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MR. -FLETCHER,-

Yesterday the Associate—Presbytery of Lon-,
on held a meeting.at Miles%-lane Chapel, Can-
ion.s.treete

The Rev. Mr. Law,described to the Presbytery the recep-
tion which he experienced on Sunday week, when he went, by
drder of the Synod of li:diriburgh, to preach at Albion Chapel.
He proceeded, to the chapel, accompanied, by some of the elders
of Miles's-Itaie congregation, and passed through one of the
outer doors of .the building. Some men were posted within
the door to, oppose „his. progress ; these, however, the !elders
who accompanied him pushed aside, and he advanced to a place
called the piss or stairs, where he found seven men placed, who
refused to adroit hini.into.the' pulpit, and asked hirer 14 what
authority be came there 2. Ile read to them the -order, of the
Clerk of the Synod of Edinburgh; but the men still ref Used
to let hits` pass, and he retired.,-- This report was approved.
Mr. Law. then proposed ; that Mr. ,Fietelier should sbe de-
posed.
Aninher' *Member (Mr. Broadfoot, we beNve) considered
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this tot) harsh a proceeding, and moved; as an ardendment, that
a committee should, he appointedto wait on Mr. Fletcher.. to
get frent hiM signs of genuine repentanee for his7past conduct.
The amendment was agreed to. • .
Mr. TASSIE- presented.a petition from the elders and deacons
of Well-street Chapel, complaining_ that the speech delivered
to the Synod CA Edinburgh by Mr. Kirkaldy, the delegate from
Miles's-lane chapel, contained misrepresentations, and praying
that the said speech might be taken into consideration.
After some conversation, the petition was withdrawn, on ac-
count of some informality which attached to it.
A Lady, a membdr of Well-street 'congregation, presented a
petition, complaining that the London delegates had stated. to
the Synod at Edinburgh, that influence, had been employed to
procure sikniatures to the petition which had been presented by
the members of Well-street Chapel, in firour of Mr. Fletcher.
No influence had been used to obtain her signature, and from
her own obiervation she belietred that no influence was employed
to mocure the signature of any other person.
The reading of this petition, was followed by some narks or
approbation from the auditory,
One of the members of the Presbytery entreated that this
might not be repeated. Neither mitifing (clapping) nor expres.
sinus of applause should be heard•at the meetings-of the Pres.'

by tell.
Mr. LAw observed, that Mr. Kircaldy would, when the
proper time arrived, • give an answer to the charges which had
been brought against him.'
Mr. Et acALDY made a similar remark.
The petition was then received, and the meeting adjourned.

