The Sun.
London, England, 1825-11-05 00:00:00

PUBLIC MEETING.

At the LONG Rooms,,SouTsramPToss, 6n MONDAY LAST,
to establish an Auxtr.leuv WEseF.Yase METHODIST
MISSIONARY SOCIETY, in conjunction with the PARENT
SOCIETY in LONDON.
The business of the evening commenced with a short hymn
and prayer.
J. BUTTERWORTH, Esq., M. P., was then called to the
Chair, and commenced by stating the object for which they
had met. All classes of individuals, he observed, must as
much rejoice in the success of the Society which has, with the
assistance of its numerous stworters, done more during the
last ten years in the cause of salvation than the most sanguine
could have calculated upon being accomplished, as we rejoice
in every effort made in its behalf by our friends; and it is
pleasing to observe, that all classes co-operate, and that God
directs their hand—it is pleasing too to notice, that the Church
Establishment joins cordially in the cause. Those persons who
are at all acquainted with the settlements of Sierra Leone, must
have discovered long ere this, that by the exertions of the Mis-
sionaries those settlements have become wholly civilized—in
the soldiers, too, so great a reformation has been worked, that,
I the officers have been struck with the effects produced. The
Missionaries have laboured long in the Islands of the Pacific
(and God has crowned their exertions), where the natives
have given up their attachment to vice—have entifely al-
tered their habits—and have given up their gods to be
destroyed. In Otaheite their endeavours have been so
successful, that no persons of late have been known to
be absent from their religious duties on Sundays.—
Those who have any knowledge of the Missionary Society, to
establish a branch of which in this town we have now met, are
aware that it has been largely patronized--the patronage has
not, however been sufficiently extensive to keep pace with its
wants. One hundred and seventy Missionaries are employed
in different parts of the world, at a yearly income of 40.0001. It
is very desirable to increase the funds of the society, for the
Missionaries from all parts are crying " send more Mission-
aries—send more help." It has pleased God to inspire a num-
ber of young men with a Missionary spirit, therefore it is not
men of which we are in need, but money ; it is that of which
we are deficient. At the present time there are twenty young
men ready to proceed to any quarter of the globe ; but we re-
quire help to send them out. In regard to Europe, the Mission-
ary Society have directed its attention to Ireland, where in many
parts, the greatest misery, wickedness, and viciousness exists •
oven at the present time, and have now twenty men acquainted
with the Irish language in that country, and those very men
were at one time as wicked as those they are now teaching.
There are a few Missionaries in France from whom good ac-
counts have been received, and there is reason to believe that
great numbers in that country are seeking after salvation. The
Missionaries stated at Gibraltar have succeeded in bringing
both the officers and the soldiers to a true sense of christianity.
In the Island of Ceylon the Americans have a vast number
of Missionaries, who have been very successful; and at
Botany Bay a number of poor wretches who have offended
the laws of their country, to which they can never return, have
been brought to a state of repentence, befitting their forlorn
situation. The benefits of the Missionary Society have been
extended even to the savages of New Zealand. A number of
Missionaries have died in attempting to explore Africa, where
in many places, the domestic comforts of life have been afford-
ed to the poor savages, and entire villages have been formed.—
Alluding to the late disturbances in the West Indies, he said,
it is pleasing to observe, that I relate it as a fact, that those
persons who at one time were their greatest persecutors, LOW
number with the warmest supporters of the Missionaries. In
Newfoundland, chapels have been built, societies formed, and
schools established. In the eastern world there are now thou-
sands of our fellow creatures sunk in the greatest darkness,
looking to Great Britain for instruction, and to bring them oat
of that barbarous state in which they live. The Chairman
concluded by observing, that as he understood there was no
Missionary Society established in the town, he would recom-
mend the Church, and Baptist Missionary Societies, to form
Branch Societies here. He had no wish to monopolize, and
had no wish that the Wesleyan Society should prosper, if
others more deserving could be found.
The Rev. Mr. 'TOAST, of Portsmouth, urged the duty of
sending spiritual instruction to the heathen from the memo-
rable sentiment uttered by one of them ; ". Ours is a land of '
dark hearts." He took pleasure in the evident spread of the
important principle, " that we should not live to ourselves ;"
and in the increase of harmony among Christians of different
denominations, who, from having become better acquainted
with each other, had learned to entertain more favourable opi-
nions of one another, and were more disposed to unite in doing
good, than to waste life in bitter and unprofitable disputes.—
Speaking of France, he said he had passed a portion of his life
in that country—at the time of the Revolution the people were
divided, and every exertion bad since been made for that wel-
fare, but as regarded religion, he might almost say, that where
the Revolution found them, there it left them. 150 tract and
missionary societies exist in that country, and are receiving
some support. Whilst I was there, he observed a poor woman,
residing at a sea port, and entirely lost to the world, become a
member of our flock. On several occasions she saw people
deposit money in a box for the missionary cause—she was poor,
hut she was desirous of adding her sous, which the mis-
sionaries refused to accept. On her return home her little
child read to her, and one passage so fully convinced her she
had done wrong in allowing herself to be prevailed upon to
withhold her trifling assistance, that she was determined to
contribute her mite, and has continued to do so to the present
time, and, singular to add, her circumstances have improved,
and she is more cleanly and comfortable. And so it will be
with all who assist in this cause—small sums soon swell to a
large amount. Alluding to the frequency of public subscrip.
tons in France compared with England, he said—l attended
once a cathedral in France, where, in the short space of twenty
minutes, not less than four collections were made—the first was
for the seats—the second for a religious institution—the third
for the church—and the fourth—l tremble while I think on
the barbarous superstition—the fourth was for prayers for souls
in purgatory. In conclusion, he related the following circum-
stance of recent occurrence : at a missionary chapel in France
not long since, a man of the name of Castor Benton, who had
for some time attended the chapel, one day came up to the plat-
form, and said=" Because I have been married fifteen years,
and because I approve of this society, I shall give fifty dollars."
Now (said the Rev. Speaker) let every honest couple assembled
here to-night do the same.

