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importance to the tranquillity of Europe, and especially of
Germny.
lithe differences between Holland and Belgium were once
settled every State might attend to its ewn affairs, and the
German Princes would certainly set about introducing those
useful• reforms which must now be delayed. This alone
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Taißsrr, DEC. B.—The accounts from Alexandria of
the 25th of November mention the departure of Ibrahim
Pacha, with a well-equipped army of 25,090 men, for
Syria, in order to put down the rebellion at Damascus, he
having received a commission from the Porte to that effect.
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as. the chain of mountains would protect the eastern fron-
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POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

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A poor woman and her three children were
brought before the LORD MAYOR, at the instance of
h e Vestry Clerk of Bishopsgate, who stated that
he had no complaint against the woman, but that he
had a very heavy one to make against the officers of
the parish upon which she and her wretched family
had a claim.

The Vestry Clerk stated, that the poor woman
had been some time ago passed from Bishopsgate
with her husband and children to the parish of S'.
Andrew, in Hertford. The parish-officers in that
place, however, instead of supporting the family,
gave them 305., and despatched them to London,
and they became chargeable again to Bishopsgate.
The poor man died, and the parish supported the
survivors, upon the promise of one of the overseers
to allow Gs. a week for their maintenance. The
overseer, upon getting rid of the poor people forgot
to perform his promise, and a considerable debt was
incurred by their support. All the application and
expectations of s rfOop.lgate proved unavailing—not
a shilling was forthcoming.
Mr. Charles Pearson, one of the Court of Com-
mon Council of the ward, who happened to be pre-
sent upon some professional business, said the prac-
tice was a common and scandalous one. The poor
family had been sent to town without even the cer-
tificate from their parsh, which could protect them
from being apprehended as vagrants. But parish
officers in general showed a most abominable care-
lessness towards the poor. Here was an instance,
in which four poor creatures were actually made
guilty of an offence which subjected them to punish-
ment. He (Mr. Pearson) advised by all means that
an action should be at once brought against the of-
ficers of the parish in Hertford ; and he felt CODe
vinced an example of the kind would be attended
with the very best effects.
The LORD MAYOR said, that if Nil. Pearson
would be so good as to proceed to an extremity of
the kind, he (the Lord Mayor) would be saved a
great deal of disagreeable trouble, and the parishes
would be a little more considerate to the poor.
Mr. Pearson said, that nothing would give him
greater pleasure than to punish such" flinty-hearted"
gentry.

4,0001. of the money if the prisoner thought fit to give
the required information.
Mr. Mucsittiet.—l shall, at all events, keep him in
custody for the present.
Mr. Thompson thanked the Magistrate,and retired.
In the course of the day William Hill, porter at
he dissecting room, King's College, came before
Mr. MINSHULL, and stated that he had received two
anonymous letters, threatening his life in consequence
of the part which he had taken egainst Bishop and
Williams. He then handed to the Magistrate one
,f the letters in question, which he had received on
!he previous day by the twopenny post. This letter,
which o as evidently written in a disguised hand,
was directed as follows :—" For William Hill, at the
King's College School, Strand, London." The con-
teats were as follows :-
1‘ You 'nun-Iring —, you think you are all right
to get tip, but only Joke out, for you wilt have your
z—ts out before many days his over, for Wow my eyes if
there shan't he another tucked up for you, you gallas life-
elling warment. You think you've done the trick up,
master Billy, but I will put a spoke in your weal,
my eyes if I don't, you noing kovy.
" Yours affectionately,
" THE GOST OF•BISHOP AND WILLIAMS."
• Mr. MiNsuum„ after reading the above, told Hill
that he did not think he had much occasion to ap-
prehend-danger. lie might be assured however, of
always receiving protection at that office.
Hill wished to know if the Magistrate would
sanction his carrying pistols about him for his de-
fence; in case of an attack from some of Bishop's
followers, who would be capable of any crime, and
would not scruple to knock him on the head, if any
opportunity were to offer. •
Mr. Mrsislluu. said he would not advise Hill to
carry weapons about him. He had done his duty
n the late inquiry, and it was owing certainly in a
great measure to the prompt manner in which he
acted that the discovery took place which led to the
execution of Bishop and Williams.
Mr. Harmer, who happened to be present, ob-
served that great praise was certainly due to Hill
for the course which he had taken. He appeared,
however, to alarm himself unnecessarily, for it was
tot probable if any mischief was intended to him
that he should receive notice of it.
Hill observed, that from the situation which he
held, he was obliged to be about the College con-
itantly, and the back part of it near the river afforded
facilities for carrying into execution the threats
which the letter contained. His wife, he said, was
so alarmed, that she was now on a sick bed, and he
was really afraid that he should in the end be obliged

