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London, England, 1822-01-03 00:00:00

en the English law or a libel on the practitioners.' can assure them that
,it is.qrtite needless lo heap
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1f the forms themselves are such, that from the artificial eclaton their miserable countrymen, by.
trarcwlty -of obsqving them, they-render the law inipptiog 14 thern atrocities which ; they miver
a 10tIVFy to all who have recourse to it, why is; have- .cOnirmitted..:--•7lVe-: rejoke to say that the
this "state of tbinga suffered_ to continue ? If the- account transmitted through the medium Of the
forms are, plain and rational, the loss of a suit Journais-%received:-on Ttwsda y last, describing
from the want of a due observance of them ' the destruction .of a whole- family at Charle-
ought to entail serious, consequences .on the :vine by fire,. turns ;out to be a scandalous false-
practitioner. If public utility, and not the hood. 'lt is • true, 'Says the Dublin Morning
interest of a particular profession, were the Post, that a letter to the effect first stated was
point to be considered, there would be no dial.: sent in the name of a respectable • Magistrate
culty in corning to a judgment. But the pub- to' Mf. O'Brien, ,one of the Coroners of the
lic utility we know neither is nor ever will he county of Cork, requesting his presence on the
considered in this matter. The sinister practices scene of the alleged massacre, to hold the neces-
of the profes&ion of the law have been long ago nary Inquests ; but that on Mr. O'Brien's arcival
exposed in a masterly Manner by Bentham ; but at the spot, the letter turned out to be a forgery,
the lawyers tell us that these sinister practices mid the tale a mischievous and malignant fahrica-
form a valuable part of " the accumulative wis- tion. A good deal of commentary seems to have
dom of ages," and what is more, they succeed in , been caused in Dublin by the. belief that Alderman
finding.others fools enough to believe them. I 'James, the famous toastmaster a few months back,
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was protnised,the rank of Baronet, on the .oc-
casion of his attending with the Sheriffs and
Corporation to form* part of the ceremonial
at the entree of. the new Lord Lieutenant. That
a man like this Alderman, not distinguished by
any virtues which we have heard of, but that (if
it be one) of belonging to a certain fac!ion re-
cently stigmatized by the Sovereign himself,
should be invested with any thing in the shape
of
.a public honour by a Nobleman who has
shewn himself the avowed enemy of the spirit
and politics which. have ever disgraced that fac-
tion, is a circumstance to excite surprise, and to
call for explanation ; and from thestatements of the
'Dublin Papers, the natural explanation appears to
be,,that the promotion of the Altierman was a thing
of course. The Sheriffs, it seems, were knighted
of necessity : and when the same dignity was
about to be inflicted' on the Lord Mayor, his
Lordship is said to have pleaded a regulation .(a
'shrewd one, unquestionably) -of the body corpo-
rate of Dublin, by which, when Messrs. the
Sheriffs should he be-knighted, my Lord the
Mayor must stand out for some loftier testimonials
of his merits—thus preserving theoriginal propor-
lions of his grandeur,bywhichhe excelled the subal-
terns. The Irish version-of the story, which assigns
to some Catholic Gentleman of the bar the office of
:man-midwife at the birth of an Orange Baronet,
'savours of the ludicrous, we suspect. If the Ba-
ronetcy to this Lord Mayor was a sort of favour
'which could not well be refused without .offence to
the Corporation, being a mere-appendage to his
place as Chief Magistrate, the Lord Lieutenant did
what he could not-help doing. it is not surmised by
'the Dublin papers that there existed any charm in
the public or priyhte character of Alderman James,
which could of itself recommend him to the chi-
valrous intercession of an English Catholic law-
yer, or to the especial grace and favour- of a
Viceroy, who had probably never heard of him
but as a limb of that confederacy from whose
mischievous gripe the Noble Lord has often
pledged his wishes that Ireland and her Govern-
ment could be rescued.

[NEW TIMES.]