The ReV. T. Antans, in seconding the first resolution,
spoke to the following effect:--Mr. Chairman, I congratulate
you and the present meeting on the undiminished interest
which the subject of Christian missions continues to excite.
It is now more than thirty years since that impulse was
given to it, the effects of which have been felt to the present
day. During that period, its merits have been canvassed by
friends and foes. Philosophy has examined its principles—
theology has investigated its doctrines—history has recorded
its transactions—and, in some instances, poetry has lavished on
it the inspiration of song ; but still it appears before us with all
the freshness of an ever-growing. novelty. Thus it is not, as
some have fondly and foolishly said a mere exotic flower, reared
in the hot-bed of enthusiastic feelings, and destined to fade
when they should cool ; but a plant of the Lord's right hand
planting, the fruits of which are for the healing of the nations.
-It affords me unqualified pleasure, though belonging to a dif-
ferent religious denomination, to be present at this meeting.—
It is long since I have seen that the incurable diversity of opi-
nion existing in the religious world, should not be any barrier
to cordiality in feeling, or co-operation in exertion ; but rather
that it should serve as an occasion for the exercise of mutual
forbearance anti love. And why should not this be the case ?
Do we not see, throughout the universe of God, how diversity in
the modification is consistent with simplicity in the principle?
The prismatic colourS of the rainbow unite to form a ray of
light ; music is the harmonious combination of different
sounds. And thus is there a moral music in the church
of God; our individual notes may be different, but our
chorus is one: " Glory to God in the highest, and on earth
peace, good will to men." I rejoice in the professed object of
the missions, as embodied in the resolution which I hold in my
hand. That object is—not to transmit to the heathen the little
peculiarities of a party, but Christianity in the proper sense of the
word. And nothing short of this, Sir, could meet the exigency
of the case.—Could you impart to them all our discoveries in
science, and all our inventions in art—could you polish and
elaborate them into the highest degree of mental and social re-
finement, and leave the passions unsuppressed, the heart un-
changed, the conscience unappeased—all the benefits that you
would confer would be only as the garland, arranged, in taste-
ful decoration, round the head of the victim that was marching,
in unconscious procession, to the sacrifice. Corresponding with
the necessity of the case, is the proper spirit of missionary ex-
ertions. Rising above the stormy atmosphere of religious con-
troversy—the narrow lines of sectarian demarcation, it ascends
to a purer region ; and from that elevation it looks round, more
keenly than with an eagle's vision, and more widely, than an
eagle's range,;on the extended prospect of human misery and
crime.—lt aims to bestow, not the apple of discord, but the
bread of life, the food of the soul ; of which perishing millions
mustrtartake, or they must die. It is a subject of much gratu-
latigta, that the agents of the different Protestant missions have
srank into this spirit, and acted on this principle. In scarcely
an instancealo they appear to have merged the essential in the
subsidiary and accidental.—They have acted like men whose
minds were so absorbed by the proper object of their mission,
as to leave no space to be occupied. They have felt that a
jealous contention about the mere question of discipline would
beas misplaced as would be the conduct of a physician, who, on
entering into a vast infirmary, crowded with the wounded and
the dying, should occupy himself in giving directions respect-
ing the dress and attire of the patients, instead of applying a