QUEEN- S QUARE.
On Monday, that unfortunate woman Mary Am,
Pearce, better known by the title of Lady Barry.
more, came to the office in a perfectly sober state to
make an application to the magistrates.
It appeared that her ladyship had been discharged
tfiat morning from Tothill-fields Prison ; and instead
of paying her usual visits to the different license()
victuallers with whom she was acquainted, she came
direct to the office, with the expressed determina-
tion to reform her character altogether, and here-
after to lead a sober virtuous life. She conducted

herself remarkably well, and excited the astonish•
meat of every person who was acquainted with her
general character. The object of her application
was to be passed to her own parish, and Mr. White,
the magistrate, immediately gave her a letter to take
to the overseer of the parish, for which she ex-
pressed her thanks and left the office. Most of the
police constables shook their heads about her lady-
ship's reform, and expressed their fears that she
would be at the station-house before night.
BOWSTREET.

Yesterday George Page, alas Potts, was placed
at the bar, before Mr. MINSHULL, charged with hav-
ing been concerned with two men (one of whom has
since been executed) in robbing the Glasgow bank
of Messrs. Watson and Co. of bank-notes and sove-
reigns, amounting► to upwards of 7,0001. The pri-
soner was apprehended at Hammersmith, on Tue;.
day last, by Ledbitter the officer, and ordered to be
remanded for further examination.

Mr. Harmer attended yesterday on his behalf, and
Mr. Thompson of Palace-yard, one of the Glasgow
bankers, appeared to support the charge against the
prisoner.
Mr. MiiNsnut,L asked if it was intended to pro-
duce evidence tending to fix the prisoner as a parti-
cipator in the robbery, there being as yet no evi-
dence brought forward to that effect.
Mr. Thompson said he had to request the magis-

trate to remand the prisoner again until evidence
should arrive from Scotland. He had seen Mr.
Phillips, the Under Secretary of State, and also Mr.
Mayne, one of the Police Commissioners, on the sub-
ject, who had both sanctioned the prisoner's detention.
Mr. MINSIEULL said it would, notwithstanding, be
necessary that evidence should be tendered to him
upon which be should feel himself justified in re-
manding the prisoner.
Ledbitter then said that a witness was present

who would he enabled to prove that she travelled
from Edinburgh to London in the same coach with
the prisoner, on thelday after the robbery.
Miss Ann Redpath was then sworn, and stated,
that she lived at Shooter's-hill. On Monday, the

w give up his situation.
Mr. INltssituLL again assured Hill that he should
always be protected at that office; and having
!flanked the Magistrate, the applicant retired.
HAT T ON-GARDEN.

Yesterday .lolin Ratley and William Allen, two
lesperate-looking fellow, were brought to this
.ffice, charged by James Taylor, a policeman of N.
!ivision, No. 52, with having been concerned in the

ollowing riot and outrage, in which he was so s -
eerely injured that his life is placed in great danger.
It appeared from the evidence of Taylor and
several other witnesses, that on Monday evening
dst about five o'clock, the prisoner Ratley and
another man, who had quarrelled, were fighting to-
;ether, and a large mob had assembled on the spot.
Seveial drovers were in the crowd, armed with