The new Frei)al Ministry are going on with
the internal arrangements necessarily conseqnent
on their accession to power. Among the most
marked changes mentioned in the French papers are
those of the Major-General and Adjutant-Gene-
ral of the National Guard of Paris, in which
posts the Duc De Choiseul and the Count Bruno
De Boisgelin have been succeeded by Count
Jules De Polignac and the Viscount Sosthene de
la Rochefoucauit. On the two Officers who have
resigned we have no remark to make ; but those
newly appointed must meet with general approba-
tion. They are both Noblemen of high distinction,
both for their birth and loyal services to the House
of Bourbon. Count Jules de Polignac is a Peer of
(France ; his devoted at taaehment to his brother,
the present Duke De Polignac, will for ever
render his name
.memorable. They were both
arrested on` account -of their alleged connection
with the plot of General Georges. The .elder
brother was condemned to die ; but' the yoinger
(Count Jules) earnestly besought the Judges to
permit him to perish in his brother's stead. " I
am a single man," said he " without fortune,
' without profession ; I have nothing to. lose ; my
brother is married. Do not reduce to despair a
virtuous wife ; but if you wilh destroy my bro-
ther, suffer me to'share his fate." This virtuous
eloquence prevailed : the lives of the two brothers
'were saved, but they expiated their devotedness
to the House. of 'Bourbon by an imprisonment of
ten years, and only escaped from confinement in
'lBl4, to fly and join Monsieur, who had arrived on
the frontiers shortly previOus to the fall of Buena-
pa rte. The Viscount Sosthene de la Rochefou can It
is the son of the Duke de Doudeauville, recently
appointed to the direction of the Posts. it was the
Viscount who, in 1814, first proposed to pull down
the Statue of Buonaparte, which so irritated the
Ex-Emperor, that on his return in 1815, he ex-
cepted the Viscount, by name, out of the am-
nesty published at the epoch. The latter ac-
companied the King to Ghent, and after the
second restoration he was chosen a Member of
the Introuvable Chamber of Deputies, where he
Constantly voted with the Royalists. Ile it was
who proposed a religious commemoration of the
Death of Louis X VI. His speech on this occa-
sion was most affecting ; and the measure Was
unanimously adopted.

• ' [MORNING HERALD.]
The accounts from Ireland are of an aspect so
whimsically • contrasted, •as we really believe
could exist in . no other country under heaven.
In Dublin, the arrival of the Noble Marquis who
has been appointed chief Governor' has called
forth such an ebullition of joviality and love of
showl—of that peculiar disposition of mind, which
loves to have some living idol to surcharge with
the prodigality of its homage, and of sanguine cal-
culations of a golden wra of new happiness—such
a display of ribbons, shamrocks, prancing horse-
men, and pedestrian multitudes, all wearing a uni-
form face of joy—that one would think Ireland
was the place where human institutions and, the
liberality of nature had done most for human
felicity. One, however, need not pass the verge
of that city. before he is struck, according to the
same accounts, with a Contrast of wretchedness
and ruin—of a wretched poor, reduced,by storms
and inundations, from squalid poverty and a mi-
serable -existence, to utter destitution, and some
to death. These two faces, so near each 'other,
bring before one's 'mind the images of awn qui
pleure and Jean qui rit. It would appear, too,
that the Volunteer and Corporation Precession-
ists take no more notice of what is passing,
than if the scene was in 'another hemisphere.—
This is not, however, from want of humanity,
we willingly allow—Dublin is unequalled for,.
the proportion of its charities to its population—
but from the utter abandonment of themselves to.
pageantry and worship of the great man for the
moment. It is said the Irish have some points of
resemblance to the French. A living and dis-
tinguished French writer has said---," The Ito-1
mans had two great wants, the gratification of
which was indispensable—panem et circenses—
bread and PuS:c shows : our people (the French)
have a third—k besom,de romper." We merely
mention this expression, without committing our-
selves with its strict application. There is ano-
ther trait in the picture which should not pass
unnoticed. The minor squabblers in Irish poli-
tics, of opposite parties, appear wooing and
ogling the new Lord Lieutenant with a devoted-
ness without bounds, and eyeing each other with, a
suspicion, jealousy, and spite, that, under other i
circumstances,- would border on the comic. Pass-
ing from Dublin, about one hundred miles to the
South, another picture is exhibited, which differs
from the foregoing. It is no longer tragi-comedy,
but harsh and uninitiated horror. Eightove be-
lieve, of the convicted criminals lately tried by
the Commission, had been executed—this within
rather a small compass—a circle of little more
than thirty or forty miles diameter—and yr.t the
career of outra,g-eand murder is scarcely checked,
whilst the poor are already suffering the ap-
proaches of winter starvation ; and the rich—
unable to protect their out-of-door property—
are obliged to barricade their houses.