remedy to arrest the progress of disease, staunch the bleeding of
the wound, or stop the fluttering spirit in its threatened departure
into
the its tenement of clay. And whether they have entered
the pagoda of the Indians, or the kraal of the Hottentot, or the
cabin of the savage, it has not been with the distinctive badges
of their party, but with the cross in their hand, and the salvation
on their lips, " Behold the Lamb of God, that taketh away the
sin of the world !" It is an encouraging feature in the aspect
of the times, that this subject has been gaining ground in
quarters, where, if formerly it encountered no opposition, it met
with no support. The distinguished literary journals o.f the
day that give the tone of thinking to so great a number of their
readers, have with some qualifications which are but of little im-
portance in the general question, become its powerful advocates.
The necessity of such exertions as those in which you, Sir, are
engaged, I hardly need to prove. The destitution of Christillnity
is followed by consequences too numerous to be specified, and too
appalling to be portrayed. Society is, in general, a source of
wretchedness, where we see all that is ferocious in aggression,
or tame in compliance. lipiorance has no guide, misery
no asylum, despair no alleviation. But it is in reference to
man, as an immortal and accountable being, that the evil is
magnified a thousand fold. To the mind of the heathen, eter.
nity is a dark unknown ; or, if aught of light appears, it is
peopled with those spectres which conscious guilt " bodies
forth," or those airy phantoms which are the offspring of an
Unsubstantial hope. To evince the truth of this, I need not
point to die trackless forests of America, whose aboriginal in-
habitants, wild as the winds of heaven, and wandering as the
waves, live without knowledge, and die without hope ; I need
not refer to the burning fields of Hindostan, the millions of
whose deities are personified in one, the detestable Juggernaut
whose throne is the bleached bones of his victims, whose libe-
ration is human blood, whose music is the fiendish laugh of
obscenity, mingled with the din of confusion, and the groan of
dispair. I need not refer you to the wilds of Africa, where the
inhabitant appears senseless as the soil on which he vegetates,
or ferocious as the monster that howls round his abode ; but
I will refer to a fact, which, whoever can contemplate without
emotion, I en vY.him not either the vigour of his understanding
or the principles of his heart. It is this, that according to
the most moderate calculations, there six hundred mil-
lions of immortal , beings, . ivho have not even heard of
the way of life. Six hundred millions of immortal beings,
one of which is of more value than all the unintelligent
riches that Omnipotence ever :ormed, posting down the track of
time, to that tribunal where their destiny will be decided, and
their character fixed for ever ; and that too, destitute of the only
revealed remedy which can expiate their guilt, or alleviate their
wo Why are we not more appalled by the fact ? Because we
only half believe the articles of our faith ; because the value of
a soul,. and the untold realities of eternity, are rather gigantic
phantoms flitting through our fancy, than substantial princi.
pies, affecting our hearts. Your-motto, then, Sir, must he
" onward." And while the divine approbation will repay your
exertions, the same power will crown them with success.
Mr. Join,/ Br: Li-tit—Thirty years ago, while I was yet a
youth, my attention was first drawn to the important subject of
missions to the heathen, by my venerated pastor, the late Mr.
Kingsbury. His congregation was the very first, out of Lon-
don, that made a collection for the Society now-called the Lon-
don Missionary. Society. That collection amounted to 2871.
From that time I have been a member of the London Mission.
ary Society. But. the very constitution of that society is such,
that every consistent member of it must necessarily be a well-
wisher to every Missionary Society. A kind-hearted Christian
once gave it as his opinion, that after good men had been a
quarter of an hour in heaven, they would have forgotten all
their little differences on earth, and would have wondered how
they Caine to entertain many of them. One can well conceive,
that after a Christian, duly alive to the excellence of his reli- j
gion, has been a quarter of an hour in a heathen country, he
would heartily wish to see in it faithful and pious Christian
teachers, of whatever name or profession, whether of his own
favourite party or not. Nay. as we cannot actually make
this experiment, we can well conceive, that after a man
has spent but a little time, in considering, from the re-
ports of travellers anti eye-witnesses, the actual state of
those who have, not been visited with the light of divine reve-
lation, be must thenceforward become the friend and advocate
of Christian missions. He must be so, in exact proportion as
he comprehend§ and feels what true Christianity is, and com-
pares it with all other systems that the diversified opinions of
the heathen afford. 'We sum up the Christian system as we
find it in the Holy Scriptures, and one comprehensive word
describes it in a single syllable. It is love ;—love to God with
all the heart, and soul, and mind, and strength ; and love to
our fellow-men as to ourselves. From the contemplation of
this fine moral element, this source and foundation of rational
piety and elevated virtue, we' turn to another quarter, and call
into examination the false religions of the earth. Cruelty, im-
purity, selfishness, imposture, are their elements, moulded
into all Monstrous, and prodigious, and fantastic shapes ; de-
basing the mind with superstitious terror, or inflating it
with proud self confidence. As this sublime principle of
love, or, in other words, of affectionate reverence to the
Great Supreme, and of benevolence to man, is the moral
element of true Christianity ; so light is the medium
in which it seeks to operate. Try, judge, examine,
see, know, search, come to the light, that your deeds may be
manifest,—is it constant language. Our God is light, our
Saviour is light, our religion is light ; its disciples are com-
manded to be children of the light and of the day.' Darkness,
on the other band, is the medium of heathenism. It dwells in
the region of the shadow of death. Its legends are dark fables.
Its priests are impostors that love darkness rather than light.—
, It flourishes most in the dark places of the earth, that are full
of the habitations of cruelty. Its professors are the blind led by
. the blind. That it is the duty of Christians to place their reli-
gion, if possible, within the reach of all who are ignorant of it,
is manifest enough from two passages of Scripture alone, that
are constantly on the lips of every man bearing the Christian
name. The one is the petition in the Lord's Prayer—Thy
kingdom come. If these words are uttered with any meaning
at till, they pledge the man who utters them to the support of
Christian missions in what way he may judge to
be best adapted to promote their great end. The other
is—Whatsoever ye would that others should do to you,
do ye even to them. Let the man who admires this sentiment,
and applies it readily to all the intercourse of ordinary dealings,
put himself in the place of a neglected heathen. Let him ima-
gine a gleam'of light to pass over the mind of such a one so as
to bring him acquainted with this one precept. His commen-
tary on the text would be, that the Christian, who neglected
necessities such as his, was disregarding one of his most urgent
duties. Conic, then, and if you are already pledged to the
Christian missions, pledge yourselves to the support of this ;
or, without delay, to some other more consonant to your own
views. Or if you are pledged already, give this at least your'
countenance, your encouragement, your prayers, your best
wishes. Whaothe most barbarous of the heathens now are,
such were once our forefathers. But. for the influence of Chris-
tianity, and its benignant process, the oaks of yonder forest
might still have witnessed the human victim slowly bleeding to
death beneath the Druid's sacrificial knife : and the place where
we are now assembled, in the happy participation of the
warmest sentiments of mutual goodwill, might have been the
temple of an idol, worshipped with impure and cruel supersti-
tions, instead of resounding with the angels' message of glad
tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people—glory be to
God in the highest, on earth peace, goodwill towards men. •
Rev. Mr. MAsoN, Secretary to the Parent Society, next
addressed the meeting. He stated that the operations of the
society had been highly successful. It has now in its employ
in various parts of the world 170 missionaries, one or two of
whom return occasionally, and,give the most gratifying state-
ments. In the different foreign stations belonging to the so-
ciety, 32,000 persons have united with us, and in the West
Indies 25,000 slaves form part of the congregations : in Ja-
maica from May 1824 to May 1825 one thousand more had
been added, more missionaries arc required there, and it is not
in our power to send them. Many of those we had there felt
so deep an interest in the cause, that they have died martyrs to
it. ln one part of the West Indies a black man requested
some time ago to be allowed to preach ; and his popularity
is now so great that numbers walk four and five miles to
hes, him. Several others in the West Indies have offer-
ed their assistance; and in South America, five have vo-
lunteered thier services. We have lately received letters
from the Burman Empire—at Rangoon the temple of D -
gon has been converted into a meeting-house for Christian
worship, where the soldiers regularly meet and hear the
Gospel preached.. In respect to the South Africans, a
few years ago, Barnaby Shaw, the minister at the Cape of
Good Hope, went up the country and succeeded in affording
spiritual comfort to the Hottentots, a great many of whom
have become not only civilized but christianized, and they now
sow their corn, and have regular harvests. He christened a
whole population, whose children in respect to morals would
not disgrace those of England. Soon after Mr. B. Shaw be-
gan his holy work there, he found a man of strong powers and
a line genius, whom he baptized Joseph Links, who afterwards
was desirous of preaching to his countrymen ; the outline of
one of his sermons was sent home to the society, and so much
approved that he has been retained as a regular preacher there.
This same missionary (as we understood the Secretary) Mr, B.
Shaw some time since had an inward feeling, which in spite of his
exertions he could not conquer, that he must leave the station,
and accordingly wrote home to the society for permission to do
so, but the next packet conveyed to him a request to con-
tinue his pious endeavours. He however, still felt an inward
working that he must leave, and accordingly he retired a short
distance up the country. Surely it was God who forewarned
this poor fellow of his danger (observed the secretary), for short-
ly after he left, a party of savages, who came down to attack a
native chief, took possession of the Missionary's residence,
which they completely ransacked ; iu searching for plunder,
they discovered a bag of gunpowder—(Here the chairman ex-