bludgeons, when they saw a man named Alcock, who
'tad recently given information of a robbery that had
heeu committed by one of the gang, and he was
,•onvieted. He was immediately attacked by them,
tad his life placed in imminent danger until he ran
ar in the direction of Holloway turnpike, where he
took refuge in the house of Mr. A kinson, a butcher.
The ruffians endeavoured to get possession of the
man, whom they would have murdered if they had
caught hold of him, and between 300 and 400 per-
,ons had collected in consequence of their violent
conduct. At length information of the outrage
reached Mr. Eastoff, a constable of Broad-street,
Holloway, who instantly repaired to the spot, and
found the violence of the mob, so great that
ire deemed it prudent to take pistols to de-
fend himself in the event of being attacked.
tle had no sooner made his appearance, and made
his business known, than two of the most desperate
Of the rioters seized hold of his arms, which they
held behind him, and a cry was raised " to take his
staff" and " kill him." Mr. Eastoff, being a tall
powerful man, and finding himself thus attacked,
he made a desperate effort and released himself from
the fellows who had seized him, and presenting his
pistols, threatened to shoot the first man who
dared to offer the least violence, and in order to
compete with such overpowering numbers, he in-
stantly called for the assistance of the new police,
when Taylor and several other policemen made their
appearance. The mob became more violent, and
called out " have their staves," " Burke 'em,"
" kill 'em," &c.; on which Taylor's arms were
seized, and his staff taken from his pocket, when he
was knocked down, kicked, and beaten, in a dread-
ful manner ; and one ruffian kicked him violently on
the abdomen, and he lay on the ground in great
agony; the poor fellow was carried away for medical
itssistance, and he attended at the office in a weakly
condition, scarcely able to give his evidence. A
doctor's certificate was produced, stating that Taylor
was dreadfully ruptured, and in a precarious state,
and unable to go on duty. He was in great pain
while he was giving his evidence. Several other
policemen were severely beaten, and the drovers
seized one man who had had assisted the officers,
and threw him into a well, where he was afterwards
discovered in almost a state of insensibility, and re-
leased from his perilous sitution.
The mob remained together mail a strong body of
the force attended and dispersed them, when the
man Alcock's escape was facilitated.
Mr. Serjeant SELLON asked whether the pri-
soners were known there 2—The officers answered
in the negative.
Mr. Serjeant SELLON inquired whether any of the
witnesses could swear to the prisoners having com-
mitted any assault; but none of them could identify
them.

27th of December, 1830, she left Edinburgh in the
mail at nine o'clock in the morning, the coach hav-
ing been delayed for two hours owing to the state of
the roads. The prisoner rode inside the mail and was

seated opposite to her.
Prisoner—Did you not point out another person
in the yard as the man to whom you have referred ?
Witness—No; I know you perfectly well, for I
travelled in the same coach with you for forty-eight
hours. The witness added that there another gen-
tleman in the coach who sat beside the prisoner.
Mr. Thompson—Wes there not also an outside
passenger ,vhern you have since seen and given evi-
dence against ? Witness—There was.
Mr. MINSHULL—Did the prisoner appear to be
acquainted with that person ? Witness—No ; they
did not appear to be at all acquainted.
Mr. 111INSIFULL—Did you observe whether the
person who sat next the prisoner in the coach, ad-
dressed him as a stranger, or as one whom he had
previously known ? Witness—They conversed in
the coach ae if they were strangers to each other
who had met by chance, but I observed, that when-
ever we stopped on the road, they kept together and
appeared to converse as friends.
Mr. Thompson explained that the robbery of the
Gla4gow Bank took place on Sunday, the 26th of
December, 1830, the day preceding that to which
the witness had deposed. The robbery was effected
by three men, ore of whom had since been tried and
executed. There were good grounds for believing
that the prisoner was another of the men, and the
third was still at large. They travelled from Edin-
burgh to London by the mail on the day named, and
the witness was the only inside passenger, besides
the prisoner and the other man.
Mr. MlNstruri said, that he should certainly de-
tain the prisoner upon this evidence.
He was then remanded to next Friday week. He
is rather a respectable-looking man, about thirty-five
years of age, and he appeared to think very lightly of
the matter.
After he was removed to the lock-up room, Led-
bitter informed the Magistrate that there was sufficient
evidence to convict the prisoner as a returned tran-
sport; and if the case against him for the robbery
should fail, he would be tried upon that charge.
Mr. Thompson said that the evidence against the
prisoner for the robbery of the Bank was so conclusive,
he would most cei utility be hanged if he were sent to
Scotland. If, however, the prisoner would give such
information as should lead to a recovery of even a por-
tion of the sum stolen, the prosecutors would be con-
tent that he should be sent out of the country for life.
Ledbitter observed that it was possible to recover

