 fling Herald.
Our efforts to procure the first and fullest account
of the discussion which took place in the General
Association of Ireland, on the report of the Committee
appointed to deliberate on the resolutions of Mr.
Sharman Crawford, have again been successful, as
was seen by the exclusive account in our paper of
Saturday of the proceedings whk place on
Thursday evening, at the Corn ich too
Exchange, Dublin.
The influence which these proceedings must exercise in
the appreaching Session of Parliament, as well as the
importance of the question on which the Irish people
have now solemnly, and deliberately; and determinedly
reiterated the verdict which they had already pro-
nounced against the misapplied exactions of the
Church, have rendered the recent discussions of the

General Association of the first national interest. This
consideration induced us to make arrangements, what-
ever might be the expense, to lay before our readers the
earliest, most accurate, and ample reports of the pro-
ceedings of the General Association. Our efforts have
been successful almost beyond our expectations. Our
readers and most of our Contemporaries have appreciated
them ; and if we feel more than usual exultation in the
results, we trust our feelings are not altogether without
Al, considering the importance of the object, to
charitable indulgence. We have so undeviatingly ad-
vocated the principles embraced in the resolutions of
Mr. Sharman Crawford, that it is unnecessary for us
now to state that they have our unqualified approba-
tion ; and we rejoice that, by their unanimous adoption,
the General Association has proved itself worthy to
be acknowledged as the rept esentative of public opinion
in Ireland. We defy the Orange and Tory faction to
show any flaw in the justice of these principles. The
first resolution asserts that no man should pay for the
ordinances of a Church with which he is not in com-
munion. He who would maintain the contrary result,
must discard all feelings of right and wrong, and found
his rule of action on the distich so applicable to the
conduct of the Church of Ireland :-
1 " That they may take who have the power,
And they may keep who can."
The other resolutions are scarcely more than corol-
laries of the ffist, to the effect that the tithe com-
position being appropriated to the uses of the
Church of only one-tenth of the population, nothing
short of the total extinction of an impost so applied,
and so oppressive and degrading, can give satisfaction
to the people of Ireland. In resolving never to desist
from all legal and constitutional exertion until this
principle be carried into full and perfect operation, the
" General Association," or, in other words, the people
of Ireland, give a pledge to support the present Go-
vernment in everything not involving a violation of
principle ; and repeats the expression of gratitude
and unbounded confidence "in the just, firm, im-
partial, and patriotic Government" of Lord Mulgrave.
The fiat of the Irish people has now formally gone
forth in favour of religious toleration, and to the exe-
cution of that fiat it will be vain to offer resistance.
Were it not for the Lords, the Church might for sonic
time longer have enjoyed a superabundant revenue ; but
in refusing a compromise, the Peers have provoked the
people of Ireland into the assertion of the full extent of
their claims ; and if the Church be ultimately left to
be supported only by own members—as there is
scarcely a doubt that it shall be—it is on the Peers of
England the responsibility must fall. To them will be-
long the merit of unwittingly hastening the consumma-
tion of the justice which they have so virulently op-
osed. It is the Peers who have given " the deadly
blow" to the tithe system, the abolition of which is
the best means of promoting the true interests of the
Protestant religion. A whole people, after submitting
for years to persecution, and waiting with unexampled
patience for even the chance of redress—after being
denounced as aliens, and threatened with reconquest,
insult, being measured to them in proportion to their
forbearance, goaded by every means of exasperation—
they do not yield to the impulse of a just indignation,
and seek redress by violent means, but in the conscious-
ness of their powers, solemnly record-their determina-
tion never to cease their exertions until their just claims
be complied with. Let any man examine the debates
of the General Association and the truculent exhibi-
tions of the Tories, or even the late debates of the
House of Lords itself, and decide for himself in which
is the greatest respect manifested for order, decency,
and constitutional principle. The Peers are now fairly
arrayed -against the people of Ireland—whose cause is
the same as that of England and Scotland—and with
even one-third of the force which is ready to be put
in action in support of Reform, the triumph of justice
is inevitable. Where can the Lords find materials of
effectual resistance to the demands of Ireland ? Will
England and Scotland attempt a reconquest of that
country, and rivet the fetters of their own thraldom ?
It is not likely—nay, it is impossible. Where, then,
are the means to hold Ireland enslaved? Let echo
answer where !—Morning Advertiser.
It is very remarkable that the question of a French
intervention in Spain is again revived, but on far dif-
ferent grounds from those on which it has heretofore
been placed. Who could imagine that the fates of
Don Carlos and of the Queen Isabel are dependant on
the marriage of the Duke of Orleans, and the slight
which the family of Louis Philippe has received by
the preference given to the King of Naples, and by the
general indisposition which the great European Courts
show to an alliance with it ? But such is the fact ; and
if, after having won his way to a Crown, the Spanish
Monarch should find it suddenly vanish from his sight,
he will have to deplore the pride which drove his power-
ful neighbour from a connection with those Powers
that are vivified by the same principle with him, and
throws him, per force, into the hands of the liberal
party. The position of the family of Orleans is in truth
humiliating, and the head of it feels that he holds a very
critical position—detested by a large party of his own
subjects for having abandoned the principles which
placed him on the throne, and deserted by those Sove-
reigns for whose favour he avoids;his former friends.
He is therefore in a difficulty which is almost too try-
ing for his able head. Is he to be King according to
the ideas of the Holy Alliance, or to relapse into the
Monarchy of the Barricades ? That is the question
which circumstances are calling on him to resolve,
but which he is most unwilling to answer. He post-
pones it from day to day ; but young Henry of France
is constantly before his eyes, growing up to man's
estate, arid of as much value in a question of mere
succession as his own sons,. in ease he cannot esta-
blish them before the Duke de Bourdeaux is entitled
to advance his claims. Louis Philippe, therefore,
driven from the high quarters where lie had flattered
Himself he would be well received, has turned his at-
tention to the minor powers of Europe. It seems
there are nine Princesses of Royal blood in Europe
between the ages of fifteen and twenty-four, five of
whom have already declined an alliance with the
House of Orleans. Negociations are on foot with
some of the other four ; and certainly if they all con-
cur in the refusal, it will be hard to calculate what
the effects may be on the temper and policy of the
King of the French. It is understood that an agent
has just been despatched to the Court of Baden, to
solicit the hand of a Princess for either of the brothers,
and the future peace of the Continent may be said to
depend upon the result of that mission.—Morn. Post.