plained that it was customary with the missionaries to have a •
small quantity in their possession for their protection) which
they tasted, and said it was food, but not good food. The
next morning they held a council, and again tasted it, and
were still of the same opinion, when one of them recollect-
ed seeing the white men fry their food, and this plan, after
some preliminary operations, was adopted with the gun-
powder, which of course exploded ; the men fell,• with the ex-
ception of one, who went and proclaimed the circumstance to
others of his tribe, telling them the men • were killed at the mis-
sionary's house by something that went "tutu." Shortly after,
the men who fell at the explosion, arose, and ran away, fearing
they might encounter another "tutu." The missionary soon
after resumed his station, and was considered by the natives as
an extraordinary man, by venturing to a place where a short
time previous they had been so roughly used. Ultimately,
however, their surprise abated, and by the exertions of the
missionary they were converted. The Secretary continued :
A gentleman who previously addressed you mentioned that
the greatest unanimity existed amongt all classes of missionaries.
I will now tell you how this good feeling is produced :
on the 3d Thursday in every month, at 5 o'clock in the evening,
the secretary and treasurer of each missionary society meet at the
rooms ()lone or other of the society, and take a friendly cup of
tea, and afterwards we join in discussing some important
subject connected with the missionary cause—thus each party
knows what the other is doing. These societies, as every one
knows, are supported by subscription, and though we receive
donations of three, five, and ten guineas, from the rich, the
penny a week subscription from the poorer classes forms the
chief support. I have no doubt the branch society will pros-
per, but it never can succeed without the aid of the females .
they can do more than we can ; and I am certain they will give
us assistance. They shall be provided with subscription books,
and there is no doubt they will get plenty of money.