Mr Serjeant SELLON —Did either of them take
the policeman's staff ? Taylor—They were in the
crowd ; but I cannot swear that either of them took
my staff or kicked me.
Ratley, in his defence, denied having committed
any assault. He was " bonnetted" by some drovers
in a public-house, when he challenged one of them
out to right ; a mob assembled, and he knew nothing
more of it until the officers came ups. He was in
work, and he should lose his situation through the
circumstance.
Allen denied any interference with the officers or
the riot. He certainly did defend himself when seized
and charged with the violence on Taylor.
Mr. Serjeant SELLoN said, it was an outrageous
proceeding, and he regretted that the real instigators
were not in custody.
Another magistrate on the bench said, that it was
a pity almost that there was any Christmas, for it
only led to riot and drunkenness.
The prisoners were first ordered to find bail, but
the magistrates afterwards fined them both, or to be
committed for two months to the House of Correction.
Alcock, who was attacked by the drovers, then
applied for warrants against the ringleaders of the
outrage, whose names were all known to him.
Mr. Serjeant Sellon readily granted the warrants.
MARYLEBONE.

On Monday John Bridgen,a plasterer, was charged
by Mr. Andrew Al‘Callan, the landlord of Sol's
Arms, in the Hampstead-road, with entering his
parlour in female attire, on Sunday night, Christ-
mas-day evening, with intent to occasion scenes of
riot and confusion, and robbery ; while Thomas
Page, pointed out as one of the prisoner's com-
panions on this occasion, was charged with endea-
vouring to release the prisoner, when secured by the
new police.
Mr. M`Callan deposed-that Bridgen came into his
Irirlour on Sunday, in the afterh•Oon, w he: e he (Al
o pass for a woman, but a feniale, then sitting
company there, happened to observe that whiskers
Nv e r e seen under his cap, and informed hits imme,

Aiate'ly that she suspected he was only a man
'dressed in woman's clothes, and that same of the
patty were aware of the trick. Bridgen, he found,
dad on two gowns, and nothing of his own clothing
but shoes, though he contrived to impose on the
company, who iemonstrated when he was attempted
to be scrutinized more minutely. They said that
he was a woman, and ought not to be hauled in
that way.
Mr. RAWLISSON—He was rather an expensive
sort of lady, with two gowns on. D:d he, or she,
get any thing to drink at your house P Mr,
M'Calian—l took care to prevent that, Sir; for
suspected his design in coming to my house. lie
was with difficulty got out, scrambling and scuf-
fling, till ten or twelve policemen were employed to
convey him, arm and leg, from it, when Page en-
deavoured to rescue him whilst whistling for thelgang.
Mr. RAWLINSON—Pray, Mr. Page, what may
you be ? Page replied, that he sold greens from
house to house.

Policeman, S 76, (Peter Aitchin), said that the
prisoner Page was a desperate fellow.
Mr. M'Callan—He is the terror of the whole
neighbourhood, Sir.

Bridgen and Page were committed, each for one
month, to the House of Correction, to the great re-
lief, for the present, of Hampstead and its vicinity.

LAMBETH-STREET.

Yesterday Robert Hughes and Elizabeth Westley,
the actors in the late tragedy in real life, in Lower
East Smithfield, were placed at the bar before
M'ssrs. liAnDvacK and WALKER, for final exanii-
ation.

The evidence which has already appeared relative
to this transaction was now repeated, but nothing
new transpired. After the witnesses had concluded
their statement, the prisoners being asked if they heti
any thing to offer in their &fence, replied in the
negative, upon which Mr. HAanwwli observed,
that however painful it would be to him, he must
commit them for trial—the one, Hughes, fot
dis-
charging a pistol, with intent to sheet ; and the
other with having counselled him in the offence.
The Act under which the prisoners are cow-
vnitted, the 9th of George IV., states, in the 13th
chapter, sec. 11—" That if any person unlawfully
tor maliciously shoot at, or attempt to discharge
loaded arms at any person, with intent to murder
such person, every such offender, or any person coun-
selling, aiding, or abetting such offender, shall be
guilty of felony ; and being convicted thereof, shall
suffer death as a felon."