At the meeting of the Town-Council of Ayr on
Wednesday, the freedom of the burgh was unanimously
voted to Lord James Stuart, in testimony of the Council's
approbation of his Lordship's Parliamentary conduct.
The weather is anything but propitious far harvest
work. Saturday and Sabbath the sky was clear, yet the
air was moist ; and, in consequence of the previous rains,
the stOoked corn was not fit for the stack-yard even up
to Sunday night. Early last Monday morning we had a
fall of rain, and in this county the prospect of the upland
farmer is anything but flattering.—Ayr Paper
On Thursday information of the following robbery
was circulated throughout the various divisions of police :
On Tuesday last, between the hours of four and ten in the
evening, the house of Mr. Fenn, a working-jeweller, at No.
, Soho, was entered and
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propertyel-stre Chapel-street,
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of gold rings, keys, diamond pins, brooches, necklaces, and
snuff boxes, together with a silver tea-pot and a variety of
other articles of plate. The felony was effected during the
absence of the family, and by means of skeleton keys.
HORRID CRUELTY.—One day last week, in a
house at Prestwick toll, inhabited by several families, a cat
belonging to one of them took it into her head to pay a
visit to a neighbouring mouser ; and, in so doing, came in
contact with some butter, which she made free to taste, and
afterwards went home. When the guidwife (should she
be called so?) missed her butter, she went immediately to
the owner of puss and scolded and swore like a fury, and
demanded payment for her loss, which was refused. She
then seized upon poor puss, which was with young, carried
her home, actually cut her through the middle, and return-
ing to the owner's house with the carcass, threw it in at the
door, saying, " Now, then, there's your cat.”—Ayr Observer.
On Sunday, the 20th inst., nine shearers were busy
at work the whole of the day in a corn field about two
miles from Rochdale. The greater part of the corn is yet
standing in the field.—Manchester Guardian.
MARCH OF ORTHOGRAPHY.—A board is exhi-
bited in a shop window in Wild-street, Lincoln's Inn-fields,
on which is painted the following :—" Boots and shues
cloned, carpitts beat, mescegess and parsells cairfully de-
liverd.,N,l3, A truck to bee let.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