Rev. Mr. H. Fox, from the island of Ceylon, said, it was
pitiable to behold the worship of the people he had just left.—
Infatuated slaves to the most horrible superstitions, they of-
fered their bloody sacrifices before idols as senseless as their ce-
remonies were disgusting. It was a melancholy thing to see
60,000 people falling down before an imageof their imaginary god
Vishnu, the Preserver, scarce 6 inches in length ; to see them at
an incarnation of Ishmul, throwing themselves under the car
or temple borne in triumph amid the deafening shouts of the
people, the sound of the tom-tom, and the heart-rending cries
of the Coolies, who like beasts of burden are forced to drag the
instrument of their superstitious reverence through the principal
streets ; what a contrast did this present to the pure worship of
the Christian faith. The lower class of people are invariably wor-
shippers of the devil, an image of whom is their household god,
and this respectable personage they are in the habit of flogging
when any crosses either in fortune or temper annoy them. An
enlightened Bramin gave it as his opinion, that a sensible de.
cline in the belief of the Hindoo mythology had taken place,
and the new form would be Christianity. Is not this a hope
that must stimulate every friend to humanity to an un-
ceasing exertion ; to know that any effort of ours could
possibly raise to their proper rank in society, the unfortu-
nate females whom they have degraded to the level of the
brutes, or relieve them from the disgusting practices of expos-
ing or burning their dead ; and the immolation of their unfor-
tunate widows on the funeral pile ? It is a common occurrence
for them to carry the dead bodies of their friends and relatives
to the jungles, and let the tigers become the buriers of the dead.
The children, too, are offered in a very solemn manner to the
devil. The casts into which the people are divided offer the
greatest bar to our progress ; among the children of my own
school, I took a very simple, yet very effective plan of equaliza.
don : I directed :hem to take their several places in the school-
room, which they accordingly did, the higher caste placing them-
selves nearest my own chair, and so on in proportion. Well,
said I, are you all seated ; yes, was the reply. Now, then, it is my
turn to choose ! which I did, taking tny situation at the other
end of the room ; thus the first became last, and the last first.
Rev. Mr. DEAPEJt described at some length the vast im-
portance of Missionary Societies without distinction of party or
sect—highly eulogised the liberality of the people of Great
Britain, through whose assistance so many thousand human
beings had been instructed in Christianity—and disclaimed any
distinction of party, by observing that missionaries sent out by
any particular sect could be denominated only as Christian mix-
sionaries. He gave it as his opinion that the branch society
would succeed in Southampton, though it would be slandered,
as every good project had been—malignantly slandered.
Rev. Mr. BRADBURY, of Salisbury, next addressed the
meeting, and related several anecdotes, among which were the
fbllowing :--" A poor woman addressed a respectable-looking
person, and asked his assistance : he had nothing to give away ;
she did not belong to his parish, he , observed, and there were
many of his own parishioners who were in want. I not only
want money, said the woman, but also assistance for the salva-
tion of my soul. That you shall have, my good woman—it is
my prokssion. How far have you pursued your religious stu-
dies ? Do you know the Lord's Prayer and the Belief ?—No,
Sir, she replied, I have forgotten them ever since I was a girl.
He then requested her to kneel down and repeat after him—
' Our Father, who art in Heaven.' The woman repeated it, and
the gentleman proceeded—' hallowed he thy name.' Stop,
stop,' said the woman, Our Father, who art in Heaven—then
lie must be your father as well as mine; therefore, good brother,
can't you afford your poor sister a shilling ?'" Now, my good
people, continued the Rev. Mr. Bradbury, the inference which
i would draw from this is, can't you afford its a shilling, or
two shillings, or five, or if it is a pound, we will not refuse it.
Another anecdote he related. A negro in a missionary's house
(we forget where) was observing the motions of the pendulum
of a clock ; presently the clock struck, and out popped a
cuckoo—" Look, look Massa, (said the negro) what tomshing
ting, God 'mighty make man peak, but buccra man (white
men) make wood peak." He concluded his address as follows :
Now, my brethren, feel in your pockets, and give us a solid
proof that you feel for the salvation of the whole world.
Rev. J. CILABB observed, that from the accounts which had
been recited to night of the success of the missionary cause, he
was now more fully convinced of the necessity of continuing to
it the greatest assistance we could, and called upon those who
could not afford to contribute their mite, to assist it by their
prayers.