Hughes has for some time been employed as or-
ganist at the Rev. Dr. Cox's chapel, at Hackney,
and is considered an excellent performer on that as
well as other musical instruments. He is nearly
blind himself, and about two years age married a
young woman who is stone blind, anti resides in the
vicinity of this office. Yesterday, previous to hi•
examination, she visited her husband in one of the
strong rooms, and it was with some difficulty that
she could be separated from him. Westley, who wu3
present at the time, seemed much annoyed, and ap-
peared once or twice disposed to rush at the unfor
tunate young woman, but was prevented by the
other prisoners. While standing at the bar in the
Justice-room,Westley locked Hughes's arm in her'i,
and kept him quite close to her during the examination.

RESISTANCE TO THE PAYMENT OF
I STIPEND IN EDINBURGH.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SlR,—Perhaps the greater part of the people of
Great Britain are not aware, that while a resistance
ro the payment of tithe prevails to an almost unl-
versal extent in Ireland, the same species of refusal
to support the Clergy of the Establishment has for
some time been resorted to in the city of Elin.
burgh. Such, however, is the case ; and that blood
has not been shed in the same manner, is only at-
tributable to the cautious character of the inhabi-
tants, and the salutary dread of the Magistracy and
Clergy in introducing military force in aid of the
civil power. In England, in Ireland, and in the
country parts of Scotland, the Church is supported
by tithes (in Scotland, paid in money by landlords,
not by tenants), and all these tithes are levied with-
out a shadow of justice, as the lands were originally
acquired with such burdens upon them. But in
Edinburgh the case is entirely different. There the
Clergy are supported by a modern tax of 01. per
rent. on the rental of houses and shops, excluding
the habitations of the lawyers, who have the privi-
lege of exemption, I call the tax modern; for
although originally instituted in the reign of
Charles IL, it was on a most limited scale, not
worth mentioning; and as it now exists, it was
constituted by a solitary clause in an Act of Parlia-
ment smuggled through the House about the year
1808. This tax is called annuity, and en an
average yields 10,0001. a-year. Toge:her with cer-
tain share and other dues, the Clergy in total re-
ceive nearly 13,0001. annually, which sum is divided
among eighteen ministers. It would naturally lie
supposed that the contribution of such a large sum
would free the inhabitants from any other ecclesias-
tical tax ; yet see what takes place. The payment
of annuity or stipend gives no right whatever to a
seat in the church. The different kirks are in the
custody of the Town-council, who make a complete
job of them, letting the seats at enormous prices,
and raising in that way upwards of 7,000!. a-year,
out of which, after paying precentors and repairs,
&c., they make a clear profit of about 4 or 5,000/.
You will now perceive under what a system of
extortion the citizens of Edinburgh are labouring.
From year to year they have been dragging
on under these and other severe burdens, amount-
ing in general to 50/. per cent, on their rental,
unpitted either by the Clergy or the Magistracy, in
vain seeking relief, till at length, worn out by a com-
plication of grievances, the greater proportion have,
by some sort of tacit understanding, resolved no
longer to contribute a farthing of annuity, a very
large number have likewise this year taken posses-
sion of seats in the churches without paying the
usual arbitrary high prices. Following up these
ideas, the householders, and all classes of inhabitante,
have determined rather to allow seizure of goods
and furniture than pay the tax ; at the same time
resolving on no account to buy one another's arti-
cles when so carried off. Whether this be right or
wrong, legal or illegal, it is the case, and all the so-
phistry of the Legislature could not turn the people
torn their purpose. The result has consequently been
hat a number of seizures were effected months ago,
but when the articles were carried to the Cross to
be rouped, mobs of four or five thousand persons
instantly collected to witness the scene ; the offi-
cials were hissed and hooted, no one bade, and
the goods were then carted off to a receptacle for
such things in the neighbourhood. So strong was
the demonstration of public feeling on these occa-
sions, that of late there has been no further attempt
either to seize or to roup : indeed, such was the
obloquy under which the officers (or process-servers,
as the Irish would call them) laboured in the town,
that the principal has resigned his functions, and I
believe the Clergy could not now get a man to fill
the situation. At present the Clergy are trying, be-
fore one of our local courts, to constitute the tax a
personal debt, so that imprisonment might follow,
but here there is little chance of success; the Acts
of Parliament are exceedingly defective, and a com-
mittee of the inhabitants are doing all in their power
to protect the defendants from unjust oppression.
Thus then do we here observe the winding up of
all bad laws, which sometime or other must came
to an end, if it were by nothing else than the simple
expression of public sentiment. Same time since
the inhabitants would have applied for an Act of
Parliament to rescind those Acts directed to the
imposition of the complained-of tax, but they well
knew that an unreformed House of Commons would
never have listened to the recital of their grievances,
and that they must wait till the people have
real representatives in that Assembly. I must also
do them the justice to state, that there is no wish
to starve the Clergy of the Establishment in the
city, it is only wished to reduce them in number,
there being far too many, and to leave the remain-

der, that is eleven or twelve, to be paid from that
fund now so sha►nefully engrossed by the civic ex-
chequer. _