VICE-CII4NCELLOR'S COURT, Nov. 26.
SPURRIER V. PRATT.
This motion was resumed this morning. The object
was to restrain the defendant, who was the owner of che-
mical works at Birmingham, from working the manufactory
to such an extent as to be a nuisance to the property of the
plaintiff, which was adjacent to the works. Evidence to a
very voluminous extent was produced, to show the dele-
terious nature of the manufactory, and the extent to which
it had latterly been carried. Works of the same descrip-
tion had for many years been carried on upon the same pre-
mises ; but they had for the last few years been so extended,
to the prejudice of the plaintiff's property, as to compel
him to have recourse to legal proceedings. As the pro-
perty was on lease the plaintiff had only at present a re-
versionary interest, in respect of which he had brought
an action against the defendant, and recovered 5/. damages.
This, it was contended, established his right to have the
nuisance abated.
The Solicitor-General appeared in support of the mo-
tion ; Mr. Knight for the defendant.
His HONOUR said this was a case in which there had
been an acquiescence in the continuation of the works for
nearly 40 years ;. during which time, by the plaintiff's own
showing, there bad been a gradual increase in the size of
the manufactory. And it would put a stop to all manufac-
tories of this naturo in the country, if they might be allowed
to increase to a certain point, and might then be put a stop
to, on the ground of nuisance.
. Motion refused, with costs,

couRT OF COMMON PLEAS, Nor. 26.
WEBB V. RHODES.

This was an action brought by the plaintiff, a solicitor,
against the defendant, the opulent cowkeeper, for the re-
covery of a sum of 141., due at, the foot of a bill of costs.
The plaintiff, who resides at Reading, was solicitor for a
lady named Mary Ann Knight, and Mrs. Knight agreed
with the defendant to grant him a lease of certain premises,
which he was desirous of possessing. The plaintiff was
accordingly employed to prepare the necessary agreement ;
and in it was contained a clause, to the effect, that the par-
ties agreed " that th• said lease and counterpart shall be
prepared by Mr. Webb, the solicitor of the lessor, at the
costs and charges of the said John Rhodes." Before the
lease and counterpart could be prepared, Mrs. Knight died,
and the plaintiff now insisted that, under the stipulation in
the agreement, the defendant was bound to pay the amount
of the costs incurred for preparing the agreement.
The verdict was taken by consent for the amount claimed
by the plaintiff, with liberty to the defendant to move for a
nonsuit.

lIELLYER V. lIELLYER.
The action in this case was brought by the plaintiff
against the defendant, for the recovery of the amount of a
promissory note for 6701. and interest ; and the defence re-
lied on in the plea of the defendant was the statute of li-
mitations. The parties were brothers. The note bore
date in 1824, but the interest was paid up to 1829. The
last payment, amounting to 331., was made in April,
1831 ; and this, it was contended, took the case out of the
statute.—The Jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff
Damages, 856/.

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EXCHEQUER COURT, Nor. 26.
KEPPELL AND WIFE V. PARAGREEN.
This was an action to recover damages for an assault and
false imprisonment. The plaintiffs were matt and wife.
Mrs. Keppel, in September last, went into the shop of the
defendant, who carries on the business of a baker in Tot-
tenham-court-road, to buy some bread, in payment of which
she put down a half-sovereign. The young woman behind
the counter, who served the bread, examined the coin, as
if she thought it was a counterfeit, on observing which Mrs.
Keppell said that if she entertained any doubt of the half-
sovereign being genuine she could give her another, which
she according tendered. Defendant came in meanwhile,
and, having taken up both the half-sovereigns, he examined
them, and pronounced them to be bad. The defendant and
some persons who were standing in the shop discussed the
matter, and defendant went out and brought in a police-
' man, to whom he gave Mrs. Keppel in charge. The police-
man, with Mrs. Keppel in his custody, then proceeded
towards the station-house ; but on his way thither was
overtaken by the defendant, who said that, upon further
consideration, he was disposed to think the coins were good,
and therefore he requested that the woman would be set
free. The policeman said he had no power to do so—that
having once got her in charge, he should proceed to the
station-house, where defendant should attend to follow it
up, or else abandon it. They then went on, and on their
way passed by Mrs. Keppel's house, when she requested
the policeman to stop, that she might inform her family of
the situation in which she was placed. This the police-
man could not allow. Upon arriving at the station-house,
followed by a great crowd of persons, the inspector weighed
the coins, and found them to be good, upon which defen-
, dant gave her a sovereign for the two half ones, and she was
discharged.
His LORDSIIIP found for the plaintiff.—Damages 251.