Jim T. MORGA Y being called, rose and said, he hoped he
should meet his grave in a missionary land.
The CHAIRMAN observed, that the last speaker was destined
for the West Indies.

Thanks being voted to J. Butterworth, Esq., M.P., the
meeting dispersed.—(Southampton Town and County Herald.)

We are ham): to find, by a letter which we
have seen from Jamaica, dated the 15th of September last, that
the new Bishop of that island has entered on the duties of his
sacred office with great zeal: on a single day he baptized be-
twixt eighty and ninety negroes on one gentleman's estate.—
(Liverpool Courier.)

The workmen are busily engaged with the
new Law Courts, to get them ready if possible
by Monday next, the first day of Michaelmas
'Venn. The greater part of the wood work in
them consists of wainscet, and that is polished
instead of being painted : so that there ill be no-
thing offensive to the Court's olafactory nerves ;
but the entrances to the Courts for the Counsel
and public, from Westminster Hall, are yet al-
most unapproachable, on account of the lumber,
old wood work, carpenter's benches, &c. which
now nearly block up the Hall.

Last night as Count Wonoszow, accompanied
by hi, Secretary, was returning in his carriage
through Brentford, he was suddenly overturned
with violence in the High-street, by which the
coachman, William Findlay, was thrown off his
seat, and the body of the carriage coming against
him, he was killed on the spot ; the footman was
likewise thrown to the ground, and received such
tevere i►►juries that he is not expected to survive
many hours. Ti-.e populace, on witnessing the
accident, ran to the carriage and rendered every
possible assistance. The body of the coachman
was taken up and carried to the Waggon and
Horses, Old Brentford, where it lies waiting the
Coroner's Inquest. The footman was also con-
veyed as soon as possible to the same house, and
surgical assistance procured ; he remains without
the slightest hope of recovery. The band of the
unfortunate coachman (who had been in the ser-
vice of the Count for forty years) was completely
torn off. On extricating the Count and his Secre-
tary from their perilous situation, it was happily
discovered that both had escaped without hurt ;
some hours elapsed before the Count and his
Secretary could leave the place where this melan.
choly event occurred ; and the accident is sup-
posed to have happened in consequence of the
carriage wheels passing over a heap of stones
improperly left in the road.

THE Sl?N•

SOLEM QUIS DICERE PfILSUAI "al"'

LONDON, ;);
SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 5,

oa
The Paris Papers of Wednesday came to ')a
5 at
last night, and inform that the French CanlP
Perpignan and Bayonne were to break LIP oO the
Ist of November. They also mention the arrive
of the expedition sent by the Greek Committee
at Paris at Zante, an account of which, end th
supplies permitted by the English Government o
be furnished to them, is announced in the c°7l
tents of the German Mail. Extracts will be Ott°
in another column.

Dr. LUSCOMBE, deputed by the El'isc°P;
Church of Scotland as Bishop to France, has,
•
of the
seems incurred the displeasure of some t
Journalists of that country. They ask, 411 j
to 6°e
right has the King of ENGLAND
a Bishop to France ? Perhaps, indeed, 11°11,
but Dr. LUSCOMBE derives his ecclesiastical aof
thority from the nomination of the Bishops ,
Scotland alone, and does not and never Pre,
tended to be the servant of the King of 11146/
LAND. In our turn, l'
we ask what right
French Journalists to complain. re
,no
,11
The nis";
wishes no submission but what is voluntary 0"t e
part of English Protestants resident in FrariC
and who, we are glad to see, arranging then',
selves under his banners, and availing
the
selves of the opportunity to let their coil'
dren go through the rite of Confirreati"
which otherwise they might never have had'ho
Had the Bishop excommunicated tl'os®
Icri.
declined to attend, had he fulminated his Onto
ders on those who seceded from hisopinic's' °la
was there cause to complain; but that auger s°
be excited because an English Bishop offeriblins ts,
to confirm such children of English Protests
niit
who are voluntarily (and with thanks) br°l3Bthi
unto hips, does appear to us a most unw°l"tri
proceeding, and to savour not a little of big
and intolerance.

