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London, England, 1825-07-16 00:00:00

[MORNING HERALD.]

A paragraph in our yesterday's Circuit intelli-
gence, stated that Mr. Justice Park had passed
sentence of death upon a person convicted of for-
gery at the Northampton Assizes—and further,
that this convict was left for execution. It was
expected, after a recent case, that capital, punish-
ment for this offence was virtually abandoned.
But at all events, no ,one could suppose that the
punishment of death would be inflicted upon any
person convicted of forgery, without the fullest
explanation of the motives which induced the
commutation of the- sentence of Henry Savory.
There is, at first sight, something ungracious in
calling public agentioii to the fate of this un-
happy person—from the pain it may be expected
to give his relatives and friends, who are highly
respectable, and perhaps from its looking like
disapprobation of the mercy extended to him.
But as to the first consideration, private feel-
ings should not stand in the way of general
justice and humanity—and, as to the second,. it
is not that. the discretion exercised towards 1)6
is disapproved, but tkrt the
_Executive Go-
vernment is called upon to be consistent. Se-
veral versions have been given of the grounds

'upon which the life of Henry Savory was
spared. But all of those were not only no-
thing more than unauthorised paragraphs in the
public papers, but further, they have all been
formally contradicted. Of the circumstances
under which the crime was committed by the
person left for execution at Northampton, we
know nothing at the moment. But taking it as
a case in the abstract, it may be asked with what
show of reason and impartiality can the sentence
of death be executed upon him, after the life of
the other convict has been spared. It is of
the essence of criminal justice that its execution
should be impartial. But until the grounds upon
which the sentence in the Bristol case was corn-
muted be fully and authoritatively known, the
public must see a most inviduous and alarming
distinction in respect of persons in these two
cases of forgery. It is unpleasant to be obliged
to repeat that there were—at least that there
made to appear, no reasonable circumstances of
mitigation in the former, and that its a matter of
commercial policy, to which the severity of the
law upon this Offence is usually referred, it was
of a serious and aggravated character. Per-
haps, however, the life of the latter convict
will also yet be spared, for the day of execution
is not named.

[BRITISH PRESS. j
A Meeting of Catholics took place in the Corn
Exchange, Dublin, on Tuesday last. It was
convened merely for the purpose of pre-
' paring Resolutions for the , adoption of the
" Aggregate Meeting," which is appointed for an
early day. The 'charge of drawing up the Re-
solutions was confided toa Committee. Mr. O'Con-
nell figured on the occasion in an address not re-
markable for its temperance. He appears to
have taken the field again in earnest, for he showed
himself on the Exchange in the " Association
Uniform," and we regret to find, that with his
old habits has returned his former model of
speech, so that we find Min talking as glibly
about tyrants, oppression, and injustice," as he
did before he came over on his late mission to
England. His course at present is singu-
larly inconsistent. He evidently dreads,
though he affects to despise 4' the undergrowl
of Jack Lawless." Thug, while he insists upon
the propriety of the " wings," he promises his
countrymen that lie will for ever forswear them.
" A clamour," he says, " was raised against
the proposed payment of the Clergy, and he
was, therefore, firmly persuaded, and ready to
concur in opinion, that the Catholics ought in fu-
ture to pursue that course for emancipation unen-
cumbered by either of the late measures." He
eulogises the defunct Association, and enjoins all
legally practicable resistance to the " atrocious
Act "by which it .was suppressed. The Catho-
lic Rent, is, in fact revived. The Contributions
are desired, by public Advertisement, to be sent
to the " Hibernian Joint Stock Company."
Subscriptions are announced from Sir Charles
Wolsely and the Rev. Mr. L'Estrange, for tl►e
parishes of Ballina and Boher, Tipperary.

MATH icmt.—The Journal de l'Aube contains
the following account young man of Brienne,
named Lebeeuff, not more than 22 years of age,
has lately killed his own mother. It is attribut-
ed either to love, a long serief: of ill usage, or a
vice of his nature. Several times before, and
even within a week of the murder, he had beaten
one of his little sisters. His passionate temper
was so well known that his father had been warned
of it, and he had, in consequence, thought of get-
ting him put out. On Monday, July ,I,a dispute
arose between the unfortunate man and two of his
sisters, about 10 and 12 years old, concerning an
omelette he wished to make; his mother coming in
to appease them, he seized. the barrel of a
gun which had been turned in a bellows, and
struck her two blows on the breast with it : the
poor woman ran away. but he pursued her, and
at thirty steps from the house brought her to the
ground by a blow on the head. He then struck
his two sisters in the face with the same weapon,
reproaching them as the cause of his having struck
his mother. She did not survive his ill-treat-
ment three hours. The young man was taken
up by the Police, and is now in the hands of jus-
tice. In the meantime the father returned, and
saw his wife bathed in blood.; he hastened to see
his son, but was refused admission into the prison.
The eldest girl of eight children left by the un-
fortunate woman, hearing what had taken place,
hastened to the spot, where the horrid sight depriv-
ed her of reason, and obliged her to have medical
attendance. These are the first fruits of this
shocking affair,.whieh will no doubt be attributed
to d blind passion. ft is said, however, that
when the accused was canducted to recognise
the , corpse, he made a speech which added
greatly to the horror of the crime.—(Courier
Francais.)