Begging that you will give the foregoing a place
in your very meritorizus Paper, in order that the
case of the eiti2ens of tdinburgh may be as widely
known and sympathised with as possible,
I am, Sir, your obedient servant)
WILLIAM 6HANIBtRS,
47, Broughton-street, Edinburgh)
tec. 24, 183 h

ACCIDtNI" AT LORD YARBOROUC
HOUM—.-An inquest was on Mondsy belt"' at the Blue
Posts, Bennett-street, St. James's, before Mr. lIIGGs, on
the body of itilNNAi! hOiERTS. It appeared that the
deceased, who Intii been thirty years in the service of Lord
YARPOftoiiGli, after dining with the rest of the servants
in the ball on Christmas-day, at his Lordship's residence,
in Arlington-street, withdrew tad the kitchen to attend
some domestic coin:et-W. the had not long been gone
before the stlrvatits, searing her screams, ran to her assist-
ant-6, aikd found her lying before the fire, nearly burnt to
a cinder. His Lordship's medi.±al adviser was instantly
sent for, but the deceased I'vas quite dead before he arrived.
It is not known how the lamentable occurrence hap-
pened!. vtrdict—" Accidentally burnt to death." Whilst
occupied in the above inquiry, the feelings of the Jury
were much shocked at the following appalling accident
which tools place opposite the house in which they were
assembled t=A gentleman's groom was riding pot on a
young apiiited hone, when the animal suddenly became
festive, and rearing on his hinder legs, fell over upon his
unfortunate tider, who was so dreadfully crushed by the
ponderous weight of the animal, that he was conveyed
speechless to St. George's Hospital, without hopes of re-
coverys

DREADITL WRECK, AND SUPPOSED LOSS
`or Ntsx Sour.s.—On Friday night a fine brig, perfectly
new, drifted in on the coast of Bannow, not a soul on
board ; the main sheet hid been carried away, and was
lying over her side in the water. The iron stay, or tra-
veller, had snapped, it is supposed, and she got a dreadful
lurch, so that a sea washed the entire crew overboard. It
appears by her pipers she was named La Bonne Julia,
of Bordeaux, bound to Dunkirk. She had not drawn
any water, and was perfectly sound until she struck. She
had a valuable cargo of oil, fish, and about 100 French
and Spanish dollars in a bag ; her Captain's name was J.
BAETEN. The gentry and water-guard instantly came
forward and used every exertion to save the cargo. The
oil is now discharging, and is to he bonded in stores, on
account of the Crown and the lord of the soil, to give
time to the owners to claim ; as, if none should appear, it
belongs to the latter, subject to the duties and salvage. To
prevent any risk from contagion Messrs. BOISE and
OsamoNE, with the consent of the officers of customs and
water-guard, saw every article of clothing, bedding, &c
on hoard brought on shore and burned, notwithstanding
the entreaties of the many poor who came from all parts
to get what they could.—'Wexford Independent.
INTERESTING NEW PUBLICATIONS.—The
following hove been lately published by Messrs. COLBURN
and BENTLEY " Musical Memoirs," by W. J.
PARKS, E•q., 2 vols., comprising a fund of information
relative to Music and the Stage, and their eminent vo-
taries, for the last fifty years.-2. " Conversations of the
late celebrated Dr. Paley, and other Literary Memoirs,"
by H. BEST, Esq., of Oxford, I vol.-3. " The Life
and Correspondence of Major Cartwright, comprising a
complete History of Reform," 2 vols.-4. " Conversations
of the late Jotnes Nnrthcote, Esq., with Mr. Hazlitt,"
1 vol.-5. A Second Edition of " The Memoirs of Mrs.
Siddons," with a fine Portrait, by TURNER, from Sir
THOMAS LAWRENCE, 2 vols.-6. " Journal of a Noble-
man, comprising an Account of his Travels from Moscow
to Vienna and of his Residence i❑ that City, with nume-
rous Anecdotes of distinguished Persona," 2 vols.-7.
" Letters addressed to John Mitt, Esq., relative to the
Revolution of 1666," edited by Lord DOVER, 2 vols.—
S. A Second Edition of the " Life and Correspondence of
John Locke," by Lord KING, to which is now first added,
among other important papers, the curious Diary of Lord
Chancellor KING, illustrative of events during the reigns
of GEORGE I. and 11., 2 vols.