zelu'uhneg subjoined
Observer,
refer to tho
Austrian
tr
ra
ic:nszofrbose
gore eirS6
t
war in Greece. Their contents, however,
not very satisfactory, and the intelligence the,
Convey
tat e
Hai is said to be still at Tripolizza co cep'
The siege of Misiolonghi is still continued,
oci
and every thing going 09 'le it
d
is wonderful how nobly this town has witbst°
piossiaisio:ligne and uncertain as ever. laar
f
the furious attacks of the Turkish °r(f. r,
and repulsed every attempt to carry the edit,
tress by storm. It reflects the highest eCat,
upon the besieged, and presents an Oil' 0(
ing example for the emulation and knittiti°ooo,
their brethren in arms. Had the same ilevi°4o4
to their country's cause, the same disinteresteni
devoted courage displayed itself through 0100,
leaders and promoters of the insurrections 5.0 its
thing more satisfactory as more decisive 10
effects must have crowned the glorious struggle
which this nation is engaged.
(From the Algemeine Zeitung, Oct. 28')
Z S
eyrie
The expedition sent by the French Committee of e te.
the Greeks, which left Marseilles on the Gth, arrived ht,el(lo.
day. The English Government here has, without stidjoys
culty, granted it permission to remain here for son'e,
get fresh supplies. The Neapolitan General Rosa foot
for this place yesterday eveniNg for GaStUDO, When
tO 11.elOtOr
to go by land to Napoli di Romania. According
tion which he took care to obtain before hand, the 06 l
child
deiketl
en biso
to be perfectly safe, and he has therefore tak;co
with him, among whom is a boy eight years of age' ha is Ile°
from Napoli di Romania direct say, that Ibrahim left
Tripolizza, in a concentrated position, to which Pivi3a net t 4
add in journal terms, all goes well, and that they c°°
k •it "1
more particular.
The Egyptian fleet had not yet joined the itsJ.ol*--i9 grorsl
not known whether it had left Alexandria: howver, a Cod'
is daily expected. Nothing certain is known of li3:erroeo
rane ; it is reported he has required of the Greek. G° be er
150,000 pounds sterling to fit out two frigates, Grand thapropool4
pected the answer before he would set out. Slieltother Pet'
rcouldesp respect
notti
ng beth
the
acceptedna nature
re ofb yw thec
hGnroe
be
okdGovernor i
s et' enterPrif;
sons say Lord Cochrane does not want money for rot'
in doubt'
Austrian Observer, Oct. 23.)

t
VI~Yx
71:
We have the Greek Chronicle till Sept' Tat
WiliniCh6c:;:t4.l4;
that
therelreierretirki
by
theaccounts
oss of the enemy,giti:e
siege of lUissolonglii still continued• 1113 itoP
has
eit Pala
others
tteihr eeeisshmadigerinun having fnenaggll
quiten oyuorofnanrgol
eimtidsletbest
InT troops'
ea ki
sermon,delivered slico' 3041ita`list, 6"l'r
kier's
ontoins, th
tipatri°
The G
speech ornoftboy7retuitiuiersnleelaiprotnerunclaebtileorpracinvott. jort?