PROTESTANTS' SONG.--MS Roya 1 Highness
the Duke of YORK having been pleased most
graciously to allow. a,'spiendidly embellished
copy of the " Protestants' Song" to be present-
ed to him at his Levee, it may now be seen at
the Office of the English Gentleman, No. 7,
Bridges-street, Covent-garden, where it- is pub-
lished. 'lt may be alio•had of every respectable
Book and Music-seller in Town or Country.—
Price Half-a-Guinea.' The Duke of YORK'S
Speech accompanies the Song.
A few days ago; Mrs. na.owr, of Beeston, had
occasion to have her chimney swept, and employ-
ed a lad and a young man who were_ travelling
through the village in that profession; the lad
was in the chimney an unusual time, of which
she complained, and when she afterwards went
up stairs, she found that somebody had gone
down the other tunnel, and been over the floor,
for she could trace the foot-marks, and some sil-
ver was taken from her drawer. It was also
discovered, that some pers'on had been down the
chimney of the next house, but found the fire-
place fastened up with a chimney-board, which
probably•frUstrated the design.

On Friday se'unight, a wan mowing grass h) a
field near Paisley, cut off the head of a partridge
sitting in her nest, which contained nine eggs.
On the eggs being broken, three of them were
found to contain two bird'', each.

" FORTY DAYS RAIN AFTER ST. SIVITHIN."

Now, if on St. Swithin's feast the welkin lours,
And every penthouse streams with hasty showers,
Twice twenty days shall clouds their fleeces drain,
And wash the pavements with incessant rain.
Let no such vulgar tales debase thy mind :
Nor Paul nor Swithin rule the clouds and wind—Gay,
Mr. HOWARD, in his " Climate of London,"
has attempted the following explanation of this
very popular superstition.
" The opinion of the people on subjects con-
, nected with natural history is commonly founded,
in some degree, on fact or experience ; though,
in this case, vague and inconsistent conclusions
are two frequently drawn from real premises.
The notion commonly entertained on this subject,
if put strictly to the test of experience, at any
me station in this part of the island, will be found
fallacious. To do justice to popular observation,
I may now state, that in a majority of our sum-
mers, a showery period, which, with some lati-
tude as to time and local circumstances, may be
admitted to constitute daily rain for forty days,
1 does come on about the time indicated by this
tradition ; not that any long space before is often
so dry as to mark distinctly its commencement.
" The tradition, it seems, took its origin from
the following circumstances. Swithin,orSwithum,
Bishop of Winchester, who died in 868, desired
that he might be buried in the open churchyard,
and not in the chancel of the minster, as was
usual with other Bishops. This request was com-
plied with ; but the monks, on his being canon-
ized, considering it disgraceful for the Saint to be
in a public cemetery, resolved to remove his body
into the choir, which was to have beet, done with
solemn procession, on the 15th of July; it rained,
however, so violently for 40 days together at this
season, that the design was abandoned. Now,
without entering into the case of thei'Bishop, who
was probably a man of sense, and wished to set
the example of a more wholesome, as well as a
more humble mode of resigning the perishable
clay to the destructive elements, I may observe,
that the fact of the hindrance of the ceremony
by the cause related is sufficiently authenticated
by tradition, and the tradition is so far valuable,
as it proves that the summers in this southern
part of our island were subject, a thousand years
ago, to occasional heavy rains, in the same way
as at present. Let us see how, in point of fact, I
the matter now stands.