INFANTICIDE,

Mom the Slierborne Mercury.)
It was noticed in our paper of last tarok, that
on Friday, the 17th instant, a female infant, supposed to have
been strangled, was found in the church-yard of Ryme Darin,
mica, in this county. Early on the morning of tha the
Coroner commenced his Inquest, and as no suspicion whatever
fell on any individual of that small parish, conjecture was much
at a loss for the perpetrators of the supposed crime. Mr. Tor.
net., of Sherborne, and M r. Shorland, of Yeovil, surgeon, opened
the body, the inspection. of which fully satisfied them that the.
infant must have been born alive. The lungs appeared per,
fectly healthy and floated in water. The neck had been vio-
lently comptessed by the strings of a dimity petticoat, in part of
which the body was wrapped *hen found, and was the pro.
bable cause of the infant's death. On removing the scalp, a
large quantity of extravasated blood appeared. In the cour.e
of the tnvestigation, several respectable persons deposed as to the
apparent pregnancy of. a young woman. named Broke, and of
the sudden alteration in her appearance. She was residing with
her mother anti her step-father, at a cottage in Hamlet, in the
parish of Yetminster, wherein a young Man of the name of
Sansom resided as a lodger. It was recollected that this
man passed through Ryme, not unfrequently, in his way to
Load-bridge, with the waggon of his employer, Mr. Andrews,
of Hamlet, to fetch cultn and coal t. and that he did actually
pass that way the night on which the body was supposed to
have been deposited was proved by a woman, resident at Ryme,
who hearing a waggon stop at a late hour near her house,
imagined that some persons were about to rob her pear-tree,
which stands near the road. She called her son, and on going
into the garden they ascertained that it was Samson, with ins
master's waggon ; and overheard a conversation between him
and a boy respecting a box which be was about. to carry with
him. Tie Coroner issued his warrant, and the mother,
daughter, and Samson, were apprehended. The examina-
tion of the young woman's person by the medical gentlemen
added strength to the existing suspicion, but the deposition
of an intelligent lad who went with'lSamson and the waggon to
Load-bridge, proved to be very important, and amounted in
substance to this :—That the waggon driven by him (Sansom
titling in it) departed from the premises of Mr. Andrews,
between ten and eleven on Friday night ; that it passed by,
Kaswell Farm, through Common-lane (a lane seldom passed
over by waggons), came tohack of Ryme village, and stopped at
a stile below the pound, from which a foot-path leads to the.
church-yard, distant about 150 yards. That he (the boy)
stood at the near side of the team; that Stumm got out of the
waggon on the off side next the stile, taking something with
him, and saying he was going to carry a box to Benjamin Bar-
ret's ; that he was absent about a quarter of an hour, and then
returned to the waggon, bringing nothing back; and that they
then pursued their journey to Loadbridge. On being shown
the box in which the infant had been enclosed, he identified
it very satisfactorily ; it was, he said, a box that he had seen
on the premises at Hamlet, in which a pigeon had been kept,
though now a little reduced in size, a small part appearing to
have been recently cut off.--The Jury, late on Monday night,
returned a verdict oft;—‘,' Wilful Murder against the daughter,
her mother, and Sansom," who were conunitted, on the Coro-,
net's warrant, to Dorchester gaol.

CORN EXCIIANOB, OCT. s.
The short supplies to our market surprise every one, and yet
there is no interest in the trade t • Wheat is held at higher prices
with scarcely any demand ; Barley very scarce, and more money
is again wanted; Beans and Peas are unaltered; Oats remain
at much the same prices as last reported. .
Aunty A Ls.--English Wheat, 000; Barley, 100 ; Oats,
---; Flour, MO sacks.

Mr. Cnoyrs, the' landlord of The King's Head
Tavern, at Margate, has been robbed of the considerable smn
of 1,6001. in the following extraordinary manner. It appears-
that he some time since made, a purchase of houses, on
which he had paid an instalMent, and was to complete the
payment of the, purchase money on last Monday. For
this purpose he has been collecting his resources, and
being a person of an extremely cautious disposition, was
unwilling to trust his cash in any Banker's hands, bnt made a
cupboard, which was in a snigll closet adjoining 'his bed-room,
the depositary. of it. There, as money came in' it was placed,
until.the required amount was completed. On. Friday last the
sum was made up, and 111 r. Crofts and his wife counted on that
day, principally in sovereigns, the sum of 1,6001. The cupboard:
was fastend, and the closet door locked, and was not opened
until Monday morning, when 31r. Crofts sent to take out his
money, but found, with feelings which can be well imagined, that
the cupboard was broken open, and every shilling of his hard
earnings gone. The closet door must have been opened and again
locked with a master-key, as it had not the least appearance ot
being forced. There was no window to the closet by which ac.
cess could have been had. Information was instantly sent
to 13ow.street, and the officers have been dispatched to
assist in the tracing the robbery. The only one to whom
any suspicion is directed at present is a person who lived
at the King's Head tbr the last month, who is stated to.
have been very free and very familiar in his manners, and in.
quisitive into the concerns of the house, and in whose pre-
sence conversations have taken place' between Mr. Crofts
r
arid his wife relative to the purchase and the collection of
money, for the payment of it. This person left the King's
Head in rather an abrupt manner on Saturday, and
pro.
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ald)goevre
nb y
the tlt
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heat
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coach,
had
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Fe haden previously told
passport, tho'
he mentioned a different route to the landlord. On aturday
night a man answering his description hired a boat at Dover to
Ca Me, and represented himself as a King's messenger to the
boatmen. He was seen at Calais on Sunday morning. An
officer has been sent in pursuit of him. These are the only
circumstances which transpired yesterday at Margate relative
to this extraordinary afliiir.
Mr. GLossor.—A private letter from Naples
says—" The contract for the Royal Theatres has
been taken from Mr. Glossop, and given again
to Barb*, the former Impresario. Mr. Glos-
sop's engagement- will expire at Easter, when we
fear he' will find his pocketslightenedof t
severe...
thousand ducats. Ile is now at Milan,-
direct--
lug the Grand 'Theatre
' Della Scala,' which,
us I have before informed
you,. he has also on.
dertaken : hitherto ho
has.. given satisfaction
there,butit •
is to be doubted whether the re-
sults will be to his d a vantage.P.