13ERWICKSIIIRE MEETING.—On Tuesday
a numerous meeting of the freeholders and farmers of the
county of Berwick was held in the splendid new County
Rooms at Greenlaw—the first meeting which has taken
place in that handsome edifice, which is the munificent
gift to the county of Sir W. H. PuayEs, of Marchtnont.
Mr. flay, of Drummelzier, presided; and the principal
speakers were Lord DLINGLASS7 Sir DAVID MILNE, Mr.
BAILLIE, jun., of Jerviswootl, Mr. Srorriswoooe, of
Spottiswoode, Mr. HALL, jun., of Dunglass, Mr. MILNE,
jun., of Milne Garden, Mr. TioNast, of Kimmerghame,
Mr. ANDERSON, of Rochester, and Mr. SWINTON, of
Swinton. Mr. Srorriswoone, in moving a resolution
relative to Political Unions, stated that the late proclama-
tion against those bodies was urged on Ministers by the
KING, so that it might be said to have emanated entirely
from his MAJESTY. The resolutions were carried without
a dissentient voice.—Edinburgh Advertiser.

It appears, after all, that the reported loss of
the Congress frigate, one of the best vessels attached to
the Portuguese expedition, is not true. A letter has been
received from SARTORIUS, the Portuguese Admiral, dated
from Belle Isle, and subsequently to the time at which the
wreck was said to have taken place. A number of Eng-
lish sailors, amounting to 69, had left the Congress, now
named the Rainha de Portugal, not, however, as aban-
doning the expedition, but because their engagement only
extended to the navigation of that vessel to Belle Isle.
All that was said, therefore, respecting the violation of
the Foreign Enlistment Act on the part of these men, at
the time of their sailing, proves to have no foundation,
as the service they had entered on was in all respects a
legal one. They will be conveyed back to England in the
Lord Blayney steam-vessel, hired for that purpose by the
Portuguese Admiral, who hss written to the agent for the
Quern of PORTUGAL in this country to pay the arrears
due to them as soon as they arrive. This letter is dated
on the 21st instant. The sailors who brought the news
of the wreck to Jersey were not supposed to have formed
a part of the crew of this vessel, but to be deserters from
some other ship, who have probably invented the story of
the wreck to furnish them with a claim for charitable as-
sistance. The circumstance is of great importance as re-
gards the ultimate success of that expedition. Had the
loss actually occurred, it would have net only injured the
cause by a diminution of force, but would have thrown a
damp over the whole. It is said that the expedition has
been joined at Belle Isle by one vessel of war from Rio de
Janeiro; so that it is now very complete in point of efyi•
ciency.— Times.

ENCOUNTER WITH POACHERS.—We regret
to state that a desperate affray took place on the night of
Tuesday las`, between the gamekeepers of the Earl of
Moam and a gang of poachers, eight in number, who
had entered the plantations armed with guns and blud-
geons. The poachers began the affray by attacking the
three keepers in the most ferocious manner, four of whom
singled out the head-keeper, who was most dreadfully
beaten, and would most probably have fallen a victim t•
their brutal violence had not the other keepers, who had
previously separated from them, fortunately arrived, and
put the poachers to flight. Several of the men on both
sides were severely bandied.— Western Times.