" In 1807 it rained with us on the day in ques-
tion, and a dry time followed. In 1808 it again
rained on this day, though but a few drops ;
there was much lightning in the west at night,
yet it was nearly dry to the close of the lunar
period at the new moon, on the 22d of this
month, the whole-period having yielded only a
quarter of an inch of rain ; but the next moon
was very wet, and there fell 5.10 inches of

rain.
" In 1818 and 1819 it was dry on the 15th,
and a very dry time in each case followed. The
remainder of the summers occurring betwixt 1807
and 1819 appear to come under the general pro-
position already advanced ; but it must be oh.
served, that in 1816, the wettest year of the
series, the solstitial-abundance of rain belongs to
the lunar period, ending with the moon's ap-
proach to the third quarter, on the 16th of the
seventh month, in which period there fell 5.13
inches, while the ensuing period, which falls
wholly within the forty days, though it had rain
on twenty-five out of thirty days, gave only 2.41
inches.
" I have paid no regard to the change effected
in the relative position of this so-much noted
day by the reformation of the calendar, because
common observation is now directed to the day
as we find it in the almanack ; nor would this
piece of accuracy, without greater certainty as
to a definite commencement of this showery pe-
riod in former times, have helped us to more con-
clusive reasoning on the subject.
" Solstitial and Equinoctial Rains.—Our year
then, in respect of quantities of rain, exhibits a
dry and a wet moiety. The latter again divides
itself into two periods, distinctly marked. The
first period is that which connects itself with the
popular opinion we have been discussing. It may
be said on the whole, to set in with the decline
of the diurnal mean temperature, the maximum of
which, we may recollect, has been shown to fol-
low the summer solstice at such an interval as to
fall between the 12th and 25th of the month call-
ed July. Now the 15th of that month, or St.
Swithin's Day, in the old style, corresponds with
the 26th in the new; so thit common observation
has long since settled the limits of the effect with-
out being sensible of its real cause. The opera-
tion of this cause being continued usually through
great part of the eighth month, the rain of this
month exceeds the mean by about as much as that
of the ninth falls below it."

THE MILTONIAN MANUSCRIPTS.—The recent
discovery of the Miltonian MS., in the State Paper Office, at.
tracted the notice of his MAJESTY, under whose auspices the
work, so long lost to the world, is about to be published. We
understand, in consequence of this and other interesting dis-
coveries, made within the last few years in the same quarter,
'his Majesty has been pleased to appoint a Commission to
examine the documents in that valuable clFpgsitory of the re.
cords of former times, with a view to priding the most im-
portant of them. The Corninissioners named are, the Speaker
of the House of Commons, Mr. Secretary Peel; Mr. C. W.
Wynn,. Mr. Croker, and Mr: Hobhouse, Mr. Lemon, the
Deputy Keeper of the State Paper Office (by whom the MS.
above mentioned was found), has been appointed Secretary to
the Commission.

POLITICAL ECONOMY.-Shortly after the com-
mencement of the last war a tax was laid on
candles, which, as a Ricardo lecturer would
prove, made them dearer. A Scotch wife, in
Greenock, remarked to her chandler, Paddy
Macbeth, that the price was raised, and asked
why. " It's a' owin' to the war," said Paddy.
" The war ! " said the astonished matron,
grficious me ! are they gaup to 'fight by candle
light ? "

A young student, between fifteen and sixteen
years of age, threw himself four days baCk out
of a window of the Santa Agnese Se:ninary, and
was killed-upon the spot. It has been remarked
that suicides have multiplied in Rome in an ex-
traordinary manner. These unhappy persons
are not deprived of the privllege of being buried
in consecrated ground. By Fl bull- of Pope Be-
nedict XI V. they are considered as having lost
the use of their reaEutl,—( Universal Gdzette of
-Rome, June 20.)

ESSEX QUARTER SESSIONS, JULY 15•

EXTRAORDINARY FR A UD.-TIIE KING V. CIIAIIO°

- -
8.1 YLISS.
This was an indictment at common law against the defendarA
for an extortion in obtaining from James ille:)bs, in the par-
of Great It,