ROBBERY or GOVERNMENT S fOltES.—.-A few
nights back, as George Welfare, one of the con-
stables belonging to the Town Hall, Southwark,
was going his customary rounds, he met two
well-know characters in Friar-street, t. George's-
fields, who seemed to be concealing something,
and endeavouring to avoid him. The officer
stopped them, and found a bundle in the posses-
sion of one of them, which contained no less than
137 copper rings and ship bolts; seemingly Go-
vernment stores, as they w ere all marked with
the broad SY row. He questioned them as to the
manner in which they became possessed of them :
but obtaining no satisfactory answer, lodged
them both in the Cotnpter ; and after some in-
quiry discovered that the property had been
stolen from Deptford Dock-yard. 'l' he prisoners,
whose names are James Sellison and Thomas,
Poat, were yesterday examined before Alderman
J. J.. SMITH, and fully committed for trial.

ROBBERY OF THE SKIFTON AND
MAtr. Poser.—About half-past four o'clock on
Saturday •mornin7„-the horse-post, which conveys
the letters from Burnley to Skipton, was stopped
at a place called Snaygill, about three quarters
of a mile from Skipton, on the Burnley-road, by
two men. One seized the horse's bridle ; the
other struck the rider some tremendous blows
with' a bludgeon over the arms, which disabled
him from holding the horse, or making any re-
sistance. They also struck him over the head,
which stunned and much injured him, but did
not succeed in dismounting him. They tore the
left side of his•coat quite down, and took from
his left pocket• a parcel, as under, from the Cra-
ven Bank, addressed to " C. Tattersall and Sons,
of Burnley," containing 1 !301. in one guinea notes,
and 220 one pound ditto, all of the Craven Bank,
and about 51. value in bank stamps, upon Barnard,
Dimsdale, and Co. They attempted to seize the
mail bags, and had -cut three straps, but did not
succeed in. obtaining them, as theh3rse, by some
mean 4, escaped from them, and, with his rider,
returned back to the Skipton post-office. The
,alarm was soon given, and the same day, a man
was taken up on. suspicion of being concerned,
but no property was found upon trio,.---(Leech
Intelligencer.)

HOUsEBREAKIN,G.—About three weeks ago,
the house of Mrs., Caddel, an-aged
,and wealthy Lady, who
resides at Ladybank, near Girvan, North Britain, was broken
into by two fellows, With their faces blackened, who forced
open the kitchen window. Thee' looked intosthe kitchen bed
where the servant girl when one of them exclaimed with
an oath that there was no one in it, and they proceeded towards
the apartment of Mrs. Caddel, who had got up on hearing the
noise below. On their entering her bed room, they met Mrs.
Caddel at the door, when one of the fellows repeatedly pushed
her down ; at this tune it is supposed they had got alarmed
by the approach • cf some of the neighbours, to whom the
girl had run for assistance, as they immediately made off,
leaving Mrs. Caddel much bruised by her falls. During the
whole proceedings neither of them uttered a word. Upon the
night of Monday seinnight a second attempt was made, no
doubt by the'sanie villains, who again broke the glass and wood
work of the window; but tile girl being awakened by the noise
gave a loud scream,. which scared them, and they made their re,
treat from the premises; but such was their audacity, that they
returned a third time, about 3 o'clock in.the morning, and
pushed- open the window shutter. A man who was procured
to sleep in the house got up, and arming hiMself with a bill.
hook:stood by the side of the window to receive them, but it is
uresumed they had got a sight of him and his weapon, as they
aid not chobae to risk an entrance. The Sheriff and Procura-
tor Fiscal went to Ladybank on Saturday last, and took a pre.
cognitior, but nothing was elicited to attach guilt to any one.

[THE TIMES.]
Whatever the fabricators of frightful intel-
ligence in the South of Ireland mpg think, we