A ludicrous mistake happened to Sir HENRY
Har.roxn on the rejection of the Reform Bill. Sir
HENRY is, or was, Court physician, and a courtier, and
anxious, as a courtier should be, to stand well with all
all parties. The morning after the decision of the House
of Lords, he wrote to the Marquis of TAYISTOCE, in a tone
of mingled grief and auger, to condole with his Lordship
on the temporary defeat of a measure which promised
blessings to the country. The same morning was witness
to an epistle on the same subject from the complaisant
Knight to the Earl of WESTMORELAND. The contents
of the second letter were somewhat different from those of
the first. Sir HENRY had addressed Lord TavlsTocx as
friend addresses friend on the occasion of some lamented
bereavement; he spoke to Lord WESTMORELAND as friend
speaks to friend at a marriage or a christening—" he was
overjoyed, and, no doubt, his Lordship would be, at the
final rejection of a Bill which was pregnant with revolu-
tion, anarchy, and every thing that was bad." The let-
ters were' folded and enclosed ; but, alas! some one of
those tiny mocking spirits that love to make game of good
intentions, slipped Lord WESTMORELA ND'S note into
Lord TAVISTOCK'S envelope, and Lord TAVISTOCK'S into
Lord WESTMORELAND'S. The heir of the house of Russel
read and pondered, pondered and read, and had just
arrived at the charitable conclusion that poor Sir HENRY
was in a fair way to pay a visit to his brother Dr. Bost-
ROWS, when, from certain family queries, he contrived
to puzzle out the mistake ; and his announcement of it
reached Lord WESTMORELAND at the moment when the
Earl was searching, but in vain, for a clue to the meaning
of the lugubrious phrases in which Sir HENRY lamented
the success of a victory to which the Noble Earl had so
heartily contributed. Both the letters are in the posses-
sion of Lord BaoucHast. What Sir HENRY said, or
how Sir HENRY looked, when the blunder was explained
to him, we leave GEORGE CRUIRSMANE to tell,—
' Spectator.

REVENUE of the CHURCH of IRELAND.

EPITOME.

Of the Revenue of the Church of Ireland, and of the
irregular payments of the First fruits of the
Archbishops, Bishops) Dignitaries, and Beneficed
Clergy in that part of the United Kingdom, who
are enjoined by the Irish Statute, 2d Geo. I. chap.
13, to pay their first year's revenue or profits of
their Benefices respectively, into the Revenue of
First Fruitt., Within four years of their taking such
Benefices, viz.—one-fourth part of the whole sum
of their first year's profits, at the end of every
year, for the first four years, together with an
Explanation of the Twentieth Parts remitted to
the Clergy in Ireland by that Act.
Acres.
No. I.—Number of acres of land belonging to the Sees
of Ireland, now held or let by the Archbishops and
Bishops there, as per First Fruits Returns, &c 6t4,864
No. 2.-Acres of Parochial Glebes in Ireland, to which
Incumbents have been admitted, from Aug. 1812, to
the nth of Feb. 18.11, as per Returns from the First
Fruits Office 82,615

Deduct 1-3 d for land unprofitable3)767so9

255836

Deduct 2-thirds profitable 511673
Average annual value, per acre
as per return of Commis-
. 26
sioners of Ecclesiastical In.
quiry, '26s. 1831
..--

3070038
1023346

,0 ) 1330319(8

£665174
Deduct 5 per cent, for collect-
ing, &c 33458

767,509

Total amount £631,916 for Iyr 11,916 0 0
No. 3.—Total amount of the compounded yearly
value of the Tithes paid by the l'arish loners of
1,194 l'arishes (out of 2,460 Parishes), deducting
5 per cent. from thesum total for collecting, &c.
&c. as per Return :.68, 439 0 0
No. 4.—Total amount of the estimated value of
the 1,271 Parishes that have not compounded for
their Tithes—say at 200/. per annum each—de-
ducting 5 per cent. for collecting, &c 241,290 0 0
No. s.—Total of the sum paid by the Archbishops,
Bishops, and Clergy of Ireland, including the
Rectorial Tithes, received by them for the whole
one year's First Fruits to the Revenue thereof,
from August, 1812, to the 26th Feb., 1831, as per
Return from the First Fruits' Office 9,947 11 0

Total amount due this day to the Revenue of First
Fruits from the Archbishops, Bishops, and Be-
neficed Clergy of Ireland, for the first year's
First Fruits of their Benefices, pursuant to the
Statute of the 2d (leo. 1., chap. 15 1,151,697 9 0
Thus they appear to have only paid about one
hundred and sixteenth part of what they ought to
have paid.
9947) 1161845 (116
9917