.iurstead, the sum of 121., under a threat of ii.°sl;
outing him for attempting to violate the chastity of defendant,
wife.
Sir. JESSOPP and Mr. Kraor conducted the prosecution, f
The prosecutor, an infirm old man, upwards of 75 years °t age, deposed that he was possessed of considerable property
Billericay, and lived on an independence. The defendants t<
s
bricklayer's labourer, was his weekly tenant of a cottage in t;
same town. On the 14th of October last, -he called upon the
defendant to receive some rent which was in arrear : the ie"
fendancput him offuntil the lath, and told him if he called en
that day he should have the money. Accordingly, he call!'
on the lath, but found the defendant from home. The ,a.,e;
fendant's wife, however, invited him to sit down in the keel"",,4°
room, in which was a bed, and told him he should have 1"
money presently. The .wife quitted the room, and soon'aftel;.-
wards returned, leaving the door partly open. To u 0
astonishment she then threw herself on the bed, in
most indecent manner, and proposed that he should
something not to be mentioned. Shocked at her conda.t,
he was about to quit the apartment, when she jumped.l
seized him by the arms, and dragged him on the bed, 813
placed him in a posture with regard to her person, which, to 0
,
suspicious mind, would he thought unequivOcal. In this Preto
dicament, the defendant, who was supposed to be lurking
the adjoining apartment, watching proceedings, thrust
head in at the door, And observing the scene, muttered a co,.rs,
,
and withdrew. Witness having disengaged himself from Pte
e.
position, quitted the house as soon as he could, overcol%
with the violence of the wife, and astounded at her condue
Next morning he saw the defendant, who, adverting to the gry
pleasant affair he had witnessed, told him that if he did not F.
him 20/., lie would prosecute him for the attack on his wi'e,
chastity. Witness dreading such an exposure, though celpo
!.
scion of his innocence, told the defendant he would meet "
in the afternoon, in a neighbouring lane, and speak witlihtlo
on the subject. Accordingly he met him, and the defendtre,
renewed his demand and threat. Under the influence of, t
threat, lie paid the defendant 121., and the latter gave lit,.
t°,
receipt for the money in the evening. In a day or two „
wards he got the receipt back again, under pretence of adot"ti
" junior" to his name, his father's name bein/-e also " Chariest.:
As soon as he got possession of it, however, lie tore it in pieces.
The defendant afterwards obtained several sums of
rnoti e,
te'
from witness, under similar threats, amounting in all to 40‘.,
He also. obtained.from him an acquittance for rent, and a PO,,
cie,
miss to occupy his cottage for the future rent free. The
fondant having subsequently demanded a sum of 501., he
thought it right to consult his attorney, who advised this Po'
ceeding. On his cross-examination, by Mr. Dowling, wit° •
said he was an elder of a Dissenting congregation in Billerl10.;
Had sometimes called at defendant's cottage when he was Jiro
home, but denied any familiarities with his wife. i•eviti
consulted any, of his family, although he had two gr°,st
sons, with one of whom he lived. Declared positively tl'of
he gave the defendant the money from an apprehension to
being prosecuted. Nothing was extracted front the witness
shake his credit.
st
The constable who took the defendant to prison, prove- di
,c 1
on the road from the committing Justice's Office, he chat ,
cj
the defendant with having obtained 101. from a sus eon.
Billericay, under a similar thettat, which he did not denle.o,
The wife also, in the defendant's hearing, reproached him*lr
having received several sums of money from the prose,"to ?
-iithotit giving her any part of the amount.
Strong observations were addressed to the Jury on belialf'°o;::
the defendant : first, as to the insufficiency of the evidenclia;
sustain the charge; and, second, as to the utter improbabl,,; •
of the story, unconfirmed as it was by disinterested testirricia,,be
Mr, BaastsToN, the Chairman, summed up the case
the Jury, who, after some deliberation,' found
the &Oild-'01:
Guilty.
The Co u sentenced him to 12 months' imprisonme-
nt.
The defendants wife was then indicted tbr assaulting the reet
secutor in the manner above described ; but the Jury fount 9"
Not Guilty,-
Mr. MutEnousE was for the-defendant in this case.
•i

• The wife of a private belonging.to the 11°Ysi
Fuzileers, who recently embarked for Mai°
ter
called on an .Overseer in the vicinity of Clies'
(on. her returtrto Ireland' her native country) fa
the usual rejjyf alloWeti 44... the . law, when s.he
gave expressionto-her-' ief in the following.
terms :—" 0 I date :tilt' it ever think .1 will voile
• • • f.
. .I;gr
to this, and,- the.gil,•that does marry a solo,-
ought to,-be hattg-ed.Lthe-night before ! "
Ott111)T1ilve ba iss
g' ued to the police overthe
VVllol67:rii2o°M.. to pr.eyent;a.ll party processions. The OPr:
o,
of the Attornj:yand S,olicitpr-General has been had by the igo. •
vernment 'tinfttlich processions are illegal. Orders haver.:'
been reCeiveilllyilhp;cernmanding officers of yeomanr, top es
vent any dike mdividuals• of their corps joining in siß'
cessions.—(Thiblio.4vening Post.) 101i'
Suaday -11;g6t,,. a man of the name of dill'
mow y, a pensioner, residing at Dalkeith, while in a 6,t;pe
furiatedintoxic.iTon;.:struck father on the head wiLOAloto: .
of tongs so violently, that the old man died almost innoeuere.r
thereafter. We have'been informed that this unfortunatbotl9e
counter took place from the son coming into his father's father.:
in a state of inebriety, and maltreating his sister. The biro
lifted the tongs to intimidate the unruly son, and to forice, the
to desist front ill-using the sister ; the son, however, pull thy,
tongs from his father, and struck him a bloW on'the head 480
felled him to the earth, from which the poo; man neverhefor4
rose. The unhappy culprit was on Monday examiri4
the Sheriff, and is now in the Lock-up-house.—(Ed'g •
Observer.)

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