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY

Extracts from the 111-o-r-n-ing Papers, Oct. 6.

[BRITISH PRESS.]
All appearances lead us to believe that the
peace of Europe will remain undisturbed toe a
great length of time. It would be absurd to
hazard a prediction respecting a contingency
vhich can generally be so seldom foreseen as
war ; but every friend of the welfare of mankind
must be gratified to find that the certainty of the
present happy tranquillity of the civilized world
seems to become tvery day more assured by the
course of events. The King of Prussia is effect-
ing a very extensive reduction of his military
establishment, one hundred officers of the army
have been placed upon the half•pay list, and the
soldiers who were under their command have had
leave granted to them to return home, until they
may be again required for active service. The
militia have been, in like manner, disbanded to a
considerable extent. The military Governments
of Cologne, Minden, Erfurth, Stralsund, and
Dantzic are suppressed, and the five War De-
partments are reduced to two. The office-holders
who will lose their employments by these
changes, will, by way of compensation, be al-
lowed five-eighths of their former salaries. The
saving to the State which will result from these
reductions is calculated at ten millions of rix-
dollars annually. We may be quite sure,
that .unless Frederick-William considered the.
peace of Europe firmly consolidated, .he
would not have proceeded to carry into execu-
tion a measure which would, in case of a sudden
rupture, expose him to serious inconvenienCe,..if
not danger. We are told that the Emperor of
Austria intends to Make a similar diminution of
his expences. The intimate agreement subsist-
ing between the Sovereigns of the Continent is
productive of this great benefit ; and however
we may regret that their jealousy of free prin.
ciples leads them too often to thwart the progress
of political and social improvement, we cannot,
on the other hand, be blind to the immense ad-
vantages that accrue to the people of Europe
from the continued and steady enjoyment of the
blessings of peace. We have, from the highest
quarters, the strongest assurances of the extreme
improbability of the recurrence of war. Pre.
vious to the disbandment of the Prussian militia,
the King reviewed them, and afterwards made
a gracious and princely address to thorn,
in explanation of the reason of his dispel).
sing with their services. His Majesty com-
plimented them on the loyal and patriotic
zeal with which they had defended their
country ; addini, that as all apprehension of
foreign hostility was happily removed, he now
felt it his duty to attend to the wants of his sub-
jects, by administering the national revenue with
all necessary regard to economy. The Allied.
Monarchs cannot promote the stability of their
thrones with more success than by this generous
confidence in their people, coupled with, and
founded eve, a mild and liberal policy. We
are equally opposed to all extremes : wealth,
knowledge, and freedom, are the products of or-
der and peace. We abhor despotism, because it
is necessarily the enemy of the public tranquil-
lity, by its outrages on public security. Wise
and just Governments will accommodate their
in-
stitutions to the changes of public opinion, in-
stead of endeavouring vainly to arrest its march.
May the Allies, at length, he fully convinced of
this important truth ! May the present examples
of France and Spain,—the former powerful and
prosperous under -a constitutional system, the
latter miserable and distracted for want of one—
guide the Sovereigns in whose hands the destinies
of Europe repose, to fulfil the hopes which their
love of peace inspires !