e°lllLtb,s.l
4 tli
- A!
p 1",1 On the 16th August, at Napoli di Romania, '
°lorigbiebeyl,23
ehration of Divine Service for the relief of Misso-
kiN sea.
etionThe speaker compares the five years of the in-
n' and and finds the fifth to be worse than the preceding
kOlt eea'rilon man, enriched by booty, will rather be idle than
4te and the crowd of new Generals made by an absurd policy
vriant t° be moved but by the sound of the lyre.'
beta le" follows the praise of the sacred Missolonghi—racred,
the relics h has not been profaned by the enemy, and. because
11ozze;,1,e8 so many heroes, Kyriakuli, Mauronlichalis, Marce
t -4, the bones of Normaun, and the entrails of Byron,
;10•• titel'e• The whole concludes with an address to the
aotes,
G2ette exhorting then-1 to amend their conduct. The Hydra
of '
f or* 19th August mentions this religious ceremony in a
414 °4-8'
gives no part of Mr. I'olyzoidi's discourse, but says
‘a:it was suitable to the occasion.]
the SPeaker means the pound sterling in Italian Lira,.h
Areh;P" on the old word Lyra, by the sound of wine
v`lta built Thebes.—(Note the Austrian Observer.)
~4„,t1e
th following extraordinary article appears
Allgemeine Zeitung of the 28th October,
eeeived this day :
The STOCKHOLM, OCT. 11.
deemed ''"eiety " has
this city, " Pio Fide et Chr.istianisnto,
the
At the the prize to an Essay by a Mr. Collin, Sub-rector of
Soeie-ti,e'tdrnY at Malinoe, on the question proposed by the
and the are the best means to prevent concubinage,
In Bwed °ltstantly increasing number of illegitimate children
Elsa ea?" Among the proposals made by the author of
I:1- -4Y to
is to appoint in each province a Moral Censor,csita
Ite'ra4B4-lit t° the Chief Censor, to be appointed in the
apmedl
who ("I Conduct in which those persons should he named
the
ii'f.t4„eriteti civil infamy, and who, on the report o
Censor,
follows :—The Noble-
hY 4144 'cll., should be punished as
the' the loss of his Nobility; the citizen or peaseannd
Of h l 108 sof his right of voting at elections,
by th°:liing Places of public trust, the clergy and civil officers,
exnß4 of their offices, &c. Several of our journals have
thar4 -3etl
of themselves with some severity, not only on the au;
ont tlie
Essay, but on the society which crowned it; a
-"era calls it an attempt to introduce into Sweden an
laid 'di'''. worse than the Spanish. It declares the principlesb
kiseci(l'ivrlEssay
in this as contrary to the Constitution, e-
-41110; if the Plan were carried into execution, such a chief
tc°ll4l
the v„ have a greater power than the Constitution allows
43'1g himself.
littiW far the cause of Virtue and Morality is
not eterill
h t° be forwarded by these means, we shall
ine, but it certainly appears to us that
1111)144 c'a't be productive of very little advan-
ge t
tio ° either. The discusion of such a ques-
ate
1' could
tend
d to no good, and the means pro-
%llia as effectuating the object of the Society,
Ivith'' °WY introduce the grossest hypocrisy,
1, eradicaii the vice. Private families
11:.(1 na- feel the effects of this cruel system, and
c: ides fathers, and brothel-li, would soon have
kittl.4 t° Ploree the existence of the Moral Cen-
itti
hot e folly which could propose such a plan
tai 11
equalled by that which propounded the
etti,
Batty :In) and we should indeed have.. little (Mil-
d the
x'443;.yilsrit believing that the whole society an
t. Were fit subjects for a madhous.e. W. e
,/ttlii4l,°')therefore, surprised at the severity with
4,llanetl-m, both the one and the other have been
mesert,-;1"Y the Journals, indeed, they seem truly
) Wye ig of the public reprobation.
kper subjoin another extract from the same
,14tila",etlior
navy department at
.Chris-
iat- ) OCT. 11.-1 le
t4,t,toihlitibi
ebitfielolr.used in the Norwe,p,an journal Rigstuiefide,
(cif this month tthie,rbercif,rsicokfvNavraur,Allart and Lou-
and the appro-
h Of
the
°4 la
auction at
the splL
I'°4l it:
1 the William Thompson, arrived at Liver-
ei ved.7 7d have from New York, we re-
411that.4 aPers to the IGth ult. inclusive. On the
11° of a passenger arrived at Baltimore,..s
'tstePit Valparaiso on the Ist of July,l it 111411'tat'"tlie province of Coquimbo had Netio( its
independent, in consequence of the
granted by the Government to a cottri-
ittecon` tnerchants in the articles spirits and
A sPirit of revolt, it is said, had also shown
is Nvilo hat} aitiago, extending to the city guards,
t4-(' Marched out of the city, and encamped.
jatt•--haeighbourli od manifesting great dissatis-
-114(11% at the conduct 'of the Government. News
-oeilhr'd NPW York from Alvarado, in
°f the 9d Sept., at which time that port
tIt1141:1:eid very -sickly. Sept.,
The Dartmouth frigate
I,4'N'ilisVecl for Ilavannah, and there were no
44
1) vessels of war at Sacrificios.
.01filc.eors..
1,44 Ore" sent to _Acapulco, to take con-IL-lay. t
llNriling round the Asia and Constantia
1.).‘1!4-cregi,vell up to the Mexican Government by
vs' The prisoners taken by the
gun-
a ktoria had been returned, and the
data the castle a;.d the town of Vera Cruz isacl
"'4t 'eased. It is stated in an Alvarado paper,
I‘llenlissaries from Cuba, under t.!•: character
4' jr,eillithts, with letters of naturalization fromi
siii,itd-ited States supposed to be forged, had
1)1.(.4d. 4dalission' into the republic, and weret.le
je'et tePorts, and corresponding with -
et
of the country. 'fills fact is aoldt
:3 a teaSoll why the conquest of Cuba ought ,N,,,,,,:-tieltipted without delay,
ikirkrftillte"l• Captain PA LM Eit)by the Mexican
arrived at ilelvvt
Yard
port Curtlialia, had left in quarantine at
,1001).-oert on the `'4th of September, the British
;',ello:`, war Scillv, from Jamaica, having t.
mt"dr `ver atis rig' her crew, which was makin,
havoc -° had lost within 29 days, hert
litilt4:llder (Captain ItussELL), First Lieutenann,.
t}telc re tirge°ns, three midshipmen, and 15 seamen;
brit 414i"er of the crew were mostly sic
It .41e 41Q1ady.
s
thre.tich 3"lewliat singular that, whilst all. dole
..
the tick
nurnals announce at the head I
31) te
Ith sPeti
4n aPa Ye Papers, in general.i terms, that
411) it h " will not be published on We.dnes-i
n'ork „l'eing Alt Saints' Day," the Coustitutzonne
C-41:e8"6".1(1 say— consequence o the Public
ths°44stit,„.e'ng closed on All Saints' Day,
_the
tnel will not appear on Wednesday
4ral - Constitutionnel is the opposition
PaPer
Naeri of Paris, and in
.circulation is
411Y‘ between six and eight !thousand