CONSISTORY COURT, Nor. 26.
HEATIICOTE V. IIEATIICOTE4
In this, which was originally a suit for divorce, on the
grounds of cruelty and adultery, promoted by Mrs. Heath-
cote against her husband, judgment was given in May last
in favour of his wife. The question respecting the allotment
of permanent alimony was brought before the Court on the
last session, when the Learned Judge allotted 1,6001. per
annum as permanent alimony.
The KING'S ADVOCATE, this day, on behalf Mr. Heath-
cote, prayed the Court to rescind its decision respecting
the permanent alimony which it had granted to Mrs. Heath-
cote. This application was made on the grounds that the
Court had been taken by surprise, and had been labour-
ing under a mistake when it gave its judgment respecting
the permanent alimony, and was not in possession of the
whole truth.
Dr. ADDAMS on behalf of Mrs. Heathcote, expressed
his doubt whether it was in the power of the Court to re-
scind its judgment.
The PitoeToa for Mrs. Heathcote prayed the Court to
grant a monition by ways and means for the purpose of
obtaining costs and alimony amounting to about 1,200/.,
which was due, as Mr. Heathcote endeavoured in every
possible way to avoid the process of the Court.
The CounT decreed the monition to issue as prayed for.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HO USE.
In our report of the proceedings at this office on Friday
last we stated that on that day a solicitor attended before
the Loan MAYOR, in obedience to a summons issued in
consequence of a complaint made on the part of a Clergy-
man, who was some time ago robbed of a bill of exchange,
in which a forgery was subsequently committed. The
Clergyman in question (son of a person of high dignity at
the Bar), wanting 2001., applied to an advertising money-
lender, who produced a check upon the Bank of England
for 200/., and at the same time a stamp, with the figures
20n1. on the corner of it, and stated that the Clergyman
was to write his name across it. This being done, the
money lender said some little form was necessary about the
check, and appointed a meeting in one hour ; but neither
he nor the money had since been seen. At the end of two
months, however, the Clergyman was called on, demanding
payment for his acceptance, not for 2001., but for 5001.
when it appeared that a piece of paper had been pasted
over the sum 200/., and immediately under was the sum
5001. ; that it was dated August, and ran thus :—" Two
months after date pay to my order 5001., value received."
The solicitor summoned was the person in whose hands the
hill had been seen, and it was expected that he would pro-
duce the instrument and the party who had employed him
to sue upon it. The solicitor said his client had taken the
bill away, and, although he was required to attend before
gone out of town. After some
the LoRD MAYOR, he had
conversation, a summons was issued for the attendance of
the holder of the bill.
On Saturday the parties again attended, and in answer
to the Lord Mayor Forrester, the officer, had served the
summons on the holder of the bill, and was informed by
him that he certainly should attend.
The holder's solicitor had seen the holder more lately, and
he (the holder) declined to attend, by the advice of Counsel,
until he should be prepared with evidence to prove that the
transaction was bona fide on his part.
The LORD MAYOR—Do you know the persons whose
names are at the back of the hill ? Solicitor—l iknow
only one of them, and he is in a debtor's prison. From him
my client received the bill, and it will be necessary, he was
advised, to procure a habeas corpus to obtain that gentle•
man's evidence in proof that the amount of the bill, with
the deduction of 35/. as a bonus for discounting it, was
paid by him in two bank-post bills for 100/. each, and a
check for 26Z/.
Mr. Clarkson—Have you any objection to say whether
your client said this morning that he had or had not the
bill ? Solicitor—l should rather not answer that question.
Mr. Clarkson wished that a second summons should be
issued to the holder of the bill.
The Loan MAYoR directed that the summons should
issue on Tuesday week, as the Sessions commenced on Mon-
day, and he assured Mr. Clarkson that his utmost exertions
should be used to bring the concoctors of this nefarious
schema to justice.

GUILDHALL.
A lad named William Osborne, who said 'le was assis,
ant to the draymen at Elliot's brewery, was charged wit
having drowned a person of the names of Hayes.
The Magistrate remanded the prisoner till Monday.

MARLBORO UGH-STREET.
Mr. Roberts, the paving-rate collector of St. James's,
summoned Mr. Turgand, of Copthall-buildings, for ob-